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Herald.
TUESDAY, NAY Is, 1894.
A PROPER STEP.

The Sehuylkill Traction Company offers
Arsward of $3.50 for information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction OF the
person or persons who placed the obstruc-
hon on its St. Nicholas road and caused
she death Of motorman and serious in
jury to two other persons. The company
will spare neither efforts or money to
bring the guilty party to justice and it is
hoped the residents of St. Nicholas and
vicinity will aid the company for the
Erime was nothing less than murder and
murder cannot be tolerated in any civil
Eed community.
A plea that the party who placed the
obstruction on the rail did not realize the
awful possibilities Of the act should not
be considered 1t is no excuse and the
guilty one should be made an example
Tor others.
The placing Of distractions upon rail
road is inexcusable under any circum-
stances and we are sorry to say that in
ehis particular case the circumstances
seem toindicate that the act was prompted
by vindictive spirit. The place at which
ahe accident occurred and the manner in
which the obstruction was placed show
ahat some scoundrel is responsible for the
death of Motorman John Welsh, and he
shOalR not be allowed to escape.
II the act was due to a desire for revenge
IA trns as cowardly as it was criminal, and
u the latter sense it was the vilest act of
Hhseh man can be guilty of, for it was
toa only aimed over the bodies of score
Gf innocent people. but so planned as to
rlaCe upon the Traction Company re-
sponsibility for the loss of human life
when in fact the company was not in the
slightest way accountable.
ghB sooundrel who did the work has
aacGeeded thus far in covering up his
Irneks, but through the agency OF his
ava conscience, If he has one, or some
IthsH manner, the murder will out; and
We hope that when the guilty one is ap'
grehended that time will not have
bVmportd the punishment he so richly
deserves
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. May ia fright.
full accident occurred at the bank of the
gorge here. Two boys, Fred Ellis, IA
years old, and George Cole, were playing
near what is known as Hubbard's point
about opposite the mill districts of the
American side. Young Ellis was on the
edge of the bank leaning over, and 4
support himself, placed his weight on tn
limb of a small tree that projected OF
over the dizzy height. The limb brok
precipitating the lad headlong down I'D
slope for distance of about sixty fee l
He struck on "A rock, crushing his sku |
into a jelly. The body rolled down tn
slope fully a hundred feet before
caught. Death was instantaneous.
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SENATOR MILLS says of the present
gssiR bill that there is very little margin
Between the protection afforded by it and
lee Mckinley bill, but that he would vote
lor the former il it contained but 5-cent
1sduotion Of taxation. And to think that
- get to this point the American people
have suffered already loss Of more than
a thousand millions OF dollars, with a
prospect OF losing as much more before
Iss Democratic fool tariff tinkering
ssasts.
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Shot and Robbed BY Her Lover.

JERSEY CITY, May 15.-Jennie Rupp, a
young German woman, was found lying
on an unfrequented road near Snake Hill
with blood flowing from pistol wounds in
her right ear and left breast. She was un-
conscious when found, but soon rallied
sufficiently to tell her story. She has been
employed for ten years at Rome, N Y.
and eloped from there with Bernhard AL.
tenberRer, 22-year-old German, and her
accepted lover, on Sunday. She says he
induced her to walk with him to the place
where she was found, and then shot her
She was robbed of everything Of value, in
cluding S2S5 in money and a gold watch
and chain.
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here contemplate return to their native
countries because Of the discomforts and
privations enforced upon them as the
natural result Of the largely prevailing
strikes. They think they can do better
in their old homes. II like sentiment
prevailed among the turbulent who are in
stigating and participating in the lawlesS
doings in the coal regions, it would be a
blessing, but they have not thus far
manifested disposition to leave us.
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omnnr Hnrvsv Axnnrad.

AUBURN, N. Y, May 15.-Lucius, alias
"Dink," Wilson, was put to death by
electricity in Auburn prison yesterday.
Wilson's crime was the killing of James
Harvey, the oldest and best known officer
on the Syracuse police force on July 81
1898. Harvey had arrested Wilson and
the latter's brother Charles for burglary
and was taking the two men through the
street to police headquarters when one OF
the men drew a revolver and shot the de
tective dead. Lucius was captured di
rectly after the shooting, but Charles was
not caught until two weeks later. ThG
latter is awaiting trial at Syracuse.
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VETOED BY GOVERNOR WsRTS
New Jerseys Executive Sends BAok Eight
Unsignsd Measures.


