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A writer in a medical paper says that j
5n experiences in Colorado and Utah he
never saw an Indian with a cold. He
concludes that it is our hot rooms that
give us colds.
Although they have been brought to a
high degree of perfection, it will be
many years before the telephone and
phonograph will succeed the woman with
a sun bonnet, who lives iu the centre of
the village and inquires daily over the
backyard fence what the news is.
Another inventor claims to have settled
the question in regard to the prospective
exhaustion of coal fields; that is, as
claimed, he has perfected an engine in
which the steam is returned to the boiler
and as is said, "used over and over
again," the saving in coal thus effected
being calculated at "80 per cent."
Boston rejoices in the application of
steam power to boot polishing. In a
ehoD located in the midst of the disciples |
of Blackstone has been fitted up an engine
with a complex arrangement of
straps by which brushes are whirled at a
surprising rate. The customers are seated
on a broad beach and are polished off in
a very short time.
The Invalide Ji'/tse, the official journal
of the Minister of "War, gives the effective
. # forces of the Czar on the 1st of January,
188G. According to this account the
Russian regular army numbered at that
time 824,762 soldiers and 30,655 Generals
and officers. The reserves amounted
to 1,600,815 men. And this without
counting the Finland regiments.
There is a little railroad running between
Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. CM
a distance of ten miles. It has a president,
three vice-presidents, a secretary,
an auditor, a general traffic manager, a
general freight agent, a general ticket
agent, a purchasing agent, a superintendent
of motive power and an assistant
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general manager?unrieen uniuers m an.
Bismarck and Von Moltk? were
tackled the other day by an autograph
fiend. Von Moltke wrote first, saying:
''Luge vergeht "Wahrheitbesteht," which
is translated thus: "Lies pas9 away,
truth lives for aye." Bismarck wrote after
this four lines of German, which have
been put into English as follows:
** In yonder world, full well I know
Truth will at last the victory gain;
But 'gainst the lies told here below
A marshal e'en will fight in vain."
A Chicago church that paid its pastor
$6,000 a year, and let him spend several
months in Europe, paid the assistant pastor
$300 a year and required him to stay
at home and do the work. The assistant
pastor is now crazy as a result 01 pursuit
by his creditors. Commenting on this
the New York American says: "A town
in which things like this happen should,
as soon as it hangs its Anarchists, institute
a search for local wises of anarchy,"
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The people of Rising Sun, Texas, make
everybody work. Recently a family of
idlers prepared their land for planting in
fi slipshod manner. They were visited
bv a crowd of twenty neighbors, who
compelled them to do their work over and
do it well. The idlers were then warned
that if they failed to plant or work their
land well in the future they would be
driven from the community, but they |
Vere assured that if they worked as other
people did they would be in no danger.
j ' ?3gJonas
Cr. Clark, founder aim President
of the new Clark University to be established
at "Worcester, Mass., Mfe given for
the institution the sura of $2,000,000, to
be divided as follows: Three hundred
thousand dollars for the erection aud
equipment of buildings; $100,000, the
income of which shall be devoted to the
maintenance of a library; $600,000 for an
endowment fund; real estate, books and
works of art, to the value of $500,000;
and $500,000 for a professorship endowment
fund.
Chinese laborers will not work in the big
canyon through which the Cascades division
of the Northern Pacific road runs, because
several Chinamen have been killed
there. They think that it is inhabited
by devils with strong anti-Chinese sentiments.
Nine Chinamen were killed there
some time ago by falling trees, and ten
coffins were sent up. This was looked
upon as a bad omen by the Chinese, and
they were very uneasy as long as the spare
coffin lay around camp. It was not long
till a rumpus occurred, and a Chinaman
was shot. The Chinese thought that this
death had be?n brought about in order
that the odd coffin might be filled, and
they concluded to leave the place, and
fA (TA Vtftplr
t(1UUUl vv
According to Bradttreeft, Grefit Britain
continues to be supreme in the manufacture
of tin plates, notwithstanding the
fact that it no longer relies on Cornwall
for its raw material. Nearly all the tin
used in the manufacture is from East India
or Australia. The latter ores are rich
in metallic tin. Cornwall ore only possesses
from 1 to 2 per cent, of pure tin,
and is therefore but little used. Germany j
is next in importance as a manufacturer
of tin plates. "Wrought iron has been supeseded
by steel as the base of tin plate
manufacture. About S,000,000 boxes are
produced each year, each box weighing
115 nnimds. if of standard srautre. Each
r , ? - - ~
sheet weighs one pound, and consequently
there are 112 sheets to the box.
In a box weighing 112 pounds 97J per
cent, of the weight is made up of steei
plates and 2J per cent is the tin coating, i
Of the total British manufacture of tin- j
plates two-thirds?or about 5,300,000
boxes?are exported. The manufacture
? centered in South Wales, chiefly in
Glamorganshire, Monmouthshire and '
C'aermar then shi re. i
A
TELEGRAPHIC TOPICS.
I
j Important News Matters From
Various Quarters.
The Fisheries Dispute and Editor
O'Brien Discussed by Lansdowne.
Lord Lansdowne, the Governor-General o f
Canada, was entertained by the National
Club in Toronto, the other night. In an address
he said on the fisheries question:
"It must be a source of pain that we should
for so many months have been unable to adjust
a dispute which, although not without
its local importance, is, after all, not one of
first rate magnitude. In spite of all that has
happened, I may say that both Governments
have shown the'great-est anxiety to avoid any
local action likely to increase the tension ot
feeling existing upon the spot. 1 am
surprised, not that there should have been
so much friction upon the spot, but that
there should have been so little. The case
is eminently one in which each side ought to
make someallowance for the other. If each
side will approach the question in a moderate
spirit, and with the determination to make
some allowance for the difficulties of the
other, we need have no apprehension of the
result."
He made this reference to Editor O'BHen:
"During our visit a slight touch of electricity
has been perceptible in the atmosphere,
and certain stars have shot madly from their
spheres into your quiet firmament. They
have experienced the fate which usually
overtakes such erratic constellations. The disturbance
has been brief and inconsiderable.
