SIX PERSONS KILLED AND BADLY INJURED. FOUR The Roller old and Defective,—The Corouer’s Jury Find That The Engluneer Was Inexperienced. READING, Nov. 2--The citizens of Lower Heldelberg township, this county, were disturbed this morning for miles around by a terrific explosion, which shook the houses and rattled windows. The cause was the explosion of a boller attached to a steam thresh- ing machine on the farm of Jonas D. Spayd. The boiler exploded with ter- nble results, six men being killed and half a dozen injured. George Hioner- ghitz, Sr., is the owner of the thresh- ing machine, It was set up last night to commence work this morning. A number of young men, residing in the neighborhood, had been hired to assist in the threshing. The boller was about half full of water, Just as the machine was started into motion the boiler went up with a force that seemed to shake the surrounding hills. Those killed outright were: Adam Marburger, aged 30, resided | at Hetriehsville, unmarried, Joseph Machemer, aged 19, unmar- | ried. william Reber, aged 37, married and residing in the neighborhood. Irvin Dunkleberger, aged 27, unmar- ried, Joseph Spayd, aged 15, son of Reu- ben Spayd. The injured were: Jonas D, Spayd, injured about the head aud scalded, John Riegel, hurt about the head and body. George Hinnershitz, scalded and in- jured internally; picked uncon- gcious, Minnle Baer, aged 10, jaw shattered and injured about the body; may re- Cover. The canse was the condition of the boiler, whieh had long ago been worn out. The sight which greeted the Hrs: persons on the scene Wasa sickening one. Five mangled bodies were lying near the barn. Three others were in- side, and on the side of a steep hill, 100 feet away was the body of Hinner- shitz, the owner of the boiler. He was standing close to the boiler when the explosion occurred, and was carried through the air to where he Was found. All of the dead were crushed about the head, Dunkle- berger had his left arm blown | off. The boiler went through the roof | of the barn, and lay 300 feet away. Pieces of timber from the building were scattered in every direction. The child, | Minnie Baer, was standing near the barn, watching the threshing, when the explosion occurred, A fragment of boiler iron struck the child on the | chin, shattered and splintered the jaw and knocked all her teeth out and prob- ably destroyed her eyesight. The killed were all poor farm labor- ers. The Coroner's inquest showed that the boiler was purchased at second | baud, and bad been in use for an in- definite number of years. The jury decided that from *‘the evidence iL ap- pears that the boiler was not in the bands of an experienced man at the | time. From an examination of por- tions of the boller, the jury believes that it was defective.” An examination of the boiler shows that it was very thin in many places, The location of the boiler was down in a hollow, or the result of the explosion might have been more disastrons, Hin- nershitz died this evening, thas making six victims of the disaster. ttt THE YELLOW FEVER ANOTHER INCREASE IN NEW AT JACKSONVILLE. JAcEsoNvVILLE, Fla., Nov. 1.—The day was the coolest for a week past, but the fever record took another jump despite it. One year ago yesterday the mercury went down to 40, To-day It reached the lowest polnt, nearly 20 degrees above that, The season ap- pears unusually warm compared with other years, but the impatience for frost bas much to do with this, no doubt, There 18 still a long drag of | nearly six weeks ahead befors the city will be in condition at all approaching re up CASES out and leaving for recuperation until | the embargo on refugees shall be with- | drawn. Dr, Porter announced to the Exee- utive Committees thal government guards will be placed at all junctions | and transfer points on railroads lead- ing to Jacksonville, at Baldwin, Live Oak, Way Cross, Jessup, ete., and that detectives will be employed to spot any | refugees intending to reach the city under false pretences. The rallroad companies have agreed not to sell tickets to Jacksonville for the present. As no one can foretell the end of the epidemic, the prospect is not a little discouraging. Dr. Neal Mitchell reports 56 new cases to-day, 10 whites; two deaths, Mrs. George Westmore, of Springfield, and James Harris, on the Middleburg youd, Total cases 4212; total deaths ENTERPRISE ASKS AID, CUHicAco, Nov. l.