Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1891 — Page 6

JJcmaurat deoaturTind. M. BLACKBURN, -—■ - Pitht.thtttw, A BUSY WEEK’S RECORD A HUGE ROCK FALLS AGAINST A TRAIN OF CARS. American Thieves Make a Good Haul iu Loudon—Another Mine Horror—Quay’s “ Denial—Peacemaker Killed. MOKE MINERS Lose Their Elves in a Pennsylvania Death Trap. v Scoitwood (Pa.) specif: The Moyer mine. Owned by VV. J. Rainey, is on fire, i> The fire was kindled by a minor accidentally dropping a ifiiked lain# at the bottom of the shaft, which 200 feet deep. The lamp exploded, igniting the accumulated mine gas, which exploded with a terrific report and scattered the flame in every direction. The mine ma- » chinery and workings caught fire and the large fan used for ventilating the mine was totally destroyed, and the interior of s the mine seems to be one mass of furious „ flame. A large number of men are at work turning water courses into. the. mine. Meutz creek has been turned from its eourso into the mine shaft and is pouring a.largp quantity of waler into the seething abyss. The Moyer coke plant, one of the largest in the region, employed 500 men. The men at this point have refused to join the ranks ot the strikers, and the works were running full. Fifty' miners were at work at the. time of the explosion. All escaped except four who are missing. Crashed Into a Car. » Pittsburgh special: As the Washington and Pittsburgh express, on the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, familiarly known as the “Pan Handle,” was nearing this city, a huge rock, loosened from the hillside by the heavy rains, fell from the bluff known as “the Duquesne hill,” and crashed into the side of the third coach frimi the engine with frightful velocity, 'riu* train was rushing at a speed, of about ten miles an hour,but was brought to a sudden standstill when struck by the hugh boulder. Miss Clara Fleming, aged 18, residing at Washington, Pa,, a student at Duff’s college, this ■ city, was sitting at the window where the rock crashed into the car, and was instantly killed, her head being terribly mangled: y Quay’s JL>eiual. Senator Quay made a statement in the Senate denying rous charges that have been recently circulated about him. Aftej - naming the different <diarges ; of importance Mr. Quay concluded as follows; •‘1 have endeavored to answer every spceifilTchargo of misfeasance or malfeasance that could be extracted from careful perusal of the mass of direct falsehoods, confused statements, innuendo, insinuation, and cunning implications. that with an industry worthy of a better cause, has. been presented for my’ destruction. I deny them seviatim and in tote. They are false and foul to the core.” - - Peacemaker Killed. Abe Neal gave a dance ,Kt Madison, lud.,where beer and blood flowed freely. Wing Stewart and Reed Potter, notorious characters, put in an appearance and soon raised a row, the two attacking John Alberts. Neal demanded order, and finally drew a shotgun and fired at Potter. Missing him, the load of shot struck Orrell Seling. a young man of”?., who was trying to quiet the riot, producing a horrible wound in the abdomen, lacerating the intestines for five indie*. Recovery is impossible. Neal gave himself up, and is in jail awaiting the result of Seling’s injuries. Very Slick Thieves. London special: A clerk named McKenzie. .a youth about seventeen years of age. was adroitly robbed of a satchel containing 11,590 pounds in the Bank lof England notes, of denominations ranging from 1,000 pounds downward. The thieves were of gOutecl appearance, in fact rather dudish, and viie police believe that they are expert American criminals, who have been watching young McKenzie, They got away with the money. Fatal Accidental Shooting. z While Martin Frey and friend: S. A. June, wete cleaning a revolver, at Kalamazoo, Mich.. it was discharged, the ball striking .Mrs Frey over the heart, killing her instantly. . June, who lives near Batrie- Creek, was h guest of Frey’s, and . w Idle thepjiushand says the shooting was accidetiiTn,he is under arrest toawaitthe action of the coroner’s jury. VnconMit i.tional. The spceial House committee of the liniiaim Legislature, to which was re- • ferrod the fee ami salary bill, will report it um-on*titqtioiial and recommend the entire r< i oustrnction of the bill so as to mime each" comity and sepera.tply the' salary of each office in every county. The Van Wert Case. Alter being' out thirty-sis; hours the jury ha* found 11. Rodehouse. the Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw tireman. who killed his engineer in thecab bfthe engine last July, guilty of assault and battery. This ends the most notable criminal <a sc ever tried in the courts of Van Wer T .County, Ohio. Foiiiiit Dead tu a Hay-Mow. John Ludlow, aged 55 years, a wellknown carpenter and contractor >f Muncie. Indi" was found dead in -the hay-mo" of Lane «t Lllery’s barn. Ludlow was finely educted and at ofie time quite wealthy, but lost his money by strong drink. He leaves a destitute family.’ A Senator in Mouth Dakota. The South Dakota Legislature has oioeted J".‘ 11. Kyle (independent) United States Senator by a vote of 75 against 55 .for StvriifrSK Kiot Between Soldiers and Butchers. Advices by mail report a riot in Santa J'i-ffz betwemi the soldiery and butchers employed in the slaughter houses. The soldiers* used rilles and- the butchers their knives. Asa consequence twelve or t-hirteeu men were killed and a scoce more wounded. Git>Kf»n liulictefl. Leorge IL Gibson, Secretary of tlm Whisky Trust, has been indicted by the grand jury at Chicago, for purchasing smkl dispo-iug of explosives with the intention that they should be used for the destruction of the Shufeldt distillery. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Ar Dover. Del., Jesse H. Proctor and Frederick Young were hanged for murder. At Ayer. Mass., the First National Rank and the North Middlesex Savings Rank closed their doors, and ugly rumors are afloat concerning them. H. E. Spaulding, cashier of both institutions, is missing, and where he has gone no one there knows. The exact financial condition of the. banks is not known. The officers and directors are very reticent, and nothing definite can be obtained

other than that they consider that the banks are perfectly solvent, and that not a dolllar or a bond on deposit has been disturbed. The books will be examined at once. News is received of the death in Nashua, N. H., of Samuel Morey, who came into prominence during the Gar-field-Hancock campaign of 1880. He was arrested in connection with the famous “More’y Chinese Letter. 1 * At Scottdale, Pa., 6CO employes of W. J. Rainey quit work at the Pauli and Fort Hill works and joined the strikers. Deputy Sheriffs and Pinkerton guards are protecting Rainey's works from threatened raids. • ’ At Pittsburg, Pa , the Thomson-Hous-ton and Westinghouse Electric Company have combined. This will no doubt serve to withdraw the numerous suits throughout the country over alleged infringements. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, after a bravo struggle for life, is dead. He passed peacefully and painlessly away in the presence of his family and a few close friends.. The change which marked the approach of the end was so slight that at first even the physicians failed to grasp its meaning. The General was unconscious for some time before death. He did not suffer any pain. ! His respirations grew weaker until they i ceased entirely. The end came so easily ' that for a mojnent it was not possible to 1 realize thay / hty was dead. Dispatches were sent by Secretary Barrett to President Ilarrisdjn, General Schofield, Secretary Procter, Mrs Senator Sherman, and otheterelatives. In compliance with a previously expressed by the General his remains will be interred in St Louis. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Jacob Freundlich and his team were : drowned in sight of too people in the j Ohio River at Evansville, Ind. A natukaY. gas explosion occurred at ‘ the corner of Salisbury and Columbia , streets, in West Lafayette. Ind. James Jenners ifrose to sec what the time was, anS, striking a match, there was a terrific explosion, followed by a second one. completely wrecking the building and severely if not fatally injuring its occupants. It was a large double house, and both sides were completely demolished- | The debris eaught tire and a large dwell- I ing adjoining was’a|so consumed. At Poplar Bluff, * Mo., Mr* Matthew ' Vafiftover, whose husband was killed while sleeping by her side, went before.: a justice and made confession under oath ! that a man named Marion Long shot her husband and that it was a plot between- ■ them. After the murder Long went to j Bloomfield, Mo., where he was arrested. : In the Omaha. Neff- jail, physicians : forced food down thewttfprgjt of H. M. | Rodgers, who tried to fteinmit suicide ' last week, after confessing i>o complicity , in a Pennsylvania mnrden ? He fought j the doctors with all his but a • quart of milk was him. At Evansville, Ind,. totally* ruined the stocks.of M UZgerlicder. trunks, and Evans Verwfiyne. dry goods. The loss will be S4o.ooWcovered partially by insurance. Eleven persons are lying at their homes In North St. Louis, Mo, in a precarious condition from the effects of eating some poisoned cheese. o' ” At Clifton. A. T., Judge AV. R. McCormick killed himself for some unknown cause. He was well known on the Pacific coast. Chari.es Ritter, paying teller of the First National Bank of Evansville, Ind., is a defaulter in a large sum. The discovery was made during Mr. Ritter’s confinement at home by recent sickness. A>fiaying teller he had access to the money of the bank, and his irregularities were covered up by a most ingenious i system of false entries which almost defied investigation. The exact amount of the shortage is not known, the. examination of his books being still in progress, i