Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1896 — Page 2

Democratic Press. DKCATUR, IND. Dsmo-rallr Pre** vs, • rubll*h*r*. FEBRUARY. b'»; 8u Mo Tu Wo Th Fr Si • 1 2345 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 •_ /T L. Q.44N. M. ]k r. Q. . . F. M. ' \£ th > V ■- x -Hh. EVENTS OF INTEREST that occurred during the PAST WEEK. Five Men Meet Death in a Railroad CColllsion Confessed to a MnrderCthat Decor red Thirty Years A«o—Another Had Accident at Cleveland - Firemen Injured. Fatal tit'reck. A special from Cairo. 111, say a: Passen- . ger train No, 22 and freight train No 55. I in the Illinois Central r*ilroad. crashed ' together at a joint midway tietween Hitang and Dongola. Engineer W illiam Huntington and Uaggagrmaster Felix , Armstrong of the passenger train, and both firemen were killed. All lived at ; Centralia, 111. A number of passengers i were injured slightly. The j*a*setiger Cram had orders to wait at W etang for the . freight train, but Conductor Adam Odoms i thought the freight had jxssed and start- ' «d ahead at full speed. The collision hapj >ened on a sharp curve where the engineers could not see each ■ other until close at hand. The damage to t railroad projwrty was great, as both trains were going at such speed that the force of i the collision drove the engines and cars together in a mass. Three of the men killed . were buried under the wreckage and their bodies were not found for two hours. Cool Thieves These. The home of Gov. Matthews, on North ; Illinois street. Indianapolis, was entered by burglars the other night and the execu- j tive's gold watch and *l2 in money were stolen. The burglars were in the house ' sone- time, as they set the table in the dining-room, placed Mrs. Matthews' “company” china set on it and then brought cold victuals from the pantry and placed them on the table. The meal ap> pears to have been leisurely eaten and it is aupjiosed the thieves must have been in ' the house an hour or more. The family were not disturbed and not till morning did they know that they had such enterprising guests during the night. A Marder in IS6B. William Minnix wu arrested aS baylersTille, Ky.. the other day, charged with I killing William Ward in Magoffin County, in 1866, by striking him on the head w ith an old-fashioned skillet handle. Minnix says be did not aim to hurt Ward, but, fearing the law, made his escape, going to Missouri, where he was known by the name of Burns, and where be has since resided. He is now a lawyer ot some note and a minister of the M. E. Church. His wife even did not know his real name until last week. Minnix is a brother of Sheriff Minnix of Magoffin County. He returned to Magoffin County for the purpose of having his trial. To Stop the Prize Fight. Attorney General U.irmon has instructed tiie United States District Attorneys and United States Marshals in New Mexico, Arizona, and Indian territories to keep a sharp outlook for the proposed MaherFitzsimmons prize fight and to us<- all means in their jiower to prevent the law, recently approved by the President, prohibiting prize fights in the territories, from being violated. Responses have been received stating that tbe United States authorities will be on the alert to prevent the violation of the law. Washed Into the River. Cleveland special: A water main on Franklin avenue hill burst, and with tbe the volume of water that jxiured out, several hundred feet of the hill was washed into the river. A small, on'- story frame house, occupied by Mrs. Mary Kavey, 60 years old, was inundated, and with its contents was hurled into the river. Mrs. Ravey was drowned. A New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio freight train was passing at the foot of the hill at the time, and the force of the water carried four cars into the river. Firemen Hurt. Fire destroyed the Queen City Oil Company’s works, at No. 5 East Front street, Cincinnati. Driver Beckman, of hook No. 1, and Pijieman Henry Schafer, of tbe Gifts engine company, were badly hurt while on their way to the fire. Beckman was thrown from his seat to the ground and for a while was unconscious. Schafer in trying to prevent a collision caught Assistant Chief Bunker’s horse and the animal closed his teeth on the fireman’s left wrist. Masonic Temple Theater, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Feb. 17 18,19, 2X3, 21, and 22.-Jessie Mao Hall. Feb. 25.—“ An American Girl.” Feb. 27.—“1492.” Feb. 29.—“. Fencing Master.” March 2 and B.—“ Lost in New York.” March o, 6, and 7.—Mrs. Tom Thumb. Grain Elevator Burned. The grain elevator of Smith, Crawford A Co., at Youngstown Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire. The elevator was filh-el witli grain ami flour. The origin is unknown. The loss is *20,000, wit h *14,000 insurance. Reward for the Head of Pearl Bryan. Greencastle (Ind.) sjiecal: The County Commissioners met and considered the Bryan murder. They will probably offer a reward of *SOO for the recovery ot the head of the murdered girl. The Grand Jury will investigate the case of Will Wood as an accomplice of the Bryan murderer. Boiler Explosion. One man was killed, one was fatally injured and five others were slightly hurt by the explosion of a 110-horse power boiler at the Ann and Hojie Cotton mill, Lonsdale, R. I.

