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j APPALLING CYCLONE.
A Terrific Tornado Sweeps Over
Western Pennsylvania.
It Brings Death and Havoc to
Reading and Pittsburg
One of the most appalling catastrophes accompanied
by loss of life that have ever
visited Reading, Petin., has occurred. It
had been pouring down rain all day and at 4
o'clock it cleared up nicely. The sun shone
brightly until about 4:30, when a black cloud
formed in the southwestern sky and moved
rapidly toward the city.
in torrents
ALSV laiu p.'UiC*4 UV??U iu
for fifteen minutes, when a funnel-shaped
cloud cut its way through the city, overthrowing
many trees, telegraph and electric
light poles. The wind blew harder and
harder, until a roaring cyclone was in
progress. Its course was from west to east,
and covered a path of about 3 K? feet.
In its course was the Heading Silk Mill,
located in the northwestern portion of the
city, in which about operatives, principally
females, were at work. Before the
storm reachcd the large mill, however, the
girls saw its approach and sa*v it precipitating
all the house-roofs in its path.
A panic ensued and the operatives made
an effort to escape from the building. Before
they could get their wraps the cyclone
struck tne five-story buildinz, and in an instant
the massive brick work and heavy
machinery were piled pell mell on the unfortunates,
from tbe fifth to the first story.
The building was a large structure, most
substantially built, four stories in heigbt.and
had a basement besides It occupied an entire
block of ground. The budding itself
was nearly i!00 feet in length and about 150
feet wide." It was surmounted by a massive
tower, fully 10'J feet from the ground. The
funnel-shaped cloud struck the building
directly in the centre on its broadest side,
which faced the west It fell to pieces as
though composed of so many building blocks.
Nearly !2(K) human beings went down in
tbe awful wreck. Human tongue can
never tell the terrible scenes of that
hour. The walls gave way, the floors
fell down, one on top of the other, and
. carried their great mass of human beings to
the bottom. The bricks were piled up in the
greatest confusion,while, amid the hurricane
and whistling, rushing, roaring wind, terrible
cries for succor were sent up to heaven.
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Almost simultaneously wmi wei?iv> y..=
building came the awful cries for relief.Girls
with blackened faces, bruised and broken
limbs, their clothing tattered and torn,
dragged themselves from the ruins. Probably
seventy-five to ono hundred escaped, or
were dragged out by their friend*. These,
of course, worked on the upper floors, and
were thrown nesr the top of the debris. At
some places the bricks were piled twenty feet
deep, and underneath were lying human
todies by the score.
The entire polico force was called out, the
ambulance and relief corps, and a thousand
people were in among the debris carrying out
bricks, pulling away timbers, and assisting
wherever they coulcl?all at the same time,
but their work was slow compared
with the demand for the rescue
of the victims of the disaster. Here a young
woman was taken out, all bloody, suffering
with cuts and bruises. One body as it was
dragged out had its head cut off. Others were
in various postures, the living all suffering
from the most t rrible wounds,and some almost
scared to death. The reporter entered
what was once the basement of the building, j
and. gropinir his way through the debris, noticed
five bodies of young girls lying close
together. He tried to pull them out, but
they were pinned down, and it was impossible
to get them out. They were dead, and
beyond all human aid.
Auzustus Rosay. foreman of the second
eill- ,v>iIIc ctv-c t.h?t 91."i nnprfttors
DllUI J v/l I1IW OUft Mill - I
were at work when the building was wrecked.
He says: "It was about 5:15. just after
I had" turned on the electric lights. All
the floors of the mills were brilliantly
illuminated, and thy girls were all
busy. Suddenly I heard a strange
rushing noisa of wind, and I thought it
sounded like a cyclone. Then the building
shook as if by an "earthquake, and the end of
the large room in which I stoo 1 went down
first. At least, thirty girls rushe.i to me
and wildly screamed and tore their hair.
I was he!p'e;s. Th<? other end of lb?
room seennd as if up a stefep hiiL
The girls became panic stricken, shrieked, !
and left their machines. The next instant
the building collapsed. I shall never in all
:ny life forget the heartrending screams
of those 200 girls just before many
of their voices were hushed torever
in death. At first we had only
hand lamps to see by. Under the wreck
girls were piled six deep, mangled and bleeding
and helpless. The first dozen bodies removed
were covered with blood. One girl
had her heid cut off. The sight was heartrending,
and I can say no more."
At Pittsburg.
There was an awful catastrophe at lioO
in the afternoon at Pittsburg causcd by ti}?
same cyclone that wrought such ftav^c at
Reactfng. At least fifteen persons
^ twenty-nine injured and several uere
missing.
The high wind that struck the city at that
hour completely demolished the large brick
building in pro ess of construction in Diamond
alley, immediately in the rear of
"Weldin & Ca's big bookstore.
The building haa been completed to th^
seventh storv. It is a complete wreck, and
as it went down crushed the barber shop
next to it The falling debris was thrown
against We'din & Co.'s store, the front of
which was knocked out.
The rears of all the stores on Wood street
es far up as the hat store of Paulson Bros,
were wrecked. Six m?n were in the barber
sbop. Two have been recovered alive, two
are dead and two were still uuder the debris.
There were at least fifteen printers in the
rear of Weldin & Co.'s store on the second
floor and many of them were badly injured.
As fast as they cou d be brought cut they
were carried on stretchers to the various
hospitals.
One man, who was on top of the new
building, fell into the basement. His skull !
was fractured and both legs were broken.
'l hrouzhcut the atternoon the firemen and
police worked hard to rescue the victims or
recover their dead bodies.
A large number of physicians arrived at
the scene, rendering ali possible assistanca to
the injured.
At the time the whirlwind struck the building
most ot the men were on the tirs". floor.
It was the dinner hour and the men were
sitting around the fire eating. The
whole rear of J. A. (iallinger's chinaware
store was crushed in. Every
? few seconds during the afternoon pitiful cries
would come from under the mass of wood
end brick, and encouraging shouts would go
uu from the crowd. The sight was heartrending.
and moved mativ to tears in the
midst of their work of resjup.
At Weldin's store the wreck beggars description.
The moans of the victims encased
under the debris were heartrending.
The cries of several men could be heard
from the cellar. Yet it was impossible to
get at them and they perished, as the water
was running on them in torrents from broken
water mains.
It is known that a* least twenty-five men
were at work on the Willey building and not
one of them has been heard Irom bat the
three taken froin the ruins, and the supposition
is that all the others are under the ruins
stilL
Later in the day another section of the
wall fell down. Three firemen and Kev. Father
Canavan were buried under it and it is
believtd that they were killed. Father Canavan's
l:ead was cut and his back
cut and bruised. At 9:.'i0 the
d?-al body of a colored boy,
name unknown, was taken out and removed
to the Morgue. A few moments later the elevator
boy. James Garinz. employed in Weldin's
store, was removed. He was unconscious
and fatally iniured.
