FIVE MEN KILLED. SIX OTHERS INJURED, TWO PERHAPS FATALLY. TERRIBLE RESULT OF A BOILER EX~- PLOSION IN A NAIL FACTORY AT TOWANDA. PITTsBURG, Aug. 27.—A special to the Times says: The rolling mill and pail factory at Towanda, Bradford county, operated by Bostley, God- charles & Co,, was partially wrecked this afternoon at 5 o'clock by the ex- plosion of a boller, the disaster result- ing in’ the ins ant death of five men and injury of six other workmen, two of them perhaps fatally. The dead are: Sanford I. Smith, puddler, married; Richard Ackerly, puddler, married; John Bostwick, roller, married; Guy Herman, helper, married; Isaac Band- ford, helper, single, The fatally injured are: Char'es Zebich, terribly burned by molten me:- al; James Rider, both legs broken und internally injured. The force of the explosion was ter- rific. lifting the entire roof off fhe Lilt ng the whole mass crushing into the mill and on the territind force of woik- men, who weie scallering In every direction and crouching behind all kinds of obstacles to escape the fury of the hissing steam, which was filling the structure from the pest of boilers that were displaced and broken in their steam connections by the exploding boller, pieces of wlich were hurled through the mill. The larger portion of the bursted boller was carried through the glde of the mill landing away in a mass of scrap iron, fully 150 feet. The explosion’s sound was heard all throagh the town, and erowds rushed to the mill to learn its effect. Work A. Bostley and Simon bers of the firm, and removed the debris and released the men who were buried in it, and also recovered the bodies of the killed, some of whom were badly mangled and scalded. Rendell, mem- they speedily ES — NEWS OF THE WEEK. — About 300 feet of the Lake Shore ous Coal Company's tipple, at Ciera Station, on the Pittsburg, McKeespoit and Youghiogheny Railroad, tumbled down on the morning of the 26th, while two men and 14 loaded cars wers upon it. The Superiuteudent, Weaser and Lis brother, were fatally injured. The tipple was about 50 feet high, and was bullt three years ago, morning of the 26th on the Erle Canal at Shelby’s basin, two miles east of Middieport, New York. Forty feet of the embankment on the heel went out and navigation was stopped. The quarries in the vicinity were flooded, — Information has been received in Little Rock, Arkausas, of a pegro riot at Jordan Brook, near Lockesburg, re- sulting in the death of several and the wounding of many others, For some time the negroes of Sevier county have been spending their Saturday nights in a jubilee ceremony ing of the 24th, there was a large gathering. A great quantity of whisky was drunk and then the fighting com- menced., The women ran sway and the men fired at each other without knowing whom they were shooting at. ~The gang of robbers that has been operating extensively in Greene conuly, Fa., and Wetzel, West Virginia, since 1875, is at last In a fair way to be broken up. Charles Gorby, a suspected Greene county man, arrested on the 234, bas made a confession covering 14 years’ operations of the gang. Six ar- rests have been made, while many others to follow. -— A bofler in the nail factory of Godcharles & Co., at Towanda, Penna. exploded on the afternoon of the 27th, killing five men and injuring six others, two of them perhaps fatally. The killed are: Richard Ackerly, San- ford B. Smith, John Boentwick, Isaac Baudford and Guy Herman. J. Ryder and George Zsbick will probably die. Two boys, aged from 12 to 16 years, who took refuge in a stack of corn stalks during a thunder storm near Delacias, Mexico, on the 20th, were struck aud killed by lightning. A cloudburst in the vicinity of Rocking- bam, North Carolina, on the 28th de- stroyed the dams and damaged the ma- chinery of the Pee Dee, the Roberdee, the Great Falls, the Midway and the Ledbetter Mills. The loss 1s estimated at $100,000, Five hundred hands are thrown out of employment. The rail- road track of the Carolina Road for 15 miles is more or less torn un, ~ A despatch from Bessemer, Michi says that Gustave Fliscbein, of lleville, Michigan, who was shot twice by a highwayman on the sftes- noon of the 26th, near Lake Gegebie, is pot expected to live. The wounds of tbe two others shot are very slight, There is no trace of the robber. His