Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1891 — Page 6

©he at DECATUR, IND. N. BLACKBURN, - Publisher, SOME SING OF THE LILI BUT THESE COLUMNS SING OUT THE NEWS. Swallowed by a Wliale—Fell Thirty Feet— Powder Explosion—The Fiery Element— Indiana Counterfeiters Arrested. SWALLOWED Bl’ A WHALE. Aonahite Experiences of a Japanese Sailor Graphically Narrated. Tacoma (Wash.) special: The bark Guy C. Goss, with a cargo of §500,000 worth of tea, dropped anchor here fortyfour days-from Yokohama, long overdue. When fifteen days out, “Tom” Hiskiaski, a Japanese Sailor, mounted to a top-sail to reef it during a gale. A lurch of the vessel threw him headlong into the sea, and he was seen suddenly to disappear. The life-boat was put out, but no trace of the missing sailor was found. When returning to the vessel, a whale rose to the surface. The crew then suspected what had become of Hiskiaski. The whale seemed to be in great distress; Suddenly, after a violent convulsion, Hiskiaski was thrown from the whale’s mouth onto the crest of a wave and upon the deck of the Goss. He was unconscious and badly injured. Careful nursing brought him around, and he is now in his normal health. Capt. Mallette voudhes for the truth of this'story, and the sailor was pointed out. ‘ Fight on a Train. There was a fight on the platform at the rear end of the second coach of the first section of an excursion train, one mile from Rockwood, Pa. James Kelly, a policeman, of Johnstown, drew a revolver to quell a row, and the crowd sprang upon him and forced him between the cars. Conductor Hard signaled the engineer to stop the train. The coupling broke and Kelly dropped under the wheels and was killed. Lucas Myers, of Latrobe, was thrown from the platform and was killed. Milton Pyle, of Somerset, was hurled through the air, and struck on the rocks on side of the track. His skull was .crushed and his leg broken but he is still alive. G Almond-Eyed John. George W. Poore, a well known Deputy Sheriff s and Ex-Customs Inspector, was shot and killed near Seattle, Wash., by Customs Inspector J. C. Baird and James Buchanan. J. E. Terry, an expolice oflicer of Seattle, was also wounded. It is said that the shooting was caused over a band of Chinese who were being smuggled into the United States from British Columbia. Both parties were on the track of the Chinese and when Poore and Terry captured the Mongolians it was stated that Baird and Buchanan opened fire on them. Distress in India. London special: Although the latest reports from the northwest of India tell of beneficial rains having fallen there, still there is terrible distress in that region, which compels the Government to vote large sums of money for the relief of the people. The object is to provide ■public works, etc., to give the men ein- — ployment and provisions. The failure of i, ' the crops of cereals in India, France and Russia seem to be conspiring to throw a large demand for food stuffs upon America for the next twelve months. Powder Explosion. The cylinder mill of Laflin-Rand Powder Company, Platteville, Wis., in which 300 kegs of powder were in process of making, was blown up, completely demolishing the building and causing the loss of one life, John Lorry, who had charge of the mill, was at his post at the time, and, though diligent search has been made, a small portion of his skull is all that has been found of his remains. It is supposed that his whole body was blown to atoms. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Cincinnati Base Ball War. Cincinnati special: The base ball war is about over. It is boldly announced in public print here that another fortnight will see but one club in Cincinnati. The league and association will play a world’s championship series. A dispatch says the new park at Indianapolis, one of the finest in the west, will be ready for occupancy in one week or less. The Kellys wilLplay in Indianapolis. Indiana Counterfeiters Captured. W. A. Tealo and Maud Jacoby were arrested at Indianapolis for manufacturing and passing counterfeit silver dollars. Molds and materials and many finished coins were captured with the ‘ counterfeiters. Tile Fiery Element. A fire at South Haven, Mich., consumed twenty-three buildings before its progress could be stayed. It originated in a small building in the rear of Zeedick’s grocery store. The total loss is §45,000; insurance about §IO,OOO. < A Town Burned. The-entire business portion of the little village of Blair, Wis., was burned, not a store being left standing. Fourteen families are left homeless. The loss is §150,000; insurance very small. He Denies It. The published account of the reported defeat of the Chilian congressional troops at Huasco and Vallenas are officially denied in a cablegram from Minister of the Foreign Affairs, headquarter atlquique, Chili. — Tramp Burned to Death. , George O’Meyer, an aged tramp, was burned te death in a fire that consumed the Kanawha Coal Works at Cincinnati. Conductors Fired. . There is a great deal of excitement among the Cincinnati Southern railroad conductors over the fact that five of their number have been asked to resign. . It is said that the road has had detectives -for some time, who found a good deal of crookedness. Fell Thirty Foet. Amos Ferguson, a carpenter, while working on the roof of Albert Bishop’s new house at Auburn, Ind., fell to the ground, a distance of thirty feet, and sustained serious injuries. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The New York Grand Jury found an Indictment against Charles O. C. Hennessy, city editor of the New York Daily News, Charging him with misdemeanor for publishing an account of the recent electrocution at Sing Sing. During a drunken row between lumbermen and Italians employed in grading an extension of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, near Glenhazel, Pa., Horace Fisher, a jobber, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by Paolo Passuzzl. The latter then made his escape to the Italian camp and has not yet life <. ■. ~ ‘ -.v '' 3

