Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat DECATUK, IND. ■. BLACKBURN. ■ ■ - rwiLmniti*. "More women marry Between me ages of 20 and 25 than at any other time of life. . A receiver for the whisky trust? More receivers for the whisky is what the trust wants. Having put little Willie Wilde away, what will Mrs. Frank do for advertising now? Willie was certainly useful in this way. The “mender of quill pens” is said to be an office still in connection with the United States Senate. It must be a soft snap, as only one Sen ator uses quill pens, and he is supplied with pens ready made. Look out for the little things. They do not seem to count at the time, but every item helps to count up on either side of the balancesheet By that is not meant that one should be close, but one should be careful. Cyrus Spaulding, of Springfield, a bookkeeper, and $12,000 belonging to a firm in that city have gone out of sight, and there seems to be a direct connection between the departure of the one and the disappearance of the other. Hobart Chatfield ChatfieldTaylor, of Chicago, gave a dinner in honor of the Duke of Veragua, but Carter Hustleboy-Hustleboy-Har-rison-Harrison is the only Chicago man who has kissed the Infanta Eulalia’s pink finger tips. A walking delegate has been interviewed and declares that what his kind of bacillus need is “more latitude.” How would the degrees between 55 and 70 north do? The American people are a good deal tired of him and the Esquimau should be given a chance. English Tories fancy that Uncle Sam’s contefhplated treaty with Russia is merely a bribe to obtain Russian support in the event of a disagreeable outcome of the Behring Sea arbitration. It is nothing of the sort. Uncle Sam can paddle his own canoe, no matter what the result of the sealeries dispute may be. Prof. Dolbear, of Tufts College, thinks there can be no doubt that telegraphing without the use of wires is near at hand. There is good reason to believe that wires will not be necessary even for commercial purposes. He declares there is no doubt that within a year electrical trains will run at the rate of 120 miles an hour. ____________ The Bank of England is a great institution. It is a powerful financial regulator. There is nothing of the kind in this country, Bankers here, as a rule, are money shavers. When the time comes to encourage business and protect it under temporary pressure, they rush off like a flock of sheep to take care of themselves. The difficulties are aggravated. Postmasters have been instructed from Washington to look out for disease germs and prevent their passage i through the mails. What the post- ' master who doesn’t know a disease germ when he sees one.is to do is not| stated. It seems that careless peo- i pie had acquired the habit of boxing ’ up suspicious small fry and sending them to experts to find out what ■ they were __ i The idea that farm work neces- I sarily implies more of mere drudgery ■ than does other occupations is a great mistake. Every business in these times requires close attention to secure the highest success. In one' sense, therefore, every business man is confined to his work. But there is really less confinement on the farm than in other business, and the horses that the farmer is obliged to keep for daily use give him opportunities for rides and short excursions with less expense than can be enjoyed by others. o We insist that Mohammed Webb should pause in his mad career long enough to apprise the American people which brand of Islamism he proposes to convert them to. Like the Christian religion, Islam has sundry jarring sects, each of which calls the other misbeliever, and denounces its rivals as worse than the Christians. History tends to show that in the last clause of this indictment they all tell the truth. Until Webb can assure us that he has the only simonpure article we arc excusable for deriding all his efforts. Foggy Newfoundland proposes to try a risky experiment. She has only about 200,000 population, less than half that of Rhode Island, with a debt of $6,000,000. She proposes to increase this $4,000,000 more, besides maKing large grants of pros l pectively valuable land, in order to build 250”ifilles of railroad, by which she hopes to develop some of her resources. The plan may be successful, but if the statesmen of Newfoundland would study the history of the Argentine Republic and othei South American countries, they will observe that speculation is like climb Ing a greased pole. The International Fishery Oom' mission, appointed by this country and Canada tp Inquire into th<

