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The Largest Insane Asylum ih
America Burned.
V A Frightful Calamity in Which
I Many Maniacs Perish.
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A calamity of a peculiarly appalling
nature occurred at Longue Fointe, nine J
miles east of Montreal, Canada, in the destruction
by fire of the insane asylum at
that place, by which one hundred almost
certainly and possibly two hundred of the
inmates perished.
The famous provincial insana asylum,
which is known all over Canada and the
United States and which contained over 1500
inmates from every portion of the continent,
is a mass of ruins. The buildings constituting
the St. Jean de Dieu Asylum are at Longue
Pointe, a small place about ten miles
from Montreal, fronting the River St.
Lawrence. The asylum, which was
established by the Quebec Government in
1873, consisted of a main building and four
smaller buildings connected by wings, with a
total frontage of 630 feet. The buildings
wore of brick and cut stone. The principal
building was six stories high and the other
buildings five stories. The institution was I
under the care of the Providence order of j
nuns.
About 11:30 o'clock in the morning smoke
was discovered entering the chaplain's room
in the centre building. The chaplain immediately
rushed out into the chapel and
made a desperate effort to save whatever
be could, but he had to beat a hasty
retreat, after being badly burned. In
the meantime, the fire, which is supposed
to have started in a cupboard iu the
top of the centre buildiug, spread with
amazing rapidity, and the buildings were in
an iucredibiy short space of time enveloped
iu flames.
There were over 1500 inmates in the burning
building at the time. The scene was
well nigh indescribable. There were 163
Sisters in the asylum, and their first care
was for the unfortunate inmates, who were
. unable to care for themselves. Many
of the inmates rushed from their
rooms and jumped from the different
stories of the buildings to the grounds beK
neath, which were soon swarming with de
mented peoplo rushing wildly hither and
B thither Til tho lujokirrniinil ?t?rH tlin vnsh
buildings almost entirely enveloped in flames,
which shot high into the skies.
Above the flames could be heard the
shrieks and moaus of many of the de nented
inmates who were being roasted to death in
the upper stories of the buildings. At intervals
men and women would appear at the
windows, linger for a moment amid the
smoke and flames, and then frantically
jump to the ground below or fall back into
the seething mass. Hundreds who had escaped
wandered aimlessly around the
grounds, some with nothing but their underclothes
on and with bare feet. A few who
had tern their garments off in their excitement
were entirely naked.
To add to the horrors of the scene, the rain
was pouring down in torrents, and the
frightened inmates, dazed with horror, were
huddled around in groups, shuddering and
moaning. The Sisters and men connected
with the asylum worked like heroes to rescue
the inmates from their terrible position.
Many a Sister lost all thought of herself, but,
filled with a noble heroism, rushed to tho
-cells of the inmates and literally dragged out
the inmates, who, in many cases, made
frantic by the flames, refused, to move.
To prevent the inmates from escaping, tho
large gates leading to the grounds were shut,
ana were only opened to allow the Sisters to
pass out with groups of inmates, who were
removed to the St. Isidore Convent, a large
I institution near by. Meanwhile the fire continued
to burn with unabated fury, and it
soon became dangerous to approach within
twenty-five yards of the burning buildings.
The demented inmates, however, appeared
to be entirely oblivious of all danger. Half a
dozen of the more violent, frenzied by excitement,
rushed from their keepers, and,
jumping under the tumbling walls, started
to yell at the top of their voices, tearing
their hair, contorting their faces, and laughing
like witches at the ruin that was being
done. They had to be removed by force.
SVhile the flames were at their highest
TOny of the inmates still remained inside, although
the nuns and doctors had done everything
in their power to get them out. The
flames seemed to have a terrible fascination
for the poor creatures, who, in mauy instances,
welcomed the horrible death that
awaited them. All hope of saving those in
the upper portions of the building was soon
abandoned. Most of the men were got out,
but many women, especially those in violent
wards, bad to be left to their fate.
Many acts of heroism were performed hv
the nuns and doctors In tryiug to save the inmates.
Dr. Bowique, one of the medical attendants,
continued his efforts until he had
to be carried out half dead from smoke. As
soon as one body of rescuers was exhausted
there were others to take their places until at
least two-thirds of the inmates had been rescued.
Asa rule the inmates were verv otiiefc. and
H many of them were assisting in packing up
HO the furniture that was being thrown from
?9 the windows indiscriminately and without
regard to the heads of the people below.
En Several of the women were assisting others
B| to leave the grounds, the more rational
E9 ones being accommodated in a house across
Bfl the road.
BB , One young girl in the midst of the drizzling
SB rain, thinly clad, sat at a piano in the
Bm grounds and played soft music while the
H terrible (lames roared above her.
fig Chief Ben sit, accompanied by several of
91 his men, rushed into the women's ward,
SB where a frighful scene was witnessed.
gnfl v_In the.violent ward were seen twenty-five
BBm women huddled together with their arms en3U
twined waiting for the flames to reach them.
The firemen tried to break their ranks, but
gj they resisted and the firemen had barely tiuu
HW to escape with their lives. In another portion
Kn of the uuildiug several firemen bad a hair
pM breadth escape. They pushed open the door
KM of one of the women's cells to rescue
inmates when the door closed
nKd them with a click and they found
&MBj^H^selves securely imprisoned by a
Joct. They were i.u a room Hllevl
H^fi^Bh frenzied women, with au'l siyo'c^
MH^Bvery side. Rushing to the wiudow thoy
I^BBroke it to pieces, and shouted for help. LadHB
ders were raised, and the firemen descended
M after several desperate attempts to save tlia
HB inmates. Among those who perished in the
HH flames were several Sisters who offered their
lives as an heroic sacrifice.
EdU In the infirmary, ou the fifth story, there
was a sick nun, Sister Marie. Kuowing her
M| helpless condition, three of the other nuns,
Sisters Demerise, Gilbert and Lumiere,
KM rushed to her assistance and bore her in a
MH blanket to the staircase, but they were to>
PSHlate They were caught in the flames and all
9|n| About half a dozen women, who seemed to
||Hb3 unusually violent, crossed the danger liuo
inland, during the fire, were yelling at the top
H^Bof their voices, some tearing their hair, with
despair depicted in their faces, and others
gHlaughing hysterically at the ruin that was
BHjbaing wrought.
