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[ RESCUED ALIVE.
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I Thrilling Experiences of Threa r
I Imprisoned Miners.
I Shut Up in a Nanticoke (Penn.) f
| Colliery for 115 Hours.
John Rineer, William Cragle, and Michael
Shefc'.ong, the threa man ciught by a mine
Vol in slopa 3 of tha Susquahvim, Coal
Jompany at Grand Tunnel, oppasita Nanticoke,
Penn., were rescuel alive from their
underground prison, after baing confined 115
hours. The point where they ware found
was fully 4')03 feet from the mauth of the
slope, and almost 3D0 feet from the main
.gangway where the water rushed in upon
the place in which they were at work. Here
they remained captives in the flooded mina,
without fooJ or drink, and in total darkness,
for 115 hours. The story of tha rescue, as
told by George Bendell, who was the first to
reach the three men, is thrilling.
When the mine pumps had got the water
? :-* ? -..11
aown UJ a puiliu VVUICU nutuu aaun Ciiv Vft
a boat, Bondell, finding no boat available, I
got upon a raft constructed of brattice t
boards, and pushed along through the I
i gangway. He managed to get under two I
low sets of timbers by lying flat
upon, the float and pulling himself |
along by the roof of the mine. Reaching a t
third timber sat, h9 found it so low that \
there was scarcely room for the raft. But, \
on looking between the water aul the roof,
he noticed that just beyond t'ae timbers was ,
a rise in the top of the gangway There- .
' upon he slid into the water from the raft,
shoved the raft under the timber,
swimming alongside, and so passad the obstruction.
He lost his lamp in the attempt
and called for a light. In answer William <
Bowen and Anthonv Jones plunged into the <
murky abyss, wading part of the distance
and swimming the rest to where they could i
reach Bendeli. i
Bowen got to him firet and pushed his j
!??? awan *V?a fart r\ F tho f.j m Hai* I
il^UVCU lautp V?Cl UU9 Vk vuw ,
w ith this Beudell pu9hoi on to the other side (
Of the dip and got out of the water. As he ;
went up along the bratticework, about sixty
feet from the timbers, he heard a coll: .
"For God's sake, hurry up boys, and get
us from hero."
It was Rineer calling to him, and he responded:
"All right, men; we are coming as
fast as we can."
Then he ran back through the water to .
where he could call to Bo wen and Jones.
"1 have found the men; they are alive, :
alive!" he shouted, ani the cry was picked
up by the men at the pumps and sent on up
the slope to whore other men were resting 1
from their manv hours of hard work, for
I some of them had not been out of the mine |
j since beginning the work of rescue five days i
before. ]
| - Then Bendell went back to the men. The
first one he reached was Rineer. who threw j
his arms about him and cried with joy, and ,
| i said: j
"God bless you, Geoigo. How is the j
water?"
Being told that it was nearly low enough
to permit their escape out, the men all 1
offered up thanks to God for delivering them 1
from death. 1
It was nearly 5 o'clock before the men
could be taken down from the cross-heading 1
where they had found a refuge. They floated
one at a time on the raft across tne gang- ]
way, and then were carried to a place where
they could receive medical treatment. The ]
only nourishment allowed them was milk in {
very small quantities. ,
At C o'clook the men were taken from the j
mine and removed to their homes?Cragle
.and Rineer to West Nanticokeand Shetlong
to Grand Tunnel. I
The two villages went wild over the rescue J
-of the msn, who had been given up for dead '
by the mins officials and all familiar with
the working of the mine, excepting tho3e '
who had a slight hop3 the men might have (
-escaped into the airway. This they could
not do, however, and their lives were only j
.saved by a narrow margin. The story told \
by the rescusd men is as follows: <
They were at work off from the main gang- 1
way about one hundred feet when they
hoard the distant roar of the rushing water. ]
They feared there was danger, and dropping
their tools, ran from the gang:i
way. The water was already at hand,
but when they reached the door the
volume of the torrent fairly burst
upon them. It was a race for life, as they i
turned and ran back to the point they came 1
tram, th9 water in swelling billows reaching
now and then to their feet, but with hastening
step they kept safely ahead of it until
they reached a cross heading, running from
Rineer's gangway to the old workings of the
mine, ana about ninety feet from the point t
where they had been at work. This cross I
heading if sixty feet in length, and runs up
at a pitch of forty degrees. Its head was th9 i
highest point in the mine the men could reach. \
Beyond it the old workings pitched down in l
either direction deep into the mine, but there
was no way of escape through them. g
Up the pitch they crawled to get away (
from the water, and up the slope it came r
after them until they reached the top of the
heading. It was useless to go further, and
they prepared themsalves to meet the fate j
which seemed in store for them. One '
miners lamp still flickered and cast 1
its dim light about them, and
looking down the heading they could see re- i
fleeted in the water a dance of light as the
flood kept creeping toward them. On and (
on it came until it was almost within their j
reach, until it was within eight feet of them.
Then it stopped, and finally settlod until it
stood about ten feet below them.
Shut in by water on one side and no way
of escape on the other, the men still hoped ?
that help would reach them from the outside.
They believed that their fellow workmen
would leave nothing undone to rescue them, 1
ana id uus lsutu awaitea cue signs icai wouia
tell them the work of rescue was under way. 1
After a timj the great mine pumps, 600 \
feet away, were heard throbbing aud draw- '
ing on the water. The moment was a 1
thrilling one to them, and gave them
great encouragement. Then the solitary 1
lamp which had guided them in their t
flight from the flood gave out, and they were ]
left in inky darkness. They now did not dare $
to mTe from the logging that gave them t
rest, for a single misstep upon the rough ]
mass of broken rock that clutered the head- t
ing would have plunged thern down into the ?
abyss which was filled with water. Sleep
deserted them, and together thev waited the
time that would bring them succor.
In the first few hours of their imprisonment ,
they felt the pangs of huuger, but this so">n
ceased.and the greater one of thirst came over
them. This they could only appease by getting
their faces against t'ue rib of the heading '
and licking tae trickling water at it dropped !
from the roof and ran down the side of their
Erison walls. But this source of supply was i
ladequate, and t'ueir sufferings were iuten- <
.oift/vsl V. tt Ka fonf f Iiq f f ha mSna fin fo if Ka.
OiUCU UJ IUU ICK/b biiav l/UV IIUUV IfCd ICwV UW
low them was flooded with water they could
not reach.
As the facts of the wonderful rescue havo
become known about the thickly populated
mining regions the people are intensely interested
and excited. Tae story of their escape
is accepted as one of the most wonderful
known in the long list of mining accidents,
where the man of the subterranean
passages are frequently imprisoned, but
rarely rescued alive.
