The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, October 31, 1888, Image 2
STARVING FAMILIES.
Tiie Wolf at the Doors of Dakota
Farmhouses.
Pi+ifnl in t.fi a Pa.r
?. A VJL1 Ui. i/VWMVk*?4wu am ***w . ?.
Northw&st.
The frost which came in August, destroying
a very large portion of the wheat crop
an a dozen counties of North Dakota, and the
prairie tires which have been sweeping over
that region during the past three weeks
have wiped out houses, barns, granaries
and almost every means of subsistence.
leaving hundreds of families on the
verge of winter without provisions or fuel,
and in many cases wholly without means.
So bad has the situation become that committees
have been appointed at Grand Forks,
Fargo, Devil's Lake, Jamestown and Dunoeith
to visit St Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago
to solicit aid in money, clothing and
provisions. ,
Mr. Jonathan Harpman, was sent from
Devil's Lake to investigate the condition of
Uie suffering people. A week ago he went to
? BAwantw fomilioc f\f HflhrOWQ
a DCbUOlUOUV Vi. Octcaavj tuuiu.w V/. ?
living in Cleveland township of Ramsey
county, and of them he says: "The people
are absolutely destitute of food and fuel,
and something must be done, and immediately,
or they will starve to death.
"The real condition of the people beggars
description. Men, women and children are
in rags, and they haven't a cent of money in
the world. Their crops were totally destroyed.
Their land, stock and farm
implements are mortgaged up to their
full value, and the mortgagers are
threatening foreclosure. I spent Friday
afternoon, Saturday and Sunday in going
from house to house giving ancouraeement
and promise of aid. The most absolute distress
prevailed everywhere. Women and
children were crying, and men were going
barefooted and in rags. One place I called
at was the home of a minister who had just
come from Europe. The people told
> him that he must not stay,
that thev could not support him and
that he would starve. He replied that he had
no money to leave with and would have to
remain and share their lot. His house consisted
of onlv one room, with nothing but a
dirt floor. He was accompanied by his wife
*nd two small children. One of the latter
was wrapped up in a crib in order to keep
warm, and the other was blue and shivering
with cold and emaciated with hunger. There
was no fuel, with the exception of a little
dry manure, which is ali that any of the
families have to burn, and all they had to
sat were dry crusts of bread, which were
l^in^ upon an otherwise bare and empty
"All of the houses,"' said Mr. Harpman,
"lacked not only the modern conveniences,
but all of the ordinary necessities of life.
Six of us took dinner at the house of the
only man in the settlement who had saved
all bis crop, and were compelled to eat our
meal witn one knife, three forks and three
spoons.
"The people have lived on potatoes since
August and now their supply of them is
about exhausted. The potato crop in most
cases did not yield the seed that was planted.
The Manitoba roid has agreed to carry supplies
to the settlement free of charge, and
now wnat we want and must have is instant
and immediate relief in the shape of fuel and
food. They can get along without clothes
by staying in the house, but they cannot
live without food. The people will starve
unless they get he!p at once."
Mr. Harpmann then enumerated some of
the cases which led to this usual suffering in
this particular colony. It seems that this is
the third year they have been located here;
the first year was devoted entirely to breaking
land and getting it ready for crops. To
rin this, the settler who is without means
must mortgage his pre-emption in order to
obtain funds to buy cattle and machinery and
provisions for the first year, duriug which
there is no return from the land. The
stock are usually mortgaged for supplies and
the necessaries of life. During the second
year the crops are generally light and the
farmers don't expect to much more than
pay their living expenses and the interest
on their mortgages. Last year
the crop? were a good deal above the
average for the second year, and the farmers
were greatly encouraged for the outlook for
this year, and consequently made big pre?
parations for an unusually large crop, expecting
to be able to realize enough to pay
their mortgages and have enough left to live
on until the fourth year.
The frosts which came in August completely
destroyed all of the wheat there was,
as well as all vegetables, even those which
are as hardy as turnips. It is claimed that
the frost was sufficiently severe to freeze a
quarter of an inch of ice in low places.
CHIEFS ATTICE CAPITAL,
Sixty-One Prominent Sioux at the
Interior Department.
The sixty-one chiefs and sub-chiefs from
the great Sioux reservation in Dakota, composing
the delegations from the several
tribes of the Sioux nation, which have come
to Washington to confer with the President
? ? rt' fV?A T n fnri nnsl t/1
CU1U LUtJ OCl. I cuai JT VI luu lUWi ivt, uuv* m.
present their objections to the law recently
passed by Congress for the relinquishment
of 11,000,000 acres of the reservation, were
escorted to the Interior Department at 1C
o'clock the other morning by their respective
agents. All the chiefs, as well as
the interpreters, wore civilized dress,
with the exception of moccasins, but each
wore conspicuously earrings, ornaments, or
trinkets of some kind peculiar to their race.
Rarely has so notably a delegation of Indians
appeared in Washington. Prominent
among tuem were Sitting Bull, who "made
the medicine" for the Custer massacre; Gall,
* who commanded the Indians in that fight;
John Grass, said to be the most intelligent
Indian in "he whole Sioux nation, and several
others of prominence among their people.
Assistant Secretary Muldrow, the
members of the Sioux Commission, Indian
Commissioner Oberly, R. V. Belt, Chief of
the Indian Division of the Secretary's office;
Mr. Peel, Chairman of the House Indian
Committee, and Delegate GifTord of Dakota
occupied seats near the Secretary.
When all had been seated the Rev. Mr. Cleveland.
a member of the Sioux Commission,
offered a prayer in the Sioux language, asking
for the presence and guidance o? the
Great Spirit in the council. The Indians
stood with be wed heads during the prayer,
and at its close Secretary Vilas addressed
them. He explained in details the methods
which he had adopted to secure a faithful
and honest and free expression of their
wishes with respect to the law. He said that
the Commission had been instructed to fully
and with absolute faithfulness interpret to
them the provisions of the act Every Indian
over Its years of age had been furnished with
a copy of the act, so that he might have it
interpreted for himself if he doubted the offi
Ciai mierpresauon. xne oecreiurjf sniu tuai
the chiefs before him had teen selected to
come to Washington and lay before him and
the President their objections to the act. He
would gladly huar their objections and would
give them every opportunity to explain fuliy
their w,slies in the matter.
Several of the Chiefs responded through
an interpre'er, saying they were too tired
after t. eir long journey to talk, and at theii
request the council was postponed for a couple
of days.
"i PETBOLEUM EXPLODES.
'i'he Forties of Vfqtims Scattered
;Broadc ast In Calais Harbor.
