NEWS OF THE WEEK,
—Eddie Gallery, 11 years old, was
accidentally killed at his home in Chi-
cago on the evening of the 14th,
While overhauling the drawers of a
bureau the lad found his father's pis-
tol. The mother grasped the weapon,
unfortunately catching held of the
trigger. An explosion followed. The
bullet loaged just under Eddie's right
eye and he died in half an hour,
—Captatn Jones, of the schooner
Arthur, at Mobile on the 15th from
Bay Islands, reports that at Ruatan
last month, Rev. Henry Hobson, his
wife and her companion, a young girl,
all patives of Jamalca, were murdered
by Joseph Bures, The family were
preparing to leave for Balize and Bures
was helping. Discovering that Mrs.
Hobson had money, Bures at night
entered the house and cut the throats
of all three persons. Ie then robbed
them of what money and valuables
they possessed, including & watch. The
next day Bures was found with the
watch, was arrested and made a con-
fesslon of his guilt, Captain Jones
says the butchery of the three persons
and the mutilation of the bodies of
both women bore strong resemblance
to the murders committed by the
Whitechapel murderer in England.
Marshal Clare and two deputies went
on board the shanty boat of D. W,
Jones, at Warsaw, Kentucky, on the
14th, to search for stolen goods. Jones
resisted and shot Clare in the shoulders.
Jones was then shot and killed by the
leputies. A lot of stolen goods were
recovered. David Lindsay, a farmer,
gan, fatally shot ns son on the even-
ing of the 13th. - He claims the shoot-
ing was accidental. Both were of in-
temperate habits,
—Two trains on the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad collided on the 15th,
near Putnam, New York. Sidney
Sherman, engineer, was killed. A pas-
genger train struck a wagon near
Youngstown, Ohio, on the 106ih, com-
pletely demolishing 1t, and instantly
killing Mrs. David Cramer, one of the
occupants.
injured.
timore and Washington,
car ripped a big hole in it, Fortu-
nately the passengers in the smoker
broken wheel hitting against the car,
and had all retreated to the other end
The train was stopped as Soon a8 pos-
gible, and it was found that no person
had been Injured.
—Charles Hodges, a fire boss, and
passing through an abandoned work in
lated gas, and both men were blown to
pleces, At New Philadelphia, Ohio,
on the 14th, Emma Haney, a young
woman, attempted to kindle a fire with
coal oil and was burned to death,
father was severely burned while try-
ing to extinguish the ames,
—During a festival in the Alrican
M. E. Church, at Greensburg, Penna.
on the evening of the 13th, a dispute
arose about some change, and a riot
ensued in which knives and clubs
the disturbance Chief of Police Wol-
fendale had an ear almost bitten off,
besides sustaining other injuries, and
George Tuning, another policeman,
was stabbed twice in the back by George
the gang. After some difficulty the
rioters were captured.
—Mrs, John Rammage, of Pittsburg,
Pa., committed suicide on the 15th, by
drowning. Her husband was killed by
son committed suicide.
— A terrific thunder storm suddenly
burst over Findlay, Ohio, on the 14th,
The barn of C. H. Perkins was struck
by lightning and badly damaged. The
servant girl was so badly injured that
she is not expected to recover, and
Perking, who was in the garden with a
8
Jess, and did not recover for an hour,
A dog in the house was killed, and a
team of horses in front of the house
ran away, severely injuring the hired
man.
~John Williams has been [ound
guilty of the murder of Henry Lee, in
21 years’ imprisonment.
was one of a mob of **White Caps’?
who killed Lee in the presence of his
family.
—Lieutenant Towne, in charge of
the Salvation Army in Newburg, New
York, while selling the War Ory on
the 15th, entered a grocery store, on
Proadway. A trap-door leading to the
collar was open and Miss Towne
stepped into it, falling to the floor be-
low. She was picked up dead, her neck
having been broken.JThe body of Mille.
Suzanne Falrweather, who disappeared
from Columbus, Ohio, in November
last, was found on the 15th, in Alum
Creek, near that city. She arrived in
Columbus from Philadeiphia about
three weeks before she disappeared.
