Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1891 — Page 6

- IJ.L ©he pcnwcr at DECATUR, IND. M. PDA 0 K BUBN, ... Pubuisiub. A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. EDISON’S NEW INVENTION A COMPLETE SUCCESS. A Preacher Who Does Bls Own Teachings—Grasshopper Invasion —Child Murdered—A Volter Killed, IT IS A SUCCESS. Edison’s New Invention Works Like a — Charm—You See the Person and Hear What Ho Says. New York special: After years of the hardest kind of work, Thomas Edison has brought forth another invention which is even as wonderful as the telephone. It records and reproduces sound. It works with the phonograph and by the combination of the two you can see the speaker and hear just what he says. The public exhibition was attended by two hundred invited guests and they all say it was a grand success and that the invention will do all that Mr. Edison expects it to do. In his own words, “you can sit in your parlor and look at a big screen and see Chauncey Depew come on the stage and bow and smile and take a drink of water and • start off with his oration. Every time your eyes see him open his mouth your ears will hear what he says.” It is called the Kinetograph and is arranged somewhat like a photographic camera on the principle of the Zootrope. The Zootrope, or wheel of life is a card on which are represented the same figure, man or beast, as the case may be, in a number of .slightly different positions. On the wheelrevolving the single figure or figures appear as one making a perfectly natural movement. The revolution of the wheel is too quick for the eye to see each variation in the figure, and consequently a unit picture is the result. The interior of the camera has gelatine strips, unrolled from one spindle and re-rolled on the other, which, in passing, are carried before the lens of the camera. It is $0 arranged that fortysix perfect photographs are taken in the lightning time of one second. The result, when reproduced, is pure motion. A Volter Killed. William Hanlon, bno of the Hanlon -X volters, performing with the Forepaugh shows, fell and was killed at Clinton, lowa. The high trapeze upon which he was performing, gave way, and he fell missing the net beneath and striking on his head ground. His neck was broken and death followed instantly. Last August he had a similar accident at'the Academy of Music, New York, falling from the dome and breaking two parquette chairs. His work was upon the horizontal bar in the center, Robert and James Hanlon doing the flying trapeze. Robert and Janies will remain with Forepaugh through the balance of the season. William a w *fc< but had no children. A Governor Assaults a Reporter. There was a sensational scene in the executive mansion at Olympia, Wash. Gov. Terry, taking hinbrage at a newspaper article, pitched into the reporter, and after thundering out all the epithets he could think of threw the young man out of his office and instructed his private secretary never to give him any information. The Governor, supposing State Auditor Lindley was the authority for the offensive articles, walked up to the latter in the hotel and denounced him as a liar. The parties, were separated before blows were passed. Grasshopper Invasion. . Topeka special: Startling reports Tfrom Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas about the reported grasshopper i 4 invasion have been received here. The grasshoppers cover an area of 460 square miles where the Santa Fe road crosses the Colorado line. They are young and not able to fly, but they are hopping eastward at the rate of two miles a day and much damage is anticipated. In the region infected by the hoppers the few fields of corn and wheat have been swept clean. Revolution in Guatemala. Advices from Guatemala say: Information has been received from Quezaltenango to the effect that the mountains are full of discontented meh who are organizing for war. Revolutionary proclamations are plentiful. The outbreaks so far arc unimportant, as the rebels are not united, but union will be effected. President Barillas is sending troops to Quezaltanango, although he claims that no revolution exists. How’ell He Explain. «- Rev. Henry Howell, living at LaPlace, Piatt County, 111., has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by his two sons, charging him with adultery with a Miss Alice Mann, a young lady whom Mr. Howell brought from the South with him on one of his visits there during the winter. He has a wife and the affair has caused a sensation. Howell was held in §2OO bond and Miss Mann in §IOO bond for their appearance before the grand jury. I * Child Murdered. For some time Cynthia Adkins has had a grudge against the family of James Creamins, at Barboursville, W. Va. The other night their child was found murtfored, the deed having been committed during the absence of its mother, she having left the little one asleep. Miss Adkins was arrested,‘charged with the murder. She is about thirty years of age and of excellent family. A Banker’s Sadden Death, Edwin B. Hale, the well-known broker of Cleveland, Ohio, was stricken suddenly with heart failure at his office in the . Mercantile Bank building and died in a few moments. 1 A Desperado L<ync)fed. Sam Gillespie, a negro desperado, who has been terrorizing thcspublic in the vi- ,■ ° cinity of Love’s Station, Miss., was lynched by a mob. Shot His Father in the Back. Elias Phipps, of Boone, lowa, was shot by his 14-year-old son. Phipps came home drunk and was beating his wife When the boy took a musket and shot his father in the back. Phipps is alive; but will die. The boy is in jail. Fire in a Colliery. By a fire in the West Stanley colliery at Consett, near Durham, England, the pit-head was wrecked and most of the machiney destroyed. One hundred men are out of employment, and the loss is estimated at about §300,000. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At New York, the Empire printworks were destroyed by fire, property to the’ amount of §200,000 being burned up. The first certificate of admission which Yale University has ever granted to a woman has just been received by Miss Irene W. Cqit, of Norwich, Conn. ’ The four murderers at Sing Sing, •N. Y., have been executed by electricity. Each of them, even the Jap Juglro, from whom a desperate struggle was expected, was calm and ready. Slocum, 'Smiler, and Wood helped the Warden adjust the straps which bound i V