Other Places.
A rain and wind storm came up suddenly
at 5:-iO p. m., and blew over two
of the stacks of the Sunbury (Fenn.)
Kail Mills. They crashed through the
*l?t<? roof, completely demolishing the puddling
department of the mill. Thirty-five
were employe 1 in this department, and half
of them were buried in the ruins. Six men
were taken out dea>?.
A number of buildings were destroyed at
Steubenville, Ohio. Several buddings were
blown down at Jeannette. on the 1 ennsyivania
road. Telegrams report damage in
all the interior towns. Several bridges were
blown down at Altooun.
Brooklyn has been .visited by a genuine
cyclone. It came from the southeast, and in
less than t&ree minutes did many thousand
fk'il.rrr' rt.01uL :Vy
ACROSS TIE WIRES.
Some Stories of Interest Told
By the Telegraph.
Legitime's Army Thrice Defeated
and His Government Tottering.
Tho deposition of Legitime, President of
Hay ti, by the dissatisfied citizens of the capital,
or 1)3' advancing victorious troops of the
North, under Hyppolite, appears to be
shortly expected by all but the immediate
supporters of Legitime. He has thrown
into prison all prominent citizens and
residents of the North in Port-auPrince
suspected of opposing him. Three
battles have been fought and lost by the
Legitimists in the past ten days. During the
rapid retreat on the capital two divisions of
the Southern Army, under General San
Fi?in Paul niiH (ieneral Rosa, deserted
roofed, trees torn up, and the United States
Marine Barracks at the Navv Yard were demolished.
Twelve marines were injured. Two
gas tanks belonging to the Citizens' Company
exploded, wrecking nine houses in the neighborhood.
PLEUROPNEUMONIA,
Report of the Bureau for Stamping
Out Tliis Disease.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
transmitted to the House his report of the
operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry
during the year 1SSS. The chief work of the
bureau has been the continued effort
to secure the eradication of the j
contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. No I
cases of the disease have been found west of !
the Alleghany Mountains since the last re- I
port The most serious outbreak, outside of !
the known infected States, is now in progress |
in Orange County, New York, where the i
existence of the plague has been concealed for
a year by interested persons. All together
there have been inspected during the year
30V-S0 animals. Of these 031 herds, conSi'.4:3
animals, were found to be infected, as
they contained 1-J4G diseased animals. There '
were purchased for slaughter 204! t affected I
cattle, at a cost of $07,0SI5, and 54!t0 exposed I
of ? oost of The total ex- !
penses of the work were S1S1.5S0.
The Commissioner says thai the present is
the most critical period in the work of eradication.
In Maryland, New Jersey and New
York the plague continues to develop at
greater or less intervals. The Commissioner
submits the draft of a bill to enable the Department
to successfully cope with the
plague.
THE LABOR WOELD.
The strike movement is subsiding in Belgium.
A strike of silk ribbon weavers is imminent
Cleveland (Ohio) city workmen labor
nine hours per day.
At New Bedford, Mass., a new automatic j
shoe-laster is at work.
^ Wome.v in Lynn (Mass.) cotton mills make j
$7 and men $12 a week.
This country now leads the world in the
manufacture of perlumes.
The barbers are to liavo a national organ,
and its name is to be the Uliaver.
The German -speaking bakers throughout
the United States are largely organised in
unions.
The Seaman's Union, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has restricted its membership to American
citizens.
Of the fioOl brick-layers, stone-masons and
stone-cutters in New York city, 4354 are of
foreign birth.
Delmonico's chief cook in New York city
is said to have received over $700 in tips on
Christmas morning.
The coal mines at Monterey, Cal., which i
have been idle for years, are to be reopened |
and vigorously worked.
Bakkrs in Chicago are now required to j
stamp the weight of the loaves and their 1
names on every loaf of bread.
According to BradstreeVs, there were fif- '
teen strikes in the United States in December, |
lKSt>, in which 2!(ol persons were concerned. |
Powderly's salary as Grand Master of the !
Knights iif r.nlmi- is iL'i.iOO this voar. He wag
voted $5000, but would not accept so much, j
The Oxford Iron and Nail Company's
works at Belvidere, N. J., have been closed
indefinitely, throwing 1400 employes out of
work.
Steam machines for cleaning out the retorts
in gas works are being used in Philadelphia
with great success. One machine does i
the work of eight men.
A large amount of business has been done '
at the marble quarries. West Rutland, Vt.,
in fulfillment ot a Government contract fov |
20,000 soidiers' gravestones.
A company has been chartered in Washington
for the purpose of building railroad
cars from sheet steel according to methods |
lately invented in California.
BtsiDEsthe 2S00 all-night bakers in Phila- I
delphia, there are 1400 male and female work- |
ers in twenty-two steatn bakeries for the mak- j
ing of cakes, cruckers end knick-knacks.
The gauge of the Cleveland and Canton
Railroad, in Ohio, 161 miles |in length, was
entirely changed to standard on a recent
Sunday. One thousand men were engaged
in the work.
Thlre are twenty cotton factories in Japan
now in operation, with a total of 82.6S0 j
spindles. There are twenty factories now in
process of establishment or extension, with j
an estimate.! capacity of 180,080 spindles.
The Pope having expressed a desire for j
the organisation ot workingmen's pilgrim- |
ages to Rome next September, arrangements i
j are being mude for taking 10,0110 French art- I
jsans thither, under the escort of the ArchI
bhhon of Rheirns. .
The International Trade Association of
Hat Finishers of America was organized in
Philadelphia, June 5, 1*54, with 12 local
unions. It now numbers 15 locals with 4000
members and has almost complete control of
every liptcing center.
MUSICAL ANDDEAMATIC.
Mxe. A lea xi is Queen Victoria's favorite
singer.
Koeert Maxtell is presenting "Monbars"
in Canada.
Dixey's "Adonis'' is nearing its two thousandth
performance.
Mme. Tkkbelm, the famous French contralto,
is recovering from a paralytic stroke.
Ikvixo's naw version of "Macbeth" at the
London Lyceum was only a partial success.
Mme. Modjeska refused a salary of SI.'jOJ
a week to join the booth Barrett combination.
The Duchess of Cambridge pays a well
known vocalist S4U00 a year to sing to her
daily.
At the Theatre au der Wien. Vienna.
"The Yeomen of the Guard" is announced to
be sungiin German.
Fait charges more every year for her ab
bUIULU liinsncji ?>UI UWIIj^. OUC 13 liU ?V 2>1U?U1?
in Englaud lor ?'.'?jOU a night.