Joseph Nuse, 60 years of age, fell into
the canal at Cumberland, Maryland,
on the 15th and was drowned.
~James Henry and Frederick
Douglass were arrested in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on the 16th, for attempting
to rob the State Bauk. The two men
went into the bank when only two em
One covered the
The shooting was unprovoked, Mrs,
Caroline Bruckner was found dead in a
half-finished house near Chicago on the
morning of the 16th, and by her side
was her daughter, aged 11 years, In a
dying condition, The mother had
taken rat poison and had also given her
daughter some. Charles Bruckner, the
husband, said that he had a dispute
with his wife as to the disposition to be
made of the child, who was very wild,
He wanted to send her to a reforms-
tory Institution, to which she strenu-
ously objected, He thinks this may
have been the cause of the fatal deed.
— Frank Clarke, sole occupant of F.
8. Clarke's banking office, in London,
Ontario, was surprised on the afternoon
of the 16th, when one of two men who
had entered the office presented a pistol
at his head and demanded what funds
were on hand. He recovered himself
almost immediately, however, and re-
plied that he would surrender nothing,
at the same time seizing the stranger’s
pistol and turning the muzzle away
from himself. A struggle ensued, In
which all three engaged, and the noise
created so alarmed the robbers that
they fled.
—FEdward Tilden, President of the
Drovers’ National Bank at the Unlon
Stock Yards, at Chicago, bas been ar-
rested on a churge by George Fleming,
an ex-school trustee, of attempted
bribery. Fleming declares that on
April 20th, 1886, Tilden offered Flem-
ing $5000 tor his vote and influence in
the echool treasurership. Tilden denies
the charge and intimates that Flem-
ina’s action is for revenge, Tilden
having exerted himself at the recent
| election to defeat a brother of Fleming.
—A verdiet of not gullty has been
Carmichael, who was tried in Hillsdale,
band. Carmichael
15th, and on his death-bed declared
that his wife had poisoned him, Strych-
nine was subsequently found in
threatened to commit suicide, and the
| jury dia not credit hisdying statement.
| James Fields was fatally shot by his
wife at their home in Butler, a.
about 4 o'clock on the morning of the
17th. Mrs, Fields was reading a book
and her husband ordered her to come
| to bed. She refused to do so, when he
{ got up and strdck her. She went to a
| bureau drawer and took out a revol-
ver, telling him if he hit her again
| she would shoot him. He then struck
| her in the face, when she fired the re-
volver, wflicting a fatal wound. De-
| fore dying Fields made a sworn state-
| ment exonerating his wife, in which he
stated that she had fired In self-de-
fence, Cororner’s Jury on the
17th rendered a verdict justifying the
shooting. John F. Ross, convicted in
The
| killing George Hughes, and sentenced
to five vears' imprisonment, has been
granted a new trial on the ground that
of the jurors had expressed an
opinion on the case before he was
sworn, and also on the ground of
separation of the jury.
— James Wilson and wife were taken
| suddeuly sick with syroploms of poison.
mg in Maipe City, Michigan, on the
evening of the 15th, and are still in a
eritical condition, On the morning of
{ the 18th, Matilda, the 14-year old
daughter of Mrs, Williams by a former
One
charge that she put a tablespoonful of
| rat powson in the tea of each. The
girl bad cast her fortunes with a cow-
| boy combination and was brought there
| against ber will.
Santa Fe railroad disaster, by which
ing gross criminal carelessness against
| Conductor Frederick Hughes and Eo-
gineer Frank Converse.
| The removal of the electric wires
| and poles on dixth avenue, New York,
| on the morning of the 18th, was at-
tended by an accident, Michael Early
| and Hugh Reilly were dragged from a
| third-story window by a rope attached
to a faiiing po'e. Early was killed and
| Reilly, it is feared, fatally injured.