The f; e of an explosion of petroleum gas
on boarri the French steamer Ville de Calais,
which hud just arrived at Calais, France,
from Philadelphia, tore off the deck and
partly carried away her sides. Only the
forward portion of the vessel sank, and the
fire raio l fiercely in that portion above
water. Other shipping lying in the vicinity
of tiie steamer was much damaged by the
explosion.
The less of life was great. Portions of a
dozen bodies were found lying on the quays,
arms, le^s and heads being scattered about
in shock n/ confusion. It is supposed that
the i?nit oi! of f?ns generated in the hold
caused th explosion. Four bodies have been
found. Fragments of iron were blown incredible
d stun es, and all tho windows of
the ca riages in tho railway stations were
broken by M<e explosion.
The F :'ti lard Oil Company of New York
received r. cable dispatch announcing that
i "om twenty to twenty-five persons perished
> . the explosion.
"KACK3 Oi gold were discovered in Helena,
Jl.outana, t/ workmea digging a sewer. The
'city is buiit on Great Last Chance Gulch.
. The dirt panned out fifteen c*nt? to the pan.
THE NEWS EPITOinZEft
ftasiern ana ininaie states.
Congressmen Ashbel P. Fitch and Sau
uel S. Cox have been renominated for Cot
press by Tammany Hall in their respectiv
districts in New York City.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cowell, of Ostei
ville, Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. Howar
Lovell, formerly of Osterville, but now c
New York, tried to drive across the track e
West Barnstable. Mass. The engine struc
the wagon and Mr. and Mrs. Lovell and Mi
Cowell were instantly killed. Mrs. Cowell1
arm was badly mangled and she was inter
nally injured.
The United States gunboat Petrel ha
been launched from Cramp's ship yard a
Baltimore in the presence of a number c
distinguished army and navy officials. Sh
is the smallest of "the vessels that compos
the new navy.
Twenty-seven victims of the Mud Ru
disaster were buried at Pleasant Vallej
Penn.
John "Waters was stoned to death a
Pittsfield, Mass., by a party of drunken me:
whose orgies he and his wife had intei
rupted.
While Mrs. William Morgan, of Donald
son, Penn., was sitting in her dining-roon
nursing her infant her six-year-old sor
picked up a shotgun and discharged it. Th
entire charge entered the head, face, breas
and shoulders of the unfortunate woman an<
the back and head of the Infant, fatall;
I wounding them.
Fire resulting from an explosion of ga
destroyed the Cameron Colliery at Shamo
kin, Penn., entailing a loss of $75,000.
A freshet in the Penobscot River ha:
caused great damage to pulp mills and papei
actorids. Bangor, Me., has been partiallj
under water, and the damage to machinery
and buildings is enormous.
Sonth and West.
Fields, the outgoing County Treasurer o
Wanbansee county, Kan., is a defaulter ii
the sum of $20,000.
Thieves robbed an excursion train on th
"Wabash road in Indiana and secured $20,000
j after which they escaped.
At Bevier, Mo., striking coal-miners at
1 tacked their substitutes, fatally woundinj
i several, and killing Thomas Wardell, th
principal mine owner.
A pay train, containing $10,000, plungei
into a gap at Reno Gulch, Dakota, and thre
masked men attempted to rob it. Paymastei
Reemer opened fire on the robbers and in
; stantly killed John Clark. John AVilsou wa
! fatally wounded, and the third man, name*
j Johnson, escaped. The three were ranch
1 men of the Black Hills.
Alt. the cracker bakers between Pittsburj
and the Rocky Mountains have agreed t<
advance the price of all crackers on accoun
of the wheat corner, the range being fron
half to one and a half cents a pound.
A colored girl named Pauline McCoy
j nineteen yeai s old, has been hanged at Unioi
I Springs, Ala., for the murder of Annie Jo
j rand, a fourteen-year-old white child, last
February, whom she killed in order to ob
I tain her clothes. The execution was private
The strike of the Chicago street car em
] ployes has been settlorl and the men have re
j sumed work. A practical victory was woi
j by the strikers, although concessions weri
1 made on both sides.
Dr. C. K. Greog, son of the Episcopa
I Bishop of Texas, shot and killed himself a
j McKinney, Texas, while suffering from th<
j effects of a hypodermic injection of co
| caine, with which he was experimenting.
Chatu.es Morax, Jr., son of the Nev
I York banker of the same name, was sho
; and killed near Waco, Texas, by C. W. West
I Willi WUU1I1 no uuu lurueu u i{uuiiui.
] Chang Yang Huen, the piinese Ministei
| to the United States, has arrived from Pen
j and proceeded to Washington.
The non-fulfilment of the full terms of hi
agreement by Verkes, the Chicago stree
railroad man. has led to a renewal of thi
street disturbances and of tho strike.
Joseph Joiner was lynched by citizens
indignant at his career of crime, on his waj
to jail at Hulto, Texas.
Lewis Edwards, a colored murderer, wa
6hot dead by a party of masked men wh<
broke into the jail at Jessup, Ga.
Hon. John Wentworth, better known aj
I "Long John," a wealthy citizen and ?
: famous pioneer of Chicago, has died of olc
! age.
Washington.
Jurr* Sawyer of the United States Cir
cuit Court m Washington, has issued tw<
writs of habeas corpus to test the validity ol
the Chinese Exclusion act.
President Cleveland has nominated E
P. Earle, of Alabama, to be Consul at Cog
nac.
Secretary Whitney has been informed
that a large crack in the sternpost of the ro
cently launched steel cruiser Baltimore wil
delay the completion of that vessel severa
months.
Mrs. Cleveland has returned to Wash
ington from her vacation in the Adirondacks
i She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs
j Folsom, and Dr. Ward, of Albany. Th<
i party was met at the station by the Presi
i dent and were driven to the Executive Man
sion.
A V ' jAlAMnftAM A# ClAlIT nVliofo Vl QI
A LAftUL Uricgai<iuu U1 >J1VU.\ \- Uivio iit?
arrived in Washington, to consult in refer
ence to the proposed cession of a part o:
their reservation.
The President approved the act for the re
lief of settlers on the old Camp Sheridai
military reservation; the joint resolution foi
the enclosure of certaiu points on the battle
field of Gettysburg; the act in regard to th<
| settlement of boundary lines between Coni
necticutand Rhode Island; the joint resolu
J tion in aid of the sufferers from yellow fe
! ver, and the act making enlisted men of the
signal corps responsible for public property
A decision has been rendered by Judgi
Sawyer in the United States C>rcuit Court
San Francisco, upon two test cases under th<
recent Chinese Exclusion act The Court af
firms the constitutionality of the act, am
holds that all Chinese now in the Sai
Francisco harbor, as well as those on the waj
from China, must be seut back.
