THE RAILROAD HORROR.
DETAILS OF THE APPALLING DISAS-
TER AT MUD RUN. FIFTY-BEEYEN
PERSONS KILLED.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct, 11.—The
.
Seranton diocese, to the number of
9000, bad their annual parade at Ha-
zleton, in honor of the birth of Father
Matthew, and were on their way home
when section three of the excursion,
mostly composed of people from Lacka-
wanna county, was run into by section
four,
The latter consisted of 11 cars and
was drawn by two heavy engines, The
first section had come to a dead stop al
Mud Run. A flagman was sent back,
but he was run over by the engine of
the fourth gection, which crashed into
the loaded passenger car ahead with
frightful velocity.
A mighty shriek ascended the chilly
atmosphere, and then the noise of es-
caping sleam and agonizing groans
followed. An awful butchery of human
beings had been completed,
As quick as possible the railroad
officials summoned help. Twenty doe-
tors came on a special train from
Mauch Chunk and ten others from
White Raven. Immediately after the
locomotive dashed into the cars some
one cried out the boiler was going to
burst.
A panic ensued. At once the pas-
songers, who were not injured, fled
for thelr lives, leaving the wounded
to take care of themselves. One
brakeman, however, was equal to the
emergency, and, rushing into the lo-
comotive, drew the fire, thereby avoid-
ing all danger from an explosion.
The passengers then went to work
awful spectacle was presented In the
two wrecked cars,
that had not been killed outright were
wedged in between seats and
broken timbers; their cries were heart-
rending, One man asked that he be
killed.
of Providence, was caught in
a jelly. Her body, however, was intact,
and as she leaned out ol the window
she gave a message to a friend to de-
liver to her mother and then expired.
their shirts into bandages for the use
of the wounded, At 4
in the tool houses. Some of them were
mangled beyond regognition,
C. C. Baland,
Scranton, an eye-witness to the whole
was sitting in the third car on the rear
end of the train that was struck, I
was thrown from my feet and against
the ceiling. For the time being I
was unconscious and when I got
back to my senses I found myself
wedged among a lot of other
passengers, None
badly hurt. I knew from the agoniz-
ing cries of the passengers in the two
rear cars that an awful accident bad
occured. I at once went to work to
relieve the Injured. Miss Connolly of
Providence, died in my arms, It took
a number of men to get her out. They
worked three hours before they suc-
ceeded. Father Milley, who was
a passenger, administered the
last rites of the
religion to the dying.
ried from spot to spot where he found
cars caught fire, and more than 15
passengers were burned to a crisp.
Fires were built along the railroad to
was an aged father, who held his son
with a death-like grip, despite the fact
that the flesh was all burned from the
was bone.
LATER ACCOUT,
WiLkesparRre, Pa., Oct. 12—The
Mud Bun wreck has been cleared up
at last, and trains are now running as
usual. A visit to the scene of the late
disaster this morning found nothing
but railroad cars and the remains of
bonfires that were built to aid the res-
cuers in their work. At the little
country hotel are two patients that
cannot be removed, One is Mary Con-
ner, of Hyde Park; her back is broken,
All the other injured have been re-
moved to the Wilkesbarre Hospital,
which is now overcrowded. Extra
cots from a hotel had to be procured
this morning. Peter Kline and John
MoMillen, both of Providence, died
this morning. This makes the death
roll 61. The surgeon at the hospital
told a United Press reporter this morn.
ing that he expected six at least of the
patients to die. Some of them were
badly scalded. internally, and their
deaths were only a question of time.
At Uleasant Valley all Is in deep
mourning. On one street thers are
nine dead people. A public funeral
will be held to-morrow,
A REVISED LIST OF THE DEAD,
The following is the revised official
list of the dead:
Peter Mulligan, of Olyphant,
Cornelius McCue, of Miners’ Mills.
Edward O'Malley. of Green Ridge,
John Rogan, of Jessup.
Wm. Early, of Pleasant Valley.
Patrick Curran, of Pleasant Valley.
Bernard Meehan and his daughter,
Polly Meehan, of Pleasant Valley.
John M. Coleman and his sons,
jichaet and Patrick, of Pleasant Val-
ey.
Mamie Atkins, of Pleasant Valley.
