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In a nut-shell The worm. Puck An actor knows Iiis lines when they are cast in pleasant places. New Orleans Picayune. It is the dry-good? clerk who most frequently sales under false coWrs. 2few Haven. News. Giants are not particularly happy. An overgrown man has a grewsome look. JVeic Orleans Picayune.
The difference between Chicago and
Utah is that Chicago doesn t assa
that its bigamy Js right. Judge. The manufacturers of soda-water might form a pool by opening all their fountains at once. New Orleans PicaIt may seem paradoxical, but a man must have some posh to him to pull through life with more than ordinary success. Detroit Free Press. There were only two railway accidents of any consequence yesterday. Death is apparently away somewhere enjoying the holidays. Nebraska Htmie Journal Alderman (to his guest after a good dinner) 'Kip y 'shelf ! Bocolleo' every '. bo le o' champagne we drink provi'sh employment for the workin' classheshl London Punch. A tramp's phflosophy "When a woman merely dislikes a thing she throws cold water en it When she hates it Uke pizen she throws hot water on it." Burlington Free Press. "I obmsbaixy pick my company," said Mrs. Yeast, haughtily. "Yes, lam aware of it," replied Mrs. Crimsonbeak, sarcastieally; "but yon wait until after they have left your house and then you pick them to pieces." Tnm young suitor who has won eonsent of papa And now may I ask you, sir, whether ah whether your daughter -has' any domestic accomplishments ? raps (sarcastically) Yes, sir; she sometimes knits her brows. "Ah, sir," exclaimed a Scotch elder, in a tone of pathetic recollection, "our late minister was the man! He was a powerful preacher ; for i'the short time he delivered the word amang us, he knocked three pulpits to pieces, and dang the insides out o' fire Bibles 1" The flexibility of the English language is shown in the reply of an Irish
man to a man who sought refuge in his shanty in a heavy shower, and finding
it about as wet inside as out, said
"You have quite a pond on the floor." "Yis; sfanre we have a great lake in the
roof.
"Wnxie, who was fed by (he ravens ?"
' "What is a raven?" "Don t yon know.
and you an editors son ? Wiry, a raven is a bird like a crow." "Then I Knees
it must have been dad." "Why?" "I
heard him say yesterday that he had
been eating crow ever since the lection, and he was sick of it"
"Dip you say that I never missed a
drink. Bir V a man demanded of his
neighbor man angry and threatening
manner. "I may have done so, was
' the reply. "But I never drink and you know it!" "Then you never miss it, do you?" That put the matter in a different light- and they took a amok to
gether. Sifting.
Man (to editor) Why is your paper
opposed to the American party? Editor W'y, it would not do to advocate the principles of sueh an organization. "Why?" "Oh, well, in a reactionary way, my party would lose the foreign v vote." "Yes, but, in catering too plainly to the foreign vote, might yon not lose the native American vote?" "Native American vote! - Why, my dear sir, we care nothing for such feeble support But tell me. is their a native American rotel'Arkannaw Traveler.
A i'Ai:i3 cablegram says: The ifepubliqite' Francaiee has a telegram from Borne which says that M. Flonreng, the French Foreign Minister, has complained to Signor Crispi, the Italian Foreign finister, of Italy's delay in Battling the Florence Consulate incident, and warned Signor Crispi that if the Italian judge at Florence executes his threat to re-enter the French Consulate and seize the papers sought after, France will recall her ambassador and take such measures as the honor and interest of the country demand. The incident mentioned consisted of a breaeh of consular rights on the part of the Florence police, who had searched the French Consulate for papers connected with a pending law suit The strained relations with Italy in consequence of the Florence Consulate affair depresses both commercial and financial business. Several evening papers violently attack
Italy, and La France alludes to Premier Crispi as "Bismark's valet" The French Consul at Florence has received certain instructions
as to the coarse to pursue in case the incident is croloneed. It is semi-officially an
nounced that Count DeHouy, the French Ambassabor at Borne, having informed M.
Flonrens mat the prietor of Florence has
intimated his intention to remove the seals affixed by the . French. Consulate to the
documents relating to the Hussein succes
inn. M. Flonrens has reanested Count
De Monv to inform Signor Crispi that if
such an act of violence is committed the
French Government would hold Italy re
SDonsible. Le Paris nines the Govern
ment to demand complete satisfaction from
Italy for the indignity offered to the French rnasnlaia at Florence, and in the event of
a failure of Italy to comply to break off
tne relations Between r ranee ana juuy, and expel all Italians from France.
The fatalities of the late blizzard on the
prairie districts of lews are being gradually
made public Byron Cleveland, of Mancheater. Delaware County, has received in
formation that his two sons, 15 and 17 years of age, were frozen to death, together with ninety head of cattle. The boys were Living the cattle to water, about a mile rom the house when the blizzard struck '-em. Their dead bodies have just been
'ound. John Olney was found in a snow
drift near Marathon, frozen dead. Miss
Mav Hennme ana a tov namea J unus, iz
years of age, started in a sleigh to attend
a nartv m the country, with two young men.
When the storm struck them they lost their way and the young men deserted the ladv and bov and reached a farm house in
safety. The storm continued all night and
in the morning tney were iouna paruany covered with snow. The young lady will
lose both less and the boy's hands and
feet are badlv frozen. He was saved from
death by tne brave girl wno wrappea mm
m tne only blanket lext mem.
Inquiry was made at the "War Depart
ment m regard to the claim of tne 41st
Kentucky Begiment Volunteers for back oav amounting .to about $150,000, which
claim is based on the alleged failure of the
reeiment to be mustered ontol service.
According to the records sf the depart-
ment tne regiment namea did not com
plete its organization, and consequently
was not musierea ma.
The two Houses of the Iowa Legisla
ture in joint session, has declared James
F. "Wilson duly elected United States Sen
ator tor six years from the 4th of March,
The New York Herald says: Various
rumen are afloat concerning the probable
move on the part of the Philadelphia and
Sing Company to .effect, directly
or indirectly, some sort of - a settle
ment of the mining troubles. one
report which comes from a prominent
member vf the coal exchange, is to the
effect that President Corbin, unwilling, in
view of recent bitter declarations, to be n
party to making concessions to the men,
has conceived the idea of leasing tne col-
lenes to a powerful syndicate, which could better arrange a settlement Said the re
porter's informant: "He would have two objects in thus avoiding the issue one in . - . : ...
sniHing ins JvapviufiuuifrT upon uuiei
shoulders; the other in dealing the striking
railway Hands a powerful mow by concur
atine their allies, the miners." However,
should this be true, the combination would
hardly have any effect on the market
Such schemes are not consummated in a
day.",
This 'New York Tribune says that the accident to Mrs. John A. Logan, by which she was thrown from a carriage, has left
lasting results. Her friends; here are in
formed by letters that she has severe pain almost constantly in the injured shoulder.
