Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1893 — Page 2

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CIRCLING THE GLOBE. CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVERAL DAYS’ DOINGS. Non-Unlow Boarding Hou* In San Francisco Blown Up—A Noble Reserve Fund —A Million Hollar Fire at St. Joseph, Mo—Aid for the Needy. BLEW THEM TO ATOMS. Inion Sailors Employ Dynamite at San Francisco. Six men were blown up with dynamite the other morning, on the water front, San Francisco. Two were killed outright, three died in the city receiving hospital after a few hours of agony horrible to behold, and the sixth still lives, with the prospect of ultimate recovery, but he will be only a shattered and broken wreck of a man. The explosion was the result of a deliberate and diabolical crime, meant to do far deadlier work than the snuf- * , flng out of five lives. It is charged directly to the Coast Seamen’s Union, a strong and lawless organization that has ruled ’Frisco’s water front for four years and more. The Curtin House has for years been known as a non-union or “scab” sailors’ boarding house, and attacks of more or less brutality have from time to time been made by union sailors both upon John Curtin and the men he housed. Three times has Curtin been brutally beaten in the past two years. Only two or three days ago a trap was set on the sidewalk so Curtin cbuld fall in it, and as a result of the injury thus received he was lying in bed when the explosion occurred. Muncie Must Pay Her Expense. Governor Matthews decided that he would not draw upon the cholera epidemic fund for the relief of Muncie, and that city will have to continue the the battle against small-pox without assistance from the State. When the State Board of Health returned from its visit of inspection President Boots addressed a letter to the Governor saying, in effect, that the ci!y ought to take care of itself and t? at the small-pox epidemic is not an “invasion of the State by a contagious disease” within the meaning of the law making the appropriation and it would not be advisable to use it in that way. The cost to the city in maintaining the quarantine and caring for the indigent who have the disease is between $2,000 and $3,000 a week. A Noble Reserve Fund. New York special: From the finansial point of view the International Cigarmakers’ Union stands at the head •f the labor organizations of the country. It has a reserve fnud of over half a million dollars, a snug enough fortune when you come to think of it. The method of accumulating the big reserve fund of the Union is practically the same as that employed by other labor organizations. Among the achievements of the Union were the adoption of an admirable financial system and the payment of high dues, the shortening of the hours of labor and a benefit system. These regulations have caused the organization to grow, and the reserve fund has steadily increased. A Million Dollar Fire. A square and a half of buildings were laid in ruins and a million dollars’ worth of property went up in smoke at St., Joseph, Mo. The cause of all the loss was the stub of a lighted cigarette thrown carelessly on the floor of a store room, on the fifth floor of the big department store of Townsend, Wyatt & Emery. The loss so far as known, $712,000; insurance, $650,000. Smith Arrested, Hardly had the battle ended at Coney Island, and just as the participants of the contest were donning their citizen cloches, Smith was put under arrest by a Sheriff of Roby, Ind., for being a principal in a prize fight recently with Johnny Griffin, which took place before the defunct Columbian Club. The official who made the arrest is not known. The Wisconsin Central Mast Go It Alone. Milwaukee special: Judge Jenkins has handed down,his decision in the Northern Pacific case. The decision terminates the lease of the Wisconsin Central road by the Northern Pacific and gives the property back into the hands of the Central Company. Bobbers Left One Solitary Penny. An express package supposed to contain SSOO when opened at Trinity, Tex., was found to contain only 1 cent and a lot of brown paper. The case is mysterious. Detectives are at work on the case. Aid for the Needy. Evansville, Ind., through the Business Men's Association, will send a car •f provisions to Brunswick, Ga., to yellow fever sufferers, besides a large sum of money. ______ Corbett Has Signed. James J. the champion, gignod the articles of agreement at Asbury Park to fight with Mitchell before the Coney Island Club some time in December. Mitchell has already / signed the articles. Death Penalty. John Thurman, a prominent farmer living near Jasper, Dubois County, Ind., has been sentenced in the Dubois court to hang for murder.j

