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RIOT IN A GEORGIA TOW. j
A Conflict of.Races Results in !
Many Casualties.
The Governor Orders Troops to
the Scene of the Trouble.
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Some excitement was caused iu Savannah.
Ga.. by reports that a "race riot" was in progress
at Jessup. a village of about 1000 in
habitants fifty-seven miles sontInvest of
there on the Savannah. Florida and Western
Railroad.
The trouble started about iw< ouuck in
the afternoon, and was caused by the Marshal
of the town, D. Leggett, who attempted to
arrest a drunken colored man. who resisted !
and drew a revolver on the Marsha). He I
was immediately clubbed for his pains, j
and several other colored men who
were standing by drew their weapons
and began firing at the officer, who
was seriously wounded in two place*. The
Assistant Marshal, Matthew Barnhill, bearing
the firing, came running, but was shot
dead before he could do anything. Seeing
other whites coming, the colored men fled
toward the Ogeechee Swamp, which lies near
the town, and there rallied, and with several
newcomers charged the town. They were <
met by resident whites armed with Winchester"
rifles and revolvers and driven back
to the swamp.
As their number was constantly augmented
by new arrivals, the Mayor of the
town telegraphed for troops. A platoon of
the Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, was sent
to Jessup on the 8 o'clock train, ai med with
revolvers, sabres and carbines. Meanwhile
the colored men made another charge, which
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resulted in tne aeum ui ~ ?v
press lumberman, and in the serious wounding
of W. J. Woods, assistant station agent,
the uncle of W. H. Woods. One colored
man was also killed and several wounded.
Three were captured and locked in the local
jail. The colored men retreated to the
swamp and only made cue sortie, nothing
coming of it.
When this report was written several welldisposed
colored men were scouting for
the whites, and the information gained
by them, it was hoped, would result
1 in the capture of a large part of
the rioters. The list of casualties so
far as known is as follow*- Dead:
Matthew Baruhill, Deputy Marshal, shot
through the heart; W. H. Woods, cypress
lumberman, shot in the heart. Wounded?
D. Leggett, Marshal, shot in the face and
through, the legs; M. ?7. Woods, assistant
station agent, shot through both
thighs. Several others, whose names
could not. be learned, were slightly
? hurt. Among the colored men one was
^HITed outright and several wounded.
A second platoon of the Georgia Hussars was
sent to Jessup at night to assist in patroling
the town, and the Savannah Volunteer
Guards, Third Battalion of Georgia, held
themselves in readiness to inarch at
short notice. It was thought, however,
that the troops already there,
- with the townsmen and men from the surrounding
country, who were pouring in
rapidlv, would be strong enough to quell the
disturbance. Captain W. W. Gordon, of the
Georgia Hussars, who is a veteran of the late
war and a fine officer, was in charge of the
white forces.
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A EACH FOR LIFE.
Vain Efforts ol' a Train to Escape
From Runaway Cars.
A shocking accident occurred on the Den-'
ver and Rio Grande road, four miles west of
Walsenburg, Col., in which an engineer and
fireman were instantly killed, and a large
< amount of property was destroyed. A freight
train left Laveta, made up ol' two engines in
front and twenty-two cars of cattle, ten
freight cars and caboose, and an engine in
the rear. The train soon broke in three
?parts, anil then there be^on a race for life,
as the middle section was loose from the caboose
with no brakeman on it. The engines
ran about three miles, at the rate of over e
mile a minute down a grade ninety feet to
the mile, and here the middle section, with
twenty-four cars loaded with cattle and lumber
overtook them.
The first engine escaped, but the second
was instantly overwhelmed in a great mass
of flying wreckage, which buried the engineer
and fireman beneath it, killing them instantly.
Portions of timber on the flying
cars were thrown over 200 fest when the collision
occurred. Seven cars of cattle and
eight cars of lumber were piled up in the
wreck, and nearly all of the cattle were killed
or horribly mangled. William Gleyer, the
dead engineer, leaves a wife and one child.
Thomas Baker, the fireman, was a single man.
W. H. Ferringer and D. Edmonson, both
brakemen, were severely injured, and were
taken to the comDanv's hosDital at Pueblo.
PEOMINENT PEOPLE.
Dom Pedro claims that he is still Em?
^ peror. But he will remain away from Brazil.
Jay Gould is passionately fond of flowers;
while his son George prefers postage stamp
collections. 9
The new Chinese Minister at Washington
is a recluse, and much more fond of his books
t han of society.
Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, is
one of the best amateur tennis players in
fashionable London society.
The poet Whittier spent his eighty-second
birthday quietly and alone, in accordance
with his request to his friends.
Jefferson' Davis mustered Abraham
Lincoln into the service of the United States
in the Black Hawk war in 1831.
Speaker Reed has had lots of fun rutting
out and pasting the alleged portraits of him
in the illustrated daily newspapers.
King Wilhelm, of Holland, and th<- baby j
Alfonso XIII. of Spain, are respectively the
oldest and youngest of European rulers.
Mr. Strickbridge, of Maryland, is th?
youngest member of the House of Represen tatives,
being only thirty-three years of age.
Andrew PARvrarE thelron Kintr. is short
built, healthy-looking, and four ami fifty. He
is oppressively rich and correspondingly philanthropic.
Explorer Stanley's most striking feature
,is said to be his eye. His power over his
fellow creatures is iu the directness and force .
of his glance.
Kino Humbert, of Italy, has inhaled so
many cigars that his bronchial tubes have
become affected. He now sucks camphor
'instead of tobacco smoke.
Representative Lester, of Virginia, is a
Baptist clergyman, the first to sit in the lower
house of Congress since Rev. J. Hyatt Smith,
of Brooklyn, neld a seat in that body.
Edward Burgess, the famous designer of
Jrachts, recently remarked that degrees of
ongitude and latitude had been of more im- .
portance to him than college degrees.
Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, is a robust-looking, dark-haired
man of nine and thirty, doesn't look it, anil
talks with an incessant flow of animal spirits
Governor Fop.aker, of Ohio, is anxious
to take a long rest before he begins the practice
of law after his terra of governorship
expires. He contemplates a trip to Europe.
