New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
September 8, 1886 · Page 1 of 8
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J! later. As it ^passed awsy the writer stertea EABTHQUAKE&smip^ in -diameter was formed, and the upward CHABLESTONINBUINS. New Ulm Review. and most awe-inspiring display ever beheld. homeward to*find the scenes enacted on.Broad force of the stream is equal to Thespoutings were heard several miles digtant, street *r==nd the News and Ow^ffltaE the power of powder or dynamite. The while the earth in the immediate A peated at every step of the way. Thestatlon. water, in huge volumes, is spouting in the vicinity was violently shaken house, a massive brick building across the Proibably tlie Most General Agitation 5* 5 JOS. BOBLETEB, Publisher. air, and the supply seems inexhaustible. as if by an earthquake. The noise of the street, had apparently lost its roof, The Commercial Priile of the Palmetto of Terra Firma that this Two gigantic rivers have been formed by escaping steam and the internal rumbling fallen around it, A little farther on the roe** I State an Awful Scene of Wreck this phenomenal water-iburst, which are m%' the portico of Hibernian hall, a handsome build was deafening. An immense body of water, NKW ULM, MINNESOTA. Country as Ever Experienced. running "through the town at the rate of ing. had accompanied by steam, was projected to an and Death. CRASHED TO THE GBOUND, twelve miles an hour, and is carryingreverything altitude of about three hundred feet, and carrying down oart of the massive granite pillars before them. -Lives and property the Firehole river, which is only a few rods Gladstone is convinced of the ultimate with it. All the. way up Meeting street* are in danger, and the citizens are greatly distant, soon became a torrent of boiling which, in respect of its general direcaon ana success of home rule. As he targre Buildings Sway Back and alarmed. Finding it impossible to divert water. The display was kept up for a while importance, may be called the Broadway 01 Three-Fourths of Charleston Destroyed says, a cause for which 1,400,C00. this damaging flood, an attempt was made with gradually decreasinc force when the Charleston, the roadway was filled with. deOTis Forth and Panic Seizes the by Earthquake and Upwards of from the tops of the walls. In the Charleston Excelsior went back to its normal state. to insert sixteen inch boiler iron Englishmen and Scotchmen voted cannot People, But Nothing Serious hotel, wmch the third shock was As it is an exceedingly erratic geyser, it tubes into the well, but these One Hundred Lives Lost. felt about ten minutes after the second, and ol be considered a hopeless one. may remain inactive for years. Results. were instantly blown out ana forced i course caused the greatest alarm in that neighborhood, high in the air. Finding'this plan useless, as elsewhere. At Manon square There will be no cessation of the struggle the terrified people then attempted to fill a great crowd had collected, as the The Home Club Denounced. until a nation's demand is granted. edges of the wide spaces embraced in CHABLESTON, S. G, Sept 1.An earthquake, up the huge aperture. Fiften car loads of On the night of "the 31st of August, earthquake could not be reached by even the tallest buildings The story ofi heplo by the Home club stone were emptied into the well, but these such as has never before been known shocks were felt in nearly all the the event of then- fall. From this crowd, ff\ of New York to assassinate Mr. Powderly were instantly blown out and forced upward in the history of this city, swept over Charleston composed of men, women and children, arose incessant Eastern, Central and Southern cities, viz. The anarchists in some of the larger causes much indignant comment among as though propelled by the force of a calls and cries and lamentations, while last nigh shortly after 10 o'clock, causing' New York, Chicago, Washington,Cincinnati, the Knights of Labor. One of them said: over the motley, half-dressed throng was bursting magazine of giant powder. Bags cities are threatening dire revenge if more loss and injury to property and far Detroit, Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, shed the lurid light of the conflagration of sand were then hastily constructed and The Home club has brought much disgrace more loss of life than the cyclone of a year Richmond, Raleigh, Louisville, Cleveland, the condemned Chicago anarchists which had broken out just beyond the cast into the well, but thpse, too, were in the order. I could tell of numerous instances Columbus, Dubuque, Philadelphia, etc., square immediately after the first shock, and before. The city is wrecked, the streets are hurled into the air by the tremendous in which this has occurred. It is a are hanged. Possibly some of these had now wholly enveloped several buildings in etc. encumbered with masses of fallen bricks force of the spouting .iter. notorious fact that the recent investigation flames. In three other quarters of the town at threats may be fulfilled, though they Prof. Seman Newcomb, of the Nautical and tangled telegraph and telephone wires, the same time large fires were observed under by a committeof thegeneral assembly The history of the overflow ig as follows: Almanac, furnishes the