HARRISON ACCEPTS.
His Formal Letter to the Noti
fication Committer
The Eepublican Nominee lor the
rresiaency drives ms views.
The letter of General Benjamin Harrison,
accepting the Republican nomination for
President has been made public. He begins
by saying:
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 11, 1SSS.
"If on. II. M. Kstee and others, Commitfee:
"Gentlemen: When your committee
visited me on the Fourth of July last and
presented the oflicial announcement of my
nomination for the 1 'residency of the
United .States by the Reputdican Convention,
I j romifed as toon as practicable to commu
nicate to you a formal acceptance of the
nomination. Since that time the wcrk of re
ceiving and addressing almost daily large
delegations of my fellow citizens has not only
occupied all of my time, but has in
some measure rendered it unnecessary for
me to use this letter as a medium of com
municating to the public my views upon the
questions involved in the campaign. 1 ap
preciate very highly the conliuenee and re
spect manifested by the Convention and ac
cept the nomination with a feeling of grati
tude an I a full sense of the responsibilities
which accompany it."
Jn regard to the tariff question he says:
"The issue cannot now be obscured. It is
not a contest between schedules, but letvveen
wide a-iart principles. Tho foreign com
petitors of our market have, with quick
instinct, seen how one issue of this
contest may bring them advantage,
and our own people are not so dull as to
miss or neglect "the grave interests that are
involved for them. The assault upon our
protec tive system is open and defiant. Pro
tection is assailed as unconstitutional in law,
or as vicious in principle, and those who
hold such views sincerely cannot stop short
of an absolute elimination from our tarill"
laws of the principle of protection.
The Mills bill is only a step, but it is toward
an object that the leaders of Democratic
thought and legislation have clearly in mind.
"'1 lie important question is not so much the
length of the step as the direction of it
Judged by the Executive message of
December last, by the Mills bill, by
the debates in Congress and by the St.
Louis platform, the Democratic party will,
if supported by the country, place the taritf
laws upon a purely revenue basis. This is
practical free trade free trade in the Eng
lish sense. The legend upon the banner
may not bo "free trade"' it may
be the more obscure motto, "tariff
reform'' but neither the banner nor
the inscription is conclusive, or. indeed, very
important. The assault itself, it is the im
portant fact.
'! hose who teach that the import duty upon
foreign goods sold in our markets is-paid by
the consumer, and that the price of the
domestic competing article is enhanced to
the amount of the duty on the imported
article that every million of dollars collected
for customs represents many millions more
which do not reach the Treasury, but are
paid by our citizens as the increased cost of
domestic productions resulting from the
tariff laws may not intend to discredit in
the minds cf others our system of levying
duties on eom-)eting foreign products, but it
is clearly already discredited in their own.''
Continuing he observes: "The Republican
party holds that a protective tariff is consti
tutional, wholesome and necessary. We do
not offer a fixed schedule but a principle.
We will revise the schedule, modify rates,
but always with an intelligent provision as
to the effect upon domestic production and
the wages oE our working people. "We
believe it to be one of the worthy ob
jects of tarifF legislation to preserve the
American market for American producers,
and to maintain the American scale
of wages by adequate discriminating
duties upon foreign competing products. The
effect of lower rat..s and larger importations
upon the public revenue is contingent and
doubtful, but not so the effect upon Ameri
can production and American wages.
"Less work and lower wages must be ac
cepted as the inevitable result of the in
creased offering of foreign goods in our mar
ket. By the way of recompense for this reduc
tion in' his wages and the losso"' the American
market it is suggested that the diminished
wages of the workingman will have an un
dimished purchasing power, and that he will
be able to make up for the loss of the home
market by an enlarged foreign market Our
vrorkiiigmen have the settlement of the ques
tion in their own hands. Ihey now obtain
higher w ages and live more comfortably than
those of any other country. 1 hey will make
choice between the substantial advantages
they have in hand and the deceptive prom
ises and forecasts of those theorizing reform
ers. They will decide for them-elves and for
the country whether the protective system
shall be continued or destroyed.
