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T. A. HAVRON, P*.isher,
Current topics.
.* cost Boston *16,000 to entertain Queen
Xapiolani.
Tns tioapßrn is a new paper in Bpring
field, Kan.
Kdwin Boot* has netted *300,000 for his
.eeasejs’s worh.
Thb wedding veil of a recent Boston
*»ride, cost *2,000.
'■ urn W. Field began life at *3 a week
'aod bow has *20,000,000.
Tucson, Ahiz., has six insanity cases
due to the late earthquake.
A Brooklyn child has recovered *4,000
from a railway for five fingers lost.
Another bad marksman has been mak
ing an attempt on the life of the Czar.
Fo» the third year in succession the hop
crop is declared to be an utter failure.
Kansas has nine counties, each one
larger than the State of Rhode Island.
A railroad is to be built across South
America from the Atlantic to tho Pacific.
A Frenchman has invented a telephone
which costs but sixty-two and a half
cents.
Ostrich farming is prospering in Cali
fornia. Good feathers are fetching *2OO a
pound.
In the course of his career as a show
man, Barnum says he has taken *80,000,000
“atthe door.”
Thk Mexican government has pensioned
a mother who “owns up” to twenty-eight
living children.
Kansas farmers report that the red ants
are waging a war of extermination against
the chinch bugs.
New York has just given out contracts
for *16,000 worth of music ki the city parks
for the summer.
Tu* Czar of Russia allows no one to
Bpcak tp him of bis troubles. He does not
Relieve in being surfeited.
A single advertisement for a book
keeper in a New York paper brought 120
applications for the positiou.
Robert J. Burdette, the genial humor
ist, has been elected deacon in his Baptist
CJiuteh, at Lower Merion, Pa.
I Aunt Patsuy Bugg of Bugg’s postoffice
in Southwestern Kentucky, is 105 years
rdjjl and is still able to ride horseback.
• Mount Hugging in New Hampshire is to
have a summer hotel. It ought to rival
Kissimmee, Fla., as a pleasure resort.
A park of ninety-two acres has been se
cured on the shore of Lake Ontario, near
Niagara, for a “Canadian Chautauqua.”
The Girard Trust of Philadelphia has
sent a cubic block of anthracite coal to
the -London exhibition, weighing 2,226
pounds.
Alum is now considered the best purifier
of water, making it perfectly clear and
sparkling without giving it any alum taste
or smell.
Henry Binderback, a member of the
Greely Arctic expedition, has been ap
pointed an inspector of customs at a salary
*4 per day.
\ Queens seem to be trumps now. Victo
ria is celebrating her jubilee year and
Rapndani has been to Boston, sampling
baked beans.
Only that portion of the male popula
tion of Germany which suffers from de
formity or chronic illness is exempt from
military duty.
1 An awful precedent has been estab-
Sished in New York by the arrest of a
young mar. for being incorrigibly lazy and
a “drag on his father.”
Topeka, Kan., expects to have seventeen
of street railway track before the
mose of the year. Dummies will be run on
some of the streets.
The Santa Catama mountains in Arizona
are covered with petrified turtles, lobsters
and clams. The mountains are 10,000 feet
above the level of the sea.
The great Lick telescope near San Fran
cisco can not be got ready for use by the
Ist of July, as had been anticipated, but
will be much behind that time.
1 Chicago has a home for workingwomen
In which lodging is ten cents and breakfast
five cents. The home is supported by
ladies from different churches.
Secretary Endicott has decided to do
away with the practice of making military
prisoners carry heavy logs for puuish
meat. He considers the custom bar
barous.
Mrs. Gladstone nearly always accom
panies her husband to the House of Com
mons, and she never fails to wrap a stout
comforter round his neck when he leave*
for home.
Abbor Day appears far more than a mere
sentiment when we consider that it has
already planted over six hundred million
forest trees in States west of the Missis
sippi river.