====== ,|l|iem te the fatal chair. Before the , I men were killed, the dynamo had been tried on several horses and killed them instantly. All of the mistakes made in the execution of Kemmler were avoided in this case. He was killed by a current of 750 volts, and revived after the first shock, making a second ■application necessary. The dynamo used at Sing Sing sent a current of 1,75 Q volts through the victims; the current was maintained twenty seconds, and, to the twenty-four dcctors present, it seemed that death was instantaneous. Yet, in each instance, as in Kemmler's case, there was a marked contraction and expansion of the muscles of the chest, the lips parted, and a long-drawn sigh—perfectly life-like—escaped. The current was applied a second time, with perfect effect The physicians agree that the apparent resuscitation was not real, and that death was painless and quick as thought “Frenchy No. 1,” the New York Jack the Ripper, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of “Old Shakspeare. ” At New York, one of the first practical experiments in New York waters to show how ammonia and water can be employed to run boat® was made on the tug Edwin T. Hartley. The boat was "fitted with the appliances of the ammonia patents, owned in Philadelphia. The inventor says about twice as much work can be performed with ammonia vapor as with steam. The experiments showed a saving of 37 per cent, of fuel during the trip. At Buffalo there was a lively time at City Hall. The British colors were floating at the top of one of the flag poles in front of the hall. A crowd of angry men soon collected. Finally a boy climbed the flag staff and* pulled the offensive emblem down and it was immediately torn into shreds by the maddened men. It was a large silk flag of excellent manufacture. How it came there no one can explain. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The Kansas labor organizations are fighting to have the eight-hour law enforced. The enforcement of the law would necessitate the employment of I, new employes in the various State institutions, for whose pay there is no appropriation. Mrs. Rebecca H. Raymond and her son Arnold were killed at Olney, 111., by a passenger train on O. &M. The boy was deaf and dumb and was on a bridge. His mother attempted to save him, but both were run over. At Stevens Point, Wis . George Whitney and Mrs. Maria Seivright, aged respectively 75 and 74 years, were married. The groom is a well known lumberman there. Richard Breeze, the Kansas City boy who by clever forgery had negotiated §I,OOO worth of Trimble & Bradley’s bank stock and stole §2,000 worth of other securities and ran away with them, was arrested by the Pinkertons at? Charleston, Mo. All but §3OO of the’ stolen money was recovered. Elder Hall, chief of the Hedrickite branch of the Mormon church at Independence, Mo, required the sisters to dress in plain black dresses and sun bonnets without ribbons, laces and frilly He forbade the men to use tobacco. Disobedience, he said, would be punished with expulsion. The frivilous brethren and sisters, however, rather than give up their tobacco and their frills, gave up the church, which now consists of only thirteen members. Fire at Jennings, Mich., destroyed Mitchell Bros. ’ lumber yard and caused a loss of §200,000. Three hundred citi j zens of Cadillac responded to the call for help and were taken to Jennings on a special train, but, owing to the wind, the flames were beyond control. J. B. Whippy, a wealthy farmer of Portage County, Ohio, while running a mowing machine, was thrown in front of the cutter-bar. His left leg was entirely severed below the knee and his body torn in a terrible manner. His injuries are considered fatal. Jim Ferrell, a farm laborer, was killed in Comanche County, Kansas, by i a horse suffering from hydrophobia, and the whole neighborhood is in a state of terror, as the dog that bit this particular horse also bit a number of dogs, cattle, and horses. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, the home of. J. E. Hannegan, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad, burned. Miss Huff, a servant, perished in the flames. At Marshall, Wis., Miss Eva Hart, a hjghly respected young woman, suicided. Miss Hart had been a successful school teacher for a number of years. A horrible railroad accident occurred at Aspen Junction, eighteen miles west of Aspen, Col., on the Midland Road. A special train, composed of a baggage car and one passenger coach, was returning to Aspen from Glenwood Springs. The passenger coach contained about thirty persons, mostly Aspen people. The train was backing from the water-tank to the switch to the Aspen track, where a road engine was run out of the railroad round-house, and the rear end of the passenger train hit the check-valve “on the side *of the boiler, which exhausted the hot steam into the broken end of tne passenger