Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Page 2

UlXlemotrotitSentincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - PPBU3HE&

WAS A RIDE TO DEATH.

THE SAD FATE OF A SLEIGHING PARTY. tFarren Springer Must Answer for Criinl--1 aal Negligence—Alarming Illness of Secretary Blaine—Arthur P. Gorman Returned to the Senate —Detroit Now Awake. The Lawmakers. The Chaplain had a somewhat larger audience of Senators on the 19th than usual. The first paper presented was a report from the Secretary of State (In reply to a Senate resolution) as to the Mexican awards under tho convention of 18G8. Secretary Blaine’s report Kives the full amount of the awards as ' #3,865,000, all of which had been paid by Mexico In fourteen annual Installments In •perfect accordance with the terms of tho convention. Theso hills were passed : Appropriating SIO,OOO for a Postofßco building at Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park; to aid South Dakota to support a school of mines at Rapid City, Pennington County; appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Hastings, Neb; appropriating $20,000 to Increase the accommodations of tho Marine Hospital at Detroit, Mich.; appropriating' •100,000 for a public building in Mansfield,O.; appropriating $250,000 for a public building at Norfolk, Neb. ; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Jacksonville, Ill.; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Fergus Falls, Minn.; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Zanesville, Ohio; consideration of tho Mexican award bill was resumed, and Mi;. Yost continued his argument against It. Mr. Morgan replied to Mr. Vest, and then the bill went over till the 20th without action. The enrolled House bill, fixing times of sessions of United States Courts in the Northern District of lowa, was signed by the Vice President, and is the first act of tbe present session to go to the President for his approval. In the House, nothing of Importance was done.

BLAINE A SICK MAN. Stricken at the Cabinet Meeting by Another Attack of Nausea. Secretary Blaine is again a very sick

he suffered early Uj January. GORMAN GETS IT. Has_ ( peon Ro-olecto<l United States Senator from Maryland. Hon. Arthur P. Gorman has been re-

electedUn ito d States Senator from Maryland. The memorial volume containing the names of the subscribers to the silver service presented to Senator Gorman by the citizens of Maryland wja s immediately presented to him up#n his re-election. The Inscription in the book reads, “To the Hon. Arthur P. Gorman, United States Senator, from Citizens of Maryland

ta honor of thoir appreciation of his services to tho nation and State during tho Fifty-flr3t Congress. Baltimore, May 14, 189 L"

‘ CRIME OP THE BOILERS. Iprtnger and Four Employes Deemed Criminally Itospouslblo. Enlightened or otherwise by the testimony of forty witnesses, the Coroner’s lory at Chicago, charged with the Inquiry as to the causes of and responsibility for the explosion of the boilers at the Springer Bolldlng, agreed upon its verdict.' Five men, Warren Springer, owner of building, and four of his employes, Edward B. Gallup, Charles Schroeder, W. If. Cartwright, and Martin Lyng, were deemed guilty of sriminul negligence In permitting the existence of conditions which led to the - explosion and killing of Henry Oswald. Elias H. Bttshv Arthur Hall, Patrick Rogers, and folia H. Lee St. Louis. Tragedy. At St. Louis, a four-horse sleigh load of twenty-one persons, members of the Clover Leaf Club, was struck by a Wabash westbound passenger train at the Wabash Railway crossing. The colored driver and seven of the party were instantly killed and ten *r eleven more or less seriously injured. Holy two escaped uninjured. The doad were taken to the morgue, while the Injured were brought In on the train and were taken to their homes. The crossing is a langerous one, being in rather a deep cut. fv ,1 Detroit Wants It, Too. ■ A party of fifty Detroit citizens have ttarted for Washington with a guarantee bond of $60,000 and a limitless supply of promises to present the claims of that city to the National Democratic Committee for the coming convention. The committee inzludes GoV. Wlnans. Mayor H. 8. Plngree, *x-Oongressmen Maybury and Tarsney, William E. Quinlan, Don M. Dickinson and fesse H. Farwell. p £ Another St. Louis Bridge. The construction of a new railroad bridge at St, Louis, the work to begin early In the •pring, has been determined upon, which Will give an avenue of entrance Into the tlty for eastern railroad lines which will largely dispense with the use of the Eads bridge and tunnel and the Merchants’ bridge, The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company is at the back tt the enterprise. BLOWN UP BY NATURAL GAS. A Private Residence at Lancaster, Ohio, Leveled to the Ground. A disastrous natural-gas explosion occurred at Lancaster, Ohio. The residence Bf Judge John 8. Brazee, a two-story brick on North Columbus street, was leveled to the ground. Judge Brazee was the only •oeupant injured. He was blown sixty feet across the street, where he was found unconscious. Windows were broken for several squares around, and an organ in an adjoining church was ruined. The shock waa felt for miles. The house and all Its contents were ruined. Loss, SOO,OOO. Faithful Unto Death. Amoa Bleb, of Yorktown, InA. accidentally shot himself while rabbit hunting. A full charge of shot entered his abdomen, bat death was not instantaneous, as he had taken off his overcoat and laid it on the snow for a rest for his bead before he died. When found, his faithful dog was standing by the body. Kissing Rights of a Pastor. Chaplain Morrow, of the Pittsburg Bethany Faith Home, has been lemoved for kissing and hugging the female attendant*. Mr. Morrow, It U said, was caught to the act oo one or two occasions by Üb» Mary

