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^APPALLING DISASTER ;
Fatal Collapse of a Building
in New York City.
I
Nearly Five Score of People '
Lose Their Lives.
A rickety five-story brick building in
Park place, New York Cit;-, co'.lapsed during
the noon hour a few days ago, the debris
bursting into llames.
How many people were buriei and burneJ j
in the ruins was not known forty-eight hours ,
after the accident. The number was estimated
at seventy-five. Ib may reach one
hundre'.
Th * o Mapse was immediately proceeded
by n:s explosion, according to some of tlioso
within earshot. Oihers say then* was no
explosion, th-it the walls and floors merely
gave way.
The fallen buildings comprised Nos. 63, 70,
72 an i 71 Park place. No. OS was vacant.
Occupying the ground floor of the remaining
three numbers were Louis Rosenfeld's
bron/.i.nnd gold paint shop, A. W. Tripp's
drug store, and Andrew Petersen's restaurant
Eli:s ft Macdonald's bookbiniery took up
the s-oond and third floors of Nos. 70 and 7:2,
and the South Publishing Company the same
floors of No. 74.
The zourth and fifth floors throughout
were occupied by Liebler & Maass, lithographer.-.
Careful estimates made the day after the
tragedy showed that when the fatal crash
came there were thirty men in the pressroom
of Liebler & Maass, who were buried in it;
twenty-tire men in Petersen's restaurant;
twelve men and women in Ellis & McDonald's
bookbindery; eight men and boys in tho
.South Publishing Company; teD men anl
women in the paint shop of Louis Roseufeld;
nine men and boys in the drug store of
F. TV". Trippe, and ten passers-by on tho
tide walk?making a total of 101.
There is a considerable difference of opinion
as to the cause of the disaster. People in
the wrecked building who escaped say there
was no explosion, but those who were on the
street near the scene say they heard the report
of an explosion.
It seems probable that the weight of tho
Printing presses, which were on the upper
floors, together with the vibration caused by
their motion, proved too much for the buildtig,
and caused the collapse.
It was just the noon hour and Petersan's
restauraut in the basement was fairly well
filled. It accommodated sixty persons. In
the windows overhead girls an-i men could
be seen catching a breath of air as they
munched their luncheons.
There were several people passing in the
street, among them a woman with an infant i
in a baby carriage. Three little childreu
were playing together in front of tho druj |
store,"and a horse attached ti an express
wagon was standing by the curb.
Above the noise of traffic in the street
could be heard the din of Liebler & Maass's
tea big presses on the upper floors. Tho
building vibrated and trembled with every
revolution, just as it had done for months
before.
Then there came a low rumbling sound.
Some who heard it say it was accompanied
by a heavy report, as of a cannon fired. It
was followed by tho crash of falling walls
and the grating, rasping sound of twisting
beams and timbers.
A dark cloud of dust filled tho air and
rose to the height of the housetops. Before
it had cleared Ire burst from the debris and
lapped over to the adjoining buildings to tho
west.
The street was in an uproar in an instant.
A dozen or more who had bee i slightly injured
were helped into adjacent stores. Ona j
man was discovered standing to his waist in i
the debris. He bad a bad gash in his head.
He was palled out ana carea ior.
Another bad rolled down fro:n the summit !
of the wreck in a big arm-chair. He was !
helpel to his feet comparatively unhurt. J
"he mother with her baby in the carriage
' the three little children at play could not.
ui.
ntly, before the frightened people in |
~*ed building could collect them- |
'ttempt escape, there rolled the (
ds of sraoice and the roaring
one accord the p3oplo rushed
-ance, on Park place. Al- j
issable. And then, almost
other, men and women,
1 ami fell down the tire
>h street side of the
Wf,
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Of the eighteen recovered dead thirteet
have been identified. The five unidentified
bodies were taken to the Morgue.
Oue of the saddest features or tins disaster
is that its long list of victims were in the
main the fathers of families who leaned on I
their support for tin necessaries ol :
life, or sons and daughters with :
those dependent on their earn- J
ings. A larjjo majority of them were is
youth and with few exceptions they were all <
of the best class of American working pco
pie. Nearly every death recorded means the
desolation of a lioin?. i
PROMINENT^ PEOPLE, i
The King of Sweden is a great swimmePk
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is an enthusi- ,
astic bowler.
Bismarck pockets $1000 a week as th?
profits of his little poultry business.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of Napoleon ;
III., has failed visibly during the last few
months.
Governor fra.vcis.of Missouri, has within '
the last ten years ainasse l a fortune of '
?1.000.000 by judicioiu and lucky investments.
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? ' 1 i.1.. T?
Fully seou.wu nas oeen spent on mo cm. |
press of Austria's new palace at Corfu. The i
wood-carving alone in one suit of rooms cost
$15,000. ,
Blaine and Proctor are the only members
of the Cabinet who do not smoke, and Secretary
Foster is the most inveterate smoker
among the others.
The old Duke of Nassau, who at seventy- (
f?ve is hale and active, has a fortuna of $25,
000,000 and is consequently sat down as the <
richest priuce in Europe.
Officer Rollings, of Philadelphia, is
said to be the largest policemau in the
United States. He is six feet eight inches in
heizht and weighs U) pounds.
