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ED. L BLUE, Editor and Proprietor.
PERRYSBURG, : OHIO. '
The electoral college for tho present
year will havo membership of 441, u
pain of forty-thrco over tlmt of 18S8.
Two hundred nnd twenty-three will bo
necessary to elect.
New Bedford will send to the Chi
cago show the full-rigged whaler Prog
ress which hnu made five voyages and
earned 5200,000 for her owners. Sho
will bo manned by a crew of old hnr
pooncrs. The largest bell in Maino hangs in
the tower of the Androscoggin mill at
Lowiston. The tongue is a& tall as a
man and six times heavier. When rang
as loud as it is posslblo tho concussion
breaks the glass in tho windows along
the front of the mill.
A writer in tho Arona thinks tho
most serious defect in our public schodl
6ay3tem is "the overwhelming prepon
derance of women's Influence" in teach
ing. He is not opposed to women
teaching, but Insists that in order to
secure symmetrical development there
should bo a much Inrger proportion of
male teachers.
Between' tho immigration of Cana
dians nnd the desiro of city folks to get
a summer country place tho "aban
doned farms" are more active thnn any
other kind of real estate in New Eng
land. The French Canadians arc snid
to be particularly expert in finding out
tho merits of what the natives consider
too poor a farm to yield a living.
The peach crop of the Michigan lako
Bhore fruit belt will require millions of
baskets this season, and the present
outlook ia that the growers will be ablo
to purchase them at about half the usu
al prices. Several of tho largest manu
facturers are at war and the price has
already declined to $18 per thousand for
"fifths," which to tho deluded buyers
of fruit means a peck basket.
Dr. Keeley denied in the strongest
possible terms, just before he sailed for
Europe, a few days ago, that atropino
or strychnia are component parts of his
euro for drunkenness, and issued a
challenge to any threo reputable chem
ists to meet and analyze the remedy, of
fering to mako the formula known to
the world if they make affidavit to tho
finding of these dangerous drugs in it..
Cremation is gaining greatly in pop
ularity in the continent of Europe, espe
cially in France. During last year 3,741
bodies were cremated in France; and
the second big crematory in the ceme
tery of Pere la Chaise has had to bo en
larged. Three new crematories were
opened in Germany during 1801,.. and
Italy now has twenty-two, several of
them perambulating affairs, moving
from place to place.
The six giant spruce trees which have
been sent from the Moosehead lake re
gion to Chicago, to be used as pillars in
the Maino building at the fair, -will give
visitors a better idea of Maine's timber
resources than would nn equal number
of pines, for, although the old title of
"Pine Tree State" will always cling to
her, it is really a misnomer, Maine be
ing much more of a spruce tree stato
than anything else.
A musical watch about the size of an
egg is now exhibited in St. Petersburg,
which peforms a religious chant with
scenic accompaniments. Within is a
representation of Christ with, the Romnn
sentinels. On pressing a spring tho
stone rolls from the tomb, the sentinels
fall down, tho angels appear, and tho
holy women enter tho sepulchre, and
the same chant which Is sung in tho
Greek church on Easter eve is actually
performed.
A French paper reports that tho mi
crophone has been seccessfully used in'
St. Petersburg in case of suspended ani
mation, where the patient was given
up for dead. As a last resort the phy
sician applied a microphono to tho re
gion of the heart, and was enabled by
this instrument to hear a faint beating,
which proved that life was not extinct.
Every thing was dono to resuscitate
the patient, who shortly afterwards re
covered consciousness.
A nice trick has been played upon
Boston. On the granite tablets placed
In one corner of its splendid now public
library building a series of names of
men of ancient fame has been chiseled.
Thoy are good names though oddly
grouped. Some one has just discovered
that they form an acrostic spelling tho
name of tho firm of architects who
planned tho building, Tho trustees
will have them erased and the names
used in their chronological order.
The Canadian government is trying,
-experiments on an extensive scale in
the cultivation of trees. At tho Cen
tral farm, near Ottawa, tho seeds of
Rocky mountain and European conifers
have been liberally sown, and
in 1S91 175,000 seedlings were
transplanted from tho beds to bo
distributed later on to branch
farms and private experimenters, who
are to send careful reports of progress.
