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4 "across the wires. A Batch of Newsy Tales Told By Al - 1, me icirgt A Western Bank President Steals $51,000 and Disappears. The most intense excitement prevails at Leavenworth, Kan., over the collapse of the Citizens' Saving Bank. Shortly after 9 o'clock the other morning an anxious crowd began gathering about the building, waiting for the doors to open. Vainly the crowd waited, and about 11 o'clock the information I was made public that the bank was no longer solvent. At noon it was learned that President R. P. Clements had gone to some point East or North where he was safe from all danger. The bank officials received a letter from him saying that he had lost $22,000 in wheat speculation. The total embezzlement, with what he took in J_ u ?.;n fv-v &S1 fiOO reaa y utsu. v?m aiuvum. ^ ?? He also said that the savings bank would not be effected and that the Metropolitan Bank was the loser. This can b? taken for what it is woi th. The Metroix>litan Bank was merged into the savings bank nb nit a year ago. The following notice was posted in the window at 11 o'clock: "The bank has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. John Wilson will take charge of the bank/' The absconder, before h6 left, transferred $17,000 to his brother-in-law, who, it is said, will turn the property over to the bank for the benefit of the creditors. Clement sent his family to Cuba about a month ago. The letter from him was the first indication the tank officials had of anything wrong. They worked hard trying to get matters straight. Word was spread through the crowd that only the Metropolitan bank was affected, and that the Citizens' Bank would gay in full. This seemed to allay tne j>anic. 1 ue uepositors are nearly all poor workingmen. It is likely that all will lose the larger amount of their deposits. If the absconding president could have been found he would have been summarily dealt with by the crowd. A Boarding-House Tragedy. Charles J. "Wernan, of Patcrson, N. J., lately in the employ of an insurance company, got into a dispute a few days ago at Grand Rapids, Mien., with his landlady, Mrs. Bonfrey. She demanded pay for fifteen i weeks' board, and Wernan repudiated a part of the bill. They nad some words, but not of such a nature as to attract the attention of Mrs. Bonfrey's daughter, Lydia Uhute, who was playing upon the piano in the adjoining room. Soon, however, Miss Chute heard two pistol snots, itusning into the other room the saw her mother lying motionless upon the arm of a rocking chair in the bay window, dead. Wernan, with the smoking revolver in his hand, lay upon the floor unconscious. He lived about ten minutes. The bullet entered Mrs. Bonfrey's brain. To no other cause than the dispute about the board bill can the tragedy be attributed. From photographs and letters found among Weruan's effects, he is thought to have a wife and five children,three daughters and two sons. His wife is an invalid, and in her last letter to him expresses fears that she will not recover and hopes that he will soon return home. Upon Wernan's body were found two empty pocketbooks and an unsigned check for $103 on the First National bank or Paterson. Another Smash Up on the B. and O. An accident occurred to the Philadelphia and Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at York, Ind., Wednesday morning which resulted in the death of the engineer and fireman of the passenger train, and the injury of the freight engineer. The train left Chicago at fi o'clock P. M., and at York, owing to a misplaced switch, ran into a siding and into a freight train which was standing there. Engineer C. Cramer and Fireman Edward Kooken of the passenger train were both killed, ar.d W. K. Devine, the engineer of the freight, was badly injured, but will recover it is thought. No one else was hurt. Thirty minutes before the passenger train passed York an excursion train passed safely over the switch, and after the accident it was found that the switch lock had been broken open with an oaken club. * * . ?? The Pope and the K. of L. Rome advices state that the conclave of twelve American Bishops asked by the Vatican for a decision as to the advisability of the Roman Catholic Church interfering with the Knights of Labor, voted 10 to 2 against intervention. The technical decision reached was that ."There there was no occasion for the Church to make a special deliverance regarding the Knights of Labor." The congregation at Rome after examining the question, arrived at the same decision, and the secretary of the congregation communicated this resolution to Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore. Subsequently an attempt was made from the United States to induce the Vatican to reverse this decision, but the Holy See refused to reooen the question. *:? Five Men Killed, Ten Injured. A construction train of the Chicago and Alton,on which were nearly 100 laborers, was run into on Wednesday by a freight train, and the result was a dreadful sraashup. with serious loss of life. The freight train was bound for Kansas City, and met the construction on Owendorn Bridge, twenty-five miles from ' Bloomington. These men on the construction tram were killed: Morton Dunseth, water carrier, Delavan: James Brown, Hopedale; Frank Drake, Petersburg; Blano Barrows, Ashland; James Kellogg. Ten men were wounded. Mr. Blaine'Coming Home. An Edinburgh dispatch says that "Mr. James G. Blaine's present intention is to start for New York in about a fortnight. He has been having a good time and has improved in health, but ne longs for home again. Next Monday he will start on a tour of the l rosachs with his family. Both he and his family are greatly enjoying their visit to {Scotland." COMING- FAIRS. A liist of the State and Provincial Fairs to l)e Held in 1887. The American Agriculturist for August publishes the following list of State and Provincial Fairs to be held this year: Alabama Montgomery Oct. 17?2M Am. Institute New York."Sept. 2S-Dec. 3 Canadian Expos'uToronto, Ont Oct. 5-17 Calif ornia Sacramento.... Sept. 12-'J4 Connecticut Meriden Sept. 13-10 Delaware Dover Sept. titt-Oct. 1 Frontenac Prov'e. Kingston, Ont..Sept. 27-30 Georgia Macon Oct. 2+-Nov. 2 G't Central Fair..Hamilton, Ont..Sept. $5-30 Illinois Olney Sept. Illinois Fat Stock. Chicago Nov. fc>-18 Indiana Indianapolis....Sept. l'J-3i Iowa Des Moines Sept. 2-!t Kansas Topeka Sept. 1H-24 Kentucky Lexington..Aug. 30-Sept. a Nat'l Ag 1 Exp'n. .Kanses City,Sent. 15-Nov.l No. InJ & S. Mich.MishawakaJnd. Sept.13-16 North'n Wis Oshkosh Sept. 5-9 Maine Lewiston Sept. G-9 Maryland Easton Sept. 19-23 Michigan Jackson Sept. 19-23 Minnesota St. Paul- Sept. 9-17 Missouri St. Louis Oct. 3-8 MissouriFat StoekKansas City. Oct. 27-Nov. 3 Montana Helena.Aug. 22-37 Mississippi Jackson Oct. 17-22 Nebraska Lincoln Sept. 9-16 New Jersey Waverly Sept. 19-23 New York Rochester Sept. ?