Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1891 — Page 6

She DEXLA/TuSTINriD. N. BLACKBURN. - - . Publisher. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. THE PRESIDENT AT AND NEAR SAN FRANCISCO. Grant's Monument—Tragedy in a Jail—--J The Standard Thwarted —Fight With Trampa—Sullivan and Slavin—The May Day Strike Postponed. . ■ AT THE GOLDEN GATE. The Presidential Party at and Near San e Francisco, A special from San Francisco, dated April 28, says: President and Mrs. Harrison and party, accompanied by Mayor Sanderson and the members of the reception committee, left the Palace Hotel this morning in carriages tor a drive to Golden Gate Park. It had also been arranged that a review of school children should take place on Nanness Avenue, and, as the day was bright and clear, they gathered in large numbers, many bearing flowers or small American flags. The children were arranged in two lines on the avenue, standing four blocks in length, and as the carriages containing the party passed between the lines they were greeted with cheers from hundreds of small throats and the air was filled with flying bouquets and waving flags. It is estimated that there were fully 20,000 people on the avenue. Some time was spent by the President in reviewing these long lines of children, but the carriages were finally turned in the direction of Golden Gate Park. Postmaster General Wanamaker left the party at Vanness avenue, and returned to inspect the postoffice and the proposed sites for the new building. At the park, which was well filled with people, many of whom * had come from towns across the bay, President was received with cheers and waving handkerchiefs to which he responded by bowing. A stop was made at the conservatory, where the park commissioners pointed out to Mrs. Harrison and other interested members the most noteworthy exhibits. Other points of interest in the park were also visited after which the presidential party proceeded to the residence of Adolph Sutro, at Sutro heights; overlooking the Pacific ocean, where they had lunch. ■ Grant’s Mouumont. Ground has been broken, in the presence of thousands of people, at Riverside Park, New York, for an imposing monument to Gen. Grant. Charles H. Freeman, department commander of the G. A. R. for the State of New York, presided and turned the firstspade of earth. Admiral Braine and staff were also present. There was no marching. The United States steamer “Yantic,” ver order of Secretary Tracy, lay opposite the tomb, and fired a salute from her guns. Mrs. Sartoris and others of Grant's family were present. The Marine Band played the overture, and Rev. Dr. Clark Wright then led in prayer, after which the “Star Spangled Banner” was sung by the audienep. Gen. Horace Porter delivered an oration, whereupon '‘America" was sung, followed by the laying of the corner-stone and benediction by the chaplain. The Standard Thwarted. Persons interested in the Standard Oil Company, who a month ago. organized a company to lay an oil pipe '.line from Lima. Ohio, to Chicago, have been notified by the Erie Railroad management, operating the Chicago and Erie Railroad, that they will not be permitted to parallel the present pipe line laid in the Chicago and Eric right-of-way. The reason assigned is that the oil escaping irom leaks endangers the company’s property, and is so offensive that the passenger business is injured. The railroad company’s action entails great additional expense upon the pipe line people. Sullivan and Slavin. Charlie Johnson, the sporting man who has backed John L. Sullivan in more than one of his pugilistic encounters, said in reference to Slavin’s expressed desire to meet Sullivan in the ring: “If Slavin is so anxious to meet Sullivan I am willing to back Sully for $20,000, but not a dollar less, as he would have to break a theatrical contract which has a year and a half to run; besides Sullivan has everything to lose and nothing to gain. If Slavin wants to fight ho will have to put up 820,000 or nothing. Tragedy In a Jail. A tragedy occurred at the county Jail at Monroe, Mich. As Turnkey Tehrer entered the eell of two colored tramps, who were awaiting trial for attempted burglary, to remove their breakfast dishes, he was set upon and a desperate attempt made to secure his keys, and thus escape. The officer in the fight shot both men. Ono was killed instantly and the other will die. The May Day Strike Postponed. A Columbus, Ohio, special says: At the United Mine Workers’convention in this city, it was unanimously decided to postpone the date when the eight-hour working day would be established. Portugal and England. London special: It is reported that the Portuguese government asked that the modus vivendi in Africa be renewed for a month. Lord Salisbury has not replied. 4 Escaping Gas Caused a Death. Escaping gas from a negligently closed Jet caused the death of Mamie Burke, a 14-year-old servant girl employed by M. Swartz, of Chicago. A Staff Appointment. Mr. Charles D. Tillo, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been appointed a member of Gov."'Hovey’s staff, with rank of Major. A Famous Indian Dead. Poncho, the famous Piute Indian who piloted Gen. Fremont across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, died at Pyramid Reservation,Cal. Poncho was a Mexican veteran and wore a bronze medal furnished by the Government. He served under Gen. Fremont in California. Fight Witts Tramps. A gang of desperate tramps entered a coach while the Vandalia south-bound train was stopping at the Junction, near Crawfordsville, Ind., and tried to hold up the passengers. A fierce battle resulted and they were driven off. A Maniac’s Dead. Mrs. Mary Sullivan, aged <55, residing In the west end of Pittsburgh, arose from the bed on whieh she had been sleeping beside her husband, secured a carving knife, and made a desperate assault upon her husband, who was lying on the bed asleep. Before the old gentleman could escape his wife’s furious slashings he had received a bad gash in the left side, had one bund almost severed from the wrist and a deep cut in the throat Sullivan finally took the knife >way from his wife and ran to the door Io call help. Mrs. Sullivan went upand with a razor cut a tsCTfb l -

