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OVER TWO SCORE LIVES
LOST IN OHIO AND WEST VIR-
GINA WRECKS.

Many Excursionists Suddenly Meet Death
in Awful Form, One Party by Collision
and the Other by Crashing Trestle-
Fire Adds Its Horrors.
In quick succession two frightful rail-
way accidents have Mortified the coun-
try. Two score of victims instantly
killed. several fatally hurt, and nearly
hundred more or less seriously injured,
is the awful result.
The first occurred at an early morning
hour, at Ravenna, Ohio. Just as dawn
was mingling with the darkness, pas
senger No. s, east bound, on the New
York, Lake Erie and Western, pulled
into the station few minutes late. The
train consisted of an express and bag
gage car, three day coaches, two Pull
mans, and special, the latter occupied
by forty glass-blowers from Corning,
n. Y, returning from an eXcur-
sion at Findlay. Trouble with a
coupling detained the train men,
and f1agman was sent back to
warn fast freight which was following
close. Before he had gone two car
lengths past the special car the heavy
freight came laundering down a long
grade, and in the next instant twenty
one dead and over thirty wounded vic
Tins were buried in the ruins. Fire
quickly started, and the scene that fol-
lowed beggars description. Ravenna's
fire department was summoned, and but
for it's assistance the list of fatalities
must have been greatly augmented. The
rear special car, the freight engine, and
the sleeper warsaw" were totally de-
stroyed, entailing property loss of over
500, 900. The sleeper "Warsaw" had no
passengers. In the sleeper "Ascoli,
next in front. Mrs. JAS. Gasser and
child, of Chicago, and three men from
Brooklyn, N. Y, were killed. Of the forty
glass blowers, seventeen were instantly
killed, and all the rest injured, two
fatally. Several of those fatally hurt
suffered such agony from wounds and
fire that they begged the rescuers to kill
them. The wrecked passenger train was
the famous "ThunderboIt, the favorite
east-bound train on the Erie route.
1t is one of the new solid vestibuled
trains, Chicago to New York. There
were many Chicago passengers on the
train besides Mrs. Gasser, and before
the news of the accident had reached
that city they had wired their friends of
UuOlI SdIOGy. O0u. N0lSOU "A. MILES 6uU
Captain E. L Higgins were of the num-
Der. The killed and wounded were all
from Brooklyn and Corning, N. Y. The
second accident, following before the
public had fully realized the awful ex
tent of the first. was none the less ter
rible and but slightly less fatal.
The list of wounded is much larger,
while the dead and fatally hurt
number nineteen. 1t was the worst
accident in the history of West Virginia,
and occurred eight miles west of Charles
ton, on the Kanawha and Michigan
Railway. The passenger train for Co.
lumbus, Ohio was pulling two carloads
of excursionlsts-the Charleston Lodge
of United American Mechanics The
sleepers Of high trestle had been weak
ened by fire, presumably caused by a
passing engine the night before. All
the train except the excursion cars
passed the trestle safely, but the latter
were derailed by spreading rails.
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ing her instantly. Her lover purchased
the locks of his beloved. deserted the
array and retired to Canada, where he
bewailed his betrothed's fate until the
end of his life.
In 1779 Washington sent Gen. Wayne
Mad Anthony-to storm the fort on
Stony Point, in the Hudson Highlands.
Under black walnut tree. in the still
ness of night, Wayne gave his orders to
his little band, and stealthily as tigers
they approached the fort and surprised
it. In the early morning Wayne, who
said to Washington when asked if he
could carry the fort, "I'll storm hell if
you will only plan it, !" wrote to the chief,
"The fort and garrison and Col. john
ston are ours" The walnut tree has
persisted
Near Seaconnet, r. l., stood vener-
able sycamore tree, the only one left in
that section of the State by the British
when they evacuated it in October, 1779
Seaconnet Channel was the scene of one
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tree at the north end of Cambridge
common, and, drawing his sword, form
ally took command of the army of Boston.
The old elm tree was known afterward
as Washington's elm.
Near the dividing line between North
and South Carolina stood famous tulip
tree, marking the spot where the Amer
leans in October, 1880, defeated a portion
of Lord CORVALLIS army. After the
battle ten Tories were suspended from
it's branches and the tree was afterward
called the Tory Tulip Tree.
Until about 1852 u majestic pine tree
stood by the highway between the vii
lagos of Fort Edward and Sandy Hill, on
the upper Hudson. Upon its trunk was
carved "Jane McCrea, 1777." The story
of Jane McCrea is d sad one. She was a
New Jersey clergyman's daughter and
on his death removed to her brothers
place near Fort Edward. II neighbor's
son became her lover, and being loyal
list entered the army of Burgoyne. In
1777 Jane was captured by Indians.
Pursuit was given and bullet intended
for the savages pierced her heart, kill
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old trees, about which memories cluster
like the trailing vines. Ia the shadows
of the dark forest, ia the light of the
lofty hills, in the warmth and beauty OF
the broad plains of the gteat globe, they
stand in matchless dignity. But they
are few. They are patriarchs in the So
cfety of the vegetable kingdom, receiv-
ing the homage of myriads OF children
With what mute olOquence do they ad-
dress us? With what moving pathos do
the trees of Olivet discourse of Jesus,
his beautiful life and sublime death?
How the cedars of Lebanon talk OF Solo
mon and Hiram, and the great temple OF
Jerusalem? In our own country and
our own tiae there have been and still
are ancient trees intimately connected
with our history as colOnists and as a
nation, and which command the reVer-
ence of every American heart
Probably the most ancient OF these
living links, connecting the present and
the past, was the Big Tree that stood on
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HANNIBAL HAMLIN DEAD.
Stricken by He art Disease While at Hi
Club, He Never Rallies