VoNshal McAndrews, of Pleasant
y.
William Kelly, of Pleasant Valley,
Thomas Ruddy, of Pleasant Valley,
Hyde Park,
James Hart, of Ridge.
Annie Carran, of
James Flynn, of Miners’ Mills,
vio Patrick Farrell, of Pleasant
Benjamin O'Brien, of Pleasant Val-
ley. i
Tim, ¥ of Providence,
Kate on ly of Pleasant Val-
Wyn and Abrabam Doran, of Pleas.
ant Valley, ala.
ABDI Loftus; gt @ivpoant ;
Mrs, Patrick
James Jackson, son of Frank Jack-
son, of Pleasant Valley.
James Jackson, son of Henry Jack-
son, of Pleasant Valley.
Richard Horrice and
Minooka, .
Fetus Mulberin, of Minooka.
Thomas Toole, of Minooka,
James Conalioy, of Minooka,
John O’Hearn, of Luzerne Borough.
William Cusick, of Old Forge.
Nora Quinlan, of Scranton.
Kate Quinlan, of Scranton.
Richard Powell and wile,
Minooka,
James Lynstt, of Pleasant Valley.
James Brehony and wife, of Pleas
ant Valley.
Charles Glitz, of Pleasant Valley,
Oscar Gibbons, of Pleasant Valley.
Mrs, M. C. Andrews and two sons,
of Pleasant Valley.
John Welsh, of Pleasant Valley died
in the hospital,
Owen Killkullen, of Scranton, dled
in the hospital.
Thomas Meare, of Bellevue, died iu
the hospital,
Peter Kline, of Providence.
M. Sullivan, of Pleasant Valley.
Katie Clark, of Old Forge.
Lizzie and Mary Murphy, of
nooks.
This is a complete list of the names
up to noon to-day. Five bodies still
remain unidentified. They are horri-
bly mangled, and can only be recog-
nized by their clothing. One of them is
undoubtedly a tramp, who boarded the
trainfat Penn Haven,
THE LATEST LIST OF DEAD — AD-
DITIONAL NAMES
WILKESBARRE, Ya., Oct, 12. —De-
wife, of
of
Mi
pare a complete list of the dead,
{ He has the names to-night of 03,
{ the names obtained 25 have not ap-
| They are as follows:
Pleasant Valley—Mrs, Early, James
{| Lynch, Mrs. K-liey, Patrick Brehany,
| Miss Maggie Hart.
| Miner's Miils—Cornelius McCue,
Minooke — Patrick Powell, William
Cusick, James Meller,
| Secranton—Wm. Noon, Michael Mof-
{ itt, Wm. Daligg, John O. Hearn,
Wm. or Peter Smith, Andrew Gibson,
Thomas I een.
Priceville—John Rogan.
{| Olyphant—DPeter Mulligan, Thomas
| Brogan,
(:reen Ridge-—-Martin [art, James
hart, James Farrell, Mike
{ Dolan, Edward O'Malley,
{ Gallagher,
A STATEMENT BY ENCI!NEER COOK.
| great mallroad disaster has begun
abate, the work of impartially investi-
gating the causes of the catastrophe is
being carried out earnest. An im-
portant statement s made to-night
by Engineer Henry %, which will
be used Leflore the er’s jury. It
| was Cook’s engine Lh.
| the rear of the section aliead of him.
The statement 13 as follows:
Penn Haven Junction on engine 452 as
us, w
the
expecting
engineers on the excursion
the Junetion and Mud Run, which is
{ 24 minutes for the run of about ten
miles, which would bring us to Mad
| in charge of the train ahead of us must
| also have known, that the time of No.
{ 6 must be made to enable us to get out
of the way of train
due at Penn Haven Junction at 7.55,
{and at Mud Run at 8.12, a run of 17
minutes. We were running along
all nght, and I was continually on
{the alert for caps of other signals
‘that might be placed for
When we rounded the curve below
instructions were to come into all sta-
| whose helper
| his whistle for signals at Mud Run,
iand, as the target showed white, "all
| right,” he immediately blew two blasts
| for ‘up brakes, go bead.’ 1 supposed,
of eourse, that Tom had applied the
| air brakes sufficiently to control the
| train, and don’t know that he didn’t,
| but at all events we were then running
| at about 12 miles an hour. Iwas on the
alert for signals, as Is castomary
| when nearing a station, bul saw none.
