Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1891 — Page 6

glemoEgat DECATUR, IN& X BLS.CEBURN, ... PmttHlx A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. THREE MEN MANGLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Failure* and Famine la Ku ••la—lreland Flooded—Another Wreck on the B. A O’ Road—Murder at a Dance. j ■ Wreck on the B. A O. Road. Garret (Ind.) special: There was another wreck on the B. & O. road recently. The east bound train ran into a freight Fortunately the fast tram was vestlbuled, and none of the coaches left the track, but the engine and baggage car were smashed into smithereens. The baggageman had just left his car to look into the smoker. The timely move saved his life. The rear sleeper stood upon the bridge over the Elkhart River. The freight cars were piled sky-bigh in a promiscuous mass, which required the united efforts of a large crew of wreckers nearly all day to clear away, and entailing a financial loss exceeding by far the wreck at Hicksville. No one was injured bnt a brakeman on the freight, who jumped from the top of a car and rolled down the embankment. Three Men Mangled by an Kxploalon. A terrible explosion took place at Tucker’s watch box, a short distance below St. Clair, Pa, in which three men were killed and one fatally injured. Mountain engine 955 on the Philadelphia & Reading road was drawing a train of empties up the grade when the boilers exploded, completely demolishing the engine, tearing up the tracks and doing great damage to the telegraph lines and surroundings. The names of the killed are: Charles Warnicker, brakeman, of St. Clair; Harry Wagner, engineer, of Port Carbon; Mahfon Keepe, fireman; Charles Bauer, brakeman, of St. Clair, fatally injured. The men were in the engine cab when the explosion took place. No cause Is assigned for the explosion, the engine being just out of the shops. A Two-Edged Sword. St. Petersburg special: Alarming news comes from Moscow. Kieff, and other cities of the Empire regarding the distressed condition of trade and commerce. The famine in the provinces has its counterpart in the general stagnation of business in the commercial centers. In Kieff alone the past week witnessed a score of failures, and in Moscow and St. Petersburg the situation is deplorable. The commercial troubles are in part due to the expulsion of the Jews, as Jewish merchants have been calling in their accounts and preparing for the > apparently inevitable day when they would be ordered to the pale. The famine is the chief cause of business distress, as the trade with the stricken provinces has almost entirely ceased. Died from Fright. Galcnte Medesto, an Austrian, escaped from officer Keech, at Alliance, Ohio, while being taken to the lockup for disorderly conduct The officer fired two shots at the Austrian while in pursuit After running a few squares Medesto suddenly threw up his hands and fell forward upon the sidewalk. In five minutes he was dead. The coroner found the man had died from sudden heart failure. He had started to run from the officer, and on hearing the pistol shots he became so terrified that he actually dropped dead from fright Balfour** Appointment. The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the appointment of Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, as First Lord of the Treasury, and, therefore, as Conservative leader in the House of Commons, in succession to the late Rt Hon. William Henry Smith, says: “The appointment is no bad thing for the opposition. We prefer to meet fighting men. It will be nothing bnt a boon to the Liberals to have opposed to them a man specially identified with coercion in its most defiant form.” Ireland Flooded. A hurricane prevailed in West Ireland. The Shannon has overflowed, submerging much land, destroying buildings and drowning cattle. The storm is the worst for twenty years. Thirty small boats have been wrecked and much property destroyed. Youghal * is partly flooded. Much property has been destroyed by the overflowing of the Black Water River. Murder at a Dance. While a dance was in progress at Fort Seneca, Ohio, Frank Workley, proprietor of the building, entered the ball while drunk and orderea every one out. Frank Lewis and George Williams attempted -to disarm Workley when he commenced firing, killing Williams and wounding Lewis, who will die. Mr*. Parnell 111. Mrs. Parnell, widow of Charles Stewart Parnell, continues in a.very weak and precarious condition. She is unable to sleep without the aid of drugs and cannot partake of any solid food. A physician and Mrs. Parnell’s eldest daughter are in constant attendanco upon her. Frightened to Death. ' 1 The examination of the lynchers of Smith at Omaha has been postponed to allow new affidavits to be filed, declaring he was frightened to death. The post mortem, it is said, disclosed the fact that Smith had tied of fright before he was hanged by the mob. Removal at the American Wheel Oompeny’a Ofllcea. Judge Woods has ordered the removal of the American Wheel Company’s offices from Chicago to Indianapolis. This was done on the petition of Receiver Butler. He says it will saye $7,000 a year office rent 8 ' Burned to Death. Mailed* Madison, aged 8, while kindling a fire at Jeffersonville, Ind., was burned to death. Mrs. George Sold well, of Whiting, Ind., was burned to death by the explosion of a gasoline stove. »»*• Bail Talk. There are to be twelve clubs In the American Association next year. This Is almost certain and is the scheme which Von der Ahe, Phelps, and the other magnates have been working upon of late. The following cities are those which will next year make the Association circuit: Louisville, St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Cincinnati and Milwaukee in the West, and Boston, Baltimore, New York, Brooklyn, Washington, and Philadelphia in the East As will be seen, Kansas City and Cincinnati are to fie annexed in the West,' 'while Columbus is to be dropped. In the East New York and Brooklyn are to be added. There is

