Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1895 — Page 2

Democratic Press. DECATUK. Democratic Pram t 0.. - Publisher*. A GOOD CROP OF NEWS GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Philadelphia Elects the Republican Ticket by 55,000 -Majority—Americans Murdered by Mexican Bandits —A Fearful <'rash —Heal Heroine. Won’t Finish the Design. New York special: Frederick Macmonnies, the sculptor, who has been engaged for sometime in the work of designing a soldiers’ and sailors' monument erected by tlie state of Indiana, has canceled his contract, owing to a difference with the commissioners of the work. The inomument, so far as the design is completed, represents a cost of $500,000. There remains to be designed two side groups, and the contract calls for one representing "War” and the other representing "Peace.’’ Mr. Macmonnies wanted to substitute a group representing naval achievements instead of the "Peace" group, in order to secure a more artistic effect in the work as an entirety. but the commissioners refused to permit this, and Mr. Mactnonnies declined to go on. Republicans XV in, Philadelphia maintained its reputation for stalwart republicanism and elected the candidates of the republican party by a majority of from 15.,»>0 to 55.01X1. The election was for Mayor, Receiver of Taxes oouneilmen, police magistrates and school directors. The Republicans made a clean sweep and elected their candidate for Mayor and Receiver of Taxes by a greater majority than ever given to similar officers upon local issues. The candidates of the Republican party for Mayor and Receiver of Taxes were City Solicitor Charles F. Warwick and William ,1. Roney, respectively. Ex-Governor Pattison and Col. Sylvester Bonnaffon. Jr., were the candidates of the Democratic party for the same offices. Three Firemen injured. Three firemen were severely injured at a tire at Akron. A defective tiue in the residence of Dr. Eli Conn started the fire and it was over half an hour before water could be secured on account of frozen hydrants. While half a dozen firemen were working on the second floor a large chimney fell, burying three men under the brick. The list of injured is as follows: Harry Townsend, cut severely about head and bruised about the body; George Rutton, head cut. back hurt, hurt internally; Frank Nieswanger, right leg broken, bead and shoulder cut. None of the injuries will prove fatal. The house and contents were destroyed, loss HM). Died in C liurch. South of Indianapolis, on the Earhart lane, is located a col d church known as Phoenix Chapel. The other night very earnest revival services were held in the little building, and while the preacher was vigorously exhorting his flock Samuel Brooks, one of his parishioners, fell forward and was dead. A hasty circle was formed about the unconscious body, and prayers were offered for his soul’s welfare in the great beyond. This continued until the preacher shouted, “He died in the hands of the Lord. Brother Brooks has gone to glory.” The deceased was 50 years old. He lived in a suburb known as Shantytown. A Real Heroine, Mrs. George A. McMillen is the heroine of Alton, 111., at present. While she was in her house with only a six-year-old child for company a burglar entered her room and demanded her money. She agreed to get what she had. and went to a bureau drawer ostensibly to procure it. When she opened the draw ;■ she seized a revolver and. turning on tlr burglar, comanded him to leave the bouse, she made him back to the front do r. open - and retreat into the yard. i'obbed by » II i ll** t-Proof Man, Thomas Cook, a merchant in Elmoro. Col., was forced to open his safe by a masked man, who got the drop on him, but as the burglar was leaving the store Mr. Cook shot him with a Winchester. The bullet struck the roblieron the shoulder and fell to the floor, flattened out. showing that he had some sort of bullet proof covering on the upi>er part of his body. He escaped, but got only a small sum of money.