residence is at Shawano, Bhawano county, Wisconsin, He 1s wanted by ment near Rome, on the moruing of the 27th. It appears that while Srving ‘paraiyuis avd. nis I AI I | more severe than would have been caused by a simple fall, —At Goodland, Indian Territory, on the evening of the 26th, Captain Joseph Everidge shot and killed his brother-in- law, William Luther, Everidge, Lu- ther, W. H. Ford and one Purcell all h d married sisters. A feud arose In wuich, about a year ago, Luther killed Ford and Purcell. On the evening of the 27th he attempted to kill Everidge, who 1s a detective on the ‘‘Frisco” road, but was shot as he drew his pie. tol. Herman Kerl, a shoemaker, was kicked to death in Martin Lavin’s boarding house, in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on the eveuing of the 256th, by Lavin, his mother and thelr hangers on, Kerl objected to being robbed. ~A sharp shock of earthquake, the severest experienced there for sev- eral years, occurred st Los Angeles, California, at 6.13 on the evening of the 27th. It vegan with a slight tre- mor, which lasted a few seconds, then the vibrations grew stronger, and ended with two heavy shakes, The entire ten seconds. Clocks were stopped and A slight earthquake, hie 27th, at Pasadena, California. Charles W, Thompson, merchant ant postmaster at Thompson's Post. « flice, Montgomery county, Maryland, has beeu arrested on charges of forgery amounting to about $300. He resisted arrest with a knife and pistol, but was overpowered and committed to jail. E. W. Pierce, ex-Fostmaster of ‘Lenlock, California, has Deen arrested for em- A lady Piank’s Tavern, in St Joseph, Michigan, was robbed of money and jewelry on the evening of the 20th to the value of §750, The barg- lar entered through a window from the porch, ransacking three rooms, but securing booty iu only one. No arrests at —A despateh from Chicago says that a desperate altempt was made on the evening of the 27th to assassinate Gus Klahre, the tin-smith, who last week identified Martin Burke as the man for whom he soldered together a tin box on May Oth, which, it is supposed, con- tained the clothing of Dr. Cronin, He was assaulted by a dozen men. They knocked him down, beat him about the head with some blunt mstrument and threw him over a low fence to the ground below, a distance of 12 feel, and the servant girl heard bis screams and they ran out toward him. The assallants sprang over the fence after him and pursued him almost to his door, —At Oxford, North Carolina, on the afternoon of the 25th two negroes quar relled over a game of cards. Police man Whitefield tried to arrest them, snd they shot him five times, fatally wounding him. They then fled, put. sued by several hundred whites, who Threats of lynching were freely made, but the There was talk of an effort the jail and rescue the ~-C, E. Slocum, an seronaut, on the 28th fell from his balloon at Antwerp, may prove fatal, The balloon was unmanageable and he attempted to leave it by a parachute, but the latter —The body of John E. Wise was found near his home in Chicago on the worming of the 28th, with a buliet-hole in the head, The body had been robbed, ~A bold case of kidnapping occurred on the morning of the 20th in Chicago, Henry Rosenberg, a vegetable peddier, drove into South Water street and went into a market house to buy sup- plies, leaving In his wagon his two sons, aged 10 and five years, While he was gone an unknown man ap- peared, and lifting the younger boy from the wagon raa rapidly away with him. No trace of the child has yet been found. ~1. B. Russell, Treasurer of the School District in Kearney county, Kansas, is reported to be a defaulter for 81300, W, E. Selment, a general delivery clerk in the Post-office in St, Paul, Minnesota, was arrested on the 20th for robbing the mails. Charles Curtis and James Ruwmville, have been arrested and placed in jall In Salt Lake City, Utah, on the charge of robbing the Rio Grande Western traln on August 6, ~A carriage, containing Mrs, Dob son, of Wauwatsa, aged 65 years, and Mrs, Dennett, of West Granville, aged 70 years, was struck by a train in Milwaukee on the evening of the 28th, and both women were killed. They were sisters. Mrs. H. FP. Dickerson, wife of a prominent farmer near Staunton, Virginia, was killed by a runaway acoldent on the