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I "RAILROAD TRAGSBIEi
Two Fatal Accidents to Passen
ger Trams.
An Awful Collision Near Ravenna,
Ohio.
Twenty persons were roasted to death and
many others injured in a collision on the
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad
near Ravenna, Ohio. A train was thrown
from a trestle on the Kanawha and Michigan
road, near Charleston. W. Va. Thirteen
people tfere killed an i over fifty hurt.
A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says: A
[-* flagman failed to do his duty at Ravenna
^ before daylight this morning, and twenty*
one maimed and lifeless human bodies are
the awful results of his faithlessness.
The vestibuled limited express on the New
York, Lake Erie and Western road, known
as the *'Thunderbolt," bound for the East,
stood at the depot at Raveuna, eighteen
miles east of this city at twenty minutes past
2 o'clock this morning and was crashed into
by a fast freight train of twenty-four heavy
refrigerator cars, which was coming on behind
the "Thunderbolt" at thirty miles an
hour.
; > Twenty persons were killed and at least a
dozen otners were seriously hurt.
The passenger train consisted of baggage
and express car, three day coaches, then
four Pullman sleepers and last of all a day
coach containing forty glass blowers emSjoyed
in the Richardson Glass "Works at
indlay, Ohio. They were bays and young
men, ranging in age iroin iourteen to twenty-three.
and all unmarried. Thair parents
live in Corning, N. Y., and they were going
home for a vacation.
The passenger train left Kent, which is
the ena cf a division and six miles west of
Ravenna, at ten minutes past two standard
time.
Five minutes later the fast freight, which
had been following it closely, pulled out from
Kent. At Ravenna tha engineer of the passenger
train got off to fix his engine, and the
train was held six or eight minutes.
' A flagman was sent "back to take care of
the fast freight, but only walked about 120
feet. For several minutes he stayed there.
Suddenly tbe headlight of the fast freight
loomed up; the flagman ran toward the onrushing
train, swinging his lanterns desper
ately.
The freight engineer whistled down brakes :
and reversed his engine. The tracks were
ghowere i with sparks from tbe scraping I
wVia^o Km* tx'qc nA PiirKInor tha mr*.
mentiin of the twenty-four heavily laden J
cars.
Tha freight eugine saul: itself into the day
coach, witn its forty Find lay excursionists.
A acore of men were tosaed upon the smokegtaci:
pnd boiler and pinioned thera by the
k debris. The lamps in the coach seemed to
5*; go out for a moment, but then flashed up
and in an instant th9 woodwork was in a
blaze.
The day coach, in its turn, telescoped with
the sleeper Warsaw, just ahead of it, and the !
Warsaw was pushed part way into the j
Jamestown sleeper. All three seemed to
blaze up at onca.
The passenger engine screeched out an '
alarm that brought townspeople quickly to
the depot. Several Ravenna passengers who '
Trere leaving the train ran Dack and with i
trainmen and the uninjured passengers be- i
gan trying to put out the fire and to extri- j
cate the victims.
The Fire Department played on the blazing i
cars, but not in time to save the imprisoned '
yassengers.
Through a Trestle.
A leaded passenger train oa the Kanawha
and Michigan road crashed through a thirty I
foot trestle about eight miles from Charles- j
ton, W. Va., early on a recent morning, and .
only one of the passengers escaped uninjure J.
At least thirteen people were killed outright !
and more than fifty were hurt, some of them
fatally.
It was Train No. 1, which consisted of an
engine, combine! baggage, mail and express
car and two coaches.
The coaches were flllei with passengers,
most of whom were laboring people out for
? a holiday in the country. The Order of
United American Mechanics was en route to |
Poea to spend the day, many of them accompanied
by their wives.
Many of the passengers were employes of !
the railway company going to their homes '
along the line to spend the holiday.
The train was passing over a trestle when I
there came a crash. 1 as coaches rooted ana
shook, women screamed, and stout men !
turned pale with fear.
A moment more and a fearful plunge -was j
made. The forward pas39nger car rolled !
down the approach to the trestle, turned J
completely, and rested right side up ten feet .
below the track.
? The other cars rolled over the edge, turned i
bottom up and fell twenty feet below the I
track. In the terribb fall many persons wero J
crushed and bruisad, but to add to the horror j
the rear truck which remained on the track '
fell over on top of the car, crushing j
everything under it and killing nearly every ;
person who was in that portion of the car. I
>. One dead body after another was pulled out
through the window, most of them horribly
mangled.
Of the entire number on the train only j
four escaped without a scratch. Nearly all j
thft door! worn ont or bruised about the head, i
immediately after the wreck relief trains j
yrera sent out with physicians from St. I
Albans and Charleston, who did all in their
cower to relieve the s uttering of the In*
jured.
The burning of the ties, which caused the
train to leave the track, is supposed to have
been caused by the falling of hot cinders
from a freight train that crossed during the
night.
The track walker, whose duty it was to
inspect the track daily, had startod on his
trip from the other end of his section, but
had not reached this place.
The engineer saw a slight smoke, but
thought it an early fog rising from the
creek until too late to save the train. The
engine and first car got over safely.
Walter Welcher and wife, with their infant
child, wera going fof a holiday with
friends. The parents were killed, and th9
little child of a year was bruised, and its
little fingers cut off. It never whimpered,
And its great bl ue eyes never shed a tear as
the surgeons dress.*! the wounds.
PARNELL BEATEN.
The McCarthyite Candidate Carries
Carlow by a Big Majority.
The resuit of the election held at Carlow,
Ireland, for a successor in the British Parliament
to the late O'Gorman Mahon has reunited
in a crushing defeat for the Parnellite
candidate in the district which Mr. Parnell
adraitt<Hl was his stronghold, and
wherp. he said, if he was defeated, he
- wouid admit that he had nothing
left to fall back upon in political
life. The result of the election, announced,
was as follow*.* Hammond (McCarthy can
didate), 3755: Kettle (Parnell), 1539; Hammond's
majority, 221tt.
