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CRUSHED BY A WALL.
Fatal Fire in a Silk Mill at
Catasauqua, l'enn.
An Explosion Kills a Number of
Volunteer Firemen,
At 6 o'clock in the morning tire was discovered
in the largo new building at Gatasau
qua, Penn., ownei and occupied by the Unicorn
Silk Manufacturing Company, of NewYork,
with offices at 38 and o.*> Greene street.
An alarm was quickly sounded, l>ut owing to
the hour, the fire companies, which are composed
of volunteers, mainly workmen employed
in the different furnaoas, factories
and mills, wer> under the impression that
the whistles were, as usua', calling them to
their day's work, aud did not respond until
the fire had beoii burning about twenty ruin
utes.
Upon their arrival atthe s^sne ot i,he conflagration
considerui)!-! ?!itlii-ulty wa< experienced
in s?rc wat?r lor the tiro mi"in?
as the mill va? 5' li!' !i a bllitf
looking the Lehigh and Navigation
Company's >..*nal and the Lehigh River, halt
a mile from the town. They -an their engines
down a hilJ on the other side to the canal,
and soon hail two streams of water on the
building, which was by this tnue a uia^s of
flames.
The mill employed 350 hands, mostly females.
They were to have commenced work
at 6:30. While they were assembling shortly
before that hour tire was discovered if.
the dyeing-room. The place was without
sufficient fire protection, and the
flames spread rapidly. The em.
ployes rushed panic stricken from the mill
and all got out safely. When it was seen
that the mill was doomed the firemen and
| others devoted themseives toward saving
goods, while another force got on top of a
one story addition and on the roof.
Suddenly there was a terrific noise ami 1
. the flames, and it was at once known that a
steam-pipe had exploded. Tae report cause!
A the great crowd to retreat, but they had only
Hmne a few steps when a section of the sonth
Ul of the mill nearly forty feet long and
P^oSUt four feet wide fell with a crash and
f landed on the roof of the new addition, thirty
feet below. The fall of the wall is
supposed to have been caused by the concussion
of tne explosion. A mo nent later the
air was filled with smoke and steam and a
?fir rvf hnrmr ?rr>so when it was discovered
that thirty men had been buried in the ruins.
The work of digging them "out was at once
commenced, and after hours of hard work
the bodies were all taken oat.
The killed were as follows:
Ulysses Everett, aged twenty. Scalp cut,
both hands and arms burned and internally
injured. Died at St. Luke's Hospital shortly
after being taken there.
Charles A. Frick, fouuier, age.l twentyfive
years, and having wife and three children,
burned and crushed. Died three hour3
after being recovered.
John Good, member of Phoenix Fire Company,
head crushed, aged twenty-five years,
has wife and child.
John Lottejeanni, boss dyer, aged forty,
has wife and child. Instantly killed under
falling walls.
Three other men were fatally wounded
and about thirty were badly injured.
The fire is supposed to have been caused by i
spontaneous combustion in one of the packing
rooms. At 11 o'clock the flames were
under control. The loss on building is $50,000,
on machinery ?35,000, and on stock $25,- i
000. The Joss is partially covered by insurance.
Catasauqua is a centre of larje mining interests.
A few years ago the authorities cast
about for some industry that would afford
?mployment for the large female population
of the place. la Paterson they
opened negotiations with the proprietors
ot the present Unicorn Silk Manufacturing
Company, which ended in the Catasauqua
Improvement Company building a
mill tor the silk company, the latter to pay
the interest on the investment and to buy the
building at a stipulated price if it should at
any time wish to.
Prilled her husband.
Lizzie Ackerman's Crowning Act in
a Career of Infamy and Disgrace.
A sensational shooting occurred in the
Police Court at Memphis, Tenn., resulting in
the death of Jake Ackerman, a well-known
thief, highwayman and train robber. Ackerman
was arrested on a charge of wife
beating. When the case was called in the
Police Court the prisoner and his wife
were standing side by side. Ackermau spoke
to her and at the same time handed her a
written request for some clean clothes.
The woman bent her head for an instant to
hear what he had to say. and then, without
warning, drew a revolver from beneath her
cloak, and presenting it within a few inches
of Ackerman's abdomen, pulled the trigger.
Before any one could realize what had
happened, she fired two more shots at Acker- j
man, who had fallen to the floor and was I
writhing in agony. An hour later he was
dead. Ackerman was a notorious crook.
nt /"vttt\ nnnrim t*t mr>v a a i
n UJb'JUJJ DUAOl in 1JDAAO.
Gainesville Flooded 'and Forty
Dwellings Swept Away.
M A terrific storm of rain and hail visited
Bpainesville, Texas, deluging the streets to the
Hlepth of three feet and destroying over $50, )00
worth of property. Thero was a
Kloud burst after the storm had ' besu i
B*aging for four hours. A creek which j
Mows through the town overflowel and
Hwept away forty dwellings, but the whole '
Hown came to the rescue, and only one life
Bras lost. Mrs. Gestman died of fright iu
RBBfe|tens of a man while being carried from
MCflSHme. The streets were knee deep in
for t wo hours, and an immense amount
B^^H>perty was swept away or destroyed.
RMK>orts from the country show that the
(Hp have suffered, and many farms were
B^BJer water.
I THE LABOR WORLD.
B The labor agitation increases.
The first local union of printers was orHanized
in 1S31.
The labor situation in France, Germany ;
Hnd England, is serious.
The convention of working-girls has closed i
^es sessions in New York city.
H A general strike among the cigarmakers i
Hi New York city is threatened.
fl The lanrost iron coal-breaker ever erected i
i being put up at Drifton. Penn.
It is estimated that 2,001000 men are now
ut of work in the United States.
In Sheffield, England, there are about six
undred artisans who play the violin.
The strike fund of the United Brother- j
ood of Carpenters and Joiners is over $200,- >
X).
There are three men invhe State Prison in
iregon each of whom cut off a hand to avoid
rork.
A stove molder in a Rochester iX. Y.)
rnndry recently found a ?20 gold piece in
is sand pile.
