Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1893 — Page 6

—-—p ■== ©he DECATUR, IND. & BLACKBURN, ■ - - PTMW.IHHKH. 1893 APRIL. 1893 Bu Mo Tu We Th Fr Ss” • •••••/ 2345 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 • •_[* 9 9 * EVENTS OF INTEREST THAT OCCURRED DURING THE PAST WEEK. The World’* Fair Sinko at an End-Old Liberty 801 lon Ita Way to Chicago—A Canino Slaughter-Frightful Casualty al Htcnbcuvllle, Ohio-Street Car Collision. IT'S ALL OVER. The Strike at Chicago Was of Short Duration. Chicago special: The strike inaugurated at the World’s Fair grounds was amicably settled at a meeting of the Council of Administration with the Executive Committee ot the Building Trades Council. The whole trouble is settled as far as the exposition company is concerned, but there are however, several contractors on the grounds who must sign the agreement before their men will return to work. There are 2,000 men who will not return to worn on this account. A committee is endeavoring to get these contractors to sign the agreement, which will put these men at work and enable the great enterprise to be pushed to an early completion. The net result of the strike was the loss of one day’s work to the men, the securing of tree tickets for walking delegates and twenty-four hours’ loss ot time in completing the fair at a time when every minute was precious. It was virtually aback down on the part of the labor leaders, who were compelled to admit that the question of employing non-union men was settled finally two years ago. ■ Four thousand five hundred workmen obeyed the orders of the building trades council to strike, and about 1,000 ignored the orders. Old Liberty Bell. The arrangements for the transportation of the cld Liberty Bell from Philadeiphia to Chicago are almost completed. The special train bearing the relic will leave Philadelphia on the 25th instynt, and will arrive in Chicago on the 29th, four days being consumed in the journey. The bell will be escorted by a party including Mayor Edwin S. Stewart and other city officials and several invited guests. The train will consist of several Pullman sleepers, adiningcar and the special car designed for the bell. The journey will be made over a circuitous ronte to enable the inhabitants of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to see the historic relic. U nconstltutionaL Judge Taylor of the Indiana Superior Court, declared unconstitutional the law under which boards of children’s guardians are organized in all the large cities of Indiana. These boards were empowered to seize and care for all children of disolute and vicious parents and those whose surroundings were not what they should ba Judge Tavlor declared the law to be one in constraint of human liberty and contrary to the inalienable rights of the individual rights ot the individual. Louisiana Clubs Must Pay a Liquor License. The Supreme Court of Louisiana decided the case of the State against the Boston and Pickwick clubs in favor of the Stata Nearly all the clubs in the State run private bars, and the suit was to compel them to pay the regular license of SI,OOO a year. The clubs’ defense was that it bought and sold liquor to members at cost. Unless the bars are closed, the State will derive a revenue of 8100,000 a year from this son’oe. i „’ T \ 4 A canine Mintigbter. ' The dog poisoner has been getting in his work in Warsaw, Ind. The other night seventy-five dead dogs could be counted on the streets at one time. Some of them were very valuable ones, costing in the neighborhood of 875 and 8100 each. This work has been going on some time past, and it seems the end is not yet ' Frightful Casualty in a Casting Room. A tuire blew out of one of the furnaces at the Riverside iron works, Steubenville, Ohio. A large quantity of molten metal poured out into the casting room. John Larkin, a helper, was frightfully burned and died. Michael King, a helper, was also "terribly burned, but wjll recover. . Ordered in the Indian Couhtry.

Company A, Thirteenth infantry, in command of Capt. John B. Guthrie, has been ordered from Fort Reno, O. T., t'j the scene of the Indian troubles in the Choctaw country. The orders given to Capt Guthrie are that he is instructed simply to preserve peace and protect life. Street-Car Collision. In a street-car collision, at the corner of Tenth and Washington streets, St. Louis, Mo., half a dozen people were seriously injured. Two electric cars on the Benton and Bellefontaine road crashed Into a horse car of the Northern Central line. A New Supervising Architect. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Jeremiah O’Rourke of Newark. N. J., Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, vice W. J. Edbrooke, resigned. Murder at Anderson. Ind. At Anderson, Ind., John Morarity fired two shots at close range into the body of Col. Streets, killing him instantly. The murder was the outcome of a neighborhood feud in ouo of the suburbs. 5,000 Miners to Strike. Brussels special: Five thousand coal miners in’the Borinage district, Province cf Hainaut,have resolved open a general strike, partly for higher wages and partly for undue suffrage. Terrible Accidental Joliet* Joliet (Ill.) special: Nine men employed on the drainage canal were killed outright and ten others received injuries more or less severe, by the falling of a Cantllevre machine, used in the work on the engine house, in which the men were gathered tor protection from the storm which awed this section ■i'of the State. The high Cantllevre on wheels, weighing 280 tons, was on the track when the storm set in. Before it could be changed the w wind swept it down the track and it fell on top of tho engine house, where the men had gathered to get out of the storm and nine of them were killed outrishi and ten others wounded, with

