Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 July 1889 — Page 2

WHEN LANGUAGE FAILS., There 1s anhour when language fails, When speech is powerless to impart, The depth of grief and wretchedness That agitates the heart; : The lips are closed in dumb despair; A shadow on the: face appearsy And through the silence breaks alone The eloguénce of tears.,

* T'here is an hour when language fails T tell the joy that stirs the blood, . Andsends it rushing through the veing Like to a spring-time floed ; * Tears for the mastery contend. - ; And wrestle-at the gates awhile. But gladness triumphs in the end With its expressive smile.

- more than words are smiles and tea: . . And sighs, that from the heart’ deecp well Arise, and to the attentive ear = £ Their tale of sorrow tell; : For as, when shaken by the storm, ‘ : Each flower its perfume sweet exhalcs - &So does the sympathetic heart - ! Respond when language fails.

THE EDEN OF TIGERS.

& Trio of Encounters With the : Terror cf the Jungle :

an Faters Are Beasts That Do Not Improve Upon Close Acquaintance, While They Are Particularly Un: desirable Bedfellows M

While tigers are to be found in almost every part of Hindoostan exeept the mountain ranges in the north, there is one particular region which is a sort of Garden of Eden for them, and from which they will not be driven for the next hundred years. It is the Bengalee district, lying between the Ganges on the north and the head waters of the Walawala on the south.

. I put in four months in that district in company with two Erglish naturalists and a party of army officers, and every day brought its adventure with reptile or wild beast. We had four army tents, which were packed in sections on the backs of the natives when we were;on the move. These were for the use of the whites, and I was one of three who occupied’ one of them in camp. e

We had been out four days when I got thoroughly wet and was taken with ¢hills and fever. Quinine would break it inside of two or three days, but in fhe meantime 1 must go slow and not over-exert myself. I-stuck to camp, and on the third day about three a'clock in the afternoon, went sound asleep in my hammock. This was slung under the tent about two feet from- the ground, and within three feet of the rear wall. It was a warmish day, but with a delightful breeze, and, .as the fever had gone, I fell into a deep sleep. Just-about the time I went to sleep Captain Williams, whohad been out for -a couple of hours with his gun, camein and reported a tiger in a dry ravine -about a mile away. He had had two -snap shots at the beast, but had missed him. He had carefully marked down the location, and after getting a bite to -eat most of the party set out with him ‘to finish up the beast. Three of the natives were left to mind tho camp. “The party had no sooner gone than the trio stretched out in the shade and went to sleep. v i ‘When the party reached tkte spot where the tiger was last scen, the ‘beaters went in, but they worked for ‘half an hour and failed to arouse him. He bad done what tigers ofteu -do, ‘bolted at the first alarm. When the ‘tiger bolted he must have made direct for our camp, and he must also have been pretty badly frightened. Something broke my sleep and I opened my eyes. I was lying on my right side facing the open doorway, and in that «doorway, not over five feet away and dooking full at me was a tiger. My ‘heart bounded into my throat, the blood rushed to my head, and for a moment 1 thought I should suffocate. *Then I went to the other extreme and was as cold as ice. I had notmade the :stightest movement aside from opening my eyes. It was not from nerve, how- } ever, but simply because I was incapa-~ | ble. I was not sure for half ‘a minute ‘but that my eyes were playing me a #rick. When I knew that the dreaded | ‘beast hovered o’er me, I could do nothing but stare at him. Had I no% been so badly upset” I should have ©observed that he was skulking. He stood there with his tail down for a .couple of minutes, uttered two or three whines of anxiety, and then bounded straight over me and crouched down: between my hammock and the tent. I had my back to him now, but I could ! hear his every breath and movement, 1' and I grew so weak that every thing turned dark for a few moments, and the tent seemed to be whirling around. Far away I could hear the row created by the beaters. The tiger probably heard more of it than I did, for he moved uneasily and continued to whine. u dh ; Ben tell about how slowly time ticks away in moments of peril. The tiger, as near as I could afterward calculate, was in hiding about fifteen minutes, and no week ever spun out $0 much time for me. ‘When he got up he put -his nose against my back and sniffed -and snuffed, and just when I expected ‘%o feel his teeth, he walked around “the foot of the hammock, stood in the -door for a moment, and then bolted for the nearest cover. It was well that 1 - bad witnesses, or I should have been -set down as light-headed from the fever. The naturalist and his man, ‘who had been prowling around the ‘outskirts of the camp, both saw tho tiger leave the tent, and both came running in, expecting to find .me_wi,: - About three weeks later, when 1 was ‘#n the'best of health, Captain Williams -and three more of us left camp to rid a Q, liles away of a ‘man-eater, “The weather was oppressively hot, and “in followisg a ravine to keep its cool‘mess as long as possible: wo lost our A iy Wi wath st two milss from ST ST L L s R B the village, and 1t was nearly scsivin, {whien g thunder storm came “il:* :{: “were in pretty open ground whe the st flash of lightning came, and knowps "‘g Ehunder shook tho earth, m rgeth e

missed the grove entirely, and just as the flood-gates -of heaven' opened I dashed into a native hut on the edge of a clearing. I did not see'the hut until close on it, and entered it supposing it to be inhabited. Even when I called aloud and got no response, and knew by the sound of my voice that the ‘hut had been abandoned, I reasoned that. I was on the outskirts of the village, and that my companions had taken shelter in huts near by. " The storm had long been gathering ‘and its blackness brought night at once. As soon as the lightning began to play I could seethe. interior of the hut by the flashes. There was only one room, -with the usual mud floor, and the only article left behind was a hamper, such as the natives strap to their backs to carry loads. This stood in a corner, and I supposed it contained some personal effects to be carried away at the owner’s convenience. Had I not seen this hamper, and thereby got the idea that the hut had just been vacated, I should not have dared cross it and sit down on the floor with my back to the wall to wait for the storm to cease, as every hut is taken possession of by gerpents as soon as abandoned. The roof was in pretty good repair, and I had nothing to worry about. The thunder and lightning were soon over, but the rain continued to fall for at least two hours. Then it ceased almost in a moment, and the clouds rolled away and allowed a new moon to show its face. - : "