little doubt aa to whether Kansas City or Sioux City Is to be admitted. Outside of this the circuit has been about fixed up DRATH LURKS IN A CUBVXt i Fatal Wreek on th* Balttaseva and Okta. Hicksville (Q.) special: Another sickening horror has been added to the list of terrible disasters which have occurred upon the Baltimore and Ohio Railway within the past few years. An accident in which, four persons were instantly killed and probably fifty more were' injured—ten at least, of which will dieoccurred near here. The fast line express. due here at 4 p. m. and which goes through town at the rate of fifty miles an hour, was wrecked within sight of the village. A short distance from the station is a sharp curve overlooking a valley. In rounding the turn the fishplates, which hold the rails together, save way and the spreading rails allowed the cars to leave the track without warning to the load of human freight The four rear cars, two sleepers, a passenger coach and Vice President King’s private car left the track and rolled down the embankment turning over twice in their descent to the bottom. The train was running at a speed of fifty miles an hour and the crash was awful. In a nfbment the air was hideous with the groans and shrieks of the injured and imprisoned passengers. Assistance came from the town almost immediately and the work of rescue was begun. All the physicians and surgeons of the neighborhood were summoned. The bodies of two men were taken out shortly afterward. They are supposed to be relatives —one named Matthuse, from Chicago Junction, Ohio, and the other, named Watterson, from Montpelier, Ohio. All the hotels and public buildings of the little town were at once thrown open and turned into hospitals, the wounded being removed as rapidly as possible. No names can be learned at this writing, but it Is known that Vice President King, of the B. & O. Company, is badly injured. The Baltimore and Ohio officials and employes will not talk, and as that company owns the only telegraph lines out of the town no information cift be sent out to the surrounding country and newspaper men are sending their matter from Defiance, eighteen miles distant. ANOTHER COLLISION. Two Mon Klllad and Foor Other* Injured on the Pon-BandJo. at Steubenville, Ohio. The limited express and a freight train on the Pan-Handle Railroad came together headforemost at Mingo Junction, near Steubenbille, Ohio. Two men were killed and four injured. Killed—William Marshall, brakeman, Columbus, Ohio, and the express messenger, name unknown. Injured—A. Stanley, postal clerk, Cincinnati; A. R. Keys, postal clerk, Trinway, Ohio; W. S. Davis, postal clerk, London. Ohio; Robert McPherson, baggagemaster, Columbus, Ohio. The cause of the accident is not exactly known, as the piece of track known as the Gauntlet, where the accident occurred, is said to be so protected that only one train can be bn it at a time. A later dispatch adds that both engines and several freight cars were demolished. The combination baggage and express car caught fire and was consumed. Brakeman Marshall and Express Messenger Joseph J ir estner, who were in this car, were -caught in the wreck and burned to death. No passengers were injured.

TRRRIRLE. Shopmen Terribly Mutilated at St. PauL St. Paul special: A terrible explosion rent tbe air at tbe shops of tbe Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad Com* pauy, at South Park. As soon aaptbe smoke and noise nad subsided, agonizing groans were beard In the debris of wreck, which told plainly that several human beings were victims of tbe casualty. The employes in the shops had been repairing an old engine and having completed tbe work, decided to test tbe boiler. Doubtless too much steam was put on, for tbe boiler exploded with terrible velocity and all persons were injured, three of them probably fatally. Five of tho victims were terribly mutilated and were picked up unconscious. Tbe others were quite badly injured and taken to their homes. Chinamen ta Drov**. St. Vincent (Minn.) special: Within tbe last few weeks on account of tbe strict enforcement of tbe United States customs regulations in New York State, the tide of immigration has been diverted to the Northern frontier of Minnesota and North Dakota. Minnesota, between Lake Superior and Red River—loo miles —is guarded by only three customs officers, and North Dakota is not in a much better plight, consequently the celestials are coming on in droves, in spite of tbe best efforts of tbe officer* Collector Nelson, of the Dakota District, received a telegram from Klllarney, Manitoba, informing him that fiftv-two Chinese bad just gone south toward the international boundry line, and Deputy Collector J. C. Williams, of St Vincent, received intelligence that twenty-eight others are on their way south toward SL Vincent. This Is but tbe beginning, and with about 400 arrivals weekly at Vancouver from