Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1891 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUR, IND. M. BLACKBURN, - . . Pmr.Tmvx RECORD OF THE WEEK. A CATHOLIC SOCIETY EXCOMMUNICATED. Dashed to Death—Wants the SullivanSlavin Fight—A Horrible Crime—A Fatal Swim—The “Black Leg.” CATHOLICS EXCOMMUNICATED. • Bishop Chatard Deals Heroically With Now Albany Knights. Indianapolis special: A dispatch from New Albany says that thirty eight members of the New Albany Division Roman Knights of Sts Edward have been excommunicated by Bishop Chatard for giving a Sunday excursion, selling beer and dancing. Dishop Chatard is out of the city, but Father Garish, of St. Johns, to whom this dispatch was shown, said: “This is true. The society named, which is. a Catholic organization, had arranged to give a Sunday excursion and picnic, at which beer was to be sold. The'pastor of the church notified the members of the organization that their intended action was a violation of the laws of the church, which is opposed to Sunday excursions, and especially to selling beer on Sunday and dancing. Notwithstanding this warning from the pastor the excursion was given. When the bishop was informed of the facts he excommunicated the society as a society. It will no longer be recognized as a Catholic society and is suspended from the national organization. The members of the society are not individually excommunicated from the church. , The Black Leg. The peculiar disease which has broken out among the Hungarians of the Pennsylvania coke region, is not abating, but increasing. The Greensburg poor board, at a meeting, decided to fit up a pest house and remove all the Hungarians 1Q it until all danger is past. One of the directors in conversation with a sick Hungarian learned from him that the disease4s known in Hungary as “black leg,” and this is the first instance in which it has appeared in this country. The Hungarians throughout the region kid greatly alarmed lest it become epidemic. As Soon as it is known Jhat one of their countrymen is affected with it, he is at once sent to the county home to prevent others from taking it. The inmates of the home arc greatly alarmed over it. Dashed to Death. A cablegram from St. Petersburg, says: While a large balloon belonging to Count Apraxina was being inflated with gas it escaped from the attendants who were holding it to the ground and carried upward four workmen who were in the car when the balloon broke away. After it had ascended to a great height the onlookers were horrified to see the balloon burst and the bodies of the unfortunate workmen dashed to the earth, where they were smashed almost beyond recognition. More Cherokee Boomers. A dispatch from Arkansas City. Kas., says: It is stated hereon good authority that a thoroughly orgnaized and .. pledged—body of boomers and homeseekers will shortly enter the Cherokee Strip, cut all the fences and burn the grass, thus forcing the cattlemen off the land. Cattlemen who are on the strip with authority of the law, have been warned by Secretary Ross, of the Cher../jpkee Nation, that all cattle fosnd passing would be seized. A Horrible Crime. ? Another horrible murder has been discovered in Whitefield street, Tottenham Road, London. A foreign woman, named Mme. Ashton, was found dead and her head schoekingly disfigured. The last visitor observed by the neighbors was evidently a Frenchman, and he is suspected of being the murderer. Enormous crowds are blocking the streets in the vicinity, and tremendous' excitement prevails, as the crime is laid by many at the door of “Jack the Ripper.” A Fiendish Boy. At Parkersburg, W. Va., Clarence Neal, a boy 18 years of age, who killed his father when only 14 years old, killed Charles Skidmore, a boy of 15, at Riverside, the other day. Neal had a quarrel with a boy named Ditson, and after they had separated a short time, Neal started out to find Ditson, with the intention of killing hrhi. He mistook Skidmore for Ditson, and slipping up behind him, crushed his skull with a loaded’whip. Neal has lied. ■t. New Immigration Station. Assistant Secretary Nettleton says that the new immigration station on Ellis Island, will be opened August Ist, and that thereafter all immigrants will be landed there. A regular government ferry will be established between the depot and the barge oflice in New York and all immigrants destined for that city and neighboring places will be landed there after having undergone the inspection on the island. Three Boys Drowned. John McKeown, aged 10, Harry Shoullis, aged 10, and Walter Jones.- aged 14, fell from a raft and were drowned in the Doaks Park pond at Washington, Pa. John McKeown was a son of the late oil king, McKeown, and the Shoullis boys were his grandsons. Construction Train Wrecked. A construction train on the Richmond, Nashville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad was wrecked near Richmond, Ky. Four_yvorkmen were killed and six injured. Killed by an Explosion. Peter Haskins, aged 35, colored, was killed by the explosion of a boiler in Adams’ brick yard, near Indianapolis. Want the Sullivan-Slavin Fight. The Kansas City Times publishes a special from Pittsburgh, Kan., giving the guarantee of the Commercial Club, of that city, for 840,000 if Sullivan and Slavin will fight there. The club also offers protection from the police. Pittsburgh has 20,000 people, and is a smeltingcenter. It is a good place for the fight. A Fatal Swim. Frank W. Powell, of Rapidan, Minn, an attache of Downie & Gallagher’s show, was drowned in the St. Marys River, at Fort Wayno- Ind., while bathing. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Several New York young mon were startled by a scantily dressed baby falling on the pavement among-them. The dead baby’s mother proved to be Pauline Rodenberg, who said that she had fallen asleep near an open window with the child in her arms. The child had fallen • three stories. Leechburg CPa.) was visited by a most terrific rainstorm which for a time assumed the proportions of a cloudburst. At Georgetown, the water rose suddenly to a height of thlHy feet, and, rushing down the mountain, struck the mass-

