Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 March 1895 — Page 3
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BELT.
Office with D. W. King, ft est Man. Street, Greenfield, Ind.
Practice limited to diseases of the
NOSE, THROAT, EYE and EAR,
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L. B. GRIFFW, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
All calls answered promptly. Office and rt« leuceNo. SS Wast Main St., (ouc-Iiaif west, of postotiiee) Green field, Ind. 33-18-17
DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD,
IIOMEOPA1IIIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Otrice at 2oj. W. Maiu street, ovei Early's drag store. Prompt attention to calls in city o' country.
Special attention to Childreue, Womeus' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childreus Hospital.
C. W. MORRISON 4 SON,
UNDERTAKERS.
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Greenfield, Indiana.
ELMER J. BINFORD,
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URIAH GfiRRIS
1G. MUSIC.
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West Maiu St., Greeufield.
Are You Reading
Those Interesting Monographs on
Napoleon
BY
John Clark Ridpath
IN THIS PAPER?
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The Greatest Warrior
Described by pne of
The Greatest Historians
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MEW YORK ACCIDENTS
Two Buildings Collapse With Disastrous Results.
ONE OLD THE OTHER NEW.
Jfive Men Killed and Nineteen Others Seri
ously Injured, Some of Them Fatally.
3liraculous Escape of a Number of
Others Names of the Victims—Details
of the Disasters.
NEW YORK, March 2.—Twobuildings, one in course of construction and one in course of demolition, fell and killed five men and fatally injured or maimed or bruised 19 others. The first accident occurred about 9:80 in the morning. A house at the corner of Forty-third street and Tenth avenue was being torn down by some 40 laborers, and fell with a crash, carrying several workmen to the basement, three tioors below, where tliey were almost completely covered by tons of bricks, (by mortar and iron beams.
T:IE DKAD.
Hugh ('alien. Angelo Vicor. John O'Connor. James Malloy.
Till-: IXJUHED.
Pat Cm-ran. Thomas McConnois. Edward Meaney. M. K. Keiley. Louis Stein. Felix JliUMit. Charles Bobson. Bobson received serious inrernal injuries and may not recover. The others are not dangerously injured, and are reported as doing well at the Roosevelt and Bellovue hospitals.
The building, which is an old one, tad been used as a malthouse by A. E. & S. Seheyer for the past 30 years, but it has been unoccupied for more than two years. It was eight stories high, and ran back about 60 feet on West Fortythird street. Men were tearing down the old structure under the direction of Contractors O'Keefe and Keegan. The work liad gone on successfully until the men had got down as far as the rear of the third floor known as the old kilnhouse.
There were about 18 men on the floor at the hour mentioned, when suddenly there was a rumbling noise and the building rocked as if shaken by an earthquake. In another moment tho floor gave way and fell with its human freight to the basement carrying the other floors with it. In an instant every person in tlie neighborhood, which is filled with tenement houses, felt that something awful had occurred and men, women and children ran distractedly in all directions. Some of the cooler heads turned in the fire alarms and ambulance calls, which were quickly responded to.
Assisted by some laborers, who hrri fortunately escaped, and many willing citizens, the firemen began the work of rescue. It was a hard and very dangerous task, as the walls were tottering and the remaining flooring and beams overhead threatened to topple down every moment. Besides, the rescuers had to be very cautious, fearing chat the slightest carelessness on their part might end the lives of some of the injured, whose groans and cries for help came from all directions underneath the tons of debris from which heads, arms and logs projected.
At y:".) Jolm O'Connor was brought out, but he died in the ambulance on the way to Roosevelt hospital. Half an hour later the dead bodies of Cullen and Vicor were extricated and they were removed to the police station. The rescuers worked desperately and by 12 o'clock every one of the laborers had been accounted for.
Contractors George O'Keefe and Patrick Keegan were placed under arrest, but were later admitted to bail by the coroner.
The second accident occurred about 3:35 o'clock in the afternoon. Without the slightest sound that might have warned the 50 men that worked near it, the central wall to the four double tenement houses being erected at 151 to 157 Orchard street, crumbled and fell. With the
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went portions of four
floors, leaving a great rent 50 feet long and 80 feet wide in the center of the buildings. It was like a pit, at the bottom of which was a mass of tangled iron and broken wood, covered many men. From that heap, in an hour, had been taken out one man dead and 12 injured.
