Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1892 — Page 6

®he democrat DKCATL'R, IND. y, ynAonimN, • • ’ Praiamn. 1892 1892 Su Mo Tu We ITh Fr Sa 99•1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 • • * * *I * '* * * FROM HILL AND DALE, AND EVERY NOOK OF EARTH THIS NEWS WAS GLEANED, Scenes of Suffering and Devastation Caused by Fire and Flood-Terrible and Fatal Exploslon—lndia at the World’s FairCowboys Found Hanging. OH. CITY HORROR. Strong Men Shudder and Tender Women Weep. A special from Oil City, Pa., dated the 7th Inst, says: Only with daylight was It possible to compute any estimate or obtain particulars of the property destroyed by the late; disaster, caused by the dam breaking. A conservative estimate of the amount destroyed and damage in and around Oil City places the figure at $562,000. The scenes and incidents and the earnest efforts of the relief committees, together with the general air of gloom which prevails everywhere, bear a stirring resemblance io the scenes witnessed at Johnstown the week following the great disaster. Mayor Hunt is in receipt of telegraph messages from almost every section of the United States. The western New York and Pennsylvania Company and officials have given $1,500. Farrar &Treftsof Buffalo, $440, and Paterson & Jones of Pittsburgh, S3OO for the relief of the •offerers. There were several small washouts at various points and the trestle is gone at Centerville. The city is crowded with strangers to-day and every train brings more. From all neighboring towns come hoards ot curiosity seekers and the guards of Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, are most powerless to keep back crowds from ruined parts of the city where hundreds of workmen, and every available team and wagon have been pressed into service, clearing away the ruins and removing the bodies of the dead. - A large three-story building on Seneca street has been converted into a hospital, where the injured and dying are being cared for. Children and women lie on cots screaming in agony, kind and tender-hearted women weep by the side of the cots, so sad is the scene. Everything possible is being done for their relief. Miss Sarah Love, a trained nurse from Pittsburgh, has been placed in charge, and under her directions the sufferers are being cared for in the best possible manner. t A Horrible Find. Buffalo (Wyo.) special: A party ot cattlemen who were preparing tor a round-up when the injunction of the Judge was served upon them, have returned to this town and report the finding of a relic of the recent war between cattlemen and rustlers in the shape of four human bodies swinging to the limb of a tree. The bodies had evidently been hanging for several weeks and were dried and shriveled to such an extent that it was impossible to tell who they were They were dressed in the regular cowboy style. An investigation has been made to find who were missing. Troops Called to Quell a Strike. The trammers strike at Osceola mine near Red Jacket, Mich., is still on. Governor Winans issued orders to the state troops to quell the disturbances. The strikers have many sympathizers. They will allow no work to be done except the running of pumps. Miners will not go down in the mine unless they are offered protection. The sheriff is on the scene and will call armed forces whe n necessary. Many strikers are drunk and an outbreak is feared. Terrible and Fatal Explosion. The boiler in Kinzie ft Shell’s sawmill. three miles Sduth of Idaville, in Carroll County, Indiana, exploded with terrible fatal results. David Taylor and James Cochell were instantly killed and Bert Roller died of his injuries within an hour. Gdorge Williams had an arm torn away and his bowels penetrated by a piece of boiler. He died in a few hours. All were married. The concussion was terrible and the mill was completely demolished. India at the World’s Fair. London special: A strong disposition has been evinced by India to have her products and manufactures exhibited at the World’s Fair at Chicago, and the Government will be asked, on the reassembling of parliament, whether the Indian Government is prepared to make the necessary grant to enable the business men of that country to send their goods. Murdered for Money. An old veteran at the Dayton Soldier's Homo, named Nicholas Doolen, was hit on the head with a stone and killed. The veteran was at the south gate, and it is supposed that some one followed him from Dayton, or .from some of the West Side dives, for the purpose of robbery. At any rate a deep gash was found in his skull, and his pockets rifled. Wife Murderer Hanged. Edward McMillan, the wife murderer, was hanged in the jail yard at Wilkesbarre. Pa. His neck was broken. He killed his wife while drunk on Feb. 20, 1891. Another Levee Breaks. Under the pressure of extreme high