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KILLED BY A STORM.
JL Fierce Cyclone Plays Havoc
in Several States.
Lives Lost and Building's Wrecked
in South New Jersey.
) pavil-
hein? buried
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over lower New Jersey, doing immense
damage and causing loss of life. The three-
story residence of Robert Hamilton in Glou
cester was blown down, and Mr Hamilton
and bis family were buried in the ruins.
Hamilton was instantly killed, and his two
daughters, aged ten and nineteen years re-
spectirely, were seriously, perhaps fatally,
injured.
After they were extricated from the mass
of broken timber they were taken to the hos
pital, where the physicians found that the
elder girl’s limb was broken so badly that
amputation was necessarv. She was also
injured internally, and it was feared she
would not be able to survive the shock of the
amputation.
The storm swept down Froguhagen’s
pavilion. 'Patrick Highland, of Phila
delphia, who was in the
ion, was instantly killed by
under the heavv beams of the structure.
The toboggan slide, the carousal and Hag
gerty’s pavilion were torn to pieces. Several
people were injured. James and Edward
Reodington, brothers, tin roofers, who were
working on the roof of a new home at Had-
donfleld, were blown from the building and
seriously injured. They were taken to the
hospital.
A big window in the Catholic Church of
the Immaculate Conception was blown in.
Holbert & Thornbeck’s mill was unroofed
and badly damaged. The building of the
Camden Water Works was unroofed.
In Camden, N. J., houses were unroofed,
fences blown down, and the grain and hay
in the fields were mowed down as if by a
reaper. Trees were uprooted and carried
away. People had to flee for their lives to
•scape being hit by the falling debris from
buildings.
The storm did great damage in Moores-
town, N. J., and vicinity. Several buildings
were badly damaged. Two workmen were
injured and a man was kille 1 at Palmyra.
Farmers in the vicinity of Burlington,
N. J., suffered severely from the
storm. Apple orchards and growing
crops suffered the most. The or
chards of Samuel H. Greeley were almost
entirely stripped of leaves and fruit. Large
limbs were torn off an I many of the trees
uprooted. A corn field, not far from the
orchard, was almost entirely cleared, the
stalks being cut off close to the ground.
Several large trees on the lawn in front of
Walter Davis's house were blown down and
his barn and out buildings wrecked.
In Atlantic City. N. J., the streets were
flooded and the electric cars were blocked.
The Hotel Edison was struck by lightning
and the terror of the villagers and sum
mer residents was added to by the
clanging of the fire bells. The hotel
was badly damaged and the fire had
secured considerable headway before the
department arrived. The flames were soon
gotten under control. John Meyer’s fins
cottage on the Penrose tract, the structure
of Pain & Sons’ exhibition of Sardanapalus,
the pavilion on the ocean pier and tne tobog
gan shoot at the Sea View excursion
grounds were blown down.
Great damage by wind and lightning was
reported in the adjacent country. The
yachts iu the harbor suffered severely,
many of them being blown from their
anchorage and beached. Several smaller
ones were capsized.
During the storm Hehtning struck the
house of James Lolly at West Ocean Grove,
N. J., shattering It badly. Mrs. Lolly was
struck by a falling brick from the chimney
as she rushed out into the yard. The back
of her head and neck was so badly cut that
her recovery was thought doubtful.
The Berwick Inn, at Avon-by-the-Sea,
was struck by lightning aud severely dam
aged by the storm. The bolt crashed
through the kitchen, breaking crockery and
stunning the cook. A. H. Robinson, an
Asbury Park plumber, who was working in
a room next to the kitchen, was rendered
unconscious. The cottage of C. C. Halsev,
of New York, was also struck and the in-
matesstunnea. •
The damage done by the storm at Spring
Lake was considerable. The residencs of
G. A. Rumsey, of Philadelphia, was struck
by lightning and the building and furniture
damaged. The wind carried the Melrose, a
large boarding house, off its foundations.
The colored Methodist Church was nearly
demolished by the force of the wind.
A terrific thunder and lightning storm,
accompanied by torrents of rain and heavy
wind, passed over Philadelphia. Penn. John
Jenkins and George Soley, John Clymer
and Patrick Furlong, who were working in
a brick yard at Twenty-fifth and Cum
berland streets, took refuge beneath a shed.
Suddenly a blinding sheet of flame seemed
to envelope Jenkins, and a strong sulphu
rous odor filled the air. Jenkins stood per
fectly rigid for a moment and then fell back
on the floor dead. The others were stunned,
but all three have nearly recovered.
A severe electrical storm passed over Potts-
▼ille, Penn. In the northwestern part of
Schuylkill County it was accompanied by
large hail and great damage was done to
fruit trees, grain and vegetables.
At Llewellyn. Penn., lightning struck the
houses of Lewis Zimmerman and William
Bush and badly shattered them. Over forty
persons were shocked in that little hamlet
and several of them were rendered uncon
scious. Henry C. Dillman, Isaac Morgan
and Harry Evans received serious injuries.
The storm was one of the worst ever experi
enced in that section.
A very heavy rainstorm, accompanied by
wind, thunder and lightning, struck Balti
more. Md. Many roofs were lifted and
pedestrians were thrown to the ground.
A thunder, lightning and wiud storm, ac
companied by tremendous hailstones and
heavy rain, struck Winste.d, Conu. It blew
down trees, broke telegraph wires, washed
out the highways and damaged crops. It
was feared that the hail had ruined the to
bacco crop. In Torrington, Conn., a cyelono
with immense hailstones did ffiO.OOO dam
age. Houses belonging to Wiliiam Clinton,
J. A. Palmer and Joseph Deloy were blown
down, and barns, chimneys and trees were
blown over. Four children of Joseph Deloy,
in his house, were injured. Great damage
is reported trom villages near Torrington tc
trees and crops.