means or securing better protection for coast and inland flsoerles, will commence its work alcv>g the coast as far north as the M Lawrence River, which it will follow to the great lakes. It expects to reach the lakes this season and to conclude the work upon them, and follow the boundary through to the Pacific next summer. The work is of very great interest and value to both countries, 1 and, we trust, will end in the establishment of better fishery regulations upon the great lakes. There is serious need of an improvement in methods, and the only way it can be made in a completely satisfactory manner is by international treaty and federal law. A newspaper man will sit up nights to write something kind about a fellow-citizen to help him along, or to extol a local enterprise to help it along, even when he may have no personal friendship for or interest in either, and will pay out good money to put his words in type after they have been written, yet the persons who are benefited seldom think of making a return, attributing the notice to their personal greatness. Ten chances to one they will send out oi town for their next job of work or will take it to an exclusive job shop under the false impression of making a saving, or they will take it somewhere to offset a bad debt But the newspaper man keeps right along looking pleasant and saying good things about everybody and spending more time to ascertain what Mr. John Doe has done that is worthy of note than would be required to write an article on the sources of the Nile. Nervous people have drawn attention to the stringency of money at Chicago and to the failure of the Columbia National Bank, which was followed by the suspension of twelve banks in Indiana, six in Michigan, and one or two elsewhere, as evidences that confidence was being shaken there. But the apprehension seems ungrounded. The banks which have failed were creations of the notorious Zimri Dw’ggins. who has been going around starting banks wherever the soil was a little damp, after the fashion of the famous George Smith and St. Paul Mitchell. This enterprising flnancierseemsto have flooded the grain States with banks which failed whenever they got a few thousand dollars on deposit. They generally had a bucket-shop in the rear of the bank, where the cashier stood ready to let the unsophisticated buck the tiger to the extent of their means. Os course, the failure of such institutions has no commercial significance. The Australian financial disaster struck a community which was already on the top wave of an unprecedented financial inflation. Within the past five years a banking mania has raged in Australia. Banks have been established by the score, and some of them have begotten as many as 150 to 200 branches. Every little village, every cross-roads hamlet, had its one, two or three banks. The parent Institutions were of such magnitude that nothing as potential can be found in this country outside of New York City. Their aggregate deposits exceeded s7so,ooo,ooo—nearly half as much as the entire deposits of the.national banks in this country. About half this volume of deposits was derived from England, and was paid for by the Australian banks at .3Jto 4J per cent No English bank I could afford to pay such a rate of interest; English capitalists, eager for ! income, sent their money to Sydney, i Melbourne, and Adelaide. To earn i interest on this vast volume of de- ■ posits, the Australian banks were I forced to lend on any security that ] was offered, from the wool on a l sheep’s back to shares in a hole in the Broken Hills, or lots in Sydney valued at $6,000 a front foot It was evident that the first mishap would precipitate a liquidation which would ■be disastrous. The mishap came when the big strike of 1890 forced the workmen and their employers to withdraw their deposits to live. For a time the banks paid dollar for doi-. lar. But presently other depositors who were not pressed by personal needs, but who watched the gradual decline in the re-ources of the banks, i began to take the alarm, and with- ■ drew part of their deposits. Some ' English money which was lying subject to call, was cabled back to London. .This went on until the banks were not able to stand the drain, ancj one after another they suspended payment. In the course of six weeks , fifteen banks failed, with liabilities of over $500,000,000. Others have ’ since followed. The Other Side of the Case. When John Hay was over in Spain 1 some years ago, he expostulated with ■ the Spaniards regarding their bull • fights, and pointed out the cruelty to animals, the hardening influence ot the spectacle upon the observer, the } actual loss occasioned by the needless slaying of so many beasts merely to ’ make a holiday—in short, the utter I barbarism of the sport. i I The Spaniards, he says, listened s gravely, and made apswer thus: “The - bulk of the money paid for the shox - goes to charity; were there no bull 3 fights, bulls of good race would cease h to be bred; the nerve, dexterity and knowledge of brute nature gained in the arena is a good thing to haye in ’’ the country; that, in brief, it is our '• way of amusing ourselves, and if you y don't like it you can -grteme and r cultivate prize-fighters, or kill 2II year-old colts on the race track, oi > murder jockeys in steeplechases; or, if in search oj wilder excitement, ! thicken your blood with beer dr burn i your souls out with whisky. *' L We leave our readers to decide y which had the best of the argument, e —St. Louis Republic.

