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' HALF A MILLION GONE.
The Ulster County (X. Y.) b
Sayings Bank Wrecked. ai
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Bobbed by the Treasurar and jVl
His Assistant. ?
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The Ulster County Savings Institution, of
JQngston, N. Y., has closed its doors and is
in charge of Bank Superintendent Charles M. ^
Preston. Expert examiners have been at Gj
work and have found that the enormons Y
nm of -S4G3,000 has been stolen by Treasurer
Ostrander and Matthew T. Trumphour, J?
Assistant Treasurer, and it is feared the .
ttealiDgs will exceed that amount.
Superintendent; Preston at midnight swore I
to a complaint charging Trumphour with j m
perjury in swearing to false statements con- tfc
wined in the July report of the bank to the
banking department, and Trumphour was re
arrested at his house by Chief of Police ra
Hood. He had his clothes packed and was
preparing to leave town. fQ
Ostrander was arrested about two weeks w
before for embezzling $75,000, and was un- ^
der bonds of $20,000. His bondsmen turned nc
him over to Sheriff Dill and he was also
locked up. When Ostrander was arrested rj!
there was a run on the bank for three days, yj
bnt the other banks came to it3 rescue and
the truste-.-s made a statement, showing that
there wa< a surplus of $247,000. P*
The feeling against the trustees who signed tt!
*h? statement is bitter in the extreme, and
Pari cer, Sharpe and the others are charac- ] of
i, terized as theives for making th9 depositors A
' believe the bank was solvent when they pi
ahoold have known its condition. Bi
In fact, the town went wild. Through the
treets to the bank rushed hundreds of ex- at
cited men and women.
Within half an hour from the time the t
notice on the doors had been read by the first I"
arly risers, there was a great surging crowd p
in front of the bank. f/
Men rushed about hatless and with faces z~
inflamed with passion, wildly gesticulating
and shaking their clinched fists at the closed
doors. Women stood among them, tears
streaming down their faces, adding their
heartrending cries to the noisy lamentations, gj
'* Gray old men, bent with age, hobbled jy
r, through the streets to find if the dreadful ^
news was as bad as reported, and fell pant- v
ing and exhausted upon the curbstones.
"Widows, whose every dollar was entrusted i ~
to the bank, read the" notice and swooned. j
Th?n, as the crowd grew thicker and the '
clamor became more violent, men threw I "
themselves against the barred doors ana at- "
tempted to batter them down. If they could
only get inside aiid roach the vaults they M
could easily get their deposits, they thought. b<
but jiist as they had gathered strength suf- I ?r
flcient to make a combined assault, Chief la
Hooi and a detail of police charged upon the m
throng and drove the enraged men and il
r wouien back from the doors and back down
? the street. 2
It was a pitiful spectacle, that procession (j
of sad-hearted men and women, driven to m
desperation by the loss of their savings and
fwe.mng vengeance against the men whom
they had trusted and who had betrayed them. ?
When they were told that Ostrauder and ^
Trumphour were under arrest and that they 77
were anown to have rob ed the bank of more
than $500,000, the crowd grew even more
violent and surged over towards the jail,
Jelling in their rage th3t they would drag D
Ihe miscreants out from their cells and tear sq
5.' them limb from limb. Ostrander and T;
Trumphour in their comforsable quar ters on oc
t ie top floor of the jail hear the cries that G
swelled in a mighty chorus frocn the streets b?
n-nrl KvwkJ of Sheriff Dill to strengthen the di
jail's de?enses. rt
Tho prisoners, however, were safe from
violence, for the Sheriff had taken the pre &
caution to place a strong guard at every as
entrance to the jail, and the police in the (i
treet did everything in their power to sub- hi
due the crowds ana keep them back from jn
the jail. re
The streets of Kingston were filled all day
with people, and depositors arrived on every ^
train and by all manner of vehicles. The
men and women wandered aimlessly about,
dnd occasionally some of the excited farmers 5,1
threatened to break into the bank building C
and get their money, while others suggested v
that a lynching party ba formed to hang Oj- cs
trauder and Trumohour.
Business was virtually suspended, and G
nothing else is talked about. The general fo
opinion for years was that the bank was as fa
solid as the rock of Gibraltar. A man fr
earned McAndrews, who has $7000 on de- bi
posit has developel symptoms of insanity pi
and it is feared that it will be necessary to >13
take him to an asylum.
The city officials, fearing that threats to de
burn the jail where Trumphour and Os- hi
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uouuci u ID V;juiiii-3U > ww ?,
summoned Chief En*inier Mooney, of the j,
FirS Department, who is now watching the ^
bank building and the Court House ana the ac
jail opoosite.
The "system adopted by Ostrander and
Trumphour?the latter being fully cognizant a*
of the steal and assisting in concealing it?
for the purpose of swindling the depositors
and hiding the theft,which grew by degrees, v<
was most. ingenious, and tor twenty years
; had baffled the skill of expert examiners in ?
the employ of the State. In carrying it out
deceit and perjury were frequently and
effectively employed.
Both Ostran ier and Trumphour hare been Jvj
extravagant and high livers. They feasted
, on the fat of the land at the expsnse of the
depositors. On all sides it Is asserted that Ci
wine, women and stock speculations have sa
i bee* their ruin. w
HIS DEBTORS KILLED HIM.
The Friends of a Usurer Slaughtered la
in China. 01
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A letter from Shanghai gives the details of is
a tragic and sensational occurrence in the C
northern province of China:
In the region known a* Tulnfaa, situated ^
In what is known as the New Territory,
ara'large numbers of Mohammedans, ^
native Chinese, who many years a^o adopted a
the Mohammedan faith. These people are p
numerous and powerful in the community, c|
but are said to be perfectly ignorant of the
principles of trade- A native, known as a
Shensi man, had for years conducted a
ort of banking house at Hupoo. He f<
had accumulated an immense for- tx
tone, making large sums by lend- M
ing money at usurious rates. Unfortunately
for him at the wrong time he pressed C
his debtors, who were alt Mohammedans p
with too much severity. They held a mass \
meeting and threatened him. This had no ii
effect, and finally a few weeks sines they
armed themselves, seized the usurer and put s
him to death in a most brutal manner. Witb e
him the mob killed no less than thirty-eight j
Chinese, who were followers and friends of ?
the Shensi man. The heads of the victims \
were afterward placed on bamboo poles an 1 t
exposed to view. J
A revolt was imminent, but was stopped T
by the Mohammedan chiefs, with the assistance
of imperial soldiers.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. ^
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J he Government Leader and First
Jj?:-d of Kngland'.s Treasury Dead. I
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The Right Hon. William Henry Smith, tl
First Lord of the Treasury, Warden of the n
Cinqr.e Ports and the Government leader in I
the House of Commons, who has been ill for
some time past, died in London, England, ?
on a recent noon. He was supposed to be
on the road to recovery, but nad a sudden c
relapse.
