side of g 4 feet in ger cars, ad with a Nhen the citizens. ike birds snares like a bi- vo huge laced on iheld to- are built 1 artisti- ns. The piece of iameter, ons. ound the ndescent ‘e extin- he wheel an effect Ss can be ns. The volution, ars being zines are: s the in engineer . — ny the cost hich was in 1700, ce by L. 1, coated marble, sixtieth, feet wide building sides the > Popes. 1edral of Agnese Agrippa. dressed 3 besides animals of arms, heatrical numbers \ledonia, Is of the mbia, 80 n, mak- n artifi- showing m the »f hunt- $s. ~The ons, two one Thi- ne polax 16 great zers, twa p, bulls, 0 boar- ; a lion ding on srhound. 3 such as and two (ON. reau of tics re- ending rived at )f this , 69.519 3 from ay, 40,- 34,055 1 during 3, was n Ger- 1 swed- (except Wales. N, fust be irfew in | the vil- da. An Domin- o'clock Vv person on the Tnless a iven the inement dren to wi:l be see fit to ith favor 1. utionisty rsm— es TIE BIRTH OF SPRING. Cetore, l.~e™ cooeth the dove, Down iu -2e new green wheat, Flecking the dew from the shimmering blades With each trip »f his little pink feet. “Love, lovo I” ans vereth dove > Tp on tke sunny hill, Where she hovers arounl—¢ill the new nest be found-~ The shell of the old nest still. Peep, peep : gentle as sleep Creepeth the meadow grass, - Emerald-green, with a silvery sheen . Where the glamouring sunbeams pass. Bright, bright, to the amorous light, Leapeth the tender leaves, ‘While ailent below, to the rivulet's dow The water-rush wakes and weaves. Wken lo! cometh rain on the lattice-pane, And falleth all night and day: Then flasheth the sun on the woodlands dun, . £nd driveth the mists away. 4nd high in the boughs where the south wind soughs, : The mociing-birds whirl and sing : Tho new earth is born! ‘Tis Creation’s morn ; : The pledge of God's love is spring. i. ~Belle Hunt, in Frank Leslie's Weekly. MISS WINGATE. IY EMMA A. OPPER. UCKLEY was bash- ful. That was how his business” pazt- ner, John Harri- man, explained his being still a bach- elor at thirty- seven. “Best fellow in the wide world!” Mr. Harriman would declare, em- TP phatically. ‘And ul 9 he’d es a su- perfine husband for any woman—a No. 1! Iknow him. But he’s bashful. Couldn’t make np to a woman to save his neck—wouldn’t bother to try. But he’s all right!” And Mr. Harriman was wont to drift off into a warm enumeration of Lis partner’s endless virtues. But on this frosty Febrnary morn- ing Mr. Buckley’s admirable qualities seemed to be under a cloud, as it were. He marched into the office and depos- ited kis umbrella in the corner with a bang. His handsome face was sombre, his bright and smiling eyes were frowning. Mr. Buckiey was feeling cross. And why? Be it recorded to his shame that he had eaten too late and too much at a stag-party the evening pre- vious, smoked too many eigars, and wakened with a headache and the blues. He should have got to the office earlier that morning, since Harriman was to be away that day on business, and the fact that it was after nine ©’clock made him grumpier still. He whirled around in his swivel- chair and jerked a dozen papers out of a drawer in his desk, having thrown the merest glance at the young lady who was seated at the typewriter in an opposite corner, busily working it. He remembered that a new type- writer was to begin her engagement with them that morning, but he re- membered it without a quiver of in- terest. The carrier brought in the morning’s mail. . “Late, aren't you?” said Mr. Buck- ley, shortly. And the man murmured apologet- ically. ““Lurn off that heat!” Mr. Buckley #aid to the office boy, who, astonished at his employer’s unwonted crustiness, turned it off hurriedly. Mr. Buckley growled softly over the first letter he opened. ¢‘Long & Beverley will be complain- ing of something oxr.other in Paradise, I suppose—if they get there!” he mut- tered. And he dashed off a reply to the of- fending firm, more blunt than his prr- dence usually permitted him to make nis business letters. The chirography was carelessly rough, however, and he took it over to the typewriter. “Kindly transfer this,” he said. He did not look at her, and he had forgotten her existence, when her voice —a pretty voice—sounded presently. ¢J cannot make out this sentence,” £he said: ¢¢ ‘Your compl int regarding our last bill, sent you on December 19, strikes me as being, as it were—' *“I don’t see the senseof it,” said the typewriter, pushing back a blonde lock from a pair of lovely darks eyes— bad Mr. Buckley seen them. ‘“‘Strikes meas being unreasonable, as it were,””” Mr. Buckley corrected. ¢¢ <Unreasonable’isn’t here,” said the typewriter, «1 