A Pana (ill.) man tied a cat in a bag and
took it to Morrisonville, more than twenty
miles away, and there released it. Three
or four days later he found the cat at his
door in Fana.
Every thing points to a “boom.” The
hotel men in New York Git.y say that they
were never so short in accommodations
for the crowds of business men who are
there from all parts of the country.
There are only three cities in the world
which have a larger Scandinavian popula
tion than Minneapolis. They are Chris
tiania, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Min
neapolis has 50,000 Scandinavians.
Susanna Medora Salter, the new may
or of Argonia, Kan., is a spoilswoman of
tho deepest die. She proposes to turn out
every horrid man in the municipal gov
ernment and fill all the offices with women.
A freight-car was left at Chippewa
Ralls, Wis., by a north-bound train. It
was marked “perishable goods.” When
the agent opened the door after the de
parture of the train out walked four
tramps.
Parisians are wearing dress suits made
ta one pieoe. The waistcoat has no back,
the shirt consists of front, the cuffs are
stitched into the coat sleeves, and a single
set of buttons fixes on the whole con
trivance.
Anderson Critghett, the celebrated
■London surgeon, was recently offered a
fee of *3s,ooo— probably the largest medi
cal honorarium on record—to go to India
to treat one of the native princes. After
consideration he declined the offer.
DECORATION DAY
Generally Observed Throughout
the Country.
Imposing Parades In Vnrlr, Washing
ton and Other Cities—Services Held
at the Tombs of Generals
Grant and Logan.
STREWED WITH FLOWERS.
New York, May 31.—Every day toil was
quite generally suspended in the shops and
business houses of this city, and men,
women and children were in holiday attire.
There was clear evidence that the day
which marks the tribute to the dead was
not waning from the public heart as a
sacred day. The centra! event was the pa
rade of the sixty posts of the Grand Army
escorted by eight regiments and two bat
teries of the National Guard. The streets
and avenues adjacent to and along the line
of march were thronged with spectators.
The procession closed with two floral di
visions composed of trucks and wagons
draped in flags and loaded with a wealth of
flowers to be laid by the several Grand
Army posts on the comrades graves. Car
riages containing Governor Hill, General
Sherman, Mayor Hewitt and other officials,
and accompanied by the Governor’s staff,
were escorted down Fifth avenue to the
reviewing stand at Madison Square, where
they took their places and stood while the
procession passed by.
In the square stands the monuments to
General Worth, who was killed in the
Mexican war, and the statues of Farragut
and Seward, each of which was handsome
ly decorated. The large square was
thronged with people.
The monuments to Washington, Lincoln
and Lafayette, standing in Union Square,
were also decorated with a lavish profusion
of flowers, and like Madison Square, every
inch of space was thronged with specta
tors. Having passed the Washington
monument, the National Guard regiments
marched to their armories and the various
G. A. R. posts went by train or ferry to
Greenwood, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Ever
green, Trinity and Wood lawn cemeteries
and to cemeteries in Staten Island, White
Plains, Newark, N. J., and other places in
the vicinity, where they decorated the
graves of their comrades and held memo
rial services.
Early in the morning Mrs. Grant drove
to Riverside Park, and entering the tomb
of General Grant laid her personal token
of flowers upon the steel casket which con
tains the remains of her dead husband. The
front of the tomb was one mass of flowers.
From the cross above the arch pended a
Grand Army badge of purple and blue im
mortelles, which had been sent by Chicago
admirers of the late General. In the center
of the iron door were roses sent by Thomas
Post, Deer Lodge, Montana, while scattered
around were floral offerings from the
Viceroy of China, President Barrios’ widow
and innumerable G. A. R. posts.
About three p. m. the public began to ar
rive. Among the first were a party of fifty
colo red boys, who each place a flower on
the tomb. The exercises began at 3:40
with the rendition of the funeral wail and
triumph of Chopin, after which the ritual
of the Grand Army was observed. John
Khey Thompson, D. D., a native of Ohio,
pastor of the Washington Square M. E.
church, then delivered an eloquent and
patriotic address, taking the ground that
war is a necessary part of God’s provi
dence in the development of the world.