Twenty-five gurdens ulong the main
line of the Canadian Pacific railway liavo
been supplied from tho experimental
farms.
An Astoria fisherman has a tame sea
lion which follows his boat as a dog
trots behind its master. He brought
up a baby sea lion in a net one day dur
ing tho fishing season, and tho helpless
little creaturt bleated so plaintively
that he took it ashore and cared for It.
All through tho winter ho fed it and it
became greatly attached to liim. This
season the bca lion has accompanied
him very frequently. It Bwims astern
of the boat and takes a lively interest
in the fishing. When tho net is hauled
in the queer pet comes alongside and
barks in its strange wny until it gets
an allowance of the flsli.
CURRENT TQP'CS.
Extensive conl fielda havo been dis
covered north of Ottuinwn, In.
One-ham-' o"f nlrthe pcoplo born dlo
boforo reaching thongoof sixteen.
A rust of tho queen by her daughter
Louise will be exhibited at Chiengo.
An Elk county (Kansas) man recently
traded off his farm for 100,000 cigars.
Astronomers have discovered thnt
the planet Mars is thirty miles out of its
orbit
By next winter there will bo less than
three miles of horse railroads left in St.
Louis.
The post office department has de
cided in favor of Pittsburgh without
the "h.
Five thousand whistles nro to bo fur
nished the regular army officers to drill
the soldiers.
The Old Drury Lane Theater, Lon
don, is to be demolished, and a large ho
tel erected on tho site.
E.miiossed books for tho uso of blind
persons have been prepared in nioro
than 230 languages and dialects.
Queen Victoria is having some car
pets made from patterns designed by
her husband, the prince consort.
Boston lias a colored Samson who, ac
cording to the Globe, ouco lifted thrco
tons of iron clear from the ground.
A newly discovered vein of asbestos
in New South Wales yields reddish fibers
thirteen inches long, silky and flexible.
Chief Superintendent Foster, of
the of city of Loudon police, has sent in
his resignation, after forty years' ser
vice. Less than a score of members attend
ed a session of parliament tho otlicrday.
A horse race abEpson Downs accounted
for it.
An Illinois insurance company has
paid tliis season sixteen losses caused
by lightning in one neighborhood. All
horses.
The sale of the kaiser's photographs
taken when ho wore a beard has been
forbidden, and all the negatives ordered'
destroyed.
A son of tho late President Chester A.
Arthur is conspicuous among the "coach
ing set" and opera habitues in Paris
this season.
Correspondents say that every suc
ccssivciyear sees increased appreciation
of and prices for the works of American
artists in Paris.
Tourist agents in London have con
tracted to bring large parties to this
country next summer to visit the Chica
go World's fair.
Asa Fisherfarmer and wife, of Mo-berlj-j
Mo., have a baby which by great
cave was made to weigh one pound four
days after birth.
The descendants of Davy Crocket will
celebrate tho 100th anniversary of that
deceased hero's birth on August 17 at
Ruthford, Tenu.
Wilson Howard, who is said to havo
killed twenty-three people, is on trial
at Lebanon Mo., for one of his most
wicked murders.
Lightning flashed into an Eastern
Pennsylvania coal mine the other day
and shocked a man who was 1,200 feet
below the surface.
At Paterson, N. .T., the other night,
an electric car was the means employed
in capturing a thief who had stolen a
horse and carriage.
The trustees of Shakspearc relics at
Stratford have been compelled to buy
Anno Hathaway's cottage to prevent
its removal to Chicago.
A niece of Sir .John Macdouald is a
nurse in one of the Washington hospi
tals and is proving herself thoroughly
adapted to the profession.
It is observed that in antique statues
the second toe is longer than the first or
great toe, but in men of the present
time the reverse is the ease.
The shoe and leather industries of
the United States will be placed on a
solid footing at the Chicago exposition
in a 5100,000 building of their own.
There is a tribe of South American
savages who live in tree tops near Ven
ezuela and their singular mode of exist
ence gave the name to that province.
A Bangor (Me.) somnambulist
walked in his sleep, hooked a five pound
black bass.in LakoChemo and awoke to
find himself struggling in the water.
Bats ate up $3,000 in paper money be
longing to the late Henry Warner, of
Benton, Pa. The money had been hid
den for safe-keeping in a jar in tho
cellar.
