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THE LOVER'S EOL'LOQUY. ihtuidiuuloall^ after tbo aeparate'^viiifci of I Tl^ ^ J """
UT JKKFIE rORUl'BH HANAIOUU
I.
II I wore a bird in yonder irco,
All day lon^ I'd sing for thoo ;
I'd praise tlioao eyes of matchless bluo.
And all my songs would be for you.
II.
If I were the rose that nontlos down
Soft In your hair or golden brown,
I'd droop against your necK no fair,
And be happy-wbllo 1 nestled thoio.
ill.
But, aleB I I'm neither bird nor flower,
They aro happy by the hour;
J aui only a man witb salary small.
And so will amount to nothing at all,
KORRINO.
nr BQUIHK HOBIIS.
Oh, glorious morning I
The eHrth adorning
With robes of silvory light;
With sunhoami dancing,
* t.? .
Their notes of ursfas to sw oll:
I ii ~ * jutnr juj IU1 BlUgmft ?
Is gaylv ringing
In tree-top, dalo, and dell.
With incense glowing,
The air Is blowing :
And zephyrs kiss tho flowers,
Thoir perfume-breathing
tiny diHks unsheathing
In pr. tty laughing how ore.
^ As day W growing,
r i do cock ia crow,11 k
A welcome to tho tiio.n ;
Krotil out the gloaming,
Dim distance roaming,
An echo faint la borno.
O er houao-toji curling,
The Biuoko la whirling
The aoiu.i r clouda to meet;
Too world la teeming
With toil; and bo,uning,
The day ia now oouiploto.
~TOM
RKVXIlVX iliiWf
BY "THE MAJOR."
' /m1
JKi CHAPTER XIX.
THE HAMl OK KATE
An impulse of sympathy had let
^^^Jessica to call upon the widow on tliii
afternoon; she was taking tho lo ip
walk there from her home when liel
rnont met her.
Whil?t*he had not the slightest uf
fection for Edgar Vau Wyck, the now.
of his suddon death had shocked her
as it did a 1 who had known him. lint
it awakened no emotion in her breast
besides that of pity for his mother
whom she had met twice sin.-o hei
hand hod been promised to tho son.
That afternoon Tom liryson did no
KO to his work, llo It his nine nftm
dinner, and pat down to nmuko it
v silence.
'. El^ ^'8l)ORC(^ ?
ho cried! *\Vhal'i
Up DOW-?*
"I am going over to see Mrs. V ai
Wyck."
"Oh, aye?the mother of that younj
fool who died the other day."
She made no reply to his brutal re
mark.
"I was willing yon should marrj
h:m, Jess," ho said. "Don't know b.i
I wanted you to. Hut it's just as wcl
as it is. He was a poor kind of t
stick. What do you thii.k about it
anyway ?"
Her lips were silent, her tad eyei
mado him uneasy.
"O, well, if you don't want to tall
about him, never mind. Only," auc
his voice grew lioarso, "don't you dur<
to have any lovo-nonsonso with tha
aristocrat, Randall Relmont! 1 huh
him!?I hate the name!?do you hear
If I catch him hero with you, 1*1
knock his brains out with tho ax!''
She left him growling over hi$ pipe
and went on hor way to Mrs. Vni
Wvck's. All that we havo seen of thii
girl has shown us that obedience to he;
father, consideration for his wislios
was her law in life; hem o.it will no
seem strange, after this tirade, tha
she hastened past Randall Belmont 01
the way.
Mrs. Van Wyck answered her knocl
at the cottace. and fell bank with a lit
tie cry of surprise anil paiu as sh<
/^C^cognizcd her.
Miss Jiryson?is it you? O
.( jj^^Hry did you come? You did not lov<
sPr7V>or -v? * snw ^ut ',o
nu . believe it; and by-aud-by, whoi
he omne to understand it, he 'won
heart-broken, and died. O, why dii
you come ?"
Tho scone in tho wood was not ther
known to Jessica, any more than to tin
widow. The latter had taken it foi
granted, from tho few words utterei
Kdgar before he died, that he hac
KnarTcled ana parted*with the girl
^JJ^^gessica could *not undeceive her, be
"cause she had 110 suspicion of tin
truth nor of tho widow's belief.
Mildly reproaching her visitor, as w<
have told, Mrs. YanNVyck led her int<
tho cottage. Then, seeing the misery
and compnssion on the beautiful fac<
before her, she threw her arms nboti
her ncok, and sobbed upon her slioul
der.
% Very sadly and tenderly, then, di<
A Jessica console th6 poor mother, am
W juttify herself.
"I did not love him; I never protend
ed to," she said. "but my fathor usked
Almost commanded me, and I yielded
1 -would liavo obeyed, though it wreck'
ed my happiness; or, rather, though i
mode happiness as impossible to m<
as it has always been. I pity you, fron
the bottom of my weary heart; and oh
give me your pity, too, for I am ven
wretched
It was not in the kind, motherly sou
to resist such an appeal as this. Bhi
wax ine Riri 10 tier noart; alio kismet
her. she smooth d lier hair, and de
dared that nhe would always lovo lioi
M a daughter.
The long shadows were falling acrosi
the road as Jessica again passed ovei
it. As she reached a dump of trees, a
man emerged from it, leading a liorso.
She quickened her pace, bnt in a moment
ho overtook her.
"Why do you avoid and tarn away
W^irom me?" he a iked.
"Leavo me? don't follow mel" slif
answered. "It is for your own good.'
y She averted her face; still he hastened
along by her side, with his arm
through the rein, striving to take hei
U1L
one answered nox. lie poured out Ins
long ng heart to her; he besought hor
to spoak to him. She looked not,
spo. e not?until, in despair, he led hie
horso right before her and blocked her
way.
A faint rod spot was in hor check.
"Have I not told you that it is impossible
V she demandod.
"It shall be poss'b'c!** ho cried.
She trembled as his deep, rosonant
voice pronounced the words; at tho
strong purpose that looked from his
oyes.