man. He was taken suddenly ill at the Cabinet council,and the Important business on hand was brought to a standstill forthwith. The great State Secretary was assisted to his carriage by Secrotary Elkins and driven to his home. The family physician wafl smn - [nioned at once, and [the report given out [was that Mr. Blaine's [illness was a recurrence of the attack of nausea from

BURNED TO A CRISP. Horrible Catastrophe on the Northern Pacific Railroad. A horrible accident oecurrod on the Northern Pacific Railroad at Jonesvllle, Minn., by which two women met death In horrible form, being burned to death, while twenty others were Injured. The train had on board the Andrews Opera Company, going from Duluth to Grand Forks, and was running at tho usual rate of speed, when It struck a broken rail. The sleeper loft the track and went down an embankment, landing bottom side up. The flames broke out from all sides of tho car immediately and burned so rapidly that tho crew could do nothing but extricate tbe passengers from the wreck. When It was thought all Trad been rescued a search revealed the fact that Mrs. Ed Andrews, wife of the proprietor of the troupe, and her nurse, Mrs. Lilly Wallace, were missing. When the flames were finally subdued the remains were discovered, but so badly burned that It was Impossible to Identify ono from the other. Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Wallace had occupied an upper berth at the forward end of the car and were wrapped in tho bedclothes. There was no outcry from this berth while the work of rescuing the Injured was progressing, and it is supposed that both occupants were killeC Instantly. WRECK ON THE OMAHA. The St. Paul Express Lands In a Ditch Near Black River Falls. Passenger train No. 3, on the Northwestern and Omaha Road, was wrecked at Shephard’s switch, six miles east of Black River Falls, Wls., while running at tho rate of fifty miles an hour. The entire train, except tho engine and baggage, left tho rails. The sleeper, breaking loose from the train, left the roadbed, rolling Into tbe ditch upon Its side, the others remaining Intact. There • were nine persons In the sleeper, all of whom were injured, but none fatally, the injuries being confined to bruises, cuts and slight contusions. Tho accident was caused by the breaking of a switch rail as tho engine and baggage car passed over. The train was running to make up time, and owing to tho breaking loose of the sleeper the air brakes did not work, and the train was stopped by reversing the engine. It was probably one of the most fortunate accidents of its kind known, as all tho cars were well filled with passengers, and it Is regarded as almost miraculous that no lives were lost.

JUSTICE FIELD ANGRY. He Indignantly Denies tho Charge of Senator Power. “It is a falsehood, sir!” and the venerable face of Associate Justice Field, of tbe United States Supreme Court, lost Its kindly

expression. It was hard, stern and harsh. Ills habitually pleasant eyes blazed with indignation, says a Washington correspondent, his voice rang with anger ana tils body trembled with tho wrath of an , honest man stung by ' an infamous chargo. He referred to Senator Power’s chargo that ho, J ustlce Field, was lobbying to havo appointed ta v tho bench

STEPHEN J. FIELD.

men who would be of assistance to Western railroads. Surprise first came Into his face ns he read the charge; but surprise at once gave way to indignation, and then It was that In a voice that woke the echoes of his large library he exclaimed: “It is a falsehood,” TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF POWDER. Five Men Lose Their Lives In a Blow-Up at Kellogg, W. Vu. In the third and most disastrous oxplosion of the Phcenlx Powder Mill Company, at Kellogg, W. Va., five of the eight buildings that comprise the plant wcto totully demolished and at least live lives were lost, while two more now hang In the balance. It is not definitely known just how many wore killed, but five charred and blackenod bodies that lie In the Improvised morgue and the pile of mutilated limbs just opposite toll a terrible tale of deatlu yhe glaze mill went first, followed immediately by the two wheel mills, inaguzlne and corning mill. Not a single building yet stands that is not badly damaged. Fully 00,000 pounds Of powder went off, and tho plant that cost Ip the neighborhood of $150,000 is damaged at least two-thirds of that amount.

