Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1891 — Page 6

DECATUR, IND. ESS v-v/\z\zvz\/\z\z\ X* BIiAjCKBUKN, • - . PTTBMfiHffia. ?: •' ~ ' - . 1 LISTEN TO THE MILL f GRINDING ITS GRIST OF LATE ' NEWS. CfeA'.*'- ’ M ________ A Bad Wreck on the Grand Rapids Railroad at Brick, Ind.—Fred Douglass Resigns—Another Slaughter of Italians, SLICK SWINDLERS. But They Were Not So Sharp Bnt That j | Uncle Sam’s Officers Caught Thein. h, Chicago special: Alfred Downing, President, and N. H. Tollman, Vice President of the National Capital Savings and Building and Loan Association of North America, were arrested by Postoffice Inspector Stuart, charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. It is charged that the men who have been conducting this association have swindled thousands of people from every State in the Union and taken in from $200,000 to $350,000, giving nothing in return. Victims from Maine to California are numbered among rich and poor alike. There are still two men at liberty, they having disappeared several weeks ago. These two,men that are missing it is believed got away with most of the funds. For six months and more letters have bpen received from all parts of the country by postoffice and city authorities protesting that the “National Capital Savings Building and Loan Association of North America" was collecting money and making no loans. Inspector Stuart has been working on the case four months. He found that the concern was gigantic in its reach, and had agents in every State in the Union who were selling $20,000,000 of the stock of the company. The scheme was advertised through these agents who sent circulars and documents, showing the association to be „ gilt-edged. Captain Stuart visited the company’s office frequently, disguised- as a letter carrier, in order to secure evidence. Inspector Stuart and District Attorney Milchrist went over the books of the concern and found that seventeen legitimate loans had been made in as many different States. These, it’would seem were made to allure other investors. No record of any other loans could be found, although the books show that money has been received from hundreds of people from places where a single loan was placed. A rough estimate of the amount of money received is $175,000,000 in the ‘ year. Another Slaughter, A work train on the Shore Line Railway was run into at Hartford, Conn., by a light engine, which was proceeding east. The engine was running at a good rate of speed and struck the train, which was filled with Italian laborers, with terrific force. Three of the Italians were killed outright and thirteen, injured, many of whom will probably die. The accident was due to a heavy fog, which prevented the engineer of the light engine from seeing the lights, ahead. Engineer Benjamin and Fireman Shephard escaped by jumping. They were, obliged to hide themselves in a tower of a neighboring mi Ito escape the wrath of the uninjured Italians. Was Hypnotized by Bunco Men. David King, an Algona, lowa, farmer who was buncoed out of $2,000 by a couple of sharpers and claims to have 7” been hypnotized at the time he lost the money. Although commonly reputed to be sharp and shrewd, King was easily persuaded to draw s2,oooout of the bank and wager it on a three-card monte game. King asserts positively that some mysterious force was brought to bear upon him. The confidence men are under arrest at Algona and a full investigation of their method will be made. A Frightful Fall. A horrible accident occurred at Goslee’s coal mines at Chandler station, Ind., by which George Graham, aged 22 years, whose home is in Terre Haute, lost his life. He had descended but a short distance -when he was overcome by black damp, causing him to lose his hold and topple over. He fell to the.bottom of the shaft, a distance of forty feet, alighting on his head and killing him almost instantly. He was not an employe of the mine, and had no occasion for entering the shaft. Killed by the Game Warden. Dayton (Ohio) special: State Deputy Game Warden L. K. Buntain, of this city, fatally shot David Mcllvain, whom he caught with four others seining in Mad River, near Harshmanville, in violation* of the game law. Buntain immediately gave himself up, but as he was a State official and did tbe shooting in self-defense, as admitted by. the wounded man, no arrest was made, nor have the fisherman been arrested. Wreck on the Grand Rapids. A terrible wreck on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad occurred at Briant, Ind. Fast express No. 5, south bound, ran into the rear end of a freight train which was pulling into a siding, com- , pletely wrecking the passenger and a number of freight cars. Daniel Dick, the engineer, Thomas Brown, the fireman, and James Hayes, the conductor of tbe express, were killed and a number of passengers injured. Shot by a Brutal Husband. At Chillicothe, 0., George Duhlmeyer got drunk and returned home and began beating his wife. Policemen Hall and Von Kennel were called, and in attempting to arrest him both were shot by him. Hall’s injuries are considered fatal while Von Kennel is but slightly hurt. The later shot Duhlmeyer in the leg before he could subdue him. Death of an Old Hoosier Politician. z One of Indiana’s noted politicians and lawyers, Maj. W. W. Carter, died at his home at Brazil. Mr. Carter had been afflicted with brain trouble for over a year. A Terrible Death. , A special from Bedford, Penn., says: Jacob May, a prominent farmer, met with a terrible death. May was subject to fits. He went into his house with a lantern, was overtaken by a fit, and by falling to the floor the lantern exploded, setting fire to the house and burning the unfortunate man to a crisp with the house and all its contents. Fred Douglass Resigns, , Hon. Frederick Douglass, United States Minister to Hayti, has tendered his resignation to the Secretary of State* :. ■ ■ * MITSMR - x , P.WftttAM <yiSfeiiX, x <cttizeW Corona, ftpW rifcti the other day kfe wife tad aburing hte cliildreh, Ah Effigy dt (XNelll wm hung up in the public tobars-with the following ■ton waned to it on a large claeardt f Will fam O’Keill is a brute) ho had bet* (Mr leave towTh.* i AMfifaOfrr train on the West Shore • Railroad broke in two between Fori Ryroh and Montezuma, N. Y., and fast sF train Ko. 3 dashed into the rear. The brakeman wont bank toward the pasMager train, but the night was so foggy ■nb. ■■■ ■