Mrs. Logan is said to have grown old rapidly since the General's death, and to, have lost much of her old-time vivacity
and energy. Offxccks tor the National Board
Trade for the coming year have been elected as follows: President, Frederick
i-raley, of t hiludelpma; Secretary, Hamil
ton A. tm, of lioston.
C'HAitiiEiS Jon'eh, colored, living six
miles from Belleville, Texas, started to
walk home in the teeth of the blizzard. He was found frozen to death near his
A Praaistug Yewg Capitalist. Miss Sleepy, of St Louis, to her cousin. Miss Sprightly, of Kansas City, who has come down for a little rest Antoine hi 16 years old; to-day. He baa discarded his knickerbockers, will remain home from school all day, and will dine with the family. He is so'
grieved that you did not bring your brother Bob. They are jnfet of an age. Miss Sprightly Oh, Bob couldn't come. Just at the last minute some Boston capitalists arrived, and he is jiguring with- them on a big deal. Then, too, he hi jnat closing out 'Sprightly Place,' and getting the iron down on hie dummy line. It's too tad, but business is business. When the will is ready the feet are light
The Kansas City Base Ball Club has
been admitted hi to the American Associa
tion.
SCORES FROZEN TO DEATH.
The terrible storm which swept over law Northwest last week wm the worst hUssard experienced since 1873. The victims of its Jury are counted by the scores. From Dakota, Mhuwaeta, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
and Montana, come pitiful stories of suffer
ing and death from the icy blast which swept J
down from tue regions or jwreaa. iw wiuu blew at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the snow, fine as powder, wae hurled along
by the gale. On the prairie an object forty feet distant could not be seen. A man's voice
oould not be heard six feet distant The
was full ot snow as fine as flour, and the
roaring of the wind and the darkness caused
by so much snow in toe air made the scene the moat dismal, drear and forsaken that man ever lookeJ upon. Every ratiroaa in Dakota and KinnesoU and many in Iowa, Nebraska sad Wisconsin were blocked. Telegraph wires everywhere were down, and it was not DDtil .Sunday night that the awtnl regatta of the storm became known. The following ia the list of deaths so far received, while fifty more persons are misninff: In Dakota Emil GUberbion, at Hitchcock ; a Sioux Falls limn, two man of William Driver, at Raymond; two Mitohell youths, Knrma Lamar, Carrie Aurottu, William '. Gothwaite, Cora, CurtlB, at Delamere : Mr. Davla and son, W. B. Headly, atBarkaCon. How land Chambers, X, E. CMkarsoa, and Jamea Kawcoiub'a son, at Haroa; Frank and William Nerlson and Joannt
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Wilson, at Virgil: Mrs. Devino. Adam Gernor, and J. W. Jonleee at Iroquois ; George Allen, Jr., and Joseuh Anderson, at Mitcbol; four farmers, two Biiagewator mon, Kuril Giiman, ljowla Merrirnan and son, at Hltobcock; Miss Jacobson, Ginde, G. Grundstrom, three unknown men, two ohiUlren of .losoph Htitohin son, three Tyndall people, two Wakonda girls. Jacob Krutz, an unknown teacher, J. Vaino,at
liowille; reter 1'aranno, at noscoe; a iuin
Lake man. fonrsonool children. James Minin
and two sons, at Minot.
in Minnesota Jonn ljoy at uuverue ; ana. Knutson ; Ole A. Edge at Albert Lea. .
in lowa Two onllaren oi airs. jpivB"m "
Inwood ; two boys ; an unknown man at hionx Cn Nebraska Cnild of John Kelinger at David
City: Fred Eller, Wexwell Beck, and a young ladv. at Omaha: Mrs. P. Smith at Lincoln;
John Sparks of Gage Connty; Emil Grossman
of Peru; Mrs. L'napman ana ner mu u
grandchildren at Stuart; Mr. Mason near nuiart: Matthews near Sutton ; a child named
Bodine. Others are reported lost, ana . num
ber of escanes with frozen lost ana rouua in a
"lM'tana Patrick Hanley at MarysviUe;
William Overman at Belgrade.
In Kansas James nenneuy, m
ConntT-
The foUowinsrspeoial dispaton irom rarou,
D. T., tells a graphic story of thrilling scenes
in Southern Dakota:
Thimu E. Gilkerson and a man named Oose
went a abort distance from town. When the storm atruok them thoy started for ho e. but the team would not face it. The man then tied vhir fcni-aaft tn the w&uoa and each started for
akeltea, . Goae got to the,.houa mueh froseu Tf&rwanderini! around six hours. Gilkerson
has not got home yet. a loroe iu mugumm has searched for him all day, but found no
trace of him. , . Junius' Newalvey went to his slaughter
house and killed some sheep. Then bo tnea to ride home, but his horse would not face tho Btorm. The man left the horse and tried to walk tn the halt mile, but failed. Not realis
ing the severity ol mo siorm lie jriuuirou around in the slaughter house and tried to keep warm but could not. Later he made afire with some tallow but could not got warm. Then he lay down on tho sneev pelts and got nearly to sleep. The cold aroused him ana he
sept on ms reel im aayuguu .. home with his f eot and hands badly frozen. Slirnal-Service Sergeant Glenn started to go over an onen block, which had a sidewalk, des
tined for home, and instead of going a woeic
west he brought up ogaiust a ieicu uiw southeast He then stumbled along as well as
a man could ana soon leu over a ami ui ma own yard, not knowing whore he was.
mere were many eases ui yoiauu-
crosBins streets. Every railroad la at presenv
packed full of hard snow, and there oro antts to the leeward of every spear of grass and
fence-post. Tne passenger tram tnat i m drifts four and a half miles east of Balaton is dead and waiting lor sprina-time. It had thirty-four passengers. Nine relief trains wore nent to them from Balaton, but could not got there. . , . n
mkan tn iwnnM nmM anbuiiu a iuuk iwm
and the man at the head of tho rope stood at
the first telegraph pole. The second, with the rope, took his place at tho next vlo, and so on Mil tha lust man had reached his pole. Then
l.A nnHflwl ttin nnA behind Uim. DV SllOUtinf!,
which was repeated till the first man was notified, who then started on ahead. This round
was followed tin tne tram ivaa rewjuwi. i
SassenKers rejoiced to see tnem. mi t eat the food they had brought When it came to return there wore a dozen of the travelers
who preferred staying Ox the cars, xne otners went back in safety to Balaton. The station hands carried a quantity of provisions to the snow-bound passengers, who said they were aay and happy. Another train from Hawarden
wm nunirht on the flv two miles north of lias.
its passengers wore rescued in much the same manner as that ot the Balaton train. Two men named Piersou and a man named Wtlam aturtert home from Ylrail. The dead
bodies of the l'lersons nave Veen lounu, uuv Wilson's lias not M.rr Hnnnall tftTlffht at a SOhOOl flicllt UlliSS
wiiMst nf Hnrnn. She and Samea Newoomb'a
Bon and daughter started noma wgeuiur, uui were soon loat The boy, aged 18, insisted on
striking out for himself and leaving tue gins. Thn two latter wandered around all night on
the prairie, and were found next morning
badly rrouen. iw ooy wu iuuuu wv uww.
