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LEON f.OJSSAN, PubUshcr.
ASCEOLA - - • ARKANSAS
The Turks have recaptured Sana
•nd the revolt is said to be ended.
The Southern Inter-state exposition
opened with a grand flourish at Raleigh,
N. C., on the Ist.
A meeting was held in Windsor,
Ont., on the night of the Ist, to discuss
annexation to the United States.
The New York chamber of commerce
has adopted a resolution calling for the
repeal of the existing law for the pur
chase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver per
month.
The story of Jay Gould’s sudden ill
ness at a directors’ meeting in New
York, on the Ist, is positively denies!
by his sons Howard and Edward, who
say no such meeting was held.
A circular has been issued by the
Russian minister of the interior which
enumerates thirteen governments in
which the people are completely fam
ine stricken and eight in which partial
famine prevails.
The president has, in accordance with
an act passed by the last congress, pre
scribed rules providing for a system of
examination to determine the fitness
for promotion of all officers of the army
below the grade of lieutenant colonel.
The first bell that ever rung in
America, now the property of the heirs
of Padre Bellini, a patriotic priest of
Santo Domingo, is to be exhibited at
the World* t fair,having already reached
Washington city. It is about 400 years
old.
Gen. George Ernest Jean Marie
Boulanger, ex-minister of war of
France, committed suicide, on the 30th,
ut the tomb of Mme. Bonnemain, his
late mistress, who recently died in
Brussels, by shooting himself through
the head.
The reciprocity conference arranged
to take place in Washington, on the
12th, between representatives of the
Dominion and the United States has
been postponed at the request of Pres
ident Harrison until the return of Sec
retary Blaine to the capital.
A special from Guthrie, O. T., says
thief Justice Green has decided, in a
damage suit, that when a saloon is run
contrary to law any person, either an
officer or private citizen, can destroy
the business and no damages can be
collected by the saloon keeper.
Capt. George H. Perkins, United
States navy, at his own request was,
on the Ist, placed on the retired list,
after forty years’ service, (’apt. Per
kins distinguished himself during the
late war as commander of the United
States steamer Chickasaw at Mobile
bay, Ala.
The Leland Stanford, Jr., univer
sity at Palo Alto, Cal., was opened, on
the Ist, with imposing ceremonies and
a large attendance of students from all
parts of the state and Union. The first
el ass that matriculates will be larger
than is usual with new institutions of
the kind.
The grand jury which investigated
the collapse of the building in Park
place, New York, in which over sixty
lives were lost, has reported its inabil
ity to decide whether overloaded floors
or an explosion caused the calamity.
The evidence gathered would not war
rant the finding of an indictment.
Sir John Thompson has applied to
the governor in council of Canada for
power to immediately commence prose
cution, both civil and criminal, against
those who have been found conspiring to
defraud the government. This is in con
nection with the recent investigations
before the privileges and elections com
mittee.
Owing to the low' water in the
Owasco outlet, which flows through the
center of the city of Auburn, N. Y.,
and into which the entire sewage of the
town empties, an epidemic of typhoid
fever exists in the western part of the
city. Over 500 cases have been reported
to the health officer, who is of the opin
ion that many more cases are being
concealed.
The official estimate of the French
wheat harvest for 1891 is 5,819,507 hec
tares cultivated. (A hectare is two acres,
one rod and thirty-five perches.) This
cultivation produced 81,839,070 hecto
litres (2% bushels to the hectolitre.) Os
mixed grain 518,358 hectares were
planted, producing 3,638,992 hectolitres.
Os rye 1,491,714 hectares were planted,
producing 21,152,3.7 hectolitres.
In many Russian villages the peas
ants have nailed up their huts and left
their communes to scour the country
in search of work. Hundreds of them
failed in their search and are begging
along the roadsides. In numerous
rases the seed corn which was fur
nished the peasants by the govern
ment has been eaten instead of
planted, and the land is lying fallow.
The director of the mint, with the ap
proval of the secretary of tlie treasury,
has issued special instructions to the
superintendent of the United States
assay office in New York city to pay
such approximation of the value of de
))osits of ioreign gold coin or bars, not
Io exceed 90 per cent., as in his opinion
will be proper and safe, pending melt
and assay. This is done to encourage
the importation of foreign go!4 into
the United States.
A bold robber, who had cut his way
f hrough the end of the car, at 10 o’clock
on the morning of the 30th, suddenly
covered a messenger on a solid Ameri
can express train of six cars on the
Central Hudson railroad between Al
bany and Little Falls, N. Y., and de
manded the surrender of his revolver
and the key to the safe, from which he
secured packages to the probable value
of SI,OOO, and, giving the signal to the
engineer to slow up, jumped from the
car and made his escape.
Mr. Dredge, one of the English Col
umbian exposition commissioners, says:
“I think one grand result of the fair
will be to bring about a stronger senti
ment of good will between the two
countries. If prejudice now exists in
•ny form on «Hher side it is the result
of ignorance. The exposition will ban
ish ignorance; it will cause the people
of both governments to understand
each other better, and when they know
<me another as they really are, the beat
0 feeling will naturally esUt"
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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Scmnuuy at Important Emt*
PERSONAL ANO GENERAL.
