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Q? £) V) CYCLONE IN LOUISIANA. A. Penitentiary Building at ^ Baton Rouge Blown Down. Ten Convicts Killed and Thirty* ^ six Injured. Ths first cyclone that has viaifce:! Louisiana in the memory of the living generation _ struck Baton Rouge at 6:30 o’clock on a re cent morning, wrecked the steam tug Smoky City, demolished 100 houses, blew down the second and third stories of the penitentiary, killed ten convicts and wounded thirty-six Others. Of the wounde 1, five, on the day After the accident, were not expected to live. Baton Rou^e is situated on the left bank of the Mississippi, on a succession of high fluffs. The cyclone whirled upon it from the southwest. It was 300 yards in width, and appeared to ricochet, jumping over some obstructions and ruthlessiv grinding others into unrecognizable debris. The ter rible wind entered the town at Gang’s brickyard, passed through a suburb of hovels inhabited by the poor classes of whites and blacks, and then went northeast erly to a point 100 yards east of the Gover nor’s residence, when it turned north and •truck the State penitentiary. The second and third stories of the north wing were antirely demolished. The second story was used as a hospital and the third as a manufactory of jeans clothing, and both were filled with prisoners. Ten of them were killed outright, viz. Whites. John Gibson, convicted of mury dering Patrick Mealey, a prominent City politician, and William Willow, of New Or leans' Isaac McClelland, of Calcasieu; J. A. Waggoner, the famous desjierado of Clai- l»orncv Fred. Cage, Ouehita; James Van Jfetter, Natchitoches. Colored. Nathan Chaney, East Feliciana, Henry Celestin, New Orleans; Beauregard Harden, Bossier, Edward Buckner, Caddo. The five men fatahr wounded are Helly O’Neil. Joe Vallere, Frank Arons, Henry McKay and Louis Claire, the latter also convicted of the Mealey murder, John Khodus, a guard, was seated in a third-story window and was blown out, but the wind landed hftn gently on the ground. In ad dition to the north wing the cell building was unroofed and partially destroyed, while the roof of the women’s building was torn •way. Excepting the convicts, no one was killed, but J. H. Young and members of his family were seriously hurt by the collapsing their house. Mrs. Cutting, a son and two daughters were painfully injured when their house fell, and a Mrs. Colton received a dangerous blow on the back of the head and internal injures by the falling of a beam. Beyond these there were no serious casual ties in the town proper. At the penitentiary after the passing of the wind the scene was heartrending. A mass of brick and heavy wooden beams covered scores of human beings, whose cries and groans were most sickening. Relief came promptly. The fire alarm brought the entire department to the scene, aud the un injured convicts worked with strained ▼igor to rescue the entombed living and bring out the lacerated bodies of the dead. Forty prisoners were at work in the jeans factory when the crash came. Of these six were killed and twenty-one wounded. In the hospital were twenty sick men. Four were instantly killed and fourteen badly wounded. A pouring raiu followed the storm, and yet the workers labored manful ly, and from the pile of mortar and the mound of brick the bodies were steadily ex cavated, until by 9 o’clock the full extent of the fatalities was known. The tugboat Smoky City, belonging to Pittsburg, was lying at her mooriugs five miles below Baton Rouge, at the time of the storm She was swept out into the river •nd her top works literally torn to pieces. Only one man was drowned, but several of ber crew were badly injured. They were rescued by the steamcarried to Baton xtogui Shade trees on/fRany of the streetC ,ret '* wnrorted. TKaf _ ai city, styled “Catfishtown,” suffered great loss and damage of property. In that section of the city several persons were seriously hurt and bruised by dying timber from failing houses and fences. Tne drug store of B. A. Day was completely demol ished and gutted of its contents, the loss amounting to $5000. Several of tne small grocery stores and stall shops m that vicinity were destroyed. The brickyard of Garig, Reddy & Co. was badly damaged. The cyclone did not make a straight sweep -through the city, but would strike the Kround and bound forward like a bouncing call, aud pass over several houses at a time and descending again tear its way for hun dreds of feet. The trunks of massive oaks were popped off like pipe stems. So sudden ■was the storm that a number of bread carts, express and other vehicles were caught and wrecked in the streets, and it departed as suddenly as it came. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Fnaxca has 1,000,000 Socialists. Chicago has twenty-nine park?. The Dutch Cabinet has resigned. Kansas has 73,000 Alliance farmers. There are 350 cotton mills in the Soatb. Mexico is on the verge of another revo.u- Ml. Philadelphia has twenty-six million- res. The now copyright law went into force ily 1. Gbasshoppers are numerous iu North akota. So far this year 1639 miles of railroad have en laid. A railroad is to be built to supplement e Suez Canal. China again refuses to receive ex-Senator air as Minister. The diphtheria is raging among the Cali- ~nia Navajoes. „ —-rick Douglass has ro- rued from The Indian troubles in Arizona have been ppressed by troops, _ Of 10,757 /arms m Utah, 9724 are made rtiie by irrigation. A fine lithia spring has been discovered ar Wythevilie, Va. Growers of early fruit in California this ar reaped a bonanza. Italy has two new steel protected cruis- s, named the Etruria and Umbria. New Orleans’ artesian wells are, from me unknown cause, rapidly drying up. The population of Chinatown in San •anciseo lias fallen nearly 5000 in the lost t months. The assessed value of real estate in Boston r the current year will show an increase oi tout $30,000,000. Switzerland will be 600 years old the •st uay ot August and she is gomg to have birthday celebration. The McKinley tariff on tin plate went into feet July 1. The old rate was one cent per mm am the new Z.2. It has been decided at a conference held in soiberg that the Argentine Republic is the sst naven for Hebrew immigrants. It is estimated the accident on the New ora. Lake Erie and Western at Raveaua, oio, will cost the company $250,000. The census gatherers found 6,250,000 com- iii.ii- .nr.^ of the Roman Catholic Church, rer lit teen years of age, in this country. Chacncey M. Dkpew, General O. O. owara, Senator Aldricn aud Murat Hai- cad spoke at the Fourth of July oeieUvi- cm at rtoseland Park, VV oodstoca. Conn. Ax irrigation convention will meet in Salt lice City on the I5th or next September, to hicn tue Governors ot the arid States auj erritones wih be expected to send dede iter. Clay is to be dumped into the Hud5o;i iver over tue top of the New Jersey auu esv York iunuei to render safe tee wora- itu now digging up dangerously near uw ver oed. By a combination with the Rothschilds id the absorption of tne coal oil interest*, of remen, the Standard Oil Company now mtrols the petroleum markets oi tue world. Jksurance against accident has oeen pro- Kied iu Germany for nearly 13,5jO,OOJ orkmen, it is state!, of whom over oae- lird are operatives hi shops and iactor.es, ia so.newaat less than two-thirds are agr;- liiurai laborers. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Internal Revenue receipts from the Connecticut District, comprisinr that State and Rhode Island, were $938,936.33 for tk« year ending June 30, the largest since 1887, when the district was formed. An explosion of gas at the Green Ridge (Penn.) colliery ignited the inner workings and fatally burned John Dorsey and John Pickmonti, and seriously injured Christo- 4 pher Sboffstall. Postmaster General Wanam aker. H. H. Yard and Editors McKean and Me Wade, of the Ledger, have been notified to appear before the Philadelphia Councils’ luvestiri- tion Committee. John Bardsley was moved to the Penitentiary. A young man whose identity could not be established took a novel way to end his exist ence by plunging into the sewer through a manhole in New York City, His body was washed away by the strong current rushing through the sewer toward the East River. Martin L. Harlow, Postmaster of Whit man, Mass., was arrested in that town by United States officers and brought to Boston, where he was placed in jail. He is charged with the embezzlement of public money to the amount of $1100. The Naval Battalion of the Massachusetts Militia had target practica on the vessels of the United States Squadron of Evolution in Boston Harbor. William McMahon, aged fourteen, em ployed by the Binghamton (N. Y.) Republi can, caught his hand in the shafting and was whirled around by a wheel making 300 revolutions a minute. The boy struck the ceiling and partition wall at every revolu tion, and every bone in his body was broken and his head crushed to a shapeless mass. The President and family enjoyed a fish ing trip to Herford banks, abont fifteen miles off Cape May, N. J. About 10 o’clock in the morning the President, Mrs. Harri son, Lieutenant aud Mrs. J. W. Parker, Congressman and Mrs. J. E. Reyburn, Mrs. Dimmick, Mr. and Mrs. William Buckman, Miss