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ANOTHER FLOOD.
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Johnstown, Aiken and Fonda,
N. Y., Swept by a Deluge.
Two Dams Burst With Fatal and
Destructive Kesults.
A dispatch from Troy, N. Y., says: Reports
have reached here that three big dams
were -washed away near Johnstown, N. Y.,
and that a crowd of people on a bridge was
carried away and several people were
drowned. All the wires were down at the
time of writing, and it was impossible to
communicate with Johnstown.
A telephone from Johnstown said the town
was in total darkness, and nine bridges were
-washed away. The electric light plant has
been washed away; also the three skin mills
at Gloversville. One body had been recovered.
The water was three feet deep in the town
of Fonda.
At midnight the rain was falling in tor
rents and the noise of the rising waters
could be heard through the dense blackness
of the night. The flood was assuming a
terrible aspect, and mills and sheds were
bring swept away in the mad sweep of
waters.
Information received at Saratoga, N. Y,
by telephone from Amsterdam stated that a
big washout at Aiken, three miles from there,
had torn up 4C0 feet of track and cut off %11
communication west of there. It was rumored
that the washout was caused by the breaking
of the dam at Johnstown, N. Y., and many
casualties were advanced as possibilities.
Whether the accident was caused by the
breaking of the dam or a cloudburst was not
known.
Amsterdam reports an exceedingly heavy
rain-storm in that section just before communication
was cut off. Aiken is on the New
York Central, and a crcek which furnishes
water power to several mills runs through
the place.
The accident is one of the most serious character,
involving extensive losses. A more
serious character was given to the story by
Indefinite rumors that tnero had been considerable
loss of life.
News from Schenectady, N. Y., savs a
cloudburst washed away the Central llailroad
tracks about five mile., vest of Amsterdam.
The wreck cf the freight train,
^rtiuch blocked all four tracks in
the morning, had just been cleared
and ' delayed trains began to move
when some of them were caught in the deluge.
A second blockade occurred more
coMmic tVinn the first.
The Fonda, Johnstown & Glovcrsville Railroad
loses seven or eight bridges. There was
another bridge crossiL^ the creek, and on it,
viewing the flood, were thirty or forty people.
The torrent with increased power tore the
bridge from its foundations, hurling them
into the flood. It was impossible to ascertain
the number saved, but it was believed that
many perished.
At Fonda the Central Hudson Railroad
bridge was carried away almost bodily, taking
with it the telegraph wire.
Additional Particulars.
By a strange coincidence, at a town of the
same name, under almost the same circumstances,
the wild scenes of the flood of the
Conemaugh have been repeated.
Another mud dam has given away;
another resevoir has broken loose, and
Miother flood has beeu sent down a valley.
Even the stone arch bridge reappears and
plays a fatal part in this-second Johnstown
rtory.
Nothing is lacking in the similitude, except
the loss of life and property.
The clouds came together near Johnstown,
N. Y., at five o'clock in the afternoon. As
they met they burst and an ocean of water
fell from them. Added to the waters
from tho dams it had -washed away, it
sent a flood through the little volley of the
Cayadutta. Seventy-five persons were
washed away; eight persons were killed; an
Immense amount of property was destroyed;
all railroad traffic was suspended.
The names of the victims follow:
Albert L. Coakley, aged forty-eigbt, glovepaaker;
Charles Freer, aged sixty, a well
known resident; Willie Myers, aced sixteen,
employed at glove-making; L. R. D.
Simmons, aged forty-five, paint and
hardware merchant. Stedwell L. Bert, aged
fifteen, employed in Artisans' glove factory.
Unknown man found in stream at Fonda.
Unidentified woman and child.
The two clouds were seen at 5 o'clock to
circle around each other for a few min
uies ana men sweep rogecner wnn a aeaiening
crash of thunder. The place
t ^here they met is a half barren knoll,
three miles and a half northeast of Johnstown.
Persons who were watching the
phenomenon say it was like a dam burst in
the sky or as though the bottom had fallen
out of an aerial reservoir.
The water came down not in drops or
sheets, but fell in a mass like a solid body.
At the knoll it drove trees into the eartn,
flattened out a space clear of vegetation and
left other evidences of a great pressure.
Then people began to come out of their
Jiouses aud to wonder at the storm and at
the size of the little creek, whicli runs
through the town, supplying water power to
ia number of mill6 and "factories. They
gathered on the bridges at Main, Market
aud Perry streets, and watched the flood.
The lumber floated down and carried away
the Bridge street bridge, and then all this
floated down and carried off the big twotracked
iron railroad bridge below.
The single-track bridge went next.
Thero was tremendous excitement when the
bridges went down. Then Levi Stephenson's
lumber yard and planing mill was clqpred
put. Sashes and blinds, boards and scantlings
were swept away.
v There was a big crowd on the Perry street
bridge. This bridge is of stone, a single arch
of stone, and is twenty feet long and fifteen
feet wide. The people were all over the
bridge, but most of them were crowded
against the stone coping on the eastern
side looking intently at the torrent.
There were about forty persons on the
bridge. Suddenly there was a cry, and it
was seen that Simon Schrieber's big threestory
skin mill on the southern side of the
bridge was tottering. The mill did not fall,
but its foundations were loosened. The
same impulse that shook the mill smashed
Stewart's leather mill near by, and a mass
of timbers and trees went smashing against
the Perry street bridge. The eastern
side was jammed in, its coping taken off,
and the water swept clear across the bridge.
All this happened a little after 8 o'clock. Half
the people on the bridge were thrown into
the angry stream. There were awful erics
.n the dark of "For God's sake help me.'' "I
am drowning." "Save me." Happily, nearly
all were saved. ,
The losses by the destruction of mill property,
factories, bridges, dams and other
^structures in and around Johnstown is
roughly estimated at half a million dollars,
and it is believed that the property destroyed
ill other sections within the flooded area will
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I The loss Johnstown herself will sustain by
the flood will amount, perhaps, to SIOOJXJO.
j MRS, JOHN TYLER DEAD,
Sadden Demise of the First Bride ol
the "White House.
Mrs. Tyler, widow of President John
Tyler, died suddenly in Richmond, Va.,
the other afternoon, at the Exchange
Hotel.
Mrs. Tyler went there from Williamsburg,
dfcere she had been visiting her son, Lyon G.