Father Tom Sherman", the ecclesiastical j
son oi the late General, has recant^' ,
preached in Chicago, where he created a
distinctly fuvorable impression.
Captain* Palmer, the new commanderin-chief
of the G. A. R., is going to bend his
energies to the task of hastening the construction
of the Grant monument.
Among the several foreign gentleman wno
are coming across this fall to enlighten America
from the platform is Austin DobsoD,
who is to give readings from his poems. (
The Emperor of Japan has decreed that i
every man who provokes a duel or accepts a I
challenge shall pay a heavy fine and serve
from six months to two years iu the gal
leys. 1
Although in his eighty-flrst year, Senator
Morrill, of Vermont, is an ardent sports- i
man, an I is often seen, gun in nana,
engaged in the healthful pursuit of field
sporta.
Senator Gorvan is building a new ^
honsa near Laura), Md., to replace the one ,
that was burned last winter. It is described ,
as a commodious, substantial and unpretentious
farm house.
Mr. Frederick K. Binidge, of Cam- t
bridge, Mass., who inherited a very large
fortune, has within the last three years
given to charitable, religious and municipal 1
institutions more than $3,000,000. I
Mrs. Isabella. Bird Bishop, the well '
known author of books describing her travels
in "unbeaten tracks," has received the honor '
of being the first woman to deliver an address J
in the British House of Common?.
Dr. Seum H. Peabody, President of the
National Educational Association, has been i
nominated and confirmed as chief of the De- j
partment of Liberal Arts of the World's
Fair, vice Professor Adams, resigned.
Congressman- Livingstone, of Georgia,
who is one of tli3 leaders of th3 farmers'
movement, is about fifty-Sva years old, and
lives at Covington, a little town within an
hours' ride of Atlanta. He is a farmer, but j
has always taken an active interest in poli- (
tics. 1
Mis3 Forbes- Leith, the Americin girl i
who recently became the wife of Captain J
Burn, the handsomest aide-de-camp in the 1
British service, is a tall and rather slender
woman. She is hardly pretty, but is vary
distinguished and attractive in her appaar- <
ance. ;
Lieutenants Thiesen and Arnold, of
the Ninety-lifth Coburg Regiment, have per- i
formed the remarkable feat of walking from '
Coburg to Bamberg, a distance of twenty- ,
six miles and return in sixteen hours aud
thirty-five minutes with full marching ,
equipments. j
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ARTIFICIAL KAitf. J
4
General Dyrenturtli Turns Arid !
Plains Into Grcfn Prairies.
The lubors of the rainmakers whom Secretary
of Agriculture Rusk sent to Midland,
Texas, to try to pump water out of c!oud- [
less skies are practically at an end so far as
that particular loc ility is concerned.
General Dyrenfurth is highly pleased with
the success of the experiments and has per >ct
faith that the power of making rain has
n secured.
im a barren, dry alkali prairie Tom
r'ouuty, Texas, has been transformed
st-cfass pasture land.
belongs to Nelson Morris, of
vers 300,00') acres. Before
< came there had been no
nch for three years?
"?ro intervals which
* tho experiments
>ne tremendous
been a day
-ass is getcon
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern ami Middle States.
Kate and Mary "Walton, sisters, aged
nineteen ami twenty-two, belonging in
Dorchester, Mass., were drownei in South
Boston Bay on their return from a moon
ight yachting cruise.
Five man ware injured by an explosion of
in o ctin.minrrr dt, HoWollsville.
Penn.
General W. L. Bragg, Interstate Commerce
Commissioner, die 1 at Avon-by-theSea,
N. J. Ho was born in Alabama in
ISSS.and was appoint 3d Interstate Commerce
Commissioner by President Cleveland In
iss:j.
A great throng of pjopl) listened to an
address by President Harrison at Saratoga.
After the address the Presi lent held a reception
on the piazza of the Grand Union Hotel.
Joa.v Gib vey ani wife and their four
rear-old boy were crossing Union street
bridge, Sc'.ienectidy, N. Y., when the chili
fell through an opening in tlu iron work.
The father jumpe 1 into th? water to save
the child and both were drowned.
The President spent Sun lay quietly at
Saratoga, N. Y.
Damage estimated at $100,000 was done by
a cloudburst at Pottsville. Penn.
The President was ths recipient of many
sodal attentions at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
The sessions of the Chautauqua (N. Y.)
Assembly for is'jl came to a close.
The search for bodies in the ruins of the
collapsed buildings in Park place, New York
City, was continued; thirty-five in all had
been taken out up to midnight of the third
day; twenty-six were identified.
r-z-.T-vuvrin Pinp of Vermont, informed
Rddfiel l Proctor, Secretary of War, that ha
wonld be appointed to succaed Senator Edmunds
as Senator from Vermont.
President Harrison* journeyed from
Saratoga, N. Y., to St. Albans, Vt.; he
made eight speeches in the courss of the
trip.
The National Convention of the Daughters
of Liberty was held at Water bury,
Conn. A membership of over nine thousand
persons was reported.
South and West.
The American Wheel Company of Chicago.
II!., has been declared insolvent. The
assets are #4,105,000 anl the liabilities il,300,000.
Two masked robbers held up a freight
train near Kansas City, and, at'ter robbing
the conductor, shot the brakeman dead.