The men were engaged in staying a
| pole that was being cut down when the
| accident occurred. When the pole
| was chopped off at the bottom the base
| slid along the sidewalk, throwing the
{ top out and pulling both men from the
| window. Inspector Roth, under whom
! the men were working, was arrested
apd held to await the result of the
Coroner's inquest, James Munday,
while at work on the suspension bridge
at Niagara Falls on the 18th, 200 feet
above the Niagara river, suddenly
slipped and fell head first into the
seething torrent below. The body at
ounce sunk from sight. When next
seen he was being borne toward the
whirlpool, into which he passed before
any attempt could be made to save
him. It is believed that the body
was lifeless when sucked under the
pool, and that the shock of the fall
killed him.
~A man calling himself B, Simp-
son, succeeded In swindling the Sioux
City Savings Bank, in Sioux Uity,
Iowa, out of $2600 a few days ago.
Simpson got that amount on a draft
purporting te be made by the National
Bank of Tennessee, on the National
Bank of the Republie, of New York,
for $8000, On the 18th It was discov-
ered that the draft is a forgery. A
large safe in the | store of Ray-
mond Brothers, at Raymilton, near
Franklin, Penna., was blown open by
burglars on the evening of the 17th.
The building was wrecked by the ex-
ploston. ye jobbers sscuted $10 in
postage mps, overlooking $800 in
cash and several thousand in bonds
and notes,
«At Farmington, Berks county, on
the 18th, an ore mine, the shaft of
which is 125 feet , eaved in, par-
tially burying about 12 men. One of
Richard
—A despateh from Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, says a vessel went ashore on the
evening of the 17th near Life Saving
Station No. 21, but as all on board were
drowned before any assistance could
reach them, and the vessel went to
pleces shortly after she struck the
beach, it has been impossible Lo ascer-
tain ber name, destination or cargo.
—The locomotive of an express train
on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Rall
way jumped the track at Corapolis,
Pa,, on the evening of the 17th. The
baggage, mall, smoker and three
coaches were thrown over a bank, turn.
ing two times in the descent. A num-
ber of passengers sustained slight
injuries, but no one was dangerously
hurt, An alteropt was made on the
evening of the 17th to wreck a pas-
genger train on the Chicago and West
Michigan Railroad, Near Grandville,
Michignn, an open switch threw the
engine and all the cars except the last
one from the track. The engine was
demolished, but no person was injured,
The connecting rod of the switch had
been cut and the switch moved half
way, #0 that the train would not go on
a siding.
—A package containing $15,000 in
gold has mysteriously disappeared from
the office of the Northern Paclic
Express Company, In Braloerd, Min-
nesota. The mail car on the Lake
left Chicago on
the evening of the 17th was robbed
before It had got beyond the city lim-
The thief secured the pouch con- |
in an empty freight car |
streets when detected by a
As the watchman looked
the car the man jumped out
and then escaped. He had opened
contents,
~While Perry Wine was felling a
and killed his wife and three
says that two boats, with
seven and eight men respectfully, were
when one of the boats began to sink, |
Five men |
drowned. The men kad been
During a fire In the
establishment of dimon Zinn, manufac-
New |
German, named Vanoen, was suffoca-
» i
ted,
There are now 25 cases of small-
appeared in a boarding bouse at Grand
Tunnel, three miles from Nanticoke.
—A despatch from Wichita, Kansas,
says that George Kramer and Charles
Herdke, Okiohama boomers, quarreled
about a quarter section of lanl, Kra.
was killed and Herdke badly
wounded. Joseph King, a wealthy |
resident of West Farms, a hamlet near
Westfield Centre, Mass, was shot and
killed on the morning of the 18th by
Edgar King, his eldest son. The mur-
house, and, |
going a short distance away, committed |
The cause of the crime is
to an unbalanced mind,
dissolute habits, He in-
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
BEXNATE,
In the Senate on the 10ih, a mes.
taining and supplying walter.
journed.
In the Senate on the 17th, a large
pumber of petitions were presented |
from Kuights of labor Assembiles
asking the passage of the Anti-discrim-
ination bill, The House blll, author.
izing petroleum companies to purchase
the bonds and stocks of patural gas
companies, was reported favorably.
