Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1893 — Page 6

DECATUR, IND. BLACKBURN, - ■ - PCTLisurn. 1893 JULY. .1893 Ibulmo Tu We Fr Sa •••• • o 1 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 31 t t • • •_ WENTDOWNTODEATH DREADFUL FATE OF BRAVE FIREMEN. They Perish While Battling: with Flames at the Windy City—Prise Fight at Roby, Ind.—Corbett and Jackson Matched and the Money Up. DEATH Comes in a Horrible Manner to a Cargo Number of Brave Firemen. No less than thirty firemen lost their lives at the World's Fair Monday afternoon just before 2 o’clock., At that time the cold storage fvarehouse, just south of the Sixty-fourth street gate, caught fire in the top of the cupola, which rises fully 200 feet from the ground. Through this cupola the chimney passes. The cupola is built of wood, overlaid with staff, and is highly ornamented with columns and pillars. Near the top is a landing. The fire broke out about thirty feet above this. As soon as the firemen arrived about thirtyfive or forty of them climbed up the ladders to this landing and were preparing to throw streams of water to the burning portion when the fire, which had eaten its way inside the staff to a point below, where the liremOn stood, broke out with volcanic ferocity on all sides. An exclamation of horror went up from the lips of $20,000 people who had assembled about the building to see the fire. Five of the men saved themselves by sliding down the ropes. Before others could follow the flames had burned away the ropes. The unfortunate fellows who remained huddled together on the north side of the cupola were doomed. It was beyond the reach of any of the ladders and the crowd stood horror-stricken and helpless to rescue the crew. The flames ran higher until the men were almost conealed from view. At this moment one of the firemen sprang far out into the air and was dashed to pieces on the roof fully eighty feet below. Another and another followed his example, crazed by the awful heat and doubtless preferring to be killed by a fall than burned to death. When five had jumped the upper portion of the cupola gave way and the remaining firemen were swallowed up in the seething mass of burning timbers. SPORTING NEWS. A Fight at Roby—Corbett and Jackson Matched. The featherweight championship battle between Solly Smith of California, and Johnny Griffin of Braintree, Mich., took place at the Columbian Athletic Club, Roby, Ind., before a crowd of 7,000 people for a purse of $6,000, and the featherweight championship of the world. Smith knocked Griffin out in the fourth round. J. Corbett, Denver, Ed Smith, and other prominent sports were present. When Corbett walked to the box the entire crowd stood up and yelled. There were calls for a speech, but he only responded bv lifting his hat. Corbett then jumped into the ring and said: “There is a colored pugilist of the name of Jackson (a yell, ‘you are afraid to meet him’) who wants to fight me. Jackson is not here to talk for himself, but his manager is here. I want to say that I will fight him and that I have a check for SIO,OOO in my hand that I will ’ whip Peter Jackson at any time or , place.” At this moment “Parson” Davies l cleared the ropes, and amid mingled applause and hisses, from the center of the ring he proclaimed that Jackson had, months ago, posted a forfeit of $2,500 for a fight with Corbett, and that the latter was only required to state , the time. I “Put up your money!” shouted Cor-■ bett. “You know I have to fight Mitch-. ell in December.” “Our money is up,” responded the parson amid an uproar of shouts and hisses. “I want a forfeit!” roared Corbett. “Here is another forfeit,” shouted the parson, producing a big roll of bills from his troqsers pocket and handing it to O’Mallay. I “That is satisfactory,” announced the latter, and then the announcement was made amid a torrent of cheering that Corbett and Jackson would meet in November for a fight to a finish. A Foor Crop. The July returns to the statistjean of the department of agriculture make the average condition of cotton, 82.7 against 85.6 in June, showing a decline of nearly three points. The reports show prevalence of bad wdather conditions, cool, nights, excessive rains and occasional drought spots. Considerable injury has beon caused by lice and other insects. A Gas Explosion. The Coraopolis Oil Refining Company's Works at Coraopolis, Ba., together with several tanks of crude and refined oil, were completely destroyed by fire. Killed His Wife and Himself While Insane. Frank Bayes, a farmer living about four miles west of Wauseon.OUio,killed his young wife by cutting her throat. He tried to kill his 4-year-old daughter but she escaped. He then shot himself. Insanity is the supposed