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• " *'"-r"i iJm • * It f̂ r»r|flamtle«Iw J. VAN 8LYK1, Editor tiri publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. DEATH S DARK RECORD. THE HEART GFTO\FFS SICK AT '> X. '%*&> THE RECITAL. I\> • ^ '<•*•> <V", : Rratil'ii ex-Empel#,' ISMMii' Away at Parts--The North we* t Storm- Swept--A Lunatic Explodes a Bomb In Bw»U Sne't Offlce. $X-' i 1> i-X • gr i ? ^ D e a t h 's Awful Harvest: - * *•' NOT for months has there been such a grisly record of death and disaster tn one day. Twelve barges loaded with brick coming down the Hud oh, when opposite troton Folnfc, N. Y., were upset, and about twenty persons drowned. When at Croton Point the swash of the river was so great that the tog was compelled to round to, thus forcing the barges to r de each other. Being loaded and the tide wash­ ing h'gh they immediately upset. There were s xty men off the twelve barges and only about thirty came ashore. The ac­ cident is attributed by many to the care­ lessness of the pilot of the tug. Nine mangled and blackened bodies lie at the St. 1 aul. Minn., morgue as the result of the failing of a partition wall in the Far- well. Ozniun Jt Kirk Building, which burned two weeks ago. Another man lit* dead at the City Hospital from in­ juries received from falling bricks. •5s Storms in the Northwest R SEVERE storms ara reported through­ out the Northwest At St. Vincent, Minn., the wind averaged thirty-six miles per hour, and eight inches of snow has fallen. Warren (Minn ) dispatches say one foot of snow fell, and the snow­ storm changed into a blizzard in the evening. A terrible snow storm pre­ vailed near Blunt., N. D., for over twen­ ty-four hours. Several inches of snow has fallen and is piled iu drifts. The nercury is fa ling and the wind blowing a gale from the north At Jamestown, N. I)., the storm raged with great vio­ lence. Years of extensive blockades are felt. f Insanity in the Family. Tfi« confinement of Edward M. Field te an asylum makes three members of the family who have leen declared in­ sane. Four years ago Edward Field's sister, Alice, acted so strangely that an experienced attendant was engaged to see that she did not harm herself. The legal steps were taken, and without the knowledge of thj public Alice Field dis­ appeared and is still an inmate of a madhouse Her case is probably a hope­ less one. The other unfortunate mem­ ber of the Field family who also at one time was declared insane, is a cousin of fiiward Fie d. Triple Train Wreck. '. A TEKMBT.E wreck occurred on the New York and New England Railroad at East Thompson, Mass, caused by a collision of the Southbridge freight, with an east-bound freight going over the west bound track. The Long island express wa$ passing on th > other track ' at the time, and all three trains ate j piled up together. Engineer Tabar, of i the Boston train, and his fireman are re­ ported killed. One passenger on the I Pullman is reported burned to death, and j nan v are in urel Two of the injured passengers have died, making seven deaths so far reported. Mad Deed of a Lunatic. RUSSELL SAGE was seriously injured and several persons kil ed by a dynamite i machine exploded in his office at New York, by a lunatic who demanded 81,- 600, 00 of the millionaire's money. Two men anri a woman are known ta have been ki led. while the man who threw the bomb lies dying. u ashington ton- nor, the well-known broker, who has an office in the building, is among the in- jfSUSd _____ '• To Paris on Horseback. 'V * Bureau of Ame rican Be publics Is Informed that a gentleman named Aquiles Thour has left Buencs Ayres for the purpose of making a horseback journey to Paris by way of Bolivia, Peru, (olombia, Central America, Mexico, the United states, Canada, Alaska, Russia and Germany. He ex­ pects to be until Janpary, 18J4. on his journey. V * Only Secured $2,200. ^ ' ^ iAoEJiT^ sent to different portion^ of tfae State by the Oregon Stats Board Of Commerce to solicit subscriptions for Oregon's exhibit at the World's Fair col­ lected only s?y,200. The sentiment of the people, they say, is that Portland should iirst raise a substantial sum and then the rest of the State will fall-in. Th.s will ^probably be done. Lt Grippe Epidemic. •, • '• t<A GRIPPE has become epidemic in many parts of Europe, and in Berlin the conduct of municipal affairs is seriously Interfered with by the disease. Hebrew Families En Route. T A THOTTSAXP Hebrew families are on : Hie way to the Argentine Republic to |oin the colony established through the munificence of Baron Hirsch. The Owatonna, Minn., roller mill burned to the ground, with 8,000 bush­ els of wheat, three cars of flour and several tons of bran and shorts. The loss is {30,000, with no insurance. * THE armored cruiser New York, de­ signed to be the most formidable as well as the largest man-of-war in the llnited States navy, was launched at Philadelphia with appropriate ceremo­ nies at the yard of William Cramp & Sons. She i-lipped into the water amid the screaming of steam whistles and the cheers of thousands who had gathered to witness the event. TUB grip is becoming epidemic in Eastern Connecticut again. There were threo deaths In Norwich in one week. In many cases it is accompanied by fcar'.et fever, diphtheria or typhoid n a aria In the big village of Colehester twelve stu­ dents of Baker Academy are seriously ill oT scarlet fever, and the academy has been closed temporarily on account of it MK«. DANIKI,TKOVT, of Reading, Pa, a delicate woman weighing 110 pounds, became the mother of triplets, all girls, perfect in form. Danlol Trout, the hus­ band and father, is an Ice driver, 56 years old. His wife is 42. Much interest is manifested in the triplets throughout the city, and a large subscription has been raised alreadv for them. GIES & Co., lithographers and printers at Buffalo, are said to be financially embarrassed. An action has been begun against them for the fore­ closure of a mortgage for 830,o0:» on their property. Other mortgages ag re- gatc about £80.000, and fo.eclosuro pro­ ceedings on some of them is tlir^atened^ The attorneys for Gies & Co. say the trouble Is but a tempora y setback. The assets are stated to be 8500,0^0. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. TOE miners are gradua'ly returning to work in the block coal mines in the Brazil, Ind., dlstr ct Many who are needy will work at any price in prefer­ ence to suffering ^.heir childien to go hungry. There are miners and their families there who are ac:ually in need of food and clothing, and if the dilemma exists much longer considerable suffer­ ing will prevaJ. STELLA, one of. the very handsome i o- nies with the "Country Circus," has given birth to a beautiful colt, which Trainer Leon Morris, in his enthusiasm for the rttv which has received him so kindly, has named "C hicago " .As soon as the youngster is able to brave the < hilly winds of December, he will make his bow on the stage at McVicker's. "The Country Circus" is now in its seventh week at McVicker's Chicago Theater, and doing enormous business The peo­ ple seem never to grow tired of it AT Chicago, Ju3tice Woodman ren­ dered his long withheld decision in the stocks left uver, the supply to date Is 4,845,973 bales, aealnst 4,166,307 for (fee same period last year. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. DURING four and a half days of last week the General Land Office, at Wash­ ington, issued 4,253 land patents. This is the highest record ever made by the office. MR. WIL&OX, Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has received the re­ port of the agent who investigated the charges of irregularities In the office of Interna Revenue Collector Warmcastle, of the Pittsburg District, but refuses, in the absenco of the Comm ssioner, to say anything about it, or to take any aatton in the case. FOREIGN GOSSIP. TOE raris Sie-Ie understands that the Pops wilt st once publicly disapprove the agitation carried on by the bishops against the French government The M atin says that the French embassador, will not leturn to the Vatican unless the Pore repudiates the course of the bishops. THE St. Petersburg Novosti says that Caprivi's speech in the Reichstag de­ prives the hosti e articles In the Ger­ man fras of all their importance. The visit of M. de Giers, says the Nov. sti, has had a \aliable effect in dispelling the clouds between Germany and Russia and France. AT Berlin, the dobate on the budget began in the Reichstag. The Secretary of the Tieasi:ry sad it was expected that tliore would be a d«*ii^it of 8,0C0,000 marks during ihe present lineal year. The government would not i^sue a 4 pe.* cent loan; it heped to obta!n mora fa­ vorable terms ADVICES from Japan, by the Empress of China, give later newj regarding the great earthquake. Careful figuring now place the number of dead at 7, "6) and the injured at 10,120, with 89,630 bui dings wholly and 28,'i25 partly destroyed. Over 440,000 people have boen rendered homeless and destitute. Twenty thou­ sand dollars has been contr but -d for the aid of the sufferer* bv the foreign resi­ dents, exclusive of the Chinese fund, which is large. Shaii hai ha < sent $5.- 000, and $10,000 has been raised in vari­ ous ways in Tokio. In addit on to these sums the Japanese Government has made a grant of 81.225,000 to the two prefectures that suffered mcst severely. AT Per.In a n-imber of Deputies, rep­ resenting country districts, have entered a formal complaint b?fore the Budget Committee in regar 1 to Ameri an pork. They claim that trichinae have recent.y be?n frequently found in American pork, and they ask that steps be imme­ diately taken toprohib tits importation. ... . . , Dr von Boettlcher, Minister of the In­ cases of the men who, under the name , ter|or< f&]d that the importation of American (orkin the future would be prohibited unless thoroughly inspected in the United States, and aided that if after this Inspection trii h'n e were found in American pork the Government would be forced to entire y prohibit its impor- ... , tat'on into Germany. Th v Deputies ap- The other charges of resisting I peared to le satisfied with this state- m{,n^ an(j tj,ere peeras reason to believe that if the Germans who are hurt by American fompetition in oork succed in making out a clear case against the importers of that article rigorous meas­ ures w.ll onee more be taken against the United States hog. of anarchists, were arrested at Greif's Hall. After expressing his opinion of the meeting, which accorded exactly with that held by the police, he an­ nounced that seven of the "ringleaders" were each fined 8100 for disorderly con­ duct, and the other ten defendants $10 each. arrest and carrying concea'ed weapons were dismissed excepting in the case of Henry Miller, who was assessed 910 for carrying a revolver. MRS. CLABEXCE Krrrs, who lives in Shelby County, left her two children at home and went to a neighbor's house. During her absence the house took fire and the two children wer6 burned so badly that two of them died upon being rescued and the other soon afterward. The mother was seri­ ously burned while attempt ng to res­ cue them. At Denver. Col., Mrs. Geo. Martin and her son, aged 1M years, were burned to death last night The child pulled a lamp over on itself, and the mother, in attempting to extinguish the flame.', was burned teyond recog­ nition. THERE has been no let-up in the efforts of the Milwaukee and St. Paul and American Express o'Heials to catch the men who robb d the train near Rac ne, Wis., but there are new de velopments which tend to show that