Gladstone, a fawn rabbit, was sold
in England recently for $180. Its cars
are twenty-seven and a half inches in
length and seven nnd a half inches in
width.
Archdeacon Farrak says that there
is room only for two more monuments
in Westminster Abbey, and the space is
reserved for those of Gladstone and
Tennyson.
Foui: thousand sheep have been sent
oyer to be pastured in Monroe county,
Mo. They eamo from a section of tho
republic of Mexico where it has omitted
to rain for fourteen mpntlis.
At tho home of Vice-President Mor
ton, IUiinebeck, N, Y his daughters
conduct a sewing school for poor child
ren on Saturday mornings, nnd make
it a Sunday school next day.
A RASERALL player at St. Helens,
England, died from a peculiar cause.
An opposing player accidentally kicked
him on the ankle. Tho injured part be
gan to swell, resulting in deuth.
Cardinal Manning did not leave
property enough to pay lite funeral ex
penses. These amounted to $2,100; and
to meet them a subscription was started
among his relatives and intimate
friends.
The women's temple in Chicago, which
cost $0,000,000, was largely paid for out
of tho contributions of penny banks,
100,000 of which were opened, it is said,
for that purpose.
The proposition of a Canadian com
pany to build a ship railway to connect
Lakes Huron nnd Ontario at a cost of
$10,000,000 is probably feasible, as the
distance is only sixty-six miles uud the
grades easy.
The best existing map of the moon
shows 512,850 crater-shaped projections,
according to M. Wllhelm Meyer, and
astronomers tell us that 100,000 ura
brought into view with a teksenpo of
medium power.
The News Condensed?
Important Intelligence From AJI Parts-
CONGRESSIONAL. ' k
Tun pension dcllclcncy bill was lata bcroto
tho scnuto on tho 8th and referred to tho com
mltteo on appropriation's. A 1)111 was intro
duced appropriating 150,000 for a branch homo
for volunteer disabled soldiers nnd sailors at or
near IJcatrlcc, N'cb....In tho houso thy agricul
tural appropriation bill was passed.
In tho scnuto on tho 0th tho urgent dcllclcncy
bill appropriating over $7,000,000 for tho pres
ent fiscal year wis passed. Two of tho general
appropriation bills the lcglslnttvo nnd agri
cultural nnd tho two bills for the admission of
Now Mexico nnd Arizona as states wcro ro
eclved from' tho house. Adjourned to tho 13th.
....In tho house bills wcro passed permitting
poor persons to sue in tho United States courts
upon affidavits, and authorizing tho courts to
nppolnt counsel; defining the crimes of murder
In the llrst and second degree and manslaugh
ter tu places and on waters under tho exclusive
jurisdiction of tho United States, and modify,
lng tho revised statutes Foasto dispense with
proof of loyalty aurlng tho war of the rebellion"
as a prerequisite to being restored or admitted
to tho pension roll.
THKttK was no session or the scnato on the
loth. ...In tuoliousd the day was spent In tho
consideration of unimportant measures and
t"io evening session was dovoted to the consid
eration of private- pension bills. Adjourned to
tho 13th.
In tho senate on tho 13th the pension appro
priation bill (SU0,r.ir,O03) was reported. Mr.
1'eHcr spoko In favor of his bill to increaso the
currency and provide for 1U circulation, to re
duce tho rate of Interest, and to establish n
bureau of lo.tns....In the houso bills wcro
passed providing that Indt.tn children shall bo
declared to bo cltlzeus when they havo reached
tho age of 21 years: to protect settlement i Ights
where two or moro persons settlo on tho s.uno
section of agricultural public lands before sur
vey thereof.
DOMESTIC.
Three men were killed in a freight
train wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railway at Hartford, Wis.
Bon Ford. Jesse James' slayer, was
shot and killed at Crcede, Col., by Dep
uty Sheriff Kelly.
Leon Dion, of Boston, has an electri
cal invention that does away with the
trolleys on electric cars.
Toor, McGowan it Co., wholesale
grocers at Memphis, Tenu., failed for
8121,000.
The town of Old Windham, Conn.,
celebrated the two hundredth anniver
sary of its birth.