wrote it,” sponded. “I can insert it, though,” said the typewriter, in a calm way, which made Mr. Buckley frown over his letters. She was cool, certainly—almost im- pertinent. Her machine rattled for a space. ‘‘Didn’t you mean twenty-two hun- dred pounds?” said the typewriter. “Didn’t I say so?” Mr. Buckley de- manded. ‘You said twenty-two thousand; «nd there is a word omitted here—" Mr. Buckley dropped his pen with a sounding crack. “Will you be so good, Miss—" “Miss supplemented, low-voiced. — ‘go good a8 to complete the letter without troubling me further?” said Mr. Buckley, distinctly. “I .am not accustomed to criticisms and eccrrec- tions from my typewriter. TI lay out your work and expect you to do it, and to do it, and to do it quietly. I don’t like --' tai AW \ thst Mr. Buckley re- Wingate,” the typewriter | I ‘I presume you wish your letters to be correct?’ said the typewriter, crisply. ‘I am the best judge of what is cor- rect”" Mr. Buckley answered, with some sternness. ‘“‘But this letter!” Miss Wingate vcried, softly, yet with the breathless ness of indignation. ‘‘Itwasn’t—why, it wasn’t—at all—" % “Kindly finish it,” said Mr. Buck- | ley, in tones conclusive. There was silence for ten minutes; then Mr. Buckley, feeling uneasy and vexed and conscience-stricken, turned and glanced at his typewriter. ‘Miss Wingate—" he said, falter- ingly. She was sitting with her back to him, her fair head bent on her hand, her fingers idle. ““I—Mies Wingate—" Mr. Buckley. He grew red in the face; he pushed his chair back and marched over to her. There was nothing to be seen save thick, blonde braids. He strode around and faced her. She got up hurriedly, her fece averted, but he pulled her back gently to her chair, and sat down himself in such a way as to pin her into her cor- ner. He was much flugshed—the more so because a pair of beautiful brown eyes were raised to his. They were moist, and the typewriter’s sweet, full lips were tremulous. “I am sorry if I—I am sorry, Miss Wingate—very sorry!” Mr. Buckley gasped. The girl before him was refined, lovely, , lovable, charming. That his masculine eyes saw on the instant, and ha felt himself the most miserable man on earth. “I was trying to do it right!” the typewriter faltered. ‘I meant to.” . “Oh, I know it!” Mr. Buckley re- sponded, unhappily. ‘I don’t know what ailed me—that is, I do know! I'm cross to day. I don’t feel exactly well, and—of course that does not ex- cuse me,” said Mr. Buckley, letting his eye rove, disconsolately, pleading- ly, from her soft curls to her pretty, round chin. “‘I have been rude in the stammered extreme. I ask your pardon, Miss Wingate!” But iss Wingate lowered her thick lashes in silence, her straight nose rather high. *‘It makes me feel—wretched!” said Mr. Buckley. He stared at the typewriter as though dazed or hypnotized. It was not her beauty alone; it was her look of brightness and her pretty pride and her sweetness which thrilled and con- fused him—which caused him to feel as he had never felt before. “I supposed you wanted it cor- rected,” Miss Wingate said, with re- lenting symptoms. “I did. I was a bear—a—a—"" ¢‘Never mind it,” said the type- writer, with a sndden, bright, upward smile. “I won't if you don’t,” he answered. “Well, I don’t,” she murmured. She flushed a little as she met his gaze.” . A soft radiance overspread Mr. Buck- ley’s distressed face. He was sitting somewhat close to his typewriter, but he did not move. There was a speaking silence. The office boy, in a far coz- ner, grinned faintly. But the next instant Mr. Buckley rose hastily and pushed back his chair. The door had opened to admit Mr. Harriman, his partner. ~ “‘Oh, there you are!” said Mr. Harri- man, looking at the typewriter. ‘I got to the station and met Farnham just coming in, so I didn’t go on to West Amboy, atter all,” he exclaimed. ¢‘So you did come?” said Mr. Harri- man, smiling at Miss Wingate with a familiarity which roused his partner’s wrath. ¢I didn’t think you would.” Coming nearer, he patted Miss Win- gate’s cheek with two fingers. Mr. Buckley's blood boiled ; but Mr. Harriman took off his overcoat calmly. “You're acquainted by this time, I reckon,’ he said; ‘‘but to perform my formal duty. Kitty, Mr. Buckley— my niece, Miss Wingate, Buckley.” Poor Mr. Buckley! Miss Wingate glanced at him, and then dropped her soft eyes in sheer pity. He was a touching sight. ‘“‘She’s been learning typewriting for fun of it, you see, Buckley,” Mr. Harriman continued, ‘‘and when I mentioned to her that our typewriter had failed us—Miss Pease sent me word yesterday that she couldn’t come till Friday —Kitty said she could fill the bill, and she would, and she marched off down here this morning like a little major. How has she been, anyhow? Satisfactory 2” ‘“‘Eminently,” said Mr. Buckley, gravely. But he gazed at Mr. Harriman’s niece with his handsome face eloquent with many emotions. “I’m sorry,” she said, very sweetly, very prettily. “I did mean to tell you, indeed; I was going to say who I am, only you were so—so short with me that I was almost frightened.” “And you thought you would pay me back.” “No,” Miss Wingate protested. “But you did. And I'm glad you did. I don’t feel so miserable about my behavior. I think, Miss Wingate, that we are square, aren’t we? Even?’ Miss Wingate, rising and pretending to stretch tired hands, looked up at him with a vivid little smile. And again that odd confusion seized upon Mr. Buckley—that feeling such as he had never known. “We are going to keep Kitty, you know,” said Mr. Harriman, who was looking for a means of turning on the heat which Mr. Buckley’s touchiness had caused to be turned off. ‘‘Her aunt and I are lonesome, and we're gn- ing to keep her.” But Mr. Harrimen, a few months latter, sitting in his cosy, firelighted square hall, his wife being beside him and kis niece and his partner being somewhat close together on the corner sofas, where the light fell dim—Mr. Harriman recalled that same remark of his. -‘I said we were going to keep her, eh, Buckley? Recollect it?” he de- manded, with seeming wrath. “You said so,” said Mr. Buckley calmly, pressing Miss Wingate’s yield- ing hand between his own, ‘‘butI knew better—I knew better.”’—Saturday Nigkt. Bn in i ——— ie Sitting Bull at a Theatre. Fifteen years ago times were lively in ‘‘Dakota,” and Fargo was a boom- ing town of 12,000 people. Half a dozen theatrical enterprises were in full blast, and a seventh manager opened a new house, the magnificence of which far outshone those of its com- petitors. The theatre was to be opened on Monday evening, and that morning the train from the West brought the great Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, with a small party of Indians who were en route to Washington to see the great Father. The new management secured the attendance of the warriors for the opening of his house, and the hundreds of ‘‘tenderfeet’” who had never yet seen a real Indian in war paint paid fabu- lous prices for seats. Sitting Bull and his warriors were on hand early, gaudily arrayed in feath- ers, headdress, beaded blankets and wampum. They were seated in the centre aisle in the space between the orchestra railing and front row of par- quet. The red men preserved their monumental stoicism, and throughout the entertainment not a smile wrinkled their faces. Each one of them carried a short painted stick, one end of which was split. Into the split was thrust a small piece of looking-glass. Occasionally the Indians held the mirrors up before their eyes and took a careful survey of the audience behind them. This en- abled them to see what was going on all over the house "without shifting their position. The closing feature of the programme was an act performed by a female trapeze performer who was advertized to possess wonderful strength in her jaws. The stage manager announced that she would hang suspended from the trapeze bar by her knees aud support a heavy cannon with her teeth while it was discharged. At sight of the can- non Sitting Bull and his men began to show signs of uneasiness. They shifted about in their seats nervously. Two men lifted the cannon and left it dang- ling from the woman's jaws. The muzzle of the weapon swung on a level with the Indians’ headdress. Sitting Bull and his warriors by this time had become extremely nervous. They looked at each other inquiringly, as if they suspected that they had been drawn into a trap and were to be delib- erately slaughtered. They jabbered to each other excitedly and two or three times so far forgot their stoicism as to look over their shoulders. Finally, everything was in readiness; the stage manager stepped back, gave the string that he held a jerk, there was a flash and a roar, and out of the cloud of smoke that shot into the parquet Sit- ting Bull and his warriors sprang, wildly shouting as they made their way down the aisle, striking madly right and left with the long-stemmed stone pipes which they carried. No attempt was made by the audience to stop the Indians, who made their way outside and didn’t stop running until they reached the hotel. For once the fear- less chief of the Sioux was uhnerved.