. Theremainder of the party had taken shelter under the trees, and as soon as the rain ceased they came out into the open and began to call for me. . 'I was resting - easy and half asleep when I heard. the first call, and at the second I drew my feet under me and stiffiy pulled myself ‘up. As I did so I heard a snarl and a growl, followed by the fall of the hamper and a rush, and I was thunderstruck to see a tiger spring out of the door. As subsequent investigation proved, he was crouched between the hamper and the wall, and had been in hiding all the time I was in the hut. Why did he not attack me? He might have been frightened at the storm, as many savage beasts are, or my boldness in walking in upon him may have rattled him. Unfortunately, he recovered his courage as soon as he left the hut. The search party was directly in his path to cover, and he charged right among the men and knocked one of the natives down, and stopped long enough to inflict a bite which resulted in_ death. L

- On a subsequent trip, a year later, and further to the south, I had another odd encounter with a tiger. It ought to have cost me my life, and why it did not no tiger hunter has ever been able to satisfactorily explain. We had been in the village of Syderpul for three days, three white men and a dozen attendants, seeking to destroy a man-eater who had created great havoe, when the beast came out of a jungle just at sundown, seized an old man seated in front of a hut not two hundred feet from us, and -reached ‘cover with his prey before we got the alarm. We raised a great shout and discharged our rifles after him, but he replied with a growl and kept on.. In this case, and #n this alone, I saw the tiger's method of carrying off a human being. He seized the man by the shoulder and gave the body a twist until the weight of it rested on his back, and he trotted off under the burden as if it did not weigh ten pounds. There was a howl all over the village, and the old man’s relatives, who were many, set up such a wailing* as made evening hideous. We could do nothing that night, but were astir early next morning, and were-not long in tracing the tiger to a dense thicket in the bed of a ravine a mile away. He had not carried the body there, however. Being either sharp set with hunger or over-bold in self-confidence, he had stopped within forty rods of the village for his horrible feast, and only some fragments of clothing and a few bones were left to tell the poor man’s fate. Our beaters not only found the tiger at home, but he was defiant and ready for fight. Twice he charged up the steep bank to find that his tormentors had .taken refuge in trees and escaped him. He finally retired to the center of the thicket to bide his time. We flung stones at him, and fired several bullets into his retreat, but while he growled his rage he planned to wait until he ¢ould get an advantage. The leader of our party was afraid the beast would sneak off unseen, and he stationed us to.prevent such an occurrence. Iwent to the head of the ravine, and there found a great rock. I took my station on the left of it, looking down upon the thicket, and the beaters redoubled their exertions to drive the tiger out. ' I had been at my station about ten minutes when I felt, rather than heard, the' presence of something, and I wheeled about to find that man-eater standing before me and hardly arm’s length away. We looked square into each other’s eyes, but that was the only effort 1 could make. I was seemingly frozen to the earth. I had been perspiring as 1 turned. Within ten seconds I was as cold as a naked man in mic})gint'e’r‘. - I don’t know how long we stood there, but presume it was not over a minute. The beaters were yelling and shouting and ringing bells, but ﬁ ears did not take in a single sound. ILhe'tiger dropped his lip and growled, or seemed to growl, advanced one forefoot as about to spring, and then suddenly turned and bolted across the opeu into the jungle. Then, like a woman, I fainted dead away, and it was ten minutes later before I came to 1 and found myself flat on the earth and three or four of the beaters standing over me and crying eut that the sahib had ‘been mauled to death by the retreating tiger. I was not ‘itijured, in | ﬂzeg slightest, but the scare I got unnerved me for long weeks. --N.%. Sun.

.. —One of the most curious inventions of 1868 was that of a safety coffin, in« terided to obviate the results of premature burial, and invented by M. Vester, a German, The coffin was made larger than required by the size. of the bo%y, it hag at the heada ‘movablé lid, communicating with the -open air by means of a square ' trough Jfrom the bottom of the grave. ‘The are ‘zro{gﬁmém;% was: such . that f person. might “thus "rf?@a&x.fesc@p@. o thop tomb. The inventor proposed to f&%: »,ge_‘iy'esm’egﬁs in the coffin as a prudett [pregaution agaiust stasvasion. .« 2%