TRENTON. May 15.-The nineteenth week
OF the legislative session opened last night
with lot Of vetoes to consider from Gov
enor werts, who was too i'll to attend to
his duties last week.
One of the vetoes is attached to senate
bill 90, which takes the appointment of
road supervisor, under the stone road law,
from the governor and vests IL in the va
rious boards Of freeholders and reduces
the compensation to % per day. He thinks
the appointing power should be trans
ferred to the president of the state board
Of agriculture, II any change is made.
Another Of the vetoed bills Is that
which gives the sheriffs Of Hudson and
Essex counties charge OF the jails and
prisoners. The governor says that the
boards of freeholders have had this con
troll for thirty-seven years, and in that
period the wisdom Of the provision has
been dem onstrated. The proposed change,
he says, is for purely partisan purposes.
The governor also objects to the bill
providing for n non-partisan board of
state prison inspectors, upon the ground
that declaration requiring membership
In certain political parties, as a necessary
qualification to holding the Office Of in
spector, OF any other ONCE, is unconstitu-
tionRl, in that such provision would dis
qualify the members Of all other parties.
Another veto applies 10 the bill for re-
organizing the police courts in Newark
and Jersey City, on the ground that IL is
mere partisan legislation, and that the
courts provided for to replace the old ones
would be no improvement.
Other bills vetoed are as follows: Re
organizing the law department of Jersey
City; allowing the mayors of Newark and
Jersey City to appoint commissions to
change the ward lines; reorganizing the
boards OF chosen freeholders in counties
Of the first class All are objected to be
cause the governor thinks they are de
signed for partisan purposes in obtaining
control OF office
The bill annexing the towns of Harri
son and Kearney, in Hudson county, to
Essex county, is object ed to by the COVER.
nor because the principle asserted of sever
ing county relations, without giving the
municipality affected a chance to express
their views, is heresy, rather than home
| rule.
The senate passed the bill, after vigor
GUS discussion, which prevents the sale Of
liquor in quantities of less than two and 8
half gallons from wagons.
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MURDER BY WHOLESALE.
A Wealthy California RRncher Charged
with Killing Nine Persons.

WIN hllllnH Nlno EsFbous.
YREKA, Cal, May 15.--The grand jury
has brought in indictments accusing g.
Decker, a wealthy rancher, of the murder
of his wife, Margaret f. Decker, and her
babe, twenty-seven years ago, and Rosie
Stone, granddaughter, about eight
years ago.
Besides these murders he is charged
with other foul and unnatural crimes,
committed at various times during the
last thirty years Several OF these MUIR
ders are susceptible Of proof, others are
based on suspicion more or less well
founded, though in some cases it amounts
to moral certainty. Besides the three
named the list comprises Edward Stone,
who was Decker's second wife's son-in-
law; Benjamin Decker's son, Caroline
Goodrich Decker, his second wife; a 4
year-old son of Edward Stone; hired man
in Sacramento valley, name unknown,
and man in Illinois, name unknown.
Decker killed his first wife and child in
1867, literally butchering them, and bur
rying their bones on the top of high
ridge. Their discovery short time age
| crystalized the belief prevalent for some
time that he was guilty of many atroci'
ties, and led to his arrest After his first
wife's death ne married q widow named
Goodrich, and lived with her over twenty
years. and is believed to have gotten rid OF
her finally in 1890 by poison He disposed
of one child, who bothered him, in 1896
| The murder in Illinois is said to have beer
committed before be came west and the
| one in Sacramento valley after his arrival
| His victims were killed because they stooC
In the way of the qualification of his de
| sires or knew of his crimes.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

Il NEW JERSEY girl Of sweet 16 who ran
away from home because her mother
whipped her is not content to return on
he simple ground that all will be for
s,vsn. She insists that her parents shall
make an affidavit previous to her return
shat they will refrain from beating her
u tho future. This is stronger ground in
2avor OF a girls rights than any daughter
II the Republic had previously taken.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

