Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1895 — Page 3

Daniel Sclilegel, DEALER in LiiainiK kiids, smiw, roofim. m Tinware of all Kinds. SMpiJiiil aid Mending done to order. Front St., near Jefferson Street. Decatur, - - - Indiana.

HOLMES NOW ON TRIAL —^ Must Answer to the Charge of Mur* dei ing Benjamin F, Pietzel. ACCUSED OF MANY CRIMES. Will Probably Pan* Into History as the Host Noted Murd.tr Trial or the Centnry—Numerous Witnesses Summoned to Testify For tl.e Slate—Much Evidence From Indianapolis Will Be Used. Philadelphia, Oct. 28.--H. H. Holmes or Herman Mudgett, whose name or alias has rung throughout the leugth and breadth of the continent as the most unscrupulous and skillful murderer of modern times, was placed on trial for his lifo today in the court of oyer and terminer in this city. The specific charge which he will bo called upon to answer is the murder of Benjamin F. Pietzel, and he has already officially declared himself not guilty. The revolting details of the many crimes with which llolmes has been di-! rectly or indirectly connected have been 1 given such publicity and the implacable demeanor which has characterized the man throughout has beon so frequently commented upon that the trial wilr probably pass into history as the most celebiated case known to the criminal annals of the western hemisphere. The commonwealth has already expended thousands of dollars in its efforts to bring the prisoner to summary justice, and there is an indication that should a conviction for murder in the first, degree be obtained he will be “railroaded” to the gallows. Witnesses have beon brought to this city from Boston, Chicago. Indianapolis, Irvington, Ind., and almost every oity where Holmes is known to have lived at various times. What revela tions these witnesses will make has been kept a profound secret by the prosecuting officers, but there is expectation of sensational developments. Detective Gever, who has been for months traveling' extensively throughout the country in search of evidences of Holmes’ movements, will be one of the principal wit nesses for the commonwealth. The skull and portions of the body of Pietzel, as well as the remains of the boy, Howard Pietzel, who is thought to have beon murdered by Holmes iu Indianapolis, will be exhibited during the course of the trial. " The remains of Howard Pietzol, found in the Irvington house, were brought to to this city last, night by Detective Richards of Indianapolis. They were carried in a small box and were immediately sent to District Attorney Graham’s office, where they will he kept until such time as they will be brought into court.

FIRE IN A UNIVERSITY. ■*-- •- Virginia Institution Founded by Thomas Jefferson Suffers a Heavy Toss, Charlottkviu.e, Oct. 28.—The University of Virginia suffered great loss front a tire which occurred yesterday. The local lire department was unable to cope with the flames and assistance was obtained from Staunton and Lynchburg, which arrived too late, however, to save the public hall and the rotunda. The tire started ip the former building, and a large quantity of dynamite was used on the portlcq between the rotuiida and the public hall, but beyond displacing the large pillars nothing was accomplished. Attention was then given to the old chapel and readingroom building. This was blown up and the debris saturated with water, the tire being thereby confined to the hall and rotunda. The library, containing about $15,000 worth of books, statues, paintings, etc., was in the rotunda. An effort to save these resulted in getting out Jefferson’s statue and possibly three-fourths of the books. Everything ' else was burned. The total loss is estimated at not less than $300,000, with an insurance of $25,000 on the buildings and contents. The origin of the fire is unknown. ___ — TWO FRESHMEN HANGED. Tonna Mert Have Their Neck* Stretched to Ainnse Hazers. , New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 28.— Blindfolded 'and bound, two freshmen of Rutgers college were led through the streets of this city late Saturday night and hazed for the amusement of a party of sophomores. Not satisfied with making them walk off an imaginary embankment, they placed ropes around their necks and threw the other ends over a lamppost. One of the persecutors said ‘‘Let’s stretch their necks a little.” Objection was made to this, but the rope ■was drawn taut. The freshmen begged to be released. Hearing footsteps approaching, the sophs tied the uuhappy pair to a fence and beat a hasty retreat. The bonds were loosely tied and the men soon freed themselves and returned homeward. Fire Loss of *35,000 at Leesburg. Warsaw, lid., Oct. 28.—The village of Leesburg, north of this city, was the • r. . ' . 1 '■ ?