Ira Hayner’s barn, wagon-house and
shed, at Brunswick Centre, N. J., were
destroys 1 by fire, the barn having been
struck by lightning. The Delaware and
Hudson freighthouse, at Moors Junction,
N. Y. wss also struck by lightmug and de
stroyed by fire.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Yellow Fever prevails in Honduras.
The iron ore trade still remains stagnant.
There are fears of a cholera epidemic in
Europe.
The oils wells in this country supply 130,-
000 barrels a day.
Hereafter all telegraphing in Spain will
be done by military operators.
There were no less than five stage rob
beries in Montana during June.
The next President of the United States
will receive about 7,000,000 votes.
The pack of canned lobsters is expected to
fall off fifty per cent, compared with last
tea son.
A tunnel to cost $1,000,000 has been
started at Leadville, Col., to drain the min
ing camps.
James Mullen, of Louisville, Ky., bled
to ceath from a hole in his tongue about the
size of a pin.
The chiefs of the Arapahoes and Cheyenne
Indians refuse to accept the beef issue trom
the Government.
The embezzlements of the first six months
of the present year amounted to tae large
sum of $d,j>95,8l4.
Relief boats provided and provisioned
by the State, have left New Orleans lor the
flooded district of the State.
Drouth famine in Northern Mexico and
Southwest Texas looms up as one of the
great calamities of the year.
Advices from nearly all business centres
show a gra lual growth in confi ience, though
not in the volume of business done.
The Governments of Germany and Aus
tria are acting in concert m the adoption of
measures to prevent caolera from entering
taeir countries. _ .
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Uastorn mut Midd le State*.
Thirteen of the Jersey Citv (N. J.) bal
lot box stuffers were sent to State Prison and
seven to the Penitentiary.
Henry Weld Fuller, the only brother
of Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States
Supreme Court, died at the home of his son,
in New Rochelle, N. Y.. a few days ago, at
the age of sixty-one. Mr. Fuller was born
in Augusta, Me.
A violent storm damaged many build
ings in Williamsport, Penn.
Commencement exercise were held at
Yale, Harvard and Amherst Colleges.
Mrs. Susan Sewell, twenty-two years
of age, threw her nine-months-old babe out
of a four story window at Boston, Mass.,
and then jumped from the window herself.
Both were killed.
Professor Theodore W. Dwight, for
many years head of the Columbia College
Law School, die! suddenly at his summer
home, Clinton, N. Y. He was bora in Cat-
skill, N. Y., on July 18, 1822.
The fire-cracker mill of the Hazirdville
Powder Company’s works at Hazardville,
Conn., was demolished by an explosion, and
Dennis Bailey, the only workman in the
building at the tim?, was instantly killed.
The Grand Jury of Orange County, which
has been considering the Port Jerv.s (N. Y.)
lynching case, completed its duty. Three
indictments were found. One against Pres
ident O. B. Howell for criminal neglect of
his official duties.
The Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Bridge was
purchased by John W. Brock, of Pailadel-
phia.for $2,500,000 for the Reading Railroad.
A “moonshining” establishment was
raided in South Brooklyn, N. Y. The men
escaped through a tunnel and by jumping
into Gowanus Canal. The still had a capa
city of several hundred gallons per day.
While workmen were laying the stone
abutments to a railroad bridge at Provi
dence, R. I., the bank above them caved in,
burying alive four of them.
The Chautauqua IN. Y.; Assembly
opened for the nineteenth season of summer
work.
The Homestead Iron Works of Carnegie,
Phipps & Company in Pittsburg were
closed owmg to a threatened strike. Nearly
4000 workmen were looted out
South ana West.
The joint Democratic caucus at Baton
Rouge, La., decided to postpone the election
of the United States Senator to tha session
of 1894, but will ballot daily to the close of
the present session.
Russell Wells, aged twenty, son of Pro
fessor S. C. Weds, of Roanoke College, and
Arrnistead Watson, aged eighteen, son of A.
C. Watson, of Marlin. Texas, were killed by
lightning at Salem, Va.
John E. Thornton was hanged in the
United States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark., for
the murder of his daughter Laura in a fit
of drunkenness. Henry Block, colored, the
murderer of George Smith, was hanged in
the courtyard at Pine Bluff, Ark.
The Indiana Republican Con^fention at
Fort Wayne placed Governor Chase at the
head of their State ticket.
Tom Lillard, colored, was dragged from
the jail at Wocdbury, Tenn , and strung up
to a limb by an armed mob of 200 men.
Lillard lay in wait for Miss McKnight, a
highlv respect-, d young woman, and out
raged her.
A cyclone at Fort Yates, South Dakota,
killed tour Sioux Indians and wounded sev
eral others.
The building and stock of the Schwa-
bacher Brothers at Seattle, Washington,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, 1400,000.
Rev. Shelby HarIdy and two daughters
were killed by lightning near Ridgeville,
Tenn.
While workmen were engaged in build
ing an addition to a large building at Lynch
burg, Va., the wall gave way and buried a
number of people under the debris. J. H.
C. Winston, owner of the building, and two
colored men were killed and seven colored
men badly hurt.
Bankruptcy has at last reached the
World’s Columbian Commission at Chicago,
111. Every cent of the appropriation has
been exhausted.
