Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 September 1894 — Page 1

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,iallim:R' , I Mirts , ' ,rom t,u ‘ Minncsota forest Fire District,

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Pine City, Sept. 8.—Pine City has turned the skating rink and courthouse, as well as many private houses, into hos-

towns now in ashes. f i( Loss Than .jttii Lives Lost In Most Horrible Manner,

n ey loss of several millions. rk | e y. ft Town of Fifteen Hundred » r ,.,.le, « ow in a Few Hours, Two flintirrd of It* Feople Ferlahlng Sand* rokrtfaioH, Sandatone Junction, Uunk Lake and MUnion Creek Scene* {Terrible Torture and Heatli— Detail* ,{ Most Heartrending Eftort* to Escape IhrContiiintng Flame*—People llurned y] iev | |,.,1 lloHpilal Incident*-Ke-icf Promptly Sent the Living—Brave Engineer. g T , Paul, S.'pt. 3.—Six towns wiped land nmre than 500 dead is the recil made by the forest fires in this state the last 24 hours. In Hinckley, Sandjne. Pokegama, Sandstone Junetion, Tjuk lake and Mission Creek there art' 5 known tlead. In addition several mdredaro missing, while from 160 to iKtijih' were scattered on farms r imliout the district burned over, je destruction was complete in most the towns named. Some of the retit land escaped. The loss, however, 111 be in the millions and the loss of . will not la- definitely know for sevaldiiys. if ever. Relief trains have ken supplii ~ sent out from this city, inneapolis. Duluth and other Minuets towns, and the sufferers are being uidsomcly eared for at Pine City and per points. The horrible visitation of death was it without feature of notable heroism, deli lighten up the gloomiest page of inm sota’s history that lias ever Im-cii itteu. No one seemed to have a first tight for himself, and many of the >• saved were those of people who ire utterly unable to take care of them-

jives.

HINCKLEY’S DESTIUJCTION. ‘Oilleil Story of Death* While Fleeing

From Fire*

[St. Pacl* Sept. 3. — An appalling lory of death and destruction comes jom the towns devastated by forest Saturday afternoon and night, (iiickley, a busy, prosperous village of TOO to 1,500 people, has been wiped t, with a loss of life estimated at not i than 200 and as high ils 1,000, exact ta 1* iug unobtainable now. At Sand'He there has Ik-cii loss of life placed 40. Sandstone Junction, 25; Pokenia. 25; Skunk lake, 20; miseellal'>us, 30, says a special to The Pioneer '-.which also places the Hinckley '.talities at 200, making a total of 355.

Dpfttructlon of Hinckley.

Die walls .if the schoolhous •, the iron abiut the town hall property, the ink vault and one absolutely uninjured jhiiuse is all that is left to mark the b. of Him-kley, where had stood a score stui-e buildings and a dozen times as ay dwelling houses. The story of ' catastrophe is a short one. The f" n " i,s built of wood. Tin- schooli"ise. erected last year at a cost of $10,- ■ aud oue-luilf the Duluth roundhouse r ' , - H ‘ only brick structures in the

Ity,

I ' one of those peculiar freaks for a there is no accounting, the East.liaiiesota roundhouse and water- | 11 ' l ^ ,,1 " s t in the woods, escaped the a,- ; circumstance the more remark- ' ff'iH the fact tliiit it stood directly ' 11 of the flames, which set m

cleanly as if playing

jumped as

«Pfrog.

'Vlilrlwlmls of Fltnnes.

b‘Spite the efforts of firemen, late ""'" ;, y afternoon the Are litenilly J' ,ll l"d into the town. Its approach ll "’ gradual. It did not eat its way devouring everything in its path, i‘ ' o a’in huge leaps, as if to overP' ' v, ' r ything fleeing before it, and l back at its leisure. It is v ! ‘ . o \,y those who witnessed its " ; I";''Kress at Hinckley and else11 r ' -i' if it were forced along by cy"f its own generation. The iu- ' v heat would develop a vertiablo f''" ind of flame that actually t wisteil ijdk'p.ar trees several inches in thick- . j- .iiid carried huge, blazing firebrands m the air, carrying them forward [ ""u 40 to ko rods, there to fall and t ' U '.' Vork devastation anew. (;( l "’ ** rst struck Hinckley on the )r> w '*'' the Duluth track, and the .' lln ' fighters for the first time gave Lu, " ,lllo< Jtiai battle and, already too “ 111 many instances, turned their at ‘lion to their personal safety.

pi Escape* by Train.

