Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1890 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. . N. BLACKBURN, - * - Publisher. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK WHAT THE TELEGRAPH BRINGS US FROM EVERYWHERE. Collision Near Syracuse, N. X.—Four Persons Killed—Hotel Burned—Outlaw Killed—Fate of an Inventor—Double Murder at Lafayette* Ind.—New York Dented a Recount. ~ J FOUR KILLED. A Passenger Train Crushes Into a Coal Train. Syracuse (N. Y.) special: An express train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road, while descending the steep grade near Rock Cut, three miles from this city, crashed into a coal train standing on a switch and waiting for the track to be cleared for its passage southward. Both locomotives were completely wrecked and the baggage and mail cars were crushed to pieces. Os the other carson the passenger train, four in number three wi*re thrown from the track, the force of the .collision hurling them into a position.at right angles«with the rails. The single Pullman car, which was next to the mail car kept its place. Michael Burke, of this city, engineer, on the passenger train, and J. W. Doyle, of Great Bend, Pa., engineer on the coal /train, were killed outright, with their / firemen, Jerry Lei*, and Merton Fernan. jTlyx four men were buried under the /wreck. Doyle was dug out by the train / hands with the assistance of some of the ’ passengers. As by a miracle none of the passengers were killed, and only one of them—Mrs. Thomas Corcoran, of No. 21 » Myrtle Avenue, Buffalo, was seriously injured. Mrs. Corcoran was on her way home from Cortland. She had two ribs broken and her right wrist was dislocated. She also " sustained severe injuring to her spine, and her left shoulder was badly "bruised. — U Lafayette, Ind., thei Scene of a Murder. At Lafayette, Ind!., George Bennett, a painter, shot and fatally wounded John Workhoff, .fireman on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway. Having emptied his revblver, Bennett walked away, reloading it as he went. In coining out of the alley where the shooting occurred, he met W. If. Scott, a carpenter, and without a word fired two shots at Scott, one of which took effect in the heart, instantly killing him. Last week some one cut Bennett's brushes to pieces and also ruined some of his clothes. Ho accused Workhoff of the vandalism, and seeing him walking on the street, slipped! up behind him and shot him. Bennett was arrested and is now in jail. . ■» The Czar at a Circus. In the course of ai circus performance at St. Petersburg, which was attended by the Czar and some members of tho imperial family, onti of the trained horses suddenly and viciously attacked M. Gingizellie, the manager of the circus. The manager was knocked down, bitten and trampled upon by the maddened animal which, in full view of the audience, mangled him in a horrible manner. The Czar, and his party suddenly left tho building. The audience stampeded and the performance was terminated. Outlaw Killed. Bud McCoy, the Header of the notorious McCoy gang, was killed near Tennis Camp, Lbgan County, Va., by a man named Dempsey, of the Hatfield gang. Other parties are supposed to have assisted in thft killing. The country is wild with excitement, and it is believed that Dempsey and hjs associates will be found and the death’of McCoy avenged. 'There were eighteen bullets folmd in McCoy's body. ‘ McCoy is known to have killed eight men, but bp lias always os caped punishment. } Fate of an Inventor. Josiah Gray, aged 67, a local official of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, hung himself at Chicago. The old man laid the first, rail on the Fort Wayne line,, j He was the inventor of the patent frog and ’switch chiefly used by steam railroads, and of the street ear \ switch that is thrown by the weight of a horse. Gray was in moderate circumstances, and is said to have probably suicided because of his apparent inability to copo with corporations that were gratuitously using his patents. Crushed to Death. Edward Spioglc, of the foremen of the .Spiegle Furniture < oihpany, Shelbyville, 1 nd.,descended, to the cellar to repair tlie machinery of the eh-valor, and while removing the top from a large bolt, his head projecting <|>yer Hie step, tire immense platform of the He-vator suddenly trave way and came’ criAhiug down from ibe' second story' upon his’head and shoulders and mashed him to the earth. His head and shoulders were, horribly crushed and he died a few hours later; Oklahoma Matters. Brig. Gen. Merritt, commanding the department of the