"The fact of a Treasury surplus, the
amount of which is variously stated, has di
rected public attention to a consideration of
tie methods by which the national in
come may best "bo reduced to the level of
a wise and necessar- expenditure. This
condition has hem seized upon by those who
are hostile to protective custom duties as an
advantageous base of attack upon our tariif
laws. Thev have magnifie 1 and nursed the
surplus, which they affect to deprecate,
seemingiv for the purpo-e of exaggerating
the evil in order to renoncile the people to
the extreme remo ly they propose."'
IDs sentiments on the use of the surplus
are "as follows: "We are not likely to be
called upon, I think, to make a present
choice between the surrender of our pro
tective system and the entire repeal of
the internal taxes. Such a contingen y,
in view of the present relation
of expenditures to revenues is re
mote. The inspection and regulation of the
manufacture and sale of oleomargarine is
important and the revenue derived from it
is not so great that the reped of the law
need enter into any plan of revenue reduc
tion. The surplus now in the Treasury
should be used in the purchase of
bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and
if it is not needed for current or deficiency
appropriations the people an i not the banks
in "which it has been deposited should have
the advantage of its use by stopping interest
upon the public debt.'
'Closely connected with the subject of the
tiritiY" declares Mr. Harrison, "is that of the
importation of foreign laborers under con
tracts of service to be performed here.
The law now in force prohibiting such
contracts received my cordial support in the
Senate, ami such amendments as may be
found necessary effectively to deliver our
working men and wom.m from this raot
inequitable form of competition will have my
sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting
the importation of laborers under contracts
to serve here will, however, afford very
inadeouate relief to our working people
if the system of protective duties is
broken "down. If the product of
American shops must compete in the Amer
ie mi market without favoring duties with
the products of cheap foreign labor, the ef
fect will be different, if at alhonly in degree,
whether the cheap laborer is across the
street or over the sea. Such competition
will soon re luce wages here to the level
3f those abroad, and when that condition is
reached we will not ne?d any laws forbid
ding the importation of laborers under con
tract. They will have no inducement to
come, and the employer no inducement to
send for them."
Continuing he says: "But the day of the
immigration bureau has gone by. While
our doors will continue open to proper immi
gration, we do not need to issue special invi
tations to the inhabitants of other coun
tries to come to our shores or
to share our citizenship. Indeed. the
necessity of some inspection and limita
tion is obvious. We should resolutely refuse
to permit foreign governments to send their
paupers and criminals to our ports. We are
also clearly under a duty to defend our civili
zation by excluding alien races wh ose ulti
mate assimilation with our people is neither
possible nor desirable."
The objections to Chinese immigration
are distinctive and couclusive and are now so
generally accepted as such that the question
has passed entirely beyond the stage of argu
ment. The laws relating to this subject
would, if I should be charged with their en
forcement, be faithfully executed. Such
amendments for further legislation as may
be necessary and proper to prevent evasions
of the laws and to stop further Chinese im
migration would also meet my approval.
The expression of the Convention upon this
subject is in entire harmony with my views.''
After condemning the disfranchisement
of electors by fraud or intimidation he dis
cusses the admission of Territories:
"The Territorial form of government is a
temporary expedient, not a permanent civil
condition. No question of the political
preference of the people of a Territory should
close against them the hospitable door which
has opened to two-thirds of the existing
States."
From thi3 he turns to trusts and combina
tions, discussing them as follows: "The dec
laration of the Convention against 'all com
binations of capital, organized in trusts or
otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition
of trad-3 among our citizens,' is in
harmony with the views enter
tained and publicly expressed by
me long before the assembling of the Con
vention. Ordinarily capital shares the losses
of idleness with labor, but under the opera
tion of the trust, in some of it forms, the
wage worker alone suffers loss, while idle
capital receives its dividends from a trust
fund."
After declaring himself in hearty
svmnathy with the declaration of the
1 Convention on the subject of pen
sions, he says in regard to Civil Service
reform: "The law regulating appointments
to the classified civil service received my
support in the Senate, in the belief that it
opened the way to a much needed reform. I
still think so, and therefore cordially approve
the clear and forcible expression of the
Convention upon this subject. The
law should have the aid of a friendly
interpretation and be faithfully and
vigorously enforced. All appointments un
der it should be absolutely free from par
tisan considerations and influence. Some
extensions of the classified list are practica
ble and desirable, and further legislation ex
tending the reform to other branches of the
service, to which it is applicable, would re
ceive my approval."
