The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, July 24, 1891, Image 12
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NATIONAL FINANCES.,
Synopsis of the Monthly Pnblic
Debt Statement.
Decrease in Customs Collections
and Total Circulation.
The monthly public debt statement just
issued from the United States Treasury De
partment, at Washington, shows a reduction
in the debt daring the past month amount
ing to $3,447,500. There was an increase of
1300 in the interest-bearing debt due to the
imoance of a small refunding certificate
bond; a reduction in the no i-interest-bear-
icg debt of $1,557,802, and an increase in the
surplus during the month of $1,889,907. The
aggregate of interest and non- interest debt
August 1. less $100,000,009 gold reserve and
$55,783,7 15 net cash balance or surplus, ia
$848,465,242, and of this amount $610,529,-
420 is interest-bearing debt, made up of
$559,660,220 4 per-cent, bonds, $30,184,7(10 43*
per cents, and $11,679,500 4 per cents., con-
lined at 2 per cent.
i Government receipts from all sources dur-
a July aggregated $34,300,344. against
303,216 in July, 1890. Customs receipts
-were $15,468,153, against $23,953,386 in July
• year ago; internal revenue receipts were
*14,551.867, against $11,717,499 in July, 1890;
receipts from miscellaneous sources were
*4,280,322, or nearly $2,000,000 more than in
July a year ago. Expenditures during the
first month of the current fiscal year were
*89.719,651, against $39,052,949 in July. 189a.
The.Treasury now bolds $149,089,650 to
Imre circulation of National banks. Of
•his $114,674,950 is in fonr per cents, $16.-
*72,650 four-and-a-baif per cents, $8,700,000
Currency sixes, and $5,942,050 two per cent,
continued fours. National bank circulation
given on July 31, aggregated $168,421,722,
against $184,253,076 on July 31, 1890, a de
crease during the twelve months of $15,831.-
654.
The total coinage of the mints during the
month of July was 9,009,000 pieces of all
hinds, valued at $2,899,000. Gold valued at
*1,600,000 was coined; 976,000 standard silver
dollars and 2,000,000 dimes were also coined,
the silver coinage amounting to $1,176,000.
The minor coinage amounted in value to
*128,000, consisting of 1,572,000 five-cent
pieces and 4,340,000 one-cent pieces.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Alaska contains six volcanoes.
Nevada has only 12,000 voters.
Smallpox is raging in Honduras.
There is a case of leprosy in Chicago.
Disastrous floods are reported in India.
Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption.
' Pill-box lids circulate as money in Chili.
Grasshoppers are damaging crops ic
Ohio.
The Alabama cotton is being damaged bj
worms.
Kansas had the coldest and wettest July
in twenty years.
British money is said to be fighting Bal-
maceda in Chili.
The wheat crop of Oklahoma is pro
nounced a failure.
Drought and bugs have done great harm
to crops in Wisconsin.
The settlement of Hebrews on unoccupieo
land in Italy is proposed.
The Farmers’ Alliance people of Kansas
are to hold camp meetings.
Customs receipts in July were $15,468,153,
against $23,953,386 last year.
The corn and cotton crops in Mississippi
have been damaged by floods.
Farm property in Kansas has doubled in
value since the wheat harvest.
Macon (GaJ dealers have been shipping
watermelons diVect to Liverpool.
The new Wea'ther BiTpssji. chief proposes
to appoint twenty local forcasters!^w
Millions of worms are destrovf a S the
hemlock trees in Potter County, Pe "
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
W. L. Buck, Cashier of the First National
Bank of Darbv, Penn., was struck by a
train at Collingdale and instantly killed.
The formal opening of the great Chautau
qua (N. Y.) Assembly took place, and fully
10,000 people were present to participate in
the exercises.
The Squadron of Evolution, which sailed
recently in command of Acting Rear-
Admiral John G. Walker, to put the Naval
Reserve Battalion of the State of New York
through a week of man-of-warstnen drill at
Fisher’s Island, returned to New York Har
bor.
Schuyler’s Steam Towing Company,
of Albany, N. Y., the oldest and bast known
of the North River lines, has suspended.
The liabilities admitted foot up $350,000.
Henry Bartels, a bartender in New
York City, was “electrocuted” by an electric
motor of ten arc lights capacity, which runs
the fans for cooling the place. Ht was
burled backward to the floor, and after a
few spasmodic La itches of the muscles all
was over with him. He was dead within
three minutes. Hundreds saw him die.