COMPETITION in steerage rates between
Dlrope and the United States is another
Invitation to foreigners to make the United
states their home. If lit would have the
s9eet OF encouraging the better class OF
Immigrants the reduction in rates could
be regarded with approval, but such is
Sot likely to be the result, for according
~ the latest information large number Of
khB hetteT disposed foreigners already
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

THE movement to increase newspaper
postage from one to eight cents a pound
is a tax on public education which is not
justified either upon the score OF economy
or Of any other plea. There is no one
cause that has contributed more to the
wide diffusion Of public knowledge than
cheap postage.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

WmLIAMsPoRT, Pa, May "Details of
the destructive forest fires at Cammal on
Sunday have reached this city. The
O'Brien timber camp was entirely wiped
out, twenty lumbermen, many of them
with their wives and families, being
hemmed in by the flames, and being able
to make their escape only after wading
down Trout run for distance of mile.
The forest fire is still burning.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

A GENIUS has 8 just invented an engine
that consumes its own smoke This is
without a doubt clever invention, but
what is mostly needed is an invention to
catch the smoke of the cigarette smoking
dude, who persists in blowing the same in
your face Such an invention would be q
blessing and great favor conferred on
suffering native
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Owing from Rsmor.s.

CINCINNATI, May 15.--The chances that
Father Dominick O'Grady, who shot Mary
Gilmartin on the street April 25, will ever
suffer the legal penalty of his crime are re-
mote. The man seems to be dying from
remorse. He has lost all interest in life,
and is living in a semi. starving state. Yes
terday, when brought into court, when
the lawyers argued his plea of abatement
he had TO be supported in walking, and
when seated his head hung in listless
manner
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

WASHINGTON, May 15.-The executors of
the estate of Donald Mckay got judgment
yesterday in the court of claims of $685.
900 against the government for the build
ing of gunboats during the rebellion at
Boston. The executors have been push
ing this claim for thirty-onS years.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15
A Rotten Ranking institution.

NEW BLOOMFIELD, Pa, May l5,-F're
erick c. Funk, who was appointed to {
Comfy bank of Sponsler, Junkin & @
has made public his report, showing tn
the institution has been rotten for twen
years, being kept afoat during that til
by perjury and false statements to t
state authorities. The liabilities are s12
900, and the $4,000 due depositors is ,
tirely lost.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

ONE Of the most dangerous practices,
and one that is bound to result disas-
trously, sooner or later, is of boys that
jump on moving coal and freight trains.
Almost nightly number of these boys
make it practice to jump on moving
coal and freight trains.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15
Rnttla In the soudan.

TRIPoLI, May IA battle between the
Tuearegs and the Tibboos has taken place
near Kawar, central Soudan, The Tfbboos
lost seventy men killed, and a large num-
Der of their forces were wounded The
Turaregs then entered Kawar, capturing
COO camels and pillaging the town.
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Rohbed by Forged oheeks.

BELAIR, Md, May 15.-The Hartford Ma
tional bank, of Belair, has been victimized
out of So, 700 by stranger, who claimed
to be from Connecticut The stranger
who arranged to buy farm at priesthood
Bridge for s., 800, used forged checks in
victimiziug the bank, His name, which
was probably assumed, is withheld fol
prudential reasons.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-15

THE suicide of Joseph M. Click was a
most lamentabls affair In his death Cir.
ardville lost one of its most respected and
enterprising citizens and the Republican
party one of its frmest, energetic and
Jealous workers
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Fntnl Wreck on the IehIrh Ynller.

OwEGO, n. Y, May 15.-Train No. 2 on
the Lehigh Valley road was wrecked
three miles north of this city. There were
thirty-dve passengers on the train One
boy, years old, Willie Mahr of Newark
Valley, was killed outright, and eight or
nine passengers were badly injured.
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Hoods Pills are prompt and efficient, 70
easy in action. Sold by all druggists 25e.
No Hop. Of Kslease for Evans.

WASHINGTON, May 15.-Nelson F. Evans,
who was convicted and sentenced to five
years imprisonment for misappropriation
of the funds of the Spring Garden Ma
tional bank, of Philadelphia, will have to
serve out that sentence, the judgment Of
the district court of the United States for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania hav-
ing been affirmed by the supreme court Of
the United States.
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A verdict for Letter Carriers.