water, the levee protecting the Hunt drainage district below Warsaw, HL, broke, flooding thousands of acres of rich farming lands and causing great destruction to property. WIR Not Resign. Mr. Wharton, Acting Secretary of State, authorizes a denial that be will resign as Assistant Secretary of State July 1. Died at His Post. One of the most pathetic instances of heroic grit occurred at Decliff, a small station thirty-five miles west of Lima, Ohio, on the C. &E. C. S. Cory, the operator and agent at the above station, while attending to his duties in the yard, stepped out of the way of a. train on the main track and directly in front of a twitching engine that was backing some cars on a siding. He was run down and had his legs cut off at the thigh. The poor fellow was carried half fainting inter the telegraph office and by superhuman exercise of the power of mind over matter, notified the train dispatcher at the other end of the Wire of the accident that had befallen

him. He fainted as soon as he had ticked out the fatal words and died within an hour. Cory was a married man, about thirty-eight, and loaves a wife and two children to mourn their loss. FLOATING FLAMES. Another Johnstown Horror at Titusville, Pennsylvania. A special from Titusville, Pa., dated the 6th Inst, says: Titusville is the victim of fire and flood and a great part of the business and residence portion lies In ruins. Many lives have been losthow many, God alone knows The blow fell while the inhabitants were sleeping in their beds all unmindful of the death angel hovering above them. About 2 o’clock a. m. the old dam at Spartlnsburg, seven miles above the city, gave way, and an immense, roaring, surging flood camo tearing down the valley leaving death and disaster in its wake. Houses were lifted from their foundations, and borne away upon the bosom of the flood like toys, tossed hither and thither at the mercy of the waves. In one dread moment death camo to—how many, no one can tell. A number of' large oil refineries located in the track of the flood wore wrecked and explosion after explosion followed the advent of the waters. These explosions cast adrift millions of barrels of oil, naptha- and benzine, which soon spread on the bosom of the waters, and the sea of water soon became a sea of flames. The flames commenced with everything in its track and soon the buildinirs, business houses and residences alike were in flames and the occupants, many ot them, were burned to death without waking up. No one can estimate the number of dead or the amount of property destroyed, for all is confusion and excitement, but at this writing thirty-seven bodies have been taken out and the number of dead will probably exceed double that number. THE FLOOD LOSSES Will Reach th© Enormous Figure of 950,000,000. St Louis special: Now that the great flood has about passed away in the South, the following estimate is made of the losses occasioned by the high water, a loss unprecedented in the history of floods: Missouri —Wheat and corn destroyed, 500,000 acres, $10,000,000; homes ruined, $1,000,000; cattle drowned, §50,000; railroad property destroyed, $150,000. Total, $11,000,000. • • Tennessee—Cotton loss, $600,000; wheat loss, $1,200,000; homes and cattle, SIOO,OOO. Total, $1,900,000. Kentucky—Loss, $200,000. Arkansas —Farms inundated, 9,338 acres; loss as follows; Corn, $2,500,000; cotton, $5,000,000; other products, $2,500,000; total, $10,000,000. Mississippi—Loss, $10,000,000. Louisiana—Loss, $5,000,000. Total loss —$38,000,000. This estimate docs net include the stagnation in business among the merchants and transportation lines. A conservative estimate of the amount of damage caused by the loss froin®the high waters from Kansas City to New Orleans will reach the enormous figure of $50,000,000. • Propellers Collide. Detroit special: A disastrous river collision occurred off Wyandotte. The propeller Progress of Milwaukee, coal laden, bound up, collided with the propeller Britton of Rockport, and the Progress was sunk in twenty-five feet of water, disappearing in less than three minutes. Captain Sullivan and the crew of sixteen men were saved and were brought to .Detroit. Neither the captain nor crewavoutd talk about the accident. The Britton was badly damaged and was towed to Detroit The Progress was a 1,300 ton vessel valued at $87,000. Her cargo was worth $5,000. She is owned by the Milwaukee Transportation - Company. The Britton belongs to the same company, is a 1,800 ton vessel and is valued at $200,000. She carried a cargo of iron ore. Th© Tornado’s Terrible Work. Harper (Kan.) special: Reports are now coming in from districts lying away from the railroad and telegraph wires, which were supposed to have escaped from the ravages of the cyclone last week, and it is learned that great damage was done to wheat crops