Alice B. Sanger and Thomas V. Cooper, of Philadelphia, left on the United States revenue cutter Hamilton. The voyage was a pleasant one, and over 500 of the finest of sea bass, flounders and porgies were caught. The investigating committee of the Phila delphia Councils heard the interview of ex- Treasurer John Bal’dsley, now a convict, concerning the Keystone Bank, into which the names of Fostmaster-Geueral Wana- maker and other promiueut Philadelphians are brought. Corporal Westervelt, of Company A, Seventy-first Regiment, ran a bayonet througn the leg of Private Wilkes, who was trying to sneak through the guard lines at night at the State Camp, Peekskill, N. Y. The Massachusetts Naval Militia, in con- J unction with the Squadron of Evolution, tad a sham battle on Deer Island, in Boston Bay. Frenchy, or Ameer Ben Ali, the Ameri can imitator of London’s “Jack the Ripper,” convicted of murder in the second degree for killing “Old Shakspeare,” was sentenced in New York by Recorder Smyth to State Prison for life. Sonth and West. The Bank of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala., closed its doors. The failure is due to that of Moses Brothers, of Montgomery. The two masted schooner Silver Cloud, of Milwaukee, was wrecked near Port Washing ton, Wis., and Captain Johnson and his wile and child were drowned. Fifty men, mounted and armed, took Roland Brown, a colored man charged with assaulting Mrs. Berry, from jail at Black- shear, Ga., and riddled him with bullets. The Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal., dismissed the libel against the Robert and Minnie; the Attorney-General ordered that the Itata be libelled. The great building at Cincinnati, Ohio, occupied by A. E. Burkhardt & Co., rrfanu- | facturers and wholesale and retail dealers in furs and fur goods, was destroyed by fire. Loss over $800,000. The Missouri River has TjunlP® 1 *^ several ^hundred feet of one of t’. : It hv Aba Government EPnT iiHffii n ■, i current also threatens the other dykes. Robert Frankovich, Frank Miltovich, Peter Strangle and J. Speech were drowned during a gale near North Point, Texas. They were all well-known Italians, who had been connected with the fish trade in Galves ton for a number of years.' • In the report of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., recommendations are made involving im portant changes in the course of study. William E. Matheny, an Indianapolis (lad.) street car conductor, shot his wife fa tally and killed himself in a fit of jealousy. Mrs. Rebeccah Raymond and her son, atOlney. Ill , were killed by a passenger train. The boy, who is deaf and dumb, was on a bridge, and his mother, seeing a train coming, attempted to save him. Fifty mounted men broke into the jail at Blackshear, Ga., took therefrom Roland Brown, colored, who had assaulted Mrs. O’Berry, tied him to a pine sapling and rid dled his body with bullets. Jim Bailey, also colored, who had criminally assaulted Mrs. Folsom, was taken from jail at Beebe, Ark., and hanged. Mitchell Brothers’ planing mill, yard and eight dwellings, together with 18,009,00) feet of lumber, at Jeuuings, Mich., were burned. The loss is placed at $2,000,000. The Falls City Bank, Louisville, Ky., closed its doors. It was a private corpora tion and has been in a shaky condition since last fall, when a run occurred. The liabili- tiesare $1,390,009. The capital stock was $600,000. At a meeting in Chicago, III., of the Board of Control of the World’s Columbian Expo sition. Walker Fearae was confirmed as Chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Thomas Roach, of Fort Worth, Texas, committed suicide by shooting. He was a railroad contractor and leaves an estate val ued at $500,000. Fifty white families, charged with being intruders upon Indian lands, in Indian Ter ritory, were corraled bv Chicbasaw militia, and put across the Texas border. the: of Paymaster’s ciera j a:ues v an » i . and H\ W. Coston. a clerical employe,on the charge of stealing composition metal and other goods from the Governmeat to the . value of $10,909, Washington. Assistant Secretary Nettleton aj> pointed Tavlor Faunce and Lawrenca E. Brown, of Philadelphia, special agents of the Treasury Department to investigate the cases of the Ke5'stone and Spring Garden Na tional banks of Philadelphia. Professor B. N. Evermanx, of the Un ted States Fish Commission, started from Washington with a party for the West, to make investigations of the rivers and smaller streams of Montana and Wyo- ming in reference to the establishment of a hatching station as directed by the last Con gress. > Rev. Db. William A. Schubert, a re