\ LAMORATORY PLANO. THREE PERSONS KILLED AND SEV- ERAL OTHERS INJURED AT THE CILEMICAL WORKS OF WILEY & WALLACE, ON SEVENTH STREET, ABOVE Av. PaiLaperruaia, Nov. 11.—By an exp.osion, supposed to have been enunsed by “flash-light” powder, at the chemical laboratory of Messrs, Wiley & Wallace, No. 123 North Seventh street, yesterday afternoon, three per- sons were lustantly killed and several others were severely injured, Those killed were: Joseph Wiley, the senior member of the firm, aged 39 years, who resided at No. 728 North Twenty-fth street, Charles I". Rbuinedollar, foreman of the chemiesl department, aged 29 years, of 8t9 Lebanon street. Rudolph Lippwan, an employe in the chemical department, aged 17 years, of 1619 Carlisle street. Tuose injured were: William Kidd, aged 21 years, a packer, residing at 625 Filvert street, badly cut about the body and legs by flying pleces of glass, Joseph Brown, 26 years, employed in the drug department, cut about the head and arms, but not seriously. Joseph Thomas, 42 years, of 2342 North Twenty-fourth street, incised wounds of leg and arm. Thomas Haslam, bookkeeper, slightly cut in the face, Alfred Moftett, engineer, badly cut about the face, Several other parsons also suffered slight cuts about the head and arms from flying glass, It was about quarter before 4 o'clock when people passing along Seventh street, between Arch and Race streets, and on other streets mn that vieinity, were startied by the report of a heavy explosion, which seemed to shake the ground on Seventh street. The report was followed by a crashing of glass and a cloud of dust, and what appeared to be smoke issued from the upper win- dows of the laboratory of Messrs, Wiley & Wallace. At the same mo- ment #8 number of the employees of the establishment rushed out of the office door to the street, and the gathering crowd of peo ple, attracted to the scene by the report of the explosion, were horrified to see a number of girls at the windows of the third floor, who, apparently, were getting ready to juiop from the building. Men shouted to them to remain where they were, and a ladder baving been procured it was placed against the building, but it was found to be too short, by about three feet, to reach the window where some of the girls were standing. Then they were told that there was no fire, and that it wonld be safer for them to walt until relief came. By this time sev- eral cool-headed men ran Into the buliding, and the girls were all taken down a back stairway to Cherry steeet In the meantime Policeman Man- ning, of the Sixth Ward Station, had turned in an alarm, and the arrival of the fire engines helped to increase the excitement. Lieut. Burk, of the same station, also hurried to the scene with a squad of policemen and started a search through the building. The first place visited was the bosement, and, in the extreme rear, in an area way, the searchers found three bodies, all shockingly burned and mutilated, One body, from which both arms and legs had been torn, was dlsceversd wedged behind some barrels. The clothes were burned, the face black- ened and disfigured, and a portion of the breast gone. From the position in which the body was found and from certain marks it was believed to be that of Mr. Wiley. The other bodies were found laying near-by in the area- way, one across the other. Doth were badly disfigured, and were nearly strip- ped of clothing. These were subse- quently identified as those of Rhipe- dollar and Lippman. The bodies were taken in a patrol wagon and a Pennsylvania Hospital ambulance to the police station, on Fifth street, above Hace, Thomas was taken In an ambulance to the Jefferson Hospital, and after his injuries bad been attended to he was sent home, Kidd was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where lust pight he was sta. ted to be in an improved condition, The other injured persons were able to go to thelr homes, Fire Marshal Thompson and Inspec tor McDevitt, of the Insurance Patrol, made an inspection of the laboratory and took the statements of several of the employees, From the appearance of the Interior of the bullding, the force of the explosion must have been very great, scarcely a whole pane of glass being left either in the front or the rear of the four floors of the lab- In the rear there is a blind alley, about six feet wide, that portion back of No, 123 contalning an areaway covered with an old door, supporting several barrels of mineral oil, This door and the barrels THE SNOW IN NEW MEXICO. ———————————— RAILROAD CUTS AGAIN FILLED AND TRAINS STOPPED. SUCH A STORM NEVER KNOWN BE- FORE IN BOUTHERN COLORADO OR NEW MEXI1C0--20 000 HEAD OF SHEEP PERISHED, TrNiDAD, Col, Nov. 12.