recent: g 6 willl. ph wordss. f gold. eanti-— t vice : HOSPITAL ABUSES. Putting Logwood In ths Coffe. There was a yery large hospital af «Madison, Indians, which: was: very much crowded in 1864-1865 with the sick and'womnded. I established a . special diet kitch- ‘en there for the preparation of ; food for the very fi = sick and severely 2 wounded, and “placed one of my “lady helpers in =icharge. She had scarcely’ assumed -=285% supervision of the ‘till.she began complaining of the quality of the food, especially of ‘the coffee. As she put it: “There is mothing in this hospital fit for a well #man to eat, much less these sick and wounded and dying mem.” I was in Washington at the time, but I telegraphed to Miss Louisa Vance, one of the shrewdest and most «careful workers of the Christian Com- arission; to gomplain;ibut watch. There As ng wrong in that hospital; find out what it is. - The Government furnishes good supplies and good: cof- fee; find out what becomes of: don’t, for the life of these men, let th surgeon and hospital steward know tha they are suspected. Make frequenter- ~ rands to the room of the Commissary,” \ _ wefc., etc. She was not long in.findin out as to the cheating andy adulte tion. The first clue was obtained be- ause of the rule in that hospital, that ‘a barrel be placed beside the Kitchen «door,and all the coffee grounds emptied “into it. ‘““‘Boys,” she said to ‘some of dhe men who did | «do you put the coffee | “They have been ugel count.” io x | It’s the surgeon's orders. = = *He has them hauled away and wemptied; I suppose?” f° 1 \. No, he has them dried on the com- +#missary floor.” : Gives them to poor people, I sup- pose?” : “I don’t know,” answered one, but there was a general laugh among the amen in the kitchen. sr Bhe made an excuse to go to the «commissary - room, and there, sure enough, on the floor, was a large pile sof ol¢ Joie grounds. ‘The “nen, cm- syed there were busy .stirting and jurping it over to hasten the drying process. She asked for something, in reless way, and then said as she Avas legving:' = yy “You have a good lot of coffee, boys. hat in the world are you going to do ith ‘so much coffee?” [hie Butgeon in charge is going: fo: I guess,” and thea they. all d. She felt sure from their man- aier that these men knew all the secrets. of that commissary department, and it just be her business to ‘get it’ from them. But I was urging her to be care- ul, for if false charges were brought against the surgeon in charge of a large Bospital, it’ would injure the Diet- itchen service all along the line. We wvere in daily correspondence. She had tested the ¢offes every way she could __ -thibk of, but could not ‘décide as’ to: how it was adulterated. She had a : mew white-pine sink put in the kitchen, and poured out some coffee on that. It stained the boards legwood color. She dznew now at least one article of adul- teration. She looked the men of the ‘commissary well over, and picked ont one, an innocent young fellow, that she _ thought she might surprise into a con-, ifession. : Waiting her chance, when no’ ~One was near, she'faced him with the terrible question: ‘Why ddyoumen in the'commissary- woom put fogwood and every other vile - +gtuff in the coffee for our poor sick and vwounded men to drink? Have you no ~ .gonscience? Do you want to kill them? Phe poor boy turned pale and stag- «gered back as though he would fall,as the stammered: “We have to do it—it’s. the sur- ‘geon’s orders... Indeéd, Miss vance,we «can’t help it,” and he dashed away as fast as he could go to tell the others. “Oh! boys, Miss Vance knows: all about the cheating here, and the log: ~evood and everything in the coffee.” = 8 they wanted to get themselyes right with Miss Vance, thd, others ‘as .800n ag they could went to her to apologize and to assure her that it was orders, She assumed not to believe ~ «that a surgeon would give such orders, and said she could not believe till she saw the orders. They brought them, and also the surgeon's instructions for . “mixing, and various other.deviees for cheating. “Now, boys, don’t say a word about ‘this till I can see what I. can do.’ 3 Ofcourse I got all these facts as «quick asthe mail could bring them. I _ swrote her “to be careful, to make c op- des ofall the papers and records cf the “false entries in the books, and take ; se men one by one to a Justice of 4h ace or Notary Public, and have os fulepos. 