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| MANY VICTIMS OF STORMS Great Havoc Wrought by Wind and Rain in Several States. AN ASYLUM BUILDING WRECKED. t Five Person# Killed", and Several Hurt by the Fall of a Barn In Lincoln, 111.? Heavy Damage Reported in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Nebraska?Great Lot. Inflicted on Crops?Barns Burned. Liscols, IU. (Special).?Lincoln was visited almost on the anniversary of the water i spout of 1892, by a terriDie storm, r actory roof3 and chimneys were blown away, houses were damaged and trees dismantled. The oentre of the storm was about the Illinois Asylum for .Feeble Minded Childred, where flre boys were killed and the superindendent seriously injured. The buildings were considerably damaged. THE SEW AIR SHIP. TO BE I It was at the asylum farm, however, that the greatest damage was doue. There are about sixty boys regularly employed,under the direction of Superintendent Jacob Wiljjaert, to care for the six hundred acres owned by the State. A party of twenty-six boys, averaging fourteen years old, had been* taken down to assist in picking peas, and placed under the charge of one of the oldest employes, Lemuel Oleason. The day was intensely hot, and when the work was done Gleasoh took the boys to 8alt Greek, which flows j through the farm, and treated them to a ifka .As they started back from the creek a storm cloud was seen coming up, and. to ' escape the rain, the attendant hurried the boys Into the big farm barn. Superintendent Wllmert was lu the barn. The boys had just entered the barn when the storm ' roke, and it seemed to centre its fury on l the structure. Without warning the build feL lug gave way and fell, crushing its occuR ' p"ta beneath Its timbers. If-r , TV storm eontinoed for about thirty ; L minutes, bat before it was over the work of reaoue waa begun and five bodies were k\- taken from the ruins. Superintendent Wil">< marts was one of the ?rst of the injured to t release himself. His head is cut and his 5%'" back and abdomen were crushed by timh ben. Attendant Gleasou has a crushed Hi foot and xeeetTed Injuries in the back whloh ase quite serious and possibly dangerous. The killed were Cornelius MacKinsfp, James O'Brien, Cassie D. Lazaron, ; . J. C. Cooper and Sylvester Baker. The injf " ~ < - fared are Heinrieh Berger. Milton Garray, p._ Bobert Alcot and William E. C. Witham. STORM OAMACE IN INDIANA. KeotarkaMe Meteorological Variations Make'Thlngs Exciting. L.,-i Ian>iAXAroxjs Ind. (Bpecial).?Severe and J disastrous electric storms raged in many j t > portions of Indiana. The Government J IPR* weather observer says it was a most re- : markable disturbance. Many buildings \ , were demolished and the crops and forests suffered heavily. John Street's farmBp. * house Oft the Ohio River was wrecked and his son and a servant were killed. ' At English, Ind., the courthouse was damaged to the extent of $3000. A southbound "Monon" train eight miles beyond j Bloomington, Ind., was struck by lightning ' and the passengers shaken up severely. I Johnston the conductor, was painfully injured, hut will recover. Later as the train was Bearing Gasborg, Ind., it ran Into a b c large tvse that had been blown across the I S-i I track, aad the engine was badly damaged, I EV . At New Albany, Ind., about twenty houses I Were unroofed and the streets were strewn with debris. A circus teat was ripped to I pieces and the monkey cage was demol- I (shed, and there was a great scattering and I chattering of the little animals. At Muscle, Ind., the Albany Lumber I *' Company's sheds were blown down, the Al- I bany bottle works unroofed and chimneys I V * and stacks blown down. ' The wart wing of the Paragon Paper Mill, I Si at Eaaton, Ind., was blowu in during the storm. Four people were buried In the I "l wreck. The loss of property is 825,000. OHIO AND KENTUCKY IN THE PATH. I &.V. ' ' . Electric Storms Cause Death and Destruc- I jffl'tf. t tlon In Many Counties. ||t* Dimxri, Ohio (Special!.?In a terrific I thunderstorm Jacob Griner, a fanner, I living near Ayersville, Ohio, was struck by I I lightning while in his stable and instantly I V: killed. The barn was destroyed. Light- I ning struck the Citizens' Opera House | * in this city whiie tbe mgn scnooi & graduating class was rehearsing, and Clinton Garrev and Frederick Haller, memi bers of the class, were knocked senseless, Garvoy being rendered blind and deaf for an hour. At Wapatoneta, Ohio, Peter 1 ' Tabler, a farmer, was killed by lightning in bis house, which was consumed by fire, a His wife and children were seriously in- ; rA, jured by the shock. At Canal Dover, Ohio, j the electric light wires were bnrned out in the storm, leaving the city In darkness, j ft* , Louisville, Ky. (Special.)