China there will be a large increase in our population unless active measures are taken. Boiler Exploalon. One of the seventy-five horse power boilers in A. R. Colman’s barrel heading factory at Tipton, Ind., exploded. Fifty hands were employed there, all of whom were injnred to some extent two fatally. The factory was valued at about 915,000 and is almost a total wreck. Late at night fire originated in tbe ruins of tbe Colman factory and tbe surrounding buildings were destroyed, together with a large amount of beading. Tbe badly Injured are as follows: John Weir, engineer, badly scalded and scalp wounds; Fred Meade, scalded; John Purvis, shoulder broken and internal injury: Orville Purvis, scalded; Charles Cole, internal injuries; Charles Roth, spine injured, and frightful bruises; M. K Steven* badly scalded and cut on tbe bead; Amos Steven* skull fractured and side crushed. The last three men are dangerously injured. There were fifty men and boys engaged at work in the factory. A Beta»m*k«r** Jok*. Kansas City (Mo.) special: It is believed that Rain-maker Melbourne has played a trick on tbe local Signal Service observer* who are much mystified qvor a rain which fell here yesterday morning. The indications for a few days have been clear and warmer. At A o’clock the other evening there was not a cloud to be seen anywhere, but at 6:30 it was pouring down rain, with heavy wind and thunder. At 7 it was again clear,* and there was no depression of tbe barometer. The observers say that the rain was purely from local cause* as there was nothing to indicate iL It is now asserted tbe rain was due entirely to the efforts of Melbourne, the rain-maker, who. It is alleged, has been working secretly here for tbe past week, and whose work ha* been crowned with success. . No* Uownod got. Dublin special;' The prospectus** of two new papers to be published in tbe Parnellitte interest In this city have been irsued. Tbe capital is

. , -V , „ - Ths directors trot E. J. Kennedy, Pierce Mahoney, M. P. for Meath, north; Edward Holman, Timothy Harrigan, M. P. for Dublin Harbor, William Hopkins, Q. C., and Dr, James FltaoonUd, M<P. for Longford, south. The morning paper will be called The Irish Daily Independent, and the evening paper The Evening Herald. Both the journals will adopt the program of the Parnellite convention, which assembled in Dublin in July last, and will advocate full political judgment for Irishmen. Attempted Train-Wreekta*. Findlay fO.) aperial: It is just learned that a bold attempt to wreck a train was made on the Nickel Plate Ralhoad "between Stowrtvllle and Arcadia, Ohio. Two pieces of iron had been placed between the rails In such a wav as to throw the engine off the track and cause a wreck. Peter Williams, a farmer coming to this city, discovered the obstruction and removed it, at the same time notifying the agent at Stuartville. It Is supposed that some one-with a grievance against the road la guilty of the dastardly attempt and detectives are investigating. Unknown Ship Wrecked. There has probably been a disastrous wreck or. collision at the entrance of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The Signal Service has received a dispatch from St Paul Island that wreckage, consisting of pieces of ship’s rails, scantling and dials, has been washed ashore, St Paul Island is mid-way between the northern part of Cape Breton and Cape Race, Newfoundland, and the probabilities are that there has either been a collision between incoming or outgoing vessels or a wreck of some sort • Opium smuggling. Washington special: It is said in certain clrdles here that startling disclosures will be made in regard to the smuggling ot opium into this country from the British possessions. It Is alleged that after six months* investigation officers of the Secret Service have made a ponderous report to the Treasury Department, showing the existence of an opium smuggling ring, which includes many prominent men and United States government officials, and that, in extent, it has not been equaled since the famous whisky ring of 1870. Pity M* Didn’t Shout the Tramps. Dennis O’Brien was accidentally killed at South Point, Ohio, while defending himself from the assault of three tramps, who had insulted a lady in O’Brifln’s presence. When remonstrated with by O'Brien the three toughs attacked him. O’Brien attempted to defend himself by clubbing them with the butt of his gun, and when he struck one the weapon was discharged, the load passing through O'Brien’s bowels. He lived but a few hours. His home was at Buena Vista, Ohio. The tramps escaped. Tbo Matta’s Work, Gaelno Barrogana, an Italian lugger owner, was assassinated at New Orleans. The affair bears all the marks of the Mafia. There was a game of cards at jan Italian saloon near the French market. A quarrel, a stampede, and as the victim reached toe door he was riddled with bullets. The police have arrested the proprietor of the p,ace ai d sevei al others. It is a cur.ous fact that the Mafia is heard of exactly a year after Chief Hennessy’s death. Mr*. Thurman Dead. Mrs. Allen G. Thurman died at her home In Columbus, Ohio, after long suffering from an attack of la grippe. She was unconscious and bad been in that condition fjr forty-eight hours. The scene was an affecting one, but Judge Thurman bore up much better under the ordeal than it was thought he would. He was grateful that his aged partner should be permitted to die In so peaceful and painless a manner.