' Fall J intoe aiablh# car, word killed? and thirty or forty'otbers in the same nay jnjaynd. The Injured were taken to gyraeuife ha ■ am aho the bodies of the killed. The ■ at the wreck u described m teris a list <rf. the jailed, and wotemMi Michael o? JKto&gbi* tSalhi JMphbnse Oarilia, : linoJjtaiiani John Baria, Italian; Ve&aso Doffiiateo DOihiaiOo sautila, iridian i Aatoulo Ifeai' zaffava, Italians John Hrambott, Italian, . Injured—Jas. Glihsen, of St. Louis; J. Myent, of Buffalo} Frank Belter, of B/reCuse; ’ Preston, West Ttey; Patrick ftyoh, engineer passenger train) Mr. Toiler, ci West Ptynt; Mr. Dtewice, Os Norwich! Ahgelid Novelll, Italian: Rodeo AugStUro, Italian) Antonio CJObbella, Ithiina.) Benjamin Pitts, of Oneontat Ltippls Caudill, t Italian) Lnppls Agostino, Italiant Arico Cialdne. Italian; Joseph Mlscareili, Indian) Mihli Codnrella, Italian; GiOVhnßl Rosso, Italian; Tbmasso Oanzbrino, Italian. [ Sevkntkkn insane convicts in Ward l 6of the State Insane Asylum at Auburn, • N» V., one of the Worst wards in that > Institution, Overpowered their keeper, i secured his keys and escaped. They i scattered over the Western part of the ■ city, where great excitement prevailed. Five of the escaped convicts have been i recaptured and a large force of keepers are in pursuit of the others. Two deaths are the result of a lamp explosion in New York. A mother and daughter died in Bellevue Hospital. , Felicia, the mother, was 63, and Raffai ela, the daughter, was 27 years old. . Another body has been found in the i ruins of the West Shore wreck. This makes the number of dead fourteen. Whole Max Lavanson, Abram Hanson and Robert Blum, hucksters, were crossing the tracks of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Elizabeth, N. J., their wagon was struck by a train. Lavanson’s skull was fractured. Hanson had one leg badly mangled, but Blum escaped with slight bruises. A large force of men were at work driving a tunnel in the York Farm mines, Pottsville, Pa., when there was an gas, resulting in the terrible burning of thirteen laborers. WESTERN happenings. The Blymer Ice Machine Company, of Cincinnati, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities, $320,000; assets believed to be $600,000. The company bas been given long time on notes, but its own creditors became pressing, causing the failure. While shooting his brother, who was crazy, and who had attacked him with a knife, a planter named Huff, of Willis, I. T., shot and mortally wounded his own wife. The crazy man was killed with three bullets from a Winchester rifle. After about twenty-five years of litigation the Supreme Court of California decides that the San Pablo ranch of IS,OOO acres must be divided among several hundred owners. A train on the Santa Fe Railway struck a buggy near Leavenworth, Kan., killing Mrs Lonsdale and mortally wounding Miss Powers and Ray Powers. A terrible cyclone struck Ashland, Wis. A heavy rain accompanied it, flooding the streets for hours. At W’ashburn, across the bay from Ashland, the tornado’s force was more furious. Prof. Williams’ circus tents were blown down and scores of people were injured, but only two were killed—George Bebell and Louis Wilson. The animals escaped from their cages and ran wild in the streets. About 60,000 bushels of grain are damaged in the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha elevator. The roof was stripped from the Fifield Block. The Swedish Faptist church was lifted four feet from its foundations and turned around. The Postoffice building collapsed and caught the inmates, but by a fortunate lodgment of timbers they all escaped without injury except two women, one of whom suffered a broken leg and the other a contusion of the head. The roof of the Omaha elevator was dashed into the bay, exposing the stock of wheat to the rain. Loss at Washburn is probably $50,000. Cashier Maple, of the Exchange Bank, of Columbus River, Ohio, had just opened up for business when a man appeared with a revolver in each hand, and without further introduction commenced shooting. Maple was struck twice/not seriously; the robber secured $1,300 from behind the rail, and meeting a fanner, Wm. Van De Mark, shot him fatally, and passed outside. Many citizens, attracted by the firing, had assembled, but. at the muzzles of the desperaM’s guns, they cleared the streets and anowed his escape. The fires on the Osceola, Michigan, branch of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad are very bad. Potter Bros.’ mill and lumber yards and four dwellings were destroyed. Loss about $10,000; partly insured. Ravenna, Alba, Kalkaska, and South Boardman are in danger, and the destruction to crops and farm buildings has been very great. At Wichita, Kan., a man who answers the description of David Hicks, wanted in Pawnee City, Neb., for the murder of L. P. Baldwin, was arrested. The man cannot give any satisfactory account of himself. Otto Asher, the 6-year-old stepson of Tobias Butler, of Jefferson Township, Indiana, was thrown from a horse, and, falling, upon his head, dislocated the spine at the base of his brain, causing instant death. At South Charleston, Ohio, a young German girl, May Criston, is sneezing to death. Dr. M. C. Ramsey thinks it is , the result of a hysterical condition, brought on by hard work of the farm. Warren S. Chipman, a prominent ! young business man of Goshen, Ind., ■ was drowned while bathing. At Indianapolis, Bert Kimball, an em- > ployc of the O’Neill, grocery firm was arrested on a charge of stealing from his employers. Kimball confessed everything, saying that his wife and baby i were sick and that he was not receiving > wages enough to support his family. 1 John A. Geehareseb, for ten years a r bookkeeper in the German-American ; Bank, at St. Louis, Mo., is said to be ' $7,000 short in his accounts. Near Evendale, Ohio, Louis Zinkhorn and Thomas Goodpaster were struck by I a train on the Little Miami Railroad, j The former was killed and Goodpaster will probably die. Neab Vinita, L T;, lightning struck and demolished a small house belonging ’ to Nat Skinner. Six men were in the ; house. Fox Bernard was instantly ‘ killed and the other five badly injured. i southern Incidents. 8 — • Covnbel at Toronto has appealed t against the committal for extradition of • Richard Garbutt, charged with forgeries in Texas and elsewhere. Garbutt is bei lieved by American officers to be one of b a gang of notorious sharpers who have b been making shady Jand deals for years , past in ths Western States. CsasTER, & C., is in, a state of great r exclteafont over a duel/which took place