OYER THE VETO,
The Dallas (Texas) Public Building J
Bill Passed by the House.
In the House of Representatives Mr. 1
Abbott, of Texas, from the Committee on '
Public Buildings and Grounds, reported back
the bill providing for an extension of the ]
public building at Dallas, Texa3, at a cost of
$300,000. Tbis bill passed Cod gross last
session, but was vetoed by the President, j
The recommendation of the committee is
that the bill be passed over the veto. The j
fcill was passed?yeas, 141; nays, sixty-nine:
the necessary two-thirds voting in the
offlrmotirrt. '
KILLED WIFE AND SELF. '
The Woman's Face was Partially
Eaten Off by a Cat. 1
Charles Knack, of Leopolds, "Wis., sbot
and killed his wife and himself last week. ]
The bodies were not found until six days i
afterward. The face of Mrs. Knack had
been partly eaten off by a cat which was in '
the room. Knack and his wife did not live '
agreeably together, and it is supposed the
%e4j*M.d^_d?uing a quarrel. _ _ <
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"THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I
Eastern and Middle States.
The Workingmen's League of Haverhill,
?lass., is trying to affect an alliance with the
armers' organization.
Fire at Caledonia, N. Y., burned from
Brady's block to and including the Moss
louse. Tne loss was estimated at 875,000.
The extensive nut and boit works of J. H.
sternbergh & Son, at Reading, Penn., have
)een completely destroyed by fire, involving
i loss of about $350,030^
J. S. McCullough, First Vice-President
>f tho Pennsylvania Railroad, died at his
lome in Alleghany City, Penn.
John McKeown, the oil prince, died at
Washington, Penn. He was born in Newton,
bounty Armagh, Ireland, in 1838. He had
>ractically no education, but succeeded in
(.massing a fortune estimated at $0,000,000.
"While Christian Zimmorn.an, a wellcnown
farmer near New Cumberland, Penn.,
ivas blasting logs a premature blast oc:urred,
killing him instantly.
Ex-Chief Justice John Appleton, of
tfaiue, died in Bangor, aged eighty-seven
rears.
Ten thousand miners went on strike in
he Connellsville (Penn.) coke region against
i reduction of wages.
Miss Mart Coffee, an artist, was so bady
burned in her studio, at Danbury, Conn.,
hat she died shortly after. A can of benzine
lecame ienited from a match and Miss Cof
fee's clothing took fire.
The strike of coke workers and miners in
;lie Connellsville (Ponn.) region is general
Ml the plants have closed down. Order prerails
at all points. Over eighteen thousand
nen are idle.
The Conemaugh River at Johnstown,
Penn., has just given up another flood vie;im.
The body, which is that of a woman,
s fairly well preserved oxcept that it is head.ess.
The Connecticut House in session at Hartford
voted to recede from Its position and
;oueur with the Senate.
James Redpatb, the well-known abolitionist
lecturer, journalist, author and Irish
lationalist and Vice-President of the AntiPoverty
Society, who was run down by a
lorse car in New York City, died from thu
jffects of his injuries, in the fifty-ninth year
>f his age.
A westbound passenger train was wrecked
it Groveland, N. Y. Two passengers were
ttuicu uuu ocvciai ugutvu.
South and West.
By the washing away of the temporary
jridge of the Alabama Railroad Company
>ver the Coosa River, Ala., three colored
non were drowned.
New Mexico has a free school law for the
irst time in her history.
Two miners were blown to atoms and
ihree terribly injured by the explosion of
riant powder in the White Quail Mine of
iokomo, Cal.
Bishop Engle, of tho Church of United
Brethren of Kansas, has been deposed and ]
:xpelled from fhe ministry for speculating in <
and?, whereby he failed, with $50,000 liabilities
over as3et3.
W. G. Howells, son of one of the most
imminent, lawvers in Southeast Missouri.
iad at one time a member of the Legislature, '
>vas lodged in jail at St. Louis, Mo., by 1
[Jnited States officers, charged with a stage <
robbery. '
Fire did over $200,000 damage at the 1
Pullman Car Works in Illinois. ,
The town of Ellisville, Fulton County, ,
[11., was swept by fire. Only three house! J
ire left standing in -the place. The towc j
tvas a small one, and there were no means U. j
ight the fire. >
Tbe Hon. Jame3 Phelan, member of Con 1
n-ess from Memphis, Tena, died in Nassau. <
New Providence, of pulmouary consumption.
Adolph Trauerbkck shot and mortallj '
rounded his wife and then commit tod sui:ide
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Miss Millie urayton, on the day ap | (
pointad for her marriage to Charles Bard'
;ve!l at Austin, Texas, was drugged, and, j
,vith the acquiescence of her parents, forced ]
:o marry one Blakely, a rejected suitor. (
The carnival was begun at New Orleans, i
La., and Galveston, Texas. i
The Idaho Legislature voted to elect a 1
United States Senator to succeed Mr. Mc
2onnell.
Two boys, aged ten and twelve, sons of j
i German "farmer named August Ford, were
Tound dead two miles northwest of Utica, '
Minn. They were caught in the blizzard. j.
i;
Washington. i
Toe gunboat Concord has been accepted by 1
;he United States Government and is now
>eing fitted out at New York City.
The President approved the act extendng
the time to thirty days within which ]
vacancies in the heads of departments shall
>o filled. ]
O.v the invitation of the Prosident, Acting ]
Secretary Nettleton took part in the last I
Cabinet meeting as the representative of the i
rreasury Department. <
A $4,000 000 contract to furnish armor for
he Navy nas been awarded to Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., of Pittsburg, Penn., by Secretary
Tracy.
The report on the "Wounded Knee fight
ivas sent to the President.
The report of the R&um Investigation
"Jommittee was made public. It exhoneratea <
&e Pension Commissioner.
An important and valuable report has re- (
:ently been made through the Superintendent
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey,to
Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the J
Treasury Department.
The President approved the act granting a
jension to Major-Greneral Franz Sigel; the
ict making an apportionment of Representatives
in Congress among the several States
mder the eleventh census, and the act mak- 1
ng appropriation for the enlargement of the <
mlitary post at Plattsburgb, N. Y.
Baron de Fava, the Italian Minister at |
IVashington, gave an elaborate dinner at '
he Metropolitan Club in honor of James G.
