Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1895 — Page 6

Democratic Press. DECATUR, IND. Democratic Pre., co., - Fubll»her% DOINGS OF THE DAY. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Kventfu! Happenings In Every Kn«»n Hemisphere— Fire», Accident*. Crimes, Politics, Keitgion. Commerce and Crops. Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. INA STATE OF ANARCHY. The Republic of Salvador on the Verge of Dissolution. City of Mexico speeial: Private advices from the republic of Salvador state that the Country is on the verge of anarchy, and there is no longer any pretense at defending property. Murders are committed with impunity, and recently the police assassinated a reputable citizen of the capital city. President Gutierrez is unequal to his position and his cabinet is made up of heterogenious elements, including Catholies, rampant atheists, agnostics, free masons, liberals, and conservatives, who issue directions, while Gutierrez looks helplessly on. The cabinet has been ironieallj nicknamed the ‘'Hodge Podge" cabinet. The police are searching for Francisco Baehez who recently ran amuck through the streets of the capital shooting right and left and killing instantly a worthy citizen. Not finding Baehez in his home the police wantonly killed his brother with great cruelty. He May be Lynched. Ed Connally is under arrest at Lorian, Ohio, for a series of revolting erimes committed in Lorain County. He is said to have made, a criminal assault upon Mrs. Charles Stearns. Mrs. William Faber ami several small girls before he was captured. The last crime which he is said to have committed was a fiendish assault on Mrs. Henry Roll, whom he enticed from home and chloroformed. He dragged her, senseless, to a field, and there bound her tightly so that she could not give the alarm. The police have been looking for the man for over three weeks, he having accomplished all the assaults in that time. The nighborhood is wild with excitement, and threats of lynching are heard. Mrs. Roll was taken to the County Jail, where she identified her assailant, ami he was bound over to Court under $2,500 bonds. Sinking of the Steamer Cleveland, London special: The British steamer Duffield, Captain Lowe, from Philadelphia, via Havre, which ran into and sank the British steamer Cleveland in the English channel on Friday last, arrived in the Tyne. She landed five of the Cleveland’s crew, whom she had rescued at the time of the accident. Five others of the crew were saved by the steamer Baltimore, from Montreal and Liverpool, which was proceeding to Gravesend. Seven are yet missing. The Cleveland went down off Dover. * Resuit of the Election i” England. London special: With the exception of the polling in Orkney and Shetland, which was formerly represented by Sir Lyell, liberal, and the result of which will not be known until the end of the week, the new parliament is now complete. The division of parties is as follows: Conservatives, 841: Liberal Unionists, 70; government total, 411, Liberals, 174; McCarthyites, 70; Parnellites, 13: Labor. 2: total opposition, 259. Government majority, 152; Conservative majority over all, 12. A Brave Boy. William Pierce and his son, Frank C. Pierce, accompanied by their wives, owned a boat in which they were floating down the Ohio with a steam merry-go-round, which they set up at the towns alo\g the river and remained a few days. The elder Mrs. Pierce fell into the river at Ceredo, W. Va. Iler son Frank went to her rescue, but the water being so swift both were drowned. Their home is in Middleport, Niagara County, New York, where their bodies will be taken. Richest Lode in the World. Victor (Col.) special: W. S. Straton, the millionaire mine owner, has struck a vein of ore in the Independence mine here that is believed to be the richest lode ever found in any mine in the country, if not in the world. The miners in the Independence ran across the body of ore at a point where two veins meet, and the width warrants the statement that there are millions of dollars of ore, assaying $140,000 to the ton, now in sight. Fear Drove Him Mad. George Fulmer of Wooster, Ohio, aged 20, is insane and will be commited to the Insane Asylum as a result of a practical joke. He was taken coon hunting by other boys, one of whom prosured a sheet and played ghost. Fulmer was so frightened that he ran through the woods, and when found a few hours later his mind was a blank. Aeronaut Fatally Injured. Fred Royaiel and Harry Simmons, the