DOWN A TRESTLE. THE FIRST TRAIN OVER A NEW RAIL- ROAD WRECKED. THE REAR COACH GOES DOWN A TRES- TLE—THREE MEN KILLED AND FORTY-NINE INJURED, KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 22 —A horrible wreck occurred on the Knox- ville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad, at Fiat Gap Creek, 22 miles from here, at 10.30 this morning. The train was the first to go over the new road, and carried a select excursion of the City Councils, the Board of Public ‘Works, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, and the very flower of the business and professional men of Knoxville. The train of two cars left the track at a crossing, and the rear car went down a trestle. Ouly one man in the car was uninjured. It was impossible to obtain medical ald for a long time, and until 4.30 r, M,, when the train reached Knoxville, scanty at- tention was rendered. Many had to be brought back on flat cars and the last part of the journey was made in a driving rain. Three men died from their injuries and others cannot live. THE DEAD. Judge George Andrews, prominent lawyer in East Tennessee. S. T. Powers, leading merchant and former President of the East Tennes- see Fire Insurance Company. Alexander Reeder, a leading politl- clan, who has held many offices of trast. THE INJURED. Alexander A. Arthur, the Chamber of ‘Commerce, Isham Young, Presideut, and Peter Korn, member of the Board of Public Works. John T. Hearn, editor of the Sentinel. W. W. Woodruff, a leading whale- sale werchant. ander Wilson, assistant chief engineer, Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Loulis- ville Road. County Judge Maloney. Aldermen Barry and Hockings. General H. Schubert, of the Gov- ernor’s stafl. A. J. Alberts, a wholesale merchant. Rev. R. J. Cook, Professor of U. S. Grant University. City I’hvsiciarn WesL Judge 11. H. Ingersol H. BD Wetsell. W. Ib. Samuels, C. Abbie. Cantain H. H. . McKelden, 1. Barker. . F. Kinsoll. ohn B. Hall. hillips Samuers, aged 10. Taylor, ~ 1 I J J 1 R. Schmidt, A. Park i. i. crew, Quat of 56 persons the train, were injured. The most citement and sadness 1s apparent to-uight, and one of the train 41 eX here on intense — —-—— —The State Board of Agriculture has been notiffed of the death of twelve cows, of murraln a dairy farm six miles from Wilkesbarre, Penna. — Andrew Johnson, a bar Keeper, and a man named J. Paterson, smith, both of Kenosha, Wisconsin, were drowned, on the 18th, while fish. ing 10 Camp Lake, A despatlch from Vivcennes, Indiana, says that a ative and eight cars of a freight train on the Ouio and Mississippl Rallroad were wrecked, on the morning of the 18th, by running overa cow. J. C, Lyons wag instantly killed and C. M, Faulley was fatally injured. The engi- neer and fireman escaped by jumping. — The defalcation in the Boonville, 1nd., post-office has been found to ap- proximate $6500, and Postmaster Swint is sald to have been ruined by Assistant Postmaster Denny's dis. hanesty. — The eords attached to a bunch of rubber balloons became twisted about the arm of two-year-old Bophie Scwab, at Sheffield Park, Chicago, on the 18th, aad the child was carried into the alr aod out over the lake. The de- spatch says that a sharpshooter suc- ceeded in piercing two of the balloons, and the bunch descended, the child being rescued without even getting her feet wet, — Charles Rhue, Martin Thomas and Lawrence Overly were fatally injured, and Joha Gleason and Henry Kautz, geriously, on ihe 19th, by the fall of one of the walls of the Centilion brewery, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was recently burned, Frank Sorreuson was fatally injured at Nanticoke, Pennpa., on the 19th, by a trap which he had arranged to kill pigeon thieves. — Parker Harris, colored of Mem- phis, Tennessee, cut his wife’s throat with a pocket-knife on the evening of the 18th, and afterwards cut his own throat, inflicting wounds which will probably prove fatal — Edward Brown and James Maulli- gan had an encounter early on the morning of the 17th, In New York, during which both were severely stabbed. It 1s thought Mulligan’s in- yaries will prove fatal. It is sad Brown was making a disturbance in a a bluck- called in to put kim out, Adam Beutel, a German-farmer, pear Louis. ville, Ky., on the evenlug of the 16th shot his wife, though rot seriously, and then killed himself. The two had quarrelied while watching at the bed- aide of a fon who was dying from sounds geceived At the hands of a negro about two weeks ago. Three goputdersin the Pennsylvania cou! regions on the 17th are reported In ad from Wilkesbarre, “‘as a re. sult of its belag general pay day.” AL Piston Edward Tates struck Thos, Snell op the neck, killing him instantly. At the same pl Chae. Fitzgernid was stabbed twies in the abdomen, and died