Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1891 — Page 6

She Xt.HXXA.TUTI, IND. XL ffULCKBURN, • Pubmshkk. PICKINGS OF NEWS, AS FOUND IN ALL. PARTS OF ‘ THE WORLD. The Chilian War Clouds Fast Vanishing— Five Persons Burned to Death In a Berlin Hotel—Fatal Hunting Accident. WAR CLOUDS VANISH. Late Advlcos from Chill Indicate No De* •Ire on the Part of the Junta for War. Valparaiso special: From all appearances, the danger of any serious trouble between Chili and the United States, over the' Baltimore outrage, is rapidly passing away. La Libertad Electorate, semi-official organ of the junta, published an editorial which is calculated to set at rest any feeling of uneasiness which may have prevailed in Chili. It says that for the past few days rumors have been prevalent at Santiago that an alarming rupture of the amiciable relations with the United States was imminent. “We assure the public,” it says, “Hiat these rumors are unbounded.” It adds that dispatches have been received from Senor Montt, Chilian Minister at Washington, asserting that the utmost cordiality exists between himself and Secretary Blaine. “Senor Montt,” the article says, “had an Informal conference with Secretary Blaine, during which the latter said that he saw in the case, no reason so far to compromise the relation existing between the respective countries. Mr. Blaine also said that he could not form any definite opinion about the affair until the conclusion of the investigation at Valparaiso. “For our part,” the article concludes, “we feel sure that these facts, when they become known, will put an end to all disturbing rumors.” Five Were Burned. Berlin special: An exciting scene was witnessed at Bergedorf, a suburb of Hamburg, when the Hotel Schwerin was burned and five lives lost. Many of the Inmates had nahrow escapes, and the work of the firemen, owing to the construction of the building and the rapidity with which the flames spread, was full of danger. „ A company of negro minstrels, who had been playing in Hamburg, were lodged In the upper story of the hotel. Three of them found their escape cut off and, though their doom seemed to be sealed, two brave firemen volunteered, in the face of a most certain death, to go to their assistance. Just as the two rescuers had reached the floor upon which the three minstrels were. hemmbd in by flames, the building collapsed and all five perished in the blazing mass below. Public Debt Statement. * According to the monthly public debt statement just issued the following was the condition of the treasury on October 31: Interest bearing debt, $585, 036,720; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $6,200,230; debt bearing no interest, $389,074,025. Aggregate of interest and non-interest bearing debt, 8980,309,976. Certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, $560,379,410. Aggegate of debt, including certificates and treasury notes, $1,540,689,386. Gold reserve, $100,000,000. Net cash balance, $139,671,920. Thfti includes the subsidy coin and money deposited in National banks. The decrease in the cash balance during the mob th of October was $5,316,048. A Deep Laid Plot. Madrid special: The Queen regent has directed the authorities throughout Spain to make diligent search for all persons suspected of treasonable designs. The Spanish Government is said to have received information to the effect that a plot is in progress for the overthrow of the monarchy, and the establishment of a republic, and that the plot is shared in by persons of prominent standing. While no arrests have been made, the Government is keeping a vigilant watch for any signs of open disaffection. ] Obliged to Flee from Russia. The advance guard of a German colony, seeking homes in Kansas, passed ttyough the New York barge office recently. The party thirtyeight, and were compelled to fly from Pfeifer, a little town on the Volga, because of what they termed unjust tribute levied upon them by the Russian Government. They belong to the better class of peasantry. Gold at Kansas City. * Gold was found on the banks of the Missouri at Kansas City at a depth of 117 feet The discovery was made by borings that are being put down to find the location of rock under which to tunnel the Missouri River. The gold is rich, and is found in great quantities on both sides of the river. Several tons of tiro sand will be taken out at once. Fatal Hunting Accident. A horrible death, resulting from the accidental discharge of a gun, came to Archibald Scott, a 16-year-o)d boy, while hunting near Fort Wayne, a heavy charge of No. 7 shot blowing the upper portion of his head off. Carter Harrison at Work. Carter Harrison has assumed editorial management of the Chicago Times, a controlling interest in which he recently purchased. Accidental Shooting. George Gutermuth of Fort Wayne, aged 68 years, shot himself while cleaning his gun. He leaves a wife and largo family. Miehblnders in ’Frisco. San Francisco special: The highbinder war in Chinatown continues, and an extra force of police are on duty there. The body of a murdered Chinaman was found in a basket covered up with old clothes. He had evidently been stabbed to death by highbinders. Mountains AflaHln. A special from Middlesborough, Ky., says that the mountain tops around that city and Cumberland Gap are in flames. The fire extends seventeen miles and . much damage will resultstole a Safa. The express car of the Central branch railway train No. 403 was robbed at Leonora, Kan. George Garner, express messenger, runs from Downs to Leonora, r When the train arrives at Leonora, he g helps the crew in switching, the con- | ductor usually remaining in the expressin ear. The other morning the con- | , ductor alighted to transact some & . business and the car was left alone. ( When the train was ready tp proceed the g*. express messenger discovered that the safe was missing. It was in its place all E light when he left the car. He says the conductor says the same. It is supposed •’ 1 Id ■* • * ■ '■

