NEWS OF THE W EEK. ~A Deputy Sherif named Shipe vas shot dead by Hickey Martin, colored, whom he was trying to arrest for a murder, at the INowel Railroad Works, twenty miles north of Knoxville, Tennessee, "The escaped. George Reilly was shot dead | { the 20th, It ho fired the shot. The jury in the case of Charles I, Reidel, charged with the murder of his wife, in Wilmington, Delaware, on the 19th, returned a verdict of guilty. Reidel shot and killed his wife and child as they lay asleep in bed, in September last, and then shot himself, but not dangerously. The defence was in- sanity, Henry Ebert, convicted of the murder of his wife in Jersey City, New Jersey, has been sentenced to be hanged on July 18. Minnie Miegkourtz was found in the cellar of a house in Mul- afternoon of N » more, on the is not known ing of the 19th, with her throat She was married, but was deserted by ber husband 1n Philadelphia. Of late she has consorted with tramps 1t 18 supposed she was murdered by two Italians, — Eight thoroughbred stallions, valued at $10,000, which were shifpa«l from Scotland by Thomas Mc- Bey, have been seized in Montreal on the ground that McDey who was ad- Lrlasgow, exported them tention of defrauding his creditors, —Two Harvard College students, Arthur Whiting, of New York, and samuel Dexter, of Chicago, were fined £100 and costs each on the 10th, for maintaining a liquor nuisance at the rooms of the *‘Dickey’ Club, on Brat- tle street, in Boston, which was raided by the police, —The rulings of Judge Cun in the Johnson county circuit, kansas, on the 19th, were unsatisfac- tory to Attorney A. P. McKimnon, who took exceptions to them. He re- fused to sit down, and when the Judge fined him $50 a dispute followed, during which McKinnon cut the Judge about the face and neck with a Knife, flicting dangerous wounds. McKins was arrested. — Edward Wilman and his wife, liv- in Charles, Michigan, had a uarrel recently, 1he wife wanted t i Advent Church, In 1 A Lit ~¢ wha to her father’s house. On 1} Willman sbot and fatally wouu- her and then killed himself, — Frederick RB, mail clerk, bas been Alban’s Vermont, mails, Marked placed in a decoy upon him, ~About 40 I Louis were arrested on t 20th for keeping their places open. In some cases the saloon keepers defied the po- jice and were arrested on a second, and in several cases a third One man was persistent enough to subject himself to five arrests, when he gave up, A npumber of drinking clubs were formed, and Corcordia Gard:n was made the headquarters of several. Fielder Carr, aged 68 years, eom- mitted suicide in the presence of his wife, at thelr home near Cockeysville, Baltimore county, Maryland, on the afternoon of the 2uth. of his head of with a gun. —Lase November Simon Hamburg and an accomplice sold to a man named Parker, an Oregon farmer, certain real estate in San Francisco to which they had notitle. Parker paid them $0500, When recently the title to the property was found to be defective Hamburg entered a piea that he sold under a be- lief that the title was perfect, and would not refund the money. Ham. vurg’s accomplice confessed that Haws. burg deliberately planned rob Par- ker. The jury found a verdict of guilty, The Judge regretted that the offence was y a misdemeanor in California, but sentenced Hamburg to one year's in nent and to pay a fine of $19,000, ar , In default of payment of the (ine rordon, a rallway arrested at St, for robbing 1 which had been letter, were found tlie bills, Keepers 3 ia 831000 § 4 il OL, ©" i charge, fit bik to Omy further im- prisoned as the rate of one day for each dollar, If the fine is not pald, Ham- burg will have to serve altogether 53 years and 20 days, —Peter J. Quinn, chief bookkeeper for C, G. Dixon & Co,, contractors and builders In Pittsburg, 1s missing, and his accounts show a shortage of £15,000, It is supposed he has gone to Canada ~The great flood in the Mississippi is slowly abating. thousands of acres of growing crop- rulned, Dwellings have been ished and fences