Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 November 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. * > --- ' PERSON At AND POLITIC AX. At Ramsgate, Eng., the home of Sir Moses Montefioro, a grand fete was held on the 28th, In honor- of the philanthropist’s centenary. The poor were made glad by bountiful largesse. Otr the 27th the remains of Jas. Douglas, t wealthy man of .Palouse, Washington Territory, who disappeared about a year ago, were found by a party of hunters, concealed in a clump of bushes. He had evidently been murdered. This Health Exhibition in London, recently closed, netted £30,000. - Brigadier-General Benet, Chief of Ordnance of the Army, has published his annual report. j At his second trial on the 29th, Cornwall, tpf Dublin scandal fame, was again acqnitjted. , The Press Club of Chicago met on the g9th and appointed a committee to dra/t resolutions on the death of Wilbur F. Storey, late owner of the Times, i On the 28th Robert Yarwood, teller, and [W alter W. Scott, bookkeeper of the MarChants’ Bank of Belleville, Out., were reported missing. Their accounts were found correct. The actress, Sarah Bernhardt, is reported to be really ill. She is said to be a prey to the most violent excitement, and Is constantly rolling about the carpet and biting the rugs. ! Ball Granville has received advices London to the effect that China does not want England’s mediation in the difficulty with France. •- "On the evening of the 29th Mr. Blaine participated in a magnificent banquet given in his honor by prominent citizens of Hew York at Delmonico’s. ■ The Congressional Deep Water Committee, accompanied by Captain Eads, will visit Galveston, Tex., November 18th, when » further examination of the bar will be tnade. On the 29th the American Academy of Medicine, at its ninth .annual session, in Baltimore, Md., passed a resolution of thanks to William H. Vanderbilt, for his recent mnnificent gift to the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. Fred Du Vtkrnojs, a Detroit (Mich.) banker, is missing, mid so is about $40,000 which he owes depositors. His victims are mostly poor people. I On the 29th Miss Koneally, the oldest settler of Dubuque, la., died in that city, j His Royal Higiin sss, the Duke of Connaught will return home from India in November. His route will be via San Francisco. ' j Pope Leo disapproves and deplores the new movement of Irish Bishops in favor of Parnell. j On the 29th General Wolseley had arrived at Ambigol in his progress up the Nile. The Canadian boatman had succeeded in getting 120 boats over the second cataract. Judge Gresham took the oath of office as Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit on the 30th. At the Diocesan Convention in Baltimore on the 30th Rev. D. Paret, of the Epiphany Church, Washington, D. C., was elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. On the 30th Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at its session in Baltimore, Md. Rhinelander, who assaulted Lawyer Drake in New York in June, was decided on tlje 30th to be sane, and his bail was fixed at $10,000. The funeral obsequies of the late Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, took place on the 30th, and were largely attended. There was a profusion of magnificent iloral tributes. Brignoli, the celebrated Italian tenor, died at the Everett House, New- York, on the 30th, of internal hemorrhage. In the case of Chauncey St. Martin, the thirteen-year-old Brooklyn boy who stabbed and killed the bnlly who was maltreating him in Brooklyn a few night since, the Coroner’s Jury found that he acted solely In Belf-defense, and discharged him from custody.

On the 30th ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina , incarcerated in jail, at Detroit, Mich., on a charge of swindling, attempted suicide by hanging, but was discovered and cut down in time to save him for the law to deal with. He was sent to the House of Correction for three months. Ristori, the great Italian tragedienne, arrived in New York on the 30th by the steamer St. Germain. She is accompanied by her husband, the Marquis del Grille, her daughter and son. The Ohio Supreme Court granted a stay of execution in the case of Joe Palmer, who was to have been hanged in Cincinnati on the 31st. Policeman Schekloh, of Cincinnati, died on the 30th of wounds received during the disturbances which occurred at the October election. The King of the Belgians has presented King Humbert of Italy with a silver medal for devotion to thecholera-strickenpsople of Naples. On the 31st the Connelly polygamy case was dismissed at Salt Lake City. It is claimed that the editors of Charles Dickens’ correspondence have discovered his diary. Oi» the 31st a convention of Christian workers, led by Moody and Sankey, was in session at Worcester, Mass. On November 12th the Congo Conference will meet at Berlin. Prince Bismarck will “preside at the opening and Closing of the conference. ..On the 81st, Colonel Burnside, late dis-bu-sing officer of the Post-office Department, was indicted by the Grand Jury at Washington on a charge of embezzlement. At a recent Cabinet Council at Madrid, over which King Alphonso presided, the special treaty of commerce with the United States was discussed. Representatives Million and Stewart, of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, have sijjnod a minority report on the investigation by that committee. On the 31st Secretary McCulloch took the oath of office and assumed charge of the Treasury Department. On the morning of the <Hst, Preston D. Jones, editor of the Providence (R. I.) Sunday Dispatch; was found dead in his room. Supposed cause, apoplexy. At its session in Baltimore, Md., the Association for the Advancement of Women, elected Mrs. Julia Ward He ws, President. On the 30th Peter Pinkie, known as “Big Thunder” during the old-time anti-rent trouhles in New York State, died at Schodack, N. Y. Friends of the late Cadet Strcng, of w™-’ whose death at the Naval to have been 1 by severe hazing, arc investigating It is understood a gentleman from Oregon, who is taking an active part la talk with Senate Washington, and told him ‘ ‘ ‘ i evidence to the stand Opt by