Missouri", in his annual report, speaking of affairs in Oklahoma, says that the cattlemen show no disposition to violate the conditions governinglbeir stay. Owing to the severe drougt this past season the corn crop has in many sections been an almost total failure, and the farming industry not having been sufficiently organized to insure the planting of staples. Bewildered by the Glare. s. » ‘Mrs. Harland, wife of ex-Senator W. P. Harland, was instantly killed at Jes- ; ferson.Ohio. In crossing the tracks of the Lake Shore she became bewildered by the headlight of an approaching freight train, and.’ fainting, fell between the rails and was crushed to death before the train could be stopped. One of San Franeinco’a Hotels Swept , Away by Fire. Fire was discovered in Henter Bros. & Co.’s paint shop under the Grand Hotel, San Francisco. The fire spread rapidly and the hotel was soon in flames. There was great excitement among the guests, but they all escaped safely. The hotel was entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Freight Golllnton. Two freight trains on the Reading Railroad came into collision at Royer's Fold, Pa. James Doyle, fireman, of Cresson, was killed. j - EASTERN OCCURRENCES. A loaded coal-train of thirty-six cars, through a misplaced switch, was thrown through the Hotel Brunswick, at Huntington, Pa., and landed in the yards of the Girard House and Jackson House/ 200 feet eastward. 'rhe' guests in. the hotel wore seized with a frenzy of exciters inent and rushed pell-mell into the streets In thelr night clothes. The loss to tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s roiling stock is $25,000. Miss Lizzie O. Smith, known as the V modern martyr, who has been a helpless

invalid fifty-five yean, died at her home in Willimantic, Conn. Charles Fischer, brother of the Chicago anarchist who was hanged for the Haymarket crime, strangled himself to death in his room in Pittsburg, Pa. A fearful explosion occurred at the rolling mills of the Portage Iron Company, located at Duncansville, seven miles south of Altoona, Pa. One of the three large- boilers in the ten-inch mill exploded from an unknown cause. The report could be plainly heard for miles around. Those fatally injured were: James Weaver, aged 28; Samuel Flick, fireman, 48 years and married; William Miller, aged 30 years and married; T. Henworth, puddler, horribly mangled. Several others whose names are unknown are slightly scalded. WESTERNHAPPENINGS. The Governor of Illinois and the Auditor of Public Accounts have levied a tax for State purposes of 36 cents on each SIOO of taxable property of tho State. Os this 22% cents is for revenue purposes and 13X for school purposes. The larger rate is intended to raise $1,700.000 net and the smaller rate $1,000,000. Last year the rate was 38 cents on the SIOO, but it was on an assessment nearly $17,000,000 less than that of this year. Tunis Amack, of Columbus, Ohio, murdered Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. In an interview Vicar-General Brady, of St. Louis, stated that Archbishop Kenrick was soon to be created a Cardinal. The Vicar-General, together with Father Phelan, editor of the Western Is visiting Notre Dame University in company with Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia. The party were tendered a reception by the students of the University. Father Phelan is authority for the statement that the plans are far advanced for the establishment of a new Catholic publication in Chicago. George Shinn7 who with Charges Dorsey, alias Thorn, escaped from San Quentin (Cal.) Prison three years ago and was recently captured in Chicago, has made a startling confession. Shinn confessed that he and Thorn returned to California early in 1889 and camped on the American River, about three miles from Sacramento. This was the rendezvous to which he always returned after his raids. He admits that July 31, 1889, they stopped a stage from Milton to Sonora and robbed the passengers of SSO. They blew open the Wells A Fargo treasure box with giant powder, and found it empty. Sept. 10 of the same year they stopped a stage between Quincy and (Jroville, and took a gold bar worth SBOO from the Wells A Fargo box. In April of this year they held up the Forest Hill stage in Placer County and robbed passengers. Besides these robberies, Shinn confessed to numerous burglaries, garrotings, and robberies committed by him and Thorn. They returned to Chicago May 30 last, and he says between that time and the date of capture they committed something like twentyfive robberies and burglaries in the State of Illinois. Their