the detectives have hitherto been working on the wrong trail. The eommoniy ac­ cepted idea wai that the robbery was committed by the amateurs living in or near Racine There is now pood reason to believe that the job was done by ex­ perts, and that the leaving of the "clew" by which the detectives were put on the trail of amateurs was a cleverly put-up job. It is the opinion of a s-hrewd de­ tective that the three big train robberies whi-;h have been committed since Nov. L in the West were done by one gang. THE story that twenty men were left buried out of sight, but alive,* under the earth and mud of the landslide at Canyon Station, in the Cascade Mountains, by the Northern Pa­ cific Railway Company s bosses wa* confirmed and is considered true No effort is being made to recover the bodies. Foreman Stout said shortly after the accident tha^ the bodies would make "good rip-rapping" if they were not washed out and down Green River by the swift current Foreman Murray, who feels the inhumanity of the action, was indnced to talk. He said: "I had sixty-two men at work Wednes­ day morning. After the accident we counted forty-four, including the dead and injured, and sent eight for help, leaving ten missing. These were proba­ bly buried under'the. mud or fioated down the river. About ten, more or Jess, are still unaccounted for." .^uspensicn of a Me bourne Bank. T".-ASA result of the financial disturb- v;: ance in Melbourne, Australia, theStand- ' ard Bank suspended. The capital was C " $5,000,000. <.|v , 11 "'K"1 Dom Pedro Is Dead. S, DOM BEI>HO, ex-Emperor of B azll, ^/^fed at Paris of congestion of thelupgs |a»d pneumonia. ; • • • >y-iiiB; -- ,v V* To Continue Its Legation. - '• 'THE Brazilian Government has de­ cided to continue Its legation at the City ^ Mexi o. | i, Missionary Murdered in Pennsylvania, D^,.- S~,NEAK Mahanoy City, Pa, Henry and p , :FranK Zimmers and William Crane , » found the dead body of Mrs. Lawrence v- lying near a path which leads into Cata- wissa street She was 45 years old and Jbad been engaged in missionary work. GENERAL NOTES. IT ts evident the Dominion Govern- jnent Iocs not look for. an early sett e- ment of the Atlantic fisheries question. The Minister of Marine has advertised for sultab'e vesse's for the fi hery pro­ tection service against American fisher­ men found poaching during the fishing season beginning June 1. • THERE is no longer a doubt that, if possible, the government at Ottawa, Ont, will bring Owen E. Murphy and Robert McGreevy ba'-'k to Canada, If the offenses with which they are charged can be brought within the ?eope of the last extradition treaty between G^eat Britain and the United Sta'es. AT Valparaiso, Chili, the judge of crimes has appointed a commission to inquire into the cause of the death of Boatswain Kiggin, of the United States Khip Baltimore. The committee will also undertake to ascertain whether the bullet hole in Johnson's neckerchief was caused by a rifle ball or by a bullet from a revolver. If it was made by a rifle ball, then Riggln was killed by the police; otherwise by a member Of the mob. THE first at'empt in the history of the country to afford relief to th 3 fam­ ine-stricken peasantry of Russia has originated in Minneapjlis. The scheme Is to send a ship-load of flour to Russia by the middle of next January, and the 5,0<W merchant millers of America are to be asked to help. The cargo will be 3,000 tons, ( r 6,000,000 pounds, or :,0,000 to 50,000 barrels, worth from $100,0C0 to $125,0)0. The Russian Minister at Washington has keen communicated with, and in his absence the Charge d'Affairsat New York wires that he has laid the matter before bis country. Ihe tdea at first wa* to make the gift one from Minnesota alone, but it was thought, best to give it a national scope. Rail oads are willing to give the trans­ portation. and the deal will be closed as soon as the Russian Minister hears from home* MABUT BKFORT8. Earl Russell Winner. A Loxnox Jury, in the celeb ated di- vorce suit, has returned a verdl-,t in . favor of Earl Russell. The announce- " . - ment was greeted with loud cheers by v%,:«>j£rie»i» of Uu* Earl. • EASTERN OCCURRENCE*. V- A DYNAMITE factory at II averstraw, ,' :, St. Y., was blown up. The shock of the I? -- terrible explosion was felt for many miles. Four men employed in the build- were blown to pieces, and another >(• , japan who was ?ome distance from the • ( tiuildiug was also killed. ; ^ * r i l K p r o t e c t o r y b u i l d i n g c o n t a c t e d ' »ith the convent of the Sisters Of Mercy, '• r Iwo miles north of Newburg, N. Y., .. turned to the ground- There were 240 children sleeping in the building, but «dl got out safely. -The structure was a * four-story brick. Loss about 840,000. SOUTHERN 1NCIDENT8. THE indications are that the wreck of the Cincinnati Southern Express train near Chattanocga, Tonn , was del berate- ly planned by persons who displaced a rail. THE construction of a grain e'evator, with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushel*, was begun at Galveston, Texas. The Gal­ veston WharT Company has decided to erect another shortly. AT Denison, Tex, while out hunting, Conductor Mike Dwyer, of the Missouri, Kansas and T^xas Railway, was acci­ dentally shot and instantly killed by his companion, Roadmaster Wright Dwyer was from Philadelphia AT Madisonvilie, Ky., burglars broke the safe of the Hopkins County Bank and obtained Sfi.000 in. gold coin and bills. The stockholders he!d a meeting as soon as the news of the loss be ame known and voted to reimburse the bank. THE Louisiana Lottery managers who were indicted by the Grand Jury at Sioux Falls, S. D., in Cctober have been held to appear at the Apr.l term in that city for trial, each giving bail in the sum of £2,0oo. Overwhelming proof has been secured by the prosecution. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. > Cimis MAGKF, of Pittsburg, says t^at the Pennsylvania delegation to Minne­ apolis wl.l be for Blaine. Blline can have the nomination if he wants it and the indications are that he is in the field i ?**E amount of the cotton crop brought into sight at New Orleans during the week is 435,81 > bale-, against 351,149 for corresponding seven days last year. The movement since fcept 1 shows receipts at all ports of the United States 3,444.2'.*o, against 3,136,960 last year. Including | POM-N®W Mei«'. CHICAGO. n»TTXB-- Common to Prim* HOOK Shipping Grade* HHBKI --Fair to <. boles., WHC AT--NO. SB»d COKN--No. S OATS--No. 2 ; HYK -NO. 9 Bo ITER-- (Jbolco Creamery < nKK.BE-Full Cream, flat* EOGB--Fre to POTATOES--V ar-loads, p«rbu... INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping H Q8-Cholc*> U|j t M - Common to Patm* Wu»Ar--No. t Ked Co i k--No. 1 « hlte Oita-No. 3 White ST. IXJUI8. CAITI E. H a.-... ?\.... WHEAT No. S fewL.....2.?3L.. I OBN--No. 2 OATS -NO. Kit it-No. it...., CINCINNATI. C ATTTJC, liooi 8 >EKP « HEAT--No. S Bed. CoMN-- No. a OATH NO. it Mixed DETHOIT. CATTLE HOGS Bh ** WHEAT NO. 2 R'd.... .. COKM--No. % Yellow s... OATB--No. S White TOLEDO, WHEAT--New. CORN - NO. 8 Ytllow.4„, OATS-N . it White BYE .I........ BUif Alia BED R-ATTI-K LIVE HOOS WBMJT-NO. 1 HWIL CUBK--No. J | . MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 3 Spring CORN--NO. H OATS--No 3 v»toit«...... No. 1 I KAIUT-NO. T POBX--Me**... NEW YOBK. CATTLE ... Hoos BHEKP WHKAr--No. 3 Bod COKN--No. 2 • OATH--Mixed Western BUTTEB--I ream«-ry............. § •3 SO 8.90 8.00 .81 •«« • - .81 & .87 • .*7 0 .1 .81 & .ao A ANOTHER REBELLION I'N THE EMPIRE^ 1 PJL 4»I. WIII^^TPIMII •LLIJIIU.I 1 •' , "G).I I.; .1. L. .. ; T"/~i CHltiA 1N15HEAT PERIL SlX MEET Ttillft Alt Kurap* Intcmted-ProteoUon for Chrlntlans I>«mamled--Pokln In Great Danger--Only tlio Ore»t Wall Kemalna to PNIcct It. The SITNSTFM In the A te'egram from the Brit'sh Atntas- sad or at Tekin annoumos that an out­ break has taken place to t .e west of Jehoi beyond the great wall of China. The revolt is ied by brigands who are al­ ways present in the northern parts of the Province of Pet hi I. assisted, no doubt, by the secret societies and possiblyby Chinese Mohammedans from Mongolia. Two or threo im­ portant towns have b'en captured and hundreds of natives murdered, among them many Chris­ tian converts. Six housand picked sol­ diers,commanded by the chief officers of the province, have ^een ?cnt by tho 8°v* •MI'KK M UK CHINA, ernment to suppress the rising. A British gunboat is sta­ tioned at Tientsiu and another has now ascended the Yang-tse River ta Ichang It is said at Shanghai that the French Minister has made an imperative de­ mand on the Chinese Government ior punishment of the rebels who perpe­ trated the massacre of the Belgian priest* and nuns and also the exemplary degradation and puni-hment of the Man­ darins who feasted and encouraged tho rioters. Orders have been given by the govern meat for the immediate execu­ tion of ail prisomrs except the leaders, who are to be reserved for ffayii g alive and other tortures, provide 1 t! ey are caught. The situation tn China Is attracting great attention in pollt'cal circles in a'l tho European capita s This is not only due to the fact that several of the pow­ ers ha\e made demands upon tin Chi­ nese Government regarding the treat­ ment of their lespective subjects in that country, wh'ch the present condition of affairs prevents being settled, but be­ cause of the extreme importance at­ tached to the reports that England ha? come to an understanding with China by which mutual aid will bo rendered in the event of certain contingencies. The correspondent of the Paris Figaro cables from Shanghai that pour parlers have been opened to bring about an alliance between England and China for the purpose of roping with Kussia. The correspondent adds that China is sending trcops to the Pamir to check the Russian movements in that part of tho wtfrld, China c'aiming that Russia is encroaching on her lerritory. Tho correspondent at Tientsin tele­ graphs: "It is resorted that a band of rebels have murdered a Mongolian prince. Some more v liages have been sacked and looted, and all the native Christian residents have been found massacred. The Mandarins are notvat» tempting to stop the butchery, which is being executed by an organi7&tion called a temperance league, with its object the extermination of foreigners and Chris­ tians. The senior British officer has re­ ceived a message from Niuchang stating that the revolt there has been sup­ pressed and the rebels dispersed. A laconic dispatch from Chinese sources annoonces that a number of the relje s have been summarily beheaded " A dispatch from Pekin says: "Tho Chinese Government has received an offi­ cial report from Brigadier General Ni h, commanding the troops in the Kinchow district, announcing that he engaged and THE GREAT CHIHI W WALL. fjimtiXFMt. wreck Mr ' • -' OITY Off TOLEDO. Pmienfen on the L. M. A M. S. .Riafitlay Crushed, Burned and Scalded to Death by an F. A P. M. Train--Many Seriously est 4.10 iu .91 .47 .33 .8J •VJ 3.35 3.60 3.00 .93 *» M 8 53 #.60 At •40 .HI .t» 9.50 80) 8.00 .97 .44 .30 0 *.75 0 4.00 » 4.25 I# <0 .51 0 At (A 6.75 C« l.»0 .93* .41 <9 • - <& .91 • CO S.0J 8.-0 .Wl .<• & ;93 ,45 i9t 4.00 »7.i 1.WJ .Si ^.80 .43 ,S2 .»9 Ml 10.75 8.A3 8,7.i . 8.r>0 1 Oii , Si .30 ^500 & 4.0) % . 37 <6 4.75 <fi 4 utf & 4 /5 .S3 .51 .WHi .01 .47 •S4 .M 9 5.76 S4.H5 l.< 4 0 .57 & ,f8 10 .44 (9 .34 0 .St .09 £11.31 •9 63> 4.