" Twelve per cent. of the working of Great Britain and Ireland are women -its percentage of workingmen being larger than is found in any other country in the world. - The maxim that nothing can be ali bad ig, in the opinion of the Washing- ton Star, exemplified by the action of American anarchists in sending $5000 to starving Russia, The building associations of Cincin - nati have assets, states the New Orleant Times- Demoerat, amounting to $27,000,. 009%, which is thirty per cent, shead of Philadelphia, which fancied itsel{ in the lead in this line of business, It is estimated that 9000 horses will change hands in Vermont this year, at an average of $225, which will amount in round numbers to $2,000,000. The horse business Vermont's agricultural industries, now takes the It has been proposed, on account of the scarcity of black walnut, to substi- which tute for it the black gum grows so plentifully throughout the Southern States, pert can hardly detect the difference be- It can be stained so that an ex- tween the woods. The report of a Royal Commission, recently appointed by the British Gov- ernment to consider the subjelt, places the value of the British merchant marine and cargoes constantly afloat at $4, 3¢ 000,000, which is a goodly sum to have always in old Neptune's keeping, frui erst fruit cuit The pr fits for fornia are seen from the following: ire culture in Fresno County $150 to $400 per $200 to $400, apricots, pea prunes average $250 per acre, and in the vicinity of Riverside the receipts per been l acre on oranges have $1200, Heretofore the process of manufactur ing smokeless powder has been kept a close secret by the foreign Governments using it. but it has not baffled the inge nuity of our Naval Ordnance Bureau Our Republic, have discovered a new formula officers, announces the St. Louis and we shall soon have a smokeless rifle powder. The Washington Star thinks that ‘the French are fortunate in having st this crisis so well-balanced and evidently ble While the German Emperor is doing all he can a man for its President as Carnot, in his public utterances to provoke a conflict of arms, the Freach President is dignified, moderate and speeches. This contras advantage of the Republic States the London T'it- Bits The question of servants’ breakages came before A domestic said she was discharged with for mistress for a (England the Bloomsbury County Court out notice breaking a picture, and sued her month's The Judge said they might stop wages for breakages as wages, many thought people the mistress had done in this case, but it ha f i in the defesdant must was 8 mistake, and pay the amount ¢ laimed, with costs, The English Court of cided that an e The m apprenticed hig Appeal has de- ion is & necessity for a minor, of a seveateen. year-old boy to an auctioneer, valuer and farmer, the master $1000, agreement to pay $2000 more on obtain. ing his majority. He the heir to $20,000, to be paid to him at the age of He did pay the $2000 at the end of his term of apprene ticeship, and the auctioneer and farmer susd for the money. posed on the ground that a minor could not be bound by such an agreement, but paying The boy was by the was twenty-one years, not the plaintifl’s lawyers argued that the | money could be collected under the opinions, the purchase of necessaries [rom the gen. eral rule that cannot be enforced. Lord Esher, pre. siding judge in the Court of Appeals, asks’ ‘Is education necessary for an in. fant?” and answers the question by say. Ing: “Looking at it independently of authority, I should say that education in atrade with a view to make an infant a useful citizen must always in this work. ing country have been thought of the greatest importance, and must always have been considered necessary for an infant.” He quotes Lord Coke's declara- tion that **An infant may bind himself for his good teaching or instruction, whereby he may profit himself after. ward.” Justice Fry goes even further than Lord Esher, and says. “I think that ‘teaching or instruction,’ though it includes instruction in a trade, is not secessarily confined to that. 1 should be sorry to conclude that literary instruc. tion likely to lead to the infant's success in a learned profession is not within the observations of Lord Ccke. The inter. ests of the State require that an infant shouldbe n' 11 himesll for jam « Li : the contracts of minors genuine lead in | Payment was op. : : excepting an agreement for could not have afforded it, clase I : The sun never sets on the soil of the United States, When it is 6 o'clock at Attoo Island, Alaska, it is ¥:36 o'clock A. M. the next day on the eastern coast of Maine. The Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture reports that more than sixty per cent, of the population of that State | is engaged in agriculture, with an an- nual farm product of over §20,000,000, The United States leads the world in the number and extent