The Vermont fish hatchery is to be loca
ted at Roxbury, as will the buildings of the
National hatchery.
Miss Emma Walravkn Comfort, the
daughter of Major Samuel Comfort, of New
York, was married at Philadelphia, Penn.,
to Pasha Crookshank, Director General of
the Egyptian Prisons.
At Cape May. N. J„ the President ap
pointed James W. Hind, of Michigan, Consul
at Amherstburg, Canada. Minister to Greece
A. Lou ’on Snowden and Civil Service Com
missioner Lyman called at the shore capi
tal.
J. Henry Jahke, one of the wealthiest
wholesale butchers in Philadelphia, Penn.,
killed his son by a blow struck in self-defense
during a quarrel.
The transatlantic steamship Majestic of
the White Star Line has beaten all westward
records, having made the trip from Queens
town, Ireland, to New York in five days,
eighteen boars and eight minutes. This
beats the record by fifty-seven minutes.
The Republican State League Convention
at Syracuse, N. Y., adopted a platform of
principles, and re-elected Colonel E. A. Me Al-
pin President of the organization.
Admiral Walker and the officers of the
White Squadron were breakfasted in New
York City by the Chamber of Commerce at
the Lawyers’ Downtown Club.
The east bound train on the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain Railroad collided with
the Eilenburg Sunday-school excursion
train just east of Champlain station, N. Y.,
and it was reported on the day after the ac
cident that eight passengers had been killed,
from ten to fifteen badly injured and a num
ber of others more or less hurt.
James F. Danner, of the defunct bank of
Schall & Danner, was arrested at York,
Penn., charged by John B. Walsh with the
embezzlement and larceny of $20,000.
The Rhode Island Legislature in session
at Providence adjourned. An effort
was made to get the Judiciary bill before
the Senate again, but it failed. Governor
Ladd’s bill to have a special election in No
vember to vote upon the new State House
scheme also failed.
After a desperate struggle nine insane
convicts overpowered their keepers in Au
burn (N. t.) Prison, scaled the wall sur
rounding the institution and escaped. All
but three w re recaptured. One keeper was
dangerously stabbed.
By an accident to an excursion train at
Champlain, N. Y., on the Ogdensburg di
vision of the Central Vermont Railroad
three persons were killed. Their names are:
William Angell, of Champlain, N. Y.; Henry
Lamouutain, a French tailor, of Champlain,
aged twenty-two; Vanet, of Chateau-
gay Lake, N. Y.
Isaac Van Wart, grandson of Isaac Van
Wart of Revolutibnary fame, one of the
three captors of Major John Andre, the
British spy, died a few days ago on his farm
at Westchester, N. Y. He was seventy-one.
An inmate of the County Hospital, at
Reading, Penn., named Hiram Troxel es
caped from bis attendants and drowned him
self in a water trough contauq^g only fif
teen inches of water. Ttoj
eaten*
Jack Estees and Tom Long, who fought
i duel in the northern part of Franklin
County, Kv., election day, have died of their
wounds. They were desperate men.
Was (nut: ton.
Andrew H. Dougherty, of Michigan,
ms been appointed principal examiner of
and claims and contests in the General
Land Office at Washington.
General John M. Schofield has re-
rurned to Washington with his bride andre-
tumed his duties at the War Department.
The United States Treasurer continues
.be daily shipment of small notes to the
West for use in moving the crops. The total
imount up to a recent date was $2,800,000.
Acting Secretary of the Treasurer
Settle ton appointed John S. Rogers Com-
nissioner of Immigration at Philadelphia.
The twenty-first annual convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
was held at the Academy of Music, W ash
ington. Right Rev. Bishop Cotter, of
Winona, Minn., President in the chair. Car
4in«l Gibbons welcomed the delegates to the
archdiocese of Baltimore.
John Duckett, one of the aged patriarchs
of Washington, died a few days ago at the
age of 106 years. Duckett was bom in
slavery in Prince George’s County, Md. He
was classed as colored, but Indian blood pre
dominated in his veins.
Brigadier-General Adolphus W.
Greyly, Chief Signal Officer of the Army,
has been ordereu to Munich, Bavaria, to
attend tbe Meteorological Conference and
v .he International Polar Commission which
neet in that place in August and September,
1891, respectively.
General Superintendent Kimball, of
’.he Life Saving Service, has directed the
establishment of a telephone service along
the coast of Rhode Island, between Narra-
gansett Pier and Watch Hill, with a station
at Black Rock, midway between Point Ju-
iuth and Narragansett Pier.
