A STEAMER BURNED. FOUR LIVES LOST AND ONE PERSON MISSING. SEVEN PERSONS INJURED, SOME VERELY. PeseroNTO, Ont, Oct 24. —The steamer Quinte, of the Deseronto Nay- igation Company, Captain Christie in command, was burned about three miles from Deseronto about 6 o'clock last evening, while on her way to Pictou. Four persons were lost. They were Captain Christie’s mother, bis young brother Charles, Mrs, Stacey, the ladies’ maid, and her son Davern, of Trenton. As far as can be ascer- tained the passengers were ail saved, Three or four have severe burns, but the doctors report that none are seri ously injured. Many were chilled by being in the wate-. Colonel Strong, U. S. Consul at Belleville, was slightly burned and chilled by the water. All the survivors were brought to Deseronto and prop- erly cared for. The fire, it is suj posed, started in the furnace room, and spread rjuiekly to the whole boat. The captain ran the boat ashore only a short distance away, where she les almost entirely destroyed. The boat had a lizht load of freight and express matter, principally lumber, all of which was destroyed. She also carned the mails, which were lost The St, Quinte was valued at $18,000, and was partially insured. It is now feared that another name will have to be added to the list of those burned, as a man named George lobinson. of Pictou, Oat., was to take the baat for that place last evening, and nothing can be learned of him, The injured are: Captain Chnistle, terribly about face and bands. Engineer Short. face and hands burned. Fire. man Kensley, leg broken and burned, Miss A. Kellas, of Pictou, badly burned. Mrs. Anderson, ladies’ mald on the boat, badly bruised and other- wise shaken up. A. Hart, of Belle- ville, hand cut by glass Colonel Strong, United States Consular Agent at Belleville, slightly injured while jumping from the boat. A = Charles, of Belleviile, badly chilled in the water. The hull and machinery of the burp- ed steamer will be raised, as she lies in only about four feet of water. The grappling for bodles began to-day, pat as yet only one has been found, that of Davern Stacey, son of the assistant to the ladies’ maid. It was found near the wreck, showing that death was caused by suffoeation or drowning All of the injured have been sent to their homes. except Mrs, Anderson and her son and Miss Kellar, sE- burned - aw WAR IN KENTUCKY, A BATTLE BETWEEN THE TURNER 3 gp ————— OXE MAN KILLED AND WOUNDED, CHICAGO, Oct. 24. —A despatch from Louisville, Ky., regarding the reported besieging of Judge Lewis and party in the Harlan Court House by Howard and his followers, says: It had been hoped that the trouble was at an end, but an event which oc- cured Saturday afternoon has precip. jtated a renewal of the war, John Howard, a 19-year-old brother of Wils Howard, was in the town where the father of the Howard brothers lives, Finlay Smith. son of Wash Smith, one of the wealthiest men in Harlan coulity and who is spoken of as oue of the best citizens, was also in town, John Howard was walking along the street, and Finlay Smith was in the door of the Cumberiand House when they saw each other. Howard pulled his pistol and young Smith seized a Winchester rifle, which was near him, aud both be- gan to shoot. None of ihe bullets were buried 11 the targets Lhey were intended for, but it was thought at first that Howard was killed. One of Smith's ballets grazed his temple and the shock knocked him down. While he lay there stunned for the moment, smith lefs, as ¢id Howard a few minutes la- ter, The familiar sound of the revol- ver and rifle told the people that trouble had gome again. The shooting occurred about J o'clock Saturday afternoon. Jobn Howard left town, and when the news or two that bis brother had come nea: being killed by a member of the Law and Order party, he vowed vengeance. News was brought into Harlan Court House Sunday that Wils had said he tended to wipe out all opposition to him and his methods at one stroke, This seems to be verified when word was received from several direc tions that Wils Howard's tol lowere were arming themselves. Later a reliable messenger of the Law and Order party brought intelligence that the oullaw had sent word to all his men to come well armed to a rendezvous afew milies from the county seat, Wills is implicitly obeyed by his followers, and the mes- sengers said a large crowd was galber- ing st bis summons, The attack was expected at any time when the gentle men left Harlan Court House, The seat of justice of Harlan Court, which is now converted into a citadel by the Law and Order party, 1s 35 miles from Pineville, which is the nearest railroad nat. LomsviLLe, Ky, Oct, 23.