Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1891 — Page 2

©he DECATUR, IND. VL WTi ACT 818 0 Jty * * * PXJKUBSH3BL AT HOME AND ABROAD. FOUR MURDERERS ELECTROCUTED AT SING SING. A Frightful Cyclone Visits Baton Rouge La.—Kun Down a Stage—Heavy Loss in Tea—Explosion In a Powder Mill. DEATH LN THE WIND. A Cyclone Visits Baton Rouge, La., Carrying with It Destruction and Death. A cyclone at Baton Rouge, La., destroyed several houses. Many people were hurt. The penitentiary walls were blown down and many convicts are reported killed. The steamboat Smoky City was blown to pieces, there being nothing left ol her but the hull. Several of the crew were badly injured. Eight dead and twenty-four wounded have been taken from the ruins at the penitentiary. Two squares in the east side of Baton Rogue were destroyed. The fatalities are variously estimated at from thirty to forty. The shade trees on many of the streets were uprooted. A visit to the capitol and other State buildings showed them unharmed by the winds as was also the business portion of the town on Main and Ford streets unaffected by the mad storm. The southern portion of the city styled “Catfish-town” suffered great loss and damage of property. In this section of the city, several persons were seriously hurt and bruised by flying timbers from falling houses and fences. The drug store of B. A. Day was completely demolished and gutted of its contents, the loss amounting to §5,000. The extent of the damage throughout the city by this storm cannot accurately be estimated at this time. The cyclone did not make a straight sweep through the city, but would strike the ground and bound forward like a bouncing ball. It would pass over several Rouses at a time and ascending again tear its way for hundreds of feet at a time, 'trunks of large oaks were popped off like pipe stems. So sudden was the storm that a number of bread carts, ex- < press and other vehicles were caught and wrecked in the streets and it departed as suddenly as it came. A number of very narrow escapes are reported. The wife of Dr. Thomas S. Jones had just entered the bath room, when four of the rafters from a miller’s shop came flying through the air and pierced the "Walls of the room less than three feet above her head. Charley Day was in his father’s drug store when it collapsed, and although the room was torn nearly upside down, and timbers twisted in every direction, he escaped with a slight bruise on the forehead. Run Down a Stage. New York special: A stage, in which was a party of twenty members of the Junior Dramatic Club, of Newark, was » run down by a train at the Washington place crossing of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, at Passiac. Thomas Hart, aged 21, was killed, and Prof. Dunn, Thomas Hill, and John O’Keefe, were seriously, though not fatally hurt. The rest of the passengers were either badly shaken .up by the collision orslightly bruised by jumping from the stage. - Blair Rejected. Acting Secretary of State Wharton declined to talk about the formal declination of the Chinese Government to receive Ex-Senator Blair as United States Minister to that country. He said, howeve#, that he would like to have it known that Mr. Blair has drawn but one mpnth’s salary, which the law allows, since his appointment, and ho is not, as erroneously reported, drawing a salary now as Minister to China. Races at Fort Wayne, Ind. The first meeting of the Fort Wayne Driving Club occurs July 14, 15, 16 and • 17. The program includes a 2:48 trot and a 2:40 pace on Tuesday; a 2:24 class trot, a 2:30 pace and a 2-year-old race on Wednesday; a 2:38 trot, a 2:17 pace and a 3-year-old trot on Thursday, and a 2:17 trot, a 2:24 pace and a 2:30 class trot on Friday. All the purses are for §4OO each except the colt races, which are for §l5O. Princess Victoria a Bride. Princess Victoria, of Schleswig-Hol-stein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was married in St. George’s chapel, Windsor, England, to Prince Albert of Anhalt Dessau. Queen Victoria, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, the Prince and Princess of Wales and numerous members of the royal and imperial ’■ households were present. A Carpet Mill Destroyed. Fire destroyed the largo five-story carpet mill of E. R. Priestly, 1210 Lawrence street, Philadelphia, Pa., involving a loss of about §IOO,OOO. Messrs. Furbush & Co., who had machinery stored k, in the building will lose at least §30,000. Mr. Priestly has an insurance of about §40,000 on buildings and contents. Another Wreck. The engine and three cars of the north-bound express on the Santa Fe road were thrown off the track at Willow Springs, Kan. Fireman George Penny had two ribs broken 1 and his foot crushed. 'Engineer James Hahn was badly bruised. The"engine is a complete wreck. Murder at Montpelier, Ind. Cash Herron, in a drunken quarrel, five miles southeast of Montpelier, Ind., stabbed John Lanning in the left side of his neck, nearly cutting his head off, killing him instantly. Death in an Electric Current. Four murderers, Slocum, Smiler, Wood, and Jugiro, were executed at Sing Sing prison, New York, by electricity, . Wednesday morning. Explosion in a Powder Mill. The press mill of the Moosic Powder Company, at Jermina, Pa., exploded with a terrific shock, instantly killing John Lutey and Phillip Fordket, who were the only workmen it> the place at the time. The mill was^shattered into fragments. • . Heavy Loss In Tea. A car oad of tea, which was being run on board a freight boat from the dock at San Francisco, fell into the harbor and sank. About 20,000 pounds of tea in all were lost. EASTERN OCCURRENCES, The boiler of shifting engine 235 on the Central Railroad of New Jersey exploded at Mauch Chunk, Pa. Four men •' were killed. Engineer Tripp and Fireman Pope were blown to atoms. At Pittsburg, Aliss Carrie Duff, the 19-year-old niece of Levi Bird Duff, a ■well-known Pittsburg attorney, was arrested upOn the street for stealing over 82,000 worth of diamonds from several of Pittsburg’s leading jewelers. With her was arrested J. C. Cameron, a well- > known young man, who is Treasurer of < the Metropolitan Fishing Club. Miss *. . .