The following paragraph is devoted to the
Temperance ouestion: "I notice with pleas
ure that the Convention did not omit to ex
press its solicitude for the promotion of virtue
and temperance among our people. The
Republican party has always been friendly
to everything that tended to make the home
life of our people free, pure and prosperous,
and will in the future be true to its history in
this respect"
After urging the extension and cultivation
of our diplomatic and commercial relations
he concludes by saying: "The resolutions
relating to the coinage, to the rebuilding of
the navy, to coast defences and to public
lands, express conclusions to all of which I
gave my support in the Senate.
"Inviting a calm and thoughtful consider
ation of these public questions, we submit
them to fcthe people. Their intelligent pa
triotism and the good Providence that made
and has kept us a nation will lead them to
wise and safe conclusions.
"Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Benjamin Harrison."
TIMELY TABLES.
The Popular and Electoral Votes
lor President in 1HH4.
The popular vote in the United States, in
1884, according to the Tribune Almanac, was
as follows:
Votes.
Cleveland, Democrat 4,874,9St!
Blaine, Republican 4,V'5l,Sl
Butler, Greenback and Labor 175,:J7G
St. John, Prohibitionist 150,:Jf
Blank, defective and scattering. . . . 14,90
Total 10,0!37,01C
The Electoral vote was as follows:
Cleveland.
Alabama 10
Arkansas 7
Connecticut 0
Delaware o
4
1
15
13
s
s
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri 1G
New Jersey U
New York "0
North Carolina 11
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas.
Virginia.
.12
.13
.12
West Virginia 0
Blaine.
California S
Colorado
Illinois
Iowa 15
Kansas U
Maine 6
Massachusetts 14
Michigan 13
Minnesota 7
Nebraska 5
Nevada 3
New Hampshire... 4
Ohio til
Oregon '
Pennsy 1 vani a UO
Rho le Island 4
Vermont . 4
Wisconsin 11
Total 1SJ
Total 21'.) I Cleveland's maj...37
NINE MEN KILLED.
Frightful Explosion in a Montana
Tunnel.
Nine msn were killed and six others se
riously injured by the explosion of a blast in
the Montana central tunnel near Helena.
The tuimel is leing driven from both ends,
an I for the last ten days workmen on each
side had heard each other's movements. The
gang in one end is composed of Irishmen anil
in the otuer end of Swedes. There has been
great rivalry betw.cn Die two gangs to see
v-'wioh would make the hole first.
Orders were given by the contractors to be
careful and put in small blasts. Just before
f ie night shift of Swe les quit thy put l.i
three big blasts Orders ha 1 ben previously
given to drill only ten fet, but the Swedes
drilled twenty feet. As thehoie was nearly
th rough the Irishmen, not knowing the
Swedes had drilled so far, explode 1 a
single cap over one of th?S3 holes,
which exploded it and set off the oth-r
two blasts. Three hun Ire i pounis of
giant powder stored in the vicinity was also
exploded, and the result was awful. As soon
as the srnolce cleared away rescuers entered
the tunnel en i found thi remains of nine
men scattered all over the place, one man
being cut completely in two.
The tunnel is six thousand feet long,
through granite, and this is the first accident.
The Coroner's jury rendered a verdict of
"No one to blame."
South and West.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Conven
tion assembled at Milwaukee and nominated
James Morgan for Governor.
Abe Mann, of San Francisco, cut his
wife's throat in a fit of jealousy and then
committed suicide.
John Ford, a prominent citizen of Colum
bus, Ind., while insane from typhoid fever,
killed his wife and one child and severely
wounded another child.
Louis Larson, a factory operative in
Chicago, went into an iron cylinder to clean
it, taking a lighted candle and a bucket of
benzine. He soon screamed. The cylinder
was filled with flame. No help could reach
him, and he was roasted to death.
The State Convention of Colorado Repub
licans was convoked in Denver, and on the
fifth ballot J. A. Cooper received the nomi
nation for Governor.