< Will, Fay 41 s Debts. \ X N. Free, better known as the “Im- ' \ mortal J. N.,” who sprung into promi- >.\ nence by his reported drowning in the ‘A west, and later through the suit en- ;• X tered by Assignee Gormicy, of the Fos- | X ter estate, to collect SBOO lent Free b} | X the ex-Governor twenty years ago, now !, X comes to the front with the statement \ that he will pay his debts. J. N. \ has written a letter to the press ir. a \ which he sincerely thanks Mr. Foster K. jA— \for his kindness, which he says wa; 'prompted by the same large, generomW \eart which gave of his means to se ». ire the five railroads for Fostoria an< b \p her many factories running U 1 W \

urntßh lanor for hot inhering men. J. U. goes on to say that ho will sOon Issue I short biography of himself, through Iho sale of which he hopes to bo able io pay his debtsjand “reward every perlon who has assisted in the battle for lisinterested truth which has been enihrouded for so long a time.” HANUED AND BURNED. the Mob Finally Got PosHCMilon of the Negro Smith and Hung Him. Roanoke -(Va.) special: Robert Smith, a negro, assaulted and nearly tilled Mrs. Henry Bishop, wife of a Vell-to-do farmer of Botecourt County. Mfrs. Bishop was at the market with a bad of produce and Smith bought a box of grapes. He asked her to go ivith hint to get the money, and taking her to a house-nearby, locked the door tnd bound her. The"n drawing a razor ho demanded her money. She gave ft up and while doing so, jerked the razor from his hand. The negro rhoked her, threw her down, and pounded her head with a brick leaving ner for dead. Mrs. Bishop shortly afterwards regained consciousness and returning to the market told of the outrage. Detective Baldwin soon arrested the negro. The excited crowd attempted to take Smith away from the officer and lynch him but Baldwin with the prisoner on a horse dashed at full speed in face of the crowd and soon had him behind the bars. An immense crowd gathered around the jail and kept increasing as night Approached. At 5 o'clock the Roanoke Light Infantry marched to the jail by orders of Mayor Trout. Guards were posted and the streets in the immediate vicinity cleared. About dark the erowd increased by a hundred men from the vicinity of the woman's home, headed by Mrs. Bishop’s son, a fireman on the Norfold & Western Railroad. Portions of the mob battered at a side door of the jail where the militia and Mayor Trout had retired. The Shooting was commenced by the mob and the Mayor was shot in the foot. The militia were then ordered lo return the fire and a volley from about twenty-five were poured into the mob. Seven men were killed and eleven injured, some of them fatally. During the excitement caused by the rolley, the negro was taken from the jail by an officer and secreted. The dead and wounded were removed to a drusr store and to the offices of the nearby physicians. * Roanoke (Va.) special: A squad of twenty men took the negro Smith from the police just before 5 o'clock Friday morning, and hanged him to a hickory limbon Ninth Avenue, in the residence lection of the city. They riddled his body with bullets, and deft a placard on It saying: “This is Mayor Trouts Friend.” A coroner’s jury of business men was summoned and viewed the body of the negro, and rendered a verdict of death at the hands of unknown men. Thousands of people visited the icene of the lynching between daylight and 8:50 o’clock, when th? body was cut down. After the jury completed its work the body was placed in the hands of officers who were unable to keep back the mob. Three hundred men tried to drag the' man through the streets, but Rev. Dr. Campbell, of the First Presbyterian Church, and Capt. R. B. Moorman, with pleas and by force of strength, prevented them. Capt. Moorman hired a wagon and the body was put in it. It was then conveyed to the banks of the Roanoke, about one mile from the scene of the lynching. Here the body was dragged from the wagon and burned. Piles of dry brush wood were brought and the body was placed on it and more brushwood then piled on, leaving only the head bare. The pile was saturated with coal oil and a match applied. .The body was consumed Within an hour. The cremation* was witnessed by several thousand people. At one time the mob threatened to bury the negro in Mayor Trout's yard. There is much indignation against Mayor Trout and the militia, and many I threatsof vengeance have been openly made. Capt. Bird, the commander of the militia, has left town. Mayor Tro it has also disappeared, and President Bucknot, of the City Council, is