that while the car was being switched > robbers entered and threw out the safe. > The safe was supposed to contain a large amount of money. No clue to the robbers. PLOT TO KILL O’BRIEN, Startling Discovery Made by tke Pollen at Cork. Cork special: Wild excitement prevails in this city. The startling anncnincement is made that the police had unearthed a plot to assassinate William O’Brien, the noted leader of the McCarthy faction. At first the sensational story was believed to be a canard, but as the hours wore on the developments fully convinced the public that the report had a substantial basis of fact Mr. O’Brien, it was learned, had hurriedly decamped, aud fled no one knew whither, as a consequence of the discovery made by the police. When it became generally known that the aggressive editor had been frightened away the alarm for the public safety spread and the excitement became intense. Soon the streets of the city were crowded with frenzied multitudes who threatened to arm themselves with more deadly weapons than blackthorns and stones. Strong guards ot police were stationed in the vicinty of the gun shops and wherever else it was possible to obtain .fire-arms. The officers did their utmost to keep the turbulent and bellicose mobs in motion, but it was a difficult task. The report of the murderous conspiracy has terribly enraged the McCarthyites, who threaten to cast aside even the slight restraint they have thus far put upon themselves and outdo the Parnellites in deeds of violence. At an early hour Mr. Davitt arrived Mo fill the engagements of Mr. O’Brien. Meantime'the self-respecting and lawabkiing citizens are becoming seriously apprehensive that the events which are disgracing the Irish cause in this city will assume aimensions so great as to make imperative the calling out of British troops to protect the Irish people from themselves A RUINED TOWN, The Pretty Village of North Baltimore Laid in Ashes—Loss Over *400,000. North Baltimore (Ohio) special: This place, in the center of the Wood County oil fields, was visited by the most disastrous conflagration in its history. Five years ago it was a small hamlet, but in a short time developed into a city of over 5,000 inhabitants, and was one of the most prosperous towns in the State. Located at a distance from an adequate water supply and studded with derricks that marked the locations of gas and oil wells, with many thousands of barrels of the inflammable material stored uo within the confines of the town, a fire such as this has long been feared. At about 13 o’clock the long expected calamity occurred and the blazes which started in an oil well just west of the main street of the town, soon gained such headway that the destruction of the entire piace was threatened. The greater portion of the business center is now in ashes. The blaze swept Main street, from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad north, to Broadway on the east side, destroying more than twenty business houses, including the Beaoon newspaper, People’s Bank, Postoffice and some of the largest blocks in the place. On the west side of the street the fire destroyed thirteen business houses, including Hotel Burke, a portion of the opera house and many three story buildings. The entire loss is estimated at $400,000. The town is almost without fire protection, and help was summoned from Fostoria, but the scarcity of water rendered the work of the firemen useless. Thirteen residences were also burned. TRAVELERS SLAIN. Five Persona Killed in * Railway Wreck in Minnesota. (Minn.) special: A terrible accident happened at Thorsen Station, s eight miles east of here on the Soo Railroad, by which five persons were killed and seven seriously injured. The dead are: O. E. Holmes, traveling salesman Seabury & Co., St. Paul; Fred Renn, Conrad Prince, Brazil Lyle, John Coffin. The four last named all belonged at Monticello, Minn. A regular west bound freight train was switching at the station when it was run into by a west bound extra running at a high rate of speed. The caboose of the regular train was completely telescoped. All the dead and injured were in this car. Dr. Allen, of Glenwood, hurried to the wreck and, assisted by Dr. Bradley and others, cared for the wounded. Mr. Holmes’ body was torn to pieces. Fred Renn was probably roasted to death, as be waa found in the debris on top of the boiler. It is reported that the Soo company has caused the arrest of Conductor Woodson and Engineer Smith, of the extra, the blame appearing to rest on them. Blcksvltlc, Ohio, Swept by Fire. Hicksville (Ohio) special: Fire was discovered in Kerr