Tho oration was followed by the “March
Funbre” from Beethoven’s Twelfth Sonata,
performed by the band, and the “National
Hymn,” sung by the Apollo club. The
Bugle call “Lights out” then rang out, and
the services ended with a benediction.
Washington, May 31.—Decoration day
observances in Washington were more im
posing than usual. Although the day of
mourning for the dead heroes of the war
recurs annually, yet the story of their self
sacrifice and devotion, as told by eloquent
lips at the national capital, seems ever
fresh. Bright, balmy weather ushered in
the morning and continued throughout the
day, much to the joy of thousands who
every year visit the seyeral cemeteries
around the city on this day and perform a
duty of love, strewing the graves of the
soldiers with choicest flowers. In accord
ance with an order of the President, all
the executive departments were closed to
allow the clerks to participate in the re
ligious services at the cemeteries. This
they very generally did, and from early
morning until far into the day all the roads
leading to the various “cities of the dead”
were crowded with people. The principal
point of attraction was, of course, Arling
ton, the great National Cemetery, lying
across the Potomac river, just opposite this
city. Thither the great body of G.
A. R. men marched at twelve m.,
accompanied by a large number of
the visiting troops and preceded by the
Marine Band. At the cemetery the cere
monies were simple but impressive. After
prayer a patriotic poem was recited and
orations that breathed a spirit of patriotism
and fraternity were delivered by Congress
men Matson, of Indiana, and Anderson, of
Ohio. The vast assembly then spread
flowers upon the thousands of graves
that decked the green sward, regardless
whether the sleeper wore in life the blue o’ 1
the gray. At the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery
similar services to those at Arlington took
place, General Wager Swayne, of New
York, delivered the oration of the day, a
brief eloquent tribute to the dead. Prof E.
C. Townsend recited, with dramatic force,
Will Carleton’s poem entitled, “The Con
verse with the Slain.”
The tomb of General Logan was not for
gotten, and a prayer by Dr. Newman and
an oration by Thomas H. McKee, in the
presence of a great throng of G. A. R and
Loyal Legion men and visitors, constituted
the services at the grave of the great
soldier. Mrs. Logan was present.
Clf-veland, 0., May 31.—This city paid
a glowing tribute to the*iemory of the na
tion’s departed defenders. The graves of
the veterans in the different cemeteries
were profusely decorated. One of the
most imposing parades every witnessed in
this city also took place in the afternoon.
The tomb of the martyred President Gar
field and the monument to Commodore
Perry were remembered in a patriotic man
ner, each being handsomely decorated with
flowers.
Buffalo, May 81.—Decoration day was
generally observed in this city. The Na
tional Guard and G. A. R. posts had their
customary parade in the afternoon, about
1.500 men being in line. The floral decora
tion* were lavish and very beautiful.
TRENTON, 1)A1)E COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1887.
TRULY PITIFUL.
A Nonogcnarlan Couple Commit Suicide
Because They Could Not Hear to he Sep
arated.
Jersey City, May 31.—Professor Charle*
Sicdhorf and wife, Matilda, aged ninety
one and ninety-two, tired of their long,
futile struggle with destitution, commit
ted suicide this afternoon at Union Hill.
Sicdhorf, It is said, was a Professor of
chemistry at Heidelberg University, Ger
many, thirty-five years ago. He supported
himself by writing for newspapers, mak
ing translations and occasionally lec
turing upon chemistry and elec
tricity. These means failed. They lived
in filth and squalor. To-day the Poormas
ter called to take him to Snake Hill Hos
pital, where light employment was pro
vided for him. He begged for an hour’s
time. At its expiration officers found him
and his wife lying dead on the floor and a
letter saying that he had taken that dead
liest of poisons, cyanide of potassium. He
gave as a reason for the act that he could
not take his wife with him to the hospital,
and could not live without her. He also
spoke of having been wronged by some
one. It was a most pitiable affair.