—Varilous parties who spent ten days In the snow blockade, between Emory Gap and Folsom, N. M., arrived in this city yesterday. They report the suffering to man and anlmal fully as great as shown in former reports, Patrick Casey. an- gineer, spent eleven days in making the run from Trinidad to Lexline and return. For two days and nights he was without food, One meal he made on a jack rabbit caught In the snow. Seventy- five men shoveling snow at Monnt Dora were cut off from food for two days and nights, They got some sheep out of the snow drifts and roasted and ate them, A delayed passenger train was cut off from the eating stations for three days. They drew on the express company for food supplies. The Jabor- ers who shovelled snow, when hungry, tapped the freight cars, containing canned goods, with an iron chisel or other tools, A bungry man would knock a holein a canof corn or tomatoes, and then drink the can empty, BSome- times this raw food was frozen, but It went, among men 80 hungry. Two live goats were being shipped in a ca- boose, but the hungry men cut their throats and ate them raw. The report says that a sick man, traveling with two children, lay on his back two days, helpless. He had, only crackers for nourishment. A sheep grower near Ute creek, a Mr. Garcia, 18 reported to have lost 5000 sheep from a flock of 8300, Engineer Lyon said that he saw more real destitution during ten days in this snow blockade than in all his life before, The road was opened with rotary snow plows, but remained open only a few hours, Yesterday morning's suow and wind blocked the cuts again and the passen- ger train due bere from the South this forernoon is stuck in the snow. Alto gether the blizzard has been a terrible one, None of us ever saw or heard of such a ope in Southern Colorado or New Mexico. It was a Dakota storm that got off its range and struck an un- suspecting people. President Morgan Jones, of the Fort Worth Road, was himself a pas- senger {rom the scene of the blockade, CLAYTON, N. M., Nov. 13.-Tia- ings from small towns and ranches off the railroad confirm the reported loss of life and property during the late storm. From Trrmperas comes the news that three Mexican herders per- | ished on the second day of the storm. Lujan Brothers, living on the Seneca, lost one herder. A man, name unknown, herding horses In the Rafel district, and two other men, left their horses and started for a place of shelter. Becoming numb he fell and perished. His companions were too much exhausted to help him. The total loss of life, so far as reported, number nine, Several more are miss ing, and their friends are anxiously searching for them. The loss of sheep, in and around this place alone is 206,000 head, and several large herds on the Ute creek have not yet been heard from, The loss In cattle will not be as heavy as at first supposed, unless the cold weather con - tinues, Sopow began falling again yester- day and continued last night, About | eight inches of new suow on top of the twenty inches already on the ground | makes it impossible for the rallrcad | folks to keep the trall clear, They succeeded In getting trains through yesterday, but are all snowed up again, and the cold is intense, being almost to Zero, NEWS OF THE WEEK, ~By a rush of melted iron from the stacks of Colebrook Furnace, No. 1, at Lebanon, Penna., on the afternoon of | the 4th, Henry Bohr, Henry Fertig, Isaac Siegrist, Willlam Soyder and Harvey Beck were killed, and John Hotir, Benjamin Eck and Enock Eisen- bauer were severely burned, The men were overwhelmed by the metal while at their work. The hoisting shaft of the furnace was destroyed. — Mattie Brown, aged 13 yeas, who worked in Reager’s hostery mill, in Norristown, Pa, was caught in the shafting by her hair on the afternoon of the 5th and Injured s0 badly that she died in a short time, --Daniel Carmichael, one of the best known business men in Amsterdam, New York, has been arrested or the charge of forgery. The forgeries ex- tend over a period of two years, The | amount 18 placed at $110,000, Most of the notes are on John Carmichael, the forger’s brother, bul the name of Craig & Co., of New York, was used freely also, Andrew C. Drum, of Kansas City, Missouri, charged with forging the name