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[THE Earth SHAKEN.
A Violent Disturbance That Scared
Many People.
THE SHOCKS DISTINCTLY FELT.
EXCITING SCENES IN II TOWNS THAT
FELT THE SEISMIC wAvE-qUEER
ANTICS OF H OCEAN, AN
EXTENT OF THE SHOCK.

PHILApELpHIA.-Two distinct shocks
of earthquake were felt in this city and
the surrounding country. The first
shock was light, and probably would
not have been noticed had not the
severer disturbance occurred later.
Reports from all sections show that
the quakes reached from below Will
mington, Del, in a northeast direction
as far as the eastern end of Long Island.
The shock in this section covered about
so miles in extent, and went as far
west as Pottstown and Allentown. But
when it struck New Jersey it widened
so as 10 cover the entire northern part
of the State. On the south Woodbury.
got a slight shock, and then it extended
over to Toms River and went up the
coast. On the west it reached to Phil
lipsburg and High Bridge, and then
rushed over to New York city and
Brooklyn.
1t was a lively shock while it lasted
snd sent some of me superstitious peo-
pie rushing into the streets, they be-
lieving the world had come to an end.
All sorts of conjectures as to the cause
of the disturbance were advanced. The
quake did not extend to Baltimore or
w hington on the south. A dispatch
from the latter city said:
The scientists here knew nothing
about the earth tremors of this morn
ing until the dispatches came in
from Philadelphia and New York an
~nouncing the observation of the
phenomena at those points. The
seismograph in the, cellar of one
of the buildings of the Naval Obser.
vatory, when examined to-day, showed
that no disturbance of the earth's crust
had made itself felt in this section. Al
the Weather Bureau the instruments
gave no Indication of the tremor fell
further North. The officers there said
there was no reason to believe that the
| atmospheric conditions had anything tc
| do with the quake. Not having felt il
| themselves they had no theories to adj
vance about the phenomenon. 1t jus
| seemed to have occurred, and that wal
all they could say about it.
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A negro with a small box under hi
arm stopped on the curbstone at the cor
ner of Third and Chestnut streets yes
terday morning and shouted: Len m
yo' ears TO five minutes. gemmen, an
I'll not dlsappoint yo'." Two or tire.
small boys stopped, and a drunken
man staggered up uncertainty an'
watched the negro through half-closes
eyes. The cOlored man opened tn
box, and the inebriate say him reacl
down into 1t. The man with the ia:
was scared almost to death the mex
moment, when he withdrew his arm
enclrcled by a blue snake, with liviC
red eyes. and a tongue of darting fame
With a shrek like a lost soul the drunk
en- gentleman fed up the street ant
disappeared. A large crowd gathered
in the meantime, and what they saw
was simply a brawny colored mar ex
hibitlng a common spotted pine snake
"Come up an look at i'm, gemmen,
he was saying. "He KANT do 20 NJ
hurt, an he's sholy de bes' ~1y-catchal
yo' kin git TO- de money. Dollah an
half. gemmen. Only one o. dem left
Had five dis mawnin'. an I done sol
dem off laik hot cakes" Nobody seem
ed disposed to buy, however, and a
this point Reserve Officer Copeland
came up and made the snake deale'
move on.-Philadelphia Record.
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OF THE WEEK.
Eastern ana
fiddle States

