Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1895 — Page 6

Democratic Press. DECATUR, IND. Democratic to., - Publi«her< THE NEWS RECOUP. SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. The Latest News as Flashed Over the Wires from All Tarts of the World—Regarding Polities. Religion, Casualties. Commerce, and Industry. MANY KILLED. Two Sections of a Pilgrim Excursion Collide Near Quebec. Quebec special:* A dreadful collision occurred at Graig’s Road station. A pilgrim excursion from .Sherbrooke was being tun in two sections. The forward train was making good time. On the rear of this train was a Pullman, in which were tlie priests and others in charge of the party, and it was in this car that most of the loss of life occurred. The first train reached the station, which is fourteen miles west of Levis, and stopped at the tank to take water. The precautions were taken and the semaphore thrown to danger against the following train. Only the trainmen were out and about, attending to their duties. The Pullman in the rear was wrapped in silence, and the sleepers were unaware of the terrible fate that was rushing upon them. Suddenly there was a great crash—the second tram, coming at full speed, crashed into the rear Pullman of the first section. So great was me impetus of the colliding train that the engine embedded itself in the palace car and the latter plunged forward and partially telescoped the first-elast car immediately in front. Every birth in the Pullman was wrecked, and some of the occupants who were killed never knew what happ -tied them. They died sleeping. Others awoke to their horrible position and surroundings maimed, bleeding, and bruised, conscious of little else but the agony that racked them. It was an awful scene. The cries of the w ounded and the moans of the dying, and the outjuiuring o! passengers from ears that were not badly damaged, and the hurrying forms of the uninjured trainmen with their flickering lanterns all combined to make a sight seldom excelled in its horrors. The officials of the Grand Trunk report that the number killed is thirteen, and that twenty-nine were injured. A Trolley Horror in Ohio. A trolley car with thirty passengers on board, became unmanageable and slid down the Franklin avenue hill, on the north side of East Liverpool. Ohio, killing one man and injuring eighteen other people. The car was manned by James Hamilton, a new motorman. The tracks were slippery after the rain and the car got out of his control. At the foot of the hill it jumped the track on a sharp curve and went over a twenty-foot embankment ink a creek. The momentum was so great that one-half the car was almost buried in the sand. Hamilton, the motorman, was instantly killed, his head being crushed to a jelly. The car broke in two as it struck and several passengers fell through the floor and were plunged headlong into the creek. Several of the injured w ill die. A Fatal Drive. Miss Hattie Francis, of Shelbyville, visiting friends in Indianapolis, and Miss Morna Pearson, daughter of J. C. Pearson, the contractor, while driving were the victims of a frightful runaway, the horse dashing into Fountain square and wrecking the carriage against the fountain. Miss Francis struck tiie stone face downward, breaking her lower jaw and tearing the bone from underneath the upper lip. so that the injury presents a ghastly appearance. she also suffered concussion of the brain. Miss Pearson received severe bruises about the face, but escaped material hurt. The probability of Miss Francis* recovery is remote. Start was Spoiled. Henley-on-Thames special: Owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding the umpire gave the word "go” in the CornellLeander heat for the Grand Challenge Cup in the regatta here, before Leander was ready to start, and Cornell rowed over the course alone, her time being 8 minutes and 11 seconds. The Imard of stewards immediately held a session and decided against the protest of the Leander crew, and sustained the umpire in awarding the heat in the grand challenge to Cornell. Livery Barn Burned. Fire broke out in Casks livery stable, at Detroit, the finest of its kind in the city, situated on Congress street between Griswold and Shelby streets. There were 135 horses and a large number of handsome vehicles in the building. Only about twenty-five of the animals were rescued. There were about forty stockmen sleeping in the building but it is said that all have eseajied except a man named Cummings, who jumped from a third story window and was killed. Cooked in a Boiler. Walter Lowe, an employe of the American Wire Nail Works, at Anderson, Ind., was badly burned w hile cleaning out one of the mammoth boilers. While at work thesteam by some means was allow ed to rush in with terrific force, and before he ; was discovered on the inside he was badly ' burned. He was pulled out and his condi- ; tion is serious. Signed the Scale. At the conference lietween iron n: nufactnrers and the Amalgamated association at Pittsburgh, the bar and plate scale for the entire Pittsburgh district was signed without opposition. The scale is the same as that signed by the Mahoning and Shenango valley manufacturers. Big Blaze at Chicago. Three hundred thousand dollars worth of furniture and general merchandise was destroyed by fire in the storage warehouse of George Party, at Chicago. Three firemen wi re painfully though not seriously wounded by falling bricks and glass. Poetoffice Regulations Amended. Postmaster General Wilson has amended the jiostal laws and regulations so as tc prohibit postoffice clerks from opening more than one saek of mail at the same time. The object of the order is to assist in fixing responsibility for mistakes. Two Boys Drowned. Two boys, Sutton and Likens, aged about 10 years, were drowned opposite Ironton, Ohio, while bathing. Their bodies were recovered about an hour afterwards.

