THE KEYSTONE STATE ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO PEN N SYLVAN IANS. Brltf Mention of Matters Which Evert* body Should Know About—A Week's Accidents and Crimes Accurately aud Concisely Chronicled. POTTBVILLE, July 12.—William Simpson, ©f Port Carbon, aged fourteen years, en tered bail l>efore Justice of the Peace Hill for attempting to kill a companion named George B. McElrath, aged sixteen. Simp son insulted McElrath aud the lattoi thrashod him. He then turned and startod to go away. Simpson drew a large pocket knife and stealing up behind his companion stabbed him in the back. The wound will not provo fatal. A New Coal llullroad. HARRISBURG, July 12.— A charter was granted here to the Altoona and Philips burg Connecting Railroad company, with main office in Philadelphia, capital SIIOO,OOO. The road will run from Janesville, Clear field county, to Philipsburg, Center county, twenty miles, connecting with the Beech Creek railroad and Pennsylvania railroad. This road, with the Altoona, Clearfield and Northern (formerly Wopsonuock) and the Altoona Short line, will make the shortest line between north and south, running throngh the center of the soft coal region at the north and tapping the Broad Top and Cumberland regions at the south. Killed by a Fall of Coal. ST. CLAIR, July 12.— Michael Mitchell was instantly killed by a fall of coal in the Pine Foreßt colliery. Shenandoah's Hoy Hero. SHENANDOAH, July 12.— Tommy aud Johnny Mathews, aged nino and eleven, I played ball close by the railroad. Johnny I ran after a ball knocked on the tracks, when | Tommy noticed a train approaching at great , speed. He ran screaming to his brother's I assistance, and succeediA in rescuing him uninjured, but before he had time to escape ! the engine struck him, fatally injuring him. j Corporal Uourrell Shoots Himself. PHILADELPHIA, July 12.—The departure I of the troops from the station at Thirty second and Market streets for Homestead, I was marred by a painful accident to Cor- I poral Steene Bourrell. While carelessly ex- ! hibiting his revolver to a companion his ! finger prossed against the trigger. The bullet buried itself in Bourrell's thigh, in dieting a painful wound. Plnkerton Men Denounced. LANCASTER, July 12. —A mass meeting was held at the court house under the ans- i pices of the Central Labor union. Speeches < were made by John J. Gallagher aud George Chance, of Philadelphia. Resolutions con demning the Pinkertons and approving the ( course of the men were adopted. Drowned in the Raceway. E ASTON, July 12.—The body of Clarence 1 Clifton, forty years old, of Easton, was found drowned in the raceway of a mill. It I is supposed that he fell in, and being very ill was unable to help himself. No Levee for OH City. HARRISBURG, July 12. —The state board ' of health has decided that it has no juris diction in the matter of improving the sani- j tary conditions of Oil City and Titusville by the erection of a levee. Rescued by a Policeman. PHILADELPHIA, July 12.—John Dukes, forty years old, was suffocated by sewer gas in a manhole at Mervine and Diamond streets. John Rechter and James Hallo- j way, who went down the manhole to rescue ! Dukes, were also overcome. Policeman John Toinlinson then made the descent i and brought up the body of Dukos, as well as Rechter and Holloway, both of whom were unconscious. When ho came up the policeman fell in a swoon. No More Plnkerton Men. PITTSBURG, July 12.—1t is Reported that H. C. Frick, the manager of the Carnegie works, informs the burgess of Homestead that he does not intend to send any more Plnkerton "specials'' there to protect the mills. This was in reply to a message which he received from Mayor Gourloy by Chiet Brown, of the department of public safety, telling him that if he brought any more Pinkerton men to Homestead they would bo immediately arrested, held for trial and their weapons seized. Young Lovers Elope. ' PHILADELPHIA, July 12.— Because their parents objected to the wedding, Harry Hamilton and Annie Mead, of Philadelphia, both under twenty years, eloped, were mar- j ried in Camden and went to Wilkesbarre to live. Hamilton's father brought the groom to this city and the bride is now waiting to hear from her parents. llayei In Hopeful. PHILADELPHIA, July 12.