The Department of State is informed that,
iceording to the views of the Minister of
State of Japan the subjects of that Govera-
ment, under the existing laws of tbe Empire,
will be unable to avail themselves of the
oenefits of our recent statutes relative to
eopyright.
The President has appointed F. M. Wise
as Lieutenant Commander, Lovell K.
Reynolds and James C. Gilmore as Lieu
tenants, and William A. Gill as Lieutenant
of the Junior Grade.
Foreign.
At Hobarttown, Tasmania, the Bank of
Van Dieman’s Land has suspended. Its paid
up capital is $1,250,000 and its reserve capi
tal amounts to an equal sum. Tbe bank was
established in 1823.
The Foreign Committee of the World’s
Fair Commissioners were received iu Berlin,
Germany, by VouBoetticher and Chancellor
Von Caprivi.
The annual report of the I resident of the
Dominion Miller’s Association, in session at
Toronto, CEnada, estimates the wheat crop
of the Dominion at 55,160,000 bushels—a
reckoning which allows 22,180,000 bushels
for export.
The Czar, Czarina and the Grand Duke
Alexis left St. Petersburg, Russia, for
Finland, where they will attend the autnmn
maneuvers of the land and sea forces to be
held at Vilmanstrand.
At Gysegrn, Germany, a widow was mur
dered by her three sons because she contem
plated marrying again. The elder brothers
then killed the youngest, fearing that he
would betray them.
A waterspout on one of the islands of
the Azores group has caused immense dam
age, and resulted iu the killing of six per
sons.
All the negotiations between the Foreign
Committee of the World’s Fair and the
official representatives of the German Gov
ernment have been concluded. The Empire
is pledged to make a worthy exhibit.
The river Yara overflowed its banks at
Melbourne, Australia. Over 1000 families
were rendered homeless, and there is much
illn^sw aud fever among them. The damage
cause . ’ amounted to $2,000,000.
8h> P 1 '*"’-- -’tneda left
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FATA1 FED.
Desperate Battle Bet ween White
Men and Half-Breeds.
The “Bed Bones T? Gang Defeated
With Severe Loss.
A dispatch from Lake Charles, La., says:
Full details of the bloody tragedy at Locke,
Moore & Co.’s tram, twenty-two miles from
here, are at last obtainable. It appears
to be somewhat of a race war in
that the strife was between whites
and a number of thriftless half-
breeds who are called “Red Bones.” A few
days ago a Mr. Morris-make a remark to an
employe, “Where are those ’Red Bones’ who
were to drive this wagpn?” His remark was
evidently overheard, for the next night his
house was surrounded by an angry mob,
headed by Andrew AdWortb, who ordered
him to come out and be whipped. This he re
fused to do. By strategy he succeeded in
holding the fort all night. In the morning
he was notified that he must leave the conn
try before the sun went down or he would
be assassinated. Hp-’ht once communicated
the news of these threats to the white people
of the settlement, and they guaranteed him
full protection. 4 .
The next morning a party of white men
went down to a little store a mile and a half
from the mill to get some whisky. On arrival
there they found a party of “Red Bones,”
who asked them if they had come for the
purpose oi raising a disturbance or seeking
a quarrel. Tbe white men told them that
they were on no hostile mission, but they
had come to get^s3me whisky. While this
talk on the outsipe was going on, Jesse Dy
son, the leader of the “Red Bones,” and as
desperate a character as ever graced the
border, came out of Lacomb’s saloon or store
and declared himself able to clear out the
whole party. He at once drew out his six-
shooter, but hardly had it leveled before
Jesse Ward, one or the whites, sent a bullet
crashing through his brain and he fell dead.
In an instant a general battle began and
Ward fell mortally wounded, being shot
from behind. For a few moments it sounded
as though a musketry fire was going on.
Winchester rifles! and six-shooters were
plied as rapidly as those holding
and though greatly
bites, succeeded in rout-
s after slaying five of
dead fell in their tracks,
is, while one lived long
cabin, where be died
riflei
as rapid!
them could fire,!
outnumbered the
ing their oppone:
them. Four of tT
literally shot to pi
enough to scrawl
at the door.