"Has there como no change with tho
death of Edgar Van WyckV" he asked.
"Hoes .~u>t that free you from your
promise?^
She shook her head.
Why V" ho impationtly cried. "Why
is it? You givo mo no roasou."
"But this afternoon," she replied,
with an uustcady voico, "my father told
" rao that you-should never eptor his
house agnin^ he oyfift nx if ho found
you tlioro. Knowing this, will you still
distress mo by coming?"
"Will you still oboy such a father?
"He is my father. When I was a
more child I promised my dying mother
that I would always ho faithful to him.
It is this that controls me. I cannot
disoboy him."
"I 'n vnn ilir.11 liiil mo dlav n.\u;iv frnm
TOU?"
"Yes."
The word was spokon low, but dis|
tinct.
"Your wish is niv law; I obey, lint
from your words, from your looks,
from "nil you do and say, I know you
lovo me. I'll ugh 1 am barred away
from you for tbe present, yet I know
it will not bo for long. I know it! 1
feel it! .lossica, thero is fate in it; w'i
cannot be separated! Not the mount
ltiiif, nor tho sens, nor time, nor space
for each other. lieliove it, dear, as ]
do, and all will bo well with us. Good
by?for a little."
The bridlo was flung away; his arm
clasped her unresisting; ngah au<
] again ho kissod her yielding hps.
i Tearing himself ut last from the do
P lilions emhrnco, ho mounted nml too!
1 the road to Aylcsworth.
With wddly beating heart did .Tea
. Rica return to tho old house. Hci
j 'father was not there.
Blie nought tho solitude of her owi
; room; she threw herself upon liei
, knees by the bed, and prayers mingloi
with sobs.
r "O mother in lieavon," sho oftenesl
prayed, "guide and direct me! It wai
t, to you I made tho promise; make mi
t. faithful to duty and to you!"
! Darkness canto down ; the chambei
was in niladnwu* alio lw,^r.I I.a. r.,
f stamping about and grumbling below
3 And still slio prayod, with something
g afii tl ilwt Ium rcuminod t(
Tflitth'frofri thb scene in Gcthsemane.
4 "O God, help me! O Father it
heaven, help me?strengthen me t<
t bear this heavy cross 1"
And peace brie.'ly came in sleep.
' CHAP I E It XX.
a pea? man k revenue
In the preceding chapter a gliinpsi
has been given of Tom Bryson after hi
' had heard of the death of Edgar Vai
' Wyck: but ho had no occasion to shov
' to his daughter, nor did ho show tr
4 her, the true nature of his feeling!
when this surprising news c ame to him
It put him in a perfect ecstasy of de
s light. He would not trust himself ii
the presence of any living person t<
' show it. He went out iuto the wood
I and thero laughed, capered, and actual
3 ly shouted with glee. Little by littl
^ tlio man's nature had been wholl;
? changed. Little by little his love fo
his child? the only thing that had re
1 inuincd from his better days, to human
.v?j tv ivnaiu ^icMrirun
s of his terrible crima To Bcal tin
'' mouth of ouo who might lia e been i
swift witness against him, he had boei
t willing, na.v, anxious, to sacrifice hi
t> (laughter's happiness by a hateful am
1 unequal mutch. And now that yonn)
Van Wvck was suddenly removed b;
t doath, the release of Jessica was tin
last thing that he thought of us caus<
> for congratulation.
Tho thought that tilled his soul witl
, joy was that, save Jessica, the only per
j son who could give information tha
1 would traco the murder and robbery ol
i Mason l'olmont to him was silent it
b (loath. The dreadful secret wai kop
I by himself and by tho grave alone; lit
was absolutely safe,
i For a few days tho thought kdpt hi:
9 brain in suoh u whirl that ho was nbh
r to form no plans for tho futuro. Tiuit
1 was when his first question would havi
1 been: "What can 1 d> for Jossica?how
can I best benefit her V Hut nov
his vorv soul had become callousod bi
s his misfortunes, by his crimes, and bj
the ac juisition of h sill-gotten fortune
9 The ouestions tint now hanntod hi
> thoughts by day and liis dreams In
j night were: "How crfh I enjoy all thi
3 monov in safety? Where ran 1 go witl
t it? How far mast I go before its us<
will coaso to oxcito suspicion ?" Ib
went out into the woods, but he did no
1 labor. Hour after hour he sat idb
I upon the trunk of a fallen tree, trying
to answer these questions; night nftei
night did ho return home undecided
, As he beoamo absorbed in ihes<
thoughts ho grow harsher and sternei
in his treatmont of the only being wh<
t still clung to him, and da/ by day wa:
3 the burden of that patient soul in
i creased.
, What some one has Btyled the in
n,??. i, w, v"1" wHWSjwwi mm
Ho l)nc*nie lost ib<
1 rai'rJor^djM
months haapwBjMBHPPRfie curb
hoars of that <ffll|Mrwy, ho ha<
r looked it tip in thenttle closet. Nevoi
since then hud he placed key in tlia
i lock. Sometimes lie had sat before il
r alone at night, looking at the closed
i and lookod rccoptacle with a kind o
rapture; but ho had never opened noi
examined it.
Hnt he hud hoou away at least noun?
hours of each day since. Jessica passed
mnoh of her t me in iier room, up
> stairs. Suppose that somo prowlei
1 hud disoovored the prize, and robbed
the robber ?
i These torturing fears became At last
intolerable. On the night of the third
daughter and Ksndall UelnionY to Mis.
Van Wyck, lie determined to have an
end of tliem. He would satisfy himHolf
by ocular inspection that the treasuro
was safe.
He sat moodily by the window, after
supper, repulsing every attention of his
daughter, impatiently waiting for the
silont hours of the niglit, that ho might
oxecute hip purpose.
The hours passed slowly. Near ten
o'clock, Jessica took a candle to go to
her louoly room.
Khe hesitated, with her hand upon
the latch.
