Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1891 — Page 6

©he glenwcrcrt DECATUR, IND. BLACKBURN, •/*- - Publisher. FULL OF FRESH FACTS, ALL RELATING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS IN THE WORLD. A Passenger Train Wrecked Near Troy, Ind.—Dashed to Death—A Double Murder—Afflicted with C'arus—Saved from the Wreck. AWFUL SCENES.. A Passenger Train Wrecked Near Troy, Ind. A terrible accident occurred on the Cannelton branch of the L. E. & St L. Railway, by which four persons were killed, thirteen seriously injured, and eighteen others more or less. The flange of one of the forward trucks of the engine broke while the train was running at a rate of about thirty miles an hour. The train at the time was on a trestle about two miles from Troy, Ind. The engine passed over the trestle and plunged down the embankment. The train was a mixed one, the passenger coach being next to the engine. The coach followed the engine into the ditch and rolled over on top of it. It was occupied by about thirty people. The steam pipes gave way and the scalding steam entered the coach. Many of the passengers were women and children. Their screams were appalling. As soon as those who were slightly injured extricated themselves, they began the work of rescue. All weie gotten out, . but none escaped injury. Many were so badly burned that their flesh was cooked in places until it came off. Barbara Neimeyer, aged 18 years, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Perry County, was taken out dead, having been terribly scalded. Mrs. Canaugh, of Troy, Ind., was horribly burned and will die. Her little 10-year-old son died before leaching home. Emma Schue, 10 years old, died from her terrible burns. Jacob App, engineer, and his fireman, John Toll, went down with the wreck. Both are scalded, but not fatally. Conductor James Gordon is dangerously hurt, having a number of ribs broken. The scene of the wreck is isolated and thejinformation is meagre. Only one telegraphic wire reaches it, and that has been down for hours. It is impossible to learn the names of the injured. A physician at the wreck said the deatb list would probably reach ten or twelve. , Dashed to Death. J. Herman Hobrock, a gang foreman in the car shops of the-Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway at Fort Wayne, Ind., was dashed from a scaffold to his death. The structure that sent the man to his doom was about fifteen feet in height. It was erected under his supervision and seemed so poorly constructed when finished that some of V the workmen expressed unwillingness to •' trust the chances by climbing upon it. Mr. Hobrock ascended to the top to inspect the cause of tfie~ weakness, when the timbers atid. the entire structure collapsed. Mr. Hobrock fell head forSmuSt andstruckfhe plank floor with such force that three ribs were broken off at the spine, and, penetrating the lungs, produced internal hemorrhage from which he died. Afflicted Willi Carns. An extraordinary case has been developed at Whitehall, near Muskegon, Mich. George Beard, a young man, aged 21, has been confined to his bed for the last three months, during seven weeks of which time he has been in an unconscious condition. He seems to have lost all sense save that of feeling. When he is touched on the arm with a slight downward pressure he will raise his arm. When an attempt is made to move his head to the right he will turn it to the left In order to feed the patient four teeth had to be knocked out, as it was impossible to open his mouth, either to insert food or extract the teeth. Through this opening he receives his liquid nourishment The attending physician pronounces it a case of earns. Our Hog in Germany. Berlin special: It is reported in Hamburg, that all restrictions on American pork will be removed immediately. The United States Minister, Hon. William Walter Phelps, when questioned on this subject smilingly refused to confirm the report, but said he would repeat what he said six mouthy ago, to the effect that the American hog would enter the Braden burg gate before this year’s acorns fell. It is known, however, that Mr. Phelps, in his last dispatch to the German Foreign Office, intimated plainly to the officials of that department that the patience of President Harrison and Mr. Blaine would not last beyond September. Saved from tbe Wreck. The steamship Arizona, which has arrived at New York, brought with her eight members of the crew of the ship Sea Gull, which was wrecked in a terrific gale of wind on the African coast. There were twenty-six, all told, in the Sea Gull’s crew, and they were all drowned save the eight men picked up by the Arizona. When the Arizona found them they were floating on a small raft in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and frantically waving signals of distress. All of them were terribly emaciated from hunger and exposure. The eight survivors are the first mate, cook and six of the crew. Tbe Sultan Apologises to the Russian Bear. