AAI
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
SEVEN HUNDRED HOUSES IN SAINT
SAUVEUR BURNED.
NO WATER AND XO INSURANCE, ONE
KILLED AND ONE FATALLY
INJURED,
QuzBEC, May 16.—A disastrous fire
broke out early this morning ‘n Saint
Sauveur, in the house of Murs, McCann,
on Valier street, and spread with great
rapidity through the wooden district
which surrounds it, The streets burned
are portions of Valier, Cheunel, St. Peter
and Ste. Marie. The insurance com-
antes interested are the North British
and Mercantile, London and Lanca-
shire, Guardian, Agricultural, of Water-
town, and Northern. The total losses
so far made and in prospective may be
B150,000, At 3 o’cloek it was 1mpos-
sible to guess the limit of the fire, and
the people were in dismay at the rap-
idity with which the fire jumped from
sne wooden building to another. The
local arrangements for quenching the
ire were defective, and the Quebec
Fire Brigade was sent for and were
juickly on the spot, but their efforts
were crippled for want of water. B
Battery was called out and rendered
valuable assistance in fighting the
dames,
Over 100 wooden houses have been
lestroyed. A good deal of distress will
be caused by the destruction of a large
aumber of wooden shanties, on which
there 18 no insurance, At seven o'clock
the fire was under control, havin
military were preparing to blow up
some of the houses to check the fire a
Sergeant Wallick, of B Battery. Both
were hurled into the ruins. The body
f Sa:rgeant Wallick was found near
the door of a house dreadfully mangled.
QuEepec, 10:30 A. M.—The fire in
*ity side, but is still burning furiously
bly stop only when nothing is left to
feed it, The insurance is compara-
tively small. There is a sirong easterly
wind blowing, and rain hasbeen falling
steadily for the last three hours.
Quesec, 1 P. M,—The fire is still
burning and no hopes are entertained
reached. Already about 500 buildings,
mostly wooden tenements, have been
burned, and over 1000 people rendered
few effects they were able to save,
while a few have found shelter with
friends in the city.
Major Suort’'s body was recovered
about noon. One leg and one arm had
veen torn from the body by the explo-
+
ut
from the trunk.
St. Sauveur is a separate munici-
sality from Quebec, but is seg arated
‘rom this city by only the width of a
street, It has a population of about
15,000, Only last night the St. Sau-
veur officials refused an offer of this
city to supply them with walter.
QUEBEC, May 16, 430 P. M.—The
fire has burned itself out after reaching
the limits of St. Sauveur, the tollga
keepsr’s house in Valier street being
about the last to go. The district north
and west of Massue and Si. Ambroise
streets has beep swept clean, with the
sxception of a portion of Val
About 700 houses were burned
many of them were tenements,
Fog de
shan 1200, 5000
Jersons.
comprising
im a
HEK CAPTAIN AND THIRTEEN MEN
RESCUED.
IVE ENOWN TO BE DBROWNED—
(FTEEN OTHERS NOT YET HEARD OF,
PORTLAND, Oregon, May 16.—Tle
steamship Columbia, which has J
arrived at Astoria, botind from San
Francisco to Portland, brings a repor
sf the loss of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company's
side-wheel fron steamer Alaskan,
ust
lered at sea off Cape Blanco, Monday,
land to San Francisco, Only meagre
particulars have been received yet,
May 11, bound for San Francisco,
where she was to go on dry dock for
jome repairs preparatory to being
slaced on the Puget Sound route. it
8 supposed that she must have encoun-
tered a very severe gale while on her
way down the coast.
The steamer fortunately carried no
passengers,
mouth of the Columbia river.
The steamship Columbia, which was
coming up the coast, picked up the
captain and brought them to Astoria.
Five men are reported to be drowned,
There were 34 persons aboard, As
soon as the vessel began to founder the
the boats, Captain Howse, Captain
Woods and all of the crew all in one
boat, and the remainder of the crew in
the others.