I trust that it will leave no traces behind it.
As far as I am concerned I may say that ow*j\vnin*
HiidnuK this incident, has not for
an instant interfered with my happiness or
convenience. I might add that it is to the
fact we were not the only visitors of distinction
to Toronto that we owe the
extraordinary demonstration of loyaltv
and good will which we have experienced.
Your conduct has, in fact, onco and for allf
established that the Queen's representative in
Canada, so long as his conduct in his official
capacity has not been impugned, jo lon<* as
his conduct in any other capacity has
not been called in question by constitu|
tional methods in the legislature either
in Canada or of his own country,
may safely leave his public or private reputation
in the custody of your people. It has
shown your abhorrence for the methods of
those who seek to achieve by intimidation
and persecution what they know could not be
obtained by legitimate courses.''
Shooting at the Czar.
A few nights ago, while the Czar and
Czarina were driving in an open carriage
from a ball given by members ot the nobility
at Novo-Tcherkask, a shot was fired at them
from the crowd on the street.
A great uproar followed. The man who
nrea tne snot was so inaureaieu uy me peupjw
that he was insensible when the police secured
him. The culprit had in his possession a
bottle of poison, six cartridges, a revolver,
and a dagger. He refused to answer questions.
A Vienna paper has received a telegram
from Odessa saying that the Czar returned
to St. Petersburg from the Don Cossacks
country three days earlier than he had intended
to. This was due to an attempt made by
a student to kill him on Wednesday night
during the festivities at Nova Tcherkask oy
firing at him ns he rode by in a carnage.
A Defaulter for $85,000.
Mercom L. Seguin, manager of the Philadelphia
Umbrella Company, has left the
Quaker city, Jeaving a deficiency of $85,000
in his accounts. Before departing Seguin
made a confession to his friend and business
associate. George C. Baker, declaring at the
same time his determination to fly from
the disgrace that must fall upou him
if he should remain in Philadelphia. His last
request was that Baker should break the
news to his wife. This the latter reluctantly
did. Mrs. Seguin is almost crazed with grief.
Not knowing what to do she closed up her
pretty home yesterday, and with her three
childrent went to her home in Trenton.
Seguin's victims are mostly members of his
own family. Stock speculation is the main
cause of his downfall. He is only twentyeight
years old.
A Set Back for the Panama Canal.
Advices from Panama state that in one of
the largest, longest, and deepest cuts, high up
above the prospective canal work, water has
>>??? Tim nmniint-. of pnrth nnrl rrvL
taken out of the section referred '
to represents millions of dollars,
and all this work is to-da)- valueless,
as the water has washed from the side of
the mountain more than sufficient to till all
the cuts. On the Isthmus, as in other geological
formations possessing the same characteristics,
the purest water is found among the
higher strata, and not in the mud.
The .President's Vacation.
The President left Washington on Thursday
evening in a special car of the Pennsylvania
road, and proceeded direct to Saranac Lake,
in the Adirondacks, making only the neces- J
sary stops on the route. He was accompanied
by "Mrs. Cleveland and Col. and Mrs. Lamont,
and expected to return to Washington within
two weeks.
Death* From Lightning.
.Tame* L. Butler, at Dexter, Mo. Robert |
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i\iaiUH wa> ptuaij zcu ut uic oaiuc .
foot* other men were severely shocked.
Michael.Welch was killed while crossing c.
wlieat-*fleld at Whitehall. 111.
Katherine Williams, a colored woman, was |
struck dead while gathering kindling wood at |
Hillsdale, near Washington, D. C.
AN INVITATION ACCEPTED,
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
to Visit St. Louis in September.
A delegation of leading citizens of St.
Louis, headed by the Mayor, called at the
White House on Mouday and extended an in"
ritat ion to the President and Mrs. Cleveland
to visit the Western city next full.
The invitation was contained in a large,
elegantly bound book with carved wooden
covers, the carvings representing the great
bridge and the principal municipal buildings
of St. Louis. The clasps and
edges of the book were of solid silver
bearing the initials ' G. C." The invitation
was beautifully engrossed on satin, and is
signed by over '20,000 persons.
Mayor Francis made a short address, in
which he said that while the people of St.
Louis would be glad and honored to receive a
visit from the President at any time, it would
probably aftiord them great pleasure if he
uuuiii tuieuigc t\? 111 ou. ijuun uuiuig
the Grand Army Encampment in September
next. The committee, ho said, desired
to supplement the invitation of the
Grand Army men, but if the President could
not come during their encampment they
would like him to come whenever he found it
convenient and they would assure him a warm
welcome.
The President made a brief reply in which
he said that while it was absolutely impossible
to anticipate the exigencies of the
public service so far ahead as September, lie
could not now see why he should not visit St.
Louis at the time indicated?about the last of
September. He said therefore that he would
take pleasuro in accepting their kind invitation.
The committee subsequently extended invitations
to members of the President's
Cabinet.
SOME OLD PEOPLE.
William Ingham, of Danube, N. Y., is
ninety-three years of age.
Mks. Miriam Bennett, of Glendola, N. J.,
who died latelv. was 91 veurs of ace.
After living to be GO years of age without
the measles. Mis. Sail}- Shackleton, of Delaware
Station died of tketn.
Although Harvey Sanderson, of Springfield.
Mass.. is ninety years of age, he goes to
and from his business as regularly as in his
youth.
The oldest printer in Canada is William
Brown, of Tiverton. He is ninety years of
age. and did book work in Scotland for half a
century. ,
Thk combined ages of the Nelson sisters,
three in number, of Sutton, N. H.. make 324
years. They were I torn in the same town in
which they now live.
Thk oldest man in the State of New Jersey
died at Browntown on Sunday, May 23. His
name was James Preston, and he retained
his faculties until the last. He was born in I
Scotland in 1"K.\ and was therefore 10.r> year
| and five mouth* old.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Reynolds, the man arrested at Morristown,
N. J., for blasphemy, was found guilty
on Friday notwithstanding "Bob*' Ingersoll's
plea on his behalf, and sentenced to pay a fine
of *25.
