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KEYSTONE STATE COLLINGS
FOUR KILLED IN A WRECK.
HarrisBurG—Seven coal men in search o
work boarded a trainof coal and oil cars al
Market street the other night and at Dock
street the car on which they were riding
jumped a switch wrecking several cars of
westbound train. Four of the unfortunate:
were crushed to death under the grinding
mass. They were John Wallace and a ma
named Sullivan, both switchmen from
Pitteburg; Joseph Benson of Youngstown, O.
and John Reynolds residence unknown. The
bodies were horribly mangled; all the men
were from the western part of the State.
I'rank Ward, of Burlington, Ia., the ouly
man who escaped, says Frederick Mimmil
was one of the men killed.
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FOUR RAILROAD FATALITIES.
JounstowN—There was a series of death:
byaccident on the Pennsylvania railroad the
past few days. At Lilly, Charles Storm, ¢
well-known young man was run over by 2
train and killed. At Bens Creek, Charles
Droskey attempted to cross the track and
was killed by a work train. At Cresson, a
brakeman named Miller lost his life in the
same manner whilean unknown man was
killed at Portage while sleeping on the
track.
GIVEN TEN YEARS FOR BURNING A CHURCH.
ScraxToN—Peter Bombaugh, who set fire
te and destroyed the Elm Park Methodist
church last winter, because of a belief that
t was built upon land belonging to
relatives of his and of which they had been
dlegally deprived, was convicted of arson
and sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the Fastern penitentiary. The penalty
imposed on the prisoner is the maximum,
THE oldest old maid of whom Philadel-
phia has ever boasted, Miss Sally Wheeler,
died at her late residence, 1931 liast Ontario
street, in the 103rd year of her age. The de-
ceased was born in Birmingham, Ingland,
on December 16, 1790. She was a member
of the Iipiscopal church. Her father, John
Wheeler, died in 1849 and her mother in
1857. Miss Wheeler at the time of her
death was in possession of all her facul
ies.
Tar house of George Stoup, near Mark:
leysburg, Fayette county, was burned Mon-
day night, the fire was of incendiary origin.
This is the family that was poisoned by
drinking water from a spring into which
laurel leaves had fallen, Mrs. Stoup dy-
ing,
Tue Board of Pardons in executive session
at Harrisburg, refused to recommend Hugh
I', Dempsey and Robert Beatty, of Pitts.
burg, convicted of poisoning workmen ir
the Homestead mills, for pardon.
CrarrLes Jounson, alias Sandy rank, and
John Freeman, alias Steve Loder, two no-
torious crooks. escaped from the Bellefonte
jail by tunneling tiirough the cell wall.
Jorx Ryax, of North Strabane, Wash-
ington county, is the owner of an eyeless
and tailless calf, which is as playful as a
kitten.
Micaarrn Kearyey, of Philadelphia, who
sued the ‘traction company for damages,
was sent to Moyamensing prison for per:
jury.
Farmers around Sharon are panic-strick-
2n at the boldness of'thieves who kill jand
Sree on the premises cattle and sheep they
steal.
Jouxy Rossick, employed at Mount Look-
out Colliery, Wyoming, was instantly Kkill-
ed by an explosion of gas.
Harr SCHAEFFER, of Ford City, was held
up by two highwaymen while riding Mon-
day and $117 takea.
Tar rival Uniontown Republican news:
papers rha “News” and the ‘‘Standard,”
ave ¢ ngolidated.
Ix the Connellsville coke region 160 more:
ovens have been fired this week,
THE LABOR WORLD.
Texas needs cotton pickers.
THERE are 1000 union female tailors.
_ TarroriNg employs 723,324 in England and
Scotland.
Areavny (N. Y.) unions are to build a busi-
ness block.
New Hampseire plumbers .nust pass an
examination.
Ix Connecticut pay checks are liable to
the ten per cent. tax.
TE American Railway Union is spreading
in all parts of the country.
AsPEN (Col.) miners will voluntarily work
for reduced wages during the depression,
NEw Havux's Coal Consumers’ Union ex-
pects to get coal for $4 a ton by buying at
the mines,
A woop YARD has been established at Den-
ver, Col., where the unemployed may work
for their meals.
