The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, March 21, 1890, Image 2
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
One Section of an Express Train
Crashes Into the Other.
More Than a Score of Persons
Killed or Injured.
Six persons have been killed and about
twenty injure 1 in a railroad accident on the
Lake Shore road at Bay View, nine miles
from Buffalo, N. Y., by the Chicago Express
breaking in tw^ and the two section 3 then
coming into collision.
The killed were: Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, of
Rochester; Mrs. J. D. Baucus, Rome, N. Y.;
J. Swan, the colored porter; John W. Flynn,
of Canton, Ohio, and John T. Power, of
Pittsfield, Mass.
_ The two sections of the wrecked train ar
rived at Buffalo about 4 o’clock in the morn
ing with the dead and injured. The bodies
were placed on trucks in the baggage room
and the injured were removed to tne hospitals
or hotels.
Pullman Condnctor Fest said the steam
coupling broke in pulling ont of Dunkirk,
leaving them without steam. When near
West Hamburg he made the startling dis
covery that the train had broken. He pulled
the air-brake cord and found that it would
not work. He ran to the third car and found
the air-brake there also useless. He was just
turning the brakes when the crash came.
The first section had, on finding that there
‘ the second sec-
crashed into it. Ho
_ , _ they went in and
saw five persons pinned in the smoking room
of the ear Qalena, and they helped them.
Their escape was almost miraculous, as they
got out with slight ipjuries.
The collision japimed the Galena right
under the passenger coach in the rear, which
was thrown on top of it. Of those in the Ga
lena two were killed, nine injured, and one
unknown man escaped.
One man was killed in the passenger coach,
an Italian, name unknown, and J. Swan, the
colored porter of the Galena, was thrown
thirty feet into a ditch and killed. Both legs
and arms were broken, his chest stove in and
his head smashed.
Porter Waldron, (colored) of the Auburn,
and Conductor Fest got out the axes and
went to work to free the imprisoned passen
gers. The Galena was split into kindling
wood, and nothing remained of it except the
trucks and one side. The wreck started to
take fil e, when Porter Waldron dashed into
the wreckage, and at much danger to him
self succeeded in extinguishing two lamps in
the sleeper which were Haring up ominously.
But for this timely action a number of per
sons would have perished in the flames.
One of the saddest incidents of the acci
dent was that which befell Jos. D. Baucus, a
bright young lawyer of Saratoga. A week
ago Mr. Baucus was married to a handsome
young lady of Home, N. Y. The happy
couple had spent their honeymoon in tne
West and were returning home on the Ga
lena. When the accident occurred the young
lady was pinioned in the wreck. Her body
was horribly bruised and her skull badly
crushed. Her husband was injured about
the legs and head. She was brought into a
sleeper and the surgeons set about mending
her wounds. Portions of the skull had to bj
taken out. The bridegroom was stretched
out on another seat, two doctors working
over him. Every few minutes he jumped up
to get a look at his wife. The doctors re
strained him by keeping him constantly in-
tformed of her condition, but the suspense
[was too much for him. He jumped up and
Jbrushing the doctors aside, folded his arms
about the dying woman’s form. “She’s
.cold,” he cried m despair, and he glanced
up for a look of disapproval from the
physicians, who stood by. “No, she’s living
yet.” answered one of the doctors. The de
votion of the broken-hearted husband was
touching in the extreme. He refused to be
led away, and clung to the side of his uncon
scious wife, kissing her bleeding lips and
urging the doctors on to further efforts. But
medical skill proved unavailing. The wife
died as the train was slowly routug into But-
falo. Mr. Baucus is completely prostrated.
r E. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with his wife
and eighteen-months-old baby, was in the
ich when the crash came. Mr, Stewart
baby was unin-
itiing4u-4h%armg
P crying “Mamma,
The ladies took her away and the
oiwmv caild fell asleep. -
? THE^IN^OFBRIDGES.
i.
Opening; the Great Structure Over
» the Firth of Forth.
The great railway bridge over the River
Forth at Edinburgh, Scotland, has just been
opened by the Prince of Wales with great
ceremony. Many eminent engineers and
railway directors were present. An im
mense crowd of spectators witnessed the
ceremony. The day was observed as a holi
day in Edinburgh in honor of the occasion.
The Forth Bridge has been styled the King
of Bridges. It is big enough to be added to
the wonders of the world. It far surpasses
not only in utility, but in its structure as an
engineering feat, the Eiffel Tower. The cal
culation has been made that one of the three
cantilevers of the bridge, with its connecting
girders, if set up lengthways on end, would
Be very nearly the same height as the Paris
tower.
r The latter only contains 7500 tons of iron,
Viiile the Forth Bridge has absorbed over
50,000 tons of the finest steel that could be
procured. It was begun in 1883, and has
taken about seven years to complete. The
bridge proper is just over a mile in length, but
there are viaducts on each end connecting it
with the high ground, and these together add
half a mile more to the length of the work.
The height of the spans above the water is
150 feet, allowing for the passage of the
largest vessels. To attain this height, and
yet to have the necessary strength, the can
tilevers tower high above, and they required
. £>.,,,I’c I 'athCtrlfal
an elevation as high as St. Paul’s Cathedral.
A comparison between the Forth and other
great bridges of the world is as follows:
Length, Grcateet span,
feet. feet.
Forth Bridge 8,091 1,710
Tay Bridge 10,780 245
Niagara Bridge 8O0 808
Landore Bridge 1,760 110
Crumlin Bridge 1,800 150
Britannia Bridge 1,511 460
Brooklyn Bridge 5,862 1,600
The two great arch spans of the Forth
Bridge, 1710 feet each, are beyond any span
before attempted. Each is 110 feet w-ider
than the central span of the Brooklyn Bridge.
