MANGLED BY SHELLS Horrible Tragedy at the Mare Island (Cal.) Navy Yard, Thirteen Men of the Cruiser Bos ton Blown to Pieces, One of the worst explosions ever known in California occurred just before noon a few days ago, at Mare Island Government Navy Yard, by which thirteen men, belong- ing to the United States cruiser Boston were instantly killed, two fatally injured, and three sevarely woundad, The explosion took place in the shell room, and was supposed to be due to one of the shells dropping as it was being filled, but this was mere theory, as none engaged in the work were left alive to tell the story. The force of the explosion was so great that most people in valleys believed it was an earthquake. In a moment the Mare Island navy fire bell began ringing and dense clouds of smoke rose The supposition was that a fire had started. The navy yard is directly across a small stream from Vallejo, A reporter, who was among the first to cross on the ferry to the Navy Yard, beheld a terrible One of the houses in which the the soane, strong small work of filling shells is carried in ruins, while all about on the hill, as though a great shell had burst among them, were scattered the mangled and bleeding forms of men wearing Uncle Sam's blue jackets The ground looked as though it had been plowei up by cannon balls, ani to add hor. ror to the scene, flames started among the ruins filled with fragments of the human victims Isgs and arms were scattered about among the blackened heads and unre cognizable fragments of what had been only a few minutes before strong and active men. Lying near the door of one house wr body of Guuner Hettinger, of the Ho while over on the other side was his powder blackened and fearfully disfi Un the beach near by, where they had been thrown by the ter » force of the explosi were found two naval apprentices vhom will die A large rquad of sailors and marines sonor brought out the mangled remains of the comrades from the burning shell When the fragments were laid t was found that twelve i was had lies were had an arm or leg blown of » had seen hard 1 they never beheld men vos Several of the br service apprentices were beach into the by a fireboat. i mang hope of thei the naval hos; or three 1 Dr. ls had just f wood six inches long and an it of a Germon sailor's right this, the bones of the left leg red, and the cuticle burned art of his body. » of the apprentices who y the water was taken to the asked of the surgeons: “Do Then he ever again to get ug Mn WAS equa ly e explosion occurred will never | Fifteen men from the Boston wer prepare ammunition he ship All were at work in the m of the magazine under charge ner Heitinger. It is supposed one of the party dropped a shell, and the gion caused the explosion. One of the first to go to the scone was Dr, Lewis of the Naval Hospital Notwith. standing now aud the ea, wlon wi B he braved the danger to save wis was beact rot Ove r an IE be laid down cotupanion’s e OneUS- Len H. t fi Damsted, on duty | y er parts of grounds, aad, njured, they will uve, NEWSY GLEANINGS, etion of coal is consider XD1A urges England t« onference HicurispERS at San Francis $300 reward for every Christian | kills NEWS $D $i AND is rej atching of 00 seals by sen ON n LING ¢ tedlercnoe of a 1 rustic tr : Ins suffer frosts and AM extabiinhe in Virginia t zens protest agai nited States tr f small indu this Southern Tan, re fighting t THE raliroads by hauling grain so low tha will have to stop. MiLLioxs of bushels increase in ne grains is the present crop outlook for sas compared with iast year, At a public meeting held at Windsor Canada, a vote on politioal union with this country resulted as follows: For 204 against, 40 Reronts from the South are to the effect that the area devoted to rice has creased nearly or quite one ball over that of any preceding year. Frowen Day was celebrated by the W, CT. U. all over the country by sending lowers to prisons, jalls, almshouses, hos pital, and to the poor and sick, arly all Kaa- been ine EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED, A Steam Laanch Upset by the Wind at Bangor, Me, A tornado passed over the southern end of Bangor, Me, late the other afternoon, cromed over the river and went through the City of Brewer, It tore off half a wile of the race course fence, destroved and moved several bulldings, lovelsl horse