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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
FRAME FOR SHOEING OXEN.
It is necessary to secure an ox when
putting on shoes. A frame such as is
described above for operating upoa a
bull is used. The lower bars, however,
project behind for eighteen or twenty
four inches, to secure the hind feet to.
The foot to be shod u fastened by a
strong strap to the bar, which is padded
to prevent ( hating. It is necessary to
have two shoes tor each foot, as each
claw must be left free, and the nails are
driven oniy on the outside, Shoes for
oxen are to be purchased .-e.dy made,
pressed into shape ro fit the feet, at the
hardware stores. Kate York Times.
GROWING GEESE FOR PROFIT.
Much wild land, especially with
streams of water running through it,
may be made a source of proiit by keep
ing geese for their feathers and for sell
ing when the proper season comes. With
a little care at first goslings soon become
hardy and with very little feed will soon
come to the age for picking. This for
the first time is when they are about ten
weeks old. Only a few feathers are
plucked at first, and the picking may
thereafter be made every six weeks until
cold weather suspends operations. The
last picking of leathers should be about
six weeks before the holidays for those
to be killed .it tint time. They will then
be in full feather and pick easily alter
being killed. Boison Cultivator.
in-EAc:iiNo dried fruit.
According to the Experiment Station
Record (United States Department of
Agriculture;, Director Hilgard, of cue
California Station, believes that the pub
lic should be taught to prefer "healthy,
brown, high flavored fruit to the sickly
tinted, chemically tainted product of the
sulphur box.'' When freshly sliced fruit
is treated with sulphurous acid for a
short time the effects are slight, yet such
as to protect the fruit from insects.
When thoroughly sulphured after drying,
however, the fruit is injured in flavor,
and, worse still, sulphuric acid is formed
in sufficient amount to be injurious to
health. By analysis sulphured apricots
have been found to contain .232 per cent,
of sulphuric acid, or about twenty-five
grains of oil of vitriol per pound, and
prunes .346 per cent, of sulphuric acid.
In most co .utries of Europe the sale of
sulphured fruit is forbidden. New YorJc
Herald.
CROP ROTATION.
There should be a system of rotation
of farm crops, and particularly of such as
are affected with the fungus diseases. By
planting and re-sowing the same crops on
the same fields, we not only draw from
the soil, and exhaust it of, those particu
lar elements required for the growth and
development of the crop, but we unnec
essarily exK)se that crop to the ravages
of smut, blight or decay, to which the
crop may be susceptible. This is par
ticularly true of the potato crop, which
this year is badly affected by the rot in
many sections. And yet how many times
we find it the case that the same "patch"
is used for potatoes year after year. The
decay of the potato arises from the attack
of a fungus, and the spores thereof are
caraied in the soil from year to year.
Hence, common sense should teach us to
rotate the potato crop, and not devote
the same field to it two years in succession.
Moreover, all the potato tops in fields af
fected with the rot should be burned,
and the land again plowed and harrowed.
In these matters prevention is much bet
ter than cure. New York Independent.
SUGGESTIONS ON PLOWING.
Any wise farmer will determine from
his own experience and observation
whether deep or shallow plowing is best
adapted to the soil of his different fields.
No ironciad rule can be laid down that
will apply to all cases. Stiff clay soils
will be benefited by late fall plowing,
and the freedug and thawing of the ex
posed rough surfaces which will put
them in a better condition for the plow
and harrow in the spring. Where rye
and wheat are to be sown there must of
course be fall plowing, and the exact
time should be sueh as best suits the na
ture of the crop as found by experience
in certain localities. On a sandy soil
plow shallow, tor whatever fertility it
may contain will lie near the surface, and
there is the place to keep it. Rich soils
will be benefited by deeper plowing, but
the mistake ought not to be made of
turning a poor subsoil up to the surface
to be cultivated.
Whether fall plDwing is done in
preparation of a crop or only for its me
chanical action on the soil it should cover
up and incorporate all the surface vege
tation that will be of benefit to it when
decomposed. Many of our best culti
vators practise spreading barnyard
manure on the plowed ground to turning
it under deeply at time of plowing.
JVtfw York World.
EARS OF CORN FOR THE SILO.
