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THE NICARAGUA CANAL. I
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Scenes Along the Proposed Waterway to Divide
ANAL building
seems to be the
rnge now.
Dividing North
and South America
by menus of the
Nicaragua Canal
will he the next
grent engineering
font.
Americans will
1o it, American
("kill ami ability
will plan it, Ameri
can contractors will
execute it with the
aid of American
It is now universally ad
mitted thnt a short cut must be made
for ships between the Atlantic and the
Pacific
Since lS2fi, when the first party of
American engineers penetiated the
tropical wilderness of Nicaragua, every
part of the conntry south of Mexico
has been carefully examined. The
United States, Europe aud Mexico
A COFFEE PLANTATION
have been interested. Elaborate maps
have been made, volumes of scientific
data compiled and every engineering
problem has been studied and dis
cussed. The scheme lias been a diplomatic
question for over three-qunrters of a
century. Several times tho United
States and England have been on the
yerge of decluriug war over the pos
session of Nicaragua. Each realized
the importance of that country it a
canal were built,
The Nicaragua Canal may be briefly
desoribed as a summit level of navi
gation in fresh water, 153 miles long.
110 feet above the sea level, reaching
within three and one-half miles of the
Paoifie aud twelve and three-quarter
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TYPICAL RPEN'E ALONG THE CANAL ROUTE.
tmifia of the Atlantic Ocean. The total
leugth of navigation is 109 J miles;
there will be three lift locks at each
end of the summit level.
For miles huge machines mnst dig
way loose rock, sand and mud and
force it through pipes some two or
three miles away. For many miles
machines mnst scrape ont the bed of
the river and lakes along the line of
the canal. Some of those great dredges
would dig oat from (1000 to 8000 cubic
yards of material every twenty-four
hours. Thousands of men must work
with picks and shovels where the ma
chines cannot strotch out their giant
arms and dig away at the canal bed.
machinery.
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BIO D HEDGES AT WORK ON THE ENTRANCE TO THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
The reason the Nicaragua route it
the best one is that a water way has
been found that requires canal dig
ging for the shortest distanoe. You
can leave the Caribbean Sea in
steamer the size of one of our small
North and South America. j&
coasters, and can go to a point where
you can reach the l'nctfio Ocean by
walking three hours at a moderate
gait. It is but twelve miles distant.
If your stenmer lias a mast fifty feet
high, by climbing to the top of this
mast yon can see the blue line of the
Pacific in the distance.
The natural part of the ;1 is
formed by the Han .Tunn 1 and
Lake Nicaragua, of which it is -.1 out
let. The lake is a basin in the Cen
tral American l'lnin, tilled with fresh
water ranging from ten to 210 feet in
depth, and is 110 miles in length. Its
outlet is not less than 400 feet wide i't
any point, and varies from twelve to
fifty ami sixty feet in depth. But at
one point of the river, and only a few
miles from the Atlantic coast, an
earthquake or some other convulsion,
possibly a thousand years back, threw
up a barrier of rock, which must be
cnt or rather blown out iu order to al
low the passage of large steamships.
To take away this rock and to build
locks and dams to support the walls of
DOr.UF.KIXO OX THE CANAL.
water to the required depth are the
great engineering feats of the Nica
ragua Canal. Tons of the most power
ful explosives must be used. Holes
must be drilled in such a manner that
the force of the explosives with which
they ore loaded will work directly on
the portion of the channel to be exca
vated. Some of the blasts will contain
fully 50,000 pounds of explosive.
Tf a ship passes through this cnt the
summit of the rock will be higher
than the top ot her mainmast. An ex
cavation over 125 feet wide must be
made, for the minimum width of the
canal will be 100 feet.
Two grent dams will be needed to
maintain the water ways nt a proper
level. These are termed the Oehoa
and Tola. The rock taken from the
channel described will be used in
building them, mixed with cement.
It is calculated thnt they will prove
strong enough to retain the tremend
ous water presture.
On tho Pacific side in what is known
as the Tola Basin, which will be filled
with water to the depth of thirty to
seventy feet, by another dnm 1800
feet long and seventy feet high. From
the Oehoa dam to the Tola dnm a ves
sel will travel a waterway over 150
miles long, on which the fall is but
four feet of the entire longth. To
reach the summit level, as this is
termed, that is, the highest point of
the canal, involves another engineer
ing problem, on which many years of
study havo been spent by some of the
most noted experts iu the world.
The decision reached by most of the
engiucers has been a system of locks.