following figures regarding full headway, and the awfulness of the earthquake and up to an early hour it was almost impossible are generally regarded as intended has been a whitewashing affair. The Home On Monday, Aug. 23, William Weir & Son3 mav be more full appreciated, when it is the earthquake First shock occurred to pass from one part of the city to club must rule or ruin. Any one who is began boring an artesian well at the intersection solely to save their brethren. But said wi'h these tremendous fires blazing up at 9.53 and lasted twenty seconds the opposed to their principles will be driven another. The first shock was by far the of Beech and Washington streets in all at once around them and threatening the city second about 9 54%, and lasted until 9-59. many of these people are extreme from the order, if possible. If a man applies with total destruction, the people whom you most severe. Most of the people, with Belle Plaine. This is en the flat about The officials of the signal service bureau met on the streets or saw congregated in for membership and they imagine that he fanatics and no one can tell what their families, passed the night in the four blocks south of the barley house. report that four distinct shocks were felt the open places evidently did not give will be an enemy to them he will be blackballed. The contract called for a well with a threeinch streets, which this morning- were crowded them a thought. Vehicles -were raneed such people may do. in Washington. I fear that they will try to disrupt casing, and a, flow was guaranteed. with people afraid to le-enter their homes. The first began at 9.54 and lasted forty in lines on the streets surrounding the the order if they cannot control the Richmond They bored a two-inch hole and theorized To add to the horror of the scene seconds, the second was felt at 10.04 and square, while the horses stood as though sniffing meeting At that time will occur that the flow of water through it \voul4 work was followed by another at 10.10 and by the ground in anxious inquiry. The colored the greatest struggle ever known in the order. MANX FIP.ES BROKE OUT it out so they could sink a three-inch casing. A. F. Nordin, commissioner of statistics, people were loud in their declamations of alarm. a fourth at 10 30. Prof. Capen, the eather The Home club will stop at nothing, and were ineffectually fought by the fire department Thursday they struck water at a depth of They were singing hymns ond offering appeals prophet of that city predictedthat "aw- furnishes a table showing that not even murder, to effect their ends. Victor 185 feet. At this time they had about sixty tor God's mercy, in which appeals The night was hideous with the ful and terrific" earthquakes -would be reported. Drury, the leader, is an offshoot of the many a proud heart devoutly and sincerely in 1886 there were 30,835.31 acres of feet of three-inch casing down, and the groans of the wounded and the prayers of joined. Danger brings all of us to tne Pans commune, and he has been trying to water rose with stiong force twehe feet the uninjured. Fully two-thirds of the residences wheat in Minnesota, showing an increase There is a marked similarity in accounts level of the lowest. There were no distinctions make District Assembly No. 49 an engine above the surface in a solid three-inch in the city are uninhabited and of place or power, pnde or caste in the assemblages from all points struck by the earthquake, of socialism. over 1885 of 39,848 acres. stream, plainly showing the strongest flow that were gathered together in Charleston though incidents are varied. The following wrecked either totally or partially. yet struck. Friday morning the flow was on Tuesdav night It was a curious spectacle Oats were 1,196,235, against 1,095,- from Washington will answer for many The loss by fire and earthquakes can be to look back upon. It is a good one to remember under control, but during the forenoon in Latest by Telegraph. other places' 805, increase 100,450 corn, 620,955 for white and black alike. There were placed Bafely the attempt to force a three-inch tube into At 9-55 at night the desks in the associated instances of unselfish devotion, of kind and loving a two-inch-hole, it broke loose and wore Mr. James P. Voorhees, youngest son of AT FTVB MILLION DOLLARS. against 580,223, increase 50,732 barley, regard between master and servant, mistKss press office in the Corcoran away sufficient space outside the tubins to the Indiana senator, will return to the As far as could be ascertained during the and maid in the presence of building began to vibrate in a peculiar 327,470 against285,919, increase stage and open as a tragedy star in Wash allow the water to boil out around the night fifteen to twenty were killed and a but unmistakable fashion that suggested A COMMON ILL, ington. tubing at the surface. At sundown 41,551 and flax, 248,588 against much greater number wounded in all sorts and of threatened ruin that showed as nothing an earthquake. A few minutes Friday a stream of water a foot Miss Ada Sweet is in Europe and the else could show how strong is the tie that bind* of ways. The loss of human life will be 214,873, an increase of 33,715. later the janitor reported that the upper in diameter was pouring out. At onr white people and our