Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. ; RENSSELAER. INDIANA. G.E. MARSHALL. - PITBUMWOt

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

_:i--- i‘-- nr WR K A IT. ML JbmK* JE*-oLCP A • Im a curve near Silver Creek, N. J., aa excursion twin and a freight train came in collision, the smoking car being telescoped by the baggage car. Fifteen persons were killed and mangled in a shocking manner and fifteen others more or less seriously wounded. AT Irringten-on-the-Hudaon, George J. Gould, eldest son of Jay Oould, the millionaire, was united in marriage to Miss Edith Kingdon, the actress, who arrived from Europe a few hours previous to the ceremony.... New York dispatch: “James G. Blaine Jr. has returned to this city and rejoined his bride. After their marriage the young couple went to Boston, where they remained two days. Young Blaine then started for his home, while his bride returned to this city. Mr. J. G. Blaine has pardoned his son, and has given him a liberal allowance to spend during the honeymoon.” At Hartford, Conn., the memorial arch, erected in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the war was dedicated with imposing services and a grand parade. General Joseph R. Hawley delivered the address. ... .Seven Governors of States and Representatives of three others met at Philadelphia to arrange for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the promulgation of the National Constitution, which will take place September 17, 18«7. Thb accounts of Deputy Collector Smith, who was recently deposed from the New York Custom House, were found to be over >5,000 short.... The nephews of Samuel J. Tilden have concluded to conging match between John L. Sullivan and Frank Hearld came off at Allegheny City. The fight was short and vicious, the event being stopped by the police during the second round. The referee awarded the fight to Sullivan, who gave ample evidence that he oould have knocked Hearld out.

THE WEST.

There an still twenty-six of the Chicago policeman wounded in the Haymarket riot unable to report for duty. The total amount subscribed to the fund donated to the sufferers is $70,361... .By removing a rail on the Grand Trunk track near South Lyon, Mich., some miscreant caused the death of a fireman and the injuring of an engineer and brakeman. Iris said on the authority of a Cincinnati priest that Pope Leo has ordered that the $4,000,000 owed by the late Archbishop Purcell be paid within five years. Several conferences of the Bishops of the Cincinnati diocese have been held in the last three months, at which the subject of the debt has been considered, but no satisfactory basis of settlement has been agreed upon.... Julius Baum & Co., ' wholesale clothiers at San Francisco, have made an assignment with liabilities estimated at between $750,000 and $1,000,000... .Robbers blew up the farm-house of John W. Shryock, near Olney, W,, and escaped with $1,400 in money, after shooting Mr. Shryock in the feg... .Near Chetek, Wis., a farmer named Upeold killed his wife with a razor and hanged himself with a bed-cord. Joliet, DI., was* swept by a cy.’aone which demolished fifteen or twenty houses. Despite this frightful destruction of property not a person was fatally hurt. Everybody seemed to be aware of the approach of the cyclone some minutes before it struck the city, and secured their .safety by fleeing to their cellars. The cyclone came from the southwest straight up the Desplaines River. Constant flashes of lightning lit up the sky so that the funnel-shaped monster could be plainly seen as it came whirling toward the city with a roar like a hundred locomotives blowing off steam. The air was filled with boards, limbs of trees, sections of roofs, andpieoes of heavy timber. A. bridge was picked up bodily and deposited almost intact two blocks away. A heavy grindstone was blown 250 feet. Pieces of houses were carried a quarter of a mile. A large number of houses were more or less moved from their foundations and wrenched out of shape, many of them with great patches of shingles missing from their roofs. Telegraph poles were twisted off like pipestems, and the streets blockaded with a mass of tangled wires. Numerous holes were scooped out of the hard gravel streets. Eye-witnesses say that these holes were made* by balls of electricity, o« fire, winch bounded along the ground during the rush of the cyclone. Great trees were torn up, and their bodies twisted into every imaginable shape. Numbers of horses and cows were buned beneath falling barns, and-some were badly crippled. The horse and buggy of Deputy Sheriff Ward was hitched in front of nis* house when the cyclone came, and after it had passed the horse and buggy had disappeared, and no trace of it has yet been found. The damage to property in" the eity is estimated at $75,000, and may exceed that sum.

