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Western appeal., 1888-02-18

WEDNESDAY,, Feb Sin the Senate bills
We're passed for the relief of importers
OF animals for breeding purposes, and to
enable the State OF Colorado to select
indemnity school lands Itwas decided to
vote on the Educational bill on the 18th
In the House the bill making bills of lading
conclusive evidence in certain cases was
passed The Speaker announced the fol-
lowing special committee to investigate the
labor troubles in Pennsylvania: Messrs
Tlllman Is. C), Stone Mo.), Chapman Mlch) J,
Anderson Kan) and Parker IN. ".
THURSDAY, Feb. 8. - In the Senate a
joint resolution was passed providing for
the distribution of undistributed copies of
the records of the rebellion and the reports
Of the tenth census. The Committee on In
dian Affairs reported favorably the bill
providing for the opening to settlement of
the Sioux Indian reservations in Dakota
Adjourned to the 18th In the House the
bill to discontinue the coinage of the three
cent piece was passed Bills were intro
duced for the adjustment Of accounts of
laborers arising under the Eight-Hour law,
and to prevent the overlooking of vessels
on the great lakes The bill requiring sub
sld1zed railroads to maintain and operate
telegraph lines was considered.
FRIDAY, Feb. 1O.-The Senate was not
in session In the House resolution to
inquire iato the complaints of defective
mail service in the West and South was
adopted. Favorable reports were made on
a bill to create an arbitration board to set
tie the differences between the United
States and Texas. The Senate bill author
izing the appointment of Andrew D. White
regent of the Smithsonian Institution
was passed.
MONDAY, Feb IS. In the Senate the
bill for @ commission on the subject of
the liquor traffic was placed on the calen-
dar. bill was introduced to increase the
pensions of those who have lost a limb or
two limbs or both eyes A resolution was
offered to ascertain whether Congress had
power to enact laws to prohibit within the
States the adulteration of food. In the
House bills were introduced authorizing
the election of delegate from the In
dian Territory to the Fifty-frst Con-
gress; permitting farmers and producers
of tobacco to sell leaf tobacco in any
quantity to any person, without restric-
tion; to prohibi5 fictitious and gambling
transactions in articles produced by the
American farming industry; proposing
constitutional amendment limiting the
membership of the House to $50; to pro-
hibit the coinage of three-dollar gold
pieces; for the establishment of postal
telegraph system. A bill was passed pro-
hibiting any person in Washington or
Georgetown from making books or pools
on the result OF any races or of any game of
baseball
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

An English critic says that novels
are now supplied at the rate of about
four hundred year.
The Queen Regent of Spain has
addressed a letter to Mrs. Cleveland
asking, her for her photograph.
DIR. Lyman Abbott is to receive
$4,000 a year as the temporary pastor
of Plymouth Church. He will retain
editorial supervision of the Christian
Union.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland re-
ceives Sc, 600 for her two years serv-
ices and the use of her name at the
head Of Mrs. Reeds school in New
York. She is also doing some literary
and magazine work.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is an
unobtrusive hotel guest. He edges up
to the desk, and, if any one is ahead OF
him, he steps aside and waits He writes
his name in neat, plain hand, and
goes at once to his room.
Pope Leo has conferred upon Mr..
Charles L. Webster, the New York
publisher, the decoration which is worn
by the Knights of the Order of Plus *,
in recognition of his services in bring
ing out the '.Life of Leo KILL The
Order of Plus TX. is the highest order
of knighthood under the Roman En-
pire.
Now that Daniel Pratt is dead.
Frank Vincent. Jr., the author of q The
Land of the White Elephant" may
very properly be called the great Amer
lean traveller. Within the last eleven
years he has travelled 265, 900 miles, and
the records Of his outings are con-
tanned in dozen pleasant books of ad-
venture and discovery.
"A correspondent recently saw in
the library of Mrs. Augusta Evans
Wilson the original manuscript of her
novel, ''Vashti." 1t was entirely in
her handwriting, and was as clear and
neat as asfreshly printed page. This is
the manuscript for which Mrs. Wilson
received SIS, 900, and it is kept carefully
preserved in a case Of heavy leather
s. Miss Minnie Gilmore, the daughter
Of Band-Master Patrick S. Gilmore,
has written some exquisite verses
which will soon be published to an ac-
compartment by Mrs. Emma Marcy
Raymond. Miss Gilmore, who is re-
markably talented girl as we'll as an
uncommonly pretty one, has written a
little volume of dainty poems of beauty
and originality.
George w. Williams. the colored
historian, and the best-known writer
of his race, has just put the finishing
touches to drama which he hopes to
see performed on the stage before very
long. The name of this play is
Panda, and the scene is laid in Africa.
Panda, the hero, is said to lie second
Othello in character and appearance.
The horrors of slave-ship are repro
duced, and one scene is devoted to q
slave-market in Charleston, S. G..
Charles Darwin found backgam-
mon a great mental relaxation, and he
was very fond of novels for the same
purpose. The great naturalist did most
Of his writing sitting in a large horse
hair chair by the fire, upon board
stretched across the arms, When he
had many OF long letters to write, he
dictated them from rough copies writ
ten on the backs of manuscripts or
proof-sheets. He kept all the letters
he received-a habit caught from his
father. When his letters were fin.
ished, he lay on sofa in his bedroom
and had novels read to him, while he
smoked cigarette or regaled his nos
trils with snuff.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
THE EAST.