The famous tenor Miisini is to receive the
comfortable sutn of ?ito,ouii for a season ot
Italian opera in Buenos Ayres.
Mary Anderson is understood to have
concluded an engagement f< >r another Ameri- i
can tour under H. K. Ab Ley's management.
Mme. Bernhardt has declined an offer of
?4 .OU frcnithe Sultan of Turkey for a single
performance at his palace at Constantinople.
Joei'H U'hkelock has been engaged to
play Mitcdulf to tlie Macbeth ot Charles j
Coghlan and the Lady Macoeth of Mrs.
Langtry.
The oldest musical society in the world,
the Antlitzgesflbclmft,lias just celebrated its
27uth amiivvrsiry at St. Call, in Switzerland,
with gn at eclat.
Agreeaule to the wishes of the German
I Emperor the theatres have resolved to abolish
all Frccc-h theatrical terms which have
crept intc tttt language.
Edward Foy, who has recently made such
a hit in New York, is the only comedian
of prominence who battles recognition by his
"make-up" on the stage.
Sara Jewett, who used to be leading lady
at the Union Square Theatre, New Y'orK
city, is recov ering her health, and will reappear
on the i.tage next season.
Rubexstzin has written a cantata to celebrate
the preservation of the Czar and
Czarina m the recent railway accident. It
will be given in St. Petersburg.
IT has b3?n definitely settled that Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr., will go on the stage,
probably under the management of Laniei
i Frohman, of the New York Lyceum.
This year there will be a celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of Verdi's debut as a
composer. His first opera "Oberto di Sail
Buonafacio," was produced at Milan, ou
November 17, ISo!'.
It is reported that Denman Thompson contemplates
keeping "The Old Homestead'' on
the l>oards of cua Academy of Music in .New
York for three yaars. Its present prosperity
would indic ats a long stay.
As a steady tonic for the amity between
Germany an.~ Italy, ICaiser William has
ordered each ragi mental band to play at j
least once a week the march of the Bcrsaglien
and the Italian Infantry march.
The next com'c cpera that will be brought
from Kurope is era by Franz von Suppeihat
has been MK'ce?-:vefv produced in V ienna.
It is entitled "Die Jagd naih dem Gluck."
literaily, "The Hunt After Luck.''
The building No. 10 Gramercy Park.
New York city, presented by Kdwiii Booth
to the recently organized 1'iayers' Club, of
which he is President, has been converted
into an elezant and commodious club house.
It ttas loraa^y oa New Year's iive.
to the pursuing Northerners. Both
these Generals had supported General
Thelamaque, but had been twibed by Legitime
to support him. General Paul was
captured and shot by sentence of a drumhead
court martial under Hyppolite. General
Rosa escaped and sought protection at
the French Minister's at Port-au-Prince.
The army of the North are entrenching
themselves some twenty miles from Port-auPrince,
reorganizing their army and awaiting
the arrival of recently purchased arms
and munitions of war. They are devastating
the great agricultural section
where they are now encamped, and from
which Legitime received the greatest portion
of his supplies.
Exc esses of every kind are the rule- The
horrid cannibalistic rites of Votidooism are
revived, and reports reach Port-au-Prince of
a meeting oiseveral thousand Haytians near
Jacomel, and the sacrifice of a young girl
and the greedy scramble for some portion of
the half-cooked flesh.
A United States war vessel will remain in
the harbor to protect the lives and
property of American citizens. The
French Minister, by his open backing
of Legitime, is most unpopular. The schooner
Aurora, captured in San Domingo waters,
was iounn u> contain letters implicating
some thirty prominent persons in Port-auPrince.
All Lave been thrown into prison,
and it is feared that all will bo shot or beld
as hostages. Many of these persons beld
bigh positions in Legitimes government.
Destructive Canadian Storm.
Half way between Montreal and Toronto,
in Canada, all the wirSs are 6trewn on the
ground. Poles by the dozen are stretched
along the railroads, and a general demoralization
of travel und communication
exists in Lower Ontario generally.
Reports are coining in by mail
only, and these indicate that incalculable
damage has been done by an easterly storm,
which, beginning Sunday morning, did not
cease for four days. The wiud blew at
times as high as seventy miles an hour, accompanied
by rain.
The greatest damage was done between
Cornwall and Napanee, including Kingston.
In the latter city the hurricane
picked up three trees two feet in
uiametor and blew them through the
streets like straws. Earl. Park, Wellington
and King streets are impassable with uprooted
trees and demolished fences. The
city park is a mass of ice. Hundreds of trees
were torn down by ice and wind, their crashing
and bursting "of the ice sounding like
rolls of musketry throughout the night.
There is hardly a telephone or telegraph wire
up in the city. Several tall chimmeys fell
during the storm. In the country the damage
has been fully as destructi* e.
P>ailroad tracks are impassable in some
places, having a foot of solid ice upon
them and the telegraph wires and poles
bestrew thom at short distances apart.
From Vandreuil, Coteau Landing, ltiver
Boudette, Lancaster, Cornwall, Morrisburg,
Iroquois, Prescott, Brockville, Gananoque,Rideau
and at Ogdensburg and Malone
on the south side of the St Lawrence similar
reports are made. The damage cannot now
be accurately estimated, but it will doubtless
approximate clos3 upon a million dollars.
Five tJhips jLosr.
The agents and owners of five ships, ranging
from 140 to 200 tons each and valued,
with their cargo, at fully $1.10J,0J0, announced
on the l^ew Vork Maritime Ex- !
change that their vessels have teen missing
Bince the big storm of November 26. The I
gentlemen are certain that th?ir ships are j
lost. These are the vessels:
Samona, steamship, New York, November
22, for Hayti.
Nile, trig. West Indies, about November
10, for ?ew Yojk,
L. W. P. Aru.strong. brig, Gaudaloupe,
November 13. for New York.
Ella A. Warner, schooner, Porto Rico, November
24, for New York.
E. M. Bacon, schooner, Porto Rico, November
15, for New York.
The number of liVes lost is put at fiftyfour.
The value of the ships and cargo is
estimated to be about $1,HO<I,UOO the greater
part of which is covered by insurance.
A Convict for a Brother's Crime.
Ten years ago Jacob Bird was sent to the j
St. Paul (Minn.) penitentiary from Dakota I
County to serve a life fentence for murder.
Recently the brother of the prisoner died,
and on his deathbed confessed the murder
for which .lacob was then suffering an
undeserved punishment. Tlje presiding
Judge, the prosecutor and others connected :
with the original trial petitioned for Bird's!
pardon, nnd the Governor has approved the j
application.
Battling in Burmah.
The British troops have had an engagement
with the Burmese rebels at Lwokow.