Tyler, President of "William and Mary Collego.
She gave orders at the hotel to bo
awakened at a certain hour In the morning, a?
she wished to visit her other son, Hon, Gardiner
G. Taylor, at Sherwood Forest, Charles
City County, and when called she said that
she was too unwell to leave. Instead of irnjproving
sho grew worse, and at 11 o'clock
.'next day was taken with a congestive chill,
and diea at 5:15 in the evening.
, Mrs. Tyler was about seventy years of age,
and married President Tyler in tho White
House at Washinecton. Sho was a Miss Garidiner
of New York. Mrs. Tyler was a Roman
^Catholic in religion. She had a pension of
?5000 a year from tho United States Governfment.
! Mrs. Tyler leaves four children?Lyon G.
[Tyler, President of William and Mary College,
Virginia; Gardiner G. Tyler, who lives
;in Charles City County, Virginia; Dr. LackJan
Tyler, of Washington city, and Mrs.
.William Ellis, of Montgomery County, Va.
j RATtATT J. Macku?, a widow of Johnstown,
(Penn., who lost all her earthly possessions by
(the flood, has just been awarded a back pen*
jaion and back pay amounting to 15966. _
? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Oscar Pearsall, aged thirty-eight years,
killed himself over the coffin of his mother,
Hannah, who had just died, aged ninety years,
at Williamsburg, N. Y.
Johnstown, Penn., was again threatened
with disaster by the Conemaugh River and
mountain torrents. H cavy storms and floods
created much damage and consternation, and
many narrow escapes from drowning were
reported.
At the celebration of the Fourth of July in
Woodstock, Conn., addresses were made by
President Harrison, Congressman Reed, Senator
Hiscock, Secretaries Noble and Tracy,
General Hawley and others.
The Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor has issued an appeal to
organized labor in aid of the 9000 striking
miners in Illinois and Indiana.
Frank Hoyt, paying-toller of the First
National Bank, of Hoboken, N. J., has been
arrested for embezzling $1S,000 of the bank's
funds. He lost the money in Wall street.
george jh. vv atp.ocs, ex-i-resiaent or tne i
Now York, New Haven and Harcford Railroad
Company, died suddenly at New
Haven, Conn., of Bright's disease, in his
sixty-first year.
The Cornell (N. Y.) crew won the Childs
Cup from the University of Pennsylvania
eight at Philadelphia in the fastest time ever
rowed?one mile and a half in six minutes
and forty seconds.
All the mines on the Monongah^a River
in Pennsylvania are idle, the men refusing to
accept a reduction of wages. Five thousand
miners are affected.
Edgar Gilmore, aged twenty, anii Andrew
Larsen, aged eight, were both drowned
while bathing in the creek at Williamsport,
Penn.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, a son of General
W. T. Sherman, has been ordained in
Philadelphia a priest of the Catholic Church.
Th# ceremony was performed by Archbishop
Ryau.
A railway collision occurred seven miles
east of Jamestown, N. Y. Charles Eisman
of Meadville, engineer of a freight, and Louis
Wentz of Salamanca, baggage master of a
passenger train, were instantly killed. V.
H. Derby, and Arthur Sexton tiad their legs
broken.
Four incendiary fires took place in Danbury,
Conn.
Dr. Waters, who committed suicide in
New York city, left a long, circumstantial
and scientific account of his sensations during
the two days he tried to kill himself with
morphine and cocaine.
While Charles W. Carrath, a well-known
druggist of Maiden, Mass., and F. H. Miller,
a prominent Boston broker, were out shooting,
Carrath's rifle was accidentally discharged,
the ball entering Miller's neck, and
killing him instantly.
Three men, each of whom had slain a
woman, were sentenced in the Court of
General Sessions in New Y<5rk city to be executed
on the gallows. Thav were John Lewis
(colored), James Nolan ana Patrick Packenham.
The sentence was fixed for Friday
August 23. They will be hanged together.
Richard Lewis, a plasterer, fatally shot
Mrs. Elmira Mosehy and her sister, Emeline
Mvers, in Pittsburg, and then committed suicide.
The cause of the tragedy was unknown.
The parties were all colored.
Rhode Island's-Legislature met in extra
o law /* ??omiyafa flio i
dC^OKUli IAJ cuavi a la rw IU A t^uiavu vuo li^juwi
traffic. Several license bills were Introduced.
Elenon H. Williams, of Colbrook, N.
EL, has left for parts unknown, leaving
debts to neighbors and friends amounting to
$80,000. Some of tho securities left behind
were thought to have forged signatures.
South and West.
Ik Kemper County, La., Gaston Jones, colored,
shot and killed his wife and then blew
his own brains out.
Two colored men, Richard Fleming and
Richard Johnson, were hanged at Quitman,
Miss., for murder.
Georgia's new million dollar Capitol was
formally presented by the Capitol Commission
to the State. Captain F. P. Howell
spoke for the Commission, and Governor
Gordon received the Capitol on behalf of the
State.
Governor Ross, of Texas, also issued a
proclamation against the fight between Sullivan
and Kilrain taking place in his State.
John N. Maginnis, a leading businessman
of New Orleans, and son-in-law of the notorious
William M. Tweed, was killed by lightning
in his bath house at Ocean Springs, La.
Sheriff G. E. Branson and one of his
deputies, Ed. Funk, were killed at Korbyville,
Mo., by Bill and Jim Miles, the two brothers
now under indictment for the murder of the
Bald Knobber chief at Forsyth.
A convention was held at Chipley, Fla.,
to consider the proposition of annexing
West Florida to the State of Alabama. There
were about two thousand people present.
David G. Colson, of Bell County, was
nominated for State Treasurer by the Kentucky
Republican Convention in place of
John Barrett, who declined to run. Although
but twenty-seven years old he is a member of
the Legislature, and has been in public life
seven years.
John Fover. aged seventy, and his nineyear-old
granddaughter, Carrie, were killed
while driving across the railroad track at
Akron, Ohio.
Heil D. Miller, cashier of the Malta
National Bank, of Malta, Ohio, has fled, and
his accounts were reported $32,000 short.
Lym^-n R. Williams, for nearly thirty
years Superintendent of Schools in Steuben
County, Indiana, committed suicide by
hanging! Mr. Williams?served two terms as
County Treasurer.