but the shortage thus far is in excess of I his bond? which is $25,000. The cause of his downfall is believed to be his.ambition to make money. He is the head of the Sjhmidt music house at Evansville. and has established branch concerns of the same. Those houses have been badly managed, and have been a continual drain upon him. A DEAti boiK- found at Shiloh, Ohio, was identified as that of William Genee, who lived at Cleveland. Ilow he met his death remains a mystery. A postmortem was held, but no evidence of foul play was discovered. Mrs. Lairh of Winona, Minn., com- ! mitb'd suicide by taking hydrate of ! chloral. No reason for the act is known. ' The Northwestern Elevator Company, | of Minneapolis, has offered a reward of | ss(>o for the capture and conviction of I the murderer of J. B. Flett, their agent : at Arthur, N. I)., and the other elevator ' companies have added ssoo to thisamount. Governor Burke; of North Dakota, lias also offered SSOO reward, making a total of 51.500. which will he paid on the capture and conviction of the murderer. At Omaha. Neb., a gang ot ice i-tftters became involved in dispute concerning I wages and began fighting Tom Wai- I hue was stabbed through the heart with a butcher knife. Dick Cnshing.and Tom ■ received numerous stabs, andr are in a critical condition A number received injuries. A squad of police prevented further casualties. The Empire Cordage Cofnpany, of Champaign, 111., claim to havesubstantially solved the binder-twine question. One of the members of the cordage company said: “We are prepared now to manufacture all the twine for which we can obtain material. We use nothing but American hejnp- ” SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Pineville, Ky., Judge Wilson Lew- | is. of Harlan County, the man who made himself fanfous as the leader of the Law and Order League which waged such a bitter warfare against Wils Howard and his infamous gang, was murdered by his Son, Sidney Lewis. The son was a member of the latter gang and had made frequent threats against his father’s life. The Judge, fearing that his son would carry out his threats, had him put, under bond to keep the peace. This incensed the son. who went to his father's home. A wordy quarrel 'ensued, when the son pulled a revolver and put five bullets into body, killing him instantly. Near Elkhorn, VV. Va.. thb body of James Wilson Was found with seven bullet holes in the. body and two knlfe•cuts. A gold watch. $75 and a revolver were missing. Jay <lout.ii was taken suddenly ill at St. Augustine, Fla., and by advice of physicians started for New York in his private car. The nature and extent of his illness is not known, as the. party left St. Augustine on a special train at ten minutes’ notice. th£ nation alTcapitau , Admiral David D. Porter, who has been in failing health for some time, died suddenly at Washington. All of the members of the family were at home ' at the time of his death. The death of

11 Admiral Porter has been so long expect- ; ed that it caused no litt'e excitement, i The Admiral had for several months ■ i been practically dead to the world. He had not left his room since he entered it i in October, on his return from his sumi mer home at Newport. His death finally 1 > came from the result of a combination ‘ 1 of causes, not the least of which was his ; advanced age. The Admiral s death will [ result in no naval changes. Though I' nominally on the “active list,” he has 1 been in practibal retirement for a great ; many years. - . POLITICAL PORRIDGE. ■ * The NortlyOakota Senate considered i the eoncurreht resolution of the House ; on the resubmission of prohibition, and i concurred in it—yeas 14, nays 15. Rei submission was carried by the votes of | those west slope members who had been 1 instructed against it. To pay them i back a resolution was carried through—i 20 to B—in favor of capital removal, INDUSTRIAL NOTES. ’ At Kearney, N. J., riot and bloodshed j. occurred at Clark’s thread mill. When j the non-union spinners quit work they j were carried over the river from the I Newark side in a launch, and when they ' landed on the Kearney side they were ; met by a throng of 2,000 persons, men, ' women and children, hoodlums predom- ' inating. Special officers were stoned, and scarcely a whole pane of glass is left in the mammoth factory. Several persons were injured, but none killed. Grave troubliCis feared. FOREIGN GOSSIP. From Go§, India, comes a report that miracles? have been performed at the tomb in the cathedral at Goa. where the body of St. Francis Xavier was recently j exposed to public view, after being buried ! for three centuries and a half. Persons ! who kissed or touched the remains claim I to have recovered from various disori ders. Advices per steamship China, which arrived from Hong Kong and Yokohama, are to the effect that, fire broke out in the center of the two houses of the Japanese Diet, and after destroying the House of Representatives spread to ! the House of Peers, which also burned j to the ground. i The police have arrested another man ' in Whitechapel on suspicion of being the murderer of the woman variously known as “Frances,” “Frances Colemanj” and ■ “Carrotty NelkX. When arrested blood : was found upon the clothing of the 1 suspect. j With regara to the probabilities of I the next general election in Ireland, j the Parnellitc faction asserts that it will win sixty out of the eighty-six ! home-rule seats, giving the members of ‘ the old party eighteen, and the UnionI ists eight. I Advice* from Spain say that much excitement prevails in the cities and larger towns, and that the garrisons in Madrid and Barcelona have been increased. Rumors are afloat of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government and establish a republic. France has formally accepted the invitation of the Government of the United States to be rt presented at the World's Fair to be held in Chicago. FRESH AND NEWSY. R. G. Dun & Co.’s. weekly revjdw of trade says: There is some improvement In business at I the East and a more confident feeling, and at Chicago the tone is very hopeful, but at most Os the other Western and nearly all Southern poin>ts business snows no increase in volume and is rather hesitating. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number | 297 as compared with a total of 306 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 302. At Omaha, Neb., a Union Pacific enj giue jumped the track and overturned. I Jacob Jensen, engineer, and William Martin and William Hayes, switchmen, were terribly injured At Ingleside, a station on the Wabash Road, seven and a half miles northwest of St. Louis, a collision occurred between a Wabash and a St. Louis. Keokuk and Northwestern freight. Poth engines were badly wrecked. Brakemen W. M. Bush and Keefer, of the Northwestern train, were killed. Conductor John Broderick and Fireman John Conley, of the Wabash, were seriously injured. James Story, of Parsons, Kan., has just received letters patent from Wash- ! ington for his invention of an artificial I egg. The inventor says that he can ■ make one carload per day, at a cost of 3 i cents per dozen with machinery that I will cost only sso(i. I Near the village of St. Albert. Ont., ! a family named La France lived in a ; small house. During the night the • house took tire. Mrs. La France and the two children were burned to death. At New York Messrs. Flint & Co. received the following cablegram from Chili: “Pizagtta bombarded and burning; blockade ceased at Valparaiso.” Mrs. White, now a resident of Kan- ! sasCity, Kan., receives $25.0(i(>,(>00 by the ■ will of her uncle, William Daw, of New York. She has been very poor for somo time, though at one time she worth $75,000. MARKET REPORTS. - CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes 3.25 i? 5.75 Hogs—shipping Grades 3.00 (u-3.75 Sheet 3.00 <rf 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red .98 k <£ .99 Corn—No. 2 .51 Oats—No. 2 .O.’s Rte—No. 2 .79 <ji. .81 Butter-Choice Creamery...... .24 (U .27 Chesse—Full Cream, flats .11 Egos—Fresh .18i 2 ;«i .19 Potatoes—Western, per hu92 wft .97 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs—Chbiee Light 3.o<i (st 175 .Shkkp—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 98 .98’4 1 Corn—No. 1 White 52 .5214 Oats—No. 2 White 46'o<a» .47S> ST. LOVIS. Cattle 4.00 5.25 Hogs 3.00 <St 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96! 2 i<? .97U Cobn—No. 2 19 if .51 . Oats—No. 2..... i .45k>«4 .46'5 Babley—Minnesota...,/.73 & .74 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 & 4.75 Hogs 3.00 4.00 SHEEP-. 3.00 6.5 Q Wheat—No. 2 Red .99 (« 1.01 Cobn— No. 253 .54 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .48 .49 DETROIT. Cattle. 3.00 ® 4.50 Hogs 3.00 <p'. 8.50 Sheep 3.00 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 1.01 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 53t..<al .5414 Oat*—No. 2 White 4S' 3 $ .49 TOLEDO. Wheat... 1.0>» (®» 1.01 Corn—Cash 53V>®t .5414 Oats—No. 2 White 46’«,(<4 .47 l a Clover Seed 4.50 @ 4.55 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 5.00 Hogs—Light. 2.25 4.00 Sheep—Medium to Good 4.00 5.50 Lambs 4.00 @ 6.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 94 <<>: .95 Corn—No. 349 .51 Oats-No, 2 White 46 « .47 Bye—No. 180 & .81 Barley—No. 2..66 .67 Pork—Mess 9.50 <«>l'>.oo NEW YORK. Cattle .". <-00 5.50 Hogs. 3.25 4.00 Sheep *.OO (fl; 5.75 Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.12 (it; 1.14 Cobn—N«. 2 .a>f4 Oats—Mixed Western.... .51 yii .54 Butter—Creamery....'. .17 @ .58 Eggs—Westernlß (<i) .19 Pore— New Mess MJJe iftU.2s

