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the Mod calamity.
Greatest Desolation Eyer Seen
in the South and West.
Hundreds of Lives Lost and Millions
of Property Destroyed.
Fr >m the very source of the Father of
Waters down to the Louisiana delta the story
is one o! desolation. Farms ruined, houses
swept away, live stock drowned, railroads
idle, human livds in danger?such is tho his*
tory of the big flood. Beginning at St.
Cloud, north of Minneapolis, following the
Mississippi down to Keokuk, Iowa, where the
givat. Egyptian levee has yielded,
flooding "thousands of acres of the
richest farm lands on the continent; thence
in succession passing the cities of Quincy
and Alton, in Illinois, where the work of
the wind and water has been disastrous, the
first great stage of the desolate journey ends
at St. Louis, Mo. It is impossible to make
an estimate of the damage to property
in that city and vicinity, except 10 say
that millions will express it, and that
the loss embraces untold acres of growing
crops destroyed, the wreck of several villages,
injury to factories, the stoppage of
trains, and the demoralization of business.
Devastation hovers over a big and prosperous
manufacturing district. Already the
losses and damages turn over 11,000,000,and
hundreds of men are in forced idleness.
Merely to name towns and villages in
Missouri and Illinois that have suffered
from the inundation, would make a list of
appalling length. The truth is that the destruction
is so widespread and overwhelming
in its character, as to bo difficult not
only of description, but of realizatior.
On the Missouri, too, and its tributaries,
the waters are abroad to a greater extent
than ever before known. Throughout the
Dakotas farms are under water, bridges
have been carried away and railroad tracks
undermined. The horror at Sioux City,
Iowa, is still engaging attention, and the
full story of the deluge has not yet
been told. Even yet hundreds of people
are closely following the receding
floods, searching for their ruined homes
and missing relatives. Weeks and perhaps
months wi*l be required to repair the havoc
caused by -the flood, and it will probably
never be known exactly how many ptrishea
in the torrent. The loss by water even when
the buildings were not carried away, was
very large. Everything is soaked or ruined,
or smashed by the waves or by the timbers
hurled along oy the current.
Down through Nebraska the Missouri and
its tributaries are on the rampage. The
Platte is especially turbulent, and all along
its course through the State until it empties
into Big Muddy at Plattsmouth it has left
desolation on either side.
At Kansas City the Missouri River it
higher than at any time since 1844. The
town of Harlem is left without a soul of its
populace, and many houses have been carried
from their foundations.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says?
Ten thousand people along the banks of
the Mississippi have been rendered homeless
bj the ravages of the Hood between this
city and Cairo, 111. In some parts the river
ranges from ten to twenty miles in width.
The river runs are swesping away homes,
drowning stock and submerging bottom
lands. Five hundrai thoosand acres of
growing crops have tx en destroyed. As the
water begins to go down an estimate is
being made of the art oal damage done, and
it is believed that half a million will
not cover it. There are now in Harlem,
Argentine, Armourdala and West Kansas
over I0f>0 houses which have been
deserted. It is impossible to make more
than a rough estimat \',but it is believed that
the damage, actual and resultant, will
t amount to fully $5,000,003 In this immediate
vicinity. In the flooded district probably
1500 square miles are submerged to an extent
which renders it impossible for th9 farmers
to raise crops. At least 15,000 persons
have been tbrowa out of employment.
The following Louisiana parishes are of
firtnd bv crevasse water: East Carroll, Ma1
laon,Tensas,Concordi?, Morehouse, Richland,
Caldwell, Catahoula, St. Charles, St. Johu,
Plaquemines, Assumption, La Fourch?,
Caddo and Bossier. The large crevasses now
running are two on the Lafourche bayou
and two on the Mississippi proper.
A telegram from Shreveport. La., say*:
The whole country above here, with few exceptions,
is one sheet of water, and the flood
offerers have taken refuge in houses, barns
and gin-housee, from whtca they are awaiting
succor. Despatches have been reojived
reporting a oig rise at Garland
City, and advising the committee at
Benton to spare no pains to hold
the leveee. At 3.30 o'clock in the morning
the Dan Nicholson levee on the Bossier side,
a few miles below this city, gave away at a
point where no danger was anticioated. The
guards were seated in a store n9ar by, and
the store and contents were carried away.
Fifty armed citissns cut the levea at Ottumwa
to save their property. The cutting
was calculated to injure the property of the
Water Comoany, and the company apt>ealed
?- ? if U.ll ar.a
TO 6C0 \jlhJ JlmroiHill, VUV mw
T!?e Water Company's superintenient attempted
to stop the men, but be withdrew
when a revolver was levelled at bis bead. A
dike was soon opened in three places, allowing
the water to escape.
The Secretary of War has authorized the
Chief of Engineers to use Government boa1;*
upon all Western rivers to save human life
where residents of the flooded districts are in
danzer.
Governor Boies, of Iowa, after investigating
the flooded districts resolved to issue a
proclamation inviting the people of Iowa
and the country generally to contribute for
the relief of the destitute people. The proclamation
will state that 1200,000 is needed
for this purpose.
A telegram from Castoria, Ark., stated
that 1500 mec, women and children were
water bound there and askel that a boat be
sent to their rescue.
The destitution amon? the flood sufferers,
white as well as colored, between Little
Bock, Ark., and the mouth of the Arkansas
?uter, is appalling, rine biuii ana us vicinity
is covered with thousands of refugees.
Tbe cotton crop; ail alon? the river is totally
destroyed, and it is hard to tell on what the
farmers will liva this summer. The Government
boat C. B. Reece supplied 15'JO
half-famished people on seventeen different
landings with provisions furnished by the
citizens of Little Rock. Hundreds o! people
were taken up along the trip, and put of?
on dry placeo. At Eagle's Landing 120 people
were found living in three houses. Two
men were seen drowning by the crew, and
four were rescued froai housetops, where
they ?or hours fouud refuje> A flotilla
of Government boats is continually on the
river bringing sucor to the helples3 victims
of the flood.
The entire Illinois Valley is desolate.
Farms that are usually b9ing worked at
this time of the year are now under several
feet of water. The farmers have abandoned
the hope of being able to get a crop
of corn in this year, as the season will fa*
too Into. It will take three or four weeks of
tbe mo. ~<avor%bl? weather to get the Water
off the farm?, and the ground will be tco
wet to work.
