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GENERAL NEWS.
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AND EXCITING EVENTS.
jfKWS FT50M EVEBYWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, STBIESS,
J_i.ES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEBEST.
St Joseph, Mo., refining company has
been absorbed by the sugar trirat, and has
closed down for the term of three years.
Thirty-seven more bodies havS been
taken from the coal pit St. Etienne,
France, in which an explosion occurred
last wefek.
The smelting work# of tho Eureka
Consolidated Mining Company, of Eure
ka, Nev., burned Tuesday. Loss, $75,
000; insurance, $30,000.
G. M. Hitchcock,editor and proprietor
of the Omaha and (Neb.) plant World tho has purchased
the good will of Omaha Her -
aid, and will consolidate the two paper*.
Carnegie, the “iron king,” has de
clared war against his workmen for re
fusing to accept a twenty-five per cent,
reduction in wages, and has advertised
for new men.
William Miles, who killed the bald
knobber captain, Nat Kinney, 'in Mis
souri, surrendered himself Tuesday, and
will be tried Monday. There are fears
that he will be lynched.
The railroads have refused reduced rates
to the Grand Army men for the national
encampment at Milwaukee, and the Grand
Army officers urge the posts to send only
a limited number of delegated.
John Kelly, convicted of the murder
of Eleanor O’Shea, near Geneva, N. Y..
November 6th, 1888, was hauged Wed
nesday. His throat was so badly cut by
the rope that he was drenched with
blood.
At Limerick, Ireland, on Thursday,
the jury in the case of Matthew Harris
against the Irish Times for libel, for as
serting that he was an invincible, has
r'eturr ed a verdict of £1,000 for the
plaintiff.
The grand jury at Denver, Col., inves
tigated charges of corruption made
against certain state officials and mem
bers of the last Legislature, regarding
the purchase of furniture, stationery, etc.,
for the
The election of delegates to the con
stitutional convention held in Cheyenne,
Wyo., on Tuesday, resulted in the choice
of thirty-six republicans, sixteen demo
crats and three independents. The con
vei tion will meet September 2d. The
desire for a state government is general,
The north-bouud train for Montreal,on
th« Central Vermont Road, was ditched
in a washout a mile north of Brandon,
Vt., early Wednesday morning. A doz
en passengers were iujured, but none
seriously. The train hands all escaped.
The engine ^ and five ears were badly
wreckt
A dispatch from Marshall, III., says:
The committee employed to investigate
the accounts of T. W. Cole, ex-county
treasurer, has reported to the board of
supervisors. A shortage of $21,000 is
shown. Cole is one of the prominent men
of the country. He wa« mayor of Mar
shall two years, and has held many other
positions of trust.
The mayor of Cincinnati, has directed
the police to enforce the law against per
forming common labor on Sunday by ar
resting all grocers, tobacconists, ice crewa
and soda stand proprietors, barbers, etc.
The order does not contemplate interfer
ence with street car drivers nor newspa
pers, as the mayor regards these woiks
of necessity.
Lasters of the factories of W. I. – I. M.
Monroe and J. M. Cropley – Bro., at
Woifboro, N. H., struck Thursday, and
the stitchers are expected to follow,
Prices have been recently adjusted td
which the union objects. The firms re
fuse to recognize the union, however,
They have large orders ahead and employ
several huudred hands
The steel government cruiser, “Balti
mnro ii ,1 . , , . . .
” Ill " sc ° 1 f ? lnd “ thorough , " P test of the
SEttST “ d Sett - gM ” g ,U “'
called August Belz, of Appleton, Wis., was
to his door by a dozen White Capa
fom Sunday uight. They attempted to flog
for alleged wife-beating. Belz
'Irew a bowie knife and slashed right and
left, cutting a number of his assailants,
giving stomach. one probnWv a Intel wound in the
The White Caps escaped with
tohTswf a " d B "* g0 ‘ 8 * tClJ b “° k
'
r colonel . William Zollinger, formerly
commander of the fifth reniment.M. N. G.,
Mtot himself fatally at 2.30o’clock Thurs
■my afternoon, ut liis home m Baltimore,
. The cause is unknown. He served
a the confederate army during the war
wia achieved a record for distinguished
gailantry. ment during He the commanded great railroad the fitth riots reg- of
1887, and his resolute bravery and good
judgment on that occasion gained him
great credit. The coroner issued a cer
tifacate of accidental death.