acting mayor. Excitement is running high now. The citizens are now talking of holding an indignation meeting, and it is rumored on the streets that threats are being made to burn the town unless satisfaction of some sort is rendered. Crowds throng the streets and all the public places. There is an immense crowd in front of Oaloey & Woolwine’s, the undertakers, where seven of the dead bodies lie. RIOT AT KAKSAS CITY. Catholics and A. P. A'» Engage in a Disgraceful Bow—Fist Fights the Order. The third riot between the A. P. A., an anti-Catholic society and a crowd of Catholics occurred at Kansas City. An Irishman named O'Connor was shot through the hand and many men received broken heads and bruised faces. The meeting was field at a ball at Twenty-fourth anj Bellevue streets. The A. P. A. anticipating’trouble called upon Chief of Police Speers, for protection. The A. P. A. members began gathering about the hall. They found Sergeant McVeigh and a squad of twenty policemen and probably S(K) Catholics awaiting them. As each A. P. A. walked into the hall he was hooted. One delegation of ten men. each carrying a revolver in his hand was led by a man who carried a shot gun. They were not molested. The rioters outside did not attempt to enter the hall but waited until the meeting was over. Then the row started. The A. P. A. members

left the hall two by two. As they got to the door the policemen began stopping and disarming them. Then the crowd outside began throwing rocks and bricks, and a general fight ensued. C. M. Reed, a Santa Fe Railroad man was struck over the right eye and bably cut, while under arrest. Officer Ready was struck on the left shoulder by a heavy rock. James Brown saw O’Conner in the act of throwing a rock and shot at him, the liall taking effect in the man’s band. Brown was arrested but broke away, fired two more snots and escaped. Six shots in all were fired. Many hand to hand fights occurred but no one was dangerously hurt so far as known. A SETLKMENT Demanded of England for an Attack on a French Explorer. A I’aris special to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: England will have to settle with France the question of Lieut. Mizon and the Royal Niger Company. As the foreign office declined to be responsible for the British Company's attack on the French explorer, it is proposed to send an expeditionary force to punish the British raiders as the Daliameyans and other savages have been punished. This would bring the British Government to a sense of its responsibility. Ender the AngloFrench Convention in 1890 the British Company claims all the territory behind its station. The Colonial party in France demands that this shall be abrogated, as it is contrary to the act of Berlin, which guarantees the free navigation, of the Niger. A eorresjxmdent or the French Cen-

tral African Soeietv writesdcsortbinß i a wholesale s'aughter of negro em. ployes of the Niger Company. Thd i French public is treated at the huiiml time to an account, of how Captain Lu. - gard, in Unganda, piously armed thd Protestant natives and enabled them to slaughter 3,000 Catholics. LEAD CITY DOOMED. Fonat Fires Sweeping on the South Dakota Town. Deadwood (S. D.) spqcial: The forest fire has reached Load City. The Homestake saw-mills and lumber yard jrero the first to go. The flames, aided by the prevailing strong wind, are now making havoc among the frame buildings of the town. Help has been called from all neigboring towns and 1,500 men are now battling with the flames. The city of S,(MM) souls seems to bo doomed. Everything is all right hero as yet, but the outlook is not very bright. The uroperty of Henry Stearns was burned to the ground and also that of Trevor. The Stearns family drove two miles through the flames. The condition of old Mrs. Stearns, Mrs. Henry Karns, the boys. Abby and Frank Stearns is critical. The smoke is suffocating. People are getting ready to move. The Centennial hotel, barns, and outbuildings, valued at SI2,(XX): Cliff House, valued at $8,000: Pfunder's ranch and buildings, valued at $6,000, and Thompson's, valued at $3,000, arc a.totaljoss. All are situated three miles from Dead* wood. Eight; People Drowned. New York special: A report of the sinking of the Haytian war ship Alexandere’*Petion was received in this city. All on bdhrd. with one exception, were lost. All told eighty were drowned. Among the number were many prominent official and diplomats of the Republic. The cause of the disaster is unknown. The news of the catastrophe was brought to this city by theex-Minister to Hayti, Mr. Dunham, who arrived on the steamer Prince Wilhelm I, from Port au Prince. The disaster