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A. Rocheeter, N,E1., despatch gives! f all
details cif the Sawtelle murder as follows;
The headless corpse of Hiram F. Sawtellen
of Boston, was dog up Friday afternoon
out of the hole in the ground whom leis
brother 'sae° baried it Emma time after
dark on the night of Feb. 5th, just sense
the Maine border. A ballet hole at the
heart showed how the murder had been
•committed. Officer Shields, of Station 5,
of Boston, who was one of a party of two
hundred or more who started out thia
,mortaing to eettroh for the body, heppened
upon the grave at 1,15 p.m.
The grave being opened there was re.
vealed a sickening theht. The body was
noised save for the smite on the feet.
The head and both era's had been
chopped off. The feet were uppexmost
and within •a few inches of the surface.
The' pressed against the thighs, and the
shoulders were at the loom of the
grave. The body thus bent had been
rammed into the earrow hole, and only
the disfiguring of the ground by the
spade and the dieturhance of the brueh
ehowed where the corpse was (wea-
coaled. In the hole was al f eo ound
the
shell of the cartridge whose leaden xnes•
senger sent Hiram Sawtelle to eternity. A
gold collar -button was also found in the
lhole.
The grave was made in a growth of thick
shrubbery at a point about seventy-five
_feet from the road leading to East Leban-
een, Berwick county. The place is known
as Blaisdell's Corners, and is four miles
from this town and two and sehalf inside
the Maine boundary. Within a rod of this
identical spot Officer Shield yesterday
-found the piece of brown wrappiog paper
in which Isaac Sawtelle carried his newly
bought carpenter's hatchet from Trades-
man Wellace's store in East Lebanon. The
Boston detective then said that he was con-
fident that the corpse was buried not far
It is now perfectly easy to ase just how
Isaac ,Sawtelle killed bis unsuspecting
brother Hiram. He met him at the traine
a week ago laat Wedneede,y in Rochester,
.and drove him in a buggy to East Roches-
ter, thence across the Salmon River into
Maine. It is now thoroughly believed that
Isaac purposely croesed over iuto the Pine.
Tree -State to oommit the murder there,
_knowing that the Capital Puniehment law
herd long -since been abolished, and that
imprisonment for life would be his Ben.
tame in the event of his being caught. He
took the long, circuitous road from East
Rochester to Lebanon, through a district
a.parsely settled and abounding in forests.
The bloodastains inside the buggy show
that he shot his brother during the ride,
holding his revolver close to the body, and
thereby deadening the report. Hitching
his horse to a tree the murderer carried the
lifeless form of hie brother into the woods;
-then he got out hie piok.axe, and with hie
spade dug a hole about 4 feet deep and 2:1 -
feet wide. The night was dark, and there
wae no house nearer than .one-half a mile.
The body was stripped and the clothing
laid aside in the bundle. Then began the
work of butchery by the inhuman asses -
sin. With the keen blade of the hatchet
he severed the head from the trunk and
then the arms from the shoulders. The
blood of the murdered man pooled on the
ground and smeared the cot eleeves, the
trousers and the hands of the murderer.
The slaughter was not an easy task, for the
edge of the hatchet was nicked and dulled
-with repeated hacking at the bone, but at
last all was ready for the grave.
The blood-coeered corpse was doubled up
at the waist and crammed neck down into
the ground, the earth was shovelled in and
the surface smoothed over, and all that
was mortal of Hiram Sawtelle was removed
from the sight of man. Meantime an old
lady and her pretty granddanghter were
-waiting impatiently in William Smith's
boarding-house, in Rochester.
The old lady was Hiram's and Isaac's
mother, and the little girl was Hiram'
daughter Marion, both having been used by
Imam as decoys to lure Hiram Sawtelle
from his Boston home to his gr ave in the
woods, all oblivious of the foul conspiracy
to murder their own flesh and blood. Isaac
Sawtelle returned that night at bedtime, of Eastern Siberia.
but riot until to -day did they learn of the
&tractions crime he had committed during SHE FLOGGING EDICT.
noaGED TO DE -ATR.
The Siberian AtrooltieS Woeee Than, a
First Reported.
A
OR'S O'VERN
A- London ,ceble eaye The London
agent of the, Aeeociated Pecan` YeeterdaY
queationed Sergi us Stepp iak,the wellelsnown
welter of Raman political and social wen-
ditions, regarding the recent outrege in the
political prison at Kers, Eastern Siberia.
Mr. Stepniak said the reports already pub.'
netted gave only a hint of the 'horrible
tragedy.Trustworthy information has
been received in cipher letters that got
through to Paris and London from exiles
in Eastern Siberia. These letters, which
are meagre scraps of paper, tell the story
only in Its main outlines, Bu e one who
knows about Siberian prison life does not
need a oiroumatmitial recital to understand
the cruelty of discipline end the agony of
suffering of whioh this horror was the cul-
mination. Full details of the dreadful
story cannot be long now in reaching the
western world Coming so soon after the
publicity given to the Yakutek atrocity, Mr.