-^3 tfil ft 01 luS .73 " .41 «9 JtO defeated the rebe's, killing their leader and six hundr.d men. The general com- manding the imperial forces at Jeho a'so annour ces a successful engagement with the rebels. According to the cable dispatches that have been received from Pekin and Shanghai the rebellion began to the south of the military headquarters of Mantehurla--Glrin -- ana when last heard from the rebels were in the prov­ ince of Shong King, and within four hundred mil. s of Pekin. This being the case the gr at bulk of the Northern Chinese army is far beyond the present advance, and presumably, as yet, unac­ quainted with the revolt, if not actually In sympathy with it. The duties of the northern army have principally been to watch the Russian Iron tier, which is marked by the Ussuri and Amur Rivers, the latter extending nearly io Lake Baikal, at the extreme south of which is Irkutsck, the capital of Eastern Siberia. It seems that a sec­ ond rebel army is marching on Pekin from Mongolia, a vast district inhabited for the most part by uncivilized nomads. Mantchuria has a population of 12, 000,000, while Mongolia is cred ted with 2,000,000. Tho defense of Pekin will de pend upon Li Hung Chang, the Viceroy of Be-I hi-LI, whom Gen. Grant styled the Bisn arck of t. hina. He has a popu­ lation of 35,000.< 00 under h;s rule, and his army is the bestorganlzed and drilled in the empire. The pre at strugg'e between the Chi­ nese army and the hordes Is expected to take place at the Great Wall. This marvelous work of defense was built by Chi-Hwang-ti more than 2,000 years ago for the purpose of keeping off the Tar­ tars. But the wa 1 is no more occupied by troops. In the towers there are generally guns mounted, but they are of an antiquated pattern and would be almost useless for repelling troops armed with modern weapons The height of the wall varies, including the parapet, from twenty-six to fifty feet, and de­ pends on the character of the slope that it is built upon. The b eadth of the outer parapet Is fourteen feet on the top, with a gradual Inciease toward the ground, both aspects of the wal having a cons derable s'ope. Each tower has four embrasures, which ara used as lookout places Ti.e wall Is on the who e in pooJ repai •. It passes within t Irty miles of Pek n. If tho forces of the empitc, wh eh still remain ioyal, be concentrated near to where the rebe » must pass the wal!, they may make si me use of this ciumsy*;antiquated bulwark of defense and save China from the perils attending on a usurpation oX„ t e tjrooB. • ' • ' k' All Sorts. % ONR-THIBD of the crime committed In London is perpetrated on Saturday nights. 'UKIJKS most vegetables the tin-p'ate plant will leave in November.--Chicago Times. THERE are considerably over a hun­ dred thousand acres devoted to tobacco in V irginia. Six IIUNPBED buildings ID New York city have been condemned as unsafe by the fire department CONNECTICUT last year took ont more patents In proportion to population than any other State In the Union. la a T*nn*l. ' A passenger train on the Flint Ss 'Ptere Marquette Koad crashed into the rear of the Lake Shore axpress at Toledo, 0hio, causing the death or Injury of a score of persona The collision occurred about forty rods f?om the Onion Depot at 5 o'clock in the evening, and by 11 six dead and sixtee t terribly mangled and sca'ded peop'e had been taken from the wreck. A babe, scalded until it was an unrecognizable mass, and several women wheso limbs and features were cooked beyoud recognition added to the horrors. Ambulances and patrol wagons con­ veyed the dead and wounded to St. Vin­ cent's hospital and to different houses, and it was with the greatest difficulty that names could be obtained. A list was furn shed by Superintendent Whit­ tlesey, of the Lake Shore, supplemented b y t h e c o r o n e r . . [ y • ; The following were killed: _J Mrs. Mary McColgn, Madison, An 8-year-old son and an infant ioV of Mrs. McDonald, of New York. Ellen Meyer, Cleveland, Ohio. Howard Vaughn, it an Fernandlna, Cal. James,McQueen, Elkhart, Ind, The seiiously Injured, cared, for At St Vincent's Hospital, are: • . Joseph Anderson, Riverside, III. Mr. and iVra George Jaquu^ot^H^ York. * ( John Campbell. New Yorfc* Rudolph Murphyi To'edo. ' ^» " Mr. and Mrs. McKeiizie, and daugh­ ters, Pearl and Maud. Bertha Dick, nur.se girl to Ml%:,M$" Donald's children. New Yorlc. " John Conly, MillvHie, Mas*. " V ̂ Patrick Taylor, Arthur, Ke*. .* - Mrs. John P. Ke son, of To'edo, Is the only one outside of the hospital who is In a dangerous condition. Others, less seriously injured art: \» Jos. Ludwig, Peoria, 111 .Warren L. Potter, Pittsbui^f, Pa, * r, Conductor Hunter, Marquette trjaifc : Dolly Fisher, Toledo. ; ' : ' Mrs. J. O. McDonald, New YorK. ,5' Miss Anna Ma :k, New York. v a- D. T. West, Detroit, Alich. Mrs. E. J. Galloway, Toledo. The Pere Mariuette train is dfue Tn Toledo at 4:53, and the Lake Shore fol­ lows at 4:55. trom Air Line Junction the trains rise the same track. The Lake Shore was seven minutes late and the Pere Marquette train nine minutes late. The Lake Shore train pulled down from the junction aheal of the Mar­ quette, though there was but little room between them. About forty rods from the union depot is a tunnel fifty feet)tong The Lake Shore had gone pearly through this with its seven heavy vestibuled paror car?, and the day coach on the rear, when a freight ahead made it pulj up. The brakeman ran back to give the signal to the Per* Mar­ quette engineer, but it was toolate. The trains we e too close. The engineer and fireman of the on­ coming train laid down in their cab and crashed through the dimly lighted tun­ nel into the rear of the Boston and Chi­ cago special. The day coach was split in twain: the engine p!owed through until the r^ar of the car made a cover for the engine e'ear up to the cab. Tho steam escaping in volumes hid the wreck from the view of the big crowd which had run out of th#- stores, sa oans and houses on the h'gh 4 bank along