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" WRECKED BY ABROK?N RAIL.
Fatal Accident to an Express
Train in Ohio.
A Dining Car and a Locomotive
Telescoped.
A fatal accident occurred on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad near
Lima, Ohio, a few mornings ago. About
9:30 a. m. the dining car in passenger train
No. 25 (the Columbian express) left the track
200 feet east of the east end of the passing
siding at that plac?, and the two following
sleeping cars went with it.
The dining car was wrecked and the two
. sleepers were badly damaged by being
thrown against the engine of east-bound
train second 72, which was waiting on the
siding for No. 25 to pass. The
following is a correct list of the killed:
J. H. Curtis, of Chicago, coot in the dining
car; H. J. Manuel, of Chicago, cook in the
dining car; J. Waif, of Fort Wayne, Ind.,
fireman on the freight train; unknown man.
found in the wreck of the dining car.
Seventeen persons were badly injured.
The tram was running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. The engine, baggage Car
and day coach passed over in safety, but the
train parted in the rear of the day coach, and
the dining car and two sleepers were thrown
over to the north track with terrific
force. The accident happened at the east
end of the long siding which is north of the
main track. The broken rail was found
about forty rods east of the switch
vsed t>y tne ireignts ease Douaa.
The freight train was standing on the
siding with the eugine almost up to the
switch. The dining car of tho wrecked train
jumped to the side track and ran into the
freight engine, which telescoped the car half
a length. Little was visible of the engine
besides the cab and tender.
The scene at the wreck was frightful. The
sleeping- ar Arden lay on its side in a rittch.
The Delphos sleeper was upright but
badly wrecked, and the Parisian diningcar
was in a similar condition, just
as the freight engine had telescoped it.
In the front end of this car the cooks were
busy getting breakfast, and when the crash
came E J. Manuel and J. S. Curtis were in
the kitch?n at work. Manuel was caught
by the locomotive and the boiler and
some timbers and was literally roasted
alive. His cries for help were piteous. He
lived about half an hour. Curtis was also
buried in the wreck. He was not rescued
for over an hour and was hon ibly bruised
and scalded. He died shortly after being
taken out. Both men lived in Chicago.
The fireman on the freight train was
caught between the tender and boiler and
tinea, tus name is >j . rruu, uiu uia uuluo
isia Port Wayne, Ind.
The body of a man crashed beyond recognition
was fonnd under the dining car. In
all, about thirty-five or forty person, were
injured.
Everything possible was done by the railroad
officials to alleviate the suffering of the
wounded, and they had a full corps of physicians
on the grouad in a short time after the
accident The track was torn up for a distance
of thirty rods east of the switch, and
traffic was blocked until 2 o'clock that afternoon.
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WINTER VISITORS KILLED.
A Horrible Quadruple Murder in
Florida.
Miss A. H. Bruoe, Mastor Frank Pack
wood, Mrs. L. D. Hatch and her son were
found murdered in a house occupied by the
?' Packwood family on the east coast, six miles
south of New Smyrna, in Volusia County,
Fla.
Their throats were cut. The victims had 1
apparently been dead for eighteen or twentyfour
hours. These people had gone there to
spend the winter, having arrived only a
week before. Some of them were from 3Tetv j
York State.' There is no clue to the murder
era. Tramps are suspected of the crime. {
The Packwood residence is oa the bank ot '
n liiwtKirti xvivtrr, ma nines ucju?t .ion ouijrina.
It is situated in a thick orange grove.
The country road is about half a mile in the
rear. The place is very isolated. The following
speci41 despatch was received from
Orange City, Fie.:
The house was entered during the night
through a window, the intruder smashing
the sash and glass to gain an entrance. (
Visitors to the premises next morning (
saw in one corner of the main room
on the floor the body of Mrs Hatch.
She had been shot through the left eye.
In the same room, lying on the i
bed, was the body of her six-year-old son. '
He bad been shot under the lert eve and his 1
throat was cut from ear to ear. In the ad- 1
ioining room, lying on the floor, was the
body of Frank Packwood, Jr., four years
old. He was shot through the head and his
throat was cut also. In the same room, lying
on the bed, was the bo iy of Miss Bruce. She
had been assaulted and her skull and face
had been smashed with a heavy weapon.
Her face had also been Denetrated bv a bul
let and her throat had* been cat. At the
broken window a large revolver was found,
two chambers having been discharged. On
the bed by the side or the body of Miss Bruce
lay a double-barrelled shotgun with the
stock broken. On the bed, near the body of
the Hatch boy, lay a long-bladed butcher
knife. Robbery was undoubtedly the motive.
FIVE STRIKERS KILLED,
A Colorado Town Terrorized by An?,
trian aud Italian Rioters.
A strike at the mines of the Colorado Coal
and Iron Company, at Crested Butte, Col.,
has resulted much more seriously than was
at firman tici pa ted. About 500 Austrian and
Italian jpiners employed at these works went
out on Vstrike because of a proposed reduction
oWrages by the companySince
the men went out they have refused
to allow the company to bring in new men,
have stopped the pumps and fans at tbe
works, allowing them to fill with gas until
there is danger of the mioea blowing up, and
have paraded the streets heavily armed,
threatening death to any one who should attempt
to assist the company in any manner.
Sheriff Shares, of Gunnison, arrived there
with a pose of twenty-five men for the purpose
ot taking possession of and guarding the
mines. No sooner had they alighted irom
the train than they were attacked by
about two hundred armed Sicilians aud
a notpionc ? nhn h? n firintr wita their
rifles. The Sheriff held his men lor a mo- I
merit and then ordered them to return the
fire, whicjithey did with deadly effect, killing
flva-strikers. They were all Italians.