Dupree Lacom
through the leg a]
Bones's” party ra
dren out of the h
ing on them, bu
When the smoke
tne following
Dyson, LeePerki
Asworth, Maria
But this did n<
Red Bones took
laces well nigh
ush they shot a
an old man who
the saloon man, was shot
his son wounded. “Red
|his wife and younger chil-
se into the woods, fir-
hey fortunately escaped,
battle bad cleared away
s found dead: Jessie
Andrew As worth, Owen
erkle, all Red Bones,
end the trouble for the
tbe bushes which is in
etrable, and from am-
rs-by. T. T. Swann,
his way to the seat
of war to ascertain the trouble, was shot
from ambush an<} killed.
When the She^Ts posse arrived with the
Coroner they met with resistance, and failed
to capture any/ of the Red Bones men.
Three of the white men have been arrested
and are in jail aMThe half breeds are in the
brush, and tholfficers dare not pursue
them for feJ^ of being shot from
ambush. .
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
s health is failing
Ex-Senator Th
fast.
Governor H
stout.
Senator Briq,
in London
Justice
preme
ew York, is getting
^ is sightseeing
of t
is ris-
’ West V irginia,
i about to make a
(id.
Pennsylvania, is
p,ooo.
|r of Brazil, is said
and spirit,
conferred the order
[ Prince of Naples,
irgh is the most pen-
British royal family.
_ _ Han, is said to be
9Cts of over-indulgence in
stenographers pronounce
■ooks tbe fastest speaker
i Davis is a sufferer from
made preparations for
fondness for having
|ud to him, now that he
1 deserted by all but a
iwers, but be declares
an intimate friend
at Me'.rcio, 8cot-
led ninety-two years.
\been such a lover of
|as spent more than
stes in that di-
bas invested
in a block at the
knd Georgia streets,
ious spy whose career
SFupt ending by Parnell’s
idon Times, is dying of a
Iayard, of Delaware, is
e advances in years, and
iow balanced by a fair
keraber of the next Na-
bresentatives will be Bai-
f not yet thirty years of
o£ unusual quality.
Lewenbaupt, Secretary
jvho was lately widowei
jtressiug circumstances,
per in Sweden with tbe
(id.
who has charge of the
I unance-proving station
tbe Potomac, receives
if $1200 a year from the
this salary he furnishes
the subjects of naviga-
ice, civil engineering,
:ity. machinery and in-
sry, who succeeded Ad
as Chief of the Bureau
picturesque figure in the
He looks more like a
(preacher than a naval
t f the best sailors of the
d is a man of fine phy-
i as an Indian, with close
: and a trim little gray
( ;NCE GEORGE.
use: He Did Not Flat-
Czarevitch.
eceutly appeared in the
of Copenhagen, in which
>? Greece gave a de-
tho attack upon the
, near Kioto, Japan, by a
In, has zreatly altered the
pre at first formed at St.
Prince’s action upon that
t en tho moans ot plac.ng
ace in that city.
Itfie altered feeling enter-
ace is tho fact that he
shed his own account of
e Czarevitch without pre-
' the manuscript for revis-
msidered here that the
y Prince George em-
rumors that the Czar-
|ibit much bravery waen
i'articular offense is taken
| in the Prince’s published
tbe Czarevitch had been
|o be was endeavoring to
|om bu assailant, he turn-
through sheer fright.
TEE NATIONAL GAME.
Latham has resigned the captaincy of the
Cincinnati League team.
In Columbus they “spread black dirt over
the diamond to keep the glare of the sun
iff.”
Catcher Clements, of the Philadelphia
League Ciub, has stolen only two bases this
fear.
The New York team is badly crippled in
the box. and the catchers are off also in their
work.
No pitcher in the country is giving so few
bases on balls as Buffinton, of tbe Boston As
sociation.
Each member of tbe Pittsburg team is to
be furnished with sliding pads, and they will
be coached in base sliding.
Brodie, of the Boston League team, has
made one error in forty-three games, and
five errors during the season.
Pitcher Conway’s release by Kansas City
broke the Conway-Gunson battery which
had been together for six years.
Brooklyn is playing excellent baseball,
and the prospects are that it will not be far
from the top when the season closes.
Hamilton, of Philadelphia, is regarded by
all the League pitchers as the most danger
ous man on bases now in that body.
Clarkson has won as many games as the
rest of the Boston League pitchers combined.
The same may be said of Hutchinson, of the
Chicagos.
San Francisco enjoys the unique privi
lege of being the only city in the country
that has erected a statue to the baseball
thrower.
The Louisvilles and Pittsburgs, who have
the record for the most games lost in the As
sociation and League respectively, are both
tail enders now.
