Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — Page 2

pSPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ffF. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. ■||{U», . I INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

pfc*. Alice Petit, wife of Dr. Petit, livpi one mile from Greenville, Mo., was finned to death. Starting a fire in the mgk store, she poured oil on the fuel. The &ue ignited her clothing. She died in a ftoort time. . yr pCL Pereira! Stewart of New York, president of the American Investors’ ComJpnnj, mirrendered to the Syracuse anunder four indictments found Wains; him by the grand jury charging phu with grand larceny. He was admitted to $2,000 bail. K|*mes Nunley of Coal Bluff, Ind., re|turned from the Soldiers’ Home at LaYayelte a few weeks ago. He began |&riakiug. and at night set fire to the JlMMue and then cut his thrust and died. jffte attempted suicide once before after a Iguarrel with his wife. F After doing business sinre 1892 the PaijpwuwK Building and Trust Company of ■Pgdncah. Ky.. has assigned to K. G. ■Caldwell- The liabilities are $200,000 luid assets the same, largely in property, fffd verse court decisions and heavy depaands for withdrawals by stockholders jure given as the cause of the failure. MBadie B. Matthewson. 20 years old, was Sundered by Samuel Itoweus, 57 years laid. At Foster. R. I. Both were drunk. ■Owens knocked her down with an ax, Stabbed her twice, and then, pouring kerjaaene oil over her. set her on tire while f«he was still breathing. Her hwly was fbarnrd to a crisp. I la a dingy, stuffy room in St. I<ouis i Officer Hanrahan found in a dirty trunk 'lul a valise over $15,000 in Government (bonds. gold and bills. The police think Ithis fortune is the property of Mrs. Wulfberger Wackerle, an aged German wom<an, who is now a patient at the city injaane asylum. 1 Fully 05 per cent of the zinc mines in (the Missouri-Kansas district have l>ecn .dosed down, in accordance with the reiquest of the Zinz Miners’ Association, food it is thought the remaining plants |will be idle in a few days. The smelters fwie now paying the association schedule •to get ore. It Is generally believed that |the mines will be iu full operation again •in a few weeks, and the fight between {the smelting trust and the ore producers 1 wiU he nettled. j Mrs. Margaret Woegler of Chicago died (from burns. At 2 o'clock in the morning Iker husband was awakened, hearing her Jpereaming with pain. He ran to her room laud found her lying on the floor with her A dress on fire. He extinguished the flames, f but his wife was burned so badly that she died within a few hours. It is supposed I that Mrs. Woegler dropped a lighted match in her clothing while lighting the I gas. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict 1 Of accidental death. 1 A man was found dead in a movers’ Tcamp west of Brazil. Ind. Sheriff Kiing- ■ ler and Coroner Mershon went to the - camp and took charge of the body. A man named Johnson and several women who were with him said the man died of " keart disease. They gave his name as , James Ayers and said his home was in i Xcxington. Ky. Only 5 cents was found ! on his person. Later it was learned that j the man had been seen with a large roll of money a short time before his death. The travelers were arrested. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. I*. I Brooklyn —45 it;Cincinnati ...29 2S) | Boston 38 21 New Y0rk...30 31 i,|jPhiladelphia. 36 22 Pittsburg 211 32 'Chicago 36 24Louisville ...21 39 . Baltimore ...33 25 Washington. 18 44 j St. Louis.—3s 27Cleveland ...10 47 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. \V. L. [ Waneapol s. 32 23 St. Tan! 27 27 b Indianapolis. 30 24 Milwaukee .. .27 29 Detroit 29 20 Kansas City.. 23 32 , ; Columbus ...29 27 Buffalo 23 32 . .

NEWS NUGGETS.