George Francis Train has curling gray
,hair and a weak tuft of chin whisker, and it'
"he were a trifle stouter and less frank of
manner would pr,ss for Secretary Noble in
"broad daylight.
Now that Browning is dead there is no
nH \\r? wit\h
jthe gift of genius above bis fellows, which (
marks him as the natural successor of the
^present poet laureate.
Dr. Sargent, the professor of physical culture
at Harvard, is distinctly opposed to ton
much exercise. Those who have been the
most successful in heavy gymnastics are the
very ones, he says, who are subject to nervous
complaints.
James C ampbell, of Philadelphia, seventysix
years old, is the survivor of President
Franklin Pierce's cabinet. He was Postmaster-General,
and among other members
were Caleb Cushing, Jefferson Davis and
William L. Marcy.
Representative Tucker, of Virginia,
was one of the last members o? tne Houi;e tc
draw in the seat lottery at the opeuing of the
session, and great was his surpriss, as well as
delight, when, taking it, he discovered that
jit was the seat his father, 11 r. J. Ksudolph
Tucker, first occupied when ho was a njern
;iw el that body.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
A CYLINDER burst in the cokc room of til
American Powder Mills, at South Acton.
Mass.. killing Charles H. Sanders and fatullv
injuring Joseph Hurd.
Fot'K firemen were injured in a fire that
destroyed the whole mansard roof and top
floor of the Presbyterian Hospital in New
York city. The eighty patients in the institution
were safely removed, but there were
many exciting incidents.
Most of tha electric light companies in
New York city have discharged their employes
and discontinued business on account
of the cutting of wires.
Mary Lewis and her son were instantly
killed on the Gettysburg Railroad at Carlisle.
Penn., while attempting to cross the track
in front of an approaching train.
J. Q. Prebi.e & Co.. of New York city,
one of the largest wholesale stationery firms
in the country, suspended juiyxnent.
Benjamin H. Day, founder of the New
York Sun. died after a brief illness at his
borne in New York city, in the eightieth
year of his age.
About forty frame buildings, comprising
nearly the entire business part of Pelrolia.
Penn.. have been destroyed by fire. Total
loss, $100,000.
Two men were killed and three injured,
one fatally, by an explosion in a quarry at
Tompkins Cove, N. Y.
A mother and child were fatally huraeo
by the overturning of a kerosene lamp it
New York city.
The New England Society held its annual
dinner at Delmonico's, New York city,
speeches were made by James C. Carter.
Chauncey M. Depew, John W. Noble. Mayoi
Grant and others.
A piece of timber projecting from a freighl
train raked the side or a passenger train
on the Boston and Maine Railroad, ai
Andover. Mass. Fifteen people were cut auc
bruised and several ladies fainted from fright
South and West.
The National Live Stock Commissioner?
met at Springfield, III., and adopted resolutions
for the suppression of contagious dis- j
eases.
At a corn shucking near Bristol, Tenn.,
two boys, named Richard Matthews and
Jesse Lemmons, quarreled over a joke. The
former stabbed the latter to death and then
attempted suicide. .
A colored barber named '\Doc" Jones
shot and killed John Westerfield, a white
barber, at Owensboro, Ky. Shortly afterward
Jones was lynched.
A cinder tap in the rolling mill at New
Philadelphia, Ohio, exploded, shattering a
portion of the building and instantly killing
a workman named Richard Horner. Another
man was badly injured.
Felix Kampff, an old German, has been
?entenced to hang at Charleston, W. Va., for I
the murder 6f his son and daughter.
Four train robbers near San Angelo,
Texas, killed a brakeman and had one ol
their number badly wounded. They got but
little booty.
The South Carolina House of Representatives
defeated a bill requiring railroad companies
to provide separate cars for white*
and colored passengers..
Diphtheria in its most malignant form if
prevalent in rtocKiora, iju. ine rv.owu.uiu
Seminary closed with fifteen of its pupils
down with the disease. There were over a
hundred cases, and many people have left the
:ity.
A fire broke out hi the Guernsey building,
in St. Louis, and before it was extinguished
the loss amounted to $350,000. The
fire was caused by electric light wires.
A great sensation was caused in commercial
circles at San Francisco by the sudden
md terrible death of Captain John H. Freeaian,
inspector for Lloyds, and F. R. Catton,
a wealthy wheat merchant. Both were
smothered while "inspecting the damaged
jargo of the British ship Durham, which was
cm fire at Port Costa.
Negligence of brakemen resulted in a
railroad collision near Saxon, Mich. Brakeaian
Ryan was instantly killed, and Brakeman
Connors and Engineer Chattam badly
hurt.
The Nebraska Bank at Pawnee. Neb., has
failed.
A family named Wilhelm, consisting oi
man. wife and child, were suffocated by coal
gas from their stove, at Akron, Ohio. William
Emmons, a colored man. living
about fifteen miles northwest of Lima, Ohio,
was murdered by parties who lay in wait
for him as he was going home.
One of the side bars of an engine on the
Northwestern road, two miles west of Lake
City, Iowa, broke loose, tearing through the
cab. John Anderson, fireman, was killed,
and two others were fatally injured.
The body of Joe Mooney, a tramp, horribly
burned, was found near Lafayette, Ind.
A gang of tramps who had whisky are supEosed
to have nuarreled and burned Moonev
to death.
Charles Stevens, first mate, and William
Higginson, second mate of the ill-fated ship
Durham, which was damaged by fire at Port
Costa were drowned in the- bay at San Francisco.
William Ecbanks, of Los Gatos, CaJ..
becoming incensed at his 10- year-old daughter's
refuel to hand him her wages, shot and
killed her. He then cut his throat with a ;
razor.
Robert Martin, a merchant of Martin?.
S. C., was waylaid and killed the other night
by unknown parties.
Mrs. Irene Skeels, who shot and killed
her husband while he was in the company of
a variety actress, was acquitted of murder at
Spokane Falls, AN"ash.
John O'Neill was shot and killed by his j
son-in-law. William Harris, at Butte, Mon. !
O'Neill was trying to shoot his wife, and
fired at Harris first. The Coroner's jury acquitted
Harris.
John S. .Parker, a Grand Army man and
formerly a well-to-do real estate dealer in
Kansas City. Mo., committed suicide by .lumping
into the Potomac River, at Washington.
