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STORMSWEPT COASTS.
"Wind anil lYaves lVork Havoc
on Land and Sea
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Great Damage Done in New York
and New Jersey.
A tremendous wind storm swept along the
Atlantic coast, flooding the smaller seaport
t/wrnc ?nr1 summer resorts, stranding vessels I
and carrying destruction before it. The
storm began at New York early one morning
and continued until late the next afternoon.
Unlike the great tempest of a week
before,the wind came from the eastward and
it blew with even greater force.
This gale came from the sea,and it brought
with it a blinding rain, which fell unceasingly
for over twenty-four hours. At sea ;
the rain fell in torrents, and tho tempest j
gathering strength throughout the night
swept inland at the rate of forty-five miles |
an hour Such waves as piled in along the j
Jersey coast and on the shores of Long j
Island have not been seen for years I
before. Thsy tore away bulkheads, I
inundated many of the coast railways, I
strewed fishing craft all along the shores aud
and undid in many cases the labor of years. |
Next morning the water rolled along the
Long Island and New Jersey shores where
there was solid land on'the day before. There
can be no conception of tho terrific force of
the wind and waves.
Along the water front in the surrounding
country the low-lying lands were flooded, I
and nearly everything exposed to the action i
of the wind and water was destroyed or carried
away. In New York city hundreds of
" " a nnH in the southern sec
tion of the city nearly every pier and bulkhead
was at times under water, much damage
to merchandise resulting inconsequence.
Not a single sailing vessel;enterod the port,
although quite a number were overdue. The
telegraph and telephone service was severely
affected. Tho wind blew at the rate of
thirty-six miles an hour and put on an extra
spurt coming around corners. Shipping, as
usual, suffered most severely from the storm,
and the incoming steamships and sailing
craft almost without exception brought
stories of disaster along the coast.
A result of the storm in the upper bay was
the grounding on Ellis Island, New York
Harbor, of the tug, E. B. Burgess.
The storm swept over Coney Island, and
the great weaves paid their respects to their
old friend, the little railroad between Manhattan
and Brighton Beaches. This marine
railroad was badly broken up, as it has been
frequently before. Men were at work all
day trying to save the remnants. About
600 feet of the Concourse west of
the Brighton Beach Hotel was washed
away. Keller's bathing pavillion, which had
been raised on rollers for the purpose of being
removed, was blown over and dashed to
pieces by the breakers. The pavilion was
valued at over $4000. The promenade in
front of the Brighton Beach Hotel was badly
broken up, being undermined by the waves.
The board walks in front of the Oriental and
Manhattan Beach Hotels were badly damaged.
Piermont, Rockland County, N. Y., was
partly submerged. In some parts of the
town people went from house to house in
boats. The streams were swollen throughout
Rockland County. High winds were general.
At Far Rockaway, N. Y., tho high tide
washed over Hogg island and swept away
Craig's Arbor, and Locltwood, smitn & uo'3.
office and batli houses, causing a loss of
about 55000. A large crowd of persons remained
until a late hour watching the work
of destruction.
"While the storm was at its height, E. D.
Morgan's steam yacht Catarina ran on the
rocks o.f Matinicock Point, in Long Island
Sound. Mr. Morgan was on board at the
time. A great hole was knocked in the
bottom and she began to fill rapidly. As
soon as it was seen that tho Catarma was
filling, Mr. Morgan and the crew took to the
boats and reached the shore without accident.
The coast of New Jersey, from Sandy
* Hook down to below Atlantic City, suffered
severely. The places which suffered the
most damage was Seabright, Monmouth
Beach and "Galilee. At Sandy Hook the
water broke over the tracks of the New Jersey
Southern Railroad, and the roadbed was
washed away in many places. At Monmouth
Beach and at Galilee the bulkheads and the
embankments were washed away by the unusually
high tide.
All the wires were blown down on the line
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was completely cut off from all communication.
At Asbury Park, N. J., tho Promenade,
Second and Asbury avenues were undermined
and greatly damaged. The pavilion
at the foot of Asbury avenue suffered from
the waves and many bath-houses were
washed out to sea. Fishing boats and oyster
sloops at Keyport were driven ashore and
lifted high on the beach.
A three-masted schooner was driven ashore
at Bayhead. The crew escaped to the land
and were cared for by the Jife-saving men.
Tho bridges over the Manasquan River
were all carried away, and between that
point and the Atlantic Highlands the
- meadows were completely under water. A
portion of the railroad track on the Atlantic
Highland Branch was submerged and all
travel was suspended.
All along Long Island Sound, on both
shores, damage and wrecks are reported, and
on Long Island hardly a place on the shore
escaped the fury of tne gale. From Long
Island City to Moniauk serious loss from
wind and water are recorded.
On Staten Island, N. Y., damage was reported
all along the coast.
At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the water in the
Hudson has not been so high in twelve years.
Piles and wharves were submerged. Main
street wharf was so deep that passengers had
to be taken to and from the steamer Tremper
in wagons. Lumber yards were flooded, and
the water reached the steps of the Exchange
Hotel.
The storm's damage slosg North
Shrewsbury River in New Jersey will about
equal that caused by the cyclone in Septeinr
ber of last year.,
An old fashioned northeast storm pre[
vailed in Boston, Mass., and vicinity, the
high wind making it the most disagreeable
and aggravating storm for pedestrians that
has occured for many a day. It was most violent
along the waterfront, although no darn
age is reported within the city limits. At Revere
Reach the wind and high tide played
sad havoc. The Woburn House, built on
the shore at the north end of Crescent Beacb,
was lifted from its foundations and settled
deep in the sand. A photograph building
was wrecked by the waves and thrown
up against the railroad saloon building. Thi
lattice work of the Palace bathing establishment
wa3 torn away, and the rear portion
of tfce Gak Island cafe and Waverly House
suffered some damage.
A small sloop yacht was lifted bodily by
the wind and waves and deposited on the
bed of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn
Railroad.
Along the south shore the storm is reported
as the most severe since the big storm of
November, 1&S8. At Provincetown the
schooner Emily Bell broke adrift and is now
ashore in the harbor in an easy position.