( 'j i' ;is teru Minnesota trtiin from the 1 and.just come in and the people 1

of the panic stricken city floektsl to It for safety. A number of boxcars were coupled on and were soon filled and covered with men, women and children. Some were bareheaded, some were coatless, some few clutched a pitiful bundle of the more precious of their portable possessions. Families were separated. Children joined the throng and left parents. In all there was a motley crowd of aliont 4.50 or more people. The

train pulled out just ahead of the fire t-i , i n •

and succeeded in ultimately reaching i he town nail is used as an eatmghouse Duluth. This circumstance, while fort- whtir « i* 11 the homeless men, women and unate in a degree that cannot be esti- children are substantially fed. The mated, has made the confusion greater, schoolhouse, church and hotel, besides for it is not known who escaped in this some stores, are used to shelter them by

way, and many people are reported dead night.

"hi; maj be in safety. Which ever way the eye turns heartti.u, D U . , T* w [, “Trr 1 "; r< ' , ‘ (l i ,1 g scenes are witm ^-d. The hosnon tiam on the Hinckley and St. Cloud •» t i . . , , branch left the latter place with about P ? tllls ,l " ,1 stwets ilr, ‘ thvonp, ' a wl,h ^

~-) passengers. Its path lay directly iu-.ross the track of the fire. The ties were burning, the rails warping and the trestles sagged under the train. Burning trees lay across the track and were being tossed aside by the engine. Suddenly the track gave way and the train toppled off to one side. As passengers pressed along the track to Pokegama station, a few rods ahead, four or five were burned, but not fatally. But a few feet in front of the engine was discovered a gorge (>D feet wide and 40 feet deep where the trestle had been burned away.

Fleeing For Tlu-ir Lives,

The people left in the city seemed to be in an almost helpless condition. Egress by the only means of transportation that could hope to distance the | swiftly advancing flames was out of the question. Horses were harnessed to buggies and wagons. Women and children were hurriedly loaded. In gome cases attempts were made to carry off I some household goods, but in most instances the people had no thought but for their lives. Probably 200 left town on fiKit or in vehicles, plunging into the woods to the north, across the Grindstone river, which skirts the town on the north. They were literally fleeing before the pursuing demon of fire. Over the hill that rises beyond the Grindstone is a swamp, and to this most of the people headed, but it proved no protection. The lin- gave them no opportunity to go further. Some abandoned their teams and ran into the lower portion of the morass, but tho tire sought

them otit.

liuriMMl to Dpatli as They Fle<l. Not one wits left to tell tho tale, and there yesterday, in a space of little more than four or five acres, were counted over 137 corpses. There were many families of five, six and seven, and there they lay, the men generally a little in advance, the mother surrounded by her little ones, cut off by the most horrible of deaths. Nearly all the bodies were nude, the fire having burned every vestige of their clothing and blackened and charred many of the corpses beyond recognition. Where whole families were wiped out, as they were, and some of the bodies completely incinerated, iudentification is absolutely out of the question. Those who fled to the north on foot fidlowed the Duluth track, and so rapid was the progressof the flames that many of them were actually burned as they fii-d, falling on the right of way for it distance of three miles or more. Nearly 30 bodies were recovered along here. Some of the foremost of the escaping citizens met the Duluth train coming in from the north. It was due at Hinckley at 4:05. Engineer Jim Root was at the throttle, and he stopped the train, took aboard 125 persons and sped back through the flames to Skunk lake, where the jicoplc took refnge in the water. Safety In a Gravel Pit. The people who remained in Hinckley fared best, taking refnge in a railroad gravel pit at the western edge of town. In it was a large stagnant imhiI of water, and in this 100 citizens wallowed with horses, cows, pigs and other animals. One man succumbed to the smoke or the. terrible strain and fell into the water and drowned. This was theouly known tragedy of the gravel pit. Others sought refnge along the Grindstone river, huddling about bridge abutments. Many thus escaped, but some were drowned. Mrs. Martinson and four little children were taken from

the water dead.

Tin- loss in Hinckley will exceed

$1,000,000 with little insurance. ADDITIONAL HOKKOKS.

Hinckley’* Awful K*|><-rlence llepenteil nt

SnmMone mul Elsewhere.