Bros, warehouse, and in one hour $40,090 worth of property lay in ruins. Kerr Bros.’ are the largest implement handle manufacturers in the United States and their loss is complete on the warehouse and contents—finished handles and on logs, lumber and material on tho grounds near the warehouse. The following buildings were destroyed: The Hicksville Cart and Machine Company’s factory. The City Flouring Mills, owned by Joseph Kerr, and the cooper shop, owned by C. A. Weaver. A strong wind was blowing from the west and buildings across the street took fire and it was hard work to save the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot and the handle factory of Maxwell & Co. and other valuable property. Embers were carried a half mile and set fire to a large barn in the east part of town, which was burned down. Forest fires are raging all about here and much damage Is resulting-. Both sides ot the Baltimore and Ohio track are in flames and the ties are on fire. Much valuable, logs, lumber and material were destroyed on the sidings. Smacks Sunk. A- dispatch Just received from Plymouth, states that while the gunboat Sabrina was engaged in gun practice some of her shots struck and immedii ately sank the fishing smacks>‘Sunbean” i and “Aurora,” both of which were anchored Outside of the breakwater. One man i belonging to the Aurora was drowned, i while another was nearly so. Two of the crew of the Snnbeam were almost completely exhausted when they were taken out of the water. The accident is attributed to the gross negligence of the ' officers of the gunboat Tho admiralty will order an investigation. I Marshall’s Narrow Escape. Ed. Marshall, night officer on the down-town beat at London, Ohio, narrowly escaped being killed. In going through the Pan Handle yard while the J , vestibule train was pulling in, a freight ’ train made a running switch and the 1 officer, stepping from one track onto another, was struck and horribly cut * about the bead. One gash, foul* inches ' l long, and another two inches were cut ' | on the forehead and face, besides several ■ i body bruisea * loung Hunter Wounded, f i While hunting near Batavia, Ohio, i * Oliver Tatman, the 17-vear-old son of I Captain John Tatman, the leading > tobacco dealer of the county, was acciII dentally shot tn the thigh by Ua young . y t •“. 'y? ' ■ ''VfW ■

companion. Allen Nichols. The wounded boy was removed to the home of his brother, J. C. Tatman, and medical aid summoned. He will probably recover, but will carry through life a crippled limb, the result of his sport. '• I Morrityin* Reports from Japan. Dispatches from Hioga, Japan, say thht the earthquake destroyed the towns of’Magoya, Gifu and Ogaki. All the public buildings and most of the smaller structures In these places were thrown down. A fire in Magoya completed the destruction in the most crowded quarters of the place. The shock Svas accompanied by a tidal wave, which submerged many districts. The towns of Okaua, Kano and Kasamutsa haye been wiped out, few people escaping. Five thousand people were killed al Gifu alone, and 2,000 at Oroga. Twentythree thousand houses were destroyed at these two places. The earthquake destroyed fifty miles of railway. As details are received the horror of the calamity grows. French Fount! Guilty, Aftqr a protracted trial a jury in the Criminal Court at Indianapolis found Charles French (colored) guilty of killing Andrew Dillon, Marshal of Haughville, during a street fight in June, 1890, and he was sentenced to three years* imprisonment Previous to trial French pleaded guilty to attempted murder of his own wife, and it was her “squeal” which led to implicating him in the Dillon affair. The desperate character of French contributed to his conviction, as the evidence connecting him with the DiHon affair was only circumstantial. A Crists In Canada. Ottawa special: The Government crisis continues. Secretary Cbaplau, with a numner of followers, is here trying to force Premier Abbott to yield and give him the coveted position of Minister t of Railways. All of the conservative members from the Catholic provinces of Quebec will, Secretary Chaplau says, bolt the party and wreck the Government If his claim is not conceded. The latest reports are bulletined outside newspaper offices throughout the Dominion and arousing considerable excitement ' Convicts Gain Liberty. John Donovan, Walter Briquet and Chas. Keen escaped from the State Penitentiary at Jackson, Mich. Their escape was an exceeding clever one. They had tunnelled forty .feet to the street. Each in some manner had secured overalls; blouses and a dinner pail. While the other convicts were at dinner these three entered the tunnel, changed their prison garb for the stolen clothes and made off. The guards saw them but supposed they were laborers. A Cork Episode. Ah Interesting incident in the recent fracas at Cork, was that of a Parnell!te who, while attacking the McCarthyites, was knocked down and considerably hurt by a stalwart priest who immediately proceeded to administer the consolations of religion to the prostrate and injured map, at his request, the latter supposing himself to be dyimr. He proved to be not seriously injured. A Terrible Earthquake. Dispatches from Japan announce that there has been an earthquake at Hiogo and tho rumor was