e.
Vassar Powell, of Scranton, Pa,
took poison and tined to die in a New
York street, but may cover.
Falling from a raft William H.
Barnes and Irving W. Theobold, young
cousins we're drowned at Chelsea, Mass.
During a quarrel in Jersey City,
Adam Boohm shot and fatally wounded
his brother Philip. 8
Charles Postulka, a butcher, in New
York, stabbed his wife to death. There
were a dozen knife wounds, any one
of which was sufficient to cause death.
Postulka claimed that the woman was
untrue to him.
Charged with atrocious assault and
battery upon Alfred w. Archer, al
Bordentown, Charles Thomas was sent
to Jail. He cut Archer with a razor.
Thomas is the man who was stabbed
and nearly killed by Charles Davis in
May last.
For swindling Homer Brothers, Of
Boston, aud Smith & Fassett, of New
York, put of $25. 900, and Milwaukee
firms out of $4,000. ten years ago,
Joseph N. Dubois has Just been arrested
at Cleborne, Tex.
Miss Amelia E. Haswell, a city mis-
sionary, charged with aiding the escape
of Oliver Curtis Perry, the train robber,
from Matteawan Asylum, was arrested
in Troy, New York, and taken to
Poughkeepsie for examination. 8
The customs receipts thus far this fisca
year have exceeded by $4,000, 900 those
for the corresponding period of last
year. The excess is largely due to the
duty on sugar, which last year was on
the free list.
For the months of July and August
/ the United States treasury expenditure
have exceeded the receipts $13, III, 4b9.
| The deficit for August was SIS, 1898, 103
| Since July l the treasurer has lost il
| gold withdrawn for export SIS, 000, 900,
The Governor of Michigan ordered
the Fifth Regiment of State troops to
Ishpeming, where trouble with the
miners is impending.
Twenty thousand acres of land along
| the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, about
60 miles north of Mobile, have beer
sold to a colonization company organ
lied at Sioux City, Iowa.
The Bethlehem Iron Company re
ceived word from st. Petersburg, Russia
that a test of their armor plate was Sc
successful that the Russian Government
has decided to accept all that was or
dered of the company.
Tie Camden and Atlantic Railroad
has decided to double track the entir'
/ sixty miles of the line from Camden t
Atlantic City.
In the Federal Court, at Seattle
I Washington, District Judge Hanforc
read and concurred with the decision
| of Circuit Judge Gilbert. of Portland
in the case of the Northern Pacif'
Railroad Company against Receiver
Oates. Payne and Rouse. The Cour
| decides that the Receivers must appea
in that district and answer the charge
recently filed by President Braytol
Ives, and it also holds that the $4,000,
1000 of certificates issued by the Receiv
iers are not valid and not hens, unles
confirmed by the courts of jurisdiction
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PENIS GROVE, n. J.. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6. 1896.

For forging $1,000 in notes and
swindling creditors, III. Curns, a mer-
chant at Charleston, w. Va, was ar
rested shortly after his failure.
Ten-year sentences we're imposed at
North Platte, Neb., upon Hans and
Kuute Knudsden, the Union Pacific
train robbers. D
Henry Tyson, who murderd John
King, of Denver, Colorado, walked
ont of Denver prison a free man on Sat
urday, liberated on a legal technlca-
lily. He had been sentenced TO death
three times, and was once within two
days of execution.
Fifteen buildings in Libertyville, So
miles from Chicago, were burned re-
Gently. Loss, $751; DOC. Two buildings
had to be blown up to save the town.
The steamer Isle of Wight, 442 tons
burthen, was destroyed by fife at Nor
folk Virginia, recently.
1t is said that ex-Mayor Hopkins, OF
Chicago, advised the great railroad
strike of 1894 which caused such loss
of life and property. Bebs, President
of the American Railway Union, who
is now in Jail, confirms the story.
Peter Lake, an old-time confidence
man, known to the police of the coun'
try as "Grand Central Pete" is now
under arrest at Chicago. He has now
"~virtually retired from business and is
thought to be poor, although it is said
he has made $500, 900 by his WITS
William Butcher, a negro, was ta-
ken from the city Jail at Hickman,
Kentucky, and shot dead by lynchers'
Butchers offence was resisting arrest
by the police for dlsorderly conduct
and throwing a brick which struck &
white citizen. 2
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Great care should be taken In buy.
ing Shoes" said d well-known dealer to
a Rochester Post-Express reporter.
Especially Is this so In the cheaper
grades. There is a large factory In
Maine which turns out a compressed
paste that is extensively used in the
manufacture of shoes. Large quaint
Ties OF them are shipped to other coun,
tries' but some Are sold even in this
city. Leather Is high and It Is not tic
be expected that the feet can be cloth.
ed at slight expense. For this reason,
the compressed paste shoe has gained
In V People, when buying IL
hink they are getting the leather shoe,
whereas 1t is simply a bogus. This
class or shoe wears very well II kept
dry, but after a good soaking, or twice
wearing In the rain, 1t will tear and Ia
OF little use thereafter. 1t Ia always
better to pay a little more and get a
good article upon which you can depend
for service"
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Australian Tariff Changes.