The American Red C*v,ss Association has
decided to receive no more relief for distribution
in Russia. They recommend to thfi
generous people who wish to give that they
rond all relief direct to the destitute cities
and towns in the flooded districts of the
West and South of our own countrw
WAGES OF FABM LABOEEES.
The Department or Agriculture Issues
a Report on That Subject.
Secretary Rusk has published a report on
the wages of farm labor in the Unite!
States. The tables show that in 1SC45,
monthly farm wages, without board, were
as follows: In Eastern States, 133.31;
Middle Staws,fjy.oo; oouuieru o?t??,?iw.uu1
Western States, $27.84; Mountain States,
J27.33; Paciflc States, $44.60, the average
being $36.87. Wage3 were lowest in 1879, J
>hen the average was 816.05. Since then
Aioy have slowly increased year by year, until
at present they are: In the Eastern
States, *36.46, Middle States, $23.&3; Southern
States, 614.86; Western, 122.61; Mountain,
$33.16; Pacific, $36.15. The average per
month tor the whole year being $18.60.
Tbe report says that "A careful analysis
of all tbe data collected concerning farm
wages from 1840 to 18S5, in comparison witb !
results of the more recent investigations, will
how that in fifty years the compensation of j
farm laborer! has very nearly doubled." !
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
JsAtiOrrs Ferdinand Palkowizc, a Hungarian
blacksmith in East Orange, N. J.,
shot and killed bis wife and ended his own
me.
A great fire raged along the water front
at Oswego, N. Y.. sweeping through the lins
of elevators. It startea in the big Washington
Mills. Six elevators were destroyed.
The Director of Warner's Observatory.
Rochester, N. Y? who discovered the comet
now attracting so much attention, has succeed
in obtaining ail excallent photo?rapn.
The comet has eight distinct tails and is unprecendented
in astronomic history.
The Torpedo Board, consisting of Commander
G. A. Converse and Lieutenants T.
C. McLean and C. A. Bradbury, having in
charge the tests of the Destrover's submarine
gun at the Brooklyn (N'. Y.) Navy Yard, has
made a successful trial of Ericsson's powerful
projectile.
As experiment with bicycles as a mode of
conveying war dispatches has h?en made under
the auspices of the United States Army.
A small armv of wheelmen forwarded a dispatch
from General Miles in Chicago to G?n?
eral Howard on Governor's Island, New
York. The trip took four days, twelve
hours, four minutes anl lorcy-eiRiuseconas.
Rains interfered with the cyclists ana another
test will bo made.
Edward Butler, aged 102 years, died a
few nights sines at Elizibsth, N. J. It is said
he was never sick a day in his life before his
last sickness. He retained his maatal faculties
to the end.
William H. Vanderbilt, eldest son of
Cornelius Vanderbiit. died at his father's
home in New York City from typhoid fever.
He was twenty-one years old, and was
destined to inherit his fataar's vast fortune.
Work was stopped on the monument to
commemorate the Battle of Trenton, N. J.,
owing to the fact that the necessary granite.
which comes from a Vermont quarry,
was tied up in New York by the retU3al of
workmen to handle it.
Secretary of State Blaine went to
New York City from Washington to see his
granddaughter and to have his eyes examined.
Patrice Fitzpatrick was hanged at
Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of bamuel
Early. It was the first execution iu Allegheny
County in eight years.
The People's Bank at Sea Isle City, N. J.,
closed its doors for lac!; of business. The
officers of the bank announca that the depositors
will be paid in full.
Mrs. Ralph Noyes, of Woodsville, N. h.,
went suddenly insane and dr&nk a strong
solution jof aconite. She then forced
her two children to partake of the mixture.
Then she cut th? children's throat with a
razor. The mother is dead and the children
fatally hurt.
South and West.
Sixteen* colored persons were drowned by
the floods in Arkansas.
At a dinner in Baltimore Md., the silver
service given by its citizens to the United
States cruisar Baltimore was formally accepted
by Secretary Tracy.
There were snowstorms throughout Min?
j
esota, w isconsin sua pai ?ui
Seaborn Smith, colored, was hanged at
Covington, Ga., for assaulting a colored
girl.
Eliven King's Daughters of Chicago and
St. Louis were passengers on the steamer
Island of the Thingvalla line, which sailed
from New York for Chriptiania and Copenhagen.
They are going to the relief or the
starving Russians with a purse of about
110,0[)0, which was collected in Chicago and
St. Louis.
Patrick and Jakes Dody, aged respectively
fourteen and eighteen years, were shot
and killed by Charles Ebbinghaus in the
yard of the tatter's residence in St. Louis,
Mo. The two boys, who bore a bad reputation,
were drinking beer in the yard.
Governor Northen, in view of the recent
triple lynching in Clarksville, tas issuad an
address to the people of Georgia denouncing
the outrage, offering: a heavy reward for the
murderers, and calling for the enforcement
Of law.
Charles Stxwakt, a prisoner confined
in the Perry County (Ark.) jail has been
lynched. He seized an iron poker and struck
Deputy 8heriff Holmes across the head,
fatally injuring him.
At Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Henry Morris,
sixty-fire, wanted to marry Lena Williams,
fifteen. Lena's father objected and Henrv
killed him.
Joskph Hardin, a young man of Willington,
Kan., underwent a mock trial and died
of heart failure after being condemned to
death. He had been attentive to a number
of ladies and their husbands determined to
play a joke on him.
An incendiary fire at Chehalis, Washington,
destroyed four blocks. Loss, $110,000.
Walter Siuth, coiorec, woo assaunou a
white girl, was taken from the jail at Cabot,
Ark., and lynched.
The car drivers' strike at New Orleans,
La., assumed serious proportions, and rioting
occurred all orer the city. The Mayor
swore in over 150 citizens as officers.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Tengham and the
nine-year-old daughter of Charles Pinckney
were drowned at Aransas Pass, Texas.
The Territorial Convention of the Republican
party was held at South McAlester,
Indian Territory. The delegates elected to
the Minneapolis Convention are as follows:
Ridge Pascol, a full-blooded Cherokee, who
heads the delegates, of Tahlequah; John S.
Hammer,of Ardmore. One or the alternates
is a colored man. The delogates were uninstructed,
but are for Harrison.