Stepniak thinks it can hardly fail to deepen
the sense of horror already felt by the
civilized world at Russitee treatment of
political offenders.
ViOm4N PLOGOED TO DEATH.
The facts so far received are as follows:
Mme. Sigida did not commit suicide as
the earliest reports stated. She died from
the effects of a cruel flogging. The flogging
took piece on Wednesday, November 6th.
It was continued till the victim lost cen-
se/oneness. She never revived from the
shock, but grew weaker until Friday, when
she died. The news of her murder pro.
ducted widespread dismay and anguish
among her fellow -prisoners, and three of
them, unable longer to beer their wretehed
fate, committed enicide by taking poison.
How they obtained the poison is not
known, but probably they had long had it
in their possessioa, and were keeping it as
a last resort. The names of the women
were Marie Kuluzhnaye, Marys Palouvna
Karalefskay a, and Nadezhda Smirnits-
kaya.
THE VICTIMS AND THEIR CRIMMS,
Marie Kaluzhnays, was arrested in 1884,
when 18 years old, on a charge of dis-
loyalty. Her father was a merchant at
Odessa. Every means was tried in vain
to extort from her a confession implicating
leer friends. At last Col. Katanski brought
her a forged etatemennpurporting to be the
confession of her fellow -conspirators, and
promising inamunity if ahe aleo confessed.
Marie fell into the trap, confessed, and her
confession was used ageinet her friends,
who were eentenced to penal servitude
When ehe learned they had been convicted
on her testimony.alone, Marie called upon
Kataneki and fired a pistol at him,
wounding him slightly in one ear. For this
she was sentenced by court-martial to
twenty yeare'aenal servitude.
Marya Paulovne Karalefskaya was a
married lady 85 years old, daughter of a
weildinown landed proprietor in South
Russia, Paul Voroutsof, and sister of Bail
Poroutsof, one of the best known political
economists in Russia. She joined a secret
circle which was captured by the police in
1879, and was sentenced to thirteen yeare'
penal servitude with exile to Siberia for
life and deprivation of civil rights. Her
husband, though not present, was sent by
administrative procese a thousand miles
min the mines to which she was sent. The
separation drove her insane. In 1881 she
was allowed to join her husband in the hope
of restoring her reason. She recovered, but
a new Governor separated them again, and
she was returned to the Kara mines.
Nadezhda Smirnitskays was 83 years old
and a etadent in a woman's college. She
was sentenced to the Kara mines for 15
years, with penal servitude.
Shortly after the suicide of the three
women a brother of Marie Kaluzbnaya, a
political prisoner, died suddenly. It is not
definitely known whether he died by poison
or it hether hie death resulted from grief at
the death of his sister. Another exile
named Bobokov committed suicide rather
than submit to a flogging. He was a uni-
versity student, and took part in a public
demonstration which displeased the anthori-
nee. He attempted to escape from his
prison, and for this was exiled so the mines
Ins absence. Mme. Sigida was flogged under the
The search, which ended in the sense_ orders of LieutnGeneral Baron Korff, the
tzonal discovery of this afternoon, began at
daylight. The country for miles around
sent in gangs of men, eager to find the one
thing wanted to clear up the dark mystery.
At 10 o'clock these men veer° at work in the
Lebanon woods. A few minutes later an-
other detachment of men was secured large
enough to completely fill a smaller hay -
waggon. Two barges, containing about
twenty-five men each, started across the
Salmon Fad's River to Lebanon. These
four forces were followed by a general
detarehment of carriagee of all descriptions,
some of vthioh were owned by the parties
using them, while others were hired for the
occasion. The genge were divided in Leb-
anon when the road running from South
Lebanon to East Lebanon was reached,
the first point being the swampland about
two-thirds of a mile above Rankin's Cor-
ners. The searchers numbered 200, and
they deployed like skirmishers from the
road into the country beyond. 1 he search
was conducted systematically. Swamps
were puthed through and the soil in damp
placee turned many a time in the hope of
finding something to correspond with the
foamy substance found on the spade which
Isaac Sawtelle had purchased at the store
of Joseph Wentworth. Finally one man
found a low-cut shoe belonging to the mis-
sing man. Its mate was found only a few
moments later. Blood was seen on the
anow at Deveral points searched over, and a
white handkerchief was picked up be
Officer Whitman with the letter " 8 " on
it in indelible ink. A Aired of dark cloth,
itith the edges torn, was the next impor-
tant find. It was stuck fast to the end of
a sapling. Thees articles were all found
near one another in the neighborhood of
Bleiadell'a Clornere leavin n d bt th t
g o ou
the corpse of the victim was not far away.
So it proved when & triumphant shout
from the thicket told the searchers that at
last the mystery was solved. The body
was frozon fast in the ground, and it re-
quired hard work to dig it tip.