tired Episcopalian minister, aged sixty, wa; accidentally killed at Washington by a little boy. James Gant. As he neared Dr. Schu bert the bicycle struck a stone, and the boy was thrown with great force against the doctor, who fell dead on the asphalt pave ment. Professor Mendenhall, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Professor Meni am, of the Agricultural Department, have been appointed as the American Behring Sea Commissioners. The Secretary of the Treasury has an thoriz?d the acceptance of the offer of the master of the Chilian steamer Itata to pay $500 tor violation of our navigation laws in having cleared from San Die^o, Cal., without the necessary permit. This is the full legal penalty tor such an offence. Solici or-General Taft returned to Washington irom Cincinnati and resumed his duties at the Department of Justice. F. G. Dawley. an American citizen, claims iu a letter to the State Department to have been illegally imprisoned and bru tally maltreated in Guatemala. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing begun the work of preparing the new bonds bearing two per cent, interest, which are to be issued in ©ofittah&nce of the four and a half per cent. -loan. > The President has recognized George Hall as Turkish Consul to San Francisco. George F. Cummin is appoinntei alternate Commis sioner from the State of Washington to the World’s Fair. The success of the experiment of continu ing the four and a half per cent, bonds at two per cent, is affording much gratification to the United States Treasury officials. Attorney General Miller has given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treas ury that the Chinese Restipction laws re quire that Chinese convicted of illegal entry into the United States shall be returned to China, regardless of the fact that they may have actually entered the United States from contiguous territory, such as Canada or Mexico. RAIL OAR TRAGEDIES. Foreign. Persia has accepted an invitation to the World’s Fair and named Spencer Pratt as Honorary Commissioner. During a banquet to Emperor William, of Germany, at Windsor Castle,a water pipe burst and almost flooded the room. He after wards reviewed the Life Guards. The Arab slave traders of Africa have been routed by Congo Free State troops, and are suing for peace. The Boer trek in South Africa has proved an utter fiasco aud the British troops have been recalled from BechunaL The staging of the shaft at a colliery at Rotherham, Yorkshire. England, collapsed, killing four workmen and seriously injuring four others. The Kaiser and Kaiserin, of Germany, after breakfasting with Queen Victoria, drove to Frogmore and visited the royal mausoleum. They afterward lunched at YV indsor, and were driven to Cumberland Lodge, where the silver wedding of Princa and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Hol stein was celebrated. Emperor William passed the day in Lon don receiving various deputations and at tending a garden party at Marlborough House. The German Government has perma nently relaxed the Alsace-Lorraine passport regulations. The Labrador coast is ravaged by the “grip.” Dozens of persons have died at Melegan, Plaster Cove, Point Aux Esqui maux and River Pentecoste, others are dying and many are insane. Provisions have given out. Bishop Bosse is ill, and his curate and several nuns are dead. The great strike of Belgian miners, which has been in progress for seventy days, was brought to an end. The Council of the Knights of Labor has decided for a general resumption of business and 4500 men went to work. There have been fresh revolutionary dis turbances in several parts of the Argentine Republic. The Government is taking vigor ous measures to quell the threatened revolt in the provinces of Entre Rios, Cordoba and Catamarca. The census of England and Wales, just taken, shows a total population ot 29,001,018, an increase of 3,026,572, cr 11,65 per ceut. since the last census was taken. Baron Akerheilm, the Swedish Minister of State, has resigned. Emperor William, of Germany, made a triumphal passage in London from Bucking ham Palace to the Guildhall, where he re ceived an address from the Corporation of the city of Loudon and made a speech em phasizing his wish for peace. Two Fat An Accidents to Passen- ;er Trains. Awfl Collision Near venna, Ohio. Ka- A dispa tel flagman fail before dayli one maimed the awful re| The vesti York, Lake as the “Thu: stood at th miles east o; 2 o’clock thi by a fast fr refrigerator hiud the “T 1 hour. Twenty p< dozen otherrfj The passe: and expr four coach conta ployed in tl Findlay, OI Twenty pi sons were roasted to death and many