Did some premonition of the events
j that uieht hideous in her mnmnrv th?n -
nsaail her? Do coming events thus cast v
tlieir shadows before?
"(food-night, father," slio said. <.
"(food-night."
Five minutes later he looked up, and \
saw her still btuudiug there. t
?~ 'flm-crow led.
Jess?don t be a fool! i
The door closed betweon them. Novcr
woro their mortal eyos to see oach (
other ngnin.
Hryson waited till the hands of the
clock pointed toiniduight. Long sinco
ho had ceased t? wind the striker; it's
Bound in the night had smitten his
soul as with the voice of thunder.
Then ho unlocked the closot door,
pulled out tho money, and oountod it
all ov<?r.
It required an hour to do it; but it
was all save?twenty-live thousand dollars.
IIo stalled it back into the little
i compartment, und rolocked it.
What rostlcss fiend then led tho
man down into tho cellar, to look
around, and bo sure that nothing appeared
there that might betray him?
1 No man can know; not oven the tormented
criminal himaalf could havo
seere1. He peered into oyery 300k and
corner of the collar. He he.# the can,
dlo down to tho bare ground, and lo
j tho stones, us if ho expected to see the
doad hand of Mason Jiclmont thrust
ou>.
j Ho gave himso'.f up to the delirium
that the scone aud tho hour wrought in
1113 U& U 11.
r "it is mine, I say?mine; rightfully
initio!" ho shrieked. Tho dead walls
, of tlio cellar gavo back the echoes.
r "Ho was iny enemy; ho ruiucd mo
] when he might have savod mo. I had
my revengo; his treasure became mino.
I It's only a fraction o' his wealth ; I wish
j it was more. But I had my revenge?
, and the money is all mino!"
1 Ilis hands gestured to suit tho words,
r and tho candlest ck fell from his grasp.
r With an ou'h he snatched it up so
quickly that the Hame was not extinj
quishud. Then he hurried up to his
itirovtng himself, aresaed I
as he was, upon his bed, soon fell
, asleep.
3 I To those who are inclined to be superstitious,
it might almost seem as if
the hand of the murderod man had
been stretched forth from his unknown
grave in that cellar, to overwhelm his
assassin with a terrible revenge.
J Unpereeivod by Tom lfryson, the
3 flame of the overturned candle had :
) touched a single dry shaving. It crept
? slowly thence, by several scraps of pa?
por and dry refuse, to a heap of broken
3 boards, 'lliere was no draft to fan it;
I but feeding steadily upon tho com
I bustiblo contents of tho cellar, it ;
J 1 reached tho joists and the flooring
? | nbove. It seized upon the stairs, and
s , at last swept into tho hall, consuming
| the door liko paper. A window was
>3 j shattered with the heat; the wind from
? without blew and fanned the fire; it
> roared at last all through the lower
rooms, ami the heat and smoke ascended
to the .
WM*Xo^ n "
( |T0 BE oontocobo. I '
1 Aii Astonished Uainbler.
'J There is a gambler in St. Paul who
^ ' will not try to do up another telegraph
operator in a hurry. A night operator i
' in one of the big railroad offices has
' i quite a local reputaton ss a poker-pla.v!
er, and as poker was also the favorite
L' I game of the gambler, they arranged to
^ 1 liavo n friendly game. It occurred in
; the railroad office, no one else being
j present except tho onorator on d:.ty.
f j I'or tho first timo in his life the gam]
j tiler's luck did not come to his aid, and
j ! liis opponent won on nearly evory
( hand, or else laid down when the gam1
hlor had good cards. 1 inally tho gam^
I b!or had four kings, made a small bet,
. and tho operator refused to call. The
2 i.o.i ? ?
j avviuil null lICUUIIIi; BJ UIWUUbUUUIlB UIBl I
' j tho gambler roached over and ran the !
1 cards that the operator had laid down.
! To Ills surprise they woro three queens
' . and a pair of tens. "What in did ,
" you lay that down on a $2 bet for?" ho 1
f exclaimed, adding, "I guess I've got
a enough." The secret of the operator's
^ luck was that tho other operator, sit^
t ng where ho could see the gambler's
( cards, had telegraphed each card whon
( it was picked up, thus onabling the
^ player to know how to play the game,
j - SL raul none r Pre #.
f 1
Ante Money,
r Many n poor fellow has got into a
. straight by betting on it. ?Ottawa
2 Iter.
r A man who is color-blind has no
j business with poker chips?Philadel*
phia Call.
Home men are no addioted^t<{ poker
that every tiling tliey hava ?9ff tO*$K)i.
i "Poker is one oftnerewgwbw Shera I
I 1' tho loan & m?n
r tiie bettor his opponent
I Ailt isc.l to Switch Off.
t "No, my girl," said old Annt Sally;
r "it isn't a pleasant thing for a woman
to lire without a husband in this world.
If it hadn't been for my paronts I'd a
I married a good man. lint I listened
to thorn, and I'vo boon chowiog the biti
ter end of disappointment all these
I years."
"la it possible?' ejaculated the fair
young boarding-school girl. "Why
don't you switch off on gum fx- Judge,
Banders and Powers, wt were elected
United States Senators bytths Republican
lluu o aui Seriate of Mod tall, have been de"
lied their certificates by lb governor.
bunes E MiOl ii'd barn, ne Wrigbtsvillc,
ifork county, Pa., was del royed by lire.
joss $5000; iusurance (2,5'. Bell Boy,
he celebrated trottihg hor , whoso owner
iad refused an offer of $100 00, wus burned
0 death in his dtabtai at VetmilL's, Ky.
>Jorrill Grifllu and hisdaugbrr, of Dearborn
ilich. .sulf ring with ii fljeiki, took a fatal
lose of stryobnine in in st ilA for quluiae.
?Charles W. Elliott, a B. O. brakeman,
vat crushed to deuth at Urjfton, W. Vu.