Carlow is the smallsst county in Ireland
and contains a population of about fortyfive
thousand peoph and an electorate of
about 3sven thousand, of whom 1000 are
Conservatives
Mr. Andrew Kettle, the defeated Parne'lite
candidate, is a farmer of Dublin
County, who has already been twice defeated
at the polls.
Mr. Hammond, the victorious McCarthyite
candidate, is a popular merchant of
Carlow, where, for twelve years past, he has
held the position of Chairman of the Town
Commissioners.
Spea'cing at Carlow, after the result of the
election was made known, Mr. Parnell said
that he was not disheartened, and that he
would continue to consolidate the independent
men of every Irish county and city, and
pat the issues he upheld before the country
at every election.
DIED AT THE ALTAR,
Heart Disease Kills a Young Man
Just After Marriage.
- There was a tragic scene at Monticello,
111., a few days ago when Charles Huffman,
. who had just been united in marriage with
Miss Mary ?. Loghty, dropped dead with
heart disease at the altar.
The bride became almost distracted with
grief. Huffman recently fell from the third I
story of the Tremont Hotel at Mcnticello
and survived the fail. He was twoaty-?ight
and cat?* from Indiana to Monticello.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Sheriff Robi.vson', of Scran ton, Penn.,
was mortally injured by an asploding giaut
firecracker.
While a ferryman name! Mickey was
rowing a party of ei^ht across the Monongahe'a
River at Braddock, Penn., the boat
was upset and Mickey and two unknown
men were drowned. The party was attending
a picnic and several of them were intoxicated.
John LcTEYand Philip Forkel were killed
by the explosion of the Moosic Powder Company's
pres.* mill at Scranton, Penn., in
which they were employed.
The Cunard steamer Servia broke her
shaft when two days out and was towed back
to New York by the oil tank steamer Chester.
Prince George, of Greece, was on
board.
Charles H. Burton*, Secretary of the
Burton & Corry Cider an I Vinegar Company.
of Albany, N. Y., is missing, and it is
found that he owes from $30,000 to $50,000.
The greater part of this is distributed among
his relatives.
The President and Postmaster General
Wanamaker. at Cape May, N. J., discussed
plans for applying the Postal Subsidy law.
James Sloccji, Harris A. Smiler, Joseph
Wood and Shibuya Jugiro, the Japanese,
were executed by electicity at Sing Sing (N.
Y.) Prison. The first namrJ was killed at
4:38 o'clock in th3 morning and the last at
~
o:w>. 1110 execution was a susce-ss, una ium
murderers dying instantly.
The Internal Revenue receipts from the
Connecticut District, comprising that State
and Rhode Island, were $>68,936.38 for the
year ending June 30, the largest since 1881,
when the district was formed.
South and West.
Galveston, Texas, was flooded alono: the
waterfront, and the shipping there suffered
severely from a terrific storm.
J. D. Sbaw, editor of the Bishopville
Eagle, was stabbed and killed by Dalles
Kelly at a picnic at Camden, S. C.
A terrible thunderstorm at St. Inigoes
Villa, St. Mary's County. Md., caused Uui
death by lightning of thre3 scholastics of
Woodstock College?Johu B. LamD, Willlam
J. Holden and James Walters.
The Chilian insurgent steamship Itata,
which ran away from San Diego, Cal., on
May 7 without a customs certificate of clearance
and with a deputy United States ma>
shal aboard, arrived in the harbor there.
Her envoy,the United States cruiser Charleston,
did not put into port, but came to
anchor outside, where she engaged in target
practice.
James Tillev, his wife and child were
instantly killed at Boone, Iowa, by tha running
away of their team.
Moses Brothers' bank at Montgomery,
Ala., suspended payment. The liabilities
are about a half million dollars. They did a
savings bank business and have many scores
of depositors among the poorer people.
Grasshoppers stopped tte Rock Island
passenger train on a recent night east of Lamont
Junction, Kan. They covered the
track for a distance of five miles.
A big labor demonstration wa3 held at
Steubenville, Ohio.
The drouth in Indiana is becoming serious.
Grass is like tinder aud constant alarms of
fire keep farmers along the railroads busy.
Several wheat crops have already been destroyed
by the fire.
The Bank of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala.,
closed its doors. The failure is due to that
of Moses Brothers, of Montgomery.
The two fnasted schooner Silver Cloud, of
MilwoiilfCA was wrecked near Port Washinz
ton, Wis., and Captain Johnson and hiswiFe
and child were drowned.
Fiftt men, mounted ani armed, took
Roland Brown, a colored man charged with
assaulting Mrs. Berry, from jail at Blackshear,
Ga., and riddled him with bullets.
The Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal.,
dismissed the libel pcjainst the Robert and
Minnie; the Attorney-General ordered that
the Itata be libeller!.
Washington.
An interesting feature of tbo calebration
of Fourth of July at Mount Vernon was the
use for the first time of the handsome n^w
flagstaff which was recantly cut and erected
by the Navy Department. The tomb of
Washington was e aborately decaratel
Secretary Proctor by geueral order has
abolished the divisions of the Atlantic, the
Pacific and the Missouri and assigned to the
^ ^ wi||
ciop&rrnienls new uu.nuiauuo o, ?m
hereafter report directly to the commanding
general of the army.
Ths Comptroller of Currency has written
a letter to Bank Examines Drew, of Puila
delphia, Penu., informing him of his dismissal.
The reason given for this action is
that he "has lost the confidence of the
Treasury Department," because of the Keystone
bank affair.
Acting Secretary Chandler has approved
the plan of operations of the Geological
Survey for the fiscal year 1891-1892, as
recommended by Director Powel1. The
amount appropriated by Congress for the
work of the survey during the present fiscal
year was $59ti,40').
A bulletin issued from the Pension
Bureau shows that the enrollment in the public
schools in the United States has increased
from 9,951.60S in 1SS0 to 12,59"},721 in 1899.
Assistant Secretary Nettleto.v appointed
Taylor Faunce aud Lawrence E.
Brown, of Philadelphia, special agents of th-)
TroAsurv Deoart.-uent to investigate thecasej
of tlie Keystone an 1 Spring Gardea National
banks of Philadelphia.