The Right Hon. William Henry Smith was b
the son of William Henry Smith, a book- P
seller, publisher and news agent of the
Strand, London. He was born in London ,
on June 24, 1825, and became, in course of F
time, a partner in his father's business. He .
was Financial Secretary of tbe Treasury from .
February, 1874, until August, 1877,
when he was appointed First Lood of the
Admiralty. He h-is twau Chief Secretary A
for Ireland and Secretary of State for War. 1
He was reoently oppoiuted Lord, Warden I ?
of the Clinque Ports, succeeding tfle Earl of b
Granville. ?
It is claimed for Albert Johnson of ?
Raleigh, N. C., that he is the oldest locomo- *
tive engineer in point of service in the country.
He bad charge of an engine on the
Richmond 6c Fredericksburgh Railroad e
way back in 1636, in the days of strap rails G
and "snakeheads." He is still a railroad p
employe, and can be seen in all kinds of *
weather in the yard at the Raleigh and Gas- ?
ton depot. 11
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
A. B. Turner & Brother, bankers at
oston, Mass., have failed. Their liabilities
e about $500,000.
Isaac Randall, of Syracuse, N. Y., and
is son were killed by a train at Fayetce
iuc?
Mrs. Grovkr Cleveland, wife of the exresident,
gave birth to a tine healthy girl
iby at the Cleveland residence in New York
ity.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, the well known pubsher
of New York, and William C. K.
Tilde, of London, England, one of the ediirs
of the London Telegram, and a brother
! Oscar, were united in marriage in New
ork City.
John L. Osmond killed his wife and failly
wounded his benefactor, John C.
invhill, at New York City, in a fit of
alous irenzy.
Militia were held in readiness to prevent
ob violence to Ostrander and Truinphour,
le Kingston (N. Y.) bank wreckers.
Hermann OELRicas, of New York City,
isigned from the National Democratic Comittee.
The Rev. George Cryer, aged seventyur,
died in his carriage in Bozrab, Conn.,
hile en route to read the burial service at
le burial of Mrs. Lucretia Mott. Persons
>ticed the horse ambling along and stopped
, The minister was seen sitting in the carage
with one hand holding the reins and
ie other holding his Bible.
The Phillipsburg (Penn.) Bank have sus>nded
payment. It was swept under by
ie Clearfield and Houtzdale bank failures.
The court martial of Lieutenant Farrow,
the Twenty-first Infantry, United States
rmy, for negotiating alleged fraudulent
omissory notes, was begun in the Army
iiilding, New York City.
A fire did 850,000 damage to dormatories
Vnln TTnJvnrsifctT' Nbw Haven. Conn.
William Canfield confessed to having:
rned the swith wnich wrecked the limited
ain on the Pennsylvania Railroad at New
ilestine, Penn., a few weeks ago, in which
iree men were killed. He attempted to
reck the train to plunder it.
South and West.
Owing to insufficient thrashing facilities,
!ty millions of North Dakota wheat are
ing in the shocks, upon which the rain
jured for twenty-four hours.
The Hon. Harvey Watterson, father of
enry Watterson, editor of the Courierournal,
died at the home of his son in Louville,
Ky. He was born at Beech Grove,
le family homestead, Bedford, Tenn., Noitnber
23, 1811.
The loss of the schooner Frank Perew, off
fhiteflsh Point, Lake Superior, with all on
sard, is conceded. The Perew was bound
om Marquette, Mich., with coal for Clevend.
She carried nine men and was comianded
by Captain J. Marquey, of Bay City,
!ich.
Near Walla Walla, Washington, Fritz
orn, a musican of the First United States
avalry, shot and killed his divorced wife,
iortally wounded his mother-in-law, ana
iot himself in the mouth four times.
City Justice Robert Wood, of East
rand Forks, Minn., was killed by two prossional
burglars whom he had arrested in
te act of robbing a liquor store and was
iking to the lock-up.
Forest fires raged for over a week in El
orado Countv. Col., and more than forty
[uare miles of country were burned over,
oe flames spread over Greenwood Creek
mntry and all the country to the west of
arden Valley, destroying many dwellings,
irn3, "hay, fence3 and thousands of acres of
:y feed. Many farmers and ranchers are
ndered homeless and penniless by the fire.
The bodies of Horace Hamlin and his
lughters, Rowena, aged eleven, and Helena,
jed thirteen, were found in Corpus Christi
exas) Bay. It is believed the father threw
s children into the bay and then plunged
i himself. He recently met with business
iverses.
Fire destroyed tha B. & 0. elevator at
ocust Point, Md. Loss, $600,090.
Owing to low water in the Ohio Rivar
ghteen steamboats went aground between
inciunati, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W.
a. Great loss and inconvenience ware
nised.
Twenty-five laborers of the Natural Gaompany,
at Andersou, Ind., were arrested
r trespassing. While they were at court
rrners with horses dragged the gas pipes
om the treuch?s and broke the pipes to
ts. At anothsr plase farmers blew out the
pfs, through which gas was flowing, with
rnamite.
Columbia Junction, Iowa, was np.irij
(Strayed by fire. Twenty-three business
>u*es were burnei.
Richard von Olinda, a blacksmitb.mur
;red his wife at Sacramento, Cal.,and thee
lied himself. His wife had left him 01
:count of cruel treatment.
Wall of the burned Van Camp building
; Indianapolis, Ind., fell, fatally injuring
iree firemen.
A six-year-old boy was literally de
>ured by hogs at Vincennes, Ind.
Fifty thousand people witnessed the
trade in honor of tne Veiled Prophet in
Louis, Mo.
The steamsr Chickasaw sank at Cat Islan i
r>ccinw cirtjisn milAs bnlow Menmhis. Tenn
le had 3SU bales of cotton on board. ,
The dead bodies of Deputy Sheriff Bill
astor and a bartender were found in Ghio's
,!oon at Arthur City, Texas. The men
ere shot in the back.
Washington.
The first payments of bounty under the
w giving a bounty of two cents per pound
i sugar produced in th? United State3 were
>ade at the Treasury Department, Washigton.
They were both in favor of the
hino Valley Sugar Company of Chino.Cal.,
a two claims for the production of 310,000
Dunds of beet sugar, and amounted to
>800.