of its libraries, The public libraries of all Europe put | together contain about 21,000,000 vol- | umes; those of this country contain 50,- 000,000. Devotees of superstition will take a professional pleasure, believes the Chicago News, in noting the alliter- | ative character of the names of the un- fortunate politicians, Balmaceda, Baril las, Bogran, Barrios and Boulanger. | at their door would add According to statistics gathered by a well - known commercial agency, the | business failures for the first nine months | of the year 1891 exceeded those for the same period last year by 1247, and in the amount of liabilities by $36,000,000, Referring to the confession of a Chica- that among farmers had destroyed his busi- go lightning-rod man “education ness,” the Western Rural expresses faith in the same eyecopener as destined in due time to give quietus to ‘‘many other frands.” R. N. Sauer applied, the other day, to Uvalde, Texas, for He admitted that Judge Paschal, at naturalization papers. he was a socialist, and the judge sat down and wrote an opinion that socialism was unconstitutional, asad re. fused to grant the papers. Dom Pedro is reported to disappointed by the emphatic refusal of the leave to live in Brazil. Brazilian Congress to The or's devotion to that country is touching, grant him ex-Emper- and visitors say that the tears come into his eyes every time Brazil is mentioned All that the privilege of dying in Brazil and this had been desied him. in his presence. he asked was It is alleged that in India and in Bu. rope the motives for suicide are not sim- ilar, In the former country they are anger, disease and grief, grie! being the of whereas in Europe the motives are main- chief! cause suicide among women; ly aleoholism, love, mis ry and fear of the suicides among Parsees is punishment, It is curious that proportion of great when compared with the smallness of the community. As a result of the increased interest in agricultural colleges, Michigan has lost fourteen college professors since May 1. At least filty per cont. of the graduates of the State College at agriculture as a profession, Laasing follow In of the belief that the college has greatly support benefited the farming interests of Mich igan, it is asserted that of been of ten times greater benefit f : its experiments in the line insecticides alone have armers of the State than the entire cost f the college. The Loudon false the doctrine that abundant hair is a sign of bodily or mental strength in man, It says that despite the Samson precedent the Chinese are mostly bald, yet they form the most enduring of Lancet denounces Faces, | a day to the | as : The average mad house furnishes | proof that long and thick hair is not a | sign of intellectuality. The easily wheedled Esau was hairy, while the mighty Cesar was bald. *‘Long haired men are generally weak and fanatical, ; snd men with scant hair are the philoso. phers and statesmen and soldiers of the world.” Horseflesh as an article of food is hav. ing a boom just now in Germany, In Berlin it has recently trebled in price | and costs almost a8 much now as beef, In what its advantages would consist if it should become as expensive as beef it is hard to see. Hitherto horseflesh has been popular on account of its cheapness, through which many people have been able to purchase meat who otherwise Its choap- vess has also allowed many conscience. loss dealers to double their money on sausages and other minced viauds of un. known composition, It is noticeable that & certain amount of sentiment still at. taches to the horse ia Germany, to the detriment of his value as an edible ani. mal. A cavalry officer is belug strongly censured for having soid to the butchers his war charger, on which he had ridden at Sedan. ‘‘Perhaps,” muses the Chicago Herald, ‘when America begins to pour her droves of swine into Germany the noble horse, whom it is little less than cannibalism to eal, will again assume his right position in the Teutonic mind. It would bes great thing for the American lo i eld die to save the honor of MAIL TO FARMS | Agitation for Free Postal De. | livery in Rural Districts. | Postmaster-General Wanamaker's | Views on the Subject, An organized effors is under way among farmers to secure from Congress fres mail delivery in country towns, The Farmers Alliance, Patrons of Husbandry and other orders are canvassing the matter, Letters are being written to Congressmen in favor of the project, and petitions to Congress for free delivery are being circulated in many parts of the country, Farmers assert that a daily mail delivery perceptibly to the money value of their farms, and would be worth still more because it would keep them in touch with markets and the outside world, and rob farm life of its isolation and mo- notony. The farmers are writing to the agricultural press that this convenience would enable them quite generally to take a daily