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M LAGS high In air, Flags East and West ’ Flags everywhere, /"C/ 9 Ours v Ith the rest ' y£ Boys on the run, I at a stand, - Boys full of fun, A AU throu(?11 the land. Shouts from the W? crowd. ''m Shouts South and '// - M’ Northi / $ Shouts long and loud, “Hurrah for the Fourth!" -Youth's Companion. MOLLY PITCHER. On the west bank of the Hudson, a few miles south of Buttermilk Falls, is the grave of Molly Pitcher, one of the most famous personages in the revolutionary war. She was the only woman whose name ever appeared on the payroll of the American army and her name was placed there by order of General Washington, in recognition of her services in various battles. Molly’s maiden name, says a writer in the Utica Globe, was Mary Ludwig. She was a stout, freckle-faced, red-haired Irish girt After her marriage to Larry O'Flarharty her husband went to the front as an artilleryman and Molly remained at home. She ■ didn’t stay separated from her husband long, however. On a Monday morning, : after she had hung up her weekly washing and gone into a field near the < house to pick blackberries, a horseman 1 rode up and told her she must join her < husband. Without a word Molly picked 1 her still wet clothes from the line, 1 rolled them up in a bundle, jumped < upon the horse behind the man, and rode away. She attached herself to i the command in which Larry served. She made herself useful by carrying water to the soldiers in a huge pitcher. This is the way she got .her peculiar name. 1 Molly distinguished herself by her i reckless bravery. She had a thorough :

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contempt for cowards and a mighty ’ ?harp tongue. Larry lacked courage, and, consequently, he came in for constant abuse. But he was of a philosophical turn of mind and he accepted his matrimonial fate without paying any attention to his wife’s sharp thrusts. Not so with the raw recuits of the command, however. The woman had a wonderful effect upon them. There wasn’t one of them who wouldn’t rather march right up to a cannon’s mouth than receive a scornful glance from her. Because of her powerful influence over the men she became a privileged character. She adopted a semi-regimental dress. It consisted of a short blue skirt, the scarlet coat of an artilleryman and a cocked hat worn rakishly on one side. It was at the capture of Fort and Fort Clinton that Molly first distinguished herself in the service of her country sufficiently to cause her name to be written in revolutionary history. Larry was manning a cannon in the latter fort in a puerile sort of away. Molly hovered about him and tne other fluttering spirits trying to prevent their remaining courage from oozing out. Word was passed that the terrible Hessians wore advancing in vast numbers, almost to the demoralization of the garrison. If it hadn't been for Molly disaster would have swept over the fort quickly. She raised everybody’s spirits by mounting the rampart and shouting: "Come on. Hessians or redcoats; well trait ye ail the same, rad’ll put more bullets an’ balls into yeee than ye’ll

loike for supper." The enemy advanced upon the two forts simultaneously. Tney were evidently of the opinion that the resistance would be light. They soon discovered their error, however. Terrific fires were poured into them from both forts,causing them to fall back with fewer numbers. Again and again "Back, ye spalpeen!" she cried; "fire the gun." She was addressing herself to the demoralized Larry, who was struggling in her grasp. He succeeding in freeing himself, and throwing down his portfire he cut and ran for it. "Devil a shtep will I rin till that gun’s fired," shouted Molly. Snatching up burning brand she touched off the last cannon that was discharged in Fort Clinton in the very faces of the enemy who were pouring over the rampart. In the momentary confusion that this audacious display of nerve caused, Molly made her escape. At the Battle ot Monmouth. Nine months later the woman, then only 22 years old, was with Larry on the field of battle once more. It was TOLD TO JOIN HBB HUSBAND. Monmouth where the troops were massed this time. In that memorable battle Molly fairly outdid herself in displaying energy and enthusiasm. She flitted among the soldiers threatening, commanding, and cursing them as the they advanced and again and again they were repulsed. The forces of the enemy were too much for the garrison, however, and it become apparent after a time that the forts would be taken. When all was confusion .in Fort Clinton, when the gunners had deserted their guns and the enemy was about to pour over the rampart, the shrill voice of Molly was heard above the uproar, occasion demanded. On the sunny morning in June that the battle was