chances of recovery doubtful. Samuel • Corms of Lockport, overseer of the gang, » was among those killed. The others wore Italians and negroes, who have been working on the drainage canal for a couple of months. ~. A FIENDISH ACT. An Attempt to Blow Up the Boilers of a Pittsburgh Manuluclory. An attempt was made to blow up the Pickling establishment of Lutz Brothers at the corner of Main and Cherry streets, Allegheny, Pa. To the timely discovery and carefulness of Engineer Fred Mohr, is attributed an escape, almost miraculous, from the destruction of the works In which over 100 people are employed During the night previous, some one had entered the boiler room, and having closed the lower valve of the glass water Indicate:-, to prevent its escape,opened the escape valve under the boller.allowlng the water to escape. When the engineer fired up in the morning the water glass showed a full boiler as he had loft In the evening. The boiler heated so rapidly that the engineer became suspicious. He tried the water guages and was almost paralyze* with fright. The firb was drawn and an examination showed the boiler to be dry. Detectives have been put to work and a rigid examination Is in progress. The firm cannot understand the motive for such an outrage. If the fiend is discovered it will likely go hard with him. HOT STUFF. A Kentucky Distillery and 12.000 Barrels of Whisky Destroyed by Fire. Louisville special: A warehouse of the Allen Bradley .•Distilling Company containing 12,000 barrels of whisky, caught fire and was totally destroyed with its contents. The loss is estimated at $1,230,000. Tbe fire started on the first floor of the building, a three-story brick. Several laborers were engaged in storing the whisky, when a barrel was dropped, from one of the tiers. The head was staved in. A lighted lantern near by was overturned and the whisky took fire. The workmen barely escaped. For hours the flames raged. They were kept from spreading,however. Valuable distillery properties on all sides of the burning warehouse were saved. The Allen Bradley Company, will only Jose on the warehouse, which was valued at $30,000. The whisky belonged to customers of the concern. The loss is covered by insurance, the greater portion of which is said to have been placed with the Columbian Insurance Company. MA.NI' PEOPLE RUINED By the Burning of Turpentine Orchards In North Carolina. Raleigh (N. C.) special: The greatest forest fires ever known in Moore and Richmond counties, are raging in the heart of the Long Leaf pine district The trees had just been bored and thousands of them are destroyed. Many people owning turpentine orchards are ruined. One man lost 2,000 acres of trees. The fire swept upon the town of West End and nearly wiped it out Three large stores, with the entire stocks, the postoffice and dwellings were burned. At least twelve turpentine distilleries and scores of dwellings scattered throughout the woods are burned, and the rails of the Aberdeen and West End railroad are so badly warped that the trains cannot run. Great quantities ot rosin were burned, 1,000 barrels at West End alone. Win Ask to Be Reinstated. Toledo special: The local division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will make a formal demand or request on the Lake Shore Company for the reinstatement of itjfe engineers who left its service on the night of March 17, because they would not handle Ann Arbor freight cars. This statement was made recently by Chairman J. W. Watson of the Lake Shore Grievance Committee of the Brotherhood. He said that the committee would make the request of General Superintendent Caniff next week. He thought that the company would not hesitate to grant the request as the men had only done what they were in duty bound to do. by the brotherhood. It is a case that the brotherhood has never met with before and they will proceed with considerable caution in making the request -— —--r Burned to Death. The residence of George H. Talcott of Talcottville, Lewis New York, was supposedly strilCk by lightning and burned to the ground. The neighbors did not know that it had been burned until after daylight next morning, when the discovery was made that Mr. Talcott and his mother, a lady over 70 years of age, had been burned in the house, their charred and blackened corpses being found in the ruins. The theory that the house was struck by lightning is purely guess-work, and a Coroner has been summoned to make all possible investigation, as some hold that Mr. Talcott and his mother might have been robbed and murdered and the house,, set on fire to hide the crime. / Strike on the Santa Fe. Topeka (Kan.) special: The 1,100 machinists, boiler-makers, blacksmiths, and their helpers employed in the shops of the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at this place,quit work, and, acting with