others Injured in a collision on the New York, ike Erie and Western Railroad near Raven: J, Ohio. A train was thrown from a trest i on the Kanawha and Michigan road, near lharleston, W. Va. Thirteen People were ilied and over fifty hurt. from Akron, Ohio, says: A to do hi* duty at Ravenna t this morning, and twenty- nd lifeless human bodies are ts of his faithlessness, ed limited express on the New Irie and Western road, known bolt” bound for tue East, ‘depot at Raveuna, eighteen his city at twenty minutes past luormug and was crashed into ( ht train of twenty-four heavy rs, which was coming on be- nderbolt” at thirty miles an HANNIBAL HAMLIN. The Venerable ex-Vice-President Dies ot Heart Disease. Hannibal Hamlin, one of the founders of the Republican party, who served as Vice- President during the first four years of Mr. Lincoln’s administration, and who was the last of the ex-Vice-Presidents elected by the people, died at the Tarratine Club rooms in Bangor, M The ex-Vice- President visited r _ club rooms that afternoon, as has long been his custom, and was playing with some friends his fa vorite game of “pedro,” when he was en down with hear^ailure. He 1 _pTTT,- O TV*-* •- N in, 14sq., a dawyer of Ellsworth, am Frank Hamlin, now living in Chicago. Mr. Hamlin had been perceptibly failing for a year. Hannibal Hamlin was born on a farm near Paris, Oxford Countr, Me„ on August 27, 1809. His father intended to give hjm a collegiate education, but died while the boy was going through a preparatory course. Thereat Hannibal returned home to take charge of the farm and remained there until ue was twenty-one years old. Then he went to town and learned the printers’ trade, and while at work at the case took up the study of the law, and in 1833, being then twenty-four years old, he was admitted to practice in Hampden, Penobscot County. Here he made his home until 1848. Within three years after he was admitted to the bar he was elected as a Democrat to the State Legislature. In 1840 he received the Democratic nomina tion for Congress. But he failed of election that time. In 1842 and again in 1844, bow- ever, he succeeded. In 184S he had become so prominent in the State that he was chosen to serve out the un expired term (four years) of Senator John Fairfield, who had die.!. He was elected for the full term in 1851, still as a Democrat, but in 1857 resigned because he had been elected Governor of the State as a member of the re cently born Republican party. In less than a month—\ e. on February 20, 1857—he resigned his office as Governor be cause he had again been chosen a Senator for the State. In the Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as the leader of the Republican party, Ham’in was placed second on the ticket. On his election he resigned his office es Senator, and from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1865, pre sided over the Senate. He was soon after appointed Collector of the Port of Boston, an office that he resigned a year later. In 1809 he was again elected to the United States Senate, and served there until 1881, when he was seat as American Minister to Spain. He held this office but one year. Daring the past fe w years Mr. Hamlin’s public appearances have been few. Eariy in 18S9 he made an extended West ern tour and was the recipient of many honors in Western cities. me were killed and at least a r ere seriously hurt. train consisted of baggage three day coaches, then sleepers and last of all a day ung forty glass blowers em- Richardson Glass Works at They were boys aud young men, ranging in age from fourteen to twen- ty-three, and all unmarried. Their parents live in Corning; N. Y*, and they were going home for a vacation. The passenger train left Kent, which is the end of a division and six miles west of Ravenna, at ten minutes past two standard time. Five mlncftes later the fast freight, which had been following it closely ? pulled out from Kent. At Ravanna the engineer of the pas senger train got off to fix his engine, and the train was he 1 d six or eight minutes. A flagman was sent back to take care of the fast freight, but only walked about 120 feet. For tEv^ral minutes he stayed there. Suddenly tlfe headlight of the fast freight loomed up; lie flagman ran toward the on- rushing trail, swinging his lanterns desp-ir ately. The freight engineer whistled down brakes and reversed his engine. The tracks were showered vpth sparks from the scraping wheals, butlhere was no curbing the mo mentum of rhe twenty-four heavily laden cars. The freight engine sank itself into the day coach, with its forty Findlay excursionists. A score of men were