CURSE ON A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE. Devil’s Head In Colorado Excited Over Fires and Deaths by Poisoning. Devil’s Hoad, a little mountain village of.,Oolorado, far from any railroad, has a mystery. For two months the place has passed through a scourge of poisoning and fire, but Its great distance from other Inhabited portions of the Btate has prevented the facts from becoming known until now. On Thanksgiving nlglit Dan Ecker’s barn was set on firo and tho horses and cattle burned alive. Sinco then sevoral incendiary fires have occurred, and several people have been fatally poisoned; but no trace exists of the perpetrator. Devil’s Head sleeps In huge ombankments of snow most of tho year. About a hundrod mountaineers make their home there. HIGH WATER CAUSING TROUBLE. Rivers Are Heavy with Freshets and Clogged with Ice. At Chattanooga, Tenn., tho Tennessee river Is going up with a rush, having risen twenty feet In two days. The danger line, thirty-three feet, has been reached, and the rise since has been something more than two inches an hour. The Chamber of Commerce Issues a bulletin as a warning. Tho signal service observer says that but for the cold wave the tide would have gone to forty-five feet. At least $20,000 worth of logs let loose by a broken boom In the Little Tennessee river are on their way down. The freshet is due to heavy rains and snow In the mountains along tho Tennessee and its tributaries.

COASTING ACCIDENTS. Many Persons Hurt at Cadiz, Ohio, and Nashville, Tenn. The other night a terrible collision occurred at Cadiz, Ohio, between two bobsleds loaded with coasters in which several prominent young people were. badly hurt. The accident was caused by the pilot on one of the sleds falling to turn. At Nashville, Tenn., while a crowd of Nashville’s society people were coasting. Miss Mary Duncan was thrown from her seat and fatally Injured. One of the other occupants of the sled was seriously Injured internally, the- other riders escaping with slight bruises. GERMANS WERE DEFEATED. Chased by the Native Tribesmen to the Gates of the Tanga Station. The Cologne Gazette gives another account of tho reported German victory at Tango, in German Africa. The Gazette claims to know from a reliable source that the Germans were not victorious, and that the negro tribesmen defeated and chased them to the gates of the station, within which they were compelled to take refuge. The Gazette accuses the authorities of having concealed tho truth and deceived the public about the position. OKLAHOMA ROBBERS’ DEATH-TRAP. Startling Discovery In the Woods—Where the Missing Travelers Went. For years the disappearance of travelers 'hi the Indian country across the river from Chandler, O. T., has been frequent and mysterious Recently, In a dense wood a mile from, the stage road, a bouse was bund which was approached only by a tong, circuitous trail, and thereby the mys- , toriocs disappearances explained. Tim

house construction show* that It was built by and for the use of robbers and criminals generally. It is a cabin of four rooms, one behind the next. In the doorway between the first and second was found a trap over which the unwary stranger must pass. By an arrangement of bolts this trap, which led to a large cavern below, coiild be worked much like an execution scaffold. That murder was the purpose of the trap was shown by the discovery of hair, dried blood, and bones on the rocks at the bottom of the pits under the trap. Tho Inhabitants of the don, however, are missing. JEALOUS OF HIS WIFE. Colonel Davo Caldwell, of Fnlton, Ky., Shoots and Kills Harvey Hlsey, A sensational murder Is reported from Fulton, Ky. Harvey Hlsey, a well-known citizen of that place, was shot and killed by Colonel Dave Caldwell In a fit of jealous rage. Caldwell Is tho possessor of a handsome wife, of whom he is Insanely jealous. Recently he heard that Hlsey had attempted to flirt with her, and this angered him so that he immediately took a revolver and Bunted up Hlsey. He found his man at tho depot and "asked him to apologize. Hlsey refused, when Caldwell drew his gun and shot him dead. Caldwell is under arrest and his wife Is prostrated with grief. FIVE DISTRICTS FOR BLAINE. Philadelphia Delegates Chosen to Attend the Republican Convention. The five Congressional districts in Philadelphia elected Blaine delegates to the Republican national convention. There were only two antl-Rlalno candidates, and both were defeated. Resolutions wore adopted in each of the districts declaring that Republican sentiment is overwhelmingly In favor of Blaine as a presidential candidate and requesting that tho delegates vote foi him. His Head a Quarter-Mile Away. A locomotive of tho Debardoleben Coal and Iron Company, en route from tho Eureka mines to Oxmoor, Ala. eight mllos south of Birmingham, blew up, Instantly killing Engineer Joseph Hunt and Fireman Bradford. Their bodies were blown Intc fragments. Tho engine was totally wrecked, the track torn up and a large hole dug In tho ground. The head of the dead onglnoer was found about a quarter of a mile from tho scene of the explosion. The disaster was caused by the water getting too low in tho boiler.

