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The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01
Epitome OF; the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFrIErH coNdREss,

FiFlA6l u ~SON0hESSh
THURSDAY, May A.-In the Senate Mr.
Stewart (Nev.) calleds up the joint res
olution for constitutional amendment re-
ducing toa simple majority the vote nee
essary to override Presidential veto, and
spoke at length on the subject. He said
that the Government was now one-man
power, and iamented the fact that the ad-
vice OF congressman was not considered in
the appointment of Office holders. In the
House the bill for the admission of South
Dakota into the Union was discussed. The
conference: report on the invalid Pension
bill was agreed to. The PostrOfic Appro-
priation bill was passed.
FRIDAY: May a5-The Senate passed
the Deficiency Appropriation bill SEN
ator Turpie introduced bill to provide for
"a directory. of the most skilled mechanics
and artisans. in all. parts of the country.
Senator Blair introduced joint resolution
providing that no State shall ever make a
law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
and that every. State shall establish and
maintain a system of free public schools.
In the House the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was dis
cussed. At the evening session fifty pri-
vate pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, MAY So.-NO business OF I'M
portancel was transacted in the Senate
The question of discussing the fishery
treaty in open session was considered in
caucus by the Republican members, who
favor an open discussion. In the House the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation bill was further considered
MONDAY, May 2s.-The River and Har-
Dor bill was reported back to the Senate
from the Commerce Cnmmittee roso
luton that the injunction of secrecy be
removed from all the proceedings of the
Senate in reference to the fishery treaty
was adopted In the House bills were in
troduced to retire ex soldiers and sailors
who have been wounded in battle after
twenty-one years of service in the civil
service; providing for an Assistant Secre-
tary of War, and providing for issuing
bonds to refund the National debt. The
Legislative, Executive and judicial Appro-
priation bill was further considered.
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EDITOR COBB, of Lockport, N. Y,
tells this story of Roscoe Conkling's S
remarkable memory: In the fall of
1856 Mr.. Conkling went to Utica to
make speech upon the exciting issues
OF the hour, and the Herald wanted to
report itin full, but couldn't unless the
orator would give it copy in advance.
This he did on the afternoon of the
evening when he was to speak, and in
The evening he delivered tho speech al
most word for word as furnished in
advance. although the effort was to all
appearance extempore. 1t made over
eleven columns of the Utica Herald.
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Fearful FIra III cbinn

sAS FRANcIsCo, May 25.-News from
China says disastrous confagration oc--
CURED on April s at Ohno, in Yechizen.
Out OF 1900 houses in the town 1890. were
destroyed, and several people lost their
lives. Among them was the chief officer
OF the post-ofice. Great apprehension is
feit by the medical authorities. that
Manila will shortly be scourgea by
cholera or some other terrible epidemic, as
buffalo are dying by the thousands in the
provinces. - z
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. OFFICIAL notice has been received
IN Washington of the action of the
Parliament of Brazil in abolishing
slavery throughout that empire and Of
the approval of the measure by the
Regent. A telegram containing this
information was also received by Pres
ldent Cleveland, who sent reply con-
graduating Brazil upon the act of
emancination
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A. BIG railway syndicate has been
formed by Canadian and American
money! magnates for the purpose of
constructing railways and encouraging
colonization in Brazil. It has CAP.
ltal OF $10o, 0Oo,0o0, and proposes to
build lines of railroad penetrating to
regions hitherto inaccessible to COM
merce, but rich in diamonds, precious
metals and agricultural resources
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

Ex-Governor BERRY, Of New Hamp-
shire, now residing at Bristol and in
his ninety-second year, organized in
1926 the first Temperance society in
that State. 1t was formed at Hebron.
where he was manufacturer Of
leather. and was known as the ..Tan-
ners' Temperance Society,""
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Mrs. JANE WATT, an elderly lady of
Aenia, o.. died the other day, and
Drs Bremdaye and Mcclellan held a
post-mortem examination, when it
was discovered that a melanotic tumor
was located at the lower end of the
liver 1t was thirteen and one-half
inches in circumference, which the
physicians say is the largest one of the
kind known to medical science.
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TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.