Blaine, Secretary of State. The other i
juests were Secretary of War Proctor, Postnaster-General
Wanamaker, Judge John
Davis, A. A. Adeo, Secon l Assistant Secre;ury
of State, and John Moore, Third Assistmt
Secretary of State.
The credentials of D. W. Voorhees, of
Indiana, and H. C. Hasbrouck, of North
Dakota, Senators-elect, were Drasented in
the United States Senate and filed.
The Sioux Indian delegation had a con
ferencd with Indian Commissioner Morgan,
who promised to visit their agencies next
spring.
The Department of Agriculture reports
the cottou crop at 106 per cent, of the product
of last year.
The President made the following nominations:
To bo United Statos District
Judges?Jamos H. Rood, of Pennsylvania,
for the Western District of Pennsylvania;
James H. Beatty, of Idaho, for the District
of Idaho.
Foreign.
Kixg Humbert, of Italy, has acccpted
Siguor Crisni's resignation, and has directed
Marquis di Rudini to form a Cabinet.
Professor Hench. of the medical faculty
of the University of Berlin, German, reports
unfavorably upon the use of Koch's lymph
for children and hr s .stopped its use.
At Ruetti. in the canton of Glar us,Switzerland,
an avalanche swept down the mountain
side, burying alive a party of twenty-two
woodcutters.
The Russian anti-Semitic measures have
been suspended.
A defalcation has been discovorol in
Ihe pay department of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, and as a result one of the clerks to
. vrr. Parsons, the disbursing officer, has been
discharged.
Thk Chief of Police of Gal way, Ireland,
Kinea mmsoir by snooting witn a revolver,
Dwing to the fact that he was charged with
having been concornod iu stirring up the
recent rows between the soldiers and police.
The saw mills of James McLaren at New !
Edinburg, Canada, and five hundred thousand
feet of lumber have been destroyed by
tire. Loss. 1125.000.
The now Italian Cabinet was sworn In by
Kins Humbert; the King has offered Signor
Crispi a title of nobility, which he refused.
General von Schlieffen has succeeded
General von Waldersee as Chief of the General
Staff of the German Army.
A few days ago there were two desperate
combats near Mier, Mexico, between oustbma
guards and smugglers, in which four of the
guards wero killed and one of the smugglers
wounded.
Three Chilian menof-war have seceded
from the revolutionary fleet, and have ar- flr
rived at Montevedco in safety. to
A decree has been issued under the au- pa
thority of the King of Italy, forbidden any
one to emigrate under the age of twenty-four
unless accompanied by the father of the emi- Fi
grant. This is intended to jhit an end to the N<
padrone traffic in children. ^
M. Victor Mace, a Paris (France) banker
has disappeared, leaving due to depositors
about RuOO.OOO. st
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MEN OF MAKE. ?
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Career or John P. Lovell, ot Boston |
?Fifty Years in Bnsiness. ?
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JOHN P. I.OVELL. ha
Xlio goiciou anniversary 01 mo uusiuuss i ?
career of Mr. John P. Lovcll, one of Boston's 1
most widely-known business men, was ap- "V
propriately colebrated in that city recently. Ill
Speaking of Mr. Lovell's career, which br
might Veil "point a moral and adorn a tale," di
tho Turf, Field and Farm, says:
"John P. Livell was bora in East Braintree,
Mass., July 25, 1830. At the ago of Co
eleven ho left school and went to work in a j
cotton factory. One year later his mother
opened a boarding house in Boston and John aS
had another year of schooling. With this I
scant equipment, but with ,\n indomitable ,
determination to succeed in life, the boy of ce
thirteen entered into tho i rena of life's an
battle. Bi
"The years that followed witnessed the lad ! r
making a noble fight against the dia- |
advantages with which he was surrounded. 'eA-fter
au eventful life in various lines of j in
trade, he settled down to the gunsmith
business in the employ of A. B. Fairbanks, I
hn tuiinm hn hsnjmn aDnrenticed at a weeklv I co
salary of $2, with ?25 yearly allowance for it<
clothes, and a raise of fifty cents per week
and $10 per year additional clothing allowance
for each succeeding year until the age ue
af twenty-one.
"The qualities which in later years de^eloped
tho man of large enterprise and unswerving
integrity took firm root in the gun- sh
smith boy, and Mr. Fairbanks was so grati* th
Bed with bis success that, when John was
twenty years of age, the old gentleman yfi
voluntarily took him in as a partner with onotialf
interest. At this timo John had not a ?
iollar in the world. i
"Thus, fifty years ago, -was formed the firm !
.vhich to-day is represented by tho groat i
jouso of John P. Lovell Arms Co, whose !
business radinte6 throughout the world. 1
"Jo'an'sprofH for the first year was $700. In I <
L841 Mr. Fairbanks died and Leonard Grover
antcring. tho firm became Grover & Lovell.
tn 1S44 John P. Lovell bought out his particr'.ssharo
and with renewei zeal pushed
liis business toward the high mark of sue- i
:oss which ho had sot before himself in his ,
Couth. As the yeare sped by, his name and
!ame traveled from city to city. Through
the rauks of tho sporting goods dealers of Li
America he hewed his way from the lowest to
the highest place or success, uuui mm ugutm, | m
pri'lo he felt his feet securely planted on the ' i
iigh ground to which in boyhood days, when i :n
poor aud unknown, his ambition had aspired. ,
tlis family had grown up around him in the |
intervening years, an 1 he now beheld his j ha
ons, developed into meu ready to assist him j
in his old ago to carry to a further success ; Y
tho enterprise begun years before.
"In 1874 the business was removed to the | re
present spacious buildings in Boston which
iro located in the business centre of the city. I
"Hero daily may b> seen John P. Lovell,no j Pc
ion^cr the young mau whose steps are elastic
in the pursuit of lofty ambition3, but John ! si
P. Lovell tho man of years, who has trodden j
iife's pathway through both tho bitter and j ev
Lhe sweet, and has emerged from its shadows j
ind contests, a man of success both in the I
ievelopment of wealth and of character."
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
1 he Pope is confined to his bed with a cold. gi
Senator' Carlisle is now fifty-five years
>ld. bi
Vice-President Morton indulges a weak- j
less for ham sandwiches. j ec
James e. Murdoch is probably the oldest dt
* Via will anon Ka Airrhtv vaars I
tiuim iuiu at;(AS* , **vr T? *? tsw*. ?_?m
>ld. | al
Mougel Bet, who originated tho idea of J
laming the Nile for purposes of irrigation, j
^ dead. i hi
It is said that Chauncey Depew, the j a'
famous New York after-dinner speaker, has |
500 namesakes. I cc
Senator-elect Pef-fer, of Kansas, is I er
aid to be taller and even more slender tnau I
Senator Ingalls. | ht
The remains of Miss Emma Abbott will ' 8
not he cremated, her mother strongly object- m
ing to this method.