Identified as a Murderer. Carl Schmidt, who confessed while drunk In Denver tfiat. ho helped murder Mrs. Greenwood in Napa County, California, was taken to tho scene of the crlma He was Identified by Captain Greenwood, the husband of the murdered woman, from among a score of men. Sheriff McKenzie, who has worked on the case for eleven months, has a clue to the other murderer and hopes to hang thorn both. The crime was inspired by hope of plunder, and Captain Greenwood wus left for dead by the side of his wife, but he recovered. Frozen to Death, John Hamnor, accompanied by a negro, loft Tuscaloosa, Ala., In a skiff to hunt up cattle on Warrior River. Nothing was heard from them, and a searching party went down the river in a skiff. Hamner’s dog was found curled up on a log almost frozon to death. Near by was the skiff and further on was Hamner's dead body in a kneeling attitude by a 1 g. It was partly devoured by wood rats. Will Elkins Run for Governor? Tho recent recognition of tho Republican State Committee at Wheeling, W. Va., is said to have been in favor of Stephen B. Elkins as a possible candidate for Governor noxt year. The sentiment In favor of his nomination Is growing among Republicans all over the State. _« Wreck of a Fast Mall Train. At Newton, Kan., tho fast niftil on the Santa Fo was wrecked. A switch rod broke as tho engine passed. The baggage and smoking cars left the track but remained up all right. Tho passengers hardly realized that a wreck had taken place. Twenty Years In Prison. Patrick Quinn, Stephen CrOtty, Thomas O’Brien, and Fred Bulb, four of the seven young toughs who so brutally assaulted the young Polish girl, Sophia Samojedna. at Buffalo, wore sentenced to twenty years In State prison. Opposed to the Trust. The wholesale grocers of' St. Louis, Mo., are preparing to buck tho great Amerlcau Biscuit and Manufacturing Company’s trust. A company Is now being organized with a capital of $50,000 to build a factory. Gov. Chase Preached, Gov. Ira Chnso«and his private secretary visited the penlteniary at Michigan Cty, Ind. Tho Governor preached to the convicts at chapel services, and later listened to convicts begging him for pardon. Mr. Cleveland Goes Fishing. Ex-Presldont Cleveland passed through Atlanta, Ga., on his way to f Joseph Jefferson’s plantation In Louisiana, and will join the comedian in a hunting and fishing expedition. Eight Persons Killed. Tho boilers at the Kellogg lumber mills exploded at Ceredo, W. Va. So far as Is known eight persons are dead. Randolph Rogers Dead. Randolph Rogeirs, the distinguished American sculptor, died In Rome of pneumonia.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime...., $3.50 @6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.60 @ 4.50 Sheep—Fair to Choloe 3.00 6.50 Whkat-No. 2 Bed 84)6 til .85}$ C BN—No. 2 38 @ ,39 Oats—No. 2 28, 1 4@ .2954 Bye—No. 2 82 ® .83 Buiteb—Choice Creamery...... .28 @ .30 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 @ .13 Eggs—Fresh 22 tgi .23 Potatoes —Car-loads, por bn 30 @ .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3,23 @ 5.25 Hogs —Choice Light 3.50 @ 425 Sheep—Common to Prime S.OO & 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 9014:4 .9154 OoBN—No. 1 White 40 ,4 ,41 Oats—No. 2 White ' 32 @ 33 ST. LOUIS. Cattie..„ 853 @4.50 Hcos 8.50 & 4.23 Wheat-No. 2 Bed 80 0 .88 Cohn—No. 2 38 .37 Oats—No. 2 .21 @ .31 Bye—No. 2 82 .83 CINCINNATI. Cattle 5.50 @5.00 Hogs , 3.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 94 @ .96 Cohn—No. 2 42 @ .44 Oats-No. 2 Mixed 34 @ .33 DETROIT. cattle .> 300 @5.00 Hogs 300 @ 4.25 sheep 8.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 9154(4 .9254 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 40 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 White 84 a .35 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 89 @ .90 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow ; .40 @ .41 Oats—No, 2 White 32 @ .34 Btb 87 & .89 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 4.C0 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @4.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard LOl 0 1.02 Cohn—No. 2 51 <a .57 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83 @ .85 Cobn—No. 2 87 & .89 Oats—No. 2 White 32 0 .38 Rye—No. 1 83 @ .84 Barley—No. 2 , 57 9 59 Pobx—Mess 11 25 @11.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 5.40 @ 4.75 Hogb» s.OO 0 4.66 Sheep 3.G0 @ 9,0) Wheat—No. 2 Bed i.oi s* 1.08 Cobn-No 8 515 A« 5254 Oats—Mixed Western 36 « .38 Butte*-Creamery 91 a .39 PoBX-ltese . 9.7$ @10.71

WAS FOLD OF HORROR.

PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER ON THE MONON. Section Men Charge that They Had Vainly Applied for a Kali—Caring for the Dead and Wounded—Agents Settling with Victims—Statement of Officials—Services of a Heroine. Many Are Maimed. In all truth the officials of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Bailroad Company have said that the disaster which overtook their northbound passenger train north of Crawfordsvllle, Ind., was the Worst in the history of the road. The Monon has had its share of misfortunes. There were more fatalities at Broad Hippie and at other wrecks on that line, but none exceeded the Crawfordsville affair in horror, or in wholesale maiming, as the stories heard and the investigations made at the scene of the accident go to show. Three victims are In the list of fatalities so far. They are Mme. Erina Van Kokay, the danseuse of the City Club Burlesque Company; Ben Hamburg, the Cincinnati traveling man; and C. N. Cheek, lumber merohant, of Green Castle. Nellie Hanley of the show company, Mrs. Bosa Evans of Green Castle, and E. Whitesides, three of the thirty-four maimed victims, will die. In Crawfordsvllle the wreck caused great excitement. Feeling was strong against the section men, who were reported to have left the rail which caused the wreck insecurely spiked to the track. But there came a change of sentiment when Samuel Burkholder, a respected citizen, reported that In a conversation with ono of the section men he had been told that the rail which caused all the trouble had been broken for a long time, and that the section men hud applied in vain to the company for a new rail. It was refused, sp the section man said, on the ground that the whole line was soon to be supplied with new steel rails.

The accident occurred at a place that is one of the most dangerous points in the Monon system. A mile and a half north of Crawfordsvllle the track crosses a deep ravine on a trestle some forty feet high. After crossing the ravine the roadbed winds around a hill, and follows the bends of the hollow for some distance, the traok being for the most part cut out of tho steep side of the ravine. Just north of the trestle there is a point especially precipitous, and it was chosen by the fates for the scene of the disaster.

A hundred yards before reaching the steepest point the train struck a broken rail. The engine passed over safely, but the first car, a mail coach, was derailed. The ears broke loose from each other, but followed the ties until that awful declivity was reached. The mail

car turned endwise and rolled down the hill. The second car, a combination coach, carrying the baggage of the theatrical company, stayed right where it was on the track, not even leaving tho ties. The smoking car fell on its side and started down the hill.' Three times tho car turned completely over. The brakeman was fixing the fire at the time the car left the tracks, and, the stove-door being open, the live coals flew everywhere among the many passengers. The car was set on fire in many places, and the flames burned the frightened occupants. The car was not broken much, however, and all those in the car escaped by breaking through the windows before any were fatally burned. Some painful bruises resulted, however, to the people in the car, as they were thrown from floor to ceiling and from ceiling to floor with each turn It made. The car was consumed by the flames after all the passengers had gotten out. Next to the smoker was the ladies’ car, and In it the greatest mischief was done. As it started to roll down the steep decline, as the smoker had done before it, it found a harder road to travel. Directly in it path was the broken, jagged stump of a tree. The side of the car struck this with terrific force, and the Sharp, firmly set timber piercing the side instantly killed Mme. Van Bokey and Ben Hamburg. Both victims were mangled in a frightful way and what was left of tho drummer was partly car-

CHAIR-CAR AND LADIES’ CAR FROM BELOW.

ried away in a basket and the rest brought on a stretcher. The other occupants of the car were Just realizing that something awful had lappened and to feel their own injuries when the car came to a stop against a large sycamore. A moment later down came the last car, a heavy Pullman coach, with an awful crash, settling down almost squarely on the ladies’ car, crushing the top clear off and exposing the already injured passengers to still greater danger. For an Instant after the cars had settled nothing was heard save the crackling flames that were consuming the splintered coaches. Then the engineer blew an appealing blast for help, and the screams and moans of the wounded Bounded forth from the wreckage piteously. One of the victims, bleeding from many cuts, climbed the hill and started toward Crawfordsville, calling loudly for help. Farmers and men cutting Ice in a stream near the wreck hurried to the rescue. The disaster developed a heroine. Miss Helen Watson, formerly of Louisville, daughter of H. 8. Watson, local agent of the road at Crawsfordsville, who helps her father at the depot, was one of Hie first to hear the alarm. She hurried to the scene, running the entire two miles, and, being thvo»sly woman unhurt, she was of infinitstUmvioe, giving her cloak to one helplestfsufferer, soothing otfeaca, and WHKking