Frank Bowman, fouhder of the Mendel ssbon Glee Club, died in New York on the 30th. Dominick McCaffrey challenges John L. Sullivan to fight for $5,090, and ha* 'deposited $500 forfeit with his defi. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES, On the 38th a train on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa., killed two horses and fatally injured one man seated in the vehicle to which they were hitched. One of the horses was knocked forty feet, and the animal strnck Peter Farley, a well-known citizen, killing him instantly. Fourteen persons were lolled by the firedamp explosion at Youngstown* Pa., on the 27th. Seven others were badly burned or bruised, two of whom it was thought would die. Gilbert W. Hazletike, of Jamestown, N. Y., on trial at Baltimore, Md., for the murder of Mamie Thorpe, was. found guilty on the 38th of manslaughter. On the 29th an attempt was made to wreck a train on the Union Pacific Railroad near Schuyler, Neb. On the 29th, while a cigar-factory was burning in Chicago, James Carr, the fordman, went back to the fifth story to see If any person remained. All avennes of es| cape were cut off when he attempted to turn, and in jumping he was horribl; mangled and died instantly. . On the. 27th, three more horse-thievi were hanged near Princevijle, Eastern gon. The settlers are in earnest. By the giving way of the cage gear six men were precipitated 200 feet down ‘the shaft of a mine at the Canada Steel Company’s works near Londonderry, Nova Scotia, on the 29th. Three were instantly killed, and two fatally and one seriously injured. During the recent gale off the coast of Lower California, nine schooners were sunk. The steamer Estado de Sonora is also missing, and it is supposed she went down with fifty-seven souls on board. 5,On the 29th Joseph Dixon, engineer and David Burke, firemen, were killed by the explosion of a locomotive at Locust Point, Md. While attempting to board a moving train at Dubnque, la., on the 29th, Mr. C. S. W ilson missed his footing, fell under the wheels and was killed. At Hamilton, Ont., small boys became so infatuated at a cowboys’ show there that they lassoed one of their little comrades, resulting in the boy’s death. Four peasants were killed and thirty severely injured in a railway collision near Moscow, Russia, on the 30th. On the night of the 29th Lewis Styles was instantly killed and Albert Hancock fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite at Tomah, Wis. The dynamite was in a buggy, and sparks from fireworks in a political parade ignited it. On the 30th the stable connected with Henry Kifer’s brewery at Brooklyn, N. Y., burned, involving a loss of $50,000. Fifteen fine horses were cremated and an ice-ma-chine, which cost $32,000. A party of seventeen cattle thieves were recently captured and lynched in the Gore Range Mountains, Colorado, twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. The calaboose at Edgerton, Miss., was partially burned on the night of the 29th, and a young man named Gunderson, confined therein, was burned to death. Eddie Lardon, who was found dead in the outskirts of Keokuk, la., with a bul-let-hole in his neck, proves to have been accidentally shot by a companion while they were engaged in shooting a neighbor’s chickens. On the 31st two iron-roofers fell,from the roof of an elevator at Duluth, Minn., a distance of nearly one hundred feet, and were mashed almost to a jelly. 1 On the 31st Ben Heffner, a-farmer living near Linn, O., killed his wife and then tried to kill his son and daughter-in-law. On the 31st while George K. Raposky, John Mollenwitz and John Unglovitch, Hungarians, were cutting coal in a mine, near Centralin, Pa., a huge l-ock fell, killing them. David Jones, Sanford Hastings and Charles Higgins broke out of the Sandusky (O.) Jail on the 31st and escaped. On the 31st George Smith, on trial for the murder of Henry Struck at Lancaster, Pa., pleaded guilty to murdei; in the second degree. Winfield Smith, indicted with his brother George for the same crime, was acquitted.

MISCELLANEOUS. Arrangements have been perfected for a new trunk lino railroad between Pittsburgh, Pa., and the seaboard. It will be-known as the Seaboard & Western. The strike of the Pennsylvania coal miners has collapsed and the men aro returning to work at the proposed reduction. On the 2Sth the Grand Division of Railway Conductors met in convention at Boston, Mass. They will meet in Louisville, Ky., next year. In his expedition to Khartoum, General Wolseley will have 8,500 English troops. The Mudir of Dongolu has promised to furnish a contingent of 3,000 men, to be armed with Remington rifles. A denial was made on the 30th of the report that the window-glas3 factories of Pittsburgh, Pa., would suspend in January. In many portions of Nebraska a water famine is threatened on account of the long continued drought. It is reported that yellow fever has again broken out on the west coast of Mexico. At the recent Berlin elections the Progressists were badly disappointed. Admiral Courbet’s forces in Chinese waters have been attacked with cholera. • Oshkosh, Wis., celebrated on the 39th the completition of a system of waterworks within her limits. The Commission appointed by Congress to inquire into the South American trade was in session at Baltimore, Md., on the 29th. The opinion was expressed that the surest way to secure South American business was to subsidise steamship lines, as England does. The capacity of the Russian oil |flelds of Bakoo, on the Caspian Sea, is estimated at 46,000,000 tons of crude oil annually. One well is reported as producing 3,009 barrels a day. t Governor Bunn reports the funded debt of Idaho as $69,208, and the Territory as nowjiavjng a population of 80,000. The output of mineral wealth during the last fiscal year was about $7,000,000. The Association for the Advancement of Women began a three days’ session of its twelfth annual congress in Baltimore, Md., on the 29th. Serious distress has been occasioned among the operatives by the shutting; down of the mills at Lewiston, Me.. Detroit, Mich., has been selected as the place for the North American Bee-keepers’ Association to hold its next annual meeting. The miloage of the Grand Trunk Railway has increased from 1,700 to 2,400 miles within a year, On the 30th one thousand Chinese left San Francisco for their native country, taking $500,000 in coin with them. The United States and Great Britain are engaged is negotiations with a view to establishing^ proved commercial relations between America and the Britisff WiSst India colonies. An agitation is in progress in Paris’ against the high price of bread. JBakars refused to make « reductions*