f the principal street Wiwßea i B prominent lawyer and a hewspapei* » editor. * At i marred between B. BiigK a dani at the Kews and Courser, and Bob . Jaggers, editor of FribMc Opinton. gligh Waylaid Jaggers on the street and gave I him a severe cowbiding. After the I Whipping Jaggers got his gun and Opened , fire on Sligh. Sligh returned the fire. • Two of Jaggers’ shots hit Sligh, On® in i .the face and one in too neck. Sllgh’s I Wounds are dangerous. * MeagkU details tell of a foul murder , near Jones’ Chapel, in toe wilds of CullI man County, Ala. John Dutton, a prom* inent farmer, was enticed from his , house, tied to a tree and his throat cut , His body was then thrown into a creek. > The perpetrators of the crime and their > motives are unknown. ? A special from Frankfort Ky>* says; I Jack EsteeS and Tom Long, who fought a duel in the northern part of this oounI ty, have died of their wounds. They , were desperate men. 5 John Mabshal R\e has been lodged in jail at Port Tobacco, Md., charged r with killing John J. Wheeler, a School ’ teacher. The homicide took place In lower Nanjemoy, about twenty miles 1 from Port Tobacco, where both men 1 lived, and was the result of a quarrel about a niece of Rye’s. • Wm. Lloyd, son of an ex-Governor of Maryland, has becn senfenced to three months in jail at St Louis for swindling. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ' The interior Department in the per- ’ son of Special Agent Cooper, Is attempting to appraise the damage done by the hostile to the friendly Indians at Pine 1 Ridge Agency last winter during the ' disturbance. It was supposed the total damage would t not exceed $25,000, but claims so far put in call for $300,000, and there are more claimants to hear from. The Secretary of the Treasury has been advised that a bob' t.tempt will be made during the present month to rob the Treasury by a strong and determined band of men organized for that purpose. The plan Is to start fires in various parts of Washington for the purpose of diverting the attention of the police and then to overpower the Treasury watchman and loot the money vaults. The information was given in a letter by the “King of Tramps,” who explained his knowledge . of the plot by the statement that he was the leader of the band. The letter was referred to the captain of the watch with Instructions to give the visitors a proper reception. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. A special session of the Vermont Legislature has been called for Aug. 25, to elect a successor to Senator Edmunds, and to consider increasing the appropriation f(W ; a State exhibit at the World’s Fair, The People’s party in convention at Springfield, nominated John Seitz as their candidate for Governor of Ohio. FOREIGN GOSSIP. A Berlin dispatch says it is not unlikely that Prince Bismarck will be called upon to explain his recent letter, addressed to a Russian in St. Petersburg, criticising the triple alliance, the visit of the ex-Empress Frederick to Paris, etc., and condemning the Kaiseris visit to England. M. Eiffel, the architect of the great tower at the French Exposition, has telegraphed to the Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition for permission to erect a tower on the Fair grounds. A member of the English Parliament has given notice that at the next session of that body he would introduce a resolution favoring a treaty of arbitration with this country. FRESH AND NEWSY. Admiral McCann, of the United States navy, who has just returned from Chili, says the intensity of feeling between the two factions in that country exceeds anything he ever imagined. He. thinks the Balmaceda party will put down the insurgents if they can prpeure warships. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: With business in many lines disappointingly dull, the feeling of confidence nevertheless distinctly increases. The belief Increases that the country will be able to sell such vast quantities of grain abroad, and to draw so heavily on foreign supplies of capital, that all home industries will be greatly stimulated. Monetary difficulties are still in the future, for though at some Southern points money is tight, supplies at Western centers are adequate for legitimate business, and mere speculation gets less help than usual. Depression in some great industries continues and is real, but may be traced to causes obviously not permanent. It is announced that the price of all refined sugar except cut-loaf and ’ crushed has been advanced l-16c by the American Sugar Refining Company. The Southern Pacific steamer Eldorado, 2,500 tons, from New York to New Orleans, is ashore on Great Bahama banks, ten miles south of Great Isaac shoals. . •

MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 @6.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 6.00 Sheep 3.00 @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed.. .88 @ .89 Corn— No. 259 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 •••• 27 @ .28 Bye—No. 2....73 @ .74 Butter—Choice Creameryl7 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, flatsoß @ .09 Eggs—Freshl4 @ .16 Potatoes—New, per buso @ .60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping..... 3.50 @5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.75 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 3.50 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Bed. 84J$@ .84)4 Corn—No. 1 White 64 @ .64)6 Oats—No. 2 White .31)6 @ .32)4 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 8ed........85 @ .86 Corn—No, 252 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 .27 @ .23 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ILUO CINCINNATL Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.25 .Wheat—No. 2 Bed .87 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 .62 @ .64 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 @ .33 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 & 5.25 Sheep 3.00 @ LOO Wheat—No. 2 Bed9o @ .91 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 64 @ .65 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ .34 TOLEBO. Wheat—New....! 90 @ .92 Corn—Cash 64 @ .£6 Oats—No. 2 White 29 @ .81 Clover Seed 4.20 @4.30 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle.... 4.50 @6.00 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 5.75 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.05 @ 1.06 Core—No. 2 ;• .68 @ .TO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring .92 @ .96 Corn—No. 3 .60 @ .tU Oats—No. 2 White3s @ .87 Bye-No. 1, .73 § .74 Barley—No. 2 67 @ A8 Pore—Messlo.2s @16.75 NKW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 4A» Hogs.. 4.06 2 6.00 ii:S Cobh—No. 2 ,70 @ .72 gATs—Mlxed Western .87 @ .40 P^-VewMSZ?.’..'.'laJc &ULM •' - i. fc' XTx ■ILS’/’ .’•« — -Vi

i BOYS IN BLUE PARADE. THOUSANDS OF MEN MARCH AT DETROIT. ; ’A Magnificent Turn-Out of Grand Army i Veterans—lllinois Posts Lead the Way—i Elaborate Decorations Along the Route —Scenes an® Incidents.