T : 9 i _THE BURGLARS WIFE. i g s A ——————— { |&" mm £ FTON is a small and /& W - beautiful village, of o’ B - Central Indiana, only o XY | 2 few minutes’ ride ‘? £ / %= B from Indianapolis, v EII /,51;%; - ‘the city of railroads. = ~B= B Its shadystreets and = %= B neat but unpretend- — #—l B ing houses bespeak et = of thrift and contentN 2 /)= § ment. : ' = oA | There is a large S (q‘, '{‘:;555'9;;{;,:;.?);75{ ¥ hill at the edgeof the L) B, town, which, at the ,U GO time when this story - . 'begins, was robed NS \‘s/\\‘;% with the verdure of "— R summer. There,peeping out among the green tops of the trees and shrubbery, was the house of Colonel William Kane, the magnate of the village. He had been an officer in the Rederal army,. and it was whispered around that his wealth had sprung from despoiled Southern plantations and robbed stables. Perhaps there was a shadow of truth in this statement and perhaps not.' But, be that as it may, his home was that of"a man of affluence. ‘This pleasant villa was made more pleasant by the presence of a daughter—Ethel Kane. The Colonel’s daughter was beaut:ful. A perfect type of blonde, a trifle below ordinary stature, with large blue eyes, shaded with long silken lashes, a complexion which drove all Afton’s beauty fairly mad with envy, lips red as June cherries, how could she have been other than beautiful? . . Ethel Kane was a dutiful daughter. With the tenderness accorded only to women, she would comfort her father when, suffering from an attack of the gout, he would become crabbed and unpleasant, and laughing and joking with.him when some happy speculation would cause him to become more than customarily jovial. Colonel Kane fairly idolized his fair daughter, and often, in imagination, saw her the petted wife of some duke or nobleman. The idea that she would marry or even love a man of common birth never entered the old man’s head.

Karl Douglass was a young school-master in the village of Afton. Well educated and intelligent, he was accepted as a member of the best society of the town, and it was at a social gathering of theelite that he first saw Ethel Kane. When he looked into her modest face and met her innacent gaze with his dark eyes, he knew at once that he was in danger, yet strove not ;o escape his impending fate. ‘He sought an introduction, and before the company dispersed had conversed enough with the idolof the Kane mansion to know that he was madl in love. With Ethel Kane it was butlittie different. Her heart which had known no other love than for father and mother, had found another object for its devotion. The dark eyes of the young pedagogue had captured her. Turn as she might she washaunted by the dark and poetic gleam of those soulful eyes. : :

Three months latéer-and young Douglass and 'Ethel Kane: were avowed lovers. Colonel Kane soon discovered .their love and determined to put a stop to it at once. Accordingly he saw young Douglass and, in tones more forcible than polite, warned him never again tospeak to his daughter. Then he roundly scolded Ethel; herself, and threatened to send her away toa distant boarding-school. As is usual in such cases, the young people’s love was but strengthened by opposition. They arranged an elopement and ere many hours were gone by, were secretly married. Re B

Colonel Kane was fairly crazed with anger when he was informed of the matter. Wrathfully he drove his daughter from his door, adjuring her never to come within his sight-again. With a heart heavy over the anger of her parent, yet light over the happiness which she anticipated with her handsome young husband, she turned away from her home,leaving behind an angry father and a sorrowing mother. As is too often the case with young men, Karl Douglass had lived up to his income, and aside from his ‘monthly salary, was penniless. - Through ‘the .exertions of Colonel Kane, who spared to pains to punish his daughter for her,marriage, Douglass was turned out of his situation as a teacher at Afton Academy. : : Adrift in the world, seeking employment and finding none, was the fate of the young teacher. He had no trade and was eutirely dependent upon his education for a living. A year later found the young couple occupying miserable quarters in a tenementhouse in one of the lowest sections of Chicago. Starvation was staring them *in the face. The rose had wand to white on Etheli’s cheek, and the bright eye of Karl Douglass had lost its lustre. But their passionate love for each other remained unaltered. sStill, as of yore, they talked of love and home, and longed and prayed for better days. But they came not. A beautiful brown-eyed little babe had blessed them with its presence. Can we say blessed them? Ilfear not. It was a cons stant source of pain. Its mother was un-

: Y7y 7 M /) 4 / , %e ] & {1 (/ s 7 ( / i éi WAI i g “ : ‘ e A TN ik \ / i Z 3 < i \ ’ 1= ) S~ T , (\\/1 2= NAL 5 ] 7 22 =2 ] \ r\ /} = || <\ ! > ‘“ TAKE IT, I MUST GO.” healthy, and could not afford it proper nourishment. For the want of which it would -die. Such thoughts burned in the mind of Karl Douglass as he walked the streets of the great city in fruitiess efforts to find work. Oh! if he could find work of .any .kind! But try as he might, all avenues of employment were closed before him. “I will be driven to it!” he muttered. Aye, driven todesperation. That night he did not réturn as usual to the humble lodgings. With a pale and anxious face Ethel awaited the arrival of her husband. ' “Will he never come?” she thouﬁt. “What can have happened?’ And she - cried again and again, until even her tears, like all other friends, had deserted her. . - It was late at night when Karl Douglass entered the dismal room. His eyes shone with an unnatural light. He could not rest. Anxiously he paced the floor until daybreak. } ' Thesound of footsteps were heard without, ~ —the heavy tread of the officers of the law. . Drawing a parcel from his breast-pocket, ' Karl gave it to his astonished wife, and said, _in a quick; hurried toné; : i “Takeit! I mustgo. God help you, my - darling, and our child. Wait for me here. I will return.” j o . Before Ethel could realize what had happened, she was left.alone. Karl Douglass ~ was gone. She heard the confused sound . of his voice in the outer hall and the sound of altercation, but she divined not the cause. 3&1-?,_'116!1 all beconie still. She had swooned. ' After an hour she regained conscious‘?“‘B.;. * o, 5 7 48 » i' Le her babe she was alone, and as she - gazed upon the pinched features of the . Bleeping child, and saw death plainly Btamped upon its wan face, sho felt. more teraie Rt it shic hae Baan wose: . Sho examined the packet. It was aroll e woe G GGI e e e e e e T R e O

nis sake—not mine—l wish that { had never met him.” : 5 B

She was aroused from her reverie by the endrance of Biddy Malone, an old Irish. woman, who also lived in the miserable tenement. : 2

