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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14
INTO A WASHOUT.
Frightful Railroad Accident in Mas.
sachusetts.
The Boston Express Rolls Down an Em-
bankment Two Hundred Feet,
Causing a Loss of Sew
eral Lives.

GREENFIELD, Mass, April 7.-One Of the
most frightful railroad calamities in the
history of Massachusetts, railroading oc-
Cured shortly before six o'clock tonight
on the Fitchburg Railroad, Hoosac Tun-
mel Division, between Bardswell Station
and West Deerfield, few miles vest Of
this town. The Boston express, which
left North Adams at 4:4O p. IN. under
charge of Conductor Forster, was running
at the rate of thirty miles an hour. While
making a sharp curve on narrow ledge
between a high hill and the Deerfeld
river the train ran plump into a washout.
The engine cleared the gap in safety, but
the tender, baggage, smoker, mail, sleeper
and two passengers cars left the track,
plunged over sleepers and boulders dis
tance of several hundred feet and toppled
over the embankment two hundred feet
into the river. Several cars were smashed
to pieces Three of them took fire and
burned. The scene was terrible be-
yond description. Muffled shrieks Of
confined passengers came up from
the wreck and filed the air. A
wrecking train with surgeons left for the
scene as soon as the news of the disaster
arrived. Owing to the steep embankmen
IL WIS dllOSU lupOSSlUlc W TeuueT dSSiots
ance. There are supposed to have been
about forty passengers on board. Those
not badly hurt extricated themselves from
the wreck as soon as possible and were
taking out their less fortunate companions
when the wrecking train arrived. Frank
Lane, of Boston, q New York firms sales
man leaped from the train when the acci-
dent occurred, and is the only man who
saw the cars go into the river. Three dead
bodies Of unknown passengers have been
taken out. Among the injured are the fol-
lowing: Herbert Littlejohn, engineer, IA
tally scalded; Merritt Seeleye, superin-
tendent of the National Express Company,
probably fatally jammed, with severe
temple wound and broken thigh; H. j..
Lit tlejohn, passenger, probably fatally !;
Mrs. Littlejohn, seriously; two
children of the former, one dead, the
other dying; Henry Couillard, probably
fatally. Allen Lewis. E. B. Stone and A.
G. Harvey, all seriously. j. P. Fowler and
Anson K. Warner, chairman of the select
men of Greenfield, quite badly hurt. The
following are badly bruised: E. W. Dun
nell, Miss barley, Mary Gowing, Miss Cor
nell, E. H. Arnold, Aaron Lewis, colored
porter: c. Arbri, f. s. Hagar, c. r. Bell
and Nicholas Dorgan. Conductor Forster
escaped with slight bruises.
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FLYING BULLETS.
Deputy Sherifns Fire Into q Crowd
Of Strikers,
Killing Five Men and Mortally Wound1nS
Woman-A Deputy Shot and
Another Beaten to Death.

ST. Louis, April 9.-This afternoon, at
East st. Louis, mob visited the Louisville
and Nashville yards. and ordered the men
there to quit work. A freight train passed,
guarded by eight deputy sheriffs, armed
with Winchester rifles. At street cross
ing stones were thrown at the
officers, who responded with two vol
leys, four men being killed and a wo-
man fatally wounded. The Deputies then
retreated towards the bridge, followed
by the maddened mob. At the bridge ap-
proach deputy shot aud killed an inno-
cent man. The officers surrendered for
protection to the st. Louis police. One Of
the sheriffs is reported shot and another
beaten to death. Illinois militia is being
hurried to the scene. A few cars loaded
with hay were burned in the Louisville
and Nashville yards, but no further dam
age was done. At midnight quiet had been
restored.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, April 9.--Between
midnight and O'Clock this morning, Dep
uty Sheriff Williams, who has had charge
of the force of deputies guarding the st.
Louis Il Iron Mountain round house and
ma. machine shops in Argenta' opposite n.,hd this
a leading 'rnsr' member oif the Knights
of Labor, and notified to take his
force away or they would be put
out Williams said: "Tll take you in
now, ana SelZlng DarDy lOckeu nlm up IN
one of the rooms. just then the outlines Of
twenty or thirty men were seen a short
distance away and Williams ordered them
out, saying that he was there to guard the
property and would do it IL he fell in his
tracks. Some one from the crowd
replied: "Well, die then,' and
an irregular shooting between the
deputies and assailants began. Prob.
ably one hundred shots were fred,
and Williams was dangerously wounded by
a ball in the right side, and one or two
other lesser wounds in other portions Of the
body. The mob soon after fed. 1t is re-
ported that several were wounded, but If
SO, they were taken away by their COM
rades. Sheriff Worthen was telephoned, and
hurriedly collected posse and went over
to Argenta. Near the south end of the Iron
Mountain railroad bridge, three men were
halted and arrested. One, Charles Stepp,
had a doabled barrelled shotgun; another,
Cook, a ticket agent, was intoxicated and
abusive, and locked up in the bridge ticket
Office. A strong guard was placed about
the round house and shops, and obtaining
an engine and car, Williams and the four
prisoners were brought to the city. Every
thing is quiet this morning. Williams
condition is critical
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Plantation Philosophy.