?Scribuer's Mountain House, at Uoffiown
JentT. N. II., was burned. I^oss $15,000.
Jesse Wilson's barn on the Upper Dolaviire
river, near Bor ientown, N. J., was
turned, and tweqU^ and a number of
^oQg,rA!"?^?V/ ttaefrbu ;gyT>eii^k afSuvllVj
1 railroad train. The B ink of South Darota,
at Madison, S. D ,has assigned. The
iienibers of the yisntecost band of Faith
Healers at Nuscola,I;l., are being prosecuted
rot holding noisy moctiugs, Stephen A.
Ilubbard, manag ug tditor and one of tlio
proprietors of thi Courant of Hartford, Ct.,
died at the age o 63 years. The supremo
chapter of the w rid of the new order, "The
I'rocrrAKsivo Endowment of America." was
orgauiz >d at lUbhmond, Va. Tho fiuit
trees la the vicinity of Lixlngton, Va., are I
in bloom. A lolored uiun, charged with
burglary, was tAen from a deputy sheriff
in 11 iruwell county. S. C.? tie 1 to a tree aud
shot to death by take i vrBito cien.
ltufT-on & HugBb furniture manufactory
at Sandusky, (AW.u bnrii-d. I.o-sos
f 100,000; ins trai^HjflboJ. i-\ro at braddock,
Pu.^desSraJ^Brannis brother*' |>I lining
mill and lun^itieWr Is. .Loss $ 1 >.0.M); no
insurance.-?jjUq^Btjwry, of Mississ'pp!.
la bis annual o-h the carrying
of oono*alff|p???oiH?-?:John W.Kiufman
waa-eiocMa pjfeTieeof the Sr. Louis
MercbanU' I2.xcbitkge.-X-Final piprrs of
treaty between the Unibl States and tho
Coour d'Alena Indians las been signed.
Tho Patoka river, in Ieiar\a, basove; llowed
and flooded n tract of fmptrj twenty miles
long by three miles wile. ?-Isidore Monarch,
the defaulting secretary of tho Turner
build.ng Association jot Minneapolis has
been arrest -d, cbarg.vywith eiabezzling {UJ,of
the society's luni.'s.' Tbo^ West Indianapolis
Hominy Mills ut Indianapolis, was
destroyed by Are. Loss $7>$|)J; insurauo
f 4 J,000. Ouo of the walls oLlheNuw Presbyterian
Church iu.Brooklyn.gavo way under
the force of the wind, ni| l cru-bod ail
adjoining dwelling, killing sterol of the in
IU4it-a nun injuring oiuers.-'?r ive woo en
mills of .Norton Manufacturing Company,
of Walpolo, Mu h., wore burned. William
iurren?,-^? Vhlladohk'-^**' ~
Belle viiO-glrt-uad
then coiumiMml suieffid. L. P. Scoville, a
nephew of U j assassin Geitenu, and secroeary
of tb/ Chicago Building Association,
ha9 disappeared, and it is charged, short in
his accouuli #5,000. A pile of timber in
Chicago tokiled over and crushed John
Thompson axl Andrew Johnston to death.
??The Cornells ville coke workers have
offered their hew scale, but tin operators
have not yetifcceptei it. Calvin 8. Brice
whs nomiuatelfor United States senator l>y
the Democrat! of the Ohio legisluturo in
cauous. Tuejiwa Prohibition Convention
adopted resolution demanding t .e enactment
of laws tofcompel the absolute enforcement
of the pmblbitory law.
J. 0, ParrisiiJfeM Aiaiiged at Itaieigu, N.
C., for a cktmiflHUkalt upon his thirteon
year-old daugflflSS'Tbreo masked men
bound Peiet LflHKpf Salina, Kins , with
ropes, an 1 tbe.js^BAk bonds. The seven
big flourinRgMB^^B waulroo bnvo formjd
a oon}l / 1 Bn^lleh
caW -? fna^WH|^Ke^n Cliarles Kurya?t,
a farmer,, c^WinriflUo, Iud., and Fordiuaud
(dustings, About thVlividing line of
their farms, Castings shot IWl killed Kur
yart and woundwl lift cljjjd,after which be
committed suicKle.?5?By a \tur?l gis explosion
at the Luoy'furuacoAtt Pittsburg,
Thomas Welch, a workman, was killed, a d
five others seriously hurt.???There were
3>4 business failures in the llnito 1 States
and thirty nine in Canada the past week.
DEATH IN THE WIND.
Seven Person* Hilled by ttio Full ol
a (burets Wall.
An appalling disaster occurred in Brooklyn,
New York.
The heavy ?in Is th ok the nawPreibyorian
church at 3i)J Tbroop avenue to its foundation,
and at 4.3J A. M., one ot I ho wall* fell
with a crash on the t^pan-storv fr?ma bud i'
ing ad joining und brought with it death an 1
destruction.
Tho ruined building was tenanted by the
Mott and Purdy families. They numbered
nine persons. Five of thorn ate reported
dead. Two were carried out of-the ruinsao
seriously injured that I hey will die.
The tenants in the littl? frame house nddnining
wero alarmed hy the manner in
which the church walls shook and rattled.
Th-ir own dwelliug was considerably shaken,
and it was with fearand trembling that thoy
retired.
Twioe during ihenlght soma of the inmates
were arous.-d by the roar.n^ wind. butrvory
o e was in tied and asleep when the disaster
occurred. The heavy brick wall of the
church fell su Idonly with a crush, and in a
heap that lore through the oookle-shell
struoture adjoining tike a battering ram.
The dwelling seemed Id pirt in twain,and instantly
the shrieksandfcroans of the lojured
startled the residentQ^blo-krabout. ^ ^
m us uviiwj ui iuq imr; wnii nurnwovi vuo
attention of? potilflbfiill, and h*eent in a Are
alarm and tioramundr the reaerye ironi a
police Station uo <r anSand, The honte had
Jjt?n torn in a bed room
' ""1
beneavli a.