At the Third Party Convention at Charlotte,
N. C., it was resolved to present the
name of L. L. Polk to the National Convention
at Omaha, Neb., .as a Presidential candidate.
Fire destroyed a number of mills in
Spokane, WasningtoD, and caused $230,000
damage. Three man were injured and two
perished.
Washington.
A proclamation was issue 1 by the President
announcing a reciprocity arrangement
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Wicn uruawsixiaio uu mnu j ?
A bill to place on the pension roll, at the
rata of 520 a month, George W. Jones, of
Iowa, formerly a distinguished Senator from
that State, was reported to th e Benato by
Mr. Turpie and was immediately passed.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination
of Nathan A. Morford, of Arizona,
to be Secretary of Arizona.
a petition' was presented in the Eouse of
Representatives by Mr. Cummings, of New j
York, bearing 25,003 signatures of merchant
tailors, asking for the passage of a
law prohibiting any person from bringing
in rrea of duty more than two full suite of
c.othes and one overgarment of foreign
manufacture or workmanship.
The thickest piece of armor ever manufactured
in this country has been successluily
tested at the Indian Head proving
grounds. It was one of thft ten fourteenhicb
nickel steel diagan*l plates for the Indiana.
being the first of the battle ship
armor plates completed by the Bethlehem
(Fenn.) Iron Works.
The President appointed Admiral Stephen
B. Luce, retired, to be Commissioner-General,
and Professor G. Brown Goode. Assistant
Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti
t.utioD, an! Professor James C. Wellington,
President of the Columbian University, to
be Assistant Commissioners to represent the
XTn'tod States at the Columbian Historical
ExDosition, to be held in Madrid, Spain, in
1S92, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America.
The President withdrew the nomination
of Frederick Bancroft a"? United Stated ConI
sul at Brunswick, Germany.
The Italian Minister, Baron Fava, was
received in the Blue Room of the White
House by President Harrison. He was accompanied
by the attaches of the Italian
Legation. Secretary Blaine accompanied
the Baron to the Executive Mansion and
made the introductions. Mr. Blaine had a |
long conference with the President afterward.
The executors of the will of the late General
George W. G'ullom. of New York City,
called on Secretary Elkins and presented
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mm B ULlOCi. iur t^Ol),UUU| tuc kuiuuuu w* ?
bequest made by Ueneral Cullom for the
erection of a memorial hall at West Point
Military Academy. Secretary Elkins formally
acc9pt?d the bequest.
A caucus of the Democratic members of
the House decided that the remaining appropriation
bills shall be disposed of in their
regular order before other bills are takes up.
Sir Julian Pa.uwc*fofk, the British
Minister, and Lady Paunceforta gave a reception
at the British Legation, Washing
too, in honor of the seventy-second anniversary
of the birthday of Queen Victoria.
Foreign.
E. P. Deacon, of Boston, Mass., was tried
at Nice. Franco, for the killing of M. Abeille
his wife's admirer, was found guilty or the
wilful wounding of the latter, and was
sentenced to imprisonment for a year.
Spain' has cancelled the prohibition of the
import of American pork, which has been
in force for many years.
Dispatches from Lagos announce that
the British have defeated the Jebus near
Magone. T wenty chieftains and 400 soldiers
were killed.
Frederick Batlet Deeming, on3 of the
most versatile and bloodthirsty wretches in
the history of the world's crime, has been
executed at Melbourne, Australia, for the
murder of his wife. He made no confession.
Fifteen students who were attending the
convent at Wurmsbach, in the canton of St.
Gall, Switzerland, were boating on Lake
Zurich when their boat was capsized and all
were thrown into the water. Seven of them
were drowned.
Thk celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of tho marriage of the King and Queen of
Denmark began at Copenhagen.
Phylloxera, has appeared in eleven
provinces of Spain. Great injury has been
done in the vineyards in the affected places,
especially in Gerona.
Herr Schencx, Manager of the St. Gall
branch of the Federal Bank, of Switzerland,
has been arrested for embezzling the
funds of the institution. The amount that
he has taken is at least $1,000,000.
Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians
fought near Los Pilros, Mexico. Seym privates
and two officers were killed. The
Yaquis were dispersed.
President Diaz has appointed Senor
Matias Romero, the present Minister to the
United States, Minister of Finance. No
successor to Senor Romero as Minister to
the United States will be appointed at
present.
Sir Alexander Campbell, LieutenantGovernor
of Ontario, Canada, is dead. Hi
was the son of the late James Campbell, M.
D., and was born in Yorkshire, England, is
1833. _
LATER NEW?.
after an aosonce or exaony iwonty-uvu
weeka the United States cruiser Chicago,
flagship of Acting Rear Admiral J. G.
Walker, returned to the harbor of New
York.
The Dorflinger glass works at White
Mills, near Honesdale, Penn., were almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000.
Robert J. Godfrey, of Pittsburg, Penn.,
Treasurer of the Supreme Lodge of the
Order of Solon, is charged with embezzling
$14,000.
The Prohibitionists of Vermont held a
State Convection at Rutland. E. L. Allen,
of Fairhaven, was nominated for Governor.
The Democratic State Convention of
New Jersey assembled at Trenton and instructed
the delegates to Chicago for Cleveland.
A mob attacked the jail at Dallas, Texas,
in order to lynch a colored man who killed
a polioeman. Two of them were shot and
the others desisted.
The Kentucky Democratic State convention
met at Louisville and elected an uninstructed
delegation to the National Convention
at Chicago.
At the Washington Democratic State
Convention in Vancouver all the eight delegates
chosen for Chicago were Cleveland
meD, and the name of the ex-President was
loudly cheered. No instructions were given.
It was estimated that at least 10,000 people
were rendered hornless by floods on the
lowlands of the St. Francis and White Rivers.
Thirty-two lives in all have been lost
in the Arkansas bottoms. Governor Fifer
of Illinois issued a proclamation calling for
money, food and clothing for the flood suffers.
The damage in Madison, St. Charles
and St. Claire Counties will foot up $11,000,
000.
The Democrats of Colorado held their
State Convention at Denver. The delegates
to the National Convention are uninst
rue ted, but all of them are known to be
pronounced Hill men.