EH At the windows a maniac would ba sa3u
ISMpeering through the bars, grinning aud jabjSflbering
at the bright flame that went up to
BHthesky. As the heat becains inoro intan.se
B^fshe would grasp the bars and remain there
^^funtil the fiames enveloped her.
tg|j| At 2 P. m. the flames, after consuming the
main building, attacked the two outside
gl^wings, and it became evident that nothing
I Out the outhouses could be saved. Shortly
sifter ward the front wall of the main building
fell in and was followed by the back wall,
rhen with a roar tho roof of the eastern wing
fell in, carrying the walls with it. In a little
less than an hour the whole series of
buildings were in flames, the remaining walls
fell in with a rumbling sound like that of
irtillery, and a dense cloud of smoke and*
sparks ascended. When evoniug fell all that
remained of the splendid set of buildings, ]
which cost over $70J,000, were a few outliousss.
the New York Hebrew Orphan Asrruaa,
which is declared to bo the best in the United
States, contains 559 inmates, of which 327 are
boys and 228 girls. The total receipts for the
fear were $lti6,'293, and the expenses $10S,S00.
The expenditures for the year ending
April, 1891, are placed at $118,000.
The old John Brown Fort at Harper's
Ferry, Va., is to be moved to Chicago. A
jompany will remove this old structure to
Chicago, and have it on exhibition at the
fVorla's Fair
It is announced from the flooded districts
>f the South that the appropriation by Concress
will prevent any actual suffering.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The eight-hour workday movement was
be^un iii New York city quietly. Ouly about
a dozen men went on strike. The socialist
labor party and the Central Labor Union
celebrated the day by a parade and mass
meeting at Union Square. There were
demonstrations, also, at Philadelphia, Boston.
Pittsburg, and throughout the Eastern
States generally.
Jamks Palmer, convicted of the murder
of Henry T. Whitehouse, of Portsmouth, was
hanged at Concord, N. H.
Cattle and sheep sheds and barns and
stables, covering nearly eight acres of
ground in the West Albany (N. Y.) Live
Stock Yards, were laid in ashes by an incendiary's
match.
The Assembly in Albany, N. Y., passod a
bill to abolish capital punishment.
George Webber was killed at Belknap
crossing, near Attica, N. Y., by being struct
by a train. His wife's skull was fractured,
injuring her fatally.
The failure of the Bank of America in
Philadelphia has been followed by that of the
Gloucester City (N. J.) National Bank. At
the time of the failure the deposits were about
$40,000. The depositors are mostly poor
working people.
Fechheimer, Rau & Co., shirt manufacturers
of New York city, have failed; approximate
liabilities, $3-39,00J; assets, $275,000.
Patrick D. Flaxxigan entered a saloon
on 1 ocl-Q| \f ir?li a u)
McDerinott to drink with him. As McDermott
responded Flantiigan, without a word,
emptied the six barrels of a 33-salibre revolver
into McDermott's face and throat and
then walked out. McDerinott died within
an hour.
The Fidelity Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, of Camden, N. J.; the Port
Norris Bank," the Merchants' Bauk of Atlantic
City, X. J., and the Merchants' Bank
of Pleasantville, N. J., suspended payment.
Sharpers stole $1039 from tha Rev.
Father Thomas J. Arieus at Bridgeport,
Conn., and left a baby ouhis hands.
Criminal proceedings have bean begun
against the officers of the broken Philadelphia
banks.
Willie Hclse. aged ten years, son of J.
H. Hulse, No. 3iJ Hudson streat, New York,
was shot and instantly killed by his playmate,
Charles Sickles, aged fifteen, at Good
Ground, Long Island, N. Y.
A runaway accident occurred in Maple
avenue, Penn., in which Willie Fitzpatrick.
eigat years of age, was instantly killed. His
little sister was fatally injured, and two
other children were badly bruised and cut,
anri thu fnt-JiAi* nf hiv was saverelv
injured. Mrs. Fitzpatrick bscame violently
insane after tha accident.
The entire business portion of South Dayton,
N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$20,000.
In New York and Brooklyn nearly all tha
carpenters went to work under the eight
hour day system. There was no striking
necessary to gain this point.
Washington Qcixlan, a member of the
New York Stock Exchange, has disappeared
owing about $100,000.
John CrOMOCK, a morphine eater, killed
his thirteeu-year-old daughter at Foxboro,
Mass., and then committed suicide.
The Singer Sewing Machine Works, at
Elizabethport, N. J., "covering two acres of
ground, were almost wholly destroyed by
lire, together with a considerable amount of
tlie railroad property adjoining. The works
employed about 3-3'J0 hands. The loss is
about"$3,'J00,000.
South antl West.
An explosion of a dynamite blast at a
quarry near Sparta, Ga., killed two colored
men.
Is the flght batween union and non-union
fishermen on the Columbia River, in Oregon,
three men were killed and two wounded.
The body of Editor Walker, of the Cosmopolitan
yfagazine, who was accidentally
drowned at Weldon, If. C., was found.
The house of William Holder, near Cumberland
Gap, Tenn., was burned and Holder,
his wife and one child perished in the flames.
Six other children escaped in their night
clothes.
W. F. Lixdsay. Deputy Postmaster at
Helena, Ark., is $3590 short in his accounts
and a fugitive.
Thirty-five thousand toilers, advocates
of the eight-hour movement, participated in
the greatest labor demonstration ever witnessed
in Chicago. The line was fully four
miles long. There v/as no disturbance.
T.iere were also pat ales of workin?m?n in
favor of the ei?'at-hour movement at St.
Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit,
Cleveland and San Francisco.
About thirty-two thousand men were idle
in Chicago,pending a settlement of the eighthour
question.
The Wells-Fargo Express messenger on a
Southern Pacific traiu was robbed ot' $45,003
at Eagleville, Texas.
Dr. C. O'Reilly, of the Irish National
League of America, has sent from Detroit,
Mich., $12,500 to aid the Irish Defense Fund.
Bloomixgrove, Texas, was struck by a
hurricane and the postoffioe, Presbyterian
and Baptist churches and other buildings
were wrecked.
The power of electricity as a death-dealing
instrument was demonstrated at the
works of the Brush Electric Light and Power
Company at Indianapolis, Ind. James Clark,
an eiunlove, was instantlv killed by a shock.
John* Yates aul Gregory Squires, two
miners, were kiiled in a ca^e accident at
Butte, Montana. They fell 120) feat.
Thomas Saunders and John Young were
killed by lightning near Tioga, Texas.
Tex dwellings in Hazlehurst, Wis., ware
destroyed by tire.
A ncRRiOANEstruck Wilspoint, Texas, and
every house in the town is more or less damaged".