>HAT was a magniflent turnout of Grand Army veterans in toe grand parade at Detroit l A sapper touched la light to a big canInon in the park, and ' as toe reverberations echoed over the City of the Straits a .mounted troop wheeled around the corner of Woodward avenue and into the

Campus Martins. It was followed by a mighty procession, miles and miles of it. On came the old posts and the old familiar banners of Blair of St. Louis, Thomas of Chicago, Lytle of Cincinnati, McCoy of Columbus—yes, all the ’ posts from ocean to ocean, from Minnesota to Louisiana; there were the old tattered, ragged battle flags with their bullet-torn staffs; there were national flags with forty-four stars, and bands and bugle corps; there were fife and drum corps ot

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young boys, and there were fife and drum corps of old, grizzly fellows who served as musicians during the war of the rebellion; there were the same old stirring airs—everything patriotic. The procession wended its way** through streets, it seemed, with count-

less thousands. Yet, adjutant general notwithstanding the goulding. vast throng that lined the principal highways along a route that covered many miles, there was no confusion, no disorder, no trouble of any kind. “An

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ideal day, an ideal parade, an ideal concourse. ” ; GOD BLESS THE VETERANS WHO • FOUGHT TO KEEP : : OUR .COUNTRY UNITED. Such was the inscription in letters two feet high that greeted the eyes of

Commander-in- chief Veazey as he gave the word for the head of the column to move from the rendezvous. The Commander- in-chief was surrounded by his staff and a special detail of 100 Massachusetts vetera n s mounted on magnificently capar-

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inspector general isoned steeds. Two burst. hundred Michigan veterans in black frock suits, black slouch hats and white bow ties, acted as rear escort to the staff. The next place of honor had been assigned to the veterans from Illinois, and as Post No. 1, of Rockford, with its big banner, came into view a salvo of chebrs went from block to block. Department Commander Horace S. Clark, with Adjutant General P. L. McKinnie and James J. Healy, as chief of staff, led the way on horseback. Picturesque was the appearance presented by George H. Thomas Post, of Chicago, each man of which carried a tri-colored umbrella. They walked twelve abreast, from curb to curb, the umbrellas completely obscuring the identity of those that carried them from the people that looked down from above. Ex-Sheriff Matson marched solitary and alone in front of Ulysses S. Grant Post, and those that knew him pointed him out to openmouthed spectators as the man who swung the anarchists into eternity. Still another feature of the Illinois Division was Phil Sheridan Post, while America Post, 706, in black‘ relief uniform, presented an appearance that was rewarded by liberal applause. That veteran of international fame, Lucius Fairchild, wearing lightly his sixty years and with his empty sleeve, marched in the front rank of the Wisconsin division. Vice Commander Weissert walked alongside the General The spectators did not need to be told that the boys were from the Badger State, for Wolcott Post, which led the line, carried baldheaded old Abe, its mascot, in the sixties, high in triumph, while alongside of the stuffed remains of the famous eagle was a big badger that once held high carnival in the woods around Green Bay. A young girl, typifying the Indian, with a costume of stars and stripes and carrying a liberty cap on a pole, led' Robert Chivas Post The Wisconsin contingent was large and made a creditable showing, as did the third section, composed of comrades from the Keystone State. Preceding this department were two miniature gun carriages drawn by white ponies and driven by two little boys. The Phadelphia and Pittsburg posts turned out in large numbers and the sight of the tattered battle-flags that they carried frequently drove the spectators into a frenzy of enthusiasm. The Allegheny School Band, composed largely of little fellows who had but recently got into knickerbockers, was another feature of the division that came in for general recognition. In the fourth division the boys from Ohio turned out over ten thousand strong. In many of the posts every man carried a flag. About every post from Hamilton County was represented, and the famous Old Guard of Dayton, the Memorial Post of Cleveland, and Logan Post of the same city marched In force., In the second rank of the Mem-