cause of the crime. Ex-Governor Allison of Florida, Dead. Abraham K. Allison, who was Governor of Florida in the ’6os, is dead. He was 83 years of age. Emperor William to Visit the Fair. That William 111., Germany’s young ruler, will accept the invitation of the President of the United States to visit the World’s Columbian Exposition, is the declaration of the diplomats in discussing the recall of Imperial Commissioner Adolf Wermuth, through whose energy and executive ability Germany's matchless exhibit at Jackson jf’fcrk has been made possible. Mr. Wermuth sails for home July 20. His recall is ostensibly occasioned by stress of business in connection with his Office of Privy Councillor, but among hU assoei- ; ' atas it is asserted that the aioner has been called back.’to the

I fatherlaWd to escort Emperor William ■ to Chicago. Commissioner Wermuth ■ says that he hopes and confidently expects to return before the close qf the exposition, and that fact strengthens the current rumor. The commissioner declined to affirm or deny the rumor of the Emperor’s acceptance. MURDERER MILLER LYNCHED. After Bring Hung Hl* Body 1* Burned to a Crisp. Bardwell (Ky..) special: Whether guilty of the awful crime which he was charged or not, Loay J. Miller, the negro arrested at Sykeston, Mo., has paid the penalty for it. He was dragged from the jail by an infuriated mob whoso purpose was to burn him at the stake. That ho was not burned alive seems to have been duo to the very fury of the mob that killed him. Ex* cited into hysterics the ringleaders lost their heads and hanged’ him with a chain to a telegraph pole, while they were themselves shouting “burn him.’’ John Ray, the father of the murdered girls, with singular inconsistency asked that the negro lie not burned, although in the morning he had set the hour for the torture. It is doubtful if he knew what he was doing he was so excited. After being dragged from the jail the negro was hurried pway amid cries of “burn him. burn him,” until a telegraph polo was reached. A chain was drawn around his neck and two men climbed the polo with the other end of it. The negro was drawn up and strangled. Some one fired a shot into his body before ho was dead. Everybody was disappointed and angry at the manner of his death. The body was lowered and horribly mutilated, the ears, fingers, and other parts being cut away. The body was then dragged by the mob a distance of 300 yards across the railroad tracks and burned. The funeral pile is to be kept burning all night. After his arrest the negro was positively identified by the fisherman who ferried him across the river. He also had on his person a ring belonging to one of his victims and his knife contained hair torn from her head. These were identified by her father. He was lodged in jail here at about noon and ate a hearty dinner. He called for a Methodist preacher and one waited on him. He professed conversion and was baptized. Immediately after being baptized he raised his hand and swore he was innocent. This statement he repeated to tho mob. The door of the jail was battered a few minutes before 3 o'clock and he was dragged out. Fully 7,000 people, men, women, and children, witnessed the execution. SERIOUS CASUALTY. Fifteen Persons Injured at Coney Island. New York special: An accident occurred on the elevated railway at West Brighton Beach, Coney Island,in which fifteen persons were injured. It happened at 2:45 o'clock and over 500 persons were in the station waiting for the train to carry them to the Brighton Beach race track. As the two cars were pushed into the station by the small engine all were ih a great hurry to get aboard, and rushed for the rear car. Suddenly there was a terrible crashing of boards followed by loud shrieks and twelity-five feet of the platform, where the crowd was standing, caved in. The broken boards dropped eight feet, where they were caught by the cross beams and held. Fortunately no space was thrown open or the crowd would have fallen to the rear yard below and been seriously injured. The following are the injured as far as known: Miss Lane, M. Grossman, A. Schneider, M. Gallagher. Miss Woodward, A. J. Geachs, James Williams. The injured people suffered bruises, cuts and a few broken bones. The most serioufily hurt was A. Schneider. His hip and one or two ribs were broken. One finger was torn off and he sustained numerous cuts, wounds, and bruises on his scalp, face, and body. A few others were injured, pithough not seriously. FOR FREE COINAGE. Montana Silver Men Push for Free Coinage. The Montana Silver Conference at Helena, Mont., was attended by 300 delegates representing every business interest of Montana. The sentiment was unanimous’ for coinage, and speeches were