car, scalding thirteen passengers—five men, seven women, and one child. Seven are dead and it is thought others will die. The car was thrown from the x track. All possible was done to relieve the sufferings of the unfortunate passengers. At Columbia Park, Chicago, John McNeff and Miss Lucy Kaiser were drowned while boat riding. They were attending at an A. O. U. W. picnic. In Calumet Lake, near Pullman, Henry Campbell and Leslie Young, boys, were drowned; and in an excavation which had filled by drainage young August Maraysta met his fate Near Vincennes, Ind., a threshing machine boiler exploded on the farm of John Sarter. John Flack was instantly killed, the entire side of his head being blown off, and Richard Price fatally injured. William Coan, Herman Mulburn, J. Newton, W. Baker and Charles Gibson were also seriously scalded and Richard Hunter’s back was slightly hurt. The steam gauge marked forty pounds of pressure, but the gauge was out o reorder and the pressure was probably much greater. A fight occurred at Shoals, Ind., between circus employes and local toughs, in which stakes and revolvers were freely used. James Richey was struck on the head with a stake and his skull crushed, from which he died. Several of the circus employes were injured. No arrests were made. The entire faculty of Lane University, Abilene, Kan., has resigned, and all the members have accepted positions in Enterprise University. Lane is one of the oldest colleges in the State, and it is expected that nearly all its 300 pupils will go to Enterprise. At Des Moines, as Night Guard J. SOutland was passing Jack Reynolds, an Insane convict in the Anamosa Penitentiary, Reynolds struck Outland with a hatchet, jumped upon him and beat him in a terrible manner. Assistant Deputy

’ 1 ' Passwater came up and was also knocked down and beaten terribly. Another guard came to their asssistance and Reynolds was driven into a cell. Outland is fatally Injured and Passwater seriously hurt Reynolds is in for twenty years for shooting Sheriff McCord, of Marshall County, in 1885. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Chattanooga, Officer James Looney, of the police force, was shot and killed by Zack Munsey, ex-deputy sheriff and ex-constable. From the testimony of eye witnesses Munsey killed Looney in self-defense. Osnus Lee, colored, ran amuck in Savannah, Ga., and attempted to kill Policeman Andrew Clayton, whom he shot twice through .the body. Policeman Neidlinger ran to the rescue, and killed Lee instantly with a bullet through his heart Fire destroyed the Birmingham (Ala.) soap works, causing a loss of §25,000, on which there was §15,000 insurance. The Western plaster works, at Alabaster, Mich., were partly burned, causing a loss of §30,000. The insurance is §26,000. The house of S. P. Anderson, living fifteen miles west of Clifton, Tex., was struck by lightning, killing his wife and three daughters, all that were in the house. At Lamar, Ark., Mrs Eliza Ryan, a widow, 80 years old, who has been totally blind for thirty years, had a tooth pulled from her upper jaw. When it was extracted Mrs. Ryan complained of intense pain in her eyes, and later she could see plainly. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. The employes of the Green Ridge Iren Works in Scranton, Pa., have gone out on a strike under novel circumstances. The men recently joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, and arranged a scale of prices in accordance with those demanded by other association workers throughout the country. Mr. Spencer was astonished to see that it was 10 per cent. loUer than that he had been paying, and surprised the men by the eagerness he manifested in agreeing to their terms. Some one among them in the meanwhile had discovered the blunder, and a committee was appointed to ask Mr. Spencer to allow the old scale of wages. He refused, and as the men refused to return to work it has placed them in the position of refusing to abide by an agreement which they originated themselves. FOREIGN GOSSIP. It is rumored at Rome that the local authorities of Catania, a city of Sicily, have.violated the United States Consulate at that place, and that the,Consul has asked the officials at Washington to permit him to close his office and to place the archives under the protection of the German flag. FRESH AND NEWSY. Mrs. Hans Yepson, a Dane, and her 14-year old boy Louis, were drowned in the Little Beaver Creek, near Fort Morgan, Col. The boy went in bathing and struck a washout. His mother came to his rescue, and stood on the bank trying to save him when it caved in. When Congress passed the bill refunding the direct tax Indiana’s share was §750,000, but, pending settlement, the Government discovered that §46,000 of the amount had been paid. No one in the Indiana Capitol knows where the money went to. At Dubuque, lowa, Ben Markey shot himself with suicidal intent and will die. He tied the stock of a shotgun to a bedpost, and then placed a string around the trigger in such a manner that when he pulled on it the gun was discharged, sending the entire load of shot into his left side. At Waterloo, lowa, sthe stranger who blew his brains out at the Central House has been identified as Alonzo Dibble, of Cannon Falls, Minn. Mrs. Philip Fredericks, of Beloit, Wis., aged 82 years, threw herself into a cistern and was drowned. Millie Farwell, daughter of a well-to-do farmer living I near Alden, lowa, committed suicide by poison. A love affair was the cause. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: 1 lie unusual conservatism which prevails in nearly all section® and branches of business impresses .many as a most disheartening symptom. But it may, with at least equal reason, be interpreted as the very best ground for confidence in a healthy and solid improvement when new and large crops come forward more freely. The absence of speculative excitement, the indisposition to buy in baste, are having a most wholesome influence. This conservative attitude is the more necessary this year because, while money is now abundant here and cheap on call, the possibility of disturbance abroad, or of difficulty in obtaining needed supplies for moving crops at the West, is not yet entirely removed. Crop ropprts have never been more full than they are this year, and they-' grow more clearly satisfactory as to spring wheat every day, improving also as to other grain and cotton. At Chicago and other Northern points generally the supply of money is ample, though in the West there is more demand than heretofore. At Southern points the markets are close as a rule, though only firm and in fair supply at New Orleans. The business failures throughout the country during the last seven days number 247, as compared v. ith a total of 237 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 197. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime.... $3.50 @ 6.50 Hoos—Shipping Grade 5......... 4.00 © 5.25 Sheep3.oo @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @« .92U Corn—No. 258 © .59 Oats—No. 2 37 @ .3714 Rye—No. 2... .77 & .78 Butter—Choice Creameryl6 © .17 Cheese—Full Cream, flats .08 @ .09 Egos—Fresh 15Jg© .16& Potatoes—New, per brl... 2.00 @ 2.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 8.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.00 Shee|>—Common to Prime 3.50 & 4.50 Wheat-No. 2 Red 86 © Cobn—No. 1 White6l & .62 Oats—No. 2 White .40 © .41 ST. LOUIS. Cattle..., 4.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.00 & 5.00 Wheat—No. 2'Red .87 © >8 Corn—No. 2 55)i@ .56)4 Oats—No. 237)4© .38)4 Pork—Mesalo.so ©ll.OO CINCINNATI. Cattle 4.00 © 4.75 Hogs..., 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep. a. 3.50 © 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Redß9 . © .91 Corn—No. 260 © .61 Oats—No. 2 Mixed4o @ .41 DETROIT. Cattle 8.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 8.00 © 4.50 Sheep..... 3.00 & 4.25 Wheat—No. 2Red LOl @1.02 Corn—No. 2 Ye110w.... ,61 @ .62 Oats—No. 2 White 46 © .47 TOLEDO. Wheat .95 @ .96 Corn—Gash69 © .62 Oats—No. 1 White 86)5© .87)4 Clover Seed 4.25 @ 4.85 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 © 5.25 Shebp 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard..; LO6 © 1.07 Corn—No. 2...L66 @ .67 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springßß © .90 Cobn—No. 358 @ .60 Oats-No. 2 White 42 @ .43 Rye—No. 182 © .84 Barley—No. 268 @ .70 Pork—Messlo.2s ©10.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 8.50 @ 6.25 Hoos. 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 4.25 @'5.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Redl.o2 @1.04 COBH- No, 2.70 @ .71 Oats— Mixed Western.,42 @ .47 Butteh— Creamery .14 <3- .18 Pom— NfW Meia 11.75 ©12.24

==■'.■"' 1 = r AVALANCHE OF EARTH. I r- ■ ■ . I ~ • - —■ ’ NORTH DAKOTA THE SCENE OF ’ VIOLENT STORMS. Il . Murders and Suicides in Missouri—Ohio toclety Girls >lnd Fun in Base-Ball—A Pennsylvania Village in Danger of Being Swallowed Up. ’ A dispatch from Nanaimo, *B. G, ® says: The steamer Princess Louisa, i from Skeena, brings news of a terrible< f landslide on the banks of the Skeena: a Elver, resulting in the death of one' woman and about forty Indians. Those a residing near the*Northern Pacific CanU nery at Skeena River heard a great Q rushing noise in the direction of the high, steep mountain at the back of the cau--7 nery. In a moment an avalanche of . rocks and earth and trees was upon the doomed settlement, carrying everything before it into the slough close by the can- ) nery. The occupants of the houses had 1 time to get outside the buildings, but a before they could escape from the ad- , vancihg column of debris, they were i, caught and carried along at a fearful 1. velocity. In all nine houses and their occupants were destroyed, including the ,mess-house and residence of the foreman of the cannery. In the mess-room 1 was the young Swedish wife of the fore--3 Iman. She was carried along in the mad and deadly current, and dashed to death 1 (hundreds of feet below. Indians claim y that among those destroyed were about 1 forty Indians of the Port Simpson, Sitka, . .Motlakahla, and Kitimiat tribes. Two a (day 9 after the slide thirteen bodies of 0 the Indians were recovered. The body of Ithe foreman’s wife Ijas not yet been (found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within , the range of the terrible slide of bowlders, trees, ; and 3 learth. The slide just missed the ban--3 Ihery building about two feet. Had the - (slide struck the cannery or occurred » {half an hour earlier, the death-roll 1 would have reached into the hundreds, f It had been raining in torrents for the - previous four days, and it is thought . that the accumulation of water in the ravines on the mountain side broke t away, carrying death and destruction a with it. The Indians are greatly excited i over the disaster, and are mourning bit- - tcrly for their dead. ? I j ■ STORMS STOP THE TRAINS. } Bad Washouts Reported In North Dakota 3 —Damage in City and Country. 