Frank Buck, a cattle dealer, was gored to death by a bull at Greenwood, Neb. One of the animal’s horns was run through his neck, and every bone above his hips was brokei... .George T. Setter, Assistant Secretary of the Cincinnati Board, of Public Works, is under SIO,OOO bail, charged with embezzling $6,000. It is said that the stealing has been going on for five years, and that other officers are implicated..... A dispatch from Nobart, Neb., says that “a party of hunters, including Judge Albert Herrp and Dr. Dinsmore, found a girl of 18 half-dad and chained to a log in the wall of a dilapidated dug-out in a lonely part of the Indian reservation. The girl was nearly dead of exposure and Granger. She said that her name was Mary Lathrop; that she was lured from her home at Rhinebeck. lowa, five weeks ago by her accepted lover on the promise that he would many her; that after they had left her home they had been joined by three young men; that when she had been brought to the spot where found she had been chained and repeatedly assaulted by the men nearly every day. A lynching party is now searching for the three men.”

THE SOUTH.

It is said that not more than twenty white families are left in the town of Summerville, S. C. A shock occurred there on the 15th inst. which overthrew a small brick building. At a meeting of the relief com* mittee at Charleston it was stated that it would take at least $1,000,000 to make necessary repairs upon the residences of the people, who are unable unaided to repair their homes. Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, Command-er-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Be-

puMfc, who went to Charleston for the purpose of examining the situation of affairs, has issued an apiieal to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he requests department oom man de re to call upon each post in their department to appoint committees to collect subscriptions to the relief fund. The money collected is to be transmitted to headquarters, whence it will be sent to the Mayor of Charleston. Am avalanche of stone crashed down the mountain side upon the home of Leslie Cummins, in Jackson County, West Virginia. Frank Cummins and Edward Jenks, the hired man, were killed, as were also five horses. Two children were so badly cruahed that they can not recover. The house and barns were smashed to kindling wood. General 8. W. Cbawfobd, who went to Charleston immediately after the earthquake, has returned to Washington. He says that the most pressing need in the afflicted city just now is among the small property-holders, whose little homos have been destroyed. These people are utterly Upable to repair their ruined dwellings unless it be by mortgaging or otherwise incumbering the property to an extent that would in most cases be a virtual transfer.

WASHINGTON

The conscience fund of the Federal treasury has been increased by a contribution of $677 from New York, the amount of an error recently discovered in the payment of internal revenue tax... .It is held that the schedule of fees fixed in 1867 for attorneys and agents prosecuting claims before the Treasury Department is still in force. This protects widows and children of soldiers from extortion by claim agents. Acting Secretary Fairchild has issued a call for $15,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds. What is commonly known as the voluntary bond call, or the circular of Aug. 30, issued by the Treasury Department, offering to redeem uncalled 3 per cent, bonds to the amount of $10,000,000 if presented before Sept. 15, has been so modified as to offer to redeem, until further notice, all 3 per cent, bonds presented at the Treasury at par, and with accrued interest up to the date of redemption. Secretary Whitney has issued to the assignees of John Roach, in full payment of all claims for the Dolphin and Puritan, a warrant for $45,000. It is reported from Washington that Secretary Manning will go to Austria as United States Minister instead of returning to the Treasury Department.

POLITICAL.