=============================== Duff and Mr. Cameron wen to be married. Cameron was short in his accounts, and, furthermore, they needed money for wedding expenses and a wedding tripu A Newcastle, Pa., special says a traction engine drawing a shanty on wheels went through a bridge. John Byron, Charles Newton and Chalmer Shaffer were caught in the wreck and so badly scalded by the escaping steam that they will hardly recover. While sitting in his club rooms at Bangor, Me., ex-Vice President (during Lincoln’s first term) Hannibal Hamlin was stricken by heart failure and died within an hour. Mr. Hamlin was born in Paris, Me, in 1809, and was therefore, 82 years old. Until within a few months he had been in robust health, frequently going fishing and engaging in other outdoor exercise. Nearly all his family were present at his death bed. His son Frank, at Chicago, was summoned to attended the furnerat An explosion occurred on the steamer Standard, loading oil at Point Breeze, Pa. Five men were injured. William Morton and David McVey will doubtless die. . •_ WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A company playing interior Illinois towns announce their lady star as supported by the “McVicker Theater Company of Chicago. ” There is no McVicker Theater Company on the road. Manager McVicker pays exclusive attention to McVicker’s Theater in Chicago and to no other business. No dramatic thieves should be allowed to prosper by the use of his name, or of any other of repute and honor. Dispatches report a cyclone at Gray, lowa. A large number of houses in the track of the storm were destroyed and a number of people Injured. One man is reported killed. At Halbur there was a heavy storm of hail, doing much damage to crops of all kinds. Audubon also reports a heavy hailstorm with hailstones as large as hens’ eggs. The storm lasted twenty minutes and greatly damaged crops. Arcadia and Westside also report great damage. Tukee men in a wagon were driving across the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, tracks at St. Louis avenue, Chicago, when a passenger train crashed into the vehicle and hurled the occu- i pants high into the air. Two of the men, Peter Becker and John Norton, 1 will die from their injuries. John Newman was severely bruised. Fob many years Robert James, of Blue Lick. Clark County, Ind., has been blind, and had given up all hope of ever regaining his sight. Several days ago his wifi* was taken dangerously ill, and I in his distress he wept and prayed in- I cessantly. Suddenly his sight came back to him, and he now sees as well as ever. A messenger who has just arrived at Holbrook, Ari. Ter., from Col. Corbin, i reports that he arrested the eight Indians whom he went after for destroying landmarks and threatening the destruction of life. Lakeville, Minn., was the scene of a terrible tragedy. Eli Mullinax, a noted desperado and horse thief, whose home is in Princeton, Mo., shot and instantly killed John Johnson. Mullinax was then wounded by a son of Johnson, but not seriously. Peter Brizendine, a companion of Mullinax, then shot and instantly killed young Johnson, and ; wounded Mrs. Johnson, who rushed to ! the assistance of her husband and son I Mullinax and Brizendine are noted horse thieves, and were making away with a pair of fine bay horses belonging to Johnson. They escaped, but will be lynched if captured. Cherokees will compel the stockmen grazing cattle on their lands to pay 50 cents per head for their privileges. If they do so the Cherokees will call for injunction proceedings in case the Gen- , eral Government attempts to eject the i cattlemen. At Sioux City it is reported on good i authority that the C., B. & Q. has purchased the interests of the Rock Island in the Burlington, Cedar Rapids j Northern, and will form a compact with the Sioux City Ct .Northern which will give it a line into Sioux City. Two’ bodies, one that of a man of 50 and the other that of a woman somewhat younger, were found in Superior Bay, Wis., near the St. Paul and Pacific docks. The bodies have been identified as those of a man named Whitehall and his wife. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Charlotte, N. C., Brabham, the negro to be hanged soon for murdering the Italian, Mocca, made an attempt on the life of the sheriff. The negro would have killed him but for a prisoner nariled Caldwell, who rushed from the corridor and pulled Brabham away. The prisoner begged to be killed, so he would not live to be hanged. Mr. E. L. Mann, manager of the Shelby plantation, near Shelby Station, Bolivar County, Miss, was murdered. He was eating supper, and the assassin shot through the window at him. A negro tenant with whom Mann had quarreled is suspected. The negro has run away. In New Orleans Mayor Shakespeare ordered the telegraph poles of the Postal Telegraph Company cut down. The Mayor stated that he did not think the move was justifiable, but he could only obey the order of the Council. The telegraph company is cut off from doing business by the breaking of the wires. Near Charleston, W. Va., James Hawkins and Howard Dotson were halted by two masked men and fired on. Dotson escaped, but Hawkins was shot and robbed. Before dying next morning he described his assailants. Luther Glenn and Joe Locket, Jr, were arrested. The murderers got §ls. At Huntsville, Ala., John Baker, a colored man, shot his wife four times, killing her instantly, and then cut her throat with a razor in a terrible manner. Hd then cut his own throat H. Clay King was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Memphis, Tenn., for the killing of D. H. Poston. INDUSTRIAL. NOTES. At Pottsville, Pa., the Fishback