WRECKED Was the Residence of Jerry Bliss at Columbus with a Dynamite Bomb. Columbus iOhioi special: At 11 o'clock Saturday rngfit a dynamite bomb was thrown into the residence of Mr. Jerry Bliss, the City Director of Public Works. Tlie explosion was a terrific one. t. ahng away the front porch and demolishing one of the rooms of the house. Soon afterward another bomb was throw n into a little frame church near the residence of Director Bliss. The explosion in this instance was a terrific one. Whoever threw the bomb made away in the darkness so quickly that the indications are that he will not be captured. What the motive was no one ean definitely discover at this time. There is a theory to the effect that one of the |sditieal enemies of Mr. Bliss, perhaps a crank, is the perpetrator. There is another belief that an insane man is prowling about the city w ith the devilish designs that only a diseased mind can produce. The fact that a mysterious and seemingly motiveless attempt was made to burn the elegant residence of Mrs. Walter Brown, a wealthy young widow, is now recalled in support of the argument that a lunatic is the evil genius m both cases. Struck By a Train. An Erie freight train crashed into a crowded street car with terrible result at Niles. Ohio. Frank Wilson, a prominent young merchant, was ground into pieces, and eight other persons were probably fatally Injured. The street car was crowded down with people returning from Riverside Park, a favorite summer resort. Just as the car approached the track and the engine, with a caboose attached, was seen dashing on toward the crossing, the motorman became confused and stopped the car directly on the track. The engineer saw the terrible danger ahead, but too late, and the engine crashed into the car. smashing it into splinters. Frank Wilson was caught and dragged for over 300 yards. I He was torn to pieces, his head lying on one side of the track, his limbs on the other, while the body was horriblymangled. W. K. Lew is, who is head blackof the 1 alcon Mill, w ill probity die. Tramps Seize a Lake Shore Train. Laporte i Ind. ) special: A band of eight | tramps made ?. bold attempt to capture the i east bound express train on the Lake Shore . road, due in this city at 5 o’clock. When ' the train left the depot the tramps hail I taken a position between the raehes and an attempt to eject them resulted in a fierce fight between the train crew and the raiders. The conductor signaled for the 1 train to stop when in the outskirts of the city, and after a hand to hand conflict, the ' tramps were thrown from the cars. This action precipitated serious trouble and i shots were fired at the coaches, the shots I being vigorously returned from the train, i which was delayed for some time. A posse ■ of officers soon arrived and the eight men were lodged in jail. They are desperate men and their object is surmised to be rob- 1 bery. as they are all heavily armed. Fireworks Explode. There was an explosion of fireworks in front of the L. A May Company’s store in ' the Sagamore Hotel block, corner I nion I and Mulberry streets. Lynn, Mass., at a | temporary counter erected outside the i store on the sidewalk. Immediately the 1 whole mass of tireworks was ablaze. Half I an hour after the explosion the entire ; block, which is four stories high, of brick, i amt 100 feet in depth. v.as a mass ul flames. I The heat caused an explosion which blew ' out the plate glass front of the L. A. May company's store and injured one fireman, i Sidney Greenwood. quite severely . The ! book-keepers in the L. A. May company’s ' store did not have time to even save their books and accounts on the desks. Loss on building and stock $206,000. Times are Brighter. R. G. Dun & Co., in their Weekly Review of Trade, says: The midsummer reports from all commercial centers are of especial interest, covering the question upon which the future business depends. They indicate distinctly tietter crop prospects than other official or commercial accounts, a marked increase in retail > distribution of products, an active demand for goods, and a general enlargement of the working force, with some advance in the wages of more than half a million hands. At the same time they show that the rapid advance in prices has somewhat cheeked buying of a few classes of producis. In every