’fought Molly was carrying water to the soldiers as usual, and occasionally making suggestions, which the officers tolerated from her as well. Shot and shell filled the air, mowing down row after row of soldiers. Larry was distinguishing the battery to which he was connected by his effective fire. It held a commanding position in full view of the enemy. The British gunners were trying their best to pick Larry down and finally succeeded. Molly was just returning from the spring with a pitcher of water. When within a few feet of her husband a fragment of a cannon ball found a mark in Larry, killing him instantly just as he was in the act of discharging the field piece. Mollie saw her husband fall. She dropped her pail, and with wild shrieks and groans threw herself upon his mangled remains. It was the first time Mollie had ever been seen to give away to grief, and the battery stopped firing temrorarily. There was no guni ner to take faithful Larry’s place at the field piece, and the officer in charge of the battery ordered its withdrawal. When Mollie heard this order she sprang to her feet, panting to avenge i the death of her husband. 'No. yer honor!” she cried. 'l’ll take Larry’s place, and it’ll do me sore • heart good to send some o’ thim redcoats as killed him to the devil.” And ’ with a wild Irish yell she grabbed up : the portfire and discharged the piece. I Au that day, till the order came to i retreat, Molly manned the gun, i dlsoharguuz It as fast as she

I could load it, her eyes lighted . by a strange fire of anger her red t hair dishevelled and flying. When ' the battery was finally forced to cut . and run Molly refused to abandon the i body of her husband. Lifting it up : she tied it on the gun and i dashed along beside it, the troops > cheering her on all sides. The story of Molly’s action spread like wildfire i through the camp. On the following ■ morning, all covered with dirt ana blood, Gen. Greene presented her to i Gen. Washington, who conferred the rank of a sergeant upon her. Molly rei mained with the army some time after i the battle which made her a widow, : but she was never the same again. She i was an object of special admiration from the French officers. They newer tired of hearing the wonderful stories of the . daring exploits of the dashihg Irish vivandiere. When she passed along the French lines occasionally, soliciting alms, she was greeted with volleys of “Bravo, madam!" while the crowns fairly rained into her hat. After Larry’s death Molly grew morose and sullen, and soon retired from the army. Before leaving, however, she received the distinction of captain by brevet, and on the recommendation of Gen. Washington her name was placed on the half-pay list for life. She went to West Point to live, being under the personal charge of the commandant there. She Jived with various families thereabouts, the commissary at the post paying her board, while supplies of various kinds were sent to her direct from the Secretary of War at Washington. Capt. Molly associated exclusively with the soldiery, spending her days and evenings in the garrison, drinking and smoking and swearing with the best of them. Toward the close her life became far from well ordered. As the result of her riotous living she died in 1789. The Glorione Fourth.

jHE Chinese may r be obliged to go, but young America will surely enter a loud and deep protest if the firecracker of the Chinese is not allowed to come; for the firecracker, the sputtering, fizzing snapping firecracker, with the red jacket and the gunpowder breath, is the basis of the Jouthful Fourth of uly. Fiery rockets may cleave the starry heavens,

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brilliant Roman candles may spout their parti-colored balls into the night, and golden mines may pour forth their glittering displays, out the Chinese firecracker of commerce is dearer to the heart of the great American youngster than all of these creations of American manufacturers. The boy of the period firmly believes that the signers of the declaration of independence had the firecracker in mind when they affixed their signatures to that great document. The firecracker, to his youthful mind, is right in it. It embodies the sharp, short bark of freedom, and a Fourth without its resonant snap would be a dead blank. may the firecracker wave, then I Its flitting sparks kindle in the breasts of young America the fire of a glowing patriotism, and its explosions keep ft ablaze. And, moreover, its occasional sting reminds that other little boy—he who came here from across the water—that he is in a land of the free. He will put his burned finger into his mouth and touch off another, just to express his joy at being in a country where freedom and the firecracker march hand in hand beneath the stars and stripes. The firecracker is a tightly rolled bit of patriotism that should be allowed to thrive for the lessons it imparts. Ten Million a Year* It would be difficult to estimate what it costs the American people every year to commemorate freedom. Os the 65,000,000 people in the country, there are at least 20,000,000 who celebrate. Suppose that the average that each one of these pays for fireworks, flags, etc., was placed at 50 cents, which seems somewhat low. That would make $lO,000,000, which is probably as near to the total cost as any mathematician can get. • Grandfather's Clock. In a store at Athens, Ga., stands an old-fashioned clock which was made In Liverpool. It hasn’t missed a tick for forty years. ••On on a Bust.” $ /

