The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, June 28, 1888, Image 2

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    - An explosion of gasoline oceurred
in the drug house of Bailey Brothers &
Co., in Zanesville, Ohio, on the morn. |
ing of the 16th, followed by fire,
ton Bailey was buried in the
and his body was pot re
Grayson, colored, and
were fatally and several others b
injured. lenry Dauner and. Jacob
Meehan, students at St. Lawrences Col-
lege, Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, were
drowned in a pond near the college, o
the evening of the Albert E.
debris, |
Abner |
ff {vs ww
Miner
Liam
ae 1
LaiN
16th,
M. Strouse, aged 22, of Warsaw, New
York, were drowned in Silver Lake on
the morning of the 17th by the upset-
ting of a boat, Samuel Chaney, a far
for the prisoner were
all decided against him, This will be
ird ts the former trials result.
f murder in the first
Dy counse
ial,
ing in verdicts ¢
Dubois, Penna.
I 20Lh,
orers by the nire are
ii genet nd
y
1 AATRY
Lil)
iis us I
provial re
quantit:
or
I p
meless have foun
i ind in ter
napolis, Maryland. on the atternoon of
the 16th.
—A wagon containing Isaac Loeb, |
aged 05, and his grand-daughter, Vir-
ginia Weinhold, aged 16, both of
Stricklertown, Lebanon county, enn. |
sylvania, was struck by a passenger
train on the Philadelphia and
Railroad, at Robesonia, on the after-
noon of the 16th, The girl was killed
at once and the man fatally injured.
A freight train on the Newport News |
and Mississippi Valley Railroad broke |
through a bridge on the Green river, at
Rockport, Kentucky, on the afternoon |
of the 16th. Lum Coleman, a brake- |
man, was killed, Eugineer Phil Car-
roil, Conductor J. C. Compton and J.
G. Love, yard master at Central City
were dangerously injured.
— A west bound express train on
4 Railroad was sto]
ignal and robbed, between
nd Myers station, Montana,
even ; 16th, The rob-
¢ ym pel ed the
engineer, Sargent, through
train, whi ey robbed the passen
Sargent was compelled break In
he door of express car and crawl
in frst. The robbers followed and
broke open tue safe, taking out money.
The cor ‘tor, Reaman, was com-
pelled to keep In the rear coach, Sh
were fired through all the car windows,
and several persons were grazed by the
bullets,
a
)
ar
Ng
- 3
on the
loin a
bers, eight t
or the
0 £
‘4 ry
e tl gers,
to
£ svn
Of Lig
ots
lars was in gold and the remainder wos
done u no packages of $100
; found on the
n Hubver’s house behind
] leven thous
missing, and what
en taken from
Huber was an old employe
oad, For the past few months
} been living extravagantly and
caused suspicion. While he was
away from home detectives searched
his house. Marks & Welss, jewelers
New York city, have had their
ravelling salesman, Max Emanuel,
arrested, He is charged with
frauding the firm out of $25,000
or $30,000 by rendering them ficti-
us bills of sale, and pawning the
his personal it A Kan-
ity jeweler have
3 goods on
was left
de-
is 8 re-
+ EX-CR
National Bank
OrkK, was arrested on Ui
s of ADDI {
funds of th
Marienwerder,
v treasury of
t, and was ar
+ Arriva
AT iM)
$i. 0 ¥y
— Peter Murpuy was fatally stabbed
by Peter McCann, in Chicago, on the
17th. The fight was the result of an
old feud. Lane Britton, the notorious
Ozark desperado, who has been a fugi-
tive for five years, and who is wanted
to answer for the killing of eight men,
was arrested in Mansfield, Ohi ti
17th, In order to prevent lynching, a
sheriff and his posse are guarding the
jail. An unknown man was stabbed
and Killed in front of a saloon,
Clerk street, Chicago, on the morning
of the 18th. Two men have been ar-
rested on suspicion of complicity in
the murder, The jury in the case of
Joseph IK, Banks and John Cockenll,
on trial in Nashville, Tennessee, for
the murder of Editor
John J. Little
ton, of the National Revicwe, failed to
agree, and were discharged on the
18th.