The plnns provide for three on one side
of the summit level and three on the
other. The highest will raise a vessel
torty-five feet, and the lowest will raise
her between twenty and twenty-fire
feet. They are to be 050 feet long,
eighty feet wide and thirty feet deep.
The St. Lonisor St. Paul, for instance,
could easily be accommodated in them.
The canal will be less than thirty
feet deep and 100 feet wide on the bot
tom. The locks will be constructed
of the largest blocks of stone and con
crete ever used for this purpose, and
will be closed by gates of steel, be-
aide which the largest look gates in
the world will seem as pigmies.
The greatest industry in Nicaragua
is coffee culture. The one drawbaok
to the busiuess and to all enterprises
iu Nicaragua, is the want, not only of
labor, bnt of the proper kind of labor.
A gentleman who is engaged in the
coffee Industry said recently that hi
laborers would get drunk on Sunday,
take all day Monday to sober up, come
to work on Tuesday and continne
working until Friday or Saturday,
when they would lay off again, so thnt
the rnozo of the country labors about
one-half of the time. Counting Sun
days there are 105 fiestas, or feast
days in Nicaragua, during which time
the mozo "toils not, neither doth he
spin."
Hie Department of Mnt.igalpa is
destined to be a great cofl'ee center at
no fnr distant day when the grent
cnnnl is built. There are now about
4,000,000 trees under cultivation and
each month the number is largely in
creased. Persons who claim to have a
knowledge of the subject state that
whereas iu other parts of Nicaragua
the yield per tree is from half a pound
to a pound and a bnlf of cofl'ee, iu
Matngnlpa the trees produce from two
to four pounds. A number of Ameri
cans are engaged iu the coffee indus
try, some ow ning as high as 2000 man
znnns nearly 4000 acres. These
binds cnu be purchased from the Gov
ernment nt the rate of 81. CO per man-
znna, being about two English acres.
Though there are some large holdings,
the majority do not average over
twenty acres.
DOES IT MEAN SEPARATION?
A Stir CatiAiMl hy nn Art of llio Nnrn-rglnn
I I let.
A great stir has been caused in
Norway and Sweden by tho recent ac
tion of the Storthing at Christiana in
the matter of the Norwegian flag. The
Storthing has voted that hereafter
Norway's banner shall flout without a
jnck the symbol of the union with
Sweden. Some say that should King
Oscar veto the resolution two more
diets must pass upon the mntter be
fore it con go into effect; others that
the new flag will come iuto immedi
ate use. Since 1844 the closest rela
tions have been maintained between
Norway and Sweden. At thnt time the
flng of each nntiou wns changed so thnt
the jnck in the upper left-hand corner
combined the colors of the other na
tion. For several years past, how
ever, there has been a growing feel
ing of discontent in Norway concern
ing the close relations of the two pow
ers. This dissatisfaction King Oscar
has 'striven to assunge. Tho two
countries have entirely sepnrnte and
distinct governments, but are ruled by
the same king, Oscar of Sweden. Each
country has its own parliament, which
passes laws for its respective conn
the L.vnoE flao is the rnorosEu n.Aa
OP NORWAY.
try. All laws are subject to the ap
proval or disapproval of the king.
Tho nag of Norway, with the jnck
left out, will be four rod corners, with
a Greek cross of blue through the
center. The Swedish flng has four
blue corners, with a jnck of red, blue
and yellow iu the upper left-hand cor
ner and a Greok cross of yellow in the
confer. The Norwegian flag bad
formerly the jack, which continued
the bar of yellow as a symbol ot the
union with Sweden, but this will not
appear iu the flag iu the future.
Very AUxent-sTlndcd Men.
A friend calling npon Peter Bur
rowes, a celobrated Irish barrister,
one morning in his dressing room,
found him shaving himself with his
face to the wall, aud asked hira why be
chose so strange an attitude. The
answer was, "To look in the glass."
"Why, there is no glass there," said
the friend. "Bless me!" exclaimed
Burrowes, "I did not notice that
before." Then, ringing the bell, he
culled the servant and questioned him
respecting the looking-glass which
had been hanging on the wall. "Oh,
sir," said the servant, "it was broken
six weeks ago." A certain learned
professor at Cambridge is a very
absent-minded man. A friend of his
had been seriously ill. When he was
convalescent the professor used to
send him jellies and other delicacies,
One day he took him a tine bunch of
hothouse grapes. The old friends
were very pleased to see each other,
and were soon deep in a discussion.