their fellow-workmen in the same departments along the line of the entire system, are on a strike for better wages and other demands. This demand of the men is that the pay shall be increased 25 cents per day; that inexperienced men who get less than the regular rates shall npt be required to do the work of skilled men, and that when tne company deems it necessary to reduce expenses gangs of men be not discharged or laid off, but that the hours be reduced. World’s Fair Ceremonies. The plan to hold the opening ceremonies of the World’s Colu'mbian Exposition in Choral hall, which accomodates less than 3,000 persons, is meeting with a good deal of opposition and the prospects are chat the exercises will take place in the open air. The National Board of Control took up the subject, and, after a long discussion, Director | General Davis, President Palmer, and Secretary Dickinson were authorized to select a suitable place In the park for holding the ceremonies. This is regarded as a notice to the local officials that the ceremony shall be a public affair. Indiana IL A. R. . The Indiana State Encampment of the I Grand Army of the Republic in session at Evansville elected the following officers: James Johnson, commander; C. J. Murphy of Evansville, Senior Vice Commander; W. F. Medskcr of Cambridge City, Junior Vice Commander; John G. Hitt of Greensburg, Medical Director; O. S. Reed of Noblesville, Chaplain; Benjamin Starr of Richmond, L. A. Foote of Crawfordsville. J. W. Senior of Madison, H. H. Ragan of Lowell, and Ed. C. Booze of IfidTanapolis, Council of Administration. The next encampment will be held at Lafayette. Three Fireman Fatally Hurt. The large stables of the Northern In- , diana Horse Breeders' Association, located in Warsaw, Ind., were destroyed by fire. Twenty-three valuable horses perished In the fiames among them several stallions recently imported from

I England and two trotting horses, witn records of 3:10}.' and 2-13. This was i one of the largest establishments of tne i kind in the State. The loss is $200,000 partly insured. Perry Brown, chief of the fire department, was fatally Injured by a falling wall. Two other firemen were also bably injured. Fifty-Four Drowned. Vienna special: A dispatch from Constantinople says that the cause of the loss of the Sultan’s palace steamer by which a large number of lives were lost, was tbe result of the palace steamer being run into and sunk by the admlrality steamer Teschsvle. The number drowned was fifty-four and most of them were servants. The accident is attributed to a northerly gale which prevailed. An inquiry has been ordered as to thecause of the accident . Will Burn Him at the Stake. A colored man went to the house of Fred Braun at Dennison, Texas, and seized Miss Leona Redding, a pretty 16-yoar-old girl. He bound and gagged her and carried her to a vacant house two blocks away, where he kept her for three, hours, assaulting her repeatedly. The girl did not regain consciousness for many hours. She may die. Officers and citizens are scouring the town for the fiend. Threats are made to burn him at the stake. Are all Homeless. Half a dozen families were rendered homeless by the destruction by fire, at tenement houses 84, 86, and 88 Ontaria street, Chicago. Many ot the occupants of the houses were rescued by the firemen with great difficulty. Capt Green was overcome by smoke and died soon after being taken to Alexian Brothers’ hospital. Two firemen sustained severe bruises by falling from a roof. The property loss will not exceed SIO,OOO. Killed by a Burglar. Mr. John Dollard, a member of the Norfolk, Va., City Council and a wealthy merchant, was shot in the throat by a burglar who was attempting to enter the rear door of his store. He died within ten minutes. The man escaped, pursued by a policeman and citizens, who fired at him five times without effect. He returned the fire with great deliberation. The Discovery of America. Rev. Wm. Stevens Perry, Bishop of lowa, preached the first ot a series of Columbian sermons at St. Paul’s Church Buffalo, N. Y. He said we owed nothing to Columbus, Spain, or Rome, for the discovery belonged to John Cabot who sailed Under the patronage of King Henry VIII. and that the discovery was made in defiance of Pope Alexander VII. A Sanitarium Burned. The College Hill Sanitarium, nine miles north of Cincinnati, burned to the ground. The loss will probably exceed 8200,000; insurance, SIOO,OOO. There were 200 inmates in the building, and scenes of the wildest excitement ensued as the attendants worked to rescue the patients. In the rush, three escaped. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Wants Martial Law for the Indian Territory. Secretary Hoke Smith has received a telegram from Indian Agent Brown, in which he recommends that the Choctaw nation be placed under martial Jaw. This he believes to be the only way in which peace can be maintained. Secretary Smith has as yet taken no action on this recommendation. An Illinois Fiend. At a German settlement three miles southeast of Falrburry.lll., A. Burkhart seized the 16-months-old child of Mrs. Daniel Wenger, his sister, and held it on a red hot stove. The child was burned in a horrible manner and cannot recover. Citizens of the neighborhood are greatly excited and may lynch Burkhart. Must Be Taxed. Attorney General Johnson of Mississippi, has officially declared that all cotton field at the beginning of the fiscal year by buyers shall be assessed and taxed. A great deal of cotton is being held all over the State and taxes on the same will amount to many thousand dollars. Fatal Accident at EvansvilleThe G. A. R. arch on the corner of Fourth and Main streets, Evansville, Ind., was blown down, breaking the top off of the iron pole of the electric railway pole. The piece of iron struck Alonzo Smith, a colored drayman, injurIng him fatally. Blaine’s Brother Removed. Robert Blaine, brother of the late James G. Blaine, has been removed from a clerkship in the Department of Agriculture, after eight years’ service. He is about fifty years old, has a family and was dependent upon his office. A Soutnern Town Destroyed. Fire at Clifton, W. Va., completely destroyed the Redmond salt works and r twenty-five dwellings. Loss and insurance unknown. Columbus Capitalist Hurt. James McKee, a retired capitalist of Columbus, Ohio, was struck by a train at the Union Depot and probably fatally injured. f Frightful Fall.