The United States Treasury balance is
stated at 127,089,844, made up entirely of
deposits in National banks, subsidiary silver
and minor coin.
A new commercial treaty has been negotiated
between Austria* Hungary and the
United States on the basis of the reciprocity
clause of the McKinley bill.
A commercial, modus vivondi has been
arranged between Spain and France.
Queen Victoria's seventy-third birthday
was celebrated in London by a parade.
The fetes in honor of the golden wedding of
the King and Queen began in Denmark.
Four soldiers were fatally injured at
Chalons, France, by m explosion of gunpowder.
They, with two others, were conveying
a chest of gunpowder to the camp
firing grounds, and on the way stopped to
rest, sitting down on the chest. Without
thinking of the powder they began smoking
cigarettes, and almost immediately the explosion
occurred,
THE LABOR WORLD.
Uncle Sam has 3000 women printers. |
The supply of good stenographers in
Australia is far below the demand.
Government farms are to be established
in New Zealand for people out of employment.
Artisans in Italy receive thirly to forty
cents a day ana are uuu i ogmcu ij
at that.
The Workingmen's General Benefit Union
has 10.433 members and $10,720.70 in its
treasury.
Girls who work as waiters in the cheap
luncheon places in New York City get 16 a
week and their meals.
The International Cigar-ifakara' Union
has about 4700 members on strike, and $550,COO
in the general treasury.
Eastern Pennsylvania farmers are
looking for emigrants to assist them, home
labor bein? impossible to obtain.
Governor Flower, of New York, has
signed the bill providing that mines muse
have two entrances for the safety of workman.
A combination of the leading houses in
all branches of the Bohemian glass industry
has been formed with the object of regula
I ting output and prices.
The Central London Railway, tngiana, w
to run three workmen's trains daily, the fare
being only two cents for six miles, the cheap
est railway fare in the world.
The Trades and Labor Council of Vancouver,
British Columbia, reports that over
forty-five per cent, of the workmen, both in
Vancouver and Victoria, ara out of employment.
United States Labor Commissioned
Carroll D. Wright has found a cotton
mill in which the average earnings for six
months was $S0 a head of the labor employed.
It is not uncommon in Northumberland,
England, for a farmer to allow any of his
laborers who wish for it the keep of a cow as
I part payment of wages, greatly to the beneI
lit of their families.
Austin Dyer, masta.- shipbuilder in the
shipyard of J. W. Savage & Son, Millbridge,
Me., is an unusual example of a man who it
I thnr-micr), jn his nrofession. He is
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able, personally, to do every part of tha
work connected with a ship, from selecting
aud cutting the timber to fitting the vessel
(or sea, ana is also perfectly capable of navigating
if. after it is launched.
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AN ISLAND LAD) WASTK
A Hurricane's Fatal and Destructive
Work at Mauritius.
EnormouB Damage to Buildings,
Shipping and Standing Crops,
Baron de Worms, Parliamentary SecreHfflna
raaH a fala-rrom {n I
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the British House of Commons, London,
folly confirming the news of the terrible disaster
at Mauritius. The dispatch said that
one-third of the capital city, Port Louis,
was destroyed. Among the buildings
wrecked were the Royal College and twentyfour
churches. Many sugar mills in the
country were completely demolished.
The special correspondent of the Times
nays that the loss of life in Mauritius ia not
less than 15,000.
In the city of Port l/ouis alone 600 persons
were killed. In the various country districts
at the time tbe dispatch was sent, 800
persons were known to have lost their lives.
The latest official estimates were thatl200
persons were killed. It was thought that
many of those who were injured would die.
The hospitals in Port Louis were filled to
overflowing wicti tne injured, ana tents were
erected on the hospital grounds to accommodate
those whose injuries demanded instant
attention. In Port Louis alone
1000 persons were injured. The Government.
which is under the direction of Sir
Charles Cameron Lees, has taken measures
to relieve the distress that prevails in every
direction. Thousands of people have lost
their houses. Baron de Worms added that
Lord Knutsford, the Colonial Secretary, had
communicated the facts of the disaster to
the Lord Mayor of Loudon, and stated that
the latter would at once open a fund for the
benefit of the islanders.
Other advices from Mauritius are to the
effect that the devastation caused by the
hurricane was enormous. Business at Port
Louis, the capital, and at the other towns on
tbe island is still greatly interrupted. All
the crops suffered more or less, and some of
them are ruined. The hurricane was
accompanied by one of the heaviest rainstorms
in those latitudes.
When the storm broke, the scene defied
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description, auiiu uuo i uai ui
coula be heard the crashing of thunder that
was appalling in its violence. The flashes
of lightning were so awfully vivid that even
those who have seen the electrical displays
that sometimes occur in the tropics were
frightened. The people were panic-stricken,
and sought safety in their houses, many of
them only to find death shortly afterward in
the falling buildings. The wind gauges were
blown to atoms, but those best qualified to
jndge say that the wind blew at th9 rate of
120 miles an hour. It was utterly impossible
for a human being to stand against it
Many of those who lost their lives were
killed by being lifted bodily from their feet
and dashed against trees, walls and houses.
The greater part ot the fatalities were
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doos, Chinese and Malagassys, who do much
of the work in the plantations.
There was no loss of life among the British
troops on the island, although number of
the soldiers were injured. The hospitals are
unable to accommodate a tithe of the patients
offered,and many hundreds of dwellings
in town, village and country are giving
refuge and such succor as they can to
the crippled and wounded sufferers.
The dead were buried as rapidly as possible,
many of them being thrown together in a
common grave, as it was feared that the
corpses in that warm climate might cause a
pestilence. In some places whole families
were buried beneath the ruins of their
houses.
Mauritius, or the Isle of Prance, is an
island belonging to Great Untain, lying in
the Indian Ocean, about 460 miles east of
Madagascar, and 2327 miles from Capa of
Good Hope. It is thirty-six miles long, and
thirty-two miles wide, and has an area of
676square miles. It is noted for its violent
hurricanes, and has been the scene of many
great disasters.
The island was first settled by the Dutch
in 1644. They named it Mauritius in honor
of Prince Maurice, but afterword abandoned.
it. Then the French took it and
called it Isle de France.
The English captured the island in 1809.
Slavery existed until 1833.