A secret organization has been formed at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the sole purpose of purifying the polities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. The organization includes over seven hundred of the stanchest and most influential business and professional men of the two cities. It will not take active part in any political fight until the membership has reached 10,000. I The Wisconsin Labor party assembled in State Convention at Neenah, and nominated an out-and-out labor ticket, constituted as follows: Governor, Colonel John D. Cochrane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd; Secretary of State, J. P. Jasperson: State Treasurer, Frederick Hoenig; Attorney General, John E. Thomas; Railroad Commissioner, Henry Zinn; Superintendent of Public Institutions, J. K. McGregor; Insurance Commissioner, Rittner Stephens. The platform declares that the use of violence in any form to settle disputes is utterly unjustifiable in a civilized community, whether advised by fanatical anarchists or* practiced by corrupt politicians; favors the Government control of money, land, means of communication, and public improvement; advocates labor bureaus, conducted in the interests of the whole people; the simplification of laws to but one on each subject; arbitration in place of strikes; the prohibition of child and convict labor; a graduated income tax; the amendment of the patent laws so as to give labor a part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions, and to prevent monopolies; the forfeiture of all land grants, find the abolition of alien ownership in lands; a Government loan of money, and a rigid enforcement of the law against the importation of foreign 1ab0r.... The Pennsylvania Greenback-Labor Convention at Harrisburg was presided over by Congressman Brumm. A resolution declaring that the convention should not affiliate with any other party or indorse any other candidates was adopted with a shout, after which the following ticket was nominated: Governor, Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John Parker; Auditor, General Daniel S. Early; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Seth H. Hoagland; Con-gressman-at-Large, Dr. 0. D. Thompson. The platform of the party demands that the Government shall issue all money; that no more bonds be issued by the Government; that all unearned lands be forfeited; that after 1900 the Government buy all lands held by aliens; that any deed made by a citizen of the United States to an alien after January, 1887, shall be void, and that land held by individuals or corporations in excess of 160 acres, whether improved or unimproved, shall be taxed as cultivated land; denounces convict, imported, pauper, and heathen labor; demands a graduated income tax; the recognition of trades unions, orders, and such other organizations, and that the Government buy all telegraphs and railroads; favors a practical eight-hour law; the prohibition of child labor: the abolition of the contract system in public work; the adoption of laws providing for the health and safety of workingmen and their indemnification from injuries.... At a State convention of the Missouri Prohibitionists, held at Sedalia, the following ticket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, I. B. Orr; Superintendent of Public Schools, A. J. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. F. Brumer. The platform arraigns the Democratic and Republican parties and urges voters not to abandon their demands of Congress to suppress the liquor traffic wherever it is prohibited by law; that a prohibitory amendment be submitted to the next Legislature of Missouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced. It declares for woman suffrage.... Congressional nominations: William H. Neeoe, Democrat. Eleventh Illinois District; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J. H. Gallinger, Republican, Second New Hampshire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth Missouri; Editor Joseph B. Cheadle, Republican, Ninth Indiana; Robert M. La Follette, Republicen, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace, Greenbacker, Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy, Greenbacker, Eighth Hlinois; John J. Donovan, Democrat, Eighth Massachusetts; M. A. Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire; Dr. Stelye, Democrat-Greenbacker, Fifth Pennsylvania; Martin L. Clardy, Democrat, Tenih Missouri; Marshall Parks, Democrat, Second Virginia; W. H. Forney, Democrat, Seven h Alabama; Frank T. Shaw, Democrat, Second Maryland; Baroes Compton. Democrat, Fifth Maryland; John H. Rogers, Democrat, Fourth Arkansas; E. C. McFetridge, Republican, Second Wisconsin: Justin R. Whiting, Democrat - Greenbacker, Seventh Michigan;