which ran the street above MisS Dolly Fisher, the daughter of Health Officer Fisher, maddened by tho pain of the s-ald ng steam, leaped from the window and wa9 cut and slightly bruised. Help can.e immediatly, and the wound- ad were drawn out. One man, Warren L. Potter, himself slight y scalded, at­ tempted to pull Mrs. McColgn from the car, and the flesh came off in great shreds from the woman's arm. A taby was scalded to death and taken out of the smashed car a cooked and blistered mass of flesh, almost beyond recognition as a human form. A ghastly hand was found after the wreck had been cleared away and the wrecked car taken off, bnt no body had been found without a hand, and another search commenced to find the body to which the hand belong­ ed, without ava'l. There was no fire, and few were injured pxcept by escap­ ing steam. Mrs. McColgn occupied a scat near the rear of the coach and a babe was tod­ dling in the aisle when the accident oc­ curred, according to one of the eye-wit­ nesses. Taking place as it did In the city, an immense crowd assembled at the scene of the wieck. In four hours all the debris had been cleared away, and the trains began to run a9 usual. No one was hurt on the Marquette train. An investigation will be made at once as to the cau. e of the wreck, and the Lake Shore officials will see if it is possi­ ble to make the i ere Marquette people pay for the damage incurred. The engineer of the Marqnette train was a new man on the run. When found the lever was almost perpendicular and not reversed. The brakemau and con­ ductor of the Lake Shore had a narrow escape. They had gene to tho rear to PACTS OF INTEREST * • > * ' T O A L F T * : " , ' Census Vlfftire* Relative to Viticulture, nottflMCwre and ^gHcnltm tfeat Are Botta Great and Surprising--Forecast of OMlM^PzadnetloD. •V' American Haafeaa4rgfe It took 00,000 cars to move t,i% graces of the United States to market the sea­ son before the census man made his ronnds. The vineyaros of this country represent an investment of 8155,661,150, furnish employment to 200,780 people, and cover 401,261 acres of ground. La?t season's product from about three- fourths of the planted area--the other fourth being in vines too 'young to bear --was 537,139 tons, netr.y half of which was consumed as grapes and nearly half of which went to make 24,- 306,905 gallons of wine. There are some figures for the temperance people to ponder over. The small fraction of 41,163 ton* went into raisins, filling 1,372,195 I oxes of twenty pounds each. The vines now growing will in three year^ make from S,i 00,000 to 10,000,000 pounds of raisins, and the smaller esti­ mate is 500,030 pounds more than this country now consumes. The people who make a business of raising flowers sold $l.»,088,477.76 worth of plants last season. They also gath­ ered in from cut flowers the snug sum of &14,175,32S. 01. The glass on the gr< en- houses of the florist* of this country covers 891 acres, a good deal more than a soction of land« which is a mile square. There are 4,659 fir rs or companies of florists, and, 312 of these establishments ar3 owned by women. The value of the flower gardens of tho United States is 838,355,722.22, with 81,587,<593.93 more in rakes and trowels and watering pots and other implements, t lower raising gives employment to 16,847 n en and l,y£8 wo­ men. The fuel Item for heating the green houses in a single season is 81,- 160,152.66. Vegetable growing, truck farming tho census people call it, now requires ft£4,- 440 acres of land and employs 21G,7i:5 men, 9,254 women, 14,874 children, and 75,866 horses and mutes. The "garden 6ass" raised on these truck larms pays 876,517,155 a year, bes drs iro'ght charges and the commission man's gen­ erous grab There is 8100,000,000 In­ vested in the truck farming* of tho United States, and #8,971,306.70 is in tools. . Raising seed is an entirely different industry. There are 596 farms devoted to that purpose, embracing 169.857 acres. It takes 12,905 acres to rais > beans enough to supply the rest of the coun­ try with seed The peop e employed.iu seed raising alone are 13,500 mm and 1,541 women. Some of these seed farms contain as much as 3,< 0j acres. The investment iu the 507,73J acres of peach orchards is $90,0JO,to). The last peach crop sold for 87^,100,400. That was more than a dollar's worth of .^peaches for each man. woman and child in this glorious republic. The people who were employe 1 iu the peach or­ chards numbered 226,' 00. The nurseries of tho country number 4,510. They are valued at .T$4l,97i»,85r.£0. They require 172,20.i acres of land. They give work t-y 5,657 men, ?,2.9 women and 14,200 anima's. In these nurseries are growing 386,8. 5.778 young trees and vines for transp'anting. Bu j great a-* are these figures, t..e real surpr ses of the census appear in the figures which forecast the near future of fruit production in the United States. There are grow ng in the nur cries 240,- 570,666 young app'e tree -. Old "Johnny Appleseed," thi missionary who went through tho Mississippi Valley States half a century ago pok ng applo seeds into the i oil with his toe-, wou!d ;ee tho near approach of the m llennium in the fruit census. California has 336,464 al­ mond trees now bearing, but she l>a< also 40 ,464 a mond tree* not y: told enough to bear, so that in two or three years her almond product will moret aa double. Florida has 474,283 cccoanut bear­ ing tree* and 791,007 young tree--, wa ch will soon triple her cocoanut crop. Take lemons, of which Florida has 99,425 trees bearing and 410,258 trees which will soon be old enough to betfr. But it is in oranges tharthis country will soon revel. Th? yellow fruit will be within , reach of everybody. Florida has 3,924,621 orange trees now bearing and 9,302,060 trees which will bear in a short time. California has 523,400 orange trees bear­ ing and 1,641,400 young trees. The new planting of oranges In Arizona is 200,- 000 trees. And with all the acreage in the citrus fruits, but one*thirteenth of the land adapted has been utilized. The prospects of fruit raising for the coming decade are marvelous. DYNAMITE EXPU08ION. near the base of the West Shoro tunnel at that place. Five men were instantly killed and several injured. What caused the explosion cannot yet be told, but throughout Haver, traw. Congers City, Nyack, Rockland Lake and other place? within twelve miles g'ass windows were broken and people much startled. 