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; A STEAMBOAT IN FLAMES.
A Number of Her Passengers
Drowned and Burned.
The Gallant Conduct of Her Pilot
and Captain,
The steamer Quinte has been burned to the
water's edge near Deseronto, Ontario. Four
lives were lost and many of the passengers
and crew were injured. The steamer left Deseronto
at 5:30 P. sr., Captain Christie in charge,
with a crew of twelve and twenty passengers.
When but a lew moments irom tne oock
fire was discovered in tbe wood work near
the fire hole by a deck hand, who notified the
engineer, when the pumps were set at work,
but without avail.
Captain Christie was notified and when he
saw there was no checking the flames he ordered
Pilot Collier to beach the boat on a
shoal, which was done. The Captain and
crew were at their boats and all efforts were
made to save the passengers, who lost self
control and plunged into the water without
taking life preservers or anything to keep
themselves from drowning, with but two or
three exceptions.
Pilot Collier stood at his wheel until the
boat was grounded and the engines had
stopped, the engineer, Thomas Short, leaving
his engines running. The flames drove
him away. Pilot Collier left the pilot house
when the flames burst in and he was severely
burned ou the face and hands. Engineer
Short was also severely burned before he left
his post, both officers endangering their
lives to insure the safe deliverv, if possible,
of those who had consigned tneniselves to
their charge.
Before help could reach them from Deseronto
the crew of a sloop lying close by put out
in boats to the rescue and picked up all that
they could find. The steamer Deseronto, lying
at her dock there, and the steam yacht
Ripple went to the rescue and brought the
survivors to the town, where medical aid was
afforded them and every assistance and comfort
was afforded that the owners of the
burned boat, the Rathbun Company, could
give them.
. Captain Christie was energetic in saving
his passengers and was severely bruised and
only realized his injuries when he was taken
to a hotel and cared for. A. Harte. a traveler,
was in the water and saved a boy
named Charlie Anderson. Both of them sat
on the paddle wheel of the burning steamer
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until tney were lasen un me ticw ul mo i
Deseronto.
It is known for certain that four persons
lost their lives, and that by burning probably,
as none of them were seen to jump overboard.
Mrs. Christie, mother of the Captain
of the boat, and her twelve-year-old son,
were in the ladies' cabin a few moments before
the alarm was given, but have not been j
seen since and must have been burned. Mrs. |
Stacey, assistant to the cook, and her young ;
son were in the dining hall and perished in I
the flames.
None of the freight nor anvthing belong- j
ing to the crew was saved. Engineer Short
had a large sum of money in his stateroom |
and it was lost. Many of the passengers I
lost valuables. The passengers were in the j
dining saloon at tea when the alarm was I
given.
The steamer Quinte was owned by the :
Rathbun Company and was the best in their i
lake service, and was the most popular boat j
on the bay and had but three years ago been
thoroughly overhauled and made almost a 1
new boat. She was valued at $18,000 and j
was insured for two-thirds of her value.
A HORRIBLE CONFESSION, j
An Eleven-year-old Boy Who Killed
His Father aud Mother.
The Grand Jury at Dubuque, Iowa, has
returned an indictment against Wesley Elkins,
the 11-year-old boy who murdered his |
parents in July last. There was no evidence ;
against him, excepting his own statement in
writing over his signature, which is as follows:
"I was sleeping in the barn, and I wanted
to get away from home. I had run away
Irora Home a nuniDer or times, dui- raer i
brought me back. I thought I would kill |
them, so I went up to the house just I
before sunrise on the morning of j
July 16. and went softly into the |
house to see if my parents were asleep. I j
speked into their bedroom,and saw that they I
were fast asleep. I then went out to the |
road in front of the house, to see if anybody j
was coming, and, finding the coast clear, I j
went to the corn crib and got the club, which
was a part of a flail, and then went into the
house softly, and put the club in ray bedroom J
and set it down.
"I then took up my father's rifle, which
was always hung up in my room loaded, and !
I stepped out of my bedroom to father's, and, i
his door being open, I put the gun to his face
and fired. I immediately went back for my
club, knowing that I would not have time to j
load the guu. I got the club, nnd when I got j
back to the dooi'mother was upon the floor |
, and stooping over. I thought she was look- |
ing at father, who lay on the front side of
the bed. I struck her on the head, and she j
straightened up and fell backward on the j
bed and over father. I then got up on the bed
and struck her a great many tunes on the j
head, until I thought she was dead.
"Then I heard father make a noise in his |
throat, and I struck him two blows on the
head that smashed the skull. I then took I
the baby and hitched up the horse and started
for grandpa's. Nobody helped mo in any
way, nor told me to kill them. I did it all i
alone.'1
The boy is an intelligent little fellow, '
weighing only seventy-three pounds, and is
very fraeile in appearance.
UTOEEDIBLE BEUT.ALITY.
I Fiends Torture a Baby Before It9 !
Mother's Eyes.
A crime has taken place in Tallapoosa
County, Ala., that has rarely been surpassed I
in its horrible details. It seems that while 1
Albert Smith and his three oldest children |
had gone some miles to church, five colored
men approached the house and asked Mrs. i
Smith to give them something to eat. On be- '
ing refused they went into the house, and
learning that there was no one home but Mrs.
Smith and her babe forced her into the yard
and began ransacking the house. After appropriating
all they could find in the way of
money and valuables, they set fire to the
house and added horror to the terrible scene
by forcing the distracted woman to witness
the most brutal of fiendish deeds?the tossing
of her little baby in the air and lettiug it
fall back almost on the point of sharp knives
which they hel 1 under it. Tne brutes finally
heeded the frantic woman's entreaties and
went away,leaving het with nothing to greet
the return of her horror-stricken husband
and children but her half dead babe and a
smouldering heap of coals where was. only a
few hours before, their home. People for
miles around have been searching the country
for the villains, and three of them have
been caDturcdSWEPT
BY A TIDAL WAVE,
Eight Hundred Lives Lost on the
Japanese Coast.
