St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 December 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDERT. w WAIEERTOX, . 4 < ©SDIiN YO\ (Y N CONGRESS IN SESSION. CRISP, OF GEORGIA, CHOSEN SPEAKER. !% Anarchist Cases Postponed—Fatal Fm‘-; nace Explosion—Cattle Thieves and Murderers Busy in Wyoming—Petty Cause of Quarrel—Stole Her Own Chil- " dren. l The Fifty-second Congress. , The Fifty-second Congress is a thing ot | life. It met at 12 o'clock on the 7th, but ' almost immediately adjourned. The older | and more aristmeratic twin, under the pre- ’ siding genius of the Vice President, became £ a well-organizel body at once. People | . came from long distances to see it, and at | an carly hour of the morning the spectators ¢n the terrace of the Capitol looking d@wn | Pennsylvania avenue saw a long line of werthy citizens, male and female, marching | ] through the rain. The marchers climbed the | 1 steepsteps, entered the buil ling, clogged the 1 corridors and stairways aund pressed hard | against the doors. Such as chose the Sen- \ ate were admitted at ten o'clock. Men and | women, young, old, and middleaged, jumped \ over, fell over, and wer:s pushed over the backs of the seats until the seats and .aisles were packed as no one in the | House had ever seen them piacked be- | fore. such as were fortunate enough to secure tickets to the private gal- | lery fared better, but all were packed ] and none except the executive and diplomatic galleries, which were only partly filled, contained a fourth of those who | craved admittance. When the hands of | the clock over the main entrance to the L house indicated the hour of 12 o'clock Clerk McPherson rose and smiting the new- ' g topped Speaker's desk with his gavel called | 1 the members to order. It took six cood, l hearty raps to execute his order. Then ! 1 when & hush was obtained he announcel | that the roll would be called. It took half i 1 an bour to do this, and three hundred and | twenty-six members answered to their 1 names. | —_——— | Crisp to B 2 Spaaker. 3 ’ Tae Speaker of the Fifty-second Con- I gress will be Charles Frederick Crisp, of | | Georgia. He was nominated on the thir- | t'eth ballot, and after a struggle of two days and nights in caucus this long and | somewhat Dbitter contest came to an end in a most dramatic manner. ! When William M. Springer, of Illinois, | walked into the caucus during the prog- 3 ress of the decisive ballot (whei Crisp | was within arm’s length of tle prize and cast his vote for the Georgian) a | shou: went up on the floor. was| echoed in the corridors and re- | sounded throughout the Capitol | “Hurrah for Springer! Lis vote has | made Crisp Speaker.” lln the Springer | headquarters, through the long corridors, there was tremendous cheering. | On the floor the scene wasone of rare ex- | citement and turmoil. and amid it all Mr. | Springer’s pale face rose up like the specter of an avenger. The scene was | dramatic because the min who had suf- | sered most by tr. achery, and who firm- | ly believed he could have been elected , Speaer had his camp not produced a band of deserters, | was enabled to step in at the eritica moment and cast the de iding ballot It was both drama and retribution. because it was also apparent t)» everyone on the floor that but for treacher. aud the spirit of revepgefulness roused , ~.therebwawothor-fuight have won the | prize in pursuit of which he had staked | his a'l. : : T | fto>'e Her Little Dauzhter. ; At Evansville, Ind,, James and Lillie | Martin, aged 8 and 11 years, were kid- | naped by their mother as they were leaving schcol. The father, who is a well-known citizen, has gone to Louisville to recover the children He was | divorced from his wife a few years ago, | and the court gave him the custody of | 1 the children. This is the third attempt | she has made to abduct the children. : Cattiemen Shot from Ambush. L Tas body of John Tisdale, a stock ° “rustler,” was brought to Buffalo, Wyo. b He had been shot from ambush. The | body of James Jones, a rancher, who was also suspected of stock stealing, ' was brought in. He had been murdered | on the same road near wher: Tisdale | was killed. Cowboys have organized a ' vigilance committe: and will lynch the ] murderers if caught. . For a School Directorship R FrAaxcis MacHiNskl, & defeated can- | didate for the directorship of a Poiish | school in Kansas City, was seriously in- [ jured and