A snowstorm raged in the Catskills regions
of New York. In front of the Hotel Kaaterskill
the snow was two inches in depth. A i
cold wind and rainstorm raged all day, causing
great damage. There was a high tide
in the Rondout Creek; docks were covered
and cellars flooded.
T-l * m A T ri A T1 TIT nnflllTTlNn
XiliAJLi UAHJjJLiIjdSlNIiSS,
Two Civil Kngiitecra Throw Away
Their Lives With Reckless Abandon.
Edgar H. Cooper, of New York, and Jarues
Herd man, of Ohio, Civil Engineers, employed
by the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railway Company, were instantly
killed on the Niantic Bridge, at
East Lynn, Conn., a few mornings ago.
The two men were employed in constructing
the double track of tho
Shore Lino and wore walking along the
bridge^ evidently cognizant of tho fact that
the passenger train -wilich loft New London
at 7:43 was steaming do rill, on them. The
train could be seen a quarter bf.a mile away.
The men evidently thought they'll ad plenty
of time to get out of the way. They-were
struck by the pilot of the engine when near
the end of the bridge. So near were they to *
the end that both bodies struck dry ground
? instead of falling into the water. Both
bodies were considerably mangled. The men
were young, and it seems unaccountable that
they should have taken such a risk as they
did by regaining on tho bridge.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
The Russian Czar has forty-four different
binds of uniform.
William Waldorf Astor, the richest
American, is traveling in Europe as W. H.
Class.
General Bex. Butler owns the Craig
ranch below Pueblo, Col., consisting of
100,000 acres.
Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras,
it is declared, writes the worst hand in the
United States.
Stephen H. Ttxo, the onoe popular New
York pastor, is doing life insurance business
in Paris, France.
Archdeacon Farrar, of Westminster,
has accepted the Chaplaincy of the British
House of Commons.
Dom Pedro, formerly Emperor of Brazil,
has taken up his residence at Versailles, just
outside Pans, France.
Simeon E. Baldwin. President of the
American Bar Association, has been profesKnr
of constitutional law in Yale College since
1872."
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, formerly Misa
Anita McCormick, has property in her own
right and will iiiherit $10,000,000 from her
mother.
Ex-KrxG Milan, of Serria, has been offered
a pension of $50,000 per anr^m if he
will live outside of that country, but he
wants it made $75,000.
I Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Barnum, who have
been spending some titne in Denver. Col., expect
soon to visit California and from there
they will go to Japan.
| Roswell P. Flower, of New York city,
t boasts that he represents in Congress a dis!
trict that is richer than any State except
I New York and Pennsylvania.
! Mr. Gladstone makes marginal notes oa
! everv book he reads. He reads pencil in
i hand, marks as he goes along and makes a
i nt inrfoT tvh(?n he is through.
Daniel Seales, the colored millionaire
of San Francisco, Cal., is a man of fine appearance,
who dresses in the height of style.
He is now seventy years old, but as lively as
a cricket.
I It is said that J. M. Longyoar, or MarI
quette, Mich., made his millions by studying
! geology until he could traco an iron vein by
i the dip and strike equal to the best miner in
the world.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is his own pub*
lisker. He receives frequent requests nowadays
to write for the magazines, but he
works only on the days when th9 spirit
moves him.
Commander McCal:,a, who was restricted
to Rhode Island territory for three
years by the Enterprise court-martial, has,
by permission of the Navy Department,
, taken a house in Washington and will spend
the winter at the capital with his family.
The Czar of Russia has grown so fat that
he is obliged to wear uniforms that appear
grotesque, and he rides a heavily-built,
sturdy, brown horse, which is capable of
carrying au immense weight. But the horse
does not prance with 275 poimds on hia
back.
The late General Belknap was a very conspicuous
figure on the streets of Washington.
There was an air of great distinction
about his tall form, and he was always
dressed with the greatest care. He went
into society but little and was abstamious
in l\i? habits.
DYING OF CHOLERA.
Japan, Abyssinia, Turkey and Other
Countries Ravaged.
Advices received by the United States
Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington from
the United States Consul at Nagasaki, Japan,
report 1095 new cases of cholera and
742 deaths from this disease during the pe|
riod from August 18 to September 11. From
i the outbreak of the epidemic until Septemj
ber 14 there have been 31SS cases and 2031
! deaths.
Advices received at the Bureau from the
I United States Consul at St. Helena report
j the appearance of cholera at Meskene and
| Aleppo.
| Advices from Spain are that the cholera
] epidemic continues, but its presence in Bar;
celoua is not officially confirmed.
Reports from Abyssinia say that the epi|
dernic is intense in the localities occupied by
Italian troops, and at Massowali about sixty
i deaths occur daily from the disease.
Reports from Russia state that the actual
I presence of cholera is not reported, but some
; cities in the South are suspected, but nothing
i riafiniffl is ?hnWn Renarts from France state
that the sanitary condition is very satisfactory
and no cases of cholera have been reported.
The report from Italy states that according
to information received from private
sources many fatal cases of cholera have oci
curred in Venice. The Italian Government
| has ordered the return of troops,from the
I Red Sea colony.
| Advices from Constantinople say that the
j late cholera reports are very unfavorable,
j and show that the epidemic is increasing in
I extent and intensity.
The appearance of the disease at Aleppo, to
! which place it was imported from Meskene,
i is very serious. On September It and 12
nine deaths were reported out of fifteen cases.
ELEVEN VESSELS BUENED.
The Cotton Shipping District of Mobile,
Ala., Swept by Flames.
A fire in the cotton gin and shipping district
of Mobile, Ala, destroyed eleven steamers
and over a million dollars' worth of cotton
gins, wharves and shipping depots.
The local fire department was incapable of
doing any effective work to check the spread
of the flames. For a time all the sailiug
vessels in the harbor were threatened. The
wind carried sparks a great distance, and
many small fires were started where cotton
was exposed.
Th^Are started in a shingle mill near the
river front just outside the northern boundary
of the city limits.
In Goodman's mill, near the shingle factory.
there were stored about nine
hundreds bales of cotton. They were
soon ablaze, and the sparks from the
cotton carried by the wind next communicated
the flames to Brown's warehouse,
and running back to Magnolia street
to th\? southwest of the Mobile mills and to
the wharf front.
