The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, June 19, 1891, Image 2
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FIERCE SEA FIGHT.
Terrific Naral Battle in the
Harbor of Valparaiso, Chili.
Over
100 Killed in a Conflict
Lasting an Hour.
Advices received from Chili describa a
naval battle as having occorrel in the har
bor of Valparaiso on the night of April 23,
four days after the naval engagement in
Chanaral Bay, when the insurgent cruiser
Magallanes was attacked by the Government
torpedo cruisers Aldea, Con iell anti Lynch.
In that fight the Magallanes succeeded af
ter a fierce battle in driving olf the three tor
pedo boats, and they retired to Valparaiso.
.The Magallanes, after receiving ammunition
from the insurgent supply ship, decided to
•team direct to Valparaiso and to attack the
three Government vessels before they could
be repaired.
The Magallanes, under the cover of dark
ness, steamed up alongside the Aldea in Val
paraiso Harbor and fired a broadside which
completely riddled the torpedo boat, dis
mounted nearly all of her rapid-firing guns
and killed and wounded fully half her crew.
Then the Magallanes steamed quickly for
the Lynch, but the crew of the latter were
alert. They returned the insurgent’s fire,
and attempted to launch a torpedo, but
failed. The Condell had steamed outside
the Magallanes and began firing, so that the
rebels were subjected to the fire of both
Government ships, and forty of them were
killed and wounded.
The Magallanes, then, under cover of the
■moke, began to move astern, and before the
fact was discovered the two Government
ships were pouring broadsides into each
other. The trick was not discovered until
the Magallenes had steamod across the stem
of the Condell and had poured in a broadside
■which nearly destroyed the latter.
In the meantime the forte could not fire
for fear of hitting the Government ships.
When the Magallanes began to stoam out of
the harbor the forte opened their fire, but
only one shell struck the rebel cruiser, and
that tore a big hole in her deck and dis
mounted her pivot gun. She then pro
ceeded to Caldera.
Over one hundred men were killed in the
engagement, fully one-half of whom were
on board the Magallanes. The Condell had
to run on the beach to prevent sinking,
while the Aldea was so badly damaged that
it will require a long time to repair her.
The Lynch was not seriously hurt. Three
foreign war vessels were in the harbor at
the time of the engagement.
NEWSY GLEANINGS. s
-
OCR navy has a paper boat. ^ -*
Chicago has HXX 1 Arabians.
Portugal, owes $500,000,000.
Russia is financially a wreck.
Flour consumption is decreasing.
Firs this year has cost $50,00),0)0. '
The world’s debt, $150,000,000,009.
Brazil wants Russian immigra nts.
There are 30,000 colored voters in Ohio.
Georgia crops have been damaged by
hail.
A xzw Japanese cruiser is to be built In
San Francisco.
Forest fires have done an unusual amount
of harm this ye ir.
Cutworms are doing much damage to corn
and potatoes in central Iowa.
Parnell is accused by the National Press.
of Dublin of misapplying certain funds.
As is usually the case most of the gradu-
ating class at Yale this year will study law.
Bismarck is said to be quietly promoting
i-Semitic feeling in Ger-
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Walter Pftefer of Williamsport, N.
and Willard R. Smith of Hallsville, N. Y.’
freshmen at Rutgers College, were drowns!
while bathing in the canal at New Bruns
wick, N. J.
The sureties of State Treasurer Boyer, of
Pennsylvania, have placed upou deposit in
several banks $125,000 to make goa l the
losses sustained by the State in the Delama-
ter and Jamison failures.
Benson John Lossing, the historian, died
suddenly at his home in Chestnut Ridrje, N.
Y. The cause of death was valvular disease
of the heart. He was born in Beekman,
Dutchess County, N. Y., on February 12,
1813.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut de
cide! that the ballots marked “for” in the
last fall’s election were illegal, thus sustaining
the Democratic position.
Captain William Clark, Sunerinten-
dentof the Life Saving Station of Erie,
Penn., was drowned in tue surf.
Secretary Foster had a long and im
portant conference with the leading bankers
of New York City.
The City Councils of Philadelphia oTerai
a reward of $5900 for the apprehension of
the fugitive President Marsh, of the Key
stone Bank, and passe 1 a resolution asking
President Harrison tt> investigate the bank's
affairs.
The first twelve-inch steel gun ma le in the
United States has been completed at the
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y., and
shipped to the Sandy Hook (N. Y.) proving
ground for testing. This is tab largest steel
gun ever built in this country.