Rolling Mills, operated by the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company, closed down. The men refused to work unless the company signed the Western scale, which they positively refused to do, and the fires were drawn and 1,000 employes marched from the works, fully determined not to resume their places until their demands had been granted. The conference between the Pittsburg, Pa., ironmasters and the men has adjourned, the Amalgamated men being jubilant and the manufacturers satisfied. The scale as signed has but one change from that first presented. The manufacturers insisted that the nine hours heat must be extended, and at the last moment the men agreed to make it nine hours and fifteen minutes. This wholesale signing of the scale is expected to bring in the Mahoning and Shenango Valley operate ors, who are now the only objectors. Reports are rapidly coming in of outside firms signing the scale. The latest add!i

====================== - Mon are the Sharon Iran Company and - the Atlantic Iron Works, of Sharon, Pa.; I Massillon (Ohio) rolling mill; and the La Belle Mills, of Wheeling, W, Va. In the last named district there is but one other b union mill, all being unorganized, owing, L principally, to trouble with the millers a L few years ago. . At Cleveland, 650 employes of the > Union and Lake Erie Rolling Mill Comi panies went out on a strike. The trouble was all caused by the adoption ; of a nine-hour scale by the Amalga- , mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Formerly they were paid by the ton. The companies refused to ac- ■ cept the scale. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The Republican convention at Cedar Rapids, lowa, was attended by about 1,000 delegates. But little time was expended in getting to work, and the nomination of Hiram C. Wheeler, of Odebolt, Sac County, for Governor was effected early. His opponents for the honor were Ben F. Clayton, a farmer of Pottawattamie County, and ex-Congressmah Daniel Kerr, of Grundy County. Two ballots were required to settle the Lieutenant Governorship, the surprise of the day being the defeat of the present incumbent, Alfred N. Poyneer, of Tama. A spirited contest over the Supreme Court Judgeship ensued, requiring three ballots. The balance of the ticket was chosen by acclamation. The platform declares for prohibition, a protective tariff, and favors free coinage of silver. Following is the ticket entire: Governor. Hiram C. Wheeler Lieutenant G0vern0r....... George Van-Houten Supreme JudgeS. M. Weaver Supt. Public InstructionHeiuTr Sabin Kailroad Commissioner..,. Frank T. Campbell FOREIGN~GOSmP. A Berlin dispatch says that the renewal of the triple alliance is no longer a matter of speculation. Italy’s formal adhesion has been received by both Austria and Germany, and the document has been signed oy Emperor William, who said in a conversation that it renewed the triple alliance for six years. The French Government appears to have had an inkling of what was going on, and the result has been an increasing irritability in the foreign policy of France and renewed efforts to exact pledges of co-operation on the part of the Czar. By agreeing to use | her fleet in the Mediterranean to uphold the existing status England has practi--1 cally joined the triple alliance, and this fact is also recognized with deep chagrin in Paris. FRESH AND NEWSY. Crop reports from Minnesota, Dakota, and Montana continue most favorable. ‘ Wheat is in fine condition. Other grains I are above the average, and meadows and pastures are better than for years. Owing to the increased acreage and fine ■ prospects, it is’feared that crops cannot be properly harvested, owing to a scarc- ■ ity of hands. Wages range from §2 to §42.50 a day and board. The “Thunderbolt,” the Erie road’s east bound Chicago-New York train, was standing at the station at Ravenna, Ohio, having trouble with the coupling of a special excursion car from Findlay, Ohio, carrying forty glass-workers returning to Corning, N. Y. A flagman failed to signal a fast freight following, and in the rear end collision which ensued 21 people were killed and 30 injured, 5 of the killed being from Brooklyn, I N. Y., and the balance are from Corni ing. Eight miles west of Charleston, : W. Va., a train on the Kanawha and • Michigan Road went through a burning trestle, and of nearly eighty-four passengers on board thirteen were killed outright, six fatally hurt, and all but one of the others less seriously Injured. They were excursionists—the United American Mechanics—from Charleston. At the crossing of the Northwestern Road with the Madison street cable lino, in Chicago, a switch engine smashed into a horse car, killing one passenger, I fatally injuring two, and seriously i, wounding three others. At Scranton, Pa., Brown’s “Beehive” has been gutted by fire. The stock was valued at §60,000; insurance, §30,000. I At Columbus, Ga., fire broke out in W. iT. Harvey & Co.’s lumber yard. The total loss will amount to §100,000; insurance about §57,000. A shoe factory occupied by Trasks Brothers and M. G. Nichols, Epping, N. H., burned. Trask Brothers' loss is §45.000; insurance, §25,000. The loss on building and machinery, owned by J. F. Cloutman, is §9,000: insured. The lumber sheds of Grand Fuller & Sons, Boston, were burned. Loss, §50,000. R. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of I trade says: Everything waits for the crops. It Is. therefore, of the first importance to report that the crop prospects have never been more uniformly satisfactory at this season than .they are now. In other respects the general outlook is In the main unchanged. While the volume of business represented by clearing-house exchanges outside of New York is about 9 per cent, less for tbo week, and about 10 per cent, less for the month than last year, there is prevailing confidence in the speedy recovery and expansion of trade. Trude in breadstuffs, has not been especially active, though wheat declined below SI per bushel, rising again a little within the past few days, and In corn and oats also still slightly stronger, and cotton is unchanged, notwithstanding improved crop prospects. The business failures occurring throughout the county during the last seven days number 237, as compared with a total of 234 last week. For the corresponding wook of last year the .figures were 190. MARKET KErOBTS. CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Primes3.so @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 ©5.00 Sheep.. 3.20 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 8ed.93 & .94 Corn—No. 2.59 .60 Oats— No. 2 .33 & .34 Bye—No. 2. .75 & .77 Butteb—Choice Creameryl6 0 .18 ' Cheese—Full Cream, fiatsoß © .09 Eggs—Fresh 11)40 .1514 Potatoes—New, per brl. 2.50 © 4.0 J INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 0 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 4.15 @ 4.65 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 4.00 ©4.50 k Wheat—No. 2 Bed Cobn—No. 1 Whites9B,o Oats—No. 2 White4l @ .42 ST. LOUIS. Cattle. 4.00 fit 6.00 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 8ed.87 0 .68 f Corn—No. 2 .. .55 <s .56 Oats—No. 2 .34 0 >735 < Bye—No. 2. .71 0 .72 CINCINNATI. / Cattle. s> 3.00 © 5.75 Hogs 8.50 @ 5.00 Sheep.. 3.75 0 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed;... Corn—No. 259 0 .61 • Oats—No. 2 Nixed 39 0 .40 3 DETROIT. Cattle.. 3.00 © 8.75 • Hogs 8.00 @ 4.50 3 Sheep 3.00 © 4.75 i Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.01 0 1.02 Corn—No. 2 Yellows 6 «b .87 3 Oats—No. 2 White 42 & .43 5 TOLEDO. Wheat.- 1.00 @ 1.01 , Corn—Cashß6 © .68 1 Oats—No. 1 White„ .87 © .39 Clover Seed 4.25 © 4.35 BUFFALO, " Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.75 s Live H0g5...... 4.30 0 4.85 , Wheat—No. 1 Hard. L<M ©1.05 f Cohn—No. 262 © .63 MILWAUKEE. „ „ Wheat—No. 2 Springß6 © .88 0 Cobn—No. 8™ 57 0 .58 0 Oats—No. 2 Whiteß7 © .89 B Bye—No. 1 78 A .89 BarlEy—No. 2....... .67 © .69 ‘ Pom— Mess MIOJ ©19.50 6 NEW YOBK. d Catt1e......... 4.50 ©MO r Hogs 4.80 © 5.25 • Sheep 4.25 © 6.T5 e WHEAIv-N0.280d LO4 © 1.06 r Com— No. a .66 © .69 I, Oats— Mixed Westera J 6 © .12 • S Lfl brj PoMK-New Messll.so ©19.25 . r a,,.■ 4^'-'4

; ■ — ■ • !"■ 1 RAILWAY HORRORS. TERRIBLE WRECKS IN OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. A Rear Knd Collision nnd a Trestle—Excursionists the Victims fas Both Instances—Two Score (D'ead and EiCbty Wounded. In quick succession two frightful railway accidents have horrified the country. Two score of victims Instantly killed, several fatally hurt, and nearly a hundred more or less seriously injured, is the awful result The first occurred at an early morning hour, at Ravenna, Ohio. Just as dawn was mingling with the darkness, passenger No. 8, east bound, on the New York, Lake Erie and Western, pulled into the station a few minutes late. The train consisted of an express and baggage car, three day coaches, two Pullmans, and a special, the latter occupied by forty glass-blowers from Corning, N. Y., returning from an excursion at Findlay. Trouble with a coupling detained the train men, and a flagman was sent back to warn a fast freight which was following close. Before he had gone two carlengths past the special ear the heavy freight came thundering down a long grade, and in the next instant twentyone dead and over thirty wounded victims were buried in the ruins;. Fire quickly started, and the scene that followed beggars description. Ravenna’s fire department was summoned, and but for its assistance the list of fatalities must have been greatly augmented. The rear special car, the freight engine, and the sleeper “Warsaw” were totally destroyed, entailing a property loss of over 5100,000. The sleeper ‘♦■Warsaw” had no passengers. In the sleeper “Ascoli,” next in front." Mrs. Jas. Gasser and child, of Chicago, and three men from Brooklyp, N. Y., were killed. Os the forty glass-bld-wers, seventeen were instantly killed, and all the rest injured, two fatally. Several of those fatally hurt suffered such agony from wounds and fire that they bgged the rescuers to kill them. The Wrecked passenger train was the famous “Thunderbolt,” the favorite east-bound train on the Erie route. It is one of the new solid vestibuled trains, Chicago to New York. There were many Chicago passengers on the train besides Mrs Gasser, and before the news of the accident had reached that city they had wired their friends ol their safety. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Captain E. L Huggins were of the number. The killed and wounded were all from Brooklyn and Corning, N. Y. The second accident, following before the public had fully realized the awful extent of the first, was none the less terrible and but slightly less fatal. The list of wounded is much larger, while the dead and fatally hurt number nineteen. It was the worst accident in the history of West Virginia, and occurred eight miles west of Charleston, on the Kanawha and Michigan Railway. The passenger train for Columbus, Ohio, was pulling two’ carloads of excursionists —the Charleston Lodge of United American Mechanics. The sleepers of a high trestle had been weakened by fire, presumably caused by a passing -engine the night before. All the train except the excursion cars passed the trestle safely, but the latter were derailed by spreading rails. A third