—Mayor Roche received the following telegram this morning. ExXTERPRISE, Fla, -~Mayor Roche, Chicago:~Twenty-two cases and four deaths from yellow fever to date Five tundred people in distresss. Am com- pelled to ask for ald, Can Chicago belp us? Grorae T, CARLISLE, Board of Health, —A ‘boller attached to a steam threshing machine on the farm of Jonas I. Spayd, in Lower Heidelberg township, Berks county, Ia, exploded on the morning of the 24, killing six persond and badly injuring four others, ) 's jury found that the ies oo bot . Was n of an experienced man, Harvard Col- rrof. Pickering of the ; GREAT BRITAIN. THE SACKVILLE AFFAIR—WHY HE WAS NOT RECALLED —HIS8 BUC: CESSOR NOT LIKELY TO BE A COLONIAL SUBJECT. LONDON, Oct. 30,—From the outset Sackville's friends here have urged Lord Salisbury to take no action for his recall, but let the initiative come from Washington, They argued thal recall by the British Government would be a more serious rebuke than Lord Sackville deserved, under the circum- stances, and would kill his political career; Lut if he resigned or came home because his presence was no longer desirable in Ame- rica, it would not interfere with his subsequent advancement here The reported appointment of Tup- per 1s not glven serious considera- ation on this side of the water, and is simply attributed to a lew of Tupper’s friends in Canada. No one at the it. and the only Information to be ob- tained there is that Lord Salisbury has taken no official action in the matter. JIe has not even expressed an opinion knew nothing of Tupper’s ment although it is not likely that he view of all the A prominent member of the Carlton Club, the Tory stronghold, said tlo- night: “1 have not found a single member of the Governmeut who be- {eves Lord Salisbury will be 80 unwise as to name Tupper for the place. His recent attitude on the fisheries question appointment in America, and to jump him over ine of advancement for the would make it equally unpopular bere, It would very much disarrange, even if it did not demoralize, the diplomatic body take a colony and make Lima first-class am- bassador. He has had no training for such place.” + vO {USSIA OTHE CZAR'S TRAIN, PETERSBURG, Oct. 3l.—An cilicial statement regarding the dent which happened to train on Menday has been 18 as follows: The train ST. the Czar's issued, It the Czar and Czarina and suite left Tranovka at noon on Monday, ‘hile passing through a deep gorge uear Borki the containing carria'e at first risge left rest «. ‘he train the the saloon When the track the lated and ceding carriage heeled over. The =a'o0n although remaining vi ile track, was badly shattered. The roof fell in, Lut rested on a portion of the side, thus forming a shield for the occupants, It oscil- any of the occupants of the train should have escaped unhurt, But God pro- tected the Czar and bis family, who were taken from the debris uninjured, some of the other occupants of the train received slight contusions. The only person severely injured was Gen- eral Scheremetieff, an alde-de-camp of the Czar. The Grashidanin states that the Lrain was drawn by two engines and con- sisted of several carriages besides the saloon carriage. The latter was of massive construction. The train was running at the rate of 65 versts an hour. When the first engine leit the track it ploughed up the road bed and embedded itself in the earth. The carriages were also wrecked, They were occupied by court servants and rallway officials, among whom Baron St. Jeranval, Chief Inspector of Rail ways, was badly injured, Generals Vannovaki and Tcuerevin, who were in the saloon carriage with the Impe- rial family, received contusions, The and Czarina remained at the scene for some time, giving attention to the injured. Towards evening they returned to Sosowoje, the last station they had left, Religious services have been for the escape of the imperial family. the casualties, It affirms that 20 per- sons were killed, including Captain Breach, a staff courier, three couriers talion, were Injured. Gatachina, All were well The weather was very stormy al Lhe time of the accident, but despile the fact that a heavy ran was falling and that the ground was slippery, the Czar stayed on the spot and assisted in the removal of the dead and injured. He did not enter the reserve train