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Standard says: “The Sultan has yielded to all of Russia’s demands respecting the Dardenelles, which henceforth will be open to Russian vessels when closed to others. The Sultan has abjectly apologized for the recent detention of a Russian vessel; has dismissed the officers responsible therefor, and has promised indemnity forthwith.” A Double Murder. A double murder was discovered in Bloomfield, Conn., when the bodies of a German farmer and his wife were found In a well. It is supposed that they were killed by. Italian laborers, who have been employed in the vicinity of their home Killed by an Express Train. As the limited express was running through Dearborn, Mich., at full speed it struck and instantly killed John Ruttiman and his 7-year-old daughter as they were walking across the track. Both were fearfully mangled. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. An Italian laborer who was detected robbing the body of one of the victims of the diaster tn New York was sentenced to six months in prison.. At Philadelphia, Frank Johnson, of New York, shot himself in the head, using the* mirror to direct the aim. The American ship Frederick Billings arrived in New York from Havre, flying her ensign union down. The patrol steamed alongside, and Captain Herbert H. Williams turned over three sailors. The prisoners say that the mutiny charge is trumped up to prevent them

from prosecuting the captain for cruelty. At Sandy Creek, N. Y., at a depth of 1,020 feet a large vein of natural gas was struck which blew the tools in all directions. The noise of the escaping gas can be heard for miles Alfred H. Hildick, an importer, committed suicide at his office, in New York. After murdering his wife and two children, John Baxter, a Harlem, N. Y., painter, killed himself. Baxter left a letter addressed to his mother. In it the triple murderer and suicide said that he contemplated the het. The couple had been married seven years. The neighbors say they quarreled only occasionally. James Davenport and Miss Mary Picton, of Plymouth, Fa., eloped. They expected to take a train but it was delayed. The couple then walked through a blinding rainstorm seven miles to another railroad. The elopers are both under 18 years. A cloud hurst over Berlin, N. Y., and the town of Petersburg was followed by a flood that did damage unparalleled. The storm also swept several other smaller places, and several lives were lost Newark, N. J., suffered severely. At Binghamton, N. Y., Mrs. S. H. Rumner was burned to death by upsetting a lamp while reading in bed. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The Wabash Railway Company paid the Wabash (Ind.) County Agricultural Society $2,800 for burning the buildings of the association a short time ago. The factory of the Worden Furniture Company, at Grand Rapids, Mich., was burn* fl. Loss, $55,000; insurance, $45, 000. Near Fort Wayne, Ind., Morehead’s barn burned to the ground. The remains of an unknown man with a pipe were found in the ashes, supposed to have been a tramp sleeping in the barn. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. John Oxford has a 4-year old boy who has a habit of running away. The neighbors were startled by the child's screams. Other little children who peered through the door said the mother was holding the little fellow's hand upon a red-hot stove. She will be prosecuted. The Government steamer Vixen struck a sunken pile in the Mississippi River near Kittsburg, lowa, and went down. The water is only twenty inches above the low-water mark.

Milwaukee millers are paying five cents per bushel more than the market price in Minneapolis for Northern spring wheat. About 44.000 bushels ot wheat are required daily. A yoke of oxen near Canton, N. D., attached to a binder and led by a woman, ran away. The woman was literally cut to pieces. At Danville, Ind., fire destroyed almost the entire west side of the public square. It was caused by incendiaries. The total loss will aggregate §40,000, on which there is $30,000 insurance. The balloon ascension at the Detroit exposition grounds ended in a frightful tragedy. George Hogan, the aeronaut, when 2,500 feet from the earth lost his grip and shot through the air head downward. Hogan struck on a sidewalk. So great was the impact that the twoinch planks were broken and splintered. Hogan was a brother of Hogan who made an ascesion in Campbell’s air ship in New York several several years ago and never returned. A feareul accident happened in the Chicago, Buriington and Quincy yards at Creston, lowa, and in the sight of numerous people. Mrs. I. I. Langdale, of Creston, started to the depot with her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Ludwick, a widow lady, of Freeport, Hi., who was on her return after a visit to the Blue Grass Exposition. They stepped on the track just as an engine was backing down, and were run over. Mrs. Ludwick s head was se\ ered from her body, and Mrs. Langdale was literally cut to pieces. When the current was turned on the West Bridge Street Electric Railroad Grand Rapids, Mich., for the first time, within an hour a man and his horse were killed. George E. Heydorn’s team ran against the telegraph pole. _A small copper wire was broken and fell across the street railroad trolley wire. The end struck one of the horses and it began to stagger. Heydorn jumped from his seat to the horse’s head and was killed by the shock. A destructive fire swept over the greater