latter a professional aeronaut of Quincy, Hl., and known as “Mons. Verona,” were contestantfl in a parachute race at Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, In the descent Verona’s par. ,'mte struck » tree ami he was thrown to the ground, a fall of fifty feet, and fatally hurt. Barge Sinks. The barge Republic, loaded with coal and being towed from Cleveland to Detroit, foundered off Lorain, Ohio. The waves washed the coverings from her hatches and she filled and sank in seventy-five feet of water. Her crew of five men escaped in a yawl and were picked up by a tug. Finish Fight at Toledo. At the Toledo Athletic Club, a finish fight betwwen Fred Brown of Toledo, and Frank Ray of New York, resulted in Brown knocking out his man in the ninth round. Found Him Dead. J. W. Misoner, from near Dayton. Ohio, went to Oklahoma several weeks ago, to be followed by his family. Soon after arriving he shot himself in the foot, and died from blood poisoning before his family arrived, and the great shock of finding him dead has caused his wife to become insane. Incendiary Work. The bam owned by Hiram Church, near Boone Grove, Ind., together with its contents, was destroyed by fire. Four head of horses were cremated. The fire was of incendiary origin, kerosene being used,

A BLOODY /RAIL. Every Inhabitant „f Jackson's Hole M xSs.ii.red. Pocatello ' l iaho i special: A courier who arrived at Market Lake, Idaho, reports that all the settlers in Jackson Hole have been murdered by Indians and all the houses burned. Fe could give no parparticulars of the alleged massacre, but said that a companion had attempted to reach the scene of the trouble, and if he escaped the Indians, he would undoubtedly reach Market Lake within twenty-four hours with details of the fight. Omaua special: The news of the massacre of settlers in Jackson’s Hole is confirmed by the Union Pacific railway officials. A telegram has been received from the superintendent at Market Lake that the Indians have killed every settler and that the stock was slaughtered. A Disastrous Storm. Alexandria find.) special: The most destructive windstorm experienced here in years struck Alexandria at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, and raged fiercely for two hours, doing great damage to buildings, trees, awnings, Ac. The Union Steel Company’s plant, south of the city, sustained the greatest damage. The west end of the Bessemer plant was blown in. The ventilator ofgtlie sheet mill was unroofed, a portion ol the ftaniewort of the twenty-one inch mill was blown down and one of the stacks of the muck mill fell, badly injuring the building. Other minor damage was done, all of which represents a loss of nearly or quite $3,000. In the city the damage was not very heavy. The north end of Baker 4 Lee’s livery stable was blown in. injuring seme of the horses and causing damage to the extent of S2OO. Signs and chimneys were scattered promiscuously, awnings were twisted in all shapes and many bushels of apples, pears, and other fruits were knocked from the trees. Tbe Indian Troubles. Salt Lake special: A reliable gentleman just arrived at Ogden from the neighborhood of Jackson’s Hole, reports a fight between Indians and settlers at a point titty miles from Jackson's Hole, in which three white men and ten or fifteen Indians were killed and one white man very badly wounded. Captain Smith, an old mining prospector, was shot four days ago in the Teton Mountains. His assailant was killed. Smith is now: at Rexberg and may recover. Signal fires are burning northeast of Jackson’s Hole and numerous forest fires are raging. The messenger says no reliable information had been received from the settlers proper for ten days. They are, however, well entrenched and comparatively safe, hut prospectors and miners who are in the mountains are in great danger, as the Indians mean business. Old scouts say the reds mean mischief and w ill propably attack settlers, but will fight shy of the regulars. United States Vessel Fired Ou. Washington special: The reported firing on the Carrie E. Lane, an American schooner, by a Spanish cruiser off the Cuban coast, has not yet been reported officially to the State Department, Mid in the absence of any definite statement of fact, the officials decline to express an opinion on the subject. The important point to be established in the ease is the exact location of the Lane when she was signalled to stop. The captain’s statement is that she was off Cape Antonio, but