current that a great amount of property was destroyed and the loss of life had been considerable. A private dispatch from Hiogo confirms the earthquake story and states that it is known that in Osaka alone the death list contains the names of 300 residents of that city. Indiana Town Destroyed. The town of Newberry on the Evansville and Indianapolis road in Greene County, Ind., was almost wholly destroyed by fire, fourteen buildings were destroyed. The fire started in a saloon and Is said to have been started by a woman whose husband had been sold liquor by the saloonist Loss, 820,000; insurants, $9,000. Railroad Officials in a Wreck, A party of Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway officials on a tour of inspection, arrived at the Dayton & Ironton division at Boyerstown Junction, east of Chillicothe, Ohio,’ where their observation car was wrecked by being pushed into the rear end of a freight train. Tho men were bruised, but none seriously hurt Sensational Developments Expected, Ottawa (Ont) special: Contractor Connelly, whose firm defrauded the Public Works Department out of nearly 81,000,000, has been arrested on the charge of conspiracy. Wholesale arrests in connection with the boodle scandals will bemade this week. Marshes on Fire. Valparaiso (Ind.) special: The marshes are on fire in this county, and hundreds of acres have burned over. The farmers fought heroically to save their homes from destruction along the line of the Nickel Plate railway. Thousands of tons of hay were consumed. Pat Elliott's Trial. The case of Patrick J. Elliott, indicted jointly with W. J. Elliott for the murder of W. L. Hughes and A. C. Osborn at Columbus, Ohio, has been set for hearing November 35. Brasilian Coffee Harvest. Estimates of the coffee harvest of the Santos District, Brazil, place it at 9,500,000 bags. THE MARKETSL CHICAGO. Canxn—Common to Primes3.so 0 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades <OO 0 4.75 Shkkp—Fair to Choice 3.00 0 5.50 Wheat—No. a Bed 9»40 .MH Cohn—No. 9 66 0 .07 Oats—No. 9..; .99 & .30 RYk—No. 9.... 88 «S .90 Burma-Choice Creamery. .81 0 .M Chbxsk—FuU Cream, flata Eggs—Fresh $0 0 .93 Potatoes—New, per bn .95 0 ,30 „ INDIANAPOLIS. CATTnB-Shipjdng.... 3.95 0 0.70 Hogs—Choice Light 0.50 0 4.75 ' Skkhp—Common to Prime 3.00 A 4.95 Oorn-No. 1 White .MWj Oats—No.9White...,3o A .31 „ ST. LOUIS. CATTtx. S.M 0 5.75 Hogs. 3.50 A 4.50 Whkat-No 9 Bed .91H0 Cohn—No. 9...... 49 0 .51’ Oatc-s-No. 9 98 A .99 Byb-No. 2 .M 0 86 „ CINCINNATI. • Arrux 3,30 A 4.75 Hogs , 4QO 0 4.50 StfKKP 3,00 0 4,73 Whkat-No. 9 Bed .90 0 .96 Cobh—No. 9 ,59 A .61 Oats-No.3Mixed.... 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COMBATANTS IN CORK, DESPERATE FIGHTS BETWEEN IRISH FACTIONS. Many Badly Wonnded—Mounted jpollSe with Considerable Difficulty Disperse tha Savage Combatants—Work -for the Surgeons. Irish Blood Fowa. 1 When Messrs. William O’Brien and . John Dillon arrived in Cork, the two . distinguished members of Parliament . were met by a deputation composed of 1 membens of the National Federation, ! representatives of the Gaelic Club, the t municipal officers, and a large number ! of priests. An enormous crowd of peo- . pie lined the route, followed by the pro- , cession which followed Messrs. O’Brien . and Dillon from the railroad station. , The procession was headed by a brass band and was escorted by a strong detachment of police. The fact that the police and military were thoroughly prepared for a riot 1 alone prevented the city from becoming t a acene of slaughter. After the convention a large body of police closed about . Dillon and O’Brien to escort them to their hotel. Dillon Dassed a few words . of commonplace with the Inspector in ! command, and that functionary listened very stiffly and condescendingly. The incident was witnessed by the Parnell- , ites, who howled in derision. For some 1 distance the procession passed along 1 without more serious demonstration, , the crowds on the street, however, growing every moment more excited. The McCarthyites, including a number of priests and the redoubtable Canon , O’Mahoney, followed Dillon and O’Brien. Every now and then a Parnelllte In the . crowd would howl and swing a shillalah . around his head and make a dash for ■ the McCarthyites. The police would 1 then charge and restore order for a mo- ; ment At length the Parnellites grew uncon- , trollable, and yells of “Murderers," “En- ) gland’s lickspittles," and other epithets , saluted the McCarthyites. The latter . knew that they would soon be attacked, , and came to a halt, turning on their assailants. Missiles of all kinds flew through the air. and the cries of defiance became louder and louder. The I blood flowing from Injured heads and - limbs, the groans of the fallen wounded, ■ the fierce energy of the combatants, and ’ the ebb and flow of the tide of battle, as the advantage veered to either side, gave ■ a realistic picture resembling somewhat t the Communist uprising in l aris. 1 The mounted constabulary was hur--1 riedly formed In order for a charge. It I was a dangerous duty, for deadly ; missiles were flying on every hand, and the order was given to cut right between the two parties, where tho police would receive the volleys from both. Not a 1 constable flinched. They formed as por--1 fectly as on parade