sheds and did other damages. Then it took houses and chimneys on the river bank, after which it descended on the river, Here was the steam launch Annle, that plys between Bangor and Hampden, It had just joft the dock. On board were twenty per sons Rain was falling and the canvas sides were Juttoned down, The wind tore these in. The boat was overturned and sank, On the opposite side of the river lay the four-masted schooner Maria O, Teol of Boston, Captain Johnson, Mate Norman MolLoud lowersd away his boat, and with four of the crew rescued six men and three women. In all twelve persons were saved and eight drowned, The body of Mis Hattie Adams, daughter of James a rich lumberman, has recovered ALDRICH RE-ELECTED. - To Serve Little Rhody Six Years More In the United States Senato KELEON W. ALDRICH. Hon. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich has been re-clected United States Senator by the Rhode Island Legislature st Providence The vote was Aldrich, sixty-four; David 8, Baker, Jr., thirty-nine. Mr. Aldrich was born at Foster, R, L,No- vember 6 1841: was President of the Prov idence, R. I., Common Council in 1571-73 was a member of the Rhode Island Genera Assembly in 1875-70, serving the latter year is Speaker of the Lower House: was elected to the House of Representatives of the Forty. pixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, uccead General Ambrose Jurnside, k his seat Decemt! y 1581 6 was ted In 1584, an pother six.year . 3 1S term, which will expir SS H THE NATIONAL GAME. Pir finish the He hs wae Ar RECORD THE LEAGU Clubs Boston. .. drookiyn Cincinnati 2s Philad'lp'a. @ Cleveland , 20 Chicago .... 28 Washing’ Pittsburg Loulsviile 20 nae’ AMERICAN HEROES, ho Have Risked Their for Others rave Men © Lives Is ch older ming in Boston Harbor. Captain Nicholas Murphy, of | most noted life savers ea. During the period of thirty he has saved upward of 100 persons drowning, his first rescue being made wi hie was fourteen years old Father Duren, a UCatholi Garden, near Madison, Wis res usd daughter of M. Orsini, a Paris milli rom drowning in the Meditermnean ast winter has been pre by her {ath with £53,000, which thepries: will devote to charitabie purposes one of the 1 priest wh sonte mn. TI— wo ——— WEST POINTERSGRADUATE. Secretary Elkins Presents Diplomas to the Young soldiers, The graduating exercises of the class of "03 were bold at 11 o'clock A. M,, at West Point Military Academy. Secretary of War Elkins arrived from New York by a steam yacht in time to atten | the ceremonies on the green in frontof the library, The cadets oo. cupled seats in front of the platform containing the Board of Visitors, the Super intendent and the Academic stall, The exercises opened with prayer by Chaplain Postlethwaite, Addresses worn made Ly Congressman Outhwaite, of Ohlo, Secretary Elkins, and Major-Ueneral Sohofleld, The graduates then received their diplomas from the hands of the Heoretary, an | Colonel Wilson wished them Go lspesl, At noon the cadets marchel to the frons of the barracks, whoers orders were read making a new set of officers t) repiacs thoss vacated by the gratuating olass and tha furlough men. Immediately after dis. missal the graduates donne | clothes and toot the 12:33 traln for New York, WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, CANADA will make a remarkable display of her mineral! resources at the World's Fair GREAT BRITAIN'S building at the World's Fair is now iu process of erection, The structures of a number of other toreign un- tions will be begun soon Tur Commercial Association of Oporto has decided to furnish money for an exhibit from Portugal at the World's Fair A bout twenty-five wine merchants have made ar- rangements to send exhibits, A CABLEGRAM from London says that t original portrait of Pocahonta “painte 1 a 1612, has been secured for exhibition at the World's Fair [he portrait is owned by Eustace Neville Rolfe, of Leacham Hall, Norfolk, who is a descendant of Rolfe, whom Pocahontas married CHIEY SAMUELS partment, hus already received dona plants and flowers for the Expositior At more than £50,000 All prepar the care of tender plants have bee: and large consignments are expects from tropical countries RouxseviLLe WiLovayx, United Consul at Bingapore, Straits Settlement has written that he hopes to bave one of t best colonial exhibitions ever ut