A Progressive Teacher.
The New Yerk School Journal says: "At
the Ontario Normal School, Toronto, the
Prince of Wales gold medal which is given
to the teacher who mike first in practical
teaching, and on written examination, in a
class of about 160, hate for the two past
years been won be graduates of the Hamil-
ton Model Training School. Its Principal,
Mr. S: B. Sinclair, B.A., is an ardent
admirer, and enthrisiestio exponent, of the
new education Progreseive methods are
taking fine root in Canadian soil."
One, Of the biggeat landslides ever
known on the Paola() (Wrest occurred fifty
Vallee from Weaverville, Cal., a few dap;
Ago.
Governor-General of the Province of the
Amoor. The orders directed that the secret
edict of March, 1888, signed by Galkin
Vrasskoy, Director•General of Prisons for
the Empire, should be unflinchingly en-
forced. This edict required that political
convicts should be treated by prieon
cfficials in the same manner as criminals
condemned for common law offenct e.
Political offenders were thns made liable
to flogging for breaches of prison discipline.
In what way Mme. Sigida transgressed
the prison mkt+ is not made plain. But
flogging a sensitive and cultured woman to
death for any breach of prison discipline,
Mr. Stepniak thought, would impress the
Western world with profound horror.
The political prieoners at Kara, Mr.
Stepniak said, had learned that the politi-
cal exiles at Saghalien had been cruelly
flagged. They were constantly in dread of
torture similar to that inflicted upon Mme.
Sigida.
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE.
Mr. Stepniak was asked whether be
thonght the Czar, now that the horrors at
Kara had been made publio,would interfere
to mitigate the severity of prison disoipline
in the case of political convicts. He replied
that it was not unlikely that the publica-
tion of the facts would force the superior
officials of Russia to take some notice of the
affair. But, he eaid, the flogging and the
other brutalities were entirely dne to the
direot orders of the Central Government at
St. Petersburg, namely, the ediat of March,
1888. The Ministry of the Intezior was
directly responsible for the renewal of
corporal punishment of political prisoners,
which had been enepended in 1887 after
1 repoff ordered Bogolubbff to be flogged.
Boulangist victories.
A. Paris cable of Sunday says Ee/eo-
tions were held in a number of divisions
to -day for members of the Chamber of
Deputies. MM. Naquet and Mery, two
Boulangiets, whose election Was queshedby
the Chamber lent December, again heed
the poll in two divisions of the Seine de-
partment, but second ballots are necessary.
M Brialy polled within 100 votes of M.
lYlery. The Boulerigistri Goussot, Reveet
and Laurie are re-elected in three divisions
of St. Deni. M. Believed, Bottlangist, is
re-elected in the first division of &team,
receiving 11,022 votes against 9,829 for M.
Goblet.
In the House of Commons yesterday Mr.
Gladstone congratulated the Government
upon tloe prompt action they had taken in
the Portuguese (Repute tend their stitufesa itt
negotiating the Samoan treaty. He hoped
that the Loottl Governmeht 'Bill wotild be
Conceited in 6 liberal spirit.
OrtAltiAlrlO
Sentencing the Toting Preneh Peetender
-Address to the Court— A Great
Wuneult.
A Pixie cable toys : The Duo d'Orleane,
°Wept son of the Comte de 1?aris end heir
to the throne of Fromm, wee condemned
teee afternoon to two year& imprisonment
and to pay the omit of the trial, At his
trial in, the Palaie de Juetice President
Tardiff began, a Meentieur le Deo d'Or -
teens, as to -day's , tribunal is differently
constituted from that before which you
recently appeared, I am obliged to repeat
the newel preliminary exemination. Your
name is 'Louis Philipp& 2"
11 Robert Duo d'Orleane," interrupted
the young man, au if jealous of his title.
YOu wises born ati Twiokenhem. You
are the eldest Bond Comte de Paris, grand-
son of Loeie Philippe, who reigned in
France until Feb. 24th, 1848 2"
"1 am."
"You are, doubtless, aware that the law
forbids the heads and heirs of the houses
which once ruled to set foot upon French
territory, yet you were arrested in Paris on
Feb. 7th, where your preeence is unauthor-
ized. Will you explain your action 2"
The Prince, very pale and evidently con-
trolling himself by a great effort, glanced
nervously about him, and seemed to find
encouragement in the multitude of sym-
pethetio faces which met leis gaze.