part of tlie country the outlook for fail trade is considered bright. Wake of Death. While enroute to Memphis to purchase goods Ed Lew is, a prominent young merchant of New Decatur. Ala., was taken suddenly ill aboard the M. and C. train and died before medical aid could be had. His . body was sent back and buried. As the ■ funeral cortege was passing down the street Frank Reeves, a Ki-year-old boy, climbed a tree to view it. Just as the hearse approached the limb on which Reeves was perched broke and he fell to the ground, breaking his neck. When his corpse was taken home his grandfather, who was lying at the point of death, on seeing it brought into the house expired. Blown to Pieces. John Haupt, a gunner at the National Soldiers’Home, Marion. Ind., was blown to pieces by the premature discharge of a cannon while, loading. He had just started ! to give the national salute of 44 rounds, it being on the second shot that he was killed. The cause is in doubt, it being claimed 1 that the gun had not been properly cleaned after the first shot. Haupt was 65 years of age, and had served in the regular army as artillery man for 15 years, and had been tiring the sunrise and sunset gun nr the Home for the past three years. Cremated His Horses. John Bakeborn. living ten miles southwest of Wabash, Ind., shot his two farm horses, both good animals, and placing their bodies on a big pile of dry wood, cremated them. Bakehorn’s crops have suffered severely this summer liecause of the dry weather, and his friends think constant brooding over t scarcity of feed and the cost of carrying his stock through the winter unsettled his mind. Bakehorn says he preferred to kill and burn the animals rather than sell them at a sacrifice. Removes the Ban. St. Louis, special: Archbishop Kain has made a decision that removes the ban placed by some priests on Grand Armyfunerals. Under his ruling member of the G. A. R. attending funerals may enter the church wearing their uniforms and insignia. and may conduct funerals in accordance w ith their ritual in Catholic e -meteries. The Scaffold Fell. Two workmen were instantly killed at the corner of Franklin and Madison street, Chicago, by the falling of a scaffolding. They were at work on a swinging support

' seventy-fire feet from the ground when th. supporting ropes parted. The metis bodies were frightfully mutilated by to. • fall to the sidewalk. Jumped the Treetie. While sw itching ears at Mingo mines, ; neat Middle.-boro. Ky., one of the coke cars, <-n w hich were standing Oley Spratt and Brakeman George Chapman, and Ike Graves. >urn|>ed the track wliileona trestle and fell to the ground. Spratt was caught beneath the ear as it hit the ground and was instantly killed. Chapman and Graves jumped on the opposite side from Spratt. Chapman falling to the ground, thirty feet . below, and breaking both legs at the ankle, and Graves falling on the trestle and receiving painful chest and shoulder injuries. Picked Up His Own A rm. Charles Davis, a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern brakeman, living at Jonesville. Mich., and running in Elkhart, manifested a high degree of nerve recently. While his train was approaching Elkhart, he fell off and had his right arm ground completely off just below the shoulder. He gathered himself up, and walking up town alone hunted up a surgeon. who attended to his wants. Alter the operation he accompanied a party to the place where the accident had occurred and picked up the severed arm. Both Badly Hurt. In the village of MeCuteheusv ille, Ohio, Earl Rardon and Raymond Miller, two lads of 13, w ere very seriously injured by the explosion of a mixture of gunpowder and coal oil. which they had placed in the shell of a sky-rocket. When they touched a match to it an explosion occurred that was heard throughout the village. Miller was so badly injured that the flesh dropjied off his face and anus. He will probably lose his eyesight. Rardon was more fortunate. but received frightful injuries. Both will recover. Wellington, Ohitv, Wiped Out. Cleveland special: Wellington. Ohio, a prosperous town, thirty -four miles from Cleveland on the Big Four Railroad, is reported to have been entirely destroyed byfire. Help was asked from this city, and an engine and hose cart responded to the call. Wellington has a population of 7.000 