St. Pail, Sept. 3.—The situation at Sandstone is even more appalling than at Hinckley, except in point of numbers. Of the 200 people in the town, onefourth are dead. Otto Statb-rleldt ■ reached here from that place last night. He says the people were just preparing lo leave when the fire closed in on tliree ! sides and not a single person saved a thing except his clothing. About 100 ! went to the river and 50 or 00 were burned to death. The people who were saved ore living on potatoes and carrots

NATHANIEL P. BANKS. Death of the Soldier and Staten man—Hit Iscnmrkahle Career* Waltham, Mass., Sept. 3.—General N. P. Banks is dead, after long suffer-

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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, the ’’Imbhin boy," the young machinist and village

pitals, where 50 sufferers are receiving omtor. the lawyer and editor, the soldier

mciUi'ul ciuvfnl it, gone before the Oar where conduct and motives are weighed in their true relations uud eternal «i*Jom adjusts the balance. A remarkable career indeed was his. A Statesman at two widely separated eras and a soldier between them, he twice went into almost absolute retirement, and twice emerged therefrom to tigure in exciting congressional debates, and finally, when most Americans Imd come to think of him as a historical character only, he aaton I ished a generation which had not known him by appearing fur a third time in congiess to coiiti-ud with the sons and neph j ews of many with whom he had contended in his prim*- In the Fifty first congress, however, as in ihc Thirty-third—his last and Ids first—he was a spectator rather than an actor, and h\ a fortune ns rare as it is curious he declined or rather subsided out of public prominence even more grad-

ually than lie had attained to it.

ph- seeking their missing lovt d oin-s. As soon as each train comes in from the north there is a frenzied rush of pallid inquirers, some of whom are doomed to disappointment forever. Fathers seek wives and children; sisters their brothers; youths their mothers, and oecasionly are made to rejoice by finding them. Few families are eomplete, and the torture of anxiety and despair is driving some p ople out of their senses. A man going insane; a patient groaning life away, a woman giving premature birth; a heap of cinders representing a human form—these are a few of the ineideuts

of the great forest lire of IMU.

BIDE 1HUOEGH THE FLA VI ICS, During Trip of Passpngors on u HaikI-

Cur—-An tlrroic Fnginoer*

St. Pai l, Sept. 3.—On a train from Duluth yesterday were one or two people who came through the fires and have graphic stories of the scene. The train reached a point a mile and a half north of Hinckley some time after midnight, and was forced to return five miles on account of threatening flames. Half a dozen of the passengers, however, secured a handcar and rode through the flames to Hinckley, taking the northbound train this side of there and returning on it to tiiis city. (in their ride they counted 27 dead liodies along tinline of railroad, 17 discovered at Hinckley during the morning and*21 others found up to 1 o’clock. They say that tin* people of Hinckley ran to the woods when their houses caught fire, and as the timber afterward burned it is more than probable tluit great numbers per-

ished.

The party that came through on the handcar suffered severely from burns.

Their injuries, however, will not prove fatal. They tell many sad stories of what they saw. One woman, who had

evidently tried to save her five children,

was overtaken by the fire and the whole family perished close to the railroad track. Another case was where a

mother, seeing her house in flames, ran in to save her child. The husband followed her and the walls of the house fell in before they could get out. The passenger train, on which these

men wen-, is in ashes and the rest of

the passengers have taken refuge in a marsh near Skunk lake, where they are surrounded by fire. The engineer was badly burned, but stuck to his post and got all of the passengers out of the fire safely. This engineer, James Root, is one of the best known and pluckiest of those in the employ of the St. Paul and Duluth. He tried to take his train through the fires to Hinckley, but when the cars caught from the flying embers lie reversed bis engine and backed at full speed to Skunk lake. Engineer

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that only once, lb- iM-gau political life as a DeiiiiM-rat and a Free Soiler, but in lK5-i made his congressional canvass as a Know j NoJiiug mnl v.overwhelmingly eleeUMl. j All n-adeis kn<w the fads connected ! with the struggle in eleeting a speaker in the Thirty-fourth congress. It gave Mr Hanks n world wide fame. On the littd ballot, after a contest lasting two months, he was ehosen by a plurality only. I he house having agreed that the rule requiring a tnnjnrity should In- set aside. lie began his military career as a major general, but il is not necessary lo detail his services To dn so in fact would amount to writing at least half a history id the

war.