Nathan John, a farmer, was killed
by hailstones, while plowing in his field
near Canton, Miss.
Bert Corerly and Frank Mowberry, '
nged 11 and 12 3'cars, fell under the
cars at Lincoln, Neb., and were killed.
Charles Hill (colored), who assault
ed Miss Starr, was hanged by a mob in
the county courthouse yard at Paducah,
Ky.
Three negro men and a woman were
killed by lightning on u plantation 10
miles from Canton, Tenn., 'during a
storm.
Frud Wethy, accused by tho neigh
bors of abusing his wife, was ilogtred
by Pavilion (X. Y.) citizens and taken
to the river and ducked.
The Cornell freshmen crew defeated
the Columbia freshmen in a 2-mile race
at Ithaca. X. Y., by six lengths. The
time was 10 minutes .10 seconds for Cor
nell and 11 minutes 24 seconds for Co
lumbia. Tore Cook (colored) was hanged in
the jail at Bastrop, Tex., for the out
rage and murder of Miss Ida Moore, a
young white woman.
Guernsey Osrorne, for twenty years
in the employ of Edward A. Morrison
& Son, dry-goods merchants in New
York, was found to be a defaulter to
the extent of 820,000.
A cloudburst flooded the business
portion of Belmont, 111., nnd consider
able property was swept away.
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 102, against 207 the
preceding week and 224 for.thc eorre-
ponding week last year.
Two cars were wrecked on the new
Chattahoochee electric line near Atlan
ta, Ga., and three men were killed and
two fatally injured.
At the leading clearing houses In the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated $1,
1S3,4S7,730, against Sl,01i).4(i.il87.1 the
previous week. The increase as eom-
.- ...111. .1 It- !.-.'
1801 was iC.O.
The aggregate volume of trade, in
spite of till obstacles, was said to be 7
per cent, greater throughout the coun
try than a year ago.
The thermometer marked 08 degrees
in the shade at Kansas City, Mo., and
three persons were fatally sunstruck.
Jack Blihs, the king of the rustlers,
was killed near Arland, Wyo., by Depu
ty Sheriff Irc.y and a posse.
Up to the 10th sixty-five dead bodies
had been taken from the ruins at Titus-1
ville, Pa., caused by tire' and flood, and
more were missing.
Fire destroyed Woods, Jenks-& Co.'s
planing mill at Cleveland, O., the loss
being S250.U00.
The acreage of winter wheat, bused
on returns of the department of, agri
culture in Washington, is 1)0.0 percent,
of the acual urea of last year.
A tornado at Moscow, Pa , destroyed
many buildings there ami in the sur
rounding country, but no lives were
lost.
In the National league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the weekended
on tho 11th, were: Boston. .7.10; Brook
lyn, .050; Cincinnati, .574; Chicago, .550;
Philadelphia. .522; Cleveland, .500;
New York, ,480; Pittsburgh, .479; Louis
ville, .444; Washington, 432; St. Louis,
.840; Baltimore, .207. The percentages
in clubs of tho Western league were:
Columbus, .'i21; Milwaukee, .050; Kan
sas City, .52S; Toledo, .485; Minne
apolis, .484; Omaha, 457; Fort Wayne,
.32;): Indianapolis. .222.
The Crescent paper mill at Hartford
City, lnd., owned by Fort Wayne cap
italists, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $100,000.
Great excitement prevailed at Guth
rie, O. T., occasioned by two criminal
assaults by negroes upon white wom
en. One of tho fiends was captured and
shot to death.
Charles IU:a and Will linden were
killed by lightning at Paris, Ky.
Charles Daniels, a mine cuptain,
and Charles Dungelson, a laborer, wcro
killed by striking miners at Marquette,
Mich.
The whole business portion of ltouho
port, Mo., was burned.
JTiik fifty-fpurthjbody vas found at
OHrClty,fPo. Thllcomplolcd that city's
dend, all of tljoT'mlssing'thnving boon
found or-uccpnhtcd-for. .j
JbiiNOiLspN, secretaryof tho Judson
iron' works, was licld up On tho Barkc
lej' train nt B street station in Oakland,
CaJ,, by two men and robbed of 610,000
in cash.