Toe tate of the others is not yet
known. Hopes are entertained, how
ever, that they drifted landward and
were saved. It is possible that all got
in boats, escaping .rom the sinking
steamer,
The Alaskan was built in 1883, for
the O. R. aed XN. Co., at Chester, Pa,
by John Roach & Son, and launched
August Sth of that year. She salled
around the Horn, reaching this port
April 8th, 1884,
She was exactly like her twin steam-
sr, the Olymlan, now plying on the
sound, Her length over all was 275
teet, Ler depth of hold, 14 feet 6 inches,
with 80.10 foot beam. She was the
most elegantly fitted up steamer in the
Northwest, and cost $350,000,
~— Andrew Cavanash snd Stephen
Goodtask, Hungarian laborers, were
killed by a freight train at Tullytown,
Penna. on the evening of the 11th.
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a
TERRIFIC HAIL STORMS
GREAT DAMAGE DGNE IN EASTERN
VIRGINIA.
ESTIMATED LOSS A MILLION.
BALTIMORE, May 14.—The Sun's
gpecial from Norfolk, Va., says:
About 8 o'clock this afternoon one of
the most severe hail storms that ever
struck this section passed over Norfolk
and Portsmouth and vicinity.
Ice particles of extraordinary size
came down with the hall, and several
inches of hail lay In drifts before the
deluge of rain that followed carried iv
away. The shade trees of the streets
and the flower and vegetable gardens
were badly wrecked. In the country
the truck farms were badly torn up,
the strawberries and peas, cabbage and
other crops being ruinously beaten to
the ground.
The vineyards and orchards suffered
severely, vines and trees being cut ter-
ribly and the frult destroyed. Many
of the truckers express themselves as
ruined for the season, A swarth five or
six miles broad was cut through Nor-
folk and Nansamond counties by the
storm. The truckers all around the
Hodges Ferry section and between the
Western Branch river and Portsmouth
| lost everything. The loss will prob:
| ably reach a million dollars, and it is
| too late now to atlempt Lo recover,
Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock a
| terrific hail storm and rain fall swept
| over Southampton county in the vicin-
| ity of Newsome’s depot, and the grow-
ing crops and orchards were badly
damaged by large pieces of ice and the
| great quantities of It. The drifts of
hail were 24 inches deep in some places,
and 12 hours after the storm il
were over six inches In depth.
| barn of Mr. W. 8, Francis was bl
{ down by the wind and demolished,
{ three horses killed,
suffered damage to th
Late yesterday afternoon a
ck the great bridge section of
inty, and the hail
bie extenl, were as
The potato and ;
were damaged. Three
t work in a field beyond Deep
the same storm,
The
Wn
and
in
stones
were struck |
ining and badly ed.
from Danville ce th
severest y Cl
| passed over this "
| day, doing greal damage
| fences, fruit and shade trees,
WEEK.
—The severest storm of thunder and
lightning ever known at Staunton,
Virginia, passed over that city on the
morning of the 12th, between 12 and
1 o'clock. It continued nearly an hour,
the rain falling In torrents, The
| lightning was continuous and fearfully
bright, “and peal after peal o thunder
fairly shook the earth.” At o'clock
a discuarge of electricity Kk
| horses, & colt and a cow standing
| different places.
—Mrs. William
four children,
county, Pa., sought safei;
storm 1 cellar of their
the 10th, laghbtning struck the house,
ind the mother and three of the chil
iren were killed, The child a
month old, was found uninjured
arms of its dead mother,
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MeNall and her
Ridgeway Elk,
'3
from ;
irom Le
Louse
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¥ 3
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her
OL
in the
wes 13. Smith, local editor of the
n, in Springfield, Mas-
tts, was shot and killed early or
roing of the 13th by his brother
in-law, BR. B. Sturtevant, at
of his father-in-law, He was mistaken
| for a burglar. Henry Demuth, seven
years old, died in Si, John's Hospital,
tin Yonkers, New York, on the even-
ing of the 1ith. It is alleged that
while at school he was struck on the
nead by a teacher, and ths
Was result of the blows,
| Ward, aged IZ8 years, shol and killed
George
the
{ 13th, and then committed suicide, The
| cause of the tragedy is unknown.
—A terrific explosion of fire damp
| faw miles from Chartlers, Pa., on the
i 11th. Four Hungarian miners were
| killed and the mine was greatly dam-
| aged,
—Part of the wall of the house al
| No. 151 Spring street, New York, fell
! on the 13th, killing two men and fatal-
i ly injuring George Thomas. Another
| man, Thomas Crow, was slightly hurt.
| The building was being torn down.