President Cleveland has approved th<
act authorizing the establishment of life
saving stations along thu coast,
Mrs. Ada M. Bkttinger, of Lincoln
Neb., has been admitted to practice befori
I Vlm^QTYiQ fYmrf. lioincr fr.hf
LlIlU UUiLCU UCUbGO K'U}/1 v-mv WM. V, WV...Q w ?.
third woman accorded this privilege.
The Senate has confirmed the followinj
; nominations: Harry E. Shields, to be Re
ceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory; George S. Duryee, to tx
United States Attorney for the District o
New Jersey, and James A. Moore, to b
United States Marshal for Nevada.
Foreign.
Emperor William, of Germany, paid i
visit to the Vatican in Rome and held an in
terview of twenty-three minutes with th
Pope.
The election of representatives in Hayti fc<
choose a President resulted in favor of Sena
| tor Legitime. The palace was attacked bj
General Thetemaque, the opposition candi
fate. The forces under Legitime repellei
the attack, and a desperate battle ensued, ii
which Thetemaque and 100 of his follower
were killed.
The greater portion of the village of Poin
du Chene/New Brunswick, burned. Loss
*100,000.
A revolution has taken place in Bolivia.
The leaders of the revolt are two men namec
Pacheco and Rivadeneira. President Arc*
es aped to I>a Paz, where he is busily en
gased in organizing troops. Sucre was oc
cnpied by In liuns, and the mutinous troop!
have disbanded. The only authorities in the
capital are the two leade. s of the revolt.
A consi'ikapy against the Dutch resident1
in Java has been discovered at Madion
Forty-two of the ringlea lers in the move
! ment were arrested, and eleven others whe
i refused to surrender were killed.
| Forty thousand copies of Dr. Mackenzie's
I book on Emperor Frederick's case have beer
I seized at Leipsic by the police. The book is
j not allowed to be sold in Berlin. The poiic*
! have seized copies exix>sed for sale at boo!
stores in Berlin.
Tin: French Chamber of Deputies ha
assembled, and Premier Floquet introduce(
his bill to revise the Constitution.
Lord Mount Tkmple, a wealthy and fa
mous Englishman, is dead. He was seventy
seven years of age and leaves no heir.
_Thb German Emperor, accomnanie 1 b]
King Humbert of Italy and the Duked'Aosb
vinited Nap es, an 1 was enthusiastically re
seived by the populace.
A courier has arrived from the Cone<
(Africa) Free State bringing details of th<
ienth of Major Parttelot, who was killed bj
a porter in the Stan ey relief expedition ii
revenge for ill-treatment. The murderei
was placed under arrest and has since beec
t hanged.
iti ,-v. .
LATEB NEWS,
Chablks Matthews, sixty years old, ini
flicted* thirty different wounds in his breast
?- -* o A "Mock, VilUnr*
| WHO a KH1IU, tilt OpriU^UCiU) iuuoo, , auuug
himself. Besides these wounds he severed
- his windpipe. He had been on a protracted
d spree, and stabbed himself while suffering
'J from delirium tremens.
it
k A murderous assault was made at Eliza*
beth, N. J., upon Colonel Rufus King, Jr.,
.. a member of Governor Green's staff, by unknown
thugs.
s Thomas L. Barnes, a Philadelphia
butcher, who has been a monomaniac on ree
ligious subjects, sacrificed his only grande
child by dropping it out of a third story
window, dr.8hing the infant's brains out.
r In a quarrel in the Valley Iron Mill at
' Pittsburg, Penn., Matt Burns attacked and
t fatally injured John Walter with a red hot
n iron puddle.
The stage from Jerome was "held up"
1- near Sanderson Station, Arizona, by one
^ * ?mA?nk nf mnnAV wft? ra
^ man. a ouiau auiv/uuv ~?j
g cured from the five passengers. The mail
t was untouched.
* The President has returned thirteen pri
^ vate pension bills to Congress without his
3 approval.
Senor Don Pedro Perez Zelidon, the
new United States Minister from Costa
' Rica, has just arrived at Washington.
r Count Pulio Real, Consul General 01
7 Spain to Canada, committed suicide at Quebec
by shooting. He was despondent because
of financial difficulties.
f Marcelina Campos, a colored woman,
1 114 years of age, has just died at Havana.
B Cuba. She leaves a ninety-year-old son ?
I her second one?many grandchildren, greatgrandchildren,
great-great-grandchildren,
i- and a twelve-year-old great-great-great
/*??on^cnn
0 **"
The Afghan rising against British rule has
1 been crushed. Ishak's troops have sur9
rendered, and Iahak himself has taken refuge
1 in Bokhara.
! THUEMAN'S LETTER.
> The Democratic Vice Presidential
I Candidate Accepts.
i The following is the letter of acceptance of
the Hon. Allen G. Thurman:
? Columbus, Ohio, Oct 12.
1 To Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others, Com~
mittee:
' Gentlemen?In obedience to custom I
send you this formal acceptance of my nomi
nation for the office of Vice-President, made
by the National Convention of tlie Demo
cratic nartv at St. Louis.
i When you did me the honor to call upon
a me at Columbns and officially notify me of
my nomination I expressed to you my sense
1 of obligation to th'e Convention, and stated
t that, although I had not sought the nomina9
tion, I did not feel at liberty under the cir
cumstances to decline it.
1 approve the platform of the St Louis
7 Convention and cannot too strongly express
' dissent from the heretical teach
ings of the monopolists that the wel'
fore of a people can be promoted by
a system of exorbitant taxation far
r in excess of the wants of the Government.
1 The idea that a people can be onriched
by heavy and unnecessary taxation, that
s a man's condition can be improved by taxing
t him on all he wears, on all his wife and cbil9
dren wear, on all his tools and implements
of industry, is an obvious absurdity. To fill
the vaults of the Treasury with an idle sur'r
plus !or which the government has no legitimate
use, and to thereby deprive the
s people of. currency needed for the business
and dailySmnts, and to create a powerful
and dangerous stimulus to extravagance and
corruption in the expenditures of the gov3
ernment. seems to me'to be a policvat variJ
ance with every sound principle of govern
ment and of political economy.
The necessity of reducing taxation to prevent
such an accumulation of surplus revenue
and the consequent depletion of the cir.
culatinz medium is so apparent that no party
) dares to deny it. We seek to reduce the taxes
f upon the necessaries of life: our opponents
seek to increase them.
We say give to the masses of people cheap
and good clothing, cheap blankets, cheap
tools and cheap lumber.
The Republicans, by their platform and
t their leaders in the Senate, by their proposed
bill, say increase the taxes on clothing and
1 blankets and thereby increasa their cost;
I maintain a high duty on all the tools and implements
of the farmer and mechanic and
- upon the lumber which they need for
. the construction of modest dwellings, shops
, and barns, and thereby prevent their obtain5
ing these necessaries at reasonable prices.