Financial trouble was the cause.
"Washington.
The President the other day sent a batch
)f 12ti nominations to the Senate for Post
masters.
The Choctaw Nation of Indians, in a me
moriat laiaoeioreine oenaie, protests agaiust
right of way through ttie Indian Territory
being granted to the St. Louis and San FranL'isfo
Railway.
William Reed Lewis, Consul at Tangier*,
Morocco, has been recalled by the President.
Ex-Pension* Commissioner Tanner has
Dpened a law and claim office in Washington,
and has been admitted to practice as a member
of the bar of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia.
TAe Grand Jury at "Washington has inflicted
Silcott, the absconding cashier of the
Sergeant-at-Arnis' office of the House of
Representatives.
The Secretary of State has been informed
by Consul Willard, at Guaymas, Mexico, of
the execution of I. I. Taylor, train robber
and assassin, who made an attack on a train
on the Sonora Railroad, killing the fireman
and conductor, both Americans.
There was delivered to the United States
Treasurer the other morning a large package
containing upward of $83,000 in notes, checks
and other securities, representing the money
left by the absconding Cashier Siicott.
Foreign.
A private cable dispatch from Rio Janerio,
Brazil, states that fresn disorders have broken
t>ut in that city.
By an explosion on the tank steamer Ferguson
at Rouen, France, one man was killed,
several were injured, and $150,000 in damage
was done.
Malietoa has been proclaimed King in
Sar:,oa and has been formally so recognized
by tbe Consuls-.
Advices from Shanghai state that the railway
projects in China have been suspended
owing to political intrigues and popular opposition
to the construction of the lines.
A shell, exploded in the Russian artillery
magazine at ltaku, causing a general explosion
of all the munitions stored there and the
destruction of the building. One hundred
thousand cartridges were destroyed. Four
persons were killed and four injured.
Many hundreds of arrests havetakon place
in Corea in consequence of the disoovery of a
plot made by the eh ef eunuch to assassinate
tiio King.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 190 to 98, passed a bill depriving tbe
clergy of tbe direction of &11 charities.
AT a banquet at which Mr. tarneii was entertained
in Liverpool, a check for ? 17,500,
the sum of the proceeds of the Liverpool ten-^..
ants' defence fund, was presented to tum^>The
steamers Leerdam, bound from Amsterdam
to Buenos Avres with 400passengers,
and the Gawquansia, bound from Calcutta
to Hamburg, collided in the North Sea and
both sank. All on board the two vessels were
saved.
The steamer Cloddy was sunk in the English
Channel in collision with the steamer
Isle of Cyprus; thirteen of the Cleddy's crew
were missing.
The warships Chicago, Boston and Atlanta,
of the American Squadron of Evolution,
have arrived at Lisbon, Portugal.
A\ executive decree has been promulgated
in Brazil, fixine September 15 as the
(lat? of the general elections; Dora Pedro and
the Royal Family r\re banished and the grant
to the Emperor canceled. Marshal da
Fonseca, the Provisional President, is said
to be dying.
Five deaths from the Russian influenza
have occurred in France.
William J. McDonald was found guilty,
i at St. John, New Brunswick, of the murder
of Mrs. McRae, to whom he sent, while insane.
noisoned candy through the mail.
"later news.
While crossing the railroad track to the
I station at Kinzers, Penn.. Mrs. Annie Mcll
j vaney end her eleven-months-old child were
struck by a fast freight train. The child was
instantly killed and the mother was fatally
injured.
Burglars who were surprised in Paul
Rubert's jewelry store at Tarentum, Penn.,
by his wife shot her dead. At 2 o'clock next
morning a man named Clark, a basket maker,
was arrested as one of the murderers.
Christmas Day in New York city and all
over the country was characterized by exceedingly
warm, pleasant weather, and summer
sports were generally indulged in.
Mrs David Edwards, of Stepney, Conn.,
was thrown f 10m her carriage and received
injuries from which she has died.
J. T. Fountain, of the Union Cattle Company,
Oinaha, Neb., was found dead in his
room in the Coleman House, New York city.
TifoMAS Emery & Sox's extensive candle
works at Ivorydale, six miles from Cinc-in
nati, unio, nave own uurueu. xivaa t-.-mLifted
at SilOO.OOO, 110 insurance.
Factions for and against the minister of
a colored Baptist church at Kar.sa? City,
Mo., quarreled during services. Razors
were drawn, and three men were fatally
wounded. Forty arrests were made.
Ex-Editor AVest, of the Chicago Timts, |
has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary
for an illegal over-issue of stock of
that paper.
Jonas Tramble. a spiritualist preacher,
killed himself at Wichita, Kan., while suffering
from emotional insanity.
A bank of earth caved in on three men at
Memphis, Tenn. "Walter Bodkin and an unknown
man were killed, and Frank McLaughlin
was seriously injured.
The funeral of Henry W. Grady, editor of
the Constitution, took place at Atlanta. Ga.
A great crowd attended, and it was resolved
to raise a monument to the dead editor's
memory.
Albert Reinold chose poison and Will- j
iam Turner a pistol with which to commit !
suicide at Salt Lake City.
Fire among business houses at Vicksburg,
Miss., destroyed property valued at 5=175.000.
Dr. Mcnroe, of Larch wood, la., in a fit of
jealousy shot and seriously wounded his wife
and cut his own throat.
In a fight between whites and colored men
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at iNasnviue, ienn., one man ?m hhcu mm :
two others were fatally injured.
Secretary Windom has invited proposals
for the right to take fur seals on the islands
of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska.
The Grand Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha will be asked to arbitrate the EnglishPortuguese
dispute.
Cipher dispatches from Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
say that serious fighting has occurred in
that city. It took two days to suppress a
revolt of Monarchists.
At L'Ange Gardien, Quebec, William Ford
killed his wife and then attacked his daughter
and sister-in-law. Failing in his attempt
to kill them he set fire to the house and cut
his own throat. The murderer and his sisterin-law
perished in the burning house.
EATEN BY CANNIBALS.
Four Men Killed and Roasted on the ;
Soloman Islands.