{ To see the station flag at the point
| where we should be able to see it, it
enst of the stulaon, we were right in
running to two rail lengths beyond the
station by our instructions.’’
NEWS
i >
OF THE WEEK
At Lynchburg, Virgin's, on the
evening of the Gin, James Scott, a
colored rough and ex-convict, shot and
probably fatally wounded three young
men, named Spencer, Burns and Floyd,
who were on thelr way home to Madl-
son village, opposite Lynchburg, The
shooting is alleged to have been un-
proved, Scott escaped to the woods,
but a posse of citizens, armed with
shot gune, are looking for him.
—A heavy thunder shower broke
over New York City at 0.30 on the
evening of the OLh,
-During the laying of the corner
stone of St. Mary's Polish Catholle
Church in Reading, Penna., on the
afternoon of the 7th, part of a8 tem-
porary floor lald upon the wall of the
building, which bad been carried up
one story, gave way, and about 200
men, women and children were pre-
cipitated to the ground, fifteen to
eighteen feet below. About 100 per-
sons were injured, 23 dangerously.
Several children were 1eported missing.
Archbishop Ryan, who was on the plat
form, escaped injury.
-The entire family, seven in num
ber, of Dr. A. Trego Shertzer, of Bal-
| timore, were ‘attacked with lead pois.
| oning on the evening of the 8th after
which had sod for
None of
26 hours in a new milk can,
| the cases will prove fatal.
which arrived at New Yorkon the 10th
| from England, collided with the French
| fishing schooner Madeline early on the
| Banks of Newfoundland, The Made-
was cut in two and sank imme-
The captain, first and second
mates and steward of the fishing
schooner were rescued after they bad
i ine
| one, were lost,
-A Cincinnati and St, Loulsexpress
{ traln, ran Into a freight train, near
| Dickerson Station, 57 miles west of
Washington, shortly before midnight,
| on the 6th, Doth engines, two express
| men were killed, namely:
Wiley, postal clerk, and George Riden-
baugh, brakemen. Six tralnmen were
{ injured. All the passengers, though
i thrown violently forward Ly the shock,
{ escaped unhurt,
-A man having a through ticket
from New York to Charleston was run
over and killed by a shifting engine at
the Wilmington and Weldon Hailroad
depot in Wilmington, North Carolina,
i on the evening of the Tth. Ils trunk
! was marked W. F. or M. F. Muller,
| «John Boyd was fouud dead in the
cellar of No. 4 Frankfort street, New
York, on the morning of the 7th, This
being torn down.
whether Boyd accidentally fell into the
excavation or was the victim of foul
| play.
| Edmonds, editor of the Hothlast, in
| Anniston, Alabama, In his office, by
‘and William Lacey. Mr. Edmonds
| was shot in the arm. and then escaped,
| when Lacey maliciously fred upon
John Chappel and A. Tripney,
were in the office—the former was
| in the head.
| enmity aroused among the
class in consequence of the war waged
by the Hothlast in favor of a rigid en-
| forcement of the probibition laws.
| taken to Jacksonville for safety.
reported
the 7th, is 148, and 5 of then are In a
| critical condition. George Thomas, a
| driver boy, 12 years of age, and John
{| Palmer, aged fourteen were killed by
| cars at different’collieries near Wilkes
{ barre, on the 8th,
| by John McCarty, near Wilkesbarre,
| Penna,, on the 8th. They were hunt-
ing. Doth were about 16 years of age,
Mathias Bechtold, of Pekin, Illinois,
| was accidentally shot and killed while
out hunting on the Tth,
|
| ~Peter Marsch shot and killed Peter
Kocuse in South Evanston, Illinois, on
{ =-While J, W, Pike, a contractor,
| and his son, Edward Plke, were stand.
| ing on a bridge abutment near Boston,
| on the 8th, the foot of the boom shot
| out from its socket and struck them,
| severely injuring the father and killing
{ the son,
--In Atlanta, Georgia, on the morn-
fog of the Oth, a woman named Irene
Postel was found In heér room *‘in the
i hall of a prominent block,” bound,
gagged, chloroformed, with a rope tiled
tight around her neck. Breathing was
suspended and death Imminent when
the police found her. During the day
before she had trouble with & woman
named Dunaway, who had threatened
to kill her, and two of the Dunaway’s
male friends went to her room and, at
the point of a pistol, tied her arms and
feet, gagged her and tied the rope
around her neck to choke her to death,
The woman is not expected to recover.