A crazy man, named Dennis Depauw,
was found lounging around Judge Shep
pard’s courtroom in Chicago, Tuesday
afternoon, after adjournment, and was
ajrested. ■Atdge He said he was looking for
jfiurder. Gunnell, said who he intended to
Sheppard He he thought Judge
was Judge Gunnell and he
came near shooting him. He was searched
and a huge revolver, with all the chum
hers filled, and a wicked knife, were
found on his person. He was turned
over to the police.
A dispatch from Albuqurque, N. M.,
781 Wednesday night a
occurred on the Santa Fe road, a few
miles above this city, and all trains from
the north, south, east and west are de
layed. The tracks for several miles are
washed away, and two bridges are gone.
It was the .most violent cloud-burst that
has ever occurred in New Mexico, even
the steel rails being twisted into all kinds
of shapes. Just before the burst oc
curred, a violent . stona raged in the
mountains and rain descended in tor
rents.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind.,
says: An attempt was made before day
light Tuesday morning to blow up with
powder the building in the central part
of the city in which the Salvation Army
has established barracks. The explosion
was heard throughout the city and the
light from it caused the watchmen in the
city fire tower to turn in an alarm. A
stone jug full of powder was placed in an
alley near the building and the fuse
lighted. The building was badly dam
aged. The Salvation Army ^ _______ meetings
have caused much complaint in the
neighborhood of the barracks, and the
explosion is regarded as a warning to the
army.
A CLOUD-BURST.
SERIOUS DAMAGE IN NEW YORK 6TATE BY
THE FLOODS.
Reports from Johnstown, N. Y., say
that a cloud-burst came up over that vil
lage Tuesday night, doing great damage.
The water reached fifteen feet and
overflowed everything. Ten people ar<
reported missing. Tho bodies of foui
have been recovered. These four are all
Johnstown people. Those whose bodiei
are recovered are Charles Frear and two
other men, named Soakley and Yost, and
a fourteen-year-old boy named Steadwell.
The drdwned and missing people were
among the crowd of from thirty to fifty
persons who stood on the stone bridge
crossing the river at Perry street watch
ing the rising waters. They seemed re
gardless of the danger until the bridge
gave way and they were precipitated into
tho flood. The bridge was about twenty
fedt and about fifteen or
wide. Two iron bridges of the Johns
town, Fonda and Gloucester railway were
wrecked, and seven or eight other bridges
were carried away. Two tanneries, own
ed by Simon Schriever, were swept away,
and Schriever and Anderson dalns were
broken down. The water in Cayadutta
creek began to rise and the stream was
soon converted into a raging torrent of
men, women and children who were
thrown into the water by the breaking of
Stone bridge. A. larger number were
8aved – mean8 of r ?P e * thr ? Wn th em
5°™. t 8bl ^ re - ^ ednesday morning .
* h e fi ~<^rtment, under direction of
Cue . . II. A. Thompson, engaged in the
6 ?** ch for b ° d l es - lhe wa ^r is
still very rough and dangerous for , boats.
The tinal and fatal rise in Cayadutta
was very sudden, and is attributed to the
affects of the cloud-burst. Besides the
sweeping away of bridges and tanneries,
there is much damage to buildings which
are yet left standing. The electric light
plant was washed out and the town left
in darkness for the night. All communi
tion by wire is cut, save through a long
distance telephone.
Superintendent of Public Works Shan
non, of Albany, N. Y., and his assistant,
John E. Ashe, returned from the region
of the floods at Johnstown and Fonda,
They give the following information:
At Akin three miles west of Amsterdam,
400 feet of the New York Central track
have been washed away. At Fonda the
highway bridge spanning Cajaydutt#
creek is gone. The Central railroad
bridge, adjacent to the village of Fonda,
has been swept away. What is known ai
DeGraffa’s bridge, midway between
Tribes Hill and Fonda, with four tracks
of the Central railroad,was carried away,
The water is three feet deep in thestreets
of Fonda. The p:ank road leading to
Johnstown from Fonda was swept away,
Tw r o miles west of Fonda the Central
‘rack was carried away for a distance of
five hundred feet. At Johnstown and in
- Brtieea
were C rt. Trite, Hill und
£££ travel , and Seveial is being miles .trained ftecommo- of freight to it.
utmost capacity. stranded between Amsterdam
cars are
and Johnstown.