The ff-nrlut *p<tSVR|^Bied to stun those
who sltiifM'J it"' momt'Dlt
nothing was doni^ByN^k* assistance to
those within. TbtXitHHKa atid Bremen
arrived and ie?cu>. Th y
first found Mrs. Empf^Kily tying beneath
a mass of tiuibcis AaSWbis, so seriously
iujured that she ooiir jjwn sp-ak or move,
ev? nsh n t ey bad lHk*d her out of the
obarnel house into t!.tflpee?.
By the overturniliuLOf an engine on tho
Louieviile and Nashvtnia Railroad, owing to
the spread! g or thi Vails, at Kinohtown,
Kentucky, Ciarenoe Jkjfeefofd, nl^ht olerk at
the roun I bouso. wok* killed. Engineer
Charles 8:ogg, Flrs?o%"i-Uw'orge Colloty and
>botnaa MoCuo# w.ln fcjurod.
II
unujirmu in
Fourteen Men Meet Death in
the Falls of the Ohio.
t
A Terrible Arcliloiit nt the New .
Itrld.je at I.oulsville?Without
WnrnhiK the Workmen uro _
Mangled to llfiitli or
l>rowrtc?l. ,
The most appalling accident known to* s
Kentucky in ninny yonrs occurred at Louis
ville. It was nearly tiino for work to stop 1
all over the city, and workingmen were expected
homo by their families, when the ro- (
port spread rapidly that there was'a wreck I
or crash of souio kind at the new bridge '
under construction between Louisville and
JeiTersonville.
It was first reported that a span of the
bridco had fallen and a gang of men had
is+nr* MinrrreAr/CtMvh r*?v*S< aVVrtid '|M MA * I
and the workman employed in it lied been
crushed to denth by 6tonn and timbers.
Tbe caisson, known as No. 1, wn? nhnut 100 !
yards from th> Kentucky shore. As tho 1
workmen of tho pumping station wore look- I
Inj for tho men in the cnisson to put off in I
their boats, leaving work for tho night, they !
suddenly saw tho low. dnrk structure disappear
in dashing, white waves, and hoard, bo
fore they could realise what had happened,
tho roar or tho furious maelstrom.
A runner was despatched to tbe life-saving
station, and throe Rkiffs wcro mnnno I and
pullo 1 to the scene of the wreck. Word was
sent to tho police station, and a >qund wns
at one1 ordered to Clio ground, to aid In ih>
work of recovery. Tho coroner was called,
and went with a corpi of physicians.
Th? site of the hridgo is at tho upper end
of the citv, just, holow Tow Head Island.
Within an hour from tho disnp|>caranco of
tho cnisson, throe thousand people wore on I
the shore straining their eyes in trying to |
boo something of tho wreckage. Dozens of !
ho its wore plying about over the spot whore
the caisson hnd stood, and lights danced to
and fro wllh them vbot'there WU no trace of
tho massive structure of stone and timber
which had kept off thoMiuntrry. river, to
promise any hope to the anguished, Stricken
mothers and wives who stood in-the throng
on tho shore. The water rolled sullenly but
smoothly down from tbe cofferdam nliove
the pumping barge tnlow where the caisson ;
had stood. It was soon known that only
four of the eighteen men who wero at work
at that time had escaood.
The Inst man out of tbe calson whs Frank i
Hnddnx. IIo was barely saved by Murray, |
who dragged him from whore lie wns caught j
waist deep in tho quicksand. Taylor says ho |
stood nearest the iron lndde** by which they |
got in and out of tho caisson. He heard a
rumbling, and there wns a rush of air almost
at the same instant. He jumped upon tho 1
rungs of tho ladder, followed by the oth?r
men. -J
They had hnrdly got clear of tho cnisson .
vrnen me water Purse uirougn mo manhole ,
In a surge, knocking them nil into the river,
where they were picked up. Iladdox says lie
saw Hnm Morris, who was clnibing next
below himself, swiftiy drawn under by the
sand and heard his cries for heln but could
do nothing.
The cais-on is not wrecked, as at first sup
posed, but has settled down in the bed of the
clraaiu. romulutely tilietl with unnd and
water. There seems nbso'utely no hope fo? \
anv of those cuight within the caisson.
John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of !
the work Moaday. The tnen who escaped |
6ay he had them dig too deep before letting
the caisson settle, and the digging was too
close to the shoo of the caisson. Just before
the accident Knox gave some order to
Robert Baldwin, the keeper in charge of the
tipper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened
this door, and the compressed air, which
kept out the river, rushed out, letting in the
stream.
The men say they were working in nn ugly
quicksand at tlio time. Tho caisson was
about forty feet by twonfy, and built of
timbers twelve inches square. It was protected
hy a cofferdam, but the river is very
high and the pressure of the water very
groat.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
Malcolm F. McLeo I, a mail carrier, was
froz 'ii to death n-ar Wusbitigtou.Cahforaio.
Henry Grenmr was kill oil at North Corn"
wall Furnace, I'a., by u oruu* falling upou
lil in. ? ''WWNMMPW
While Bertie IL-atie *rItt f*
pistol iu Ail.ii.t i, Georgia, It was discharged
lataliy wounding bid brother Uarllel i.
Two freight trains collided on the South
Cheshire Railroad, near East Moreinnd.N w
llamslnre, Engineer S. VV. Slate und Kiro'
toan Gibson, were killed.
A construction train collided with an extra
train on the Pennsylvania Hailrond, near
llilvidere, New Jersey. Etigiiuer Walton
of i'hilllipsburg, was killed, and engine rs
lluggcriy and Tennchir were badly injur d.
Frank Muhou, an electric light lineman,
b.'camo entangled in wires on an engine ,
house in Sr. Louis, smt lined a sovore shock, |
and foil to the ground, sustaining probably
fatal injuries.
A freight train on the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass Railroad went through a ,
bridge at lialleltsville, Texas. O.i the cars
wore twelve me i. Seven wore rescued, three
of them bally iej ired# The bodies of the
ethers were net recovered.