A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in
which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and
about 2000 houses were washed away. At
Okudo all the houses, twenty-three in number,
were washed away, and out of ninety
inhabitants fifty-four "lost their lives. At
Jitsuroku forty"houses were washed nway,
and about fifty out of the population of 250
were killed. At Ikuta-Mura 120 houses were
washed away, about twenty broken up, and
about forty of the inhabitants killed. >t
Yoshida-Mura 350 out of the 050 houses were
washed away, and 028 of the population of
3260 were killed. At Toba-Mura, containing
820 houses and a population of 1130, ten
houses were broken up and ten persons perished.
In addition to those already enumerated,
369 bodies have been found, and there are
yet 280 persons missing. The Emperor and
the Empress have sent $1500 and $300, respectively,
for the relief of the sufferers.
IN" one neighborEbofl In Dakota recently
there were only two lucifer matches to go
around among twelve families, and persons
were detailed to build fires and keep them
alive night and day until a supply could be
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Three lads, each about eighteen years of
age, were run over by a locomotive at Hud|
son, N. Y., and were all killed.
By the breaking of a scaffold at Bethlehem,
Penn., two men were killed and three severely
injured.
I Ex-Congrersm a n Amos J. Cummings has
been nominated by the Tammany Hall Con!
vention of the Ninth Congressional District,
j to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Congressman S. S. Cox.
1 A construction-train", loaded with 200
| laborers, jumped the track near Confluence,
i Penn., and two men were killed, and many
j injured.
I Benjamin T. Babbitt, the well-known
j soap manufacturer, died a few days since in
New York at the age of eighty years. He
left a large fortune.
i The Finance Committee of the "World's
Fair, at New York city, adopted a subscripI
tion form for the $5,000,000 guarantee fund
! and ordered 1000 subscription books printed.
The American Public Health Association
i began its annual session in Brooklyn.
General B. F. Butler has been elected
j President of the San Miguel Gold Placer
| Mining Company, of Colorado.
The Protestant Episcopal General Conveni
tion, at New York city, decided to make the
j communion service part of the marriage serI
rice, but rejected it for funerals.
Smith and West.
F. F. Kimball, United States District Atj
torney for the Western District of Missouri,.
| has died in Kansas City.
By the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill
I at Marshall, 111., two men were killed, and
three badlv injured.
James Hickey, who had confessed to
being concerned in some brutal murders,
was lynched in Chilton County, Ala.
R. F. Pettigrew and Gideon C. Moody
, have been elected United States Senators by
the South Dakota Legislature.
The Presbyterian Synod, which has been
I holding its annual session in Baltimore, conI
eluded its labors and adjourned to meet in
I Wilmington, Del., next year.
| A traix struck a broken rail at Howell,
Kan., and was ditched. Over twenty people
were injured.
Five Apache Indians, convicted of murder
at Florence, Ariz., have been sentenced to be
hanged.
William L. Jordak, son of the Postmaster
of Richmond, Va., has been arrested for
robbing the mails.
The police have discovered that the incendiary
fires which have occurred in Kansas
City, Mo., were started by a band of scnooibovs.
They were regularly organized, and
called themselves "'Captain Kid's Pets."
Henry Desobt went to Grosse Tete, La.,
with the intention of killing Henry Wilbert,
manager of the Rosendale Lumber Company,
but not finding him he killed the foreman m
the yard.
Governor Hill, of New York, and party
visited Knoxville,Tenn., and received the attention
of all classes of people.
The Texas and Pacific roundhouse at
Longview, Texas, with six large freight and
one passenger engine, has been destroyed by
fire. The total loss is $155,000.
Police Commissioner Richard C. Anderson,
a leading citizen of Dayton, Ohio,
was shot in his office by an assassin, who
suddenly opened his door and fired at him.
The village of Curtiss, Wis., has been destroyed
by fire. Loss is ?100,000.
A terrific explosion occurred in the
Bryant Switch coal mine near Fort Smith,
Ark. Sixteen men were injured, five of
them fatally.
Extensive forest fires have been raging
in the Northwest. Mrs. Hiram TVhittier, of
Greenbush, Minn., was burned to death.
The residence of George Kessler, six
miles south of Van "Wert, Ohio, has been
burned, and his six-year-old daughter and
her aunt perished in the flames.
A crowd of colored men lynched a colored
mail at Lake Carmorant, Miss., for I
outraging a young colored girl.
Frank J. Bowman, a notorious attorney,
was shot and killed at Ferguson, Mo., by
B. M. Chambers, ex-publisner of the St.
Louis Times.
Reports from Northwestern Minnesota
and Western Dakota state that nearly one
thousand families are destitute from failure
of crops by drought.
A passenger train was derailed forty
miles from Portland, Ore. James Nolan was
killed and the engineer fatally injured.
The Belford-Clark Publishing Company,
of Chicago, which failed some weeks ago,
will resume business.
An engineer and a fireman were killed by
the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Wellsboro,
Ind.
In the village of Woodville, Ohio, there
have been in one week ten deaths from typhoid
fever and as many more from diphtheria.
Lord Hinton, son of an English Earl, is
said to have been engaged in some swindling
transactions in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A complete jury lias at last been secured
in the Cronin murder case at Chicago, 111.
The residence of ex-Mayor Ballard at Lex
ington, Mo., has been burned, and Mrs. Ballard,
who was of unsound mind, perished in
the flames.
Washington.
The International Maritime Conference at
Washington has completed its organization
and entered upon its deliberations.
President Harrison has appointed Oliver
C. BosnyshelL of Pennsylvania, to be Superintendent
of tlie Mint of the United States
at Philadelphia, and Richard E. Sloan, of
Arizona, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arizona.