#oene of a big fire Saturday afteruoon. The fire started in the wagon factory of O. Knight, and the high wind carried the flames to several buildings adjoining, all of which were destroyed. The village has no fire protection other than a small hand engine, and this was unable to coue with the flames The loss will reacli $25,000, with liti le insurance. During the progress of the lire Pressley Brown was run over by the lire engine and fatally injured. Tnlmnfc'i* Flrxt Sermon, Washington, Oct. 28.—Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preached his initial sermon as co-pastor of the First Presbyterian church last night. The crov.d was an immense one. Seven policemen were on hand to keep the people in order and two ladies in the church fainted Altgeld Not a Candidate For Senator. Springfield, Ills., Oct. 28.—Governor Altgeld has stated that he will not be a candidate for the United States senate before the fortieth general asseni bly of 1897.

NEWS FROM THE JUNTA <*9 One of the Members Talks Freely of the Cuban Cause. VICTORY FOR INSURGENTS. - y - • • Report That the Spaniard* Lost Eight Hundred Men In a K- cent Engagement —Cuban Army Now In Control of Puerto Principe — Men Well Armed With Captured Kifle*. Minneapolis, Oct. 25.—A member of the Cuban junta, who travels for the cigar trade and who was a colonel in the first Cuban revolution, reached Minneapolis yesterday. While refusing to permit his name to be mentioned on the ground that tljte success of the jnnta’B operations depended upon the secrecy of its movements, he nevertheless gave some of the late news received by the junta from Cuba. Following is a dispatch he has received from Cuba describing the recent revolutionist viotory which gave the control of the province of Puerto Priucipe to the iusurgepts: \ General Maceo, acting nuder the orders from the war minister, started to march from Santiago De Cuba to join General Sanchez iu Las Bi'las, province of Santa Clara, where they were to unite their forces and ravago the sugar plantations. The Spanish got wind of General Maceo’s intentions and immediately dispatched a formidable column ot 2,800 meu under General Eohague to prevent the junction of the Cuban armies. This column found General Maceo as far advanced on his wav as the Sau Juan valley iu the south of Cuba, between Polguin and Ba'rajugua. Maceo bad 3,000 men, of which 600 were cavalry aud 2,500 infantry. The Spanish had 200 men less, but tiiis difference was more than compensated for by the possession of three excellent pieces of artillery by the enemy. The battle began at once and was fought by the Cubans with great fury. After four hours or terrific fighting General Echague was driven from the field in, disorderly retreat, leaving 800 killed and wounded men and all his - artillery behind him. Since the battle the insurgents have ovorrun Puerto Principe and have effected a junction with General Sanchez at Las Billas. “We are bound to win,” the colonel said. "We control three-fourths of the island now. Our men are armed not only with Mausurs captured from the Spaniards, but with Winchesters and Remingtons sent from the United States. There are over 300 American officers in our army aud more are going every day. pnly a few of the relief expeditions we are sending out get into {he papers. We are now planning a couple that will ptit a final quietus ou Spain. The Spaniards are fighting barbarously. They give no quarter and kill the wounded. We are going to ask the United States for recognition when oongress meets. ”