Tk.1 assertion it made by Lt Temps, one of tiie leading journals of Paris, that England is preparing to' annex the whole coast of the Red Sea to Egypt. At Angus, la., the cool miners struck on the 3)th for an advance of one-half cent a 1 bushel. Tax total number of visitors to the Health .’Exposition at London, which closed the evening of the 3Dth, was 4,167,* 6811 Os the Sfeth the American Oriental Society held its annual meeting at Baltimore, Md., Prof. W. D. Whitney, of New Haven. Conn., presiding. In Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs.. Johanna McCord, at one time in affluent circumstances, literally starved to death recently. Os the evening of the 29th Linden Cook, for over half century identified with the manufacturing interests of Fall River, Mass., fell dead on the door-step of his residence in that city. He was seventythres years of age. At its annual session at Columbus the Ohio State Dental Association concluded to di sband on account of internal dissenOir the 30th the Executive Committee of the Southwestern Railway Association decided that the Missouri Pacific was not to be recognized as a Chicago Road since it is no linger in the Wabash combination. Tub students of King’s College at Halifax, N. 8., have rebelled and demand the 'retirement of the President and several prolessors. Tub Paris Telegraphcnx is authority for the statement that Ferry has accepted England’s offer to mediate bstu^en France and Germany. Cholera is reported to have appeared in the Lower Seine region of France, and Italy has established a quarantine against all ]x>rts from Dieppe to Cherbourg. It. is announced that CommissionerGeneral Morehead, now in Canada, in the interest of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans, has received official advices that Parliament, with only two dissenting votes, appropriates $5,(X)0 for the Dominion exhibit at th'firiew Orleans Exposition. Os the 30th the German corvettes Bismarck, Gneisenan, Olga and Ariadne sailed for West Africa. The Bismarck is the flag-ship of the squadron. Tib Chinese are continuing to mass troops in the vicinity of Shanghai and Pekin. _ Tub Captain of the steamer Maasdam, which was burned at sea, makes a statement concerning the disaster. Not a man to; lost, and all arrived on the steamer Rhein at New York on the 31st. The recent German elections divide the representatives among more than six different political parties. The discharged book-keeper of the National Bank of America, Chicago, J. J. Bailie, is accused of being $<G,000 short in his accounts. A representative' of the French Government has been sent to Corea to watch the interests of Frenchmen there, as the German influence predominates in that country. On the 31st Bill Bass, colored* was hanged at Paris, Tex.: George Hill, in Cherokee County, Ga., and Ike Fain, colored, at. Kingston, Tenn. The rebels are said to have recently captured an English reeonnoitering party south of Dongola. On the 31st Albert and Charles Goodman were executed on the same scaffold in the St. Barnard Parish (La.) . ail for the murder of Louis Maspero last winter. During the seven days ended the 31st there were 205 business failures in the United States, against 231 the preceding

week. The Government of Italy will send two cruisers to the Congo .country to protect its interests. Fifty pounds of dynamite were stolen from a factory at Kindberg, Styria, on the 31st. The people were uneasy over the probable outcome. The estimated decrease of the public de t>t for October was $8,250,000. During October the coinage in the United States mint at Philadelphia was $2,411,000, which includes $1,300,000 in silver dollars and $501,505 in dimes. The Coroner’s July in the Youngstown mine disaster investigation returned a verdict that the men came to their death from an explosion of fire-damp, together with effects of after damp. :Sy a majority of one the Provincial Assembly, at Sidney,. N. S. W., shelved the resolution in favor of the federation of the Australian provinces and the annexation of New Guinea. LATE NEWS ITEMS. r Rev. Caleb A. Stevens, a Methodist minister of Troy, N. Y., dropped dead on the 1st. 1 During a political quarrel at Allegheny City, Pa., on the 1st, AVm. Case, white, fatally stabbed Albert Johnston, colored. A passenger train on the Baltimore & Oliio Road near Mansfield, O., was wrecked on the 1st. No one killed,, but quite a number were seriously injured. ‘ Ex-Congressman Cha s. J. Faulkner, of West Virginia, died at Martinsburg on the 1st. He was Minister to France under President Buchanan. i The International Meridian Conference held its final meeting at Washington, D. C., on the 1st. An ofiicitj copy of the proceedings will be delivered, to the Government. Mary Anderson appeared as Juliet at the Lyceum Theater, London, Eng., on the 1st, scoring a great success. Two hundred students at Toronto, Ont., paraded the streets at a late hour on the 1st, and in a conflict with the police many oi them were roughly handled. During a performance in the Star Theater in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 1st, some one yelled “fire.” A panic ensued, which resulted in the death of^ixteen persons; twelve were fatally injured, and a number seriously hurt. The Queen'has received telegrams from the Khedive confirming the report of the capture of General Gordon was sent to El M ahdi’s camp the 5th of October, where he was at latest accounts. Plans are perfected for the departure on the 10th inst. Of the commission appointed Congress to visit Mexico, Central and South America in the interest of commerce with the United States. Colonel Mapleson aid Mine. Patti have arrived in New York. George Hayne, white, killed William Erooks, colored, at Logansport, Ind., on tike 2d. Director-General Burke’s report on tike progress of preparations for the New Orleans Exposition shows everything in a satisfactory condition. It is said the Marquis de Caux will be granted a divorce from Mme, Patti on November 7th. The Teemer-Gaudaur second race at Creve Cceur Lake, St. Louis, Mo., on the 2d, was not a success, owing to the fact that Teemer’s boat sprung a leak. Gaudaur came iu several hundred yards ahead. He was declared the winner, but all bets declare^'off. On Ithe morning of the 1st the Willow Spring Distillery at Omaha, Neb., was damaged by fire to the extent of nearly $50,000. The fire nearly destroyed the elevator building and still-house, but the fire department succeeded In preventing the* destruction of the extensive establishment -