Boston’s new left fielder is a prize. Lowe
is a first class man in the field, but a heavy
hitter was wanted, and it looks as thougn
Kelly fills the bill.
Stovey, of tbe Boston League, has been
playing in his old form lately, batting terrif
ically and stealing bases in daring fashion.
“Jos” Quinn, too, has recovered his batting.
The League race this year is closer than
ever before. The eight teams have the pen
nant within their grasp, and the one that
makes the strongest spurt at the finish will
win it.
John Burdock is over forty years of age,
and has given it out that after a ball player
has passed the four-line mark it is useless to
try and stay in company with the young
bloods.
playing
Mullane, Caruthers,
Barr and Tip O’Neil.
Terry, O’Day, Bob
With a half dozen associations and
leagues exploded this year, the market will
be glutted with ball players next season, and
salaries will no doubt rule considerably
lower than at present.
Bierbaurer is the best player Pittsburg
has and the most popular, too. His eleva
tion to the captaincy upon Hanlon’s retire
ment was a graceful compliment bestowed
upon a worthy individual.
A catcher like Zimmer, of the Clevelands,
is worth his weight in gold. He isn’t afraid
of the base runner, like some catchers, but
stands right over the plate when a man is
coming in from third bas9 on a hit.
O’Rourke, of the New Yorks, and Cap
tain Anson, of the Chicago’s, were good
batsmen eighteen years ago, and are holding
their own with the new blood to this day.
Both have led the League with the stick.
Secretary Rusk is said to be almost as
much of an enthusiast over baseball as the
head of the Treasury Department; and, like
Mr. Foster, when he attends a game in
Washington the Agriculturist-in-Chief sits
up in the reporters’ box instead of in the
grand stand.
O’Brien, the Brooklyns’ new second base-
man, played with the Shamrocks of St.
John, New Brunswick, last season, and was
a great favorite in that city. His batting
and fine work at short stop and second base
materially helped the team in winning
han'piouship of the New Brunswick
’■fcj^irg’s uew shortstop, while
m *? CGART - PitfSi Milter and Reilly in
that pos “JCl^TSlls below the stonewall stand
ard which is required at that critical point.
He is very quick and no man can recover
1 from a tumble and shoot a ball to first in less
time than he, but be is too impatient to get
hold of the leather and so spoils many plays.
national league record.
Per
Won. Lost. of.
Chicago.. .53 35 .602
New York.46 34 .575
Boston....48 37 .565
Philadel...43 43 . 500i
Per
Won.TjOst. ct.
Brooklyn. .41 44 .483
Cleveland.42 47 .473
Pittsburg. .35 51 .407
Cincin’ati..86 53 .401
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
Pet
Won. Lost. ct.
Boston....C2 30 .674
ot. Louis. .61 34 .642
Baltimore. 51 37
Athletic.. .44 44
Per
U’ori.Tjnnt. ct.
Columbus .40 47 .493
Cincinnati.42 50 .457
,580 Wash’gt’n.kO 58 .333
5U0 Louisville..31 66 .319
F0TJE LYNCHED,
Incendiaries Shot to Death in Henry
County, Alabama.
News has just been received of a quadruple
lynching in Henry County, Ala. On a recent
day the residence of William Davis, a promi
nent farmer, was burned and the family nar
rowly escaped with their lives. On Sunday
Ella Williams (colored) was arrested and con
fessed to saturating the house with oil and
setting fire to it out of revenge. Her con
fession implicated William Williams, VV illis
Lowe and Eliza Lowe (all colored). They
were arrested, and while the officers were
taking them to jail at Abbeville a mob over
powered the officers and shot the prisoners
to death. Their bodies w ere thrown into
the ri /er nearby.
BOILED KIM ALIVE.
How the Shah of Persia Punished a
Thieving Tax Gatherer.
Advices from Teheran, Persia, bring a
queer report to the effect that the Shah,
having become much enraged against Ab
dullah Khan, the Governor of Mazender-
aun, condemned that ruler to the terrible
death of being boiled alive. The charge
against tbe unfortunate Governor was
that he had embezzled taxes due
to the Shah’s treasury. The
truth, it is alleged, is that Abdullah had not
embezzled any more than he was in the
habit of doing, but that, owing to poor har
vest and the poverty of the peasantry, he
did not keep the usual amount lor the Shsh.