A Fearful Cra*h. Two hundred pounds of smokeless wooo powder went off with a fearful crash in Griffith & Semple’s gun store, at 432 West Main street, Louisville. Ky. ft was stored in an annex, which is now scattered all over the vicinity, and no one knows what caused the explosion. The back end of the place caught tire, and for a while a had tire was threatened. The loss is about $3,000. Mexican IKandits. G. R. Morrison, an American, residing in Detroit, Mich., was killed by Mexican bandits about sixty miles south of Cordoba, Mex. He was on his way to inspect coffee lands with a view to investing in them, when the outlaws made the attack upon him. He was robbed of a considerable amountof money. Four of the bandits have been captured, and will be shot. Moonshiners Captured. Deputy United States Marshal G. AV. Drake, with two assistants, captured seven desperate moonshiners at Onton ( reek, in Knott County. Kentucky, after a hard battle. Among them was Isaac Sloan, one of the five men who murdered United States Marshal Erastus AVierman at the same place six years ago. Farmhouse Wrecked. The farmhouse of William Washburn near Muncie, Ind., was wrecked by an explosion of natural eas. The family was absent. Rebellion at Mnsat, A London Central News dispatch from Bombay says: “A serious rebellion has broken out in Musat, the Arabian seaport on the Indian Ocean. The rebels have seized most of the forts commanding the town. No more details are obtainable.” Terrible Accident In; Russia. Moscow special: While a number of students were skating on the Moskva Rivet the ice gave way and thirty of them plunged into the river and drowned. None of the bodies have been recovered.

BI'SiNESS. Trade by no Means Satisfactory Thmigti AU Hope tor improvement. Dun’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Another week, and exports of gold and withdrawals from the treasury have been almost entirely stopp'd by contract for purchase of gold from Belmont A Morgan. For the moment business only waits to know whether the sales of American securities and withdrawals of gold from the treasury have been lastingly stopped by the remarkable increase of confidence. Two obstacles which block the path just at the present time, are the exceeding cheapness of all kinds of farm produetsand the restricted operation in industries. There has been no gain in Cthe price of farm products on the whole; corn is nominally % a eent higher but with insignificant movement, while wheat also with a movement hardly half of last year’s Is of a cent lower for the week. Cotton, with continuing large receipts, remains Unchanged. These few words tell the old story: The corn crop is undeniably short, although probably a much larger supply than official rejiorts indicate. The wheat and corn supplies so far are behind the the world's demands and that extreme low prices are natural and any speculation for advance is greatly hadieapped. Restricted purchases by the West and South natural:, result. THIS IS GOOD. I'onsreM Resolves to Monkey No Longer with the Financial -Machine. Washington special: There will be no further financial legislation attempted by the House this session. The defeat of rhe two banking bills and one bond bill in quick succession satisfies the Democratic leaders that the majority of the House cannot be brought to the support ot any measure. There was talk in the House that some measure of financial relief might be engrafted upon the general deficiency ap propriation bill when it is taken up in the Senate, but it is not definitely known if this attempt w ill be seriously made. The members of the House are now looking forward with impatience to adjournment. and the committee or rules is constantly importuned for s]>eeial orders for certain important bills that have not yet received consideration by the House, but which can be rushed through the Senate, it is believed, if they can reach that body during the last week of the session. One of these is the naval r'organization bill, and another is the Nicaragua canal bill. All talk of an extra session has ended, ami it is believed that when Congress adjourns on the 4th of March next it will not be asked to convene again until the regular meeting day in December. Attempted Assassination. A dastardly attempt was made at Wheatland, Ind., to take the life of John 11. Niblack, junior member of the firm of Niblack & Son. dealers in general merchandise. Niblack sleeps in the store building. At 10 o’clock at night he was called to the door by two unknown nren who said they desired to purchase some goods. They entered the store, and. after purchasing a large bill of goods, one of them drew his pistol ami fired, the ball entering Niblack’•• left shoulder just above the heart. Niblack, being a cool-headed man. reached and got his pistol and began firing at the assassins, in the meantime turning the lamp over, leaving the