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INDICTED ALDERMEN.
Eleven More New York City Father
of 1884 Under Arrest.

Eleven More New York City Fathers
of 1884 Under Arrest.
Eleven more of the New York aldermanlc
board of 1884 have been indicted by the
grand jury and arrested. The warrants
charged the indicted aldermen with accept
ing bribes for voting for the Broadway rail-
road franchise. The names of the persons
arrested are: Thomas Cleary, Michael Duffy,
Louis Wendell Rudolph A. Fullgraf, Arthu
J. McQuade, Thomas Shels, Patrick Farley,
Henry L. Sayles, John O'Neil, Francis Nc
Cabe, and Frederick Finck.
The men were arrested by detectives under
the direction Of Police Inspector Byrnes and
were imprisoned at police headquarters. lnl-
mediately upon their arrival at athealquarterS,
the aldermen sent messengers to their friends
informing them of their arrests and urging
upon them the necessity of securing bonds
men.
The prisoners without all exception eX-
pressed Indignation at their arrests. They
were served with warrants at their houses.
After waiting a short time in Inspector
Byrnes' Office, the prisoners were taken to the
district attorneys office, where they gave
bail in the sum of $25, 900 each and were re-
leased pending trial. This makes seventeen
members of the aldcrmanic board OF lSS4
who have been indicted.
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Later reports state that the story was not
half told in the first dispatches, and that the
storm was the most deadly ever known. not
only in tile Northwest, but in the United
States The number killed was esti-
mated on the day aft,r the disaster: At st.
Cloud. 81; at Sauk Rapids. Al: at Rice Sta
ton, 12.. Over 200 persons were injured. 1t
was thought that the number of deaths
would he considerably increased when more
destroyed everything in its path covering
space of fifteen miles long and 500 to 900
feet wide.
Those who witnessed the storm at St. Cloud
say that a few minutes after P NJ. the skies
became overcast with O dark cloud and a
great black mass rose over the hills southwest
of the city, and came with great velocity
toward the western outskirts. in direct line
for the Manitoba freight yards. The clouds
hung low and rolled over aud over like smoke
over battle field and were accompanied by
q loud roaring and cracking sound:
g1S Ths the cloud Sont was asrfa Funnel ong shaped 9s
ground People had hardly time to flee to
their cellars and seek other places of refuge
before the whirlwind was on them and the
air was filled with flying boards. shingles,
bricks and other debris, that was strewn over
the country and piled in heaps. The cloud
came from the southwest and moved in a
Eortheasterly direction until it reached the
river where its cours, was diverted, and it
followed the river bank until it reached Sauk
Rapids, where it tained to the left, passing
directly through the centre of the town:
Just enough hous IS are left in Sank Rapids
10 form fringe around the village limits.
The debris is not piled in heaps, but scattered
far and wide. The sign Sauk Rapids o. the
Ncnitol,o donot and n b,Skctf~l Of books were
found in Rve Station, fifteen miles distant.
This shows the terrible power of the storm.
From Sauk Rapids the storm went to Rice
Station, Benton county, demolishing the vii
lage and killing or injuring nearly the entire
population.
Damaging tornadoes were also reported
from portions of Iowa, Dakota and Missouri.
At Coon Rapids, Iowa, fifty houses were
blown down. jamestown, Dakota, suffered
severely. In Monroe township, Mo-, three
persons were killed and many were injured;
numerous dwellings, barns and outhouses
were destroyed. Two boys living near Bur
liDgton, Mo-, and man at Louisiana, NO.,
we're killed.
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Alfred Krupp, the great German gun
founder, owns probably the largest busi-
ness in the world dependent on one in
dividual. The works within the town
of Essen occupy more than 500 acres, half
of which are under cover. According to
a census taken in September, 1881, the
spumber of hands employed by Mr.. Krupp
was 19,GO5, the members of their families,
As, 776, making IS, 3S1 persons supported
by his works. Of the laborers, II, 211
were engaged upon the works in Essen,
the rest being employed in the surround
ing mines, the branch works at Neuwcid
and sayn, and the mines in Spain (Bilboa)
from which, though less extensive, the
finest ores are brought. Mr. Krupp
owns SAT iron mines in Germany. He
owns four sea steamers, and there are con-
nected with his Essen works forty-two
miles of railway, employing twenty eight
locomotive and ss3 cars, sixty-nine
horses with 191 wagons, and forty miles
| of telegraph wires with thirty-fve sta
tions and ffty-fve Morse apparatuses.
The establishment possesses a grand
chemical laboratory, Photographic and
photographic atelier, printing office with
three steam and six hand presses and a
bookbinding room. The establishment
even runs hotel in Essen.
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SNAPPED HIS FINGERS,
Why Large Silk Mill in Paterson
Has Shut Down.