The latter were defeated with a loss of
loll killed. The British lost only live killed.
REDUCED TO ASHES.
A Monmlnj Father Cremates the
Body of His Daughter.
F. B. Gocldard, of New York, has just
cremated the body of his dead daughter Gen*
evieve, at the Buffalo Crematory, conducting
the ceremony himself. Mr. Goddard
went to Buffalo with the body of his beautiful
daughter, and accompanied bf bis two
sons, one of whom was so ill that he oould
not attend the ceremony. The cremation
was private, only two or three Buffalo
friends of the bereaved father viewing it.
The father would have no minister nor any
assistant except the regular attendant at the
crematory. He read a chapter from the
Bible and a prayer from the Episcopal service.
Then lie placed the body on the car
and consisted it to the flames.
"I could not bear to have any other than
my hands touch her," said he, "and I prefer
this method of disposing of the remains to
buriaL Why should not the cloukis receive
her dust rather than the cold earth? I believe
that in the future this will be the preferred
mode of disposing of the dead, when
cremation shall be surrounded by the tears
nnrl flowers and music which now are ex
hibited at interments. To think of the
loved one appearing: in the radiant sunset is
not so dreadful a nightmare as to think of
her appearing in the festering grave."
A DYNAMITCR LYNCHED.
A Bohemian Who Killed Pour People
Promptly Strung Up.
John SbaeJTer, Bohemian, was lynched at J
balf-past one o'clock the other day at Gilman,
Washington Territory, a coal mining town.
Thy cause was as follows: La<t spring
SchaefTtr was arrested for assaulting with
intent to kill the wife of James Bodoy.a. Ha
was convicted and sent to jail for three
months.
He then swore vengeance on Bodoyla, and I
soon alter his release he attempted t> blow
the house up, but only succeeded in destroy- I
ing the front porch. The morning of the
lynching, nt live o'clock, however, he
was more successful. He placed a large
charge of dynamite under the house
and the explosion tore the place to
atom*. Bodoyla had his two legs broken,
his daughter was killed outright and his wife
died from her injuries two hours afterward.
Two men who were staying at the house
Rere torn into unrecognizable pieces.
The Bohemian was searched tor immediately.
When found he was changing h;s clothes,
the ones discarded being covered with dirfc
as though he had been crawling under some
housa He wss arrested, but the outragea j
I community soon rose, took the murderer to j
the nearest tree and strung him up, (
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THE MEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Nathan C.Blanchard, h wealthy farmer
of Aurelius, N.Y., has committed suicide by
hanging.
Rev. Fielder Israel, sixty-two years
old, pastor of the First Unitarian Church,
at Salem, Mass., was found dead by his wife
in his study in the church with his throat
cut. He had been unsettled mentally since
the recent burning of the steamer Maryland,
on which he was a passenger, barely escaping
with his life.
The process of refining sugar by electricity
has been found to be a myth by New York
stockholders in the concern, who broke open
the secret rooms in the factory at Williamsburg,
N. Y., and discovered that the mysterious
machines for converting the raw
material info absolutely pure sugar wera
only cleverly devised appliances to induce
them to invest their money. It is said that
$1,000,000 have been sunk in the electric
bubble by credulous English and American
capitalists. Shares dropped in London during
one day from .WOO to $G0.
A Nrw York artist named William Mann
killed his niece and then committed suicide.
Through the ignorance of a new man at
a mine near Uniontown, Penn., three men
met a horrible death in the shaft.
The twenty-five cities of Massachusetts
have all inaugurated their governments for
1880 by the installation of municipal officers.
Joseph Jaeger, a Hoboken (N. J.) carpenter,
forty-two years old. who lived with
his wife and three children, literally blew his
head of? with an old army musket loaded
with a charge of shot. Ill-health and poverty
were the causes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
been rohhed of brasses from cars to the
amount of $100,000 during the past year.
The work was done by regularly organized
gangs of boys at points along the line between
Cleveland and Philadelphia. Wholesale
arrests have been made along the line of
the railroad.
The body of Augustus J. Pierce, a wellknown
resident of North Andover, Mass.,
was found hanging from a hedpost in the
house of a friend where he bad been visiting.
He was sixty years old and in comfortable |
circumstances. He was undoubtedly insane.
South and West.
The prevalence of small-pox at New Wilmington.
Ohio, has caused a general suspension
of business.
The United States inspectors who are investigating
the burning of the Mississipp,
River steamer Kate . Adams, at Plaquemine
La., have obtained evidence which convinces
them that forty-two persons were lost instead
of fourteen, as they reported several days
ago. It appears that eighteen children
among the deck passengers and ten of the
boat's crew perished in addition to the vie
tims previously reported.
There is great suffering and privation
among the Isorwegian citizens in Walsh
County, Dakota. Seventy families are said
to be almost totally destitute. Most of them
have no shoes and thin clothing, and are living
on porridge made by cooking frozen
wheat and oats.
While a number of farmers, who had
fathered at William Porter's grist mill at
few Hope, W. Va., were talking in the
boiler house, the boiler exploded, completely
wrecking the mill. Four inen were instantly
killed, one has died since, another was fatally
hurt and two others were seriously injured.
A fovr-corneked duel between River >
Crow and Gros Ventres Indians, in which |
all the participants were killed, took place at j
Sweet Grass Hills, Indian Territory.
M. E. Gaffnev, outgoing County Clerk
of Ashland, Wis., put a bullet in his brain. I
His accounts are about $i!00U short.
Ex-As-istant Cashier Benjamin E. J
Hopkins, of the Fidelity National Bank of i
Cincinnati, when it was wrecked in the famous
wheat deal of JSS7. released from the
Columbus (Ohio) Penitentiary a few days
ago on his nardon by President Cleveland,
has died at his home in Cincinnati
Governor Hoard has been inaugurated
Governor ot' Wisconsin at Madison. The 1
oath was administered by Chief Justice Cola I
The dredging vessels pirating the Mary-1
land oyster grounds are giving way before j
the State navy. The police steamboat Governor
McLane has added two more captures' |
to her list. She swooped down upon a pirato ;
fleet, and captured two ships and dispersed I
the others.
Legislative Assemblies met in California,
Kansas, Colorado, Florida, Dakota and j
Ohio.
Governor Foraker's annual messapo1
shows that Ohio has a surplus of nearly
?1,000.000.
The village of Red Springs, Va., has been
nearly destroyed by fire. Loss. ?S0,00>. Thii
wife of Postmaster Heckling was killed by
falling timber.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, ha l
begun a series of meetings in San Fraucisco,
Ca1.
The steamer G. H. Vaneatton of the Red
River Coast line struck a snag eight mile3
northeast of Texarkann, Ark., and sunk. |
The cargo, which consisted of 210 bales o!
cotton and 1500 sacks of cotton seed, was lost.