John N. Strausser and wife, of Las
Vegas, -N. M., while out driving were
thrown from tho carriage and fatally
injure d.
George Whitstone, of" Cnss county,
Tex., killed his two small children with
a hatchet nnd then shot himself.
Sixty-two cadets wore graduated at
West Point. N. Y.
A shir ladon with supplies for tho
starving Russians, from tho circles of
King's Daughters, sailed from Now
York.
Fire destroyed tho People's theater
at Denver, Col., tho loss being 8100,000.
Thieves broko open tho safe in the
office of the Bcdenu Lumber Company
iitGoncse, Ark., and secured 851,100 in
in cash.
A HAILSTORM disastrous to crops and
fruit visited Nebraska in tho vicinity of
Doniphan.
Thomas Cross, of Ottawa, Ont., com
mitted suicide by deliberately holding
his head under water.
Frank Waller of tho Acme Bicycle
club at Oakland, Cal., rode 803 miles on
a bicycle in twenty-four hours, break
ing the world's record of 801 miles held
by M. A. Holbein.
Silas B. Conn, who built tho first
frame house in Chicago, has given to
the university of Chicago the sum of
8150,000. Mr. Cobb is SO years old.
In the United States tho visible sup
ply of graiu on the 18th was: Wheat,
20,051,000 bushels; corn. 4,028,000 bush
els; oats, 8,S97,000 bushels; rye, 532,
000 bushels: barley, 300.000 bushels.
A committee of vigilantes wore in
charge of affairs-nt Guthrie, O. T., and
the threatened race war had been
averted.
In a quarrel over a woman ut Ar
kansas Cityl Kan., J. A. McCormlek
nnd D. C. Jones shot each other dead.
A hurricane accompanied by a ter
rific downpour of rain swept over Chi
cago and killed and injured several
persons, as well as destroying prop
erty valued at over S200.000. The
greatest damage was done on the south
side, where great plate glass windows
were blown in, buildings unroofed or
fired by lightning and telegraph poles
leveled.
Fourteen members of the crew of the
Boston wcro killed by an explosion of
shells at Mare Island navy yard in San
Francisco.
The town of Galva, 111., was wrecked
by a cyclone and several persons were
killed and many buildings were de
stroyed. The International Typographical
union began its fortieth annual session
at Philadelphia.
Durino Mny the exports of bread
stuffs from the United States were S19,
410,340, against 812,830,231 in May, 1801;
of provisions, 810,501,502, against 87,
008.000 in 1S91.
One hundred buildings were burned
at Chicora, Pa., and the fire was still
burniug.
Joel Edwards and his little son aged
14 years and David Edwards were
drowned while bathing at Cresent City,
111.
A fire which started in the George
Ruder Brewing Company's mammoth
plant at Wnusau, Wis., caused a loss of
S100.000.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the passage of the law inaugurating
the national militia ,was celebrated at
Omaha, Neb., by a great militia tourna
ment,
A cyclonic! wind swept over Orno
Point at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota,
and wrought great damage.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In convention at Bangor the Maine
democrats nominated Charles F. John
son, of Waterville, for governor. The
platform advocates'changes in the pro
hibitory law so as to permit hotels
and drug stores to sell liquors and
recommends the nomination of Cleve
land for president.
The democracy of Mississippi in con
vention at Jackson elected uninstructcd
delegates to the national onvention.
The platform favors tariff: reform and
denounces reciprocity.
The democrats of Alabama in state
convention at Montgomery split into
two factions and the bolters nominated
Reuben A. Kolb (alliance) for governor.
The regulars postponed linking a nom
ination. Texas democrats in convention at
Lampasas ndopted a platform demand
ing a tariff for revenue only and free
silver, and opposing national banks as
banks of issue. The national delegates
chosen were uninstructcd.
The democratic state convention held
in Baltimore, Md., did not instruct the'
delegates elected to the national con
vention. Nothino was dono by tho national
republican convention at' Minneapolis
on tho 8th excopt'to'form a permanent,
organization and to adopt the report of
the committee on rules and order of
business. Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, was
made pcrinunent chairman.
William Henry Harrison died in
Washington, aged 104 years, 0 months
and 29 days. Ho claimed to havo en
joyed an acquaintance with George
Washington.