gash tn her "own throat Mrs. Sullivan who has been slightly demented for two years, will die. Mr. Sullivan, who is boss roller at Painter’s iron mill, will recover. ROME SHAKEN. A Terrifle Explosion of a Powder Magazine in the Eternal City. A special from Rome says: The powder magazine at the fort at Pozzo Pantaleo exploded, completely demolishing the fort killing five peasants who were in the vicinity and seriously injuring hundreds of others. The fort was four kilometers from Rome, but the explosion shook the city to its center. The great cupola surrounding the Parliament building was mashed to pieces and the surrounding streets strewn with its debris. The doors of offices and private residences were burst open by thajerrific concussion and heavy articles ofiurniture were overturned. Many of the people whom the early hour found still asleep were thrown from their beds and dashed violently upon the floors of their apartments. Confusion and terror was everywhere. Men looked into each other’s faces only to find reflected there the fear which possessed themselves. Women praying aloud, others hurrying with their children to find refuge from an unknown danger, and still others weeping hysterically and aimlessly wringing their hands were met at every corner. When the city had quieted down and an investigation had been had it was found that enormous Iflamage had been done to the fort, which was filled with soldiers a few moments before the explosion occurred. Fortunately the commandant heard the warning rumble and at once ordered the men to vacate the building. This was promptly done and a terrible disaster was thus averted. •‘Jack, the Kipper.” New York special: “Jack, the Ripper” is believed by the police to have at last come to this city. In the East River Hotel, the body of a wretched woman was found with her abdomen horribly cut and her bowels protruding. Her name is not known. The resort in which her body was found is one of the lowest in the city. It is located on the southwest corner of Catherine Slip and Market streets. The woman was ’known about the neighborhood aS»one of the half drunken creatures who hang about the low resorts of Water street and the Riverside. Her abdomen had been fairly ripped open with a dull, broken table knife that lay in the pool of blood. The viscera had been cut, and from appearances part was missing. The woman’s head was bandaged. A cloth had been tied about her neck and face. On the woman’s back, near the base of the spine, the mark of a cross had been made with the knife. Similar marks were found on the bodies of London victims of “Jack the Ripper.” A Terrible Tragedy. Lorenzo Coleman, a lunatic, son of ’Squire Richard Coleman, of Steubenville, Ohio, secured a shot gun and fired from the bed-room window to the garden, ten fee: distant, where his mother and sister Alice were working. The first shot struck his sister about the head, shoulders and neck and three stray shots struck his mother. George Coleman a hired man, was attracted to the scene and went to pick up Alice, when the lunatic tired a second shot, taking effect in Coleman’s head, face and shoulders. The lunatic was locked up. He was formerly a school teacher. His mind became unsettled and he was committed to the insane asylum at Columbus, but released as incurable in 1888. His sister and the hired man were riddled with shot and are not expected to recover. His father is well-to-do and a prominent farmer. The would-be murderer is perfectly unconscious of the affair., Death in the Bottle. Denver special: Some months ago Mrs. Josephine B. Barnaby, widow of J. B. Barnaby, a millionaire merchant, of Providence, R. 1., took a trip to California for her health. Mrs. G. S. Warrell, wife of a prominent Denver real estate dealer, accompanied her. On their return, April 19, Mrs. Barnaby found a package postmarked from Boston, which arrived during her absence. It contained a small flask of whisky, with this inscription: “With best wishes, accept this tine old whisky from your friends in the woods.” A few days later, when fatigued, both drank some of the liquid. From that time both ladips suffered terrible agonies, Mrs. Barnaby slowly sinking under the effects of the terrible internal burning of the poison which the bottle was afterward found to contain. Mrs. Barnaby died, and Mrs. Warrell is hot expected to live. The motive for the crime is a mystery. Advance Proofs. Considerable excitement \ has been caused at the government printing office and the department of justice by the fact that advance proofs of Attorney General Miller’s argument in the Behring Sea case were by some unknown means secured from the printing office and generously offered for sale. Solicitor General Taft said ’that the premature publication of the brief would simply be annoying but nothing more. It was a common thing for counsel to make mutual exchanges and there was nothing of a secret nature in connection with this argument. It was evident that a leak exists somewhere and he was anxious to discover whereabouts so that it might be stopped before something really important was published too soon. Public Primer Palmer will investigate the matter thoroughly. A Gang of Bobbers. Attalla special: A gang of five white robbers broke open several stores and terrorized the community by shooting at random. After committing