t| Arthur Tennyson, youngest brother of :. Alfred Tennyson, is dead. Hie wares of all employes of the Ohio is Kirer Railroad hare been increased 10 i : per cent. Armed Chinese peasants haTe been deI atroying the German railroad from Kmebow to Kianio. ts Capt. Coghlan. U. S. N.. lectured before the Winfield. Kan . Chautauqua on "The Battle of Manila.*' The peace congress at The Hague has decided that the Russian disarmament I proposals are unacceptable. A liberal ministry has been formed in I Chili, in succession to the censerraiive I cabinet which resigned June 2. fi Rev. Hr. X. K. Wood, formerly of t'hi- ; cage, has been chosen president of New- | ton. Mass.. Theological Institute. William Goebel was nominated for ■NSorernor on the twenty-sixth ballot by jjthe Kentucky democratic convention at 1 pWhile riding along the public road in MHBoU County, twenty miles south of BBaorgeto wn. Ky.. Lee Sparks was fatally OAot from ambush. Xo dew to the luurfe Three strikers were killed during the Piloting at the Bochum coal mint's. Ger--1 many. The number of men wounded is g nat known. as many of them were spirited to private houses. Thirty-six ari rests were made. ■yGomniiKsioncr General Powderly of the immigration bureau has mailed to San jjgPfcancisco warrants for the arrest and de- | pottation of six Japanese recently releas- | «4 from custody by the Federal Court on I a writ Of habeas corpus. Ki At Vintondale. Pa., the large sawmill r of the Vinton Lumber Company was deI Strayed by fire. The doss is $66,000, with fe33»o American Glneose Sugar Refining IWininny. recently organized under the Hfcw Of New Jersey, has filed papers PgUMting it* corporate name to the Fed- - | Xh P announced that Itnssia has placed pan order for f20.60U.000 of Amerieau ordrmam. LL. Driggs of the Driggs SeagSiw York, is the authority for this state- \' meht.

EASTERN.

According to a Washington dispatch the President has decided to enlist 12,000 volunteers for service in the Philippines. A receiver has been appointed for the Prmng-Taber Art Company of Springfield, Mass. Liabilities $170,000, assets $450,000. It is announced that the Keystone Watch Case Company and the Riverside Watch Case Company of Philadelphia have consolidated. A. L. Dewar of Chicago has purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $40,000. This is third seat that has been sold for that “sum.

Henry Bradley Plant, owner of the Plant railway system, a line of steamships and much real estate in the State of Florida, died at New York. The jury in the case of Mrs. Clemen tine M. Rockford, on trial at Towson, Md., for the murder of her hnsband, returned a verdict of manslaughter. In Boston, Benjamin Lang, 84 years of age, killed his wife, Clara E. Lang, with an ax. It is thought that he committed the deed while iu a tit of mental aberration. Fire damaged the More-Phillips Chemical works at Camden, N. J., to the extent of SIOO,OOO. Three large buildings used in the manufacture of phosphates were destroyed. For the second time within six weeks, distinct earthquake shocks were felt in towns along the Connecticut river from a point a short distance east of Hartford as far as Saybrook. The eight-oared shell race for the intercollegiate championship of America, at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, was won by Pennsylvania in 20:04. Wisconsin came in second in 20:05^. The terracotta works of William Galloway, Philadelphia, were entirely destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The fire is supposed to have originated iu one of the kilns. A partial examination of the books of ex-Tax Collector George L. Griswold, who was arrested at Norwich, Conn:, the other day, a self-confessed embezzler, shows a shortage of about $25,000.

J. W. Smith was at work on tlie Cincinnati Saengerfest building when some timbers being hoisted about seventy-five feet above him fell. A heavy joist struck him squarely, knocking him down nnd fracturing his skull. More than 2,400 members of the East Side Trousers Makers' Union went out on a strike in New York. Incidentally above 5,000 women and children will be thrown out of employment. The men had been working sixteen hours a day for $0 a week. Mrs. George B. Barrow, when arraigned before Justice Werner iu the criminal branch of the Supreme Court at New York, pleaded guilty to the charge of kidnaping Baby Marion Clarke. She was sentenced to twelve years and ten mouths in prison. " Edward F. Powell, who inherited $250,000 on reaching his majority a year ago, tried to amuse his young lady friends at Norristown, Pa., by showing them how fast he could run backward. He stumbled and fell, breaking his neck, and died immediately. William Ballard, a colored hostler, was arrested iu New York, accused of the murder of bis employer, Clayton Young, a horse owner, in St. Louis, on Aug. 22, 1890. Ballard said he killed Young because the latter had frequently beaten and abused him.