— Kate Field’s Washington. ——— eR eres . Selling a Menagerie. The great Wombwell’s Royal Wind- sor Menagerie was recently sold by auction in London, the animals bring- ing but indifferent prices. The cockatoos went off at $2 apiece. Some of the parrots brought higher prices, one going at $15, this bird be- ing able to speak in two languages with equal fluency. One parrot care- fully described, in four languages, each signifying ‘“Mealy Amazon,” aroused a wild spirit of competition and was knocked down at $17. Two vulinres were found to be worth only $20. The pelicans took no interest in the sale, although many complimentary things were said of him, and was sold for $20. When the ecassowary was reached prices had gone up, and he went for $98; but they tumbled when the mon- key cage was reached, and these little fellows were bought for $2 each. The porcupines brought $15, the civet cat $18, the Malayan bear $23, ocelot $17, while the jackals went for $2 each. The kargaroo was considered valua- ble and brought $75, but the sacred Indian zebu sold for $11 only. One of the ‘‘baby” lions was handed around and caressed amid much growl- ing. A five months’ pair of these were sold for $240, a four months’ pair for $200. The great lion, the piece de resist- ance of the auction, a magnificent specimen, only brought $800, while a royal Bengal tiger went for $625. Two lions and a lioness brought $1200, three leopards $875, and a hand- some jaguar — which the auctioneer called a jag-u-ar—was knocked down for $140. —New York Journal. — A Taree=Decker Pie. Three-decker porpoise pie is an old time whaling delicacy. It is made by spreading the bottom of a copper kettle with “‘duff.” Upon this goes a layer of porpoise in chunks, then a layer of duff, and so on until the name three- decker is justified. The several strata are then cooked together, and when the pie is done it is cut in wedges. Each piece is about a foot thick, and the share of each man is obtained by dividing 360, the number of degrees in a circumference, by the number of | persons on board. The quotient rep- ! resents the number of degrees to the | : { segment. — Chicago Herald. Pennsylvania Legislature. SevENTY-NINTA Dav.—In the senate to- day the bill of Represen ative Kane of Fay- ette countv to provide for the licensing of unnataralized: male persons over 21 old was defeated—yeas 16, nays 18. These bills passed finally: to fix the qualification of the superintendent of banking; for the taxation of dogs and protection of sheep, with an amendment Fxing a maximum per head; to authorize church corporations owning burial gronnds to purchase other grounds, etc; to define to whom the benefit certicates shall be given issued by fraternal societies: to repeal the prohibitory law in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county. Wertheimer 's famous bill is having a jolly time in the house, which refuses to return it to the senate, notwithstanding the loud demand of that body for its possession. The senate referred the house resolu tion, recalling the bill, to Grady's finance committee. The measure has more to do with whisky than finance; at least that was the general impress on, The House sustained the veto of the Gov- ernor relative to the valued insurance bill disapproved yesterday. Frank T, Okell. of Scranton was sworn in as a member of the house in place of Mr.Quinnan, who wasonst: ed. The board of heaith’'s bill to prevent the pollution of streams was amended out otf all shape by the exemption of tanneries, mines and oil refineries and passed on sec- ond reading. Nothing but appropriation bills were considered at the afternoon ses. sion of the house. The bill providing for the erection of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphans industrial school passed finally 142 to 10. For the erection and maintenance of the school $213,000 is appropriated. At the evening session of the house the police pen: sion fund bill. which was recalled from the governor for amendment, was finally pass: ed. The governor objected to the features of the bill giving councils power to vote money to such tunds, and this has been stricken out. The governor's veto of the bill providinz for the printing of 15,000 ad- ditional copies of Smull’s hand book was sustained. The senate passed this bill over the governor's veto on May 3. Ercuriera Day—In the senate to-day the Committee on Iducation was discharged from the consideration of the bill to change the basis of distribution of the State appro- priation to common schools from the num- ber of taxable citizens to the number of schools, and the bill was or tered placed on the calendar. The Committee on Appro- priations reported a large number of