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THE. DALTON ARGUS.
Dalton, Georgia.
H. A. WRENCH, Publisher.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
George Kennan’s Siberian papershave
been translated into German, Dutch,
Polish, Russian and Bulgarian. There
is good authority for saying that the
Czar has read these papers.
Tirr death plant of Java has flowers
which continually give off a perfume so
powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for
any length of time, a full grown man,
and which kills all forms of insect life
«bat approaches close enough to come
«nder its influence.
The Milwaukee Herald, a German pa
iper which has been the stanch advocate
<»f the use of the German language
everywhere and at all times, has been
compelled to report the base-ball games
<n English, as the spirit of the game is
*ost when the story is told in German.
It is stated on the authority of a prom
'nent Nihilist that there are 5,000 dead
ly torpedoes scattered over Russia and
waiting for a future favorable oppor
tunity to scatter the Czar over the coun
try. He say that there are 10,000 men
in that country who would give up their
lives in a moment to rid the country of
the Czar.
An onyx trust has been formed in
New York City, and will control nearly
all, not all, the onyx to be found on
* v -s continent The name of the cor
poration is the Mexican Onyx Company.
The capital has been fixed at $1,500,000,
but this is said to be merely a nominal
figure, and that it was to be increased
later to a ch larger amount.
A paper read the other day before
the New York Medico-Legal Society
stated that not more than one homicide
In a thousand was committed by an in
sane person. The insane shrink from
deeds of violence and the sight of blood.
The paper also declared that three
fourths of the people are insane,and also
that insanity is not hereditary.
A stone coflin in a tomb at Canter
bury Cathedral, on being opened, was
found to contain the body of an arch
bishop; fully vested. It is thought to
be Cardinal Stephen Langton, who sided
with the barons in extorting Magna
Charta from King John. Although
buried six centuries ago the features
were still perfect and the vestment quite
’ sound.
J APAT
• rtrrrv ' VtMT
path of civilization that she may be ex
pected ere long to reach the dime muse
um stage. Already the subjects of the
Mikado are preparing for a beauty show,
for which all the ladies of the realm are
eligible. Photographs are to be sent to
a committee, however, and they will se
lect the lucky originals to be placed on
exhibition.
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs received as a
wedding gift from King Kalakaua a yel
low wreath which was greatly admired.
It was made of the feathers of the gold
en-hued O-o, a bird highly prized in
Hawaii. There are but two of these
bright feathers plucked from each bird.
The birds are taken only in a snare, a
stringent law having been passed against
shooting them.
The Yorktown monument commemor
ating the surrender of Lord Cornwallis
to Washington and the valient aid given
ns by our French allies, is one of the
Jost beautiful structures of the kind in
’.he world. It is located near the bat
tle-field. It stands on a peninsula which
oas been historic ground from the .time
the landing of the first English in
Virginia to the conclusion of the war cd
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The Hydrophobia Hospital in New
Y ork is so crowded that the physician in
charge has been compelled te give up
his own bed to a patient What this
country needs, says the Detroit Free
Press, is larger crowds in the dog pound
and smaller ones in the hydrophobia hos
pital. The number of thirsty, vicious
and utterly worthiest curs that is suffer
ed to run at large, is something re.al.lj
appalling.
In the window of a fishing tackle
■store in New York, is displayed a fly
rod three feet long, and tapering from
the thickness of a lady’s pencil at the
butt to the size of a pin at the tip. It is
wade of Japanese bamboo with a tip of
whalebone. There are three joints in
the rod. The line of the length of the
rod is of fine gut At the end of it dan
dles a tiny yellow fly, concealing a barb
less hook. The rod was made in Japan,
and is.a specimen of those in use there
in the .capture of minnows, which are
regarded as a delicacy by the natives.
There ls an ingenious device for keep
teg oysten? good in the shell for several
weeks after they have been taken from
the water. Hitherto this has been done
nnsatisfacUVi ly by boring boles through
the edges of she shells and locking in
the oysters wttffj bits of twisted wire.
By the new sclr-enie the edges of the
shells are dipped J nto plaster of paris,
uiixed with certain chemicals that make
it harden quickly. In a few minutes
the is hermetically sealed, ajul so
strong is the cement th.at not even the
most muscular mollusk aan manage te
breath of fresh air.
A BLAZING MINE.
There Is No Hope For the Dunbar
Miners.
If Ttx>y rx-'ape the Fire Kitrnom Rata
Will Gnaw Them Beyond Rec
ognition.