deaning of the 28th, while returning from a Sun- day School piemic. A despatch from a Mrs. Rose Cough- a Joung WOImAD, Was drowned at Curtis Bay on the after of the 20th, She accidently fell #» barge. Her husband sprang and made great efforts to treasure box. The post-office at Corn. wall, New York, was robbed of $400 on the evening of the 28th, The office of the Times-Itecord, a Prohibition ing at 8 good rate of speed. He re- versed and opened his throttle and he and the fireman jumped. The train sent the switch engine flying back into the round house at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Another engine was just coming out and a terrific shoek ensued, Both engines were smashed and the engineer and fireman of the second engine were badly Injured, —James M. Newbaker was assasin- ated at Satartia, Missssippl, on the evening of the 28th, as he was entering bis house, An attempt was made to kill him about a year ago. He was a prominent politician and a candidate for the Legislature before the last county convention. Swiss Soclalists are of the opinion that the appointment of public prosecu- tors ‘tends to restrict personal liberty.” They are entirely right. It has that tendency. But then public prosecu- tors are appointed for the express pur- pose of restricting the personal liberty of law breakers, and it i1sonly the latte: who have any cause for complaint. EE —— ——— the New Jersey State Prison nine- wenths bave ‘no trade’ written site their names, There is a suggestion should ponder over. cated for a profession or are not kept at home on the farms, sot ——— seem to be peacefully inclined, Turkey is being stirred up by Greece one hand and Russia the cannot afford to prosecute designs knowledge that the allies support Turkey, and it does not yet appear what object Russia on the by other. Greece her Crete with the Th in ular cavalry in the Caucasus, but Tur- CHICAGO (snot a good place from which to get news of affairs in London; but this fact was overlooked when obit- uaries were written of Fred Leslie, the comedian, who, we are glad to reports himself direct from London as being alive and well He is one of the Say, servedly popular everywhere, WHENEVER Emperor William, of Germany, makes a speech heshows that his thoughts first and last are of war and of armies. In a dozen of lines ju which he spoke of the alliance with Austria for the maintenance of the word army occurs four tlhines, the that the armies of Germany and Aus to maintain menace that there shoulder, greatest peace, is to {tary glory and anxious to win spurs for himself, He only waits his opportunity or lose all lu the attempt. ———— A FEW years ago, when a succession of naval accidents had caused a demand to be made on the Secretary of the Navy for information concerning the same, the report of this officer showed that during the year 27 accidents had occurred, Of this number, one was a case of a ship on fire, two brakedowns of machinery, 14 collisions and 10 groundings, Out of the 10 cases of vessels grounding nine occurred in bome waters, All these cases occurred subsequent to the order prohibiting the use of pilois on naval vessels, except in cases before mentioned. The question is now one of pilotage or no pilotage, Waire the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair bas maine tained that the battleship Texas would not float at a proper level if constructed upon the plans purchased in England, and adopted by the Naval Department, the coustructor in charge of the work on the vessel hasas steadily aflirmed that the plans were all right. The Secretary of the Navy also appears to entertain the latter opinion, since ad- vertisements for proposals for furnish- ing the steel armor plates for the Texas have recently been issued. With an armored battie-ship nowadays the ques- tion appears to be not so much whether she can fight as whether she can float, —_ Tris Is a Summer of calamities, The great flood at Johnstown, Pa., was other smaller floods and other digas. ters, And now, just as the danger from floods appeais to have passed, comes the news of another terrible fire, this time at Spokane Falls, W. T. by which the whole business portion of the city has been destroyed, involving a loss of over $14,000,000. Some of our correspondents and mest of the news. papers, even those which