Club, He Never Rallies
At Bangor, Me-, on Independence
Day. ex-Vlce President Hannibal Ham
lin was down town and went to the Tar
ratine Club rooms, where he was play
ing pedro, when his head fell forward
on his chest.
A gentleman remarked: "The Senator
seems to feel badly"
Mr.. Hamlin said: 81 do j"
The men gathered around him, and he
was taken to lounge. DR. Robinson,
who was in the next room, attended
him, and Drs Mason and Phillips were
called. No pulse was visible for an
hour, and it was thought they could not
bring him out
Finally he revived somewhat and man
aged to articu ate freely. The doctors
worked over him faithfully. and his fam.
lily was sent for Soon Mrs Hamlin.
Gen Charles Hamlin, his wife and his
son, and other members, were at his
side All was done for him in human
power, but failed, and he passed away
peacefully He leaves a widow and two
sons, Gen. Charles Hamlin, ESQ.,, law
yer of Ellsworth, and Frank Hamlin,
now living in Chicago. Mr.. Hamlin has
been perceptibly failing for year, but
seemed about as usual this afternoon
and walked down town.
The remains were removed from the
club rooms to his residence. His son,
Hannibal Hamlin. arrived from Els
worth about twenty minutes after his
fathers death. His son Frank, in Chi
cago, was sent for.
Hannibal Hamlin was born at Paris,
Me-, Aug 81, 1909. He was admitted to
the bar in 1888, and continued to prac-
tice until 1S48. In 1886 he was elected
a member of the Legislature, Of which
he was speaker from 1897 to 1910. In
1912 he was elected to Congress as
Democrat, and reelected in 1914; and in
1S4S he was chosen to fill vacancy in
the United States Senate, and in 1851
was elected for a full term of six
years. In 1856 he withdrew from the
Democratic party, and was elected by
the Republicans as Governor of Maine;
but he resigned that Office on being re-
elected Senator. In 1860 he was elected
Vice President of the United States on
the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. In
1865 he was appointed Collector of the
port of Boston, but soon resigned, and
in 1869 he was again elected United
States Senator for the term expiring
March 4, 1875. He was reelected for
the term expiring 1881, and then gave
place to Eugene Hale. Mr.. Hamlin re-
tired from politics at this time, although
he continued to take a great interest in
public affairs until the last election. He
attended the Presidential convention in
Chicago in 1884.
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In the Kensington precinct Phlladel
phia, there stood until 1910 an old elm,
known as PENIS Treaty Tree, because
under it the renowned Quaker made his
compact with the Indians. II will not
call you children" said Penn, addressing
the Indians, "for parents sometimes
chide their children too severely; nor
brothers only, for brothers differ. The
friendship between you and me / will
not compare to a chain, for that the
rains might rust or the falling tree
might break. We are the same as if one
mans body were to be divided into two
parts: we are all one flesh and blood. !"
Would that that sentiment had been
preached and practiced elsewhere!
Until 1860 there stood in New York a
venerable willow tree that has an inter
esting history. When the English poet.
Pope, buiIt his villa at Twickenham. he
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-09
SUDDEN RISE OF TULARE LAKE.
Many Settlers Driven from the Ranches
by Floods.