room in darkness, The assassins fled, and Niblack ran to Dr. Dnkate’s office to have his wound dressed. He is in a critical condition. Sherman Yerk. a farmer boy. was arrested on charge of impliea'ion in the affair. The town is the scene of excitement and if the assassins are caught they may never see another sunrise. Cars Bara. An extra freight train going north on the Central Hudson River Railway, jumped the track two miles south of Rhinecliff, N. Y., near Astor’s tunnel, the five rear cars next the caboose sagging over the southbound track. Shortly afterwards train No. 32 going south, consisting of five express cars, four mail cars and a coach, ran into the wreck and the locomotive jumped the track and landed on the iee in the river. Two of the express cars were wrecked and seven of the freight ears were knocked into splinters. The wreckage caught fire and burned. John Donahueof New York, engineer of the express train, had his spine injured and an arm broken, and the fireman, named Reed, of New York, had his skull fractured. The two men were taken to Vassar Hospital. Poughkeepsie, and Donohue died while being taken there. Reed cannot live. Amicably Adjudicated. City of Mexico special: Mexico’s conditions have been peacefully accepted by Guatemala, who guarantees their fulfillment. The conditions will be published officially next week. Both sides have mad concessions. The Guatemala question i. at last settled upon an equitable basis between the two republics. The boundary between the two countries, will be definitely determined upon and the war indemnity is accepted by Guatemala, who will also pay damages for Mexican property destoyed. Guatemala’s official acceptance of Mexico’s conditions will arrive here next week and will be immediately published in the Diario, the official organ of the Mexican government. This will permanently terminate the famous imbroglio between Mexico and Guatemala. A<»enerous Act. Chefoo (Chinai sjieeial: The steamer Kangdhi. loaned by the Japanese for the purpose, has arrived here with the remains vs Admiral Ting, the Chinese naval commander, who committed suicide after surrender of his fleet to the Japanese at Wei Hai Wei. The steamer also brought the bodies of Commander Liu and Capt. Yang, of the Chinese flagship, Chen Yuen, and Gen. Chang, commander of the military forces at Wei Hai Wei, all of whom killed themselves rather than suffer the punishment that would have been meted out to them by the emperor for the failure of his forces to repel the Japanese. The Japanese paid the greatest respect to Admiral Ting’s remains, Capt. Yang shot himself as the Japanese went over the side of his flagship. Denied by Matthews. Gov. Matthews denies that he has been offered the Mexican mission, made vacant by the death of Minister Gray. He stated also that he had not sent a message to Lieut. Gov. Nye, warning him that he might be called upon at an early day to assume the office of Governor. It is understood that the dispatch to Lieut. Gov. Nye was sent by a personal friend, who was aware of the movement to make Gov. Matthews the successor of Minister Gray. Gov. Matthews would not commit himself on the question whether he would accept the appointment if it were offered, lie stated that he had been elected by the people to the office of Governor, and he presumed it would be the Kroner thing for him to

discharge the duties of the office to which he had been called. Investigators Han {capped. Word lias lieen received from Erzeroom, the city from which the European delegation lias recently set out for the scene of the late, massacre in the Sassoun district, that the delegates were not allowed by the Turkish government to take Armenian interpreters with them. The >.*.soun Anne- . nians know only Koordish and a little Armenian, but not Turkish. It will beiinpoasible for these delegates to obtain any definite information from them through an official Turkish interpreter, who does ' not understand their language. The delegation thus equipped has gone to do its I work. Er-Oueen Lil. Found Guilty. San Francisco special: The Mariposa brings news from Honolulu that the trial i of the ex-Queen had just been concluded when the steamer left, and the prevailing I opinion was that she would lie found guilty ii and sentence would be pronounced against her. The feeling in Honolulu against the conspirators is very strong, and it is the geu- : eral desire that the executions lie carried out, but President Dole. w!io is more conservative in the matter, is said to oppose this. Martial law is still in force. A Rich Find A special from Deadwood, S. D.. says: Messrs. Ingram and McEatchron, who were building a cyanide plane plant at Keystone, one-half a mile from the Holy Terror mine, ■ struck a body of ore while grading for the i plant. Development work has been pushed on the find, and a streak of ore has I been encountered which is