—The excitement over the gold find
on the Lake Superior Iron Company's
property near Ishpeming, Michigan,
has broken out again. When the ori-
ginal find was made the shaft was filled
up and work stopped until the company
which was not authorized to explore
for any metal except iron ore, could be
reorganized. They opened the shaft
again, and on the 18th the first blast in
the bottom threw up high free gold
bearing rock,
~-One of the most enterprising of
the neyspapers of Buenos Ayres is
edited by Winslow, the Boston forger.
Since he became a citizen of the Argen-
tine Republic he is said have
amassed a fortune of $500,000,
— Early on the morring of the 19th
a party of Hungarians who had got
drunk at a christening at Wilkes.
barre, Penna., started out to mob the
Irish inhabitants of Georgetown, a
suburb of the city. A battle with
clubs and stones ensued, In which a
number on both sides were badly used
up. Two miners, John MeGlion and
Dennis Hanlon, are reported to be fa-
fally injured. bix of the rioters are |
under arrest. The ringleader and a |
dozen others have fled to the moun-
tains,
0, Ol Lhe
on
to
—A telegram from Altoona, Penna.
says: The Pennsylvania lailroad |
Company officials conceived the idea a
few days ago that an entire new engine |
could be balilt io less than twenty-four |
hours—the best time on record—which |
was made at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, and accordingly, |
work was begun on the evening of the
18th. Twenty hours was the given
time for the completion of the same,
The engine was completed and turned
out of the shops ready for use In six-
teen hours and fifty-five minutes, 1tis
“Class A,” an anthracite, weighing
110,000 pounds, and will be used on
the New York Division of the Penn |
sylvania Railroad.
~The loss caused by the fire at Du-
bois, Penna., on the 18, is estimated at
$1,000,000, Two thousand persons are
homeless, and Governor Deaver has is
sued an appeal for funds for their re-
lief, "I'he Governor will send tents at
once for temporary shelter, Diehlman
& Links, piano case factory in New
York, was damaged by fire to the ex.
tent of $25,000 on the 19th. The flames
extended to the box factory of Links &
Cooling, and caused damage to the
extent of $10,000. The entire loss Is
covered by insurance,
--An explosion of gas occurred on
the afternoon of the 20th, in the Neilson
shaft of the Red Ash Tunnel, at
Shamokin, Penna, George Schmack
was fatally injured and five others sus-
tained dangerous burns, The cause of
the explosion Is unknown.
John Garvey, who stabbed and
killed his brother, William, at their
home in New York, on the evening of
the 18th, was on the 10th, held for
trial without bail. In the Circuit
Court at Winchester, Virginia, on the
10th, Judge Turner Ridemour, under
sentence of death, a new trial, on the
ground that Judge Clark's certificate
of facts did not state B the mur-
fetefl than's Name to be Willlam An-
w Broy, rew Broy. The
indictment charges Willlam Andrew
Broy. The seveunly bills of exceptions
without demur
was locked ug
the extraditi
+
widil.
—n the morning o Mrs,
Josephine Marck, living in a tenement
¢ In Allegheny eity, 1’
ministered strychnine to |
dren, aged 7, 4 and 3 vears
and then swallowed a large dose of the
herself, In less than three
irs the two oldest ehildren and the
ther were dead, and the youngest in
» throes of convuls s with
of recovery, The m.! ve for
14 not known, but
have been anger, bec
had ordered a boarder
whom he suspected of
Lot
‘3 :
ree chil
ipeclively,
}
Eon
no hopes
the dee
supposed
er husband
the
Limacy
Mrs, Marck was 20 years old,
Join at: committed suicide !