and is the biggest cheese, butter, and general produce marketing center in tlie State. Fire and Lava. Naples special: The crater of Mount .Etna is again pouring forth fire, smoke and lava. Mount Vesuvius is also in a ttate of eruption, and is reported to be in worse condition than Mount .Etna. The town of Resina, in South Italy. built over the ruins of Herculaneum, is threatened. Villages in the vicinity of both volcanoes are believed to lie in danger. Elevator Burned. Bartlett Kuhn A Co.’s elevator was entirely dost. yed by fire at Terre Haute. Ind. Nine cars of grain and ten ears of merchandise on side tracks were burned. Mr. Kuhn says the elevator had a capacity of 56,000 bushels of grain and that more than half that amount was in the elevator. The building v. as valued at SIO,OOO. The loss is covered by insurance. Shot to Death. A special, from Nogalas. Ariz., says: Four of the five men w ho held up the paymaster of the Naseari Copper Company on June 13. were captured by the authorities of tile state of Sonora, Mexico, and they were taken to the scene of their crime and shot to death, under the new law providing for tlie punishment of train and stage robbers in Mexico. Got Killed Himself. On Lower Peter Creek, in Pike County, Kentucky, George Coleman met smith Johnson, whom he suspected, it 13 said, of having indicted him in court, and. pulling a pistol, opened fire upon him. Johnson replied in kind, and killed his assailant at the second fire, escaping injury himself. Traitors Sentenced. Berlin special: The high court at Leipsic has sentenced a Metz coal dealer named Hauue, and a Sergeant in the German army, named Schreiber, respectively to four years and eight years imprisonment for betraying important military secrets to the French. Five Persons Asphyxiated. Five people, members of the same family, were asphyxiated by gas. and were found dead at their home, 601 Cornelia street, Chicago. They were Fritz Heiman, aged 36: Ida. his wife, aged 34: Fritz, aged 12; Willie, aged 8, and Hedwig, aged 4. A Big Battle. Havana special: A severe engagement has taken place between Spanish troops under command of Maj. Azner, and Gen. Antonio Mucee, insurgent commander, at the head of a large force. Two hundred and eighty of the latter were killed. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to Sil.!*': bogs. shipping grades, S3.W to $5.50; sheep. fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red. 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2. 44 ■ to 46<-: ■ it-. No. 2. 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2. title to 53c: butter, choice creamery. Itie to 17c: eggs, fresh, 11c to 12,-; potatoes, new. per barrel. $2.25 to $2.75: ; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to <>L,- per lb. Indi; ..a;• Mi- <'attic, -hipping. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $5.25: sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $4.00: wheat. No. 2. 71c to <3c; • >rn, No. 1 white, 46c to 47c: oats. No. 2 white. 3Oc to 31 c. •St. Louis Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hog.-. $4.00 to $,i.2.»; wheat. No. 2 red, l>9<- to 70e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white. 24c to J.",e. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3,50 to $5.50: hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2. 54c to 56c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; bogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, s2i«i to $4.00; i wheat. No. 2 red, 72; to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 46c to 48c: oats, No. 2 white, 30c ■ to 32c; rye. 55c to 57c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 48c; oats. No. 2 white. 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2. 50c to 52c; clover seed, prime $5 115 tn $5 75. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to’ $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 1 hard, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 white. 31c to 33c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,46 cto 48c; oats, No. 2 white. 28c to 30c; barley. No. 2,47 cto 49c; rye. No. 1,54 cto 56c; pork, mess. $12.00 to $12.50. New York—Cattie. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn. No 2, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; butter, creamery. 15c to 19e; eggs. Western, 12c to 14c.

