Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1894 — Page 2

She DEOATUH, IND. ■ F.icnCßH, ... Pvbluhikm THE NEWS RECORD. SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. A Fatal Railroad Wreck A Man Mnrden Hl* Wife and Mon - A Spiritually Stricken Down. FATAL WRECK. Three Men Killed Near Bfllevne. Tn a blinding snow storm freight train No. 40, west bound, and east bound light freight. No. 25, on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, collided two miles west of Bellevue, Ohio. Both engines and several freight cars were smashed and piled up iu confusion. A special was immediately sent from Norwalk with a number of physicians on Ixiard. Work was at once begun to rescue the trainmen who were still in the wreck. When the men were gotten out it was found that Engineer, Connell, of light freight No. 25, Brakeman Johnson of freight engine No. 28, ana Engineer Sam Stowall, of engine 28, were killed. The cause of the wreck is a mystery. No. 25 was'running behind passenger train No. 9. and was ordered to carry signals. At Bellevue the freight No. 49, passed the passenger train all right, and believing the way clear started out. As the snow storm was blinding, it was very evident that the engineers failed to see the signals, and thus a terrible accident occurred. Maniac Marders His Wife and Son. . William 11. Artman, a farmer six miles northwest of Tell City, Ind., this morning killed his wife and oldest son. John Eads and William Nagle found x Artman lying on the floor with his ; murdered wife and boy. As soon as they entered Artman jumped up and rushed at them but they overpowered him. The family were eating breakfast when the crime was committed. Artman in the presence of his five 1 children stamped his wife to death. ' Her left eye he cut out with a pocket knife. The oldest boy tried to defend his mother and he suffered the same fate at the hands of the enragbd father. Coroner Eabhard and Deputv Nimagern found the boy lying across his mother with his ' arms about her neck. The body was terribly mangled and the nose and face mashed. The mother’s body was entirely naked. The other children fled ! to the neighbors almost *aked and covered with blood. 1 When taken in the room where the body of his wife lay Nimagern asked ' Artman whether he committed the ■ deed. His answer was. ‘ Yes, Henry, I did: I killed them both.” Artman is about 40 years old and is a raving maniac. He was conveyed to 1 the county jail at.Cannelton, Ind. The 1 coroner has not rendered his verdict ’ but all indications point to religious 1 excitement as having caused his madness and terrible tragedy. Wauls Notoriety. During Sunday morning services at the M. E. Church at Columbus, Ind., Rev. MarlOtt, the pastor, said many of \ his members had received a circulars , embracing eighty questions challeng- ] ing the faith-teachings and history of the M. E. Church. He stated that on , two other occasions similar circulars . had been scattered amongst the con- , gregntion. One of the questions con- , tained in the circular says: “I will ( give SIOO if it is shown that the name . ot the Methodist Episcopal Churchite derived from the Bible. The circilar ( has created quite a sensat ion. ( Struck Down. Perry Hull, awell known spiritualist , speaker, was stricken with paralysis ( while speaking in the Spiritualist ( Temple at Anderson, Ind. He had en- ( tercd into a fearful tirade against the ( Bible and against all Christianity, and 1 while in the midst of his awful speech , the stroke came. He fell to the floor as if dead. The service was dismissed and the speaker taken to a house near I by. where he yet is. It is said he can- , not recover. , Caught in the Crib. Milwaukee special: The' twenty mon who have been at work for several weeks upon the new intake tunnel crib in Lake Michigan off this city are confined there by the terrible blizzard. It is impossible to communicate with them, and much more impossible, to take them off; and great apprehension is felt lest the fatal accident of a year ago may bo repeated. Conscience Stricken. St. Louis special: Louis J. Silva, Secretary of the Rainwater-Bradford Hat Company, of this city, who embezzled $178,000 and on the 25th. of last October fled from the city has, it is reliably learned, returned to the city and made known to his attorney and the attorney of the hat company his desire to surrender to the law. Deadly Trichinae. At Michigan City. Ind., Mrs. Clarke Kruger is dead as the result of eating trichinae in pork and the remainder ol the family, seven in al), are beyond hope of 'recovery. The family were taken ill several days ago, and phy- -■ sicians who were called decided that they were suffering from trichime. The doctors announced that ad the others will die. All Safe on £.an<L The Secretary of tho Navy has received a dispatch from the Panama Railroad Company stating thattheCity