The settlers in Calispel valley, in
northern Idaho, are alarmed over the
menacing attitude of the Indians in
that section. Marsel a, the chief of the
Calispels, it is reported, has ordered oil
white settlers out of the country, and
the Indians arc running off the set
tlers* stock nnd otherwise annoying the
whites. a
The coroner’s inquest on the sup
posed suicide of William Adams, who
was found hanging in his barn near
Columbus, Ind., has developed that
Adams had received white cap anony
mous letters threatening his life. The
grand jury will investigate.
Dr. Joseph J enures, rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal church in Indianap
olis, Ind., has resigned on request of
his congregation, which objected to his
conviction that the end of the world is
near at hand.
Freight train No. 85 on the Erie road
collided with section 6 of passenger
train No. 2, near Kent, O , on the 30th.
Four persons were killed, including
the engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train, and thirty persons in
jured.
Hon. Thomas McGreery, M. P., was
expeled from the Canadian house of
commons, on the 29th, by unanimous
vote. His offense was boodling.
An attempt to wreck the train on
which Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria was traveling to Reichenburg was
frustrated, on the night of the 31st, by
the discovery of a bomb which was in
tended to blow up the bridge at Rosen
thal,over which the emperor’s train was
to pass.
A special cable from La Libertad,
San Salvador, says that the command
ant of that port denies the rumor about
a revolt in Guatemala.
The Dixon County bank, at Ponca,
Neb., was entered by five masked bur
glars, on the night of the 29th, the
watchman being overpowered. Their
efforts to break into the vault were in
terrupted by a citizen, and the robbers
hurried to the railroad, where they had
a hand-car in waiting, and amid a fusil
lade ot bullets escaped. One of the rob
bers was shot, but the others carried
him away with them.
Mme. Boulanger, widow of Gen.
Boulanger, who is residing at Ver
sailles, on being informed of her hus
band’s suicide nt Brussels, fainted.
Since then she has been in a state of
deepest dejection, and is apparently
overcome with grief.
Prof. Renfro, a white teacher of a
colored normal school at Huntsville,
Ala., attempted, on the Ist, to chastise
Ebenezer Kahn, a colored pupil. Kahn
seized a three-inch steel chisel and im
bedded it in Renfro’s brain, killing
him.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a statement, on the Ist, showing
that on that date, the total amount of
national bank notes outstanding aggre
gated $171,817,319, a decrease for the
month of September of $9,917,139.
A soldiers’ monument was unveiled
at Pottsville, Pa., on the Ist, in the
presence of a vast assemblage.
Capt. Charles 11. Warrens, Four
teenth infantry, has been placed on the
retired list of the army.
The strike of miners in the Pitts
burgh (Pa.) district is more general
than was expected. Ten thousand
miners are idle, and work at all the
railroad mines has ceased.
The adhesion of the Australasian
colonies to the universal postal union,
which has been for years anxiously
sought by the commercial nations of
the world, went into effect on the Ist.
Eight miners were killed at the
Aborgwnfi colliery, near Bridgend,
Wales, on the Ist, by the over-winding
of the pit gear.
Hon. Harvey M. Watterson died in
Louisville, Ky., on the night of the
Ist. He was born in Bedford county,
Tenn., November 23, 1811. In 1839 he
succeeded .lames K. Polk in the Twen
ty-sixth congress and was the only sur
viving member of that body. He served
in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth congresses, and in 1843 was sent
by President Tyler to South America
on an important diplomatic mission. He
declined office at the hands of Presi
dents Pierce, Buchanan nnd Johnson.
He was a strong Union man during the
late war.
The city of Halifax, N. S., was re
ported, on the morning of the 2d. to be
in the embrace of a mighty conflagra
tion. which threatened the destruction
of the city and all the shipping in the
docks. A hundred casks of kerosene
stored in one of the warehouses on the
docks added largely to the spread of the
fire among the shipping.
The fifth annual Corn-Palace festival
opened at Sioux City, la., on the Ist,
with great ceremony. The weather
was not of the best, but nevertheless
the city was thronged with people. The
Mexican National band is there, and
will give two concerts daily during the
carnival.
Thomas Stevenson, of Elkhart. Ind.,
while home at noon, on the Ist. acci
dentally shot and instantly killed him
self. He was iu the back yard shooting
sparrows with a target rifle, when the
gun was caught somewhere in his cloth
ing and the load was discharged through
his heart.
The condition of the cotton crop for
the seven days ended the Ist was some
what improved, in most sections, over
the preceding week, though in parts of
Arkansas and South Carolina the situa
tion was more gloomy than at any time
this season. Nearly all reports esti
mate quite a fulling off from the yield
of last year.