The bones, representing all that remains
of what it is supposed were fourteen or
fifteen persons lulled and burned to death in
the late wreck on the Norfolk and "Western
Railroad, near Thaxton's, Va., have been
buried in two coffins in the City Cemetery of
Roanoke, Va. i
Lewis Charriere, who for years has been
the agent of the American Express Company
at Houghton, Mich., has loft for parts unknown.
His defalcation is estimated at from
$25,000 to 850,000.
Henry Haoe, was robbed by highwaymen
in Minneapolis, Minn., of $20,000.
Kbonsberg, Minn., a little village of fifty
people, was visited by a windstorm and every
house in the village was more or less injured.
Two children were killed.
Mrs. Jessie Hunter was shot and killed
by a saloon-keeper named Parks at Agnew's,
four miles from San Francisco, Cal. Parks
then shot himself in the breast and died from
the wound.
Two men were killed in Chicago by the
falling of a trestle in the power house of the
Milwaukee Avenue Cable Railway.
General William A. Pile, noted in ,
Methodtst annals as "the fighting parson,"
died a few days ago at Monrovia, Cal., aged
sixty years. He was a minister in St. Louis
when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted
and became Major-General in the volunteer
service. Ho was subsequently a member of
Congress from Missouri and Governor ofi
New Mexico.
Notwithstanding the proclamation of
Governor Lowery, Sullivan and Kilrain engaged
in a brutal prize-fight for the "championship"
near Richburg, Miss., the former
winning in seventy-five rounds. More than
3000 people paid ?10 and ?15 to see the law
violated.
Herbert A. Pearson, a millionaire mine
owner from Bonanza City, Idaho, was
drowned while bathing in the lake at Chicago.
Fire in the business part of Carson, Iowa,
do6troyedan entire block, with the exception
of one building. Loss $05,000.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle
of Monocacy was celebrated on the battlefield,
three miles from Frederick, Md. Exsoldiers
were present from Vermont, Ohio,
Kansas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
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Washington.
The present indebtedness of the District of
Columbia is ?20,142,050, a decrease of $1,"
964,600 since July, 1888.
Mrs. Harrison, her father, Dr. Scott,
and the two grandchildren left Washington,
for Deer Park, Md., via the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, where they will spend the
summer.
J. B. Agnew, of Pennsylvania, has declined
the office of Superintendent of the
Dead Letter Office.
Four new States were added to the Union
on the Fourth of July?Washington, North
Dakota. South Dakota and Montana?and in
recognition of their coming four new stars
were added to the flag of the nation. The ,
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national ensign, therefore, now consists of
forty-two stars and thirteen stripes.
Warner P. Sutton, Consul-General at
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been appointed
by Mr. Blaine Secretary of the Congress of
the American Republics to be held in Washington.
The Secretary of the Interior has accepted
the resignation of the Hon. Joseph E. Johnston,
Commissioner of Railroads, and ton
days' leave of absence has been granted
him.
Secretary Window has abandoned the
practice of holding public receptions, and
will hereafter receive visitors by card only.
Captain Mullen has been relieved of the
command of the United States man-of-war
Nipsjc by Admiral Kimberly because ho
failed to take that vessel to Auckland, New
Zealand; the captain feared that the vessel
could not withstand the voyage.
The train bearing President Harrison and
his party arrived at Washington on schedule
time. The trip from Now York was made
without incident. On arriving in the city
the President immediately drove to the
jjActutivo jiiaujuju.
First Assistant Postmaster-General
Clarksox returned to "Washington after an
absence of about ten days, the greater portion
of which was spent m a yachting cruise
in Chesapeake Bay.
Secretary Rusk took an important step
in the work of reorganization of the Department
of Agriculture. He established a new
division charged with the important duty of
editing the reports and bulletins issued by
the other divisions.
The President has appointed Thomas V.
Cooper to be Collector of Customs for the
District of Philadelphia, and Thomas H.
Cavenaugh, of Olympia, Washington, to be
Surveyor-General of Washington Territory,
vice J. Cabell Breckinridge, removed.
President Harrison during the hot
weather expects to spend about two days of
each week at work in Washington and the
remainder of the time in Deer Park, Md.,
with Mrs. Harrison. This will mako it unnecessary
to take any extended vacation, at
has been the custom of previous Presidents.
There will be only weekly meetings ol
President Harrison's Cabinet during the
heated term instead of bi-weekly meetings as
heretofore, and Wednesday has been selected
as the day of meeting.
Additional appointments by the President:
Horace A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, Comndssioner
of Railroads; Thomas C. Mendenball,
of Indiana, Superintendent of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey:
Henry W. Diederich, of Indiana, Consul ol
the United States at Leipsic.
Foreign.
The Massachusetts rifle team scored iti
third and fourth victories in England by
defeating the London Rifle Brigade at Rainham,
and the Sussex Volunteers at Brighton.
Bt the bursting of an ether retort Drs.
Fricke and Boemerhave wore fatally injured
in Dr. Koenig's laboratory at Munster, Ireland.
Theodore Schmitt, the Dutch Consul at
Hamburg, has failed, with liabilities amount
mg to &j,uuu,uuu.
Independence Day was celebrated in
London, Paris and other European cities by
Americans, and in many other foreign places
by citizens and officials of the locality. President
Carnot, of France, unveiled a replica of
Bartholdi's statue of "Liberty" at lie des
Cvgnes, Paris. Addresses were made by
Minister Reid and M. Spuller.
A German ship has been sent to convey
King Malietoa, of Samoa, back to Apia.
The English have removed the French flag
from the house of Sultan Bountonkon at
Grand Bassam, Upper Guinea, Afripa.
France claims a protectorate over the Silltan's
territory.
The Government of Tripoli, North Africa,
has issued a decree abolishing the slavo trade.
The Massachusetts rifle team won its fifth
successive victory in England, defeating the
South London Club at Nunhead by fortythree
points in tho total.
The Bulgarian Govornment has con
eluded a loan of $5,000,000 with a New York
bank.
The World's Sunday-school Convention i
in London adjourned alter deciding to meet
in America next year.
Two hundred poople were made homeles
by a fire in Wrederihagen, in the Duchy ol
Mecklenburg, Germany.