-14 "KT'?1(L?1 Ohio Columbus..Aug. 2^1-Sept. 2 Ohio NorthWest'nFostoria.. Aug. 30-Sept. 2 Omaha Expos'n ..Omaha, Neb....Sept. 5-10 Ontario Ottowa Sept. VMM Pennsylvania I'hila Sept. 5-17 Piedmont Exposition, including Va, N. & S. a, Ga., Ala., and Tenn Atlanta, Ga Oct. 10-22 Rhode Island Providence Sept. 11MJ.J South Carolina...Columbia Nov.8-11 Tennessee Nashville... Sept. 26-Oct. 1 Texas Dallas Oct. 20-Nov. 5 Tri-State Fair....Toledo, O.Sept. 5-10 Vermont Burlington..., ,c?ept. 12-16 Virginia. Richmond Oct 26-28 West'n Michigan. Grand Rapids .Sept. 19-23 West'nNat.Fair ALawrence, Ks. ..Sept 5-11 West Virginia.... "VVbeeli ng Sept. 5-9 Wisconsin Milwaukee SfP*- IS-lf Wis. Industrial...Rucine Aug. 29-Sept.5 NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State*. Two New Yorkers?Michael J. Dixon and John P. Ryan?were instantly killed by lightning while fishing from a small boat off Staten Island. Great damage has been done to crops by the recent heavy rains, particularly in rennsylvania and New Jersey. Three small boys, inmates of the Children's Nursery at West Brighton, Staten Island, were drowned while bathing. Owing to a heavy falling off in the strength of the Knights of Labor in Massachusetts, stops have t>een taken to combine Districts 30 and 77. Three miners were fatally injured by the gas explosion in No. 1 Slops of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke, Penn., the same mine in which twenty-six men and boys were entombed on December 18, 1885, and in which their bodies still lie. Immense damage has been wrought^ in Western Massachusetts and Eastern New Hampshire by floods. Many bridges and mill-aams have been swept away, the beds of railroads washed out and travel impeded. Contrary to first reports, the loss of life has been small. South and West. A fire in St. Paul, Minn., destroyed a number of large business houses. The dam age is heavy. Francis M. Kellar, of Shelbyville, 111., killed his wife because she bore him three children who all had twelve fingers and twelve toes, the same as their mother. Kelar's neighbors tried to lynch him before he was taken to jail. The barge Theodore Perry, coal-laden and bound IVo'ii Buffalo for Saginaw, has gone down in Like Erie. Five of her crew of seven were lost. w. J. McGarigle, one of the convicted Chicago "Boodlers," has made his escape from the Sheriff's custody and left for parts unknown. McGarigle, as Warden of the County Hospital, had been convicted of corrupt practices and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Mrs. Richard Greenlaw, of Memphis, Tenn., has given birth to four children. The mother and babes are doing well, and the quadruplets are remarkably healthy and well developed. John Taylor, President of the Mormon Church, died a few days since near Salt Lake City, aged seventy-eight years. He had been indicted under the Edmunds law in 1885, but fled, and ever since had been in hiding. His birthplace was England, and he was credited with having had eight wives and innumerable children. An anti-Prohibition rally at Forth Worth, Texas, was attended by 35,000 people. A parade, and a big dinner, followed by speeches, were the features. Washington. The Treasury Department has decided that nnimnls nf hich prade and value imDOrted from distant countries for breeding>purposes are entitled to free entry, notwithstanding the fact that they may be for sale. Brigadier-General William Dcxn, United States Army, retired, late Judge-Advocate-General, died at his country residence in Fairfax County, Va., a few days since, in the 72d year of his age. A delegation of 100 prominent citizens of Missouri, headed by Mayor Francis, of St Louis, called at the White House on Monday, and in the name of the people of Missouri invited the President and Mrs. Cleveland to attend the annual fair at St Louis in October. The President accepted the invitation, leaving the precise date of his visit open for future consideration. Secretary Lamar has revoked his order suspending the notice of dismissal served by General Black, Commissioner of Pensions, upon C. E. Behle, Special Pension Examiner at Cincinnati, for using insulting language toward the President. Mr. Lamar gave Jiehie a bearing, ana ar- me conclusion 01 me interview the Secretary revoked his order of suspension, thus dismissing Behle from the service. The President has appointed the following postmasters: John C. Seltzer at Shenandoah, Penn.; John G. Vandevoort at Wellston, Ohio; Oscar H. Dean at Pent water, Mich.; IV. P. Rose at Wilton Junction, Iowa; John B. Kessler at Ottawa, Kan.; J. S. Mattingly at Sedan, Kan.; Patrick J. Morgan at Solomon City, Kan.; W. J. Rosseau at Starkville, Miss. Foreign. Canadian Knights of Labor desire separation of jurisdiction from the United States. The corporation of Dublin has conferred the freedom of the city on Mr. William O'Brien, editor of United, Ireland, and Mr. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, Mass, who is now visiting Ireland. A Calcutta (India) dispatch reports that the steamer Mahratta has foundered. Six lives were lost. An international chess tournament is in progress at Frankfort, Germany. As immense marine procession has been held at Portsmouth, England, in honor of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The vessels that paraded included the squadrons of iron clads and cruisers, aggregating thirtyfoui vessels; seventy-five torpedo boats, gunboats and iron defence ships, divided into five flotillas, six training trigs, and thirteen troopships. Besides these hundreds of smaller craft took Cart in the procession, which was reviewed y the Queen from the Royal yacht. After a long cessation of open hostilities the Canadian officers have commenced active warfare against the United States fishermen. The victims are the Gloucester (Mass.) schooners Annie W. Hodgson, Colonel J. H. French and Argonaut. The Hodgson was seized off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, bv the Dominion cruiser Advance, charged with violating the customs laws in not entering at the Custom House, while the French and Argonaut lost two boats and seines within the three-mile limit off Souris, fourteen men on them being made prisoners. A violent volcanic eruption has occurred on the island of Galita, off the coast of Tunis. Streams of lava are issuing from the crater of the volcano, and the flames are visible for fifty miles. The British Cabinet has under consideration the suppression of the Irish National League. The ship Hotspur, one of the finest vessels