Sir John Thompson, minister of jus
tice, and Hon. C. E. Foster, minister of
customs, will represent the Dominion
government at the reciprocity confer
ence to be held nt Washington on the
12th inst.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 2d. number,
for the United states, 201, and for Can
ada, 29, or a total of 230; as compared
with a total of 244 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 197, Representing
166 failures in the United States and 31
in the Dominion of Canada.
Fire at Alexander City, Ala., on the
2d, burned the alliance warehouse and
500 bales of cotton. The loss is $25,-
000; partially insured The cause of
the fire is unknown.
A brisk exchange of telegrams be
tween the European capitals continues,
with a view to reinforcing the European
squadrons in Chinese waters.
Know more than three feet deep was
reported at Red Lodge, Mont., p# the
2d, and business was blockaded.
Commodore P. Veder has begun ac
tion for slander at Jamestown, N. Y.,
against Hon. VV. 1). .Sessions. Mr. Ses
sions charged that Mr. Veder had pro
cured his last three nominations for
senator from his district by bribery.
Ten of the most notorious criminals
confined in the St Louis jail made their
escape on the evening of the 2d, by in
some manner gaining possession of the
keys and by the convenient absence of
the guards from their posts of duty.
Among them was Jack Shea, the mur
derer of Policeman Dolan, who was un
der sentence of fifty years, but await
ing the result of a motion for a new
trial.
G. P. Mills, the English champion
bicyclist who holds the English record
from Land’s Eud to John O'Groat’s,
has beaten his own time by twenty*
two hours, having ridden on a pneu
matic bicycle between the two points
in four days, four hours and fifteen
minutes.
The convention of the Irish National
league in Chicago elected M. V. Gan*
non, of Omaha, president to succeed
John Fitzgerald. Neither Parnell nor
McCarthy was indorsed, but the plat
form discountenances “hero worship.”
No more money is to be given until the
Paris fund is disgorged.
C. M. Morton—“ Charles Lc Furst”
—a writer of humorous articles and
squibs for Puck and other funny pa
pers, has just been discharged from the
Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater,
where he served a seven years’ sen
tence. He says he has “drunk the
dregs of ill-doing and learned to do
well by hard experience. ” He had the
reputation of being a model prisoner.
Alex Hunt, who made a murderous
assault upon (apt. I). P. Slattery in St.
Louis in November, 1889, and who
jumped his bail bond, was arrested in
Saginaw, Mich., on the 2d, and the St
Louis authorities notified, lie will be
taken back to St. Louis for trial.
Explorations made in Shiloh cave,
near the village of Fayetteville, Ind.,
show that in beauty it rivals the Mam
moth cave of Kentucky. Several relics
of prehistoric man are said to have
been found.
Over 4,000 people assembled in the
Tyneside theater in Newcastle, En
gland, on the 2d, to listen to an address
on the political issues of the day. The
“Grand Old Man” nnd Mrs. Gladstone,
who accompanied him, were accorded a
genuine ovation.
British Columbia purposes building,
at the World’s fair, a structure made up
of every variety of wood known to the
forests of that portion of the continent.
Simeon Ray, secretary of the Globe-
Democrat Printing Co., died at his home
in St. Louis, on the 2d, of Bright’s dis
ease, from which he hud been a sufferer
for some time.
A decision declaring option gambling
contracts void was handed down by the
Minnesota supreme court on the 2d.
The president has directed that
Chong Sam, a Chinaman, lie deported
to China as the country “whence he
came,” notwithstanding the request of
Sir Julian Pauncefote that he be sent
to Canada, the country from which he
crossed into the United States.
A few years since Jericho was one of
the most prosperous villages in Van
Buren county, Mich. On the 3d the
last building was wiped out by fire,
and its former site is less marked than
the ruins of its biblical namesake.
The holy synod of St. Petersburg,
has appointed Archimandrite Nicolai,
now at Tiflis, to be bishop of the Greek
church at San Francisco, in place of
Bishop Vladimir, who is transferred to
a bishopric in Russia.
Receipts of wool in Boston for the
week ended on the 3d were 12,580 bales
domestic and 1,004 bales foreign. Sales,
2,442,600 pounds domestic and 909,000
pounds foreign.
It is reported that the Oroya Rail
way Co. of Peru has decided to use oil
fuel on all of their locomotives.
The wife of ex-President Cleveland
was delivered of a daughter on the Sd.
Mrs. Frank Leslie was married in
New York, on the 4th, to Win. C. Kings
bury Wilde, a brother of Oscar Wilde.
Secretary Tracy announces that
Commodore George W. Melville, the
Arctic hero, will be his own successor
as engineer-in-chief of the navy when
his four-year term expires in January.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
A convention of planters of sea island
cotton in South Carolina has been called
to meet at Charleston for the purpose of
organizing a combine against the sale
of cottonseed.
It is said that the President will de
clare the Nez Perccs reservation open
to settlement in a short while.
lowa farmers complain that the fall
wheat will be a failure. The grain
sprouted and then the continued dry
weather dried up the sprout.
Mexican Consul Ornelas, at San
Antonio. T 'X., says the published re
ports of the massacre of 200 white
colonists in the State of Hidalgo are
unfounded.