It has cost, or it was estimated to cost, $10,-
000,000 in money. In human life, up to Sep
tember, 1888, including five drowning cases,
the fatal accidents in connection with its con
struction amounted to fifty-three, while the
total number of accidents non-fatal up to the
same time was 543; an army of workmen,
numbering at times as many as 4500, have
been engaged most of the seven years in build
ing the gigantic structure
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Dr. Knorr, of Germany, has made $1,-
000,000 out of anti-pyrine.
John D. Rockefellkr, Secretary Tracy
and ex-Senator Platt were schoolfellows.
Joseph Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler,
left the bulk of his estate to his son Joseph.
Cong ressman Anderson*, of Kansas, says
that Jay Gould is the brightest man in Amer*
ica.
William D. Howells, the novelist, is
said to shrink from having his portrait pub
lished.
Annie Besant, the well-known English
Socialist, will shortly make a visit to this
country.
Chief Justice Comets, of Delaware, is
the possessor of 6 feet 3 inches of stature and
a robust intellect.
The Order of Commander of the Legipnof
Honor has been conferred by France upon
Perry Belmont, of New York.
Chacncey M. Depew is said to travel 500
miles on an average every week. Besides
this, he takes an annual trip to Europe.
Representative Reybcrn, of Phila
delphia. the successor of William D. Kelley
in Congress, is several times a millionaire.
General Benjamin F. Butler is said to
be able to quote the Bible more freely and
more accurately than any other man in pub
lic life.
Andrew Lang, the English criti*,seriously
discusses the probability of coming to this
country and making his permanent home in
New York. _
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. -
Eastern and Middle State*.
The Venango House and a number ci
other buildings were burned at Venango,
Penn.
Officers of ocean steamers which have
reached New York within a few days report
meeting immense fields of ice and an unusual
ly large number of icebergs off Newfound
land.
Chalkley Leconky, charged with
murdering his niece at Camden, N. J., has
been acquitted.
A fire at No. 393 Broadway, New York,
caused a loss of nearly $300,000. Several
persons, including Battalion Chief McGill,
were Injured.
The West Jersey Presbytery at a meeting
in Camden, decided in favor of revising the
Confession of Faith by a vote of 32 to 16.
Expert thieves attempted to rob the Elk
County Bank at Ridgeway, Penn., but they
were frightened away and escaped, leaving
their tools behind them.
Town Collector Chadbourne, of Ox
ford, Me., is short in his accounts from $3000
to $4000. The town will call upon his bonds
men to make the deficiency good.
Showman Barn cm's circus and menagerie
arrived at New York a few days ago after a
long sojourn in England.
James Lennard was killed and Thomas
Owens fatally hurt by the premature explo
sion of a blast in the colliery of the Ply
mouth Coal Company at Plymouth, Penn.
By the explosion of a box of dynamite in
a contractors tool house at Pittsburg. Penn.,
David Hayes was instantly killed and Will
iam Soddy fatally injured.
At the Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention in Providence John W. Davis
was nominated for Governor, Captain John
Waters for Lieutenant-Governor, and the
rest of the 1887 ticket was put in nomina
tion.
The pottery works of Thomas Haddock &
Sons, at Trenton, N. J., have been totally
destroyed by fire.
Miss Anna Putnam committed suicide
by hanging at Danvers. Mass. Although
worth $25,000, she was harrassed by the fear
that she would become destitute, and took
her life in a fit of despondency.
Challenges have been sent from New
York to the Earl of Dunraven, owner of the
Valkyrie, by the owners of the Katrina and
Shamrock for international yacht races in
this country in the coming summer.
Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie,
Seth Low, Henry E. Howland and Joseph
H. Choate, at a public meeting in New
York, spoke in favor of extending that city’s
free circulating library system.
Eight freight cars were thrown from the
track near Carlisle, Penn., and wrecked.
The funeral of ex-Governor English took
place at New Haven, Conn. Many promi
nent people attended.
Reuben Eisenhart, foremen at the Cam
eron Mine, Shansokin, Penn., which bad
been on fire for several days, was overcome
by black damp while in the mine, and died
soon after being taken out.
William Bucknell, the
phia philanthropist, died of
agd^of seventh-nine years.
noted Philadel-
apoplexy at the
He gave $142,000
to Bucknell College,' about $525,000 to Bap
tist churches and missions, and probably
$500,000 more to charities of various kinds.
The Belgian steamer De Ruyter, Captain
Webster, from Antwerp for Boston, went
ashore at Lighthouse Point, Mass., in a thick
snow storm. The crew of twenty-seven men
got ashore safely.
South and West.
Two drunken men at Chicago held Count
Leon Albert, a German nobleman, up against
a wall and amused themselves shooting at
him. One bullet went through bis silk hat
and another made an ugly scalp wound.
Mbs. Mollie Smith and her two sisters,
Miss Julia and Emma Barnes, three promi
nent and highly respected young ladies of
Saybrook, 111, hava^ been lodged in the
county jail. They were suffering from the
wildest and most affecting emotional in
sanity upon the question of Christian
science.
August Groth, a brewer, out his wife’s
throat with a razor at Stillwater, Minn., and
then committed suicide,
Fred Jacobs, 16 years old, was stabbed to
the heart at Vicksburg, Miss, by Ellis
Adams «*v> th « r bqy, and dtofr imVrtly
The bod
killed a
was found hanging to the railroad bridge
Iltenaba, Miss. The lynchers are unknown.
Twenty masked students of Kalamazoo
College, Mich., seized Professors Ferry and
Trowbridge, bound them hand and foot and
left them, in an open field, two miles from
the college.
Two schoolboys became involved in an al
tercation at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and
George Patterson struck Edward Traulman
in the head with a stone, killing him.
Alderman Charles Hillcock, of Chi
cago, was found dead in the street near his
home. Death resulted from apoplexy.
The Virginia Legislature has appointed
Commissioners to meet with a committee of
foreign bondholders and confer over the set
tlement of the State debt.
At a recent election held at St. George, W.