3 Specials from various points in North , Dakota report heavy rains for forty- ’ eight hours, which have caused n any washouts on the railroads and much destruction to property. * ' Between 300 and 400 west-bound passengers on the Northern Pacific were ] f stopp3d at Mandan, Nl D Tremendous .rains washed out a lar?e number 6f ’ fSmall bridges and culverts and track I west of this point All the bridges 5 jthat are gone are small ones, those a lot the Heart River being all intact. The 1 (Heart River is running bank full, and is walks were lifted and scattered along the street. Numbers of cellars are full, and a good deal of damage done. The r (rain extended from west of Medora to j (Jamestown and poured in torrents for I several hours. This supposed arid rej 'gion has enough rain now to Insure a (bounteous crop. * At Dickinson, N. D., the rain was ’ worse than at first supposed. Crews of track repairers are working both east ‘ (and west repairing heavy washouts 3 r Westbound passengers were delayed , forty-eight hours. Streams are rising ) rapidly and it has commenced to rain i again. Farmers will sustain Tiamages j from lodged grain. t MURDERS AND SUICIDES. A Jealous Ex-Policemau*s Cruel DeedDouble Tragedy on the Bond from 1 Church. 1 Ex-Policem«n Crowley, of Kansas City. Mo., who has been married only * six months, shot and killed his wife, of ) whom ho was insanely jealous. He then ) turned the weapon on* himself, but ins' flicted only a scalp wound. Running down to the kitchen, Crowley snatched > up a carving knife and attempted to cut • his throat, but made only slight gashes. > Crowley, fearing violence from the large t crowd attracted by the disturbance, ran f up the street, the crowd pursuing him crying “lynch him, hang him,” and f throwing rocks and other missiles at him. He was protected by the police with drawn revolvers. Crowley’s injur ries are not serious. Murder and self-slaughter were cpm- : mitted at Toos, nine miles southwest of 1 St. Louis, Mo. Frand Bacleman, the ( teacher of the Catholic church, and ’ Joseph Frank were coming from mass at 9 o’clock when Frank fired at Bacleb man with a revolver. The bullet took > effect but did not kill, but the second r shot did. Frank then, in the presence 6 of a hundred or more people, turned the r revolver against himself and took his ( own life. Had he not done so he would ' r have been lynched. No reason cau be ( assigned for the deed. i? ♦ =• ; THE EARTH FELL IN. > 1 Disaster at an Old Mine In Pennsylvania—- ’ A Village in Peril. A disastrous cave-in occurred at the old slope of the Kingston Coal Company, b near Larkeville, five miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., and the inhabitants of Larke--3 Ville, which is built directly over the r mine, were in great fear of their lives c and property. The cave was caused by the snapping of the old timbers in the slope directly under the fan house, where the surface sank so suddenly that the upward rush of airlifted the roof off the fan house, depositing it within a hundred feet of the opening. For hun- , dredsbf feet in all directions the surface is covered with large seams and cracks, 2 some of them a foot wide, and extending down into the workings. A number of houses in the vicinity were damaged. 6 A dozen men were at work in the mines at the time, but they all escaped through a second opening. BELLES AT THE BAT. «’ 2 — Society Girls Play Base-Ball, with a Preacher Acting as Ump re. The society girls at Washington, Ohio, have dropped the tennis racquet and i taken up the base-ball bat. An exciting » and amusing game was played between a nine-they have just organized and a picked nine of the society youhg men. The Rev. S. B. Alderson, D. D., a prominent Presbyterian minister of the place, and an enthusiast on base-ball, stood behind the bat as umpire, and dodged the foul Ups with great agility. The young riien played left-handed, so as to give the girls a fair chance. The score score stood 22 to 17 in favor of the young men. The girls say they will not play tn public or travel. They belong to the best families. 6 ■ Hannibal Hamlin. He took things seriously, as does every man whose career has been a battle, but he had withal a grim'humor which occasioned alnlbst as many characteristic anecdotes of him as are lelated of the immortal man with whom his name is live In history.— Pittaburg Times. The present generation hardly knew of him except historically. Many will remember, however, seeing him, on his visit to the West and this city a few years ago. He was a genial, old-school • gentleman, and his departure will recall a period of the country’s history of Which there are no prominent Survivors. Paul Globe. . - - i,;/’; ■ '■ I •

AT NEPTUNE’S MERCY.' THE BIG CUNARDER SERVIA DISABLED. Louisiana Convicts Killed in a Terrible Wind Storm at Baton Rouge—Results Elsewhere—Loss of Life on England's Coast—Balloon Struck by Lightning. The cyclone that wrecked the State penitentiary at Baton Rouge, La, was widespread and its results most disastrous. At that place fifty houses were destroyed besides the prison building. Ten convicts were killed, thirty-six wounded, six fatally, and the streets of the beautiful little city presented a woeful picture of destruction. There were forty prisoners at work in the pants factory at the time of the crash, and of that number six were killed, and twenty-two were wounded and horribly crushed. On the second story or central floor was the hospital, where twenty-six prisoners lay undergoing medical treatment, of which number four were killed and fourteen seriously if not fatally injured. The fire alarm was sounded and the entire fire department was summoned to the scene of the dreadful catastrophe, and together with the citizens and prison officials, aided by the injured prisoners, worked vigorously for the rescue of the unfortunate souls, who lay, some dead and others dying, confined under the great heap of debris that was