Allerton Boat* Dolmareb, Lexington special: Allerton won the groat race, beating Delmarcb with ease in three straight heats. Hls time was 3:13M» 3:15, »nd Tbe weather was fine and a large crowd witnessed the race. The betting was furious. In tbe morning Allerton sold 91,000 to Delmarch’s 9850, and the short end was eagerly snapped up by the friends of the Kentucky horse. At noon tbe betting was Allerton 950, Delmarch 945. A History of Coinage Legislation. The Treasury Department, in response to numerous requests from various sections of the country, has Just issued a pamphlet containing a brief history of the coinage legislation of the United States. It embodies an epitome of coinage legislation from the time of tbe passage of tbe law, in April, 1793, establishing the United States mint, up to and including tbe silver bullion certificate act of July 14, 18'XL Novor Touched Bor. Aunt Jane Nuby, a colored woman, riding irom Columbus to Newark, Ohio, fell from tbe platform of a Fan-Handle passenger car near Kirkersville. The train was running forty miles an boor. The trainmen went back, expecting to find her mangled corpse; but she was sitting composedly by the side of the track, having sustaiued only slight injuries. Our Indian Soldier*. Washington special: Brigadier-Gen-eral John R. Brooke, commanding the Department of the Platte, in bls annual report to the War Department, says a troop of cavalry has been enlisted from Brule Sioux at Rosebud Agency, and a company of Infantry from the Shoshones and Arapahoes at Fort Wasbakl. Captain Hoorer Report*, Captain Hoover, of the revenue cutter Corwin, has made a detailed report of bls cruise in Behring Sea. He recounts his action in warning poachers, and says that tbe utter disregard of the law against tbe killing of sea otter threatens to result in the extermination of these animals In a few year* He suggests that means be taken to secure a strict enforcement of tbe law for tbe protection of these animal* Beat the World'* Beeord on a Typeratting Moehmo. F. J. Smith, who operate* a Merganthaler Linotype typesetting machine on tbe Toledo Commercial, beat the world’s record for machine composition, setting 47.900 ems of corrected matter in exactly eight hour* He took the regular run of copy for publication tbe next morning. His previous record was 41,900 ems made in Brooklyn. Bneh Will «*t Halt • Mlllim*. Nathaniel MdNames, of Kalamazoo, Mich., ba* received word that tbe executor* of tbe House estate of Holland and England are ready to pay over tbe money due him in tbe United State* He say* bi* wife’s share Is 9500,000. Ames Curts, of Sault Ste. Marie, will get a similar amount. KeMradeStank. Three cowboys, with drawn revolver* raided tbe First National Bank at Enterprise, Neb., at noon the other day. They secured 98,500 in easb and threatened the cashier, who was alone at the time, with instant death if he interfered. Tbe sheriff and a possee are after the robber* . A tttmMgs 0Ullta» Dalenzo Mezesto, an Itallmi hfed 40, unmarried and steel-worker employed at Canto*, Ohio, w** arrested at Alliance for drunkenness At the prison door bo

?■- ■ : brok* away from the officer* awHatba chase following he ran against a telephone pole. He was kilted instantly. Newly Strangled to Heath. William Rom was hanged at Radwood Falls, Minn. The trap was sprung, but the rope broke with a snap. Without a moment’s delay the limp body was picked up and placed face downward on ths scaffold. A second noose was pulled down and adjusted, and the trap waa sprung again without attempting to place the body on its feet, and the condemned man was slowly strangled to death. EMaoned His UkUd. Some days ago two children of John Smith, a farmer of Whitley County, Ind., were attacked with wormsand Mr. Smith purchased a quantity of oil and gave each child nearly a teaspoon ful. The consequence was that the 3-year-old child died shortly afterward from the effects of the poison. The other child waa saved by vomiting up tho deadly drug. The father did not know the oil waa poison. Tbo School* of Stillwater, Minn. At a regular meeting of the School Board of Stillwater, Minn., ft was decided to accept the proposition of SL Michael’s Roman Catholic parish to turn over the parochial schools to the city. The buildings will be leased for one year for the nominal rental of fil. The i present teachers will be retained. If found competent. Explorers Leet. . Much anxiety Is felt for the safety of Lieutenant Russell and party, who were sent out by the Smithsonian Institute to explore Mount St Elias. Russell and his men were to have met the revenue cutter, Corkin, at Yakett, September 1, but when the Corkln went there Russell did not appear, and a searching party sent out failed to find auy trace of him. Probably Loat. The schooner Rebecca of Taunton, Capt Nickerson, of South Chatham, carrying a crew of seven men, is, no doubt, lost with all on board. She left Newport News, Va., Aug. 25, for Gab veston with a cargo of coal, and she hai not been heard from since. The vessel was valued at 917,000. Dastardly Assassination. A dastardly assassination occurred near Wlnnewood I. T. A farmer named Smith was called to his door and shot down by two strangers, who had concealed themselves in the yard. Smith was killed instantly. The