Among the 17,000,000 wage-workers in the |
nited States, only 5,000,000 belong to labor j
ganizati on*.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a j
,w giving married women the control of i
ieir own wages.
Female barbers have opjned shops in i
rery large city, and have generally failed i
:*u;
^^Mll/UlU a aivui.u,
^HThe Reading Railroad is adopting eco- [
HB)rnic&l measures, aud at least 7000 men are .
Hit of employment
^HThe increase since 1836 in carpenters'
^Hages alone caused by the eight-hour sysamounts
to fully $4,000,000.
brown-stone cutters have had the <
N^Bt-hour workday for flftean years. They !
B^KoOO strong and earn $3 a day.
^hThb Knights of Labor, as a body, are op- '
^B>eed to the eight-hour movement, but they i
^Hkve tacitly agreed not to oppose it.
HThe Russian Imperial Council has passed
SB bill prohibiting children under twelve
^Aars or age from working in factories.
^HCo-opzratxvx stores and dwellings for
^Arking people have been started in North9^K
Italy, and they are meeting with remarkHbsaocw.
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TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle Stares.
The annual report of President D wight, of
Yale University, New Haven, Conn., shows
total gifts to it during the Dast year of $"!?,000,
and total gifts since he took the o31ce in
July, 1886, of $1.244,390.
Almost the entire business portion of the
village of De Ruyter. N Y., has been defrayed
by fire. Fifteen buildings were
burned arid seven families rendered homeless.
Loss about $75,000.
Noah aged oixty-tive, a member
of a' Gypsy camp near Trenton. N. J..
j killed hi* wife and tu?jn shot himself fatally.
i JiTD<;i;X. B. Bearosley, of the Superior
I Court died of pulmonary apoplexy it
I Bridgeport, Conn He was ?ixty-seven
j old, and had a widespread reputation 2* ?
! juri.it
Lawyer George B. Ives, a member of an
old, and proud Salem (Mass ) family a
j graduate of Harvard and recently Assistant
j District-Attorney of Ess.-x County, Mass.,
I is a self-confessed forger to tlu oxte;'* ->f
j over fcHOOO
Cov?'et. E W Davis. Under Sheriff of
j Essex County. N. J , disappeared leaving a
. ill) in nNancouuts.
a few <lav.> ago, at one time, twenty-two
'1 ~.'i ,M' fit teen men j SSYJu
! !a\ unidentified in the Morgue in New York
city
| Caspek yoer, Chiof of ^h?* Money Order
I Department in the Newark (NT. J.) Pootottir?,
is in the County Jail. a confessed defaulter in
; the sum of ?V>00.
John J. O'Brien, the well-known Republican
politician of New York city and exChief
of the Bureau ot EieOti'JU*, di-? I Km
Bader's Hotel, Coney Island, aged fortyeight.
The Pittsburg Commission Company, the
largest bucket snop iu Pennsylvania, lias suspended
payment.
Mrs. Anastasia Parsells uied at her
daughter's home in Bayonne City, N. J.,
aged 104 years and forty-three days.
The Uuited States sloop of war Yantic,
which is now taking a rest after her run
from Hayti, has been ordered to the Brook1
V -XT \ V A" A fna. ? .,,3 n.x,,
ijll ^i. x.j iiavjr intu lkji suitcj uuu i,uu*
aeatnation.
Al Daggktt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has
been awarded the contract for furnishing the
Census Bureau with manila cards. About
one hundred million are to be used in the
j tabulating machine.
At the court-martial of Commander McCalla
at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard,
the defendant's counsel made an unsuccessful
attempt to show a conspiracy against his
client.
A boat containing four men was capsized
on the lake at Newport, Vt., and three of the
men were drowned. Thoy wero Edward
Foss, clerk at the Memphremagog House;
Edward Green, an employe of the hotel, and
Joseph Robitaile. Arthur Moore, the fourtli
occupant, swam ashore.
Maximilian Albrecht, Count Pappenheim,
of Bavaria, and Miss Mary W ister
Wheeler were united in marriage at the residence
of Mayor Fitler in Philadelphia, Pe.in.
The Count belongs to one of the oldest families
in Europe, and is worth $3,000,000. The
bride is also wealthy.
Judge Wallace, of the United States
Circuit Court, granted a writ of habeas
corpus at the mstanca of Lawyer Roger M.
Sherman, in the case of Keminler, the murderer.
who was to have bean electrocuted in
the Auburn (N. Y.) Penitentiary, &nd the
constitutionality of electrical executions will
be argued before the Federal Courts.
South and West.
Sim Garrett and Jerry Te3l, who were in
jail at oan .Augustine, lexas, una caarge 01
attempting to poison Colonel John H.
Brooks ana family, were taken from the jail
md lynched. Convenient hooks in front of
i butcher shop were converted into an impromptu
gallows.
Ax earthquake, lasting nearly two hours,
with, in some cases, as many as thirteen successive
vibrations, occurred on the Pacific
Coast.
There were additional breaks in the Louisiana
levees.
Michael L.vnt:, a San Francisco (Cal.)
stonecutter, shot and fatally wounded hU
wife, and then blew out his brains.
A terrible explosion of dynamite in the
drug store of H. K. Doane at Delavan, Wis.,
wrecked one building, badly shattered several
others, killed two men and severely injured
three others.
Thirty-two non-union workmen were assaulted
by strikers in Chicago, 111., and one
man was injured fatally.
The Congressional Committe3 bagan tiie
investigation in th9 Clayton-Breckinridge
(?amfo-f of 7 ifH.? Rrtnlr ArL? if lira oc^arl'a 1
that the murderer of John M. Clayton dial
in 18S9 near Los Angeles, Cal.
A hailstorm in Baltimore, Md., lasting
eight minutes, was thought to have broken
about 100,(XX) panes of glass.
At Point, La., a family of fivj colored
people named Watson were drowned by tha
great flood.
A small fly has made its appearance in
the wheat, hay and oat fields of the Maryland
peninsula and is doing great damage.