?A severe wind j storm passed over this city. Considerable ! damage was done to property, but no lives i were lo6t. In several cases houses were blown down and unroofed. Reports received from Central and Eastern Kentucky Indicate that great damage has been done to crops. The wheat fields have been laid low, farmhouses and barns were wrecked, i and destroyed. Roael, Kan., Wiped Out. Larxed. Kas. (Special).?a tornado swept the northwestern part of this county. Rosel. a village eighteen miles west of here, was struck and wiped out. Two grain elevators an ! cv ry house in the place were swept away. Still further northwest, in the track of the tornado, all the buildings, barns and cattle sheds were wrecked. Sev- | eral head of horses and cattle were killed, 1 and chickens and turkeys were slaughtered i by the wholesale. Decrease In Ocean Travel. Despite .the inducements held out by the various steamship companies in the way of superior accommodations and the jubilee attractions in England, travel to Europe has fallen off. The books of the large lines show that the decrease compared with last year amounts to about twelve per cent, for first-class travelers, and about eight per cent, for the second-class department. AIR SHIP WITH CAS CYLINDER. Craft With Side Propeller* to Be C?ed a# Well for Steering. There is now in coarse of construction j on the Frank Skillig ranch, near Grand Island, California, a monster air ship, j which, it is asserted, will solve the problem of terial navigation. The craft will be ready for a trial within a few weeks. It is being built by the Sweany-Davenport Manufacturing Company, which was j organized for that purpose. The San Francisco Call, in a description I of the air ship, says: "When finished the I craft will measure 125 feet in length, j feet from the floor of the car to the top of ! the cylinder and 37K feet between tho tips of the propellers. The structuro will con- | sist of an elliptical gas filled cylinder, to | which a car is attached, and two propellers. : situated not behind the cylinder, "as has been the c&se with most air ships, but on both sides of the craft, at the end of revolving shafts. It differs also from other craft in being without sails or rudder, being steered entirely by the propellers. "The car has been "nearly completed and the canvas cylinder has been made. It will be coated inside and outside with rubber paint, and when all is ready for the trial trip it will be inflated with hydrogen gas. The tank that will be used in generating j the gas is already on the ground, and also eight thousand pounds of sulphuric acid TRIED SOON IN CALIFORNIA. and eight thousand pounds of Iron shavings that will be used in the process." COLD AND SILVER OUTPUT, j Increased Production of the Precious Metals in the United States. The product of gold and silver in the several States and Territories of the United States for the calendar year 1896 is estimated by the Director of the Mint to have been: Gold, Silver, CoinState or Territory. Value. ing Value. Alabama 85,700 Alaska 2,055,700 8187,863 Arizona 2,604,200 2,473,373 California 15,235.900 776,533 Colorado 14,911,000 29,185,293 Georgia 151,000 ' 776 Idaho 2,155,S00 6,658,457 Iowa 1,000 .... Maryland 300 Michigan 37,200 76,283 Minnesota 800 .... Montana 4,324,700 21,640,404 Nevada 2,468,300 1,355,835 New Jlexico 475.800 889,277 North Carolina 44,300 648 Oregon 1,251,000 78,998 South Carolina 63,300 388 South Dakota 4,969,800 296,727 Tennessee 300 Texas 8,000 679,305 Utah 1,899,900 11,413,463 Vermont 1,000 .... Virginia 3,500 .... Washington 405,700 855,426 Wjoming 14,300 129 Totals $53,088,000 $76,069,236 The increase in the production of gold over 1895 was $6,478,000, while the production of silver shows an increase of $4,018,000. QUEEN VICTORIA REPORTED BLIND. Her Affliction Recent Bat Threatened for Some Time. It is announced, on the authority of one of the royal physicians attendant upon Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, that "the Queen is almost totally blind." No detail8 of the sad news are yet available beyond the fact that the affliction is a recent culmination, although it had for some time been threatened. If the cause of Her Majesty's blindness is cataract, whioh is the commonest form of Impaired sight in advanced age, it, of course, is possible to cure it by a simple delicate operation. This is the true reason why she will not ride alone in the procession, and why she will not leave her carriage at the jubilee services to be