WKH.KU AT HAVANA. Th* New Captain-General Greeted with Military Honora, Havana special: The bpamsli cruiser Alfonso XIII, with tieneral Woyler, th* , appointed captain-general and comniau- ' der-tn-chief ot the Npaaish forces in Cuba, on board, arrived off Morro Castle at• o'clock Tuesday morning and at 10 o'clock i entered the harbor ami steamed up to the i city. A* the warship passed Morrow Castle she was saluted by the gun* of that i fortress and as she proceeded was wel- | corned by artillery from ths- Calianas fortrest and the dipping of dags and otlier greeting* from the ships In the harbor. Gen. Weyler ha* an opportunity toj achieve worldwide fame, lie succeeded > b pal*’* greatest general and lias a much more difficult task than the latter faced when he arrived from Spain last April. The insurrection has spread until tbe whole of Culm is involved and instead of disorganized band* in the mountain* he ba* a fairly well organized army operating in tbe open against the soldiers of j Spam. He ba* many capable general* to , carry out hi* view* and an army of regular* and voluateers numbering 3(D,«i# men. Forty-six men-of-war and gunboat* patrol tbe coast and guard the harbors.) (Small fort* and blockhouse* have been built at all imjzortant town* on lines of railroad* and barricade* have been erected at hundred* of other places. A troeba or strong line has been established aero*.* the island from Havana to Batabano. | j GOOD EFFECT. The Wonderful Snccea* of the Popular Loan Alter* the Face of Event*. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of , Trade say*: The wonderful success of tbe popular loan alters the face of event*, i January operation* become ancient his- I tory. a* tbe nation mount* above all doubts i and fear* to a solid certainty that the peo- | pie can and will uphold their government. The influence of tin-ev-nt upon all man- I ufactunng and all trade cannot be lightly estimated. It put* the treasury upon a saf* basis for the tune whether Congress doe* anything or not. It notifies foreign nation* that the United State* have power as well as purposA. It unlocked milliohs of gold which ha* t>een gathered in preparation, bring* directly several millions of gold from Europe, and stimulates the anxiety of foreign investor* to obtain American securities. With such a revolution in business, suddently effected, the customary records of tbe past week and month are of less value than usual. BANK ROBBERY. Bold Raid on a Bank at Savannah, Missouri. Bank robbers made a bold raid on tbe Mate National bank at Savannah, Mo., tixteen miles from St. Joseph. They beat the night watchman into insensibility and then effected an entrance to the vault. Here they secured IS* l worth of stamps belonging to the postoffice, but were unable to open the safe containing the funds of the bank. Three character* who have teen hanging around the town are suspected. In the private boxes connected with the vault the robbers found 114,000 in bonds which they carried away with them. The bond* were numbered from 120.733 to 120,744 inclusive, and numbers 114.191 and 114.192. The coupons on the bonds due January 1, 1»96, had not been detatched from the bonds. Serious Wreck in Ohio, A passenger tram on tbe Cincinnati A Muskingum Valley railroad was wrecked near Crooksville, Ohio. Thomas L. Fisher, the baggage master, was instantly killed, and eight others were injured, two ut whom will probably die. The accident occurred about half way between Crooksville and Roseville while tbe train was running at tbe rate of twenty-five miles an hour and was caused by a misplaced • witch, which had been left partially open by a section man who had been cleaning away snow and ice from around the switch. As the engine struck the switch it left the rails and together with a combination baggage and mail car rolled down an embankment fifteen feet in height. Baggage Master Fisher and Mail Agent Beil were caught under the tailing car, the former being instantly killed, while Bell received very serious internal injuries. Fatal Explosion. Lawrence iMass.) special: A terrible explosion of dynamite, killing two men and damaging a large amount of property, took j>lace at the compression house used in connection with the new South Lawrence sewer. Both men were in the compression house and their bodies were horribly mangled. The explosi'ki could be heard as far away as Lowell. The building was blown into fragments, while other bijiblings within a quarter of a mile, were mo-.e or less damaged, windows being shattered without number and contents of houses disturbed. Ten men besides the two killed were at work, but were unhurt. English Is Dead. William 11. English died at his rooms in the Hotel English, Indianapolis. Mr. English had been ill with the grip for two week*. Several days ago rheumatism set in and the heart action became bad. While his naturally strong constitution gave Mr. English’* friends strong hopes of his recovery, his condition has throughout been considered grave. Mr. English was fora number of years prominent in State and National politics, being the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1880. For several years he has been living a retired life, being engaged in writing “The History of the Northwest.” A Colorado Hanging. Benjamin Radcliff, the slayer of the entire School Board of Jefferson District, Park County, was hanged at the penitentiary, Canon City, Colo, Prompted by a desire for revenge for what he considered grievous wrongs, Rancliff shot down in the schoolhouse at Jefferson, Park County, the three member* of the School Board, Samuel Taylor, Lincoln F. McCurdy, and George D. Wyatt. The cause of the trouble was tlie circulation of reports of alleged criminal intimacy between Radcliff and his motherless daughter, a girl of 18. Dreadful Calamity. A most appalling disaster occurred at Bristol, Conn., in which twenty workmen were precipitated into Pequabuck River from the East Bristol bridge, and from ten to twelve of them are probably lost. They were repairing a bridge when it sank with its human freight, and was carried off in the boiling current. Tbe cries of the men, the creaking of timber and the falling of iron work, made a combined noise which was heard half a mile away. Burned to Death. An 8-months-old child of Thomas Bryce, a prominent clothier, formerly ot Cincinnati, burned to death at Columbus. Ohio.

