TWENTY-TWO YEARS
AT HARD LABOR IN SOLITARY CON-
FINEMENT.
THE DOOM OF SHELLENBERGER,
DoyresTOWN, Pa., May 22.—J, M,
Shellenberger the forger and embezzler,
was placed on trial before Judge
Yerkes to-day. Shortly after 11 o’clock
Sheriff Comly brought the prisoner
from the jail in a back and took him
into the court house by the rear en-
trance. He was at once placed in the
prisener’s dock, and was the cynosvre
of all eyes. He appeared hag-
gard and care-worn, and during
the continuance of his trial wept
almost constantly, As soon as he
Look nis seat in the dock he bowed
his head and held & handkercnief to his
face until called upon by the Judge to
stand up and receive his sentence. He
recognized none of his old-time asso-
ciales among the members of the bar,
and tried to keep his face concealed as
much as possible, The prisoner’s groans
could be distinctly heard in every part
of the court room, and unfortunate
man’s condition was pitiable to behold,
Among the audience were many ladies
and many of his former neighbors,
friends and clients. District Attorney
Stout read the bills of indictment to
Shellenberger, and he pleaded guilty to
the 13 bills, charging him with forgery,
embezzlement and false pretence, After
hearing the testimony of about 18 wit.
nessess, and an eloquent plea by Shel-
lenberger’s counsel for alight sentence,
the prisoner was then sentenced to un.
dergo an Imprisonment of 22 years at
bard labor and solitary confinement in
the Eastern Penitentiary, at Philadel
phia, This is longest senteuce ever en-
forced upon a criminal in the Bucks
County Courts,
A TORNADO IN OHIO.
May 10.—A
Ohlo, says: A
and
CLEVELAND, Ohio,
special from Wooster,
terrific cyclonic ain
passed over parts of
tween 3 and 4 o'clock
noon, dolpg a tremendous amount of
damage. The storm swepl a section
three miles In width and eighteen in
length,
The most serious
in and near the willages of Congress
and Rowesburg. In Congress every
pane of glass facing north and west,
unprot ed by blinds, was broken by
the ones, ranged in size
froma peato a gg, and fell to
the depth of eight 1 the level,
Entire orchards and i of oak
timber were blown down or twisted to
the ground, Many houses, barns and
outbuildings were unr or blown
down,
The hallstores were so large and fell
Sunday after-
damage was done
wifed
roofs covered with oak shingle At
Howesburg |
from 8to 12 luches on the level and
drifted to the depth of 32 inches. Huu
dreds of sheep wera kil by the hail
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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34.
all fell to the
1 18
into the i
Shamokin, Pa., was continu
19th, Six men, who went
shaft to ascertain the condil
750 foot level, were
vy gas, and it was wit!
were resuscitated.
he viewnity of the
have vacated their
an explosion,
the bodi
Of
WOK
vurning
nearly s
A despatch, from Cas
that Captain Melvern Grindle an
brother, Frederick, were drowned
the 128: by the capsizing of their |
off Rkndy Point, while golog from
Petiobscot to thelr vessel,
aries Eberhard, John Carr, |
Ham Davis, Mrs. Eberhard an
Carr were golng home from
Jbicago on evening
and as they walked
Pete Devitt, a notorious ** gh,”
on the
mon
the
¢
L Was
opposite » of the street, and
suiting remark
’
[es
made som al
singers, whi
words across
finally dared 3
dis of ti The
thelr ladies and accepted t
Devitt at drew a jon
be gan gl;
them
ones
thrust ti
and til
inches,
side an
wis arrested,
erhard’s breast
8 groin for
Lbed Carr in tl
neck, Devitt
» i rit
ob and killed
salelgh, North arolina,
ig of the lieth. Ti
-— Lamuel Bry
Dear
even
vi Yee
on ie
8 OF ¥ 1Terso
with him was a man Bob Pul-
ley, who fled when was fired,
and says he does not know who did the
shooting. Bryan was found dead the
next morning with a bullet through his
heart.
- Harmon J, Kneeland, a well Known
attorney iu Binghamton, New York,cut
bis throat with a razor on the 20th. On
8 pane of glass in one of the windows
in his room be had written the words,
“1 am ionocent,” in blood. A few
months ugo Dudky T. Finch was
thrown from au Erle train pear this
piace and killed. Kueeland, who was
on the train at the time, wus deeply af
fected, and never fully recovered from
the shock. His conduct on the 19th
was somewhat strange, and it is believ-
ed that he wasslightly deranged, Knee-
land will probably recover,
~ Mr, Collin, of the firm of Collin &
Kilpatrick, contractors, wis shot anc
killed near Ploche, Nevada, recently
employed by Collin quit
their money, Col
i
i
i nated
the shot
—Charles Meredith, aged 13 years, el-
evator boy at the Leland Hotel, in Har-
risburg, was crushed to death on the
evening of the 19th by being caught be-
tween the elevator and the doorway on
the fifth floor.