all over this part of the State. While it was generally supposed that there would be 100,000 acres of wheat in this county, it is now estimated that fully 15,000 acres have been destroyed by the storm. The appeal for aid sent ont by the Mayor is already meeting with responses from the charitably inclined, and several hundred dollars have been received. The loss at this place is estimated at $200,000, many people losing everything they possessed, even to their wearing apparel, and are utterly destitute. A Jewelry Store Blown Up. An explosion of dynamite occurred at Kensington, Pa., in the house of J. K. Turner, a jeweler. Two persons w’ere killed instantly. They are J. K. Turner, jeweler, and Miss Emma Scheffer of Emlenton, Pa. The wife and two children of Turner were badly injured. That the house was blown up deliberately seems certain, as Mr. Turner was never known to have dynamite in his dwelling or store. The explosion was of great force, breaking windows and doors at some distance. A posse has been organized, and is now endeavoring to find some clew to the fiend who caused the explosion. Mrs. Harrison Very IH. A special from Washington says the many friends of Mrs. Harrison are alarmed at the report that she has grown worse within the last few days. The report proves to be true, but it is not believed that Mrs. Harrison is in any immediate danger. There is no doubt that she is extremely ill—so ill, in fact, that it has been deemed unwise to attempt to remove her to the Cape May Cottage. It has been found necessary in order that Mrs. Harrison should have absolutequiet to order the Marine Band, which has for years played in the White House grounds, to play hereafter in Lafayette park. Terrible Tragedy. A terrible tragedy, resulting tin three deaths, occurred at Benton, Mo. A farmer named Taylor, who suspected a neighbor nathed Foster of undue intimacy with his wife, met him and shot him dead, afterwards beating his head to a telly. Mrs. Taylor witnessed the shooting and ran for assistance. Taylor followed and shot her through the head. He then returned to the body of his first victim and shot himself, dying almost Immediately. Crazy Amanda Barham Brains Her Aged Husband. Belford Barham, an old colored man 80 years old, was murdered In Northampton County, North Carolina, by his wife Amanda, also 80 years of age. Amanda is crazy, bnt was considered harmless. She beat the old man’s brains out with a hatchet; They had lived as man and wife for fifty-six years, and have grandchildren and great grandchildren. A Falling Wall. A falling wall at Chicago killed Eddie Clancey, aged 13, and fatally injured Fred Slicht, aged 12. Henry Grossman, I one.of their companions, is supposed to ’ have been buried in the debris and two

of a gang pt workmen are missing. The wall was part of the building being demolished by the Brand Brewing Company to make way for a new structure. A LceherouH Unite. Otis Brown, a married man with a grown-up family, was arrested at Richmond, Ind., on the charge of having attempted to commit an outrage upon Maggie Decker, the 10-year-old daughter of William Decker. Ho was hold to answer to the Circuit Court in $2,000. He Is a prominent member of the Friends Church and the janitor at Temperance Hall. It is alleged that on the evening of May 23, at a children’s meeting at the hall, Brown accompanied Miss Decker to the basement of the hall to get her a drink of water, and while there attempted the assault One Hundred Bodies Found. Vienna special: One hundred bodies have been recovered from the pit of death at Przibram. It is believed that not less than 100 are still in the mine and there Is no hope that even one is alive. Even if some of the imprisoned miiiers had survived the fire it was certain that the smoke and heat must have smothered them. The rescuing party remained at work all night by the light of torches, while hundreds of the relatives of the victims remained camped around the mouth of the mine, hoping against hope that their friends might bo brought up alive. An Indiana Convict’s Hani Luck. John Perry, who had just completed his term in the Indiana Penitentiary, was rearrested and taken to Springfield, Ohio, to answer to the charge of horse stealing. He stole a horse four years ago near South Charleston, was captured and jailed in Wilmington, but broke out He went through the State stealing one horse after another and avoided arrest for a long time, but was finally captured and convicted in Indiana. Strangled by Snuff*. After a severe storm at Cadiz, Ohio, a 7-year-old colored lad, son of Henry Thomas, was discovered in an out-build-ing dead. The Coroner found ho had been choked to death from snuff, which it is likely be had in his mouth when a sudden peal of thunder caused him to draw it in his wind-pipe, strangling him. Jumped on a Nail and