The heavy rains in Western Kansas
have caused all the Indian Territory
rivers to rise suddenly and much dam
age has resulted. Many of the boomers
camped along the streams have lost
their horses, wagons and cattle.
Fire destroyed over two million dol
lars worth of property at Boston on the
sth.
I n Orange Township, Ohio, the ravages
of cholera have destroyed over 500 head
of hogs, and in Van Buren and Marion
Townships the disease is also raging.
The losses in many eases comprise the
entire drove of swine owned by the
farmers.
A movement is on foot to buy up all
the rice mills of the South and throw
them into a pool. The Standard Oil
Company and English capitalists are
supposed to be behind the enterprise.
Snow fell at Park Rapids, in the
northern part of Minnesota, on the sth.
The Treasury Department paid out
$4,709,000 on account, of pensions during
the first four days of October.
At Hempstead. L. 1., a remarkable
case of continued sleep was brought to
a close on the sth by the death of Marie
L’Africain. The woman slept continu
ously for nine days and six hours.
The amount of money in circulation
on October 1, 1891, was $1,530,682,036, as
compared with $1,498,072,700 on October
1, 1890. Estimating the population of
the United States at 64,440,000, this
fixes the circulation at $23.75 per capita.
Advices from Panama say: Ono hun
dred and seventy-five thousand persons
are without shelter on Martinique
Island as the result of the recent hurri
cane. A good half ot that number are
absolutely destitute. The last new|
e»Utu»wd Ue loss u WO (rune*.
। ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
To Cotton Producers.
Col. W. F. Locke has addressed the
following letter to cotton producers:
In view of existing facts, I desire to call
your attention to certain customs which
have obtained among us. who produced the
fleecy staple, and by which we, as a class,
and the people of the state generally, are
liable to suffer and loose thousands of dol
lars for want of watching over the gathering
of the present crop of cotton in such a man
ner and condition that we can and should
do.
j It is true a certain amount of low grade.
Inferior cotton commands its worth readily
In the markets until the demand, which for
j this class is quite limited. Is satisfied; but it
is also true that enough, or nearly so, of this
low cotton to supplj* the demand Is left over
from last year’s crop; so this grade will
। bring but little at this season. On the other
, band, cotton well handled, picked free of
trash clean out of the bolls, put Into houses
or good pens well covered, and not piled on
the ground, us Is the manner of some, han
dled with care while hauling as well as in
ginning, to see that It Is not so wet as to
“knap,” will bring a fair price. You will
have observed that nice "middling" and
"middling fair” to superior grades are never
a drag on the market.
The writer had several bales of low grade
cotton of last season left on the hands of his
merchants In Little Rock which remained
unsold, but nothing as good as "middling"
failed to find a market, and so It has been In
every Instance, as far rs heard from. An
other suggestion I would make—since the
crop is certainly cut short—the forces that
cultivated it should be able for the most part
to pick It out They are generally more re*
liable, and should be kept on that account,
and if those who raise their own crops
would gather them also, they would by that
act save more than what the short price to
gether with the crop would cause them to
lose.
One of the mysteries to be noted among
cotton farmers, is that they work well until
the crop Is matured, or as it is callen 'Maid
by," but afterward they "hire" all else done
and thereby loose the profits their former
labor has made. In mv Judgment this Isono
of the chief backsets on the farm and the
cause of much distress.
To prove the correctness of this assertion
you have only to refer to the manner of
conducting a farm by those who immigrate
from the older states, where they work all
the year round, and hire no work done they
can do themselves. All such are generally
successful if they they stick to former hab
its, and they commonly sell the cotton of
their own raising at good and profitable
figures. Respectfully,
M. F. Locke,
Commissioner, Etc.
Excitement in Marion County.
A report from Yellville says the dep
redations of a gang of lawless charac
ters banded together as a secret organ
ization have terrorized the inhabitants
of Marion county. The gang made a
general raid in Cowan Barron’s neigh
borhood the other night which would
put to shame the worst class of outlaws
on the western borders. The houses of
Wiliam Hamblett, Sr., William flam
blett, Jr., Rev. Ed McCarty, Judge J.
S. Owens, Richard West and Thomas
Sasser were visited and fired into
by marauders. Windows were smashed,
and at Rev. Ed McCarty's some chil
dren sleeping in a front room were hit
and severely injured with rocks. Judge
Owens’ horse was taken from the stable
and its ears cut off. William Hamblett,
Jr., was warned by notice to leave the
country under penalty of death. Rev.
Ed McCarty was warned that if George
Hamblett’s wife continued to live at
his house he would be killed. Jim Mc-
Carty was also warned that his life was
in peril. The authorities are greatly
excited, and every effort is being made
to apprehend the leaders.
Filled with Buckshot. ' *)
The town of Lewisville, La Fayette
county, was the scene of another tragedy
the other day. Joe Stewart, a prom
inent citizen of the place, shot and in
stantly killed Dr. J. E. Chisholm, the
leading physician of the town. Stew
art fired both loads of a double-barreled
shotgun loaded with buckshot into
Chrisholm’s body. The cause of the
trouble was due to enmity existing be
tween the two, growing out of a law
suit in which Stewart testified against
Chisholm.