washed away. From the southern end of Pike county the land on the Illinois side of the river is now a vast lake, from six to ten feet in depth. Along the bluff on the eastern edge of the submerged district hun- dreds of families are camped, being in tents, huts, and in the open air, Much nates. In some few places families are and hundreds of refugees are huddled together in limited space. The damage to railroad property is very great, and it is said that 1it will be. three weeks after the water subsides before trains can he running on time, Quincy is cut off from railroad communication North, West and South, It is estimated that the loss from crops alone will reach $3,000,000, and that the damage to levees, houses and railroads will approximate $600,000, Reports were recived in Qainey on the 21st, of the drowning of Samuel Moore by the floods in the Indian Grove levee district, and of the children of William Jobnson in the Sny district. It is thought that many fatalities will be re. corded when all the facts regarding the flood are fully known, ~The steamer Atlantic, which reached Collingwood, Ontario, on the 20th, picked up two men, lashed to their boat, near Killarney. They were both dead. A despatch from St, John, New Brunswick, says that on the 17th, five lumbermen were crossing the Aris. took river when their boat upset and and Cole, were drowned, ~The river at Quincy, Illinois, Is Relief committees are hard at work cating for the most urgent cases of distress, -{yeOrge Thomas, a and killed Magglo Wise, peddler, shot a divorced the morning then shot himself Peter Kalb, a Francisco, shot the 20th, and of the and temple, saloon keeper, in San Louise Kullmeyer, on then killed himself, The woman's wounds are not fatal, Ile had pro- posed marriage to her and she had re- jected him. B., F. French and six others have been indicted at Hazard, Perry county, Kentuky, for killing J. C. Eversole, six weeks ago. Eversole was shot from ambush, His was the result of a feud between 21st, him- — William J. McFarland, of Cleve. land, Ohio, shot his wife and 23d, and then shot himself, 1tisthought they all fatally wounded, Since the death of his oldest child, about a are of Napanee, her three arms were saying ing. Mra, George Heed, Indiana, on the 24th, took months old child in her jumped into a well. They She left a note Stouchsburg, Penna,, on the evening of the 234, threw a stone, which struck one ot his father’s cows on the leg und broke it. Fearing a whipping, the boy went so me and blew the top of his head off with a pistol, — Fiank Conant, a prominent citizen The body of a man about 25 ing. ville, Ohio, on the 20th. Fastened to the body were two flour sacks filled with sand and stones; over the rigot the mouth and a highwayman on while on his way Was Luot In by of their contents, lain was under indictment for robbery, and the others, tramps, for highway robbery, Chamberlain said that the atmosphere of the jail was his only chance for his done right in murdering that his ite: situations to do the same thing, The tramps sald that there was no chance for them to get Indiana, The with a cocked trapped, similar revolver but His wife Wal com- -— Lincoln Cook has been Missouri, for killing his brother-in-law, the left temple a bad bruise. 29 “e boys, were arrested on the sign of a saloon keeper. Hubert sald if he could have got inlo the he would have opened all the He sald there had been great suffering in his own and Cook's family from Intemperance, and Cook had resolved, if possible, to abolish rum drinking.’ E. Bradley, teller of the National Bank of Chicago, has disap- peared, and it has been dalscovered that accounts are wrong. amount involved is not known, ror Lis of LH ¥ 1 the most exemplary habits.’ He 1 a wife and one child, The safe Rothschild’s clothing store, in Da- veuport, lowa, was blown open by burg- lars on the morning of the $500 in gold and valuable papers taken A Was bound burglars, srovgh, Mas. $1200 worth or - “dd clerk who slept in the store and gagged by the I'he post-office at Attledb sachiusetts, was robl of stamps early the 224, ed of on t womas Wynne, 25 Canton, Penna, in Cin $11 und in a freight car, and Cal of Was exp ce Ellis, 18 years of age, fell upon the saw in a mill at Hewittvil New York, on the 21st. His hesil was sey. ered from his body, Sel Wilder, a retired iron merchant, was found dead in the street in Middleboro, Mas- sachusetts. on the morning of the 224, 1 hought he was thrown from a n cinnall « vias fe 186 death 11} AL it 18 Lh carriage Gaskill, ed 12, and re drowned Lockn New York, Howard + FA aa “ ¥y oJ m from 1 containing 15 of 40 feet. for sow- —A Mont: acres I'he la les t Beloetl, about eal, a tract of la i 1 3 ii ms sunk a distance id was ploughed ready Og. Allan B. Dulles, a well-K: farmer near Webster, Jackson North Carolina, shot and killed H. Bumgartu and fatally his futher, Logan Bumgartoer, r r 31 al of ail, grew out of a misundersta nall tract of land, and Is t on of an old feud. Parson is & Seventh-day Baptist, and his in-law, Dencon Coffey, went to hi near Jimtown, Indian Te 20th, where Cantrell not only remonstrated aga ing onthe Lord's day, but unde Kick him i il resisted Own niy, Wm. er wounded on the ternoon Ihe Was out of the field. his ©, and head open with a he the Chickasaw Indian account of a fight with between wards spli Wash, E and Schneider. The former was Schneider w Jam 4 erally cut to pieces, 14 | escaped, : tic Stale Convention s 23d in Harnisburg and earried gramme prev Hensel was chosen temporary n and William A, Wallace per- chairman, “lhe platform en- dorses Cleveland and the Mills Tariff Bill, RB, Milton Speer and A. F. Keating, the latter of Pittsburg, were nominated for Electors-at-large. For Delegates at-large to St. Louis, Lewis C. Cassidy, Charles E. Boyle, William T. Mutchler and William lL. Scott were selected, - While playing on the commons in St, Joseph, Missouri, on the afternoon Liztie and Lena Baker, PNG manent © during a severe thunder stonn, Their clothes were torn from ther bodies, It is thought Lizzie will die, ~On the momrming of the 234, a freight train on the Rock Island Rail road went through a bridge near Ran- ing arrest, in Knoxville, Deputy Sheriff, on the 24th, vers on his person, He 18 sald to bea woman in Alabama some Thomas Carey, a young whiledrunk, shot Ting, a Chinaman, dered a months ago, and killed Moy Ni 24th sentenced to 50 years' imprison- —Daniei Hickey, of Lancaster, Penna. , a baggage master on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, was killed in yards in Harnsburg on the 24th, body was found under Thomas Childlow, a policeman, the His the and were struck and the near Roup's Station on stepped off one track Lo av train and were struck by train coming in the Mra, F. C. Krueger was 11nd her killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad 24th, They id a freight passenger on the “a is, on the 2 15-monthi-oli proaching freigl western Rallroa wandered from the house out to track and was also killed, being struck the mother The boiler in fodgmar Hear Bowl the alternd England, Hodgman an, Own ploye were | reached it. saw mill, burst on tr iliine “Clam? Killing Liem iat « just as in years, and Charles Willlam mill, and an wrhaps fatally mnjured, prisoners escaped from the Jallard © Jail at Wickliffe, Ken- tucky, on the evening of the 22d, They knocked the jailer senseless with clubs while he was serving supper, and after a fight with the jaller’s son, during which one of the prisoners was knocked down and recaptured, the other four got away, Mounted men slarted in pursuit and succeeded in capturing two of the runaways after a struggle, in which prisoners was sh and badly wounded and beaten to insensibll ei Five 1 14% OUunLy [3 he one of ity, escaped, — Investigation shows that ti and Charles GG, Kansas, on Among the uildings were the Me Church, Hotel, and a nber of stores dwelling Several persons were by flying timbers hall t t x passed over the coun wi Ad ‘ Argan ALK : $4 fiat Mis 418% ) f Sulphur Sprit ; great damage and fruit trees. 