black people Paris Petit Journal explains that she was large, and it will take days to get at the accurate stories of the building were rocked together, and this lesson, we may hope, will 8 30 the city authorities were appealed remo\ed from her office as pension agent back and forth, and the night manager number. never be forgotten. Arrived at his home, the to to take control and seek relief from for writing poetry. of the Western Union Telegraph writer found the same scenes of distraction'and AN EDITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. Among the indications of improved the impending danger. Already many lots office made a similar announcement, with wreck which marked nearly every home in the In tie dominion in July exported goods The compositors of the News and Courier and houses were more or lets flooded. At citv. All the houses the neighborhood had the additional information that the clock amounted to $9,539,901. as compared business conditions which have been decline to work to-night, expecting fresh suffered seriously, and streets, vards and gardens 9 p. m. a gang of men were bet at work, on the western wall of the room had with $10,035,028 for the same time last shocks of earthquake, and the_paper cannot, were filled with the fallen chimneys and noted from time to time, the record of the mayor and council personally superintending stopped. Telephone messages from year. Imports are valued at $9,208,220, therefore, issue to-morrow. The following fragments of walls, while the walls that were them until nearly morning. All expedients a gentleman connected with the associated railway earnings is one of the most with a duty of 1,733,167 for Julv, 1885, article was prepared for publication in the left standing were rent asunder in many that could be put in practice press- office, who lives on cases from top to bottom, and were badlv shattered and $8,787,478 with aduty of $1,845,924, News and Courier: suggestive. Only ten out of sixtyeight were tried, but the water could not be controlled. every instance Women and chiluren Massachusetts avenue, and from for the past July. This shows a falling off A Necessarily the description that can be given Saturday morning Eugene Palmer roused from slee^ or interrupted in their evening roads show smaller earnings other points in the city reported that the in imports and exports for the present of the disaster which had befallen our city congists pursuits by the sound of the ruin being propo&ed that a fifteen inch tube could be ornaments on mantelpieces were rattling. of the narration of experiences and observations year. than those of last year, while on most effected above and around them, rushed out driven down to the blue clay, believed to of individuals, and the subject being The telegraph operators in Atlanta a few into the streets and huddled together awaiting Sir Charles Dilke has about given up his the same and the experiences of all being nearly be about fifty feet, and by thus confining of the important systems the gains minutes before this had notified the Washington the end, whatever it might be. Invalids were idea of permanent and complete exile, and alike, the story told by one careful observer the force to a common center the outside operators that the "shake" was brought on matteesses and deposited on the are marked. A steady and continuous may well stand for a hundred others, with slight contemplates becoming a working journalist. flow could be stopped and then the one in roadway. No thought was given to treasures coming and to look for it, but no attention variations. Probably tne best idea that can be had growth in the railroad traffic of left behind Until long after midnight the the tubing controlled. It is impossible at was paid to the warning, as it was the character of the disturbance, therefore, may streets were filled with fugitives in this time to estimate the damage. The south The Mexican minister of foreign affairs regarded as a joke. Two shocks occurred, be obtained from a narration of the events and the country must surely indicate a sight of their homes Through the long part of the town is moie or less flooded and teenes of Tuesday night as they were presented has instructed all state authorities to immediately the second of longer duration hours that followed few were the eyes larger exchange of commodities among to a single person. While engaged in his usual cellars filled with water. To-day at least and more severe than the first, and a few report to him arrests of foreigners even of childhood that were closed va. duties in the second story room of the two thousand people visited the place, and seconds later it was felt in all parts of with a statement of the circumstances. sleep. Charleston was full of those who the people and an increase of travel, News and Courier office at the tune no relief has yet been found. The hole has watched for the morning, and never in anv city the city, creating considerable consternation. of the first shock, the writer's attention Portage La Prairie, Man., the second which, of itself, is indicative of improved in any land did the first gray shades that mark increased to the size of a barrel, and the Several meetings in progress in various was vaguely attracted bv a sound town in the province, made an offer to the the approach