Two brothers, named Dyer, and two men
named Colton mid Homers, lo:gers, were
burned to deulh at B->ebas Camp, on tbo |
leiinebsoe river, i > nine* irum i nunuuu,
Kentucky, by their-tfxbiu taking lire.
One of tho thouson 1 barrel stills of tho
Naphtha Works ut the Stand mi's Solar K Rvttnery
iu Lima, O.iio, exploded, shaking I
ail the houses In the c ity. The oil ininiediately
caught lire. Mine men were bruised
and burtu d.
Carson Parker was found dead in a saloon
in i'ueblo, Colorado. At one time lie was
one of the most eminent preachers of the
Methodist Ep scopul Church iu New York
State, lie becamo a di uiikard and outcast,
sud wandered to Pueblo, lie leav.a a family
in Indiana.
THOSE KENTUCKY FEUDS.
JiiriffO I.Illy Tells of I lie O ily Way lo
Moii Tit cm.
Judge Lilly of tbj circuit.in which the
mountaip feuds exist, is in Frankfort. He
waa asked what remedy he could suggest
for the lawlesineis. H' said; "Send an
' nn >?1 forced Perry Couuty and keep it
there. It doe. no good
for two or three week.
them. They should be k pi tlnre. It Willi
coit money, hut tho State will have to apind
mority to hieak up thdf thing. The feud In
Perry county i? a vary diffl juK one to meet.
Neatly every one of the murderers has been
in ambuss. Th re has b-*eu almost no opsn
fighting.
"Our people are too completely Intimidated.
You could not get up a poss*. We
have a military company there, butitsm.'mb
rs are afraid to do anything- Its captain
hasn't dared to sleep at homo for three
months. Tbo proportion of our population
aotunllr engaged in this quarrel is not so
large, hut 4o per c lit. of am the r>st are in
sympathy wiln one side or tin other and tho
reiuander are so thoroughly cowed that they
do not dare to make any attempt to drive
out the lawless e.ement. Tne Ix-lliKcrentsnro
the hest anno I mo ? anyone ever saw. They
have guns and revolvers of the very latest
I and t>est patterns aud are thoroughly orgu.i
Ued."
The Glasgow Iron market is Bgain excited.
The strike among tbo collieis iu Belgium
s spreading.
The steamship Britannic sunk a brigantiuo
in I he Irish sea.
The famous Church of St. Michael at Aix
a-Cbupellu has l>een burned.
Tlio broken cable iu the middle of tin Atuutic
ocean bus been repaired.
Tlio porters empliyed by the Dublin,
IVicklow and Wexford Railway Co. bavo
truck.
A new customs turiiT is being prepared by
die Russian tinaucj ministry. It will take j
dR-cl July 1.
Russia and the Vatican are now on good
terms. The Popo lias appointed a number of I
bishops for thai country.
The theatre at Zurich, Swi'x rland, took [
li e during a performance and was burned, ;
but the audience escupad.
l'riaco Charles Willi tilt l'hilip, head of tlio
House of Auersporg, dead ut Prague front
intl limitation of the lungs.
? - r? ? r - w ? .?
witu distinguished honors.
^ Mr. IHvill in a speech nt Dublin express *d
.1.1 <mii?ui ;-j illjKH ) miu llli; (ii d|IUSCU guv |
eminent endowment of universities.
Tho French government will enforce lh-> j
legal (canity against three hundred priest* ,
convicted ot interfering with elections.
King Humbert was thrown from his horse i
while returning from a bunting trip an-l was !
bruised, but remounted una rode home.
An Austrian newsp-ip ~r c'aiins to liavo in. j
formation showing that Dr. Deters and mom- .
hers of hisi x.doring party in Africnutvnlive- '
Twenty-six boys were sulTocut<vl in tlii i
pauper's school at Forest Liate, Hug. Tho
budding took lire fiom an overliealod stove. '
i'rince Hism uvk reoeivod (WO t< l jgrams of '
New Year c ngratulnttons Irom dilfereut |
p iris of Germany and from foreign couu- |
tries.
A number of conspirators who it is siid
were unpl cated in u plot to kill tho Cur
were captured iu the imperial pulacj in fcit.
1YL r?bu(?. ^..
ex les recwIt^Mwij^^^raui Hioeria wore
ilred upon while resisting the desti uction of
their printing presses.
Tho lumnn Line steamship City of I'ur.'s
111a lo tue run from New York lot,) leuustown
in 5 days hours ond 50 minutes, her highest
daily run being 475 uiiles.
Mr. Parnell is anxious to have Captain
O'Sbea's divorce suit brought to trial as soon
as possible in order that ho in ?y have au opportunity
to defend himself.
Tbu United States squadron arrived at Tangiers
and exchange I salutes, but did not communicate
with tho city, as there are on tho
ships n.together -IS cases of it ll ien/.i.
Tho shopkeep rs of tho Caarleroi district
of lielgiuiu rot me to give the striking iniuers
further credit, consequently many persons
ate starving and a Lrm 1 riot is threatened.
At a consistory tho l'opo referred to the
restoration of temporal pow -r as necessary
iu iuu iiiue^ciiuuuc ?uu uuei 1/ ui IIIO I Opj
iu the exercise of his mission, ami declared
ho did not claim the restoration irotn huiuan
motives.
Many members of tho committee of tho
Society of Artists ut l'aris will resign tlieir
positions in order to force re elections on the
question of the ju-tice of the awards made
lor exhibits in tne art department of the recent
exhibition.
Tho Jionilon Star says tho marriage between
Miss Gwendoline Caldwell, who presented
the Ain-ricin Catholic University
with $300,000, and i'rinco Murat has been nr
r tuged, tho prince beiug w.lling t > acc ptuuy
allowance the lady may grant him.