A Boy Killed and Over seventy-Five Peo-
pie Hurt, Eight or Ten Fatally.
FREDERIcS Md, May s9.-An explosion
Of gasoline occurred last evening in the
store of A. F. Zellers during the progress
of fire, wrecking the building and killing
Charles Poole, boy of II years. A num-
ber Of fremen, who were in the building,
were frightfully cut, burned and bruised,
and about seventy five people, who were
watching the fire, were injured by the
flying debris. Eight or ten of the injured
will probably die
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Explosion in a Fire-work. =. .+.,,,,

PARIS, May ga terrible explosion
took place Yesterday in Merlot's Cartridge
and fre-Work factory, between Pantin and
Bre st Gervais, by which seven buildings
were destroyed Eleven dead bodies have
been taken from the ruins andAwenty-one
persons-all more or less injured-haye
oeen rescued The search for victims is
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

The United States Fish Commission
is experimenting with shad culture as
far South as Atlanta. Three million
eggs will be Matched aud distributed
in the streams of that State =
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THE EAST.

The Methodist general conference in
session in New York City on the Oath elect
ed Drs. Newman and Goodsell as Bishops.
By decision of Judge Wallace, of New
York, on the 24th, Rev. E. W. Warren must
pay fine of 81 600 for coming to this coun-
try to preach under contract for Holy
Trinity Church
. RESOLUTIONS were adopted in the Meth
odist general conference in New York on
the 25th demanding voluntary total absti-
nence from all intoxicants and complete
legal prohibition of the liquor traffic as
the duty of the civil governments, and
church members were advised not to per-
NIT themselves to be controlled by political
party organizations that were managed in
the interests of the liquor traffic.
THE record of the baseball clubs in the
National League for the week ended on
the 26th was as follows: Chicago (games
won), 81 !; Boston, 1S; Detroit, Is; New York,
13; Philadelphia, 12; Pittsburgh, II; Indian
apolis. 8; Washington, 6.
A FIRE destroyed an italian boarding.
house at Pittston, Pa, on the 9th, and
three children of the proprietor, Chris
topher Sarageni, perished in the flames
The firm Of James Mclaughlin & Son,
woolen manufacturers at Skaneateles Falls,
N. Y, failed on the 28th for over S25O,OOO.
On the 2Sth cyclone at Titusville, Pa,
blew down whole avenues of trees and
wrecked many buildings
TWENTY business blocks at Wellsville,
N. Y, were unroofed on the 2Sth by
cyclone, and the Baptist church was
wrecked. The glass in hundreds of win
dows was broken. At Allentown, N. Y, a
church and other buildings were ruined.
JAMES G. BLA1NE's home at Augusta, Me-.
was recently broken into, his private pa
pers ransacked and some of them carried
off. The thief and the character of the pa
pers were unknown.
The boss brewers of New York on the
28th declared the long strike ended, and
hereafter would not take back any of the
strikers.
ACCORDING to the New York World of the
29th Mr.. Blaine has written to one of his
most intimate friends letter positively re-
fusing the use of his name as Presiden-
tial candidate and declaring that he could
not, under any circumstances, accept the
nomination.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

A MONTANA man had a valuable
mare stolen from his stable. He ad-
vertises his loss. and says: "I will
give the mare and fifty dollars cash
for full and reliable particulars. re-
garding the funeral of the thief. \.
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FROM WASHINGTON,

CARDINAL GIBBONS laid the cornerstone
OF the new Catholic University of America
in Washington on the Oath with appropriate
ceremonies.
DURING the seven days ended on the 25th
there were 213 business failures in the
United States against 1872 the previods seven
days.
COLONEL MARYLAND, who had charge of
the Government mail service in the South
during the war, and who was close friend
of General Grant, died in Washington on
the 25th.
THE President on the 25th approved the
act authorizing conference of American
1pations and the act limiting the hours Of
letter carriers
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 26th aggregated
sSS9,614, ,02S, against $3.50, 1873 $50 the previous
week. As compared with the correspond
ing week of 1887 the decrease amounted to
So per cent.
GENERAL SHERIDAN passed very COM
Portable day on the 28th His whole condi-
tion was very much improved, and he de-
clared that he felt splendid
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Mercy shown !" "Bllnky" Morgan.

COLUMBUS, O., May 29.-The State Board
of Pardons heard the application OF
'Blinky' Morgan yesterday for commuta.
tion Of his sentence to Imprisonment fo1
life, and recommended to the Governor
that he extend the time Of the execution to
sixty days from June /, to give them time
to examine the case. The argument in the
case will be heard July 10.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

AN Inventor has completed experi-
ments which, he says, show the prac-
tlcability of making stone type. They
are OF course, Of large size, to substi-
tute for wood letters. The material is
an artificial stone. pressed into molds,
and then hardened, afterward being
polished on the surface There will be
no warping and no expansion or con-
traction. and each font will be exactly
tho same as that preceding.
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A Serious Fire.