of dawn appear so beautiful and so water is bubbling up some four feet above which seemed to come from the office below, and parts of the city were broken up by personal conditions. croditors of,the municipality to settle the welcome to eyes as thev appeared to the thousand the surface, throwing out immense quantities which was supposed for a moment to be caused the frightened members, thinking the ot people who hailed them this morning debt of $260,000 by giving them $200,000 by the rapid rolling of a heavy body, as an iron of sand. At least five hundred car buildings were falling, rushing from from the mids of the countless wrecked homes in new bends. The creditors refused to safe or a heavily laden truck over the floor, loads have been emptied by the flow, and in our thrice scourged, but still patient, still the halls into the street. At the accept such settlement, and the town officials accompanying the sound, there was a perceptible The constitution of Nebraska contains a gang of men are kept constantly at work, brave, still hopeful, still beautiful city by the opera house the large audience tremor of the building, not more marked, withdrew the offer and resigned to sea. day and night, shoveling it away. A channel became frightened by the shaking of however, than would be caused by the a novel provision under which pre vent, payment of accrued interest, and has been dug for an outlet to the Iowa passage of a street car or dray along the street. the building, and a stampede ensued. The now tell the creditors to get their money the people may express their preference For two or three seconds the occurrence excited river, and this channel has double the volume occupants of the galleries, mainly gentlemen, It is estimated that 25.000 men will if they can. no surprise or comment. Then the bound of the river at that point. There are jumped to their feet and rushed pell for a United States senator at parade in Boston on''Labor Day," Sept. 6. deepened In volume, the tremor became more seven other wells at Belle Plaine, but they All travelers to Mount Hood this season mell down the stairs, falling over one The Glen woolen mills at Hampden, decided, the ear caught the rattle of window the state election preceding the session have all ceased flowing since the outburst say there was never so little snow on the another in their efforts to escape from gashes, gas fixtures and other loose objects. Mass., was damaged $45,000 by fire. of the last one. The citizens have grave mountain the weather has been so warm. the building, and stopped for nothing of the legislature which is to elect The men in the office, with perhaps Anarchist John Kylian, who is under apprehensions of the outcome. a simultaneous flash of recollections, till they reached the street. The audienc In the five-cent savings bank of Charleston, arrest in New York for being the prompter a senator. For ten years this curious of ths disturbance of the Friday before glanced in the lower part of the house was composed S. the colored people have $124,- and moving spirit in the Kohut incendiary 4 hurriedly at each other sprang to their feet with provision has been a dead letter. The principally of ladies, but they were 936.35 on deposit. The largest depositor murder, for which the Kohut brothers startled questions and answers. "What is that?" less frightened, and few left their seats. A High-Toned Colored Weddlaff. "Earthquake?" And then all was bewilderment has $6,000 to his credit. were sent to Sing Sing, one innocently and senators have all been elected the The performers went on with their pieces, and confusion. Then the long roar deepened x"* the other really guilty, was frustrated in C. Calverly, a New York sculptor, will Charleston(S. C) News: The biggest colored usual way, the legislature being trusted and spread into an awful roar that seemed and quiet was soon restored. No one was an attempt to hang himself in his cell. execute the statue of Burns in bronze, for wedding ever witnessed in Louisiana to pervade at once the troubled earth injured. People on the street did not to make the choice. Now for the At St. Joseph, La., Col. V. L. Reeves and the still air above and around was that celebrated at Soulouque plantation which an Albany lady left $20,000. feel the shock, and the first knowledge they shot and killed his son-in-law, Joseph The tremor was now a rude, a rapid quiver that first time in the history of the state in Iberville Parish. Few white weddings had of the occurrence was obtained from St. Louis will send a train of ten cars of agitated the whole lofty, strong-walled building Nichols. Reeves, who was arrested, claims compare with it. There was a special the sight of the frightened inmates of the provisions to the people of the drouthsmitten the people are to vote for their favorite as though it were being shaken by the hand of to have fired in self-defense. train from this city for the invited guests, a houses rushing from them into the streets. an immeasureable power with intent to tear its districts of Texas. and instruct their representatives. string band imported especially for the Gen. Rathburn reached Omaha from Buffalo, Joints asunder and scatter its stone and bricks The Western Union operator at Bowie, Maud Dolars, a pretty Chicago girl, is to occasion and refreshments