—John W. Hayes, general secretary aud treasurer of the Knights of Labor, says that the People's party will carry five or six states iu Novem ber. Their Death Warrants Signed. HARRISBURG, July 9.— Governor Pattison signed the death warrants of William F. Keck, convicted of murder in Lehigh coun ty, and Henry Davis, convicted of murder in Philadelphia county. Both executions will take place on Thursday, Sept. 8. Smallpox at Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, July 9.—On account of one case of smallpox the steamer Indiana, from Liverpool, is quarantined at Lagarotto. Butler Held for Trial. CHESTER, July 9.—Samuel Butler, who was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday charged with embezzling tuxes to the amount of $7,000, appeared with his counsel before 'Squire Pike at Morris. Indefanlt of SIO,OOO bail he was committed to the county jail to ! await trial. Murphy Wants the Reward. PITTSBURG, July 8. -Detective P. J. Mur- j phy made a written demand on the county commissioners for the SI,OOO offered by them for the capture of F. C. Fitzsiraraons, | the murderer of Detectivo Gilkinson. Will Have a Good Time and Then Die. ' HUNTINGDON, July B. —Abram Stegman, aged eighteen, absconded with several hundred dollars of his brother's money. He stated in a note that after spending the money he would commit suicide. The Corpse Was Alive. CHESTER, July 7.— Thomas Kelly, a colored man, was found at Market street wharf apparently dead and the body was removed to the coroner's office and placed in the ice box, where the supposed corpse kicked the lid off. The man had been stupefied with liquor. A Rich Beggar. PHILADELPHIA, July 7.— With over $2,000 to her credit in the bank Bridget Ida Het tacker, forty-one years old, a poorly clad woman, with an infant in her arms, was ar rested at the request of a merchant who was importuned for aid by the woman. Numerous complaints about tho woman hare been pouring into police headquarters • frithia I fee put WOUUL Bto mi held. '■lll " —r- ASTOR 18 NOT DEAD. ( The Cablegram Reporting His Sudden Death WHS a Forgery. LONDON, July 18.— William Waldorf As j tor is not dead. The report that he had expired was cabled to his New York agent by some malicious person for the purpose, llt is thought, of annoying the family. The | first intimation that wus received of such a report having gained currency came in | Ihe shape of a cable of condolence from the ! rmployees in Mr. Astor's New York office, ronveying their heartfelt sympathy and regret. From this it is assumed that some one in London cabled to the office in New York, and whether it was done through private malice or for the purpose of stock jobbing, of course, cannot be determined until the author of the dispatch is discov ered. ! In reply to a note explaining the situa | tion in New York and the contradictory re ! ports that had been received frcan London In regard to her husband Mrs. Astor sent out word that Mr. Astor was much better. A cable received from New York states that Manager Bartletfc, of the Astor estate, received the announcement of Mr. Astor's death by cable from Mr. Adams, Mr. As tor's agent in London. At least the cable was signed by him, and Mr. Bartlett sup -1 posed that it was authentic. Mr. Adams said: "The telegram that is reported to have come from me is a clear forgery. I emphatically deny sending any such telegram, and shall take immediate proceedings to ferret out the forger of the telegram. I saw Mr. Astor a few hours ago and ho was as jolly as a 'sand boy.' He treated the affair 4vith levity and said he Was used to being made a ghost. "Although Mr. Astor," continued Mr. Adams, "says the affair cannot affect him, Ido not intend to let the matter drop. I have cabled Mr. Baldwin denying that I sent him the telegram asking for full par ticulars. The telegram was possibly sent to influence Wall street, but it cannot injure iMr A3tor. He is makiug rapid progress I toward recovery." OVER THREE HUNDRED PERISHED. St. Gervuls, Switzerland's Famous Health Resort, Swept Away. PARIS, July 18. —A terrific storm swept over the Chamounix and Arve valleys in Switzerland. Rain fell in torrents, and the ' enormous quantity of water precipitated