Va., Mayor Miller was elected, but failed to
qualify. The City Council then appointed D.
8. Minear, whereupon Mayor Miller quali
fied. Both claimed to be Mayor, and the re
suit was that no laws were being enacted or‘
enforced.
Eowfi? Cowles, editor and proprietor of
the Cleveland Leader, has died in that city,
aged sixty-five years.
Whit e Henry Greenlee and his wife were
away from home their four children wete
burned to death in their cabin at Eupora,
Miss,
William H. Pope, teller of the Louisville
City National Bank, has absconded with
$60,000 of the bank’s cash in his possession.
The Exposition buildings and street car
barns wer* burned at Plattsmouth, Neb.
The loss is heavy.
Heavy floods have caused much, damage
along the Ohio River. At Cairo, 111, the
river was fifty miles wide.
The convention of the National League of
Republican Clubs has been held in Nashville,
Tenu. A reception was given in the League’s
honor by Governor Taylor and the Legisla
ture at the State Capitol.
UriTED States Senator Allison has
been re-elected by the Iowa Legislature.
The Apaches went on the war path in Ari
zona. A freighter was murdered hear Point
of Rocks and ranches were being abandoned.
United States troops started in pursuit of the
Indians.
The banking firm of C. L. Lewis & Co.,
of Winchester, Ind., has failed. All the
county officials had deposits at the bank.
President Joseph STANLEY.of the Broad
way and Newburg Street Railway of Cleve
land, Ohio, has died from injuries received
while jumping from one of his own electric
motors.
Mrs. Katherine Drake, of Zanesville,
Ohio, was burned to death. She waseighty-
fotir years of age. and her clothes catchimr
fire from the grate she was too feeble to call
for aid.
R. R. Donnelly & Sons, printers of the
Chicago City Directory, one of the oldest
printing and publishing houses in the West,
have tailed, with liabilities aggregating
$100,000.
Raimund Holzhay, the notorious train
robber, now in the penitentiary at Marquette,
Mich., for life, tried to murder a fellow con
vict and was shot and seriously wounded by
the warden.
An English syndicate has bought the F.
W. Wheeler & Co. shipyard and dry dock at
Bay City, Mich., for $3,500,000.
Washington.
After a long fight the Senate has
confirmed the nomination of ex-Governor
Henry C- Warmoth to be Collector of Cus
toms at New Orleans. Eleven Democrats
and three Republicans voted against confir
mation. •
The delegates to the Pan-American Con
ference have been invited to make a trip
through the South.
The President has approved the bill to in
crease pensions of soldiers and sailors totally
helpless from injuries received or diseases con
tracted while in service of United States.
A court of inquiry was appointed to in
vestigate charges of cruelty and oppression
made against Commands’ B. H. McCalla,
commanding the United States steamship
Enterprise. Commander McCalla is also
charged by an American resident at Ber
muda with disgraceful conduct at that place.
The President
providing for an
War.
approved the 1
Secretary
Foreign.
While a Progressist meeting was being
held at Koenigsberg, Germany, a crowd of
Socialists stormed the hall, ana a sharp fight
ensued. The police arrested a large number
of persons.
Four persons were killed and fourteen in
jured in a train wreck at Carlisle, England
Rioting took place at Setubal, Portugal,
and the military fired into the crowd, killing
two and injuring twenty others.
The great railway bridge over the River
Forth, Scotland, was opened by the Prince
of Wales.
A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia,
says that Henry George was welcomed at the
Town Hall by the Mayorof the city.
The Czar of Russia has received a threat
ening letter from a woman who signed her
self “Tchebrikova.” The writer said that
unless he modified his reactionary policy he
would meet the fate of Peter III., Paul I.
and Alexander II.
The French and Dahomans have fought a
second battle in Africa, the natives being
beaten with heavy loss.
Major Wissmann, the German officer,
attacked and routed the Arabs in East
Africa.
Several Nihilists were arrested near the
Anitchkoff Palace, in St. Petersburg, where
the Czar and imperial family are residing.
Rudolph de Guehry, a school teacher,
aged fifty years, was arrested at Kingston,
Ontario, for assaulting pupils, and was being
conveyed to th* Pembroke jail when he was
seized with spasms and died.
Hungary and Austria were visited by
violent snowstorms, which practically sus
pended railway travel in every section.
Abraham Lincoln, son of the United
States Minister to England, has died in
London after a long and painful illness,
The President of the Transvaal, South
Africa, has been insulted by a mob and the
flag of the Republic tom down.
A shoe factory at Weissenfels, Saxony,
has been destroyed by fire. Seven of the
employes lost their lives in the burning
building.
BURNS)
Fatal Disast<
Wayne
on the
ilroad.
Three Lives Lo md $100,000
Worth of Prop y Destroyed.
A wreck that causAhe death of thres
men and resulted in t estruction of prop
erty valued at $100,(X as occurred on the
CRISP.
Fort
ort Wayne Rail-
io. The names of
Cowan, engineer.
tersburg, Va. Lewis. Stewart and John I for the natives at
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LATER NEWS.
A notable auction sale of trotters has
just taken place in New York. Eighty-seven
horses belonging to L. J. Rose, of Los An
geles, Cal., brought $235,945. The stallion
Alcazar sold for $25,800, and the two-year-
old Voodoo brought $24,000.
The town of Casey Hill, Penn., has caved
in. The family of Thomas Kelly were in
jured by their house toppling over. Many
other buildings were wrecked. The town
was over an abandoned mine. The damage
to property will reach $60,000.
John Pew, the founder of the house of
John Pew & Sons, the largest firm in the
American fisheries, died at Gloucester,
Mass., aged 82.
A cold wave, with a temperature as low
in places as twenty-five degrees below zero,
preimiad in New York State and New Eng-
•n«t.
Is explosion occured at the Armstrong
furnitare factory, Evansville, Ind., starting
a blaze, in which three boys were burned to
death.