he does not -ay whether or not he was within the three-mile limit. If he was he could not claim exemption from responding to a demand to establish his identity, as was contended by Secretary Gresham in die Alliancia case, for his was not a vessel following a regular route, but one cruising from port to port in the West Indies. A Horrible Crime. Minneapolis special' A strange and bloody murder was co it ted on the farm lit i<rnpst I,4>■' ,,z * s£'V“uv miles west of this city. The body of little Maggie Craigie, tbe 14-year-oid daughter of C’apt. Charles Craigie of the Minneapolis fire department, was found with the top of the head blown off by a charge from a shotgun. Futile efforts had been made to remove the traces of blood in the up-stairs room where the murder was committed and along the stairs where the body had been dragged down. Lange's shotgun was found with one recently fired shell in it. Mrs. Lange claimed to have been away from the house at the time and later her 8-year-old son. Freddie, confessed that he had killed the girl by accident. Declared Valid. Judge McCray of the Criminal Court at Indianapolis, held the Nicholson law constitutional, and an appeal followed to the Supreme Court. Philip Zaps, who operates a restaurant in connection w ith his saloon, was indicted for permitting others than memliers of his family to frequent the restaurant during the hours in which the saloon should lie closed, and Samuel Dinnin was indicted for running a musical instrument (an organ) in connection with his saloon. The Court held the section of the law under which the prosecutions were entered to be valid. It was claimed that the statute was indefinite; that the offenses charged were not mentioned in the title of the bill, and that the bill is against common rights. Filled With Shot. At Franklin, Ind., while Willis Jackson and Charles Terman were making preparations for a hunting expedition, Terman raised his gun and sighted it at, Jackson, not thinking the gun was loaded. After getting a good bead on his smiling companion he pulled the trigger and the gun went off. The discharge struck young Jackson along the left of his body, and, as he was stooping at the time the shot was fired, he received the entire load. Physicians were summoned, and spent an entire morning picking out shot. Fifty-four were found in all, and Jackson suffered much from loss of blood during the operation. His condition is considered very dangerous. Great Lose of Life and Shipping. A violent hurricane is reported by cable to have swept tbe coast of Japan, during which many vessels were wrecked and their crews drowned. The information of the loss of life was meager. The cablegram was sent from Rucbinotcu. The Gsrmah steamship Helen Rickmers and the Norwegian steamships Lyderhom and Herman Wedel, Jarlsburg, the British steamship Bentala and the ship Manuel Snchet, from Philadelphia, were all blown ashore, and all are believed to have been totally wrecked, excepting the Bentala. The loss of life on shore is reported to be large. Bad Blaze. A bad fire broke out in Bender’s drying house, between the C., 11. and D. Railroad and Canal street, Hamilton, Ohio. The buildings were all of frame, and the fire almost instantaneously communicated to Benninghofen’s coal yards and stables. Aside from these buildings. Sauer’s

warehouse and the office of the Schlosset Malting Company are totally consumed ■ by tire. The fire is supposed to be the work of incendiaries. It started in the drj j house of Bender Bros., and before an alarm was sent in the whole yard seemed a mast ! of flames. A Mine Horror. Berlin special: During a violent storm at Bochum, west of Phalia, the other night, an explosion of lire damp and coal dust occurred in the Prinz Von Preussen mine, which is 350 metres in depth. Next morning thirty-two dead and eleven injured men were found in the pit, but the total number of deaths is not jet known as the pit has not been fully explored. Hundreds of the wives, children, and other relatives of the dead and injured and missing men are congregated about the i mouth of the pit and their cries and ! lamentations are most heartrending. Traction Engine Fatality. While Frank Dickinson and Newton Bowers were crossing a bridge about thirty feet high, over Salt Creek, near Zanesville, Oho, with a traction engine, the bridge gave way, precipitating the engine, water tank, and thresher to the creek below. Dickinson was instantljkilled. Bowers had one leg and side crushed and was also