The death of Robert Chambers is tho most
pathetic reported. He, with bis two sons, one a years old and the other 11, wont together ono mile distant to water some oattle. Mr. Cham-
bars was on foot and each of the boys had
none. Tne rattier, aeetns indications 01
storm, sent the older bov immediately home.
aa he is troubled with rheumatism. Mr. Chambers and Johnny undertook to drive tho cattle
nome. rney were soon oewiiaerea ana lose
Johnny, wno lived through the storm, says thut when his father said that thev were
lost the father made a place in tho
snow for him and wrapped him up the best he oould. Thev had no overooat or extra clothing.
Johnny says that no was so covered up that he was warm. His father went out and called and
called, and a St Bernard dog which wae with
them barked, but no answer came. Then the father and the doe got into the snow beside the
bov. While tne bov was warm he knew that
his father was getting very com. no urged hie father to go on and find trees and then he
oould xnaae tne nouae, Dut tue lamer saia:
No. I cannot go and leave you here.
The bov urged, but the father would do no more
than to call for aid within certain reach of tho
boy's bed of snow. The dog also kept by the
oov, xnrougn tne long nignt iney nau conversations about perishing, but the f atner
kept assuring the boy they wonld get through all richt if be would onlv be sure and lie still.
The boy was quite comiortame ana nnauy ion
asleep, wnen ne awoae it was nearly morn
ing. . His father was still alive, and discovering that Johnnv waa awake the father said to him :
"Now, Johnny, you prav and I will pray, and then. I know God will take you through all right" They prayed and soon after the father died. The boy was entirely covered up, excopt a little breathing place in the snow, and be laid atfll The 'doc stood sentry and afforded
the olew by which the bodioa were found soon after da vlieht by a eearcbing varty. Johnnv
thinks his father had not been dead more than
an hour when thev were round. Tne boy &
bands and feet are only slightly frozen.
A TOi-ainem fMinn.1 sneciai savs: "A Swede
Anmin0 In from a remote Swedish setilement
to the southeast of Mille Lacs Lake states that I
Swede farmer named enry uisiroa uuwiu-
ered his whole family, consisting of his wifo and seven children. The deed was done because the father found that all ot thorn were going to perish in the extreme cold weather."
at vnester, iuiuu , aix uuiiiuvu u Bnkor were frozen to death while returning
from school.
first choice, except Auditor Lyon, and he is
for Iho nominee of the convention. For Vice
President, Harrison, of Indiana, and Hawiey,
of Connecticut, are favorites, Lincoln being
third. To tho question, ' Do you favor a pro
tective, tarifff ' all answer yes, with four ex
ceptions. As to national promomou, o ravorcd it, 2S opposed it, and 10 expressed no opinion: Only four of the entiro numbor opposed the continuance of prohibition in Iowa."
In the Louisiana Democratic State Conven
tion, at Baton Houge, wancis x. jsieaous nominated for Governor on tho first ballot
The 'MoEnery men then moved to make tue
nomination unanimous, which waa dona ma convention was in session five days.
-Eugene Higgins has severed his connec
tion with the Treasury Departmentaud turned over tho office of chief of the appointment
division to his successor, Teroy D. Smith, formorly disbursing clerk of the Postofflee Department
FIRES ANDAGCIDENT8. The Evening Star office at Kansas City
waa destroyed by fire. The losses agregate
$011,000, with about 35,000 insurance.
News comes from every part of Northern
Texas of unheard-of suffering among the peo
ple and wholesale destruction among cattio, many of which were frozen to death under
good shelter. The vnprecedented com
weather will cripple the cattle interest in that part of the State for some time, and destroy the growing cereals and the nattering
prospects of fruit for this year
In Dakota Six unknown people, near Hoot-
land; Joseph Kocaron, at Scotland ; Mrs. rnulinsand son, at Alpi-na; NeUe Halibarton, at Springfield ; a eon of Miobael Hoff, at Tyndall ; Mrs. Frank Balboss, at Tyndall ; A. J. Winters, of Lacrosse, Wis., a traveling man, found near Tyndall; a mail driver, between New balem and Stanton; Miss Sarah Daland, of Watertown ; four unknown farmers, near Watertown ;
Mr. Davis and son, near Minot; iu uar lunate, at Doland; Willie and Harry- Driver, at Raymond ; Emma Lamar, a school-teacher, and a.rria A nin.ii near FaulUtan : MiSB Sarah 3OT-
land, at Palmer; Walter Monger, at Mitohell; Jacob Soholf, a farmer, Coleman, Joseph
Kooher, two untnown persons, jinnio ouufieldt and sister, near Yankton; Thomas Gilkerson, at Huron: i'rank Nirison and William Nirison. and Bobert Chambers, at Huron;
D. Gunstrom and three unknown persons, near
Sioux rails; Jacou ivratz, at juesieryuio ; lurm narsons near Tyndall; two girls at Wakonda;
two onildren of Joseph Hutchinson, near Gary; two unknown men near Bridgewater; ono unknown man near White Lake: Emil Giibertson at Altoona; Piersoc
brothers and an unknown man at
111; Lewis uerrunan at nueucocaj
). Headley near Barkston;
Owen at Wentworth; John
Cavour : Miss Jacobson,
A Story of Jobbery and Robbery
Not Fully Revealed by the Official Investigations.
How the Schemers Lined Their Pockets
at the Expense of the Government.
Vir-
W.
Mrs. O. T.
Newcomb near
school teacher.
- mintl m-miMl ftnide. MlflB Brandy, a SOhOOl-
teunhar. and a 13-voar-old lmtiil of Mies Brandy.
StOlaf; two sona of B. Cleveland, at Larchwood ; an unknown man, near Lisbon ; Miss Cora Curti, at Helen) ere ; four school-children, nc.r ijtmtnT Ari&m Ikimr. at Iron uoia : Charles
Ozeman. at Ashtou ; Miss Bessie Stanfleld, at
Knrthvnia : an n nknown man. at Meranda : A.