—~News just been reeeived here of an en- ement bstween the Howard and winer factions near Harlan Court House. The fight took yesterday, and James Dean, of Howard’s party, was killed, and five others wounded. y Turner crowd were , Fumi particulars have not from Harlan Court NEWS OF THE WEEK. —AugustDulmage, wanted by the Canadiwn Government on the charge of stealing $03,000, i8 reported to be in Minneapolis. He was timber agent under the Government, his business being to collect fees for stumpage from big lumbering firms surrounding the Lake of the Woods, “lle admits taking the money, and says $20,000 of it was stolen from him by a Minne- apolis woman,” —Three times during the past month Pennock & Putnam's notion house in Peoria, 1llinois, has been entered by burglars, and in all about $1800 worth of goods stolen. The last visit was made on the evening of the 15th, when $1000 worth of cutlery and silver plate was token. On the 21st L. F. Morse, a detective, was accused of the crime and admitted his guilt, Ie promised to return the goods if he was not prosecuted, --The quarantine restrictions imposed on Key West, Florida, on account of suspicious cases of fever there, have been removed. —It was learned in Allentown, Penns., ou the 21st, that Waldemar Grossman, charged with having em- bezzled $25,000 while bookkeeper for Jolinson & Swartz, has spent most of his time during the past two years con- cealed in his home in that city, and not in Canada, as was supposed. It is said that under the Stale laws em- bezzlemeut 18 a misdemeanor, that the statute of limitations becomes inopara- tive in two years, and that Grossman cannot again be prosecuted, beceuse his homejwas in the State that length of time. Grossman does not seem to fear arrest. —Yardmaster R, L, Denmark on the 92d entered a freight car with a lan- tern at Wilmington, North Carolina. Almost immediately a barrel of gaso- line exploded, setting fire to the car and burnine Denmark to deat, The boi- ler of a locomotive exploded in Wa- bash, Indiana, on the 22d, killing ev- glueer Thomas Callaban and fireman Join Maddock. Low water caused the accident, A collision occurred on the 22d on the crossing of the Sante Fe and electric street rallway in Wichita, Kansas, by which fifteen persons were {njured, one of them, Miss Nelile Hen- derson, mortally. The collision oc¢- curred On a curve, a grove of trees preveuting the engineer from seelng the danger, and the streel car was hurled by the engine a distance of sixly feel, —While a train of cars was being pulled up at the Ashley planes, at Wilkesbarre, ’a., on the 22d, the man whose duty it was to give the signal to stop forgot to do so, and the force with which they came against the second plane broke the rope, and they started down at a terrific rate, crashing into a truck on which were three man—W, tH. Adams, Jolin Roat and Hugh Fer- gusou, Adams and Roat were badly injured. Two passenger traias collided at Nolin, Kentucky, on the morniug of aad. Neveral passengers were jured, Vandike Heiser, of lerstown, probably fatally. freight cars on a train On Louisville and Nashville Railroad jumped the track near Bangor, Ala- bama, on the 23d, Eugene Christ. man, a colored jockey, was Kiled and three colored train hands were badly injured. — A beavy northeast snow storm prevailed at East Tawas, Michigan, on the morning of the 224. - TWO Den office at Fargo, i= Ail Some be broke into the post south Dakota, on the eveling of the 21st, bound and gagged the uighit clerk, Henry Milton, placed a red-hot poker on the soles of his feet, and compelled him to give up the com- bination of the vault dcor, In the vestibule of the vault were 40 or 50 registered packages, Walle the bur- glars were opening these Milton re- leased himself, secured a resolver and shot at the mer, not, however, until they had had time to blow out the light, They knvoked him down with a low on the head and escaped, sécur- ing about $125 in currency. In their hur y they left over $150 in money on the desk, —The Rehef Committee of the Cnamber of Commerce of St. Paul, M nuesota, has presegled a report deaing with the destitution existiog in the Dakotas, It issald that the suf- fering and destitution 1s much greater than has yet been reported. Immediate relief is needed, and the supplies most urgently required are boots, shoes bus iery, mittens, undergarments, flour, coinneal, groceries and grain for stock. —sigmund Silbermann,aged 22 years, of Jacob Silbermann, a wealthy sik umporter of New York, was found dead in his room onthe morning of the 