Hon. John Norquay, for nearly twenty
years Premier of Manitoba, died suddenly at
Winnipeg of heart disease, at the age of
forty-eight.
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lives were lost in a collision on the railway i
near Roehrmoos, Germany. Eleven others
were injured.
The Egyptians under Colonel Wodehouse
have again defeated the Dervishes, 900 of
whom were killed and 700 deserted or were
taken prisoners.
The village of Ubbendorf, on the Weser
River in Germany, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is enormous.
Sir Salar Jung, K. C. S. I., formerly Dewan
or Prime Minister of Hyderabad, India,
is dead.
Reports from Samoa announce that the
natives have disbanded -and peace is assured.
A treaty of peace has been concluded between
Mataafa and Tamasese, the rival
aspirants for the Kingship.
Emperor William, of Germany, narrowly
escaped being billed by a piece of falling
glacier in Norway.
FOUR thousand weavers at Jaegerndorf,
Austria, have struck work.
A treaty has been signed between Japan
md Germany at Berlin. It is said to be on
the same lines as the treaty between the
[Jnited States and Japan.
The Pope of Rome is in receipt of a
petition signed by a number of bishops and
others asking that Christopher Columbus be
canonized on the anniversary of the discovery
of America.
The Shah of Persia, while in Antwerp on
tiis way to London, bought $750,000 worth of
liamonds to distribute on his tour.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
oassed an act increasing the army to 3,000,)C0
men.
Prince Nicholas Dadiani, of Mingrelia,
it one time a candidate for the Bulgarian
throne, has just died in the Caucasus, aged
about forty-two years.
A passenger train collided with a freight
triyn near Ciulnita, Roumania. Fifteen persons
were killed and many injured. The accident
was due to the mistake of a switchman.
The river Indus, in India, has overflowed
its banks, and tho adjacent country is under
ben feet of water. Forty persons were
irownca ai i^arimana.
TRIED BY RED MEN.
The First Trial on Record of an Indian
by a Jury of His Countrymen.
A dispatch from Red Lake Falls, Minn ,
gives particulars of the first trial on record
of one Indian by a jury of red persons. On
June 24 an Indian named Big Bird while out
hunting shot and killed another Indian. Big
Bird and his friends claimed it was an accident.
The matter was reported to Major B.
P. Schuler, the Government's agent in charge
of the reservation. By an act of Congress
passed in 1885 the jurisdiction of the United
States Court was for the first time extended
over all the Indian reservations in tho country.
Major Schuler determined to have this
matter legally investigated and empaneled a
jury of six full-blooded Indians, entirely disconnected
by ties of relationship or other interests
with either the deceased Indian or the
Indian who did the shooting. Big Bird and
the friends of the dead man were allowed to
send for witnesses, who were sworn and gave
their testimony, after which tho jury retired
under the instructions of the agent, who presided
as judge. The jury deliberated from 9
o'clock in the ovening until 11 o'clock the
next morning, when through their foreman
they announced that they were unanimously
,of the opinion that "there was sufficient
cause for suspicion that the shooting was not
accidental," and requested that tho accused
be held for trial by the United States Court,
whereupon Big Bird was locked up to await
the arrival of the Deputy United States Marshal.
Major Schuler states that he never saw a
jury of white men moro impressed with its
, responsibility, or who gave closer attention
to the testimony offered than did tho Indian
jury in this case, and that ha was also struck
by the evident desire to bring out the facts
on the part of the witnesses, all of whorr
were Indians. _____
h&pobts from all sections of Montana
show that the wool clip will be tive largest
and best ever produoed in tha TVriloty.
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LATER WEWi),
John Kellt, convicted of tho murder of
Eleanor O'Shca, near Geneva, N. Y.,
November 6, 1888, has been hanged at
Canandaigua, N. Y.
S. L. M. Barlow, tho distinguished New
York corporation lawyer, dropped dead
from heart failure at his home, "Elsinore,"
near Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y.
Robert Redberry, aged eighteen years,
and Willie "Wise, aged seventeen years, were
drowned while bathing at Alton, 111. The
father of young Wise mot with a similar fate
about a week ago.
The election of delegates to the Constitutional
Convention of Wyoming resulted
in the choice of thirty-six Republicans,
sixteen Democrats and three Independents.
The Convention will meet September 2. The
desire for State government is general.
Gcstave, John and Emil Plettig, of
Chicago, were drowned at Kilbourn, Wis.,
while trying to run the dam in a rowboat.
Thomas- J. Morgan, the new Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, has appointed his
wife as his Private Secretary at a salary of
81000 per annum, and Dr. Dorchester, Superintendent
of Indian Schools, has secured the
appointment of his wife as-Special Indian ,
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Agent, at a compensation 01 so per uay auu
expenses.
The President made the following additional
appointments: To be Consuls of the
United States: Emmons Clark, of New
York, at Havre, France; Archibald J. Sampson,
of Colorado, at Acapulco; Roswell G-.
Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso; James P.
Hartigan, of the District of Columbia, for
the port of Trieste and all other ports in the
Austrian dominions.
The Egyptians have occupied Blrnban,
Egypt, in which vicinity the Dervishes are
very aggressive. The Shaggiehs, who are
friendly, killed thirty Dervishes in one engagement
at Serra and eleven Dervish foragers
were killed by the Egyptian pickets.
QBEAT RIOT IN DULUTH.
Several Strikers Killed and Sixteen
Policcmen Wounded.
A deadly combat occurred at Duluth,
Minn., between the police and 1500 strikers
who had been out of work for a week.
A number of laborers employed by
the gas and water companies were
at work in a trench at Seventeenth
avenue and Michigan street,
under police protection, when the mob of
25,000 men charged upon them. The police
made their wards lay down in the trench,
and tho little band of thirty blueco&ts,
led by Captain McLaughlin, charged on the
rioters. They were halted by a shower of missiles,
and several of tho policemen were
knocked down only to rise again.
Drawing their revolvers the police advanced
steadily, when one of tho ringleaders
of tho rioters ilred his revolver. This was
followed by a volley from the strikers
and then the polico opened fire.
Shotguns, "Winchesters, revolvers, all
added to the list of dead and wounded. The
mob fell back from the open street and took
up a sheltered position behind buildings and
Irnnf, nn t.hoir fiisilladfi.