Has the Locked-Jaw. Albert Spears, a laborer of South Charleston. Ohio, met with a serious accident while in the country shearing sheep, on the farm, of Chase Colvin. He jumped from the hay mow on a rusty nail that ran through his foot, making a serious if not fatal wound, as he is now threatened with locked-jaw. Increase in the Circulation. According to a statement prepared ai the Treasury Department there was a net increase of $9,437,985 in circulation during the month of May, and a net increase of $7,910,008 in moneyand bullion in the Treasury during the same period. Chines© Doctor. Don Sang, a wealthy Chinese physician, and the only Mongolian practitioner in Indiana, has located at Crown Point He is married, has a large family of youthful Celestials and is reported to be immensely wealthy. Switzerland Is All Right. Berne special: The Federal Council here has accepted the invitation of the monetary conference on condition that the other States of the Latin union also accept A Bad Wreck. There has been a serious wreck on the Delaware & Hudson Canal Railroad near Hydeville, Vt Conductor Wood is fatally injured and about twenty others hurt ’ He Engineered a Rebel Ram. John W. Tynan, engineer on the Confederate ram Merrimac, in the famous battle with the Monitor in Hampton Roads in 1862, is dying at Savannah, Ga. • Gambling Houses Wide Open. JThe Mayor of dtnaha has signed the ordinance licensing gambling bouses and everything in that line is running wide open as in the pioneer'days. Big Fire at Jlintown. Nearly every building in Jimtown, Col., the main part of Creede camp, was destroyed by fire. The loss, carefully estimated, will be about a million dollars; insurance about $200,000. Squirrel. Came High. Edward Knecht was sent to jail at Tiffin, Ohio, to serve a thirty day’s sentence and pay a fine of $25 for killing squirrels out of season. New Jersey Lynching. A negro named Jim Jackson, who committed a rape on a young girl, was hanged in the public streets of. Port Jarvis, N. J. Blaine Resign*. James G. Blaine has resigned as Secretary of State and his resignation was promptly accepted by President Harrison. a Three Persons Smothered. During a fire in a saloon at Montreal, three persons, Mr. and Mrs. Robert and a Miss Mcßride, were smothered to death. Prominent Railroad Officer Drowned. C. G. Wilson, Superintendent of the lowa division of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, was drowned at Albia, lowa. THE MARKETS, CHICAGO. 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: TO THE patriot dead. STATUES OF HEROES IN MARBLE AND BRONZE. A Weak Made Memorable by the Unrolling of Many Monuments -••High-Watar- , Mark** Memorial Services at Gettysburg —People of Prominence Present. Shafts to Their Memory. ‘ Time is lending Its halo as the years in - crease the perspective of those tboubJ lous time*, times when “troops of heroes undistinguished died,” and we of a later generation are arising more and more to that worship, ever the incentive to a fresh love of country, which a later generation showed for Washington, for Wellington, for Blueher, or in the dimmer past for an Arnold Winkelrled, On

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Decoration Day three monuments of especial note were unveiled, and later in the week another was dedicated on the field of the battle of Gettysburg. All of these unveilings this year were made occasions of note, occasions for the outpouring of a younger generation’s gratitude and appreciation. At 'Richmond the men who fought under Gen. A. P. Hill revealed the marble presentment of the Southern hero to the public eye. At Lenox, Mass., the statue of a revolutionary hero, Gen. Paterson, was unveiled, and at Rochester the denizens of that entire section of the State listened to what the orators of the day said in praise of the soldiers who fell in the civil war. Then came the capstone of the week’s events, the dedication of the “High-Water Mark" monument at Gettysburg on the very spot where Hall’s and Harrow’s brigade attacked Longstreet’s column on July 3, 1863. The Rochester Monument. The monument at Rochester is splendidly designed and is the outcome of a movement started nearly twenty years ago by citizens of that place. It is nearly forty-three feet in height, with a ground base twenty-two feet square. The base the monument rises abouteleven feet above this and the shaft is a magnificent piece of solid granite about ten feet in height At the four comers of the base are bronze figures emblematic of the four departments of the service—the cavalry, the artillery, the infantry and the navy. These are of heroic size. The sides of the monument bear appropriate bas-reliefs. Hill Monument, Richmond. At Richmond, the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the Gen. A. P. Hill = I ;

UNVEILED AT RICHMOND.