De homes tear is de jewelry OBJ de
soul.
De tongue dat will tell q lie will lick
'lasses dat don't long to it.
It amt de little scrub man dat is de
leas' account Sometimes de bigges'
stalk in de field amt got no corn on it,
In de eyes OBJ de worl' de death OBJ
po' man is pity, but de death oh rich
man is c'lamity.
When mau amt got de money it is
de berry time dat folks wants him ter pay
debt. Ell he's got plenty OBJ money Il
doan make no much difference.
Dar neber was man dat was such
dead beat dat he could STAN of de col.
lector oh death. When natur' presents
de bill de man doan dispute de figgers.
'spise ter see folks pay mos 'tention
ter de oman what u dc Ees' dressed.
De peacock is got finer clothes dan de
dominicser hen, but she amt haf 20
good ter hab aroun' de house.
Although hope is de suthin' dat hol's
pusson up, yit it ken be 'bused. De
lazy mau ID full OBJ hope an sets In de
shade, while de 'dustrious man, what
aia't got &c much, chops de weeds outeu
do cotton.
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CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY.


The Bill for the Erection of . Library
Building Passed After q Thirteen
Years Struggle.
WAsnINeToN, April S.-The bill appro~
priating 100000 to commence the con-
struction Oft Congressional Library Build,
ing passed the Senate to-day. The building
will when completed, it is estimated, cost
about 81, 100000. The bill has been before
Congress for thirteen years, and has passed
the Senate four times in four different Con-
crosses, but never received concurrent
action by the House of Representatives.
The House passed the bill day before yes
terday by an almost unanimous vote, and
1t reached the Senate yesterday. The pres
ent accommodations are inadequate. The
librarian reports that it contains shelf
room for less than 100000 volumes in all,
while the present collection considerably
exceeds 100000. The result is seen in books
slowed rank behind rank, SO that their
titles are concealed instead of exhibited,
in alcoves overfowing into every adjacent
space and corridor, and in floors heaped
high with books pamphlets, musical
compositions and newspapers, from
the ground floors of the Capitol to the attic.
Besides this, nine dark and unventilated
rooms in the crypts below the Capitol
have been filed with books, until at length
all further resources for storage are ex-
hausted. Meanwhile the collections have
grown apace, every year adding what
would be deemed in most places large
library to the existing accumulation.
There is no room for readers or for the
librarians assistants, nor is there single
quiet place where member of Congress can
pursue his researches uninterrupted. The
proposed building will contain three
million volumes, with suitable economy of
storage. The bill contemplates the erection
of separate flre-proof building for the
library. Such building planned through
out for the purposes of library possesses
some indisputable advantages over any
other proposed method for library accom-
modations Calculated in all its parts for
the proper shelving and service of books,
and for the requirements of the extensive
and rapidly growing copyright business of
the United States, such a separate building
will embody superior security, accessibility
and practical convenince.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14
Plot to Rob the Mint.