The professor, becoming interested,
began absent-mindedly nicking the
grapes, taking one at a time till they
were all gone. On goiug out of the
door he called back to bis friend,
"Now, mind you eat those grapes;
they will do you all the good iu the
world."
To Dry tka Hair.
A New Yorker has patented an ap
paratus for drying the hair after wash
ing or shampooing, a metallic, casing
having a beating stove at the bottom
with air inlet holes, the air being
drawn to the top of the casing aud
blown through funnel by means ot
revolving fan,
The children of the United States
each year consume toys that cost ftt
retail $45,000,001).
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FOR FARM AND GARDEN,
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Knrly Maturing Hoy.
Young pork is always best as well
as the most chenply produced. Un
less the nnlmnl is wnnted as a breeder
it is not usunlly kept until n yenr old.
The breeds thnt mature early will
mnke more pork nt less cost nt six to
eight months old tlinn those that keep
on gl owing two or three years and at
tain very henvy weights. But it is
still better to keepn breeding sow of
some of the course, lai gemmed bogs
and then grow litters of pigs from her
when mnted with some of the small
breeds that mature earliest. The bnlf
breeds will mnke more pork than will
the thoroughbreds.
Wnlrr llontra Kmitietitly.
It is not nntnt'iil for the Irirse to go
long without n drink of wuter. His
Ktomnch is small and cannot bold a
wnt -r supply for a long time. Water
ing morning, noun nnd night when nt
work in summer time i'l none too often.
If the work is very henvy two tnble
sponufuls of ont meal stirred 111 the
pnil will make the horse drink better,
nnd will tlso prevent so milch cold
wnter from injuring his stmnnch. It
is a mistake to suppose, thnt a horse or
nny other domestic aniiiuil prefers to
di ink wnter only n few degrees above
the freezing temperature. If it is
lukewarm the horse will drink more
freely and the wnter will be less npt
to injure him.
oil lcii1 for 1'iittpiilnv Hon.
Ore of the best variations of the
nil-corn diet for fattening hogs is some
old process linseed meal, or if thi
eiinnot be procured, use rottonnred
meal with Hume oitnual hot bolted.
All the linseed nnd cottonseed litems
contain some oil, nud to this extent
are laxative. But nil the cottonseed
meal iiinde now has the nil so squeezed
out of it that it is unsafe to feed it to
young pin, nud it can only be fed to
old lilies iu very small quantities, anil
then not very safely. It will need
some routs to go with it. But these
should be given nny way when corn is
fed to hoys, as the starch of corn is
hard to digest. Besides the oil the
oil meal contains some nitrogenous
nutrition which makes the feed n bet
ter balanced ration.
Hii-iiImk I'nfiitnes Tor Itlliilit.
The past season bus thoroughly de
moustrnted the value of the bordeaux
mixture for hliuht 011 potatoes, nnd it
hns quite us thoroughly shown that
the use of pnris green and loiulon pur
ple, alone or mixed with land plaster,
bus no good effect. Potnto growers
should bear this fact in mind next
sea-ion nud use the bordeaux mixture
freely, not only on potnto vines, but
other vegetables nnd fruit trees where
foliage diseases of any kind appear.
Without question it is one of the most
valuuble implements for use on the
farm, nnd the bordeaux mixture cnu
be ensily nud chenply miido nt home.
So t-iere seems to be no reason why
the blighted, scabby potatoes thnt
have been put on tho market for the
past two years should not be replaced
by the fair, smooth specimens of the
days when scab nnd blight were prac
tically unknown, or nt least not for
iniiliible. HI 111 in I he milk,
There nre some points about strain
ing milk that are not generally thought
of.nud therefore the milk is not wholly
cleared of its bacteria. In the llrst
place it is importuut that the milk
should be put through the strainer
and set where its cream is to rise as
soon ns possible after it comes from
the cow. It often accumulates bac
teria very rapidly if left in stables ex
posed to foul odors. Besides, if left
long some of the cream will rise and
will be so mixed with the milk that
what does not cling to the strainer
cloth or wire will not liso as cream
again. The strainer should be thor
oughly washed by dipping it first in
cold wuter and moving it rapidly
through both ways, so that bacteria
will not adhere to the underside, ns
they are apt to do if the rinsing water
is merely poured on the strainer from
above. Then repeat this process with
wuter pretty near scalding heut. In
thnt wny if there are nny bacteria on
the strainer they will be killed.
Mulching Mrawberrlr.
