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A Coal Breaker Demolished and
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Seven Men Killed.
The Patterson Coal Company's breaker,
f- one mile trom Mount Carmel, Penn., was
crushed to pieces by a tornado soon after 3
o'clock on a recent afternoon. At tfre time
the wind struck the colliery it was in full
operation. Suddenly there was a crash and
the hut;e structure swayed to and fro for a
moment and then fell to the ground,
a mass of' ruins When the crash
came many of the employes rushed from the
breaker panic-stricken, while others who were
less fortunate were caught in the flying tim?
bers and crushed to death. The killed are
J. N. Blossom, aged forty, of Hawley, Penn.;
B. Dodson, aged thirty-five, of Shickshinney,
Penn.; Walter Robert, aged twenty-seven,
T ??r) William
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Lodge, aged twenty-four, of Luzerne
Borough; the bodies ot three others, all
Itaiiaus, whose names cannot be learned,
were removed from the ruins that evening.
:iy Five persons were injured, two probably
fatally.
> The breaker was situated oo the summit
of the mountain. It ran almost due east and
west and was about 300 feet long and the
highest point was 185 feet. Lodge. Roberts
and two of the unknown men were
latere, and were engaged in roofing* the
breaker at the time of the accident,
i. The other two killed were carpenters and
? met their death while at work on the inside.
Soon after noon the sky in the north became
* black and the darkness grew in intensity.
The men perched on their high tower
looked at the advancing storm, expecting
to descend in time to avoid the rain.
Suddenly there was a flash of lightning, a
thunder peal that shook all the neighborhood
5 followed, and the next minute the terrible
wind-gust gathered up the great structure
as though it weir a feather, and whirling it
arouou, uasuea jo iaj i uxu. auc ucu nuo
mangled almost lieyond recognition.
i Atter the accident occurred the wildest exf
citement followed, and the employes, as well
as the people living ?ear by, flocked to the
scene of disaster and aided those who were
? ; fortunate enough to escape in removing the
d?ad and injured from the wrecked breaker,
r Hie storm was one of the worst that has
ever visited the Mahanoy Valley. A passenger
on a Philadelphia and Reading express
train which passed through the storm, said:
"Wtoen the train reached Locust Summit
i>.' on its way to Philadelphia I saw
the storm approaching from the south^
west. We had not gone far when it struck
Sp-,* the train. A panic followed and it was
et- feared that the entire train would be
hurled from the track. Trees were uproote
i on either side and the noise produced
by the rushing wind reminded me of the
s- roaring of musketry. The storm seemed to
increase in violence every moment until the.
train reached Gordon, some miles east, when
it abated. After the wind had subsided it
began to rain. The lightning was awful."
Thd damage wrought by the storm will
probably reach $150,000, including the
breaker, which was owned and operated by
Pitts ~urg, Philadelphia, and Wilkesbarre
people.
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Gladstone has suffered another relapse.
Edison looks when at work like a boy apjrentice.
Secretary Proctor is devotedly foud of
whist and horses.
General Schofield is thirty-six years
older tban his bride.
The cost of burying the late Grand Duke
. Nicholas of Russia was $300,000.
Bill Arp, the Georgia humorist, is sixty
years old and the father of nine children.
General DaFoxseca, President of
: Brazil, will shortly pay a visit to Europe.
Count D'Abraz. the French consul at
Hew York, has a neat little salary of $11,000
year.
, Sardou, the great French playright,
'writes a hand so fin? that it almost requires
a magnifying glass to read it.
Ex-Emprrss Eugenie left Paris a few
days ago for England, after au affectinj interview
with ex-Queen Isabels, of Spain.
Donald G. Mitchell, "Ik. Marvel," was^
one of the class of 1^41 at Yale, and takes
part in the semi-centennial observance this
year.
John D. Rockefeller's wealth is estimated
at $ 1'20,01 (J,0JO, oi which SOS,000,000 is
Standard Oil stocl;. His real estate is worth
$10,000,1)00.
A. J. Drexel hoa s the list of Philadelphia
rich-men with s2~>,0 )0,000. The city has
160 millionaires, whose total holdings foot
up over $400,000,000.
The Duke of Edinburgh is reported to bs
?? the most niggardly man in Englanl. He is
forty-seven years old, a confirmed miser, a
fine violinist and a good sailor.
General Armstrong, founder of the
Hampton (Va.) School for Indians, was born
/ on one of the Sandwich Islands, and is now
upon a visit to his early home.
The Prince of Wale? was born November
9,1841, visited the United States in lSGOani
married a daughter of the Kiug of Denmark,
March 10. Ib03. He will be fifty years of
age in Xovemoer.
General Don* Carlos Buel, who lives a
& retired life on a farm in Kentucky, occasionally
shows himself in LouisviUe. His
form is erect and well preserved, aud ho is
an entertaining talker on military and oth?r
topic.-.
One of the Souths most succ3ssful evangelists
is William Evan lor Penn, who has
~K lust finished a great revival in Mississippi
5t';, He is a man of sixty-three, and has been
probing day and night for sixSpftJP^MlE
youne Queen of Holland has |K>rKj^Pormea"her
first public-function in laying
jH^the corner-stone of a hospital. She made
the official speech, "I hope this institution
will be a blessing to Amsterdam," very neatly.
She was dressed in light colors, with
black lace.
The Haytian President, General Hippolyte,
is about sixty years of age an J of coalblack
complexion. He is the political itlolof
the pure Diacks, whoso blood has not been
contaminated by intermarriage with the
Creoles. He is the son of a college professor
of Port-au-Prince and is a man of considi/"
? able learning and cultivation.
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STORMS IN GERMANY,
Whole Villages Swept Aivay hy a
Fearlul Cloudburst.
Great destruction of life and property by
cloudbursts and thunder storms is reported
from all quarters of Germany. At Coblentz
on the upper Rhine, whole districts are
fearfully devastated. At the fortress of
Ehren Breitstein the lower parts of the
town and of the fortress were flooded.