others hurt in a fight betw 'en | © him and his adherents and th: succoss- |t ful candidate and his friends. | e d The Anarchist Cases. l¢ THe United States Supreme Court has g postponed until the second Monday in i January the hearing of the cases of ¢ Fielden and Schwab, the Chicago anar- | ¢ chists now imprisoned at Joliet, 111., for | comp icity in the Hay.vrarket riots. | 4] A Fata! Explosion. : O AN explosion of gas in D furnace at 8: the Maryland Steel Company’s works, | 2‘ Sparrows Point, Md., killed one ;; Pyl o o tl colo.el man and in’'ured six others The ) furnace was de troyed { 1 DisrATcHEs received from Honduras U say that the rebe!s in the country have ( cut the telegraph lines, and that they ! claim that the accessions to their ra ilks I are steadily increasing. i = f Detailed b/ Reid I WiiiTELAW REID, the United States ! Minister to France, cetailed the worlk of stcuring the withdrawal of the French ! prohibition against American jork | Cattlemse Emkbarrassed ’ WYOMING cattiemen are serious v embarrassed by “rustiers,” and effective measures will probably be taken against the cattle-thieves. Needs Money for Her ; 1 A »orioN was filed at Deadwood, S. D.. by the attorneys for Mrs. James G. Biaine, Jr., in which a temporary alimony of £I,OOO is prayed for to defray the incidental expenses of the coning trial. and the further sum of SSOO for attoruney fees. Died from Alccholism | Di. W. I StAaxpironßnp, who was discharged from the Dwight institution as cured in May last, died from acute alco- 1 holism in (_'l.‘i\.,'llg‘). x

B EASTERN OCCURRENCES, YALE’: annual report shows that the ' college received $343,36¢ in gifts during | the past year. . Jonx T. SrarrLer, a well-known cracker manufacturer of Trenton, N. J., ! committed suicide on the eve of his in- ' tended departure for Permuda. " Tur body of a woman, badly bru'sed, ! was found near Mahanoy City, I'a, and ~the actions of a relative have placed him | under the suspicion of the police. ’ AN explosion o gas caused a serious ; fire in the olices and train shed of the - recently completed Jeorsoy City torminal | depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad. - Near Mahanoy City, I'a., Henry and Frank Zimmers and William Crane found the dead body of Mrs. Lawrence lying near a path which leads into Catawissa street. She was 45 years old and had been engaged in missionary work. Mgrs. DANIEL TrouT, of Reading, Pa., a delicate woman weighing 110 pounds, became the mether of triplets, all girls, perfect in form. Daniel Trout, the husband and father, is an ice driver, 56 years old. His wife is 42. Much interest is manifested in the triplets throughout the city, and a large subscription has been raised alreadyv for them. Tur grip is becoming epidemi: in Eastern Connecticut again. There were three deaths in Norwich in one week. In many cases it is accompanied by scarlet fever, diphtheria or typhoid nwa'aria In “the big village of Colchester twelve students of Baker Academy are seriously ill of scarlet soever, and the academy has been closed temporarily on account of it Tie armored cruser New York, designed to be the most formidable as well as the largest man-of-war in tho, United States navy, was launched at | Philadelphia with appropriate vommo-( nies at the yard of William (ramp & Sons. She slipped into the water amid t the screaming of steam whistles and the cheers of thousands who had gathered | to witness the event. ‘ RusseELL SAGE was serfously injurad i and several persons kil'ed by adynamite l machine exploded in his office at New York, by a lunatic who demanded §l,500,000 of the millionaire’s money. Two \ men and & woman are known to have been killed, while the man who threw | the bomb lies dying. Washington Con- | nor, the well-known broker, who has an I office in the building, is among the injured. ! Tue confinement of Edward M. Field | In an asylum makes three members of the family who have teen declared insane. Four vears ago Edward Field's sister, Alice, acted so strangely that an experienced attendant was engaged to‘ sce that she did not harm herself. The legal steps were taken, and without the knowledge “of the public Alice Field dis- | appeared and is still an inmate of a | madhouse Her case is probably a nope- | less one. The other unfortunate mem- | ber of the Field family who also at one | time was declared insane, is a cousin of i Edward Fie d. | A TERRIBLE wreck occurred on