Caplain "Woodhouse, of the trading |
schooner Elma Fisher, the boat steerer 2\el- :
son, of the schooner Enterprise, of Sydney,
Australia, and three of the native crew of i
tho Enterprise were killed and eaten by the |
cannibals of the Soloman Islands. The En- i
terprise was trading among the islands, and
the natives from Hammond Islands, one of
the Koloman group, induced Nelson and the |
others to go ashore to make some purchases.
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and it is reported that their bodies were then j
roasted and eaten. The letter states that the
Rritish steamer Royalist shelled the village
on the islands on Captain Hand learning the
particulars.
SAILORS DROWNED.
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A Boat From tlic U. S. Steamer A I- j
batross Upsets.
A boat containing eight sailors from the
United States Fish Commission steamer
Albatross and a crippled newsboy left the AJ
batross at Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
and started for Vallejo. The night
was dark and the tide running strong, and the
boat upset when near the United States
ship Thetis. A boat was lowered from the
i Thetis and five men were rescued. John
[ Enright, a sailor who was on the Trenton at
Samoa; Robert Padgett, machinist; W.
W. Lee (colored* ana the newsboy were
drowned.
TIGHT WITH ROBBERS.
Farmers Refuse to Give Their Mortey
to Highwaymen.
News has reached Waco, Texas, of a fight
between four farmers without firearms and
two robbers armed with six-shooters, in
which one farmer, John T. Mathes, was
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wounded, and the other two were more or
less injured. The farmers were stopped on
the road by the highwaymen, who demanded
their money. The farmers refused to give it
up and the fight ensued. Jim* I/jper, supposed
to be one of the robbers, was arreste?l.
A BRUTE'S PUNISHMENT.
A Chinese Rascal Get Twenty Lashes
on the Back.
The flogging of Ah Sin, the Chinaman who
was sentenced to twenty la-shes for criminal
assault on a little girl, took place at Calgary,
Manitoba. Tho Chinaman was stripped to
the waist and fastened by straps to a triangle,
when Sergeant Hooper took his stand
at the left of tho victim, "cat"'in hand. It
has a tail of fifteen inches with nots at tho
end of each. After each stroke blue welts
appeared on the yellow skin. Tho victim
3-elled from start to finish.
Gsoiu;k Vandkrbjlt, the New York millionaire.
has bought 50tWI acres of land among
I the mountains crt Ashovjjle, North Carolina,
und will establish a splendid country place
there, lie will build a fine mansion for himself,
and hopes to gaiu pleasure and profit :
l'rom raising large crops and fine cattle. (
/-FfiOM FAR AND NEAR.
Important Occurrences in Various
Parts of the Country.
Death of a Noted Southern Editor
After a Short Illness.
Hem j* W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta
Constiiution, died of pneumonia at his home
in that, city a few mornings ago. About ten
days previous to his death Mr. Grady went
North as a special guest of the Boston Mer
chants' Association, in company with thirteen
other well-known Southerners. He was
suffering with a slight cold before he left
Atlanta, and Mrs. Grady was fearful that he
would become seriously "ill during his stay in
the North. After a reception at the Viemdome
Hotel, Boston. Mr. Grady delivered his
speech on the race problem He overexerted
himself, and when lie retired after midnight
was so hoarse he could barely articulate. He
left Boston for New York and when he arrived
there he was all choked up. Physicians
ordered him home at once.
Praj-ers were offered up for his recovery in
all the churches of Atlanta. Mr. Grady first
seemed to fear the result himself on the day
before his death. He called in his private secretary
and dictated a note of thanks to Colonel
John A. Colvin for a floral token sent
him, and, suddenly quitting this, he said:
>"seua worn ixj muiuei iu jhoj iui mr.
Tell, her, if I <lie, that I die while trying to
serve the South, the land I love so well."
Henry Woodfen Grady was born in Athens,
0a., May 17, 1851. Ho was educated at the
University of Georgia and at the University
of Virginia. His father was a wealthy business
man of Athens, and, although a Union
man and a supporter of Bell and Everett,
went with his State when she seceded. He
was killed while lighting before Petersburg,
where he commanded the 25tli North Carolina
Regiment.
At tho age of twenty young Henry was
editor of the Daily Commercial of Itome,
Ga. He left it to go on tho Atlanta Herald,
which he made one of the liveliest papers
ever printed in the South. It died in 187C.
For four years Mr. Grady did work for
Northern journals, and in 1680 bought a
fourth interest, in the Atlanta Constitution.
Since that time unbroken success followed
him. As a writer his versatility was great.
His intuitions were only equaled by the
acutencss of his perceptive faculties. His
famous speech on "The New South" at the
New England dinner three years ago made
for him a national reputation.
Lawlessness in Oklahoma.
United States Marshal Jack Walker, of
Wichita, Kan., has been called to Oklahoma
to quell the rowdyism now so prevalent
there, and which threatens to develop into a
reign of terror. Hie Kickapoos and Seminoles,
respectively the ins and outs in
the City Government, wage continual
strife, and, as the date of the
new election draws near, the feeling
becomes more and more intensified. The appointment
of a deputy marshal as City Marshal
has added fuel to the flames, and "the reports
of the trouble sent out from Wichita
nave still further separated the opposing factions.
The other evening a party of masked
men, armed with Winchesters, stopped a
newspaper correspondent on the street and
asked him if he knew a man named Thornton.
That was the correspondent's name,
and when they told him that they intended
to riddle Thornton and every other newspaper
correspondent with bullets, he sent them
in one direction after Thornton while he escaped
in another. Threats have been made
against the lives of the Deputy United States
Marshals, and Marshal Walker is calling for
support from all sections, in order to be fully
prepared for any emergency.
A Frenzied Mother's Crime.
Mrs. John Brady recently went to Huntington
Count)', Penn., to visit her aged mother,
Mrs. Lazier. She took with her her three |
boys, two, four and six years of age, I
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aim ii avh uaj o jip.-.- v,t
to another child. Subsequently she was
attacked with puerperal mania. Jumpin
from lier bed, she attacked and beat he1'
mother, and bit a piece of flesh from the
helpless old woman's arm. Then going to
another room she seized the little boys, and
attempted to dash out their brains. Mrs.