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I It nas left lying tor a tew moment* in a ! crib while th.' family were prepanng la another part <»f the house for a trip to New York, ii pUyfuly pulled a lace curtain hanging near it luto contact with a gas jet, and before help could reach lithe little one wax burned so badly that It died • i half hour later. Another Massacre. Cleveland (Ohio.) special: Auothet massacre tia* occurred in Armenia. This i statement was made by Rev. S. 3. I Yeaovkian, an Armenian refugee now residing in tin* country. Unwilling to gne the source of the Information, he ex- ■ pres-cd every confidence that the newspaper* will within a day ortwoconfitm ' all lie Yenovkian ha* on several previous occasion* secured information regarding outrage* in advance even of the new»p*)>er», and there is no reason tv doubt his present assertions. Too Warm fsr Wood. W ill W ood. arrested for complicity in ; the Pearl Bryan murder at Cincinnati and | released on 15,00) ball, reached Grecncas--1 tie, Ind., tbe other night and kept in h’d- \ mg. The excitement became so Intense that friend* of tbe father, a presiding elder of the M. E church in that district,warned him that hi* son was in danger of being lynched. He and the young man hurried to the station and left on tbe first eastbound train. They say they are going W Cincinnati. Uprising in Madrid. Madrid was the scene of a demonstration that would have required but very little to have turned it into a serious riot. Fully 12.'W0 jieople followed tbe body of the man ! killed for hooting at General Campo* to the grave, defying the police, and shouting “down with the jiolice," "down with Campos,” and “long live the republic,” r de*Ui to tiie king," “death to tbe queen i regent," and "long live the republic." Fatatty Burned. Mr*. M. J. Swinford, living nine miles from Hot Springs. Ark., was burned to death recently. She was sitting by a fireplace reading, when her dress caught tire, and she rushed madly out ot tbe bouse. Before assistance could reach her every stitch of clothing was burned entirely off her. Three Killed. A three story brick building on Secead avenue between Thirth-nmth and Fortieth streets, Brooklyn. N. Y., was blown down during a storm. Three jzersons are buried in the ruins. Their names are James Quigley, Michael Mulcahy, and John Simonds. The building was occupied by Bush A Dennison, chemical manufactuc ers. Attacked by a Stallion. A vicious thoroughbred stallion at Mi. August Belmont's Nursury Stud, near Lexington, Ky., attacked Richard Down- i ing, one of the grooms, pawing, kicking, and biting him. Downing was removed to his home horribly mangled, his am broken and suffering internal injuries. Fell and Expired. Mrs. Jennie Quimby, a prominent ana wealthy lady of Niles, Mich., slipped and fell upon an icy sidewalk aud expired instantly. The deceased was tbe widow of Captain Horace B. Quimby, of the United States Army, who was widely known throughout the West. Killed a Brakeman. A westbound freight on the B. and O. S. W. broke in two one mile east of S;>encer’s Station, Ohio, tbe rear part running into the front, killing Brakeman S. C. Parsons and slightly injuring Stewart Goins. Russia's Crop Short. Bradstreet’s has received the following official crop report from London: “Russian official croj> reports for 189*> mak« wheat 80,000,000 bushels, and rye 115,000.000 busheis less than In 1895.”