Bob Ingenull Would Take Them All In. Blo’omingtok, Ills., Oot. 35.—Colonel Robert Gr. lugorsoll addressed the annual reunion of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ association of MoLeau county here yesterday afternoon. In the course of his relnarks he advocated strongly the annexation of Canada, Hawaii and Cuba. The stars and stripes should wave all over the country from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic ocean. He also emphatically favored recognition of the Cubans as belligerents. His sentiments were received with thunderous applause. FALSE TEETH IN HIS STOMACH. Penniiyl vania Veternn Advised to Have a Surpteou Cut Them Out. At.lfntown, Pa:, Oot. 35.—Captain H. C. Wagner, a veteran of the late war and secretary of a brewing eompany, is Ip a critical condition, as a result of swallowing his false fc?otb. When Can-

taju Wagner retired he did not remove hj» teeth, as was his custom. At .8 . e’oiock in the morning he was awakened by a chokiifg sensation in his throat. 1 He sat np iu bed, when he was seized with violent spells of vomiting, bnt.it was not until some time later that h i discovered that he had swallowed his teeth. A physician was summoned, bnt the teeth were beyond the reach of, Die doctor’s appliances. Captain, Wfigner was advised to hasten to Str "Luke’s hospital at Bethlehem, six miles away, and have an operation performed. He lost no time in starting ont on the ride, during which it was frequently feared that he would choke to death. Arriving at the hospital the captain learned that the surgeon would not operate, and he hastened homo. Subsequently several doctors tried to fish out the teeth with pinchers, but they could not be reached, and they expressed the opinion that the teeth had passed into the stomach. It Is feared that peritonitis will result.

MISTAKE IN IDENTITY. " A Insane Man Mourned as Dead For Many Years Turns Up Alive. WRONG- ONE WAS BURIED. Attar Ten Tears the Right Person Is Found In Lexington, By.—Wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad—Change of Venue In the Bnrlington Damage Saits. Sentenced For Larceny—Notes. Laportf,, Ind., Oct. 20. — William Myers of Middlebury, Elkhart oounty, was committed to the insane asylum in 1875. He was then 18 years of age. He escaped from the asylum 10 years later. The body of a man answering his description was found a short time after his disappearance and the remains were interred as those of the insane man in the family burvingground. Yesterday information was received from Lexington, Ky., that Myers had been taken into custody, and the Indiana asylum will again hold the man over whose supposed remains fuueral rites celebrated.

• Wreck on the Pennsylvania. Indianapolis, Oct. was a freight wreck yesterday on the Pennsylvania railroad near Cumberland, a few miles east of this city. The engineer of a westbound freight that Was late had ent, loose his engine from the train in order to reach Irvington to warn an eastbonnd train that was to be passed at the latter place. Afterward, while returning to pick up his train, he suddenly came upon it while rounding a curve, and a collision ensued. "Several cars and the engine were badly damaged, and the engineer, Oscar Crockett, received painful injuries. Took a Change of Veuue. Logansport, Ind., Oct. 26.— The 21 damage suits filed by Mrs. John Graham against prominent citizens of Burlington, charged with conspiring together to wreck a building iu that place in which a bar was to be located, have been broug fc to the Cass circuit for trial on change of veune. The change was asked for by the plaintiff upon the ground the** tiie excited state of feeling and public sentiment in Carroll county would not permit of a fair and impartial hearing. She demands damages iu °the sum of $2,000 each. Frightened Horse 'Causes Ati Accident. Lebanon, Ind., Oct. 26.—Yesterday while John McCarthy and Miss Della Huffman were driving to their homes near here, their horse became frightened and began to rear and plunge forward, finally upsetting the buggy and falling' and breaking its neck. The young lady suffered a broken leg and was otherwise seriously injured. The young man escaped with a few bad bruises.