the | New York and New England Railroad | at East Thompson, Mass. caused by a | collision of the Southbridge freight ! with an ecast-bound freight going over | the west bound track. The Long Island | express was passing on th: other track ’ at the time. and all three trains are i piled up together. Engineer MTabor of | the Boston train. and his fireman are reported killed. One passenger on the ! Pullman is reported burned to death. and | many are in‘ured Two of the injured | passengers have died, making seven f deaths so far reported. ! WESTERN HAPPENINGS. ! A ross of £28,000 was caused by fire, | started by a dust explosion, in the drug | mill of Murray & Nickell, in Chicago i A FIRE In the basement of the Adams | Express Building, at Chicago, caused much excitement and & loss of about | £5,000. i Tue PRelle Certer Bank, in Logan | County, Ohio, was robbed of §&1,300. | The safe had been blown open with | dynamite. Ony cash was taken; the | securities were not disturbed. E At Detroit, Mich., a frightful fatality z occurred in the partial burning of Iht'; two-story brick store and residence of | George J. Reis. Five persons lost their ! lives. The dead inciude five of Mr. | Reis’ family of seven. | B S. BArrelr, the piano dealer of | Cleveland, Ohio, who disappeared, leav- | Ing behind him about $7.000 worth ol | forged promissory notes, and who wa: | recently captured in West Virginia, was | sentenced to six years in the penit 'n- | tiary. _ GoREN & GITTELSOY, ¢lothing and junk | dealers. Duluth, Minn , tried to defraud | their creditors by shipping valuable ! roods to Marion, Ind , and then assignng. The dry goods company had the | car Stopped at Nuperior, Wis, and 1e- | rovered $4,000 wo th of dry goods. ! TaE train robbery near St Louis on | he "Frisco Road does not prove as seri- | yus as at first reported. Manager Dam- | e.l, of the Adams Express t'ummny,{ tates positively that it will not exceed | 20,000. He received a telegram from | he'r route agent at Springfield saying | hat the express messenger was badly | njured. i AGENTS sent to different portions of | the State by the Oregon Stat: Board of | Commerce to solicit subsceriptions for | Oregon’s exhibit at the World’s Fair collected only £2,200. The sentiment of the people, they say. is that 'ortland should first raise a substantial sum and then the rest of the State will fall in This will probably be done STELLA, one of the very haudsome yo- I nies with the “Country Circus,” has given | birth to a beautiful colt, which Trainer l.eon Morris, in his enthusiasm for the | city which has received him so kindly, ] has named “Chicago. \s soon as the youngster is able to brave the chilly winds of December. he wiil make his bow on the stage at McVicker's. %The | Country Circus” is now in its seventh ! week at MeceVicker's Chicazo Tueater, | and doing enormous business The peo- | ple seem never to grow tired of it 3 SuNATOR HENRBY Krßiirr, of Sauk | Center, Minn., isat work upon an invention which, if it proves a success, will | be of gieat value to Tfarmers. The | scheme is to attach an electric motor o | a common breaking plow that will con- | tain sufficient force to work in | | any kind of soil. Storage batteries are | to be adjusted to the machine. Senator | ! Keller declares that it will reduce tln:§ | cost of plowing to such a mere trifle, | i and do it with such ease and rapidity, J

BPP o e it within his means to plow with etectric machines. De R SEVERE Storms ar> reported throughout the Northwest At St Vincent, Minn., the wind averaged thipn -six ] miles per hour, and ?‘s‘“ iof snow has fallen. Warren (Minn.) disratehos say one foot of snow fell, and {he sno. .- storm changed into a blizzapd in ‘the evening. A _terrible snow-storm mnra. vailed near Blunt, N. D, t;fi?.n?ty:four hours. Several incly i‘}fimw has fallen and is piled in dpreea " The mercury is fa'ling and the wing blowin a gale from the north. At James ivng N. D., the storm raged with great vio. lence. Fears of extensive bioekadax -‘Q felt. ‘i ‘l'e At Chicago, Justice Woodman rendered his long withhelq mh the cases of the men who, under the “akthe of anarchists, were ga Hall. After ‘exprossing o ififiifi the meeting, which accorded exact! with that hed by the police, he ar. nounced that seven of the “ripgle ers” were each fined SIOO for dhoml‘dw . duct, and the other ten defenm{g 8?0 each. The other charges of resisting arrest and carrying