held at St. Paul's Cathedral, and it is semi-offlci&lly announced that she will be unable to respond to the greetings that will be extended to her along the line I of the royal procession. It also explains, possibly, the recent revival of the gossip of a regency under the Prlnoe of Wales in the near future. FATAL TORNADO IN PARIS. Twelve Killed, Fifty Injured and Factories and Dwellings Wrecked. A tornado passed over the outskirts of Toris, France causing the loss of about twelve lives and injuring about fifty persons. The damage throughout the area swept by the tornado was heavy. Factories and dwellings were" levelled to the ground. A cafe at j C'ourbevoie fell upon its occupants, many of whom wer j injured. The two hundred i booths thut had been erected for the fetes at Asnieres, on the Seine, four miles from the city, were wrecked. The village of c.oiomues, nines uunuu?i, auu uic important town of St. Dennis, about five miies north of Paris, suffered severely. A cloudburst caused devastation in central France, notably at St. Germain, where three persons were killod and a dozen injured. Houses were carried away by the flood, the telegraph lines were destroyed, and much damage was done to other property. No Shut Down This Year. For the first time in four yours the Amoskeag, Amory, Stark and Jefferson mills at Manchester, N. H., will not make their usual June shut-down. This throws 14,000 hands out of employment every year. There is great rejoicing in consequence of the decision to keep running. The mill companies have received orders for sixty new patterns of '25.000 pieces each. Train Iiobbcra roiled. An attempt to wreck the New York express on the Ealtimore and Ohio South western about sixty-five miles east of St. Louis was foiled by one of the robbers, who I warned the Sheriff. The latter reached the I spot twenty minutes before the train was | due. One robber surrendered and another I was fatally shot. They had piled ties on the tracks. The express car carried $100,000. Lumber Company Purchases a Mountain. A lumber company has purchased Mount I W&sliiigton, the highest of the White Mountain peaks, its altitude being C292 j feet. It was purchased for its timber, and [ the price paid was $100.000. _ t * I . ; .1: ' IN THE QUIET HOUES. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE I WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. Thinning Ranks-A Prayer?Stock Which Bred Heroes?Voice Which Shall'I.ive? Love of Country and God-Made Strong by Faith ? Equality I'nder Our Flag. Another and another wreath? We deck new graves each spring; And smaller grows the gray-haired band * Whose hands the garlands bring. Grave veterans, we follow slow The dull beat of the drum; There's one brief march before us now, And. comrades, we shall come One sleep to share, and o'er each gravo The starry Hag we love shall wave ! We mourn you not; the days seem far Since side by side, we fought. And onward to the meeting-place The way is now so short! Sot many" May-times shall we hear The summons of the drum: We wait, with unforgotten hearts, Till, comrades we shall come Our sleep to share, while o'er each grave, Thank God ! the stary flag shall wave. ?Marian Douglas. A Prayer for Guidance. Father of all, graciously look upon us as a family now seeking to behold thy face. As the morning light is thiue, s ?the blessing of the whole day must come from thee. Guide us with thine eye, we humblv pray thee.and give thine angels charge concerning U9. lest at any time we dash our foot against a stone. Above all grant unto us large gifts of the holy spirit. We do not pray for bread alone, but for the bread of life that eometn down irom neaven. r or one suouier anu lor our absent friends we would fervently pray. Bless the old and the young.and with the sick and the fainting be thou very gentle. Watch over those who are full of care and speak comfortably to those to whom wearisome days and nights are appointed. Sanctify our successes, and may our failures teach us that it is not in man to direct his way. Go with the child to school and with the man to business, and may those who Ctty at homo feel themselves under the constant care of God. The Lord undertake for every one of us according to our heart's necessity and multiply unto as bis grace, so that beyond all our want there may be an overflow of divine love* Amen. The Stock Which Bred Heroes. There must come a time, not very far ?vay, when the chief actors in the work of decorating our soldiers' graves will not be soldiers who themselves fought for our country's life, but their children and their surviving countrymen, for death will have