The best experience prefers cutting
corn for the silo at a time when the ears
are developed. Some farmers recommend
picking off the ears of corn, and then
cutting the stalks and leaves for the silo.
e doubt the propriety of this, and of
the incurring extra expense. As Pro
fessor A. J. Ccok says, that the corn
make the er.-i'aoe very much more valu
aole, 1:1 fo-jt, there is no otiier way that
the corn can he harvested so easily and
s( cheap.;-. In the s-ilo the corn is soft--ed.
so that no grinding is required,
for even cattle can thoroughly digest this
softened corn in the ensilage. Those
who have given this subject the most at
tention are well pleased with feeding en
silage full of the rings of corn as it comes
from the cutter. It is believed that this
way of treating and feeding this valu
able urain is not only the most econoni
cal. but the most efficient. Professor
Cook claims that both science and prac
tice unite in urging the cutting by the
use of a feed cutter of the corn before
putting it into the silo. The material
in the silo must be very carefully placed,
and so thoroughly trodden and pressed
down as practically to exclude the air.
Of course if the filling is not cut fine
this will be difficult, and will demand
greater care. There is no doubt that the
best results are secured when the corn
which is put in the silo is near maturity.
It should be reasonably dried when put
in, and laid in so that when pressed down
the air may be wholly excluded. This is
I best done when all the corn is run
! through a cutter.
WINTERING ONIONS.
The novice never, and the expert
seldom, makes much money by holding
perishable products for spring sale.
Shrinkage and loss by frost and decay is
usually much greater than covered by the
advance in prices. If prices in the fall
are at all acceptable, sell without delay;
but market the Prizetaker onions, any
way. Still, there are exceptions to all
rules, and in certain localities or under
certain circumstances it may pay well to
store and hold for spring sales such
varieties as Danvers Yellow and perhaps
Wethersficld Red and White Globe, etc.
There is a party over in Canada, not very
far from here, who grows quite a number
of acres of onions every year, and he in
variably holds them until spring, and
makes money by so doing. Of course, I
was anxious to learn how he winters such
big crops, and made inquiry. He writes
me as follows: "For the purpose of
keeping onions during winter, we have
erected two large rooms in the end of
our barn, above ground. These rooms are
almost frost-proof in the coldest
weather; are provided with double win
dows at each end, and double doors at
entrance from driveway on barn floor.
All the walls have a dead air space.
Building paper is tacked on in the inside
of each boarding that forms the hollow
space. Onions are not put into these
rooms in bulk, but in thousands of slatted
bushel boxes. The windows are kept
constantly open, except in very cold
weather. The idea is to put in dry, well
cured stock, and place it in such a way
that it may always be airing at suitable
times, and yet be secure against low de
grees of temperature. Farm and Fire
side. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Clean out the fence corners.
Have you a good ice-house?
Provide plenty of good fuel.
No farmer should sell potatoes at less
than a profit this season.
Note that all tough and hard soils are
improved by fall plowing.
Provide good reading matter for long
evenings and leisure days.
See that unused tools and implements
are housed or under cover.
It doesn't pay to winter inferior stock;
better sell or slaughter all such.
Cattle not sheltered in a warm place
should have warm water to drink.
Push the fall plowing for spring
crops as long as the weather permits.
Professor Lazenby, of Ohio, says
farmers must produce more or sell less.
Be careful about breeding diseased
animals. Always "breed from the best."
Dorset sheep are suited to the climate
of the South and are being boomed
there.
There is nothing gained by crowding
crops. Numbers of plants do not com
pensate for the loss of size and quality.
It is not fancy but real stock that the
farmer wants for business. There is not
much that is fancy about farming.
Everything is real very.
It is not "more brains" that is needed
on the farm, but better educated ones.
The quality there is good enough, but it
needs more development.
The sire should not be fat, just thrifty
and vigorous is the best condition. He
should have exercise and be fed on bran ;
fattening foods are not wood.
If the early settlers of this country had
cultivated nut-trees, we all might now
be eating nuts. Should not this hint
now govern our own conduct?
The portable creamery no matter
whose make appears to be yearly' grow
ing more popular. It is a great con
venience to the private dairyman.
Six inches apart is not too close for
sugarbeets in rows of twenty-seven
inches apart. Crops of twelve to six
teen tons per acre have been grown.
When cattle have to go too far for
water they will often go without, to
their discomfort, and when they get to
the water they will drink to their in
jury. Even if you are tired and dusty the
horses you have been working may be
more. A little rubbing and brushing
will be as refreshing to them as a bath
to you.