-W. H. Shaw, a contractor In
Wentworth, New Hampshire, got
drunk on the evening of the 19th, and
attacked Mell J. Emory, 22 years of
age. He knocked him down and then
kicked him twice in the head, Emory
did not live over 10 minutes, Edward
Fladung shot and killed his wife in
San Francisco on the evening of the
10th, and then shot himself. The
wound is fatal, His wife had left him
on account of a domestic quarrel, Miss
Florence MeKeogh, while out horse-
back riding near Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, on the 19th, was fired upon from
ambush, one of the shots passing
through the back part of her body be-
bind the shoulders, Her right arm is
paralyzed and she can hardly speak.
The would-be assassin is still at large.
~Two policemen In Boston went to
a& bouse on the 20ib, to search for
stolen property. Their ring at the
door was responded to by a man sup-
posed to be William Grossman, who,
upon learning the errand of the officers,
placed a revolver to his head and blew
out his brains. In his pockets were
found 24 bank books. not one repre-
senting less than $800, On the 17th, a
plumber cleaning the drain pipe in the
bath room found 42 gold and silver
watches, which he turned over to Me-
Donald, the lodging house keeper, who
said ous of his lodgers dealt in
jewelry, On the morning of the
20th, the plumber told the police, with
the above result, Grossman left his
room only at night, and the officers say
he was a burglar,
-In & runaway accident at Plain
fleld, New Jersey, on the 20th, Miss |
Marion Dumont and Miss Mollie Law- |
rence were thrown out and badly in- |
jured, the latter, it is feared, fatally.
-A despatch from Kirkwood, Dela. |
ware, says that a freight trsun on the |
Delaware Rallroad plunged through a |
drawbridge over th Delaware and
Chesapeake Cangl on the evening of
the 10th. The engine and seven cars
went over, The engine fell fully sixty |
feet on top of several canal boats, two
of which were sunk. No one was
hurt,
tha
~ By the breaking of an emery wheel
at McCormick's reaper works, in Chi- |
cago, on the morning of the 20th, one |
man was Killed and three others were |
badly ivjured. |
Minglewood mine st North |
Lawrence, seven miles west
lon, Ohio, 18 on fire.
|
wee § 11S
FA
of Massi.
branch of
~~ A landslide of
the Bi
on the east
iitimore aud Ohlo Raliroad,
Confluence, Pa., on the evening of
ly, CiuTied away a portion of
kK and delayed trains for some time.
Near
the
+3
ie
-A despateh from BSlockton
t
:
says that the warm
ater in the Sac
tony aril #1)
rivers, and th
alsed the w
Sin Joaquin
great danger,
have occurred,
of grain The
gher than ever
eral breaks occurred on the
Union levees,
acres, half of which is in
Moxie dam, at the
Pond, near ti
river, lu
The
the breaking
CRUSH A T1086 {
‘
nehos tefore,
fot
island
Wilkes
Watley
2ist, and |
. lowlands on
the river were inundated.
river at
t above low
of the 21st
usquehanna
1 {ea
p vening
The the
tL wreck occurred at Eliza-
'a., or
resulting |
A oona,
the 20th,
nt of |}
4
Hn 7 cars and an en
Engineer Boyd was killed,
Hauser and Olmine and
Baker were injured. The |
was caased by the east -bound |
train crashing Into the west-bound |
freight as the latter was crossing
awiteh from one track to ane!
other, Travel was delayed nearly!
nine hours by the disaster. Six,
washouts were reported on the |
Upper Coos Rallroad, New Hamp- |
shire on the 20th, A wiecking run
that started out to make repairs went |
through an undermined bridge near
Stratford and two wen were killed, A
construction train on the Lake Erie
ratiroad ran into a freight train at Ale.
quippa, Pa., on the 2ist. Thomas
Rogers, an engineer, was killed, and a
conductor and brakeman were badly
hurt. A landslide occurred on the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad at
Douglass, New York,on the evening of
the 20th, and & freight train ran into
it, The engine and eight cars were
wrecked.