The people were driven to the housetop?
for safety and the garrison was called out
and dispatched to the assistance of the inhabisints
of Pfaffendorf and Horchhein,
who were in great peril and distress. All
along the Rhine and Moselle the vineyards
have suffered severely and great feare are
entertaioed for the future vintage.
Near Widcheringen, on the Moselle, some
peasants going along the road in a cart were
overwhelmed by a cloudburst and swept
down the embankment into the river. One
of them were drowned, but the others saved
themselves by swimming. All the railroads
between Treves and Metz are impassable,
owin? to the floods.
A tremendous cloudburst did great damage
to the Soden Meiieinal Springs, and the
villages of Holzeudorf, Wernsdorf and Murk
have been totally destroyed. Houses, roads,
bridges, walls, cattle and crops have been
iwept away, and the inhabitants of those
district are terror stricken and in despair.
A ssw disease has broEen out among the
Hungarians in the Pennsylvania coke regions
greatly resembling the terrible "black
leg" malady which some years ago infested
Europe. There are twenty patients now in
the "West Moreland Home and 200 cases in
the region.
New Yobk milliners average 82.50 a week; j
Bhirtmakvs, *8; underwear-makers, $3; !
cloakmakers, $3.60 boxmakers, *4; feather
worker*, |4; man'* clothing-makers, |4. j
. TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The monument of the tilth New York
Volunteer Infantry was dedicated at Gettysburg,
Penn. Benjamin B. Snow, of Auburn.
N. Y., delivered the oration, and G. D. MacDougall
of the same plac?, made an address
The benediction vras pronounced by Rev. S.
G- Hopkins, of Palmyra, N. Y.
Dcrixg a baseball game at Johnstown,
Penn., a few days a*o, one of the plnvers
discovered the body of an unknown flood
victim.
A scaffolh erected at the Worthingtoa
pump works, Elizabethport, N. J., on which
seventeen bricklayers were at work, suddenly
fell and precipitated tM men forty feet
to the ground. Michael Nolan, thirty-five,
unmarried, and Gabriel Williams, thirty,
also unmaried, were instantly kflloi. T^9
other men were all more or bss injured.
The great Yale-Harvard University four
mile boat race at New London, Conn., for
the sixteenth time in the history of the an
iiiim event was wou oy narvar.i, leaving
Yale with a record of eleven out of the
twenty-s?vea contests which have taken
place between the two great rival institutions.
Yalo was beaten by eleven lengths,
time twenty-one minutes and twenty-three
seconds.
The Governor of Vermont decided to ea'l
a special session of the Legislature to consider
the disposition of the Direct Tax
money.
Rev. W. M. Ogdex, rector of the Church
of the Holy Cross at \Varrenaburg, N. Y.,
fell dead in the pulpit while preaching. He
was fifty-five years of age and had been pastor
of the church for twenty years.
Allie B. Dorr, aged twenty-five, a servant,
committed suicide at Bar Harbor, Me.,
by hanging. Her twin brother, Edward
Dorr, and Lester Stevens, weredrownei by
the upsetting of a sail boat in the harbor a
short time before.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Haslett, wife of a
wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, met a shocking
death by leaping from a window, after having
accidentally set her clothing on fire.
The funernl nf frederick Brokaw.
drowned while trying to rescue a servant
?irl, took place at Elberon, N. J. Two thousand
persons were present. It was attended
by prominent people from New York, Philadelphia
and all seaside resorts; President:
Francis L. Patton, of Princeton College;
several of the Faculty and a large body of
the students.
Mercantile circles of New Bedford,
Mass., were startled to learn that J. H. .T.
Doane, a clothing dealer, had disappeared,
and was a forger to the extent of *12,009.
Doane is a son of the late Simeon Doane, a
retired whaling merchant.
Judge Butler, in Philadelphia, Penn..
directed the Ceutennnial Exposition Board
of Finance to distribute a balance of $13,103.01
among the stockholders. There are
18,915 holders of stock. The dividend will
be about two cents a share, and the board
doesn't know how it Is going to make the
distribution.
The boiler of shifting engine 23) explode!
it Mauch Chunk, Penn. Engineer Tripp
and Fireman Pope were blown to atoms and
cannot be found. Brakemen Gallagher and
Smith were found among the debris, having
been killed instantly. There is no witness
living to tell the story.
Captain F. M. Bruce, United States
Navy, took command of the United States
Naval Training Station at Newport, R. I.,
relieving Commodore 0. F. Stanton.
The ladies of the Christian Church of
Brushton, N. Y., gave an ice cream sociable.
Forty-three people who ate the cream were
poisoned. The pastor of the church and two
ladies died, and all the others were, for several
days, in a critical condition.
At Lawrence, Mass., John Rauscb, twentyfour
years old, shot and killed his sweetheart,
Maria Burcket, sixteen years old. and
then shot himself through tho head, dying
immediately. Rausch was extremely jealous.
Prince George of Greece, who saved
the life of the Czarowitz of Russia in Japan,
arrived at New York City from Chicago,
en route, by Atlantic steamer, for
home. There were fully 1000 Greeks at the
station to honor the coming of their royal
countryman, and their enthusiasm was
marked.
Sonth and West.
At the Moqui Reservation in Arizona, ths
Indian agent and another white were murdered,
and T50 bucks in war paint encamped
'.n Xeam's canyon, armed with "Winchesters
and ready to fight. Troops from Fort Wingate
went to disperse them.
State Treasurer Woodruff, of Kansas,
has been indicted for the embezzlement
State funds.
The town of Moville, South Dakota, was
nearly wiped out by a flooi. The inhabitants
were compelled to camp out in a field.
Thomas Thurmam. Joseph Zins, Miss
Edith Zin?, Miss Catherine Case and Mis3
Kate Riddle were drowned while boating on
the Ohio River, opposite Covington, Ky.
The boat was run down by a barge.
State Comptroller Colga.v, of California,
has been advised by his attorney, J. A.