PHILADELPHIA, April s.-The employees at
the U. 8. Mint have been greatly exercised
during q week past over the alleged dis
covery by Special Officer Gibson that a plot
was forming among the New York cracks
men to rob the vaults in that institution.
The mint men are very reticent over the
matter. but 1t is known that Gibson claim
ed TO have information that house near
the mint had been rented by the cracks
men and that it was their intention to tun-
mel under the street to the mint and under
mine vault In the basement. There ID
from thirty to forty million dollars worth
of precious metal stored In the vaults.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14

REV. DIR. MILBURN, the blind chap
lain of the House of Representatives,
whose prayers are creating sensation,
is a remarkable man in more than one
respect. Forty-three years ago he was
told by eminent doctors that he would
be dead within six months, and since
that time he has travelled by actual
computation 1900, 900 miles in his vo-
cation. He is now physically, although
in his sixty-fourth year. as strong and
robust as most men Of thirty, and his
intellect is of more than common
power.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14

A BILL has been favorably reported
authorizing the President 10 arrange
for a conference with the States Of
South and Central America, for the
purpose, among other things, of inn
proving "the business intercourse" be-
tween the United States and these coun-
tries, and encouraging such peaceful
and reciprocal commercial relations as
will be beneficial to all, and secure more
extensive markets for the surplus pro-
ducts of each of said countries"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14

A NATIONAL Sanitary Convention, the
object of which will be to afford an op.
portulity for an expression of opinion
ON matters relating to the public health
and the discussion of methods for the
advancement Of the sanitary condition
Of the country, the prevention Of sick.
ness and avoidable death. ard the i'm.
provemept of the conditions Of living.
win be held in Philadelphia, beginning
ON May IL. under the auspices Of the
Pennsylvanis State Board OF Health
Msdt,al and health associations are In
sited to ssnd delegatea
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"A microscopic slide In the posses.
sion of the Manchester Philosophical
and Literary Society, in England, con-
tains the Lords prayer written within
the 406, ,0OOth part Of an inch. The
minute speck can be found with pow
erful microscopes only with great diff
Guilty, as the focus point Of the lens
must be made to cover the exact spot
bearing the object II was engraved
Dy Mr.. Webb some years ago by the
AID OF an instrument now held BY the
society.
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BASTINADOED.
A Vermont Woman Cripples q Child for

A Vermont Woman Cripples Child for
Life.
RrcHFoRD, W., April 9.-Mrs N. P.
Sweet was arrested Wednesday at the in
stance of the State for cruelty to little
girl she took from the poor-house to care
for as her own. After keeping the child
several weeks, she returned her to the
poor-house in disabled condition. Inves-
tigation showed that Mrs. Sweet whipped
the girl thirty times, and that she stuffed
her mouth with rags then bound her and
bastinadoed her feet until the girl was
crippled for life. 1t was one of the most
outrageous cases of cruelty ever perpe-
trated here The woman was placed under
bonds for her appearance at the County
Court.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14

A FRENCH physician asserts that he
has discovered a soporitic whose effects
can be exactly limited to the time re-
quired. This will, he says, enable trav-
elers to sleep comfortably and conf
dently during journey. He measures
his doses by miles. Thus you can take
a fifty mile dose before starting on q
railway journey, and open your eyes,
pleasantly refreshed, at your proper
station
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Frozen Out of His Hiding Place.

FORT WAYNE, IND, April 7.-William
Haley, who murdered Matt Crosby at
Lattas, Ohio, last Saturday night, was ar
rested near Convoy, on the Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne and Chicago road, east of here
early this morning in starving condition
and nearly frozen. He has been hiding in
the woods since the murder. The heavy
snow drove him out, and he was taken to
Paulding to-day, and is now there.
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Logan Thre ate ned With Boycott

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The latest in
stance of threatened "boycotting' is said
to be in an anonymous letter received by
Mrs. Logan. Mrs. Logan is one of the la.
dies interested in the Garfield Memorial
Hospital, for the benefit of which it is pro-
posed to give the calico ball at the Chinese
Legation building. The writer warns Mrs
Logan that for her to go under the roof Of
the Chinese Minister will be an indication
that she sympathfzes with Chinese immi-
grafton, and the laboring men of the coun-
try will in consequence "boycott" General
Logan in his political aspirations. The
writer is supposed TO be crank
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14
Apples without Cores.
TRrio (Pa,) Herald

A nurSeryman of Warren County, II 10
said, claims to be able to grow apples with
out cores. His theory 10 to bend the twig
when the size Of . small elder and insert
the top In the ground. When the top takes
root sufficient, cut OF near the butt and
stake 1t up perpsndicularly. The result
win be tree growing butt end up, which
70 dsmoralises nature that baroness Of core
and seed ensues.
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Moody Wanted at Chicago.