2 to Tain: for, if the eon should suspect what she. was ir, he would at once “xe d order them to join their regiments, stand alone. I | mybut. within me with righteous indignation. When I went into the office of General ‘Wood the next morning I was in a mood for strong talk. He gave me his usual cordial greeting. like to see you alone,” I said. madesuch a request before. . “Certainly,” he said, aud nodded to the two or three clerks in the room to withdraw. As soon as the door was closedbellind them, I began: ; “I cams to report Dr, R——, of the Madison Hospital.” Gg . 4Dr. R——. Why, he is ons of my best surgeons. ‘What has he done?” _one before. “Please, madam, explain,” he said. * gay and giving them a little coffee mixed tion. sible.” “Nevertheless it is true, and he iss cheating you in making up his hospi: 088ibl ST POSBID16y returns with the affidavits. 2 .. He brought out thie official returns which had been sent by the surgeon -andewe compared them. . Hels a villain, a heartless villain,” the General would mutter at each new exhibition of the surgeon’s rascality. When we had gone through with ¥ pers, he said in a most emphatic “I will punish that man to the full extent of the law? 4 ; “No, General, he will elude you; he: will find some way to escape. Ifdealt with by military law he will escape, but Il langhat will reach him.” nd lay the facts and these papers be- fore him, and put the whole case in his hands., The hospital is; in his State, and I don’t think he can get. out ofthe clutches of Gov. Morton.” My words” were like the shock of an.clectric bat: tery. He sprang to his feet and walk- ed the floor in an excited state of mind. At last he calmed himself enough to speak, and facing ‘me, he said: #Madam, do you wish to kill me? | Do you wish to stab me to the heart 2” “Certainly not. TT have the highest respect for you.s I believe, you are in- ugcent inthis matter, but I: do not want that villain to escape.” “He shall not escape.” “What will you do ¢” : : 41 will send up Inspector Allen right away.’ rpg “No, that won’t do. Inspector Al- len has been going up month ‘after month and has not seen a thing wrong. No, I am sorry to say it, but I do not believe you can bring this med to jhs- tice. ‘Gov. Morton is my only chance #0 Becure that? Tid} INOW A SED I shall never forget with what: ma: Christian gentleman of the old school, too honest and true himself to suspect others as’ frauds. °° 3 yy { “Mrs. Wittenmyer,” he said, “you could not possibly do me a greater in- jury; such a thing would likely:lead to my removal You certainly do not de- sire that. Have I not co-operated with you in all-your- great-plans, removing from one hospital to another surgeons at your suggestion? Have I not placed steamers and trains to carry your goods, and extended to you the hearty co-operation and aid of this office? ‘Why should you wish to in- jure me 2” i “I do not wish to injure you. I only want to bring this rogue to justice. You haye done all that any onecould do for me, and the influence of your high office has helped me along the lines.. = I shall ever hold you in grate. ful remembrance for your kindness and co-operation, but I cannot stand by and see our sick and wounded men treated in this way, and not do my ut- most to bring such a rascal to justice.” “He shall be brought to justice, I will make this proposition: to you: I will appoint a commission to investi- gate, bring charges against and court | martial him, and yon may select the “commission.” 3 : “But he will resign as soon as he knows ‘they are going to bring charges’ £3 | %1 will not accept hisresignation.”; And so this plan was agreed to, as aver the opposition of the Asst. Surge- on-General, who had been my ablest helper, I saw it would not do to go, as I wished to do, to Gov. Morton. I selected Dr. Clendening, Medical Director of that Department, as the President of the Court. The others were among the best medical men of the army. The Commission received the docu- ments, went to Madison, and verified all Miss Vance’s statements, and sat down together to formulate the charges. Rut as sooh as the committee came on the ground Surgeon R—— telegraphed is resi i rg.