coucea%fiimpo,,, were dismissed excepting in the case of Henry Mil'er, who was assessed $lO for | carrying a revolver. § 7 - Mnrs Crarexce Krirrs, whetlives a4 Shelby County, left her twos home and went to a neighbe s During her absence the kR were fire and the two childi thems burned so badly that twagggl died upon being rescued and the other soon aftorward. The mother was seriousiy burned while attempt ng to rescue them. At Denver, Cpl,n&u. Geo. Martin and her son, aged 1§ years, we e burned to death last night The child pulled a lamp over og itself, and the mother, in attempting so extinguish ! the flames, was burned bLeyond recog- ! nit'on. | At St Louis, the fugeral of B. Will i Walker, the young man who committed | suicide for love of a married woman | took p'ace, anl the body was buried in | Calvary Cemetery, but not in hallowed | ground. Father Zeigler, of St Malachi’s | Church, was asked t» perform the { fune al rites over the remains in his‘ church, but refused to allow the re- | mains to be taken into the chureh. He | said: “I learned that the young man | had committed suifeide. and it wa: my | plain duty to refuse the body. Ihe | rules of the church are élear, and all | ! had to do was to obey. 1 could not ad- | ' mit a suicide, and that was all mcrn? was to it” } Toere has been no let-up in thfi!§ ! efforts of the Milwaukoe and St. Paul and American Express officials to catch | the men who robhb d the train uwear . ‘Ruc ne, Wis.. but there are new de | velopmaoents which tend to show that the ' detectives have hitherto been working | |on the wrong trail. The commoniy ac- | | cepted idea was that the robbery was | ' committed by the amateurs Hving fn or é near Racin® ‘There is now good reason | to belleve that the job was done by ex. | perts, and that the leaving of the “clew® | ' by which the detectives were put on the | trail of amateurs was a cleverly put-up | job. It is the opinion of a shrewd de- | - toctive that the three big train robberies - which have been committed sinee Nov. | i1 in the West were done by one gasg. g , A | SOUTHERN INCIOEN /I ; Tie voleano of Co''ma was In @ =tato of violent eruption av i & heavy@hower | | of ashes began fal.ing upon the ¢ty of i Colima, Mesico It lasted over an hour, ! covering the streets and roofs of build- | ings and greatly terrifying the inhabitants, Tie news comes from Guerrero, Mexico, that Col. Nueves Hernanlez, who was | arrested several days ago by order of General Garia, was killed about one hundred miles north of Monterey Colonel Hernandez was in ebarge of a military escort, and, according Lo reports was ruthlessiv murdered after he had veen taken away from his! friends. The rovertument had become suspicious of hir. He had been for several years stationed at Guerrero in | command of the troops of that place, and was one of the most popular officers of the army. Gov. Browx, of Kentucky, has pardoned out of the penitentiary Josle Roach, the little white girl from Ohio County, whose romantic epizode in running away with her iover on a sto'en horse for the purpose of marriage has already been publshed. The Covernor | indorsed on the papers in the case the fol- | lowing: “Josie Hoach, a white girl from | Ohio County. was this day confined in | the penitent ary under judgment for horse stealing. The facts as represented | to me are that she was persuaded | fro n home under promise of marriage by g one Crowe, who, on the trip they made, | feloniously appropriated a horse, whi hi he so'd for =5 and gave Josie the mouey. She was only 16 years o'd. She was | evidently under the influence of Crowe, | and if she has violated the law her | vouth and sex commeoend her to executive | clemeney. Let her go and sin no more. | A pardon is granted.” { THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, ; DuriNG four and a half days of last | week the General Land Office, at YWash- ! o ington, issued 4,252 land patents. This is the highuat loeus d nvar made by the oftice. t Mgr. Winsox, Acting Commissioner of | Internal Revenue, has received the ro- | port of the agent who investigated the | charges of irregularities in the oftice of | Interna! Revenue Collector Warmeastle, | of the Pittsburg District. but refuses, in | the absence of the Commissioner, to say anything about it, or to take any action | in the case i | FOREIGN GOSSIP. f Doy PeEDRO, ex-Emperor of H'il"-”,; died at Paris of congestion of the lungs | and pneumonia. ’ - As A result of the financial disturb- | | ance in Melbourne, Australia, the Stand- | - ard Bank suspended. The capital was ’ L £5,000,000. | \ LA Griere has become epidemic in | | many parts of EKurope, and in Berlin the | conduct of municipal affairs is seriously i | interfered with by the disease. | | A Loxpox jury, in the celebrated di- | { vorce suit, has returned a verdict in; | favor of Earl Russell. The announc&! i ment was greeted with loud cheers by | g friends of the Earl. I , INFLUENZA I 8 epidemic in Cornwan,‘ | the county forming the southwest ex- | Jlr--mity of England, and hundreds be