There is no longer any hope. All
faith tn the industrious rescuers has
been abandoned. The entombed miners
can not be rescued. A furious fire has
sealed their fate, and if their dead bod
ies escape the hungry flames, the pilfer
ing rats that infest the mines will have
gnawed them beyond recognition. Death
•never came to men in a more revolting
form, and affliction never fell heavier
.on the bereaved. This has been an aw
ful yet even a greater disaster threat
ens. A fire, fierce as a whirlwind, is
raging for 2,000 feet down into
the yawning mouth of the Hill Farm
mine. Deadly gas has generated back
of the burning, and the ponderous hill
Into which the Hill Farm, the Ferguson
and the Mahoning pits are driven is a
mighty magazine, fairly pregnant with
death, the lightest stroke of a miner’s
pick would explode it. The effect of
such an explosion would be awful to
contemplate. The rescuing party has
been withdrawn from the face of
the Mahoning pit. A strong guard
has been placed at the mouth
of the Ferguson mines to keep
out the impatient, restless min
ers who would rescue the unfortu
nate on their own account. The flames
at the Hill Farm Mines are hot enough
to drive away invaders. Fire broke
from the mouth of the Hill Farm pit
shortly after nine o’clock, Friday night.
It followed promptly after the drill en
tered the burning mine. For two hours
before the flames burst out huge bil
lows of smoke, black and deadly,
rolled over each other into the air
and drifted upward. A rumbling,
rushing sound, like a swiftly-mov
ing train through a tunnel, pre
ceded the flames. Secretary Watchern
and Superintendent Hill were at the pit
mouth awaiting the outbreak. To the
experts the smoke indicated approach
ing fire for half an hour before its ar
rival. Its coming could be heard long
before the fire reached the pit mouth. It
could be seen licking up the timbers in
the mine, andlthe steady stream of water
which rippled down the slope seemed
only to inspire and encourage to wilder
efforts the angry fiend. All efforts to
extinguish the flames have proved fruit
less, and the buildings in the vicinity
have been torn down to prevent the fire
spreading.
LOUISIANA LOTTERY.
Thy Sprmte < innmitten Will Report Favor
hmy on rnc Bill to mrftht tntr ctmvt tmrva
for #1,250,000 Annually.
The lottery bill came up in the Lou
isiana Senate on the 27th. and was re
ferred to the Committee on Health,
Quarantine, Drainage and Charities.
The committee met in the evening,
took up the bill and amended it in ac
cordance with the pledge made in the
House to Representative Lawton, mak
ing the amount to be paid annually 81,-
250,000, and providing that the addition
al 8250,000 annually shall go to the gen
eral fund of the State. z\n amendment
was offered to make the annual pay
ment 81,500,000, but it was voted down.
The committee finally decided to report
the bill favorably, as amended, by a
vote of 6 to 3, and agreed to defer report
ing the bill for a few days in order to
give the minority time to prepare a mi
nority report.
Still Giving Up the Dead.
Three bodies' of women were found on
the 27th at Johnstown, Pa., all of them
being in the river just above the stone
bridge where the great mass of wreck
age lay last summer. They were under
the water in the sand, and all were in a
fair state of preservation. Only one
was identified. This was Mrs. Roberts,
wife of Howard J. Roberts, cashier of
the First National Bank. Mr. Roberts,
his wife and son, were all drowned, but
liis body has not yet been recovered.
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Going to Pieces.
Signs of an early collapse of the Salis
bury government are increasing on all
sides. The Ministry have unquestion
ably become alarmed, and are planning
a new deal, which they hope will
strengthen the Cabinet and restore the
popularity of the Government with the
many who have become disgusted with
its tergiversation and indecision.
Tascotl Again.
Trainmen, who arrived at Paris, Tex.,
state that five Pinkerton detectives got
aboard the north-bound train at West
Jbork, situated in Washington County,
Ark., with Tascott, the murderer of
Banker Snell, of Chicago. He had been
spotted for some time, and parties had
come from Chicago and fully identified
the suspect
San Francisco’s Population.
Mr. Davis, the Supervisor of the Cen
sus, says the population of San Francis
co is 300.000. The Chinese population
is 24.000, an increase of 2,000 since 1880.
There are probably 10,000 more Chinese
in San Francisco during the winter, but
who are at present employed in the
country.
For the Conscience Fund.
Postinaster-General Wanamaker re
ceived from New York a letter contain
ing three SI,OOO U. S. gold certificate!
for the “conscience fund.” The sendei
says he sent 81,50 V for the same fund
some months ago.
STORM RAVAGES.
Colored Worshiper* in a Tennc»«ee Church
Injured.