Edward Blair was hanged at Columbus,
Ohio, for the murder of Arthur Henry.
George Hamilton, of Ironton, Ohio,
went out with his wife to make a call, ana
when they returned home they found their
three children, aged respectively eight, four
md two years, smothered to death in a large
tool chest.
Charleb Hawki.vs, the murderer of a
City Marshal Dan Bruce, was taken from
the jail at Shelby ville, Ind., and lynched.
Chandler Brothers, savings bankers,
real estate and insurance a jants at Montgomery,
Ala., have assigned, with assets of
ibout $90,000; liabilities about fc>S,0j0.
aifpt.r^ Behrwald was shot deal
by her brother, Albart Zinkio, at thachristsning
of her child in Chicago, 111. The bullet
was intended for her husband.
James Wells and son were cau;ht out ia
a rain storm at Petersburg, Va., and sought
shelter in a barn. They had been in the
barn but a short time bafora the buildin*
was struck by lightning, and both of them
were killed.
Killing frosts have fallen in the Northwest.
A party of fifteen white men wearing
masks descended upon three Chinese gardenars
living near Missoula, Montana, looted
their cabin, destroyed the structure, broke
ill the furniture, cut off their queues and
maltreated two of the Chinamen in a terrible
manner.
Andy Ford, colored, and a companion of
Harmon Murray, the desperado who was recently
killed, was lynched at Oak Grove,
Fla.
Will Lewis, colored, aged eighteen years,
was taken from the calaboose at Tallahoma,
lean., by eight masked men, and hanged tc
i tree. Lewis was a druuken rowdy.
The town of Charleston, Ark., has been
burned. Total loss $50,000. The court house
ecords ware destro3'ed. At Moody, Texas,
i disastrous fire occurred, destroying hall
he business portion of the town, including thi
) istolDce. The fire was the work of an insendiary.
Near Nicbolasville, Ky.. a special engine
an down and killed Mrs. Mary Richardson
ind two children, aged eight and six.
Washington.
Secretary Noble has returned to Was'jnzton
from his summar vacation in the
Adirondack Mountains.
It is said that ths British and United States
governments will subscribe $1,500,000 to
?mplete the buUding of the Chiguecto Ship
Railway. The British Government win turlish
two-thirds of the amount.
Before the American Association for the
Advancement of Science at Washington
Professor Riley real a pao?r entitle 1, 'The
Grasshopper Outlook." He says there is no
onger any danger of serious injury to the
Tops by them this fall.
The Bureau of American Republics at
-Vashington is informed that the total cuaoms
receipts in Brazil for the first six
nonths of 1891 were $18,119,1>39, as compared
vith ?U?,531,361 durin; the first half of 1399.
The internal revenue receipts amounted to
!5,G32,i32, as compared with $3,531,831 a
rear ago.
Secretary Noblk has instructed the
>mmissioner of Indian Affairs to direct
t Bennett, of the Union Indian Agency,
*ndmn Territory, to seize all packages
->t may be shipped into the Indian
ved at the War Department
w that the carriage for
ch-loa.ling rifle?the
hicta has been on
N'. J.) proving
ctory test,
"onstruc*
it
aS
I repolice
.0 in tho
iley Falls,
thoroughly
jas captured
jw resting at
.z, an Austrian
that th9 boiler of
the Danube Company's steamsr Apostag exploded,
kiilin? live parsons and seriously injuring
two other?.
Thk Peruvian Cabinet has resigned, the
| Ministers having refus3d to answer the Senj
ate's interpellations in regard to the atj
tempted revolt of December 3. A new Ministry
has been formed.
An* explosion took place at a colliery near
Merthyr Tydvil, Wale?. Two persons lost
their lives by being suffocated in the
mine.
Eagle Star,the Sioux chief with Buffalo
Bill's show, died from lockjaw at Sheffield,
England.
Kews has been received of a hurricane in
Senegal, in which an Italian steamer and
two cutters were wrecked at Rufisque and
eighteen" persons were drowned.
The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from
an English port for Drontheim, caught flre
and was burned to the water's edge when
near Bergen. Eight of her crew were
drowned. Seven were saved.
Extensive floods are reported in "Westmoreland
County, England.
/ LATER NEWS.
The American Bar Association met in
Boston, Mass.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionist?, in convention
at Harrisburg, nominated W. \V.
Hague for Auditor General and George
Drayton for State Treasurer
The Mayor and City Council of Altoona,
Penn., were arrested on complaint of the
City School Board for refusing to do away
with a sewage nuisance.
The body of Herbert Mapes, the Columbia
College athlete, who was drowned while
bathing at Fire Island, off New Jersey a few
days ago, was discovered in the surf at
"Water Island, eight miles east of the Surf
Hotel.
President Harrison spent the night at
the house of ex-Governor Smith in St. Albans,
Vt. Next day he addressed great audiences
at Richmond, , Waterbury, Montpelier,
Plainfleld and St. Johnsbury, Vt.; al
Montpelier he spoke in the Capitol to the
members of tho State Legislature.
The search for bodies in tho ruined building
in Park place, New York City, was
ended, sixty-one corpses having been recovered.
Of these, fifteen are unidentified.
Secretary Tracy witnessed tho fleet
manoeuvres of the North Atlantic Squadron
I and the Sauadron of Evolution off Bar Har
j bor. Me.