caused the river Arve to rise suddenly to a ; great height. The swelling of the mountain stream led to the inundation of the country along the banks, and great damage was done at many places. The worst disaster was at St. Gorvais, the famous health resort. The village was prac tically swept away by a landslide caused by the storm, and it is reported that 200 resi dents aud visitors were drowned or buried under the landslide. The celebrated baths were destroyed and at least half the build ings in the place were demolished. The Arvo is filled with floating debris, mingled with which are many corpses of men, women and children, besides hundreds of carcasses of cattle, goats and other ani mals. ; Over 150 bodies have been recovered from the Arve and from the ruins of houses. It is believod that there are many bodies bur i ied under the mass of debris. Onehundrod and fifty bodies have already been found at St. Gervais. Seventy-five Reported Drowned. I PEORIA, Ills., July 18.—It Is supposed that the tugboat Frankie Folsom capsized and sunk on Lake Peoria with 150 people on board. Seventy-five people are reported to have been drowned. ST. JOHNS IN RUINS. Nevernl Lives Lost In the Fire—The Loss Will Aggregate #'<5,000,000. ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 11.— It is now esti mated that the great fire which has been raging here has created a loss of property aggregating $25,000,000 and has rendered 10,000 persons homeless. The steamer Alert and the brig Dover were burned at their docks and five men of their crews were either burned to death or jumped into the harbor aud were drowned. Two children were burned to death in the city, and a man named Lindsay dropped dead from fright during the progress of tho flames. The names of the others who wore killed or burned are not yet recorded. The origin of the fire is not a mystery. A careless smoker lighted his pipe in a barn in | the northern suburbs of the city and threw down the burning match. Half an hour later a volume of flame and living embers were rushing down over the entire length , of the city toward the water. Ntate Didders Get the Contracts. HARRISBURG, July 13.—Secretary of the Common wealth Harrity has awarded con tracts for state supplies, etc., only to state bidders, because of the failure of foreign corporations to comply with a law enabling them to do business within the state. General Agent Lord Arrested. BOSTON, July 12.—Charles F. Lord, gen eral agent of the National Cash Register company for Massachusetts, whoso officers and agents were indicted by the United States grand jury, was arrested. Fell Dead in Church. BOSTON, July 11.—Lieutenant Colonel Chase E. Blunt, of the Engineer corps, U. 8. A., fell dead during services in Trinity church. General Markets. NEW YORK, July 12.-COTTON-Spot lots Hteady; futures, weak; July, 7.04 c.; August, j 7.08o.; Boptember, 7.14 c. FLOUR - Ruled in buyers' favor at slight do oline; Minnesota extra, superfine, $1.00®2.f10; fine, 81.70jt2.25; city mill o*tras, s4.ssff&4 40 for West Indies. ! WHEAT—Opened steady at V£c. advance fell tic., and at noon was steady; receipts, j 200,250 bushels; shipments. 206,721 bushels; No. i 2 red winter, 88c. cash; July, 83}$c.; August, 82%e.; September, ' CORN—Opened steady at Vic. decline, fsll lc. and at noon was weak; receipts, - bushels; shipments, 10 bushels; No. 2 mixed, cash, 55c.; August, 53Vi; September, 53Vic. i OATS—Weak; receipts, 107,400 bushels; I HhipmontH, 65 bushels; No 2 mixed, 35c.; July, Mftc.; August, 34He.; SoptoinW, 34^c. RYE—Unsettled and lower; 70®79c. in ear , lots. BARLEY—Entirely nominal. MOLASSES-Dull and unchanged; New Or leans, 30Q36c. for good to fancy, j SUGAR Refined in moderate demand; cut loaf and crushed, 5<85V6c.; powdered. ; granulated, 4%((&4%c.; mold A, 4Vt>®4osc.; cubes, 4%&4% c. I COFFEE Spot lots steady and unchanged; fair Rio cargoes, 14^0. RICE Firm, fair, extra, C®6Vic. I PORK-Steady ; old moss, $11.76&15.T5 j LARD Stoady, August, $7.42; September, $7.52. BUTTER—DuII, but steady; western ex tras, 20Vi®Jllo.; state creamery, firsts to extras, , 106621 c.; state dairy, half tut*' extrae, 10(JiliUc CHEESE—Light demand; prices steady; i state factory, full cream, white, fancy, BVso.; j