Lieutenant Schwatka, of Arctic fame, tl]
will be a cripple for life as.a result of his recent
accident at Mason City, Iowa. 01
King Milan will soou return to Belgrade ;
to assert his rights under the constitution as "?
father of King Alexander, of Servia.
General Miles is referred to affection- '
ately by his old soldiers as "Paddy Miles,"
though he has uo Irish blood in his veins. ^
Rider Haggard, the novelist, came up for !>"
membership in the Society of Antiquaries in
London, England, recently,but was pitilessly
blackmailed. j es
There is a female revolutionist in Japan I
who is described ns young, pretty and
wealthy, but who is burdened with the name
Kageamer Hiddo. m
J. R. McKee, son-in-law of President
Harrison, has arranged to settle with his '
- * ** Vt
iamuy ;a jjuatuu, wv?w?uuuu
a businoss connection there with an electric
company. ' . Gi
Berry Wall, the ex-king of the dudes, Is
making a success as a hard-working life insur- I *
ance and domestic man. The transformation j
of this young gentleman is as striking as
that of Oscar Wilde. P?
Queen Victoria's experiment with the
sitting-still mode of prolonging life is said to ^
be encouraging so far as she has gone. The
process is a simple one. When her Majesty tfeels
like taking a walk she do3sn't do it.
W. Clark Russell, whose sea 6tories i
hare such remarkable da3h, breeziness and l
out-of-door freedom, has long been a hope- J
less and well-nigh helpless iuvalid, chainel
to an indoor existence in an inland town. Gi
American' Horse, the Ogallala Chief, is J
known as the Daniel Dougherty of the Sioux
tribes. fclo is tho most eloquent, silvertongue1
aborigine on the continent. Me is
naturally a man 01 greac luuuouto umuug v_l
tha Iudians. ' q?
The fortuaa of the richest Californian, je]
Senator Leland Stanford, is estimated now t?.
at 850,000,000. He is a native of New York [j",
and was a lawyer in a Wisconsin village b> 0f
foro he went west iu 1830 with the other
Argonauts. CI
Siqnor Crispi, the deposed Bismarck of he
Italy, ia a Sicilian by birth. His tall figure l>u
and snow-white moustache have made him an
one of the most striking individualities in ro
the Chamber of Deputies. He has been an cr
ndefatigable worker. to
Senator Edmonds, of Vermont, is one of be
the few Congressional orators who preserve in
the "town meeting attitudes." He is simple
in his language, old-fashioned in his manners,
and there are but few flights of fancy or $2
flgurea of speech in his speeches. . ai
HATER NEWS.
The State Senate at Albany, N. T., conmed
the nomination of James F. Pierce,
be Superintendent of the Insuranca De"
.rtmant; six Republicans voted for him.
Harold E. Spaulding. Cashier of the ,
rst National Bank and Treasurer of t.hn
>rt'a Middlesex Institution for Savings, at
per, Mass., has disappeared and with him
is gone about $23,000 in cash. The two initutions
have closed their doors.
The official statistics of loss of life and
nb in the Third Anthracite Coal Mining
istrict of Pennsylvania for the year 1890
ow that this was the most disastrous year
the history of the region. One hundred
en were killed, fifty-five of vhom left
idows, with a total of seventy-six orphans.
The Secretary of Agriculture ha3 just
med his Texas fever regulations "to the
a.-iagers and agents of railroad and transirtation
companies of the United States,
sckmen and others," in accordance with
i act of Congress.
The conference of Sioux with t!is Comissioner
of Indian Affairs ended at Washgton.
The Acting Secretary of th9 Treasury ised
warrants for the payment of $1,000,000
i account of pensions aggregating $30,000,0
due in the quarter ending March 4." The
tter amount represents the present availile
cash balance of the Treasury, so that
e only Treasury surplus that will exist
ter these payments shall have been met is
>w estimated at less than $10,000,000.
Judge W. H. Claggett was elected
uited Statos Senator by the Idaho Legislare;
he will contest the previous election of
aboi3.
Nathaniel Greene, bookkeeper for
irnsworth & Ruigles, San Francisco, Cal.,
s been arrested charged with the embezsment
of $30,000.
George J. Gibson, Secretary of the
Vhisky Trust," was arrested in Chicago,
and held in $20,000; he is charged with
ibing a gauger to blow up an anti-tru3t
stillery.
rHE Kentucky Union Land and Railway
impany has gone into the hands of a reiver,
temporarily, as a means of protection
ainst numerous suits.
A collision occurred at Ingleside, Mo.,
tween a west-bound Wabash extra train
d an oast-bound freight train. W. M.
ish and Keefer, brakemen, were killed,
hn Broderick, a conductor, and John Conr,
a fireman, of the Wabash, were seriously
jurcd.
Mr. Pa fi .yell has abandoned hope of
ming to aa agreement with fhe McCarthys;
Mr. O'Brien has issued a statement
ncerning the reason for the failure of the
gotiations.
Information received from the Rio do la
ata districts of the Argentine Republic
ows that locusts and drouth have reducoJ
e maize crop to a quarter of what the crop I
as in 1890.
The United States steel cruiser Baltimore
iled from Toulon, France, for Chill.
THE LABOR WORLD.
There is a dearth of sailors.
roE South has 1,621,335 spindlers.
Chicago, 111., has20,000 unemployed.
Denver, Col., boasts 100 manufactories.
Four thousand strikes occurred in 1890.
The Iron Moulders' Union pay $100 at
ath.
New York has a Hebrew Federation of
ibor.
Brooklyn' (N. Y.) furniture hands work
ne hours.
There are about 75,000 female typewriters
this country.
The Amalgamated Society of Engineers
\3 60,000 members.
Sheep butchers at the Chicago (111.) Stock
ards are on strike.
The strikers on all Scotch railways have
turned to work at last.
Armour, the great Chicago (111.) porkicker
employs 6000 meD.
Another outbreak of strikes in English
ripping circles is threatened.
Eight-hour demonstrations will be held in
ery Dart of Portugal May 1.
There ara 100,000 miners in the anthrate
coal regions of Pennsylvania.
Girl delegates have been admitted to the
;ntral Union of San Francisco, Cal.
The Fur-skin Dressers' Assembly is being
organized. It died three years ago.
Balfour's light rail ways in Ireland have
ven work to 7412 unskilled laborers.