AT Kutztown, Pa, four houses were
burned on the 9th, John Hopp, his daughter,
aged fifteen years, and his son, aged nine
years, perishing in the flames.
On the 9th Clement A. Day was hanged at
Utica N. Y. He was convicted of the muir
der OF his mistress, Johanna Ross Crow, of
whom he was insanely jealous.
In the Dupont powder works at Wap-
wallopen. Pa, an explosion on the 10th
blew four men to pieces and wounded
forty others, dozen of whom were not ex-
pected to recover Nearly every building
in the place was wrecked.
HON. JAMES G. BLAINE in letter to B. F.
Jones, OF Pittsburgh, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, dated Flor
ence Italy, January 25, 1888. and made
public on the 18th inst, announces his
declination to permit the use of his name
as Presidential candidate before the Re
publican National convention.
A JURY on the llth in New York brought
in a verdict that the heirs of suicide, in
sured for $40 1000, We're not entitled to any
benefit
On the evening of the 1 l th the Republican
Club OF the city of New York held a dinner
at DelmonicO's in honor of the seventy
ninth birthday of Abraham Lincoln Ad-
dresses were made by Senator Evarts, Sher-
ula1l, ALISON ana OCnerS. s' -'-r
SIX whites and seven negroes, convicted of
petty larcenies were whipped with from
five to ten lashes each on the l lth at New
CASTLE Del.
On the ! tn Mr.. and Mrs. NJ B. Merrill
who reside near Meadville, Pa, celebrated
their diamond wedding: Mr. Merrill is
ninety y-seven years old and his wife is
eighty nine
AT Allegheny City, Pa, an association of
women was formed Oh the 18th to boycott
all stores which keep open later than six
o'clock in the evening
On the 18th James Albert, of Philadel-
phia, came out first in the six days walking
match in New York, making 621lo miles,
! and beating the previous best record of 61O
miles Herty finished second, $50 miles
OF the forty-four who started in the race
only twelve were at the finish
In the Eastern States another heavy
snow-storm prevailed on the 18th The
snow in Eastern New York was four feet
deep on the level, with drifts thirty and
forty feet high.
SEVERAL collieries in the Reading tPa.)
but the majority of the mines were still
| idle
| REPUBLICANS of Maine will meet in State
convention at Bangor on April 26 to nomi-
| nate Presidential electors and delegates to
| the National convention at Chicago
HUNGARIANs, while drunk, overturned a
lamp on the 18th at Silver Brook, Pa, and
| the place catching fire five men and girl
were burned to death and other persons
were not expected to recover
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS.