The great strike of coke workers in the
uonnellsvuie (renn.) region a as resuiieu m
bloodshed, two workmen at Sehoonmaker's
works being fatally and others badly beaten
by a crowd of strikers.
Five whites and three negroes were whipped
from five to ten lashes each at Newcastle,
Del., on Saturday for larceny, and William
Norris, colored, convicted of assault with intent
to kill, stood one hour in the pillory.
A letter has been published in New York
from the Pope to Archbishop Corrig?in, upholding:
him in the matter of the suspension
nf the Re?. Dr. McGlynn, and condemning
the suspended priest's doctrines.
A pleasure yacht containing eight persons
capsized in the Delaware river at Philadelphia.
Three young men and two young
ladies were drowned.
Miss Ida Wesner, the beautiful and only
daughter of wealthy parents at Glendonville,
Peun., has eloped with her father's colored
coachman, a married man. She left a note
saying she had become strangely infatuated
and could not help her action.
A lion belonging to Actor Frank Frayna
escaped from his cage in a barn near Madi|
son, N. J., and killed a valuable horse.
Frayne succeeded in lassoing the lion, who
was making a meal of the horse, and dragged
him back into the cage, but was bitten in the
arm during the struggle.
A New York infant of two years died in
intense pain from the effects of a spider's bite.
Rev. Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New
York uriest, has been ordered by the Pope to
go to Home within forty days under pain of
excommunication.
South and West.
At Coowescoowe Court House. Cherokee
Nation, Sarah Field, a Delaware Indian woman,
has been convicted of infanticide and
sentenced to be hanged August 1?.
Thomas Nelson's horse Clydesdale killed
his keeper, Mahlon Redmond,in Clarke County,
Ya Redmond is the third man killed by
the animal.
At a school exhibition in KeiTville, Tenn..
Maggie Long's dress took lire and she was
burned to death. The audience rushed out
panic stricken, and many persons were seriously
injured.
The two train robbers?Henry Schwartz
I and Newton Watt?who murdered the ex
press messenger Nichols have been sentenced
to imprisonment for life at Morris, 111.
Willi a I? ANDREWs";an amateur balloonist,
was making an ascension at Oskaloosa, Iowa,
when his balloon caught fire and the aeronaut
fell TOO feet, his body being crushed beyond
recognition.
' Grant .Best, the seventeen-year-old colored
boy who killed three of his companions
I and wounded two others, has been found
I guilty of murder in the first degree at Wilmington,
N. C.
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Washington.
The Mint Director estimates the production
of the precious metals in the United States
last year to have been: Gold, $35,000,000; silver,
$51,000,000. Thess figures .show an increase
of $3,200,000 over the gold production
of 1885, and a slight decrease in the silver production
over the previous year.
The opening formalities of the National
Drill took place on Monday in Washington.
The city was filled with troops from all parts
of the country, who had come on to participate
in the competitive drill.
The President has appointed Andrew H.
Dill to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Charles M. Stafford, of Brooklyn, has
been appointed United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of New York.
The President has denied the application
for a pardon in the co.se of James J. Stanley,
who was convicted April 13th of fraudulent
registration and sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment
in the jail at St. Louis.
Foreign.
The vaults of a leading banking house in
the City of Mexico have been robbed of $300,000.
The London Times has another installment
of the series of articles in which it is trying
to identify Parnell with dynamiters and the
Pboenix rark murders.
At the auction sale of the French crown
jewels in Paris the famous "Regent"' pearl
brought $37,000.
Strikes are extending in Belgium, and a
number of attempts h&ve been made to blow
up buildings with dynamite. Collisions between
strikers ami the military have also occurred.
Mcch damage has been done in Hungary
by floods.
The proceeds from the nine days' auction
sale of the French crown jewels in Paris aggregated
6,864,000 francs (about $1,372,800).
The chief lot, a diamond headdress, was sold
in sixteen pieces for $130,000.
A FIRE near St. Petersburg destroyed sixty
houses.
A Sepoy shot ten persons at Calcutta, and
afterward committed 6uicide.
ma2zantini,the famous Spanish matadore,
has been seriously wounded by a bull at a
bull-fight in Seville.
ROBBERY ON THE RAIL,
A Band of Texas Freebooters Capture
an Express Train.
The north-bound express train on the Missouri
Pacific, which left San Antonio, Texas,
at 7 o'clock the other evening, encountered a
gang of train robbers about 10 o'clock at
McNeill station, twelve miles north of Austin.
Harry Landa, a commercial traveler
who was on the train, says that before
the train reached McNeill the robbers had se
cured the station agent and firmly bound
him. As the train slowed up the robbers, to
the number of twelve or fifteen, fired several
volleys to intimidate the passengers. Landa,
hearing the shots, raised his window aud
looked out, when an order was given him to
draw his head Imrk and close the window.
Before he had time to comply he was wounded
in the arm and badly powder-burned by a
shot.
There was considerable confusion aboard
the train, and the passenger lay down on the
floor and crawled under the bunks to escape
flying bullets. The train was held up for nearly
half an hour, after which time it was allowed
to proceed. The door of the express car was
forced open and about *4.000 was taken. The
messengers were compelled to throw up their
hands, and were ordered to hand over the
cash and registered letters. S. R. Spaulding.
the railwav jjostal clerk, told the
robbers he had none, as the day line carried
all the registered letters, and was informed
that they did not care for them as they were
not after "Uncle !jam's money, but Jay
Gould's.
The j obbers were in very good humor.ami,
after going through the express car, bade a
pleasant good-night and decamped. Some of
the men were not masked, but the one
who gave the orders wore a mask and was
tall and dressed like a cowboy. Express
messenger Xothaeker, who was ordered to
turn over the money, handed the robbers
only a small amount, and was beaten over
the heu'l. A brakeman was wounded duiv
1 ing the fusilade. Postal Clerk Spaulding
says ho distinctly heard the order
given by the leader: "Don't touch any of the
jiassengem and don't shoot any of our own
men!"' The messenger also savs that he believes
the men were green hauis in the busiI
ness.
