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SWEPT INTO THE RIVER.
Passengers Drowned Because of a
Steamboat Captains CareleSsneSs.

PASSENGERS Drowned Because of
Steamboat Captains Carelessness.
The Handy Boy, little steamer carrying
about seventy-flve passengers. plying be-
tween East Saginaw, Mich, and Bay City.
on the Saginaw River, left her dock on reg
ular trip with about thirty-fve passengers.
1t was necessary for her to pass through tns
draw of the Flint and Pere Marquette Hall
road bridge, and at her signal the
draw was opened for her passage.
Just at this moment Captain Dolsen
left the wheel and began collecting fares,
giving the wheel in charge OF some one, no
body seems to know whom. At any rate the
boat SHE'D off and struck a pier with ter
rife crash sixty feet from the middle OF the
draw passage.
The whole upper deck, with about eighteen
passengers, was swept off into tho water,
part Of the debris crashing down on
the deck below. Boatmen on the
shore saw the disaster and at once
put off to the rescue of the people
struggling in the water or clinging to the
wreck and the piers. The Handy Boy did
not sink, but lay wreck against the pier
thus averting greater loss of life.
Most of the passengers were easily res
cued, but those in the water were saved with
much difficulty. It is certain that six were
lost. Miss Mary Haight and Mrs. Catherine
Navit Of East Saginaw, are among them.
Captain Dolsen, as soon as ne reacheo tnt
shore, disappeared and could not be tounG
It was supposed that he had ded,
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Winter Welded to Spring.

Gould Rockwell, aged eighty-three. was
married few days ago at Ridgeville Conn,
to Miss Mary Louise Denman. aged twenty
five. Mr. Rockwell has been widower !or
forty years. He early amassed comfortable
fortune in the hardware business in Troy,
n. Y, retiring from active business forty
years ago. He then settled at the old Rock
we'll homestead at Ridgefald that stood on
the main street long before the memorable
skir,nish there in Revolutionary times, when
Wooster fell. For nearly half century ne
has lived practically alone. 1t is said that
he has settled $3.50 on his bride.
The bride is a prepossesSing blonde, not
quite 25 years old, of coyish ways and coquet-
= fish glances. and the wedding was only the
fourth time she had met her husband, Her
former home was in NeverSink, Sullivan
County, n. Y. The couple first met about
three months ago, and their courting has
been by tender missives. The girl lndlg-
nantly denies that she married for money,
but the gossips are unwilling to accept her
Rvowal.
The marriage wasa quiet one, at the resi-
alence of the brides uncle, the Rev. Charles
M. Seeleck, of Norwalk, performing the cers
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A $500 COTTAGE.
Description of a Neat, Low-Cost Resi-.
dence-SpeCial Features.

Description of a Neat, Low-Cost Resi-.
dence-Special Features.
Copyright BY the Author)
A correlative of the petition "Give me
neither poverty nor riches" might read give
me not large mansion but a small cottage
in which to dwell
The mansion costs great sum, so great in.
deed that good man may we'll be disturbed
sometimes while viewing his superfuous lux
urieS by the reflection that there are thou
sands of his fellow creatures who are not pro.
vided with the barest necessities of life; the
cottage is Of low cost leaving the conscience
clear and the heart merry. The mansion in
wolves the wearisome labor Of experimenting
servants; the cottage imposes the easy tasks
Of simple housework. The mansion requires
workmen to make repairs; the cottage may
be easily watched and promptly repaired
"a stitch in time"-by the owner. The owner
of mansion must have large income; the
owner of a cottage and fertile acre or two
is practically independent, the labor of his
hands providing fruit, vegetables poultry,
etc., sufficient for his needs.
A touching picture is seen, suggestive OF
nobility of character, when an elderly couple
resume the simple cottage life of their early
welded years. Their liTos have been too un-
selfish to permit the acquisition Of wealth.
They educated their children and started
them in prosperous careers and now they
have planned to be self-supporting to the
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A RED PROPHET.
He. Says, Big Flood is Coming to
Wine Out the Pale. Faces.