THE DEAD: 'I
John Wilson. THE INJURED: William Wilkinson, back broken. Frank Thornton, badly injured. John Thornton, bodily injuries.
Gloria, both legs broken. Thomas Wilson, head injured. George Gamble, both legs broken. Joseph Barbara, left leg broken. Frank Barbara, back injured. Joseph Mesire, head injured. Patrick Flaherty, leg injured. Patrick Malloy, back injured. William Malloy, arms bruised. Abraham Levy, with three or four other men, got into the building and dragged out three men who were only lightly held down by the bits of wood. The second man carried out was John Wilson. It could be seen that he was badly hurt. He only spoke once, when he said: "Do not tell my brother I am hurt." His brother was lying beside him when he spoke. The secOty} brother turned to look at tho one who had 8poken, -and ae he turned John gasped once and was dead.
TUere were 50 men working on the buildings. They were to be seven stories high, of which four steries had already been raised. Most of the men wore on the fourth floor of the house No. 166. Between the front and rear of the house was a big party wall, along the side of which ran a narrow light shaft. It was the party wall that crumbled. In a heap tho men went down with the falling floor. One of the bricklayers, Michael Luscles, was near a window toward the front of the house. Ho had just time, as the floor sank beneath him, to clutch at a window sash, and was left clinging to the frail support four storios above the ground. He managed to orawl up so as to nit on the window sill, from which position lie was afterward rescued by the firemev.
Anthony Kiiin of Williamsburg fell the four sjwjviea, but escaped without even a scratch. He say a he was corned
down gently and thrown through one of the front doors into the street. The cries of the imprisoned men could be heard on every side when the firemen came. Alarms were sent at once for additional firemen to begin removing timbers. Ten of the 12 men who were rescued early were got out with little trouble. Joseph Barbara, who escaped with only a broken leg, must have escaped death by a narrow margin. He fell behind a wall, and was covered by 10 feet of bricks and plastering. But some of the wooden beams formed an enclosure about him, and the firemen heard his cries for help. It was half an hour before they could get anywhere near him. All the time they dug the man's father, Tony Barbara, worked frantically, crying loudly all the time.
The contractors are John Coonies of Astoria and Peter C. Cleaves. The owner is William F. Loniion, all of win were arrested.
Captain Cartwright said he had made a careful examination of the building and said it was a surprise to him t-liat the house had stood as long as it did. Tho mortar, he said, had been examined by an expert and is pronounced worthless. It was of the weakest sort. It was also said that the bricks were of a poor quality, that the beams were not properly supported and that the iron girders were not on stone in the walls as they should be. At the station, bail for the arrested men was refused.
The police tried to find Building Inspector Timothy J. Ormsby to learn from him why he had iM»t reported the flimsy character of the building. They were not able to find him.
BROKEN AXLE.
Two Men Killed ami Another Badly Injured lii a liailroad Wreck.
BAYONNE, N. J., March 2'.—The breaking of an axle of a gondola attached to a coal train on the Central railroad of New Jersey caused a serious •wreck and the loss of two lives at For-ty-sixth street, this city, at 6:30 yesterday evening.
Engineer William H. Thomas was so badly injured that he died a short time after he was removed to the Bayonne hospital. Fireman Winfield Holland was instantly killed by being buried under the wreckage, and Harzy O'Rell, fireman, was badly injured, and was taken to the Bayonne hospital, where he is still alive.
The Royal Blue line express had left Jersey City westbound at 6:12 p. m., and when she reached here she ran parallel for some time with a coal train, consisting of 20 empty gondolas. The express was running at a high rate of speed and consisted of a locomotive, three passenger coaches, a sleeper and a combination smoker and baggagecar.
There are four tracks at this place, two used for passenger service and the other two for coal and freight traffic. While both trains were speeding along an axle of one of the gondolas suddenly snapped in two, throwing a number of the empty coalcars over onto the passenger tracks a few rods in front of the locomotive.