To get the highest food ratio of
clever, timothy and Hungarian grasses.
cu,v them when ready to bloom, and
orchard grass as soon as the heads begin
to appear.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Kastern and. Mid die States.
Forger Albert H. Smth, the junior
partner of the stock brokerage firm of Mills,
Robeson & Smith, who were swamped by
his forgeries to the extent of $300,000, has
been sentenced to seventeen vears in Sin"
Sing (N. Y.) Prison.
Secretary Wixdom has selected as a site
for the Appraisers' Warehouse in New York
City the square bounded by Christopher,
"Washington, Barrow and Greenwich streets.
This square contains 56,000 square feet, and
with the exceDtion of a small portion, is
owned by the Trinity Church Corporation.
The price to be paid for it is $500,000.
The Rittenhouse Woolen Manufacturing
Company of Pasaaic, N. J., has gone intoth
hands of a receiver. The liabilities are $800,
000. Three men were crushed to death by a
train at the Port Richmond (Penn.) coal
wharves.
James Irwin and wife perished in the
burning of the Dickson Flats, in Pittsburg,
Penn.
The lower house of the New Hampshire
Legislature killed the Senate bill enacting
legislation for the guidance of the clerk
thirty-S9ven Republicans voted with the
Democrats.
Dr. Foster, of New Haven, Conn., has
made the first experiment in this country
with Dr. Koch's lymph, usin the fluid ant
to Professor Chittenden, of Yale University,
on three patients, with excellent results.
Joseph B. Abbott, bookkeeper for Henry
W. Sage & Co., committed suicide at Al
bany, N. Y., when his defalcations to the
extent of $100,000 had been discovered.
Four large business buildings, seven stor
ies high, on Liberty street, Pittsburg, Penn.',
were burned. Chief Engineer Samuel Evans
and five firemen were caught under a falling
wall. Firemen Quigley was killed and Au
gust Both fatally injured. The total loss is
estimated at $350,000.
The special session of the New Hampshire
Legislature was declared adjourned by Gov
ernor Goodell.
A fire in the big N. Cohn building, in
New York City, caused a loss of $250,000.
Two hundred and fifty men and women were
thrown out of work.
Edward H. Ammidown, senior partner in
the firm of Ammidown & Smith, dry goo ;s
commission merchants, and probably one of
the best known buisness men in New York
City, made a personal assignment, without
S references. His liabilities are over $500,000.
e was President of the Rittenhouse Mills,
Passaic, N. J., which failed recently.
The failure of William Furnel, woolen
manufacturer, at Wilton, Me., has created
a great sensation throughout the State. The
liabilities are $70,(H)0.
Two men, named Soper and McLaughlin,
employes of the Ontario Paper Mill, near
Watertown, N. Y., were lowering the flood
gates at the flume when a long lever slipped
from their grasp and swung around against
them with great force inflicting injuries
from which they died soon after.
Nine persons have mysteriously disap
peared from Reading, Penn., and neighbor
hood within the past five weeks, and it is the
general opinion that they have been foully
iealt with. Their names are Jonathan
Smith, Engineer Thomas Meagle, of Pine
?rove; George Miller, of Schuylkill Haven;
Jesse Corbett,of Phoenixville; Francis Schell,
ot Washington; and Kerling Sellers, of
Robesonia; John Konovoskle, of Hickory
Swamp; Antonio Sudi, of Temple, and Rosa
A. B. Freese, of Pottstown.
South and West.
Colonel Heyl, of the United States
Army, alleges that the Indian trouble was
due to a scarcity of rations; a blizzard pre
vails in the Northwest and prevents fear of
immediate danger from the Indians.
EX-CONGRESSMAN ISAAC M. JORDAN was
instantly killed at Cincinnati, Ohio, by fall
ing through an elevator shaft at Lincoln's
Inn Court, which had been carelessly left
open.
The Farmers' Alliance Convention at
Ocala, Fla., appointed a committee to look
into certain insinuations against President
Polk and others.
The fine cut department of the Scotten
tobacco works at Detroit, Mich., was de
stroyed by fire. Two firemen, O. G. Robin
son and Patrick Coughliu, were killed. Loss
$300,000.
Fire destroyed the Arlington Hotel amd
four adjoining buildings at Oxford, Ala. A
falling wall fatally injured W. H. Orr, Chief
of the Fire Department; Walter Gallagher,
fireman, and J. M. Whitesides and C. J.