afloat, has been wrecked off the coast of Java. The Pope has decided that there is no ground for Papal interference with the Knights of Labor question. THE LABOR WORLD, An attempt is now reported to control the envelope manufacturing business. The glass bottle blowers decided to charge an advance of seven per cent, over last year's rats. The strike of the weavers in Brunswick, Me., has been ended. Tne men were granted an increase of five cents per cut. There are over 10,000 people connected with the printing business in New York. Of these nearly G,000 are compositors. A Michioan* labor paper says there are 50,000 Knights in that State, of whom more than 30,000 vote against the new constitution. The Pennsvlvania coke strike ended with out serious disturbance, after costing the men $1,000,000 and "the mill-owners as much more." Dr. McGlynn has signified his intention of attending the Syracuse (N. Y.) Labor Convention, to which he was elected as a delegate from the First Assembly District of the United Labor party. Two steel ferryboats, costing nearly half a million dollars, are l>eing constructed in Baltimore to ply between New York and Staten Island. They will be capable of making the min in fifteen minutes. The Japanese manufacture out of paper, tapestry which looks so much like leather, that a Berlin merchant, who received a consignment the other day, had to pay the leather dues on the material; he could not convince the officials that the articles had never seen the tanners. The Pennsylvania coke strike has restricted production of pig iron 350,000 to 400,000, or something over 30,000 tons per week. It will require several week* before furnaces out of blast can be putin operation again, as it will be some time before the coke operators can buive things working satisfactorily. Allen Harp, a boy sixt??en years old, she* himselt t irough th? head ovtjr the grave of a pet dog in the grounds of th9 Bryn Mawr ' IJotel, near Philadelphia, a few nights agiT """ mnftTTT\T TIN MW JfMKKK TKUUtiLK. An American Vessel Seized by the Canadian Authorities. Fined $400 for Alleged Violation of the Customs Laws. Trouble between American fishing vessels and the Canadian authorities has broken oat airesn. me uiouecsier vjuuss.; iwiiug schooner Annie W. Hodgdon has been seized off Shclburne, Nova Scotia, by the Canadian cruiser Advance, charged with violating the customs laws in not entering at tho Custom House, and been fined $400. The Gloucester fishing schooners Col. J. H. French and the Argonaut had two small boats and seines seized within the three-mile limit, the fourteen men in the boats being taken prisoners. The men were released shortly after their capture. A Halifax (N. S.) dispatch gives the following details: The case of the Gloucester fishing schooner Annie W. Hodgdon, seized at Shelburne. is similar to most of last year's seizures for customs violations, " and has 110 connection with the fisheries treaty. The vessel, which had at first been only detained, awaiting orders from Ottawa, was finally formally seized on the charge of violating the Canadian customs Taws, and a fine of $400 was imposed. All the vessels seized last season on a similar charge .were fined either $200 or $400 each, the fine being deposited in every case under protest, and afterward nearly the whole amount was refunded to the various owners, only a nominal sum of $200 or thereabouts being retained. The Government's action respecting the Hodgdon is therefore somewhat odd, the offense being no more serious than any of those committed before. Captain Knowlton, of the cruiser Advance, who made the capture, was informed some days <igo that the Hodgdou was on the western coast,and it was suspected she was in search of bait, but, so far, there is no proof of violation of the treaty. When she was seized there were some fresh codfish in a tubon the deck, which Capt. Mor rison said had been brought on board by the missing men, who were just found. There is no evidence in contradiction of this, and it is probable that the fish were really caught 011 brown's Bank, being taken from the trawls before the men strayed away in the fog. After instructions were received from Ottawa to impose $400 fine, Customs Collector Atwood requested Captain Morrison to bring the schooner to the wharf, which was done, and she lay in dock in charge of the Collector's men. There are no new developments in the Souris case, but there is no doubt that should the Co). J. H. French or the Argonaut, to which the boats belonged, be found within the i three-mile limit they will be immediately | seized for violation of treaty. There is no : question as to what vessels the seine boats belonged, as, besides the admissions of the men, the names of the schooners are painted on them. Consul-General Phelan, of the United States, regards the Hodgdon affair as rather an extraordinary one. He considers that the crew and the vessel's owners have been harshly treated. The schooner, he says, was on a mission of humanity in searching for lost fishermen. She did not enter Shelburne harbor proper, and the Captain of the cruiser might very gracefully, and without stepping beyond his powers, have himself entered ana cleared the vessel, and permitted her to continue on her way unmolested. With regard to the Souris seizures the Consul General has not sufficient information to express a confident opinion, but he believes that from the situation in which the boats appear to have bjen.when arrested that there must be a doubt as to whether they were actually trespassing. Great interest in fishery affairs is exhibited by the officers of the American war ship Richmoud, but until fuller particulars of the seizure are received they do not feel warranted in cnpfll-intr ahonf. f.ho n r>n?