Of the 3000 striking cigarmakers at Hatnirg,
Germany, not one deserted the union.
At Cologne, Germany, 1300 idle men will ba
nployadby the city at eighteen pence a
iyThe
Ohio House of Representatives passed
bill making eight hours a day's work, except
,rm labor.
A brewers' union at San Francisco, Cal.,
is nearly doubled waged and reduced hours
most half.
Of the 17,000,000 wage earners ia thl?
luntrv, 7,000,000, or forty four per cent.,are
igaged in farming.
stenographers and typewriters can be
id in bunches at $4 a week. Cook6 at $30
month cannot bo found to supply the deand.
The laborers working at the salt works in
ie Government of Kursk, Russia, receive
reive cents for twelve hours' hard work?
ie cent per hour.
C. G. Conn, horn manufacturer, of Elkirt,
Ind., has determined to divide seventyro
per cent, of his profits for the year in
muary, 1892, among his employes.
Frederick H. Fishery railway engineer
ho died iu Chicago, 111., recently, had been
active service tor over thirty years, and
iring that time never had an accident.
The Federation of Labor has decided to
chew politics, maintaining that labor orinizations
which went into statesmanship
ive waned in influence and membership.
The New York factory inspector recomeuds
that women under twenty-one and
>uths of eighteen in mercantile nousaj be
nited to sixty hours a week, and the prentiou
of overcrowding.
The dwellings for workmen which the
?rman Government proposes to build in
irth Berlin will cost $1000 each. They will
i purchasable on terms equal to a deposit
$75 and weekly payments of $1.25.
Many labor organizations have of late aplinted
press secretaries, whose duties conit
in furnishing correct reports to the
iwspapers, all other members being fordden
to talk to reporters or write to edirs
about the business of their oiganiza>ns.
LOOD, FAMINE AND FIRE.
re;?t Loss of Life, Destitution, and
Destruction oi' Properly in China.
A. letter from Shanghai gives the details
terrible floods and famine in Northern
lina. The Governor-General of Li Hiug
tang reports that the people of Shuan sufred
terribly by a flood which destroyed
nples, bridges and city walls in no less
an tsn districts. Ill Wen Chuati the lo3S
\:c~ ?.;n mnasiU fniiir a tlmiuaiul.
Immediately following the floods at Pel
iang firo started and destroyed thirty-five
uses. In three other places houses were
irned to the number of 200. Tho suffering
nong the poor is something terrible. Tho
ads everywhere are difficult of passage, and
owds of starving wretches are on their way
, _ w'fK fltatri will
stmnguai, ana now wj ucm
i aa anxious and difficult problem for those
power to solve.
Japanese silk merchants last year lost
5,000.000, and according to present appeartees
toe loss will continue for some time.
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
. it
Domestic and Foreign News by
Telegraph and Cable.
A Fearful Blizzard Rage3 in the
Western States.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming,
says: Six Union mail, passenger aud express
trains are blockaded by a blizzard at Cheyenne,
Sydney, Neb., and intermediate sta
tions. Three of them, with 400 travelers,
are on the side tracks here. Tha storm,
which is a characteristic howling blizzard,
opened at 10 o'clock in the night and continued
furiously for seventeen hours. Snow is piled
up, packed and crusted. The wind was
sharp and the temperature below zero.
Severe range losses are predicted, but it is
doubtful if much stock will succumb, as this
is the first storm of any sort. Cattle will be
chilled, but, under sunshine, will recover.
Sheep, if out of the pens, huddle in packs
like sardines and smother themselves.
There is not a little distress in towns
along the roads. Only the strongest men
have cared to face the storm. Many were
caught short of food and fuel.
The storm is pretty general in the Northwest,
although North Dakota seems to have
escaped to some extent. In South Dakota
the storm has extended over the entire
State. Aberdeen, Huron, Pierre and other
points reporting a very severe blizzard.
The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press correspondent
at Pierre says the worst blizzard
since 1SS8 occurred there. The thermometer
went as low as twenty degrees below zero.
The Huron corespondent of the Pioneer
Press says the snow storm developed into a
gigantic blizzard almost equal in fury to
that of January, 18S8. It raged all day, the
wind blowing at a velocity of from thirtyfive
to forty miles an hour, driving the snow
in blinding clouds and driftine it as hieh as
the fence tops.
Starvation in the Leeward Islands.
Sir W. F. Haynes Smith, the Governor of
the Leeward Islands, has forwarded to the
British Government a report that a serions
famine exists in Anguilla, one of the little
islands constituting the colony of St. KittsAnguilla.
This island has an industrious
black population of about 4500 people. The
natives have no industries such as su^ar
or cocoa raising, and depend entirely upon
provision crops. Their last crop has utterly
failed, owing to long-continued drought,and
they have been on the verge of starvation.
The Government of the Leeward Island has
been compelled to give food to at least 3500
r?f fkonrt fA Trann nQfV>
yi buoua w uucui ituui ucawu.
All the assistance thus far has been in the
shape of food. Four months more will
elapse before any other provisions can be
raised. The Government has provided the
people with seed for the next crop, and
meantime has made special provision for the
sick, aged and children upon whom the
calamity has fallen with special severity.
All the children are provided with one
substantial meal each day at the school
houses, and the aged and infirm are being
taken care of through the agency of the
poor laws. The Governor says that all the'
islands are doing their utmost to relieve the
distress, but that the tax upon them is very
heavy, and he appeals for help from England.
Prey of the Jungle.
The latest official statistics from India
show that in 1889 22,970 were killed by
snake3 and wild beasts, as well as 76,271
cattle. Of the former number 20,571 deatli3
were duo to snake bites, 975 to tigers, 184 to
leopards, 139 to wolves, 110 to bears, 57
to elephants, and the remainder to dogs,
crocodiles and other animals. The remarkable
fact of these statistics is that, although
every effort is being made to destroy snakes
and ether animals Injurious to human life,
the mortality, both of persons and cattle,
from these causes of death is increasing. In
18SS 20,709 wild beasts were destroyed aind
511,948 snakes.
The local Governments of InJia have ju3t
been consulted on the question whether nothing
can be done to diminish the terrible mortality
due to snake bites. The general opinion
in India is that the efforts to reduce this mortality
by offering rewards for snakes killed
has failed, and in some localities has even stimlated
the breeding of snake3. Some of the
local Governments express the opinion that
the most effective way to check the evil will
ba to destroy the cover for the snakes near
tho villages, and this experiment will be
tried. The provinces most seriously affccted
are Bengal, Ouhi, and tho northwest provinces.