S. D. Morrow, Mrs. Lesser and Miss
Lesser were killed in a railroad wreck at
Althernier, Ark., and a dozia people were
injured.
Three colored men, who assaulted white
women near Cclmes Neill, Texas, while on
their way to Woodville Jail were met by a
party of masked men and shot and killed.
John Donnelly, a colored man, has
been lynched near Little Rock, Ark., by a
mob of 209 men of his own race.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, was damaged $59,-
000 by fire. A heavy rain only prevented
the entire town from being destroyed.
By the upsetting of a skiff in the Delogny
Crevasse, above New Orleans, La., four per
sons were drowned—a brother and a sister
of Dr. Himel, aged respectively fourteen
and sixteen years, and Miss Hum he aud
Angele Lambert.
Washington.
The President’s message, replying to the
resolution of inquiry as to reciprocity nego
tiations with Mexico and other countries,
has been laid before the Senate.
Brigadier-General Mcdoaff, command
ing the Department of Arizona, has been
summoned to Washington to confer with
tae authorities regarding military affairs in
that department.
Extensions of the free list for American
goods imported into Cuba and Port Rico
were announced in a proclamation by the
President.
The President has set aside a tract of land
containing 2^,889 acres on the Kiowa and
Comanche Indian reservations, Oklahoma,
as a wood reservation for the military post
at Fort Sill.
The President has directed Major-General
Schofield to perform the duties of Secretary
of vVar during the illness or temporary
absence of Secretary of War Elkins, when
ever, during such illness or absence, the
Assistant Secretary of War is also absent.
Mr. Lacey, Controller of the Currency,
has severed his official connection with tue
Treasury Department and will go almost
immediately to Chicago to assume his new
duties as President of the Bankers’ National
Bank of that city.
The President approved tho joint resolu
tion directing the President to proclaim a
general holiday commemorating the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery o:
America on the 21st day of October, 1892.
The Senate and House, in view of the
fact that not one of the appropriation bills
has yet been signed by the President, whicii
is unprecedented in the history of the coun
try, passed a joint resolution extending the
present appropriations for the expenses of
the Government to July 15. The President
promptly signed the resolution.
Secretary J. W. Foster visitei the
State Department and began at once the
transaction of business. There was no
ceremony whatever. Most of the foreign
Ministers called at the Department during
the day to pay tneir respects to the new
official.
Commodore Ramsay. Chief of the Bureau
3f Navigation, has been designated to act
as Secretary of the Navy during the tem
porary absence of Secretary Tracy and
Assistant Secretary Soley.
Koreien.
The British Parliament was dissolved; the
Jueen's speech was read in both houses.
There is almost a panic in Irish securi-
:ies. including railway and bank stocks,
swing to the fear that Home Rule will gain
;he day in the coming election.
The supposed intention of the German
Government to prosecute Prince Bismarck
■ or his recent utterances caused a sensation
throughout the Empire.
Heavy storms have prevailed in England,
ioing great damage to crop--.
At the Crystal Palace, London. England,
Captain Dale, the well known aeronaut, in-
v.ted anv who desired to accompany him
in his voyage in the air. Several volunteered
and the oalloan started. Suddenly the bal-
:oon burst with a noise like the discharge of
a huge cannon. The aeronaut fell to the
groun 1 dead, and three of the passengers
were fatally injured.
A boat contaiaiag a pleasure party o'
eight capsized in the River Ems at Wareu-
dorf, Prussian Westphaiia, and six were
drowned.
The Hon. John Robson. Premier of Brit
ish Columbia, died a few days ago of blood
poisoning, in London.
The Norwegian Ministry has resigned be
cause the K.ng would not consent to separ
ate foreign representation for Norway.
A scarlet fever epidemic prevails in
London. England. Already 2359 cases have
been reported.
Gladstone began his Midlothian cam
paign, making his first speech before an en-
ermous audience at Edinburgh. There were
several election riots in Ireland, in one of
which Dr. Tanner was assaulted by the
P^rnellites.
The steamship Trave arrived at South
ampton, England, with confirmation of the
wreck of the ship Fred. B. Taylor, and the
loss of two of her crew. She cut that vessel
in two in mid-ocean.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Anson is playing a poor first for Chicago.
The Baltimore? have yet to win their first
game from Brooklyn.
i Hanlon is back in the field for Baltimore,
but is not yet quite his old self.
Mullane, Staley, Gleason and Weyhing
are the leading winning pitchers.
Welch, l&te of the New Yorks, is pitch
ing winning ball for the Troy Club.
Since Decoration Day the attendance has
materially diminished in every Eastern city.
Gleason is still pitching winning ball for
St. Louis, and is easily the star of that team.
Ward and Corcoran, of Brooklyn, make
double plays witn wonderful precision and
quickness.
The year of a Presidential election is
usually an off one for baseball. It is the
case this year.
Richardson’s work at short for Wash
ington has been simply phenomenal. He
leads the country.
Four opponents have outbatted Boston in
their series, viz., Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati an I St. Louis.
Many of the high salaried stars will ba
asked to accede to a reduction in their sala
ries under the new order of things.
The Bostons recently changed from the
time honored red stockings to blue. No
wonder they struck a streak of bad luck.
It has been suggested that if the profes
sional baseball managers would set their
men to playing lacrosse in the spring there
would be less beliows-mending in running
the bases.
Clarkson, Nichols, Lowe, Quinn, Stiv-
etts and Tucker, of the Boston team, have
consented to accept reduction of salary.
Kelly was granted further time to say what
he would do.
