St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 July 1894 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. SCARED THE NATIVES. □LD DAME NATURE HAS A FRIGHTFUL CRAMP. First duns in the Mongolian War—Kansas Judge Injured in a Fight—Sad List of Fatalities by Drowning—Fire's Fierce Work. Terrified by Awful Explosions. Between 1 and 2 o'clock Tuesday morning Coffeyville, Kas., experienced a subterranean disturbance strongly resembling an earthquake, which terrified the citizens for mi'es around and caused much damage. Just north of town is situated a strong natural gas well. About the time mentioned several successive explosions awoke the people, who jumped out of their beds to find the town brightly illuminated and the earth t r emoiing, while showers of recks could l>e ieen bursting from the gm well. Thee, were hurled high in the air. and descending crashed into the cottages in the neighborhood of the pit. As far as known, however, no one was hurt. I Daylight disclosed a dismal sight. For [ thirty acres around the well the earth was torn up its if by a volcano. Huge bowlders lay about, while several holes, many of them fifteen to thirty feet deep, showed whence they came. : Houses had been shattered, ba ms top pled over, and masses of earth appeared where before the ground was level. The phenomenon is unacoCunt- ■ able. Four Business Buildings Lxft. The bq^jness portion of Chenoa, 111., ! was destro ed by fire Tuesday afternoon, entailing a loss c-timated at from SS(O,ODD to * oo.noo Fifty-four buildings and nearly all of the stock they co taincd were swept away in a roarr g cyclone of flame that seetnuu to b eak out all over the b i-.n s - district at once and ga .e no time to save anything. Moro complete devastation cannot be imagined. The' only business establishments left in the town are two saloon-, Halbach s dry-goods st ire und the office of the Chenoa Gazette. The general of L ion is t .at the tire was ignited- b spicks from the south-bound Alton day express falling in hay at Ballinger's livery I am. The conflagration spread over the district that was devastate 1 a few yea s ago: and where were many elegant two-story brick structures. The jiostoffice w destroyed and a large amount of mail matter burned. J. T. McKeever, a merchant tailor, leaped from a second story and was impaled on an iron fence. A sharp picket ran half way through his body and he win die.

Corewna Asiuult Mikado's Troop*. in Shanghai Naga aki, on the south west side of the island of Khn>-Sio|>. the Japanese garrison and suffered defeat. A later telegram fays that a Japunee cruiser and a Chinese transport have been engaged in action and that the crui er sunk the transport. The British consul has received a telegram from the British charge d'affaires at Tokio stating that the Japane e have undertaken to regard Shanghai a-out-ide of the sphere of operations. The price of coal has risen 4’i percent, on account of the large demand made upon the supplies for use upon warship-, tran ports, etc Mx Person* Drowned. Eive women went bathing in the San Joa juin Biver. near Tort Washing! n. Col. One got beyond her depth and. in attempting to rescue her. three of the others were carried to an eddy and drowned. Three young men were drowned while bathing in the Snake River, three miles below I’enewawa Wash. < )ne called for help and the others swam to his assi-tanee. All th. ee grappled in the water, sinking simultaneously. NEWS NUGGETS. The Sherman Banka! New Vorkhagone into voluntary liquidation. The gold reserve in the United States treasury is now down to $60,- | '^.ooo— the lowest point ev ”t uehed. *'^T Wayne excursion train on Bovz -N JJ a b>ds and Indiana Road O SCOTT SO a tdO' Ind., at mid3.5,7 9 hoo?? 11 many passenger■town AMD C Q Uk ter. Pa . as the result of piTSi^g up the free end of a broken elect ilcAlrcharged with 2,200 volts. A RETRENCHMENT plan contemplating a reduction in wages of engineers, firemen, and conductors is to be put in operation within a few days by the receivers of the Santa Fe system. Three members of one family—Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edwards and -on of Coo;er.-town, N. Y.. were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in which they were rowing across Otsego Lake. An attempted investigaton into charges of corruption male against officials of the Kansas penitentiary at Leavenworth ended in a tight id which Judge S. F. McDonnell, of Fort Scott, attorney for the prosecution, was seriously injured by Warden Cha e, who made a vicious personal attock on him. During the melee knives, pistols and clubs were drawn by guards and employes who took sides with the Warden. Clay Davis, a member of the Dalton gang and a horsethef, was killed near Per y, Ok., by Sheriff J. M. Taylor. Jefferson Storks killed his stepfather, Henry Skinner, at Perryville. Ind., with a spade. They had been involved in a quarrel. Two negroes were lynched by a mob near Lake Cormorant, a small town in Mississippi. They were fugitives from Arkan-a . and were overtaken by the mob. who strung them Up. Their names are not known.