Professor B. N. Evermaxit, of the
Un ted States Fish Commission, started
from Washington with a party for tho
West, to make investigations of the rivers
and smaller streams of Montana and Wyoming
in reference to the establishment of a
hatching station as directed by the last Congress.
Foreign.
Several fights occurrei in Carlow, Ireland,
between Parnellites and Anti-Parnellit-es.
Sticks and stones were freely used,and
several persons were injured.
Part of a ponton bridge capsized pn the
Aar River, near Soieure, Switzerland, and
eighteen soldiers wereurowned.
Chinese mobs pillaged and burned
churches and mission buildings in various
parts of China. The riot is aimed against
foreigners, the ultimate object being insurrection
that will entangle the Government
with foreign countries.
Emperor William of Germany reviewed
the Life Guards and the Scots Guam's, afterward
attending church at Windsor with the
Princoof Wales and other members of tho
British royal family.
Prince Aribsrt, of Anhalfc, an I the
Princess Louise, dau?htu* of Princa Christian,
of Schlvs.vig-Holstein, were married at
Windsor Castle, England, in the presence of
an unusual gathering of royalties.
Emperor William, of Germany, reviewed
the military battel ion composed of
the students at Eton, England.
Influenza is raging in the province of Toledo,
Spain.
Persia has accepted an invitation to the
World's Fair and named Spencer Pratt as
Honorary Commissioner.
During a banauet to Emperor William,
of Germany, at Windsor Castle,a water pipe
burst and almost flooded the room. He afterwards
reviewed the Life Guards.
AN INCREASING INFLUX,
Thousands of Immigrants of Wboiu
Some Are Not Wanted.
The Superintendent of Immigration at
New York reports that 405,661 immigrants
arrived at that port during the past fiscal
year, as compared with 323,691 during the
nrevtous fiscal year. Of last year's arrivals
74,383 came from Germany. 70,716 from
Italy, 35.424 from Ireland, 33,504 from Russia,
nni the others from other countries of
Europe and Asia. It is estimated that
eighty per cent, of all immigrants laud in
New York. Nearly 170,090 of the immigrants
in question settled in New York
State and 58,009 in Pennsylvania, the next
larger numbers going to Illinois anil Michigan.
One-third of the immigrants are
laborers.
A marrying craze is reported to have
broken one among the school teachers of
Detroit, Mich., and over half of thsm are to
fee wedded durwx the summer.
*' ?
CYCLONE IN LOUISIANAA
Penitentiary Building at
Baton Rouge Blown Down.
Ten Convicts Killed and Thirtysix
Iniured.
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The first cyclone that has visited Louisiana
in the memory of the living generation
struck Baton Rouge at 6:30 o'clock on a recent
morning, wrecked the steam tug Smoky
City, demolished 100 houses, blew down the
second and third stories of the penitentiary
killed ten convicts and wounded thirty-six
others. Of the woundei, five, on the day
after the accident, were not expected to live.
Baton Rouge is situated on the left bank
of the Mississippi, on a succession of high
bluffs. The cyclonc whirled upon it from
the southwest. It was 300 jards in width,
and appeared to ricochet, jumping over some
obstmctions and ruthlessly grinding others
into unrecognizable debris. The terrible
wind entered the town at
Garig's brickyard, passed through a suburb
of hovels inhabited by the poor classes of
whites and blacks, and then went northeasterly
to a point 100 yards east of the Governor's
residence, when it turned north and
Btruck the state penitentiary, i ne second
and third stories of the north wing were
entirely demolished. The second story was
used as a hospital and the third as a
manufactory of jeans clothing, and both
were filled with prisoners. Ten of them were
killed outrigot. viz:
Whites. John Gibson, convicted of murdering
Patrick Mealey, a prominent city
ijolitician, and William Willow, of New Oreans;
T^aac McClelland, of Caicasien; J. A.
Waggoner, the famous desperado of Claiborne;
Fred. Cage, Ouchita: James Van
Metter, Natchitocnes.
Colored. Nathan Chaney, East Feliciana,
| Henry Celestin, New Orleans; Beauregard
j Harden, Bossier; Edward Buctcner, Caddo.
The live men fatally wounded are Melly
O'Neil, Joe Vallere, Frank Arons, Henry
McKay and Louis Claire, the latter also
convicted of the Mealey murder. John
Rhodus, a guard, was seated in a third-story
window and was blown out, but the wind
landed him gently on the ground. Iu addition
tcr the north wing the cell building
was unroofed and partially destroyed, while
the roof of the women's building was torn
away.
Excepting the convicts, no one was killed,
but J. H. \ oung and members of his family
were seriouslv hurt by the collapsing of
their house. Mrs. Cutting, a son and two
daughters were painfully injured when their
house fell, and a Mrs. Colton received a
dangerous blow on the back of the head and
internal injures by the falling of a beam.
Beyond these there were no serious casualties
in the town proper.
At the penitentiary after the passing of
the wind the scene was heartrending. A
TPAA'Ifln Koomc
covered scores of human beings, whose crie9
I and groans were most sickening. Relief
came promptly. The lire alarm brought the
entire department to the scene, and the uuInjured
convicts worked with strained
vigor to rescue the entombed living
and brins; out the Jacerated bodies of the
dead. Forty prisoners were at work in the
jeans factory when the crash came. Of these
six were killed and twenty-one wounded. In
the hospital were twenty sick men. Four
were instantly killed and fourte?u badly
wounded. A pouring rain followed the
storm, and yet the workers labored manfully,
end from the pile of mortar and the
mound of brick the bodic-s were steadily excavated,
until by 9 o'clock the full extent of
the fatalities was known.
The tugboat Smoky City, belonging to
Pittsburz, was lying at her moorings five
miles below Baton Rouge, at the time of the
storm. She was swept out into the river
and hpr ton works literallv torn to pieces.
Only one man was drowned, but several of
her crew were badly injured. They were
rescued by the steamboat Alto and carried
to Baton Rogue.