SOUTH P1TTsBuRG, Tenn, May 2s.-The
immense buildings Of the Perry stove works
were burned here Saturday might. The
buildings, including foundry. and ware.
houses, occupied three acre, Of ground.
The large dry-goods house of Payne g. Co.
was also burned and the fire is still burn
ing. 1t is feared the town will be burned.
Losses were roughly estimated at midnight
at som nm =, r
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MRS. DENNIS. wife of South Caro-
lima farmer, had dispute with her
husband, and he attempted to whip
her: She defended herself with piece
OF iron, and in SO doing struck him a
blow on the temple from which he died
almost Immediately. The wife was ac-
quilted by coroner's iury.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

Mrs. WARREN, q Colorado cattle
queen, is said to be the; richest woman
west of the Mississippi. Her fortune
is estimated at $4,000. 600 sin hard,
solid cash. every cent of which she
made on cattle,'' -,.
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Terrible Explosion.

FREDERICK, Md, May 29.-An explosion
of gasoline occurred last evening in the
store of A. F. Zellers during the progress
of fire, wrecking the building and killing
Charles Poole, a boy of II years. A num-
ber Of firemen, who were in the building,
were frightfully cut, burned and bruised,
and about seventy-five people, who were
watching The fire, were injured by the
flying debris. Eight or ten of the injured
will probably die
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SENATOR SoUTHwoRrH, of

SENATOR SoUTHwoRTH, of Litchtield,
Ill, who was injured in railway
wreck fourteen months ago. has been
awarded 81, 200 damages in spite Of
the fact set up in defense by the rail-
road company that the plaintiff was
travelling on free pass backed with
the usual waiver of claim for damages
III case of accident
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

THE best way to get an idea Of the
speed at which train is moving is to
run along the track in front of it. If
the cow catcher catches, your coat
tails it will be sure indication that
the train is moving at a greater speed
than you are.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01
THE DEMOCRATIC HOSTS.

Preparations for the National Convention
at st. Louisa List of Headquarters of
the Various State Dclegations-Prefer-
!, ences Expressed for the Nominees.
ST.. Louis, May 2S The official announce.
ment of the headquarters of the members
of the Democratic National Committee,
and the various State delegations has been:
completed by tho local Committee Of Ar
rangements, and is as follows: ltz
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First. Pretty Creature -,

First Pretty Creature -" Yester-
day was my birthday, dear; and my
Charlie gave me string of such beau
tiful pearls-one for every year" Sec
ond ditto (who has failed to secure
Charlie)-" How sweet. dearest. What
an expensive present : such IL long
string, dearp'-Fun.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

IT is said that Miss Annie McCor.
mick, a charming young lady OF
Hawkinsville. Ga, can play two pieces
on piano and sing third at the
same time. Pity the neighbors. 81
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01
Three Children Burned.

PITTsoN, Pa, May 2a--An Italian board
ing house burned yesterday morning
Three children of the proprietor, Chris
topher Sarageni perished and several men
were hurt some fatally.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

1t would bring the salt tears to the
eyes, of a stone lion to see Vassar
graduate and Harvard man who
took honors in French at college try
ing to order a dinner together in a
Paris restaurant-Journal Of Educa-
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Death of a Noted Mormon.

SALT LAKE Cry, U. r., May 29.-Erastue
Snow, one of the twelve apostles of the
Mormon church, died Saturday night, aged
20. He was among the earliest converts
of Joseph Smith, and very soon became
ono Of the leading men.
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The deadly car stove is now off on
its annual vacation. Every body is
glad, and hopes that it will never come
back. .s,.,.;

An Indiana lawyer says there are
eight hundred dead laws on the stat
ute books Of that State. every one of
which can be taken advantage of by
smart lawyer.
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Gold Export from Neu y..,.

New York, May 25. The loci. gold
shipped and withdrawn for export SO far
this month amounts to s., 600, 600. The assay
ofhce has 100000 in gold bars on hand
and I'll, ,bOO, 900 in double eagles deposited to
its credit in the sub-treasury.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01

1t is rumored that when M. de
Lesseps finishes the Panama canal the
first vessel to cross the isthmus will be
propelled BY the Kecly motor. Life
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mother and Daurhter Drowned.