A defective stove iu the palace of tho King
of i'eigiutu ut i,aeken, a subui b of li. ussels,
set tire to the building, and before tile II lines
could bj subdued the palace wasdostroyei
with all the royal urt collection. Princess
Clementine, the King's d night r, had a narrow
escape from being burned to do itb. Her
governess was suit, catud. The uio a*y loss
oil the building and its contents will ha iniuuns.*,
while the art treasures destroyed ciuuot
bo replaced.
In bis uddjflHHflHwtood of Loco*
motive KragB *-u?
The nmoa^HBBB HfeSia from Brothei *
hood of Csr|iwBlWBWw treasury for November
was *n,2o*mk ^
Taunton (Mass.l Locomotive Works and
the Mouth ru PociQc Railroad Company, at
Sun Francisco, have reduced the hours of
laO r to eight hours per day, and pay by tho
hour.
The barbers'union, of Grand Lipids h is
established a rule lining a member 60 amis
? henever caught smoking a 11011-11- ion eigi r,
$1 tortlie second offense and expulsion lor
the third oil.-use.
The date for the joint convention of tlio
National Progressive Union of Mintri and
tile Knights ot Labor lias in on changed from
January 'Ji to January 'JJ, 111 Columbus, when
uinalgauuitiou is possible.
The American Flint Glusi Workers' National
Assembly, in its latest report, shows a
yearly incomeof f ltHJ,C0d, and total nil nilierilupof
6,0)6. Thero are less than one hundred
11011 union men in the entire trade.
The Boston free-stone cutters got theei.b'.hour
day as a New-Year's pros-at, both employer
and oinp.oyod favoring the reduction
of \vt rking hours. They will accept -t-t cuts
per liour tor their work until Apr.l 1, when
a d.-nuilld for 6J cents will bo tnnde.
The socialist labor party of Italy Ins
achieved brilliant victories iu its llrst march
into the political Hold. Wherever 110 workmen
had caiulidat)* in the municipal elections
largo vot> s wore cast for them. ) u some
places not only several candid it >s but- tie
entire labor ticket has been elected. Throughout
1 aly, Iront Lombardy to N iples, tie
wording class has raised its voice.
The organizing commit'.00 of the Central
Labor Union of Indianapolis, lud., will give
special at tent- on t) the organ iz -t 011 of working
women during tho present yo.r In the
tideint unions women can Hud a simple,
practical and inexpensive method of organization
which secures t > its memberi all t o
ndvai.t iocs In be found in niiv other hit or
organizition, and many t iat can be found
nowhere else. They can have ubsoluto conttol
of all matt.-rs affecting their own ii.t.-rest.
The total number of fall urea in the Un.t <1
Stales during 1880, as reported to lirad
strrrt's, is 11,71U, or lhXjgr cent, more than
in laaa.^.?i5s7 w'^
w?4uiiw
ties lor a llke nH H^iTdiMKO,
or 1\i p r oanh^v^^^HMBPR ae?e i?
atom, r ft,000,TOO, cteaPpPftMl
Mr. Powderly'a iat* address to the workingmen
of Pennsylvania on the value of tho ballot
intelligently and boneatly u?od is nut th r
example of the wise and honornblo met ho is
by winch ho aims to improve the condition
ot organiz d wage- workers. He tells tho vn?t
army of labor, rs in that Stat - that Ibey must
cease being partisans. He urges them to ignore
parly and work together for a secret
ballot so that they may vote henceforth ubs
>lutely as they choose, without any fear of
coercion. Then they can compel the powerIul
corporations of Pennsylvania at l ast to
resoect oxhtiiig laws.
Hy the breaking of n oaieson of the new
lA>uWville and JetTerson villo bridge at
Ixmiaville, Kentucky, fourteen workmen
were drowned.
West is Broken.
Oi'iilli nml ncMiriicltoii In the WIiiiI'm
Sivci |i In niNHiiiirl 'I my House*
llion How n mill People Killnfl
nml Injured.
About 4 iJC o'clock ill tlio afternoon a cyclone
struck the s >uthwestern s.'Ctiou of tli?
city of Sr. I.ouis and swept 01 through to tho
northern limits, miking a pathw ty nearly
a quarter of u milo wide, un 1 leaving death
and destruction in its trucks. There was
scarcely any warning of the approach of the
storm, owing to the fact that the sky had
been overc ist for several hours before tbo
full force of the wind was fid', an I it was all
over in an iuero litdy brief pjrlol of lime,
those residing-.in an 1 near the path of tho
storm scare ly realizing what had happened J
until it was all over. la neighboring towns a
the storm did terrible dam igo. At Venice, JH
llilf Killed nnu injuron ' " I s' jg
Dead?Mrs. Maggie Connors, aged f< riy; Bernard
McConnel, aged forty; Joe Weaver,
aged ninety. Injure !?Theresi Weaver, aged
six, both legs broken, will probably die; Mrs.
Cuarles Miller, badly cut and bruised. Seriously
injured?Annie Connors, Maggie Connors,
Francis Connors.
A iiicssmgcr from the east siilo i f tho river
s iys that the storm in St Clair county, 1 I.,
wis unusually severe. tiro >kiyn, a villa or
about 5)J souls, sooms to have sull' -roil most.,
as the (Inmate at liist St. Louis ami nt Vonico
was largely conlino 1 to railroad property
all 1 Bill ill dwellings and telegraph and
tel >phono piles. Brooklyn is about throe
miles north at List St. Louis. Is population
is largely composed of colored paopl . It was
reported in K ist St. Louis tli it the l.t le town
had b'en swept olt the face of the earth. It
| proves not q lite so bad as that though bad
! enough, an i though several were injured, no
] 11v s wore lost. A number of dwellings nro
in ruiuc. Tlii Baptist Cnurch is entirely demolished,
and the M. K. Cnurch, a frame
bu l<ling, unroofed and turned clour around
on its foundations.
At Bj levil!', III., sever il public buildings
weri unroofed, but no one r jported injured.