THE EXPENDITURES.
ithe flood , . .
£ a meeting »f Pa., tt ednesday, ,comnwaion.
hdj , statelnent’of^th^gtnieral at Cresson, a c m
relief wo-k per
formed. From their report it is learned
that }n round fibres the expenditures valley. to
date for reUef in tbo Couemaugh $1,
John8towu and vicinity aggregate
700 000 Tllia j nc i udes the work of the
p; t t s burg Johnstown and Phildelphia also
comniitteM and flood commission,
d i 8bur8er nents of the state in the abat
ment nuisances and the payment of
militia detailed for police duty. The
number of persons to De fed has varied
from a maximum roll of 81,950 to the
present commissary roll of 7,000.
WANTED TO DIE.
, . of .
Professor J. H. Hilton, -3 rincirm a
large private school at Hs B cevllle, Mor
gan county, Ala.. cut lus throat in a room u,
the Windsor hotel, in Birmingham,
Wednesday night. Hilton sums tune
ago fell In love w ith a young J
ifancevillo, and a and few days going ago to flropo Uinmng- ■
lie was rejected, whmh ended in
ham lm went on u spree, Hilton only
his attempt at suicide. is
twenty-three years oid, but ranks as on«
of tiw twiLtoftsM* to fl * ate '
scflLEY cotmr mm.
FARM AND GARDEN.
TWO POULTRY RSMUDra*.
By far the greater part of poultry dis
eases are on the outside, and their
names are hen lice and mites or spiders.
The best remedies are bukach and kero
ceae, the format to be used en the fowls
and the latter on the perches, 1 b the
neetg and in the whitewash. The two
substances give us absolute control of
the insects that infect poultry and poul
try houses, and consequently control of
the so-called diseases resulting from in
sect*.— American Aprisukurist.
horse dentistry.
More trouble and lack of condition in
horses are caused by ulcerated and ir
regular teeth than is generally supposed.
Such teeth should be promptly removed
with forceps. There is no reason to
doubt that a horse with ulcerated teeth
suffers as intensely from toothache as a
human subject." Irregular growth or
fractures of the ^enamel on the outer
edges make the teeth so rough as to in
jure the inside ot the cheek, sometimes
causing ulcers. In other cases some of
the grinders grow more slowly than
others and fail to meet those in the op
posite jaw, causing what is called “quid
ding,” or imperfect mastication of the
food. The remedy is to file the teeth
into the proper shape. Horse dentistry
is now recognized as an important branch
of veterinary practice —New York Wit
ness.
A YOUNG STUMP MACHINE.
Take a pole six inches through at the
butt and twenty feet long, of some
strong wood, and put a stout chain
around it two feet from the large end, .
with a log-hitch.. This is the anchor to
be made fast to a tree or a strong stake;
if the latter, maul it in a little deeper
after the chain is on so as to make it
hug the ground. Now put a long chain
on each side of the anchor-chain, also
with log-hitches close to it for heavy
pulling, and wider apart for lighter'
work. You now have a good rig for
pulling old fruit trees, etc. Extend
the two chains opposite to the anchor
and hitch to the tree you are to pull
six feet or more from the ground. Take
a crowbar, and putting one knee on the
pole at the small end, pry the pole and
yourself along until you have made a
quarter-circle, slacking one chain and
tightening the other. Have a boy
stand on the polo and hold it with the
bar, in default of a man with a second
bar, while yon hook up the loose chain.
Then pry the pole back again, and so
on, cutting off some of the stiffest roots
as they begin to show themselves. In
this way you can get rid of old trees
without leaving stumps; the only limit
to your operations is the strength of the
apparatus. Do not anchor to a valuable
tree; tho chain will destroy the bark.—
POINTS IN GROWING BROOM-CORN.
The following points in broom-corn
culture are given in the New York
World : The land for broom-corn should
be fertile and in good condition. A
rich sandy loam not predisposed to
weeds is excellent. Tho young plants
are very tender and delicate, so that
iveedy ground ought always to be
avoided. As regards manure, about the
same quantity should be applied as for
a crop of Indian corn on the same ground.