MILLIONS^ LOST.
Gieat Damage Caused in Michigan
By Forest. Fires.
The Michigan forest fires have resulted
in immense losses. News from twenty-eight
localities indicates diminishing fires.
At Oscers, seven miles from Houghton,
1,300 cords of wood were burned and many
acres of timber destroyed. Bestinan's cordwood
yard, near the village, which contained
28,000 cords, was burned.
Gillette's mill, six miles south of Marquette
was surrounded by flames.
Along the line of the Duluth, South Shore
and Atlantic Kailroad west of Marquette the
fires are nearly burned out from lack of fuel.
Several lumber and construction campK are
burned west of Michigamme. Forest fires near
Calumet, Red Jacket and Houghton destroyed
40,000 cords of woods and 50,000 cedar ties.
The damage is already estimated at ^>,.'500000,
exclusive of to-day s lire at Lake Linden.
"flames in a theatre.
Frightful Tragedy at the Opera
Coiniqiie in Paris.
Many Persons Burned to Death or
Killed in a Panic.
The Opera Couiique in Paris took fire on
Wednesday evening, and the wholo building
was soon wrapped in flame. The lire
broke out during the first act of the opera
"Mignon." One of the wings caught fire
from a gas jet, and the entire stage was immediately
enveloped in flames. The fire soon
spread to the whole house. Mme. Mergvillier
and MM. Tasquin and Bernard were on the
stage when the fire broke out. All the actors
ran out in their stage costumes. The audience
got out easily, but the gas was turned off before
all had left the building, and it
tiers. The roof soon fell in, sending showers
of sparks as far as the Place de la Bourse.
With the exception of Mme. Sellier, who perished
in the flames, all the actors escaped,
though several of the supernumeraries were
injured severely.
Five bodies, terribly burned, were conveyed
to the National Library. Among them was
the body of a woman clasping a little boy in
her arms. The money receipts were
saved and deposited in the Gaulois
office. The firemen showed the
greatest courage. MM. Goblet, Thibaudin,
and Gragnon were on the spot soon after the
fire started, and they remained throughout
with the Are officials. The Military Club rendered
great assistance in the work of rescuing
j>eople from the building.
Nineteen pei-sons were known to be dead.
Many of these were supers. An artificial fire
ftnruiratus. which had been placed in position
in readiness for the burning of the palace in
the second act, rolled down from its place
near the rfiof and exploded below.
Women, half clad and carrying their costumes,
fled from the stage screaming.
The flames spread with such rapidity that in
fifteen minute; the stage was a vast furnace.
Several actors escaj>ed by climbing to the
roof on the side of the Rue Marivanta, where
they were rescued by fire escapes.
The audience was delayed a few minutes
by dense smoke and insufficient light. The
killed includes four firemen. There was
not a frantic rush in the theatre, but
it is believed that the staircase became
blocked. M. Tasquin implored the audience
to remain seated until the exits were
opened, which they did. If they had made a
rush for the doors the loss of life would have
been terrible. The police outside were unable
to restrain the crowd who besieged
the building inquiring for friends
inside until a military cordon was
formed. One man who wanted to rescue his
brother and sister raveu ana tore nucnair auu (
menaced with a stick the-people who stopped
him from rushing into the blazing building.
The scene outside was one of the wildest '
excitement. Falling embers struck horses in
the surrounding streets, causing them to
plunge and rear. Flumes shot out of every
window, forcing the crowd into the narrow
streets, where the crush was terrific.
A member of the company says there
were l.'iO persons on th? stage when the fire
broke out. She heard the gla.ss falling like a
hailstorm, but told the other girls not to mind j
it. But while she was speaking a column ol
flame burst through the wings with a roar
and all rushed j>eli-inell from the stage.
Only a fortnight ago M. Steenackers called
attention in the Chamber of Deputies to the
dangerous condition of the Opera Comique,
which was the oldest theatre in Pans. The
newspaper Fiijaro also called attention to the
same thing after a recent twelve-hour benefit
performance.
The iron curtain was lowered in front of
the stage, and this prevented the fire from
spreading immediately to the auditorium
and allowed the audience time to escape.
The men who carried away
the money chest report that when
they left, the auditorium was quite
empty. The fire brigade distinguished them
selves,ana many 01 ttieni imu narrow em-apra.
Most of the casualties so far reported were
due to nervousness. Many persons who were
unable to trust themselves to walk the narrow
ledge of the cornice around the building
jumped off in their terror. One woman
coolly walked all around the cornice while
flames were bursting above until she reached
a fire escajx;. The victims were almost all
singers. LATER
NE WS.
. John Vanderburg was arrested at Rockville,
Mo., for an outrageous assault upon
Miss Jennie Anderson. While the prisoner,
who had l>een identified by Miss Anderson,
was being examined in Court three shots
rang out and Anderson fell dead. Two of
Miss Anderson's brothers, who were present,
were arrested.
The Michigan Senate has passed a rigid
high license bill which makes saloonists and
bondsmen liable for injuries resulting from
sale of liquor.
A wind-storm at San Angelo, Texas, blew
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down lue LUUn nuuw uujA/ia, utii uuicvi w
dozen dwellings and injured all the
churches, inflicting damages aggregating over
$o0,000.
Appointments by the President: Henry
F. Downing, of New York, Consul at St.
Paul de Loaudo, Portugal; Edward J. Hill,
of North Carolina, Consul at Montevideo.
Postmasters: Ellis Hunter, Brunswick, (.la.;
Alex. D. Ross, Litchfield, Minn.; William T.
Marsh, Rich Hill, Mo.
Henry J. Rams dell, a prominent
Washington correspondent, died suddenly a
few days since in the National Capital.
The Derby, England's greatest annual racing
event, was won by the colt Merry Hampton,
the Baron, a strong favorite, coming in
second. This was Merry Hampton's first
race.
A how-boat containing John Thomson,
his wife, mother-in-law and three children
upset in a squall at Hamilton, Canada, and
all were drowned.