made by Senator Power, Congressman Hartman, Marcus Daly, Lee Mantell, and ' others. The 'conference resulted in i the formation of the Montana Free Coinage Association with Mar- ' cus Daly as President and ex-Governor Hauser'cbairmanof the executive com_mittee. The association will take in hand the work of pushing the cause of free coinage in Congress and .will appoint delegates to the bi-metallic I league meeting and the St. Louis silver | convention. Resolutions were adopted ' declaring for the free coinage of silver . and blaming the demonetization act of 1873 for the present business depression and contraction of currency. The President Sick, Buzzards Bay (Mass.) special: A call • made at Gray Gables reveals the fact that the President is confined to his room. Secretary Lamont says Mr. I Cleveland has an attack of rheumatism in his foot and knee, complaint of which he has suffered for many years and which is no doubt aggravated at this time by the hard work and severe strain on his strength, which the President has undergone since the 4th of March. The trouble has been hanging about him for some weeks, but has now so much increased in severity that he will lie compelled to take absolute rest in order that he may be at his post of duty at the special meeting of Congress next month. Fatal Accident at a Coal Mine. Rosedale (Ind.) special: As mine No. 9, ih the Parke County coal range, was in the act oL shutting down tho other night, anq while four young miners were coming up the slope, three empty cars got loose at the top of the triple and ran down with lightI ning speed. The miners were caught in a narrow place and could not •escape. Joseph Craven was instantly killed. ' Otto Grogan, aged 14, was crushed '' about the temples and will die. Rolla 1 Still younger, and Joe Blacketer. aged about 15, were badly bruised about the head and hips. i A Race War to Be Commenced In Missouri. Dexter, (Mo.) special: News was brought hare that great excitement prevails in the vicinity of Sikeston, twenty miles east of here-, in Scott County, where the negro, Miller, who murdered the Ray gifts near Bardwell, Ky., was captured, and that an effort , will be made to run tho u-'groes out ofl ! that locality. There will probably be* : serious trouble as many bold citizens , and farmers of that-ipart.of Scotland . New Madrid counties employ considcF- . able negro labor, and will defend the I > negroes. Tho white citizens favor s moving them. I Sea Serpent Seen Again. ' The sea serpent turned up again at ’ Breakley's Bay,Wolfe Island, five miles j from Kingston, Ont. Last summer a woman struck the thing with an oar. Thia time it frightened F. Leonard, ’ i who was rowing across tho bay with '. .dinners for workingmen quarrying

granite. Leonard Bays it was many feet long, had a head like a pug dog, and was very agile. It wauld stretch out its heap and rush through the water, making a hissing noise. Son* of Veterans. Terre Haute special: The following is a list of officers for Indiana division, Sons of Veterans, for the ensuing year: Commander, Newton J. McGuire, Rising Sun: Senior Vice Commander, George P. C. Newman, Hammond; Junior Vice Commander, George. W. Kreltenstein, Terre Haute; Division Council, E.H. Bookwaiter, Fort Wayne, Fremont Garrett and A. J. Bosworth of Winchester. Ladies’ Aid Society officers: Miss Georgia Duncan, Laketon, President; Division Council, Pearl Wills, Clayton; Gertrude Gilpine, Portland; Vonnie Muller, Bloomington. Delegate, Adda Wallace, Indianapolis; Chief of Staff, Miss Sybil Neidhammer, of Fort Wayne. A Stricken Town. Affairs at Ironwood, Mich,, where typhoid fever plague prevails, grow worse. None of the infected city water is used, but new eases still appear. Wells have been ordered clos _'d and pure water has been imixirted from 2\shland and Milwaukee. The hospital and the armory are full of typhoid fever patients, and school buildings will have to be used for the same purpose. Three thousand miners are idle and the city and county funds are exhausted. Five hundred people are now living on public or private bounty. Derrick Men Fall. Portland (Ind.)special: John Hitchcoek of Lima, fell from the top of a derick sixty feet high in the Camden field and was instantly killed. He was pulling casing and the structure gave away. George McFarling fell from a derrick on the Walton farm about tho same time and had both arms and his leg broken. He also sustained bad internal injuries. Society of the Army ofithe Tennessee. Gen. Hickenlooper has just issued the official call for a meeting of the society of the Army of the Tennessee at Chicago the 12th and 13th of September. The local executive committee, charged with the preparations for the meeting, will make ample provision for the reception and entertainment of members. Judge Blatchford Dead. Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford died at Newport, R. I. He retained consciousness up to the hour before his death. Arrangements for the funeral are not complete, but the body will probably be taken to Washington for intejpnXpt. Judge Blatchford was appoinTpyPto the Supreme Bench in 1882. ' Another Lynching: Party. Peoria (Ill.) special: Miss Smith, 16 years old. on her way to East Peoria was grabbed ‘by two negroes who bound, gagged, and assaulted her. The cords which bound her were set on fire, terribly burning her arms and wrists. One of the miscreants has been captured, and lynching is looked for. Bank President Get* Five Year*. C. W. Mosher, President of the defunct Capital National Bank of Lincoln, Neb., was sentenced to five years in the Sioux Falls penitentiary by Judge Dundy of the United States District Court. It is estimated that Mosher embezzled over $2,200,000. One Reason for Striking. Forty switchmen in the Cleveland yards of the Lake Shore Railroad struck because the yard conductor, who allowed two of his brakemen to become intoxicated on duty, was suspended for fifteen days. The men already think their action hasty. Fifty Perron* Drowned. St. Petersburg special: Full particulars of the burning of the steamer Alfons near Romanoff, July 4, have been received. The passengers became panic-stricken and dozens jumped overboard. Nearly fifty persons were drowned. Gave Him a Respite. Governor McKinley has granted Frank Vanloon, the Columbus Grove robber and murderer of Farmer Vandetmark, a respite to August 4, in order to give the condemned man’s friendsra chance to present new evidence. Rumor of Revolution. ‘ San Francisco special: It is rumored that a revolution has broken out in Australia, and that independence has been declared, but little credence however is given the rumor. It will Soon be Saint Columbus. During the reception of the Columbian minister, at Rome, the pope said that America would soon have a patron saint, as Columbus would be beatified shortly. Cotton Crop Short. Advices from 300 cotton growing points indicate that the crop will be very short. Unfavorable weather and insects are responsible for the shortage. An Indiana Town Destroyed. The entire business portion of Russiaville, Ind., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $40,000; insurance, $15,000. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.l3 25 <ai 5 75 Hoos— Shipping Grades...- 8 00 & 6 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 0) @5 oo Wheat—No. 2 Spring,.... 64 <3 65 CORN—No. 2 39 & 40 Oats—No. 2...-vrr.. 29 <3 30 Rye—No. 2 47 (3 49 Butter—Choice Creamery IM)4@ 20)4 Ecos—Fresh 12 @ 13 Potatoes—New. per brl2 00 <3 2 50 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping3 25 @ 6 25 Hogs—Choice Light 3 50 @6 50 SHEEP—Common to Prime....*. 3 00 @ 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 61 @ 62 Corn—No. 2 White 40 & 41 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 35 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE.- 300 @5 00 Hogs 3 00 & 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 & 51 Corn—No. 2.-. 37 .<3 38 Oats—No. 2 29)4 Rye—No. 2 49 & 50 ' CINCINNATI. Cattle 3<w @ 5 r> Hogs 3 00 & 0 ro Sheep 3’oo @SOO Wheat—No. 2 Red 59 @ 60 CORN—Np. 240 <3 41 Oat.-,—No. 2 Mixed 33 <3 34 Bye—No. 2 54 <3 55 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 (3 5 00 Hogs 3 00 @ 7 25 Sheep 3 00 @ 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 <3 66 Corn—No. 2Y low 40 @ 41 Oats—No 2 White TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 ....... 64 <3 86 Corn—No.2 Y How 41)43 42)4 Oats—No. 2 Wh. e 30)4@ 31)4 ■ Rye 62 <3 54 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 350 @5 50 Hoos—Best Gra es .... 100 (3 675 ■ Wheat—No. 1 Wli te r. 69 <3 71 No. 2 R-d 67 @ 69 MILWAUKEE. : Wheat—No, 2 Spring 63 @ 64 Corn—No. 3 37 @ 89 Oats—No. 2 White 84)4® 35)4 Bye—No. 1; 58 @ 60 Bablex-No. 2 57 0 69 Pobk—Mess 19 00 <319 60 NEW YORK. Cattle 350 @660 Hogs 3 00 8 76 Sheep 3 00 6 0» Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 76 Corn—No. 2 4S>4@ Oath—Mixed Western 15 < I 37 IJUTTKB—Creamery 30 < I 19 FOM-New MewJ 6 i» W