Tho plants should be covered with
some course material just before the
severest weather comes 011 in the full.
It may be applied before the ground
freezes or nfter it is frozen solid. If
covered before, the mulch should be
dropped oil' nt the ends of the rows
nnd carried onto the bed with forks.
After the ground is frozen, you call
drive anywhere, depositing tho ma
terial where most convenient to spread.
The entire surface should bo covered
just deep enough to entirely hide the
plant. When applied the straw will
be about three inches deep. Ituius
and snow w ill cause it to puck dowu
to nn inch. Strawberries will not
smother, 110 matter how deep the cov
ering, if it is not applied too eiirly in
the full or left on too lute iu the
spring. Itemove the covering nud
put it in the paths between the rows
about May 1, or us soon as growth
starts. Just before the berries begiu
to ripen, go through the fields and
pull all weeds aud place the straw
carefully about the plants so as to
cover all the surface not occupied by
the plants. Orange Judd Farmer.
Advantuicra of Fall I'lowlng,
Nearly every farmer who has been
oaring for the farm for a series of
years will have seen the benefits of
full plowing in many ways while run
ning the furm. There may be some
oils where the b.uetits are not seen
sb plainly m upon others, but nearly
all sorts are in some wny improved by
being worked iu the full. If the soil
is stiff and clayey, nothing seems to
improve it so much as fall plowing.
Let full plowing be practised ench
sensoti for a series of years, and a
finer aud more mellow soil will surely
follow. If a good dressing of light,
strawy manure, such ns horse stable
dressing, can bo applied, spread broad
cast upon the soil nnd plowed under,
so much the better. But if the farmer
hns not the dressing, plowing alone
will help to improve the soil surely.
By turning up the soil Inte iu the
fall the action of the frost will serve
to render it finer iu texture.
Freezing nnd thawing nre among
the grent agencies in prepnrlng the
soil for better production. Stiff clny
soil is a poor soil for plants to do good
work in, even if it be mnde rich with
dressing; the roots cannot penetrate a
bnrd soil and poor crops are the re
sult. Every fanner who hns hnd a
practical knowledge by treating such
soils cannot fail to see this, and they
must work with this point in view if
they hope to succeed, thnt a gradual
deepening of such soil by ditching and
full plowing nre the very bent methods
to apply. No soil can produce even
fair crops while it is in scold and hard
state. Then let us devote our atten
tion to making nn improvement. We
must work to render the soil flue, nnd
to tnke the surplus wnter from it by
ditching nnd plowing. Let freezing
nnd thnwing come in to help us.
Nothing can be cheaper thnu this in
the farm economy.
We have treated soils such ns have
been mentioned nbove many times,
nud these methods have proved satis
factory iu every ease. We hope thnt
nil farmers who may have such noils
t 1 work will try this mode of treat
ment nnd report results. A. K.
Fuulit in Americnn Cultivator.
Keptllng llogt In Kliitflft.
The feeding of hogs iu the field is
becoming more iu practice every
yenr.
Putting them in pens on n floor will
no doubt have a tendency to put flesh
on more rapidly, ns it deprives the
hogs of exercise, which is necessnry to
good health nud better pork. Then,
pen feeding requires more labor iu
taking everything to the pen to feed
besides the daily cleaning.
More manure is wasted around a
hog pen thnu nny other plnee. Owing
to its ofl'e nsiveness nud being filled
with corn cobs, which makes it trou
blesome to bundle, it is left to lie right
where it is thrown out of the pen.
While this manure is of the best, I be
lieve there is tho lenst attention paid
to saving it of nny manure we have.
When hogs are fed in the field all
this good manure is saved with the
least trouble. There is no drawing
out nnd spreading, ns tho hogs have
done this work better thnu it can be
done by hand. While you may add a
few more pounds on the hog with the
same amount of grain by pcu feeding,
this will be more than overcome by
the saving of manure and the decreased
amount of labor required.
I don't believe iu having a lot on
purpose to feoil iu nud keep it. for
such, year nfter year, with nothing
else iu it. This would be an entire
waste of manure. I'.vory farmer should
have souio small fields nud change
them for feeding purposes. Where
bogs were fed last yenr should be put
into some crop this year.