PICTURES IN FIRE. HOW TO CELEBRATE IN URAND STYLE. ■ample* ot What the Modern American Patriot ot Wealth Display* or. the Nation** Anniversary—Pointer* on How t« Produce pyroteohnlo*. Firework* on the Fourth. In this great year of Columbian fetes the man of wealth and fashion is going to make things noisy on the day and night of the 4th. I was recently given a glance at the order book of probably the largest fireworks manufacturer in the world, writes a Now York correspondent, and I felt a strong inclination to go up in a balloon to witness the magnificent pyroramas which promise to illuminate New York suburban homes. While at the manufacturer's I was given some interesting pointers on not alone the latest in the way of fireworks, but on how to arrange for fine pyrotechnic effects. The prettiest novelties for this season will undoubtedly be the Japanese day fireworks. The little top-shaped bombs are fired from mortars, or upright guns, and, exploding at a great altitude, will display lifesize figures of some national celebrities, flowers of all kinds and colors and designs appropriate to this World’s Fair year. The bombs are made in sizes of nine, twelve and eighteen inches circumference. I was told that the secret of their manufacture has never been betrayed by the Japanese, and that the American designs to go into the bombs were sent to Japan and redrawn there. They will be exploded on every lawn from Tuxedo to the Thousand Islands, and from Bar Harbor to Coronado Beach on the Pacific coast. To arrange a fine display take plenty an ucut >n riaz. of room; as extensive a lawn as possible. Place your aerial fireworks in boxes far to the rear and covered with oilcloth or tarpaulin to prevent dampness or sparks from getting at them. Your rocket troughs should be erected well to the side of these covered boxes and fairly well to the rear of the lawn. Don’t fail to erect them in a direction away from the spectators. Your bombshells must be fired a good ways from the crowd. Place the largest set piece in the center of the lawn and then distribute the other pieces in such manner and at such distance from each other that they may not set fire to one another while burning, the smallest, pieces always being placed nearest the I spectators. Colored fires, mines, foun* . tains, aerolites, batteries, cissons and 1 geysers should be placed in line in front of the display, each well away | from the other. Balloons must be fired ' in that corner of the lawn where the breeze will be sure to carry them away from the inclosure at once. Begin your pyrotechnics with rockets, balSr ®. fn ® "V A MAONinCXKT MILITARY DISION. loons, bombshells, and illuminations, then fire off your set pieces, commencing with the smallest, continuing with the larger, varying each display with aerial effects, and closing with the largest piece. The effect of this will be vastly enhanced by firing off a battery at either side. Now, one word more as to precautions. Always attach your lighting torch to a stick about six feet long. Coat of an Elaborate plaplay. What will it cost to make a display of this kind? Prices differ. You can spend SSO and have a very neat exhibition. But for SIOO you can lay in a good supply of smaller pieces and at least one large set effect. One of the prettiest displays will be that of Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger, at Idlewild. I don’t think it will cost over SSOO, and it will consist, I am told, of three set pieces, including “The Continental Minute Man, ” “The Washington Statue," and a “Goddess of Liberty;" These are all magnificent in color effects, and will be shown to THB CONTINENTAL BOLDIXR. splendid advantage on the magnificent Cruger lawn. When you start out to order your fireworks be sure to order everything that is pretty, and here are a few of the things you must not to get: Boomshells in all effects, aerial bouquets, the Gatling battery, Spuyten Tuyfel slzzlers, sparkling waterfall, the shield of Iris, the polka redowa, Chinese brilliants, tree of liberty, the sunburst, Peruvian glory, elfin waltz, the aurora borealis, the casket of jewels, the magic wheel, the Egyptian pyramid, the double diamond, the revolving atty, th& puzzle wheel, the Italian rcflette, the Mosaic diamond, the peacock tail, jeweled sprays,, Saxon pyramid, dazzling diamonds, revolving gun, kaleidoscope,. Pleiades, gothic cross, basket of jewels, emerald jewels, and these are comparatively small in the setting and magnificent in the effect. The Niagara falls design is not costly and perhaps the prettiest of

® LAIN ILL£L CLONE FIFTEEN PERSONS PERISH IN A KANSAS TORNADO. A Fakrful Storm Swaep* Over a Bectloilol Country In tho K*n*a* River ValleyMany Killed. Some Fatally Hurt and Other* Serloualy Injured. Work of a Wlndatorm. One of the most destructive cyclones that ever visited Kansas swept over the section in the vicinity of Williamstown Wednesday night, completely devastating a strip of country about two miles east and west of the town, and killing instantly fifteen people. The storm was preceded by a heavy rain and its approach from the northwest was heralded by a sudden darkening of the skies and tho terrible rush of the wind. In the path of its destruction nothing remained that could bo at all recognized. Trees were twisted up; fields of grain wore completely wiped out; hedges wore completely stripped of foliage; stock was killed and horribly manned, and houses and barns and all buildings were swopt out ot sight The list of killed is as follows: EVANS, L. F. EVANS, EMERY. GRIMES. L. M. 1 GRIMES, MARY »n<l two children. HUTCHINSON, MRS. JOHN. KINCAID, SAMUEL. < KINCAID, CLARA KINCAID, SADIE. KINCAID, WALTER. KINCAID, EVA KINCAID, WILLIAM. PETERS, W. F. BTEWABT, SAMUEL. Three