ought to know better, sneer at any intimation that God has had anything to do with send. ing these afilictions. But what saith the prophet Amos? “Shall evil befall a city and the Lord hath done itp” Oh, yes, it was the forces of Nature working according to the laws which govern them; and it was the hand of man which built the dam or lit the fire. But back of it all was an over- ruling Providence working for right sousuess and directed by infinite love, Say, brethren, shall we heed the warn- ing and awake to righteousness, or shall we harden our hearts still more, like Pharoah? wa Cod Love Her, forthe giri I love sod love her! for the eyes of tender shine ¢ fragrant mouth that meits on mine, The shimmering tresses uncontrolled That clasp her neck with tendril gold ; The blossom mouth and the dainty chin, And the little dimples out and in The girl | love God love her! A song A song And th A song for the girl 1 love God love her! A song for the eyes of faded light, And the cheek whose red rose waned to white, The quiet brow with its shadow and gleam, And the dark hair drooped in a long, deep dream ; The small hands clasped for their ehurchyard rest, And the lillies dead on her sweet dead breast, The girl | loved God love Ler! iiood Words -— OUR COOK'S FOLLOWER. absence of two months, find table and opposite my wife, Susie, the fascinating little witch for whom I broke my vows of eternal hood. Seven years of married { with attendant cares, have scarcely left their mark on her; {| dimpled still, although and mother of she is the rosy two bouncing cherubs, Now Susie “is just the dearest little | but Keeping, is not We have been at th she very clever at house these seven Years; t, our experience has been about wil with that of David and his child wife Dora. I'his morning, as | enter the Jara field Copper- dining- the rder at Neatness are un- I have 1 something t y t Ort about the it to part In honor of my coming. Our parlors by gas ti of social Iriencs neal the 8 attributed on Susie's home Fenerally appeat enough rder gives a4 sort IG ~USY alr that y the INOT daylight ¢ apparent in th , and unae-. Hose, | glare of wholly countable in my | The general oser the breakfast table; the silver glit- and the Muffins teak done toa air of comfort extends ters. the linen is snowy white ! ’ ’ served and delicious, ’ pe: fection, hight turn, and the coffee—ye gods, what a ar and fragrant br le bee! cup of coffee; le yo : Shall | ever again al usually the thick, decoction served us? sila mudy Susie mutlely enjoying has been three days My mother but left nothing stale about | dent p plexity. staying with us, ago. There is breakfast, Eureka! 1 have My honored parent has given some lessons, vind Lis the solution! mother has taught Bridget to last, opinion of believe,’ cook a steak?’ 1 ventured at {| “You nave a very higl | Bridget's ability. 1 don with emphasis, id i Ts t +) 1 thousand les- sons would make such a cook of her” “that a | { Susie not offering to enlighten me as | to who such a cook might be, I venture again, | “You have learned? | your teacher credit,” | “Mistaken againi” laughs Sausle, {| “My ability is inferior to Bridgets, I | am afraid, although I intend to try and learn something about cooking. 1 think I'd starve on Biddy's food after this, I'll be magnaminous and explain, You know I have the best mother-in-law In the world,’ “Far be it from me to say anything against your mother-in-law.” “As 1 was about to remark, 1 was Well, you do I knew that she would not enjoy such miserably food often ap- peared on our table. So in my letter 1 told her bow inefficient my servanis were especially cook. Then she wrote if 1 discharged Bridget she would send me a cook-—one that she taught herself, a capable, neat niet girl, There could be only one objection; she had a ‘follower’ probably before many months he would persuade her to return to Millville and | cook for him. And oh, Phill How I wish he would come and take her, it wouldn't seem so ungrateful to your cooked as me that very instant.” | treasure—a girl that makes coffee like this—the author of these muffins? Are you demented?” {fered since she came! When you've | heard her I look at my watch, and it is high time 1 left for the office, “Dear, 1’ve not another moment to spare; I'll hear about it this evening." And with a good-morning 1'm off, Six o'clock finds me, after a romp with the children in the nursery, hur- rying to dress for dinner, I am anx- fous to learn why Susie wants to get rid of a girl whose cooking equals my mother’s, I say this only to myself, I always refrain from any allusion to my moth- er’s cooking in Susie’s presence. 