House bills which it considered yesterday after- noon. These House bills pas-ed finally: To authorize the election of a chief bursess for three years in the several boroughs, and providing that he shall not be eligible to re- election; relating to the private sale of real estate in assignments for the benefit of creditors; to provide for monthly returns and payments by countv and city officers of moneys received by them for the use of the Commonwealth; to prohibit the em- ployment of minors under the age of 13 years in and about elevators. The bill 10 provide for an increase of salary in counties having but one law judge and a population of 69,000 was defeated, and the Senate bill to designate a special day of more partic- ularly interesting the people in the “subject of sanitary science passed finally. In the house the bill introduced by Sena. tor M' Carrell providing tor the payment of jurors out of the State Treasury was nega- tively reported. These Senate b lis passed finally: Authorizing foreign insurance cora- panies to become sole surety on bonds, re- cognizances, etc., to permit anybody to serve notices in cases of judgments, desig- nating election days, from 12 m,to midnighr, as legal holidays; to enable collectors to collect taxes for the payment of which they have become personally liabie,exten- ing the time for the collection of the same one year from the passage of this act; to enable boroughs not divided into wards to estahlish and maintain high schools; ex- tending the limits of residence and powers of notaries public, so as to extend the Iimi- tations of actions to a right to mine ore on lands where the same has not been exercis- ed for 21 years; to authorize the appoint- ment of a dairy commissioner; to prohibit the use of any adulteration or imitation of dairy product's in any charitable or penal institution, to authorize certain banks to improve and derive rent from buildings held by them for banking purposes, to authorize cities to purchase, maintain and condemn bridges erected and in use over rivers and streams dividing any part of district ot such cities; to provide for the appointment of one or more deputy coron- ers in counties. At the midnight session the senate bill to abolish the Philadelphia pub- lic commission passed finally, yeas. 120; navs, 67. The Riter bill to prevent the pollution of streams and to protect the water supply of cities was defeated. The governor vetoed two bills as follows: One repealing so much of an sct for the destruction of wolves and wildcats as pro- vides a premium for the destruction of foxes, So far as the same applies to Wash- ington county. The other isa veto of an amendment to the act of 1879 intended to allow aldermen, magistrates and justices of the peace, fees for affidavits of claim tax and copies thereof, and also authoriz ng them to tax certain additional costs. Ergury-First Day.—Nothing of impor tance was accomplished in the Senate and until Monaay. In the House the bill to repeal the pro- hibitory law in Bellevernon. Fayette coun- ty was defeated;the bill to abolish the pub- lication of mercantile appraiser's lists in Philadelphia has been amended to cover the whole State and passed on second reading, The house then adjourned Among the bills which passed first read- was the Barnhart measure to regulate the employment of telegraph operators. It originally provided that railroad companies con!d not employ operators under 2) years of age. bnt the committee changed the age from 20 to 18 y. ars, which amendment is not acceptable to the raiiroad conductors, engineers and operators who are back of the bill. They contend that a boy of 18 is too young to appreciate the responsibility of his position, and allege that many serious wrecks are occasioned by the employment of boy averators. Theonly feature of the afternoon session cf the house was the pas- sage on seconyl reading of the bill extend: ing the Saturday half-holiday over the entire year. The governcr has signed the Boyer medi- cal examiners bill, the Losch arbitration bill and the free text book bill. Also the following: Empowering courts of quarter sessions to tix the place of holding the gen- eral election: providing that voters shall cast their ballots at polling p'aces inside the election district in which they are domicil- ed; directing county commissioners to pre- serve the weekly ~ newspapers published within their counties; to encourage and au- thorize the formation of co-operative bank- ing associations, . TUGHTY-SECOND Day.