The boiler of a thresher exploded at Ellen
dale, Dakota, killing five farmers who were
operating it, and scalding three bystanders.
Three farmers were killed and five bruised
and scalded by the explosion at Seymour,
Ind., of an old worn-out steam thresher.
General William Terry, the Comman
der of the famous Stonewall Brigade during
the Civil War, was drowned recently while
fording Reed Creek, near Wytheville, Va.
The three year-old child of Reuben Chap
man while playing in a field of millet at
Coitsville, Ohio, was caught by a mowing
machine and had both feet cut off, causing
death.
Almost the entire business portion of the
town of Jennings, La., has been destroyed
by fire.
The South Carolina Democracy met in
State Convention at Columbia, and J. P.
Richardson and W. L. Mauldin, the present
incumbents, were re-nominated for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor.
The Minnesota Republican State Conven
vention assembled at St. Paul and nominated
William R. Merriam for Govornor.
Ex-Coltntv Treasurer John C. Graves,
of Corydon, Ind., has been found to be a
defaulter to the amount of $14,000.
An internal tribal war has broken out in
Indian Territory over the recent election, in
which Governor Gay of the Chickasaw na
tion was elected by fifteen majority.
A son of Albert Banta was killed at Brag
town, Ind., by his head being bitten off by a
vicious horse.
A Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge
over New River, Ohio, has been carried
away by a flood. Loss $50,000.
Prairie fires have inflicted great damage
in Edmunds and McPherson counties, Da
kota. The Congaree River, in South Carolina,
rose twenty feet in twenty-four hours, broke
its banks, and did ? 1,0 JO, 000 damage to cot
ton and corn.
Joseph Hoffman, Tax Assessor of Wash
ington county, and James Holt, a prominent
planter, were sitting on the Brenham (Texas)
public square, engaged in conversation,
when shot from a gun, heavily loaded with
buckshot, instantly killed Mr. Hoffman and
fatally wounded Mr. Holt. The shot came
out of the darkness and nothing could be
learned as to the identity of the assassin.
Three acres of shops in the lumber district
of San Francisco were swept away by fire,
causing a loss of over $1,000,00 ).
The train conveying John Robinson's cir
cus collided with a freight at Waynesville,
Ohio, and five circus attaches were killed.
The engina of the freight train and five
coaches of the circus train were badly
wrecked. The Joss to property was estimated
at .JoO.OOO.
Washington.
Secretary Fairchild has decided to
award the contract for the construction of
the Brooklyn postorhce building to Mr. Gal
lagher of that city at his bid of 00,0 J0.
The transfer of Lieutenant-Colonel Thos.
M. Vincent from St. Paul to Washington
under an order issued by the War Depart
ment, means that he will be made Assistant
Adjutant-General to the new commander of
the army. General Sehofield.
The President has approve! the act to
remove the political disabilities of General
Gustavus W. Smith.
The State Department has received a dis
patch from Captain Chester, of the Galena,
who was ordered to Hayti for the protection
of American interests said to be imperdel
by the recent revolutions, saying that the
troubles in that country were at an end
President Cleveland has transmittei
to Congress two dispatches from the United
States Minister to China, declaring that no
positive information of the rejection of the
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
George C. Grady & Co.. of Eastport.the
largest sardine packers of Maine, have as
signed to Dr. James Grady.
The Democrats of Massachusetts met in
State Convention at Springfield, and placed
in nomination for Governor, William E.
Russell, the young Mayor of Cambridge.
The platform commends President Cleve
land's financial, foreign and civil service pol
icy, and adopts the St. Louis declaration of
Democratic principles.
James P. BN.vETT,an extensive New York
dealer in coffee and tea has failed for $1L0,
'JWJ. Prominent New York bankers are en
gaged in a great banking scheme to secure
the control of the world's silver market and
transfer it to the metropolis.
Over two thousand swine have died within
a few days in Cumberland county, Penn., of
a mysterious disease supposed" to be hog
cholera.
Lester Wallack, the famous actor has
died of apoplexy at his heme near Stamford,
Conn, lie was bom in New York city in
isjo.
The Democracy of New Hampshire as- I
semuiea in state uonvencion at Loncom,
and nominated Charles EL Amsden for
Governor.