Two persons were killed outright and
several injure:!. Th:; hurricane also visitjl
Mesquite, Thornton, Terrell and other points
in its track, doing great damage.
John' Low, a farmer of Winamac, Ind.,
hired Michael Conuor, a youth of sixteen, to
kill James McMannis. The boy fired a load
of buckshot into McMannis, killing him instantly.
The private bank of Chas. A. Mather &
Co., at Berlin, Wis., made an assignment to
Joseph Yates. James M. Hawley, the junior
member of the house, has disappeared. The
assets are placed at #110,009, and the liabilities
at $100,000.
During a sjale of wind a large section of
the tiu roof cm the Stato Capitol at Jackson,
Miss., was blown off.
Martin* Rvan, Con. Downey anl Will
Cosgrove, fishermen, were drowned by the
capsizing of their bo it in San Francisco Bay,
in California.
Ex-(Jovernor Andrew Shuman, ol
Illinois, died suddenly on the streets of Chicago
of apoplexy.
Annie and Bessie Parlick, two young Bohemian
girls employed as servants in a Chicago
(111.) boarding house, wera found dead
in their be Is, having baea suffocate! by escaping
gas.
The great carpenters' strike for eight
hours in Chicago has been finally settled,
the strikers winning a signal victory. The
necessary papers were signed and ratified by
both sides concerned in the arbitration.
C. M. Burt and his bride, of Fairfield,
Neb , who were at a hotel at Grand Island,
Neb., on their wedding tour, blew out the
gas. They were found in their room next
morning dead.
A howling snow storm prevailed in Iowa
for two hours.
A terrific storm passed over South Georgia,
leveling acres upon acres of fine pine
timbered lands, raising buildings, unrooting
dwellings and knocking fences dowu.
Washington.
I.v the Supreme Court of the United States,
on motion of former Attorney-General Garland,
ex-President Grover Cleveland, of New
York city, was admitted to practice.
President Harrison has decide 1 again
to pass the summer at Deer Park, M l. Tin
President says he will go there just as sodu
as Congress s'aa 1 adjourn.
The President approved the act providing
for the establishment of a temporary government
in the Territory of Oklahoma.
The public debt statement shows a reduction
of 17,6-36,901 in the debt for April.
Several members of the House of Representatives
who argued against appropriating
money to reimburse themselves for the salaries
stolen from them by Cashier Silcott, have
returned to the Treasury the money that has
been paid them on that account.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Ramsay
issued orders for the squadron of evolution,
last reported at Malti, to proceai to
Brazil for duty on the South Atlantic Station,
and for Rear Admiral Gillis, now in
command of that station, to proceed home
on the flagship Richmond.
The President made the following nominations:
John S. Durham (colored), of Pennsylvania,
to be United States Consul at San
Domingo; David E. Bryant, United State?
District Judge for the Eastern District of
Texas; Henry L. Whiting, of New York,
member of the Mississippi River Commission.
The United States Supreme Court denied
the application for a writ of habeas corpus
in benalf of Kemmler, the murderer condemned
to be electrocuted in the penitentiary
at Auburn, N. Y.
A delegation of color jd men from
Mississippi, headed by ex-Senator Bruca and
Auditor Lynch, had an interview with the
President in regard to the best method of relieving
the sufferers by the floods in that
State.
The United States torpedo boat Cushing
arrived at the Washington Navy Yard, having
made the run from New York in twentyeight
and one-half hours, aperformauce that
beats all previous records for that trip.
Mrs. Jeajtnette M. Thurber, of New |
York city, announces that she is about to
organize a national conservatory of music in
Washington City, and to found a memorial
music hall.
The Seuate and House adjourned at once
to attend the funeral of Senator Beck. Plain
and simple exercises were held in the Senate
Chamber, and the body was then taken to
Kentucky for burial.
Fore i urn
The United States Squadron of Evolution
sailed from Malta to Algiers.
Captain Zku.ver, the African'explorer,
is dead.
Labor Day was celebrated all over Europes
by parade and meetings, but because of
the extraordinary precautions taken by the
authorities there were few disturbances.
Huge demonstrations in favor of the eighthour
movement were made in Paris, Vienna,
London, Brussels, Madrid and Lisbon.
The Prince of Wales presided at a reception
given in London to Stanley by the
Emin Relief Committee.
By an explosion on the Nueltas estate,
near Camarones, Cuba, three Dersons were
killed and fourteen injured. Th9 house in
wrhin'n f'na a-rnlr??inn occurred WtiS toiallv
destroyed.
The British ship Iuchcape Rock, from San
Francisco for Queenstown. experienced
heavy weather, during which her decks were
swept and Captain Armour aud four of her
crew were washed overboard and drowned.
A famine prevails in Tigre, Abyssinia.
Owing to the misrule of the Government,
hosts of people are migrating. Many of these
have died from hunger on the roadside.
o.ve hundred and seventy thousand
workman met in Hyde Park, London;
there were no disturbances. Strikes continus
in various European cities.
Six stores at St. Catharines, Canada, two
unoccupied, were burned. The occupants
were the Parker Dye Works, Thomas Orr,
harness, and D. C. McSuira, wholesale
liquor.
The strike of the employes of the State
railways in Austria has been settled, the authorities
having conceded higher wages to
the men. The labor troubles in Spain have
ceased, except in Barcelona and Valencia.
Senor Zertuche, Governor of the State
of Oaxaca, Mexico, died suddenly at Tehauntepec.
Emperor William opened the German
Reichstag; the speech from the throne advocated
principally legislation to protect workingmen.
_ Henry M. Stanley had an audience with
yuoen Victoria at wintisor, r^u^iuQu.
LATER NEWS.
Eddie, the thirteen-year-old son of Franh
Scribuer, of Hillsborough, N. H., hangec
himself because his father had punished him
the day before.
The United States Navy Department hai
awarded to the Carpenter Steel Company, oJ
Reading, Penn., contracts for the construo
tion of about $300,000 worth of armor-piercing
projectiles of different calibres.
John* D. Davis, fire boss, and William
Morgan, a miner, were found dead in the
minss at the Gilberton Colliery, Mahanoy
Plane, Penn. The cause of their death was
fire-damp, which had accumulated during
the night.
William H. Guiom, of New York city,has
embezzled bonds entrusted to his care to the
amount of $30,000. Mr. Guion was at one
time a member of the great shipping firm of
Williams & Guion, who founded the Guion
| x^inc:.
Towns along the Connecticut River suffered
graatly from high water and log jams.