Jailat Rs! ng, Penna., on
byhaazi Hecently he stabbed
Killed his wife and i
throat, but recovered, He stabbed his
wife because she wanted him t
work and earn a living for le
ing children.
it
the
cut 1
.1
wien
Wi
-Four young men were |
pipe in Thirty-second
York, on the afternoon ! ‘
when the banks of the excavation caved
in and buried them. Patri ox, Jolin
Lenaban and a man named otter
were killed, Dominick f i
The trench was seven feet deep,
~The bulletin by Genes
Sheridan’s physicians on the eveni:
the Says:
gressing by steady,
ceptible, degrees
cence,’
-P,. A. Huber,
was arraigned in Sunbury, Pa.,
21st, but walved
committed to prison m default of $5000
bail, He has made a full confession
to President Hoey, of the Adams Ex-
press Company.
— An east-bound freight train op the
21st ran into the rear of another freight
ki
issued
20th, “he 13 apparently
+ "
hd WU
towards
the express agent,
on the
sumed, together with several cars of
lumber and a building adioining.
—A heavy thunder
ing of the 21st,
was struck by lightning and badly dam-
aged, The gasometer at the FPresby-
terian church was struck and exploded
by the torrents of rain,
ings in Edwardsville were struck by
lightning, but no loss of life was re-
ported. It was difficult to oblain par.
wires were disarranged,
~JItalians to the
working at the water works at Dover,
New Hampshire, attacked Alphonse
Smith, one of their overseers ofl the
21st. Bmith got Into a wagon, and,
drawing a revolver, fired at the crowd,
wounding two Italians, An 8-year-old
son of J. H. Presley, who was standing
in his yard, was struck in the head
with a bullet and dangerously wound-
ed. The wagon was then driven off
and Smith escaped, when the crowd
rushed upon C, Collins, another over.
seer. Collins faced the Italians with
two revolvers and fired fourteen shots,
but no person was hurt, Smith was
struck with a pick, which penetrated
his back, before be was rescued by the
police. Smith and Collins were arrest.
ed. They claim that they acted in
self-defence,
«A severe wind and rain storm visi.
ted Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, on the
20th. Houses were unroed and
fences and trees blown down. One
of the Green Bay, Winona and
St. Paul Railway bridge was blown in.
to the river. A despatch from Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, says the enormous
log jam 40 miles south of Chippewa
Falls, now being gradually broken, has
crowded back into the farm landsalong
the river and is sweeping away houses
and barns, causing heavy damage,
-The jury in the
case in New York on
Giblin murder
the afternoon of
a verdict of murder |
Michael Roach, of
staatsburg, New York, shot at his
wife on the evening of the 20th. Tle]
bullet missed her and struck his daugh- {
ter and broke her leg. loach then |
shot himseif 1 the breast inflicting a
fatal wound, Famlly quarrels caused
the trouble. 1'aul White, a lad of 10}
vears, died in New York early on the |
morning of the 21st ult, from the
effects of a dese of rat poison, which
we Look on the 2003 with suieidal
He had stayed away from |
{ of Inte, snd his father threatened |
him, It is thought this led
%e the poison.
Thieves robbed the passengers on
abaszh fast train between Logans- |
Pera, Indiana, on the 20th,
ile
4
Or ,
of LIWY
i 3 cash stolen,
and brakeman attempted Uo captore |
jumping from the train whith
— The bulletin Issued on the evening
of the 21st by General Sheridan’s phy-
sicians showed a decided improvement
- Another favorable bulletin was
issued by General Sheridan’s physicians
-The steamer Bertha which has ar-
rived at San Francisco from Kurluk,
Alaska, had on board three sailors of
the codfl schooner lsabel, l
red a gale on May 1
two days
st il
later,
na
skiffs w
board
tWO partiies of four sk
out three days tw
f 1 1
irom it
wl :
ed, TLakin
iyes,
a
The Americ
from Calcutt
general cargo,
heard
i8 feared she has
ot been
«1, and it
ed. The Farragut is owned
ward Lawrence, ar. of Doston
her cargo 18 consigned to W. B. C
{ f New Y ors Sh h
buryport |
{0 tons burt!
registered as
wr crew number.
Missour:,
murdered
ACE
about beer
nnelly was arrested
psiar, Massa.
: ¢ had
1" +x §
HEPULES
flooded
of the i spouting
J. MM. Fitzgerald's wholesale
cery overflowed, turning torrents
water into the upper stories, stocked
His loss is heavy.