Mine Disaster.
By a:i explosion of gas in the new shaft at
Simpson & Watkins's mino at Wyoming,
Penu., two mon were instantly killed and
two fatally injured. Gas from a feeder in
tho side of tho shaft was iguited from the
lamp of ono of *he workmen. It exploded
with terrific force, dashing the men against
the side of the shaft. Those who were killed
were Nat Kane and Charles Kirk, both married,
and William Ross and Luther Michael
were fatally injured.
Drowned Off the Scilly Islands.
The steamer Chiswick, bound from Cardiff
to St. Nazaire with a cargo of coal, struck a
1 ,rt c* -III? f?i J nnn|.
Banu-our OH OClllJ xaiauiua uuu 9AU&I X UD
Captain and ton seamen were drowned.
Eight men, who had lifo-belts around them,
clung to an overturned life-boat for ssvea
hours, until they were rescued by boats from
a lightship. A steamer conveyed them U
Penzance.
Three Children Burned to Death.
Mrs. Hampton Shrout, living a few miles
south of Martinsville, Ind., left her three
children alone in the house on a recent evening,
while she went on an errand. A flvayear-old
girl began playing at the fireplace.
Her dress ignited and she was burned to
death. The other two children were fatally
burned.
Six Killed by an Explosion.
By the explosion of a boiler in Giles's
steam sawmill, sear Reidsville, Tatnall
County, Ga., six men were killed?four
colored and two white.
DEATH OF A HERMIT,
He Begged for Food, Though He Had
Amassed a Fortune.
Thomas Thomas, a hermit, aged seventyfive
years, residing at Carmautown, N. J.,
died a few days ago after several months'
suffering from a cancer. The deceased was
well known throughout the county and had
lived the life of a miser for many years, and
since his wife's death has lived by himself,
doing his own housework. The old hermit, it
is said, is worth about $59,000 in money and
owns several flno houses. Ho has been known
to beg food and on election day himself and
five sons voted for the party who paid thom
best. During the spring of last y^ar a fierce
forest fire raged in the woods near his house,
and, fearing that his property would be destroyed,
he ran into the house and in a few
moments came out again' carrying a chesl
full of money, it is said,all in $20 gold pieces.
Six children, all married, survive him. He
owned a considerable quantity of real estate
in different Darts of the countv.
DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD.
Six Lives Lost ill tlie Storm ill Nebraska
and South Dakota.
The blizzard ia the Northwest having
ceased,tho work of restoring interrupted railway
communication went on as rapidly as
possible.
Tho blockaded trains on the Union Pacific,
near Cheyonne, Wyoming, were the first
moved.
Reports show the loss of six lives during
tho big storm. In South Dakota a man and
woman who drove out of Rapid City, bound
for Elk Creek, have been found frozen in
their buggy.
Near Ru?hville, Neb., Mrs. Milton Cummings
was also fatally frozen in her buggy.
Near Kearney, in the same Stats, two boys,
Eddie Chedstor and Steve St. Peters, were
frozen in a cornfield while trying to make
their way home from a hunting expedition.
M. L. Lissent is missing from Chadron,
Nab., and parties are looking for bis body.
HFTY-FIBST 00NGKES8,
f** In the Senate.
52d Day.?The Pension Appropriation bill
was passed. It appropriates over 1130,000,000...
.Mr. Ingalls made a statement regarding
his recent position on the closure
rule.
* 53d Dat.?Mr. Wolcott introduced a resolution
concerning the Nicaragua Canal Company...,
The Eigut-Hour Labor Claims bill
was discussed, and the Senate bill passed last
Congress was substituted for it... .The Naval
Appropriation bill was reported, with amendments....
Mr. Hawley offered a resolution
(which was agreed to) calling on the President
for the correspondence in reference to
tho conduct of the senior naval officer present
at San Jose de Guatemala on the occasion
of the arrest and killing of General Barrundia,
and the action of the Navy Department.
. 54th Day.?The joint resolution to correct
an error of punctuation in the Tariff act was
taken up. It amends paragraph 362 (as to
cables, cordage, etc.) so as to include in the
parenthesis only the words "except binding
twine." Mr. Berry objected, and the joint
resolution went over... .The order for night
sessions until eleven o'clock hereafter was
passed... .The House bill for the adjustment
of accounts of workmen, laborers and mechanics
under the eight-hour law was discussed...
.The death of Mr. Phelan, of
Tennessee, was announced, and Mr. Harris
offered the usual resolutions of regret and
condolence, which were adopted, as well as
a resolution for the appointment of a committee
to attend the funeral. Senators
3arris, Jones, of Arkansas; Faulkner, Stockbridge
and Pierce were appointed such committee,
and as a further mark of respect the
Senate adjourned. ;
( 55th Day.?The Lithographers' amendmant
?r\ a f1 rmtrrJrrVif l>fll rtflParaH Kr M??
UiCUV W VUV vwf;4,6uu fc/J *>*??
Frye, was adopted....By a vote of yeas
twenty-eight, nays twenty-nine, the Senate
refused to reconsider the vote recommitting
the Eight Hour bill to the Committee on
Education and Labor, and the bill therefore
stands recommitted.
t- 66th Dat.?The Naval Appropriation bill
was considered and the Naval Militia
amendment was adopted....Mr. Hoar reported
an original measure, a bill to divide
the judicial districts of the United Stat93
into ten circuits... .The House bill to revise
the wages of certain employes in the Government
Printing Office was passed with a
substitute offered by Mr. Gorman,
.providing that all-night employes be
paid twenty per pent, ill addition^
to the amount paid for day labor
V Tha rawlnfirtn Af t.hfl TTnnco in rolafi.~n
to the death of Mr. Walker, late Representative
from Missouri, was presented, and,
Mr. Cockrell offered resolutions expressing
,the profound sorrow of the Senate and suspending
business in order that fitting tribute
Depaiato his memory. Mr. Cockrell delivered
a eulogy on him, and was followed!
by Messrj. Berry, Carlisle and Vest. Tho
resolutions were adopted, and as a further
mark of respect the Senate adjourned,
f 57th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill
was passed House bill amending section
4176. Revised Statutes, providing for the
'marking of vessels' names on bow and
'stern (with amendments) and for
ithe marking of the draught, was passed
.The appropriation carried by the District of
Columbia bill as reported is 18,807,595, an
increase in the House bill of $2,750,000. This
'addition was made for the purpose of
redeeming District of Columbia bonds
iwhich fell due July l....Mr. Teller
'offered a resolution (which was agreed
to) calling on the Secretary of the Treas'ury
for alist of all persons, firms or associations
by whom silver bullion had been
offered (under the act of July 14, 1890).