of his uncle, Major Andrew Drum, to checks amounting to $50,000 and absconding with the money, has been arrested in Toronto. Major Drum has gone to Toronto secure his extradition. Young Drum was cone sidered a model young man, was his uncle's conddential emplo and, it was understood, would inherit his uncle’s entire estate, which Is esti. mated at $3,000,000, ~ While driving out of Granville, Wisconsin, early on the morning of —————————— 1 ~A despatch from Kansas Olty sa) sp that a blizzard is sweeping over South- ern and Western Kansas, The wind turned to the north early in the evening and brought with it snow, which in some localities Is drifting badly, At Arkansas City, near the Indian Terri. tory, a regular norther is reported. At Wichita the snow is flying, and at Syracuse the blizzard is st its height, : Abilene, in the centre of the State, re- ports severe wind and thick snow. A haavy snow storm was reported at Sioux City, Iowa, on the 13th. --Amanda Bteyner, aged 10 years, daughter of ex-Assistant Treasurer Steyner, was standing In her doorway in Cincinnati, on the evening of the 12th, watching the return of a wed- ding party to s& house opposite, when some fool fired off a revolver “to celebrate the event.” The second bullet pierced Miss Steyner’s abdomen, causing a wound from which she died on the 13th, Charles Thowariah has been arrested on ruspicion of having fired the shot, —A dam at McClellan's flouring mill, about a mile west of Alton, Ontario, broke on the morning of the 13th and the water swept to the town, Six mill dams, four bridges and sev- eral mills and dwellings were de- stroyed, and an aged couple named Harris were drowned, -John Me¢Donald and Duncan Beve- ridge, homesteaders at Matchwood, Michigan, had some trouble over a homestead claim. On the evening of the 11th McDonald went to Beveridge’s cottage to talk matters over. Mrs, Beveridge and a friend were also in the room. During the conversation the men got very excited, and McDonald pulled his revolver and shot Beve- | ridge, wounding him fatally. He then | turned upon the women and shot Mrs, | Beveridge in the hip, after which be emptied the remaining chambers of his revoiver al Mrs, Beveridge's friend, in- | flicting a fatal wound, McDonald was arrested, ~Arthur A. Richwine was found | hanging by one foot on the ladder lead. ing to the gas pit at McCormick's fur- naces, at Harrisburg, Pa., on the even- ing of the 13th, Both eyes were burn- | ed out. -A man named Potter and bis son, who left their ranch near Trinidad, | weeks ago, have not been beard of | since then, and are supposed to have | perished in the blizzard, | ~It 18 estimated that it will cost §10,- 000 to repair the damage done by recent in the Treasury court, in which nearly 100,000,000 standard dollars are stored. —In August last August C, Hanke was found dead ia a lumber camp pear Spokeville, Wisconsin, with an emply rifle by his side and a bullet through his body. His death was supposed to have been accidental. Recently, bow. ever, officers had reason to suspect | that Hanke had been murdered, and | warrants were Issued on the evening of | the 12th for two suspected persons, one of them a man named Field, Field was found on the morning of the 13th banging dead In his barn near Spokes ville. The other suspected man bas | not yet been arrested, -A Gespateh from Covington, Indi. ana, says Lhat on the evening of the 12th at Brown's Chapel, a country church, about ten miles from Coving- | ton, 30 persone, disguised with white | caps and masks, faces blackened, anda | armed with clubs, entered the church, 16 in each isle, marched up to the Lindsay, of Danville, 1llinol¥, to the woods, about a half a mile distant, and gave him his choice belween leaving the country early the pext morning | and a terrible pounding, He decidea to leave, All those In the church were | warned not to leave it, The cause of the trouble seems be the manner of | conducting meetings and of treating | peope for diseases with the faith care, | ~Jolin Henry, an old soldier, fell or jumped from a passenger train at Wil. | liamsport, I’a.,on the morning of the | 14ih, and was killed. He was on his | way to the Soidlers’ Home, at Erie, of | which institution he bad been an in- mate. He was returning from a viait to friends in Chester county, Pa. A | special train collided with a switeh | engine near Canton, Mississippi, on the l 14th, resulting in the death of Patrick | Richmond, engineer of the switch en- give; Tom