IvtS Dungan, Democrat, Eleventh Ohio; J. J. Png. ley, Republican, Twelfth Ohio; R. M. Murray, Democrat, Third Ohio: Gen. Jasper Packard, Republican, Thirteenth Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Republican, Montana Territory; 0. B. Thomas, Republican, Seventh Wisconsin; Sherwood Dixon, Democrat, Seventh Illinois; W. W. Adler, Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois.... An Augusta (Me.) dispatch says that official election returns from 472 towns are as follows: Bodwell; Republican, 68,115; Edwards, Democrat, 54,764; Clark, Prohibitionist, 3,839; scattering, 192. Bodwell’s plurality, 13,351; Bodwell’s majority 9,493.... The National Anti-Saloon Republican Convention, held in Chicago last week, had nearly two hundred delegatee, representing eighteen States. Senator Blair was made temporary Chairman, and announced that they met to organize for the destruction of the" rum traffic throughout the country. Ex-Senator Windom was elected permanent President. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the Republican party take a decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and favoring legislation by Congress to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor in the Territories. Mb. McFetbidge declines the Republican nomination for Congress from the Second Wisconsin District. ...The total vote of Arkansas in the September election foots up 143,000. The Democratic majority is 37,000. The Legislature stands: Rouse, 90 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 3 Wheelers. Senate, 37 Democrats, 5 Republicans and Wheelers.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The citizens of Wheeling, Wert Virginia, assembled by thousands the other evening to witness the lighting of natural gas, from a pipe runing into Pennsylvania. A marked change in the manufacturing line is certain to occur... .Two hundred persons are thrown out of employment bym. strike of the puddlers employed at the East End and Lights A Kapps rolling mills at Lebanon, Pa. They were refused an advance of fifty cents per ton. The building strike at Detroit is over. The stonecutters and bricklayers have resumed work. The Labor Congress in session at Toronto protested against the Government placing the results of convict labor on the market The miners in the Oakhill pits, near Brazil, Ind., went on a strike. The trouble grew out of some alleged lightweight scales, and 150 men left their picks and shovels... .There was 183 failures in the United States last week, against 153 the previous week, 148 in 1885, 305 in 1884, 177 in 1883, and 139 in 1882. The total failures in the United States this year are 7,187, against 8,193 in a like period in 1885.

GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Postmasters of the United States, held in Chicago last week, it was decided to organize a mutual benefit association... .Arthur Arthbuthurst, with several aliases, confesses that he ms paid $2,500 to kill ex-Mayor Bowman, of East St. Louis, and that his accomplice was a resident of St. Louis and Vice President of a railroad company . Arthbuthurst is under arrest at Covington, Tenn. ; Foub hundred and sixty Chiricahua and Warm Spring Apaches have been transported by the Government from Arizona to Florida. Three companies of infantry guarded the special train conveying them. More than half the party are squaws and The Society of the Army of the Tennessee held its annual reunion at Rock Island, 111., last week. The society elected General Sherman and decided to meet next year at Detroit. A resolution wab adopted calling for the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability of selecting a permanent headquarters and choosing a central place for holding the annual sessions. The American Agricultural and Dairy Association held its seventh annual convention in Philadelphia last week. The members characterized the passage of the oleomargarine bill as the greatest victory ever won for the farmers. The protection of American industries was Remanded. President Cleveland wrote a letter expressing regret that he could not be present..... A special agent of the Treasury Department ■who receiitly returned from Alaska says the* master of the seized British vessel Onward admitted having killed his catch of seal along the shores of the islands.

FOREIGN.