The Dupont Powder Manufactory at Wap.
| waliOpen. Pa, Blown Up-Four Persons
Killed and Forty Others Badly Injured
| -Evcry Building in the Village Damaged
Surrounding Towns Shaken-Several
Lives Lost by Explosions Mt Other
Places.
MANGLED BY BURSTING POWDER
WMKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. 1 IA violent ex-
| plos1on oe cured at the Dupont powder
works at Wapwallopen at $3.50 yesterday
morning in which four men were killed,
| many injured, and q great deal of
| damage done Peter Kishbough, George
Ssout, Olean Teats and John Rossman
/ We're at work in the packing house
where great quantity of powder was
| stored, when the explosion happened
| How the accident occurred is not known,
| as the four nen were blown to pieces Over
forty other men were more or less seriously
hurt, and every building in WapWallopen
was either damaged or wrecked At Nanti-
coke, Shickshinny and Wananie, neigh
boring villages, glass was broken and
chimneys were toppled over The shock
was distinctly felt in WilkesDarre, although
twenty miles away. None of the injured
will die. The injuries were mostly caused
by flying fragments. The new Methodist
church at Wapella, Pa, 800 feet away, was
completely wrecked. There were Two tons
of powder in the building. There is no
trace OF the pacing house left, not even
the foundation. Rocks Weighing over u
hundred pounds were blown to a top of
mountain a quarter Of a mile away. Du-
ponEs loss, and the loss Of some thirty
buildings, more OF less shattered, will be
several thousand dollars.
FLOWN TO PIECES BY NITRo-GLYcER1NE
T1FF1N, O., Feb 1O-Mr Pinckuey, Of
Toledo, the weil-shooter, and Harry John
son, a workman, were literally blown to
pieces by an explosion of nitro -glycerine at
Bellevue yesterday. Some time ago 100
quarts of nitro glycerine was shipped to
Bellevue to be used in shooting a
gis WE'LL and buried for safe keeping
in a deep pit until it could be used The
two men named were digging the explosive
up when, according to one account, one Of
them struck his pick into the nitro-glycer-
ine 1t exploded at once. Not a piece Of
the body of either of the men weighing
five pounds could be found, but shreds Of
flesh and bloody matter hung on the
trees and rocks and roofs of houses
for a great distance from the mine The
buildings in the ne:ghborhood OF the ex-
plosion We're badly wrecked, and the shock
was felt at Tiffin. Sandusky, Putin Bay and
other places A large crowd of people who
were at the gas well narrowly escaped with
Their lives. The scene about the place
where the nitro-glycerine was fired is de-
scrlbed as one OF peculiar desolation and
wreck
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

The Toledo Blade publishes state
ment that.a syndicate OF New York,
Toledo, Chicago and Detroit capital
lists, representing S25,0oO. 600, held a
meeting few evenings ago at Detroit
and organized q company to build a
pipe line from the Northwestern Ohio
oil fields to Toledo and to erect. re-
fneries SO as to compete with the
Standard Oil Company. They claim
to own patents on a new process Of
refining, and say they can place the
product on the market at cheaper
rate. The capital stock Of the new
company is said to be $40. 900, 600.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
LATER.

j. W. HACKER killed Miss Mabel Steike,
at Berlin, Wis, on the 14th, and then blew
out his own brains. Cause, love troubles.
On the 14th, a portion Of the Northwest
was visited by another blizzard, trains be-
ing delayed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has announced
his intention Of making a visit to Florida,
and will probably leave Washington on the
Goth.
RICHARD K. Fox, proprietor of sporting
paper in New York, under examination on
the charge of aiding and abetting a prize
tight, was discharged on the 14th.
THE Secretary of State has directed the
establishment Of Un ted States consular
agency at Van Couvers Island, for the bene
fit of American commerce, which is said to
be growing in that vicinity.
THE McGlynn and George factions of the
Auti-Poverty society in New York are at
outs, according to dispatch of the 14th.
A FIRE in Montreal, Canada, on the 18th
caused a loss of $4,000.
Chief of Police in Chicago on the 14th vice
Ebersold resigned.
EX-SENATOR SARGENT, on trial at Albert
Lea, Mimi, for arson, was discharged on
the 14th.
ALoNzo HOLLY, a negro, was lynched at
FinckneyviIle, H., on the 14th
| A BILL was introduced in the New Jersey
Senate on the 14th, providing that the
death penalty shall be inflicted by electric
ity.
AN election was held in the Eleventh
Michigan district on the 14th to fill the va
icancy caused by the death of Congressman
Moffat. Seymour, Republican candidate,
was elected.
A DISPATCH from Dublin says the mayor
| of Cork has been convicted of assaulting a
police sergeant and sentenced to fourteen
days imprisonment.
In New York City, on the 14th, steam
engine on the New Broadway Elevated
Railroad fell from the structure on which it
rested, and struck on top of horse car
passing at the time. Four people were
killed and fourteen seriously injured.
| Two pick-pockets, Oscar Readon and Jo.
studemeyer were run out of st. Paul on the
l4th by the Police.
/ On the l4th, at Calumet, Mich, sixty
Itrammers struck for advance in pay Their
places we're at once filed, and everything
was working smoothly.
Il ~ S 1 ( I +
When you have to pay 81 an hour for a
Ione-horse sleigh, its easy to understand
wnat is meant by a revenue cutter.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
To THE delight of the offic,

TO THE delight of the officers of the
Post-Office Department at Washington
the special delivery system has proved
a success. Returns received from all
free delivery post-offices for the quar-
ter ended September 90, 1887, showed
that 217,5 special delivery letters
were delivered, which was a large in
crease compared with the previous
quarter. For the quarter ended De-
cember 81 last the returns received
showed IN increase Of 1876 per cent.
over the September quarter. The best
feature OF the service is that the Gov
ernment can not lose cent.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

NEARLY $4,000 has been subscribed
by Nebraska citizens in behalf of hero
ic school-teachers who protected their
young charges at terrible cost to them
selves during the late blizzard. Sev-
eral OF the young women are cripples
for life by reason of their heroism 1t
is thought the fund will reach $40, 900
III the next few days. -@
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
Pronounced u Conspiracy.

