NEWS OF THE WEEK.
— Eight men charged with counter-
felting were arrested by Upiled States
officers in Paoli, Indiana, on the 4th.
George B. Lawton, of East Orange,
New Jersey, was arrested on the after-
noon of the Sth and lodged in the Es-
sex county jail in default of $48,000
bail. Iie was sole executor of the es-
tate of Jane Mull, of Newark, who
died in 1879, leaving bequests amount-
ing to $193,000 to ber eight children,
It is charged that Lawton, falling to
pay the bequests, disappeared, return-
ing to Orange only a few months ago.
The amount of his bail is the sum
which Jennie Mull Allaine, one of the
heirs, claim as her share of the estate,
~Carrle II, aged 18 years, has
been arrested in Topeka, Kansas, for
theft. Four weeks ago she got a clerk-
ship In Halmon & Co.’s milinery and
fancy goods store, and since then she
has not only robbed them repeatedly,
but has carried away with her three
wagon loads of goods worth $2000,
which were found in her room and
identified by the firm. A year ago she
clerked a week or two for Derpheimer
& Lewis, and in the search on Satur-
day several hundred dollars’ worth of
goods that she had taken from them
were found.
— Secret Service officers on the Gih
captured Isaac Reynolds, Jobn Lucas
and J. M. MeBnide, counterfeiters,
near lndianapolis, Arter the capture,
Luca's house was searched, and mould
and $140 mn spurious coin were found.
The gang has been making $10 “‘gold”’
coins, and a number of them have been
put into circulation in Indianapolis
Cny and Johnson County, McBride
made a full confession, saying that
they had ben engaged in the business
for several months and bad got rid of
a large amount of the stuff in Indiana,
Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois. The
names of several other members of the
gang have been secured.
—In the Circuit Court at Frerdick,
Maryland, on the Tth, Joba Ogle, who
bad secured $150 by means of forged
checks, was sentended to ihe
penitentiary for 15 years,
— A heavy rain storm at
Falls, Vermont, on the evening
(th, caused in the
to rise so rapidly that a large
the abutment the Vermont
the toll bridge gave way, siding
the river aud severing commun
between Vermont and New
shire. A few small bridges i
streams are reported carried away and
orhier damage done by high water,
- A severe {rost at
on the evening the 6th, kilied
most kinds of vegetation. Thin ice
formed on standing water in exposed
places,
Ballows
of the
the streams
oF
Li
Of 4
jurlington, Towa,
ol
— A despatch from Ishpeming, Mich-
igan, says that typhold fever is epi-
demic np 4 number of upper Peninsular
towns, notably at Negaunee and Iron-
wood, there being nearly 100
in each of these cities, The
Board of Health is making an
gation.
Cases
tat
late
imnvesti-
McAndress farm, pear St.
Dakota exploded on the
the 7th, killing Edward
owner of the machine, Willias
engineer, and Charles Frazer
fatally injuring R. P. Daly, At
Mount Vernon, Indiana, oun the Tih,
George T. Rice, the aeronaut with
Wallace's circus, made an
As he descended over the
came entangled In the ropes, wasdrag-
ged through the water and drowned.
This was Rice's 100th ascension.
Connecticut on the Tth voted on a pro-
hibitory amendment to her State Con-
stitution and defeated it Ly a majority
of about three to one. The new secret
baliot law had its first trial and worked
well,
—= An opera house, In course of erection
at Lansford, Penna, suddenly collapsed
on the Tth, burying six workmen under
the debris, They were all badiy burt,
three of them it 1s feared fatally, The
cause of the disaster is unknown.
—A steam pipe in the Galaxy Flour
Mills in Minneappolis burst on the
evening of the 5th, suffocating Frank
Banks, engineer, and Joseph Evans,
fireman,
~The Florénce and Casa Grande,
Arizona, stage was robbed on the 24
by two Mexicans, Ad the mall was
taken, Officers are in pursuit, Early
on the morning of the 6th two masked
men attempted to rob the express train
on the Knoxville branch of the Louis.
ville and Nashville road. They got on
the front platform and tried to force
the door. A fight ensued with the
baggage acd express men and the rob-
bers were routed, one of them being
wounded, Barglers blew open a sale
Thomas,
ASCenRIOn.,
Cleveland, Ohio, on the evening of the
6th, and stole $1800 worth of watches,
rings and stones and $55 in cash,
—fenry Ialstein, Uookkesper for
Nicol, the tailor, iu New York, bas
been arrested ou a charge of embez-
zling $400. It is sail that he swindled
the firm out of $2500.