Bulgaria is to purchase, for $400,000, the property in that country owned by Prince Alexander, retaining half that sum to liquidate the Prince’s indebtedness to the national bank. A Vienna dispatch to the London Times asserts that Russia, Germany, and Austria will take common action in regard to the vacant throne... .Father Fahy, a priest of Woodford, Ireland, has been sent to prison for six months for threatening a landlord whose tenant had been evicted... .The eleven English fishing boats seized by France have been released. Cholera is gaining ground in Austria and Italy. The disease is still at Seoul, Corea. In July there were 38,600 fatal cases out of a population of 250,000. At Shinshu 5,000 and at Torai 6,000 deaths in -one month are reported... .Japan advices say that the total number of cholera cases in Japan since its first appearance this year is 59,000, of which 37,000 ended fatally... .Seven persons were instantly killed by the collapse of a suspension bridge at Ostrau, in Moravia. A squadron of uhlans was riding across when the structure fell. Nottinghamshire lace manufacturers ask their employes to accept a wage-reduc-tion of fifty per cent. A lockout is imminent. .. .At Bucharest, in Roumania, an assassin shot at M. Bratiano, the Roumanian Prime Minister, on the street. The bullet missed its aim and wounded a member of the; Chamber of Deputies. The angry populace nearly wrecked an opposition newspaper office, and vainly ored to take the assassin from the hands of the authorities. Emperor William has recovered from his recent illness.... Prince Carlos of Portugal and Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince of Wales, are betrothed.... The Lancashire master cotton spinners have abandoned their proposed attempt to reduce wages 5 per cent... .The boat race between William Beach, of Australia, and Jacob Gaudaur, of St. Louis, on the Thames, for SI,OOO a side, was won by the former by four lengths.... An interesting feature of the late French military maneuvers was the experiment of balloon surveying. Surveyors reconnoiter in a captive balloon that is connected with the inflation apparatus carried in a cart below at a ga110p.... A n»ob in Belfast gathered around a J policeman who was arresting two drunken i man for fighting, and it was with the ; greatest difficulty that the prisoners

were secured. As soon as the batrack doors were close behind the prisoners a fearful attack was made upon the building by the mob. Outside shutters were torn down, apd windows were smashed with brickbats and paving stones. The four constables within the barracks fired eleven rounds, killing one man and wounding several others. In the melee a woman was wounded and has since died. The cable reports two serious riots in Liverpool. One resulted from an encounter between Orangemen and Nationalists; the other had ils origin in inflammatory speeches at a socialist meeting. Many of the rioters were arrested.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Db. Casewell, State Veterinarian of Illinois, has discovered pleuro-pneumonia among distillery cattle in and about Chicago. Strict quarantine has been established, and there is every probability that nearly three thousand beeves will be slaughtered... .Martin Irons was arrested at Kansas City and taken to St. Louis to answer to an indictment for complicity in tapping the private wire running into Vice President Hoxie’s residence.... C. S. Hayes, editor of the Traver (Cal.) Tidinatt, while chatting with his betrothed, Miss Lulu Smith, in the house of Dr. Lovelace, of Lemoore, Cal., was shot and instantly killed by some unknown person,, who in the darkness managed to escape. The shot was fired through a street wirescreen door, near which Hayes was sitting. A lover, who was jealous of Hayes’ attention to Miss Smith, has been arrested on suspicion. The case of The United States vs. The Bell Telephone Company was begun Sept. 20 at Cincinnati, Circuit Judge Jackson and District Judges Sage and Walker occupying the bench. Argument was begun against the jurisdiction of the court. ExSenator Thurman and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald are opposing counsel in the ease. Mr. Thurman was serenaded at Columbus, and in a speech said: “I shall never again hold office—never be able to reward friends or punish foes.” Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to end his controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore he will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of facts and perversions of the record.”.... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Rep.), for Governor, 12,850 majority over the Democratic candidate. E. P. Wilson, at present commissioner of three railway associations, will next month become General Passenger Agent of the Northwestern Road, R. S. Hair having resigned. ’ Seven hundred men employed in the woolen mills of Seville, Scofield, Son & Co., in Philadelphia, struck for an advance of 15 per cent, in wages.