Lazier, weak from Joss of blood, staggered
to their rescue, but was tnrust from
the house by the frenzied woman,
pitched from the porch, and then
stamped upon. Mrs. Brady then lay
in the yard, whence she was borne to her bed
by furnacemen some time afterward. In
casting her boys from her the second, aged
four, sustained concussion of the brain and
died. Mrs. Lazier was confined to bed by
her injuries, and Mrs. Brady was in a serious
condition. Tho latter's husband, who is a
sea captain, returned from a voyage the day
after the tragedy, only to find his favorite
son dead.
Lynchers Get Kid oi' the Witnesses.
Several weeks ago JoeVermillion, the house
burner, was taken from jail at Upper Marlboro,
Md., by masked men and hanged from
a bridge. Two of Joe's brothers, who were
charged, with being accomplices, said at the
me that they could identify some of the
ti nchers, and wan-ants were issued for the
lyrest of some of the leading farmers living
ar the neighborhood. They were to have
In hearing in a day or two, and so
n ful were they of being convicted
fear they resolvod to get rid of
that rincipal witnesses. The plan agreed
upon was to subscribe sufficient money to
.. iuiii lmnd for all of the brothers
and the father and send them out of the
State. About thirty men called at the jail
and had a talk with the Vermillions. After
a consultation the brothers subscribed to an
oath that they would go away, never to return,
if liberated. Thereupon bail was furnished
to the amount of *1050, and *50 was
given to each of the liberated prisoners to
pay traveling expenses. Next night they
left the country.
A Fatal Cave-in.
A cave-in at Lane Mine, Angels' Camp.
Cal., has buried seventeen men. The shift
of sixteen men, under George Williams, went
down the shaft in the afternoon. At 3r.
m. a mass of rocks and earth, loosened
by heavy rains, fell into the shaft.
Those familiar with the mine said that
there was no prospect of rescuing the imprisoned
men, even should they have escaped
instant death. The mine is owned by
Alvinzea Hayward and AV. S. Hobart, mining
millionaires. It is reported that the
shafts were not properly timbered, and the
dangerous condition of the mine was ren
dered worse by heavy rains, which had prevailed
for three weeks. Most of the miners
were married and had large families.
A CycIouc in Kentucky.
The town of Pineville, Ky., was visited by
a destructive storm of wind and rain early
in tho morning. Several dwellings and three
business houses were swept away by the cyclone,
which only passed through the centre
of the town. Grant and James North,
brothers, received serious injuries. These
were the only ones hurt, though several people
had miraculous escapes. The loss is estimated
at about $50,000.
A TRAGEDY IN OHIO.
Charles Shelar K i I Is H is En t ire Fa m i ly
and Himself.
The village of Niles, Ohio, was thrown into
a state of excitement when it was discovered
that Charles Shelar, a^o thirty-five, had
killed his wife and three children and himself.
The deed was comrnited at an early hour in
kn mnrnimr hut. thp rb'spoverv was not made
until the evening. The crime was committed
with a razor purchased a few hours before.
All five had their throats cut from ear to ear.
The eldest child was seven year.? of ago and
the youngest two years. Jealousy is said to
be the cause of the crime.
Brazilian* titles of nobility are only held
for life, and are easily purchasable. The
Emperor Dom Pedro, who was a humorist
in his way, built and maintained a lunatic
asylum with the product of the titles he bad
conferred iu the course of his I0112 roicn.
Tiie German Government, acting upon the
advice of a military commission, has resolved
to commit the defence 01' coasts ami
harbors to the navy, thus following the
practice that has so Ions prevailed in France.
The Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy of
Ireland, arrived in Dublin, and was given an
enthusiastic welcome. The Trinity College ?
student* sang the uationsJ anthem. *
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. 1
In the Senate.
12th Day.?The House concurrent resolution
for holiday recess was presented and
concurred in....Among the hills reported
from committals and placed ou the calendar
was one granting medals to the survivors of
the Forlorn Hope storming party of
Port Hudson Among the bills introduced
in the Senate were the following:
By Mr. Sherman (reintroduced)?For the
preservation of the woods and forests of the
National domain adjacent to the sources of
the navigable rivers in the United States.
By Mr. Plumb?Giving preference in appointments
to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors, provided they* are found to have
the requisite business qualifications..
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of executive business. About
200 nominations were confirmed. .
After the doors were reopened messages were
received from the House announcing the
deaths (during the recess) of Representatives
Laird, of Nebraska; Townshena. of Illinois,
and Cox, of New York. Resolutions expressive
of the regret of the Senate were offered
by Senators Mauderson, Cullom and Evarts,
and were agreed to; and as a further mark
of respect to the deceased men, the Senate
adjourned.
13th Day.?A bill introduced by Mr Cullom
to establish a limited postal telegraph
service authorizes the Postmaster-General to
contract for five years with any existing
telegraph company for the use or its lines
for the transmission of postal messages between
free delivery offices, the PostmasterGeneral
having authority to determine between
what points the lines shall run. The
messages are to be prepared with stamps, at
rates to be fixed by the Postmaster-Genera]..
.Mr. Sawyer introduced
a bill to provide accommodations
for the Postoffice Department and
for the City Postoffice in the District of
Columbia Mr. Cullom presented a petition
from old soldiers in Illinois, asking that in the
Fifty-first Congress legislation upon the subject
of pensions be given the preference over
all legislation looking to a reduction of the
revenue... .Mr. Morrill introdnced a bill for
the promotion of anatomical science and to
prevent the desecration of graves in the District
of Columbia.
14th Day.?Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to
establish a uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States Mr. Reagan
offered a resolution, which was agreed to,
calling on the Secretary of War and the
Secretary of the Treasury for information
as to army officers and judicial officerplaced
on the retired list since March 31,
1888....Mr. Plumb offered a resolution,
which was agreed to,calling on the Secretary
of the Interior for a statement of the cause
of withholding patents for lands within the
limits of the Union Pacific land grant, which
are free from all claims, and were not rescued
at the date of the definite location of
ine roati.
In the House.