MANY Settlers Driven from the Ranches
by Floods.
The wonderful phenomenon now wit
messed on the Colorado Desert, at Salton,
is being repeated at Tulare, Cal, where
the practically dried-up Tulare Lake,
the largest body of fresh water in the
State is beginning to fill up, driving
out many settlers who have located
ranches on the rich alluvial bed
among the Indians of Tule River
that the lake once covered many
times it's present area. that it receded
year by year till it had shrunk to small
pond, around which were gathered fish
ish villages of their grandfathers, but
suddenly the waters from the snow
capped Sierras rolled down into the great
Tu are Valley, which is a hundred miles
wide at this point, the lake began to
spread, Indian villages were swept away
before the occupants could remove their
effects, and many Indians were drowned.
Those who escaped fed to the
foothills, and they and their de-
scendants refused to dwell near the
shore of the lake. The heavy snowfall
last winter in the mountains brought
down an enormous quantity of water
when the spring thawS set in. The soil
was a SO heavily soaked and couldn't alb
sorb the usual amount of moisture, hence
all the streams have carried water to the
lake, but principally the Kern and Tue
Rivers. II. H. Fuman, a sett er who
has ranch at the mouth of Tue River,
says the stream is sixty feet wide and
fifteen feet deep, and has swept away
several ranch houses. Fuman says
the lake has spread out nearly ten
miles in few days. and the
waters have risen ten feet A
new road made round the lake is under
water, and several men who tried to
follow it had narrow escapes from drown
ing. This sudden rise of the waters and
spread of the lake is remarkable, as for
ten years the lake has been gradually
receding, and scientists who have exam
ined it predicted it would entirely dry
up soon. The loss to settlers around the
lake is heavy. The land is extremely
fertile, and there is a pro ;ect Of building
a levee to conine the waters Of Tulare
Lake, which is noted for its large sup
ply of fish and mussels Before the
present rise it was about twentyfour by
twenty miles in area, but ten years ago
it was fully double this area.
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of the most dashing exploits Of the war
of independence. The British had blocked
it up with floating battery, the Pigot,
armed with twelve S-pounders and ten
swivels. Captain Silas Talbot under
took the capture of the Pigot. En-
barking sixty men on the Hawk, a coast
ing schooner armed, beside small arms,
with only three 3pounders, he sailed
down under cover OF darkness, grappled
the enemy, boarded, drove the crew be-
low, coiled the cables over the hatchway
to secure his prisoners, and carried off
his prize to Stonington.
In Charleston there stood until 1849 a
beautiful magnolia tree whose branches
spread over more than 200 square feet.
It was under this tree that Gen. Lincoln
held council in 1850 to determine
whether Charleston, which was then be-
sieged by Sir Henry Clinton, should be
evacuated 1t was resolved to remain,
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the bank OF the Genesee River, near the
village of GeneseO, n. Y. When the
white man first saw it it was the patri-
arch of the Genesee Valley, and was SO
revered by the Senecas that they named
their village "Big Tree" 1t also gave
name to an eminent Seneca chief, who
was the friend of Washington and his
cause. During a great flood in the Gen
esee valley in 1857 the Big Tree was
swept away and buried in the bosom of
Lake Ontario. The trunk measured 26
feet inches in circumference
Probably next in age to the Big Tree
was the famous Charter Oak in the City
of Hartford, Conn.,, which was standing
in the height of its glory and estimated
to be 600 years old when Hooker and his
followers planted the seeds of COM
monwealth there. On a stormy night in
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willow to plant in his American grounds.
The twig was presented to Mr. Custis,
Washington's stepson, and was planted,
at Abingdon, Virginia. In 1890 General
Gates planted a shoot from it on his farm
on Manhattan Island, and it became in
time beautiful willow, the grandchild
of Popes willow az Twickenham.
When the battle of Bunker Hill was
fought the great conflict for American
independence was begun. Washington
was appointed Commanderin-c hief of
the continental forces, and on July 2,
ITS, he took up his headquarters at
Cambridge, Mass. On the following
morning he proceeded to a great elm
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August 1854, the old oak was prostrat-
ed. Connected with it is curious cpl
sode. When James II assembled the
English throne he took measures to sup
press the growth of free government in
America, and sent over Edmund AndroSs
to take away the charters from the differ
ent Colonies and rule over them as Gov
ernor General. Connecticut refused to
give up her charter, and when Andross
attempted to seize it during night SEES
sion of the Assembly, Capt. Wadsworth
bore the charter away and secreted it in
a hollow of the old oak. When James
IL. was deposed and Andross banished
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-09
Missouri storm sufferers.