Bridges have been carried away and mucb
damage done.
Miss Emma Hall, aged twenty-five, of
Ithaca, N. Y., and J. Hantler, of Wilkesbarre,
Punn., were killed and seven hurt by
a collision of trains at a grade crossing in
Allentown, Penn.
At Freeport, Neb., a young man named
[ Clark, who has been courting Miss Mclntyre,
daughter of wealthy parents, proposed to
her, and when she rejected him he shot hei
fatally. Ho then blew out his own brains.
Governor Joseph K. Toole, of Montana,
and Miss Lily Rosecrans, daughter of General
Rosecrans, Solicitor of the Treasury
Department, were married in Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury sent to
Congress a response to the resolution offered
r ^ i?II li:~~ n ffofomanf
by senator jutum-u utuiu^ w> ?
jl the movement of gold anil silver, national
oank notes and exports and imports during
the year 1S39.
The deceunial convention of delegates
from the leading societies and colleges of
pharmacy in the United States met in
Washington.
Heavy trauds and peculations have been
discovered in the customs department of
Buenos Ajres, Argentine Republic. The
loss to the Government is now thought to b;j
810,000.000.
The Germans, under Major Wissmann,
captured Kilvva in Exst Africa, driving out
the Arabs.
A tior.D mine has beeu discovered at Dunnode,
in the western part of County Cork,
Ireland, and a company is being formed to
work it.
I
RIDDLED BY BULLETS,
A Condemned Murderer, Who Had
Been Respited, Lynched.
Will Leaphart, a young colored man convicted
of criminally assaulting Miss Rose
Cannon, a white girl of sixteen, and sentenced
to be hanged on April 11, but who obtained
a respite, was lynched during the
night at Lexington, S. C.
A witness of the occurrence says that the
men went directly to the jail, after securing
the keys, unlocked the main door and entered
door after door until Leapbart's cell was
reached. This they could not open with the
keys. Leaphart watched the mob, and,
realizing that he would be killed, seized a
long iron rod and awaited the attack.
As the lynchers shot through the grating
of his cell, he fought like a maniac, wounding
one of the party. Some five hundred
shots were poured into the cell, and the man
war, literally riddled with bullets, which
were picked up afterward in the room by
handfuls.
Leaphart had been respited to allow time
for a motion for a new trial on the grounds
of after-discovered evidence deemed sufficient
by Judge Wallace.
A grave-digger at Berlin, Germany, Tia.
been sentenced to one month's imprisonmenl
for cutting the hair from the heads of corpses
and selling the same to dealers.
EXCURSIONISTS DROWNED.
Terrible Accident on the Ohic
Near Wheeling, W. Ya.
A Naphtha Launch Capsized With
Fatal Results,
A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says:
The naphtha yacht Gertrude, built to carry
ten persons and used as a ferry between
Wheeling and the island where the baseball
park is located, was crowded with eighteen
people besides the two men in charge
of the boat during the afternoon.
The game had just closed and the pier
was crowded with people, who rushed
psll mell into the boat, loading her
to the water's edge. Among the passengers
were two women. They had seats alongside,
and when the boat neared the wharf, where
the water is deep, one of the tiller ropes
pulled part of one of the worren's dresses
into the pulley, thus clogging the pulleywheel
and rendering the steering apparatus
useless.
About the same time the naphtha tank
containing the fluid by which power for the
engine is generated began to leak, a small
wooden plug having slipped out. The fuel
ran down into the generating cylinder, causing
the engineer to become alarmed and lose
control or Ms mactnnery. xtie increased 1
amount of fuel caused the speed of the
yacht to increase, and almost in the twinkling
of an eye the bow struck under the
sloping bow of a sand-barge and turned over.
All of the eighteen passengers and the
operators were thrown into the water, and
the current being very strong and the
big sand barge causing a suction, nearly
all of them went under its flat
bottom. The few who clung to the
yacht were little better off, for the
little boat was drawn under the barge
almost like a feather. There were several
5ther boats and skiffs near by at the time,
but they could not overtake the people floating
in the swift current until several had
sunk to rise no more.
Mrs. John Mendel, one of the womeu in the
pacht, caught William Scheele by the coaf;ollar,
and he in turn caught a line thrown
by workmen on the sand barge. Both
were pulled from tho water. Although
Mrs. Mendel is in a serious condition on account
of the nervous shack and severe chill,
?he will probably recover. Mrs. Charles
Hornbrook, the other woman in the boat,
passed entirely under the full length of
che barge and was caught by the tips of her
gloved hands as she was sinking from sight.
She remained un conscious nearly an hour.
E. Wells, one of the leading architects in
the city and a member of the firm of Klives,
Kraft & Co., caught a grappling hook, but
it cut through his hand, staining the water
with his blood. He was drowned in sight
of his friends. He leaves a who uuu iui cc
children. One of the boat's operators was
laught by a nail under the barge and
drowned. His body was rescued by passing
a cable under the barge.
Michael McLaughlin, President of the
Baseball Association, passed under the
barge and was caught 300 yards below. He
was rolled on a barrel ana was brought to I
with difficulty. He is a very sick man and
it is feared he will die. William English, official
scorer for the Baseball Club and Secretary
of the A. E. Smith Brewing Company,'
passed under the barge and cut a gash
three inches long in his scalp on a
spike in the bottom of the barge. He was in
a critical condition at midnight. PolicemaD
Joe Daum and a companion and Joe White,
one of the Wheeling ballplayers, were saved.
All the others in the boat were drowned,
and their friends have not called for
them. They tire supposed to be members
of a gang of carpenters who were working
on the island. They came here
from Cambridge, Ohio, only on the day before
the tragedy, so it may be some time before
they are missed by their relatives. The
ticket-taker has tickets for the eighteen passengers
on the boat.
MURDERER AND SUICIDE.
Abel Uerfferson Poisons His Two
Children and Himself.
xt t_ .?j
news uns ueeu receiveu ul me suicide ac
Spraugueville, N. Y., of Abel Bergerson,
who first poisoned his two young children
with rat poison and then took the stuff himself.
Bergerson belonged to Eboulements, in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, and was
accompanied to the United States by a
French Canadian girl known in Eboulements
as Lucie. It was her desertion that
apparently induced the commission of the
crime, for he left a letter, in which he said:
"I have nothing now to live for. My
blonde Lucie is dead to me forever. I am
satisfied to end my days, for nobody can have
more trouble than I have."
DROUGHT IN CUBA.