the robbery they fled, pursued by a posse of officers and citizens, and half a mile from town the robbers stopped and defied arrest. The posse surrounded them and a pitched battle followed. J. S. Wilson, Aiderman of Attalla, was fatally wounded, and William Bentley, one of the robbers. is dying, and all the gang are arrested except two, Robert Bentley and Kayle Lattrell. It is believed they are parties who wrecked the Alabama and Great Southern train near Springville. Murderous Assault. While Chief of Police Wilkinson, of Fort Wayne, was passing the saloon of John Gronendyke, a disturbance arose between the proprietor and a lady customer, which he entered to quell, and was attacked by Gronendyke and knocked down and badly beaten over the head with a billiard cue and a beer .glass. Gronendyke drew a revolver and was about to put a ball into the prostrate policeman, when /Officer Stoll burst in the door, and, after mauling Gronendyke over the head with his mace,took him to the police station. He was held to answer a charge of assault with intent to kill in the sum of $3,000. Greely-Clendenln. Miss Gabrielle Greely, daughter of the late Horace Greely, was married at Pleasantville, N. ¥., to the Rev. Frank Montrose Clendenin, at the Kt. John’s Protestant Episcopal church. The Rev. B. T. Hall, rector of the church, officiated. The chhrch was crowded with well known people from New York and other cities, as well as residents of Pleasantville, Chappaqua, Horace Greely’* old home, and the surrounding villages. Brains Dashed Oat By a Fall. James Hewitt, aged 40 yean, single, and residing at Waynesburg, Ohio, was tound lying at the foot of the basement

— ■steps -of the Union Hotel, at Canton. Hi's skull was crushed and grouud to pieces, and brains were scattered upon the stone steps. He had leaned from a window during sickness with the above result The Appointment Stanley Didn’t Get, According to a Brussels correspondent King Leopold did intend to appoint Henry M. Stanley Governor of the Congo State, it having been represented to him that the appointment would obtain the approval of the American Senate to the Brussels conference. The King was afterward induced by English influences to give up the idea, and it is also alleged that he has received assurances from America that satisfy him that America’s approval will not be withheld. The Kaiser is Scared. The Kaiser, says a Berlin dispatch, has ordered the Berlin garrison to be kept under arms on the Ist of May and will assume personal direction of the troops for that day. While all is apparently quiet, the Government acts as if in possession of important revelations as to the first of next month, and that the socialists are preparing for signal demonstrations in the lending cities of Germany. The police have been ordered to prevent the carrying of mottoes inl--to the sovereign or calculated to provoke disorder. Completely Paralyzed. The entire system of the Detroit City Railway Company is paralyzed. The only cars out are two on the Woodward avenue line. Nine hundred stove moulders have quit work and joined the strikers to prevent the running of cars. Tracks were torn up on three lines, and obstructions have been placed on every line. The men the company had hired to take strikers’ places refuse to take out cars. The police are tired out, and serious trouble is likely to ensue. Dying from a Cat’s Bite. Frederick Bronnenberg, an old and wealthy resident of Anderson, Ind., was caressing an old family cat a few weeks agq, when the feline pierced his thumb* with her fangs. Nothing was thought of the injury at the time, but precaution was taken to cauterize the wound. Several days ago his hand and arm began to swell, and racked him with pain. Now he is at the point of death due to bloodpoisoning. Mary Anderson Navarro, London special: The interesting event in the Navarro family, concerning which premature reports have been published in America, is not expected to take place for five months. I saw Mrs. Navarro at a London railway station where she was seemingly quite unknown by the crowd. She was looking in excellent health and handsomer than ever. *•* Jackson Hanged. Webster Jackson was hanged at Herrmann, Mo. He made no confession and met his fate with the same indifference he has shown during his long confinement. On October 2, 1886, near Lebadle, Jackson shot Sted killed Alexander McVickers and then <mt his throat and rifled his pockety An Illegal Gerrymander. It is claimed both the congressional and legislative'apportionment act of the late Indiana Legislature are illegal, owing to the omissions and inter-line-ations in the enrolled bill. As the engrossed acts are correct,®the Democratic State officers think the law will hold. Sailors Drowned. Hong Kong advices state that R. P. Tait, second officer of the steamship Abysinnya, and three sailors were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Satsuma, Japan. Thirty Japanese corpses were washeditshore. It is supposed they are abandoned women. The Ohio Republican Convention. The Republican Central Committee has fixed the next State Convention for Coluinous, June 16th and 17th, with R. M. Nevine, of Dayton, for temporary Chairman. A resolution was adopted inviting Sherman, Foster, Foraker,and McKinley to address the convention. The Center of Population. A monument, fifty feet in height, of Bedford limestone, will be erected May 10, with appropriate ceremonies, marking the center of population, as shown by the census bureau. It will be on a farm twenty miles east of Columbus, Ind. An Old Lady’s Wandering. ..Mrs. Adam Stilgenbaum, of Baltic, Ohio, has mysteriously disappeared. She is about fifty years of age. weighs about 200 pounds, and when she left home had on a blue dress, old shoes and no bonnet. Me Was Chopped Up. In