CaPt. Abbey, commanding, the revenue steamer Corwin, reports that he has taken to Nanai Nio, B. C., twenty-two British seamen released from seized sealers, and that the master and mates of the captured craft have been convicted and sentenced to fines or imprisonment, or both. A New York paper reports that a keeper in the Kings County Insane Asylum placed a helpless lunatic in a bath of boiling water, so that when the unfortunate man, who screamed horribly, was taken out, his flesh was parboiled, resulting in death in a short time. .has been arrested. Colonel Debars writes from Havre that the French Government will take no steps toward the repeal of the decree against American pork ... The American Consul at Trieste reports that Russian petroleum is crowding out the Pennsylvania product an account of the lower prices.... A regiment of infantry, with ; a number of men from two cavalry regiments, in all numbering about three hundred, attempted a revolution at Madrid. They deserted their barrracks, after beating their officers and wounding three, and marched in two bodies through the town, being joined en route by many civilians. One body went to the Prado, where 2,000 troops were quartered, whom the revolutionists expected to join them. The other body went hurrahing through the center of Madrid, calling on the people to join in the revolution, crying “Live the republic!” and making all kinds of threats against the monarchy. The insurgents attempted to secure possession of the arsenals, books, and barracks, which they.Jattacked with open fire, but all these places were well and successfully defended, and the rebels were repulsed. Finally, their reverses drawing them together, "the insurgents attacked ana got possession of the Southern Railway. After a short fight at the railway the loyal troops dislodged the revolutionists, who dispersed into the country.

THE MARKETS.

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CHARLESTON.

Patching Up the Shattered Houses— The Work of Relieving the Sufferers. ' -t--,.-[Charleaton special.] Strenuous efforts are being made to patch up the housek in a rude way to make them water-tight, and allow residences to be occupied and business to be resumed. Considerable excitement has been caused by the refusal of bricklayers to work for less than $5 a day. The objection, apparently, is not so much to the amount asked for as to the character of the work done, many of those claiming the advanced rate being inefficient. Under instructions from the Treasury Department Mr. Earl Sloan has visited the reported fissure on the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, and finds it due to the contiguity of a mill-pond, and not to the earthquake. Mr. Sloan will visit the fissures iu and about Summerville and traverse the whole line of the South Carolina railway, examining the phenomena reported and observing specially any changes in levels of the earth. At a special meeting of the City Council Mayor Courtenay reported that the amount of tbe relief fund to this time is about $100,009. He said further that with the large measure of relief necessary to reach the many sufferers it was hardly necessary to say to the Aldermen of Charleston, how small this sum would be when divided among the sufferers. “To show,” he said, “the grossest ignorance as to the amount received and the needs of the ,city, it bas been deliberately suggested that no taxes be levied next year, and the relief fund be used instead. ’ As the taxes in 1886 in Charleston reached nearly $900,000, it is easily seen how fallacious and misleading are such suggestions.

THE NEW PUBLIC PRINTER.

Thomas E. Benedict Sworn In as the Successor of S. P. Bounds. [Washington special.] Public Printer Thomas E. Benedict has been sworn in, giving a bond for SIOO,OOO, the sureties of which are citizens of Ulster county, New York. The new Public Printer said that until he got his hands well on to the reins of the office he did not contemplate making any changes. He also said that he would undoubtedly make changes as rapidly as he thought they were advisable- He has, since the fact of his apnointment became known, been overwhelmed with applications for positions under him, and with letters asking that many of those already in be kept in. As yet he has made no appointment whatever. The<e are a number of men whom he has an eye upon with a view to their appointment to the more important subordinate positions, but he has as yet definitely decided upon very few. He certainly could, if he desired, provide places for many people. He will be at the head of a pay-roll of 2,400, all of whom he can remove or keep in place, just as he sees fit, without any reference to the CivilService Commissioners. Many of the 2,400 places are very good ones, varying in their salary attachments from $1,200 to $2,100 a year. ----- -

TROUBLESOME APACHES.

They. Are ’Prisoners of War—The Disposition of Geronimo. [Washington telegram.] Gen. Drum, acting Secretary of War, speaking of the statement made by Gen. Miles that the Apaches now on their way to Fort Marion, Fla., were never prisoners of war, said that, although they may not have been disarmed, the President always considered them as prisoners of war, and as such they were turned over to Gen. Crook. The best proof of their being prisoners of .war, Gen. Dram said, was the fact that otherwise they could not have been held under military control. The War Department could nbt have fed them otherwise, and they would of necessity have been under the charge of the Indian Department. General Phil Sheridan says he does not know whether any conditions attach— to Geronimo’s surrender. He believes the chief is entitled to no mercy, and says: *lf he can not be dealt with summarily he will probably be removed east of the Mississippi—to Florida, perhaps—the very place he doesn’t want to go. The Dry Tortugas would be a good reservation for him.”