The Shah, with a view of striking terror
into other thieving governors, ordered that
Abdullah should be boiled alive, but grac
iously declared, also, that the ivater should
be boi ing bot at the time of the fatal dip, so
as to finish him as au.cklv as possible.
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
Indignant Women With Pitchforks
Make a Libertine Jump to Death.
A fellow named Boehme, notorious for his
libertinism, recently assaulted in Weissen-
fels, Germany, a girl who had rejected his
advances. The women of the village as
sembled, carrying pitchforks and scythes,
and surrounding the guilty man, drove him
to the brink of a well, into which he jumped
and was drowned. It was given out that
Boehme bad committed suicide through
shame, and there is no likelihood that hii
tormentors will be prosecuted. . _
FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
AUSTRIAN CROPS RUINED.
Terrible Rain Storms and Floods
and Several Persons Killed.
Bad weather is spoiling the crops in many j
districts in Austria and Hungary. It is im
possible to harvest the crops on account of
continuous rain. A hurricane in Lower
Austria, Moravia and Upper Hungarv de
stroyed the season's vintage. In the Gum-
E oldskirchen district many of the rivers
ave overflowed their banks and the adja
cent country for miles is inundated. Several
persons have been killed by falling trees and
houses.
Fatal
Accident on the West
Shore Railroad.
Half a Score of Italians Killed
and Many Injured.
« _____________
The Chicago and St. Louis limited passen
ger train on the West Shore Railroad was
wrecked at the Montezuma station, a few
miles west of Port Byron, N. Y„ at 2:40
o’clock on a recent morning. Ten Italians
who were in the smoking car were killed,
and about as many more were wounded.
None of tbe regular passengers were killed,
but two or three of them were more or less
seriously injured. The passenger engine
and train are a complete wreck.
Tbe Chicago and St. Louis limited leaves
New York at 5 p. m.. and passes Syracuse
on its way west at 1:5S a. m. It is one of
the fastest trains on tbe road, stopping only
at Newark, bet .veen Syracuse and Rochester.
On this night it consisted of two express
cars, one baggage car, a smoking car, a day
coach and the four Wagner sleepers, Mara
thon, Pocassett, New Foundland and San
tiago, made up in the order named. The
train left Syracuse on time, and was prac
tically on time when the accident occurred,
running at the rate of forty-five miles an
hour on a good track.
Montezuma station is on the eastern border
of the Montezuma swamp, which is crossed
by a causeway built on stone piers. Only lo
cal trains stop at the station. A freight
train is due to be side tracked on tbe Monte
zuma switch at the time this great'passenger
train passes that point.
The freight train wnich caused the acci
dent consisted of forty cars, and was bound
for the West. It was to let the “flyer’ pass
it, by drawing over on the Montezuma side
track, It had started to leave the main
track, and was half-way upon the switch
when a coupling broke in the middle of the
train. Realizing that there was no time to
lose, the conductor, Thomas Tobin of the
freight train, sent Edward Connolly up the
track with a lantern to check the “flyer,”
but whether he did not get far enough up
the road, or his signal was not seen, is not
known. A new coupling had been made and
the freight was slowiy starting. In a minute
more it would have been out of the way and
the disaster would not have occurred. The
freight train was in charge of Thomas Tobin,
conductor, and Thomas Whitcomb, engineer.
The former was on top of the train and was
thrown violently to the ground by the con
cussion. Beyond serious injuries caused by
the conductor’s fall, no one on the ireigbt
train was hurt.
The engine was hurled from the trtcK
down a slight embankment, and was fol
lowed by the cars of the fore part of the
train-
Fire started almost immediately in the
wreck. It caught from the burning coals of
the engine, which were scattered in every
direction upon the inflammable material of
which the wrecked cars were constructed.
AH the passengers in the sleepers which re
mained on the track got out safely, but it
was impossible to save all the sleeping cars
from tbe spreading flames. By the utmost
exertion tbe three sleepers were detached
and pushed back by trainmen out of reach of
the fire. The other was destroyed. As soon
as possible help was telegraphed for from
Syracuse. A wrecking train, with coaches
for the dead and wounded, was promptly
»ent to the scene of the wreck. It carried a
corps of physicians and hospital stores for
the comfort and treatment of the dead and
wounded.
The entire fatality was confined to the oc
cupants of the smoking-car and locomotive.
in the former was a party, consisting of
twenty-one Italian laborers in charge of an
interpreter, Saverio Scozzavava, who was
taking them from Tompkins Gove to Niag
ara Falls, where they were to be worked on
tbe new railroad tunnel. Only one member
of this party escaped death or serious in
jury. The fireman, Michael Bergen, was
found to have been instantly killed at his
post on the locomotive, and the engineer,
Patrick Ryan, seriously injured.