!Straightening himself with a proud move-
ment of the head and shoulders, he made
the following declaration. His voice
sounded low as he began, but had he
whispered every word would have been
heard distinctly in the remotest corners of
the room, so iutense was the silenoe. As
he went on, he spoke louder, his cheeks
flushed, he looked at his judges out of a
pair of eyes shining with old.fashioned
courage. He made a -pretty piature as he
stood there telling his simple story, refus-
ing to ask for mercy, ready to accept the
consequence, in his boyieh enthneissm ap-
pealing to the soldiers of the nation to de-
clare that he had done no wrong. These
were his words: "Monsieur le President
—I beg permission to address you with no
display of fine phrases. I game to France
to serve in the army of my country as a
common soldier. I have nothing to do
with politics—that concerns my father,
whose respectful son and faithful servant I
am. I did not go the Chamber of Deputies,
but to the enlistment bureau. I know
the risk I am taking, but that
did not stop me. I love my country. Is
that a fault ? I longed to serve France in
the ranks. Is that a crime? Nol Then
I am not guilty. I need no defence. I
thank my counsel for the devotion they
have shown, but I request them not tu
plead for me. I have no favors to ask. I
make no appeal for pardon. In exile I
have learned to honor the magistrates of
France. I shall respect their judgment.
But if I am found guilty I know that 200,-
000 soldiers of my age will declare me in-
nocent, and all fair. minded men and
women will do the same."
As the Prince ceaeect speaking the hush
which had settled over the chamber was
succeeded by a tumult of cries and voicee.
Whether the speech was the result of his
own inspiration, or, as the Republicans
maintain, was written for him by more
experienced advisers, there is no doubt that
it was a distinct emcees as far as the audi-
ence was concerned.
Under the combined influence of the
stifling heat and intense excitement,
women became hysterical, and smelling
bottles and handkerchiefs came into great
demand. Even men gave way to emotion,
and more than one pair of masculine eyes
winked hard to keep beck the teare.
After the sentence bad been pronounced
a thousand persons invaded the adeocates'
robing room. Many were Monarchists,
and shouted, "Long live the Duo d'Or.
leane 1" Their shouts were met with
counter cries of "Down with the Duc
d'Orleans 1" " Long live the Republic 1"
The guards were powerless to restore order.
After venting their feelings here for a
tune the °meth shouted, "To the statue;
let us crown Henry V." With one accord
they rushed to the site of the statue. where
there were cries of " Long live the Ktrig I"
from the Duc's syropathizere, and counter
cries of " Long live the Republic 1" from
his opponents. The police made twenty-
five arrests.
THAT ts0 st-IN-LAW.
Court Cossip About the Doings of
Troublesome Battenburg.
A London cable says: Court gossip
says that the quarrel between Queen Vim
toria and her son-in-law, Prince Henry of
Battenburg, hae broken out afreeh with
renewed violence, and thePrincess Beatrice
is having a dreadful time of it, as she loves
her husband devotedly and is afraid of her
mother, to whom she was always a sub-
missive daughter. It is certain that the
Queen is an exacting mother-in-law, and,
while wihirig to allow Prince Henry to
smoke'pipes in the grounds and to have a
separate allowance of money, she won't
stand his bringing fellows home to dinner
without leave, nor his slipping off to Lon-
don every now and then and coming home
dishevelled. Battenburg is said to be will-
ing to live out of England, but asserts that
the British law gives him the custody of
his wife, and he means to have it. The
Queen is between two stools ; she must
Either lose her favorite daughter or she
must tolerate Battenburg's chums when
he brings them home to take pot luck.
9
He Should Have Signed the Cheques.
A London cable of Wednesday says:
Elizabeth Vincent, a 5 oung and attractive
woman, was remanded at Richmond to.
day on the charge of attempting to murder
Lewis Henry Isaacs, member of Parlia.
ment for Newington, Walworth, itt Octo-
ber last. Mr. Isaacs seduced Miss Vin-
cent when she was fifteen years of age, and
has since allowed her £400 a year. The
prisoner inveigled Isaacs into her house
and then ordered him to sign a number of
cheques. He refused, whereupon she shot
biro in the arm. The bullet was not re-
moved, and, in consequence of the wound,
Mr. Isaac's Megan are paralyzed.
Jury Bribers Plead °mita.
A Chicago despatch of Wednesday says
When the case of the men indicted for
attempting to bribe the Cronin jury was
called to. day, the four remaining defendant
pleaded guilty. The court told thene what
they were liable to in me he enforced the fnll
penalty, but amid he wotild hear evidence to
determine what mitigating or aggravating
circumstances there were. The work of
selecting the jury was then begun. Pablio
i
interest n the case has greatly lessened
since the flight of Graham, who is supposed
to have been near the head ofthe conspiracy
to corrupt the jury.
Actor Venderfelt who goeg throne' a
meek execution in ',The Prince and the
Pauper" in New York, was hanged by the
neck until be was nearly dead lest Thurs.
day night. An ithproved hanging appliance
heti since been adopted.
France bee escaped from the Man on
Eforgebok," but the Boy, with the Tin
Sword is still abroad.
" WASN'T STINGY ENOTTOM,P
A Fugitive t7uited States Baker !Supposed
to be Hiding Here.