Loftins, swilchman, and | an unknown negro. Jim Smith, D, | Halsey and V. Thomas, and several other persons were injured, i - While men were blasting rock on | the construction branch of the North ern Paeilic Railroad in Jefferson cown- ty, Minnesota, on the evening of tue 12th, a blast of giant powder failed of the desired effect, and some black pow der was pounded in to complete the blast, An explosion followed instantly, killing *ix men- Constantine Sullivan, John Dell, A Finn, A. W. Lansen, T. O'Leary and Ham Roos. Two olbers had thir eyes blown out, -«An explosion of fireworks occurred on the 12th in the pyrotechnic factory of Marnie & Romaine, at Petersburg, Virginia, Six thousand pieces of fire. works were destroyed and three men were fatally burned, ~While blasting rock at White Rock, Colorado, on the 13th, William Richardson, Ralph Shaffer and Louis Waltham were killed by the premature explosion of a charge of gant powder, David Brown, aged 75 years, was killed and his two daughters were badly in. The Valley of Silence. Tn the hush of the valley of 8llence I dream all the songs that | SINK, And the music floats down the dim valley Till each finds a word for 3 wing, That to hearts, like the dove of the Deluge, A message of peace they may bring, But far on the deep there are billows That never shall break on the beach And 1 have heard songs In the silences That never shall flow into speech ; And I have heard dreams in the valley Too lofty for language to teach, And I have seen thoughts in the valley Ah, me! how my spirit was stirred? And they wore holy veils over thelr faces Their footsteps can scarcely be heard ; They pass through the valley like virgins Tou pure for the touch of a word. Do you ask me the place of the valley, Ye hearts that are harrowsd by caret It lieth afar between mountains, And God and His angels are there One is the dark mountain of Sorrow, And one the bright mountain of Prayer. Falher Ryan. HOW THE KITTENS MADE THE MATCH. MRE, A. M. PAYNE, I intend to put old Tabby and her kittens in the carriage house Phillis They are really a nuisance here. It was bad enough to insist upon keeping five kittens at all, but when they have begun to climb over the sides of the box and are running in every direction I ean not endure it. I stepped on two of them this morning, and 1 am sure I do not wish to hurt them.” Mrs. Morrison earefully lifted a kit- she was trying to get the second who book in the pursuit, and old earriage, $ and laid down the she was holding, to join five kitten and 3 gleigh, There was much langhing ing be fore and chas- this was acco WAS YOry much «is lis face when she retur: Tabby was not the ber of the Her yory howe ve f thoes 11te with kittens. One of “neighborl poed in r, and Phil- heard, or overheard, s people who {oe i a £5 in everybody had Mrs, Morriso: lis had very kind remarks, After disc in the town, the varieties of pickle the ar me not wing the different diseases and the new dressmaker from New York, the neighbor remarked. to see your Phillis a good deal” Like- ly young man he is too, but I hear it is tracts hum. Nobody knows where he spends his evening's he 18 not here. They say at his boarding house when that he is never at home, though to be sure a boarding house is a poor place for a young man " Phyllis liked Phil Dennison. The frank manly bearing, and his plainly shown preference for her society had drawn out all the sympathy of a loving heart. Heo had spoken of their home, and how much be enjoyed spending an evening with her, and bad made one to believe that she was the only one whom he liked to visit. One of those young men who styles He was had lost in. terest. They met upon the street, “Given up the club, have you? ask- “I have not been there lately,” re- phed Phil, “I have been very busy.” “Ha! ha! I understand.” I hear yon are at Deacon Morrison's. Take care there I heard that Phillis said you were dull company, She is not one who likes everybody. Bee you soon, I “It does not prove anything, because she does not like you,” thought Phil Bitterly as ho walked away, but still the things will do, taking all the joy out of the day and tinging everything. He hesitated when evening came, doubting whether he had better go to the Mor rison’s, but he fought against his feel- ing, and went, after all, He was late however, and the quick heart beat of the girl who waited, told her that she was more glad to hear the sound of his boot than she ought to be, She met him rather stiffly