TEACHERS IN DENVER — MEETING OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Thousands of Educators from All > Part* of the Country Assemble to Discuss the Best Methods for Carrying on Their Work. Is a Brainy Body.* Denver during the past week has been filled with educators from all parts of the country, who assembled by thousands to attend the annual convention of the National Educational Association. It is the largest educational body in the world. The claim is also made that it is the most influential body, not only because it is the largest body, but also because it is differentiated into so many specialties. There are in the association thirteen departments. each independent in itself, yet fanning a part of the whole. The constitution provides for eleven departments and a National Council of Education. The at > r PRESIDENT N. M. BUTLER. thirteenth department is found in the Herbart Club. This is perhaps to be regarded more as a group than a depart ment. It is an association of Herbartians to whom philosophy is both food and : drink, and who take advantage of the association meetings for their gatherings, i making a very welcome accompaniment. : The other regular departments of the ! association are school superintendence, normal schools, elementary schools, higher instruction, industrial education, art education. kindergarten instruction, music ed ucation, secondary education, child study, and business education. Each of the morning sessions was devoted to the discussion of a special subject. The debate began with the reading of papers prepared by educators of experience. followed by a general expression of opinion. All addresses were limited to five minutes. The topics discussed were as follows: 1. The co-ordination of studies in elementary education. 2. The duty and opportunity of the schools in promoting patriotism and good citizenship. 3. The instruction and improvement of teachers now at work in the schools. Papers on the first topics were read by Pre*tidf*nt < Janno. of Swarthmore College. Prof. Jackson of the Cook County, 111.. Normal School, and Prof. Charles ' McMurey of Illinois University. Ti» Second topic had treatment at the hands ’ of Supervisor Martin of Boston, Principal ' Johnson of the Winthrop Training School at Columbia. S. C.. and Superintendent Marble of Omaha. The leading speakers on the program for the third topic were: Prof. A. D. Odin of Kansas State Uniw . wr - w r 7 Sy VICE PRESIDENT A. G. LANE, versity, and Superintendent Jones of Cleveland. < ‘hio. At the evening sessions addresses were made by the president of the association, by Chancellor W. B. Payne of Nashville, Prof. Joseph LeConte of the University of California. President Baker of the Uni-; versity of Colorado, and by Hamilton W. Mabie, editor of the Outlook. Os the twenty-eight names which appeared on the program for the general sessions, fourteen are those of persons engaged in public school work, six in normal schools and seven in colleges and universities. 1 he National Teachers’ Association was estabjished in 1857 in Philadelphia, and in 1870, at a convention held in Cleveland. , the uiiiiie nax changed to t>ie National Educational W-oriation. The objects c.f the association are to li elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.” Any persons in any way con-

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I ■ was last year 6.W". x . h . I Th» offio-re are: Pre.>d'»«. | olaa Murray Butler of « ‘ I New York: fir*’ rice-president. A. Lue. auiHrintendent Leeretary. Irn in >hepard. I re.^ ; n o tl „. Mu—.a MAeaGui Minn.; treasurer I - with Assistant schools, promtul of ta -arion ~f the National Edu. aG'UM ‘ £ make up the ex entire com , x which met in advance of the general as - • .... nf m\tv numbers, ciatioD. is comiM’MU oi . also of the National Lducau*' llll ' tion and chosen from that body to membership in the council on account o. special prominence in educational au » sociation work. ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE BABY. The Third Daughter of the House of Cleveland !»