thickly strewn over every quarter of the premises. Scenes of the greatest horror greeted the eye of those engaged in the rescuing work, and the pitiful wails and death groans from the men buried out of sight by massive heaps of bricks and mortar could be heard arising from every part of the wreck, imploring help, and altogether the scene was heartrending. The storm was attended by a most violent rain, in which the rescuers toiled for several hours, or until bath the living and the dead were extricated from the ruins. The tow-boat Smoky City was caught eight miles below the city, and almost wrecked. One man was drowned, and nine of the crew seriously hurt. Near Brook Haven and Madison, Miss., several people were killed, many wounded, and crops and buildings leveled. At Galveston, Texas, a driving southwest wind accompanied by heavy rain caused many of the lower portions of ths city to be practically inundated. Ths wind reached a velocity of fifty-five miles per hour. The electric-light plant was useless, and the darkness added to the fury of the storm made anything like travel impossible, and caused many to think that a repetition of the great storm flood of 1885 was-about to occur. A'l street railway service was abandoned. The worst damage done was along the Gulf beach, where the terrific force of the surf carried away almosi everything within its reach. The tide was the highest known for years and when the wind veered to the west late at night it looked as though every craft in the harbor was doomed to destruction. Much uneasiness is felt for the safety of the steamer Fra iklin, due from the banana fields of NictfTa&ua. The occupants of the pagodas and many of the beach resorts had to be taken out by means of life-saving lines. Throughout the city houses were blown down and steps and stairs were carried away. Several people were injured. MADE ITS LAST TRIP. The Monster < aptlve Pall-on of Parit struck by Lightning. The frolicsome Frenchman at the Paris exposition had a monster captive balloon, which was one of the wonders of the vast multitudes who saw it. It was brought direct to Chicago, to be used in a celebration of the Fourth, and ascensions were so extensively advertised that thousanas went to see it. High winds, however, and insufficient gas supply rendered trips impossible, and preparations were made for a later exhibition. But she has made her last trip. The direful electrical storms which have swept the Southern States swooped down upon Chicago in the middle of the night; the monster ballodn, with its 160,000 cubic feet of gas, was rolling ponderously, making the restraining hawsers used as guy ropes groan and creak, when flash! —a bolt descended and the next instant there was -a fabulous mass of flame which startled the surrounding country by its intensity; a sullen roar, a trembling of the earth, which threw people from their feet and shattered windows—and the erstwhile captive was captive no more. Lightning had released it from its bonds, and a pile of ashes alone marked the scene of its last abiding place on earth. Pro fessors Godard and Panis, of Paris, who had the balloon in charge, were both very severely burned. The air-ship cosl §25,000, and had never made an ascension in America. It had been in use in France for several years. It was ninety feet in height, sixty feet in diameter, and carried twenty people in its flight. BTEAMER SERVIA DISABLED. The Vessel Breaks a Crank Pin and Is Obliged to Return to New York. The lookout-man in his eyrie on Fire Island, off New York, was startled by signals from the North German Lloyd steamship Eider, which told “of a meeting in mid-ocean with the big Cunarder Servia. The latter was in tow of the little oil-tanker Chester, and had her crank-pin broken. The accident was discovered just in time to prevent the piston rod from thrashing around as it did on the City of Paris, when a simi ar accident befell that vessel off Ireland’s coast. The Servia was perfectly helpless, except for her sails, and it wa? fortunate indeed for her that the “tanker” appeared so opportunely. It is also fortunate for the Chester, as she will get more for salvage on the magnificent Cunarder than she could make in a whole season of oil trade. She struggled along with her monster burden at the rate of five knots an hour, retracing the way to New York. The Captain of the Eider says that Captain Dutton of the Servia reported his ship in no danger, and declined assistance from the Eider, but requested that a fleet of tugs be sent to him off the harbor. A large number of passengers were on board the Servia, most of them being Chicago people. Prince George of Greece is also on the ship. Coilialon Horror. Intelligence has been.received at London that a large steamer sunk off Dover. The dispatches say that one mast of the vessel is visible above the water. The wreck appers to be that of a steamer.of over a thousand tons burden. No survivors of the disaster have yet reached ports near the spot where the vessel The British steamer Kinloch, 1,177 tons register, from Zebu, May 21, for London, passed Deal with her bows completely smashed, and it is thought that she may have been concerned with the wreck. Later — The steamer Kinloch has landed at Gravesend part of the crew of the sunken steamer, which was the Dunholme, bound from Middlesborough to Rio Janeiro. The Dunholmo was sunk at 2 o’clock in the morning, two minutes after a collision with the Kinloch. Seventeen of the persons on board at the time of the collision are missing. The captain, mate, two sailors, and three firemen of the Dunholme ire saved. They state that the Kinloch (truck the Dunholme in a thick fog.