STILL AT LARGE.
Murderer McCabe's Escape Highly Suc
cessful—lndignant People.
Middletown, N. Y., May 31.—1 t is now
twelve days since James P. McCabe, the
condemned murderer of Michael Reilly,
who was to have been hanged on the 26th
inst., escaped from the jail in which he
was confined at Honesdale, Pa., and all
efforts for the capture of the fugitive,
though stimulated by the reward of *1,003
offered by Sheriff Medland, have proved
fruitless. It is pretty well es
tablished that a fund was raised
by the murderer’s friends to as
sist in his escape, and that some of these
friends were on hand when he made his
way out of the jail, to spirit him away to
his hiding-place. The public feeling of in
dignation over the murderer’s escape
found expression Sunday from the Hones
dale pulpits, when all the clergymen
dwelled upon the deplorable failure of
justice that had occurred in their midst.
The conduct of Sheriff Medland and the
two deputies, who had the culprit in
special charge on the night of his flight,
was vigorously and pointedly condemned
as savoring of gross neglect of duty, if
not of actual complicity in the murderer’s
escape.
Remarkable Escape From Death.
Richmond, Va., May 31.—Richard Will
iams, living in Manchester, took his wife
to the station of the Coast Line yesterday
to get a train for Petersburg. The train,
he learned, would not stop for him there,
and leaving his wife he hurried over the
bridge to board the train there and stop it
for his wife in Manchester. He was too
late and met the train on the bridge. Ho
tried to jump on the platform, but was
knocked fifty feet down into the water.
His feet touched bottom first, and he is
apparently not injured, unless internally.
Mixed Marriages.
Toronto, May 31.—Archbishop Lynch
has issued the following order to all the
priests in his diocese in Ontario: “You
will please announce Jo your people that
we have determined not to grant dis
pensations for mixed marriages when tho
woman is a non-Catholic. Experience of
many years has proved that a Protestant
mother can not raise her children Cath
olics, and she is thus unable to comply
with the essential condition on which such
a dispensation is granted. They may ap
ply to Rome direct if they will.”
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Peculiar Explosion.
Hillsboro, 0., May 31.— A peculiar ex
plosion occurred near here, some days
ago, by which a column of earth was
thrown to the height of 150 feet, and leav
ing a hole in the ground about seven feet
in diameter, tapering to the bottom, where
was a hole about eight inches in diameter,
and of considerable depth. It is supposed
to have been the explosion of a gas reser
voir, this section of country affording in
dications of petroleum.
Snow Still Melting in Montana.
Butte, Mont., May 31.—The cave in in
the Mullen tunnel on the Northern Pacific
railroad, occurring last Saturday, is more
serious than at first supposed, and will
stop the transfer of heavy freight for some
time. Melting snow caused a cave of one
hundred feet in length and about seventy
five feet high. Experienced miners are
now being sent from here to endeavor to
stop a further cave in.
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A Woman’s Fearful Leap.
Joliet, 111., May 31.-Sarah Hutchinson,of
Dayton, 0., while visiting here, jumped
from a fourth-story window of the
Hotel Royal for the purpose of joining her
mother in Heaven. The ground was soft
and the journey is delayed.
Embezzled $19,000.
Westbury, L. 1., May 31. —Justice of the
Peace James R. Hunting, of North Hemp
stead, was arrested here to-day on an in
dictment for misapplying trust funds
amounting to *19,000 belonging to Fred R.
Wieletts.
Distillery Seized.
Frankfort, Ky., May 31.—The E. H.
Taylor, jun., Company's distillery and
warehouses were taken in charge by the
Government this morning for alleged
“equalizing” whisky in barrels.
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Boulanger’s Friends.
Paris, May 31.—Fifty thousand people
assembled in the neighborhood of the
Paris Grand Opera-house, where a mili
tary fete was being held, to-night, crying
“Vive Boulanger!” The crowd became so
turbulent that troops were called out to
disperse it. All was quiet at a late hour.