so rich in gold : that armed guards are kept during the time I that the mini' is not worked. The ore is | extremely rieh in free gold and the vein is ! growing wider as the shaft is sunk. The find is a second "Holy Terror,” Shot Her Sister While the family of Janies Wise, a farmei residing five miles north of Alliance, Ohio., were cleaning house, his fourteen-year-old daughter undertook to handle a shotgun that hung on the wall of the sitting room. The hammer caught on a nail and the weapon was discharged, hereighteen-year-old sister, was standing near by, and the full charge of shot struck her in the right temple, blowing both eyes out and tearing away most of the forehead. The girl is ■ still living, but cannot recover. Her sister s crazed with grief. Serious Wreck. A serious wreck occurred on the Norfolk and Western railway, seven miles west of Huntington, W. Va. Train No. 2, south bound, was riming at a rate of thirty-five miles an hour when the engine jumped the track followed by two coaches. John Adkins, of Wayne county, was killed outright; an unknown lady from Petosky, Mich., was struck on the head and is dying, and Engineer Jackson and Fireman Ganze were seriously hurt. The track is torn up badly and traffic impeded. Missionaries Rescued. Washington special: The Navy Department has heard from Admiral Carpenter under even date from Cliefu to the effect that the Charleston arrived there after having rescued fourteen missionaries, and that he had directed the Yorktown to go to the south coast of Shantung. China, to the assistance of missionaries there. He also stated that the Chinese still hold the island forts at Wei-llai-Wei. Children Cremated. Three boys, aged 4. 7 and U years, were cremated at Lewiston. Montmorenci County, Mich., while their parents were attending a dance, just outside the village. The victims were children of Eli .Seymour, a shoedealer. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Some think the house was set on fire, while others think an accident happened to the stove while the children were asleep. In Seed of Food. Gov. McKinley is in receipt of another appeal for aid for the destitute miners of the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys, Chairman Coultrap asserting that there is immediate need of provisions and clothing at all the points of distribution. Went Down With His Ship. Berlin special: The Bremerhaven pilot writes to the Weser Zeitung that Capt. Von Goes»el of the North German Lloyd steam er Ellie declined Pilot Hanies’ offer to get him a lifebelt. He remained alone at his post and sank with his ship. Horrible Explosion. A terrific explosion of mine gas took place in West Bear Ridge Colliery, belonging to the Reading company and located at Mahoney Plaue, Pa. Five miners have een taken out seriously and probably ..tally injured. Superintendent Morris Dead. Jacob S. Morris, for the past twenty-two years superintendent of the Pennsylvania lines, and one of the most widely known railroad men in the United States, died at Toledo from grippe. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3,756/5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 (tz4.50; sheep, fair to choice, [email protected]; wheat, No. 2 red, 50@51c; corn, No, 2. 42fiz43c: oats. No. 2, 27@2Sc; rye. No. 2. 52fd54c; butter, choice creamery, 23(<z 24c; eggs, fresh, 23fa,24c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 7otfzNoc. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, s3@ 5.50; hogs, choice light, $3fa,4.75; sheep, common to prime. 2 red. 52@53c; corn, No.l white, 41@ 42c; oats. No. 2 white. 32fa32%c. St. Louis—Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, 4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 51@52c; corn, No. 2, 40@41c; oats, No. 2, 30@31c; corn. No. 2, Cincinnati —Cattle. [email protected]; hogs, sheep. [email protected]; wheat. No. 2. 55(d56c; corn. No. 2 mixed, oats. No. 2 mixed, 32@32%c; rye. No. 2, 58fa59c. Detroit —Cattle, [email protected]; hogs, 1.50; sheep. [email protected]; wheat. No. 1 white, 54(d55c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42fa42*£c; oats. No. 2 white, 33 ] /&&34%c; rye, No. 2, •’»4@s6c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 53@54c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 426j43c; oats. No. 2 white, rye, No. 2. 53^/55c. Buffalo—Cattle. [email protected]; hogs. ■ ' sheej [email protected] wheat, No. 2 red, 57 1 //<z5S 1 2c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 47((z47L;<«; oats. No. 2 white. 35W</3(%c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 53@ 53%c; corn. No. 2. oats. No. 2 white. 31@31’ 2 c; barley, No. 2, 53@5Gc; rye. No. 1, 52Qt54c; pork, mess, 10.25. New York—Cattle. [email protected]; hoes. $3.50 @5.00; sheep. $.3@5; wheat. No. 2 red. 59 @59%c; corn. No. 2. 48@49c; oats, white Western, 37@41c; butter, creamery, 15(& 26c: eggs. Western. 2S@29c.

TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN. HENRY WATTERSON’S ORATION AT CHICAGO. Magnificent Audience Hears the Eloquent Kentuckian’s Brilliant Effort —His Words Were Worthy—Life and Character of the Great Emancipator. In Honor of the Martyred President. The most notable feature of the Lincoln memorial exercises at Chicago was the speech of Colonel Henry Watterson, of Louisville. Ky. Mr. Watterson began his oration by a reference to the poise and dignity of the statesmen in knee breeches and powdered wigs who signed the Declaration of Independence and framed the Constitution, and who made their influence felt upon life and thought long after the echoes of Bunker Hill and Yorktown had died away. It was not until the institution of African slavery got into politics as a vital force that Congress became a bear garden. The men who signed the declaration and their immediate successors were succeeded by a set of party leaders much less decorous ami much more self-confident. Continuing, the lecturer said in part: There were Seward and Sumner and Chase, Corwin and Ben Wade. Trumbull and Fessenden, Hale and Collamer and Grimes, and Greeley, our latter-day Franklin. There were Toombs and Hammond. and Slidell and Wigfall, ami the two little giants, Douglas and Stephens, and Yancey and Mason, and Jefferson Davis. With them soft words buttered no parsnips and they cared little how many pitchers might be broken by rude ones. The issue between them did not require a diagram to explain it. It was bo simple a child could understand It. It read, human slavery against human freedom, slave labor against free labor, ami involved a conflict as inevitable as it was irrepressible Lincoln Enter, the Fray. Amid the noise and confusion, the clashing of intellects like sabers bright, and the booming of the big oratorical guns of the North and the South, now definitely arrayed, there came one day into the Northern camp one of the oddest figures imaginable, the figure of a man who. in spite of an appearance somewhat out of line, carried a serious aspect, if not the suggestion of power, and, pausing a moment to utter a single sentence that could be heard above the din, passed on and for a moment disappeared. The sentence was pregnant with meaning. The man bore n commission from God on high! He said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half free and half slave. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 1 do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.” He was Abraham Lincoln. How shall I describe him to you? Shall I do so as he appeared to me when I first saw him immediately on his arrival at the national capital, the chosen President of the United States, his appearance quite as strange as the story of his life, which was then but half known and half told, or shall I use the language of another and more vivid word painter? In January, 1801, Colonel A. K. McClure, of Pennsylvania, journeyed to Springfield. 111., personally, to become acquainted and to consult with the man he bad contributed so materially to elect. "1 went directly from the depot to Lincoln’s bouse," says Colonel McClure, “and rang the bell, which was answered by Lincoln himself, opening the door. I doubt whether I wholly concealed my disappointment nt meeting him. Tall, gaunt, ungainly, ill-clad, with a homeliness of manner that was unique in itself, I confess that my heart sank within me as I remembered that this was the man chosen by a great nation to become its ruler in the gravest period of its history. I remember his dress as if it were but yesterday—snuffcolored and slouchy pantaloons; open black vest, held by a few brass buttons; straight or evening dress coat, with tightly fitting sleeves to exaggerate his long, bony arms, all supplemented by an awkwardness that was uncommon among men of intelligence. Such was the picture 1 met in the person ..f Abraham Lincoln. We snt down in his plainly furnished par lor and were uninterrupted during the nearly four hours I remained with him, and little by little as his earnestness, sincerity and candor were developed in conversation. I forgot all the grotesque qualities which so confounded uie when I first greeted him. Before half an hour had passed I learned not only to respect, but. indeed, to reverence the man." Lincoln's First Inaugural. I am not undertaking to deliver an oral biography of Abraham Lincoln, and shall pass over the events which quickly led up to his nomination and election to the Presidency in IStiO. 