2306 Inhi B Te T /f:imfl' ‘::ablunts arc prostrated with the . ?0 ‘:PBE I;;u-il Siecle understands that the ’ tll:e Will at once publicly disapprove v’asltatlon carried on by the bishops 14 N 'm nst tlhe Eren(‘h government., The | Matin says that the French embassador ' \glle‘wt letg;‘n to the Vatican unless the | 4 repudiates the course r,blsfiopa. of the Tur report of a terrib'e mining disaster comes from St Etienne, in the Department of the Loire, and the center oAt one of the richest coal fields in France. n explosion of fire-damp oceurred one of the numerous ¢l pits in that region, and wany of the workers wero un‘able to escape from the mine. Accoiding to advices so far received eighty ‘men perished in the pit. AT Berlin a number of Deputies, representing country districts, have entered a formal complaint bofors the 'Hudgetl Committee in regarl 1o Ameri an pork. They claim that trichinwe have recenty been frequently found in American pork, and they ask that steps be immediately taken to prohib't its importation. Dr. von Boetticher, Minister of the In}Aerlor, said that the r;,..,m..muun ot fean resn in the future would be . ,"!ghll\itfid unless thoroughly inspecte.l in the United States, and aided that if aftor this inspection trichine were found ’t American pork the Government would ‘be forced to entire'y prohibit its importation Into Germany. ‘Th: Doputies appeared to te satisfied with this statement, and there seems reason to believo that if the Germans who are hurt by American competition in pork suceeed | in making out a clear case against the importers of that article rigorous meas- | ures will once more be taken against the | United States hog. i GENERAL NOTES, i Tur Burean of American Republics is | fnformed that a gentleman named Aquiles Thour has left Buenos Avres for the purpose of making a horseback journey to Paris byway of Bolivia, | Peru, (olombia, Central America, Mexico, the United States, Canada, | Alaska, Russia and Germany. He ex-! pects to be until January, 1824, on Iv's journey, | Docror BoyLg, an eccentric charac- : ter of Essex County, Ont, s dead _ Doctor Boyie made a good deal of money during the !ate civil war in the United States by handling patent medicines, having had an oftice ‘n New York o leaves an estate valuod at 8100,000. Cna of his peculiarities was to appear on the streets in old continental dress, with knickerbocker: and cocked hat Tur invoice of a rare chest which was purchased in Europe by S. E Barrett, a wealthy Chicagzoan, was received at the Custom House. The box was invoiced at 8100, what it cost the importer, but it is chiefly valuable because, it is claimed, it once belonged to Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish monarchs who helped Uo'umbus to discover Ameriea It is said to have the trade mark of ¢he royal firm. The chest will be admitted fr.o of duty. Not for months has there been such a grisly record of dea'h and disaster in ona day. Twelve barges loaded with brick coming down the Hud on, when "W'"“"WM«Q% Y.. were upset, and about '“"“‘?&W"’ drowned When at <(roton FPoint Fthe swash of the river was <o great that the tug was compelled to round to, thus forecing the barges ta r de each othor Being loaded and the tide washfng high they Immediately up<wt. There were s'xty men on the twelve barges and only about thirty came ashore. The ac clident is attributed by many to the care lessness of the pilot of the tug Nine mangied and blackened bodies lie at the St | aul, Minn., morgue as the result of the fatling of a partition wall inthe Farwirll, Osmiun & Kirk Building, which burned twoe weeks ago Another man ljes dead at the Uity Hospital from injuries recelved from falling bricks Tue first atiempt in the history of the country to afTori relief to the fam-ine-stricken peasantry of Russia has