Barhan,not to pay the *300,000 appropriated
by the Legislature for California's exhibit
at the World's Fair on the ground that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
Thomas Harris, colored, was hanged at
Shreveport, La., lor the murder or Ella
Franklin. Two colored men living in Cass
Count v. ten miles east of Daneerfiela, Texas,
named Will Hartsfield and Mun Sheppard,
were taken out and shot to death by unknown
parties.
Thomas W. Bacid, of Little Rock, the
largest wholesale and retal machinery
dealer in Arkansas, has failed with liabili
ties of #100,000.
All but one of tha fourteen flint and window
glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, have
shut down until September 1 and probably
longer, giving over 2,000 employes a two
month-.' vacation.
The doors of the Red Cloud (Neb.) National
Bank were closed by order of Bank
Examiner McKnight.
Levt and Joseph Straus, malsters, have
made an assignment at Baltimore, MU. Liabilities
over $809,000.
The wholesale and retal grocery establishment
of David Nicholson, St. Louis, Mo.,
was completely destroyed by fire. Loss,
$200,000.
Arnold Siegfried Jahn, son of Frederick
Ludwig Jahn, founder of the German Turners'
Society, was buried at Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago, 111. The bodv was followed
to tb ? tomb by one thousand Turners in unilorra.
Six Chinese women perished In a lodging
house fire in Chinatown, Sau FranciscD,
Cal.
A falling wall killed Patrick Hagjrerty,
Richard T. fcienniwitz, and John Flaherty at
Janesville, Wis.
A destructive hurricane swept over a
large area iu Kansas and Missouri.
Vocdenot Crumpton was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark., for a murder committed in the
Indian Territory in 18S9.
Lieutenant-Commander George A.
Norris, of the United States steamship
Omaha, died at San Francisco, Cal., of pneumonia.
Washington.
It was decide I by the President at a Cabinet
meeting to coin the trade dollars into
standard silver dollars.
A bulletin issued from Washington by
the Census Office shows that the production
of limestone in the United States for the census
year 1889 had a total value of $19,095,179.
The expenditures for wages, etc., were $15,092,714.
The capital invested in the industry,
amounted to $27,022,325.
Superintendent Portbr has appoints
T. tvos.s Calhoun of Philadelphia as Special
Census Agent. Mr. Porter will detail an
extra force to clos^ up the Philadelphia
work. There are manufacturing establishments
yet to be scheduled, not including
a number of expert industries.
The State Department has received a
despatch announcing the death of Alexander
Clark, United States Minister to Liberia.
His remains will be brought to the United
States for interment.
The plant of the Washington Critic? exsept
the press, was sold at auction by the reuelver,
under direction of the District of
Columbia Supreme Court. The property
was purchased by A. T. Hensey, proprietor
of the Washington Sunday Herald, for $10,150.
Colonel George Thom (rstired). United
States Array, died at Garfield Hospital,
Washington, of exhaustion followin g an attack
of apoplexy. He was born in New
Hampshire. He was by brevet a Brigadierjeneral.
Ex-Sexator Isoalls made his first appearance
as a lecturer at the National Chaucauqua
at Glen Echo, near Washington City,
i few days a$o. His subject was "The Proo.ems
of Our Second Century."
Oliver P. Hallasi, of Nashville, 111.,, has
oeen appointed assistant chief clerk of the
Pension Office, vice Green B. Rium, Jr., resigned.
Y.he "Weather Bureau was transferred
from th9 War Department to the Agricultural
Department; Professor Mark W.
Harrington, of Michigan, was appointed its
Dhief.
Foreign.
The Congressional party of Chili accuse
the police under Balmaceaa of throwing imitation
bombs at the Ministers to afford a
pretext for the arrest of the Congressional
aegotiators.
Outrages upon foreigners in China continue.
The famous Captain Eyre Massey Shaw
has resigned as Cnief of the London (England),
Metropolitan Fire Brigade. He recires
alter thirty years' service. There is some
mystery about his action.
Ovrma to a declaration by the Marquis di
Rudini in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
at Rome that the Dreibund Alliance would
be maintained a Bcene of great disorder occurred
and two members nearly came to
blows.
The harvest prospects of Russia have become
worse, and there are fears of a partial
famine. Because of the bad condition of
the crops it is proposed to prohibit the exportation
of corn.
The Sultan of Turkey has ratified the
Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention" act.
The Triple Alliance among Germany, Austria
and Italy has been renewed for six
years.
The Governor ot Newfoundland has been
directed by the Imperial Government to revoke
his assent to the Order In Council
refusing bait to Canadian as well as French
fishermen.
Election returns in New South Wales
give the Ministerials fiity-one members,
the Opposition fifty-three, Labor Party
twenty-six, and Independents three.
The widow of Sir John A. Macdonald,
late Premier of Canada, has been raised to
the British peerage.
Great distress Has been caused m ttussia i
by the drouth.
Emperor "William left the Island of j
Heligoland on board the steamship Prince !
Bismarck. The vessel was escorted by two
German ironclads. From Heligoland the
Emperor went to Wilhelmshaven, where he
launched the new ironclad Kurfuerst Fredrich
Wilhelm.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Carttthers is Brooklyns winning pitcher.
Stovey leads the Boston League team in
long hits.
Ward, of the Brooklyns, is still a favorite
in Gotham.
The New Yorks have played seven errorless
games.
The Brooklyns are better base ruanera
than the New Yorks.
Pitcher Keefe, of Ne.v York, is stouter |
this year than ever before.
Hereafter Sunday ball playing will not
be interfered with in Cincinnati.
The average daily attendance at the first
New York-Chicago series was over 8903.
Despite bis great size, Connor is one of the
the best base-runners on the New York team.
Bkckley, of the Pittsburgh up to a recent
date leads the first basemen of tin country.
McAleer, of ClevolanJ. has the distinction
of bainz the best left tieldfar in the business.
Su.vday has again refused to join the Cincinnati
League team at any price. He has
retired.
It is now said that "Suck" Ewing, Captain
of the New Yorks, may not play the
rest of the season.
Pitcher Nichols, of the Boston League,
has never yet pitched a winning gam.'
against Cleveland.
I
Whitney, of the Cincinnati Association
Club, leads the third basemen of the entire |
country in tteliinj.