‘‘Shure, mum,” said she, in a tone of pity, ‘‘an’ Teddy sez that the peelers hev got Masther Douglass.” ~ ‘“What is that, Mrs. Malone? I do not understand.”” <

“Ah! me poor darlint! ye are not ust ter sich talk, at all, at all. I mane as how he hez been arresthed. Sure, its mysilf thet’s been hauled up this many a toime in ould Black Mariar fur.bein’ a leetle too fray with ther craytur; but I am shure it is not Misthor Douglass that is ust ter it. They say he robbed some ould villin’s house last night, and the cops hez pulled him. He wan’t sharp enough ter work sich a racket, pore man.” :

Ethel heard no more. Snatching her child from the pallet upon which 1t lay, che hastened to the police station. : Her husband was on trial. She heard his ‘noble voice, shaken by grief, as he acknowledged his guilt. . ; “Yes, I did it.” : With a cry of despair, Ethel ran up to the judge. “Oh! judge, let him go.. Hedid it for me; here is the money—take it. Let me starve ‘with Karl! Don’t send him off to prison !’ ‘The judge had witnessed many pitiful scenes and had steeled his heart against ‘such appeals, but a glance at that wan face told Mm that she was not one of the common herd. The gentler nature arose within him. He ordered her removed to a place ot comfort, assuring her that he would deal as leniently with her husband as the law would allow. s

Karl Douglass was sentenced to Joliet for one year. His crime was one that would have called for three years imprisonment under ordinary circumstances, but the

= ey I~ : ® % f »““ég > 2 o= L 4 f | ,“\“ Tl e \\< % 9 07 . P ; 1| f g.;"\i /-; =LY R 4 fy, C’ \ £.; &) %’; L N ? %‘. = /é’ : '»-g A’ﬁ“?{': ’% — 4 N/ ) g =l - 0 O ‘:‘« T = Yo /5 My === |¥ P Z FAY ‘ c%? z / 's'.‘-:-'—-_{“ -—= L 2 ”‘*-h z w., /: K==t I== | =pd S T Mo ”'w M— i ,'" e ;nmuuur““ T -z '%@ ' ; "—"b § AS SHE PASSED A CLUMP OF EVERGREENS. judge was true to’his promise to Ethel and gave him the lightest sentence in his power. Further than that, be secured her a position as governess in one of the best families of Chicago at good wages. : The little brown-eyed babe, though, was too far gone to recover. Poor Ethel saw her child’s body borne to the cemetery, where it was interred in the tamily lot of Dr. Griggs, the gentleman in whose family she was employed. . ; Time wore on slowly, to say the least. Many were the letters she received from her husband, yet her heart pined for him, and letters were but poor consolation. Eight months had passed. Ethel was walking up and down the shady avenue in front of Dr. Griggs’ great house, with her young pupils around her.. As she passed a clump of evergreens she found herself face to face with a familiar form, and in another moment she was in the arms of her husband, Karl Douglass. The Governor of the State had heard of Karl’s ecase and hesitated not te grant -him immediate pardon. Upon arriving at Chicago, he had not called directly to see his wife, but made an effort to secyre employment. He was successful. A good clerkship was offered him, and when he met his wife, he felt himself once more a free man, with home and happiness within his reach.

They soon had a little home of their own ina ;Y;,a.sant part of the city, where they remained for a year, when they removed to the far West.

In California, Karl Douglass was singularly successful. From tlie position of a poor school-teacher he grose to thatof a wealthy merchant with a happy homé, and nothing to remind him of his desperate deed of burglary, except his pardon, which he shall always keep. : :

Colonel Kaneis dead. He left his wealth to a distant relative, but Karl and Ethel do not now néed it. When they visited Afton last summer, from their beautiful California home, they planted with their own hands, a bush of rarest roses on the old Colonel’s grave to show how they remem‘bered him kindly even after his harsh treatment. : Jo. A. PARKER.

An Unfortunate Resemblance.

Blifkins bore a strangely similitude ol of pulchritude towards Simpkins. They had been schoolmates, classmates and rival lovers. Blifkins had married Gabriella, whom Simpkins loved; and Simpkins then marriea Gabriella’s girl chum, Ethelwilda, who had jilted Blifkins when they were both in their teens. Now Gabriella was remarkably handsome, and the resemblance between her and Ethelwilda was a matter of comment all over the village of Pickwick. They were on a Sunday-school picnic down near La Crescent, and lemonade was the only refreshment to be obtained in the grounds. .Bliflkins hired a skiff and rowed across the river. He came back with a jug of molasses. He and Simpkins went off into the woods: and drank the syrup and came back on the grounds rather tired, but jolly. Both of those distinguished gentle. men are wearing their heads in slings. Bliff found his wife with a young man of whom he was jealous and he commenced to scold her roundly. Her young friend resented the manner of Bliff towards his wife. This angered tae old man, and, to show that shé was his wife, his property, he slapped her face in the presence of the young man. Justthen Simp came along. He raised his heavy brogan-clad foot and landed it against the anatomy of his friend Blliff, saying: *‘Hit my wife will you!” The deed was done, but it were scarcely well done, when along came Ethelwilda, and seeing her supposed husband lying in the consomme, she raised a leafless branch from its resting’place upon the bosom of mother earth, and dropped it upon the pate of Simpkins. Gabriella joined in the melee; and but for the timely intervention of thé Sundayschool superintendent, those two families would have gone on belaboring each other until this day. They were all ]gromios, yet none of them had ever heard of Dromio, Poor things. This story teachis us to beware of molasses; and also marrying doubles. - g :