paper, as well as to subscribe for the local papers more liberally In tho American Agriewlturist for No- vember Postmaster-General Wanamaker states definitely for the first time that the Cxperiment made by the Postoffics De partment for free delivery in farming dis triets shows that the increase of revenue more than pays all the increased expenses, He believes that universal free delivery would, therefore, be self sustalving, Mr. Wanamaker's article also this statement of the case: “When a town grows to 10,000 population and puts down footwalks and puts up num bers on the houses, the Postoffice Depart- ment is authorized by act of Congress to os- tablish a carrier service to deliver mail mat- ter at the doors of houss and offices the town {increases postal stations are estal lished! ‘Thus the postal services keeps pace with the growth of the town, While all this postal work is going on at the, thickly pop. ulated points, the farmers, quarrymen, blacksmiths, millers and artisans, all paving the regulation rates of postage, are left to got their mall as best they can from the postoffics in the village or at the railway siation : “In a hamlet of 100 houses perhaps sixty persons from the village wl the vicinage make a dally pligrimage of a distance of from one block to two miles from the bome to the postoffice, to find out whether there is any mail or not; and a bundred more persons within the circle of the off do not find ft convenient to go to the postoffios oltener than once a week, One hundred or more mrsons each day, in all weathers, are mak Jo trips to the postoffice, often at great pete soa! inconvenience and disx a single carrier could } make the round of lage and distribute the save the hundred a dally tramp, collecting at the same time fro otter boxes, located at the street mail to be forwarded, A newspane brought every day to the door of the farme r worsman who has no one to go to the postoffice for it would find a thankful suts scriber and light a new lamp in the hous he contains 100 the oorner the Irae enough, the viliage or crossroads inhabitants, or the dweller on the farm. chooses his home for his family and might lve in the city, wheres gas and water and mails are brought to his do wi: but when people everywhere pay sane rate of osiage, why should one portion of them Barve mail facilities denied to other portions? Is it fair to the rural loesli- ties to refuse postal servios equal to that provided for the cities’ Is it not a reflection on the intelligence and aspirations of tae farmer and the artisan to ignore his need of the conveniences of correspondence and of supplies of pewspapers and magizines? Doss ot retard the seitioment of country dis ts to neglect to provide, in some form or or, means for at least dally intercourse with the rest of the world!™ HH ——— — FIVE ARE DEAD, A Young Girl W as the Innocent Cause of a Kentucky Tragedy, the Tm ot A party of White Caps attacked the resi. dence of George Calp several nights ago at Ky. a rescit James and George Howard were instantly killed, half a Owingsville As dozen others wounded, one of whom, George Jones, has since died A sister of the Howards was {ll and the shock killed her, Next day an infant to which she gave birth a few minutes prior to ber death also died, making five deaths in all, It was quite certain one or two more of the wounded would die A young girl named Della Carpenter was the innocent cause of the tragedy. Mr, See bad adopted the girl The Calpe and Ree becoa Carpenter and their confederates wore incensed at this, as was also Urnthia Jones, who, it is claimed, said she had bought the gir! and was to pay $2350 for her, Rebecra Carpenter declared she would kill the girl if she remained with the See family, There was a great deal of excite ment over the matter and somebody served a White Cap notios on the Culps ordering them to leave in thirty days under penalty of death, The Culps remained and the veighborbood talked with more freedom than prudence, Bo matters continued until the faial cul mination. Some tune ago Rebecca Carpen- ter, an aunt of the girl, came to the house of Prosner See and asked him to take the girl and keep her, as the Carpenters were not able, See promised to take the girl on trial, Not Jong after this Mollie Culp, Susie Culps and Rebecea Carpenter went to See's house in the absence of the family, stole the girl and secreted her at the house of George Calp, It came to the ears of Mr. Boo that the who had the girl in charge intended take her to Mount Sterling, Ky., and put her in the hands of Cynthia Jones, a notori ous character, Io the mean time the girl ran away from the Culps, csme to the bouss of See and {toons him to keep her, as she sald Be aia of her ~ This led to the a on Culp's house and the deaths of five or more persons, a A DASTARDLY DEED. A Purposely Misplaced Switoh Sends an Kxprass Train to Destruction, Five persons were killed and fifty or