-Gen. B at graph, and he wason a | The Commission Was .g pointed, and ‘Geni. oh, , humilidted sh r afterwa ds, “Gen. Wood, if you please, I would} 0 £ 14 _.He looked surprised, as I had never “You may think that he is one of | any such emphatic terms about any, with logwood and other vile adulterar | proof here ing 83 O8¥0.50v o sub Sete ofeiA-Btoekton (Cal) well bérer recently a 3507 Township, and blacksmith by trade, recently celebra his, 112th. birthday. Horticulturists say that apples grown in grid the same fruit grown on Gultivated land. In almost everyschool of (the! Mikado’s Empire it is the custom one day in the autumn to take the pupils. out rabbi hunting)? «LW S02 SOR _ The oldest woman in Indiana is:Grand- ‘ma Sears, of Plevna, Ind.., Bhe is 108 years old, and has smoked her pipe daily Jour best surgeons, but my opinion of! him is that he ought to be hung higher than Haman.” 5 The General: looked greatly sur- prised, as he had never heard me use. for ninety years; ; hae The world converses in 16000. known Idnguagés’and’ dialects, and in addition to thése there drs’ some that scholars have not yet learned and classified. (=4Heds cheating and. starving the'| A'sizéina coat is pu inch; in nnder- soldiers and selling their good coffee’ wear the’ same} in socks, ah inch; in a collar, a half-inch; in trousers; on and in adat one<eighth of an’ inch. i ngland.: It: quite fills a Aarge greenhouse. : Some 2000 buds have been trinimed from the tree, and: it still edimny _fonnd the tooth of-an-animal at the depth | of 1124 feet. ., It. resembles the BootE of "| a monkey. Another tooth, apparently that of a herbaceous animal, was found abla depth of 900 feet, \/ 04 T in the world are those occupied by the magnificent horses of the Baroness Von Zuyllan in Paris, France. The stables. cover three acres of ground and are fitted up in a style that is little less than sump- tuous. ; i In 1889 a man walking along Cresent Beach, Block Island, discovered the hip |-bones. of some. gigantic species of. extinct animal. The combined weight of the two bones (generally speaking the sacrum +is-called a single" bone), “was nearly 800 pounds. iis The State Treasury of New Hampshire hés “jase ‘ been’ ‘drawn ‘on’ for $360 for thirty-six bears killed within the limits of one town (Bartlett) during last year, and of this sum one man, F. C. Merrill, received $280 for twenty-eight that he personally drilled mim oan on { The Cligese make; what isi called oop ya-hiy or grass: cloth, from the ‘fibre of the common nettle. It issaid to make a splendid eloth for tents, awnings, chinery it is said to have twice the strength of leather. va The Earl of Rosse’s famous American aloe, which, on completing the hun- dredth year of its existence last August, further verified the tradition of its spe: cies by ‘dying: and leaving seedings springing up at its base. ; A new viaduct over the River Lea, in Bolivia, for the Antofogasta Railroad, is described, as.the highest viaduet in the world, It is 9833 feet above the sea above theriver is 4008 feet. It 1s 10,- 497 feet long, the ‘highest pillar is 3736 feet and the weigh of the structure is jesty. he stood before’ me. A perfect "91K tons.” =~ The savages of the. Amazon region, of South America, fed the common green parrot for generations with the fat of certain fishes, thus causing it to become beautifully variegated with red and yellow feathers. In like manner the natives” of the Malay Archipelago by a process of feeding changed the talka- tive lory into the gorgeous king lory. R:velations of an Artesian Well. The story of the earth may never be fully told, and most of its particulars, though guessed at with much intrepid- ity, will probably be held subject to cor- rection to the end of time. But now and then, when the crust of the planet is more deeply penetrated than usual, as when an artesian well is bored, a frag- ment of the record is disclosed, and all the old and cherished chronologies are irreparably damaged. : . Such a well was sunk recently at Gal- veston, Texas, and from a depth of 1510 feet specimens of wood came up which ‘a learned professor believes to be 200,- 000,000 years old. With the wood there were brought up seeds resembling those of the apple and blackberry. Apparently the remains of somebody’s fruit farm have been disturbed by the borers, and a considerable interval has elapsed, according to the professor’s estimate, since the owner made his- last shipment to the antediluvian market. It is but charitable to" presume “thet he has passed it in the