Married the Senators* Daughter.
Miss Nellie F., daughter of United
States Senator J. 11. Berry, and Will
iam Hyatt, of Washington city, son
of Maj. Hyatt, a prominent banker
of Monticello, Ark., were married at
the senator’s home in Bentonville the
other day. The wedding was a very
quiet affair, only a few persons besides
relatives being in attendance. The
newly-married couple will make their
future home in Washington city.
Ante-Nuptial Announcement*
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage on the 13th of Hop. A. S. Kill
gore, mayor of Magnolia, and Miss Net
tie Hicks, formerly a teacher in the
public schools at Magnolia and at Cam
den. Mr. Killgore is a lawyer of prom
inence. His best man will be Circuit
Judge Slith, and Prosecuting Attorney
Wallace will act as one of the attend
ants.
Strange, to Say the Leant.
Martin Kendleman, of Kaolin, 111.,
and Samuel Kendleman, of Crowley’s
Ridge, Ark., were twins, being born on
February 29, 1824. For years they had
lived in different states, and neither
knew of the illness of the other. The
other day both were stricken With
paralysis, and both died at about the
same hour.
Riotous Cotton-Pickers.
Bands of riotous negro cotton-piclders
took possession of Lee county, a flew
days since. The killing of Toin Miller,
a white man and agent for J. A.
by the rioters and strikers, almost pre
cipitated a serious state of affairs.
A Desperado Captured.
Bob Campbell, the noted Texas des
perado and murderer, was captured near
Conway, Faulkner county, and taken
back to the scenes of his crimes.
Shot in Self-Defense.
Mrs. Shadin fatally shot Harmon
Lewis, near Des Are. They quarreled
about crops.and he attacked her with an
ax. She was arrested and discharged.
A Thieving Baggageman.
Oliver Simmons, baggageman at the
Cotton Belt depot at Pine Bluff, was ar
rested for robbery. He returned $94
which he had stolen from a trunk.
Want Their Resort Known.
Citizens of Eureka Springs have or
ganized for the purpose of advertising
thoroughly throughout the country the
virtues of the famous resort
Will Soon Be Completed.
Work on the Cotton Belt bridge across
the Arkansas river at Rob Roy is
progressing rapidly, and the structure
will soon be completed.
Given Twenty-One Years.
Oliver Blackburn, who killed Mary
Duffy, in Jackson county, in 1890, has
been sentenced to twenty-one years in
the penitentiary.
Want More Water.
Efforts are being made at Pine Bluff
to increase the water supply, which al
ways falls dwrt, it is wld, Ip mt of
ton.
DEATH ON THE RIVER.
Eight Frrsona Killed and a Doren Injured
by an Explosion on the Tug Charles
Parker on the South Branch of the Chi
cago River—Many of the Fatalities
Among People who Lined the Shore
Wat citing the Operations of the Tug in
Releasing a Grounded Propeller.
Chicago, Oct. 5. —Eight persons were
almost instantly killed and a dozen
others injured, yesterday afternoon, by
the explosion of the tug Charles Parker
in the south branch of the river near
Archer-avenue bridge. Three of the
dead belonged to the crew of the beat,
while the others were by-standers who
were killed by flying debris. The
Parker, together with the tugs Van
Schaack, Perry and Schields. had
been working all day endeav
oring to free the propeller H.
S. Packards, which *had grounded
in the south draw of the bridge. They
had puffed and pulled away almost in
cessantly until shortly before 5 o’clock
when, with comparatively little steam
the boiler of the Parker exploded|
Columns of water were thrown into
the air, falling upon the other tugs,
drenching and blinding the crews. A
moment later, the debris showered
upon the ground on either side of the
river. Pieces of broken iron and wood
work fell upon the docks and the
streets.
At the time Archer avenue near the
scene of the accident was crowded.
The noise of the explosion and the
falling wreck caused a terrible panic.
When the spectators partially recov
ered their senses it was discovered
that eight persons were dead, while
many more were injured* some of them
probably fatally. The dead are:
Mrs. Mary Rice, aged 23, of 3013
Archer avenue; head crushed by falling
debris.
Barbara Rice, 18 months old, daugh
ter of Mrs. Rice; head crushed.
Samuel Sawyer, aged 21, switchman
for the Illinois Steel Co.
Bartholomew Curtin, aged 10, of 3239
Pauline street; struck on head by an
iron bolt.
Jones B. Carter, captain of the tug,
married; body not yet recovered.
J 'hn C. Moore, of Highland Park,
engineer of the tug; body not yet re
covered.
Samuel Armstrong, of Manistee, cook
of the. tug; body not yet recovered.
Unknown man, killed by piece of the
furnace door; about 30 years of age,
dark complexion, brown mustache;
body at Klaner’s morgue.
The injured are:
Jos. Cullen, 390 Maxwell street, fire
man of the Parker; terribly scalded;
will die.