EASTERN. The Suffrage Committee of the New "N ork constitutional convention, by a vote of thirteen to four, defeated the proposition to submit the question of woman suffrage to the electors. Millionaire William Fellows Morgan, his wife and coachman have been summoned at Newark to answer to the charge of ciu Ity to animals in docking the tails of their horses. The entire Gould family have given up the'r New York City residences for the admitted purpose of avoiding personal property taxes aggregating s6ol’, 000. They claim to live in Tarrytown and Lake wood. English capital to the extent of $1.0J0,0 X) has been invest d in a brussels carpet mill at Philadelphia by John Crossley & Sons. The mill will be started in September and will employ 80J hands. Cparles Wilfred Mowbray, a recent arrival from London, applied for his first citizens' papers in Newark, Wednesday. He boasts that he has been sent to this country to establish a propaganda of anarchism. The bottom ot a converter at the Homestead stool works of Czrnegie & Co. blew out. scattering 3,300 pounds of molten metal in every direction. Peter Nelson and Timothy Diamond were fatally burned and Mlo'iael Holbran and William Davis seriously injured. At Belle Vernon, Pa., tire destroyed ■ the baptist Church. Lynn’s general store, four dwellings. McLain's grist mill, Herves' Hotel, and throe stables. Loss, $.‘.0,000; partly insured. The Union Manufacturing Company, a i novelty plant just tini-hod at Swissvale, Pa , was de trove I by tire. 1 oss, $20,<OO. The McKelvey homestead and the adjoining outbuildings of K. E. Dickson were also destro-• d. Keithmillers I manufacturing establishment on Water ! street was also destroyed by fire. Loss, insured. WESTERN. F. REST tires have reached the outskirts of Ihiluth, Minn. MILW Al KEE unionists to the number of about IJ M, O have j< im*d in a memorial praying the impeachment of Attorney General Olney. I A Large number of bold “hold ups’’ ■ and robberies by (ther means attended the Government payment to the Cheri okees at Fort Gil son. Lizzie and Edward Spillman. children of the director of the parliament buildings at Victoria, B. C , were drowned whi'c bathing. Farmers around Zanesville Ohio. | invested heavily in a new variety of onion -eed. The < rop, now teadv for harvest, proves t » lc jimsov weed. Lehgusem Iw'onging t > William Plankinton, the Chicago Kefrigeuvb r Company and the Juneau 100 Company I were burno lat Pewaukee, Wis. The loss is $150,000.