Fame a Thousand Years Hence. ; ~ Time, A. D. 2889. Proprietor of wax: works and statuary show (to dealer in relics)—Have you any thing new to show me to-day? ! Dealer-—(enthusiastically)—fl have. Here is a well-preserved bust of George W. Childs, one of the noblest Americans of his time. It was discovered in digging among the ruinsof— : “Never mind where it was found. ‘What will you take fority”? : , “It is worth $5,000.” (Doubtfully) *‘l'd like to have it but that seems a high price. Have you any thing else?” ‘ B ~ (Cheerfully) “Yes. Here is another antique bust found at the same time and place. Itislabeled ‘Jay Gould.’ You ecan have it for five dollars.”—Chicago Tribune, Pirst ‘l{hysmignibi@;:fxm..;sgpeged, with spipstpmtnvatyonmt o " econd Physicianc-No, oo got welly the Br St s e L S O SN S S SSRD R e e

: {,,_DVRDWN,'ED; IN A DELUGE. Cloud-Bursts Find a Number of Victims in Maryland and Nebraska — Disastrous Storms Elsewhere. . . . . Bavrimorg, Md., July 15.—A water-spout - caused the small streams known as Herring ~run and Moore’s run, northeast of Balti~more, t 0 rise to. an unprecedented height Baturday . afternoon, bursting two dams, one called Reed's dam and the other at Casper Bobb’s place on the Bellaire road The water rushed down in a wall twenty feet deep, sweeping every thing before it. Several people were drowned. As far as known, two men on the ‘Bellaire road, named Powell and Scheillner, were drowned in Herring run; George Lingenfelder, his wife and father and a Mrs. Seifert on Moore's run. Mr. Lingenfelder was coxz}ixg to market at Baltimore, and tried cross the bridge, from which he wasswept. Mrs. Seifert met her death in a similar mannor. Horses and cattle were drowned in large numbers, and property and crops are swept away. The damage done can not be fully estimated. Nearly every bridge crossing Herring run was swept away, including the large iron bridge at Bobb’s.: Fields of grain' were destroyed and trucking famms ruined. The roads:are all wiped out. The tracks of the Hall’s Springs horse railway were twisted and turned into utter ruin. A large country store on the Hartford road was swept away. There was a washout on the Maryland Central railroad at Guilford’s station, causing a suspension of travel. John McCormick’s barn on the Frederick road was struck. by lightning and burned. Loss, $3,000. Five people in it were stunned, but are recovering. The Herring run racetrack was damaged to the extent of $2 000, John Colburn’s house at Creek Neck was partly wrecked by lightning and his whole family injured. Fort RopinNsoN, Neb., July 15.—A cloudburst occurred in Soldier Creek valley about daylight Saturday. Some of the waves were six feet high. Four people, Marsh Duncan and three of his children, are known to have been drowned. It is feared many other lives have been lost. Colonel Telford has sent out a company of the Eighth Infantry to search for dead and’ carry assistance to the sufferers. . HEAVY STORMS ELSEWHERE. PETERSBURG, Va., July 15.—A wind-storm which assumed almost the proportiens of a tornado passed over Dinwiddie County in the vicinity of Darvill, which did an . immense amount of’ damage. Trees were uprooted 'and barns and fences. leveled to . the ground. The storm was accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail, and the crops suffered terribly, especially from the hail, which cut to pieces oats, wheat, corn and vegetation. The storm was also very severe in Sussex County, in the neighborhood of Waverly station, on the Norfolk & Western ratlroad, where one boy was killed and another probably fatally injured by a falling tree. The oat crop was literally ruined, PrarTsßura, N, Y., July 15.—A terrific hail, rain and wind-storm passed over Plattsburg, Burlington (Vt.) and other places along Lake . Champlain Saturday afternoon. In this city electric light, telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated, trees were blown down and many windows were broken by hail-stones. In the country . farmers lose heavily on grain and fruit. At Burlington the Telephone Exchange was partly burned by lightning. Damagé to buildings, wires and crops are reported from' nearly every place along the lake. Many narrow escapes from drowning are reported. : : : : Evansvinrg, Ind., July 15.—Much damage is reported from the lower Ohio on account of the copious rain-fall since Thursday afternoon. The water came down in torrents, and it is asserted that within two hours there was a three-inch fall Saturday morning. Growing crops were necessarily damaged, and in some places immense oat and tobacco fields were completely submerged and the crops ruined. The stricken section extends from Cairo to Smithland, ‘ on both sides of the river. |

. DaveENPORT, la., July 15.—The heaviest rain-storm known in years visited this section Saturday night. In this and surrounding cities considerable damage was done by overflowed streets and cellars, while in the country wind and water caused considerable destruction to crops. Corn and oats are both pretty generally mowed down by the fury of the storm, and, while the former will probably rise, this i 8 not expected: to be the case with oats, concerning which farmers are very much discouraged and fear great loasses. 5