The island is a strategic point of importance
to England with regard to her Indian
possessions. It is surrounded by coral reefs
which, on the leeward aide, make fine protected
harbors. The reefs are cut by eleven
passes, through most .of which vessels of
large draught can enter. The island is very
fertile. Indigo, cotton, sugar, and spices
are grown successfully. Deer, wild hogs,
goats and apes are common, in the moun>
tains.
| The population is a little over 300,000, and
is made up of various Asiatic, African, and
European races. The English encouraged
Indian immigration, ana tnis element u
large. The other great branch of the population,
the libsrated Africans and their descendants,
regard themselves as superior to
the Indiana Port Louis is the only town of
importance. It has a convent, with a large
school attached, a college supported in part
by the Government, and a number of Government
schools. SeverrJ newspapers ara
printed there. The Government is similar
to that of other British colonies.
MUBDEB AVENGED.
i Two Train Robbers Shot Dead by a
Sheriff's Posse.
Two of the express robbers who held up
the train at Monroe Junction, Fla., several
mornings ago, and killed Messenger Saunders,
have paid ths penalty of their crime.
They were killed at Buffaia Bluff Bridge,
on the St John River, flv# miles south of
Palatka.
A Palatka special says: "At about halfpast
twelve o'clock a natlesa colored man
staggered into the Court House and said,
'Come to Buffalo Bluff?-robbers P"
Deputy Sheriff Dyson aroused his posse
and a special train left with them. George
Wurtz andT. H. Wigg, the guard placed
by the Sheriff's posse at Buffalo Bluff
bridge, at half-past eleven a. m. saw three
men coming from the south on the railroad
track. As the first passed three feet
I nf fka nfhor? thn oimrrln Railed
"Hands up!" and the first one obeyed.
The second and third drew their revolvers,
and the guards knew that the desperate robbers
were facing them.
The firing was begun by the robbers and a
lullet grazed Wigg. Wurtz fired his shotgun
loaded with buckshot and Williams, one
of the robbers, fell. The man in advance
then ran toward Palatka, the other man
backward and was shot in the leg by Wurtz.
An engine load of young men composed
Hie "special," and among them were Dr.
Benjamin E. Morgan and Mr. Willard, of
toe express company. The big man of the
robbers had taken to the swamp. They pur,-ued
him and suddenly a ball ripped through
" A lj ? ?vu. u
ur. iW Organ's V03t. no aaw tuo itjuudi uobind
a lallen tree and flred a shotgun loaded
with buckshot and Saunders's murderer had
met 1>is doom.
SIX PERSONS DROWNED,
A Waterspout Bursts Over an Ohio
Village and a Dam Breaks.
A waterspout burst ovar Kinsman, a small
village twelve miles northeast of Niles,
Ohio, on the Pymatuning River, drowning
six persons an1 destroying buildings, stock
and crops.
Th9 water fell in torrents from 4 o'clock
until a few minutes after 0, and the small
river overflowed its banks. The farmers
did not flae, thinking there was no danger,
and all would have been safe had not a dam
about two miles above the village broken
without warning.
J. B. Robin's bouss was on the brink of
the river. He and bis wife anrf two childreu
were eating breakfast when the flood came.
It is presumed that they started to flee, but
too lata. K. Stewart and son were in their
barn, which was carried away. Their house
withstood the torrent and Mrs. Stewart wit
aessed the drowning of her husband and son.
J. D. Campbell and wife were carried down
stream but lodged on an abutment of a bridge
and were rescued.
The bodies of the six drowned were found
in a large pile of driftwood which reached
a early across the river. Many horses and
cattle were swept away and the loss is esti<uated
at 130,000.
HFTY-SEOOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
100th Day.?The River and Harbor bill
passed without division after having been
under consideration about five hours altogether
Mr. Quay introduced a bill appropriating
125,000 for a survey for the proposed
ship canal from Philadelphia across New
Jersey to New York Bay.
1018t Day.?The Senate discussed all day,
without taking final action thereon, the bill
introduced in response to the suggestion of
the President's annual message, to punish in
United States courts offences committed
against the treaty rights of aliens At the
request of Mr. Butler, the SeDate bill appropriating
150,000 for an equestrian statue
of General Francis Marion in
Columbia, S. C., was passed
Bills were also passed appropriating $15,000
for the introduction of reindeer into Alaska;
referring the claim of the Citizen^ Bank of
New Orleans to the Court of Claims; providing
for a commission to enquire into the distribution
of mails in large cities by pneumatic
tubes; appropriating $15,000 for a painting
of Abraham Lincoln, and appropriating
$20,000 for the erection of a statu9 of the late
Robert Dale Owen of Indiana, to be placed
in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution.
102d Day.?The bill to provide for the
rmnishment of violators of treatv rights of
aliens was further discussed An amendment
appropriating $40,000 was proposed
to the Agricultural Appropriation
bill to continue experiments in the
production of rainfall by means of ex-1
plosives The Senate bill to transfer ttie
revenue cutter service to the Navy Department
was laid aside without action Mr.
Pettigrew reported a joint resolution direct*
ing the President to proclaim a general holiday
commemorating the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America on October 12,
1892. Placed on the calendar.
103d Day.?Mr. Morgan's silver resolution
wa3 discussed at length, Mr. Sherman
making the principal speech
In the House.
114th Dat.?Consideration of the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was continued
Mr. Cocwan introduced the Corbin Steamship
Registry bill introduced in the Senate
by Mr. Chandler.
115th Day.?The Sundry Civil bill was
again considered, ten pages bein^ covered.
Almost the entire session was occupied in
discussing an amendment offered by Mr.
Forney, which was adopted, ninety-six to
ninety-three, providing that all pension
money received by inmates of National
Soldiers' Home in excess of 13 per month
should be deducted for maintaining the
homes, except where the disabled soldiers
have a wife, dependent parent or a minor
child. Then the excess should be sent to
such dependent by the managers.
114th Day.?This being District day, tho
Sundry Civil bill was laid aside and a nura
ber of local bills were passed jjt. ua armond
introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to asses3 annually an
income tax upon all incomes of persons and
corporations in excess of $1000, sufficient to
meet the payment of pensions.
117th Day.?Consideration of the Sundry
Civil bill was continued Mr.