rendezvous on the America River has been found by Chief of Police Drew of Sacramento, who huntqd for it four weeks before he found it. Ihj says it is an ideal robbers' roost, and the robbers could never have been dislodged from it. The revenue collections of Peoria, 111., for October were $2,10a,635. This does not include the Rock Island collections; There were 240 packages taken out of bond for export during tho month. ' In Kansas the condition of the winter wheat crop is better than at this time last year. There is -some complaint of fly in the early sown, wheat, but only to affect the condition a little.. Millers are not stocked up heavily with wheat, although tho offerings have been free for the last three weeks. Peter v jfEss, a farmer living near Bloomington, HL. tried to commit suicide by taking poison.. He was recently arrested on a charge of,stealing wheat, and simultaneously his wife began proceedings for divorce. Frank Cat.i.oway, a switchman employed by the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway, was fatally injured ‘by falling from a car into the Wabasli River. The Choctaw Nation of Indians lias passed a law disfranchising any member of that tribe 'faking the oath of allegiance to the Government .of the United States. v An infant child of James 11. Carico, of Peoria, 111., was fatally burned‘by gasoline, which was being used to clean a carpet, taking lire. Its mother rushed from the room, forgetting to take her baby with her. x George Robariige, a farmer living in South St. Paul. Minn., shot and killed B. F- Rogers, fatally wounded W. E- Rogers, his first victim’s brother, and then blew his own head off.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. o , Attorney General Miller has.sent, a circular Jetter to all United States District Attorneys calling attention to the anti-lottery act, with the suggestion that they carefully examine the same, and spare no effort in its enforcement, lie s&ys: “Every violation of this law. either by an individual or a corporation, in the dissemination of lottery literature, or in any other way, should be brought to the attention of the grand jury, and wherever indictments are found vigorous prosecution should follow, to the end that this nefarious business may be suppressed. In the enforcement of this law there should be hearty co-operation on the part of the district attorneys, the United States marshals and the postoffice inspectors.” Similar instructions have been sent to United States marshals. , » Mrs. Harrison has accepted the Presidency of the Washington committee, which is earnestly at work endeavoring to secure funds for the endowment of the medical school of the Johns Hopkins University, in order that women may be admitted on equal terms with men. The trustees of, the university have extended an invitation to the ladies of) the local committee in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington to a lunch and inspection of the hospital. Mrs. Harrison was . asked to name the date for this visit and selected Nov. 14. She will be accompanied by the members of the Washington committee, which consists of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Mrs. Levi P. Morton, Mrs. J. Lowrie Bell, Mrs. George Hearst, Mrs. William Windom, Mrs. John McLean, Mrs. John W. Noble and others. FOREIGN GOSSIP. * Dr. Peters, upon the authority of Emin Pasha, asserts in a magazine article that Stanley threatened to force Emin to accompany him to the coast. While delivering King Leopold’s offer, Stanley urged Emin not to accept, alleging that the Congo State was in a bad way, and hinting that King Leopold had treated Stanley badly. The Dutch Parliament has. by a vote of 109 to 5, declared King William 111. of Holland to be incapable of longer exercising the governing power. The

Council of State has been temporarily invested with regal powers. It is stated that Mrs. O’Shea will shortly apply to Justice Butt, in London, for the appointment of a commission to consider the counter allegations made by her against her husband. Should this application be granted it is probable the trial in which Mr. Parnell was expected to figure so prominently, will be indefinitely postponed. In' this connection these is much gossip regarding a painful scene that occurred at Brighton Monday, where the parties to the suit are staying. Mr. O’Shea and his son met Mrs. O’Shea on the King’s walk. They feigned not to see her, but the wife would not be ignored, and at once began expressing her views with a vehemence and volubility that soon attracted a large crowd on the thronged