CHICAGO, April s.-A committee, of
which Rev. DR.. Barrows is chairman, has
been appointed by the Evangelical Minis
ters of this city to proceed Immediately to
8. c., for the purpose of in
viting Dwight L. Moody to come to Chicago
and continue the work begun here by Sam
Jones and Sam Small. The intention is to
have Mr.. Moody conduct series Of mann
moth meetings here, commencing April ls.
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A Terrible Experience.

HALIFAX, N. s., April IA dory with
two men living and two men dead on
board drifted ashore at Guyon Island,
Gabarus, Cape Breton, on Monday. They
had been eight days out from their vessel,
which was left on the western part of
Grand Bank. One of the dead bodies was
considerably mangled about the throat
and arms, which is said to have been done
by the others upon going mad
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
Death Of a Child by Having = Penholder
Run in Its Throat.

Deatn OF Ch1ld ny having PenhOldef
Run in Its Throat.
New York, April S.-There is mourning
in the house of Bernard Tulley, on the
third floor Of the tenement 1863 Madison
street. Little Nellie, his pretty six-year-
old daughter, lies dead there. She was
playing about in the narrow hall on
Wednesday evening, shortly after six
o'clock, while Mrs. Tulley was busy in the
kitchen. Nellie had picked up a pen
holder from the table where her elder
sister had been writing, and held it be-
tween her teeth as she ran through the
hallway. Just how she managed to trip
and fall is not known, but when her father
ran out into the hall he found the little
girl lying helpless at the head OF the
rickety stairway with blood flowing
from her mouth. She had fallen upon
her face and driven the sharper end
of the pen holder into her throat
She died in a few moments. The Coroner
held an inquest this afternoon. He deter
mined that death was probably caused by
perforation of the glottis and consequent
suffocation. Dr. Magee, the attending ply.
sician, was of the opiaion that either the
pneumogastric or the phrenic nerve had
been penetrated, and that death had been
caused by paralysis of the heart and lungs
He regards the case as extraordinary.
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Four Blue.Eyed Boys.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, April -Four miles
from here, in log cabin in the brush, Mrs.
Lars Grindahl aged thirty-seven, Sunday,
gave birth to four male babies, weighing
twenty pounds in all, each alive, bright.
eyed and healthy. All will live. The moth
er is doing we'll. She has been married
sixteen years and had six children before
these, all living. All the children have
blue eyes and golden hair.
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SOME of the details of the Wholesale
sacrifice of bird life on the altar of
fashion are of startling significance.
At Cape Cod 10000 terms have been
killed in one season by single agent
OF the hat trade. At Cobb's Island, on
the Virginia coast, an enterprising
business woman of New York has re-
Gently succeeded in filling contract
with Paris millinery firm for 10000
bird-skins of gulls, sea-swallows and
terms, at forty cents apiece.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-04-14

The White Cross Society, of New
York, numbers about 1000 members.
The object of the Society is: To treat
all women with respect, and protect
them from wrong and degradation. To
put down all indecent language and
coarse jests. To maintain the law Of
purity as equally binding upon men and
women. To endeavor to spread these
principles among companions and 10
help younger brothers. To try to full
ell the command, "Keep thyself pure" !"
The order is spreading throughout the
country.
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The St, Louis Trouble,

ST. LOUIS, April 7.-At East st. Louis .
large mob forced men to quit work who
were in the employ of the Ohio and Missis.
sippi, vandalia, and Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy roads, The mob was driven
away from the Chicago and Alton yards
by force of deputy marshals armed with
Winchester rifles The yards in the city
have been practically abandoned, and it
is thought the Illinois militia will be called
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scneme of Practical Charity.