He. Says, Big Flood is Coming to
Wipe Out the Pale Faces.
Meat Axe, the big Shoshone medicine man,
has predicted food, to occur in July, and
wipe out the heartless pale faces He says
the visitation is retribution for the
unjust conduct of the whites. in
confining 1000 Indians on a. little
reservation of 1000, ,OO0 acres, circumscrib-
ing them. so they don't get a shot more than n
once q year Runners. have been, sent all
over the reservation and to the Crows,
Cheyennes and Sioux, to herald the calam-
ity, and rush Of Indians to the Wind River
Mountains. the scheduled haven, IS antlcl-
pated.
Meat Axe exhibited considerable ingenuity
in arranging for the general sousing. he has
it that all the whites and half breeds VIII De
drowned, and that the game will apparently
die to make the play strong, but that as the
waters recede the beasts will revive, 20 De-
come the prey of the braves,
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

end. TIE sons and daughters, however hon.
ored and prosperous, who do not kiss the
labor-browned hands Of such parents are not
worthy of the name they bear.
Following will be found brief descrip.
ton Of the design illustrating this article.
Size of Structure: Width, % it.; DEPTH
SO ft. in.
Materials for Exterior: Foundations, posts
or piers; side walls and roof, shingles.
Height of Story: 10 #.
Interior Finish: Smoothed and chamfered
studding and ceiling joists to be left eG-
posed. Walls between studding and
ceiling joists to be papered. Floor.
ing and all trim Of windows and doors
to be of Write pine or OTHER soft wood. All
doors and sashes of manufactured stock sizes.
The windows that command fine views
should be glazed with plate glass; all other
windows with double thick glass. All inter
ior woodwork to be vanished, showing nat
ural colors.
Exterior Colors: All side shingling, cream;
all trim, mouldings and veranda rails, dark
red; verandu posts and balusters cream;
outside blinds and doors, roof and chimmeyS,
dark red: underside of roof overhang cream; j;
porch floor and ceiling oiled showing natural
color Of wood.
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TOTAL, ABsTAISING STUDENTS.

That sixty per cent. of the students attend
ing the Toronto Medical College are pledged
total abstainers is fact in which the friends
of temperance may well rejoice. In no di-
rection is the change of sentiment on this
question more marked than in the different
opinion entertained by the medical fraternity
now as compared with a quarter Of a century
ago. Now the testimony of those, who Of all
men ars best qualified to Judge of the effects
of alcohol upon the human system, is over.
whelmingly in favor of the practice of total
abstinence Nor can this fact fail to influence
the rising generation, provided they are made
acquainted with it. If the doctors, whom
the boys regard as oracles in matters pertain
ing to the body, pronounce against alcoholic
beverages they will be led to view these
drinks with grave distrust. In this circum-
stance lies one of the greatest advantages Of
temperance instruction in schools. Temper
ance people have reason to be encouraged by
the progress their cause is making. Let there
be no slackening of effort along the line of
moral suasion. Toronto Truth.
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Accommodations: All of the rooms are
chown by the floor plan. The attic is doored
and is reached by step ladder. No cellar is
provided, at this cottage, built as described,
Is intended for summer occupancy only. To
fit it for winter use q cellar under the whole
house should be built at an additional cost of
about 5000; and the interior walls Of the cot.
tage should be plastered at an additional
cost Of SIS.
Special Features: The large bays may be
said to give character to the exterior OF TINS
design as,well as to provide attractive feat
ures within. With cushions provided for the
bay window seats, the sitting-room is indeed
a comfortable place. The overhanging roof
gives an appearance Of large size. The chim-
news lone over the kitchen and one over the
sltting-room) are simple and inexpensive, but
substantial, built of terra Gotta resting on
the ceiling joists.
Cost: In all localities where the prices for
labor and materials are about the same as
those Of New York city, $500.
R. w. SHoPPELL, Architect.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE machine and smith shop of the Lewi
g. Fowler Manufacturing Company, cal
makers, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fire
entailing loss of 100000.
The maiden records of all transatlantic
steamers were broken by the new White Star
liner Majestic, which made the voyage from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook LightShip in
6 days 10 hours and 30 minutes.
The Republican Committee has deter.
mined to contest the election Of Orestes
Cleveland as Mayor of Jersey City, N. j., OF
the ground of alleged fraud.
An earthquake shock was felt at Dover
Me. A noise like that of an explosion was
heard, and then the earth trembled fol
small articles were thrown from their places
JOHN H. STAUFFER's four-story bricl
cigar factory, Isaac Buchs frame cigar fac
house, and five frame stables adjoining, il
the borough of Litiz. Penn, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
FOREST fires have wrought great destruc
tion to property in the vicinity of Pleasant
vile, N. j. Over 300 acres of pine timber
were burned, causing loss of about $50, ,OOo
The postponed elections in Providence
gave the Democrats control of the Rhode
Island Legislature and ingures the election oi
their State ticket.
ABOUT one hundred farmers in Adams and
York Counties in Pennsylvania have been
defrauded of sum aggregating about $125..
600 by swindlers who sell them fictitious
rights to sell wire fences
THE assignee of the dry goods firm of John
F. Plummer & Co., of New York city, which
recently failed, has just made statement
showing liabilities of SS77, 900 and assets only
S75,000.
SIxTY-FIvE children of Blackfeet Indian:
arrived at the Carlisle PENN training school
from the West.
THE first annual convention of the Sailors
and Firemen's unions of the United States
was opened in New York city.
ANDREW CAMPBELL, the well-known in.
ventor and manufacturer Of printing presses,
died in Brooklyn IN. W ambulance while
being taken home after falling in an apo
plectic fit.
AT the Appraisers Stores in New York
city the body of man, who had been stran.
gled, was found imbedded in plaster in cask,
which had been shipped to that port from
Copenhagen, Denmark. The cask had been
stored there for about three months. The
murdered man was a clerk named Meyer,
and his slayer was his employer, Philipsen,
who is under arrest in Denmark.
THE twenty-fifth annual reunion of the
Loyal Legion was held in Philadelphia.
TWELVE HUNDRED AND NINE coke ovens
were shut down at Connellsville, Penn.
because of lack of orders This suspension
throws 1900 men out of work.
DEACON JACOB EsTEY. the founder Of the
great Estey Organ Company, died suddenly
Of heart disease. in Brattleboro VT, at the
ge of seventy-six.
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Washington.