The men killed were Patrick Gillan
and James Joseph, both laborers. Pro-
| fessor St. Clair, attempting to give his
{leap from the clouds, at the falr
| grounds in Houston, Texas, on the
evening of the 12th, lost his grip on
| the parachute and fell 300 feet to the
| earth, He was instantly killed.
~ A terrific storm passed over Rock-
ingham county, Virginia, on the 12th,
| and news of the damage is just com-
in. Lightning destroyed several
and stables, Much stock was
killed. In a part of the county hail
fell and destroyed the wheal crop.
Fences and houses were blown down,
but no lives were lost,
~ Navigation on the Upper Missis-
gippl, from Grand Rapids to Aitken,
Minnescta, is reported to be com-
pletely blocked by no cedar-log jam,
“which extends for miles in tiers 10
feet high.” It will take several hun-
dred men a week or more to break the
jam,
—During the progress of a Sunday
School Convention in Somerset, Ken.
tucky, on the 12th, Constable Doolin
tried to arrest Wilillam Watson, for a
trivial offence. The young man started
to run and the constable shot him
dead. Doolin was arrested.
~ Frank Ryan and Harry Sadler, the
young men arrested in Canton, Ohio,
on the 12th, on a charge of attempting
to wreck the New York and Chicago
limited vestibule train on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rall.
road recently, have confessed their
guilt, Three other men will be ar-
An earthquake was felt on the
14th 1a the Mexican State of Guerrero.
Toe oscillations were from north to
south and lasted four secon is
ing
{ barns
—Five tramps attacked James
Burns in Altoona, Penna, on the
morning of the 14th, and robbed him
of $30. They also stripped him of his
clothing and left him for dead. Subse-
quently a fight took place between the
city policemen and the tramps and four
of the gang wers captured, manacled
and taken to jail, A gang of men sur-
rounded the houee of a farmer named
Phelton, at Rogersville, Kentucky, on
the evening of the 11th, and attempted
to take him out, Phelton shot and
killed two of the gang, and the others
fled,
A hotel in course of erection in
Tacoma, Washipgton Territory, was
blown down by the wind shortly before
6 o'clock on the evening of the 13th,
Five men were killed and four injured.
At last accounts there were still some
laborers buried in the debris. A fall
of coal in the Huron mune, in Hough-
ton, Michigan, on the evening of the
13th, killed two miners and badly in-
jured two others. John Forester and
passing train. The latter, while on his
his neck.
The Old Friends.
Where are the scattered now,
The old, old, old friends?
One made ber dwelling where the mapies
grow,
And mighty streams through solemn for.
ests flow,
But never from the pine-crowned
BOW
A message sends.
land of
Bome meet me oft amid
Life's common Ways;
And then perchance a word or smile de-
clares
of cares;
For love grows on,
fares,
Till harvest days.
like wheat among the
“Put some are fall’n asleep;’’
The words are sweet!
O friends at rest beneath the blessed sod,
God,
When shall we meet?
O Thou, divinest Friend,
When shall it be
That I may know them
white,
And see them
sight,
{ Mine old familiar
bright,
Like unto Thee?
ON TIARAS.
HIS ONE LOVE,
in their garments
with a new and
friendg—made fair and
at Tolsnot
and Wel.
occurred the same evening
Station, on the Wilmington
and was delayed two hours”
panes of glass were broken
windows, a tree was biown across the
track, and much damage was done to
crops. Telegrams from various
points in Minnesota and Dakota give
accounts of heavy rain and snow fall
The crops have suffered,
fall will save the Crops,
tilled and
ally injicred by a terrible
an Car We
on the afternoon of the 1
were unloading a
some part of the
and
1 the men,
When the
h Den
CoOil~
the
ne
others were
thirea
Lidl
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accident at the aaiciiy rks,
4s
tith.
:
¢ 3
of
broke
1 miners, two,
The accident oc-
1s of one
— eter ws, aged DU years,
killed and George Kochberger fa-
y hurt, on the 14th, by the fall of an
church in Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
near which they were excavating for a
new hotel buliding. work-
were ightly h Mary
a young girl, was accidently
d, 1ilinois, on the 14th,
boy was playing a revolver,
the girl went to look into the
when weapon was dls.
