Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-18
General News Items.

1t is now estimated that $50 per-
sons were drowned by the sinking of
the Daphna at Glasgow, Scotland.
The Salvation Army's property in
New York has been attached for debt
by one of the members.
The Indiana Supreme Court has
decided that married woman cannot
enter into copartnership with her hus-
band or any other person for the pur-
pose of carrying on partnership busi-
nessS.
The Able Moigno, of Paris, has
succeeded in raising $4,000 to meet
the expense of dragging the Red Sea
and Bitter lake in search of Pharaoh's IS
chariots and treasures The expedi-
tion, composed of several scientists and
a corps of experienced divers, are now
on the way to the place, but it is fear
ed the outbreak of cholera at several Of
the Red Sea ports will prevent their
landing.
Small boys will carry all sorts of
things in their pockets, and sometimes
the result is disastrous. Joseph Wurz-
burger, of New York, a six-year- old
boy, carried piece of lime in his pocket,
probably to use as chalk 1t rested in
the pocket opposite the lower part of
the lads abdomen, and blister appear
ed at that part of the body, whereupon
| physician was called in. The lime
produced blood poisoning, which result
in death.
News of floods, thunderstorms,
hailstorms and tornadoes continues to
pour in from all parts of the country.
| Often these destructive storms occur
simultaneously in widely separated
places On Thursday evening of last
| week two black clouds met over the
town of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and
| instantly torrent of rain descended,
turning the streets into rivers, sweeping
the crops from the neighboring fields,
drowning pigs and chickens, and tear
ing away pavements and bridges. At
nearly the same hour the country fo ur
miles west of Albany, n. Y, was pelt-
ed with hailstones, which stripped
orchards of their fruit, and levelled
fields of grain as if a reaper had passed
over them. Along with the hail cane
floods of rain, which completed the
work of destructian. How is it that
the weather prophets are silent in these
stormy times ?
An interesting question has been
raised in one of the civil courts of New
York by q colored man, who claims
that he should be paid $3.50 for eight
| ounces of blood which was transfused
into the veins of man who was suffer-
ing from having inhaled Illuminating
gas. The complaint sets forth that
when the colored man consented to
part with that much of his blood the
sufferer was barely alive, and that
three hours after the operation he could
recognize friends, and in twenty-four
hours was a well man. Perhaps the
trial of the case will bring out answers
to questions which will suggest them
selves to every speculative rea der
whether the patients complexion was
less fair or his hair less straight after
the operation, and whether he believes
that he has suffered any disadvantage
because of prejudice against those who
have negro blood in their veins.
The latest advices from the East
leave no room to doubt that the cholera
epidemic will soon extend its ravages
beyond the Mediterranean. The me-
cessity for taking extraordinary pre-
cautions against it's westward spread
has been recognized by all the interest
ed governments except the English,
though English ports are mos exposed
to the importation of the plague.
Should it break out as an epidemic in
Great Britain the difficulty of keeping
it out of the United States would be
very great, though it may be hoped we
should escape this year. ''The proba-
bility that the disease will gain lodge
ment in the United States this sum-
mer," the Medical Journal thinks, "is
exceedingly small" AS general
rule, this journal says, our cholera cpl
denies have begun in years following
O European prevalence. $50 that it is
rather for next year than this that the
contingency of an inroad of cholera
into Europe should excite uneasiness
in America"
We haye news from Panama of
the bursting forth of new volcano in
Colombia. This is the third case Of
the kind that has occurred within six
months. Last winter a mountain on
the shore of Lake Hakono in Japan,
which had never been suspected of
volcanic proclivities, suddenly began
to roar with subterranean thunders, and
then hurled forth smoke, ashes, and
stones, to the dismay of the villagers
living around it. Next the old volcano
of Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua, which
was supposed to be extinct, as it had
never given any signs of volcanic activ-
ity since the Spaniards first set foot in
America, broke into eruption, and over
whelmed the island of WHICH it is a
part, and which had long been
favorite resort for tourists, with show
ers of rocks and ashes. Now comes
the new volcano in Colombia, concern
ing which no particulars have reached
US, except that with it's pillar of cloud
by day and of fire by night it is visible
from a great distance. How astonish-
ing are these fiery spoutings from the
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