occurred on September 9. about fifty miles south of Cape Tiberot. Terrific Explosion on Board a Steamer. Pacific mail steamer Barracouta has arrived at San Francisco in a badly shattered condition. The deck house, hatch, and saloon were wrecked and match wood made of the vessel’s nttings. The captain reports that on the 27th, shortly after noon, when twelve hours out of Comax, B. C., sixty miles off shore, when the steamer’s course had iust been shaped for Acapulco, a terrific explosion occurred doing the damage stated. The explosion aeemed to have occurred in the hole among the coal arttl the captain thinks it was dynamite, but has no reason to suspect any one. Boy With a Match Causes an Explosion. Natural gas accumulated in the joint cellar under the establishment of C. C. Potter, druggist, and Jones& Berry, grocers, fronting the State Blind Institute. at Indianapolis, and a boy with a match caused an explosion wnich ruined the grocery and damaged the druggists to the extent of $1,200. Jones & Berrv lost sl, (XX). William Shultz was badly burned, Dr. Potter was hurled against a wall and severely bruised, while Minnie Purcell, colored, _ who sprang from a second floor window through fright, had a leg broken. Several parties were hurt* through flying debris. Starvation in England. London special: A deputation of the unemployed of the city, waited upon the L>rd Mayor. Applications for relief are already 10 per cent, greater than last winter. It is urged that a system of national relief for the unemployed be organized and the statement made that if the Government could vote half a million pounds sterling per year for the Irish, it surely can I vote a million or two for the starving people of England. In Westmoreland, four inches of snow have fall st ind the weather is very cold.J He Would Not Confess. David Jones, colored, suspected of robbery at McDowell, Smith County, Ala., was caught by citizens the other night and a rope placed about his neck. He was strung up to a tree in order to extort a confession from him. He aid not confess and when half dead was taken down and terribly whipped and released. Next day Jones’ friends armed themselves and attacked the I whites. In a fight that ensued two negroes were killed and one white man fatally wounded. Further trouble is apprehended. A Prominent BustneM Man Goes Wrong. St. Paul business and social circles were shocked beyond measure recently. upon learning that Jules H. Burwell, Vice President and Treasurer and General Manager of the Mast, Buford & Burwell Carriage Company, was charged with misappropriating $50,000 of the funds of the company. Receiver Appointed. Charles O. Brewstpr of Columbus. Ohio, was appointed receiver of the Wheeling Bridge and Teminal Railroad Company, it being claimed by the I Washington -Trust Company of New York, that the company had defaulted on the interest on $2.000/MX) bonds.

THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 13 25 (ft 5 50 Hoos—Shipping Grades 3 75 (<9 6 so Sheep—Fair to Choice 300 & 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 67 6s Corn—No. 2 42 65 43 Oats—No. 2. 29 <3 30 Rte-No. 2 43 «» 44 BUTTER—Choice Creamery 24 iff 25 Eggs—Fresh 1414 Potatoes—New, per bn 75 ej 65 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping : 3no @4 75 Hogs—Choice Light 4 00 A 600 Sheep—Common to Prime 3 00 eV 3 no Wheat—No. 2 Red 57 & 58 Cork—No. 2 White 40 iff 4014 Oath-No. 2 White 27 & 28 ST. LOUIS. CATrr »...' 3 00 et 5 00 H&U.-i 5 00 St 6 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red.. 63 & 64 Cobs—No. 2 38 (if to Oats—No. 2 21 6» 26 ! Rte-No. 2 41 & 43 CINCINNATI. Cattle.. l 3 00 & 5 00 Hogs , 3 00 A 6 25 Sheep S 0« A 4 00 Wheat-No. 2 Red 6714A 8814 Cobs—No. 2 41 & 42 Oats—No. 2 Mixed • 26 i<s 17 Rte-No. 2 48 » 51 DETROIT. Cattle $ to ® 475 Hogs : 3 00 nf e 00 I Sheep 300 gi 3 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 6214A 63'4 cobs—No. 2 SMtfA 40>p O ATE-No. 2 White, old 27 & 28 TOLEDO. „ Wheat-No. 2 Red « & Kl i Cobs—No. 2 Yellow. 42'e65 43L | Oats - No. 2 White 25)4® 2614 Rye—No. 2.,-. 44 0 46 1 BUFFALO. . Wheat-No. 1 Hard 70*40 71’4 Cobs—No. 2 Yellow 47 (<S 48 Oath—No. 2 White 32 & S 3 Rte-No. 2 48 <a 51 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No, 2 Spring .... 60 © 61 Cobs—No. 3 36J4<9 37!j • Oath—No 2 White 26 A 27 . Rte No. 1 42 65 43 Barlet-No. 2 51 65 W POBE—Mess 14 25 (914 » "NEW YORK. ■ Cattl» .... 300 65 500 Hogh 8 26 65 6 75 Sheep .... 3 as 0 4 so Wheat-No. 2 Rad... 72 B 73 . Corr—No. 2 60 0 52 Oats—Mixed Western 36 0 97 Butter—Creamery.. M B 97 Poux—Old Mesa .............. M U Bit M