In planting the tall varieties the rows
are usually three and a half feet apart,
with the seed drilled two or three inches
apart, or about a dozen seeds at intervals
15 inches apart, forming hills and culti
vated only one way. Plenty of seed
should always bo used, as allowance
must be made for imperfect ones that
fail to germinate from this cause and
also from being covered too deep. The
covering should bo very light, with not
over an inch and a half of fino soil.
When well up thin, out to five or six
strong plants to the hill.
Being of Southern origin tho seed
should not be planted uutil tho soil ia
thoroughly warmed, and a littlo later
rathor than earlier than Indian corn.
Clean cultivation is absolutely necessary
for success. In no other hood crop in
this more important. The young plants
when they first show themselves are
very small, and though they soon become
strong and vigorous they aro weak at
first, t e germ of the seed having only
enough nutriment to enable tho young
plant to get fairly above ground, when
it has at oaco to form roots and provide
for its own subsistence. Cultivation
must therefore begin as soon as the plants
are well up asd be continued so m to
keep ahead of the weeds, oUnarwan the
crop will bo a poor one.
The most successful growers practice
cutting as soon as the seed has fairly
formed, when the brush will be of a
better color than if left until the seed
has matured. The old way, when the
seed was allowed to become thoroughly
npe, was to lop the brush from the top
to prevent crookedness by the increased
weight of the seed as it ripened. The
most common practice now is to break
two rows down towards each other so
that the stalks of each row will cross
those of the other at a convenient
height for cutting off the brush, which
will be projected out on each side, and
which may be laid temporarily on the
stalks from which it was taken. This
is called “tabling” from the fact that
‘the stalks of the two rows thus bent
over towards each other form a kind of
platform or table on which the brush as
it is cut tuajf be kept off tho ground.
THE CULTURE OF FLAX.
Replying to tho subscriber who asks
the time of year to sow flax, and whether
the ground should be heavily manured,
and as to how hard it is on land and the
soil best suited to its successful culture,
the Farm, Field and Stockman answers:
Flax thrives best in a cool climate, and
a rich, moist soil. A clay loam, or
rather light, rich soil is the best. There
is no better crop with which to subdue
new breaking, and a grass or clover sod
suits it admirably. If sown on a heavy
soil (old ground) manure heavily and
plow under. Plow the land in spring
and pulverizo well. Early sowing is ad
visable; we would sow as soon after
oats as the land could be prepared. If
you grow for the seed, thin sowing (half
a bushel to three pecks to the acre) is the
best, as the plants will be more branch
ing and produce more seed. If you
raise for the fiber a bushel of
more will be the best. Flax is usu
ally considered as exhaustive to the soil,
but as one of a rotation and where ma
nure i# used judiciously, it makes a very
paying crop, and need not deplete the
land. It is a crop easily harvested; that
is, its harvesting is attended with little
expense. This makes a temptation to
some farmers to flax their farms till they
flax them out and then claim flax is
hard on land. Any crop is hard on
land that is raised continuously on the
same field, with no manure. Rightly
managed flax is a good crop for one in
the rotation of the general farmer. Tho
seed always finds ready sale for cash and
generally at a fair price.
In harvesting use a self-rake machine,
and after the gavels have dried a few
days, load with a barley or other broa d
fork.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
A horse with a dishing face is gener
ally cowardly, and a cowardly brute i#
usually vicious.
It is a safe plan for the farmer to carry
his hogs in such condition on clover,
that they may be put on the market any
time.
While it is a good plan to handle the
colts from the start, there is nothing
gained by putting them to work too
soon.
v
A handful of linseed meal fed to
horses two or three times a week, is
recommended to regulate tho system and
promote health.
If milk is set in cans in cold water tho
cans should be put into the water as
soon as possible after the milk is drawn
from the cow.
By experiments it has been found
that clover fed with corn makes a gain
of thirty to forty per cent, greater than
a corn ration alone.
Farmers in the United States who
wish to bread and bring out good sad
dle horses should ride daily, or have
sons who can constantly ride.
In workiug butter with a ladle, do it
with a straight downward pressure. Tho
slightest drawing motion will make the
butter salvy and spoil the grain.
Anything which worries, frets or tor
ments a cow, or renders her uneasy or
uncomfortable, will certainly lessen tho
quantity and affect tho composition of
her milk.