excavating for the foundation of a building in Glenn Falls, N. Y., workmen found a chest containing the body of a skeleton which had evidently been chopped to pieces with an ax before burial. The Cashier Acquitted. Charles H. Nichols, late cashier of the Nichols Bank, of Kansas City, who was arrested and indicted for fraudulently receiving deposits on the day that the bank failed, was acquitted. Murder and Suicide. At Cincinnati, George Graber, aged 473 a carpenter, shot his wife twice, killing her instantly, and then shot himself in the mouth inflicting a wound that proved fatal in half an hour. Sailed tor Europe. Mr. E. A. Halford, private secretary to the President, and his daughter have sailed for Europe. THE MARKETS, * CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime..... 53.25 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades...... 3.00 @ 5.00 Sheep — 3.00 @ 6.00 Whbat—No. 2 Bed „ Lil#® 1.12% Cobh—No. 2..71 @ .73 Oats—No. 2.. .54M0 .55% Btb-No. 2 .91 @ .92 Butteb—Choice Creamery...... @ -.26 Cheese—Full Cream, f1at5...... J 2 @ .12% Eggs—Freeh .13 @ J 4 Potatoes—Western, per bn..... LOS @LI 5 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattus—Shippingj.. 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 5.50 Shbhp—Common to Prime XOO @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed. 0 1.07 Corn—No. 1 WhiteZa.... .72 @ .73 Oats—No. 2 White J 56 @ .58 ST. LOUI& Cattle 4.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 4»DO @5.25 Whbat—No. 2 Bed 1.10 @ 1.11 Cobh—No. 2 ’ .71 @ .73 Oats—No. 254 @ .55 Bab&bt—lowa..,.B2 @ .84 CINCINNATI. Cattle. 3.00 0.5.50 Hogs. 3.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 4.00 @ 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.10 @ Ll 2 Cobh—No. 2 .75 @ .77 Oats—No. 2 Mixeds7 & .59 DETROIT. Cattle. 3.00 & 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.13 @ LIBU Cobh—No. 2 Yellow.. Oats—No. 2 White, .60 @ .61 TOLEDO. Wheat....;... H 6 @1.16% Cobh—Cash.77 @ .79 Oats—No. 1 White .57 @ .59 Clover Seed 4.10 @4.15 east liberty. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 4.00 @ 6.25 Hogs—Light 845 @ 5.25 Sheep—Medium 4.00 @ 5.25 Lambs. 4.00 @6.00 MILWAUKEE. , Wheat—No. 2 Spring LlO @ Ll 2 Cobh—No. 3.78 @ .74 Oats—No. 2 Whitesß @ .60 Bye—No. 1....92 @ .94 Barley—No. 2.... .74 0 .75 Pobk—Mess 29.75 @13.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 4AO 0 ASO Hogsa 8.25 0 5.7 S SUMP... 5.00 & 7.00 Wheat—No. 9 Red 1.94 0 1.96 OAOTt—Mixed :S 8 :« Bwtteb—Creamery .91 0 .97 Eowt-Western .15 0 .16 Pobx-Msm U. 50 OUM

FROM GULF TO COAST. MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION© TO THE PRESIDENT. *Mid Soaring of Cannon, Huzzas of Multitudes, and Through Beds of Flowers, the Presidential Party Is Swinging Bound the Circle, Uncle Sam, in the person of President Harrison, has been making a few social calls upon some of his tenants. When the Presidential party reached Chattanooga, Tenn., fully 3,000 people were assembled at the station. A salute of thirteen guns was fired as the President descended from the steps of the train in the Union Depot The pillars of the depot were draped with the national colors, and weaved in evergreens; above the main exit to the street were the words, “Welcome to President Harrison. ” The reception committee numbered fifty, and was composed of leading citizens and representative colored men. The party visited Lookout Mountain and, returning, were driven'through the principal streets. The business houses along the line of the President’s route were handsomely decorated, flags and bunting floating’ from every window. President Harrison was introduced by Hen. H. Clay Evans, and was greeted with deafeaning cheers. The President spoke a quarter of an hour. He was followed by Secretaries Wanamaker and Proctor. A reception upon the stand followed, a mass of people passing hurriedly forward to shake hands with Mr. Harrison. The President during his speech said: My fellow-citizens, I have greatly enjoyed the opportunity of seeing Chattanooga again. I saw it last as the camp of a great army. Its only industries were military, its stores were munitions of war, its pleasant hill-tops were torn with rifle-pits, its civic population the attendants of aiYarmy campaign. I see it to-day a great city, a prosperous city. To-day I see these hill-tops, then bristling with guns,crowned with happy homes; I see these streets, through which the worn veterans of many campaigns then marched, made glad with the presence of happy children. Everything Is changed. The wand of an enchantress has touched these hills, and old Lookout, that frowned over the valley from which the plow had been Withdrawn, now looks upon the peaceful industries of country life. All things are changed, except that the flag that then floated over Chattanooga floats here still. [Cheers.] It has passed from the hands of the veterans who bore It to victory in battle into the hands of the children, who lift it as an emblem of peace. [Cheers.] Then Chattanooga was war's gateway to the South. Now it is the gateway to peace, commerce and prosperity, [Cheers.] There have been two conquests, one with arms, the other with the gentle influence of peace, and the last is greater than the first. [Cheers.] The first is only great as It made way for that which followed, and now, one again in our devotion to the constitution and the laws, one again in the determination that the severance of the Federal relations of these States shall never again be raised, we have started together upon a career of prosperity and development that has as yet given only the signs of What is to come. I congratulate Tennessee, I congratulate this prosperous city, I congratulate all those who, through this gateway, give and receive the interchanges of friendly commerce