Henry Bell, linesman of the Parker;
badly scalded.
Frank Wagner, 13 South Green
street: arm broken.
Joseph Bomarack, 809 South Ashland
avenue; skull fractured; may die.
George Juell, captain of tug Van
Schaack; leg and back bruised.
Louis Demaas, linesman of the Van
Schaack; back injured.
James Cunningham, cook of the Van
Schaack; head cut.
A. Manusus, fruit dealer: hip injured.
Edward Mahoy, both knee caps badly
injured.
Richard Powers, 10 years old, hurt
about legs.
John Norton, 12 years old, slighly
hurt
When the feeling of fright caused by
the catastrophe had passed away, the
spectators crowded around the spot
vhere, lay the body of Mrs.
Rice, her little daughter and the
unknown man. Mrs. Rice lay on her
side, her face crushed and bruised,
while blood poured from her mouth,
nose and ears. By her side lay her lit
tle daughter. The fate of the two was
peculiarly sad. Before the explosion
Mrs. Rice had been standing on the
south side of Archer avenue, holding
the babe in her arms and in endeavor
ing to escape when the crash came, her
skull was crushed by a piece of iron.
At the same moment her little daugh
ter was struck on the head by a piece
of the furnace door.
On the other shore, Bartholomew
Curtin and Richard Powers, boys aged
10 and 12, were standing watching the
tugs. Curtin was struck on the head
by an iron bolt and fell to the ground.
His skull had been cut open and the
brains were oozing out when he was
picked up. Young Powers was also
struck by the flying missiles and in
jured.
As the air cleared after the explosion,
the Parker was seen rolling slowly and
settling, stern foremost, into the water.
A moment later Jos. Cullen and Henry
Bell, were seen strugglingin the water.
Life lines were thrown to them and
they were helped on board one of the
other tugs. Cullen’s flesh was almost
parboiled, and in clinging to the life
ropes the skin was torn from his hands.
The explosion was a peculiar one.
The fatalities on shore in each case oc
curred some distance from the wrecked
tug and in places where the victims
would seem to be in almost perfect
safety.
The almost unanimous opinion of
vessel men is that the explosion was
caused by the filthy water in the river.
It is so full of grease and dirt of every
sort that when it gets into a Ixjiler it
foams up just like soap suds, which
makes it very dangerous.
The Fall of Jericho.
Decatur, Mich., Oct 5.-—A few
years since Jericho was one of the most
prosperous villages in Van Buren
county. Saturday the last building
was wiped out by fire, and its former
site is less marked than the ruins of its
biblical namesake.
A Bad Wreck Caused by Stupidity.
Chicago. Oct. 4. —Through the stu
pidity of John Thomas, gateman at the
junction of the Illinois Central and
Lake Shore roads, near Grand Crossing,
yesterday morning, a freight train on
the latter road ran into the New Or
leans limited on the former line, se
verely injuring Thomas C. Lee, a mail
clerk, and making a wreck which de
layed traffic for some time. Lee was
hurt about the head and legs, and was
taken to his home at Centralia. 111.
After the collision Thomas fled, and up
to a late hour yesterday afternoon had
not been arrested.
The ('onili)g Mining Congress.
Denver, Col., Oct. 4.-The executive
committee of the Mining congress has
issued a call for a convention to bo
held in Denver, November 18, 19 and
20, on the occasion of the dedication of
the new mining exchange building.
The call sets forth the fact that grave
questions affecting the raining and in
vestment world, are to be discussed.
Among these, are mentioned the invest
ment of domestic and foreign capital;
a desire to elevate the mining industry
from disgraceful speculation to a legb
limato standard; to regulate dealing
in elegies, et«,
IN WOMANS BEHALF, i
— (
WOMEN THE EXPERTS.
The Value of Their Services In the
Treasury Department.
At a meeting held here in honor of
the late Gen. Francis E. Spinner, for
merly treasurer of the I nited States,
says a Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal, Secretary Foster paid >
tribute to him that was well deserved.
Attention was especially called to the
fact that Gen. Spinner was one of the
first to recognize the merits of women
as department clerks and to give them
positions in the service. From Gen.
Spinner’s day the employment of wom
en in the departments has become gen
eral.
In many branches of the treasury
sei vice women have arisen to the pro
ficiency of experts. This is especially
true as to the office of the treasurer of
the United States, where ;he most ex
pert, rapid and accurate counters of
multilated currency and detectors of
counterfeit money are women. A wom
an detected the first counterfeit SIOO
bill of a very dangerous issue. When
called upon to explain why she thought
it was counterfeit her answer was: "I
knew it was.’’ It took a day or two for
the engravers nnd cashiers to make
a detailed explanation so that
bank officials could understand the
reason. However it was discovered
that these same cashiers and bank
officials had received a good many of
the bills, while the woman had detect
ed that they were counterfeit Gen.