At Washington, Richardson accomplished
a very pretty triple play. He caught a line
hit, ran and tout-had second base, and then
threw to first to cut off the runner who was
trying to return back to that point.
At Cleveland, during a practice game of
baseball, John Carey, while at bat, was
struck in the neck by a swiftly pitched ball
from one Sells. He fell to the ground and
died in a few minutes. Carey was twenty-
one years of age and a peddler by occupa
tion.
There has been lots of talk that the
double championship season is not popular,
but thero is no such complaint from the
company of tail-enders. To them the sec
ond season is but the opening of the gates
to the promised laud from which they have
been barred on account of hard luck, bad
umpires and sick players.
recokdoftue league clubs.
Her' Per
Clubs. Won. Lost, ct.' Clubs. Won. Lost. ct.
Boston 45 IS .714 Washing’nSO 34 .469
Brooklyn...39 23 . 629 'hicago.. 27 31 .466
Philad’lp’a.39 24 .619 New York27 35 .435
C incinnat:.34 26 .56? St. Louis.25 36 . 417
Cleveland ..33 27 .550 Louisville.26 33 .406
Pittsburg. .31 34 .471] Baltimore.'.6 46 .258
PK0MINENT PEOPLE.
Gladstone has been a Member of Parlia
ment since 1832.
Prince Bismarck’s return to Germany
from Vienna w.is a triumphant tour.
Emin Pasha has had more obituary
notices written about him than any other
traveler.
The widows of General Grant and Jeffer
son Davis are staving at the same hotel at
West Point, N. Y. ,
Grover Cleveland’s maternal grand
mother kept a bookstore in Baltimore. His
mother died in that city in 1882.
General Eppa Hunton, Virginia’s new
Senator, rose in four years from the Con
federate ranks to a Major-Generalship.
The engagement is announced of Edwin
Gould, son of Jay Gould, to Miss Sarah Can-
tine Shrady, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
George F. Shrady, of New York.
Henry M. Stanley, who is standing for
Parliament, and his wife, were hissed off the
f rounds at a recent meeting at Chatham,
Ingland, where he attempted to speak.
M. M. Murdock, of Wichita. Republican
candidate for Governor of Kansas, is the
editor of a newspaper, the E agle, and it is
said that he was the first writer of town
boom articles.
Professor Schuman, of Cornell Univer
sity, Ithaca, N. Y., has declined an invita
tion to become President of the University
of California, even at a salary of $8090, with
house rent included.
The King of Spain has grown considerably
during the last six months, and he is tall for
his age. He is beginning to learn English;
French, German and Spanish he speaks
fluent!y. la personal appearance he re
sembles his father, Alphonso XII.
Chief Justice Turney, of Tennessee, re
cent y set at rest a rumor that he was
dangerously ill by informing an anxious in
quirer alter his health that he was just
getting ready to ride a mule bareback a dis
tance of ten miles fora day’s fishing.
King Oscar, of Sweden, who has been
calling upon President Carnot, at the Elysee.
wore as his single decoration the medal
which the Government of France had con
ferred upon him for throwing himself be
fore two horses who were dashing unchecked
through the streets.
One of the oldest postmasters in the
country is James H. Miller, who was ap-
f ointeu to the office at Ganley Bridge,
'ayette County, W. Va. (then Virginia), by
President William Hjnry Harrison, and has
served contimgmsly ever since. Mr. Miller
is eighty-six years old.
Poultney Bigelow and Frederick
Remington, the artist, who were expelled
from Russia a short time ago, have arrived
at Berlin, Germany. The affair has made
him still more a persona grata with Emperor
William. He has invited both to a state
dinner and a concert given in honor of King
Humbert.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Farm help is in great demand in North
Dakota.
The Calfornia miners are endeavoring to
secure a uniform code of mine signals.
The building trades of Chicago were
seriously affected by reason of the heavy
rains.
Gravel roofers in Chicago won an eight-
hour working day after a strike of a few
hours.
Gangs of Japanese are now employed by
railroad construction companies " in the
Noi thwest.
Organized labor in Toleio, Ohio, has
gained every contest it entered into during
tne last two years.
There is an increased employment of
labor in a large number of factories in the
New England States.
It is probable that three or perhaps four
ship yards will be established oa the Lakes
during the next twelve months.
There is a noticeable improvement in the
smaller industries, west of the Mississippi
River, growing out of the favorable agricul
tural conditions.
The granite lockout in the stone industry
in the New England States and the syuioa
thetic strike o: pavers an t rammers in New
York City entered upon its eleventh week
with the men as firm as ever.
Of the 11.099.000 women in Italy nearly
2,0<)J,it.0 are employed in industrial pursuits
an 1 over 3,009,000 in agriculture. In the
silk inaustry, lor instance, there are 117,000
women employed and but 17,790 men.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
admitted 1133 new members in May, and
charters Were granted to nine < new local
unions. The receipts for the 'beneficiary
fund were $41,40!. The sum of $41,090 was
paid for deata and benefit claims.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Infprpstinjr Dispatches About
important Late Events.
President Harrison Recalls Lieu
tenant Borup From France.
Acting on information received from Mr.
Coolidge, the United States Minister at
Paris, the Secretary of War issued from
Washington an order relieving Captain
Borup, of the Ordnance Department, from
further duty at the United States Legation
at Paris, and directing him to report to the
War Department for further order?. This
action was taken at the instance of the
French Government. Secretary Elkins and
Acting Secretary Wharton bad a confer
ence on the subject at the War Department
and the French Minister subsequently visited
Mr. dV barton at the State Department.