George Simonici and Matt Grahak, Austrians,
were fatally wounded.
After the firing the miners retreated and
the Sheriff's posse marched up the hill and
took possession of the mines and threw up
EXIT VOLUNTEER FIREMEN.
The Force, to \fhich New Orleans
.Paid $190,000 a Year, Goes Out.
The New Orleans (La.) Volunteer Fire
Department, the last of the large volunteer
Are systems in this country, n^ longer ex
ists. A paid department his taken its place, i
The Volunteer Department has had a prosperous
career of sixty-five years in
that city. It was entirely, separate from tho
city government and made contracts with
the autnorities to attend all fires for $190,
000 a year. It owned its own property, engines,*
horses and houses. These will be sold
to the city.
The Volunteer Association will close its
official career in very good financial conditioo,
for it has other valuable property,
t beside its paraphernalia for extinguishing
fires, and will have several hundred thousand
dollars to its account. It will
keep up its organization as a social and
charitable society, using its revenues for the
care and support of widows and orphans of
members of the volunteer force, ana for the
(payment of a life insurance as the members
drop off. The four branches had thirty-six engines
and 5000 members, active and exempt.
The change to a paid department has been
recommended for sometime by the insurance
companies, but was not very popular with '
th? masses.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
It was reported from Boston thfct Henry
L. Norcross, a note-broker, of Somerville,
Mass., was believed to be the bomb-thrower
who tried to assassinate Millionaire Russell
Sage in New York City.
Mrs. Irwin McDowell, widow of Major
General McDowell, died at her home in New
York City. Mrs. McDowell's maiden name
was Helen M. Burden. She was born in
Troy, N. Y., on January 33, 1836.
Captain* Seymour Page, the oldest citi
zen of Falls Village. Conn., is dead, aged
ninety-five years. Mrs. Theodosia Lampon
died in Stratford, Conn., a few days
ago, aged 100 years and six months.
The ?rip has broken out in epidemic form
in Philadelphia, Penn., and many other
Eastern cities and towns. Its ravages are
widespread.
Edward M. Field, the son of Cyrus W.
Field and head of the late stock broking
firm of Field, Lindley, VVieshers & Co.,
which failed for more than a million of dollars
in the last week of November, has been
taken from the asylum and lodged in Police
Headquarters, New York City, criminal
charges having been preferred against him.
Josiah Minot, at one time the law partner
or Franklin Pierce, died at Concord, N.
H.,aged seventy-three. He was Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas and prominently
identified with many financial institutions.
Subgkox Melaxcthon* L. Ruth, of the
United States Navy, died at the Naval Hospital,
Brooklyn, N. Y., in his iorty-seventh
year. Doctor Ruth was one of the best
known men in the United Stales Navy. He
was an intimate friend of Secretary Tracy,
and it was he who carried the Secretary
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irom dis ourninz nous- m *? (uuiu^wu,
where his wife and daughter lost their lives.
A collision* occurre 1 on the New York
Central near Fish kill, N. Y., in which both
engines wera completely wrecked, the fireman
of the express, John Smith, of Albany,
was scalded to death and the engineer, James
Kelly, of Albany, fatally scalded.
The Alleghany Valley Railroad was purchased
at Pittsburg, Penn., by the Pennsylvania
for 000,000, the latter assuming the
bonded indebtedness of #20,000,000.
South and West.
A New York syndicate has decided to
build beet sugar /factories throughout Nebraska
and adjoining States, with headquarters
in Omaha.
a satisfactory test of the new navy
smokeless powder was made at [ndian Head,
Md.
a head-on' railroad collision occurred five
miles above jonesooro, u., u?>mu ?
freight traiu and a construction train. Engineer
G. S. Fiippin and two laborers were
killed, and eight others injured, some mortally.
Great damage was inflicted in the San
Francisco and San Gabriel valleys, in Cali
fornia, and at Pasadena by a wind strom.
A. G. Taber was killed at Norfolk. In Verdugo
Canyon and the Glendale section the
storm was the wildest ever known. Buildings.
were wrecked, cars derailed and orange
trees stripped.
The grip again became prevalent in Baltimore,
Md I Many citizens of Atlanta, Ga.,
suffered from the same epidemic. The disease
Appeared in the milder form in many
parts of Illinois.
Richard Furland and Bert Bamberg were
killed, James Mitchell was injured, and a
barn was set afire and destro 70a by the explosion
of a threshing machine on E. Royce's
farm near.Mayville, Mich.
Colonel William E. Merrill, United
States Engineer in charge of the Ohio
River and its navigable tributaries, dropped
dead on a train near Edgefield, ILL He was
born in Wisconsin in 1825.
The annual meeting of the American
Federation of Labor, the first ever held in
the South, was called to 'order at Erswell
Hall Birmingham, Ala., by President Samuel
Gompers. Nearly 200 delegates from
every part of the United States and Canada
were in attendance.
The Virginia Legislature in session at
Richmond re-electea John W. Daniel United
States Senator witnouc opposition.
On one of the leading thoroughfares in
Chicago, III., a few nights ago flva daring
highwaymen suddenly surrounded one of
Uncle Sam's biggest mail wagons, and at re*
rolver point forced the postal employes to
throw out several sacks.
Washington.
Speaker Crisp has appointed John T.
Waterman his private secretary. Thomas
0. Towles, of Missouri, has bean appointei
Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives
it Washington.
A treaty with Germany has been arranged
by the State Department at Washington
under which American grain and
pork are to be admitted to the German Empire
at greatly reduced rates of duty.