EGGS—Firm; state, fresh, li-)4(fcl7o.; weat- I ern. prime, MftlflVie. TURPENTINE—Firmer; 30©30^ c . j ROSIN- Light demand; strained, f1.22U; I good strained, $1.25. TALLOW Steady; prime city, 5-lte. BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE ! WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR. The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Con densed for Our Headers. Thursday, July 7. Mrs. Ed McGabe, aged fifty, of Eagle j Puss, Tex., was brutally murdered by a I halfwitted hired man, who said ftie woman eursed and threatened to kill him. i Grenier, the clerk in the French navy de ' partition t who was arrested for soiling offl- I cial documents to Captain Borup, had a j salary of only SB6O a year, and had not been j promoted In six years. This fact has changed public feeling with regard to him. | The French commissioners to the Chicago World's fair propose to ask the French min i istry for a lnrgor grant toward French ex j hibits at the fair. Miss Annie, the eighteen-year-old daugh ter of Governor John N. Stone, of Missouri, has eloped with E. L. McKie, a very poor young man, of Water Valley, Miss. Senators Wan-en and Carey, of Wyoming, were hung in effigy at Ogden, U. T., by in dignant citizens for voting against the free coinage of silver in the United States sen ate. Friday, July 8. Arthur Stocker, who shot and killed his wife and wounded her sistej*. Mamie Tier , ney, was taken from the Hudson county ! jail to the state prison at Trenton to servo a ; term of ten years. A French soldier, Dick Floury, of the Seventeenth infantry, shot Jennie Poi ! guette, at Cheyenne, Wy., and then shot ; himself. The girl was badly wounded, tho bullot having passed ontirely through hor j body. Floury was killed instantly. While running thirty miles an hour through the West Havorstraw yards, the Catskill Mountain and Suratogn express of tho West Shore road struck and killed Mrs. I Cook, a resident of Haverstrato, N. Y. i Secretary Foster, of tho treasury, has i gone off on a fishing trip. ' Ten cars of Cooke & Whitby's circus traiu 1 were derailed seven miles south of Mc- Gregor, Wis. Two men were killed. Pucker colliery, of Shenandoah, Pa., will start up in a few days, after an idleness of four inontha Saturday, July 0. Coroner Thomas Burke, of Perth Amboy, yesterday found the body of a child in a box in the woods opposite Florida grove. Five hundred residents of Newark are said to be victims of tho Brooklj n Co-opera tive association, which failed on Friday. H. M. Marchbunk, the defaulting manager of the Commercial Enterprise company, was also the agent of the Brooklyn Co-operative associatlbn. John Downward, who made such a des perate attempt to murder his wife, Fannie, at her home, No. 32 Cooper street, Williams burg, and thon shot himself, died in St. Catherine's hospital. Mrs. Downward is recovering from her wounds. The French government has concluded to ask tho chambers for 800,000 francs more for the Chicago World's fair. Maria Fraser, of Somerville, Mass., strangled her three-weeks-old babo at the Tewksbury almhouse. Monday, July 11. The Princess of W ales left Copenhagen on her way home. The Portuguese bark Maria Lelia, Cap tain Morse, arrived at New Bedford, Mass., from Brava, Cape Vord islands. Charleß F. Morse, a trader who came on the bark, says that when he left Bruva there was fear of a famine there. John Booth, one of tho men who escaped from the Cliarlestown (Mass.) state prison on Friday, was captured in tho woods neai Belmont, Mass. He was returned to the prison. Captain Bradford, of the schooner Hattie Evelyn, at New Bedford, Mass., reports that on July i) he passed tho derelict ship Fred B. Taylor. Hhe bad been recently sot on fire, but did not appear burned. Hei afterpart was about fifteen feet out ol water and is a very dangerous obstruction. St. Mary's new cemetery at Amsterdam, N. Y., was consecrated by Vicar General Burke, of Albany, assisted by several clergy men and altar boys of St. Mary's church. A Chicago policeman was set upon by a crowd in a saloon, Sunday, and killed his prisoner, who was kicking him, aftor he j had been knocked down. Tuesday, July 12. Thore is a smallpox epidemic in Victoria, ' B. C. Lynn, Hill & Heath, bookmakers, ot Washington, say