United States Consul General Marau,
ia, at Melbourne, has transmitted tq
the Department of State a list of q
number of alterations proposed to be
made in the tariff of Victoria. as the
result Of the work Of a special board,
the findings of which were revised
by the Government. The subject Is
now before the Parliament of the col
ony. Among the more Important
changes made In the schedules are the
following: Horses, free, formerly
f2 los per head; wool apparel, 45 per
cent, formerly so per cent; india rub.
Der and cotton betting, 20 per cent,
formerly free; blankets, Is per cent,
formerly free; carriages, fs, formerly
f1O; bicycles. 10 per cent, formerly %
per cent portable engines, Is per cent,
formerly % per cent; agricultural i'm
plements, 10 per cent, formerly POI
manufactures Of metal, 80 per cent,
formerly So; machine tools, 20 per cent,
formerly IS; pitch, Is per cent, former
ly freei spirits. 10 shillings per gallon.
formerly Is shillings; watches, 10 pei
cent, formerly 20
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Southern ara
Western States

Temperance Lecturer Will j. Nc
Connell has been declared insane al
Cleveland, D.
The boiler of a thrasher at Owassa,
ILL.,, exploded and killed Monroe Bah
cock and Anna Hoffman.
Elk Treasurer Martin Stewart, of
Wyandotte County, KAN, will be sued
for a shortage of $44. 900.
]. L. Leonard, a prominent young
attorney of Bucyrus, o. Respondent
through i'll health, hanged himself in
his barn.
Chicago police have seized J.F. Bra
dy's Little Louisiana Lottery outfit, in
Guiding $100, 900 in tickets and the adj
dresses of 1000 agents of the company.
Robbers who got $40, 000 from the
post office and general store of L. Il.
Phillips, at Rush, Mo-, dangerously
wounded one of their cunning pur-
sures. Jean Aronel. 8
Three persons were drowned and
crops ruined by a waterspout at Huat-
ing, Mex.
Safe-blower Charles st. John, who
has spent half his life in Jail, was ar
rested at Kansas City, Mo-
Fiends derailed but failed to wreck
a train with 200 Epworth League dele
gates on board near Tekoa, Ore.
Two empty sacks, which originally
contained the $40 1000 of the $53, 00(
Of Wells-Fargo cash stolen from a trair
at Swingle's station, Cal, have beer
found.
In a feud of determination between
the Benton and Duncan families neal
Hazard, KY, two of the latter and one
of the furmer families we're killed, anc
a man named Lowe fatally shot. 4
Twelve desperate prisoners broke jail
at Geneva. Ill.
A water works break left Springfield,
Mo-, without water for three days.
After reading his newspaper through
at Norfolk, Va, aged Julius d. Det-
mere shot himself to death.
Henry Dreamer will be hanged al
Seattle, WASH, for the murder of Mrs.
Philippine Mueller and her baby.
A BeIlamy colony is TO be established
in Montrose county, Colorado, by
Mrs. Anna L. Diggs and DR.. $. Nc
Lallin.
In an ugly quarrel with Eva Nelson,
at Shelbyville, ILL.,, John Wrennock
shot and killed his mother, who de-
Tended the girl.
Thomas Laughty has been arrested
as the man who in October last robbed
the stage at bloomfield, COL, and
killed Driver Arthur Meyers.
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| GnoleTa mas Deen TAKEN on d snip
from Chefoo to Baikow, Russia.
! The National Steamship Company,
of Liverpool, is to be recognized on a
81, 900, 900 basis.
Ex-Chancellor Caprivi dined re-
Gently, with Mrs. William Walter
Phelps, widow of the former United
States Minister to Germany.
Colonel Rowland Roberts, son of
the late Sir Thomas Roberts, of County
Cork, Ireland, will shortly marry Miss
Elizabeth Marie, youngest daughter OF
W. t. Laroche, NJ. L., of Harrington
Park, N. j..
. Five men were drowned by the cap
sizing of a yawl at Skegness, on the
east coast of England.
The French troops in Madagascar
have occupied Andriba with little re-
slstance from the enemy.
T~arnopol, Galicia, has an epidemic
of cholera.
The Porte has at last guaranteed the
security of Americana in Tarsus.
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
have gone from Osborne to Balmoral.
Spain's revenues from taxes have
fallen off owe, $500, 900 as compared
with last year.
DIR. Schnurdreher, OF Prague, aud
two guides fell over a precIpice while
ascending Mont Blanc, and all three
were killed.
The Pope advises the Catholic Con-
gress especially TO aid in the education
Of the young to the promotion Of work
meme societies.. 3
The Pope will arbitrate to settle the
Haitien-San DOMINICAN dispute.
Great Britain has greatly limited the
British seal-catching in Behring
Sea.
The French dramatist, Hlppolyte,
Raymonds, committed suicide at the
age of 81, by shooting himself, in
Paris. 4
In a duel between rival candidates
for Office in Corsica NJ. Benecitti shot
NJ. Alessandn dead.
Bismarck will go to Gastein, a Ger
man watering place. 70 ~recapera,e'
Brszil's Senate has passed the bill
granting amnesty TO political often
ders.
kt. Rev. John Moore, Bishop OF 81.
Augustine, Fla, had an audience with
the Pope.
Inc betrothal OF Prince Christian,
OF Denmark, M Princess Maud, OF
wares, VIII De proclaimed on eeptem-
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though the weather was nazy, cYd no
circle around the ship, but made for TIN
| shore at once; 80 did those released a
! 15O and 225 miles. Enough returned,
!, safely to their homes to leave no doub
about the feasibility of using them a.
messengers from the sea-.
In the large cities the collecting o,
cigar stumps has long ago developed
into an industry. the stumps being con
verified into smoking tobacco" Indeed
in several European countries the to
bacco aud cigar trade is a government
monopoly; so also in Belgium, and 1t II
| said that the Belgian authorities ar,
now trying to decide whether or moi
the cigar stump business should be sup
pressed-because it completes with tn,
monopoly.
Murderers are sometimes unconsci
ously humorous as well as forgetful
Isaiah Gauthier, a Montreal man, wai
both. He and his sweetheart having
agreed to die together the former tool
his revolver, loaded with six charges
and began to carry out the agreement
by shooting at his betrothed. But h,
forgot to count the number Of shots h,
fired before he was aware the last cart
ridge was exploded. When arrested h,
explained things to the police and pa
thetically remarked: Therefore | live
Experiments In welding metallic bod
les by simple pressure at heats below
their fusing points, made by the Roya
Society of Belgium, show that the mos
perfect Joints are obtained with gold
lead and tin, and the worst with bis
muth and anthony. Cylinders of ex
tremely pure metal with smooth sur
faces were brought together by a hant
screw and kept ut a constant tempera
ture between 200 and 400 degrees fol-
from three to twelve hours. When sep
arated the break did not coincide witt
the Joined surfaces. Platinum wal
softened and welded at a temperature
t,GOO degrees below Its. point Of fusion
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A chemist advised that canned fruis
be opened an honr n two before it Is
used. 1t becomes richer after tbs
oxygen of the air lag been restored to
it.
-Maryland's contribution tor Utah's
Mosaic table is a niece OF the oil
mulberry tree unaer which the first
mass was celebr ated on the landing OF
the colonists, Maron 81, 1881.
Gideon Strong, a Knox County
fTeunesseel man, fred a gun to drlvs
a burglar away md scared bis W
daughter to death
Lake Erie WIS named by the Iro-
ouois Erlke, froE a fierce tribe living
on its shores. The French called ls
Racoon Lake, AID on various oil
maps 1t appears as Lac de Comfy, Las
Herrie, Lao Erie, Lao Erocoise or
Eriez.
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An american oirI,. SUCCESS.