tossed upon the smoke stack and boiler and pinioned there by the debris. The lamps in the coach seemed to go out for a 'moment, but then flashed up and in an instant the woodwork was in a blaze. The day coach, in its turn, telescoped with the sleeper Warsaw, just ahead of it, and the Warsaw was pushed part way into the Jamestown sleesier. All three seemed to blaze up at oncaZ The passenger,engine screeched out alarm that broU^ the depot, were leavinj trainmen an< gan trying to cate the victi: The Fire Di cars, but not passengers. Tbi A loaded i aud Michigan r| foot trestle aboif ton, W. Va., only one of ti At least thji and mor£ fatal! yj It ran an ^townspeople quickly to lyenna passengers who back and with passengers be- . and to extri- i blazing □soned THE NATIONAL GAME. Chicago has won all her extra-inning games. Noisy coaching occasionally rattles Rusie, of the New Yorks. Whistler is once mere playing a brilliant game for New York. Baltimore draws the largest grand stand attendance in Boston. “Ward’s Wonders” are beginning to show staying qualities. Buffinton has recovered his skill and is pitching good ball for Boston. In Bennett and Ganzel the Bostons have the best pair of catchers in the League. Tiernan, of New York, has made more home runs than any player in the League. Bowman, Chicago’s new catcher, is said to look enough like the old man to be his twin brother. The Boston League Club has quite a quar tet of pitchers in Clarkson, Nichols, Getzein and Stanley. One of the stipulations of Pitcher Strat ton’s contract with Louisville is that he need not play on Sunday. Kelly and Comiskev, of the Association, now excel Anson and Ward, of the League, as drawing cards in Boston. A Philadelphia-New York game was remarkable for the fact that first baseman Brown had only two put-outs. Those who are in a position to know what they are talking about say that young Sharott, of New York, will never be able to pitch again. The Louisvilles have played twenty-four different players this season and the Wash ingtons have tried twenty-seven, and the season is young. Denny is once more fielding in something like his old form, but his throwing is still off color and uncertain. He seems to lack confi dence in his accuracy. Nichols, of Boston, has copied Rusie’s swing in delivering the ball. Sanders, of the Athletics, occasionally employs the same delivery. He calls it the “Nashville deliv ery.” For Stovey, of the Boston League, to strike out five times in one game is some thing unprecedented. It is also a record for the season. It happened in a Boston-Brook- lyn game. “Buck” Ewing, of the New Yorks, has bad his muscle-bound arm singed by a veterinary surgeon, and thinks he will soon be able to play ball again. Blistering is al ways the last resort. Three men on the Boston Association team—Brown, Joyce and Duffy—have stolen 126 bases up to a recent date, while the fifteen members of the Boston League team had, at the same time, but ninety-five to their credit. Boston’s team is the highest salaried in the League, followed by Brooklyn, New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago, in the order named. Between the first-named and the last there is a vast difference. There have been fewer releases in the major leagues this season than ever before*, due to the fact that although many clubs are carrying unsatisfactory men, they are unable to release them owing to the dearth of rising talent with which to replace the old men. Columbus has developed one of the pitch ing surprises of the year. It is young Doian, whom the Cincinnati League Club tried late last season and then released. His chief de pendence is great speed, and he knows a trick or two about deceiving batsmen. He is suc cessful against big and little alike. Ward’s errors on foreign grounds have been due to the fact that short field at East ern Park is hard as a rock, aud hot balls have to be taken on the second bound, .her grounds th&short field is differen^JRP. pt to play the position as ,n Park causes the ea»t<£rg All of in Rosfoi^jj^redue to the ball ^“^iBcond bound. LKAGITK record. Ter I Z ,er ct. I Won. Lost. cf. 5911 Phjladel.. .32 33 .492 PROMINENT PEOPLE. he cCaehl'S 1 most of whom a holiday in tS United Americ Poca to spend companied by < Many of the [ the railway comj! along the line to I The train was | there came a era shook, womeo turned pate wit^ A moment me made. The fot down the apprJ completely, ana below the tra The other « bottom up auc track. In the 1 crushed and br^ the rear truck fell over on everything und person who waJ One dead bodyJ through the wf mangled. Of the entinj four escaped the dead were 1 