1 were 3 i going 0 ' pe ’ tatnle A 4 completely de- strove hail stones were so large that they broke shin the roofs of : ' i gles on the houses, The village } Brooklyn, I yunty, 1s reported to have been a demolished, lives were ou of in ATDAT C1 imost but no lost Texas, on the evening of the 23d. The damage to business and resident proper ty 13 estimated at $25,000. The damage to crops cannot be estimated, Over a dozen buildings were unroofed and a number of small bouses demolished, The Colored Methodist Church and Odd Fellows' Hall were blown wo A tornado swept over Brown- Texas, on the afternoon of the 234, destroying the Methodist, Baptist Yivrer dwellings, Amanda Willis, was killed, and eight fatally injured, colored, persons were within those ' limits, crops, fences, ravine 25 feet deep. A short time after Joe Railroad went through a bridge which adjoined the Rock lsland, and Two engineers, a fieman and 8. R. Potts, a conductor, was killed by jumping from an express train, at Cressona, Penna., on the morning of the 234. He was 35 years of age, married and lived in Reading. ~During a parade in Marshall, Texas, on the 23d the post-office was rebbed of $400 in cash and $1000 In stamps. «A telegram from Van Buren, Arkansas, says heavy rains have washed out 10,000 feet of bridging near Mountain Bay. All bridges are unsafe, and no trains have arrived for four days. Crops and fences have been washed away. ~A telegram from Trinidad, West Indies, seys the severe winds dlong the Spanish Main in March did great damage. At Laguayra, Venezuela, much of the new breakwater was washed away. At Point Colombia the new extension of the Bollver Railway, between the mainland and the point, was washed away, not a rall or tie Le- Ing left. The work cost $172,000, away. A heavy rain and ball storm followed. Cook, Benoit Bulliedeau was the 24th. Reuben Drake, his wife and grandchildren were on the 25th Richmond county, Wisconsin, 18 no clue to the murderer, month on account notwithstanding which fact the excess The 10 $O8, ~ $5,000,000, which fell 000,000 at one time during the has again risen to $101,000,000, 13 nearly month, —A well was bored in Loulsville for natural gas some months water has since been flowing om it, Many persons have drank iis water thinkipg it would be bene- I. Among was Samuel iller, vears old, who had wen overworked and wished to recruit. He took two or three glasses a day, A { You and ago, fr ia these A nineleen few days ago he began ing livid Several phy- the Lill an made, have His body turned minutes, forbidden aliens use been who 1 4% hool at New Jersey, of . BO nly, ng of one a panic children were i Lizzie Murphy each about 9 pit causing Years of ical condition. It is sai the School Trastees the build $179 f uo 1 O ‘ O 4 time ago, he conditic visited Scranton, of » two-masted schooner Lizzie "ailadelphia, hauled out i's shipyard, was struck instantly killing Captain nson and injuring Christian . Charies llobbins, Jolin Lawrence Aukenson and hard a. understorm on the afletnoon the SEN a ibben, 5th CONGRESS.—~First Ses SENATE, In the United hq 294, Pension Appr ® ion, G States Renate was ordered on { on bill, Annexe ve session held. When the doors were reopened, the House bill lish a Department of Labor was ik As A Department the sul $4 a conference pria WAS y estat taken moved, substi. a CAgan creating The £2 Ol L vol 1 27 nays An i he therefore withdrew it. | was then passed, and a conf ted on IPRS ence commitiee appoin , Senate bills were passed apg ting £125,000 for a public bail at Paterson, New Jersey: the appropriation for a public spy 4 rg; i my nd increasing the annual appropriation militia to $600 000, House Lill was passed approj 0,000 fer enlargement and buildigg at Atlanta, In the United Sis Senate on the 24th, the Deficiency bill for expenses of collecting the revenue and the Indian Appropriation bill were reported, The Chair announced as the select Commit. tee to investigate all questions