Two hundred Canadian veterans who participated
in the late American civil war are
about to form an organization, ana it cue
regulations will permit they will become a
part of the Grand Army of the Republic.
NEWSY_GLEMINGS.
There are 14,000 American residents in
London.
Boston sp.'nt f 15,000 entertaining Queen
Kapiulani.
A plague of caterpillars is reported in
South Carolina.
One of the attractions in a St Louis dime
museum is a tattooed pig.
Years of tea tasting nave finally made
blind the wealthiest tea merchant in the
world, M. Mylokanoft", a Russian.
Sadie Mover, of Lansford. Penn, is ten
years old, weighs lit") pounds and is taking on
fat at the rate of two pounds a week.
The prnijosed monument to General R. E]
Lee at Richmond, Ya., will not be begun until
fall, and the corner-stone will probably be
laid in October.
In London the other day the Prince of i
Wales christened the $5,0(10,000 diamond
from the Cape of Good Hope "The Imperial."
It outshines the Koh-i-noor.
There were eight persons kille l by rail?
fcturlniul last; vear. uuainst
"nj atciucuiio w m w
six the year before. The injuries stood at
615 for 1880, aga list 41)0 for 1885.
The United States have 10:i,?>S4 fishermen
and 0,(505 fishing vessels, while- Great Britain
was reported to have 120,000 fishermen on
January 1,1887, with 9,0'!7 ve ssols.
a monster snarK, tmrtj'-nve reet long,
twenty feet in circumference, and weighing
over four tons, was captuivd recently in
Monterey Bay, off the Pacific coast.
The winter wheat report from the Department
of Agriculture simply shows a shortage
of from 50,000,000 to (<0,0(10,000 bushels in
the territory covered by the Eastern trunk
lines. {
The invention of the war cycle, a velocipede
that carries ten soldiers, is considered so
valuable in England that the}- are to build
tme for twenty-six men. thirteen to work the
c.Vcle and thirteen to ride.
AN OCEAN COLLISION.
Two Great Atlantic Steamers Col
ltde?Loss of Life.
A collision between the great steamers the
Britannic and the Celtic, both of t)ie Whit<
Star Line, occurred about 350 miles east ol
Sandy Hook in a thick fog Thursday
afternoon about 5:'i5 o'clock. The Celtic
was coming to New York and the Britannic
was on the second day of her journey to Liv
erpooL The Celtic struck the Britannic three
times on the side, cutting a big hole ir
her beneath the water line and inflicting
other serious damage to both vessels.
At least four steerage passengers on th<
Britannic were killed instantly by the falling
bars and plates of iron. Others were thoughl
to have been swept overboard and drowned.
About twenty persons were injured. The
story of the collision is as follows:
The Celtic had about 870 cabin and steerage
passengers on board. The Britannic car
ried some 450 passengers. The weathei
was foggy at the time and the sea
calm. The Britannic's fog bell had
been kept ringing all the afternoon,
but ner speed had been kept at a high
rat?, The Celtic was notsightw until the moment
before the collision,although her bell had
been heard. The Britannic, under commando!
Captain Hamilton Perry,was kept straight or
in ner course. The Celtic appeared on the
port side of the Britannic ana when she saw
her. reversed her entrines. but it was too late.
Approaching in an oblique direction
the Celtic .struck the Britannic a slanting
blow, right abaft the engine room,
glanced off, and then, carried forward
again by her own momentum, struck the
Britannic a stunning blow, almost at right
angles, a few feet further aft. The prow of
the Celtic crashed through the railing, breaking
into the cabin and cutting a hole in the
Britannic below the water line. -Her nose entered
the Britannic's side fully 10 feet. The
steerage passengers were gathered there, and
at least four of them were killed outright by
the crash of the Celtic's prow and by falling
pieces of iron. A number were "seriously
injured.
The Britannic was still moving, and, as she
drew off from the Celtic, the Celtic was
shunted to one side, only to advance a third
time on the Britannic, a few feet further on,
and ripping open her side for a distance of
twenty feet. Then the Celtic shot behind the
Britannic and stopped about eighty rods off
on her port side.
Every one thought the Britannic was sinking,
and Captain Perry ordered the boats
lowered. Some of the men tried to enter the
lifeboats, and a party of fifteen firemen
got in a launcn ana startea ror tne critic.
The Captain drew his pistol and threatened
to shoot anv of the crew who would
repeat the act. Some of the women and children
were then transferred to the Celtic, and
when it was discovered that there was no immediate
danger, the panic was allayed and
the vessels lay to. The Captains of the two
steamers consulted together, and, lying motionless
about five hours, the weather cleared
a little, and in company the two disabled
steamers journeyed sLowly toward New York.
Before the sun rosfe the next morning the
solemn service of the burial of the dead at
sea was read, and the killed passengers
were dropped overboard to their graves at
the bottom of the ocean. The steamships
Marengo, of the Wilson Line, and the British
Queen, both bound for New York,
overtook the Celtic and Britannic Friday,the
day after the accident, and accompanied
them to Sandy Hook. The passengers were
in consternation all the time, and went about
with life preservers bound fa*-! to their bodies.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
President Cleveland's private secretary
Lamont, is a base ball enthusiast.
It is estimated that $850,000 will be paid in
salaries to baseball players this season.
Moolic, of last season's Chicago Club, is
doing some clever batting for the Boston
Blues.
The National League and American Assoeiatiori
use about 4,000 balls in the course of a
season.
ualvix, or tne .ritreoiirgs. is sua w uc uue
of the greatest base-watching pitchers in the
League.
The Detroit and St. Louis Cluhs are holding
the lead manfully in their respective associations.
The strength of the Pittsburg, "Washington
and Indianapolis Clubs seem to have been underestimated.
Governor"s Island, in New York Bay,
has a fine ball team, composed of soldiers
iitationed there.
Old Pete Browning,* of the Louisville
Club, is proving himself one of the greatest
letters in the country.
Hardie Richardson made the first home
run at Detroit, His reward is 100 shaves at
a first-class barber shop.