The Simpson drydock at the Norfolk Navy
Yard, which was recently opened, has been
formally accepted by Commodore White,
Chief of the Bureau of Docks and Yards. The
dock cost the Government $495,737.
Commodore Ramsey has been appointed
Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
The State Department has transmitted to
Portugal President Harrison's expression of
condolence over the death of the King of
Portugal.
President Harrison is already busy at
work on his forthcoming Message.
The President has appointed Oscar F.
Williams, of New York, to be Consul of the
United States at Havre, France.
Superintendent Porter, of the Census
Bureau, has appointed Charles H. Cooley, of
Michigan, a special agent of the bureau for
the collection of railway statistics.
It is announced at the State Department
that the Venezuelan claims commission is
now ready to consider at once all claims presented.
Foreign.
The Russian gunboat Nasr-ed-din-Shah
has sunk at Batoum, in the Black Sea. The
, crew were drowned.
General Hippolyte has been unani|
mously elected President of Hayti.
| A serious outbreak of smallpox on the
i island or reiee, in Lifike trie, is reporteu.
The wildest excitement exists there.
Thk Emperor and Empress of Germany
started from Berlin on their trip to Athens
to attend the marriage of Princess Sophie
and the Crown Prince of Greece.
The fisheries have altogether failed at Esquimaux
Point, on the Labrador coast, and
over a hundred families are starving. The
local government authorities will send sufficient
food to relieve their immediate wants.
The Empress of Austria, while passing
through Hiva on the Lago di Guarcln, was
hissed by the inhabitants, who are all Irridentists.
The Italian Government has made
official apology for the insult..
The Italian Government has refused to re,
ceive Washan Effendi, whom the Porte
! wished to appoint as Turkish Ambassador to
: Italy.
The Hawaiian Cabinet declares that it
wants trade reciprocity with the United
; States, but not annexation.
The King (if Portugal is dead. The eldest
I son, the Duke of Braganza, succeeds to the
j throne.
The Bazar Du Centre, at Le Mans. FranceT
has been destroyed by fire. The proprietor
and three assistants were burned to death.
While Prince William of Wurtemberg
was driving to church at Ludswigsburg he
was fired at by a man named Klaiber, who,
upon being arrested, exclaimed: "It is high
tune Wurtemberg had a Catholic King." _ '
! HE PENSION OFFICE.
Facts and Figures From the
Commissioner's Report.
Green B, Kaum Succeeds Corporal
Tanner as Head of the Bureau.
The annual report for the fiscal year 1SS889
of the Commissioner of Pensions shows
that at the close of the year there were 489,729
pensioners. There were added to th?
rolls during the year the names of 53,921
new pensioners, and the names of
1754 whose pensions have been previously
dropped were restored, making an aggregate
of 53,675 pensioners added during the year.
There were dropped from the rolls for various
causes, 10,507 pensioners, leaving a net in
crease to the rolls of 37,168 names.
The average annual value of each pension
at the close of the year is shown to have
been $131.18. The amount paid for pensions
during the year was $88,275,113.28. Ihe total
amount disbursed by the agents for all purposes
was $89,131,968.44. Amount paid as
fees to attorneys, $1,363,5S3.47.
In the aggregate 1,248,140 pension claims
have been filed since 1861, and in the same period
789,121 have been allowed. The amount
disbursed on account of pensions since 1861
has been $1,052,218,413.17. The issue of certificates
during the year shows a grand total
of 145,298. Of this number 51,921 were
original certificates. At the close of the year
there were pending and unallowed 479,000
claims for all classes.
Commissioner Tanner recommends that
Congress be asked to amend the act of June C,
1874, so as to extend the benefit of all pension
laws, as to rates, to all pensioners whose pensions
have been granted by special acts passed
subsequent to said date, and that pensions bo
granted to the widows of soldiers who died
from causes originating in the service prior
to March 4, 1861.
General Green B. Raum Made Commissioner
of Pensions.
The President has appointed General Green
B. Raum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of
Pensions.
General Raum was born in Golconua, 111.,
December 3, 1829. He received a common
6chool education, studied law and was admitted
to the Bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed
with his family to Kansas. He returned
in the following year to Illinois and
settled at Harrisburg. At the opening of
the Civil War he made his first speech while
attending court at Metropolis, 111. Subseouentlv
he entered the armv as Mayor of the
l<ifty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was made
Brigadier-General of Volunteers on the
15th of February, 18C>5, which commission
he resigned on May 6.
In 1866 he obtained a charter for the Cairo
and Vincennes Railroad Company, aided in
securing its construction and became its first
President. He was then elected to Congress,
and served from 4th March, 1867, till 3d
March, 1869. In 1876 he was President of
the Illinois Convention, and in the same
year he was a delegate to the National Convention
in Cincinnati. He was appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue August 2,
1876, and retained the office till May 31, 1883.
During this period he collected $850,000,000
and disbursed $30,000,000 without loss. He
wrote "reports" of his bureau for seven successive
years. He is also the author of "The
Existing Conflict Between Republican Government
and Southern Oligarchy." He is at
present practicing law in Washington, D. C.,
and is a prominent member of the G. A. R.
GENEBAL HAETBANFT. j
Death of a Noted Pennsylvanian? |
Sketch of His Career.
General John P. Hortranft, ex-Governor
of Pennsylvania, died a few days ago at his :
home in Norristown.
A short time since the General was brought
to his bed by a severe attack of pneumonia.
This would have yielded to the efforts of the
physicians had not uremea developed as a
result of an unsuspected derangement of the
organs which had existed for a long time.
