THE STORM. CROPS AND FRUIT DAMAGED BY HAIL. SEVERAL DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING. SsouTHn BeruLeneyM, Pa, July 17.— At 4 o'clock this afternoon a cyclone swept over Hellertown, five miles from here, attended with loss of life. It swept down the Lebigh Valley Rall- ro.d, uprooting trees and demolishing telegraph wires for two miles between here and Allentowr., At Gessinger's Gap, in the Lehigh Mountains, it took a southeasterly direction, sweeping the NSoucon Valley, striking the lower part of Hellertown. It demolished the new Agricultural Works, in which 16 men were em- ployed. John Freeman, aged 16, was instantly killed; Willlam Barba, bip badly cut and injured Internally; Sam- uel Soliday, Jr., head crushed and arm crushed; Frank Boderer incised wound of head; Sumuel Soliday, Sr., seriously cut about the head; Charles Soliday, cut and bruised In various parts of body: Hairy Kline, hands and arms cut, Willlam Reilly, various cuts in the head. The men saw the storm coming and ran from the building as the walls were blown down. Young Freeman was found buried in the debiis,” Throughout the whole lower section of the town, Over an area of half a mile, houses were unroofed, bares blown down and church steeples demolished. The roof of the Agricul- tural Works was blown 400 yards over several high buildings, The damage is estimated at $25,000, The storm only lasted ten minutes, and was Lhe sever- ast ever experienced in th's section. TRENTON, N. J., July 17.—A most disastrous thunder and hail storm pass- ed over this city this afternoon on Its way down the Delaware. Hailstones fell as large as pigeons eggs, breaking many windows and smashing showcas- es and stripping the foliage trom Llrees and plants, The wind attained a fear- ful velocity, suappiog off large trees and unroofing houses and factories. Lewis Schlegel and Michael Corco- ren were in a boat on the river, fishing, and when the storm came up they went ashore and sought shelter under a tree. The lightning struck the tree, which acled as a conductor, carrying tue deadly current to the two men and killing them. Reapixa, Pe, July 17.—A severe rain storm passed over this section this evening. All day it was sultry and op- pressive, with the thermometer ranging from 80 to 95 degrees, Towards even- ing the atmosphere became closer still, until finally at 5.15, there was a heavy rainfall. The skies then began to clear, but an hour later became over- cast agaip, when there was a fearful ranfall. The water came down in torrents, apd was driven along the streets by a strong wind, Lightning struck the barn of George EK. Spatz this eveniog, near Boyertown, this county, and completely destroyed it, with this year's crops. Loss on building, $2100; partially Insured; loss sn gerain and farming Implements, $2500, PorrstowN, Pa, July 17.—Two heavy storms swept over this part of the Schuylkill Valley this evening, one at 5 and the other at 7 o'clock. The first was accompanied by flash after flash of lightning and (tremendous thunder claps, There was also a brisk fall of hail, The second was a furious gust of wind and rain and one of the most vivid and grand displays of lightning with terrific thunder ever known here, Trees, telegraph poles and wires were damaged. A frame barn on North Charlotte street, belonging to John E. Strunk, was burnrd, There are re- ports of other barns being struck. BristoL, Pa,, July 17,—The steamer Columbia on ber 6 o'clock trip up from the city to Bristol tbls evening, en- countered the storm near Five Mile Point. All the awnings on the upp decks were carned away and a large portion of faucy colored glass in th upper saloon was demolished, also the glass In the pilot house, The wind keeled the boat over the guards, The passengers were terribly frightened, but Captain Edwards and his officers and erew pacified them until the storm abated when the Columbia arrived at Bristol. A barn a few miles from Bristol wa struck by lightning and destroyed. NoreistowxN, Pa., July 17.