scalded. He cannot recover. Two farm hands, who were riding on the water tank, were badly scalded. Three Young Girls Drowned. A shocking accident happened at Columbus. Neb., whereby Lizzie, May, and Aulda Claus, three daughters of Chas. Claus, aged respectively 12, 10 and 7 years, were drowned in the Platte river. The girls, with an older sister, were in bathing, and getting beyond their depth, were swept by the current from the assistance of their sister. The bodies were recovered. The older was also caught in the current, but managed to reach a sand bar. Surprises for Mail Carries. Acting Postmaster-General Jones has forwarded instructions to the postmasters at Syracuse, N. Y., Toledo, 0., and Indianapolis, Ind., to suspend or dismiss certain letter carries in their offices. The work of the secret agents of the department was carried on in these cities, and carriers were found to have drank and loitered while on duty. Mr. Jozies declines to make public the details ol the findings in these cases. Child Burned to Deatlx. Little May Ferguson’s curiositj' prompted her to light a match and peer under the counter of Fox’s grocery store at Washington. The child's clothing caught fire from the matches, and before help arrived she was fatally burned, dying soon afterward, Dr. W. Johnson heard the child's screams and attempted to rescue her, and was himself badly burned. Mrs. Corbett Given a Divorce. Referee Jacobs, in his report in the suit of divorce brought bj' Mrs. Ollie Corbett against her husband, James J. Corbett, the pugilist, finds Mrs. Corbett entitled to a divorce and recommends that the agreement entered into by her and tier husband at the time of their separation, by which he agrees to pay her SIOO a week for life, be continued. Slew His Playmate. Two lads, aged about 10 years, engaged in an altercation at Lorain, Ohio, while playing in acoalshed. One of the boys, who is the son of an ex-saloonist named Patrick Grafton, pulled a 32-caliber revolver and shot his companion in the side, the ball passing through his stomach. The injured boy cannot live. Ate Her Own Father. f>erlin special: In Kriekw iez, Silesia, a septuagenarian weaver named Jungnitsch, was recently murdered during his sleep by his insane daughter. The murderess afterward eut her father's body up into small pieces and made his flesh her food for several days, until the deed was discovered by their neighbors. A Frightful Find. Workmen excavating at lonia. Mich., where an old store was recently burned, unearthed four human skeletons. It is thought there has been a big crime committed, but no one knows how the bones came there. Our Trade with Mexico. Our Consul at Matamoras, Mexico, says that cur trade with Mexico is increasing. Only 20 per cent, of the imported goods sold in that place last year came from Europe. The rest came from the United States. The Mafia Foiled. The Mafia undertook to murder an Italian named Deelo, at St. Louis, but Deelo was too smart for them, and two of the seven would-be assassins were landed in jail. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25: sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats. No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, $1.25 to $2.00; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 6>,Ae per lb. Indianapolis—Cattie. shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 1, white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St, Louis—Cattle, $3,00 to $6.00; hogs. $3.50 to $5.25: wheat. No. 2 red. 67c to t*Bc; corn, No. 2 yellow. 39c to 40c; eats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No 2,44 c to 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3250 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 69e to 71c; corn, No, 2, mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 67c to 69c; corn. No. 2, yellow, 43c to 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye. 47c to 48c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No, 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs. $3.00 to $5.50: sheep. $3.60 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 48c to 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,43 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c: barley. No. 2,46 cte 4Se; rye. No. 1,51 cto 53c: pork, mesa, $10.25 to $10.75. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $<00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 47c to -!9c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs. Western, 13e to 14c.