Dodd. Loss 5100,000.
A passenger train bound for Kansas City
was wrecked at Jacksonville, Mo. Frederick
Smith, of Pekin, 111., and Judge J. K. Riffell,
of Kansas City, were instantly killed.
B. C. Tillman, elected Governor of South
Carolina by the Farmers' Alliance, was in
augurated in front of the State House in
Columbia in the presence of a large crowd
from all parts of the State. This is the
second time in the history of the State that
Governor has been inaugurated in the open
air.
The mother of United States Senator Tur
pie, of Indiana, was burned to death at Del
phi, in that State, her clothing catching fire
from the fire-place. She was ninety years
old.
A fire started in Brookville, Kan., and
before the flames could be extinguished the
greater portion of the town was destroyed.
Appeals for aid for the drought sufferers
of Kansas and Nebraska have been received
at St. Ixmis and other Western cities.
The City Council of Chicago, 111., passed
the ordinance authorizing the issue of bonds
to the amouutot $6,000,000 for World's Fair
purposes.
The investigation of the books of ex
County Treasurer Little, of Vandalia, HI.,
shows a deficit of $10,830.
On the fourth day's session of the Farm
ers' Alliance at Ocala, Fla., General Master
Workman Powderly, of the Knights of La
bor, delivered an address denouncing the use
of labor saving machines.
Robert A. Smith shot and killed his
brother Jamesat Linwood, Mich., in a dis
pute about a piece of land.
Washington.
The President has nominated Lathrop B.
Kinney, to be Probate Judge in Sevier
County, Utah; Everett B. Sanders to be
Register of the Land Office at Wausau,
Wis. : Robert H. Johnson to be Receiver of
Public Moneys, at Wausau, Wis.
The Democratic Senators in caucus re
solved to oppose the Election Force bill tc
the end.
The Japanese Charge d' Affaires has just
received a telegram from his Government
announcing the appointment of Mr. Gozo
Fateno to be Minister of Japan to the United
States.
The Intercontinental Railway Commission,
composed of representatives from the United
States and other American republics, met
for organization in the diplomatic chambei
of the Department of State.
reporting on the patent system of Germany
as contrasted with that of the United States,
calls especial attention to a provision of the
German law permitting the cancellation of a
patent where the invention is not put in
operation in Germany within three years.
Scrgeon-Gexkral Baxter, of the United
States Army, who was recently stricken
with paral vsK died at his house in Washing
ton Dr. Baxter was born In Vermont id
1837. He had been in the Government ser
vice for thirty year?.
The Government 0-unibssion has offered
the Cherokes 17,538,443 for the strip of land
desired by the Government.
The President transmitted to the House
of Representatives the correspondence
growing oat of the killing of General Bar
rundia by Guatemalan officers, on board the
Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco, in the port
of San Jose.
The Indian situation, as indicated by the
dispatches at the War Department, is im
proving. The Sioux have stopped ghost
dancing and quiet reigns among them.
The President made the following nomina
tions: Roniuaido Pacheco, of California to
be Envoy Extraordinarv and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States to the
Central American States: William Mon
aghan, of Ohio, to be United States Consul
at Hamilton, Canada.
The members of the bar of the United
States Supreme Court met to take action on
a resolution eulogistic of the cha racter of the
late Justice Miller. Senator Evarts, on he
half of the committee, prasented the resolu
tions, which were read and adopted.
Counselor John M. Bowers made an
argument before the House Census Com
mittee at Washington in behalf of New
York City's right to a new census enumera
tion. Clerk McPhersox. of the House of Rep
resentatives, has just had printe 1 the unof
ficial list of members-elect of the next
House, showing 88 Republicans. 234 Demo
crats, 8 Farmers' Alliance. One district, the
Twenty-eighth New York, is set down as un
certain, and one, the Second Rhode island,
s marked vacant.
Foreign.
Deputy Minister of Finance Courtney
las left for England to float a loan for a few
nillion dollars to pay off some ,0lK),000 of
Canada's floating liability and to meet
naturing liabilities on accouut of interest 0.1
be national debt.
The body of a young peasant girl, so hor
ibly mutilated as to suggest the handiwork
f a "Jack the Ripper," has been found in a
iorest in the vicinity of Berne, Switzer
and. Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire
and, has ordered a man-of-war to secure ten
;ons of meal and immediately proceed to the
elief of the distressed people of Clare Island
md Innisturk.