10th Day.?Mr. McKinley, from the Committee
on Rules, reported & resolution providing
for the creation of the following conv
mittees: Standing Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of Agriculture,seven1
members; a Select Committee on Irrigation]
of the Arid Lands, eleven members; a Select
Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
seven members. The resolution was
agreed to The following bills were introduced
itnd referred: By Mr. Funston
?Granting per diem service pensions.
By Mr. Breckinridge?For the issue of coin
certificates: also to modify the internal revenue
system^ also, declaring trusts unlawful;
also, for the better protection of the lives
of fishermen engaged in deep-sea fisheries.
By Mr. Boutelle?For the relief of the survivors
of the wreck of the Trenton and Vandnlia
and the stranding of the Nipsic at Samoa,
also, to provide for a naval reserve; also, to
promote the efficiency of the enlisted force of
the navy. By Mr. Lester?Declaring unlawful
a combination of any number of persons or
amount of capital for the purpose of governing
the price in the purchase and sale of stock,
cattle, beef cattle on foot or dressed beef. It
also declares to be unlawful the offering for
sale dressed beef which has been slaughtered
more than thirty-six hours and sfcippea more
than 500 miles. It imposes penalty for a
violation of the provisions of the bill.
By E. B. Taylor?To establish a uniform
system of bankruptcy. By
J. D. Taylor?Changing the time for the
beginning of the terms of President, VicePresident
and members of Congress. By
Mr. Anderson?For the creation of a United
States Commission of Arbitration of railway
strikes. By Mr. Thompson?Authorizing
the payment out of the colonization fund,
to every adult colored person who may desire
to emigrate to Africa, $100 for passage
and rations for sixty days, and one-half of
the same amount to minors, the payments
in all not to exceed $1,000,000 per annum.
11 th Day.?Mr. Cummings, of New York,
presented a petition of the Governor and citizens
of New Jersey for the relief of Mrs.
Delia 8. Parnell. Referred The Speaker
announced the standing and select committees
of the House. The Speaker also announced
the appointment of Messrs. Mason,
Cogswell, Strubel, Turner and Wilson as the
committee to investigate the ballot-box forgeries,
under the Butterworth resolution....
Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, said that a sense of
duty to himself, as well as to his constituency.
impelled him to resign as a member of
the Committee on Claims. The resignation
was accepted, and the House adjourned until
of+oi* hftllfloTC
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mr. boucicault espressssthe opnion that
in making plays the writing of the dialogue
is a matter of small importance.
There are in Italy at the present time 170
theatres open to the public, of which fortynine
are devoted solely or mainly to opera.
Anew opera is being composed for 1892,
during the Columbus celebration at Genoa;
the opera is to be entitled "Cristoforo Colombo.''
Gounod has been engaged to write a mass
for the inauguration of a monster organ in
St. Peter's, Rome. Four thousand s tigers
will take part in its performance.
Miss Letitia Aldrich, a niece of Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, is to make her appearance
in a comedy entitled "Maid Marian" in
Washington, at the National Theatre.
Mary Anderson is making plans for an
early reappearance on the stage. She is
studying "The Tempest," and hopes some
day to produce it as it lias never yet been
seen.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, of "Pinafore" and
' M ikado" fame, is short-necked, beetle-browed
and black-mustached, and keeps a secretary
for the sole purpose of refusing requests- for
his autogvapb.
Herr Mkyer-Helm vnd, the German song
writer, is about to make bis debut as an
operatic composer by the production of a
work entitled "Margitta" at the Magdeburg
Towu Theatre.
A new drama by Pettitt and Sims, entitled
"Master and Mnn,'r was produced at the
Princess's Theatre, Loadou. It is a romantic
play, replete with stirring incidents, and was
very well received.
The son of the Archbishop of Canterbury
has become stage manager of a theatre, and
the daughter of the Bishop of Gloucester appeared
in the Christmas pantomime at Her
Majesty's, London.
A NEW musical comedietta entitled,
"Crazed: or Queen of the Varieties," has recently
been written by Webster C. Fulton, a
Chicago dramatic writer, and is now being
played by Mrs. GeorgeS. Knight.
Ik the late William Shakespeare had been
wiseenougn 10 Keep mecopyrigntor mspiays
in the family, they would reap a rich royalty
in New York city, where seven of his great
productions were on the boards in one week.
The managers of the Carl Rosa Opera
Company are trying to get up a corner in
opera in England. "Faust" is theirs; so are
the Wagner oparas, except "Parsifal;"' so
are "Carmen," "Les Pechenrs de Perles,"
the "Talisman." and several others.
Bronsdn* Howard's ".Shenandoah-' will
stay at Froct? !'"> Theatre, New York city,
'until February -. The love incidents that
are interwoven with heroic deeds of war appear
to win great favor for the play and at
least pack the theatre at every performance.
(tilI)EKt and Sullivan's new opera, "The
Gondoliers; or, the King of Uurataria," recently
produced at the Savory Theatre, London,
was a success from the start to the
finish. According to the London critics, it is
a long time since these collaborators have
brought out so goorl a piece of work.
A itKAL, live. bona-Jide, dyed in the wool
Indian actress has appeared at the Third
Avenue Theatre, New York city. She n;
jices in the name of Go-won-go Mohawk,
.mil she appeared in a play called "The Indian
.Mail Carrier." She is a good horsewoman
and very skillful with both ri?e and bowie
knife.
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ENVELOPED IN FLAMES."
Fearful Scenes in a Detroit
Public School.
Fire From a Candle Sets Children's
Costumes Ablaze,
A singular and shocking accident has occurred
in one of the large public schools in the
northwestern part of Detroit, Mich., which
; had resulted when this report was written,
I in the loss of three lives and in the injury '
| more or less serious of a score of children,
i The scholars in one of the higher grade
rooms had been practicing after school hours
for the past two weeks on a Christmas cani
tata which was to have been given that day,
and to which the whole school was looking
j forward with great eagerness.
| After school was dismissed a final dress
| rehearsal was held under the supervision of
j the teacher, Miss Hattie G. Saunders, who
had been drilling the children. She was asI
sisted by two other teachers, Misses Dora
| Wads worth and Lucy Priest. Shortly after
4 o'clock nearly one hundred children, clothed
in fleecy garments trimmed with cotton batting
to imitate snow, and headed by Edward
Wheeler as Santa Claus, with flowing beard
and a great coat of cotton, gathered around
the piano to sing the opening caroi.