The falling c f a brake rod on the Cincinnati,
Old Point and Washington express
caused an accident at Staunton, Va., by
which one life was lost and eight porsous injured.
All the injured were miJibars of a
theatrical organization.
Destructive prairie fires have been raging
on the Sioux Reservation in South
Dakota. A man named Shoun lost fifty
head of cattle and narrowly escaped with his
life. The fires were set "by Indians, who
have since been arrestod.
The cead bodies of two infants, one white,
the other black, horribly mutilated, were
found wrapped up in a newspaper near Birmingham,
Ala.
At the Convict Camp, on the cotton belt
road, four miles north of Black Jack. Texas,
four convicts made a break for liberty. They
wore fired upon by the guards, and one was
killed and another fatally wounded. The
other two escaped.
The sufferers by the overflow in Concordia,
Tensas and other parishes of North
Louisiaua are being fed by the planters,
who are strongly opposed to the distribution
of Government rations.
The steamer H. B. Plant, of the St. John's
River Line, m Florida, was burned. John
Collins, Albert Mallory, a waiter boy, and
a deck hand, all colored, were burned to
death.
William Lambert, the richest colored
man in Michigan, committed suicide
while temporarily insane, by hanging himself
in his woodshed at Detroit. Ho was worth
$100,000.
Washington.
The President nominated John P. Jaoksou
to be Assistant Unitjl States Treasurer at
San Francisco, Cal.
The President signed the joint resolution
of Congress appropriating Slo J.O-')) for the
relief of the sufferers by the Mississippi
flood, and also the World's Fair bill
President Harrison has issued instructions
that no obstructions shall be offered in
Florida to the work of Federal officers.
Mrs. James A. Garfield and Mr. and
Mrs. J. Stanley Brown, the latter of whom
is Mrs. Garfield's daughter, visited the White
House for the first time since the death of
President Garfield, and were received in the
red parlor by President and Mrs. Harrisou
and Mrs. Mcfcee.
President Harrison has appointed exGovernor
David H. Jerome, of Saginaw,
Mirh fo he Chairman of the Cherokee
Indian Commission, vica Angus Cameron,
resigned.
Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the
Mint, has submitted to Congress a report on
tha production of the precious metals for
the calendar year. ISS'J.
Thb United States Supreme Court decided
that the law of Iowa providing for
seizure of liquor in "original packages" was
unconstitutional.
Representatives of nine of the American
Republics?namely, the United States of
America, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador,
Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Havti and the
United States of Brazil?signed* the formal
treaty of arbitration in Secretary Blaine's
office. Ten of the seventeen nations partici- |
pating in the Pan-American Congress have
now signed the document.
President Harrison sent to the House a
message vetoing the bill to provide for the
erection of a public building at Dallas, Texas.
[ A delegation of twenty young colored
men called on the President and urged the
1 anointment of Edward P. McCaoe, of
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Oklahoma, as Secretary of that Territory.
The colored people form nearly one-third
of the population of Oklahoma.
Foreign.
The oil refinery of Sir W. A. Rose & Co.,
at Bankside, London, has been damaged by
fire to the extent of $600,000.
Mexican forces under General Hernandez
attacked the Yaqui Indians at the Canonez
de Jubsibenps and La Conia, and after
several hours of fighting routed them. The
Mexicans lost one officer and two soldiers and
five soldiers were wounded. The Indian loss
I was heavy.
i Five sisters named Domovieroflf, the
1 youngest nineteen years old, committed suij
cide at M cow, Russia It is believed that
I fear of ?rr ?8t as Nihilists Kl to the commis'
s'ou 'jf ihr deed
; A SUMMEB COTTAGE.
; A Two-Story Frame Dwelling With
. Ail City-House Conveniences.
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?Vtr the heated term t!i?iv? j- more comfort
probably in a '-otuige iik" tb- one i I lustra
| tiug tt.is artt-'it? man in*ay A-.n?r. us aoors
r and windows "X9JJ wayward breeze
that blows. IU wide veranda provides 19*^
outdoor life and its large hall with fireplace^
a cheerful place retreat during a stress of
PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
weather. View ed ''broadside on1 this cottage
presents quite an imposing appearance.
Bplow will be found a condensed description:
Size cf Structure: Front (width) 17 ft. 9
in., uot including veranda; depth,56 ft. 9 in.,
iucluding veranda.
Haight of Stories: Cellar 6 ft. 6 in. first
story. S ft. 6 in.: second story, 8 ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls Foundations,
stone: first story, clapboards second
story and gables, square butt stiiugles;
roof, shingles.
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FIRST *STORY.
Exterior Colors: All clapboards and
shingles on side walls and gables, gray all
trim, white roof shingles, oiled veranda
floor and ceiling, oiled.
Interior Finish: Rough brown plaster
tinted and yellow pine trim.
Accommodations: All the rooms and their
sizes, closets, etc., arc shown by the plans
given herewith. Besides these, there is. a
cellar under the whole house and storage
room in the attic. All city-house conveniences
are provided.
Special Features: Style of exterior, colonial.
Open timber ceiling in hall and dinine
room. A more descriptive name for the hafl
would be living room. E:,ery room may
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fl Bedroom.
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second floor.
j have the most thorough ventilation.
Cost: With "plank" frame, 18000; with
I balloon frame, $2500. '"Plank" frame requires
somewhat less material and labor; in
[ appearance it is quite equal to ballon frame.
As usually built a small frame house will
bear twenty times the weight that is usually
required ot' it. Plank framing sacrifices
some of this unnecessary strength.
R. W. Shoppell, Architect
A HUGE PRINTING JOB.
The Enormous Quantity of Blanks
Prepared tor the Census Bureau.
The Government Printing Office at Wash;
1?.. thu inrcrpst single iob
lllgUJll UU* JU3VUUIOUW. Q 0 - ?
ever undertaken, in printing for the Census
Bureau 20,000,000 enumeration blanks. The
paper required to print this number of blanks
amounted to 11,4.>8 reams, each sheet measuring
22x30 inches When printed and cut
these made 20,000,000 sheets, 18,000,000 of
which were 11x15 inches and 2,000,000 of
which were 15x22 inches in size.