The death-list began to be appalling as
body aft^abody was removed, until ten
were laifflWng da a* row. . The
injured were twice as many, and their sup
plications for aid were heart-rending. The
dead and injured were all taken from the
cars before the fire reached them.
On board the relief train were put the
bodies of the ten men who were dead, and
the injured were disposed of as comfortably
as the cramped seats of the day-coaches
would allow. When Port Byron was
reached the dead were taken off and laid in
the freight house.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Boston has a peddlers’ union.
Pittsburg reporters have a union.
Berlin girl-waiters have organized.
London employs 500,000 factory hands.
Londonderry, Ireland, has 700 K. of I*
Indianapolis workingwomen are organiz
ing.
Locomotive firemen will build a $150,000
ball.
Illinois miners averaged $1.15 a day last
year.
An international woodworkers’ union is
proposed.
New York furriers who work overtime
are fined $25.
The weaving trado of Saxony is suffering
from depression.
Tee plush-makers’ co-operative shop at
New Yor.-v failed.
A mass meeting of the unemployed was
held in New York.
Australia’s Labor party elected twenty-
six men to Parliament.
Women in California canneries get from
$1.16 to $1.90 per week.
San Francisco seamen kick against the
competition of J apanes?.
Two railroad conductors in Illinois were
fined for instituting a strike.
Twenty-eight unions compose the New
York Hebrew Trades Union.
The diamond cutters of New York earn an
average salary of $<i0 a week.
New York organized workingwomen
marched to a picnic in a body.
The women of Italy who work olive oil
presses get twenty cents a day.
Coopers will hold a National Convention
at Indianapolis on September 14to.
Trade is extremely dull for carpenters
and joiners througUout this country.
Indianapolis laundry girls are inducing
employers to pay for work after 6 P. M.
The street car railways in Chicago have
decided to employ women as conductors.
The New York Housesmiths’ Union has
4000 members—only 125 non union men in
town.
Miss Sarah Shea is the manager of the
K. of L. co-operative shirt factory of New
York.
France has proh’bited the working of
railroad firemen and engineers over twelve
hours a day.
The farmers in New England are offering
$25 per month and board for laborers, and
cannot secure them.
For carrying marble blocks on their beads
from tbe quarries, Italian women receive
twenty-five cents per day. They are now on
strike to get three cents more.
For producing twenty thousand slate
pencils the State of Meininger, Germany,
pays about $3. A family of about seven
persons has to work an entire week to ac
complish the task. The slate quarries are
property of the State.
INDIAN EXECUTION.
Funeral Honors Paid to Two Semi
nole Murderers.
John Frog and Jackson Wolf, Seminole
Indians, were executed atWewaka. Indian
Territory, for the murder of John Hare.
The whole tribe joined in paying the tri
butes of respect after the men had been “hot,
and they had such a funeral as would have
been accorded them had they fallen in but
tle. Tbe decree of the council had wiped out
all blood feud between the families, and the
whole tribe united in the ceremonies atten
dant upon the burial.
A MONSTER PARADE.
Nearly 50,000 G. A. R. Men in Line
in Detroit, Mich.
Tbe National Encampment of the GrapJ
Army of the Republic and the celebration
of its silver anniversary formally opened 'in
Detroit, Mich., witn the grand parade.
Special trains bringing State delegations
from all parte of the country poured into tfcje
city throughout the night and early morn
ing. Others brought visitors not officially
identified with the encampment by the tens
of thousands, and at ten o’clock that morn
ihg the streets in the center of the city were
almost Impassable.
The head of the procession move! at
eleven o’clock, and both in numbers and
equipment the parade was one of the most
magnificent ever made by the Grand Army. ,
Most of the veterans wore very handsome
uniforms, and there was no end of naval fea
tures. Between 30,000 and 40,000 men were
in the parade.
Enthusiastically the “vets” marched be
neath tbe four great triumphal arches that.
had been erected, now and again breaking
out into a cheer, the applause being carried
along the line until it seemed to end in a dis
tant murmur.
There were forty-seven divisions in th«
parade, and it took two and a third houra
for tho first four to pass a given spot.