In the Cambridge (Mass.) Court thirty
students of Harvard College were fined $65
each for having liquors stored in the rooms
of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, of which they
are members. The members comprise some
of the most respectable young men at Har
vard, whose families are social and financial
powers.
The dwelling of Samuel P. Myers, a prom
inent farmer of Summit Township, near My-
ersdale, Penn., was burned, and two chil
dren, Clara and Missouri, aged nine and
twelve years, respectively, ware roasted
alive.
South and West.
A crowd of colore 1 gamblers from Baton
Rouge, La., invaded Green Bay, Plantation
Point, Coupes Parish, for the purpose of rob
bing the laborers at dice. A dispute arose
and one of the laborers was shot. Toe labor
ers organized and lynched three of the gam
blers.
The General Assombly of the Presbyterian
Church at Detroit, Mich., aijonraed.
Miss Bessie Pinney, twenty years old,
only child of Supreme Court Justioe-eleet
Pinney, of Wisconsin, was instantly killed at
Milwaukee by jumpftig from a carriage at
tached to a runaway team.
At a special election Portland, East Port
land and Albina, Oregon, decided by a large
majority to unite under one city government
by taking in the two suburbs. Portland
thus adds about 33s 090 poople to her popula
tion.
Two men who were fighting a fire in the
rag room of the Patton Paper Mills, at Ap
pleton, Wis., were smothered to death.
Five men were killed and three wounded
by an explosion of the boiler in a saw mill
at Bedford, Ind.
A two story frame house in Chicago, III.,
fell down and killed three mon. The house
stood on ceJar posts and the men had gone
in under ft to escape the heat of the after
noon and to drink bear.
The President appointed Edward P.
Thompson postmaster at Iq Uanapolis, Ini.,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
William Wallace.
The Conaell, Hall, McLestor Company, o’
Nashville, Tenn., failed with liabilities of
$164,090.
ThIRTY young men have been arreste 1 at
Waldo, Wis., on the charge of having causel
the death of fourteen-yeir-old Fred Kop-
him t j dri’ji.waisky aul
An immense granite block, which was
being hoisted to its place in the walls of the
new Parliament buildings in Buda-Pesth.
Hungary, fell and carried with it a scaffold
containing ten workmen, all of whom were
killed.
The census of London, England, shows a
population of 4,211,056. The outer ring has
a population of 1,432,276.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Chicago leads the League in home runs.
The irrepressible Latham is captain of
the Cincinnatis.
Ohio has more major league ball clubs in it
than any other State in the Union.
No clu'c in the League has such a fine carps
of pitchers as the New York Club.
O’Rourke, of the NewYorks, always puts
his base-hit record in his cap before a game.
Gilliland, of New Haven, Conn., is said
to be the speediest left-handed pitcher ex
tant.
Nearly one hundred thousand people saw
the League and Association games Decora
tion Day.
Werden, Gilbert and Van Haltreu have
made Baltimoreans forget Tucker, Shinlie
and Griffin.
“Deacon” White, the veteran player,
practices with the Buffalo (N. Y.) team
every day.
The New Yorks, up to recent date, was the
only League club that had not been shut out
this season.
“Dupee'" Shaw, the eccentric twirler,
woul i never step into the pitcher’s box ex
cept from tne rear.
Denny and the New York Club have
parted company. The third baseman has
joined the Cleveland Club.
The American Association is holding its
own pretty effectually with its great rival,
the League, in the way of gate receipts.
Willie Mains, pitcher of the Cincinnati
Association team, with his towering six feet
four inches, is probably the tallest man iu
the profession.
There are two surprises in the New York
team. One is the superb fielding of Bassett
on third base, and the other is John Ewing’s
recent effective pitching.
Grant, the wonderful colore 1 second
baseman, who mane such a sensation a few
years ago, is playing a great game still. He
is with the Gorham team.
Nick Young is authority for the state
ment that Pittsburg's League team tock in
more money in the three first games at home
than it did all of last season.
The Rev. Dudley W. Rhodes, a Cincin
nati preacher ot note, says of baseball:
“The Christian Church and the pulpit
cannot afford to ignore this noble game.”
Fred Dunlap is slowly mending, but he
will probably not play ball again this year.
His leg was broken in almost a similar place
as Hardie Richardson, of the Bostons, exper
ienced lately.
It is curious that so many team captains
were injured at one time. Captain Ewing,
of New York; Ward, of Brooklyn; Te-
beau, of Cleveland, and Taylor, of Louis
ville, were all disabled at about the same
time.