— Peter Baker, a colored rough, shot
and killed Andrew Glenn, # white
tough, in a quarrel In a saloon at
Owensboro, Kentucky, on the 6th.
—A terrible prairie fire threatened
Estherville, Iowa, on the 6th, The
town was saved, but a number of farm
houses with a quantity of grain and
hay were destroyed. Four buildings
in Swan Lake were consumed,
~Charles F. Oris, 28 years of age,
who lived wish his mother, Mrs, Mary
King, in tue third story of a building
in Buffalo, on the morning of the 8th,
murdered the old lady by shooting her
as she lay sleeping in bed, and then
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor. Hoe left a note saying:
“+1 should prefer cremation, if possible.
# # & | am tired of living, and that
is enough, Mother could not get
along without me, #0 I ended her suf-
fering also.” The surroundings wndi
cated tbat Orrie, after cutting his
throat, sat down In an easy chair and
smoked a cigarette while his life blood
was flowing out, For some time there
lias been a feud Datween the boys live
ing 00 the west banks of the Missis-
sippi river <u Brainerd, Minnesota, and
tie west side Boys “declared a war of
extermination” against the others,
Armed with small Dbreech-londing
titles, the little ruldians. sheltered by an
old saw mill, cpened fire on the east
sliders across the slream, The
east sliders, though armed only with
toy pistols, stood their ground until
four rifle shots were fired at them, the
last wounding Bert Tracy, aged 9
years in the groin, and inflicting =
wound which is believed to bs mortal,
The attacking pirty then dispersed.
Their age range from 10 to 12 years.
At Barton, Ohlo, on the afternoon of
the 7th. John Devaaly, Jr, shot and
shightlv wounded Miss Lulu William-
son, sand then committed suicide, In
Skagit county, Washington Territory,
on the evening of the GL, a young scn
of Henry Kimble taking some pheas-
ants to market was robbed by au
Indian of the fowls, Ilis father, near-
ing the boy's cries, went to the rescue,
and gave the Inaian a basting, The
latter returned about midnight, with
several other Indians. and opened fire
on Kimb'e’s house, Kimble, aided by
a friend named George Lester, returned
the fire, killing one of the ussallanis
and wounding another. The rest of
the Indians have ben captured.
— Charles Eldmann, 40 years of age,
a lineman employed by the Manhattan
Eleetric Light Company in New York,
was killed on the afternoon of the Sih
while repairing a wire on Grand street.
He received a shock from a wire which
came In contact with his body, and
which rendered him senseless, causing
him to fall across a string of wires and
then to the street, landing on his head
and crushing in Ins skull He dled a
few minutes afterward, The ypole
which he ascended is twenty feet high,
and has two cross arms on which a
number of wires were strung, Eid
mann reached over to roll
Insulation around a naked
wire, and In doing so his shirt was
pulled up aud a portion of his back
was laid bare. When he resumed 1s
sitting ure a live naked wire
ied his back and the «
The wire bu
1 his body.
, and people
a piece of
portion ol
si
post
Was 8 somnamo
Ol $27 A
He used the firm's money in
is own account, This
8 suid to be bis third He
to have been ounce worth
**lost 18
leaving a “shortage’’
scCcounts,
specul tions on b
delalcation
is reported
Ky 6) and t
$100.0 wid Lo have
i
A m the
rade.”
hid
3 t oof
PEAT OX
3
ihe CHRRI0T of the
in Wash
reviewed
graud pr
hits Templar 100K pace
{ Sth, and was
ident Harrison and Grand Mas.
: There were nearly lifteen
il men in Penns
he largest deiegalion,
{ the parade
ing tion, on Le
phe,
the SESSION Ul
rand Encamp were, begun.
Myron M. Parser delivered an addre
of welcome on the part ©
nittee, and introdt
ser Douglass, who
hits in bebalf of the city.