—A phe pominal rain and hail storm visite Nornstown this evening, coming from the west, The storm was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and began in all its fury about 10 minutes afte: 6. The wind was violent and blew a steady gale. Within 10 minutes the streets in many places were running streams, and numerous sidewalks were submerged in several inches of water. The downpour coutinued for sbout 20 minutes, and was probably the heaviest ever witnessed, Halli fell for about ten minutes In a perfect fusiiade and for un hour after- wards small piles of icy pellets could be seen lying in angles formed by wall: and other places where they had been swept by the wind. Tbe hailstones generally were about the sizes of smal bickory nuts, but many were picked up from an inch tan inch and a quarter in diameter, Fruit and leaves were Siripped from trees, and blooming beds the country are to the «feet that the pats and corn were seriously damaged, AHLAND, Pa. July 17.— This town was visited this evening by a rain and hall storm, the like of which Las never been seen here before, Hallstones the size of hens of ge ful) and broke every window on the north side of every building in town, The storm struck bere from the north and directly tothe south % ing in its path, ouses were unroofed and fruit crops in the farming villages were entirely destroy. Tne loss to property holders at this place and iu the vicinity will ex- ceed $30 000. LANSDA Pa., July 17.--About 7.20 this evening a terrible thunder and hall storm prered is borough tions. Passengers from Bathlehem say they noticed four fires between that place and this borough. It is thought that the morning will bring news of great destruction of property all along the line, ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 17.—8hortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon this city and vicinity were visited by a cyclone, or something very nearly approaching it, and for about half an hour the wind, rain, thunder and lightning played ter- rible havoe, The day had been in- tensely hot and the humidity was ex- ceedingly oppressive, About 3 o'clock there cane rumblings of a storm, but no ove anticipated the nature of what wus in store, The wind played verrible bavoc. Fuily 50 houses in course of erection were leveled or partly leveled, and In every direction houses were umnrcofed and the interiors flooded, doing great damage "0 furniture, carpets, ete. In the height of the storm the tall brick- stack of the Barbour Thread Mill, 227 leet hugh, with one exception the tall. est lu the State, came crashing down, In its descent 1t struck the engine house and knocked a large corner out of it. The loss here alone is $10,000, Work In the extensive mill 18 necessarily sus- pended indefinitely, and 600 operatives are out of employment. Wuile the storm was raging a panic seized the female operatives, who left their looms and sought safety in the open alr, The mill itself mas not damaged, nor was it fu danger, The roof was blown off the large furniture works of C. A. Dorney & Co., and the rain damaged a great deal of furniture in various stages of manufacture, The loss to this firm 1s about $4000, in the most desirable residence portion of the cily, the storm was specially destructive. Tae roofs of a biock of seven across the street, and in their descent large trees caught by the tin off as with an axe, The occupsnts of the houses suffer heavy loss, and the rain, which fell later in the evening, added to thelr misery. PHILADELPHIA, July extreme heat of yesterday was mate rially modified last evening by the storm which passed over Philadelphia and the surrounding country. by accompanied lightning. rain, over Port Hichmond, and before it ceases it had done cousiderable dam- age to property. It is said by the resi. 80 strong thal large trees were snapped off as though they were pipestems. Large hailstones fell breaking dreds of windows In the houses and factories, 18 large as hens’ eggs, (rezen together.” gap falling the pedestrians streets ran for shelter, and on gong to have a repetition of the whirl- wind which swept over that section several years ago. The damage along the river front was great, A pertion of the roof of the Secoud aud 1bird Slreet Passenger Hallway depot, at Richmond street and Alle- gheny Avenue, was blown off. In falliog the root struck one of the horses attached to a Bridesburg car, which was leaving the depot, instantly. The animal when struck fell across its wate, which saved Lhe latter's life. falling and ran iuto the car, entire front part of the car was torn Away. 51st CONGRESS.