touching the meat product of Lhe United States, Messrs, Vest, Plamb, Henderson, Culloms and Coke, A conference re- for the dren, several years, The suicide is thought Mrs, E. Davis, of Salt Lake City, Utah, learned on the 23d that her husband, to whom she bad been married twenty years, had married a second wife, The shock unbalanced her mind, and on the 24th she cut her throat with a razor, inflicting a fatal wound. Frederick M. Matthieson, publisher of the Odell Reporter, in Odell, Illinois, committed suicide on the 24th. He was subject to fits of despondency owing to ill health, Albert Kumpke, an old farmer who kill- ed his wife near Columbus, Nebraska, a few weeks ago, committed suicide in jail on the 24th by hanging himself with his handkerchief suspenders, He loft a letter saying he wished to save the county further expense on his ac- count, and asked to be burled beside his wife, «Edward Chamberlain, Albert Ben- son and Robert Catterson, prisoners in the jail in Monticello, Indiana, as- saulted Sheriff Henderson with an iron bar on the evenlug of the 24th and escaped. The Sheriffs injuries will, it is feared. nrove fatal, Before leaving was agreed to. Afler an executive ses- sion of nearly Lhree hours duration the Senate adjourned. . In the United States Senate on the House amendments to the New Jersey, wars concurred in, Sen- Newport in Virginia. The House ll making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the from customs was passed, with an amendment striking out the clause re After an execulive session the Senate ad revenue, of over four hours journed. HOUSE, In the House, on the 21st, the ’resi- dent's veto of a bill authorizing the use of Castle Island, in Boston harbor, as a park, was received and referred, A conference report was ordered on the Pension Appropeiation bill. The com- mittee on Merchant Marine and Fish- erles was directed to Investigate the fur seal fisheries of Alaska. Various bills were Introduced and referred under the call of States, among them one by Mr. Springer, placing on the free list arti cles of merchandise, the production of which may be controlled by trusts and combinations. The rules were suspends ed, and the bill creating and Executive Department of Agriculture, under the supervision of a Secretary, and trans ferring the weather service to that de- partment, was passed--233 to 18. Ad- jouined, | confine the products of convict labor | to the State in which they are produced | was discussed at much length and an | amendment was adopted prohibiting the importation, poses, of foreign made convict $ go wis, the country of Mexico, meanin | Place of Aztec--God of War,’ Now York Named in F000 i Duke of York and J { ed “The Empire State,’ % {on the bill 185 to ction the House adjourned, In the House, on the 234, the Post. Whole, it $60,035,840, agaiust 1 604,650 in the bill of last { Pending (inal disposition of Lhe | the committee rose, amendments having been adopted, aid the adjourned, In the ITouse on { ate bill appropriating $125,000 public building at Paterson, Jersey, was passed after in Committees of | propriates ‘4 vilg 11 1a OI, on for 7 of Rhode | tion to $80,000, Senate bill for | The Post-office appropriation bill was | passed, The Senate Marine Confer { ence bill was pessed, with some amend- ments, { 18 made for the the conference, | on the Invalid Pension bill to, On motion of Mr. necessary expenses of Belmont, The State.” Tennessee | facts connected with the ment in an English jail of John Curtis Kent, a naturalized American citizen. | Adjourned. In the House, on the 25th, the Leg- | islative, Executive and Judicial propriation bill was considered in Com- mittee of the Whole, and a few amend ments were adopted. Pending action commiliee rose, Wis passed ing §:5,000 for public at Tallahassee, evening sessiof 8 held fo tl the senate bill i siderat! journed. NAMES OF OUI Fite STATES. Derivation--- How th Attached. heir Varioos » vick-names Came to be the In. Hoosier from WIAIne Is wy he An Indian word meaning