J 5 C—O Ys SE. AAAS IN w, President of the New York Cen and Hudson River Railroad, says that there are 750,000 voters in the service of the railroads of the United States. The large immigration of Hungarians to this country at the present time is said to be owing to the brutal manner in which they are treated by the nobility in their native country. A singular cause of bankruptey was recently alleged by an Australian firm of graziers—a scourge of The insects had so completely devastated the land that the owners became in- solvent. grasshoppers A Mormon elder says the religious Mormons are steadily drifting out of Utsh toward Mexico, where they can live up to the full requirements of their faith, and that altogether fully 10,000 will eventually leave the Territory. Switzerland wants a naval flag. As | : | ment, the ensign would at first sight seem rather country has no seaboard such an useless, but it is needed to protect Swiss | The Federal Council | property abroad. are now considering the subject. W. K. Vanderbilt's steam yacht Alva, which is easily the handsomest and most perfectly appointed pleasure boat in the world, cost $600,000, and the expens of running her is said to be about £150. 000 a year. The royal yachts of Europe are mere dugouts in ¢ mparison with the Alva. The younger Charles Dickens has mors sense than any great man's son now ing. He has but decided not to publish it becau written a novel, has suffer by comparison with his father. judgment he has some of greatness, Times Demos pro South makes a most encouraging exhibit 1889 The New Orleans annual review of the Tess for the year ended August 31, There has been, it is shown, a steady ad- vance everywhere and in every line of There except in a few isolated sp business, has been no boom. there g, but has been no set-back, no financial dis tress, no business depression to stay the march of improvement. I The total cost of supplying the British man-of-war Hero with ammunition for a commission is estimated by a correspond ent of the London Daily News at be- It about $41 to fire a single shot from one tween 8175.000 and £200,000, COsta of her twelve-inch guns. the The next great world ever is to see New York Tele gram, will be so enormous that the ex naval war, | another, declares the haustion of one or the other party must bring it to a speedy close. Years of con- tinuous warfare, such as England has known, would bankrupt a nation or tax her resources so that the victor would be crippled as well as the vanquished. War- civilized nations, more and more a matter of money rather than of men, and those who hold the money bags dictate peace | | and burn the Or war. What did Mr. Gladstone mean when he said at Paris that America had a right be considered ‘to some to extent, at least, the great organ of the powerful English tonguel” Inquires the Chicage Herald. Mr. Gladstone says many things whereof the me ning is not clear, but in this utterance he appears even more Delphic than usual. is spoken in higher perfection in Ameri. ca than in England he has a long reckon ing to settle with his fellow Englishmen when he returns home: for no opinion is more hateful to Englishmen than that the American “‘patois” is a superior article to the English of England. Perhaps Mr. Gladstone meant simply to grace a pleas. | ant occasion with a pleasant, but not too significant or lucid a speech. If so, it | would not be the first time in his career that he has displayed this amiable desire. | The courts have again dealt a blow at | the effort of certain State legislatures to Place a prohibitory tariff on dressed meat under the claim of required sanitary in- spection within the State's borders, J udge Blodgett, of Illinois, has decided that Bwift & Co., the Chicago dressed beet concern, is entitled to heavy damages for the refusal of its agent in Duluth, Minn. , to perform his contract in marketing the Chicago beef. The Minnesota agent al- leged the State law agninst the selling of beef not inspected before death in the Btate where It was sold; but the court pronounced the law unconstitutional, and awarded the plaintiff $7500 damages. In previous decisions under the new laws the same decision has been arrived at in # different form; suit being by the State against the butcher selling the Some practical means of suppressing dogs in rural neighborhoods would be welcomed by thousands of suburban resi. dents of the big towns. Undoubtedly, a dog is of more or less value in scaring tramps and sneak thieves away from a country house; but exactly why people should be allowed to permit their dogs to roam about their grounds and bark at has The the