of Paris had arrived at Colon, with Admiral Stanton and the officers and crew of the Kearsarge all well. Threw a Bomb. Paris special: Edeon Breton, twen-ty-three years old. threw a bomb in the case of the Hotel Terminus, at tho St. Lazare Railway Station. The bomb exploded in the middle of the room and wounded twenty persons. Slosion Wins. Slosson won the game and first moneyin the billiard tournament at Boston. Slosson, 600; lyes, 407. Highest runs —lves, 146; Slosson, 115. Kessler Train Robbers Again. Indianapolis Special: A man whose name the police refuse to divulge called upon Superintendent Powell recently and asked for a private audience. When alone with the officers the stranger said that he had recently been released from the Michigan City prison and while there he had formed , * the acquaintance of two young men ■who had been sent to the prison from Fort Wayne for a small robbery. From them he . learned of the circumstances of the Lake Shore robbery near Kendallville. ■He said that four men were engaged in tho robbery and that two of them are now in Fort Wayne in business. The iran told a

circumstantial story and the superintendent was so much impressed by it that he made careful notes of the conversation and will give the matter close attention. . A GYULONK SOUTH. It Sweep* Owr Mlulralppl and LonlMann. A cyclode swept over Louisian* and Mississippi and laid waste everything in its path. Plantations were devastated, farm houses were wrecked and the debris scattered over the country for miles around. The telegraph were prostrated and it is impossible to obtain particulars from the stricken. district at this time, but it is known that one life has been lost. On the plantation of Col. W. L. Nugent, four miles northeast of Greenville, Mississippi, Mias William Brady and wife, colored, were in their cabin, which was blown down, killing tho woman instantly. Her husband was blown several hundred feet and received serious, if not fatal injuries. The gin house and tenement houses on the Nugent place were all blown down and large trees were twisted from their stumps and carried away. Tho cyclone passed through Washington and Bolivcr counties, thickly populated with prosperous farmers, and it is feared the death list will be swelled to a large one when the details are known. it struck Mrs. S. A. DeLambres’ plantation, about two miles northwest of I’ort Hudson, La. A negro child was killed and two barns, three cabins and the gin house were blown down and completely wrecked. Another negro child was seriously hurt and •five negroes were more or, less injured. Tho cyclone next struck the Chambers place and destroyed five cabins. A negro girl was seriously wounded and four or five slightly injured. The track of the cyclone was about 209 foet wide and it levelled everything in its path. RIOTING. Five Thousand Workmen Engaged in a Riot. A special dispatch from Perm, Russia, says that a riot has taken place at the large iorn works situated at Nizhnee Taghilsm, in the Ural Mountains, ami that S,(KM workmen took part ih the disturbance, which are attrib- I uted to the low wages and the Nihillistic Propaganda. The local authorities were utterly unable to cope with the disturbance and sent for a strong force of troops to quell the rioting. The soldiers were ordered to tire upon the rioters. A fierce conflict then followed, during which many of the rioters were killed and a number of soldiers were either shot or stoned to death. The rioters finally made such a fierce attack upon tha troops that the latte r were repulsed and driven to seek shelter in a position, which they fortified while awaiting assistance. An additional force of t roops (were summoned, and the combined force of the military moved upon the rioters and succeeded in driving them from the works and in quelling the disturbance, though many more were killed and wounded on both sides during the last engagement. The troops and police made a number of prisoners, who, it is Understood, will be dealt with in the severest manner. MARLER IIP NG. A Kentucky Murderer Expiates Hi. Crime o* the Gallows. Bob Marler was hanged at Pineville, Ky. The condemned man talked for ten minutes on the scaffold, but he did not confess. The crime for which he was executed was the killing of a woman whom he did not know. Viewed from one standpoint, the murder might have been said to have been an accident, but the wanton disregard for human life and the almost total depravity displayed Jay Marler in this crime, stands almost without an equal, even in the wild and often lawless portions of the State. On the morning of August 28, 1893, as a train on the Middlesboro Belt Railroad was nearing a small station known as Halfway House, three men stepped out of the woods near the track and commenced firing shot after shot into coaches with Winchester rifles. The engineer opened the throttle