? 1 ' 1 " ■ ire stone culvert of the west Pennsylvania Railroad, completely demolishing it. The torrent of water then passed through the town, overturning houses and carrying half a dozen of them down the stream. John Frank, who was crossing the railroad culvert, had several ribs broken and may die. All railway traffic was cut off. Since the supposed suicide of fifteen-year-old Mamie McQuestin at Turnersville, N. J., there have been many rumors of foul play. It was given out that the girl had committed suicide. Her story, as told by neighbors, is very sad. She was found in a pool of water four inches deep. A peculiar disease has broken out among the Hungarians in the Pennsylvania coke regions, greatly resembling the terrible “blackleg” malady which some two years ago greatly infested Europe. There are 200 cases in the region. Their limbs present a loathsome appearance, and the disease is spreading. The peach growers of the Delaware and Maryland peninsula agreed that tbe peninsula peach crop this year will be about 6,000,000 baskets. Nearly all the growers reported that the white and red fruit was extremely plentiful, but that the yellow fruit was extremely scarce. Another important fact noticed was that trees four, five and six years old were not bearing, but the older trees were loaded down. At Derby, Conn., C. F. Gilbert, with his wife and child and Mrs. Livingstone and Mrs. Dickerson, started down the river in a sailboat. Nothing has b°en seen or heard of them since. Great excitement prevails. Another embezzlement of 6224,000 of State funds by Bardsley was discovered at Philadelphia, making a grand total of 6669,000 stolen of the State funds by the faithless ex-treasurer. i WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Utica, 111., the busy little cement and brick manufacturing town and the seat of many cozy and pretty homes, was devastated by a cloud-burst An ominous black cloud hung like a pall fora few minutes over the place and then belched forth such a volume of water as evert Utica, the scene of many floods, had never beheld before. A few hours after the fxst deluge came the water receded, and whil? no loss 6f life was reported, tlie great amount of damage began to dawn upon the residents of tjje place. Not a dwelling or place of Business was spared from the water's fury, and household goods to the value of thousands of dollars were ruined. Beautiful lawns were despoiled, and sand and mud to the depth of several inches covered the floors and carpets of dwellings. At Keokuk, lowa, the marriage of Miss Georgia Kilbourne, daughter of Mrs. George Kilbourne, pf that city, and Major General John M. Scoflield, .commanding the armies of the United States, took place in St. John’s Episcopalian Church. All of Keokuk's exclusive society was present to witness the ceremony. Carl Block, a Racine, Wis., harnessmaker in pqpr circumstances, received a letter from a wealthy brother in Breslau, Germany, saying that as he was about to marry a second wife, he wanted to provide for his two brothers and two sisters, and had set aside for each of them 620, (100. Milton C. Brown, a prominent business man of East St. Louis, and his wife quarreled, and Mrs. Brown applied for a divorce on the grounds of extreme and repeated cruelty. Mr. Brown waived all rights of defense, and in five minntes the divorce was granted. Mrs. Brown immediately left for Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. C. A. Foss, a young Presbyterian minister, occupying pulpits at Canton and Lanesboro, Minn., is wearing two black eyes and having the appearance otherwise of being the victim of assault by a young man named Caine, the son of W. W. Caine, of Wiscoy. Rev. Mr. Foss, It seems, had been paying attentions to a yonng lady at Wiscoy and in doing so hatj usurped the place in her affections formerly occupied by Caine. For this he had received two sound thrashings from his rival. At Salina, Kan., ex-Congressman A. Phillips, < andidate for Congress last fall, won the suit brought by Dan Wagstaff, for 6200 spent in Phillips’ campaign. The money was spent for beer to influence voters and Phillips refused to pay it. The case has been appealed and a lively sensation as to political machine methods is promised. The reports from Kansas are very discouraging. The wet weather is making the outlook very gloomy. Z. O. Smith, one of the best-known grain men in Kansas City, said that if the bad reports were confirmed the estimate for Kansas wheat would have to be cut to 35,000,000 bushels, instead of tho 60,000,000 bushelsit was expected to raise. Recently James Waggener, of Crook County, Wyoming, was taken from his home by three supposed United States officers. The other day Mrs. Waggener found the body of her husband hanging from a tree about ten miles from the ranch. Waggener had amassed 615,000 in cash and a large batch of horses. Ho had raided cautiously in his own neighborhood, but bolaly handled st<£len stock consigned to him from the Dakotas, Montana and Utah. At Waukesha, Wis., tne jury in the case of John Bernhardt, charged with the killing of John Schley, a saloonkeeper, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. The Supreme Court, at Indianapolis, Ind., through Judge Elliot, handed down a decision in the case of the Columbus Construction Company vs. the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, involving the transportation of natural gas. Tho case came up from Porter County, where the law was declared unconstitutional. The decision is reversed and the law held valid. At Aberdeen, S. D., Judge Haney has granted the application for the appointment of a receiver of the Fidelity Fire Insurance Company, of Huron. Action was brought at the instigation of State Auditor Taylor, who found that the liabilities exceeded the assets by nearly 625,000. The corporation will be dissolved. Six millions of insurance were carried, and all policies will be turned over to the Hecla, of St. Paul. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, ex-Sena-tor from Indiana, died at his residence in Indianapolis, of cancer of the stomach, aged 73 years. At Hudson Lake, Ind., Robert Hall and Byron Landon fought over Sarah Mell, with whom Hall was desperately in love. Hall’s neck was broken in the fight Landon fled to the woods, about two miles distant The Sheriff, after a diligent search, found Landon secreted under a brush heap. Landon willingly surrendered himself and was placed in jail. A large number of cattle grazing in the Cherokee Strip have been fatally poisoned. They belong to the J. H. Rugby herd of 10,000 that just entered the strip from Texas. It is supposed tc be the work of “boomers,” who art fighting the cattlemen. The eighth American Derby, a ract for three-vear-old horses, wqrth ovei SIB,OOO, was run at the Washington

Park, Chicago, in the presence of 40,000 people, and resulted in a victory for Mr. Green B. Morris’ colt Strathmeath, which was brought on from New York to land this rich stake. Poet Scout was second, and Kingman (the favorite) third For over a year the mystery surrounding the murder of Christopher Helm, a wealthy cattleman, whose body was found on the Cherokee strip riddled with bullets, two weeks after he had been killed, has baffled the authorities. A few days ago a burglar was fatally shot at Cherokee, Texas. Just before dying he confessed that he and a man named Ben Scott killed Helm and robbed his body of a large sum of money. It is said that the authorities have Scott located. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. It is reported from Graves County, Ky., that Payton Reed (colored), driver of a mail .wagon between Mayfield and Cuba, was taken from his home by White Caps and since then has not been seen. Payton and a girl of respectable parentage had*been making preparations to elope. This fact being discovered the raid ensued. It is not known what became of Payton. but the belief is that he was hanged or shot and his body hidden. Five miles from New Orleans the fast express train on the Illinois Central was wrecked. Six persons, it is reported, wore killed* and twenty more injured. A relief train was sent to the scene of the accident with doctors, and a number of ambulances ordered to the depot to receive and convey the wounded to the hospital. The wreck knocked down all the wires of the Western Union Company on the Illinois Central Railroad, cutting off telegraph communication. Tfie wreck occurred near the old Sauve plantation. At Pine Bluffs, Ark., drivers on the street railroad quit the service of the company because the stock had not been fed. The drivers say the mules had nothing to eat for four days. At New Orleans, the jury in the case of Thomas J. McCrystal and John Cooney, charged with attempting to bribe J. Gormley, who had been summoned as a tales juror in the Hennessy case, returned a verdict of guilty. Judge Marr sentenced McCrystal to one year in the penitentiary, the full term provided by Jaw. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Queen Victoria has decided that the Duke of Fife’s daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the Prince of Wales) is only entitled to rank as the daughter of a duke and not as a princess of the blood royal. During the last week there have been a great many strong articles in the Italian press, incited perhaps by those that have appeared in the l aris papers, and all directed against the Chicago World’s Fair, which they treat with ridicule. These papers are discouraging the idea of any Italian exhibits on the occasion, and it appears that unless something is done to cause a complete change in public feeling Italy will be almost, if not entirely, unrepresented at the World's Fair. It is understood that one of the" first visitors to be “commanded” to Windsor will be Mrs. Grimwood. on whom her majesty desires personally to confer the order of the Red Cross and hear the story of the heroine of Manipur from her own lips. . Mrs. Grimwood is only 22, and is very pretty. M. Pasteur has just had anew lift and a big advertisement for his wellknown institute. There was an immense sensation at Mevy sur Oise when a mad dog ran amuck and bit nineteen people. Eleven of these have already been admitted to the institute in order ,Jo receive treatment at the hands of the great physiologist. FRESHAND NEWSY. Tremendous successes have been gained by the party in revolt against Balmaceda’s administration in Chili. The most important success of the insurgents’ cause was gained by the warship Esmeralda, which lias destroyed the Government works at the Lobos or Seal Guano Islands. The works were shelled by the Esmeralda. A force was landed and the docks and railroad completely demolished. So complete was the work of destruction that shipments of guano are now impossible. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Crop prospects have greatly improved during the past week, particularly in southern and Northwestern regions, where there has been lack of rain, and there is now scarcely a single commercial center from which the crop reports are not highly favorable. It is important that all Northwestern and Southwestern reports mention rains and brighter crop prospects. At St. Paul it is stated that few localities now lack moisture, and tho wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas is thought to be secure from harm by drought Crop prospects strengthen confidence at Kansas City, and business is improved at Louisville, decidedly at Montgomery and slightly at New Orleans. The wool market at New York shows Improvement and a larger demand by manufacturers. Tbe business failures occurring during the past seven days number for the United States 324 and for Canada 29. or a total of 253, as compared with a total of 244 last week and 224 the week previous to tbe last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 199, representing 17S failures in the United States and 21 in Canada. THS MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes3.so @ 6.35 Hoos—Shipping Grades 4.00 & 4.75 Sheep 3.20 @ 5.20 Wheat—No. 2 Red 95Jfc@ .96’$ Corn—No. 2 58*4@ .59 l 4 Oats—No. 2 .’ 36 @ .37 Rye—No. 2 ".76 @ .78Butter— Choice Creameryl6 @ .17*4 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08*-(tf> .09 Eggs—Fresh. Potatoes—New, per brl 4.50 @ 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping..... 3.50 @5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 8.00 @ 4.65 Sheep—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red9s @ .97 Corn—No. 1 White .59*£@ .61J4 Oats—No. 2 White 43 @ .45 ST. LOUIS. Cattle. 4.00 @ 6.00 Hogs«... 4.00 @4.75 Wm/.at-No. 2 Red 99J..>@ 1.00’4 Corn—No. 2 , .57*2® .68’-* Oats—No. 2 43*«j@ .44}r> Rye—No. 2..., .73 @ .75 CINCINNATI. CUTTLE...» 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.50 @ 5.00 Sheep 3.75 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 & 1.03*4 Corn—No. 259 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 44 @ .45 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @5.26 H0g5?..... 8.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96 @ .97*4 Corn—No. 2 Ye110w....60 @ .61 Oats-No. 2 White4B @ .50 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.02 @ 1.03 Corn—Cash......' .59 @ .60 Oats-No. 1 White 43 & .45 Clover Seed 4.10 @ 4.20 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 6.C0 Hogs—Light 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep—Medium1 4.25 @ 5.00 Lambs 4.75 @ 6.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 93 @ .91 Cohn—No. 3 59 @ .60 Oats-No. 2 White 42 @ .43 Rye—No. 1 . 81 @ .S 3 Barley—No. 2...69 @ .70 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.50 NEW YORK. CATTLE...., 4.50 @ 6.50 Hogs 4.25 @5.25 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @ 1.11 Cohn—No. 2 71 0 .78 Oats—Mixed Western .40 @ .44 Butteb—Creamery.. .14 @ .18 Eggs—Western . 16>$@ .17*4 Fobk-Now Mess 12.0 Q 012.50 . 'u ' -Q'

OHIO REPUBLICANS. FULL PROCEEDINGS OF THEIR STATE CONVENTION. Maj. William McKinley Nominated by Acclamation for Governor Amid Wild Enthusiasm—Full Text of the Flatform Adopted. The first day’s session of the Ohio Republican State Convention, held at Columbus, was occupied in the appointment of the several committees. Col. Robert Nevin was chosen temporary chairman, and delivered an interesting The second day’s proceedings were opened by prayer, after which the report of the committee on credentials was presented and adopted. The committee on permanent organization reported, amid applause, the name of Gen. Asa S. Bushnell, of Clark County, for permanent chairman of the convention, and E. J. Kessinger, of Athens, for permanent secretary. Chairman Bushnell’s address was brief. Nominations were declared in order, and ex-Gov. Foraker arose to present the name of William McKinley for Governor. The ex-Governor was was wildly received, and his remarks received frequent interruptions by the cheering audience. Col. Robert Harlan, tbe colored orator of»Cincinnati, seconded Maj. McKinley’s nomination “on behalf of the colored voters of Ohio.” 'With one wild, hilarious cheer of affirmation the convention declared Maj, McKinley nominated Governor by acclamation, and a committee was appointed to apprise him of his nomination and escort him to the hall. His appearance was the signal for another outburst of enthusiasm. Mr. McKinley spoke at considerable length on the issues of the day, and was followed by Senator Sherman. speech by Secretary Foster, who is detained at Washington, was read- It was devoted mainly to defending the appropriations of the last Congress. Short work was made of tho other nominations, which are as follows: For Lieutenant Governor—O. L. Harris, of Preble County.. For Auditor—E- W. Poe, of Wood County. For Attorney General —J. K. Richards, of Scioto County. For Supreme Court Judge—M. J. Williams, of Fayette County. For member of the Board of Public Works—Charles E. Grace, of Pickaway County. For School Commissioner—O. T, Carson, of Guernsey County. For Treasurer—W. T. Coop, of Columbiana County. For Food Commissioner—F. H. McNeal, of Miami County. The following platftrm was adopted: The Republicans of Ohio in convention assembled, reaffirm and express their adhesion to tbe principles which have guided them heretotore in promoting rhe prosperity and happiness of the American people. 1. We reaffirm our devotion to the patriotic doctrine of protection and recognize the McKinley bill as the ablest expression of that principle enacted in fulfillment of Republican promises, and we pledge ourselves to its support, always having in view its improvement us changed conditions or experience may require. 