accident, fatal, but slight compared to those detailed above, occurred in Chicago. At the railroad crossing at Rockwell and Madison streets, a horse car was struck by a switch engine, one passenger killed, two fatally hurt, and three seriously injured. This accident occurred at 2:30 a. m.. and was caused directly by the combined carelessness of the railway gateman. the engineer, and the conductor of the street car. HANNIBAL HAMLIN DEAD. Stricken by lleurt Disease While at Hia Club, He Never Rallies. At Bangor, Me., on Independence Day, cx-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was down town and went to the Tarratine Club rooms, where he was playing pedro, when his head fell forward on his chest. A gentleman remarked: “The Senator seems to feel badly,” Mr. Hamlin said: “I do ” The men gathered around him, and he was taken to a lounge. Dr. Robinson, w-ho was in the next room, a'ttended him, and Drs Mason snd Phillips were called. No pulse was visible for an hour, and it was thought they could not bring him out. Finally he revived somewhat and managed to articu ate freely. The doctors worked over him faithfully, and his family was sent for. Soon Mrs. Hamlin, Gen. Charles Hamlin, his wife and his son, and other members, were at his side. All was done for him in human power, but failed, and he passed away peacefully. He leaves a widow and two HANNIBAL HAMLIN. sons, Gen. Charles Hamlin, Esq., a lawyer of Ellsworth, and Frank Hamlin, now living in Chicago. Mr. Hamlin has been perceptibly failing for a year, but seemed about as usual this afternoon and walked down town. The remains wore removed from the club rooms to his residence. His son, Hannibal Hamlin, arrived from Ellsworth about twenty minutes after his father’s death. His son Frank, in Chicago, was sent for. Hannibal Hamlin was born at Paris, Me.. Aug. 27, 1809. He was admitted to the bar in 1833, and continued to practice until 1848. In 1836 he was elected a. member of the Legislature, of which he. was speaker from 1837 to 184a In 1842 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, and re-elected in 1844; and in 1848 he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, and in 1851 was elected for a fall term of six years. In 1856 he withdrew from the Democratic party, and was elected by the Republicans as Governor of Maine; but he resigned that office on being reelected Senator. In 1860 he was elected Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. In 1865 he was appointed Collector of the port of Boston, but soon resigned, and in 1869 he was again elected United States Senator for the term expiring March 4, 1875. He. was re-elected for the term expiring 1881, and then gave place to Eugene Hale. Mr. Hamlin retired from politics at this time, although he continued to take a great interest in public affairs until the last election. He i attended the Presidential convention in » Chioaga in 1884. a

NEARLY A LYNCHING. MURDER BY A NOTORIOUS DES MOINES MAN. b • C*sml«» Bag* H* Fires Four Bullets Into E. B. Wishart—Tbis Is Not HL* First Shooting—An Angty Fopulaeo. Frank Pierce fatally wounded E. H. Wishart, at Des Moines, and narrowly escaped lynching. Intense excitement prevailed when he was arrested, and cries of “Bring a rope!” and “Lynch him!” were heard on every hand. Forty policemen were necessary to escort him' to the jail. The feeling is so strong against Pierce that trouble may come at any moment. Wishart was hit by four bullets, and a crowd of 500 people gathered at the City Hall when Pierce was placed in jalL For three years Pierce was the leader of the Des Moines searchers." He has shot several persons in that city, and on three occasions mobs have been organized to lynch him. The cases of Harry Lloyd and Terry Chambers attracted great attention at the time. Another of his victims is in the insane asylum from injuries received at Pierce’s hands. Heretofore Pierce has received the support and sympathy of the temperance people, but this crime is the last straw which any .kind of public opinion can stand. Pierce, who is a scavenger, drove one of his wagons toward the customary dumping grounds on lower West Ninth street The officers had notified him that he had no right to use the ground used by another or that which was owned by the city. Driving down Ninth street he came about opposite the new crematory. Mr. Wishart, who is the legal guardian of the property in behalf of the city as foreman of the crematory, ordered him not to dump there. On Wishart’s coat was the star of his authority as an officer. The two men fell into a sharp dispute. Pierce ordered his men to dig again. They hesitated. Mr. Wishart, a revolver hanging at his side, said: “I am an officer of the law I have orders to allow no man to dump in the street. They are going to pave and will not allow dumping.” Pierce said he had a right to dump somewhere, and that he would tear down the fence which blocked, the street, it being still unopened. Wishart said: “I have no authority over the fence. You can tear that down at your own risk, but the street I am here to defend. ” Pierce seized a shovel and made an attempt to dig. when, his rage overcoming him, he whipped from the holsters athisbeit two revolvers and jumped toward Wishart “Consider yourself under arrest,” he screamed. “I’ll shoot you or any other man that tries to stop me, ” and fired. Wishart raised his revolver to tire ba r i. In doing so his revolver came in contSt with Pierce's and was broken. Whether a bullet left it is a matter of doubt. Wishart, seeing his revolver was useless, let it drop to the ground. The first bullet of Pierce struck Wishart in the arm. But Pierce, seeing his victim unarmed, did not