tho cold blasts as hard as any man. The dead and wounded were carried to Crawfordsvile and cared for. The people of the town offered many gentle services. Another costly and almost equally horrible accident came near filling out a day of misfortune for the Monon. Just before midnight the wrecking-train pulled into Crawfordsville from the scene of the day’s disaster. Nine men were sleeping in the caboose of the wrecking-train, .at the station, which was lying on the main track, when suddenly around the curve came a -through freight at full speed with twenty-five cars heavily loaded. The last three cars of the wrecking train wero completely demolished, and some barrels of oil assisted in making a terrible conflagration. But no one was hurt. Agents of the road appeared in the city soon after the accident and were busy settling claims for cash where they could, and refusing to settle where the passengers were unreasonable in their demands. Claim Agent Houston had a

LOOKING DOWN THE EMBANKMENT.

satchel full of greenbacks which he distributed in lots of $lO to SIOO. All affirmed that there was no defect in the road or roadbed. “There are many things about this wreck I don’t understand,” said Mr. Kretzinger. “The roadbed was in just as good condition as it possibly could be. As a proof of this, I might say that the roadbed was that firm that in the whole hundred yards of track that was dragged over by the trucks after the cars left the track, and before they fell down tho hill, not a single tie was disturbed from its place, so firmly are they laid and so perfect is the ballasting. ” “The Wreck,” said General Superintendent Collins, “was tho result of a broken rail, but how the rail was broken I do not know. I have not 6een the pieces, to know whether the rail was defective or whether it was the work of frost. The rails were of the best of steel, and I think frost did the work. I do not see that it could possibly have been avoided by any precautionary measures. It’s just what would have happened on any road, but it occurred on about the worst spot on the whole line, and it is a wonder to me that there were so few fatalities. In my thirty

BURNING OF THE BAGGAGE-CAR.

years of railroading I never saw a worse wreck.”

CHASE OF THE WALRUS.

Hunted for Its Otl, Which Is Inferior to the Whale’s. The oil of the walrus is the principal result of its chase, hut this oil is inferior to that derived from seals, and less in quantity in proportion to the creature’s bulk, the largest felt dom yielding over 500 pounds, writes Ernest Ingersoll, in Frank Leslie’s. It is useful for the same purpose as whale oil, and the most of it goes, presumably, to adulterate the better product. *No statistics are at hand, but the amount taken must still be very considerable, since all whaling vessels go prepared to save such walruses as they come across. They have special boats for the chase of the sea horse.

The hide is little valued at present in Ameriea, almost its only use being as a covering for polishing wheels and as chafing gear on shipboard. Anciently this was the material out of which the English made their ships’ cables, and Othere sailed away to the arctic seas, in the time of King Alfred, for the purpose of bringing back this necessary adjunct to the King’s vessels. In Europe the hide finds a market in Russia, where it is tanned into a spongy leather, principally devoted to harnessmaking. Formerly this supply was largely derived by Russia from Siberia and Alaska. “As long as the weather remained cold and dry the wear of this material was highly satisfactory, but Noe to the ‘ Kibitscha ’ if caught in a rainstorm. The walrus harness then stretches like India rubber, and the SStees fairly leave the vehicle far behind sticking in the mud, though the traces are unbroken. ”

I saw a beautiful little girl being fitted to gloves in a very swell glove shop one day last week. She had eyes of turquoise, hair like spun gold, a complexion as delicate as the leaf of a rose, and had seen about six summers, perhaps not quite so many winters. She was surveying her plump little hands, which had just been incased in tan-colored gloves. With a comical look of dismay she said: “I don’t want ’em; I don’t lite ’em. I tan’t wiggle my finders.” Her mother, a fashionably dressed woman, replied: “Well, you’ve got to wear them. You can’t be running about the streets barehanded. It is not good form.” And then they walked away, the maiden still protesting that she could not put her “finders” in her “potit.” No doubt in a few years little Miss Blue Eyes will have developed into a fashionable young woman who lives in gloves, but it will be an acquired taste. Everybody wears gloves, but few like the custom. The latentsavage lingering in us calls out for perfect freedom of hand and wrist.—New York Recorder. Wrong doing begins with wrong thinking. Sit mce is gal dan for a fool’s tongue