Slattery has been release! by Cincinnati |
at bis owa request. He oas not oeeu wen i
since leaving iN'ew York.
Holidat. of Cincinnati: Tiernan, of New
York, ani Wilmot, of Cleveland, lead the
League batters in borne runs.
The Chicigos have two weak points. They
do not s.ug the ball steadily, and. aside from
Hutcbinsou, are weak in the box.
"Ed"' Williamson, of last years Chicago
Players' team, weighs pounds an i plays
short stop in a fat men's nine of Chicago.
The Brooklyns present the neatest appaarance
of aay team in the Leaguo. In addition,
they are a fine-looking lot of fellows.
Bassett plays a remarkable third base for
New York. He was not new to the position,
as he played it for Provideuce part of 1833.
Jennings, whom Louisville picked up
without record or reputatiou, has tmjuedout
to be a good man in all departments of the
game.
To strike ouc twenty-four men in two
games is a record to be proul of. That is tha
record of Nichols, of the Boston League, in
the two games he has pitched against tha
Pittsburgs this season.
The Board of Aldermen now insists that
the New York Club shall erect a roof or covering
of some sort over the bleaching boards
at the Polo Ground, and has given the management
thirty days to do it in.
Brouthers, of the Boston Association
Club, has taken to sliding of lata, and does
it well. His slides are features of the Boston
games. He never fielded as well as this season,
and his hitting is immense.
A glance over the history of past seasons
will demonstrate that while the clubs
with the best batteries have not always won
the League pennant, yet no team that wa3
weak in that department ever finished in first
place in a championship race.
Lovett, the Brooklyn pitcher, did not give
the hard-hittiug New York team a single hit
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iu u rf.'cui ^aiuo, xuo jwig '. ? - ? .
iavor of the Brook lyns. This is the most J
remarkable pitching ?<*at in years.
Ansox, of the Chicago League, takes more I
advantage of the substitute rule than any j
other manager, which is perfectly natural, !
considering that he was the originator of tha
idea permitting an unlimited number of substitutions
by a manager during a game.
national league record.
Per rcr
VTan.Lott. ct. Won,la>t. ct.
New York.33 21 .611 Philade1...28 .401
Chicago.. .33 23 .589 Brooklyn..23 30 .483
Boston....3J 27 .526 Pittsburg..22 32 .407
Cleveland.30 29 .503 Cincin'ati..22 35 .380
aiis rue A.v association record.
Per iv
Won. Lost. ct. Won. Lost. ct.
Boston....41 21 .661 Athletic...29 35 .453
St. Louis..45 24 .(552 Columbus .30 37 .448
Baltimore.36 26 .581 Louisville..27 42 .391
C/incinnati.32 33 .492 Wash'gt'n.19 41 .317
KILLED BY THOUSANDS,
Suppression ot Africa's Slave Trado
Causes Horrible Butchery. *
A letter ju3t received from Sierra Leone,
Africa, says that the vigilant suppression of
the sluve trade along the coast and consequant
Inability of the warlike races to dispose
of their captives at a profit, has caused
a revival in the most terrible form of the
-ceiaes of slaughter and bloodshed which
formerly ma ie every chief town of the int'.rior
a Golgotha.
Cuomassie, it is said, has again witnessed
the killing of as many as 200 victims in one
lay, and the death drum is hoard In the
streets even more frequently than before the
l.ritish Asbantej expedition, when it was
hoperl such sceues were put to an end forever.
The savage Wangarus recently made a raid
into Dagomba. completely devastating the
villages, and carrying off over two thousand
captives. They were unable to get rid of
the prisoners as slaves and held a sacrifical
i.asc, which lasted for three days, in which
?.very captive perished, not even children
bs'ing spared.
It is universally admitted in the settlements
taut the approaching extinction of
th9 slave trade in western Africa is making
warfare more merciless than it used to be.
HAYTIAN HORRORS.
The Atrocious Conduct of President
Hippolyte.
Scores of Suspects Executed
Without a Trial,
By tbe? new steamer Adirondack of the
Atlas Line, which arrived a few days ago at
the Port of New York from various Haytinn
portF, bringing passengers and mails, a number
of New York merchants received advices
from correspondents in the leading cities o?f
the republic, which show that the rebels are
still active, working silently but in desperation,
making themselves felt in sporadic
tKo flAPominont: nn tn within
a few days before the mailing of t^e advices,
had continued its massacres with merciless
persistency.
The report of the assassination of President
Hippolyte was made an event for great
rejoicing by the people of Hayti and met
with no interruption from the soldiers, who,
it is said, were secretly glad themselves of hid
removal. The report, when it reached Hippolyte,
had one salutary effect on him, for he
immediately ceased his wholesale slaughters,
and modified the penalty against enemies of
the Government to exile. These were the tactics
which he was following when the Adirondack
left the Haytian country. Political prisoners
were arraigned before the Governor of
the jail in which they were confined and were
ordered to leave the country. They were
then taken to Port-au-Prince and brought
before Hippolyte, who banished them from
the island, imposing the penalty of immediate
death should they return. At least one
hundred men were tnus treated.
Suspected enemies of the Government
were executed daily, belore their ruier got a
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twinge ot conscience, wuuuut crcu iw iwmality
of a tria .
In towns about Port-au-Prince, where the
distance was too great to allow the Government
to have speedy revenge on its enemies
the governors of the jails were allowed to act
on their own discretion in the matter of executions.
When a number of prisoners were
under surveillance, suitable enough to make
a display, they were led out and shot. Just
outside of Port-au-Prince, in a small
village that does not contain a prison,
some few days before the date of tne advices
Irom which this incident was quoted,
three men were killed in the interest of "law
and order." Some men had been overheard
talking treasonably in a public house,and tne
leader ot the jail was speedily notified. It was
at night,and an extra squad of men was taken
with the regular detachment, to the house.
which was at once surrounded, iivery one
found in the place was arrested, one of them
being an old ruan tvho ciaimed to have gone
in there in search of a profligate sou. He
was thrown into jail and was executed
within twenty-four hours, as though he
had been guilty of the vilest misdemeanors.