WIND’S AWFUL WOR K. OVER SEVENTY DEAD FROM IOWA’S STORM. x ■ • ’ * Utter Deeolation In the Devastated Dtat riot—Home* Demollahod and Crop* Kulned—Gov. Bole* Appeal* for AidDeath Ltat Not Yet Completa, Ruin in It* Wako. More complete details from the cy-clone-swept section of Northwestern lowa do not diminish its horrors. The latest reports give the number of dead at seventy-four, and it is said at least five more will die, while the injured number considerably over one hundred. A conservative estimate places the whole number that were either killed or injured by the tornado at 260. At Pomeroy alone over fifty are dead. Five blocks of residences were completely swept away, not more than kindling wood being left of them. The disaster is the most diro one that has occurred in lowa since the Grinnell cyclone. The loss of life at Pomeroy Is not so great as at Grinnell, but the destruction of property will be more complete. At 6 o’clock Thursday evening a thousand happy people sat down to their tea-tables chatting cheerily, unconscious of impending danger. Friday morning more than half of them were wandering about homeless and half crazed, depending on charity for food and drifik, while strangers were winding the grave-clothes around their dead. Every house left standing was a

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hospital Every citizen of Pomeroy mourns the loss of a relative or friend. Two hundred families are homeless, many having lost all they owned. Hundreds of people poured in on every train to view the ruins, and to every one of them the completeness of the havoc wrought by the tornado was painfully apparent. Sixtv-five acres of debris-is what is left of Pomeroy now. Imagine a gigantic pile of lumber scattered in every direction over a broad prairie and you have a good picture of this wrecked lowa city. Nothing but the occasional shattered remains of a wall or the halfdestroyed gable of a dwelling rise above the level of the ground. The numerous trees that surrounded the town have been swept away so completely that it would be difficult to believe that one ever grew there. One hundred and twenty-five residences, most a story-and-a-half or two-story frame; seven churches, all frame; one brick and a SOLE SURVIVORS OF AS ENTIRE FAMILY. half-dozen frame business buildings constitute the total of buildings that were wrecked. Os Course, the loss on these is total. All the other business houses, probably fifty, were more or less damaged. Those who are competent to judge say the loss in the city will not be less than a quarter of a million. . All Ina Minute. The storm did its terrible work in one minute’s time. Just before dark great banks of black clouds massed in the southwest and another in the west. About 7 o’clock the two threatening piles moved toward one another, and then joined. The clouds took on a green tint, which was pierced with the sun’s rays for a moment. Then darkness set in rapidly. The elements seemed to form about the combined clouds, though scarcely a breeze stirred the tree-tops in the streets of Pomeroy. Those who were watching the phenomena say that a tolumn of smoke like a cloud dropped to the ground and gath-

the baulson cave, where twenty-two lives were saved.

ered in strength as it advanced toward the town. They recognized it as a cyclone and gave the alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars and others mounted horses to flee from the path of the coming destruction. There was a dash of hail, a blinding flash of lightning and deafening peal of thunder. Men and women ran wildly about the streets shouting and gesticulating. The cyclone struck the town at the southwest among the scattering houses in tho outskirts.. Roofs and shingles and sides of buildings were wrenched loose and were thrown to one side. On to the more densely'’ populated district the monster of destruction swept, leveling all before it and ’leaving in its wake a_ploud of splinters and wrecked homes, death ana demoralization. The people were panic stricken and fled here and there amid the flying timbers .until stricken down to the earth, mangled, torn, and dead. While the tornado lasted it was pitch dark, except for the vivid flashes of lightning which lit the weird and awful scene. The rain caaie down iii torrents,

the roar of the thunder and the storm was deafening. The air was full of sticks, stones, mud, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, houses, machinery, brloks, human beings, and everything that was unable to resist the force of the terrible tempest. It was alt over in a few seconds. Oh, what a piteous spectacle greeted tho eyes of the agonized siirvivot.l Dead jieoplewero on every side. Husband and wife lay on the ground, their glassy eyes turned heavenward and the bodies' rent and torn in the most cruel manner. Mothers and their little babies were found stark dead, with their brains oozing outof their crushed skulls and their life blood soaking tho sod beneath them. Rescuing parties at once set out, and the dead and wounded were brought In as fast as men could work. The telegraph and telephone linos wore blown down, and Ed Masterson set out on a horse to Manson for help. He succeeded in flagging Vice President Harahan's special train, which flew back to Manson, and help from all tho towns along the line was soon on hand. Fifteen surgeons were soon caring for the wounded. The Good Templars’ Hall was turned into a hospital, and the old postoffico building did duty os a morgue. The shrieks of the wounded and tho groans of tho dying were mingled with tho agonizing moans of those so suddenly bereft of their dear ones. It was a sight that beggars description. Sweep of the Storm. As shown by the accompanying map, the tornado started a short distance west of Cherokee and followed closely the Illinois Central Railroad, cutting a swath from one-quarter to one-half mile wide and completely demdlishing