Gosbey, at St Lawrence ; William Bowman, at BtLawrence ; Jerry Bowman and Sam Bowman, at Fort Miller ; Harrison Smoota.at Bristol ; Miss Lizzie Dwyer, at Hurley ; Miss Stenburier. at Claremont; William Merrill, at Aberdeen ; four children of Peter Wernga, at Parker; a teacher and two ot her pupils, at Wyndemsre ; John
Welsh, at Fulda. In Montana Patrick Hanley, at Maryavilie ; William Overman, at' Belgrade ; several rowVlTR
fn ' Hinnmota Mm. Knutson. at R-uBhinore ;
John Lav. at Magnolia ; John Walsh, Jr., at
Avfinn oifl A. Kaese. at llartland : Mrs, Jer
ainson. at Montevideo; two school children, at
Magnolia ; six echool children, near Lake City ; O. K. ig, at Cerro Gonio. In Iowa Two mon at 1'oringbar; two school children at Inwood ; two boys at Larchwood. In Nebraska John Sparks, in Gage County; Emil Grossman, atl'eru; Mrs. Smith, at Wood, lawn; Mr. Mason, Mrs. Chapman, Edward Faust; Minnie Faust and Mr. Bortrand and Bon, at Stewart; Mr. M alloc, at Dustin; a H,,,-)-tr nf - farmer named BoUiae. in Otoe'
County ; Charles Maxwell, at Beatrice; a child of John Denlinger, at Garrison ; J. V. Hinoa and Michael Klienes, of Schuyler; F. W. Taylor, of
Clearwater; Eller. at umana.
In addition to these, fifty-five are reported
missing and supposed to be dead
A lot to Defraud the Government of
1U Daes-Policy of Charles Francis Adams.
MR. QORBIN'S POSITION. A Beadinc (Pa.) dispatch say3: "The
breach between the Beading Eailroad Company audits striking miners seems to be widening To-night the impression prevails
hrouehTOt the regions that they are farther
from a settlement of their difficulty than ever
of
WE OLD WORLD. A cable dispatch from London states tha: Thnnaendfl of rjeraors nacked Fleet street
attracted by a publio notice that the great Sullivan would be at the Snomntau ofnoo at
two o'clock. Tho police sent a special detail, whose members had all they could do to Bup-m-AMa a vint Kllllivjm'H business was to Sign
wltn any or tui comera ior a "Kin, iwtu uei his money with him. A long wait, and nobody came. Sullivan grew furious, and called Smith, Kilrain, and Mitchell, especially the last-named, the hardest kind of names. In
vain his friends tried t soothe him.
'After an hour's waiting the police came up, Feared but deferential, to. know if tho big fellow couldn't do something to quiet the crowd down stairs. This touched Sullivan's heart and he said : Til go down and give 'em a chance to see mo." So he went down and smiled benignantly, while the crowd surged nhnnt him. natted his brawn and called him
nrettv names. He went through the crowd
like a snow-plow, took a cab and drove away,
followed still by snouting, surging tnousanas.
Disnatches from Bncharost Btate that
rrince Ferdinand .Would rather leave hi' l.onod on the field of battle than alnlicalo, which would moan tlie assassiaat.nn of IUi.-
garia. 1 he government has made requisition
for horses and wagons for war service in tho
1 roportion of ono cart and two hotves to
orv 200 householders, thus placing a larpe transport Bervioa at the disposal of the gov
ernment polTtioal points. ' More than ordinary interest is attache ! t Hie election of delegates to tho Pennsylv.niiu Htate Convention by the Democrats of Phi:, -delpbia on the 17th inst, says adispatoh from ibnt city, because of tho issuoa upon wliii-l the contest was fought.
Upon one Bide were ranged the followers of Congressman Samuel J Handall. Upon the other side was the administration wing of the party. It is composed of those who call tbemn.i.a tea friends nf President Cleveland. The
latter combination included Postuiai-ter Har-
rity. Collector of tne l'ort uaawoiauer, wiuianiM. Singerly of tho Philadelphia Unwd, .,,,1 their followers. The administration-
ists captured forty.flve of the sixty-five
dolegates to the State convention, wnion win mrtst itmhahlv aasure it eight of the ten dole-
gates to tho National Convention from Philadelphia. This is the most disastrous defeat that llaiviall bas ever eni-ouutorad, and thiB contest will be followed up by the friends of the administration In the State. There is no
concealment or the tact that the oilministrarirti, inrniirfn to wine Mr. Handall oi,t..if possi
ble. It has transferred the patronago of tho
Btate over to the Keeping oi laniaressmau uii. m r. Cnfi. nf v.rie. end it hau tied un Hun-
dall's hands so that the men whom ho placid
in position are now rapidly deserting nun
A Dubuauo dispatch fliy that vw - f 1K
interrogations on tho choice tor l'rcsnlont ami
other qncstions of National and State interest sent out to the Itepublican ollieials a
leading politicians in lown, sovouly ropbo have been reoeivoil. 'iliose roplieH eoucu
kivelv establish the fact lliat Iowa's clinic f
President is Senator A lio i. Ho Icals t y
hanrlsome maioritv. W tho lit'Ht imii
also as the second elmiee lor l'r--dent Ah of the State efficia's, from (ioi
arnor Larrabee down, name Allison as their
AUSTIN COBBIN.
liofore. President Corbm's refusal to see tbe committees of the Htnkers, his deoisive answers to the business people of Schuylkill County, that ho will not treat with any body of men as a labor organization, are all looked
upon as evidence- thai he has decided to defy the minors. Coal getting scarcer daily, ami many of tho dea era are eutirely out and can not supply the demands of their cus
tomers.
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IFsom the Chicago Tribune.) The majority and minority reports of the
Pacific Railroad Commissioners, startling
as they are in their arraigment of the men
that have mismanaged and wrecked these
corporations, fall far short of revealing the actual condition of affairs. The history
of both the Central and union Pacihc
Comrjanias is full of rottenness from the
start Jk ntty almost atfiaaad that shy "were conceived in sin and born in'iniquity." The original idea of building a rail
road across the western naif 01 tne con
tinent, from the Missouri Hiver to the Pacific Ocean, was a grand one, but if it
had been left to the honest men that pro
iected it, to accomplish the result, it would have been deferred many years. As orig
inally chartered and surveyed, the Pacific Road was divided into two sections the
first, the Union Pacific, to ran direct from
Omaha to Ugtien; me secoaa, tno ueuirai Facifio, from Ogden to San Francisco. The enterprise was too heavy and. costly
and the results too uncertain to attract
private capital to any extent, and Congress,
to insure construction, Toted aid at an av
erage of $32,000 a mile. .The sharpers soon ascertained that this would amount to
more than the actual cost of building, and
began to nook in, vulture like, to least on the financial vitals of the corporations.