sixty injured in a wreck at 1 o'clock in the mora: ing on the Burlington road, &«t Monmouth, 1, The Omaha and Denver fast express | Russia, ul THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, BY the premature explosion of a blast three men at work on Dr, Webb's new rail road at Malone, N, Y,, were killed and # fourth, na Italian, was terribly injured. SECRETARY Brave left Augusta, Maine, for Washington, Gronae Frees, farmer, Mcloaan, N. Y has been buncoed out of B50X Willimm MeMahon, MoMahon dog and then shot Stabler, stantly. Turovonre Dor RVLINGER, a prom nent Pittsburg druggist, President of thy Dextm Bpring Company and Treasurer th Seventh Ward Behool Board, bas been arrest killed tha killing him in- ol of school funds, One report makes shortage #000 and another $17,000 Every liquor dealer at Bar Harbor, Me, | has been indicted for violation of the liquor | law, A SEVERE storm prevailed along the Now England coast, and snow fell in Worcester, Mass. : Boston, Hartford, Cons Newport RL, and Bliswoirth, Me, It wag the earliest snow storm known sines 1876, South and West, Jonux Rusn, a young white man, was lynched at Columbia, La. for the murder of Aagar Sterling, an old colored woman AT the Norton beet sugar factory at Nor folk, Neb.. Lloyd Cobb of Nor. folk's leading business men, fell into one of the carbonation tanks and was overcome by the carbonic acid gas, use! in the manufacture sugar Cobb died soon after being taken out. Jules Vigeraux, who tried to rescue him, was fatally injured wdly in Valey, deaths son of one walch of BLACK DIrTHEIZA is spreading r a Norwegian seltignent ia Soldiere Harrison County, lo Fourteen from the disease wero xi, WX « in one family Tre new forty thousand dollar Ce House at Childress, Texas, with all the ords of Childress and Cottle Counties barned, Goveason Nonrgex, of vetoed the Schoo involv priation of $1,200, Tre boller of a thredhing machine May s, North D kota, and kille The t " foroed Into a heated botler was low adit til LE) burst at being walter explosion was due y I'nxg Postoffics at Croo broken into and robbed wrders were letters and money $570 and $40 in « Tie Baak of | £ houses In rs, OWing Ww arkets and failure pe. 1 he abilities 5 J, On ash bank osed 1s ney extension of Lowist the string Yin the mo ne Louisiana Nati rieans, la. been robbed Garcia, aged sev t that it had Eugen» made puldic the fa by ita paying tells v. of $190.00 INE ten colored meen who were 30 hav beens hanged at Columbia, 8. C. a few days ago for the murder of Thornton Nance, were granted a stay of procesdings rricERs of the Louisiana Lottery, i yiing General Beauregard, President Co rad and Maoretary Harper, were indicted by rand Jury in Sioux Falls, Nort mkota. United States marshals started { Now Orleans to arrest them, ihe Washinglon, ne railway bulletin of the eleventh cen. a+ nas been eusd from Washington Tax Meatbodist Ecumenioal Council, ng a Washington for twelve days srned gine di Rerony Joxarnas Meas who bas boon erik of the Supremes Court of the District ‘slumbia since its organization, March 1583 died a few days ago at his home in ington City in the ninetisth your of his He was appointed clerk of the « it the direct request of President Lin Tue Postoffice wontal re 3) last were $5 NH to Sette r 30 8 ni that ¢ fiscal year onied iN, and expend LTR UR Departament reports IT venges for toe was received in Wash I hoaroalter admit America wo wi five ani health nisonsr has irenn betwosh r of aga suitable yn in EPRCIAL meet wg of the Board of Ra theonian | netitution was held ashing take notion in regard to a { $200 } by Thomas C. Hoig { Setauket, N. ¥. Half of the amount restriction save that its in w need Hike that of the original Jams Smithson “for the in of knowledge among tye Noy ven without % 10 aff diffusion ani has been copcinded by the tment with the Tonkaws the Indian Territory, by ade 10 the United States lands, the consideration be res of U Prxx, a Corsan prince, employsd in tas Agricultural Department at Washing was killed by a tram at College Sta tion, Md, a few nights ago Pavaasteniesenat Wintian Swrra has made his anna report to Secretary Proo tor It shows that there was an lnerease of $750, 454 in the expenditure for pay of vol uutesrs, which was largely doe to the fact that a large number thes: claims were allowed during the last fiscal year, but wer: not pad until this year ol ALL the real estate in Washington belong ing wo Peosion Commissioner Raum has been ordered 10 be sold by the District Court to satisly the Commissioner's creditors. Judg- ment for about $23,000 in uopaid notes has been obtained, The principal creditor is A, L. Conger, Ohio member of the National Hepublican Committee Foreign, Joux Reomoxpd, Parnellite, will be a candidate [or tae late leader's vasant seat for Cork City, in the British Parliament. Apviors from Almeria, in Andalusia, Spain, report the prevalence of great Boods W that