IT WRECKED A VILLAGE Fatal Explosion ot Flour Dust at Litchfield, IIL The Mighty Shock Felt Miles | Away From the Scene, At 3:80 o'clock a few mornings ago fire was discovered in the big Keeler flouring mill in Litchfield, Ill, efforts of the employes, it quickly spread throughout the building, While employes and firemen the flames a terrifle explosion caused by flour dust occurred, and the immease struc. ture was blowa to fragments, John Cowie, head millwright, living at Waterios, N. Y., was instantly killed, and soveral employes were seriously injured. The explosion wrecked nearly every business house in the village. Many persons were badly hurt by flying bricks and falling timbers. The damage to the mill alone will reach $1,000,000, and other property was damaged over $150,000, The shock was felt in the neighboring villages of Clyde, Butler, Gillespie and Hills- boro. In many of these places tha con- cussion was so great that plate glass win. dows were broken. When the fire started the citizens were awakened by the ringiog of fire-bells and before they could dress, many of them were half stunned by the shock of the explosion, The next moment they found the walls of their homes falling upon them, It is estimated that $500) worth of glass was destroved in the town, Houses in Liteh field were shaken from thelr foundations and the machinery in the Litchfield Car and Machinery Companies’ works was so jarred that work had to be suspendad Western Union Telegraph wires were also prostrated, It is believed that a spark from a passing locomotive ignited the dust in the and caused the explosi The large elevat across the Wabash and containing wheat, was quickly with its valuable ground, Ten or twe trac and, despite the wore fighting mill standing immediately some the house THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Produce 12 BEANS Beans—Marrow, 1892, cho Medium, 182 Pea, Red kidney, 180 lad kidney, poor t Lima, Cal., per Green peas, 1802, of OC New Prices yantry Quoted in York, AND PEA eB 4 1802 bush par bbl Creamery -S St. & Per Western, Wester , 2ds creamery nery ner Western—Im W. Im. crea W. Im. « Western Factory, fres W. Factory, W. Factory and dair; rea Ry CHERSE State factory — ream, e, fan Full cream, Full crean Part skims, Bevsnns Part skims, good to prime Part skims, common.... Full skims, ..cooee.. ROGOS, State and Penn—Fresh Western— Fresh, fancy Limed State, FRUITS AND BERRIES Apples— King, per bbl,...... Baldwin, per bhi Greening, per bb Grapes, up river, Del W. N.Y, fresh, 5 Ib, W. N. Y., inferior, 5 II Cranberries, Jersey, orate. HOPS State—1502, fair to choice 1891, prime 182, common Old odds....... IAVE PO Fowls—Jervey, State, Western, per ib kens, local, 1 Western per Roosters, old, per 1b.....cus Furkeys, per Ib Ducks-N. J, N. Y., per pair, ...... wr per pair, Geese, Westorn, per p Fige IR, per par DRESSED POULTRY =~ Chi Penn, pa ® paren bad 218 “ FRESH KILLED Turkeys, per Ib... ...co0ieue i 3 Chickens Phila. per ib..,.. 17 # Western, per ib, . Fowls=8t, and West, per ib Ducks— Fair to fancy, per Ib Eastern, per ib ... ....e0 Nopring, Ro i., por Ib. ... Gesso Western, per Ib. . .... Nquabs-<Dark, per dox..... White, per doz VEGETANLES I'otatoss-State, por LI Jersey, prime, par bhi Jersey, inferior, per bbl, L. L, in bulk, per bbi.. Cabbage, L. L, per 100,..... Onlons= Eastern, yellow, bbi. Eastern, red, por bbl... Miata, per bbl... .... 0000 Hquash— Marrow, per barrel, Sweet potatos, Va., per bbl. Houth Jersey, per bbl. ... Celery, near by, doz. bunches GRAIN, RTC, Flour-~City Mill Extra. .... PAbatIts: oo 2.0 cous osis Wheat No, Hd Red.soisesess Bys=Sa0, ,.ooviiiiiiiiinne Bariey—Tworowed MNtate, Corn—Ungraded White, ,,,, Unte—~No, 3 White, .,....... Mixed Western, .....oee Hay ~tood to Choloe, ,..... Straw-Long Bye....ooovvis Lard-City Steam, .....v.. 10, LIVE STOCK, Booves, City dressed. ,...... Mileh Cows, com. to good w - - = «1 & - - = AE : ] 83% PEST -— > WW 3 x SS08605666d Ibs. ER EE EE EE ELE EEE { ington | Homoluln | minutes before NEWSY GLEANINGSE, Crovrena is gaining ground in Rusia, Ruope ISLAND is to be stocked with quil, Tax British army in Egypt is doubled, AUSTRIAN crops have been greatly dame aged by frost, THe exodus W est continues, Tree is not a church Taney County, Missouri. being of Illinois farmers to the of any sort in [| ProrLosoked drought is causing much | damage in the North of Africa, | News from Hawaii ia that Royalists are forming AntisAmerican Loagues, Tie San Francisco (Cal) police have de clared war on the Chinese