2. We favor such legislation by Congress and in this State, as will in every practicable mode, encourage, protect and promote the interests of agriculture in all its departments. Protection of labor and Knights of Labor such as will grant to toil its full and just rewards, is among the first obligations of tbe Government 3. We demand protection- for the wool industry, equal to that accorded to the most favored manufacturer of wool, so that in due time American wool growers will supply all . wool of every kind required for consumption in the United States. 4. Thoroughly believing that gold and silver should form the basis of all circulating medium, we endorse the amepded Coinage Act of tho last Republican Congress, by which the entire production of the silver mines of the United States is added to the currency of the people. 5. We demand, and will continue to demand until finally and absolutely secured, the free exercise by every citizen of the supreme and sovereign right to cast one ballot at lawful elections, and have it honestly counted. 6. While inviting €0 our shores the worthy poor or oppressed of other nations, we demand the enactment of laws that will protect our country and our people against the influx of the vicious and criminal classes of foreign nations and the importation of laborers under contract to compete with our own citizens ; and earnestly approve the rigid enforcement of existing laws by the present National administration. 7. We favor economy in the administration of National and State affairs ; prompt and effective restraint of combinations of capitalists for purposes unlawful or at variance with sound public policy; ample educational facilities for the whole people; the reservation of the public lands of the United States for homesteads for American citizens and the restoration of the public domain of annulled railroad grants. And we contemplate with pridS the progress of Re-/ publican legislation and administration in all of the districts named. ’ 8. The Republican party, ever mindful of the services of those who saved the Nation, favor liberal pensions to sailois and soldiers of the Republic and a generous care 01 their widows and orphans. ' 9. The patriotism, wisdom and ability of the administration of President Harrison command our cordial approbation and support, and we especially commend the policy of reciprocity by which our trading will be vastly increased by commercial treaties with other Nations and we also commend the vigorous foreign policy of tho administration, which has commanded the respect of foreign Nations for the flag of our country. 10. We commend the patriotic services of our distinguished fellow citizen, Senator Sherman, and his Republican colleages in the lifty-first Congress. <■» 11. We commend President Harrison and the) country upon its selection'of Hon. Chas.. Foster as the Secretary of the Treasury, assuring as it does an able and efficient administration ®f that great department of the Government. 12. We denounce the so-called “ripper Legislature" of Ohio as the most corrupt and incompetent and the administration of James E. Campbell as the most partisan in the history of our State. We denounce the present Government of Ohio for having converted benevolent institutions /into political machines, making political merchandise of suffering calamities of the helpless wards of the State, and we point with pride to the more patriotic and wise management of State affairs under the administration of Gov. J. B. Foraker. We denounce Gov. Campbell and the Sixtyninth General Assembly for violating their party pledges and the rights of local self-govern-ment by the legislative reorganization of num-ei-ous towns and cities for solely partisan purposes. We denounce the late ripperL eglslature for having sanctioned and encouraged the increase of local taxation and for increasing the expenditures of the State more than a half million of dollars in excess of the appropriations of any preceding two years, thus bringing the State to the verge of bankruptcy in spite of the generous appropriation made by a Republican Congress in the act of refunding the direct tax. We denounce the late,“ripper” Senate of Ohio for unseating the legally elected Lieutenant Governor, thus robbing the people of their right under the constitution to select an important public officer and we appeal to all intelligent and patriotic people of Ohio to unite with us in the recovery of the" State from the hands of the party that for two years past has disgraced it. In compliance with the recently enacted ballot reform law, the convention adopted a device to be printed at the head of tho Republican ticket, this device to be t|ie American eagle. The convention then adjourned sine die. The following gentlemen were chosen as State Central Committeemen: First—Charles T. Hayman, Hamilton. Second—L. M. Hadden, Hamilton. Third—lra Crawford, Montgomery. Fourth—S. M. Taylor, Champaign. Fifth—N. E. Matthews,' Putnam. Sixth—George Russell, Henry. Seventh—A. D. Fassott. Lucas. Eighth—ll. P. Crouse, Hancock. Ninth—F. W. Herbst, Franklin. Tenth—H. M. Daugherty, Fayette. Eleventh—George W. Temple, Clermont. Twelfth—Jerry L. Carpenter, Meigs. Thirteenth—F. S. Pursell, Hocking. Fourteenth—l. L. McAlvaine, Tuscarawas. Fifteenth—W. 8. Cappeler, Richland. Sixteenth—Charles D. Nell, Medina. Seventeenth—l. R. Rose, Washington. Eighteenth—James R. Barr, Guernsey. ’ Nineteenth—L. W. King, Mahoning. Twentieth—E. R. Harper, Summit. Twenty-fest—W. E. Cubben. Cuxahoga.