JUDGE Whods. ot Indianapolis charI avterbex Deba aave your uiouei anu • ' buy a gun’’ expression n« a i^ular ' rojM’titi >n n — ~ ।death < f John Mehinwy, helieved to have been due t > inhuman treatment in the New bury ln^n<' Any him at Cleveland. < Him, is being ie vestigated by the authorities Tur. < ontinental Palace Car Company, for the manufacture, sale. ami operation of a'ccping. dining, and buffet cars, has Uson incorporated.with headquarters at last St i.miis Harlow Brown, nt Perrysburg, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded ( hnrlcKei er. Iho latter <>b ected to Blown > attention-to I is sister, and was shot while in the act of u--aul!inc Brown. iMiT.MH.vu.Nr proceedings have 1 een Iwgun against all but one memlier of the >io ix City Board of Conntv Superv i-ors for illegal division of road fund nn ne s. stu’ cd jer dcm a ■ counts, etc. Mrs, John Sho- . a re-ta irantk* ■ er at St. ( loud, Minn., has - ddenh fallen heir to SloO.oe i. Luther Brv aT a rich uncle < f Biddeford, Me . left an estate of over s1 jm ),o m t> b • divided among <> -vi-n heir-. Advh t.s from l e i Fork. 1. T.. -ee ie of the T’ri-cn train robU'rv. are to the effect that the -w rower- ci ncorne i obtaided -evera ] ackages <f shot'- and b >xes <c cigars and a ug of whisky. The robbers wer? identified as Bill < t ok’s gang. They were after a money । ackage expected by the । Eufaula. I. T.. Bank, but which was not on the train. Forest pres ; n the pine region- of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota threaten the destruction of dozens of villages and an incalculable amount of standing timber. Duluth and Superior are enveloped in dense clouds of smoke. 1 Foe- toe report -d a p a I the Me -aba range, in Nev. Jersev the villa e ' of (Ireenbush wa - entii elv destroved bv fires which have been raghw L th" pine belt for several days. A mob of hoodlums at d train-wreck-er- attacked a Chicago and Calumet Terminal til train at East Chicago, Ind., driving off the entire crew, I crippling the engine and mispla dng a , switch with the object of derailing . an approaching Wabash freight train. An engine and twenty cars were | ditched. A company of state militia dispersed the mob after an engagement < . in which several of the latter were ' injured. ■ A FATAL cutting affray occurred ■ near Cataract, Ind., in which a young ' man named Kennedy slashed a man named Anderson across the neck with 1 a knife. The cutting occurred at a 1 church social, where Anderson apl peared in a drunken condition and be- ! gan cursing and abusing everybody. | His eye fe’l on Kenne ly and ho at once attacked him. Kennedy drew a knife I I and began cutting at his antagonist, < ' inflicting wounds that may result l fatally. Fire destroyed the large wholesale . market owned by Nelson Morris & Co., Ncs, 4121 to 4123 Halsted street, Chi- I cage, Wednesday night. The damage j ' was $58,000. The fire was supposed to I be of incendiary origin. An officer on j the corner turned in the alarm. He said the fire started with an explosion, j I followed with a blue, smokeless I blaze, like burning oil. In ten seconds i the back of the building was in a mass |

of Hames. Three refrigerator cars filled with meat were also found to be on lire and beyond saving. Six men of the Sixth Regiment, 1. N. G were on guard at the corner. They saw three men running away from behind the ears a moment, after the fire started. They called to the men to halt and then fired six shots at them as they disappeared among the cars down the track. The police took up the chase, but Ihe men escaped A dozen tough looking mon hud been hanging about the place all the evening and were closely watched by the police. Benjamin Joaghmowitz's hat factory. at New York, took tire on Friday afternoon by the bursting of a small steam pipe, and a can of shellac upset in the furnace. The hat factory and eight frame houses adjoining” and in the rear, were in ashes when the firemen finally succeeded in conquering the flames. Sixteen families,including fifty persons, lost all of their effect< It was one of the fiercest tires in the history of the city, and every engine except two in the city was at work. The hat shop was what is known as a “buckeye" in the trade. It took no contracts of its own but worked up hats for large shops. Falling embers rained on the roof of a frame extension of St. Peter's Orphan Asylum: also on the roof of a building on Livingst m street used by the asyy him. The sisters in charge of the as^ him took no chances. Although thMtF buildings were being protected streams of water from the private hose and by men with buckets, the little ones were marched from the buildings. But the asylum buildings escaped with slight damage. The damage is estimated at $ 0,000. On this there wai little insurance. The most serious fire of the year in Minneapolis and the largest in the history of the city, broke out about!! o'clock Thursday night, and liefore it was extinguished had destroyed property to the value of over $50(i,00 J, leaving In ruins one of the finest market buildings in the country. The origin has not been ascertained, but the fire broke out in the commission house of Dcdsworth A Drew, | located in the center of the New Cen- ’ tral Market Building, which was ! bounded bv Second anil Third avenues North and Sixth and Seventh streets, covering an entire block. In addition toils pur|>ose as a market, it was used by titty c >mmi*sion merchants. Hs stand-, and 20 > market gardeners. The structure was entirely de troyed. involving n loss. including the original cost and the value of the stocks contained therein, of ♦ 175,001). Thirty horaes and thousands of fowl- were burned. The only fatality resulting fr m the fire the i death of Myron Finley, a lineman f«>r ' the General Electric Company. He * was hand ing some wires after t)ic fire wa- nearly out when he caught hold of a D-legraph wire which became crossed with an elect t ic-light wire. Tbe result wa- alm st instant death. SOUTHERN. Wv. Griffith wa- taken from jail at Woodville, Texas, and lynched.