Richard G. Dove, a fourteen hundred
dollar clerk in the mail division of the Treasury
Department, died in Washington a few
days ago. He had been employed In that
" A M ;_4~ V? a tti' r> er honn
department xur -?.??? jauo,
appointed a messenger in 1829, during President
Jackson's administration.
A comparative statement of the estimates
of appropriations needed for the next
fiscal year bas been prepared at "Washington
by Messrs. Courts and Cleves, the respective
clerks to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations. This statement shows
an excess in estimates of regular appropriations
for the fiscal year be Tinning July 1.
1892, of $9,522,852, as com* ?;i,u with the estimates
a year ago for v'ua current fiscal
year.
There was a notable gathering in the
Washington home of Mrs. 8. 8. Cox, to witness
the presentation to her, on behalf of the
officers and men of the Life Saving Service
of the Treasury, of a magnificent vase of
silver, intended to express the appreciation
of the members of the service of tne labors
of her late husband in its behalf.
The Republican caucus committee, which
had been engaged at Washington tor a week
in filling the vacancies on the Senate committees,
made a final report to the full
caucus of Senators, who received the list of
assignments and laid thorn over lor approval.
The Brazilian Government has asked the
State Department at Washington for an
extension of time for the ratification of the
treaty of arbitration recently concluded
between Brazil and the United States.
The President approved the report of the
Examining Bo-rd in the case of Commander
Augustus v. Kellogg, United States Navy,
who was therefore placed on the retired list
with furlough pay.
Foreign.
Lord Dcfferix has bten appointed British
Ambassador to France in the place of
the late Lord Lytton.
Advices from Pekin, China, state that the
Mongolian insurrection is at an end, and that
forty-two insurgents have been beheaded.
Much damage was done by storms in
Great Britain.
Chili's Foreign Mijnister, Matta, In his
circular letter to tne European ana American
Legation?, says that President Harrison
and Secretary Tracy have been misinformed
of events in that country, and repeats that
justice will be done in. the Baltimore affair.
A fierce fight between the Irish factions
occurred in Wate$5ra City,- during which
Michael Davitt was badly burt.
The burial of Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of
Brazil, took place at Lisbon, Portugal. The
hearse was drawn by eight horses, and the
coffin was covered with floral wreaths. All
the members of the royal family, and all the
officials of the foreign Diplomatic Corps,
with the exception of the Brazilian Embassy,
accompanied the remains to the Pantheon,
where the body was deposited in the family
vault. >
Reports of tbe ravages of influenza in
various parts of Europe are being constantly
received. The epidemic is spreading rapidly
in Jutland, Holland and Denmark.
The Chinese Empire has officially notified
the State Department at Washington that it
will take no part in the World's Fair.
A crowded ferryboat capsized in the Elbe
at Harburg, Germany, hundreds of people
being thrown into the water. Ten of the
passengers were drowned.
There is a revolutionary movement m
the Brazilian province of Sao Paulo?
The revolt in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been
suppressed. The insurgents had succeeded
in expelling tha local officials, but they will j
all be reinstated.
ACROSS THE WIRES. I
An Interesting Budget of Foreign
and Domestic News.
Prince of Wales's Eldest Son to
Wed Princess Victoria of Teck,
The principal topic in English aristocratic
I circles is the engagement of Prince Albert
I f.n "Prinnoea Vipfnrifl MftTV of TeClv.
On all sides the utmost satisfaction is expressed,
and there is no doubt, says a London
special, that the match is a love affair to a
far greater extent thaa the majority of royal
marriages. No definite date has yet been
fixed for the wedding, but it is the general
belief that it will take place shortly. Society
is on the qui vive in regard to the event,
which will undoubtedly be one of the grandest
ceremonies ihat has occurred in recent
years in England.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR.
Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward,
K. G., Duke of Clarence and Avondale. commonly
known as "Collars and Cuffs," is the
eldest son of the Prince of Wales, and is
therefore in the line of direct succession to
the throne of Great Britain. He was born on
January 8, 1864. Id 1877 he entered the nary
as a midshipman and passed two years on "
board the Britannia. In 1879, with his
brother, Prince George, he went to the West
Indies on the Bacchante; and in 1880-'82,
still on the Bacchante, the two Princes traveled
around the world to South America,
Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope. In
October, 1888, Prince Albert Victor went to
Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied
there until the summer, when he went to
Heidelberg; in 1884 he went to Aldershot to
study "military science," and in 1885 was
made Lieutenant in the Tenth Hussars: in
1888 he became Captain, aud in 1SS9 became
Major; in 1890 he was raised to the peerage
by the titles of Duke of Clarence and Avondale,
and Earl of Athlone; in 1883 he bad
been "invested" with the Order of the
Garter.
The cuffs which have given to the Duke of 1
Clarence and Avondale the name by which
he is generally known are not apparent in ;
the portrait, but the collar is, very much so. (
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1KB PRINCESS VICTORIA OF TECK.
Princess Victoria Mary, or to give her her
fall name. Princess Victoria Mary Augusta
Louise Olra Pauline Claudine Agnes, is the ?
only daughter of His Highness Franz Louise
Paul Alexander, Dulteot Teclr, G. C. B., and >
Her Royal Highness Mary Adelaide Wilhel- ]
mina Elizabeth, Dutchess of 'feck and cousin J
of the Queen. She was born May 23, 1867,
and Is therefore twenty-four years old. She
has three brothers, one of whom is a Lieu*
tenant in the Seventeenth Lancers.
Thirty Men Drowned.