The story is told of how one of these
same soldiers had insulted two men
on the streer, and when they retaliated by
knocking him down they were arrested and
eventually shot, "for the good of the com- |
nionwealtb," it was explained. During the J
entire insurrection Hjppolyte acted, according
to the advicts, like oue bereft of reason.
He was moved neither by pity or reason. .
Ever since the killing of al. Rigaud, the
French merchant, on Fete Dieu, May 'id, and
the French Minister at Port-au-Prince demanded
indemnity for the murder, foreigners
bave been treated with consideration.
Hannibal Price, the Haytian representative
at New York City, received a letter in
which it is said that the Government was
strong and proposed to subdue the revolutionists.
Advices from Hayti states that 280 in all
were killed in Port-au-Prince and 100 exiled,
but Minister Price denies it.
THE LABOR WOBLD.
Austria has women hodcarriers.
Detroit (Mich.) newsboys have a union.
Railway telegraphers want a federation.
Germany bricklayers averago 5200 a year.
Firemen's Brotherhood has 22,000 member?.
New York City has a Hebrew tinsmiths'
union.
Australian Italians have a National
Union.
New York colored waiters have a K. of
L. Assembly.
Federation sentiment is growing among
Union railroaders.
California fruit farmers will be asked to
discharge Chioese workers.
A National Union of Architectural
Iron Workers will be formed.
Many of tbe hotels iu Virginia aro substituting
white for coloroi waiters.
A proposed law in Spain prohibits Sunday
work by persons under eighteen.
The American and European harness
makers talk of an international union.
Illinois has passed a law prohibiting tha
employment of children under thirteen.
Indians at the Carlisle (Penn.) Govern
ment School are making wagons and harness.
At Garnett, N. C., women wash for fifteen
ceuts a day. Farm hands get $8 a
lliouili.
Evert workman in Japan wears on his
cap and on his back an inscription giving hia
business and his employer's name.
The strike of horsecar men in Bordeaux,
France, has been settled, the company
agreeing to the demand for a day's work of
twelve hours.
The law passed in the British House of
Commons prohibiting the employment of
children under eleven year3 affects 200,030
little workers.
In nearly all the large retail shops in London,
England, the saleswoman sleep and eat
as well as work in the building. Even the
black silk dresses they wear during their
working hours belong to their employers.
The Brussels (Belgium) waiters have
formed a syndicate to redress their grievances.
A leading complaint is that they
have to pay fiom twenty cents to ?L.20 to
the proprietors for the privilege of serving.
tub labor organizations of Denmark have |
6ucet-oJed iu causing tho Government to
make June *J5, the anniversary of the adoption
of tho Constitution of 1849, a legal
holiday. They will now agitate to
election day a legal hoikiay.
NERVY CONFIDENCE MEN,
Tliey Chlorolorm ami Kob Farmer
Trice, Then Take Him Home.
Confidence men and their oonfederate3
robbed Steven Trice, a wealthy farmer near
Lathrop, Mo., on a rcceut afternoon, of
$3500 and a fine team and buggy. They
purchased his farm and persuaded him to
draw $3500 from the bank to buy some land
adjoining his. After drawing the money he
left town with theiu in a carriage, when they
met a confederate, who joined them and
proposed a game of cards.
Alter all out Mr. Trice had lost their
money, they threw a cloth over his head,
chlororormed him and robbed him. The confederates,
four in number, left, but the two
men in the carriage, who gave their name9
as Dr. Starks and Judge Hays, of St. Louis,
coolly took their victim home, telling him
that if he left home or told any one Deforo
Sunday he would be killed, and that the attack
was in settlement of an old war grudge.
Mr. Trice was so frightened that he mentioned
the affair to his wife only next even- I
iag.
ICELAND TO ALASKA.
A Scheme to Transport All the Population
ot the Island.
Ludwig Von Dolcke, the noted Icelander,
who has been practicing medicine in Detroit,
Mich., for the last year or two, left
that city a few days ago upon an important
mission. He is bound for his native country,
and when he arrives there be will interview
the Government authorities at Reykiavek,
the capital, on a scheme to transport
the entire population of Iceland to Alaska,
there to establish a colony under the Government
of the United States.
It is understood that Von Dolcke will receive
substantial backing from a number of
capitalists interested in the development of
Alaska, and the United States Government
looks favorably upon tho sohame.
DESERT MADE A LAKE.
Strange Natural Phenomenon
in San Diego County, Cal.
The Great Colorado Basin Filling
Up With Salt Water.
A despatch from San Francisco, Ca\,
eays: The Colorado desert basin in San
Diego County is the scene of a strange
natural phenomenon. It is an inland depres
Bion s/u reet below t&e level of the sea in its |
deepest part, and covering an area of 300C
square mile3. On Saturday evening the
workmen at the great salt works at Saltoa
were amaz3d to see streams of water trickling
down the valley. These increased in
size until for several miles around the earth
was covered by a shining lake of salt water
thirteen inches in depth.
The water had risen only two inche3 siac?
Sunday, making fifteen Inches, but is spreading
over a wide area and is causing tb<
Southern Pacific Railroad people much
anxiety. To-day an exploring party will
be sent on with a boat from Los Angeles
They will get off the train at Indio,
and as soon as they strike the lakt
will launch the boat and follow the stream
up to its source. The current shows tht
water is coming from the direction of New
River, which receives its water from
the Colorado. The theory of those
familiar with the desert is that an earthquake
or some other convulsion has forced
an underground artesian stream ol
water up through the sandy soil. The
theory that the drying up of an artesian
welJ at indio, caused the flood, was spoiled
by the well resuminz its natural flow after a
cessation of twenty-four hours.
This track bears evidences of having bean
flooded many years ago, and Indian tradition
declares that a great inland lake stretched
at one time from this region to the San
Jacinto Mountains, that separate the desert
from the orange groves of San Bernardino
County.