desist his murderous work. He fired three more shots, one, according to the statement of an eyewitness, after Wishart had dropped to the ground To the crowd which gathered and was gathering in he said: “Stand back, or there will be some more dead men.” With revolver in hand his wagon was driven down toward the river where he had concluded to go and dump. The patrol was sent for and Wishart was taken to the City Hall. Doctors were called in and made an examination. Besides the wound in the arm a hole was jfound in his abdomen. One of the other shots had entered a little to the right of the middle and lodged somewhere in his back. While in the City Hall Wishart lay in great agony on a pallet until Mrs. Wishart arrived. The grief of the poor woman was terrible to see. At last for the sake of her husband she was induced to control hersolf. The little son of the dying man also was there. He had happened to be at the City Hall as his father was brought in He pushed up to him to speak. Mr. Wishart said ! nothing, but raised up his lips to kiss him. He was a manly little fellow of about twelve yeats and struggled hard to keep back the tears. He kept continually asking: “Tell me how he is, please. Will he die?” While Wishart , was lying in the City Hall basement the officers arrived with Pierce. The crowd had collected in great numbers at the first intimation that the notorious Pierce had killed a man. They were jammed about the City Hall so thickly that the ■ officers had difficulty in opening away . through the mob. As he slipped out of ' his buggy the Marshal demanded his revolvers. Be gave them up. A voice in ! the crowd cried out: “Where is the rope?” A look of dismay flashed over Pierce's features. He gave one look at ’ the angry crowd, another at his weapons, now out of his hands, and then bounded up the steps. I!e was carried down the ' stairs. On the way he was cursing and ’ swearing continually. He said: “You can’t put mo in jail. You've no right to. 1 I demand bonds. ” But, bonds or no ' bonds, he was hustled down. When he 1 came to the door of the cells ho was searched. The holsters were still on him. Then turning to the officers who were searching him ho said: “What are you trembling for? Why, you shake like a leaf. Does it take six or eight men to arrest one man? I can arrest a man alone and bo will come.” After a few hurried words, in which he said he had acted in self-defense, Pierce was taken to the cage and put in. When brought down the lower hall ho passed by the head of his groaning victim, but ho did not deign to give him a glance, and seemed actually proud of his deed. He was cool and collected, having recovered from his fright, and continually taunted the officers. His lean, cadaverous features and furtive eyrs did not quail as he looked at any one, and his whole appearance was one of dare-devil defiance. The Next Congress. ' The next House of Representatives ’ under the censua of 1890 will consist of 356 members. A ratio of representation is 173,901 inhabitants. But the law is j that those States having a fraction of half the ratio or more shall get a repretentative thereon. There were seven--3 teen such fractions, and they were apportioned to the following States: Fraction. M.C, Fraction. M.C. California.. .164.724 1 Wisconsin . .121,771 1 » Indianal)s,s92 1 Alabama... .121,809 1 J 10wa172,866 1 Georgia 96,843 1 . Mainel3J.3Bß 1 Kentucky... 119,625 1 , 0reg0n139,666 1 Maryland .. .172,885 1 ‘ Massac’s’tts 152,131 18. Car01ina..107,773 1 X Bhode 151’nd171,605 1 Texasl4B,7ll 1 . 8. Dak0ta...154,907 1 Virginia..... 90,871 1 * Vermont.... 158,821 1 j It will be «een that Georgia and Virj ginia gain each a member on the smallt est fractions. New York has an unc represented fraction of g 5,219, Arkansas , of 84,773, Colorado of 64,396, Louisiana , of 75,181, Minnesota of 84,519, Mis- . sour! of 70,669, and West Virginia of . 67,19a I Missing Links. J An English judge recently sentenced a woman to five minutes’ imprisonment , for bigamy. It is probably the shortest J sentence on record. f Monster turtles are so abundant in r Magdelena Bay, Lower California, that 3 a company has gone into the business of . canning the extract for exportation. x A valley more wonderful than the i Yosemite, except in the matter of water- ) falls, is said to have been discovered in i King’s River Canyon, ahova the farfamed Yosemita

THE IOWA SUFFERERS. WEST INDIA DUTCHMEN COMING TO THE FAIR. Labor Troubles in Washington Coal Mines Besult in a Battle with Loss of LifeBrush Fires on California Mountains Make Havoc with Summer BeeMsnees. GOV. BOXES APPEALS FOB AID, The People of lowa Asked to Assist SOO Homeless Persons in Cherokee. Gov. Boies, after surveying the flooded district at Cherokee, lowa, issued the following proclamation to the people of the State: To the People or the State op Iowa: You have heard of the affliction which has fallen upon some of the towns of our State. I have made a personal examination of the condition in this city by coming here and going over the flooded districts and And that at least seventy-five families have lost everything and some twenty-five more have lost most of their household goods and much of their clothing, while their dwellings have been greatly injured by the floods. In addition to this loss of homes and furniture and clothing the county at large has suffered greatly In the less of nearly every bridge, both Iron and wood, within its limits. A careful estimate places the number of families which require help at once at 100, thus making a population of about 500 that require and will require for a considerable length of time to be cared for by the charity of our people. In