As they were about to commence the last |
song the room became so dark that Miss
Saunders sent one of the children for a tallow
candle. This was procured and placed upon
the piano, and the children all crowded as
I closely about the instrument as possible in
order to see the score. They were so intent
upon their music that no one noticed
little Edna Holland, one of their number,
crowding up toward the lighted candle
until the trimming of her dress caught
fire. In a second the child was
enveloped in flames. Before any one could
touch her, with wonderful presence of mind,
she dashed through the crowd and, making
straight for the sink at the end of the rofcm,
jumped into it and turned on the water, extinguishing
the flames after she had been
severely burned about the head and shoulders.
As she hurriedly pushed her way through
the packed crowd of children her burning
garments necessarily communicated the fire
to the equally inflammable clothing of all i
with whom she came in contact, and in an
instant the children standing most closely
in front around the piano, and all of whom I
were dressed to represent snow fairies, were
ablaze.
Seeing the danger young Wheeler, the seventeen-year-old
son of Captain James C.
Wheeler, Chief Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue, with great presence of mind threw
off his false beard and coat, rushed to the
other side of the room, tore down the flags
with which the wall was draped, and catching
several children one after another smothered
the flames by throwing the flags around
them. In this he was noblv assisted by Alexander
McMillan, another lad of about the
same age, who speedily followed his example.
Both were badly burned about the
i- i j
dhuus auu itujc.
In the meantime a scene of the wildest confusion
prevailed. A general stampede was
made for the stairs, and several children
were severely injured by being trampled
upon. As soon as the first of the children,
reached the street they screamed "Fire!"
and an alarm was at once turned in.
Following closely behind those who escaped
catching fire, three children, with their
dresses ablaze, rushed into the street. Fortunately
two men were passing by who
stripped off their coata and, enveloping the
terrified children in their ample folds, succeeded
in quickly smothering the flames. A
police patrol wagon and the nearest fire
engine were quickly on the ground, and
their men went at once to work relieving
j such of the children as stood in need of their I
I help.
But by this time the worst had already
I occurred. The three lady teachers meanwhile,
with another who was called from her
room by the shrieks of the half-crazed chilj
dren, were hard at word, at imminent perj
sonal risk, in tearing off the clothing from
| the burning pupils and rendering invaluable
service. All of them were severely burned
I about the face and hands.
Jennie Lankshear. a girl of sixteen, who
J was standing near the piano at the time of
orwiHont. nlnthpH in ft dress covered with
cotton batting, did not even have time to
move, and was found sitting on the piano
stool with scarcely a shred of clothing left
upon her body, which was terribly burned
from head to foot. She was so dazed that she
could not tell her name or where she lived.
She lingered in terrible agony until midnight,
when deatn ended her suffering.
Bertha, the fifteen-year-old daughter of
the Rev. E. B. Moody, a Baptist clergyman,
was so terribly burned from her waist upward
that she died next morning. Edith
Wheeler, seventeen years old, and daughter
of Roscoe B. Wheeler, patent lawyer, was
the one who ran into the streets in a blaze.
She died from her injuries in the afternoon.
The scene around the school house at the
time of the panic baffled description. A
throng of children came tumbling down the
stairs pell-mell, while a number put their
heads out of the windows and screamed for
help. An excited crowd quickly gathered,
adding to the terror and confusion bv their I
shouts and cries, until they were finally dispersed
by the police.
THE LABOR WORLD,
Sixty thousand women work for a living !
in Berlin.
A Louisville (Ky.) brakeman got $25,000
damages for injuries.
Some of the English trades unions are opposed
to Sunday work.
The National Barbers' Union has pro- j
nounced itself against Sunday work.
Chinese tanners in California get $1.25 a j
day: white men get from |2 to $*2.50.
I The Commissioner or Jjauor m uwu iwucu |
I that a number of girls were employed by a |
I concern which deals in objectionable litera- j
j ture.
Three hundred miners struck in Boulder j
I County, Col., and fifteen of the seventeen j
mines closed down. The trouble was about I
overtime.
Mr. Gladstone, the English statesman,
i announced that, he would be unable to lead |
the movement to establish a working day of :
; eight hours.
The junk and boatmen recently struck at
Canton, China. There were 00,000 of them, I
| and they succeaded in stopping all the traffic J
I and most of the sacrifices of the place.
A paper clothing company at Port Huron, j
Mich., employs 110 hands, and will soon have
I 500. It began in July with only three hands. I
j and is now 23,000 garments behind orders. j
| A women's trades association has been j
established, with the support of the Bishop
of Bedford and Lady Sandhurst, to secure
better wages and shorter hours for working- j
women in London.
In* some parts of Italy laborers get ten i
cents per day. Thousands suffer from hunger.
They use the plows of 3000 years ago.
One province has 74.000, and tney never i
tastad meat nor wine.
The Central Railroad of Georgia has just |
ordered 1200 first-class improved freight and j
refrigerator cars and twenty-three new pas- |
senger coaches, representing an aggregate .
cost of over iiair a million aonars.
The Foster Hardware Manufacturing
Company, of Boston, which has large plants
in Florence, Ala., and Cincinnati, Ohio, is
about to remove its remaining plant, which
employs ~(K) men, to Fort Payne, Ala.
Delegates representing the Mule Spinners
of New Jersey and the New England i
States held a convention at Fall River, j
Mass., and formed a federation to be called j
the National Mule Spinners' Association of j
America.
Hekr Heerfdhth, Russian Minister of j
the Interior, has given notice that the Gov- }
eminent fvill prosecute all workmen who en* j
gage in strikes or in any other manner
abandon their employers without giving
proper not ice.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is having con- j
structeJ at its eastern shop a steam fire- :
engine upou trucks, so that the apparatus j
may be quickly transferred to put out fires i
along the line. The engine will also he J
used when cars ignite in consequence of a j
wreck.
The building which was occupied by .let.erson
Davis after the capital of the Confederate
Government bad been established o?
Richmond, Virginia, aud was. known as flu"White
House of the Confederacy,'' has since
the war been used as a grade school building.