thoroughfare. Mr. O’Shea, however, not feeling equal to the contest, allowed himself to be drawn out of earshot by his son. Sister Rose Gertrude, the pretty young English woman who created a great sensation by attempting to spend her life among the lepers of Molokai, one of the Sandwich Islands, is now a governess in the family of John Eng, Superintendent of the Interisland Steam Navigation Company, at Honolulu. There is said to have been no truth in the statement that was engaged to Dr. Lutz, about whom and Sister Rose there was so fnuch scandal. Eleven German lifeboat men were drowned while trying to relieve the crew of the British vessel Erik Berendensen, which was “’wrecked off Slesvig. Only one of the crew’s vessel was saved. The steamer Oceanic has arrived from the Orient, and bAngs news that cholera is dying out in Japan, but the death roll is nearly 26,000 out of a total of 38,000 cases. It is reported that two Chinese men-of-war foundered in a violent gale between Corea and Japan. The crew of the British ship Umzinto reached Ceylon last month, having been eight days in open boats under a tropical sun. FRESH AND NEWSY. The month of October winds up all over the Northwest and also the Southwest, with the exception of a few areas, with the deficiency of moisture, which has been the marked feature of the present growing season, very nearly if not fully made up. Hence a much larger area of fall plowing has been done tn the spring wheat belt than usual, and there has also been a very "large and full acreage of winter wheat sown. Farmers have had excellent weather for gathering the corn, and over 50 per cent, of it has been housed. Take Nebraska as a whole, and from 40 to 50 per cent, of the corn crop has now been gathered. A large proportion of the crop is light and chaffy. In Southern Nebraska farmers that were expecting from ten to fifteen bushels per acre only got from three to five. In Eastern Nebraska very few fields are going over ten to twenty bushels to the acre. Old corn' is selling at 50 cents; a bushel. In Southern Kansas the wet weather has prevented farmers from gathering their corn. Generally speaking, farmers are disappointed with regard to the yield, and the quality is not as good as was expected. The surplus corn in Kansas this year will bo small. In Southern doxva farmers have just fairly commenced gathering their corn. The crop is turning out poorly in quantity and quality. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of the trade says: Tho approach of elections has caused some slackening of trade .at many points, which is “obviously temporary. At a few cities, notably St, Louis, there is observed reacQon from the great activity which prevailed just before the new tariff went into effect, demand for the time having beer, satisfied by dealingsjn anticipation of that measure. But at nearly all cities trade continues remarkably large, and the payments through all clearing-houses outside New York for the month of October will probably bo the largest ever recorded in any month, exceeding those of last October by about 15 per cent... and these o'? last May which were 82.037.000,090 and the largest ever known, by about 10 per cent. ’Foreign trade for the month will certainly prove much the largest ever known, and the great industries are" unusually ctive. At Chicago receipts of grain fall be.ow last, year’s, and hides and wool a third, bur. cured meats and dressed beef show increase: the dry goods and clothing trades surpass last year’s, and the shoe trade as well, though lately less active. ■ The weather crop bulletin for last Month, says: The month of October lias been slightly cooler than usual throughout the district east of the Mississippi, although during the first half of the month the average daily temperature over this region ranged from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above the normal. The month was warmer than usual in the extreme Northwest and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. During the month of October Dher* was more rain than usual Throughout the Northern States from the Atlanticcoast westward to the Missouri Valley. Excessive rains occurred generally throughout North Dakota and Montana and oxer the greater portion of Minnesota.. The weather has been especially favorable for farm work throughout the winter and spring wheat regions, and the general increase es moisture throughout these sections has placed the ground in excel lent condition, and the winter wheat crop generally presents a fine, healthy appearance, with an acreage equal to if not.’greater than that of the previous 'ear. .

MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primo ? 3.25 @ 5.50 HoG'*- Shipping Grades 3.75 @ 4.50 Sheep..’....' s 3.00 & 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed l.ul @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2 .53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 42)4® .43V. Rtf. -No. 2 66)4®. .67 >i Rotter—Choice Creamery 23 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08 (& .(.9 Egos—Fresh .12 @ .20 Potatoes —Western, per bu .58 al .75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @4.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.00 @l.Ol Corn—No. 1 White .53 @ .53)4 Oats—No. 2 White .40 @ .47 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 400 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 90 & 1.00 Corn—No. 2 51 & .52 Oats—No. 2 44)4® .45}4 Eye—No. 2 64 @ .65 CINCINNATI. . Cattle .r.... 2.00 @ 4.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 @l.Ol Corn—No. 2 ~ .55 & .56 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 46L>@ .17}J MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 5pring........,..; @ .98 Corn—No. 2 .54 ® .54'4 Oats- No. 2 White .47Ji@ .48 ,> Barley—No. 2..- .72 @ .73. Rye—No. 1 (15 .70 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.25 Hogs ...i.............-. 3.00 @ 3.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat -“No. 2 Red 1.01 & 1.02 Corn-Ne. 2 Yellow .55 @ Oats—No. 2 White .... 48 @ .48'4 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.01 @1.02 Corn-Caeh .-; 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 White 47?a@ .48)4 BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs—Medium and Heavy 3.50 <tJ 4.50 Wheat-No. 1 Hard... 1. Corn—No. 2 .57J4@ .58.'g EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 4.75 Hoes—Light 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep—Medium to Good., 4.25 @5.25 Lambs P 5.50 @6.00 NEW YORK. CATTLE.. 3.50 @4.75 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.50 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @ 1.10 Cork—No. 2 60 @ .61 Oats—Mixed Western..47 & J»l k

UNCLE SAM’S CHILDREN. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF THEM IS NOW 62,480,54-0. At Least Those Are the Figures Given Ont by the Census Bureau as the Total Population of the United States—Growth of the Western States—Some Comparisons. [Washington dispatch.] Bulletin No. 12 on the population of the United States has been issued by the Census Office. It says: The population of the United States June 1, 1890, as shown by the first count of persons and families, exclusive of white persons in Indian Territory, Indians on reservations, and Alaska, was 62,480,540. These figures may be slightly changed by later and more exact compilations, but such changes will not be material. In 1880 the population was 50,155,783. The absolute increase of the population in the ten years intervening was 12,324,757 and the percentage of increase was 24.57. In 1870 the population was stated as 38,558,371. According to these figures the absolute increase in the decade detween 1870 and 1880 was 11,597,412 and the percentage of increase was 30.08. Upon their face these figures show that the population has increased between 1880 and 1890 only 727,345 more than between 1870 and 1880, while the rate of increase has apparently diminished from .30.08 to 24.57 per cent. If these figures were derived from correct data, they would be indeed disappointing. Such a reduction in the rate, of increase in the face of. the enormous immigration during the last ten years would argue a great diminution in the fecundity of the population or a corresponding increase in its-death rate. These figures are, however, easily explained when the character of the data used is understood. It is well known, the fact having been demonstrated, by extensive and thorough investigation, that, the census of 1870 was grossly deficient in the Southern States, so much so as not only to give an exaggerated rate of increase of the population between 1870 and 1880 in these States but to affect very materially the rate of increase in the country at large. These omissions: were not the fault nor were they within the control of the Census Office. The censiis of 1870 was taken under a law which the Superintendent, Gen. Francis A. Walker, characterized as “clumsy, antiquated, and barbarous.” The Census Office had no poxver over its enumerators save a barren protest, and its right was even questioned in somte quarters. o Some of Superintendent Porter's comments on the conditions governing the spread of population are interesting, particularly as regards the Western States. In Ohio, Indiana, lowa, and Missouri, and in Illinois, if the city of Chicago be dropped from consideration, the rate of increase has. Reclined decidedly. In Ohio it has fallen from 20 to 15 percent.: in Indiana, from 18 to 11; in lowa, from 36 to 17; in Missouri, from 26 to 23 per cent., in spite of the rapid growth of St. Louis and Kansas City; and in Illinois, dropping Chicago from consideration, from 14.9 to 5.6 per cent. In those States the agricultural industry. which is still the prominent one, has begun to decline, owing to the sharp competition of Western farms. The farming population has migrated westward, and the growth of manufactures is not yet sufficiently rapid to repair these losses. The southern portions of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are under similar conditions, but the northern parts of these States, lying upon the frontier of settlement, have filled up with sufficient rapidity to repair either wholly or in part the losses of the southern parts. Michigan increased at the rate of 38 per cent, between 1870 and 1880, while between 1880 and 1890 the rate was but 28 per cent. The increase between 1880 and 1890 was cut into unequal parts by the State census taken in 1884. In the first four years of the decade the increase was 13.2 per cent., while in the last six it was 12.7 per cent. In Wisconsin the last decade shows an increase of> 28 per cent., as against an increase of 25 per cent, in the decade between 1870 and 1880. The State census of Wisconsin, taken in 1885, cuts the decade into two equal parts, and shows an increase in tho first lialf of 18.8 per cent., and during the second half of but 7.7 per cent. Minnesota increased 78 per cent, between 1870 and 1880 and 67 per cent, between 1880 and 1890, the numerical increase being over half a million in the last decade. The State census, taken in 1885, shows that the bulk of this increase occurred between 188 ) and 1885. The numerical increase during the first years was 337,025, and the rate of increase 43 per cent., while during the last half of the decade the numerical increase was 182,219 and the rate of increase 16.3 poteen t.