A MOVEMENT is in progress looking to the
unitizg of all labor orders and unions under
a central authority.
Coxpucroks and motormen on the electric
road running from Newark to Irvington,
New Jersey, are compelled to wear white
neckties,
NEw Jersey unions will push the Legis-
lature for a law to prevent employers from
axacting a pledge that men shall not join
labor unions.
Karn BreNav, of Berlin, aged eighty-four,
{s reputed the oldest waiter in Berlin. He
became a waiter seventy years ago, and has
been in one place for thirty years.
Tae Bessemer mill of the Bethlehem fron
Company, at South Bethlehem, Penn., re-
sumed operations yesterday after an idie-
ness of two months. One thousand men got
amployment. :
St. Paur’s joint committee recommends
the expenditure of $9000 at once to provide
work for the unemployed, and a special tax
that will yield $60,000 for the improvement
of parks, etc.
8aN Francisco is sending its unemployed
#® Sun Joaquin orchards and vineyards,
where the Chinese are being discharged to
make room for them. The pay ranges from
eighty-five cents to $1 a day and found.
a
Fire losses in the United States during the
first nine months of 1893 were $26,840,000
greater than in the corresponding period of
1892, and not less than a dozen strong com-
panies are preparing to go out of business.
Low rates, heavy losses, onerous Staite legis-
lation are driving capital into safer and more
profitable flelds of employment. Thirty-five
of the weaker companies have gone tothe
wall since January 1.
It is reported that Prince Bismarck is a:
lowing his beard to grow, not being able to
handie his'razor, and in the hope that it will
nelp to prevent the pains in his face, It is
said also that those who have seen photo-
graphs of the ex-Chancellor taken with a
beard in his younger days, will regret his de-
cision, as the addition is not an ornament to
his handsome and powerful face.
Tae Michigan Supreme Court handed
down a decision on the Woman Sufirage law
passed by the last Legislature, permitting
women to vote at municipal elections. The
Court declares that the law is utterly uncon-
aritutional and vaid
A SEATTLE (Wash.) Chinese merchant has
applied for naturalization. The Six Com-
panies intend to bring the matter before the
United States Suoreme Court.
—
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN,
WINTER ROOSTS FOR FOWLS.
Roosts for winter should be so con-
structed as te have troughs or boards
to catch all droppings and prevent the
accumulation of several weeks below
the roosts, as is sometimes done. This
accumulation means impure breathing
air at night, the results often end in
roup and other diseases to which
fowls are especially subject during
winter weather. Don’t keep chickens
withont proper cleanliness; it will al-
ways prove unprofitable.—Independ-
ent.
MILKING MACHINES.
There is no practical milking ap-
paratus made or used at present. All
attempts to make any such have failed.
The cow’s udder is hardly such a me-
chanical contrivance as to become a
machine to be manipulated by any
power except that of the hand of an
intelligent person. It will probably
be 2s easy to feed cows by machinery
ag to milk them in that way. The del-
icate membrane that lines the milk
duots cannot withstand the rough
touch and usage of a machine. In
certain cases, when the milk must be
drawn in some other than the usual
way, the silver milking tube isthe best
substitute for the human hand. This
is first greased with vaseline or sweet
oil and then gently pushed into the
teat, after the milk has been started
by gentle rubbing of the udder. The
milk flows from the tube then until the
udder is exhausted. —New York Times.
A CHEAP CISTERN,
A Pennsylvania farmer tells the Na-
tional Stockman how he built a cheap
cistern. He struck a circle seven feet
in diameter and dug down three feet,
then another cirele one foot less in
diameter and dug three feet farther
and broke down the sides to a slope;
then with a five foot circle he went
another three feet and cut away again,
making the cistern in the form of a
jug. The sides and bottom were
plastered with cement directly upon
the clay, and the top was arched over
with brick packed up with sand und
cement, and a tile was put in to serve
as an overflow pipe about eighteen
inches from the top. As the average
diameter would be a little more than
six feet, it would require nearly seven
barrels of water for each foot in depth
below the overflow pipe, over fifty
barrels when the water was seven and
one-half feet deep.