•- ■■ v •- -y. been captured, although the County Commissioners have offered a reward of §SOO for the murderer’s apprehension. Soon after the murder the Italians at Glenhazel Hung the national flag of Italy to the breeze and boastfully defied arrest The woodsman then began to talk of shooting every dago in the town. Their blood is at fever heat and they are determined that the brutal murder of their companion shall be avenged. There is a bad break in the Erie Canal five miles west of Schenectady, N. Y. Van Slyck’s aqueduct, seventyfive feet long, with heavy stone arches, has been carried awiy, and it may take a month to repair the damage. A west-bound freight train broke in three sections east of Waterboro, N. Y. Two of the sections came together on the center of bridge No. 6 with such force as to derail the cars and throw them into the main trusses of the bridge, thereby breaking the struts and destroying the structure. Nobody was injured. Samuel W. Lewis, the New York broker, was sentenced to seven years and a half at hard labor on a conviction for grand larceny. Divers from the Newport, R. 1., torpedo station have discovered in the outer harbor the remains of an ancient sunken vessel, supposed to be at least one hundred years old, from which they have taken a couple of guns. They have buoyed the vessel for further search. westerlFhappenings. Henry Adkins shot three times at Thomas Wells on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Wells was not seriously hurt A hailstorm swept over the western part of Dickey County and a portion of McPherson County, S. D. A strip three miles by twelve was swept over, but the damage is less than at first supposed, as the district visited is not very thickly settled. Stock on the range was stampeded and badly battered by the hail. Su Paul has been made the headquarters of a national movement by the United Farmers’ Alliance of the country to corner the entire wheat crop of the United States. For several days a Urge force of employes has been engaged in sending out circulars with the view of having not only the alliance men of the United States, but all classes of farmers keep back their wheat crop until the bears have all been killed off and prices have been advanced to a high point. In other words, the Alliance Press Bureau, the Reform Press Bureau, and State Press Bureau are working together, endeavoring to unite the farmers of the United States in a gigantic wheat trust, in which the producers shall be the stockholders, and by which the speculators and wheat buyers will be squeezed to the wall. By the’ explosion of the boiler of an engine in the Burlington and Missouri roundhouse at Plattsmouth, Neb., Charles Hazmere and John Hasdruba, employes, were instantly killed. Wm. Fitzgerlld, convicted of murdering Policeman Freed at Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced to be hanged November 19. At East St. Louis George Anderson, a saloon-keeper, shot and killed Dennis Ryan, another saloon-keeper, and then committed suicide. A special from Sedalia, Mo., says: Startling evidence has recently come to light in the case of Tom Williamson, condemned to be hanged August 21—■ evidence that would indicate that he was not guilty of the crime. .At Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble's warehouses on Central avenue, were destroyed by fire. Loss §40,000, covered by insurance. The adjoining packing house of Macscher & Co. was also damaged to the extent of §IO,OOO. B;llings, Mont., has been overrun with tramps and hard characters. An old citizen was assaultea in his place of business by three of them and brutally murdered. The murderers are in the custody of the Sheriff. Excitement is high, anc may ena in a lynching. Four persons 1 were killed and six injured by a collision on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, near Carlile, Col. While the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton excursion train of fourteen cars was returning to Dayton, Ohio, with working people from a picnic at Wordsdale Park, a fre : ght train crashed into it at Middletown station, and seven persons were killed and between twenty and thirty wounded, many of them fatally. The excursion had stopped at Middletown to repair some broken couplings, caused by one of the passengers jokingly pulling the air-brake cord. There is now but little doubt that the Missouri River will change its channel for several miles just west of St. Joseph, Mo. In that event the city will be left by the side of a boggy slough and the §1,000,000 bridge and two railroads will be swamped. Since the cutting began this spring two farms have been lost. Thebe is afloat a rumor that the Illinois Central Railroad is really ready to build a passenger station at Chicago which will not only < protect waiting passengers from the rain but which will entirely lack that aijeient fishy odor which has been the chief characteristic of its ruins of ’7l. The body of Jennie Kurtz, the pretty, 10-year-old daughter of Charles W. Kurtz, of Lafayette, Ind., was found in the Wabash River. Mr. Kurtz objected to his daughter receiving the attentions of Ell wood Gqod, and severely chastised her with a strap for disobeying him. During a thunder-storms a gang of thrashers near Ligonier,- Ind., took refuge under a thrasher. Lightning struck the machine, destroying it and seriously injuring all the workmen, Ed Morrow fatally. At Santa Fe, N. M., four convicts sawed their way out of the penitentiary and made good their escape, being assisted, it is alleged, by three of the night guards. Mary and Bertha, daughters of G. Thompson, a Cedar Falls, lowa, hardware dealer, were drowned while bathing. They were aged 17 and 19. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS., The Citizens’ Bank, of Jefferson, Tex., has closed its doors. A special from HendersC®, Texas, says: A negro named William Johnson, aged 17 years, was taken out of the County Jail by an armed mob, who overpowered the jailer, getting possession of his keys and securing their victim. They very quietly took him to a tree near the square and hanged him. Gilbert Parkes, of the real-estate firm of Blair, Parkes & Co., shot his brains out in the Nashville (Tenn.) American office. Charles M. Ozburn, who murdered James IL Bradley on May 5, 1890, was hanged at Ga. His neck was broken by tho fall. Air unknown, man shot and killed Jamos Nesbitt at Chicopee, Mass,, and also injured another man.' Near La Grange, Ky., Milton Ferguson shot and killed C. Williams. They had started homo together, and k , . . -J-,-..’ ’AI

quarreled over a horse trade. -Williams tried to shoot Ferguson, but Ferguson shot first Mbs. Ada Avery and Miss Fanny Kelley are in jail at Birmingham, Ala. They have a brother named Will Tanner, who was being conveyed to Coalburg as a convict The women met the deputy, gathered him snugly in their embrace and held him until their brother had mounted the deputy's horse and fled. He is still at large. At Dallas, Texas, a fire broke out in J. B. Cowan & Co.’s big liquor house and spread rapidly to the Benbroeck School Furniture Company’s place, the Brewers’ Storage Company’s warehouse, and Wolfe & Co.’s cotton gin. The total loss yill foot up $250,000; insurance §200,000. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The shipments of currency to the West to “move the crops” has opened up lively, the sum of §538,000 in small notes being shipped in one day from the Treasury to Cincinnati and Chicago in exchange for deposits at New York. The Washington Representative Citizens’ Committee, selected for the purpose, has prepared an address extending to the Grand Army of the Republic a hearty invitation to hold its national encampment in 1892 in that city. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. A strike and riot occurred at the Nottingham colliery, near Plymouth, Pa., and it is -feared that it is the precursor of troublesome times in the coal regions. The Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, were shut down, owing to the trouble over the sale of wages presented by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. The trouble between the convicts and miners at Coal Creek, Tenn., has been adjusted, at least until the session of the Legislature, when the miners expect the convict labor law to be repealed. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Just out of Paris, France, a collision between excursion trains occurred at St. Maude, in which fifty persons were killed and 100 injured, and three carriages wrecked. Both trains were returning from a musical festival at Fontenoy. The guards’ van and the three rear carriages of the first train were wrecked and caught fire from the gas. Most of the dead victims are legless, their limbs having been crushed off through the jamming together of the seats. The driver and fireman of the second train were burned alive. It is reported that tne stationmaster has gone mad and decamped. London Truth prints a startling story of another mutiny in the British army. Strange to remark, the facts seem to have been kept quiet up to the present The Liberals elected their candidate for Parliament to succeed the late Cl W. Selywin, Conservative, in Cambridgeshire. The majority was 260. Henry M. Stanley has met with a serious accident, according to information repejved from Muerren, Switzerland, where Stanley is staying with his wife. The explorer fractured his left thigh-bone by accidentally slipping while mountain-climbing. FRESH AND NEWSY. The famous old sloop-of-war Brook lyn has been given to the flames at Nut Island. She was burned for her metal work. A party of twenty prominent Mexicans has arrived on a business and pleasure excursion in this country. The General Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons elected Joseph P. Horner, of New Orleans, General Grand High Priest for the ensuing triennial period. The Bureau of American Republics has received information from Guatemala that the coffee harvest for 1891 will reach 700,000 quintals, representing §16,000,000. In ten years the production has more than doubled and tho price has more than quadrupled. A dispatch from Seven Islands, on the Lower St. Lawrence, reports the drowning of seven Children. A boy only 7 years old showed extraordinary courage and succeeded in saving one of his companions, a girl 8 years old. R. G. Dun & Co,’s weekly review of trade says: Some improvement In the business situation is still noted. There is more actual trade in most of the leading branches, and more general confidence as to the future. But the monetary situation does not grow clearer. A speculation in products is springing up which threatens to make trouble when the crop movement becomes large. Distribution of circulars in enormous number from Minneapolis and Washington, professedly by the Farmers’ Alliance, advising all farmers to hold their wheat, does not yet affect actual receipts, but stimulates speculators tb buy largely, in expectation of a boom, and much money has already been locked up in carrying accumulating stocks. With the utmost freedom in movement of wheat, the recovery from Europe of the $70,000,000 gold shipped this year would be difficult, but with wheat exports checked for some months scarcity of money would be felt in all markets and in all branches of industry. The condition of trade is generally more favorable than a week ago. MARKET REFORTB. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes3.so @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 1.00 @ 5.75 Sheep. 3.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Redßß & .89 Corn—No. 260 @ .61 Oats—No. 2 34U@ ,35V. Rye—No. 268 @ .70* Butter—Choice Creameryl6 @ .17 Cheese—FulT Cream, flats;oß & .09 Potatoes—New, per buso @ .60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.75 Sheep—Common to Prime..... 3.50 <® 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red... 82 @ .83 Cohn—No. 1 White .64 @ .64J4 Oats—No. 2 White....4l @ .42 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Redß4 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 .58 @ .59 Oats—No. 2 28U@ .29)4 Poke—Mess 11.25 @11.75 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 403 @ 5.75 Sheep 8.00 @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red .84 @ .86 Corn—No. 2 66%@ .67)4 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .37 @ .38 DETROIT. Cattle' 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 8.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 8.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.... 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 63 @ .64 Oats—No. 2 White 44)4® .45)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—New M ..\ .88 @ .90 , Corn—Cash.6o @ .62 Oats—No. 2 White4o @ .42 Cloveb Seed..... 4.15 @ 4.25 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00 Live Hogs... 4.25 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat-No. 1 Hara 1.04 @ 1.06 Cohn—No. 2 68 @ .69 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springß9 @ .91 Corn—No. 8 .61 @ .62 Oats—No. 2 White.4l @ .41)4 Rye—No. 1 .70 @ .TO Barley—No. 2 ; .69 @ 170 Pom-Mess.;... 11.26 @11.60 NEW YORK.

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A STUPID FATAL “JOKE.” THE PRIZE IDIOCY OF AN OHIO EXCURSIONIST. He Fixlls the Air-Brake Cord on an Excursion Train, Causing a Delay Which! Was Followed by a Frightful CalamityStory of the Wreck. TheJwreck at Middletown,- Ohio, on the Ctficinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad was one of the worst that have ever happened in that vicinity. The National Cash Register Company of Dayton had given its employes an excursion to Woodsdale, in a train of sixteen poaches. The day had passed merrily, "aud everybody was laughing and chatting when the train reached Middletown at 8 o’clock on its way home. Some one had turned the air-brakes on for a joke, and the engine was puffing and wheezing to pull the heavy load with the brakes on. Pretty soon a draw-bar broke, and the train was stopped on the siding at Middletown for repairs. William G. Douglass, one of the foreman of the National Cash Register Works, tells this story of the wreck: The train of fifteen crowded cars started on its return trip from Woodsdale about 7 o’clock and about an hour later the accident occurred at Middletown. A drawbar about the middle of the excursion train broke and they stopped at Middletown to patch it up for the run to Dayton. Brakemen were immediately sent out with red flags to flag the approaching train, and nearly half an hour was consumed in repairing the disabled car. Red lights were not promptly changed to the rear"of this car, though the train was pulling out when the accident occurred at nearly 8 o’clock. The 250 men, women, and children were in the last three coaches and all knew that freight train No. 44, was following and they appreciated and talked of their danger.. Some of them called Con-, ductor Peter G. Clancy’s attention to their peril and he cautioned them that if they heard train 44 coming they should jump from the car. Five minutes later the awful disaster was upon them. The excursion was slowly creeping off the side-track, when an ominous roaring was heard from the expected train No. 44, not over a quarter of a mile away. Nearer and nearer came the monster mogul with thirty-five loaded cars, and when in sight of Middletown Station Engineer Sehwind saw the flagman waving the danger signal, and he immediately called for brakes, shut off steam and applied tho sand. He saw that a collision was inevitable. Then he and his fireman jumped and an instant later tho crash came—a rear-end collision of mighty force. The excursion train was pulling out on to the main track and all but the two rear coaches had left the siding when the mogul engine with the heavy train behind it went plowing through. The two rear cars and human freight were hurled into the ditch and the next coach was struck fairly in the end, and the locomotive, pushing under, elevated it to an angle of forty-five degrees, and there it stood, filled with shrieking peop’e. This car caught fire, but Engineer Sehwind and his fireman were able to extinguish tho blaze by use of hose from the locomotive. Two cars lay crushed in the ditch with a mass of maimed and mangled people moaning in agony, pleading for help. Rescuers set to work at once to extricate them. Legs, arms and heads could be seen through broken windows or pinned under the wreck. Moans of the helpless sufferers, and moans of the dying, mingled with the frantic cries of mothers seeking husbands and children. Many had been cut by glass and the timbers in the rush to escape, and bloody faces and hands bore ghastly testimony to the great number who were injured. Physicians and citizens of Middletown were soon at the scene to join in rescuing the unfortunates. The terror-stricken excursionists were made