v—.u, ..a. ■ ■„• . W ■ ■ n- I ' born, kv b- ’b*'.ffnVhfT pl ’ 6i party. Piter Davis. Dsn Washington ano < harl»-N E. vll all colored, wore haugvd on th<‘Miuie -eaffohl nt Montgomerv, ; Ala., for murder. Neluf Ki nni . aged *». of Brsdohaw. W Va., hanged her-« !f Im-caumi she had been kopt homo from schvol by her mother to care for two imbie*. Marino a to a delegation pr< H< nting him with a gmd watch, Gov. Hogg i f Toxa* Wi din“»<lay night predicted t! at within »lx week* martial law w uld 1^ declared in ( alifornla. Kansuc*. Coh raio, and Illinois, and that the aimtTlu-t- of < hag>> would u-o ' dvnamito an b -i-aiUT the loftv buildings of the city w ith the heaH-. lungs, and livers of the citizen-.” At Birmingham Ala . Mas m - ahoe house and St ver - wholesale and re tail fui nit ire । mpaiiv, l>oth (wcupv- ! ing an in men-e four—torv structure, well Hotel, ti e hnnd-onu st building in be fl e pno', i- al-o lota ly de-t eyed. I It was vulm-d w fui ni-hings at * ..mi,00, in-urai । • -f .S.ioi If wa-owned ,by tne Caldw b Conq any. The first buildings n; me 1 are owned by J. W. Johnson, o f New York. ex-President of the ’ entra! Raiim ad of Georgia. । An explo ion of 100 pounds of loose powder at 1 ert Pula-ki. Savannah, ( >a . at jo clock Friday morning, shook the । earth, fatally wounded Orduance Sergeant William Chinn, seriously injured t I Mary Washington, his mother-in-law, and -et fire to the fort, ea ising inter- j mittent explosions of ammunition and > I doing much damage. Just after break- t . fast Sergt. Chian went inti the stoie-; ' room. He did as he had been in the hab -of doing for some time durfn^'i the > miner months, ami to k a hnnT- I ful of jMiwder from one of the opens ca.-ks. wet it at the pump, and then 1 placed it in the mi kt e of the room. : He ignited it in order t > drive out the i mo quitoes. which had been abundant, j It -eem- that in carrying the handful ! of ] owder from the cask he had ’eft a train of dry powder from the middle ' ■of the floor right up to the cask. As ■ soon as he had ignited the powder it I ; burned along the trail and the 400; poun is expl ded. There were three ; large explosions, each within a few 1 I seconds of each other, and he was I knocked down three times in trying to | • get out of tue doir. Mary Washing-’ I ton. his mother-in-law. who was ap- j proaching the door at the time, was kno 'ked about forty feet and badly [ burned about the face and arms. WASHINGTON. The President lias nominated Geo. I- Baltzell for Collector of Customs at Fernandina, Fla. Senator Hill has been informed J the possibilities of revenue from the i income tax are from $12,000,000 to $39,-; 000,000. According to the latest advices received by the Hawaiian Legation in Washington. I). C., England is the j only one of the great powers to refuse-i recognition of the efforts of the j Hawaiians to repla ea tinselled • crown with the star of a Republic. । This, too, in the face of the fact that prominent Royalists like Wilcox have |

come to an understanding of the inevitable, and announce a willingness to fall in line and help build a stable government on the islands. Inasmuch as the election for Senators and Representatives is to be held Sent. 5, 1894 political at airs are beginning to bubble quite violently down in the eight is.ands comprising the Hawaiian Republic. John Daggett, Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint, has received orders from the Secretary of the treasury to coin an unlimited nu über alv- 7 arß dui in - the re 1 lining days of July, and during the present money stringency to coin gold currency to the full capacity h ? "“‘J 1 ’ Ab ^milar instructions have also been sent to the mint officials at Carson City, New Ori ans and Philadelphia, Superintendent Daggett says that $3,000,000 will be turned Out in a few days. The silver to be coined first will be blanks and ingots, of which there is sufficient on hand at the local mint to coin $1,000.01 0. There is also on hand at San Francisco 36 - 000,000 ounces of standard silver already coined into dollars of 412.5 grains each, ready for circulation, and 13,000,050 stamtard ounces of tine silver ready for coinage.