Before Engineer Thomas was able to pull back the throttle to stop it, his engine crashed into the gondolas. The locomotive was wrecked and the baggagecar ran up into the engine. The passenger coaches were thrown from the tracks, but were not overturned.
Horrible Death of l''our Children.
NASHVILLE, March 2.—A dispatch from Glenville, Ala., tells of the horrible death of four children on a plantation near that place. Tom and Dora Meadows left their children at home to attend a neighborhood dance. When they returned their cottage home was in ashes, and the charred remains of the little ones, the oldest of whom was 14, were found. It is supposed the house caught fire and the children were burned while asleep.
Itioters Sentenced.
SAVANNAH, March 2.—Eight more rioters were sentenced for 30 days in jail by the recorder yesterday. Their friends gave bond, and all the cases will go to the state courts. Slattery remains here awaiting the arrival of an A. P. A. organizer, who, it is understood, will lecture on the objects of that organization. Feeling is quieting down, but the arrival of the organizer is expected to arouse it again to some extent.
Not So Funny Now.
BUFFALO, March 2.—A doubly divorce case will probably be the sequel to a frolic indulged in bv two Rochester youths, Horace L. Cutler of the dental department and Lewis Baron of the medical department of the university of Buffalo. Two girls, who had accompanied the vouths, claim that during the frolic they were regularly married to them, produce marriage certificates and insist upon their rights as wives.
General McClernand Wora*.
SPRJNGFIKLD, Ills., March 2.—General John A. McClernand is again very low. Since the severe trouble with the carbuncle on his neck early in the winter he has been rather weak, and the present attack of the grippe has reduced his strength greatly. His physician reports his condition bad, and friends fear he will not recover General McClernand is now 83 years of age.
liurued Oat ud Fallvd.
MACON, March 2.—S. Waxelbaum St Son, wholesale dry goods merchants, whose establishment was recently burned out at a loss of $300,000, went into the hands of a receiver Friday. J. W. Cabaniss of the Exchange bank was appointed receiver.
Stilbm Indicted.
BROOKLYN, March 2.—The February grand jury handed 96 indictments in the court of sessions Friday against persons who in various ways ioterfered with or obstructed trolley curs during the recent strike. The indicted persons pleaded not guilty.
ChU Md Gold Benerre.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—Yesterday*! statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $178,197,588 gold reserve, 187,085,511.
Wilson Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The nomination of William L. Wilson of West I Virginia to be postmaster general has been confirmed by the senate.
Change.
BOISE CITY, ^*nrch 2.—The senatorial ballot yestero^y was without change. Shoup, 19 Swe^», 15 Claggett, 14.
Cold Storage Burn*.
PORTLAND, Or., March 2.—The Portland cold storage warehouse burned Friday. Loss, $76,000.
THE DEVIL'S POISON.
REV. MADISON C. PETERS PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO ALCOHOL.
Strong Drink Is Not Necessary For Man's
Well Being—Beer, Wine and Whisky
Drinkers Die Young—The Offspring of
Drunkards Inherit Mental Diseis»
That strong drink does not hoip men to endure continued cold we have the testimony of Dr Hayes, the arctic explorer, who did not use alcohol and Would not take any man with him who did.
That it does not help men to endure great heat we have the testimony from the middle of Africa. Dr. Livingstone said, "The most severe labors and privations may be undergone without alcoholic stimulants, because thoso of us who have em lured the most had nothing else than water, and not always enough of that.
Alcohol does not create a healthy con dition of the body The corpulency of beer and wine drinkers seldom continues to old age. First the legs, then the shoulders, give way, and finally the whole body becomes loose and flabby A general corpulence of the body is not a healthy state, but the reverse. No animal in the state of nature exhibits any considerable deposit of fat. Animals are fattened only for the slaughter Certain classes of men have the appearance of great bodily vigor, notwithstanding the habitual u«o of liquor, and undergo great muscular exertion, but the constitutions of such men break down before they are adv %ccd in years. Diseases and injuries of the most trifling character are often very serious, the slightest scratch or bruise often causing a fatal attack of erysipelas, etc. Surgeons unwillingly perform operations on drinking men because the chance of recovery is so small.