A. despatch from Middletown, N Y., to
the New York Herald eays ; There is an,
integeeting aequel`to the story told by the
eleraid of the disappearance of Banker
hlegene B. Hemingway, of the town of
Whitney's Point, leaving behind him ooli
530 in silver and about 55,000 worth of real
estate with which to satiefy 560,000 of in
debtedness to depositors in his bank and
other ereditore. The defalcation was e
great shook to people in the Chenaego Val
ley. The fugitive hed succeeded to a pros-
perous banking business established by hie
deceased father, and as he had no expen-
sive tastes or views, and was shrewd and
olose-fisted in business transactions, he wae..
looked upon by the farmers end tradesmen
of the vicinity as a thoroughly safe men.
On Saturday afternoon, December 7th last,
he looked the doors of his bankiug house
and took a train to Binghamton, where he
changed to a train for 13uffalo, and that
was the last seen of him itt this side
of Canada. It . is presumed that
the fugitive found a hiding
place at or near Hamilton, Ont., where he
is said to have an uncle living. He left
behind him an interesting faIntly, consist-
ing of a wife and little blind daughter and
an invalid mother, to all of whom he
seemed devotedly attached. In so far as is
known none of his family or friends heard
a word from him until a day or two ago.
One of his former business friends has new
received a letter from him, mailed on this
side of the Canada line, and affording no
due to his hiding place, which is in the
nature of a plea in extenuation of his con-
duct. He denies that he carried oft any
considerable sum of money, and adds:
"They called me stingy, but if I had fol.
lowed my own interest I should have been
more stingy. I am a wanderer and a cul-
prit, but there are those at Whitney's Point
who are to blame for it." He proceeds to
name a number of prominent business men
whom he ma'ases of having betrayed his
confidence. The tone of the letter indicates
that the fugitive banker is already sick of
exile and outlawryend wants to oornpromitio
with his creditors in order that he may
safely return to his family. The creditors
probably see no other way of recouping any
considerable portion of their losses, and it
is understood that most of them are eager
to open negotiations with the defaulter.
USED A BABY FOR A PILLOW.
Archbishop Fabre Institutes a Crusade
Against Abuses in Cemeteries.
A Montreal despatch says: Archbishop
Fabre has issued a circular letter on burial
abuses, which enaota that "no one must
take from coffins or caskets any ornaments
or mountings once they are within oemetery
gates." The custom has been introduced
of stripping coffins of their ornamental
mountings before final interment, and the
spoils are taken home as Bouveniers. The
arohbishop also forbids people to rent
ooffius and ornaments, as has frequently
been done. The bodies were removed from
one casket to a lees pretentious one at the
grave. As an instance of the abuses of un-
dertakers the archbishop cites a ()dee where
a man, having lost a young child, was
unable to attend the burial himself, but
relied upon an undertaker whom he gave
510. A few days later the father called
upon the cemetery authorities to be sure
that the child was properly buried. There
was no such entry on register. The father
than called upon the undertaker andlorced
him to produce the body of the ohild. The
coffin of a grown up person was opened and
there the little corpse was found serving as
a pillow to the body of a woman with
whom it had been buried.
Electricity From the Falls.
An Ottawa despatch says : " As chair-
man of the commissioners of the Victoria
Niagara Park," says Col. Gzowski, " I am
in negotiation for the nee of Niagara Fails
to generate electricity in suffioient quantity
and power to be transmitted to Buffalo,
Loockport, Rochester, Hamilton and 1 o-
ronto, there to be used as a motive power
for working stationary engines at a greatly
reduced cost per horse power. The project
is to drive a tnnnel under the Falls ea a
point about 165 feet below the upper level
of the river, and at its termination excavate
e large chamber for planing water wheele
and dynamos, the supply of water to be
from pipes leading into the tunnel, with a
fall of about 160 feet. That an almost un-
limited electric power can be generated by
the use of Niagara Falls is not doubted."
Bailors Devoured by Sharks.
An Aden cable says: An awful scene took
place on board the Peninsular & Oriental
Company's steamship Victoria, homeward
bound from Australia. When midway be-
tween Colombo and Aden a male passenger
leaped overboard. The engines were
immediately ;reversed and a boat was
ordered to be lhwered. As the crew obe3ed
the order the forward davit tackle slipped
from the hands of the bow man who was
overhauling it, and the crew numbering
thirteen, fell into the sea. A second boat
was instantly lowered with a crew of
eleven. The letter was lowered in perfect
safety and succeeded in rescuing eleven of
the unlucky thirteen. The other two, to-
gether with the unfortunate suioide, were
devoured by sharks in full view of the
horrified passengers.
Collision on the 0. P. B.
A Montreal despatch of Wednesday says:
Thie morning two express trains on the
Canadian Pacific Railway, one from Winni-
peg, the other going west, collided between
Rockliffe and Bissett' s stetion. Robert
Thompson, express messenger, and son of
Tax Collector Thompson, of Kingston,
was killed. It is supposed the heavy
packages in the express oar fell upon him,
causing death. Both engines were badly
smashed. The estimate of damage to the
cars is not yet known. The rest of the
train hands escaped with a bad shaking up.
eArrengements were made whereby the eaat
bound train was only delayed six hours by
the accident.