The flames swept on down the wharf front
of the city and before the fire was finally
checked eleven vessels had been burned.
The loss will amount to over a million dollars.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
i ponnrt nf i)>a Vphp's Ilnsiimss Before
This Tribunal.
From the annual report of the Court of
Claims, submitted to the Attorney-General,
it appears that the aggregate number
of suite begun against the
Government in that court and pending
is about 14,0u0, and that the war
claims alone now pending number 8000, involving
an estimated aggregate sum of $400,COO.OOO.
During the last year, under the
general jurisdiction of tho court,
[ claims amounting to nearly $2,000,000
have been disposed of. In these
cases the amount recovered was $210,- J
000. Claims against the District of Columbia
have been adjusted by the court to the extent
of $350,000, at a cost of only $45,000. Of the
war claims tried the amount claimed was
nearly $1,000,000, and the findings for the
claimants aggregated $103,000. In all departmental
cases tried tho findings have
been adverse to the claimants.
PASSENGERS HELD UP.
Three Train Robbers Make a Haul
of $1500 in New Mexico.
As the south-bound train on the Santa Fo
pulled out of Socorro, New Mexico, threa
men were seen to step on board. After the
train had passed San Antonio threa strangers
entered the Pullman sleeper and locked the
door. Thej then drew their revolvers on
the porter and conductor and relieved them
-Of their surplus cash. Then they robbed the
passengers, making quite a haul. They
jumped from the train on the Basque d?
Apache taking to the hills. It is estimated
that ?hey got $1500.
The officers of tbe road have offered a reward
of 11000 for their arrest.
\
TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The Board of Estimate of New York city
incorported in the appropriation for the
Health Department $5000, to be used in taking
a census in 1S9L.
Fire at East Pepperall, Mass., destroyed
n shr>B factorv. three residences, seven stores
I and a block of boarding bouses. Loss,
$300,000.
The body of Charles L. Pickering, a Sheriff
of Lincoln* Me., was found in the woods,
where he had gone to a lumber camp after
witnesses. Ho got lost and died from exposure.
A runaway team in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
caused the death of Mrs. Robinson, who was
struck by the pole of the wagon. Her daughter
was knocked down and her skull fractured.
Mrs. Waito was seriously injured,
and Mr. Mollenhaner, the driver of the team,
was thrown from the wagon and his right
leg and wrist fractured.
Ex-Goverxor Butler Gilbert Noble,
of Wisconsin, died at his home. Brooklyn, N.
Y., in his seventy-fourth year. From the
time he was stricken with apoplexy on the
preceding afternoon and fell down the basement
stairs of his residence he had been in a
comatose condition.
Mayor Gleason*, of Long Island City, N.
Y., was released from jail, where he had
served five days for assault, the event being
celebrated by a reception, decoration of
buildings and general illumination.
The corner stone of the new Municipal
Building was laid in New York city, Mayor
Grant presiding and Recorder Smyth delivering
the oration.
Extremely high tides did much damage
on the Massachusetts coast. The lowlands
and meadows for a distance of over fortyseven
miles were submerged.
j The jubilee in honor of Field Marshal Von
Moltke's ninetieth birthday was celebrated
in New York city at the Metropolitan Opera
House, which was packed to th9 doors.
Chauncey M. Depewmade a stirring oration.
Mrs. Jane Turner Martin*, probably the
oldest person in Lancaster County, Penn.,
is dead in the County Almshouse. She is reported
to have been 103 years old.
Mayor Fitler. of Philadelphia, decided
that an enumeration of that city's population
should be made by the municipal authorities.
The correctness of the census
taken by the Federal authorities is doubted.
The large fish-dealing firms of TVatertown, |
N. Y., anu Kingston, Canada, five in all, j
hare combined and formed a company to bo
called the Lake Ontario Fish Company J
(limited) of Cape Vincent, N. Y.. with a capital
stock of $100,000. They will have practical
control of the wholesale fish business
along the St. Lawrence and the lake shore.
Brigadier-General Samuel H. Roberts
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., after a
year's illness, of asthma and general debility.
He was born in New York city about seventy
years ago. When a mere boy he enlisted in
the regular arm.
South and West.
Governor Campbell's bill making the
Cincinnati boards non-partisan was passed
by the Ohio Legislature, after which that
body adjourned.
Two Mexican sheep herders have been
murdered and their bodies horribly mangled
by Indians about twenty miles from Silver
City, New Mexico. A posse of deputy
I sueniis weni ill pursuit 01 iae reneguue iuuiderers.
The Indians beat off their pursuers
after two of them had been killed.
i The stallion Superior, valued at f75,000.
[ owned by Dubois Brothers, horsebreeders,
of Pueblo, Cal., was accidentia killed by a
train.
The Maine stallion, Nelson, trotted the
fastest half-mile on record (1:03) at Cambridge
City, Ind. Belle Hamlin and Justina
lowered the team record at Independence,
Iowa, by trotting a mile iu 2.
Thomas J. Nms and Miss Gertrude Pilman,
of Brewton, Ala., were married at the
Alabama State Fair, Birmingham. Rev. S.
M. Adams, President of the State Alliance,
performed the ceremony. The young couple
then steppad into the car of a monster gas
balloon, and with Aeronaut Baldwin sailed
off on a bridal tour.
The bursting of a steel standpipe flooded
the town of Temple, Texas.
The machine shop, blacksmith shop and a
portion of the large mill of the Youngstown
(Ohio) Rolling Mill Company, were burned.
Loss about ?100,000.
Fifteex armed men burned down the buildings
of L. B.Varnes, in Coffee County, Ala.,
bacause of his supposed participation in the
late riot. Governor Gordon called out the
militia to repress the mob.
a desperate duel to the death was fought
near Danielsville, Ga., in which William
Sanders, a prominent planter, was killed,
and William Martin, his neighbor, was fatally
wounded.
Two Italian laborers were buried alive in
a land slide in a canyon fifty miles north of
Ogden, Utah. Another man was rescued
fatally injured.
The entire wharf front of Apalacliicola.