---First Session. DENATE, In the United States Senate on the 15th, Mr, Sherman, from the Finance Committee, reported a substitue for nis bill to reduce the amount of United States bonds required to be deposited by national banks, and it was placed a the Calendar. The Sundry Civil bill was considered, pending which the senate adjourned. In the U, 8. Senate on the 16th, Mr. Pasco offered a resolution, which was referred, calling on the Secretary of state for information regarding the arrest of A. J. Diaz in Havana, Bills were introduced by Mr. Teller, giving a pension of $2000 a year to Mrs, Jes. sie Freemont, and by Mr, Sawyer, to establish a limited postal wrvice, The Indian Appropriation bill was reported. Toe Sundry Civil was considered, pending which the Senate adjourned. In the United States Senate on the 17th, the Sundry Civil bill was dis- cussed, but no progress was made, Mr, Allison offered a resolution, on which he sald he would not ask immediate action, Jimiting debate on amendments to appropriation bills to five minutes for each Senator, the question on such motions to be determined without de- bate, He sald such resolutions had frequently been adopted by the Senate, After an executive session the Senate adjourned, House, In the House on the 156th, the bill 8 {ating $636,180 for additional clerks under the ndent Pensions act was considered Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed, Adjourned, In the House on the 16th, the Land Grand Forfeiture bill was discussed. A conference report on a bridge bill was ted, and Mr. Rogers, of after waiting until 7 To Sareds que. rum, an adjournment was agreed to, In the House on the 17th, the Land Grant Forfeiture bill was passed, Ade journed, A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. A POWDER WORKS AND CARTRIDGE FACTORY DESTROYED. TEN PERBONS KILLED AND THIRTY WOUNDED, CINCINNATI, July 15.—A terrible explosion occurred late this afternoon at King's Powder Mills, on the Little Miami Railroad, 29 miles east of this city. Six persons were killed and a dozen or more seriously injured, Two empty freight cars were being rolled onto a side track where a car containing 500 kegs of gunpower was standing, As the car struck there was a terrific explo- sion, and immediately afterward another car, containing 800 kegs of gun powder, exploded, making 1300 kegs aitogether. Wm. Frauly, a brakeman in the ser- vice of the Little Miami, was standing on one of the empty cars when the ex- plosion occurred, His body must have been blown to atoms, although no trace of iL has yet been found. Five other persons, supposed to be employes of the powder company, were Killed, The King Powder Company and the Peters Cartridge Works have works on both sides of the river along the rail. road, The explosion occurred on the south side, and the destruction was enormous, There ure a number of cot- tages occupied by workmen mm the | powder factory, and situated close to {the track. These were shattered by | the explosion and their inmates In- {jured, Twelve or {fifteen girls at | work in the cartridge factory were | erippled by the explosion. The railway station or the freight house belonging to the Little Miami Railroad, together with all the adja- | cent buildings, were set on fire and | totally consumed, The bavoe wrought | by the explosion of the 16 tons of powder is dreadful. The track and vies of the raiiroad are fairly torn out lof the ground and a great hole ploughed in the ground, The Peters | Cartridge Factory was burned to the | ground. Nothing but a mass of black- ened, smouldering ruins remains to | mark the spot where the bulldings stood, {i About thirty girls are thought to have been at work in the factory at the time the explosion took place, and a great number of these are thought to | be badly hurt, The latest advices say that 10 per. | sons, mostly railway employes, have been killed and 30 or 40 of the mill employes wounded, A great crowd of 400 or 500 people bas gathered at the scene and are assisting in fighting the fence fires. The excitement at the place is so | intense that even it is difficult to obtain 'any names of killed or wounded or definite Information of any sort, TERRIBLE DISASTER. LOSS OF LIFE AT LAKE CITY, MINN, ESTIMATED AT FROM 100 TO 200. EXCURSION STEAMER CAPSIZED BY A CYCLONE, will probably prove to be the most dis- astrous cyclone that has ever struck this community passed over this city at @ o'clock this evening, causing the loss of perhaps 100 or 200 lives and damag- ing property to an extent that at this writing cannot be estimated. AL the | hour mentioned what appeared to be | an ordinary electric storm was noticed {| coming up from the West, In haf ap hour the whole heavens