WARRINGTON, May 15-The court of
claims found judgments in favor of lO6
letter carriers in Brooklyn for time served
in excess of eight hours day-eleyen in
Philadelphia and seven in New York city
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LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.

Passenger trains leave Shenandoah for
Penn Haven Junction, Mauch Chunk, Le'
highton, Slatington, White Hall, CatasauquA,
Allentown, bethlehem, Esston, PhiladelphiG
and Weatherly At e.O4, 7.3S, 9.l5 m, l24S,
For r New York, 6O4, 7.Ss, s.l5 =. M, 12 4s, e57.
For Quakske, SwitchbAck, Gerhards and Hud-
sondale, 6.04, 9.l5 a. m, and 2.67 p. m.
For Wilkes Barre, White Haven, Pittston,
EiEyS EHiGsESsee se Ggaaoa S S sSyFs y %aE'r' nv and
For Rochester, Buf1alo, Niagara Falls and
the West 6O4, 9.15 a. M and 2:57 5.H p. m.
For Belvidere, Delaware Water Gap and
Stroudsburg, eO4 a. m, S.57 p. m.
For Lambertville and Trenton, s.lb .. m.
For Tunkhannock, 8. .04, 9l6 q. M, 257, 6.H p. m.
For Ithaca and Geneva 6.O4, els q. m. 5.T
For Auburn 9.16 =. m. .Hp.m.
For Jeanesville, Lewiston and Beaver Meadow,
F For T Audenried, Hazleton, Stockton and Lum.
Der Yard, e.O4, 7ss, 9'i5, =. m, ls-4s' 2bI
q p. NJ.
For Hazlebrook, Jeddo, Drifton and FreelAnd,
o.04, 738, LIS, a. m, 12.4 .43, 267, 5.27 p. N.
For Ashland, Girardville and Lost Greek, lb2.
Zb1, 9lS, 1920 .. m, 100 il0, 40, oSb, ssS Slt
For Raven Run, centrAliA, Mount Carmel and
Shamokin, 9.lS, lila .. M, lS2 4.4O, s2s p. m.
For YAtesville, Park Place, MahRnoy City ana
Delano, o.O4, 7.3s, els, 1lO6 M, l2.4S, 2.57
5.s7, sos, 9S8, 1923 p, m.
Trains will leave Shsmokin at s'l5, ll.4b
soRS % iIS s p R aR6 g ar5ye 5 Il Sssn13
Leave Shenandoah for PottsVille, $50 7.8s
o.Os, 1l05 ll.S0 \. m, l24S 2b7, 40 SGT, sos
Leave PottsviIe for Shenandoah, 800, 75O
g05 1015, 11.4O q. m, 1882, 800, 44O, $50, T15
7.5b 1000 .. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Hazleton, 6.OA, Z. .S8, g l6
.. M, IL. 48, 257, b.27, sos p m.
Leave Hazleton for Shenandoah, 7.35, l0.0
ll.o6 =. M, l2,15, 2b6, $50, 7,25, 7.56 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Trains leave for Raven Run, Centralia Mt
Carmel and ShamOkln, 8.45 a. m, 240 p. m,
and arrive AZ ShRmokln A. 7.40 a m. and 3,45
p. m
Trains leave Shamokin for Shenandoah at
7.55 a. m. and 90 p. m, ana arrive at Shen'
andoah at $40 a. m. and 4.58 p. m.
Trains leave for Ashland, Girardville ard Los
Greek, O. 40 a. M, 1890, 2.4b p. m.
For HaZleton, Black Greek Junction, Penn
Haven Junction, Mauch Chunk, Allentown
bethlehem, Easton and New York, $40 m.
| 1880, 2b5 p. m.
For Philsdelphia 1880, 2.55 p. N.
| For Yatesville, Park Place, MRhAnoy City 1ni
Delano, $40, 113b g. m, ~. 80, 2b5 ASS SOB p N
Leave HaZleton for Shenandoah, S.SO, lis
| m, LOS, $50 p. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Pottsville, b.bO, 5sS
$50 q, m, 240 p m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, $50, lo.4
am, .85. b.15 .. m.
| ROLLIN d. WILBUR, Genl supt.,
| South Bethlehem, Pc
CHAS. 8. LEE, Genl. Pass. Agt.,,
A. W, NoNlJEdAoHER, Asst. @. P. A.,
| South Bethlehem, Ps
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BUENos AYREs, May l5.-The steamer
Thyra has been sunk after collision with
the Italian steamer Reno near San Pedro.
Seven mem bers Of the crew were drowned.
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SARATOGA, N. Y, May 15.-The general
assembly of the Presbyterian church of
the north opened here this morning and
will continue for four days. 1t is the
eighteenth annual meeting, and unlike
the Albany synod two years ago, at which
the Briggs element was in the ascendancy,
this convention will be anti-Briggs in the
ratio of about four TO one. The lines in
the convention will be nearly all drawn on
this issue, and test of the strength OF
the factions will be made when moder-
ator is elected on Thursday.
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rHnHB1E LIGHTHOUSE, HAMPTON ROADS, VA