parties coni' mltting the bloody deed are still at large. Searle* Will Caso Hnttted. The Searles will ease has undoubtedly been compromised. This is the talk among lawyers. Timothy Hopkins wanted 913,000,000, but will get between 98.000,000 and 9i0.000,000. The matte: was settled at a meeting of the respective counsel In Boston. Nicaragua Assassins, A Libertadt, Salvador, dispatch says n great deal of uneasiness has been occasioned by the attempted assassination of President Sacasa, of Nicaragua. It Is said that there is a regularly organized gang of assassins who are bent upon the murder of Sacasa. Will Lynak Hijn. John Calvin was assaulted at Seymour, Ind., by Willis Newcombe and dlsemboweled with a Knife. Newcombe was hurried to jail, followed by a mob of 300, Calvin's wounds are probably fatal. II he dies Newcombe Is almost certain to be lynched. Uncle s»m'» Tars Fight. News from Valparaiso states that three, and perhaps four, American man-of-war men were killed and several others more or less seriously injured tn a desperate street fight with a crowd of Chilean sailors. Twelve Car Londe of Beans. The first solid train load of beans, twelve car-loads in all, has left Salicoy, Cal., consigned to Chicago by the Farmers' Alliance of Ventura County. The train runs through to Its destination aaa special train, Mere Omaha Lynoher* ArrevtetL Omaha special: Assistant County Attorney Moriarlty, who is also City Councilman, and six other prominent citisen* have been arrested for complicity In last week’s lynching, Uncle Kam to Be hued. Gen. N. P. Banks Is to Institute suit against the United States Government for 93,000, which he claims It has owed him since he retired from the office of United States Marshal in 1880. ' Indianapolis Folio* InvestigationSterling R. Holt, President of the Indianapolis Board of Public Safety, hat resigned, pending charges in the police department Three Killed, At Clarksburg, Miss., Bond's saw mill boiler exploded tailing Sam Harold and Ephriam Ely and mortally woundins Allen Lindsley. Badly Mutilated. Harry Ballou was killed in the Nickel Plate yards at Fort Wayne. His body was horribly mutilated. Congressman Lee Dead. Congressman W. H. F, Lee died at hit home near Fairfax, Va. Nancy Hanks Sold. The celebrated trotter, Nancy Hanks, has been sold for 950.000. 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ARRESTED FOR ARSON. REVELATIONS IN A BASE INCENDIARY PLOT. According to the ConKraslons. County Auditor Lavelle, or Washington, Wires Men to Burn tho Court Mouse—The Criminals la Jail. Destroyed the Records. The Court House at Washington, Ind., was recent y set on fire. Tho Recorder’s and sheriff’s offices were totally destroyed and a portion of tho Auditor's office was ruined. An investigation proved that the Interior of the Auditor’s office, including all tho important rco* ords, had been saturated with kerosene oil, and thoy were only saved by the prompt action of the fire department. Tho books had been taken from their shelves, placed in piles, and saturated with the oil. The city soon filled with ’furions people from all parts of the eounty, and the wildest excitement prevailed until It became certain that the perpetrators of the deed were safely inclosed by the stone walls of tbo Daviess County Jail. The conspirators who are tn the tolls for the crime, says a dispatch from that place, are County Auditor James C, Lavelle, Aaron H. Hawes, a prominent Steele Township farmer, and Basil LedSrwoodand Samuel Harbin, two day torers ot this city. A warrant Is out for Michael Lavelle, the Auditors brother, but he cannot be found by the officers, and it is believed that he has fled the country. County Auditor Lavelle has been Auditor for right years, and for the eight Kirs immediately preceding be was putr Auditor for nis brother. His term expires Nov, 1 and a few weeks ago the commissioners ordered an investigation ot hie books and accounts, appointing ex-N at iona I Bank Examiner Samuel H. Taylor and Edward F. Meredith, a prmnirte’bt attorney, to do the work. To this Lavelle made trtrenuous objection, and used every means In his power to defeat-or postpone the proposed investigation, This opposition was continued, and the time was set to begin the work, when but a few days before it was to have begun «n alarm of fire was sounded and the Court-House was found to bo in flames. Suspicion pointed to Auditor Lavelle as -concerned in the Incendiarism, and the officers began work at once under the direction of County Attorney John -C. Billheimer and Sheriff Charles Colbert. Five new jugs that had contained kerosene were found in an outhouse, where they had been thrown by the Incendiaries. With this valuable clue the man who bought the jugs was easily found, and was arrested and lodged In Ja.il. Hls namo U Samuel Harbin At flrst he denied all knowledge of the fire, but under a vigorous pumping he weakened and agreed to tell the whole story of the plot. He stated that he was hired to do the work of destroying tho court honso records by Auditor Lavelle and Aaron B. Hawes. He and Basil Ledgerwood were to be paid 9500 each for the work. Lavelle gave Harbin money to got coal oil and Ledgerwood money to buy a revolver, Lavelle took Harbin and Ledgerwood to court house and trid thorn There to set the