New YORK, Feb. 13--The suit against the
National Benefit Society to recover
$4,000 the amount of life insur-
ance policy held by the late John
Tyler, was decided Saturday in Judge
Cullen's court at Brooklyn, the jury
finding that the society was not liable, as it
was proved that Tyler had committed sui
eide. This establishes the fact Of the exist
enceiof a great conspiracy to defraud the in
surance companies out of $3OO,OOO, for
which Tyler had his life insured
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
Tic Whipnine.Post.

WILMINGTON, Del, Feb Is. - Seven
negroes and six whites, convicted of petty
larcenies, were whipped with from five to
ten lashes each at New Castle Saturday
morning. About 200 spectators were
present Some of the victims took their
punishment without tinching, but two of
them squirmed constantly. Samuel Long
(white), convicted of check forgery, stood
one hour in the DillOry
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

THERE is q hotel in Arkansas where
the rooms are designated by the names
OF cities and States. "Here, Front,
show this gentleman to New Orleans,
take a pitcher Of ice-water to Mime
sofa, see what that man in Boston
wants, and make fire in Chicago" is
sample of what one hears in the
nffipa
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
lndiana'S ms ane.

New YORK, Feb. l3-An Indianapolis
special to the Herald says that there are
5000 insane persons confined in the county
poor-houses or in the homes of relatives
throughout Indiana. The last Legislature
failed to appropriate money to complete
the three insane asylums in course of erec-
ton, and the disgraceful state Of affairs
noted is the result
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

ITIE value of rare American coins is
as follows: The half-dollar of 1852,
representing Liberty seated, is worth
$1.75. Among silver dollars the 1858
dollar. representing Liberty seated, is
worth SIS. The dollar of 1928 has a
flying eagle on the reverse side, and is
worth SIS. So is the same coin of
1889. Both are in circulation. The
20-cent piece of 1877 is worth 81. SO, and
OF 1878, 81. %. They are rarely seen.
The valuable dimes and half-dimes
were all coined before 1876. The sill
yer Scent piece of 1873, with the
large star, brings 80 cents.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

THE point where the coldest tempera-
ture on earth has ever been observed
has been dignitied by the name of the
pole of cold. 1t is located to the east
OF the River Lena, in Siberia. There,
at Verchojansk, the Russian Govern
mcnt has established an observatory.
The poor weather man out there re-
ported in December one year s. de-
grees below zero, and january, 1885,
as much as 80 and SO degrees below.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
HUMOROUS,

We suppose that a lady Who has a
little daughter named "Pearl' - would
be mother of pearl. .-Dra&e's Magazine.
: -''Mamma, is a shepherd Il man
who tends the sheep?" Yes, my
DEAR well, is a coward Il man
who tends to cows?' mo, my dear;
but women are when they see one. -
Ha7per's Bazar.
-Wife-''Is it true, hubby, that al
cohol will take stains out of silk?'
Husband-'' Yes, dear" Wife-"Well,
please breathe out these grease spots,
there's darllng" He obeys and
burns q hole in it.--7ova1 Topics.
The man who robs you on the road,
highWayman is he
The grocer giving you light weight
A low. weigh man must be.
-NortbWest Trade.
"A clergyman, Oh sultry after
noon, paused in his sermon and said:
Il saw an advertisement for five hun
dred sleepcrs for a railroad. I think l
could supply at least fifty, and recon-
mend them as good and sound.''
Mr.. McCorkle Gan attenuated dude
standing before portrait of broad
chested warrior-like ancestor)-"I
tell you, Miss Nivens, I'm no snob,
Lut Pm proud Of my descent: Miss
Nivens-''You should be. Mr.. Nc
Corkle; it has been great one! -
Life.
"A concert once took place in re-
mote Scotch village. 1t was the talk
OF every one tho next day. One of the
village lassies who had not been there
said to another who had been present:
Did ony o the singers get an in
core?" The other replied tsmartly,.
"Hoo div ken what they got? They
were a ta'en into a room by their
sells. Scottish Anserican
Young Wife Cat dinner table, Sob
bing)-"l think you-you-are just as
mean as-as-you can be. l made
that-that apple dumping as a pleas
ant surprise for you, and-and now
you-want me TO bring handsaw to
cut it in two with. Young Husband
- Good heavens, Maria! Is that a
dumplinge | took it for cocoanut.
I'll eat it now, Maria, if it kills me. y
Chicago Tribune.
A Lucky Woman. New Girl
"Please, ma'am, there's Grape on the
door opposite" +" Mistress -" Yes, ]
heard about it. The lady in the house
lost both of her children last night by
diphtheria, and l am going over to see
what assistance can render. She has
no girl, | understand. N.G.-"No'm.
She's got no gurrl. Icame near bein'
caught there myself. but I heard about
the childrenin time. NJ -" Heard they
had diphtheria? n. c. Oh, they
was well enough then. She's lucky
woman, she is, ma am. M .LuckyP''
y. c." Yes, indeed, ma am Now
she can advertise that she's got no
children. and she can get a good gurrl
IN 4 ils.lute. MT i'm. - u BITS.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
The Pulimans Sued.