comfortable in the houses, tho dead persons were properly cared for, and the injured received all necessary attention. A tramp named James Wilson, of Columbus, Ohio, who, with his two little boj’S, was having a free ride on tho freight train, says he is a railroader by occupation and was on the third car from the front when approaching Middletown; that he plainly saw tho red lights swinging, and that tho engineer tried to stop the train but could not, and the heavy cars crowded him into the excursion train. WIND FANNED THE FLAMES. Twenty-two Buildings Burned In South Haven-Foundry Damaged in Toledo. At South Haven, Mich., fire broke out in H. Zeedyke’s grocery store. Before the flames were under control twentytwo buildings were burned. A strong northwest wind was blowing at the time, and before apparatus was at the scene the fire had full sway, and the people could only look on and see it burn. The tearing down of two small stores finally stopped the flames. Loss, about §40,000; insurance, §IO,OOO. Among the heaviest losers were: Guy Smith & Co., grocers, §6,000; insurance, §4,200; G. B. Pomeroy, agent implements, §3,000;' no insurance; C. Coinstock, groceries, §4,500; no insurance; C. J. Fletcher, store and house, §4,000; insurance, $500; H. Peckham, §3,500; no insurance; H. Zeedyke, J. McCrimmons, the Public Library, the G. A. R. armory, Masonic Hall, and many other buildings. Fire broke out in the foundry-room of the Central Chandelier Company’s building, Toledo, Ohio, destroying the greater portion of the two upper floors. The loss was chiefly on machinery, and is roughly estimated at §15,000; insurance, §49,000. Near Vacaville, Cal., fire in the Blue Mountains burned over a large extent of territory. There are a large number of thriving orchards recently planted in Gate’s Canyon, besides a number of residences, and, as seen from the town, tho entire section is burned over. No call for help has been made, and no advice as to the extent of the damage is obtainable. Fire at Newort News, Va., destroyed over twenty buildings, stores and dwellings. Estimated loss, $50,000. At Montreal Frazer & Co.’s grocery warehouse and Quinet's carriage factory were burned. 'Loss, SIOO,OOO. Missing Links. Butter is sold by the yard at Cambridge, England. Philadelphia claims the largest cold storage warehouse in the United States. It is said that the five leading hotels at Saratoga take in an aggregate of $2,000,000 a month during the busy season. The poundmaster at Oakland sold at auction for sl2 an estray horse that proved to be a thoroughbred trotter, valued at $4,000. A Connecticut man has gone into the business of propagating sewer rate. He sells their skins to “kid” glove manufacturers. The interior of Labrador is said to be the-largest unexplored area on the continent, and it has a waterfall with a sheer descent of 2,000 feet. Recent observations with the Lick telescope of the shadow of one of Jupiter’s satellites are said to show that the tiny moon itself is double. In the animal market at Hamburg, tn Germany, giraffes sell at $7,000 a pair, chimpanzees go at SBOO apiece, and select i lots qf Sumatra monkeys at SI,OOO, . . ■ ■ ‘ • -

HANG TO YOUR WHEAT. THAT IS THE ADVICE SENT TO THE FARMERS. One MHUon Circulars Are to Be Mailed to the Producers of Breadstuff^—The Plan Is Designed to Prevent the Speculators of the Country from Depressing Prices. The Farmers’ Alliance folks are greatly interested in tne reports of small shipments of wheat and increasing prices. The Alliance prophets have been predicting a rise ip the price of wheat and have been advising farmers to hold their crops as long as possible in order to get the advantage of the increase. It has been said that the Alliance. was going to try to make a corner in wheat. This the Alliance loaders deny, but they say they have done their best to inform the farmers of the condition of the wheat crops of tho world, so that they may know what to calculate on in making their sales. Through the “reform press bureau, ” which is located in this city, says a Washington dispatch, tho Alliance leaders are sending out a circular, prepared some time ago and recently adopted for circulation among the farmers, which enters into a full discussion of the condition of the crops, predicting an excellent crop in this country and quoting the indications in crop reports that the foreign crop will be short and prices high. Tho recommendation to the farmer is that he hold his wheat for the rise in price whenever it is possible for him to do so. Since the 12th of this month 400,000 of these circulars Lave been sent out to the farmers. Two hundred thousand will be sent out during this week, and it is contemplated circulating 1,000,800 copies. It is expected that the result will be slow shipment of wheat to the markets, and that the farmer himself will claim the increased value of his product, instead of giving the speculators the benefit of the profits. In other words, the farmers will do a little speculating in their own way. Tho circular says in part: “Our Agricultural Department issues every month a Government report about the crops. These reports estimate the number of acres sown and give tho percentage of condition. A percentage of 100 is a somewhat ideal crop and would indicate a yield of thirteen bushels and a fraction to the acre. It has been surpassed only once—namely, in the year 1882, when tho condition at harvest was 104 and the yield thirteen and one-half per acre. Our present crop is somewhat similar to the crop of 1884, the Government report report making the acreage the same and the condition somewhat less. In 1884, at harvest time, the condition of winter wheat was reported at 98 and of spring wheat at 99. This year the