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•BANDITS WERE FOILED. Met by Blue Coat* and Loaded Revolver* on an Expre** Car. ' Joy reins unconfined in railroad circles at St. Joseph, Mo., oyer the clever ruse of the Kansas City, St. Jce and Council Bluffs Railroad officials, which resulted in the death of two and capture of three express train robbers a mile and a halt from that city. Jnformaticn came to the officials late at night that train No. 3 would be held up near Francis, a village in the midst of a desolate waste. Action was immediately taken and a dummy train exactly like No. 3 was made up. The chief of police and sixteen officers were put aboard and the train pulled out. When two miles'out the engineer saw a lantern signalling ' the train to stop. He immediately slowed up and when the train was brought to a standstill a masked man jumped aboard the engine and held revolvers at the heads of the engineer and fireman. Five others ran to the express car and demanded admittance. The door was opened and, two guarding withqut, three of the bandits jumped into the car with revolvers drawn. When fairly within the police stepped out of concealment and called upon the robbers to surrender. They were taken by surprise but opened fire.’ A fusillade of shots was exchanged and when the smoke cleared away Ed Kohler and Higo Indall were lying dead upon the floor of the car. Fredericks, Hersh, and Harvey were placed under arrest and a posse started in pursuit of the robber who was in the engine. Not an officer was hurt, and the train returned at once to the city, where the three prisoners were locked up and the two dead men taken to the undertaker's. It was the most successful rout the officers have ever given a band of robbers, and there is great rejoicing over the result. All of the train robbers lived in St. Joseph.

SHOT THE ROBBER DEAD. Masked Men Attempt to Bob the Valparaiso. Ind.* Normal School. The sensational attempt at robbery at the banking department of the Northern Indiana Normal School, at Valparaiso by two masked men, which resulted in the killing of Frank Robinson, one of the robbers, and the wounding of his companion. Claire Moody, as he gave his name, is. still the main topic of talk in the vicinity. It was one of the boldest acts ever attempted in the northern part of the State, and was in a place surrounded by hundreds of boarding houses, where over 2.500 students were within a stone’s throw. Two inasked men armed to the teeth came into the banking office of the college shortly after 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The only occupants of the room were the Secretary, Miss Kate Corboy, and her assistant, Miss Emma Jones. The women, although covered by the robbers’ revolvers, screamed and fled. One of the men fired point blank at Miss Jones, the bullet missing the girl by only a few inches; Realizing that their plans were frustrated and ’ that any efforts to force the huge safe would now bo useless, with the alarm given, the two desperadoes walked coolly out of the office and down the steps, revolvers in either hand. They were confronted by Mail Carrier Arnold, whom they covered with their weapons. Unabashed the latter began to yell fire in a stentorian voice, while students poured out of the college buildings and the big boarding houses and dormitories, which cluster all about. At the first shout the burglars wheeled without firing and ran to the fence, which they leaped. They ran through the campus, and started down the track of the Fort Wayne Road toward the east, while behind them followed a yelling and constantly growing mob of students. The crowd of pursuers must have numbered 1,000. The students were generally unarmed as to'fl re arms, but carried cluband stones which they had picked up on the way. The robbers answered with shots. The other pursuing party now came near enough to open fire, and a regular fusillade followed. Nathan O. Howe, of Michigan City. Ind., was driving along the road with a wagon load of peaches, and was fired at oy one of the twain. He alighted from his vehicle, deliberately sighted his Winchester across ,the fence, ana brought Robinson to the ground with a horrible wound in the breast. The man expired instantly. His companion knelt over him and took his revolver, throwing away his empty weapons, i But before he could use it he was shot by Howe from the roadside. He was then captured and locked U P\ . , Frank Robinson entered the school Nov. 8,1892, registering from Cincinnati. He returned there about three

