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HURLED INTO ETERNITY.
4 FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD WRECK
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
A Train Plunge. Down an Embankment
«OO Feet High.
A Greenfield (Mass.) dispatch of the 7th
gives the following particulars of the fright
ful railroad disaster which occurred that
night, midway between Bardwell’s ferry and
West Deerfield station, the east bound passen
ger train from North Adams, due at Green
field at 0:05 P. M. going over an embankment
200 feet in height:
The train was the Eastern express, and con*
Misted of a baggage car, a smoker, a sleeping
car, a mail car, and two ordinary passenger
cars. The train was in charge of Con
ductor Foster, with Herbert Littlejohn as
engineer. The point where the accident oc
curred is the most dangerous on the road.
The track runs on the edge of an embankment
200 feet above Deerfield river. The bank is
steep and is covered with huge boulders and
tnasMss of shale roek with which the road-bed
had been filled. When t|ie train arrrlved at
this point the track began to settle under
it for a distance covering its entire length.
The coaches broke from their trucks and w ent
rolling over and over d own the precipice.
The engine broke from the tender, tearing up
the track for twenty feet. Below rolled the
Deerfield river, on the very edge of which
the cans were thrown. As soon as they struck
they caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks
of the wounded and dying filled the air, and
for a time the scene was terrible. The steep- |
ing car, occupied by several pasneugersl was I
an entire wreck. One little girl was jtmtesdl |
up dead.
As soon as the news reached GreeuflWd A j
special train was made up and sent txOiM
scene of the disaster, having on board sever- j
ai physicians and section men and a few !
citlsens. On arriving at the scene
of the wiasek a horrible sight was
witnessed. The darkness of night
had settled over the spot. Far down on the
river bank could be seen the smouldering
<mben of the train. It was impossible to tell
who was hurt and who wqs killed. Htout
hearted trackmen were lowered cautiously
down the treacherous height, and the work of
rescue began.
Merritt Hedy, superintendent of the No
tional Express company, of Boston, was
found in the wreck and taken to the relief
car. He had a wuuiul four inches long and
half an inch wide over his left temple. His
< loft thigh was broken, and also his left leg at
the knee, beside which he sustained fatal
internal injuries.
The Fitchburg coach wan the only one that
•scaped the conflagration. Deputy Kheriff
i Bryant, of Greenfield, who was in this car,
®Teemed the bodies of two children from the
flames, but one was dead and the other dy
ing. D. C. Wells, of Andover. had hisshoul
der hurt and his head cut. The ear in which
he was riding was broken in two, and stood
on end within a few feet of the river bank.
Nicholas Dorgan, of Greenfield, had his left
arm and ankle broken, and was seriously in
jured internally. A little girl who was a
passenger on the train died in his arms fi-om
injuries received. J. E. Priest, of Littleton.
N. IL, had his face ami head cut Engineer
Herbert Littlejohn, of North Adams, was
badly scalded, it was believed, fatally. A.
K. Warner, chairman of the Greenfield board
of selectmen, was ba lly hurt
At midnight four more bodies were taken
from the wreck, including that of Brakeman
Bpencor. This made six persons found dead
up to that titneiMveral were fatally injured,
and many others more or less seriously hurt.
Sarah Is Oat There.
A Detroiter who was returning from
Dakota the other day met an old chan on
the train in Illinois who questioned him
as to where he had been and inquired:
■‘’Maybe you run across my daughter
out therct Her name is Watson."
“I don’t think I did,” was the reply.
‘‘But she's in Dakota. She went out
there m sopn m she was married.'’
“I didn't see her.”
*’Didn t you happen to ride by any i
house where a woman waa whistling f' *
“No."
“Sarah whistles, but you may have !
minted her. Didn’t see a man and a ,
Woman having a fight anywhere ?”
“No.” : |
“Sarah hollers when she stubs her toe.
and she can he heard two miles and a
half if the wind is right. Meet any j
woman on the higlrway who was smok
ing a clay pipeand sloshing right through
the mud puddleat *»
“No.”
“That’s Sarah. yon know ’ Didn't stop |
in any neighborhood where the school
teacher had been licked and the sewing
•odrty all busted to gj*h, ch?"
•No”
“That's’ Surah ana n I guess you didn't |
travel around mm n"
• Hut IMkoU is a great Territo y. you ‘
know I”
“Yea, I suppose, but if you. hud.b.wn
at one eud while Sarah wm holering her :
husbiud to dinner at the other you must i
have lift'd her. Maybe you area little
dteafZ—lfct Frat I
4
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINtS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The recent unusulHy severe and prolonged
rain storm flooded about twenty colieries in
the Schuylkill (Penn.) anthracite coal basin,
and compelled a cessation of work, nearly
6.000 iuen and boys being temporarily thrown
out of employment.