condition of winter wheat is 96.6, and that of spring wheat 92.6, or about 3per cent, loss than tho final report of 1884. As the harvest of 1884, the largest we ever had, was 512,000,000 bushels, the last Government report would indicate a crop of 494,000,000 bushels, say 500,000,000 in round numbers. The home consumption has increased with the population and is certainly over 350,000,000 bushels, probably 360,000,000, which leaves us 140,000,000 for export. During the last ten years we exported 127,000,000 yearly in average, of which Europe received 107,000,000 and the West Indies and South America 20,000,000. This year we may have 13,000,000 more to spare, which, however, will go to South America on account of the reciprocity treaties, and Europe will receive the average quantity of about 107,000,000 bushels and no more, as we have no reserves to draw upon. “This would make both ends meet there if Europe had a good average crop, but Europe has not a good average crop; in fact, it has the worst crop failure of the century. Last winter was phenomenal all over Europe in its severity’and duration. Snow and ice covered Italy and Spain and were actually carried far into Africa. Vessels on the Mediterranean Camo into port thickly covered with ice, and this abnormal weather worked incalculable damage to the winter wheat in all tfie countries of the continent. The spring has been late and very unfavorable, and even in June snow and frost destroyed most of what was left in half of Germany and a great part of Austria. That the crop disaster is not local or moderate or exaggerated can be clearly seen by tho action of the different governments. Russia appointed a commission to investigate the crop damages, which reported wheat 17 per cent, below average and rye much worse. It is the custom of that government to quiet the alarm of the people, and the damage, therefore, is surely not less than reported, but probably much more. ” The circular discusses generally the condition of the foreign crop and tells the farmers how to take advantage of the situation to get the full value of their product “There will be very few, indeed,” the circular suggests, “unwilling to hold off to see what will become of this move, as in view of the situation prices could never be lower, but even if one-half or more of the farmers should be persuaded by the arguments of railroad and elevator men to rush their wheat into the market, the result would be the same, for if a considerable number of those who are in the habit of marketing early hold back, in a little while the farmers’ deliveries would fall short of the requirements, and the effect would be the same as if no wheat had been brought in at all. There is, however, little danger that any considerable number of farmers could be induced to market their product in hot haste at present prices. They all know that the remnants of last year’s crop are smaller than ever, and that present prices are entirely out of proportion to the condition of the world’s crop. No crons that can be raised this year can change the fact that the world’s supply is immensely below the requirements. The American farmer is intelligent enough to know that whoever markets his products late in a year like this receives tho best prices, and there is really no danger that many will show enough sympathy with the speculator to come to his rescue. ” Atchison Globules. If we were a young woman hired to collect bills, we should not wear a lead pencil in the knot of hair on the back of our head. A man will deny that your flattery has any effect on him, but he cannot deny that somehow he is feeling more satisfied with himself than he was. The worst okd tough in town may not know much, but he knows enough to clap you on the shoulder, and call you by your first name, when you are in good company, and are trying to pretend that you don’t know him. A man who is rapidly growing stout asked a woman who had had experience, to tell him what he must avoid eating “Everything, you like,” the woman promptly responded. When a man is told these days that a lady wants to see him, he does not imagine any very Important, or secret, or romantic business. He knows right away it is a girl with a bill. A chubch worker’s idea of a popular girl is one who will attend all the church socials, and act so nice that the young men will spend all their money treating her to church He cream. - --mi _r> . , iiril ir — - - - ? :. . , '

RUN OFF THE MILITIA. TENNESSEE SOLDIERS CAPITULATE TO STRIKING MINERS. Both the Militiamen and Convicts Are Loaded Onto Cars and Shipped to Knoxville—Gov. Buchanan Orders Out AU the Troops In the State and Bloodshed Is More than Likely to Occur. The crisis in the labor troubles at Briceviile, Tenn., came when the miners and a crowd of sympathizers from the country surrounded the camp of the State militia, captured the troops and convicts employed in place of the striking miners, marched them off to the depot and put them on a train and shipped them to Knoxville. The camp was on a little knoll in a hollow and surrounded on all sides by mountains. About 2,000 miners, farmers and other natives who have no occupation at all took possession of the hills around the Briceviile camp. Fifteen hundred of these were armed with rifles, the rest had shot-guns and pistols. They came from all the mines in a radius of fifty miles. The organization was complete and their leaders placed them along the hillsides witn military precision. At the call to arms the little garrison turned out gallantly and prepared for defense. It was apparent at a glance that a tight would result in a massaye. A meeting of the officers was called Some declared'that a stout resistance to. the first attack would be sufficient