claimed the last member of the Grand Army of the Republic. A million men were sent back to the walks of private, civilian life when the rebellion-closed. But thirty years of time's mowing have cut down the human wheat then standing in the field, until the sheaves yet to be gathered are comparatively few indeed. Let me assure you, for your country, and in its name, that your heroism in its behalf shall be held in everlasting remembrance. You may transmit to your familfes when you go hence very HHIa a# mnforlal afneo Hnt vnnr nArt MR Union soldier in the great Rebellion will be a legacy to them of untold value, and your children's children to the latest generation will count themselves honored ir. having oome from the stock in which such heroes were found.?Rev. J. B. Stitt, D. D. A Voice Which Shall Lire. When the last prayer shall be said over the last dead oomrade and the last requiem shall be sung over his grave, he will still speak to the living both of the past and the future. His voice will be heard in the loyalty ot his children and in their devotion to the old flag. It will be heard in the better and ever-improving free education to the masses, and in the more exalted national virtue which springs from the performance of noble deeds and in the living of good lives. Today the nation weeps over its dead, and strews flowers upon their graves. But the air is full of song and the household is full of rejoicing in remembrance of the blessings which, through their lives, all honorable peace has brought to our doors. Long mwy the flag that they so nobly defended wave over this favored country! Long may the nation's children gather under its folds and fling its colors into the untainted atmosphere of American loyalty! Long may the people shout and rejoice as ifn everv fitnr becomes a star of nromise.and its bright stripes, radiant with beauty, shall symbolize the sunrise of universal peace!? Rev. John W. Savers. love of Country and of God. Love of country, illuminated by obligation to God, which made a few Dutch provinces that were daunted neither by delay nor defeat, by starvation nor by death, ultimately victorious over Spain and the sea: which made tho handful of New England farmers withstand the force of the invaders, though the snow at Valley Forgo was reddened by their bare and bleeding feet; which inspired thousands to leave home and shop and bank and farm and school and face the cannon's mouth,until in the grave of the gentlest of our rulers all animosities were forever buried?this alone can fill our youth with high motives and sublime ideals, elevate our press and assure our commerce, restore our credit and preserve our fame.? Rev. F. H. Smith. Made Strong by Faith. 80 search we, Lord, not for some rare' Far visions of thy face; In present loves and joys and toils Let us thy presence trace; In brave contentions for the right, Forgivenesses of wrong. The fears that hope, the tears that smile, Weak lives by faith made strong. ?Denis W'ortman. Equality I'nder Country's Flag. The shifting scenes of a forming civiliza oKnll civ.. nlnoo to a <ton<olidfl UmI na tionality; tbe hardy and industrious, the ardent anu itapetuous, the energetic and daring men of all sections and nationalities, shall be linked in production and manufacture. by commerce and by cheap and swift communication, aud joined by the feeling of recinrocal fraternity. Equal rights and equal burdens will be equally distribute'd under one nag, on which the siript s shall symbolize the tears and blood which purchased the Union, and the stars the hopes which crown our destiny.?Rev. 0. H. Tiffany,D.D. The Most Precious Sacrifice. We read in old familiar story that, one day in the Roman forum, the enrth oj>ened, and a great gulf yawned in the very midst. The augurs said that this gulf would never close its horrid mouth until it had been fed with the most precious thing in Rome. There was doubt as to what the most precious thing might be, when a young soluier, armed and mounted, rode boldly forward and plunged into the chasm, declaring that there could be nothing s<< precious as life given for one's country.?Preachers' Magazine. Memorial I>ay a Monument. Our grand American Republic was threatened with disruption and ruin, but by the devotion and death of loyal citizen soldiery she escaped that sad calamity. Memorial Day is tbe monument reared by a g'uteful nation and established as the medium through which the great event shall be kept in mind.?Rev. J. H. Maeomber, U. 8. A. To live, to live, is life's great joy?to feel The living God within- to look abroad, And. in the beautv that all things reveal. Still meet the living God. ? Robert Lcishton. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. The text of the Hawaiian annexation treaty, together with the President's message and Secretary 8herman's report, was Sade pv.blic; ex-Queen Liliuokalani has ed a protest against the ratification of the treaty. Correspondent John 8. Shriver, charged with cortempt of the United 8tates Senate Committee, goes fi-ee. Judge Bradley directed the jurv to return a verdict of "not guilty." lie was accordingly ac-. quitted. It is reported that special Treasury agents, who havo been making an investigation, will recommend that all personal effects of returning American tourists be The Senate finished the consideration of the sugar schedule of the Tariff bill, with the exception of the clause relating to the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, which was laid over, to be taken up later on. Pettigrew's anti-Trust amendment was tabled. The trial of John S. Shriver, a newspaper correspondent, for refusing to testify before the Sugar Investigating Committee, was begun at Washington. President McKinley returned to Washington from his trip to the Tennessee Exposition. Domestic. Carmine Lipre. an Italian bootblack, became insane in New York City from a mosquito's bite. One of the features of "Bunker Hill Day" in Boston was the presentation by the State of a figure of Winged Victory to the battle ship Massachusetts. Edward Kilgore was killed by Fannie Jackson and her brothers, in Ladonia, Texas. The United States battleship Iowa was placed in commission at the League Island Navy Yard. Philadelphia. C. D. Collins, a wealthy resident of Tennessee, was assaulted and robbed near Meramec Highlands, Mo., by Martin Ensley. an Intimate friend. Ensioy is me sou ui Colonel Enoch Ensley. who was one of the richest and best men in the South. A report was current in Brooklyn that Clans Spreekels intends to build a twohundred-thousand-dollar coffee plant in Brooklyn. Fred Musbeck was pitching quoits with a friend in the yard iii the rear of his store in Chicago, when a rainstorm came up. They were about to enter the store when there was a flash of lightning, followed by a crash of thunder. Musbeck was killed instantly. The other man was unhurt. Patrick Gallagher, owner of a stonecrusher at Alpine, N. J., had a pitched battle with his workmen in which guns, pistols and stones were used. He won, but no one was hnrt. Dan Noble, the notorious bank burglar, was arrested as a escaped convict from Auburn Prison with four years to serve. He has been living in New York for more than a year. Millionaire W. R. Bradbury, who was twice convicted in San Francisco. Cal., of spitting in street cars, must spend twentyfour hours in jail for his second offenoe, as the Judge refused to impose a fine. Bradbury applied to the Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus, but Judge Wallace denied the application, so the old millionidm will have to cro to the county jail. His case was the first tost case under the new anti-expectoration ordinance, and his fate will probably be a warning. Judge James Harlan, a brother of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, was run oyer and killed by a train near the almshouse at Louisville. Ky.,where he had been sent at his own desire on account of his drinking habits. The National Anti-Hob and Lynch Law Association was incorporated at Columbus. Ohio, by 8amuel E. Huffman, W. H. Dickson and other colored citizens of Springfield. The purposes o[ the organization are to discourage mob and lynch law in the United 8tates and to arouse public sentiment against it. The sensational feature of the testimony taken before the Coroner at Urbanna, Ohio, in the Bell and Baker inquests, the men who lost their lives the night of the lynching, were the statements of three guards on the witness stand that they had lost their places because they had taken >art in the firing on the crowd at the county jail. The jury at Austin, Texas, in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, controlled by the Standard Oil Company, charged with violation of the anti-Trust law, brought in a verdict for the 8tate. cancelling the permit to do business in Texas and in favor of defendants Hathaway, Grice, Keenan, Austin and Friese, local district agents of the company. Foreign. Seventeen bodies have been recovered from the Tham es, London, in three weeks. Most of the suicides are believed to be foreigners in London for the jubilee. Two Frenchmen were killed by Italians, and a Frenchman stabbed on Italian during labor troubles in France. , The death of Father Sebastian Knelpp, the wa :er curist, waf. reported