The final session of the Irish National
eague Convention in Chicago, 111., adopted
platform only moderately against Mr.
arnell; M V. Gannon, of Omaha, was
iosen to succeed President Fitzgerald.
Three feet of snow fell in Montana.
Melbourne, rainmaker, is in a high
gather at Goodland, Kan. He contracted
> bring about a half-inch rainfall. There
ras a good shower that night.
The President has appointed Lieutenant
Jolonel Charles T. Alexander Chief Medical
'urveyor of the Army, to succeed Colonel
rollum, lately retired. This position isiiext
a importance to that of Surgeon General.
The Census Bureau from Washington isued
a bulletin which shows that the real
stato mortgage debt in force in Illinois
anuary 1, 1880, was 1383,299,260, of which
165,289,222, or 43.01 per cent, of the total
eas on acre tracts, and 1219,010,038, or 50.91!
>er cent., was on village and city lots. The
lebt of Cook County, containing Chicago,
vas $191,518,209.
Though the present term of Commodon
lelvflle as Kngineer in Chief of the Navy
rill not expire until next January, Secretary
racv has already announced that Commoore
Melville will succeed himself.
Mrs. Harrison, accompanied by Russell
t. Harrison and Mrs. Cheney, wife of exrovernor
Cheney, of New Hampshire, reurned
to Washington. Mrs. Harrison was
let at the station by the President and
lieutenant Parker.
M. Roustan, the French Minister at
Vashington, who was recently recalled by
is Government, presented his letters of reall
to President Harrison.
The revenue cutter Rush has been ordered
ack to Behring Sea by the Treasury Department.
The United f-r-ttes Treasury reports that
lie total bonded debt of the District of Co
imbia on September 30 was $19,133,400, beig
a net reduction of $2,973,250 since July
, 1678.
N. O. Murphy, the acting Governor of
irizona Territory, in his annual report to
tie Secretary of the Interior, expresses the
pinion that the population ot the Territory
efore the end of the present fiscal year will
each 70.000 people, 12,000 of whom are
lormons. The total valuation of the taxbie
property he believes will reach near
70,000,000.
German Day was celebrated with great
nthusiasm by the citizens of Washington of
rerman birth and decent. The parade
assed through the White House grounds,
rhere it was reviewed bv the President and
lecretaries Proctor and Rusk.
Pbofzssor Frank H. Biqei/jsy, at ona
time Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy
in Racine College, bas been appointed
Professor in the United States
Weather Bureau at Washington.
Foreign.
The Russian custon officials will giva
twenty-one per cent, of their salaries for the
relief of famine sufferers.
Thkbb was a serious disturbance in Rome,
Italy, started by disrespectful acts of a pvfc7
of French pilgrims at Victor Emmanuel's
tomb.
The island of Tanna bos bean visited 07 a 1
hurricane and devastated by a civil war.
Fierce fighting i3 now going on, and two
villages have been wiped out of existence.
In the midst of the fighting came the hurricane.
The German ship J. W. Gildemersten
was wrecked in Dianirua Bay. The
cutter Hilda was driven ashore, and a canoe
containing nineteen natives was lost.
Isaac Newton, Fifth Earl of Portsmouth,
expired suddenly at London, England.
The cause of death was the bursting
of a blood vessel He was born in 1825.
The British agents in Bebring Sfa report
that there are millions of seals on the breeding
islands.
Boclanger was buried at Brussels, Belgium,
amid scenes of great excitement.
The British bark Santona has been wrecked
at Matanzas. The captain and fifteen of the
crew were drowned.
A fire on Mark Brown's wharf, Tooley
street, London, England, destroyed $2,501),000
worth of property.
Advices from Massowah say that the
forces of Generals Ras Afula and Degiac
Manpaacia have successfully made a combined
attack on the forces of Debeb, the
third aspirant to the Abyssinian throne. The
battle was fought near Ambagarima. Debe
u was killed and his army totally routed.
By the collapse of a cage at the Heydeschbacht
pit near Waldenburg, Silesia, ten
miners were killed and a number injured.
The famine in Poland is growing worse.
Workmen paraded the streets of Zawirke
: and looted the bakers' shops and other piacas
where eatables were to be obtained. Troops
were summoned to the scene, and fired upon
the mob, killing one workman and wounding
many others.
A fierce gale raged in the Irish Sea. and
much damage was done to shipping.
later'news.
Tee tugboat McCaldin Brothers was run
into by another tug, supposed to be the Ice
King, off Fort Montgomery, N. Y? ou the
Hudson River, and two lives were lost.
Extensive forest fires raged in the timber
land in Somerset County, Me. Much damage
resulted.
Expert Accountant William P. Rogkrs
has found a deficit of ?21,000 in the ac]
counts of ex-County Treasurer Morgan, of
| Towson, Md.
A two-story frame building was destroyed
by fire at Wilber, Washington, and
Mrs. Wagner and her two children, who live,',
in an upper story, were burned to death.
Another child was fatally burned.
The bronze statue of General Grant was
unveiled in Lincoln Park at Chicago iu tha
presence of nearly a hundre 1 thousand persons.
Mrs. Grant was among the guests.
The Ecumenical Methodist Council opened
its session at Washington with delegates
present from many foreign countries.
Sir John Pope Hekn-essv, who defeated
Parnell'$ candidate for Parliament in the
recent cohtest in North Kilkenny, died suddenly
at Queenstown, Ireland.
The Russian Government.has spent $10,000,000
in buying seed-corn for the peasants
in the famine-stricken districts.
A cablegram announced the death in
Amoy, China, of Bishop William J. Boono,
the Episcopal Bishop of China. He was
fifty-six years of age and leaves a wife in
I On nfna Krten in P.hina
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THE ARMY'S HEALTH.
I Efficiency of the Hospital Corps and
Effect ot the Canteen.
Surgeon-General Sutherland has made his
annual report to the Secretary of War. He
says that an aggregate reduction of $100,000
will be made in the estimates of appropriations
for the next fiscal year. The report
speaks of the efficiency of the hospital corps
as shown during the Sioux campaign; urges
tho necessity of offering inducements
to enlisted men to enter its
ranks, and suggests that $6 a
month be added to the pay of the privates
in the corps. Good results are said to have
followed the adoption of the new system of
identification of deserters, based on records
of permaneut marks and scars. The report
shows that, while the number of sick reports
was larger than during the previous
year, the number of men constantly
sick?42.71 a thousand?compares favorably
with 44.12 in the previous year. The cases
I of treatment of alcoholism numbered 40.73
a thousand for the army, as against 41.43 in
1889. and 56.68 the averge during the previous
decade. A great improv anient in the
diet of the men has been made. The Surgeon-General
says that tho canteen has relieved
military jposts of one-third of the
cases of alcoholism. In conclusion it is
strongly recommended that at eacti post
there be established a systematic course
of athletic exorcise?.