0 __ Immediately after the explosion peo- hang out the red lights, when they saw ! pie in tlaverstraw rushed by hundreds the headlight of the rear train right! toward the scone of the disaster, but as upon them. It was a big jump in o the ~ Five Workmen in a York State Mill Seat to Sudden Death. The entire eastern half of Rockland County, New York, wag shocked by a terrific explbsion which occurred in Hav- _ _____ erstraw at the dynamite works, located light, between civilization and barbarity. TLAQ.1' THFL KO.FLO IKA W ACF CHIMIN LIITNNL 3?HO ILOWOVQI* ' J ̂ AM Kansas City's Ptidnapinf. Such offenses are the refinement o§ cruelty; they are worse than death it*- self, because the future Is unknown.-- New York Evening Sun. There ought to be a law passed whAd) makes the stealing of children for the purpos? of securing a reward a capital' offense.--Kansas City Journal. It is scarcely pessib'e to conceive of •> crime more heinous than that of which she has been guilty. Murder & in­ deed, of inforior significance.--Brookljwj. Times. Parental love trok precedence wftfr him of the public interests affected by his submission to blackmail,, and so to would with nearly everybody. --Newt York Press. If Mr. Beals had broken' hfs promise^ arrested the thieves' agent; and devoteg his 85,000 to charity rather than to the encouragement of kidnaping, would not the end have more than justified the means?--New York World. It is gratifying that the father va» fortunate enough to lansom his son; but the authority ©we it to every child; aa well as to etfery parent in tho land* to hunt down the kidnaper*, each and all of whom should be Bunpimarily dealt with.--Louisville Times The kidnaping of a child in Kansaa City, with the ob.'fectof extorting money from its parents, was a crime the suc­ cessful accomplishment of which would have caused the hearts of millions of people in this< ountrv to throb with fear. --Philadelphia Record. The prompt payment by Mr. Beals, of Kansas City, of *5,0 X) for the return of his abducted child will no doubt inaugu­ rate a boom in child stealing. Editors and other rich men will please keep a bulldog handy and a sharp eye on their children.--St Louis Sunday Mirror. David T. Beals lived up to the letter of his agreement in paying the ransom promised for his < hild, but now that the conspirators are in the toils without any violation upon his part of the compact, he should prcsecute to the fullest esteni of the law.--Kan as City Times The father cannot be blamed for load­ ing sight of everything but gaining the possession of his child; any devoted par­ ent would have done the same; but all! the fathers and mothers in the country have now a vital interest in the severest punishment of these abductors. --Tndi^p- apolis Newa *" - i*1 The Active Train Robber. It may yet b-i necessary to"^§t0T atl^"" express cars of tteel and arm them like a modern man of-war on a small scale.'*-- Linco n Journal. Two more W estern train robberies. If this thing keep* on every car will have to be provided with a couple of- Gatling guns.--New York Recorder. The latest train robbery in the Weat shows that thi-s bu iness teases to be a. Joke the moment it gets beyond the por­ ter of the pa'aoa car.--Ihilaielphla Times. St Louis is very proud of the trafn robbery which has brought that river town into prominence again. It was getting most fearfully quiet down. In that region.--Toledo Blade. The St Louis train robbery was evi­ dently patterned after the raids at Racine and Omaha or perpetrated by the same men. There was a striking similarity in the m thods employed.-- Minneapolis Tribune. After all, train robbing seems to ba about the safest of all forms of robbery. It is not alone the Northwestern train* robbers who have escaped, but those in ' New York and Missouri have not beat) arrested.--Milwaukee Sentinel. The new way of opening oars put the express messengers into danger thai they cannot dodge. Heretofore they have offered resistance and taken the chances of fusillades through the sides of their cars, but dynamite is more effec­ tive than cannon and a messenger would be committing suicide to remain in a- car while robbers were opening it in the lastest style.--Milwaukee Wisconsin. - Revolution in China* The Chinese are growing civilized; They have a first-class revolution out there.--Boston NOWA What has happened in the outlying territory of China w II be as nothing to what will occur if the great wall falls to keep the rebels out of Pekin.---New York Woild. To find a parallel for the accounts of diabolical cruelty which come from China, in connection with the Takow massacre, we must go back to tho Indian mutiny of 1857.--Louisville Commercial. Christian missionaries in China show, good sense in promptly getting out of the path of the insurgents. They would ahow better sense by getting out of the country a'together. >•-- Providence Tele­ gram. The contest is one between progress­ ed retrogression, between darkness and J A Si • vV"55' * .