Much is said about competition of American
- I laborers with^he pauper labor of Europe; hut
does not every man who looks around him see
3 and know that an immense majority of the
. laborers in America are not engaged in
t what are called the protected industries,
and as to those who are employed in
such industries is it not undeniable that
the duties proposed by the Democratic
J measure, called the Mills bill, far exceed the
r difference between American and European
" wages, and that therefore if it were admitted
that our workingmen can be protected by
tariffs against cheaper labor they would be
fully protected and more than protected by
" that bill
5 Does not every well informed man know
that the increase in price of home manufac9
tures produced by a high tariff does not go
, into the pockets of laboring men, but onlv
s tends to swell the profits of others. It
- seems to me that if the policy or
1 the Democratic party is plainly prei
sente 1, all must understand that we seek to
T make the cost of living less and at the same
time to increase the share of th i laboring1
a man in benefits of national prosperity ana
. growth.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
Allen G. Thurman.
a ? *
9 To do the work of locomotives upon the
coeimon roads of the country, and the
5 equivalent of that which has been done upon
- the railroads the past year, would require^
- in round numbers, 54,0(K),000 horses and
i 13.500,000 men.
f
e .
THE MARKETS.
42 FEW YORK.
Beef. City Pressed 6 (S> 9
1 Calves, common to prime.... 9 @ 11^
Sheep 3 50 @ 5 25
? Lambs 5 25 (?) 6 50
Hogs?Live 6j^
a Dressed 7)i@ 8
Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 6o @ 5 80
f Patents fi 50 @ 7 75
i- Wheat?No. 2 Red. 1 10 @ 1 11
J Rye?State 65 @ 69
a Barley?Ma 1 98X@ 99
s Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 50 @ 511^
Oats?N<>. i White ->tato...? ? @41
fc Mixed Western 26 @ 32
Hay?No. I N"w 85 @ 90
8traw?Lone Rye 70 @ 75
Lard?City Steam ? @ 3-90c
I Butter?State Creamery.... 25>?@ 26>?
Dairy 21 @ 25
West Ira. Creamery 18 @ 23
Faotorv 13 @ 14
' Cheese?State Factory. 8J^@ 30%
Skims?Medium.... 4^@ 6
Western ,8^@ 10J^
Eggs?State and Penn i-2 @ 22%
J JJUFFALO.
Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 00
Sheep?Meu.u.nto Good.... 4 00 @ 4 35
> Laiuos?i''uir t? ?oo > 4 50 @5 60
Hogs?Good to Choice Y orks 5 <?0 @5 '.?>
5 Flour?Family 5 00 @ 5 25
i Wbeat-No. Slie.l 1 12 @ 1 14
} Corn?No. 2. Yellow ? (iQ 4S%
3 Oats?No. 2. Wnite ? @ ;;2>|
c Barley?State ? @ 90
BOSTON.
s Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 7 75 @8 25
1 Corn?Steamer YeliOW, 5'.' @ 60)^
Oats?No. 2 Whito 'AW/,
Rye?State GJ @ 64 "
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLB MARKSC
Beef-Dressed weight @ 8
. ^heep?Live weight 6 @ 7
j Lambi 4%@ 6
Hogs?Northern ? @ 8
FIULADBLrHtA.
> Flour?Penn. family 5 ?5 @ 5 50
, Wheat?No. 2, Red ii> t... 1 05)^@ 1 '6
r Corn?No. 2, l Mixed... 51 4
, Oats? < neraded Wnite ? @ 3:>?
P Rye?Na 3 ? @ 72
i Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @25
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 9 @ 9%
j
-;'r: ' V?;
i. % * ?. r- . V a ^7*^5^5?.
| CARNAGE ON THE RAIL.
One Crowded Exenrsion Train
Crashes Into Another,
A Large Number of People
.Killed and Many Injured.
A frightful railroad accident at Mud Run
Station on the Lehigh Valley Railroad in
Pennsylvania has resulted in the instant
death of many people and severe injuries to
numerous others. Particulars of the sad affair
are as follows:
The wrecked train was a section of a
Father Mathew excursion train returning
from the annual parade of Catholic Temperance
societies at Hazelton. Nearly 6000 Luzerne
and Lackawanna peop e had gone to
Hazelton. There were seventy-eight cars
from V?'ilke8baiTe to Hazelton, the number
of passengers be ng about 5500. The sections
were all crowded to suffocation, lurnishing
the condition for terrible loss of life in case
of wreck.
The third section of the excursion train
stood on the track a few hundred yards from
Mud Run at 10 p. M., waiting for sections
ahead to get out of the way. Suddenly the
passengers on the rear platform saw a train
approach at a high rate of speed. Several
of them jumped and escaped. In an instant
the flash ot'a headlight illuminated the interior
of the ill-fated rear car; there was
a frightful crash, and the engine plunged ber
full length into the crowded mass of people.
The shock drove the rear car through the
next one lor two-thirds of' its length, and the
second car was forced into the third. Not a
single person escaped from the rear car. The
second was crowded witn maimed and bleeding
bodies, and the third car had but few
passengers who escaped. The uninjured
but terror-stricken passengers of both trains
made their way out of the cars, and went to
the telescoped engine and cars, where the
full horror of the terrible disaster dawned
upon them.
The shattered engine was pouring forth
streams of solid steam and water, which hid
from their eyes the full horrors of the scene,
while the hissing sound deaden*! the shrieks
and groans of those imprisoned in the wreck.
Some of the dead sat pinioned erect in their
Beats. The timbers of the rear car were
crushed and wrenched, while on all sides
bung mangled bodies and limbs. The few
bodies which were not mangled were burned
and scalded by the steam.
The uninjured began at once to do what
could be done for their unfortunate companions.
The few light tools on tbe train vreve
called into requisition, but proved very inefficient.
The St. Francis Pioneer Corps, who
were on the train, plied with zeal their broadaxes,
which were meant for holiday occasions.
They were, however, but little adapted to the
wor k, and were soon rendered useless. The
windows of the cars were smashed in and men
released those least hurt or least entangled.
In one case they found James Lyncu, of
Wilkesbarre, hanging from the root by one
leg. His cries brought friends, who, to relieve
his suffering, stood upon the wreckage
and held his weight upon their backs until he
was released. A young lady was found
caught by the limbs. One limb was quickly
released, but the other could not be freed,
and a misdirected blow of an axe severed it
from tbe body. She heroically bore her torture,'and
taking out her gold watch she
handed it to an acquaintance as a gift to a
friend at home. She was put on one of the
frflinfl onH trivpn all nossilila cars btlfc flhf
died in the arms of her friends on the car.
To free the bodies in the rear car the train
men attached a locomotive to the wrecked
engine and started to pull it from the wreck.