Governor Merriam had placed the militia
attho call of Mayor Sutphin, and the danger |
signal was agreed upon. Suddenly the deep j
toued whistle of Elevator E sounded the fire !
alarm (the agreed signal), and thirty minutes i
later Company K dashed on the doublequick
down the streets.
Just before tho soldiers arrived the Fire
Department was on hand and coupled several
lines of hose on the hydrants ready to turn tho
water on the mob. The military and polico
clcarcd the streets and the first battle was
over.
One man, George Costin, was killed, but
the death of two other wounded persons was
expected; tho number of wounded was estimated
at twenty-five.
Plate-glass wmdow are perforated, signs
chipped, and plastering riddled. Two hatsful
o? empty thirty-eight-calibre shells were
picked up in front of ono building
Where ono gang of strikers stood,
and a low estimate places the number
of shots fired at 4000. The first shot was
heard at 4:20 p. m. and the last at 5:20. Tho
police force suffered more severoly than was
at first supposed, and at least sixteen policemen
were hit by bullets.
KILLED AT THE CROSSING.
A Horrible Accident by Which Pour
Lives "Were Lost.
A terriblo railroad accident occurred at tho
crossing near tho Little Silvor, N. J. station
.ill.. "XT TT 1 J T ? J
<Ji mo new xors ana juoug jjihuuu luuuuau
lato in the afternoon, by which four persons
were killed. The casualty was caused by a
carriage being struck by a train of the Central
Railroad of Now Jersey. .
The carriage contained the aged mother of
Joseph A. "Ward, a collar and shirt manufacturer
of New York city: Mr. Keating, her
son-in-law, a hat manufacturer of New
York city; Elsie Keating, his little daughter,
and Kate, tli?> little girl's Irish nurse,
The three adults were instantly killed and
the child lived less than two hours.
The parly were out riding on a pleasure trip.
They readied tho crossiug just as a north
bound Central Railroad train was drawing
out of tho station. After it passed Mr. Keating
drovo upon the track directly in front of
the express train of the same line winch leaves
New York at 3:30 o'clock. Thi3 train runs
through from Jersey City to Long Branch,
stopping only at Red Bank. The train was
running at th? rate of forty miles an hour
when it struck the carriage.
The engine hit the vehicle squarely, with
terriffic force, and hurled its occupants into
the air. Mrs. Ward was rolled over and over
by tho pilot whoel of the engine for a distance
of about eighty feet, the
Irish nurse girl was carried about one hundred
and ten feet and Mr. Keating about
one hundred and forty feet. The child Elsie
was hurled about thirty feet. The horso was
torn to pieces and the carriage was smashed
into kindling wood.
Mrs. Ward, Mr. Keating and the nurse
girl were torn to pieces ana parts of their
bodies lav scattered along the side of the
track. Blood and shreds of flesh covered tho
tracks and the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
The child Elsie was still alive, but she was
terribly cut and her breast was crushed in.
Mrs. "Ward was about seventy years old.
Mr. Keating was forty-seven years old and
had a wife and several children. The last
name of Kato, the Irish nurse girl, could not
be ascertained. She was about: twenty-five
years of age.
FOURTEEN BLOCKS BURNED.
A Prosperous Town of Washington
Almost Entirely Destroyed.
The prosporous ana ttiritsy town or linensburg,
situated in the centre of "Washington,
which but recently had a population of 6000
inhabitants, is now but a smouldering mound
of ruins and ashes.
It was almost entirely destroyed by a fire
which started in J. S. Anthony's grocery.
Being fanned by a brisk west wind tho flames
spread with wonderful rapidity and continued
011 their mad course until the entire
business portion with tho exception of tho
First National Bank and the Lynch Block
had been swept away.
When this had been accomplished tho flro
spread among the residences in the southeastern
part of the city.
The water supply was inadequate, and
there being nothing but a hand engine with
which to fight tho flames fourteen blocks
were destroyed before they could be checked.
The loss cannot fall short of $2,000,000.
Among the principal buildings destroyed
aro the Stono Bank, Snipes & Co., the
Ashler Hotel, tho Oriental Hotel, the
Masonic Temple, tho Odd Fellows' Hall, tho
Gcddes block, the Fish block, the Postoflice, tho
Localizer printing office, the Dexter stable
and others. There were only four stores left.
Not a restaurant, hotel or boarding bouse
remained, and there were about one hundred
and fifty people destitute.
. EAifGE quantities of gold coin from South
America are passing through Antwerp for
Russia and Austria, the same as in the
Franco-German war. _ '.I
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THE JOHNSTOWN CALAMITY
?. Jury Says the Fishing Club is Re*
sponsible for the Disaster.
Coroner Evans, of Cambria City, Penn.,
has found the members of the South Fork
Fishing Club responsible for the loss of lifo
and destruction of property occasioned by
the bursting of the dam at Conemaugh Lake.
At the conclusion of the testimony the jury
deliberated for about a half hour, and then
found a verdict against the millionaire members
of tho club. The following is the verdict:
We, the undersigned, tho jury empannelled
to investigate the cause of the death of
Ellen Hile on May 31, after hearing the testimony,
find that Ellen Hile came to
her death by drowning; that tho
droiming was caused by the breaking
of the South Fork dam. We
further find, from the testimony and what we
saw on the ground, that there was not sufficient
wasts weir, nor was the dam constructed
sufficiently strong nor of the proper
material to wilhstay the overflow; and hence
we find that the owners of said dam were culpable
in not making it as secure as it should
have been, especially in view of tho fact that
a population of many thousands were in the
valley below; and we hold that the ovrncrs
are responsible for the fearful loss of lifo and
property resulting from the breaking of the
dam.
John Coho, Abraham Ferner, H. B. Blair,
John H. Devine, John A. Messinger, W. Cohick.
NEAELY WIPED OUT.
A Million-and-a-Quarter-Dollar Firo
at BakerslleT,d, Cal.
During a recent afternoon firo broke ont at
Bakersfield, Cal., in the kitchen of N. E. Kelsey's
house, in the same block as the Southern
Hotel. In spite of all efforts it spread to the
adjoining building also, of woed, and then to
the Southern Hotel. *
From there it spread rapidly, with the result
that every business houso in town is
burnod, beside about forty dwelling houses,
involving a loss of $1,250,000. The insurance
is $300,000.