Sugar Plantations Suffering?Pas
tures and Woods Destroyed by Fire.
The drought continues throughout Cuba
T rtfr?lTT cfrnnfT winrlc hflVfl hppn blowinC
Many fires continue to be reported, not onlj
on canefields, but also on cattle breeding pastures
and farms and even in the woods. The
mortality among the cattle is daily increasing.
It may be said that there is not a single
plantation on the island that has not suffered
more or less from fire. In many localities tht
ponds and brooks have completely dried up,
and the water in the rivers has fallen considerably.
The damage to buildings and ma
chinery caused by the recent explosion on the
Harmonia estate is so great that it will be
impossible to resume grinding this year.
A VILLAGE DESTKOYED,
The Entire Business Portion of Gilboa,
N. Y., Burned.
A fire broke out in the Arcade, a largo
tvoodon buildiug in Gilboi, N. Y., and
quickly sproal to adjoining buildings,
which wero soon envelopid in fia:n3s.
There being no meaus of extinguishing
fire, the whole village was at th3 mercy
of the flames. The entire business portion of
the town was destroyed, twenty-two buildings
iu all. Not a store was left in the townan
l most of the stocks were destroyed. The
loss is estimated at from $150,030 to $17.), 000.
There is only a light iusuranca, estimated at
about $50,000.
THE LABOR WORLD,
Americans dislike hot mill work.
Strikes continue throughout Europe.
Ship-building in Scotland is retrograding.
New York grave diggers have struck for
fewer hours.
There is a lack of skilled dressmakers in
this country.
A strike of brewery employes is imminent
in New York.
It is estimated that there are 25,000 workmen
on strike in Germany.
Of the 169,000 cotton operatives in New
England, 94,000 are aliens.
A working day in the factories in Germany
is about twelve hours.
The regular street sweepers in Paris number
2000 men and 600 women.
It is computed that since April 1 fifty-five
strikes have been broken in Austria.
Andrew^ Carnegie's hotel for working
men near Pittsburg is to co3t ?ww,ihju.
Moke than 2000 Italian workmen were employed
on the Fo. th bridge in Scotland.
The agitation among the workingmen of
Hungary is assuming colossal proportions.
The wage-workers in and about Cleveland,
Ohio, have $33,000,000 in the twelve savings
banks in that city.
Extraordinary- precautions wero taken
throughout Europe to guard against outbreaks
on May Day.
The working girls' convention in New
York decided that all their clubs should be
made self sustaining.
For the iirst time in the history of tho Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, white have replaced
the colored servants.
postmaster-General Wanamaker considers
the proposal to make eight consecutive
hours' labor a day's work for postoffico
clerks, etc., impracticable, and estimates
that the cost of doing this would be $3,373,727
a year.
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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. ^
In the Senate.
9~th Day. ?The report of the special committee
which investigated the meat Droducts
question was presented, with four hills suggested
by the facts brought out in the inquiry.
. .The debate on the Customs Administrative
bill was continued....A bill was
reported for the examination of certain officers
of the army, and to regulate promotion.
93th Day.?The Customs Administration
bill passed by a vote of 35 to 18, one short of
a two-thirds majority... The Jones Silver
bill was brought up... .Mr. Culluin presented
the report of the special committee which
has investigated the relations of United
States commerce to the Canadian canals and
railroads... .Mr. Vest introduced a bill to
amend the Interstate Commerce law by providing
t ^at all express companies, whether
incorporated or not, shall be placed under the
provisions of that law.. .The concurrent
resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Dolpii
requesting the President to enter into negotiations
with Great Britain and Mexico, with
a view to securing treaty stipulations for the
prevention of entry of Chinese laborers into
the United States was agreed to.
09th Day.?Mr. Frye reported two important
bills. The first bill was to place the
American merchant marine engaged in foreign
trade ou au equality with that of other
nations, and the s-jcond to provide for ocaan
mail service between the United States and
foreign States and to promote commerce ...
The Senate bill for the relief of Nathaniel
McKay and of the executors of Donald
McKay (referring to the Court of Claims
their claim for further compensation for the
construction of the ironclad monitors Squando
and Nanset and the stfewhesl steamer
Ashuelot) was passed... .The following bills
were passed: Senate bill authorizing the
.Secretary of War to appoint a Board of three
army officers to examine and report on a
national harbor of refuge near the mouth of
Delaware Bay, suitable for draught vessels;
Senate bill appropriating $300,000 for a home
for inebriates in the District of Columbia;
Senate bills to establish a public park at
Pagosa Springs, Col., and another jpark in
Colorado, to be called the Royal Arch rark....
At a quarter past 4 Mr. Harris interrupted
the proceedings, and as'.;ed that a bulletin
whicn he had just received should be read to
the Senate. The presiding officer read, in a
voice betraying deep emotion, the following:
Western Union Telegraph Lines. Bulletin:
Senator Beck just dropped dead in the Baltimore
and rotomac Station. Manager
W. U. Tel. Co. "In view of that?fft fact"
J said Mr. Harris, "I move that the Senate do
now adjourn." The motion was agreed to.
Mr. IngaLls instructed the assistant Sergeantat-arms
to have the Senate flag half-masted.
100th Day.? Mr. Blackburn formally announced
the death of Senator Beck, and
I Mnssrs. Blackburn. Harris. Vance. Kenna,
Dawes, Evarts and Manderson were appointed
a committea to attend the funeral.
The body then adjourned.
101st Day.?The day was given up exclusively
to the funeral exercises over tne body
of Senator Beck.
102d Day.?The Jones Silver bill was discussed
in a desultory way for an hour or
more. ...The Army and the Military
Academy Appropriation bills were reported
... .The Revenue Marine Transfer bill was
called up... .The House bill to authorize the
Secretary of War to deliver to the State of
Colorado the flags carried by Colorado regiments
during the Civil War was passed
.... Mr, Plumb introduced two bills, one for
the organization of "The Grand Army of
Labor," and ona "To establish a public farm
in every county within the limits of the Republic"
Conference reports were presented
and agreed to on the bills for public
buildings at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Atchison,
Kan.; Burlington, Iowa; Lafayette, Ind.;
Ashland, Wis.; Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Chester,
Peun., and a conference was asked on
the bill for a public building at Hudson,
X. Y.
In the House.
107th Day.?The Anti-Trust bill was
passed with only one dissenting vote... .The
International Copyright bill was debat9.i.
Without acting upon the bill the House adjourned.