Shade trees on many of the streets were
uprooted. The southern portion of the
j city, styled "Catflshtown," suffered great
! loss and damage of property. In i
| that section of the city several person? were
I seriously hurt and bruised by Dying timber
! from falling houses and fences. The drug
store of B. A. Day was completely demolished
and gutted of its canteuts, the lo3s
I amounting to $5000. Several of the small
j grocery stores and stall shops ir. that vicinity
i were destroyed. The brickyard of Garig,
I Reddy & Co. was badly damaged.
The cyclone did not make a straight sweep
through the city, but would strike the j
fround and bound forward like a bouncing
all, and pass over several houses at a time I
| and descending again tear its way for hun- !
I dreds of feet. The trunks of massive oaks j
were popped off like pipe stems. So sudden |
was tne storm that a number of bread carts, ,
express and other vehicles were caught and j
wrecked in the streets, ani it departed as
suddenly as it came.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
A herd of eiehty-five buffalo will be exhibited
at the Fair.
An enterprising Nebraska man says, that
he will take to the Exposition a crowd of
sn Oftf) school ehildran from Omaha and vir*
cinity.
It Vnext to certain that the Exposition
will be open evenings ia all of its departments.
The Directory has called for plan3
and estimates for lighting, by electricity, all
of the buildings.
An exhibit from Alaska will be collectei
11 under the auspices of the Government's In
1 dian bureau and geological department, pro!
vided Congress appropriates money for that
purpose, as it is expected it will.
As soon as they can be prepared 100,000 J
copies will be issued of a line water color |
litaograph representing a hira's eye view of .
the Expositton buildings and grouudj. The !
work will appear in sixteen colore.
Kwoso Wo Chioxg, a Chinese merchant
in Hong Kong, has applied for space for an |
I exhibit or Chinese gooas. Applications iur ;
space are getting to be very numerous, and
already many have been sent in from foreign <
countries.
A permanent art palace will ba built also j
in Lake Front Park, towards the erection of j
which the Exhibition will contribute $200,
(XX). During the Exposition this building I
will be used by the World's Congress Auxili- I
ary for the holding of soma of its numerous
congresses.
Lieutenant Little, of the Navy depart- i
ment, has sailed for Europe to complete the '
plans for reproducing the caravais which j
forme 1 the fleet of Columbus. He carries :
letters of introduction from the State De- 1
| partment to Minister Grubbs and other re- |
presentatives of the United States abroad.
At a meeting of representatives of various
religious, benevolent and reformatory or- j
ganizations, held recently in New York for j
the purpose, a committee of five wa< chosen
to arrange, if possible, for the erection oE
a separate building at the Exposition, in
which can be shown the methois and results
of every description of religious missionary
and philanthropic work in this country.
Thirty acres in the northern portion of
Jackson Park, Chicago, have been reserved
for sites for the State buildings. The ground
has already been apportioned among the
States, consideration being had for the size
and importance of each and the amount it
will probably expend upon its l uilding and
collective exhibit. The entire space will be
artistically divided by beautiful walks and
driveways.
EXPLOSION ON A WABSHIP.
Two Officers and Four Seamen Killed i
and Thirteen Wounded.
The British cruiser Cordelia, Captain j
Harry T. Grenfell, ten guns, 2330 tons and |
2420 horse power, has just returned to Sidney,
New South Wales, after a most disastrous
trip to sea for target practice with her
big guns.
Captain Grenfell reports that while practising
with one of tne Cordelia's six-inch
breech-loading euns the latter exploded, kil'ing
Lieutenant William P. Hillyar, Lieutenant
Gordon and four seamen, and wounding
three midshipmen and ten seaman.
The Cordelia is a single-screw corvette,
built of steel and iron and cased with wood.
She is attached to the Australian station.
Lieutenant George M. Gordon, who is reported
killed, was in command of the
marines. The Cordelia was commissioned at
Hong Kong February 18, 1890.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The best fighting team m toe Jjeague w j
Cleveland.
"When the New Yorks fail to bat th6y always
field poorly.
A female base ball team is ravaging the
Pennsylvania coal regions.
McCluxg has been re-elect ad captain of
Yale team for next season.
Clarksojt, of the Boston League, Is rapidly
regaining his usual effectiveness.
Whitxey, of the Cincinnati Association,
is playing a phenomenal tbird base this season.
The once famous pitcher, Larry Corcoran,
is umpiring satisfactorily in the Illinois-Iowa
League.
Catcher Daly, of Brooklyn, 13 making
many of his wonderful running fly catches !
this year.
Dahlen", Chicago's new third baseman, I
is not twenty-one years old, and is the father |
of two children.
Clarke, the catcher of the New Yorks,
was married recently to Mis3 Adele Forbush,
of Charlestown, Moss.
In Lowe, Brodie and Stovey, Boston's
* 1 vio? faar
J_reagllfc) LCULU UM au uuuioiii tiu.hi
equals and no superior in the throwing line.
Anson, of Chicago, has been hitting with
bis old-time skill and strength of late, and
has finally managed to get ahead of his colts
in average.
There is a possibility that "Buck" Ewing,
of New York, has joined the dead-arm
crowd. It is more than likely that he may
not be able to play at all this season.
In the League Joe Quinn leads Boston at
the bat; Tisrnan leads New York: "Ward,
Brooklyn; Hamilton, Philadelphia; Beckiey,
Pittsburg; Anson, Chicago; Davis, Cleveland,
ana Holliday the Cincinnatis.
Brown, of Philadelphia, has mado more
long hits than any other player in the country.
He is credited with thirty-two, including
sixteen double?, fourteen triples and two
homers. Joyce comes next on long hits.
In the Association Brouthers leads the
Boston batsmen, Werden the Baltimorea,
Donovan the Louisvilles, Kelly the Cincinnatis,
Boyle the St. Louis Browns. Murphy
tbe TVashingtons, Duffee the Columbus ana
Wood the Athletics.
Rusie, of New York; Clarkeon, of Boston,
and Hutchinson, of Chicago, are having a
close and interesting race for the honor of
being the best winning pitcher of the League.
Each leads his club in victories. For Pittsl
Pinrtlnnnfi Mnllann
uurg \Jiaviu ivrauo) iut v*mvimu?wi
for Brooklyn Lovett, for Philadelphia
Thompson, for Cleveland Young.