A HERO’S tATE. The Brate Action of the Foreman of Bam Ins Factory In Seeking the Safety of Other* Result* in the Sacrifice of HI* Own Lit*. Chicago, fix., October®, tn the bniidtng comer of Michigan and Canal streets, occupied by several firms, there was a tremendous boiler explosion Shortly after noon to-day. The windows In the rear upon the alley, where the engine and boiler were located and part of the wall were blown out. In an instani the flames followed, and the entire structure was choked with smoke. Upon the topmost floor were twenty-one girls, and eighteen men and boys. There was in the rear what is known as a fine stairway lined with iron. Down this the girls and men groped their way, their skirts and jackets pressed to their nostrils. James W. Carr, foreman of the cigar-box factory on the top floor, who gave warning to his employes, was, it is said, the last to leave the floor. He followed the men to the third floor and asked anxionsly whether all were on hand. Fearful that some might be left behind, he turned back. The employes groped their way to the ground floor and escaped. A few minutes later Carr, the foreman, was seen at a fifth-story window. He crept out upon the cornice in the dense smoke and flames and let himself down to the window-sill by his fingers. Men rushed to the roof of the building across the alley with ropes. It seemed to the excited witnesses of the terrible scene as if the' brave fellow clang there five minutes. I had to turn my head away from the awful scene. Men below with canvas he Id it stretched ont, but finally Carr canght a rope with his left band and loosened on the sill. He dropped bnt could not retain his hold and plunging through the canvas, was picked up bleeding, and it is said kis neck was broken. It is rumored that several men are missing bnt in the confusion nothing definite can be learned, and it is believed the rumor is unfounded. THE MAS HE WASTED. A Man Indicted for Morse Stealing Without H'S Knowledge Walks Into Jail Kike a Rat Into a Trap—A Faithless Woman’s Unseemly Grief. Mllfobd, Pa., October 2a In the Pike County Court, held here last week, a young man named Fred Drake was placed on trial for stealing a valuable horse, belonging to his brother-in-law, John Qnlnn. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years hard labor In the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia. From Drake it was learned that he had an accomplice in the horse-stealing, and the Grand Jury, therefore, indicted a man named Anzie White, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Greatly to the surprise of Sheriff Williamson, who should call at the jail on Sunday last but the very man White, for whom he had a warrant, accompanied by Drake’s wife, the latter having visited the jail for the purpose of bidding her husband goodbye. The wary Sheriff invited White into the cell adjoiuing that occupied by Drake, and, after locking the door, read to him the warrant for his arrest. White was , dumbfounded, as he had not learned tliat he was even suspected, let alone indicted for the crime of horse-stealing. Since the arrest of Drak e his wife, who is young and pretty, about twenty years of age, has been Jiving with White at his house. Mrs. Drake was greatly affected by White’s arrest, and wept copiously, as she conversed with him through the cell door, appearing to have no thought for her husband. Between her sobs she said White was innocent of the crime charged against him by her erring husband, and that she could prove it when the proper time comes.

RUSSIAN OIL WORKS, the Most Productive of PennsylvaiR Oil Wells Out-done by Those lu the Russian Port of Btikoov on the Cnspion Sea. Titusville, Pa., October 29. A Butler special says: “Phillips’ web No. 1 is doing thirty-one barrels an hour and Phillips’ No. 2, forty six barrels. The Christie well is doing seventy-five barrels an hour, the Conners well ninety-five barrels and the Armstrong well 300 barrels.” For the past t wo mouths the Titusville Herald has been making extensive inquiries abroad among consuls and Petroleum Associations with a view of procuring reliable information as to the Russian oil fields and what is likely to be the extent , Of their competition with American petroleum. A long article is published in the Herald to-day showing that there exists at Bakoo, on the Caspian Sea, extensive oil fields, prolific beyond anything known in the United States. The records furnished by the owners of some of the wells are given. One well produced nearly one thousand barrels in the first half hour; and another well did 3,000 barrels a day. Another well produced 15,000,000 gallons of crude oil, i£hich was sold for sixteen cents a ton for fuel, there being no demand for it for illuminating purposes. Consul-General Ferry estimates the minimum productive capacity at the Bakoo fields at 46,000,000 tons of crude oil a year. MRS. DR. PATY. Her Abilities and Her Necessities—How They Should be Recognised. St. Louis, Mo., October 29. Mrs. Dr. Pavy, widow of the Arctic explorer, arrived on the “Bayon Sara” this morning. Her stay In New Orleans, where her husband’s relatives live, was chiefly spent in endeavoring to obtain a situation as chief of a department in the World’s Fair Her friends in this city have looked with, favor npon the idea' of urging that the Department of Missouri be given to her as a recognition of her ability and her necessity, which latter is very urgent, as she has received no assistance from the Government, not even her husband’s back pay, due two years ago. The seminary which she conducted at Maryville, Mo., during the dark, uncertain hours through which she waited for her lost husband closed last June, and she has been financially unable to reopen it. While in St. Louis she will be the guest of Deputy Marshal Couzlns. A Valuable Prisoner. Lxavbhwokth. Kas., October 29. Major Wasson, the United States army paymaster who was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the Kansas State Penitentiary, was released from the prison to-day, and will go direct to Des Moines, la., where his parents reside, lie has never been closely confined, and being a good civil engineer, planned and almost superintended a fine system of waterworks for the prison until its completion. He was out a great portion of the time on surveying expeditions, locating ground for the coal mine at the prison. They Want to Know. South burt, Conk., October 29.* On Sunday Mrs. Maria Enchat was fonnd at the foot of her cellar steps dead and bruised with a lamp in one hand and the lamp-chimney at distance from the lamp. How she came there is a mystery, but the Coroner said it was an accidental death. The verdict is questioned by the people, who argue that it is at variance with all the circumstances. The people ask if she fell backward down stairs, hjiw it was that her eyes and nose showed marks of violence and how if she fell forward, the back of her head should be particularly iniurod. They await ad explanation.