The history of the Union Facifio from this point is peculiarly interesting, and a
fair reflex of the operations 01 Doth sections during the construction period. The men who, attracted by the big Government bonus, had embarked in the work and virtually seized control of the company began to figure on a plan for securing all the plunder possible. They had little, if any, hope in the future of the road, and were in for what could be made out of the construction of it on the "addition, division, and silence" scheme. Prominent among these men were Dr. Durant, Vice President and General Manager of the company; the brainy but erratio George Francis Train, Jamas Davis, and others more or less known to fame. Congress had wisely provided that the subsidy should be paid in installments only on the completion and acceptance of the road in fifty-mile sections. Durant and his associates were unable and unwilling to stand tho cost of building the first section themselves, and the whole affair threatened to "die -born-in'." At this juncture, George Francis Train, then the boss sohemer and brains of
the gang, eame to the front with his Credit Mobilier, and showed his pals how to not
only build the road without going down into their own pockets, but to shave off an extra share of the profits as well. It was under Train's inspiration that the road,
instead of being built direct from Omaha to Oeden. a distance as the crow flies of
about nine hundred miles, was twisted in
and out tike an ox-bow, until an extra one hundred were covered
end orv which the eovernment subsidy was
demanded and paid. Every conceivable plan for the diversion of money from the treasury of the government and pockets of innocent stockholders into the coffers of
the construction ring was put on foot.
Honest men, disheartened at the outlook, either retired voluntarily from active par
ticipation m the councils of the company, or were rudely shoved aside by the managers.' When the condition of affairs bad become so notorious as to call for Congressional action the ring seemed to have a death grasp on the morals as well as the finances of the country. Men in high places Senators, Representatives, Judges on the bench obeyed its behests with a readiness that caused surprise, even to their masters who issued the command. Dissension followed dissension in the ranks of the ring, and change after change was made in the directory and management of the company proper, but through it all the old idea of plunder survived, and the new comers were quickly introduced and initiated into the devious ways of their predecessors. And this ring was not always particular as to its methods of doing business. During the Durant dynasty, and when the road was getting well to the west of Cheyenne, one of the inside construction concerns, known as "Davis and Associates," had a contract for furnishing all the ties, bridge timbers, and lumber needed, from Cheyenne west to Promontory Pomt, the real terminus of the road. This firm consisted of James Davis, M. B. Sprague, George Francis Train, and, as might be supposed. Dr. Durant. The latter's share was in the name of his brother Frank, and Train's was in the name of his beautiful wife, whose affections Durant is accused of having by that time alienated and transferred to himself ,as well as the largest part of her husband's property. This firm had sublet their contract to" other parties at figures which insured an enormous profit to "Davis and Associates," but, not contented with that, began to scheme for an additional dollar. When the work was about finished the Union Pacific was owinr "Davis and Associates'' $750,000, and the latter were indebted to the sub-contractors to the amount of $210,000. The laborers had been clamoring for their pay for some time, and the sub-contractors had made repeated demands on "Davis and Associates'' for their money, but without result. Durant, as manaser of the Vuion Pacific, claimed
the company was bankrupt and unable to pay Durant, as head of the contracting firm, over 10 per oent of the $750,000, and the latter in turn asked the sub-contractors to settle on that basis, hoping in this way to turn about SUO.OOO into the ring treasury. The cashier for "Davis and Associates" at that time was a nervy chap named Christopher, a character well known to Western and Southern railway - men. Christopher, on becoming acquainted with the nature of the proposed steal.
went to the sub-contractors and advised them not to settle, aa he had a plan for getting their money in full. It was about time for the directors of tbe road to make an inspeotion, and Christopher arranged with a telegraph operator named Htiiiken. then stationed at Echo City, to advise as to the arrival of their train. Tbit; done, and Christopher, gathering the subcontractors and their men, went to a siding six miles west of Piedmont, which was then tbe headquarters of "Davis and Associates." When the train came along about sunrise it was stopped and switched off on the side-traok. Christopher went into the oar and explained the situation to Durant and his party, telling them plainly that tbe men thought they were trying to rob them, and that they could not proceed until the $210,000 was paid in full. Durant made all sorts of promises, but it was of no nse. After fortyeight horns' parleying Durant sent out $50,000 which he had in a safe in the car, and wired to Omaha for $50,000 more, which was forwarded. When the $100,000 was paid over, Durant made fresh pledges and asked to be allowed to finish his trip. Under Christopher's advice, however, the men refused. Then Durant began to rave and threaten them with imprisonment, saying he bad wired for help. The men in command were not fooled by this talk, as they had taken good care that no communication revealing the actual oondition of affairs should go over the wires. Itefore morning of the third day ft Mr. Wilson, of New York, who was with Durant, advunood the latter $50,000, and Henry Rogers, a Cheyenne banker, was sent lor. When Sogers arrived Durant drew drafts on Mew fork for the remaiuiny $ti0,(Hi0, which Rogers accepted and gave Christopher certificates of deposit for. Thus the men were
I paid in fall, and the ear pulled out in a
hurry, Durant standing on the platform and swearing (hat he ...would hare Christopher nurj bis allies in the penitential-.; for train
t obvms. t he arrets anally tiled out, however, and there was ho prosecution. With the completion of the road the gang looked for new conquests, and turned their attention to the operating department.
When President Lincoln, m conformity., with the wishes of the original projectors
: the road, located us eastern terminus on e west bank of the Missouri River he
named Omaha as the initial pouX This did not satisfy the cormorants, who were hungry for fresh prey Money was to be made in the construction and operation particularly the lutter-tof a bridge -across the Missouri, and in connection therewith of a union depot on the Iowa side, .in order to proceed legally with this work !t
was necessary w uave a. jiuuciai ucciaiuu naming the eastern bank of (be Missouri as the intended andproiwr initial point of the
road. Inis was obtain, d nom'-tnilRe Dillon, then on the United States bench, and wus followed, on the Judge's retirement, byhisappointmout as counsel forihe company at a fat salary, Vnder this docision the bridge and union depots were built, and ajr$ Eeicg operated to-day at au immense "Drait, which goes only in small
pari. tf tUe. jjaTqWinl.lits oths raifWfjfc
thebnlk being absorbed by the favored few who manipulate the "inside" construction concerns. These "inside" companion have
always been a curious feature of Union
Pacific history. The company stands spon
sor for branch roads without number, for bridge corporations, for' coal mines and
stone quarries, all worked by "insido" or
ganizations. Whenever one of these side
issues is found to be earning a fair divi
dend a goodly share of the stock can be
traced to individuals, while (be se unties of the non-paying concerns invariably are
classed among. the assets of the parent
company. When Charles Francis Adams was elect
ed President of the Union Pacific some
three years ago. there was a terrible shot
ing up of the offenders in this line, and an honest and determined effort was made to put the alfairs of the company on a fair and sound basis. That it has been only
partially success tut is not tne tault ot s,u.