company of that shining but extremely select band of glorified horticilturists who gave good measures, and whose; berries ‘‘grew big- ger downward through the box,”—Me- chanical News. Why the Bishop's Audience Was Large. A Harvard man, who has been living in the West since his graduation, writes home an incident in which he helped Bishop Talbot. The Bishop arrived one day in a small mining town in his dio- cese— W yoming—where he had promised to bold a service. Walking up the street; he noticed some green -handbills flying about, and he picked up ‘one. It read as follows... v3 . {{«Bishop Tibia { phéashios " to-night. Let him have a big crowd. Ly ‘P, B, Leave your guns with the usher.” we san bil The Bishop was not easily scared, bub he thought the postscript odd, to say the least. . On inguiry he lear i o learned . oun [x : d to raise 4 good Towa to greet the Bishop, and he had issu the handbills, knowing that many who would not come to hear a Bishop preach ba | would come at the hint of a dist The ¥ grass ground ‘will keep longer than’ inch; onde! of the largest'camenia plants &ver. “Impossible! That is entirely impos-# known is now roving a nursery rear .4 Birmingham, : ‘What are described as the finest stables : etc. “Witen made into belting for ma-. suddenly bloomed into flower and rose to’ -| a height of twenty-three feet, and has now 4 currenc level, and the height of the viaduct | that should any vacancy in. the - position of ] PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS IN STATE CONVENTION. Instruct for Cleveland. re Harrity for + © Commifteeman, Th Platform The Democratic State Convention met at Harrisburg and the friends of Grover Cleve- land, Governor Patt'son, and Secretary of State Harrity had matters their own avay. The program of the administration people, as they are called, did not meet with a sin- gle obstacle worth speaking of. = There was some friction here and there outside the con- vention, but inside there was a spirit of peace'and harmony that did not once suffe: disturbance, except toward the close of the morning session, when nearly all the -dele- gates had left the hall for dinner. When the convention reconvened at 4 _g’clock, Senator Hall presented the report of the committee on contested seats, and making a motion for its adoption called for the previous question.” William Foyle, of Bradford, submitted a minority report favorable to the seating of the anti-Harrity contestants, and Mr. Bane, of Washington, moved for its adoption. The motion was promptly xoted down. by an..overwhelming ‘majority. Mr, Bane, however, was not-to be easily ‘suppressed. He demanded the right to argue the report of. the. comunittee, but, Mr, Beltzhoover ruled that 4 call for the “previous question could not be debated. Mr. Bane was hissed at-and howled at, but his efforts to promote an argument were not concluded until the convention most vocif- erously refused to haye a roll-call at all on the report, which was’ adopted by a viva voce vote ro entirely one-sided that it was accepted without question asfinal. The concluding proceedings of the ses- sion, and it was protracted and tedious, was the calling by congressional districts for the names of thé persons who had been selected for "district delegates and electors.’ This took a long time. In one district; the Twenty-fifth, comprising the counties of Beaver; Lawrence, was no selection. The candidates are Sena- tor W. R. Dunlap of Beaver, C. A. Heine- man of Butler, J. B, Griffith of Mercer, and W. W. Clendennin of Lawrence. The con- vention was on the point of seating Clen- dennin and Griffith when Mr. Hensel sug- gested that the district delegates be given until the 1st of June to’ make a decision, that if it should not be settled by that time the State committee shonld, dispose of it. This was accepted by the convention. The State convention adjourned about 8 o'clock, after adopting a resolution for a committee of 15 to notify delegates and electors of their election. : THE PLATFORM. The following is the platform adopted by the conyention: e, the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, join with | our politi cal associates of other States in the effort to restore the control of the executive branch of the Federal government to the Pe of the people. We pledge anew our fealty to the principles first declared by the illustrious men who