AMEEIOAN BOAT SEIZED.
The J. Hamilton Lewis Resists a Russian
Man-ol-War.
News has just been rec?ived that tlie
American sealing schooner J. Hamilton
Lewis has been seized by the Russians fop
coaching about Copper Island, and Captain
McLean and his crew of twenty-five Americans
carried to Vladivostock for trial.
The Lewis and two other schooner* were observed
cruising off Copper Islaud. The Russian
man-of-war Alert shadowed them, and
finally caught the Lewis raiding the rookeries ,
on Behring Island, one of Russia's posses- '
sions. The American schooner was brought
to by a shot which lodged in ner
hull. When ti'.e Captain of the Lewis was
ordered to come aboard the Alert ho took
with him all of his crew, and a free fight ensued
on the man-of-war. The Americans were
i finally overpowered and sent under guard on
1 a passenger steamer to Vladivostock. The
> seized schooner was taken there by a
i prize crew. The Russians are said to be
much excited over this bold raid on their
5 seal rookeries, and, it is said, S3ver? punishment
will be dealt out to the capturea Americans.
The catch of Cooper island this
season is only 25,000 skins, about one-half
the usual numbor.
HE TRIED TO FOED.
Bat Horman Lost His Wife, Two
Children and Horse in Consequence.
While attempting to ford the Little Blue
River, near Fairbury, Neb., Albert Horman
drove his horse into the swift water, and it
was carried down stream, the wagon overturning.
Mrs. Horman and two children
were swept awav and drowned. Horman
? with difficulty swam ashore and succeeded in
bringing his wife out, but she died shortly
afterward. The bodies of the two children
have not been recovered.
HE TRIED TO FOED.
But Horman Liost His Wife, Two
| Children and Horse in Consequence.
While attempting to ford the Little Blue
River, near Fairbury, Neb., Albert Horman
drove his horse into the swift water, and it
was carried down stream, the wagon overturn
inc. Mrs. Horman and two children
were swept away and drowned. Horman
with difficulty swam ashore and succeeded in
bringing his wife out, but she died shortly
after ward. The bodies of the two children
"have not been recovered.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. ?
The Czar will soon visit the Kaiser.
It cost* the Prince of Wales exactly $1800 ?
for the cigars he smokes in 250 days. -*
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hates is
ranked among the millionaires of this
country.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, A
and party were taken on a coaching trip in
Massachusetts.
The Duke of Hamilton is said to draw
$150,000 per annum from his tenantry in the
island of Arran.
A brother of Congressman Doliver, and
a very ycung man, has recently been selected
to be tae President of the University of
Utah.
The Duke of Edinburgh is the very picture
of an athlete. He is over six foot in
height, broad shouldered, strong limbed and
as active as a cat.
The colony of Southerners living in London
have decided that Joel Chandler Harris
/' TTnni* Ramus") is the most meritorious
author in the South.
Rutard Kipling's age is definitely fixed
by the statement that he was born in Bombay
in Christmas week, 1805, and is therefore
in his twenty-sixth year.
Dr. Ruth, the handsome surgeon who
has ruled Washington society for so many
Years and broken no end of susceptible
nearts, is seriously ill at Carlsbad.
Frederick K. Rindge, of Cambridge,
Mass., has within the last three years
given to chartitable, religious, and munici- I
pal institutions more than three million
dollars.
Henry Irving is the most scholarly looking
of all living actors. He is as much inferior
to Booth as an actor as he is superior to
him as a manager and master of stagecraft.
The chief fault of Irving's acting is too little tl
nature and too much art. fc
The Pofw is said to speak better English p
than many Englishmen and Americans. He ,
is particularly foad of the tongue, and uses
it in preference to French, the language of h<
the Papal Court, when receiving English or ]a
American visitors. The Pop9 is also a mas- p
ter of the German language. o)
It is a fact not generally known that hi
"Deacon" S. V. White, whose recent failure uj
created such a sensation in Wall street, is a m
Southern man by birth, having Deen oora iu ai
Chatham County, N. C., in 1831. Mr. White hi
has been for several years a member of the a;
Southern Society, but was rarely seen there, tc
John Ruskin has made a record as a hydraulic
engineer by solving for the inhabitants
of Filking, a small town in Sussex, di
England, the problem of obtaining an ade- fc
quote supply of drinking water. As an evi- se
aence of their gratitude the people have ai
erected a tablet "to the glory of God and in 81
honor of John Ruskin." ta
Lieutenant Brant, a recent visitor in ^
San Francisco, is noted as being the son-in- "
law of King Masiaia, who rules over the u
black men of the Umbongrato nation, in t
Central Africa. His wife is a well-formed
copper-colored damsel with regular features,
perfect taoth and thin lips. She wears Eu- J?
ropean attire and is rather pretty. Lieuten- P*
ant Brant was in the British service whoa
he married the princess six years ago.
Old man Adams, who founded the Adani9 Cc
"Express Company, was as a lad a stable jn
helper and bartender in Boston. An old lady je
who took pity on the destitute six-year-old w
adrift in the world got him a placB in a gro- UJ
eery. The whirligig of time ha9 so brought gc
things around, as the story goes, that the
daughter of that very old lady is now said Qj
to owe much of the comforts of her life to w
Waldo Adams, the son of the friendless boy. n,
TEN WERE LYNCHED.
H<
Rioting Colored Cotton Pickers Shot ^
to Death. ^
Five rioting; cotton pickers who were cap- ci
tured in Lea County, Tenn., and who were ai
started off to the Marianna jail, never
reached it. After they ware captured and
secured the posse captured four more, and le
the nine were being taken to jail afoot in Ii
charge of Sheriff W. T. Derrick and his dep- P1
uties. The leader of the strikers, Ben Pat- tl
terson, was shot before the nine ware captured.
t*
He escaped beine; killed outright by feign- a1
ing death till the firing ceased. He only de- p
layed his death a few hours by simulation, it
Being too badly wounded to go either afoot h
or horseback to jail, he was put aboard the
steamer James Lee, in charge of Deputy p
Sheriff Frank MilJs, who was to take him to ?