Harry Flamian fell 100 feet from the World’s Fair Agricultural Building at Chicago and was frightfully mangled. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cat’tle—Common to Prime $3.26 9 6.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 0 7.00 Sheep—Fair to Cliolce 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring.... 74 @ .75 CORN—No. 2 30)40 .40)4 Oats—No. 2 .28 & .V) RYE—No. 247 9 .40 Butter—Choice Creamery29)4o .30)4 Eggs—Fresh, 13)40 .14)4 Potatoes—New, per bu7o & .80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.60 9 7.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 6.00. Wheat—No. 2 Red .62 9 .62)4 Corn—No. 2 White 41 @ .41)4 OATS—No. 2 White3s & .36 ST. LOUIS. „ Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 i Hogs«. 3.00 @6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 64 @ .65 Corn—No. 2 35 @ .36 Oats—No. 2 .30 @ .31 i RYE—No. 2...... 53 0 .63)4 CINCINNaTL CATTLR... 3.00 @6.00 Hogs 3.0 Q @ 7.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red .66 ® Cobn—No. *D4O Oats—No. 2 Mixed.......... 34 0. .85 Rye—No. 2 .55 @ .67 DETROIT. Cattle S.oo @ 6.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 7.26 Sheep 3.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 & .70 COBN—No. 2 Yellow41)40 -42)4 OATS—No. 2 White37)4o 48)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 69 0 "I?,, Corn—No. 2 Yellow89)40 -4014 Oats-No. 2 White • — « Mi rye 60 & .02 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 0 6.60 Hoes—Best Grades 4.00 @7.50 Wheat—No. 1 Hard . ....:...... - l9 @ No. 2 Red 74 0 .75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring ’SSv Corn—No. 3 38,4® -W* Oats—No. 2 White W4® Rye-No. 53 @ .5j Barley—No. 2 Pork—Mess 16 ’ 75 ® 17,25 NEW YORK. „ Cattle 3.50 ($6.00 HOGS sheep.-.-. 3.00 @6.m Wheat—No..2 Red <« @

” I 1.,, 1 . : sunshine a big boon. ! HELPS WQRK AT THE WORLD’S FAJIR GREATLY. Clear Weather Hat Enabled a Largely Increated Force of to Prepare Roadways and Hurry the Buildings Along to Completion. I — 1 Notes of the Big Show. Chicago correspondence: A week of suashine and a mud-drying wind from the north has put fresh enI orgy into thousands of men who are > getting the Fair in readiness for the opening day. An immense amount of progress was made during a fortnight of snow, rain and slush, but the things accomplished since the clouds rolled away go a long way toward justifying the calm, confident statement ofaDlreo- ' tor General Davis and his department chiefs that with good weather the Exposition will be practically finished when the big engine begins to throb on > Mayl. With the appearance of the sun orders were issued to press work all along the line, and by noon 10,000 men were toiling in the grounds. The efforts of the workmen were not concentrated on any

V \ \\ j*" 1 Wes .i // ' ADMISSION TICKET. one building or along the roadways, of counterfeiting. White pnper of spe-

een In an execrable condition ever since the snow disappeared. Every contractor felt the prod from the. Administration Building. Not one of them was spared. In nearly every department the force of men was increased, and in some instances doubled and trebled. The painters and decorators are making the most of the sunshine. Heretofore they have been kept under cover or prevented from working altogether. All day on Monday they clung upon domes, scampered over the facades of big buildings and threw their colors and I lb-4\ LIOBTBOUSB NEAR LITB-SAVINQ STATION. tints upon arches and pillars. The planked roads which were laid when the mud defied the movement of building material are now being ripped up and an extra force of workmen is grading and scraping the avenues about the buildings. South of maeh pery hall another foice Is making roads with the assistance ot steam crushers. Off in one corner of the grounds a half hundred men are burning the debris of the Fair. Fires have been burning there for two months or more, and all day Monday wagons were hauling