q A"t IN oAAhS ~'~-N-
Has Shut Down.
William Strange, silk manufacturer IN
Paterson. N. j., has employed about l 200
hands, and has had no difficulty with any of
them till a few days ago, when cigarmaker
from Albany, N. Y, came to the mill and in
sisted that the superintendent should sign
paper which proposel to revolutionize the
dyeing shop. The cigarnlaker claimed to
have the power to insist upon this agreement
in behalf of the Knights of Labor. AS
this was not done Immediately the cigar
maker went out. AS he passed by the
dye-house he snapped his fingers, and
work. The men declared that they were
perfectly satisfied with the wages received,
but that they were compelled to obey the
order given. When overtures were then
made to Mr.. Strange by local representa-
tive of the Knights of Labor, he said he
would shut down his mill just as fast as the
warps now in the looms were finished.
Whether he would ever open it again
would depend on the action OF
the operatives. He proposed that
throughout the city appoint board of arbi.
tration-five from each side-to whom all
questions of difference hereafter arising
should be submitted. He further said that
already this arbitrary course Of the silk
dyers had resulted in the diverting of orders
from the Paterson silk mills which would
have kept 1000 hands busy for the next six
or eight months.
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The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
given an informal reception recently by
DR.. and Mrs. N. A. Hyde, at their resi-
dence in indianapolis, on the occasion of
the meeting of the Indianapolis Minis
terial association. Mr.. Beecher made
some remarks in which he recalled some
of his Indian experiences, among them
the following: ''The baptisms in the old
time were interesting to the people.
Sometimes the ministers united for pub
lie immersion. On one of these occasions
I had big carpenter on hand. He was
nearly seven feet tall. We walked into
the water together, and when I was in
nearly to my shoulders my friend was
hardly wetting his knees. I turned to
him and suggested that either this thing
would have to stop or I should have to
swim. Being carpenter, he said ne
would double up like rule. When ne
was on his knees I got on very we'll.
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The New York elevated railroads have
some 1900 employees, including about
500 repair men, constantly on duty. This
is an extremely large proportion of labor
for repairs and track inspection, which
is necessitated by tie peculiar character
of the road, and it is kind of work
where the men are particularly exposed
to accident and to injury to their eyes.
The managers have, therefore, estab-
hshed a regular medical department,
with one doctor for the eastern and one
for the western division of the city lines,
with facilities for prompt communication
with any portion of the track. The COM
pany pays where men have to be taken to
the hospital, but its own doctors attend
to the slight injuries, which are very
numerous. A large satchel, with instru-
ments, bandages, etc., stands ready for
emergency, and is carried by the surgeons
on duty. Among other functions dis
charged by the surgeons is the examina-
ton of employees for color blindness,
sight and hearing. Those not considered
in sound condition are given ther and
less important positions, where these
physical qualities are of less consequence.
Thismedical attendance is witho ut charge
TO the employees.
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} In his new book telling of lifein Corea
Percival Lowell mentions this matter of
interest for those whose curiosity is so
healthful as to run round the globe it.
self: Four little stars flash out upon the
brow of Nam San, the great South Noun
tain, within sight CT the chief city, Soul,
4.Poised so high in the heavens says
Mr.. Lowell, "they might well be the
light from other worlds" But in fact
they are watch-fres, signal to the city
that all is we'll in Corea. They burn for
fifteen minutes and vanish. All through
the country a Gordon of such beacons is
established, which transmits the message
of peace and safety daily, or rather
nightly, to the capital.
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Mr.. Hazen, the third assistant postmas-

Mr.. Hazen, the third assistant postmas-
ter general, makes the following sugges-
tions to the public: Write or print your
name and address, and the contents OF o
package, upon the upper left hand corner
of all mail matter. This will insure its
immediate return to you for correction,
if improperly addressed or insuficiently
paid, and if it is not called for at desti-
nation it can be returned to you without
going to the dead letter office. If the
patrons of the mails would avail them
selves of this privilege it would enable
the department to restore at least ninety
per cent. of all the undelivered matter.
Letters would be returned free, and the
parcels upon payment of the return post
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lamps.

In the capitol, Montgomery, Ala, is
religiously preserved large Bible,
printed by the American Bible society in
1851, and bearing upon fyleaf this SEN
tence: "The oath of Office as first Presi-
dent of the Provisional government of
the Confederate States of America was
administered to Jefferson Davis upon this
Bible by Howell Cobb, President of the
Provisional Congress, at the front portico
of the capitol in Montgomery on the 18th
day of February, A. D. 1861" The
book, it may be added, is still used in
swearing in governors of the State.
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remarkable statement was made by