human race for a dog is de the moon all night long, never been adequately explained, affection of ep seated and general. Every town and village have their quota of mongrel curs and whelps who attack thoroughbred dogs whenever an opportunity offers, and keep things whooping generally all night long. Poisoning them is out of the question ; for, when poisoned meat is strewn around, it is the thoroughbred and valuable dogs who get it, while curs go scot free. | stag is said to be one {ignite like dry grass. If Mr. Gladstone | intended to say that the English language ! Chicago beef. The Commercial Advertiser considers that the case decided by Blodgett is likely to bo the first come up on an appeal before the The national insurance plan which has been completed by the German Reich of the broadest re forms ever undertaken by any Govern By it insurance agninst the most of By the payment of one and a serious evils the working classes is vO cent, of his wages the per is supplied in sickness with ip and he receives ha workman medical endance, and whatever i CRERTY, For complete disable usual wages are death the widow natives for Ex rar planters are Spanish (x0v The n sometimes carry off the planters ng. its who fields, which ripened cane More i ar planter than all local formidable to the Cuban sue disadvantages is the growth of the t root sugar industry Formerly Cuba en joyed a mon po inhabitants y which her hought cou be broken. but they were as bady deceived as the Brazilians, who imagined that they controled the coffee markets of the world The Washington Star considers that ‘ithe revival of the talk sbeut compelling Nevada to retire from the Union on a count of her decadence in population may { be very promptly met by a citation from the first article of the Federal Constitu. It is ‘The not exceed tion, true that the Constitution r says number of representatives shall one for thousand,” but it immediately adds ‘But each State shall have at least one ropresentative.’ be shown by reference to conte mporary literature from the pens of leading ex. pounders of the instrament, was adopted for the purpose of preventing the exer. | cise of any tyranny by the more popu- lous upon the less populous States And, even if there were no proofs on this point, there is distinct provision in the fifth article, that no State shall be de. prived, without ite consent, of its equal suffrage in the Senate. A State, under our system, represented in one house and not in the other, would present a singu- lar spectacle—one evidently not contem- plated by the framers of the federal char. ter. And it may be taken for granted that Nevada would never consent to give | which followed him. up one of the privileges she has enjoyed for a quarter of a century as one of the sisterhood of States. The solution of Novada's problem will be found in the addition to the Btate of parts of the ad. Jacent Territories until a respectable pop- ulation is secured. Mormonism in the land 0 be annexed stands in the way of the immediate application of this method of relief.” every thirty This provision, as oan | i ] i : : FEARFUL EIPLOSIONS, Many Men Killed and Injured in a Powder Mill. Molten Metal Pours Over Work- men at a Foundry, ! be very fond of Americans terested in America, A terrible explosion has taken place at | Laflin & Rand's powder works at Beoksville, { | Penn, resulting in the instant and Lorrible | { death of three men and the injuring of six | i others, | The concussion of the explosion was felt | { ive miles away. Four buildings wers ut terly demolished and pearly all the glass in | | the village was smashed, | { The men who were killed were all literally | | blown to atoms, and their remains had to be gathered up in bags and baskets. Portions | of the limbs were hurled a hundred yards | | away from the factory. The glazing mill, corning mill, powder | house and another building belonging to the | | factory were blown to atoms and portions of | | the building were hurled 150 feet into the afr, and parts of the quivering remains of the un. | fortunates came down in the shower of the | fragments that fell over an ares of several | squares about the wreck and ruins i | The explosion ix believed to have been | eaused by a tack lving on the floor, which communicated a spark to the powder An explosion occurred at Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock, Penn. Captain W, BR. Jones, general manager of the iminense steel works, and a number of workmen seriously and some fatally burned, Furnace C, one of the largest of the Liast furnaces, gave way at the bottom. and in an instant Same shot forth. and the hot metal exploded and fell like shoots of water T . I metal poured out of the furnace ny person near the were " yi ons of it death sesrus remark. 