*>s A TRAIN-WRECKER'S FATE. A Mail Hanged for a Cowardly Crime in Nebraska. David Hoffman has been hanged at Nebraska City, Neb., for wrecking a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Dunbar, on the night of the 11th of January last. He nearly fainted when the death warrant was read. On nartine with his brothers he broke down en tirely and stoutly protested his innocence. He was so weak that he could not walk to the gallows alone, and was assisted by the ministers. He cried during prayers on the scaffold and was crying when the trap fell. When asked if he nad any thing to say he replied: "Nothing. I can't say anything." The trap was then sprung, and in eight and one-half minutes he was dead. The neck was broken. The train wrecked by Hoffman and James Bell, his accomplice, was the Missouri Pacific passenger train from Omaha to Kansas City. It was thrown from the track about one and one-half miles northwest of Dunbar, a small station ten miles west of Nebraska City. It consisted of a locomotive, a baggage-car, palace car and a sleeper. The night was bright with moonlight, and it was 11:15 o'clock when the train was thrown from the track. The train had just rounded a curve when it struck a misplaced rail, leaving the track and going into the creek, some thirty or forty feet below. The engine broke loose from the train, and running about a hundred yards along the side of the track turned half-way over, catching the engineer, James Dewitt, under it, pushing the throttle-valvo through his Dody near the heart and burying it some six inches in the frozen ground. The fireman escaped with a few slight bruises. Tlie tirave engineer musi uu?u mu >uc danger, for the lever was thrown back over the centre some three notches. The train in leaving the track did not follow the engine, but went down a draw into the creek. Every car, save the chair car, turned over on its side, and none of the passengers was fatally hurt, although about forty were bruised and in jured. The express messenger, Frank Chenowirth, had his skull fractured by the iron safe turning over on him. On examination of the track where the train had run off it was found that the fish-plates had been removed from the south rail, the spikes drawn and the rail shoved toward the centre, making an open switch. The house of John Hoffman, n brother of David Hoffman, was about a quarter of a mile from the sccne of the wreclc. He said that he had seen two men rnn away after the train was derailed. The tracks of the men were found, and they were such as would have been made by the foot coverings worn by David Hoffman and James Bell. Those two men were arrested and taken to Nebraska City to prevent their being lynched. James Ball turned State's evidence and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Hoffman was put on trial on April 0 for murder in the first degree. The jury found him guilty after half an hour's deliberation. LATER NEWS. Mary A. Keanky, seventeen years old, and her sister Catherine, aged sixteen, were drowned in each other's arms while bathing in a lake at Spring Valley, X. Y. They were from New York. Reuben J. Hudson (colored) was lynched near Redan, Ga., for assaulting a white woman, and Reuben Coles (also colored) met a similar fate for a like offense in Surry County, Va. The Maryland Democratic State Convention at Baltimore nominated Elihu E. Jackson for Governor, William Pinkney Whyte for Attorney-General and L. Victor Baughman for Comptroller. The platform endorse# Cleveland's administration, favors a reduction of taxes by Congress, and opposes the introduction of foreign paupers and convicts. A i. a roe delegation of prominent citizens from Kansas City called at the White House oil Wednesday and invited the President and Mrs. Cleveland to visit their city in the fall. Mr. Cleveland accepted the invitation. The Secretary of War, acting under authority of Congress, has directed that 140 pieces of unserviceable artillery be turned over to the Gettysburg Battlefield Association. These guru? ivill be of the same pattern as those used by the (Tnion forces in the battle, pud will he placed io the same positions. J* ?? STRUCK BY A TBADf | Ten Laborers^ Instantly Killed and Four Fatally injured. A fast express train, behind time and scur- 1 rying along even faster than usual to make it up, whirled around a sudden curve near Hohokus, N. J., the other morning and plowed into a knot of Italian laborers standing J upon the track. Ten were killed outright, two died in an hour, two others were not expected to live, and several others were injured. For a year past the company has had from ' 1,1500 to 1,S00 Italians at work along the road, \ putting broken rock under the ties. The work 1 has been completed as far as Hohokus and beyond, but a small stretch remained to be completed at and near a cut half a mile beyond 1 -> n-l ? ( lilt} bUtUUIl. X lie moil) nuiiiuci uiu iu ui? &vi vj five,had been brought from their lodging place i at the gravel pit near Paterson by a con^truc- < tion train, ana had been put to work at about * seven o'clock. They were all at work on and 1 about the westerly or down track used by t trains bound to Jersey City except six who ( were at work in the cut Martin Connolly was > their foreman, and Connolly was assisted by i James Morriss#y and John Fitzsimmons. j Neither could talk Italian, ordei-s being given by motions and examples. Connolly says 1 that he thought the place dangerous, and so < put Fitzsimmons on the bank in the cut to ] give warning when the trains approached 1 from that way. i At 7:34o'clock A. M.,a milk train ot four- 1 teen milk cars, three freight cars, and two < passenger coaches, under charge of Conductor i Cnarles Wood, came along over the em- 1 bankment on the easterly track, and i bound north. It was closely followed i by a construction train, under the < charge of Foreman H. Bamper and Conductor Samuel Fullerton. As the milk I train came up to the gang a number of citi- ] zens living thereabouts stopped on a big wooden bridge that runs over the tracks at ! the cut for the purpose of watching the * rr,? ?f 4U?4. 1* irain. liicy iiutittxi iuau nu auvcuvtuu ? was paid to the train bv the men or f the foreman in charge. There were about i thirty men huddled together in one t spot, shovelling the broken stone on to the i track and tamping it under the ties. Then, ] as the milk train was parsing, the whistle 011 1 the Chicago express, then several minutes j late and running at lightning speed, was j heard as she approached the cut from the north. The spectators on the bridge t could hear the wnistle, but it was plain 1 that no one in the gang of workmen heard it, for they kept right on with I their work. The express thundered into the < cut and around the curve past the milk train, 1 and had got well on its way down the grade J toward tne men, and then the engineer ] seemed to see them. At the same moment some of the Italians seemed to see their 1 danger. Three were seen to fling themselves 1 from the tricks, some threw up lhiir arms I imploringly and stood still, while some fell I on their icuees. The train ploughed into the ' writhing group. . In an instant the air around the engine ( seemed filled with the bodies of the men who ] had been at worK. une man was vuru?u against the last car of the milk train, and, bounding back,fell under the wheels of the express and was ground to nieces. Another rose thirty feet in the air, ana fell back alighting on top of the first car of the express, whence the body rolled off to the roadbed. A third body was thrown forty fec-t out to one side and over stone a wall at the foot of the west side of the embankment, where it landed