and the mob would withdraw. Others thought that it w’duld be suicidal, yet every one was in favor of doing his duty, notwithstanding the exposed position they were to defend. The miners called a parley and were met on neutral ground by Col. Sevier. They stated that they had sufficient force to overwhelm the soldiers, but did not care to shed blood if the convicts were quietly turned over to them. This request was emphatically refused. The miners then asked Colonel Sevier if he would remove his troops and take the convicts with him. He asked what would be done to the mining company’s property, which was also under his protection. They replied that it would not be injured. He also asked if an attack would be made on the Knoxville Iron Company’s stockade just below Bricevilla It such was intended, he would fall back there and fight it out regardless of the consequences. The leaders replied that no attack would be made; The troops then marched out of camp, taking with them the convicts, all their commissary supplies and baggage. They marched to Briceviile and there were loaded in box cars or whatever could be had, and the entire lot sent to Knoxville. Sympathy, which has been entirely on the side of the miners, is now against them for their lawless act at a time when everything was being done to relieve the situation, and the great mass of citizens say the law must be observed and that Gov. Buchanan must enforce the law, regardless of cost The sentiment is that ho must send all the State troops, who are few and poorly organized, to the front at once, and put experienced men and officers in charge. If he has not force enough he must call for volunteers. A report has been circulated that he asked the President for 500 regulars, but the truth of this cannot be verified. It is known that the leaders of the mob were not miners, either last week or today. One Eugene Merrill led them in each instance. He is a merchant at Briceviile, but is said to be a determined man. He spoke in reply to GoV. Btfchanan last week and really treated the Governor with indignity. Other leaders are known, and the sentiment is that they must be arrested and taken to Nashville as the law provides, and punished. The miners have appointed a committee to see what dispatches shall be sent out and what not, and this committee or some one of it is in the telegraph office all the time and reads all the matter sent out by “the newspaper men. The committee, whether self-appointed or by the miners’ organization, told the operator on duty at the key that if he did not let them read the messages they would cut the wires. The wire is a private one and does all business, including railroad and train dispatching. There are reports that the railroad company Sil call for special detectives to guard eir property. Another view of the situation is the danger to capital invested at Coal Creek. Large sums of money have been invested there by men in New York and other places, and the great development of the properties is largely due to this money. Costly machinery is exposed to the fui*y of the mob. Citizens say such highhanded outrage will destroy public confidence, aad money will cease to come in for developments now just started. There is another bad feature connected with the affair which has not yet been brought out. That is the conduct of the militia that has been on these grounds, Many were allowed to go outside to get food, and they mingled freely with the miners. These troops told the miners that they did hot want to guard tho convicts, and to come and get them at once, that they would not fight them for the convicts. As the troops were marched off the miners jeered and hooted them, and yelled, “Tell Buck to send some more dudes; we will eat them as fast as they come.” Citizens say that the insult is to the entire State and that the Governor must arrest and punish the leaders. The mob is celebrating its victory by cheering, carousing, and shooting. It should be stated that a force of 500 men, properly equipped and led, could subdue the entire party,'for they have po idea of openly facing a force. They knew from the statements made them that the troops would not fight, but every one feels that the mob has made a bad mistake, and that they will be subdued. In other words, they have lost public sym- ■ pathy. A sensible man in Walla Walla. Wash., says that he sees no prospect of solving the problem of practical aerial navigation without the use of birds. He proposes that a light bamboo car be built, and to this be attached 100 geese or ducks which have been previously trained to fly in any direction indicated. He estimates that these will be able to carry the car and a man weighing 156 pounds. He earns the right to be called a sensible man by urging that some one else try the experiment After one has made an ass of himself by being carried half a mile of so heavenward by such a team, says the Detroit Free Press, he would be apt to wish he could make a goose of himself and so reach the ground in safety. A beign of terror exists among the colored population of West Philadelphia, who believe that the medical college of the University of Pennsylvania-, has a paid gang of powerful men whose business it is to lurk about the streets at night, with hoods and chloroform, and capture negroes for subjects to be dissected by the students. It is almost impossible to find a colored man or woman willing to pass within a block of the medical college, after dark, and a coachman of one of the professors w»? so terrified at the idea that he became a raving maniac on the subject, and died in the State insane asylum. The mania has been aggravated by thoughtless stu dents, who have played upon the fears of the colored people.