0AEA CuNSN'
some years ago, when Camilla uisO
was In the flush of her professional
career, a little girl, after hearing her
play, thought 'One woman has mas
tered the violin, why should not not
anotnerT' This girl was Maud Powell
an American artist, whose name Ia
Famous In both hemispheres. Twice a
week, while not yet in her teens, she
traveled alone forty miles to Chicago
ana BACK to take her lessons, and at IL
had made such progress that her par
ens decided to send her abroad for a
yea Of study, When she appeared fol
examination before the staid old pro
tessors In the conservatory at Leipsic,
her talent was SO promo unced that all
took an unwonted Intereatln her. When
the year was over Miss Powell decided
to go to Paris for one year o Of
'tudy.-Ladies' Home Joprnai.
n: pictures j sSSss gallery az
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Beerbohm Tree, the actor, while per-
forming in London fell and dislocated
his shoulder.
The New Zealand Assembly has
passed a bill for the assistance of the
Bank Of New Zealand.
An official report shows that there
are POPS cases of cholera and 118 deaths
from the disease in the Government o.
vslhyna, Russia, since July II. 2
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Photographs raken From a Kite.
W. A. Eddy. OF Now Jersey, experimented
.uccessi uily with dying kites IN Il high win
ut Blue Hill Observatory, Milton, Mass. lie
also took p~hotdst4Ehs WITH plates when
we're sent up on Kites z5O ieer above the
ground
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american Flour for the Japs.
Inc japanese Government has order
ed 10000 tons of flour from g commits
sion house in Tacoma, Wash.
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Gable sparks.

Cholera has been taken IN a ship
from Chefoo to Baikow, Russia.
The National Steamship Company,
of Liverpool, is to be recognized on a
81, 900, 600 basis.
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For forging $1,000 in notes and
swindling creditors, H.. Curns, a mer-
chant at Charleston, w. Va, was ar
rested shortly after his failure.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
A NEW METHOD OF CAPTURING
TRAIN ROBBERS.