The Southern Pacific Railroad passe3
through the basin more than fifty miles, its
lowest point bein? 263 feet below the sea
level. The Colorado river is 160 feet above
the sea level at Yuma. If the subterranean
passage connects with the
Colorado above Yuma the lake will be
over four hundred feet in depth and
over fifty miles long. If the waters continue
to rise the Southern Pacific track will
be submerged nearly one hundred miles, and
the great desert of Colorado will be converted
into a vast lake.
When the story of the rising water near
Sal ton, Arizona, first reached the Southern
Pacific officials at San Francisco they paid
no particular attention to the rumors, but
they finally decided to make an investigation.
An Indian runner was sent out
with instructions to find where the
water leaves the river, if such be
the case, and to make a thorough examination
as to how it passes through the sand
hills and reaches the desert. It is believed
that the water leaves the river just above
Pilot Knob, near Yuma, nearly sixty miles
M ? ,1 ?..-I,- TT
lruixi OUltUlJ, auii wuiftaiw no; iuiuu^u uuiy
dry sand to the low ground this side-of the
river.
A fourteen-foot boat with two sailors was
sent from San Pe jro to Salton. From, that
point a boat provisioned for a week's cruise
will sail south and attempt to reach the
source of the flow,, while the Indian runner
follows che bank of the river from Yuma.
As the water does not come within a mile of
the railroad track there is no obstruction to
traffic and no immediate trouble is apprehended.
Advices from Yuma said the water at Salton
is rising and is from fourteen to sixteen
inches deep aroudd the salt works. One
hundred square miles are reported under
water. The railroad company have men out
to ascertain the depth of the water and probable
causes.
SAMPAN VICTIMS BUSIED,
Nineteen of the Drowned Sailors Interred
on Mare Island, Cal,
The bodies of the nineteen sailors who
were drowned at Samoa in the great hurricane
of March, ISS9, were interred with imposing
ceremonies in the Naval Cemetery on
Mare Island, California, a few days ago.
The bodies were taken to the cemetery
seven in one hearse and twelve on a caisson
constructed of gun carriages, and were
escorted by a battalion from the
marine corps, a company of sailors
from the Independence, members of Farragut
Post, G. A. R.; Commander JBesson of the
French frigate Bubourdieu, Admiral Irwin
and staff, and Comniauder Wilson, a survi
or of the disaster. Commander Clark was
in charge of the escort.
At the graves the religious services were
conducted by Chaplain J. K. Lewis, and at
their conclusion a parting salute was fired
and the last call was sounded by the bugle.
KILLED WIFE AND BROTHER
Jealousy Leads to a Doable Murder
in Alabama.
Jesse Cartwright, of Baldwin County,
Alabama, killed his brother, John W. Cartwright,
and cut his wife's throat.
The Cartwrights lived in the backwoods
of Baldwin County, and the news of the
crime was not received until next day. Jealousy
is said to have caused the double j
murder.
Jesse called John out of his house on Pine I
Log Creek on the night of the murder and
filled him full of buckshot. John died in ten
minutes.
Proceeding home Jesse seized his wife by
the hair, pulled her over his knees and cut
her throat. She died in less than a minute.
Jcst before the JRoman cohorts
marched from thoir dressing-rooms
into the Madison Square Garden in
New York at the performance of
"Nero" the other night, a muchfrightened
gray cat that ha! strayed
in from somewhere scampered across
the Uoor. The noise of the band and
the fierce appearance of the oncoming
warriors drove the cat into a panic,
and it danced around in a most amusing
manner. All the spectators at
once lost interest in "Xero" and gave
their attention to the cat. The occupauts
of the boxes leaued out to see
what it was going to do, and the multitude
in the galleries and in the reserved
seats stood up and shouted.
For about two minutes the noi.se of the j
baud and the tramp of the soldiers j
was drowned in the roar of laughter
and the shouts of the audience. Then
pussy desperately leaped into oue of
the boxes, causing no little panic
there, and scampered through and
around the seats until it found shelter
In some hidden nook.
Tiie Imperial Bank of Germany
(lieichsbank) has the right to issu6
paper to the extent of $75,000,000, am]
as much more as it has gold and silvei
on hand as security for, and practically
to any extent beyond this; but on
the excess they must pay 0 per ceut.
interest per annum to the government.
The bank has not uf late availed itselJ
of this privilege, possibly because it
would not pay, and has coufiued its issue
of bank notes of the regular $75,000,000
and the amount of gold and
silver on hand, or say $225,000,01)0 in
all.
The Indiana Supreme Court decided in
favor of the teaching of the German language
in the schools, holding that the law is
compulsory and the language must be taught
wherever the requisite number oI patrons
shall petition for the same.
Tr?n ni?n a kt/i v f
TOTW rr DOWN*, BOTSl
If urged to lift the glass that tempts,
In city grand or humble town;
Be he that tempts, the king or czar, I
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
If those that ask vou vex and tease.
Perhaps condemn you with a frown, 4
Be firm, mind not the laugh and sneer!
Quick, turn your glass and set it downl
If health you crave and strength of arm,
Would keep your hardy hue of brown,
Nor have the scarlet flush of sin,
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
If in your trouble others say,
"In sea of drink your sorrow drown,"'
Look out lest drowned the drinker be!
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
Cold water, boys, hurrah, hurrah.
Will help to health, wealth and renown;
If urged to give these treasures up.
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
?Rev. Edward A. Rand, in Advocate.
PROHIBITION m MATTE.
Last winter's temperance legislation fn the
State of Maine is producing good results. At
least so we judge upon the authority of
Zion's Advocate, published in Portland.
J.hat paper says: "It is evident that the
amendments to the prohibitory law enacted
last winter have reduced the sale of intoxicating
drinks in Maine to the minimum, and
this action of these fifty hotel keepers, whose
places have at last ceased to be grog-shops,
is a witness to the practical result of these
amendments. In other words the prohibitory
law, instead of being a failure as these
men claim, seems to be working fairly well,
and if business in Maine is suffering because
of this fact we should like to see the evidence
of it." That is very gooi news, and we shall
gratefully chronicle more of the same sort.?