■ 11 i—vAa Vnfrrrl/ ~~ r t I I | . J 6 IftC 'J ■=■!=■ Vl ■ | —aircgjy LOOKING EAST FROM THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

refuse to the fiames. The fuel comes from all parts of the grounds. It comes from Germany with its blue painted crates, from Alaska with the heavy cases plastered with "old glory" labels and from all the Government and State buildings where workmen have leveled their scaffolding with the ground. Over at agricultural hall a hundred men are at work raising and placing in position the animal groups wrought in staff. The work of construction and landscape gardening must soon be finished, and every effort toward this end is being put forth. Just Half a Dollar. It costs just half a dollar now to get into the grounds. The original intention to close the gates March 15 in order that work might not be hindered by visitors was reconsidered because the revenue was becoming quite an item in replenishing Treasurer Seeberger’s I rather slim balance. To increase the revenue without greatly increasing tho number of visitors it was suggested that the entrance fee be increased to £0 cents. Somebody made the suggestion that $1 admission be charged, but , the exhibition authorities thought such a tax would oe prohibitive. At a meeting of the board of admissions a resolution was unanimously adopted fixing the price of admission at 50 cents, be--1 ginning April 1. The first Sunday following this decision 8,000 admission tickets were sold, and the number who seek to gain entrance increases daily. American Bible Society Exhibit. The American Bible Society has pre- ' pared a curious exhibit for the fair. It will show a number of historic bibles, plates from which the largest editions 1 of bibles ever struck were printed, and 1 long rows of bibles in foreign tongues. The latter are designed to give some idea of the stupendous difficulties the society has overcome in translating the scriptures into languages that are sel- , dom mastered by English-speaking peo- • pie. In a general way the purpose of > tho society is to show what it has done since it was organized seventy-six years ago. Copies of each of the annual reports and bound flies of the Bible Society Record will occupy shelves In one of the eight cases in which the exhibit will' be contained, in the same case will appear spjimens of the electrotype plates used in printing tho Scriptures, Two of these plates are

especially noteworthy, one of them huwlao been employed In the set used in printing 980,0(10 copies of the 5-oeat edition of the New Testament, a total edition numbering 3.300,000 having been Issued since 1878. The other nlate is one of those used in supplying *876,000 copies of the 2,0ut,00(1 20-oent Bibles which have oome from the society’s presses in the same period. The World’s Fair model Sunday-school building, which is to be erected on Stony Island avenue, opposite the 47th street entrance of .1 ackson Park, seems to be an assured fact. Nearly $20,000 out of the $30,000 needed to begin the work of construction has been subscribed. Since the first admission tickets to the World’s Fair have been placed on sale in Chicago, the managers have been besieged with applications for the tickets from persons in all parts of the country as well as Europe, who desire them not so much for actual use as for souvenirs, and it is to meet this demand that the managers decided to begin the sale thus early. They are season tickets, good for admission to the Fair at any time between May 1 and Oct 30. The first issue is six millions, in four different designs. They have been made by the American Bank Note Company, with special reference to the prevention

Ui wum vvi ava viug, •• aaaw V* clal manufacture Is used for the tickets. In general texture it resem- . bles the paper on which national bank notes are printed. Instead of the silk cords in the bank-note paper there are small particles of different colored linen paper, which, being cut up very fine, were dropped Into the pulp while it was being run through the rollers in course of manufacture, and in this way became a part of the sheet itself. The process by which this paper is manufactured is entirely new and patented. In this ay alone It is thought the possibility of successful counterfeiting of the tickets has been removed. In general design the tickets resemble somewhat the old 25-cent piece of fractional currency. They measure 3 3-5 inches in length by 2J inches in width. On the face of the tickets appears, in scroll work at the top, “World’s Columbian Exposition." Below is the line “Admit the bearer," and still lower are the dates for which the tickets are good. In the left hand end is the engraving of the head of either Columbus, Lincoln, Washington, or an Indian chief in full war dress. At the bottom of the tickets is what seems at first glance a fine lined, border three-quarters of an inch wide. It is really the words, “World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago," in very small letters. There are seventeen separate lines of lettering in the narrow border. On this border are the engraved signatures of A. F. Seeberger, Treasurer, and H. W. Hlglnbotham, President Through the signatures of the officers is a punched perforation and in the middle of the ticket is a colored scroll work design a little larger than a silver quarter, the color varying on the different designs and being either purple, pink, green, or blue. The back of the ticket is what seems to be scroll work, but which is fine lettering, the words “Columbian Exposition” and “Chicago, 1893,” appearing. In a little darker shade of the same color of the background is “Good for one admission at pay gates.” The demand from persons who wanted to purchase ■ tickets as souvenirs was so large the management thought if