Immediately were sent ot Albans and Cl power to re| jured. The burning train to leave] been caused from a freight] night. The track inspect the trl trip from the [ had not reach' The engineer thought it an cre^k until tpo I engine and first! yTalten Welclf farit cmld, werg friends. The p| little child of a little fingers cut] aud its great bl i the surgeons drd ' PARNELL BEATEN. - — V -• ... The McCarthyite Candidate Carries Carlow by a Big Majority. The result of the election held at Carlow, Ireland, for a successor in the British Parlia ment to the late O’Gorman Mahon has re sulted in a crushing defeat for the Parne’.I- ite candidate in the district which Mr. Par nell admitted was his stronghold, and where, he said, if he was defeated, he would admit that he had nothing left to fall back upen in political life. The result of the election, announced, was as follows: Hammond (McCarthy can didate), 3755; Kettle (Parnell), 1539; Ham mond’s majority, 2216. Carlow is the smallest county in Ireland and contains a population of about forty- five thousand people and an electorate of about seven thousand, of whom 1000 are Conservatives. Mr. Andrew Kettle, the defeated Par- nellite candidate, is a farmer of Dublin County, who has already been twice de feated at the polls. Mr. Hammond, the victorious McCar thyite candidate, is a popular merchant ot Carlow, where, lor twelve years past, he has held the position of Chairman of the Town Commissioners. Speaking at Carlow, after the result of the election was made known, Mr. Parnell said that he was not disheartened, and that he would continue to consolidate the independ ent men of every Irish county and city, and put the issues he upheld before the country at every election. LIGHTNING’S FATAL WORK. A 31 other and Her Three Daughters Killed. On a reoent evening the house of S. P. Anderson, fifteen miles west of Clifton, Texas, was struck by lightning, killing his wife and three daughters, all that were in the house. Anderson was close to the house when the bolt'struek. but the flames were so ra ?id— being fed by the explosion of a five-gallon can o| oil—that none but the wife could be taken from the house. Tue bodies of the daughters were burped with the buildinz. IMMIGB. 31ore Than I Joui The report < tion Weber ft] 30th shows thl landed at the j mained in th£ sylvania. 17,1 MassachusettJ Only 2S0 wer est contigent The Souther! alien settlers,! to Texas ancf Michigan 13, f 6440, Califorij There were] fifth of who: 381 English, wegians,Swe 4388 French] 26,539 Austrj hemians. Ml Austrians wd Of the 50l| tract laboreil There well ers, 8612 ti makers, 348 2371 blacksn| RE 1 Cabnlla Captain I sina, which recently fr tribe of It had revolt a disappo Guberuatoj sent to que^ in which ft TheIndi boats pat distort side. Things jf the revs Edison’s mother was a Scotch woman. CONDITION OF CROPS. Gladstone’s health is almost restored. The Agricultural Departments President Harrison is a great walker. Vicuna has been elected President of Chili. The Queen of Holland is wearing white mourning. Baron de Rothschild’s stamps are val- i ued at $40,000. Judge Gresham objects to wearing the “judicial gown.” Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, has $129,000,000. Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire, was a messenger boy. Octave Thanet, the novelist, is really 1 Alice French, of Iowa. Lady Macdonald’s title will bo Baron ess Macdonald of Earnscliffe. Queen Victoria has invited ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, to visit her. Baron von Rudwitz-Schmeltz, the Ger man poet, is dead, aged sixty-eight years. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has written eighty-seven vetoes this year. Professor William S. Tyler has taught Greek at Amherst College for fifty-five years. Ex-Secretay of the Treasury George S. Boutwell celebrated his golden wedding at htskome in Grotoi?, Mass. The sculptor. Kakolski, is now at Berlin, executing a bust of the Emperor in ivory and gold, at the express command of His Majesty William Sherman Fitch, grandson of General Sherman, has been appointed a cadet-at-large to the West Point Military Academy. James Campbell, of Philadelphia, Is said to be the oldest living ex-member of a Na tional Cabinet. He was Postmaster-General under Pierce. /■ Ex-Attorney General Rufus A. Ayers, of Virginia, who is said to be worth half a million, was a page in the Virginia Senate twelve or fifteen years ago. Abbott, the new Premier of Canada, owns a beautiful estate at St. Anne’s, about an hour’s ride from Montreal, which is stocked with Guernsey cattle and Shropshire sheep. Charles T Yerkes, the