CYCLONE IN LOUISVILLE. S< toral lliiiltllnigM WtecktMl and IVoplt* lladly FriKlitcntMl. Louisville, Kept. 3.—A small cyclone struck the southwestern part of this city late yesterday afti-rinsm and did alsmt $12,000 damage. That the destructive cloud wits too high is the only reason that the terrible scenes of the cyclone of 1K90 were not reiM-ated. As it was the people living in the vicinity were nearly frightened to death and several had narrow escapes. Happily, however, then! were no fatalities. The Columbian school, a 2-story brie', on Eighteenth street, was completely wrecked. At Pankc & Co.’s plauingmill the roof was blown off and the engine and boilers blown out of the building. The 2-story carpenter shop of Ti-chcdorf ,V Kokomour was also completely wrecked and several dwellings damaged. IF SHE WERE ALMIGHTY. Helen Goiifirnr In Five Minute* Would FfttHblihlt a I’aradlhe For tin* 1’nor. New Yoke, Sept. 3.—Fully l.ooO men and women listened to an address by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar of Indiana m Prohibition park yesterday afternoon. Referring ti the jxiverty in the great cities and the suffering in the great ten-i-ment house districts, Mrs. Gougar said there were thousands of acres of land in the suburbs of New York held idle for speculative purposes, and added: "If l were the Almighty for only five minutes 1 would take all this pnnKirty from the land speculators and give to tbid's children in the tenement houses of New York a place upon thiseurth and some of the gospel of fresh air and sunshine."

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Cincinnati I!re\ver'* Wife Shoots at

Him In a Train,

GKNKKAI. N. I'. HANKS In physical jiei'sim.-ilitj no American In public life was --ver better equipped. As hi* stood in tin- speaker’s desk of the house of representatives he li><iked the very lienu ideal of <-i statesman. As he sat on his horse liefore an army corps he looked the very IH-an ideal of a general. Even in the wav hi- mounted a horse there was some thing that pleased the fancy of soldiers. A life size portrait of him as speaker would attract attention in every gallery in the world and men of all nations would pause and pointing say, "There is a statesman." Yet il was conn- led by his most ardent admirers that at each crisis in his life he fell just a little short of what wasexpected, whether because of some special defect or because of unexpected and insuperable difficulties it is not now in human wisdom to decide. He seemed to go at a hound from comparative obscurity to the speak ership of the first Republican house, hut thereafter he was not his party’s recog nized leader. His generalship on the lower Mississippi was just good enough to raise a furious discussion, and his attempt to reconstruct Louisiana prematurely was just hud enough to establish awkward precedents which plagued three administra

| tious.

As governor of Miussai-husets his success was great, lie understoiMl the people of his own stub*, and they understood him. lb* returned to congress, hut not to his ohl prominence. He “went off with Greeley,” as the phrase was, in ls;2, and was crushed, but t ame again in 1HD, apparently none I he worse for his ''frolic ti ll h l lie I aherals."

Fatal Hoar-Kiid I'olllmon* Camden, N. J., Sept. 3.—A fatal rearend collision occurred last night at 7:30 on the West Jersey railroad at Seventh mid Van Hook streets, this city, through a mistake in signals. Thomas ‘ ’arter and Edward H. Vanlien were killed almost instantly. No one else was seriously injured. AY ill Ktnml No Farther Eut. Thenton, N. J., Kept. 3.—The operative potters of this city have voted not to accept any further cut in their wages.

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SHE FIRED FROM BEHIND. Wound Inflicted Not Neceiisarlly Fiitul. Micliigitti l,ovcr Put* Three llullelt Into a Young Ltttly and Suicides Glmatly Murder and Suicide In St. Louis Rejected 1 Vnusv 1 vitnia Lover** Crime. (’tWINN ATI. Sept. 3.—(hi Aug. 2 the wife of John Kauffman, the brewer, attempted to shoot and kill Emil Schmidt, receiver of the Kauffman Brewing company. She was held in bonds to keep the peace and to answer fur her crime. Yesterday she put a watch on her husband’s movements and, learning that he was going to his Glcudalctfann, Vtoiirded the same train. As Mr. Kauffman arise to get off the train she tired from behind iit bis head. The ball plowed along the right -cheek and came out near the mouth, llis wound is not necessarily fatjil. When Mrs. Kauff'man was arrested a quantity of paris green was found on her person. EOt I.DN’t' MA E WITIIOIT LIZZIE. Tragedy In Wliicit a Young Woman Wa* shut ami a Alan Suicide*. Reed City, Mich., Sept. 3.—This city was thrown into excitement last night by tbe snicide of Edward F. Rice of Munton and a previous attempt by him to murder Lizzie Knute, a young woman. Rice and Miss Knnte went walking for ti short distance. Rice wanted to continue to walk further, but she refused. He then shot at her three times. Ouu bullet struck her check bone, passing downward through her m-ek. H- r companion then shot himself and died two hours later. The girl’s recovery is doubtful. Rice had said previously that he "could not live without Lizzie.”