Marianna, Tenn., by way of Helena. He w
was chained to a piece of machinery on the si
boat. ] cl
At Hackler's Landing the boat was sig- i Ci
nailed to stop. As soon as it touched the i
bank fifteen men armed with Winchesters si
boarded it and demanded Patterson of Mills tl
under the persuasive powers of five Win- t<
Chester rifles. The colored desperado was
carried ashore, and as the boat pulled out a k
volley from the rifles told the story of his
fate. His slayers then struck out across ti
country to interc?Dt Sheriff Derrick and his ri
nrionnnra 17aor1iniv fhon*. nflP t.hflT S
mandod of the Sheriff his prisoners. He and fi
the two deputies with him could not cop?
with the determined body of men which confronted
them, and there was little hesitation
or parley. The nine men were lynched with- _
out ceremony or loss of time. *j
Under the leadership of dangerous colored j ~
men there is no telling where the trouble
would have ended. As it was, a white over P
seer, Tom Miller, was shot to death, a gin Jl
house fired, and a lot of cotton destroyed.
The assassins and incendiaries banded together
were intent on further mischief when 1
the white citizens started on the pursuit J
which ended so tragically. When Peyton *
and Patterson were surprised they were on J
their hands and knees crawling in the cansbrake.
Peyton had the pistol he had token ?
from the dead body of Miller, and started to
use it, but before he coald raise it he was a
shot many times, his fingers even being shot J
off. j*
The feeling is intensely bitter against J.
F. Frank, on whose plantation the trouble n
occurred. He is a wealthy merchant of
Memphis, and, being anxious to get his cot- "
ton picked, advanced the price of picking to ~
sixty cents per hundred. Until then pickers
on other plantations were satisfied witn their cl
_ at
CAUSED BY A BOILER. 3
ol
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Seven Persons Killed and Many j,.
Injured l>y an Explosion. C
A boiler explosion aboard the steamtug ^
C. W. Parker killed S9ven persons and w
seriously injuried many others in the neigh- m
borhood of Archer avenue bridge on the ^
south branch of the river at Chicago, 111.,
about 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon The p,
C. W. Parker, in company with three other
tugs was engaged in attempting to tow G.
the coal steamer H. S. Pickands out f0
of the draw of the bridge when the |
explosion occurred. Three of the killed j ac
were employes of the tug and their bodies to
have not yet been recovered. The other
persons killed were standing cn the banks of w
the river, to which a number of spectators pf
had been drawn to witness the removal o? ce
the steamer Pickands, with a cargo of coal. lT
The vessel had run aground in the draw and i>c
four tugs were putting forth every effort to
move it, when one of them, the C. W. Park- Qf
er, exploded. The list of killed and wounded jn
is hs follows. fli
Killed?Samuel Armstrong, of Manistee, Co
cook of the C. W. Parker; James B. Carter, bi
captain of the C. W. Parker; John C. Bi
Moore, engineer of the C. W. Parker; Mrs. W(
Mary Rice, of 3013 Archer avenue; Barbara th
Rice, daughter of Mrs. Mary Rice, aged
eighteen; Samuel Sawyer, laborer; unknown di
man, killed by fragment of boiler, while 0f
standing at the east end of Archer avenue
bridge.
Joseph Cullen. fireman of the mi
C. W. Parker received fatal injuries.; fa
Henry Bell, deck-hand, was badly scalded j
and had his leg paralyzed; Charles Krrtin,
a bystander.was wounded by missiles; Frank
Wagner's arm was broken; Joseph Bomorazk,
skull fractured: George Ju?li,captain p
of the tug Van Schaack, leg and back hurt;
Louis de Mass, deckhand un the Van ^
Schaack, back spraino.i; James Cunning- ?
ham, cook on tae Van Sohaack, scalp
wounds. These were the persons most P
seriously hurt. "tll
The biggest fly wheel in the Unite l States Cc
was turned a few davs ago in response to the vri
touch of President Whitney of the West End
Street Railway Company of Boston, at the fh
new power house, lne wheel is twonty- no
eight feet in diameter, ten foot seven inches
face and weighs eighty tons, with two belts i
four feet six inches In width, and running Nj
6000 feet per minute. Pt
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I
HARLES STEWART PARNELL
'lie IPIsh Leader Dies Suddenly
at Brighton, England.
l Sketch of His Long and Eventful
Publio Life."
CHARLES S. PARKELL.
Great F-ritain and Ireland were startled
le other morning by the utterly unlooked>r
announcement that Charles Stewart
arnell, the noted Irish leader, had died sudsnly
at 11-.30 o'clock the night before, at his
sme, Walsingham Terrac?, Brighton, Engnd.
It has been well known that Mr.
arnell has not enjoyed the best
! health in several years, and it
is been noticed and widely commented
pon that since the O'Shea divorce developlents
became a matter of public notoriety,
id since political troubles came upon him,
3 had crown thinner and had nercaDtiblv
jed in appearance. But nobody expected
? hear of nis death, and no inkling as to hia
Iness had reached the newspapers.
His death is said to have been indirectly
jetoa chill which he caught the week beire,
and which at first was not regarded as
rious. Mr. Parnell, however, grew wors?,
id a physician was called in, with the relit
that the patient was ordered to
ike to his bed. From that
me Mr.- Parnell lost strength, and
lally succumbed. Prom tHe day he took
i his bed the state of Mr. Parnell's health
id been such as to make necessary the conant
attention of two physicians; but in
lite of their incessant efforts, he gradually
,nk, dying in the arms of Mrs. Parnell, who
is been utterly prostrated by the shock of
ar husband's death.
Mrs. Parnell, Mr. Parnell's stepdaughter
id the servants, according to the latest acmnts,
were the only occupants of the house
i Walsingham Terrace when the Irish
ader died. The end, these reports say,
as one of intense aeon|r for the sick man
itil the moment when he became unconious;
but he di?d without pain.
His sickness was pronounced to be an attack
! acute rheumatism, and every attention
as paid to the sufferer. He whs carefully
iirsed by his wife, who hardly left his bed
de from the moment her husband's illness
as pronounced to be of a serious nature.
The last time Mr. Parnell appeared in pub:
was at Cregg, in Ireland, on September
r, when he delivered a long ^eech upon the
ititude and alleged inconsistencies of
[essrs. Dillon and O'Brien. Upon that 6c
tsion he said that he was speaking in de&ace
of the orders of the doctors who were
fctending him. and who had expressly orared
him to keep to his room.
In an interview Mr. Justin McCarthy,
ader of the anti-P?rneIl taction of the
ish Parliamentary party, discussing the
oliticai effect of Mr. Parnell's deatb, said
lat it was impossible to forecast the effect.