TORRENTS OF WATER DELUGE THE ENTIRE ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY. Tlx® Floods Were Caused by Cloudbursts, j and Were Unparalleled in Their Suddenness —Enormous Destruction ot Property—Three Children Drowned in Sight of Their Mother. The village ot Utica, 111., was the scene of a c’oud-burst that is almost without parallel. A few minutes before noon an omin-ous-looking cloud was observed hanging over the village and with a peculiar rolling motion shifting first east, then northward, and then apparently rolling back upon its path until it came directly over the town. The darkness that attended the gathering storm was like that ofnight. The people were terror-stricken and looked at one another in speechless suspense. Suddenly the floodgates of the heavens were opened and at one awful burst a torrent poured itself upon the village, and almost instantly the streets were buried under water that rose over lawns, porches, and then into the houses, driving the people from their homes and their places of business to seek safety on the highest points available. The excitement and anguish of the fleeing panic-stricken villagers was terrible in the extreme. Many of them believed their last hour had come. Mothers hugged their children to their breasts and prayed for deliverance. Others, not entirely paralyzed with fear, devoted themselves to saving their property from ruin. Within a few moments of the cloudburst the water was iully six feet deep in the streets. When it began receding the great damage to property could be discerned. Sidewalks, fences, and bridges were washed away; dwellings and places of business were partially ruined, and household goods on the lower floors were render* d worthless. The Rock Is'and's new double-track iron railroad bridge over the I’eguin Soggin creek was washed away, and four cars on a siding at the new cement works were carried down the stream. The canal bank broke in several places, which increased the volume of water, and lock No. 13, just west of Utica, was torn out. Large gangs of men were immediately at work removing the great beds of sand which washed upon the track from the Utica pits, while others were replacing the broken bridge. The loss is hard to approximate, but 6150,000 is a conservative figure. In Hilton, a small town across the river from Peoria, numerous houses were washed from their foundations and the people fled in their night-cloth, s to the railroad grade and the hills. The water in houses at Farmdale rose to a depth of three feet, and the people narrowly escaped drowning. Herds of cattle, ” horses, hogs, and chickens were swept away, and the crops of farmers for a large tract of land in the valley were utterly ruined. The only fatality reported was in the Copperas Creek valley, just across tho line in Fulton County. A family named Gray had a cabin in the val’ey, and when the flood left the banks of Copperas Creek and rushed down the valley the inmates grew alarmed. The' father took his three boys and staited to the hills, while the mother refused to leave the house. When half-way across the valley a floatr ing log struck Gray and stunned him. The rushing water drowned the boys (aged 12, 8. and 5), and he narrowly escaped by clinging to the log. His wife got on the roof of tho house and was rescued. A watei spout deluged the country north and east of Canton, and did great damage to property. At Farmington 300 yards of the Central lowa Railway was washed out. Three bridges of the Lake Erie and Western Road between Crandall and Farmdale were destroyed by a cloudburst which Hooded Farm Creek Valley. Five other bridges were crippled. Several trains had narrow escapes and all were delayed. The storm was local and confined to a small area. SCHOFIELD-KILBOURNE. Celebration ot Their Nnptlals at the Home of the Bride. Gen. John M. Schofield, commander-in-chief of the United Statas army, has capitulated. His marriage to Miss Georgia Kilbourne, of Keokuk, lowa, was solemnized at the bride's home, and scores of the gallant soldier’s friends were present at the ceremony. The bride, Miss Georgia Kilbourne, is a beautiful young woman, about 26 years old,whose father is one of the wealthiest and best known men in Jowa. Her

GEN. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD.

grandfather was David Kilbourne, a capitalist and contractor, who moved from New York to the State west of the Mississippi almost in Its infancy. He projected many of its first railroads and public improvements, His son, George Kilbourne, married a daughter of Prof. Wells, who for many years conducted the military school for boys at Peekskill. Miss Kilbourne is well educated, is possessed of a comfortable fortune in her own right and will have more from her mother. She has traveled extensively and is an accomplished and wellpoised young woman who will he a brilliant accession to the social eorps of the

MISS GEORGIA N. KILBOURNE.

army. She is especially winsome in conversation, inheriting from both her parents uncommon gifts of wit, versatility and fluency. She has a petite figure, symmetrical and graceful, and understands perfectly the art of dressing becomingly. General Schofield it 60 years of aga -t.. a * p

FAST DISAPPEARING. THE TIMBER WEALTH OF THE GREAT PINE TRINITY. Mill Products Increase 30 Per Cent, in Quantity, 76 Per Cent, in Valuo-Only Enough! Held by Private Parties for Five Years’ Supply. The Census Office has prepared for dlsbution an Interesting bulletin on lumber production and allied Industries of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, which comprise what is known as the “white pine group.” The aggregate increase of mill products as compared with the census reports of 1880 is 29.66 per cent, in quantity and 75.92 per cent, in value; the increase in the number of hands employed is 138.49 per cent, and the increase in the total amount of wages paid is 141.26 percent. According to the tenth census (1880) the amount of capital invested in the milling Industry in Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota was $65,855,632. The capital shown to have been invested at the eleventh census (1890) Is $223,388,607, an Increase