highbinders Tug indications are that North Carolina planters will not reduces the cotton acre ng THERE are 7000 families along the Kansas | border ready to rush into the Cherokes Strip. Ax Indian girl, aged ten, was carrier] off and eaten by cougars near [iiden, Wash ington, ALL Hebrew bankers of been urged to boycott Russia in market, have oan Bur pe the A STRANGE disease among cattle in Cen tral lllinols is believed to be due to the feed. ing of millet, President Cleve opening IT is now assured that land will press the button at the the World's Fair. I'ng total shipments of Nicaragua to this country 1,4%4.775 bunches A MYsTERious underground discovered four and on northwest of Augusta, Ill bananas {rom furing | ere | BR been A CATTLE milhions of river Niger and Lake plague has cattle having died lelind I'ng S UJ rin [reights, Railros DE LESSEPS IS GUILTY, Also Con Baithut and Blondin are victed ot Bribery addres Pr with Alsencs De Lessops, a ter of Pabli Panama L. guilty; t th ors were famages 3 O prison wis and parties mv condemned to pay the demanded by t condinge he Court alio ordered M Blondin and Baihat to pay M the liquidator of the Panama Canal § the amount taken from the treas company and p wut for his fluence in fav ry Loan bill ae Civil EE —— a —— | BLOUNT OFF FOR HAWAIL The Rey Cutter Hush is Him to the Islands Jamm H nue faking Ex Representative arrived at San NED al, from Wash and » 3 r noon started | United Btates revenue cutter Richa Lust Commissioner Blount was seen for a few boarding the Rush, and, upon being requested to say something about his mission, replied: “My mission, 55 far as instruct connected with it are concerned, is a sec one, and in regard to thoss instructions | am absoiately unable at present to impart any information %o the public, [| would like to do so, but | can't When asked if he had any idea as to how long he would be away he said [ imagine that [ may be absent about thres months I probably remain at the wl the ne rot he Rush will ands as long as | am there and I shall very Hkely return in ber Captain C, L. Hooker, commander of the Rush, expected to make the trip in about eight days. ———— — OXFORD THE WINNER. Result of the English ‘Varsity Four Mile Race tor "98 The great English "Varsity boat race be. tween Oxford and Cambridge, four miles over the Putney-Mortlake ovurse, has just been won by Oxford, Ihe tide was running strongly and thers was a slight wind, The boats started at 4.05 p.m, Oxford won the race by half a length from Cambridge, The tims of the winning crew was 18 minutes and 47 ssoonds, The fact that the time was faster than Inst your's time, by neariy hall a minute, is sitributed to the lack of obstruction in the river, where the railway bridge is being re- paired. It was the fiftieth annual race between the weight oared crews of the two great Universities, Thousands of people wit nesoed it, The Oxford and Cambrilge race is of added interest to Americans this year by reason. of the pros wotive appearance of thes: famous and famously trained crews in America and against our pstted Harvard or Yale. | (ireat pado bad whirled up the i from the mx {| and Charles H, { lon SWEPT BY WINUSTORMS Damage Done in the South and West, ' Several Towns in Mississippi Re- ported Nearly Destroved. reports Memphis West North- ern Mississippi indicated that a terrific tor. Beattering to Tonnessre and coming from points in Mississippi Valley mthwest, crushing and sweeping away everything in its mad path, Telegraph wires in every direction were twisted into tangles and communication with the storm-swept localities was ex ingly difficult and unsatis/actory Trains from the East reaching the city late in the afternoon and « ning brought re- ports of widespread destruction. Passen i O01 | gers on the Yazoo and Mis issippi Valley tram told of the destruction of Tunica, Miss, I'he Birmingham train dus in Memphisat uld not get to Memphis until alter Yolock, men being compelled to chop and remove trees off the track Memphis and Kelly, which is situated about thirteen miles from Memp The swath of the storm Kansas City, Memphis and road seemed to embraces territors Cooper ville and Branch, houses, hug were raz the ground by t violen > The damage at Tunica, Miss, we great. Houses were crushed The ruthless visitor lingered scarcely two minutes ye in tt 5:50 o'clock « between RES as it crossed the Hrmingham pel woen (ive g of wm, very lke egg shells over the greater Fhe Knights « snd Mas Oniv a heap of t bry Hall i» iren I'he 1.2 First Session in Paris Sea