—The senate was not in session. . In the House there was no quorum and after a few appropriation bills were favor- ably reported the House adjourned antil Monday. aly ea FINANCIAL. A special from Rutland, Vt., says: The Vermont Investment and Guarantee Com- pany and the firm of Hammond, Bush & Co., bankers, located at Orwell, have su- spended. The Citizen's bank, of Johnson City, Tenn., suspended. The bank had an au- thorized capital of $100,000, The liabilities are $38.000; assets estimated at $78,000. A Minister Drops Dead in His Pulpit, At Lampasas, Texas., the Rev. James Mackay pastor of the First Methodist church, while delivering his Sunday morn- ing sermon dropped dead in the pulpit from bursting a blood vessel in the head. vears | after routine business that body adjourned, | KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS. TWO HEBREWS HANGED. FIRST OF THEIR RACE TO SUFFER THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA. Tuxgnasrock.—Harris Blank and Isaac Kosenswig were hanged here for the mur- der of a fellow peddler named Jacob Marks on March 18, 1892. The execution an epoch in the criminal history of the country as the men werethe first Hebrews to suffer the death penalty not only in the United States but in North America. Rabbi Radin of New York. who prepared the con- demand men for death. says that only two other Hebrews were ever sentenced to death i= this country—Rubenstein, in New Y ork, who died the day before the day set for his execution, and the other was con- verted to Protestantism. A number of He- brews of Wilkesbarre have obtained per- mission to bury the bodies according to the rites of the church. MINE INSPECTION REPORTS, EITUMINOUS PRODUCT EXCEEDED THE ANTHRA- CITE. THE IGNORANCE OF FOREIGNERS CAUSED MANY DEATHS. Harrissure—The report of the mine in. spectois tor 1392 have been received at the department of internat affairs. ‘The total production shown for the eight districts of the anilnaciie region was 43,833.000 tons. In that region the number of lives lost was less than during 1891 except in the Eighth district, which incindes part of Schuylkill and Carbon count es. The bituminous coal region is al-o divided into eight districts, and the total production for 1892 was 46,018,247 tons. In the I'irst district, comprising parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Fayette counties, there were 24 fatal accidents, four more than in the previous year. The num- ber of non-fatal accidents was 67; number of days work, 10..60 Inspector Louttit reports a general disposition on the part of the operators to obey the provisions of the law relative to the safety of emploves. There were 74 mines operated, three abandoned and five opened. The number of persons employed inside was 9,090, and outside, 2.- 919, ‘The number of days that 64 mines were in operation was 221. In the Third district, composed of parts of Indiana, Westmoreland and Jeffer<on counties. and the whole of Armstrong, But- ler? Clarion, Lawrence and Mercer, there were 2 fatal and 26 non-fatal accidents; 6 of the latter were caused by falls of roof, 10 by falls of coal and 8 by mine wagens, The mines in the Fourth district. composed of McKean, Potter, Tioga, Bradford, Sullivan, Jefferson, Lycoming. Clinton and Cambria counties and a portion of Jefferson are re- ported to be in much improved condition, The number of fatal accidents increased, while those not fatal diminished. our of fatal accidents were accidental and the others were lardely due to the care .essness of miners. ° In the Fifth district. comprising parts of Fayette and Somerset, there were 23 fatal accidents, 18 of wh ch were caused by falls of roof and the others by mine wagons. Of 60 non-fatal accidents, 10 were caused by falls of roof and 33 by mine wagons. In the Sixth district.comprising the whole of Cambria and Blair counties, and por- tions of Clearfield, Indiana, Jetterson, West- moreiand and Somerset counties. the num- ber of fatal accidents was 14. Theaccidents are ascribed to the fact that those killed were foreigners, and did not appreciate the dangers to which they were exposed. The Seventh district is composed of Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Inspector Blick reports the num- ber of fatal and serious personal injuries on the increase, because of the large number of foreigners employed inthe mines in the district. The number of fatal accidents was 28, and the number of non-fatal accidents 56. Of the 14 men killed by falls of coal and slate, 7 were incompetent. Three others lost their lives by their own carelessness. In the'Kighth district, composed of Bedford, Center and Huntingdon counties, and a part of Clearfield county, 12 fatalities anc 55 non-fatal accidents were reported. RL a ATTACKED BY A ROOSTER. Prrnaperpaia.