Spinner, when treasurer of the I nited
States, once said: "A man will examine
a note systematically and adduce log
ically from the imperfect engraving,
blurred vignette, or indistinct signa
ture that it is counterfeit, and he will
be wrong four cases out of ten. A
woman picks up a note, looks at it in
an apparently ’careless manner, after
her own fashion, and says: ‘1 hat is
counterfeit.’ ‘Why?’ the division chief
will ask, and she will be sure to an
swer, ’Because it is,’ and she is right
eleven cases out of twelve.” It would
be wrong to say that these discoveries
are the result of chance. They come
from a keen perception, fine eyesight,
delicate touch and long acquaintance
with the work. There is in one of the
bureaus to-day a woman whose divis
ion chief says that her daily average of
work is nearly three times that of a
man who has been assigned to the same
duty, and who sits in the same room,
yet the man gets twice the pay.
The most skillful person to identify
the notes and bonds which were d< - i
faced and charred in the great Chicago ,
fire were women. There was one mass
of charred paper from the Chicago fire ;
amounting to $165,000, consisting of '
legal tenders, national l ank and frac- !
tional notes, bonds and coupons. They '
were so charred that they would crum- ‘
hie at the touch. This black mass was
given to six ladies for identification*
and in the course of time they accom
plished their task. Other like amounts
from that city were in like manner suc
cessfully identified. A year later
eighty-three cases of money, similarly
charred, came from the great Boston
fire. One case was found by these
same six ladies to contain $89,000. Six
months were required to identify the
money saved from these two fires.
Some of the women are employed on 1
what are known as “affidavit cases”—
cases where money is too badly injured
to be redeemed in the usual mariner. !
One of these expert women clerks saved 1
the government SIBO,OOO once. This
money was lost in a paymaster's trunk,
which was sunk at the bottom of the
Mississippi river, lay there for many
months, and was almost a mass of pulp
when it arrived at the treasury. The
express company, which was responsi
ble for this money, presented the clerk
with SSOO.
WOMEN PROFESSORS.
rii.lr recultnr I’rovlnre and Innuence in
tl,e < o.Educational Institutions.
There has been a growing demand of
late that women be represented in Ilie
faculty of co-educational institutions.
In many of these colleges women
have held such positions for years, and
have done their work satisfactorily and
successfully. Butler university, in In
dianapolis, was one of the first to open
its doors to women, receiving them on
the same footing with men, and
sering upon them all the honors award
ed their brother graduates. Among
the earliest alumnm was Hernia Butler,
daughter of Ovid Butler, a prominent
and wealthy citizen, and one of the
oldest residents ot Indiana. She mar
ried shortly after her graduation and
lived hot a few years. Her father, a
man of extreme liberality upon all
questions pertaining to the educational
and political rights of women, paid a
beautiful tribute to her memory by en
dowing a chair in the university, known
as the Demia Butle- Chair of English
Literature and Belle Lettres. When
the fund was given it was with the ex
press stipulation that the position
should perpetually be filled by a woman
—a rule which, of course, has been
strictly adhered to.
Women are peculiarity adapted to
reach the moral and spiritual nature of
the young as no man, however sympa
thetic, is able to do. There are many
crisis in the college life of a young
girl where she needs the counsel and
aid of a wise nnd judicious woman. She
can and will talk more frankly to a
woman than a man, and a woman ran
talk to her unreservedly where a man
would be necessarily restrained. Nor
can a man understand the faults and
foibles of feminine human nature us a
woman understands them, and to ex
pect him to remedy and cure them,
without this knowledge would be to
expect the performance of the impos
sible.
But, not only is tho influence of a
woman in such a position beneficial, so
far as the women students are con
cerned, but it is quite as helpful to the
young men. It must lie confessed that
in many colleges from which women
are excluded altogether there is more or
less rowdyism. Hazing flourishes, and
practices take root which are seldom
heard of, and are not tolerated at all in
mixed schools. The presence of girls
as pupils accounts for this, and it is in
variably strengthened when a part, of
the recitations must be conducted by
women professors. Whatever a young
man may be he will behave himself
with deceßey and propriety in the pres
' encc of women, be they fellow students
;or teachers. And while they may in
dulge in rough, practical jokes with a
teacher of their own sex, they look up
to the woman teacher with respect and
reverence. Sho holds them in cheek;
she appeals to their manliness and their
self-respect, and never appeals iu vain.
There was one woman of this sort in
De Pauw university ut Greencastle,
Ind, end to tUUday bet nauje!»revered
by every younff man who came within
her influence; while to the young wom
en she was the ideal of womanly dig.
nity and culture.
Then there are occasions, too, in fac
ulty meetings, where the learned pro
fessors themselves would be benefitted
and aided by a woman’s quick percep
tion, and her gift for utilizing means
which men are apt to undervalue or
overlook.
There is little doubt but that within the
next ten years there will not be a state
university in the country where women
will not serve both as trustees and pro.
lessors. —Inter Oceun.
WOMEN IN PHARMACY.
A Pleßsnnt Prorea*ion That Any Woman
of Refinement Might Meek.