Ist an interview at Scranton, Penn., Gener
al Master Workman Powderly says that in
view of the railroad officials’ refusal to sub
mit the difficulties in the Southwest to arbi
tration, the Knights of Labor were justified
in continuing the strike. He was confident
that this would be the last great railroad
strike in this country, and thought it would
teach both sides a- useful lesson.
A fire in the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts at Philadelphia destroyed the
northern picture gallery and some of the fin
est paintings and statuary in the collection.
William H. Miller, another of the New
York ex-aldermen charged with bribery,
has been arrested. He was found near Pa
latka, Fla. by two New York detectives,
and brought to the metropolis.
Ten bodies had been: recovered from the
railroad wreck, near Deerfield, Moss.. on the
Bth, and geve al persons were then still miss
ing. About thirty persons were ihjured.
The Rhode Island election has resulted in
the si ccess of Governor Wetmore and all the
rest of the Republican ticket except Attor
ney-General Colt. The latter was defeated
by Edwin Metcalf. candidate of the Demo
crats and Prohibitionists. The constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors was carried.
SOUTH AND WEST.
While plowing in his field Joe Coughmen,
a Newberry (S. C.) farmer, unearthed a pot
of ancient gold coin worth SI2,(MM). This
lucky find lias set half the county to plowing
for treasure pots.
The striking Knights of Labor in tbe
Southwest issued a bitter manifesto against
Jay Gould on the 6th. It was addressed to
the “Workingmen of the World,” and de
clared that Gould must be overthrown.
Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brother
hood of Railway Engineers, has been in St.
Louis in consultation with the Knights. Vice
President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific,
claimed to be running trains with considera
ble regularity. The company has brought
1,200 suits against persons alleged to have in
jured and destroyed its property. Several
towns notified the company that they would
pay all damages inflicted within their limits.
Cincinnati’s municipal election, just
held, has resulted in the success of the entire
Republican ticket by majorities ranging
from 4,000 to 7,000.
A body of 2,000 striking railroad employes
entered the yards of the various companies
at East St. Louis on the 7th and compelled
the men at work to step and join them. The
sheriff’s deputies where hustled aside, but
finally the strikers were halted by a number
of deputies with leveled Winchester rifles.
Armed men arrived by every train to protect
the railroad companies, and were all sworn
in as deputies.
Crazed with drink, William Ellis, of St
Francis, Ark., shot his wife and two-year-old
child to death, his arrest following the mad
act.
Mrs. Lars Gindhal, residing near
Eau Claire, Wis., has just given birth to four
male babies, weighing altogether twenty
pounds, and all alive and healthy.
By the capsizing of tbe steamer Mountain
Bay at Owensboro, Ky., three men were
drowned.
A pitched battle between memberao? two
political factions at Laredo, Texas, resulted
in the death of five men and the woundtea of
several otlu-t - Nenwiy 2,'MW Ken, on
I
j randutiom the invitation of the
I Labor toJMypott. and denouncing
< as •‘detrimental to the financial,
: moral, aial jpoliti*■».! fntcrests of all
WASHINGTON.
Thsry ar* seven Knights of Laboi i i P;m
giess.
In the lowa contostel election case of
Campbell vs. Weaver, the House election
committee has decided by a party vote in
favor of Weaver, the sitting member.
The Senate has confirmed Mr. Trenholm’s
nomination to be comptroller of the currency.
The Mexican pension bill passed by the
House directs the secretary of the interior
to place the names of nil the surviving offi
cers, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and
served in the war with Mexico for any period
during the years 1845, Wi, 1847 and 1848.
and were honorably discharged, and their
surviving widows, on the pension roll at the
rate of $8 per month from and after the pas
sage of this act during their liven. Persons
under political disabilities are not included.
Additional nominations by the President:
Job H. Lippincott, to be attorney of the
united States for tbe district of New Jersey;
Caleb W. West, of Kentucky, to begovernir
of Utah Territory. Conmb—Louis D. Bev
land. of Pennsylvania, at Kingston, Jamai
1* J- Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salva
dor; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, at Tam
pico; Moses H. Sawyer, of Connecti
cut, nt Trinidacf. Postmasters— Andrew
Shanahan, at Rtx-kland, Massachusrtts;
w illiam Buttriek, at Conct'nlia, Maas ;Theo
dore H. Fenn, at Ma**,; Jeremiah Mur
phy, at Beverly. Mass.; Ixsmuel A. Keith, at
Bridgewater. Mass.; Rollin C Want, at
Northfield. Mass.; Hartfor I D. Nelson, at
Oneonta. X. Y.; Benjamin F. Vail, at War
’ Fnslcrick P. Newkirk, atOx-
Wni - Moses, at Auburn, N
>.; Aluv M. Crabtree, nt Bt lmont. N. V •
Thornas Hill, at Haddonfield, N. J.; Charles
F. Young, at Columbia, Penn.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of John 1). Oberly, of Illinois, and Charles
Lyman, of Connecticut, to l»e civil service >
wmmissicneix ami S. M. Stockslager, of In- ,
diaiia, to be assist ant eonunisßioner of the
general tend office.