The oyster polica forca has bean organI
ized into the Maryland Naval Militia. LieuJ
tenant H. G. 0. Colby, details! by tho S02*
; retary of the Navy, nasistei in deciding
upon a plan of formation. There are about
120 men in the oyster police force.
A pretty fifteen-year-old girl, Claudia
Morson, daughter of a prominent mine operator,
of Birmingham, Al9., want bathing
atBlossburg. When s'ae reached the deep
water she was seizsl with cramp. Sallie,
her sir teen-year-old sister, sprang in to her
rescue. They clasped each other aud sank
j together. They never rose again.
The Fifth International Geological Conj
gress met in Washington.
The Canadian census returns show that
; the population is in the vicinity of 4,930,000.
Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, the Northwest
Territories and British Columbia show
' ?~Kiif Prinna T.r?
I UUtllUi easts vi (Ju^uianuu, i/uv ^nuw
ward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec ara
[ about stationary. Montreal ranks as the
' first city in Canada, with a population of
! nearly 230,000.
The Ministry of Saxony has r^eoreed that
j drunkenness shall ba considera J a criminal
! offense.
I The only surviving officer of the battle of
"Waterloo, General Whichcote, disi on a
. recant day in London.
A tremendous hurricane prevailed
throughout Great Britain all night. Serious
damage was done in England and Ireland
| by the storm.
Robert W. Carpenter, Trial Justice
[ lawyer and Chief of the Fire Department of
, Foxboro, Mass., has disappeared, charged
with embezzlement and malfeasance in ofI
fice.
! Samuel Clarke Fomeroy, formerly
United States Senator from Kansas, died a
few days ago, at Whitensville, Mas?. He
was born in Southampton, Mass., January 3,
1616.
President Harri30x made an address at
i the fair of the Vermont Association of Road
J and Trotting Horse Breeders at White River
' Junction.
F. W. Vanderbilt's imported yacht Con;
queror has been seizel by Federal officers In
; New York Harbor for customs duties esti;
mated at $35,09'\
Washouts have cut off communication
with Milledgeville, Ga., by rail and have
1 1 _ j ? 1 Art nrn
L'BUM'U a uauiugc ui ciw,vuu.
Emissaries of the ''home seekers" angered
at th<? Government's permission to the
| Cherokees to hold cattle in the Cherokeo
j strip, Indian Territory, have already begun
; to burn the grass on the strip.
j The sailors on the United States steamer
I Pensacola, now at San Francisco and orI
dered to China, say the vessel is unseaworthy.
Twenty-ei^ht have deserted,
j The Maryland Republican Stato Convention
met at Ocean City and nominate 1 Willn
G. Vannort for Governor.
Treasury Department has recognized
as Consnl-Gennral of Salvador
' 'emic in Teguecigalpa,
i od pirates are
* Wenchow,
">untry
cold
jurnei
1 hospi "
,d, women
the miscre.a
is 4,823,334, an
m ten years.
itorm swept over the
cria. Lightning struck
i. Thre3 women were
hunting party was struck
i3 msmbsr of tli9 party was
_(Ot.
iY "PLAYED JAIL,"
Smothered Three Children in n
Little Iron lJo.x.
x'iie mystery surrounding the recent tragdy
in whic'.i tin chilireu of Mr. and Mrs. |
Gejivu iiauiilioD, of Ironton, Ohio, were I
found s !:oth.j:v I to ?io:ith in a chest in j
whi.h they had been fastened has been |
cleared up.
"William TTarnick, h playmate of the j
Hamilton children, admitted" to his mother !
! that Kirche Gurliche and a boy named Peuiberton,
together with himself, while "play- !
ing jail," locked the children in the chest, ]
and being called to supper shortly afterward I
i forgot to let them out.
When told that Warnick had confessed the
boys told the same story. The mothers of
the children are crazed with grief, but it is
not likely anything will be done in the matter
as cone of the boys is over eight years
old.
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EURLED FROM A BRIDGE.
i t? rr :.. T?11 ? T?w?li + \
A raissen^er i rum r mn
J&et Into a Creek.
Over a Score Killed and Man;v
Seriously Injured.
A dispatch from Statesville, N. C., says
The most terrible railroad disaster that
has ever happened in North Carolina occurred
on a recent morning at Boston's
Bridge, which crosses Third Cre?k,two miles
west of this place.
The westbound passenger train on the
Western North Carolina Railroad cNo. 0),
which had passed Statesville on time (at 1:42
A. St.), was hurled from the bridge, a distance
of about 100 feet, the engine, tender,
baggage and second-class car, the first-class
coacn, the Pullman car and the private car
of Superintendent Bridge all going down into
the creek. "
The train was composed of a baggage and
mail car, second and first class coaches. Pull
man sleeper, and Superintendent Bridge's
private car. Daisy. Tne sleeper, which was
from Goldsboro, usually contains a good
number of passengers from Northern points,
and last night was no exception.
The run to Statesville was made on time, a
distance of twenty-five miles, but just afStntpsville
there is a high
stone bridge spaning Third Creek, and
down into this creek plunged tho
entire train, a distance of at least
sixty-five feet, wrecking the whole train and
carrying death and destruction with it.