The employment of women in phar
macy is receiving general attention
abroad. Frau Schulrat Caner, in Ger
many, has recently presented a peH
tion numerously signed to the Prussian
reichstag in favor of admitting women
to this profession. The petitioners
base their demand on historic right,
and recall the fact that for centuries
1 and until the middle of the eighteenth
century the preparation of medicina
was almost wholly in the hands of
women; that women apothecaries, who
were examined by learned physicians,
were given the right to prepare and
sell drugs, and many of them enjoyed a
high reputation in the business. The
petition also claims that about the mid
dl • of the eighteenth century narrow
minded jealousies of women arose, and
a desire to drive them from all lucra*
tive handiworkto make place for men
resulted in their almost absolute exclu
sion from this calling. They argue
that the profession of the druggist de
mands no great bodily exertion, nor
any undue publicity which should ren
der it difficult for women or unwoman
ly. It is as womanly a calling as that
of a teacher or saleswoman. Physi
cians testify, according to this petition,
that “women are far superior to men
in tho fulfillment of all sanitary duties,
in punctual oledience to a physician’s
orders, in dexterity nnd deftness.*’
The calling of a druggist demands
certain scientific study and prepara
tion, which women have certainly
shown themselves able to master. The
laws in this state require this study and
preparation, besides service for a term
of years in a drug-store and a certificate
from the state board of pharmacy.
There is no prohibition in our laws
against women in this calling. In Rus
sia, Belgium and Holland women have
passed pharmaceutical examinations
: and devoted themselves successfully to
। t'le profession. It is at least a more ind- -
I pendent calling than that of a nurse,
! which demands in nearly every ease a
; great deal of individual patience, be
' sides bodily exertion. A nurse has as
much responsibility in the administra
! t ; on of medicine as a druggist iu th«*
preparation of it The calling of a
druggist is, moreover, one which any
woman of refinement might seek. —N.
Y. Tribune.
BETTER LIVE ALONE
Than Marry Any of the MaAcnUne Failure*
With Which Society 1« Surfeited.
I applaud the celibacy of a multitude
of women who, rather than make unfit
selection, have made none at all. It
। has not been a lack of opportunity for
’ marital contract on their part buttheir
' own culture and refinement and their
| exalted ideas as to what a husband
I ought to be, have caused their declina
। ture. There have been so many wom
en who married imbeciles, or ruffians,
or lifetime ineapablcs, or magnificent
nothings, or men who before marriage
were angelic and afterwards diabolic,
that other women have l>een alarmed
and stood back. They saw so many
boats go into the maelstrom that they
steered into other waters. Better for a
woman to live alone, though she lives
for a hundred years, than to In? annexed
to one of those masculine failures with
which society is surfeited The patron
saint of almost every family circle is
some such unmarried woman, and
among all the families of cousins she
moves around, and her coming in each
house is the morning and her going
away is the night.—Talmage, in N. Y.
Observer.
Not For the Love of Work.
It is hardly to be supposed that, aside
from work which is determined by
special aptitude or genius, women vol
untarily engage in business from the
love of it. They feel that they have a
right to comforts which their labor can
procure for them, and being compelled
to earn a living, choose the more fa
vored pursuits, and as architects, phy
sicians, lawyers, reporters, clerks and
stenographers, enjoy better health,
more liberty and a recognized social
position that otherwise they never
could secure.—Chicago Graphic.
FRESH AND INTERESTING.
A prize of fifty dollars for the best
original design by a woman of an arti
cle of furniture has been won by Miss
Gertrude, E. Fonda, of Vermont. A
bookcase in form of a book was the
shape she gave her design.
Rev. Lydia Sexton, who was born
i in New Jersey in 1799. still preaches in
various parts of the West. She predicts
that she will live until 1900, thus ex
j tending her life into three centuries,
i Her memory is excellent and her sight
remarkably good.
Mrk. Cornelia James, professor of
English at the Commercial academy at
Fiume, has the double honor of being
the only woman in the Austrian em
pire to hold a professorship in tho
public schools for boys, and the only
woman presented to the Austrian em
peror at the levee at Fiume.
The young women of Hammonton,
N. J., arc competitors in raising chick
ens, and the town has more poultry
. than any other in the state. Under a
single roof a prominent breeder has
had as many as 8,000 broilers at once as
. well as 2,000 hens. In one season Ham
monton has sent 60,000 birds to market.
A cooperative homj for single
women is to be started in Vienna. Eac i
will have a share in tho housekeeping
i on certain days. One hundred persons
i arc wanted at the start, and an income
of from five to seven dollars a month
' from each one is expected to P 3 C Y
penscs and accumulate a fund whic
’ will pay for the home.
1 Still the female doctor continues o
flourish like the proverbial bay tree.
i In Bosnia there is to be erected soon a
hospital for female patients where a
!. the medical officers will be women. n
► the British medical register there are
I 1 upward of one hundred women engag'
; cd in active work. Eight separate ho*
• pital appointments are held by women*
and the question of giving to women
i medical charge of all communities o
, girls and women in factories, shop**
I ota, to bow Veto#