^5 " ^ >!u" . ' • 'n.4 ditch, but they took it and escaped with a slight shaking up. APACHES ON THIS WARPATH. Hostiles Once More Threaten Settlers In Arizona--An K*-SoI«!ier Killed. Says a dispatch from Wilcox, A. T.: The Apaches are on the warpath and have committed several depredations. One man has been killed and another wounded, and the settlers are arming to protect themselves. Major William L. Downing, who lives about thirty miles south of this place, rode in great haste and reported that one of his men had been murdered by a war party of In­ dians, who disanpeared soon after the killing and cannot now be found. The name of the dead man is B. H. Daniels, of Ontario, Canada, an ex-soldier, and 35 years old. Trailers were employed, and followed the tracks of the Indians some distance. They returned the next morning and state positively that the footprints showed the string on the moc­ casin. One track led directly from the body of the dead man. The Coroner's jury found a verdict in accordance with the above report The following telegram Was received from Fort Bowie: "Ma or Downing was shot from am­ bush while riding in his buggy, but not fatally injured. Lieutenant Irwin and ten soldiers now leaving. " This was written within a mile of the major's residence. Robbery was not the object of the murdeter.*. It is the season when the redsicins become uneasy, and a dispatch says it would be well for all citizens to look to their arms before more lives are wantonly ta<en. Bowie is eighteen miles from the scene of the killing. The military are taking every precaution to defend the settlers. Great excitement exl ts among, the settlers, who fear a r*id from ibe Cfilric^lura Mountains, which are practically im­ penetrable by the whites afainst aa armed force. The Indiar hostile* art Moving couth. other bui.dings .containing dynamite were yet sta idi^g, they realized their danger and molt of them stopped- A few, however, proceeded to the spot and learned the true condition of affa rs. The building w hich was blown up was the main house, located n ar the river. It was a high frame structure, 50 by 150 feet, and was used to put t ie dynamite in proper condition for blasting pur­ poses When the disaster took place, John Wads worth, the engineer, was at his post, and all that has so far been found of him is two legs and a hand. Wads- worth was a married man, about fifty years of age, and lea es a, widow .and three children Thr,;e other workmen were killed, and als > 1 erry Lounsberry, of Feekskill. In company with another man, Lounsberry had just rowed into shore. He stepped upon the dock a mo­ ment before tho explosion, and was in­ stantly killed. Elmer ft ash, foreman, was in the dock near by and escaped in­ jury. Twi boys named Farrell and Mott were in the building when the ex­ plosion took place. They escaped with some few bruisas. In the vicinity of the explosion large trees were torn up, and in some in­ stances riven as if bv lightning. The railroad tunnel,being far above the build­ ing, is uninjured. The effect of the shock at many points within-a few miles up and down th4 river was terrifife. Houses trembl d on their foundations, and those on the tops of adjacent^ hills had glass bro'ien. furniture knocked over, and doors taken from their h nges. The buildings belong to the Clinton Dynamite Works. In the main build­ ing, whL his now a complete wreck, the number of men usually employed was from eight to twelve. The works have been there five or six years, and for months past efforts have been made by those who have honses near by to have them removed. The cases have been a number of times in court, but the dy&a- mate people have held their own, claim­ ing that at least some of the houses have been built there since the works were •stalfsl^d. wi I do much to clear th9 atmosphere in China--Boston Journal, The consideration manifested by the Chinese in keepings their juvenile em­ peror in ignorance of the revolutionary troubles in his country is touching. 1* is one of the defects of a monarchical system that affairs oT state have a most inopportune way of failing to come 1d> boys' sizes --Washington Star. The Keeley Cure in Court. When the case comes to trial it is ret^' 'oiiab e that the on y matter to be con­ sidered is the Eoctor's abi ity to cure dipsomania, not itse"ect -, which is m different affa r a together.--Harris burg Patriot. The Kee'ey Institute at Dwight has- been sued for c'a' i a/es by a pat ent who- all* ges the bichloride treatment failed to cure him. The saoons didn't try to cure him and therefore are not sued.-- Pittsburg Press. If the suit proves suecevful Dr. Kee'ey will do well to make contracts that are not doub e headers. If the alleged cures- are failures the patients will want the money expended with Kee!ey to buy drinks In the future.--Milwaukee News. The Kee'ey drunkenness "Cure* is to be tested in court on the suit of an ini- ebriate who paid 8150 on a pledge that he should be cured, which was not done. He a'so wants 812,000 for damages done to his const'tut on by the treatment. Inc'dentaliy this last suit may raise the- questioo whether an incurable drunkard, has 812,0J0 worth o? constitution.--De­ troit Fret Press. Indians as Soldiers. The prpbem of ireventing Indian- wars in the We.'t e\ery few years has- been happily solv< d. The Indian war- rio^s ate being put in the United Stated army, and tho.e is no enemy to fight-- New Orleans Picayune. s Secretary Pi oetor is undoubtedly cor> rect in his theory that dressing an In­ dian up and treating him in such a fash- Ion as to make him self respecting doa* him good. It Is the same way with the Caucasian.--Boston Record. The experiment perhaps helps to solve the Indian problem. Such Indians ascan> be induced te take up farms and im­ prove them, or go into stock-raising, should be encouraged to do so, but tfae young men who prefer a soldier's life should be enlisted and made useful i» I that capacity.--Lincoln. Jout naL 1'., •. A