that there is being wrought throughout our country, a unification by commerce, a unification by similarity of institutions and habits that shall in time erase every vestige of difference, and shall make us not only in contemplation of the law, but In heart and sympathy, one people. [Cheers.] I thank you for your cordial greeting to-day. and hope for the development of the industries of our country and for the settling of our institutions upon the firm basis of a respect for the laws. In this glad springtime, while the gardens are full »of blossoms and the fields give the promise of another harvest, and your homes are full of happy children, let us thank God for what He has wrought for us as a people, and each in our place resolutely maintain the great idea upon which every thing is bullded—the rule of the majority constitutionally expressed and the absolute' equality of all men before the law. [Cheers.] Rolling south, the train pulled into Cartersville, Ga., where a great crowd welcomed the party. The President spoke as follows: My friends, I have had great pleasure to-day in passing over some parts of the old route that I took once before under very different and distressing circumstances, to find how easy it is, when we are all agreed, to travel between Chattanooga and Atlanta. 1 am glad to see the evidences of prosperity that abound through your country, and I wish you in all your relations every human good. [Cheers.] At Marietta the party was joined by a Reception Committee from Atlanta, consisting of Mayor Hemphill, Ex-Governor Bullock, Capt John Milledge, Gen. J. R. Lewis, S. M. Inman, Col. W. L. Calboen, President of the Confederate Veterans’ Association; Col. A. J. West, of Governor Northen’s staff, and seventeen members of the City Council. They came from Atlanta in a special train. At Atlanta, Ga., an accident occurred at the time of the President’s arrival that might have resulted In injury to the President and Mrs. Harrison had it happened a few minutes sooner. It resulted from the military salute fired in honor of the President. The cannon used for this service was mounted on a flat car at a the track over which the Presidential car ran. In order to give emphasis to their work the soldiers having charge of the cannon discharged it just as the President's train was passing on an adjoining track. The concussion was tremendous, and shattered three thick plate-glass window panes in the dining car Coronado, immediately next the seats assigned to the special use of the President and Mrs. Harrison. Luckily these seats were unoccupied at the time. A colored waiter who was standing in the aisle of the car was thrown down by the explosion. He was, however, more frightened than hurt The Presidential party was at the other end of the train at thja time and knew nothing of the accident until informed of it afterward. When the Presidential train entered Atlanta Governor Northen advanced and received the party. The Governor said: I am glad to welcome your excellency to the State of Georgia. You will find among us a loyal and hospitable people, and, in their name, I welcome you to the State. Replying, the President said it gave him great pleasure to visit the Empire State of the South. The Presidential party was then driveh around the city. At the State Capitol the President was given a public reception. At the Executive Mansion, at 9 o’clock, the Presidential party saw the social side of Atlanta life. Here Mrs. Northen had invited about one hundred of Atlanta’s leading society ladies to assist her in the reception to the ladies of the party. The President had a royal reception at Galveston, Texas, and the people turned out en masse. On the arrival of the train a military salute was fired, the city bells were rung, and all the steamers and tugs in the harbor whistled their loudest. The city troops and Masonic and civic organizations were present in force, and all joined in cheering the distinguished visitor In a most enthusiastic manner. The demonstration was a most gratifying one in every respect. A procession was quickly formed, and escorted the President and party from the station to a steamship, on which they made a short trip oq the bay for the of inspectingihe extensive haroor approvements now in progress. Returning from the jetties, Capt Joe Owens, the grand marshal, took charge of the party and placed them in the parade. The President and his party, together with the escort committee that accompKZ>d them from Houston, occupied the first nine carriages, headed by a detachment of twenty*four police officers Following the first nine carriages were twelve other®occupied hy tb- ConWitr ■' J X

Corps, City Council, County Commissioners, Galveston Deep Water Committee, the Governor’s staff, Federal officers, etc. The Grand Army of4he Republic post. acted as a committee of escort to the President, marching on either side of his qarriage, bearing floral emblems and a union Jack, which, when seen on shore, indicates the presence of the President of the United States. The rest of the line was composed of militia, Masonic, and other bodies, school children and labor unions. The procession passed over a beautifully decorated route, one feature of which was an immense floral arch, and finally passed in review before the President. The school children threw their flowersat the President’s feet as they passed and built a small sized hill in front of the stand. After the Review the President and his party were entertained at supper, during which the President was serenaded, The party then repaired to the hotel balcony, where in the presence of an immense throng of people the President was formally welcomed to the Gulf hy Gen. Waul on behalf of the Mayor, who, though present, was too ill to speak. The President returned his