• Born. At 4:30 Sunday afternoon a girl waa horn to President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at Gray Gables, their summer home. Mother and child are both doing very a ell. The new baby had been expected by all the summer residents of Buzzard s J {a y. though beyond vague rumors of su«-h an event it was not known generally outside. Saturday Mr. Chveland did not fishing, and the grown people told their children it would be well to ■ 'S sharp., as the long-awaited visit of the stork to Gray Gables was close at hand. All <'f the neighbors of the Clevelands, both rich and poor, were in a state of suppressed excitement, and many of them strolled by Gray Gables in the ho;>e of bearing something. A few saw Mr. Cleveland and as serted that he looked anxious but hopeful. There was a general feeling that the stork was going to do the proper thing and would bring a little one that would perpetuate the name of the great man. But Dr. Bryant found tiie Cleveland stork had again behaved itself in the traditional manner of the storks that bring baby presents to the houses of the great. And so Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have three daughters each separated from the other by almost exactly two years. Ruth Cleveland, the first child, was born Saturday. Oct 3. IN'l. shortly after mi l

'i Xv \ 'G '' < V i MRS. CLEVELAND. I From a recent p otograph,, night, at SHI Madison ari-nne. New York. She was named Ruth, as that had been the name of Mrs. Cleveland’s grandmother, and rhe mother always liked it. The baby was baptized Jan. 9, lSli’2, in Lakewood, N. J., by Rev. Dr. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor of the Central I‘resoytenan Church. The se<-ond girl was born Sept. 9. 1593, in the White House. In ing the first child of a President to lie born under that roof. It was decided to name the child Esther, and it was said that there was no special significance other than the parents' partiality for Scriptural names and that it means “a stur" and "good fortune.” The baby was christened in the White House Feb. 111. 1894. by Rev. Dr. Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washing ton. RIOT AT SIBERIA, Story of the Trouble Between Geias and McKimberly. A special from Huntingburg. Ind., confinns the report of the riot at Siberia. William Geiss and Harry McKimberly had been eueiuies forycat*. McKimberly had frequently threatened to kill Geiss. and many fitrhts have ocotrr'd between them and their friends. Th -y had not : seen each other for .natty months, and when they mot face to fa o at the picnic, they renewed immediately the old trouble" ! Geiss had many friends among the picI nickers, and so had McKimberly. Both knew there was going to be trouble and each called upon his friends to help. McKimberly suddenly drew a revolver and liefore Geiss could get his weapon out the former fired several shots. Geiss was hit twice ami fell to the ground. A friend ran up ami handed him a rifle. Hardly I able to sit np lie t,rak deliberate aim and ' tired at McKimberly. The latter fell and soon became unconscious. In another minute the mon in attendance were engaged in a riot. All kinds of wea i( ons were used. Women fainted and wore ■ trampled upon. Many of them Wl . r ,. badly bruised aud some seriously injured. The riot continue 1 until 'he Geiss fae limn drove the friend- of M, Ki.nU.rlv j from tne scene. Six Chinamen, who reached New York from Cuba, claiming t„ have been residents of Nee Drleans, were ordered deWr.ed by > ■■ rotary Carlisle on reciring the information. s

ABOUND a BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF | Ndu ANA NEWS. <hat Our KMghbor, Are of <.corral and l*»l fnterosl —M»rr Jtw and t»ea>li» Acetdrut, and i ri.,,,,. aoaal Pointer, About Indlauiaua H. of V. Elects Officer,. The result of the annual election f«. r <rfficers of the’ 8 of V. and L. A. S. is a, lows: Commander, Frank Martin. I’ranklin: Senior Vice Commander, li. y Musser. Anderson; Junior Vice Comma#, der. H. P. Cline. Jonesboro; Quart. -nnaste J. Thompson. Rising Sun; l amp Couatii' Zinn of Indianapolis. Bosworth of Wj#. Chester. Christian of Noblesville, Rainser of Portland, Graham of Bloomings*Delegate at I.arge. Rev. Light, of Warsax Delegatesto National Encampment, Chaw man of Kokomo. W . W . Hagens of Shelby, vtlle, Geller of Fort Wayne. Beeson of WiiChester. I,adi--s' Aid Societies elected: Pres Mat Mrs. Mary A. Landis. Frankfort: Vita President, Miss Dolin' Kindle. Anderson: Division Council. Snyder of Fort Wayne. Brower of Anderson. Goodrich of Shelbyville; Treasurer, Miss Sims. Frankfort; Chief of staff. Nexsen. Evansville: < hat>iain, sterling of Kokomo; M. and 1. o„ Wills of Dayton: Inspector, Elliott of Greensburg: Delegate at Large. Jay « Portland; Delegate to National Encamp, ment, Koerner of Indianapolis; Alternates, Dickey of Greensburg, and Brower of Anderson. Minor State News. Miss Vikoini.v Lockkidoe. recently injured in a runaway accidental Greencastle, died of her injuries, The Studebakers are arranging for a fine reed and horn baud among their employes at Soutli Ih nd. Tue small daughter of Henry Raines of Tipton, drank a quantity of cenoeutnted lye and died