of $157,530,975. According to the census of 1880 the proportion of capital employed to the value ot manufactured products was reported to be $0.8468 to sl. In 1890 the proportion is stated to be $1.52 to sl. The latter proportion if applied to the amount of products, reported at the tenth census would producer the sum of $118,207,836 as the actual capital employed at that period, and the Increase computed on this basis is found to be 88.98 per cent. The results obtained respecting the prln« cipal subjects are summarized in the following exhibit for the group of States: Value of forest products not manufactured at mill $30,426,184 Value of mill products 115,669,004 Value of manufactures 21,112,618 Aggregate value of pr0duct55167,237,816 The production of this value required the employment of $270,152,012 Invested capital: the employment in the forest of 76,652 men, 99 women, and 10 children, and also the labor of 32,491 animals; the labor in the mills of 87,939 men, 646 women, and 653 children; the operation of machinery and mechanical appliances valued at $23,559,334; the removal of 1,262.151,180 cubic feet of merchantable timber from natural growth; the investment of $7,890,254 in vessels, railways, and waterways, specially used and owned by th s industry for the transportation of its material and product, and the ex-penditure of $99,688,256 for wages, subsistence, supplies, and miscellaneous expenses. The value of forest products not manufactured at mill, by States, is as follows: Michigansl4,ll6,964 Wisconsin 10,978,601 Minnesota 5,331,629 Total. .$30,426,194 The value of the mill products by States is as follows; Michffian $63,782,983 Wisconsin 38,109,671 Minnesota...., 13,806,350 T0ta1..5115,699,004 The value of manufactures by States is as follows: Michigan $4;358,206 ■Wisconsin f; 1T,437,739 Minnesota..";. 5,315,673 T0ta1821.112,618 Tho percentage of increase in the value of mill production and manufactures from the value reported in 1880 Isas follows: Michigan, 29.92 per cent.; Wisconsin, 175.99 percent.; Minnesota, 159.61 percent. In some localities in Michigan, the supply of all kinds of timber has become practically exhausted, and the decreased production is noted, while in others, where the pine has been denuded, other varieties of timber are now utilized into a greater variety of products. The fact is cited in explanation of the Increase shown in remanufactures. According to the census of 1880, the six principal lumber producing cities in this group were, in order, as follows: 1. Bay City, Mich., 0utput53,607,298 2. Muskegon, Mich., 0utput'3,199,250 3. Minneapolis. Minn., output 2,740 848 4. Saginaw, Mich., output 2,035?6 6 5. Manistee, Mich., output 1,£67,500 6. Menominee, Micfi., 0utput1,2j4,834 At the present census this order of relative rank has materially changed, Saginaw, and Manistee, Mich., having been outclassed from the six principal cities, the order of which is now as follows: 1. Minneapolis, Minn., 0utput..56,584,456 2. Menominee, Mich., output 4,208,089 3. Muskegon, Mich.,output 4,016,094 4. Bay City, Mich., output 4 006,214 5. Oskosh, Wis., output 3,819.150 6. La Crosse, Wis.,output 3,202 636 The production of white pine lumber was carried to its highest point in 1880 at the mouth of Saginaw River, Michigan, and that point still holds first rank in this respect. The aggregate value of production reported for Bay City, West Bay City, Saginaw, Essexville and Zilwaukee, constituting the principal productive points on the Saginaw River, was $8,520,943 in 1880 and $9,927,405 in 1890. The aggregate quantity of material consumed during the census year 1890 was about 650,000,000 feet board measure, and the quantity ofs tanding timber now owned by establishments in the places named Is reported to be about 2,500,000,000 feet The city of Menominee, at the mouth of the Menominee River, in Michigan, shows the greatest Increase of production during the decade. In 1880 it ranked sixth in the nine principal lumber-producing points in the United States, and is now found to be second. The aggregate quantity of material consumed at those points during the census year 1890 was about 450,000,000 feet, board measure, and the quantity* of standing timber now owned by establishments in the places named is reported to be more than 4,000,000,000, indicating a sufficient supply at the present rate of consumption for another decade. The principal material uped by this industry consists of standing timber, and but for the fact of the inability of the officials of the Federal Government to furnish data or approximate estimate showing the area of timbered lands In Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota owned by the Government It would be possible to approximate the gross average of timbered lands owned by both the Government and private parties. It is shown from returns of individual manufacturers that their present Boldings of standing timber in this group of States are only sufficient to supply them for about five years at the present rate of consumption. The quantity in reserve is believed to be principally comprehended by whut Is standing on lands owned by Federal and State Governments. This quantity, however, is unknown. Tbe Federal Government supplies no information on this subject, but the holdingSj of public lands reported by State Governments Indicate that no considerable area of timbered lands is owned by the State of Michigan. The total area of land held by the State of Wisconsin Sept. 30, 1890. is reported at 671,633 acres. Most of this land js located in the northern counties and about onehalf is said to be timbered. The State of Minnesota reports ownership of 13,000,000 acre-* of timbeied land, containing 20,000, 000,000 feet of standing timber, mostly pine, valued at $60,000,000. ? The total capital invested In timbered lands and standing timber by the establishments reporting in the respective States is as follows: Michigans4s,sß6,47B Wisconsin; 34,003,044 Minnesota 5,791,924 Total $85,381,446 Os the foregoing, the amounts invested in lands located outside the group of States are as follows: Michigans4,967,lßs Wisconsin 8,639,434 Minnesota... 509,480 Total A visitor to the fur exhibition tn London says: “A curious bundle was shown to me as ‘freaks of nature’—a skunk skin of'a fawn color, with an arrowshaped mark tn white: black and white skunk skins, like a badger’s, and a curious admixture of gray and blaok. These no money could duplicate. There are « couple of water buffalo heads, which are almost priceless now, and many noble antlers dear to the heart of the sportsman, for the exhibition appeals to the naturalist and sportsman as weft as to the woman of fashion.* <v• -i s t.'*s«Ai"i