John Frederick Hartranft was born in
New Hanover, Montgomery County, Penn.,
on December 16, 1830.' He graduated at
Union College in 1853, and alter studying
law for a few years was admitted to the Bai
in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War he
raised the Fourth Pennsylvania Regimenl
and commanded it during its enlistment. H?
then organized the Fifty-first Pennsylvania
Regiment, and was commissioned its Colonel
July 27, 1861, and accompanied General
Burnside in his expedition through North 1
Carolina. He led the charge that carried j
the stone bridge at Antietam and commanded j
his regiment at Fredericksburg. He fought j
in many other important battles, and was |
breveted Major-General in August, 1864. He j
was elected Auditor-General of Pennsylvani*
in October, 1865, was re-elected in 18C8 and in i
18?^-8 was Governor of Pennsylvania. At j
the close of his second term he removed tc i
Philadelphia, where he was appointed Post- |
master in June, 1879, and Collector of the i
Port in 1880. He was also Major-General
commanding the National Guard of the Statf
of Pennsylvania.
SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE,
Kight Hundred Lives Lost on the
.TananP'JP Pftflfif.
A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in
which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and
about 2000 houses were washed away. At
Okudo all the houses, twenty-three in number,
were washed away, and out of ninety
inhabitants fifty-four lost their lives. At
Jitsuroku fftrty houses were washed away,
and about fifty out of the population of 250
were killed. At Ikuta-Mura 1^0 houses were i
washed away, about twenty broken up, and j
about forty of tho inhabitants killed. At ,
Yoshida-Mura 350 out of the 050 houses were
washed away, and 02S of the population of j
8260 wero killed. At Toba-Mura, containing
220 houses and a population of 1130, ten
houses were broken up and ten persons perished.
In addition to those already enumerated,
369 bodies have been found, and there are
yet 280 persons missing. The Emperor and
the Empress have sent $1500 and $500, rerpectivefy.
for the relief of the sufferers.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Jay Gould has been offered $50,000 to write
his memoirs.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, reads no book
until it is a year old.
Empress Frederick, of Germany, will ;
spend the winter in Italy.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is !
regaining his health at Carlsbad.
Private Secretary Halford has decided i
to form a Bible class in Washington.
Seth Low, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, has been
elected President of Columbia College.
Governor Biggs, of Delaware, realized j
large profits on his peach crop this year.
It is announced that King Leopold, of Bel',
gium, contemplates a trip to the Congo, in |
Africa.
Mr. Gladstone has been chopping dowi> !
many trees at Hawarden of late, with all hi^
old vigor.
George Francis Train says New YorK
city cannot secure the world's "fair without ;
his assistance.
Tuet Gwok Ying, the new Chinese Minis-- (
ter to this country, is a good-looking man
about fifty years of age.
Emperor William, of Germany, spend I [
most of his leasure time studying political
geography or talking about war. ?
Vice-President Morton is one of the inj
corporators of an extensive coal-mining
company now formed to work in West Vir7
| ginia.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett was
I earning a small salary as a school teacher
1 down in Tennesse when she wrote her firs*
stories. j
Amanda M. Douglas, the writer, hasi
written two novels a year for the past sixteen'
years. Her pen has supported a family 03
four persons. ,
William Waldorf Astor is a man ofi
Btrong literary and artistic tastes, and if h<|
had not been a millionaire's son he would
probably have been an artist.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar manufacturer,
has removed most of his personal prop-)
erty from San Francisco, and will make hii)
home henceforth atPhiladelphia, Perm.
LATER NEWS.
Peter Baranowski has been hanged at
Pottsville, Penn., for the brutal murder o?
two women.
Snow fell in many parts of the Middle
States a few days ago.
The American Antiquarian Society met at
Worcester, Mass.
The Episcopal House of Deputies, after two
secret sessions on the subject at New York
city, postponed marriage and divorce legislation
to another convention.
Nearly 200 Chinamen left New York city
for China the other afternoon to return no
more. Many of them are going home to
join inei>auonai army, oiners to wur& ou
the new railroads of China, instead of washing
shirts in this country.
The first furnace of the immense steel
works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company
at Sparrow Point, Md., has been put in operation.
An important convention of wheat growers
of the Mississippi Valley opened at Sfc.
Louis, Mo., in response to a call by the
Farmers' Federation.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, who has
been seriously ill, has gradually improved
until his condition is now favorable to rapid
recovery.
The large flouring mill of the L. C. Porter
Milling Company, at Winona, Minn., has
been destroyed by fire. The loss is approximated
at $150,000.
The Baptist Union has presented a me- I
morial to Lord Salisbury, in which the Government
is implored to use the moral influence
of England to suppress the atrocities by
the Turks upon Christians which are reported
from Crete.
The Prince and Princess of Wales upon
their arrival at Athens were met at the railway
station by King George of Greece and
the Czarewitch of Russia, and were given an
enthusiastic reception by the populace.
SLAUGHTER OF SEAL.
Over 200,090 Killed This Year by
Poachers.
Charles J. Goff, United States Treasury
Agent in charge of trie Seal Islands, 'who has
returned from Alaska, says: "Unless
effective measures are at once taken by the
Government to stop illegal sealing operations
in Behring Sea, the seal will be totally extinct
within five or six years. I don't think
that more than 50,000 seal can be taken on
Seal Islands next year. The Alaska Commercial
Company had difficulty in getting 100,000
seal skins this summer, and were obliged
to kill many inferior animals. There were
thirty illegal sailing vessels, British and
American, in Behring Se^ this year, and they
took 40,000 seal skins to \ ictoria.
"They kill six seal in the water where they
get the carcass of one. So they have killed
over 200,000 illegally this year, half males and
half females, tne latter beinc; equal po two
animals. ine popular iueu. mm. iuc ocai Oic
increasing is wrong."
The United States cruiser Thetis has returned
to Sitka, Alaska, after an extraordinary
cruise in which she completely circled
around Alaska, past Point Barrow to the
Mackenzie River's mouth in the Artie Ocean.