Stewart reported back the River
ind Harbor Appropriation bill with
Che Senate amendments thereto,
with the recommendation that the Senate
amendments be non-concurred in. Messrs.
Holman aud Bynnm, of Indiana, objected,
ind the bill was referred to the Committee
af the Whole.
118th Dat.?The House in Committee of
the Whole devoted more than six hours to
the two pages of the Sundry Civil bill, which
contains the paragraphs carrying appropriations
to the amount of $412,000 for the
World's Fair??Much disorder was caused
by references of Mr. Johnson, of Indiana,
to intimidation of voters in the South.
SHOW IN MAY.
New England, and a Portion ot New
York Experience a Winter Storm.
Snow commenced falling at six o'clock in
the morning along the northern division of
the Boston and Maine Railroad, commencing
at White River Junction, Vt., and corv
tinning as far south as North Boscawen.
N. H. In many towns four inches covered
the freshly opened leaves and flowers.
The south bound freight train from Woods,
ville came into Franklin at half-past nine
covered with three inches of snow. The hills
of Franklin and North Boscawen were white
with saow, through which green grass five
inches high overtopped, making a novel
spectacle to the passengers of the morningsouthward
train, upon which the
snow still fell as far south as Fenacook, below
which it lost itself in a pouring rain at
Concord. It is learned that considerable
damage has been done to the cherry and ap*
pie crop in Northern New Hampshire.
Three inches of snow fell in New Ham*
shire at Dublin and six inches at Chesterfield.
At Hanover five inches of snow fell.
It has snowed hard all through the valley
at West Randolph, Vt. It is not thought j
that any damage will be done to growing
crops. At Montpelier a half inch of snow
fell.
Four inches of snow fell in New York
State at North Creek, Warren County, and
at Johnsbnrg snow covered the grass. The
mountains near Warrensburg were covered
two inches deep. There was a severe fiurry
of snow in the Catskill Mountains, the
ground in many places being completely
covered.
?nu_ <j?u? i? naotam nart of DnfccheSI
J. UO UOiUO 1U wuo vw?v? ? r*" - ?
County, New York, were covered with an
inch of snow. The storm was the heaviest
at Mount Riga and through the Harlem
Valley.
MTJBDE30US BANDITS.
Train Robbers Kill a Messenger and
"Wound, an Assistant.
Train robbery was attempted at half-past
one o'clock the other morning on the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railroad,
near Munro Junction, four miles north of
Sandford, Fla. The West India fast mail,
carrying two express cars, the United
States mail car, and several passenger
coaches was boarded by
four men. and when the train was run*
| ning at about five miles an hour two of the
men crept upon the engine. Pointing reI
volvers at the heads of Engineer Dumas and
his fireman, they told them to obey such
orders as might be given to th9m.
The two other robbers entered the express
cars, which were occupied by Messenger W.
N. Saunders and Special Agent I. H. Cox,
and attempted to overpower them. The expressmen,
although taken by surprise, made
a desperate resistance, and the robbers then
deliberately shot downSaunders, two bullets
taking effect in his breast and killing him in
atantly.
v Cox had his man at baj and was about to
snbdue him when the robber who had killed
Saunders pointed his revolver at Cox and
fired twice. One ball hit Cox in the arm
and the other grazed his face and tore out
hie lefc eye. *
i All the desperadoes then hurriedly jumped
from the train and fled to the woods, which
tn very dense in that section.
DENMARK REJOICING
Golden Wedding Celebration of King
Christian and Queen Loaisc.
The celebration of the golden wedding of
the King and Queen of Denmark began at
Copenhagen when the members of the royal
family attended Holy Communion at the palace
of Amalienborg. The Empress of Russia,
who arrived that day with the Czar, has
o iininna nnri snlendid Dresent for
Ker father ana mother. It consists of a
team of six horses, perfectly white and of
the rarest breeds. Besides this gift of the
Czarina, the ruling families of Russia, England
and Greeca will make a maguiflceut
joint present to the King and Quean of Denmark,
consisting of a group ot sculpture by
the Danish artist Husselrus, and will later
on be placed in one of the public squares of
Copenhagen.
King Christian extended a hearty greeting
to the Czar on his arrival at the palace. The
King looks remarkably vigorous, although
seventy-four years of age. Queen Louise is
also in good health. The Prince and Princeas
of Wales, accompanied by Prince George
and the Princesses Victoria and Maud, arrived
and were received with marked tokens
of affection t*r the royal couple.
WORLD'SFAIB NOTES.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad la having;
an elaorate display made for the Expo* ,
eitloD.
Insurance aggregating more than S3,.
000,000 is dow carried on the World's Fair 1
buildings.
Chile will be represented at the Fair, regardless
of the fact that its Government
made uo appropriation. ]
An association has been formed in Ger- ,
many to organize excursion parties to risit
the World's Fair and incidentally Niagara
VaIIs and a number of the larzer cities.
Many relics of the Cabota, the early Eng- ]
lish voyagers to America, will be exhited at
the Ezposit ^n by a committea formed for
that purpose in Bristol, England, vrhere the '
Cabota lived.
A project is being perfected at Melbourne,
Australia, whereoy a large party of '
artisans of various crafts may be enabled to
visit the Exposition at Chicago for study and
pleasure combined. ]
General J. H. Brink* r, one of the alternate
National Commissioners from Mississippi,
has in his possession, and will ex- .
hibit at the Exposition, five bales of cotton
that was raised' by slave labor in 1862-3.
The 160,000 World's Fair appropriation '
which Greece has made will be devoted in
large part to the preparation for exhibit of
reproductions in cast of the many famous ]
specimens of ancient Greek art, now owned
by the Government.
At the special request of the Empress of
Germany the Princess Frederick Karl, aunt
of tha Emperor, has accepted the presidency
of the women's commission, which will cooperate
with the Board of Lady Managers
in promoting the women's exhibit at the
r air.
a glass punch bowl, mad? by the glass- <
blowers of Cork in lS.'o, and presented to
Daniel O'Connell, the famous Irish patriot,
will appear in the exhibit from Cork. One
side of the bowl beara O'Connell's initials
and the other a representation of Cork, as it
then existed.
Visitors to the Exposition will be able to
go comfortably and expeditiously from one
part of the grounds to another and obtain
advantageous views of the buildings. They
may do this either in electric boats through
the lagoons, or by the intrhmural elevated
electric railway.