A mvmbeh of nominations for internal
revenue eo!le.*tor.s having Lmsmi retwrted
favorably by the Senate tlnanre committee
upon receiving notice from Secretarv Man
ning that no charges against the officials
whose places were filled bad been tiled, thev
were cod firmed in executive session. This, it !
is stated, is hereafter to lie the policy of the :
i Senate majority.
I Thk President has nominated Obadiah
; Cutler to be wUactrnr of customs for the dut-
I triet of Niagara, New York: Edward War
field, to be surveyor of customs for the port ;
■ of Bkdtinmre. Md.; Thomas G. Hayes, to be
United States attorney for tbe aistrict of
i Maryland; Gctwge H. Cai'-u??, to be Unit*-* i
States marshal for the ilissrict of
NarylMMl; Cyrus P. Shepa.nl. to
be register of the land office at
Worthington. Minn.; Edmund James, to be i
receiver of public moneys at Careou City. <
Nev.; Samuel 1. Lorah, to be receiver of pub- >
Me moneys at Central Citv, tX>l.; John A. I
McClernaml, of lUinots, to be a member of '
the board of registration and election in the
Territory of Utah.
Secret AH v has revoked I-and
Conuu ssaoner Sparks’ orxier of last Apr.l
suspending final act on on land entriei over
a large section of Nebraska, nearly ail of ’
Colorado, all of Dakota. Idaho, Utah. It adj- I
; *e»ntory, New Mexico, Montana, j
M> yotning. Nwmla ami Northern Minnesota.
Des det isfim to revoke tbe order waa made at
a cabmet meeting.
FOREIGN.
Wnxiatt K Fioovtek, a member of the l
' British parliament and formerly chief -ecre
tarv for Isviand. is drad in hts sixty ninte
jar.
The Canadian government is fitting out
cruisers for the protection of the fisheries.
The movement is directed mainly against
American fishermen.
Heavy snowstorms in Southern Michigan
and Northern Ohio have greatly impeded
travel and traffic.
The Italian ministry, formed in June,
>BBS, have resigned.
Mahometan fanatics attacked and de
stroyed a mission house and other buildings j
in the Phillippine islands. A force was sent
to chastise the fanatics, twelve of whom were
killed and several wounded. The Spanish
captain in charge of the force and four of
his men were wounded, and one of the men
was killed. Three days after the first out
rage the same band burned the village of
Amadeo and the naval coal depot. The
losses are heavy.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
MANY HOUSES IN LACROSSE, WIS.,
SUCCUMB TO THE FLAMES.
One Thousand Men Out of Work and 10$
People Rendered Homeless.
One of the most disastrous conflagrations
that ever visited Wisconsin broke out the
other morning in John Paul’s mill at La
crosse and swept southward, destroying the
mill and several million feet of lumber be
longing to Mr. Paul. Thence it swept to the
yards and mill of C. L. Colman, destroying
everything to the river and for
two blocks to the southward. The
flames leaped rapidly from one pile to
another despite the exertions of the entire
fire department. All the steamers were
brought into service and .all the power that
could be obtained from the mill pumps, the
city water works and tbe local hydrants.
The scene about the conflagration became
thrilling. Thousands of people thronged
tho streets, the sidewalks and the
housetops to witness the confla
gration. The fire originated from
a sjiark from the mill sta-ks or from
the furnaces. In fifteen minutes the mill was
doomed, and in thirty minutes it fell in ruins
with all its splendid machinery. There was
no staying the progress of the flames, which
jumped to the great pile of lumber and
m an hour made a seething sea of
flame- against the beat of which no
fireman could stand. ; The wind was blowing (
fresh from toe north and the flames moved
steadily southwest. All efforts to stop them at
Colman's mill proved futile. The immense
structure was soon a mass of fire. The plan
ing mill adjoining was also caught. The
workmen and the fire department then turned
their attention toward street, where a
force of men were set to work to tear down
the lumber piles, that the flames might be
stopped there. ■ All hope of saving the im
mediate property was abandonexl. ’ A train
of eight cars belonging to the Milwaukee and
Paul road was consumed.
At 2 o’clock it was evident that U>e larve
factory of Segelke, Kohlurs & Co. wav
doomed. Tbe blaze broke out in the store
house of the sash factory in Second street,
causing a flame of fire one Nock in length.