Washington.
Rear Admiral Iace telegraphei to tho
Navy Department at Washngton from
Kingston, Jamaica, that owing to an out'
break of yellow fever on board the Yantio
that vessel had sailed froin Port-au-Prince,
Hayti, for a Northern port in the United
States.
The President has transmitted to Congress
a recommendation that an appropriation o.!
$15,000 be made for the relief of tho t'amilie I ,
of certain Japanese subjects who were killed
outhe Island of Ihisma in March, 1887,by tho
guns from the United States steamer (Jmaha.
while that vessel was engaged in targe I
practice.
United States Treaki-rer Hyatt ha;
signed a Treasury check, payable to himself,
for $5^,000,000. This was to reimburse himself
for money expinded during the p st
month in the purchase of bonds, etc., which i
he has theoretically paid from his own
pocket. Mr. Hyatt said this is the largest i
check he has signed since he has been in
office.
The President has approved the act to incorporate
the American Historical Associa
tion and the act to regulate appointments in i
the Marine Hospital service.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation hil) ha*
been completed by the Committee on Appropriations.
It carries an aggresare appropriation
of $22,.v5-J,!KHi, being ?(i,72J,4'>l lt-ss than |
the regular and special estimates, and
less thau the appropriation for the
current year.
Admiral Luce lias informed the Navy
Department at Washington that two more
vesse's will be needed to relieve the Galena
at Hayti.
The Board of Naval Officers appointed to
examine the plans of Representative '1 bonnes,
of Illinois, for a submerging monitor cruiser j
reported to the Secretary of the Navy recommending
the adoption of the plan.
The House Committee on Appropriations
has completed the consideration of all the
regular appropriation bills, except th:
General Deficiency bill. The result i f '?
Jabors is a reduction of the appropriations
carried by those bills from $137,85t>,093, the
provision for the current year, to $131,229,935.
President Cleveland has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Charles Baker, of
Maine, to be Collector of Customs for tht
district of Belfast, Me.
Foreign.
At Ekateronburg, Russia, during one recent
day, 175 persons were frozen to death.
^ The floods are extending to Bastia, Italy,
and have done much damage. In one bouse
which collapsed twelve persons were killed.
Heavy snows in the south of Russia have
engulfed several trains and stopped all kinds
of traffic.
Seven* skaters were drowned in the Ludwig
Canal at Nuremberg, Germany.
Famine nnd drought are prevailing in the
Interior of China and are increasing in severity,
causing terrible sufferings. In the
province of Shang tung crops htive been destroyed
by an overflow of the Yellow River.
A new Panama Canal Company is being
formed in Paris by the shareholders of the
present company.
The Chinese Government has demanded
that, Corea depose her King, and that Corea
declare herself dependent on China.
-T?l. Meline has been re-elected President
of the French Chamber of Deputies, receiving
!' 3.">3 votes against 141 for M. Andrieux.
In the Windsor (Canada) election SoL
White, the advocate of political union with
the United States, wan baaten bv S8 votes
out of a poll of 1500. This is the first contest
! on this issue that has taken place at the polls '
*
The greater part of the village of Brancon,
Switzerland, has been destroyed by fire.
Many cattle were burned to death. The fir
was ignited by a madman.
Cochin, of the Malabar Coast, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of $1,500,000.
A passenger train was blown from the
rails near Fiume, Italy, on the Adriatic,
during a violent storm. Three persons were
killed and many injured.
The German man-of-war Olga lost twenty
men killed and thirty wounded out of a
party of 120 men sent to assist Tamasese, the
rebel, against Maraafa, King of Samoa. The
Germans were compelled to retreat to their
boats.
Prince Henry, of Battenberg. who married
Queen Victoria's daughter, has lieen appointed
Governor of the Isle of Wight, vice
Viscount Everslev, deceased.
Severe weather is reported on the Black
Sea. During the past fortnight many sailing
vessels have been wrecked and over a hun
area seamen nave lost cneir lives.
~LAT.b.K NEWST
The New Jersey Legislature organized by
electing George Werts President of the Senate
and R. S. Hudspeth Speaker of the Assembly.
Governor Green in his message
says the total revenues last year were $1,353,578.77
and the disbursements $1,542,007.72.
The State debt is $1,298,300.
The Connecticut Legislature assembled
and the caucus nominations were confirmed.
John H. Perry was elected Speaker of the
House. In the Senate John M. Hall wa*
elected President pro tem. Both bouses adjourned
to meet and elect a Governor and
other State officers.
Judge Barrett, of New York, has decided
the suit of The People against the
North River Sugar Refining Company. He
declares the charter of the company forfeited
by joining the sugar trust, and finds that the
whole sugar "combine" is illegal.
The business portion of Newton, Ala., has
been burned.
Governor Frank P. Fleming,of Florida,
has been inaugurated at Tallahassee.
At Coela, in Livingston Parish, La, Jim
\V hite killed his uncle, Buck White, in selfdefense.
Lewis McMullen, Appraiser at New
York, was reouested to resien by Secretary
Fairchild, but refused to do so. The President
therefore directed his removal from
office.
A Canadian mail courier from Perce to
Gaspe broke through the ice at Douglastown.
Man and horse were carried under the ice
and drowned. The mails will be recovered.
A SHIPBOARD TRAGEDY,
A Russian Sailor. Goaded bv Cruelty.
Huns Amuck With a Knife.
The Sun gives the following translation
from a Russian paper of an account of the
crime for which a St. Petersburg court sentenced
Jan Umb, a Russian sailor, to ten
years' penal servitude:
-The Russian schooner Johannes had
hardly left Riga when Jan Umb denied an
accusation of Laving stolen clothing. Induced
alternately by floggings and Captain
Harhoo's promises, a confession was extorted
which was followed by further whipping and
confinement in a dark cell for several days
without food or water. When released he
was abused by the crew, and to put an end
to his misery jumped overboard. The Captain
promised better treatment if be would
_ii i* a
aiJOW LiIIII>fii iu iks i catucu, aiiu a uuai umiig
lowered he was brought back. While
changing his wet clothes he received a brutal
kicking a!:out his bead and naked body and
was again put below.
"Next night he was ordered to take the
wheel, and, unable through weakness to perform
that duty, he was struck by the Captain
in the facc. As the Captain was picking
up a piece of rope Un b?now a perfect
maniac?siezed a handspike, struck and
killed the Captain. He then killed in a like
manner the two sailors on deck. Procuring
a sheath-knife he stabbed the mate and proceeding
forward killed two more sailors in
their sleep. The c abin boy was killed next.