8 severely wid off with thelr AN INFANT FIREBUG, ee i= 10 Barn Weakness to Death uliar Children ‘when lanewrcase tn ha at HUMANITY TO ANIMALS, Dehorning Cattle Doctoring Tails and ¥ laren shooting Pigeons Denounced traps a———— ENT PEOPLE. ix Mien PROMIN Joagt Idah Wik ( 0. 000 CARDINAL & potaton Tue only stimulant Prince Bisnarck is tea pained the Territ LLINS loaves a | Maxxing's dinner wd one egg now Indulge Sik Hexny Isaacs will be the third Jew. ish Lord Mayor of London ! Gexenal, Bovrasoen the fon grandfather of a little boy GEveral Lew Watiace $45,000 for his story, “Ben Hur Gronar Bascrorr, the historian, spends all his spare time in tending to his roses Bs how bas recsived of the Nati ane the SEsaror Hoaw's library finest private collections Capital Gexenat Me rangements for Tetnoirs ThE wife of ex-Senator Thomas Platt is one of the best amateur photographers in New York State Prestoexr Harrison keeps a sorap-book in which he has a copy of all the speeches he has ever made FENERAL Daxter. Hanvey Hine, the well-known ex-Confederate General, died a few days since at Charlotte, N. ( ! Lond SALISBURY has such an extreme | aversion to tobacco that even his own sons | do not veuture to smoke in his presence ! Hexuy VitLtann, the railroad magnate. fe i passionately fond of music of all kinds, and ® himself a good performer om the violin. cello Tux Duke of Connaught, now in command of the English troops at Bombay, will visit the United States next spring on his way to England, Gronoe W, Coiros is a plump, prosper. ous looking, interesting, good-hearted man, with closely cropped whiskers and the suav. ost of manners H.M. FraorLen, the Standard Of magnate, who owns the finest private car on wheels, has just given orders for the most magnificent steam yacht that can be bull Pore Leo is very sparing of his diet, but his breakfast is particularly frugal. It rarely consists of anything more than a single cup of tes or coffee or a glass of milk Hexny Warrgnsox is totally blind in one and is able to ses onl with the is at nnd the ar. of his has concluded publication TLER the writer, an for show. the Russian HEXAToR Huenwax had a peculiar ex Jawitnte ih Parla Ho was taken by a crowd or Jules Ferry, the French statesman, anc had to retire to his hotel to escape the jeer Prestonxy Canvor, of Pras, Is said | went to Watkins to take a train for Bars | Chester ( THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Hastern and Middle States. MAxweLL Braun, who was arrested at Elmira for intoxication, has died in jail, The Coroner's examination reveals traces of poison, and it is believed that he was drugged and robbed, A LOCOMOTIVE was thrown from the track near Ithaca, and Engineer Orlando Beoley was instantly killed, Jacon FrrzornaLp, dead in Watkins, to the Republican of Cayugs, dropped He was a delegate State Convention and toga, Ex-Mayon¥P, DD. Warren has died from the effects of a fall DeLeG ATES to the Republican Btate Con. | vention and the meeting of the Republican | Btate League gathered at Baratoga, By the upwiting of a boat in Boston Har- bor E. G. Bartwell of Waltham and Arthur Taft of Dedham, Mass, were drowned Tene have been heavy frosts in Vermont | and Northern New York: heavy snow fell on Mount Washington Tux Boston Board of Aldermen have voted to erect statues to Generals Grant Sheridan and Admiral ¥ arragut SuErry Nicnoras C. DEMAREST, of Ber. gen County, N. J. was run over by an ex- | Rutherford and instantly | | sented his credentials to mg Tue New York Daily Graphic, an illus. | ress cilled train at trated paper, has ceased publication, Ax mona extraordinary plague of bas broken sInong ounty of the ad merry and Berks, Penn. pleuro-pneu. out 1! Aning counties off Montg Ix case of “Napoleon of the Henry 8B. Ives. the young Finance” charged with an over-ssue of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day. ton Rallroad stock, the jury at r disagrond, ten standing for convict two for acquittal Devosirs of gold mntities have Hanover, Penna, mrs said paying t near been Hoan Mate Convention of nated J, Q other Las n wr, and 1 on ww i 8B mid mt} AT a gern ake walk te Presid mde 8 trig k Md ia : Deer Pax Tix pul Marion diphtheria Tx firm of Belfos Dey appoin his som have © Jury for point of a plat marry Mr. Ball tor Senator ww and ilennial Presioest Hannes wore present al e Oe i Md celeb al Cumberian W.Va ripe A beating gave marshals caused these in Lory they THe town by a gang to the May nvention of Mis ral James RR. and