was converted into a canopy of lightning, which was watched with mingled Interest and | fear. { In balf an hour the worst of the hur- | ricane had passed, but it soon became | known that an excarsion boat with 150 | people on board bad been capsized in | the middle of the lake. The boat was | the steamer Seawing which came down i the lake from Diamond Blaff, a small { place about seventeen miles North of | here, on an excursion 0 the encamp- i ment of the 1st Regiment N. G., 5S. | M., which is belng held a mile below {this city. The steamer started back ! on the homeward trip about 8 o'clock, {and although thers were signs of an | approaching storm it was not consid. iered in any way serious and no dan- {ger was anticipated, The boat was i crowded to its fullest capacity, about {150 men, women and children from | Hed Wing and Diamond Bluff being lon board, and about fifty people ion a barge which was attached to the | steamer, When about opposite Lake | City the boat began to feel the effects | of the storm, but the officers kept on | the way, while the storm increased as | the boat continued up the lake and in {15 minutes was at its height nearing Central Point, about two miles above Lake City. The steamer was at the mercy of the waves, which were now washing over the boai, and all was confusion. The boat momentarily ran on {0 a bar and the barge was cut loose and the steamer again set adrift. A number of those on the barge jumped and swam ashore, As the barge was floated again into the deep water, those on the barge saw the steamer as it was carried helplessly out into the middie of the lake and as they were being tossed about on the moment later to see the steamer cap size and its cargo of 150 precipi tated into the lake, ose on the barge remained there until they were drifted nearer the shore, and swam ! 1 { NEWS OF THE WEEK. ~Thomas Martin, John McNulty and John McDonald, miners at Pitts- ton, Pa,, were arrested, on the 14th, for the murder of James Hughes, of Oregon, A few days ago Hughes was waylald and brutally beaten by the three men above mentioned, who were, at the time, arrested and released upon $5000 bail each. Hughes lingered until the 12th, when he died. Perry Com- stock, a farmer, aged 60 years, shot and killed his 20-year-old wife at their home, near Owasso, Michigan, on the evening of the 15th, and then killed bimself. A constable and posse went to Hazard, Kentucky, Iu search of Buck and Zach Fugate, two despera- does, They had a conflict with their band in the mountains, and the con- stable and one of the posse were killed and two others wounded, but Buck Juate was captured and lodged In all, — A car centalning eight miners jump- ed the track on the Kelhey Run Coll- lery slope at Shenandoah, Penna., on the morning of the 14th, Louis Hilde- brandt was killed and four others were injured, James DD, Ward, a drover, lately living in Chicago, was thrown from a freight train near Wilmer, Penna., on the morning of the 14th, and was 50 badly hurt that he died na short time. He was on his way to Philadelphia. Two trains collided near Madisonville, Ohio, on the 13th, Five of the train hands were Injured, but pone fatally, A passenger traln on Lhe James River Division of the Cinclunati and Ohio Rallroad ran into a freight train at Gladstone, Virginia, on the 18th, W, B. Holt, fireman, and an unknown pegro tramp were killed and four others were injured. —~ John Roth died in the county asy- lum at Galena, Illinois, on the 14th, baving passed his 60th day of total ab- stinence from food of any kind or nourishment, except a slight quantity of water, which was forced into his mouth every 24 hours, He was at. tacked by progressive paralysis two months ago. was accidentally shot and killed, The rifles, Auric Dunlap, aged 12 years, boys were shooting birds with John McCarteen was killed and An- thony O'Boyle was fatally injured on the 15th at Waddell’s colliery, in Lau- gerne borough, Pe. They were at the foot of the slope and were struck by runaway cars, Hugo Blindsee, aged 50 years, and his two sone— Hugo, aged 6, and Max, aged 12 vears— were struck by & train at a street crossing in Chl. cago, on the evening of the 14th, and fatally injured. the guard gates penned tracks In front of an train. Bernard Clifford, a wealthy farmer of Lagrange, Kentucky, was struck and killed by lightning on the 13th, -On the morning of the 16th was discovered Works in Marysville, California, and bad been