The four-story house and sheds burned with
lightning rapidity, and people east of Second
street began moving out.
The fire was completely under control
fore 3 o’clock. The departments from Wi
nona, Minn,, and Sparta, rendered excellent
aid. A careful estimate of tho loss places it
at $l,000.(MM). of which, as individual heavy
losers, C. L. Colman is greatest, his loss
being $400,(JOO, with no insurance. John
Paul’s loss, mill and 5.000,000 feet of lumber
at $150,000, insured for SOO,OOO.
I fen blocks, which included
j two largest Jumbßr-yartLi ju Wk< ou-
WSICH «D MIUTIC.
Mr. Boucic.avlt’s new play, “The
is a great success.
Verdi is reported to be engaged in the
composition of a new opera.
Camillo Urso, the distinguished violin-
1 ist. has been concerting in the South.
Emma Nevada, the singer, has become the
j guest of Mrs. Senator Jones, in Washington.
Miss Anna Dickinson is writing ahistori
| cal play to show up man's inhumanity to
! women.
i Princess Christian re -ently played the
i piano at a “free people's concert” at Wind
i sor, England.
; P. 8. Gilmore will lead the l>and at Man
! hattan Beach, Coney Island, this summer, as
he has done for years past.
The roof of the theatre at Huromal. Japan,
gave way not long ago, and fell upon tbe !
spectators, 150 of whom were killed or seri
ously injured.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is turning his at
tention from light opera and is again es-
I saying more serious works. He is now en
gaged in composing a cantata.
A musical museum has been organized at
Milan, and is to have an exhibition of antique i
and rare musical instruments, accompanied
by a series of so called historical concerts.
Adelina Patti is said to know perfectly I
I forty-seven complete operas, having actually j
‘ appeared in public in forty-two, several
of which she has sung in French as well as
’ Italian.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett adds to his
repertory next season a five-act tragedy en- I
titled “Harold, the Last of the Saxons,”
adapted from the German of Herr Ernst von ■
W ilderbrnch.
Ma. B. B Valentine, who originated I
j Puck’s “Fitxnoodle” papers, in association 1
j with Mr. John G. Wilson, the author of \
! “Nordeck," is preparing a comedy in which
| Fitxnoodle is to be the central figure.
Miss May I* Tifft. the daughter of Hen
j ry R. Tifft of New York, who recently made •
i her debut in the opera of “Ijacia” at her
I Majesty’s in Ixmdon, is spoken of by a Lon
don paper as the most successful debutante of
tbe season.
A writer in the Rt Paul Pioneer-Press j
says that Salviui, tbe Italian tragedian, can
never remember bis lines, and is compelled to
constantly have a prompter in attendance.
He claims that he cannot do a part, justice
when lie devotes his attention to remember
ing tbe words,
BASE BALL KOTOS.
i
The American association used up 1,342
base bails daring last season.
The Metropolitans will bare tbe finest
grounds in the world on Staten Island.
The Detroit league club have the strong
( est rollwfion of batters that was exw known. »
| The new rule giving credit in tbe summary
t for bases stolen seems to have met with gen
t oral approval
It Is estimated both associations will
squander the mug sum of sso,UUotor tbe
; players’ railroad fare this season.
Baser all is quite as popular in Canada as
| here, and has outstripped' in general favor
j tbe national and beautiful game of lacrosse.
| Bt. Louis has no less than seventy-six uni-
formed amateur clubs Philadelphia tops
I them with a total of 312 fully equipped or
j ganiratkuis.
Dann, tbe new eat-her of the Yale c liege
» team, i; also a fin* pitcher, but sospeedvin
I his delivery that no one could be found in the
college who could bold him.
Each league club saves nearly SSOO a year
by the rule requiring players to submit tn a
reductio® from sol&rv of fits v eents per day
i while away abroad during th? soasgu.
THE EAST ST. LOUIS WAR.
MORE BLOODSHED THE BESUL'I
OF THE RAILROAD STRIFES.
A Collision Between Officers mid Strikers
i In Which the Former Fire a Volley.