They mny be fed with profit on
clover sod that you intend to jdow for
corn next yemv Io this feeding on
tho poor places 11 f the field, and mnke
them ns rich us the richest (daces. Jf
you have a few hogs, nn old wngon
ciin be londed nnd driven where yon
wish to feed, changing places ouch
loud. If you haven't the old wngon,
a store box set up high enough so thnt
the hogs won't get iuto it will do. If
you have a lure number of bogs, a
portable corn crib can be built on
runners and drawn with a team any
where you wish. We have one of thi
kind that holds about a hundred bush
els, made of rough boards. Our man
made it iu n couple of hours. It is
just a largo box, made strong enough
to hold a hundred bushels, with 11c
roof over it. O110 end is made to tnke
out, so you cnu use a scoop from the
start when you commence feeding.
Then the end cnu be placed back
again.
But how about the wuter in those
fields with so many hogs? Yes, they
must have wuter, nud all they want ol
it, nnd wuter thnt is fresh nud clean.
Well, we fill barrels and draw them
out to them on a stone bout, enough
at one load to lust a week. Wheu the
weather is warm, wnter ought to be
drawn twice a week to keep it fresh
enough. But once a week will dr
later ou iu the full.
Ashes and suit should be kept bo
fore them nil the time. Cut a hole in
the side of a box or barrel and fill it
with ashes and salt thoroughly mixed
at one part of salt and three of ashes,
and cover it over to keep the rain out.
You will be surprised at the amount
they will eat. It keeps them iu healthy
condition.
If the weather is. hot, some kiud ol
place should be fixed to shelter the
hogs from the sun. Cheap atl'uirs ol
some kind that will suggest thomselvet
to the farmer cnu easily be arranged,
I. N. Cowdrey iu Farm, Field aud
Fireside.
A I'litaue of ltt In JlrueW.
The Hue Berckmans, one of till
most fashionable quarters of the capi
tul, has just beeu visited by a plague
ot large rats. No house has beeu fret
from these unwelcome visitors, auc
the havoo they have made is so great
that most of the residents have beet
put to flight. Some of the rats are o:
au extraordinary size, and hitherti
the measures which have been taker
to free the neighborhood of the pes'
have proved of little avail,- Brusseli
Correipoudenoe of the Loudon Post,
KEYSTONE STATE Mi CONDENSED
A LOADED LAST.
Practical Joker Responsible for a Serious Injury
to a Harelton Shoemaker Lock
jaw Feared.
Sonip unknown person plnycd a ser
ious practical Joke on Frank Marcel
lus, n Ktmeimiker nt Freeliiml a few
ilnys nun. Hi. wns linmmerljiK on a
Miop w hen an explosion took 'place In
It, n null ioimImk Ihroimh anil pene
liHtlntt his hand. I'pon InvestlKatlon
It was found thut a hole In the last was
filled with RiinpowdiT and a nail put
In on top of 11. Marcellu's hand Is
bndly swollen, and It Is feared lock
jaw will si-t In.
Mrs. John I'nilRle, wlte of a Qunk
nke farmer, while uldlnK her husband
In a saw mill, near llaseltown the
other day, wns caught In a wheel of
the circular saw nnd whirled with ev
ery revolution. Horror-stricken, the
husband stopped the machinery, but
mil before m-urly nil her clothliiK wu
torn from her oody. Ho tlRhtly were
the clothes wrapped about the mach
inery, thnt they hnd to be cut loose
wlfh a knife. The woman wns un
conscious when released from her uw
ful position. She wns fatally Injured.
Her right nrm nnd leg were broken
nnd she wns terribly cut nnd bruised.
Frank, the S-year-nld twin son of
Mr. nnd Mrs. J. K. t'arson, wns drown
ed nt IHton n few dnys ago, nnd an
other boy went through the pond at the
same time, hut got nut Hnd went
home, some distance away. Hnd he
Riven the alarm his companion could
huve been rescued by people living;
nenrby. The body whs recovered
about two hours after the accident.
This Is the seventh child the bereaved
parents have lost by denth. The boya
went to the pond to skate it . tend of
going to school.
t'hnrles Newton, nn exper. torpedo
shooter, drove from Hrudfor I to Or
chard Park, New York, om day Inst
week, with 41 (limits of frozen nitro
glycerin. He nrilved nt n well which
had been drilled down to the rock eon
Ininlng riis nnd here he unloaded hlH
material nnd prepared to put In the
shot. He tiinwed the explosive by
means of hot wnter. nnd the whole
n mount blew up, completely annihilat
ing Newton, destroying the engine
nnd boiler, nnd wrecking the holler
house nnd rig.