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Two at One Shot.
Detroit, Mich., May 31.—Last evening
William B. Dolan interfered with Police
man John Klebba, who was trying to quell
a disturbance, and was shot and instantly
killed. Mrs. Connor, grandmother of the
deceased, died last night from the effect of
the shock.
DEADLY JOKE.
A Jester Commits Suicide Jus*
For Fun.
Star Engagement Played by n Nashville
Drug Clerk.
Nashville, Tenn., May 30.—A most re
markable suicide occurred hero to-day
which many people have already called
by another name than suicide, though
there was no intention of crime on either
side. John V. Bernal was a well
known painter and very popular man,
always greeting you with a joke, and
some pleasant remark. This afternoon
he walked into the drug-store of
Burge & Bascoe, where George Donaldson
was a clerk in the store, and a great
friend of his. Donaldson was alone and
busy at the prescription-stand. The pro
scription called for aconite. Bernal step
ped up and said: “George, I want some
poison; can you let me have it!” Don
aldson, thinking the old man was in
one of his pleasant moods, pointed to
the aconite bottle, saying: “Here’s
something in this bottle that will
kill you mighty dead if you drink
enough of it.” Bernal asked: “About
how much would I have to take?” to which
Donaldson answered: “Only an ordinary
drink.” The old man walked back as if
looking for something, and, suddenly
turning, asked Donaldson: “Where i 3
something I can drink out of 1” Donald
son, thinking him still joking, filled an
ounce graduate with the aconite, and set it
on the counter, saying: “Here it is, but if
you drink it you are a dead man.” Bernal
picked it up and drank it, when the situa
tion dawned upon Donaldson. “Did you
drink that?” he exclaimed. Bernal replied
that he did. “Swear to me that you drank
it, for if you did you have swallowed a
deadly poison.” Bernal swore he drank it.
Dondaldson rushed out of the house for
Dr. Crockett. Drs. Simon Vertrees, Hou
den, T. G. Shannon and Sanders were
summoned, emetics given, the stomach
pump applied, and every effort made iu
vain to save him. He died in about two
hours, his wife and children about him in
his last moments. Before dying he said
he had no thought or intention of commit
ihg suicide. He was only joking and
thought Donaldson also joking about the
medicine being a poison. The coroner’s
jury rendered a verdict in accordance
with the facts and exonerating Donaldson.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
The Eighth Day anil Last of the Encamp
ment.
Washington, May 30. —The National
Drill is over and Lieutenant-General Sher
idan awarded the prizes to-day. Thirty
companies of infantry had drilled in com
petition and were rated from one to thirty
in the list furnished General Sheridan by
the Board of Judges. Tho Lomax Rifles, of
Mobile, were first; Company Dof the First
Minnesota came secoiMt. the Belkmip Ri
fles, of San Antonu^^mrd:
Rifles, of
Antonio Rifles, fifth; the Indianapolis
Light Infantry, sixth; the Toledo Cadets,
seventh; Company B, of the Washington
Light Infantry, eighth, and the Vicksburg
SouthUms, one of the organizations which
rebeffed against assimilation with col
ored companies, was rated ninth
in excellence. The Washington Ca
dets, colored men who were
the social of contention, rank twenty
fifth m the result. The Muscatine Rifles,
who mipressed themselves as one of the
cracraeompanies of the drill, were elev
enth : whe Fort Wayne Rifles the sixteenth
and the Wooster City Guards, of the
Eighth Ohio, seventeenth. Company B,
of the Second Connecticut, drew r the booby
prize, being the thirteenth in the list.
There were five prizes in this competition,
ranging from *5,000 to *SOO. The First
Virginia had no competition in the regi
mental drill, and of course took the first
prize. In the battalion competition the
Washington Light Infantry was first, the
Louisville Legion second and the
Fifth Rhode Island third. In the
light artillery competition the first
prize went to the Indianapolis Light Artil
lery, this being the twelfth time that or
ganization has taken the first prize in mil
itary contests. In the machine-guns the
Cincinnati Battery took first and the Lou
isville Battery second. Chicago won iD
the zouave competition, with Meinphi"
second.