they were so anxious to buy a ticket of the first issue they would be equally anxious to purchase a complete sot if the design was varied, and so the tickets are issued in four designs. Besides the second ticket there will be tickets of much cheaper design and material, inMii!! 11 F”'"” ®Mi| *— = if H Hip Si S - R rXX II L I I POSTOFFICE IN THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. —4 tended for sale only at the gates toi visitors going right into the exposition. College Hill Sanitarium Burned. A careless tinner upon the roof of the College Hill Sanitarium at Cincinnati, Ohio, caused a loss of from SIOO,OOO to $150,000 of property and imperiled the lives of 200 patients. A hot soldering iron was permitted to Ignite the roof and the flames quickly got beyond the control of the waterworks of the institution, as well as that of the village of College Hill. The superintendent, Dr. O. Everetts, directed the attendants to give every effort to the task of safely removing the sick, the Insane, and the ailing patients. In this they were faithfully assisted by the villagers, who flocked to the place. The scenes within the great structure, four stories in height and filled with 200 patients, were exciting. The insane shrieked and tore their clothing, the less unfortunate were distracted by fear, and begge'd to be helped away from the flames.

i THESE ACTUAL FACTS ■ • ALL FOUND WITHIN THB BORDERS OF INDIANA. ; Aa Interesting Nummary of the Mora Importent Doings of Our Nelghbois — Crimes, Casualties, Death*, Kt«* Indiana Fair*. The following is a list, with dates, of the various fairs of Indiana: ■ Aug. 7to H—Bridgeton Union Agricultural Society ; Bridgeton; F. M. Miller, Seo. Aug. 7 to 11—Tipton County Fair Company; Tipton; W. K. Oglesbay, 800. > Aug. Stoll—Wayne County Fair Association; Hagertown; J. F. Bartley. Seo. Aug 8 to 11-Henry, Madison and Delaware Agricultural Society; Middletown; F. B. Miller, Seo. Aug. 8 Co fl—Jennings County Joint Stock Agricultural Association; North Vernon; Win. G. Norris, Bee. ' Aug. 14 to 18—Delaware Agricultural and Meehanioai; Muncie; M. B. Claypool, Sec. Aug. 15 to 18—Jefferson County Fair Association; Madison; H. E. Haight, Seo. Aug 21 to 26— Oakland City Agricultural end Industrial Society; Oakland City; W. C. Miller, Seo. Aug. 21 to 25—Hancock County Agricultural Society ; Greenfield; Marion Bteele, Seo. Aug. 21 to 25—Parke County Agricultural Association . Bockvills; J. E. Allen, Sec. Aug. 21 to96—Daviess County Fair; Washington: W. F. Axtell, Seo. Aug. 22 to 25—Washington County Fair Association ; Salem; E. W. Menall, Seo. Aug. 28 to Bept. I—Clark.County Central Agricultural Association; Charlestown;L. C. Morrison, Sec. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2—Clinton County Agricultural Society; Frankfort; Joseph Hevlani. Seo. Aug. 28 to Sent. 2—Harrison county fair; Corydon ; D. F. Hurst, Seo. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2—Warren County Agricultural Association; Boonville; Wm. L. Barker. Sec. Aug. 28 to Sept. 2—Clark County Agricultural Association ; Charlestown; J.M. McMillan,Seo. Aug. 29 to Sept. I—Switzerland and Ohio Agricultural Society; East Enterprise; W. H. Madison, Seo. Aug. 29 to Sept. 2—Johnson County Agricultural Association ; Franklin; W. S. Young, Sec. Aug. 29 to Sept. 2—Decatur County Agricultural Society; Greensburg; Ed. Kenning, Sec. Aug. 29 to Sept. 2-Randolph Union Agricultural Society; Winchester; D. E. Haufman, Sac. Aug. 29 to Sept. I—Grange Jubilee and Agricultural Association; Wirt Station; T. H. Watington, Sec. Sept. 4 to 9—Floyd County Fair Association; New Albany; C. W. Schindler, Sec. Sept. 4 to 8-Benton and Warren Agricultural Association; Boswell; W. H. McKnigbt, Sec. Sept. 4 to 9--Spencer County Agricultural and Industrial Society; Chrisney; P. C. Jolly, Sec. Sept. 4 to B—Tippecanoe County Agricultural Association ; Lafayette; A. Wallace, Sec. Sept. 5 to 9—Shelby County Joint Block Association ; Shelbyville; E. E. Stroup, Seo. Sept. 11 to 15—Montgomery Union Agricultural Society; Crawfoidsville; W. W. Morgan, Seo. Bept. 12 to 15—Newton County Agricultural Association ; Morocco; G. W. Royster, Sec. Sept. 11 to 16- Gibson County Fair Association; Princeton; 8. Vet. Strain, Sec. Sept. 12 to 15—Rush County Agricultural Society; Rushville; J. Q. Thomas, Sec. Sept. 12 to 15—Washington County I air Association ; Pekin; R. E. Elrod, Sec. Sept. 12 to 16—Bedford Fair Association; Bodford ; Frank Stannard, Sec. Sept 18 to 23—Indiana State Fair; Indianapolis; Charles F. Kennedy, Sec. Sept. 18 to 23—Perry Agricultural and Mechanical Association; Rome; W. Wheeler, Sec. Sept. 18 to 23—Spencer County Fair Association; Rockport; A. 