Mator J. B. Sargent, of New Haven,
Conn., created a sensatiou by appearing as
a player in a hotly fought base-ball contest
between the officials of the city and town
governments. As the Mayor is nearly seventy-five
years old his playing in the pitcher's
box was something phenomenal. An immense
crowd gathered to sae the game.
Browsing received his release from Pittsburg
for poor work in the field and obstinacy
at the bat in refusing to sacrifice. He baa
accepted the terms of the Cincinnati League
Club. He will play centre field in place of
Long John Reilly, who will resume his old
jtand at first base. "Pete" will be paid at
the rate of 13900 for the season, and will receive
$300 advance money.
national league record.
Per Ptr
tforu Loit. of. jtori.tott. rt.
New York.36 23 .010 Cleveland.32 34 .485
Chicago...37 27 .278 Brooklyn..31 33 .484
Boston....3ft 27 .57L Pittsburg..24 37 .393
Philadel.. .31 32 .492 Cincin'att..25 3a .301
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECOHD.
Pgr Per
Won. Lost. et. tFon.toif.- et.
Boston....45 24 .65*2 Cincinnati.33 38 .465
St. Lout3..49 27 .?45 Athletic...32 37 .<M
Baltimore.3rf 28 .582 Louisville..29 4f? .387
Columbus .34 39 .4SO Wash'?t'n.22 44 ,33f
HANNIBAL HAMLIN. 1
Tho Venerable ex-Vlce-Prcsident Dies
ot Heart Disease.
Hannibal Hamlin, one of the founders of
the Republican party, who served as VicePresident
during the first four years of Mr
Lincoln's administration, and who was the
last of the ex-V ice-Presidents elected by
tho Deoo'e. died at the Tarratine Club
rooms in Bangor, Me. The es-VicePresident
visited tho club rooms
that afternoon, as has long been his custom,
and was playing with some friends his favorite
game of "pedro," when he was
stricken down with heart failure. He leaves
a widow and two sons, General Charles
Hamlin, Esq., a lawyer of Eilsworth, and
Frank Hamlin, now living in Chicago. Mr.
Hamlin had bean parcoptibly failing for a
year.
Hannibal Hamlin was born on a farm
near Paris, Oxford County, Me., on August
27, 1839. His father intended to give him a
collegiate education, but died while the boy
was going through a preparatory course.
Thereat Hannibal returned home to take
charge of the farm and remained there
until he was twenty-one years old. Then he
went to town anl learned the printers'
trade, and while at work at the case took up
tho study of the law, and in 1833, being then
twenty-four vears old, ha was admitted to
practice in Hampden, Penobscot County.
Here he made his home until 1848.
Within three years after he was admitted
to the bar he was elected as a Democrat to
the State Legislature.
In 1840 he received tho Democratic nomination
for Congress. But ho failed of election
that time. In 1842 and again in 1844, however,
he succeeded.
In 1848 he had become so prominent in the
State that he was chosen to serve out the unexpired
term (four years) of Senator John
Fairfield, who had died. He wa3 elected for
the full term in 1851, still as a Democrat, but
in 1857 resigned because he had been elected
Governor ol the State as a member of the recently
born Republican part?.
In less than a month?e. on February 20,
1857?he resigned his office as Governor because
he had again been chosen a Senator for
the State.
In the Convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln as tbe leader c{ the
Republican party, Hamlin was placed
second on the ticket. On his election
he resigned his offlc3 as Seuator, and
from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1365, presided
over the Senate. He was soon after
appointed Collector of ths Port of Boston,
an office that he resigned a year later.
In 1869 he was again elected to the United
States Senate, and served there until 1881,
when he was sent as American Minister to
Spain. He held this oflice but one year.
During tile p.ist few years Mr. Hamlin's
public appearances have baati few.
Early in 18S9 he mads au extended Western
tour and was the recipient of many
honors in Western citics.
AN INDIAN EXECUTION,
A Seminole Murderer Sits on a Rock
and is Shot to Death by Two Brarcs.
At Waheka, Indian Territory, the capital
of the Seminole Reservation, Umest, a fultblooded
Seminole, was executed. A month
ago Umest engaged in a quart-el with a fellow
Indian, and after knocking him senseless [
with a hoe, literally chopped his body to 1
pieces with it. He was tried by the Seminole
Council, convicted and sentenced to death.
The penalty was inflicted at noon on th?
council grounds. Umest was led to a low,
flat rock, and a bandage was tied over his
eyes. He was not bound in any way, but
sat erect, with his hands resting in his lap,
and as much unconcerned as if his
photograph was about to be taken.
Two of the braves were selected by
lot as the executioners. They were
given loaded rifles, and at the word each
sent a bullet into the condemned man's
heart.
The only evidence that Umest had been
shot was a painful raising of the shoulders.
The executioners quickly ran to him and
laid bim at full length on the ground, where
he expired in two minut's. His body was
burned by the council on the edge of the
council ground.
the Krposition grounds at Chicago are m*
closed by a high board feuee, and during the
progress of erection of the buildings no one
will be allowed inside the inclosure who doe3
not present a pass contersignod by President
Baker, of the Exposition Directory.
A yellow flr tree, measuring 111 feet in
length and flfty-four inches in diameter, has
ilroady been started towards the World's
Fair, having been shipped from Seattle,
Washington. 4
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BARDSLEY SENTENCED.
Fifteen Tears for Philadel*
phia's Ex-Treasurer.
To Pay a Fine Equal to the
Amount Embezzled.
John Bardsley, ex-City Treasurer of Philadelphia,
P?nn., was taken into court before
Judge Wilson to have sentence passed upon
him for the confessed crimes of lending,
speculating with, anl receiving interest on
public funds intrusted to his care as the
fiduciary officer of the municipality. As on
the previous occasions that Bardsley has
faced the court, when he was brought in
that morning he was not placed in the dock,
but was allowed to sit beside his counsel
within the space reserved for members of
the bar.
The fact that Bardsley would come up for
sentence was not generally known, so that
when District Attorney Graham arose to
address the court and ask that sentence be
passed upon the prisoner, there was not
more than fifty persons in the courtroom.