The allegations upon which the demand
for Captain Borup’s recall are based in brief
are to the effect that he has participated in
a plot to secure possession of drawings of cer
tain French coast defenses which have here
tofore been kept in the secret archives of the
Ministry of Marine.
According to the reports from Paris, it ap
pears that a clerk named Grenier, an em
ploye of the Government in the office of the
Keeper-General of National Archives, has
implicated Borup in a confession made con
cerning the sale of plans and specifications of
the defenses referred tc to the Governments
of Germany and Italy.
The Government officials do not believe
that Captain Borup is guilty of the charges
Against him, and his recall is said to be due
altogether to the request of the French Gov
ernment and in the interests of harmonv.
Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge, the American
Minister to France, has informed M. Ribot,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Captain
Borup admits having paid for secret official
documents, but declares that in doing this
he only followed the example of all military
attaches.
Captain Borup has apparently lost his
head and has given several contradictory
versions of the affair in interviews he has
had with newspaper reporters.
A French detective in citizen’s clothes sat
for several days on a bench in the Avenue
Marceau watching the house of Captain
Borup and the doors of the American
Legation.
Killed in Open Court.
Mar Clerget, a prisoner, was shot and
killed in Judge Martine’s Court in New
York City at 11:40 o’clock, a. m., a few days
ago. The shot was fired by Edward De
vins, a brother of the girl for whose ruin
the dead man had just been arraigned and
plead guilty at the bar. Only one shot was
fired, the thirty-two caliber bullet passing
through ClergeVs heart. It was the most
dramatic scene ever witnessed in a New
York courtroom.
Clerget was only eighteen years old.
The Judge had announced that Clerget was
remanded for sentence until the following
Friday, and the young man, between two
policemen, had starrevl back to the prison
ers’ pen, passing within five feet of Ed.
Devins.
Suddenly Devins arose, drawing a pistol
from his pocket. He leaned forward, plac
ing the muzzle of the weapon within three
inches of Clerget’s heart, and fired. The
scene that followed simply beggars descrip
tion.
Before Devins could fire again, as he evi
dently intended to do, he was overpowered
by Court Officers McLaughlin and Collier,
the latter wresting the smoking pistol from
his hand.
When the room was cleared the body of
Clerget was picked up and laid down be
hind the benches. He was gasping faintly
but not bleeding tnueb. Four minutes after
the shot was fired he was dead.
Devins is twenty-five years old. His
father and mother‘are both dead, and Ha has
naturally felt as a father toward the
younger sisters. Katie and Sarah. He is a
feeble-minded young man, lame and half
paralyzed. His sislrer, Sarah, is also a small,
lame,deformed giiwcf less than fifteen years.
She, too, was of lii^le mind.
Took; SlrjM
Gilbert Palmer, of Jai
twenty-one years old, pr
tble,
Togel het.
down, Ohio, about
curea a horse and
as he said, to go to
ir miles north. He
above-named place
mpany with Mary
the daughter of a
toggy at * livery sta
Port William, about foil
was last seen at the
about 10 o’clock, in
Concklin, aged sixtee.
widow living in Port \f illiam. Miss Conck-
lin’s mother strenuously objected to ter as-
■ociation with Palmer.
Next morning Pauner and Miss Concklin
were discovered on the roadside, both deal.
They had tak*>n the robes out of the buggy
and spread them down on the ground, and
placed the buggy cushion on them for a head
rest. Near them was two glasses and two
papers that contained strychnine. A note
was found, written on one of the labels,read
ing as follows: “Bury us as close to
gether as possible. Good-by.”
Will Manage the Campaign.
The Republican National Committee met
at Washington, and William J. Campbell,
of Illinois, was elected Caairman.
The others elected were: Vice-Chairman,
M. H. De Young, of California; Secretary,
Thomas H. Carter, of Montana: Treasurer,
Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York; Sergeant-
at-Arms, Colonei H. L. Swords, of Iowa.
The members of committee met in the
Arlington parlors at 11:15, and were called
to or ler by Chairman Clarkson. Ri^H call
by Secretary De Young showed an attend
ance of all but three members—an unusual
proportion.
Under a rule adopted bv the National Re
publican Convention an Executive Commit
tee consisting of nine members will be se
lected of which the Chairman, Vice-Chair
man, Secretary and Treasury of the National
Committee will be members ex-officio.
Departure of Pea ry’s Relief.
The steamer Miranda left the foot ot
Congress street. Brooklyn, N. Y.,
a few days since, having on board
the members of the expedition organ
ized by the Academy of Naturnal Sciences of
Philadelphia to search for the Greenland ex
ploring party under the command of Lieut.
Robert E. Peary. The steamer will proceed
to St. John’s, where the party will be trans
ferred to the sealing steamer Kite, which is
scheduled to leave for the camping grounds
of the Peary party at McCormick Bay.
The relief party consists of Angelo Heil-
prin, Commander; Henry G. Bryant, first
mate; N. W. Stokes, sketching artist; Will
iam G. Meehan, botanist; C. E. Hite, taxi
dermist; Dr. Jackson M. Mills, surgeon; Al
bert W. Varse and Samuel J, Entrekin
Provisions were taken aboard to last until
the party reaches McCormick Bay.
Cloudburst in Pennsj Ivania.
A terrific storm passed over Eastern
Pennsylvania, and in many sections it as
sume 1 the proportions of a cloudburst.
In Reading tae streets were flooded, several
houses were struck by lightning, and a
number of persons were more or less hurt.