IN GENERAL. Clifton R. Breckinridge, of Ar-, kansas, has been confirmed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia Deaths: At Now York, Bishop Hawkins, of the British Methodist Episcopal Church: at Madrid, Prince Henry of Bourbon, Duke of Seville at Paris, Charles M. R. Leconte de Lisle, poet. The directors of the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange have voted to ask the Senat rs and Representatives of Maryland to unite in preventing an adjournment of Congress until the Nicaragua canal bill is voted upon. The offices of the various ocean steamship eomj anies in Cleveland ate besieged by large numbers of foreigners who are taking advantage of the | present steam-hip war and consequent ' low rates to return to th dr native I land. It Is estimated that -ince the ' hard times commenced fully S,(XM» for- । eigners have left the city to return to Europe. Thc-e people, who are mostly Hungarians. Bohemians. Italians and Slavs, are leaving the cotinrv for good. THERE was trouble at New York on the docks of the ocean steamship lines Wedncsdav. So many steerage passengers had taken advantage of the rate war to get back to Europe that the ships could not accommodate all those to whom pasage had been sold. Hundreds c uid not Is' taken ab >ard even with I the cr >wding of the steerage , uirters to the utmost. Only once ts-fore, in 1*73, ha« there been an opp rtunitv t » get a steerage na—age from Now York to Etimje for |l<). That is the rate now, a id it is likely to l>e furt’ er re-dur--d unless an agreement is soon reached by the rival Unes MgR. s molli s ruling sustaining i the decree issued by Bishop Walter--4 «on of Columbu- Ohio that no |xtT son engaged in the mami'aetus-.^;" , r, *o *»• sYo iF . ~-s shl uite l with the lu man t atholir Church, has. aecanting to a < hieago dispatch, I produc-d a profouivl en-ation in Ro- । man t athoiie circles throughout the co ntry. The pastoral otter sent out by I ispop Watterson and now indorsed by the I»|><l delegate was m si swooning in । its condemnation of all jnirsons concerned in the liquor trad r It with- | drew the cp— opal -anction from all •sHOt-iaUm s of which a -aloonkeeper was an offeer, and it dee are I that no . one engaged either a- principal or ageut in numuui • or -a" of Honor could U? n imitt d t > such societies. This was the mo-t raui. ul utteron tlo' .। *or tiui'' ti»‘n doliv* orc I bj a Homan C atholic pr olate in this Cour.lr . and its approval by the repre—ntat'v.ot th-- h-»’v -e mak-- it the law for the faithful. The c:ubs of ho National and Western L-.VI- >'snd a- follow- in the champion-hip rac • i r tox i t * .ce ~ , . I’er cen t W. I„ cent. mUtUnore. ♦ ,j PlttsLurfi o u .«$ B<oton s«> s Cincinnati 3s j,.; pf* ) Or ^ 41 ■' Louis 31 43 .4 <4 Clerelaad « 31 ’■.iCht’a«e > li-TV' U ‘ 1 5‘ 1 OU-.-lUe .4 u , Pblltleipx T i -.4 Wasbini-. n-. _- :o wßruv Letot’F: ! ’*r Per c. L W. L. cent, sioux Citv .45 _i 2Or I P.api fs33 _■,(,> loie>io.. 4c .-j . lndian'p'lfß3fi 3. .433 Mlnne p Its 3- 34 Detroit 2 ■ 41 414 Kansas Cy 35 33 .sv»‘ Milwaukee.l3 44 MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cann -Cotrmon to Prime 13 ■ 4 . Hogs Shipping Grades 101 rS•J 5 I Khekp Fair t»> Choice •_•<>> 4 m Wheat-No. 2 Ited i ' Corn—No. 2 . 42 -43 eOAis i^i Tirn Choice Creamer) 1; vt 17g I tesb -j io ■|Toia roE»—New. per bu 5b i<i C - I. INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE—Shipping 200 @4 75 Hogs—Choice Light 4 oo @ 5 25 Sheep—Common to Ih-itne 2 00 (ft 3 ;o Wheat-No. 2 Red 47 @ 48 Corn—No. 2 White 4'>’;C «’ 3 i Oats—No. 2 White . in 1 ” 41 I I S'l. Lol ls. i Cattle .... ... ;00 @4 50 Hogs 00 @ 5 ‘'s ■ Wheat No. 2 Red .-.o , < ,u Corn No. 2 33 t. 4 > ■ Oats —No. 2 , z 3,1 I Rye—No. 2 4 • .< 4s, CINCINNATI. ' Cattle 2 ,-n 4 I Hogs 4 a. 5 5a Sheep .. 2 00 o 3 so vV HEAT —No. 2 Led... 50 ; 51 Corn—No. 2 Mixed 45 i-.ia I Oats—No. 2 Mixed 4-, jrc 4.-, ; i Rye —No. 2 . 4t j (j® 50 I DETROIT. HocV ^ 2 50 (ii 4 50 fy OGS 4 00 (<r 5 2> Sheep 2 o> @375 Wheat No. 1 White 54 <4 55 Corn—No. 2 Yellow.. 4, „i 4, Oats-No. 2 White 40 S 1 ... TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 62 •; Corn—No. 2 Yellow . .I, 2 Wl,lte •«- 37 RYE —No. 2. .. <0 , ... BLFFALO.' 4 Wheat-No. 1 White «g a 5g No. 2 Red ad 57 ' Corn—No. 2 Yellow ' <a Is Oats-No. 2 White « g « " ... milwavkee. 2 Spring 53 @ 53’0 L OEX ?!°- 3 -,; 43 @ 43'6 Oats-No. 2 White 34 w ^>,4 RV^N^' 0 ' - 53 @ 54 l>^~' - 1 48 50 1 ORL—Mess 12 25 @l2 75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 @ 3 00 Hogs 3 75 @ 6 to Sheep.... 3 to @4 25 n heat—No. 2 Red 67 @ < 8 Corn —No. 2 47 @ 4^ Oats—No. 2 White 42 4i Butter—Creamery 13 @ is Eggs—State 12 @ u