Another tornado visited Gallatin,
Tenn., Sunday evening, doing great
damage to property and resulting in the
death of two colored women, Ann Mar
tin and Mary Hoffman, who were crushed
under a falling church. The Afri
can Methodist Church was holding
services and there came a mighty
gush of wind and the church was
blown down, catching the congregation
under the roof and falling timbers. Rev.
Granville Brown was badly injured in
his pulpit Ten persons were caught
under the falling walls and among the
injured are: Rev. Gilbert Woodfork
and child, Granville Beech, Mary Hor
ton, Mary Lowery, a child of Nannie
Payne. Ann Martin and Mary Hoff
man were taken from the debris so hor
ribly mangled that both are dying.
Damage was also done the public
school building, private residences,
etc. Many houses were unroofed and
wires are down. Fences and trees were
sw-ept away. No other loss of life is re
ported. In many private residences car
pets were blown from the floors and fur
niture smashed into kindling-wood.
The tornado took a southwesterly
course, and very heavy rain fell during
the time. A destructive storm is re
ported from Lexington, Tenn.
YOUTHFUL*FI RE-BUGS.
A Building Burned for the Insurance
Money In It.
Charles Schneider and Ike Brown, the
latter colored, were arrested at Nash
ville, Tenn., on the charge of arson. At
10 o’clock at night fire was discovered in
Philip Schneider's furniture store; the
flames were quickly extinguished with
a slight loss. Evidence of incendiarism
was so plain that an investigation was
made, and the arrest of these two boys
followed. Schneider, it is said, confess
ed that he and Brown had set fire to the
building at the instigation of Philip
Schneider, who has a large stock of fur
niture on hand, which is insured. Philip
Schneider was arrested in Chattanooga
by order of the chief of police, he hav
ing gone to that city to tend the dedica
tion of a church.
Hottest of the Season.
The 29th was the hottest day of the
season in Cincinnati. There were five
deaths from the heat and fifteen pros
trations reported. Fatal cases are re
ported from Chicago, St. Louis and many
other places. The suffering of the in
mates of crowded tenements was severe,
though the thunder-storms late in the
day brought much relief from the op
pression of the heat. Cincinnati ther
mometers ranged up to 100 degrees,
though from other cities higher figures
are reported.
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Census . f Texas Citiee.
Official census counts <ff leading cities
in Texas discloses the following figures
approximately: Dallas 39,300, San An
tonia 38,900, Galveston 35.000, Fort
Worth 31.000, Houston 36.000, Waco 20,-
000, Austin 16,200. The city census of
San Antonio, taken as a check to the
Federal census, gives a population of
55,000 —an increase of 3,500 since 1880.
China to Build a Railway.
Two Chinese officials and two British
engineers have arrived at Vladivostock.
They state that they have made a pre
liminary survey for a line of railtvay
through Mongolia, and that the Chinese
Government is desirous of expediting
the completion of a railroad to the Rus
sian frontier.
Found Dead in His Bed.
S. L. Cumback, son of ex-Governor
Cumback, of Indiana, was found dead in
his bed at the St. James Hotel, lowa
City. He was traveling for a Boston
house, and had been in lowa City about
a week, during which time he drank to
excess. Cerebral congestion was the
immediate cause of his death.
Still in the Mines.
No new developments traspired at
Dunbar. Pa., the 29th. The men are
still digging for an entry into the Hill
Farm mini*, and are now about forty-five
feet beyond the original point of en
trance. At midnight there was no pos
sibility of rteaching an entry before next
day.
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Priest Prostrated by Heat.
Fattier Anselm Meier, of St. Meinrad
Academy, near Evansville, Ind., died at
Louisville Sunday from the effects of
the beat. He went there Friday to spend
the summer, and was overcome as he
left the train. There have been many
other cases of prostration.
Cholera on the Increase.
A dispatch from Madrid to the Lon
don Daily News says that the cholera is
increasing at Gandia. Enero, Sueca and
other Spanish villages. The prefect of
Valencia is going to Gandia to assist the
doctors of that town.
Three Shocks of Earthquake.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Santa Rosa, Cal. They
were quite severe. People were awak
ened from their slumbers. The v'bra
tions were from North to South.
Our Population.
Superintendent of Census Portei
says the returns indicate that the popu
lation of the United States is 64.500,000,
an increase of over fourteen millions is
ten years.
Pittsburgh's Population.
District Supervisor Oliver approxi
mates the population of Pittsburgh al
240,000, Allegheny City at 105,000, and
Allegheny County at 500,000.
ACRES OF FLAME,
Caused By a Gasoline Explosion at
Louisville.
Building* of the Standard Oil Refinery
. Company Completely Destroyed.