At the republican national conven
tion in Minneapolis on tho 9th a test
vote on tho adoption of the committee
on credentials indicated a majority of
the delegates in favor of Harrison. The
platform wab reported and adopted.
Paulo Perea, a noted Mexican exile,
died in Phoenix, A. T., aged 91 years.
Fifty years ago ho was one of the most
prominent und uetlve men in Mexican
politics. 4
The noted Osogo chief En-Tsn-Wuh-Tah-In-Kah
died at Pawhuska, Kan.,
of Brlght's disease. Ho was just clos
ing his second term as' principal chief
of the Osuge nation.
The regular. 'Alabama democratic
convention in session at Montgomery
renominated Thomas G. Jones for gov
ernor, five supreme court judges und u
cuudidatc for attorney general.
Sidney Dillon, financier nnd rail-
iimu juuuuii.-, tucu uu iiirt ruamcucu lu
Now York, aged 70 years.
In the Seventh Ohio district tho dem
ocrats nominated James D. Richardson
for congress, nnd in tho Fifth Kansnn
district the people's party nominated
John Davis.
At tho republican nationnl conven
tion in Minneapolis on the afternoon of
the 10th Benjamin Harrison was re
nominated for president of the United
States on the first bnllot, the voto
being; Ilnrrlson, 535; McKinley, 182;
Blaine, 181; Reed, 4; Lincoln, 1. White
law Rcid, of Now York, was nominated
for vice president by acclamation, after'
which tho convention adjourned sine dlo.
Col. L. L. Polk, president of tho Na
tional Farmers' Alliance, died in Wash
ington, uged 55 yenrs.
FOREIGN.
Advices from San Domingo say then
the report has been confirmed that S i
mntia bay, in tho western part of the
terminus of the Sanchez Lavaga ru il
wny, Dominican republic, has bom
ceded to tho United States.
The New Oriental bank of London
fullcL, with liabilities of about 15,000,
000, besides the paid-up capital of itG,
000,000. Dispatches from llorlln confirm tho
recent rumors of tho death in the in
terior of Africa of Emlu Pasha.
The tloods in the valley of the Danube-
wero increasing alarmingly. Tho
inhabitants of Vienna had been of
ficially notified that there was danger
of an inundation.
Seven bandits who were captured
near Orizaba, Mcx., were executed.
Three persons were killed and a
dozen injured by a collision on the Mid
land railway near llklcy, Englnnd.
The government troops at the canton
of Orizaba, in the state of Vera Cruz,
Mcx., had an encounter with a band of
marauders and killed seventeen of
them.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was
hourly increasing in violence, und lava
was pouring ont of the orator in im
mense volumes like a river of molten
metal.
A cahleoham from London says that
the original portrait of Pocahontas,
painted in 1012, has been secured for
exhibition at the world's fair.
Herr GuNTiir.it, a master dyer at
Wcissenfels, Germany, murdered his
three children to spite his wife, with
whom he had quarreled.
An explosion in a coal pit near Mies
bach, Switzerland, killed sixteen
miners.
The rebels of Matto Grosso, Brazil,
had a seven days' battle with govern
ment troops and utterly defeated them.
One thousand men of the government's
army and all their ehicf officers wero
killed upon the battlefield and a largo
number were wounded.
Floods in Havana, Cuba, inundated
residences and warehouses and thou
sands of bags of sugar were lost
Many small vessels in the harbor were
wrecked and four lives were lost.
Mexican troops killed six brigands
and captured twenty-two in a battle
near Orizaba.
The Brazilian electoral college has
nominated Senator Saenz Pana for the
presidency and Scnor Uriburc for tho
vice presidency.
Terrific thunderstorms prevailed in
various parts of Spain, causing loss of
life and injury to property by lightning.
The hemp spinning works at Bar
men, Germany, were destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of 750,000 marks.
A miner named Havclka has con
fessed that he caused the fire in tho
Przibram mines in Belgium by which
hundreds of lives were lost.
A storm raged throughout the central
part of Illinois on the 14th und did
great damage. In Henry county the
storm was most severe. Nearly every
house in the town of Galva was more or
less wrecked. One person was killed
a man named Oleson, who took refuge
in a cellar. When tho house fell the
timbers crushed him to death.