orial old Comrade Ferrier, whose right leg was shot off from the hip at Gettysburg, hobbled along on crutches, and a colored brother who lost his nose in the Wilderness and the center of whose face was swathed in a linen bandage, kept him company. Lawrence Post, of Columbus, accompanied itself with a score of good - looking and well - formed young girls in military relief caps, white bodices, and blue skirts, who marched along like j schooled veterans, looking neither to the , right nor to the left in appreciation the greeting that kept their cheeks tinted with the hot blood. West Post, of Columbus, sang a medley of popular songs from one end of the route to the other. Another ministerial-looking post was Toledo, No. 106, while as a set-off toe volunteers of the same city came out in white helmets and waving miniature flags. In the Akron Post a huge frame of buckeyes, garlanded with flowqrs, was borne on the shoulders of four graybeards and many other of the posts displayed the buckeye tn numerous devices. There were forty-seven divisions in the parade, and it took just two and a third hours for the first four to pass a given spot. Estimates of men who galloped along the line and through the formation streets after the column had moved placed the men in line all the way from thirty-five to fifty thousand. Every division was replete with interesting features. At the head of the Indiana delegation, Wallace Foster, Secretary of the Silent Army of Deaf Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, carried an immense banner with the Inscription. “Teach patriotism in the public schools.” The only colored member of the National Council of Administration of the Grand Army, Jas. L. Fuller, marched ahead of Dahlgren Post, of Norfolk, Va. In the Michigan division the Sault Ste. Marie Post carried umbrellas emblematic of Lake Superior and the city of the Soo. When the head of the column had passed the grand stand Commander Veazey relinquished command to Vice Commander Weissert and took his place upon the reviewing stand. The procession taken “by and large,” as the sailors say, was a great success. It com Dared favorably with those of other years.

True, the old comrades don’t inarch as well as they did twenty years ago. Their joints are more rheumatic, and their limp more pronounced. Their boys occasionally march with them in the line now, “just to keep pap from stumbling.” But they march just the same, and they march bravely, too, with their comrades and their old battle flags. They pass in review and salute their Commander-in-chief. No man with a spark of patriotism in his breast can see one of these parades without enthusing and howling himself hoarse. The sight of the flag and its defenders is enough to arouse the American breast. Detroit never saw such a sight before, and never will again. Before the city is selected as the location of another encampment thousands of the Grand Army will have passed away. The average age of the members of the order is said to be 56 years; but a short time and they will have left the stage of life. The Sons of Veterans will to some extent Iff IB II -I ARCH on jeftebbon avenue. I 1 take the places of their fathers, but not fully. The old fellows did the fighting. He Was Fastidious. i A burglar broke into a house up in North Philadelphia and found his way ■ into the parlor, where he struck a ■ light and looked about him. Then he i gave one long shriek and fell senseless ■ to the floor. The family came down ‘ and found him there and revived him. “Take me to jail! take me out! get ’ me away from here! lam punished. ( God knows I have suffered. I have . stood up against army rifles and toy i pistols, bulldogs, brass knuckles, and , electric mats; I have conquered spike ! fences and patent bolts, but, madame,* r to the serious, fat-looking woman, who stood by in a nightrobe, with a with- ! ered look on her face, grasping the ’ neck of a cod liver oil bottle, “Pm a J sensitive man, of tender sympathies, and would sooner go to jail than abuse j my harmonious spirit with a further . inspection of this abominable apartt ment. Put handcuffs on me and take . me out, or I will die at the sight of . those macrame lambrequins and green k tidies. I*—The 1 * —The ► 1 Matthew Marshall, of the New ! York Sun, has revfced his figures as to : the amount of money spent by American 1 tourists who go to Europe. His original figures were 965,000,000 for each year. ! Now he raises them to $100,000,000, and 1 this is not an overestimate, probably. It ' is all solid gold, to& When afanan runs aw*y it la usually I from one of two motives: he is either i running away evith a woman er run- . ning away from one. I

THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. THEY HOLD A CONVENTION AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. A State Ticket Put in tbe Field— Full Text of tbe Platform Adopted — John Belts, of Seneca County, Nominated for Governor. The people’s Party of Ohio met in convention at Springfield, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, John Seitz, of Seneca County; Lieutenant Governor, Frank L. RiskJ of Hamilton County; Auditor, Cooper, of Athens; Attorney General, RialN. Smith, of Summit; Treasurer, Henry Wolf, of Cuyahoga; Supreme Judge, Albert S. '■ Yapel, of Hamilton; School Commissioner, J. E. Peterson, of Green; Member of Board of Public Works. J. Borrer, of Franklin; Dairy and Food Commissioner, W. J. Weaver, of Portage. At the People’s Party Convention in Springfield, Ohio, the platform was reported as follows: “We hold that labor is the basis of all wealth, happiness and progress, and must have equal protection by tie law. “In the organization of our party we know no North, South, East or West* and we are determined that the government of our country shall be so administered as to secure equal fights to all people. We demand that taxation—national, State or municipal—shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. We demand the abolition of national banks as banks of issue. We demand that full legaltender treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to conduct the business of the country on a cash basis. “We demand the payment of all bonds of the government instead of refunding them in such money as they were originally made payable in. “We demand government ownership of all the means of transportation and communication between and by the people of the United States. “We favor liberal pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers of the late civil war and generous care for their widows and orphans, and demand that the difference between the talue of gold and greenbacks at the date of payment be made equal to gold, so as to place tbe soldier on the same footing as the bondholder has been. ” A woman-suffrage plank is included in the platform. The platform favors Government loans directly to individuals, favors free coinage of silver, opposes alien ownership of land, and demands that Congress devise a means of obtaining all land already owned by foreign syndicates; demands that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of what is actually needed be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only; and demands a graduated tax on incomes. A BOLD THIEF Robs a Bank at Columbus Grove, Ohio, After Wounding the Cashier and Killing a Farmer. Lima special: A single man, armed with a pair of revolvers, committed the boldest robbery that has been perpetrated in this section of Ohio at a few minutes after 9 o’clock Saturday morning. The dare-devil’s deed did not stop at robbery, as he committed murder as well, besides mortally wounding another man. The scene of the tragedy was the Exchange Bank, the only institution of its kind at Columbus Grove, a small village of about two thousand inhabitants, situated within fourteen miles of this city, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton aud Dayton Railroad. The affair was so bold and the murderer so cold-blooded that residents of the town and surrounding country have scarcely yet awakened to the full resolution of the double crime. Although several thoroughly organized bodies of armed men are scouring the surrounding country for miles in search of the murderer and thief, he has so far eluded his pursuers, and still retains his booty, which amounts io over $1,200. The desperado entered the bank at the above time, with a revolver in each hand, and shouted “I am a second Jesse James. Give me your money, and be d—m quick.” With that he opened fire with his two revolvers, shooting indiscriminately at all within the bank. He seriously wounded the cashier, Thomas J. Maple, in two places, and killed William Vandermark, an old farmer, who had just stepped into the bank to transact a little business. The thief then grabbed all the money on the cashier’s desk, some $1,200, and flourishing his revolvers, made his escape in a corn field. A telephone message says that the Columbus Grove National Bank robber was caught in a clump of woods near that place and shot to death. The report has not been confirmed and is probably false. Getting a Pointer. A Macomb County farmer who was on the market with vegetables the other morning was accosted by a young man, who explained: “I have a patent hay-fork which I am going to travel with this summer, and should like to get a few pointers from you to start on.” “P’inters, eh? Wall, what sort?” “How shall I approach tbe average farmer ?” “Wall, vou ginerally find him in the field.” “Yes.” “Just tell him in a pleasant way what vou’ve got.” ‘ “Yes.” “He’ll ask you up to the barn to talk it over.” “I see.” “But don’t you go. Instead of that make a bee line for your buggy, climb in and scoot your boss as fast as he kin go for the next six miles.” “But why?” “Oh. nuthin’ much. I only killed six myself last week, but yon know it rained purty steady for two days and travel was light.— Free Press. Dangerous Hat-Bands. “Within two weeks,” says a Buffalo (N. Y) physician, “I have been called on to prescribe for seven men afflicted with raging headaches, due in everyinstance to poisonous coloring matter extracted by perspiration from the lining bands of their hat, absorbed through the open pores of their foreheads. What these noxious dyes are I have not had time to determine, bnt I would advise nobody to wear a hat which discolors the brow, especially if the discolorations be of a yellowish or brownish tint.” Fooled by a Trlek. A well-known clergyman of this city was asked to solve the following pnssle a few nights ago: If all the children that King Herod killed were buried in such a manner that only their arms from the elbows to the tips of their fingers were visible above the ground, how could you distinguish the arms of the boys from those of the girl? The reverend gentleman worked at it faithfully, bnt was obliged to give it up “For shame, doctor.” cried the interrogator. “The idea that you should forget that the children that Herod killed were all boys."— Buffalo Commercial.