Une man has been arrested on suspls
clon,
—During a fireworks exhibited at
Quincy, Illinois, on the evening of the
10th, the grand stand, containing 4500
people, collapsed, and many persons
were injured.
~John Olsen, of New York, captain
of the schooner Enterprise, was struck
by a train and killed, in New Bruns
wick, New Jersey, on the evening of
the 9th. Willlam Corbett, a brake
| jump on the pilot of a locomotive at
| Wilkesbarre, on the 10th, and 5 not
{ expected to recover, Two freight trains
i collided on the Newark and Patterson
| Rallroad at Franklin, New Jersey, on
| the 9th
{of 8100000. No person was Injured.
—A United Express package, cou-
tents while on the way to Rue City,
McKean county, Penna., on the even
ing of the Oth,
~Sixty-three new cases of yellow
{ fever and three deaths were reported
in Jacksonville on the 10th,
cases to date, 3382; deaths, 302,
-Henry G. Hotchkiss, a respected
citizen of New Haven, Connnecticut,
{was arrested on the 10th, on the
charge of forgery.
| aggregate about
| checks were
National
| his gulit,
Five
passenger
and
on the
$20,000,
all drawn
Dank,
Yale
ob a
to
morning
men
train
attempted
on the
“The
Warsaw, Indiana.
erately went through the
i roughly handling several passengers
who resisted, and secured a consider-
able amount of meney.”
the
and policemen arrested Lhree of
robbers at Warsaw,
~eneral Miles reports that he is in-
formed that the remainder of the
Indians concerned in the murder of
Mr, Jones are In the guard house at
| Tocson has been notified to “come get
them.” Domingo Samedo and his
wife, an aged and very rich couple,
were found
in Havana, Cuba, on the morning of
ithe 11th, A sos-in-lawm nd a servant
ware arrested on suspicion. While
Lewis Sweet, anassessor in Park City,
Montana, was asleep in his own house,
{an assassin crept up to the windew of a
| room adjoining and shot him dead.
—Mre, Matthias Kiusewitz, aged 02
years, who was injured In the disaster
iat St, Mary's Catholie Church, in
Reading, on Sunday, died on the 11th,
This is the first death among the 150
injured, Several others are In a criti
cal condition.
~—A passenger train on the Cleve.
| land, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad
| collided with a freight train near Mas.
| sillon, Ohio, on the morning of the 11th.
| Richard Whitman, brakeman, and
{ Warren Richards, a passenger, were
fatally Injured. Two others were
severely hurt. The accident was
caused by a change in the schedule,
| change Bank of Lanark, Illinois, com-
{ mitted suicide on the morning of the
head. He bad been in ill health for
| some time,
~ Forty-seven new cases of yellow
| fever and two deals were reported In
| Jacksonville on the 11th. Only 12 of
| a gale with a maximum velocity of 40
| 10th, and the weather on the 11th was
| clear and bracing, Two cases of yellow
| fever and one death were reported In
| Decatur, Alabama, on the afternoon of
| on the station signal pole, where such
flagman there with a signal lantern,
we whould both certainly have seen it,
it, as there is certainly no cause for ex-
citement until there is a signal of some
kind of danger ahead, The trouble 1s
there was no signal lantern or even a
cap east of Mud Run Station. When we
were about 150 feet from the station I
was leaning out of the cab window,
and saw a white signal swung on the
station platform in the manner usually
employed to stop trains or engines,
The lantern was being swung wuch
more violently than when brakemen
are signalling for switching engines,
and r immediately whistled down
brakes and applied my steam brake,
This extended no farther my engine,
as the other engine had charge of the
train and the air-brake, and again
looked out for the cause of the signal
and saw the red signal lanterns on
the platform, and pulled my lever
back as far as possible, to reverse, but
too late to avoid the catastrophe. I
had done all that I possibly could with
brake and steam, and could only await
the result, which I did--remaining on
my eugine until she stopped in the
wreck, and then I started to pull the
fire from under the boilers, Then
Hughey came up, and after
having assisted in carrying
the injured brakeman, Poyl, to
the station. and we both worked at the
fire until we were driven from the cab
by the steam, and I must
out over the guard rail jo
ns
| were gathering nuts in Kocuse's woods
fcuse’s sons, when a fight resulted.