DE ATH IN THE WRECK three people killed in a big ' FOUR COLLISION. Chicago Express Crashes luto an Engine Near Cincinnati with Terrible Results — Fireman Taylor and Two Tramps Are Killed Outright.

Ten Others Injured, There was a head-end collision on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Hailroad at Griffiths Station, fifteen miles from Cincinnati. Three persons were killed and ten injured. The express from Ch cago, due in < incinnati at 0, was on time, but the St. Louis express, which runs fifteen minutes ahead of it, was an hour late. At Griffiths a light engine was running down to the gravel bank in charge of Engineer Hart. He forgot his orders,ar dkn iwinp the St. Louis express was late he pulled out and was met by the Chicago express. Hart will die, probably, without bein» able to I tell how he made the mistake in orders. His fireman. Frank Taylor, of Indianapolis, was killed ou iight; also

■ Charles Sherman and another tramp, • who were stealing a ride. There are ten reported injured, none fatally, ex1 cept Engineer Hart, The postal cars j of the Chicago express were damaged. No passengers were seriously injured. The engineer and fireman of the express train -aved their lives by jumping. The txvo tramps killed were steali ing their way on the postal cars. There i were seven postal clerks at work in the cars. Although the shock was greatest on their ears, only two are reported badly hurt, the others having narrow j escapes. BREVITIES, The Daily Globe, at Waco Texa-. has suspended publication. Mr. Gladstone’s eye is worse, and he will have to submit to another operation. The recent earthquakes in Turkey are now said to have caused the death of over a thousand persons. At Bed Oak Okla., two masked men held up a Santa Fo train and forced all passengers to contribute valuables. The Montana wool season is now at. it* height. Eve million pounds will be marketed in Great Falls. lAist years shipments from this point were 3,2 0,C 0 ) jiounds. George A. Beynolds. of Michigan, ha- filed suit at ( levelan I. Ohio, to compel (late Smith, of Youngstown, to turn over books and papers of the Order of Elks. A collision occurred Monday evening on the Texas and I a-ific nine