founded our free institutions and established the Democratic party to protect and preserve them. We believe in the doctrines which have been taught and the practices which have been enforced in the administration of gov- ernment by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland. : We believe in, and we declare for, honest and economical administration; for local self government; for honest money; the gold and silver coinage of the constitution, and for a ] convertible. with. such coinage without loss: for the genuine civil service reform which recognizes public office as a publie trust; for al but not reckless pensions, and for the speedy abatement of all forms of needless and oppressive taxa- on. “With special relation to-the pending polit- cal condition in the country and common. weath, we resolve andideclare: : 1. “That the paramount reform now de- mand:-d of the Federal legislature is the reform of the tariff laws u the basis of the Democratic national platform of 1888, to the end that no money shall be needlesly exacted from the industries and necessities of the people, and that our industrial inter- ests shall not be prejudiced by excessive taxation, false systems of finance, or ex- frevapen: cost of production. To this end the McKinley tariff bill should be repealed, the essential raw materials of erican manufactures should be put upon the free list, and a revised tariff should be adopted, with due regard forthe rights of American labor and the preservation of our manufao- 2. That, consistent with this issue and with this demand, the sentiment of the Pennsylvania Democratsis overwhelming- ly for the renomination to the presidency of the man who gave to his party intellectual and volitical Ieadership, and to the country a pure and: clevated administration. We declare our conviction thag the best interests of the party and of the eountry demand the nomination and election of Grover Cleve- land as plesidertt, and we are confident that under ‘his leadership. the - principles of Democracy will win a glorious victory, and to the end that the vote and influence of Peunsylyania may be most effectually heard and felt, the delegatesthis day chosen are directed to act asa unit in all matters en- trusted to their charge, said action to be determined by the vote of the ‘majority of the delegates. ws 3. That the honest courageous and effici- ent administration of Robert E. Pattison, governor , of Pennsylvania, merits the ap- proval and confidence of the people’ of the commonwealth, and bas the hearty com- mendation of the party whose standard he twice carried to victory; that his efforts to enforce the constitution and’ laws are praiseworthy and patriotic, and: have our unqualified approval. . That the action of the Republican State senate in evading the duty of pro- nouncing judgment upon faithless State officials was a cowardly. subterfuge . and .a disgrace? lolation of publie duty. 5, hat; n accordance with the recom- mendation of the national Democratis com- ‘mittee, the Demacratic State, county and city ‘committees are advised and directed to further by every means in their power the oreapiging of regular Democratic societies in the De poratic Society. of Pennsylvania and the National, Clubs. | "Resolved, That we cordially approve the action of the Democratic State central com- mittee in ‘sélecting Wm. F. Harrity to fill the vacancy in the Democratic national commit- ee, caused by the death of the late Wm, L. tt, and we hereby declare Mr. Harrity to be the choice of the Democracy of Pennsyl- vania for the full term of membership of {he SEER a ittee which eging in 18 DEX. | un oR ik Ani That the BoriatioState'bén- tral committee of Pennsylvania is hereby 11 any ‘and all vacancies that r the adjournment .of the the position of candidate for preme court, of candidate for gressmal large, of candidate for presi- dential Sacto: at-large or of delegate-at- large to th nocratic national convention: by the nomination or election of suitable persons to fill such vacancies; provided, pit ation of Democratic delegate-at-large occur on or after June 1, 1892, then EE Yoo ron shall be filled by the remaining del at-large. + Resolved, That the delegates to this: State convention from their several congression ercer and Butler; there THE TICK? Following is the ticket so far as it has been completed. The only omissions are in the Eighth. Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Twenty-fifth congressional districts. where the delegates and electors are not yet chosen. For Judge of the supreme court—Chris- tian Heydrich. For congress-at-large—George A. Allen, Thomas P. Merritt. For electors-at-large=—Mortimer F. Elliott, John C. Bullitt, Thomas B. Kennedy, David T. Watson. Delegates-at-large—George Ross, W. U. Hensel, Wm. Singerly. Charles Robinson, Harry Alvan Hall, John L. Grant Herrin, Henry Meyer. District electors—FEirst, Samuel Gustine Thompson; Second, Clement R. Wainright; Third, Adam 8. Conway; Fourth, Thomas Delahunty; Fifth, Charles J. Young; Sixth, G. R. Guss; Seventh, John O.James; Eighth, ——; Ninth, Wm. Molan; Tenth, James Dull; Eleventh, C D. Breck; Twelfth, S W. Trimmer; Thirteenth, ——; Fourt enth, ——: Fifteenth, Samuel S. Leiby; Sixteenth, Azur Lathrop; Seveuteenth, F. Hipple; Eighteenth, Thomas Chalfont; Nineteenth, WD. Hummelwright; Twentieth, P, H. Strubinger; Twenty-tirst, H. B. Piper; Twen- ty-second, Jos. D. Orr: Twenty-third, A. P. aytin; Twenty-fourth, Charles A. Fagan; Twenty-fifth, ——; Twenty-sixth, John D. Brayden; Twenty-seventh, M. Leibel; Twenty-eight. J. K. B. Hall. National Delegates—First,®Robt. 8, Patter- son, P. J. Corcoran; Second, Jno. R. Read, J. J. Malonev; Third, P. Monroe, Thos, J. Ryan; Fourth, Samuel Josephs, Chas H. Lafferty; Fifth, Cornelius M. Smith; W. Redwood Wright; Sixth, O. B. Dickenson, A. M. Holding; Seventh, I. Heston Todd, R. K Bachum; Eun, ; Ninth, Jeremiah Hageman, B. M. Bruber; Tenth, John A. Coyle, W. B. Given; Eleventh, F. J. Fitz simmons, F. M. Vandling; Twelfth, J. T. Lenhan, . Smoulter, r.; Thir- teenth. ;Fourteenth, ; Fifteenth, 8. P. Light, Christian Hanlen; Sixteenth, George S. Purdy, Nelson Lee; Seventeenth, J. H. Cochran, Jno. W. Bailey; Eighteenth, Wm. Krickbaum, C. H. Dickerman; Nine- teenth, H. T. McAteer, D. M. Crawford; Twentieth, R. E. Shearer, Horace Keesy; Twenty-first, J. M. Reynolds, Herman Bau- mer; Twenty-second, Thomas Lynch, G. A. Jenks; Twenty-third, F. C. Osborn, H. F. Kunkel; : Twenty-fourth, Jas. M. Guffy, G. 8. Fleming; Twenty-fifth, ——; Twenty- sixth, A. L. Mestrezat, T. H. Sharpnack; Twenty-seventh, 8. C. Brady, John Fer- tig; Twenty-eighth, W. A. Wallace, Thos. ollins. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Mzx100’s cotton crop is a failure. Tae export trade continues heavy. GERMANY will adopt the Maxim gun.. A REVOLUTION is threatened in Hawaii, THE flour trade outlook is unfavorable. THERE are 16,000,000 cows in the United States. SILVER continues very low in foreign markets. THE annual exodus to Europe of American tourists has begun. THE inflow of American securities held abroad is falling off. TER THOUSAND bills have been introduced in the present House. THE political situation in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, is again critical. THE decline in the price of silver is causing depression in business in Mexico. Louisiana has two Republican and two Democratic candidates for Governor. THE American convention sysvem has been introduced into politics in Mexico. YELLOW fever prevails to an alarming extent at Santos and Rio Janeiro, Brazil. ENGLAND'S exports decreased $10,000,000 last month as compared with March, 1891. RUSSIAN peasants have been discovered gelling their children prior to immigrating. THERE are from 30,000 to 100,000 lepers in the Republic of Colombia, South America. A NEW herring bank 100 miles Jong has been discovered off the west coast of New- foundland. ; IN the season of 1891 °92 the number of hogs packed in the United States amounted 10.14,457,614, THE Ameer of Afghanistan is.said to have formally declared in favor of England as against Russia. : : THE war in Dahomey, Africa,is caused b the natives, who want victims for the annual sacrifices. THE anarchists of Paris, France, are cre- ating a greater commotion than at any time during the century. THE 54,000-candle power light in the Bar- tholdi Statue at New York will be replaced by one o£.100,000-candle power. LAND valuesare not declining as a year ago. Real estate in cities and towns is ad- vancing, and suburban properties are worth more than last year. ‘W. T. BARKER was re-elected President of the World's Fair Directory with his salary reduced one-half; Solicitor-General Butter- worth retires, his office: having been abol- ished. Caprtaiy