The steamer Nellie Torrent, bound down from Lake Superior with a cargo of lumber, burned to the water’s edge abreast of Point au Frame, St. Mary’s riier. The vessel was beached and scuttled on Lime Island. The cargo of lumber is a total loss. Mrs. Grace Ramsey cut the throat of her husband, Harvey J. Ramsey, assistant treasurer of Madison Square Garden, while he slept in their apartments at the Garden Hotel, New York. Ramsey died in Bellevue hospital a few hours later. It is believed Mrs. Ramsey is insane. Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau of the Department of Agriculture, and Philander Johnson, a newspaper writer of Washington, were rescued from drowning while bathing in.the surf at Cape May by Congressman Henry C. Loudenslager, chairman of the Pension Committee, and W. H. Kirkpatrick of the Philadelphia Press. Fire in Laurel, Del., destroyed sevemyeight buildings, including two hotels, a bank, the postofllee, two drug stores, nearly all the business houses and the homes of the most wealthy residents of the place. The loss is estimated at over $200,000, insurance $20,000. It is believed that the fire' was caused by incendiaries who wished to cover up a murder.

WESTERN.

Judge William H. Clark, aged 39, is dead at Los Angelts, Cal. Colorado is to .be represented at the Paris exposition by a gold statue of a girl to cost $1,000,000. Jesse Spalding of Chicago has been elected president of the Chicago Union Traction Company. A Mecca lubricating oil well worth SIOO a day was struck ou Richard King's farm, near Warren, Ohio. An agreement has been reached by Cleveland street car men and the company by which the strike is called off. A strike of 3,000 men in the large packing houses at the Chicago stock yards caused the suspension of hog killing operations, and but little canning is being done. At Hartville, Mo., a desperate attempt was made to break jail by the Mac Comb train robbers, but it was frustrated by the guards. AH the prisoners were then bandenffed. James F. Walton of the Walton Architectural Company, Cincinnati, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Court. Liabilities $46,489, assets none. Frank Neal, the St. Louis boxer, known as “Dutch" Neal, who succumbed during a bout with Harry Peppers of San Francisco at the Adelphi Theater in Chicago, is dead of blood elot. Miss Cora. Rosebrook, aged 38 year*, died in St. Luke's hospital in St. Paul from iujnries received in the tornado at New Richmond. Wis., making a total of 114 known dead so far. A passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked on a ten-foot embankment two miles beyond the city limits of Muscatine, lowa, by a broken engine truck, the engine rolling down the bank and both

coaches leaving the rails. Three persons were injured. The Music Teachers’ National Association convention at Cincinnati adjourned after electing A. J. Gantvoort of that city president. Next year’s meeting will be held at Des Moines, lowa. f . At Lima, Ohio, two men called at the city transfer barns and wanted Frank Harris, night manager, to give them money for beer. When he refused they shot him in the groin, making a fatal wound. >. Miss Lena Falk of Chicago was drowned at Put-in-Bay while rowing with a male companion. The sea was rough and the boat capsized, drowning, the woman before help could arrive. The man was rescued after some difficulty. Gov. Stephens of Missouri announces that he will call a special election in the Eighth congressional district of Missouri about the first of September to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. Bland. At Leavenworth, Ivan., twenty-two suits, the aggregate amount being for #212,000, were filed in the District Court against the Leavenworth and Home Riverside coal companies, to compel payment of royalties. A heavy storm swept over Tine Bluff, Ark., and did great damage to telephone and telegraph wires. Lightning struck in several places, doing great damage. On the James Trulock place William Patterson and Jim Jackson were killed. Frederick Sehatz of Gray town, Ohio, who died at the home of his wife, was not killed, but died of heart disease. Wm. H. Sehatz stated that the dispatches sent out to the effect that his father was murdered by the wife are absolutely false. Bartley, Neb., and adjacent territory was visited by a destructive hail and rain storm. For miles to the northeast not a stalk of corn or spear of wheat was left standing. Little hail insurance is carried by the farmers, and the loss will be heavy. O. H. Hillis, clerk of the United States Circuit Court at Omaha, is dead. He had been in apparently perfect health and entered the bath room, and, not reappearing, an investigation was made. He was found dead in the bath tub, heart failure being the cause.