MINE DISASTER.

Cave-in in a Pennsylvania Colliery That May Have Cost Several JLlves. [Scranton (Pa.) dispatch.! The Marvine Shaft Colliery of the Delaware <fc Hudson Canal Company was the scene of an extensive cave-in this morning, by which it is feared a number of men have lost their lives, how many it is impossible to say, the suppositions varying from six to nine. There seems to be but little question of the death of one of them, an elderly man named John Shafer. A number of men were cut and bruised by falling rock and coal in making their escape up the slope. Following are the injured: Henry Shafer, shoulder bruised and three ribs broken; Thomas Healy, laborer, slightly hurt; Joseph Ready, driver, toes smashed; George Mason, miner, hand badly cut; Peter Kelly, timber boss, was struck on the back of the head and on the shoulder by a falling rock. Kelly passed John Shafer, an elderly man, at the foot of the slope. So far as is known, the names or the missing men, in addition to are as follows: ' John Carden, laborer, 30 years of age, married; John Young, miner, 55 years; married and has three children; Patrick McNulty, miner, married, has seven children; Cormac Maguire, miner, 55 years old, married, has two children; Patrick Kavanaugh, miner, aged 45 years, married, has six children; Patrick Murphy, laborer, 25 years, single; Patrick Harrison, laborer, 35 years old„ single. Sweets for the Sweet. A BROKEN-HEARTED widow, who rdher husband, dyed her lap-dog black while waiting for- the latest style in mourning dress to be announced. < Miss E. R. SKIDMORE, of Washington, is credited with having made SI,OOO out of her correspondence in connection with the President’s wedding. She is a credit to the profession. _ A CASE of domestic scandal was under discussion at a tea-table. “Well. let us think the best of her we can,” said an elderly spinster. “Yes," said another, “and say the worst.”

DEATH ON THE RAIL.

Two Trains on the Nickel-Plate Come Together at a Curve with ' Frightful Results. Eighteen Persons Killed and a Dozen. ■ or More Desperately Injured.