and the train was soon out of range, but not before Mrs. Mary Bowling of Middlesboro, had been instantly killed, and John Brownson dangerously wounded. The woman had a chi d in her arms when she was shot, the bullet passing over the little one’s shoulder and striking the mother in the left breast. Old Lady Murdered* At Conneaut, Ohio, Mrs. M. E. Harrison, an old lady who has kept house for the past eight years for Austin Jennings, who died last week, was found dead on her bed room floor the other morning with a bullet hole through her bead. She was alone in the house, and was found by friends. The door was unlocked and the key was on the floor, but nothing seemed to be disturbed about the house. The revolver was found near her. Mr. Jennings had willed Mrs. Harrison a house and lot worth $2,500, which would put her in comfortable circumstances, and there seemed little reason for suicide, unless her mind was unbalanced. She was 60 years old. Ab American War Ship Wrecked. The most famous ship of the naval service-the old Corvette Kearsarge has gone to the bottom. The story of her ending was told tq Secretary Herbert in a brief cable message which ho. received recently from Lieutenant, Frederick Brainard, an officer of the vessel, dated at Colon. Lieutenant Brainard reached Colon and at once sent the message to the Secretary, in substance as follows: “The Kearsarge sailed from Port Au Prince, Hayti, Jan. 30, for Bluefields, Nicaragua. Was wrecked on Roucador Reef, February 2. Officers and crew safe.” Brazilllan Boats Badly Damaged. Rio de Janeiro special: It is announced in this city that some disaster has befallen tho fleet of torpedo boats which left Pernambuco for the South. Details as to the disaster do not seem to be obtainable and all information on the subject is refused at the Government offices. In spite of the reticence of the Government officials it is asserted that at least one of the torpedo boats has been badly damaged and the whole fleet has put back to Pernambuco for reasons which are not explained in the dispatch received here. Sovereign Says “tie End I. Not Yet.’ J. R. Sovereign,, general master workman of the Knights of Labor, , speaking in reference to tho in- ! junction against Secretary Carli le , to prevent issuing bonus, says: “The end is not yet. We intend to make j another move in the matter but have j not yet fully decided what we will do. r We intend to push the matter.” Two Children Hum to Death. 5 The house of Bert Croman, together . with his two small children was urned 3 at Lightstreet, a small village near . Bloomsburg, Pa. The parents bad t gone to call on a neighbor. They hud y been absent but a short lime when a t passer by noticed a big blaze in the # Cromaa house. He gave the alarm

and every effort was made to save »ne ; little one’s, hut without avail. When the door wan finally burst open the ■ flames were beyond control. The house was completely destroyed. The bodies of the children, charred beyond recognition, were found in the denris. It is supposed a lamp exploded or that it was accidentally knocked from the table. The Hop* Broke. Columbia (Miss.) special: The exeution of Will Purvis was a failure. The rope broke at the first drop, without in any way injuring Purvis. The . spectators interceded in such a manner as to induce the Sheriff to refuse to proceed with the hanging. An effort wih now bo made to secure executive clemency. Purvis has always asserted his innocence of the assassination of William Buckley of Marion County, Miss., who was killed by Whitecaps, of whom Purvis was supposed to be one. (Gave Him DamagM. At Findlay, Ohio, a verdict for personal damages was given by a jury to William G. Borno, whose 17-year-old daughter Nellie, eloped to King Fisher, Oklahoma, with Burton H. Foster, Manager of the Findlay Electric Light Works, son of Hon. Parks Foster. The girl returned home within ten days and Foster’s wife was soon granted a divorce and SB,OOO alimony. The girl’s father commenced action for damages and the jury returned a verdict for $15,000. Train Held Up. At the high bridge over Oak Bayou, near Houston, Texas, train wreckers ran part of a passenger train on the Missour* Kansas and Texas road down an embankment. Men in ambush fired on a brakeman sent back to flag a freight. Passengers feared to go to his rescue- He crawled back to the train and is now dying from wounds, received. Several persons on the train were injured. A posse is in pursuit of th wreckers. George W. Child** Will* Philadelphia special: The will ot George W. Childs has been admitted to probate. The document is very short and was executed on August 1 last, one month after the death of Anthony J. Drexel. Mr. Childs bequeaths his entire estate’ to the widow absolutely. The executors are George W. Childs Drexel and James W. Paul, Jr., and they placed the valuation of the estate at "over SIOO,000 real and over SIOO,OOO personal ” A I>eadly Duel. A duel took place in the town of Uros, Mexico, between Jose Manuel Torego, a prominent young business man, and Miguel Torres, a lawyer. The affair of honor resulted in Torego being shot through the heart at the first fire. Torres was not wounded. The duel was the outgrowth of rivalry for the hand of a young lady of the place. The killing has created a great sensation and Torres has been placed under arrest. Bls Deal In Wheat. Chicago special: It is said that Ed Pardridge, the plunger, cleared over $2,(KM),000 in the last three months by selling market short. The*bulk of his operations has been in wheat. Pardridge appeared as a “bear” when wheat was in the seventies, and as stated, steadily increased his bank account as the market declined to its present place near 60 cents. He is now said to have practically closed his trade. He Got Three Yearo. Cal Armstrong’s embezzlment trial at Kokomo, Ind., closed, the prisoner being sentenced to three years. He was Deputy Treasurer of Tipton County. His father, James K. Armstrong. Treasurer, is serving a one year sentence. Cal got away with Over $5,009 of the county’s money in two years by races and high living. Before entering the Treasurer’s office Cal was a preacher and an exemplary young man. Forced to Retreat. Rio de Janeiro special: A strong force of insurgents from the rebel fleet landed at Nictheroy and gave battle to the Government Many were killed and wounded bn both sides. PeixotO’e soldiers, under command of Gen. Argollo, made a stubborn resistance. The insurgents did not gain a material advantage and after a severe engagement, were forced to retreat Captured the Cash Drawer. While the agent of the W. &L. E. depot in Sherrodsville, Ohio, was carrying the mail to the poetoffice Robert Brown and James Smith, of that place, broke into the depot and rifled the cash drawer of about S9O. Brown has been captured. Rilled His Father-in-law. T. W. member of the South Omaha police force, shot and killed his fatner-in-law, William Smeltzer, at a school exhibition about three miles from Nemaha City, Neb. A.rgabright and his wife parted soma months ago. Chinese Permitted to Land. Fifty-six Ch ineeaactors and acrobats, who arrived at San Erancisco by the steamer Peru, for the Chinese village at the Mid-winter Fair have been permitted to land. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Comm.n toPrime.... $3 60 @ 5 W> Hogs—Shipping Grades 400 @5 23 ■ Sheep—Fair to Choice 225 (<4 400 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 (t 9 60 CORN—No. 2....... 34 @ 35 Oats—No. 2 22 @ 30 Rye—No. 2. L 40 @ 48 Buttbh-Cho:oe Creamery 20 @ 27 Eggs—Fresh 13 @ U Potatoes—Per bn 60 & CO INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping::. 300 @5 00 Hogs—Choice Light 300 & 5 76 8 EBP—Common to Prime 200 <e9 3 75 WheAt—No. 2 Red. 67 0 67)4 Corn—No. 2 White... 35 & 35)4 OAT'S—No. 2 White 31 & 82 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @6 00 Hogs. 3 00 05 25 Wheat—No. 2 Rad 66 & 67 Corn—No. 2 33 @ 34 Oats—No. 2 30 @ 31 Pobk—Mesa 13 00 @l4 00 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 & 5 00 fio«s 300 0 5 75 bIIKBP 200 <4 4 <lO Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 0 GO Corn—No. 2 37 @ 88 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 @ 32 Hye—No. 2 jj @ w DETROIT. ' Cattle .. 300 @4 75 •aogs 3 00 0 5 60 BHEEP 200 @ 3 75 Wheat—No.2 Red.... co @ «1 * obn—No. 2 Yellow 36 0 87 Oats—No. 2 White 30 @ 32 . TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 58 @ 69 , vobn—No. 3 Ye110w...... 35 @ 35)4 . Oats—No. 2 Wmte 31 @ 31 Rte-No. 2 49 <4 31 ’ P.UFFALO. > W heat—No. 1 Hard 71 @ 72 , obn— No. iY* llow.. 4U)»«> 41)4 ’ Oats-No 2 White.m @ 36 1 >VB Hogs—Good to I hoice. . 500@5 76 • ... MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No 2 Spring «1 @ 61% '2 White 30)40 81% IliE —No. ] *g *u ■ P^’V’ * 2 W'@ 6? ■ I .BK-Mess ...12 50 @l3 00 1 „ NEW YORK. P Cattle 300 @5 00 1 X 375 @6 2> i VORX-Nn.2 42 @ 48 I Oats Widte Western 38 @ 41 I 1 POBK E ML»s oloe S 2 0 28 | 1 iOBK M-ss „U 75 014 60

’ MILLIONS IN BONDS. HOW YOUR UNCLE SAM BORROWS MONEY. All Abont th. Recent Flfty-Mllllon-Doller Loan — The New luue ot Two Kinds, Coupon and ReclMerod—Great Fortunes In vested. Odd Things In Securities. Washington MfCMpondcnee: The new 5 per cent, bonds will soon be scattered *ll over the United States. They are but* drop in the bucket with wh*t Uncle Sam has borrowed since he began business a little more than one hundred years ago. The total amount of bonds sold by the Government irom the beginning of the llnion down to the year 1880 was ten billion six hundred and ninety million dollars, a sum which makes tne mind dizzy, and which would buy up a dozen of the small monarchies of Euro;x». This vast sum includes the bond issues of the United States up to that time. Many of