THE bill to revive the grade of Lieutenant
General of the Army was ordered to be IA
vorably reported by the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs.
THE Senate in secret session at Washing
ton confirmed the following nominations
Lewis A Grant. to be Assistant Secretary
of War; Brgadier- General Nelson A. Miles,
Major-General; Colonel B. H. Grierson, Brig
adier-General; Major T. H. Stanton Deputy
Paymaster-G General.
SECRETARY BLAINE has asked the House
to appropriate $500 for necessary repairs IN
the United States graveyard at Acapulco,
Mexico, which is in delapidated condition
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the
act making an application to supply the de-
fciency occasioned by the defalcation in the
Office of the late Sergeant-at-Arms.
Mrs. HARRISON held the closing one OF
her afternoon receptions at the White House
the event having been postponed by the
tragedy of the Tracy fire. The occasion
drew forth a throng of anxious sightseers
and many prominent in official and social
life.
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SECRETARY TRACY has accepted the new
torpedo boat Cushing, built by the HERES
hofs, at Bristol, r. l. The complete cost of
the Cushing to the Government was ssS, 060
PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary Of
the Navy to remove the naval magazine
from Ellis Island, in New York harbor, and
to purchase site for a naval magazine at
some other point.
A SMALL company assembled in the Blue
Parlor of the White House at Washington to
witness the formal presentation of medal
to Joseph Francis, of New. York city, in
recognition of his services in the construction
and perfection of life saving appliances. The
medal is of pure gold and weighs over three
troy pounds. 1t is four inches in diameter
and contains ST60 worth of pure gold.
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Blew His Brothers Head Or

the country residence Of o. P Ziner. o.
Stark County, North Dakota.
Albert Ziner entered the house. of his
brother, o. P. Ziner. and insulted the latter's
wife. whereupon o. p. Ziner seized a shot
gun and literally blew his brothers head
off
Albert died almost instantly, and the
broths.. was arrested. A great crowd gath
cred at the Jail at nightfall, and it was
feared the prisoner would be lynched before
dawn.
The Sheriff was powerless to withstand the
mob. and had no opportunity to spirit his
prisoner away.
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To Irrinate the Northwest,