Ramsey, the pitcher of Louisville Club,
has been fined J5U and indefinitely suspended
by Manager Kelly for getting drunk.
New Haven made tlie first triple play of
the season. On the following day tho Ath.
letics followed suit in the game against Bal
timore.
There are now two one-armed pitchers in
the profession, not including Daily, namely
Ed Rabbets, of Jersey City, and England, of
Sandusky, 0.
The first catcher to wear gloves behind the
bat was Delaverage, of the Victory Club, of
Troy, I860. The first to wear a mask was
Thayer, of the Newarks. in 1875.
Glasscock, of Indianapolis, is playing tn?
greatest game of his life at short, covering a
great extent of territory, and making marvellous
stops and throws. At the bat, however,
l.?9 has shown up weak so far.
Professional baseball players make
plenty of money and many ot them are wise
enough to save it. There are probably at
least twenty-five players in the National
League who have bank accounts of from $10,000
to $50,000.
Of tbe International League players now
with the League and Association, Griffin, of
Baltimore, is the only one who is holding up
his end. Morrison, of the Mets., Darling, of
the Chicagos, and Morrison, of the Clevelands,
have not yet played up to last year's
form.
A singular thing occurred in the sixth
inning of the thirteen-inning Detroit-Pittsburg
game. Miller was at the bat and struck
a ball foal into the air. A sparrow was at
that instant skimming over the field, and the
ball struck the bird squarely, bringing it to
the earth dead.
The Detroit management in a circular
says: "The management feels confident thai
the Detroit Ball Club will be able to win the
championship of the League, and trusts that
its patrons, at the end of the season, may
hare the pleasure of witnessing a series of
games for the world's championship with the
champions of the American Association^"
' I want my men to play with their heads
as well as their hands and feet," says Manager
John Kelley of the Louisville Club. "No
^lnh ran win if it does not resort to strategy
and science, and there is as much of tliis in
baseball as chess, cards, or anything else. I
have been driving this notion into the heads
of the boys lately, and now, for the first time
in their lives, they us3 signs in fielding, batting
and base running to a Rood advantage.*
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
iron. /-o*/. Won. Lost.
Detroit IS 2 1 Boston 14 ii
Pittsburgh... 7 11 | New York. ...12
Philadelphia.. 0 ]1 j Indianapolis... 4 ]"i
Chicago 7 11 | Washington... G IS
THE AMERICAN* ASSOCIATION*.
iron. Lost. IF'on. Lost.
St. Louis. 21 5 ! Baltimore 15 11
Brooklyn 14 it | Cincinnati....U5 12
Louisville 1('? 11 Athletic 11 b
Metropolitan.. 4 19 | Cleveland 0 11
THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Won. Lo.il. Won. Lost
Newark 14 2 Syracuse S 5
Rochester. ...10 8 Binghamton.. 8 1(
Toronto 11 0 Hamilton 7 11
Buffalo 12 7 Jersey City... i
Oswego :> 15 Utica 5 1<
EASTERN* LEA (.IE,
Won. Lost. Won. Lost
New Haven... 8 10 Hartford 12 <
Bridgeport....15 8 Waterburv 9 i
Danbury 5 13 Springfield.... 5 l:
THE COLLEGE LEAGUE.
? '?'
Harvard 2 1 I Princeton 2 !
Yale 3 0 | Columbia. 0
The thirteen Irish constables who resigned
their offices because they were compelled t<
carry on evictions, and who arrived at New
York recently, have announced their inten
tion of becoming citizens of the Unitec
States by filing their application in the Cour
of Common Pleas.
The palace of the Mikado of Japan has
keen lighted for some time by electricity,
and the Edison Company has closed a eotitract
to illuminate the city of Tokio.
ElfiHT SHOTS FIRED.
> Attempt to Kill Editor O'Brien
3 in Hamilton, Canada.
E ___
r
* He and His Friends Tired Upon in
: Their Cab.
!
1
Editor O'Brien was more enthusiastically
received at Hamilton, Ontario, than in any
; other place lie has visited since he began his
[ tour. No demonstration was made against
him during his passage from the depot to the
1 hotel, or from the hotel to the Palace Roller
. Rink, where he spoke Monday even
ing. The meeting itself was a most enthusiastic
one, and there was no disturbance, ex.
I cept that made by a few persons outside,who
were quickly disfjersed by the police. When
L Mr. O'Brien left the rinjk, had he gone out
of 'the front door, where the police had
[ cleared and were guarding the street for him
mere wouiu nave Deen no attempt upon ms
[ life to record. But some foolish friend adi
vised him to go from the rink by the private
side entrance on McNab street. Mr. O'Brien
consented, thinking merely to escape the
crushing in the crowd which awaited nim if
he went out at the front entrance A closed
coach was in waiting on McNab street, and
just as the meeting closed Mr. O'Brien
i went quietly from the rink and entered
the carriage. He was accompanied by
Mr. Kilbride and Messrs. McMahon
and Roach of the National League.
! O'Brien and Kilbride sat on the back seat of
tne coach, and McMahon and Roach in front.
The coach was driven by John Nelson. President
T. P. O'Brien, of the National League,
eat on the box seat with him.
As Nelson whipped up the horses and faced
for the hotel, a crowd suddenly appeared,
which provea unfriendly, for no sooner
had Mr. O'Brien and his friends taken
their places than they set up the usual
hissing and groaning which proved
to be a signal to a group of five men who
lurked around the market building, in
Market Square. The men who hissed and
groaned followed the carriage, and as it
wheeled into Market Square there
was a sudden click, the horses
pranced and a flash of light suddenly overspread
a group of buildings where the men
lurked. The reins dropped out of John Nelson's
hands, and with the exclamation: "Oh,
ray God, I'm shot!" he fell forward on the
seat
Crash, crash, crash, quick as lightning,
and through bright flashes of flame sped the
bullets from two revolvers until eight distinct
shots had been fired. Mr. O'Brien stretched
forward to look out, and as he did so a ball
whisked by his face and passed through the
opposite window without harming anybody.