FROM LAKE TO RIVER. THE BUSY HOOSIER IS MAKING A WEEK’S HISTORY. Discovery of a Cave in Harrison CountyDrowned With His Team—Died of Hydrophobia—Sudden Deaths. —Population of In/fiana, 2,192,404. New Castle has nine churehes and a Salvation Army. Montgomery County country schools closed for measles. —A canning factory will be located at Tipton at an early day. —Martin Heaton, Walesboro, fined 533 for dynamiting White Biver fish. j —Sam Peck, Evansville, bad man, locked up for fighting bis mother-in-law. —Crown Point is mail at Hammond cause it wants to be county seat of Lake. —A four-foot vein of coal, at a depth of forty feet, has been struck at Greenwood. —Christian H. Stein has , been appointed Clerk of the State Board of Printing. —C. J. Griggs, of Covington, aged 57. and tired of life, sent a bullet through his brain. —There is a child at’ Waynetown, who is two weeks old and weighs only one and a half pounds. —W. W. Smiley, Thorntown, has a silver dollar, issue of 1795; for which he refused S4OO. —Alonzo Goff, residing near LaPorte, stepped off a moving train and was fatally injured. —George Jetter, a wealthy farmer near Hortonville, was killed in a railway accident in Texas. —The making of the transcript in the W. F. Pettit murder case, at Crawfordsville. cost $748.50. —-Alfred Mabury, the Clay County hermit, who has lived twenty years in the woods, is dead. —Elizabeth Mullen, of New Albany, aged 72. walked out of a second-story window and was killed. —Five persons were seriously burned by a natural-gas explosion at Lafayette. Three have since died. „ —Charles E. Morris, of Utica, stumbled over a chair ami broke several ribs while walking in his sleep. —Oliver O'Neal, of Greencastle, was sent to prison for two years for attempting to murder his step-child. —Charles Gaylor. Knightstown, sues the Panhandle for $20,000; injuried in their employ last September. —-Plans are being made for sixteen business blocks to be constructed in Kokomo the coming summer. —South Bend’s Humane Society is on the search for men who whip their wives and make them start the morning fires. —Mrs. James Wallace, of Kokomo, was struck in the stomach by a stone throw n by an unknown hand, and fatally injured. —Prof. W. W. Borden, New Albany, collector of relics, has a powder horn used by William Pettit, Indian fighter, in 1808. j —Kokomo polite are making it hot sos the gamblers. The Mayor has proclaimed war,'and the officers are raiding the dens right ami left. —Mrs. Nancy Douthit, of Hobbs, was, found dead in bed. due to heart disease., She was aged 76, and one of the pioneers of Tipton County. —John Frawley, the alleged leader o? the mob that tried to-lyneh George Bennet at Lafayette, has been indicted for Riotous conspiracy. —William L. Moore, of Martinsville, sold eighteen stall-fed cattle for the European market for which he received $1,400. The cattle averaged 1,555 —(Jwiug to a case of hydrophobia the Mayor of Franklin has> issued an order to the City Marshal to kill all dogs running at large unmuzzled within the next thirty days. —Mrs. Lizzie Wilson, Muncie, put a big turkey under a tub two days before Christmas: never thought of it again till the other day: found it alive after fortyfive days’ fast. —Edward Kirkwood, while returning from Carbon to Perth, was assailed by two highwaymen, whom he succeeded iu driving off after a desperate fight. He was seriously injured. —Edward W. Jackson hanged himself in his barn, at his home near Lawrenceburg. A recent decision of the Supreme Court hyd invalidated his title to his farm, and brooding over this trouble, caused his suicide. He was formerly a member of the Legislature. —While Napuin Pedlar, of Rosedale, employed fly the Park County Coal Company, was engaged in dropping loaded ears from the dumps his loot caught and ho was drugged some distance and crushed to death. He was a man of family and prominent in Methodist Church and Pythian fjodge circles. —Henrj Humphrey, a coal miner, nehr New Goshen, died from hydrophobia. He was bitten in the lip six weeks ago by a tramp dog that was fighting with his dog. The Terre Haute 'madstone was applied, but would not adhere. Humphrey’s dog was killed, but the tramp got away. Humphrey was taken ill and the disease developed into unmistakable hydrophobia. He lea\ s a widow and’ two ■children. —John Miller, a young mail residing near a desperate fight with a burglar in his mother's house, and finally drove him awajj. —A Green County girl is going to be sued for breach of promise by an “unknown correspondent” whpm she promised to marry and then wouldn’t. —James B. Thompson, a prominent young man of Waldron, on his return from a ball, fell through a cow-pit and broke his jaw and received dangerous injuries. y 4 of M. Harbin, near Cementville, found the corpse of a babe concealed in a thicket. Robert Livingston has been arrested, charged with complicity in the, crime. —-At Mjfldle.burg Jphn Kurtz dropped a loaded rille, and in falling the weapon struck an anvil and was discharged. The bullet struck Chauncey Shroek in the stomach, inflicting a fatal wound. —Eight of the eleven members of the Gosport** High School graduating class have been expelled. Recently the class went boating without permission of Prof. Hubbard, and tills led to the trouble.