ful Land.” The sus name is “Hawkeye State,” Kansas—An Indian word si “Smoky Water.” Th “Garden of the West,” Kentucky—An Indian word sigme fying “The Dark ani Bloody Ground,” from it being a favorite Indian hunting ground. The nick-name is *“The Corn. cracker State,’ 3 weaut Li © Louis XIV. of France, | “Creole State.” Maine So called from France, Sobiriquet, Maine " Maryland - Massachusetts nifying “Blue Hills,” The Michigan—An Indian word meaning Lake Country.” It is nick named “The Lake State,’ also “The Wolverine State,” Minnesota—From the Indian word meaning **Whitish or Sky-colored Water, It is called “The Gopher State,” Mississippi—An Indian word mean- ing “Father of Waters.” Nick-named “I'he Bayon State.” Missouri—An Indian word méaning “Muddy Waters,” Nebraska An Indian word meaning “Shallow Water,” the Missouri and Platte rivers being of little depth, Nevada—Spanish, signifying “*Snow- clad.” New Hampshire -— Named from Hampshire County, England. The so- briquet is “The Granite State," New Jersecy—Named for a grantee, Sir George Carteret, Governor of the Isle of Jersey. The sobriquet is “The Jersey Blue," : Wow Marion. Seanish: named (rom 1}ic v i . s31t slit} } a i ut, aithou the days of DBacon we might ' written | Obsolete, ne has ble In “Mandarin®’ and persons of empire, Some such office is b profered tongue calied are not fami! with but we have grave « elasticity or durabil made to order. The tain advaniages in eve English, although strength beauty barbarous When we sider hanges forced English by : of nature and the social customs to which it 1s subjected in so many different places of s little hope that il may Le nore symmelrical ways If we want a universal 10 the nations wiat dialect 18 to the diversified China, we could ancient Greek or the mo Laving aside the prejudices arising from atfec- and on, there Is guage s0 logical, so autifu the same time so mathematical simplicity of ils laws as the bpan has a wider range when wel American provinces from Uh Grande Cape Horn than wot kupj It has left an ineffac impress upon the U i Florida to Oregon. 1 speech eloquence, conversatic among living respects it has excellencies whic living tongue can rival, BAY angus education al al wly speaking bh, notwithstanding its lawless, invented, and tongue c upon noes £4 - 1 the worl language, tc the Mandarin ws Of De Win take the lern Spanish, $i win associat bogs AK ¢ $ IE _. ased, form of or has no superiof AD}y 1 Hy poetry dev i --Spanish g tongues, while in = ¥ h a— A csi In Memoriam. A memorial window in the Bristol (Engla ary to commemorate a young surgeon, Will lost his life in a Garing poor patient who had operation of tracheotomy ing from diphtheria. A brane having formed and the patient being in nent dan ger, young Connor applied his lips to the throat tube, and succeeded in re moving the obstruction. window is in three panels, and it will be inserib- ed: “To the glory of &od, and in af- fectionate remembrance William Connor, who was born 7. 1851 and died July 4, 1887." i +3 ta fer. SAI Os faise mem the throat, itm alle ¢ Li May Messages for the Wires, Intelligent receiving clerks in the lan ger telegraph oflices have the best pos. | sible opportunities for the study of buman nature. The half written mes sages left at Lhe close of euch day's | business often constitute a volume of | half Onished romances, It is curious, for example, how occasional messages, that is, messages inspired by an occa. sion likely to suggest the same general train of thought in the average mind, will run in verbal grooves, PATEXT-MEDICINE MAX (to editor) ~You made a nice mess of that testi monial advertisement, Editor—How? Patent-Medicine Man —'"John Smith wrote: ‘Your “Live Forever Pellets’ are doing me a great deal of good, Send another box’; and I told you to give it a prominent Editor—I did—immediately preced- ing 3he death notices, tent-Medicine Man Yes; and the frst death notice on the list was that of John Smith!
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