Chicago street railroad magnate, expects soon to settle in New York, and is having a $50,000 mauso leum built iu Greenwood Cemetery for his wife and himself. William H. Gladstone, eldest son of W. E. Gladstone, died recently in London after an operation performed to remove a tumor of the brain. Mr. Gladstone was born in Kawarden on June 3, 1840. The handsomest living member of the Hohcnzollern family is Prince Albert of Prussia, a noble-looking officer, nearly six feet six inches in height, and as graicously courteous as he is big. He is a cousin of the late Emperor Frederick, and succeeds Von Moltko as President of the National Com mittee of Defense. The three American humorists who still write and are widely read are “Bill Nye,” “M. Quad” and “Bob” Burdette. Nye is now tilling his “think-tank” at Skyland, N. C.; “M. Quad” has left Detroit for New York; and “Bob” Burdette, after a long spell of illness, is doing paragraphs for the Sunday edition of a Philadelphia newspa per. Monthly Report. THE LABOR WORLD. Nevada has Chinee^'itimer*’- Ohio miners want nine hoars. Some fitribago tunnel diggers earn $2.75 t dav,-'"^ Some Boston sweaters pay sixteen cents 1 day. New York has an Italian shoemakers union. Key West, Fia., has 4000 idle cigar makers. Rochester boss tailors were indicted foi conspiracy. A Boston union will run a co-operativ«_ A Very Large Increase in the Grain Acreage. The July report of the United States De partment of Agriculture makes the acreage, as compared with the breadth harvested ast year, as follows: Corn, 108.3; potatoes; 102.3; tobacco, 102.0. Condition: Corn, 92.8; winter wheat, 93.2; spring wheat, 94.1; rye, )3.9: oats, 87.6; barley, 90.9; potatoes, 95.3; tobacco, 91.1. The heavy increase in torn acreage is more apparent than real. The present return makes the acreage slight ly less than 78,000,009 acres, or somewhat smaller than the area actually planted last year. The crop is late in all sections on account af drouth and unfavorable conditions at the time of planting and cool weather during May, but June was warm with abundant moisture, and the crop was coming forward rapidly on July 1. The condition of winter wheat is returned practically the same as in June. The crop is narvested except in its more northern habi tat, with a condition the highest reported since 1879 with one exception. The condition of spring wheat improved during June, the advance being in Minnesota and the Da kotas. where the month was exceptionally favorable. State averages are: Wisconsin, 17; Minnesota, 93; Iowa, 96; Nebraska, 96; North Dakota, 98; South Dakota, 97; Wash ington, 98. Oats have improved during the month, but the general average is the lowest rer. ported since 1879, except in 1887 and last year, when a July condition of 81.6 was followed by a practical failure of the crop.; The first return of potatoes shows a con dition higher than the average of recent years, while that of tobacco is higher than in any year since 1886. Tne fruit prospect is flattering. A cable dispatch from the European agent indicates a heavy deficiency in the European rye crop. The July returns show some improvement in the condition of cotton during June. The general average for the whole creadth has advanced three points, standing at 88.6. The slight improvement noted has been general. The crop is universally late. In the At lantic and Eastern Gulf States especially the plant is small and .backward. From Missis sippi westward the plant, while somewhat backward, is of good color, making generally vigorous growth. There is some complaint of lack of labor. The outlook in Texas is especially good. . - WOKLD’S FAIR NOTES- A herd of eighty-five buffalo will be ex hibited at the Fair. An enterprising Nebraska man ■>. )V c > r»-oi he will take to the Exposition J r illl d vi- 50,000 school children fromU^a®’’" ci T tr * , , k ^sCij*fmtt’ae Exposition It is next to oipRiin all of its depart- wnl be of*-’ 11 ev^ry has called for plans lighting, by electricity, all As exhibit from Alaska will bo collected under the auspices of the Government s In- dian bureau and geological department, vided Congress appropriates money lor tnat purpose, as it is expected it will. As soon as they can be prepared 100,000 copies will be issued of a fino water color lithograph representing a bird’s eye view ot the Exposition buildings and grounds. Ana work will appear in sixteen colors. Kwong Wo Chiong, a Chinese merchant in Hong Kong, has applied for space for an exhibit of Chinese goods. Applications for space are getting to be very numerous, and alreadv many have been sent in from foreign countries. La^A 1 will be built Ms .