Obsei'ver.
an hottest rumseller's advertise stent.
Friends and Neighbors:?Grateful for
the liberal encouragement received, from
you, and having supplied my shop
with a new and ample stock of choice wine?,
spirits and malt liquors, I thankfully inform
you that I continue to make drunkards,
paupers and beggars, for the sober,, industrious
community to support. My liauors
may excite you to riot, robberv and bloodshed
and will certainly diminish your comforts,
augment your expenses, and shorten
your lives. I confidentially recommend them
as sure to multiply fatal accidents and distressing
diseases, and Hkely to render these
incurable. They will agreeably deprive
srariftof life, some of reason, manv of char
actor, an 1 all of peace?will make fathers
fiends, wives widows, mothers cruel, children
orphans, and all poor. I will train the
young to ignorance, dissipation, infidelity,
lewdness, and every vice?corrupt the miuisters
of religion?obstruct the Gospel?
defile the church andcause as much temporal
and eternal death as I can.
1 will thus "accommodate the public." It
may be at the cost of my never dying soul.
I have a family to support?the trade pays
?and the public encourages it. I have a
character from my minister, and a license
from the magistrate; my traffic is lawful;
Christiana countenance "it; and if I do not
bring these evils upon you some one elsa
will. I know the Bible says, "Thou shalt not
kill," pronounces a "woe unto him that giveth
his neighbor a drink," and enjoins me
not to '"put a stumbling block in a brother's
way." I also read "that no drunkard shall
inherit the kingdom of God," and I cannot
expect the drunkard-maker, without repentance,
to share a better fate. But I wish a
lazy living, and have deliberately resolved
to gather the wages of iniquity, and fatten
on the ruins of my specias. I shall therefore
carry on my trade with energy, and do my
best to diminish the wealth of the people,
and endanger the safety of the State. As
my traffic floarishes in proportion to your
iznorance and sensuality, 1 will do my ut
most to pervert your intellectual elevation,
moral purity, social happiness, and eternal
welfare.
Should you doubt my ability, I refer you
to the pawn shop, tha poor house, the police
office, the- hospital, the jail, and the gallows,
where so many ot' my customers have gone.
The sight of them will justify you that 1 do
what Ipromise.?Judas Heartless.
the motive force.
The strain at this moment is the ramorseIess
pressure of a huge commerce in liquors.
There is money in it, and that is the motive
force. Money nerves every man; money
palliates every conscience. Say that the
commerce is wrong, prove that it is harmful,
yet you are at a loss to put your finger on
the line that divides the guiltless from the
guilty man. Would you condemn the
peasant who tills the vines under the suns of
i'a **/*<?' * + r\f
iiuiv: 1 cu buau is vuu acai biu^ puiuu ul
wine. Is the farmer blamable who raises
hops, or his neighbor who sowes barley?
Yet beer comes therefrom. Is the culture
of corn culpable. Yet we remember the
humor of the canny Scot upon his native
heath who dryly remarked: "We do Dot
raise corn in our country, but we destroy a
mighty lot of it after it has been turned into
whisky." Is the workman to be chided
who accepts employment in a brewery wheD,
perchance, he can obtain it nowhere else*
The brewer king will aver?"I manufacture
?no one is obliged to drink, much less, if he
drink, obliged to undo himself by excess."
The retailer behind the bar will proclaim
his irresponsibility for any who patronize
him. Were we fighting the battle of temperance
with guns we would hardly know
where to shoot?at least where to shoot first.
It teaches us to drop the thought of individuals.
It permits us to dispense with per j.-innlitips.
do awav with hates and maledic
tions and all that opprobrious declamation
and these damnatory epithets, that go so far
to aggravate persons, to embitter discussion,
and to disgust well disposed classes who
really want to see temperanca succeed. No,
we can array ourselves against the liquor
commerce. The term is sufficiently definite.
Those in it are fast organizing for their own
defence. It needs no prophet to say?"Thou
art the m^n." By their own association,
combination and coucert of action, they say
plainly enough?"We are the men.'' It is
sufficient for us to keep steady aim at the
business, regardless of persons. Let them
identify themselves. Be sure their sin will
find them out.
The liquor manufacture and commerce is
producing and offering a commodity which
it wants to sell. It is greedy of profits, and !
profits require trade. Profits are larger, the j
larger the sales. The business believes in j
pusning tilings, oeue?es m puutui^ guwou^ou
tiie people. It searches for markets as
eagerly as the weaver and merchant of
cloths. It opens markets. It fosters demand.
It is goin; to leave no stone unturned
to stimulate trade, to increase consumption.
to multiply buyers, to swell the
volume of transactions, "and so pile up
wealth. This is the Goliath that confronts
us to-day, and defies the armies of the living
God. Against that giant lies the stress
af battle.?Temperance lieview.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
"Perpendicular drinking" id again lawful
in Boston.
Dr. L. D. Mason says that sprees usually
begin on beer and wine.
It is not the last drinla that makes a man a
drunkard, but the lirst.
The abstainers amonast the English troops
in India now number 1*6,570.
The apprehensions for drunkenness in London
had risen from 20,658 in 18S7 to 57,355 in
1889.
The Stat? Viticultural Commissioner of
California proposes a Viticultural Trust in
the interest of the wine and brandy makers
of that State.
One of the pamphlets widely distributed
by the Brewers' Literary Bureau the past
year is very appropriately entitled '"The Art
of Drinking."
Dr. Descartes, of Paris, writes, that over
half the income ol all medical men of France
comet directly or indirectly from excessive
use of spirits.
On a recent Monday morning, Topeka, the
capital of prohibition Kansas, an 1 a city of
32,000 inhabitants, had but one case before
the police court.
San Francisco has 4500 saloon3 or places
where liquor is aold at retail. If the population
of the city id 330,000 there is one saloon
to every seventy-three persons. It the voting
population is 50,000, there is a saloon for
every tUirtwa and a half votes.