A Danish steamer sighted the schooner,
which it towed into Copenhagen, where
Jan IJmb was delivered to the Russian authorities."
PROMINENT^ PEOPLE.
Anna Dickinson is forty-six.
Lko XIII., the Pope, is seventy-eight.
Skcretary Bayard has a strong bent for
farming.
Fkudinand de Lesseps was born November
l'.?, 1S05.
Vice-President-elect Morton is a Congregationalit.
Gladstone ha? iust celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday.
Bismarck. Gladstone and Disraeli were
all born on Friday.
John Bright, the English statesman, is
gradually recovering.
Hox. Chauxcey M. Depew carries a life
insurance of ?olU,uOO.
President-elect Harriso:; has taken out
a life insurance policy.
Kcang-Hsc, theyounz Emperor of China,
has thirty cooks and as many doctors in his
household.
Mr. Sik, the Corean representative at
Washington, plays the banjo with consummate
skill.
Alpho.wse Daudet, the French novelist,
is nearly sixty years of age, but does not
look it by at least ten years.
There nre five Grand Dukes Nicholas,
three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand
Dukes Alexis, Sergius. George, Alexander
and Constantine.
The humorists of Congress are Allen, of
Mississippi; Taisney, of Michigan; William
E. Mason, of I.linois, and William G. Laidlaw,
of New York.
Victoria Woodhull has purchasfnl a
house in France lor ?400,OuO, in which she
nop.es to lounu an institution lor me iree
education of women.
The only two members of the Congress
of ISo'J now living are H. M. Wattersoii,
father of Henry Watterson, and P. F.
Thomas, of Maryland.
It is said that the Sultan of Turkey aspires
to a literary career,and has ordered the poet
laureate of the Empire to affix the royal signature
to his poems hereafter.
Geokgi: 'William Curtis, editor of Harper's
Weekly, is laid up with a lameness
earned by water on the knee. The trouble
was brought about by over-exertion in playing
tennis last summer.
Osman Dkjna is a Frenchman, or of
French descent,formerly a merchant at Suakin.
His name was Vinet before he abjured
it and h:s religion to marry one of the late
Mahdi's numerous daughters.
The latest story about Henry M. Stanley
is that he is enamored of a charming Philadelphia
widow, and that her coldness is of
such a phenomenal degree that it has driven
him again to the burning lands of Africa.
Hadji Sclyman Saba, of Constantinople,
who died the other day, was ninety-eight
years of age when he took his last wife, and
lived to be 132. He had sixty sons and nine,
daughters and seven wives, and survived
them all.
The senior lady among the wives of the
justices ot the Supreme Court is Mrs. Miller,
whose social experiences in Washington ex>
tend hack to 1*Wi. She is of English parentage,
ber father having been a Baptist minister
in Bristol.
1\* TVit t t i \?C fUn Vv i cf am n n a/
the African race in America, has recently
returned Ironi Europe laden With the fruits
of a lont search through the libraries of the
Olil World lor matter pertaining to Toussiant
1'Uuvemire, the San Domingau hero.
James A. Stewart, the newly elected
mayor of Griffin, Ua., is one of tbe youngest
mayors on record, his twenty-second birthday
having been celebrated in August last.
He is the son of Congressman J. I). Stewart,
who was greatly surprised when he heard of
his Lov's election.
John Wanamaker, the millionaire merchant
prince of Philadelphia, has a deeoseated
objection to sitting for a portrait, lie
has repeatedly declined overtures of his
family and friends who are anxious to secure
a counterfeit presentment, and up to the
E resent time it is not known that his features
ave been transferred to paper in any regular
manner.
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SUNK BY A SNAG.
The Steamer Paris C, Brown
Wrecked at Hermitage, La.
The Ninth Mississippi River Disaster
in Three Weeks,
A dispatch from New Orleans, La, says:
The ninth steamboat accident on the Mississippi
or its tributaries in this vicinity in the
past three weeks has just occurred in the
sinking of the Paris C. Brown, of the New
Orleans and Ohio River line,near Hermitage,
about 160 miles above New Orleans and four
miles from Bayou Sara.
The Brown, while nassine Hermitaee, was
signaled by the Steamer Oliver Beirne to
land there. The Brown waited for the
Beirne to back out As the latter did so she
attempted to land, but struck a snag or some
other obstruction. It went completely
through her hull, broke her hog chains in
two, the cabin fell in, and the vessel collapsed
and became a complete wreck within
two or three minutes.
The shock of the accident aroused every
one in the boat, and the passengers and crew
rushed to the front to see what means of escape
there was for them. Nothing could be
done to save the Brown, and it was evident
that she would be ar. the bottom of the river
in a very few minutes. The Captain ordered
the crew to cut the lifeboats loose and
launch them.
Fortunately the accident was seen by
resident of Hermitage, William Glass, who
happened to be on the river bank at the
time. He sprang into his skiff and rowed to
the sinking steamer, which was only a few
yards from shore. He took the lady passengers.
chambermaids and others to the land,
returned and carried the other passenger#
ashore and a numb?r of the crew.
The river was filled with hogsheads, lumber
and other wreckage from the steamer,
and therefore difficult of navigation. The
crew who were not taken off by "Glass's skiff,
endeavored to reach the land by means of
these floating articles, but. although the distance
was very short, nine of them were
carried away into midstream by the strong
current of the river and drowned.
One of the passengers, a man named MitcV
ell. from Vicksburg. could not be found, and
is supposed to have been locked in his stateroom
at the time the steamer went down.
The Brown sank within a fe v minutes of the
accident, only the top of the pilot house and
a portion of the "texas"' being visible. She
is a complete loss, and so is her careo.
A cabin passenger named Miller, from
Vicksburg: one of the cabin crew named
William Mitchell, from GalliDolis. Ohio:
Jadies' cabin man William * Marshall,
of Cincinnati; barber and porter,
names unknown, from Cincinnati;
James Harrison, second pantryman, from
Memphis; William Taylor, night watchman,
from Cincinnati; John Bo'an, shiner, from
Cincinnati: Suel Grey, fireman, of Cincinnati;
Abraham Mitchell, fireman, of New
Orleans, were lost.
The cabin passeneerssaved were: Dr. Graham
and wife of Pawtucket, R. L: Messrs.
Donly and Shafer, and another cabin passenper
and wife, names unknown, of Boston,and
Ben Jolly,of Bavou Paul. A lof the crew, except
as ahove stated, are accounted for and
saved. One of the cabin bovs eot to the ri ver
bank, but could not climb up the slippery
mud, fell back into the river and sank before
assistance could be rendered him.
The Brown left for Cincinnati on Friiay
evening at 5 o'clock. Her car^o consisted
of about 400 ton3, mainly sugar and molasses,
and she picked up about800 tons on the river
on the way up. She had fifteen passengers
aboard her when she left here.