Court art of Arbiter Heulties bet nited States in n i Ministry prs sent All the membe They are Senator J the Presideat te (out wore Harlan at pointed by States: Baron President of Gram, ag Marquis KE pointed by the Kit nen and Sir John pointed by the Queen of retary of State John W / wm the part of the Tupper, Ua of Marine and Great the pointe niio As Agent Minister on the part of nt on the of the Pheip f Verm rk: Hens assistant H agant UNAS] pres States were KE J James C. Carter of New 1} Blodgett, of Hilinols, for tue United States, Lansing Now York. The counsel for Great Britain present were Sir Charles Russell, Attorney eneral , Bir Richard Welster, ax. Attorae)y General; Q. U, Robinson, of the Canadian Bar, ana W, H, Cross, M. Develle. French Minister « ¥ Affairs, made a short speech wel members of the Court, the age sounsel, The meeting was pureiy formal, tials were presented and the Court organies | by the ation of Baron de Courcelles as President, It was decided to meet at 11:30 a, m, each day, and to «it for four hours and a hall dally, the meetings to be open to members of the press to whom cards should be lsued, The Court then ad journed until April 4, In order 0 examine the printed arguments of the United Sates and Oreat Britain, which were presented BREEDING ANIMALS. Tess Stringent Megulations Made by Secretary Carlisle, part ani Lobert reign ning the and the Creden Secretary Carlisle has issand a otreular in regard to the importation of animals for breading purposes, which mo Jifles the exist. ing regulations by making them in some re. speots loss stringent, vious requirement of ‘‘four too erosses” Is reduced to ‘three top cross” Whenever the required cortifion tes cannot ba furnished at the time of arrival of the anh mals and the Collector is satisfied from other evidence that the animals would be entitled to free entry, they may be so admitted on bond for the prosuction of the required cer. tifionte, A new list of recognized registries has been promulgated for the guidance of col lectors of customs, A wi A TREMEXDOUS blast was fired the oth day at Carpenter Brother's quarry, at Fur. Le, N J. opposite New York City, Cou potent engineers estimate the quantity «i. placed at 100,000 tons, Wastiington's H wi, an A ao Wack Low an Loytay net alisades woo, torn away by the blast, of the SABBATIL SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON APRIL 2, FOR Lesson Text; “I'he Marte, Text; lesurrection xxvill,, 1.10. 1 Cor, xv, “20 we Commentary, ot Chirise Golden EE ———— As we are t ) have but four lessons the book of Job it seems a pity to lose one of them; but it seems best for many reasons to CUNO the Fastor ISRSON, As resurrection is the consummation of the work of redemp- ton, and for it the enlightened believer must most ardently look aud feng, One word as to Job and his Lory. He was as real a pers son as N Esek, xiv. 14, opshing chapters ia devil and his and also that he m the righteous with in ahh or Danlel, Bee ¥. 3. The ‘raonaity of the righteous Ay a finger up Pern ise xxvil, 1, “In ne it hatred cannot out Math, bat the great at the end of the Sab. fo dawn toward the first , came Mary Mag lalens and Mary to see the began f the woe her I'he ment had been offered sine hile rings whic the gaori- typilind in red for his fice had been the burnt off wh ie hildren (Jot | %, and in Ads, ni wor ifioes God had meade who knew no sin that rigt yusness of God de had suffered the from Him to be sin we might be gi n Him the days of rus made the 11 Cor, v.21 Math » had said the bird day, and if t sis out and be - of have gone y the His body, Mary of nted Him before i for was the only ¢ wh Hana i wi His word xvi seen sd from the did There is with great and great and ies x msistent i ol . on foar of loving fonr § Fial nor His holy name, The Men Was probably sa awe hapoene ant they were full because He sought was our salv a Nay fear at what had of joy alive *. “And as they behold, Jesus met at a and dis hese w ve such fs whom they went ¢ siples, them, saving, All bail! ibeld Him by the feet worshiped Him. ™ A little earlier on this day He refused to allow Mary Magin- lene to touch Him because He bad not then ascended, 80 that between the meeting with her and with these women He must have ascended and returne 1. as nodoubt He dd many times during those forty days before His last and visible ascension till He shall Come again 10, “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid; go vell My Lrethren that they gO into Galilee, and there shall they see Me. .