part of Faulk County, S. D., devastating a belt of country twenty miles wide and fifty miles long. The farmers are ruined. For a space of twenty miles not a foot of grass is left for the stock which escaped the flames. —r-i~ A rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Frisco Road, occurred near Phillipsburg, Mo. Engineer Hueston, of Springfield, and the fireman and two unknown trainmen were killed. About 700 Cherokees have staked off claims, in the Cherokee strip. Their selections include the best town sites. A number offer to sell their rights for amounts ranging from $25 to SIOO. At Canton, Kan., the breaking of a shaft in a large wheat elevator caused a belt to drag Joseph File into the machinery. He was fatally mangled. At Salt Lake City Dr. Hiram H. Eldredge committed suicide by cutting the main artery in his left arm. He bled to death. He was 40 years old and leaves a wife in Chicago. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. , At Cumberland, Md., while workmen were repairing the Cumberland street viaduct, the bridge fell. Tclbert Minnicks, aged 20, and Walter Miller, aged 24, were instantly killed. The bridge had been condemned and closed for some time. In an affray at Georgetown, Ky„ not a bullet missed a human target. A. J., Montgomery, a bystander, and John Jarvis, a participant, were killed and Burrell Jarvis mortally wounded. For some weeks bad feeling has existed between the Kendall and Jarvis families. The Kendall watermelon patch was robbed and it was reported the Kendalls thought the Jarvises robbed it Major William Tillman, until recently a member of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners ot Louisville, Ky., cashier of the defunct Falls City Bank and a soc al leader, is gone, and so is a large share of the bank’s money, something over SIOO,OOO. The Board of Education has granted certificates to twenty-three Sisters of Charity to teach in the public schools of Texas, so long as they do not teach the doctrines of their church. At New Castle, Ky.,'Senator J. C. S. Blackburn suffered a paralysis. His recovery will be rapid unless he has a relapse. Genebal R. & Dyrenfobth, in charge of recent Government experiments at Midland, is jubilant over his experiments. He says in three weeks under great disadvantages, six rains were produced, three of which

were down-pours and the last was the heaviest rain in three years. Gen. Dyrenforth says the principle is correct beyond question. At Galveston the first contingent of the Fat Men’s' Association arrived. There were fifteen, aggregating from 370 to 225 pounds. Ten of Galveston’s fat men met them at the depot They weighed on an average 250 pounds each. POLITICAL, PORRIDGE. Hon. Redfield Proctor has received a letter from Governor Page, of Vermont informing him that he will be appointed to the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the resignation of Hon. G. F. Edmunds. At Hastings, Nelx, the Independent State Convention completed its labors by placing in nomination J. W. Edgerton, of South Omaha, for Associate Judge of the Supreme Court and Professor D’Alemand, of Furniss County, and E. A. Hadley, of Stromsburg, as regents of the State University. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Governor of the island of Martinique, recently visited by a fearful hurricane which resulted in the loss of 350 lives, the injury of over 1,000 people, and which caused immense damage throughout the colony, has sent by telegraph an appeal asking for help for the suffering people of Martinique. Large numbers of people are without either food or shelter in spite of the efforts made by the colonial authorities to succor them. Whole villages have entirely vanished, and the crops from one end of the island to the other have been almost totally’ destroyed. » A frightful explosion took {Race In the Abercanaid pit, near Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales. Sixty people were rescued. Thousands of people flocked around the pit Many are yet missing, the searchers being unable to penetrate the mine owing to the gas. The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from an English port for Drontheiin, caught fire and burned to the water’s edge. Eight of her crew were drowned. A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, states that a collision occurred in the port of Philip Heads between the steamers Gambier and Easby. Seven minutes after the collision the Gambier disappeared, carrying with her five saloon passengers, fifteen steerage passengers, and six of the crew. Riots to prevent the expoitation of rye are reported from Russia. The Moscow Town Council is considering a proposition to com; el all employers of labor to supp’y their workmen with rye bread at about one-half the present price. FRESH AND NEWSY. An effort will be made to reorganize the lead trust, enough proxies having been secured to accomplish the purpose, though opposition to the plan has suddenly developed, which may change the programme of the friends of the reorganization scheme. M. T. Magee & Co., New York, wen informed that President Diaz, of Mexico, had ordered a young American writer on the Two Republics to leave the country, because he had criticised some act of the President.