extinguished the remains of George Ball, manager the works, were found thems on the approaching straw at the back some friends from whom he parted about half an hour before, Ball had evidently been murdered, as his head piece of gas pipe. had been ried bad been set to the bullding, Joseph Griffin, a farmer pesr Dyersburg, Ten- nesses, shot and killed a man named Legett on the evening of Legett iosulted Griftin's daughter. Henry Hall, a teamster in Omaha, Ne- braska, on the 16th, shot and killed : ing a fatal wound, They reled, A heavy storm passed over the Monongahela Valley on the evening of 15th, At Bellevue Miss Ida was struck by lightning, and, it feared, fatally injured. A and Ohio Rallroad at Finleyville was washed away, Two and oope-fourth from hillsides nto valleys, heavy storm at which five struck by lightning. was instantly killed, fatally shocked. splintered. A farmer was struck by burt. Two freight trains on more and Ohio Railroad collilea Andrew Zubean L. Furr, brakeman, were killed, bitten by a dog in Lowell, Mass., three months ago, died of hydrophobia on the 16th, In Lancaster, D'enna., on the evening of the 16th an overcrowded car on the electric railway got beyond control while ascending a steep hill pear the city and dashed down the bill at a frightful speed. Some of the pas- sengers jumped from the windows, and many women fainted. The ear was stopped at the bottom of the hill withcut any person being fatally ine jured, although a number were badly hurt, James Kelly, aged 10 years, son of Michael Kelly, of Pittston, Penna. was killed while trying to board a coal train at that place on the morning of the 16th. A despatch from Ironwood, MicihaSaye that one of tho most Séeicus occurred about $3 5c Chase the Police had for him After his Escape. An interesting sccount is given by the Johannesburg Star, of South Alrics, of the police chase after Me Keon, the bank robber, whose achievements in the matter of perpetrating robberies, jail and eluding the police entitle him to rank with the no torious Jack Sheppard, and whose re- gard for his clever black horse reminds one of Dick Turpin. In the hurried start after Me Keon when he escaped from the Pretoria jail, says the news- paper in question, the mounted police forgot to take handcuffs with them. Further, McKean had friendsall along the route. He was born in Basutoland, and every Basuto is his fast friend, even to Mama. Consequently when the police inquired along the road of Basu- tos if they had seen two men pass on horseback they invariably said they they had not. MoKeon's love for his famous black horse, now at the mounted police barracks, was extraordinary. The police had to have three remounts be- fore they could run that horse down. Two of the mounted police sighted Mo Keon and Cooper far ahead of them. ‘They spurred on after them, thinking that they would bring the fugutives to halt on the steep bank of the Rhenoster escaping from river. What wos their surprise, when they saw Mc Keon leap his horse down the twenty-foot bank river, swim, across, and Ay however, info the when he saw back, and reaching out pull Cooper's horse down by the bridal and drag him through. 15% rifle and resolved to take a] shot. When McKeon saw the smoke of the gun rise he and his their apart passed between them, One of the polic n had a ong in companions drew and the bullst Shortly after horses his horse on the head. rendered without a word, giving over he was enriching the himself up because he Keon said he knew he would receive stay in jail for eight months, when he would once more say good-by to the authorities, He did not know why they ney Was no crime. ly taken 1 ntly at daybreak the Me Keon has Piaving Heaven. There are three bright little mortals in Maine—6, 4 and 2 years old respec- fond of “playing — who are g all in tively very together, and such a the sternest moralist could not find in his heart to say them nay. One day their mother sent them into Hap- moment to look at her little folks, and erave lines, Close by, arranged one ¥ } below the other, common chair, and stool inst, a sister was dead.” angel, and the “wee bit” on the floor, “being out upon his heaven. It was a toilsome way. Up he mounted the footstool, then the chair; but arriving at the high chair his strength suddenly gave out, first to hesven, in sweet, “Oo tome and det ber, det her way to heaven.” Dod. I tant A” SATIN AUBREY'S FAMOUS RIDE. A Feat That Has Few Parallels