, & produce
Kent ICKY, Was
room in a
New Jersey,
op
Trop
I'wo other
8ii inure
A
the
" 1 4 i$ 114
rged. James hey
dealer in Lexing!
found unconscious in hi
hotel in New Drunswics,
1 ry reine 5 bigs
vue I Tht if
on
i,
15th, the ga
having been eit
He died
wT hE wellddy
shout 30 years of age, which
kept ad the bottom by heavs
Lie morning of
[atlem river, at New
washed ashore. A piece
ng over 20 pounds, ¥
! leg with stout pac
silk umbrella,
lady’s gold
i partially Lurne Ok.
in the afternoon.
body of a seed man,
had been
weights,
in the
wl Was
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York,
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ae On
a
g «
right
3
a black
bar with a star on iis head.
— A telegram from Readi
ng says that
etiers have been received I
rom Dr, J.
Jrause, in Oklahama, showing that
a was not murdered, as reported.
—A deposit of tin bas been discov.
ered about 20 miles from Topeka, kau-
~The Attorney General has author-
ized the Marshal of Arizona to offer a
~While Mrs, Louis !Malmer was
burned.
an inner room, were burned to death.
—A boy named Denham, aged 12
years, was drowned in Lake Trout,
parton county, Florida, on the 16th,
A Miss Shere.z, who went to his
ssistance, was also drowned.
— Robert Day. 27 years old, living
near Loveland, Ohio, went home from
a circus intoxicated on the evening of
the 15th and shot and fatally wounded
Lis father, Robert Day, Sr, 05 years
of age, and also his divorced wile,
Mrs, Hubbell He also slightly
wounded the servant girl.
wounded his daughter-in-law
cause of the shooting was a quarrel
between the young woman and her
mother-in-law. Thomas L. Angel, a
promicent citizen of the Indian Terri
tory, was shot dead by John Swal-
low, a ferryman at the Audrain ferry,
on Grand river, on the 156th, Swallow
was drunk at the time.
— An attempt was made on the even.
ing of the 15th to wreck a passenger
train on the Fitchburg Rallroad, a
short distance west of Shelburne Falls,
Massachusetts, A track walker dis-
covered a pile of ties on the track at a
sharp curve, and on atiempting to re-
move them was pelted with stones by
unknown villians, He ran back to
Shelburne Falls, procured help, and
bad the track cleared in time to pre.
vent loss of life.
wJames Turner shot and mortally
wounded T. A. Holton, a merchant, in
a Magistrate's office, 1u Nashville, on
the afternoon of the 16th, They quar.
reled over a sult by Holton to recover
goods sold to Tuarnor, ,
An old gentleman, leaning forw: dl
| with his hands clasped over a goia-
| headed cane, was seated in
house situated
a sumumer-
grounds of a
at a fasi walering-piace.
dden by drooping
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hotel
He was in acorn
vines, and his
rentl
seed deep and
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frain of Li
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b
Wikdl
“Pity
“si is
{fa fall
Yak yyy sacd
Ol Mminea i
and often causes him weeks
ing pain,
inl
deares
thunk
| times in nursing him. ”’
«I wonder if she is the same?’
The old man leaning upon his
was thinking.
“Can be true?
think so little of my money, that will
be his, that he bas never even mei-
tioned it to his promised wife? Can it
be that 1 shall gain a loving, tender
niece instead of losing my nephew,
when Malcolm marries?’
| Loving his nephew so deeply, Hiram
me with tears
of this
friend kind uncle, and 1
t
it
he hopes 1 may be us ful some-
iin tells
4 1
RAR
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iis eves of has fear losing
and
Cans
Does
ie
iw
———
of his betrothal. He had never seen
been brought up in a circle of fashion,
Haydon,
| He ascertained by inquiry that the
winters were spent with her Aunt
Marcia, her summer with a maiden
sister of her father. She was quite a
belle, although only in society one sea-
gon, pretty and accomplished, and the
old man groaned in spirit over his
nephew's choice,
A belle, and with a head full of fash-
fonable frivolity, he wa Sconvinced that
the girl had been wan by the prospect
of Malcolm's hielrship to his own fort.
une, He had seen in the future his
nephew estranged from him by the in-
fluence of a dressy, empty-headed
woman, or, still more appalling, his
piece-to be making false protestations
of affection, with a hope of winning
golden favors,
While he mused upon the conversa.