Who Could Blame Her.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At tile Nation’* Capital—What I* Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Hatters Disposed Or and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. In the House on the 13th, Mr. Holman presented a resolution opposing the granting of subsidies or bounties by Congress in money, public moneys, bonds, or by pledge of the public credit to promote special private Industries or enterprises. Considerable confusion succeeded the reading of the resolution! but, without giving time for debate, Mr. liolman demanded the previous question on its adoption. “Will debate be in order after the previous question is ordered on this resolution?” inquired Mr. Henderson, of lowa. “The Speaker is of the opinion that debate would not then be in order,” replied Speaker' Pro Tem. McMi lan. “And this House will cease to he a deliberative body,” added Mr. Ileed, of Maine. The repetition of the charge which had so frequently been hurled against himself caused the House. Democrats and Republicans, to break into a roar of laughter. The yeas and nays on the previous question were demanded and resulted—yeas. 154; nays, 80. When the vote was announced Mr. Holman asked unanimous consent that an hour's debate on each side be allowed. Mr. Reed wanted two hours on a side, and to. this Mr. Holmau consented. Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, asked if this arrangement included two hours for the People’s party as well as the Republican and Democratic parties. In the Senate the time was taken up by the introduction of bills

In the House on’ the 14th the session was consumed in debate on the Holman resolution, which in substance declares that Congress in its appropriations shall be strictly limited to the moneys necessary to carry on the several departments of the Government. The Senate took up the calendar, the first bill on it boing one to aid the State of Colorado to support the’ school of mines. It appropriates 25 per cent, of all moneys paid to the United States for mineral lands in Colorado for the maintenance of the school of mines established at Golden. Mr. Teller moved to amend the bill by making the percentage 50 instead of 25. Agreed to and tho bill was passed. Other bills passed as follows: Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Chamberlain, in Brule County, and Lyman County, South Dakota. Appropriating 5300.000 for the purchase of ground and the erection thereon in the city of Washington of a building to bo used as a hall of records. Adjourned till the 18th. On the 15th, the debate was continued in tho House on the Holman resolution. After exciting debate the resolution was adopted without amendment. It Is known as the anti-subsidy resolution. The House then took up the reports of the Committee on Accounts assigning clerks to the various committees of the House. After debate the minority substitute, providing for twenty-four clerks, was defeated—yeas, 84; nays, 164—and tho majority report, which provides for thirty - seven clerks, was agreed to. Mr. Fyan,' of Missouri, who has been absent on account of sickness, was then sworn in, but his health was so feeble that he was obliged to take the oath of office from’ his seat. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, introduced a bill amending the Presidential succession act so as to add the office of Secretary of Agriculture after that of Secretary of the Interior. No business in the Senate. Both houses adjourned until the 18th. There were six Senators on the Democratic side and about twice that number on the Republican side when the Chaplain opened with prayer the seventh week of the session on the 18th. Mr. Sherman, for the first time since his reelection occupied his seat. The House hill fixing the time for holding District and Circuit Courts of the United States in the Northern District of lowa was reportod by Mr. Wilson from the Judiciary Committee and was passed. A bill was reported and placed on the calendar to pay the Stato of West Virginia its proportion of the amount claimed under the’dlrect tax. The rest of the session was consumed In a discussion of the La Abra claims. The World’s Fair question was the first subject to receive the attention of the House. Mr. Reilly, of Pennsylvania, presented a resolution requesting the Secretary of tho Treasury to inform the House of Representatives what amount of money has been appropriated and available under the act of Oct 25, 1800. relating to the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and about what amount of the money appropriated had already been expended. The resolution was adopted by acclamation. A moment later Chairman Durborow introduced and asked for tho immediate consideration of resolutions authorizing the selection of the Committee on the World’s Fair to have printed such documents and papors as It may deem necessary relative to the matters referred to It Mr. Hulman and Mr. Oates of Alabama joined In the protest against granting to the World’s Fair Committee such unlimited powers of incurring expenses. Upon these objections the resolutions were referred to the committee. After Introduction of bills, adjournment was taken.

This and That.

Russell Sage has the reputation of being a most abstemious man There are eighty anti-vaccination leagues in England and Scotland. Hermann, the Cannes perfumer, uses twenty tons of violets every year. Francis Murphy is the most efiectivo opposition the Keeley institutes have. Two hundred and forty-nine mail trains arrive at and leave Chicago every day. It is said that the clove importers are organizing against the new odorless whisky. A restaurant-keeper says celery wants to lie in cold water an hour before it is chewed. An alloy of 78 per cent of gold and 23 per cent, of aluminum is the most brilliant known. England and Ireland together drank 42,000,000 gallons more beer than Germany last year. To get rid of soft corns apply cotton wool soaked in castor oil. Bind it on with a piece of soft linen. Never sit on a damo cushion, moist ground, or a marble or stone step, if you wish to avoid a sore throat. Recent experiments show that with proper appliances ordinary gaslight can be used in taking photographs. Divers notice that when fish are frightened each variety seeks the shelter of the submarine growth nearest in color to the fish. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges the refuse from the kitchen is thoroughly dried, converted into charcoal, and used as fuel. The use of the electric light has been found materially to reduce the amount of illness in factories which had previously used gas or oil for lighting. The largest gasometer, in the world is now being built for a London co npany. Its diameter will be 300 feet, and the height 180. Its capacity will be 12,000,000 cubic feet, and weight 2,220 tons. It will take 1,200 tons of coal to fill It with gas. Caught on the Fly. The greatest prayer is patience. Silence Is golden for a fool’s tongne. The mantle of earth is its land’s-cape. It is easier to blame than to do better. Hope is the dream of those who are awake. A haunted tavern is the home of an Inn-specter. It is the gin-phiz that Indicates the confirmed toper. When hope dies the devil adds another scalp to his belt Monstrosities find freak quarters in the dime musemu. “Time is money, * said a poor fellow as he pawned a dock.