everything in its path for a distance of sixty miles. All along this strip, in addition to the devastation wrought at Pomeroy, Fonda, Storm Lake,’ and other towns in its path, are wrecked homes and ruined farms. The actual loss of life in tho path of the storm through the country cannot yet be accurately stated, but it is known to be great, and tho damage to property is tremendous. Thousands of acres of corn alone have been destroyed. In many huge fields of corn nothing is left but the roots, and in some instances they have been torn out. It is difficult to estimate the loss, but it will reach far up in the thousands. Not a barn, or a house, or shed, or fence, or tree in the path of the storm stands. A swath was mowed through the biggest part of the woods. Huge trees were torn out by their roots and others equally as large were broken off at the place where their circumference was largest. Ten farmhouses and all their barns and outhouses between Pomeroy and Fonda have been wrecked. Only splinters of the largest buildings'remain. gov. boies Appeals for help. He Issues a Proclamation Describing the Scope of the Disaster. Gov. Boies was telegraphed as to the scope of the disaster and appealed to for aid. Whereupon the Governor immediately took the train for ’Pomeroy. On arriving there and looking over the desolate waste, he issued the following proclamation: To the People of Iowa: From a personal examination of the ruin wrought by the storm of l»st evening 1 And that forty-two are already dead and upward of HO are seriously injured in this town, which had a population of 1,000 souls. The great bulk of tho residence portion of the town is completely destroyed and hundreds of families are homeless and destitute. In at least one town west of here eight or ten are said to have been killed and many injured. The necessity for aid is imperative. The good people in towns adjacent to Pomeroy have supplied immediate wants for board and clothing. bnt it Is Impossible for them to supply all that will be needed in the future. Money, however, is the great necessity of the hour. We must not only help these people to live,'but we must aid them to rebuild their destroyed homes. Permit me to reoormnend that in every city and town of the State nnmedlate steps be instituted by the Mayors and municipal officers to organize relief committees and promptly proceed to collect and forward aid. This may be directed to the "Relief Committee of Pomeroy, lowa." which will be organized during the day, and will consist of thoroughly responsible persons of this and other towns: so that aid will be fairly and equitably distributed to all who are In want. Citizens of lowa, it is no exageration for mo to say that no more deserving appeal was ever made to you for aid. Be sure that you are both prompt and liberal. Horace Boies. Governor of lowa. Gov. Boies’ appeal met with quick response from all parts of tho State, and in a short while over $2,000 had been received by telegraph and mail. The Illinois Central sent relief trains from Fort Dodge, Manson, and Cherokee, with physicians and citizens to assist in takfog care cf the people, and

they did noble work. Undertakers and coffins were also sent from various points. Carl ads of provisions have since been arriving by every train, and enough clothing to supply all the survivors is stacked up in the building used as the headquarters of the committee. What is needed now is money. The victims have plenty to eat and wear, but they are in most cases penniless. What little they had was their homes and what there was in them, but these have been blown away. Mbney to rebuild them is what the relief committee is calling now, and their needs are likely to be promptly met. Abundant evidence of this was received in a telegram from the Mayor of Sioux City saying SI,OOO had been raised there. Another from Des Moines . announced that a like amount had been contributed at the capital. Emmetsburg sent SIOO, and many towns are coming to the front in good shape. Im 1890 5,73>> new books and reprints were Issued in Great Britain.