The bloody collision between strikers and
deputies at Fort; Worth, Texas, has been fol
lowed by a still more terrible and deplorable
episode in East St. Louis, 111., on the Missis
sippi river, and just opposite St. Louis. The
trouble, as described by dispatches, came
about as follows:
The various railroads ssemed to ba moving
an unusually large quantity of freight, par
ticularly the Loiiiiville & Nashville. When
ths strike was ordered twenty-seven of
this company’s employes " left its
service. Their places were quiekly
filled, and thirty deputy sheriffs were em- I
ployed by the com pany to protect the new
men and its property. The officers were
arm«d witb Winchester rifles, soma of them
carrying revolvers also. T. G. Hewlett was
made their leader. More than half the force
guarded the freight houses of the company,
while the rest of them protected incoming and
outgoing trains. Trains were continually pass
ing t .> and fro from the freight bouses all day,
and before 10 o’clock in the morning hun
dreds of idle men and boys and a few women
gathered on aud about the rickety wooden
bridge that spans a small body of muddy wa
ter known as Cahokia creek. The luouisville
and Nashville road running west crosse j this
creek on a trestle.
At 10 o’clock 300 persons stood on th?
bridge watching the trains pass. Th?
rougher element cursed the trainmen, and
promised them at short shrift in the near fu
ture. The depuiy sheriffs who stood on th?
trestlework were treated in the same way.
Sheriff Roplequet appeared with a small
posse and ordered the crowd to disperse. The
law-abiding persons in it did so. The other;
paid no attention to the demand. The
sheriff left the ground at once and tele
graphed to Governor Oglesby the condition
of affairs and asked for military h?lp. Mean
while the crowd had never moved from its
! position or changed its tactics except to grow
more violent in its demonstrations against the
trainmen and their guards. It suffered de
sertions but gained more than it lost, and at
2 o’clock the bridge and its vicinity was oc
cupied by a mob of 403 or 500 persons. Many
of the younger men in it carried stones in
their hands, and when opportunity offered
i hurled them at the armed men on the trestle
work or at the men on passing trains. Sav
age curses and epithets were also hurled at ■
them. ’
Nine men stood on the trestle work. They I
were between two crowds and faced about at !
short intervals. The only one who exhibited a
revolver was Charles Kensler, the “cowboy
fireman.” He carried two pistols in hi>
belt and had the barrel of his Win
chester slung over his left arm. The guards
made no reply to the abuse showered on them
and the mob grew bolder. It stood on a
thoroughfare and felt sate. Finally one man
stepped on the company’s property. Deputy
Hewlett promptly arrested him. A part of
the mob surged forward to the rescue. A
voice cried “Kill the cowboy.” There was
a pistol shot, which in a few seconds
was followed by the ringing reports of
Winchester rifles. The shrieks and yells that
rose from the crowd could be heard on
the bridge, a third of a mile away. “Crack,
crack” v. cnt the deadly rifles. ' The crowd
split into two unequal parts and ran like mad
in opposite directions. The small and the
w eak were knocked down and trampled upon.
Terror was king and drove all before him.
The deadly hail had been fired at short range
against a solid wall of flesh and blood. The
guards were seemingly appalled at the ex
tent and nature of the retaliation
they had inflicted -on their persecu
.tW*,-.. Xln the bridge and roadway lay Mrs
| John Pfeffer, shot and
! Sa
j wortajly wounded.
ten-ar, and turning somHiFnssaßawte
flight toward the Louisville and Nashville
freight house, shouts rose from it of “To arms,
to arms,’’ and men who stood over the deal
and wounded vowed they would have a terri
ble revenge. Some of the wildest spirits
rushed through the town calling on the
strikers and their friends to arm them
selves and kill all deputy sheriffs on sight.
Faie-foi-ed men soon appeared on the streets
armed with revolvers and shotguns. Here
and there a man could be seen carrying a
small coil of* rope. The cry of “Haug them” :
kept pace with that of “Kill them all.” The
fleeing guards never stopped till they reached
the Lduisville aud Nashville freight house.
They quickly warned their comrades
to flee to St. Ixaii-s for their
lives. Some of the men refused, i
and l»rricaded the freight house with.the in- ;
; teution of protecting it against assault. These i
i men were afterward com tellel to fly and ;
narrowly escaped with their lives. Hunting
parties were organized by their enemies, an I
every cranny that crald possibly shelter a
de nitj’ sheriff was searched.
The fleeing deputies were crossing the iron
bridge on their way to St. Louis when they
were met by Mayor Joyre. of East St. Lou.s,
; aud some officers, anil asked to return. b<tt
; the v refused to go buck. Mavor Joyce and
■ Offlret Dowd endeavoml to drag two of tbe
i guards with them. One of the guards who
| wasn t in custody raised his rifle amt fired in
! ; h‘» dirreuon of thac*<>w 1. C. F. Th > n »
of St. Louis, dropped in his tracks, shot in tbe
s&nnaeh. At this report the two guards with |
Mayor Joyce and Officer Dowd tore them
selves ioose. One of them struck the mayor 1
with his clubbed rifle, knocking him down.
■ Both men at once joined their companions
; and continued their flight a -ross tbe bridge.