BUYING UP THE MILLS. The Deal Transferring the Great Flouring Interests at Minneapolis Into the Hands of British Capitalists About. Completed. MiNNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 15. —lt is definitely known that the efforts of an English syndicate to secure control of a number of the great Minneapolis flouring mills have been practically successful, and that it rests with the Englishmen themselves whegxer the deal goes through or not. The negdtiations have been in progress for some time, and the millers have stoutly denied that a sale was probable. Captain H. W. Holmes, of the Minneapolis Union Elevator Company, acknowledges that the efforts of the syndicate have been partially successful, and that an option has been given which will expire July 25. The properties included in the proposed syndicate are those of C. A. Pillsbury & Co.. the Washburn Mill Company, the Western Flouring Mill Company, the East and West Side Water Power Companies, and the Pillsbury system of elevators. This would give the purchasers a combined capacity of 22,000 barrels of flour per day.. Should the deal be consummated C. A. Pillsbury will manage the entire business. :

CINCINNATI'S BLUE ' LAWS.

The Sunday-Closing Act Is Strictly Eny o forced. :

' CINCINNATI, July 15.—For the first time in a quarter of a century a successful attempt was made Sunday to enforce the Sunday-Closing and Common-Labor law in Cincinnati. Not only saloons, but barbershops, cigar stores, g%ceries, meat markets and candy stores vWw:re forced to close their doors. It is estimated that 40,000 persons left the eity during the day in search of pleasure. Morally the city has profited by the rigid enforcement of the laws. The arrests are only about one-tenth of what they were three months ago. :

CIRCULAR TO G. A. R. POSTS.

General Warner Urges Members to Attend the Encampment at Milwaukee.

. Kagsas Ciry, Mo., July 15.—Commander-in-Chief Warner has issued a general circular to G. A. R. posts urging the members to attend the National encampment at Milwaukee despite the refusal ot the railroads to grant the one-cent a mile rate, Itis the general belief at General Warner’s head|quarters here that the attendance will be ' quite as large asif the dispute with the railroads had never occurred. | ——e——————— { : An: Ohioan in Luck. WASHINGTON, July 15.—The President has " appointed Alphonso Hart, of Ohio, Solicitor of the Internal Revenue Bureau. - ? ——————————————— 5 Killed at a Crossing. : . BeruAigg, 0., July 15.—Thomas Fulton ~and Miss Ault, of Glencoe, a few miles west of here, while out riding in a dog cart Saturday night were struck on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad crossing by a fast freight and instantly killed. They were waiting for the train to pass when the horse became frightened and jumped on Mhe track just as the train approached A brother of Fulton's standing near by was | dangerously injured by flying pieces of the | ~dog cart while trying to save them.. . Kloven Sailors Drowned. Mm&ﬂwm-ﬂ?amw adyices state that Wémm“mgﬂhbﬂwnﬂ% 8 VEipAtEiao Lre, tina oo Topt; with eloven - OL s e e A R R S

.. A HAMLET'S FATE. The Villiage of Princeton, 0., Almost En- - tirely Wiped Out of Existence by a Wind-Storm—Thirty Buildings Wrecked —A Report of the Death of Fifty Persons Unconfirmed. Ve Crxerwnati, July 15.—About 4 . o'clock Sunday afternoon the village of Princeton, six miles from Hamilton, 0., was visited by a severe wind-storm. Before reaching Princeton it blew the roof off the barn of Joseph Stinson, throwingit into a corn field some distance away. The dwelling-house of Finley Whitehead, in Princeton, was carried away, and his wagon-making shop near by was demolished. The large brick school-buildingin the village was torn down to the foundations and a rafter of the house was carriéd 200 yards by the force of the wind and lodged in the top of a large oak tree, while the desks and other furniture were scattered in every direction, and the blacksmith shop and barn of Gus Kinnear were both leveled to the ground. ‘The houses of John Lenharf, Rose Miller and Stephen Clawson were completely wrecked, while Ash Walter lost every thing he possessed. | The oats and corn crop- were ruined and the village was deluged with water. No deaths occurred. Thirty buildings were wrecked. - The destruction at Princeton occurred in twenty minutes. The storm was accompanied by aheavy rain-fall, and nearly every house was deluged by water. The damage to the buildings will reach $4,000, while the injury to the crops can hardly be estimated at this writing. The homeless families were taken ‘in by the neighbors whose homes escaped the fury of the tempest. A large seventy-gallon cask used for water purposes was lifted out of a dooryard and carried fully 200 yards away. . Hamirtown, 0., July 15.—1 t is said that fifty lives wore lost in the cyclone which destroyed the village of Princeton, 0., Sunday. There is no confirmation of the report, and it is disbelieved here. Parlies who came to this city for assistance deny that any deaths occurred. : CincinyaTi, July 15.—This city was visited Sunday atternoon by a terrific storm of wind and rain. The tempest lasted only twenty minutes, but in that brief period it spread consternation among thousands. After the wind had spent its force the rainfall continued with unabated fury for almost an hour. For three or four hours ~before the terrible storm thick black clouds banked up the western horizon and thousands of men, ‘women and children were on the hilltops, and it is remarkable that no fatalities resulted ' from the tornado. The storm followed a southwest course and traveled back .over the same territory, mowing down crops and houses like wheat. In all parts of the ecity windows were shattered, signs blown away and trees prostrated. At/the corner of Liberty and Freeman streets a street car was stopped by the torce of the wind. The storm raged in all the small towns outside Cincinnati. Houses were swept away and greatidamage was done to crops. Telegraph wirea are done in all directions.

AWFUL BUTCHERY.