originated in Minneap)lis. The scheme is to send a ship-load of flour to Russia by the middle of next January, and the 5,000 merchant millers of America are ta be asked to help. The cargo will be 3.000 tons, or 6,000,000 ;:.:x:fl-l\ or 20,000 to 50.000 barrels, worth from 100,000 to ¢125.00. The Russian Minister at Washington has GUeen communicated with, and in his absence the C(harge d'Affairs at New York wires that he has laid the matter before his country. Thy idea at frst was to make the gift one from Minnesota alone, but it was thought best to give it a national scope. Railroads are willing to give the transportation, and the deal will be closed as soon as the Russian Minister hears from hiome. MARKET BLPORTS. CHI AGO, | CATTLE— Common to Prime..... 8357 @ 6.23 . HoGs—Shipping Grade 5.......... 30 @ %09 | SaxEp—Fair to Ch0ice........... 3.0 « 6. 5 W No. sßeda . ... ... W @ .91 N ) i AT D B A i S EE e)i G | BO.TtR-- hoice Creamwery...... .2/ @ .28 | . 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" — | PRODUCT OF OUR SOIL.' e | IMPOSING FACTS OF INTEREST ! TO-ALL. S —————— ! Census Figures Relative to Viticulture, | Floriculture and Agriculture that Are Both Great and Surprising—Forecast of | the Fruit Production. i American Husbandry. t It took 60,000 cars to move the grap-s I gg the United States to market the sean before the census man made his' rounds. The vineyaras of this country | represent an investment of $155,661,150, | furn’sh employment to 200,780 people, l t_md cover 401,.61 acres of ground. La:t season’s product from about three- | fourths of the planted arca—the other l fourth being i1 vines too young 1o bear ! | —Was 527,139 tons, near'y half of whicn was consumed as grapes and néarly | half of which went to make 24-; 306,905 gallons of wine. There are some ' figures for the temperance people toz ponder over. The small fraction of | -]Ilél()ili t ns went into rai-ins, fllling! S 5 LATALR opes of, twenty pounds cacis | years make from B.t 00,900 to 10,000,000 pounds of raisins, and the smaller ost.l-\ mate is 500,000 pounds wmore than this i country now consumes, | ‘ Vegetable growing, truck farming the census people call it, now requires 534,;440 acres of land and employs 216,705 ' men, 9,254 women, 14,874 children, and { 75,866 horses and mules. The “garden sass” raised on these truck farms pays | $76,517,155 a year, besides fre'ght i charges and the commission man'’s generous grab There is $£100,000,600 ini yested in the truck farming of tha iL'nitod States, and $8,971,206.70 is in | tools | The Investment in the 507,733 acres of peactorchards is £00.0.0,00). The last “peach crop sold for 874,160,400, That was more than a dollar's worth of peaches for each man, woman and ehild in this glorious republic. The pecme | who were employel in the peach orchards numbered 226, GO. i Pu!great a:are these fizures, the real surpr ses of the census appear in the figures which forecast the near future of fruit production in the Un ted States. i There are grow ng in the nur eries 240,570,668 young app'e tree. O!d “Johnny Appleseed,” the missionary who went through the Mississippi Valley States | half a century azo pok'ng aprle seeds | into the ' oil with his tces, wou!d see the near approach of the m llennium in the fruit cenzus. California has 336,464 al- ; mond trees now bearing, but she Las also 40°,46¢ a'mond tree: not y told | enough to bear, so that in two or three years her almond product will more t' an | double. Florida has 474,282 cocoanutbear- | Ing trees and 91,007 young trees, which | will soon triple her cocoanut erop. Fake | lemons, of which Florida has 09,425 trea: bearing and 410,238 trees which | will soon be old enough to bear. But it | {s in‘oranges that this country will soon | revel. Th: yellow fruit will be within | reachof everybody. Ilorida has 3,024,621 | orange trees now bearing and 9,302,080 | trees which will tear in a short time. | California has 3 {OO orange trees bearing and 1,641,400 ,oung trees. The new i planting of oranzes in Arizona is 200,- | 000 trees. And with all the acreage in the citrus fruits, but o}xc-thirtccnbbrfil'“i Ehia ST Uutillzed. he | Wm& raising for the coming | decade are marvelous, ? DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. i Filve Workmen tn a York State Mill Sent to Sudden Deagth, | The entire eastern half of Rockland | County, New York, was shocked by a | territic explosion which ocourred