THE POSITIVE TRUTH THAT ALL THE HOOSIER NEWS IS HERE. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Inteiest—Accl« dents. Crimes, Suicide, Etc. Jay County’s Fifty-Foot Snake. The great serpent that was seen by the Lake Erie and Western roadmaster, a few daysvsince, has again put in an appearance. It was seen this time by a band of gypsies camped on Brooks' Creek, near Portland. The astory of the encounter is told as follows by the chief of the gypsy band: “We are on our way from Waukon, la., to Dayton, 0., and camped on the banks of a small stream. We went to bed about 9 o’clock. About midnight I was awakened by the barking of the dogs southeast of tho camp, and soon after the horses broke their tethers and rushed away. By this time all the camp were on their feet, not knowing the cause of the trouble. In a moment there was a rushing sound and we saw the head of a monster snake coming rapidly toward us. Before we could collect our senses it was within ten feet of one of the children. My wife then snatched a brand from smoldering camp-fire and struck it with all her might “Tho serpent reared head at least twenty feet in the air and turning, in a second was gone. 1 never saw such a snake before. Its head was nine or ten inches broad and'it must have been fifty feet in length. We stood for an hour after it was gone, afraid to move, and then built several fires around the camp to prevent its return. Our horses were scattered all oyer the country and could not be induced to return to the camp, so we had to hire a farmer to draw us to the pike.” This snake has been in the vicinity mentioned for the last six or seven years and the numbers of hogs and sheep that have disappeared are supposed to have become its prey. Minor State Items. —lndiana will demand a change of the libel laws of the next Legislature. —Henry Daniels fell out of a boat in Stone Lake, Laporte, and drowned. —Herman Brederveg, farmer near Linton, fell dead in the harvest field. —A couple at Waveland has just been ‘ married after twenty years of courting. —Jacob Slusser, aged 75, of Huntington, was killed by falling down-stairs. —Sleek’gang passed gilded nickels for gold on the crowd at the Fort Wayne races. —Maj. Homan’s wheat field, Danville, destroyed by incendiary fire. f Loss 81,000. \ x ' —Since the season opened 300 gallons of wild blackberrls have been shipped daily from English. —Lightning struck the residence of John-Burnsides, at Sellersburg, destroying It. Loss, §1,200. —The spiritualists in camp near Chesterfield are talking of establishing a spiritualistic college. —A horse belonging to a farmer near Manckport overturned a stand Qf bees, %nd was stung to death. —Terre Haute has a new street roller. —Citizens complain of cattle running out nights at Washington. —De Villa Boswell, of Swayzee, fell from his wagon and was dragged to death by the horses he was driving. —William Kauffman, a young farmer living six miles north of Princeton, was kicked to death, while feeding his horses. • —Miss Emma Gleason, of Montezuma, despondent from long illness, drank ten ounces of carbolic acid and died soon after. —Flying sparks from a locomotive set fire to John Shafer’s wheat field, near Muncie, and 200 bushels of grain were burned. —O. C. Honeycut, while stealing a ride on a freight train from Rockville to Crawfordsville, was crushed between the bumpers and cannot live. —A lightning tooth jerker and allaround medicine man, with long, flowing locks and a big wad of tobacco, is very prominent in Indiana towns. —Anna Pyatt sues Al. Templeton for $2,000 for slander at Frankfort He went and said he saw her intoxicated on the streets, and it’s no such thing! —Country editors now keep standing: “Farmers, after you have threshed your wheat and have your pockets full of the ‘needful’ do not forget the printer.” —Edwin Clarke, foreman of the Patton Hollow-ware Company’s shops at the Prison South, was assulted by James Kantner, a convict, and is now lying in a dangerous condition from concussion of the brain. —Josiah Beaty, a wealthy farmer residing in Columbus, and owning a section of land near the dlty’s corporation line, has finished thrashing a crop of wheat from 300 acres which realized 9,000 bushels. —A workman at Crawfordsville went to sleep on the narrow platform of a brick smoke-stack, 100 feet above the ground,[and when he was awakened by a fellow-workman,- he was so scared that it was with difficulty that he was gotten down to the grond. —Ex-Treasurer Fields, of Orange County, paid a shortage of $12,000 charged against him, though he positively asserts he never took a dollar of the county’s funds. Au expert is examining the records. —The barn of George Clough, living near Crawfordsville, was struck by lightning, and was burned, together with farm implements, seed wheat, harness, hay and feed. The loss will be SI,OOO, with part insurance in the Ohio Farmers* Insurance Company. —Fire at the Franklin fair grounds, caused by sparks from a hostler’s pipe, destroyed 500 feet of sheds' and a valuable horse belonging to William Cole. —After a close examination, a number of physicians pronounce Jesse Streith, the Seymour boy sleeper, a fraud from Fraudville. His long snooses are well acted but they are not genuine. —Hanover boasts of a colored, man, who weighs 450 pounds, and can pick twenty quarts of blaokberrles an hour. He never wears shoes, and the cuticle on the soles of his feet is so tough that tho sharpest thorn cannot pierce it.