monument took on toe nature of a State jelebration. Col. W. H. Palmer, Gen. Harry Heth, and other officers under Hill raised the fund for this marble and Bronze embodiment, and .they took a prominent part in toe services. Gen. James A. Walker, of Wytheville, Va., was the orator of the day, and General Harry Heth the Chief Marshal. The widow and two daughters of Gen. Hill attended the unveiling. The Governor and staff had seats ot honor. At the unveiling all the civic organizations of toe county took part. Among the noted guests were Secretary of War Elkins' and Frederick Douglass. At Gettysburg. “High-Water Mark" Monument re- ! ceives its name from the old copse of scrub-oak trees on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, where the Confederate army began its retreat on that fateful July 3. It was the “high-water mark” of the rebellion, and from the moment that Longstreet fell back dates the decline of the Confederate cause. The Monument Association has inclosed the copse of trees with a high Iron fence to i protect it from relic-hunters. The

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monument stands on the east side of the copse and was erected by the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virglanla, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. Troops from all of these States fought and repulsed the famous assault. An open bronze book surmpunte toe monument. It weighs 1,272 pounds and ie supported by a pyramid of cannon balls. The left page bears a legend describing the aslault and that on the right tells of too

repulse. The whole rests on a highly ppliehed plinth and base of Maine ana Maasaohusetts granite with a massive water table of Gettysburg granito. The. dedication services excelled In interest any that have yet taken place on the famous battle-field. Ths Huokley Gift Uncovered. * At Muskegon, Mich., the soldiers* monument erected by Charles H. Hackley was unveiled and the entire city turned out in honor of the event. The monument is sevodty-flve feet high and of pink Rhode Island granite. It rests on a base of several steps, the lower one thirty-four feet square. Upon the four corners of the pedestal are placed bronze figures, each seven feet six inches in height, representing respectively privates in the navy, artillery, infantry, and cavalry service. The shaft is surmounted by a bronze figure of victory holding aloft a flag, the figure fourteen feet In height. Unveiled at Farmington. Amid the music of two bands and a large chorus of voices, the eloquence of native orators, and the plaudits of the people, the fine soldiers' monument was unveiled at Farmington, 111., in the presence of soldiers, sons of veterans, and citiaens from a l the ccuntry around. Farmington, the first town in I ulton County to respond to the call to arms in 1861, was, in 1892, the first to testify its regaid for the defenders of the Union. The monument was presented to the soldiers by Mayor Brown on behalf of the citizens, and was dedicated by the local Grand Army post. la Memory ot Paterson. To Dr. Thomas Egloston is duo most of the credit for the splendid monument which was dedicated at Lenox in memory of Gen. John Paterson. He is a grandson of that revolutionary hero and, together with other members of his family, has secured the erection of a fitting monument in the hbart of Lenox and near the spot where the hero once resided. The bronze presentment of the General stands upon a granite shaft on which is engraved the story of his active life, of his school-days at Yale, his work in the Provincial Congress of 1774 and 177 S and of his quick response to the call to arms after the battle of Lexington. It tells that fee crossed the Delaware with Washington, narrowly escaping death at Saratoga, and was

wJL MONUMENT AT LENOX, MASS.