Cobb, pitcher of the San Francisco Club,
was recently knocked out of t he box by the
Oakland?. The next day he pitched against
the same club, and retired it without a
hit. Such are the mutations of a pitcher’s
career.
Anson and O’Rourke are about the oldest
players in active service in the National
League, Paul Hines is the veteran of the
American Association; Joe Gerharlt and
Hornung are the oldest men in the Eastern
Association, Burdock the oldest in the New
England League, and the Rowe brothers
and Hick Carpenter the oldest in the West
ern Association.
NATIONAL LEAQtJS RECORD.
Per
IFon. Lost. ct.
Chicago.. .23 13 .639
New York.2l 15 .583
Philaiel.. .20 18 .526
Boston.... 19 18 .514
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD,
Per
ITon. Ts>.%t. ct. |
Clevelani .19 20 .437
Pittsburg.. 17 IS .486J
Brooklyn..15 22 .400,
Cincin’ati..l4 24 .363
Won.Lost.
thletic . .20 2)
Iambus .21 25,
SNTS UNVEILED.
The Dllieation of Four Memo
rials to the Dead.
SWEPT BY A CYCLONK
Tbs St;
tue of Grant, “The Citi- ; k 058
n,” at Galena, 111.
High 'VViiids Play Havoc in the
West.
At Gal< ia. 111., the old home of General
8. Gi nt, a monument to his memory
was un jiled in the presenco of at
99,0 people, drawn from Iowa, Wis-
nsin, A *ihigan, Indiana an! other States,
well from Illinois. Amoag those
were Chauncey M. Depew,
the day; Governor Joseph
of ^ Illinois; ex-Governor D.
of Wisconsin; General Neisoa A.
e Walter Q. Gresham. Johann
sculptor; H. H. Kohlsaat, the
e statute; Senators Allison and
bngressmen Henderson, of Iowa,
H. IV. Blodgett, of the Federal
X*Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin,
need by R. H. McClenuan, Chair-
he Board of Park Commission-
behalf of Mr. Kohlsaat formally
the statue to the city of Galena.
Idress of acceptance on behalf of
as made by Mr. McCleiinan, and
"d had rendered “America,” Mr.
.V^tfoduced and enthusiastically
j^ation was a masterly effort.
y '«ne to a close with an ai-
CgfpaKS’otree on behalf of the
^ the Republic, and the pro-
and marched back to the
ent is the gift of H. H.
rmer Galena boy.aud now one
livfcaire citizens of Chicago. James
of Life and Property in
South Dakota.
as
present
orator
W. Fifi
M. Hoan
Miles, J
Gelert, t
donor of
Cnllom
andJud
Court,
was intri
man of
ers, and
presente]
A brief
the city
after th
Depew
greetei
The pro
dress b\|
Grand
cession
city.
Kohl:
of the
W. Sco
raovem
of groui
feet ab
six acr<
forever
poses.
Park,
soldier;
ereci
The st:
and w
a ped
Grant
pocketj
vest.
about
oS the Chicago Herald, initiated a
lit by which an elevated plot
on the east side of the city, forty
e the Galena River, and covering
was ordered purchased and to be
edicated to the city for park pur-
’he .inclosure was named Grant
d already contains a magnificent
monument, and a fountain
by the ladies of the city.
|ue is of bronze, eight feet in height
hs about four tons. It is mounted on
tal ten feet high. It represents
s the simple citizen. The pose is
o hand being thrust into the trousers
the other tucked carelesslv inside the
here is no suggestion of tlie military
except the old army coat.
Mississippi’s Monument.
The laonument to the Confederate dead of
MissisMppi was formally unveiled at Jack-
son, Jiss., in the presence of an enormous
crowcM at least 15,090 of whom were from
withoBt the city. Amongthe prominent vet-
eransfpresent were Governor Gordon, of
Geo*ia, General E. K. Smith, Gen-
Cabell, Brigadier-General J. M.
General J. A. Smith, and
Stone, of Mississippi. The
hnMp^jrch was taken up to the music of
cbuying veterans, the Stars and Stripes be-
inacarried at the head of every division,
an* side by side with the national ensign
vefwcd tattered Confederate battle flags.