which are sometimes used in lightships
are adapted to harbors and short chan
nels because the effective range of the
sound they emit is under 600 yards.
The use of cannon has been superseded
to large extent by other appliances,
except as signals of distress. Rockets
charged with gun cotton, exploded at
a height say, of 1000 feet, make a
noise audible at distance of twenty
five miles. Bells weighing from 800
to 5000 pounds are used at many of
the light stations. They are operated
by clockwork, but are not considered
as efficient signals on the sea coast,
where the sound is drowned by the
noise of the surf. The whistling buoy
is a curious and noisy contrivance
which generally makes itself heard. It
consists of an iron pearSshaped bulb,
twelve feet wide as its largest part,
and sticking up twelve feet out of the
water. A tube thirty-two feet long runs
thirty-three under the control of the
Lighthouse Board, one being locat ed
In the Gulf off Southwest Pass. The
great difficulty is to keep these vessels
stationary. Some are moored in the
open sea and furnished with powerful
lights and fog signals, in spite of
which they are frequently run into
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Deutsche Kaiser-Kalender, states that
observations begun in 1868 con-
vinced him that the influence of the
attraction of the moon and sun upon
the waters of the sea had a similar
effect upon the ocean of the earth's
atmosphere, as well as upon the liquid
and volatile masses contained in the
interior of our globe. He discovered
that great atmospheric disturbances,
shocks of earthquake and explosions
in mines were surprisingly often CO.
incident with the days upon which
the most extensive tides and other
oceanic connections were caused by
the influence of either moon or sun,
or both. These periods Professor
Falb distinguishes by the name of
"critical days." because they mark,
on the one side, periodical turning
points" in the equilibrium of the
neptunic, plutonie and atmospheric
masses above mentioned, and on the
other side afford the measure and
means for computing the degree and
effect of lunar and solar forces upon
our planet.
The individual consultations effect
ing each for itself an increase of these
forces are: First, the perigee, that
is the time when moon and earth are
nearest to one another; second. the
moons equatorial position ; third, the
perihelion, when our globe is nearest
the sun; fourth, the suns equatorial
position; fifth, the syzygies, or new
moon and full moon; sixth, the lunar
or solar eclipses.
The year 1895 will be especially
notable for the fact of its three most
critical days being accompanied by
eclipses. In mentioning the dates in
their different orders and grades of in
dividual effectiveness, Professor Falb
takes care to state that the results of
the strongest attractions often precede
their "critical days." as theoretically
computed, by one or two days, while
those of lesser import may be from
two to three days later. than
periodically fixed. The latter may
also be the case at the time of critical
days of the first order whenever long
continuing and extensive atmospheric
pressure OF eastern winds prevailed
previous to these dates. The follow
ing are the ''critical days" for 1895:
Of the first order: September ls,
March IL, August 20, February 9,
October 1s, April 9, July % and
January II.
Ofthe second order: May 9, Novem-
Der 16, March 26, April 25, December
81, October IA, February "a, June
%, September and November 2.
Of the third order: May "a, De-
cember 2, December 16, June Z,
August 5, January 25 and July T.
Baltimore Sun.