In Chester County the storm was the
worst in twenty years. Houses in ail parts
of the county were unroofed, many were
struck by lightning and at least a score
of head of live stock were killed. At
Crum Lynne a car on a train on the
P., W. and W. was struck by lightning while
in motion. Baggage Master William L^wis,
of Chester, was rendered unconscious. A
newsboy, the only other occupant of the car,
was knocked down. From messages re
ceived from all over the eastern part of tae
State it looked as though the damage to
crops would be immense.
Lynched lor Wife Murder.
Will. Bates, a thirty-year-old farmer, of
Bedford County, Tennessee, was Ivnche 1 oy
his neighbors in the Court-House yard at
Shelbyville. The charge against him was
wife-murder, an l that he was guiitv there
was but little doubt.
Mrs. Bates was beaten to death with a
fence rail while gathering vegetables for
dinner. The alleged discovery of the crime
was made by Bates, when he went to the
house for dinner, and he started the report
that his wife had Wen outraged and mur
dered. V
Her skull had been crushed and her face
horribly mutilated. > Unfortunately for
Bates there appeared pe^ or ® the Coroner’s
jury a neichbor woman who swore that she
had seen Bates beating his wife and heard
her screaming
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
•
In the Senate.
120th Day.—Tho Legislative and Julicial
Appropriation bill was considered.
121st Day.—Mr. Hale sooke on the tariff
question, and was answered by Mr. Vest
The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
passed.
122d Day.—The Legislative Appropria
tion bill, after the adoption of several
amendments, was pa-sei and sent to the
House for conference The Postoffice
Appropriation bill was passed—
The Invalid Pension bill, after a debate on
the several amendments, was passed A
bill for the relief of certain settlers on lands
in North and South Dakota was passe 1
The nomination of General John vV. Foster
to be Secretary of State was confirmed.
123d Day.—The Senate ordered a new
conference on the Naval bill Mr. Frye
introduced a bill providing that Collectors
of Customs, instead of receiving from the
Government a fee of $1 each for each cer
tificate of title to vessels, shall collect that
amount from the person to whom the cer
tificate is issued A joint resolution was
passed continuing all appropriations till
July 15.
In the House.
149i h Day.—The House was In session just
three minutes, Mr. Matson making the point
bf no quorum.
141st Day.—The General Deficiency Ap
propriation bill was passed Mr. Oates re
ported from the Judiciary Committee the
Committee the Bankruptcy bill The
House refused to accept the conference re
port on the Militar y Academy bill, and in
structed the new conferrees to insist
upon an amendment appropriating $15,000
for an electric light plant Mr. Geissen-
bainer reported the Revenue Cutter Trans
fer bill——Inability to command a quorum
resulted in earlv adjournment.
142d Day.—ft was soldiers’ day, the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions having the floor.
Bills were passed to pension army nurses
now without means of support who served
for six months in caring for and nursing the
sick and wounded; to provide a pension of
$50 a month for non-specific disabilities, and
to remove the disability of those who parti
cipated in the Civil VVar, and who have
since enlisted in the navy or army of the
United States and become disabled.
143d Day.—Concurrence in several con-
eports wa
144th Day.—Mr. Cummings’s bill to
equalize the pay of letter carriers was favor.
ably reported Disagreeing conference re-
orts on t ie Naval and other appropriation
ills were received -A joint resolution
continuing the extraordinary appropriations
until July 15th was passed.
E'
IT is confidently expected that there will
be 60,009 men in line at the forthcoming
parade of the G. A. R. in Washington.
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices ot Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
27 beans and peas.
Bean?—Marrow, 1891, choice.$2 10 (T?,$2 121 j
Medium, 1891, choice.... — @180
Pea, 1891, choice 1 SO (it, —
"White kidney. 1891,choice 2 35 @ 2 50
Red kidney, 1891, choice. 2 39 @ 2 49
Green peas, 1891, per bush.... 1 60 @ 1 65
1891, bags
1 55 @ —
1891, Scotch 169 @ 1 65
butter.
Creamery—St..Afeon,extra? — @21
St. & Penn., firsts.. * 20
Western, firsts 19 @ 29
- Western, seconds
Western, thirds 16 @ 17
State dairy—half tubs, and
pails, extras — @ 20
Half tube and pail?, Iste. 18 @ 19
Half tubs and pails. 2ds. 16' < 95 17)3
Welsh tubs, extras 19 @ —
Welsh tubs, Ists 17^@ 18)^
Welsh tubs, 2ds 16 $@ 17
Western—Im. creamery, Ists. 17 @ IS
dm. creamery, 2ds 15 @ 16
Im. creamery, 3ds 13 @ 14
Factory, firsts 14>£(g> —
Factory, seconds 13}£@ 14
Factory and dairy, thirds..... — @ 13
CHEESE.
State factory—Full cream,
large size white, fancy.. 8% 8J£
Full cream, colored, fancy 8; * (§ 9
Full cream good to prime 8;£
Part skims, choice o>£(gl 6
Part skims, good to prime 4 v a ' @ 5
Pas* skims, common... - 2)j@ 4
1*nil skims..,«•»«••••«. j-2(5D d^li
I EGGS.
State and Penn—Fresh
Western — Fresh, fancy
Fresh, fair to prime......
FRUITS AND BERRIES—
Apples—Southern, red, crate
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca
tawba, 5 lb basket
Western N. Y.. Concord.
Strawberries, Jersey, per qt.
Western, N. Y., qt
Up-River, per qt
Cherries, large,blame, lb... .
Large, red and whits.
Small and noor
Huckleberries, N. J., pe* box
Blackberries, M9., perqt... .