Adams. During the shakms-up process referred to. some startling disclosures were
made, of which Mr. Adams is possibly not as ignorant as he would claim to be to an interviewer. One of these was a wellmatured plan, fathered by men high in Union Paoifio management, to gobble the valuable portions of the road, and leave the Government "holding the bag," after the fashion of the Southern snipe-hunters. The Government, as security for the aid advanced in construction, holds a secondmortgage on (he main line between Omaha and Ogden, and on the Kansas Branch west of the 3o0th mile-post The earnings of these mortgage d roads, instead of going into a sinking fund for the gradual extinction of the Government debt, have been used in the building of branch lines, feeders, etc., until now the company h is a network of roads that, with connecting links of a few miles put in here and there, would give it a satisfactory through route. It was the intention in case the Government pressed payment of its claim, to allow the old roads to be seized, and the company would then have a comprehensive system, free from Government debt and congressional interference. Thns the Union Pacific has for years been not.vely at work tacking together its ations branch lines nutil now a glance at its map will show that, by the dropping down of a few rails, it would have au independent and practical line from Missouri Hiver points to Portland, aside from the regular road. Should the majority report of the Commission, recommending the extension of tho time for paying the debt, be adopted this scheme will nrnhahlv be sat nnon still harder.
Mr. Adams and the men now associated
with him in the management of the com
pany are understood to have some ideas of their own in regard to financial matters ukich mav be laid before Congress for con-
t-ideration. Under its charier the- Union
Pacific is debarred from borrowing money
or truaranteemg the securities of other cor
porations. Much as it ny need money for legitimate uses it cannot go into the
market ana borrow it nice otner corporations. For this reason many well-inten
tioned and necessary improvements have
been delayed, and territory which should have been cridironed by Union Pacific
tracks has been seized by competing roads.
The efforts of the company in the past have been directed to the seeurin of a link of outside roads rather than the invasion of
oavine territory. Many miles of branch
lines in eastern Nebraska are needed, rath
er than costly- and uncertain roads into
thinly settled parts of Colorado and Idaho. But Dromisina as these projected feed
ers may be, investors do not care to put money into them unless they are rea
sonably certain, under a guarantee, that
the interest at least will be paid. Mr.
Adams is known to favor the granting of
power to tbe Union 1'acinc to eitner oorrow the monev to build such roads or to
guarantee their securities so they will find sale on tbe market. The company's surplus in the hands of the authorities at
Washington, drawing at the most 4J per
cent, could, he was heard to assert some
time ago, be used just as safely and muoh nrniUftblv in the buildine of branch
roads into the thickly settled agricultural regions of Kansas and Nebraska. Mr. Adams even aoes so far as to claim that
the money thus invested would earn 10 per cent, where it now only brings ih, and that
in addition it would lareely swell the
nr ,fit of the Union Pacific make the
property a more valuable security for tho
Government mortuage. and insure the pay
ment of the huge debt at a much earlier
period than by any other means.
NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.
What l Intuit 7
Monad Iegtsjliiture. JSbk President cent testhe Senate, on Thurs-
day, the lvth lust, tbe nomination of Sen. Mdward H. Bragg, of Wlsobnstn, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of una
rtnifad states to Meo; Mr. Chandler ao-
buoi the senate in support
voMliftlnn inatrnctinUT tho Judicil
mittee to lnqmie tm votes o( solocedninlnAl elooUon at
aieticrger ramaiKu
Intouuea to aiieui. eons-idered only in
gavo notice that aa4.
for tne connrmatim
INDIANA STATE HBWE
cap.
GIGANTIC LAND STEAL.
An
Expose of the Alleged .methods of 1
1 orele.11 Syndicate In California. Tha New York Herald prints a three-
column letter from Eureka, Cal., in regard to a giantio timber-land steal. The correspondent states that a foreign syndicate is operating in the redwood diBtrict, of which Eureka is the center, and that it has nlraadv cobbled no 64,000 acres of the
finest redwood forests in the world. The
enrresnondent savs:
"(If all tha numerous robberies of tha
Government of the United States which
have diaaraeed the Western and Pacific.
Ktntnn rinrino (lie past two decades.
not one has possessed the monumental ear-marks of unblushing fraud to a mora startling degree than the one about to be related. For rugged pieturesqueness of roguery tbe California Bedwood Company's
robberv is unique. He then croea on to tell how the Califor
nia Redwood Company was organized in EdinburB in 1883. A number of notorious
land-sharks were hired by the company and sent to Eweka, and they soou had the plans perfected for a great fraud. The area of land sought by the conspirators was so vast that a small army of men was reauired to go through the forms of entering and proving as required by the laws of the United States in the disposal of tbe public domain. It was necessary to obtain 400 persons who were willing to aid in the fraud, either knowingly or unconsciously, through ignorance of the meaning of tho statement ea-h would be called onto make. The sum fixed by the redwood Company an the maximum prioe was $50. For that paltry sum men were called on to tro to the land ffice and make the statement that the land they entered under the beneficent and liberally generous laws of Uncle Sam was for their individual use and occupancy. As noon as the entry was made the men were escorted to the hendquorters of the syndicate, where the land was transferred to the "canny Scotchmen." Thus it was that the chapter of crime was completed and the raid on 61,000 acres of growing limber, among the most valuable in the world, was finally consummated. . Oi't'Kim's lleuiocrnMc (wvt-'itioit. The Oregon Democratic mii,, Antral Com mitten bus uecidnd to 'iclil the next State Convention at Pendleton, Tuesday, April 3.
of his
tho Judiciary Oom1 tUo suppression of ieua at the recent ma-
kson, Mill. Mr. iuat the resolution was ,ei-i that ought to be
,.tlv. anRinn end ha
himself he would vet4
Mr. Lamar. The reso
lution was adopted yaaa, , P"?I vote, except that Ufddlebergor voted with the Democrats, while tbe two Mississippi Senators weeXmod,tKm voting. From the Committer on Military Affairs Senator Wanderson reported favorably the bill introduced by him to increase tho efficiency of the infantry branch ot the array. The Sonata passed the bill authorizing the con: Btruotion of a bridge across the Missouri Hirer below St Charles, Mo, Senator Cullom Introduce.! a bill to provide that tbe legislative powers of tho Territory or Ctah shall be vested In tho Governor and Legislative Assembly, tbe latter to constat of thirteen citizens of the United-wS5Si5bs iltUrerrltoty, to appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Mitchell called up his bill abrogating all treaties with China In so far as they permit tho immigration of Chinese or Inhibit the United States from absolutely irobibiting snoh immigration, and repeal, ng all act of Congress recognizing or permitting snoh immigration. Messrs.