A remarkable statement was made by
an English member of parliament in the
course of recent debate in the house OF
commons. He had vainly endeavored to
induce the government to lay upon the
table a return of the amounts expended
upon war ships and their present esti-
mated value. Failing to obtain official
information on the subject, he investi-
gated matters himself, and the result
which he announced considerably aston
ished the house. 1T appears that the ex
isting navy of Great Britain has cost
$21O, 900, 900, and that its present value,
after making allowance for ships that
have become obsolete, does not exceed
$6o,O9o,ooO, showing total loss OF
S15o,ooo,ooo. -
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The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Is
authority for the statement that ''the afix
title of esq is out of date, and its use is
in bad form. In addressing gentle
man now you must prefix Hon. or Colonel
or General as compliment to his states
manship or military genius. Whether
he is President of the United States or
president of ward club, the leader of
an army or the leader of clique OF
voters, it is all the same In case Of
extreme doubt you may address him as
Mr., hut under no circumstances is mil
itary title under the grade of captain al
lowable. Sometimes, in accosting man
whom you have already met, the slipping
of his name from your memory may cause
embarrassment, but a little presence of
mind will save you. Address him as
General, and you are all right"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-28
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

HARVARD university will be $50 years old
next October.
COSTLY living is given as the cause Of the
loss Of students at Yale college.
EUROPE is stated to have an available mill.
tary force Of 100000 soldiers.
VERMONT expects to produce 10000 900
pounds of maple sugar this year.
ABOUT 81, 900, 900 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 population of this country is
said to be diminishing at the rate of 5,OOO or
6,W0 year.
Four grand hotels are to be ready by the
1st of July for the accommodation OF visitors
to the Yellowstone park.
ONE-THIRD of the corn crop Of 1885 OF
Iowa is still in the farmers hands and unsold
that is, 81, 1892 900 bushels.
THE value of the hardware produced in the
United States each year is now about SOU
OO0,OUQ and nearly half Of it is made in
Connecticut
THE wife of one of the clergymen at Sar-
anac, Mich, supplements her husbands mea-
gle salary by driving Il wagon and peddllng
milk from door to door,
WASHINGTON is becoming pre-eminently
the city of palatial residences. Fifteen Sen
ators have erected magnificent domiciles
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 cents glass.
DURING the war, Mrs. Terry, of North
Adams. Mass, nursed back to life stranger
who was prestrated with fever. The man,
who was a brother of Ex-Governor Leland
Stanford. Of California, died recently, leav-
ing her $4,000
IT is stated that up to the present date 500
persons have been inoculated against hydro
phobia at tue Pasteur laboratory in the Rue
d'Ulm, four-fifths of whom were bitten by
dogs whose rabid condition was ascertained
by post-mortem examinations.
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It is often asked, when an going
vessel has been lost at sea, and it is sup
posed she has foundered, why none of
her timbers rise to the surface again and
foat, as submerged wood will nearer
shore. The explanation is that if the
vessel has been sunk in deep water the
pressure to which it is subjected will be
50 great that certain quantity of water
will be forced into the pores of the wood,
and thus render it so heavy that even
when detached from the ship piece OF
the timber could not float. 1t is because
q this constantly ant; and RAPIDLY increasing
pressure, too, that g diver cannot de-
scend to any very great distance below
the surface.
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One evening lately a herd of Arizona
goats, which were being herded by Miss
Teresa Tallert, on Lost river, D. T.,
came home early and rushed for the
corral, heavy log concern, eight feet
high. The gates were opened and the
herd let in, after which the little lady,
dashing over the prairie, mounted on her
fiery bronco, secured the foothills, but
found no cause for alarm. In the night
Miss Tallert was aroused by her dog
whining at her ear, and, getting up dis
covered some wild animals in the corral.
She went in and found four mountain
lions, and, without moments heslta-
ton, attacked them with an ak. Two OF
the lions jumped the corral and fed.
The other two rushed toward her. She
dealt one blow with the Ak, laying its
head open to the bone; then both fed.
The next morning fifty of the valuable
goats were found dead and thirty
wounded, fourteen of the latter dying
afterWard.
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Foreign.

Two American prospe"tor; were killeI by
Indians near Nacosari, Mexico.
MUCH opposition has been developed in
England against Mr.. Gladstone's plan for
Irish home rule.
THE intended journey Of the Car OF Rus
sia to Novo Tscherkask, to present his son to
the Cossacks as their chief, has been pre-
vented by the discovery of a dynamite plot
to assassinate the imperial party. A Cos
sack officer and his brother, the latter being
a student in st. Petersburg, have been ar
rested in connection with the crime.
IT is asserted that an English, German and
Chinese syndicate have contracted to send
100000 Chinese to Mexico within the next
twelve months. The Mexican government
agrees to give each Chinaman twenty acres
Of land.
THE Earl of Shaftesoury. the representative
of one of England's oldest families, has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in cab
during a fit of mental depression. He was
fifty-tiYe wears old.
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Twenty years ago the chief feature Of
the plains beyond the Missouri was the
countless herds of buffalo everywhere to
be seen. Now all have disappeared.
Theodore Roosevelt says there are not
1900 buffalos in America. 1t is said one
may travel 1000 miles OH the plains and
never be out of sight of dead buffalo
nor within sight of live one. But Har-
per's Bazaar has the curious statement
that new species of Buffalo is develop
ing in the woody precipitous regions of
the mountain ranges; it shuns the open
plains, lives in small herds, is endowed
with great activity, and is clear case Of
the Survival of the fittest."
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