prominent in toe council of Monmouth in 1778. ' Sending Flowers by Telegraph. A novel and very remarkable Industry has recently been started in New York. It is intended for the convenience of persons who have friends in other cities in this country or abroad to whom they may desire to pay polite attentions. Suppose that a lady of your acquaintance is at present in Vienna and you wish to send her a bouquet. It is very easily managed. You drop into a certain florist’s on Broadway and pick out flowers suitable for your posy. Within twb hours the bouquet you have selected is delivered to the intended recipient. The florist has an agent or correspondent In Vienna to whom he cables the order, stating the number of flowers of each kind, etc., and the name of the giver is written on a card :and attached to the bunch of blossoms before it is conveyed to the address indicated. It is the with other cities in Europe and America. If your lady love is in San Francisco you can send her a bunch of violets or a bouquet of roses by wire, as it were, within a few minutes. A Furious Snake. An intelligent Burman told me that a friend of his one day stumbled upon a nest of serpents and immediately retreated, but the old female gave chase. The man fled with all speed over hill and dale, dingle and glade, and terror seamed to add wings to his flight, till reaching a small river he plunged in, hoping he had then escaped this fiery enemy; but 10l on reaching the opposite bank, up reared the furious Hamadryad, its dilated eyes glistening with rage, ready to bury its fangs in his trembling body. In utter despair he bethought himself of his turban, and in a moment dashed it upon the serpent, which darted upon it like lightning, and for home moments wreaked its vengeance in furious bites, after which it returned quietly to its former haunts.—Letter from India. Matching Teeth. Perhaps the greatest difficulty that dentists meet with is the matching of false teeth with the natural teeth of their customers. The tooth factories supply dentists with rings upon which are strung thin, short metal bars, each carrying a tooth at its extremity. There are twenty-five, of these sample teeth, that run all the way from nearly white to a shade that is almost olive. Some one ot the twenty five usually almost matches the patient’s natural teeth, and, at any rate, enables the dentist to match the teeth by application at the factory. A Sugar-Beet Growers. Richard Gird is probably the largest individual grower of sugar beets in the world. He has 50,000 acres of ground surrounding Chino, Oal., and this year will have 4,000 acres of it in beets. He is under contract to raise all the beets that Are required for the beet-sugar factory at Chino. His contract requires him to raise 5,000 acres of beets next year, and the same average following year. IT is a mistake to give a glass of lime water and milk soon after or before an Invalid takes a dose of calomel. The action of lime water changes the charac-, ter of calomel. It doesn’t make a lie any whiter to put it on a tombstone.

JUST GLANCE OVER THIS AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATI‘ INDIANA NEWS. A Catalorns of th. Wo«k*s Important Ooourranooo Throughout the Stale— Fires. Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Kto Minor a<nt« Items. Huntington haa free mail delivery. Unknown man killed by cars, near Elkhart The Lutherans will build a new church In Richmond. Mrs Daniel Tinkle, near Shoals, fell dead from her chair. Mrs. Margaret Dem’abee of Franklin, died, aged 77 years. John H. Organ, ex-Recorder of LaPorte County, died suddenly. Burglars cracked Hoberg & Root’s safe, Terre Haute. Got S3OO. Counterfeit gold dollars dated 1857 are in circulation in the state. Pet Perkins goes to the pen. one year from Marion for stealing a rooster. Young squirrels can now be shot in Indiana if the hunter is quick enough. South Wabash, recently annexed to city proper, wants to be disannexed. Litzunbergkr’b flour mills, Lafayette, burned. Loss 913,000, insurance $6,500. Columbia City wants a now grave yard. The old one is full and encumbers are coming on. Hint to those who do not read the papers; The gold brick will get you if you don’t watch out. William Wroten and Marvls Carr, near Cicero, tried to repair revolver. Went off, and Wroten will die. Archibald Cbowley, a farmer bf Warren Township, committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead. DePauw will not remove the rest of his plate glass factory from New Albany to Fairmount. Said he never thought of IL An unknown enemy attempted to assassinate Seth Copeland of Greensburg, by shooting through the window at midnight. Thomas Ludwig, a boy of South Bend, was badly injured by being caught in a revolving shaft with which be was fooling. Mrs. David McCbosky fell down stairs at her home near LaPorte and injured herself so severely that she died in a few minutes. Lafayette is soon to have another daily paper, making four In all. It will be the property of ex-Representative William Hazzard. While cutting wood in South Bend C. J. Gaskill was badly hurt Ax caught In his coat pocket and muscles of his wrist were severed. Marie Earhart, Richmond, who married Frank Fuller, a traveling man, has been granted a divorce because Fuller has another wife living. A stranger wearing aG. A. R. uniform was killed at Chesterton by being hurled from the platform of a Lake Shore train by an unknown assailant. Louis Martin who lives about seven miles northeast of