Mitchell ana aiowar Baareaaeu wi nww tn support of the resolution. The House passed a bill to punish robbery, burglary, and larceny in the Indian Territory, fixing the maximum punishment at 81,000 flue and fifteen yean' Imprisonment The Sou ate bill fixing the salary of the Commissioner of fish and Fisheries at
SUV'Oi) per annum wai passed by the Hon Be, Representative Townshend reported back the Eoiitelle battle-flag resolution as amended fay the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Bqutelle said ho had no objection to the amendments, and the House adopted the resolution. The Blair oilucatioual bill again same up la the Senate on the 13th but, and Mr. dray at Delaware made a constitutional argument against It Mr. Vance of North Carolina addressed the Senate on Mr. Brown's resolution to abolish internal revenue taxation. Tha lines, he sutri. had been drawn cloaelv bv the Fraat-
deut s message on tho subject of the surplus and taxation. The ooatest had to be fought out squarely and the question had to he de
cided unequivocally on its menw. nuiui kv. Una people, be said, objected more to tha methods of collection than to the amount of the tobacco and- spirits tax. Mr. Stewart of
Nevada offered an amendment to tne mi providing for the Investment of the surplus, which provides that any person ma- deposit at any mint or t.ssay office gold 01 silver bullion and receive certificates ' herefor. In tha House of Representatives Mr. crisp -at Georgia, Chairman of the Committee on Elsetlons, reported on the case of A. E. Redstone,
Claiming to nave oven vivvwx w -"B-" - from the Fifth California District that no evidence had been filed and there was apt
sufficient grouna lor contest, air. xrowu u xnaarmrf. from the Committee on Agriculture,
reported a bill making appropriations to carry into effect the provisions of the set to establish experimental agricultural stations.
Thb nomination of Lucius Quintal Curtlus Lamar to be a Justice of the Supreme Co art
was con armed in the Senate of the United States on the 16th inst by the votes of BidcUaberger of Virginia, Stewart ot Nevada, and Stanford or California. The following Senators spoke at different times In opposition to the confirmation : Edmunds, Kvarts, Allison, Sherman, Hoar, Ingalls, Hawley, and Wilson of lowa. This comprised all of the republican members of tbe Judiciary Committee and the Presidential candidates on the itepublican side, The latter currently claised fn the Kannta are : Sherman, Allison. Haw ey.
The singular feature of the four hours' sesi.ion was that tne Democratic Senators sat silent in their Beats. None of -them urged the confirmation of Lamar. The Mississippi Senators did not say a word. One or two of the Democrats briefly answered a few questions, but none of them made a speech upon the case. The objections of tbe Bepubiican Senators wem ot tho same general character as the arguments which have been published in the Republican newspapers. They may be summarized under two heads : 1. Want of exnarlencii as a lawyer. 2. His political record, w.th especial relarenoe to the issues of the war. There were no personal abjections to him, and it Is stated hat nothing was Bald that could have wounded the susceptibilities of Mr. Laniar Had he been present The following Senators voted for :onflrmiition: Bate, Berry, Book, Brown, Butler, Blodgett, CockreU, Coke, Can, Colau:tt Daniel, Faulkner, George, Grady, Gorman, Harris, Hampton, Jones (Ark.i, Morgan, McPbeison, Fugh, Keagan, Saulsbury, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson (Md.), all Democrats, and itiddleberger, Stewart, and Stanford, Bepublioans. Total, 32. The following Senators voted' for rejection; Aldrieh, Allison, Blair. Bowen, Cameron, Chase, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Davis, Edmunds, EvirU, Frye, Farwell, Hawley, Hoar, Hale, Hiacook, Ingalls, Mitohell, Paddock, Plat, Palmer, Plumb, Gray, Spoonar, Sherman, Stockbridge, Total, 28. Tne following Senators were paired against Lamar: Handera on. Teller, Sawyer, Jonca (Nov.l.Sabin, Morrill, Wilson (Iowa), Chandler, with the following Demoorata who would have voted for him . Blackburn. Gibson, Eustls, Hearst, Kenna, Payne, Pasco, liausom. As soon as the vote in the Lamar case was taken, the nominations of Messrs. Vilas and Dickinson were confirmed without debate. Gen. Bragg was eK i confirmed as Minister to Mexico. Mr. Chandler introduced a bill In the Senate to control congressional eleotions in South Carolina. Mr Sherman introduced a bill creating a. amimission to Inquire into and report on the material, industrial and mental progress of the colored race since 1895. Mr. Eyarts introduced a bill to Indemnify the settlers on the Des Moines river lands above the Raccoon Forks, Iowa, for payments made upon lands subsequently tiken from them, and also for the damages sustained thereby. Mr. Hale introduced a biU prepared by the American forestry congress to preserw- the forests. Among the bills introduced in the Bouse were the following : By Mr. Towushcnd (HI.,) to retire national hank notes and to substitute treasury notes therefor; by Mr. Landea iHl,) to reduce the treasury surplus by paying bounty of 25 cents a bushel on all wheat exported to foroign countries ; by Mr. Chipmau (Miah ,) increasing the duty on imported lithographs from 2 to W rer cent, ad valorem ; by Mr Tarsney (Mich.,) author! '.4 tho construction of government buildings haying a postmaster, the cost of th" building to range from J20,(X)0 in towns of IO.00O inhabitants to S10,000 in towns of 50,000 Inhabltr uta.
Mb. W11.6ON Introduced a bill In the Seaate, on the 17th Inst. providing that any person who la good faith settles upon and Improves public lands boliovihg the title to be ii tho Wted States shall be entitled to plead in title of the United States to the land in i-up-uort of his claim, the same as if the I nitea States was actually a party to the suit 1-rom the Committee on Pensions Mr. Turpio reported favorably a Mil to increase to ''.! per month the pension for total helplessness. Mr Quay, from the same committee, also reported favorably a bill to increase sot) per month the pension for total deafness. Pension at n proportionate rate is to be granted for partial loss of hearing. Mr. Cox, of New York, waa unanimously chosen to preside over the House during the temporary absence of Speaker Carlisle Mr. Wilkins called up as the unfinished business the bill to provide for the Issue ol circulating notes to national bank associations, and Messrs. Weaver and Anderson filibustered in order to prevent action ou the measure. In the House Mr. Crisp submitted the report of the Committee on Klettious upon the Thoebe-Carlisle contested-election oase. and it was ordered printed. Leave was also granted to the mluoiity to file their Individual views. The committee takes up the case as shown or the record and finds that no evi.leuce was produced which supports, or tends to support any one of the specifications filed by the contestant Hie wltueesas prove nothing tending to impeach the fairness of the election. The technical point that the judges , Ai--4ri-n tn Trimble Countv were all Demo
crats the committee dismisaes with the statement that It does no follow that the State law was violated in that particular, and cites tbe case of narnoa vs. Adams in the XLI Congress aa a precedent for its decision. In conclusion, the committee reported resolutions declaring Carlisle and not Tuoebe elected. The Prealdent transmitted the Paoifio Bail.road reports to Congress, with a message strongly condemning tne management of the lines, and recommending legislation to protect the interests of the Government
3?