Ithe way things run IN ' THE GREATEST OF OREAT STATES, INDIANA. f Things Which Save Lately Happened / Within Its Borders—Some Ploasant and • ? Some Sad Beading. —The melon crop about Vincennes is ? unprecedentedly large. —Charles and Clarence Beard, of v Spiceland, have bought the Knightstown ' Sun. —Seymour is to have the biggest canning factory in the country. Capital $30,000. , —The Indiana Bankers’ Association will meet at West Baden Springs, August 23. —-Wesley Powell, who shot a man last April at Frankfort, has just been raked in at Fowler. i —Bicyclists are not allowed to ride on the sidewalks in New Albany by order of the chief of police. —A man named Thompson, Clinton County Poor Farm, was badly horned by a bull, and will die. —An epidemic of hog cholera is said to be prevailing in Lynn Township, twomiles north of Mount Vernon. —John Gains, working on a fifty-foot scaffold at Richmond, fell and broke his neck, liying an hour before he died. . —The frog farmers alcng the Kankakee River have a big business this year. One man recently shipped 1,300 dozen In a day. —James Moore, of Jeffersonville, went to sleep on a cross-tie and was knocked off by a passing train. His condition is critical. —A committee of Pendleton citizens are negotiating with Dr. Gattling to secure the location of his gun factories at that place. « —Charles Kahler, a railway employe at Brazil, fell from his train and one leg was dismembered. His widowed mother resides in Greencastle. —Harry Johnson, a freight conductor on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, had his right thigh badly crushed while making a coupling at West Shoals. • —Benj. Wells was stabbed and killed by Amko Bruminger near LaPorte. They were scuffling and it ended in a fight. Bruminger has been arrested. —ln climbing cn a freight train in the Vandalia yards, at Greencastle, Albert Bowman, aged 14 years, fell, and the wheels severed his head trom his body. —William Rape, aged 74 years, dropped dead at his home at Tipton, of heart failure. He was one of the pioneers, having been a resident of that county forty years. —Mr. Hunter, a miner living atKnightstown, was seriously injured by falling slate at the Jumbo mine. The stone caught him on the back. He is paralyzed in the limbs. I —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern points. —Chief of Police Cannon, of New Albany, has instructed the members of the police force to file complaints against the trainmen of any of tbe railroads running through the city when they allow their trains to be run at a greater speed than five miles per hour. —Mrs. Harriet Dougherty, of Putnam County, ate a hearty breakfast the other morning, and before leaving her chair at the table fell to the floor a corpse. Her age was 93 years. Also, Mrs. Gilwick, mother of Special Pension Examiner Gilwick, died, aged 88 years. —Margaret J. Briggs wants SIO,OOO from James McDonald, Logansport, for breach of promise. Mrs. Briggs had furnished a house and bought her wedding garments, and he went back on her. A woman who would buy the furniture and furnish the money for the marriage ' license should be given the damages asked. —John Cline, of Adams, went to Greensburg, and bought some clothing, and filled up on “fire water.” When he left the train at Adams, he took with him a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes belonging to a fellow passenger, who had gone into another car, and left the package in a seat. Thus Cline got a . • good supply of clothing, but he is now in jail. —A fine maple tree, through which passes the power-wire used for conducting the current that operates the Highland Railway, at New Albany, has become thoroughly charged with electricity, on account of defective insulation, and has become a fairly powerful battery, capable of giving a plainly perceptible shock. The current has been * sufficiently strong to kill the tree, which is about thirty-five feet high and ten inches in diameter. —Mrs. Salvina Shipley and her son Isaac, who reside in Brown County, near Nashville, were scuffling for possession of a chair, when a little grandchild Os Mrs. Shipley was accidently struclugpon the head and knocked down. Thefittle one was picked up by its mother in an unconscious condition, and has been in spasms since. Mrs. Shipley and son are almost crazed with grief on account of the accident. No hope is entertained for the recovery of the child. —William Long, a Jeffersonville teamster, being attacked by two highwaymen, drew his knife and slashed them until they were glad to escape. —The Indiana Fire Insurance Company, of Fort Wayne, was organised, / with a capital stock of $200,600. J. H. Jacobs, of Fort Wayne, is President; C. E. Dark, of Indianapolis, Vice President and A. B. White, of Fort Wayne, Secretary. A number of Indianapolis men are among the heaviest, stockholders. —While at work on Martin Hackendorff’s residence, at Brownstown, Charles Hancock lost his footing, fell across a picket fence and was terribly torn about the stomach and bowels. He is a son of Contractor William F. Han- • cock. _ , •. —Two men were caught on a bridge at Milltown by an Air-line train. Ftoding they could not escape, they dropped and hungkto the cross-ties until the train passed. The train was stopped, aud the conductor and others rushed back and caught tha men just as they were about te fall into the river below.