GENERAL SHERMAN. HIS MARCH TO THE SEA OF ETERNITY. Surrounded by His Family He PMaea Away—•‘Like a Babe 1 ailing; Asleep,” He Answers the Summons of the Dread Mesaencer. Gen. William T. Sherman has breathed his last. The end came peacefully and quietly at 1:50 Saturday afternoon, at his residence in New Ycrk City, while the General lay unconscious, surrounded by all the members of his family except Thomas Ewing Sherman, who is now on the ocean on his way to this < o intry. There was just a slight quiver of the muscles of the face, the soldier ceased to breath, and all was over. Although all hope had been abandoned tor hours, the shock was great to the mourning friends who were at the bedside, and for many minutes no one left the room. They hung over the deathbed, weeping and gazing on the stilled face so dear to them.

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Then young Thomas Ewing left the house and his appearance, evqn before he spoke a word, was the signal to those who waited without that all was over. He hastened to the telegraph office around the corner, but the reporter/ were before him,, and before he had reached it the news of the General’s death was spreading far and wide over the wires throughout the country. Shortly after Secretary Barrett reached the telegraph office and sent messages announcing the General's death to President Harrison. Secretary of State Blaine, Secretary of War Pr'wtor. Mrs. Rusk, and many others. He could not restrain his tears. “He died like a babe falling asleep,” he said. “There was no suffering. no pain. After 10 o'clock he lay motionless, and but the very slightest respiration showed that life still existed. Dr. Alexander was by his bedside along w ith the members of the family. Before noontime all had agreed that death was only a question of minutes. The arrangements of the funeral.” concluded Mr. Barrett, “are in charge of Henry W. Slocum. The interment will probably be made in Calvary cemetery, St. Louis, where bis wife and other members of the family are interred.” The following is a brief history of his military caieer: William T. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, February 8, 1829. He was the sixth child, and was adopted by Thomas Ewing, and attended school in Lancaster until 1836, when hb entered the Military Academy at West Poiqt. He graduated with the class of 1840, and was appointed Second lieutenant of the Third Artillery, July 1, 1840; served in Florida war, 18 UI-42; promoted First Lieutenant Nov. 30, 1841; on duty in various Southern States .qnd in Pennsylvania 1842-46; on breaking Ajut of the war with Mexico applied for duty in ,<tlie field, was assigned to Co. F, 3rd Artillery, ’ then under orders for California; Aid-de-camp to Brigadier-General S. W. Kearney, Military Governor of California, and A A. G. on the staffs at Col. R. B, Mason and Brigadier-Gen-eral P. F. Smith, 1847-49; breveted Captain, May 30, 1848. for gallant and meritorious service in California during the war with Mexico; bearer of dispatches from General Smith to the Wai’ Department, and after six months’ leave of absence joined Company C, Third Artillery, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; appointed Captian A. C. ?.. September 27, 1850; stationed at St. Louis. Mo., and New Orleans. La.. 18)0-52; resigned from the army to enter ui>on civil pursuits ; resignation accepted, to take effect S°pteihber 6, 1853. 9 He engaged in banking in San Francisco a short time, and afterward was superintendent of the Military Aecademy at Alexandria, La. On breakingout of the War of the Rebellion he offered his services to the Government, and was appointed Colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry May 14, 1861; commanded a brigade in the first battle of Bull Kun. Va., July 21, 1861; appointed Brigadier—General of volunteers May If, 1861, and assigned to duty in the Department of the Cumberland; in command of department October-November. 