STARVATION A Jill) FLENT*. A Widow Ioily, Oner in Affluent CtTCoraEtnncesy Literally starved to l)«ath In the City of Brotherly Late. Philadelphia, Pa., October 30. An inqnest held on the body of Mr8. Johanna McCord developed the fact that, the woman had actually died from starvation. Mrs. McCord was formerly quite rich, butrher husband lost his money and died, leaving her penniless. She was rts fluced to want, when Mrs. Margaret Wal* la*e, herself very poor, discovered her. For weeks they gradually starved, and ail their combined worldly possessions, save their scant clothing, found its way to thJ pawnshop. Last Monday they met Chas. Hamm, a grocer, who gave them a room over his store, bnt Mrs. McCord had already suffered so severely from want that she died next day. WHISKY'S WORK. Terrible Tragedy in Georgia as the Beanit of Over-Imlulgenee In Strong Drink—A Wife and Sisler-in-r.'iw Murdered. Tallulah, Ga., October 30. A sickening tragedy was enacted in liobin County yesterday. Mr. Eugene Beck, leading citizen, has been addicted to the use of strong drink. He returned home this afternoon, and began a quarrel with his wife, when he drew a revolver and emptied five charges into her head and heart, the woman sinking dead at his feet. Miss Addie Bailey, his sister-in-law, who was in an adjoining room, rushed in, when the remaining charge of the liend’s revolver was emptied into her hoart. Beck then fell oh the floor in a drunken stupor, from which he was awakened by the officers who arrested him. It is expected that he will be lynched, as the jail is insecure, aud the relatives of the murdered woman are desperate men. DANGEROUS DYNAMITE. The Terrible Results of an Explosion of Dynamite Carried Carelessly in a Buggy in Proximity to a Political Parade—Iguit ed by Sparks From Fireworks. Tomah, Wis., October 30. At a Democratic demonstration last evening an accklcut of the most distressing description occurred. While the, torchlight procession was in form, and marching throngh Main street, an explosion of dynamite occurred, resulting in the death of Lewis Styles, of this city and the fatal injury of Albert Hancock, of Valley Junction. Thirty cartridges were placed in a buggy and caught 'lire from the sparks from the lire-works, some of which were in the same conveyance. The horribly man&glcd body of Styles was picked up some distance from the explosion. Visiting delegations were notified and the meeting postponed. Great damage was done to the buildings on both sides of Main street lor a block. The glass aud sash In all windows were more or less broken and lights in stores extinguished. T. Lombard was in the baggy with Styles, and realizing the danger, jumped and miraculously escaped death. The escape of others in the immediate vicinity was wonderful. Styles leaves a widow and one child. -1 a >-—-. THE TRUTH OF IT.

The Story of Governor St. John’s Matrimonial Experience—Reply to a Recent Sensanational Newspaper .Report. Chicago, III, October 3L An article 'Haring appeared in the papers charging that St. John, the Prohibitionist candidate, had been divorced from his wife for desertion, and had neglected to provide for their child, Mr- Van Vleet,. editor of the Lever, was asked for Information as,to the truth i “When St. John was in Chicago he sent for me and told the story of his first marriage. He did this for fear, he said, that the Republicans might base some slanderous story upon it. He told me that when he was nineteen years old, while living in Richland County, 111., he made a . fool of himself by marrying a youngladv of that neighborhood. Soon after he dis covered he had been deceived, and thereupon went, to California to permit her to get a divorce for desertion. A year or two afterward, he returned, when public sentiment fully sustained him, and he married his second wife.” “Did he neglect to provide for their son?” “He said he did not. He said he gave the boy an excellent4 education, and that he was now in a railroad office out West doing finely.” Di SELF-DEFENSE. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury In the Cake of the Recent Brooklyn (N. Y.) Homicide —The Youthful Slnyer Justified. Brooklyn, N. Y., October 30. An Inquest was 'held this morning on the body of the boy Michael Byrne, aged eighteen, who was stabbed and killed on Monday by Channcey St. Martin, thirteen years of age. -Byrne, who was In the habit of bulldozing smaller boys, seemed to make a set on young St. Martin, and frequently, under threats, compelled him to give him money, On Monday night the boys gathered about a bonfire when Byrne approached St. Martin and demanded a cent from him. He said he couldn’t give it to him, and Byrne took hold of him and tried to throw him in the fire. The boy got away and started home. Byrne followed and, kicked him nearly all the way. The principal witness this morning was Willie Corland, who «aw the whole proceeding. He testified that St. Martin ran upon his stoop and tried to get in the house; that he got the door open and was half way in, when Byrne put his foot inside so he could not close ft. Then St. Martin turned and made .a blow at him with his knife. Byrne started down the stoop and fell at the bottom, where some of the boys picked him up and started with him to his home. The jury found that the boy St. Martin acted in self defense, and the Coroner discharged him * A Widow’s Sacrifice. St. Louis, Ho.. October 30. Lizzie Schaffer, a widow with five chil dren, has lived at 921 North Seventh foi some time past. She was very poor, and occupied a single back room on the thin] story. Abont 6ix o’clock last evening she saw the four-year-old child of a neighbor named Levy trying to scramble into her window from a porch close by. In her anxiety to save the child she, as she clutched it, overbalanced herself and falling to the bricks below was instantly killed. Strange to say, the child, whict fell clasped to her breast, was uninjured. Operation* of the Pension Bureau. Washington, D. C., October SL Third Auditor Keightly, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, states that the financial operations of his office daring the last year involved <94,676,466. The report shows that during the year pension agents made disbursements as follows: On accounts of invalids, <41,011,106; widows, <6,677,004; minors, <1,109,478; dependent relatives. <6,497,464. Oh account of the war ol .1812, there were paid to survivors daring the year <278,966, and to widows <1,682,• 302. 'The amount paid to surgeons at th( seven.* agencies during the year aggregated <636,726.