Starts for Armenia, Miss Clara Barton, Presiaent ot the American Red Cross Society, and her party, left London Tbusday on her way to Armenia for tbe distribution of the relief fund in her hands. Uhl Confirmed. The nomination of Hon. E. F. Uhl as Ambassador to Germany was confirmed by tbe Senate in a little more than an hour after it had been received. Under a Tree. Abraham Ballenger, aged about 60 years, and a fanner, living near Fair Huven, Ohio, was killed by a falling tree. He was at work alone on his farm cutting timber Shot His Twin Brother. At Catletsburg, Ky., Will Overstreet, colored, aged about fifteen, shot and dangerously wounded his twin brother Lee in a quarrel. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $.3.50 to $.'.00; hog*. suippißg grades, $3.(X> to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to S4.OW; wheat, No. 2 r<*i. 66c to 67e; cum. No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 40 cto 41c; batter, choice creamery, 18c te 19c: eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel. 18c to 25c; broom corn, 2c to 4c jxt pound for posr to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $4.50; hog*, choice l: »it, s3.lK> to $4.50; common to prime. S2.UU to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 1 white. 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22< to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 ts $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red. 72c tc 74c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c tn 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2,37 c to 38c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, S3.W to $4.50; sheep. $2.58 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2,75 cto 7flc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 29c to 31c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22< to 23c; rye. No. 2. 43c to 45c. Detr.gfi -Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, S3.WO to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29e: oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 41c to 42c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white. 21c to 23c: rye. No. 2. 41c to 43c; clover seed, $4.45 to $4.55. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 3,27 cto 28c; oat*. No 2 white, 20c to 22c; barley. No. 2, 3!A: bo 34c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c; perk, mesa SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hog* $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wjieat. No. 2 red. 78c to 79c; csrn, No. j 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, Ne. 2 white, i 24c to 25c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hog* $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to fid.2s, wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c te 26c; butter, creamerr. 15c to 20c; eggs. West srn, 14c to 16c.

DISGRACEB AND DEAD TRAGIC FATE OF A YOUNG INDIANA GIRL. Three Men Are Held for the Marder of Pearl Itryau M«m of Contradictory Cowtesolom* Her Headless Corpse Found and Identified. Htory of a Dark Crime. The funeral of Pearl Bryan was held at Greencastle. Ind., and the service* were spoken over a headless corpse. W bile

the relatbea were in the vault there was a mooting of the young and middleaged men of the city, and it was said later that some twentyfive or thirty of these pledged themselved to each other to [avenge the girl’s death if the murder mw were not haugd by the law. The organization thus