1861. when he was transferred for duty to the Department of the Missouri, and ordered to report to Major-Genoral Halleck at St. Louis; on inspection duty at Sedalia, Mo., and commanded rump of instruction at Benton Barracks, Mo., ißi>l-62 ;commanding post of Paducah, Ky., exp diking and facilitating operations in progress up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and organizing a division to be commanded by himself; bore.,a distinguished part in the battle of Shiloh and in the operations against Coriuth; appointed Major-General ot volunteers May 1,1862; commanding District of Memphis and an expiedition against Vieksbnrg, 1862; assigned to command of Fifteenth Army Corps January, 1863; participated in the capture of Arkansas Post; took part in operations proceeding and attending the seige of Vicksburg; appointed ErigidierGeneral U. S. A.. July 4. 1863; assigned to command of the Department of the Tennessee, October 27, 1863; joined his forces to the army under General Grant at Chattanooga. Tenn., and bore consi>ieuoiis part iu the battle of that name; moved with great energy to the relief of General Burnside at Knoxville, Tenn., and returned to Chattanooga, 1863; made an expedition from Vicksburg to Meridian. Miss., destroying much railroad and war material thereabouts, and returned to Vicksburg; received the thanks of Congress, February 19. 1864; assumed command of the Military’Division of the Mississippi. March 18. 1864; captured Atlanta, Ge., and made his march to the sea, which terminated in the capture of Savannah, Ga.. December 21, 1864; received the thanks of Congress, January 10, 186-5; marched northward from Savannah, captured Columbia, S. C., compelling the evacuations of (harleston; repulsed the enemy under Genenral J. E. Johnston at Bentonville, and joining his forces with those of General Schofield at Goldsboro, moved against General Johnston, who, on April 26, surrendered his army on the same terms as had been granted Gen. Lee ; assigned to command of Military Division of the Missouri, 1865; promoted Lieutenant General July 26, 1866; assigned to command of Military Division of the Missouri; sent on sj>ecial mission to Mexico, 1866; promoted to General March 4, 1869; relinquished command of the army Nov. 1, 1883, and procee<ied to hie home in St. Louis, Mo. In 1884, Gen. Sherman was, at his own request. placed on the retired list in order that Sheridan might l>e promoted to his position. Since that time he has resided in New York, and has enjoyed the rest earned during his distinguished career as a soldier. The funeral services over the remains of the General will take place on Thursday from his late residence, although it may be deferred if his son does not arrive on that day from Europe on the Majestic. Thursday evening the body will be taken to St. Louis in a special train of three cars. It will be in charge of Gen. Schofield, and will be accompanied by a delegation from Post Lafayette, New York. Gen. O. O. Howard will .have charge of the remains while being conveyed from the house to the depot. A special boat will be in waiting at the foot of Twenty-third street to convey the remains to the Pennsylvania depot. He Bart au Otflect. “Look here,” said a Sixth avenue druggist to a boy who had come in and gone out of the store and left the door open each time, half a dozen times in one afternoon. “You must be a very careless boy. I have had to shut that door after you each time you have gone out.” “I know it," replied the boy. “Then it was done purposely on your part ?” “Yes, sir. My brother has patented a door spring, and my object was to call attention to it. Put you one on for a dollar which will shut that door t million times and never skip * cog.”