Much interest is being aroused throughout
the Canadian Northwest over the proposal
Of the Dominion Government to inaugurate
a system of irrigation throughout this
country. Last summer, owing to the
great drought the crops in Mani
toba, as we'll as the Northwest Territories
suffered greatly. The rainfall is always very
light iii the Territories, and it is confidently
asserted that with the system of the Western
States there would be a vast increase in the
crops as we'll as in the area cultivated. 1t is
likely the Dominion Government will have
the matter thoroughly inquired into during
recess.
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TEMPERANCE.
SALOON MEN NEVER SLEEP

A bill is pending in the New York Legisls
ture to amend the liquor law by inserting q
clause making it unlawful for any Sheriff or
other officer, or any agent of any society, to
enter saloon and offer to purchase drinks
at an hour during which it should be kept
closed. The object, of course, is to make it
impossible for those charged with the duty of
enforcing the law to procure evidence OF its
violation. The saloon men evidently act
upon the Pinkerton motto-'We never
sleep" 1t behooves the temperance people tc
keep wide awake also.-Chicago Nesss.
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A TERRIBLE AFFLICTION.
Spotted Fever Causes CONSERVATION
in Kentucky.

Spotted fever broke out in Union County,
Ky, and the widest CONSERVATION prevailed
for time 1t made its first appearance at
Hanshaw, and since that time score of chill
iren have been attacked, and in each case
fatally. The disease is Identical in all its
symptoms with that which last summer car
ried off $50 victims in Webster and adjoining
county. In that epidemic neither sex nor
age was spared. Only children have been
attacked this year. The disease runs its
course inside Of thirty-six hours. Its ap-
proach is heralded by intense pain at the base
of the brain. A burning fever speedily fol-
lows. The tongue becomes swollen and hard,
Inconsistencies ensues and death follows.
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DUTY OF THE CHURCH.

Of the duty of the church a temperance
writer urges: "She must disdain to partake
of the intoxicating cup at the Lords supper;
she must refuse fellowship to all who are en-
gagged in tho business-the distiller, brewer,
Shareholder, the saloon keeper, and the Ii
censed grocer; she must deny herself share
in the ill-gotten gains Of the accursed bus
iness; she must suffer not joist, not a brick,
not nail, even, of her sanctuaries to be sup
piled at the expense Of the wrecks Of human
ity which the trade is making; she must, in
q word, throw the entire traffic overheard as
pest to society, q scourge, an infamy of in
famiesn
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Prominent Texans Murdered.

News has reached Madisonville, Texas, of
the murder of Captain John Richardson and
his wife at their country residence eight
miles from there. Robbery is believed to
have been the motive. The supposition is
that they were murdered by strangers who
had accepted their hospitality for the night
Captain Richardson was one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of Madison County
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A NOVEL WEDDING.
Mother and Daughter Simultaneous
ly Married in Illinois.

A novel matrimonial event occurred few
days ago at Galena, ILL.,, mother and daugh
ter standing at the altar together and both
taking upon themselves the vows of wedlock,
the grandmother of the junior bride acting
as bridesmaid. The parties, male and fe-
male to the unique affair were William
Hammond. of Dubuque, and Mrs. Mary j..
Reddington, of Galena, and Louis Bourineim,
of Warren, and Miss E. ]. Reddington. The
flrst named lady Is on the shady side OF fifty
and her daughter is cozasly maiden OF
twenty,
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The wonderful clock Of Thomas Fitzsim.
mons of Pittstop, Penn, which took him four
wears to make, was destroyed by fire while
on exhibition in Owego, N. Y. The inventor
valued his work at 81, 900 and refused $1,000
for it few days ago. His friends fear that
The loss will affect his mind. The clock was
Insured for 5000.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


There is said to be one saloon keeper to
,very forty-four voters in Chicago.
An attempt is being made in Ireland to re-
7ive Father Matthew's heroic crusade against
ntemperance.
tits stated that forty-one per cent Of the
rimes in Germany last year were committed
~ intoxicated persons.
The Southern Star, Of Atlanta, Ga, says
hat on one street in that city there are eleven
;tores vacant aud four others used as saloons,
which were all occupied by merchants doing
good business during prohibition times.
Rev. Herricl johnson, Of Chicago, is
tuthor of the famous sentence that closes the
'esolutions Of the general assembly OF the'
Presbyterian Church for 1889: ''So far as the
liquor traffic is concerned we would welcome
its annihilation>'
Notwithstanding the population OF New
York is rapidly increasing, there has been no
Increase in the number Of drinking places Tor
several years. The repors OF the Excise de-
partment, Just made, shows that there are
seventy eight less liquor saloons than there
we're last year.
Samuel White, sentenced to the Ohio penl--
;entiary in 1871, for murder committed
while drunk, was pardoned in 1881 on consld-
,raton that he would never drink again.
White kept his pledge until his daughter
married last Summer, when he got drunk.
BE was promptly sent back to prison TO serve
but his sentence, but he haarecently been re'
leased, and given another chance to brace up.
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THE LAFAYETTE STATUE.