The scene on the bridge was one of wildest
1 coufusion aud excitement. Coal trains
loaded and unloaded, and vehicles of all
■ de>eri[>tions engaged in a wild race to 8t
Louis. Women and men on foot were |
running toward the city, and waving back
all they met, while immediately behind
. came the deputies pursued by the vanguard !
from East St. Louis. One of
the frightened guards threw his gun into the
river, while another hid his weapon in tbe
J 0 * 1 * ot . R stake wa-jon that was in full re
treat Th? firing had been heart! in mid-river
by people on the ferry boats, who witnessed
on unusual sw on th?, levee. Frightened
horses dashed hither and thither, and while
hundreds hurried toward the spot
whence the reports seemed to come, a
in sn opposite direction. Tbe
huge bridge shook and swayed as the line of
munens? draft homes thundered over it i
i eanwters sbmitel and acted as if destruction
’’ heels, and . pedestrians were pet-
rit c® 1 w - *rtonishment as the long line of.
'enlclee flashed into Washington avenne at
< racing pace. A crowd gathered instantly |
and choked the entrance to the bridge.
! ,more than thirty minutes after the
, snooting-C. R. IMrnard. master of transpor-
I UMioo for the Louisville & Nashville road.
> and Jaxnes A Chesney, another official, met
1 , ni >t wir the eastern terminus of tbe
bridge. They had been at dinner n*-ar the
relay station and knew nothing of
u» shooting Thev were mistaken for
deputy sheriffs and fired upon. They
ra *i Ohio (t Mississippi freight bouse,
ant there, instead of guards, met anotter
I detachment of the mob. which also tired on •
1 hwn. Chesney wa shot through the legs
wa> jum 4 ed on ami kicked un
til hi? a<sa iu-u-sanpo.-’d h -wa“ Bar
narl eeca-«ed and gathered a number of
irtvnas, who took Cnesnev to a place of safe
ty- He wa< seriously if hot fatally injured.
, B<x»u after these terrible occurrences a mad
dened crowd gathered in a square at Eas: St
Ix«>.us It was harangued by a man named -
Dwyer, who urged the people to "bang and
kiR.” A comtnitt?e of tbe Knights- of Ixibor
aripcanrt from St. Louis, however, and coma- i
•site! mxi'ratj .n Aft?r an exciting collo i
my the efforts of the Knights prevailed, and
-«' ‘ crowd forth? time being gave up it-? dk- '
tenxnnatian to retaliate by borniug and kiil-
TTpoa receiving a telegraphic account of
the shooting from the sheriff, Governor
Oglesby immediately dispatched several com
panies of militia to the s .-ene of disturbance, f
Seven companies of militia arrived from
Springfield and other points, at East St.
Lcuis at 10:15, p. m. Three more companies
came later on.
During the night tin freight house of the
Loutsvill > and Nashville road was set on fire,
*e*3° < " a * ro Line depot was similarly
A WOMAN BOYCOTTED.
How Jfrt. Gray’s Bakery Business wai
Increased Thereby.
The New \ ork papers contain a rather
amusing account of an atte npt made by a
band of union bakers to boycott the bakery
of Mrs. Esther A. Gray, on Hudson street,
because she refused to compel her h ?lp to join
the bakers’ union. An account of the bqy-
I cotters aud their methods is given by a met
ropolitan daity as follows:
The men seemed to be in charge of a man
who called himself Schmidt and said he was
a "walking delegat?.” He refused to answer
any questions, and no one seemed to be able
or willing to restrain the men from annoying
pedestrians, whether customers of the bakery
or not. Outside the store of Mrs. Gray, was
one lonesome-looking policeman, who simply
stood still and made no dttenipt to prevent
the molestation of customers by the boycot
ters. In some cases customers were followed
to their homes and memoranda made of their
addresses.
While her tormentors were engaged in
their effort to wreck her business Mrs. Gray
was busily engaged in her store selling her
bread, cakes aud piei to her customers. “So
far as I have been able to judge,” she re
marked, “my trade has increased since the
boycott was ordered. I have customers now
that did not come before, and the loss has
been from the very poorest class of trade.
My men have been kept busier than ever,and
I expect that business will be good right
along. I asked the police to protect me,
and an officer was sent here. He is
standing right outside the door. My custom
ers complain of being annoyed by these men,
but what can I do? I don’t want to let the
boyeotters run my business. Why should I?
My men are satisfied as they are: they don’t
want to join a union, and what these union
men have to do with the matter I can’t see.
They certainly take the cake, but I don’t
think they’ll get my bakery away from me.”
Tbe grocery stores in the neighborhood
which sold Mi's. Gray’s bread have all ceased
selling it, as a boycott was threatened against
them if they continued to deal with the
I steadfast lady. A lady who bought some
! bread and cake at the ' bakery went to a
j grocery store in the vicinity and ordered
some groceries. She asked the clerk to send
the bread, cake and groceries to her home.