In the Honso.
60th Day.?The Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was considered....On motion of
Mr. McKinley by unanimous consent it was
ordered that during the remainder of the
session the House sUall meet at eleven
o'clock.
51st Day.?Tbe Rev. Dr. Phillips Broo'cs,
of Boston, Mas3., delivered prayer....Th3
Bland free-coinage "rider" to tho Sundry
Civil bill was ruled out on point of order....
Mr. Bingham reported the Postoffice Appropriation
bill ana it was placed on the calender....
At its evening session the House
passed 115 private pension bills and adjourned.
52d Day.?The House went iuto Committee
of the Whole (Mr. Paysonof Illinois
in the chair) on the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill. Tbe pending question was the
decision of the Cnair on Mr. Mason's point
of order raised against Mr. Chandler's
flmpnHmonf fn f.Vio Wrtrlrl'a TTair* if am
The World's Fair wa3 discussed at great
length. Without disposing of the bill the committee
rose....Mr. McMillin said that the
sad duty devolved on him of announcing the
death at Nassau. There he had gone m search
of health, of the Hou. Janrie3 Phelan, member
of Congress from the Tenth District of
Tenues3ee. Mr. McMillin then offerod
the following resolutions:
That the House ha3 heard with profound
sorrow and deep regret of the death of tlie
Hon. James Phelnn. That a committee cf
seven members of the House, with such members
of the Senate as may be joined, be ap)
pointed to attend the funeral. The Speaker
appointed Messrs. Washington, McRae,
Wichman, Enloe, Stockbridge, Montgomery
and Coleman as said committee, and then, as
a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased,
the House adjourned.
53d Dat.?Mr. Geary introduced a bill
providing for the free coinage of all silver
the production of American mines....In
Committee of the Whole, the Sundry Civil
and Legislative Appropriation bills were
discussed; the former measure was afterward
passed in the House... .Mr. Lodge introdue
d a resolution proposing two amendments
to the House rules intended to prevent
the use of the Journal of each day's
proceedings as a meani of obstruction.
54th Day.?The Barrundia affair was discussed,
Mr. Dalzell defending Commander
I anfirtn anrl Mr T.rk^<rfl nnhrtlfilnw th?
Secretary of the Navy... .T^e Dallas (Texas)
Public Building bill was passed over the
President's veto....The bill increasing to
S100 a month the pension of the widow of
General Custer was passed.
55th Day.?Messrs. Adoo and Pitch
spoke against the shipping bill....The Legislative
Appropriation bill was considered
.. .A resolution was adopted calling on tha
Secretary of the Itterior for information as
to what rules of evidence are recognized by
the Fension Bureau governing examiners in
the adjudication of pension claims....On
motion of Mr. Evan3. of Tennessee, a resolution
was adopted calling on the Secretary
of War for a list of the names of retirel
army officers now iu the Civil Service.
THE MARSHAL KILLED.
' The Blockader W!iom He Tried to
Arrest Fatally Wounded.
William B. Jones, Town Marshal, was
shot and instantly killed at Forest City,
eighty miles from Charlotte, N. C., by John
Parris, a blockader, who was also mortally
woundod in the affray. Eighteen or twenty
shots were exchauged
Parris and his brother had boon around
town selling liquor on the sly. Jones, assisted
by a Mr. Harrill, attempted to arrest them
- - . ?i-? - ...iti.
I wnen Joues resisrou, usmg a pmLvn oi?u >.uu
above result. As Jones fell Harrill fired,
I hitting Parris in the right shoulder. Parru
was not expected to live.
ORPHANSBURNED TO DEATH
Horrible Scenes at a Fire in an Asylum
in Russia.
A terrible fire occurred in an orphan asylum
in Moscow, Russia, on a recent night.
The building was burned to the ground, and
most horrible scenes wcro witnessed as the
youthful inmat63 were being rescued. As it
was nine children were burned .to death,
and a number of others were so seriously injured
that their lives were despaired of.
It is nearly twenty years since JoHn
W. Keely announced to the world that
lie had discoverel a new force wntcu
was destined to revolutionize the whole
system of locomotion. The inventor is
now fifty-four years old, and it seems
probable that his secret, whatever its
value, will die with him. The original
capital of the company formed to develop
the discovery was half a million
[ dollars, and after this had become exhausted
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore supplied
the inventor with funds to proceed.
Now she proposos to retire from
the ooncern, and its finances will suffer
accordingly.
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~~ iemperance.
COUNTING THE COST.
Crouched on the dingv, old stone pier,
Watching the water dark and defy,
, Bits poor, old, blear-eyed Carl Le More,
* Mut'ring as one io troubled slesp;
"0 artful fiend, with cursed bowl, .
(. You've robbed me of all that man count*
dear;
urownea an ray nopes, my me, my sum?
> Now mo ;k in delight at 017 pain and fear. .JS
"Friends. Lome, happiness, heaven and restj
Relentless you've taken. What have 1
now!'"
The voice ro3e higb6r; the hands war?
pressed
In anguish against the fevered brow; '1
"For all of this, 0 fiend accurst,
What have you given? You answer
well?
It sweeps o'er my soul in burning thirat,
An earnest, in truth, of the drunkard's
helL"
Backward he sank to the pier again,
Mut'ring, and gazed in the water daap;
"Oh. for an end of the gnawing pain,
Oh, for the old-timo restful sleep!
Water, you ever have been a friend,
Cover and hide mv wretched face; .
Let me come to the bitter end,
Cradled at last in thy cool embrace."
| The veil of twilight sank over day,
Along the headlands the beacons shone; '<
But never a cheering, hopeful ray
t.hnf. gaiiI ac if:
The night wind echoed th9 sailor's song,
The waves moaned sadty against the pier They
had not meant to do a wronz
In answering poor old Carl Le Mere.
Sadly they sobbed along the shore,
And laid their burden upon the sands.
Then rolled away, with muffled roar,
To boat the "death march" in other viwa
lands,
And passers look on the wreck, shore
driven,
And looking, linger to count the costHome,
happiness, life and hope in heaven, : -.i'W
All staked with a demon, and. lost?ftR
lost.
?Jenny L, Eno, in Temperance Banner. . .