W, OC, Mathison retary of State Tex annual convention of the American Bankers Association pened in Kansas City, fully 1000 delegates twing present fh Tax Republican State © sippli has nominated ha vernor ners for Ok fn & Gene ooioresdy for Re Two hundred men entered the jail at Wi nota, Mise, captured Sol Purnell a colored man, and hanged him to a railroad trestle HERMAN presided at the meet of the CALD Was GEsenal ing of the Army cinnati, Ohio, C} next meeting place B. F. Conris, a merchant, and John Wal lace, a mail carrier, both of Cairo, Ill, quar rele over the removal of Commissions: Tanner, and Wallace was struck over the head with a molasses jug, receiving an in Jury from which he died an hour later Tix works of the Emery Candle Company, Tennesser, In Cin selected as the | In the suburbs of Cincinnati ( thio, have been destroyed by fire; loss £100,000 Washington, Tae Superintendent of the Census has a pointed Richard PF. Rothwell, of New Yor k, chief special agent to take charge of the col lection of statistics of gold and silver for the Xith Census Revenal of the South American delegates 0 the International Congress have arrived in this country dom, bas tendered his resignation THE Secretary of the Treasury has accept wl the resignation of Dr, James P, Kimball, of Penney Ivania, as Director of the Mint, Taxi Kwo Ying, the new Chinese Min. ister, with his reticoe of twenty five, arrived at Washington Tae commissdon appointed to select a site for a navy yard on the Pacific const north of | the forty-second parallel has recommended the selection of a point on Puget Sound. build ten new steel men<of-war and to leave the Navy Department. Tue Acting ry of State has sent lettors to our diplomatic and consular officers Maritime Exposition a success, Mus, Busa A, Woon, wife of a Washington, has been | pony | affefed that she Ir { her five children of Lockport, | { ground | Crete have taker and | | Bale des Chaleurs Railway in Quebec have | struck for back pay | taken piace at Hot ww cattle off | New York | {| ation] profession. W, H. | longer when they n ' . [18 was too dark, was Bpcrerany Tuacy will ask Congress to | Iatter club was fin their ize, horse power and general design to | play in Brooklyn Arrnoven General Boulanger has been personally successful in getting elected to the French Assembly, his followers have been overwhelmingly defeated. The He. publicans will have a majority of almost 160 members in the new Assembly, Boulanger having been declared iaeligible by the High Court of Justice, his election is useless ynless validated by the future Chamber A curst of dynamite ston in Bt Petersburg of Russian departed for Copmhagen, A TEACHER of Odessa, Hussia, named Sause itted suicide, His wife was so much wt hor reason, Bhe killed carried thelr bodies to third story window, and threw them to the ie then threw hersell out, receiv. ing fatal injuries from the hours’ taken out y hundred Jor Kesr, who was Guebee ruins alive after unorisonment died By the collars Milan, Italy, five twenty injurad Mt BEULMAN oulrages piace, » the m of an unfinished house in persons were killed and upon Christians in Numbers of Chris tans are flecing t intains Five hundred navvies employed on the amounting to $40,000 YupLrs, the now Germ has pre ror William Ww Al Minist Witiram American TER fo ny AX extensive sirike of dock laborers has m, Holland A LARGE PENSION, And an Unusual Which Tragedy of the War It Recalls, of K ALRW NLA Ww. which recal - Ya s breakh ardent A DISASTER AVERTED, Escape } mn a Terrible Landslide at Milwankee Miraculous WMILL F oiler Expl Moen ALITY, les and Five % Killed A ow A Al oo AS The Instantly THE NATIONAL GAME, New Y except B rR won the ser wlio es from every club BASEBALL is fast be ning sport in Australia CLEVELAND won the phis, taking ten games 1 ALMORT every baseball club the Ameri can Association js at daggers drawn with some or all of the other clubw Usrimz Hexore had to be escor from Brooklyn's baseball grounds recently becagw be called the game when the Brooklyn's were bebind, by four policeme: the popular ries from Philadel the latter's nine wr A Bosrox daily Paper announces that it would present $1000 to be 3:vaind ame ng the members of the Boston Baseball Club if they won the pennant this yeas : Ewing, of New York caught in mor games than any other League player, but he lowed by Be mets, of Boston, Cleveland and Farrell of In clowely Zimmer, of ag Nixz well-known society girls in Baltimore have formed a base ball club, Twice a week they go out into the cour ry to play, and it is said that they are ming very pros ficient at the manse. Their ages vary from