and started on the . gallop at the word of command. The : order was given to strike only with the 1 flats of their sabers, and there is no 1 reason to believe that, under great I provocation, it was disobeyed. I As the coustables spurred forward the 1 volleys of missiles grew thicker, for each side was sure that if they missed each other they would at least hit a policeman. The police were persistent* 1 however, and at length succeeded in 1 breaking up the> riot; this result, how- : ever, being largely due to the iact that I the rioters themselves were appalled at the number of the wounded. Many of 1 the latter were taken to .their homes 1 and others to the hospita's. Whether 1 any cases have proved fatal is not yet 1 known. TgHE SITUATION IN CHILI. Revolutionary Parties Unite Upon a Pro-gramme-Merchant* Suffer Heavily. 1 Chilian advices say the different political parties that initiated the revolu-

tion are making a draft of the program that is to be observed by the new administration and that they will all sign, pledging themselves to respect it, no matter who Lgains the Presidential I election. This program does not tend

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claudio vicuna, to provide a new system of administration; It merely estab- * Bshes the general principles that, based on liberty, are to be observed by the ' new political organization, and these principles are: The right of suffrage. Punishment of any Government official who should interfere in the elections. Absolute Independence of the three chief authorities of the nation. Responsibility of the Presidents and their , ministers. Reduction of the ordinary expenses. Amelioration of- the foreign debt and conversion of the national paper currency into f metallic currency, reduction of the army and augmentation of the fleet. * 1 Suppression of unnecessary employI ments. I Steady development of railroads. i Amicable relations with all other nai tions. i limitation of the diplomatic service. Establishment of commercial treaties with different nations. Reports received at Iqulque from the I south state that a large number of ex- , ecutions have occurred at Santiago and . Valparaiso in the last few weeka The . victims had been particularly active In ' their opposition to the revolutionists, but none of them were persons of any special prominence. i Vicuna, who was elected President of ■ the southern districts two months ago and who was regarded as the representative of Balmaceda, is now in Callao. American flour, which sold a few months ago for S3O per sack, can not be sold now for 85. American hay, which was imported at S7O a ton, is now re{ilaced by Chilian hay, which seda at rom 86 to 88 a ton. Missing Linka. 1 Thkrk are 300 newspapers published in Fleet street, London, eleven of which, are dailies. In the year 1033 a tulip bulb was sold In Holland for 83,300: it weighed but 200 * grains.—St, Louis Republic. Pin Hook, Hog Eye, Rubber Neck and Hole-ln-the-Ground are names of a few of the postoffices In Missouri. > Thn ruins of Bluebeard’s castle are said to still remain in a lonely mountain road near Interlaken, Switzerland. Coal soot is believed, to be the cause of the decline and death of the magnificent shade trees at Cleveland, Ohio. Whkn we remember that our words may influence people for eternity we ought to be very careful how we speak. A tkmpk/atuuk of 390 degrees below zero has been produced by a bath of car- " bon bi sulphide and liquid nitrous acid. 1 Lord Salisbury has made twenty-one new peers since he has been in office, besides raising the rank of several more. A wild goose killed In California had a grain of wheat in Its crop which, when planted, produced a variety hitherto unknown. Clkar summer sunlight is said to pen-, etrate the Mediterranean Sea to a depth of 1,300 feet; winter sunlight to only 600 feet. A cubic foot of new-fallen snow weighs five and a half pounds, and has twelve times the bulk of an equal weight of water. A Kansas man has been compelled to pay a lino of 860 for kluslng the hand of ygjuj.l u, wh. » tt. >

THE WAT THINGS RUN IN THE GREATEST OF GRSAT STATES, INDIANA. Thluse Whleh Have Lately Happened Within Ite Border*— Some Pleasant and •cbm Sa* Bendins, A Mnn’e Heroic Effbrte to Snve Hie Honm WIU Coot Hie Life. Fire occurred fourteen miles above Evansville, in which John Leunert, one of the most prosperous farmers of Warrick County, lost his dwelling and all outbuildings ana contents, besides sustaining injuries which will end in his death. Upon his arising he found bis barn m flames, and running out attempted to save the horses. Going into the barn he unfastened the animals, but on turning to leave found himself surrounded by flames. His only chance was to rush through the fire, which he did and was terribly burned about the head, neck and arms. After getting out of the way of the burning barn he fell to the ground unconscious. He is reported in a serious condition, and his physician does not think he can recover. He has lost the sight in both his eyes from the effects of the flames. The loss is estimated at 810,000; no insurance. Minor State Item*. Jamestown will drill for gas again. The postofflee at Delta has been discontinued. A camp of the P. O. S. of. A. will be instituted at Darlington. The Rockville City Council has passed a