She was Owned by C-irtain A M.Halliday,
of New Orleans, and Captain Chris. F.
Young, her cleric, who was in command at
the time of the accident She was valued
at $25,000, and insured for ? 14,000 in the insurance
agency of George W. Neare, of Cincinnati.
A STRANGE EXPERIENCE.
A Man's Hand Held Seven Hours
By a Girl In a Trance.
Robert Watts, a young farmer from
Chatham, 111., who came to Springfield the
other day to attend a faith-cure meeting, announces
himself quite satisfied with his experience
up to the present time. Among the
recent converts is Anna Delaney. of Taylors
? twont.v venrs
Vine, 11 young v> utuau auvuv j
old. Since her conversion she has taken up
her residence in Springfield, and in a regular
attendant at the afternoon and evening
meetings, going into trances upon the slightest
provocation. "While in a trance she sometimes
walks about the halL
At a meeting the other afternoon tne girl
was in a trance as usual, and in walking up
and down the aisle passed young Watts, who
was standing among a croup of sightseers in
the rear of the halL As she did so she caught
hold of his hand with a grip so firm that
although he struggled to get loose lie was unable
to do fo. Several men tried to stop the
girl, but she continued walking, and Watts
was compelled to follow her. It was 4o'clock
in the afternoon when Anna took her companion
by* the hand, aud it was seven
and a-half hours before he regained his freedom.
When she walked Watts had to walk,
and when she stood he had to stand. All the
afternoon nnd evening he suffered as he
probably had never suffered before, and
wiped great drops of perspiration from his
forehead while the faith-cure band prayed,
shouted, and sing themselves hoarse. Shortly
before midnight ~Mis? Delaney fell to the
floor. She wa:<? acXl upon a stretcher, and
in about five minutes let ro her hold of
Watts, greatly to that individual's relief.
The j-ounaj farmer lost no time in getting out
of the hall. His hand was swollen so that he
was unable to use it for several days. Miss
Delauey came out of the trance next day,
but bas no recollection of what occurred.
TRACHEOTOMY.
Two Successful Cases of a Difficult
Surgical Operation.
One of tbe most remarkable accidents on
record occurred a few days since at Greensboro,
N. C. A young lad named Orrell, in
running through a field, ran against acuckleburr
bush, and, as he was urawing in bis
breath at the time, one of tbe burrs was inhaled
into thelarnyx. producing great pain
and danger of immeditatj sulfocation. Physicians
wer* summoned and found it necessary
to perform tracheotomy so the patient
could breathe. At last accounts the boy was
doing weJl.
Little Annie Riley, aged four, is at the
Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, in as comfortable
a condition as a child can be who
had a three-inch shawl pin with a large brass
head on the inside of her throat for eleven
days. Annie swallowwl the shawl pin on
Christmas Day. She did not say anything
about it for fear of punishment Hy her
mother. So sharp was this fear that when
th? doctor was called into her father's house
she said it was only a little pin she had swallowed,
and that it no longer troubled her.
Spasms of coughing continued, however,
and the little girl was taken to the hospital.
There, as she grew no better, tracheotomy
was performed, and a vio ent fit of ccugliing
supervening, the tube which had been inserted
after the operation was removed. The
point of the pin then revealed itself to the
astonished doorors. It was easly taken out,
and the child will soon be out of the hospital.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
For the first time in years the Czar of
Russia sent a friendly Christmas greeting to
the Pope.
The number of war veterans in Vermont
is t?71, and the amount yearly paid to them
is S!SS2,L01.
The drinking saloons in Berlin number one
to every 112 inhabitants; in Heidelberg one
to eighty-seven.
Jim Curky, the Texas desp?ra lo, who has
murdered nineteen men,has ut last been sent
to prison for a long term.
The German army consists of 3,513,4
completely drilled inun not counting me reserves
and the LaudMurni.
It is reported that one hundred of threading
business nicn of Denver. Co!., will .-ittend
the inauguration at Washington dressed
as cowboj's.
Tuf.re are 2*00 members of the Michigan
Anti-horse Thief Society, and during the
past year they did not have a cent's worth
of property stolen.
Osman Digna has 1000 men and five guns
at Handoub, Egypt, where, it is asserted by
deserters, he intends to make another
formidable aland against the Egyptians aud
blacks.
SUMMARY OF C0N6BESS. I
The Senate. fl
10th Day.?Mr. Edmunds's resolution in - Vj
regard to foreign interference in Central
America in the construction of ship caualf H
was reported favorably Mr. Sherman re- H
ported a resolution calling on the President H
for information regarding recent occurrence! H
in Hayti....On motion of Mr. Aldricb, the R
Senate rules were so ninendod as to includ< M
anions the persons ent.tled to the privileges
of the floor the President-elect and the VicePresident-elect
Mr. Hoar introduced a bill
to reorganize and equalize the rank and pa;
o' IJaval officers The Tariff bill
again discussed. A motion by Mr. Vance tc
amend paragraph 323, referring to Hainburj
edgings, by reducing the rate from forty-five
cents per pound and fifteen per cent, ad va-^H
lorem to forty per cent, acl valorem, gav?^H
rise 10 aeoace, wnicn was continue} at great
length and was participated in by Messrs.
Mcrherson, Dawes, Coke, Reagan and Morgan.
Mr. Vance's motion was rejected and 1
the bill laid aside.
17th Day.?Mr. Sherman called np the
joint resolution declaring the sense of Congress
in relation to the counection of European
Governments with an interooeanic canal, and
nsked that it be passed immediately. After
discussion the resolution went over till Monday
The Senate resumed consideration of
the Tariff bill at the cotton schedule.... Various
amendments were offered, but they were
all rejected by the usual party vote, and
when the paragraph referring to laces was
reached the Senate adiournei.
18th Day. ? Mr. Chandler reported % !
resolution (which was referred to the Com- \
mitte on Contingent Expenses) instructing 1
the Committee on the Mississippi River to ?
continue its investigations The resolution}
reported from the Committee on Foreign <
Relations in reference to the Panama Canal,'
was then taken up and discussed in secret ,
session The Edmunds resolution prohib-i
iting the interference of any European Gov- '
ernmeut io interoceanic canals on the Amer- !
can Continent was passed, only three votes
being cast in the negative. |
15)th Day.?The Postoffice Committee re-ported
the bill providing that the omissionto
pay the lawful postage on a "special delivery''
letter shall not prevent or delay ite
transmission and delivery, but that the lawful
postage shall be collected on its delivery,
which was passed The Senate then, at
12::-:0, resumed consideration of the Tariff r
bill, at paragraph 357, relating to collars and \
cuffs for men's wear, and fixing the duty on ,
' those composed entirely of cotton at fifteen- I
j cents per dozen pieces and thirty-five per
cent, ad valorem, and on those composed en- .
tirely or partly of linen at thirty cents per >
dozen piece* and thirty-fir? per cent ad
valorem. Mr. Vance moved to strike outthose
rates, and to insert forty per cent al
valorem. The amendment was rejected by
the usual party vote?yeas 19. nays 24. No V
amendment was offered to paragraph 338, N
taxing hemp or jute carpeting six cents per
square vara, and it was passed. The bill thenwent
over till next day. Mr. Allison giving
notice that unless better progress was madewith
the bill he would move for evening sessions,
or to meet at 11 and sit all 6 or 6:3&
p.m.... Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to.
make and alter regulations as to the time,
place and manner of holding elections for
Representatives in Congress.