In a desperate five-hour battle around Valparaiso the Congressionalist forces under Gen. Canto completely routed Balmaceda’s army. Over 5,000 fell in the engagement. Generals Barbosa and Alzerreka, of the Government army, were killed. President-elect Vicuna sought refuge on a German warship. Balmaceda himself is a fugitive, and Valparaiso, while surrendered to the rebels, is under the protection of marines from the United States, German, French and English warships in the harbor, who landed to protect the foreigners' interests. Confirmation of theabove has been received at Washington. Intelligence has just been received that the Monterey and Mexican Railroad is completed to Tampico. This gives the road 400 miles through the best country in the republic, and connection by steamship with foreign ports. Santiago has been formally surrendered, the triumph of the Congressional party is complete, and peach and quiet may be looked for in Chili before many days have passed. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Tbe speculation in breadstuffs has broken down. The threatened withdrawal of the wheat crop amounts to so little that receipts were 11,400,000 bushels for the last week reported, against 4,900,000 for the corresponding week last year, while receipts of other grain slightly decreased. Crop piospects are in all respects exceedingly bright and the reports of injury by frost do not appear to.affect any considerable proportion of the crop. There is every reason to suppose that the yield of wheat will be mueh larger than the 544,000,000 bushels estimated by the Agricultural Department, though a yield no greater would leave 200, - 000,000 bushels for export Hog products are somewhat stronger, in sympathy with corn, but oil is lower and also coffee. Cotton has advanced three-sixteenths. It would be a good thiiig for producers, in all probability, if a considerable part of the forthcoming crop should be cut off by unfavorable weather. The business failures during the last seven days number 226, as compared with a total of 216 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 189. MARKKT iUSFORTB. CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Primes 3.53 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 & 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red .99 @l.Ol Corn—No. 263 @ .64 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .29)4 Rye—No. 2. .88 @ .90 Butter—Choice Creamery 22 @ .24 Cheese—Full Cream, flatso9 @ .09)4 Eggs—Fresh .15)A@ .16)4 Potatoes—New, perbu 45 M .55 INDIANAPOLIS. ’ Cattle—Shipping........ 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light. 3.50 @ 5.25 Sheep—Common to* Prime 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat-No. 2 Red 99 @ 1.00 Corn—No. 1 White63)4@ .64)4 Oats—No. 2 White 33 @ .83)4 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.75 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red9B @ .99 Cobn—No. 258 @ .59 Oats—No. 2.28 @ .29 Rye—No. 382 @ .83 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3,50 @ 5.50 Hogs 4.00 ® 5.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 1.03 Cobn—No. 2 .64 & .66 Oats—No. 2 Mixed32)4@ .83)4 DETROIT. Cattle 8.00 @ 5.21 Hogs 300 @5.00 Sheep B.CO @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—No. 2 YeUow .67 a .68 Oats—No, 2 White' .85 @ .86 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 1.01 @ 1.02 Corn—Cash6s @ .66 Oats—No. 2 Whiteß2 @ .83 Rye. 92 @ .93 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 8.50 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 A 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1.14 ® 1.16 Corn—No. 2 71 A .72 MILWAUKEE. WhAat— No. 2 Spring 98 @ LOO Corn— No. 3... 68)4@ *64 Oats— No 2 Whiteßß A .84 Bye— No. 188 A .90 Barley— No. 264 A .65 Pork— Mesa.... 19.00 A10.25’ NEW YORK. Cattub 8.50 A 8.75 Hogs..., 4.00 A 6.25 Sheep 4.25 A MS Wheat— No. 2 Bed l.» A LN I 11# M

CANTO HAS CONQUERED BALMACEDA’S TROOPS DEFEATED IN CHILL Valpariso Is Taken—Great Carnage Reported— Generals Barbosa and Aleerreca Among the Slain—Whole Regiments Desert the Dictator and Join the Victorious Army. A Terrib’e Conflrct. Balmaceda’s power in Chili is broken. Hi’ army has been crushed after five hours’ hard fighting, and is scattered beayond all of reorganization. The revolutionists have taken possession of Valparaiso. This is is the latest budget of news from Valparaiso. The future of Chili, continues the dispatch, for the time has been settled, and settled conclusively, on the hills to the east of DON JOSE t Y th ® S rim arbitrament of war. With Balmaceda practically a fugitive without resources in wen or money, with the principal seaports of the country in the hands of the Congressionalists, and a consequent shutting off of all Income from customs receipts, with President-elect Vicuna a refugee on board a German warship, and the country flocking en masse to the standard of the invaders, it is a matter of only a short time when wf the capital will fall Jr into the hands of the M revolutionary lead- u| 4 \ I ers. A new govern- f ment, with possibly \ Judge Belisario vK. Prats, head of last parliamentary cabinet of Balma- ■T ceda, or Manuel Jose • Irarrazaval, head of aEN - canto, revoluthe congress cabinet, TIOSARY leader. at its head, will be formed, and things will go along in about the same way in Chili as they did before Jan. 7, when hostilities were formally begun. Gen. Canto and his army won the battle by superior generalship, good hard fighting, assisted by good fortune in the killing of — s. Balmaceda’s Generals and the consequent