fires and gave them keys to the eonrt house and offices. That night they carried in the coal oil, flooded the offioes, applied tho torches and fled The arrangement was to a certain extent abortive, as the Auditor’s records, which make the investigation possible, wore saved, although all the valuable records In tho Recorder’s office, fixing tbo title to all tho landed property In Daviess County, were destroyed. Tho Joss to tho county by this is incalculable. As soon as Harbin had completed his testimony, warrants were issued for tho others concerned Ledgerwood, when arrested, knocked under at once, telling.the same story Harbin told. Every statement corroborates tho evidence scoured. Auditor Lavelle was Immediately) arrested. A B. Hawes soon Joined him. but Michael Lavelle could not be found, and has not been arrested. Ledgerwood and Harbin were arraigned in court, and pleaded guilty to the charge of arson. Naturally the excitement is terrible in its intensity. No one can say that he has a good title to bls real property, and Indignation Is at a white heat Auditor Lavelle's bondsmen, becoming frightened at the turn affairs wens taking, required him to turn over all his property t j them, and this was done, Hawes Ilves on a farm of 500 acres, owned by hie wife, and is in -good eircomstances financially. He is a desperate character, however, and he was brought in at the muulo of a Winchester. ■> A DEADLY WRECK. Twe Men Kilted and Many Other Penons Radiy Injured. A portion of the Baltimore and Ohio fast mail Na .8. from Chicago to New York, Jumped the track near Hicksville, Ohio, killing two passengers. Rounding five others fatally and twenty others Jess seriously. The train consisted of baggage car, smoker, day coach, sleeper and private car of Vice President King. The smoker and baggage car remained attached to the locomotive, but the private car and the ladles’ < osch went over the embankment and were wrecked. The day coach, which was well filled, turned over once and bounded right side up. In its aerial maneuver It straddled two of the telegraph lines, and the cross timbers were wrenched from several poies. The sleeper fared better, and after sliding off its trucks It lay right side upon the ground. Those In tho smoker escaped with a severe shaking up and many bruise*. Neither the smoker nor the baggage car left the track, but the former must nave escaped very narrowly, the coach being tilted to one side In a threatening altitude The most serious injuries were received by the occupants of the day coach. Nearly all the seats were wrenched from their places, as were the temps, racks, and other furniture of the car, and the windows were a I shattered. The train was running fully sixty miles an hour at the time, and as near as can be ascerta'ned the accident was caused by one of the drive wheels of the engine leaving the track at the switch near the water tank. This wheel spread the rails and all the cars excepting the baggage and smoker left the track. For a space of 800 feet the rails were absolutely swept off tho ties The locomotive, baggage and smoking cars remained on the grade, which, all along thio place, is about eight feet high After the coaches left tho grade and went into the ditch the locomotive, bagEage car and smoker went on several undred feet, but did not leave tbo grade, ritbough off the track. Dr addition to throe steel battle shipe of 4,378 tons each and one torpedo vessel, nearly finished in Franco for Japan, the Japanese Marine Ministry will soon submit to Parliament a plan for building eleven heavy ironclads, at a cost of >48,00(11000, The cells of tho human lungs are 78,000,000 In number, covering a surface from two and a half to throe and a half times greater then the whole body surface of ton full grown mon. A Rmklavp (Mo.) girl hiccougho* fourteen honrs a day for nearly a month

BI RAIN AND SNOW* WHEAT RAID TO ■« RUINED IN NORTH DAKOTA. Grata ta tttaeiu 'anA ttkoek* ttprauttao— Th* Report* PnMlabeO ta the PeperaDe Not Helf Cover the Deve*tatia*i—lmpe*Fteld*. Le**e* tien*’!* Mißtaes. ‘ The weather of the past few weeks has undone much of the good that was done by the fine weather early in the season In North Dakota, and the farmers in the Northwest will suffer losses aggregating in the million* The damage can aa yet only bo estimated, but that the loss will be very great there seems no doubt. The railroads had made sperial arrangements to handle a great crop, and the farmers considered their own plans amply sufficient. But so great was the wheat crop that, flrst, it waa almost impossible to hire enough help to secure the crop, and a very large part of it had to be left standing in the shock. Then It waa found that the supIly of thrashing machines was inaufclent, and that caused a delay which test fully half the crop still In the fields unthraahed when the rain camo. Rain has been general and abundant,’ and it is this which has caused the greatest loss. At Jamestown, In the North Dakota Jim River Valley, rain and snow fell criftinnally for a day and a night, and last week there was but one full day’s wheat thrashing. Reports are received of grain sprouting in the stack* At Devil’s Lake, in the northern part of the State, a heavy rain fell, which will stop thrashing for several days. No grain has