His figures for the cost were: Two
day’s labor, $2; one-half day of mason,
$1; two barrels of cement, $2.50; 400
brick, $2.40; total, $7.90. It has been
in use ten years and is as good as ever
excepting near the top, where he al-
lowed it to freeze, and the cement
cracked and pulled off, which could
have been prevented by covering with
straw or other material.
SPRAINS IN HORSES,
No matter how slight a sprain may
appear, it should be carefully treated,
and the horse given a complete rest.
Rest is just the very thing that most
owners are unwilling to allow, unless
the animal is absolutely broken down
and unable to move. A sprain of the
tendons, especially if at all severe,
calls for a prolonged period of rest,
even after all symptoms of lameness
have passed away.
The object treatment in the first
stage of a sprain is to keep down orre-
duce inflammation and to prevant ex-
udation or swelling. The shoe should
be removed at once, before the limb
has got so swollen and tender as to
make putting on another a matter of
difficulty, owing to the acute agony
handling gives the animal.
The next thing is a dose of physic,
which tends to prevent fever and keep
down inflammation—acting magically
in this and other cases of lameness.
The animal should be secured in a po-
sition to discourage movement, and
either hot fomentations or cold astrin-
gent lotions should be applied con-
tinuously. There is, perhaps, some
difference of opinion as to whether
cold or heat is best, but whichever is
adopted must be kept up continuously.
For a recent injury, without much
swelling and contagion, cold is per-
haps preferable, but if there is much
pain and swelling, relief is most
promptly afforded by hot water.
If slight iameness continues or there |
is thickening or enlargement, it will |
be the hest to blister; indeed, it is|
geldom bad practice to blister after a
sprain, as it at least insures a pro-
longed rest.
Great caution is necessary in taking
the animal into work, and if there is
any change of the limb now standing
it should be fired.
A case of breakdown means months
of enforced idleness, generally perma-
nent deformity, unfitness for fast
given in the same time average yields
of 65 bushels per acre. For three
years past the best yield by any va-
riety was 83 bushels per acre, by
Boone County White. The largest
yield in 1892 was almost exactly 100
bushels per acre of air-dry corn, of the
variety known as Piasa Queen—a
variety maturing too late for Central
Illinois. The trials for six years indi-
cate that the larger, medium-matur-
ing varieties give the best results.
Among these the Boone County White,
Champion White Pearl and Burr
White represent the most satisfactory
type of white, while the Leaming has
given the best results among the yel-
low varieties. The Murdock has given
the best yields of any early maturing
variety-—65 bushels per acre for five
years.
Excellent varieties were obtained
from many different places. Ixtrava-
gant claims, such as yields of 100
bushels peracre under ordinary culti-
vation, or that any variety worth
cultivating matures in eighty or ninety
days, when planted zt the usnal time,
are not to be accepted as correct. In
ordinary circumstances 100 days from
date of planting may be considered as
a minimum for field corn to mature
fully ; late varieties often need 150
days in Central Illinois.
Repeated trials have uniformly
shown that larger yields of both corn
and stalks are obtained by planting a
larger number of kernels than is cus-
tomary in the best practice of Illinois.
From 12,000 to 13,000 kernels planted
per acre seems to be the minimum for
largest yields at the station grounds.
This is equivalent to 4 kernels per
hill, in rows at the usual distance for
planting ia Illinois. In most of the
trials the rows were 3 feet 8 inches
apart each way. Twenty-four varieties
were planted in as many plats, half of
each having 3 kernels and half four
kernels jn each hill. In 21 of the 24
cases the larger yields were obtained
from the thicker planting, the average
increase for the 24 plants being about
4.5 bushels per acre.
Repeated trials havs shown that, if
other conditions are the same, there is
no perceptible difference in the aver-
age yield, whether the corn is planted
in hills or in drills, the number of
stalks secured influencing this rather
than their mode of distribution. In
many cases it is more difficult to keep
drilled corn free from weeds. To se-
cure the largest yield of both corn and
stalks, medium-maturing varieties may
be planted at the rate of 1 kernel to
each three inches in rows 3 feet 8
inches apart. Thick planting gives
smaller ears, which increase the labor
in husking. Where the corn is to be
fed without husking the smaller size
of the ears may be an advantage.