The fire department could not begin to
cope with the fire, it came so quickly, burned
so fiercely and spread jjo rapidjy. Thirteen
blocks were wiped out. IS'o hotel, restaurant
or busineiis house is left. As soon as the fire
subsided measures were token to feed the
homeless. The fire came on so suddenly that
thero was no time to save stocks of merchandise.
One hundred extra policemen have
been detailed to guard the little that was
saved.
Bakerslleld is in the northern part of what
is locally termed. Southern California and
has a population of 5000.
STOLE A RIDE TO DEATK.
Tramps Killed on a Freight Train
in Pennsylvania.
A fatal accident occurred early in the
morning on the Pennsylvania Road, seventeen
miles from Pittsburgh.
The freight train going east broke an axle,
piling thirteen cars in a mass of wreckage.
Ono car was loaded with whisky, which
ignited, and the flames spread rapidly. Fire
engines were sent to the scene, but efforts
to put out the flames were unavailing.
The engine is a total wreck, and lies by the
side of the track. Tha train crow all escaped,
but about fifteen or more tramps were pinned
in the wreck. Eight men were known to
have been locked in a car which
was burnod to ashes. A tramp
wno escaped saiu tnore were swwaiyfivo
people at least on i&o train. Of theso but
ten or twelve escaped. One of the injured,
James Gallagher, died while being taken to
the "West Pennsylvania Hospital. He is
from Philadelphia. One man, unknown,
was taken from the w^eck dead.
A colorod man, name unknown, died on the
way to the hospital. The fourth victim was
a boy, unknown.
HE FACED THE TEAM,
The Dramatic Suicide of an Insane
Man in New Jersoy.
Emil Br onion, a Frenchman who had been
in this country but eight months, committed
suicide in Newark, N. J., while temporarily
insane. As one of the fast trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, bound for Long
Branch, approached the Chestnut
street crossing Bronlon crept under the
guard gates and sprang upon the track, and
folding his arms across liis breast faced tho
rapidly approaching engine. He was thrown
a long distance to one side by the engine and
his sSull badly crushed. He died within
fcw minutes.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Senator Sherman is in Europe.
1 Parnell is troubled with insomnia.
The Shah of Persia wears a plug hat.
Twn lafa Cimrtn PoworAn Ufa na i I
. X?1?| wuiiuu VIUIIV* VM *"w w w I
jprinter.
! General Boulanger's pension has beer
stopped.
j Florence Nightingale is sixty-nine and
Ian invalid.
i The King "of Spain has just entered bit
(fourth year.
I Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York city,
(is worth SI,000,000.
| William "Walter Phelps' famoui
(bangs cover a scar.
i Stanley is reported to be suffering greal
iprivations in Africa.
j "Walt. Whitman has written a poem on
'the Johnstown sufferers.
I Minister Lincoln has been banqueted by
:the most eminent lawyers of England.
! The Empress of Austria in living in ex?
feeme solitude at the Chateau de Linz.
Prince Bismarck's salary as Chancellor
;of the German Empire is only about $13,000
a year.
Whittier, it is said, falls asleep in hi?
chair when visitors begin to praise his
poetry.
Jay Gould has the morning papers read
to him every morning, and pays the reader
$25 a week.
Thomas Ewino Sherman, a son of General
Sherman, has just been admitted into
the priesthood.
The widow of General Grant has thus far
received about $300,000 from the publication
of his "Memoirs."
President Harrison wants to spend the
feummer in the mountains, but Mrs. Harrison
prefers the seashore.
. The wedding presents received by the new
Duchess of Portland were no less than five
thousand in number.
M. Taine, the Frenchman, who is an authority
on the English literature, cannot
speak a word of our language.
Martin Irons, the labor leader, who used
to run the railroad strikes of the Southwest,
is now operating a small fruit stand in St.
juuu13.
The wiD of Allen Thorndike Rice was filed
for probate; it gives a coutroling interest in
the North American Review to Lloyd S.
Bryce.
The only casual indications that Mr. Gladstone
has entered his eightieth year are an
Increasing deafness and a slight huskiness in
bis voice.
Simon Cameron once remarked to a friendi
"Yes," he said, "my son Don had many advantages,
but I had one that overbalanced
them all?poverty."
Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief Justice of
fearbadoes, is of slave descent on his mother 's
Side, and is the first mulatto who has received
the honor of Knighthood.
Ex-President Cleveland has bean spend!ng
a few days with his wife at Marion,
lass., and has found time to enjoy a fishing
trip on the Long Island coast.
Senator Don Cameron will not bo a candidate
for re-election to the United States
Senate next year, and with the end of his
present term ho will retire from politics.
General Sheridan's estate included
much non-productive property, which has
been a drain upon his widow'9 reduced revenues.
The Government pension of $2500 a
year is about the largest single item of infcome.
George Lewis, the celebrated English
briminal lawyer, has charge of two libel suits
brought by Mrs. Mackay, wife of the "Bonanza"
King, against two London papers for
{?25,000 each for saying that her mother was
a washerwoman. 1
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~k CHAIN Of TRASHES.
Telegraphic Details of Crime
ijf and Calamity.
Loss of Life and Property by
Floods in Texas,
A heavy rain fell in Texas and great damage
has resulted. Reports from the West
show heavy rains for 200 miles. The Brazos
and Trinity Rivers were booming. At Benbrook,
twelve miles west, the bridge of the
Texas and Pacific and 500 fe9t of the track
were washed away. The St. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas for two miles out was submerged.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
and the Fort Worth and Denver abandoned
their tracks north.
The Texas and Pacific abandoned trains
both east and west. At Fort Worth the bottom
lands to the north for two miles and to
the east for a mile and a half were submerged.
The Trinity rose four and a half
feet in an hour, and the dwellers on the low
lands barely escaped. City Marshal Farmer,
Sheriff Ricnardson, and their entire force
for the time became a rescuing corps, and
manned the boats which brought the people
to the city, where they were quartered tn
large warehouses. There were 200 men, women
and children thus cared for.
H. Plume and sister are said to have been
washed away, and Mrs. H. S. Bentley and
ratricK, ner son, wno uvea on tne irmity, i
are missing and said to be drowned. Their
house was carried away. The river
there is two miles wide, and all
the cabins and tents are gone. The
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas operator
received a message that the west fork of th?