weeks ago and again registered from Cincinnati. Claire arrived a few days ago and inquired for FYank, and is now believed to be his brother. In an interview Claire said they expected to get about $30,000, as they supposed Brown & Kinney kept all their money in the safe. Howe, who brought the robbers down, was released on bail and is the hero of the city. His entire load of peaches were sold on the streets and over SI,OOO was realized. BANKS THAT HAVE SUSPENDED. Os tbe 560 Institution* Which Failed Sev-enty-two Have Resumed. Statistics compiled from official data show that from January to September this year 560 State and private banks in the United States failed, and that seventy-two have resumed business. In the same time 155 national banks failed, seventy of which have resumed. The following table gives the number of failures, etc., of State and private banks since Jan. 1,1893: ' no W n> » g I • E I •TATBS. g STATES. « g ? 2. £ 2. “—•“ J l’ % ~ Alabama 6 ... New Jersey 1i... ArkanM* 4... New Mexico.... 1 ... California M 18 New York 25, 2 Colorado 2B 1 North Carolina. 4... Delaware 11 North Dakota... 6... Dlst. of Colu'bia 2... Ohio 32 5 Florida 5 1 Oklahoma. 1 ... Georgia 5 1 Oregon. 1« ... Idaho 8... Pennsylvania... 14 3 Illinois 41 1 Rhode Island... 1 ... Indiana 36 7 South Carolina. 41 1 Indian Territ’y 1 ... South Dakota... 12’... lowa 28 3 Tennessee 18 ... Kansas 45 4 Texas 11 Kentucky 7... Utah 2... Louisiana. 1 ... Vermont 3 ... Maine 1 ...| Virginia »■ 1 Massachusetts,. 3 ...| Washington.... 14 1 Ml higan 16 4! West Virginia.. 2 ... Minnesota 31 8 Wisconsin...... 82i 6 Missouri 24 3 'Wyoming 4 ... Montana 8... — — Nebraska 23’1 Total 560| 72 New Hampshire 5... I

BOMBS IN BARCELONA. An Anarchist Hurls a Deadly Missile Among Spanish Soldiers. An anarchist tried to kill Captain General Martinez de Campos at Barcelona with a bomb. There had been a review of all the troops in the district early in the morning. Shortly before noon the captain general and his staff took their places on one side of the large square near the middle of the city ana the march past began. The head of the column had hardly passed the captain general when a bomb was thrown from the crowd. It struck among the staff officers and exploded almost directly under the captain general's horse. The captain general was thrown to the ground and his horse, with its legs shattered, rolled over beside Kim. General Castellvi, chief of staff, also fell wounded from hit horse. A soldier of the civic guard was killed instantly, and five others were injured so severely by pieces of shell that they probably will die. The name of the anarchist who threw the bomb is Pallas. He glories in his deed. lie says he intended to kill Martinez de Campos and his whole staff. He will lie courtmartialed at once. In his house the police found, that night, a great quantity of the most violent revolutionary literature. HUNDRED AND SIXTY DROWNED. Russian War Ship Pousalka Founders in the Gulf of FlMand. Fragments of woodwork, coats and other wreckage have floated ashore in the Gulf of Finland, showing that the Russian war ship Pousalka, with ten officers and 150 seamen, has foundered, and that all hands are lost. She sailed from Revel, in the Gulf of Finland, for Helingsport, in the same gulf, and has not been heard from since. The Pousalka had four and one-half inches of armor, carried four nine-inch guns, was of 2,000 tons displacement, had 786 indicated horse-power, and was classed as having a speed of twenty-eight knots. She was built in 1867. The body of a sailor who is supposed to have belonged to the crew has been washed ashore in the Gulf of Finland. It is known that severe gales swept over those waters soon after she left port. There is no doubt, as the admiralty states, that the Pousalka has foundered. Statement of the Pension Office. ' The weekly statement of the Pension Office shows that the total number of claims now pending is M279,divided i as follows: Act of June 27, 1890, 14Li 451; Indian wars, 4,047; old _ war 5,3,922; service fsince March 1, 1861, 205,006, I additional to prior applications. 123,- • 864: increased and accrued widows, , 7,057; increased claims, 214,229; army

nurses, 703. The total number of cases rejected during tbe week was 2,317, and thOfte allowed 1,771. Government Official* Bribed. Bogota is greatly excited over the discovery of bribery and general corruption among some of the highest dignitaries of the United States of Colombia. The Antioquai Railroad Company, it is said, purchased favors from the Government at a cost of $500,000. Burned with Sixty on Board. The Northern Pacific steamer on arriving at Victoria, B. C., brought word of the burning of the Russian steamer Alphonse Zeevecke with the loss of sixty lives. How the World Wags. The Armour strike at Kansas City is ended. There are now 102 cases of smallpox at Mancie, Ind. All the Chinese have been driven out of Burbank, Cal. The big iron mills in the Pittsburg district are resuming. The factions of the Iron Hall are nearing a compromise. Yellow fever now pervades every part of Brunswick, Gif. A WATERSPOUT in Madison County,