Twenty thousand people assembled in
Madison Square Gardeu, New York, to hear
Judge Thurman, the Democratic candidate
for Vice-President, who, however, was too
much indisposed by a sudden attack of
cholera morbus to speak longer than three
minutes. Governor Hill, 01 New York;
Governor Green, of New Jersey, and Senator
Blackburn, of Kentucky, delivered addresses
to the audience.
William Hopkins, fifty years old, and his
five-year-old daughter were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed his house near Mil
ford, Del.
The little hamlet of Ingham's Mills, N. Y.,
was the scene of a terrible boiler explosion
resulting in the death of Adam Keiser, Jr.,
aged seventeen, and Arthur Leavitt, the en
gineer, aged seventeen. The injured were
Adam Keiser, Sr., both legs broken, and Ja
cob Keiser, one leg broken and injured inter
nally. Two horses were instantly killed. The
explosion was caused by carelessness, a bf ick
having been left on the safety valve.
Frederic E. Beardslee, an electrical ex
pert, killed himself in New York City by
swallowing cyanide of potassium. Despond
ency owing to sickness and poverty was the
cause.
The loss by the recent frost in Maine has
been estimated at 1,000,000.
treaty had teen receive X. an! that the treaty
had been postponed by the Emperor for
further deliberation.
The United States War Department has
direct! that in contracts for suiplies prefer
ence shall be given to domestic productions.
Foreign.
Havana, Cuba, was swept by a disastrous
cyclone. Several vessels foundered in the
harbor, and two sailors were drowneL Many
persons were injured. Many street lamjK,
walls, trees and fences were blown down, and
much damage was done to wharves.
The East of London, England, is panic!
stricken by the fourth brutal munier of
women by an unknown and mysterious crim
inal, 'all the tragedies occurring under the
same sensational circumstances.
M. Bihourd, French resident in Tonquin,
has been appointed Governor of Indo-China.
LATER NEWS.
Charles Frederick Herreshof, the
builder of boats, has died at his residence at
Bristol, R. I., of pneumonia. He was in his
eightieth year.
J. Colby Drew, of Lynn, Mass, who con
fesses to forgeries aggregating $JO,000, has
surrendered to Marshal King. He had
charge of the financial affairs of W. F. Mon
roe, a grocer, to whose notes he forged in
dorsements. Drew had plenty of time to es
cape, but he preferred to surrender himself.
Wit. P. Emory, age seventy-eight, a
wealthy bank President of Flemington, N.
J., drowned himself in a drainage pool near
his barn, prompted by despondency caused
by the recent death of his wife.
The Maine State election resulted in a Re
publican victory, unofficial figures giving
Burleigh a majority of about 20,000 for Gov
ernor. All four Congressmen elected are Re
publicans. The State Senate was reported
solidly Republican, and the lower branch of
the Legislature is four-fifths Republican.
The Navajo Indian trouble in Arizona hat
been settled by the surrender of the six meD
charged with selling whis ky.
William Mahoney, aged fifty years, and
William H. Horstman, age I twenty-three,
fought a duel with pistols at Cumberland,
Md. Mahoney was killed, and Horstman
wounded .
Rain fell in torrents for seven days through
out North Carolina inflicting incalculable
damage to crops and great disaster to rail
roads, mills and factories along the water
courses. The cotton crop is cut short one
third and tobacco is materially affected. The
loss to railways aggregates ?10),0J0.
Mr. Curry, the United States Minister to
Spain, has resigned, giving as a reason that
the climate does not agree with him.
The Army bill, as finally agreed upon by
the conference and approved by the two
houses of Congress, carries an appropriation
of $-34,471,300. The Fortification bill, also
disposed of by Congress, appropriates $0,
972,000. Two earthquake shocks have occurred
at Vostizza, Greece, on the Corinthian Gulf,
doing great damage. Troops have been de
spatched with a supply of tents for the home
less and provisions for the destitute.
Floods in the South of Spain have caused
the loss of many lives and enormous dam
age to property.
The Spanish mail steamer Espanola. while
on the way from Havana to Matanzas,
shifted her cargo and lost the mate and two
seamen, who were washed overboard.