:
PANAMA, Ia, May 29.-Mrs. William Ham
mersbach and her daughter May were
drowned Sunday night by, the giving way
of bridge over gulch about mile from
here. They came here about three years
ago from Chicago.
The Hope pioneer., 1888-06-01
The Sermon Ouestion -Cu

The Sermon Question = Curate
(musicaD-"But why do you object to
having a hymn during collectionp"
Rector (practicaD-"Well, you see, 1
preach good sermon, which calcu-
late should move the people to an sv-
erage of half a crown each; but l find
during long hymn they seem to cool
down, and it barely brings shilling
head. ."-London Punch.
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Tho Russian Crops Saved.
LONDON, May 28.--A copious rainfall In
Southern Russia has saved the crops and
IN abundant harvest is assured,
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ST. LOUIS, May 2S-Several days ago the
Post Dispatch sent to the delegates to
the Democratic National convention and
to other well-informed sources in
every State and Territory in the Union
for information respecting Vice-Presiden-
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Eisl,ernnsn I.nst !

Fishermen Lost In the GaIe.
LONDON, May 25.-It is estimated that 1os
persons belonging TO tho fishing fieet lost
their lives In the recent gale OF ireland.
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TIE President on the 29th sent d message
to the Senate vetoing the bill appropriating
$751; 600 for public building at Youngstown,
Ohio.
The chairman of the house committee on
agriculture on the Goth appointed the follow
ing subcommittee, to which has been re-
ferTed the Butterworth lardine bill, and the
various amendments looking to the proven
tion of food adulterations: Burnett (Mass.)
chairman; Stahlnacker and Davidson,
(Ala.) ;Conger, Qowa), and Laird, (Neb.)
THE Bishops elected by the Methodist Con
ference at New York, Drs. Vincent, Fitz-
gerald, Goodsell, Joyce and Newman, and
Missionary Bishop Thoburn, were conse-
Grated on the 29th.
Mrs. DENNIS MULLEN was brutally mur
dered at Pittsburg, Pa. on the 29th in
the presence of her three little children, by
a neighbor named Scolter. The murder
was the result of q family quarrel, which
had been carried to court. Scolter
was placed in Jail. 0
AT Ellington, Ont, recently, Frederick
N. Toye, his wife and three children were
Jul AASN w uSRIL III LuC1I uOIll6.
THE Presbyterian General Assembly at
Philadelphia adjourned sine die on the 29th
A BILL reviying the grade of General of
the Army and raising the rank of Gen.
Sheridan to that grade was passed by the
Senate ON the Goth by vote of 81 TOT.
GEN. SHERIDAN's condition showed de-
cided improvement on the ooh, and his re-
covery seemed not improbable.
The county and city of Dublin have
been proclaimed under the crimes act.
MICuAEL BUKNsTEAD was fatally stabbed
ON the 10th at Lake Park, Kim, by his
hired man.
TIE Senatorial Civil Service committee.
appointed to examine into the workings of
the law in the New York Custom House.
concluded its labors on the Goth.
The National Civil Service Reform League
commenced its annual session at New York
on the 10Th.
In open executive session OF the Senate on
the 29th the fisheries treaty was scussed.
r. Frye (Me.) opposed its acceptance, in
lengthy speech, after which further con-
sideration was postponed until June Ill.
A DIS ArcH from Pittsburg, Pa, saws
the 1000 men employed at the Homestead
mill of Carnegie, Phipps, e. Co., have been
notified that reduction in wages would be
asked on July !. Dullness in trade is as
signed as the cause.
The Democratic Legislative caucus at Ba-
ton Rouge, La, on the 10Th nominated
Judge Z. E. White for United States sena-
tor, TO succeed senatorJ, B. Eustis, WHOSE
tern! expires in 1891.
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FOREIGN INTEl,LIGENcE,