A New Brand of Peacemaker.
A London °tibia Bas: The Government
has secured the patent for a new artillery
weapon. It is claimed that guns con-
structed on this principle are euperaor to
any in present USG in Europe, having an
effeative range of 6,000 yards, and firing
three times more rapidly than the Arm-
strong gun. The inventors are two °fawn
of the Anemic:au navy, named Driggs and
Schweder. Tho trials have been eminently
satisfaotory.
Why He was Tired.
"Hallo, old man! Yon look pleyedeout
this morning. Doee the cold weather make
yeti tired, 2'
'1 Well, rather! Set up last night with
sick furnance."
It is Mid that Andrew Carnegie having
Bemired absolute control of the Pittsburg &
Weide= Railway, has turned it over to the
Baltimore & Ohio Company, which will
give the letter company a shorter route to
Clevelend and Chicego,
A GALLAORT COT.T.AFSES
And ninny Woroitippera tut a Xoudou
Church ore Injured..
A London cable of Sunday says: An sea.
dent of an alarming character, by which
peverel persons were geriouely iujheed,
r recurred to -night during divine service at
Bromley lvdependent Churele. Acroes the
eed of the building over the entrance was
fixed a balcony capable of holding 60 or 70
persoes. While the pastor ,was reading
the lessons the gallery with scarcely hUY
warning, euddenly collspeed, precipitating
its oceupants into the body of the church.
A cloud of dust obsoured the view of the
remainder of the congregation for a few
minutes, but when it °leered away it
became obvioue that numbers of persons
were buried beneath the ruins of the gal-
lery. The fallen debris caused an obstrum
tion at the entrance and prevented any
ensistance being rendered from the outside,
but willing hands were soon at work Olean
hag away the fallen timbers:and extricating
the uniortenate occupantof the fallen
gallery from their perilOnti position. The
gallery was pretty well filled at the time,
and about twenty persons were buried.
The work of removing the debris occupied
some time. When acoompliehed it was
found that while most of the victims of the
accident were severely bruised and cut, five
had received eerions injuries, which in
some inetancee may unfortunately prove
fatal. thee young lady was unconscious
when extricated. Two medical gentlemen
in the congregation attended to the
injured, of whom several had broken legs
and arms, while others had internal
injuriee.
Bow Woman Can Pack a Trunk.
A Philadelphia despatch says :.The ways
of fate are not half so mysterious as the
art whioli enables a woman to paok a pile
of goods eight by sixteen into a four by
eight trunk. An illustration of this won-
derful feminine faculty was given yester.
day in Judge Gordon's court in the suit of
Mrs. Laura Dolsen against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company to recover dam.
ages for the loss of a trunk. In the course
of her testimony Mre. Dolsen showed that
she had stowed sway nearly 5700 worth of
dry goods and sundries in a 515 trunk. She
was, before her marriage to Dr. Charles W.
Dolsen, vies Laura V. Hayes, a member of
the McCann Opera Company. She is a
elender demi. brunette of prepossessing
appearance and with a dramatic delivery.
Mrs Deleon told the court and jury how,
in 1884, the company had to make a jamp
from this city to Boston, and that the
trnnk she had expressed, and for which ehe
held check 66, had never reached its desti-
nation. When coked to state the contents
of the miesing true k and their value, the
ex.operatio artiste gave the following
enumeration:
One extra long sealskin wrap, valued at
8250; one black satin dress, one black silk
dress, $75 ; one garnet silk dress, 575 ; one
brown flannel dress, 515; one blue flannel
dress, 515 ; one red cloth dress, 525 ; one
gray silk and woolen drese, 515 ; one garnet
velvet jacket, 55 ; one embroidered cloth
jacket, 55; one pink satin eacque, 85; one
bine and white cloth sacigne, 55 ; green felt
hat, 55 ; garnet felt hat, 55 ; gray silk hat,
53 ; black silk hat, 35 ; gossamer water-
proof, 53 50; umbrella, 84; overshoes, 75
cents ; fur collar, 55 ; muff, 55 ; two hand
mirrors, 55 ; jersey waist, 52; sundries,
including ribbons, buttons, buckles, gold
thimble, eciseors, piece of green dress cloth,
hand-knit hood, pair of hand-knit mittens,
handkerchiefs, alligator bag, stookings,etc.,
810; towels, 55; lot of underwear, 535, and
one stage drone, 55.
Mrs. Dolsen won the case.
Pree kducatton For Girls.