until the last of the injured had been placed in the ambulance, On his arrival al Zosowole, the Lzar ordered the clergy to conduct a requiem for the victims, After the religious services he invited all of the occupants of the train who he had served in the railway station. An examination will explain the cause of the accident, but the dea that it was due to malicious designs upon the Emperor's life may be considered quite out of the question. No Religious Test, ———— The last clause of paragraph 3, Arti cle V1, of the constitution of the Uni. ted States reads: “But no religious test shall ever be required as a quali- fication to any office or public trust under the United States.” According to this, a Jew is not ineligible to the office of president, THE PRESIDENT'S THANKSGIVING PRO- CLAMATION. Constant thanksgiving and gratitude ate due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy, which have followed them since the day He made them a nation and vouchsafed to them a free Government, With loving kindness He has constant ly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness. He has not visited with swift punishment our shortcomings, but with gracious care He has warned us of our dependence upon His forbear- ance, and has taught us that obedience to His holy law is the price of & con- tinuance of His precious gifts, In acknowledgment of all that God has done for us as a nation, and to the end that, on an appointed day, the united prayers and praise of a grateful country may reach the throne of grace, I. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and get apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November instant, asa day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout the land, On that day let all our people sus- pations, and In their places of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God | for ail His mercies, for the abundant harvests which have rewarded the toil of the husbandman during the year that bas passed, and for the rich re- | wards that have followed the labor of our people in their shops and marts ol trade and tratlic, social order and contentment within our borders, and for our advancement in all that adds to national greatness, And mindful of the afilictive dispen- sation with which a portion of our | land has been visited, let us, while we { God, acknowledge [lis mercy in selling bounds to the deadly march of pesti. lence, and let our hearis be chastened by sympathy with our feliow country- men who have suffered and who mourn. And as we return thanks for ail Lhe blessings which we bave recsived from the hands of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity; and on this day of thanksgiving jet us generously remem- ber the poor and needy, 80 that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord. Done at the City of Washington, on | the 1st day of November, 18858, and in the year of 1ndependence of the United States, one hundred and thirteenth, iSeAL] In witness whereof, 1 bave hereunto signed my name and caused fixed, GrovER CLEVELAND, By the I'resident, 1. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. NEWS OF THE WEEK. — A cave In occurred on the morning of the 20th ult, over an abandoned mine at Curry Hill, Plymouth, Penna. The house of John Fox sank 12 feet, and the inmates, six in pumber, were thrown from thelr beds and severely injured. Several others bu dings were damaged, and, It is said, their occupants will have to vacale, — Mrs. ! the Carrie Turner, a teacher In Little Bock | TALL Rock, Arkansas, committed suicide on the 28th ult. Her body was found in the Arkansas river. An unfortunate marriage and separation are given as the cause. Charles Diete, aged 53 years, committed suicide in New York on the evening of the 48th ult, by hanging himself in his room. He was a carpenter and a pon-union man, and did not have steady work. Thomas | Hill, a commission merchant in De Hive wig A | the 20th uit., by shooting himself In the head, Ils had met with financial re- verses, -A telegram from Minnesota, says the officers who have been working on the Bohemian Flats poisoning case have arrested Mrs, Mar- tin, the young bride, charging her with the crime, afternoon of the day on which there was a quarrel | cousin, Lizzie Halavatch, and grew | excited because her husband was al- tentive to Lizzie. | bride went to a drug store and bought the poison. A package found has been | identified as the one she bought, After { the poisoning it is charged that the | family entered into collusion to conceal | the identity of the prisoner, who has repented of her rashness. A despatch from Ashland, Wisconsin, says on th { 27th ult, two young sqaws overheard some remarks made by a married wo- man, Mrs. White Bird. The sqaws turned upon her and gave her a beat- ing, which caused her death. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy. -N. M. Wilkins, Postmaster al Jahma, Mead county, Kansas, in a letter to the Post-office Department, states that owing to the failure of the crops the people in that section are suf- fering for food and clothing. “‘Three- fourths of the people,” he adds, “will starve unless ald can ve procured, The people of this county have been plead- ing for ald since Spring, but as yet no ald has reached us, Some In our county are living on perched corn and others on bread and coffee, an others on bread and water.” — Arthur Watkins, of Huntingdon, was shot dead by Marshal Rosebraugh in Wabash, Indiana, on the evening of the 20th uit, Watkins tried to escape fro.n the custody of the officer, and at. tempted to stab him, ~Harry Smart was on the 30th ult, found guilty in Louisville, Kentucky of the murder of Meislier Green and Belle Ward, whose bodies were found floating in the river four months ago. A was sentenced to imprisonment for There were 32 new cases of Jitow fever and one death at Jacksonville on the 30th nit. The total cases to date pumber 4127, and the total deaths 358. Three new cases of yellow fever — August Ritz and Joseph Farreni have been arrested at Winnemuca, Nevada, for passing counterfeit silver dollars. ~= While testing a rope fire escape at the Monongahela House in Pittsburg, rope broke, and three McClure, aged 14 years; John Duddy, aged 10 years, and Daniel Nagle, aged 15-—were precipitated from the fifth story to the pavement, 70 feet below. McClure and Duddy fell headforemost and were killed instantly, Nagle had both probably die, cape, H, C. Wilson, the rope, paying them five cents each, was arrested pending the Corouner’s in- vestigation. He 18 reported to almout erazy over the disaster, more of the victims of the bridge dis. 81st ult, Their learned, — Andrew Franks was found dead | names were not moming of the 31st ult, He supposed to have committed suicide, while walching a the S0th ult, notwithstanding the fact that street was crowded with people, cause of the shooting A. McAfee and Thomas in ludisnapolis, Indiana, on the even- the 30th ult, and both were fatally wounded, Frank Driester was beaten and robbed by unknown ruf- ¢ ¢ iE Ol uth ult, and died on the morning of the 31 ult, of his injuries, Four white travellers who were attacked by a band of pegroes in Mercer counly, West Virginia, the 28th ult, , when two were shot and robbed of $600, The other two men made their way Ww Bramwell and gave an alarm, men went in pursuit, bat up to last accounts the outlaws had not been cap tured. The body Jolin Groshart, a well-known neh in Carbon county, Wyomin ritory, on in his brain. The murderer is Knows. ~The air brake of tached to a piledriver Grande Railroad, gave oul as scent of the steep grade from I'ocha Pass, near Salina, Colorado, was be- gun on the 30th ult. The engine shot down the mountain at a terrific speed, and, at- we Rio an engine, +h on the de. Aadiow and fee illed, and embankment, Fireman Conductor Vinson were Engiseer Whitelock and Allen severely injured. A ran into the rear of another, near 1 trainmen saved themselves jumping, bul one passenger and three injured, explosion metal the Sable iron Works, the 1st. killing George 1 20 years, and sever ig Joseph Klein, aged 50 years, his son, aged 15 years, and Johan Sutro, aged 27 years, The men were em- ployed in the furnace department, and wens pouring the molten metal buggy or car, when il was accid upset and the hot iron ran inio a of water. A terrible explosion jowad. demolishing the [urnace portion of the mill and scatiering he metal over the men, A despatch from Greensburg, Penna. says thal Amanda (Gus Wiseman, her intended husband, were run down by a freight train on the Railroad on the evening Sig uit. and kiled. off one track to train and were he by was killed of hot ana a of the They stepped avold a struck Thomas