Fla.. was sweDt bv fire. The Kennedv ana
Kimball lumber mills, in each of which were
from two million to throe million feet of
lumber; ths Apalachicola iron works, Grady's
store, the Apalachicola ice factory, Gould
& Warren's planing mill, the Orman building
and a number of frame structures were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at from
$175,000 to $200,000.
Fire broke out in Morley's shoe store
at Andover, Ohio, and spread rapidly. The
town had no fire apparatus and an engine
was sent from Jefferson. The fire was extinguished
after fifteen buildings, including
the postoffice, had been completely destroyed.
An unknown colored passenger boarded a
train at Navasota, Texas. He refused to
pay his fare, and having some words with
the colored porter drew a revolver and fired
three shots into the porter, killing him instantly.
He then pulled the bell cord and
as the train slowed up jumped off and
escaped.
Ten miles below Austin, Texas, on a cotton
plantation, four Mexican gamblers fell out
over a monte game, when one of them drew
his pistol and shot and killed the other three.
Bill Darnwell, cx-policeman and
I keeper of a "chili con carne" stand at Austin,
Texas, shot and killed a woman, Maggie
Null, and then blew out his own brains.
In Gwinnett County, Ga., Fanny Cham1
hers, a colored girl, win quarreled with
i Picrce Wright, her lover, cut off his head
with a razor.
Fire started in H. S. Collins's jewelry
store in Eureka Springs, Ark., and con
.sumoa property valued at ?300,(WO. The I
Ferry House, Springfield House, Ohio House i
and thirty-five other business and dwelling
houses were destroyed.
John* Weber and Henry Switzer, living
at the same cabin on tho line of their adjoin- 1
i ing claims, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma j
I Territory, were called to their "doors by per*
sons unknown and shot and killed.
I The train carrying Barnuiu & Bailey's
; circus was wrecked at Macon, Ga. John i
j Kelly, from Michigan, and Mack Glenn, from !
j Macon, were killed outright, and eight valu- j
able horses were killed.
The books of John J. Irving, late Circuit |
Court Clerk of Hamilton County, Tc-nn., j
nave nesa louna suort between S'JU'JU and i
?10,000.
AVashiu<;fon.
The Pension Bureau made a requisition
upon the Treasury Department for $25,000,j
OCX) to meet the payment of pensions under
i the act of June 27, 1890, as well as of those
under the old laws, for the next Ovo j
months.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in- '
ptriicterl customs officials to render their
accounts monthly hereafter instead of quarterly.
Toe Secretary of the Interior accepted the
resignation of "Pension Agent Barclay at
Pittsburg, Penn.
It is practically settled that the vacancy
on the Supreme Court bench will not be filled
until after the meeting of Congress in December.
The State Department is informed that
the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office has
refused to receive Mr. Black, American
Consul at Budapest.
The Census Office announced the total
population of the State of Maryland to be
l,(w0,303. The population in 18S0 was 984,943;
increase during the last ten years, 105,300.
The British iron and steel men reached
"Washington in the course of their travols
tkrniiixh Uia TTniiaH TkaJr violi:
purely one of sightseeing. The party numbered
four or flvo hundred, including sixty
or seventy ladies, and most of them gathered
at the White House, where they were introduced
to President Harrison.
Secretary Windom determined to call a
meeting of the lady managers of the World's
Fair, to bo held in Chicago November 18.
They will receive ?6 a day and expenses.
Secretary Noble rendered a decision
denying the application of Mayor Grant for
a remuneration of the population of New
York city.
Ex-President Cleveland- made his
argumont in the Peake vs. the City of Now
Orleans case beforo the Supreme Court of
the United States. The court room and corridors
were packed with sightseers, and the
ex-President was listened to most attentively.
Superintendent Porter resumed his
duties at the Census Bureau, having returned
from nis Drier trip to u,uropa iu ssmuu- ui.
health.
A fatal runaway accident occurred In
Washington by which Mrs. Margaret Gantt,
widow or the late Lieutenant Gantt of th9
Navy, was killed and her daughter, Miss
Clare Gantt, fatally injured.
The Director of the Mint issued a statement
regarding the silver policy of the
Treasury and the recent decline in the pric9
of Silver.
The Indian Bureau has received from th9
President a telegram, sent to him by Governor
Cooper, announcing that bands of Uto
Indians are off their reservations in Colorado
slaughtering game, damaging private property,
and greatly endangering the peace.
Foreign.
Secretary Balfour began a tour of the
west of Ireland, to investigate the alleged
famine.
Mesrss. O'Brien and Dillon, the Irish
patriots, left Paris oil their trip to America
to raise famine funds.
Ensign Rumsey, of the United States
steamel* Swatara, was accidentally drowned
at Yokohama, Japan.
The American Minister to Turkey has demanded
satisfaction for the unlawful arrest
of a fellow-countryman.
Sir Chales pearsqjr has been appointed
Solicitor-Genera'! of Scotland.
Le Comte de Paris was magnificently
entertained in Montreal. Canada. He made
a speech in which he said he saw the signs
ominous to France, but that Canada's future is
bright and promising.
The number of strikers in New South
Wales has been increased to fifty thousand.
A general parliamentary election was
held in Greece. The Government was defeated,
retaining only one-third of the seats.
Very heavy earthquake shocks, lasting
twenty minutes, were felt at Ignala and
Chilpancingo, Mexico.
The King of Portugal received tho Captain
and officers of the United States cruiser
Baltimore at Lisbon.
The election disorders in the Canton of
Ticino, Switzerland, broke out again; and
there was fighting also in the Canton of Frlbourg.
M. Allard, a Paris journalist, fought a
duel near Tours, France. The weapons used
were pistols, and M. Allard was shot in the
stomach. He has since died from the effects
of his injuries.
The Portuguese Minister at London has
been recalled.
LATER NEWS.
Daniel McDermott and Fred. Bennett,
passengers, were killed in a railway accident
at Providence, R. I. N. G. Peabody was
fatally injured.
Reports from tho Gloucester (Mass.)
whaling fleet in the Arctic Ocean state that
the catch of the fleet is ninety whales.
The historic old United States Court House
in Baltimore, Md., was sold at public auction.