A Woman and Four Children Shot by Her Frenzied Paramour at Somerset; Mass,— The Mother and Her Eldest Boy Dead— Retribution Follows the Murderer While Trying to Escape. g

. Bostox, - July 15.—A horrible tragedy was énacted in Somerville shertly after midnight Friday. The victims ure Mrs. Catherine Smith, aged 45 years, her son Thomas, aged 14 years, and the perpetrator of the terrible deed, Augustus Rosenberg, while two other children of Mrs. Smith s were injured, one of whom will die. The murderer has been living with Mrs. Smith - for about a year as her husband, but it is i the general belief that they were not married. The cause of the tragedy is not known, although it is stated “that Rosenberg has complained about the way he has been treated in money matters by the woman. It is supposed that a recent quarrel over their financial affairs was the chief calise of the tragedy. The scene of the shooting was at the cormer of Dane street and Dane court, Somerville. The ground floor is used as a provision and grocery store; the business having been carried on by Mrs. Smith since the disap-. pearance of her husband (Charles Smith), who is supposed to have committed suicide ‘by jumping from the Portland steamer about a year age. . Near neighbors were aroused at about 1 -o’clock by a numnber of pistol shots, and the police were promptly notified. The police entered the front door and encountered «the dead body of Thomas Smith, who received his wound probably upstairs and succeeded in reaching the lower landing before falling. A bullet had entered his forehead. He was the eldest of the children, of which there were five. Mrs. Smith was found in bed. . The indications were that she was shot while .asleep. The ball entered the right temple. All the children occupied rooms in the attic, the second floor being used for general domestic purposes, and one room by Mrs. Smith and Rosenberg. Thomas slept alone. Willie, aged 12, and Augustus, aged 7, slept together in aroom by themselves. The former was shot through the body. The wound in all probability - will prove tatal. Augusfus was shot in the mouth; the physicians think his recovery possible. They boy, Charles, aged 5 years, ‘was slightly wounded.. He was in bed with his little sister Mabel, 1 year younger. Five shots for five persons, four of them fatal, shows great deliberation on the part of the murderer.

Rosenberg met his death in a most peculiar and wunintentional manner, while attempting to escape from the scene of his fiendish work. In trying to scale a fence at the end of a lane through which he ran, the doctor thinks he fell on a pile of railroad sleepers' lying beside ‘ the Fitchburg tracks, and struck his head on a spike, which fractured his skull and instantly killed him. Dr. Durrell says there is no doubt that he was crazy. The house where the murders oceurred has been all day surrounded by a crowd of curious people. : : Citizens of Seattle Are Thankful SEATTLE, W. T., July 15.—The citizens of Beattle, by J. R. Lewis, chairman of the relief committee, have issued an address in which they return thanks for the sympathy and material aid tendered them by the people of this country since the recent disastrous conflagration here. The address sets forth that the city is being re. built as fast as money and men can do it

HARDLY CREDIBLE.

¢ A coLoNy of black snakes live in a garden in New Jersey. They make themselves nseful by allowing the pea vines to be trained over their bodies in place of stakes, ‘while two of them tie themselves into knots about the gate to keep out intruders. : “Stump” is a dog living on the Jersey coast and-owned by the captain of a pilot boat. Stump never likes to stay ashore and can never sleep in less than ten feet of .water, where he sinks to the bottom and curls up in the sea-weed and sand. All the fish eaten on the boat are caught by the ‘dog; butit is fair to state that they never eat fish on board that pilot boat. . PARROTS as pets are very common, but there is a certain green parrot in New Hampshire which is an extraordinary bird. His owner is a deacon of the church, and the bird goes with him to prayer-meeting and leads in the singing. He knows every hymn by heart, and the deacon has only to ‘give out the number of the hymn and he ‘starts off at once. Jis favorite pieceis: 'O for wings to fly.” - ke : . Tan editor of a Long Island paper has « pet turtle which he uses as a paper weight. The turtle eats nothing but printer’sink, and every night gathers up the gﬂwa on the desk into a.n‘ean»:gna ~and then sleeps on them. The burtle is marked “G. 'W., 1789,” but thatis believed to be a fraud, although any doubt uttered in his presmw%dmmdﬁév&nmus sct‘élﬁ@ eams

THE NEW YORK FLOOD. Further Detalls of the Disaster at Johnstown — Four Dead Bodies Recovered — - Ten Persons Missing—The Property Loss Heavy—Ruin at Other Places:. | ALBANY, N, Y., July 11.—A speclal to the Union frem Johnstown, N. Y., says: *Fifteen persons were carried down the Cayudetta creek. Four bodies have been recovered. Heavy rains choked streams and flooded districts. Schriever’s large mill in this place was carried away. Twenty people were on Ferry street bridge when the arch fell into the rushing torrent, which was filled with wreckage and humanity. Cries for help alarmed the residents. Chief McDonald with President Northrup, of the village, Police Justice Anderson and others organized a searching expedition. Lanterns were procured and parties went along the siream with ropes to assist in the res‘cue. One person was seen splashing and plunging in the water near the Johnstown, Fonda & Gloversville -railroad bridge, one quarter of a mile down stream. As he floated past those on the /shore he cried: “For God’s sake help me.” He was swept by in the current, so close to the shore that a man who was in a boat secured to a pile of wreckage got hold of him, but owing to the swift currens was unable to hold him and he was swept under the floating driftwood. Two other persons came'down a moment later clinging to a plank and shouting” for help, but were sweptout of sight below the railroad bridge. At 4 a. m. the body of Burt Speedwell, 15 years of age, was recovered from the debris at this place = An hour later Albert Cokely was pulled out from under the driftwood. Soon after the body of a man named Treadwell was foundin the same place. At 9 a. m.the body of Charles Frear, 55 years of aﬁacwpenter. was uncovered from under the wreck at Evans’ mills. The bodies are badly bruised. Ten persons are missing. Peter Evin, a stone-mason, says he went down with fifteen others, and was carried under the Ferry-street bridge, but succeeded in getting out below. He was bruised about the face. Purdy Case rescued two men named Nellis and Vosburgh by means of ropes. Citizens are engaged in removing the wreckage of Schriever’s mill, near the depot, where they think other bodies have been lodged. . The Ferry street bridge consisted of an arch spanning the entire width of the stream. It was upon one of the plank walks that the people were standing when the arch was carried away. Schriever's large mill is entirely wrecked and will entail ‘a loss of $lO,OOO. There are several small buildings in the village which are partially ruimed, their foundations being undermined. Many of the bridges on country roads along the valley are gone. Some of the fields of grain are partially covered with water.

