The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, July 24, 1891, Image 2
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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
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