on the grass in a meadow belonging to Mr. Rosencranz. The greater number were thrown forward and to one side, where they mowed down the weeds that grew down the embankment, and covered the broken rock with blood. Even those who were not on the track were struck by the flying bodies of their comrades and hurled down the bank. Of the whole number at work not one remained standing. The tracks were wet, and the express train swept around the curve to the west and into Hohokus before her headway could be checked. When she had gone, tha men who remained not seriouily hurt got ; up, with screams aud wails, and climbed up the bank. The groans of { the wounded were added to the cries of the j others, and Mr. Jacob Bamper, whose con- < struction train reached the scene a minute i later, says that many of those fatally wounded, including those with their heads crushed, ( tried vainly to arise, and struggling to get i away from the track, died miserably. ( The dead and injured were conveyed to , Paterson, the latter being taken to a hospital. The unfortunate men were all Italians hired in New York. i AN OPEN SWITCH, Bad Accident to a Baltimore and Ohio Train. As a Baltimore and Ohio accommodation, train, which leaves Pittsburg, Penn., at 3:20 p. m., neared Scott's siding on Second avenue, Sunday afternoon, the engineer, J. J. Moore, felt the engine turn from the main track and enter an open switch. He whistled and applied the air brakes, but too late to avert the accident that followed. Knowing the train was sure to run off the switch he called to the fireman to jump. The fireman, Frank Hughes, was momentarily bewildered. The engin?er caught him by the arm and pushed him off. Engineer Moore stuck to his post until the pilot wheels ran off the ends of the rails. He then jumped, but landed so near the wrecked engine that the scalding st^am burned his limbs auu ooay terribly. In the fall he also broke hisruht arm and received several cuts and bruises. He j died shortly afterward. The engine when it ran off th3 open end of j the switch droppe I to the ground twelve feet below. The tender followed raking off the ' cab, sandbox and smokestack,landing trucks upward ahead of the boiler. Following this came a combination car consisting of a smoking and baggage car. It seemed to have shot right over the engine, then turned over on its side in the middle of the avenue. The first i>ass3iiger coach came next, the forward end dropping to the street, while the rear trucks remained on the siding. As soon as the train entered the switch some of the passengei-s knew that a wreck was about to occur. r?i on mcfrnnf. nil was excitement. P&sssn fers leap.?d to their feet in the smoking car, ut before they could reach the door the car had pitched off the trestle, and was lying on its side. Two men in this car were injured. They were W. S Campbell and Judson Moon. Both were cut about the fac<? and badl> bruised about che body. 1 In the ladies coach, which was partially wrecked, were two sisters, Maggie and Katie Gilhooly. They heard the crash of the engine and smoking car as they were dashed to pieces, and imagined their only safety was in jumping. They rushed to the rear platform and as the front end struck the street they leaped out. Maggie was picked up with a broken leg, and Katie was found unconscious. Fireman Frank Hughes jumped upon a stone pile at the time of the accident and broke his arm. Christina Nelson and J Annie Conley were severely bruised, as were a half dozen othei-s. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. < Mrs. Langtry has concluded not to play J "Antony and Cleopatra"' next season. Fred Warde, the tragedian, has lost money playing Shakspeare in the Northwest. A eemai.e orchestra, all players of brass instruments, is creating a sensation a Dresden. A dramatized version of H. Rider Hag- 1 gard's l\She" has been brought out at a San Francisco theatre. Miss Lko Lani,the sweet singer of the Sandwich Is'ands, is taking lessons in operatic . ; music ol' Professor Vallo of Philadelphia. W.. . U T flio wAiinor a m^rivfln i iu1m) ijlla nunnr.ijl*, luu jvuub prima donna, has made a wonderful Jiit in "Dinorah" as well as in "Rigoletto," and has become a great favorite with London audiences. Thk theatres of Sydney, New South Wales, have been ordered closed on Sundays at the : ; request of a deputation of clergymen, and a good deal of excitement exists over this innovation. It has many times been reported that New York was to have a company of Chinese 1 players. It is now stated that a party of j ; thirtj-five actors are actually on cue way uj ; the city. Modjeska will produce a new play next I season, "The Wit'.-h,''an adaptation by C. M. I Rae, an English dramatist, of "Die Hexe," a I ; six-year-old German drama. It has been tried ' in Loudon. The 40,(XX) odd people who make up what ' is call the American stage in the aggregate, J annually receive about |&3,000,000 in salaries, ] Americans spend about $103,000,000 a year on ' Ihe theatre, * i -Y..- ' ' 3tJE MINERAL PRODUCTS. 1 Report Tli at is Full of Inter? a * . n J TM esung jracis aim xigures. A. Notable Increase in the Production and Value of Minerals, The following condensed statement of the jroduction of the more important minerals )f the United States in the calendar year 1686 , s issued by the United States Geological Sur- ! 76j in advance of a report: Notably increased production and also in increase in value have been the general iharacteristics of the mineral industries durng 188(5. The total value of the mineral prolucte increased in round numbers from $428,>00,000 in 1885 to $465,000,000 in 1886. The important factor in this gain of $37,000,000 was ;he increased production of pig iron from 4,>44,525 long tons in 1885 to 5,683,329 long tons n 1886, and an appreciation of seventy cents u the avaerage value per ton, making a total jain of $30,483,360 in this iudustry alone. ' The principle iron statistics for 1886 were: , Domestic iron ore consumed, 10,00,000 long :ons, value at the mines, $28,000,000; im- ; j jorted iron ore consumed, 1,039.433long tons; iotal iron ore consumed, 11,039.433 tons; pig i ron maae, 0,000. long uuiis, au mureuotj ux : L.638.803 tons as compared with 1885; value it furnace, *05,195,700, or $30,483,360 nore than in 18>>5 ; total spot J 1 ralue of all iron and steel in the stage of manufacture, excluding all duplications,. 5142,500,000, an increase of $49,500,000 as :ompared with 1885. The value of gold produced in 1886 was ISW,000,000, an increase of $3,199,000 over LS85. The production of silver decreased from ?51,600,000 in 1885 to $51,000,000 in 1886. ' The production of copper in 1886, includ- < ng 4,500,000 pounds from imported pyrites, , imounted to 160,687,061 pounds, valued at JIG, 469,503, a decrease of 10,284,526 pouuds md $1,823,496 in value from 1885. The average price of copper in 1886 declined to 10% aer pound. The copper sulphate made chiefly from ores and matte amounted to 13,400,000 sounds, valued at $536,000 at four cents per bound. 