The building, constructed solidly of granite,
and costing the Government more than $400,000
to erect, was sold for ?3000.
Thomas Wool folk was hanged at Perry,
Ga., for the murder of his father and mother,
his two brothers and four sisters, and a
Air?, west, agea eiguty-iuur, tu uis umc,
early in the morning of August 6, 1837. H j
bad cut down all bis victims with an axe,
and was the sole survivor of the household
of ten persons.
Rich placer deposits of gold have been
discovered in Jackson County, South Dakota,
recently, a part of tho Sioux Reservation
contiguous to the Black Hills.
Miss Mar? Butterworth, daughter of
Representative Butterworth, of Ohio, was
married in Washington to Haughwout
Howe, of the State Department.
Secretary Windom appointed J. K.
Moore, of St. Paul, Minn., to be Chief of the
Appointment Division of the Treasury Department,
to succeed T. E. Byrnes, resigned.
Vitc, on the east coast of Africa, was
captured by the British and burned.
A girl named Flanagan and her mother
have been murdered by moonlighters in
County Clare, Ireland
Ki.vg William III of Holland has again
be?n declared incapable of governing, and
the Council of State has been temporarily
invested with regal powers.
INDIAN OFflCE REPOET.
Commissioner Morgan Favors Compulsory
Indian Education.
Commissioner Morgan of the Indian Bureau
in his annual report just issued, says that
it has become I he settled policy of tho Government
to break up reservations, destroy
tribal relations, settle Indians upon theii*
own homesteads, incorporate them into nationul
lifo, and deal with them not as nations,
or tribes, or bands, but as individual citizcus.
The American Indian is to become tho
Indian American. A public school system
is being rapidly provide.!, whereby every accessible
Indian boy and girl of school age is
to have an opportunity of acquiring the rudiments
of an English education and the elements
of an honorable calling. Tho Indians
themselves aro coming to understand the
present policy of tho Government anil aro
showing an increasing readiness and even
desire to adjust themselves to it.
The Commissioner favors compulsory education,
and upon this subject says: "I am
in favor of compelling every Indian child of
suitable age and health, for whom accommodations
are provided, to attend school tc.i
months out of twelve. A general law, however,
could not now bo applied, for the sim- i
pie reason that school accommodations aro J
provided for less than half the children o. j
school ago. The question is not se much on i |
of filling the school, ns it is finding room fo.' j
the pupils. With fow exceptions every r^- ;
servation school is crowded, and hundreds of j
children who are willing to go to school are j
prevented by want of proper accommodations.
The total school enrollment during |
the year was 10,37?, with an average attend- i
ancd of 12,233. This is but a s nail fraction I
more than one-third of the school population."
At tho date of the last anuual report
there were 133 Indian reservation? in the
Unitod States, having an aggregate area of
110,03.1,01)3 ?121* <35. During the year about
13,<M0,01) acres have been secured bv cesiion
from the Indians, and agreements by which
about 4,510,00) acres will bo secured, aro
now pending in Congress. The work of
makin* allotments of lauds in severalty under
the several acts of Congress has steadily
progressed during the year.
Ay innovation in the method of handling
green fruit at the Port of New York is about
to be put into practice. The new arrangewonf
nAMMtfo Af n cfanm n>Un?P fn
"iuuw vi u ouuaiu-ucauou n uai i. au
the past fruit has been landed on the wharf
without regard to the weather, and when the
temperature ranged below the freezing point
groat damage resulted. The heated wharf
will be fifty-six by 184 feet in dimensionsHun'Ters
from the Moreau River country
in South Dakota report extensive prairie
fires raging in that portion of the Sioux
reservation. They also say that vast tracts
of lignite coal land have commenced to bum,
and fears are entertained that it may continue
to spread through the coal fields in the
Bad River district, west oi Pierre, South
Dakota.
THE LABOB WOBLD.
Ijr New York city there are 50,000 tailors.
It is calculated that there are 150,000 tail- '
ors in the United States.
More than 5000 stone masons in Berlin, i
Germany, are without work or money.
First grade cooks at St. Paul, Minn., get
$100 a month; second, $75; and third, $50. *
Workwomen' are strangely apathetic to
the great questions of finance in tnis country. ^
New York city fresco painters are fined
$5 for misrepresenting their houra or wages.
The Ion? strike of bootmakers at Leicester, r
England, has ended in a victory for the men.
Thousands of Japanese will soon be j
colonized in Mexico. They are wanted a3
laborers.
It has been decided to hold an international f
in Rwicenlo "R^lorinm in All? 1
gust, lS9lf
j The Ohio law compelling payment of
wages every two weeks has been declared
I constitutional. <
Italian* stone masons at New York city ^
I will form a $59,000 co-operative company.
Shares, $25 each.
Two New York city walking delegates .
were discharged for taking money from con- -1
tractors for ordering strikes. ]
The marble-cutters from sixteen cities met
in convention in New York city recently,
and formed a national organization.
The Grand Division o? Railroad Conduct- '
ors has paid off an indebtedness of $11,600 in <
a year and has a large balance in its treasury.
(
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters ,
and Joiners has now 729 loccal unions, 55,807 1
members in benefit, and 79,000 enrolled mem- i
bers.
Newport and Monmouth'(En^land) boiler- .
makers struck to settle the point -whether
they or the engineers shall do the angle iron- '
work. I
Four hundred Boston (Mass.) waiters,
white and colored, have organized a branch
of the National Culinary Alliance whose
headquarters is in Chicago.
Nearly every mining camp in Colorado
is just now experiencing a scarcity of labor.
Hundreds of men in addition to those now
employed will be wanted during the winter.
The averago wages paid are ?3 a day.
The strike of th9 cigar-maker3 in Bing- i
hamton, N. Y., in about fifteen weeks, cost
$20,000 spent in contributions tft the strikers,
and about a quarter of a million dollars in
wages of strikers lost by not working.
By a section of the new election law every
employer in New York State is compelled
to give to his employes two hours in which
to vote, and no 'deduction from his wages is
v.a maHa An nmnnt nf such absence.
A toung locomotive engineer on the
Southern Pacific Railroad is the son of a
millionaire of Terre Haute, Ind. The son
voluntarily chose his present life on account
of a quarrel with his father. The family is
trying to induce him to return.