During the last ten years the population of Dakota, considering the two States of North Dakota and South Dakota, together, has increased from 135,177 to 510,273, or 277 percent.; Nebraska from 452,402 to 1,056,793, or 134 per cent.; and Kansas from 996,090 to 1,423,485. or 43 per cent. This increase has not, however, continued uniformly throughout the decade. . In 1885 Dakota contained 415.610 inhabitants, or more than four-fifths of its present population. Nebraska contained 740,615 inhabitants in the same year, thus dividing the numerical increase quite equally between the two halves of the decade, but leaving the greater percentage in the first half. In the same year Kansas by its State census had 1,268,530 inhabitants, showing that nearly two-thirds of the numerical gain was acquired during the first halt of the decade. The Industries of these States are almost purely agricultural, and are dependent upon the supply of moisture, either in the form of rain or by irrigation? Through these States passes what is known as the subhumid belt, a strip of country several degrees in width, in which during rainy years there is an abundance of moisture for the needs of crops, while in the years when the rainfall is below the average the supply is deficient. In this region little provision has been made?, for artificial irrigation, the settlers having thus far been content to depend upon rainfall. Into this region the settlers flocked in large numbers in the early years of the decade, drawn thither by the fertility of the land and by the fact that for a few years the rainfall had been sufficient for the needs of agriculture. During the last two or three years, however, the conditions of rainfall have materially changed. It has fallen decidedly below the normal, and settlers have thereby been forced to emigrate. Thousands of families have abandoned this region and gone to Oklahoma and the Rocky Mountain region. This migration is well shown in the progress of Kansas, as indicated by its annual censuses. These censuses show a rapid increase in population from 1880 up to 1887; 1888 shows but a slight increase over 1887, while 1889 shows a reduction in the population, leading c.p to the further reduction shown by the Federal census in 1890. Throughout the and Southern Central States the rate of increase has diminished, and in most of these States it has diminished materially. A certain reduction in the percentage of increase, especially in the eastern part of this region, was to be expected, due not only to the operation of general laws but also to the fact that there has been considerable emigration from the States east of the Mississippi River to the westward and but little immigration. Taken together,however, these two causes by no means account for the reduction in the rate of increase in these States. The real cause is to be found, it is stated, fn the imperfections of the census of 1870. These imperfections resulted in giving a comparatively low rate of in-

crease between 1860 and 1870 and an exaggerated increase between 1870 and 1880. Arkansas has continued to grow at a rapid rate, having increased 40 per cent, in the last ten years. Texas also has increased with great rapidity, the numerical increase of its population being 640,471, or over 40 per cent. In the far Western section the conditions of growth have been varied. In the earlier years of the decade the discovery of valuable silver and copper mines in the mountains of Montana in the neighborhood of Butte drew to that State a large immigration, which is engaged not only in mining but in developing the rich agricultural resources. Wyoming has continued to grow with accelerated rapidity. The census of Colorado in 1880 was taken on the top wave of a mining excitement, Which had filled its mountains with miners, prospectors, and speculators, increasing its population enormously, especially in the mountainous country. The census of the State taken in 1885 was, on a superficial view, surprising. It showed that most of the mining counties bad lost population during the five years preceding. This loss was, however, more than made up by the growth of its cities and its agricultural counties. The census of 1890 shows still further reduction of population in the mining regions of the State and an extraordinary development of its urban population and its floating element. New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah show rates of increase which are small when the sparsely settled condition of these territories is considered: while Nevada shows an absolute diminution of population of 17,939, or nearly 29 per cent, leaving it the smallest of all the States. TERRIBLE CRASH AT SEA. Nearly One Hundred Lives Lost in a Collision. An unknown schooner, apparently