on the evening of Lhe 18th, Ed- ward Welsh has been arrested for the crime of both, At Plgivouth Michael Minlinskl bed Joe Xedouchebl, niflicting a wound, ! Governor Hutchinson, ' General Kellogg, Chief Justice Horton | and Associate Supreme Justices Valen. | tine and Johnston, of Kausas, have | furnished for publication statemeuts i declaring that woman suffrage at | municipal elections In Kansas has | proved such a great public benefit that | they advise other States to adopt it. {| «=A heavy storm of wind and rain, accompanied by severa electrical dis- charges, passed over portions of Min- nesota and Wisconsin on the evening of the 19th, At St. Paul two inches of water fell between 2 and 56 A, M. Lightning struck the large agricultural building on the grounds of the North- western Fair Assoclation, at Eau Clair, Wisconsin, destroying the build- ing, together with several thousand bushels of grainand a lot of machinery. Several houses in that vicinity were struck and badly damaged. A despatch from Parkersburg, West Virginia, says that there is great suffering by reason of the recent disastrous (oods on Tucker, Tygart, Slate, Little Sandy and other creek valleys, and that the local resources for the relief of the people will soon be exhausted, — Albert Porter, aged 19 years, of Dover, a student at Dartmouth College, was accidentally shot and killed on the | evening of the 10th on Kenniston’s | Island, near Wolfboro', New Hamp shire. He bad been camping with some friends, and a revolver which llerbert E. Toule was cleaning was discharged mmadvertently. Bert Miller and John | Olcott, 10-year-sld sons of prominent men at Pomeroy, Jowa, were smothered to death on the evening of the 19th In a bin of flax in the elevator at thal | place, —The mud drum of the boiler at | Gangwiscli’s brewery, Allegheny City, | ex pit Jed with terrific force on the {afternoon of 20th, almost com | pletely wrecking the large three-story building. Henry Soyder, an employe, | was killed outright, and two others, | Lizzie Blasco and Willlam Jolinson, serionsly but not fatally hurt, The { damage will reach $10,000. The cause {of the explosion 18 unknown, Miss | Mary White and Mrs, Sarah Huoyck were struck and killed by a train ino | Roches er, New York, on the evening {of the 19th. Miss Lilllan Fellmaun, of | Chicago, was drowned In the Si | Joseph's river, Michigan, on the 19th, | while attempting to save Mrs, Edw, | Napier, who had got into deep water | in an effort to save a little boy from | drowning. Mrs. Napler and the boy | were saved, Information has reached Missoula, | Montana, that Indians were again | menacing the lives of the whites al Demersville. They broke into a houss {and one person was killed. William { Ball, a colored strolling minstrel, i stabbed and killed a negro known as | “Blackhawk Porter,” ina New York dance on the moruing of the 20th. He claimed the stabbing was an | accident, and that they were fighting a | “sham battie.” A man who was lying {on the track of the Omaha road was | Fun over and killed by a St. Pau! pas | sepger train as it was approaching Asb- land, Wisconsin on the evening of the 110th, When the train hands went io | pick up the remains they saw a man | run away and escape into the woods, It | ia thought the man who was killed was made futoxicated and then murdered. Robert Doran, a8 leading cattieman, wis found on the momiog of ithe 17th with his throat cut from ear to ear on one of his ranches, 20 miles south- | west of Wachita, Kansas, A bloody | razor was found beside him. Mr. | Doran's family say the razor was never | seen about the house, and certainly 1t is belleved +t Lie house Hite ! longed to some one else. | Doran was murdered, | —The Coroner's jury in New York, in the case of Edward Quinn, foreman | of the Brush Electric Light Factory, { who was killed by a current of electri. { city while trying to close a circuit, on the 20th censured the company. A heavy rain, the first in over two months, fell over South Dakota, on the levening of the 18th, relieving the anxiety of the farmers, who now say “oorn 18 safe for a good crop.” The forest fires in Montana were checked | and at many points extinguished by a heavy rain ou the evening of the 18uh, which was general throughout the Ter. ritory. | Gilman A. Kimball, aged 60 years, lof Middletown, Mass, died on the 1 19th, of hydrophotia, He had been accidentally scratched on the lip by the teeth of his dog about three weeks ago, and the animal was subsequently shot in a fit of rables. The Post-office Depariment was informed, on the 20th, that the stage running between Canyon City and Baker City, Oregon, was robbed on the 17th and all the registered mail taken; and also that the post-office at Moores. ville, Mo.. was entered on the evening of the 19th by burglars and $50 