in Hav- | erstraw at the dynamite works, located near the base of the West Shore tuanel at that place. Five rnien were instantly | killed and several injured. What caused the e.plosic.: cannot yet be to'd, but throughout Haver-traw, Congers City, Nyack, Rockland Lake and other placea w.thin twelve miles glass windows were broken and people much startled, | Imme Uately after the e plosion people in Haverstraw rushed by hundreds toward the scene of the disaster, but as other buidings containing dynamite were«yet staanding, they realized their danger and mo-t of them stopped. A few, however, proceeded to the spot and learned the true condition of affars. The building which was blown up was the main house, located n-ar the river. ! It was a high frame structure, 50 by 150 feet, and was used to put t:e dynamite in proper condition for blasting purposes When the disaster took place, John Wadsworth, the engincer, was at his post, and all that has so far been found of him is two lezs and a hand. ‘Wadsworth was a married man, zbout fifty years of age, and lea.es a widow and three children Three other wo:kmen were killed, and al!s) lerry Lounsberry, | of Peekskill. In company with another nan, Lounsberry had just rowed into shore. He stepped upon the dock a moment before the explosion. and was instantly killed. Elmer Nash. foreman, was in the deck near by and escaped in- | ' jury. Two boys named Farrell and | Mott were in the building when the ex- ' | plosion took place. They escaped with some few bruisas. ! { In the vicinity of the explosion large | trees were torn up, and in some in-! | Btances riven as if by lightning. 'l:he‘ | railroad tunnel,being far above the build- | Ing, is uninjured. The effect of the ‘ shock at many joints within a few miles tup and down the river was terrific. | Houses trembl d on their foundations, 'and those on the tops of adjacent hills | had glass bro%en. furniture knocked | over, and doors taken from their h nzes: The buildings belong to the Clinton | Dynamite Works. In the main building, whi his now a comp.ete wreck, the ' number of men usually emploved was from eight to twelve. ‘lhe works have | been there five or six years, and for ' months past efforts have been made by those who have houses near by to have titem removed. 'The cases have been a number of times in court, but the dyna- | mate people have he!d their own, ¢laiming that at lcast some of the houses have been built there since the works were established. . ' Tuor most simple way t) clean the inside of wash-bowls, baths, and the stationary marble basins, on which a sort of scum, or deposit forms, if not very carefully cared for, is to rub them with dry salt. 1t takes off all the dirt and leaves them bright and shining. | Tne Arkansas rejected lover who is suspected of having burnea a bride's trousseau may have wished to be regarded as her old flame.—Louisville Jourier-Joeurnal. . : L é Tue brightest girl tries to make light 2% zrerything.—Dallas News. |

SYR SIS B B SR ARG RO l 'CURRENT COMMENT. ' Kansas City's Kidnaping. t Such cff nses are the refinement of truelty; they are worse than death it“pelf, because the future is unknown. — New York Evening Sun. } There ought to be a law passed which ‘makes the stealing of children for the purpos: ot securing a reward a capital offense.—Kansas City Journal. ' It is scarcely pcssib’e to conceive of a crime more heinous than that of which ' she has been guilty. Murder is, indeed, of inferior significance.—Frooklyn | Times Parental lcve trok precedence with him of the public interests afected by his submission to blackma I, and so it {w_ould with nearly everybody. — New i York Press. | If Mr. Bea's had troken his promise, | n.x"r.-”srte‘d the thieves’ agent and devoted | his £5,6C0 to charity rather than to the | encouragement of kidnaping, would nou ithe mid have more than justified the i means?—New York World. | Lt matifying that the father. vas ‘thc authorit es owe it to (:'er; (s:fi‘l‘ful'gf : well as to e ery parent in the lana, tH ‘ hunt down the kidnaper, each and all \of whom slould be summarily dealt witli.—l ou sville Times ‘The kidnaping of & child in Kansas . City, with the ob cct o extorting mon y | from its paronts, was a crime the suc- | ' cessful accoxr plishment of which would iiba\'e caused the hearts of millions of : people in this ountry to throb with fear. { —I hiladelphia Record. i The Active Train Robber. i It may yet b: necessary te build all | express cars of :teel and arm them like { @ modern man of-war on a small scale.