Court Gets Quick Action on a Thief. Hartford CITY, Ind., Oct. 26*.— Samuel Wise of Montpelier pleaded guilty to a larceny charge in the circuit court here yesterday and >vas sent, to the penitentiary for one year. Last Friday he stole SSO from lus roommate and came here and started to invest the money in whisky. He was arrested and within week is on his way toylie peniI)i<l Not Recover the Property. Logansport, Ind,, Oct. 26.— In the suit of Emma Horning to recover of Arethusa Kerlin and others $20,000 worth of property, alleged to have ’been obtained through undue influence upon their mother, Jane Davis, the jury yesterday returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The prosecution, however, was granted a new trial. Altgeld Defines the Mining Laws. Springfield, Ills., Oct. 25.—Governor Altgeld called before him thy seven newly appointed state inspectors of miues, aud gave them an extensive address, outlining the policy he wishes them to pursue in the execution of the mining laws. The most important feabuM of the address was ps follows: “The'mining laws of the state were enacted for the protection of the weak and poor; the "operator, who is strong, can take care of himself. ”

Kentucky Hanker* Against Silver. OwifNSBORO, Qpt. 26. —The bankers of Kentucky yesterday unanimously adopted resolutions declaring themselves against the free and unlimited coinage of silver aud in favor of the single gold standard aud the retirement of the Died at Midnight.) Los Angeles; Oct. 95. —Last night Lieutenant Governor Millard became unconscious. He remained in a comatose state for half an hoar and then became delirious. At midnight the lieutenant governor died. Did Not Know It Wa» Loaded. Newcastle, Ind., Oct.. 25.— James Sliroyer afccidontally shot liynself yesterday with a revolver, the ball entering his hip and making a dangerous wound. He did not know the gnu was loaded.

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INDIANA NOTES. Mrs. John Pip of Muneie attempted suicide Saturday with laudanum. She was despondent from ill health and loss of money. * VI»M, C* The country residence of Harry McCoy, near Orleans, caught I re from a defective Hue and was entirely destroyed. Loss, $2, 500: insurance, $1,200. Low water in the Ohio continues to interfere with the shipment of apples in the southern part of the state, and thousands of bushels will lie wasted, there being no way of getting the fruit to market. Uoetors at Ixigansport refused to attend upon the birth ot a child Saturday oh account, of the poverty of the parents. As a consequence of the lack of medical atten tion the child died. The coroner is inves tigating the matter. The HI wood tinplate works expects to he making the : r own steel billets in a short time. They now have 1,200 men on the payrolls, which number will soon he increased to ’arly 2,000, with an output of 20,000 boxes ner week. The edition of the Indianapolis Sentinel on Thanksgiving day will he in charge of the. Flower Mission. All the labor in connection with that issue, except the me3hanical, will lie performed by ladies, and '.t is expected that a good sum of money will be realized by that worthy charity. FIRE IN THE MARSHES Immense Destruction of Property Along the Kankakee River. DAMAGE REACHES SBO,OOO. Frftncto A. Coffin, Convicted of Bank Wrecking, Admitted to Bail — Derailed Train Completely Consumed by Fire. Zelda Sequin Wallace Sues For $50,000 Damages—Minor Notes* Crown Point, Ind., Oct. 28.— The Kankakee swamps, owned principally by Nelson Morris & Co. of Chicago and John Brown of this city, have b' > ~- burning since Friday night. T onsands of acres have been burned o> Yesterday the fire,, reached the timber. This city is 12 miles from the swamps and one can hardly see owing to smoke. All the farmers in the neighborhood have plowed firebreaks to keep it from getting out of the niarsh. The losses estimated so far are $80,009.