BRIGNOLI'S LAST HOURS. Death of the Celebrated Tenor, Slg. tpae* quinlino ItrignoH—Almost Unattended,He Passes Over to the Great Bejrond^A Brief Sketch of Hla Life. New York, October St Brignoli, the renowned tenor and genial man of the world died last evening at four o’clock at the Everett House, Of the countless friends and acquaintances who greeted him in public, but two were at iiis bedside—Or. Camochan, his physician, and J. Meyer, a young pupil.- Brignoli had been ill two months, but the direct cause of his death was hemorrhage of the liver: Hi: had, however, been afflicted with kidney troubles, and after singing in Duluth August 17th, hd tras feeling ill, and by the advice of a physician came to New York, where he appeared to grow stronger, and a week after his arrival was engaged with his pupil, Meyer, in writing Uew music. He also signed to perform in San Francisco for six weeks. Three weeks since he had another sharp attack of illness. He grew weaker, and a few days ago his voice began to fail him and he began to despair. He frequently asked for brandy, saying it was the only thing that' would restore his voice. When Dr. Camochan entered the apartment to-day he noticed a bad change in his condition. Meyer secured the services of one of the hotel employes to sit np all night with the invalid and was about to depart, when Brignolia beckoned him back and whispered, “if you leave me I’ll die.” Meyer placed his hand on the forehead of the sick man, and as he did so Brignoli drew a long breath and closed his eyes. The physician watched him a few moments and felt his pnlsc. It was beating feebly, and in a short time stopped. A few visitors called daring the evening and gazed upon the features of the dead tenor. A cable dispatch was sent to Paris, where a brother: and sister of Brignoli dwell, asking them what disposition they desired to be made of the body. Brignoli was bom in Naples about fif-ty-seven years since. His father was a manufacturer of gloves, but discovering that his son was gifted with an nnusnaily beautiful voice, he decided upon giving him a musical education. He effected his first appearance in the United States in 1855. In his palmy days his voice reached easijy to B flat, and its sweet and silvery timbre and the facility with which it came from his throat reminded one of Mario at his best. Of late years, of course, his organ hail lost :both compass and resonance, but in simple ballads it still had pcfwcr to enthrall the listener. As a man he was liked by those who knew him well. He married Miss Isabella McCulloch, a Southern songstress, who died three or four years ago. SAFELY IN PORT. The Passengers and CreW of the Burned Steamship Maasdam Rescued by the Bhcin, and Banded Safely In New York—Passengers* Accounts of the Disaster. New York. October 31. The steamer Rhein, which Arrived today from Bremen, reports that on OcttJ* her 24th, at seven o’clock in the evening, in latitnde 49 deg., 38 min., longitude 27 deg., 41 min., she fell in with the Dutch steamer Maasdam from Rotterdam for New York, which was .all ablaze. The Rhein took from her boats tiu passengers and crew, numbering 186 in all, and brought them to this port. The Maasdam carried a miscellaneous cargo consigned to New York. The vessel was valued at $200,000. It was abont nine p. m. when the fire was first seen. The boats of the steamship were picked np one by one as the Rhein approached. \Y. H. Vandentoon, agent of the steam* ship company, says that the Rhein, with Captain Vanderzel of the Maasdam and passengers and crew, will arrive at Hoboken at three o’clock this afternoon.

the captain's statement. Captain Vanderzee of the Maasdam, burned at sea, makes the following statement: “We left Rotterdam October 18th, with eight -cabin and 133 steerage passengers and a crew of forty-tive men. All went well until the 23d, when we encountered a violent gale, during which the petroleum tanks commenced leaking. Next day at 2 p. m. one of the crew, in looking for a leak, placed a lighted lamp near the tank, which exploded with a loud report, the contents taking fire and putting the ship iu ablaze. Every effort to control the fire was useless, so at four p. m. I ordered all hands into the boats. At nine p. m. we were picked up by the steamer Rhein. No one was lost or injured in the slightest degree. James Bray, who was a passenger on the Maasdam, says: The tire began about 7 a. m. There was much confusion at first, but the admirable conduct of the Captain and crew helped to reassure ns. The appliances lor extinguishing the flames were limited, but the men worked well. When it become necessary to take to the boats, an officer was assigned to each boat,who saw that the women got in tirst and that there were cask s of water and biscuits provided. We floated near the ship, and at dark began tiring rockets and blue lights. When the Khein came up, some of the women were so prostrated from anxiety and exposure that they had to be hoisted aboard with ropes. The Captain gave up his room to them, and did everything to make all the rescued passengers comfortable. We lost everything but the clothes we wore. X think we floated from 2 to 12 p. m. Abram Sant, of Montague, Mich., another passenger, says he thinks the boats were out from 1 to 10 p. m. The sea was quite rough. Many of the emigrants lost considerable sums of moeey. Sant’s father claims to have bad §8,500 in gold in his trunk. An officer of the Khein says: The sea was-heavy. When we sighted the burning vessel we changed our course and ran down on her. The first boat we reached was the captain’s. We picked him up with thirty others, including severalwomen and children. Wc soon came across the other five boats and took all the occupants off. Had they floated two hours longer they must have all been lost, for a heavy storm came up, which only a staunch ship coaid outride. Castle Garden Superintendent Jackson says that the authorities will not allow any of the Maasdam’s passengers to suffer, but would assist and forward them to their destination. Burned to Death in Jail. Edge rton, Miss., October 31. The lock-up here was discovered on fire Wednesday night. The Marshal being at his honse with the keys, the guard attempted to break the lock with a sledge hammer. The bars were finally removed, and the fire got under control, when the half-consumed hotly of a prisoher was found. It proved to be that of a young man named Gunderson, whose parents reside near Stonghton. He was arrested for petty larceny. He was generally considered Insane, and it is believed he set fire to the jail. s Contrary Rhinelander. New York, November 1. William Rhinelander, father of W. C. Rhinelander, who has been declared sane and is held for trial, for shooting Lawyer Drake, has instructed the family lawyer, Mr. Coudert, to arrange for the young man’s bail, and for his defense on trial. He claims that in permitting the inquiry into the prisoner’s sanity, he was acting in his son’s interest. He also claims to have furnished every comfort for his son in the Tombs. W. C. Rhinelander, on the other hand, claims to have been neglected-and persecuted, and It is said that he will not consent to be released through the family’s aid,