In addition to the means OF protec-
ton already suggested. let me men
ton another, and that is the use OF
dogs trained to follow men; and
while on this subj Get let me correct
misrepresentation, prevalent through
out the North, that these dogs are
bloodhounds. | doubt if there are
half dozen bioodhounds in the
United States, or that any has ever
been used in the pursuit Of fugltiveS,
except in the fable OF Uncle Tom 5
Cabin. The dogs used are the
ordinary foxhounds; these will follow
a trail, but they will not attack the
fugitive. They only indicate his
route of flight, so that parties fol
10 wing on horseback can come up
with him. Most OF the peni-
tentiaries in the South keep these
dogs, as do the managers of convict
farms and camps. The Cuban
bloodhoundis herce, intractable dog,
and have never known of its use in
pursuing fugitive, nor are they use
iul as hunting dogs. The English
bloodhound, on the contrary, is a
noble dog, gentle, sagacious, and at
fectionate. In the famous picture
by Landseer, called Dignity and
Impudence," he is well portrayed,
and though it is said thatin the olden
time he was used in England to track
human beings, he is now not call
ed on for that purpose. Your read
ers are doubtless familiar with
Walter Scott's story OF the pur-
suit of Sir William Wallace by one OF
these dogs, and the manner in which
he escaped. | have used both the
Cuban and the English bloodhound
in hunting, and while the former
was generally worthless for this pur-
pose, the latter was valuable. The
hounds now used tor tracking men,
when properly trained, will take and
follow trail twenty-four hours old,
and in some cases even a colder one
If, in those parts of the country
where robberies of trains occur most
frequently, couple Of good dogs
could be kept at each of certain
selected stations. even if the distance
between such points were hundreds
of miles, whenever train is held uE
the dogs could be summoned BY
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-03
9jliistella,tp.
A PLEA FOR THE DONKEY.

Civilization has used the poor ass
badly. Our ways are not his ways,
and he not unfrequently reminds us
Of the fact. When he does express
dissent. he shows himself an uncom-
promising bigot. Yet let us consider
Tor a moment why he is 'such an
ass" He has been taken from bold
free life in the uplands, where the very
air tastes of independence, and has
been degraded to the very lowest
kinds of drudgery Nonconformist as
he is, he is more of Tory than the
horse He cannot fit himself to
changed circumstances. He is like
the free Caribs, whom the Spaniards
tried to reduce to slavery. The con
dition is so foreign to his nature that
he cannot fall in with it without los
ing all the nobler traits OF his old self.
1t brushes him. He is proverbially
patient, but his patience has in it
something of the dullness of despair.
Yet obstinate and rebellious as he oc-
casionally is, he cannot be considered
fool. If he appears to be one, it is
because we have removed him SO far
out of his national sphere. Il any of
us were taken from our civilized sur
roundings, and were turned loose to
get living among the desolate rocks
of Abyssina, we should, doubtless,
offer as fair a laughing stock to the
wild asses and balloons. Now, where
does the donkey get his oDstinacy
from? 1t is a useful quality in the
right place. On long journey, with
short allowance of food and water, a
mule will keep going longer than a
horse. 1t seems to me likely that the
great difference in character between
the horse and ass is partly owing to
the fact that when wild the former
20 in large herds and the latter in
small. The horse is much more of a
society animal than the donkey, and
so his manners are more suave. He
like all those who have to mix freely
with their fellows, has acquired ar
accommodating disposition. In the
NdSC VI We SSluOlH ullh an OpSll
nate, selt-assertive individual among
those wholive in cities and mix freely
IN society. Such ass-like natures ar,
much commoner in small communi
ties, such as farm hamlets and vii
ages. Let me make haste to say thai
a donkey is distinctly more intelli
gent animal than a horse. 1t is hi
unwillingness tofallin with the wish
IS OF those who would influence him
and his stubbornness in sticking t
MS own views, TO which | am alud
ing. In his mountain home, wher
pasture is scarce, only a few wilC
asses, as rule. go together. Should
foe suddenly appear when they ar
scattered in search of the scant,
heritage, each must decide on a courS
for himself, Tor it would not AWAY
be possible to follow leader. Henc
selfreliance and a disposition TO ac
independently would be valuable i,
the struggle for existence From
Wild Traits in Tame Animals-II,
by DR.. Louis Robinson, in Mort
American Review for December.