Lady Dilke, wife of Sir Charles Dilke, is
taking active interest in labor organization
in England, and has recently addressed
crowded meetings of women. She urged
them to form unions, but warned them
against deserting the cause as soon as their
wrongs had been righted.
The hours of field labor in the Sounh have
always been "from sun to sun." "White
farmers who do their own work?and the
freedmen also?adhere to the ancient U3age.
The same rule holds good in other out-ofdoor
employments, such as railroad construction
and lumbering.
According to the official statistics of Italy
over 55,000 millers and millwrights have been
thrown put of employment during the last
ten years in trial "kingdom by irpproved machinery;
and when in all mills in Italy such
machinery has been introduced the total
number of unemployed in the flour milling
industry will reach 70.000.
CENSUS RETUENS.
Vermont and Nevada the Only States
Which Have Not Grown.
The official count of population of all the j
"* ' ' ^ -** - ? "*r I
States ana lerruones, except jujujiouu,
Missouri and Virginia, has been completed,
and is as follows:
SMf. 1S90. 1680.
Alabama 1,508,073 1.262,505
Arizona 59,691 40,4-10
Arkansas 1,125,385 802,525
California 1,$01002 864.694
Colorado 410,975 194,327
Connecticut 745,861 622,700
Delaware 167,871 146,608
District of Columbia... 229,796 177,624
Florida 390,435 269,493
Georgia 1,834,366 1,542,180
Idaho S4.229 32,610
Illinois 3,818,536 3,077,S71
Indiana 2,189,030 1,978,301
Iowa 1,906,729 1,624,615
Kansas . 1,423,485 996,094
Kentucky. 1.855,436 1,648,690
Louisiana..'. 1,116,828 939,916
Maine i.. 660,261 648,936
Maryland ....
Massachusetts 2,233,407 1,783,085
Mich^n... 2,089,792 1,636,937
Min??<ota 1,309,017 730,773
Mississippi 1,284,887 1,131,597
Missouri ....
Montana 131,769 39,159
Nebraska.....1,056,793 452,402
Nevada*....; 41337 .62,266
New fiampshire 375,827 340,991
New Jersey 1,441,017 1,131,116
New Mexico 144,862 119,565
New York 5,981,034 5,082,871
North Carolina 1,617,310 1,399,750
^foi'th Dakota .* 182,425 36,909
Oiiio u-iw6,719 3,198,052
Oklahoma 61,701
Oregon 312,490 174,768
Pennsylvania 5.248,574 4,282(891
Rhode Island :345,343 276,531
South Carolina 1,147,161 995.577
South Dakota 327,S48 9S.268
Tennessee 1,763,723 1,542,359
Texas 2,232,220 1,591,749
Utah 206,498 143,963
Vermont 332,205 332,286
Virginia .... I
Washington 349,516 75,116
West Virginia 760,448 61S.457
Wisconsin 1,083,697 1,315,497
Wyoming 60,389 20,789
The couut of the population of nearly all
the cities has been completed. The figures
of the first ten are as follows: j
rt>j. li'JO. 183 >. '
New York 1,513,501 1,266,299
Chicago 1,098,566 503,185 I
Philadelphia 1,044.894 847,170 J
JJrooklvn 804,377 506,663
St Louis 400.357 350,518 Boston
446,007 352,839
Baltimore 433,639 332.513 ]
San Francisco 291,390 233,959 i j
Cincinnati 296,309 255,130 ; i
Cleveland 901,51'J 160,146 j (j
FIENDISH POISONER. IJ
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A German Father Kills Himself and Five
Children.
Another tragedy has bean added to tho list
of horrors which have recently occurred in
Berlin, Germany, and the vicinity. The i ^
community was shocked by the discovery of j
the fiendish work of a poisoner, which t
is almost without parallel in the history
of crime. A retired farmer named Gast s
gave to his children some sweetmeats in 1 t
which he had previously placed a quantity of i r
poison. He then partook of the poisoned i 1
confection himself. After suffering L
great agony for some time, t
the murderer and three of tha s
children were relieved by death from n
their sufferings. Two other of the children, .
who also ate of the sweetmeats, are in a dyiug 1
condition, and the physicians say there is no c
possible chance of saving thorn. No reasoa t
ia known for the crime.
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NATURAL GAS FAMINE,
It Gives Out in Pittsburg, Pcnn.,With
Sail Results.
. . I s
There was a genuine natural gas famine in : j
several sections of Pittsburg and Alleghany
City, in Pennsylvania, for sovcral days r>>
cently. Although the officials of the Phila*
delphia Natural Gas Company claimed that
the pressure in their pipes was from four to s
six ounces, many families partook of col I h
dinners, as the gas died out altogether in a
some sections. It is promised that after the
500 puddling furnaces are cut off from tin f
supply all private consumers will have plenty ii
of gas. 1
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CURIOUS FACTS.
The cotton gin was invented by Eli
Yhitney in 1793.
A thirteen-year-old girl i3 the organist '
n a Mains church.
An Iowa woman has named her twin3
Jascline and Kerosene.
There are only six thousand stars |
risible to the naked eye.
Five thousand boxes of gum are chewed ,
ip in Chicago every day.
A peasant woman near Nantes, France,
ecently gave birth to five children.
Cutting off a wife's nose is still a
avorite mode of punishment by jealous
mabands in India.
At the funeral of an aged lady at
FVoolwich, England, her seven sons, all
:lergymen of the Church of England,
vere present.
The rhododendron plantation of Mr.
j'ollansbee in the town of Fitzwiiliam,
ST. H., is one of the floral wonders of
.Sew England.
Thomas Winans, the Baltimore millionlire,
said on his deathbed that he would
jive $1,000,000 to be able to eat a piece
jf bread and butter.
The population of London can be best
jstimated by the not generally known
fact that it is greater than that of Norway
ind Sweedcn combined.
The colony of Hong Kong, China,
was first ceded to Great Britain in 1841,
ind the cession was confirmed by the
treaty of Nanking in 1842.
The first Colonial Congress met October?,
1765, at New York. Timothy
Ruggles, of Massachusets, was Chairman,
and John Cotton, Clerk of the Convention.