'TUft n# Ian/I ins?roocori fr% 1.9A AOfQ ions in 1886, valued at $12,667,749, at an iverage value of $93.40 per short ton in New fork. In 1885 the production was 129,412 :ons, valued at $10,469,431. The production )f white lead in 1886 is estimated at 60,000 short tons, worth at 6% cents per pound 57,500,000. The total value of the oxides of ead was about $1,535,000. The zinc production was 42,041 short tons, valued at $88 per short ton; an increase of 1,953 short tons and $212,552 in value over 1885. Zinc oxide- was also made directly from ores to the amount of 18,000 short tons, valued at $1,440,000. In 1886, the production of quicksilver in California was 29,081 flasks, or 2,291,547 i sounds, valued at $1,0G0,0QG. This is a de- j irease of 2,092 flasks, but the total value . shows an increase of $80,811 due to an Increase in Drice. The productions of all kinds of coal In 1886, jxclusive of that consumed at the mines, biown as colliery consumption, was 107,682,203 short tons, valued at $147,113,755 at the mines. This may be divided into Pennsylvania anthracite KG,696,475 short tons or 32,("04,710 long tons, valued at 171,558,126; all Dther coals, including bituminous, brown x>al, lignite and small lots of anthracite produced in Arkansas and Colorado, 70,J85,734 short tons, valued at $75,554,629. rhe colliery consumption at the individual mines varies from nothing to eight per cent. Df the total product, being greatest at special Pennsylvania anthracite mines, and lowest at those bituminous mines where the bed is nearly horizontal and where no steam power or ventilating furnaces are employed. The averages of the different States vary from h.hrefl to six Der cent., the latter being the average in the Pennsylvania anthracite region. The total production, including colliery consumption, was: Pennsylvania anthracite. 34.85:j,0<7 long or 30,035,446 short tons: all other coals, 7b,707,057 short tons; making the total absolute production of all coals in the United States 112,743,403 short tons, valued, anthracite. $70,119,120; bituminous, $78,481,[)56; total, $154,600,176. The production of Pennsylvania anthracite, including colliery consumption, was 6:W,473 short tons in excess of that produced in 1885, but its value was $553,828 less. The production of bituminous coal was 1,086,408 short tons greater than in 1885, while its value was $3,860,55)2 less. The production of all lands of coal shows a net gain of 1,785,881 short tons compared with 1885, but a loss in spot value of $4,419,420. The total production of coke in 1886 was 8,835,068 short tons, valued at the ovens at $11,552,781. This is the largest production ever reached in the United States, the nearest approach to it being in 1883, when 5,464,721 tons were made. This declined in 1884 to 4,873,805 tons. The year 1885 showed a gain upon 1S84, the total being 5,106,696 tons. The production for 1886 show3 * .l-.i -1 10QK 1 <TOa a gain on uiao ui iow ui nearly 34 per cent. Tne total increase in value was (3,923,653. The production of 1886 is 1,370,347 tons, or 25 per cant greater than tbe maximum of previous years. The total production of petroleum was 28,110,115 barrels of forty-two gallons each, of which the Pennsylvania and New York fields produced 25,7518,000 barrels. The value, at an average of 71% cents, was $20,028,457. The production showed an increase of 6,278,074 barrels over 1 ha production of 1885. No record is kept of the yield of natural gas in cubic feet. It is estimated mat ine amount of coal displaced by gas in 188(5 was rt,353,000 tons, valued at $9,847,150. In 1885 the amount of coal displaced by gas was 5.101.(500 tons, valued at <4.854.200. THE NATIONAL GAME, The first two and the last two League clubs are Western clubs. Many Cincinnati clergymen attend the games there regularly. Orb has res'gnod his position as captain of the .Metropolitans, ana nas ueen suixeeueu.uj O'Brien. Esterbrook, once of the New Yorks, has been released by the Metropolitans, and can now play where he likes. One-armed Daily, the Cleveland pitcher, wears a specially designed wire-protector for his one hand while at oat. Over forty International games have been won by a run, which serves to show that the clubs are pretty well matched. Charles Baldwin, pitcher of the Detroit Club, has been suspended indefinitely, without-pay, for indifferent playing. Two of the greatest teams ever organized, Via t mi is Browns and Chicaeos, are both managed by players, and both managers are first basemen. Though the Chicagos have won seven out of nine games with the New Yorks and ssven out of nine with Philadelphia, they have only woa four out of ten with Washington. A new play has been introduced in order to get first-base on called balls. After a batter has had four balls called on the pitcher and has less than three strikes against himself, he changes his position to the opposite side of kv.q r>inty? nnH t.hfl chances are strongly in favor of the next ball being called. At a special meeting of the International League held at Buffalo, that city, Binghamton, Newark, Roche iter, Syracuse, Scranton and Utica were represented. The Newark and Jersey City clubs were censured for playing exhibition games on Sunday. The salaries of th3 umoires were increased from $200 to |i50. the national league record. Won. IjOst. Won. nptroit 41 l>4 I Boston ."9 i>0 Pittsburgh. .. .25 3SJ I New York....08 31 Philadelphia. .34 34 j Indianapolis... 1!( 47 Chicago 89 25 | Washington...20 35 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. Won. Tm*'. St. Louis. 53 20 j Baltimore 4.'! 'JO Brooklyn 155 35 | Cincinnati....44 2:5 Louisville 42 34 I Athletic 33 2!) Metropolitan..21 48 j Cleveland 17 53 THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Lo't. Newark 36 18 I Syracuse 31 22 Rochester 30 27 j Binghamton. .22 30 Toronto 's.i I nainiiion zo Buffalo o? 25 | Jersey City.. .27 2(1 Scranton 10 23 Wilkesbarre.,15 41 SOUTHERN LEAGUE. H'oii. LoAt. Won. Lo%t. New Orleans...38 22 Charleston. ..o5 22 Nashville 30 20 Birmingham. 