vicinity, The mountain torrents flowing from the Sierra Nevada bave inun dated the surrounding conatry. The dam | Age tO property was immense, A ving has destroyed the town of Dida, The Government offloss and over $00 other buildings ware consume ', Tux Cear has donated $1,500,000 to the re | lief of the famine strioxen provinoss., Five cloth factors have fatled in Moscow, with aggrogate liabilities of $1,500,000, A naxn of about Albanians attacked a party of Mon aad 4 Rial took Jit bb Sone a ad tut sg Pins Bo Bo in a sweeping victory for the Liberals. Ax ve attempt at revolution | Brmiove | Gladstone has revised his flood and great damaze. A terrible storm raging in the Valley of the Rhone, Franos, ins swept away the Bt Olliers bridge, de molished the railway hetwosa Nismes and Uz and submerge | wis ew Joux Bx ReEpMosD announcss that he is | “the elected lender of the Irish Pariiaments | ary party,” succesding Parad), Ex-Uxirep Srares Coxsvr, Murray committed suicide at Bt. John, New Bruns wick, by shooting himseii un the head. Mr. | Murray was a native of New York. Ix Oakdale, Penn., John Stabler’s dog bit | Wirriam 1. JACKSON suo Mr. Bal four ms Chie! Secretary for Ireland. Mr, Home Rule bill a Ix the revellion in Pararuny which was | suppressed the revolutionary leaders and ten (yovern- wire also of their men were killed and 1 ment colonels and six soldiers wo | killed, ed, charged with forgery and embezzlement | : PROMINENT PEOPLE. Cirxa’s Emperor is twenty, Jax INGeLOW is sixiy-three years of age, Viscount Duprey, of England, is insured for $6,000,000, Lon Texxysox, the Post amateur daryman George KExxax, the Biberian explorer, is one of the best telegraph operators in the country Laureate, is an Faxsy B, Warp isan adventurous Ameri can girl who has gone down to Chile in search of writing material, Groce W, DeLaMATER, the defeated can. didate for Governor of Peansyivanis, is now practi ing law in Beattie, W asiunglon bee who Mri THE relatives of President Polk have run a contest of the will of his widow equeathed Folk pince to her Fal Toe ex- King and Queen of the fcurth oor of One save A very poor Laie a Pars in UW Od sdb THE Prigoess Kaiuo mitted esliunied at § Chureh Dn Dr. R the « tabi s Garfield's Mux, © tune x Moxsioxon Pratow, Kief, bas just died at the age He was the head of ang was the Cans monastry in which Russia Metr wpolitan of f eighty an Dieraroay, Ine the Muss GRAY In sub jection His death oooury Koel orletrated a Christi (IsMaAN cuted as Pasna, the TY AS SOON as 1 Against px 1 royal dining room oniy in the Sultan s pr Evesywneng throughout England at all the railway stations and at & large aumber of other places will be Hunt's News Brande.” The proprietor was William H, Bmith, the leader of the House of Commons, { the few examples it Leen one of th lie of a § such eminent p died worta $v New 3% Ispiaxal pie. New You fped Ma unix Wouex Pueblo, Co lewards are or SE have =a national "a Br pOouse-paIinlers in Jnakers get thirty-five hao som onnted MILY oRked smana ng that sped on Sundays Hebrew work nen fn differen: oo sirike in the ord a day's work, Philadel; . Tem y enforce nance making twe.ve hours Tiny per of United States are working increase of nine per cent all 1 in the for a living. an over the year 1881, ont wom THe earliest authentic revord of a labor organization in this country is an article of incorporation of the New 1 ork Journey men Bhipwriglits, dated 1804 Tue American Waltham Watch Com. pany, at Boston, bas announced a reduction of fifteen to twenty per cenl in wages of from S50 to 900 employes Tue first known trade journal published in the wurld was a booksellers monthly, which was called Mevewrius Librarius, and which made its appearance in 1648 Oxe of the strongest labor in the South is the 'sorewmen ” of New Op. leans, Their business is 0 “screw” or tightly store cotton in vessels, to prevent organ ins tions | shifting at sea and economize space are 1000 members, their dues amount to §20,« | 000 annually; they own their meeting house, and have $135,000 in bonds and securities, | Their wages are 87 a day. A MAMMOTH labor congress is to be held in | Chicago in 1588, under tho auspioss of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, ohn Bourse and Tom Mann, who led the great London dook strike to a sucoesfal sue in 1588 have promised to be present, as have many other prominent labor leaders. William EK. Glad. sone and Cardinal Manning have ted honorary membership and will wabmit their views in writing. T. V. Powderiy, Carroll D. Wright, and numerous others in labor questions, are saraestly wpporting the mevement. EE ——— NATURAL GAS FAILING, Many Ohio Towns Having Trouble Over The Fael Question, A large “amber of the natural gas towns in Ohio are baving troubles over the fuel question, At Lima the Natural Gas Com. pany served notios that gas would not be the plain around Bes. | | Interesting TELEGRAPHIC TICKS, Late