by that Ntats sont col . bas signified ls invent the representation to NII has fewls in the W Pore Leo shown the deep inter est he rid’s Fair and in Amer ica by deciding to exhib the Fair som: Of the rare treasurs f literature ar history which the Vatican contains bish win Home, i for p Ireland mformati hibit A MINTATURE model of a typical We farm, « nuplete in every detall, wil hibited in the Washington State buil the World's Fair. Among other will be a collection of specimens of y exuibit all of birds, fish and animals to be in the State, The interior of the } species : Liv wii ———————. — PRESIDENT POLK DEAD. Ihe Leader of the Farmers Alliance arolinae (oe ther : afte m Pe put « President children, Tbe funeral £5 and was t Argest ever oie wife and three » in Raleigh Known A FAMOUS PRIEST, Death of Father Mollinger, the Faith Corist, at Pittsburg, ber Mollinger, the renowne 1 faith cure died a few alteracons ago at Pittsburg, Penn. He was prostrate | on St Anthony's Day, anlan operation was per formed on a rapture of the stomach, Father Molliuger was born in Holland ef well-to-do parents, who sant him to St, Vin. cent's College, Westmoreland County, Pann syivania, to be educate! for the priesthood. He was ordaine] at 5t, Vincent's, He also studied medicine at this college. In 180) he went to Mount Troy and has been there ever ginee, and became widely known for pers forming many miraculous cures, both by medicine and by a relic of 85t. Anthony The Peast of St. Anthony of Padua has long been the day whieh the priest-paysician tet apart for the reception of his patients from all over the country. Each year their number bas increased. They rea ‘hh into the ten thousands ° They cams trom all points of the compas wefiom Arizona and } tomy California and Connecticut, Washington and Wyoming, Florida and Minnesota Ax unknown plagues is killing oT cattle along the Cililornia bor ler, cwpecially on the Bilas Range. thy leoass consis of a swelling of the bead of the animals in an ex. traordinary manuer, succerdel by genoral trembling or call, an, a saort thar after ward, death, The save 2ompiniut is made hy Arisova cattivuicn, Rev. Fa priest, | FLFIY-SECOND CONGELsS, In the Senate, «The Pension bill bill introduced by and n. to reducs thas establish a bureau of any’ was ta the table, and Mr Petffer ad- Senat pation and ad- At the ¢l f his speech the rwitho tion WAS re. Mr. Peffer provide for rates of inter he currency ' The SERS LO0 wa messazo frou nouncing the death only long the House of one of its members, Stackhouse, of South Carolina, and to ma (offered by Mr. Butler) ex- profound re the intelli. pro five its place of Appointed were Crallinger and Allen | ] for the taken up resolut wand 1ittee of In the House, r laid ta REPUBLICAN The Carvers ot Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw eid nin Harrison fan y a the was D el A His fathe a > r was ing tters at After te (Fatty) Mr ANOS, W ani returaes WATERY GRAVES, by Drowning in Places Deaths Various Numerous ’ Numerous reports of deaths by drowning have been received from warious parts of the country Five children were Uver, at Neville Island, a few miles west of Pittsburg, Penn. the other afternoon. They were Paul Pittock, aged three; Rufus Pit tock, mine; Maggie Pittock, twelve and Ada Pittook, ourtesn--children of T C. Pittock, a prominent busin/ss man and Edna Richardson, agsd thirteen, the daughter of a raliroader. The children were playing in a buggy that was standing on th high bank of the river, jumping up and down in their play, and the buggy toppled over the bank, throwing all into the water The current was very swift and only one body was recovers! Three boys, the eldest eleven years cll and the youngest nine, were drowned in the lakaat New Litson, N. J. The eldest was the son of Joseph C. Lotta, Superintendent of the Burlington County Alms fara, and his two companions wers inmates of the Almsbous They were bathing smd one of them got beyon i his dentu Foe others went to his assistgneoe and all wers arowned Mrs, George Van Hise, wall known in Trenton, N. J... was drowned in the Dela ware River a lew days ago. Mrs, Hiss was temporarily insane, It is not known whsthe her death was the result of saleide or ace dent Frank Weston and George Murray, aged six and eight respectively, quarreiled on a boom at the foot of Mason