A moat praiseworthy movement is about
to ,be set on foot by the Ladies' Hcme
Journal of Philadelphia. It proposes to
give to any young girl of 16 years or over
who will eend to it, between now and
January 1st, 1891, the largeet number of.
yearly subscribers t� the Journal, a com-
plete education at 'Vassar College or any
other American college she may select. To
this is also pinned a sewend offer which
guarantees to any girl of 16 or over who
will secure e.,000 yearly subscribers before
January 1st, a full term of one year at
Vs ssar or any other preferred college, with
all expenses paid, thus making it poeeible
for any number of young girls to receive
free education at the best colleges Any
girl csn enter into the competition, and any
such can be thoroughly posted by simply
writing to the Ladies' Home ,Tournal at 435
Aroh street, Philadelphia.
Ten 4. ommandments.
Here are the ten commandments of the
Hindu Theological College of Madras, and
very sensible ones they are : 1. Pray to
God as soon as ou uise from your bed -5,
5.10 a m. 2. Wash your bedy and keep
your surroundings clean -5.10, 5.30 a.m.
3. Prostrate yourself before e our parents
or guardians and take good exeroise-5.30,
6 30 a,m. 4. Prepare well your school
leesons-6.30, 9 a. m. 5. Attend school
regularly chid punctually and do the
echool work properly. 6. Obey and respect
your teachers and the teachers of the other
classes, and other respectable persons.
7. Read till 8 p.m. at home. 8. Pray to
God and go to bed -9 p. m. to 5 a. m. 9.
Keep good company and avoid bad cam-
peny. 10. Practice righteousness at all
times.—New York Tribune.
A Cure for Diphtheria.
The following remedy is said to be the
best known; at least it is worth trying, for
physicians seem powerless to cope with the
disease successfully. At the first indication
of diphtheria in the throat of a child make
the room close; then take a tin imp and
pour into it a quantity of tar and turpen.
tine, equal pens. Than hold the cap over
the fire so as to fill the room with fumee.
The little patient, on inhaling the fumes,
will cough up and spit out all the mem-
branous matter, and the diphtheria will
pass off. The fumes of the tar end tarpon.
tine loosen the matter in the throat, and
thus afford the relief that has baffled the
skill of pleyeioians.—Exchange.
Slim Fianrett to be the Style.
With spring styles, slim figures will be
introduced, and fat women ordered to wear
stripes, long, straight deaperies, and yokee
for all uederskirts. Already the yokes are
in the notion stocks. They aro made of
cenvass and silk, profusely gored to fit
about the hips tmoothly, and edged with
buttons to which the petticoats can be
buttoned.—New York World.
A Alan of Family.
Prodley—I hear you've been getting
meriied.
It town—earns.
" Whom did you marry ?"
" Milly Jones, her mother, her stepfather
and two maiden auntie"
On Wednesday night, ate James Hogan,
of lnverary, was coming ttp the shaft in
Foxton'e mine, near Sy denbaM, he
weakened and Id a distance of 90 feato
sustaining a fracture of the Anil, 'from
which death remitted ahnost instantanta
away
OVI3RE1StT TOPICS
SPEOWN charges of drunkenness and
cruelty have becn laid egainet the captain
ofetbe lefeited States revenue °titter Bear,
whieh play ed tete). high Peea on the high
Seas with the Ceeeditte sealbrs. Does this
explain the strained retatione ?
Camera Peca, the brether of the Pope,
Mao died on Beturcley from an "tt o k of
La Grippe, followed by pneumonia, was
born in Carpinexo, a villege in Centre
Italy, in 1807. He entered the Society of
jeStla while yet young, but retired frona the
order in 1848, Ele Wisii Professor of Phil-
osophy in the 'await College until 1851.
He received the red hat on May 12th, MO -
Latterly he bas bt en regarded the ohief
adviser of his brother, and wielded a strong
influence over the alleles of the Church.
A Rua, hate been introduced into the
New York Legielature enacting illat every
facturiegerniaing or quarrying, lum-
bering, naeroantile, rellread, street, sur-
face, electric or elevated railway, eteam-
boat, telegraph, telephoae and municipal
corporation, and every iecorporated express
company and water company shall pay
weekly each and every employee engaged
in its business the wapee earned by such
employee to within six da t s of such pay-
ment. The Bill is meeting with consider-
able opposition from the incorporated
bodies, but orgenind later is working
strongly in favor of its passage.
THE extraet seven below is f rom " Knox-
onian " in this week's Canada Presbyterian.
Who he is hitting at we do not know, but
surely it eaunot be Hunter and Crossley :
The class of peop'e who call themselves
evangehets have correct ideas about eropty
caeks. They get down n Vti 1' the bo tom of the
cask in about a t'rlti t, and as soon as they
scrape the bottom they rake their money, hold
a farewell meeting ar,d—leave. Some of the
men who make a tromoidous noi,e in a com-
munity for ten ditys could not bo d out for a
year it bolding out wgro to save the community.