[Buffalo telegram.] A Niagara Falls excursion train on the Nickel-Plate Railroad, from Ashtabula, Ohio, collided with a local freight train in the cut on the curve just east of Silver Creek, on the morning of the 14th inst. Lewis Brewer was the engineer of the excursion train, diawn by engine No. 139, and William Harris was engineer of the freight train, drawn by engine No. 6. Both engineers and firemen saved themselves by jumping. The excursion train consisted of one baggage-car, One smoker, and eleven coaches. Only those in the smoking-car were hurt, it being completely telescoped by the baggage-car. The corrected list of killed is as follows: W. W. Loomis, aged 40, of Erie, Pa. Emory Stoddard, aged 54. of Pittsburg, Pa. W. N. Stoddard, a sou of the above, of Pittsburg, Pa. Stephen Culverton, Mayor of Waterford, Pa. John Fleeker, aged 27, Pittsburg, Pa. David Sharp, of Erie, Pa. Charles Hirech, aged 30, of Erie, Pa, W. W. Restetter, of Erie, Pa. John Lythers, supposed to be from Erie, Pa. W. P. Reynolds, Deputy United States Marshal, of Dunkirk. N. Y. John Myers, aged 28, of Erie, Pa. Orrin Parkhurst, of Mayville, N. Y. John F. Gilbert, of Pittsburg, Pa. Henry Gebhart, aged 44, of Pittsburg, Pa. Frank Gebhart, a son of the above, of Pittsburg, Pa. John Siefert, of Erie, Pa. Unknown man, thought to belong to Erie, Pa. Henry Hike, rescued alive, but who died from his injuries. A dozen or more persons were seriously injured, some of them so badly as to preclude all hope es recovery. There are various causes given for the collision. Engineer William Harris of the freight train is blamed. It is .said he had orders to meet the excursion train at Irving. He failed to obey the instructions and was running at full speed when the crash occurred. Trainmen will not talk regarding who is to blame. A gentleman who was on the train says that the freight train had orders to go to Silver Creek and the passenger train to Irving, which is this side, and it was these orders that caused the collision. The excitement among the survivors was intense. The scenes in the smoking-car were' most harrowing. The first warning that was given was the slight jar caused by the heavy pressure of the air brakes. Some of the passengers stirred themselves in their seats, seemingly apprehensive of danger. Then came the terrible shock, followed by the smashing of windows and the roof of the car, and all was a mass of bleeding and struggling humanity. Men covered with blood were locked in each other’s arms, while underneath them and on all sides lay the poor crushed out of all human semblance. The wounded crawled out of the debris, and were assisted to the neighboring houses. People brought bedding, etc., on which to lay the dead and dying, and did all they could to relieve the suffering until the arrival of medical aid. Mis. J. H. Sigel, of Erie, Pa., a passenger, who was on her way to Buffalo, said: I was in the first coach next to the smokingcar. The passenger train was a large one, and carried a large number of excursionists, as well as regular passengers. The first we knew of the collision was a terrific crash like an explosion. Nobody was hurt except those in the smokingcar. - The sight was so horrible that I could not look at it. Not a single car was thrown from the track, but the smoker was completely telescoped. It was a mercy that our car was not crushed. It was a narrow escape. One young man In the smoker saved himself by dropping on the floor and escaped with a few bruisee. I did not learn the cause of the accident, but we were going very slow, while the freight was coming at a high rate of speed, We were just one coach-length off the trestle when the collision occurred. Some of the wounded men were taken to different houses, and one of the coaches was turned into a hospital. In another coach the dead were placed. There were many horrible features connected with the accident. Two of the men in the smoking-car had their heads protruding from the ..par windows when the collision occurred. . The head of one of these was cut completely off, and the head of the other man was nearly severed from the body. When the body of the third victim was taken from the wreck his arms and legs were separated from the trunk, so badly was the body crushed. Dillon, one of the slightly injured, had his face and head completely bathed in the blood of one of the mangled victims.

MR. BENEDICT.

The FnbttcPrtrrterlntervlews His Subordinates and Issues a Few Orders. [Washington telegram.] As soon as Mr. Benedict took possession of the Government Printing Office the several foremen of the various departments were introduced to their new chief. Mr. Benedict, nftej greeting each one individually, addressed them collectively. He announced to them that each one was continued in his present position for the time being, or until he should further communicate with them; that at as early a moment as was practicable he would address to each some inquiries respecting the work in his division, the property in his hands, etc., and would give directions in detail as to the work. Until such time the system in existence under Mr. Rounds would continue in force. Mr. Benedict impressed upon his assistants that he wanted to avoid any interruption or delay in the work of the office. He wanted the work to go forward smoothly and expeditiously. Special vigilance in guarding and protecting public property and interests was enjoined upon the men, and they were urged to be industrious and attentive. They were especially requested to be watchful against fire, as a conflagration now would be peculiarly disastrous. The foremen were directed to report to the Pulflic Printer any work that might reach their desks outside the regular order, and were notified not to undertake any work of any kind unless it had the approval of Mr. Benedict. IT appears that the crocodile, like the faith which formerly esteemed it sacred, is practically extinct in Egypt. The steamers plying the Nile have had more effect in driving it from that river than the guns of sportsmen. “It’s a wife’s duty to .be pleasant,. 1 * says an exchange. Yes, and it’s the husband's duty to make her duty easy. —Philadelphia Call. Truth has a quiet breast.—Shaktpedre.