The first movement of the shattered wreck
brought from the wounded such cries of distress
that the surrounding friends ordered
the engineer to desist on pain of his life. They
did not wish to see the mangled forms still
further mutilated. The few houses about
the spot were thrown open to the suffering,
and bonfires were lighted to aid the work of
relief.
One brave man named McGinty risked
all danger, and mounting the wrecked locomotives
pulled out the lire. 1 he night waa
intensely dark, and bonfires bad to he built
along the railroad to enable the rescuers tc
work. The cries of the wounded as they tried
to escape from the debris were heartrending.
Nearly all of the passengers were jammed in
between the seats and broken timbers. They
could put their heads out of the windows
but could get no further, as their lower
limbs were held in the wreckage like a vice.
Every effort was mude to rescue the unfortunates,
but in most cases they perished before
this could be effected. Many of the male
passengers used their shirts for bandages to
dress the wounds of the iniured.
Two special trains carried the wounded to
the hospitals at Bethlehem and Wilkesbarre.
Forty physicians were on the ground at daybreak.
The first list of men, women and children
who were instantly killed, or died soon after
of their injuries, numbered about sixty people,
and the injured comprised many more.
Of the badly hurt many were not expected
PROMINENT_ PEOPLE.
The Emperor of China is in his eighteenth
year.
Jay Gould says his health no longer worries
i im.
Patti, the great singer, is writing her autobiography.
The King of Portugal it a translator of
Shakespeare.
Thr Russian Czar is soon to make a visit
to Jerusalem and its holy places.
Lady Dudley, the famous English
beauty, is as white as a pond lily.
Mrs. Cleveland has been making use of
her fall ouiing in the Adirondaeks.
The Queen of Italy, whose teeth are fine,
keep.-, an American dentist always at court.
It is feared that the Mikado of Japan has
contracted a pronounced habit of alcoholism.
1 he King of Denmark will celebrate the
twenty-fitch anniversary of his reign on November
15.
R. Gunner, once Emperor Maximillian's
aide, is now Keeper of a news stand at Dallas,
Texas.
Since he got back alive the Emperor of
Brazil is receiving all sorts of manifestations
of the people's joy.
Baron Huene, of the Russian Imperial
Guards, has married a daughter of ez-Minister
Lathrop, of Detroit.
Robert J. Bcrdette. the humorist, has
been licensed to preach by the Baptist
Church, to which he belongs.
Frank Hatton, the ex-Postmaster General,
has drifted into business as the Western
agent for a newly invented stove.
General Boulanger has resumed his
daily receptions in Paris, and the agitation
in his behalf has been recommenced.
Father Schleyer, the inventor of Volapuk,
is (fead. A fund for a monument to
his memory will be raised by his followers.
Ex-Gov. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana,
is a portly looking gentleman of medium
height, with a well kept gray beard and the
a^r of a banker.
Mr. Gladstone has recommenced his
autumnal recreation of tree felling. He prefers
to cut oaks, and leaves the sycamores
for younger hands.
The German Emperor on his rides atjthe
J army manoeuvres is accompanied by a
mounted soldier, carrying an imperial purple
standard on a lance.
It is said that Master Workman Powderly,
of the K. of L., who has for some time past
been studying law, will soon make application
for admission to the bar.
A prominent woman lawyer of Ohio is
i Miss Florence Cronise, of Tillin. She has
been in active practice for fifteen years, and
has secured a competence and a large list of
clients.
General Joseph E. Johnston, the exConfederate
leader, is living quietly at the
Palace Hotel, San Francisco. He is the last
of the oilicers of the; Confederacy to bear the
full rank of General.
Congressman William Walter Pnri.rs,
of New Jersey, has a fortune of 812,000,0')0,
which is invested about equally in real estate
and railroad stocks nud bonus. He is a large
holder of Washington real estate.
Born in this country an 1 in Great Britain
the name of the groat Irish leader Parnell is
pronounced by manv as thougn accented on
the last syllable. The i'aU Malt Uuzett*
instructs its readers to put the accent on the
first syllable, Parnell.
B. P. Hltchinsow, tlio Chicago wheat |
manipulator, is averse to having his photograph
taken and has n?;ver allowed a Dhoto- j
graptier to point a camera at hiin. His son i
eaid a few days ago that ho would give $1000
to get a photograph of his father. I
i?yv.-f
SUMMAEY OFOONQRESS.
Senate Proceeding#.
193d Day.?A bill was introduced provi- q
dine that the rate of nension for total disa- ?
bility incurred in the* naval service of the
United States during the late war shall be
$50 per month, whenever It shall appear that
the pensioner was on board any war vessel .
of the United States during an engagement n
with the enemy, for which the officers and
crew of the vessel received the thanks of the
Secretary of the Navy for gallantry and endurance.
.. .Debate on the Senate Tariff bill
was participated in by Messrs. Chace, Aldrich,
Reagan, Call and Hawley. in
194th Day.?The first Tuesday in December
next was fixed for the consideration of j,
the Pacific Railroad Funding bill Three
pension vetoes were received from the Presi- w
dent.... The debate upon the tariff bill con- fr
tinued: Mr. Vest spoke, and was answered fr
by Mr. Allison. ?r
195th Day.?Mr. Cockerell spoke for four fcj
hours on the Senate substitute for < he Mills M
bill. Messrs. Allison and Aldrich replied. in
* 11)6th Day.? A resolution was offered by w
Mr. Allison for a recess, to extend to Novem- &
ber 19. It was ODDOsed bv Messrs. Cockrell, R
Reagan and Saulsbury, all of whom advo- n<
:atea an adjournment sine die.... Mr. Teller m
Jelivered an argument in opposition to the
financial policy of the Administration, espe- go
:ially that feature of it which limits the pur- cj
:hase of interest bearing bonds and deposits aj
in banks....Mr. George asked for an indefi- M
oite leave of absence, which was granted. bi
in
Honse Proceedings. fr,
232d Dat.?The report of the special com- ]o
mittee upon the library building, exonerating fr
Mr. Stahlnecker, of New York, was present- lit
?d and agreed to The House, in Committee ar
5f the Whole, took up the Senate bill for the th
incorporation of the Maritime Canal Com- ai
pany of Nicaragua.