The most serious of all the disasters that
have resulted from the late storm in England
is the wreck of the British ship Enterkin,
Captain Sinclair, which was bound from
Hull to Brisbane. She was caught in the
storm while bound down the Channel, and
was driven upon the Galloper Sands, off
Bamsgate. Thirty lives were lost in this
disaster, every person on board except an
Kaw Knin/* I
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The Enterkin was driven ashore almost
broadiide on. After she had struck, a part :
of the crew succeeded in launching a boat,
and got clear of the ship. They headed
' shoreward, but were almost immediately
thrown into the sea by the swamping of
their boat by a high roller. Every 1
mem who was in the boat was drowned, almost
in sight of his comrades on the wreck, i
Shortly afterward the ship, which had
been standing on a comparatively even
keel, was struck by a tremendously high
sea. She keeled over, throwing every
person aboard of her into the water. 1
Only one of them, the appentice boy, suo> '
ceeded in gaining the weather rigging,
which was just awash. Here the lad re- i
mained throughout the night, drenched and |
almost frozen. Next morning a fishing
smack sighted the wreck an i bore down to ,
it. With much difficulty a boat was got (
alongside the Enternin, and the boy was
taken off.
Chief Joel B. Mayes Dead.
Joel B. Maves, Chief of the Cherokee Nation,
died at 'tahlequab, Indian Territory, at
B o'clock a few mornings ago. Joel Bryan
.Mayes was born in the Cherokee reservation,
Ga., October 20, 1833. His father was white
ana his mother of mixed blood, being descended
on her paternal side from 1
7 ? A . imHar i
utiiues Autui. au xuuiau a^uiu uuuu? j
George III. Joel was removed while a boy ,
to the Cherokee reservation iu Indian Territory.
He graduated from the Cherokee
Male Seminary iu 185"?, and taught Until the
Civil War, when he enlisted '.he Confed- j
?rate army. He held the position or quartermaster
during the war. He returned to
the farm on Grand River in 1835, and was
made County Commissioner and Chief (
Clerk to the Cherokee Court, a dual
position he held for many years. For two
years he was County Judge. While holding
the latter office he was chosen Associate
and subsequently Chief Justice of tbe Supreme
Court. He became chief of the j
Cherokee Nation in August, 1837, having
been elected after a close light.
The Dynamiter Identified.
A Boston dispatch says that no doubt is
longer entertained there of the correctness
of tl^Hdentiflcation of the Russall Sage bomil
thnHflr with Henry L. Norcrosi, tne note
broker, of Somerville. The evideuce is re-.
earded as completed by the letter wtucn tie
left to bis mother, statins; that he was going
to New York to get $1,200,000, and that if
he was not successful he should kill himself.
Norcross's parents admit the identification
and the opinion of many of Norcross's a?r
quaintances corroborates them. Theylari
not disposed to talk further for publication
but let the public know tbat they are 'iio
longer in doubt as to the fate of their son.
Among those who have followed the case
most closely the evidence is regarded as final
to the degree that nothing more sat if act or y
is desired or could be asked. They say that
the case has in that respect passed into history.
No doubt is entertained that Norcross
was insane. 1
Important Railroad Decision,
i The United States Supreme Court at J
Washington held, in an opinion just rendered
by Justice Field, that a tax levied by
the State of Maine on th9 gross receipts of
the Grand Trunk Railway Company oL
Canada for tbe privilege of exercising itj
franchises within the State of Maine was
legal and constitutional and was not contrarv
to the provision of the Constitution
prohibiting the States from regulating interstate
commerce.
A Building: Society Suspends.
The Portsea Island Building Society, of
Portsmouth, England, has suspended payment.
The society held securities amounting
to about $3,Ml),000 in a bank connected
with the organization. Workingmen are
the heaviest losers, hence the suspension is
oniminty much excitement about Portsmouth.
Fifteen Crushed to Death.
An overweighted brewery collapsed at
Pinneberg, Germany.
Twenty-eight workmen were buried beneath
a mass of debris, and fifteen of them
died before the rescuers could reach them.
A Fire Chlet Killed.
John Unchrich, Chief of the Fire Department
of SandusKy, Ohio, was killed a few
days ago by falling: from the hatchway of
the propeller R. E. Schuck while making an
inspection of that boat.
Boston's Share of immigrants.
The number of immigrants arriving at
Boston, Mass., from transatlantic ports during
the fiscal year just closed was 31,556,
thirty-five less than for the same period last
year. -
THE Y?AR 1892.
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Eclipses in 1892.
In the year 1893 there will ba four Eclipses
?two of the Sua and two of the Moon.
1. A Total Eclipse of the Sun, April 26th,
4:18 in the evening, invisible in North
America, visible in the South Pacific Ocean
and western part of South America.
2. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon. May
11th, partly visible, the Moon riling eclipsed.
The beginning visible generally in the westerly
portions of Asia, in Europe, Africa, the
Atlantic Ocean, and the easterly portions of
South America Tee ending visible generally
in Arabia, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic
Ocean, South America, and the extreme
easterly portion of North America.
The Four Seasons.
Winter begins 1891, December 21,10:48 P. u.
9pring " 1892, March 19. 10:24 P. K.
? " J two 20. 0:26 P.M.
A.utumn " " September 22,' 9.-01 a. x.
Winter 44 44 December 21, 3:31 a. h.
Momlnjf Star*.
Venn?, after July 9.
Mars, after August 4.
Jupiter, until March 4, after October 12.
Saturn, after March 16 until September 25.
Mercury, until March fi, after April 19 until
June 20, after August 25 until October 7,
alter December 11.