A fleet of whaling vessels went with the
Thetis. Ice caught the war ship near Point I
Barrow and she narrowly escaped being j
wrecked. Only two exploring vessels have
over got to the Mackenzie and no Government
vessel ever was that far before.
A HEROIC FARMER'S BOY.
He Saves a Woman's Life and Loses
His Own in a Railroad Collison.
Details of a collision at Nolin, Ky.,
when the Bowling Green accommodation
train was run into by the fast mail from the
South on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
give the following incident:
Vandyke Heyser, tne eighteen-year-old
boy who was injured in the wreck, died in
the afternoon. He was a farmer's boy, and
was coming to Louisville to get employment.
"When the mail train made its appearance,
and all on the other train began to flee, Heywson
nnrl n towarfl thfl COaCn
door. He was almost out on the platform,
and in a second more he would have been
safe, when a frightened woman reached his
side nearly fainting with terror. She would
have fallen had not he seen her condition and
given her his assistance. Supporting her
with one arm, he stepped to one side and
helped her to pass him, gently forcing her
out to the platform. Before he could follow
her, the mail train crushed into the accommodation.
The heroic boy was caught
in the ruins and fatally injured.
THE LABOR WORLD, 1
The Pittsburg, Penn., maltsters have asked
for shorter hours.
Two assemblies of the K. of L. have been
formed in Ireland.
St. Louis musicians average about .$770 a
year, or $14.85 a week.
There are nearly 80,000 carpet workers of
both sexes in Philadelphia.
. Sixteen' hundred men are working at the
Chester, Penn., shipyards.
There will soon be a national organization
of the tile layers of the United States.
The pantaloon makers of Boston, Mass.,
have started a union with seventy members.
An advance of fifty cents a day has been
given to the plasterers at Connellsville,
Penn.
The worki-.gmen in Chicago have subscribed
to $300,000 worth of the "World's Fair
stock.
The Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are
fighting against the introduction of sewing
machines.
The eight-Hour system is saiisitii;iiuru,y
working in the British colony of Victoria,
Australia.
The recent dock strike in London has, according
to John Burns, the leader, been the
means of raising wages in at least 200 trades
there.
The second annual convention of the Journeymen
Barbers' International Union of
America will be held in Detroit, Mich., December
3d.
At the request of the tailoresses of Boston,
the labor organizations of that city will
adopt a label which is to be placed on unionmaae
clothing.
In the newly drafted Constitution for the
State of Wyoming it is provided that "eight |
hours shall constitute a day's work in all
mines and on all State and municipal
works."
The now locomotive works of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Altoona, Penn., are to have
a capacity of 500 engines a year, and are so
constructed that their manufacture can be
increased up to 1500.
Fifty miners were lately killed by an explosion
in the ironstone pit of the Maurice
Wood Colliery, Scotland. Subscriptions are
being raised all over the country for their
widows and families.
Co-operative stores are gaining ground in
England and workingmen seem everywhere
anxious to buy stock in them. Co-operative
hat stores are flourishing in all the large
bint's auu uavc pv?su u> vm? muv??ww.
In order to replace the field laborers who
have emigrated to Mexico and South America
a company has been formed in Havana,
Cuba., to make contracts with a number of
workmen in Spain to bring them to Cuba
with their families.
Woukingme.v in Paris are agitating for the
eight-hour movement. A letter to that effect
has been sent to the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor in New York
city. The movement is the outcome of the
visit of American workingmen in Paris.
A New York unionist, who is in Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, writes to New
York saying that it is not hard to get work
there. He says, however, that it would be
foolish for any mechanic to go there expecting
to get an easy job or to become rich.
Carpenters get from $3 to $3.50; bricklayers,
from |3 to |d, and bakers from $1.75 to $3.25.
AGGRESSIVE OUTLAWRY.
Desperadoes' Threats to Attack
a Court House.
Armed^Men Ready for a Battle
Witiitiie Authorities.
A desperate state of affairs is once more
prevailing in Harlan County, Ky. The State
troops sent' there two or three months ago
were withdrawn a few weeks since without
anything being effected, and when this report
was written the outlaws, under the
leadership of Wils Howard, had taken fresh
courage. Howard had organized them near
the town of Harlan Court House, which is
occupied by his old enemies, the county authorities,
and was preparing to storm and
carry the place at all hazards.
County Judge Wilson Lewis, who led the
old fight against Howard, was in town and
had taken charge of the Law and Order
forces. They numbered about forty or fifty
men, and were armed with Winchesters,
pistols, muskets and other weapons. They
were entrenched in Harlan Court House
and were preparing to defend the place.
On the other hand, Howard, it is thought,
could bring from fifty to one hundred men
into the field, and he openly avowed his intention
of making a charge upon the village.
The trouble was brought about by an event
which occurred recently when it was thought
that all the trouble was over. John Howard,
nineteen years old, a brother of Wils Howard,
the leader and disturber, was in Harlan
Court House, where the father of the Howard
brothers lives. Finley Smith, a son of Wash
Smith, one of the wealthiest men in Harlan
County, who is spoken of as one of the best of
citizens, was also in the town. The Smiths
were related by marriage to John Cawood,
the wealthy farmer, who with his hired man,
Hezekiah Hall, was killed on Friday,
October 11, by Wils Howard's cane. A
nephew of John Cawood, named Charles
Cawood, married a daughter of Wash Smith
and the sister of Finley Smith. They belonged
to the Law and Order party.
John Cawood was a brother-in-law of
County Judge Lewis, and like the latter he
was active in the attempts to stop crime and
to bring all the desperadoes to the bar. Wils
Howard wanted him out of the way and he
and Hall were killed.
The Law and Order party were greatly exerci^d
over this, and the good citizens were
considering means by which Cawood's and
Hall's slayers could be brought to justice,
when the last fight occurred. Just how it
was brought about no one seemed to know,
and the point is disputed as to whether Finley
Smith or John Howard fired first.