Sayers, one of the negro nighwaymen who robbed and murd- ered two peddiers in Mercer county on on the evening of the 51st ult. Fred. erick Auschlag, now im jail in Los Angeles, California, under sentence of death for the murder of Mr, and Mrs, Hiteheock, at Garden Grove, some months ago, has made a confession of the murder of Julius Feugh, In Bep- tember, 1857, inspired to kill Stenger and one Peugh by George Border, to oblala Feugh's money, Stenger has been ar- rested in San Francisco, Border’s whereabouts are ugknown. —In Cincinnati, on the 1st, by Charles Tinkler, collector for the warehouse, who received the and left the assistant to a bookmaker at the races, His employers think he was the dupe of experienced criminals, missing. Walter Hall, sub-agent lor Boston, disappeared on the morning of of $1000, There were IF new Cases the 24. Total cases to date, deaths, 359. Four new the fever are reported at Live There are eight cases of the fever at New Decatur, Alabama. One new case was reported the 2d, While a number of riding on a hand car near Hopewell, Penna., on the morning of the 2d, they were thrown from the car by a runaway Samuel Hastings was killed, and seven others were injured, Martin Maher, it is feared, fatally. In turning a curve on the Louisville and Nashville dallroad, near Louisville, 151 on th 8 feet hugh, landing bottom up, The postal car landed on top of the engine. Not a passenger was injured, A TAP OT SION OR UTR. ! i TY r r tr yr TE I NEW YORK LETTER New York, Nov, 24 Outside of Wall street does not as first glance seem to be very pire hensive of the result of the election Never before in the history of the coun | try, it 18 believed, has so cheerful tone and so aclilve a business | ed on the eve of a Presidential contest, This may not, however, in reality mean that trade is not fearful of the changes in the Natiocal policies thal may 10i- low the election, for this can be so. Nothing is so sensilive as Dus | ness, and ordinarily no one is so timid i and fearful of change as the man, He is not indifferent to the re | sult of so important an election, If may mean only that the current neces- sities of the consumers are large enough { to make an active market, without any | transactions that require the discount. | ing of the future, However this may be, a glance at the reports of the com mercial agencies given below that, though trade is undoubledly more or less retarded by the | excitement, the ve the circumstan | arily large. This gratifying fact { solid prosperit Though very d: | market has shown up v business a prevail- pearcely business iu} SLIOWE politica of business is { under Jersey, on the number of the coal cars were wrecked, and Superintendent Donnelly, of the was on the engine, was dangerously injured. —A violent wind tent of about $50,000, mart. GQEergoing t £4 3 3 was ng have suf yon that That One No honse was completely person reported inu- is ———— A A — Fact or Fiction. winter, gentlemen tion. Regiment was at the target practice in boy named DBolde, was killed. Con- trary to orders the boy was standing behind the target when a bullet struck tha round axis about two or three feel his left breast. Dennis B. Tax Collector in Wilmington, Dela- ware was on the 31th uit, struck and killed by a locometive, as he Was Cross- in the iron busines in Philadelphia, was Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Maucl Chunk, Pa., on the 1st. 60 years old, Washington, says: ‘‘The weather has been ‘generally favorable for farm work in the winter wheat States, and less affected the winter wheat crop favorably, The rain in the southern portion of the Gulf States has improved the condition of erops in that section, although the reports indicate that gen- erally the weather for the season has not been favorable for the cotton crop.” —Louls Brubaker, aged 24, while convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever, in Washington, Kansas, called his mother to his room on the evening of the 31st ult., and cut ber throat. The invalid then made an unsuccess- ful attempt to commit suicide, «While Michael Quinn was making a water connection in New Haven, Connecticut, on the first, the banks caved in, and be was smothered. John Thompson, aged about 60 years, sup- posed to have been a 1'hiladelphian, was killed by a train while walking on the Lehigh Valley Raliroad track, near