Evening Stan.
Venus, until July 9.
Mara, until August 4.
Jupiter, until March 4, after October 13.
Saturn, after March 16 until September 25.
Mercury, after March 6 until April 19,
ifter June 20 until August 25, after October
r until December 1L
Planets Brightest.
Mercury, March 31st, July 29 th, November
SSd, setting then just after the Sun; also
January 19th, May 17th, September 11th,
ising then just before the Sub. Saturn,
March 16th. Venus, June 2d, August 15th.
ttars, August 4th. Jupiter, October 12 th.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Boston has a Fishermen's Union.
New York drug clerks have a union.
There is a National Waiters' Union.
The Government runs Hungarian mines.
Denver (CoL) City laborers get $2 a day.
Boston union waiters get |25 per month
Washington printers will build a $30,000
hall.
Union barber shops increase In New York
City.
Vienna, Austria, has 6000 idle shoemakers.
There are 50.000 unemployed men in New
1 ork City. <
Sacramento, Col, has an arbitration
committee.
The wife of London's Mayor was a
chambermaid.
Brooklyn has a Workmen's General
Benefit Union with four branches.
The Southern Pacific is compelling telegraphers
to take oath that they are not
union men.
An Indianapolis (Ind.) clerk sued a firm
Cor the time he worked over eight hours. He
jot $125. but the case will be appealed.
Census statistics show that the number of
jmpioyes on the Eastern railroads increased
twenty-five per cent, per mile from 18S0 to
L8S9, while in the Middle West the number
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t'UUJtt riiltSUJNS MUHUIjitJjJJ.
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A. Colored Desperado Kills His Wile
and Three Others.
A colored desperado, known as "Little
Joe" Patterson, living on the John Sewell
plantation, near Sh^eveport, La., deliberately
shot to death his wife And a colored
man. He then went to the store of James
Lay, a half-mile distant, and emptied bis
gun at him, mortally wounding him. He
next visited the house of Captain Dave Wallace,
whom he also shot and mortally
wounded.
Messrs. Wallace and Lay are prominent
citizens of Bossier parish, the former having
recently been nominated to the Legislature
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escape.
However, he was so closely pressed by a
pursuing mob that he returned to his home,
driving out the mourners who were sitting
up with his wife's body anc^ shot himself
dead. ?
The mob recovered the body of the murdered
woman and set Are to the house, and
Patterson's charred body lies in the ruins.
TWENTY-ONE DEOWNED,
The Boiler of an Italian Steamer Explodes
With Fatal Results.
The'Italian steamer Calabria left Genoa,
Italy,for Naples, having on board passengers
and crew altogether numbering thirty-three
persons. She had proceeded but a short
distance when her boiler exploded, so damaging
the steamer that she sank in a very
short time. Twenty-one were drowned, the
other twelve being saved either by the Calabria's
boats or by boats from other vessels
which were near by.
Over 100 cities have presented to the National
Democratic Committee their claims to
be choson as the place for the meeting of the
National Democratic nominating convention
at um.
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LATER MHBWg.
Mrs. Amelia Spxess blew out her brains
with a piatol at Lancaster, Penn., because
her mother threatened to put her husband
out of her house.
The Irwin (Penn.) Bank failed to open.
P. S. Pool & Son, proprietors, have made an
assignment.
Hestep. Lewis and Levia Shields, two
colored women, were killed, and two colored
men seriously injured by the collapse of the
Twin Bayou Bridge, near Natchez, Miss. A
boy had his arm broken. The party was
on the bridge with a four mule team when
the structure fell, carry i?rj them with it.
. Ex-Governor A. P. Si Safford, of
Oregon, died a few days ago at Tarpon
Springs, of which town he "as the founder.
He had been ill for over a yea-- He was
born in Vermont about tiftv-four vearr azo.
A railroad collision occurred near Alderson,
W. Va., between a freight and passenger
train. The killed were a fireman named
Lyons and a postal clerk named Burnett.
A railroad wreck also occured at Dudley,
Iowa. Seventeen cars were demolished and
Engineer Welsh and Fireman McGovern
were instantly killed.
The anti-lottery and pro-lottery wings of
the Democratic party of Louisiana held
separate conventions in Baton Rouge.
The President sent in the following nominations
for United States Circuit Court
Judges. William L. Putnam, of Maine, for
the First Judicial Circuit; Nathaniel Shipman,
of Connecticut, for the Second. George
M. DalJaa, of Pennsylvania, Third; Nathan
Goff, of West Virginia, Fourth, William H.
Taft, of Ohio, Sixth; William A. Woods, of
Indiana, Seventh, Warren Truitt, of Oregon,
United States District Judge for the
District of Alaska.
The fishing smack Osprey was wrecked
in the Firth of Tay, Scotland, during a severe
snow squall. The five men forming
her crew were drowned
The steamer Prince Soltykoff, from Barry
for St Nazaire. was wrecked off Brest.
France, and every person on board of
her, twenty in all, except the captain, was
drowned.
The Quebec (Canada) Cabinet wa3 dismissed
from office by Lieutenant-Governor
Angers. ^
FIFTY-SECOND_ CONGEESS.
In the Senate.
4th Day.?President Harrison sent fa a
list of appointments made during the recess
of-Congress, which require confirmation by
the Senate. There were about seventy-five
in all?The Senate then devoted itself to
the introduction of the bills. Six hundred
and eleven bills and ten joint resolutions were
offered in less than two hours, and were sent
to the Government Printing Office to be put
into type before being distributed among the
respective committees. The list included
three free coinage bills and three antiChinese
bills, a number of Alliance measures
from Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, and a joint
resolution bearing on the election of President
by the people.