Twenty passengers were killed outright,
J nine seriously injured, and about twenty
ba4Jy bruised and shaken up.
The scene at the wreck was awful. The
night was dismal, and to add to the horror
of the situation, the water in the creek was
I up. It was only through the heroic efforts
or those who had hurried to the scene of
the wreck that the injured were not
drowned.
The accident was caused by the spreading
oi the rails. The bridge was not Injured ana
trains are running on schedule time. Twenty
dead bodies are now lying in a warehouse at
Statesvllle. Tho injured are having the best
of care at private houses and hotels.
A drummer named George Brawley, from
Atlanta, and one or two other passengers
who made their way from the wreck alive,
came to town and gave the news of the disaster.
The town was soon aroused and
citizens and vehicles hastened to the scene of
the wreck and began the work of rescue.
* 3 frnm f-.hA I
Some of the passengers uuu udkioim v>- --- f
car windows, and were perched on the tops.
The cars were cut open, and as many of the
passengers as could be found were dragged
out dead, dying and som9 alive and others
mortally injured.
By davllght 2000 people were on the
ground. The dead and injured wore brought
to town, the injured comfortably quartered
at the hotel and private house?, where they
could receive medical aid. The dead were
laid side by side In a long row on the floor
of a large tobacco warehouse, where the
bodies were identified and tagged.
It was impossible to say on the morning
after the acident how many were killed and
drowned. Up to twenty-nve minutes past
five o'clock twenty dead bodie3 had been
taken from the wreck and the second class
car had not been reached, which is partially
under the water. Twenty-five is not an
overestimate of the number killed.
Dr. Sikes, who was killed, had just been
assigned to missionary work in China, an 1
was to have left for that country on September
26 next. He was married.
The Moores, who were killed, are prominent
in literary and social circles, and are
well known throughout the South. They
were returning from a summering in the
Blue Mountains.
The train fell from the north side of the
track. The engine lies on the embankment j
on the west side of the creeK, tne nnst uiuno
car on top of the second class and Superintendent
Bridge's car partially covers the
slsdpor.
It is supposed that as tho engine was running
forty miles an hour on down grade, it
struck the bridge and the rails spread. Tht
ends of the ties are rotten at the approach. |
and this was probably the causa of the acci- .
dent.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Indian atolis talks of a labor hall.
New York has 60,000 night workers.
The flint glass workers have $500,000.
New York has an Italian cloak-makers'
tin ion.
London button-hole makers get thirty-five i
cents a day.
The English Trades Union Congress has |
!"00,00') member?.
New York union laundry workers want j
the Chinese boycotted.
Only one person in four in London earns
more thau to per week.
New York letter-carriers want to be re- ;
tired on half pay after twenty years' service. '
A State convention of typographical |
unions is to be held at Syracuse NT Y., on
October G.
The co-operative foundry at Somerset,
Mas.-., has failed after an existence of twenty
four years.
Missouri employers are obsci ving tha
law compelling the payment of wages every
two weeks.
There are at present over 1*30") papers in
this county devoted to the Labor and the
Farmers' movement.
The receipts on the street cars in New
York City average about $-0 per day, while
the actual cost is about $!).
Municipal markets where meat is for sa'?
at cost to the citizens having paid up their
taxes for the year have bean established at
San Cristobal" and Tres Equinas, Argentine
Republic.
The Brotherhood of Machinists,comprising
branches in Pittsburg and Beaver Falls,
Peon., and Youngstown, Ohio,have amalgamated
with tha International Association o?
Machinists.
Out of 1*45 strikes in England last year,
in whicb 344,54<i people tooK pare, 4if> wero i
successful, 207 were failures and ninety-four j
were undecided. The average duration of
strikes was eighteen days.
At the thirteenth congress of the New Jersey
Federation of Trades, held in Patersou, ft
resolution to petition the Legislature to appropriate
an additional $'2000 per year to the
State Labor bill for th? purpose of securing
more definite statistics, and various recommendations
were adopted.
Wood-vorki.vg machines hav>3 caused
twenty-six fatal accidents in Ohio last year,
while 159 persons were disabled by machines,
causing a total loss of wages of $10,8*2 ?.25.
The report of the State Factory Inspector
says that wood-working machines are more
dangerous to life and limbs of workmen than
uuy other machine-.
Statistical comparisons show that wages
are independent of the form of government.
Mexico, a Republic, Malta and Coylou, un- I
der British rule, Algiers and Tunis, French
dependencies, pay less than Russia or Spain !
The Anglo-Saxon pays more than the German,
the German more than the Latiu, the
Latiu more than the Semitic and the Semitic
oiore than the Malay and Mongolian. The
highest average wages are paid In the Australian
colonies, and the highest iu the United
States at San Francisco.
REVENGE OF A SWITCHMAN.
He Wrecks a Passenger Train in Bo- j
hernia, Killing: Twelve Persons. j
At Bubsntsch, Bohemia, a passenger and :
a freight train collided. Twelve persons
were killel and many in- I
jured in the wreck. Tho stiashun was
caused by a Czech switchman, who had recently
had a (luarrel with the engineer of the
passenger train, and took this method of revenging
himself for an alleged insult.
The switchman was arrested, and but for
strong police protection would have been
lynched by the indignant villagers and passengers.