them were made to fund previous loans, but interest was paid on every one of SaCRBTARY CARLISLE. these dollars, and the' gold which has been spent in this way by L’ncle Sam would gild the great departments of Washington and leave enough to make a solid gold statute as large as that of the Goddess of Liberty which stands on tho Capitol dome. Fifty years ago if a Secretary of the Ti easury had made the statement that in half a century the United States would be borrowing money at 3 per cent, he would have been looked upon as a fool and a madman, but there is no security in the world better to-day than that of Uncle Sam, and it is believed here that a 2 per cent, bond could he floated. Every one wants these bonds. They feel that their money is safe and that this $50,000,000 in bonds is surer than safe deposits of stocking under the rafters. Have you ever seen a Government bond? It is only a piece of paper, but it is often worth its weight in diamonds. The bonds of the present issue are in denominations of SSO, SIOO, SI,OOO. and SIO,OOO. Tho bonds are of the same size and the difference is shown by the figures on their faces. These bonds run for ten years and ’ they bring in 5 per cent, interest. A Valuable Commodity. The new bonds are of two kinds. One class is of registered bonds and the other coupon bonds. The coupon bonds are payable to bearer and to them are fastened a number of detachable coupons about the size of an pld 10-cent shinplaster. The interest is payable quarterly, and every three months you clip off these coupons and cash them at the Treasury of the United States or at the banks. Any bank in the country knows just what they are worth and will pay you the interest on them. You can use the coupons and the bonds in business deals and their value is so well fixed that they could almost pass .as money. The chief danger is that no identification will be asked at the bank by the man who presents it. As to the registered bonds, these are of a somewhat different nature. They have no coupons and are payable to the person whose name is written on th© bond. In the office of the register of the treasury at Washington there is a record kept of the men who hold these bonds, and about a wagon load of ledgers and journals are devoted to this purpose alone. As soon as a bond is sold an account is opened with the person who buys it between him and the government, and in this is stated the amount he paid for the bond and the rate of interest. Every three months the clerks go through the books and make out a set of accounts. They notify the Treasurer of 'the United States to pay all' the interest due to the persons who hold these bonds, and this money is forwarded to them in the shape of a treasury draft. As soon as tho bond is redeemed the account is closed. These registered bonds are the safest investments known to the United States, and rich men put large sums of money into them. Vanderbilt once owned $45,000,000 of those registered bonds. The largest denominations of bonds now outstanding are of $50,000. The fortunate possessor of one of these draws $2,500 interest every year and his original investment has increased in value about $7,000. This denominaof bond is held by trust companies and millionaires. There are a great many bonds outstanding of the denomination of SIO,OOO. The holders of these draw SIOO interest every three months upon each bond. The largest issue of bonds ever made by this Government at one time was in 1877, when a total of $741,000,000 was issued. Os course the public dsbt was not increased to that extent. as a portion of the bonds, redeemed others outstanding at the time. They had fallen due and Uncle Sam was not prepared to meet the. obligation with ready- cash, so he did what you would try to do if your note in bank should fall due and you had no Ft "f i!’ ’ u ■if Burma boros. money to take it up—you would give another note in its place. This was a very popular loan, drawing 4 P er . con *: interest, and was negotiated without trouble. (An Enormous Sum. There are lots of interesting things about these valuable bits of paper ' Uncle Sam issues. If any reader of

this paper could have the biggest bond • given out by the Treasury Department ho would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice. This bond is now , in the Register’s office of the Treasury at Washington. It has been redeemed and canceled by the Government. It is tho only one of its kind ever issued and it was engrossed by r hand. It represents the •normous sum , of $15,500,000 and it was given out when tho Geneva award compelled Great Britain to this country $15,500,000 on what was known as the Alabama claims. The money was paid to Hamilton Fish,, then Secretary of State. Congress had made i no provision for the disbursement of . this sum, and pending legislation upon i the subject Secretary Fish invested > the