demoralization ot the »*—army and the deserfry tion o j en tj re re giAma f ments. Ever since arrival of the congressionalst army at Vh-a del Mar there \ has been a constant ' series of maneuvers -f for position on the part of both GenerA. FUEUTIS, COM- 318 , EVCr d ? V ’ &n<1 p MANDER OF THEP GVe . F iF hOUT Os captured TORPE-the day, there have do-boat, AtMi-been skirmishes, in rante lynch. some instances amounting almost to battles. In nearly all of these the opposition has had the better of it A close censorship of dispatches was established by Balmaceda, however, and only an inkling of the reverses to his arms could be got through. The bo; m of cannon announced to the people of Valparaiso that a movement beyond the ordinary skirmishes had begun. The occasional bud reports of the heavy guns soon swelled jnto one continuous roar, and then ut was known that the final decisive struggle which, at the cost of thousands of lives, perhaps, was to decide whether Balmaceda or the junta was to be the ruling power in Chili had begun. Excitement was intense in Valparaiso. General Canto’s position was on the hills above the race track at Vina del Mar, outside of the city. He had absolute control of the railroad at Santiago and Bin if M v \ > £ \ V SCENE OF THE CHILEAN WAR. commanded the ordinary roads. Hence Santiago was practically a state of siege. Affairs had come to such a pass that it was necessary foir President Balmaceda to make some move, and a little after daylight the word was given to attack the position held by the revolutionists, and, led by General Barbosa and Aleerreca, the Government troops left their breastworks and advanced on the enemy under cover of a heavy tire from their batteries. The insurgents were generally armed with Mannlicher rifles and used smokeless powder. The Government troops were also well armed. As soon as the approaching column got within range of the Mannlichers, a destructive fire from the intrenched revolutionists, shot and shell, grape and canister and rifle bullets, tore through the ranks of the advancing troops until it became too hot, and despite the* efforts of the officers they broke and retired almost in a panic. Officers worked like beavers to re-form their columns as soon as they got within range of the deadly Mannllchers and at last succeeded. Then came another attack. In steady ranks the government troops started on a double-quick up into the torrent of fire and lead which blazed from the ranks of the insurgent army Early in the second charge General Barbosa was shot down and killed. The line wavered but kept on. Then General Aleerreca fell from his horse, wounded unto death. He was removed from the field and died within an hour. Another break and then General Canto gave the order to charge. With a wild yell the congresslopalist army left their defenses and charged on the retreating enemy. Their artillery poured a deadly fire into the ranks of Balmaceda’s army. The loss of their genera's left them without a head, and all the efforts of the subordinate officers to rally them to meet the onset of Canto’s regiments and squadrons were of no avail. The retreat became a rout, the rout a panic, and then came utter demoralization. The Government cavalry made a stand, but it was short They were literally cut to pieces. Volley after volley was poured into the demoralized mob of Balmacedista Whole regiments which had not lost their regimental formation went •over to the victorious troops of Canto and joined in the attack on their late comrades. The fighting lasted a little less than five hours, and its desperate „ character may be judged by the fact that fully 5,000 men were killed and wounded.

The defeat of the government Is absolute and complete. There is no possibility of a reorganization, ana if Balmaceda does not succeed in making his escape through the mountain passes which are yet.open the chances are that he will be captured and shot. The inhabitants of Valparaiso are now apparently revolutionists in their sympathy, for as the insurgent troops, flushed with victory, marched through the streets they were greeted with the wildest enthusiasm. From the windows of the houses showers of flowers were flung by the enthusiastic women on the heads of the leaders. Shortly after the entry of the army of General Canto, Captain Alberto Fuentes, of the torpedo boat Almirante Lynch, which was lying at the Fiscal Mole, was summoned to surrender. He attempted to steam out, and opened fire with his machine guns on the insurgent troops. There was a sharp engagement, lasting fifteen minutes, and then Captain Fuentes hauled down his flag and there was not an enemy to the revolution from Fort Aldivia to Vina del Mar. Va’paraiso is as quiet as could be expected under the circumstances and no trouble is expected. Not much has been done as yet toward reorganizing the city. But this will be attended to as soon as possible. Nobody here has any knowledge of the whereabouts of President Balmaceda. The insurgent leaders are exceedingly anxious to find out where he is, and if they succeed in finding him the chances are that it will go hard with him. The general belief here is that he is making his way out of the country, perhaps overland to Buenos Ayres. Senor LazCano, the Chilian Minister at Washington, on being interviewed, said that he had received no news from Chili other than the dispatch given to the press. The fall of Valparaiso insures that of Santiago. General Canto, the congressional leader, has had this object in view in every movement he made since he landed on the beach of Vina del