~ David Ransey shot his wife in the
neck in New York on the morning of
the 226. The doctors say she will re-
cover. They were not living together,
and Ransey went to the house where
fils wife was boarding and admis
sion by telling the that the
-
ax.
ee,
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4
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Hrakenen
i
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"Ireman
welden!
thie
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a
wah $hot and Kind on the 294, at od
iyniby Priva J 8,
trom u
—Five men, Austrians and Italians
were killed by a fall of rock in one of
the shafts of the Calumet and Hecla
mine, at Calumet, Michigan, on the
21st. Two trains on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad col-
lided near Deadham, Iowa, on the
evening of the 21st. Fireman H. C,
Duvis was kided, A hmited train
from Chicago, on the Chicago and
Alton road, near Kansas City, on the
Chicago and Alton road, was run Into
by a freight train, near Kansas City, on
the morning of the 22d. A sleeper and a
dining car were demolished, but only
three of the occupants were ipjured,
and these not severely.
~The water in the Susquehanna river
at Wilkesbarre, Pa., is rising. On the
evening of the 22d it was 10 feet above
low-water mark, Great damage has
been done to crops on the west s.de of
the river, which in many places for
three miles square is under water,
--A panic was caused in a public
school in Burlington, Iowa, on the 21st,
by & mad dog, which ran up the steps
and Into the hall of the building where
the children were congregated, The
scholars fled to their rooms and the
doors were shut by the teachers. The
dog roamed up and down the hall utter-
ing horrible yelps, and holding the
frightened inmates of the bullding at
bay for half an hour, when their cries
attracted the attention of a butcher in
the neighborhood, who came and killed
the animal,
~A despateh from Boston says that
Clarence F. Jewett, President of the
C. F. Jewett Publishing Company,
has disappeared, and that crooked
transactions in the matter of an over-
issue of stock, in the neighborhood of
blst CONGRESS,~~rirst Feseion
SENATE.
In the United States Senate on the |
19th, the Naval Appropriation bill was |
reported, The Silver bill was
cussed by Messrs, Dolph, Teller
Mitchell, After an executive
the Senate adjourned,
United States Senate on the
20th Mr, Ingalls, by request
Wage Workers’ Polit Alliance of
Washington, intr H a
mon
all responsibility
introduce
dis. |
Ahn i
i
session |
In the
of the |
ieal
winced a bill *“to
¥." He dis
for it. Mr.
ad & bill ORNS Of
The bill itp
the laws of the several
Mr. Cameron's resolu |
tions of respect to the memory of
Kelley were After sul
by several S the
were adopted and the
journed,
in the
ie ice-2
lalmed
Stanford
or ble |
’ .
fas : ? * vy bid .
IALLE, WwW Buljed t
ilquors to glales |
Judge
Judge |
taken up.
senators,
Senate
U. 8B Senate or
pi
Sergeant
3 ‘real fent
signution of
day, to take effect on the 3
Silver ull and
L were
tt
wad
bills od 1s
Lak On the 91
wilted from
pres
r
wnmitiee
i pie, the
was ordered, after a few amend.
ments bad been adopted, the bili was
passed by astrict party vole, only one
Republican, Mr, Coleman, of Louis.
ans, voliug against 5. The Speaker
appointed a conference committee on
the Anti-Trust bill, and the House ad-
journed,
in the House, on the 224. a bill was
passed amendatory of the Census act,
which punishes any supervisor orennm-
erator who shall receive any compensa.
tion in addition to that provided Ly the
Conferences were ordared on the
Army and Military Aeademy Appropri-
ation bills, A bill was passed appro-
priating $90,000 to supply a deficiency
iu the appropriation for public print
ing. Mr. Qulun, of New York, intro-
reducing to one cent an
question
and,
les of 100,000 population or over.
journed,
Aq-
I 5105. A AA
A Handsome Clook.
Hn
One of the most beautiful and costly
clocks ever made was sent many years
ago by the East India Company as a
gift to the Emperor of China, The
case was made in the form of a chariot,
in which was seated the figure of a
woman, with her nght hand resting on
thetop of a tiny clock, which wus
in the side of the carriage. Some
of the wheels that ved
A MUBICIAN'S ROMANCE,
How a Diplomatic Young Man Se-
ured a Start in Life ss a Teacher
Diplomacy is a great quality,’ sald a
friend who formerly lived in a very
smell Ohlo town. “A man can do
nearly everything by the proper use of
diplomacy except to roba bank. I was
just reading something about a volun
teer organist that eet me thinking
about a neat little bit of diplomacy that
lifted a good man from misfortune’s
ditch and pus him in the way of doing
something for himself, He was a mu-
siclan with a small traveling show
which came along and went to pleces
in our town. The other people of the
company got out of town by hook or
crook, but this poor fellow couldn't
make it. He got acquainted with sey.
eral young fellows of the town, however,
and to one of these he confided that he
would make a living by teaching music
if he could only get a start,
“The young fellow asked him what
he could play, and he sald he could
play all the kinds of horns in
a band, the banjo, guitar, zither, violin,
flute, plano and organ—in fact he could
play any kind of musicai instrument
ever made,
“Then an idea struck him, and he
asked what kind of organists they had
in the two churches. Ths young fel-
low said they were pretty good; his
Bister was one of them,
scheme formed its:lf in
mind, He told his friend that
could get a chance to
next Sunday he thought he could sur.