The situation of affairs in the allu
vial districts of Louisiana is deplorable.
Devastation and desolation hold sway
over nearly one-third of the state. Never
in the history of high waters hnve so
many crevasses occurred during one
Hood.
A collision at Bishopsgatc, England,
on the 14th resulted in the loss of four
lives and tho injury of many persons.
The trains were crowded with people,
and besides the four killed, forty were
injured.
Representative Eli T. Stackhoure,
of the Sixth South Carolina district,
died suddenly at Washington on the
14th of heart disease.
Tin; British steamer Pctrolia while
lying in the harbor of Blaye, France, on
tho 14th, was struck by lightning. Her
cargo of oil ignited and a terrific explo
sion followed. Twenty of tho crew
were killed. The flames spread to sev
eral other vessels and they were also de
stroyed. Mrs. Gi'.oitrrK Beaudry, of South Bay
City, Mich., jumped into tho river at
that place on tho 14th with two of her
children and all were drowned.
A freight train of fourteen cars went
through a trestle on tho Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap & Louisville railroad
on the 14th. The tresle, which wafl 180
feet high and 870 feet long, was totally
wrecked. Tho engineer and fireman
wero instantly killed. Tho conductor
was fatally and two brnkemen serious
ly Injured.
An engine on tho Grand Trunk rail
road, hauling a heavily loaded freight
train, blew up at Climax, Mich., on tho
14th. Engineer Wood, Fireman Smith
nnd Brakcmnn Parker, all of Battle
Creek, wcro fatally scalded.
Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich was on tho
14th re-elected United States senator
from Rhode Island.
After tho tmnsactlonof fiomo routine busi
ness In tho Hcnato on the Uth, Chief Clerk
Towlcs, of thohouHO, notllled tho senate of tho
death of Mr. Stnclthouso, und appropriate reso
lutions wero adopted. In iiccordauco with the
resolutions, the vico president appointed a com
mittee to attend tho funcrul on tho part of tho
senate. Adjourned.... Iimmplutcly niter calling
tho houso to order. Mr. Tillman announced tho
death nf Hon. 1!. T. Stuckhoui.0, und after tho
adoption of tho customary resolution und tho
mpolntmeut of u committee to uccumpuny his
remains to his home, tUe bouse us u further
marlt of rcspec t adjourned. .
BOLD MINERS.
They ltollovo a l'nymnstrr or fllO,000 im
Coin nt Oiiutmiil, Cal.
San Francisco, June 13. Tho bold
est rob.bory ever committed in this
vicinity occurred Saturday morning
across the bay in Onkland, when two
men in a crowded car wero l obbed of
810,000 In coin, which they wero taking
to the Judson iron works to pay off 400'
workmen.
The coin was in the possession of
Secretary Gllson and Bookkeeper Mor
tenscn, of tho company, who started,
with it from San Francisco on tho 11,
o'clock boat. They occupied a seat in a
car on tho Berkeley train next to tho
baggage car. As tho train showed
up at B sttect two men entered,
tho front door, walked down tho,
alslo, stopped suddenly before Gllson
and Mortensen, and presented pistols
and demanded tho money bugs. "Ilold
up your hands," was tho order, and Gll
son and Mortensen had no option but
to obey. "Now hand over that money,"
continued the leader.
Gilson surrendered the bag of silvcr
(thero wcro two, one containing 81, 000
in silver and tho other 815.000 in gold),,
dropping the other between the seats,
hopingtoelnde tho vigilancoof the rob
ber. "None of that," said tho robber,,
cocking his revolver, "Hand over thei
other bag," and Gilson passed it up.
Gilson and Mortensen had thrown,
over u seat in front of them and laid
the sacks containing the coin on a seat,
before them. The two men occupied,
one sent and the coin was por
haps 2 feet from them. Gllson
jvns reading n newspaper and was.
taken completely by surprise! Simul
taneously with the demand for the coin
tho' train started, nnd the two robbers,
backed out of the car with the money,
covering Gilson and Mortensen with
their pistols us they escaped.