OVER THE BORDER.
The Discovery of a Wonderful Cave in
Mexico.
City of Mexico, May 30.—A beautiful
grotto, 300 yards deep by 130 yards wide,
has been discovered near Zapotitlan, Oaxa
ca. The walls are of brilliant quartz and
the stalactites are very large and beauti
ful, most of them of the form of giant pil
lars supporting the roof ninety feet above
the floor. The grotto was discovered by a
couple of hunters, who found several
skulls, evidences of human sacrifices, and
obsidian figures within, showing that the
cave was known to the Aztecs. The cave
has in its center two pools of beautiful,
clear, cold water, which never vary in
height and have no visible supply or dis
charge places.
Drowned in Put-in-Bay.
Sandusky, 0., May 30.—Three brothers
named Johnston, Put-in-Bay fishermen,
while being towed by a steamer, had their
boat capsized and w T ere all drowned.
Responsible for Five Deaths.
Philadf-lphia, May 30. —Thomas O’Con
nor, who quarreled with some companions
while out boating on the Delaware, and in
attempting to strike one of them upset the
boat and caused the death of three men
and two girls, has been held by the cor
oner to answer to the grand jury.
Hanlan Loses the Championship.
Chicago, May 30.—The sculling race on
Lake Calumet between Gaudaur and Han
lan was won by the former, who took the
championship of America and *8,300. The
distance was three miles. Time. 12 :34.
MEXICO SHAKEN.
A Severe Shock of Earthquake Causes an
Early Morning Scare at the Capital.
City of Mexico, May 29. —At ten min
utes to three o’clock this morniug there
was felt here a violent shaking of tho
earth, or sort of lifting motion, which
lasted eleven seconds. Next there came,
prefaced by a low roar and accompanied
by a stiff breeze, a violent oscillation of
the earth from east to west, which awoke
nearly every one, lasting, as it did, thir
ty-nine seconds. Houses swayed as if
they were ships at sea, and persons aris
ing from their beds were in many cases
thrown with force to the floor. Bells were
rung in the hotels, and everywhere doors
were forced open. Then came still another
oscillation of much violence, proceed
ing from north to south. During
this shock crockery was thrown down
and pictures demolish d in several
houses. Thousands of persons dressed
themselves, and did not go to bed again.
Reports received to-day by Governor Ceb
allos, of the Federal District, do not show
any fatalities as the result of the earth
quake, and the denizens of the suburban
tow T ns report about the same sensations
as were felt by the inhabitants of
the metropolis. At the School of
Mines Secretary Ugalde reports that
the seismic instruments showed
that a heavy shock had taken place.
These instruments are self-registering,
and prove that the shock of this morning
was a severe one. At the office of Gov
ernor Ceballos it is reported that the
shock was more severe than that of 1882.
The Government is taking measures to as
certain just how widespread the earth
quake was.
THE SPANISH PRETENDER.
Excitement in Mexico Over tlie Iteport
That Don Carlos Has lleen Invited There
to Kick Up a Revolution.
City of Mexico, May 29.—The report
published in American papers of a plot of
the Church party leaders to bring Don
Carlos here to head a movement against
the Government has attracted much at
tention among politicians here, al
though little has been heard of the
matter. In Government circles
it is declared that the country has never
been more peaceful than to-day. Active
railway construction is going on on two
important railways, and work is soon
to begin on the uncompleted section
of the trunk line of the National
railway. The only disturbance known
is among the wild Indians in Yucatan; but
there is always more or less trouble with
them. Heavy investments of English
capital are being made in mines, and an
extension of banking facilities to interior
towns is about to he made. A leading
statesman said to-day that never before
was Mexico so averse to revolutions or
plottings as at this time, and that the
people most of all desired peace.