AN AMERICAN SCHOLAR. What Ha Hsw Boat far Sound Classical School Literature. Dr. Charles Anthon’s father, bom in Germany, came to the New World as a British officer daring the French war, tod Was Surgeon-General at Detroit. Sis mother was the daughter of a French officer. The father was a practicing physician in New York during and after the Revolution, and in 1796 he was made a trustee of Colombia College. The son, born in 1797, entered Columbia, at fourteen, and so far surpass©! his classmates that he took the told fnedal twice,- and was accordingly “excluded from competition,” as are the pictures of the great artists in the Paris Salon. On graduation he studied law lit ffee office of his elder brother, but though admitted to the bar, it was his appointment m IR20, at the age of twenty-three, to the adjunct professorship oil Greek and Latin that determined his life-work. Thenceforward for fortyseven -years, till he died in harness in 1868, he devoted an iron frame, an obstinate and unflagging industry, an extraordinary knowledge, and a patient habit of accumulation, to the instruction of his students and the editing of books. His Horace is believed to be the “first attempt at a critical edition of an ancient author in this country,” and his series of text-books, dictionaries and manuals of antiquities, amounting to forty volumes, covered almost the whole field of the educational classics. The students of to-day scarcely know how much they-are indebted to him for making easy and delightful paths Which previous writers had blocked with difficulties on the principle that “struggling makes strong. •’ His works, republished in England, made him almost as Well known there as herd. The Athenceum said: “Dr. Anthon has done more for sound classical school literature thftfl any half-dozen Englishmen.” Wedded, only to his work, he knew no respite and no’ other cares.* His working day was from four in the morning till ten at night. With his students he showed a curious mixture of harshness and friendliness, so that some—probably the lazy ones—recall him as a monstrous tyrant, and others as the embodiment of kindness. One of liis chief services to the college was the training of his coadjutor and successor, Prof. Henry Drisler, who began his college sendee in 1848, and is now the honored sefiior of the faculty.—Harper's Magazine. A Habit That Grows.

People always discount the future of a lazy boy who never does more than his stint, and is an idler whenever he is Hot Watched. His failure as a man is regarded as assured. In the sketch of a Georgia school, located m the pine woods, one of the small boys is represented as sitting on a stump with a Spelling-book in his lap and a pin in his right hand, with which he dotted every fourth word, after reciting the following: "Betsy Wiggins; Heneritter Bangs; Mandy Grizzle: Mine!” (Dot). “Betsy Wiggins; Heneritter Bangs; Mandy Grizzle; Mine!” (Dot). “Asa,” said Allen, one of the larger boys, “supposin’ that Betsy Wiggins misses her word, or Heneritter Bangs hern, or Mandy Grizzle hem, then who’s goin’ to spell them, I want to know?’7 When Asa’s class had spelled around three or four times, the supposition which Allen had suggested came to pass. Betsy, Heneritter and Mandy missed the word, and Asa found him* self burdened with responsibities he was unprepared to meet, and was flogged. Asa is a type of those boys who, whether at school or at work, do as little as they can. , Even that little must be pressed out of them. The habit clings to them when they become men. They stagger under responsibilities which trained men shoulder with ease. Opportunities come to them, but are unimproved, because they are not prepares! to use them. — Youth's Companion. Don’t Like His Face. Two young men in an art gaBery. They stop in front of a portrait, when, one of them, noticing the picture, says; “Here’s George Lagsmore. Splendid piece of work.” “I don’t admit it,” replies the other one, looking at the picture and exhibiting nervousness. “The features are hard and immovable and the eyes are cruel.” “You do Lagsmore an injustice.” exclaims the first speaker. “There never was a more benevolent man than he, and you do him a great wrong when you, say that his face is hard and his eyes cruel.” ' “Of course, I may be wrong. It is, perhaps, the dislike I have of seeing his face.” “Whv dislike P Has he ever injured you?” “No.” “You were not rivals, were vou?” “Oh, no.” “What then?” “Well, vou see, I borrowed fifty dollars from him some time ago and havn’t returned the amount. Come on, let’s not stand here. Ah, here is the picture of a wolf. Let me gaze on it.”—Arkansaw Traveler. An Amiable Would-Be Husband. Ma—“I have my doubts about Mr. Gayfellow, my dear, and wish you had not said yes before consulting me.” Daughter—“Why, what is the matter with him?” “He has no trade, business or profession that I can discover, and has certainly no expectations, as his relatives are all poor.” . “But, ma, just thinly what a good husband he will maker There won’t bo a quarrel from one year’s end to the other.” “You think so now, no doubt” “Oh! but, ma, I am sure of it He is so amiable.” '“Perhaps his .amiability has not been tested!” “Ah! but it has. You know how most men Bate parents-in-law.” “Yes.” “Well, he said he would not object at all to living with you and pa.”—N. Y. Telegram. —A Southern Episcopal Bishop was dining in Boston recently, when a young clergyman wishing to say something agreeable asked him how his wile enjoyed the heat “down there,” but politely withdrew the question when the Bishop blandly informed him that she bad bean dead two years.—Bwton fbsf. , . —The best test of good farming is when each year’s crop is superior *0 the one preceding it- *