1 met the newly elected President the afternoon of the day in the early morning of which he had arrived in Washington. It was a Saturday. I think. He cam" to the eapitol under Mr. Seward’s escort, and among the rest I was presented to him. His appearance did not impress me as fantastically as it had impressed Colonel McClure. I was more familiar with the Western type than Colonel McClure, mid whilst Mr. Lincoln was certainly not an Adonis, even after prairie ideas, there was about him a rugged dignity that com manded respect. I met him again the next Monday forenoon in his apartments at Willard's Hotel as he was preparing to start to bi» inauguration. and was struck by bis unaffected kindness: for I came with a mailer requiring his attention. He was entirely self-possessed, no trace of nervousness and very obliging. I accompanied the cortege that went from the Senate chamber to the east portico of the eapitol. As Mr. Lincoln removed his hat to face the vast multitude in front and below I tended my hand to take it, but Judge Douglas, just behind me, reached over my outstretched arm and received it. holding it throughout the delivery of the inaugural address. I stood just near enough to the speaker’s elbow not to obstruct anv gestures he might make, though ho made but few. and then I began to understand something of the real power of the man He delivered that inaugural address as if he had been delivering inaugural addresses all his life. Firm, resonant, earnest. it announced the coming of a manof a leader of men, and in its ringing tones and elevated style the gentlemen whom be had invited to become members of his political family-each of whom at bottom thought himself his master's equal or superior—might have heard the voice and Keen the hard of one born to rule Wheth er they did or not they very soon ascer-

— hnvr Abraham tained the fact- r '’“-] ld of t be White Lincoln crosse.l ti thell ,. e to fits House to the b- g tragic death there ‘ b political when he did not dum *““d h * s official and military situatte ’ . ~s oversubordinates. The unmatched at any time by any tradicted by all that actually nail LinCO,Oa "s t "Orf* 81 I, n ’t Mr.'tinreln’s relation to the South and all his tribe were though he left Kentucky when the m •h.i.i was an old child, no nt child, he was an manh ood in a verv vouns; ne " ni;nv« whatVuh. ! 7ag". 3 'but a noor white." Awkward, perhaps, nu.g r less, certainly, but aspiring, the spiri o Lera beneath that rugged «tenor the imagination of a poet >7 ea,b ’ b X a eath brows; the courage of a !t° n ‘ those patient, kindly aspects: and, 1 ng before he was of legal age. a leader. 1 first love was a Rutledge; his wife «as Let the romancist tell the story of his romance. I dare not. No sadder idyl can be found in all the annals of the poor We know that he was a poet; for hare we not that immortal prose-poem recitea at Gettysburg? We know that he was a statesman; for has not time vmdieated his conclusions’ But the South doe. not know, except as a kind of hearsay, that he was a friend; the one friend who had the power and the will to save it from itself. The direst bUw that could hare been inflicted upon the South was delirered by the assassin’s bullet that .truck him down. , Throughout the wild contention that preceded the war. amid the lund passions that attended the war itself, not one or narrow word escaiwd the l;ps es A > r » ham Lincoln, whilst there was hardly a day that he was not projecting his ig, sturdy personality between some So,J tern man or woman and danger. The Laws of Inspiration. From Caesar to Bismarck and Gladstone the world has had its statesmen and its soldiers—men who rose to eminence and power step by step, through a series of geometric progression, as it were, each advancement following in regular order one after the other, the whole obedient to well-established and well-understood law s of cause and effect. They were not what we call “men of destiny.” They were “men of the time.” They were men whose careers had a beginning, a middle, and an end, rounding of lives with histories, full it may be of interesting and exciting events, but comprehensive and comprehensible; simple, clear, complete. The inspired men are fewer. hence their emanation, where and how they got their power, and by what rule they lived, moved and had their being, we know not. There is no explication to their lives. They rose from shadow and they went in mist. We see them, feel them, but we know them not. They came. God’s word upon their lips; they did their office. God's mantle about them; and they passed away. God's holy light between the world and them, leaving behind a memory, half mor tai and half myth. From first to last they were the creations of some special Providence, baffling the wit of man to fathom, defeating the machinations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and, the.r work done, passing from the scene as mysteriously as they had come uikjd it. Tried by this standard where shall we find an illustration more impressive than Abraham Lincoln, whose career might be chanted by a Greek chorus as at once the prelude and the epilogue of the most imperial theme of modern times. Born as lowly as the Son of God. in a hovel; of what ancestry we know not and care not; reared in penury, squalor, with no gleam of light or fair surroundings; without external graces, actual or acquired; without name or fame or official training; it was reserved for this strange being. late in life, to be snatched from obscurity. raised to supreme command at n supreme moment, and intrusted with the destiny of a nation.