The village of Liberty, Ky., bas been con
sumed by fire. Loss $40,000; no insurance.
The village had a population of 325.
A freight train was derailed near Ci^co,
Cal., and twenty-one beef cattle were killed.
The American wire, rod and nail mill of
Anderson, lud., has been burned. The loss
will reach $100,000. About 300 men are
thrown out of employment.
By the caving in of a sandbank several
railroad laborers were covered up near Pe-
Stewar
Dawson were taken out and Archer
Griffin was got out alive, but fatally injured.
The private banking firm of Belloc Freres,
San Francisco, Cal., has made an assign
ment and closed its doors. The Sheriff says
that the liabilities, as far as known, will
amount to $500,000.
Felix Kempf, the first man legally exe
cuted in Kanawha County, W. Va., since the
State was organized, was banged at Charles
ton in the presence of about 2000 people.
J. C. McGregor, reading clerk of the
Ohio State House of Representatives, died at
Zanesville of diphtheria. Mrs. McGregor
died a week previous, immediately after the
death of four children, making six deaths in
the family within a little over two weeks.
While trying to cross the river at John
son’s Island, sixteen miles above Knoxville,
Tenn., three boys were drowned. They were
in a frail boat, which capsized.
The snb-committoe of the House World’s
Fair Committee had a conference with the
Chicago delegation, and went over part of
the Fair bill.
The President sent to the Seqfue the fol
lowing nominations: William M. Marine,
to be Collector of Customs at Baltimore,
William D. Burchinal, Surveyor of Custom!
at Baltimore; Milton G. Urner, Naval Of
ficer of Customs at Baltimore; Cecil J. Kars
ner, Appraiser of Merchandise at Baltimore)
Alfred C. Barwick, Collector of Customs ai
Burlington, N. J.; Edward C. Duncan, Col
lector of Customs at Beaufort, N. C.; Jobr
F. Patty, Naval Officer of Customs at New
Orleans.
Serious differences arose among the
Portuguese officials at Mozambique. Four
hundred imported soldiers from Goa, whe
are British subjects, refused to drill or dc
military service.
Dr. Raimondo Andueza Palacio was
elected President of the Venezuela Republic.
It was stated that the Portuguese Minister
in London had failed in his negotiations for
the settlement of the African territorial dis
pute, and that he would return to Lisbon im
mediately.
C0LLECT0BS AND CONSULS.
A Number of Nominations Received
and One Confirmed.
The President sent to the Senate the fol
lowing nominations: To be Collector of
Customs—L Edward P. Dennis, for the
Eastern District of Maryland; Joseph E.
Lee, District of St. John’s, Florida; Daniel
P. Booth, District of Mobile, Ala.
Consuls—William Burgess (N. J.), at Tun-
stall; Herbert Wolcott Bowen (N. Y.), at
Barcelona; Frederick W. Catlin (N. Y.), at
Munich; William R. Estes (Minn.), at Kings
ton, Jamaica.
The Senate in executive session confirmed
the nomination of Henry C. Caldwell, to be
Judge of the United States Court for the
Eighth Judicial Circuit, vice Brewer, ap
pointed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Its Present Condition and Reduction
Last Month—Cash in Treasury.
The following items are taken from the
public debt statement for February:
Total debt—Principal..... ... .$1,594,149,186
Interest .#.... 7,564,656
Total $1,601,718,842
Total debt, less available cash
items 1,067,304,114
Net cash in the Treasury 82,75^584
Decrease of debt during month. 6,159,486
Decrease of debt since June 30,
1889 42,090,091
Total cash in Treasury as shown
by Treasurer's general sc-
count T 622,673,615
Pittsburg, Chicago
road, near Lakevill
the victims are: J|
Alliance, Ohio; Har ^flalthouse, fireman.
Alliance, Ohio, and u*d Miller, brake-
man, Marshallville,
Freight train No. 95n running in several
sections, and at Laket i the third section
broke a coupling, and tJ letached portion of
the train, consisting a dozen cars and
three tank cars filled th gasoline, came
to a stand. The com tor and brakeman
of the third section id they at once
started back to warn tl the fourth section.
They ran for half a mil* placing many tor
pedoes on the track. Bi the warning was
not heeded and the ti i, running down
grade at the rate of thi r miles an hour,
crashed into the third ection, ploughing
half throngh the detach* portion.
As the collision occurr the tank car ex
ploded with a noise that uld be heard for a
mile away, and, the blaz ; gasoline spread
ing, the wrecked cars w e soon enveloped
in flames.
The three men who we killed were in the
cab of the engine of the f rth section. Their
bodies were burned to afisp in the flames
that raged fpr two h
cars, gondolas loaded
box-cars filled with meri
trains, and all this
fierce a fire as ever
wreck.
The flames rolled up
along the track, and n
day. Awakened by
tank cars and alarnu
fire, farmers hurried to
wreck from every directid. No one could
approach within a hundi i yards of the
burning mass, however, nd the charred
bodies of the victims were lot taken out for
several hours. So intense as the beat that
the bell of the engine tosef ion No. 4‘ melted
and the metal was encrust . upon the boiler.
The rails for several bun red feet were all
twisted out of shape and tl ties burned.
The trainmen of section To. 3 say those of
section No. 4 must have b( a asleep, It is
believed, however, the warf.ng was not as
timely as these men claim.
Oil and gasoline
>ke and coal and
idise made up the
was fuel for as
after a railroad
quarter of a mile
as changed into
ilosions of the
fierceness of the
e scene of the
SEAL FISHERIES LEASED.
A Now Company Get* khe Privilege
at an Enormous . dvance.
Secretary Windom has ararded the lease
for twenty years of the es lusive privilege
of killing seals on islands of St.
George and St. Paul in | bring Sea. The
award goes to the Nortln American Com
mercial Company, of W t York and San
Francisco. The principal i-bckholders in the
new corporation are J. Liies, a furrier, of
San Francisco; D. O. Millie of New York,
and Lloyd Tevis, of San Fi icisco.