and without reaching out a hand, and he wondered if she found him “dull.” They tried to talk but neither felt at ease. The two kind neighbors who had interfered in their behalf, seemed to stand like ghosts between thom, and neither knew what the barrier was. It was one of those little happenings, —if we have a right to call anything a oe which have spoiled the happiness of of many a life. Finally he rose to go, and she think- ing with a pang that he was tired of her society, rose also without a word, “Shall I open the door, Miss Phil- lis?" “Certainly,” she replied, *I cannot think what it is.” He opened the door and in walked Tabby, and in scrambled or rolled or trotted five little kittens, glad enough of the warmth and light they roiled themselves in every direction over the parlor floor. Phyllis seized one and Phil another, and placed them upon the rug before the fire, more and the mother cat, while a poor little stray, sat mewing by the door. With a great deal of laughter Phyllis, and Phil tried to collect them on the rug together but they would not stay, and no sooner was one safely there, than another would have roamed toa far corner of the room. Poor Tabby,” said Phil, who had one of those best of manly hearts wherein there is a place for all dumb creatures, “how those kittens worry you, don’t they. “He took her up and stroked her gently, and then Phyllis tried to collect the kittens again. She held them all in her apron at last, and then Phil put Tabby down, and came to Phyllis, and they bent over the pretty little funny things, admiring and pet- ting them. “1 declare,” said Phil with a laugh, “I have not been so merry in a month. I have been over to Hampton's every evening, I have been away from you, caring for a sick friend, and 1 have been up late so many nights, 1 am quite worn out. I fear you have found A pang of sorrow at her false seg. Y13eier. Ju iy “1 never find you dull. vod hav 30) you with him.” “You are good to say so,” re and held 8, 80 they x by the fire, and 1 3 VOOR piace. norning, however, Phyllis was in their le the “Please keep her Kittens $ BOVE, mamma lel I think they are So it came mn there three largo younger oasis, for the other ison mans i an nison ab their new cottage on Congress ss A A AI——— Who Invented Smiling mode, said to have originated enna, coming to Paris, was there, it is reported, called La Viennoise, and from that center, 850 rapid 18 the spread of absurdity, extended to the ends of Eu- rope. And surely this unmirthful smile that we all employ, this grin that is only of the lips, is an absurd thing, neither natural nor decorous; for why should I smile inanely and endeavor to seem glad when I meet an aquaintance? Why should he return this conventional salutation with a corresponding con- traction of the muscles of his face when be sees me? How is he to know that I am not weigtied down by some secret sorrow which my smile of greeting bat thinly conceals How am I to be sure that my own smile should not rather be hypocrites that we are, while perhapsour very hearts are torn asunder! How much wiser is the gravity of the Portuguese peasant, or the stern salutation of the Oriental, who has not yet caught this European trick of the lips, and who meets and greets his acquaintance with the grave sympathy of one wayfarer meeting an- other on this rugged, tortuous path of life that has its ending only in the mys- terious grave! A WI ABO Sham A Mirageon the Plains. We witnessed the most perfect mur- age we ever saw on the Laramie plains one evening recently. It was about an hour before sunset, and looking out of a car window we saw a mile awaya beautiful lake. It was in a slight de- pression among the hills, and seemed to be about two miles long by a mile wide. Never having noticed a lake at that place on the road, we were consid- erably astonished, and asked the con- ductor tor an explanation, He was equally astonished, as were passengers familiar with the road. As the train advanced the lake appeared to enlarge and rise, but in spite of this it was dif- ficult to believe the appearance was simply that optical delusion known as mirage, and that what appeared to be a lake was a grassy level plain, The apparent lake was as smooth and bright as a mirror, except at ono edge, where it appeared to be ruffled by the wind, The strange sight was viewed with wonder by hundreds of passengers until it was out of sight, 0 | 1 i n i bg v MPRISONED WOMEN, How Feminine Vanity ard Self« Will Operates