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formed b Mid to be retarded simply a* the nocleut of a larger one which will take the law into it* own hand* if Scott Jack»n. Afonso Walling and Wm. Wood escape the extreme penalty in the Cincinnati court*. t The morning of Saturday. Feb. 1. there was fuund at Fort Th«>maa. Ky..* the headlofM eorjiwe of a young woman. lor a time, identification was imj*>**ible. But inquiry was being made for Pearl Bryan, a Grwenca.<le girl, who bad left her home with the avowed purpose of visiting a friend at ludianapoli*. She was accompanied to th« train by Wm. Wood, son of a Methodist minister, and went to IndianajKilis, stopping there only between trains. She then went on to Cincinnati. Nothing was thought of her temporary absence from home; but when the time came for her return, and she came not. the family began to wonder. Then came the account of finding the headless body of a woman near Cincinnati, and the announcement that the corpse wore shoes that had been purchased from Louis A Hays, of Greencastle. After that identification was quick and certain, and investigation led to the arrest of the three men named. Jackson and Walling were student* at the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati. They and Wood are said to have been intimate with the girl. But a maze of contradictory confessions by all of them has made impossible the fixing of direct resjxmsibility; and thi* confusion is complicated by the assertion of Lulu May Hollingsworth, of friend of Pearl's. In the series of confession* Jackson sly* Walling carried the woman’s head

\ -/ V 7 PEARL BRYAN. in a valise to the Covington susjiension bridge, and he believes Walling threw it into the river, or he may have taken it to his home at Hamilton and thrown it from the Miami bridge at that place. Jackson say* he did not go with Walling on the trip*. On the contrary Walling says Jackson buried the head in a sandbar in the Ohio river ojqzoaite Dayton, Ky.. or droj>j>ed it in the sewer on Richmond street, Cincinnati. Each affirms the belief that the other administered a fatal drug to produce a criminal operation, and neither confesses knowledge of time or place of decapitation of the corpse. Each charges young Wood, of Greencastle, with resjxvnsibility for the girl’s condition, and Jackson gays he was the medium through whom Wood was to remit SSO to Walling for performing the operation. On the other hand, young Wood denies his responsibility, but admits knowledge of the girl’s predicament, because Jackson, who was responsible for it, told him of it. He says the only part he took in the matter was to advise Pearl to undergo an operation. To make the matter more unintelligible. Lulu May Hollingsworth, of Jndianaj>oli«, who was arrested, suspected of complicity in the murder, said: “I shall lie able to clear Jackson. He ts responsible for Mis* Bryan’s condition.

I i I SCOTT JACKSON. ALONZO WALLINO. but he wn» not responsible for her death. I don't think, either, that Wood had anything to do with this case. I became interested in the girl because I had once known her and chanced to meet her at the Union station. She told me what had happened, and said Jackson was to blame. When 1 told her what drugs to get she said

she would take them In Jackson’a I”''*- | rare and die there and thru so as to | threw suspicion upon Jsckson and him into difficulty." . Miss Hollingsworth afterward said she administered the fatal dnig* at th* request of Miss Bryan. The police discredit thi«. Miss Hollingsworth is regarded as a notoriety figured in an elopement frem Terre Haute. rUiHnnatl Ja<’k*<*n * bloody coat in a iM'wer. JaelwMi claims that Wailing wore hi« clothing on the night of the murder. HONOR FOR UHL. He Succeeds Runyon as Ambassador to the German CapiGil. The President sent to the Mon day the mnuination of Edwin F. I hl. of Michigan, uow a»d*tant Sei-retary ot £tate, to be ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Germany. The Senate u* executive »<**«ion confirmed the noniinaU<>n. Mr. Uhl was appointed assistant Secretary of State Nov. 1. INDB. He is be»t known a* the author of the dispatch to Spain calling upon that country in a peremptory manner to account for the firing on the Allianca by the gunboat Conde