A number of Italians who were for
merly proprietors of fruit stands In
Philadelphia hnve formed n colony at
New (lalenn, a few miles west of
Ioyestown, nnd nr engnged In farm
ing. They hnve decided to make their
homes here Instend of returning to
Italy, nnd will make n specialty of
fruit growing. The children will con
tinue to conduct the fruit business In
the city, while they manage the farms.
In preparation for a dinner Mrs.
MiicKeller, of llrlstol, started n brisk
lire In her kitchen Htove early In tho
morning, nnd a few hours Inter she
threw open the oven door to put in a
chicken. An unsavory odor greeted
her. She looked In, nnd, to her horror,
found her pet kitten, which hnd been
missing, nicely roasted. It had crept
In when the stove was cold, and, Im
prisoned, wns cooked alive.
While Iteiiben Crumley, nn old lime
burner, wns winking In his quarry, on
Dale's hills, nenr Si'lingsgrove, a deer
suddenly leaped from the cliff nbove
and nlighted siiuarely upon him,
knocking him senseless. It Is fenreil
thut his Injuries may prove fatal. The
supposition Is that the deer was pur
sued by hunters, and In Its Might It
leaped over the cliff.
A terrllle explosion wrecked the en
gine house and blew down the pipes at
the Dunbar furnace .Monday morning.
The blast wns off the furnace nt the
time and the workmen were putting
In a tuyer. The hot air from the
furnace coining In contact with the
damage was confined to the plant. Tho
cold air caused the explosion. The
furnace will hnve to close down sev
i nil days for repairs.
On Thursdny night Andrew Thomna
of New Cnstle, nfter having made an
Information before Alderman I'otter
charging his wife with nss.v'lt and
battery, threw himself under a pass
ing train nnd was literally u' to
pieces. Mrs. Thomas had a I. Bring
on the charge made by her husband,
admitted her guilt, and went to the
Allegheny workhouse for six months.
Superior Court Judge Howard J.
Iteeder, who for seven weeks hus been
lying In n critical condition nt his
home In Hnrilsburg, died last Thurs
day. His death was due to a compli
cation of nllments following congestion
of the lungs and dropsy, which under
mined his constluitl ,n.
I'hlllp Kunkle, aged 5fi years, a
Pennsylvania railroad trackman em
ployed by Division Foreman Jamea
Hlalr, wns instantly killed by the New
York and Chicago limited at the
C.i'eensburg tunnel Wednesday morn
ing. His body wns almost ground in
to a pulp.
The Mercer County Telephone Com
pany Is expending thousands of dol
lars on its lines. The consolidation of
the lines of Heaver, Lawrence, Krle,
Ciuwford and Trumbull counties Is a
(1 rtalnty. and the connection with the
New Castle lines will be made in Feb
ruary. While crossing the tracks of the Hnl
tlmore arid Ohio railroad at Dawson,
near I'nlontnwn, the other day, Thos.
Addis, a mason, of Vanderhilt, aged
r:l years, was killed by a fust freight
trnln, which struck and demolished
Ms buggy, but did not Injure the horse.
The North Cornwall Iron furnace, at
Cornwall, near Lebanon, operated by
the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Com
pany, of Scranton. was badly wrecked
Monday by an explosion. Several men
hud nurrow escapes. The dumuge la
estimated at 20.(IIW.
Company K, Sixteenth Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, was mustered out
of the service at Franklin, by Captain
Kdgnr W, Howe, of the I'nlted States
regular army. The company lost seven
men while in the I'nlted States service.
Joseph Hollinger of Hummelstown
wus sentenced by Judge Slmonton ot
Hurrisburg to be hunged for wife mur
der. The record of the cuse will be
certified to Gov. Hustings, by whom
the date of execution will be fixed.
Klectrlc cars have replaced the old
truln drawn by a locomotive on the
railway from Wllkesbarre to Harvey's
Luke.
Fulling con! killed Andrew Tree
boney In a coal mine ut Dunmore.
Luckawannu county.
A Westmoreland county schoolmus
ter. while attending the institute at
OreellHlmrg. is reported to huve nearly
died thruugh blowing- out the gun on
retiring.
Many of the people of fireensburg
want Andrew Curnegle to build un ar
mory In that town, insteud of the pub
lic llbrury he hus promised to present.
Private Victor Holmes, of the Tenth
Pennsylvania Regiment, wounded In
the buttle of Manila, has hud two of
his libs taken out in a Sun Francisco
hospital.
lloth of Willie Ilobluson's legs were
cut off by a car ot the Leggett's Creek
bleaker, Lackawanna, county, a few
duys ago, und his death resulted.