by the first restaurateur abroad as a tree casts its over-ripened fruit before N. Y., in six weeks on a bicycle, and Md., twenty miles from Washington, telegrahed The experiment will be watched with jump from the Brooklyn bridge for a purse the breath of the gale. There was no intermission in New Orleans. By day the left for Denver after lunching. that the earthquake cracked the of $1,000. in the vibration of the mighty subten interest. mansion of the bride's father was a mass walls of his station and stopped the clock. John Cranberry.a clerical-looking individual, anean engine. From the first to the last of natural flowers by night the Geronimo is reported to have sent word In the upper stories of the tall Western Union It was a continuous jar, only adding force at caused a sensation in Dr. Lorimer's grounds were lighted with lanterns to Gen. Miles that he will surrender at San building in New York the waves were every moment, and as it approached and reached church, Chicago. He is a long-haired evangelist, and Japanese fire. All the cream of Bernardino. and reached the climax of its manifestation, it There has been recently organized in plainly discernable, and persons walking who has once been adjudged insane, seemed for a few terrible seconds that no work colored society graced the occasion about experienced the sensation as of falling. It is said that Mrs. Victoria MorosiniSchilling and said he thought he was called upon to St. Paul a company which will prove of human hands could possibly survive the and not a few white persons of standing At Columbia, S. C, there were ten distinct is getting very tired of singing and preach the gospel during the absence of Dr. shocks. The floors were heaving under foot, the were among the guests. As for the dresses, of much benefit to property owners shocks, but none so heavy as the supporting her coachman husband, and Lorimer., He took his text from Jeremiah surrounding walls and partitions visibly swayed few ball rooms have seen anything finer or first which lasted three minutes. The that she is contemplating appealing to her to and fro, and made his announcement, when Officer and capitalists. It is a Real Estate tastier. The contracting parties were streets were filled with people getting away father for forgiveness. Jerry Sullivan grabbed him by the collar THE CRASH OF FALLING STONE MisB Aladie Allain, daughter f a member Title Insurance company, similar to from their shaking house?. and brick and mortar was heard overhead, and with the expression. "It's Jeremiah yer Ex-State Senator Edward S. Cleveland, of the Louisiana legislature, and Prof. without the terrible roar filled the ears, and afther preaching, is it? Sure and that's those in operation in Philadelphia and of Hartford, is an aspirant for the governorship Palraerston Landry, of Mansfield college, seemed to fill the mind and heart, dazing perception, my name. Ye can go with yer prophet to At Atlanta, Ga., the city was thrown into of Connecticut. He is said to be a bewildering thought, and for a few panting other eastern cities. The plan of the another legislator. The bride's the station." a state of the wildest excitement. The distant relative of Grover Cleveland, a breaths, or while you held your breath in dreadful father, originally a slave and a company, in brief, is to guarantee anticipation of immediate death, yon hocks were accompanied by a rumbling democrat, and looks like the late George coachman, bore in those days the A movement is on foot in Washington to felt that life was already past and waited for the noise and followed one another in quiek Washington. against loss by reason of defective organize a David B. Mill boom for the name of Soulouque. He has not altogether end as tbe victim with his head on the block succession. The scene at negro churches presidency. forgotten that time, for his sugar plantation, Lieut. Scheutz's mission to the mouth of awaits the fall of the uplifted ax. It is not given titles, liens or encumbrances. A policy was one of utmost confusion, negroes going one of the handsomest and prettiest to many men to look in the face of the destrayer the Lena river, Siberia, bearing rewards The state department is reported ho on their knees, feeling sure that the judgment in this company takes the place of and yet live, but it is little to say that the group in Louisiana, still recalls the old slave from this government to natives who assisted have received a circular from the Mexican day was at hand. of strong men who shared the experience days in its nameSoulouquewhereas he the survivors of the Jeannette, has the abstract and the attorney's opinion foreign office, pro\ iding that all cases oi above faintly described, will carry with them At Langley, Ga., the earthquake destroyed is to-day the Hon. Theophile Allain. been entirely successful. He will probably the recollection of that supreme moment to arrests of foreigners in the Mexican states usually required in making a loan a mill dam, and the water washed away Every prominent negro politician in the reach the United States early next month. their dying day. None expected to escape. A will hereafter be reported to the central the roadbed. A train rushed into the flood, United States was invited to this event, or in the sale of the property. The udden rush