The company to which . e contract has
been awarded was by far th highest bidder.
The Alaska Commercial C impany, whose
lease is about to expire, paid a rental of $55,-
000 and a royalty of $2.62 { for each skin
taken. The North America l Company pat
in three bids. The first was in agreement to
give $55,200 a year for .weity years as an
annual rental and to pay a revenue tax of $2
on every fur seal taken. In addition to this,
however, they offered—and it is on this un
expectedly liberal bonus that the Secretary
j bases his award—$7.62>£jon each seal. The
j company also offered a tunus of 50 cents on
each gallon of ?oal oil mcule from seal taken
| from the islands. I
| The grand total of tlie North Amerian
Commercial Company’s Md for the right to
catch 100,000 fur seals in jlAlaska yearly runs
9 up to the enormous figure of $32,500,1
and adding the ^f^Joil bounl
the provisions which
i,ooa
ity and
red to be made
Eel?’
the final Al
-view $25,000 000. On tbte' basis of 60,000
seals yearly it will still reach the gratifying
sum of $13,100,000, or nearly twice what the
Territory cost. The Alaska Commercial
Company has obtained from the Russian
Government a new twenty years’ lease of
the seal islands on the Russian side of Behr
ing Sea. Hiiherto they had a monopoly of
the seal catching on the seal islands both of
Russia and the United States.
A DEED FOB $22,000,000.
A Wealthy Pittsburger Transfers His
s Property to His Son.
Ex-Judge Thomas A. Mellon, of Pittsburg,
Penn., aged and feeble, bas filed a deed
with the Recorder transfarring all his vast
real estate—$22,000,000—to his son, Andrew
W. Mellon. Judge Mellon owned property
in almost every ward in Pittsburg and Alle-
f ;hanv. He is said to have had more than
000 dwelling houses, besides a large amount
of unimproved property. The transfer also
includes considerable i
West.
Mellon
real estate in the far
The personal property of Judge
is divided among his other children.
THE NATIONAL OAME.
A New York State League has been
formed.
Sam Crane has been appointed Captain of
the New York League Club.
Gore, of New York, says the League re
duced his salary $lt)00 last season.
Captain Ewing thinks the Cincinnati
team will finish second or third in the League
race.
The New York League Club is bringing
suits against nearly all its players on last
year’s team.
The Central Labor Union, of New York
city, has indorsed the Players’ League, and
its members will support that organization.
The National League will be fairly strong
in one department—catching; but as an
offset the pitchers in the aggregate are weak.
One of the best pleas that the Players'
League has yet made for public support it
the splendid staff of umpires they have se
cured. ’
Pitcher Keefe is training the Princeton
College pitchers, and Riley, the Columbus
third baseman, is looking after the othei
players.
A corps of trainers will shortly go to Eng
land to thoroughly train a number of base
ball teams. The men will be all good amateur
players.
Anson, the Chicago League Club’s Cap
tain, puts up at a first-class hotel in Florida,
while his players have to be content with
cheap fare.
Hutchinson, of Chicago, is considered by
many the speediest pitcher in the League or
the profession — faster, even, than Ned
Crane, of New York. •
The Pittsburg League Club will play ex
hibition games at home, and will make no
Southern trip before the opening of the
championship season.
The Harrisburg (Penn.) Club, which won
the Middle States championship last season,
has been reorganized, and a strong team will
be put in the field to play all comers.
The Players' League will open the season
on April 21 and close on October 4. The
Eastern clubs and the Western play the first
series of games on their respective grounds.
The Players’ League sent a communica
tion to President Young, of the National
League, in session at Cleveland, suggesting
the formation of another national agree
ment, of which the two organizations shall
be the principal parties.
Director Appleton says the men who
have gone South with Manager Mutrie will
not compose the team the New York League
Club will put in the field and are simply ex
perimental material out of which the club
hopes to develop a good man or two.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company re
ceives a subsidy of $900,000 a year from the
Pacific railroads for maintaining transcon
tinental rates of freight against the shippers
of Oregon and California.
The Chinese Government has been mass
ing troops on the Siberian frontier, as an
early attack by Russian forces was feared.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
50TH Day.—Hr. Mitchell offered a resolu
tion, which was agreed to, instructing the
Committee on Foreign Relations to considp-
the advisability of advancing the Turkish
mission to a minion of the second class, with
a salary to the United States Minister of $12,-
000 Mr. Dolph introduced a bill authoriz
ing the Secretary of the Interior to establish
such rules and regulations, and to provide
such penalties as he may deem best, to secure
the regular attendance of all children in
Alaska where schools are maintained by the
Interior Department... .The bill to establish
uniform salaries of $5000 for United States
District Court Judges was passed — Mr.
Spooner spoke in opposition to the Blair bill.
51st Day.—A joint re-olution for taking
the census in Alaska was passed....A re
solution offered the previous day by Mr.
Voorhees in regard to the lease of the fur
seal islands in Alaska to the North American
Commercial Company was reported back
adversely from the finance Committee....
The relations of the press to executive sessions
were discussed.
52d Day.—The message of the President,
making known his approval of the agreement
made with the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota
for the cession of their lands, transmitting the
report of the Commissioners, and recom-
mending an appropriation to complete a sur
vey of the lands, was presented in the Senate,
read, and referred... .The Blair Educational
bill came up for debate, and Mr. Plumb spoke
in opposition to it.
5Sd Day.—A number of private bills were
passed... .Mr. Wilson introduced a bill pro
viding that the charge of desertion against
any soldier who served in the late war shall
be no bar to his right to pension, when it can
be reasonably shown that the disability on
account of which he claims pension was in
curred while performing actual service in
the volunteer army....In executive session
the consideration of the “leakage” of secret
session proceedings wascon tin tied.