The history of cholera and all epidemics shows that alcohol lessens the power to resist diseases and contributes to their fatality by impairing the ability to overcome them.
Stimulant from stimulus, "a spur or a goad," seemingly gives new strength and life for awhile, but it uses up the reservo forces which God gave to us for the emergencies of life.
Whisky is a Saxon word and means "water of life. Water of death would be better. Alcohol, from the Arabic alkahol, "something very subtle, is tho devil's most subtle poison for man's destruction. '^intoxication means poisoning. Tho condition of drnukenness in all of its stages is ono of poisoning Among tho first effects of this poisoning is an increase in the forco and raj/dity of the heart's contractions.
Drink a glass of whisky, audit passes into your blood, through your heart, into the lungs, and finally into tho brain. Every part of the body tries to refuse it admission, and so it hurries on, but leaves somewhat of itself behind, poisoning everything it touches. Its baneful influence remains. When the alcohol reaches the heart, it goads tho heart to greater work, and so the heart beats faster The normal condition of tho heart is 100,000 strokes a day, but an abnormal condition produced by the use of alcohol increases tho heart's work to 130,000 strokes a day This extra labor is very wearing upon the heart. Tho manifestation of this undue excitement of tho heart is felt in tho morning headache after last night's drunk. Alcohol kept the heart pumping all night when it should have been resting.
Drink and Longevity.
There cau be no doubt that tho use of alcoholic liquors shorteus life. No life I insurance company will accept a person who is known to bo intemperate, and if it is discovered after his death that he has been accustomed to the excessive use of alcoholic liquors, contrary to his statement, the policy is declared void.
The following table, prepaid from a series of careful observations made by Mr.
F.
G. Nelson of London con
trasts the "expectations of life" for temperate and intemperate persons.
Ages. ears. Years. 44.2 15.5 80 ae.5 13.8 40 2S.8 11.0 50 21.U 10.9 60 14.3 8.9
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irs.
k!S. 7 22.7 IT.2 10.3 6.4
The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles himself, but entails mental diseases upon his family His daughters are nervous and hysterical, his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric and liable to insanity. Dr. Willard Parker says, "Alcohol has no place in the health system, but is an instant poison, producing a diseased condition of body and mind.
Christ's Textbook.
Christ's textbook was everyday life. He spoke up to the times. He did not read off any dry theological abstractions. He spoke to the men who lived around him doing all kinds of mischief. We find him in the market places, in the streets where the people congregate We find him in all the activities of life. He lived in an age of corruption, and ho never shut his mouth concerning it. He never used language of diplomacy, of expediency, of policy. He called everything by its right name.
Table Prayer.
Table prayer is a plain, Christian duty. Our Lord always gave thanks before eating. So did the early Christiana So should wa It is one mark of a Christian family. It is confessing Christ before men. It is an easy duty. Who cannot say, "Dear Father, wo thank thee for our daily bread and pray thee bless it to our use?"
An Antidote For Frivolity. Culture is tho best antidote for frivolity. We hoar of dancing circles, etc. How many reading circles do the young women of high society maintain? Figures would present a sad commentary. Is it not sad that the feet should be educated at the expend of the head and heart? MADISON C. PETERS.
TO CARE FOR FURNITURE.
Old and Defaced Places May He Restored by a Little Patience.
Old furniture may bo made handsomer than new if much care is used. Scrape away every particle of the old varnish with an old case knife or a bit of glass, then use coarse sandp:: :er. Dust off well with a brush before applying new varnish. After this wipe with a soft rag. Now remove the article to another room where there is no disturbed dust. Never stain the wood. If you do not wish the polished surface, rub it down with rotten stone and oil to a dead satin or eggshell finish. Here is an excellent mixture for cleaning of old or new furniture: Pure raw linseed oil, a quart spirits of wine and vim-gar, half a pint of each butter of antimony, 2 ounces spirits of turpi ntine, half a pint. Shake well before using. Use a rubbing pad made by rolling up 2 inch strip of woolen cloth.