The thickness of each ream measured
inches; therefore if it were possible to stack
all these blanks they would make a pile 6510
feet high, equal to one and one-quarter
miles. This would make a solid column of
i paper over eleven times as high as the Washington
Monument. If laid end to end these
blanks would form a continuous line of papar
4955 miles in length, or as far as from San
Francisco, Cal., to New York city, and from
there to New Orleans The paper would cover
25,208,333 square feet. Its total weight was
458,336 pounds; or over 229 tons.
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NUGGETS OF NEWS.
A Selected Budget of the Latest
Dispatches.
&reat Damage and Suffering Inflicted
by Floods in Texas.
The mcst destructive flood ever known
in the history of North Texas has just passed
through the Trinity River at Dallas, Texas.
The great rain raised every tributary of it
far outr of their banks. During the night it
rose rapidly, and at 10 o'clock In the morning
passed the highest water-mark in fifty
years. In front of Dallas, Texas, it was two
miles wide, extending to the foot' of
Flanders Height west and to Oak Cliff
south of the city. Ou the north all residences
from a hundred vards bayo;;d Co* aran
I street were submerged, some to the second
floor and others to the attic. No one had
been i e|K>rted drowned.
Back water extended far up on the north
Bide of the city, while ou the south houses
were submerged as far up as Ward street
north. South and in front of tho city there
i was one vast ocean of water thirty and forty
! feet deep. Its like has not. iieen seen.
I Trains on all the railroads, the Texas
Pacifit*; r',e Missouri Pacific, tlio Santa Fo
I and the Gr*?u. "i"<V?ere not running west,
! north or south of fhncifiv: "TTrJiiiiii^tS were re
j ported a!! along t!<?ir line*, but th^ worst were
j immediately around the city. Gangs of men
were watching tiie bridges over the Trinity
j Kiver and k<iopiug off the drift. Th? crest
j ot' the waves larkr i sir feet of
| the ilooriug of th<* bridge.-, in
j the ' itv. but -the Saui.i Fa Ceuffal's
1 bridges below town were reporter!
submerged. News front thd surrounding
country is bad. Small bridges have been
destroyed by the deiuge. In lew], few ar3
left. The destruction of crops will amouut
to little or nothing, for as soon as the ua^er
goes down they will grow again.
The storm of Friday will be a memorable
one. It extended from the Indian Territory
to the Gulf, from Marshall to Abilene. There
was not a stream, however small or great,
that was not raised high above its high water
mark. At many points were hurricanes and
one genuine cyclone. Many houses were
blown down, but so far not a single life has
been reported lost. A norther was blowing,
and fires were quite comfortable.
Stanley in London.
Henry M. Stanley, the explorer of Africa,
arrived' at the Victoria station in London.
There was an immense concourse of psopI?
inside and outside the station and he was
given a most enthusiastic greeting. The
Duke of Abercom, Baroness Burdett-Coutts
and a large number of other friends of the
explorer were awaiting to welcome him.
The Baroness presented Mr. Stanley with a
bouquet. He silently bowed his thanks and
then entered the carriage of the Baroness
and drove off with her.
The hour of Mr. Stanley's arrival at
Dover was 3:55 o'clock. Disgraceful confusion
prevailed on the pier when he landed,
owing to mismanagement by the local
authorities. .titty reporters were
present and they came near having a conflict
with the police, owing to thendefiance
of certain orders which the reporters
regarded as unwarranted. A
number of Mr. Stanley's friends, among
them being Mr. New, the American ConsulGeneral;
General Sir Garnet Wolse'.ey, and
Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador,
and others of prominence wera unable to
get aboard the steamer which brought Mr.
.Stanley. The authorities of Dover presented
an address to Mr. Stanley. He replied with
a few words of thanks.
At the command of the Prince of Wales,
Mr. Stanley, Dr. Parke, Sir William Mackinnon
and Sir Francis De Winton want to
Sandringhara, where they were to remain
several days.
Three Horse Thieves Whipped.
The whipping of three horse thieves at tha
county whipping post at Georgetown, Del.,
attracted a great crowd. The culprits, J.
Owens Isaacs, John T Owens and Joseph
Hamiltou urj connected with the
leading families of Sussex County.
The culprits themselves and their
friends expected to get orders from the Governor
for the remission of the whipping part of
the sentence, and were sorely disappointed.
The crowd that gathered to witness the floz
ging was the largest seen at Georgetown on a
similar occasion for many years. It was
composed of men, women, and children,
women carrying their babies and men driving
for miles with their families to see the
show.
The whipping was in a public square in
full view of the windows of the surrouuding
houses. Each window was filled with spectators.
The whipping was done by the
Sheriff of the county, who used small
switches, two of which ht? wore out on the
back of each man, giving them twenty lashes
each.
The first man was put in the pillory about
10:30 o'clock in the morning. Each stood an
hour with his head in a wooden yoke and his
hands raised above his head, and was afterward
whipped. The exhibition ended at about
1:30 p.m., after which the prisoners were
committed to jail. This penalty carries with
it perpetual disfranchisement, and this fact
was the source of greatest grief to the culprits.
Harrison's First Veto.
President Harrison sent his first veto io the
House. In his message, returning without
approval the bill "to authorize the city of
Ogden, Utah, to assume increased indebted
ness." He says:
The general law fixes the limit of four per
cent, on the last assessment for taxation
as the limit of indebtedness which a mu
nicipal corporation in the Territories
may assume. This bill extends this limit
as to Ogden to eight per cent. 1 do notdoubt
that the citizens of Ogden will ultimately
realize that the creation of a municipal
debt of over half a million dollars by a
city of 15,000 population, being about $37
per capita, is unwise.
Fatal Firo in a Miss.
Firs started in the North Tamarack shaft
at Hancock, Mich., near the surface pump,
a boy being in the mine at the time.