their general manager, Frank Barnard, has robbed them of $33,000. j The first murder of the campaign in Ala bama occurred at Birininghum, when White Dellard was stabbed to the heart by | William Green. Frank Dwyer was instantly killed while switching in the New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad yards at West Susque hanna, Pa. A. W. Trotter, a flagman of the Delaware and Hudson railroad at Mechauicuville, N. Y., was struck and killed by a train. The big plant of the Edison General Elec trical company at Schenectady, N. Y , is to be enlarged by the erection of three build ings. Alexander G. Mclvoan, business managei of the Presbyterian News company at Toronto, is missing. a defaulter. Near Morgantown, iCy., Bud Lawson killed his brother, Lop Lawson, with a club. They were both drunk. At Han Diego, Col., tho British schoonoi Eliza Edwards wus fined $1,400 for taking a cargo at Santa Barbara without complying with the customs regulations. Wednesday, July 18. Members of the Salvation Army have been put in jail iu Brainord, Minn., for blocking streets and sidewulks. A violent storm swept Manitoba, and in some districts everything in its path was destroyed. Houses, barns, fences and fac tories were blown down, and the body of Miss Dobson was found in the ruins of her father's home. Several people were injured. The Champion and Lake Superior mines at Ishpeming, Mich., havo shut down, throw ing 1,000 men out of employment. P. H. Donahue, Associated Press corre spondent at Lawrence, Mnss., was killed by a falling ladder at a fire. Boston labor leaders say there is no foun dation for the story of a proposed arming and drilling of a secret organization there to overthrow tbe Piukertons. At Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, the Parnellites made an attack on Himons Temperance hotel and demolished it. They also attucked and damaged other buildings. The London Timeß' St. Petersburg cor respondent says that The Official Gazette confirms the reports of cholera rioting at Astrakhan, and says that people drag cor pete out of the hospital, believing that patient# were burled alive In quicklime. THE NEWS OF CONGRESS. Proceedings of the Senate and House at Washington. WASHINGTON, July 7.— There was a larger attendance on the Democratic side of the house, and after agreeing to the conference report on the river and harbor bill the free coinage men felt confident that the silver | bill would be referred to the committee on | coinage, weights and measures. Their ef j forts were not successful, however, al though they worked zealously to that end. I The anti-silver contingent succeeded in flli- I blistering against the reference of the Bilver j bill to the committee on coinage, weights j and measures, and by dilatory motions tied the house till adjournment. ! WASHINGTON, July B.— There was a spir | ited debate in the senate on the question of ; investigating the causes of the Homestead . (Pa.) riots and the employment of the Pink j ortons. Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, gave ex pression to some very advanced views on j the relations of labor and capital, and there j waa a very warm political discussion be | tween Messrs. Voorhees, of Indiana, and j Hale, of Maine. The questiou as to whether an investigation should be ordered was re ferred to the committee on contingent ex penses with a request that they report at , once. The balance of tfiie day was devoted i to the consideration of the sundry civil bill. | In the house the silver bill was referred to tho committee on coinage, weights and measures without opposition, the antisil verites ceasing to filibuster. They expect I to beat the measure if it comes before the house on a direct vote. The rest of the ses sion was consumed in the and dis position of resolutions reported the com mittee on judiciary regarding an investiga ! tioii of the Pinkerton detective forces and their employment by corporations engaged in interstate commerce, and especially the trouble and riots at Homestead, Pa. The report was adopted. WASHINGTON, July 9. -At the instance of Mr. Hill, of New York, the senate passed a bill changing the date of tho dedication of the World's Columbian exposition buildings at Chicago from Oct. 12 to Oct. 21, 1802, so as not to interfere with the Columbian | celebration authorized by the legislature of New York for the former date. It being suspension day in the house, when a two-thirds vote will pass any bill, the minority attempted to filibuster. The Democrats worked as a unit and succeeded in bringing delinquent members to vote. Tho tin plate bill was passed by a vote of 207 to 50, the largest vote of the day. The | silver lead ore bill, reducing duty on lead to ! cents per pound on the lead coutents, and admitting free the lead contained in sil ver ore, was passed by a vote of 165 to 02. WASHINGTON, July 12.