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108th Day.?The Uopyrignc oiu was defeated
by 126 nays to 98 yeas... .Mr. Hitt reported
a substitute for the resolution referred
to the committee "to promote commercial
union with Canada".... Mr. Flower
presented the joint resolution of the New
York Legislature in favor of an increase of
pay to letter carriers. Referred. Also the
protest of retail druggists against a duty of
ten cents a pound on sugar of lead. Referred.
.. .On motion of Mr. O'Neill, a resolution
was adopted setting apart Saturday,
June 14, for the delivery of eulogies upon the
late Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania.
109th day.?Mr. McComas reported his
bill to prevent gerrymandering... .The
House then went into Committee of
the Whole, (Mr. Peters, of Kansas,
in the chair,) on the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill. After
a long debate the committee rose and the bill
was passed... .On motion of Mr. Henderson
a joint resolution was passed appropriating
11,000,000 for improvement of the Mississippi
River from the head of the passes to the
mouth of the Ohio River, such sum to be immediately
available....The conference re[
port on the Oklahoma Town Site bill was presented,
but no action was taken, and the
I House at *:ou aajourucu.
110th Day.?The Senate amendments to
the Customs Administrative bill were nonconcurred
in, and a conference was ordered.
Messrs. McKinley, Burrows and Carlisle
were appointed conferees....The House
passed a bill for the sale of a portion of the
navy yard and naval hospital lands
in Brooklyn to the city of
Brooklyn for market purposes.. .
A message having been received announcing
the death of Senator Beck, and inviting
the House to be present at the funeral
services, Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
offered a resolution accepting the invitation.
The Speaker appointed the following funeral
committee: Messrs. Breckinridge, of Kentucky;
Holman, Blount, Bland, Hatch, Wilson,
of Kentucky; Banks, Bunnell an 1 Butterworth.
The House then, as a mark>sf respect
to the deceased, at 2:30 adjourned.
111th Day.?Mr. Boutelle introduced a bill
intended to repair the damage inflicted upon
the State Prohibition laws by the recent decision
of the Supreme Court in the original
package case... .The Housa then adjourned
to attend the funeral of Senator Beck.
112th Day.?Mr. McKiniey called up the
new Tariff bill, upon which he aud Mr. Mills
spoke.
A TEXAS flYOLOKTE.
A Number of People Killed ami Many
Houses Demolished.
A destructive cyclone visited Fall Crook,
in the eastern part of Hood County, Texas.
At the home of Lee Rhodes his large family
and a number of visitors, about twenty persons
ill all, were gathered. The wind blew a
granary against a chimney, which fell on the
roof, crushing it in and coming down upon
the occupants of the room, a majority of
whom were women and children.
Miss Delia Carmichael, aged seventeen, was
instantly killed, as were Mary Carmichael,
aged ten, an I the little baby of Mr. Gibbs.
Mrs. Rhodes and her twelve-year-old
daughter (Nora) wore fatally hurt. Mrs.
Gibbs and her ten-year-old daughter (Tillie)
were seriously injured. Other children iu the
house were bruised.
Many houses were blown down at Fall
Croak and the occupauts injured, soui9 of
them fatally.
At the house ou Robinson's ranch are the
bodies of three of "Doc" Grittiu's children
and his sister.
The house of A. F. Johnson was an overcrowded
hospital. The patients included D
C. McCoy, who was Dauiy uruiseu aooub mo
body a>:d legs. His wife is in the samo condition.
Lying by her side was their baby
girl, with a broken skull. Tho child could
hardly live.
Dr. W. January an l his wife were there
badly injured. In the next room was the
body of their four-year-old biy.
Twenty-one houses were demolished ami
the occupants more or less injured. The tornado
was half a mile wide and demolished
everything in its path.
"Doc" Griffin and his wife were carried to
the residence of John Block. Thoy were so
badly injured that their recovery was
doubtful.
The little hamlet of Acton, Texas, on tho
lino of Parker and Hood Couutios, was blown
away by a tornado. Fonr persons were
killed and seven seriously wouuded. A number
of houses were blown down in that
vicinity.
I Walt WniMAS, the poet, has beiii made
almost helpless by paralysis. His physical
condition is so weak that his physicians have
insisted that he shall not talk with any one
for more than a few words at a time. He
is poor, but not neglected, as his friends in
Philadelphia constantly supply his wants.
JAMES BURNIE BECK.
The Kentucky Senator Dies
Suddenly of l?eart Disease.
Stricken Near the Spot Where
Garfield Fell,
James B. Beck, for twenty-two years a
Representative and Senator from the Stat*
of Kentucky, died in "Washington at 4 o'docb
In the afternoon, the immediate cause ol
lis death being fatty degeneration of the
oeart, from which malady he had been suffering
for the past five years. He was in
the Baltimore and Potomac Railway station,
within 100 feet of the silver star that marks
the spot where Garfield fell when struck by
Guiteau's bullet, when he expired. He had
just arrived on the limited express from New
York, and was accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Goodloe, wife of Maior Goodloe,
3f the United State3 Marine Corps.
He got off the train with the
rest of the passengers and walked with his
laughter the entire length of the platform
md through the gate leading to the station
proper. He seemed to walk with an effort
ind to breathe with labor, but these svmp?ms
were the usual accompaniments of ex
rtion with him for some months past. After
passing into the station the Senator and his
daughter stopped and were joined by his private
secretary, who had brought a carriage
to take them home. A few words were exchanged
with regard to the care of baggage,
when tho Senator placed his hand to nis
head, saying "I am so dizzy," and fell into
the arms oc his companions. Mrs. Goodloa
was so overcome that she, too, fell upon the
platform. The Senator was carried to the
superintendent's room and died before a
physician could reach him. Ten minutes laier
the sad news was conveyed to the Senate
chamber. His colleagues were greatly
shocked aud an adjournment was at once
laken. Senator Blackburn, his colleague,
was a judge at the race track when the sad
aews rcacned him.
Senator Beck's friends were not greatly
surprised at his sudden death. They have
known for a long time that he was liable to
irop off at any moment.
Sketch of Ills Life.
Senator James Burnie Beck, of Kentucky,
was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on
February 13, 1822. He came to the United
States with his father, a hardworking Scotch
farmer, some twenty-two years later and
settled in JjQxmgton, i\.y., in io-io. n.e nan
i fair academic education, an abundance of
bard Scotch sense, and an iron constitution.
He was penniless, but determined to get
enough money together to pay his way
through a good law school. He wished to
teach school, but could find no chance near
Lexington. He appiied to Druramond
Hunt, a gentleman farmer in Fayette,
County, for a job at work in the fields. Mr.