1 have just finished my totlette when the most blood-curdling shriek greets my ears, followed instantly by another and yet another in quick succession, By the time I reach the nursery at the far end of the hall, there have been at least a half dozen such screams that can be heard almost a block away. Visions of Maud enveloped in fames, or Hazzy's mangled form lylug on the Sr —— pavement benesili-—the sounds seem to come from below-—flit before me, I open the loor, my heart beating wildly. There sis Maud and Harry, calmly looking st a picture book. “I say, pap, did she scare you?” says Harry, ou catching sight of my face, “Don’t she holler awful?” “What is it?” I manage to ask, The reaction on finding the children safe almost overcame me, “Why, it's Katle, the cook, she hol- lers like that every time she sees a bug or a mouse,’ Susie enters the nursery. “Now, then, you have heard her, Pull, 1Isn’t it terrible, I can’t get ac- customned to it, it makes me nervous all the time, Like you, at first I always thought of the children.” “What frightened her?’ a wife | beater, and say I ought to make a com- plaint, and some of the neighbors de | clare that we keep a private asylum, and have a very tient, { come and take her! | to see her, i myth," “But, YOU reason to try to says the police think you are He has never been I am afraid he is only a Susie, it is only habit; ean’ with ber overcome it?" and persuuade her “1 have tried again and again.” “Think what i she is." a treasure of a cook “1 know, and so peal; the kitchen is mother’s. 80 that you and the hearth rit red: she wasn’t got the paint for it; ohh often found for them. NI OIelitnes 8cVeral a8 the slghtesl excuses call be TEL very timid or nervous, that to ber with- tg will speak to ot iving her warning of your presence send her into the area screaming. She fancies that ever y peddier who comes ' to the door has burgiarious intentions Of all vermin she seems 0 be in mortal fear, ever existed in the are cows with I don’t see how she country where Lhere awiuol horns, and snakes, and =o many dangers, [| am afraid we shall | never get rid of her.” After partaking of served up an i liepe we never may. the dinner she hour later, 1 earnestly Three weeks passed away, and cook's reputation is firmly established, Our us. 1 have not exhibition of congratulate | been treated to another | her vocal friends powers, and I wonder why Susie is always wishing for that un- known to make his appearance to carry {off our cook, the ouly one we have ever been fortunate enough to employ who was competent enough to prepare a meal we were not ashamed to invite our friends to partake of. Again I am dressing for dinner, when screams of “murder! murder!” {echo through the house, then a terri- bie yell that sounds like a human veice, a noise as of some one falling is fol- lowed by an instant of awful stillness, Again I bear a smothered sound, as of some half suffocated voice that resem. bles Susie's, As] am not in condition to appear frantic. 1 grasp some and struggle into them, and rush down the stairs. Policemen are struggling with a figure in the doorway; another, |a female, seemingly lying in a pool of blood, is at the foot of the stairs, Susie | is rising from the foor, her face, the | dearest face on earth, white and | my arms as she totters to me, ! are you hart?” But Sumie is nol | never faints. | around my neck, lays her head on my shoulder and begins to ery. “What has happened, darling? | you tell me?"’ | “Cook 1s killed—murdered | burglar!’’ she sobs. There is something strange about it, hurt, and Susie ' Can | kitchen at such an hour. Perhaps it | was a blood-thirsty madman. It may have { een that the screams of cook had saved our lives, Such thoughts rushed through my mind while I put Susie in a chair and close the hall door. The policemen have disappeared by this time with their captive, Cook shows signs of reviving. Iam bending over ber, trying to ascertain the extent of her injuries, when the door opens again, and a man enters, accompanied by a policeman, who hands me a letter saying, “There, that will explain, 1 hope. The girl’s a fool to make such a row for nothing." “She has been murdered,” I say, al- though she is making an effort to rise: yet there is no blood to show that she is wounded, “Read your letter," cries Susie, Its from my mother. I open and read It, In the meanwhile, Susie helps cook to mise, At the first glimpse of the policeman she screams, then sho takes a look at the man standing by my nde, screams again, rushes to him, —_— —— and throwing bersei! in hiv arms, begs ulm to take ber away frou burgiam. “It ip all right; it's the follower,’ I say to ny wife, The policeman has picked up a small tin pail, from which red paint is trick- ling on the rug, It 1s soon all ex- plained. The follower appeared just as cook was putting away the can of red paint; she saw 2 man standing in the open doorway and ran screatning with the can, up stairs, whe.e she met my wife, and bumping together they toll fell, cook fainting away, the red paint spattered Susie's face, The policetnan rushed in, captured the follower and carried im off, but finally listened to his entreaties to deliver the letter to me, which has explained his identity, 50 nobody is hurt, aud we got nd of Now Susie is struggling witn the mysteries of the culinary art, our treasure, ———————— —— sane Streaks of Lightning. roborate his in a marvello These show that the Which us velo ity iS Way. streak travels with s as full of kinks M issisnsi like lo Marvels f 13 as a map of the pp, and that st y sitean mill at its own apparently, well's ' L goes Jering wan will,” while at times the 1amifications suggest i { y a diagram of ar A feature whi “eves uprooted tree have eluded N asmyth’s, Is would than ught out by photography; i-like appearance of some 3 T 1 : 5 flashes, hese, instead lightning ’ of conforming to the popular idea of a werhaps round) streak, are flat olded siender at § § bands, much and contorted, to be sure, but of appreciable width, and crossed by fine paraliel lines or stripes, ighly suggestive of familiar auroral SEITE TL FOTIA, ling d zing d who scovery made by one oye server, had left his photographic plate exposed long enough to take sev- aral flashes-this was at night—was a to four bright ones. Its conformation is unmistakably that of lightning. The possible expla- nation that this development was due is discredited by Marriott, of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Mr, Ran- who seems to favor this other view: that a thunderboit which had flown across the heavens before the lens was uncapped, produced nitrous oxide along its path, thus obscuring that line the next flash came after the plate was exposed. No similar case was found in the collection; and no ope, probably, ever heard of black lightning before; but this does not preclude the occurrence being paralleled in the fu- t is surprising that not one pic- ture among the hundred or more on to “‘over-exposure’’ vard, when based showed lightning in its globular form; for ibis iype is nol very rare, and, quite unlike the flash, the ball lasts not Information upon this important branch of the sulject is tha since opinions differ ular lightning. That Catholic church over in Brooklyn which was nearly des- troyed a short time ago seemed, from the testimony of observers, to have been a victim of this form of electricity. Certainly a fiery globe was seen on the roof before the disaster. And a Rus sian scientist who attempted to repeat Franklin's experiments, three months after the Quaker Statesman-philosopher made them, was killed by what is des. scribed as a ‘ball of lightning.” Yet the preponderance of belief is to the effect that this phenomenon is harmless, Here, clearly, is a useful and fascinating fleld of research for owners of small cameras, For hoarseness bake a lemon until soft, cut off one end, fll with sugar and take the sweetened juice before going to bed. Kerosene is an excellent substitute for machine oll where the latter can not ensily be obtained. It can be mixed with a little lard, From the hand of a man of genins sveryiting bas the freshness of mora. ing and of May. Colors taken out hy acid ean some times be restored by an application of aenonia, -
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