Git ASTI. Y GIMME.

Shot Hi* Wife Four Time* a ml !\latle Desperate Ltlort* at Suicide. St. Loits, Sept. 3.—Reproached hy liis wife Elizabeth last night for his failure to properly provide for his family, Henry Loeschc in a lit of anger shot the woman four times, the bullets lodging in her head, shoulder and arm. Loesche then shot himself twice in the left breast, out his arm twice with a razor and then out his throat. Both are at the city hospital in a dying condition. Shot l»y a R<\)tt<‘ttt(l Lover* Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—Jane Finley, aged 20, was shot three times last night by Matthew Dunlap, 20 years old, her rejected lover. Dunlap met the girl on the street in Germantown and shot her once in the breast and twice in the back. Miss Finley is in a critical condition.

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Finally he ilt-featt-d Colonel Thomas \\ ent-

Roots’ injuries are quite serious, but it worth lligginson in the Fifth Ma-sm hie is hoped that he will recover, although setts district, and sai m the 1-ifty lirst conone report gives no hope. lu v * ,rv ** n ‘ e aH 11

IN WISCONSIN. Great Detraction of Property but Small I.o** of Life. Ashland, Wis., Sept. 3.—Forest fires in north Wisconsin have destroyed Bashaw, Rubicon and Baronncttc, with loss of one life, and done incalculable damage to a dozen other towns. Near Ontonagan last night a Milwaukee and St. Paul train was wrecked by warped rails and Engineer Fred Almqnist was killed, five ears of logs piling on his engine. Pori is among the towns threat-

cued.

Prompt RpRttf For flu* Stricken. St. Pai l, Sept. 3.—St. Paul was quick to respond to the needs of the Stricken people. In an incredibly short space of time $4,(XX) worth of provisions and supplies were raised. Other places are responding generously.

BOLD ROBBERY.

Nebraska PosGiowter Hclil Up While

Many Peuple Wi re PaMlnar*

University Place, Neb., Sept. 3.— Three armed men made a bold attack on the post office here Saturday night at H o'clock, and though little booty was secured the desperate conduct of the rubbers has ubmued the community. Fo.-i-uiaster Smith was locking the doors when he felt 11 revolver pressed against his head. Looking up, he observed three revolvers in the hands of as many strangers. He opened the doors and returned to the office when directed. All tin- stores were oix-n around the office at the time and many people passing. The

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left in the ground.

th“Sr a? K111le 1 River^Tuueffon': CTgh^ All the settlers in the vicinity on-prob- t|l( , al) ,i while two stood guard tho ably burned to death. O'Neill Bros, had ()the * i,.j 8im .ly proceeded to take all the l-> -amps in the woods there and all ,,,,,,,,-y from the saft—about •i'KX). Then

these are burned. Most of the inmates, however, are Indieved to have escaped with their lives. There are 11 homeless families at Mission Creek, and the same story is true of several other places m

ley and it is impossible to git .unuai | ‘ H to discuss tho

Carl to u?R U tied ge ami other towns in

N. p. HANKS AS SPEAKER IN' 1KW professm- emii-itus sits in a eollege faculty. Ni-vei-t In-less the fuel remains that lit-was throughout 1111 ardi-nt patriot and a noble man. and that equally in success and in failure his career is singularly instructive. He served four terms in the Massachusetts legislature and thri-e as governor, was for two trrnu speaker in the house there, was a member and president of the constitutional convention of 1K53, served nine full terms and one fraction in congress, was a successful railroad official, major general in lln- civil war and United States marshal

of Massachusetts.

The Banks family occupied a middle class position in Waltham, .Mass., and tln-re Nathaniel Prentiss was born Jan. id), IKltt. His father seems to have hngiui life as a lalsirer and to have thought he had done quite well in becoming superintendent in a cotton factory. At uny rate, he

took it for grunted that his son was to thev passed out of the rear door and eon- r i sl . in life in a similar way, and at an ducted the ixistmaster to the suburbs he- mrly age put him to work in the factory. f 1.0 iv-m released The son. as often happens, took a very diffore he was U K anon. fen-nt view-of his flit ure, devotisi all his „ , . ei,i.. u „.i leisure hours to study, and assemhling Gresl.am In <"'*“«'• other vout l,s of his own age us often us CHICAGO, S(*pt. •)—Secretary of State j M>ss ihie “practic«Ml on them” to acquire Gresham was at the Palmer House yes- ' the habit of public sneaking, ter,Hv and received a large number of (Juite early in life he took rank as a U-ct-tenl.n “imu, urer, then e-ltUir, and afterward in the callers. Ho declined to cumu. s tlio luw In he essayed to act. but tried

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Cincinnati.