2:;:5d Day.?Mr. Sowden introduced a bill pr
pensioning all soldiers and sailors who were th
iisabied in the Government service, also pen- m
rioning all soldiers and sailors of the late an
war after reaching the age of sixty-eight.... Ft
Tho bill providing for the electoral couut was
passed without amendment.... A bill author- yi
izing Rufus Hatch, H. K. Viele, Charles In- as
gersol 1 and others to construct a bridge across bj
the Hudson River from New York City to
New Jersey was introduced.... A bill was re- bt
ferred providing for the assembling of the 85
fifty-first and subsequent Congresses on the
1th of March at 1 i\ jr., when an adjourn- 13
ment shall be immediately taken until the 87
first Monday in December following, unless
the President expresses a wish to the contrary. 15
234th Day. ? 1 he House refused to consider B6
the Eight-Hour bill Mr. Oates called up
his resolution for final adjournment, but no 11
action was taken on tne suujecc Because 01 a zq
lack of a quorum.
SJTith Day.?Another adjournment reso- yf
lution was offered and after a sharp struggle ag
to obtain immediate action it was referred
to the Ways and Means Committee....Mr. 18
Cox took the floor on a question of privilege, 7,1
and declared that unfrankable matter which
had been sent out under his signature was yi
not sent by him and declared the frank was ag
a forgery. *
OCTOBER CROP EETURNS. 5
yi
The Condition of Corn, Tobacco,
Wheat and Cotton, ^
The Octobcr crop returns, as reported by ?g
the statistician of the United States Department
of Agriculture, show that the condition
of the present corn crop has been
equalled only three times in ten years, and >g
is exceeded materially only by that of 18.",
when the condition was 98 and the subsequent p],
ascertained yield 28 bushels by the census of
1830. ~
Tobacco has fully maintained the condition
of last month, averaging lor all kinds ?E
88.3. iq
The returns relative to wheat are those of jj.
yield per acre by counties. As consolidated, [3
the general average for winter wheat is 12 jj
bushels por acre, and for spring wheat slight- W(
ly over 10 bushels. The former has yielded ^
better than the early expectation, the latter ;r
much worse. This is, of cour.-e, in measured jf
bushels. Tbe quality is much below the
average, which will s:.ili further reduce the
supply, as will be shown more exactly hereafter
from testimony of inspection and
niillnro u'aiirhh:
The October returns of the Department 1
make a decline in the condition of cotton.
The crop is everywhere late,arid slight frosts
threaten early destruction of the plants; yet
killing fronts ard still in the future and the &
length of the season, therefore, uncertain. a
The average of reported condition is 78.9, a
decline from 8iJ. 8 in September.
FATAL COLLISION. ?
d
Eight Hungarians Killed Throngb
a Flagman's Carelessness.
t
A VlOQ f
XX. ICITIVIO laiuvau uwiuvmv vwU..?M a,
on the Pottsville branch of the Lehigh t
Valley Railroad, which resulted in the kill- ?
ing of eight men and the injuring of twenty?
four others. A Lehigh gravel train and a
Pennsylvania Railroad fast freight collided
near famanend S.iding, Penn.
The graval train was backing on a siding
when the freight train, which was running L
on orders, approached at a high rate of
speed and went crashing into the cars ahead h
It is said that the flagman did not get back
far enough to signal the freieht, which &
struck the caboose of the gravel train, the j
latter containing a batch of Hungarian ,
laborers, six of whom were instantly killed.
Twenty-six were injured, two of them dying
while being conveyed to the hospital. a
THE LABOR WOBLD. 1
8
There are 280,000 women milliners.
The annual output of our nail mills is 800,- e.
000 tons.
About 200,000 women find employment ag r
dressmakers.
Striking cigarmakers in Havana are com- ing
to the United States.
Over 100,000 anthracite miners are em- jj
ployed by six or seven men.
Keokuk, Iowa, has adopted the eight hour y
rule for all its city employes.
T. B. Barry has resigned from the general g(
executive board of the xnights of Labor. h
Agitation has brought about the abolition
of contract prison labor in Minnesota. M
The Pittsburg glass factories have ret gi
sumed work, giving 7000 operatives employmonf.
y,
Kansas will make a vigorous and per- Bt
sis tent protest against convict labor in thq
mines. . g,
Thkre are 200,000 arc lights in use in the lc
United States, and 1,000,000 incandescent!
lamps. C
The biggest passenger engines used in this m
country are the long-legged flyers of the
Pennysylvania Road. h;
A Pittsburg man has invented a nail ma- se
chine which will do twice the work that present
machies accomplish and at *5 a ton less. &
A California company, with a capital of fi|
$1,000,000, will establish a big iron plantnear
Milford, Utah, that will employ about 2G0J ti
men. tt
The Hebrew Peddlers' Union, of New
York, has requested Mayor Hewitt not tq g
allow boys under sixteen to pursue the voca- y,
tion.
The rapid introduction of the electric lighl te
into Nortuwestern sawmills shows the pro- CT
gressive spirit of tlie lumbermen of this region
. T m
Typographical Union No. 7, of New
York, has engaged an instructor to teach its pj
members the technical points in English composition.
Dr
Stumm Bros., of Neuenkirchen, Germany, or
have offered a prize of ?- >' 0 for the best ^
means of preventing the inhalation of dust by
the workmen engaged in grinding clay.
The Internationa'. Brotherhood of Hoiler- so
Makers and iron Shipbuilders and Helpers ^
was formed at Ciiicugo, J tine, ISst), and now
I has o4 branches with a membership of i&OJ. th
An Allentown (l'enn.) flrtu has on exhibi- ca
tion the largest knife and fork ever ramu- pv
factured. ha. h is ten feet long and each has '
an ivory handle. The cost of manufacture I ?,
was , re?
The pay of the laborers at the Brooklyn ! bt
navy yard, which was reduced twenty-five i
cents a day in eauli class becau ,e of a reported I
deficiency of appropriation, has been restored g,'
by an order ol the Secretary of the Navy. ,
The Russian Workinginen's Union of New re
York has succeeded in organizing its countrymen
employed in furniture-making establishments
into a union. The Russian' union will jg
organize all its country men into trades union; $
and form a council of unions speaking onij a
the Russian language. q
Thf beet root crop of Europe for 1S89 Is r
estimated at :JT8">0,0au tons,, against 2,407,050 l
tons actual production for season of 1807-88, g
*
~m WHAT'CROP.
ummary of the Yield for the
Current Year.
. Shortage of 37,000,000 Bushels
Over the Year 1887.