MURDER HIS TRADE. H. H. HOLMES ACCUSED OF DIABOLICAL CRIMES. More of His Devilishness Coming to Light Every Day—Startling Discoveries Made in Chicago—Building with Mysterious Chambers—Bonea Found, Fiend in Human Form. There is incarcerated in Moyamensing Prison, in Philadelphia, a man w ho, according to his own admission, has deserred hanging a dozen times, and, if guilty of half of the crimes laid at his door, is, without doubt, the arch-criminal of America, The name he is known by in prison is H. H. Holmes, but he has as many aliases as a chameleon has colors, and, when at liberty, he could change them as quickly. Holmes’ real name is Herbert, or Herman, Mudgett, and he was born ia Gilmanton. N. H., about thirty-four years ago. His father was Levi H. Mudgett. and he was postmaster of Gilmauton Corners. He gave his son a good education, the boy graduating from the village academy with honor. When but 18 young Mudgett married Clara Lorering, the pretty daughter of a well-to-do citizen of Louden, N. H. Mudgett supported his wife for awhile, first by teaching school and after by clerking in a store. Then he took a notion to study medicine, and partly through his parents’ and his wife’s parents' assistance he become a student in the University of Vermont, at Burlington. His wife in the meantime supported herself as a dressmaker. By and by Mudgett went to the medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich. Here he run out of funds. He and a chum went to work during the summer vacation on a farm. One day it occurred to Mudgett that i* was possible to obtain a quantity of money by swindling a life insurance company. It is said that he told his plan to his chum, who at once fell in with it The chum had his life insured under a fictitious name, and shortly after they procured a body from the pickling vat of a medical college, boxed it up and

'iJXRiaSWKSr THE HOLMES BUILDING IN CHICAGO. (The star shows Holmes’ office.)

shipped it lu Connecticut. Then it was 1 given out that the chum bad died, the i body was palmed off as his, and Mudgett got the insurance money, some $12,500. After securing his degree Mudgett began the practice of his profession at Moore’s Fork, in his State. His wife was with him for awhile. She bore him a s*hild, and then went back to her parents on a prolonged visit. Commits Bigamy. The young doctor built up a fairly good practice, but did not ask his wife to return to him, as he thought his field of ac- i tion too circumscribed and he talked of | going to Chicago to establish himself there. His was a flirtatious nature, and meeting an adventuress in Boston, he married her. She soon found that his means were poor and left him. Then he paid his real wife a visit and told her he was going west. That was the last she had heard of him for several years. Believing that she was deserted she went to Lard work as a dressmaker to support herself and her child Holmes, by which name he Is afterward known, then entered into various schemes in Chicago. He employed a typewriter named Minnie Williams. He learned that ijfh) Bygsf HOLMES IN HIS CELL. she and her sister were worth $50,000 and determined to have the money. He persuaded Minnie to live with him. Then they sent for her sister Annie. The latter soon disappeared and no clue has ever been found of her whereabouts. It was not long after this that Minnie also disappeared. Then Holmes met Benjamin F. Pitezel. They laid a plan to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Pitezel took out a policy for SIO,OOO. In September last the body of n man was found in a certain house in Philadelphia. By his side was a broken bottle of carbolic acid. He was identified at the time as the man who, under the name of B. F. Perry, had rented the house some time before. The doctors said he had died in a natural manner. The body was buried in the Potter's field. Thon Holmes came forward with a man named Howe to represent Mrs. Pitezel,