The Wyandotte is a quiet, docilo
bird, and a good winter layer. They
arc not quite as easily raised as tho
Plymouth Rocks, but this may be over
come in timo.
Standard orchard trees as sent from
the nursery, vary from fivo to seven feet
in height, with naked stems or trunks,
and a number of branches at the top
forming a head. The branches should
be all cut back to within three or four
buds of their base.
Marigold.
If I wore a rose car a lily,
Or even a modest pink,
I’d so fear to be sold,"
Said the marigold;
“I should never sleep a wfnk."
“You’re safe enough,” laughed th* lQy|
“Indeed she is,” chimed the rose:
“So rest quite at your ease;
Just sleep all you please;
We’ll save you from passing foes.*
Then pansies and pinks and rosea J
Indulged in a gentle sneeze, l->
And to keep from laughing;
While Lily was chaffing, 4
Bowed low to a gentle breeze. V**
Then up came the head of a violet;
Down from her eyes rolled a tear,
Tho’ she spoke overtold,
“Cheer up marigold,
Your fears are but idle, my dear.*
The marigold looked at the lily,
The pansy looked at the rose,
As the old gardener gray
Came to put them away
On a basket of moss to reposa.
“We aro going away,” sighed the lily;
Said the pink, “I wonder where?
Do you think it will be
The great world to see;
Oh; shall we be happy there?’
Where each one went in her beauty.
I’m sure I could never tell,
But our plain marigold,
Although she was sold,
Charmed all in a wedding bell.
Mrs. Alice Webster in Free Press.
HUMOROUS.
Hair may bo plaited and yet be
golden.
A cat with its fur ruffled doesn’t feel
fur-straight.
Song of the drygoods clerk: “Swing
ing in delaine. ”
Fall fashions can never be popular
with an aeronaut.
Harry—I always pay as I go. Larry
—-Yes, but you don’t go.
Why is it anger fills our hearts?
Why are we like to “bust”
With rage? Because the watering carts
Don’t lay the dust.
Carl—So the duel did not come off?
Fritz—No; the principals both apolo
gized to each other, and thrashed their
leconds.
Bradley—“Hullo, Biggarsl Hard at
work, I see. Say, Biggars, I hoard a
good joke on you awhile ago. It was
about you and—” Biggars—“S-shl
My wife is in the back office. ”
Spectator (to defendant)—“Well, 1
guess the jury will find for you. Tho
judge’s charge was certainly very much
in your favor. Don’t you think so!”
Defendant (moodily) — “Oh, I knew
all along that the judge’s charge would
be all right. It’s the lawyer’s charge
that’s worry in’ me.”
At a village school, not many miles
from Canterbury, a precocious boy being
asked to parse the sentence, “Mary,
milk the cow,” went on accurately till
he came to the last word, when he said
“Cow is a pronoun, feminine gender,
.
third person singular, and stands for
Mary.” “Stands for Mary?” asks the
master in astonishment. “Yes, sir,”
responded the urchin with a grin, “for
if the cow didn’t stand for Mary, how
could Mary milk the cow?”
Educational Shower Baths.
A member of tho board of education
of Milwaukee, Wis., is trying to intro
duce shower baths into the curriculum
of the public schools of that city. He
has a high respect for clear lake water
as an educational factor. Ho thinks
that a pupil should be supplied with a
clean cuticle before any attempt is made
to rub up his intellect. While he would
not make the shower baths compulsory
he would try to make them popular with
the ambitious youth of Milwaukee, ne
believes that they would do much to
transform that city of well-scrubbed
school children into a flowery field of
intellectual promise.
This able apostle of cleanliness draws
his conclusions mainly from the success
of an experiment made in washing tho
pupils of tho schools in the German city
of Goettingen. There the educational
shower bath has proved a great success,
banishing grime and replacing indolence
in many small and untidy bodies with a
generous supply of vim. Consequently
he is desirous of inoculating the systems
of small Milwaukeeans with the potent
shower bath.
If the Chicago board of education
does not take kindly to this Goettingen
Millwaukee idea it will bo about the
first matter of the sort which that board
has not snapped up hungrily. Music
and gymnastics and clay modeling and
German and what not are already on
the list. Why not add shower baths.—
Chicago News.