The Farmer's Review, of Chicago, has this
aportant summary of the whaat crop:
The shortage in the wheat crop of 1888 ii
le not only to decreased acreage, but also
i damage' from various causes. In Ohio,
om winter killing and rust; in Indiana,
om winter killing, chinch bugs, and lightly
om rust; in Illinois, principally from winter
lling and chinch bugs, although some
tun ties report loss from drought and rust;
, Iowa, from chinch bugs (two counties
porting a total loss from this cause), also
tnsiderable damage from rust; in Michigan,
considerable portion winter killed, but
)twithstanding this, the crop will be about
inal to that of last year; the Wisconsin crop
?B J : J Ul. -1_I? A
lueroa cunsiaerauiy xruui uiiucu uukis tuiu
me from rust and hot woather; in Missouri
linch bugs and wet weather at the time and
ter harvesting caused considerable loss; in
innesota the chief loss was from chinch
lgs, two counties reporting a total loos, and
some counties the most injury was caused
T hot winds in July; in Dakota the greatest
ss was caused by hot winds, although early
ost cut off a portion of the crop; in Kansas
;tle damage was sustainel from any cause,
id the crop is, therefore, very much larger
an that of last year; Nebraska, Kentucky,
td Iowa also show an increase.
The following estimate of the crop in the
incipal wheat-growing States is based on
e acreage planted in those States, as estiated
by the Department of Agriculture,
id the average yield as reported by the
irmcr's Review correspondents:
Kentucky?Acreage, 1,035,018; ayerage
eld, 14 bushels; total, 14,490,252 bushels.
;ainst 11,113,009 bushels in 18S7, as reported
r the Department of Agriculture.
Ohio?Acreage, 2,356,487; average yield, 13
tshels; total, 23,277,796 bushels, against
,895,000 bushels in 1887.
Indiana?Acreage, 2,549.895: average yield.
bushels; total, 3,148,635 bus dels, against
,828,000 in 1887.
Illinois?Acreage, 1,988,575; average yield,
bushels: total, 29,828,(325 bushels, against
,801,000 in 1587".
Iowa?Acreage, 2,468,981; average yield.
.5bushel8; total, 28,393,281 bushels,against
,837.000 ill 1887.
Missouri?Acreage, 1,541,342; average
eld, 15 bushels; total, 23,120,130 bushels,
gainst 27,144,000 in 1887.
Kansas?Acreage, 752,744: average yield,
bushels; total, 13,549,932 bushels, against
807,000 bushels in 1887.
Nebraska?Acreage, 1,560,000; average
eld. 13 bushels; total, 20,280,260 bushels,
;ainst 16,585,000 in 1887.
Michigan ? Acreage 1,466.520; average
eld, 15 bushels; total 21,9J7,800 bushels,
;ainst 21,6i'2,000 in 1887.
Wisconsin?Acreage, 1,141.887; average
eld, 11 bushels: total. 12,555,257 bushels,
gainst 13,063,000 bushels in 1887.
Minnesota?Acreage, 3,035,331; average
eld 7 bushels; total, 21,247,317 bushels,
;ainst 38,299,000 bushels in 1837.
Dakota?Acreage, 3,994,5'JS, average yield,
bu3hels; total, 35,951,0ij7 bushels, against
,406,000 bushels in 1887.
Tnt.nl fnr th? plnvfin States and Dakota,
2,840,352 bushels.
Allowing' for the decrease in the area
attcd in the Southom and Eastern States,
ported by the Department of Agriculture
id for an increase in acreage in the Western
ates and Territories not mentioned above,
id assuming that the yield per acre will be
oal to that of last year, we estimate the
op in the said States and Territories to be
6,158,020 bushels, which1, added to the total
t-"ie above eleven State? and Dakota,
>uld make a total of 418,938,372 bushels,
ainst 4o<5,329,C00 bushels, the total wheat
op of 1887, as reported by the Department
Agriculture.
FLOODS IN CHINA.
fore Than 10.000 People Drowned
in a Single District.
News just recived from China is to the efect
that on the night of August 13 seven and
half inches of rain fell in Peking, and imlense
volumes of water collected in the
avines about Llen-li-Ho and suddenly broke
a upon twenty villages. More than 10,000
eople were drowned and large number of
raught animals.
The villages in the valleys near Peking are
a danger every season, as the hills are desti
uct, of trees and toe waters now togecner in
earful torrents unimpeded by tho vegetaion.
News of the catastrophe was brought
iy missionaries who have been living near
he scene of the disaster.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Washington is negotiating for Wise and
onway, of Boston.
Galvin. of Pittsburg, has surprised all by
is skillful pitching this year.
Boston is weak at first and second bases
nd deficient in base-running.
Chicago papers estimate the club profits
jr the season at about $75,000.
Toledo this season has had seven pitcheri
nd an equal number of catchers.
Three times this season have the New
forks been shut out without a run.
The Allentown, Easton, Davenport and
ioux City Clubs have disbanded.
Landman, Jersey City's phenomenon, won
eery championship game he pitched.
Dalrymple will winter in Chicago and
ssume his regular winter railroad work.
The addition of Corkhill and Collins has
reat'y strengthened the Brooklyn Ciub.
Kelly's work for Boston this season has
1 all depai tuients been a disappointment
Poor playing and cold weather can't keep
le people away from the games in Boston.
There have been thirteen eames this sea>n
where a nine has been shut out without a
it
T- ' <- ? 1.J U. UilnonVu that
xt dos ueeu bu vu1u ju iuuhmuuvu
>veral players wore ear-muffs during one
sime.
Beakd, of the Syracuse champions, is said
> have struck out but three times this
sason.
The Jersey City Club has retired from the
Bid for tbu seison. It is said that the club
istSU.O A).
Cork mix's last act as a member of the
incinnati Club was to strike out with two
ten on bases.
Brooklyn will play a number of exibit
on games with j^eague clubs before the
ason concludes.
This is the first season in the history of the
ssociation that tbe LouisviJles did not cut a
jure In the race.
In the fifteen games played last season for
le wor d s championship, Latham stole half
ie bases for St. .Louis.
It is a curious fact that Clarkson, of the
ostons, received his worst pounding of the
jar from his old Chicago team.
The Philadelphia Club has only made sixen
homo runs this season, six of which were
edited to Wood and three to Andrews.
Since Burns, Smith and Pur cell were reoved
from the Baltimore club, there has
sen a marked improvement) in the team's
aying.
New Orleans is working industriously to
ganize a league and wants to take in two
' three Texas towns, but Charleston don't
ant any Texas.
"Zack" Phelps, of the Louisvilles, is
oken of as President of the American Asciation
next season in place of Wheeler
rikoff, the present head.
A short tim; ago Anson offered Duffy to
e Bostons for ?uUJl>; now the Chicago
iptain says the little rightiielder cannot be
irehaseJ for triple that sum.
Fok u small man Ryan, of the Chicagos,
is done terrific batting this season. His
cord includes sixteen home runs, ten threa
iggers and tnirty-two doubles.
Donovan, of the I.ondons, who is in such
vat demand by League und Association
ulis, male 1G> hits, 115 runs and stole SO
uses lhe London Club asks $o600 for hii
leas?.
american" association recoro.
aw of Club. T/>r
t. Louis Si 43
rooklyn 52
.tbletic 52
incinnati SO 54
altimore 57 SI
leveland 50 82
ouisvillo 48 87
iansas City..., tW
NEWSY GLEANINGS. .