money in Government 5 per cents, > receiving onetxmd of the face value of t* his investment. The oldest bond now > extant is also in the possession of tho > Treasury. It is a faded document about the size of a $5 bill, dated Feb. i 6, 1777, by which the Government aci knowledges tho receipt of $309 from ■ John Bonfield, which it agrees to repay i on Feb. 6, 1780, with 4 per cent, interi est. A cancellation mark on the face I shows that, Uncle Sam redeemed his promise to Mr. Bonfield. ' Uncle Sam has. however, had his money troubles in times past. His credit was once quite low, and just bofore and during the war the money lenders were not jf so greedy for tho -er; V government cribs. The first bonds I Ca-A . JSf that wore sent out were sold with A. soiflfc difficulty and \ the financial skies looked dark. Many of tho banks had fc" /Zy # little faith in the v/j / z? future of the government and the salmon p. chase. treasury had to call upon bankers and capitalists to help them in placing their bonds. It was the faith which Jay Cooke had in the government that made his great fortune. Jay Cooke & Co. at the beginning of the war did a great deal for the United States treasury. The firm possessed the confidence of Salmon P. Chase, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, and they made a great deal of money by taking the bonds from the government in big blocks and dealing them out in smaller lots to purchasers. First Issue of Bonds. The history of the United States bonds is interesting. The first loans ever negotiated by this government were with foreign countries. France, Spain. Belgium and Holland furnishing the money in several small sums. The first issue of anything like a bond for home investment occurred in 1785) when the government negotiated what were then called loan office certificates. It was in 1790, however, that the first i' I /f/A vVi• IN THE BOND DIVISION. issue of bonds to any considerable extent was made'. It was found then that the indebtedness incurred by the war of the revolution was a matter of grave importance. The indebtedness was in many forms and on numerous accounts. Alexander Hamilton came to the front with a plan, which, after a long and heated debate in Congress, was adopted. It was decided to fund the revolutionary debt by means of a bond issue. The bonds ran in three series, the bulk of them drawing 6 per cent, interest, the total issue f amounting to about $64,090,000. The scheme proved to be a success, and Hamilton lived to triumph over those who had opposed it. In 1812 the Government was again compelled to borrow money. This time ALEXANDER HAMILTON®®IL*WO.(100 was negotiated, stock being issued to the amount borrowed, and the revenues of the Government pledged for its payment. Other loans followed at intervals between this time and the beginning of the civil war. It was in 1861 that the Government made the largest loan in its history up to that time. In consideration of the difficulties surrounding the situation and the critical conditions of the times, that negotiation may be classed as one of the signal feats in the financial history of the United States. Uncle Sam borrowed $150,000,009 on this deal. From time to time since the war the (government has made loans to recuperate its cash balance or to fund previous loans. The interest-bearing debt of the Government on Jan. 1, 1891, exclusive of the Pacific Railroad debt, was $585,639,315. National Capital Notes. The increase in the public debt during the month of January was $7,830,064. SOLtHTOR Walker, of the World’s Fair, protests against a transfer of award money to the National Commission. A tin BOX to Mr. Wilson created a dynamite sensation among House messengers. It contained candied fine ' sugar. Attendance at the White House receptions demonstrates the inadequacy of the building to accommodate the crowds. The Court of Appeals of the District has reversed the decision of Judge Bradley in the palmetto trade-mark liqlior case. Re-establishment of a military department of 9 the South is contemplated, with probable headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. Should Asiatic cholera reach the United States this year, the government has $700,000 left from last year’s appropriation for fighting it. Reports from American Consuls at Sheffield, Barranquilla, La Paz and Cairo show that American flour is regarded at those places with little favor. There is a possibility that the Senate will pass the George anti-options hill, which seeks to prevent dealing in options and futures by making it * crime. i assistant Secretary of thflni terior Reynolds holds that where several applications are filed for a i pension clafment at different times by different attorneys, based on separate disabilities, the several applications 11 pending shall ba considered at the ad- •! judication as one claim and allowed as [ i such.