saloon-screen ordinance. Princeton has a new fire-bell, and It is rung on the slightest provocation. Rebecca L. McGlade, aged 70 years, died suddenly of heart disease at Vienna. The Injury which John Walda. of Lafayette, received in falling from a chimney, has resulted in paralysis. Chief Merker, of New Albany, has recovered from the supposedly fatal burns received at a fire some time ago. Jesse Stegner, who separated from his wife and was living near Pierceton, committed suicide by cutting his throat. An insane woman can be seer, every day sitting on the court house steps at Evansville. She says she is waiting to seea man hung. League Park at Fort Wayne is being made into a skating rink. The only thing needed now is for Mr. Frost to put on the finishing touches. William Wehl, C. & I. C. brakeman, was completely cut in two by the cars at Rob Roy, having fallen from the top of a freight train. Judge Mack, Terre Haute, is suing the Spencer Optical Company of New York. He claims they are infringing on a patent opera-glass of his. Joseph Lewis, while unloading timber on the railroad near Montpelier, was fatally hurt by his horses running awav, the wagon running: over him. Red foxes are so bold around Seymour that they enter the town and rob henroosts. One was killed that measured forty-two inches from tip to tip. Thirteen-year-oi.d Martin Peterson, of Elkhart, had both arms cut off above Mie el'oows. while jumping from a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train. He will probably live. A barn belonging to Robert Hungate, of Lewis Township, Clay County, waa tiurned. All the contents of the barn and a fine horse were consumed. Loss, $700; no insurance. Burglars entered the postoffice at Xenia, twelve miles west of Marion, and blew open the sate, but were frightened away before obtaining anything of value. The safe was ruined. The large barn of Frederick Reutzel, together with two stables belonging to other Peru citizens, burned. A fine horse belonging to William Rodeclar perished. The loss will reach 81,000; no insurance. A 16-year-old son of Daniel Smith, of Alamo, A(gntgomery County, by the accidental discharge of a shotgun, had his lower Up and the yoof of his mouth destroyed, the load lodging back of his nose. He may recover if inflammation does not set in. Some two months ago Thomas Hopklus, of Evansville, was bitten through the hand by a rat, and little attention was paid to the Injury until it had become thoroughly inflamed. Nothing then could be done, blood-poisoning set In and his death followed. An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up the dam at Tioga, one mile south of Monticello. Dynamite was used, and large timbers were blown 700 feet. The dam belongs to Bradner, Smith & Co., paper-makers, of Chicago, and the mill property adjacent has been idle for some time. The supposition is that It waa done by parties awav up the river, who claim that the fish cannot get up. Mr. E. Horn, a jeweler of Evansville, was robbed of a tray of fine gold watches and several diamond rings. The thief called and asked to be shown some watches. After a careful examination of the timepieces he took his departure, saying he would return to make a purchase In the evening. According to promise he called and was looking at the tray of watches, which also contained several diamond rings, and while Mr. Horn waa waiting upon a customer in the other end of the stere the stranger deliberately picked up the tray of watches and diamonds and disappeared. Ex-Auditor James C. Lavklle and his accomplice, Burr Hawes, who are charged with assisting in the burning of the Court House, at Washington, appeared in court and asked that their arson case be taken from the county on a change of venue. They allege that public sentiment is so strong against them that it will be impossible to get a fair hearing. The case was accordingly venued to Pike County, and it will bo tried the second week in November. The work of investigation of Lavelle’s Books Is new In progress, but the results are secretly kept by the experts. Otto Bechtel. Laporte, pulled* his gun out of the buggy, muzzle toward him. It was discharged and Bechtel would have been killed had not a pack of cards in his pocket received the shot. W. M. Brenton, a popular young newspaper man, late of the Peru Evening Journal, has purchased of Isaac T. Brown, a one-half interest In the Columabus Evening Republican, for 850& The paper waa established by Isaac T. Brown twenty years ago, and he has conducted It ever since. It is the Intention of the jew owners to enlarge and otherwise improve the paper, the plant being one of the beat In the State. Isaac Lucas, while loading hia revolver, accidentally discharged it, the ball plowing Its way through his left leg. II will leave him a cripple for Hie. Patents have been granted Hoosier Inventors as follows; Charles N. Cooke, of Wheatland* railway car; Franklin 0. Fry, of Richmond, roll grinding-machine; Pefer M. Fudge, automatic gate; William 3. Henning, of Waterloo, Are escape; Horace Hogendoubler, of Winchester, cigar moistening device; William B. Llghty, of Monticello, neecHe-threader; John F. Mains, assignor of three-fourths : to B Carr, H. M. LaFollette and E. L Robison, ot Indianapolis, fuel-gas-burner; David Stntsraan, of Llgonlei, submergedbeater.