tion hie had overheard, the silvery voices
of his young neighbors stil sounding
beside him, there was a sudden crash,
something struck him upon the head
and he lost consciousness,
Cries from the summer-house, from
groups of people collected in
brought a party ol
The rolten posts
the
given way and the side and roof had
ter were buried der the fallen timb-
Not
iii
go the
He
3 taken out
@less,
Nobody knew him, He bad come
fast, but no room, and askedgthe hour
A
as
in-
surgeon, s
possible, Alls
a broken arm and an jury
long, tedious illness, There was some
of hospital, a search through the pock-
ious victim, resulting
small sum of
each
» comforting red
18 over, and only those
1 AF §
of
the summer boarders
wi One cool
"ry #4
COWARD, en
October day the sick man, vow fast re.
covering, called Alice to him.
ht |
said, regretfully.
“Yes, she answered, cheerily: *‘very
soon,”
shall
ll soon be well again,”
“+1 shall miss my nurse,”’
“And I my patient; but 1 am glad
you are recovering. We were afraid at
parting.”
“You mean I was in danger of
| dying. Why should that be painful, 1
| am old.”
She made no answer, looking sor-
| rowfully into his uplifted eyes
“And a burden upon you, the doctor
| tells me. Why did you make yourself
responsible for a stranger?”
The fair face flushed, the soft eyes
were dewy with feeling as Alice said,
soy:
“Because you are old and seemed
poor and friendiess. 1 was glad it was
in my power to aid yon. Do not think
burden of obligation. *‘I have some
money laying idle.”
“For the wedding day, perhaps.
Well, child, you might have poorer
jewels to deck your bridal than an old
man's tears of gratitude and love, 1
am getting well and shall soon leave
you; will you give me a keepsake?’
The girl loosened a little locket from
a chain round her throat, cut off one of
ber golden curls and put it in the place
of some she took out, and laid the trin-
ket in the old man’s band.
SWith my love,’ she said, softly,
“Ah, child,” he sighed, ‘an cd man,
sick and feeble, wins little love.”
“yet,” she sald. earnestly, “‘vou
| must belleve that I have nursed you,
| since you were conscious, with affec-
| tion. My own father is gone, but
| want a daughter's care or affection,
| believe me, 1 will gladly come io you,
{ if possible.”
Three days
{was deserted,
You
sii
inter little
Aunt
returned to their home t
ther lost time in
sewing
r, and A lice cheer!
f 3
i
i
the
Kond
cottage
i
wer
small patrimony
and expenses of her
She little guessed be
pression her care and
made the heart
| against human
upon
affection
{ of any advances from
It was a revel
active charity
ures, 3Lid
He had gone to the hotel mers
"Ton a ag
Maleolm’s choice ar
w to his identity behind him,
ntended meet
unknown, an
but OCT it
dren, who will ry 0 make youl
: 3 } £ "
100 UBLOTY
hoped
happy by loving care!
knew you, Malcolm told
when he bad a home, «
me he
win you to
i
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live
in it. Will you let me, 100, DEE OL YOu
us?"
child! Gladiyl”’
to come 10
“Gladly,
said.
So, where the rich
feared to lose the one
gained another tenderer, sweele
jove, to beighten his declining years 1
a daughter’s devotion and affectior
——————
the old man
lonely man
love of
he
Invention for Bachelors.
5
soos to De
There
dence that a watchful pr
care of that class of men who
experiment as to whether “‘mar
2 failure” or not, }
His buttonless condition that
for humorists a
namely, the
ors
the
ye Are back is made NneCeRsa
theme
introduction of buttonholes a
and his ingenuity has guided
gard a small nail as the
tory fastening for a suspends
now lo! and behold! he
| jament the loss of spiral studs
genine among the nnwedded
covered that nothing looks neater,
| more convenient or cheaper to supply
| their loss than the ordinary round
| topped paper fastener. The Little
| points of the paper fastener are pressed
| through the eyelet, clenched on the
under side, and no one but an expert
can tell them from the most costly
| Etruscan gold jewelry.
As amber attracts a straw, s0 does
beauty admiration, which only lasts
while the warmth continues; but virtue,
wisdom ness, and real worth, like
the loadstone, never lose their power.
These are the true graces, which, as
{Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand
in hand because it 1s by their influence
that human hearts are so firmly united
to each other,
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