from Munich, Bavaria. In the British House of Commons William Redmond (Pnrnellite) opposed a motion that tbe House attend St. Margaret's Church to celebrate the Queen's jubilee. Great damage has been done in Rumania by the recent rainstorms. The Danube has overflowed its banks, and an immense lake, nine miles long, has formed between Fetcsti and Tchernavoda. The north of England and Scotland have 1? v ' laa TKa ouhnrha Deen swept uy ueavy gam. *uw of Glasgow and the country around that city were flooded and the railroads were submerged. A body of Spaniards has been destroyed by Ge ueral Bandera's forces near Sabana, Cuba. Frank Butler was found guilty in Sydney, N. S. TV., of the murder of Captain Lee Weller. Nelson's old flagship, the Foudrovaut, was wrecked in a gale off the northwest coast of England. She had been touring the coast as a show ship. Further advices received in Calcutta from I the interior of India show that great devastation was wrought by the earthquake. The tc wn of Shillong has been annihilated, and great damage has been done in Dacca, Jamititr. and Mursliidabad. Several lives have been lost. The funds collected in Calcutta for the Jubilee celebration are likely to be distributed among: the sufferers. Particulars are received of a serious fatality near the Jllecillewaet tunnel on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. While a gang of railroad laborers were at work a mud and rock .slide came down on I a number of the wcrkmen. Five were I killed outright. Tyeir names are AlexanI der Cummings, Albe:rt Johnson, George Phillip's, A. Davidson, and 8. Oleson. I The Porte has accepted Dr. Angell a? j Minister from the United States. Ministei | Terrell has left Constantinople for home. niu.. ?<..inon Pwnfpnl Tiailwav traffic of I Alio UAV-VIWU ?? w flcials are informed that 300 car loads of corn will be shipped from Texas and Kansas to the City of Mexico during the next few weeks. The corn will be used to relieve suffering in districts where there was shortage of grain crop. A serious bread riot occurred at Matanzas, Cuba. Two thousand Reconeentrados ? men, women and children?made desperate by hunger, paraded the streets, demanding bread. Private residences were broker into and g-ocery stores looted before the local Spam '< police, 'with swords drawn, succeeded iL uelling the riot. The> Uniteu States cruiser Brooklyn reached Southampton, England, ten days t oat fi.-om.New Yorlt. ^ FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. ! THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A" Little Girl's Self-Sacriflclng DeedStartling Experience With a Rattlesnaks? Scaring Wolves by Yelling:? Attacked by a Huge Octopus. She lived in Placer County, not far from where the pretty town of Auburn aow stands, for it happened many 1 years ago, in the early Ws, and I ex1 pect that but few now residing there i save any recollections of the affair. | The family, consisting of father, a xiiner, her mother and little brother, I Iwelt in a small shanty erected under 1 ?over of a convenient ledge. The ' woa a miaaraVtlo structure of two rooms, but it held what a many a ' grander dwelling failed to contain, a loving household. The mother lay sick with the fever, and Carmen, then a girl of twelve, performed the drudgery of the house. Her.little brother, a curly-headed romp, of five, was Carmen's great responsibility. The father was away from early morning until late at night at his work, and so the little hands of twelve found plenty to do. In common with the custom of miners, the father kept a store of giant powder in the house, which in the present case was contained in a sack placed in an old wooden box that stood at the foot of the bed where lay the sick mother. The upper part of the shanty, under the sloping board roof, was uti ized as a storage place for old dunnage. One night the father was absent in the mine. By some means the shanty took fire, probably from the cracked and defective adobe chimney. Carmen awoke to find that the roof was afire i and sparks dropping down. Springing up she loudly cried to awaken her mother and Tommy, bnt the little boy became frightened and hid his head beneath the covers of his bed. Carmen sprang to lift him from the bed, when she saw shower of sparks falling on the powder box. Becognizing the awful danger, she attempted to leave the child for the moment and carry out the powder, but in her excitement she caught her foot in the overhanging bedclothes and fell to the floor, breaking her thigh bone. Unable to arise, the brave girl crawled to the box of powder and, drawing herself up, covered the box with her