bound east, with a load of coal, ran down the Spanish steamship Vizcaya, outward bound from New York, and cut it half in two amidships. Within ten minutes botli vessels had sunk in twelve fathoms of water, their masts showing above it. Os tho ninety-seven persons on board the steamer nearly all went down with the hull. Some thirty clung to the railing, and a few of the schooner's crew, with three of the crew of the steamer, found clinging space in the upper rigging of the latter. As the night advanced, the cold and consequent exhaustion claimed the weaker ones, and tljey dropped into the water one by one, 1 and were drowned. Only twelve —four officers and eight seamen—were still in the rigging at daylight, when the tramp- steamer Humbolt rescued the survivors by means of its boats. This terrible disaster occurred within eight miles of the New Jersey coast at Barnegat. Sixteen passengers, a steamship crew of sixty-five, and a schooner crew of probably sixteen, the usual number—ninety-seven in all — certainly perished. Among the passengers who were lost was Signor Juan Pedro, a millionaire of HavSfta, who was the chief owner of the Compania Transatlantic Espanola, who was on his way home after a summer spent in Paris. He took this steamer because it was esteemed one of the finest and safest in the line. The surviving officers claim that the schooner had no lights out. She was fairly on top of the steamer before She was seen, though the night was clear. Capt. Cuniil was at his post of duty on the bridge, and was instantly killed by the bowsprit of the schooner.

Thought to Be Sharp. Whenever a woman loves a man she hates a woman.— Atchison Globe. The ballet-girl doesn't kick at what she is paid, but for what she is paid.—Boston Courier. • “Be flirtuous and you will be happy,” as the young lady remarked to her friend. —Laurence American. .There’s a time for everything. Taking off your boots after you get in bed indicates a high old time.— Binghamton Leader. Mrs. Staggers—We are to have deaf mother for dinner, James! M 5, Staggers—All right; see that she is thoroughly cooked.— Pick-Me- Up, Mrs. Fangle—Here's an account of an African race of which the adults grow no taller than four feet. Fangle— You might almost call that a pony race. —Drake’s Magazine. Giles—How is it you didn’t send that borrowed money you promised, when you knew that I was sick? De Jinks— Yoir see, I hbard you were likely to die. —Munsey's Weekly. ' r No excuse Can be offered for the Baltimore man who has been arrested for hugging a minister’s wife. Even the plea that he was merely embracing religion won’t go.— Philadelphia, Press. In the restaurant: “Waiter, these eggs are very old and very unpleasant. Call the landlord.” “But I assure you, sir, you will find him very much more unpleasant. ” — Fliegcnde Blaetter. Mrs. Blossom (to her husband, who has come home with a black eye)— That’s what you get for riding a bicycle. Mr. Blossom (mournfully)—No, my dear; it’s what I get for not being able to ride one.— Epoch. She Was Thoroughly Prepared. A woman opened a front door, and, addressing a soiled man who, down on all fours, was seemingly looking for something, said: “What are you doing there?” “Madam,” he said, straightening up, “please be so generous as to pardon this apparent intrusion. My little girl and I were coming along here just now, and the child, in her gay frolicsomeness, ran across your green sward, but in her glad forgetfulness dropped a silver dollar that had been given her by one of the handsomest and noblest of women. We were on our way to get a doll for my other little girl that is sick in bed, and it would have done your heart good to have seen the happiness of the little would-be purchaser —but she lost the money, and now, almost heart-broken, she has gone home to tell her mother of the great calamity !” “That was indeed too bad,” said the woman. “Yes, madam, and if I could only hope—have you any little children, madam ?” „ “Yes.” “Then you know what disappointment means to a child. If I only knew where I could borrow a dollar how inexpressibly happy I should be. Madam, could you let me have a dollar ?” “No, not this morning.” “Well, could you let die have fifty cents now, and give me the other half this afternoon ?” “No, I can’t do that, either.” “Well, madam, may I ask you what you are prepared to do ? ’ “I am prepared to tell you to move on away or I’ll send for a policeman.” “You are thoroughly prepared for this, are you ?” “I am,” “All right. I shall bid you goodmorning. It is one of my business rules never to tamper with any one that ia thoroughly prepared. ’’-Pioneer-Press. White pine boards are now made by reducing small trees and limbs to pulp and pressing in molds.

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