—1he 2 year-old son of Mrs. Susan Ehlron of No. 54 B.odgett street has just had a narrow escape from being killed by a large game rooster that attacked him in a vicious manner. The child was playing on a vacant lot near his home when the fowl, the property of a resident in the neighborhood, flew at him and pierced his cheek with its sharp spurs. The child was too frightened to run away, and the rooster repeatedly attacked him, each time plung- ing its spurs into the hittle one’s face and neck. A woman who heard the child's screams ran to his assistance and beat the rooster off with a club. A physician was summonded, who pronounced the child's injuries of a serious nature. A warrani was sworn out for the arrest of the owner of the bird, which is said to bave attacked and seriously injured other children. ee WILL GET FOUR PER CENT. WiILKESBARRE.— Assignee W.H. Stoddard, of the defunct banking house of F. V. ockafellow, has filed his first partial account with the court. I‘our per cent of the $500,000 represented by the depositors will be paid. This is about the limit of the assets. aati A FREIGHT train on the J. & B. division ot the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg road, north of Du Bois, ran down a heavy grade and collided with a work train, Wednesday afternoon. A freight brakeman was killed and three of the mer on the work train were buried under the wreck, The wreck took fire consuming the three bodies. SamueL Cornerivs and William Cleits were carrying a carboy of sulphuric acid into Burbaker's drug store, New Brighton, when the neck of the carboy struck against the wa |, breaking it and spilling the con- tents on the unfortunate men. They were horribly burned and may not recover. ScraNTON is excited over the confession of Peter Hunter, the watchman emploved at the Methodist tabernacle, that he 1s the firebug who has caused the destruction of that place of worship twice within the past year. Sixteey women of Driftwood attackea Theodore Hackett with fence rails, with pokers and other weapons, and drove him out of town. Theodore had come home drunk and beaten his wife. Mgzs. W. A. Dexnrson. of Butler, jumped from a runaway team with an infant in hez arms. The child was injured so seriously that it died and the mother's arm was shattered. NraAr Kensington a big oil lamp used to heat a chicken incubator explodedin the poultry vard of J. B. Sutton, on the Free. port road, causing a fire,in which 20C chick- ens were roasted alive, besides destroying several hundred eggs in the incubator, Jonn~ BowLEy, charged with killing Ste- phen Young at Monongahela City last March and convicted in the Washington county courts of voluntary manslaughter, has been sentenced a year and three months in the penit ntiary. Ox Kriday a set of counterfeiting dies was found near the residence of Jacob Koontz, in Springfield township, Somerset county, by some school children. * They also foune about $100 in dollars and 50-cent pieces ot the spurious coin. . CHARLES WALKER, of Allegheny county convicted at Cariisle ot robbing the genera sto e of J. D. Rowe, at Shepherdstown, se curing some $8,000 in cash and papers, was sentenced to seven years in the Eastern Pen itentiary, f } | | forms | A cow at Newport took unaccountable freaks of madness until she was given an emetic when she vomitted a snake six feet long. Jou HALEY. employed in the Riat mine of the H. C. Frick Coke company. near Broadford, was instantly killed by a fall of slate. Near Uniontown, in Morgan's tunnel. on | the B. & O.. Jacob Reed was accidentally | killed by the explosion of five dynamite sticks. a— “——— LATER NEWS WAIFS, WASHINGTON. Secretary Carlisle has announced his in- tention of proceeding in the deportation of the Chinese until the appropriation is ex- hausted. But $16,000 is now available, though $30,000 more will be ready by July 1. He intends beginning with the Chinese who are here in violation of the law of 1884, those having violated the Geary law coming next. Judge Bradley in the circuit court of tha Dist. in the case of Pulaski, a discharged let- ter carrier, decided that an employe of the government a,.pointed under and subject to the civil service laws, cannot be dismissed without just cause and that the courts have the right to pass upon the sufficiency of tha causa. For the first 10 months of the present fis- cal year the collection from internal reve- nue sources aggregated $132.432,153, an in- crease over the corresponding pzariod of last vear of $6 937,089. The receip's for April, 1893, were $21,003 less than for April, 18)2. Ele