224 with a bullet wound in his head. The Coroner has not yet de- termined whether it was a case of sui- cide or accidental shooting. — Another inclined plane accident bappened on the 22d In Cincinnati, It was at the Mount Adams plane, where Lorses and wagons are carried up as well as passengers. Henry Newman, driving a two-liorse wagon for a» cracker manufactory, drove on to the truck to ascend. When about thirty feet from the bottom the horses sud. denly backed against the rear gates of the truck, which snapped apart, and horses, wagon and driver were thrown to the bottom. Newman escaped with- out serious injury. The wagon was wrecked and the horses killed. ~Two young men, one unkoown, the other an Englishman, named Nell, were run over and killed by an express train at Metuchen, New Jersey, early on the morning of the 224. A com. plete jury was secured In the Cronin case in Chicago on the afternoon of the 294, Meven weeks have been occupied in getting the jury. One thousand and ninety-one jurors have bsen subpoenaed, of whom 927 have been excused by counsel for caune, In addition tothe 1091 special veniremen suinmoned thera were also 74 of the regular panel dle. posed of, ~The t of Agriculture is advised of three more cases of plenro- push onia a among cattle anded at Deptford, London, from New York and Boston. wy —Ohristopher Ficken, a bartende, and Max Bosisr, a walter, were founu dead in their room in New York, on the morning of the 23d. They were suffocated by gas. William L. Moses, a travelling salesman for the New York clothing house of M. Stern & Co., was found dead in his stateroom on the steamer Cumbarlaud, which arrived at St. Jobn, New Brunswick, from Bos. ton, on the evening sof the 22d, Dur- ing an auction of unclaimed Grand Trunk baggage in Montrealy on the afternoon of the 23d, a portion of the floor gave way and thirty persons were precipitated into the cellar beneath. No one was fatally injured, ~Two well-dressed men and a wo- man drove up to the German Savings Bank in Newark, New Jersey, on the afternoon of the 23d, The men en- tered the bank and told the cashier that the lady In the cariiage was unable to walk, but desired to speak to him and make a deposit. One of the men and the cashier went ont to the woman, but, after some talk, she deferred making the deposit. The cashier returned, and the other man quitting the bak, the trio drove off. A few minutes later it was discovered that $1000 In bills had been stolen from behind the railing. Only two clerks were in the bank at the time, and it is supposed the thief stepped inside the enclosure through the gate, which the cashier left open. —There was a general fall of snow in the vicinity of Cumberland, Mary- land, on the morning of the 23d. The mountains were covered with a coating of wlite. The first snow of Lhe sea- son at Balthmore fell on the 23d. A terrific storm of rain, snow and sleet prevailed at Harrisonburg, Virginia, on the 23d. At times the wind blew a hurricane. The hills around Elmira, New York, was covered with snow on the morning of the 23d, At Win- chester, Virginia, on the 234, Ht snowed most of the day. The ther- mometer was near the freezing polot, At Staunton it rained, hailed and snowed, — Maggie Camack and Jessie Truitt, aged respectively 22 and 20 vears, were killed at Thurlow Station, near Chester, Pa. . on the evening of the 24th, They were employed at Trainer's nulls and were returning to their homes, walking on the railroad, There was an expio- sion on the 24th In the gas house of the Lockwood Cotton Mills, in Water ville. Maine, The building took fire, and Henry E. Washburn, aged 30, the workkman in charge, perished flames, Dy arunaway accident in Mar!- borough, New York, on the 24th, Mrs Robert J. Dickey was killed, and her husband and mother were badly burl Wilham Balley, living in Baltimore, was assisting his wife to do the wash- ing oun the 24th, and poured a lot of benzine into the tub, The waler was hot, an explosion followed, tearing out the wide of the house, and badly scald- ing Mr. Bailey. ~A despateh from Waterville, Min- pesots, says that it is almost im possi- ble to state the severity of the drought iu that region, and its evil effect if it should freeze without rain. All the creeks and rivers are dry, and bave been for some Lime, and the lakes were never jow In the lListory of the country. Recent excavations In the village show perfectly dry earth ata depth of seven feel. in the %0 in Montreal, on the morning of the 24th. a man pamed Chartrand, em- ployed with others in making =a drain on one of the streets, lighted a fire ih a forge close to