Tex Chinamen were arrested on Whidby
Island, near Port Townsend, Washington,
and taken before a United States Commissioner,
who ordered them returned to China.
The Chinamen were found scattered about
the Island, working on farina leased by ChiBesa
formers.
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WOELD'S FAIR NOTES.
More than #5,000,000 of Exposition wort
Is now contracted for and is in progress.
Massachusetts will devote $10,000 to Its
educational exhibit. The State's entire ap- L
propriation is $75,000.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has decided to
make an extensive exhibit, and a request for
space has been cabled. ry
Guatemala has appropriated $100,000 in
gold for its exhibit at the Exposition, and
120,000 additional for its building.
LiETTEks recaivea oy 1110 tianu-.-imenuaa
Department of the Exposition indicate t'aat
Mexican women will take a prominent plac.3 C
at tiie World's Fair. y
The Art Department has issued a strong
circular urging every architect in the United
States to personally assist in tha exhibit of 51
American arcbi.. jture. a
It is reported that the Princ3 of Wales,
Emperor William of Germany, and tha Shah "V
of Persia all seriously contemplate visiting s-i
the World's Pair in 1893. ti
A movement has been inaugurated by the ?
Sons of the Revolution in New York to have
October 12th celebrated throughout the ^
world each year as "Discovery Day." ^
The iffi'napers of the great naval exhibi- P
tion at onelsefi, England, have consented to w
allow the model of Nelson's ship, the Victory,
to be transferred to ,the Columbian Exposition.
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The flO.OQD painting of Christopher 0
Columbus, executed by the famous Moro in
15-10, and purchased in London by Charles P. p
G-unt'jer, nas arrived at the Custom House ]<
in Chicago, and will be displayed at the i:
Fair.
The photographers of the country want a tl
crartofatn Viuilrlincr ot. fchn ErnnciUnn Jlrfftnted tl
to a magnificent photographic exhibit col- f<
iected from the whole world. A committee tl
has been appointed to confer with the Ex- fo
position officials upon the subject. ti
The effort to have a trib9 of African pig- tl
mies exhibited at the Exposition is pretty r
certain to succeed. Tippoo Tib has giveu his b
consent and the consent of the King of Bel- &
gium, which also is necessary, can easily be t;
obtains i, it is believed, through tha State D
Department. &
The Territorial Convention of the Liberal !!
Party in Utah has vct9d to request the Legislature
to appropriate not less than ?100,050
for the Territory's representation at the
Exposition. It is reported that the Democratic
and Republican conventions are cer- _
tain to take similar action. J
Lieutenant H. R. Lemly, the Special
Commissioner of the Exposition at Colombia,
writes that a typical orchestra from j
that country, consisting of ten musicians,
playing their native instruments, which are c
unlike those of any other people, has been p
organized. It will appear at Chicago dur
Ing the Exposition in connection with the ?
exhibit from the Republic of Colombia. '
The Exposition European Commission, ?
embracing Messrs. Buttsrworthj Handy, i
Bullock,* Lindsay and Peck, is receiving ?
very marked attention in European capitals r
and other cities, and everywhere exceptional
courtesies have been extended. The Com- 1
mission is doing a wonaerrui amount ui *
to the Exposition inarousing interest abroad
and insuring extensive participation by
foreign nations.
Chief1 Fear:* has received a letter from
Consul-General Frank Mason, at Frankforton-Main.
He says he has recently
visited the old town St. Die, in
France, where was published the
the "Cosmographia Introductio," the book
which gave America its name. He says he is
collecting rare manuscripts in relation
to the discovery of America and other
valuable relics and will show them at the
Exposition.
Eugene and Faul Champion, of Neuillysur-Seine,
France, have proposed a series of
electrical fireworks for ttie Exposition.
Neither gunpowder, dynamite, nor other explosive
material is used in producing the
dazzling effects. An operator sits at an instrument
something like a piano and by
manipulation of the keys produces designs
of the most gorgeous fashion. The whole machine
is run by electricity.
The military feature of the dedication
ceremonies ot is 10 do ?u impuut ,
one. Probably 10,000 soldiers will partici- <
pate, and those of the National Guard who ,
will have the honor to take part will be
crack companies from the different States? ]
those that have shown that they excel in j
discipline, marching and drill. (Competitive (
drills to determine which companies shall ,
take part in the great event will probably be j
instituted in every State having a National j
Guard.
Lieutenant W. E. Safforo, U. S. N.,
Special Commissioner of the World's Fair to
Peru and Bolivia, has secured for the LatinAmerican
department of the Exposition five
samples of the ceremonial dresses of the !
Jiberos and Zaparros Indians. One of the
Jiberos costumes is reported to surpass any
of the dresses of savage tribes yet discovered^
honnf.v and loveiv contrasts Of [
IUSw6w^ J
colors. The two Zaparros costumes are ,
woven of human hair, and are ornamented
with geometrical desigus. I
No sideshows are to be permitted within I
the Exposition grounds. The Directory has
decided that the entrance fee shall entitle the I
visitor to see every thing within the enclos- i
ure. There will be, however, several theatres
built and kept running, at which the finest i
talent in the world, it is expected, will ap- I
pear, and visitors who choose to attend the i
performances will have to pay an admission
fee. Such sights as "A Street in Cairo," will I
be free, but natives of oriental countries in a I
few cases will be allowed to charge a small I
fee to special performances of a theatrical I
nature. I
Manj interesting relics from San Do- '
mingo, where Columbus landed, have been '
received by the Washington office of the for- J
eign affairs department of the Exposition. ;
The most valuable of these relics and the j
most interesting, perhaps, is the first church '
bell that ever rang out in the New World.