Each man's friends claim that the other
was the aggressor. There were no words between
the young men.
John Howard was walking along the street
and Finley Smith was in the door of the
Cumberland Hotel when they saw each other.
Howard pulled his pistol and young Smith
seized a vvincnesier rme, wmcu was: uc?i
him, and both began to shoot. None of the
bullets were buried in the targets they were
intended for, but it was thought at first that
Howard was killed. One of Smith's bullets
frazed his temple and the shock knocked
im down. White he lay there stunned for
the moment Smith left and Howard did the
same thing.
This shooting occurred about 5 o'clock on
a Saturday afternoon. John Howard lost
little timo in communicating with his brother
Wils, and the latter vowed vengeance. Early
the next morning word was brought to the
town that Wils had said that he didn't intend
to put up with the trouble any longer;
he would wipe out his enemies or he would
die trying. A little later the report was
confirmed from another source, when the
news came that the Howards were organizing
and arming.
A little later reliable messengers of the
Law and Order party brought the intelligence
that the outlaw had sent word to all
his men to come well armed to a rendezvous
a few miles from the county seat. Wils was
implicitly obeyed by his followers, and the
messengers said a large crowd was gathering
at his summons.
The seat of justice of Harlan County,
which is converted into a citadel by the Law
and Order party, is thirty-five miles from
Pineville, which is the nearest railroad point.
It is on the Virginia border line. Some be
lieved that Wils Howard would post detachments
so as to shut off all communication between
the town and the outer world, and
await the moment when he could make an attack
on tho town with the best chance of
carrying all before him.
Harlan Court House is so situated that a
war may bo waged upon men in it with the
attacking party well protected. The town
has about four hnndred inhabitants and is
on the banks where Martin's Forks joins the
Middle Fork of the Cumberland River. Poor
Fork empties into the main stream about a
mile below. On both sides of the town
rugged hills rise. These are so close to the
place where Judge Lewis and the citizens
were entrenched in the court house building
that the Howard gang could pour a fusillade
into the structure from tho hills. In doing
this they would be fairly well protected and
will have the citizens at a disadvantage.
Howard is related to nearly half the people
in the county, and has relations in surrounding
places and friends at Pineville.
This fact has so far aided him in escaping arrest.
He is vindictive toward those who oppose
him, and has sworn that he will nover
Be capturcd.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
It is said that Buffalo Bill will take his
"Wild West" show from Paris to St. Petersburg.
Sarah Bernhardt is reported to have
made an immense hit with "Theodora" in
Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, the English artists,
are doing well at the Fifth Avenue theatre
in New York.
Maggie Mitchell made her first appearance
in New York city the present season in
her new play, entitled "Ray."
P. T. Barnum and his circus have gone to
England for the winter. They will be back
in !New York probably next April.
H. B. Farnie, whose name as an adapter
of comic opera is as well known in this country
as in England, died recently in Paris.
Dr. Nanse.v, the distinguished explorer of
Greenland, will visit this country next spring
for the purpose of delivering lectures. His
young bride will accompany him.
Edward Grieg, the composer whose works
arc just now so popular among musicians, is
a native of Bergen, Norway. He was born
in 1843 and is accordingly 46 years old.
Max Alvart, who was such a pronounced
favorite at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York city last season, has made a great
hit at Carlsrune in the role of Siegfried.
Robert J. Burdette, tho humorist, who
has been acting as pastor of the Lower
Merion Baptist Church, near Philadelphia,
during: the summer, has started on his lectur
ing tour.
Dn. Hans von Bclow will he heard in
New York city next spring. The eminent
pianist has been engaged for a series of
twenty concerts in the principal cities, bo*
ginning March 20.
Ir is said that there are at least 20,000
actors in England, of whom only about onehalf
make a comfortable living. If England
has 5000 actors who deserve to make a comfortable
living on account of their histrionic
capacity, she is at least twice as lucky as the
United States.
Christine Nilsson, the famous prima
donna, owns quite an amount of railroad
property in South America. Some of it does
not pay. Recently a judgment was recorded
in her favor in the Washington City Court
for $175. It was for interest due on bonds of
the Bogota City Railroad.
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan have
rent the synopsis of a new opera to Rudolph
Aronson, the New York operatic manager.
It is of a much lighter texture than ''The
Yoeman of the Guard," and the scene is
Venetian. Rehearsals were begun on the
opera at Savoy Theatre, London, with locked
doors.
The resources lavished upon the revival of
"The Dead Heart1' at the London Lyceum
contrast markedly with the pecuniary value
of the piece as originallv assessed by its first
proprietor, Benjamin Webster. Two hundred
and fifty dollars was all that Watts
Phillips received in the first place for the
copyright, though he was afterward presented
with $500 as an honorarium.
The Czar's presence at Berlin was not
characterized by enthusiasm, while the court
dinner Is said to hayVbeeri a dismal affair. j
1
CURIOUS FACTS.
A Kansas City boy has an Irish setter
dog which he claims can trot a mile in
3:89.
A citizen of North Hampton, N. H.,
has* been a justice of the peace for more
than fifty years.
In 1855 James G. Blaine and Melville
W. Fuller, the present Chief Justice,
were reporters on papers in Augusta, Me.
The Mississippi plan,under their prison
law, is to hire out the convicts to the
highest bidder, $7 per month being about
the highest price.
Within the past few years the area of
grapevines destroyed by phylloxera in
France equals about one-half the vineyards
of that country.
In Galway, Ireland, It is considered so
unlucky to catch sight of a fox that fishermen
will not put to sea if they notice
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A recent estimate places the amount
of South Carolina phosphate rock mined
and sold in 1888 at about 510,000 tons,
or 300,000 tons more than in 1880.
Two Indian skeletons, one of them that
of a child, were unearthed [in a gravel
pit on a farm near Columbus, Ind. The
grave also contained powder horns, deer
horns and the bones of animals.