The District Attorney spoke
but briefly, but in the course of his
address he denied Bardsley's contention,
made in his statement to the court
a week ago, that the ex-Treasurer had not
misappropriated a dollar. Mr. Graham
showed that by Bardsley's own statement he
must have misappropriated the sum of at
least ?220,000, as that amount was required
to be made good by his sureties, according
to their bond to the State and city.
Mr. Graham practically admitted that
Bardsley's declaration that he piacad $945.000
in the Keystone Bank, taking due bills
for the money, was true, and that the money
was deposited in the bank. Although not
able as yet specifically to show where the
money has gone, MJ\ Graham said that
Bardsley's embezzlements would amount to
between $400,000 and $590,000.
Mr. Alexander, counsel for Bardsley, reviewed
the statements made by his client,
and appealed to the court for mercy on the
ground of Bardsley's plea of guilty and his
past services to the city. Mr. Alexander
said that Bardsley did not g?t a dollar of the
money he put in to the Keystone Bank, and
that within six months it would be shown
who did.
While his counsel had baan speaking,
Bardsley had sat with bowed head, nervously
tracing imaginary lines with the back
of his pen upon the table before him. With
the exceptie'n of his brother-in-law, not one
of the hundreds of friends that Bardsley had
a year ago was present when he arose to receive
the sentence of the court.
As Bardsley got up. Judge Wilson motioned
him to be seated while he delivered
the lecture and words of admonition that a
Judge usually prefaces his sentences with.
Judge Wilsoo's severe words caused Bardsley
the most palpable distress. When Judge
Wilson spoke of the past friendship beAMil
?Vin tvinn nnrnl'h?lf? Vila
I/WWU uiiuatTAi. uuu iuc luau anaiviug uio
sentence Bardsley's hands opened and
shut convulsively, his face flushed and paled,
and his bead sank upon his breast. As Judge
Wilson proceeded and plainly said that he
could find no palliation fsr Bardsley's malfeasance,
and that his offense was the more
open to censure from his abuse of his
official position, the prisoner almost collapsed
and seemed about to sink to the
floor from his chair. Nevertheless, before
Judge "Wilson had concluded and ordered
him to rise to receive sentence, Bardsley had
completely regained his composure and received
the words that send him to prison
for fifteen years with apparent stoicism.
The sentence of Judge Wilson was that
Bardsley undergo fifteen years' solitary confinement
in the Eastern Penitentiary, and
that he pay a fine in the sum of $237,530,
equal to the amount of bis embezzlement
arising from the transactions to which he
bad pleaded guilty.
District Attorney Graham places the deficit
at $553,835.38, which is $38,000 more
than Bardsley admitted in his own statement.
Th s amount will be reduced by payments
to be made by his sureties, so the
amount of the fine will not be determined
until after the examination of the accounts
shall be finished.
Bardsley returned to Moyamensing Prison
that afternoon, and it was expectei that be
would be taken to the Eastern Penitentiary
next day, where he will ba shaved of his
beard and be given a striped suit, and thereafter
be known by a number.
THE LABOR WORLD.
The Paris bakers' strike collapsed.
Cincinnati has women carpenters.
American railroads employ 3,000,090 per
Sax Francisco blacksmiths work nine
hours.
New York Hebrew bakers run a co-op ?rative
shop.
Mechanics head the list as inventors, then
come clergymen.
Indianapolis sewing women recently
held a mass meeting.
New York Citt ha3 a K. of L. assembly
of church choir singers.
About 1000 Italians are engaged picking
berries in South Jersey.
The Welsh tin-plate workers threatens to
come over here in drove3.
Lowell (Mass.) union men demand that
police patrol-wagons be covered.
The Switchmen's Union withdraws fram
the Federation 01 it.auway j&mpiwyttj.
The Workingmen's Society of New York
TOints a Friday half-holiday for clerks.
A H0DCA.RRIER3' union composed of colored
men has been organized in Brooklyn,
111.
The managers of the Topeka (Kan.) penitentiary
refuse to observe the Eight-nonr
law.
The United States Treasury Department
Is called upon to decide if pugulisty are laborers.
Y P 3II. A N'T I (Mich.) woolen-mill owners
fine hands twenty-five cents for talking, and
the mills run on holiday*.
Some New York capmakers struck against
depositing part of then* wages as a guarantee
that they would not strika.
r-A ?loVinr of: f.ha lrtftm?
wulauiiru "
making matting consider themselves lucky
if they earn five cents a day by hard work.
The formation of labor unions in FiulanJ
had reached the point of resolving to hold a
general meeting in Helsingfors this summer,
but a ukase from the Czar stopped it entirely
A convention of labor organizations located
on the Pacific Coast will be called by
the Trades Council of San Francisco, whicu
will endeavor to form a labor federation independent
of the American Federation of
Labor.
An enterprising Chicago man, who imported
two "jinrikishas" and Japanese men
to draw them, free, at the Chicago Exhibition,
has been ordered to send the men back,
as being brought here contrary to the alien
labor law.
The World's Fair Association of the Commercial
Travelers, recently formed, decided
to hold a two weeks' congress at the World'*
Fair. All organized bodies of traveling men
in the United States, and foreign drummers
as well, will be invited to participate
The National Association of Furniture
Manufacturers, at its recent convention in
Boston, decided to make an extensive exhibit
at the Exposition, and provided for committees
to look after the matter. The exhibit
will occupy space in the main building for
manufactures.
FIGHT WITH MOJAYES.
A Fatal Encounter With Marauding
Indians ill California.
Constable John Powers and Samuel Gann,
with McCoy, a livery man, went out in the
Mojave Desert, of California, to arrest some
Indians charged with firing haystacks. A
fight ensued and Powers and McCoy were
kflled, also two Indians and two horses.
Cann's mustache was shot off. but he managed
to got Powers's horse and roJe to the
South Fork of Kern River for help. Twelve
men went back with him. Powers's throat
was cut from ear to ear and the flesh was
torn from McCoy's face in shreds. Men
started in pursuit of the Indians.