been stacked owing to the scarcity of laborer* Lakota (N. D) reports snow, with thrashing stopped entirely, and fears that un'ess the weather clears soon much of the grain will be unfit ta be thrashed. In the northern part ot North Dakota there will, however, be more loss from lack of laborer* than from bad weather. Northwestern Minnesota gives about tbe same report as North Dakota. It commenced raining again about Crookston and continued all of one day. There have been only a very tew days ot dry weather in four weeks, and farmers are getting discouraged In Traverse County and Central Western Minnesota tho larger portion of the wheat has not yet been thrashed and men and machines are greatly needed. Colonel P. B, Walker, of Minneapolis, aays of the situation; -I iiave just returned from a trip through that section. It made my heart a -he to witness the ruin. In order to appreciate it one must actually see It. There are thousands of acres of sKply wonderful wheatfields almost utterly destroyed by the rain* And the mud—lt I* perfectly execrable, Day after day we tramped in the slush across fields—slush half knee-deep. I went out with a Government surveying party to establish town lines, and the rain and mud broke up our party, and we were forced to abandon the work entirely. “The reports published In the papers do not rover half tbe devastation. A* far as the eye can reat h In every direction are groat big shocks of wheat, and it all would have graded No, 1 hard had it been thrashed out before the rains fell Now nothing can be done. It Is too late to save even a modicum. Were the shocks In a condition to be thrashed, it would be a physical impossibility to do anything with the crop, for the reason that teams cannot haul the wheat to the thrashers nor haul fuel to tho engines, *The difficulty in the first place arose over getting help to do the thrashing, but the railway companies succeeded in getting both men and machine into tho field* When they arrived they were powerless The mud was so deep that the horses mired to their bellies, and nothing can ba done now until the sun dries out both the soli and the shocks of wheat. “it is painful to stand on a prominence and survey tho situation Everywhere thrashing machines are visible—-all abandoned—and the wheat for hundreds of miles ruined, * Hi* Port Wm Teo Heavy, W, B, Arnold, an actor In the “Blue Jeans” Company, severed hl* connection with that organization at Zanesville, Ohio, upon rather extraordinary grounds. Mr, Arnold Is 00 years of age. In his part as Col. Henry Clay Rlwner' he is obliged to seize and carry bodily off the stage Miss Jennie Endsly, who tips the beam at 177 pounds This task was too much for the veteran, who was willing, however, as a compromise to drag the fair one off. To this she objected, and a younger and stronger actor will be secured, Staking Huge Guns, Secretary Tracy and Commodore Folger, of the Bureau of Ordnance, made an official visit to the ordnance department of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company, Thoy witnessed the ponring of a iso-ten casting, which is tbe largest eve/ made in this country. They also witnessed the forging of the first 13-inch gun made by the Bethlehem Iren Com!any. Armor plates were also forged. 'he visitors ex pressed themselves as highly gratified with the progress made on tbe >4,000,000 contract, Helf n Hundred Mungted, At Tipton, Ind , one of tbe 75-horse power boilers In A R. Dolman's barrelheading factory exploded. Fifty hands wore employed there, all of whom wore injured to some extent, two fatally. Tho factory was va ued at about 815,00tt Afterward fire originated In the ruins of tbe Dolman factory and the surrounding buildings were destroyed, together with a large amount of heading. A Berlin dispatch says that tho Kaiser has expressed him-elf as deeply offended by tho anti-Jewlsb agitation which tho bestowal of an order on a Jew living in Bielefeld has aroused. In reply to tho representations sent through Chancellor Caprivi that the man had a bad character, the Kaiser has replied briefly and pointedly, rebuking the anti-Jewlsb prejudice that prompted tho action. ' It was reported In Wall street that Russell Hage and tbe Goulds are out The story did not come In exactly that shape, but was that stock holders of the Missouri Pact lie who had soon dlvldbnd day go by without tho receipt of • dividend check were getting together and pledging each other to gather proxies to be ready to oust tbe Gould roglmo at tbo first opportunity. The London Times was graoiously pleased recently to devote several coL tunns to Chicago and the World’s Fair. It thinks that Chicago is a good-sized town, and that tho Exposition will be an affair worth seeing. And now If Mr, Rudyard Kipling and tbe New York RSwoW can be conciliated the only formidable obstacles In tbe way of a successful World’s Fair will have been removed. The Boston papers ore so astounded st tbo success of their has <-bsll team in Its recent contest with the New-Yorkers that they hint a suspicion that the latter were paid to "drop* tbo games Thio Is quite ae complimentary to the skill of tbo local artists as it is to tbe honesty of tbe visitor*.-"Detroit Free