Jennings, one of the train robbers at Hartville, Mo., on trial for complicity in the Macomb hold-up in January last, for which robbery “Jack” Kennedy was given seventeen years in the penitentiary, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Private Wesley Kirby of Company H, Twenty-fourth infantry, was shot through the leg by Private Frank Wigfall of the saipe company at the headquarters at the Presidio, San Francisco. The wound is serious, and no cause is assigned for the attempt to commit murder. At Shell Mound, Cal., J. E. Gorman of the Golden Gate Pistol and Rifle Club tied the world’s fifty-yard pistol shooting record, which has been held for a long time by E. E. Partridge of the Massachusetts Rifle Association. His ten shot scores on the standard ammunition target were 93, 9G, 02, 95, 89; total, 405. At Toledo, Judge Millard set aside the verdict of the jury in the case of the Manufacturers’ railroad, which desires to occupy certain streets of the city as a right of way. The jury granted the petition of the railroad, but awarded the city a damage of $50,000. A motion has been made for a new trial by the road and Judge Millard of the probate court set aside the verdict and granted the motion. Fire broke out In some unexplained manner in the freight house of the Michigan Central at Toledo. In a few minutes the whole structure, including the freight offices, was a solid mass of flame. One freight house of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton fell a prey. One hundred freight cars, nearly all loaded, were destroyed. The loss is estimated nt $500,000.

Miles McDonald, aged 20, employed by the F. M. Long Sirup Company, as the result of a wager with some fellow-em-ployes, dived from the center span of'(he Eads bridge at St. Louis, badly injuring himself and narrowly escaping death. The distance from the bridge to the water is 115 feet. McDonald alighted on his shoulders and the upper part of his buck, and but for the prompt assistance of a boat and crew in readiness he would have drowned.

Word has been received at Saa Diego, Cal., that a party of twenty miners, bound for the Sierra Pintada placers, lost their way in the desert and wandered around a long time, finally dying of thirst. The information came in a letter received by J. P. Cantlin, one of the charterers of the schooner Thomas S. Negus, which took a party of sixty prospectors to San Roque lauding, from L. J. Allen, purser of the Negus. The corpses of the lost miners were accidentally discovered in the desert by another party, hound in the same direction.

SOUTHERN.

The Southern Pacific Railway Company has issued an order that after July 1 no more liquor is to be sold at any railroad hotel over its entire system. Three negroes are dead and one is fatally injured as a result of a riot between the white and negro miners nt the ore mines near Cardiff, Ala. While alone at the home of H. M. Beckett at Ridley, Tenn., the house caught fire and Edith Beckett, aged 5, and the 3-year-old son of J. P. Cawthorn were burned to death. The steam tug Bernice, belonging to Patteraou, Downing & Co. of Mobile, was burned at Round Island, Miss. William Foore, a passenger, was lost. The remnant of the tug was towed into Pascagoula. A Norfolk and Southern passenger train, when within a mile of Elizabeth City, N. C., dashed into a buggy, killing Henry aud William Mann, aged respectively 14 and 10 years, and Charles Baker, aged 14. The elder House at Indian Springs, a watering place alwut seventy miles from Mn«on, Ga., was destroyed by fire. About 100 guests were in the building. All escaped but two, who were slightly injured. All the baggage was lost. By the sinking of the steamer Apalaqhe, plying between Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla., in the Chipola river, near Wewahitchka, Fla., four persons, one of them a Chicago woman, were drowned. The steamer’s boilers exploded as she sank and several persons were injured. Mrs. T. J. Lloyd, living seven milei northwest of Lampasas, Texas, with her five daughters and a visitor, Miss Childera, went in bathing in a creek. The three w.s 1 . - ■ v ' i s

youngest girls went beyond their deptib, when their'eldest sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all five were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic efforts.

FOREIGN.

The Queen Regent of Spain has signed the bill for the cession to Germany of the Caroline Islands. The Boer Government has placed orders with the Krupps for twenty-five quick-firing guns and several of heavier caliber. / Vonolel, the famous Arab charger of Lord Roberts of Kandahar, and Perdita It., the well-known mare of the Prince of Wales, are dead. The Atlantic transport line steamer Montana, from Baltimore, reached Falmouth, England, with its propeller shaft broken. It had been towed for six days by the steamer Elderslie. Frank C. Lewis of Chicago Is on his way to Peking. China, for the purpose of negotiating with the Chinese Government with a view to tearing down a portion of the Chinese wall and using the stone to construct a roadway to Nankin. A dispatch from Saigon, describing the anti-foreign disturbances that recently occurred in Mengtsu, province of YunYan, says that the Wong-tse custom house, which was in charge of American officials, was sacked and destroyed. Anti-budget riots have been in progress in Saragossa, Spain. The troops fired on the mob in the Plaza de la Constueion, killing one person and seriously wounding two others. Many persons were injured. Seventeen persons received dangerous wounds. The Carnegie Steel Company has contracted with representatives of the Russian Government to furnish that country with 180,000 tons of steel rails for its immense railroad enterprises in Siberia and China. This is the largest order ever placed with one firm in the world, and represents an outlay of between $4,500,000 and $5,000,000.