5th Day.?In the reassembling of the
Senate at noon Vice-President Morton laid
before the Senate a number of interesting
documents, chief among them being the
report of the Signal Service?
The President sent in the entire list of recess
appointments additional to the names
already submitted. The list includes 281
postmasters and a large number of army and
navy appointments and appointments and
promotions in the revenue marine service?
i'he introduction of bills was resumed, 214 v
being presented. Among them were bills
to erect monuments to General U. S. Grant
and Martha Washington, to organize
permanent Census Bureau, to repeal the
law prohibiting ex-Confederates from
entering the Army and Navy of
the United States, and a number of
important merchant marine and shipping
bills. Proposed increased pension legislation
received several accessions, including a
hill ^pensioning all soldiers who fought in
Indian wars. Two additional bills #were
added to the list of Chinese restriction measures.
6th Day.?The Vice-President announced
the appointment of Mr. Morrill as Regent of
the Smithsonian Institution, to fill a vacancy
Mr. Sherman presented remonstrances
of several yearly meetings of Friends in
Indiana against the traffic in intoxicating
liquors and firearms in
Central Africa A-monr the bills
introduced and referred were the
following: For the purchase of a site for a
building for the Supreme Court of the
United States. For a bronze statue of
Christopher Columbus, ih Washington, and
the removal of the Naval Monument
to a new site. To authorize the erection
of bridges over the Hudson and East Rivers
at New York. For fortifications and other
seacoast defenses. To reorganize the infantry
of the army and increase its efficiency.
Providing for the adoption an? use of a uniform
standard automatic car-coupler and
regulating the operation and control of
freight trains used in interstate commerce.
7th Day.?The opening prayer was offered
by Rev. Joel Swartz, D.D., of Gettysburg,
Penn. The President sent in .the nominations
for United States Circuit Judges, as
provided by Section 1, Chapter 517, United
States Statutes at Large. Among the other
papers presented and Referred were numerous
memorials against th? Sunday
opening of the World's Fair The
annual report and copies of the bulletins
of the Bureau of American Republics
were presented and referred mere were
memorial? introduced in favor of woman
suffrage, of promoting the efficiency of the
Life Saving Service, and of the election of
United States Senators by the people.
In the House.
4th Dat.?The House met and adjourned
for four days after Spaal?r Crisp had announced
the following committees: Oa
Accounts?Messrs. Rush (Md.), Cooper (Ind.),
Dickerson (Ky.), Moses (S. C.), Seerley
(Iowa), Pearson (Ohio),Quackenbush (N. Y.),
Griswold (Penn.) and Cutting (Cal.). On
Mileage?Messrs. Castle (Minn.), CrawfoH
(N. C.), Kendall (Ky.), Caldwell (Ohio) ana
Flick (Iowa).
5th Dat.?In the opening prayer the
Chaplain invoked the Divine protection on
members of the House against the assaults
of the insidious disease now pervading the
land The Speaker announced nis committee
on the Rules as follows: The Speaker,
Messrs. McAtillin (Tennessee), Catchings
(Miss.), Reed, of Maiue,
and Burrows, of Michigan. Air.
Oates offered a resolution providing for
the appointment of a standing committee on
order of business, to consist of fifteen members
Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, rising,
said that It was his mournful duty to announce
the death of his friend and colleague,
the Hon. Leomdas C. Houk, who died suddenly
from accidental poisoning at his home
in Kiioxville in May last. The House then,
as a mark ol respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned.
TENNESSEE'S ARMY.
It .Numbers Only Sixteen Men, but
Gives Promise of Growing
Tennessee has a standing army. At present
it consists of only sixteen men, and is
sleeping in nine tents, but gives promise or
growing.
The army is bivouacked on Capitol Hill,
Nashville, waiting orders to march on Briceville.
The army arrived there lrom Memphis
the ?tber day. It dispersed itself over
the city during the morning, but late in the
afternoon came together again and gathered
at the Capitol.
The State officials are not very talkative,
but it was learned that these sixteen men
have been sworn in service for one year, and
that it is the intention to swear in altogether
150. They will be regularly equipped as
soldiers, and fifty men will be placed at
each of the branch prisons at Coal Croak,
Briceville and Oliver Springs.
Fob the season, the shipments of apples
from New York to Great Britain amount to
837.391 barrels, as against last year.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
VALUE OF OAT HAT.
Hay of oats is only half as nutritious
as tnat 01 timotny grass, me greea
fodder is about of the same relative
value. The relative money values are
fifteen cents per 100 pounds for the
green oats and filty cents for the dry
hay, against twenty-eight cents per 100
pounds for the green timothy and ninetyeight
cents for the hay. The timothy is
alio more digestible than the oats.? New
Torii Times.
APPLE POMACE AS PEED.
If vised while fresh, cattle will eat
apple pomace and get considerable good
from it. But it turns quickly to alcoholic
and acid fermentation, and when
this occurs it has little, if any, value for
feeding. It is then not even good for
fertilizing the soil, as its acidity kills
vegetation that it comes in contact with.
When frozen and rotted the following
year it again becomes of some value as
a fertilizer.?Boston Cultivator.
TO CLEAN SADDLES.