The following bills passed finally:
House bills authorizing appeals from
assessmuents of taxes to the courts;
Heuse bill providing that at the aver.
age attendance at night schools increa-
ses additional teachers may bes em-
ployed by boards of school directors;
appropriating $50,000 to ald in the
establishment of a free war library and
museum of the Loyal Legion, and to
fix the compensation of Supervisors and
Street Commissioners at $1.00 per day
in boroughs and townships when act-
ually employed. The act providing for
an annual expenditure of $2,000,000
for public schools was laid over,
In the Senate on the 18th, the House
bills allowing exceptions to referee’s re-
porta, to prevent misappropriation of
milk cans, butter tubs, ete, and to fix
the compensation of street su isors,
wers reported favorably. he Fow
License transfer bill was reported with
additional sections, one providing that
constables shall receive a fee of 25
cents for each saloon and six cents per
mile travelled In visiting saloons in his
district; and another that minors shall
net be employed around saloons, and a
third section permits security
nies to go on the bonds of licensees as
Sa a US ure
y: ouse au :
writs to be issued on liens filed for
work done or materials furnished by
the Board of Health or any municipal
corporation; House bill req tran.
sient clothing merchants to out
licenses, giving bicycles and tricycles
the same road as wagons and
carringes,
Ad-
HOUSE.
In the House cit the 16th bills were
passed finally enabling State banks to
become National banks; torezuiate the
the dlp riers
cnt
of State banks; authorizing petroleum
mining companies to purchase, hold
and dispose of stocks of certain other
corporations, The blll permitting the
sale of pools at horse racees failed on
final passage, the yeas being 84, the
nays 88, The Fow Liquor License
Transfer was amended on second read- |
ing so as to provide that the legal rep- |
resentatives of the deceased may have |
the license transferred or the fee refun-
ded. Bills were passed finally, to en-
force orders for the payment of cols ins |
the several courts by execution pro-|
cess, relating to recognizances in the
Orphan's Court; allowing exceptions Lo
referrees’ reports, Adjourned,
In the House on the 17th, the bill |
appropriating $200,000 for the lmprove-
ment of ths harbor of Philadelphia was
reported, with an amendment striking
out the Belt Line proviso. The Fow |
Liquor License Transfer bill was passed |
finally and goes to the Senate. The |
following bills passed second reading
on special order: Senate bill to prevent i
and punish the misappropriation of
milk cans, butter tubs and market
boxes from the owners thereof, and the
mutilation or obliteration of the name |
or residence of the owner on such; and |
Senate bill fixing 2240 pounds as the |
legal weight of a ton of coal after being |
amended, by making its application
general and pot limited to anthracite |
dealers. The following bills passed
finally: Making it a criminal offence to
misrepresent goods sold on deseription;
levying a tax on dogs. Adjourned,
In the House on the 18th, bills were |
passed finally: Senate bills authorizing
executors or trustees to umite with
estate of decedents heretofore made
under authority of Orphans’ Courts,
upon petition of executors or adminis
charitable corporations, SHER
Experiment Stations bill of |
prohibiting publications offering **green
Adjourned.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
God sendeth and giveth boll mouth
He is the best diviner of dreams who
Though olhers {all, no courage lack;
brave hearts must ne'er despond.
Attack is the reaction. I never think
I have hit hard unless it rebounds,
The man without honor will swear
Ly it just as quickly as anybody eise.
Immodest words admit of no defense
for want of decency 18 want af sense,
it is one thing to take the chances,
and quite anotser thing to find them.
Whimperiog growling and complain.
ing are only meaner ways of swearing.
more on trial than in
the moment of excessive good fortune.
is a little white lamb in
to teach men to be gen-
One 18 never
A daughter
the household
tiemen,
Let
cane,
TEAs0n.
To be prepared for war Is one of the
most effectual means of preserving
peace,
of
pothing 1s law that is
the
not
us consider the reason
For
THE NAME “AMERICAS
MM. Jules
Native
Farther Evidence by
Marcon that it is a
Word.
I ——————
Jules Marcon of certain further re.