thanks in a feeling speech. Addresses were also made by Gov. Hogg and Secretary Rusk. A public reception followed and a fine display of fireworks closed the cerifrmonies. From Texas to the Pacific coast the party was greeted at every stopping place by immense and enthusiastic crowds. The presidential train rolled into Los Angeles on time. The party was met at Idaho by Gov. Markham and a delegation of prominent meh of the State, who acted as an escort from that point forward. At Los Angeles the visitors were greeted by a vast crowd and were again snowed under with fruit and flowers. Galla lilies seemed to be the favorite flower, and they were seen on every side. The ceremonies opened with a street parade, in which the United States troops, militia, Grand Army posts, and civic organizations in this vicinity participated. They escorted the President and his party through the streets crowded with enthusiastic people. Hundreds of children lined the sidewalks at one point of the route, and they showered the President with flowers as his carriage passed slowly by. The parade ended at the City Hall, where a covered platform had been erected tor the public ceremonies. This platform looked like a tropical garden. Addresses of welcome were made by Gov. Markham and Mayor Hazard. The President responded'* in a brief address. Brief speeches were also made by Secretary Rusk and Postmaster General Wanamaker. After the speech-making the President and party proceeded to the Hellenbeck Hotel, where elegant flowerbedecked apartments had been reserved for them. A fine dinner was served’ at the hotel during which the President was serenaded. In the early evening he went to the pavilion and held a public reception, which was largely attended, and later the President, Secretary Rusk, Postmaster General Wanamaker, and the ladies were entertained at the Union League Club. Ths President’s invitation to the club was on a solid silver card suitably inscribed. The entire city was brilliantly illuminated at night. Among the floral tributes was a handsome symbol of peace from the native daughters of La Esperanza. The Hon. Lujz E. Torres, Governor of Lower California, and other foreign officials participated in the ceremonies. The Big General’s Salad. The late Chief Justice Chase's daughter tells this story of a visit to old General Winfield Scott at Cozzens’, West Point: “He gave us seats at his own especial table, and was very kind to us, but I was terribly afraid of him. One of his greatest pleasures at the table was to mix the most fiery of salads, which he would send by his own man (who always stood behind his master's chair) with the General’s compliments to the favored few. My gastronomic tastes were far from being developed, and the old gentleman’s red pepper and mustard nearly killed me. I simply could not. eat the burning stuff. Feeling the General’s eye upon me, I vainly tried to swallow it, but failed ignominiously, with tears coming into my eyes with the effort To add to my discomfort and mortification, a voice roared out in a deep tone from the General’s throne: ‘The little Chase does not like my salad.’ ” “The Sea King” Returns. Among comic opera productions none have more rapidly won than “The Sea King. ” At Its first visit to Chicago it was pronounced superior to those other gems, “The Merry Monarch* and “Castles in the Air,” and a return engagement will be played at McVicker’s new theater, commencing May 3, by Gilmore’s superb company. The scenic effects and the costumes in “The Sea King” approach closely to the marvelous. In May, also, McVicker’s will present the New York success, “Blue Jeans.” This play—-a comedy-drama—abounds in natural realism, and tells a story of life so thrillingly that interest is intense from start to finish. A startling inno‘vation is the introduction of a sawmill in full operation. “Blue Jeans” will be presented with its original New York cast Kansas Philosophy. Men measure common seisse by grains, and use the ounce measure for vanity. Success may hurt a man, but there never was a fellow who was not willing to run the risk. There is only one way of doing a thing right, but how many ways there are of doing a thing wrong! The modern Beauty and the Beast: He calls her a beauty before marriage, and she calls him a beast after. The ignorance of some persons of the world is as great as the ignorance of some worldly people of religion. / A woman Is most religious when she is poor; a man seldom begins to think of religion until he has become rich. The trouble of it is that people do not get well enough acquainted before, marriage, and get too well acquainted after. The man who plays with the devil always gets tho worst of it; the devil has nothing to do but bum; .that’s his business. It is no compliment to a woman that ten men loved her one year, but it is a compliment to say of her that one man loved her ten years. If you are going to take a long journey, it is better to travel alone than to take with you a man of doubtful reputation as a companion. You are told to “watch the corners closely,” and you'll get rich. But look at the loafer; he watches the corners all day, and is still poor. When a man says he does not care what the world thinks, it is usually the case that it happened first that the world did not care what he thought. * Imitation is a graceful way of paying a compliment, but somehow men do not seem to be at all complimented when they see a woman who tries to act like a man*—Atchison Globe. A Frenchman in the Province of Lorraine is in prison on a curious charge. His brother died and left a will bequeathing France about SBOO to buy arms to fight Germany in the next war, and as he was beyond the reach of ths law, t-Sa Germans arrested his brother as Jooessory to the crime of sedition and conspiracy.