Prominent Parnellites, who have been iitsrviewed
upon the subject of Mr. Parnell's
Bmise, declare that it will not affect their
osition, and that they intend to continue in
(dependent opposition to the party which
as lought against their leader.
A news agency says that among his comlicated
private affairs Mr. Parnell left unittled
the question of the custody of his
ife's younger children. "It is no secret,"
iys the same authority, "that Mr. Parnell
laimed to be the father of the two youngst
children of Mrs. O'Shea."
"When Mrs. Delia T. S. Parnell, who redes
at Bordentown, N. J., was informed of
ie death of her son she fell from her chair
) the floor, shrieking and groaning.
"Oh, my son, my Charles! they have
illed yon!" she moaned.
She "became hysterical, and it was some
ime before she was sufficiently composed to
Bceive the particulars of her son's death.
he is seventy-six years old and Is quit#
jeble.
Sketch ot His Career.
Charles Stewart Parneli, Member of the
Iritish Parliament, was born in 1846 at
LTondale, Coimty Wicklow, Ireland. He is
escended from an old English family that
assed over the Congleton. Cheshire, to Ireind,
nnd many of his ancestors played
rominent parts in history. Thomas Parell,
the poet, was one of the family. Mr.
'arnell's grandfather was Sir John Parneli,
eho for many years held the office ot
Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Irish
'arliament, and resigned rather than vote
sr the act of Union. Sir Henry Parnell,
ir John's son, after many years' service in
ae House of Commons, was raised to peerge
as Lord Congleton in 1841. Mr. Parnell,
'hose mother, now living at Ironsides, Borentown,
N. J., was a daughter of Admiral
V?o"1m Wfnworf flio nalonTnfi?ri Amorinan
aval officer, was educated at various private
;hools in England, and afterward sent to
[agdalen College, Cambridge. After a tour
C some duration in this country, he returned
> his home in Wicklow,and was high sheriff
the county in 1874.
Mr Parnell's advent into the political
ruggle in Ireland took place at the gen al
election of 1874, or rather immediately
Iter it, when Colonel Taylor's acceptance
' office necessitated his re-election for the
ounty Dublin. Mr. Parnell was selected
y the Home Rule League to oppose
olonel Taylor, and though the fight from
le first was considered to be a hopeless
le, Mr. Parnell entered into the struggle j
ith alacrity, and acquitted himself in a
anner which drew from his political spon?rs,
among whom was the late A. M. Sullim,
the highest praise.
After his defeat nothing was heard of Mr.
ttrnell in politics until the arrival of John
itchel in Ireland. When Mr. Mitchel was
jposed by Mr. Moore in hi* candidature
ir the representation of the premier county,
r. Parnell supported Mr. Mitchel in an
imirable letter, and inclosed a draft of $125
i defray the expenses of the contest.
In 1875, on the demise of John Martin,
ho represented the county of Meath in
irliament. Mr. Parnell was selected to sliced
him. He was opposed by a Tory and a
vnl Home Ruler, but succeeded in beating
>tn.
At the time Mr. Parnell entered the House
Commons a coersion bill for Ireland was
course of enactment; indeed Mr. Parnell's
st vote in the House was recorded against
ercion. It was during the debates on this
U that Mr. Parnell, in company with Mr.
gRar, introduced what was afterward so
all known by the name of "obstruction" into
e House.
Mr. Parnell's first suspension occurred
iring a debate on the proposed annexation
the Transvaal to the British Empire.
In 187S a conferenco of the Irish party
is held, and Mr. Parnell was elected chairan
of it. In that year the Government so
r recognized his power as to accept thirty
his amendments to the Govornment ar.ny
11, among which was abolishing Hogging
the army.
At the close of the session of 1870 Mr.
irre.l entered upon a new and important
och in his career. Thern ha i bean a sucssiot;
oi three bad harvests in Ireland, the
untry was threatened witU deep and wideread
distress, and the time was ripe for
irting a new movement for the reform of
e relations between landlord and tenant.
A meeting had been held in Irishtown,
>unty Mayo, in the previous April, but it
is not till June that Mr. Parnell formally
ined the new land movement. It was on
at occasion that he uttered as the keyte
of the coming struggle the words:
"Keep a firm grip on your homesteads."
Dn the 21st of October fol lowing the Irish
itional League was founded, and Mr.
irnell was elected its first president.
In December of the same year ha came
here in order to raise funds for the relief of
the distressed and for starting the new organization.
He lectured in a large number
of towns, before several State Legislatures
aud before the House of Representatives at J
Washington. The honor of addressing the
last body had previously been conferred upon
but three persons, Lafayette, Bishop
England, of Charleston, and Kossuth.
In March, 1830, he returned to Ireland p.
iroin America, ana at a meeting ol iaa
Home Rule members of Parliament on May
17, was elected chairman of the Irish party.
In the autumn of 1880 he took an active
part in organizing the Land League, which <
rapidly grew to De the most powerful of ?.
Irish movements. 01
In November of that year informations 'ei
were laid by the Irish Attorney General et<
against Mr. Parnell and several other mem- ve
bers of the Land League Executive. The ,
trial opened in Dublin on tha 28th day of
December, and finally, after nineteen days' mf
hearing, ended in a disagreement of the un
jury. In the opening of the sessions of 1881 be.
the Government brought a coercion bill, and tei
to that measure, as well as to an arms bill, in
Mr. Parnell and his colleagues offered a da
fierce and obstinate opposition, prolonged do
over seven weeks. fri
On October 7 he was arrested and con- lis
veyed to Kilmainham Jail. Mr. Parnell remained
in Kilmainham Jail until April 10, tic
18S2, when be was released on parole, in or- lei
der to attend the funeral of a relative. all
In the session of 1883 he took an active J
part in procuring the passage of the Arrears sei
* *Vi? IVomnnra onr4 TrflKnPArfl ont.4 EC
auu ouu \JL l/uo xihiu'tujo uuu w w mwww ?
in the session of 1883. A national subscrip- Gi
tion for Mr. Parnell wa3 started in the tw
springoflSS3, and a sum of $175,000 was te]
raised among the Irish at home and in
America and presented to him. .
The Parnell Commisiion was instituted to
inquire into certain allegations contained in
a pamphlet entitled "Parnellism and Crime," .
published at the London Times office, and r
charging Mr. Parnell and others with con- IT
spirac/, and organization having for its ob
ject tv separation of Ireland from England
as a nation. gj
Letters in fac-simile purporting to have r~
been written by Mr. Parnell, and proving
his complicity in crime, were given in the
Eamphlet. They were denounced as forgeries
v Mr. Parnell; and such they proved to be. SS
They were the work of the villian Richard "ji
Pigott, who had sold tbem to the Times; and
who, on the discovery of his crime, fled to
Spain and there committed suicide. The ^
commission sat 128 days and examined nearly .