miles north of Atlanta. Texas near Fore-t Station six 01* seven jiersons wore killed and several wounded. The temporary injunction recently is-ued aga n-t John Boyd Thacher's Unman <>f Awards mud by the Anl „ “ tV.-WVTT, —,—. tended until next September. g.'sh h’ Patrick Ludden of Syracusc N. Y. -av- Mgr. Satolli's sanction of Bishop Waterson's edict should not lx? construed as a general order obliging other Bis’ ops to issue similar edicts. Fin receipts of the dead letter otfice of the Postoffice Department during the ti-cal year just closed were *7,101,tHL The amomt is a falling off of <’!•,' M from the receipt -of the previous year. Live, sailors, comprising the crew of the -chooner Ho! ert H. Mitchell, which foundered off Scabright. N. J., were rescued by wealthy and aristoatic New-Yorkers, emits at a summer hotel, who manned a lifeboat. Wm. Waite, of Chesterfield.’lnd., need j' . wa- found leaning against a tree dead. How long he had been (R a i before found is not known, but it could not have been le-s than thirtysix hours. Thecause of his death is unknown. Five p tsou- wtce serlo isly injured at Hinging Kocks Park, near Pottst >wn, Pa., by a bolt of lightning which folk wed electric light wires into and exploded in a pavilion in which a large numlxT of jxmple ha 1 gathered to e—ea) ea storm. When the "eiiate convened Monday the battle over the conference report on the tariff bill was remmed before 1 er. wded gallerte- and a big attendance on the floor. At 12:35 the conferrees' icport was laid b -fore the Senate, and Mr. Gorman arose and ad Iressed the Senate, -peaking from catefully prepared m t -. Hi- speech wa- devoted to a defen-c of the Senate and an attack on Pre ident Cleveland's letter to (’hairman Wil-on, which wa< lead in the House last week. At 3 o'clock in the morning a gasoline stove exp’.cded in the restaurant and lodging-h' use of Wil iam Hancock, I<M 5 North Third street. St. Louis. Fifteen pe- sons were a deep on the second and third floors. Two were burned to death and three seriously injured. ; In Chicago a quick fire just after 1 ’ o'clock Monday afternoon destroyed about ten small frame houses 0.1 Van Horn street. Four children were burned to death, and several persons were injured. The excur.-i n steamer Favorite was burned to the water's edge at her dock in New York, and two ; boys had a narrow escape from death. Bertha Wenning, aged 10, died on Sunday night, at Indianapolis, of hydrophobia. She was bitten by a dog six weeks ago. According to Secretary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor, workingmen are to be urged to form themselves into military companies. Engineer John Van Horn was killed in a collision at Sandusky. Ohio. He could have saved himself by jumping, but he remained at hi^post to save the passengers oa his train, among whom were his wife and two children. A G. Renshaw, a British capital- , ist, has commenced suit at San J ran-

cisco to recover s24~>,<>o • which he paid for a “salted” mine. Fears are entertained that Birmingham, Ala., will be burned and sacked by strikers. Both the police and tire departments have been doubled.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation's Capital—What Is Being Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Os and New Ones Considered. The Senate and Douse. la the Senate, Wednesday, Mr. Carey called up the Senate bill to reserve for ten years in each of several States 1.000,00(1 acres of arid lands to be reclaimed and sold in small tracts to actual settlers, and it was passed. The bill applies to the same States as the desert land law and also to Montana and Kansas and to the States that may be formed out of the Territories of Arizona. New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah, when admitted. By unanimous consent bills were passed by the House authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Lexington. Ma; also a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for a reporton the Government improvements at Saugatuck Harbor. Mich. Under the special order adopted on 1 Monday the remainder of the day was devoted to business reported from the com- ' mittee on military affairs. Bills were , also passed to regulate enlistments