Estimates of men who galloped along the
line and through the formation streets after
the column had moved placed the men in
line at nearly 50,000. It was noticeable that
there were more crippled and otherwise dis
abled veterans than have been at any pre
vious encampment, many more gray head*
and enfeebled frames. Every division waa
replete with interesting features.
The Philadelphia contingent, nearly 500'
strong, carried umbrellas, each one painted 1
to represent a portion of the battle of Gettys
burg. Sault Ste. Marie Post was also repre
sented by a brigade, each umbrella being so
painted that when combined they repre
sented Lake Superior and the City of the
Sea.
A striking feature of the Michigan division
was the fact that numbers of old battle flags
were carried by the men who bore them du
ring the war.
Still another umbrella brigade was that of
George H. Thomas Post No. 6, of Chicago.
Their umbrellas were painted to represent a
monster flag of tbe United States, covering
the entire post and extending nearly two-
squares. The Ohio division was very large
and presented an imposing appearance.
Among those upon the reviewing stand
were General Veazy, Commander in Chief;
Genera] Miles, of the Regular Army; ex-
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois; Governor*-.
Fifer, of Illinois; Campbell, of Ohio; Peck,'
of Wisconsin; General Lucius Fairchild, of
Wisconsin; Governor Winans, of Michigan:
Mrs. John A. Logan and over a hundred
others.
INNOCENT VICTIM.
Jack Marion Hanged for Killing a
Man Who is Alive.
A dispatch from Beatrice, Neb., saysi
More than fifteen years ago “Jack” Marion
and one Cameron set out together in a wagon
on a trip, and were last seen at the Blua
River, near here. A few days later the sup
posed body of Cameron was found in the
Blue River, and when it was discovered
that Marion had been seen with Cameron’*
team and goods in his possession he was sus
pected of murdering his companion. He
was not arrested until ten years afterward,
and was tried several times, and finally exe
cuted in March, 1887. William Wymore,
an uncle of Marion, has always belived the
latter innocent, and has at length
proved it by finding Cameron auve
in La Crosse, Kansas. Cameron had
gone immediately to Mexico, thence to
Alaska, after leaving Marion on the banks
of the Blue River, and had returned from
Alaska only a year ago. Hearing for tho
first time of Marion’s execution, and fearing
himself amenable to the law, he concealed
his irlentity, but remorse caused him to re
veal it. . He is fully identified.
A RATTLESNAKE’S VICTIM!
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HoerlDleOen4.il pt a Mam._Bjttenr by
Reptile In New Jersey.
William P. Elliott, of Branchville, N. J.,
died the other day from the effects of a rate
tlesnake bite, which he received a week be
fore. Elliott was picking berries, when h«
suddenly heard the warning rattle, and the
snake, tour feet long, sprang at him from
beneath a low, hanging bush. It sunk ita
fangs again and again in bis arm.
Instead of sucking the poison from th«
wound at once, Elliott tarried to kill the rep
tile. By the time he got home his arm waa
terribly inflamed and swollen. After lin
gering in great agony for a week he died,
tiiough every known medical aid to save him
was administered.
INDIA HUNGRY.
Famine Extending in Two Districts,
or the Madras Presidency.
There has been no rainfall in the Chingle^
put and North Arcot districts in the Presi
dency of Madras, India, and all hopes of
averting a famine have been abandoned. |
The heat is unprecedented. The standing;
grain and other crops have succumbed to
the long drought, and all are withered and
burned. ,
Many deaths from starvation have been
reported. ,
Horses, cows, donkeys and other live stock
are dpng in large numbers everywhere in
the districts.
It is not only the poorer classes of tho
population that are suffering. Many natives,
of the high castes are making application to
the authorities for relief to keep themselves
and their families from starvation.
The advent of mackerel upon the coavt of
Maine is the cause of great rejoicing among
the inhabitants, as it secures them against
positive want during the coming winter.
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Flour—City Mill Extra 5
Patents
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Gate—No. 1 White
Mixed Western
Hay—Fair to Good
Straw—Long Rye
Lard—City Steam
Butter—State Creamery....
Dairy, fair to good.
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Cheese—State factory
Skims—Light
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Eggs—State and Penn
BUFFALO.
Steers—Western • 2 25
Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25
Lambs—Fair to Good 5 50
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 5 40
Flour—Winter Patent 4 75
Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1 02
Corn—No. 2, Yellow 70
Oats—No. 2, White 46
Barley—No. 2 Canada —
BOSTON.
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Seeds—Timothy, Northern.. 2 00
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WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight 4 & ’
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Lambs — 6$
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