—The senate had a field day of oratory—a two and a half speech by Mr. Washburn on the antioption bill and three hours of the liveliest kind of discussion on the Sunday closing proviso of the World's fair appropriation in tho sun dry civil bill. Ex-Senator Palmer, of Mich igan, president of the Worlds fair commis sion, occupied a seat on the floor of the senate. The general trend of the debate indicated a present intention of the World's fair managers to open the art gallorios and tho grounds on Sunday, but to stop the run ning of machinery; also to provide a pa vilion for religious services and to give sacred concerts. Without roaching a vote on the question or doing more than to elicit a strongly marked diversity of views, the senate adjourned. The house proceedings were devoid of in terest, as it was district day, and no legisla tion was accomplished for the capital of the nation. | WASHINGTON, July 18.—The senate pre sented two surprises—a brief silver debate and a test vote on the antioption bill. Tho silver question came up through some cor respondence put in by Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, tending to show that it would tako two years and a half to coin the silver bullion now in the treasury as required by the Stewart bill without entering upon any new coinage. On motion of Mr. Washburn by a decisive vote of 38 to 15 (which really was 84 to 14, as Mr. Hawley voted nay by mistake) the senate agreed to take up the bill. Though the bill was subsequently sent back to the calendar it remains liable to be takon up for action by a similar vote at any time. The subject under discussion in the house was a constitutional amendment to elect senators by a difect vote of tho people. The debate was entirely technical, and but little attention was paid to the question by tho members. Etna's Eruption Getting: Serious. NAPLES, July 12.— The eruption of Mount Etna is assuming terrific proportions, and the stream of molten lava that proceeds from the vast crater is increasing in width and volume. Ten kilometers of cultivated land have already been destroyed. The river of lava is 500 meters wido and travels slowly, but its scorching heat can be felt at a long distance. Eire Bugs at Work. WOODBRIDGE, N. J., July 12.— The stables of the Salamander company's works, the sta ble of the Htaten Island terra cotta works, J. Phifer's barn and the barn of Duvid Mc- Vieate were simultaneously set on fise at a lato hour at uigkt aud burned to the ground. Twenty horses were burned to death. King lu Murderers' Row. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 12.— Colonel H. Clay King, who was sentenced by the su premo court at Jackson to be hanged on Aug. 12 next for murdering the Hon. David Poston, was brought to this city and placed in a jail coll on murderers' row, whore he will remain until executed. The Governor's Daughter Eloped. JACKSON, Miss., July 11.— The 150 of Jack son society was shocked by the news of the elopement of Miss Annie, the eighteen-year old daughter of Governor John N. Stone, with E. L. McKie, a very poor young man, of Water Valley, Miss. Twenty-nix Were Killed. BERNE, July 11.— The steamer Mont Blanc was carrying a load of passengers, including a number of tourists, on Lake Geneva,when the boiler exploded, killing twenty-six per tons and wounding a number of others. Cleveland's Private Secretary. BOSTON, July o.—Robert Lincoln O'Brien, of the reporters' staff of The Transcript, has just received an appointment as private secretary to ex-President Cleveland. Eight Convicts Escape. BOSTON, July 9. —Nine long term convicts made their escape from the state prison at Charlestown through a sewer, and all but one are now at large. Ten Men Killed. BAN FRANCISCO, July 11.