Dispatches (leaned From the Wires, Sunol Trots a Mile at Stocktan, in 2:081-4 Cal, Bunol, Robert Bonner's wonderful mare, trotted a mile in 2:04 on the kiteshaped track at Stockton, Cal, beating her own record of 2:10 made a wesk before and low- ering the world's record of Maud 8, of 2:08%{ by half a second, Marvin, her trainer, hesitated to trot her against the record on account of a strong breeze which was blowing. he day was warm, however, and otherwise favorable to record breaking. At 5 o'clock Marvin jumped into the sulky and gave the mare a warming up, driving her five miles, He finally nodded for the word. and the little mare was off like a flash, A runner was in waiting for her st the balf-mclle pole, and she came in with very little urging, Nix timelespers were in the stand. a double set having been er - ployed, and very watch was the The mare made the first quarter in the half in 1:04, the three-quarters the mile in 298 Bunol fir strong, and present pronounced her the gamest trotler ever seen on a Jocal track When the time was announced the crowd went almost crazy with enthusiasm for the } and her driver. and followed them to the stable, giv- ing both a veritable ovation all the way quarters were trotted very uneven] be seen, the record being ] "| The middle « . both including sie of this pecullariy t these RIne shed the horsemen Cla { 21 1/ s heen shies to tr first and last in riers , by General dam was Waxy through a thor General Howard's Report Major-General Oliver 0. Howard, manding the Department of the East votes much space in his annual report Y War Department at Washington cussion of coast delences that at New York, and Boston new guns are needed Many or submarine have DO already constra 10 nt General Howard calls special att peomsity of having fortified points as a of a po wer defence of our nations oom (fe 3 he wan and fixe 1 woever MOriars 1 Le Ove mines been ’ 7 basis nlerests Increased pay {or noo nmismoned off is also recommende Howard Yrs arks that the ren irutenantis is pro General ren mental promotion of first ducing greater and greater and sa the lineal promotion of second tenants give to them certainty and fsirness of promot.on, be recommends Sow extension of the system to the firs The new methods of examination for pro- motion are praised. Canteens, he remarks, have been an improvement on the post. traders’ stores, and useful pt when laced too near the men's qu ~The S— ial effect of the canteen at small posts is doubtful “From oonsu ficers in charge of these canteens the impression that the evil that © of engenders in i for recruits to drink ances the restraining the habitual drinkers an ards The benefits garrisons, however cidediy recommend tha bebind the bar to deal out dr rades. It is certainly demoraliz a wilitary subject acting as a Two Old Sisters Found Dead Two small attic rooms in a fourstory brick tepement house in the rear of No, 61 Prince street, Boston, Mass, have been oc- cupied for a great many years LY Margaret and Bridget Hreen, seventy-five and seventy. sight years old respectively 1 hey are sisters, and both are unmarried. Since early the other morning neither of the sisters bad been seen, and repeated knockings brought no respons An officer {oroed in the door and found one of the old women, Margaret, lying dead near the door. In the rear room, covered bya sheet. was the other sister, who was blind, She was also dead, It is supposed that she died first and that her sister covered her up acd then rma toward the door to call the neighbors, but was also stricken with death before she could dows, For five or six yearsthey had been unable to do any work. Although offered food repeatedly by their neighbors, they were so proud they always refused to acospt it. Both apparel emaciated and, without doubt, had died of starvation, Blown to Pleces by Powder, A terrific explosion occurred in the pack- ing house of the Columbia Powder Company, thres miles from Farmingdale, N. J. The building was completely demolished. At the time of the wsplosion all of the employes had Jeft the ding except Grandir aged irregulan en exe ariers RS masking nN red ng bareept I. Vonnet, twenty-one, of Farm ingdale, and Archibald Johnson, aged sevens teen, of Hendrickson's Switch, Johnson was literally blown to atoms, and Vonnet's body was horribly muitilated. The bod was thrown over yards, The onus the explosion is unkmown The bulldiag | contained 2500 pounds of powder. Found Thelr Litthe Onos Barncd, Near Lime Rook, Ala, John Long a fare | mer, and his wife went 10 Visit 8 sok neigh. four children at home bor, their loving Re- The hall lamp was left burni turn at 2 o'clock that orting the ONT house in ruins and of the twelve, six and two years, The other child, a buraed, wige Balser K. Higginbotham, one of the 3 that saver took the most jy orators a Tor the a AL dipwomania, at Plaigfield,
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