— i Linco'n Journal. i 'Two more Western train robberies. If this thing keep: on every car w.ll ‘have to be provided with a couple of | Gatling guns.—New Yo k Recorder. { The latest train robbery in the West ! shows that thi: bu iness :case: to be a ' joie the moment it get: beyond the porter of the pa'ace car.—lhila clphia | Times. | St Louis s very proud of the train ~robbery which ha: brought that ri er i town into prominence again. It was getting most fearfully cuiet down in - that region.—Toledo Blade. | The St. Lo is train robbery was evidently patte ned after the raids at | Ratice and Omaha or perpetrated by the same men. 7Therc was a striking { similarity in the m thods employel — Mi.neapo'is Tribune. ; After all, train robbing seems to be about the safest of all forms ol robbery. Tt is not alone the Northwestern train . robbers who have escaped, but those in | New York and Missouri have not been | arrested.—Mi.waukee Sentinel. I Fonseca's Downfall. I Our esteemed subseriber, Da Fonseca, ! writes us that he is wearing a much ;smailor hat since his “res'gnation.”— { Ccl. mbus Dispa:ch. ¢ Da Fonseca was t e man who exiled ' poor old |om Pedry. Now Fonseca is a ru‘er without a ob S'c transit g oria leßto PI SR — . | The t'mes in South Americaare outof | joint; yet it does not seem to be within I the province of dictators t» set them right.—FP'h ladelphia Record | Fonseca has stepped down and out and Brazil is, or ought to ba, happy. Tt has been a hard year for dictators all ' around.—Rochester Post-Express. | Brazil, evidently, doe 'n't mean to be ! Chilianized. Fonscca doesn’t dictate any loager, and Congress is soon to reassemble.—Brooklyn Standard Union. | When it came to a question of coming aoewn or being thrown down, Da Fenseca gracefully came down. Such discretion does net always go with a dictatorship.—New York World. 5 Revolution in China. The Chinese are growing civilized. They have a first-class revolution out there.—l’oston Newa. What has happened in the outlying territory of China w Il be as nothing to what will occur if the great wall fai's to keep the rebels out of Pekin.—New ' York Wold. | 'To find a parallel for the accounts of diabolica! cruelty which come from China, in connection with the Takow massacre, we must 2o back 1o the Indian mutiny of 1857.—1 ouisville Commercial. Christian missionaries in China show gcod sensein promptly getting out of the path of the insurgents. They would show better sense by getting out of the country altogether.—Providence Tele« gram. | Indians as Soldiers. The prob’em of preventing Indian wars in the We:t every few vears has been happily sclved. The Indian warrio:s are being put in the United States a'my, aud the.e is no enemy to fight.— i New Orleans Picayune. | Secretary Proctor is undoubtedly cor"rect in his theory that dressing an Indian up and treatinz him in such a fash- | ion as to make him self respe ‘ting does him good. It is the same way with the . Caucasian.—Boston Record. ‘ The experiment perhaps helps to solva : the Indian protlem. Such Indiansascan be induced to take up farms and im‘prove them, or go into s:ock-raising, ' should be encouraged to do so, but the ' young men who pref r a soldier'sli e should be enlisted and made useful in . that car ~elty.—Lincoin Jou.nal The Keeley Cure in Court. | When the case comes to trial ft is rea« onab e that the on'y matter to be considered is tie L'octor’'s abi ity to cure dipsoman™a, not its eJect’, which is a different affa'r a to ether.—Harri burg Patriot. The Kee'ey Institute at Dwight has becn sued for carazes by a pat ent who a'lcges the bichloride treatment failed to cure him. The sa’oons didn’t try to cure him and therefore are not sued.— P.ttsbarg Pre:s ; If the suit proves succezsful Dr. Kee'ey will do well to make contracts that are no® doub e headers. 1f theallezed cures are failures the patients wiil want tho money expended with Keeley to buy drinks in the future.—Milwaukee News. The Kecley drunkenness “Cure” is to be tested in court on the suit of an inebriate who paid €l5O on a pledge that he should be cured, which was not done. He a’so wants 512,000 for damages donoe to his const'tut'on by the treatment. Incidentally this last suit mey raise the question whether an incurable drunkard has 12,020 worth of constitution.—Dairoit Free Press