— Three maga zines of the Giant Powder company at West Berkley exploded and ten men were killed. A Summer Hotel Burned. WATERT*WN, N. Y., July 11.— The Rath bun, a summer hotel at Cape Vincent, mm destroyed by fire. CYRUS W. FIELD DEAD THE ATLANTIC CABLE WILL BE HIS j EVERLASTING MONUMENT. He Spurned Disasters and Repeated Failures and Finally Moored the New World Alongside the Old, and Thus Became Honored of All Men. NEW YORK, July 13.— Cyrus W. Field's death at Ardsley park, Dobbe Ferry, al though expected for some time, came with a shock to his friends and was heard with regret by the public, whose benefactor he was. Cyrus West Field was born in Stockbridge, Mass., on Nov. 80, 1819. His father, the Rev. David Dudley Field, bad some literary reputation in New England. He had gone to Stockbridge from Haddam, Conn., a few years before the birth of Cyrus. When young Field was fifteen years old he came to New York, where his brother, David Dudley, already in practice as a lawyer, got for him a clerkship in A. T. Stewart's store. At tho end of his term of apprenticeship he went into business for himself as a junk dealer and paper maker. In spite of one failure, he made enough in twelve years to l)o able to retire from business. He was thirty-three years old when he did this. When he was twenty-two ho had married Miss Mary Bryan Stone, of Guilford, Conn., by whom he has had six children, and who died only a few months ago. It was very soon after this retirement that OTBVB W. TOLD, he became interested in the subject of sub marine telegraphy. It was brought to his attention by a telegraph operator named Glsborne, who had secured a charter from the Newfoundland legislature for a cable between St. Johns and New York. A cable was laid across the Gulf of St. Lawrence after great difficulties. Mr. Field then induced Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, Marshall O. Roberts and Chandler White to join him in the enter prise. A company was formed under the title of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph company. It was thir teen years after this before any results worth speaking of wore obtained. This was tho most remarkable period of Field's life. He bore up against rebuffs of all kinds and financial disaster which would have easily subdued most men. He made fifty journeys across the Atlantic on behalf of his scheme. A few great men encouraged him. Mr. Thackeray and John Bright were among them. The Cable Laid. After a long series of dismal failures a cable was laid iu 1858. Two ships, one com ing from Newfoundland and the other from Ireland, met and spliced the onds together. Messages were sent over this cable for a few weeks, and then it became useless. This failure was doubly disheartening, and nothing more was done for some years. Cyrus continued his agitation of the cable scheme, however, and in 1865 the huge Great Eastoru was chartered to lay another cable. By this time Sir William Thomson had perfected his instruments for measur ing currents and for ascertaining the posi tion of snbmarine cables. On the first oc casion the Great Eastern had gone about 1,200 miles, when tho cable parted. The cable layers succeeded in getting hold of the cable again, but the rope with which it was hauling up gave way, and there was not enough rope to make another attempt. It was also too late in the season and too rough to continue the work that year. In 1866 the Great Eastern went out again, suc ceeding in laying a new cable and in pick ing up the one abandonod in tho previous year. On July 27 communication was es tablished between the two continents, and since then it lias never been interrupted. Honors were heaped on Field. Congress presented him with a gold medal and the thanks of the nation. Lord Palmerston de clared that the British government would have known how to honor him had he been a British subject. John Bright said j he had moored the New World alongside of j the Old. He was the last person to receive the hon orary freedom of the city of New York. A gold snuff box wus given to him at the same timo. Ho also got the thanks of the state : of