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. • fl Mb. McGinnis’ bill to extend the operation of the metropolitan police law to all cities in the State having a population ot 20,000 or more, came up for a second reading in the Legislature Feb. 9. The committee on cities and towns recommended that the bill be amended so as to make the law applicable to all cities having above 14,000 children enrolled in their public schools. Several senators, especially Mr. Hubbell, were curious to know why such an amendment was proposed, and what the number of school children had to do with the police law. It was brought by successive questions that Terre Haute wants the law, but Fort Wayne does not. but that each has more than 29,000 inhabitants. In this predicament the committee, with a desire to please everybody, cast about for some means of giving Terre Haute, with 31,000 people, the law it wanted, and at the same time making it inapplicable to Fort Wayne, with 35,000. The*following bills were introduced: To require building and loan associations to file statements of their condition semiannually with the Auditor of State: to abolish the offief* of State Librarian and place the library in charge of the custodian of public buildings; providing for boards of health of three members in cities of 15,000 inhabitants or over. This bill is very long, and was prepared by the medical society or the faculty of the Indiana Medical College; fixing the salaries of wardens of State prisons at $2,500, and deputy wardens at $1,200 per annum. *--t Mr. Ewing’s bill to abolish the State Board of Agriculture and establish in its place a “State Agricultural and trial Board” was a special Order for 11:30 o’clock, but it was again postponed. In the Senate, Feb. 10, bills were introduced for the creation of board of highway engineers. Bills passed authorizing boards of trustees of incorporated towns to erect workhbuscs; making it unlawful to enter a horse to compete for a prize under an assumed name. Bill permitting paupers to select their own physician indefinitely postponed. In the House the boiler inspection bill was defeated. Bill prohibiting the shooting of ducks between sunset and sunrise passed; also bills to prevent the dealing in margins on farm products; to punish persons for bringing into the State stolen goods, etc. In the Senate, Feb. 11, the Terre Haute metropolitan police bill was passed. Appellate Court bill engrossed. The House wens iiito committee of the whole on the fee and salary bill. Twentyfour sections out of seventy-five considered. No changes made except Deputy State Auditor and Law Librarian which have been increased to $1,500 each. No Business ot importance was transacted by the Senate, February 12. The House spent the day in committee of the whole on the’Tee and salary bill. The State engineer examiner bill was defeated by the Senate, February 13; building association bill was so amended as to exempt local associations from operating under the national plan. The following bills were passed: Providing that incorporated towns having no newspaper may publish legal advertisements in any other town in the county which has a newspaper. The object of this bill is to enable all such to get the benefit of the Barret law; empowering City Councils and Boards of of incorporated towns to authorize street railway companies now using horsepower to operate electric lines; removing the power to appoint Trustees of the State University at Bloomington from the hands of tbe Board of Education and giving it to the alumni of that institution. In the House the fee and salary bill was completed in committee of the whole. Resolution recommending a clause in the bill to exempt officers heretofore elected adopted by fifty-six votes. ~ . How Do Big Birds Hang in the Air? I once had a very unusual opportunity of observing accurately the flight of buzzards from the summit of AcroCorinthus. As this unique natural fortress rises sheer from the plain, on the side toward Attica, to the height of 1,800 or 1,900, a group of these birds, hanging above the surface, were thus brought in a line with the eye. I could detect the minutest movement of the wings or tail. Again and again there were considerable intervals of several seconds’ duration during which one bird and another would hang, with pinions horizontally outstretched, absolutely motionless, neither descending nor drifting, but as if his balance in the air was one of delicately-adjusted equipoise. And when, by a just-percepti-ble movement of wings, he stirred again, it seemed rather to be to change his position than that he needed any kind or degree of effort to maintain it. There was no wind. No doubt, of necessity, there was some upward current of air from the sun-warmed surface of the ground by which the birds profited; but if all sufficient to sustain them, their actual gravity when in that position and so willing it (by which I mean nothing so absurd as that gravitation car? be counteracted by the vitce, but that by intlating jts lungs and perhaps suspending its respiration, the bird may have the power at will of lessening its comparative weight in the air ) must be very near to that of the atmosphere around and underneath them.—London Nature. A Straight Tip. Wagley—l’ll tell you how to make a lot of money. Wooden—How ? Wagley—Bny a lot of thermometers now, and sell them next July. Wooden —r don’t see how I can make any money that way. Wagley—Why, man, they’re sure to go up eighty or ninety points. We are indebted to Herodotus for the discovery of the pigmies, and secondly, to Andrew Battel, of Leigh. The Moffat and Livingstone introduced us to the bushmen of South Africa. But the earliest knowledge of the pigmies of Central Equatorial Africa was given us by Schweinfurth and Piaggia, who had traveled to Niam-Niam and Monbutta laud, which countries are situated on the northern end of the Great Forest. ’ Too many papers keep in hot water with their ’steemed contemporaries. The father of Gambetta has just died. It is not generally known that the elder Gambetta received nothing under his son’s will of tbe large sum of money the French patriot was reported to have left. He had nothing except the interest upon his savings as a general dealer in Cahors and what he earned as an orange grower. He lived very humbly with an old servant, and he even made the boxes in which the results of his labors were dispatched and wheeled them himself to the station upon v hand cart.

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