FROM LAKE TO RIVER.' A BIP BATCH OF INTERESTING INDIANA NEWS. Freak Intelligence from Every Part of the State—Nothing ot Interest to Our Headers Left Out. —George Bogart, of Marshall County, had his head cut open and leg torn off by a buzz saw. —The eastern exurslon of Indiana newspaper men will start from Frankfort the last of July. —The Western Association of Writers will hold its sixth annual convention at Warsaw July 9 and 10. —Mrs. Anna Thomas, aged 81, and mother of Wilson Thomas, of Muncie, died at her home, in Granville. —James Mulhaney, aged 97 years, died suddenly of cramp colic at his home near Eekerty, Crawford County. —Robert Mcßride, of Jeffersonville, who was appointed to a cadetship at W’est Point, has declined the honor. —The County Commissioners of Tipton County have raised the County Treasurer’s bond from £IOO,OOO to £250,000. —Mary, the 12-year-old daughter of John Miller, fell from a swing at Cedar Beach and broke her neck,, resulting in instant death. —Mrs. Susan Wood Coats, a wealthy lady living at Shelbyville, fell, injuring her hip so badly that she will remain a cripple for life. i ‘ . —Farmer James Armstrong, near Noblesville, carried a gun for rabbits,while mowing grass, aud was killed by an accidental discharge. —William Coughlin, a brakeman on the Evansville and Richmond Railroad, was caught while making a coupling in the yards at Seymour, and his hip badly mashed. —At Desota on the Lake Eric and Western Railway, Henry Jones, aged 20, fell from a moving box-car and had both legs mashed off at tbe abdomen. He died shortly after. —To protect themselves from petty pilfering the farmers residing near Silver Grove have organized themselves into a neighborhood police force and patrol the country roads nightly. —Mrs. Ida Merrill, of Fortville, while endeavoring to milk a vicious cow, was attacked by the animal and severely and perhaps fatally injured by receiving a broken shoulder-blade and several fractured ribs before she could be rescued. —Martin Yocum, a farmer living near Charlestown, narrowly escaped being killed by the explosion of a can of powder. He was carrying the can under his arm and a spark from tbe pipe he was smoking fell in the can. An explosion followed and Y’ocum was painfully injured. —The big land deal being organized by the Pennsylvania Railroad officials at Dunkirk has been consummated, and engineers have .commenced platting thp _. ground. A boom is expected. Wood & Co., have begun Work on a 30-250-foot iron building for manufacturing purposes. —George Shannon, who stole half of a hog from a widow in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, last winter, was tried in the Circuit Court recently. The jury, after being out all night, brought in a verdict of guilty, him 825, sentenced him to one yflff in the Penitentiary, and disfranchised him for two years. —J. E. Townsend, of Harveysburg Warren County, Ohio, was instantly killed by the early south-bound passenger train on the C. W. & M. Railroad, a half mile south of Milford. He was crossing the track in his buggy when the team watstruck by the engine. From papers on his person it was learned that the man was a physician and was deaf and dumb. The buggy was broken in pieces, but the horse escaped without being hurt. * —William S. Bickel, of Elkhart, one of the oldest and most popular passenger engineers on the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, was killed at Benton Harbor, Mich. He fell from x the tender of his engine, his shoulder and head extending across the rail. The wheels struck him on the shoulder, dragging his body along, and rolled upon his neck, crushing one side of it and severing the jugular vein. Death was instantaneous. His father was killed at Elkhart on the Lake Shore coal docks several years agq. Also, a brother was killed at Waterloo, while breaking on a train. Mr. Bickel leaves a wife and two children. —While the cell room at the northern Indiana penitentiary has a capacity of some sixteen hundred, every other department is crowded to its utmost capacity, says the City Diapatch. In the dining-room Warden French is so jgressed for room that he is compelled to seat a portion of the convicts in the .kitchen. Heretofore the largest number of inmates at the Northern Prison was 783. Now the count shows 808, the' largest number confined in the institution at any one time since its construction. Warden French anticipates that the prison will contain over T a thousand convicts before the present appropriation is expended. While the increase is enormous, the appropriation remains at the same figures when it was made to take care of 700 convicts. * —Tipton is to have a brick street All the material is now on the ground and work has commenced, and when completed will bo the first of the kind in central Indiana. —As a man was driving across a field near Crawfordsville, a blacksnake over five feet in length suddenly coiled around one of the horse’s legs. The animal ran a mile before he could be stopped, when the man got out and killed the snake waich was still hanging on and showing a disposition to fight —George Feaster, a convict employed in the brush-and-wlre-works at Jeffersonville, laid his hand on a saw for the purpose of disabling himself so that he would not need to work. He lost three fingers by the operation. —Work has been resumed on the pipe line through which it is proposed to conduct natural gas from the Indiana field to Chicago. Some months ago work was stopped, and it was given out that the project had been abandoned. This is now supposed to have been only a ruse for the purpose of securing rights of way on better terms.