Op the 73,000 members of the Kansas Farmers'
Alliance there are oaly 7500 whose
taring aro not uxortzajyiri
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LATEB NEWS,
As explosion of gas at the Green Ridge
(Penn.) colliery ignited the inner workings
and fatally burned John Dorsey and John b
Pickmonti, and seriously injured Chriato
puci uuuualaii. g
Postmaster General Wakamaker, H. t<
H. Yard and Editors McKean and McWade,
of the Ledger, have been notified to appear _
before the Philadelphia Councils' Investig?_? c
tion Committee. John Bardsley was removed
to the Penitentiary. ^
A young man whose identity could not ba 81
established took a novel way to end his exist- n
ence by plunging into the sewer through a
manhole in New York City. His body was
washed away by the strong current rushing
through the sewer toward the East River.
it
The great building at Cincinnati, Ohio, g,
occupied by A. E. Burkhardt & Co., manufacturers
and wholesale and retail dealers in
furs and fur goods, was destroyed by fire.
Loss over $800,000. J
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The Missouri P?iver has carried out several a:
hundred feet of one of the expensive dykes ^
huilt hv the Government for the protection
of East Atchison, Kan., two years ago. The ^
current also threatens the oth9r dykes. Robert
Fbankovic3, Frank Miltovich,
Peter Strau?le and J. Speech were drowned fo
during a gale near North Point, Texas. a;
They were all well-known Italians, who had
been connected with tha fish trade in Galves- ^
ton for a number of years.
In the report of the Eoard of Visitors to C(
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., g
recommendations are made involving im- xi
portant changes in the course of study.
Rev. Dr. William A. Schubert, are- b
tired Episcopalian minister, aged sixty, wa3 v.
accidentally killed at Washington by a little 8'
boy, James Gaut. As he neared Dr. Schu- o
bert the bicycle struck a stone, and the boy n
was thrown with great force against the d
doctor, who fell dead on the asphalt pavement.
j
Professor Mexdejthall, of the Co&3t j si
j and Geodetic Survey, and Professor Meni- . k
am, of the Agricultural Department, have ri
been appointed as the American Behring Sea si
Commissioners. b
The Secretary of the Treasury has au- ^
thorized the acceptance of the offar of the
master of the Chilian steannr Itata to pay v
$500 for violation of our navigation Iawa fi
in having cleared from San Diego, Cal.. ti
without the necessary permit. This is the d
full legal penalty for such an offence. s'
The Arab slave traders of Africa have a
been routed by Congo Free State troops,
and are suing for peace. e
The Boer trek in South Africa has proved
an utter fiasco and the British troops have ?
been recalled from Bechunal. 8
The staging of the shaft at a colliery at ?
Rotherham, Yorkshire. England, collapsed,
killing four workmen and seriously injuring 8
four others. 0
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The Kaiser and Kaiserin, of Germany,
?'*?? Kr-oolrfocf inn. nrit-.h Outran ?
drove to Frogmore and visited the royal
mausoleum. They afterward luached at
W indsor, and were driven to Cumberland
Lodge, where the silver wadding of Prince 1
and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Hol T
stein was celebrated. c
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THE DESEBT LAKE, I
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The Flood Traced to the Place Where ^
It Leaves the Colorado.
The party, headed by Mr. Carter, sent out e
from Los Angeles, Cal., by the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company to find the sourc9
of the Sal ton Lake, have returned. They
report from Ogilbie that the water leaves
the Colorado River at a point eight miles 8
from El Rio, and flows through several a
channels from four to six feet deep ?
and from thirty to sixty feet wide. It flows
westward along the Sand Hills on the line of
the old overland atage to Ogilbie, making a C
6tream 100 yards wide or more, and having
a velocity of four miles an hour and gaining.
It was too deeD to be sounded, but the old
slough at this point was formerly twenty
feet deep. This is about thirty-five miles v
from the river. The party adds: .
"We followed the stream two miles further
in the direction of the Indian Wells. The
water is all the way from a half mile to two t
miles wide, and from two to four feet deep,
having a velocity of two miles an hour. The
main channel passes Cook's Well, then on to
Alamo Mucho, making a distance of fifty-two p
miles from Colorado River. This is the s
point at which it enters the desert for
Salton. The old stage route, with the exf
*-* MV miloa ia all /VW0l?0'l I 1'
KJL UfO V? iJIA UliiV) M ?* wfMww
with water. The only way to reach this e
point Is over the Sanl Hills. This settles fl
the question of a water supply conclusively."
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CUBIOUS FACTS. ]
The Gulf of Mexico has risen over a
Coot since 1852.
A fish with two tails is the chief curi- g
osity at Madison, Penn.
Brass bands are not allowed to play in
ihe streets of. Nashville, Tenn. 2
Ten days per annum is the average t
amount of sickness in hunfan life.
There are about fourteen hundred
places of worship in London, England. kThere
is a difference of only twentytwo
square miles between the areas of
England and Iowa.
Francois Coppee, the French author, is 0
fond of cats that surround his desk and
aibble at his pen when he wiites.
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Camden, N. J., boasts of a blind bar- jj
ber who can shave as well a3 if he had t|
perfect sight. He works every day and
makes regular wages.
Alabama has a new religious sect, one f,
of whose tenets is to pay no taxes to the j,
3iipport of a secular government, even to j3
the extent of a dog tax. b
Girls are no longer to be flogged in the si
industrial schools of Kirkdale, in Lan- o
sashire, England. Such Is the order of n
the Local Government Board. d
The famous four-post bedstead in Anne n
Hathaway's cottage at Shottery, England, 1
is rapidly disappearing, being gradually ^
chipped away by relic hunters. c
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The moat successful "farmer "In Aroostook
County, Me., and the owner of the
largest potato field in that section, is a ?
man paralyzed from his hips down.