Monday morning a terrific explosion
was heard in the southern part of Louis
ville. Ky., and the Standard Oil Compa
ny's refinery, at Fifth and B streets,was
seen to be on fire. The shock was felt a
mile away, while all the window glass
within five blocks of the works was
shattered by the force. A great tank of
gasoline had arrived there. It had been
delayed several days and the iron or
metal vessel became very hot from ex
posure to the sun’s rays. This generated
a great quantity of dangerous vapor
which, when exposed tc the air, becomes
highly explosive. Monday morning
Mr. Seth Skene ordered his men to the
Cleveland tank to pump the contents
out. The cap was taken off and the va
por burst from its confinement while
the men, recognizing their danger, took
immediate steps for their safety.
A number of them,however, were severe
ly burned. About fifty yards from the
tank-car there was an open fire under
one of the boilers. The vapor soon
reached this, and, of course, a tremend
ous explosion followed. In a jiffy burn
ing oil was running all over the com
pany’s yards, and the immense structure
was ablaze from cellar to roof. The
heat became so intense that a fireman
could not get within 200 yards of the
buildings, as over 75,000 gallons of crude
oil, gasoline and refined oil were on fire.
The buildings and stock are a total loss,
and it is reckoned that fully 8450,000
worth of property is destroyed. The
Standard Oil Company never insures,
and hence the insurance companies
escape. Steps will be immediately
taken to rebuild. John McDonald
and Daniel O'Neal, two of the boys, died
Monday night.
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BEARDED LADY DEAD.
A Luxuriant Growth Induced by Poultice*
Applied to Her Face.
Miss Eliza Pinson, a lady forty years
of age, and well known because of her
luxuriant growth of beard, died at her
home about three miles from Atlanta,
Ga. In make-up she possessed every
feature of a man about five feet nine
inches tall and weighing 175 pounds.
When quite a girl she was troubled a
great deal with toothache, and as a re
lief used poultices pretty freely. These
were bound around the lower jaw. This
treatment was kept up until it was
discovered that unless the poultices
were discontinued she would develop
a full beard. The poultices were left
wit. di-.fto. stop the growth ot a
short, black beard that had appeared on
her well-rounded face. This wa? morti
fying to the family, and shaving only
increased the growth. Finally all hopes
of stopping the beard were abandoned,
and it was allowed to grow. For twen
ty years she has worn a beard eighteen
inches long. Naturally such a freak
was sought after by the showmen of the
country, and several times was she ap
proached with offers to appear with va
rious shows, but each time she plainly
and positively refused the offer.
Whitewash as a Disinfectant..
Very careful experiments have been
made by the authorities and physicians
at the Hygienic Institute of the Uni
versity of Pisa, with regard to the util
ity of whitewash in preventing conta
gion from diseases. It has been proved
that a single washing of the walls with
the ordinary preparation of lime at once
destroyed all germs of cholera and
typhoid, but even repeated application
of whitewash had no effect whatever
upon the microbes of pulmonary tuber
culosis, of carbuncle, and of several
other contagious diseases.
Their Task Nearly Ended.
At Dunbar, Pa., on the new course on
the 30th the rescuing party dug through
about twenty-live or thirty feet of solid
coal, and at about midnight struck an
entry to the Hill Farm rpine. the air be
ing good and pure. It will take several
hours before the rescuing parties can
dig away the coal so that search for the
entombed men can progress.
Reduction in the Public Debt.
It is estimated at the Treasury De
partment that there has been a decrease
of about 820,000,000 in the public debt
since June 1. This will make a total
decrease for the fiscal year ended the Ist,
887,800,000, as against 8114,000,000 for
the previous fiscal year.
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Shot for a Burglar.
Miss .Mary Leonard, of Chicago,
found the blinds of her neighbor’s house
open at midnight and attempted to close
them. The proprietor, Joseph Dutton,
shot through the shutter, thinking her
a burglar, the girl receiving a fatal
wound.
He Denies the Charge.
Joseph C. Mackin, of Chicago, who
was thought to have disappeared
for fe:Jt of indictment in the bribery in
vestigation for perjury, turned up on
the 30th. He denies all knowledge of
the affidavits bearing his name and seal.
Blown to Pieces by Powder.
At New York, Melville Predenberg
played with a can of powder. Somehow
fire got to it, and a little later the po
lice carried home such fragments as they
found of the thirteen-year-old victim.
FATE OF THE MINERS.
The I.iintr Search Ended—The A*lie« of
the Thirty-One Miner* Will Repose in
the Farm Hill Mine L’ntll the F.iid of
Time.