CURRENT COMMENT. Chili Sauce. Chill is a country we can lick, and we don’t take any Insulting remarks from her.—Kansas City Journal Unless prompt reparation Is made Chill may discover her mistake only when it Is too late.—Boston Traveller. Chili can hardly refuse to recognize the extent of the grievance or the justice of the demand.—New York Herald. Chill is respectfully informed that the pastime of stabbing defenseless Americans cannot proceed unrebuked. —Troy Times. If Chill should get into a brash with the United States she will (ose something more than her nitrate beds.—South Bend Tribune. It Is for the Chilians to decide as to the next step. Full apology and ample reparation will remove every difficulty. —New York Press. If the United States had a stronger navy the insults to the flag by Chili would not have been perpetrated.—StLouis Globe-Democrat. Every patriotic citizen, of whatever party school, will heartily sustain the administration In demanding reparation from Chill.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Chill may yet have to be chastised by the United States. This bumptious little country is getting too big for its clothes. —St Louis Glube-Dcmocrat Now that tho wrong has boon suffered, all parties here will agree that the Washingtor authorities shall firmly insist upon reparation and at any cost— Montgomery Advertiser. The United States In is In duty bound to show the smallest or tho greatest power in tho Western Hemisphere that it will not submit to insult or be trifled with.—Minneapolis Journal Uncle Sam is spoiling for a fight with Chill. Uncle Sam might have had a row with England several mouths ago, but preferred to refer the dispute to the diplomats. But, then, England Is a bigger man than Chili.—Kansas City Star. Chili should be compel'ed to apologize, of course, for the maltreatment of our Bailors, and reparation should be made to the relatives of those murdered, but this great nation can afford to be patient and considerate until the new government is fairly organized.—Omaha Bee. Indicted Beauregard. General Beaure?ard says he has nothing to do with the La. S. L.; nothing, that is, except “superintend drawings." The General draws it pretty fine.— Wheeling Register General Beauregard’s Indictment and arrest for aiding and abetting tho violation of the laws against lotteries is logical and praiseworthy.—New York Commercial Advertiser. General Beauregard still keeps up his lottery connection, and now a warrant is out chai ging him and other officials with violating the postal laws.—Brook--1 lyn Times. General Beauregard can see “no Impropriety, much less a crime,” in the Louisiana lottery, because it is “a recognized institution of the State, upheld by its laws and conducted by the first citizens of New Orleans. ” The General appears to regard State laws as superb r, not only to national ones, but to the moral law as well —Philadelphia Inquirer. With a swelling air he proclaims that his duties were ouly to see that the drawings were fair, and he threatens to make It warm for those who testified against him. Beauregard may talk big, but he will have difficulty in convincing anybody tnat he hasn’t been acting as a stool-pigeon for the greatest swindle of modern titaes.—Lafayette Journal. Starving Russia. Recent rains in Southern Russia make the prospects there g< od for crops next year. But how to live until then is the painful question with the people of that vast section. —Detroit Tribune. Poor Russia! If she can survive her present woes without a revolt that will overthrow her despotic throne, who shall say that there is a limit to human endurance?—Kansas City Times. • The generosity of the Czar of Russia in donating 1,500,000 rabies for the relief of the starving Russian peasantry naturally provokes the question where the money came from.—»Piltsburg Dispatch. y With 30,000,000 Russians beginning a course of starvation, the French loan of 8100,000,0 0 might be turned to better account In buying food from us tbaM rifles from the lender.— York Advertiser. With 20,000,000 of people starving, Russia should stop talking of war and try to buy food for the sufferers. This country has plenty to spare, and the Czar has revenues that can be devoted to the humane work.—Kansas City Journal. Women in the Pulpit. Women win men to pretty much everything else Why shouldn’t they win them, to faith and goodne s.—New York World. The Methodist Council seems, on the whole, to look favorably on the plan of allowing women to preach. But If the ladies get into the pulpit what will be about the average length of the Sunday sermon?—Louisville Commercial. Now that all the preachers are men, the proportion of women in their congregations is overwhelming. If the women take the pulpit will the men , take the pew? Il won d be a goodly sight to see all our young men attending 1 church on a Sunday —Louisville Foot. The Methodist Council at Washington ' is out of date in looking to St. Paul to afford data for* settling the right of women to equal church privileges, including the pulpit. Paul may have been right tn his time, but the women of today are not the kind he knew and disliked.—St. Paul Globe. Will Write a Book. Considering the part that Mrs. Parnell had In the division of the Irish party, her proposal to write a book does not seem tn the interests of harmony.— Detroit Free Press, It looks very much as If we were tn for a hard winter. The weather prophets threaten us with a number of killing bllozards, and besides this comes the announcement that Mrs. C. S. Part e l la going te publish a book giving her side of the celebrated O’Shea divorce case.— Cincinnati Enquirer. If the cable announcement be true that Mrs. Parnell Intends te write a memoir of her husband, the late "uncrowned king,” and in It explain many things which are now distorted or mlouudersteod, the volume may prove to bo one of the Important books of. th* dying century.—New York Recorder. The Open Switch. The open switch la filling th* office of tho deadly car atove during the latter’* ’ vacation —Topeka Capital A system of track patrolling by tealned men to look after all ouch defects would of course prevent all aecMeut.—€olumbus Journal. If ever lynch law io excusable It to when applied to the men who deliberately wrecks a railroad train. —Philadal- ‘ -*V