It was presented to the colonists of the first '
settlement of San Domingo by Queen Isa- f
bella in appreciation of the fact that the '
first settlement bora her name. There is ,
also an exact reproduction of the cross 1
which Columbus raised immediately upon |
landing. The material of the cross is the
same exactly as that which Columbus nailed 1
up, having been taken from the wood of a c
hnilrHnor erected in 1509.
STARTED OUT TO KILL.
Two Wen Slain and One Wounded bj j
a Father and Pour Sons.
Milton Kendall and his four sons?George,
Lamar, Popsey and Milton?went into
Georgetown, Ky., on a recent morning for
the purpose of killing their nearest -|
neighbors, John James and Burrill James.
They succeeded in killing John, mortally
wounding Burrill, at the fame tinia killing i
John A. Montgomery, Coroner of Scott ,
County. t
The Kendalls went tint morning to the .
house of widow James, which is six miles
from Georgetown and within half a mile of
their own. They accused Burrill James of ?
having robbed their watermelon patch and .
said they intended killing the entire James
family. As they wero armed the Jarues boys .
ran away. John James swore out warrants
for the Kendalls and they were arrested but
gave bail to appear that day for trial.
On the trial morning the James boys ar- >
rived in Georgetown first. About 10.30
o'clock John James went to a barber shop ,
where he had left his riflo and secured the
weapon. As he stepped out the door young f
Milton Kendall, who was standing .
within thirty feet, shot him through j
the right lung. He was carrie 1 into a back j
room whither Milton and George Kendall ' ,
tried to follow bun for the purpose of finishing
him. The barbers bosrged them not r
to shoot any more an i they left. <.
Burrill James had in the mean time run k
into John Montgomery's hardware store to
get a gun, but old man Kendall saw him,
und fired, killing Mr. Montgomery.
Overtaking Burrill James at the back
door, the elder Kendall fatally shot him with "
his pistol immediately over the heart. He
then joined his sons near the Court Ilou.-e, I
and together they defie 1 arrest for half an j
hour, finally giving up their arms an i going i o
to jail. i i
All the parlies are well connected Old I
man Kendall has been a magistrate, and was
for years Chairman of the Democratic Com- ! 5
mittee of Scott County. ! v
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In* big trees the new State of Washing to.\ Ij
is quite rich. A Seattle paper mentions a ,
fir in Sumas which is eight and one-half feet '
in diameter. Near Stanwood there is a
cedar seventeen feet in diameter, thirtv a
three feet from the roots and twelve feet it) 8
diameter 112 feet from the roots. Nooksack '
reports a fir twelve feet in diameter. 1 8
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CHILEAN CARNAGE. ; 1
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tlooily Lattle Between Govern
meat Troops and Kebeis.
'he Insurgents Repulsed After
Losing 3000 Men,
Details were received of the fight between
ongressional ami Government forces near
alparaiso, Chili.
A dispatch from Valparaiso Fays: The inlrgents
succeeded in landing 10,00.) soldiers
t the Bay of Quintero, north of Valparaiso,
'herethey started alon? the shore toward
'alparaiso uuier the protection of
x of their men-of-war an I eight armed
-ansporw, bfsido.s all the boats of their
=et provided witn mitrailleuses, end^avorig
to surprise the city by a rear attack.
l Government forcd of 5000 men
as immediately detached from Valaraiso
and succeeded ia delaying the crossig
of the Aconcagua River near its moatb,
diile a sufficient number of troop3 were
loving by rail to protect Valparaiso and opose
the insurgents by at least 15,000, witha"1
rospectjpf a further increase of forces from
the? quartefcr""*-ST: '^ctrgSg
The Government forces succeeded in stop- I
ing the insurgents for forty hours, with "a
jss to the enemy of about 30i)0 of their
est men, r.otwithstan ling the fire of
Se insurgent fleat, besides that of
ae land force. This operation enabled *!
be Government to select the best positions
jr their 12,000 arriving troop3, although
disadvantage coit the loss of half the earner
of the division of 5000 men which conjsted
the march of the rebels and
heir crossing the Aconcagua River. The
ebel fleet has been kept at bay
y the fire of Fort Anles, and the insurgent
Drees are deprived of the expected proteclon
of their men-of-war, while the Governlent
forces are constantly receiving reinDrcements
from the interior. Now the
ebel forces will be without any possible way
f retreat.
DAMAGE BY FLOODS.
3ridfjes, Dams and Tracks Swept
Away in Pennsylvania,
Great damage was done to property in
'ennsylvania by a storm, and much fear waa
ccasioned, but fortunately no lives were retorted
lost.