To clean a saddle take a good clean,
deorderized benzine, about seventy-five
gravity, and thoroughly wash the saddle
in it; don't hesitate to put considerable
elbow grease along with it, ,it will take
considerable rubbing. Use plenty of
solt rags, they soon get dirty as the dirt '
rubs out of the leather, so you will.hare
to vise plenty of them. On the buckskin
rub fine pipe-clay, which will absorb and 1
dry out the dirt and stains. If the hog- '
Ekic has lost its color, or you wish to
makjit look nice and new, brush it over
lightly with an extract made from the
best English saffron. Anyone will find
that oxalic acid, dissolved in soft water,
will clean fair or russet leather very
nicely. Rub on with a piece of white
cotton, rag. It is not good for sore
hands, or to use as a beverage.?Hortt
I Bedew.
THE CULTURE OF THE SQUASH.
The manner of growth of the gourd
family, to which the squash, melon and
cucumber all belong, is such that a
special mode of culture is required to
produce a full yield of fruit. This
peculiarity is that the vine, if left alone,
-will throw out a long main stem aad only
a few side stems. The main stem produces
mostly male blossoms and the '
female or fruit-producing flowers are '
borne' on the side shoots. Thus, unless
the main stem be shortened and the side |
nes encouraged, there will be a small j
crop of fruit; and, as this was your
dilemma, it is probable the main stem
was not checked in its usually luxuriant i
growth. This plant and others of the i
? 21?. UA / ? in killa fnArn i
XttUlUJf buuuiu uc ^iv/nu xu uuw aiv/iu
four to eight feet apart to afford room
for a stocky growth, and the main stem
should be confined by pinching to these
limits, and the plot i? thus filled up with
side shoots. Then, with good manuring
and clean culture, the ground may be
covered with fruit.?New York Timt?.
"WATERING THE HENS IN WINTER.
Unless the hens can have plenty of it,
they cannot produce eggs. In the winter
season, when the drinking vessels
bccome frozen up with ice and are liable
to crack from cold, the matter of providing
water becomes a difficulty. We all
know that a cold draught of water in
winter chills the body, as it must be
warmed by the body after ft is drink;
consequently, ice-water causes a loss of
bodily heat. As the beat is produced
from thefood,all losses of heat are losses
of food. Now,it is just as easy to water
the hens at regular hours as it is to water
[ the large stock, and the best mode of so
[ doing is to use wooden troughs long
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the same time. Early in the morning,' j
at noon and before night fill the troughs <
with warm water, allow the hens to
drink until all are satisfied, and then ]
thiow out the water that remains. In ^
this manner the troughs will be kept j
clean,the hens will learn to drink-at reg- (
ular periods, tnd the warm water will j
invigorate them. In fact, nothing is so {
I invigorating, or will assist in warding of! 1
the cold when the hens come off the }
roost in the morning, with the ther- ,
mometer below zero, than a drink of {
warm water.?Farm and Firetide.
WINTER CARE OF SWINE.
To do their best, or even fairly well, '
swine must be shielded from the inclem- !
encies of the weather,says Galen Wilson, j
They should have, as near possible, sum- :
mer conditions in winter. This can be ;
easily and cheaply accomplished. The 1
pen should be floored,first packing earth
between and flush with the face of the
sills. The floor will then rest partly on a
the sills and the earth. Cold air cannot ^
then get under the floor to chill it. Beneath
where the animals sleep, floor,
earth and sills will be >\ arm all winter, a
The sides of the pen should be double- t.
boaraea, ana tue space ueiwecu ue uucu with
sawdust or cut straw, packed close, d
The under side of the roof should be ?
ceiled with boards or building paper, b
The door should be in the end, if a low *
pen, and be in two parts, an upper and ti
a lower. In all but extremely cold v
weather the upper part of the door can
be thrown open, or partly, to give nec- c
cssary ventilation. Hang a thermometer <3
inside, and keep it at about sixty degrees.
This gives "summer conditions," r
so far as temperature is concerned. a
About six quarts or a peck of beets E
and au ear of corn twice a day will win- t
ter a mature breeding sow as well as it w
can be done. They need no "slops" n
nor scarcely any drinking water. There h
is sufficiency in the beets. In tho ab- p
sence of beets, tho feed should be made ti
up principally of wheat bran, mill feed, tl
a very little corn, cut aud steamed c
clover and some refuse, or other vege- s'
tabies of any kind. A shovelful of coal &
ashes, earth or rotton wood occasionally
is desirable. Salt should be placed be- t
fore them occasionally iu bulk, but not f
in greesy dish-water or other slops. Let I s
their drinking water always be pure and e
not too cold. Pleasant days, when the j,
temperature is agreeable, they may be
allowed tu run out.?JYeio York Voice. Y
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8HKKP NOMENCLATURE. r
The folllov.ing is from Stephens's Book i
of the Farm: W"iien uewboru it is called c
a "la:rb;" if male, in Scotiaud, a "tup- s
lamb. When castrated it is called a i
"homr-lamb:" if female, a "e\ve.lamb." i
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la Eugiand the young sheep retaius the t
Dame of lamb till It ia ei.ijhi mouth.1) old. f
In Scotland, after weaning and before t
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first clipping, a "tub-lamb** is called a
"tup-hogg. In England lambs after |
they*are eight months old, till the first
shearing, "ewe" and "weather-tegs," according
to sex. In Scotland a "ewe*
hogg" aft&r the first clipping is called a j
"gimmer," a "tup-hog," a "shearing
tup," and a 4*wether hog" a "dinmont."