Mar. Mar. He maneuvered so that he was able to swing his little army round until he got it into a strong position between Balmaceda and Santiago. The President had already drawn every available man from the capital for the defense of Valparaiso when Canto got possession of the railroad and cut it so effectively that it could be of no further use. Then he stationed one of his best regiments in a strong position on the line to prevent the possibility of repairAX THE ALMIRANTE LYNCH. ing it until he should be through with Balmaceda. The President saw his intention, and hastily made arrangements to smuggle off on one of his steamers in the dead of night a body of troops to reenforce Santiago’s depleted garrison. But it will noT be able to make even a decent show of resistance, and the surrender of the capital is only a quesi’on of the length of time it will take the victorious army to get there. With Santiago in the hands of the junta's army, the war is over. An Artist’s Costume. Rosa Bonheur’s practical but unusual style of dress sometimes serves the great artist as an unintentional disguise, and leads to odd mistakes as to her identity. Her costume is perfectly suited to the work which is the absorbing interest of her life, and now and then she forgets that it is not appropriate at all times. She once returned, after painting all day in the country, to a new house, just as the movers were putting in the last pieces of furniture. Her hair was cut short, and she wore her usual costume for painting out of doors, a blouse, trousers, and stout shoes. The men were carrying something up-stairs, and she sat down to wait until the way was clear. One of the men looked up and saw, as they thought, a young man in workman’s dress coolly watching their efforts, and cried: “Only look at that lazy gentleman! Give him an easy-chair! Here, move your feet, you gentleman of leisure, and lend a hand!” Rosa laughed and hastened to help them carry a heavy dressing-case. But her strength was not equal to her good-will. “What an absurd boy! He hasn’t the strength of a flea! Get out of the way, young man!” cried the movers in disgust. When, a little later, they saw Mlle. Bonheur, her working clothes exchanged for a gown, giving orders in the rooms where they were at work, they realized the situation anß hastened to beg her pardon. The artist convinced them that she was not offended by giving them an extra fee. One evening, in a tit of absent-mind-edness, having painted until the carriage which her friends sent for her was at the door, Mlle. Bonheur went to a public entertainment in a paint and oil-stained gown and old slippers. An elegantly dressed man who sat next her went to the manager to complain because such a common person was admitted to that part of the house. i; . . “Your name, if you please?” said the manager. “Why?* “I will go to the lady, Mlle. Rosa Bonheur, and ask her in your name to leave the theater or change her seat.” The exquisite waited long enough to beseech the manager to do nothing of the kind, and beat a mortified retreat. Ancestors and Titlea. In regard to aristocracy Daniel Webster once wrote: “There may be, and there often is, a regard for ancestry which nourishes only a weak pride; and there is also a care for posterity which only disguises an habitual avarice or hides the working of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical regard for our ancestors which elevates the character and improves the beast.” Aristocratic titles are often obtained by dishonorable means. Many a man becomes ignoble to become noble. The confidence of nobility of birth has rendered men ignoble, just as the opinion of wealth makes some men poor. Lord Bacon has compared those who lived in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament wkioh have much admiration but little rest. Titles are properly the insignia of wise and honest men. The fool or knave that wears one is a falsifier. They who dilate upon their glorious ancestry are foolishlv vain of a debt which probably they will never be able to pay. It has also been remarked that a river generally becomes narrower and more insignificant as we ascend to its source. The stream of ancestry, on the contrary, says Tea?a« often vigorous, pure and powerful at its fountain head, usually becomes more feeble, shallow and corrupt as it flows downward-

BRITISH BUBBLE BURST. VAIN ATTEMPT TO CORNER THE WORLD’S RUBBER. A Former Experien-o Gives America* Manufacturers Some Pointers, and They Very Promptly Squeese the Lite Ont of a Promising Scheme. The Rubber Syndicate Collapses. The great rubber syndicate of Para, New York, and London has collapsed, and John Q Gonalev Vlanna, alias the Baron de Gomderiz, the bugbear of tbe trade, has once more been defeated In an attempt to corner the world’s supply of crude rubber. This time the loss will fall chiefly on bankers of Rio and London, who were inveigled into the Baron’s latest scheme. The syndicate represented by Mr. Vianna was organized under the title Compania du Gran Para, with the Baron as manager. The headquarters of the concern are in Para, with branch offices In London, Paris, and New York. Although the syndicate, during the last nine months, obtained possession of 90 per cent, of the available supply of the world; the capital—said to be $25,000,000 —under its is not sufficient to hold this and also to buy up the new crop now coming into Para from the forests of Brazil The result is that the syndicate could not cover its margins with the London houses with which the Baron made his deal two months ago. Singlehurst & Co. and the Baring Bros, were mentioned as the principals tn the deal, but there were other firms also that held stock on margin for the syndicate, and it is they who first began to sell. The unloading of 100 tons on the market was followed by a general break, and rubber, which haa been forced up to 85 cents by the syndicate, fell to 64 cents, or 32 pence British money. It was a severe blow to the Brazilian bankers and London capitalists. When the rubber merchants ot the United States noted the large quantities of rubber coming into Para they prepared for a break. They had previously kept out of the market and sold all the rubber they had in stock. Only three weeks ago 200 tons were shipped to Liverpoal from the syndicate, tbe shippers acting on the policy of giving Baron de Gomderiz rope enough to hang himself. Rubber manufacturers here curtailed their requirements in every possible way, and some of them temporarily closed their establishments. Thus they pricked the second great rubber bubble of a decade. The manufacturers of the United States were caught by the Baron in 1883, but they crushed him by closing down their factories after rubber had been forced up from 40 cents to $1.25 per pound. They do not suffer now by the collapse of the wily Brazilian, but the English and Brazilians do. When the Baron’s bankers saw the policy being pursued by the United States importers and manufacturers they called on him to cover his margins. Had the syndicate been able to carry out its plans it would have made many millions of dollars, but as soon as its backers refused to carry stock any longer the market was broken and they began to sell. One small firm in London that held fifty tons called on the Baron to cover his margins, and he failed to do so. Then another small holder unloaded a like quantity. This was followed by Baring Bros, and Singlehurst & Co., and then the run on the market became general. Rubber fell from 84 cents to 64 cents, 400 tons being unloaded at the latter figure. At the opening of the year’s business the outlook of the United States rubber manufacturers was not bright, as the Baron’s speculations had forced rubber up so high that there was no profit to be made. Even the druggists’ supplies and surgical Instrument trades felt the effect of the Baron’s manipulations of the market The rubber-shoe trade suffered most severely, as more than half the crude rubber imported here is used by rubber shoe men. The present decline is a gain for the entire trade, and the Baron’s scheme, which was directed chiefly against our manufacturers, inures to their advantage. TWO MEN OF SAME NAME DIE. Singular Coincidence at a Detroit Hotel— Neither Man Known to the Other. ■ A most extraordinary coincidence happened at the Russell House, Detroit, Mich., within twenty-four hours. A. H. Whitney, of Toronto, a consumptive, arrived in the city byway of the Canadian Pacific Railway at 9:45 o’clock, accompanied by his wife and C. K. Thomas, a relative. They at once proceeded to the Russell House and Mr. Whitney was taken to a room, where he died In the act of lying down. He had been an Invalid for about three years. The next morning at 10:30 o’clock another Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Whitney arrived at the Russell House. They were from Quincy, 111. After registering they went to their room. Here inside of ten minutes after entering Mr. Whitney was seized with heart disease and was soon dead. C. K. Thomas, the gentleman who accompanied the Toronto party, was appalled by the strange coincident e. These brothers in death were neither relatives nor known to each other. A. H. Whitney of Toronto had been one of the best-known accountants ih that city. The gentleman from Quincy, 111., was the manager and principal stockholder of the A. H. Whitney Organ Company. He was In Detroit on business and partly on a visit. He had been subject t > heart disease, so the doctors were informed by Mrs. Whitney. He was 58 years old. DESTITUTION IN MEXICO. In Chihuahua Not a Drop of Ralu Haa Fallen for Twelve Months. A letter from Chihuahua, Mexico, gives a fearful picture of the destitution of the peasantry. For twelve months not a drop of rain has fallen. Land which Is usually covered with waving grass is for miles as bare as a billiard table. The cattle have died by the thousand, and the bones dot every hillside and valley. The streams have gone dry, and no water could pe obtained for Irrigation. There has been a total failure of crops—not enough corn was raised for next year’s seed. The’ small farmers and ranch hands are starving. To relieve to some extent tfie necessities of the people the Governor of Chihuahua has obtained permission from the national authorities to import free of duty 60.000 bushels of American corn and 60,000 bushels of wheat. Upon both these grains there Is a heavy duty. Despite these Importations the coming winter will be a hard one, and many of the people will die. Miss Phgcbk Couzins Is as plucky and determined as ever in her intention to assert her rights to recognition as the. motive power of the World's Fair, and at the bare mention of throwing up the sponge her bright eyes snap with a sharpness which indicates that she’d sooner go to live in New York and marry an Alderman.— Philadelphia Times. The Egyptian exhibit at the World’s Fair will be a reproduction of a street in Cairo. The attendants in the booths and shops will be dark-skinned beauties of the Orient, sent by approval of the Khedive. Will it do to say that they cannot be Tewfik to please the Chicagoans?— Detroit JVw Press.