Awnings were broken down by the
weight of the waler, Crops in the vi.
cinity are also said to be damaged. A
beavy wind storm unroofed a number
gro-
of
of the 21st. A violent
windstorm swept over the northern
part of Sedgwick county, Kansas, on
the evening of the 20th, doing much
Watt and his The
wife,
Grand
Boats
were
in at
20th,
Banks
-A heavy gale se.
River, Quebec, on the
fishing on the Miscou
swept away, and, as far
ascertained, six men were
Mcihael McMann and John
drowned,
Nichols
224 bya
fall of rock in a quarry near Paterson,
New Jersey, McMann died on
way to the hospital,
Robinson and her two little daughters,
aged respectively 2 and 3 years, were
thrown from acarriage at Wilmington,
Delaware, on the evening of the 22d,
tally. Professor Williams, the aeronaat,
fell from a balloon on the 21st, at Tol-
chester, Maryland, and in falling
struck Henry Scales, severely injuring
him about the back. Williams escaped
injury, but was badly dazed when
picked up. He fell a distance of about
45 feet.
Lucius F. Warren, a Deputy Uni.
ted States Marshal, was shot dead al
Lake Megantic, Quebec, on the morn.
ing of the 224, Ly Donald Morrison,
whom he was trying to arrest on a
charge of poisoning. A force was
ordered from Sherbrooke to capture
the murderer.
~Two trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad collided near Schuylkill
Haven, Penna, on the morning of the
22d, Engineer John Smith, of Phila-
delphia, was killed, and Fireman
Charles Ettonger, of Pottaville, fatally
scalded. Frank Hershey, of Philadel
phia, a tramp, who was stealing a ride,
had legs cutoff and died in a
short time, A shifting engine on the
1
Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad exploded |
at Keyser, Maryland, on the morning of |
the 224, Joseph Bell. Lhe engineer, was |
killed, and John MeNabb, the conduc |
tor, and William Dayliss, the fireman,
were fatally injured.
i
60th OONGRESS.~Firet Session,
BEENATE,
In the United States Senate, on the
18th, the House bill for a representa
at the Centennlal Exposition in Colum-
bus, Ohio, was passed, with an amend-
ment, in the nature of a substitute,
appropriating $40,000, Several bills in
ing $250,000 for a public building at
Oakland, California, A conference
report on the Indian Appropriation bill
was agreed to. The Senate then went
into executive session, and, when the
doors were reopened, adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
10th, Senate bills were passed appro-
priating $100,000 to provide pneumatie
gun carriages for the War Depart-
ment: appropriating $500,000 for an
additional fireproof building for the
National Museum, and to regulate ap-
pointments in the Marine Hospital
Service, A joint resolution from the
House for the loan of tents and tent
equipage to the Army of the Potomac
for the Gettysburg reunion was passed,
Adj yurned,
United States Senate, on the
Fdt from the
Forelgn Affairs,
Farwell
to make
he imporiatl
nas,
pProcis
On
n States, incerta
already passed
pending in tl
il] was pass
ublic builds
House bill
the co
resoiution
§
tine Me
Ang WO jE
na the provi
WAS passed exien Slates o
Florida and Lou!
act of May 14th last, relatlh
posals of public lands,
repo~t was agreed toon
Public Baihn ill, accepti
senate amendment fixing the app
$l I'he Sur
shed In Committ
the
14 ii
wi UA .
3 Al 3
Was id
Whole,
ARS a.
was also passed,
U Was Con
to
The Naval Appropriation
The Gene
An
reported
x ¥ Ii 4
sidered,
wriating $50,
a pnblic
Texas, and $50 ¢ fo
f the public buildin
The House
On
ielion
ita, Kansas,
Lipge the
ji
n Approp WAS agreed t
» Naval Appropri ;
Mr. Burrows
Martin
was passed for
» build
nt resolutl
f tents and equipage to
the Army of the T'olo-
occasion of the Gettysburg
wion. 1 ut differs from
that offered on Monday in referring to
4 rivors of the battle of Getiye.