Trinity was coming down with an eight foot
rise. Six more inches of water, and the
water works would have to be abandoned.
Wheat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly damaged.
The loss can hardly be computed, but conservative
estimates placed it as high as $2,000,000.
There was some fear for the little
villages along the Trinity, above Fort
Worth. 1
Nearly 200 Miners Killed.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in a
:oal pit at St. Etienne, Prance. Three hundred
miners were entombed. A number of
bodies have been taken out of the pit.
Two pits were affected by the explosion.
One of these was inundated, the other was on
fire. Sixteen bodies have been recovered.
Ten of the miners who were taken out alive
were so badly injured that they died. Sixty
horses were burned to death.
The news of the disaster spread quickly,
and the mouths of the pits were soon surrounded
by crowds of relatives and friends
of the imprisoned miners. Many heartrending
scenes were witnessed as the bodies were
brought to the surface. There was no hope
of rescuing any of the men, all of whom have
perished.
President Camot has ordered that measures
be at once taken for the relief of the families
of the dead.
Fourteen miners were rescued with great
difficulty. They were nearly dead. The number
of the dead is now estimated e.t 185.
Money for the relief of the sufferers was arriving
from all points.
Matricide and Suicide.
A young man murdered his mother and
then sent a bullet into his own head in Jersey
City, N. J. The first wound he inflicted on
himself was not mortal. Eight hours elapsed
before the police rapped for admission at the
door of the house where the bloodthirsty
deeds were done. As they entered the young
man fired a second shot and killed himself.
The murderer is Herman Probst and the
victim his widowed mother, Elizabeth, with
whom he lived. Mrs. Probst was about fifty
years old and had been a widow sixteen years.
Her sight was injured several years ago and
she was almost totally blind.
She was a woman of a kind and sweet disposition,and
her neighbors cheerfully assisted
m the care of the three tidy rooms which
served as a home for the mother and the boy
whom she so deeply loved. She was constantly
describing his devotion to her. He was
twenty-six years old, and was considered an
exemplary young roan. He was sober and
industrious, a faithful member of the Methodist
Church, and spent his leisure at home
making his mother comfortable.
Dervishes Beaten Off. *
An engagement has taken place at Arquin,
Egypt, between a force of Egyptian troops,
under command of Colonel Woaehouse, and
a body of dervishes. The dervishes were defeated
and fled. Their loss was 500 killed or
wounded. Seventy Egyptians were killed
or wounded. Two English officers were also
wounded. Colonel Wodehouse pursued ths
dervishes.
The dervishes attempted to effect a lodgement
on the river bank. Colonel Wodehouse
immediately advanced and attacked tnem
with a field force. The dervishes made a
stubborn resistance, but were finally forced
to retire, fighting as they went. They were
driven northward seven miles, but every foot
of the ground was hotly contested. Two guns
belonging the enemy were captured by the
Egyptians.
Colonel "W -"lehouse's troops continued the
pursuit of *ne dervishes and eaptured 500
men.
Drowned at a Sunday-School Picnic.
A sad accident happened at the picnic o?
the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
of Allegheny City, Penn., at Forest Grove,
on the Pittsburg and "Western Railroad, by
wilich five young persons were drowned.
Their names are Nellie Burton, age
eighteen years; May Royal, age sixteen
years; Ida Cassidy, ago twenty-two;
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A'OULUO iUV-V>UUl U,QW vi^uuvwuj mm ? ?
JVeeman, age twenty. The five named, with
Edward Shaffer, took an old barge and
started for a ride on Connaauonessing Creek.
The stream was very turbufent and the barge
capdzed, throwing the occupants into the
water. Young Shaffer succeeded in reaching
the shore, but the others went down before
assistance couldigach them.
Two Hundred Injured in Oklahoma.
A great celebration was held at Guthrie,
Oklahoma, and thousands of poople assemhled
to witness the feats of horsemanship and see
the races. Several largo excursion trains
came in with visitors eager to enjoy the
j holiday and note the growth of Oklahoma.
I A grand stand, hastily constructed, fell to the
f round in the midst 'of the festivities. Two
undred persons were injured, over 100 of
whom are seriously hurt, although only one
child was instantly killed. The grand Oklahoma
celebration and jubilee will long be remembered
with sorrow. The bruised and
wounded embrace persons from other States
as well as from Indian Territory.
Havoc by Rain and Lightning.
A fearful rainstorm struck Dubuque, Iowa,
during the afternoon, accompanied by a high
wind.
Two boys named Corbet and Bennett, while
herding cows on the outskirts of the city,
sought refuge in a barn and were killed by
lightning.
Considerable damage was done to shrubbery
and trees by the high wind, and corn
and other small grain suffered from the
heavy rainfall, which for a time amounted
almost to a waterspout.
Two Men Killed in Massachusetts.
At Chelmsford, Mass., Walker Symonds,
Jr., aged twenty-four years, son of the pro'V#
+Vn> T}nViV>ino TTill HniKO WAS in.
pilCbUi Ul VUO AbVUk/iUd MWUMW. - - ??
stantly killed by the premature explosion of a
cannon. Another man named Sanford was
terribly mutilated, and died while being
taken to the hospital.
ANNIHILATED EIS FAMILY.
A Religions Maniac Murders Three
Persons and Himself.
R. D. Johnson, a well-to-do respectable
citizen about fifty years of age, living about
four miles northeast of Palouso City, "Washington,
killed his wife and his son, about
fourteen years old, and fatally shot his sevenyear-old
daughter. Ho then killed himself,
leaving a note stating that he did not
want to live in this sinful world and could
not leave it without bis family. He added
that he first gave them strychnine, but could
not bear the sight of their agonies, so he
killed them with a revolver. The bodies
were not discovered until next morning.
The crime was supposed to be due to temporary
insanity over religion. ,
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Hour Rockets are Made.
i Rockets are made for three panoses:
for signaling; for decorations or celebrations,
or as projectiles in war. Pot signals,
the charge consists of twelve para
of niter, two of sulphur, and three o?
charcoal. The ornamental, or decora*
tive, rocket is the one we see used on fhsj
Fourth of July, and the composition o?
which it is made comprises 122 parts of
mealed or finely pulverized powder,
eighty of niter, forty of sulphur and forty
of cast iron fillings.