Rear Admiral Luce, commanding the
United States North American squadron, has
sailed from New York for Norfolk, Va., on
the eighteen foot steam barge Vixen, that
boat being his temporary flagship.
The amount of the defalcation of Cashier
Breed, of Hartford, Conn., who committed
suicide, is $10S,0J0.
Captain Andrews, the daring seaman
who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a
small open sail boat, was picked up in mid
ocean by a passing vessel in an exhausted
condition and brought back to Boston,
whence he sailed.
Augusta, Ga., has just had the highest
and most disastrous flood ever known there.
The Savannah river was thirty-eight feet
above low water level, and nearly the who'e
city was inundated. Crops in the low lands
were destroyed, aud the loss is estimated at
$1,000,000.
A great parade at the Grand Army En
campment, during the Columbus, Ohio, Cen
tennial, was reviewed by General Sherman
and other distinguished persons.
The President has sent the following nom
inations to the Senate: Lambert Tree of
Illinois, now Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium, to le
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary of the United States to Russia,
vice George V. N. Lothrop resigned. Edwin
R. Connell. a citizen of the United States, to
be Consul of the United States at Batavia.
To be Secretary of the Legation of the United
States: Howard Martin of New York to
China: Charles K. Holliday of Kansas to
Venezuela; Henry L. Vilas of New Yorkto
the Argentine Republic: Henry R. White
bouse of New York to Mexico.
Eight persons have been killed and five in
jured by the explosion of a threshing ma
chine at Ciron, France.
Floods in Austria, Spain an I Mexico have
cause I great damage anl loss of life.
The marriage of the Duke d'Aosta aud
the Princess Letltia Bonaparte Las been cele
brated ir. Turin with great pomp. They are
unc'.e and niece.
An expedition consisting o? ." H m-n
will be s-nt aain-t King John of Abyssinii
by Italv. Tne Italian authorities are arm
ing friendly triles at M issowah.
Torvin Green, Calvin Price and John H.
Inman, of New York,, have formed a com
bine with Governor Gonlon, Henry U .
Grady and others of Atlanta, with larjre
capital, to work the slate beds of Georgia,
situated in Polk county.
The New. York city tax rate for th
present year is fixed at -J. 22, the total
amo""" tr raise! beinrr il3. "JOO.CVJ.
VETERANS KILLED.
A Grand Army Excursion Train
Smashed to Pieces.
A Freight Dashes Into It With
Fatal Results.
A special train on the New York, Pennsyl
vania and Oh o railroad, consisting of nine
coaclt, and carrying Grand Army of the
Republic members to the Co'urnbin, Ohio,
reunion, was run into by a freight train nar
Rittmann, Ohio. Svm vr.ons were killM
and twenty-five wounded, a numler of them
fatally.
The excursion train, which was a sptvial,
had the right of way, and wa running at a
fair rate of spe-.l. J ut outside Rittmann is
a steep grad which the tram was descending
when a connecting rod on the engine broke
and the tram was brought to a sUm ltili in
a narrow cut.
Following closely after the excursion train
was freight train No. rumung at a high
rate of speed.
A flagman was snt back to warn th
freight, but it had already started down th
grade and the engineer had only time to re
verse his engine and jump when Ids train
crashed into the re.ar -o a.-li of the passenger
train, never stopping tdl it hid plough! ti
way through three on. lies, throwing them
6cjuarely on top of the engine and ending
their fragments in every direction.
The passengers in the last two ooaidiss saw
the approaching freight and most of th-ni
had time to jump. The engineer junie 1. ix-i
did his fireman. Th latter escjed with
but slight injuries, but the engineer struck
the embankment alongside the tra -k,boundl
back under the wheels and was crushed into
a shapeless mass, l'rakeman W. E. Coch
ran, of the freight. ju:npl likewise, and
he, too, was l,url-d hack and ground under
th wheels, his lifeless body being soon after
taken out from the debris. In the third
coach from the. rear of the passenger train
two Grand Army men. S unuel Hryce and
John tShook, were instantly killed, their blood
spattering over their comrades seate 1 near
them, while the latter were thrown in a heap,
many of them with broken limbs and
gashed heads. The passengers in the other
coaches had nearly all succeeded in getting
out of the cars before the crash cam hut as
they hurried down the embankment tin
wrecked coaches rollel down uon them, in
juring twenty-live others, more or lesi
seriously.