0 2? Memphis 89 16 M. L'Hoste. the French aeronaut, recently fell with his balloon into the sea some leagues away from the British coast. He was rescued after twenty hours' struggle to keep afloat by a passing steamer. _ j . ,/? .V- - 7. V HIS SOUTHEEN TRIP. How Cleveland is to be Received on His Way to Atlanta. President Cleveland's proposed visit to the Piedmont Exposition is attracting great attention throughout the South, says an Atlanta dispatch. Mr. H. W. Grarly, who i nas tne matter 111 ci:arg?, says: "lne President will be welcomed by the largest crowd ever gathered in a Southern State. It will be the first time this generation has ever seen a Democratic President, and our advices show that the attendance will be overwhelming. The Presidential train will leave Washington on Sunday night, October 16, and will reach Atlanta on Monday nigh-. The President will spend Tuesday ana Wednesday in Atlanta, he will be escorted through Virginia by Governor Lee. and his staff, through North Carolina by Governor Scales and his staff, and through South Carolina by Governor Richardson and his staff, all of whom will go i with him to Atlanta. At the Georgia line he T^'11 tu, mn* V.1- ?A rriaa w wcv %jj uvrcjuvi uviuvii anu oiau. i At Atlanta he will be met by the Governors and United States Senators of the various Southern States. "It is expected that he will spend Tuesday looking at the Exposition, ana on Wednesday will hold a public reception and make a short address. We are arranging for an oldfashioned jubilee that will exceed anything on record." THE INTERNAL REVENUES. A Year's Cost of Collection?The Annual Receipts. Joseph S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenne, has submitted to Secretary Fairchild a preliminary report of the operations of that service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1887. The total collections from all sources of internal revenue for the fiscal year just ended were $118,835,757, which amount has been accounted for and covered into the Treasury. This is $1,032,888 more than the collections for the previous fiscal year. The cost of collection was about $4,075,030. The receipts from the different objects of taxation, as compared with the receipts of the previous year, were as follows: Spirits, $65,829,322, a decrease of $3,262,944; tobacco, $30,108,067, an increase of $2,200,705; fermented liquors, $21,922,187, an increase of $2,245,456; oleomargarine, $723,948, all increase; banks and bankers, $4,288, all increase; miscellaneous, 247,945, an increase of $21,485. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Sir Charles Dilke is to visit this country Shortly. The brother of the King of Siam is soon to pass through this country. Professor Scott, of Rutger's College, is writing a history of New Jersey. Speaker Carlisle's daughter is said to be the prettiest girl at the Greenbrier Sulphur Springs. Mrs. Cleveland will visit Atlanta when the President goes there to attend the exhibition. Mr. John G. Whittier has never been further than Washington from his home in Amesbury, Jfass. Stepniak, the famous Nihilist writer, ex oects to t>av a lone visit to the United States the coming autumn. Blondist, the rope walker, will make a professional visit to this country in the Fall. He is not dead, as was reported. Bishop Warren, of the Methodist Church, is in Japan. His wife, who brought him several millions of dollars, is in California. Jamcs 6. Richardson, of New Orleans, is the largest cotton planter in the world. He has o8,u0j acres in cotton and 7,000 in corn. Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, is contemplating an extended tour of India. He thinks India a first-rate field for mission work. Neal Dow has accepted an invitation to UnnliiKifinn in Maocfl. ueuvei au auuia? uu nvmvmiua m chusetts. He will then take part in the canvass in New York State. Congressman Phelan, of Memphis, is the youngest member of the Fiftieth Congress. He will not be thirty-one when he takes his seat. Congresman Vandever, the oldest member, is seventy-one. General Francis E. Spinner, formerly treasurer of the United States, is greatly enjoying life at his t ;nt home on Paolo Beach, Florida. At e ghiy years of age he is as genial and hearcy as ever and welcomes hosts of visitors. carrite M Ahl is the wonder of Georgia. She lives about ten miles from Baxley, is ten years old, and weighs 180 pounds. She weighed at the age of seven years 140 pounds. She is no higher than children usually at her age. Persons who have seen her say she is as broad as she is long. George Inness, Jr.,the New York animal painter, has a studio on wheels, with which he troes iin and down countrv roads. Ha stops at a place, sketches till he gets tired, and then moves on. The concern is fitted with sleeping berths* The artist's wife sometimes accompanies him on these excursions. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Oscar Wilde has become editor of a London journal for women. It is said that the cotton crop of the United States will be a large one. The late S. J. Tilden owned property in England to the amount of $690,000. n 0-0 /liarvnir. XVLruiviO auuui uiu v/iuy uiv viww?* aging from most sections of the country. General Meade's monument in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedicated on October 18. The Pope's envoy to Ireland is engaged in Investigating the industrial aud social condition of the tenant class. > Grape-rot is reported all through the Piedmont section of Virginia, and the crop has Deen virtually aesiruyeu. The National Agricultural Department report makes the decrease in the hoe supplv 1.500.000 from last year. THE MARKETS. new york. 30 Beef, good to prime 7 Calves, com'n to prime 5 @ 7 Sheep 4 @ 5 Lambs ? (?3 8 Hogs?Live 55% 1-. J KV?) Ul csacu - , m Flour?E*. St, good to fancy 4 40 @4 50 West, good to choice 3 65 @ 4 90 Wheat-No. 2, Red 79%@ 80% Rye?State 00 @ (52 Barley?State 00 @ 75 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 45}/@ 40 Oats?White State ? @ 37 ? Mixed Western S4 @ 30 Hay?Med. to prime 85 @ 90 Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 00 Lard?City Steam 0 05 @ 7 10 Butter?State Ci eamery.... 22 @ 'Si Dairy 17 @ 20 West. Ini. Creamery 14 @ 17}^ Factory 10j? Cheese?State Factory 9 Skims 5>4@ 0>? Western 0 Eggs?State and Penn 15]-.^? 10 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 75 @4 25 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 00 @ 4 25 Lambs?Western ? (<5 6 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 40 (<? 5 50 Flour 4 75 @5 15 Wheat?No. 1 82, Corn?No. 2, Mixed 42}jj'@ 43 Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? @32 Barley?State 04 @ 05 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice 13 Hogs?Live 5^(^ 0 ** ? * His/a* rr\S ? .Nortnern Dressea.... "Shu* <;i Pork?Ex. Primo. per bbl...12 00 (?12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 ($ 4 90 Corn?High Mixed. 51V Oats?Extra White 41J-^@ 42 Rye?State 00 @ 05 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef? Dressed weight 7 Sheep?Live weight 4}4 Lamb; 7 @ 7}$ Hogs?Northern 0>3 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 4 00 @4 35 Wheat?No. 2, Red 84 @ 84 Jj Corn^State Yellow ? <g 50' flAts Mixed 34 fit, 35^ Rye -fctate ? @ 53 Butter?Creamery Extra... IS @ 19 Cheese?N. Y. Pull Cream.. 