7/ FT’WIX F. UHL. df Venadito off Cape Mayst, on the coast or Cuba. The new ambassador i« a man of considerable wealth, and was once Mayor of Grand Rapids, his former home. The Grand Rapids Common Council adopted a resolution congratulating Edwin F. Uhl upon his api*»inttnevit and prompt confirmation a* amlio-seador to Germany. Mr. Uhl will return hotge before going abroad, and numerous banquets and reception* are already planned for him. Mr. Uhl is a prominent Democrat of Michigan. He is widely known as an able lawyer, a brilliant orator, and a keen politician of the stalwart type. He was very active in the last presidential campaign. giving not only his time to speechmaking for Cleveland and Stevenson, but he gave largely of his private purse to the campaign fund. His appointment to an assistant secretaryship gave great satisfaction to Michigan Democracy. Mr. Uhl was born in New York State fifty-five years ago, but ha* lived in Michigan since 1846, when his parents moved West. lie was “brought up" on a farm near Ypsilanti, in which city he attended school. He also was a student in the State University, and in 1866 he entered upon the practice of law. Two years later he made Grand Rapid* hi* home, and his ability soon made him a leader at the bar of that city. It is estimated that now his law practice is worth from $20,000 to $.'10,000 a year. He has twice been Mayor of Grand Rapids, and the Democratic congressional nomination from hi* district was a standing offer on a silver plate to him for ten years before Mr. Cleveland called him to Washington. It was an offer, however, which he never accepted.

WEYLcR IN COMMAND. At Once Reviews Troops and Issue* a Proclamation, Valeriano Weyler, new captain general of Cuba, arrived at Havana Monday, and wa.i tendered an ovation by the loyal Spanish. After taking the oath of office, he reviewed the troops, and issued a proclamation declaring that, backed as he was by all Spain's resources, he should never give up Cuba to the insurgents. He appealed to the gallantry of the army and navy, and especially to the loyal inhabitants, native or Spanish born. He announced his purpose to be generous to the subdued, and to all who render service to the Spanish cause. The plan of canijvaign of Gen. Weyler is not known. He is likely to call in all the small detachments of tr.xqv* which have from the fir*t had such a weakening effect upon the Spanish operations, and he will try to drive the insurgents into a jk>sition from which they cannot escape without a pitched battle. He will endeavor to protect property to the utmost, but in so doing he anticipates being able to call in several thousand men who are doing small garrison duty in places where apparently there is no necessity for their presence now. Gen. Weyler will also do everything possible to muster as strong a force of cavalry as he can. Considerable re-enforcements of this branch of the service have already arrived, and more are expected. In short, hi* first effort* will be directed to concentrating his forces and restoring public confidence. Later he will try to engage the insurgents, who are understood to be concentrating their forces in anticipation of haring a much more difficult task before them than they have had uj> to the present. In fact, some report* credit the insurgent* with desiring to concentrate all their scattered detachments and column* into one body, and so bring the insurrection to a direct issue. If so, there seems to be no doubt that the Spanish general* will not put any obstacles in the way of the insurgent commander*. But Spaniard* who are well posted on the situation say that there is no truth in the report that the insurgents will tnnke any effort to risk a pitched battle. Pine Ridge Pow-Wow Opened. The great Pine Ridge powwow convened nt Pine Ridge, Neb., Monday. For some months a private subscription has been circulated soliciting aid among the Indians to send delegates to Washington to confer with the authorifie* in reference to matters pertaining to the Pine Ridge agency. It was said 7,000 Indiana would be present at the powwow, but there is no probability that so large n number will attend. Not 700 got in Monday. At this season zero weather is probable any day, and the Indian* for this reason will not travel much. The scene of the meeting is Wounded Knee, twenty miles distant.

RUIN IN ITS WAKE. ATLANTIC COAST SWEPT BY WIND AND RAIN. Raging Elcmenta Nearly Wipe Many Villnge*—Kievan Bridge H o . palrcra Die Near Bristol, (o on ,_ Peril in the Bursting us a Dum. Fire Adds to Horrors, Cyclonic winds and drenching r »ia swejit tbe entire North Atlantic cosg Thursday. Ruin and death u re left la the wake of the storm. Frequently * vefeclty <»f seventy-five mile* an hour ir al reached by the wind. Shiiq.lag suffered severely, though the warning* to *»Ui as master*, given in ample time, kept ue» r ly nil the veaesie In port. To the horrors of cyclone and flood that of fire was added at the viiiap* of Bound Brook, N. J, which was ulatost wiped out. It is Mid that fully forty house* wore destroyed by fire. Many of them, a* they blared, were swept from their foundation* into the rnshing water* of the tlood, communicating the conflagration to others, and in this way the fire spread more rapidly thin It otherwise would.