Dispatches received at. Kansas City
from Blairstown state heavy rain and
wind storm swept over that town and
did serious damage. Several houses
were blown down and several persons
were injured, though not badly. The
depot, large. substantial frame build
ing at Lands Station, on the Kansas
City, Osceola and Southern Railway,
was blown off it's foundation and seri-
ously damaged. The rain storm was a
terrific one, and the low lands are COW
cred with Eater.
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WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS1
ITEMS GAThERE ED. FROM VARE.4
Gus SOURCES.

What Our Neighbours Are Doing-1Iattexa
of General and Local Observation-Disclosures
ard Deaths-Accidbnts and Crimas-Pex~
soRai Pointers.
The census Office has given out the to~
bacco statistics of Wisconsin, compiled
by Professor T. n Conrad. under the die
rection of Mr.. john Hyde, special AGENT,
In charge of the division of agriculture.
The total number of planters In the
State during the Cd nsus year was 4,124,
the total area devoted to tobacco, II, 241
acres, the total product $3.50, 166
pounds, and the va ue of the crop to the
producer, estimated on basis of actual
sales, 50, 200, sos, The following are the
figures by counties, Excluding those pro.
dncing less than Ohn mounds.
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HISTORICAL TREES.
THEY CONNECT THE PRESENT
WITH THE PAST.

Creatures Around Which Cling Many
Tender Memories of Far-Of Colonial
Understanding Gone, Their His
tory Is Still Revcred.
There have been no Methusa1ahs since
the flood. Mans maximum of life is a
century. Only the elephant and the
tortoise feebfg initiate the longevity of
the antediluvians. But there are living
things that soutlive them all-things
,statelier far than the tallest man or
largest quadruped. living things that
were companions of the gray boards be-
fore the food and lived to bless their
hoary- headed grandchildren. Such are
now the only living link between us and
the remote past They are grand
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but a few weeks later the Americans
surrendered to the British army, which
had then been REINFORCED by Lord Corn
wallis.
At Drummond's Pond. in Dismal
Swamp, Virginia, is pointed out tall
tree under which Washington is said to
have passed night in colonial times
When Moore. the Irish poet, visited Nor
folk in 1884, he heard the story Of the
young man who, on the death of
girl he loved, became insane.
He believed she was not dead, but had
made the swamp her abode, and under
that impression he wandered into it's
solitudes and persisted This was the
origin of his touching ballad, COM
mencing:
"They made her grave too cold and damp
For a soul SO warm and true;
And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal
Swamp,
Where all night long. by her freely lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.
And her freely lamp / soon shall see,
And her paddle l soon shall hear;
Long and loving our life shall be,
And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree
When the footsteps of death are near"
At the junction of the ST. Mary and
st. Joseph Rivers, where they form the
Maumee River, Indiana, is the site of
the most noted of the Miami (Indian)
villages There Little Turtle, the ia
nous Miami chief, was born and lived
until late in life He and his people
have long since passed away, and only d
single living thing remains with which
they were associated. 1t is venerable
apple tree, which, if not standing, was
at least bearing fruit few years ago.
1t is opposite the city of Fort Wayne.
The last in our order of historical trees
stood in the eastern part of the village
of Flushing, L. l., few miles from New
York. George Fox, the founder of the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-09