500 witnesses. '
It was followed by an action for libel, 00
brought by Mr. Parnell against the Times, P?
and resu ted in its having to pay Mr. Par
nell $25,0U0 damages. In July, 1839, he was
presented with the freedom of Edinburgh.
In December, 1889, Captain O'Shea filed cb
suit for divorce, with Mr. Parnell as co- *
respondent. ~
Mr. Parnell made no defence. The divorce Ys'
was granted, Captain O'dhea got the custody
of such of the children as were minors, and
Mr. Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea took up their c?
residence in adjoining houses. Thev were T?
married on June 21, 1891. Mrs. O'skea 3?
had a considerable fortune in her own
right. ho
sh
A FATAL MISTAKE. 2
Ei
Four Persons Perish in a New Yorfc be
Tenement House Fire. 0?
Four persons perished in a fire early on a Jo
recent morning in the five-story brick tenement
house at Hudson and Dominick streets, W|
New York City. It is asserted that no lives mj
would have been lost but for the mistake be
made at the quarters ot Book and Ladder bh
No. S in North Moore street. When Officer on
John McGrath discovered the flames, he
sent in the alarm from box No. 183, but at co
the Hook and Ladder quarters the signal was sit
in some unaccountable way understood to ua
be box No. 82, at Jay and Washington br
streets. The truck had gone two blocks in th
the opposite direction before it was stopped an
and turned about. 00
On arriving at the burning building the w
firemen found that the flames had made
rapid progress, but nearly all the inmates ce
had made their exit by the fire escape. Four 3r
novflr found their wav out. and died from Mj
suffocation. Their names are: to
Mrs. Annie Murphy, thirty-two years old,
wife of Matthew Murphy. Josephine Rvan, lit
five years old, Mrs. Murphy's niece. &ate th
Dunn, twenty-three years old. dressmaker, th
John Touhey, eight years old, Mrs. Murphy's tn
sou by a previous marriage* died in St. Vin- wi
cent's Hospital soon after being taken from St
the building. tu
Up to the time of the arrival of the tardy it
hook and ladder truck it was supposed that its
every one was out of the building, and that ce:
the flames were confined to the lower part of af
the house on the Dooiinick street side. When ea
the hook and ladder company arrived. Mat- he
thew Murphy, a fireman, jumped from the
truck, shouting wildly, "Great God, it's my mi
house! My wife and my children! Where are of
they?' , ko
With one jump he reached the end of th* be
swinging ladder, and then leaped up ladder w*
after ladder to a fifth floor. Finding the
windows of the rooms occupied by his family
closed, he smashed in the sash and made
his way through the stifling smoke to
' his wife's bedroom. Another fireman
named McLewee followed . a few moments
later.and found Murphy kneeling over ,
the dead body of his wife, while near by
were his two stepsons, John and Martin, j ad
firnnincr nhnnt in the darkneas and the I '
smoke they found the blackened form of lit- no
tie Josephine Ryan, the dead woman's niece, <
and in tne hallway at the foot of a ladder
leading to the roof was the body of Kate ,
Dunn. Her hands were clasped about the
rung of the ladder, and she had evidently
been overcome while trying to pull herseif '
up to safety on the roof. ^
Murphy had been married less than a '
month. Airs. Murphy was the widow of Po- M<
liceman Toutaev, wno died si* years ago. Mr.
and Mrs. Murphy were dissatisfied with their '
home in the Hudson street tenement, and
had made arrangements to move to other ]
rooms in Perry street next day.
The damage by the fire is less than 11000. '
It originated in one of the woodrootns in the he
cellar, and is believed to have been of in- la\
cendiary origin. \
^ foi
INDIAN AFFA1ES. ,
Sixtieth Annual Report ot the Com- ^
missioner. r
The sixtieth annual report of the Com- ^.r
missioner of Indian Affairs has just been
submitted to the Secretary of the Interior.
He thinks that the great forces now at work ^
?iana in severalty, tr:s uesbruvtiuu ui mo j
agency system, citizenship, and education? Ha
will, if allowed to continue undisturbed a th(
reasonable length of time, accomplish their ,
beneflcient ends. b0l
The millions of acres of Indian lands, now CQr
lying absolutely unused, are needed, he says,
as homes for our rapidly increasing popula- "
tion.and must be so utilized. The enrollment dUl
of Indian pupils for the year ended June 30 *?1
has been 17,920, an increase over 1 ist year
of 1549. The amount of Con- 'J
gressional appropriation for Indian kai
education available for the year wo
to come is nearly $2,250,000. The commis* Iro
sioner regards the education of the Indians j
as the only solution of the Indian problem. wo
The commissioner urges that the appropria- an,
tion of public funds for sectarian Education jn(j
is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, ?
opposed to public policy, and ought at an . .
early date to be discontinued. He thinks the
present time is peculiarly favorable for the
increase of missionary work.
1 coa
THE CHEW LOST. g;
?? rr
Twenty Men and the Captain's Wife
and Baby Went Down. ser
A dispatch was received from St. John, ant
New Bruuswick, saying that during the re- ^
cent stormy spell the British barkentine ^
Minnie G. Elkin, had been wrecked and her gtri
crew lost. The wrecked vessel was a bark entine
rigged ship of 429 tons burden. I
She left St. John Harbor on August 19. I S
under command of Captaiu Bolt, bound for ' -eCl
iiuujalk. Tne crew consisted of twenty
men, inc.uding the officers. The captain's 8ta|
wife and baby were also on board. The wjl
barkentine was built at Milford. in June, ,,
1879, and owned by J. Lang & Co., of Mil*
tord. smi
8CU
An old cannon which was used by the citi?sns
of San Domingo 380 years ago to keep
Don Diego Colon, the son of Columbus, then Stn
appointed Governor, from arrogating to him- ^
self too much authority, is now on its way ta
Chicago. It was discovered bjr F. A. Ober, COE
ftpeci2 oommissiouar to the West Indies. goi
:.- >%' ', i'i ...... . '
7\ Jf' .' *; V $
BODE TO MR DEATHSL
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ragedy at a Masked Crossing J
On Staten Island. <
our Persons Mangled by ft
Swift Train.