According to a Massachusetts paper the
town of Plymouth boasts of the tallest
windmill in the world. This windmill
stands ll9 feet above the ground and has
a wheel eighteen feet in diameter.
Several cases have been reported during
the past season of honey bees that
have been killed in their search for
honey on fruit blossoms sprayed with
Paris green for the codling-moth.
According to a paper read at a congress
at Strasburg, Germany, thirty-two
per cent, of railway passengers in Prussia
travel fourth class, twenty-one per cent,
third class, 20.5 second and only 8.9
first.
A mine of natural shoe-blacking has
been discovered in Utah. It contains
sixteen per cent, carbon, thirty-four per
cent, aluminum and the remainder clay.
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Ih prUUUUCS U UiiC ^vuou uvv viwiij uwstroyed.
The Irish Pasteur, McGovern,in whose
family tradition has handed down a successful
cure for hydrophobia, recently received
$60 from a certain board of
guardians for curing four patients sent
to him by them.
Forty tramps went about St. Helena,
Cal., begging for employment. They
were set to work in a vineyard, but by
the next afternoon all except three had
"folded their tents like the Arab" and
silently disappeared.
Herr R. Fricke, the African traveler,
says that traveling in the Dark Continent
is so perilous, owing to the cannibalistic
tribes, that he has been forced to carry
a phial of poison which he intends to
drink if he should ever be captured.
The Countess Masrri, better known as
Mrs. Tom Thumb, is said to have fine
business ability, and she plans the routes
and makes arrangements for her traveling
company. She is the possessor of $5000
worth of jewelry, which she wears at her
performances.
William Crawford, twenty-two year?
old, who died recently in Chicago, was
peculiarly afflicted. He had only one
skin, which is to say that he had no outei
skin at all. The veins stood out all over
his body in the plainest manner possible.
From the time he was six years of age
young Crawford h#d been subject tc
bleeding spells, which were liable tc
break out at any time and on any part of
his body.
A Cnrious Story of Mistaken Identity
Prom Chicago comes one of the mosl
curious stories of mistaken identity
known to the annals of crime. In April,
1887, Michael O'Brien, a policeman, wa?
murdered. Timothy O'Grady was convicted
of the crime and sentenced to the
penitentiary for seventeen years for manslaughter.
At the trial O'Grady refused
to enter a r>lea of self-defense, which his
friends urged him tP make, but stoutlj
declared he was unjustly accused,though
the circumstantial evidence was conclusive
that he was the person who killed
the officer. A few days ago, however,
John J. Scanlan, the leader of the
"Mollie Mott" gang, confessed that if
was he and not O'Grady who killed
O'Brien. It seems that Scanlan had s
quarrel with O'Brien and was seeking to
murder him. Just as he was skulking
behind a corner to shoot the officer he
saw him engaged in a row with O'Grady,
and he seized the opportunity to kill his
victim under circumstances that threw
all the blame on the man with whom he
was fighting. At the trial it was shown
that the fatal bullet did not match thf
revolver which O'Grady carried, but th<
jury ignored this fact, which now proves
to be very material. O'Grady will now
he pardoned.
A Wonderful Dinner.
One of the most marvelous dinners ol
modern times was served in Antwerp t
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lew clays ago to a cuuipauj m un.u uuv
go about the world buying up animals fot
menageries. There had been a sale ol
the surplus stock of the famous Antwerp
zoological gardens during the day, and
buyers from all parts of the world were
there. In the evening the Anvers Zoological
Association gave a banquet to th(
most prominent persons present. The
menu was indeed a curious one. Daintv
omelets were made from ostrich eggs.
Rare fish from waters in the tropics were
brought thousands of miles for this special
occasion. The guests were served
with Indian antelope fillet; with hamcul
from the Russian bear; with Lady Amherst
pheasants; with a delicious young
tapir, roasted to a crisp; with tongue of
the South American bison, served witb
spinach; with lima cutlcts and broad
beans. The King of Holland sent a fine
boar from his forest, which was served in
the fashion of an ox at a good old American
barbecue. This altogether remarkaable
repart covercd twenty course?, and
it took six hours to serve it.
Story of a Violin.
A gentleman living in Richmond, Va.,
owns a violin which is associated with
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tue eany uisiujj w ?
of four violins connected with the early
history of that section of the country.
It'is marked, "Nicolaus Amati fecit,
Cremona, 1651," This violin was
brought to this country by Robert Bollinz,
the husband of Jane Rolfe, the
granddaughter of Pocahontas, who was
the daughter of the mighty Indian King
Powhatan, of Virginia. The violin is
of superior tone, volume and finish, and
has been used by many prominent performers
during the past century.
RELIGIOUS READING. ""
OMISSION.
It Isn't the thing you do, dear.
It is the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of heartache \
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word forgotten, B
The letter you did not write, ^
The flower you might have sent dear, '
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of the brother's way; , . i
The bit of hearthstone counsel
You hurried too much to say:
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone
That you had no timet?r thought for;
With trouble enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness.
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find?
They come in night and silence,
Each child's reproachful wraith, '
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late: j
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartachi
At the setting of the sun.
?Margaret E. Sangster.
SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.
The latest table of statistics for Sunday
schools in the United States shows that thereare
in all 101,834 Sunday schools, with 8,345^431
scholars and 1,100,104 teachers, making
a total 9,445,535 in the Sunday schools of .
the country. Pennsylvani i continues to bathe
banner state in the number of schools? J.<
8,729?though New York has more scholar*. ,:
Pennsylvania has 964.699; New York, 979,415.