| Tim’ Kelly shot and fatally wounded
“Tom" Reynolds, in Morris, Illinois,
on the evening of the Til, They were
| partners in business and quarrelled
about money matters,
— Fifty new cases of yellow faver and
four deaths were reported on the 8th
tu Jacksonville.
~Snow began to fall at St. Johns-
bury, Vermont, on the evening of the
8th, and at noon on the Yth the storm
was still mm progress, About two
veunts It was still snowing. A wester-
ly gale accompanied by suow prevailed
at Richmona, Quebec, on the Oth.
About six inches of snow fell at Mon-
treal ou the 9th. There was a heavy
fall of rain in the vicinity of Calas,
Maine, during the 7th and Sth. The
lumber mills are greatly obstructed by
the backwater. Numerous washouts
and landslides have occurred on rall-
roads, The potato and grain crops are
greatly damaged. There has been very
little hay harvested, and it will prob.
ably be a total failure,
«~Willlam 1B, Smith, cashier in the
Erie Railway freight-house in Mans
field, Ohio, disappeared on the Gth with
$2014 of the eompany’s money. Illig
& Brothers’ dry woods store in Read-
Penna,, was robbed of silks valued
-The hog cholera continues to rage
| among the swine in Warren county,
| New Jersey. In Knowlton township,
| the following losses are reported; J.
{ Fiunnerfelt, 50 animals; Elmer Kish-
| paugh, 25; H. Smith, 35; H. Blair, 25;
| A, Snyder, 20; Mrs, Kispaugh, 15; L.
| Hiles, 20; A. Smith, 25; Mrs. Perry, 15
| and others ranging from 10 to 20 head
each, The scourge has been very se.
vere In Warren and Sussex connties
for two years and many farmers have
abandoned pork raising altogether,
~(ver a bushel of partly destroyed
letters addressed to business firms were
found on a street In Buffalo, New
York, on the morning of the 12th,
They had been rifled of all contents
| that could be turned into money. One
New York draft for $250, drawn by
Smith's Bauk, of Perry, New York,
was found in the middie of the street,
torn in two. John Shields, a night
clerk in the post-office, has been ar-
rested for the theft, He was appointed
September 1st under the civil service
jaw, The post-office at Matteawan,
New York, was robbed on the evening
of the 11th, ‘The safe was blown opan
and all the money and stamps taken,
The : Jmount has not yet been agder-
tained.
«As the examination of the books
of the Stafford Mill, in Fall River,
Massachusetts, progresses, new eviden-
cos of the rascality of
Bosworth are discovered, On the 13th
two notes were found, one for $10,000
y of the
going Treasurer of Waubanses county,
Kansas, was on the 12th, discoved to
be a defaunlter for $20,000. His bonds
men are good for the amount, and he
has made an assignment to them, He
has been arrested at the lostance of the
County Commissioners,
— Waltar 8 Hawthorne, a bookkeep-
er, has brought suit in Chicago against
the Pullman Palace Car Company for
$10,000 damages for malicious prosecu-
tion. He was arrested as an accom-
plice of William A. Sapp, in an alleged
forgery of railroad tickets, held three
days and then discharged, there being
no evidence against him,
—Four men were injured by a cave-
in while digging a trench in Youngs.
town, Olio, on the morning of the 12th,
cut, and the fourth—Thomas Coyne-
sustained fatal injuries.
~The steamer Robert B. Carson
sank in thirty feet of water four miles
below Evansvilie, Indlana, on the
evening of the 17th. She had on board
fifty head of cattie and four horses, be-
sides some freight, which were lost.