In Physical Endurance and Bravery. “I'he greatest physical achievement ever accomplished in thas country,” said John F, Grabam at Glenarm re- cently, ‘‘was the ride of F. X. Aubrey from the plaza of Sante Ye, N. M,, to the public square at Independence, Mo., a distance of nearly 800 miles, throngh a country inhabited by warlike Indians, a large part of which was then a sandy desert.” Being urged to give an account of the great ride, Graham od: “tit was about the year 1851 that Aubrey gave his wonderful test of human en- durance before which all other attempts the kind pale into insignificance. Heo was a short, heavy-set man, 38 yoars of age, in the prime of manhood strength. His business for ten as a Hante Fo trader had made ad se ———— so dertook to ride alone from Senta Fo to Independence inside of six days, It was thirty-nine years ago that Le un Jertook the terrible feat. It was to be the supreme effort of hia life, snd he sent a half dozen of the wwiftest horses ahead to be stationed at different points for use in the ride, He left Banta Fe in a sweeping galley and that was the pace he kept up during nearly every hour of the time until he fell fainting from borse in the quare at Independence. No mar could keep with the rider, and h« would have killed every horse in the West rather than to bave failed in the undertaking. It took him just five days snd nine teen hours to perform the feat, and I cost the lives of several of his bes horses. After being carried into s room at the old hotel at Independence Aubrey lay for forty-eight hours in « dead stupor befor he came to his senses, He would never have recover ed from the shock had it not been fo his wonderful constitution. The feal was unanimously regarded by Westerr men as the greatest strength and endurance ever known or the plains.” “What wards?” was asked. his foam-covered exhibition of became of Aubrey alter “After his ride he became the lion of the West and was and feted al St. Louis as though he had been a con quering hero. at the hand of a day in i854, in altercation with Majo Richard H. Weightman, the great rider was stabbed to the heart and dropped dead in a Fe Wt buried in an unknown grave and all that is remembered of Aubrey is his remarkable ride. Weightman was tried dined He finally met his death One friend. f® Bante BRIO0TN. He scquit- , joining the Confederate army, I ad battle.” — Denver News, - ———— VEGETATION. ORIGIN OF Spinach is a Persian plant. Horse-radish is a native of Engle Melons were found ong Asin, "ilberts originally Juinees« The tu Rome The Sage arope, Sweet marjoram is a native of Porta- i The bean is said to be a native of Damsons originally came from Da- The nasturtium came originally from Peru. The pea is a native of the south of 1 Ginger is a native of the East and The gooseberry is indigenous to Coriander seed came originally from the East. Apricots are indigenous to the plains of America. The encumber was originally a tropi- eal vegetable, The walout is a native of Persia, the Capers originally grew wild in Greece Pears were originally brought from The elove is a native of the Malacca Cherries were known in Asia as far Garlic came to us first from Sicily and the shores of the Mediterrazean. Asparagus was originally a wild sea Britain, The tomato is a native of South America and it takes its name frome Portuguese word. Parsley is said to have come from Egypt, and mythology tells us it was used to adorn the head of Hercules Apples were originally brought from the East by the Romans. The crab The onion was almost an object of worship with the Egyptians 2,000 years | before the Christian era. 1t first came rom India | Cloves came to us from the Indies, | and take their name from the Latin | elauvus, meaning a nail, to which they | have a resemblance. | ‘Ihe cantaloupe is a native of Amerios, and so called from the name of a place near Rome where it was first caltivated | in Europe. Lemons were used by the Romans to | keep moths frem their garments, and | 1n the time of Pliny they were consid: {ered an excellent poison. They are | natives of Asia, Hold Fast, Boys. Hold on to your tongue when yoo are just ready to swear, lic or speak harshly, or use an improper word. Hold on to your hand when you are about to punch, strike, scrateh, steal or do any improper act, old om to your foot when you are i error, shame or Hold on to your temper when you are imposed
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