"rook's Crossing, near fHffords station,
aten Island, N. Y., fulfilled its destiny a
n days ago and hurled'three souls into
>rnity, while sending a fourth one to the
ry gate of death.
rhe notorious old railroad crossing;
isked by dense woods and parsimoniously
guarded, where mora tban once there has
en a hair raising escape from xnanslanghmissed
the escape at last, and a woman,
the bloom of life, with her year ola.
ughter and her brother, were mowed
wn by the iron horse in a manner too
ghtful for description. Following is the
tor victims:
Andrew Brandner. aged fourteen, of Erasm,
S. I., employed as a fish and dam ped-by
John Jones. Fatally .injured intenty
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, aged twentvren,
of Giffords, wife of Captain Jake
Iwardp, of the oyster sloop Trusty, of
eat Kills. Skull crushed; died within
enty minutes.
Blanche Edwards, infant child of the iatr.
Skull crushed; died within one and.
e-haif hours. John Jones, aged twentytir,
of Erastina, fish and oyster pedler,
other of Mrs. Edwards. Top of head
ashed in; killed instantly. '
The above named party was riding in
lues's covered butcher wagon on their way
Giffords at ten miuutes past eight; They
;re on the Amboy road, the chief highway'
ion Staten Island, and had come from
astina, where Mrs. Edwards and her child
.d been visiting her brother. As they
ared the railroad track they looked out a
r the locomotive, but neither saw nor heard
ty sign of one. The crossing is notorious,
le highway passes over the railroad tracks
an acute angle, and between the two, upi
the easterly side, the angle is tilled m
ith a dense grove of trees. The railroad
elf curves sharply just beyond the crowg
and the only possible warning for a team
und south is the whistle ordered by a signal
>st three hundred yards up the track.
As the wagon approached the crossing,
&1U i-^U. 1, Wiiu CilglLlCtU UEMJUU
e cab and Conductor John Sullivan in
arge, was dashing around the carve at
forty mile pace. Engineer Koogle says
at he whistled four times. Residents in the
rinity say that tuey doubt it, as some of
e engineers are very slovenly about whisng.
The signal, if any was given, was
rtainly not heard by John Jones, the driir,
for the old horse trotted down the track
st as the engine was upon it.
With a tremendous crash the great iron
irsestruck the butcher wagon and the.
arp pilot went through it like a giant
iaver. Showers of splinters fell off to left
id right, and with them the boy, Mrs.
1 wards and her baby; but they had been -j
irne 800 feet from the crossing here
they landed ? young Brandner
l his back and the woman on her face.
>nes still lay upon the pilot when the train
is brought to a standstill, a thousand feet
wn the track. The whole top of his head
is crushed in and his body was terribly
angled. There was nothing to do bat
indie his mangled clay in his own horse
uiketand await the coming of the cor*
er.
Mrs. Edwards and her baby were both unnscious.
There were marks upon the left
le of the head of each, which showed the
ture of their injuries. The woman
eathed her last on the level ballast of
e roadway. Then the suffering babe
d boy, the latter of whom had retained
nciousnees long enough to give his namcy
are tenderly picked up and taken to the
ildwin House, where the former soon
ased to suffer. The boy was taken to the
nith Infirmary on a train, while Coroner
artin Hughes transferred the three bodies
bis undertaking establishment at Clifton.
The railroad company made haste tooberate
the visible signs of the disaster, bat
e tracks were strewn with splinters from
e wagon for many a yard. The largest
agmente left of the wrecked vehicle
;re the tires of the broken wheels,
range to say, although the wagon was
rned to matchwood the horse which drew
was uninjured. One shoe was torn from
i hind feet, but the horse trotted unconrnedly
into the big farm of Mr. Crook,
tor whom the crossing is named, who
sily made him prisoner. The thills had
en cut off as if bv a knife.
Sirs. Edwards, the slaughtered wife and
Dther, was a handsome woman, the nieoe
old Captain Tom Calm, one of the bestown
residents of the Great Kills. She had '
en married five years, and little Blanche
is her only child. Captain Jake was oat
his oyster sloop when his little family wa?
ped out of existence.
TEE LABOB WOBLD.
Troops stopped a strike at Ottawa, Can*
a.
fmc Seamen's Unioa of Baltimore, Mi, is
more. *
Duly one non-onion bakery is in operation
Rochester, N. Y. J. >
The Order of tli? Knights of Labor is
enty-one years old.
rHz green glass factories at Atlanta, Ga.,
ve opened for the season.
rHE Crown Steel Works, of Cumberland,
i., hare been reorganized.
Journeymen tailors of Portage, Wis., are
a strike for increased wages.
J'tJLXi time is the order of the day in the
nnellsville (Penn.) coke regions.
rHE New York ^Central Railroad will
Ip enforce the Alien Contract Labor ;
v.
rHE contract labor law will not apply to .
with IVnrlH'a lndr AT*
Cl^UU 3 WVUUOViAiU -* iwu ** ? ??
bits.
it is understood that Edison employs 300
iuien in work upon the delicate details of
; electrical inventions.
The Journeymen Bakers' International
lion has gained about 700 new members
thin the last four months.
iVoRKMEN are returning to Winnipeg,
nada, from the Pacidc coast, whore thouids
are out of employment.
f here is a general strike of painters in
lifax, Nova Scotia, owin* to the action of
) bosses in discharging union men.
a meeting of the velvet manufacturers
d iu Oldham, England, it was resolved to
itinue working onJy four days a week.
The V'altham Watch Company has raced
wages from live to twenty par cent.,
enable it to carry on its war against J. C.
cber.
The bakers at Findlay, Ohio, and Spole
Fall?, Washington, have had night
ric done away with, and they will be paid
m $18 to $24. per week.
t is said that England has more women
rkers in proportion to her population than
y other country, twelve per cent, of the
ustrial classes being women.
!"hk Master Car and Locomotive Painters'
ociation has adopted a memorial recomnaing
equal pay to women for worE
uvaleut to men's in painting cars .
"huee hundred laundrywomen in
ches formed an interesting feature of the
ade made by the Central Labor Federai
in New York City on Laoor Day.
'he power plant at the World's Fair will
24,000 horse power, and will reqir? the
vices of 250 engineers, tiramen and attend'he
Board of Aldermen in Boston have
de an order that screens must be usad
stonecutters when at work on the
?ets.
Iome of the most successful dramas
ently presented on the American
?e deal with the days when the
d throb of the war-drum thrilled
hearts of a whole people and the
Dke of three million muskets obred
the light of the sun. In
mc warfare the Blue and the Gray
at the stage and, forgetful of past
sensions and mindful only of a
anion glory, the North and tha
ith alike applaud. i ,
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