IF YOU ARE IN QUEST OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PE* IfUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happonlnga of the Week— Crimea aud Uaaualtlea — Suicide#— Deatha—Weddinga, htc. » —Sixteen eloping couples were married in New Albany last week. —The long continued drought in St. Joseph County has been broken by copious rains. —ln a runaway accident at Covington, W. H. Miles and Jesse Haupt were dan- . gerously hurt —Burglars at Greensburg looted the t residence of George H. Dunn, jr., carrying off jewelry and money. —Mrs. William Snyder, of Clarksville, Clark County, was gored In the abdomen by a cow. Her Injuries are serious. —Allee Percy, of New Washington, fell from a load of hay some weeks ago and has been paralyzed from tbe hip» down ever since. —Ohio river pirates are plundering everything and everybody within reach. They operate chiefly between Madison and Jeffersonville. —The safe in M. A. Pickering’s dry goods store at Cadiz was blown open by burglars, but no money taken. Part of the stock was carried away. The loss will amount to SSOO. —The directors of the Owen County Agricultural Society say that, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather; the society cleared several hundred dollars on Its recent exhibition. —Rev. J. M. Oldfather, of Hanover, for eighteen years a missionary in Persia, brought home with him a valuable collection of war curiosities. His home is described as a veritable museum. —At Farmland, Charles Ross and John Harness attempted to jump on a train after it had started. Ross was thrown to the ground and seriously hurt, having his face mashed and one leg hurt. ' —Thousands of mapUflf art gathering in Clark County. The birds roost on the islands in the Ohio falls and In the trees near the river. In the evening, as they return to roost from the north, their flight fairly darkens the sky. —The condition of William Bullard, the Hope desperado and barn-burner, who wounded himself in an attempt to assassinate George Rothrock, at Hope, on the morning of J),ily 4, and who is still lying in the hospital of the Bartholomew County jail, is very serious. —Milo Spencer, of Napanee, was leaning with his arm upon the muzzle of a loaded gun. His dog, while playing about him, caught its foot in the hammer and discharged the gun. The load of shot went in at the armpit and came out above, lacerating him in a terrible manner. His recovery is doubtful. —A large barn and all its contents except eight horses was burned on the farm of James Reynolds, on Terre Coupe prairie, near South Bend. Besides the barn the destroyed property consisted of 1,000 bushels of grain, sixty-five tons of hay, harness and {arm implements. Insured in Farmers’ Mutual of St Joseph County. —A fatal accident occurred on the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad about a mile west of Wingate. The 7 west-bound passenger train was running at a high rate of speed, when one of the connecting rods on the engine broke, and crashing through the cab, killed the engineer. The engine was stopped by the fireman without further accident —A young man named Hall was accidently killed near Windfall. Ris father, Henry Hall, a farmer residing three miles east of that place, was cutting down a tree, when the boy approached, unnoticed by the father, at the time the tree started to fall. A limb struck the young man on the back of the head, , crushing his skull. He lingered a few hours unconscious and died from his injury. —While digging a well on the farm of John Wenrlch, a few miles southwest of Martinsville, the 15-year-old son of Thomas Fulford, a neighbor, died from what is supposed to have been asphyxiation. Stone was encountered at some depth, which it was necessary to blast. After the charge was exploded young Fulford was lowered to see what effect the blast bad. He reported a large hole torn in the stone. The rope was withdrawn to lower an assistant, when he called, “Let the rope down quick.” This was done and the boy grasped it with a firm death grip. After being hauled to the surface he gasped for breath and was dead. —Mr. Geo. Dixon, a well-to-do farmer east of Seymour, has f a hen that is now several years old. which, up to last spring, was clad in a coat of feathers after the fashion of other hens, and layed'an abundance of eggs each season up to the present. Early last spring the hen shed her feathers almost to nudeness, and when the feathers grew out again the first to appear were the long and beautiful tail feathers, common to the barnyard rooster, and in a short time the body was fully feathered in a brilliant coat of male attire, giving the hen every appearance of a rooster except the large comb and head-dress of red. She now crows in good style, but continues to lay eggs. —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. —A beautiful owl of an unknown species was captured by D. P. Enoch, near Crawfordsville. The bird had a back of a gold and silver color and a white breast covered with bright spots. The bird was exhausted when captured and soon died, but it has been sent to » taxidermist for mounting. —A remarkable relic has been found at Brown Hill, Clark County, imbedded in a large tree. It is a sandstone tablet three by six by eight inches. Upon it are carved the names of L. Weuell, Jacob Shelby, John Wetzell, Daniel Boone and the date 1812. The first and fourth names are in Roman characters; the other two tn script. The tablet bad grown deeply Into the butt of the tree. The Wetsells, like Boone, were celebrated Indian fighters, and W^fZr°