body. The mother had by this time succeeded in getting out of bed and getting outside fiie now furiously burning shanty, and manacred to take with her her little bov. The cries of Carmen: "Oh, take Tommy out, won't yon!" turned for a time the mother's thought from her daughter's danger. The fire had aroused some of the neighbors who speedily ran to the burning shanty and lent what aid they could. Carmen was discovered and removed. Her rescners found her almost buried beneath a mass of burning cinders, her back frightfully burned. Tender hands bore her to a neighboring shanty, where all that could be done to alleviate her sufferings was eagerly bestowed. But human aid came too late. The brave little spirit lingered until the following day and then departed for a brighter land. It was not' known until after she had recovered consciousness, a short time before she died, that she had broken her leg. Her last words were: "Kiss me, Tommy, dear; I've saved you, and I'm so happy."?San Francisco Call. Startling Experience With a Rattlesnake. "The rattlesnake, owing to the danger signal which he sounds at the approach of man, is less dreaded in the Southwest than the tarantula or centipede," says a mining engineer in the New York Sun. "But when sleeping, particularly in the night, he may be trodden on before ho springs his rattle, and then he strikes instantly, without warning. In cool nights he somelimes seeks the warmth of a camper's blankets, as a friend of mine fnnnd one nicrht in the lower Gila Valley. Waking one night from his sleep in the open air he thought his blankets felt very heavy upon him, and rising, with them still rolled about him, he shook to the ground two large rattlesnakes that had been resting comfortably above his body and legs. As they struck the ground they coiled at once and set up a rattling that was more effective than a ly alarm clock could have been to rouse the sleepers in the camp. The blankets about him saved my friend's legs and feet from their fangs, and the two snakes were killed where they were with a surveyor's staff. "A more gruesome and startling experience was that of another man I knew, and it occurred in the same valley. Sleeping on the ground he dreamed that he was in the coils of a boa constrictor and that his only chance for life was to keep the reptile's head away from him. He woke to find himself with his right hand clutching a huge rattlesnake by the head and neck, while the reptile was writhing and twisting powerfully to get free. As he held him the snake could not bite, and.uomnea as ne was, my friend had the presence of mind to hold his grip, while he sprang to his feet and lifted the snake clear of the ground. A snake cannot strike except when part of its body rests upon a support, 00 the man was safe from this snake so long as he could hold it at arm's length above the ground. His hunting knife was hanging from the fork of a low tree close by. He went to the tree, fished the knife out from its sheath with his left hand, and cut the snake's neck off" just below the hand that held it. As the body dropped to the ground he flung the head as far from him as he could and went back to his blankets and sat down. " 'I had a cauteen half full ol whisky?a level quart,' he said in telling tli9 story afterward. 'I didn't gc to sleep again that night, but sat uj and drank it The morning star was g in the sky when I got to the bottom of ; the canteen, and I was as sober as when I begun it It was just enough: gt to steady my nerves.'" ^ { Scaring Wolves bj Yelling. ^ -. J While on his way to Craig and when lj about ten miles from town, John W. J| Lowell Jr., had an unpleasant experience with three gray wolves which * ought to be sufficient for one day, says the Craig (Col.) Courier. Mr. Lowell noticed the wolves in the i distance, but paid no attention to them . ? until after he had traveled about a mile, when his horse became uneasy. Looking back Mr. Lowell beheld a sight which, as he says, caused his hat to raise not a trifle?three large gray' wolves about 200 yards distant were charging after him at a speed which would soon bring them upon him. < < There was not a moment to spare, and the young man hardly knew what to do. He was unarmed, and the snow was so deep that it was impossible for his horse to run from the ferocious beasts with any degree of success. -iS Mr. Lowell quickly decided that he had but one chance, and that was to t y attempt to bluff. Wheeling his horse around, facing the wolves, he applied ^ the quirt, and at every jump of his steed he let forth a yell that would :;M have put any Comanche to shame. For ? a moment the bluff