Tift monument was unveiled by Mrs. Mar-
galet Davis Haynes, of Colorado, a daughter
ofUefferson Davis, and was presented by
Sallie B. Morgan, the presentation
sj*ech being made by C. E. Hooker, and
(-■Ionel J. B. Mackintosh accepting it
o§ behalf cf the Confederate veterans,
te monument is sixty feet four inches from
ie base line to the top of the statue of the
ddier surmounting the column. Oa the
lerch and south sides of the monument there
tre large tablets of marble, with the inscrip
tion: ‘‘To the Confederate Dead of Missis-
The total cost of the monument was
*g0,000, of which half was subscribed
jgislature and the rest raised
ittee.
lament Unveiled.
State navy boomed a sa
lt to Leonard Calvert,
Maryland, erected on
rry tred.r.t St. Ma j
“ Among the
endants o£
Over one half the United States was sim
ultaneously soused in water on a recent
night, says a dispatch from Chicago, 111.,
and the edge of the great spot of wet was
made ragged with a cyclone. The condition
of telegraph wires north, south, east and
west from Chicago showed a state of affairs
seldom, if ever, equalled.
Soaking rains were in progress, accom
panied with driving winds tv New York on
the one side, to New Orleans on the other,
stretching beyond St. Paul and Minneapolis
to the north and in the west for an indefinite
distance.
Milwaukee, Wis., reported the worst elec
trical disturbance on record, making tele
graph and telephone communication impos
sible, except at brief intervals.
Further northwest in the Dakotas many
towns were cut off, and a cyclone ravaged
the country about Watertown, South Dakota.
A dispatch from Watertown says: A
small, dark, funnel-shaped cloud suddenly
appeared in the south during the afternoon
about 3:30 and soon developed into a hurri
cane. It appeared close to the ground
and in its whirling motion people
saw that it was the dreaded tornado, and the
roar which accompanied it was like a huge
fire snapping and crackling in its onward
course. Fortunately it struck the city on the
extreme eastern limit, where the buildings
were scattered, and the whole city to-night
s thankful that it came no closer.
Six barns were demolished. The path of
the storm was only about 100 feet wide, an!
t was remarked as strange that not a single
house within the city limits was in its
way. Horses were lifted from the
ground, hurled into the air, and
sent sprawling to the earth. Wagons were
taken up bodily and hurled to atoms. Five
miles northeast of Watertown two houses
and three barns were literally carried away.
The debris from the storm as it left this city
spread along its line for nearly a mile.
At Waverly, twelve miles northeast, two
coal sheds were ruined and the smokestack
of the roller mills flattened to the ground.
O. P. Chandler and his son were in one
of the barns when the storm struck
it and they were pinned under the
boards until assistance came, but were omy
slightly injured. Three people were killed
at Hazel, sixteen miles southwest of \\ ater-
town, and the storm is said to have been
very severe in that region.
A heavy rain followed the storm, but did
no damage. This is Watertown’s first cy
clone experience, and many people were bad
ly frightened. The damage to property in
the county cannot be correctly estimated
until the places have been heard from.
A storm passed over St. Louis, Mo., and
did considerable damage to wires of all kinds.
Telephone poles were blown across the street
railway tracks and caused a cessation of that
traffic and a great inconvenience to those
living in the suburbs. Travel on several of
the electric lines was suspended for several
hours. Many shade trees were destroyed and
some little damage done to buildings on the
outskirts of the city.
There was an energetic electric storan in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky., ac
companied by a strong gale. The telegraph
wires were more or less useless for several
hours and 1200 telephones were burned out.
In Covington the lightning struck in many
places—one being the clock in St. Aloysius
Catholic Church steeple. The clock was shat
tered, but the steeple was not injured.
A heavy windstorm with rain visited Lin
coln, 111., doing great damage to property
and fruit and shade trees.
A waterspout burst near the little village
of Fairmount, Kan. Fortunately no lives
were lost, but many houses were flooded and
the Union Pacific tracks were washed out for
several rods.
THE LABOR WORLD.
RELIGIOUS READING.
“EVERY EYE SHALL CEE HIM.” ,
Revelation i., 7.
When first to this polluted earth
The holy Saviour came.
So humble was His place of birth,
Few cared to know His name.
His lowly form no comeliness
To mortal eve possessed; -—*
No beauty in His grief-ina-red faw
Revealed the heavenly Guest-
But lo! with clouds He coin* 'gain,
The crown upon His brow ;
And every eye shall see Him thcn»
And every* knee shall bow.
Thine eye, O Thou with soldier’s spear*
Or with more cruel dart
Of unbelief, reproach, or snear,
Who pierced the Saviour’s heart.