E. B. FULLER is under orders to exhume the remains of the members of the Seventh Cavalry who fell in the battle ef Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a year agd and remove them to Fort Riley for final in- terment. A CONTRACT has been completed for the construction of an irrigating. canal and res- ervoirs in Santa Cruz Valley, California.The canal will be seventy miles Jong find thirty feet wide at the bottom; 300, acres of land will be reclaimed. STocKMEN along the Cheyenne River, in South Dakota, have inaugurated a war faa the extermination of wolves that are killing large numbers of calves and colts. Ten Rus- sian wolfhounds have been bought from Tennessee to be used in the hnnt. TWO HUNDRED DROWNED, McKinney, Terrible Loss of Life at Columbus, Miss., by the Floods of Last Week. MempHIS, TEAN. Apr. 1l4—Late reports from Columbus, Miss., says that at least 200 negroes were drowned in the floods of last week. A great deal of cotton has been des- troyed. Jacksox, Miss..—The Tombigbee river is falling, The number drowned is 125, and when the waters subside it is thought other bodies will be discovered. It will be several days before the river gets inside its banks, 1n many places it is upward of 10 miles wide. Mounds were under eight feet of water, and a great number of houses were swept away. MogiLE, ALA.—The Tombighes river at Demopolis has risen 8 feet since, and the river is now within 74 feet of the High water of 1874. Every railroad is washed out, and nearly all the wires are down. Every bridge in the country is washed out, and much stock has been lost. It now looks as if this flood would be greater than any before. Lrrrre Rock, x.—Reports are being hourly received from all sections of the State to the effect that rivers are rising Tap jdly and overflows are also momentarily expected to occur. ‘White river is higher than it has been for two years,’ The Arkan- sas is coming up very fast. Traing are still delayed from two to six ‘ours on account of the washouts which occurred a week ago. Four Life Savers Drowned. CoqureLLe Crry, ORE., April 14.—While the life saving crew at Bandon were practic- ing last evening their boat capsized and |: Captain Nelson and three of the crew of ight were drowned. The names of two of. the drowned men were William Green and Harry BisHop, an alleged horse thief, was arrested at Washington, and will be tried inv Waynesburg. A cH of Robert Parker of Irwin, being locked in a house which took fire, perish betore it could be gotten out. Mgss Mix~1E DErny, telegraph operator in the Donehoe tower, near Greensburg, sav 8 child’s life by snatching it from before & rain. ; NEAR Greensburg, the school house to West Fairfield was burned, supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. The loss will resch $1,200 with about $800 insurance. Tue large party of United States secret service men and internal reveuue ofhcers which left Somerset for the moonshine res gion Monday ni:ht raided a number of places and captured three distillers and four stills. = The men arrested are John H. Reese, Sr., | John H. Reese, Jr., and John H. Miller. A quantity of the i'licit liquor was confiscated. 1t is the purpose of the government officers to carry on the work until theillegal whiskey makers are driven out of the mountains or are all sent to prison. Sheriff Goed has given up the search for Pritts. Tae postoffice at Grove City was robbed early Jesterday morning by cracksmen, who blew open the safe and took all the stamps, cash and registered letters, amount= ing to $300 in all. The:clerk did not sl in the office for the first time. Lia WHILE the 4-year-old son of P. F. Curran, Supervisor of repairs on the Pennsylvania railway, was playing in the streets at Pobts~ ville, he was set upon by a dog supposed to have rabies, Flesh on both sides of his face was torn from the bones and the boy was terribly lacerated about the neck, shoulders and sides. After being cauterized the wounds were stitched, but the recovery of the child is doubtful. Darien EMERICK, a’ 60-year-old carpen of Rochester, was struck. by a locomotive and mortally wounded. : During a quarrel at Monongahela City, Joseph Gibbons was struck on the head ‘wi a stone thrown by Frank Hillman. @ It is thought it will prove fatal. ey Burcrars blew open the safe at Waynesbnrg depot of the Waynesbutg Wesalngton railroad and secured abont $40 in cash. ¢ CrAarrLEs Wess of Johnstown, who was re fused a liquor license and whose wife died recently, fatally mutilated himself with a razor, while despondent. % Ax explosion occurred late Monday Dight at the Cressona powder mills, near P : ville, blowing one of the chaser mills to atoms. The night foreman ran a narrow escape . : Counsry street Methodists at McKeesport: have received their $20,000 insurance for their edifice, recently burned. Harvey SHIRE, a well-known Lancaster young man, broke his neck Friday night by striking the wall of a bedroom in the county hospital. i Mgrs, HARPER JACK, a well known resident of Marion township, Butler county, com- mitted suicide by jumping into a well while suffering with temporary dem entia brought on by despondency. She leaves a husband and three children. ; A PATHETIC scene was witnessed at Blairs- ville at the death-bed of William Duffner, & brakeman on the West Penn railroad, who had been run down by a shifting engine and 80 badly injured that he died guring a sur gical operation, in the presence of his wife and family. He realized that he was dyin, and spoke of his little girl ‘always being al the door of his residence to wave when his train passed, and said she would ‘‘wave no more at papal’ 2 MarraEw CRAWFORD, a resident of wheat- land,. was arrested on a charge of bigamy. 1& is said Crawford has three wives living. : : In Philadelphia last year 3,358 retail liquor applications were. filed ‘and 1,258 granted. This year 3,015 applications were made and 1,383 granted, an increase of 135 over last year. For wholesale licenses 1,613 applications were made last year and granted. This Joar the applicants nu pered but 563, of which 541 were granted, 18 fofused and four withdrew their applica- ions. A spARK from a drill caused a terrific explosion in the Glendon colliery, near Ma- hony City. Thomas McWilliams was blown a long distance and instantly killed. John Phillips was fatally injured and John My- sen seriously hurt. : Miss MARRIETTA STEWART, of a pioneer family in Fayette county, was kicked ‘and trampled to death by a frightened horse at Uniontown. i Josep McCLURE, aged 89, who was & member of the legislature in 1840, ‘died at his home near Lancaster. Jonx H. BrcaTOL was run over and killed at the B. & O. R. R, station at Uniontown. He had just stepped from his back door up- on the track when the night shifter ran over mm. 3 AFTER suffering for years with stomach: pains attributed to indigestion, Frederick hillips, a prominent citizen of Strouds- burg, has just succeeded, by the aid of a werful emetic, in relieving himself of a ive lizard five inches long. i Tre Fountain postoffice was destroyed ny fire with all its contents. Several hundred dollars worth of postage stamps were. d stroyed. x Ar Dowington, the finest block of build-. ings in the town, including the Masonic Hall and Sides building were burned. Ma- sonic Hall cost $10,600; insured for ‘$7,500. Thelides building was also insured for Miss. MARIETTA STEWART, a prominent young lady of Huntingdon, was fatally in~. jured by a horse, which she was holding," scaring at a passing engine. The animal reared, and losing ‘its balance fell upon Miss Stewart with all its weight. i A TRAIN Of cars killed Louis Knitz on the Garden Plane, at Ashland. He was the eight victim of that plane. George R. REIDER, a lumber agent, com- mitted suicide at Williamsport by. hanging himself to a fence. Ill health led him to kill himself. Receiver Cornrins of the suspended Mun cy National Bank, has notified the deposi tors that they will be paid in full. TN Coroner R. H. Taomas, of Mechanics. burg, editor of the ‘Journal and Farmers Friend,” the organ of the grangers, has been appointed Statistical Agent for Pennsylyi nia. JoBN ZIMMERMAN, Droprietes of a saw milk at Greters Ford, got caught in some machin ery and was crushed to atoms. of Tue decisions on the license applications heard last Monday were handed down by the Court at Waynesburg. = All applications were refused, excepting distiller's licénse to L. M. Lippencott and Gilpin South. Na retail licenses have been granted in Gree county for 14 years. A Mary A. Brus, 16 years old, of Rea has lived on nothing but milk for 10 na drinking tree pints a day. She dec touch other food, and her strange said to be due to di intment &
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