1 , 1 ; HAY AND GRAIN CROPS. GOOD PROSPECTS THE RULB IN THE NORTHWEST. Michigan and Wlacon.ln Only Will’ Be Short on Hay—Grain Datnagerl in Lo> calitiea, but a Heavy Crop Assured.Causes of Occasional Failure. The following appears in the Farmers’ Review •• The reports of our correspondents in twelve States show that in some the hay crop will be enormous, and in two or three an almost complete failure. In Illinois fifty-nine correspondents say that the prospects for a large crop are good. Thirty-five correspondents say.that in their counties the crop will be light, owing to the spring drought. The outlook for the State, as a whole, is good. In Indiana the condition does not vary greatly from that in Illinois. In Ohio the condition is the same as in the two above-mentioned States. The condition of the hay crop in Kentucky is just the opposite of that of ’the three States previously referred to. In two-thirds of the counties the crop is very poor. The drought in May gave it a back-set from which it was not able to recover. In some counties the clover is good, but timothy, in the same counties, will not make half a crop. Michigan is very much worse off than Kentucky. Forty-six correspondents report the outlook as bad, and only ten report the crop as average in condition. Missouri is rejoicing in an abundant crop; the hay crop was never better. Only one county reports the crop as below expectations. Kansas and Nebraska are in the same condition as Missouri, the hay crop being uniformly large, and in good condition. The reports from every correspondent in Nebraska, and from all but one in Kansas, are to the same effect In Wisconsin the drought has blasted the hopes of even a fair hay crop, and only ten correspondents report the condition as good, while, on the other haind, > fifty-three report the crop as in a very bad condition. In lowa the early drought was not able to retard the grass beyond recuperation, and the copious rains have brought it forward in fine shape. Fifty-eight correspondents report that the crop is first ejass, while only a few report it as from one-half to three-fourths of an average. The condition in the Dakotas is even better than in lowa, eight out of every nine correspondents giving an encouraging report. In Minnesota the hay prospects are good in two-thirds of the counties; poor in the others. The annual crop report of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company. Racine, Wis., which is made from careful reports sent by their agents throughout the country, stated that should no adverse condition set in •during the next two weeks the Northwest will secured the largest grain crop ever known. The dangers to be apprehended are from too much rain and hot winds. Except in Central Wisconsin and some parts of South Dakota there is an excess of moisture already, seriously interfering with the cultivation of corn and causing an excessive growth of straw in wheat and oats. Harvest is progressing in. Southern lowa and Nebra-ka. The following table gives the results, in sumb inary form, as reported from the States mentioned: lowa—One hundred, and one reports small grain: 82 good, 17 fair, 2 poor; corn, 47 good, 45 fair, 9 poor Minnesota—Fifty-eight reports small graih: 51 good, 7 fair; corn, 19 good, 27 fair, 12 poor. Nebraska —Sixty reports small grain: 53 good, 7 fair; corn, 30 good, 23 fair, 7. poor. North Dakota^—Fourteen reports small grain: 14 good. South Dakota—Thirty-eight reports small grain: 32 good, 6 fair; corn, 14 good, 13 fair, 11 poqr. Wisconsin—Fifty-six reports small grain: 16 good, 22 fair, 18 poor; corn, 26 good, 20 fair, 10 poor. lowa complains of too much rain, especially in the north and northwest, and damage by hail and flood in northwest, ■ counties. In Minnesota the conditions are very favorable-throughout the State. Nebraska reports excessive rain in the eastern part. Harvest is now under way and well over in the southern portions. North Dakota's present prospect is for a crop in excess of any ever raised South Dakota conditions are favorable for wheat. Cold and late spring and cutworms injured corn. Wisconsin —This State, except in the northwest and along the south line, is below average, owing to dry weather in April and Mav. The last storm appears to have been quite general, and doubtless did more or less damage to the heavy stands of small grain, besides further delaying attention to the corn-fields whore the weeds are struggling for the mastery. CONFESSES AN OLD MURDER. An Acquitted Mau Says He KHe I J. P. Cash Twenty-four Years Ago. About twenty-four years ago J. P. Cash was murdered four miles west of Paris, 111., and Bruce Ray and C. W. Perry were arrested charged with the crime. VendeVer Perry escaped Ray and C.. W. Perry were acquitted. A letter was received at Paris which exonerates Vandever Perry of all in the crime, and is as follows: Lamar, Mo. To all whom it may concern: Believing that I am about to die, I wish to make a confession of the murder of J. P. Cash on the evening of the 18th of December, 1867, at the residence of the deceased’s brother, Johnson Cash, about four miles west of Paris, Edgar County, Illinois, the crime of which my brother, Vandever Perry, was charged. But when I met my brother on the 26th of January, 1868, I told him just how it was, and that if he had done as I wanted him to do and kept out of the way as much as he could and did accidentally get caught, I would step in and give myself up and he should be vindicated and exonerated from all harm. If he did not he would have tp suffer an unjust punishment; that I had been tried and acquitted, and they had nothing against me as far as they knew. Some of them thought 'my brother had a knife, but he did not. I took the knife and used it, but in self-defense, as Mr. Cash came at me with a club, swearing he would knock my brains out. He struck at me with the club. I threw up my left arm and knocked the lick off, and we came together and I had to do something to save myself. Now I make this confession to let the people know who did it and to clear my brother of the charge against him, as I am about ready to die and be out of the way. Pbrry. P. S.—When this is found have it published in the papers so all who are concerned may know that I was the man, and not my brother, who killed Mr. Cash. California’s New L»>». If a lake has been permanently restored to its ancient bed in California by an earthquake shock it will be a very unusual case of seismic beneficence for which the State should be duly grateful. A lake is. better than a desert—Brooklyn Citizen. Fob half a century we have been gradually reducing our great American desert, until finally it was consigned almost to oblivion in Southern California, whbre it sunk below sea-level. Nature has at last concluded to wipe it out entirely, and has sprung a leak from the Colorado River, and will very soon convert the desert into a lake.— Omaha Bee. Whenever & soul Is converted it becomes possible for God to make the world a little richer.