CHICAGO Feb. 13 Andrew J. Carberry.
the Pullman car condutor, who was tried
in the criminal court last week and ao-
quilted on charge of stealing the com.
pany's fares on his run between
New Orleans and Chicago, brought suit for
500, 900 damages yesterday in the circuit
court against the Pullman Car Company
and the American Surety Company, his
prosecutors.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

Cover Il or Oglesby,
and presented a petit
ton and q mass OF
letters and indorse-
ments, constituting
probably the strong
est plea for execu-
tive clemency ever
laid before an ex-
ecutive of Illinois.
While t b Q crime
committed by Mack
in, to conceal which
he perjured himself
before the grand
jury, was of a polit-
icaI nature the nlea
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

Miss GRACE WEIsER, the young
Methodist revivalist, is meeting with
success in New York. She engaged in
evangelical work five years ago last
September, and since then eleven
thousand persons have been converted
as the result of her labors.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

JOHN JANAUscHEK, a farmer living near
New Prague, Mimi, killed his wife on the
9th, fatally wounded his tsn-year-old
daughter and killed himself A quarrel
over money was the cause
COLD weather was reported on the 9th as
follows: Duluth, Mimi, "a degrees below
zero; Pembina, D. T.. 81 degrees below;
Crookston, Mimi, 81 below; Teche, d. r..
56 below; Moorehead, Mimi, A below; ST
Paul, Mimi, 80 below; Ishpeming. Mich
35 below; Sycamore, Ill, so below; Water
town, Wis, 80 below; Des Moines, Ia, 80
below.
On the 9th Albert J. Smell. son of the
millionaire killed by burglars in Chicago,
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

e. CAPTAIN BALDRY, OF the steam
whaler Orea, has just returned to San
Francisco from a voyage in which he
killed thirty-tiye whales. the largest
catch on record. Twenty-eieht of
sfhese--all the ship could cam'y-were
slowed, and yielded $500 barrels of
Oil and 4S, 900 pounds of bone. The
catch was valued at S66, 500.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

THE Grant Monument Association
has issued a circular letter inviting
artists and architects to submit de-
signs for monument or memorial
building to be erected in Riverside
Park, New York. The cost of the
structure is to not exceed $5OO,OOO.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

An estimate of the gate moneys TO be re-
ceivei by the men who covered 525 miles
and over is as follows: Albert, 81, 500 with
81, 600 extra for beating the record Herty,
%3, COO; Guerrero, $1,000; Hart 5000;
Golden, $72O; Moore, $3.50; Strokel $500,
and Noremac, $24O; total, $11 $50.
The official report shows TINT Albert COW
cred 62l miles and 1920 yards in lao
hours, and that he rested 10 hours and %
minutes
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

A WEALTHY Montana man has Of
fered to give the College of Montana
at Deer Lodge, $40. 900 on the condition
that the college will raise SIS, 900 and
maintain perpetual scholarship for
deserving girls without means.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18

The San Francisco Grant Monu-
ment Committee has sent out circulars
inviting architects and sculptors to
compete for the honor of designing a
monument for General Grant to cost
$500. 900.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
N the last tWenty-three wears. If i

In the last twenty-three years, it is
said, there have been only two colder
Januarys than the one this year
These were January, 1875, and JAN
uary, 1888, and it was only the mild
weather of the last few days that pre-
vented January, 1888, from being the
coolest on record.
Western appeal., 1888-02-18
EIGHTEEN deserters from the Frenc1

EIGHTEEN deserters from the French
army in Tonquin were recently drawn
up in line for execution, when the Ad-
jutant, seeing that the line was poor,
said: Cant you fellows dress better
than that? Right dress" The unfor-
tunates Strengthened themselves with
military promptness and perfection.
and the next moment the whole eight
cen went down before the murderous
YolleY