Thereupon a
t)
He
fal
suggested that the young fell
1
£
hie case to his sister and have her
“de 3 stidday y ¥
Bick the next Sunday and send
wy, and suggesting
**This was all carried out
form, and when the t
at $1 feet
as the jittle
{
started off witt
id
ing phases, 59
congregation
were so
Know
rau
sand was caught,
whose name was Gray,
He
Ww
@ of them
me of the men,
took the fawn bome and kept him,
#000 got quite tame, and would go
Lis master when called,
As soon as was fully grown, a
harness was made for him, and he was
taught to draw a buggy like a horse,
It was a curious might to see Mr. Gray
riding through the streets of the vil
lage in & carriage drawn by sucha
queer-looking horse, It not only at-
tracted the attention of the people, but
the horses, as they passed, would look
very shyly at the deer’s long horns
Some of them were frightened, Mr,
Gray had two children, a boy anda
girl, who learned to drive the deer, and
who grew to be very fond of him.
One night the people were awakenad
from their sleep by the cry of “Fire!
fire!" and the nnging of bells all over
the village, The fire proved to be in
Mr. Gray’s stable, and had burned so
much before it was seen that it could
tot be put out.
The poor deer was tied in the stable;
he could pot get away, and was burn-
ed fo ashes in the flames, The child-
ren mourned over their loss for » long
time. Every one felt sorry, for the
tame deer was well known ail over the
Yiliage, and had become a great favor
e
he
————— :
Stingy When Writing.
It is a strange fact that most women
are niggardly with their stationery.
They may entertain their friends sump.
tuously, and wear the costliest raiment.
Browning.
The clears t eyes in all the world hey read
With sense more keen and spirit of sight
more true
mah burns and thrills in sunrise, when the
aw
Flames, and absorbs the glory round it shed,
As they tha light of ages quirk and desd,
Clossd now; forsake us: yet the shaft that
Blew
Can slay not one of all the works we knew,
Hor death discrown that many-laurelled head,
The works of words whose life seems lightning
wrought,
And mouided of unconquerable thought,
And quickened with imperishable flame,
Bland fast and shine and smile, assured that
nought
May fade of all their myriad moulded fame,
Nor England's memory ciasp not Browning's
name,
— Algernon Charles Bwinburne,
I A>
SEACLIFFE COTTAGE.
THE
The owner of a cottage at Seacliffe,
on the lake shore, being called to Europe
by business, would leave his premises
in charge of a reliable party, who, by
caring for the property, can obtain it,
rent free until the owner's return in
three months, Dest of reference given
and required. Address for one week,
A. 'W,, Beaciiffe P+ O.
“Just the thing! Oh, Winnie, Irene!
Just the thing! The fates are propi-
tious! Dolisten!”
And Bertha Langdon rushed into the
room where her two elder sisters sat
work,
paper in her hand with all
a child; then threwing herself upon an
aioud the
attracted
lanced up, quite
ottoman, began to read
vertisement whicl
attention. Her sisters
interested,
ETT
here may be something doubtful
an the family lawyer
rvamt 3
Pas, i
hen Lhey
als ¢ & ¥» »
ntial; and since
he had main-
a A vw » yy :
BRAVISEL ana
sisters,
Orphan
TPaAn
va
¥ .
was twenty-fi
arthaof the
herself
family
by ti
Was a born
aural
YOWERIQ
3 sale of her
ier share
+} rears
cli & RoOd-
d BH med of,
3
HeeonCamp
dpporiant
T% 1.4 tar Tao .
ibe oid gentleman read
“My dear Miss Winnie,” he said, In
his slow, decisl no
sible objection to your taking the place
provided yi already too late, 1
bappen to know the owner of t
cottage there on the beach, and those
are his intitials *A4, W.?
my child, Of course I'll drop hum a
line to introduce you and smooth out all
*"
ve way, “1 see pos
®
4 Ae Nos
possible difficulties,
So he procesded to write the letter,
while Winnie hurried home,
The reply to said
quite
letter (adl-
stating that all was satisfactory, gave
The trunks were soon packed, and the
too happy and care-free for anything.
they were almost sorry when the train
halted at Seacliffe; they had never been
there before; but “there wasn't but one
cottage on the beech,” Mr. Jones had
assured them, and leaving their trunksat
the station, they took their small hand-
bag and prepared to walk. In a short
time they encountered an old negro who
pleaded for the privilege of carrying the
valises, They were glad to relinquish
them, and the party trudged onward,
All at once it occurred to Winnie that
they had not ascertained the name of
dicament, surely. She stated the case
to the old negro, who stared at her
blankly.