boyaFloverswed. PRINCESS MAY AND THE DUKE OF YORK UNITED. Itejolelng Throuxhont AU Englund—An Heir of the I’rlnee of Wale* Never B*for* Married Daring HU Fatlier** LlfeUma— Ar«hbl*hop of Canterbury Officiate*. Urine* George’* Day. The msrrlago of the Duke of York IPrinoe George of Wales) and Princess Victoria May of Teck, an event to which all England had been looking forward with deep interest, took place at 12:30 o'clock Thursday In the Chapel Royal. St. James palace. Tho wedding was a brilliant function and was attended by a large gathering of tho members of the British roval family, continental sovereigns or tnelr representatives and many more members of the highest nobility. Tho marriage ceremony opened with tho procession of the clergy into the chapel. The bride wore the veil which was worn by her mother on tho occasion of her own marriage. Her wedding gown was of TH! BRIDBGROOM. silver brooa le in perfect harmony with the bridemaids, toilets of white satin and silver lace. The Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the other clergy, performed the ceremony, the b ide being given away by her father. The dejeuner was served at Buckingham palace. After receiving congratulations the Duke and Duchess of York left the palace, driving through the Mall to the city, and thence proceeded by the Great Eastern Railway from Wool street to Sandringham. The wedded pair were tho recipients of many gifts of fabulous value. The royal couple occupy a unique position, inasmuch as it is the first time in the history of England that the son and heir of the Prince of Wales has married while his father bore that title. For throe generations in the direct line of succession to be alive, and the youngest of these of marriageable age, is sufficiently rare t and the actual celebration of the marriage under such circumstances is unprecedented. Prince George is twjhty-eight years of age, about three years the senior of his bride. Both have been most carefully educated, and have lived up to a few years ago as simple as the children of country gentry. At a very tender age Prince George displayed a strong inclination for a seafaring life, and at the age of twelve passed the naval examination and entered the training ship at Dartmouth. From that time he has been almost continually at sea, and has acquired a practical knowledge of the service. He did not finally leave the service until the change in nis poTHE BRIDE IN HER WEDDING DRESS. sition caused by the death of his brother, the late Duke of Clarence. Princess May, on the other hand, has spent her whole life in quiet White Lodge at Richmond. Until two years ago, when she visited the Queen at Balmoral, she had never been away from home alone. She had seen but little more of the world than a clergyman's daughter, and her days had been filled with domestic duties, visiting the sick and poor of the neighborhood and in the company of her three younger brothers, who are said to adore her. Her mother, the portly Duchess of Teck, however, has been an excellent manager, and the British public has long been cognizant of the sweetness of character of their own and only English princess. Almost from the time she has been grown up her English , birth and training have been dwelt ■ upon, her charity to the poor, her sim-! pie tastes and kind heart until she has become the popular idol. It would seem that good-natured, shrewd Princess Mary of Teck has had her daughter in training for the future Queen of England from her birth. It Is nearly two years since tho preparations for the marriage of the Princess to the Duke of Clarence were sadly interrupted by the sudden calamity of his death. Notes of Current. Events. All silver mines in Chili will probably be closed. Warrants have been issued for $16,000,000 of pensions. James Lamar, a negro, was hanged at Darien, Ga., for murder. Charles W. Drayton has assumed charge of the New York Postoffice. , IN a drunken quarrel at Cincinnati, John Sohede stabbed Joseph Lux to death. IN a quarrel over a woman at Cincinnati, Alfred Patterson shot Anderson Bixon dead. The electrotyping plant of Ringler & Co., at New York, suffered a damage of $50,000 by fire. The National Bank of Commerce at Provo, Utah, has suspended. The liabilities are $75,000. The several Iron mills at Youngstown, Ohio, have been closed, throwing 7,000 persons out of employment. The sect loll men employed along the line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad have struck for an increase il wages. — Consul Leonard, of Shanghai, sayi Chinese merchants will not boycott American goods on account of the Geary law. Brakeman C. D. Hull was killed and 0.8. Hackelman was seriously injured In a wreck on the Lake Snore Road near Elkhart, Ind. The Oushing and th« Stiletto are tc be ordered into torpedo practice for the entire summer, and will be located at the (government torpedo station. j