was simultaneously made to endeavor government in the City oi Mexico. Advices from Sofia say that some disorder and the engineer and fireman were drowned. to attain the open air and flee to and nearly all sent presents or congratulatory policy guarantees the title in the has occurred. M. Zankoff, the revolutionary J. R. Howard of Washington has been a place of safety, but before the door Two shocks were felt at Bloomington, telegrams. leader, was attacked by a mob was reached all reeled together to appointed gpecial agent of the interior department 111. Desks, furniture and chandeliers were amount and for the time of the loan, the tottering wall and stopped, feeling and nearly killed. It is expected that military swayed. The latter oscillated north and at $8 per day, to make an allotment that hope was vain, that it was only a question or for the value of the property for plotters will be executed and amnesty south. in severalty to Crow IneKans in Montana, of death within the building or without to be *he Mines of the Blaok Hill*. be granted to other conspirators. The in connection with Judge Walker, appointed all time. Probably the worst scare at Cincinnati buried by the sinking roof, or crushed by the Vessiche Zeitung, the Berliner Tageblatt toppling walls. The uproar slowly died away some time ago. Mr. Howard was The nines of the Hills are attracting was in the composing room of the Commercial-Gazette and the National Zeitung, all of Berlin, insist In seeming distance. Tbe earth was still, and oh, appointed in the place of R. S. Saunders oi office. There the swaying terrified world-wide attention at present, for while the blessed relief of that stillness but how that it is impossible for Germany and New York, who declined because his private the printers, and a dozen or so representatives of New York manufacturers Of the three hundred and twentyfive rudely the silence was broken. As we Austria to tolerate a Russian occupation business would not permit of his serving. jumped out of the windows to the roof of are investigating toe Southern Hills dashed down the stairway and out into the of Bulgaria. It is stated that M. Nelidoff, members of the present house of the adjoining building, a distance of six district, a party of English capitalists street, already en every side arose the shrieks, The treasury announces the redemption the Russian ambassador at Constantinople, feet. the cries of pain and fear, the prayers and wailing are similarly engaged in the of any uncalled three per cents not exceeding representatives, only seventeen have of terrified women and children, co-mingled in an interview with the grand visier, extensive Bear Gulch or Nigger At Detroit the wave went from west to $10,000,000. with the hoarse shouts of excited men. Out in held their seats continuously for more hinted at a Russian occupation of Bulgaria, east, and was felt in all parts of the city, Hill district, west of Deadwood. A large the street the air was filled to the height of the Postoffices established: Montana: Blakely, adding that if a hair of one Russian especially in high buildings. Chairs, tables, amount of work has been performed in the than ten years past. This "old guard" houses with a whitish, dry, stifling dust from Yellowstone county. Wisconsin: was touched, Russia would be compelled pictures and chandeliers were shaken. latter, with excellent results. Large reduction the lime and mortar and shattered masonry Anawa, Shawano county. Site changed is composed of Messrs. Blout, of Georgia to interfere. which, falling upon the pavement and stone works are among the possibilities of a At Memphis its motion was from north Dakota- Hyde Park, Pembina county. roadway, had been reduced to powder. Through Henderson, Morrison, Springer very near future. Thirty miles further west, to south, and lasted ten seconds. It had By direction of the president, and at hie Postmasters commissionedMinnesota: this cloud, dense as a fog, the gas lights flickered a rapid, oscillating movement. Great consternation and the oil fields of Crook county appear, an own request, Brig. Gen. John Newton haa and Cannon, of Illinois Holman, of dimly, shedding but little light, so that Elbow Lake, N. H. Myran. Wisconsin: was felt. expansive area alive with prospectors and been retired" from active service, he having you stumble at every step over the piles of Coolidge, V. P. Atwell Lincoln, A. J, Indiana Strait, of Minnesota Singleton, others, industriously at work. A dozen or brick, or become entangled in the lines served as an officer in the army for forty At Richmond, Va.. the shock lasted Loosee Petersville, P. Paulson Valley of telegraph wires that depended more incorporated companies are represented years. about three minutes, and men, women and of Mississippi Bland, of Missouri Junction, E. N. Griswold Wolf Creek. In every direction from their broken but only woBlack Hills and Standardas children who had retired jumped from their McPherson. Postmasters appointed Col. John B. Brownlow, son of Parson supports. On every side were hurrying forms Keltey, Randall, O'Neill and Harmer, yet point to any great accomplishment. beds and rushed out of doors. Minnesota: D. R, Kellogg, Hugo, Washington of men and women, bareheaded, partially Brownlow of Tennessee, is a clerk in the of Pennsylvania