Thine eye, O Thou in pride who dost
His great salvation scorn,
Or by neglect Thy soul hast lost.
Shall look on Him and mourn.
Thine eye, O weak and trembling saint,
Whom sin makes often sad.
Who. though pursuing, oft art faint,
Shall see Him and be glad.
Thine eye, O Thou whose faith is bright
With jov in One unseen,
Shall see Thine everlasting light,
Without a cloud between.
Oh ! blessed hope, oh! joyful thought,
For those who know His grace.
That when the fight of faith is fought
They shall behold His facel
To work and wait, to watch and pray.
With lamps kept luirning clear,
Be this our service day by day,
Until the Lord appear.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
CONSISTENCY.
A woman came to Air. Carr at the close ot
one of hi* Bible readings, and said. “Yon
told the truth, today. Afy husband is an
infidel, but he did respect Christianity a
little until one night I took a character in a
drama piayed in our church. That night I
lost my grip on my husband. I am afraid I
shall never get it again.” The church that
resorts to broom-drills and dramasand mum
socials and fairs and festivals to raise
money is without the faith that
takes hold on God. A genuine Holy
Ghost revival is a thing unknown. Father’s
have lost their grip on wayward sons, moth
ers have lost their grip on unconverted
daughters, the church has lost her grip on
God. Down on her knees in sackcloth and
ashes before Him who drove the buyers and
sellers out of the temple, let such a church
plead with God for mercy, promise to fore
go all worldly measures for money-making,
aud regain the lost grip.”—[The Illustrator.
SYMPATHY.
Those of us who have lost little children
feel a prompting within us to speak a word
of comfort to every parent who is passing
through a similar experience. We cannot
do good to others save at a cost to ourselves,
and our own afflictions are the price we pay
for our ability to sympathize. He who
would be a helper must fir^t be a sufferer.
He who would be a savior must somew here
and somehow have b :en upon a cross; and
wecinnothave the highest happiness of
life in succoring others without tasting
the cup which Jesus drank,
and submitting to the baptism wherewith
lie was baptized. Every real Barnabas
(Son of Consolation) must pass to his voca
tion through seasons of personal sorrows
and so again we see that it is true that “by
these things men live.” The most comport
ing ot David’s psalms were pressed out of
him by suffering, and if Paul had not had
his thorn in the Hesh wc had missed much
of that tenderness which quivers in so
manv of his letters.—[The Rev. W. Al. Tay
lor, D. D.
WORLPLIXESS in the church.
The Christian at Work sp:aks thus oi
“worldliness in the church,” and calls us as
Methodists to account: “The greatest da]
ger to the church of God todav sprini
the spirit of worldliness
k The lust oj" ’
*rd the
Women are the best friends for
men.
An oracular person grows extreme
ly tedious.
Nobody but the doctors and lawyers
charge for advice.
The fifty-cent umbrella is onljr
stolen in very stormy weather.
You are eating up the future day bY
day; how vain to talk of the future.
A blatant friend and a silent enemy
can do you about an equal amount of
haim.
The old man who has no youthful
follies to chuckle over is a most un
happy being.
There is nothing like a grudge for
filling a man’s mind to the exclusion
of everything else.
You just bring a couple of littlo
quarrels into your f:.mily and tl-ey’l
breed like sparrows.
It is so easy to fancy one’s self right
that self-condemnation is about ns
scarce as dodo’s eggs.
A proud man is never a grateful
man, for be never thinks lie gets as
much as he deserves.
There are no good men, but some
are so much better than others that
they are entitled to credit.
Theology is nothing but mental
philosophy applied to the divine mind
and the divine government.
The happiest man is ho who, being
above the trouble which money brings,
has his hands fullest of work.
Clothes and manner do not make the
man, but, when he is made, they
greatly improve his appearance.
When you begin to argue with a
man and lie talks loud, walk off and
leave him. You can’t convert him.
Two Kinds of Censuses.
A census of the United States differs
»
in its very conception from a European
census. Once in ten vears, as with
* **!
us, the English government makes an
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
kingdom. The time chosen is the
night of the second of April. On or
before that day the enumerator must
leave at each house within his district
a family schedule, which calls for the
name and personal characteristics—?
age, sex, color, occupation, etc. —of
each persou who on that night shall
sleep in that house. If a man be trav
eling on that night, ho is to be re
ported at the hotel or private house at
which he arrives iu the morning.
ccji^^aU the United States is a
jn England,
*«ken