Crrand Maste
nent
3
s f th
£ Fal
iced
Wel
com? COmm is
rOtned
addresses thie
and this Lhe
The lowa delegales
excluded from the Encampment,
~The people of
town 14 miles east
ana, resolved to have a dis
play” on the evening of the Tih. To
provide a grand torch a Gi-foot 4-inch
pipe was laid from the mouth of a
powerfully Bowing well, a 4-footl elbow
wing attached, and standing with the
pozzle upright, Just when the toréh
was appiled this end was pushed side-
ways on the ground, and the unmense
pressure hurled the sixty feet of pipe
around among the spectators, several
of whom were caught, Rev. C. War-
mon was burned to death, and several
others were severely mmjured. One of
the latier, John Hogue, is not expected
to recover,
+1 :
pounded, closed
exerciser,
Jerome, a small
Hokomo, Indi-
of
teas well
—On the evening of the 7th, on the
Carbon Cut-off Road being built wes
of Laramie, Wyoming. 8 work train
containing about 15 graders collided
with a couple of cars stand ng on the
track. A man pamed Diamond was
instantly killed and William Penn fa-
tally injured. Patrick King had an
arm broken, The graders saul
the accident was the result of
the carelessness of the tralomen,
and, procuring a rope, went after the
train crew with the intention of Jyunch-
ing them, Lut the latter escaped.
~Dr. W. B. Madden, a prominent
physician, was killed on the Yih at
Johnstown, Penna., by an express train
while trying to cross the lrack near
the depot.
— Heavy rains have prevailed at
Quebec for several days, and there are
fears of apother landslide from Cape
Diamond. Small portions of rock have
been falling at intervals for two days,
An immense jicce of rock fell from
the cliff at Levis a few days ago, de-
molishing part of a dwelling, but no
lives were lost. Six inches of snow fell
at Bay St. Pau’, Quebec, on the 4th,
Typhoid fever 1» epidemis at Aurora,
West Virginia, and It is sald the
country for miles around is infected.
svThete is scarcely a family without
one or more of 1:8 members prostrated
with the disease, aud in some localities
there are scarcely enough well persons
to nurse the sick.”
~A freight train on the Missouri
Pacific Railway stopped near Astoria,
Kansas, for slight repairs on the 8th.
The stop was made on an mecline and
when the engine started off suddenly
the train broke In two, The rear pari
started down grade and crashed into a
West-bound passenger traln,” The ea.
boose sud one freight car were pitched
ap over the passenger engine and
caught fire, ©. P. Orwan, Mayor of
the town of Horace, wis asleep in the
caboose and was burned to death. The
people In the passenger train had all
been warned in time and left the train.
—Some weeks ago the town of La-
fayette, Ohio, passed a prohibition
ordinance and cjosed all the saloons.
A few days ago a saloon Keeper of
Lima went to Lafayette and opened a
place there, He was informed by a
committee that **his business was not
required there,’ but he continued, and
the town officials sought to stop him
by an injunction. The Judge, how-
ever. declded in his favor. Early on
the morning of the Oth the saloon was
bombarded by a crowd of several hun-
dred persons, supplied with stones and
gledge-hammers. * The doors and win-
dows were broken and the crowd
rushed in. The bar was battered down,
mirrors broken, the heads of barrels
knocked in and the contents wasted,
The place was almost torn down and
everything ruined.”
— The steamship City of New York,
while entering New York bay on the
evening of the Oth, stuck in the mud
ia Gedney’s channel, and was still
aground at 1 o'clock on the morning
of the 10th, All
taken off on the 10th by tugs, but it
may be necessary to lighten her before
she can be floated,
—The mall earrier on the route from
FLeaksville, Mississippi, to the
Line, was robbed of two
pouches by two men on the Oth,
a ———
The Musiclans,
C—O
foe strings of my heart were strung by plea
sure,
And 1 laughed when the musie fell on my ear:
For he and mirth played a joyful measure,
Aud they played so loud that I could not hear
The wailing and moaning of souls A weary,
The strains of sorrow thit sighed ond:
The notes of my heart fang blithe and cheery,
And 1 heard no other sound,
Mirth and pleasure, the music brothers,
Plaved louder and louder in joyful glee,
times a discord ard by others,
only the rythm wa
Louder and louder a
The hands of those b
strain,
Pain, the musician, the soul refiner,
Hestrung the strings of my quivering heart :
And the alr that he played was a plaintive
minor,
Bo sad that the tear drops were forced to start,
Each note was an echo of awful anguish,
As shrill as solemn, os sad as slow,
And my soul for a season seemed 1 languish
And faint with its weight 0” "we,
With skillful hands that wen uneven weory,
This master of music played sess 6 rain;
And between the bars of 1ge miserere
He drew up the strings ot hy heart again
And I was filled with a vague strange wonder
To see that they did nol break in two;
“They are drawn so tight they will snap asun
der”
1 thought, but instead they grew,
In the hands of the Master, firmer and stronger,
And I could hear y air,
Now my by
1
on the sti
ears were deafened mirth no
erie and despair
i kind to others:
ind grew broad,
time in the Eastern Penitentiary
horse stealing,
Lh shot and fatally wounded
"a. No causze can be assigned for
murderous act, but it is believed that
Sluppey was temporarily insane,
— (raorge Moss, a machinest, went to
his home in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
evening of the 10th, and shot his wife
been sent
the Mayor
ts
weit?