Conternation reigned at the Bowman;:Evangelical
Camp Meeting near Mohravilla,
5enn. Lightning struck a number of trees;
ind some of them falling came dangerously
lear crashing upon tents. A regular stream
>f water rushed through the woods and car
led away beddiag and furnitureNear
WernersviJle, Penn., on the Lebanon
/alley branch of the Reading Railroad, just
ifter the engine of a freight train pawed
>ver a culvert in safety, the culvert was
vashed away and tde entire train of ten
?rs plunged into the culvert and were car*
ied off. August Kohn, a tramp stealing
ide, had a leg broken and his arm injured;
Dver one-third of a mile of track was
vashed away.
Another culvert at Fritztown, Penn., on
;he Reading and Columbia Railroad,between
rleading and Lancaster, was washed away.
At Mohrsville, Penn., eight dams, each
lalf an acre to an acre in extent, were
vashed away and the hat factories ana mills
vill be unable to resume until the dams?
jreasts have been rebuilt.
rn' ' J?? ?? 3 ninxn AP Paarlintv
aae unuge auu iiucn uiius ul wb
ind Southwestern Railroad Company at
Sendelton, Penn., were carried away, and a
nile of its track belonging to Daniel Riege),
Fobn Mogle and Wiluam P. Koller, were
lestroyed Dy lightning. The loss is 110,000.
The breast of the big dam at the Robesolia
furnace, which furnishes RobesonlaPenn.,
with water, broke and gardens
fences, vegetables gardens and roads were
ill washed out and trees uprooted. Over
iOO feet of the Reading Railroad Company's
track noar Robesonia Station was carried
iway.
The storm in Northern Lancaster County,
Penn., was the heaviest in fixty years.
Seven bridges, a number of buildings, sheds
md fences were washed away and many
lattle were drowned. At Millway an immense
oil tank was carried 100 feet. Half a
mile of track of the Reading and Columbia
Railroad at Denver was washed away.
PEASANTS STARVING,
Many Russians Compelled to Eftt
Grass aud Leaves.
The PriDce of Wales is taking great inter*
ist in the matter of the persecution of the
Hebrews in Russia, and in the condition of
;hose who are coming to England. The
Princess of "Wales is co-operating with him.
A clergyman living at present in theProvnee
cf Kazan, Russia, has written a letter
n which he gives a harrowing description ;
>f the sufferings of the unfortunate paasints
of that province, brought on by
;he failure of the crops. Large
lumbers of them, he says, are in an absolute
itate of starvation. Many have been unable
:o obtain bread for weeks, and in their efforts
to sustain life they have been compelled
o eat grass and leaves. In one of the vilages
of the province, consisting of 140 houses
he clergyman visnea an cue neasauw. uno
vera found sixteen persons in a terri-,
>ly emaciated condition, and slowly,
ind painfully dying from starva.ion.
Of all tho rtsidents of the houses
>nly twenty were fouDd eating ordinary
ood in a quantity sufficient to keep them
illve. In other villages there was a similar
itate of destitution and distress. In all of
hem numbers of persons were found eithar
Jead or dying from starvation.
There is no immediate prospect of any
>etterment In the condition of tne peasantry,
ind it is feared that, driven on by the pangs
>f hunger, they will attempt to gain food
>y any means, lawful or unlawful. There Is
avnitamaiit throuarhout the province
imong the poorer classes, and an outbreak
nay occur at any time. H
DUEL IN A CAE. 1
Bryant, a Train Robber, Killed by B
9Tarshal Short, Who Is Also Dead. I
Charles Bryant, one of the noted Dalton I
jang of train robbers, who was captured the B
jther day in the Cherokee Strip by Deputy B
[Jcitcd States Marshal Ed. Short, was shot I
ind killed by his captor after he had fatally B
vounded Snort. The duel occurred on a B
Rock Island train, on which Short had placed B
lis prisoner, intending to take him B
;o Wichita, Kan. He placed Bryant in the B
jaggage car, going outside to guard against B
uy attempt at rescue. Ho left a revolver B
vith the baggageman for protection. The B
mggageman laid the revolver down and B
Bryant soon secured it. B
As the train was slowing up at a station B
le opened the door of the car and immedi- B
itely began firing at Short, who wt s on the B
jlatform, a bullet going through Short's B
iody. Short returned the fire and gaveB
3ryant a death wound. Short was B
tlso mortally wounded, but both men B
:ept on firing until their weap*B
ms were emptied. Biyant was tneH
irsiman to drop, and he fell h9ad foremost M
lown tho steps. Short caught him by the H
eg and held him with his head almost touch- H
ng the ground. He called to the conductor, B
ind when ho got to him, he said: M
"1 have got him. Jim, and he has got me." H
The prisoner was dead when picked up, and H
Short died in ten minutes. K
DESPERATE CONVIOTS. I
riicy Seize a Train and Attempt toH
Escape?Two Killed. gfl
A desperate attempt to escape was made H
,ttho Walla Walla (Washington) Peniten-M
iary by convict.-'. A train load of material H
ras run into the brickyard, and aaH
oon ns it stopped several con-H
lets soiz'?d tho Warden of the prison, while H
tliers got into the locomotive cab. The en-H
ineer, however, reversed tho wheals andH
[itched t-he train, which frustrated the orig-H
nal piau of tho prisoners. H
The Warden was being hurried a way to H
mother gate by tho convicts when theH
;uards began shooting. The entire forceH
Inally came to the rescue of the Warden,
tnd after two convicts had been killed andH
mother wounded order was restored. B|