The great leaders of his party, the most experienced and accomplished public men of the day. were made to stand aside; were sent to the rear, whilst this fantastic figure was led by unseen hands to the front and given the reins of power. It is immaterial whether we were for him or against him—wholly immaterial. That during four years, carrying with them such a pressure of responsibility as the world ueiet iiiturssed before, be filled th" vast space allotted him in the eyes and actions of mankind, is to say that he was inspired of God, for nowhere else cou>d he have acquired the wisdom and the grace indispensable to his mission. Where did Shakespeare get his e(>n!ng , M here did Mozart get hin musi. ' Whose hand smote the lyre of the Scottish plowman. and stay,al the life of the German priest? God. God. and Go.l alone™ n d as surely as these were raised up hv G, B t inspired by God. was Abraham Lincoln’aud a thousand years hence no 'torr no tragedy, no epie poem will be filled with greater wonder, or be followed by mankind wnth deeper feeling, than that which tells of his life aud death. Notes of Current Events. cruiser. An inquiry ls >n P ro„es, ‘” l * B B G c p hcl da ““ sP .." as by ,he O" Many oyster were wrecked and loss of life is fear<£ A I anh&ndle PAssenser train n as ii’ V” 1 " “““ -«• L ran nf ”' MS " Lewis Billings, College Spring, r, re'-cutlr marriisl. shot and kittmreU Despondency froiu sicknm cause. was tne Experiments with a smaller, being conducted by Health C Holman at the quaran ' SS ' Oner Louis. quarantine hospifa), St Ralph S. Selby, a i-nr tate dealer at San Framing r< “ al eß ' her of an old family shot h ; ’ mem ' the head. hot hl,n * !f through At Boston. Mass ’! Telephone Compand Tero ° f by order of the Bell rtire,,.' 1 at au, ‘tion ranged from IStlij The I nion station at St t- . completed in Mar iSx-> ” o,e Ph, M o „ used hy all the railroads' "’ hlch Wa ’ was laid in ruius by fire ’ | th<! City - reach $400,000. It wa , loss will severe s« s ever suffered by the ck/. ““* l

ISAAC P. GRAY IS DEAD PNEUMONIA KILLS OUR MINIS. TER TO MEXICO. Contracted on a Trip to Washington Goes to Hia Post 111-Pull majl Co ductor Finds Him Unconscious-Enj Comes in a Few Honrs. Citizen, Soldier, and Part, Leader United States Minister Isaac P. <j r ' died at the City of Mexco at ~A'> Thurs day evening. Minister Gray had just returned from a trip to Washington with a severe ease of pneumonia. A Pullman car conductor found him unconscious y, was carried from the train on a stret.-her to the American Hospital. Dr. Bray formed Mrs. Gray that he could not live the day out. He remained uneonsei until uie time of his death. Consu|-G PB . eral Crittenden remained with him during the day. Col. Gray had been ill a |j the way from St. Louis to the City Mexico. First News at Washington. The first intimation at Washington 0| the condition of Minister Gray came m the following dispatch to the State lie. partment from Mr. Butler, charge d* affaires in the American Legation at ths City of Mexico: “Minister G ay arrived here very isl with double pneumonia, and is still u»conscious.” The news of the death of Minister Gray was received with sincere expressions of regret. He was in Washington recently having gone there at the commencement V I ISAAC P. CRAY. of the recent trouble between Mexico and Guatemala and consulted with the President and Secretary of State as to t1... means of preventing war between the two countries. Was in Chicago Monday. Pierre Gray, son of the dead minister to Mexico, said to a reporter at Indianapolis: “Father started to the City of Mexico from Chicago Monday morning. He Lad been in Washington a short time a week or so before he left here to return to his post of duty, and had caught ■•."