The flames reached the shaft houss, but were
soon extinguisheJ. Captain Joseph Roberts,
John Thomas and Johu Rowe were
affected by the gas. Roberts was brought up
nearly suffocated. Thomas was insensible and
fatally burned, and Rowe was dead. The
pump boy, John Williams, was found
drowned at the bottom of the shaft 360 feet
from the surface. The fire is supposel to
have caught from the boy's caudle.
Terrible Accidcnttoa Pleasure I'urty.
While returning from a trip to Lafayette,
a party of young people met with a
shocking accident near Lima, Ohio.
1 fr^k?nnn,l fa,.
A liCXl UUi 3C3 UC^CilllC Lll^UUCUUU uuu tun
into a stone wall, killing both of
them, and dashing the occupants against the
stone abutment of a bridge. Minnie and Gertie
Pierce were instantly killed, and Ella
Hawkins and Clif Church were fata'ly injureJ.
A Village Blown Away by a Storm.
Yorkville, Ark., a village a few miles
southeast of Cotton Plant, iu Woodrufl
County, was entirely blown away during e
heavy wind and rain storm. Hundreds of
cattle and stock were reported killed, but
there was no loss of life, so far as could b{
learned.
FREAK OF A MADMAN.
A Canadian Fanner Drowns His Three
Children in a Raiu-Barrel.
A well-to-do farmer named Marion, living
about two miles trom oneiDurne, uub ,
Canada, drowned three of his children in a
barrel of rain-water, and than attempted to
drown himself in a creek. Ha was found on
the bank of the creek by neighbors in a critical
condition and there was no possibility of
his recovery. No reason is known for the
rash act.
ELEVEN OF THE MOB KILLED
Troops Fire on*' Anti-Semitic Rioters
With Terrible Results.
An anti-Semitic mob, numbering 1000 persons,
after invading the town of Biala in
the Government of Sledlee, Galicia, sacked
the shops and dwellings of the Hebrew inhabitants.
The troops were called out and eleven perI
sons were Killed and many wounded.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
In the Senate.
92d Day.?The Committee on Privileges
and Elections presented a National election
law Mr. Teller introduced a silver bill
The Land Forfeiture bill was debated... .Mr.
Sherman introduced a bill appropriating
MO,000 for the erection of a memorial building
at Marietta, Ohio, to commemorate
the acquisition of that territory
and ite normal settlement The
House bill to transfer the Revenue Cutter
Service from the Treasury Department to
the Navy Department was agam taken up
for consideration. The amendments reported
from the Committee on Naval Affairs
were agreed to. Mr. Sherman spoke in opposition
to the bill .. .The bill appropriating
550,000 for an equestrian statue of General
Stark, at Manchester, N. H., was passed. ,
93d Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was discussed at great length by Messrs.
Call and George; no action was taken ;
Mr. Gibson offered a joint resolution declaring
the profound sorrow of the Senate at the !
announcement of the death of the Hou. Ed- !
ward J. Gay, late a Representative from the ,
Suite of Louisiana. The resolution was
agreed to, and, as a further mark of respect.
tb>? Senate adjourned.
?-?tfr Day.?The joint resolution accepting 1
tli? donation of the battle sword of the late !
Captain Sainyl Chester Reid, tendered as a j
gift by his son, Saum?lC. Reid, and providing
for the presentation to him by Congress of a '
a gold medal, extensively discussed....
I The following bill-; were passed: To carry '
! out (in party) the terms ot the agreement '
I with the Sioux Indians of Dakota for the
T"2iRrxf?r-*i.'.rtion of their reservation, and an- j
^oprialinc*purpose; mi- I ;
tliorizing the Secretary of tTT?>-?w*?rlor TO
negotiate with the Turtle hand of Chippie
Indians for the cession of their reservation. I '
to pay $50,000 to Albert H. Finery, of Stani- j
ford, Conn., for the use of his patents by the '
Government, with an amendment increasing }
the amount to $rA5,000...'.The Senate in ex- I 1
ecutive session confirmed the nomination of j '
John G. Fremont. Major-General, United j '
.States Army, retired.
'.'"th Day.-The Mississippi Hoods were ;
discnssoil without action... .The bill to in- j
corporate the American Society of the Son* '
of the Revolution went over without action j
Mr. Moody introduced a bill authorizing
the Secretary of War to employ iis many '
ministers as he may deem necessary,
to be assigned as chaplains in
the army at a salary of $1200 a year
Mr. Blackburn introduced a bill for the
admission of Arizona. Referred Mr. Ingalls
introduced a bill granting a pension of
$6 a month to all persons who served in th.?
late war not less tnan three months nor more 1
than one year; to those serving more than a
year and not exceeding 800 days, 48 a month,
and those who served over 800 days, one cent
per diem for each day's service. No person
who is worth $5')D0 at the time of filing his
application shall be entitled to this service
pension.
96th Day.?The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was passed The Administrative Cus- j
trims hill wn? disoiiBtnri Mr. McPhei'SOll
introduced a bill granting a pension of $52500
a year to the widow of General George B.
McClellan; also introduced a bill to purchase
Alexander Lawrie's picture of General
George H. Thomas, at a cost not exceeding
$3000.
9Gth Day.?The Customs Administrative
bill was discussed, and Mr. Vest's amendment
1o it was rejected Mr. Culiom reported
favorably the bill introduced by him
to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission
to prosecute inquiries into alleged
violations of the law by means of special
agents, who shall have authority to take testimony,
administer oaths and send for per*
sous and papers.
In the House.
102d Day.?In committee of the whole on 1
the Legislative Appropriation bill, the question
of the Civil Service was debate! at
length.
103d Da.y.?The House in Committee of !
the Whole took up the Legislative Appro- J
priation bill, and continued the discussion of
the Civil Service Commission... .Several !
New York importers protested against the
Dingley Worstad bill.. .Mr. Bland introduced
a bill to reduce taxes by placiug on the J
free list all imported goo is exchanged in for- !
eign countries for farm products.
104th Day?By appointment of the Speak- 1
er, Mr. Burrows acted as Speaker....The
House then went into Committee of the !
Whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the Chair) '
? it. t ? *?? Kill MV 1
JU luo juugisiaui ve -rvpuiu^ji lauiuu cut* . I
Bland introduced a bill to admit free of duty
goods, wares and merchandise purchased in
foreign countries with the proceeds of farm
products of the United States.
105th Day.?The Speaker laid before the j
House the message of the President returning
without his approval the bill to allow Ogdeu,
Utah, to increase its indebtedness. Referrjrl
to the Committee on Territories
The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill was passed The bill to
create Rock Creek Pane, in the District of
Columbia, was defeated. '
100th Day.?In Committee of the Whole <
the bill providing for classification of worsted
cloths as woolens was discussed and reported;
no action was taken by the House....The
Senate resolution was concurred in concerning
the irrigation of the arid lands in the
valley of the Rio Grande, and the construction
of a dam across that river, at or near
El Paso, Texas, for the storage of its waste
waters... .The House then proceeded to consider
a bill removing the charge of desertion
from William Dawson. The bill was passed
?yeas, 127; nay 3, 88.... A bill was passed increasing
to $100 a month the psnsion of the
widow of Rear Admiral Nicholson Mr.
Bingham reported the Postoffice Appropriation
bill.
IOGth - Day.?The Senate Service Pen
Will ....... I ??,1 Thn
Imwu win ?aa auicuuvu cuiu ^aoocu. . . auu
Worsted bil' was Dassed.
EIGHT STOWAWAYS PERISH.
Terrible Sufferings of Twelve Japanese
on a Steamer.
Ghastly stories of the sufferings of stowaways
on a steamer from Japan to Hong
Kong come by mail from China. On the day
after arriving at Hong Kong, on opening
a compartment near the water tanks,
eight dead Japanese were discovered, and
four more who wero still alive. All of them
were naked, their clothes having been discarded
on account of the intolerable heat. The
compartment is about three feet high and
two feet wide, and extends across the ship. In
this cramped place twelve persons, one a man
and the other women, had been stowed for a
waek. The survivors wore terribly bloated,
and had used the corpses of the dead to lie
on to escape the heat of the iron plates. The
man had induced the women to go with him
to Hong Kong, and as the Government refuses
to permit women to emigrate, he had
tried smuggling, which ended so disastrously.
Thev had a supply of food and water with
them, so that starvation was not added to
their other sufferings, but that any of them
should have survived a week's confinement
iu such a place is simply wonderful.
The man was one of those
who succcm'ued, but the old woman
survived. The survivors were iu a shocking
condition. Their bodies were swollen
and covered with prickly heat. They at
once received such attention as those on
board were able to give them. Warm
batln were provided and clothing was supplied.
FASTED POETY DAYS,
Signor Succi's Remarkable Abstinence
From Food.
Sueei completed his forty days' fast in
London, England, in the presence of thousands
of spectators. At the commencement
of his fast he woighed lif> pour as, ana niaeuy
t wo at its conclusion, and had lost ope inchin
height. He broke his fast in public on the
>taje. At the conclusion of his first meal he
was presented with a gold medal an 1 the
]>rj.ss gave him another. Succi declared that
lie never would fast again.
Si^aor Succi has done similar fasts before
this. He is a rival of Dr. Tanner, but alleges
that he works on a system that will be of
benefit to humanity in the future. He has
been experimenting in the animal and vegetable
kingdoms for years, and claims that he
has at last found a vegetable from which he
compounds an ingredient which is to displace
the necessity for all substantial food, and yet
sustain the germs of life to its allotted number
of days.
Succi claims that his elixir will eventually
be used by doctors in cases where abstention
from solid food is desired, also for soldiers on
the march when food is scarce. English
physicians wt tchad the course of Succi's fast
'lay by day.
PRECIOUS METAL PRODUCT.
Report of the Director of tlie
United States MintThe
Heavy Coinage of Gold and
Silver Last Year.
Edward 0. Leech, the Director of the
United States Mint at Washington, has submitted
to Congress a report on the produc
tion of the precious metals for the calendar
year 1889. from which the following figures
ire taken:
The gold product of the United States was
1,587,000 fine ounces of the value of #32,800.
XX), against $33,000,000 in the preceding calsndar
year.* Of the gold product of the
Unite 1 States $31,959,Oi7 was deposited at
the mints for coinage and manufacture into
bars
The silver product of our own mines for the
calendar year 1889 was approximately 50,W0,000
flue ounces, of the commercial value
>f SW), 750,000, aud of the coinage value of
N>4,fJ46.4fil, against an estimated product
"or the catandar year 1888 of 45,783,032 fine
unices, of the commercial value of $43,020,
i _ c A.t_ r 1 iar nt\n
jvu. auu 01 me coinage vaiuc ui, >u, ir>.i,vv/,
in increase over 1888 of about 4,210,UC8 fins
unees. of the commercial value of $3,730,Mft.
In addition to the silver product of our
mines, about 7,000,000 outlets of silver were
extracted from lead ores imported into the
United States and smelted in this country,
Ifii't over 5.000.000 ounces from base silver
principally from Jltxico,
making the total pi oJu(?f-v? '
tei's, niul refineries about 02|ug'JJw?*4lj]^
ounces of silver. Of this amount the Gotf5"!*
imment purchased for coinage 27,125,357
niiK-es; there were used in the arts about 0,!)0??,000
ounces; tliere were exported to Hong
Kong. Japan, and the East Indies about 9,? >,(>:>')
ounces; and there were shipped to
London for .-.ale about 20,000,000 ounces.
Colorado still maintains tlrst rank among
producing States wiJhau aggregate product
id' gold and silver of over *2?.000,000. Montana
stands next with a product of #22,S94,D00.
California produced $14,0:34,00J, of
which #13,000,000 were gold, being about
two-fifths of the total gold product of the
United States. Utah shows a largely increased
product, notably in silver. Idaho
and New Mexico report an increased product,
and Arizona and Nevada a reduced product
for 1889. The gold product of Dakot*
(South) increased from #2,600,000 in 1888 to
$2,000,000 in 1889. Oregon and Washington
both report increased products, the former
having produced $1,200,000 in gold. The
States of the Appalachian rauge show a
slightly increased product of gold over 1888.