The crew were saved.
mine operator, was killed by striking
miners in a riot at Bevier, Missouri, on
the afternoon of the 14th, Nearly all
new men, who have been coming from
some of the new men were get upon,
Wardwell was killed, Further blood-
shed being feared, a Sheriff’s posse has
gone to Lhe scene,
es on ——
| 60th CONGRESS. ~Firzt Session
BSENXATE.,
Inthe U, 8, Senate on the 8th, the
| commities of three Senators and three
iepresentatives to investigate
{agreed to. The Senate Tariff bill was
taken up, and the general debateon the
measure was opened by Mr, Allison in
support of the bill,
to Mr.
| obtained the floor, when
{ over, After an executive session the
| Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8B, Senate on the Oth the
was agreed to. The bill
{ the sending of the certificates of the
| electoral votes to the President of the
Senate was passed,
an Inquiry into the
| Joseph Hoffman, in Texas, was agreed
to.
Commiitee, reporied a bill to pay to
{the widow of Chief Justice Walte Lhe
{ balance of his year's salary. Mr. Berry
objecting to its immediate considera
| tion it was placed on the calendar, The
| Tariff bill was resumed, and Mr. His.
| cock spuke in support of the Ad-
| journed.
In the U. 8. Senate on the 10th Mr,
| Hale presented the report of the ma-
| jority of the Select Committee on the
| Operation of the Civil Service Law,
{sod it was ordered to be printed,
{ House bill for the relirement of An-
| drew J. Smith, Colonel of the Seventh
| Cavalry, was passed, with an amend-
| ment making the retinng rank Colonel
| instead of Brigadier General. The bull
{to pay the wilow of Chief Justice
£11
bide
| year's salary, was taken up and passed,
| The Trriff bill was resumed and dis
{cussed by Mr. Bate, Mr. Cullom ob-
| tained the floor, and the bill went over.
| A message was received from the
{ for the rellef of the executors of Joseph
| H. Maddox. Adjourned.
| Inthe U. 8, Senate on the 11th the
| session opened with only 15 Republi-
{can and 5 Democrat denators present.
| Subsequent appearance increased the
pumber of Democrat Senators to 11,
making the total number preaent 26,
| eli spoke in favor of the bill to reduce
| jetter postage to one cent. The Tariff
bill was taken up and advocated by
Mr, Cullom and Mr. Platt. Mr. Chace
made a speech contrasting the Repub
lican and Democratic administrations
|in the management of the postal ser-
| vice. Before he bad finished he yielded
| the floor, and the Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
12th, the Tar!ff bill being under con-
sideration, Mr. Chance, of Rhode
Island, concluded his remarks on the
postal service, In reply to a question
by Mr, Dolph, 3: Allison said that in
the Senate bill coal, slack or culm coal
was put on the free list, “but that was
one of the mistakes of the nll, and
should have been corrected before the
bill was reported.” It was proposed by
the majoriry of the commitiee to put
all coal on the dutiable list at the pres-
ent rate of 75 cents per ton, and an
posad at the proper time,
reports on the Fourth of July Claims
hil and the bill to retire General
Pleasanton as Major were agreed to,
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned,
HOUSE.
In the House, on the 8th, Senate bill
for the warehousing of fruit brandy
was A bill was introduced by
Mr, Dougherty, of Florida, appropriat-
ing $200,000 to suppress infection in
the inter State commerce of the United
States, Mr. Mason, of Illinois. asked
soliel
Democratic campaign fund.
mand for the regular order by Mr. Mo.
In the House, on the Oth, attempts
|to pass several bills failed, owing to
objections mado on the ground of no
quorum being present, A bill was
{ reported and passed by unanimous con-
| sent, appropriating $560,000 for the en-
| forcement of the Chinese Exclusion
ee. A. conference report on the bill
to allow persons who have telin.
{ quished homestead entries Lo make an-
| other entry wa. agreed to, The Ben-
{ate bill In regard to the forwarding of
| electoral certificates Lo the President of
| the Benate was passed. [he confers
| ence report on the General Daficiency
| bill was submitted, After debate a
| vote was taken on agreeing to the re-
| port, and stood 34 to 8. Mr. Dough-
| erty, of Florida, raised the pot of on
| quorum, and the House adjourned,
the House, on the 12th, the at.
tendance was still further depleted by
the granting of six leaves of absence,
among them being one to Mr. Chea.
dle, of Indiana, who “desired to visit
his constituents.” Conference reports
were agreed to on the Fourth of July
| Claims bili, and the bill to retire
General Pleasanton with the rank of
Major. On motion of Mr, O'Neill the
House went into Committers of the
Whole on the Private Calendar. The
pending business was the Senate bill
to incorporate the Nicaragua Canal
Company. A vote on one of the amend.
ments stood 2310 8, and the point of
no quorum was ralsed, fter reject-
ing motions for a recess evenis
the House adjourned.