JAMES A. RICHMOND, president Of the
Broadway horse-car company, was arrested
on the 9th in New York on the charge OF
bribng members of the aldermanic board OF
1884 to grant franchise to his railroad. He
gave bail in the sum of SIS, 900.
FIVE young men were killed the other day
at Pottsville, Penn.-two by an explosion OF
dynamite car rtridges, two by suffocation from
escaping gas in mine, AMI the fifth through
being caught in some machinery.
MAJOR WILLIAM QUINCY, a prominen
lawyer of New York and Brooklyn, commit
ted suicide at his home in the latter city q
few days since on account Of financial
troubles.
FRANK ENDY, young man residing at
Reading, Penn. has just died in terrible ag-
ony from the effects of cats scratch on the
back of his hand
DENNIS G. WILCOX, New York million
aire poker and manufacturer, committed
suicide the other day by shooting himself.
He had lost heavily by speculation, and had
long suffered from physical troubles.
AN engine collided with milk wagon on
q railway crossing at Lancaster, Penn,
resulting in probably fatal injuries to three
men.
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Five at O Birth.

On we'll stocked farm near the vii
lage of Lawsonville, KY, lives Thomas
Malen, well-to-do farmer and stock rails
er. Among Mr.. Malens possessions is
COW, which, in the very brief career of
four years has made record for fruitful
ness that is probably not excelled. AT
four years OF age this modcst-looking
kline is the mother of ten calves, all
healthy and active. This record has been
by steps, and arguing from her past ex-
ploits there is great future before her.
At the age of two this COW bore twins; a
year later she brought forth triplets, and
now another year has passed and she has
evidenced spirit of progress by giving
birth to very pretty quintet. Mr.: Malen
has received several fattering offers for
this wonderfully productive piece of cow
flesh, but he refuses to part with her.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL LOGAN will address the Grand
Army posts at Grants tomb on Decoration
Day.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas will de-
liver the Memorial Day grafton at the Acad-
amy Of Music.
TESS1E CLAFb1N, who recently married
wealthy Englishman, has stepson who is
forty-two years Old.
GENERAL WILLIAM R. TERRY has been
chosen superintendent of the Confederate
Soldiers Home at Richmand.
THE wealthiest resident of Reading, Penn,
mas become insaLe because six men were
killed in an accident in his mill.
KING KALAKAUA has entered the lecture
Geld. He recently delivered lecture on the
eeoloeic origin aud history OF Hawaii. -...
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BOYCOTTING A WOMAN.
How Mrs. Gray's Bakery Business
was Increased Thereby.

How Mrs. Gray's Bakery Business
was Increased Thereby.
The New York papers contain rather
amusing account of an attempt made by
band of union bakers to boycott the bakery
of Mrs. Es her A. Gray, on Hudson street,
because she refused to compel her help to join
the bakers union. An account of the boy
cotters and their methods is given by a m et-
ropolitan daily as follows:
The men seemed to be in charge of a man
who called himself Schmidt and said he was
"walking delegate" 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 attempt to prevent
the moleStation of customers by the boycott
ters In some cases customers were followed
to their homes and memoranda made of their
addresses.
WhIe her tormentors were engaged IN
their effort to wreck her business Mrs. Gray
was busily engaged in her store selling ne, her
bread, cakes and pies to her customers. $50
far as have been able to judge" she re-
marked, "my trade has increased since the
boycott was ordered. have customers now
that did not come before, and the loss has
been from the very poorest class OF trade.
Ny men have been kept buster than ever, and
expect that business will be good right
along. I asked the police to protect me,
and an officer was sent here. He is
ers complain of being annoyed by these men,
but what can do! I don't want to let the
boycotters run my business. Why should Il
Ny men are satisfied as they are; they don't
want to join 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-"
The grocery stores in the neighborhood
which sold Mrs Gray's bread have all ceased
them If they continued to deal with the
steaIfast lady. A lady who bought some
bread and cake at the bakery Went to a
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 astonishe1 lady.
Nothing; only if it's Gray's bread we
can't even send it home for you. There is
boycott against it,"
"Then if you cau'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. 1t was rumored about the
Ninth Ward late in the evening that the
boycotters were thinking OF raising the siege
as a means of preventing the further growth
Of Mrs. Gr.lys business.