Hunt made him overseer of his farm. Young
Beck buckled down to work with a will that
soon won him a big place in his employer's
heart. He broke flax, sheared sheep, and
mowed grass more skilfully and rapidly than
any other man on the farm. Evenings he
read books from Mr. Hunt's library and from
the .office of a neighboring lawyer. He
saved his wages with the strictest
parsimony, and at the end of a
year resigned bis job On Mr. Hunt's farm
to begin his studies at the Transylvania
University Law School. After his gradua-,
tion he opened an office in Lexington. His
speaking in court was so painfully bad that
he was a butt of ridicule for all the young
lawyers of the city. His first partners were
Ben Graves and Sam Shy, the son of a professional
cock fighter. Mr. Beck left the
firm shortly to enter a partnership with John
? ~ ' '? ?u-i.?j .J..,*
U. iJreCKinnogB, wuu uuu jusu muicu uu 1U <T
office from Georgetown to Lexington. Mr.
Breckinridge was famous for his oratory, but
had a small reputation as a lawyer. He did
the talking for the new firm, and Mr. Beck
devoted himself to the hard le?al routine of
the office. While In partnership with Mr.
Breckinridge Mr. Beck married Miss Thornton,
a stepdaughter of General Clark, of
Virginia, and a collateral descendant of
George Washington.
"With Miss Thornton Mr. Beck got a dowry
of $30,000. He invested the money in Northwestern
land, from which he made enormous
profits. He worked industriously at his
practice throughout the war.
Iu 1866 he was elected to Congress. He
served four successive terms until 1875. In
187G he was elected to the United States Senate,
and was appointed member of the Commission
to define the Maryland-Virginia
boundary. He took his seat in the Senate
on March 4,1877, and retained it until his
death. During his Congressional life Senator
Beck served on many important committees,
and took a prominent part in many
notable debates. He was specially interested
in economical questions pertaining to
the tariff and the currency.
Mr. Beck was a constant diner-out and one
of the most entertaining msn whoever sat at
table. His fund of anecdote was inexliaust
Ible and talking came as easy to him as
swimming to a duck.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Russell Sage is seventy-five years old.
Adelina Patti was forty-seveD on April 9.
Chauncey Depew is fifty-six years of age.
Prince Bismarck is preparing his memoirs.
Thomas A. Edison smokes almost incessantly.
Ben Butler is reputed to be worth
$5,000,000.
Mr. Gladstone says he will cut down no
more trees.
Crispi, the Prime Minister of Italy, is
seventy years of age.
Emperor William will go to Sweden
about the middle of July.
The Prince of Wales recently appeared in
a yellow vest and green gloves.
Acting Governor Taggart, of New
Hampshire, is not yet thirty-two years of
age.
GEORGE vv. UHrLDS uqs raisea j<w,uw iui
the family of the late Congressman Randall.
Buffalo Bill complains that each daily
mail brings him several proposals of marriage.
The Pope is so ascetic in his mode of living
that he is said to spend less than $1009 a
year on his immediate wants.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of the late
General Robert E. Lee, is a great favorite in
the best circles of "Washington.
General Mahone has recently purchased
20,000 acres of coal lands for a northern syndicate
in southwestern Virginia.
Chancellor Boggs, of the Georgia State
University, is said to be the youngest man in
the United States occupying such a position.
J at Gould has lately taken a great deal
of exercise in walking and a marked improvement
in his health is attributed to the
practice.
James Whitcomb Riley's poems bring
him $25 to $50 each. In the early days of his
verse-making he was glad to get a tenth of
these sums for his poems.
The Maharsjah of Mysore is an enthusiastic
and accomplished violinist, and has
formed a string band of sixty players, to
give open-air concerts at Mysore.
Dr. C. T. Parkes, a Chicago physician,
has received a fee of $25,000 for less than a
month's attendance on a patient who was
afflicted with a cancer in the face.
John Ogden Armour, prospective heir to
the millions of Philip D. Armour, is about
twenty-six years old and good-looking,a club
man, ulways carefully dressed and is rated at
over a million of his own.
Bonanza. Mackey is disposing of his
various mining properties on the Pacific
slope that are said to be worth about $10,
000,000, and expects nenceioria 10 maw uw
permanent residence in New York.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Minister at Washington, is an expert with
the foils and with the short sword. He is
considered one of the finest-looking diplomats
ever stationed at Washington.
The little town ot Pankow, near Germany
is preparing for an event which promises to
make her name famous. From July 6 to 10
at least 10,000 German marksmen will assemble
there to celebrate the tenth national
German shooting festival by competing for
?li>0,000 worth of prizes.
The arrests for the past year In TTew York
city reached 82,200, and of these 21,184 were
for intoxication, 16,810 for disorderly conduct,
93 for gambling, 0 for murder, 18S for
attempted suicide, 0 for kidnapping and 631
for insanity.
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temperance! .fl
bbware!
Beware, my boy, of the tempter's snare,
Beware of his trodden way!
From the lowest den to the palace fair,
Too oft you will trace his footsteps there,
Where ne bides in a secret lair,
On thy precious life to prey.
Beware, my boy, beware! jggsjg
Beware, my boy, of the tempter's snare,
Beware of his wily ways!
Like a silken web for the foolish fly! , . . ym
He weaves thee a net; never venture nigh,
Lest you would a wreck in its meshes lie?
A wreck of your youthful days,
Beware, my boy, beware! Beware,
my boy, of the tempter's snare,
Beware of the sparkling bowl!
From its depths cometh forth a bitter re^rom
innocent blood of its millions slain,
While the Are of hell seizes heart and brain,
And mocks o'er the ruined soul.
beware, mv boy, beware!
?S. Minerva Boyce, in Yanlcee Blade.
THE HOT WATER CURE.
A fjormon who mnfMSM that. h? l!hr>n1r not .
less than nine drinks of intoxicants a day for
many years," strongly recommends the hot ' '"'Ajw
water cure, and says: "I have taken a great
deal of the so-called 'drink cure, but it is
very expensive and the system soon craves it
like drink, but the hot water affords entire
relief, if takeu at ouce in the morn.ng." ,
THE SUPREME ISSUE.
The supreme issue is: The drink traffic is
an unqualified crime and must b& suppressed.