Wisconsin, with a gold medal; the thanks j of the American Chamber of Commerce of j Liverpool, with a gold medal; a decoration ■ from Kiug Victor Emmanuel of Italy; a sil ver service from George Peabody, aud in numerable thanks and gold medals from all over the world. His Monument to Andre. Mr. Field's house on the Hudson was called Ardsley, from the house which his ancestor Zachariah built in 1680. Some years ago Mr. Field created a stir on the or dinarily peaceful banks of the Hudson by putting up a monument to Major Andre, tho young English officer who bravely un dertook tho duties of a spy and was very properly shot by General Washington's or ders when caught. As Andre was captured by three local beroeß, whose deed is also commemorated in stone, local and national patriotism moved Mr. Field's neighbors to pull the monumont down. He put it up agaiu and they pulled it down again, and in time he grew tired. Mr. Field was freely accused if anglomania. This offense consisted in tubmitting to the friendship of the most eminent Englishmen of the present and the last generation. Mr. Field was careful of his personal ap pearance, but his dress was quiet. It was marked by one peculiarity, an emerald given to him in South America which he always wore iu his shirt front. His conver sation was rapid and witty, and he could get through more business in five minutes than many in an hour. His recent troubles are too well known to need repeating here. I.entlier Merchants Fail. BOSTON, July 12. McConnell & Shaw, sole leather commission merchants, 105 South street, failed with liabilities of about ♦300,000. Knvarhul Executed. PARI*, July 11.— Ravscbol was executed this louininp. Don't Miss This! For if you do you will lose money by it. WE NOW BEGIN Neuburger's Annual Clearing Sale. We will offer our entire stock, which is the largest in this region, at prices that will astonish you. Call early if you are looking for bargains as this sale will . last ' W&m TEN Days ONEY ! During this time we will sell goods at prices lower than were ever before heard of. In the Dry Goods department you can buy: Handsome dress gingliam-print calicoes, 6 cents per yard; re duced from 10 cents. Apron gingham will be sold at 5 cents per yard. All the leading shades in double-width cashmere, which was sold at lfi cents is now going at 10 cents per yard. As handsome an assortment of Scotch and zephyr dress ging hams as you have ever seen, which we sold at 20 cents, will now go at 12£ cents per yard. ** Sockwood, best sheeting, we will sell at 17J cents per yard, reducing it from 25 cents. Fifty different shades of Bedford cord, Manchester chevron and Henrietta cloth, which were sold at 45 cents, will now go at 25 cents per yard. Hosiery department quotes the following: Men's seamless socks, 5 cents per pair. Boys' outing cloth waists, 15 cents each. Men's outing cloth shirts, 20 cents each. Ladies' ribbed summer vests, 4 for 25 cents. Ladies' chemise, 25 cents. We have just received an elegant line of ladies' shirt waists and will sell them from 35 cents upward. Shoe department makes the following announcement: We have just received a large consignment from the East, and have not yet had time to quote juices. But we will say that they will go at juices on which we defy cotnpeti- * tion. Call and examine them. Clothing prices are marked as follows: We are selling boys' 40-cent knee jiants at 25 cents. Men's #1.25 pants are now going at 75 cents j>er [>air. Boys' blouse suits, 60 cents. Men's #O.OO suits reduced to #3.00. Men's Custom-made #O.OO wood-brown cassimere suits re duced to #5.00. Men's absolutely fast-color blue suits at #0.50; reduced from #IO.OO. We have lowest marks on all goods in our lines of Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Notions, Etc. ftttfli BARGAIN EMPORIUM, P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa. Wt 4ft FOR And Hardware of Every Description. * REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil, selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpassscd. Samples sent to anyone on application. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Q\RKQECK'S, CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.
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