Indianapolis, fell from the upper floor of the barn into a hay press and was instantly crushed to death. John Aldridge of Mount Vernon, took the gold fever In 1849 aud went to California. He has just returned home bringing the burden of nine winters with him. His wife is 73. During an electrical storm, lightning streck the barn of Michael Mosbaugh near Cicero, burning the barn and killing seven horses. Loss, $2,000; insured in the Hamilton County Mutual. Citizens are getting desperate in Crawfordsville on the Sunday closing of saloons, and demand that the council order all screens and blinds down. Preachers and business men are determined. Riley and Sanford Applegate, near Alaska, in Morgan County, were preparing for a squirrel hunt, when Riley’s gun was accidentally discharged. The ball passed through his brother’s leg above the knee. George Perdue and Andrew Russler of Cowan, near Muncie, recently found a pair of counterfeiter’s molds hidden in a hollow log in the woods six miles south of Muncie. The boys left the outfit and watched for the owners for several days, but without success. The molds were tor $lO gold coin and bore the date,lßßL They were turned cfver to Muncie officers. ’ In the eastern part of Bartholomew County the army worm, in great numbers, has made its appearance and is doing great damage to hay-fields. So numerous are these worms that In some Instances as many as ten acres of growing hay is destroyed in a day. They come from the ground, it appears. It is twenty-four years ago this season when these pests last appeared there. A peculiar bug has appeared near New Ross, and L. O. Howard, Assistant Entomologist, United Status Department of Agriculture, pronounces them as being “scutigeraforccps.” They live on cockroaches and honse-flios and are common in the South. The bug has a body from one to two Inches long, covered with eight plates, and has fifteen pairs of legs, which increase tn length from from front to rear, the hind ones being as long as tbo body. It has large, reticulated eyes, and its motions are rapid. About a month ago Shelbyville purchased the Gamewell fire-alarm system. Since then, on several different occasions, the company and citizens have been greatly annoyed by unknown parties turning in false alarms at various hours ot the night, thus bringing out tho department and the people from their beds. Finally the Coupel! passed an ordinance on the subject fixing a heavy penalty. The other night two false alarms were turned in from distant parts of the city. For this William Lane and William Moore were spotted. They were arrested and taken before Mayor Morrison, and convicted of being the guilty parties. Each were fined SIOO. While Rev. R. 8. Ingles was delivering a sermon in the First Presbyterian Church, at Crawfordsville, John thewS, a member supposed to be intoxicated, waltzed down the aisle with a boiF quet for the minister, and, giving thtee cheers, danced out again. The sermon was finished with difficulty. Charles Fassett, colored, of Muncie, has a drum major’s baton that is thirtynight inches long and consists of 38,000 layers of varl-colored glazed paper strung and tightly compressed on a steel rod. The paper is compressed so tightly that there are 1,000 layers to the Inch and tho baton weighs but three pounds. Chbistopheb Roudebubh, a young man residing in Tippecanoe County, was drowned In the Wea creek. He was on bls way to visit his affianced and finding the creek swollen out of its banks endeavored to drive across. The body was recovered, , ’ , ‘ . Some excitement in Fowler. Prof. Bowen is superintendent of the school there Jind Miss Winnie Rosebrock W teacher and boarded at Bo wen’s. Bowen l» a somnambulist, he says. Qne night Miss Rosebrock was awakened and found Bowen sitting on her bed. Sae screamed, the household was aroused, and he fled. She left the houseand next day the professor left town. He insists that be wm walking in hi» sleep.

BY FIRE AND FLOOD. DISASTER IN THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL REQIONS. fwo Hundred an a Fifty People Thought to Bo Runted to Death or Drowned— OH TsnM Pour Forth Their Destructive Contents. In Sea* or Flamo. The oil regions of Pennsylvania whre visited Sunday by a disaster from fireand water that Is only eclipsed In the history of the State by the flood of Johnstown, just three years age. A Pittsburg dispatch says: It is impossible at this time to give anything like au accurate idea of the loss of life and property, as chaos reigns throughout the devastated region aud a terrible conflagration still rages in Oil City. It Is safe to say that not less than 150 lives have been lost. Nearly one hundred bodies have already been recovered and many people are still missing. The number may far exceed 150, but this ie regarded as a conservative estimate. The property loss will reach far into millions. At Titusville the loss is estimated at $1,500,000; Oil City, $1,500,000; Corry, $60,000; Meadville, $150,NO, and surrounding country probably a million more. For nearly a month it has been raining throughout Western and Northern Pennsylvania almost incessantly, and for the last three or four days the downpour in the devastated regions had been very heavy. The constant rains had converted all the small streams Into raging torrents, so that . when tho cloudburst came Sunday morning the streams were soon beyond their boundaries, and the great body of whter came sweeping down Oil Creek to Titusville, which is eighteen miles south of Its