The engineer of the freight train remained
at his post and was kilie.L The freight
train, with its locomotive, was also thrown
from the track, aad the cars were piled up
in a frightful wreck.
The ollicers of the road were at once noti
fied and a wrecking train was immediately
dispatched with a railroad crew an i physi
cians, and other surgeons were hurried to
help the wounded from Wn Is worth, four
miles east of the wreck, and from Seville aud
Rittmann. Some of the wounded were taken
to Wadsworth and others were care 1 for on
the ground, cots being improvised from
blankets which the veterans had brought
along, the majority of them having prepared
to go into camp at Columbus.
To lady passengers, Miss fna Tucker, of
Austintown, a suburb of Voungstown, Ohio,
had a leg cut oif and died a few minutes
after being taken out of the wreck. Mr.
Given, of Canfield, another suburb, also died
on the ground at o'clock. Nearly all the
injured live in Mahoning county, Ohio. The
wounds are mostly Diinful. but not serious.
CYCLONE IN CUBA.
Life and Property Destroyed hy 1
"West Indian Tornado.
The recent cyclone in Cuba was terribl;
destructive of both life and property. Th
gunboat Lealtad, lying at Ratibano, four
dered in the storm and nine of her crew, in
eluding the commander, were drowned.
Advices from Sagua are that fifty jersoni
lost their lives there, while the damage don
to dwellings and warehouses in the city, t
vesse's in the harbor and to the wharves i
very great.
The village of Pueblo Nuevo, in th nigb
borhood of Sagua was literally wiped out.
Telegraph wires were badly broken, and n
news from other parts of the island ha 1 beei
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Senator Edmonds is a "mighty fisher-'
man."
Miss Braddov is fifty years old and has
written fifty stories.
The fortune left by the late Charles
Crocker is estimated at j:i.",(xK),'Ko.
The Empress of Japan is a hard student of
German, Russian, French and Italian.
Prince Bismarck is seriously out of health
and suffers severely in mind and body.
A PORTRAIT has been painted of the baby
King of Spain mounted on a rockingdiorse.
Skxator Cl i.i.om. of Iliino s, was a school
teacher ten years before the outbreak of th
war.
Marie, the exiled Queen of Naples, live
the year round in Paris in hired apartment
on a third floor.
Lord Com.v Camprkt.l profosos to go to
Bombay and practice law to retrieve his for
tune and good name.
The Crown Prinze of Italy is credited with
hieing the best amateur photographer in h.;s
part of the Continent.
It is asserted t' at the enthueiam of the
present Emjror of Germ my regarding
Wagner's music is wholly political.
Qlke.v Victoria is Ucoming decidedly f
portly. It is said that she has gained 'greatly
in l'.esh since lhi opening of the. season.
St. Louis's richest ctizen i Samuel C.
Davis, who has grown from a i"or New
England lad to be a millionaire twenty tmieJ
over.
Senator John Sherman is is Raid to le
about to become th-? h'-ad of a new national
banking house in Chicago with a capital of
?, nJ,0 f ).
Prince Alhev.t Victor is ns fond of th
turf as his father, the Prirr-e of Wales
is exf-eded to make a sensation on the tracic
before long.
The theatre at Bu"ns Ay res hasten
adorned v. ith the ins.-npti'Ti that Addini
1 atti. the greatest lyric artist, in the world.
Las sjug witiiin its walls.
C;ia::;.es F. A. IIimuciw, of New York,
wh.s foit ine is rated at anywhere from
'1,o.mx) to .,11 was a porter in a
china store not many years ago.
Mr. Moodv m-iks his home at NorthficM,
Ma--s,, where his mother, now eighty-thre
still lives, an 1 where he l as hi co-worker,
Ira D. Sankey, for a near neigidr.
Senator Ingalls, while i residing ovr
the Senate, makes use of the old-fashion i
time gla-ss to measure the five-minute spee ;'- s
es of the national orators. A Senator begin
ning his speech with the glass full of saui.
baslo stoo when the bulb is empty.