A STRANGE pair of bird hunters be-
long to Mr.. Williams, of Mud Turtle
Lake, Ga. They are pointer dog and
large brown cat. They ramble off on
hunting expeditions, and the dog points
the birds and attracts their attention,
while the cat, with O strategic movement
in the rear, never fails to secure bird.
They never banquet until they have Sc
cured four birds, when each of them
dimes on two birds.
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planted a small twig that a friend had
sent him from Smyrna and the little
twig became the parent of all it's kind
the salix Babylonica, or Weeping Willow
i'm England and in the United States.
One of the British officers who went to
Boston in 1775 to crush the American re-
bellion had with him twig from Pope's
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-09

No MAN has grain of religion who is
trying to see how little he can get along
with.
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mentioned. Charles II. granted the
charter that was concealed in the old
oak and he himself hid i'm the hollow of
an old oak in England after the battle
of WsarceSher.
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but few weeks later the Americans
surrendered to the British army, which
had then been reinforced by Lord Corn
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-02-20
STORIES OF lie DAY.
The Great American Hog.

The universal crusade made by the
progressive newspapers last year against
the Great American hog has borne fruit.
The men are potter and more considerable
now on street cars and railways than
formerly. They frequently surpass
women in courteous and unselfsh
behavior in public places. They never
wear hats which obstruct a view of the
landscape or stage scope and they are
more careful not to smoke and expec-
torate to the annoyance and disgust. who
cannot get away from the vile smoke or
the Yiier foods of tobacco Juice
The American hog. however, is neither
dead nor entirely suppressed, though his
tribe is reduced in number and persistent
impYoprieties. 1t is Sill necessary to
placard q request to gentlemen who
patronizs the horse cars here not to spit
on the floor and to take their hats of in
the Institute Library. The gentlemen
do not observe that request any more
universally than the ladies' observe the
more emphatic request to keep silence at
the reading desks. Still the crusade
AGAINST the Great American hog was an
effective crusade.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-02-20

from some other express provision Of
the Constitution. Every enactment
OF the state legislature Is presumed
TO DO constitutional and valid until
the contrary is shown There is
no safe rule for constituting tho ex-
tent OF Limitation Of powers in the eonsti.
tuition, other than IS Given in the Ian
guage Of the instru nent which toafers
them, taken Ia connection with the
purposes for which they were conferred.
In this congestion Il is observed by
Chief Justice Marshall, FLETCHER VS..
Peek, 6 Cranch, 1881:
But it is not on slight imrllcstion
and vague conjecture thar the legis
labure 10 to be pronounced to have
transcribed its powers and its acts
to be considered as void The oppo-
sltion between thu constitution and the
law should be such that the Judge feels
clear and strong conviction Of their in
compatibility with each other"
Now consider the end contemplated
by our present voting with folded paper
ballots; what jurist can mentally view
the Myers system with its printed paper
ballots, against the steel partition. by
which ballot the elector votes; system
which gives the humblest voter freedom
Of choice, absolute secrecy. ease, rapidity.
an honest immediate count and affords j
real and true expression Of public senti.
ment, and then say there would be such
''ineompatib'lity" between the proposed
law and the constitution?
The reason, the spirit, the effect. the
consequence and the ends sought and
contemplated By the present and the pro-
posed systems should be considered ID
connection with the forcible words Of
Chief Justice Comegys, viz
Free, fair elections, with an nm
trameled body of electors, is what the
welfare of the state demands. /"
And yesterday over twenty -one hun.
dred Of Delaware's freemen, including
judges, lawyers, ex governors, ex-secre-
taries Of state, ex members of the legis
latuTe and above all the illiterste, weak
freemen, who find in it liberty and
virtue, raised their voices ia petition in
The MISUNDERSTANDING to its com
patibity," its constitutionality and
merit. J. &. MYERS
Dover, Del, Feb. 30, 1891.