TUa AAt'nana nf f V?r* minfa fnr fVia na lanrlor*
year 1889 was as follows: Gold pieces, 1,338,012;
value, $31,413,031. Silver dollars, pieces,
34,051,811; value, $34,651,811. Subsidiary diver
coins,pieces, 8,378,811; value, $814,872.15.
Minor coins, pieces, 04,772,283; value, $1,283,408.49.
Total pieces, 109,140.917; value, $58,194,022.64.
In addition to the coinage, gold
iad silver bars were manufactured at the
mints and assay offices as follows: Gold,$22,349,752.28;
silver, $0,223,751.09; total, $28,572,503.37.
Gold bars were exchanged for
;old coin free of charge of the value of $26,H3,753.
The quantity of silver purchased for the
silver dollar coinage was 27,125,357 fine
junces, costing $25,379,510, an average cost
jf 93.56 cents per ounce tine. The amount
of. silver offered the Treasury Department
tor sale during the year aggregated 47,965,"00
fine ounces.
The total amount of silver purchased for
the coinage of the silver dollar fro.-n March
I, 1878, toDacamber 31, 1389, was 271,632,593
Sne ounces, costing $291,470,95(5, an average
;ost of 11.06.13 par ounce fine. The coinage
af silver dollars for the same period was
319,938,001 pieces. At the average cost of
silver for the whole period the cost value
af the silver dollar is eighty-two cents,
rhe average price of silver in London during
the calendar year was 93.5 cents per fine
ounce, and the average price of fine Dars of
silver in New York during the same period
was 1)3. G cents. The highest price reached
during the year was 44% pence, and the lowest
price was 41 15-10 pence. The shipments
of silver to India during the year aggregated
MO,000,000, and the amount realized from the
sale of Indian Council bills about 177,000,>00.
The net loss of gold and silver to the United
States by excess of exports over imports of
the precious metals was a-! follows: Gold,
538,880,753; silver, $14,788,000. Total $.j3,575.410.
LATEK NEWS.
Thk complications of the American Life
Insurance Company and kindred corporations
in Philadelphia, Penn., resulted in the
suspension of the Bank of America. The
total deposits of the bank were estimated at
$700,000, divided among 4000 depositors
mostly poor people
Ground was broken in New York city for
the Washington Memorial Arch.
Adolphus Robertloy and Frank Wells,
aged seventeen years, were drowned in the
Mohawk River at Schenectary, N. Y. They
were returning borne from a fishing trip,an-'
in some way their boat was capsized.
The Grand Jury in New York city presented
an indictment against Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World, and his
assistants, John A. Cocker ill, Julius Chambers
and James F. Graham, for libeling exJudge
Hilton and A. T. Stewart.
Richabd Snitke, a German farmer living
near Rochester, Minn., shot and killed his
only child, a boy of three years. He then
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Av Tniiion Anosticio Uu?0. who
had been arrested for horse stealing, was
taken from a box ear at Banning, Cal., by
vigilants ana hanged to a telegraph pole.
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, has
been asked to send troops to Perry and Knott
Counties to suppress lawlessness.
The President has nominated Willis H.
Pettit to be Surveyor-General of Idaho, and
Samuuel A. Swiggett to be Register of
Laud Office at Helena, Montana.
It was estimated that there had been a decrease
of $?',o00,000 in the public debt since
April 1.
General John* C. Fremont was commissioned
as a Major-General in the United
States Army, and was almost immediately
afterward placed on the retired list.
William: P. Campbell, of Illinois, has
bo jn appointed Assistant General Superintendent
of the Railway Mail Service under
the law recently passed creating that offico.
Queen- Victoria has returned to Windsor,
England, after her continental tour.
The Senate at Madrid, Spain, has approved
universal suffrage.
A revolution' broke out in Paraguay.
Several person* were killed and many
wounded.
The discovery of the plot to proclaim the
Duke of Oreleans of France led to the
flight a.' thl Duke of Laynes from Paris.
13arney mcGitiuk, aged 85, who haa
been in prison thirty-five years of hia
life, pleaded guilty, in Rochester, to
larceny, paving he had no home or
friends,, and wanted to go to prison for
life. The judge gave the old man a
fourteen-months' sentence to Anburn.
A very ingenious electrical device
has lately been patented by which the
hands of a clock set to a certain hour
are made to complete an eleotrio current
connected with the kitchen stove,
so that the fire is started when the
given hour arrives.
TEMPERANCE. 11
TRY HI* ONCE MOBS.
Poisoned by alcohol, blear-eyed and illy clad
Cursing bis fate as he shuffles along.
Crushed aud bereft of the once earnest will
he had,
Penniless, homeless, and jeered by the
Friends have assisted him, pastors have
prayed with him?
He has been rescued and lost o'er and o'er.
;3ut do not give him up?pull from his lips
the cupSpeak
to him kindly and try him once
more. #
l hough 'tis disheartening never to thriv#
with him,
Sad his relapses from virture to shame;
iivehiin not hopelessly up if you strive with
Some ^sparlc of good may be fanned to a
Some potent memory?haply a mother'i
Teaching him virtue and wisdom of yore
May be recalled to his ear by another's voice.
Speak to him kindly and try him once
more.
Christ in His charity taught those who came
to Him,
111 deeds should be pardoned seventy times
seven.
Succor the least here aud you do the same to -V ^
Him,
These are His precepts in earth and in
heaven.
Ob. then, wh^n laboring hard for humanity.
Never believe that you labor in vain,
Kindness will conquer the drunkard's insanSpeak
to him gently and il,ry him again,
?Francis S. Smith, in Nirw York Weekly.
w, INTKMPERA SCE HEAD3 THRUST.