who claimed that husband. It was exhumed and she identl fied it The insurance money was pa The largest share went to Holmea Hs then funded Mrs. PiteaeJ to let b£ take care of three of her five children She agreed and he took themi with him. They have not been seen since, dea alire, until the finding last week of the bodies of two of them in the cellar of a house in Toronto, Ont., and every stance indicates that they were murdered by Holmes. Holmes Arrested. In some wav the insurance company became suspicious. When Mrs. Pjtezel was pressed she admitted that the v hole thing was a conspiracy and that Pitezel. she believed, was alive. She was arrest'd, as was Howe. Then the detective, chased Holmes from city to city until they a aested him ia Boston. Pitezel has never been found and tbe brfiei is strong that he was murdered by Holmes. When the children could not be located detective, began to hunt for them. They were Ash MINNIE WILLIAMS. ANNIE WILLIAMS, tracked with Holmes to Detroit. Then one of them seems to have disappeared. The other two were traced to Toronto. It was discovered that Holmes rented a certain house in that city and that he had two children with him. A search was made. The earth forming the floor of the cellar had been disturbed. The detez’fivee began to dig and soon they uncovered the nude bodies of the two children. Where the other one is. whether dead or alive, whether or not their father is living, and whether or not Minnie and Annie U illlams were murdered are matters the police and detectives are trying to solve. That the Williams girls met death at the hands of Holmes, there is scarcely a doubt That they died in Chicago in a violent manner has been proved almost conclu-

sively. The police found in a stove in a three-story brick building at 701 63d street, which was built by Holmes and In which both he and the Williams girls lived, a quantity of charred bones, buttons known to have been on a dress owned by Minnie Williams, and the partly melted portion of a watch chain which was positively identified as having been the property of the girl. The contents of the stove were quickly dumped, and portions of bones too badly burned to admit of positive identification as belonging to any particular portion of the body were found. All of the ashes and debris removed from the stove was carefully preserved. The police are now of the opinion that not ouiy Minnie Williams but her young er sister, Anna, and the boy Howard I’itzel met death in this house. Anna Williams has not been seen or heard of since Holmes left the 63d street building. If she has fallen victim to Holmes' murderous instincts she will be the sixth he has killed—Pitezel, his three children and the two Williams girls. Holmes pleaded guilty to conspiracy in defrauding the Insurance companies out of about $250,000. and was awaiting sentence therefor when the bodies of the children were found and the suspicion that he murdered Pitezel was aroused. Os course he disclaims all knowledge of the manner of their death. EXPRESS IS HELD UP. Chicago Limited on the Lake Shore Boarded by Robber*. Masked men boarded a west-bound Lake Shore and Michigan Southern express train at Reece Siding. Ind., at 12:35 M ednesday morning, forced open an exprena r.r and ui the point oj revolvers compelled the messenger to unlock the i safe. It is known that at least $8,661) was | taken. The train is a heavy one, made up i of several express cars, baggage and mail cars, two coaches and three Pullmans. Reece Siding is a lonely spot in the woods, between Archbold and Stryker about ten miles west of Wauseon. A blind sliding is used by this train nightlv to allow the western express to pass. This usual stop is well known to those familiar with the locality. For a mile in each direction the woods are dense close to the railroad right of way. The noise of the coming western express was ringing louder and louder when Conductor Darling, who stood by a coach saw three masked men ride out of a road from the woods which led directly to an express car which crossed it He was ordered inside the coach and at the same time three men, approaching the other side, joined their companions in demanding admission to the express car. This was gained at revolvers' points, and the express messenger, under threats of in- | stant death, was comnelled to . safe. The entrance to the ear I was made quickly and no commotion w,.s created m the other cars. Th- rabbets seemed to know just how to hand’e the railroad men and to board the cars. Their evident familiarity with cars and the time he trains met give rise to suspicious that they are railroad men.