Among the states, Louis- ?3
iana seems to stand at the '-W
foot. It has only 522 schools and 32,617
scholars. The little state of Rhode Island ^ exceeds
in its scholars by about 12,000t Of N;
the cities, Philadelphia is in the lead, with ) ,
C16 schools and 17a,865 scholars. New York ^ v
comss next with 600 schools and 172.000^
scholars. Brooklyn, the city of cburcne*
has 263 schools and 97,033 scholars, easily
holding the third place.
A PRACTICAL RELIGION.
TTa wont a roliin'nn thflt snftAM thft KtflTV
and tunes the voice to melody, and check*
the impatient exclamation and 'harsh rebuke,
a religion that is polite, deferential to
superiors, courteous to iuferiors, and considerate
to friends; a religion that goes into
the family and keeps the husband from be?
ing cross when the dinner is late, and keeps
the wife from fretting #hon the husband
tracks the newly-washed floor with bis
muddy boots, and makes tbe husband mindful
of the ecrapar and door mat: keeps the
mother patient when the baby is fretful,
and amuses the children as well as instructs b
them; cares for the servants besides paying
them promptly; projects the honeymoon in- .
to the harvest-moon, and makes the happy
home like the Eastern fig-tree, bearing on its
bosom at once the blossoms and the glory of
unripened fruit We want a religion that
shall interpose between the ruts and gullies
and rocks of the highway of life ana the
sensitive souls that are travelling over them. ? v
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DRINKING A FARM.
My homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in
a ten-cent glass of gin, let mo give you a fact ,,
to wash down with it. You say you have
longed for years for the free, independent
life of the farmer, but have never been able
to get enough money together to* bur a . .
farm. But this i* just where you are mis- ' yi
rnl-cowopol TOBN -COlt hftVO Heflll " *0
drinking a good imp: ovtd farm at the rate
of 100 square feet at a gulp. If you doubt i
this statement figure it out for yourself. An .'jS
acre of land contains 43,560 square feet.
Estimating, for convenience, the land at143.56
per acre, you will see that it bring* ,
the land to just one mill per square foot
one cent for ten square feet. Wow pour1 y
down the fiery dose and imagine you ar?. | y.:-.
swallowing a strawberry patch. Call inry*.
five of your friends and have them help you \
gulp down a 500 foot garden. Get on a pro- \
longed spree some day, and see how long a
time it requires to swallow a pasture large
enough to feed a cow. Put down that glass
of gin; there's dirt in it?100 square feet 6C
good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre.?Bob
Burdette. '
god's work and man's work.
Man's work in beautifying the earth is
very different from God's work. God's work
is seen in majestic peaks which pierce the
sky, in foaming waterfalls, iu pathless forests,
in tangled bushwocds, in rich valley^
I in ever-changing outlines 01 earm sou
heaven. Man's work appears in prim foot- ,
paths, in monotonously trimmed hedges, and
m beds of flowers S9t out with mathematical
exactness which suggests a neat diagram in
Euclid. We never tire of God's work in
beautifying the world; there is a newness of
surprise in it which never fails. We do
grow weary of the dead levels, the hard,
straight lines, the mechanical balance of
circles, triangles and parallelograms, into
which man "improves" God's work.
And wheo we turn to the Bible
and see that here a'so appears
! *hf> tnnclpd nrripj- of God's f ?ation?
depths and wandering maz>s, which defy
I the utmost reach of the human mind?w& .
recognize that the beauty of God's work in
the Book is like the beauty of God's work in
the world; and are thankful that, at least
within the covers of Holy Scripture, man
cannot introiuce the prim order of a dead
system. Humanly spaaking. the Bible would
not have been so new or so living a book today,
if it had not been written in the order
of a logical treatise, beginning with an exact
definition of God, and ending with a
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minutely precise exposition 01 oo\,u?w.v6^. _
God gave the Bible, as be gave the world, in
that apparently disorderly order wherein fl
appear the truest beauty and the deepest v
unity. God left to no man the work of
making trim flower-beds an 1 equally trim
systems of theology.?S. S. Times.
The people of God act a3 if the fields
so fully open to missionary labors would
ways be open, but this is not the case.
not occupied by Christian missionaries they
are apt to bo pre-occuped by other forces,
which are som.times even more difficult to -
encounter than the original heathenism of I
the people. Commerc -, with the immoral- B
itv of merchants who com3 "D1!*"*
eral name Christian, is a terrible hindrance I
to missionary labors, if it goes into a hea- I
then country before the people have learned ' H
the nature of missionary work. In Western
Africa todav the race is between rum and H
religion. Where rum has gone first, real re- J
ligion has had hard work to make headway. H
Moreover, if Protestants delay, the repre- H
sentatives of a corrupt Christianity H
are always ready to enter in H
and make the peopl-3 nominal con- H
verts, who are harder to b3 won to Christ H
tbun real heathen. The American Beard H
started a mission to Unizila's kingdom in H
southeastern Africa iu 1881, but through H
various caus-es it was not fully b9gun. Last B
year two missionaries arrived at the capital H
to begin the work, but the Portugese had B|
got there ahead of them, and they were <ent H
away with these words from ti e king: 'Tell H
those who sent you, your feet have de'ayed H
too long. Had y>. u been the fir.?t here to B
mourn th? death of mv father, yours would H
be the place now occupied by the Portugese. H
They came fir?t to mourn the death of my IH
father. They are my teachers and the teachers
of my people. I cannot manage two sets
c f teachers at one and the same time.?Baptist
Missionary. ]M
Tee Afghan Ameer's method of yengeance
on his rebel prisoners is pretty Bfl
highly dereloped. One batch, num- H
boring three hundred, were pat to
death three a day. One of the trio
was always hanged, dressed in yellow
and 7green, another was dressed in
black and blown from a gun, and the H
third was dressed in red and cut up
with a eword.
Kalakaea, Ulng of the San$wicfl jfil
Inlands, is writing another book. Its
subject has not been announced, but qj
rnvaltv 011 it is &&aiir?ui
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