BUDS AND BLOSSOMS BLOOM IN INDIANA’S FIELD OF FRESH NEWS. Fatal Accident at Caton—Howard County Murderer Pardoned — Ancient French Coin Unearthed —Au Old War Horse Dead—Deaths, Accidents, and Suicides. —lndiana has 2,878 Knights Templar. —LaPorte’s going to have a fine new court house. —Redkey is to havp an Ornamental .tile-works which will employ 500 men. —An unknown man was killed at Osceola, by a Lake Shore fast mail train. —Kokomo made a gain of 104 per cent in population in the past ten years, —Mrs. Burnett’s residence at Frahklin was destroyed by an incendiary fire. —Fort Wayne Lutherans will build three new churches this summer, costing SIOO,OOO. * —Montgomery County Fair will have a building devoted to exhibits made by children. —Michigan City’s fairly frothing at the mouth ’cause LaPorte gets that new court house. s —George W. Bennett, Lafayette’s alleged double murderer, is said to be feigning insanity. —Westfield citizens have organized a stock company with $20,000 and will manufacture furniture. —Levi Kessinger, of Galveston, was caught by a Pan Handle train on a trestle, struck and killed. —Washington Frick, a farmer near Waterloo, drank nearly a pint of camphor. He died in twenty-four hours. —Andrew Arnold’s barn near Rensselaer was -struck by lightning and burned with three horses and a quantity of grain. —Maud Webber, 9 years old, fell from a railroad trestle, fifteen feet, near Columbus, fractured her skull and may die. —Burglars entered the hardware store of Campbell & Ludlum, at Marion, and carried away goods to the amount of $l5O. —Witchcraft is said to prevail in the northwest part of Dearborn County. As a consequence, Mrs. Fink has been declared insane. —Geo. Hynes, James Hynes, Joe Hynes, James Gordon, and Bill Gordon, all arrested at Kentland, charged with robbing freight cars. —John Cripe arrested in Lafayette, is said to have executed tho cleverest piece of swindling in the way of forgery ever prepetrated in the State. —Henry Patrick, a bank boss at the Nickle-Pla|e, mine, Brazil, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and four children. —An adjourned meeting of the Crawfordsville Presbytery will be held at Crawfordsville on May 19, to ordain and install J. R. Inglas over the First Presbyterian Church. —At Crawfordsville, Thomas Dobson, 76 years old, while drawing water from a cistern, fell headlong into the water and was drowned before assistance could be rendered him. —The talk flbout piping natural gas to Crawfordsville is again being agitated, for about the fifteenth time, but with more prospects of success now than any time heretofore. —Mrs. Benjamin Graft, of Mexico, aged 74 years, and one of tne most highly respected women of Miami County, died from the effects cif a fall received some time ago. —A minister in Montgomery County, during his remarks at the funeral of a man who had killed himself while drunk, said that “a man dying in intoxication went straight to hell.” —A cave near Yountsville was explored by a party of hunters —they found a collection of queer arrow heads, bows, clay pots, kettles, etc., which will be of great interest to antiquarians. —White Caps New Albany gave Walker Lowe fifty strokes with a hickory gad and ordered him to leave the county In twenty-four hours. Lowe came from Kentucky a year ago. —Mrs. Stanley, of Campbellsburg, has been’ at Martinsville for some time taking treatment for epilepsy at one of the sanitariums. The other day, while alone in her room, she fell, while in a fit, into a‘n open grate and was severely burned about the face. -—Joseph Furnace, one of the leading business men and farmers of Hamilton County, dropped dead at Westfield. He was summoned to Noblesville on the grand jury and was on his way home when death overtook him. The coroner’s verdict was that he came to his death by heart disease and grip. Zeitler, night watchman in Bissell’s plow works, South Bend, discovered a burglar in the building a few nights ago, and rushed off to sound the palarm. When he got “back the burglar was gone. He was so chargrined over the scoop that he went right home and beat his wife beyond recognition. Fined $39.50. —Perry Owens, aged 71 years, while at work on his farm, near Westport, met with a fatal accident He was on a load of rails and in crossing a small ravine was thrown backward to the ground, breaking his neck. He was a prominent Mason and a much-respect-ed citizen. He leaves a widow and numerous other relatives. —J. W. Jacobs and Abraham Carr, riding in a funeral procession at Bennettsville, horses ran off and both seriously if not fatally injured. —Matthew Barnes and James Woodruff, burglars in Richmond jail, knocked the jailer down with a club and broke out but were promptly recaptured. —Farmers in St Joseph County report that the growing wheat never looked more promising than it does this season. There will also be an abundance of fruit —A message was received at Mitchell stating that Prof. J. W. Stotts, the eloping married man of that place, was under arrest at DeLeon, Tex. He has been passing himself there as a bachelor, and the Saunders woman who eloped with him as his widowed sister. He has been offered his old position with the Educational Aid Assaciation of Chicago, the compnay tor which he was working at the time of his elopement, provided he will return and support his wife and three small children whom he left tn almost destitute circumstances and settle his indebtedness.