At 6 o'clock, p. m., Tuesday, hope and
work wore abandoned at the mine, and
the dust or ashes of the thirty impris
oned men may rest behind the Dunoar
hill till the last day shall come. The
last exploring party entered the mines
it 2 o’clock. They did not come out un
til 7 o’clock. Three of their number en
tered to within a few hundred feet of
the subterranean fire and had found the
dinner buckets and blouses of two of
the men. The explorers suffered from the
intense heat and black damp, and scarce
ly escaped with their lives. It was a
trip to the very gates of the most realis
tic and practical hell that could be found
on this earth. The explorers visited
nine places where the men were known
to have been at work. Their picks and
shovels were found lying where they had
been dropped. One mule was found dead
and putrified. Otherwise no trace of the
men could be found. The explorers then
voted to abandon the work of recovery.
Superintendent Hill, after this, told the
men the company would, on Thursday,
pay them the wages due, and advised
them to go to work wherever they could
secure it. With this the greatest res
cuing attempt in Western Pennsylvania
was ended. The company will, it is
said, now attempt to save as much of
the mine property as they can. The
mine is sadly wrecked and its restora
tion will be a gigantic task. A car
load of coffins arrived Tuesday morn
ing. The question now is: “When
will they be used?” Fifteen and
a half days have elapsed since that
flash of gas set fire to the Hill Fann
Mine. The caskets which were so care
fully and secretly carried up to the mine
were as quietly brought back. So were
the stretchers and blankets and medi
cines brought to the grounds by the
physicians. Three of the party re
turned to within a few hundred yards of
a burning subterranean fire and satisfied
themselves that the men were dead, and
that further search was useless. The
stench of burning human flesh sickened
them, but they visited nine
places where the men were
known to have been at work. The
picks and shovels were all lying just
as a man would drop them as he started
on a dead run for his life. Otherwise
no trace of the men could be found.
While prosecuting their search still
further they ran into a dense cloud of
damp, which put out their lights.
A struggle for life then followed, but
they succeeded in getting back to the
rest of the party. After a sad consulta
tion it was decided to abandon the
search, and the party left the pit tofltell
the friends and relatives of thrtfm
tombed f.i®n that the .‘■earch-jpidulirn'Jtt
be prosecuted further.
APPALLING.
Thousands of Children Murdered, or A1»
lowed to Dio to Obtain Insurance
Money.
A select committee of the English
House of Lords is considering the bill
introduced by the Bishop of Peters
borough to prevent the murder of chil
dren for the sake of insurance money.
The bill provides that the money, in all
cases of deaths of children insured, shall
be paid only to the undertaker, and no
surplus to the parents or other parties
Insuring. This is to prevent parents
from deriving any profit from the death
of a child. About 600,000 children are
insured in Great Britain every year, and
it is believed that many of these are
permitted to die from criminal neglect,
if not directly murdered, in order to
gain the insurance.
Population of Our Cities.
The census returns from the cities
given below have been announced in a
semi-official way at Washington, thus fai"
Brooklyn 930,670; Baltimore. 500,000;
Boston 417,720; Buffalo 250,000: Cincin
nati 306,000; Chicago 1.085,000; Cleveland
248,000; Columbus 114.000; Detroit 197,-
000; Grand Rapids 95,000: Indianapolis
125,000; Louisville 180,000; Milwaukee
200,000; Minneapolis 185,000; New York
1,627,227: New Orleans 246,000; Phila
delphia 1,040,450; Pittsburgh 250,000; St.
Louis 440,000; St. Paul 138,000; Washing
ton 230,000.
Work of the Pension Ofllsa.
The Pension Office issued during tho
flscal year just closed 151,658 pension
certificates. The number issued during
the preceding year was 145,292. Os the
number issued during the year just
closed, 66,637 were original pensions,
which is an increase of nearly 15,000 as
compared with the number issued dur
ing the preceding year.
Child Scalped by a Tree.
Near Peru, Ind., while blasting a tree
on the Peru and Detroit railroad under
construction, a largo limb of a tree
caught Mary Neiswonger, 12 years old,
who was employed*to carry water, break
ing one of her lower limbs and com
pletely scalping her. She was removed
to her home, where a physician pro
nounced her injuries fatal.
The Strike Nearly Ended.
The carpenters of Cincinnati have de
cided to return to work for those bosses
who have granted their request for nine
hours’ work. The men left out will bo
provided for by a dollar a week assess
ment on those who go to work.
All Approved by the President.
The President has approved the naval
appropriation bill, the invalid pension,
appropriation bill, the post-office appro
priation bill, and the joint resolution
providing temporarily for tbe expendi
tures of the Government