WRECKED BY A WIND. GREAT DAMAGE DONE ALL OVER THE WEST. Hou.*. Unroofed mad OH Derrick* and Tree* Laid Low In Ohio and IndianaDeep Snow at Omaha-"Floodi in the Booth. Storm We. General. A terrific windstorm swept over Northern Ohio, leaving a trail of destruction in its wako. In Seneca County fences were laid low, forest trees and orchards destroyed and buildings unroofed, but thus far no person han been reported Injured. Telegraph and telephone wires have been blown down and the service is badly erippled. In what is known aa the Black Swamp region greater damage was done. At Hicksville the storm raged In all its fury, over tho southern portion of Defiance County, destroying tho homos of James Jones and Jas-, per Blighter, their families barely escaping with their lives. Tho oil field was also the scene of destruction, and the large seventy-foot derricks erected over the wells were but playthings before the tornado. The storm was accompanied by a deluge of rain—almost a cloudburst. A unall frame fchoc Ihouse two miles south of Hicksville was caught by the storm and carried from its foundation. The teacher was just dismissing the scholars. Several of the children were badly bruised, but none seriously injured. The storm followed tho line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad across Indiana and Ohio, and traveled at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, as reported by the telegraph people The clouds were scattered as soon as they had gathered, and within ten minutes after the fury of the storm there was a clear sky. Damage in Indiana. Peru.-Considerable damage was done here by wind from the west, which was almost a cyclone. Several buildings, numerous trees and factory chimneys were blown down.' Store fronts were also blown in. Fort Wayne.—At 3 o’clock in the afternoon Fort Wayne was visited by a terrific windstorm. Fifteen minutes before the heavens were clear and the weather was like spring. Clouds began to gather overhead and the afternoon b 'came almost as dark as night. The wind blew a terrific hurricane. Rain and snow came down in torrents. In twenty minutes the hurricane was over. Signs, fences and trees were blown down, but no serious damage or loss of life has been reported. Michigan City.—What seemed to be a cyclone passed over this city at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. It was preceded by a thunder shower. Then a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the city and passed northward with a muffled roar. At the northern outskirts of tho town the funnel dropped suddenly earthward and. sweeping a pathway through a lumberyard. carrying boards and debris of every description, it passed over the Michigan Central and Monon Railway freightyards, lifting half a dozen cars from the tracks and wrecking them. Indianapolis.—This city was swept by a windstorm that blew twentyseven miles an hour for a few minutes. Buildings shook and everything loose was driven on before the gale with threatening velocity. Little damage was done here, but the reports from the State show that ruin is strewn in the path of the wind. From the counties north and east of Indianapolis comes ths report that houses were unroofed, fences blown away and in some places stretches of forest trees laid flat. At Elwood D. H. Havens was lifted from the top of a low building and pitched to the street on his head. Damage to property occurred at Marion, Peru, Logansport and Kokomo, where roofs were sent hurling through the night, but no casualties are reported. In IlllnoA. Mascoutah.—A furious wind-storm prevailed in this section. Fences were swept away and trees blown down. The artesian well frame on Kolb farm blew down. The workmen barely escaped. Nashville.—The heaviest and most destructive wind which has prevailed here in years has been blowing during the entire day. razing fences to the ground and destroying other valuable property throughout the county. Greenville.—A terrific gale swept through this section, doing much damage to trees and small buildings. At Smithboro the wall of a brick building in course of construction was blown down, and freight cars on the side track were badly damaged. * At Other Point*. Omaha. —By far the heaviest fall of snow of the season is the one of to-day. It began about 5 p. m. and by daylight everything was buried beneath a foot of the beautiful. Nashville. —The Cumberland‘River, owing to heavy rains, continues to rise all the way between this point and Burnside, Ky., the head. The water is fast spreading over the low lands, forcing many families to vacate their homes. Topeka.—A heavy rain fell all over Kansas. Then the'temperature ‘ fell and the rain turned into snow, which continued throughout the State six hours. In the eastern part the fall was light, but in Western Kansas the snow is very deep in places.; Memphis.—The hchvy rains have done much damage in this section. The county bridge crossing Illinois Bayou, near Russellville, Ark., waS swept away, and two trestles of the railroad bridge broke loose. Fifty boats of lhe pontoon bridge crossing on the river at Dardanelle, Ark., were carried away. The Ouita coal mines, with an area of over eighty acres under ground, are filled to overflowing. SLAIN NEAR TIMBUCTOO. Mauacre of a Column of French Troop. Under Col. Bonnier. Details of the disaster to the French troops in Timbuctoo have been received in Paris from Ca.pt. Philippe, the commander at the scene of hostilities, and transmitted through the governor of Soudan to the French government. The Tuarges were armed with lances and knives, which they used with terrible effect against the French native troops. Reports are conflicting regarding the number killed, but official statement admits at least nine French officers, including Col Bonnier, two European non-com-missioned officers, afld sixty-eight native soldiers wore slain in battle. The inofficial reports, emanating indirectly trein the War Department and the Colonial Office, say that tho loss in killed and captured is at least 300. Opposed to an enemy estimated to number about 4,000 to 10,000 the French had but 3JO men in the intrenchments at Timbuctoo, supported by six small field-pieces. Tne news of the disaster to the Bonnier column has caused a decided sensation in Paris. \