THEPOSITIVE TRUTH THAT ALL THE HOOEIER NEW* IS HERS, What Ch»» Woightaws Ara Datag toottote ttowt* ovtate* auteta*. Ete, —John P, Batman’s store and barnburned near Paoli. « —The packing house at Hammond killed 854 cattle one day this week, —Work is being pushed forward on tbe cathedral and window-glass factory at Bedkey. —Joel B. Weddle, a former citizen of Seymour, was fatally kicked by a mule at Marysville, Mo, —Cows which had been missing near Brazil were found in an old mine into which they bad fallen, —J. W. Tarleton, of Martinsville, while fishing in White Hiver, found a pearl worth 8300 In a clam-shell. —The safe in the Seavey hardware store at Fort Wayne was blown open by burglars and 9250 was secured. —The Consumers’ Gas Company is having hard work to get its mains through farms In Hamilton County, —Miss ElizaT?adon,who lived alone In LaPorte County, was found dead in her kitchen. She was 70 years old. —A muskrat measuring eighteen inches from tip to tip, was killed on the Highland railroad tracks at New Albany. —Sheriff Brown, of Jackson Countv, will resign his office to accept the post- l tion of chashier in the Seymour National Bank, —The corn crop, ’tis said, will not come upto the expectations of the farmers, although there will be enough to go around. —George W. Crayton, an attorney of Mooresville, has begun suit for libel against O, H. Moudy, editor of the Mooresville Guide, —Ella Martin, of Evansville, got a verdict for 92,000 against Charles Collins, a mail agent on the E, A T. H. Railroad, for breach of promise, —County Assessor Schlamm, of Clark County, has uncovered 900,345 worth of property that wa* being held out by guardians and administrator* —Stephen Ridlin, of Fount intown, Shelby County, hung himself in sorrow for his dead wife and the loss of ' his eyesight, which occurred about the same time, —There was a freight train wrecked on the Monon one mile below Orleans and seven miles south of Mitchell, which resulteddn derailing and piling up ten freight cats with heavy loss, the past two weeks, Peter Maurer, having six children and a wife, a man named Moore, eight children and a wife, and a man named Rose, all of Evansville, have deserted their families, —An 11-year-old son of D. R, Myers, Millersburg, was riding a poney at full speed, when the saddlegirth broke, and the boy was thrown violently to the ground, Ila is not expected to live, —William M, Reeves, of Crawfordsville, has been appointed District. President of the Patriotic Hons of America for the counties of Warren, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Putnam and Vermillion. —Druggist T, M Clark, of Greenfield, left home mysteriously in the dead of night last week and sent word back that he would never return, He was formerly County Superlntondent of Schools at Tipton, Domestic troubles drove him to thus exile himself, —Mr*. Bettie Shultz, who resides near Bean Blossom Postofiice, Brown County, is said U» be 103 years old. Seventy years ago she came toColumbifs, when but sixty persons resided there, She rode behind an ox team, which bad been driven all the way from North Carolina, She can yet road newspaper print, and is able t<» be about the house. She has not been out of Brown County for fourteen years, —The cylinder-head of th® immense engine tn the G, Y, Boots A Co.’s flouring-mill at Lawrenceburg, blew out, making a noise like the report of a cannon, The engine Is of the Buckeye pattern, 3flo horse power, end was run at the speed of 100 revolutions per minute. The cylinder-head weighs over 500 pounds. It crashed through a door and dropped on the sidewalk. The one-and-a-half-inch bolts had neon torn away as if they were putty. The damage to the engine is 9500, Fortunately no one was huyt; —St'arlet fever exists in New Al bany to such an extent that it may almost be termed an epidemic, and though the disease is ffbt of the virulent type, the physicians are having considerable difficulty in controling it. When the malady was first noticed the authorities insisted that the law In regard to the flagging of the houses in which the d isetise existed should be rigidly enforced, and now in ail parts of the city may be seet houses on which have been placed large sheets of yellow cardboard beai* ing the words ”Scartet Fever,” Up to the present time six deaths bavo resulted, but the presence of nearly half a hundred cases is causing considerable uneasiness, —Casey Ketcham celebrated her 101st birthday at Crawfordsvlllq, She was Gen, Richard Canby's nurso during his infancy, —Clara Cunningham, a 15-ycar-old , girt, has been arrested In Terre Haute | for assisting in the ruin of Nellie Huhm, a girl but IS year* old, at Cr- 1 bans, Hi. j —Steps have iwn raken to organise 4 a Brownstown and Noymour street 1 railroad. The distance Is eleven i miles, and It is thought the lino ean j be made for 985,000, » J —William Brigg* fell out of a hick- J ory tree, striking his head on a tag and breaking his nock, near Fort 0 Wayne. —A eamp of gypsies near Columbus 4 has been split on account of a double 1 elopement of two pair of young Romany lovers, Samnel and William Wilcox hitched up an old gray mfirn and loaded Elizabeth and Lucy Stark In a gypsy wagon, and off they went. The oldest couple was only about eighteen years old. Tho parenfo foil out, and each had their folloton, who separated and establishMl two camps,