A lite Wabash, train arrived at Bel iy L)epit,
in Knit St Louis, about 8.15 P. M. The
ongiueer and conduct ir rep >rc. that during
the storm liny feared that the train would
b? thrown from the track, soterrill: was th*
force of the wind.
In addition to dor. >n of dwellings and stores
I in the soutlurn, ceutr d ami nor.hern s>"t ioiis
of this city more or los< wrecked, the fodow
inr big buddings were damaged:
The Anchor Mills, Goodwin candle factory,
Pullman shops, Van Broeck's furniture factory,
K ngsland A. Ferguson f arm Implement
works. Missouri Pacitlj Hospital, ilogdoit
S -hooi, tl erinaa Evangelic it Cnurch, Second
I Pr.'sliyt.'rian Church, and ot lers yet to bo
heard iroiii. Three fatalities nre reported,
! but tho names of tho victims have not yet
j be-n aseei t dned. They comprisi an ont.re
1 family, f ttber, mother and child, residing on
| .Mound street, near Tenth, and they m till -ir
I deaths by tin falling of a building oil their
j dwelling.
j Tho los-es on property are roughly esti!
mated at f l'JO.Odd, but will proba'oiy prove
! more.
?TATE OF TRADE.
Kliglit Improvement CaiiHiil by More ,
S(-HH<?iiable Wcnllicr. \
Special telegrams to /iradnlre 'l s note the \
[ tern| orary nppe iranee o: coluor weather, fol- \
iowju nc nnpo.'tvit \\ eitoru cities, parltcu1
rly Ca e 140,Sr. Paul, Minn apolis, O null1,
K'inmiCity ant St. Emis by a mod ritely
improved distribution of clothing, boot s and
thoes un l giocsry stiplos. Tao gain is not
largo, being in-t by lower temperature an 1
hampered by thi utif ivorablo condition it
wagon reals at the interior South an<i West.
I/oathuruiul lu mber are quiet, and cittleand
l.ogs. wltb freer rec 'ipts, teinl to weakness
ut tVeatorn centers.
Mercantile collections generally aroslow,
; and the immediate outl o 1 is not lor material
improvement. At IIIj West, Indian corn is
luaviug with fro'dom, but. Suit ti farm products
are shipped with loss freedom, notably
cotton, llog pro lucts have been more active,
with (lriu or st *ady prices and iu some ius
ances slight advances.
Reports to Urud^rccl'i of gross earnings
of ninety-two rain 0 id campauies 'or lSS'Jag7
regate #3i7,5d0 t-Wf an increase over 18<8
. of nine per cent.
The demaud for llour and for wheat lias
been dull both at home and Abroad, cash No.
I 2 K'd codng at only over the previous
I week. Indian corn is more active, s leeula'
t.rely, with the close showing an 11 iv sue) of
' ? Moon nearby options. O its folk w idcorn
Willi rathsr less activity. Stocks of wheat
1 iu tie United Stites, both c lists and Cinaj
da, out of farmers' bauds, w.tli like stocks in
Australia, in Europe, and all >at from ail
1 countries for Kurop , as cabled to /{ru t
strrrt's aggreg.it 1 16,800,000 bushels on Jail.
1, lS'JJ against 11$ f,HOJ,000 bushels ou J uiuary
1, 18>'Ja decline of 1S.0J0 budi.'ls, IJ'j P<ir
Cent. Exports of wheat and llour as wueat
trom both coasts, United States and Canada,
this weok aggregate 2,317,221 bushels against
1808,151 t-ushels list week and 1,082,88?
bushels 111 the like week of 1SS0. The total of
wlieut (ind llour a; wheat) exported July 1,
1880, to date is 50,002.621 bu-li Is against 63,1182,006
bushels 111 a like portion of 1888 0.
Nglwithst mdigig free receipts of raw sugar
i ridloors have enjoyed a goo 1 demand whicu.
I with lirni cables, is responsible for an advane?
of ft lt>.\ for raw an I f >r refined sugars.
Ntojks of refined in the United St itosuro re
ported to he 20,0.0 tons Ic&s thnn they were a
year a-o. Th -re tins been more act.Vity in
cofl'ee, with prices '4c higher.
Spi I g tra lo in cotton goods has opened eniou
ag.u^ly, a goo i package trad ? bein? re^
ported. i'rint cloths are only nioderat.'iy active.
Woolen goods arc quiet. Doliver.ei
by iigei t<ot Spring goods on orders ure large.
Haw wool isst -udy Out in moderate denand.
Prices are arm. L'ght crop movement and
unproved speculative demand liave advanced
cotton prices }?-i to 5-iOo.
BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL.
Terrific ami Fatal Holler lii|iloiloii
In a riluhii'K Furnace.
An explosion occurred at Lucy Kurnac)
No. 1, of Carnogie, Pnlpps& Co., Pittsburg.
One man was killed and nine others seriously
injured. Simultaneously with the report of
the explosion, th) bell and stopper wire
. lifted fr,-m*h*i^^^v^^t f-y *' '
VpMMMWSPmwmid ore TRhl bricks shot up
] nto the air high above the fnruace like a
miniature volcano.
me men mine oaso or sue iwrnao?, wnnn
they heard the explosion ran in terror for
their lires, but nearly all of them were
caught and more or less injured, while Michael
Welech 'ost his life, lie fell into the
alley into which the cinder runs and was
fat?lly burned. When found he was still
nlive, but died on the way to the West Toon
Hospital.
Nino of the men were either struck by falling
debris or burned by the molten metal
thrown out at the too of the furnace. The
injured are Thomas Welsh, brother of Michael
struck on the side and injured internally;
Thomas Snmnierlee. John Moilinni*.
Harry Hailford, John Quigley, Michael
; ijonii;, .Tiur.iu nuiiuuoriuf, noiirjr okiiihoii
and J tine* Duff/. Nod* ara fatally. The
molten metal winch foil on all aiilea, set Are
to the wood work about the furnaos, but fl '<
the lUmeu wore ettinguieboU with aligttl