Advices from Orenburg, Eastern Russia,
;tate that the mercury suddenly fell from
;hree degrees of warmth to thirty degrees of
cold. Four caravans of horses, sheep and
jamels and thirty Kirghese, who were riding
icross the steppes, were frozen to death.
The British House of Commons voted
$25,000 for the relief of distress in Ireland.
According to a census just made the pop
alation of Berlin, Germany, is 1,574,485.
Be vis, Russell & Co., merchants, of
London, England, and Bombay, India, have
failed. Their liabilities amount to $1,150,
XX). The body of the late King of Holland was
buried at Delft with impressive ceremonies.
Robert Loewenstein died at Frankfort,
Germany, after being inoculated with
Koch's lymph. His death struggles are said
bo have been terrible in their fury and evi
lent suffering.
Six female paupers perished in the burn
ing of the workhouse at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England .
The British ship Lizzie C. Troop was
wrecked off the island of Yeralow of the
Loochoo group and thirteen sailors perished.
Sir John Walter Huddleston, the
famous Irish jurist, late member of the
House of Commons for Norwich, and a Baron
f the Court of Exchequer, is dead.
Emin Pasha, at the head of a German ex
oedition, has arrived at Lake Victoria,
A.frica. The expedition had a number of
aghts with Arab slave traders.
Karl Eichler, of Parchim, Mecklenburg
Schwerin. has swindled the Anglo-German
Bank of Hamburg out of $40,000, by means
f forged drafts, and has absconded. It is
thought that he will endeavor to escape to
America.
A parcel containing 150,000, from an
English bank, has been stolen between Ostend
and Antwerp ot: its way to Amsterdam.
John A. Patterson & Co., wholesale dry
goods, of Montreal, Canada, suspended pay
ment with liabilities of $200,000.
$2,000,000 FOR EDUCATION.
lillionnaire Fayerweather Makes
Many Public Bequests.
The will of the late Daniel B. Fayer
weather of the firm of Fayerweather &
Ladew, leather merchants, of New York
City, has been admitted for probate. The
will, which was dated October 0, 1884, to
gether with four codicils, was filed at the
Surrogate's office. The will contains an un
usually large number of bequests for
colleges and hospitals. The amount given
away for educational purnoses alone will ex
ceed $2,000,000.
The following is a copy of the bequests to
fublic institutions :
resbyterian Hospital $25,000
St. Luke's Hospital 25,000
Manhattan Eye and Ear Daflrmary 5,000
Woman's Hospital.. 10,000
Mount Sinai Hospital 1 0, 000
Bo wdoin College 100,000
Amherst College 100,000
Williams College 100.000
Dartmouth College 100,000
Weslean University 100,000
Yale "University, for the Sheffield
Scientific School 300.000
Columbia College 200,000
Union Theological Seminary, for the
endowment of cadets hips 50,000
Hamilton College 100,000
Cornell University 200, 000
Lafayette College , . . . 50, 000
Lincoln University 100,000
University of Virginia 100,000
University of Rochester 100,000
Hampton University 100,000
Mary ville College 100, 000
Marietta College 50,000
Adelbert College 50,000
Wabash College 50,000
Park College . 50,000
Total $2,195,000
Daniel B. Fayerweather was born of old
Connecticut stock at Stepney, Conn., in 1S21.
He learned the shoemaking trade, and until
he was thirty-three years old was a poor
man.
The o'.d stockade grounds at Anderson
ville, Ga.. have been purchased by the Grand
Army pot, of Macon, and will be converted
into a park.
LATEB NEWS.
The British ship Buckingham, from Thn
dee, Scotland, came into the port of New
York in charge of tier first mate, her captair
having been assassinated on tb.9 vovaze bT
! the ship's cook, a Lascar named Bahguhan
! Dhaa?
Frank Shirley ami John Trapper.
miners, were fatally injured in an explosion
in the Crabtree mine of Greensburg, Penn.
George Houghman, a boarding house keeper,
oad hi skull fractured by a stone from the
tame blast.
A Lehigh engine exploded at Dale, N. Y.,
with terrific force, killing two men and badly
njunn three others.
Roberts, Ci shmax & Co., importers of
natters materials, in New York City, failed
ror $500, 000
A colored man killed Mr. Aaron, a mer
chant in his store at Roebuck Lake, Miss.,
the other night and was lynched before
morning.