The Illinois Woman's Exposition Board
contemplates a novel exhibit as pare of its
work, in the form of a model home. The idea J
is to show the ideal conditions that should
surround a woman's life in the household
and demonstrate the facilities that can ba
provided at a moderate cost.
Great Britain's building at th9 Expoai- i
tion will be a typical specimen of a picturesque,
half-timbered English home of the
time of Henry VIIL, or about the period
which the World's Fair will commemorate.
It will be ninety feet square, two stories high.
and built of red brick, neavy timber and yellowish
terra cotta, with red tiling for the
roox.
A 150,000 monument to Columbus, designed
by ticulptor Howard Kretschmar, of
Cnicago, will be erected in Lake Front Park,
which has been termed the "Gateway to the
Exposition." It will be a statue in bronze
twenty feet high, surmounting a granite
peaestal thirty leet high. The monument
will form the design for souvenirs of the
Exposition.
'Ihb New York World's Fair Board has
vi3ite.i Chicago, inspected the Exposition
grounds and buildings, and inquired carexully
into the progress of the work of prep*
aration for tne great fair Tne member*
of the board expressed their astonishment
and enthusiasm over tne magnificent buildings,
and the vast amount of work that has
been accomplished.
In the women's exhibit from South Da
kota will be a lire size statue of a tiioux Inaibu
maiden. The subject was Minnehaha,
the eighteen year old daughter of fitting
Bear, wno was prominent in the engagement
with General Custer's troops on tne Little
Big Horn. Minnehaha feu in love a Lieutenant
in the United States Army at Fort
Bully and cue a of a broken heart.
Dr. N G. Blalocjc, President of the
'Washington State World's Fair Board, announces
that tnere will be celebrated at the
Washington building a "watermelon day."
He has set apart 100 acres to be devoted entirely
to the raising of these melons, and he
promises to take a train load of them to the
Fair and give them away with the purpose
of convincing people that as a water-melon
growing State W asbingcon stands first.
Thx Exposition probably will not have an
Eiffel tower or anything' approximating it
in height, except the elevation to which the
captive balloons will ascend. There will be,
however, three ooservation towers about
300 feet high for the accommodation of
visitors who wfeut to take a bird's-eye vidw
of the grounds and buildings These towers
will be of elaborate design and beautiful in
i nnri will r>nat about A2C0.Q00
act.
DYNAMITEBS IN SPAIN.
Nineteen Persons Blown Up in an Ei<
plosion at Ooldocano.
An explosion took place in a dynamite
factory at Goldocano, Spain, causing the
death of sixteen men and three, women. The
report of the explosion was heard a distance
of twelve miles.
The scenes witnessed when the families
of the workmen were assembled on
the' 8T>ot were heartrending. One* woman,
seeking her husband, found only his bead,
while another found the corpse of her husband
with the head blown off at a great distance
from the factory. The explosion was
caused by two small boxes of nitro glycerine.
Two workmen were discharged from the
factory for insubordination. They threatened
revenge, and the superintendent saw them
running away from the back of the smaller
of the two buildings, in which a large
quantity of nitro glycerine was stored.
A few seconds later there was
a terrific report, both buildings were lifted
about forty feet into the air and then went
to splinters. All the people in the immediate
neighborhood were stunned by the
shock. In Bilboa, five miles away, the
ground trembled as if shaken by an earthquake,
and the people ran into the streets in
panic.
The scene of destruction is appalling. For
hundreds of yards round the factory only
ruins are left. Splinters of the ruined faetnnr
covered the around, but not a niece of
board or beam aa large as a man's arm could
be found. Treee were split down the trunks,
outbuildings were laid flat and not a chimney
was left standing within a radius of a mile
and a half.
A FAMILY LYNCHING.
The Lynchee Worked lor the Lyncher
and Helped Him Do the Job.
An extraordinary murder and lynching
occurred at Bastrop, La., the other day.
One man committed the murder and one
man did the lynching, with the assistance of
the murderer.
Schambliss Brigham, manager for Colonel
Georg* C. Phillips, wtjo owns a plantation
on Island de Siard, while in the field was
shot dead from ambush by an old colored
man. The murderer then waited to the
plantation residency summoned Coiooel
Phillips and told him that he had killed
Brigham and wanted to be hanged for it.
Colonel Phillips put a rope around the man's
neck and he was soon swinging in a death
struggle from the limb of a tree. No motive
is assigned for the murdert and it is thought
that the murderer was insane.
f The Southern train brigand has
' '"1 * " nn/JdAtia Kit |
I gnt A new wnnKie m uia I'luuuuu i/ui
I remunerative profession. He waits
until a train has moved out upon j
some trestle hanging high over a
dizzy gulf, and then appears on th?
scene. With the train halted anc
his trusty guards placed at either enc
of the trestle, he has things hisowc
way for a few minutes. During thai
time he gives passengers, expresi
agents and others the choice of deliv-1
ering up all their valuables or walking
the plank into the abyss. Th?
neatness of these land pirates haj
rarely been exceeded by anything
at sea. I
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TEMPERANCE.
THE GOLD Or RIGHT HABITS.
rhis bichloride treatment of gold, my dear
boy. ;
Of which in the papers we read,
(fill doubtless bring jo7 into homes fall of
woe,
And balm to some hearts which no#
bleed;
For many a man, who is traveling down |
The hill, that most surely will lead
ro death and destruction, will grasp at this
As drowning men grasp at a reed. j
But gold can be taken in childhood, mj,
boy, i
Which works in a far surer way:
rhe gold of right habits, pure thought* and
deeiree,
Bright bands; growing brighter each day;
rhe gold which is sent from the Father
above,
To shield from the tempter's hard sway, j
Bach boy, who will take up his stand for the:
right,
And not for one moment delay. j
5o seek for this gold in your spring time,.
dear boy,
This wisdom and strength from on high,
rhen safely you'll walk through the years
that will come,
Though many a pitfall be nigh,.
For God sends His angel to camp round
that boy,
Who dares to stand firm, though be die,
And leads him through all of the dangers of
youth
Up, up to that home in the sky.
?Jessie F. Houser, in the Voice.
KOTO ALCOHOL IN GERMANY".