Mills, Culbertson and The Standard is down 300 feet, and At Raleigh. N. C, buildings rocked, walls dressed some almost nude and many of whom county. Dakota, R. J. Currie, Tyner postoffice department in Washington and cracked, floors broke loose from their supporters, produces three barrels a day. The Black were erased with fear or excitement. Here Pembina county. lives in obscurity in that city. Reagan, of Texas, and Tucker, of Virginia. a woman is supported half fainting chimneys fell and lamps were overturned. Hills attained equal depth, when losing its the arms of her huspand, who vainly The board of trustees of the proposed The democrats have eleven A gentleman at Watch Hill says: Secretary The motion of the earth was drill, operations necessarily ceased lor a tries to soothe her while he carries her Catholic university will meet in Washington Manning's improvement is only apparent, very decided. time. The oil is pronounced the finest lubricant and the republicans six of these "oldtimers." into the open space at the street corner, next month to make final arrangements and is due solely to his hygienic At Wilmington, N. C, they were very severe, produced in America, selling readily where present safety seems assured. There a All of them except Mr. for building the institution, or at surroundings. The secretary had a stroke and came near wrecking several buildings. woman lies on the pavement with up-turned on the dump at six bits75 centsa gallon. least the theological branch of it. It is understood face and out-stretched limbs, and the crowds of apoplexy when he was taken ill in the No Buch excitement was ever known The Great Northwestern has two Tucker and Mr. Strait, who declined pass her by, not pausing to see whether she is that the plans have been agreed treasury building. There was effusion into here before. The shock rang church bells. machines to bo delivered on or before Sept. alive or dead. A sudden light flashes through a to be candidates, will probably be in upon by prelates and that funds are not one of the ventricles of the brain, and a It also threw down plastering and rang 15, and will strike for China immediately window overlooking the street, it becomes momentarily wanting. Bishop Spaulding, Keene and resulting paralysis on the opposite side of door bells in houses. the next congress. thereafter. brighter and Ireland, who have done most of the collecting, the body. Thanks to his strong vital At Cleveland, Ohio, people left the A CRT OF FIBE has sent in reports which justify immediate powers, he rallied, the effusion was absorbed theaters and ran into the streets. At resounds from the multitude, A rush is made & Gov. Pleroe's Civil Servloe Order. building operations. Besides the and the paralysis has disappeared^ toward the spot A man is seen doubled up and the opera house a stampede for the $300,000 contributed by Miss Caldwell ol helpless against the wall but this moment out The statisticians of England cipher leaving a weakness of the side. By care Gov. Pierce of Dakota has issued an executive street took place. Nearly everybody at sea, overhead, deep in the ground is heard New York, thr treasurer is said to have his life may be prolonged for years. If he order to territorial officers, regents, made a rush for the doors, but happily out that life in that country has somewhat again the low ominous roll which is already too about as much more, raised throughout attempts to work he is sure to break down. directors of public institutions, etc., directing no one was severely injured. well known to be mistaken. It grows louder increased in duration during the the country since last November. their attention to extracts from President At Dubuque, Iowa, people at the tops and nearer, like the growl of a wild beast swiftly The National Republican says: That a. Cleveland's civil service order of July approaching his prey, and is forgotten again in A Chicago special says: Many months of high buildings felt the building vibrate last generation, and the sanitarians new government printer has been appointed the frenzied wish for the open space where alone 14. After quoting the president's order to have passed since the memorable robbery violently. Printers in the fourth story of was settled beyond dispute at the government attribute the gain to the better care Is the hope of security. The tali buildings on federal officials, Gov. Pierce says: of the express on the Rock Island railroad the Herald building ran for their lives to printing office. Gilbert Benedict, either hand blot out the skies and the stars, which has been taken of the public near Joliet, and which culminated in the If this is right for officials holding federal the foot of a sixty foot staircase, and the brother of the new public printer, arrived ond seem to overhang every foot of death of Messenger Nicholls, but it it audience in the opera house was very much positions, it is right for those who hold ground between them. Their shattered here. At the printing office he presented his health since what is called sanitary among the probabilities that the perpetrators cornices and capings, the tops of their frowning frightened. Many ran from the building. places of trust and emolument under appointment credentials, made himself known and relieved. science has become a subject