Miss Maud Grantham and Oscar Mey
ers, students at the Missouri Wesleyan In
stitute, fell through the ice into a pond near
Tameron, Mo., while skating and wers
Irowned .
The Farmers' Alliance Convention at
3cala, Fia., adopted a financial policy and
ieclared in favor of the Paddock Pore Food
bill.
Price, Sherman- fc Co., hat manufactur
ers, of Philadelphia, Penn., have assigned.
They are rated fro:n fr-JO, 000 to 300,0v'.
Colonel J. F Bates, Superintendent of
:he Frej Delivery System of the I'ostoffice
Department, has voluntarily tendered to
Postmaster-General Wanamaker his resigna
tion. Secretary of the Treasury Windoh,
n order to relieve the tight money market,
purchased f 5, 000,000 worth of four per cent.
Grovernment bonds at prices ranging from .
11.22 to $1.25.
Queen Regent Emma -okthe oath of
Dflice in the presence of all t"ie members of
the Dutch Parliament.
In consequence of the disputes that have
occurred between himself and his colleagues,
Signor Giolitti, Italian Minister of Finance,
has tendered his resignation to the King.
The settlement in the hat trouij nt Dan-bur-,
Conn., is a complete victory lor tho
manufacturers .
Whittex, Bukdettx & Youvg, clothiers,
of Boston, Mas-., have assigned . They are
rated at $1,000,000; G. W. Ingalls & Co.,
shoe dealers, also of Boston, assigned with
liabilities of $300,0001 They were large deal
ers and managed about twenty stores.
By a vote of 14 to LI the Aldermen of New
York City granted a franchise to the New
York and Long Island Railroad Company to
construct a tunnel under Forty-second street
from tin East to the North River.
Boston, Mass., elected as Mayor N.
Mathews, Jr., Democrat.
The first Legislature of Idaho convened at
Boise City. H. Z. Uurkhart, ex-clerk, read
the proclamation convening the special Legis
lature. The thirty-six Representatives were
sworn in Permanent Speaker Frank A.
Fenu took the oath of office.
Joseph Brown was called to his door at
Dougherty, Indian Territory, and fired upon
by some unknown person. The ball struck
him in the heart and passed through his
body and struck li is stepdaughter, who was
standing behind him, killing both instantly.
Sylvester Sylvkstersen and Sam Mo
Gee, farmers, were killed by an engine at a
crossing in Crookston, Minn. They were
driving homo and Ixith were lying in tLo
bottom of the wagon drunk.
The American National Bank of Arkan
sas City, Kan., closed its doors from a lack
of funds to meet obligations.
The Secretary of the Treasury has trans
mitted to the House of Representatives an
estimate aggregating $1,500,000 to supply
the pension deficiency.
House and Senate committees have de
cided to pass do more General Pension bills
this year.
At the request of the Postoffice Depart
ment the Mexican uuthorities have agreed to
prohibit any article relating to lotteries from
being sent to the United States.
James W, Hathaway was chosen by the
Republican caucus to be Postmaster of the
House of Representatives. ,
The Duke of Nassau, who by the death of
William ILL, King of the Netherlands, suc
ceeds to the throne of the Grand Duchy of
Luxemberg, has subscribed to the oath to
maintain inviolate the national independenos
and territorial autonomy of the Duchy.
Berlin, Germany, is suffering from an
epidemic of fires, and it is believed that a
gang of incendiaries is at work destroying
buildings for the sake of the opportunity to
plunder.
Six children were crossing the ic? at Tip
ton, England, when it suddenly gave way
beneath them. In spite of efforts made to
save them all six were drowned.
A wedding procession was on its way
from the church at Clerni mt-Ferrand,
France, when suddenly two shots were heard,
and both bride and bridegroom fell lifeless
to the ground. The assassin escaped un
detected. While the Canadian Government steamer
Newfield was off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
entering the harbor her powder magazine
suddenly exploded. The deck was torn up
and a hole blown through her side. Lamp
Trimmer Thomas McRae and three others
were instantly killed.
The Spanish expedition agaimt Hw rebels
in the Caroline Islands too the fortifloil
position of Ketani, on the inland of Ponapi .
During the attack one Spanish officer and
twenty-five soldiers were killed and four
officers and forty -seven men wounded ,