!, Lis trip being in the coldest kind of . r. But he took some medicine and when he left he was in a fair state of health. He wired us from Chicago, and the next day we received a letter from him. but he did mil say that he was at all ill. He went ■ ver the Wabash road direct to Laredo, Hex., without change of sleep- r. g inj through St. Louis. We heard i; -thing more of him until a message said a porter had found him tinronscious at 2 ' 1< k in the morning in his berth. I knew nothing more of the cireumstances." Twice Governor of Indiana. Isaac Pusey Gray was born in i :..-s-er County, Pennsylvania, Oct. is. His parents removed to Ohio in ISffii. Young Gray received a common school education and early entered on the study ■ f the law. His poverty, however, "ompelled him to accept a clerkship in a genet: st re at New Madison. In 1855 be moved with his family to Union City, Ind. In ISG2 he was appointed colonel f the Fourth Indiana Cavalry by Gov. Mort n and organized the One Hundred and Forty seventh Infantry in 18G4. In 1" ■ he was the candidate for Congress in oppo- ’ ’ G.'.rce W. Julian. I'- : .• ’ ed by 300 votes. Two years later he wm • ie.-ted to the State Senate, wh--e he made himself famous as president of that body by locking the Democratic Hu-ml-elf in and counting them to obtain the passage of a ratification of the fifteenth amendment. He was offered the :.salship to St. Thomas in 1870, but <1- sed it His connection with the Democratic party dates from 1871. when he : -I to get the nomination for Govern r from the hands of the Republican party. He was a delegate at large to the I.itieral Republican convention of 1572 and n a’ a? - pointed by the convention member »f the National Committee for Indiana. Hi* name was before the Democratic State convention in 1572 for Congress’!, in al- - and in 1874 for Attorney Gctierxl, but was withdrawn both times at hi' re quest. The State convention '•( Di® nominated him hy acclamation for Lieutenant Governor, to which o'.lu e he ? elected with "Bluejeans” Williams, whoni he succeeded as Governor on the latter’ ! death. In 1883 he received the < ompliiiieuuirj uoiuiiidtiuu of the Den l ra l - | minority for the United States Sernit-r I 'hip. In 1884 he was elected *> ■ ri. r ] against William H. Calkins, receding the nomination by a two-thirds vote of the convention. After his last term as Governor ex - I pired he followed the practice of his pre I session in Indianapolis in partnership | with his son. Pierre Gray, until hr vm j called to tbe Mexican mission by Ftr®" I dent Cleveland two years ago. In I he married Miss Eliza Jaque, of Darke . County, Ohio. They have two ehildrek I living—Pierre, who is a lawyer in India 0 ’ apilis, and Bayard, who has been a '.uf as his father's private secretary n ico. The design of the American flag probably borrowed front the fau'ilJ arms of Gen. Washington, wliich ■ "P’ sisted of three stars in the upper por tion and three bars across the < ><uiil>' eon. Bacteria are so small that it ta* 15 1 100,000 of them placed lengthwise w measure an inch. Cape Conception, Cal., was called j ter one of the vessels in the fle® l I Cortez.