1010?? TO-MORROW'S FORTUNE& My dreams, like ship? that went, to set, > And got becalmed in sunnier climes, No more returned, are lost to me, Faint echoes of those hopeful times; And 1 have learned, with doubt oppressed? There are 110 birds in next year's neet. r? 1 he seed is sowed in balmy spring, The summer's sun to vivify, With his warm kisses ripening To golden harvest by and by, Got caught by drought, like all the rert? There are no birds in next year's nest. The stock I bought at eighty-nine Broke down at once to twenty-eight; Some squatters jumped my silver mine, My own convention smashed my slate; No more in futures Til investThere are no birds in next year's nest. ?Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle* PITH AND_ POINT. || If you need help to drive away thirsty get lemonade.? Arkansaw Traveler. Where's the impropriety in calling | Boston boy a regular Hub-bub??Society Journal. The crow is the most rational of bipedf. It never makes a noise without caws.?. ; Loicell Citizen. It is a pity that our neighbors do not know as well as we do what is best foi i them.?Boston Courier. It is bad luck to sit down to a small dinner with thirteen, as the chances arr that you will not get enough to eat.? Judge. 1 'I'll be in when I'm out," wasjthe somewhat paradoxical utterance of the sick man. as his friends closed a visit to hi! bedside.?Boston Transcript. It was a Boston boy who started the fashion of calling his father by his given name, and the fashion lasted about thirty '< seconds.?Detriot Free Press. The base-ball player is the only employe whose right to strike is acknowl-" :' edged and even approved by those he ; works for.?Merchant Traveler. < . There is a gentleman living on Stater ' Island so infatuated with the viewth|tfc* gets from his house that he walks up th? hill every day. back ward.?The tSpoch.Turn, pilgrim, turn; thy caree forego And drink thy All of mirth; Man wants but little here below. He only wants the earth. ?Washington Hatchet i After running a lawn-mower for tathour, this morning, he remarked that ii ever he had said anything derogatory oi unkind of the snow-shovel, he- would1; most willingly take it b&ok.?BpringUdi ^ Republican. "Ma," said Bertie, "should I saj- > 'rantu ' nr 'trousers?' " "Trousers. m?- - I (fear," said the mother. "Well, then,* ' I said Bertie, "I think Bridget had bettet-. give Fido some water; he trousers awfully."? Tid-BiU. : | After the clouds, the blue, After the drought, the dew; And after you've taken your summer vacation . V The bills will shower on you. . ?Burdette. There has been a drop of $500 in. tin price of elephants for managerie pur>; poses, and it is expected that prices. wilKo-o still lower. Don't lay in vour fall and" 0 winter elephant stock until you kno* that rock-bottom has been reached.? Chicago llerald. *. J Wife?"John,why didn't you wakem* up last night during the fire on the nex& block?" Husband?"It didn't amount j to much." Wife?"Well, the next time- i 1 wish yon would let me know it; yon** know I can't sleep if there is a fire any- ; where near."?Tid-Bits. The iceman smiles as he counts the gains N V Derived from the trade of summer, J And as he walks the streets disdains The greeting of the plumber. But the plumber will pass the icem&n by And be himself the hero, TV ben the storm cloud floats in the winter sky, . And the mercury's down to zero. ?Boston Courier. "Let's go now, Amy," said Mildred tc 1 the high school girl when the game waiu only half over. "No," replied Amy; "Iwant to go the whole nog." "Amydear," protested Mildred, "that is repre- > hensible slang. You should say, 'traverwi! the unabbreviated swine.' "?Pittsburg-1 Chronicle. "First. Blase Youth ("much demoralized}*; ?"By Gwage, Cholly! I'm completely ' exhausted; just assisted in saving?aw? ' young woman's life." Second Blase Youth?"Brave fellah! But I didnt know you could swim, Freddy." First B1 use Youth?"I cawn't. Another fel- E lah did that part. I stood on shore and* ' scweamed for help."?Harper's Weeklym There is a pood deal of food for contemplation in the remark attributed to a<. Paciffc Coast Chinaman. He was taken to see one of the booming new towns, where all the outlying country was lai? out in city lots, and he took it all in. When he returned ho:ne he was asked . 1 A ~ 1,4- ~ f it o?/l lio.flnCTror^k 'u wnai ne uiuuyuc ui x?., . ' Too muchee by aud by."?Hartford -] Couraut. 0 merchant in thine hour of e e e, If on this paper you should c c c, And look for something to ap p p p, Your yearning for greenback vvt. Take our alvice and be v v y, (Jo straightway out and advert i i L \ You'll find the project of some una, - r; Neglect can otfer no x q q q q, Be wise at once, prolong your d a a a * . t.?: A 1, fc. i, v A SlienL UUMIICBO SUUII u n. n. n. a.. Two Cowboy Stories. Among people living in the frontier ; towns in the Western States, the stories of the deeds of cowboys are innumerable, / and they mostly tend to show theij bravery and nobility in glowing colors, ; That was a cowboy who, when on the road home from a "marking" with his . chum,found they were pursued by wolves. They had barely time to ride into a small shed at the foot of a hill, which was used as a cattle refuge, when the wolves were upon them. And then the cowboy saw that there was a hole in the door, large enough to admit a couple of fierce beasts that were thirsting for their blood. Without a moment's hesitation he fired his pistol at the head already thrust '' through the opening., and then down oil I his knees and blocked the broken panel i li!c/.lu.ct linlflirnr it: them until the wolves, tired of waiting, sought other victims ! That was a cowboy who miraculously saved the life of a little child that was playing ou the prairie near its father's ranch just as the great herd of cattle was being driven headlong into the stockyard. She, pretty innocent, all ignorant of the terrible death that seemed imminent to the terrified mother who stood watching the oncoming herd, was quietly picking prairie-flowers, and holding them out delightedly, trying to entice her mother to join her. Suddenly a cowboy perceived her danger; never heeding the possibility of his own destruction, h? gave a wild whoop, and, at racehorse speed, headed off the herd, just stooping I in }ii?; saddle as he nassed the child to iift her up in his arms and carry her to R her mother, who stood in a stupor of fear E watching the great herd trampling and R roaring over the very spot where her dar- M ling had a moment before been playing. 1 ? Time. I