As in each of several previous years,
trials in 1892 show that shallow culti-
vation is better than deep, and that
more frequent cultivation than is
necessary to keep the soil free from
weeds and the surface fairly loose is
not profitable. :
No noticeable effect on yield was
produced by removing tassels from
alternate rows.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,
Everything green is not good for
pasturage.
The smaller a bantam the higher the
price it will bring.
Warm, sweet milk is recommended
as a tonic for sick fowls.
Horses should be taught to walk fast
until it becomes a habit.
Sweet potatoes should be dug when
the ground is dry, if possible.
The common grasshopper is one of
the best insect foods for fowls,
Table refuse, if scalded, makes a
good meal for hungry chickens.
If turkeys are fed regularly in the
evening they will come home to roost.
Clover is a grass that makes land
richer and better for having grown on
it.
An ill-fitting collar hurts a horse just
as much as an ill-fitting shoe hurts a
man.
Sweet potatoes keep better if they
are dug before the viues are killed by
frost.
Almost all extracted honey will gran-
ulate and become like sugar in cold
weather.
Granulation not only improves the
appearance of noney, but makes it a
purer sweet.
In order to retain its color and flavor
butter should be packed so as to ex-
clude the air.
Frames of combs that cannot be
made perfectly straight should be
melted into wax.
Weeds that are nearly matured should
be thrown in heaps and burned so as to
destroy the seed.
The point is how to increase the
quality of your farm products without
increasing the cost.
The apiary should be kept neat and
tidy, clear of high grass and weeds and
work, and, in some instances, incur- |
able lameness. — New York World.
EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN.
The following summary of experi-
fAients is taken from the Illinois Ex-
periment Station, Bulletin No. 5:
The tassels on ten alternate
were removed as soon
peared.
Seventy-eight sampies of corn, with
different names, were tested on con-
rows
as they ap-
tiguous plats, each one-fortieth of an |
first time in |
acre in extent. For the
five years tho late varieties gave the
largest average yields, nine such va-
riefies averaging 70 bushels. Sixty-
seven plats of medium-maturing varie-
ties averaged 68 bushels per acre, and
16 plats of early maturing varieties
averaged nearly 53 bushels. Tor five
yours past each of four medium-ma-
turing varieties have given yields of |
from 71 to 76 bushels per acre.
The best early maturing raxiety hes |
rubbish of every kind.
Experiments show that unsalted
cows lose from fourteen to fifteen per
cent. in the quantity of their milk.
The number of eggs does not de-
HOW.
One of the great advantages of fall
| the work, and it is therefore
| thoroughly done.
If you wish to keep poultry begin in
a small way and see how you succeed.
| Later on you can go into the business |
{on a grand scale.
{ = . o
| Count your chickens frequently and
| try to tind out the cause for so many
| being missing. Then apply a remedy,
| if you can find one.
| All hives and
1
frames used by the
ab least once a year.
bo done by changing them about.
SOLDIERS” COLUMN
“DON’T BUIN US.”
A Hitherto Untold Exploitef a Squad of
Missouri Cavalry.
THERE 13a bit
of nistory of the
31 Mew. Cav.whica
may be of inter-
est to the readers
cfyour most ex-
cellent and iater-
esting soldicr
paper.
It is not of rec-
, ord in the official
«I publication of
=the war of the re-
= bellion and not
fy "pow known ex-
if = ceptto the gal-
tA ge>lant few wha
oo participated ia
- eM a thnt night's dar-
ing deeds; a bit of history (for obvi-
ous reasons).not allowed to stray very
far outside of Charlie Frost's squad
Please consider me a competent wit
ness, for I was in it and my recollec
tions of that night are yet very vivid
It was during our winter at Palmy-
ra, Mo., 1861, when patriotism was ut
white heat, the zeal of Co. C knew non
limit, and we were. contributing so
mightily to the overthrow of eur
wicked and deluded brethren in gray
Co- C, under Capt. Black, was on an
extended expedition; the precise lo-
cality I cannot state.l think, however,
we were near Paris, Mo. Capt. Black
concluded we were to large as an com-
pany (the enemy were afraid of us), sa
by his orders we broke into squads ot
10 or more under Sergeants, and thus
went abroad seeking whom we might
destroy.