In ttie army. to autUorlza tUe Board of Nanaters ot tbe tSoldlers’ Home to transfer and maintain the inmates of any branch in case of emergency, to place Major General John L. Green on the retired list as first lieutenant, Napoleon .1. T. Dana as an assistant quartermaster. Dunbar K Ransom as captain, Charles B Stivers as captain and James William Albert as Major. The Senate was occupied Friday in finding out ‘-where it was at” on the tarlfi question. Because of a very small attendance by reason of greater attractions in the Senate the House was able to transact much business in a short time. Half a dozen bills were passed without opposition or debate. Most of the day was devoted to the discussion of the resolution Introduced by Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, to amend the constitution by taking away from Congress authority over the election of United States Senators and empowering the States to prescribe the time, place and manner of holding elections for Senators. Before a vote was reached the House was compelled, under the regular order for Friday, to take a recess. The night session was devoted tc pension business. Tae debate on the tariff in tbe Senate. Monday, attracted members of the lower house, which was forced to adjourn for lack of a quorum. In a speech which ; occupiel three hours in delivering Senator Gorman charged the President with duplicity In connection with ,ti e tariff bilk Three of his associates testified to the truth of his charges. Among tbe nominations sent 10 the Senate were those of G H. Robinson for pension agent at Des Moines and E. H. Hunter for postmaster at the same place. The President's letter on the tariff again occupied the Senate on Tuesday. Mr. Hill spoke earnestly in defense ot the executive, replying to Mr. Gorman's attack. hi the House, a bill was passed to reinstate Democratic postal clerks dismissed from service by Mr. Wanamaker In 4P39-

Was the Companion of Lamartine. There died recently in Paris a woman whose sweet companionship consoled and cheered the declining yea-s of Lamartine. Mlle, de Cessia was ore ipfAhe many women who are content to toriety. She was the niec > of the poet, a daughter of his sister, and some time after he became a widower, when he was the prey of financial difficulties of the most trying kind, she took up her abode with him an i remained to the last his most faithful adviser, companion and nurse. Os noble family on the paternal a- well as the materna' side, she solicited and obtained the dignity of chanoinesse, which also confers the title of Comtesse, and it was as Ccmtesse de I amartine that she ruled her uncle s household, acting the part of ho-tess t । the numerous friends and admirers whom Lamartine was always pleased to gather around him. Many of those of a younger generation who were admitted to the privacy of the aged poet remember with gratitude the warm welcome they received from his niece.—The K u een. Bringing Vp of Mothers. A young person has been writing an artie'e on the bringing up of mothers. Thirty years ago mothers were not brought up: they just grew. They wore caps early, gave up dancing when their children were in short frocksand knickerbo -kers. and developed all sorts of incorrect ideas about chaperons and flirtations. Formerly the young idea was trained the way it should go. Now the old tree is pruned and pared into shape. Girls have assumed the responsibility ot looking after their mothers. Mothers are kept to see to a well-ordered house, c a< refractory father- and attend to bores. They must, moreover, be ornamental, look well at the head of the table, dress becom ngly, keep up with the fashions, look nice when the girls take them out with them, and smile encouragingly at the young men. Nor are their morals forgotten. Frequently one hears a girl say: "It is an interesting show, but not one I d care to take my mother to.'’ . Eats Eye Stones. The cat's eye stone, now prized as an ornament, is a very different thing from the ancient i at's eye or eye stone of India, an agate cut" so as "to show the so-called eye or eyes. It is supposed by some that this latter was , used as money in parts of India four com uries ago, and specimens found to-day have an interest to nuraismatist-. How We Multiply. It L computed that the death rate of the world is sixty-seven a minute and the birth rate seventy a minute, and this seemingly light percentage of gain- is sufficient to give a net increase of population each year of almost 1,209,00 i souls. Revolutionary Relic. The public library of Easthampton, Mass., has been piesented with a wedding dress over 100 years old. The garment is of “changeable silk.” and weighs less than eight ounces. This and That. A race horse e’ears from twenty io twenty-four feet at a bound. It costs Great Britain $20.0 0 to scrape the barnacles off the bottom of one of its big men-o-war and repaint it. and this has to be done twice a yea? in the case of nearly every vessel.

Before beginning to fold clothes, or even to hang them out on the line, i ut on a clean apron if you wish to have, the clothes entirely clean. There is always a chance of the damp muslin wiping something from anything soiled with which it comes in contact.