in stamps taken. A. S. Hooper, a letter esrrier in the Richmond, Va. post office, was arrested on the evening of the 20th charged with robbing the walls, A decoy letter was found in his possession. —A freight wreck occurred on the evening of the 20th on the Erie Rall. road at Big Fiats. An east-bound passenger train ran into the obstruc- tion, and one baggage and one express ear wus burned. Eneiveer Andrew Wallace and Fireman Charles Kimball were badly hurt and scalded, and two wogers were slightly injured. Rose Cassidy, aged 13 years, of South Band, Indiana, while asleep walked off the platform of a Vandalia express at Efagham, Illinois, while it was run- ning at full speed. The fran was stopped and the girl was found untiurt walking along the track, A heavy storm of wind and rain over Winthrop, Maine on the afternoon of the 20th, lasting hail an hour, Corn und other crops were seriously injured, —Three ladies of Portland, Oregon, Mrs. George Bonar, Mrs, Frank Mor« gan and Mise Sallle Wiberg, became teparated from A party who were de- scending Mount Hood recently and lost their way. Searching parties were formed and the women were found, ai 3 A. M.,percied upen a bigh rock for safety from wild animals und buddiel | together to keep warm. Awsnke, of Bremerton, and Jessie Lang, of Pienix, collided at the junction of the Oswego and Seneca rivers on the afternoon of the 21st. The Lang sank and all on board, about twenty-five persons, went into the water. All were rescued by the Wide Awake except Miss Clara Van Wormer, of Phenix, who was drowned, Thomas Joues, aged 10 years, fell Into the canal at Lowry’s Station, Penna., on the 21st aud was drowned, At Newton, North Carolina, H., R. Kenyon, a young banker, tormerly of Rochester, New York, walked of an upper story window and was killed, Ile was de- lirious with typhoid fever, — Frank Morris, John Heil, James O'Brien and Brodie Morris, miners, were caught beneath a fall of slate and killed on the evening of the 20th in the mines of the Canneliton Coal Com- pany, in Fayette county, West Vir- gina. —Richard Hanlon was shot and probably fatally wounded, in front of his bome, in New York, on the moru- ing of the 21st, by John McCue, a boarder whom Hanlon had ordered to leave the house. John T. Nalcher, of Pittsburg, a large painting contractor, was shot and probably fatally wounded in his office on the 21st, by Deujamin Lee, a drunken journeyman who bad applied for work. — A gasoline stil] at the oil refinery of D. Miller & Son, in Allegheny, Pa., exploded early on the morning of the 21st, and the entire plant wok fire and was destroyed, The engineer missing and Perry Het man, was badly estimated at £45 800 insurance. out ia. is Tue £3) (50) va, ‘ - The Post-office Department, on the 21st, received information that post-office at entered by burglars, onthe 20th; and, also, of the arrest of Samuel Smith al Denver, Col postal laws, — By the explosion of a blast pounds of glant powder, at Buckley's Mills, Russell county, Virginia, 22d, sn 18-foot drill Michael Dance’s head, ki stantly; John Rawmery had blown off, Joe img both William Kunz was terriby the were extracting accident occurred charge in No. Hudson ton, Penna, Nichols, Maaon 2 Colltery. Company the Canal HEART SC On the superintendent; forman; Jot Samuel Willlams and John fearfully burned, Nichols fatally. There had been a cave in the mine and the men to repair it, when the gas ig one of the miner's lamps, — Emanuel shot wounded Lis IHimnols, on the 2 himsself twice In Lhe inside in Lavern, 1 Were on and fataly Brooks . wile sliotl and then Lead. Al 38 was shot morning thief who was make away with barnof T. C. Nooton, a At Maysville, Arkansas 1 named Hull and Mason, © selling liquor to Ind an attempt to arrest deputy marshals, resulted, in which Mason had a horse shot under him, and, it is believed, was fatally wounded, oth men es. caped, however. —Joseph Franar, 8 Dohemian and a resident of Chicago, was shot and killed on the morning of the 22d while standing in his back doorway by an unknown man, who escaped through the alley. Mand Boertel, who lived near Uneida, New York, was shot and killed on the evening of the 224 by her lover, Edward Knowles, Brish W. Burgess, a farmer of Frederick county, Maryland, who died on August 7, ie found to have been poisoned with strychnine. Detectives are al work on the case. Ex-Ulty Sergeant James C. smith, of Richmond, Virginia, on the evening of the 21st shot and killed ! a negro whom he found in his place of business, presumably for purposes of robbery. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide, —F. L. Wisner, President of the Hardin County Bank, of Iowa, was accidentally shot and killed by his son George, while hunting, at Eldora, in that State, on the 21st —A train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was wrecked nine tniles south of Mobarly, Missouri, on the night of the 22d, by running over a steer. Engineer Frask Ritter, of Hannibal, and freman George Der. maris, were killed. A freight train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broke through a culvert near Shamo- kin, Pa., on the 22d, and the engine and twenty cars were totally wrecked. Several of the train men were slightly injured. —Ohbristian W. Luca, a well-to-do grocer in Breokiyn, New York, was killed on the morning of the 22d by Charles McElwain, who bad burglar ously entered his store. McEiwain was discovered by Luca in the dining room, and a struggle ensued, in which the latter was stabbed a number of times. — Captain Gardner, of the schooner Valkyrie, at Glourester, Massachusetts, ton the 224, from the Banks, reports that the schooner Martha A, Bradley, on August 1Uth, picked up Captain Charles Rogers, ln an exhausted cone dition, In the small boat Neckelodeon. He was bound rom Boston to Paris, and had been at sea 38 days, Gayety is to good humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance; the one over powers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. True politeness is perfect egse and freedom, It simply consists in treats irra jam as youn love 10 Le. treated and was drowned, sxander BB farmer at Green ton, Delaware, rounded yah wd, a on the yee £0 the neig! arged 3 Hid the ALS, MY FRIEND HERM AN. i bad known Herman Chauntfair for years; We had been in the same class at college, and since we parted there, Lie to puss his time in, foreign travel and 1 to settle down to the practice of in the city, we con= the had res with my pro ession Lad stantly exchanged letters, and on $i1ts always met to talk old thnes and old friend It was much pleasure, then, that one morning in the Spring of 18- note from him telling me that he back in his old quarters in University Place and would be glad to see me. I found him unchanged after years’ absence. He had aside a book when I entered, and after we had comfortably settled down for a long talk, he said: “I have just been reading the Chevalier Joseph Hammer's ‘History of the Assassins,’ and it minds me of a curious experience I had You know, Canton, 1 ha North of the aller of the ceaseless chi ocensions of his rare vi Lome f ii new out ship. I received a wis two laid von [= lust Winter in China, where, I passed some time at d been riding one morning ity, and tiring interpreter and guide, 1 sent him h the coolies, and started to » up the hillside, I had not ng what appeared to be places. Ti and maintain course al an Government punishes the society by death; they are de- have an uncomfortable way of killing the who meddle with them.’ voted 10 each other by caths, and ¥e “Herman, I said, when he had fin- ished, “you know | have todo of wy traveling by you as proxy, but of late I've taken to exploring the city, dining at a West Side restaurant thinking I am France, down to Maiden Lane and eating jolles and drinking Catalan, mn lieu of a trip to Spain; and recently I've been investigating the Chinese quarter, and will you believe it? 1 think 1've found a lodge of that very ‘Heaven and Earth League,’ right in the heart of this Christian city. 1 remembered your penchant, and intended to propose that we should visit it.” *“Giood!” he replied. “Lunch with me at the ‘Travelers’,’ and we will go this very day.” It was but a step to his club, luncheon was soon despatched, We called a hansom and soon found our selves on the borders of that vast foi- eign settlement, a city within a oily, where Chinese, Poles and Italians have each their separate quarters, From here we went on foot up the narrow street that ascends to the seat of the Chinese colony. It wasnot long before we found the dingy house, well known to me from previous visits as the home of the Chinese secret order. The street door was ajar to give access to the many tenants in the building. Each floor as we ascended seemed to be di- vided into many small compartinents, until we reached the fourth and last story, and entered the lodge room of the society. It was a large, airy place with square ebony tables and chairs ar. ranged on either side, and at one end a shrine, with a grim picture of an idol, the Chinese god of war, It is said, within a richly carved and gilded frame. We found ourselves quite alone, most and going fri- in oF good and but before we had completed our sur ' AS HI PRI vey un very old man, with a square face | and bleared eves, lLiobbled out from a ICAL YOO, the Master,” he | sald, and in a quavering volce asked us | and am addre QUT halls he shambled about and placed a fe more sticks of incense before apparent’ y lost the ’ in thought and ferent to our presence, said Herman, i he made some sig it