Ben Perley Poore Dead.
Washington, May 29. —The remains of
Major Ben Perley Poore, who died after
midnight last night, were taken away to
day. The funeral will take place at his
ancestral home, Indian Hill, near New
buryport, Mass. Ho was born in 18S0,
learned the printer’s trade, and when
twenty-one years old assumed the editor
ship of a paper at Athens, Ga. He was
afterward Secretary to the Minister to
Germany, and on his return to this coun
try located iu Washington as the
correspondent of the Boston AVax.
When the war broke out he enlisted in the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company,
of Boston, and was commissioned Major.
His duty was the drilling of raw recruits
in this city. In 1862 Senator Anthony ap
pointed him clerk of the committee on
printing, a position which he held to his
death. He was the compiler of the Con
gressional Directory. He was a thirty
third degree Mason, and only two men in
the United States outranked him in that
order.
Robbed of $20,000.
Evansville, Ind., May 29.—At Owens
boro, Ky., the firm of McJohnston <fc Co.
sent a young man to the post-office for
their mail, a few days ago. He forgot the
key in the mail box and reported it lost.
A few days later the firm received a letter
from a Livermore merchant asking a re
ceipt for a check for *2,000 which they had
sent. Immediately following came more
inquiries for receipts, and an investiga
tion developed thfl fact that the firm had
been robbed of sums aggre
gating *2 hocks, cash, drafts, etc.
An Eight-Legged Curiosity.
Pomeroy, 0., May 29.—A pig owned by
J. W. Singers, who lives a short distance
from here, has a natural head, neck and
shoulders, with two natural bodies from
the shoulders back, with two legs to each
bind part, making four hind legs, with
two fore legs that come out on the top of
the shoulders, makiug in all eight legs. It
has two spinal columns and double sets cf
ribs. The pig is several weeks old and
doing well.
Postal Supply Contracts.
Washington, May 29.—The Post-office
Department has awarded to the American
Bank Note Company, of New York, the
contract for supplying postal notes for the
next four years, and to the Bureau of En
graving and Printing the contract for
supplying money order drafts during the
same period. There were no other bid
ders.
Rioting Over the Dead.
Paris, May 29.—A scuffle between the
police and a number of Communists took
place at Pere La Chaise Cemetery to-day.
The disturbers were easily routed. Five
arrests were made. The affair grew out
of seditious utterances by the Commun
ists, who were decorating the graves of
their comrades who were executed for
complicity in the atrocities of May, 1871.
Three Persons Drowned.
Utica, N. Y.. May 29.—Clarence House,
Herbert Jones and Estella Cool, were
drowned in the Mohawk near here to
day, by the capsizing of their pleasure
Goat.
VO], IV.-NO. 15.
DELICATE SURGERY.
A Burglar Passes Through a Severe
Experience.
A Large Piece of filass Removed From Hl*
Windpipe.
Coshocton, 0., May 27.—Jacob Miller,
who is confined in the county jail here for
burglarizing a store at Evausburga few
nights ago, passed through a severe exper
ience during the past few days. Last Sun
day, while stretched on a couch in his cell,
a fragment of a broken bottle, as large as a
stiver half-dollar, which he was holding iu
his teeth, slipped down and lodged in his
gullot. The piece of glass was sharp
pointed, and Miller’s sufferings were
indescribable. Twice he was plac
ed under the influence of a
powerful anaesthetic while attempts were
being made to dislodge the obstruction.
At last his physicians determined to un
dertake the difficult and hazardous opora
ation known as cesophagotomy. Miller
was made fully acquainted with the dan
gers of the operation, and the possibilities
of his dying during its progress. lie was,
however, anxious to assume the risk,
knowing full well that by the operation
he had a chance for life, while it was
sure death if the obstruction was
not removed. Yesterday afternoon
the physicians succeeded in removing the
cause of Miller’s sufferings, by cutting a
gash four inches long in the side of the
neck, and opening the oesophagus, whero
the piece of glass was found firmly im
bedded among the membranes of that very
important tube in man’s anatomy. This
morning Miller is in good spirits, and, if
inflammation can bo repressed, his physi
cians give it as their opinion that he will
fully recover from the terrible ordeal.