The King of Ashantee is allowed 3333 ^
wives. Many of them are the daughters
of the chiefs of tributary tribes over n
which the King has jurisdiction, and are ^
sent to him as hostages. jt
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Two Jtoung Japanese women lost their
mental balance over Tsuda's attempt to assassinate
the Czarowitz. One started out to
see the Russian Prince and make an apology
on behalf of her race. She failed to see him x,
and committed suicide. Another attempted
suicide by drowning, but was rescued. S<
Tsuda himself attempted suicide and wa# u
fatally injured. fll
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Bradstreet's reports of failures in the
United States foi the past six months show P
an increase of 571 as compared with the total C
of the tirst half of 1890, the totals being t<
(5037 for 1891 and 5466 for 1890. The liabUi- a
ties for 1891 are $91,270,253, against 162,867, *
1 062 for 1890. Assets, 1891. H$,205,9M
against *30,025,116 for M J M
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Electric blasting is a success. ,
Sea water is heavier than fresh watef
?cause of the salt dissolved in it.
Warming of street cars in winter is &
lew possibility of the trolley electric ty?
jm.
Professor W. A. Henry found that *
ound of mutton can be produced cheap*
r than a pound of pork.
For simple hoarseness take a fresh egg,
eat it and thicken with pulverized
jgar. Eat freely of it and the hoarseess
will soon be relieved.
It is said that Harry Edwards, theitor
who died recently in New York,, .
wned a collection of about 300,000i
loths and butterflies, which he had in-'
ired for $17,000.
A sure cure for inflammatory rhcuma-i
sm is made by taking one ounce pul-'
erized saltpeter and putting it into a<
int of sweet oil. Bathe the part*
fleeted and a sound cure will speedily)
e made. j
Sir William Siemen's method of apply-*
lg electric light to grow flowers and;
ruit by night or on cloudy days haft,
een employed with good success oni
oard a W<est Indian steamer to keep!
live exotic vines and other plants.
A striking conclmion has been drawn'
y Boulanger, that the great Cretaceous[ydrosaurus
of New Jersey was the an-1
estral form from which three great
roups of reptiles, the lizards, Pythonolorpha,
and snakes have originated.
The only proper way to keep a gun.
arrel in good order is to wash it out'
ith boiling hot water, dry with linen
ivabs and oil with vaseline or cylinder
il, every time that it is used. It should
ever be laid aside unattended to for a
ay or two after tiring.
The sea-snakes are now regarded by,
loulanger, on account of the different
aape of the teeth in the three genera1
nown, as the descendants of three teristrial
genera, the close similarity in the
iape of the head, their color and habits
eing due to adaptation to their pelagic
fe.~
A handy lamp holder has been devised,
thereby perfect comfort can be secured
or the eye, while a bright light is mainlined.
The holder can bo placed in any
esired position and by use of a "half
bade" the light cm be concentrated on
ny subject?a desk, a type-writer, copytand
or a piano?and all strain on the
yeaight is avoided.
Hailstorms do not occur in weUrooded
districts, acccording to the obervations
of a noted Swiss forester. Ia
vidence of this he points out that a
[iatrict formerly exempt from such
torms has been visited by very fierce
nes, since gaps were made in the forests,
nd that upon replanting the cleared
ground with firs, the storm3 cea3ed enirely.
Blending as a means of effecting specal
improvement has, it is well known,
ong been used for raising the quality ol
rine, but a new application of the pro- '
ess is now being made. A new method
if producing gas from oil and mixing
he same with coal gas has been invented
n England. It is said that the new proess
has a wonderful effect in enriching
he gas as a whole. It ha3 the further
ecommcndation of considerably cheapning
the supply.
A Billion Dollars.
If you were to eat a penny cake every
econd for 42,800 years, you would have
bill of $1,000,000,000 to pay the
iaker. Don't try it.
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A billion dollars stacKea up m a siagio
olumn would make a pile 1404 miles
ligh.
If the dollar were taken up in the air
nd thrown to earth in a shower, they
rould cover an area of more than half a
quare mile.
The weight of $1,000,000,000 is equal
o that of 41,645 American men.
It would pay the salaries of 20,000
Residents of the United States, and supiort
the royal family of Great Britain for
everal years.
Placed edge to edge $1,000,000,000
a bills would carpet an area of 3.7
quare miles, with a liberal fraction left
>ver for repairs. Laid in line length (rise
they would form a belt 3.0625
aches wide and 114,289 miles long, that
rould go around the earth nearly five
imes and reach half-way to the moon.
A billion dollars in paper money would
[lake, if spun together in one sheet and
hen cut up into pieces of proper size,
owns for 127,867 women, or dresses for
83,601 children.
It would pay for the education of
50,000 children from the kindergarten
o and through college, and bay a city
3t apiece for 50,000,000 persons?nearly
lie entire population of the United
Ysirle ArJvfirt.iaer.
low a Wakeful tfau May Get to Sleep.
A writer, evidently of a practical turn
f mind, tells a contemporary how easily
be wakeful dyspeptic can be made to
lip off into the lands of dreams. He
lys: "The dyspeptic, of course, eats a
ght supper, may resort to the use of a
awel, wet with tepid water, and covred
with a dry cloth, the whole then
pplied to the pit of the stomach. Beore
the sufferer knows it he will float
ato shadow land, such 13 the sympathy
etwecu the organs of digestion and the
rain. Owing to the position of the
tomach, a light sleeper ought to sleep
n the right side instead of the left,
ever on the back. If there is a tenency
to cold feet, a thin woolen blanket
iay line the lower third of the bed.
'lie limbs ought not to be greatly
exed, a position which presents free emulation,
and they should rest one upon
nother lightly. The night light, where
sed, ought to be a tiny taper, and not
as or kerosene, both of which dcvital:e
the air. A darkened room is the
est. Nature puts out her light, and
raws the curtain of darkness for a purose.
With good habits, physical and
lental, and a determination not to deal
rith anodynes, sleep may be won lrom
s shyest lair to watch over the restltss
illow.?Detroit Free Press.
Smokeless Fuel.
Pittsburg "is at last assured of a smokeiss
fuel. During the last three years
le Weatinghouse Company has spent
iveral thousand dollars experimenting
pon a process for the manufacture of
rtificial gas. The gas manufactured at
lis point will be piped to the various
laces where it is put into use. The diffiulties
which many mills had last winit
on account of natural gas will be
verted. It is said that the new inveuion
will be cheaper than coal.--?iVft0
rork Telegram,. >