54th Day.—Mr. Hale spoke against the
Blair Educational bill, and Mr. Blair de
fended it... .The public building bills on the
calendar having been reached, the following
were passed: For Sterling, 111., $50,000; Oak
land, Cal., $300,000: Cheyenne, Wyo., $150,-
000; Chester, Penn., $100,000; Helena, Mont.,
$400,000.
; passage of a few pri-
Cutr " '
In the House.
56th Day.—After the
vate pension bills, Mr. Cutcheon called up
the Senate bill providing for an Assistant
Secretary of War. Passed—yeas, 128; nays,
100... .The contested election paso of Feather-
ston against Cate, from the First Arkansas
District, was considered.
*57th Day.—The contested election case of
Featherston against Cate was taken tip....
Bills were introduced by Mr. Owen appro
priating $35,000 for the erection of a monu
ment to the division of regulars at Gettys
burg Representative Kinsey reported
favorably from the Committee on Military
Affairs his bill appropriating $200,000 to be
gin the reconstruction of the military post at
Jefferson Barrack?. Mo.
58th Day.—Consideration of the contested
election case of Featherston against Cate, of
Arkansas, was resumed. The debate had
not concluded when the House adjourned.
59th Day.—By a party vote of 147 to 138,
the House decided that W. H. Cate, the sit
ting member from the First Arkansas Dis
trict, was not elected a Representative in the
List Congress, and then decided, by a vote of
145 to 135, thatL. P. Featherston was elected,
and be appeared and took bis seat.
60th Day.—The greater pdrtion of the day
was consumed in a discussion of a bill for the
compulsory attendance of witnesses before
registers and receivers of land offices, but no
action was taken A number of public
buildings appropriation bills were passed.
61st Day.—Mr. Haugen, from the Com
mittee on Elections, reported a resolution
in the Alabama contested election case of
Threat against Clark. The resolution, which
Was unanimously reported, declares Clark
entitled to retain his seat. It was adopted
... .The Speaker laid before the House the
Senate bill referring to the Court of Claims
the claim of W. E. Wood bridge for the
use of his invention of projectiles for rifled
cannon. After some discussion the bill was
defeated—yeas, 111; nays, 128.... About fifty
private pension bills were passed.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
i said that the Buffalo Bill show will re-
j London lor”larbriet season m May.
Miss Thomas, of Cleveland, musically
educated at Milano, is to make her debut in
opera in June.
The French authorities have forbidden
the production of Mme. Bernhardt’s “Pas
sion” play in Paris.
Among the many attractions that Pierre,
the new capital of South Dakota, promises
itself, is a $150,000 theatre.
Patti and her company arrived at Denver
after a thirteen hour delay by Colorado
storms. The diva was suffering with a chest
cold and fever.
The almost complete score of the opera
“Tannhauser,” written and signed by Wag
ner, has ’ een discovered in the ruins of the
Zurich Theatre.
A new tenor, Tolpi by name, has been dis
covered in Venice, and great reports of the
sweetness of his voice come from Italy, where
he is now singing.
The niece of Mme. Christine Nilsson, who
hoped to become a great prima donna, has
abandoned her plans, having discovered that
her voice is inadequate.
Herr Eduard Strauss has signed an en
gagement at Vienna with an American im-
pressario for a three months’ tour with a
complete orchestra in the United States dur
ing the coming season.’
Seats for Joseph Jefferson's recent per
formance at Atlanta, Ga., were sold at auc
tion without his knowledge or consent. He
did n ■'t feel that he was entitled to the prem
ium money, some $600 in all, so he distributed
it among focal charities.
Signor Salvini has the reputation of hav
ing fewer intimate friends, outside the circle
of his own countrymen^than any other for
eign actor who has visited these shores. The
reason given is not that he is unsocial, but
that he is unable to speak English.
The London County Council contemplates
imposing a license on variety artists with
many remarkable restrictions, the infraction
of which will involve the canceling of the
license. A large and stormy meeting of act
ors, managers and music-hall loving people
was held.
The theatre which the authorities of the
University of Pennsylvania have decided to
erect will be used for all public lectures given
under the auspices of the University, for
concerts and for the performances of classi
cal music. It will cost $75,000, and the organ
which will be constructed about $35,000.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The premium on gold in Buenos Ayres has
risen to 164 per cent.
They are about to build a new Masonic
temple in Chicago, at a cost of $3,090,000.
Turkey has declined to accept the Belgian
scheme for the suppression of the slave
trade.
The large smelting organizations of the
United States have formed a Trust with s
capital of $25,000,000.
It is now proposed to dig a tunnel undei
the Detroit River in the interest of the Ca
nadian Pacific railroad.
Leprosy is spreading so rapidly in New
Caledonia that 3000 of the natives and many
of the convicts have been attacked.
State Tf.easurer Noland, of Missouri,
has been suspended owing to the discovery of
a shortage of $32,000 in his accounts.
Virginia has begun to take steps to ascer
tain bow large a proportion of its taxable
property is owned by colored people.
The epidemic of influenza is slowly
ing its way down through Mexico and \ u-
catan to the Central American States.
Leagues have been formed in Rio Jan- 1
erio, Bahia. Para. Santos and Pernambuco.
Bzazil. to boycott British in favor of Ameri
can goods.
Ohio is to have a new oil company _ com
posed of wealthy capitalists from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Pittsburg, with an estimated
capital of $50,000,000.
Alabama papers are calling attention to
the wanton destruction of mocking birds in
that State. Large numbers of them are shol
every spring and summer.
According to a statement just issued by
the Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts there
are forty-one State banks in the State, hav
ing an aggregate capital of $9,316,500.
Repor* i concerning the prospective wheal
crop in the Western States are encouraging.
Only Michigan and Wisconsin complain of
A BAM BOBBER KILLED.
His Pockets Full of Money and
$1000 In His Boots.
Shot by a Policeman as He Was
Trying to Draw Eis Pistols.