IN GENERAL.

Prof. Samuel Harris of Yale College ia dead, aged 85. At Hamilton, Ont., Benjamin Parrott was hanged for the murder of his mother. The murderer left a confession. News has been received of the destruction of the d’Arcey Island, B. C., lef>er station by fire. One leper is dead. The Dominion Steel and Smelting Company, with a capital of $20,000,000, has been formed at Montreal. H. M. Whitney of Boston is president. The village of St. Raymond, thirty-live miles from Quebec, was almost wiped ont by a fire. Forty buildings were burned. Loss $50,000, well insured. A number of mirror manufacturers who control the business of the United States in that line have formed a combine for the regulation of prices and production. J. M. Conroy of Conroy, Prugh & Co. was elected president. The International Supreme Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars met iu Toronto, Ont. About 500 delegates were there, among them representatives from England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and India. Five men were working in the 025-foot level of the War Eagle mine at Rossland, B. C., with machine drills when one of the drills struck a “missed hole,” where the shot had failed to go off. A frightful explosion took place. Charles Post and Charles Lee were instantly killed and Mike Griffin was so badly injured that he died on the way to the hospital.

Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “Less than the average effect of approaching mid-summer influences is discernible in current trade reports. Prices, too, show a strength unusual at this period, and particularly in view of recent steady advances. This is notably manifest, of course, in the iron and steel industry, where the tendency of values is still upward. Hopes of improvement in the woolen goods industry have materialized in an active demand at leading markets for the manufactured product. Improved crop reports are responsible chiefly for lower quotations of products declining in price this week. Cotton crop prospects have continued to improve, and the raw product is lower. Raw sugar is lower on unanimous reports of improving crop prospects the world over, but refined sugar is in heavy domestic demand and firm. Lumber retains all of its early activity and strength alike as regards movement and prices. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3,746,718 bushels, against 2,790,471 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,872,432 bushels, against 3,285.301 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle; common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats. No. 2,24 c to 26c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c; butter, rhoige creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice new, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. Bt. Louis—Cnttle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; whefft, No. 2,74 eto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 34c to 3Gc; oats, No. 2,20 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 59c. Cincinnati—C&ttle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 3Ge; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye. No. 2,64 cto 06c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; bogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50: wheat. No. 2, *Bc to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye. 58c to 00c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye. No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover seed, new, $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3, ?4c to 3T»c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 29e; rye, No. 1,60 cto 61c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.25. , New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to *5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 34a batter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs. Weft era. 14c to 16c.

CLEVELAND STRIKE SETTLED.

[ Cmr SBcn abbA tflhß Obhqpbbqt Oars mewaagm aN affffim UKjnilfiaindiatoAtnaatatemeat as practioaUF ass eept float aht have baa near the Brooklyn bridge, fndt Mfltojiff me asked to disembark ami mailt cues the passengers took to argue with the cmwl ami man promptly struck over rh* bend milk a tdnk, and be and the metemoca dbfioam away. The mob refastd to putoilt *4* along and pushed it to the barn*. company experts most off the —manfiam men to leave now. Tie terete teteaff jam, throe weeks. The men pranrirsflty (told what they were after, tadt w»(toa of the union and arfertrastisa ass dfffarences.

BANK THIEF SOON CAUGHT.

George Shea, alias Fh3ip T.awAeV. » resident of Chicago, is Etety to aarwa one half day’s use of Shea went into the JfcttwffioSaam National Bank, Beaton, at noon and amt away undetected math s3ffjfiflff He mote for New York, where he maa pumagCgy arrested, a good description off the Uto* having been sent all «wr She FlsilS ir*. States within an bear after the nktay. He offered the officer naliig the annexe, the whole SM,OOO to aet ham ftte. All of the money sins recovered. The story of the robbery, as hy the bank officials, is that a man came into the he could obtain a money order. He carried am his conversation with CSaream S. Delfendahl, the receiving tribe, mho was acting as p*yn® teller. The teStac, after answering the ataa's qaesfiamm, went on with his weak and paad mo further attention to the strongest, mil aatfraa going to a telephone. While the affinal's back was tinned toward him. Shea teterd a roll of bilk and escaped. A to—ff rapher saw him take the money ami gave the alarm as he was going out, halt it eras too late to step the thief.