up to jail a few days ago by
, in default
peace, He had
threatening bis wile
On Lue
i
and made her life
10h he = cured
1
miserable
HOW SUE TOOK THE ENGINE
TO THE JUNCTION.
|
IAB
1
taxe me
cusioms
the e
reporis se
at Key
been taken
the disease.
Yeral
4 1 3
age i:
+. on Lhe
Yeare,
evening
from the effects of a shot
Newall Moreland, a 1
The two, with =a
named Hoover, were pulling nu
Y ork hill Oth and camp
Abou! o'clock, onthe morning
A 34 ind WAS
s On the
the 108
1 § 2 11 rls
what bD Ought
awakened by
was a wild animal ia
and, st gun, he
bad wau-
ed a t Schtoeide
dered from the camp.
~The boiler of
IANO
have caused
the
a quarry near Buf.
won of the 9th, Jol
burned and
Law fence
badly
th eyes,
rd
was
COotnmiL
the even
fanght
i
Ang, more
believe th
sional
thinks, the
make the mercury soluble,
common gold plates, host
silver or copy
ter into their con
must also be Iu
Cas
in
er,
galvanic
mouth juices,
For this reason the
ubstitution of silicon plates is advised,
Where they have been tried they have
given eminent satisfaction and proved
to be entirely free from the object
found in the othe: Common
use,
action
thle to
under the influence of
foods and drinks,
10S
plates in
He Cot There.
tener’s acquaintance whose memory is
a good deal hike his trousers pockel—a
receptable for all sorts of odds and
pertinacity, but in more or less pictur
esque disorder, Things pop up now and
then in an odd way, The other night
this little boy undertook to say his
prayers before going to bed. He began
all right
“Now | lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
11 | should
Here he ‘got stuck’ for a moment, and
seemed to be groping around for the re.
mainder of the lines, And then, all at
once, he steamed ahead:
“if 1 should ohanes to full below
Demosthenes or Cleero,
I pray the Lord my soul to take!”
-
Socrates designates beauty as short.
lived tyranny: Plato, a privilege of
nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat;
Theocritus, a delightful prejudice;
Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domi.
tian said that nothing was nore grate
ful: Aristotle affirtoed that beauty was
Vetter than sll the recommendations in
the world; Homer, thatit was a glori-
ous gift of nature; and Ovid, alluding
to him, calls it afavor bestowed by the
gods, .
pen window in hie
ion, when she Baw 3
wns the
leave the little
the lot
within calling distance,
who 14 legraph
station
nd run across toward
When he
Lie shionte d.
WAS
“Where is Dennis, Sune. They have
the Junetion for the
14
gent from
cnane No. 5
i Express has broken down.”
“Dennis, has gone to the woods,” ex-
claimed Sue, “what a pity. What
ghall wo do? Is there no one who can
run it down?”
“Not a soul, Even John who used to
fire, is up in the country,” replied the
operator,
“Then I'll do it.” exclaimed Sue.
“You, gasped” the operator, but he
talked to empty air. Sue had thrown
aside her apron and seezed her hat, and
five minutes later was 10 the locomotive
shed lighting the fire under the boiler.
She watched breathlessly ns the steam
guage showed the increasing pressure,
| and with a trembling hand she slowly
opened the throttle, and the engine
obedient to her will, moved out on to
the main line.