Telegraph Operator Taylor, of Meriden,
Kan., heard the words, ‘T*i a slick un,” ad
dressed to him by a stranger the other night
while he was receiving messages at the rail
way station. He paid no attention to the re
mark until he had completed the message;
which read as follows:
“To the Sheriff, Meriden, Kansas ;
“Hicks & Gephart’s bank robbed this
evening of $3000. Robber unknown. De
scription as follows: Blond, light hair and
moustache, blue eyes, 5 feet 11 tall, medium
weight. Sheriff.”
The operator looked up, and nearly lost bis
breath when he saw standing before him the
man described in the dispatch. He did not
reveal the fact of the recognition, but merely
a creed with the stranger fiat he was a “slick
The stranger inquired the time of the
un.
next train for Atchison and asked where ha
tor
it. The operator
ere the “slick un”
Xing, requesting
could put up for the
directed him to a hotel, w
cook a room without regibv^^u.^, *
that he be called at 5 o’clock in the morning,
in time for the Atchison train.
Policemen Smith and Summerfleld. who
had also received instructions from Valley
Falls to arrest any suspect, were informed
by the operator of the presence of the stranger
at the hotel. Arming themselves with Win
chester rifles, they went to the hotel, waited
under the man’s window until 12 o’clock, and
then, going to the office, acquainted the pro
prietor with their intention to arrest
his guest. A bell-boy was sent to the
stranger’s room with a message that it was
time to get up to catch the Atchison train.
When the stranger descended to the office he
was confronted by the policemen with Win
chester rifles pointed squarely at his breast.
He never quivered, but looked inquiringly
around.
“Throw up your hands,” Smith said.’ The
stranger seemed to realize his situation then,
but instead of obeying he thrust his hands
into both side pockets of his overcoat to draw
the revolvers which only a few hours before
had intimidated Cashier Cohn, of the Valley
Falls Bank. As the stranger made the motion
toward his weapons, both Winchesters were
discharged instantly at his breast. The
stranger fell dead with one bullet through
his heart and another through the right
The Coroner was notified, ancjrtJefore'hbon
a verdict was returned exoneneting the po
licemen of any criminality ini
the death of the bank robbe
being their excuse. No scare'
outlaw’s person was made uni
Cohn’s request a search was
stolen money recovered.
In his boots were found jfcwo packages
of greenbacks of $500 each. < The balance
of the' money had been distributed among
bis various pockets. The ■ outlaw was
positively identified from a t-egistered re
ceipt dated at BurlingtoiL, Kan., as
one Robertson. The mor»er receipted
for had been payable to R. C.iSmith at Ot
tawa, Kan. In Robertson’s froefeet was a
watch with the initial “R” engrraved upon
it, and a foot rule bearing the saLae initial.
stranger entered the bank at four fr’clock and
asked Cashier Cohn, who was busy inside the
railing verifying the clerk’s accounts for the
day, that he be allowed to wait tthere for the
arrival of Dr. Gephart, President of the
bank. The Cashier granted hifa request. A
little later the stranger remarked that he
was suffering severely from yhe toothache,
laced his hand upon his flai
verification of his remar
that he be allowed to sit by
the railing. Again the casJ
nothing, granted the request.
The stranger occupied his
til the cashier, having concl
entered the vault to lock up
books. When he turned
he gazed into a brace of revol'
his head .bv^the
wno oooiiy requ<
over $10,000 on penall
med in the vault. The
aving a .used
i -self-defence
of tho dead
at Cashier
and the
m
-bound face
and requested
te stove inside
suspecting
ier.
i quietly un-
hiswork,
le money and
e the vault
levelled
A MODEL L0W-00ST HOUSE j
Description and Expenae of * Small
and Inexpensive Structure.
(Copyright by the Author.) t
Carpenters and builders are good fellows
who perform an immense amount of skfilfuT
work for insufficient compensation. They
are hard names if a knot the sis^jof a
pin-head appears in an otherwise
structure. They are abused for a
in a roof after a furious cyclone
few shingles instead of leveling the house to
the ground. They are blamed for «u uncou-
trolable spring in the cellar and so on, with
out rhyme or reason, to the end of a long;
chapter of complaints. ' J '
But there is one serious accusation against
Fancy for a moment
common place boxstrt ■
vant traveler sees from a
>/
beauty of form and color. Then .
that with about the same materials,!
about th* same cost for labor thate
might have been all the fanhy i
It seems sometimes that tbfe enc
offense referred to calls for
reotion. I
The cut given herewith shows what
have been in many a now unsightly
borhood except for the (dry goods box
signer. A small and inexpensive structure'
presenting an attractive appearance from. 1
every point of view because it shows lines and’
“breaks” that please thp eye and appeal to’
the imaginatf
Below will'
'desanpti.au of'
Size of St
26 ft.; depth
Height of '
found a somewhat detailed-
i: Extreme width (front),
31 ft. 6 inches,
i: Cellar, ? ft.; first story,’
9 ft.; second story, 8 ft. ' {
Materials for Hxterior Walls: Foundations,
stone or brick; first story, clapboards; sec-:
md story and roof, shingles. !
Interior Finish: All rooms finished with,
white plaster and soft wood trim. Stair-:
ease, newels, rails and balusters, nard wood.-
Exterior Colors} »ody 'of first story, pale,
yellow; casings ot doors and windows, cor
ner boards, water table, cornices, bands and)
at
Is,
on penalty of being
prisoned in the vault. The cashier par
leyed for a time, but finding himself wholly
at the mercy of the outlaw, with death by
suffocation in the vault as the only alterna
tive. he handed over all the money in the
big cash drawer, amounting to about $2800.
The robber pocketed the money, locked the
front door of the bank, made his exit from
the rear door, locking it after him, and made
bis escape. He neglected to take the front
door key with him, and it was only a minute
before the cashier relased himself and gave
the alarm. The whole town turned out in
search of the outlaw, but he had made good
his escape.