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.1 —The Garfield memorial window a\ Williams College has been finished al the cost of $3,645. —The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a yeai' than most scholars do in their great libraries.—F. B. Sanborn. ' —Vassar College has graduated 59fl students in the regular course. Since the year 1867 twenty-seven of those have died and 188 married.—Poughkeepsie Eagle. —Among the last acts of the Hygienic Congress was a denunciation of tha modem system of education and competitive examinations as eminently prejudicial to the health of those subjected to ik —The Five Points Mission, a Methodist institution in New York served during the last year 99,200 dinners tq needy people, and sent 313 children into the country. The receipts in cash and goods were $42,617,28. — N. Y. Triutm. —President Barnard, of Colombia, tried to quell a cC ne rush the other (My, and, being inadvertently pushed by a participant, reached out 'vith his right in a manner which caused ti? blood to flow copiously from the freshman’s nose.—N. Y. Sun. ' —The Scottish Church Review give* the following statistics of the progress of the Church of Scotland: From 1850 to 1884, the clergy increased from 121 to 241, parsonages from 32 to 120, and tbe contributions from $15,520 to $89,080. The number of Bishops remains as at the beginning of the period. —The American Board of Missions, whose annual meeting recently concluded at Columbus, O., reports that of the $20,000,000 which have passed into its treasury not a dollar has-been lost by any loose management. The next meeting of the Board, being its seventydifth anniversary, will bo held in Boston, forty churches joining in the cordial invitation. —A sermon was recently preached by a prominent clergyman on the “Sin of Cheapness,” in which he argued that the craving for cheapness and hunting after bargains are not only economically fglse^but a cause of suffering to thou-t sands o# people who are oppressed in the factories and workshops, in order to furnish cheap articles for the insatiable public.—Chicago Times. —On the school-house grounds of a sub-district in Lucas "County is a pump. The neighborhood used it to such an extent that the sub-Director locked it up. The public claimed he had no right to do so, as the grounds belonged to sthe public and the pump was public property. The Director appealed to the State Superintendent, who decides that a sub-Director has exclusive control of a school-house, and that the grounds are a part of the school-house; that neither can be used for any but school purposes, nor are they for the use of the public. The Director was sustained. The public have no right to the use of the pump unltfe by vote of the-electors of the district.—Iowa State Register. 1 fl M % m > „ WIT AND WISDOM.

—Love 5s better than doctrine, yet false doctrine will always destroy pure love. —An Indiana school-teacher arrested a man for kissing her without permission. Verdict—-Not guilty on account - of insanity.—Chicago Tribune. A young lady who was blamed for allowing her glove to be discovered in tt young man’s pocket stated that she had no fiand In it.—N. T. Graphic. —A goo8 man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, anil at times grieved at it, but no man is ever discontented with the world if he does his duty in it. —“Distrust that man who tells you to distrust,” says Ella Wheeler. And so we do, Mrs. Wilcox. But, on the other hand, must we trust the man who tells us to trust? Not by a jug full.”—Norristown Herald. "Why, how you’ve changed; I would not know you from Adam.” “Hang the luck.” "Why do you say that?” ‘.‘Well, I’m tired of hearing so much about that fellow thatlookalikeme.”— Jtochcster Post-Express. —Infinite toil would not enable you i to sweep away a mist;but by ascending a little., you may often look over it altogether. . So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle 'fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.—N. F. Tribune. —“Yes,” said the high-school girl to Amy. “I think Adolphus must be taking lessons in color, for IJheard Jim say this morning that he saw him decorating the municipality with vermilion.”. “Doing what, Mildred?” asked Amy.1 “Well, Jim said ‘painting the town red,’ but that expression is too vulgar,, yon know.”—Oil C$y Derrick. —“Have you ever experienced extreme cold, discovered that your senses were becoming numb, and a delicious languor stealing over you that you were > powerless to shake oft? I have.” “So ; have I, often.” “Where?” “In Boston. I used to call, on a Boston girl twice a week.” —The Dimple on Her Chin. e TKe poet wrote a sonnet, -"“To the Dimple oil Her Chin,* Aiid sent it to a paper, with request they’d “put it in.™ Next morning ho was frantic, And he swore it was a sin. When he found his sonnet headed: “To the Pimple ou Her Chia.” —Jingo. —“The worst is over,” said the doc-' tor, pntting his watch in his pocket and preparing to leave the room. “No, it isn’t,” suddenly came from the emaciated Crimsonbe&k, opening his eyes and raising himself on his pQlow. "“Why! What do you mean?” exclaimed the surprised physician. “Why, I mean that the worst won't be over nntil I get, your bill out of the way.”—Yonkers Statesman. She Did’nfr Like His Name. They were sitting on the Geary street car. His arm had fallen gently on the window-sill and slipped down quietly and accidentally around her waist She did not look as though she knew it, and — he pretended to be doing nothing out of the way. The conversation was not very coherent, however, and they had lapsed into blissful silence, when at the crossing the conductor put his head in suddenly and called oat! “Jones!” He jumped up and she started. “I beg your pardon, I—” . “Street,” added the conductor, and banged the door. She told him she would only change her namq if he changed his. She said she despised a i man who was named after a sweet.— I San Francisco Chronicle.