BIG STORM IN NEW ENGLAND.

The southeastern partinn «f New Bsc land was the center of Wavy ekutoicsß storms the other night, in triad • ottmbin&tion of the elements wrought extrusive damage, hall destroying «raps amS breaking window glass, rate camrayg washouts on lines as suburban aflaaaft railways and electricity wrecking faJfey and causing scone loss «f Hate. At Sandwich, Mass., as electric halt killed Abram Ellis, fast did Bed tejare Ate wife and child, who were in the name room. At Fall Surer several t&naotm were set on tee, including the Gate yam mill, but the losses were set: groat. In Warehnm, three men is a Tiifiili took refuge in a bam. The demolished the structure, frigfay the haras and two men. Perry and Weft****, ami injuring the third. New Bedford had a ray arai eaysaaence, many houses caAebing tee. A summer hotel at Iterant) mi kept fey Benjamin Potter was horned mi the ynifta lost all their effects.

RECRUITING GOES ON RAPIDLY.

The Araj fa New C* «■ Che Built is said by odksala at tee Ta Department interested to tee racrehasc movement that this work 3a praggenriaw with pleasing rapidity. RmiaTna base been received at the rate at. IJW a week for three weeks. The array to asr pmeof 65,000 men, fart it is nadMitotii teat the recruiting at tee pwsrart rate ursl he kept up for sraoe time, or aft least tiff tee department receives tenter atoms Cram Gen. Otis.

DEIGNAN DECIDES TO RETIRE.

Sailor of Bergoac Please Soft to Er Oscar W. Deignsn of MraurwnsL teara has given np tee idem of becoming a naval cadet. A bill was introduced aa flmipia authorizing the President to mate Mm a naval cadet, bat it was amended, redrawing him to pass an examinataan tee «—» ss any other cadet- He hats aaft tee means to go through a preparatory comae by friends.

SUN EXPLODES DYNAMITE.

Xteooarl Bsc Horn Narrowly Es- ■■ rope Bntea^WawalDji^ Trade sine arises, sear Arams, miners left half a dozen states «f jj shaft. Just before aoea tee rays as tee

Notes of Current Events.

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QUEER INCIDENT

was standing ftoflFattteatodwraßdstop lathe —«T <*■« taJi one full of fancy what 1 ewto «fe for him, and it 2rhsir.‘ he mU at length, and he ai mom amt as hmtk Tv* been waithog here.* says he, Tor a quarter of an hear.* Nnr, I mas positive that he hsl Jot ease fa, hast it Is always unwise to caatmdfet a customer, so I made an remark. T want yon to pat sw, tad he (path about it, for I have at my match ami toM him he had 20 ■to—» In spare. It mas then exactly Stiff. “AH right,’ he said, and 1 went ami had any possible motive been apparent I wamfcl have sworn he did it am i—pairn- Bad he cursed like a pirate. and after some grumbling paid the MH, which mas 93k and went away, and I read Sa the paper that a murder had a reckr frime the store at about 8 o'clock rial thsackt, bnt something like a lawyer, who told me that he represented a restate mote whs was under susaapmhd daffy to he placed under arrest. “My that is wet guilty,’ he contteorff tend at the time of the crime was nowhere near the house. As nearHe revolt ft, because he accidentally brake a vase. Do yon remember the iiiinf ilsnity I fffiff instantly, and «f a Tmiliw the whole thing became daw. Tow see, my attention had been «aBM to the hour, and the vase-break lag mas evaff—lf s rase to fix the visit te my mted. 1 looked the lawyer in the «j*. “Tsar efiemt entered the store at SB" I sniff, tend 1 hare reason to bereached St" That ended the conversation. The man mas never arrested, but som after left the city. What was he dates flat sightl Why. preparing an aHKff of re—je.~— New Orleans Times-

SOME COSTLY CAKES.

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N[?]en's Boyhood.

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C[?]ar Loves Mushrooms.

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