T. P. O'Brien, Nelson's companion, who
had been amazed and dazed, now grasped the
reins and lashed the horses through the square
into James street and down to the hotel.
Here there was another hostile crowd, who
? U/i/\^yu] n n f Ua *\n?4ir tw/ul f/\
agaui UUUWU UO lUC UCUIJ niKUUt VllCU IA/
open the door, but could not Mr. McMahon
jumped over the door, and drawing a revolver,
held the crowd at bay, while Mr. O'Brien
and his friends were making their exit from
the carriage also in the same uncomfortable
way. As the party stepped into the corridor
of the hotel a volley of rotten eggs was hurled
at them, bu'*io one was hit. Chief of Police
McKinnon and his men then rushed up, but
all was over.
Nelson was taken to the City Hospital. Dr.
James White extracted the bullet. He said
the wound is dangerous. It is in the left
wrist.
The day previous (Sunday) Mr. O'Brien had
> spent quietly at Niagara Falls. He vas suffering
considerably from injuries received in
I the attacks upon him at Toronto and Kingi
ston, but expressed a determination to keep
' his engagement to speak at Hamilton, and
did so witn the result above described.
SEDUCED TO ASHES,
A Town in Michigan Completely
Wiped Out of Existence.
A fire broke out the other morning in Newmann
& Trelease's general store, at Lake
Linden, in the Lake Superior region of Michi
gan and rapidly spread to other parts of the
town, the prevailing dryness greatly adding to
the rapid progress of the flames. At the same
time the town seems to have been partially or
wholly without the means of making -headi
way against any serious conflagration. The
village is located on the west bank of
Torch Lake, in the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Its population is about 3,000. The Calumet
and Hecla's very valuable stamp
mills are situated there. The village contains
a saw mill, three churches, a bank,
newspaper, and the usual complement of mercantile
houses and residences. The stamp
mills are some little distance from the village,
directly on the lake, and were unharmed.
The entire business part of the town was
wiped out, only one saloon and one meat market
being saved from the sweeping destruction.
Three hundred families lost everything
except what they had on
their backs. The helpless situation of the
town speedily rendered the people panic
| stricken and unable to do what little might
have been done to save property.
1 Both Houghton and Hancock Fire Companies
responded nobly to the call for assist)
auce and did great work. Nearly every
family turned out report great loss of household
goods and surplus clothing, the flames
reaching out with such rapidity that householders
quickly realized that their only safety
i was in instant" flight.
! About 270 buildings in all were destroyed.
; The loss will exceed 51,000.000, with insurance
[ of *.">00,0;X) to $700,000.
Lightning struck the house of Andrew
Pearson, near Independent Hill, Va, the other
' day, and killed lus two daughters, his five>
year-old boy, and Mr. Luther Wright, who
had taken refuge from the storm. Two other
children were prostrated, but will recover.
Thk Duke of Rutland will not allow pas
1 anywhere in Belvoir Castle, his ancestral
seat. Lamps are used all over the immense
building and a servant who has spent fifty
years in the ducal services occupies his whole
1 time in filling the bowls and trimming the
' wicks.
THE MARKETS.
NEW TORK. 21
! Beef, good to prime fi <$ "7%
< Calves, eom'n to prime 0 & 8
. Sheep 8 @ f
Lambs
Hogs?Live ~>H(&
1 Dressed ?/?(? S).j
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 75 (a] 4 85
1 West, good to choice o 85 3 00
Wheat?No. 2, Red ' 00^(3)
! Rye?State '8
Barley?State (K) ?ti 75
l Corn?Ungraded Mixed 47 (<$ 48J?
1 Oats?White State ? @ 38
Mixed Western 34 (a) 30
Hay?Med. to prime *0 @ 90 .
Straw?No. 1, Rye fiO (3) 05
Lard?City Sleam G 70 @7 25
, Butter?State Cieamery.... 19 @ 20
I Daily 10 @ 18
p West Ira. Creamery 15 17
; Factory t:> <Ji> 15
Cheese?State Factory 10 @ 10}/
Skims 0 id J?
Western 133a @ 13>i
j Eggs?State aud Penn 18Ja'@ 13! .J
; BUFFALO.
> Sheen?Wood to Choice 4 10 @ 4 30
Lambs?Western 4 75 cm 5 <hi
Steers?Western 4 ;!5 $4 (Hi
( Hogs? Good to Choice Yorks 5 10 (J 5 15
. Flour 4 75 5 15
Wheat?No. 1 {?{ @
. Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (dr> 43j*
. Oats?No. 2, Mixed .12 <u: 33
Barley?State. 04 (?
boston.
Beef?Good to choice i'-@ 15
' Hogs?Live 5 V? 0
> Northern Dressed.... 0j?@
' Pork?Ex. Prime, j>er bbl...12 00 (a}l2 50
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 "0 (</; 5 15
Corn?High Mixed (<? 52 Y
> Oats-Extra White 41 @ 41 ??
4 Rye?State fiO (a; 05
WATERTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
' Beef? Dressed weight 0J4 & 1\?
' Sheep?Live weight 4 ?# 5
r Latnbf ,5 & 5>?
Hogs?Northern 01 C%
' PHILADELPHIA,
t Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ " 00
Wheat?No. 2, Red 95)4 @ 90
Corn ?State Yellow 50 @ 50) ?
Oats Mixe 1 35 <?? 30
Rye-btate ? @ 53
Butter?Creamery Extra.. 21 (<t 22
; Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. Il5><a 12
.;%
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
s. 'J?
Madame PATt; is learning to play on tb*
rither.
Gounod is composing a cantata to be dedicated
to the Pope
Mr. Robert Buchanan's "Sophia" has
passed its 300th consecutive representation
at the Vaudeville Theatre, London.
Mozart's piano and Haydn's baton, more
recently the property of the immortal Tijsft,
were willed by him to the city of Vienna.
According to the Louisiana Sunday law,
liquor stores, cigar and barber shops must be
closed on that day, but theatres may remain
open.
Modjeska will produce a new play, next
season: "The Witch," an adaptation by C.