Elections in Virginia.
Norfolk, Ya., May 27.—The returns from
Norfolk County did not come in until 4
o’clock this morning, owing to a vast deal
of scratching. The Republican straight
ticket is elected by a large majority over
the Citizens’ or Fusion ticket. Asbury
(colored) is elected Commonwealth’s At
torney, which is said to be the first time in
the history of the State where a colored
man has been elected to this position.
Portsmouth city elected the Democratic
ticket by a large majority over the Labor
ticket.
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Brutal Treatment of Paupers.
Lansing, Micii., May 27.—Bishop Gilles
pie. of the State Board of Correction and
Charities, has unearthed what promises
to be a scandalous exposure of brutality
practiced on poor house inmates. At a
special meeting of Ihe board the bishop
made a report of inspection, May 9, of the
Berrien County poor house at Berrien
Center. He says pauper inmates are pun
ished by whipping. Idiots and insane pa
tients are confined in the same apartments
with other inmates, and there is a general
condition of filth and foulness.
Innocent Woman in Prison Sixteen Years.
Madison, Wis., May 27. —Governor Rusk
has pardoned Mrs. Amelia Zimmerman,
sentenced to prison for life in 1871 for the
murder of her husband. She was convict
ed upon circumstantial evidence and Gov
ernor Rusk satisfied himself she is inno
cent. Her friends have been unceasing in
their efforts to secure her release. She is
now sixty-eight years old.
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Jail Birds Escape.
Nicholasville, Ky., May 27. Dan
Thomas and Will Wilson, two negroes,
escaped from the jailer this morning. Dan
Thomas had been sent to jail for three
years for striking Policeman Ford in 1835,
and his time was nearly out. Wilson was
in for one year for shooting Bill Buford.
They went in the direction of Lexington.
Jailer Welch offers fifty dollars’ reward
for them.
Poland Closed lo Foreign Jews.
Berlin, May 27.—Private advices from
Warsaw state that the Russian Govern
ment is extending to Poland the provisions
of the law forbidding foreign Jews to con
duct business. A number of German Jew
ish merchants, although provided with
the necessary guild certificates, have been
notified that they will not be allowed to
continue trading.
Imported Fresh Fish.
Washington, May 27. —Assistant Secre
tary Maynard has informed the collector
of customs at New York that fresh fish,
when imported for immediate consump
tion are exempt from duty, no matter
by whom caught or by whom imported;
but that if they are not imported for im
mediate consumption, they are subject to
duty.
Babe Burned to Death.
Lawrence, Kan., May 27.—About five
o’clock yesterday afternoon the children
of August Martin set lire to the house,
and the baby, one year old, was burned
to death. The father brough the child
from the burning house alive, but it was
so badly burned that it died in a few min
utes.
To Take Part in the Marietta Celebration.
Lansino, Mich.. May 27.—Roth house- of
the Legislature have adopted a resolution
to have the State participate in the cele
bration of the first settlement in the old
Northwest Territory, to be held at Mari
etta, 0., in April, 1888.
Hail-Stones as Large as Walnuts
Siocx City, la., May 27.—A heavy rain,
followed by the most severe hail storm
known for years, passed over this place
last evening. The hail-stones ranged up to
the size of a walnut, and a great deal of
glass was broken. The extent of the storm
is not known, but in its course growing
crops were much beaten and damaged.
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Wealthy Farmer Stabs Another.
Jacksonville, 111., May 27.— 1 n a dis
pute regarding a horse trade last night,
John Cleary was stabbed by Win. D : -r.
Both are prominent farmers of the coun
ty, amt wwalUiy men. The wound is veif
seriouc