¥ An. thor “lear not.” and this time from Jesus Himself Ses His unchanging love to those disciples. Althougn Pater bad denied Him, and all had forsaken Him, yot He says “My brethren,” and the message through Mary Magdalena is “Say unto them ascend unto My Father and vour Father, and to My God and your God John xx ' HF And ae cording to Mark xvi, 7 there is a special message to Peter, the one who denied Him, Our risen and exalted Jesus is to-day the very same Josus, and whom He love: He loves to the ena (John xiil Helper Toe Czar 1s likely to announce him solf as Emperor of Asia. If he does there will be an imperial coolness bee tween Victoria, by the grace of God Empress of India, and himself. 1 Jrss—To be safe, a young gir should keep her heart under lock and key. Jack--1 fancied most of them did keep it at the bottom of their chests —Quips And they comme ar And 1). ==L sson - Be i LAviNIA~Yes, James and I are to tecome partners for life. Mabel =~And you will be the senior partner. How sweet!-Judy. i NECESSITY OF THE DUST BATH. Did you ever notice bens dusting in a or under a shed They are taking hollow in the ground, where the earth is dry f a bath, necessary in cleansing feathers, equally as important to health as a bath in water is toany of us, Deprive } cir dust bath t of fresh § You but lack of dusting materia this « ears, are keeping hen fowls, and ir maitio fowls canne Indep nad JY i year, Fr horse radish May 1 brings, five cents per pot greater th in most . demand And tii UsuURY . Lhe suppiy. It is : hyo however, a or Wp with which market radish way. If it once gets full possession of the ground it is bard to clear the ol ton Cultivator, 15 easly glutled, fora tiie horse is strong enough to go a great land it, = os LAWSES AND LAWN GRASSKS, Nothing is more desirable about » place or more beautiful than a well kept lawn, and it is not difficult to make or keep in order. The land should carefully graded, if the lawn be of any extent, or even if it be but a city lot The preparation should be thorough snd deep so as to give the seeds a good chance and early start and the plant a fertile soil in which to grow, It takes plenty of seed, more thar one would think, because the seeds are so light. The seed should be sown in early spring, in March if possible. When sown on what is called a sugar snow one ean no- tice the even distribution of the seeds, They will sink down as the snow melts and will need no making in. be over evenly and do not troube to take off any of it, unless it be very coarse. If on city plat, with the streets ruoning east and west, ard on the north side of the wireet, it will prove mther difficult to get a good stand, because of the bot sun and reflection trom the buildings. their | their i It fine | compost manure can be bad, spread it | | If on streets running north and there is no wsuperable difficulty in ting grass is, of course, the main our section of the State, where abounds, it is almost indigenous a good stand and a thick tod, | its first cousin, June grass, with white clover an it will make the perfection of a en 1 sweet vernal grass iawn, so-called lawn grass is bought ly mixed, it eo } S08 named, yt reep in, and it is well ed un « it il up or i fe as soon neti Ve. Crusts of # unsut passed p uitry. When be starts the het top laying they can Dy giving a Caange for a living their eggs Fowls that have to hunt t ually masage to hide oul when they lay. The best profit from eggs is in the winter and good treatment must Le given to secure them The turkey flock should be mated up Select only well matured fowls breeders. al once. for the The small allowance of bone meal in the food will be beneficial to young fowls that are afflicted with leg weak- ness, In shipping hens and roosters have them in different coops. Have shipping | coops high enough so the birds can stand up in them, The blossom of the plant from which coffee is obtained is white, It gross to about the height of tea feet, ani the fruit is of a bright red color. Do not get ready to rua a winter dairy and expect to make it pay wholly ou dey feed. Ensilage and the winter dairy are | the complement ul each other. It requires but little time and ations tion to manage a small for, but 11 it is | intended to go inte the raian aca vase | ness it means work and pleaty of it, Are you erowdinZ too many ou ocens in one roosting plaoc! Are you pers mituag cbieks under four months to roost other than on floor or coop! ifso, correct at once theses mistakes,
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