COFFIN ADMITTED TO RAIL. Alleged Bunk Wrecker Released o»» a Writ Pending an Appeal. Indianapolis, Oct. 28.—Francis A. Coffin, ex-president of the Indianapolis cabinet works, twice convicted of misapplying the funds of tlio Indianapolis National bank through his business dealings with ex-President Hanghey, was arraigned and sentenced to imprisonment for eight years Saturday forenoon by Judge Baker of the federal court. In the afteruoon an application for a writ of supersedeas was laid before Judge Woods of the circuit'court and it. was granted. It was admitted by the government that the grounds on which an appeal would be based Were debatable and were made in good faith, and Judge Woods thereupon ordered,Coffin’s release on SIO,OOO bond until a final determination was had. in the supreme court. Wrecked Train Burns ITp. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 29.—1 n a passenger wreck Saturday afternoon on the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad, although every car was burned, not a single person received fatal injuries. The trouble was Caused by the burning of a wooden culvert about seven miles west of this, city. The escape is a miracle, for the last car at once caught fire from the burning culvert and the whole train, consisting of four passenger cars, a mail car and baggage car, was soon in -flames-aud completely burned up. The smoke from the burning marshes made it. impossible to see the burning culvert, and the engine was ruuuing at a high rate of speed when it dashed into it with terrible force. Wants *50,000 Damages. Indianapolis, Oct. 28.—Mrs. Zelda Segnin Wallace, the famous contralto, filed a suit Saturday against the Terre Haute and Indianapolis railroad for damages to the amount of $50,000. Mrs. Wallace was a passenger on the Vandalia train that was wrecked near Coatesville on Jan. 28 last. Three people were killed. Mrs. Wallace avers that she suffered concussion of the spine; will never be able to recover the use of her body, and that she will have to give up her vocation, that of ah opera singer, which was worth SIO,OOO a year to her. > ' Painter’s Fata! Fall. Kokomo, Ind., Oct. 28 —Rollin Stubbins, a painter of this city, is lying in an unconscious condition frdlu injuries received in falling from a scaffold. His skull was crushed and the physicians suy he will die. His arm is continually oil the go, as though continuing his work wielding tlie paintbrush. lii.juroil In a Runaway. Brazil, Tiid., Oct. 28.—-While Miss Minnie Dodge and Miss Procter were out driving Saturday- evening the horse run off, upsetting the buggy and throwing the occupants against a stone feune