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Gould's yacht A'igilant easily defeated the Katanita Saturday. Marion .Maiiola Mason, actress, is insane in u New Hampshire asylum. Charles Pent/, and (Juiseppe Lousclla ; were killed at a railroad crossing at Atlantic City. Six thousand New York garment niak- ! ers struck and 30,000 more may join to-

morrow.

Four maski ! men held up the Teseott ! (Kun ) bank c.ishier and got away with |i|,ooo. One citizen was shot. St. Louis girls lead the van in bicycle races, they having appeared in liloomers for n tin If mil*- contest. M iss W aldon won

in 1:28.

Fnsl Gitilis, playing detective in an amateur production at less Summitt, Mo., killed P. Lethertuan, the villain of the play, with a revolver he didn’t know was

loiuli-d.

The Memphis Conimercial-Appeal vigorously denounces the shooting of negroes near Millington, saying “every man responsible for the foul crime is a wretch whose feet would defile the gallows.” James Cain, Jr., of Lockland, ()., while drunk shot and killed his 2-montbs-ohl lutby, and then shot his wife in the head and Ids father in tin-arm. Tbe wife died afterward. Her mother lives in Lndiau-

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Six negroes suspected of being iiict-ndi-aries, were in rested near Millington, Teint., and while being taken to that |iliu-e in a wagon were set upon by a mob and wantonly murdered by shooting. The officers in charge have lie,-ft arrested for complicity and warrants are out for 40 farmers. No such exhibition of savagery has occurred in years and excitement is intense.

Hesiitt* of tin- Drills at tin- Knight* of i’yMim* Kncifclli pini'ilt. Washington, Sept. 3.—Indiana Pythiaus took first prize in the battalion prize drill, capturing $500. In the division drills the H,sisters did net make as gisid showing as they had hoped, but are pretty well satisfied. The awards arc as follows: First—Hastings of Hastings, Mich. Second—Parki-rslmrg, No. S, of Parkersburg, W. Va. Third—John Barr, Glenn division, of Eau Claire, Wis. Fourth—Mystic. No. 12, of Girard, Kan. Fifth—New Albany, No. 5, of New Albany, Ind. Sixth—Yellow Cross, No. 85, of Alliance, (>. Seventh—Provost, No. 1, of Kansas City, Mo. Eighth—Terre Haute, Ne. 3, of Terre Haute, Ind. Ninth—Lily, No. 1(1, of Radcliffe, ta. Tenth—Indiana, No. 5(1, of Indianapolis. Last ('mitral of tlio Drake*. Ciiestkh, Pa., Sept. 3.—Fifteen people were injured in a collision lietwcon trolley car* at Darby yesterday, the accident being caused by a motorman losing control of the brakes in going downhill INDIANA BRIEFS. (fid settIcrs’ meetings arc of frequent occurrence just new. Ten prisoners in the Marion jail escaped by sawing t heir « ay out. Indianapolis races begin today with strong cards for each day. Over 5,0<l0 Indianapolitans took advantage of the (‘I rate to Chicago Saturday night. William 11 iggins of Yini-i-nnes lo*t a fuel in a careless attempt to board a’moving st rectenr. The Indianapolis Labor day parade was quite large. A picnic is being held in Lincoln grove. Kev. J. W. Porter of Decatur, arrested recently on a i barge of grand larceny, has been acquit D-d. Senator Tiii’pie hits returned to Indianapolis. Hi* campaign will la-directed by tlie state ciiimnittec. (icorgt- Brumfield of Hichmond was fa tally shot by Marshal Rowan of Centerville while resisting arrest. Samuel Hines was probably fatally burned by an explosion of gas in the Weston papt-rmill at Greenfield. Lightning struck an icehouse above Indianapolis yesterday anil 11 such buildings were dest royed. Loss, $10,000, Middletown celebrated as a holiday tinstarting of the Irondalc Steel and Iron company’s big tinplate plant at that point. Jonas Bramliraugli and John Kilraiu, glassblowers of Elwood, settled a personal dispute in a prize ring with bare lists. Brambraugh was severely punished. Severe windstorm did considerable damage in the eastern part of Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. John Donovan wa# knocked down by a gate blown open anti , Aeverely injured.