■OM*ARDINO Tl** SKIM. Tllßl IdOOIM 141 m fIUMOOS SW' the Hataasakers, A report from Canip Edward, Tex., saya the rainmakers scored a great success by their last experiment, bringing a heavy rainfall in the face of wbat they considered to be tho most adverse conditions possible. The result was all the more gratifying tethem, as up to the night before they bad only scceeded in causing a heavy dew after having kept up heavy firing for nearly forty-eight hours. The dew was described as the heaviest, ever seen in that part of the United States, but it was not rain, and the experiments of the next day were undertaken with a conviction that if rain did not follow the attempt to obtain rain by means of a Government appropriation would come to for this year, if not for all time. The rain did not fall till some four hours after the crowd had gone home with the idea that the thing was a failure. Then it rained for nearly an hour, at the end of which time the pluviometer showed that half an inch in depth had fallen. Telegrams received subsequently showed that It had rained over on area extending about 40 miles to the northwest, 108 miles te west, 30 to the southwest, and 10 to 16 miles to the west and south. It is stated that just before the firing began the hygrometer showed but 63 per cent, of (the) moisture (required for saturation), and that at midnight it showed 96 per cent. This is a most important scientific fact, if it be one, and undoubtedly will furnish the material for much discussion in scientific circles. The rain that fell waa estimated to be worth at least $500,000, the total cost of the effort being about $2,500, or only half ot 1 per cent. This must be admitted to be “cheap enough,” provided the people are satisfied that the rain would not have visited that section but for the expenditure. If these rain kings bad failed in their latest bombardments of the skies the plea for more money with which to conduct similar experiments next year would have been disregarded by the coming Congress. The application, if made at all, would have been treated with so much ridicule as to kill off any hope for Government aid in that direction in the future. But with the experience of ’Sunday morning to encourage them the rainmakers or their friends will go before Congress confidently, and backed by so much ot popular enthusiasm in the arid or semi-arid regions that the request will hardly be refused. They will ask for a further appropriation sufficiently large to enabxe them to determine beyond all question whether the artificial causation of rain is economically feasible or not. If this be granted they will then undertake the work on a more comprehensive plan, probably working at several different points simultaneously or in quick succession, so as to eliminate some of the objections raised to* the effect that the occurrence of rain is merely coincident with the process of bombardment, and not a consequence of it. Should they succeed they wifi have begun one of the greatest economic revolutions known in history. Some people may still doubt that the bombarders brought down the half-inch depth of rain by their noisemaking racket in view of a dispatch which was published a few days prior to the bombardment: The telegram from San Diego,Tex., said thafGep. Dyrenforth’s intended rainmaking experiment at that place has been postponed from day to day for two weeks on account of the weather. “The party arrived,” it is said, “in the midst of a series of rain-storms, and waited for fair weather before operating, but the rains have been followed by a cold norther, which has prevented further work.” It is a great pity that the party did not arrive a few days earlier. There, is the best reason for believing that if ithey had been more prompt their labors would have been crowned with success. But the coining of the storm just before the rainmakers were ready to begin has deprived them of a glorious opportunity. May not the rainfall ascribed to the cannonading have been produced by natural means, the same as the rainstorm "which caused the postponement of the experiment? Fuck Man’s SbtjinrleneK, Each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured as the life of a man is not to his imagination. Each man sees over hia own experience a certain slime of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal. Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life, which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he wiU shrink and shrink, "Alas! I know I not why, but infinite compunctions 1 embitter all the remembrances at budding sentiment and cover every boI loved name. Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of intellect or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. Details are always melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble. It is strange how painful is the actual world—the painful kingdom of time and^-place. Ttiere dwell care and eanker and fear. With thought,wlth the ideal is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Hound it all the muse* sing. But with names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday is grtel. Otaatii at Fraysr, Said’Squire James, of the Probate Oourt, speaking of the late Junius Bratus Booth, of which illustrious tragedian the 'Squire was an intimate friend: “I heard Booth speak the Lord’s Prayer in the Masonic Lodge room in New York twenty-flye years ago, and the effect I have not forgotten yet. There were about three hundred members in the hall, and, a* the pathetic yet simple word* rolled out, the effect of the melodiou* volse of the great tragedian, together with the marvelou* intonation and noble pathos given to the sublime prayer, made itself felt upon all, and when the ’Amen' waa spoken strong men wept. I have never heard the Lord's prayer since then. I have heard perhaprMttty membora speak the words, but noH|ke Booth spoke them.’’—Cincinnati Ehquiror. Bur* Tanre^ManMmot.