street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Frank tried to toss George into the river, ani both fell in and wer drowned, Two brothers, Joseph and Arthur Fournier, aged fourteen and eleven years sively, were drownel wolie bathing in Taunton tiiver, Fall River, Mas While bathing in the Morris Canal, at Newark, N. J. ten yearoid Wiliam Dessti was drowned the Ohio irowne! in PRL DEATH AT MASS, Kitteen Worshipers Instantly Killed by Lightning ’ " Terrific thunderstorms prevailed in varl ous parts of Bpain heavy loss of life by lightuing is reported At Melina, inn the parish church was or ers attending mas Not much at first, lightning and a thunder caused the their feet in terror seq nel provines of Orense, the ywded when attendion was Bud with worship the storm burst paid to the storm blinding flash of terrific crash of worshipers to spring to For two or three after the flash it was (mpossible to anything. Tobe utmost confusion pre- When order wax restored, the con- horrified to find that ten of pum ber oad struck by the light. ning and instantly killed, and that twenty. eignt others had been ously inj red When this becat pan. leuly a BOG valled gregation was their Deny ple were ch met thi iral was hurt, THE MARKETS. ate Wholesale Prices of Produce Quoted in New Country York MEAS alr per pair... I L1 . Fowis8t, and Venn Western, p Ib Ducks Jorwey, Eastern Nari. L (yep Squabs-—Dark, per dog Light, per doz. ...... POTATOES AND VEGETABLES tlers ar 1b per i per it per ib, Western, per ib I'otatoss-—Southern, ssconds rp) Eastern, oid, bb ceased Mate, old per bhi ..... La 1. in bulk, per bbl Bweet potatoes, Jersey, bhi —. Cabbage, L. 1 por We ...... — Norlolk, per barfel 5) Onlons Bermuda, pererate, 100 New Orleans, per bbl Squash « Southern, white, CFR. covumrinirens ee Southern, yellow, ‘ Celery Fla, per doz. roots Lettuce, Southe rn, per iA. . I'omatess, Fla, per bush crate, 200 Asparagus N.J. doz. bunches 1 00 @& Peas, 8. Jersey, i§ bbl, basket 0 @ Long Island, per bag... . Eastern Shore, basket, String beans, Norfolk, wax, “ bbl, erate. ..... Norfolk., RTOS. «oc uvvanis Cucumbers, Savannah, crate LIVE STOCK. Beeves, Clty drassel.......e gga Mileh Cows, com, te good... 00 @¥ Onlves, City dressed... 0. vius T @ BROOP. «s0svisssss sasnssnnsss 300 (8 hi Lambs - me Hoge==Lave, coin srsnrnans ha Dressed... ov ios UHALX, ETC Flour--City Mill Extra..... Patents, .oooovv envnnnnnn Wheat==No, Hed. coviivese J nour hl Hate... Corn—Ungraded Mixed, .... Unates—No, 3 White, oo co00ese Mixed Western S AARARES Hay-tiood to UCholoe, cova Brraw Rye.coniavnes team. ... - Ahan . . Ee [1 ~~ "w EEE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 26 FOR Lesson Text Psalm Ixxi) Psalm Ixxii “Messiah's 1-10 il Reign ® Text; ( ommentary. Golden 1. “Give the ) and Thy righteou A palin penned by » King ana conesrning t omon was a typeof ( the peace and pro can bea character King and King’ . NO pan taut pare Isa, xi | be wade Him shall prayer and daily also , results parent ‘ "Us “A litle and a small will hasten shall be » A strong nation, fe lea Ix 118 nar N " { i z as sun, im Hin, ali seed.” The great - na swaeledl BAI In heaven : rand blosediness of His name i 4 or as Acts Wl, 16; iv : i i x a 1 3 % { be the Lond God, the God of only dosth wondrous things’ One bas wisely said that this verse and the next calls for adoration, pot exposition. Compare Ex. xv. 11; Jer. x. 6 7, 1 19. “And blessed be His glorious forever. and Jet the whole earth be with His glory. Amen anil amen” dive Looks of the Peslter end with xil., 13; ixxli., 10; Ixxxix,, 82; evi, 45; ol ¢ It in wort while to compara the ©.08 of each book. When this psalin shall His roves the at | est NS ~ ieeae lerael, who NAM filled The be falfilied then David shall have no more occasion to pray. The promises that the whole earth shall be filled with His glory are found in Num. xiv., 21: Im. xi, % Hab. Wi, 14 They should tnspire us to work mightily wo hasten it~ Lesson Helper. ——— ctr h A The Wise OO) Hen Instinct teaches the hen that fs would boao good to warin only one side of her eges, and so when she feels that they are “done” on one side shd turns thems gently round. Anyone who has watched setting hens has seen them rise every now and then and shuffle abbut for a few moments on the nest. That is when they ture the eggs over.
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