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THE ONLY SAFE WAT. ; J||
Archdeacon Farrar, in one of his temper- '
anca addresses, remarks: "Cruikshank, the '
j artist, offered #500 for proof of a violent
crime committed by a total abstainer; and
the money remains unclaimed to this day. I
offer as much for proof of any one case?
either in the church or out of it?where
drunkenness has beeu cured without total r
abstinence. Under present circumstance^ ^f~Jj
the only safe way of drinking?as an Irish- ?
man put it?is to 'leave off before you : ^
begin.'"
THE DRINK EVIL IN RUSSIA.
In a private interview with Miss Willard, . y
George Kennan says: "One of the worst tear -^j?
tures of the Russian Government is, that the
tax on whisky is the largest item of the trea , i Jgu
sury. Still worse, the sale of intoxicants ia
sanctioned by the Russian priesthood." The ^ , .&
dedication of a church is an occasion for the
whole population, to go on a spree, priests
included. If, however, the men of a com- ^
muno get together and declare they will not
bavo liquor sold, it is prohibited. In this way . r.,,?gj
many village^ have prohibition. There has <
been no general temperance agitation, but
the people are becoming educated by seeing " ^
the terrible effects of drink, and there is '
now a clsss of total abstainers, numbering
some fifteen millions. These are the dissent- 95
ers from the State churcb, and are the best
people in Russia. .
I TCT1T TOT.TrtR A HT.TS V kfTTA AT HRttHmTTr. 7 '' , .7-^3
"I have drank whisky every day for thirty- M
five years," remarked a gentleman of sixty,
rather proudly, "and I don't see but I havrV.'" ^
as good a constitution as the average man al . T.jjjm
my age; I never was drunk in my life." H?
was telling the truth, but to learn the whole g
truth you would have to study hie children. * Toe
oldest, a young lady, had perfect health;
the second, a young man. was of a remarkably
nervous and excitable temperament, aa :-'ii
different from his phlegmatic father as pos- :
sible; the third, a young lady of seventeen, ;%
was cpileptic and always u?.d very poor
health. Did the father's wbisky-drmktnjj^
have anything to do with these facta! The r-ig
instance may be duplicated in almost every .
community. Think over the families of your .
acquaintanco in which the father has long
been a moderate drinker, and observe the .
facts as to the health of the children. The .^5
3uperintendent of a hospital for children at
Berne, Switzerland, ha3 found bycarefol '
observation, that only forty-five per cent, of
;ho3e whose parents used intoxicating liquors im
habitually nad good constitutions, while - aighty-two
per cent, of the children of tern- . ^
perate parents had 9ound bodies. Of the
children of inebriates only six per cent. walB
healthy. Can any man "drink and take the . '.M
x>nsequencfls," or mu3t his children take the
jonstquences??The Voice.
WHO BUILD THE LIQUOR PALACES?
In p paper presented to the Twentieth An-'
nual Convention of the Catbolin Total Absti- 7-vj
nence Union ol America, Mr. T.V, Powderly ;j
said:
"Before the delegates to this convention ;?
separate to go to their home^ I would Mk. jg
them to go on root inrougu uie oumu.m
Pittsburg and study the temperance que*tioa
as they go. They will see handsome
buildings devoted to the sale of liquor on tha' -j-:
principal streets, and if they estimate the'
cost of one of these buildings they will learn*
that it runs away up into toe thousands, far:' ^
above the reach of the workingman's income.'
On one of the streets of Pittsburg will ba{ V Jjj
seen a saloon, the plate-glass front of which'
Is worth $5000, the bar and fixtures are
worth #10,000, the paintings and other decora-! *>i-^
ations are valued at $7000. All of this i?. ' %
separate and apart from the building itself,'
and of the plot of ground on which it stands, j
Stand guard at the door for twenty-four.
hours, and thousands of men will be seen'
passing in and out. Of the number, nind-.
tenths will wear the garb of labor; they will. 33
be the workers in the mill and factories that
mako Pittsburg famous and foremost in tha -?
history of manufacture in the United States.
Follow one of these men to his home and "
contrast its appearance, condition and sur
roundings with the palace he stopped at on1
his way home, and not one lota of semblance'
will been seen. Inquire if he owns the
house he lives in, and it is more than likely J >Jjj
that the answer will be in the negative. Askj
him why he cannot afford to live in a better,
or more comfortable home, and hia reply; ?jj
will be: "I cannot afford it." Take a walk. .'J
through the entire city and it will be seem
that the palaces in which liquor is sold arei
I costly and well furnished, wnile the homes.
of the toilers are cheap and poorly furnished, j
Go still further and it will be discovered that!
the men who live in the illy-ventilated, I
poorly-furnished, stuffy, unhealthy tene-;
mentis or dwellings, are the very men whose; . ":V;
dimes and dollars havo furnished thej Jg
'Palaces of Hell'with plate-glass windows, i
expensive bars and fixtures, costly paintings!
and neat surroundings." ' ,
TEMPERANCE YEWS A.VD XOTSS. i '
The San Francisco Chronicle gives thai
I wine product of California for 1890 as 18,-1
t!00,000 gallons. !
The Sheriff of Glasgow, Scotland, says:
30,000 people get drunk in that city every I
Saturday night. ! - . U'SvS
The Chicago Inter-Ocean estimates that ai
saloon keeper can live and even get rich if)
ho has twenty "regular customers."
The King of Siam has issued a proclama-.
***v*v%ikitinir thp nurchase. sale, or use of!
HUM pn/u.U.,.?e f , ?. t
intoxicating liquors in his dominion.
Germantown (Tenn.) ladies,at a late villagaj
election, nominated a Prohibition ticket,and'
prevailed on their husbands, brothers and!
ioas to elect it.
Recently a vessel sailed from a Belgium;
port for west Africa, having on board fourteen
missionaries, four hundred and sixty]
casks of gunpowder, eleven cases of gin and]
t?n thousand casks of rum.
The Woman's Christian Temperance*
Union, of Washington, D. C., has been!
petitlonad by a mother who wishes the'
union to usa its influancs to stop the sale of
rock-and-rye drops to children.
Along one side of the Victoria Road a
London paper says that every fifth hou36 is;
'* ?ill
a 1H1DUJ nouse?WUILU, UCIU| inn-, ?, ?
a grog-shop?and, on n late Saturday evening,
from S o'clock to 11, the appalling uum-;
ber of -JI'JiJ persons was counted entering one
oi them.
Dr. Kate Bushnell left Chicago on her.
great tour of the globe in the interests of th9, ?
woman's Christian Temperance Union. Sherepresents
500.000 women, and wherever sh?
goes she will "organize, instruct and en-,
courage" the branches of the Order. Shej
has traveled extensively and is a physician, j
orator and author of acknowledged ability.,J