“Whose bread have you?” asked the
clerk.
“Why, what difference does that make!”
asked the astonished lady.
“Nothing; only if it’s. Gray’s bread wp
can’t even send it home for you. There is a
boycott against it.”
“Then if you can’t send the bread and cake
you needn’t send any groceries,” remarked
the lady.
Many men living up town stopped at the
bakery during the evening and bought
bread or cake to take home as an evidence of
their appreciation of the stand taken by Mrs.
Gray. People living in Hoboken also made
purchases on their way to the Christopher
street ferry. It was rumored about the
Ninth Ward late in the evening that the
boyeotters were th nking of raising the siege
as a means of preventing the further growth
of Mrs. Gray’s business.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Oohtly living is gives M tbe canss of the <
Vermont expects to produce 10.000,000
pounds of maple sugar this year.
About $3,000,000 worth of American made
locomotives are sent abroad yearly.
/ The next general assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held in Richmond, Va., in
October.
The Indian imputation of this country’ is
said to be diminishing at the rate of 5,000 or
6,000 a year.
Four grand hotels are to be ready by the
Ist of July for the a •cominodation of visitors
to the Yellowstone park.
One-third of the corn crop of 1885 of
lowa is still in the farmers’ hauas and unsold
—that is, 80,832,000 bushels.
The value of the hardware produced in the
I United States each year is now about S6O,-
■ 000,000, and nearly half of it is made in
i Connecticut
The wife of one of the clergymen at Sar
anac, Mich., supplements her husbaud’s mea
gre salary by driving a wagon and peddling j
milk from door to door.
Washington is becoming pre-eminently i
the city of palatial residences. Fifteen Sen- i
ators have erected magnificent domiciles 1
within the past twelve months.
Certain wine dealers of San Francisco, in ;
order to bring about wine instead of whisky |
drinking.have opened an establishment where !
native wine is sold for five ceut-4 a glass.
During the war. Mrs. Terry, of North
! Adams, Mass., nursed back to life a stranger
■ who was prestrated with fever. The man,
who wa.? a brother of ex-Gove mor Leland ,
' Stanford, of California, diol recently, leav- :
, ing her $15,000.
It is stated that up to the present date 500
persons have been inoculated against hydro
phobia at the Pasteur laboratory in the Rue
d'tTna, four-fifths of whom were bitten by
dogs whose rabid condition was ascertained
' by port mortem examinations.
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Logan will address the Grand
Army posts at Grant’s tomb on Decoration
Day.
i Postmaster General Vilas will de- i
liver the Memorial Day oration at the Acad
emy of Music.
Tennie Claflin, who recently married a
wealthy Englishman, has a stepson who is ■
forty-two years old.
p General William R. Tkpry has been
chosen sunerintendent of the Confederate I
; Soldiers' Hm>e at Richmond.
The wealthiest resident of Reading, Penn., i
has become insane I ecause six men were
killed in an accident in his mill.
SKieo Kalakaua has entered the lecture
field. He recently delivered a lecture on the
geologic origin and history of Hawaii.
H. M. H jxie, vice-president of the Mis
souri Pacific railroad, and Jay Gould’s West
ern lieutenant, was once a stable boy.
Queen Victoria will visit Liverpool in
May for the first time since 1851, when she :
was accompanied by the Prince Consort.
i Colonel P. P. G. Hall, paymaster •
United States army, is the only living de
s 'endant of William Penta in this country.
Germany has eight s hoots of forestry,
where five years’ traming is required of those
who seek positions under the government.
Mists Mary Lee. the eldest daughter of
Retort E. Lee, is now in Portugal, her sister I
Mildred being among friends in New Or- I
leans.
Hi- wife is the only nurse Mr. Gladstone
has when his health is broken, an I he gives
himself into her band s with tbe docility of an
infant.
! Mrs Secretary Whitney will give no i
more larj-e ent: rtainments this stiason in con
s -q.M u?.■ of the rev-ent death of bte grand- ;
, m*ther
V; ! n ‘
When thf jien begins
And the idorter’gins to crow.
When the duck begins to cpiackW ’
And the sun to melt the snow.
Then we know that spring's a dreepin?’
In upon us full of ebeers,
And the snow begins a weepin’
Os itself away in tears.
When we hear the martins singia’
And a flyin 1 round th’e shed,
When we see the peewees wingin’
And the geese begin to v ed,
Then we get the hoss and wagon
And around the barn we scratch
And manure commence a draggin’
Out upon the tater-jjateh.