A Three Kivers (Mica.) gin uas a
beau who is a Lake Shore fireman. Every
day she tics a bouquet to a stick and
hands it to her lover as he flies by her
home in his cab.
A family in Isabella, Penn.,wasthe
possessor of four kittens joined together
after tho manner of th? Siamese twins.
A cord fastened them together which
seemed to pass through the four. They
lived several days.
An ox has been dug out of a straw
stack on the farm of George Pitzer,
Louisiana, Mo. It had been missing
forty-flve days. Though weak it was
alive and will survive. The straw buried
tho animal a3 it came from the thresher.
Heroditus states that the Greeks received
the sun dial from the Chaldeans.
The first dial on record was one set up by
King Ahay, of Jerusalem, nearly 400
years before Aristotle and Plato, and just
a little previous to the lunar eclipses obsorved
at Babylon, rs recorded by
Ptolemy.
The peculiar reach toward Lake Erie
in the State Line of Penn3yleania,known
as the Triangle (from its being originally
the State of New York extension) was a
special purchase, September 4,1788,from
the Government, of a slice of the Northwest
Territory, containing 202,187
acres, at a State cost of $157,640.
The fastest biid on the wing is the
swift, which has been known to attain a
speea of 200 miles an hour. It feeds
exclusively on insects, which it capture*
flvin?. The speed of the swallow,
.. ?J o * #
which comes next to that ot the STvift,
is usually fifty miles an hour, but sometimes
goes a3 high as ninety miles.
Jonas Leopold has a fine farmjn East
Coventry, Chester County, Penn., and
the other morning, without any special
effort, plucked eighty-three stalks of
four, five, six and seven-leaf clcver. The
four-leaf is much sought for as a curiosity,
as there is good luck on every fringe.
Up to date Farmer Leopold has secured
2IS of tho phenomenal stalks and believes
the record can go much higher.
The Russian Czar's wardrobe vies in
extent and variety with that of Henry
Irving. His Imperial Majesty has fortyfour
different uniforms, all of which he
has worn save one, that of a Russian Field
Marshal. Although the titular head of
his army, the Czar has vowed never to j
wear the dress of a Field Marshal until
this rank shall have been conferred upon
him by the other Field Marshals after a
victorious war.
An Emperor's Lodging.
On the occasion of Empeior Wilhelm's
recent visit to the Austrian capital the
Emperor of Austria selected Schoenbrunn
nS the residence, as a special compliment
to his Imperial guest, who was wont in
his yjutfe to Tva^ abQut Crown
Prince RuuvJf iQ the Park which surrounds
it. ,
The quite nf rnnms nssicmjd him tVCffl
once occupied by Napoleon the First,
and the splendid Empire decorations were
renewed for "Wilhelm's visit. The walls
were hung with ancient tapestries, and
the alcoves were filled with choicest hothouse
flowers.
The magnificent stretch of lawn between
the palace and the Gloirette being
somewhat deteriorated, no fewer than
7000 plants were placed in the beds to
ijivc the landscape the requisite freshness.
In the great salon where Napoleon the
First, in the days of his greatest prosperity,
gave many a famous banquet, a
muting breakfast was given in honor of
Rmperor TVilhelm. It is said that no
>uch collection of royalties \ias assem)lcd
at Schoenbrunn since Napoleon's
irne. There were thirty-eight guests,
sach dressed in a gala hunting costume.
?New York Journal.
Best Fodder for Cavalry Horses.
A series of experiments, made witli a !
*iew of discovering the best fodder for
French cavalry horses, has established
he fact that straw and oats are, in rsaon,
preferable to hay. It appeared
hat when the ration of hay was reduced,
iud that of the straw and oats proporionately
increased, the staying power of
he horses was much improved; they
wcated le33 and bore fatigue better,
rhese experiments have excited much
ntercst in military circles, and it is very
;cneraUy recognized that there is imperaivc
need for a complete and careful study
if the question of cavalry forage.
Spraying IVith Cold Water. j (
The spraying of the surface of the
luman body with cold water is now re*
orted to for the purpose of jeducing '
ebrile temperature. In the ca?e of a J
aan suffering from phthisis, whose tem- j
icrature was high, it was found that by '
praying about a pint of water between :
ixty and seventy degrees Fahrenheit over (
.is body the temperature fell to normal, ]
nd continued 50 for several hours; 0 1
imilar method was satisfactorily adopted *
1 the case of a girl with diphtheria.-- j
ITew York Tribune. I
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TEMPERANCE /
DISGRACED.
Upon an oak tree, grand and tall,
A clinging grape-vine hung, v 3
TVhiJe from the far outspreading boughj ' r >
Great purple clusters swung.
No daring hand had ever reached
Where topmost branches played.
So high in air tho ripened fruit
In tempting beauty swayed.
Dno day the vintage master paused
Within tho checkered shade.
Which high upon the oak tree's bough
The swinging clusters made.
Across the greenward's even floor
With bright leaves thickly spread,
Old Autumn's tribute levied on
The branches overhead.
He glanced up through the dancing leaves, J
As 'gainst toe trunk he leaned,
"Those grapes are nicer ones," he said, ,
"Than any I have gleaned.
I think, my beauties, I can find
Some way to bring you down,"
And soon the pretty clusters lay
Dismantled on the ground.
Their quiet, harmless life was o'er.
For soon against their will
They're tossed with others not so fair
Into the cruel still, ^3^53
Where, crushed and bleeding, sore dis?
graced,
Their future work must be
To scatter broadcast o'er the earth
The seeds of misery.
?Susie E. Kennedy, in Temperance Banner,
PLEASANT FOR THE PASSEJfOEBS.
When I was up in Northern Wisconsin the
other day I saw something that caused chills ^
to chase each other in rapid succession down
my spinal column, and that made my hale. ?
(tnatis, ine rim 01 mrsute growxa mat :.~jl
adorns the base of my skull) to stand erect
The train upon which I traveled stopped for
dinner at a little water-tank station. Just -' $
as the train was about to pull out, a grimy- > -*
looking individual staggered upon the platform
and started to fall aboard. The con- . inductor
was a new man on the ran, but ha
didn't propose to allow the intoxicated indi- 3
vidual to get aboard.