1). Gardipghouse, Sec. Sept. 18 to 23—Green County Central Fair; Bloomington; T. T. Pringle, Sec. Sept. 19 to 22—Wabash County Fair Association; Wabash; G. B. Fawley. Sec. Sept. 19 to 22—Marshall County Agricultural and Industrial Association; Plymouth; A. M. Stevens, Sec. Sept. 19 to 22—Porter County Agricultural Society; Valparaiso; E. S. Beach. Sec. Sept. 19 to 22— Steuben County Agricultural Association ; Angola; H. L. Huston. Seo. Sept. 25 to 29- Eastern Indiana Agricultural Association ; Kendallville; J. S. Conlogue, Sec. Sept. 25 to 30—Spencer County Fair Association; Bockport; C. M. Partridge, Sec. Sept. 25 to 29—Vermillion County Fair Association ; Cayuga; J. 8. Grondyke, See. Sept. 25 to 29—Jay County Agricultural and Joint Stock Company; Portland; G. W. Burgman, Sec. Sept. 26 to 29—Tri-Oonnty Agricultural Society; North Manchester; D. w. Chrisher, Seo. Sept. 26 to 29—Jasper County Fair Association; Seymour; C. A. Saltmarsh, Sec. Sept. 26 to 30—Monroe County Agricultural Association ; Bloomington; C. R. Worrell, Sec. Sept. 27 to 29—Bremen Agricultural Society; Bremen; 1L D. Loalsr, Sec. Oct. 3 to 6—Maxinkuckee Agricultural Association ; Culver Park; E. 8. Freese, Sec. Oct. 3 to 7—Vermillion County Joint Stock Association ; Newport; J. Richardson, Sec. Oct. 3 to 6—Marshall County Agricultural and Industrial Association; Plymouth; B. N. OctVto 7—Whitley County Joint Association; Columbia City; F. J. Heller, Seo Oct. 9 to 14—Knox County Agricultural and Mechanical Society; Vincennes; J. W. Ellison,Sec. Minor State News. The infant child of John Snapp and wife ot Marietta, Shelby County, was found dead in bed, with its parents. The saw mill at Rich Valley, Wabash County, owned by John Kelley, was burned. Loss, 53,500; no insurance. James Powell, who weighs 380 pounds, rolled down a flight of thirty steps at Muncie and was badly hurt. Kate Harbin, the wonderful 14-year-old preacher, is meeting with great success in her meetings at New Washington. At Cambridge City thieves broke into the drug store of Shults & Beard. They blew open the safe and secured over SIOO in cash. Owensboro capitalistshave purchased ten acres of land adjoining Rockport, and will begin the erection of a canning factory at once. A babn belonging to George Boots, near Potato Creek, Montgomery County, was set on fire and burned with the contents. Loss, $1,200; no insurance. The Tipton City Council has ordered a special election held May 2, submitting the proposition for issuing bonds for tty) construction of water works to the legal voters of the city. Rudolph Reif, an old and prominent farmer of Wabash County, fell off a load of hay near Wabash, and was badly hurt internally, three ribs being fractured. He is 75 years old. Peter-Hoke, aged 80, A farmer living near Union City, committed suicide by shooting himseifin the*head with a revolver. It is said that he had several times threatened to kill himself. When Fenton Epworth Mill of Elkhart, arose from bed the other morning, he lighted a match, and accidently set fire to his clothing. Before he could extinguish the flames he was so severely burned that death resulted. The general hospitality which the people of Evansville bestowed upon the Indiana Encampment, and the public spirit shown in decorations and entertainments, won the gratitude of the recipients. No city in Indiana can do such things better than the prosperous city of Evansville, because its standard of achievements is the highest. Samuel Lewis, a young farmer attempted to board a moving train at Martinsville and fell under the wheels. He lost both feet and was otherwise badly injured. Dr. M. N. Elrod of Hartsville, Bartholomew County, reports that he has Just examined a “blowing” well cn the farm of John H. Pefley, near Dora. It is sixty-two feet deep, and bxpels or sucks in air with a great rushing noise, the respiration depending on the meteorological condition ot the weather. The farmer has stuck a whistle in his pump, and the screech can be heard two miles whenever a storm is approaching. A meeting ot the members in Northern Indiana of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was held at Fort Wayne. Nearly one thousand were in attendance. The object was to go through the different degrees of Odd Fellowship under the direction of E. C Holgate of Danville, Grand Master of the State, who exemplifies the work and gives any necessary instructions, so that lodges of the small towns may not grow unused To giving the degrees. The meetings were secret, and was held in the auditorium of the opera house, the stage being used to exemplify the work. The «cenerv and settings have been transferred from the , lodge room to the theater tor that purpose. ,