conjure him," ing the lu Was ja allention to change, whole anne his hands together and bowed cere- moniously, and pointed to a closed door two Herman in- 1 must guarded by pictures of tigers on the left of the stantly rejoined me. he when | see you slrine, eave me here,’’ sald, ** ill explam again,’ tested, **Go,” Lie me,’ 1 my asl glance insisted, *“if you love | and | slhiowed man bad unlocked the door Lo Lhe nner 1 uy tw leading Herman iu before 1 ¢ w KIOwW, ne 1a there 1 don’t OY wd me the | us fellshatlered ' had struck it over io bel ween ha i Sharp we Lad beller move oul « Hernan sa'd: *‘see, it has cracked “More like a stray bullet,’ 1 nothing. We with- drew to a more retired corner aud fin- ished our almost silence, When we went into the smokingsroom I examined the paper Herman bad handed me. It bore a swall red stamp as though it was an official document, “Herman,” I saad, “these Is Snare, the secretary of the Phillological Society, He knows all these Eastern tongues. Come over with me and I will sea if he can't translate it for yon." Toe little man when 1 introduced Herman, “You are something of a traveler," he said, in his usual urbane way. “I know your book on the ‘Secret Institu- tions of the Maoris,’ and valuable work it is. What is this? He exchanged his glasses and pored in his owi-like way over the paper, “From what I can make out,” he said at length, “it appears to be some- thing in the nature of a death warrant ~very curious, I dare say." “Light another cigar,’ Herman said, “and come up with me to the billlard- room. I don’t think my hand’s un- steady, but I have some business to- night that may take a clear head and a firm band.” He played a superb game, and ran out almost before 1 had scored, “1 am going down to that Chinese den to-night, Charles, It is full moon, and there is a meeting of the society, From certain little occurrences of late, I think 1 have some matters to seitle with them.” “I will go with youl” I exclaimed, **No,” he sald, “I am go ing alone,” “Never!” I rephed, “1 deserted you once; thistime 1 will re. main with yon, 1am not blind, [I see it all; that man with the Knife; the Lroken glass; this paper. Your life is in peril, You must not go. Call on or ' Qinse, thought, but said dinner in i # ywedd profoundly a -— A ———————————— forewarned — Herman smiled, *Of Jab use are Have | 8 par lence that would pass must Ww’ Do you t sink he vengeance of 1 ing and defy t 3 ' 3 ¥ F 3 i VIO OF Tinie is a softer vi used to care for lire, r 10 thirow if happens Lo me you are sale ig ne ira wWilg a packet ar, angular band from ¢ Lie Worst! comes Yau s f ti Ws You can win a few moments we 1 ey 14 1% down Broadway and ferdit ' Vile 4 Wilh electiric i Were Clin wards town ICle0 Our Way, the Tw g the = ba WOTaG, gireet He r to bar the sin ana y § his mat Ang 10r his man tore 3 5 LES ana « noone. “It is very late,” he said, 4 y : ¥ 3 & *y *Y ou need rest, for me wili talk an weive? YOu call We ry Here, *but It is my this,” handing me have no need for fear, I will sleep now,” “Tet me remain with you,” 1 it 18 better for you to go. night, old fellow. Remember! row at twelve,” I slept but little that night, and punctually at the hour, without break- fast. for I could not eat, I went down to the old house in the square. Her man’s man let me in. **Master is ex- pecting vou,” he said. I went directly to his rooms. To my surprise the door was ajar. Herman sat in his easy chair bending over a little half-faded bunch of flowers. “Hello!” I cried. He did not move. “Chauntfair! Herman!”® He did not answer. I touched him. He was dead. There was a dark stain on his shirt frout and on the floor, and in his breast stuck a knife with a curious heft, fr.m which fluttered a scrap of blood-stained paper. It was the death warrant of the league, the Society of Heaven and Earth. a pistol, allan, said, Good to-mor- —— —— “With a Moral, ———————— Mary bad a littie lamb, its fleece was white as snow; it ran away, one sum- mer day, where lambs should never go, Then Mary sat her down and tears streamea from her eyes; she never found that little lamb-—she did not ad- vertise. Now, Mary had a brother Jim, who kept a country store; he =it him down and smoked his pipe aud watched the open door. And as the people passed along, but did not stop to buy, Jim still sat down and blinked his sleepy, sleepy eyes. And so the sheriff closed him out, but still be lingered near, and Mary came to drop with him a sympathetic tear. **How is it, sister, that the other merchants here sell all their goods und pay their bills and thrive from year to year?” Remem- bering well her own bad luck, the little maid replies: “The other merchants the police! Can a man be killed by ase get there, Jim, because they advertise,”
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