* - ' - * ; ^Bgm
Cartons Facts About the Sea. ; y
The oceans and seas are the great \
teservoirs into which run all the rivers
of the world. It is the cistern whicb
finally catches all the ram that falls not
only upon its own surface, but upon the
surface of the laud as well. All of this
water is removed again by evaporation
as fast as it is supplied, it being estimated
that every year a layer of the enj
tire water surface of the globe over fourteen
feet thick is taken up into the clouds'
4;o fall again as rain. This vapor is
fresh, of course, and if all the water o?
the oceans could be removed in the same
way and none of it returned, it is calculated
:hat there would be a layer of pure
salt 230 feat thick left in the bottoms of
these great reservoirs. This, is upon tho
supposition that each three feet of ocean
water contains one inch of salt, and that
the average depths of all oceans is three
miles.
At a depth of 3500 feet the tempera-*
tore is uniform, varying but a trifle between
the poles and the equator. In
many of the deep bays on the coast of
Norway and other Arctic countries the.
water often begins to freeze at the bot-i
torn before it does at the surface. Ab
the same depth, 3500 feet, waves are
not felt. Waves do not travel?that is,|
the water does not move forward, al-j
though it seems to do so; it remains sta-j
tioaary. It is the rising and falling that1
moves- ?a.
The pressure of the water increases)
rapidly with the depth. At a distanceof
one mile the pressure is reckoned as,
about one ton to the square inch, or
more than 133 times the pressure of the:
atmosphere.
To- get correct soundings in deep water
ia-difficult The best invention for
that purpose-is-a. shot weighing about,
thirty pounds-, which carries down &
line. Through this- shot or ' 'sinker"' ?
hole is-drilled, and through the- hole i?i
passed a rod-of iron' which, moves easilyj
back and fourths At the end ot the bar
a cup is dug ouk, the inside being coatedl
with. lard?. The bar is- made fast to the
linej a sling holding the shot in. position-, j
When the bar, which extends- below the
shot, touches the bottom, the sling ua-,
hooks and. the shot slides- downward andi
drives the lard-coated cup into the sand'
at the bottom. In that way the-charao-,
ter of the ocean's floor is determined,.
If the surface of the Atlantic waslowered
6564 feet it would be reduced
to exactly half its- present width. If
the Mediterranean were lowered 660 feefe
Italy would be joined to- Africa,, aad!
three separate seas would remain.?
Louis Bepublic.
Conditions of Vigorous Old! Age.
The present greater proportion than
formerly existed of men whc pass th?
age of seventy years, reach fourscore,, or
are active at ninety years, points to>oneof
the brighter pnases of our civilization.)
The association of this vigor with differ-]
ent physical types is suggestivo of. a cer*|
tain generality of origin, and oncouragew
the hope that it may be partly dependent!
on personal conduct. As a first condi-j
tion toward obtaining effective longevn
ity, Dr. B. W. Richardson advises pa-l
rents to begin for their children by savingi
them the infliction of mental shocks and[
unnecessary grief, and making every-J
thing as happy for them as they can. Thei
persons themselves, when older,, should!
avoid grief and eschew hate, jealousy^
unchastity, and intemperance, all ot{
which hasten the coming of old age;.;
When old age has really begun,. ita|
march may be delayed by rule3 securing
the least friction and the least waste;
subsistence on light but nutritious- lood,.
varjriuij at'tuiujui^ iu buc otucvu^. uuwi
moderate in quantity; dressing, warmly,;
but ligbtly, so as to enable the body, toimaintain
its even temperature;; keeping;
thu body in fair exercise and the mind|
active and cheerful; maintaing an ioter-l
est in what is going on in the world,anij
participating in reasonable labors and!
pleasures; securing plenty of. sleep dur-i
ing sleeping hours, in a room kept at a
moderate temperature; and avoiding passion,
excitement and luxury. The weaker
man may thus sometimes- show himselP
the more tenacious of life.?Popular 8ci-\
ence Monthly.
Nature's Healthf?lness>
Mr. J.. R.. Werner has, in his account]
of his visit to Stanley's rear guard, some^
- ? 1- *.L. L?Uvr..].AnM
pointed remarKs oa iuc ucanuiuiucw u*.!
nature a3 compared with the' unsanitary]
conditions induced, by civilization. He,
says:
"Nature,, when, loft alone, does- her
own scavengering; but a<* civilization
advances, the works of inan often interfere
with the natural drainage,, without
providing any substitute; and it is only
when the population has been decimated
by disease that men's- eyes are opened.
The primitive savage living in his hut
has no need of dust-bin or dust-cart.
The ants from the large hill close byi
will soon make short work of any meat j
he may have left on the bones. The'i
sexton-beetle will soon bury what re-|
mains out of sight; and the wind and j
rain swecD all feathers and dirt i$to the i
river. As civilization advances,' reads
arc made, the ant-hills get destroyed,
and hawk3 and carrion birds disappear
before the death dealing shotgun. The
natives congregate together in large
towns, without any improvement in their j
sanitary arrangements, where the salutary
effects of wind and rain are probably
neutralized by the way in which the
streets are built; and so things go on till
disease is generated and men fall byi
hundreds."
Funeral by the Electric Light.
The idea of imparting an element of
cheerfulness to a funeral is hardly in accordance
with the orthodox practice of?
to-day. There seems, however, no good'
reason why the lugubriousness of such
in occasion should not, to a certain extent,
be modified. Such a modification
has been made with satisfactory results;
it a funeral in Middlesex, England.':
The remains of u member of a county;
family were interred in the family vault]
in the quaint old church in the grounds!
Df Twyford Abbey, and the vault was
brilliantly lighted with incandescent
iiunps. The effect is said to have been,
striking in the extreme; every screwhead
ind nail in the old oaken coffins (some
af which are over 100 years old) couldj
be easily distinguished, and "the death
:humber seemed to look quite cheerful."
Not only was the whole vault flooded;
with light, but the artistic effect of the;
grouping of the various colored shades)
crave a new element of beauty to the.
illumination.?Commercial Advertiser.
Trains on the Brooklyn Bridge makft
faster time (by two miles an hour) than
did the first railway train than ran be*
tweea New York and Albany.