Virginia, did considerable damage. THE Huckleberry stamp mill near Leadville, Colo., burned. Loss $20,000. Frank Murphy has been indicted at Winona, Minn., for the murder of T. Rich. Through freight trains west-bound from Chicago are in a demoralized condition. AN effort is being made to arrange another fight between Fitzsimmons and Jim Hal). The Rocky Mountain Dime and Dollar Savings bank, Denver, Colo., has resumed. The imperial army maneuvers are being continued on a grand scale in Hungary. A daily steamship line is to be established between Southampton and New York. The Pope has expressed himself as satisfied with the work of Mgr. Satolli in America. Gov. LEVELLING, of Kansas, has decided not to call an extra session of the Legislature. AT New Orleans Johnny Van Heest knocked out Napier in the twentyeighth round. James Halliday, a miner at Pittsburg, Kan., fell down a shaft and was instantly killed. A HEAVY rain, hail and thunder storm struck St. Paul. Two men were killed by lightning. Pickpockets have been reaping a harvest at the World’s Parliament of Religions at Chicago. The big glass works at Hartford City, Ind., have started up giving employment to 500 men. Success is attending the insurrection in Brazil. A monarchy will probably follow the final victory. Little business is being transacted on the New York stock market and the outlook is not bright. Robert Philips, of Coalburg, Ala., aged 80, committed suicide by hanging. Domestic troubles the cause. The Louisville & Nashville shopmen at Louisville are still out on a strike against a reduction of wages. Arthur Hazel, of Philadelphia, was bunkoed out of all his money oy a man he met in Galveston, Tex. AT Fort Scott, Kan., Mrs. Virgie Wood in attempting to save her child from burning to death, was fatally burned. Lake lines have not carried 50 per . cent, of their usual coal tonnage, and ■ rail lines will be unable to make up the . shortage. i E. S. Simpson, said to be expert bank robber and confidence man, has • been arrested at Chicago on a charge of forgery. 1 COLLEOTOR-OF-THE-PORT 1 San Francisco has refused to appoint 1 twenty deputies without pay to enforce ’ the Geary law. 1 Five prisoners escaped from jail at Litchfield, Ky., by cutting through a brick wall and letting themselves down with a blanket rope. ! Another dispute has arisen between the Italian Government and the Roman Church authorities. It m»y result in ’ the Pope leaving Rome. ■ In the Circuit Court at Moberly, Mo., i George Halliburton, who had his toes mushed, was awarded 11,500 damages r against the Wabash road.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. — ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATt- — 4n InteTMtinii Summary of the More Important DoUish of Our Nolifhbore —Wedding. and Doath.-Crlmee, I'a.uaUleo, and General Indiana New* Note*. Minor Mention. Bbownstown wants a watorworkr system. The Feeble-minded Institute at Fort Wayne is full. T'ie three-masted schooner. Hattie Earle, was wrecked near Michigan City. The report of small-pox at Redkey is D* indignantly denied by citizens of that town. James Laywell, Dublin's mail carrier, aged 68, died of dropsy of the heart. The Indiana W. C. T. tl. will convene at Richmond, Oct. 6, for a five days’ session: ii Prisoners in the Terre Haute jail attempted to break out, but were caught in the act. Wiltjam Voght. publisher and proprietor of Spence's People’s paper, Covington, is dead. The Goshen and Elkhart Implement • Company at Goshen, failed for $14,000. A Crawfordsville “boomqr” is reported as having secured good land in . the Cherokee strip. David Buchanan, an old resident of Clay .County, and a Union veteran, was found dead in his bed. Finch Sharp's residence, near Seymour, was raided, and a pocketbook containing S4O was stolen. Samuel Harter, William and Frank Kirk were seriously injured in a runaway accident at Pittsboro. Rev. Charles Little of Wabash, has declined to accept the call from the Presbyterian Church at Lafayette. Burglars at Crawfordsville 'helped themselves to SIOO of firearms and knives at Houlehan & Yancleave’s hardware store. August A. Neumann, an old miller, tried to cross in front of a Pennsylvania passenger train, at Fort Wayne. He was killed, It is said that a Valparaiso clergyman keeps a Kodak on the pulpit when he preaches and takes snap shots of the sleeping members of his congregation.