LONDON, April THE Cable News Com
pany has opened fund in the National
Bank at Dublin for the purpose of supply
ing fishing boats to the impoverished peo-
pie inhabiting the islands along the west
coast of Ireland. 1t is proposed to pur-
chase boats at a cost of ESQ each, COM
pletely equipped, and sell them to the fish
ermen at cost, to be paid for by Install
ments within two years. The money re-
ceived in payment for the boats will be
used to purchase additional ones, to be
disposed Of under the same conditions.
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Wool.Growers' Convention,

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April THE first Na-
tional Sheep -Shearing and Wool Growers
Convention met here to-day in the hall OF
the Cotton Exchange. The following per
msnent officers were elected: President
Columbus Delano, Ohio; secretary,C d. N.
Campbell st. Louis; treasurer, C. W. Sim.
mons, 81. Louis, with vice presidents rep
resenting nearly al the States In the Union.
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Family Poison, d...Three Ovlnu.

ERIE, Pa, April 9.-The family of Henry
Mclaughlin was seized with convulsions
to-day after dinner. They were found this
evening in q very precarious condition.
The symptoms indicated vegetable poison
ing: The vomit rejected had been disposed
of by some interested persons. No poison
can be found anywhere, and great excite
ment prevails, for the evidences of an at
tempt at foul murder are unmistakable.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclaughlin and the eldest
daughter can not live till morning, but the
other three children may recover. No cause
for the crime can be conjectured.
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Judge Baxter's Probable Successor.

WASHINGTON, April 9.--There is good rea-
son for believing that the President will
appoint Senator jackson, of Tennessee, as
U. $. Circuit Judge, in place of Judge Bax-
ter, deceased. The Sixth Circuit includes
the States Of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee. Senator Jackson's term
sical education and graduated in the law
in 1855. He served twice on the Supreme
Bench Of the State by appointments.
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WAsHINaroN, April 7.-Mr. Forney, OF
Alabama, to-day reported to the House
from the Committee on Appropriations the
joint resolution introduced by Represents
tive Herbert making an appropriation for
the relief of the sufferers by the Alabama
foods. The committee recommends an ap.
Of el50000 instead Of ea)0O00.
~ provided in the original resolution.
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Married to a Rich Baron

ROME, April s-The marriage of Miss
Nina Moulton, of New York, to Baron Won
Raaben, who is said to be the richest noble
man in Denmark, was solemnized in St.
Paul's American Church this afterno oon.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
DIR. Nevin, rector of st. Paurs. The bride
was given away by her step-father, M. De
Hegermann-Lindencron Danish Minister
to Italy, and her principle bridesmaid was
her cousin, Miss Won Hatzfedt, daughter of
the German ambassador at London,
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A Flint.Hearted Father.

FLINT, MICH, April 0.-Little Lulu vii.
son died last Sunday, and her father was
suspected of the crime. He has con-
fessed and the particulars were made pub
lie to-day. The child's mother maltreated
her horribly, and the father poured creo-
sote down the child's throat, stating that
he wanted to save it from further ill treat
meut.
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Car Burned with Corpses and Mails

Gar burned with COrpses ana Mails.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April S.-The Buffet car
on the New York limited express train,
which left Chicago on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern road at $50 o'clock
last night. caught fire at II 80 this morning,
while the train was between Rocky Ridge
and Oak Harbor, o. The car is divided
into three compartments, which are used
as baggage car, kitchen and smoking car
respectively. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by the explosion of an alcohol
stove in the center compartment, and
spread rapidly, driving out the occupants,
and totally destroying the car and con-
tents. In the forward end, besides the
baggage, were two corpses in transit, and
eleven pouches Of through mails.
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Washington Monument Excitement

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Something Of an
excitement was created this morning by
the rumor that the Washington Monument
was cracking and many persons were seen
scrutinizing it with glasses. The Superin-
tendent of the monument stated that the
''cracks' were only streaks of cement made
more plainly visible by the recent rains.
The explanation Of the streaks being seen
only near the top is that in the haste to
complete the monument the workingmen
neglected the cleaning process to which
iectad