HEAD WAS mm IN Passing Panhandle Train Totally Demolishes a Dairy .Wagon, COULD NOT HEAR THE BELL • - " One Man Fntnlly Injured, Another Scrlou*ly Hart and H «*rn»-n Kill'll — Retmhumed His lloniUmon —D* ■tractive Mnr-h Fires — Attempted Suicide on tier Mother's Orar* Minor Notes, Hartford City, Ind.. Oct. 29.—While crossing the tracks of the Panhandle railroad yesterday a dairy wagon was struck by a passing train and demolished. John Scott and Roy Henderson were in the wagon. Soott had his head crushed and will die and Henderson • was seriously injured on the head and had one of his wrists broken. Both horses were killed. A city ordinance ! prohibits the blowing of engine whistles. and owing to a high wiiirfrhe driver ot the wago n did not hear the bell. Ttie engineer savs he did not see the wagon until he struck it. 1 Reimbursed Bond-nmn; -• *• English, Ind., Oct. 29. — Several months ago an exchange from New Mexico to the English News carried an advertisement for C. Pierce Goode, who had disappeared from here about 10 years ago. for citing a SSOO bond. The newspaper was given to William F. Richards, who was Goode’s bondsman. ! A short correspondence resulted iu Mr. Richards receiving a draft for SBOO, with the assurance that more would be forthcoming, if necessary, to make good whatever loss he had sustained. Destructive Msruh Fire*. Laportk, Ind., Oct. 29.—People living along the Kankakee marshes in Laporte county are alarmed at the spread of the fires which are devastating Lake county and portions of Porter county. They j threaten to sweep eastward through the ! region bordering the Kankakee. The villages of Lacrosse, Wilders, Hanna and Wan at ah are iu dangerous proximity to the marshes which are as inflammable as powder. Nothing but a good ram will stop the work of destruction. On Her Mother's Grave. Ligonier, Ind., Oct. 29. —Mrs. George W. Billings of Ligonier had trouble with her husband aud obtained a divorce from him. Recently she had been greatly depressed. She procured a val of chloroform, went to the outskirts of towu and lying upon her mother's grave saturated a cloth with the drug and wrapped her head in a shawl, so that I she would inhale the fuuies. When found she was almost dead, but it is i thought she will recover. Trampled by h’Horse. Brazil, Ind., Oct. 29.—While John and his son were driving to i town yesterday they were enveloped in I a whirlwind, which frightened the horse. The buggy was overturned and ; both men were thrown under the feet of I the plunging horse. Fugate escaped ! with slight injuries, but his son was ! seriously if not fatally trampled about the chest aud head. Fatal Cutting Affray. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 29.—Emil Winiger -and Dee Johnson, while half drunk, got into ail argument over the A. P. A. question. Winiger threw a brick at Johnson and the latter used his kuife with fatal effect, cutting WiDiger's intestines through iu four places. Johnson was arrested, but claims self- : defense. !» — Sues For Damages., Wabash, Ind., Oct. 29.—Miss May | Cloud- has begun in the Wabash Circuit I cout suit for $5,000 damages against I Roy Shelton. The plaintiff is 14 years ! old, and was all inmate of the Wabash ■ ; County Orphans’ Home, from which she was adopted by the defendant: Her ! parties live near here. Woman Fatally Burned. Mfnc’lE, Ind., Oct. 29.—Mrs. Isaac] 1 Martin*of this city was fatally burped | yesterday'“evening. She attempted to iight the gas iu the cook stove, when - her clothes caught fire and burned from her holly. Siie leaves four children, the youngest only five weeks old. Fire at Brovrnstown. Brownstown, Ind., Oct. 29.—This place has been visited by a very destructive fire, seven buddings in the business part of town being consumed and two others badly damaged-. The ’'loss is over $45,000, with $6,000 insure, mice. ► Crushed In a Coal Mine. Vincennes, Ind., Oet. 29.—Barney Clements, manager aud one of the operators of the Prospect Hill coal miues, was crushed to death yesterday by a large rock falling” on him while he was making an inspection of the mines. Miss Proctor is believed to be fatally injured. Miss Dodge was also badly hurt. 1 Woman's Sudden Death. Crawfordsvillk, 1 nd.. Oct. 28. — ■While Mrs. Robert Allen of Darlington was hanging a picture Sat urday she was taken with a paiu in her breast, to the floor. She expired in a few moments. The coroner is investigating the case. . <, Killed by the Cars. Frankfort, Ind., Oct. 2S. — Fred Moore, a 18-year-old boy of Sheridan, was killed at lvirklin He had boarded a Motion train to ypmc to this city and on reaching Kirkliu attempted to get off aud fell under the train. Gnn Pumping Station. Fra\kton, Ind., Oct. 2S. Indianapolis Gas company has commenced t lie construction of a big gas pumping station two aud one-half miles northeast of this place. The estimated cost of the plant is SIOO,OOO. diaries vv. tuu ot Indianapolis, in a row with If is stepson, Harry Vandevier,, •was hit over the head with a baseball bat .and it is feared the-injuries may prove fatal. Vandevier says Hill was' threatening, |iis mother, from whom he had been parted;