source. The lower portion of the town was soon inundated. The flood came eo quickly that the people had not time to reach a place of safety. The water soon ewept a number of oil tanks down the stream, and in some way not known they were ignited. In less time than it takes to tell the story the flames spread to the surrounding buildings and before they could be subdued five blocks had been burned. The oil from the scores of broken tanks ran Into the creek and was ignited by floating debris. In a few minutes the creek was ablaze from 'shore to shore, and ae it was carried down the stream death and destruction followed In its wake. Everything Inflammable took Are and by the time it reached OU City all the bridges between the two pointe were consumed. Story ul the Disaster. At Oil City a large proportion of the population was distributed along the banks and bridges of tho Allegheny River and Oil Creek watching the rise ol the flood in both streams. At the time an ominous covering of oil made its appearance on the crest of the flood pouring down the Oil Creek Valley, and the foreboding waves of gas from distillate and benzine could be seen above the surface of the stream. People began to slowly fall back from the bridge and the creek, but they hod hardly begun to do so when an explosion was heard up the stream which was rapidly followed by two others, and quick as a flash of lightning the creek for a distance of two miles wae filled with an awful mass ol /oaring flames and billows of smoke that rolled high above the creek and rivet hills. “Runl” yelled a-hundred voices, and the people turned like stampeded cattle and started for the hills. The panicstrinken crowd shrieked madly in their efforts to escape. Women and children* were trampled under foot, and about twenty were severely bruised and had to be picked up by a few of the coolei heads and carried out of harm’s way. Almost as quickly as the words can be written fully 5,000 people were on the streets wild with terror, rushing to the hills. Men forgot that they were men and scores of men, women and children were knocked down and trampled upon both by horses and people in the mad flight for places of safety. Just ae this frantic mass of humanity had started up Center street the second explosion occurred, knocking many people down, shattering the windows in* the main part of the town, and almost transforming the day to night with the immense expanse of smoke. Hundred! of people thought that the day of judgment had come, and many prayere were heard mingling with the moans and lamentations of the fleeing multitude. The heat was Intense, and the weird and awful spectacle presented to the panicstricken people was that a cloudburst of Are, bordered and overcapped by e great canopy of dense, black smoke, Men wept and women fainted. Many, left everything behind them, and ran or were helped to the hills, where, after they were out of danger, came the anxiety and suspense for relatives and friends who had been along the creek watching the flood when the avalanche of flame came. Most of the bodies recovered bear evidence of having met death from burning oil, many of them being burned almost beyond recognition, and several of them in such a terrible manner as to leave the bodies without the least semblance of human form. A bird’s-eye view of the situation as the smoke from the burning oil on the waters rolls away discloses a pitiful sight, nothing but a mass of burned and flooded ruins from Monroe street east to tie most eastern line of the city limits. The streets lie Ailed full of debris, overturned houses half burned, parts of what were once railroad cars, and empty oil barrels. A great deal of live stock was lost, and it will take days to get ths streets in a passable condition. The loss In toe county by washouts and loss of bridges will be enormous. There is not a county or township bridge for many miles that is not washed out, and the roads in every direction are nearly impassable. The Western New York & Pennsylvania and the Union <fc Titusville Roads have not attempted to -run trains, and will be obliged to spend an enormous amount of money before trains can be run-in any direction. Oil City is eighteen miles from Titusville. The towns along the creek are . Boughton, Miller Farm, Pioneer, Petroleum Center, Farm, Rouseville, and McCllntockvllle. Rouseville has about 1,009 Inhabitants and the other Towns about 200 each. Gil creek flows through a narrow gorge all the way, and as the towns are mostly situated on the hills It Is hoped there was no loss of life. Communication has been cut off from these places, however, and nothing is definitely known. Call from the Keltet Committee. As the devastation is so great it has been decided to call upon the outside world to furnish financial means to relieve the distressed, and an appeal has been issued. Such contributions should be sent by telegraph to Roger Sherman, president of the relief committee, as no malls will be received or dispatched for several days, owing to throe railroads entering the city having their tracks washed out almost entirely for many miles. Titusville gave $45,000 to Chicago, $5,000 to Johnstown sufferers, and $2,000, to the South at the time of the yellow fever epidemic, also $1,500 to Russian relief, and has always responded to all demands upon the public sympathy when oil towns have been in distrosß.'_ The reason the average man is unable to “put hlnjself in your place” is that ha < feels altogether too big to fill It.