Several applications will bo needed for new furniture. Where the varnish has become old and tarnished dissolve 4 ounces best gum shellac in 2 pints of
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per cent alcohol. Add to this 2 pints raw linseed oil and a pint spirits of turpentine. When well mixed, add 4 ounces of sulphuric ether and 4 ounces of ammonia water. Mix thoroughly. Shako well before using and apply lightly with a sponge.
Foi mahogany that has first been scraped of:' and sandpapered smooth, apply a coat of furniture oil and let star.(I over night. In the morning hammer some fine red brick into powder, which put in a cotton stocking and sift over tin* work. Then wrap a square block of iron or wood in a piece of carpet and rub the brick dust powder with it, rubbing tho way of the grain of the wood, backward and forward, till a good gloss appears. If not sufficient, or if the grain remains at all rough, repeat the powdering, being careful not to sift on too much dust, as this and the oil should form a paste. When the surfaco is perfect, clean it off with a wad of carpet, and, if you can get it, some fino mahogany dust. The surface made by this process improves with wear.
How to Treat a Bruise.
There is nothing to compare with a tincture or strong infusion of capsicum annuum mixed with an equal bulk of mucilage or gum arabic and with the addition of a few drops of glycerin. This should be painted all over the bruised surface with, a camel's hair pencil and allowed to dry on, a second and third coating being applied as soon as tho first is (h-y. If done as soon as the injury is indicted, the treatment- w.ll invariably prevent- the blackening of tho abused tissue. The same remedy has no. equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff neck.,,,.
How to Make an .Kolian Ilarp.
Take some wood a quarter inch thick and make a box the length of a window frame, 5 inches deep and 7 inclu-s Vi ide. Now bore seme holes in a circle iv. :.r what will be the upper side of the back of the box. Put the box into the window and secure two bridges—just like fiddle bridges—one to each, end, stretching across strings of fino catgut, with tl help of strong screwing pins. Tune to one note. Then pull up the sash whi the wind is making itself known, ai: I the air passing over the string and through the holes will produce very charming and unexpected noundn of music. mi igi
Here is
another
and even moie si.
pie method. Take pieces of buttonhole twist and thoroughly wax them. Tie each end firmly to a peg and thrust the pegs down the crevices between the two sashes of your southern or western windows, stretching tho silk as tightly as possible. This second and very uncomplicated device is the means of bringing you equally sweet sounds of music as the first.
The early Greeks were the inventors of the ^Eolian harp, and there were few Athenian gardens without a tree among whose branches there was not slung a harp fashioned in these ways.
Ilow to Crystallize Grasses.
Place a saucepan partly filled with wafer on tho stove, and in it dissolve enough alum to make it of sufficient denI sity to bear an egg. Let this boil. Take off the saucepan and lay your grasses (dried and tied in bunches to suit the fancy) in the water When the water iff perfectly cold, lift out the bouquets, and you will find them a mass of beautiful crystal.
How Factory Girls of France Are Paid.
If the French were not ablo to mak© a fino soup out of a pair of chickens feet, they never could live on their earnings. In the shops and factories just out of Paris and Lyons girls get 12 ceuts a day. They will make a man's shirt tor 30 cents, a skirt for 20 cents, a petticoat for 10 cents, a night robe for 8 cents and a cloak for 15 ceuts.
A
girl without
a trade cannot live on what sho honestly earns at job work. Tho little girls who go from school to the dressmaking shops run errands, clean, sweep, dust and pack, pull bastings, seam skirt linings, stitch, pink and gather ballayenses, baste in belts, bustles and sachets andreceive from 20 cents to$l a week. Happily this salary is raised at tho rate ol 20 cents ovory month for three years, when the apprenticeship expires.
How to Cure Felons.
Put some hard wood ashes in an old tin cup, pour over them warm water, immerse the oud of the sore finger in tho ashos, set the dish on some live coal* or on tho top of tho stove, keeping th# fingor in as long as you can, and soak il several times a day. If taken in time, it generally cures a felon from coming, if tho finger is wet with it often.
How to Take a Sponge Bath, -fe
A
AiiTi
little tepid water should bo drawn into the tub, and in that the bather should stand. With soap or Salt, tepid water, a sponge or loofah, sho should scrub herself. The rinsing water should bo quite cold, and then a brisk rubbing down with a rough towel should follow.