ALBERT VICTOR DEAD.

HEIR TO THE BRITISH THRONE PASSES AWAY. Great Excitement Shown by All Classes— Sympathy Being Extended All Sources—Scenes at Sandringham—Cardinal Hanning Also Is No Hore. Death of a Dolce. His Royal Highness, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and heir to the Brit- • ish throne, Is dead. His death was caused by congestion of the lungs, brought about by a severe cold contracted while hunting. The Duke of Clarence was a member of a party which was shooting over some eovers Situated a long distance from Sandringham Hall. At luncheon he complained of not feeling as well as usual, was seen to shiver, and said that he felt that he was taking cold, but after the meal he continued shooting. At the conclusion of the sport he walked home instead of driving with the rest of the party. That evening he dined with the assembled

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company, but was obliged to retire early. On the following day efforts were made to dissuade him from joining the shooting party, but he insisted on doing so, saying that he felt equal to the exercise. After luncheon, however, he said that he felt compelled to return home and left the party, going on foot. The next morning he was unable to leave his bed, and continued growing rapidly worse until the seventh day, when death came to him. London and all England is wild with excitement, and business is entirely suspended. It is characteristio of the deep affection felt by the entire British people for the Princess of Wales that the most sincere and heartfelt expressions of sorrow are heard on every hand and a deep feeling of sympathy pervades every class of society from the highest to the lowest and every shade of political opinion from the Tory to the Radical. In the vicinity of Sandringham, where the Duke’s death occurred,, the excitement cannot be described.

CARDINAL MANNING.

The Noted Catholic Divine Passes to the Beyond.

Cardinal Manning, who, as was announced from London, was suffering from a severe cold, had the last sacrament of the church administered to him and soon after expired. It is now fourteen years since the distinguished churchman was invested with the cardinal’s hat, and forty years sincehe left the Established church, in which he had won high honors, for the Roman communion. He has in an - eminent degree earned the love of the working people of England by the interest he has al-

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ways taken in their welfare, and in the last few years he has been instrumental •in adjusting a number of Berious differences between the industrial classes and their employers. He has also been active in temperance and other, reform works. I As a clergyman of the English Church, Dr. Manning officiated as one of the select preachers of the University of Oxford as long ago as 1834, and in 1840 was made Archdeacon of Chichester. After transferring his ecclesiastical allegiance to Rome, Dr. Manning founded a religoub order at Bayswater, entitled the Obiates of St. Charles Borromeo. He succeeded Cttrdtttal Wiseman as Archbishop of Westminster in 1865.

About Men and Women.

The EarJ of Dudley has 56,000,000 life insurance. New York has .5,000 union female hotel hands. Only one American In 264 is over 6 feet In height The real giant is the man who can overcome himself. A man’s declining years begin at 50, a woman’s fiom 15 to 18. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. If a woman’s face Is her- fortune, a man's cheek is frequently his. Bishop Butler, of England, believed in the immortality of animals. The girl who has the strongest will ia the girl who says the strongest won’t It is mentioned as a peculiarity of the grass widow that she is seldom green. Some bell-boys in New York hotels make, through tips, abouts2oo a month. Conscience Is that within us which tells U 3 when our neighbors are doing wrong. A mother-in-law’s sermon seldom take well with an audience of daughters-in-law. A woman of Parkersburg, W. Va., has her eighth husband. She is 50 and he is 61. Queen Victoria has engaged two ho- • tels at Nice for herself and suite in March next One reason why a man’s stockings cost less than his wife’s is because they do not come so high. Bishop Brooks is a very rapid talker and a terror to stenographers He speaks over 300 words a minute. Earth has no other joy like unto that of the woman who has made eighteen calls and found everybody out. ' Dr. Nelson, the newly elected Bishop of Georgia, is fond of wood-carving, at which he has become an expert