CORN FOR THE WORLD greatest crop in the COUN. TRY'S HISTORY. Estimates of Conservative Statisticians Place the Yield at 2,375,000,060 Bushels—Rail way Managers Put the Figures 25,000,000 Higher. Prospect la Good. Confronted with a corn crop which promises to be hundred, of thousands of bushels larger tha« the largest ever recorded in the history of the country, the question arises: What i» to be done with it? Railway managers estimate the crop at about 2,400,000,000 bushels, and even allowing that the interests of railway properties may have caused smh managers to let their imaginations color the facts, the estimate, of conservative statisticians based on the latest Government crop report make the crop over 2,375,000,000 bushels. Shortly after the war there was a time when corn had to be sacrificed in various ways to get rid of it, but only twice since 1874 has the yield reached 2,000,000,000 bushels. In 1889 the yield was 2.112,892,000 bushels, and it was thought to be a record breaker for all time. The crops of 1891 aggregated 2,060,154,000 bushels, and the surplus was so great that in Kansas the corn was burned for fuel, it not being worth shipment out of the State. However, tome of the best posted men in the grain trade are of the opinion that none of the crop of 1895 will need to be burned, even though it exceed, any previous crop by 300,000.000 bushels. On the contrary, the statistical position of supply and demand would seem to justify the opinion that this enormous corn crop win be a great boon to the country and prove the financial salvation of many a farmer whose wheat crop has been nearly ruined. It takes a long stretch of the imagination to grasp the fact that 82.066,006 acres of corn, one of the largest acreages known, are now flourishing under the most perfect weather conditions ever seen. Railway managers have already begun to arrange proper transportation facilities for the com, and the chances are that every bushel of it will be used up or sent out of the country at fairly good prices. In view of this prospect it will be of interest to note certain facts in connection with our corn crops. In the first place, it is a fact that as a rule the larger the total yield the greater has been the export, and generally speaking, the greater the yield the larger has been the percentage of the whole exported. The three largest and two smallest yields for the last thirteen years will pretty fairly Illustrate the general fact Ths figure, are as follows: Bush., Bash., P. Ct Year. crop. export export. 1890 ...2,112,892,000 103.418,709 4S’ 1892 ...2.060,154.000 76,602,285 3.72 1889 ...1,987,790,000 70,841,673 357 1888 ...1,456,161,000 25,360,869 1.74 1891 ...1,489,970,000 32,041,529 2.15 INDIAN WAR ON. Wyoming Settlers Arm Themselves and Prepare to Fight. The Indian war has broken out in earnest. The vague rumor that a white man and his wife and child bad been killed in the Wyoming Salt River Valley, and that settlers in retaliation had killed six of the redskins is confirmed. The excitement among the settlers in Northwestern Wyoming over the threatened uprising of the Bannock and Shoshone Indians is gr wing more intense everj’ day. They are leaving their ranches in large numbers and gathering at favored points for mutual protection in case the irate Indians return to seek vengeance for the death of their brother braves. The story of the killing of the three whites and six Indians is spreading alarm at rapid rate. The settlers are becoming thoroughly aroused, and if they are not soon protected bj- government troops they will take the field in protection of their own homes and lives, and they are well

\ 3 i SEAT OF THE INDIAN TROUBLES.

qualified by long experience in this country to do even more effective fighting than the regulars. The Indians realize that the cow bo vs are more dangerous than the troops. The rods know they can surrender to the soldiers and they will be in m> further danger, but when the frontier volunteers go out to hunt Indians they fight as the Indians do themselves. They ehoot to kill and kill all in sight. The trouble originated when thirty men set out from Jackson’s Hole to arrest a band of Indians for violating the State game laws. In Hoback canyon they discovered an Indian camp and at daylight surprised the Indians and captured them all without a shot being fired. In this camp they found green elk skins. Each Indian was started back for the Hole with a white man at his back with his rifle across his arm ready for any emergency. The squaws were in the reaz with the packs, and William Crawford in the rear of the squaws with the constables in charge. When nearly through an Indian let out a war whoop and every In* dian, squaw and all, broke from the trail and attempted to escape. The posse immediately opened fire, and in the laconic language of the report, “all the Indians were killed except one papoose.” The pvaae immediately covered up all tra<« of their deadly work, shot the Indian horses and hastened back to Marysville, Jackson’s Hole. The settlers there immediately began to prepare for the worst. I Prof. F. D. Robinson, for twenty-one years dean of Latin language and literature at Kansas university, is dead-