When the buttercups are bloomin
And the frog is heard to creak,
When the thunder is a. boomin’
And the lightin 1 hugs the oak.
Then we know that Summer’s try in’
For to hustle Spring away,
And the mud begins a dryin’
And the dust begins to play.
When we see the snake a crawlin’
And the crow begin to caw.
And the cat-bird is a squallin’
And the magpie ’gins to jaw.
Then we get the scythe and srcklo
And begin to whet anil grind,
And the grass commence to tickla
And the wheat to cut and bind.
When the frost begins a nippin’
Os the sweet-pertater vine,
Vl hen the rambo and the pippin
Through the leaves begin to shine,
Then we know that Autumn's prowlin’
Round the tail of Summer’s blouse.
And the wind begins a howlin’
Round the gables of the house.
hen the hickory-nuts are droppin’
And the pawpaw’s gettin’ soft,
Vt hen the buzzard's wings are floppin’
For the south to sail aloft,
Then we gather in the pumpkin
And the fodder 'gin to shock.
And the corn begin a huskin’
In the crib to feed the stock,
When we hear the pigs a squealia'
And the snow-birds ’gin to play,
When we see the rabbit stealin’
In beneath the stack of hay,
Then we know that Winter’s sqneczin
In old Autumn’s shoes to take.
And the ice begins a freezin’
And the snow begins to flake.
When me hear the trees a sighin’
And their arms are lookin’ bars,
When we feel the cold a fly in’
On the sharp and fixisty air,
Then the wood we ’gin a choppin'
And around the fire we meet,
Then the corn begin a. poppin’
And the nuts and apples eat.
—Squire Hobbs.
PITH AN?) POINT.
The Knights of Labor are aiming to
bring about days of prosperity.— Boxtin,.
Courier.
| A yearning for sausage will now and
I pop up in even the most poetic
' breast.— Chicago Ledger.
It is seldom that a man is sufficiently
CQlor-blind to be able not to tell
[ b|ek when he sees it.— Puck.
A woman hates to pass a pretty bon
net in a store window, but she is alwavs
willing to go buy it.— Pacijic Jester.
In Russia a man may appear as a wit
ness in a lawsuit against his wife—if he
has the grit to do so.— Chicago Ledger.
If a man wants to know how insignifi
cant he is, just let him go with his wife
to the dressmaker’s.— Neicark Register.
An actor, unlike other men, can some
times build up a most excellent reputa
tion out of a very bad character.— Boxton
Transcript.
A man may refuse to be a friend to a
principal in a duel because he desires to
be second to no man in the country.—
IxnceU Courier.
A student of human nature says any
thing can be sharpened. Put a lead-pen
' cil in a woman’s hand, and see.—Bing
; hamton Republican.
A minister may occasionally be carried
i away with the*inspiration of his tneme.
but he generally gets back in time to taka
■ up the collection.— Fall Biter Advance.
A Dakota editor advertises for ten
• thousand girls. It seems to us that this <
is a large number of girls; but perhaps
he intends to keep a boarding house. -
s Puck.
There is an art in putting on gloves,
says a fashion paper. Come to think of
it, you have to get your hand in, as it
were, in putting on a glove properly.—
Boston Courier.
She—“ What a man you are, George;
always making fun of the ladies' taper
waists.” He—“ And wliat should Ido
noth a taper, but to make light of it?”—-
Boston Transcript.
Ages will come and go; but woman
will not be perfectly happy until she can
have eyes attached to her shoulders, s©
that she may look up and criticise her
! own back hair. - -Judge.
An old-fashioned corner clock stood so
long in one place that its wooden feet de
cayed, and it fell across the dining hsli
. while a Little Rock family were at din
ner, severely injuring two grown persons
and a child. What, time was it? The
: clock struck, three.— Hol Springs News.
BEAL'TIFVL spring.
There is beauty in the soundless shower of
snow,
There is rhythm in tbe rattle of the hail,
But 1 love the merry spring,
Wten the pretty blue oirds sing.
And tbe early flowers begin to deck the vale,
When the gloomy winter’s gone
And the robin on tbe lawn
Is a-singing and a-wagging of bis tail.
—Boston Courier.
; “I hope, my dear,” said Mrs. Wise,
who, very properly, dislikes owing
money, “that you paid Mr. Friend the
dollar he lent you last week.” “Os
course I did,” retried her husband. “I
’ always pay my debts promptly. I bor
rowed $5 of him yesterday and gave him
back sl.” — Harper s Bazar.
An exchange saya a woman may not
be able to sharpen a pencil or throw »
stone straight, “but she can pack more
articles in a trunk than a man can put in
a one-horse wagon." No wonder. The
ladies’ trank built for summer travel
holds more articles than a four-horse
, wagon.-— Norristown HeraaL