Serg’t Chas. Frost's squad was or-
dered te muke a midnight raid on the
cabin of a Confederate Lieutenant,
who was described by Capt. B. in hiz
inimitable way as an unusually daring
and desperate fellow, with a few trusty
men alweys near lim, not to be taken
without the shed lino of blond, etc.
Inasmuch s we hude listed to wips
sat just such ic. ws, to «ave the coun:
try or perish at the post of honor, we
trotted off on our perilous mission. By
the aid ofa pilot we got there in goed
shape, surrounded that cabin in awitul
silence, and then, led by: our gallant
Sergeant, a few ol'us moved closer to
reconnoiter.
There was a curtain at the window,
and a very dim light along its edges
As we neared the door we saw the
curtain move very slightly, as if some.
one expected us. To be fully prepar—
ed we pushed our navies ahead of us,
cave a war whoop aud yelled,
“Surrender! Surrender!”
No answer.
“Open; or we will burst her!”
Nary open.
The Sergeant cried, “My kingdom
for a rail,” and a moment later, with a
fence-rail as a battering ram, we
charged the door of that desperate
man’s cabin. The speed and fary with
which we broke in would have put to
shame an olden-time catapult.
Much to our surprise (and. T may
say, relief) up to this time we Lad not
heard a shot on that crisp, midnight
air. As we dashed in over the wreck-
ed door, a few live coals in an old-
fashioned fireplace dimly outlined the
room, and showed us a pallet on’ tha
floor. There were impressions of two
bodies on that pallet, and putting our
hands to the places we found them
warm.
By this we knew
must be at least two
They had evidently retreated to the
other room, where, probably, there
were more of them, Just then someones
encouraged an investigation by ex-
claiming:
“Boys, lookout! Somebody is going
to be hurt here!”
Some genius, working for Uncle Sam
for about $13 a month, had found a
saucer of greece and a piece ofrag and
turned on a Missouri electric light, A
council of war ensued and during its
session everyone carefully disposed his
body to avoid the door and to ward
of course there
in the house.
the minie balls from the next room.
That war council had but one ques-
tion to settle! Shall we roast them
out or give them a good, square,
stand up fight in a close; dark room?
It was agreed to fight first and, if need
be, roast later.
Down went another door. Frost and
his men were right into the thickest of
the fray,up to the cannon’s mouth,and
amid the muffled indoor shots and the
hoarse shouts of men on human blood
intent.
Then came the silence of the grave
Men could hear their hearts beat. They
groped about the floor seeking to
throttle the Confederacy. He was not
there. Our electrician came in present-
ly with his Miss uri dip, and then we
saw the enemy had gone aloft. A ladder
led to a scuttle hole in the ceiling.
The ladder was wet with the blood of
the retreating foe.
pend upon keeping the cocks with the |
hens, and they should be separated |
planting is that more time is taken for |
mora |
bees should be thoroughly cleaned up |
‘Chis can usually |
In all that little group of desperate.
ly brave men, no one was hero enough
to thrust his head through thatscutsie
hole. So, ofcourse, preparations wora
made for a holocaust. At that last
horrible moment, just before the torch
was applied, bfore the heavens took on
a terrible glow and the air grew sick-
ening with its smell of burning fesh,
the enemy surrended. The enemy
proved to be two innocent darky
wenches.
Let fancy paint the rolling of eye
bails and the chattering of teeth aa
those two women crept to the scuttle
hole and begged us “Fo’ God's sake
don’t bu'n us!"—Joux WrssrLs iu
National Tribune.
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| DUDELEIGH — “You don't know
what you are talking about when you
call me a donkey.” Miss Kitty
| Fresh—“Yes, I do. TI used to own a
{ donkey.” —Brooklyn Life.