several primed dynamite cartridges, The latter exploded, kill tng Chartrand and dangerously injur- ing five others--two men and three women. Many houses in the neighbor- hood were badly damaged. Some time ago Robert Scott, a merchant of Morey, in the Northwest Territory, was Informed that a Mrs Tough, of Calgarry, claimed to be his wife, and was going to kill him. He potined the police, who watched in- coming trains, On the evening of the 23a the woman, dressed In man’s clothes, got off a train at Morey, and, shadowed by a policeman, started for Scott's store. She was about to draw a revolver on Scott when she was seized from behind and handcuffed, ‘ On her person was found a bottle of ether, a bottle of vitriol, a gag, two razors and two self-cocking revolvers It was her intention to burn out his eyes with the vitriol and trim off his ears and nose,” — Early on the morning of the 24th three masked robbers entered the resi- dence of Judge Kelly, in St. Joseph, Missour!, anl, going 0 the bed-room where the Judge and his wife were sle¢ ping, one of the robbers covered them with his revolver while the others searched the room for valuab'es and obtained $600 in jewels, then searched the ped for valuables and then took the rings from the fingers of Mrs. Kelly. An old fron safe In the Palma Club House, in Jersey City, was robbed of $400 in cash by an unknown thief on the evenving of the 23d. —Tlugh McCullough. superintend.- ent of a cotton gin near Memphis, Ten- nesses, was assassinated by an unknown person on the evening of the 234, He was sitting ia the office talking with two friends, when he was fired at through the open door. A colored rough, named Williams, with whom McCullough had some trouble, and who has disappeared, is suspzcted of the erime, Louis Kellerman shot and mortally wounded his wife at Water. town, Wisconsin, on the 234, and on tte morning of the 24th he committed suicide In the loft of a barn where he was hiding from the police, In 1838, or little more than a half century ago, John Walker, of Stockton- on-Tees, made the first lucifer match in England, There was a match fac. tory established in Vienna in the same Jens, For 14 years the persons n making the old luecifers from necrosis, A hous phosphorus was substituted for the common kind, and & terrible disease banished from what was soon found to be a uselul and ultimately an indispen- sable Industry. Mourning is worn for a longer period in the United States than soy other country, ~ THE MAN | He Rises to a Question of Privilege and Makes a "Ringing Speech.” It was in 8 hotel in Manistee, one of those badly planned houses where the sounds from the bar room and office re- verberate through the upper floors. The hour was past midnight and a party sitting in the office were listening to the experiences told by a loud spoken guest. The electric bell sound- ed a call from Room No, 1. The por- ter went up to see about it and was spoken to as follows: “Give the com- pliments of the man in room No. 1 to the gentleman speaking below. Kept awake by the sound of the gentleman’s voice, this man requests him to talk down cellar instead of up stairs.” The porter failed to render the mes- sage as politely as it was given him, and of course the talking was kept up with more energy than ever. After a while a figure in a flannel night robe appeared upon the stairway, and, peaking in a voice rich with en- treaty, said: ‘Fellow citizens, permit me to introduce to this meeting the Man in Room No. 1. He is not as much of a man as he thought he was when he saw Room No. 1 put down against his name. Then he believed himself to be some pun- { Applause. | and discerning person. { Kisses. | now feels himself to be a badly trapped fly and the landlord a diabolical spider. [Renewed applause. | up to the desk song worded like this rang and registered a siren in his ears: « «Will vou walk into Room One,’ Said the landlord to the guest, ‘Kept for an bonor'd one? Therein you'll sweetly 1 s est pry Cries of “Good! ote, “Room One,” the man wen down for ‘clock; [« hl remark that a call at 4 Oh! honored Room One, 8 LOS th which the adincent dining hall, the pa- J ] Lial Dar room al act as sounding b ‘He's in the verberant bil- liard saloon Aras [A voice: { tor. | “Ome | soup,’ and lsugh- fv 1 may piace faith In the 4 | ¥ 5 ov } $a & pop y yt the number thirteen superstition ab Such TERN might regard ARs en room 13 as a presago of [Aeq As a i them avoid Boom One as of the two, an niescence, be Yiu 3 yr v 3 More, Feline, gituation, ana 420 of i My © tO the rv Pp Wis oO On a measure of Man Boom follo in journment. | A PET GORILLA. E — The Story of Poor Jennie’s’ Life and Death, The following letter, written by Mr. J. J. Jones, a trader Coast of Africa, at Ngone, is ovublished pedigree of dear old Jenme, about the middle of Oclober, 1887, a small canoe arrived, with two natives and Jennie in it. She was more dead than alive, and I did not think she would live through the night, How- ever, after some bargaining, the ba- tives took what I offered them and left, 1 then put Jennie into a small rug, and afterwards placed her in my gorilia house, with plenty of straw and a rug for herself, She lay quite contented, In a week's time she took to me so well that she used to follow me about like a dog, and would come and jump on my back and put her arms around my neck. When I was engaged on some work she would go into the bush for ‘chop’ (food), and if she found it had gone would make a fearful noise until she found me, One night a swarm of ‘drivers’ (ants) attacked her, and I took her into the house and let her sleep near me, She was very playfuy, and would wrestle and box with me like a small boy, and follow me about every- where. 1 taught ber to sit upon a chair at table at chop time, gave her a plate, cut up her meat and potatoes, and gave her a glass of water or beer. She would eat and drink like any Christian, When the bell rang for chop time she would dull her chair up to the table, She could drink out of a glass or bottle without spilling a drop or breaking the glass, being always careful to replace it upon the table, 1 also taught her to turn the niggers out of the shop Sie knew my voice and footstep, and often when I left her would walk over to the factory to find me, One evening 1 gave her some wine, which she soon finished, and then collared mine and finished that, and soon wasquite drnnk, When she got sober she would never take any more of that, If when I was sitttng with Jennie In th piazza it was rather cold, aly would run to my bedroom and wrap herself 1a it, She was very fond of young children, and if any child came to the factory she would touch its face and hands as softly as a grown person would, and do her utmost to talk, She was very fond of jams and pickles, and’ in fact, was always ready for anything good. When takinza walk vith Mr. N——Jennle would walk between us, with one hand in Mr, N "8 and one in mine, * * * One day she was playing in the morning with Mr. D ——. In the aftern on I return- ed, and noticed thac she was not able whong witn her legs, I took ber in my arms and did what I could for hier. She seemed in great pain in<ber stomach, and I gave her some chlorodyne, which seemed to relieve her. Next morning I found she could not stand, so I nurs- ed her that day. She would ery ifl put her down for a minute, just asa very small, weak child would do, and never seemed content unless her face was near mine. About 4 o'clock she had some milk; she then got a big fever, and, after walking about with her in my arms, I took her to bed, but she was 80 bad I did not sleep. She took and drew me towards her until her face | touched mine, crying all the time, Af- ter a few minutes she heaved a sigh, | and pressed my face with her hands, | and then I fund she was dead, Foor little Jennie!” The writer of the above | narrative adds that he hopes to obtain | another gorilla, which he i train, and make 1t the ‘greatest | of the world.” of poor { nie will probably be sent to a | in England. The skin ms ns A AP —————— A King's Ears. One night sho of Maillezais apparently with M his beel wear his remark, “How 3 + + hear that de af YOu are. i. Caoutchouc, Csoutchoue, or ETOWIDE in It is white like the when it { plant, but becomes 1 { can plant. from the ef | milkweed exudes ack from i 5 ; ! focts of smoke, to the action of it is subjected in the process of ! When it is obtained from trees curing. the sap | is gathered by tapping the trees, after | a fashion not altogether unlike that by { which the sap is extracted from maple tress for making maple sugar. It and the sap taken up is held for some { time in the smoke of a fire of nuts. | This 1s repeated till the bat is loaded, | when the caoutchoue 1s taken off and | dried for shipment. When obtained | from plants, the fiber is macerated and | the sap extracted by evaporation. The | raw rubber thus obtained has to pass | through extended and complicated re- fining processes after its arrival in this | country before it is ready for the pur- | poses of the manufacturer, ts AI ANS The Bug that Saved the Orange Trees. An Australian ladybug has apparent- ly about accomplished its mission in Sierra Madre, and is becoming very soarce