The rum power is the block in the wheel of . - ffiSI
all wholesome political progress. The forces
of honest labor, safe homes, and sound gov- .
ernmentmust unite. The enemies of rum,
monopoly, and corruption are in solid phalanx,
standing by eacli other. The rum power
is the king power. When it falls its allies
fall. The supreme issue is: The drink traffic
is an unqualified curse and must be suppressed.?Connecticut
Home.
THE SALOON AND BOYS.
Some one bas said that saloons can no more
be run without boys than saw mills without
logs. Lately in Chicago "a school teacher
noticed a knot of boys counting the number
of holes in some cards. He called one of
them up and insisted on knowing what it
meant, and the boy told him that a saloonkeeper,
who had his saloon near the school,
had given them those cards, and every time
they took a drink he punched them?one hole
for beer, two for straight drinks, and three
for mixed drinks?and each month he gave
prizes. The boy who had the most noles
punched in his card got a revolver, the second
a life of Jesse James, and the third a
meerschaum pipe." THE
BIGHT KIND OF TRAINING.
Elizabeth Harrison, Principal of the
Chicago Kindergarten Training School, in - . S<32M
discussing "The Root of the Temperance
Question from a Kindergarten Standpoint,"
relates the following suggestive incident:
"I know of the kindergarten-trained fiveyear-old
son of a millionaire who refused
Tsrhon tViAxr wftrp nno&vi tn him
at the table. 'Why, my son,' said his
father, 'do you not want some pickle? It is
very nice.' 'No,' replied the boy, 'I don't
see auy use in eating spiced pickle. It don't
help to make me strong: my teacher says it
don't.' If this kind of training can be
carried out, such a boy will grow into the
young man, who, when tempted, can easily
say, 'No. I see no use in that. It will not
help to make me a stronger or better man.'"
CATTLE PRIVILEGES.
It has often been remarked that half the
z&re bestowed on the sanitary welfare of our
domestic cattle would suffice to regenerate
the human race, but savage nations at least
are now and then permitted to share such
privileges of their dumb fellow-creatures.
A receut writer on the ethuological curiosities
of Northern Asia informs us that "near- - 3
(y all the Siberian nations eat a species of
toadstool, called by them muk-a-mur, which
in small doses proauces all the effects of alcoholic
liquor. Its habitual use shatters the
nervous system, and its sale to the natives
by traders is made a penal offence by the
Russian Government." Yet that same Government
derives a yearly revenue of 115,000,000
rubles from the sale of nerve-shattering
alcoholic liquors to its civilized subjects.
Those liquors, to be sure, are sold under highly
attractive names, and the scope of pater- * .
i<al legislation must be limited to muk-a-mur
* ? ? 1 fWlV ~
ailU caiue-ioou.??nc r unr.
NEW TORK'8 ANNUAL DRINK BILL.
New Yorkers succeed in disposing of 47,000,000
gallons of liquor, beer and wine in a
single year. The average drink is a gill, say
making 1,504,000,000 drinks.
If the big Croton reservoir at Forty-second
street were filled with such beverages New
Yorkers would empty it nearly two and on&half
tirfies during a year.
If the big Central Park reservoir, having .
a capacity for 200,000,000 gallons, should be
filled with liquor, beer and wine the consum- ?,<
ers in the cities of New York and Brooklyn
and the State of Now Jersey would empty it
1 n fwA rrao r*o .
New Workers spend over $70,000,000 every
year for liquor, beer and wino. There are in
the city 7787 places licensed to sell alcoholic
drink?. In order to exist the smallest one of.
these places must sell at least $10 worth of
drinks a day.
Many of the best bars take in $125 to $150
a day. At the Hoffman House, where one
has to pay fancy prices to bask in the smiles
of classic art, the receipts are fully $500 a
day.
No bar can pay its way through tho re*
ceipts tor beer alone. It is the hard stuff
that brings in the profit. While a saloon
would soon go to the wall if it depended on
| the sale of beer alone, there axe numerous ' "
i gardens like the Atlantic, Volks, Theiss'sand
Blank's that thrive almost solely from the
beer receipts. In the gardens the glasses are
smaller and twenty are sold were ono is
drawn from behind the bar in a saloon.
Averaging all the bars in town, they tak?
in about $25 a day or $70,000,000 a year.
"You can divide the consumption of wine^
liquor and beer," said a well-informed whole*
sale dealer to the Journal reporter, "into the
fnllnivina'nroDortions: Wine. $1: beer, $20:
liquor, $30."
Estimating from these proportions there
are expended by Now Yorkers at the
licensed places every year: $1,700,000 for
wine; $17,000,000 for beer and ^51,000,00 for
liquor."
"Then to this," continued the Jov.1~n.aV9
informant, ''you must add at least $3,000,000
spent in wiues, beer and liquor at the groceries.
But for calculation your round figure
of $70,000,000 is sufficient."
The wine consumed by New Yorkers, from
cheap clarets to the best champagnes, will
cost on an average $2.50 a gallon, the bear
eighty cents a gallon, and the liquor $2 a gallon.
So we consume every year 680,000 gallons
of wine, 21,250.000 gallons of beer, and
25.500,000 gallons of liquor.
Then think of the millions of dollars that
are expended to make the saloons look attractive.?
New York Journal.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
nifinhnma. 1ms formed a White
Ribbon circle.
There were 11,11S women locked up in five
police cells in Chicago in 1889.
There is not now a ship in the 3ritish navy
without a temperance society.
John E. Graham, of Salem, Mass., has
found a ?o bill on which is inscribed: "The
last of 3100,000 for rum. Albany, June, 15,
1889. E. G. Taket."
Mrs. McGurty, of Oaklaud, III., has socured
a verdict of $1000 damages against
Campbell & Rosenberry, who sold her husband
intoxicants prior to his death from expos
uro while iu a uelpless condition.
In discussing lager boer a German critic
insists that there is in the German vocabulary
no such word as lager, which he believes
to be purely a Vieuneso expression.
There is also very little lager about a great
dpm nf tlia hftAi* that is nut out-.
, 4
The statistics of the Parisiau prefecture of
Eolice show that from 1872 to 1888 the nurner
of cases of insanity in tlie city has augmented
by onc-thir J. Dr. Paul Gamier, the
able police physician, attributes this startling
increase to the use ot alcohol amoug the
working classes.
The Sheriff of Jones County, Iowa, in the
exercise ot' his official authority, lately summoned
a number of promiuont citizens of
Cascade, Iowa, including the Mayor, most of
the City Council anil other officials, as habitual
drunkards, to appear at Auamosa, the
county seat of Jones County, and to testify
against the fourteen saloon keepers at Cas'
cade.
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