others were fatally hurt and a score more or lees injured. The bodies of all those killed were shockingly mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson's arms and legs were found in a tree a mile from the house. Eva Kincaid’s head was severed from her body. Samuel Stewart and L. M. Grimes were carried 300 hundred yards in different directions and mutilated almost beyond recognition. Stewart’s body was cut in two as if by one stroke of a great knife. The strip of country swept by the cyclone is left as barren as a floor. In Williamstown schoolhoase were found the dead bodies of the Kincaid family, consisting of father, mother and four children. The youngest child is without its head, it being blown or out off and carried away by the wind. One of the children was found three miles from the house. At Arthur Evans’ farm, a quarter of a mile northeast of Williamstown, everything is destroyed. Evans ran into his basement, but was found dead three rods from the house in the field. Mrs. Evans also took shelter in the basement, but escaped with her Jifo. At the Hutchinson farm, which was northeast of Williamstown, Mrs. Hutchinson lost her life and Mix Hutchinson was slightly injured. Seven head of horses were killed here. Some of the horses were blown a quarter of a mile away. In the cemetery at Williamstown the monuments are all blown away and some of the base stones were blown many rods. Fully thirty horses were completely demolished and the little village of Williamstown wiped out of existence. The storm was only about six minutes in passing. | At Winfield many small houses . were destroyed and a number of peoS' le injured, two fatally. The Episcopal hurch is completely destroyed. The | Babbitt Hotel and Thompson block, a ' three-story building, are badly dam--1 aged and the plate-glass front of the First National Bank was blown out. The west wing of the courthouse was also blown away. Emporia also suffered from a windstorm but to a lesser degree. FOUR HUNDRED LOST. The Brltlih Battleship Victoria I* Sunk Olt Tripoli. A most terrible calamity befell the great British twin screw battleship Victoria, flying the flag of Vice Admiral George C. Tryon, K. C. 8., commander of the Mediterranean station. She was sunk in eighteen fathoms of water off Tripoli Friday afternoon, and at least four hundred of her officert and crew went to the bottom with her. The disaster was due to the fearful bungling ot either her own officers or those of the battleship Camperdown. In broad daylight, during a maneuver, she was run into head on by her companion ship, and in less than a quarter of an hour she had disappeared in the waves, carrying with her all on board. Twenty-one officers, including Vice Admiral Tryon, are reported drowned, and the great fighting ship lies a useless wreck, bottom side up, beneath the waves. The disaster is one of the most horrible, as well as one of the most disgraceful, that have ever befallen the English navy. The Victoria was a battleship of 10,470 tons and 14,000 horse-power and mounted fifty guns. The Camperdown is also of the Mediterranean fleet and is a slightly smaller boat than the Victoria. She is of 10,600 tons and 11,500 horse-power. Tripoli, near where the collision happened, is about seventy miles from Damascus. It has a small harbor,which is so shallow as to be notoriously unsafe. It is supposed that the Victoria found a lack of sea room in putting about as the Camperdown came on, and the latter boat hit the flagship squarely on the starboard side with her ram. The Camperdown was moving under a high steam pressure, and the effect was such as would have been made with an ax on a plank. The plates of the Victoria just forward of the turret were torn apart and a perfect flood poured into the hold of the flagship. She began to sink immediately. The engines of the Camperdown were reversed at once, but not before sho had hit the Victoria a second time and completed the Work of destruction. Every effort was made to saye the ship, but the Victoria settled so fast that this was seen to be impossible, and the men, losing all discipline, cast loose the small boats and attempted to reach the Camperdown. Only three of the boats got free of the suction of the sinking ship. The rest were overturned and many of the occupants of these were drowned with the men who were cooped up in the battleship beyond all chance, of rescue. Vice Admiral Tryon is said to be one of those who went down with the ship. The moved forward after the blow. The water poured so rapidly into her engine-room that the fires were extinguished before the engineer had time to act. Some of the officers and crew managed to get out of the suction caused by the sinking vessel, and wore rescued. Among those lost is Vice Admiral Tryon. The first reports of tho disaster stated that about two hundred men had been drowned, but later dispatches show that the loss of life was far greater, not less than 400 of the officers and crew of the Victoria having gone down with their ship. The Liberty Bell Cast. The Columbian liberty bell has been cast at the Meneely bell foundry in Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Cleveland did not press the electric button which was to release the metal from the furnace, allowing it to run into the molds. There wae some misunderstanding in making the wire connections jt Gray Gabioa.