Now it is to he replaced by a more commodious
structure for public schcoJ purposes.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Four big sausages, made for S. I>.
Hill, of Lctterkenny, Pcua., filled a
bushel measure.
An accomplished youug man of London
is employed by a fashionable stationer
to write speeches for wedding:
breakfasts. 'V'ii
The year 2118, according to the Presi- 1
dent of the Manchester Geological So- . '
ciety, will see the exhaustion of the
English coal.
'
Farmer Harms, of Kings County/;.^
Oregon, cut down a cottonwood tree ...
recently, from which he took 700 pounds >
of fine honey.
An Allegan (Mich.) minister recently ?
astonished some of the world's people
down there by lifting a 300-pound box
of chickens and depositing it in a wagon.
Mrs. Hiram Peters, colored, of Ritchie
County, W. Va., has just found her son, :i
?r -i? ?i r t tt?
wno was sioien wiieii an imuui. nc ??
now a clerk of courts in Iowa, and is ?
worth $20,000.
Governor Joseph C. Yates, of New?. .*
York, was buried in 1837, at Scbenec- "
tady. The other day the body, when
taken up for reburial in New York - '
city, was found to be petrified.
A Northampton County.(Penn.) farmer
while butchering the other day struck
a bullock with a sledge-hammer, and left,
the animal for dead. When he returned ;
from his breakfast the bullock was finishing
a chest of meal.
A citizen of Hawkinsville, Ga., wiu>
was suffering from asthma, was advised - j
to try a remedy sometimes used by thecolored
people. He got a hornet's nest,
boiled it, made a tea, drank the liquid -.2
and was completely cured.
A girl at Reading, Penn., postponed,"*^
her wedding because she was unable to- <
secure the white horses owned by a cer-_ - j
tain liveryman for the date sh'e had fixe<LjiJ
The animals are in great demand for wed-^yg
dings and are said to bring luck to the .7
bride.
A newspaper ia California relates that ^
after a rain storm, which occurred therelast
November, many people "of Angles '
Camp, Calavcms County, got money 3?
enough for their Thanksgiving dinners -!?!>! >/?
iib in fho Qtreofq nni? m
uy jetting ? _,j~,
the shallow streams.
Many families on the shores of the
Straits of Mackinaw, Mich., will buy no flour
this winter. The recent wrecks
there enabled them to get hundreds of "
barrels of it?and no questions asked. Some
wreckers have flour to sell at twenty- .:
five cents per barrel.
In some of the Indian villages of British
Guiana, South America, a traveler noticed
many tamed animals?such as parrots,
macaws, trumpeters, monkeys, toucans,
etc.?which were used as currency to
adjust balances in the bartering be--V
tween the different villages.
The feat of playing twenty games of
checkers simultaneously and winning all . .
but one, which was a draw, was recently '
accomplished by Clarence A. Freeman,,
in Providence, R. I. His contestants
were experts from all over Rhode Island,.
The play lasted one hour and forty
minutes.
Recently a party of hunters in the n*igh- borhood
of Fairfield, Iowa, brought to town
in a wagon 847 rabbits, which they
VinH shot in a dav's hunt. Another party
brought in 150, aud it is a common things
for a single hunter to capture twenty oi<\
thirty in a day. The country is overrun's
with the pests, and much damage to fruit.
trees and vines is the result.
Thomas Edwards, of Erie, Penn., was
walking along the street the other day
when his dog came up, pulled his coat and
tried to make him retracc his steps.
He turned around and followed the dog 2
a short distance and picked up a fine revolver.
The dog seemed to know that
the weapon was valuable, although it was
too heavy for him to carry in his mouth.
The Gigantic Drago 1 Tree.
The most gigantic specimen of the
famous dragon tree of the Canary Islands
stood, until within the year, and still
stands, for that -matter, but dead as a |
mummy, near Oratava, on the island of
lovrrncf- r>( flip <rrnun above
XCUL'llilUj lllVs itu^vuv v* vt.w
mentioned. This monster warty dragon
has been fully described by dozens, yes,
hundreds, of globe-tourists who have
"done?' the sights of the world during
the past fifvy years. Some o." these writers
have set it down as rivaling in age the
pyramids of Egypt and the burial moundsof
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
Measurements of this botanical monster,
taken at the beginning of the fifteenth
century, 400 years before Humbolt's visit,
show that the tree did not perceptibly increase
in size during the intervening centuries.
ITow long must have been the time required,
if four centuries of vigorous
growth did not add one foot to the giant's
circumference, for it to have gro'vn from
a slender withe to a titan 45 feet :n
cumference?
No wonder that the great Humbolt did
not even make provisions for a doubt
when he calmly says: "I would con- \
nidr-r it at least 10.000 vcars old."
To the native Canary Islander the
dragon tree is as sacred as the bo tree is
to Ceylonese, and the rites perforrae<Hn
its immense hollow, which Hum bolt says s*vwould
comfortable provide shelter for
twenty men, was as mystic if not as
horrible as those performed around the
cannibal tree by the Australian .savage?.
Wild Horses of the Sierras.
7 here is said to be a large baud of wild
horses, led by a thoroughbred known to
the stockmen as the ''Outlaw Stud,"'ranging
between Truckee, Nevada County,
and Penvine, Nev. Years ago the stud,
a fine racer, escaped to the mountains and
has since defied capture. By desperate
riding stocKmen manage to get miu mc
band every year and drive out tlic colts.
The horses range on the highest peaks beyond
where cattle or sheep often go.
They only go to water once a day, and
then in single file down the mountain trail
as fast as they can run. They go back at
their leisure, feeding by the way.?Gram
VaUty Tidings.
To Avoid Accidents in Factories.
A very usci'ul invention, tending to
lessen the possibility of accidents in lactones.
is now being extensively adoptvl
in England. The breaking of a glass,
which is adjusted against the wall of
every room in the mill, will at once stop the
engine, au electric current being established
between the room and tli^^*
throtle valve of the engine, shutting off
the steam in an instant. Jiy this means
the engine was stopped at oik of the
mills recently in a few seconds, and a
young girl, whose clothes had become
entangled in an upright shaft, was re?,_<
ased uniD.jured. > j