Telegrams were sent by the Sheriff to the
authorities of the surrounding towns, notify
ing them of the robbery and asking them to
arrest all suspicious persons. The outlaw fled
to Meridan, Kan., fifteen miles distant from
the scene of the robbery
THE “UNLOADED GUN.”
A Father Shoots His Four-Year-Old
Daughter Dead.
Wilfra Sikes, of Waterloo, N. Y., intendeo
to spend a day hunting. In preparing foi
his trip the night before he took out bis gun
to clean it.‘ While thus engaged his four
year-old daughter Mabel, a bright little girl,
came into the room where he was at wort
and commenced her childish prattle. Hei
father good-naturedly told her to go to hei
mother in an adjoining room, and playfuuj
pointed the gun toward her to hasten hei
steps. Mr. Sikes did not know that th!
weapon was loaded. To his horror a louq
report followed, and in the next instant
the child lay on the floor a corpse. Tbl
top of its head had been blown off. Thi
father is heartbroken.
Trouble has broken out in Oklahoma
owing to alleged efforts to colonized the new
territory with sufficient colored people to ena
ble them to run the Territorial Government.
first:
veranda posts and rails, wul
side walls and roof,silver stain; oil
white with yellow panels, blinds, __
yellow date; sashes, dark green; brickwc
red.
Accommodations: The principal rooms,
and their sizes, clobets, etc., are shown byj
th* plans given herewith. In additionj
there is a cellar under.th* whole house with;
an inside and an outside entrance thereto, <
and the garret loft is floored to providw
storage room.
finished with, oil in natural colors. The?
“swell” front and the “swell” side increase,
the sizes of important rooms and give variety 1
and interest to the exterior. The front
parapet is roofed with tin level with its top;
at the sides and rising a little in the center to;
carry off rain and snow. To the observer on
THE MARKETS.
10 NEW YORK.
Beeves 4 00
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00
Calves, common to prime... 2 80
Sheep 5 00
Lambs 3 00
@ 5 25
@45 00
@ 4 00
@ 6 50
@ 7 00
Hogs—Live
4 20
@ 4 40
Dressed
5
7
Flour—City Mill Extra
4 35
@ 4 50
Patents
4 65
@
5 25
Wheat—No. 2 Red
88% @
89
Piy e—State
57
<3
g*
Barley—Two-rowed State...
46
<3!
50
Corn—Ungraded Mixed...*.
25%@
37%
Oats—No. 1 White
—
31
Mixed Western
27
(A
30
Hay—No. 1
75
80
Straw—Long Rye
75
@
80
Lard—City Steam
—
@ 5.80c
Butter—State Creamery....
13
@
19
Dairy, fair to good.
15
@
22
West. Im. Creamery
9
@
21
Factory
6
(A
18
Cheese—State Factory
8%@
11%
Skims—Light......
4
<a
9
Western
7%@
10
Eggs—State and Penn........
—
<£$
16
BUFFALO.
Steers—W extern
Sheep—Medium to Good..
Lam
ip—Alt
ibs—F;
air to Good 6 65
@ 5
61 @
90
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4
Flour—Family 5
Wheat—No. 2 Northern.....
Corn—No. 3, Yellow
Oats—No. 2, White
Barley—No. 1 Canada
BOSTON.
Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 4
Corn—Steamer Yellow 36 @ 40J<
Oats—No. 2 White I... 31 @ 85
Rye—State 60 @ 62
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight 4 @ 6J<
Sheep—Live weight 3 @ 5k
Lambs 6 @ 6%
Hogs—Northern 4k @ 5
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, family 3 40
Wheat—No.
Corn-
Oats—Ungraded'
Potatoes—Roee
Butter—Creamery Extra....
Cheees—Part skims..........
lt—k enii. xaxxwy. ••••••»
eat—No. 2, Red,March..
i—No. 2, Mixed,March..
i—Ungraded White-....
@ 8 75
SECOND FLOOR.
the ground the
of enclosing the
; has the appearance:
Boor of a balcony. 1
o ay.
Cost: In the neighborhood of the city of,
New York, where were are no unusual diffi-,
culties in excavating and no unusual expenses
in transporting materials, $1500. It is well,;
perhaps, at the outset of this series of designs,
to say that no estimates will be given here
that have not been proved by actual con
struction. It is always difficult, but not im
possible, to let the contract fora small house
at the right figure. Most contractors prefer
larger work, and the high bids of a few of
them easily discourage a man of small faith.
But the determined man who submits com
plete drawings and specifications to all (if
necessary) reputable builders in his neighbor
hood usually succeeds.
R. W. Shoppell, Architect.
THE LABOB WOBLD.
Ohio miners complain of dull times all
over the State.
The Weekly Pay bill has been passed in
the New Jersey House.
Colored men have been taken to Dana,
Wyo., to fill the places of strikers.
Many surgical-instrument makers are out
of employment, as business is quite dull with
their trade at present.
A bureau of immigration is to be £§tab-
* ' i Minnesota, but the organizations of
ite are opposed to it.
ft five hundred laboring men held a
mass meeting at Toledo, Ohio, in the interest
of the eight hour movement.
A bill making the counterfeiting of union
labels a criminal offense has been introduced
in the Legislature of Massachusetts.
Coal has been discovered iutii* mountain*
up Deep Creek. Mont., and work will be vig
orously pushed as soon as the weather settles.
The Sailors’ and!
ing to a statement
Reid, has 5000 members in the port <
York.
Boston capitaiiste have bought 3300 acre*
of land in Lexington County, S. C. Large
pottery works for making whJte table war*
will be erected there.
All the moulders employed in
represented in the Iron Founders’ A
•trade at San Francisco. On*
vre thrown out of work,
l Firemen’s Union, aceord-
by Secretary George W.
embers in the port of New
622,673,615