THE SCOTCH . Th* Part Tliev Took In th. Downfall oi Charlo. L No man In thia country Is better posted in Scotch history than Capt. James B. White of Fort Wayne, Ind., ex-Congressman from the Twelfth District of that State. He is a Scotchman by birth, and is ever ready to defend his country with his pen. ‘Recently tho compiler of historical events of the Daily News of his city, w misquoted an event In Scottish history tlffit occurred in 1647, and tne Captain takes him to task in the following communication, taken from that paper: four most brilliant compiler of historical events has the following: > “1647—Charles the Ist sold .to the * Puritan authorities by the Scotch/'’ Will you please Inform your read- v ers why such a statement as the above should go forth? Does it not mean and intend to convey to the unthinking or uninvestigating mind ‘ that the Scotch were guilty of a. very unbecoming act, and tnat as such they should be held up to the contempt and disdain of others? It is very difficult to come to any other conclusion by any one not familiar with the history of the period you refer tec There is a class of writers who, on all occasions, have adopted this course of defaming the Scotch, by “Inuendoes” ‘and dastardly statements just as the above, for pure malignant reasons Yet it is not difficult to define where these writers; came from. They are purely “English,” who, on all occasions, have* pursued this course in order to exalt! their own baseband degraded charac-' ter at the expense of the Scotch. The Scotch were the first to rise against the King. They set aside his authority in Scotland; they then, marched Into England at the express: urgency of the English to help them.) They captured and held all the north, of England for the Farliament,anddid, much more to accomplish the downfall of Charles than the English, for; when the victory was won, when the, war was over, when the cunning and) deceitful English no longer required the aid of the Scotch, they ungraciously attempted to make them leave England, and defraud them; of the arrears that was due them.; . Then when the Scotch compelled) them to settle up by paying so much! down and giving bond for the pay-, ment of the balance in two years,; the abominable English writers tortured this as a charge of selling theirl king. A man or a writer who would make use of such a scandalous allu-i sion, would not stop to smirch the character of the purest of women if, he could profit by his purpose. He says ‘lsold to the Puritans.”; Who were the Puritans? The; Scotch were the Puritans themselves. The king sur-‘ rendered to the Scotch on English soil. His home was in London. He? desired to go there to be nearer his own people so that the better he could bring about a reconciliation. The Scotch Parliament in the meantime bad passed an act that he could! not come to Scotland unless he first subscribed to the covenant. Tbis : the King would not do, hence there was nothing left but to send him* where he * desired to ga This the Scotch did, which was the proper ■ thing to da The Detective’. Mistake. The whole detective force, as well as every man on the police staff, is holding his sides with laughter over a little Incident which occurred re-i cently. It seems that a cloak had been reported as stolen from the high school. One of the able detectives read over the report as the chief or someone had jotted It down, but some way begot it “clock” instead of “1 know where that clock is,” he remarked. The other detectives looked at each other, every man of theta catching onto the mistake quick as scat. “Better go over and get it,” one of, the officers remarked. And, accordingly, the detective disappeared, rushed over to a hand store on St. Clair street, pointed; toward a great big old-fashioned) clock on the wall, with a church' front to it, and said: “Here, 1 want that clock; its stolen.” “1 bought dot clock for ” But the detective would allow no ; explanation, and rushed back to his office, bravely lugging along the clock. He set it up in a prominent place in the office and remarked: “There it is.” It cost the boys an effort, but they suppressed their’feelings. All sat a, few minutes, when finally Nichter opened the book and commenced to read off the reports again. When he came to the cloak theft the big detective gasped: “What?” But it was so. He looked the book over half a dozen times, and there it was cloak instead of clock. With sincere contrition and apology on the part of the bearer, the clock was lugged back toStark’a —Toledo Com- ’ merclaL ' Live Fish. Norwegians are excellent cooks, especially of fish, which, by the way, are never bought dead but are kept alive in anchored cages in the water of the fjord. The vendor of fish dips bis net Into the water tor each customer, who chooseS what he likes, ' and carries home bis purchase, still Paper Stocking, the Late it. A Berlin trade journal announces a> • new German invention-viz., paper) . stockings. j-It is told that the stockings are made 6f a specially prepared im-j pregnated paper stock, which has an ; extraordinary effect on perspiring feetJ i The moisture is absorbed by the paper) * as rapidly as it is formed, and the feet i remain dry and warm, while tho con-j slant temperature maintained in the shoes is said to be a great preventive; oFcolds.—St. Louis Republic. I ■ While a wotaan seldom understands herself, let her alone for seeing clear through any other woman. Women are more religious than men, so they can have an excuse to buy , Christmasfoolishness. Wooden—What a funny head that fellow has. Wagg—Yes. he’s a humor.