Gooseberrries, pri ■ ne green, qt.
Raspberries, red,Jersey, piut.
HOPS.
State—1891, choice, per lb...
1891, prime
1891, common to good...
1890, common to choice.
Old odds
LIVE POULTRY.
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn.. 12 @
Western, per lb
Spring Chickens, large, lb...
Small to medium 16 @
Roosters, young & old, per lb
Turkeys, per lb
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
per pair.
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Turkeys—Selected hens, lb.
Mixed weights 14
Young toms, tair to prime 13
Old toms 13 @
Chickens—Phila., br#rters...
L. 1. broilers
Fowls—St. and Penn., per lb 11
Western, per lb 11
Ducks—Western, per lb..
ern,., pe
r.g. L. I.
Spring
Geese—Spring Pastern,|
Squabs—Dark, per doz.
Light, per doz
POTATOES AND VEGETABLES.
Potatoes—Southern, seconds 25
Norfolk, bbl
State, old, per bbl
L. 1., in bulk, per bPl...
Cabbage, L. I. per 109
Noriolk, per barrel
Onions—Bermuda, perorate.
New Or,eans, per bbl....
Egyptian, 112 lb sack
Squash—Soutueru, marrow,
per barrel,
Southern, yellow..
L. I., yeiiow, barrel....
L. I., white, barrel
Lettuce. Southern, per bbl.. —
Tomatoes, Fla., carrier crate.
Asparagus,N.J.,aoz. bunches
Peas. S. Jersey,‘2 bbl. basket
Liong Island, per bag....
String beans, Norfolk, wax,
^ bbl. crate
Norfolk., green
Cucumbers, Savannah, crata
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves, City dressed
Milch Cows, com. to gobd., .20 00 @40 09
Calves, City dressed
Sheep, per 100 lbs
Lambs, per lb
16
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15
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1 59
2 25
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1 37
1 12
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3 25 @ 4 35
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Hogs—Live, per 100 lbs 5 5o @5 70
Dressed..
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GRAIN, ETC.
Flour—City Mill Extra..
4 25
4 55
Patents
4 60
<«
4 85
Wheat—No. 2 Red
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Corn—Ungraded Mixed
53
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Oats—No. 2 White
42
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Mixed Western
37
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Hay—Good to Choice
*5
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Straw—Long Rye
60
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Lard—City Steam
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6.25e
BLAINE’S SUCCESSOR.
General John W. Foster Ap
pointed Secretary ot State.
The New Cabinet Minister’s
Long Diplomatic Experience.
The President, a few days ago, sent to
the United States Senata tha name of John
W. Foster, of Indiana, to be Secretary of
State in succession to James G. Blaine.
Soon after the nomination was received
by the Senate, oa the motion of Mr. Sher
man, Chairman of the Committee on For
eign Relations, an executive session was
held to consider the nomination. It was at
once confirmed, a most unusual compliment
to the nominee, one which has heretofore
been extended only to Senators sitting in
the body, when nominated to office by the
President.
The President that same afternoon signed
Secretary Foster's commission.
Sketch of His Career.
The Hon. John W. Foster has been for
some years past practising law in Washing
ton. His chief work is in the domain of in
ternational law in which he is conceded to
be an exoert. He has been three times ap
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary for toe United States in
foreign countries, being once accredited to
Mexico, again to Russia, and a third time to
Spain.
Mr. Foster was born in Pike County, In
diana, on March 2, 1836. He was educated
in the public schools of the State, an 1 after
ward went through the State University of
Indiana, where he graduated in 1355.
Then Mr. Foster studied law at Harvard
University, and returning home began the
E ractice of his profession at Evansville. He
ad already made his mark among the young
lawyers o^ Indiana when the Civil War
broke out.
He at once volunteered for service and was
appointed Major of the Twenty-fifth Indiana
Infantry Volunteers. After seeing some
hard fighting he rose to the full rank of
Colonel.
In General Burnside’s expedition to East
Tennessee Colonel Foster headed a brigade
of cavalry, and was the first to occupy
Knoxville in 1863. At the end of the war he
was a Brigadier-General by brevet. His
chief services during the war were with the
Western army ot Grant and Sherman.
After General Foster settled down to civil
life again he edited the Evansville Daily
Journal. In 1869 he was made postmaster
of that city. His first prominent political
office was the Chairmanship of tue Re
publican State Committee of Indiana in
1872.
In 1S73 General Foster was appointe l by
President Grant to be Minister to Mexico.
At the expiration of General Grant’s term
of office Mr. Hayes reappointed him.
General Foster went to Russia as Minister
in 1880. and held that office until late in the
year 1881, when he resigned aud came home,
owing to the pressure of urgent private busi
ness.
In 1883 General Foster was appointed Min
ister for the third time, on this occasion be
ing sent to Spain. This nomination was
made by President Arthur at the desire of
Secretary Frelinghuyseu, who wished to
avail himself of General Foster’s knowledge
of international law to negotiate a treaty
with Spain involving many delicate points
about naturalization. Since his return from
Spain General Foster lias resumed his prac
tice in Washington.
WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.
South Burmah and the East Indies in
tend to have a worthy exhibit at the Ex
position
Japan has applied for space in the World’s
Fair Mines and Mining building for a min
eral exhibit.
A collectiye exhibit at the World’s Fair
by the various college fraternities in the
linited States is well assured.
The Indian exhibit at the World’s Fair
will include representatives of every tribe
trom the extreme north to Terra del'Fuego.