thirty-two feet high. The pedestal of white
Italian marble will rest upon granite foun-
dation, and will be surmounted by statue OF
Lafayette in bronze over ten feet high. The
General is represented at the age of twenty,
which was aboat his age when he first set out
for this country. He is standing, the left
hand resting on his unsheathed sword, the
right hand half extended. His cloak, hang
ing over his left arm, falls to the ground be-
hind him. He wears on his breast the decora.
tions of the Society of the Cincinnati. A
large cartouche ornaments. the face of the
pedestal, and encloseS the inscriptions:
"a Lafayette ct ses compagnons darmes,
PAmerique reconnaissance"
ITO Lafayette and to his companions in
arms, the gratitude of America"
The sculpture also includes two groups in
bronze about ten feet high, Rochambeau and
de Grasse on the right, and Duportal, officer
of the engineers, and Admiral dEstaing, all
companions of Lafayette on the left.
Under the cartouche there is an allegorical
figure Of woman lifting a sword toward
Lafayette, reminder of the sword which
was offered TO him by the Americans.
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A REGIMENT OF REDSKINS
A Proposition to Enlist 1000 Indians
in the Regular Army.

III the Regular frIn5.
Secretary of War Proctor has submitted
to the Interior Department officials propo
sition to enlist 1000 Indians into the regular
army. 1t is proposed to officer the regiment
with graduates from West Point, the subor.
Innate GRADES to be filled by pupils who have
heen educated at the Eastern schools for ln-
dams The details Of the plan have not A.
vet been fully matured, but it is the opinion
of Secretary Proctor that the Indians can be
received into the regular army in separate
regiment both to their own advantage and
that of the Government.
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The New Tariff Bill.

Mr.. Mckinley, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, introduced the new Tariff
bill, with the majority report on it, in the
House of Representatives at Washington.
The report discusses the effect that the bill
will have upon the revenues of the Govern
ment. 1t states that the exact effect is diff.
cult to ascertain.
The Committee have recommended changes
in the Internal Revenue law as follows:
Abolshing the tax Oh dealers in leaf tobacco,
manufactured tobacco, manufacturers of to-
bacco and cigars, and peddlers of tobacco;
reducing the tax on smoking and manufac.
tured tobacco and snuff from eight cents to
four cents per pound.
No reference is made in the report to raw
j. hides subject that has given the Republi-
\ can members of the Committee considerable
<tTouble. They decided to put hides on the
dutiable list, but changed that decision, and
ent.
The Committee recommend that all pro-
visions of the statutes imposing restrictions
of any kind upon farmers and growers of to-
bacco. in regard to the sale thereof, be re-.
pealed This will enable the farmers and
planters to sell their tobacco wherever and
to whonlsoever they please with the same
freedom they now dispose Of other agri-
cultural products.
1Qe COu1lnlULSo CO1Cluue IudU Cue pIOpOSeu
bill, if enacted into law, will certainly re-
duce the revenue from imports at least $780,
936, 53S, and probably more, and from the
internal revenue $40, ,s7S; or, in the ag-
gregate, s71, ,264, Ala.
The bill, as finally agreed upon, removes
all tariff on hides and sugar, and gives a
bounty of two cents pound on sugar pro-
duced in the United States.
Mr.. Mckenna. OF California, Republican
member of the Ways and Means Committee
submitted report dissenting from the sugar
schedule Of the BILL
A minority report was submitted by the
Democratic members of the Ways and
Means Committee, declaring against the Re-
publican policy of taxing the nation for the
benefit of the few. 1t also declares emphat-
icaIly against the bounty provision, as tax
ing the great army Of producers of other
products for the benefit of those engaged in
making sugar.