On the oath the Queen Victoria Niagara
Falls Park, on the Canadian side, was
thrown open. 1t contains lis acres.
LONDON advices of the Oath say that one
hundred and three persons belonging to
the fishing feet lost their lives in the re-
cent gale off ireland.
On the 24th Lord and Lady Lansdowne
sailed from Quebec for England.
AT Herlot's fireworks and cartridge fac.
tory in the suburbs of Paris an explosion
on the oath destroyed seven buildings and
killed eleven workmen.
PRINCE HENRY, second son of Emperor
Frederick, and Princess Irene third daugh-
ter of Grand Duke Ludwig, of Hesse, were
married on the 24th at Berlin.
SEVERAL wealthy merchants of Moscow
were convicted on the 25th of adulterating
tea, and one of them was deprived of his
civil rights and banished to Siberia for life
THE town of Harlan, in Roumania, was
destroyed by fire on the 25th, and four
hundred families were homeless
A coPIous rainfall in Southern Russia
had on the 26th saved the crops and an
abundant harvest was assured.
On the 26th the new gasometcr of the
Montreal gas-works exploded, killing four
persons and injuring six others, three
fatally.
EGYPTIAN advices of the 9th say that
Osman Digma's camp had been burned by
incendiaries in order to compel him to re-
treat, and that two thousand of his follow
ers perished.
ADv1cEs of the 2Sth say that all Jews ex
cepting merchants of the first guild had
been ordered to quit Moscow within fort
night
THE first train over the railroad built by
Russia to tho Caspian sea arrived at
Samarcand on the 2Sth and caused great re
joicing.
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tlcket: secretary OF state, waiter f.
Payne; Board OF Public Works, j. w. Psn-
field; Supreme Judge, John r. Moore.
4 DEMOCRATS OF the Eighth N6rth Carolina
district on the ssth fenominatsd w, H. II.
Cowles for Congress
consin district OH the a5th nominated j, II;
Moseley, of Tomah, for Congress-.
A RAIY and wind-storn OF the sSth at
ShelbSville, H., uprooted trees and iin.
rooted houses; and lightning struck one
dwelling and barn, cutting them in two
as th~,gh cleft with an axe.
On the 9th Bishop Gilmore, of the CAN
ton TO- Catholic diocese, ordered that no
priest should of1ciate at funerals where
flowers were used #
Ar Anderson, Tex, William d. Roe, who
murdered his wife by poisoning to secure
the insurance on her life, was hanged on
the 26th.
GREAT damage to property was caused
by cyclone on the 26th in Ottawa and
Cloud counties, Kan. Several persons
were injured, but none fatally.
Z. LOUISIANA Democrats met at Baton Rouge
on the 18th and named as defega 'es-at-
large to st. Louis Samuel D. McEnery,
Charles Parlange, James Jeffries and Dud-
ley Avery. The resolutions adopted favor
President Cleveland's denomination
In the Seventh Indiana district the
Democrats on the Goth renominated W. D.
Bynum for Congress.
South Pittsburg, Tenn, on the 26th. Loss,
5000, 900.
A wATERsPouT on the 26th at Chadron,
Neb., and vicinity did great damage to
crops, swept away grazing live stock and
inundated miles Of territory
On the 18th the standard gauge railroad
to the summit of Lookout Mountain, in
Tennessee, was completed, and the first
passenger train ran up the mountain
WILLIAM JOHNSON and Jefferson Tapley
were drowned near Hannibal, Mo-, on the
Goth by the capsfzfng of skif
A wIND.sToRM on the 2Sth near Morenci,, ),
Mich, wrecked eight buildings, tore down,
fences, uprooted trees and did other dams
age.
A GASOLINE explosion on the oSth in the
store of A. F. Zellers, at Frederick, Nd,
during the progress Of a fire, wrecked the
building, killed boy and severely injured
seventy persons, ten probably fatally.
In Cincinnati forty-four violators of the
Sunday Closing law were arrested on the
2Sth.-
On the 2Sth the First National Bank at
st. Paris, O., suspended, owing to the
shortage of Emmett " Rhodes, the cashier,
amounting to $40, 600.
By stroke of lightning one man was
killed and ten others probably fatally in
jured on the 2sth at Milenberg La.
On the 2Sth Thomas Waggoner, of Jack
son, ILL.,, charged with accepting election
bribes last fall, was found guilty, ordered
to be disfranchised for five years, confined
in the county Jail for ninety days, and to
pay the costs of prosecution. This was the
first case under the new law.
BUILDINGS were blown down by high
wind at Canton, O., on the 2Sth, and losses
amounting to so, 600 were caused.
RAINS on the 2Sth flooded farm lands and
did great damage to crops in many parts of
Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.