The main part of the rocket is a case, ;
made by rolling stout paper, covered "on
one side with paste, around a wooden
form, at the same time applying oonsid- '
erable pressure. The end is then "choked,n.
or brought tightly together, with twine/.
The paper case thus made is next; i
placed in a copper mold, so that a conical
copper spindle will pass up through the
choke, and the composition is then
poured in and packed by blows of a mallet
on a copper drift or packing tool made to ,
fit over the spindle. The top of the cas?
is now closed with a layer of moist %
plaster-of-paris one inch thick, perfoi :
rated with a small hole for the passage of
the flame to the upper part, or "pot.* The
pot is formed of another paper cylinder
slipped over and pasted to the top '
of the case and surmounted by a paper
cone filled with tow. The "decorations^
are vvltinor\ in fVia t\/\f anil era oMfroron
through the air when the flame, having
passed through the aperture of the plaster,,
reaches a small charge of mealed powderj
placed in the pot. The stick is a piece
of pine wood, tapering, and about nine
times the length of the rocket. It is to
guide the rocket in its flight. The decorations
in the pot may be ''stars," "serpents,"
"marrons." "gold rain," and so
on. "Marrons" are small paper shell*
filled with grained powder and pinned,'
with quick match. "Serpents" are small
cases about inch in diameter in which
is a composition of three parts niter,
three sulphur, sixteen meal powder, i
charcoal. This composition is driven in .
the case, the top of which is closed by
plaster-of-paris, having a small aperture
through which passes a piece of quick-:
match.?St. Nicholas. ' >
Population, Area and Estimated Wealth,
of the Original Thirteen States.
New Hampshire, in 1776, nearly 140,000
inhabitants; 1880, 346,991 inhabit
tants; estimated wealth, $338,000,000$?"
area, 9305 square miles.
Massachusetts, in 1776, nearly 300,000
inhabitants; 1885, 1,941,465 inhabit.
tants; estimated wealth, $2,795,000,000; .
area, 8315 square miles.
Rhode Island, in 1776, 65,000 inhabit
tants; 1885, 304,284 inhabitants; estimated
wealth, $420,000,000; area, 1250' .
square miles.
Connecticut, in 1776, nearly 190,000
inhabitants; 1880, 622,700 inhabitants?
estimated wealth, $852,000,000; area,
4990 square miles. . . } /<
New York, in 1776, nearly 325,000
inhabitants; 1880, 5,082,871 inhabit
tanbi; estimated, wealth, $7,619,000,000;
area, 49,170 square miles.
New Jersey, in 1776, nearly 180,000
inhabitants; 1885, $1,278,033 inhabitant;
estimated wealth, $1,433,000,000;
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area, voxa square muea. n
Pennsylvania, in 1776, nearly 400,000; I
inhabitants; 16S0, 4,282,891 inhabi
tanti; estimated wealth, $5,893,000,000; I
area, 45,316 square miles. I
Delaware, in 1776, nearly 50,000 in-*
habitants; 1880, 146,608 inhabitants^ I
estimated wealth, $138,000,000; area,
2050 square miles. - - I
Maryland, in 1776, nearly 250,000 in
habitants; 1880, 934,943 inhabitants; I
estimated wealth, $869,000,000; area,
12,210 square miles.
Virginia, in 1776, nearly 600,000 in? I
habitants; 1880 2,131,022 inhabitant* I
(including West Virginia); estimated I
wealth, $1,000,000,000; area, 67,28Qf
squire miles. Jnj
North Carolina, in 1776, nearly 850^ I
000 inhabitants; 1880,1,399,750 inhabit - I
tana; estimated wealth, $446,000,000; Hj
area, 52,250 square miles. . B
South Carolina, 1776, nearly 200,000i
inhabitants; 1880, 995,577 inhabitants; H
estimated wealth, $296,000,000; area>
30,570 square miles. H
Georgia, in 1776, nearly 75,000 in- I
habitants: 1880, 1,542,180 inhabitants; fl
estiir^ted wealth, $554,000,000; area^
59,4to square miles. I
A Bird as a Witness. H
liTiere was a witness in a court 14 H
Savannah, Ga,, whose testimony was sq I
rnnr.lusive that it was not Questioned. A fl
gentleman owned a beautiful mocking H
bird, of which he was very fond. The H
bird was stolen. Every effort was made H
to find it; it could not be found. At H
lost the gentleman heard that a Northern H
visitor, who had been in the city all I
winter, was returning North with a re- D
markable mocking bird.. He hurried off Hj
to the sailing vessel, and there found a H
gentleman with a mocking bird which he I
recognized at once as his lost bird. The I
new owner would not accept the claim, H
but finally it was arranged that the H
gentleman claiming the bird should make B
a complaint before a magistrate and prove B
that the bird was his. When in the H
presence of the magistrate the gentleman I
claiming the bird said that he would B
whistle an air, and if the bird took it up
and followed him that should be con- H
vincing evidence. All agreed to thia H
test. The gentleman began to whistle H
"St. Patrick's Day;" the bird listened a H
moment, took up the air and finished it.- H
The magistrate thought tbat settled the H
question of ownership, and the bird was H
given up. It is said that the Northerner H
offered ?1000 for the bird, but it was re
fused. .. ; H
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Tiro Diminutive Elephants. 9
Two diminutive elephants arrived H
safely the other day in the British section H
of the Paris Universal Exhibition, where H
they stand opposite each other, apparent- H
ly guarding the entrance to one of the H
central courts. No household canary H
could possibly be tamer than these hand- H
some pachyderms, -which are about nve h
feet high, and carry gorgeous howdahs, H
richly decorated as -well as their othei: H
trappings, with colorcd enamel and gold. I
Even their tusks, the points of which H
have been sawn oil, are profusely gilt. 9
A Poetical Cobbler's Sign. S
A cobbler on South Twelfth stress, H
Philadelphia, has a card on his window H
reading as follows: B
Here lives a man H
That don't refuse B|
To make and mend 9a
Your boots and shoes. H
His leather is good, B
His work is quiet
Els profits are small H
But he gives no tick, M
And when he dies H
He fears no ooals^
As he has saved H
So many souls. B