mils ms romi. Holmes’ Physical Condition Not Abb * to Siam! the Strain. THREE SESSIONS A DAY. lodge Arnold Firmly •Persist* In Oki Determination Not to Lot the €**• Drug Crayon Portraits of Two of Bis Alleged Victim* Store the Criminal In the Face —Court's Many Visitors. Philadelphia, Oet. 30. —lt becam# apparent last night that the picturesque aud startling features of H H. Holme#’ career were not to be confined to his destructive wanderings over the America# continent, for with each successive day comes something still more strange and me x pee ted. Monday he dismissed his counsel and began to try his own case, because th# court refused to grant the plea made by them for a continuance. They left th# conrt m spite of Judge Arnold’s threat# to disbar them, and religiously kept away Last night, after fighting tooth and nail singlehanded against the tremendous machinery of the aim monwealth and the apparently complete chain of evidence which has been forged around hun, he threw uiphis hands and sent for his lawyers, Messrs. Shoemaker and Retail Then he told the court what he had done, and a reluctant eouseut to their continuing with the defense was given. There was an impression tnat this was but another piece of byplay following Holmes’ personal failure to catch the sympathy of the court and jury by making himself Out a ranch wronged man, forced to fight alon# what may prove to lie his last, battle i& spite of his ignorance of the technioali-’ ties of the law and his alleged physical infirmity. The big wbrk of the trial -the taking of tesiimony- was begun yesterday morning, and with the-exception of brief intermissions at lunch and supper time, was continual until nearly 9 o'clock last night. It had been the intention of the court to sit until 10, but the absence of a witness hindered this and an adjournment was taken. The star witnesses of the trial—Mrs. Pietzel, Detective Geyer, Agent Perry of the swindled insurance company and the archcriminal himself —yet remain to be heard, as also uearly two score of others. District Attorney Graham remarked that there was a likelihood of the trial rivaling the Dnrrant ease in point of time, but that if night sessions were held regularly it might be concluded within a mouth or less. H/dines Object# to Night Sessions. Holmes made a plea in the evening asking the court to hold bnt two sessions a day. In plaintive tones he said that his physical condition was suck, that he felt, unable to continue his crossexamination of the‘witnesses, and besides, he was subject to sick headaches. Judge Arnold, however, was firm and a ‘ night session was held. During the supper recess, which followed this incident, Hqlmes privately said that the preparation of his case in cell at night had kept him until 4 o’clock in the morning, and then he was aroused two hours inter. In addition to this h« had not eaten anything from the night before until 1 o’clock yesterday. Tt was after making this statement that he sent for his counsel. Up, to that time there had been a general impression that human nature could not stand the terrible ordeal which he had set for himself, and that if he persisted in going on with his own case there would be a breakdown before long. All day, as be sat in the dock, the eyes ji)f the man iie is charged with, murdering gazed at him from a large cravbu portrait pla&ed upright on the district attorney’s desk in full view of the entire court. Next to this was an equally large sized picture of the daughter Alice, whose death is also laid oti his shoulders. But Holmes qid not seem to be affected. His stolid de.igeauor never deserted him for an instant The aSkoOncemeiif that the taking of evidence would begin yesterday, drew a still larger crowd to the city hall,'but the admirable police arrangements kept everybody out of the courtroom except attorneys and those concerned in the case. The interest manifested is not confined to otte class 1 hiring the day Judge Arnold had no less than eight visitors, all judges from this* and other cities in the state Besides the head of every nuipicipa! department was noticed in the room at different times, including this mayor. " * Fraying; For Knin. Slater, Mo., Oct. 30. —A large number of citizens congegated at the Baptist church here yesterday afteruoon for the express purpose of praying for raiu. Such a scarcity of water was. never before known in this .section. Nearly 2,000 tanks of water have been sold here during the last year. Stock is suffering and tires have destroyed many fields of cbfu in several sections of the country. Fighting the Russian Thistle. Rockford, 111., Oet. 30.— Farmers of Winnebago county will hold a massmeeting at Rockford to discuss the best means of getting rid of the Russian thistle, which ds growing in alarming* quantities iu all this portion of the state. Jhe great difficulty is that many farmers do not know the injurious weed when they .see it. ~ Heavy Loss l»_v l ire. Elkhart, Ind., Oct. 30.— The residence of Johh D. Comstock, a wealthy farmer near here, together with all his barns, outbuildings, farming implements, grain, hay and furniture,®has beeu totally consumed by tire. The fire was caused by a defect•; flue. The loss is $10,000; with au insurance of $2,500. Prominent Illinoisan Dead. Lewiston, Ills., Oct. 30.—Colonel Lewis W. Ross, presided of the Lewiston National bank and the founder of this city, died yesterday, aged 83. He. n was ill congress from* IMi2 to 1800. liis son, John W. Ross, is ofto of the comtaissionefs of the District of Columbia.