seemed a failure, ^ for the wolves continued to approach, v; and the distance between the horseman ^ and the' shaggy creatures lessened to about fifty yards before the turn in af- . fairs occurred. Finally, after a few more plunges in * the snow by the horse and numerous yells from the thoroughly frightened f young man, the wolves suddenly turned and ran in an opposite direction. Ji Mr. Lowell followed his lead with t renewed vigor, and more whoops, and if any one in the lower country should j see three badly scared wolves running 1 westward it may be depended upon +V>of flmr oro nnM wlliftlf '3 threatened the safety of the son of onr State Auditor. Attacked by a Huge Octopu*. A huge devilfish attacked a boat con- / taining Dr. W. T. Warren and Misses J'' Katie Herbruck and Lillian McKeehan, At who were out searching for sea urchins '< and star fish at Tacoma, Wash. The octopus made his appearance while the . J party was rowing along the shore of "3 Lemon's beach. It began the battle Jj by throwing a five-foot arm into the 'f;J boat, and but for stout resistance / & would have fastened it about the foot | of one of the occupants. Dr. Warren. 2 and his companions had only two oars ?$0 and a fish hook as weapons. The young women took turns in keeping the boat in position with one oar, while the other assisted in club- t bing the furious water devil, which - \ I IabLA/1 4-1-tA wnfflti inln o /nam Affa* m. . Of IOOUCU iud n uwi. ill w ? avhim* t."w severe fight the octopus gained a tem ' ,:i* porary advantage by fastening a tenta- 1 cle around the cross piece in the boat's bow and starting down the sound. He proved more vulnerable than the whale which towed an attacking party over J| 100 miles in the same waters last summer, for the octopus gave up after tow- J ing the boat three miles, Dr. Warren ffl nearly cutting the fastened arm in two w with his fish hook. Two other arms J were cut off while the octopus was try- $0 iug to pull the boat under, having fastan ed two other arms to a log on the bottom. The monster was then soon ' 4gH dispatched and dragged aboard. It jjg measured ten feet from the tips of the opposite arms and had 250 "suckers." A Dos Saves Hl? Mistress's' life. There is a small black dog in Ja- % maica Plain, Mass., who is enjoying the distinction of having saved human r'gj life in a manner that showed unusual CH in+o11irran/?a Thft onimal is nf no nar- *9 ticular breed, bat his intelligence and ^2 affection have caused him to receive a- 3 "great deal of petting. He belongs to George Shaw, and his devotion to the | family has been proved in many ways. v It was early in the afternoon, and Mrs. Shaw was alone in the honse. She intended to spend the afternoon away ?j from home, and after closing the front door she lost her footing and rolled I|| down the storm step, striking on her face and cutting the flesh perilously near the temple. The blood gushed . 1 from the wound, and she arose and went into the house, but consciohaness left her as soon as she reached her room. It was four hours later when she was discovered by the family. She was still unconscious, and was a gory. .:.*$? object to behold. The only clear spot on her face was that surrounding the- : * wound, which the dog had licked until ."?8; the flow of blood was staunched. He -'?8 was at his post of duty when the doctor arrived, and it was then discovered JS| that his attention to his mistress for# 'k! more than three hours had saved her ,'39 life. His paws aud part of his body . * tvava hlnnd-stAined and he had made \?li no effort to clean himself. Heroism of a Boy. With a box containing 200 pounds of dynamite on fire ten feet rway from ':$m him, John Thomas, a boy who runs a \;S compressed air hoisting engine in the* Tamarack mine at Houghton, Mich.. 'Ifl stuck to his post and saved the lives of men at work in the mine by his wonderful bravery. ySm Ten seconds after Thomas had ' da hoisted the men to the level,.the dyna- /q!9 mite exploded smashing the engine to pieces and doing other damage, but the men and boy to whom they owe dj their lives were in a place of safety. . :.3 The miners working in the twenty- "v'.i third level head put seven cases of j-3 dynamite in a box for future use. At noon a miner, accompanied by Thomas, J went to the box and found it on fire. -J! Thomas went to his post, gave the T alarm to the miners in his level below ^ > and ran his engine until he had hoisted them out. Ho then fled. The alarm v"' f of lire caused great excitement, but no miners were injured in the rush to i reach daylight from the depth of from ? 3000 to 4000 feet. . , , - {l H aid - M ..V; &A: . fdi -4^8