The cask bo Os just so many stories, so many
startling incHlents, so iro,ny add, wises, so many
allusions to the great work 1 have done in other
places, and th,i nigtuent thos, are taken out the
good man wisely mires himself away. The
idiotic porti,o1 of the community don't see the
bottom of the cask, and thv idiotic portion of
some eommunities is large.
COUNT JULIES ANDBAsSv, the Hungarian
Prime Minister of the Anttrian empire,
died to -day in the 67th year of his age. His
ancestors were known from the llth cen-
tury in Bosnia and 1 eon] the 16th in Ans.
tria He was a member of the Presburg
Diet of 1847 8, and led the militia, against
the Austrians; weet to Coustantinople as
Hungarian Amhateadr r, reed from 1849 to
1857 was an exile in France and England.
After the accession of the Beast Ministry
in 1866 and the recognition of Hungarian
sovereignty under a ouel Austro-Hungarian
empire, he was, et Deekre demand, ap-
pointed Hungarian Prime Minister of the
empire in 1867. He aloe acted as Minister
of the National Defence and was inetru-
mental in paesieg many rneaeures in sup-
port of the sovereign riehts of Hungary.
Be favored neutraliiy in the Franco-Ger-
man war and epproved of the overthrow of
the temporal Neel power. He did mach
in his time to cot sole -tete the beterogeneons
nationalities of which the Austrian empire
is composed. This was eta it effect upon
himself, for Maxwell in his earlier years
a Hungarian or the 'ince-Arians, latterly he
became so imbued v, ith the national spirit
of the empire that he nropoeed such sweep-
ing measures relanve to the Hungarian
army that he was hooted on tbe streete by
the students and other patriotic Hungarians
as a traitor to hie o wn country. His death
removes from the poliocal chess.board of
Europe one of several characters who, for
a quarter of a century and more, have
played with the destinies of millions of their
fellowmen as f they were eo many °bees -
men.
Some few wean ago, if we mistake not
Mr. Robert Mathieon, Superintendent of
the Belleville Deet and Dumb Institute,
made the public announcement that, after
investigation, he had diecovered that
deaf mutes did not beeet deaf mutes in a
greater ratio than difi perents possessing
all their fsculties. Alex. Grehane Bell, of
telephone fame, a geotleruan deeply inter-
ested in deaf mutes, dues not hold the same
view of the subjeot es dons Mr. Mathison.
In a newspaper interview he is credited
with saying that " the cuetom of deaf
mutes mere.) ing deaf ruutte, their deaf
mute children marred -me other deaf mute
children, ie, 1. find, eteadily iuoreasing the
per cent of the deaf mute population. So
serious has the question grown filet I have
recommended tete Ceesas Department to
pay particular attention to the collection of
deaf-mute etediet ion In 1888 there were in
round numbers 34,000 deaf mutes in this
country. I find that outeide of deaf mute
families one person in every 1000 is born
deaf. That is the per cent. If deafness is
no more common among the offspring of
deaf mutes than in the other popu ation,thet
total number should not be nearly so large.
It is evident, hotviiver, that the rer cent. of
deafness among the children of deaf mutes
is greater in the ascending ratio. The fact,
that a deaf mute eeasly elwaye marries a
deaf mute is tbe Catilie of this inoreate:
Our plan of collecting deaf mutes together
in inetitutions, taking them away from
their Englielnspealitun- him -ids and bring-
ing them up in the society of ries.f mutes, is
responsible for this." Mr, Bell is now west,
visiting the deaf and dumb inetituticne
there. The one in Omaha is said to cure,
tixteeen per cent. of its inroret&s, and turns.
them out tree& g mutes by what is known.
as the auricular method. e
Proof Positive.
Hooker Crock (lespairingly)—Do;eyout
think Bessie intends to marry Jack ?
Riton (unfeelingle)—I know she does. I
saw her send for a copy of the divorce laws,
yesterday.
INCONGBEITIFY.
Veho ou'tivates tke choicest plum
Mae never be a plumber;
And though a boy may " do "bus sum
He can't beeon,e a summer ;
And yet tbe iad who isa, hum
Will grow to be a bummer,
And if one will not stay' ter litnn"
He will become a '' hummer."
—The peal of a banana has a falling
inflection.
—The Sabbath day is the saviogg bank,
of humanity.
—Dog, Bette and goat eking all help to,
glove society noweelaeg.
—The button -shoe remaiias the favorite -
with Philadelphia gide.
—Walt Whitman will be 71 years of age,
on the elst day of next May.
—Be useful te yourself first, your friends -
next at d the work' Afterward.
—It is vvorthy of etnark "that an oyster
,—The onlyway to be onfive San
i
never gete into a broil while in
e'e
dred a year s to live on four hundred and,
ilin—Ith
r-ntintthreeltold of a ttieltirth bath;
Leri Italy to stout lady friend—Yon don't
mean to sey you otime here to get leen f
Whet, my doctor ordered 'Me here to get