John H. Benson, father of Luther j Benson, the temperance orator, died at his home in Rush County, aged 92. Was a member of the Baptist Church 72 years. David Lily, a farmer of Jefferson Township, Carroll County, o drove a thief from his hen roost the other night and found a st range horse and wagon hitched nearby which the thief had left. j The finest residence in the suburb of Wallen was destroyed by fire. It was occuried by Dr. J. A. Phillips and owned by Mrs. Whitehead, of Huntertown. Loss, $7,000; no insurance. Defective flue. Louis Gerke was buried alivo in a gravel pit, which unexpectedly caved in near Fort Wayne. The other workmen barely escaped with their lives, and when Gerke was taken out, thirty minutes later, he was dead. Trouble has been caused at Union City by an order that all school children shall be vaccinated. Several children were vaccinated by a homeopathic physician, and the authorities refused to accept it. The parents are raising a kick. William Brown a negro boy aged 16 of Cincinnati, was struck by a freight train and instantly killed at Green Springs, a point on the O. & M., seven miles east of Shoals. He was' tramping With his brother and went to sleep on the track. The suit to set aside the will of Sally Donnell of Greensburg, was compromised by the executors allowing an invalid relative the use of SI,OOO during her lifetime. Mrs. Donnell gave about $20,000 to benevolent societies of the Presbyterian Church. At Shipshewana, Hud Harris accidentally shot and killed Harry Nelson. It was the old story. They were cleaning their guns after a hunting trip, and Harris “didn’t know it was loaded." Nelson died twenty minutes after he was shot. Bert Champion of Gas City, bursted Fred Boltz’s faro bank at Fort Wayne, but failed to get all his money, winning over SI,OOO at one sitting and only getting about S7OO. He became enraged ana broke un a lot of the furniture and smashed a wheelbarrow load of glassware before leaving the house. He finally was put to ted at the Plaza. Afterward he got very drunk and called at Boltz’s place to get the balance of his money, but, only getting part of it, he again became enraged, and, drawing a revolver, chased Boltz out of his place. Boltz filed an affidavit against Champion. He was placed under bond to keep the peace. The determination of the Muncie officials to make all alike abide by the strict quarantine rules, and thereby stamp out the smallpox and protect others, was fully proved the other evening by the officials in their effort to move a new case to the hospital. The 12-year-old son of Randolph Trissell.on Sullivan street, was taken with the disease. The officers went after the boy, and the father threatened to shoot the first man who entered the house. As the men forced open a door and entered, Trissell fired. The ball penetrated the coat sleeve of Joe Daily, but did not injure him. The boy was removed and the father taken to the guard house, but later on he agreed to go to the hospital, and is' now with his son. While carelessly handling a shotgun Joseph Reeves, -a coal miner of near Alfordsville, accidentally shot himself, the load tearing away-his face in a fearful. manner. He is not ex- "j pected to live. j BURGLARS entered the jewelry store "j! of Edward Starke, at Newpolnt, and blew open a large safe. They got *• about SSOO worth of jewelry. No one heard the explosion, but a horse and buggy was seen at the store after midnight. There was blood on the safe and floor as evidence that some one had been injured while “cracking" the box. IN a cave in Harrison County several dozens of chickens in coops, about forty bushels of wheat, some clothing ana other articles were found that had been stolen in that neighborhood. Counterfeit half dollars dated 1887 have made their appearance in Elwood. It is thought that some one there has secured a supnly, and is taking advantage of the present hard times to “shove the ueer.” Mibb Viola Daniels, the girl outlaw who led the gang of young desperadoes in the wholesale footpadding at Kokomo, with her accomplices, Theodore Rodman, Gus < reoman, and Charles Bowman, was bound over to ooutf.