CAPITAL AND LABOR. Three huudred trainmen employed by the Vandalia, Big Four and Chicazo and Eastern Illinois roads at Terre Haute, Ind., struck for an increase in pay from $1.20 to $1.30 a day. The entire force of stone cutters on the Charleston, 8. C., Government building, have struck, Some too s belonging to- one of the men were stolen. He {found them in a pawnshop and redeemed them for$2.50. which amount the union ordered to be » id by the contr ctor. This he refused to do. The patent coke dr wer w s tested for the fourth time, ¥riday, t the N:lley. P ., works of the I'rick Coke Com »ny. The coke in one oven was dr wn in 14 minutes, while another was drawn in 20. et CRIMES AND PENALTIES. At Marietta, O , George Langfe't, a young saloonkeeper :hot his wife and then him- self, both dying instantly. Three months ago Langfelt's mother was killed by Nicho- las Haas, her husband, who also killed himself. Benjamin McCollough teiler of the State Bank, of St. Lonis, wasshot and killed by a burglar Saturday morning. Alien Causius, a noted colored desperado, shot and killed his wife and mortally wounded his father-in-law at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was arrested. “Doc” Bentley and Bert Donnelly, two of the notorious Bentley gang, who broke jail at Mason, Mich., have been captured after a desperate fight, in which one of the pris- oners was futally shot. ———p FIRES. At Providence, R. I. fire burned over 280 feet long and 80 feet wide. The losses as far as ascertained are Waterman Machine and Tool Company, $75,000; Diamond Machine Company, $75,000; American Tubing and Webbinz Company. $25.000; Reynolds Man- ufacturing Jewelry Company, $20,000. The losses of the Rhode Island ElectricCompany: Rhode Island Bicycle Company and other smaller concerns aggregate about $50,000, A fire destroyed $1,000,000 worth of prop- erty in Saginaw, Mich., sacrificing one life, and making hundreds of families home- less. The fire was started by a spark from a chimney falling into a iumber pile. John Clark was burned to a crisp and a number of others are reported missing. About 250 houses were destroyed. eng FOREIGN. A terrible catastrophe occurred at Glei- witz, in Prussian Silesia, which created a great deal of consternation in the neigh- borhood. The little town has in fact been considerably destroyed by a water spout, which broke over it and completely wreck- ed a large number of houses, so that to- night 150 families are without shelter and have lost nearly all their worldly posessions. Se DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. A great hail storm visited all Western Pennsylvania at 3 to 4 o'cock Saturday af- ternoon, doing great damage to fruit trees; gardens, greenhouses, ete. It was the se ver- est storm of the kind since 1851. Maude, the S-year-old daughter of H. 1. Roberts, of Naugatuck, Ct, was burned to death. Her clothing caught fire and she rushed upstairs and sought the protection of an aged woman named Mary Monroe, of Waterbury. The bed on which the latter was lying was set on fire and the woman died from injuries received. FOURTEEN PERSONS BURNED. Eleven Men Find Death ina Flaming Lumber Camp. A forest fire destroyed Louis Sand’s lum- ber camp near Lake City, Mich., Saturday. Out of a total crew of 60 men 49 escaped uninjured. The men were assembled at dinner, and che forest fire, which was burning all around, entirely cut off escape. When the men, realizing their danger, rushed out of the building in which they had been sitting tha smoke so blinded them that they be- came bewildered. They ran hither and thither, unable to find a means of escape, and their horses stampeded owing to their confusion, Eight of the men jumped into a escape the flames and then died of suftoca- tion. Their bodies were brought to the surface later. Others of the men rushed to the woods, and some of them thus escaped: but the bodies of two of then were after. ward found burned to a crisp. One man, fdward Sullivan, reached Lake City ter- ribly burned, and then died in fearful agony. Might teams of horses were cre- mated. Fire broke out near Tustin and ran 2) miles in eight minutes. The farm house of a man named Anderson was destroyed. Mrs. Anderson and her two children perished io the flames. well to lag yd PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEAGUE. The following table shows the standing ot the state base ball league: W 1 rpcti WwW L rect Easton... 7 1 .875{Harrisb'g 4 4 .500 Johnsto'n 9 2 .81s{Scranton. 4 6 400 Allento'n 5 3 .625|Danville.. 1 & 250 Altoona.. 6 4 .600iYork..... 0 0 .100
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