—Rev. -H. M. Middleton, presiding elder of the Crawfordsville district of the Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference, has moved to Greencastle. —Fred Fesser, a farmer near Bourbon, exploded a dynamite cartridge under a stump, while he was standing near it with a basket of dynamite cartridges on his arm. The cartridges in the basket were also exploded, and the man was instantly killed, being torn to pieces. His dog came to the scene and defied approach to the remains. He was shot before the remains could be gathered. —Thomas Ruse, who was sent from Howard County in January, 1889, to ths Northern Prison for eleven years fori manslaughter, has been pardoned by the Governor. Ruse shot and killed s man named Marks who had seduced his wife. He also shot the woman, but not fatally. Hundreds of citizens of Kokomo, together with the judge, jury, and county officials, joined in with the recommendation for his pardon. —An accident occurred in South Peru, in which Clint Kiser, a young man aged 17 years, and living with his parents, lost his life. Kiser bad been out hunting, having gone before breakfast, and on his return home, and while setting his gun down in a corner of the room, ii was discharged, the shot tearing away almost half his head. He died almost instantly. —Mrs. Samuel Hardesty, living tea miles southeast of Muncie, was burned to death. While temporarily absent the natural gas blew out, the escaping gas filling the room. When she returned shelighted a match, and this caused a terrible explosion, knocking her senseless. Her clothing caught fire, and when she recovered consciousness she was so badly burned that she lived but a few houra. She was alone in the house at the time*. —Thirty years ago Company G, Tenth. Indiana Regiment, was raised at fordsville. At the head of the list was the name of Gen. M. D. Manson, and the company consisted of sixty-on* others. Os this number twenty-eight are now dead. This date was four daysafter Fort Sumter was fired upon, and. on April 19, Sunday, the tidies mads tents for the company, and on the following day the company started, via Greencastle, for Indianapolis, where they pitched the first tents in CampMorton. —Patents have been granted to tbs following Hoosier inventors: Franklia B. Hunt, Richmond, assignor pf one-half to L. C. Allen, Washington, D. C., bicycle; Edmund Kuhn, New Albany, assignor Scanlan, Louisville, a device for casting books; Samuel H. Petro and Ed. Darnell, assignors of one-third to W. Hunt, Darlington, hay-rack; Thos. J. Sausaman, Hooversburg, swinging gate; William B. Stover, South Bend two-wheeled vehicle; David E. Vantyorn, Elkhart, wrench. —While making an excavation al Mooresville, Floyd County, G. W. Atkins unearthed an old French coin bearing bearing date of 1701. The coin was found three feet under the ground at a place where there had not been an excavation of any kind within the memory of the oldest resident of that vicinity. That part of Indiana was traveled over by the early French settlers going from Vincennes, Ind., to Fort DuQuesne, now Pittsburgh, and the coin is belieyed to have been buried by one of them. —The boiler at the excelsior-works of Philip Klein, in the center of Evansville, exploded, causing damage to the amount of SI,OOO. Tne boiler itself tore through the building, and it was only stopped by the heavy timbers in the front end. Ths front plate of the boiler flew 'across ths street and partially demolished two dwellings, the occupants of which had narrow escapes. Other buildings in tbs vicinity were shaken up by the concussion. James Campbell, the engineer, and Philip Klein, Jr., were badly scalded. —A fatality occurred near Eaton* te which David H. Edwards, residing near that place, lost his life. Mr. Edwards was in the vtaods cutting down a tree, which fell and lodged in another closs by. The man succeeded in dislodging the tree, but was caught under the trunk and, it is supposed, was almost instantly killed. His little boy, 12 years old, was with him, and seeing his father’s helpless condition, and being unable to render any aid h\mself, ran to thengarest house and told of the accident. [They accompanied him with all speed, but found the unfortunate man dead when they arrived. Mr. Edwards was one of Miama County’s prominent farmers, 35 years of age, and leaves a wife and three little children. —At the outbreak of the rebellion Van Rensselaer Morgan was serving, in the federal navy, but enlisted in the rebel navy. He owned a residence in Wabash and a fine farm of eieht acres north of z that place. During the war his property ” was confiscated by the government and sold at United States Marshal’s sale. Miles Morgan bidding in the town property and T. F. Payne becoming owner of the valuable farm. A late decision of the United States Supreme Court holds that property sold under the confiscation act can be held by the purchaser only an long as the parties from • whom it wasconfiscated live, and the heirs of Van Renesselaer Morgan, who died at Washington, recently, have begun proceedingsfor the property valued at $6,000. —Miss Della Keesling, 17, Avondale, given up to die by her physicians, was restored to health by the prayers of friends —at least, so the story goes. —Henry Moran, aged 11 years, whiteattempting to get on a moving Big Four freight train at Crawfordsville, fell to the ground and his skull was crushed In. —Mrs. Mary Rutherford, of Vernon, is said to have become insane upon rqiading letters written to her twenty yean ago by the lover who deserted her at the altar. 1 —Thomas Hainblin, while preparing n dynamite charge to be exploded in a stream to kill fish, caused the charge to be accidentally exploded, tearing off his hand at the wrist and knocking him some ten feet upon'the ground, where he remained unconscious'for several hours. —During May a reunion will be held at Shawnee Mound of the jurors, attorneys and witnesses in Jthe murder case of W. F. Pettit. .While one of the main actors in the events occurring at that place is serving a life sentence ia ths penitentiary, the other will probably ba a guast of this assembly. ■ . * •’