The datn at Pocahontas Lake, N. J., broke and all the lower part of the city wa* inundated. All day the melting snow swelled tbe stream* and poured into ths lake, which is a mile and a half long by three-fourths of a mile wide. It was covered by eight inches of ice, end the whois was held in cheek by the frailest and fiimsl dMW, T water rose to the top. Meanwhile the water rushing through the flume and from all the sewnra had filled tbe Whippany river, which flows through Morristown, to the brim, and the water ran over. Crowds of jH-ople fioekesi down to view the spreading waters. Suddenly with a great rash a section of tbe dam eighteen feet wide went down and a wall of water six feet high swept into the valley, quickly followed by thousands of ton* of ice. In ten minute* the water rose ten feet in the streams. Nearly tbe whole State of New Jersey is under water. From all section* cams reports of impeded traffic, damaged houses and barns and washed out railways. Along the Delaware river the damage was extensive, the water rising within a few hours to the point marked as dangerous. Three culvert* and a half mile of track were washed away at Mahunkachunk, where the Pennsylvania and Lackawanna Railroad* meet. The Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad was washed out and all passenger and freight traffic stopped. The railroads* losses will be many thousands of dollars. Death in Icy Water*. Eleven of a gang of forty bridge repairers, working on the railroad span over the Pequobuck river, a mile east of Bristol, Conn., met a terrible death by drowning at 9 o’clock Thursday night, when the structure collapsed because of th« flood. Ths old New Haven bridge was to have beea replaced by a stone structure. Trains have had orders to run slow over it siucc work was commenced, and in the after noon it sagged when the 4 o'clock train passed over it. A work tram with forty bridge repairer* was sent to repair it, and while engaged in this work the structure collapsed, precipitating the workmen into the icy water below. Ths unfortunate men in the water attempted to seize sticks and jiortions of the abutments which had broken loose, but they were carried down stream and were quickly lost tn sight in the darkness. Elerea were drowned.

W. H. ENGLISH DEAD. Indiana Politician and Statesmen Pasaea Away at Indianai olifc Wm. 11. English. Indiana politician an/ statesman and former candidate for \ ice President on the Democratic ticket with Gen. Hancock, is dead. Mr. English had been ill for two weeks, at his home in Indianapolis, and all hope of his recovery was given up two days before death, when his heart began to trouble him. 1 rota that time he sank rapidly until the end. Mr. English was born in Lexington, Scott County, Ind., Aug. 27, 1822. His father, Elisha G. English, was a pioneer of the Hoosier State, and, like his son, was also honored with public trusts for a / WILLIAM U ENGLISH. almost half a century. When the Indiana Legislature met in 1843-4 Mr. English was elected chief clerk of the House of Representatives. and in that way he came to make Indianapolis his hotn»'._ He w"» active in the convention of 1850, which met to frame a State Constitution, and in the following Legislature, under the new. Constitution, Mr. English was elected Speaker of the lower house. He afterward secured a clerkship in the I nited States Senate, a position which he gave up to take a clerkship in the Treasury Department, offered by President Folk. At Cincinnati in 1880 he was nominated for Vice President on the Democratic ticket. When victory was to the Republican nominees. James A. <«arfield and Chester A. Arthur. Mr. English philosophically accepted defeat. In spite of their political variances of opinio*. Mr. English and ex-President Harrison were always warm friends. A tierce leopard belonging to Robinson s circus, in winter quarters a few miles east of Cincinnati, escaped from his cage to a hedge near by. The keeper and others tried to scare it back to the quarters by firing blank cartridge! at it. John G. Robinson, son of Mum -r John F. Robinson, fired a round wb. i witiiin twentyfive feet of the a iimal. This so enraged it that it leaped upon l.obinson and almost killed him. George Nicholson, proprietor of the New Orleans Pin yune, d'"d suddenly of congestion of the lung