addition to the above many of the surrounding towns have also suffered greatly, and will necessarily be compelled to appeal to the people of the State for aid. In view of this calamity I recommend that the Mayors of the several cities of the State and all other charitably disposed persons immediately .take steps to organize proper committees to solicit aid for these unfortunates, and see that the same Is promptly forwarded to David H. Bloom, Mayor of Cherokee, for distribution among those of this city who have suffered losses, and to such persons us may be named by the ; roper authorities of the other towns which have suffered from the same calamity. All contributions so forwarJed will be faithfully applied to the purpose for which they are sent. Let contributions be prompt and liberal. - Horace Boies. At Dubuque a public meeting was held, and §2,000 will be forwarded to the relief fund. i FIERCE LABOR RIOTS IN WASHINGTON. Several Lives Lost in a fettle Between strikers an<l Non-Union Men. Matters at the Franklin (Wash.) coal mines have assumed a still more threatening form, and Colonel J. C. Haines wired to Seattle for another company of mi itia to report at on< e and to bring ammunition, camp equ’page, and rations for a week s service Porter Robinson, one of the mine bosses, was brought to the city by a military guard, charged with killing Tom Morris and Ed J. Williams, leaders of the riot The first authentic information concerning the' riot was received from Franklin. At least 1,000 shots were fired during the riot, .which lasted about thirty minutes and resulted in the death of Tom Morris, a white striker, who was killed instantly; Edward J. Williams, who was shot through the abdomen and died six hours later, and the wounding of four strikers, two women >and one colored guard. The trouble commenced with the return of the train at 7:40 p. m. from New Castle, which contained a number of Pinkerton men who had escorted a load of negroes to the latter mining camp. The guards say that when the train was pulling into Franklin it was fired upon by some of the white miners in ambush, and that while no one was hurt bullets whistled through the windows of the train at a lively rate. The guards returned the fire from the windows, and the engineer seeing the danger put the train under full head and tan it to the depot, which is inside the dead line. When the train had stopped the white miners commenced firing upon the negroes’ camp. They were between two fires, as the outside miners were situated on the flats below and on the hill above them. The negroes wont perfectly wild, and all the efforts of tho guard ; could not restrain them. They kept within the camp lines, and poured volley after volley upon the miners on the flats, who replied with equally as much vigor. The miners on the hill kept up a good fire, but were answered shot for shot by the negroes. After the shooting intense excitement prevailed among the negroes, and they gathered about their camp in’ groups, threatening to make another charge upon the white minera They were finally quieted by the officers of the company. Three companies of militia are now camped between the strikers and the negroes. DUTCH COLONIES AT THE FAIR. They Promise to Make a Most Interesting Exhibit of Their Natural Wealth. Lieutenant Roger Welles, Jr, of the United States navy, Commissioner to Venezuela and the neighboring colonies, reports that the Governor General of the Dutch Colonies in the West Indies, composed of the islands of Curacoa, St Martins, Bonaire, Aruba, St Eustache and Saba, has accepted the invitation to participate in the exposition, and has appointed a commission to take charge of the work. Phillip Walker, formerly chief of a division in the Department of Agriculture devoted to experiments with American silk, has been placed In charge of the preparation of the extensive exhibit of that industry which the department proposes to make at the World’s Fair. The work will be under the supervision Os Assistant Secretary Willetts, and will be done in the museum of .the Department of Agriculture. At a meeting of representative shoe and leather men held in Boston it was decided that New England could raise §15,000 toward the construction of the shoe and leather building at the World’s Fair, for which subscriptions are being received from all over the country, and tho committee made plans for securing the necessary subscriptions. ONE THOUSAND ACRES OF FLAMES. Terrible Fire on Big Ranches Neer San Rafanl, Cal. The eastern slope of Mount Tamalpias, California, on which are many magnificent summer homes, was reported to be on fire. The San Rafael fire department was called out and a large number of volunteers started out to fight the flames. The fire started on Barber’s ranch, and burned about sixty acres of hay. The flames spread rapidly to J. J. Kittle's grounds, which were soon a mass of flames. Williams' Gulch, two miles from Ross Station, was on fire, and the (lames ran up the side of the mountain. The fire covered an area'of about 1,000 acres. The crackling of the flames could be heard a mile distant, and the air was filled with cinders and ashes. , Another brush fire started east of town near the Hotel Rafael, and fifty acres of eucalyptus burned. The w>hole town turned out to fight this fire. , As there was no water it was necessary to fight it with branches and sacks. »•. Louie Visited by a Quarter NBIHon Dollar Blaea, The wholesale and retail grocery Establishment of David Nicholson, ML Ronis, Ma, was completely destroyed byi flre. The heaviest loser was David Nicholson, whose stock, valued at 9340,000, wks almost totally destroyed. The insurance was - I