here. It is less than three mouths ago that this wonderful little insect was first introduced by placing oolonies in a few of our orange or- chards, and without further care or at- tention they have multiplied and spread, and have at absolutely no cost done what, without them, could not have been accomplished with unlimited money and a vast amount of labor, And the trees are all healthy and flour- ishing, presenting a very different ap- pearance to that formerly seen after the process of spraying with medicated washes. The large graves on the Bald. win and Chapman ranches are not en- tirely redeemed as yet, but the para- sites are making satisfactory progress, and the total extermination of the pest which has caused a loss of many thou. sands of dollars to the owners is buts question of time, How vilely has he lost himself who bas become a slave to his servant and exalts hitm to the dignity of hia Maker! Gold is the frend, wife, the god of the money-monger of the weeld. BTAND~ALONE SILKS, They Will Be in High Favor with As if to somewhat mitigate the ultra flatness of the effect of the unprotuber- ant, tonrnureless back draperies, mag- nificent thick silks are imported, of the “stand-alone” grand- mothers’ time. Luxury will manifest itself the coming winter in superb pilks quality of our and pompadour brocades—cal led “cen- he ideries tenmal” broeades this year—anid in t & with which plain silks will be enriched. This lavish use of rare and beautiful embroidery dates back to the first em- | pire, when hardly any really elegant coats were seen, except military ones, Jaden with golden broidery, and when | the masculine dress-cost rivaled those | adopted by women, both in richness of | quality and decoration. One of the | modern forms of this elegant garment tis the *“‘centennial,” an almost literal | reproduction of the veontennial” cost | that was revived two years ago. The | square-cut fronts are bordered with | gold and silver passementerie, and the | vest is of silk with the embroidery, and fastened nearly covered with of 1 ord Of IArge or satin, | very expensive gold buttons | size. There sre deep flaps at each side and or also richly decorated buttons, and there duchesse oint applique lace, with he close, deep frills to riohlv.tris Y= it fall. in graduated curves from the neck to a point below the waist —— Re — Mark Twain on Tattooing, A tattooed may I When 1s of warts. when 1 oed an of my India ink. color , GArg bine, vagant- f 1t & Os r T worn it at last | my wart experienc & gen and 1 a candle | aration before it occurred fo me, several needles and ¢ t | got my i drove | just under the surface of | straightway he needles along the skin and | tolerably close together, and made mark, then l vi § 3p Nr, a 1 that davies i them and CoOORed LHR Aevioe | inclnde the whole tattoo { fired up | through. Next day 1 wiped the device | off with my hand. healed and left n { tinge The place quickly faint bluisk BOAT. remained, and I was mined to be | gin again and cook that out; but detectable, as 11 | was hardly and no { able, it did and so 1 left it there, thoagh 1 suppose 1 am the only mem- ber of my tribe that knows it. notice . t not seem worth the fuel, and there it isyet, —-—— About Women and Mice. A woman in the railroad depot at Toledo saw a mouse and jumped through a window with such vigor that she broke two ribs and an ankle. The other ten women simply fainted away. A mouse which got into the mattress on an old maid's bed at Red Bank, N. J.. caused her to scream and yell with such vigor that the whole town was awakened and kept on the ragged edge for an hour. Mrs. Mary Ogden, a new Hampshire woman who is in prison for life has had a pet mouse for three years past, and the little creature is so tame and so well trained that it comes at her call and will do many tricks. Masculine Shawl About forty years ago it was the rage for men to wear shawls, The shawl superseded the overcoat almost entirely. All sorts and grades of men walked the streets enveloped in shawls, Tall, lank men Jooked like bean poles on which horse blankets had been hung to dry, and short, fat men resembled bales of merchandise rolling along the sidewalk. The fashion was not confin- od to the city, by any means, It invad- od the country, and the boy going to school and the hired man basullug saw logs sported the universal shawl. But it went out of fashion again almost as suddenly as it came in, though it ling- ered several seasons with some olde fashioned men, who are slow in taking up a new style and slower still in let- ting It go, ’
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