Maude has pat another -feather i har The Hcmineravs' elass factory, of
Corimrton. Kt.. the largest west of Htr
burgh, will positively remove i that aityal once. The contract has heal, stgned. Mr. Hemiiigray, after a thorough mvestigatioB of tho gas field in Ohio and Indiana 's lected Mnncie as the point to the investment, of ibeir $250,000 capital.' They mfH employ 450 hands. The magnltode of this industry may at first not he appreciated, but when it is considered that 1,500 peopte will be added to Muncie's rapidly theraaW, ing population, some idea of what this and other factorial that will locate there, with those now in coarse of constrnctiij.arill be
ft Mnncie, it may bo no idle boaft to ,
that in a few years Manew will nece. vary important manufacturing town. Captain Charles Heet.the preeehi As sensor of the city of Fort Wayne, jraa ija command of' the Twentieth Indiana? Vol--nnteers in the battle ot Gettysburg. A uinnie ball entered his forehead, almosi between the eyea, mhp.mmW.M . upon the field. lte'CeP but surgeons always feared1 to extrant the " ball. The buUet worked downward, atkA. frequently the wound discharged threqgh the nose, llecently Captain EmmM?; with an uncomfortable feeling m hu thHMt and began coughing. He ooogfaed .1ki
Gettysburg bullet of twenty-war yearn ago.
It was rough and irregolar ana 104& grains, 27A grains over
Cantata Reese has drawn a lares
for his wound, and his face m beaOy it-" figured. -Potent have been issued lotw iventors as follcws: James Couhia, Crawfordsville, wood joint; Wallaee H. Dodr andJUD. O. Smith, Mishawaka, mejfactnre of woolen boot and woolen ehotm Isaac N. Elliott and P.-A. BoH, tmerWsi. fence machine; Daniel C Gantar, IndlaBapolis, device .for steaming and ooMlg purposes; Henry A. Goets, New AHaWy. seed tester; Amos E. Knnderd, OorUMa,
animal trap: Hugh S. Noll and 3. BemuO, Huntington, plow attachment; non Nye, Corydon, liqmd-mesmirhlg iSspt; Henrv B. Pitner. assignor of Oatvawtf to
J. F. Croft, LePorte, carriage ta Sandage, South Bend, drop.
Joseph E. Schooley. Kyle,
The Book Shoals SUver-BriphtK
Smeltine Company are
twenty tons of sUver-tiearing rosat deil'
The product ia from sixtj-nve five pounds of metal - from e twenty-four hours. An aaaey
of the rook showed a sflver pMdnoj of $8 and $4 in Bold. The ledge of roek le ia
the bluffs of White Biver, hi County. -John BenrdahL a Swede, of
met his death in a peeuHkr nwMstaV' Ho was crossing a wooden bridge stream that runs from the Lithium ffimt, -
when he made a misstep end feU ntto the water. He wm iatnkntedk'Wff JiM the fall was only two feet .md fhowater bnt four inches deep, he dwnlwfo1e covered. He was 05 years of age. ; '. Mrs. Otis Fuller, of Milford, M M. CrdmtaHy shot Md killed by her bosdiaaoV who wm cleaning his revolver near by. -According fo Mr. FuUer, he waf in fa ac . n it,- nir An the table when
Ul JWB w... - . " , , it was discharged, . shooting her through
the chest and instantly killing bar. . J . c
deceased was 21 years of age, mditawi. an infant child. The Tri-State Fait Aaoeiatir w&Wi i;: has been holding annual fata in gjjut Wayne for many yean past, kM worse? ized, m follows: President, Vf, Si. Page;' Vice President, E, A. K. Hackett; Seemtarv. W. W. Bockhill; Treasurer, C.
Fisher: Superintendent, J. W
The standing member of the
P. A. Kendall. Mrs. Catherine Bmgeas, wiosW sit one of t)w pioneer real-eatato owners ofBt mond, feU down stairs, and tt.ht poatuhw that, on account of advanced tgeherjajuries will prove fatal. She is 88 years of age, and, besides sustaining throe broke ribs and a dislocated shoulder, her phyaacian fears she injured toternaUy.
Dogs attacked a floek of eigpsy
belonging to John Hear, m Township. Hendricks County,
ing abont forty of the number, eusly wounding several other, ni nrobabW reach $200. The
value of those killed win be rieid by wo At the house of Fred Sadenwatee,four miles south of Michigan City, hie 14-yoar-old daughter Mary, while iii'Mthii eMove, . brushed her drees in the fire,' end earn bum near being literally rOMteabefoiesheibe
could be extmguianaa. ttor rasusw wan also badly burnod. The irl will die.
The 'Other day while wm. uttmoo, laborer, was at work at Oak H1 Cemotoq Crawfordsville, he kflled a hoop-smake which wm rolling around on tho toe M lively m though it wore the It of July -stead of the middle ot winter . axaetnake-
ahip measured four feet in tengttt. James Tult, a farmer ltring a distance north ot Braaii, died of ran first thought to be tanemnmtory
maUsm. One of hit horses wm aifileatd with glanders, and it isMpposed ho eon traoted the disease while dectoring it, and died from the effeota. While Bobert Henry, aged 41 yean, afarmerlivmgmlUiightTownaVuoder burg County, was engaged in felling tree the limbs caught on on adjaormt ireo, caused it to roll overhand, before he eoww get out of the way he wm caught and crushed to death. . One of a battery of boilers ha furnaces Noe. W and 14, at Breaih exploded, destroying the. mill and scattering rum everywhere. One matt wm fatally burned, others seriously injured. About a year ago the dttaout ft Knightatown voted to build, a etty hall, to oast not over $10,000. The Council hM purchased grounds for that purpose, and
work will commence
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A remarkable illustration of she puzzling migratory habits of the herring has just been observed on the southwest coast of Norway, at the socalled Jit deren, between the towns of Stajranger and Egersund. This district used to be one of the richest herring-fishing grounds in Norway during , L .1..,. I-... An t-r H d TAIM
ago the fish suddenly and completely disappeared from the oouet. JuMt month enormous shoals once more came under shore, first "striking land" at the same spot as in former time. The quality of the herring is exactly the same as it was twenty-flye years ago, and the shoals were accompanied by numerous "herring" whales. It is hotter to pro through life like a sunbeam than to chill those around us with the frost of ill -nature. CrsioM may lead a man into meoy errors, but it justifies none.
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opens. -r-A large vat of mash m edattfuery at Terra Haute exploded, breaking the leg of an employe, destroying the building; end causing a loss of several thousand oUwca.
Governor Gray hM appointed TnoauM .
Ii. Sullivan Judge of Marion and J
drioks Counties, to fill the vacancy
by the resignation of Judge A. C Ayere. The Petsylvanh Company !. to
construct the yards at rorl wayne,
ereMine the capacity by
the heavy through fceightahanetlrisw
making such an improvement 1
-Indianapolis lumber dealers tn 186 sold 1)8,000,000 feet of' lumbar. In tbie statement is not included the haul wood lumber handled, but simply the lumber used for buildiug purposes. Henry Occleaon, rich farmer, Irving ix miles north of Fort Wayne, slipped on the ice. His skull wm cracked, and k
died almost instantly of uauiusMSion of
His age wm 77.