The animal corresponding to the
name of "gimmer" in Scotland is called
in England a "theave" until it bears the
first lamb, after which it is termed a
"ewe of four teeth;" tht year after,
"ewe of six teeth,"and after that a "fullmouthed
ewe." The "dmmont" in Scotland
answers in England to the title of ,
"shear hog" until they are deprived of
the fleece, after which they are called'
"two-shear wethers," and atterwards
"wethers." In Scotland the shearing
brings about another change of names;
,? ?t _t_ _ _ _ 1 L --
tnus tne "gimmer, u sue is in umu is
called a "ewe;" if barren a "barrengimmer;"
and an "eild-gimmer" if she
is not?pat to "tup" or "rata." A
"shearing-tup" is changed to a "twoshear
tap;" a "dinmont" becomes a
"wether." When three times shorn a ewe
is called a "twinter-ewe," a "tup," a
"three-shear tup;" a "wether"- undergoes
no change of name, but still continues
to be called by that name. After
the fourth shearing,i "ewe" is a "threewinter
ewe," or an "aged ewe;" a "tup"
is known as an "aged tup." When a
4'ewe" fails to be with lamb a second
time, she is called a "tup-ewe" or "barren-ewe;"
when she ceases to give milk
a "yeld-ewe;" when removed from the
breeding flock, at whatever age, she is
called a "draft;" when put aside unfit"
for breeding a "draft-gimmer;" and
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stock, lambs, diamoata, or wethers are
called "sheddings," "tails," or
"drafts."
FABH AND GARDEN NOTES.
Horses should not be left out in the
chill rains which we will hare from now
on. When colts are shivering in th?
open air, with their backs bowed and'
heads down, such negligence is coitly,to
say nothing of the cruelty.
The friction due to the passage of
water through a long pipe .is so great
that if a half-inch pipe 2500 feet long is
used the water would not reach, the outlet.
To bring the water this distance it would
be necessary to have the upper half of
the pipe at least one inch in diameter.
One of the commonest and most stupid
faults seen in stock-raising is the semistarvation
of young animals, particularly
calves and edits. With good care their t
growth is more chiefly obtained than any I
other time of life, and young animals are I
ilmost sure, with ignorant farmers, to be 1
raiaod nn a Hint that nrematurel* dwarfo 1
them for life.
Clover hay, cat very fine and steeped
in boiling water over night, and-*
sprinkled with corn meal slightly, fed
three times a week, is excellent, bat unless
it is exceedingly fine the chieks cannot
eat it. One of the best invigorators, ^
however, is the decoction from the, a
clover (clover tea), given in place of the fi
drinking water occasionally, bat it matt j*J
be fresh and not stale. >1
One who has tried the Honied Dorset U
sheep is very emphatic in his assertion
that they cannot be excelled by any other* I
as general purpose sheep for the middle
temperate zone. They are especial)y fl
noted for their prolificacy of breeding, ^
usually raising two lambs per ewe per ^
annum Thftv at? larm bodied, heaw.'
seated, produce ad excellent quality of
mutton aad a good fleece or medium
uoarse wool.
If one pipe is to supply two outlets, J
;he supply pipe next to the spring must |
3e large enough to fully fill both of 1
;hem. Otherwise the water will take I
;he easier way of escape and leave the
>ther pipe without any water. If the -j
stream will fill a one-and-a-half inch
pipe at the head, the other pipes may be '
>ne inch in diameter, because the larger
)ipe will have a capacity of two and a ,
quarter times that of the one-inch pipe.
Keep your eye?and nose too?on the
inen cream strainer, and the rag used
for washing the milk and . eream cans,
be churn and the butter worker. All
bese things need close watching during
be hot days, which are so productive of
nicrobes and musty conditions. Hot;
vater and plenty of sun and air are the!
requisites for keeping things sweet, ancp"^
inder no circumstances can the dairy- y
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nan anuria, wv iai?u
:ral use.
A single cow, in cold weather, will
)e more profitable if fed generously
ban two cows fed stingily, and if both loused
and fed well, it will pay better
han a dozen fed and housed poorly.
)ne-half the rations given in winter
s often necessary to supply animal heat.
Ivoid this waste by having wara ouarera.
If the milk is allowed to shrink
,t the beginning of cold weather,' 'bj y
leglecting these precautions, it will b<
Lifficult to revive the supply.
Fowls at the moulting season undergo
great drain of the system to supply , ;j
he growth of new feathers. Deaths
rom this cause are, apart from a little
irect peci4^ry loss, not looked upon as
misfortune. The sure eye of nature
as picked out the very ones that joa"" a
rould be glad to be rid of could yoa de- 'jj
ect them,and left you the hardiest indi- 8
iduals to breed from, the weakness of
uch particular ones, moreover, often. $
onsisting in some profound fault that 'Jjj
oes not show itself. V
The clover plant is no exception to the ?
ale mac a very lar^e growiu ui icat ia
pt to be at the expense of the seed crop.
Jut there is one way of manuring clover
o make it seed abundantly,- and that is
rith mineral fertilizers. While stable
lanuring tends to excess of vine, the '
?rgo growth produced by applying phoshate
and potash increases seed proporionably.
Much, however, depends on
be season. Dry weather, after the first
utting, which forces the roots into the
ubsoil for moisture, is usually favorable
o'seed production.
There can be no dispute about the fact
bat it is wisdom and economy both, in
owl breeding, to "feed well from the
hell" upward. If your birds are intendd
for the market only, they are always
a readiness thus for killings if for breedug,
to "feed well from the shell" upward.
If your birds are intended for
he market only, they are always in. i
eadincss thus for killing; if for breedng,
they are thus always in the best
ouditiou for the purpose; if for the
how pens, there is no fattening or foreng
to do at the last hour to render them
n presentable shape. So we would,
hercforc, recommend good care, good
ecd, and good quarters for poultry all
he time.
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