Mauch Chunk, on the 1st. Joseph Dickenhof, aged 70 years, was attacked by two highwaymen in Akron, Ohio, on the evening of the 31st ult., and robbed of $7300 that he carried in a valise, ~The public debt statement, issued on the shows a reduction du October of 1st, 4.508510. The total in the Treasury, 804,487, «Jacob Loewenstein, a well-known detective in Ubleago, ‘was fatally aboe a PFRIDE oi W iy Fred winced a litt sie el mi . ¥ nen hat unpaid livery or at the idea of Lizzie's sleighing her gentlemen friends, 1 cannot positively answer. “How many do you think my sislers pave had? Not the sign of one, either ie of thei. rance of 1 A 3 +35 £1 il Oued Nellie were, too, and so much attention as they used to have!” “Now, Lizzie" “1 am fond of going to the thealre occasionally, as well as to a lecture or concert sometimes, and I shouldn't hike tertainioent to be invariably told that times were bard and my husband couldn’t afford it, and then to have him ‘Lizzie, Lizzie—"’ “And if once In a dog's age he did pick my way along the slippery places, at the risk ot breaking my neck, side. I'm of a dependent, clinging na- ture, and I need the protection of a strong arm,” Lizzie, this is all nonsense.” “1 am the youngest in our family, and perhaps I've been spoiled, At all events, I know it would break my heait to have my husband vent all the ill- temper which he conceals from the rest of the world on my defenseless head.” “But, Lizzie, I promise you that I" “Oh, yes, Fred; 1 know whal you are going to say-—that you will be dif- ferent; but May and Nell have told me time and again that no better husbands than theirs ever lived, and 1'm half in- clined to believe them, Neo, no, Fred; as a lover, you are just perfect, and 1 shall hate awfully to give you up, Still if you ure bent on marrying, there plenty of girls who have not sisters, oF who are not wise enough to rofit by their example, if they have. And don't fret about me, for I’ve no doubt I can find some one to fill your place—"’ 4 But before Lizzie had concluded Fred made for the door, muttering some- Wing “unmentionable to ears polite.” “There!” exclaimed Lizzie, as the door closed with a bang. we precisely the way John and Aleck swear and slam doors make a perfect Boban ot” su pposi with the ; of the re; cent. 1886, and about 7 pe: n October one sinaser Year ago, “44% 1 ry 4 Fats $4 Mik CICATIDES Oust increased York’ totals oul 1 above, we find 1 clearings for October, | were £1,776,035,280, or | than in October, 1887, in | excess of the aggregate for thal month in 1838, and 35 per cent, larger Lhau in | 1885, It will be recalled that the year the cleasings declined as compared with the preceding 12 months, and to this must be attributed the decreases in the 10 months’ totals as ! compared with 1887, The aggregate at 82 cities is $30,905,885,686, or 5 per | cent, Jess than fn 1837; at New York it | is $25,407.046,970, or 8 per cent. less, | while at 31 cities (omitting New York | city from the above) the total for 1U { months in 1588 is $14 408 R38. 716, a | gain of Jess than 2 per cent. over 1887. 15 per cr per cent. it GArIY In tably Cloaks on the Installment Plan. “you would be surprised,’ said One « of these enterprising and somewhat grasping merchants the other day, “at the variety of people who have deall | with us. We have sold to dry | clerks who were working for $1,000 a | year sealskin cloaks for their wives which cost them as high as $400. Sometimes it takes three years to pay for them, but they will have them. The women are extravagant, or one of the neighbors has a cloak, and the poor man has no peace at home until he gets one for his pretty but foolish and am- bitious wite, last winter we sold sev. enty«ive sealskin sacks on the install- ment plan, and in a great many cases the wives made the purchases unknown to their husbands and saved the money to pay for them out of their allowance for housebold expenses. We have Indies come here for their fancy bon pets, and in many cases for ther dresses, which they never could get if they bad to wait until they saved money to pay cash for them, We have a num ber of cases on our books where articles of dress are either worn out or bave be- come old style and the women are still paying the regular instaliments on their cost. They must they know any more g gly very prompt and are regular in their payments,’