A solid gold brick, weighing 500 pounds
and worth $150,000, will be exnibited in the
Mines and Mining building at the World’s
Fair, by a Helena (Montana) mine owner.
The Ohio State Archaenlogical and His
torical Society will exaibit at the World’s
Fair, among many other interesting articles,
a collection of specimens of old colonial and
State bank money.
The chair in which Thomas Jefferson sat
while writing the Declaration of Independ
ence is now owned by the Philosophical
Society, Philadelphia. It is reported that
this interesting relic will be exhibited at
the World’s Fair.
A Schooner is now being fitted out at
Halifax to go to the arctic regions to get ten
or twelve Esquitno tamilies, fifty or sixty
persons in all, for exhibition at tho World’s
Fair. Dogs, fishing implements, utensils,
and everytmng necessary . to’show Esquimo
life, will also be procured.
Three World’s Fair Commissioners from
France are now in Chicago, to erect aud
decorate tae building whicn will be the
headquarters of France at the Fair, and to
complete arrangements for installing the
French exhibit. They say that France will
have an exhibit unrivaled by that of any
other Nation.
The World’s Fair grounds and buildings,
now nearing completion, are so renowned
as a most beautiful and interesting spectacle
that not only do from 5009 to 12,000 people
a day, at a cost of twenty-five cents apiece,
inspect them, but the great majority of
travelers who pass through Chicago devote
a day or more to the same purpose.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the
Board of Lady Managers, who has recently
returned trom a European tour, reports
that tne women of Europe, particularly of
Great Britain, France, Germany and Bel
gium, are deeply interested in the World’s
Fair, and are working hard to make the
woman’s branch of it a splendid success.
An exhibit of bells will be made at the
World’s Fair by a large manufacturing con
cern in this country, aud the firm is plan
ning to display it in a reproduction of the
'Izar Kolokol (king of belB), the famous
broken bell cf Moscow, wniea is twenty-
two teet in diameter and twenty-one feet
three inches high, weighs 443,772 pounds,
and is used as a cdapel.
It is probable that a number of genuine
Astrakhan sheep, the finest specimens living,
will be exhibited at the World’s Fair, a
dozen of them have recently arrived in this
country from Persia, having been pur
chased there by United States Minister
Beale for Secretary Kusk.of the Department
of Agriculture, wno intends to try the ex
periment of raising the species in this coun
try.
Those who have been charged with the
preparation of the Turkish exhibit are mak
ing very extensive preparations to have it o.
tupenor merit and interest. They will char
ter a iarge ship to transport the exhibit.
They will bring over 459 native Turks ar
ray ei in their National costumes. They will
reproduce at Chicago a street in Constanti-
cople with all it* peculiar crookedness and
aarrowness and its interesting bazars and
restaurants. The bazars will 03 tilled with
inlabie articles or iurkish manufacture.
TELEPHONES PLENTIFUL.
The Profits of the Business Are Ovei
So.OOO.OOB Annually.
The Census Office has made a preliminary
report on operating telepihone companie-
during the year 1-9J, from which it appears
that there were fifty-three companies in
operation, being a decrease of ninety-
five since 18SJ. The total investment
is_ given at ?72.341,736, an increase
of $57,735,949 over 1889; gros? earnings,$10,
414,583; gross exoenses, $11,143,871; net
earnings, $5,269,712; number of exchange--,
1241; numbers of telephones and transmit
ters, 467,358; miles erf wire, 245,412; number
of emnloyes, 3645; number of subscribers,
227,357.
In accordance with an arrangement made
bj the late George W. Nes.uith.of Frank.in.
N. H., the exact spot on which stood the
house in which Daniel Webster was bornnas
been marked by a huge Ixuilder. By the
side of this has been erected a staff fifty feet
high, from wnich on pleasant days a flag of
large sire will float.
*
Padgett
WILL PAY
THEFREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW TIIA.T YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
Cooking Stoves,
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor
nice Poles,
BABY CAKRIAGES,
Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-i
tures, Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets, Chamber
Sets, Mattresses,
Comforts, Blankets
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same pree that you
buy them in Au
gusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
You need, and can quote
you prices that will sat
isfy you that I am giving
a dollar value for every
dollar paid.
Special Offer No. I.
To introduce my business in every
neighborhood in the quickest possible
manner, I will ship you one Bedroom
Suite complete, consisting of One Bed
stead, full size and high head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well
worth $20; but to introduce my goods
in your neighborhood at once I will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOE ONLY $16.50,
| When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, O^
Poplar, and all the popular wood
running in price from the cheapest up |
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
| pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in
slush in popular colors, crimson, olive,
slue, old gold, either in banded or in
I combination colors. This suite is sold j
for $40.00. I bought a large number of |
j them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago,
hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your I
nearest railroad depot, for $33.03. Be- [
j sides these suites 1 have a great many
other suites in all the latest shapes and |
■ styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge,' re-
| duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid.
Special Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, all
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $15.
Besides these I have the largest stock
of Cooking Stoves in tne city, includ
ing the gauze door stoves and ranges,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES
with patent wire gauze doors. I am j
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
freight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are far |
superior to any other stoves made. Full
particulars by mail.
109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
roll, $5.50 per roll. U“J > Cornice Polls,
25 cents each; 100 Window Shades,
3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigned,
at 37>£ cents each. You must pay |
your own freight on Cornice Poles,
Window Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything 1 have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be
sides its annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
J5f”I shall be pleased to send you
anything above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you will say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C.
tajUNo goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publisher of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augusta, cr to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc ;
L. F. PADGETT,
DYER BUILDING,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA,
Proprietor Padgett's Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.