Cholera prevail* in tbo Philippine I
The attempt to organize a grave-staoa H
trust has failed. B
Four German frigates have been ordered V
off to Zanzibar. 9
Minneapolis bakers fix the price of bread >H
at seven cents a loaf. |H
There will be a national exhibition to ;H
Palermo, Italy, in 1S9L U
The Canadian Government has ordered a
survey of the St. Clair River.
England and Italy have formed a mart* A
time alliance against France. \
Wisconsin cranberries have been damaged
twenty-five per cent by frost
Extensive opium smuggling across tha \
Dakota border has been discovered.
Ekperob William's toar has aroused
great enthusiasm throughout Germany. ,
Tou King, the once famous English pugik
1st, who defeated Heenan and Maoe, is dead, s,
There is now no lumber in the Canadian
market All of next season's cut has been
sold. .
A shortage of $40,000 has been fomuLia
the office of the Public Administrator of Mir '
Orleans.
Poisoned candy is being senp around
Canada by some unknown person'through ,
the maiL
A Cunard steamer will shortly beds
monthly service between Halifax and the
West Indies.
F. J. Rees, Chief of Police at Milwaukee,
has been removed from office on charge* of
incompetency.
The English Currency Commission has not
been able to agree on the question of a Wmetalic
standard.
Seattle, WasDington Territory, is snipping
large auantitnes of fresh halibut to
Gloucester. Mass.
.The amount of loss to creditors in Eng* fl|
iand and Walea through bankruptcy last
year was $3.5,574,525. Bj
KING Otto, of Bavaria, is sinking very
fast, and his fits of insanity are now man
frequent and violent E|
A beauty show at Wiesbaden, Germany,
ends in a free fight among the com petitory
the result of jealousy. |H
Great destitution prevails in Dakota
cause of the failure of the wheat crop, aad MB
an appeal is made for aid. MH
The court house and jaQ at Sac City,
Io .va, has burned. A prisoner named Charles;^!
Carson was burned to death. , ,
Pasteur's method for preventing anthrax
among sheep and cattle has been tried suocessfully
in New South Wales. < *- ' fl|
, There are $402,000,000 in mortgages an fll
lands, lots and chattels in Illinois, of which
$142,000,000 are in farm mortgaged
Cornell University has pot np a new |H
building which will be devoted to the sdeatiflc
breeding of bugs and other insects. MB
The New York Bureau of EncombnneM
has removed 211 telegraph poles and 260,727
feet of wii*e from the streets of that city. .. HE
Americans have captured fifteen diploma*
twenty-six gold, six silver and three bronaa^H
medals, at tno Brussels International Exposit
ion. . 1
A San friaxcisco jury estimates a man**
legs at fo0,000, at least that is the verdict
given George Smith, whose legs were pora-l^H
lyzed by an injury. 9M
A otammm mamam a? f mAnfw.twA an<) a la.
A luunu nuuiau Ul V auu t> ur
male companion stopped and held np a Loodon,
England, laboring man'and west^H
through him thoroughly. 9fl
Samuel. C. Pratt was parboiled In the
baths at Hot Springs, Nev., be having
jumped into the water, not knowing its tem* HBj
peratura He died of his injuries.
Patti has concluded a contract with
Brazilian impresario for next season btHfl
Buenos Ay res for $tj^50 a night and a farther
contingent interest in the receipts. MH
It is computed that this year's corn crop, Hi
if loaded for railroad shipment, would nil
2,878,571 c;ir3, and make a train that would HB
reach 16,440 miles, or two-thirds .of the wa^HI
around the world. W
The British Government will pay $250,00#^h
indemnity on account of tbe loss eustalned^H
through the collision in the River Tagttsof^H
the British ironclad Sultan with the Frenofc^H
gteamer Ville de Victoria.
? ? Hj
A wbiteb on German customs remarks,
in the Woman's World:
cers may not marry without the con-^H
sent of their superiors, and thdir free^H
choice is restricted by the regolatioxi8,HJ
which require that their -wives mnstlH
possess a certain amount of property.^H
Money in Germany being much morefl|
olentiful in the lower or burgher class^H
than in the upper, middle, or profeo^H
sional class, it comes about with in-^H
creasing frequency that officers m&rry^H
daughters of brewers, fanners, inn-HB
keepers, butchers, and millers, thxu^Hj
adding one more to the many existing^H
natural causes which, athwart any r&flH
tnaining aristocratic prejudices, are^H
rapidly effacing caste in Germany.
far as the lives of the people go, she
already perhaps the most socially ler-BB
eled and democratically behaved na-Hfl
tion on earth, and in this respect ofien^^B
the strongest possible contrast to tw<^^H
adjacent countries. Austria and Russia.
Queen Victoria has brgun to de-^H
velop a great fondness for the game oj^HB
whist. She is not satisfied to let a
go by without having her rubbar. Sh<flH
is not a brilliant player, but she trie^^H
conscientious!j to satisfy her partner^^B
Those about here are beginning to
bored by her incessant longing to in^^H
dulge in the game. She can stand
long siege at the table, and oftei^Hl
wearies those who are playing witl^^H
ner oy ner aismciiuaiiuu w 4UK. ...?
said that she hates to lose her mone^^fl
as much as though she were poor?foHH
she plays the good old English game o^^M
a guinea * corner. y MM
Three lads at Drummond, England,MM
aged ten, eleven, and twelve yearsHfl
were caught by the police seeing ho^^^H
! near tbey could comc to killing eacl^Hn
other with a shotgun without doing it^Hl
The boys took turns, standing agains^Hfl
a sand bank with a mark over thei^lH
heads, and the others fired at thd^^J
mark. The boys liked the sensation o^^H
hearing the shot whistle near them^^J
Before this they laid their hats an^^U
coats in a heap, and fired into them un^H|
til they were riddled with shot holei^HH
The queerest part of it was that th^^B
youngest boy had an official gun l^HH
cense. flj^H
The death of Benjamin Derix, of
Salle, which occurred suddenly, say^^Jfl
the La Salle Demo/rat, removed fror^^H
[ this life the largi st man in La Sall^^H
County. On Saturday last, when h^^^B
I seemed quite well, he weighed
J pounds, and he jokingly remarked th^^^H
lie eould run a block quicker than an^^^H
young man in to n. His coffin mea^^^R|
ured 34 inches d- ep inside. 33 inch?^^H|
broad, and was 6f -ctand3 inches lon^^^H
The body could not be potten into
hearse and was taken to the cemetei^^BH
in a wagon. It took eight men
place the corpse in the coffin and
many more to lower it to mother eart^^^H