In a surrey of the imperial statistics of the
consumption of alcoholic drinks in Germany,
L)r. William Bode says that the production
>f the raw material manufacture into wine,
seer or spirits occupies about one*flfteenth '
)? the cultivated1 land of the Empire. On >
;his area of farming land enough rye might
x grown to supply 3800 millions of pound!
?f Dread, whlcn wou'.l make sixty-six
pounds of bread more a rear to ever; one of
the 50,000,000 of people inhabiting Germany,
jt 330 pounds to an average family of fire
persons, which is the entire food needed by .
Che family for nearly fifty days, or about
one-eighth more of food than they can enjoy
at present On?-f ourtaenth of all the productive
forces of Germany is engaged in this
pernicious industry. The amount of money
spent dn drink has been estimate! at about
1120,000,000 a year, or 13.40 to each inhabitant,
or 112 to each average family of five.
Professor Scbmoller, the economist, says:
"Among our Working people the conditions
of domestic lif<\, of education, of prosperity.
of progress or/igradation, araall dependent
on the proportion of income which flow*
down the father's throat. The whole condition
of our lower and middle classes?ona
may. even without exaggeration, say the
future of the Nation?depends on this que**
tion. If it is true that half our paupers become
so through drink, it girds us some '
estimate of the costly burden we tolerate.
No other of our vices Dears comparison with
this."?Chicago Herald.
<mMVLA1*j3 WORE.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, in a recent number of
the Christian Herald, writing editorially of
"Stimulated Work," says:
God intended us all to be husy. The sun
and moon in six thousand years have rested
only a part of a day; and then it took a
miracle to stop them. Nothing that God
ever made, animate or inanimate, human or ;
angelic, can afford to quit work. But the
outlay of human energy often leads to inebriation.
Men have so much to do that
they think they must have artificial stimulus.
Vast multitudes of professional men
have found their nervous system exhausted,:
and their brain lethargi&and have resorted
to this dangerous help. Now what a man
cannot do without perpetual stimulant I do
not believe he outfit to do. ' You are r?* >
sponsible for no more strength than that
which you have in your arm, and for no
more speed than you have in your foot, and
for no more vivacity than you have in your
brain. God asks no mora, and the world Fa
has a right to expect no more. Notwithstanding
this, some of the most brilliant
men in th? law and medicine, yea, even in
the minisb y, have fallen overboard. It will
be a glorious day for Britain and the United
States when all their professional men and
- oK.n thmv th? hottle ont of the
back window. It may require a struggle;
but what great and grand and glorious
thing was aver done without a struggle?
WHAT DRINK DOES.
The following are some of the reasons
why T. V. Powderly advocates the tamper- .
ance cause:
"Why do I so bitterly arraign the poor
drunkard?
"For the reason that he is a drunkard,and
because he has made himself poor through
his love of drink. Did I, or any other man,
rob him of the money he has squandered
in drink? Did I make him poor* The vileat
names that tongue can frame would he apply
to me if Idid. Must I stand idly by and
remain silent while hs roos himself? Did he
rob only himself it would not make so much
difference. He robe parents, wife and children.
He robe his aged father and mother ,
through love of drink. He gives for rum j
what should, go for their support.
"When they murmur he turns them from c.
his door, and points wicn contaminated linger
towards the poor house. He next tarns
toward bis wife and robe her of what should
be devoted to the keeping of her home la j
comfort and plenty. He robs her of her *
wedding ring and pa was it for drink. He i
turns his daughter from his door in a fit of.
dmnken anger, and drives her to commit j
deplorable crimes, and then accepts from ,
her hand the proceeds of her shame. To
satisfy his love for drink he takes the prioe
of his*child's virtue and innocence from her
sin-stained; lust-bejewelled lingers,and with
it totters to the bar to pay it to the man
who 'does not deny the justice of my position.'
I do not arraign the man who j
drinks because he is poor, but because, though j
being a slave to drink, he has made himself J
and family poor. I do not hate the man J
who drinks, for I have carried drunken man-*
to their hometi on my back rather than aKlow
them to remain exposed to inclement
weather. I do not hate the drunkard?tts
is what drink has effected; and while I/do
not hate the effect, I abhor and loathe/Um
cause." J
TKUP2RAXCE ^CW3 A ITT XOTZS.J
Des Moines and Sioux City, the/argest
cities in Iowa, both now have stronr prohibition
municipal governments. i
A German wine merchant has b^en fined
16000 and sentenced to six months imprisonment
for adulterating wine with cfder.
The breweries of Munich, Germany, pos
Bess 800 railway cars, equipped *rith refrigerating
apparatus, for toe transportation of
beer.
Auburn, Me., a city of ten thousand inhabitants,
employs three policemen, one for
day service and two at night. Prohibition v.
prohibits in Auburn.
There are said to be twenty-eight total abstainer
s on the London County Council.
Out of the 117 Councilors, eighty-?ix are la
faror of a temperance policy, and out of *
seventeen aldermen eleven are on the same j
side. These added make ninety-seven out of
a total of 137.
The Woman's Christian Temperanoe
Union of Bloomingt>n, 111., has decided to
build a white ribbon inn, at an expense of
$15,000. The new building will b^ of brick,
three stories high and of modern style, and
will contain a cnapel seiting 65J.
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A Swiss aauj paper sl?m? wxk uj ??W7 <
account is taken of the ravages caused
by alcoholism in Switzerland and the numerous
deaths resulting therefrom. Dr.
Foret, the director o' a large lunatic asylum
at Zurich, adds to these statistics that
twenty-seven per cent, of the male patients
in that asylum are there as the result of
alcoholism.
By the coartesy of the Baltimore & Ohio '
Railroad in f'niladelphia, the Woman's \
Christian Temperance Union in that city
recently entertained the "railroad boys" all
day. The largei dining rooms of the company
were gayly decorated, a choice luncheon
was served and a number of speakers
were present to take part In the meetings.
The attendance was large and deeply inter
esvea.
Miss Mary Allen West, one oC the ablest
experts in white-ribbon work, for years
President of Illinois Woman's Christian
Temperanca Union, and editor of the Union
Signal, was recently chosen Superintendent
of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance
Union School of Methods, and is going
to the Sandwich Islands ana Japan to
teach and train workers in the cause. This
trip has long been oontemplated and signalizes
m notable advance. t (
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