IR 1 not two armies,"
and being therefore deemed unobject.
onable by Mr, Burrons, it was agroed
The Sundry Civil bill was consid.
ered in Committee of the Whole. Pen-
ding action the commitlee rose and the
House adjourned.
In the House, on the 20th, a veto
of a private pension bill for the relief
Elizabeth Barr was received, The
Sundry Civil bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole. An evening
session was held for the consideration
of bridge bills Adjourned.
In the House on the 21st, a confer-
ence was ordered on the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill,
bill was considered in Committee of the
Pending its consideration the
mac, on Lhe
re he resolution
at 5
Lie
*
10
+2
Wl,
of
- -——— » -
How Talleyrand Lived.
“The sole depository of
tradition of the state,”
the entire
Tallevrand,
every morning he required the menu of
He would rise at 10,
dressing himself even after the hands
No coffee, no
chocolate, and “China” tea very.rarely,
almost always of knuckle
braised mutton cutlets or a fowl,
would sometimes have a slice off a
joint, and he liked egge and custards,
but rarely touched dessert, HA always
drank a first-rate claret, in which he
would put a very little water; an glass of
sherry he did not despise, and after din-
ner a petit-verre of old M In the
drawing room he would himself fill up
a large cup with lumps of sugar, and
then the maitre de’hotel--Careme, no
less—would add thecoffee, Then came
forty winks, and afterward he would
play whist for high stakes, His senile
eyelids were so swollen that it wasa
vast effort to open them to any width
and so he often let them close and
“slept” in company that bored him,
He still continued to call up his secre.
tary at night and dictate to him through
the closed bed curtains,
THE CANE
AND UMBRELLA.
People Should Learn How to Canty
Them on The Street,
ive A
iiholed
scheme,” he sald, a
a TRIBUX] reporter
corner. ‘**I'h
4
in it, too,
nio a
wed him 3
mint of
Pir
(THT
inouey
Tue I &
before, but
4
req mpl,
Ole,
' asked the
it’? he exclaimed excitedly,
ir, itis a school for the mani-
pulation of the cane the umbrella,
But perhaps college would be the better
Yes: hink
and
term. thal
fuller
WI mean’?
reporter,
“1 mean what I say,” sald
chemer lmpres-ively. mean
tablish people how to |
8 on the
the
LO es-
a school to teach
wes and umbn
of a city. Did you ever
CAITYIng canes
|
CAITY ( streets |
ject of
“A little,
‘Well, 110% mn Hy people si
sav carried t properly?’
*About one t hundred.”
“Wron wrong.’
} “1 BAH
he slreets
g t City
5 great City «
States in
“Another fellow like him is
the one who carries his umbrella under
his arm with the point sticking out be-
hind. You've seer! him lots of times,
He stands in the middle of the side-
walk and fiscusses some business mat-
ter with a friend,
gets excited and turns so sharply
t the point of his umbrella describes
uci
he
that ti}
an arc ending between your third and
fourth nibs, Still" another carries his
umbrella over his shoulder. And, by
the way, would you like to see some
one who carries his umbrella or cane
“Certainly.” i
“Well, just stand here and count. |
luek the thous-
andth man who passes will have the
point of his umbrella toward the ground
and neither so far ahead nor so far bes
hind as to trouble any one who is pass.
him. But watch that it isu't too
far ahead, You've probally seen the
man who carries his cane or umbrella |
point down all right but some distance |
in front of him. You've probably got |
him." !
“And how about women?"’
“0, the proportion is about the same, |
About one in a thousand carries her
umbrella or parasol properly-—that is,
as though other people had a right to be |
on the street.”
“Well, that’s all right,”’ said the re-
“how do you expect to get them to at-
tend your school?’
Simply,’ he said, confidently; “‘very
simply. I propose to have an ordinance
passed prohibiting people from carrying
canes and umbrellas until they have
learned how to handle them.”
“But will the Council pass such an
ordinance?’