Tuesday afternoon, during the heaviest part uf the storm, Main and Bleecker streets in Gloversville were flooded with water. The new pavement in Bleecker street was torn up for several blocks. A number of residences in the upper part of the town are entirely surrounded by water. The foundation ' walls of a mew stone .building now in course of construction on North Main street, Gloversyille, were partly carried away. Several small buildings are partially ruined, their foundations being undermined. Many of the bridges on country roads along the valley are gone and some fields of grain are partially covered with water. The loss to property at Gloversville will probably be covered by $3,000. It is quite likely that $20,000 will cover all the damage wrought by the storm. A -

AMsTERDAM, N. Y., July 11.—The water poured ‘down the gullies, streams and small creeks leading from the roads to Johnstown from this city, uprooting trees, spoiling all crops and destroying farm-houses, barns, etc. A barn belonging to John Pettingill was carried through Putnam’s creek, one of the swollen streams, to an arched culvert, over which the New York Central railroad, at Tribes Hill, runs, and acted as a dam over which the roaring waters rushed, washing out all four tracks of the Central for a distance of 1,000 feet and laying waste valuable farm land on the south side of the track. The damage te the Central Railroad Company alone at this point will reach §25,000.

The Utica & Little Falls wrecking crews, returning from the wreck at Heff.mans, arrived at the washout early in the evening, after experiencing some difficulty in passing a slight washeut about one mile from Tribes Hill. At the latter polnt, the water coming through a branch of Putnam creek, which flows through the lands of Aaron Pepper, and the work of desolation at this place, reminded one of the destruction at the Johnstown calamity. Mr. Putnam’s smoke-house was hurled a distance of twenty feet and landed against the stable, which gave way under the force and collapsed. Mr. Putnam’s crops were entirely destroyed. His loss will be $lO,OOO. FEARFUL STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA. . GREENSBURG, Pa., July 11.—One of the most destructive storms that ever occurred in. this section passed over the northern end of the county Wednesday evening nbout4 o'clock. Rain fell in torrents andthe creeks for miles around the mining village of Crab Tree overflowed and crops of wheat. hay and oats were carried down the streams. The waters of Crab Tree and Thorn creeks were the most damaging. Trees were uprooted in their course and buildings sit--nated on their banks have been swept away. Every bridge on both creeks from Crab Tree to Saltsberg has been carried away and two or three hundred yards of the Crab Tree branch railroad has been completely washed out. No lives have as yet been reported lost. ’ A hail-storm followed, and was most disagtrous to the corn crop, and it is thought to be entirely destroyed. The storm embraced an area of about thirty wmiles, and in many places the wheat which had been cut by the farmers in the morning. was carried down the stream in shocks. ‘At Salem and at Five Points and all along the Royal Hanna creek the damage is great. The loss will run up into thousands of dollars. It is believed the flood was c¢aused by a cloudburst, inasmuch as it was confined to that mnarrow limit, the rain here being ‘very light. The Crab Tree railroad is a branch of the Pennsylvania road, and it is thought the funll extent of the damage to the road has not yet been told, as it runs for a distance on the flat below where the washout was observed. The water isnow falling rapidly. >

] FLED WITH 8570,000. O Newald, a Horse Dealer, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., Disappears. AMILWAUREE, July 11,—A dispatch to the Sentinel from Chippewa Falls says: A great commotion has been created here by the disappearance of L. J. Newald;a well-known dealer in horse flesh, who, it is claimed, has a large sum of money in his possession which has been obtained in one way or another - from business associates. It is claimed that he Jeft July 5, but the few who became aware of his departure kept quiet, and it was not made publigtill to-day. The amount he took is variously estimated and some estimates are as h-as $70,000. : ; . The Farmer’s Friend. i GosneN, Ind., Julyll,—Prof. F. M. Web. ster, of Purdue University, has been in this locality the last few days inspecting the fields affected by ‘“‘the green midge.”” Ha declares that he finds small black bugs fol. lowing and destroying the midge, and that the work of the pest will soon be stopped by Sianewarmingk -0 o P ﬂ*&"x&@wmﬁ% ‘cent mine disaster at St. Etlenne has resﬂ%&@ n o 8 f*’“ug that the exi RlonioßWH blO the negligonse 6F & i v wﬁgﬁwfﬁ%@: iice the presen )‘i "33@ other 108 bodien have been ro. ORPEEPG oM he mi=e, . o 0 EE