Pandemonium immediately reigned,
in the ear. Everyone seemed to lose
his head. It was so sudden that the
thirty or more passengers in the
ear had hardly realized what had
taken place before the robbers
wero in possession of the money
and were making their escape. Any
attempt to recover tho money at the
time would have been fatal for the rob
bers were shrewd enough to keep the
passengers covered with their revolvers
until they reached the car door.
Gilson went out on the platform and.
emptied his revolver ut the lleeing rob
bers. One passenger said that the
smaller of the robbers staggered after
the firing, but tills part of the story
was unconfirmed. The robbers had
provided themselves with a horse and.
buggy with which to escape, nnd they
drove rapidly away.
The police think they have a clew to
the robbers, and have offered a reward
of 81,000 for tho capture of J. G. Smith
and Joe Dunn, formerly employes of
the' Judson company, but who left somo
time ago of their own accord. The
police refuse to give their reasons for
suspecting these men. The rob
bers have been traced to the
foothills of Mount Diablo, 15 miles
from Oakland, where it is thought they
buried the money, and one remained
there to guard the treasure while tho
others returned to Oakland with the
horse and buggy. Another man sus
pected is a discharged employe named.
Girard, who is also known as Frank
Queen, an ex-crhninnl.
HELPING THE DESTITUTE.
AVork or tho Relief Committed In the 111
I'ritcil City or TUusilllf.
Oil City, Pa., Juno 13 The fifty
fourtii body was found here Sunday.
This completes Oil City's dead, all of
the missing having now been found or
accounted for.
Titusvii.i.e, Pa., June 13. The fol
lowing is given out officially to the pub
lic; "The prompt and generous assistance given
to our afflicted citizens In their recent calamity
by tho people in all parts of tho country Ia most
gratefully appreciated by tho sufferers and all
reMdcnts of Tltusvllle. It Is duo to tho public
that wo malie a statement of our condition as
exactly and accurately us Is posslblo six days
after tho calamity. Wo havo our relief com
mittee thoroughly organized and tho distribu
tion of food, clothliiK, bedding and other sup
plies Is progressing with system. Perfect or
der prevails. Largo forces of laborers are em
ployed In lemovlng wrecltngo from tho streets
and In clearing up the ruins of houses. ,
"Fifty-nine bodies havo been burled. Several
persons aro still missing. Wo do not need
clothing, food or other supplies. Our need is1
for money to relievo thoso who havo lost
by tire and Hood and to repair the
enormous destruction of property. Tho
district devastated by flro and tlood ex
tends through tho entlro length of tho
city foraboutone mile and a half. Its breadth
Is from one-eighth lo one-fourth of a mile. Tho
estimated Ions of property exceeds 11,000,000.
Tho losses fall chiefly upon tho poor and labor
ing people.
"Within the bounds named wcro moro than
ono hundred and llfty dwellings as well as many
shops, manufactories and oil rellnorles where
labor was employed. Tho loss of personal prop
erty In tho homes of tho people was almost to
tal, while very many lost not only their houses
nnd contents but tho ground on which they
stood. The streets aro many of them destroyed
and tlio loss In this particular and In bridges lu
ery large. Everything posslblo Is being done
to alleviate distress and our pcoplo aro recov
ering hopo und spirit.
"E. O. Emeiison, Mayor."
A Tlifilter Iturned.
Grand Rafinds, Mich., Juno 13.
Powers' opera house, tho leading
theater in western Michigan, was
gutted by fire Saturday afternoon,
causing a loss of 800,000. Tho fire
originated under the stage. Ed War
rington, the stage carpenter, unawares
that the meter had been removed for
repairs, entered tho meter closet with
a lighted match and turned the gus on.
There wns an explosion und in an in
stunt the flames burned through tho
lloor and enveloped the entire Interior.
l'urilnued u I'viiiisylvunlii I'reucher.
HAitRiHiiuito, Pa., June 13. Governor
Pattison has pardoned Rev. Clark M.
Eggleston, the Methodist minister of
Pittsburgh who was convicted of con
spiracy to defraud tho Granite Stato
Provident Insurance association of
New York, and sentenced to two years
in tho western penitentiary Feb. 28,
1802.
I-'urm Laborers Hearer,
WAHHiNfiTON, Juno 13. Latest ad
vices from the Argentine Republic
btato that wages aro again going up in
tho colonics owing to the great scurolty
of farm luborcrs.
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