As far
back as 1875 he published a paper on the
game topic which attracted much atten
tion at the time, and Le has since de-
voted much labor to an investigation of
early historical documents in which the
New World is named,
The popular notion that America was
so called from the Christian pame of
Amerigo Vespuccl is, he says, wholly
unfounded, and he sums up his conclu-
sions in this way: 1. Amerique isthe
Indian name of the mountains between
Juigalpa and Libertad, in the province
of Chontales, which separate Lake
Niearagua from the Mosquito coast,
The word in the Maya language signi-
files ‘the windy country,’ or ‘the country
where the wind blows always.’ 2, The
was Al-
berico in Italian and Spanish, Albericus
in Latin, This particular name is
gubject to an enormous f
Of
the
name of Vespucel
number
nomenclature and
oh i
“4
ses 1 * _ 11a . :
calendars of Italian and
of the period show; but
t fal fr
Spans i
nowhere
aisel wariat
BUCH Variation as J
Amerigo,
any
Tigo,
none of these is either :
France
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BRI 0 Alli
. when Jean
yublished the nan
in
any
any pri
manuscrij
contestable aut!
M, Marcon clain
a native origi
uas been
America,
is the coat it wears when It goes |
Tet death do what it will, there is
A woman 18 not to be counted your |
ding ring.
He drawetls out the thread of his
verbosity finer than the staple of his
A man may transgress as truly by
One test of a book's worth is—Does
it enlarge your horizon, and make you
wish to read other and greater booka? |
There is music in the beauty and Lhe
silent note which Cupid strikes far
sweeter than the sound of an instru.
What ia the good of youlh and
strength if it is pot to uphold those
who have had more than thelr share of
iife’s burdens,
A purely selfish sorrow is as much a
soll indulgence as a purely selfish joy,
and has as little dignity, It dwarfs, |
enervates and demoralizes the soul.
Our human life is a valley, the gloom |
of whose depths would be too terrible |
to endure did we not belleve that ils |
limits on either mde bordered on the |
sky.
Many of our ills come from sheer
heediessness, We do not take time to
reflect, but act upon impulse and frst |
suggestions, Mistakes are, thereiore, |
inevitable,
Sunday 1s the core of our civilizatios,
dedicated to thought and reverence. It
invites to the noblest solitude, the best
society, the loftiest knowledge of truth
and duty.
Moral courage will always rank high-
er than physical. The one 1s a dally
necessity, while the other may be re
quired only in emergencies,
No man has a right to do a work
that is unworthy of kim. It degrades
himself and robs society. Every man
is bound to do his best work, and ace
complish his highest influence.
The greatest good that comes to man
from woman's soclety, is that be bas to
think of somebbdy besides himself,
80 to whom he is bound to
constantly attentive and respectful.
No more fatal error can be cherished
than that any character can be com.
without the religious element.
in character
are religion, morality and
know,
Moderate work, alternating with
moderate rest, Rives # brain which,
the whole throagh, will ac.
the most and the best work of
i
i
is very
phy and geographical
publications of the Sixteenth centur
is not yel conciuds
s much disturbed
pew process which
The printing wot
by the discovery of a
enables any number
taken of the oldest book without setting
a line of type. A compound bas been
discovered which may be spread upon a
page without in the shi way
It can be easily re-
and there becomes
of copies to be
or Sy banned ys
a WATE ill-
juring the paper.
moved to a stone,
used for printing at once, The anti-
quarian will thirst for the blood of this
too clever inventor; but practical print.
ers are already moving to see whether
they cannot save the cost of reselling
old editions, and if certain practical
difficulties are got over we shall see a
change not only in the production of
modern books, If will no longer be
A
proof will be as good as a stereotyped
plate. No book will ever really be *‘out
of print’ so long as a copy of it remains,
It will be nearly as cheap lo reproduce
volume passing through the printing
machine. Certainly we are progressing,
Already watercolor drawing can be
so well lithographed as to deceive the
very artista, The time is not far now
self, We may reasonably hope to find
multiplied (rom their own canvases,
Justice Should Be for AIL
The men of wealth, the men who
control these great corporations—these
great mills—give millions away in os-
tentatious charity, They send mission-
aries to foreign lands. They endow
schools and universities and allow the
men who earned the surplus to die in
want. I believe in no charity that is
founded ob robbery. 1 have no admir-
ation for generous highwaymen or ex-
travagant pirates. At the foundation
of charity should be justice. Let these
whom others have made wealthy give
to those who created their fortunes
This would be one step in the right di-
rection. Do not let 1t be regarded as
charity let it be regarded as justion,
i A MISS.