' 'Look here!" shouted tho conductor as the
sooty specimen went to get on. "You're too . '
drunk to jjet on. Where's your ticket?" ;>
"Hav?haven't got any," stuttered the >i
drunken fellow. *
"Then you can't got on."
"Yesh I kin; you can't stop mo. I'm the ' &
engineer of this train. There ain't no fresh
conductor can put me off."?Milwaukft
Evening Wisconsin. - >.
SOME OF RUM'S WORK.
A few weeks ago a young man committed ?;.=f
suicide at the Osboru House, Rochester. Up- >v
on the table in bis room was found the following
letter. It preaches a good temperance
sermon:
"Rather than have opium and rum kill me, ^
I prefer to do it myself. I fool I am past re-,
demption. and why should such a useless
thing encumber the earth? I have abused
and disgusted my friends; have lost my position
with my house, have overdrawn my account
several hundred dollars, and, in fact,
cannot see a ray of light ahead? If I thought .
my friends would put me in an asylum somewhere,
I would not do the cowardly thing I -" i ;
am about to; but they have always used me
so kindly, and I have so invariably abused
then1 trust, that I neither ask, nor expect;
any more mercy at their hands. You can
notify my house, and they will inform mv
friends whero I am, and I think they will
give me a Christian burial.
' 'To my father and my darling sister a long *
good-bye. May God forgive me for all the
trouble I have caused you. May those friends
in Springfield who first induced me to smoke
the pipe, and thereby wrecked my young
life, suffer for it, if there is an avenginjj "i
God.
"Young men, for God's sake never touch a
drop of liquor. It has killed me and will just
as SUrely Kill you. I had as bright a prospect
ahead of me as any young man ever nad, had
a nice position and good salary, but rum and
opium have got the mastery of me.
"And now may tne aii-mercum uoaiorgive
me. Let this be a warning to all, for I
would like it posted over the door of evenr
rum shoo and opium den in the world. CrOOUbye."
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1 'PROFIT AND LOSS" DRINK ACCOUNT. ? ;
The following significant statistics of;
j driifc, crime, disease, pauperism and taia-; '
tion are from official sources, and should be' -j
carefully studied:
LICENSES?NEW YORK CITT.
Whole number of liquor licenses
issued by the Commissioners of
Excise during the year 1889 9,369
Total amount of license fees received,
1SS9 $1,442,770'
Total number of licensed places in
existence, January 1. 1890 8,885
E. senditures, alio wo d by the board of Estonia
e and Apportionment, for 1890:
i\;Lti;E?CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
The Police Department $4,647,791 84 >.
Department or Public Charities
and Correction .... 1,949,100 00
| Other Charitable Institutions.. 1,215,31150
Salaries, Judiciary 1,068,840 00,'>;t?s
Salaries, City Courts 382,900 00
Coroners, salaries and other expenses
53,855 00 .jjgj
$9,317,798 34 |||
tWCTERISM. t- is
Wholenumber of Dauperssupported
or relieved, year end- * \ii
ing December 1, 1888, in New
Y ork city 50,271 $.- ?
At a cost of $1,808,612 86
Whole number of paupers supported
or relieved, in the several
counties in the State of '?
New York, year ending Dec. f- .
1, 1888 135.753 ;V ^
Total cost to the State $3,838,315 10
I PrwM-hnncA cimnlioj ill (\S9 334 4%
1 " "~?l attendance and medi
? ?i?? 828 24 ^*#0
cincs t?>?**? '
Superintendents, keepers, and
officers of Poorhouscs, sala- * < ? tj
ries $C2(j,34d~ZL-v-N.
Constables and other officers.,.. 15,138 89
Transportation of paupers $22,924 85
Children born in Poorhouscs,
the year 755 .
CRIME AND CORRECTIONS.
Convictions in Courts of Special
Sessions, the State, 188S 90,515
Arrests for intoxication, New York
city, 1S59 20,240
The license revenue for New York city for
1SS9 was $1,442,770; but the aggregate cost
to the city, for tha support of the police,
prisons, hospitals, courts. poorhouse3, etc.,
was over $11,246,410. Fully three-fourths of
this large sum, or $8,412,300, would ba saved'
to the taxpayers of New York city alone i*?-"Y
sinsjle year by prohibition.
Greater still would be the gain throughout*the
Empire State, in immunity from crime
and pauperism, and in the improved moral
character and intelligence of its citizens.?
Xationcil Temperance Advocatc. .
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
The (rood Templars of Wisconsin last year
dHtriDiue-j i.imwi pages or tempjranca
literature ind csoeudea over ?10,00^ ia
lecture work'.
The procession nt Curl: on the anniversary
of the birth of Father Alatthow was two
miles long, and consisted of delegates from
the total abstinence societies of Scotland,
England and Ireland.
Mrs. Annie IVilmarth, the daughter of
wealthy parents, is a voluntary prisoner in
Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, where she
was first committed for being drunk in the
street. An unhappy marriage drove her to
drink.
An Ohio man, who has kept track of 307
railroad accidents during the past year, declares
that only five of them were perhap3
unavoiuauie. ana mat cue oinar ouv weretne
result of gross carelessness, druukenness and
disobedience of orders.
The Atlanta Constitution makes the statement
that there is, at Indian Springs, Ga., a
spring whose waters cure the wii-ky Labit.
It is proposed to build there an ici.L'iatd
isylum and to place it in care of the G^ci'jjltt
Woman** Christian Temperance Union.
The East Tennessee Laud Company, which
by provision of the dee Is forbids forever the
i.ileof liquor in its immense territory, has
not with remarkable su?eass, having sold at
rxr $2,000,000 of its capita! stock. Its
treasury stock is soiling at twenty cent3
ibove par.
-Mr. G. B. Skinner, of Lincoln, Neb., says
hat the Fireman's Insurance Company, of
Peoria, 111., canceled his policy upon the Red
Ribbon Hall, because the hall was devote.l to
.emperance. But they are williug to take inlurance
upon rum shops, because they have
10 fears of temperance people destroying
jhoir property. J