sixteen to twenty, : ACCORDING to information given out in Chicago the professional base players, Chie ben | aided by well-known eapitalists are to take the management of the National game into their own hands. Clubs are to be formed in eight Jeading cities Axorien ball player has joined the the J Stewart, who is enacting the roll of the surgeon in “Held by the Enemy.” is an oud time Western twirler. He was one of the organisers of the first | club in Indians, in 1504, Coronel Bwirzren, Chief of the Bureau of | Satistion, at the requ est of Secretary Win. | : SIXTY-TW0o games were prevented by rain this season in the League. There were thir | ty<one of those double event nuisances played, i Pitteburgh playing the moet | were played at Boston, six at Philadelphia, | four at Chicago, three at Indianapolis, three leven. Seven at Washington, and two at Clove d AT a meeting of the American Association | the recent trouble between St. Louis and Brooklyn was discussed. The we which Umpire Goldsmith gave to Rx Iyn by 9 wo 0, because the Bt. Louis club refused to play were in the lead, claiming $1500 for refusing to ven to the Brookiyns by 9 to 0 nith's distnissal game was while Co mended. LEAGUE RECORD Wom, cusssesnnsvnnves BB PRES os oeivives 8) Cleveland. ............ 61 LT wo Washington. ........., #0 AMERICAN ABBOCIATION § Won, seasinusnnsns 5B Aledo. oui viivninsis OB AEE EEE EE EA EE] Cinolnpatl, .. cooo00 0000 wl AEFI ER ARRAN BERBERA » due 3 LJ] exploded at the ste. | inst before the Czar oung ven to St. Louis. The | on the nex day, and thes | Was recom. 4 TERRIBLE COLLISION Frightful Accident on the New York Central Railroad. ————— One Section of an Express Train Plunges Into the Other, the New a few Palating ol New broken A terrible sccident occurred on York Central road st 11:40 o'clock nights ago, two miles east of Bridge RK. Y. The first the 8t. L express, which York at 6 ident having the steam when the which was composed of eight ve ing coaches, drawn by sixty-ton 655, in charge of William Hortl ming at the rate of thirty dashed into it The first section was made up of Engine 714 (Engineer Weeks and Conductor Abel), a baggage, mall, and s*prem threes pas senger coaches, which were packed with people, one Wagner sleeper, and two private OOns $iTh | The rear privates cosch, the Kankake« tele seoped the Wagner car of the first section which was just abead of it. to tance. The only damege Janssen ger pect loft "i Mil had happened 1 setion o'clock » down, an ao chest, wand tibile sleep engine N¢ and run miles an how Cur CHR g of wind rae the mse a hole i & enough rd, at kage brakes rili, wh Ero (retitle ana FE their way 1» § Were ready 1 the iret tery It was just a miracle that th not rendered tenfold me five minutes after the came tearing on the rate of thirty soppal just in dashed into the debris of the Axes and saws were procured and willing hands set 0 work $0 cut away the sides of the cars that were telos oped, Among the first bodies recovered from the ruins whic! caught fire and burned rapidly, were those of three men and one woman Later Details, That the collision was not attended by a much greater loss of life is surprising to any one visiting the sore of the ao That it was not more disastrous is due altogether to the massive and solidly built car of Presi dent Ledyard of the Michigan Central Road, which was at the rear end of the first section and resived the full force the shock The second section escaped with very little injury Not one of the vestibule sloapers was damaged a dollar's worth, and not a passen gor in them was injured. But the engine was smashed beyond repair. The smoke. stack lay by the track, the headlight was gone, the steamchests and cvlinders were torn apart, the pilot was knocked into kind iing wood, the framework around the botler was ripped open, the cab was demolished, and the driving rods were broken. The ten. der had gone clean through a Boston and Al bany baggage car whose roof and sides were broken. The baggagemaster, Egbert Will cox, of Syracuse, had a miraculous soap, “I was sound asleep when the collision coe curred.” he sald, “and when I awoke I found myself sitting on top of the tender with my head touching the roof of my own car. The Lord only knows how I got there.” Willcox was cut about the body, and the top of his bead was gashed open. ile finally crawled down and out through the door. He then saw the fireman, John Slater, on the roof of the baggage car over the tender, and helped him down. Slater was unable to tell rash the ti re ery . along wre Gent of P £ £ f : 4 ; | 8 i i] i |
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