M. Rae, an English dramatist, of "Die Hexe,"
a German drama of six years ago. ;
Anthems were first composed by Hilary,
Bishop of Poictiers, and Sc. Ambrose, about
the middle of the fourth century. They wer?
introduced into the church service in 386.
Mr. Augustin Daly's New York company
has been playing with brilliant success at the
Boston Museum. There -was immense demand
for seats for -'Taming of the Shrew."
Edwin Booth met his banner audience at
Indianapolis. He played "Hamlet" there
Thursday night, May 5, and his receipts were
$4,770 from an audience of 2,119 person*
Booth was paid $2,500.
The new Opera House at Odessa, whan,
completed, will be one of the grandest in
(4- _~*11
JLjUlUpC. Xb Will piVUttUlJ^ UO UpCUC^l III MOT
the management of Mr. Mapleson in th?
autumn. It has been erected at a cost of
11,000,000.
Madame Jasacschek, the well-known.
>c tress, a few nights ago fell down an entire ' I
flight of stairs at her hotel, in Newport,
R. I., and broke an arm, besides sustaining
other injuries. The accident will compel the
disbanding of her company.
Next October Charles Dickens will begin
in this country a course of public readings
from the works of his father. He is about
forty-five years old, with brown hair and
moustache, and of nearly the same height
and build as the elder Dickens, but less pronounced
in dress. . ..
Saixt-Saens's Opera, "Henry VHL," was
recently hissed down at its first performance
at Marseilles. The manager had to ring
down the curtain and announce to those who
were not satisfied that they could have their
money returned at the box-office if they I
wniiln Ipavp A crxiH manv of th? malfYin
tents availed themselves of this opportunity
to get their cash back, and then the performance
proceeded peacefully to the end. . ;
PBOMINENT PEOPLE.
Mrs. Grant's health continues to improve
very slowly. ? .
Qcekx Kapiolani, of Hawaii, is the fin)
Queen that has crossed the White Hoon
threshold.
Kaiser Wilhelm has survived seventy- ^ .
two reignmg monarchs who were his coS:
tempo rarife.
Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas land*
cover fully 10,0WJ acres, located in three different
counties.
Isaiah Tuppins, Mayor of Reedville.Ohio, 1
is the first colored man elected to that offlot r
North of the Ohio River.
JohnB. Finch, Chairman of the National
Committee of the Prohibition party, is going
to Texas to stump the State.
Mrs. Garfield's delicate health prevented her
attendance at the unveiling of her hue S
band's statue in Washington. Her two sons,
however, were present.
Grand Master Workman Powderly wat presented
with the biggest cowboy hat that
could be found in Denver, and haa his photograph
taken while wearing it.
Mrs. Gladstone nearly always accompanies
her husband to the House of Commons
and she never fails to wrap a stout comfortei
roimd his neck when he leaves for home
A few years ago Joseph Brown was the '
Mayor of St. Louis, rich and ambitious to en
ter"the United States Senate. A local new*
paper now records the fact that Mr. Brown
has just accepted a small municipal offi?
worth $1,800 a year.
Lieutenant FuppER,the colored graduate j,
of West Point, who was dismissed from th? *
service for malfeasance in office, is in the syndicate
which has discovered the old gold and
silver mines in Mexico*and the probabilities
are that before long he will be the richest 'jj
negro on the continent.
General Boclaxgeb. the French "Wai
Minister, is described by a recent interviewer
as "a short man, rather stoutly built, with
brown hair, brown beard, rather a red face}
above all things quiet-looking,almost to commonplacenes?.
He wore the ordinary French
civilian's dress of black frock coat and
< trousers, with only the ^single red spot in hi* i
buttonhole."
An old Congressman, writes a Washington
correspondent, was remarking*
npon the length of time that Repre- " f
Bentative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had
been the "Father of the House," which
moono nnf f>in mpmViflr nf InnCPflt, Rer
">'"uu """ ? o
rice, but the member of longest continuous
service. If S. S. Cox had not
missed one year of service in Congress
by resigning aud going to Turkey as
United States Minister, his service in /
Congress would have covered just- the
number of years which Mr. Kelley has
to his credit?twenty-six?but his
chances of ever being "Father of the
House" are very remote, because there
have been several breaks in his service, <
and now, as a candidate for the papaship
of the House, he must start hi*
career anew, and behind every man
who has served throughout the forty-*
ninth Congress. Looking over a list ' of
the members elected to the Fiftieth
Congress, this old member had the curiosity
to figure out the nearest heirs
to the distinguished and honored j>osition
of "Father of the House," and this
I is the list he produced, with the father
I Iha Viaa/1 *
aw iuu uvhui
Tears. I . Years.
WilliamD. Kelley....86ijame? H. Blount....U
Samuel J. Randall....24!JosephG. Cannon... 14
Charles O'Neill 22 Wm. M. Springer....12
W. S. Holman 22;'D. B. Culberson .13 -I;
Richard P. Bland.... 14 W. H. Forney li
Roger Q. Mills 1-iiThoe. J. Henderson.. 12
Many valuable improvements have
been lately made in the manufacture
of asbestos paint in England. In the
tests made of its efficiency, a piece of
light pine wood, about six inches long
by four inches square, painted with
five coats, was placed for upward of
half an hour in an ordinary grate tire,
but, although the wood within was reduced
to charcoal, there was no blaze
urbAtAver emitted durincr the charring.
Again, a small model theater, built of
wood, with set scenes and accessories,
was sprinkled with turpentine and set
on fire; every portion ignited, and the
whole was consumed. A similar model,
with the set scenes and the wood framing
all painted with asbestos, was
drenched with turpentine and set oil
fire, but the thin scenes were only partially
charred at the lower ends with
the turpentine flames, while the timbering
was not even ignited.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania,
say6 he voted for the interstate
commerce law in order to give the men
trV>n mn railroads on Daper an oppor
tunity to see how their theories would
work if put in practice. He thinks the
nonsense has gone far enough, and will
vote to repeal the law next winter. He
is likely to have plenty of backing.
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