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A Chinese Oplum Story.
Since the Introduction of
| China millions and tens of mw
{ have given themselves up Lo its
| victims being found in all
| and conditions ot life, amor id,
{ the middle aged, the young, and even
i children. Buta case of an infant be.
| coming a victim to its pernicious influ
| ence has just come to our knowled
A man and his wife had been in
babit of taking opivm for years and «1
i of their chief delights was in indulg
themeelves over the pire ine
company, each taking alternate wh
Ope day the woman gave Dirth to #
boy, and all the household was in an
j ecstatic state of joylfulness, Bul be.
fore long the baby began to show signs
of illness, and although a physician wa
sent for they could nol discover the
{ cause of its symptoms. Every effort
was made to save the chiid, but he only
| grew worse and worse unti his parents
| gave him up for lost.
Indespair they took thelr pipe Lo sol-
ace themselves, and beliold! as they
puffed at the pipe the smoke was walted
to the child’s nostrils, and, giving a
sneeze, he instantly revived and began
to ery. Upon inhaling more of the
| smoke Lie changed luserying into laugh-
ing and becawe exceedingly lively.
{ After that he was all right as
he inbaled the smoke at regular
| riods of the day. One day, Lowever,
bis parents neglected to give him
| accustomed dose of smoke
they were aware he died,
Will Not Get a Divorce.
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A newspaper correspondent says he
has definite news direct from the
band of Mrs. Langtry. A cousin of
his is Hillary Langtry Bell, an artist,
| He says that all overtures on the part
of Mrs. Langtry looking towards the
husband's consent to a divorce have
been repulsed anew. Langtry will not
consent to a legal separstion. “There
is a home here in England for my wife
| whenever she chooses to come to iL”
| Langtry is quoted by Lis cousin as say-
| ing, *‘although not so good a one as she
| is able to maintain in America. It was
| her ambiation to cut a dash in the world
| that separated us. She has po ground on
which to get a divorce from me, not
i even that of nonsupport, and 1 will
| contest any proceeding which she may
bring, Neither will 1 consent to a
| proposition that I myself obtain a di-
| vorce, which I could do, bul which
| would enable her to marry again in the
United States,” Therefore it is not be.
lieved that thers will be a divorce of
| any sort very soon.
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Boston's Strict Rales,
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23118.
Boston men who frequent New York
{ for a frolic or incidentally take in the
town when on business (rips say
| they feel like schoolboys let loose,
| Their chief source of complaint against
| Boston 1s the strict enforcement of the
| excise laws in the Athens of America.
| They say there is plenty of rum in the
| town. but thas the spigots are turned
! off short and sharp at midnight. Pri-
! vate dinner parties at hotels have come
| to an inglorious end when the hands
jon the clock say that it is after 12
i o'clock. In me=ny places 11 o'clock is
| the hour for turming off the flood, and
| 80 siriet Is the rule that the theatrical
parties are often troubled to get grape
| juice enough to make things interest.
| ing. These Boston men are the very
| latest high rollers in the matters of
| hours when they come to New York.
{| They are free, untrammeled and rapid,
{and immensely loteresting in their
| emancipated enthusiasm,
How to Become Naturalized.
There is much misconception on the
part of the public, and especially the
foreign born population, as the course
to be pursued to become nn naturalized
American citizen. The procedure is
this: A person arriving in this country
under the age of 18 years can, after he
has been five years in the country and
has arrived at the age of 21 years, be
granted full citizenship papers upon
presenting himself before any court on
record with two witnesses, citizens of
the United States, who are able to
swear that be arrived 1u this country
under 18 years of age. In case of aliens
who have arrived in the United States
when over 18 years of age, it is neces.
gary doe them to declare their intention
to a citizen, which declaration
must be made at least two years before
application is made for final papers
or full citizen papers. This declaration,
vided the party has resided in the