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST ’ OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. FERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happeaiaga of the Weeß~ Crimes amt Casualties — gaieides ■ Dssths Weddings, Ate. —A yellow catfish weighing fifty pounds was caught at Martinsville on a trot line. —Archie Melane, aged 15, was drowned . while bathing in the river at Mount Vernon. —Una Campbell, an 8-year-old girl, was badly bitten by a vicious dog at Jeffersonville. —Vernon Branigan, aged 10, Franklin, fooled with a cartridge—face lacerated, eyes gone. —Ruben Drew died at Arcola, Allen County, in horrible agony, from the effects of a dog bite. —A- B. Farmer, Noblesville, has fallen heir to a cool §IOO,OOO through the death of a-relative in Virginia. —Jules Neff, colored, set upon by a swarm Os bees at Columbus and may not recover from their stings. —James Webster, harvesting near Madison, canght in machinery, face lacerated, both eyes ruined. —A vigilant cammittee tn Jeffersonvil.e made a raid on dogs running at large, and killed fifteen in one night. —Evansville Journal says there's no sense in anybody’s being idle in that town—there’s work and plenty for alh —Thomas Worrel, of Clark County, has a shepherd dog that knows the name of every horse and cow on the farm. —Dillshoro was visited by a severe storm that did much dang(ge to residences as well as crops in the surrounding territory. —Peru will have free-mail delivery at once, the business of the postoffice having Increased wonderfully in. the past twelve months. —Valparaiso editors' lack of news and editorial ability is attributed to “plethoric bank accounts and corporosity caused by high feeding.” —James Nerry found a dead baby in the bottom of a well on his farm near College Corner. Skull was crushed. Caused great excitement in the neighborhood. —Joseph Moss, residing near Muncie, has been married forty years, has eleven children and twenty grandchildren, and there has never been any sickness, accidents nor deaths in the family. —A Martinsville fancier sold two fox hounds to a man in Rush County, shipping the /logs by expresss. A day or two later one of the brutes escaped and M made its way across the country to its old home. —The §60,000 stock to secure a na-tural-gas pipe-line to Crawfordsville has been secured, and the company furnishing the balance of the necessary funds will commence work at once. The line will start from the Sheridan gas fields, and will be thirty-five miles in length. —At Shelbyville, Mr. Amos Fouty and wife were driving along the Michigan pike, when the horse took fright at a hand-car on the J., M. & I. Railroad and ran away. The occupants were thrown out, and both were badly hurt, the injuries to Mrs. Fouty being thought to be fatal. —While workmen were engaged In laying water mains, at Franklin, the earth caved in the trench, catching two men, James Bachs and Walter Cox, and injuring them quite severely. It took about forty minutes to get them out. Bad s had three ribs broken, besides being dangerously hurt internally. g Cox had his left leg broken, one hip dislocated and an injured spine. Both men are dangerously hurt. —The following patents have been al- , lowed citizens of Indiana: James D. Calpha, of Mount Carmel, gate; James Dushane, of South Bend, curry comb; James Dushane, of South Bend, wrench; Philip J. Harrah, of Bloomfield, assignor to S. W. Axtell, thill support; William F. Johnson, of Mooresville, corn-planter; Salem F. Lamb, of New Albany, wagon brake; Frederick L. McGahan, of Indian- , apolis, two patents for electric motors; i Jacob T. Rowlett, of Richmond, lawnmfiwer handle. 1 —While working with a sewer-pipe that had been under ground for some I years James Ping, a laborer of Columbus, i accidentally scratched his hand, causing i it to bleed. Some of the rust from the 1 pipe got upon his hand, and a few hours later the hand began to swell, until it reached twice the natural size and almost • drove him wild pain. The inflam1 mation has extended to his body. So far medical assistance has been of no benefit to him. ’ —The wheat crop in Knox. Daviess i and Gibson has been put in shock, and a 1 trip across the land is a cheering sight, for the crop is unparalleled. The farrnj ers are rejoicing in the bounteous harj vest. Such a yield was never before ; witnessed in this section of country. , ' Good judges place the yield of Knox j County at about a million and a half of . bushels, and in each of the other two counties named, the yield will not fall behind that in Knox. Already the threshing has begun, and shipments of 1 new wheat East are being made. —ln removing bodies from an old Orange \ County cemetery Walter Debeck’s re- ■ mains, buried thirty-five years ago, were ! found petrified and lifelike. ’ —Harry Mayhew. Northfield, smoking I a clay pipe, reed stem of which was accil dentally pushed down his throat, pene- > trating the trachea. He cannot recover. J —Joseph Van Arsdel, Frankfort, probi ably the oldest living Indianian, was i born in Harrison County in 1813, never • > used tobacco or whisky and joined church ( in 1822. i —A quarry of steel gray metamorphic stone, resembling granite and taking a ' fine polish has been opened at Laurel. r Pronounced very valuable for building ’ and moumental progress. ) —Edward T. Davis lost an arm while working in Shuh & Ca’s mill, at Quincy, ( a few months aga He brought* suit In the Owen Circuit Court for 910,000 dam- . age, and a Jury awarded him 8700. —John Torbit, of Orange County, was taken from his home by White Caps, ; tied to a tree and brutally whipped be- > cause he did sot heed a warning to stop drinking whisky and abusing his family.