CWill it pass it!” he exclaimed,
“How can it help it when it is to
remedy sucha crying evil?”
“How many people,” asked the re-
porter, ‘‘do you think will be able to
carry canes or umbrellas the first week
after the ordinance goes into effect?’
“I have considered that,”’ he said,
thoughtfully, “but it is a difficult mat-
ter to decide accurately, 1 think that
ten peovle in Chicago would be privileg-
or
of that, though.
I
make |
tena
grea
ots of
I won't be certain
5 a
There may be eleven,
scheme, 1 expect
out of it.”’
- -——
IONE OF THE HALL.
$5
some of the Suaperstitions Enter
tained in Various Countries,
The belief that
nats, be
times only, and
the hair, like
cul al certain
that it 18 unlucky to
beard at other Limes, is
very old. Petronius says it must not
be done at sea, lest a storm ensue, and
forty blows were necessary to overcome
the evil effects of such a deed
Roman vessel. Propertios says
same; and Juvenal says the halr was
only given us as a final offering to the
gods, and should not be cut at other
time, It was a bad omen even to dream
of cutting the hair, as it portended
shipwreck,
In Calabria, at the present day.
hair, like the nails, must not be cut
Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday,
Ie BAYS:
the
»
rust
Jaust
na
the
Tn
Friday « naay she
CULT neve a0 owll OTH
And in
places in our
bes
Friday is dav
where said the one Who
hair then will die
burg, where IL is
TOW,
Devonshire,
own country, it
1g the waning
an unl
it is
cut duris
y §
iCEY
8000, and
then «
wy prt oft
1 Cul
Greeks offered
ais a present
preservation at
i
the iast centur
ine prayers said.
¢ England it is though
t to throw away cutlinmgs and
of the halr, or to
HAY if b
nests therewith, |
¢ pers whose head
ut. If the i were a
magpie, he would in a or a
Others say t should not be
wut buried, as the owner will
eave
about, Sone
uid
ts
I I WAS «
VEar
Gay.
rept 1d
x the
i8 to cut off some
disease
by buryin
all you need to do
your hair and «
your next door
these locks under I
Seotland, when a il cle
with boils, it was formerly a custom
cut off its hair and throw it .
and thus compel witches to come and
remove the disease. Irish peasants cut
off hair from the head of any one
suffering from scarlet fever, and con-
vey the disease to an ass by cramming
the hair down its throat. Io Hertford-
shire, to cure the ague, peg a lock of
your hair into a young oak lree, and
wrench it from the head,
Mixed with nail parings and cinders,
the halr was formerly used as a Scolch
remedy for epilepsy, and, mixed with
pail cuttings aad hair from the eye-
prows, it was a specific for convulsions.
The Arabs believe that Lhe smoke of
burning bair taken from a Cinstan’s
head will cure any disease,
The hair is also used as a charm in
Ireland. Women's hair is cut off,
and locks of it made into bracelets,
rings, ete., to be used as charms, - Per-
haps the custom of obtaining a lock of
halr from any one for whom you have
a regard rose from such a superstition.
TE ts
nvey he
r
i
{
L
.
t
in the fire
4
vig
token for evil purposes,
Some Instances of divination by the
hair have been given. In Westphalia,
when a man first sees the new moon, if
he finds a hair in his shoe or under his
found, The poet Gay records similar
notions in England. There was a singu-
lar custom in ancient Greece connected
with the hair, A bride must have her
hair combed with a spear that bad be
longed to some one slain in battle, or
that bad been dyed with the blood of
some one thus slain, This weuld as
gure her bringing forth brave sons,
A AIMS a ——
Some weads provide pasturage when
they are young aod tender; hence a
flock of sheep turned on a field infested
with weeds will do good service in not
only eradicating the weeds but in con-
verting them into mutton. By prevent.
ing weeds from seeding they will soon
become extinet unless they are of varie.
ties that propagate from roots,
Professor Brooks puts the diameter
of the up of spots on the sun's disk
at 50,000 miles, aud says they are visi.
ble to the naked eye. They exhibit
violent cyclonic action, electrical
storms and aurore