The sunual income of the
ot Suna} ingomme of the population
£1,200 ,000,000. i.
leness the gutter of all fithy
ire who 18 no use to Limsed ts of no
HSS ASS AOS seen ts se
Western part of the
i State seems to have been a little Pennsyls
| vanla blizzard constricted the
Dakota model, It is a gort of meteoro-
| logical surprise party for the Weather
{| Bureau.
On
ei MI A ———
Tue Messrs, Cramps were the lo
bidders for the construction of the new
armed coast defense vessel, ‘Lhe next
lowest bidder was the San Francisco
firm, aod smee that Sra 3
nind time in completing the Char
it is probable that the work
done in Philadelphia. This city
undoubtedly have a large =
work of constructing our nev
No other city can do it so well.
west
amme——————
AMATEUR photography is one of the
‘fads’ of the day, but teus
frequently gets a set-back as happened
to a court stenographer recently, A
lady on the stand struck a
pretty attitude, and the stenographer
quitely turned a detective camera upon
her, A sensation when her
watchful husband snatched the offen-
sive instrument and forbade the taking
of her photograph, While the dis
was condemned tl
the ama
witness
ensued
6
§
JAnG’s spiril,
'
ourse with its
As for the “In
he is atlempling 10 }
11 m 3 n 59% 79 }
What the French
never Le 1 retold;
Giiescenee {ye Fegan
quiescence gives ise
¢
they
have recovered
stank
Wi
attack of mo
Tne
session of Henry M. Stanley
Pasha is supposed to be
than half a on dollars,
probably yield them a good profit over
expenses, after their followers have
been rewarded with a here
is money to be made in Central Africa
by those who have pluck enough go
for it and elastic consciences iu their
dealings with the natives, but it will
probably be a very long while before
the country is opened up to settlement
by Europeans and made secure to
travellers,
ivory reporied to
worth more
2
Ww
ard
diila
few trfles,
€
Ww
Tue Hydrographic Office at Wash.
ington intends to do what it can to les-
sen the Joss of life and properly from
burricanes on the Pacific Ocean by col-
lecting information relating thereto and
publishing pilot charts of the North
and South Pacific Ocean similar to
those now issued for the North Pacifio
Ocean. As a preliminary to this work
it asks for reilable information about
hurricanes in the Pacific, particularly
that which destroyed so much properly
at Samoa on March 15th and 1Gih,
Captains of vessels and others who can
aid in this work should send their notes
to the Hydrographic Office at Washing-
ton, to one of the branch offices, or to
any United States Consul, for trans.
mission to Washington.
————— AIA AS
AX Interesting case of altempted
abuse of the laws of marriage and
divorce comes from Delaware. A mil-
lionaire named McComb has brought
suit for divorce from his wife to whom
{he was married fifteen years ago.
When a young man he fell in love with
| the daughter of a Wilmington police-
| man. His wealthy family were shocked
{at his lack of discretion in selecting
(one so fur beneath him socially, and
| tried to break the match, He persisted,
| however, and married her. He devel-
| oped into a respectable citizen of good
| habits, with a fortune of a million. His
relatives introduced his wile into polite
circles, their scquaintances including
the Astors, Vanderbilts, etc, but all
attempts to make a society lady of her
failed and she settled down as a plain
woman of domestic habits,
The husband’s only weakness is for
blooded cattle and fine horses and he 18
abandantly able to gratify his tastes,
Nothing can be said against his wife,
Yet the ‘social inequalities” have never
been overcome, so be is seeking to pul
her from him. Whether thecourts will
lend themselves to the plan is yet to be
wen,
The deadinst sla
: ten of mo sin, So
were Lhe couscions.