-I^^jjAjitreiwrt of the British Comrnis.
iiSlii tables showing the
sioners of LunSSy^^l by th? medical
causfs of insanity as ^Ttbi ijjt j f 13a
officers of the institution in tE^SS^
178 patients who have beer, nlr-'^-i ,
public and private asylums since 1887.
causes are'classified as "moral" and "physi-^^^^^^^a
cal." As might be expected, "intemperance
in drink'' heads the list of single causes, with
18,290 cases. Of "moral causes," "domestic
trouble," "adverse circumstances,'' and ^
"mentalanxiety and worry, aud overwork,"
are collectively held responsible for 25,897
cases. Of other moral causes, "religious excitement"
is credited with 3769 cases, "love
affairs" with 2234, and "fright and nervous , . ;3?
shock" with 1953. Of physical causes, "over
exertion" is credited with 761 cases, "sunstroke"
with 1686, "accident or injury" with . '3
4199, "diseases of women" with 11,315, "old
age" wtli 5773, "privation and starvation"
with 2607, ''fevers" with 880, "puberty" with
582, aud "other bodily diseases or disorders"
with 14,719. Previous attacks had occurred
in 0?> Tn^nouaj Tlara^if-irr infliionno vau no.
certainediu 28,063, and congenital defect in
5881. As between the soxes, 66,918 were of
tie male and 69,560 of the female sex.?
[tyutar Science Monthly.
THE ALCOHOLIC CONSTITUTION.
It is on" of the most distinctive effects of
alcohoi that when the taste for it has once
been acquired it makes for itself a special
constitution which may most faithfully be
designated the alcoholic constitution. When
this constitution has once been formed it
renders everything else subordinate to itself,
according to the degree of alcoholic influence
that has been established. Thus the
person really temperate in the use of alcohol
holds by his temperate habit, as firmly as
he who has established in himself the more
dangerous habit of Inebriety. These effects
are purely physical, and they can be induced
in animals inferior to man, by training, just
as easily as in man mmseir. may are dependent
on the affinity which alcohol has for
the matter of the brain and the other nervous
centres; in which centres it forms a habitat
for itself, from which it can only be removed
by long-continued total abstinence?
Voice. - 'v?g
FOUR KINDS OF ALCOHOL SUFFERERS.
Many persons go on for years under the
simple action of the moderate effect of alcohol;
they are never affected beyond the first
stage of "its action, and always assume that
they feel the benefit of it. Others who have
got so far are tempted to go a little further
under some excitement, recreation, work,
worry, or one of the many incentive.? for
stimulation, and so work themselves into the
habit of the second stage, which is l?ss easy
to restrain than the first. Others slip habitually
into the habit of the third degree, become
regularly intemperate, and so fixed in
intemperance that they are all but irreclaimable.
From this last group spring those
lowest in the series of the habitual alcoholics,
who suffer from, general paralysis, and who
fitly and literally represent the individual in
the fourth degree of acute alcoholic intoxicacation,
dead to the world under the extreme
paralyzing influence of the spirit they have
imbibed.
These four classess of mankind form the
four gr^at populations of constitutionally
alcoholized humanity that exists out of the
bonds and bounds of childhood. It is fortunate
that as yet the first years of human life
have been so far exempted from the alcoholic
spell, for by this circumstance a full
sixth of the term of each life is largely saved
from the injury and danger of alcohol. Yet
even this more fortunate section is not altogether
free; for, unhappily, an agent which,
like alcohol, is capable of inflicting so marked
an impression on the nervons centres is also
capable of inflicting impressions which pass
- r * - j
from parent to onspnug uuu nmt-u uu^nuu,
by inheritance, the constitutional habit. The
inheritance of disease thus acquired from alcohol
is not so strong as that of some othor
diseased conditions from other causes, and it
is not, according to my observation, transmitted
further than the third generation;
but it must be admitted as a factor tending
to the production of alcoholic degeneracy ana
to the increase of the great populations sharing
in one or other of the great constitutional
stages of alcoholic existence, and in the induced
series of aberrations from the natural
standard of health, which furnish the large
class of affections, bodily and mental, now
designated as the alcoholic diseases of mankind.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Fifty members have been recently added
tc the W. C. T. U. of Mason City, III.
In New York, last year, 1434 husbands
procured divorces from their wives on the
ground of drunkenness. During the same
year 12,402 wives procured divorces from
their husbands on the same charge.
Baron Liebig, the great German chemist,
says that "as much flour as cau lio on the
point of a table knife contains as much
nutritive constituents as eight pints of the
best and most nutritious beer that is made."
r"* -1 -????, /vf PnlifAmlfl nf A
i lie sasoou muuajtiioui _
late meeting of the Horticultural Commission,
complained of the fact that 25,000 gallons
of aniline dye disguised as "cherry juice,"
to flavor the wines, had been shipj>ed into the
State within the year.
It is estimated that ten per cent, of the
cases of insanity are caused by tuberculosis, ?
and three per cent, by contagious diseases;
the habitual and intemperate use of alcohol;
opium and other narcotics causes about
nine per cent, of all cases.
A temperance editor, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
recently found acoflln on his doorstep, placed
there by the liquor men to indicate his fate
if he continue! to "persecute" them, whereupon
the editor sold the coffin for seven dollars
and presented the money to the W. C.
T. U.
About four hundred and thirty soldiersinmates
of the soldiers' home and prisoners
in the military orison, at Leavenworth,
Kansas?have signed the pledge of the W. C.
T. U., as a result of the work of the State
Superintendent of the department of work
among soldiers.
An Englishman who insulated his bedstead
by placing underneath each post a broketi-olT
bottle, says he had not been free from rheumatism
or gout for fifteen years, and that he
began to improve immediately after the application
of the insulators. A paper, quoting
this, wisely adds: "There's many a fellow
who could cure his gout if he would break off
the bottom of his glass bottle3 in time."
A maker of stoppers for beer bottles, with
a suit for infringement before the United
States Court, gave some notion of the immense
business done in bottled boor, by stating
that there were 30,000,000 of his stoppers
alone in use in the United States. They are
of course used over and over again, though it
is not improbable that one-half of th?m may
be, for one reason or another, out of coatinui
ous use.