========= . HERE’S ALL THE NEWSTO BE FOUND IN THE STATS OF INDIANA. w ♦' 1 ' Giving a Detailed Account of tbe Nam«r» ou Crimea, Casualties, Fires, Suicides* Deaths, Etc.. Etc. Victory for the State Police Board. In the Superior Court at Terre Haute, Judge McNutt, on motion of counsel for State Police Board, granted the application for a review of the judgment previously entered holding the State police law unconstitutional. The court then set aside the judgment heretofore entered against Messrs. Kelsem, Earley and Sankey, the three State Police Commissioners, and dissolved the injunction restraining them from organizing the police force. The effegj of this reversal of the former decision is to make the police law passed by the Legislature constitutional. City Attorney Simson was granted an appeal to the Supreme Court. The cause of this action on the pa¥t of Judge McNutt is the discovery of thfe decision in the 121st Indiana, in which it was held that the clause providing that the policemen be selected from the two political parties did not invalidate the whole law, because the prior clause provides that the commissioners shall take oath not to be influenced by party considerations in the appointment or removal of policemen. Judge McNutt’s former decision was made when unaware of this. This places the State Board in charge of the police, they having been restrained from exercising authority since March 14. Minor State Item*. —Average yield of wheat in Indiana is twenty bushels to the acre. —Gibson County expects to export 1,500 car-loads of wheat this season. —John Sutton, aged 18, of Thornton, was killed by the cars at Frankfort. —Wm. Brown, aged 72, dropped dead at Crawfordsville from heart disease. —Clay City Reporter says there are sixty-five widows in that town “including grass.” —Onions are being shipped north from New Albany at the rate oi 1,000 barrels per week. —Morgan County wheat averaged twenty-five bushels to the acre, and brought 80 cents. —Mrs. Joseph H. Kraft and her little daughter, of Mooresville, were seriously injured in a runaway. —Joseph Dwenger, a German farmer near Knightstown, fell dead while pitching hay on the wagon. —William Mason, aged 92, fell from his chair at Oakland City, Gibson County, and died almost instantly. —Thurston B. Davis, a Clark County farmer, was thrown from his buggy ' during a runaway, and may die. —A dog, supposed to bo affected with hydrophobia, bit several dumb animals, near Bloomington, before it was killed. —An unknown man, with the name Schwartz on his shirt-band, was killed at Henryville by jumping from the express train. , —Stella Webb, of Jeffersonville, was handling a revolver when it was accidentally discharged, sending a bullet through her leg. —During the past year no less than seventeen insane persons have been sent to the asylum from Morgan County, caused mostly by religion. —Albert Hicks, a brakeman, fell from a freight train near New Albany, and when the engine went back after him he was unconscious and dying. —Philip Stephens,deaf old man of 81 years, was run down and killed by a Pennsylvania engine at Fort Wayne. He leaves an aged widow and several children. —A wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania road south of Elizabethtown. The engine and fourteen cars left the track. Edward Fenton, engineer, and John Boese are perhaps fatally injured. An old blind horse had wandered on the track, causing the smash-up. —A distressing accident occurred on the Vandalia Railroad between Camden and Flora, resulting in the death of Sylvester Kingery, a son of one of the bestknown families in Carroll County. Kingery and a young man namfcd Edgar House, both of whom live in Camden, went to Flora and were returning home at 1 o'clock in the meaning. About midway between the two places they sat down on the track to rest, and fell asleep. House rolled off the track in his sleep, but a fast freight came along and cut off Kingery’s head. —John W. Coons, Deputy Auditor of State under Bruce Carr, is in Washington doing a little figuring on that §50,000 retained by the Government when the direct war tax ’’money was paid, the claim being that §46,000 from this fund had been paid over to' the State years ago. Governor Hovey is satisfied that Indiana never received the §46.000 in dispute and the government officials are equally confident that the records show to the contrary. The Secretary of the Treasury Is anxious to see Indiana demonstrate her right to the amount, and will afford Captain Coons' every opportunity possible to get at the facts. The latter is deputized by the Governor to act as agent for the State in this matter. —Deputy Internal Revenue Collector John Platt is inspecting the many stills in Perry County, where apple-jack and peach brandy are manufactured. —Miss Irma Albert, who was suddenly . stricken blind at the home of her parents in New Albany, several weeks ago, Is gradually recovering her eyesight. —The mother of Isaac Montgomery, the young man who was frightened to death recently, at New Albany, will begin suit against the practical jokers who nailed him in a box. —John Miller, a white boy, shot Matthew Bell, colored, with a Flobert rifle, it Lexington. The Bell boy may die. —George Tapp, of Crawfordsville, has cone to Terre Haute to test the virtues >t a mad-stone, he having been bitten by (is favorite dog. —Bert Hardspath, a colored barber, was found near the tracks, east of Rushrille, in a dying condition. There Is tuspicion of foul play. —Henry Seig and James Yeager will save to go to law to find out which one (f them owns a field of wheat in Sar* (Ison County which both claim. '