!Wth Day.?The debate on the Tariff bill
was continued. A motion to put coal on the
f.ee list was discussed.
The House.
]Sth Day. ?The House passed the Nicara^'
gua Canal bill by a vote or 157 to :U. Therewas
no debate, and all the amendmentsadopfed
by the Committee of the Whole were
ratified by the House except one. The amendment
offpred L>v Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota.
providing that no certificate of stock shall
be issued until at least ten per cent, shall be
paid for in money was agreed to Mr. Reed
then called up the resolution abolishing the
call of States for the introduction of billsfor
reference on "sus|.L'ns:on" Mondays. The
filibusters resumed their tactics in order t<v
defeat consideration of this raeasurs and
nothing further was accomplished.
I'.hth day.?Mr. Reed calle I up the resolution
to abolish for the remainder of the session <
the call of States for the introduction of bill*
on the first and third Monday of each month.
TLe House filibustered over the measure
during the entire day's session. 1
pyiith Day.?Immediately after the reading
of the Journal the contest over the proposed'
change of rules abolishing the call of State*
on suspension Mondays was resumed; Mr.
Reed calling up the resolution from the Committee
on Ru'es. The pending question
being on ordering the previous question, the
Clerk proceeded to call the roll. Dilatory
tactics were resorted to by both sides, ana
the filibusters succeded in postponing action
for another day. #
21st Day.?The contest over the proposed
chance of rules abolishing the call of State*
on suspemion Mondays was resumed and oo*
?tin entire Bosnion Tne filibusters
again won on a motion to recommit the resolution
to change the rules. The vote was
120 yeas to 117 nay p. * :< "
I 2Jd Day.?The entire day was consumed in
filibustering, nothing whatever being ao
complisb'u. ?. V-?
SHE FOUGHT WILDCATS.
A Pluckv Little Woman's Single*
Handed Struggle.
On a farm ten miles west of 3Iandan, Dak.,
lives Charles Casperdone with his family,
consiatin-^of a wife and two little boys. On
j Sunday night while Mr. Casperdone was afc
' Mandan ihe chicken-roost was visited by.
wildcats. When Mr*. Casperdone heard the
no.sj she bounced out of bed, grasped an axe
and sallied forth. Vj"
At the door of the hennery she encountered
a wildcat, which spraug at her. catchieg ona
of its daws in ht-r left arm and lacerating it .
terribly. Pushing the animal away, 6he
struck it a blow which rendered it uncon-.
scious. Another of the cats sprang at her,
seizing the calf of her rieht leg and cutting
I it severely with his teeth. Mrs. Casperdone
aimed a blow* at the beast, which missed, but
I the animal became frightened and ran into
tha woods. b
Tbe tliir.I cat, which had been crouching H
in a corner, then sprang upon tbe plucky H
little woman, getting its t^eth entangled in
I her clothing and tearing it almost into H
j shre.ls. She succeeded in pushing tbe in- B
furiated animal from her, and, as it sprang D
at her tbrout the second time, dealt it blow
which killed it. Mrs. Casperdone was so H
overcome that she fell in a faint, and waa H
found there by a neighbor who had been H
i summoned by one of the ljoys. She is still H
| surtering from ber wounds, but will recover H
unless blood poisoning sets in. H
THE MARKETS. I
2 NEW YOBS. I
1'eeves 3 50 @ 5 10 H
Milch Cows. com. to coot.. ,S0 (X) (a50 U)
! La Ives, common to prime.... 0 00 @ y 00
Sheeo 4 ?5 ($ 0 00 H
; Lambs 7 00 (g 7 to H
j Hogs?Live 5 30 {jt 5 i.'O H
Dressed 0 (?1 B
Flour?City Mill Extra. .r? 15 @ 5 -'5 H
Patents 5 00 (jj 7 00 H
Wheat?^o. Ked 1 0i%<$ \ Q>'y?
Rye?Statfl .*?s (g 02 H
I Barley?No. 1 b') <j$ 90 H
I rorn?Ungraded Mixed.... 38 @ 4f>% H
1 Oats?No. I White ? @ ii)% H
Mixed Western su ? oI
Hay?No. ) -5
Straw?Long Rye 85 (? 9U
I I.ard?City >tearo ? @ 7.tSc
Butter?Mate Creamery.... 20 <g 2'$
Dairy fair togood.. 18 @ 20
West. Im. Creamery 17 (<? 22
Factorv 13 @ 20
Cheese?State Factor y 115a
Skims?Medium.... 5)iJ@
Western W & 11/4
Kgps? State and Penn 18K@ l'J
BUFFALO.
Steers?Western S Ji @ 4 00
Sheep?Meit.umto ooo.l ... 4 25 @ 5 00
LaniDs?Fair to (^ooi 5 50 @ K 00
hogs?Good tovhoice ?orks 5 00 @55)'
Flour?Family 5 0J @ 5 25
j Wheat? No. u Northern ? (i# 1 21}?
Corn?No. !. Wllow 4 ' <g 4)}?
' nrs?No. 2. White ? ?n !>)
Farley?State OS Q '0
Mi 1ST' >N*.
I lour? ;pring Wheat pat'i. 7 10 @7 5)
Corn?Steamer Yul.ow. 43}^'<3 -4<i
] Oats?No. 2 White 'V,(3 C
Bye?State 63 @ 64
WATBRTOWJf (MASS.) CATTLE HARKST.
f'eef- Dressed weight '/?<?) '
Sheep?Live weight 4>?,<ai 4
| Iambi 4 @ GJ<?
j Hogs?Northern ('K O 0%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. family 4 4 75
Wheat?No. 2, Red, Jan... J)?
Corn?No. 2, Mixed. Jan... 424-j^
Oats?Ungraded White ? @ 3
j Pot<r r.'ar y ho*7... .... ?5 'as 45
Butter?Creamery Extra... ? @ as
] Cheese?Part s^ums ? <jjp 0%