INDIANA STATE NEWS. I OCCURRENCES OURINO TH* fl PAST WEEK. | An Int*r<-»ilntr Nummary of tho Mor* Im- S portent Dolnir* of Our N«lghbor*-WoU- H ding. hikl DrntliM-t'rlm**. < n»m»ltl«» nm| General New* Note* of tho State. ||| Hooaler Happening* WABASH hus free mail delivery. Ethml Beathy, aged 7, was burned to death at her home near Jasper. Some fruit mon say tho apple crop in Indiana will be a complete failure. 4 Washington Brunemer, a farmer A near Franklin, was killed by lightning. ■) Prof. Ellis has been chosen superintendent of the North Vernon schools. Evansville has a female lawyer. The local papers call her a “lawyeress." A disease resembling pink eye has broken out among the horses in Wabash County. All the glass works at Dunkirk and Redmond have shut down. About 400 men are out. Nearly five hundred binders and mowers have been sold in Jackson County this season. M. Roop, aged 60, was kicked in the eye by a horse at Elwood, and is believed to be fatally hurt. Dithridge Bros, glass factory at Marion was destroyed by fire. Loss, $31,000, insurance, $16,000. At Lincolnville, Wabash County, John Hauffman was kicked in the breast by a horse and will die. Elmer Quackenbush, 17, near Thorntown, who was injured by a team running away with a plow, died. Three fine horses belonging to William Hinchman, Indianapolis, were killed by lightning, near Rushville. Hamilton County Commissioners “ have granted a perpetual right of way to the Chicago & Central Indiana Electric Railway Company. The Lentz & Mather carriage factory, Dayton, near Lafayette, was en- :< tered the other night and twelve fine ‘ carriages cut and defaced. j, Brazil City Council has granted a forty-year franchise to a Chicago com-( * pany to the streets of that town for gas; 4 mains to transport fuel gas. The Spiceland Council has granted a ; right of way for the long distance telephone line, from New York westward, * to pass through Spiceland. Ed. Cooley, unmarried, an employe of the Big Four, attempted to board a freight train at Brookville, and was thrown under the wheels and almost instantly killed. A South Bend man who reduced his weight from 328 to 216 pounds by stopping beer drinking and substituting seltzer water, has sent the recipe to President Cleveland. “Little” Faulkenburgh of Perry County, and Joseph Jones, of Crawford, have been indicted at Eckerty for par- - i ticipating in the hanging of John Davidson five years ago. f x Ernest Bono, Vincennes saloon keeper, while driving near that city, noticed the big railroad trestle on fire. He ran a half mile, flagged a passenger train and averted a disastrous wreck. The body of a man who has been killed by a Lake Shore train was picked up by an east-bound freight cfew near LaPorte. Letters founa in the dead man's coat give the name of Allen Blair, of Pennsylvania. Four boys were walking up the slopes of a coal mine near Rosedale, when three empty cars rushed down and caught them. Joseph Crave, aged 13, was instantly killed; Otto Crogan, aged 14, received fatal injuries, and Rolla Crogan and Joe Blacketer, aged 11 and . 13, respectively, had bones broken. Milton Pliley, foreman of the straw department at the strawboard factory, Gas City, dropped dead instantly while at work. He was a man of brawny stature and apparently good . health,and only an autopsy could throw any light on tho cause of his death, which came from heart disease. The body was taken to his home in Marion. A stranoe murder occurred at Jeffersonville. Some young men were ‘ discussing the merits of the Claysburg baseball club. Eugene Hogue, aged 20, walked by and heal’d some one say that out of seven games the team lost onlv one. Hogue said he thought they had lost two. Tho words were hardly uttered before some one struck him a blow behind the left ear, and he fell forward. He got up and walked a mile to his homo, w’hero ho died inside of a few hours. Jjb is not known whostruck the blow. Several who were in the crowd have been arrested. George Carroll, aged 30, and his nephew, George Dale, aged 10, were drowned in the Wabash River.at Terre Haute. Dale and his little sister were wading in tho river, and got beyond their depth. Their struggles and screams attracted tho attention of Carroll, who lives near tho river, and the young man, without disrobing, wont to the rescud* 1 ' He succeeded in get- ; ting the girl to a place of i safety, but the boy struggled, making l it impossible for the man to manage him in deep water, and both sank to the bottom and were drowned. The bodies were recovered. Chauncey Vermillion, a wealthy farmer, residing near Andrews, nar- , rowly escaped death by hanging. While engaged in elevating hay, in the mow of the barn, a noose of the rope caught Vermillion around the nock, and before the horse Used in hoisting the loads could be stopped the unfortunate man was lifted forty feet to the roof, A tangle in the rope left the farmer suspended in mid air, and a farm hand barely succeeded" in cutting him down before death by strangulation ensued. Mr. Vermillion fell from the top of the barn to the loaded wagon, and from there to the floor. He is lying in a critical condition. Hattie Cashier, 7, living near Brazil, recently stepped on a rusty nail. It pierced her foot and now she is dying of lockjaw. The east-bound passenger train, running at high speed struck a buggy at Marion, containing Miss Daisy Hummell, Miss Eva Ihrig, and Mrs. John B. y Heath. Miss Ihrig was instantly killed, being broken and bruised to a jelly. . Mrs. Heath was severely injured,while Miss Hummell escaped with a few slight .bruises. The buggy was demolished. Miss Ihrig was visiting relatives, her home being in Whitley County. She was 19 years old. Charles Evans, foreman of a Marion bridge gang at Bedford, was fatally hurt while driving piles at Horseshoe Bend, near that city. , IN a runaway accident at Noblesville, , James K. Bush was thrown out of a carriage and instantly killed. He fell / . on his head, crushing his skull and breaking his neck. His wife and 18-/ J year-old daughter saved their lives by jumping. The wife was seriously injured, but may recover. The daugh1 ter is less injured. Mr. Bush was a 1 soldier and for several years was tho proprietor and editor of the Noblesville Ledger. He was a member of . Company D. Twelfth Indiana. He was also a prominent Mason and Oddfellow.