“Don’t know nuffin’ "bout no cottage,
missy’ he answered ‘“‘less its Abner
Weeks place; dat are’s on de beach for
a fac’?
_ “Abner Weeks," cried Winnle, “0
yes, that must be the place, for the ini-
tals are A, W, Is it far?”
The negro grinned.
“No. missy, "taint so far,” he Bne
ewered, ‘but "pears to me you ain't a
Juot with her colored
The negro halted, at last,
ruinous old red house, with a broken
porch and a straggling China tres in
front, A group of hens were scratech~
ing industrion='" ina heap of refuse
near by; two ean craggy porkers were
breaking the ¢.euing silence with their
horrible squealings, and a fat negress
sat in the open door, leisurely smoking
a cob pipe,
“*Dat are’s de place,” chuckled the
negro, triumphantly,
“Great heavens!” ejaculated Winnie,
aghast, “Surely their is some mis
take!”
**Dis yere am de place, suah, missy,”
repeated the man, I take dese
yere tings inside? Dere's Aunt Deb in
de door.”
The sisters stood staring blankly st
each other,
“We've got to sleep tiere to-night
panted Winnle, angrily, “and if I get
back to New Orleans alive I'll tell Mr
Jones what I think of him. The ides
of sending us tosuch a place.”
They passed through the broken
gateway, the fat negress arose and exe.
cuted a profound salaam, while the
negro explained the situation. It seemed
to pleass Ler wonderfully,
“Shall
“Done rent dis yere place, eh?" she
cried, with an unctuous “yah! yah!” her
mouth distended to its full extent, her
teeth gleaming
&
like ivory.
“Abner Weeks is smarter an’
dan ebber I seed him, to
| off’n his hands, He is
| "long 0’ Massa Waldron, g
pearter
dis place
for suah
be a
law suit ober de water,
git
BOs
ns to
witness in a big
But come Jadles, walk right in:
| Deb will do
Aunt
another
5 } ; "
de best of my
de bonors'’{with
profound salaam) *
debility.”
Bertha burst int #
was always discovering funny
| the darkest landscape.
will be no end
ried. “Let us stay a day o
rill ty of
x7
1 0U mis
Sif tiela
Cxiris, it
pie
nd negress turned
int? Lawd!
‘shamed? Does vou sane
Laine r Does You spec
» Lo paintin’ in her ole day
-10 paint nor powder goes or
s Lawd He made
li 8tay.
prepare,
» sisters ¢
2] ke, The
and early, they
beach, and soon came upon
ghifal piace, A large ralsed
surrounded
¥ parler
like a marble structure,
a green lawn dotled with ga
a cottage with bay windows
i improvements,”
place!” cried
“How I should lik
the mo
“What a
thusiastic Bertha,
to live there.”
A footfall made her start. She turned
| to see a gentleman standing vear; a tall,
handsome man, with a pair of saucy,
dark eyes fixed upon her. He removed
his hat with a courtly bow.
5 vy
ern
lovely
“*The Misses Langdon, I am sure!”
‘he sald, *‘I am Arthur Waldron, and
this is my cottage. I suppose you have
just arrived, and wish possession at
I leave here in a few hours; you
can make yourself at home immediately,
Truth to tell, I expected you yesterday.
Mr, Jones’ letter mentioned that you
{ would probably arrive on the evening
train, and I sent the carriage to the
| station for you.”
The whole situation was at ex~
| plained, Abner Weeks, the proprietor
of the old house below, was to accom-
pany Mr, Waldron to Europe as wit.
ness in a certain lawsuit, and his inl
tinls being the same as Mr, Waldron's
the Jadies had made a slight mistake,
In a short time they were snugly
domiciled at the Waldron place, and
the long summer days passed like a
dream, bringing the vacation to a close.
Mr, Waldron came home on the same
day, and when they parted he promised
to call upon Bertha at their eity lodg-
ings,
When I was “over the lake” last
summer I visited my old friend Bertha
once,
last