It must be explained that the little
station of Redfern, was the end of a
| short branch extending five miles from
{the Junction. There were two stops
between and train's ran four times a
| day between, the points. Joe had sent
[for the extra engine thinking Dennis
thie fireman could bring it, and Bae
knew that Joe's reputation with the
[ralirond company depended upon the
becanse No on
a
delivery of the engine, at the Junction,
to help the disabled express,
“What are you going to do Bue,” ex-
claimed the frightened operator, as the
engine moved past the station
Sue did not answer; she did not see her
mother's terrified look from the door of
the house, or the bewildered face of the
people ut the station. She had her eye
on the road, the
lever while the other grasped the bell
With a second’s pause to nerve
herself for effort, she opened the throt-
dos.
3
one hand was on
and
rong
3 ’ .
mands, seemed almost to for-
ward down the line,
“Ding dong, ding dong,” sounded the
bell, People hastened to their
dows at the this
time, farmers in the fields doped to
look, little children in the roma-way
Bpring
Wili~
sound, at
stared at the flying engine,
a young girl with set face and eyes fix
ed upon the distant line of rail, ringing
the bell and holding the lever
hair was blowing
1
, while her
idly away from her
tion of the engine, which was doing
best.
One station reached and passed.
station master and the
t wonder,
on in stupid and she was on
of sight be fore the N realized wiho
Sweet wil
the
turned slec Py eyes
the engine.
along the roadside,
fiel
ra
ir thing which seemed
The horses started, an
¢
. h
along the length of
grazing
;
1 effort te
3
LL
i} (AAY §
8B
i
y ;
| forirey
iV perniorm
it
honeht it was a daring
fer
14 |
over the ag
was pr
heard of he
Joe d d
not his way; but Sue
not =ay
| gyvery wor i
| every glanoo
Abont
| night from his last trip, and
age in her lap.
“The railroad company |
salary Sue,” he said;
| a week later, he one
laid a pack-
as raised my
the express in on time.
| not have done it but for you, and that
we should eall a testimonial.”
Sue opened the package, and found a
tiny watch, the one thing above all
others she had desired. She was over-
joyed, and thanked Joe again and again.
Suddenly she stopped inher wild dance
about the room, and said gravely.”
“Bat the engine, Joe? She behaved as
wellas I. I am going to give her a
testimonial too.”
No. 5 runs regularly now between
Redfern and the Junetion, and on
the front, at each side, are two silk flags,
which are a great addition fo its beauty,
and which the engine itself seems to
enjoy.
Sue put them there “as a testimonial,”
she Ey “40 the faithful service per-
formed by No. 5, when it made a five
mile run in five minutes.”
A Boy's Composition on Girls:
“Girls are very stuck up and dignified
in their manner and behaveyouror,
They make fun of boys, and then turn
around and love them, 1 don't belave
they ever killed a cat or anything. They
look out every nite and say, ‘Oh, aint
the moon lovely!" Thir is one thing 1
have not told, and that is they always
now their lessons bettern boys’
as os se - i ——
THE FLOWER GARDEN,
A WINDOW GARDEN,
In a recent number of Harper's Bazay
Miss Bue (iibbouns, tell’'s he nde
her window-garde: It eam :
nteresting to al! those
rs in thu
rranged so
yw slid
window-garden
ped to countrs
four fect
de pth, at
A mor
The bracket
thie
the
pi
which
slimy
covered their « Xper
crews, tl
extra
two bh
cotta or bre
wiih
O another, a1
dark background affords
them as closely as p
the color will only
there, not in so J
found in nearly all parts of the cou
lief the
gible,
1
lid masses
pi bey
much as one may desire.
It is better, especially in a northern:
exposure, to have the plants in pots, In
place of filling the box with earth,
keeping a sufficient number under the
best conditions plenty of sunlight and
moisture-—to have the box full of blos
soms. To insure constant blooms and
large fine heads, give the pots one good
soaking every week with ammonis
water, using one teaspoonful to every
two quarts of water; the effect is mag
enl. Strong constant blooming is also
best secured by planting in pots below
the usual size; the four-inch sige 1s very
good. When large pots are used, the
growth inclines to leafage, not blos
L MEAN tO take an int'rest in my fel
ler<oritters, some of ‘em, that is; bat }
don't want to poke my nose through
the crack of a door before "tis opened,
eign APO
In twenty years the sales of single
Jackages of patent medicines in Great
ritain have increased from G6 O61 637
to 18,457,000,
wom on ae
He is a great simpleton who imagine:
that the chief power of wealth is to sup
ply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of
a hundred it creates more wants than it
supplies.