Behind the Bars. Compulsion Is the woman convict's drop of bitterness, says the San Fran. cisco Argonawt. The completes mortifi- { cation of that harmless sort of vanity | which fills so much of a woman's Ife. | makes her durance doubly vile. All | her vile feathers are sacrificed ruth. lessly. Her hair, which she has APOB- tolic authority for regarding as an or- | nament, is shorn of its last lock as soon as her cell has been alotted to her; and the face which has gazed with perfect passiveness, almost Lo rouse a country's admiration, and the tongue that has been made mute under the finding of Jury and sentence of Judge, are (alsed to plead pathetically with the holder of the scissors, while the corridors some- times ring again to the plercing cries for a sparring pity as the inexorable shearers gather their barvest of curls, But, spring returns, and the hair re- pews itself, and before the next shear- ing day the girls grumble that a thought- less administration provides them with no hairpins, One woman whose balr continued to be suspiciously resplend.- ent, as of macassar, after weeks of in carceration, was an object of some wonderment, even to the chaplain until she explained to him In confidence that she allowed her broth to grow cool and then skimmed off the fat to glitter in her crown of glory. Another girl cer- tainly roughed, and rouge t:lis effec. tively on the pallor of prison confine- | ment, Great was the envious indigna- | tion of her sisters in servitude, against | a frivolity so unattainable, but greater | still, perhaps, was the dis of such curiosity w cover how the accomp sy Fole 1 oe 4 a frivollyy coulh be attained length $ A dgrres red #3 ¢ . ga thread Was discovered La I Wireads Woven among Le had to sew would hewed, vield thu v the ch ie Lo disarrange viddereak iris # ryreannt UQETERITE ang natin of 8 ores MALS US RA CTE 0ner u { has been known | from the gravest among | chaplain, And without woking-glass! uly the austerest and that, prisoner's the relief ich she is even willing to risk the of extra punishment—a task a meal the less, By an accl- dent, which she declares she will regret { for a lifetime, she has broken a window, | The hole is there, sure enough; but | where is the detached glass? Days after { this it is found concealed in a corner of | her cell and behind it a strip of dark | cloth, ker substitute for quicksilver. { And all fyr what? There are no male | hearts to break and few male eyes 10 see. severest orders o INS rend INO : As Te £ is * 3 es 6 } i And perhaps iL is the lemmas | most oppressive penance, for if wi imposition {| the more, i a ——————————— Arabl Pasha Restless and Un- happy. An Englishman who has spent some {time at Colombo has given s corres- wondent of the Birmingham (England) sundings of Arabi Hasha, state of despondency. “A few vears ago he was altogether a jovial and well- conditioned fellow; now he locks dys- peptic and unhappy, and wears his 49 years as though they were many more. While his companions seem te live in ease and comfort, and are determined to enjoy the life to which fate has for a while consigned them, Arabi, is restiess, unhappy, and oppressed with a morbid fear that he will die in exile. Occasion ally he exhibits a little interest in the possibility of growing Ceylon products in Egypt. In the ordinary smusements of the isle he takes little interest, and the monotony of his life seems to be only varied by occasional drives to the houses of the more popular members of Colombo society, a visit to the cinna- mon gardens, or an infrequent stroll along the Galle Face beach, His family take life more easily. His wife and his danghters and his sons (one son ex- cepted, who remains altogether with his father) spend considerable time in Egypt.” ee A Wearisome Subject. teople who are completely abeorbed in their own personality make the grave error of supposing that the sub- ject of which they never tire is equally interesting to others; hence, ii they “enjoy poor health,” it is their habit to give effusive descriptions of numerous aches and pains to whomsoever they meet. Now, illness, of all things in the world, is the least interesting, and even in one's own family soon becomes tire- some. Bympathy called npon too often becomes to a cerfain degree lessened, We can each recall too many people who make bodily ills the stock subject for conversation in and out of season, and a feeling of depression inevitably
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