Business Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK. Capital. WO,OOO. Surplus. 310,500 j Origanlsed August U, ML Officers—T. T, Dorwin, President; P. W. Smith, Vloe-Preeldsnt; R. 8. rsleraon Caahlsr; T. T. Dorwin, P. W, Smith, Usury Dsrkss, J. H. Holbrook, B. J. Tervser, J. D. Hal* end B. A Peterson, Directors. W* are prepared to make Loans on good security, receive Deposits, furnish Domestic and < Foreign Exchange, buy and sell Government end Municipal Bonds, and tarnish Letters ot Credit available in any ot the principal cities ot Europe. Also Passsgs Tlokst to and from th* Old World, iu<4u<Uug transportation to Desat nr, Adams County Bank Capital, 875,000. Surplus, 75,000, ; Organised in 1871. ’ .... Officers—D. Studebaker. President; Robt. B. Allison, Vioe-Prealdant; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking buslnse*. Collections meds in all parts ot the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign ana Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Intereat paid on time deposit*. Paul Q. Hooper, Attorney at Law Decatur, - - Jndisma, H,H:.LeBRUN. Veterinary Surgeon, Monroe, Ind, Successfully trest* all diseases of Horses and Cattle. Win respond to calls at any time. Prices reeonable. BBIDT, B. X. MANN, J. ». KKJFZJY <C MXWW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claim* Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. TTUiANCB A MERRYMAN. J. T. rßAircn. A? J. T. MXHBYMAW A.ttomoy« *t Law, DUCATUR, INDIANA. Office Noe. 1,2 and 8. over the Adam* County Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. HOLLOWAY, FliymlolAiiulbSurKeon - Office over Burns’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. B. church. AU calls promptly attended to In city or country night or day. ML JU HOLLOWAY. M. D. Office and residence one door north of M. B ehurch. Diseases of women and children specialties. O.T. May.M.», rhyaioianAi M-tu*af*o3* ■oarwa, ... ladlaaa. AH sails promptly attended to day er BighU. Moe at residence. ———sw—s e I I I ■eee—aemeehmn———asa— A A 8080, & T. 8080. OOSHHIBtIOMT. 8080 A SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Baal Batata aad Collection, Decatur, lad. O.P. ■■ ANDBEWB, Phy sriolsua «t» S-uur*ooxA MONBOB, INDIANA. . Offioe and reaidenos 3nd and trd doors weetod M.B.ohurch. N* Prat. L. H. Zelglir, YeUrliiirj Surgeon. Modus Opersndt, Orsha H .ff. tomy. Overotomy, Castrating, B4flg ling, Horses and Spayltfg Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their diseases. Office over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. in - ■' l ■— J. 8. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M B. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce's Drug store. Decatur, Ind H. F. COSTELLO, FlxsraalciAzx & Surgeon, Office over Terveer's hardware itore. Reel- I deuce on Third street, in the old Derkes property. All calls promptly attended to in city or country, day or night , Levi Nelson, Vetertnarj Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. JQ. NEPTUNB. a DENIBT. Now located over Holthouse's shoe store, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to th* dentalprofession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN O* Farm Property on Long Has Wo Commlseion. p Low Rate of Interest. 3Faurtl*l oxmaxß* H la any amounts oaa bo made at any time aad ■ stop interest. OaU on, or address, S a. a. «s™«, r. r. xunr, ■ M.: I. IB I ALL KINDS OF 1 job printinol HEATLV EXECUIEO | AT THIS OFFICE |