of special walls seem piled from both sides to the center of the deed will soon be brought from the executive authority of Jamestown, N. Y., was severely shaken. Cadet Taylor as chief clerk of the of the street. It seems that a touch would send to justice. The men are known. The first the territory. Such officers, therefore, are The shocks lasted twenty seconds. The office. The change was considerable of a study. But Dr. Thomas S. Sozinskey the shattered masses down upon the people below, step in the case was to fix their identity, requested to abstain from all officious intermeddling people rushed into the Btreets. Chandeliers surprise, as it was not supposed any step who look up and shrink together as the of Philadelphia writes an elaborate and it has been done after several month's vibrated and several persons experienced with primary meetings or conventions, of thislkind would be taken before the public tremor of tbe earthquake passed over patient work. them, and mysterious reverberations swell and nauseau. and from assuming active conduct printer had himself qualified and bonded. paper in the Medical and Surgical Reporter roll along like some infernal drum beat summoning Tto bond is $100,000, and there is no of political campaigns. If all officials People in every part of Savanna, Ga., William McClintock, an old and wealthy to express his doubt as to the them to die. It passes away, and again official information that a bond has been will abstain from using the influence of their were terrified and rushed into the streets farmer of Columbus, Ind., was induced by is experienced the blessed feeling of release theory that the average length of human either offered or accepted. By making the* patronage in party nominations, leaving and sought the open squares and other from impending calamity. Again far along the two sharpers on some unknown pretext change above mentioned there is much uneasiness the people free and untrammelled to act as street and up from the alley ways that plaees. to come to that city and draw $5,000 life is increasing, and presents an lead into it on either side, is heard that chorus and trepidation among the employes. their wisdom directs, the public service from the bank. In company with these array of figures of the mortality in of wailing and lamentations, which, though it will not suffer, but will be exalted. men he started on his return, and when had not ceased, was scarcely noticed a moment A WONDERFUL SPOUTER. England and the United States to sustain a few miles out they beat and rob bed the before. It is a dreadful sound, Three hundred and one Mormons arrived the sound of the helpless horror of old man and threw him out on the road. '.(i his view. He shows by authentic A Big Spouter In the Park at Castle Garden one day on the steamship stricken humanity old and young, the strong An Artesian Well at Belle Plaine, Iowa, The Mormon church organ gives notice Wyoming. Oi these ninety-three and feeble alike, where all are so feeble, calling figures that life is longest in Ireland, Visitors to the park on the 27th and Throws Up Immense Volumes of Water, that George Q. Cannon has repaid John for help from their feEow creatures and raising were English and the remainder mostlv 28thult, who happened to be in the vicinity Threatening to Destroy the Town. whose people, Dr. Lozinskey their anguished voices in petition for mercy. It Sharp and Ferramorz Little, his bondsmen, Scandinavians. Commissioner StenhpnB of Firehole basin witnessed a rare spectacle. Is not a scene to be described by any mortal $25,000 they paid for his forfeited detained fifty of the Mormons brin/ foexa mg? says, are supposed to be singularly Belle Plaine, Iowa, August 31. An The Excelsior geyser, situated in Hell's wertedetained i to alon tongue or pen. It is no* a scene ot bail. nation. Thosed whoor were husbands artesian well four inches in diameter burst to be forgotten when once witnessed, Half Acre, undoubtedly the most powerfull oblivious to sanitary science. The influences h? hwho had left their wives behind when the depth of 185 feet had been The United States reduced her national and where the witness has shared all danger and geyser in the world, and which has been lVC working against the race he feels safe. The first shock occurred at seven IL reached in boring, and instantly a volume debt a hundred millions last year, while in a state of quiesence for over four years, minutes of 10. Tills was Indicated this morning their husbands, and children who haVbee? A of water was forced into the air to the Great Britain increased her debt ten millions holds to be the artificial mode o existence suddenly broke out about three o'clock "s-u by public clocks, the hands of all of which taken away from their parents AbS y$t height of several hundred feet. This Friday afternoon and continued to bad stopped at that fateful hour. Tbe second forty of them will probabfy sent back in civilized countries. $ gradually increased in size and volume shock, which was but a faint and crisp play for over twenty-four hours. Senator Mahone's fortune is estimated at Commissioner 8tephensoa intenda until a stream of water fully sixteen inches echo of the first, was felt ehjht minutes The witnesses pronounce it the grandest make that a test vLygtftfgg* mwm^ **i ic ^IShi&^M