in ftigblful agony - Emii Lacey, aged 4. was drowned in a pit at Jeffersonville. The boy was missed from home, and be was located by th« moaning ol his big dog near the edge of the ptL Lee Kchxs, who found a valuable bed of aragonite, or limestone rock, on hisfim near Ingalls, lias begun the constructionol kilns, looking to tlie manufacture of commercial lune. The Elwood Oil Producing Company has drilled in another I'Xi-barrel well on its land near Creneva, and six more wells will be ppt down immediately, as tiie field gives exceptional promise of richn< AtCowThi in a runaway aecident Mrs George Keltner, of Muncie, was dangerously injured and her 6-year-old daughter had an arm broken. A Mrs. Voriee. who was in the carriage, had an arm broken. New wheat is beginning to come into market at Wabash earler, by nearly ten day s, than was ever know n before. The yield runs from seven to fifteen bushels jer acre, and the quality generally is rather poor. Frank Jones, while painting, at Perth, lost Ins balance and fell from the ladder 1 distance of about thirty-five feet. li« head struck the sidewalk, crushing his skull. He died about noon from the injuries. At Mick McCarty's saloon. Muncie, Thomas Rodgers was accidentally shot in the left groin by William Everett. The wounded man cannot live. The two men are flint-glass blowers and;emi Joyed at the Mancie flint-glass works. A crowd of nn-n were in the saloon, and Evciett was recklessly flourishing the sell-acting gun. when it went oil. Both were the best of Irien Is, bat had been drinking. Mi:«. James Y<»pn<;. of Erandywine township, Mielby County, lost sonic cittle by poison a few weeks ago. Later Etryeitnine vas found m her milk pare, and the other morning the hired hails found several piles of salt in tlie field w hich were mixed with Rough on Ratsand pow d r,si glas-. Mrs. Young some timeag - applied for a divorce from her husband ami is fearful for ths life of herself and children Two men were seriou-sly burned while working at the National tin-plate null in Andersen. They were connecting a gas pump, thirty feet below the aurfaee. m * well ten feet in diameter. < >ne of them nt a match to find a leak and the explosion followed. Charles .smith was -.cry ser - a-l.' liuroed and his assistant, Peter Geiser, burned on the head and face. Both are in the City Hospital. Smith inhaled the flame. The men climbed a ladder to the top of the well while their clothing was on fire. Whii.e Otto Logan was drawning oil •a barrel of varnish in tt»e liarn of K . A. Williams, Wabash, the fluid, from some unknow n cause, exploded. Young Legan was burned about the face and lianu>. but hastened to turn in an alarm. The department resfionded quickly, but e'.- rytiiing was very dry and the barn ami contents were destroyed. Two valuable horses were lost. The flames communicated t<> M. R. Collins's stable, which vv alw consumed. Total loss. $1,200; insurance on Williams's barn. 14'10. State Gas Inspector J. C. Leach has returmd from Alexandria, where I - has been trying for a w eek to conquer as obstreperous gas well owned by tlie I*”I’auw Plate-glass Company. Three «,*■ • ago tiie wen was anchored, andsoon thereafter tiie confined gas began blowing tia’ w I i out of ail tiie w ater and gas wells in t: ■ neighborhood. The gas evidently e-enpej through a b oken easing and limnJ its v. ay through the shale and clay to ih* surface of the ground. Residents of the vicinity were alarmed to find their holt-' ', cellars, wells and outbuildings filled with the fluid, and only utmost care pre veiled many explosions. To prevent accidents the officers ordered the well opened again, and it has for three weeks been blowing off 3.500,000 feet of gas daily . Threeexpert gas-well men refused to undertake the job of restraining the “runaway.” Contractor Decker was finally induced, and he has the machinery on the ground. MrLeach and Del’auw people hope to have the well under control soon. Theescaping gas is boiling up in Pipe creek, half» mile away. The Union City Council has authorized the School Hoard to issue bonds to U"' amount of ilO.txx) to build a new schoolhouse. The present forty-five-thousand-dcllar school building, built in 18'$-, 15 overcrowded. Wst. 11. Abtman and Joseph Paxton, two life-time convicts in the prison south, died, the other day, within 15 minutes of each other, while lying side by side in the prision hospital. Artinan was the victim of consumption, while Paxton died fr° ffl the effects of an assault by a fellow-conviflt-Artman killed his wife and son, at Tell City in 18911. Paxton murdered Speneet Bryant, at Jeffersonville, in 1888.