Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — Page 2

tfreStmocrdicSenfintl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W. McEWEN, - - - PtntLmna.

THE GRIP IN ENGLAND.

APPREHENSIONS OF A SERIOUS •i EPIDEMIC. Natural Gai in California—Six Hundred Italian* Arrive—Murdered by Indians— The Commercial Congren —New World'! Fair President. GOT THE GUP. An Influenza Epidemi: Feared in England. The reappearance of Influenza in the north of England, where it appeared in 1889. before anywhere else in England during that year, causes great apprehension' of a serious epidemic. In addition to the fact that influenza is already prevailing in an epidemic form in Sheffield, as already notedr the disease is prevalent throughout Yorkshire, and has reappeared suddenly at Hull where the death rate has doubled duringthe last fortnight. In the Driffield district, twenty miles from Hull, nearly everybody Is affected more or less, and work has practically been suspended everywhere. There have been many deaths In the district from the disease. Advices from Paris show that several cases of influenza have been reported to the medical authorities ot that capital, but the prevalence of the disease is not yet general, although there is every indication of a serious renewal of the epidemic. SLAIN BY REDSKINS. Two Emigrants Murdered in Idaho—An Uprising Not Unlikely. Great excitement was caused at Blackfoot, Idaho, by the killing by Indians ot two unknown white emigrants who were camped a mile below the place. Nothing can be learned as to the cause of the affair, as there were no eye-witnesses. Their bodies were found by a party and a number of Indians were seen taking to the hills. An uprising is feared. Indian ’ Agent Fisher, who was at Pocatello, was telegraphed for and responded on a special train. Deputy Sheriff Ross left immediately for the scene and took charge of the bodies, leaving an armed posse on guard. Business is suspended and the citizens are up in arms. About 100 armed mounted men have left the city to demand the surrender of the guilty persons. Should the Indians refuse trouble is sure to follow, as the posse are all determlnded men. Not an Indian was to be found in the city an hour after the affair. The Governor and Adjutant General havfe been telegraphed. ~ Killed in -a Bar-Ho<|iti. •. In axp+arrtl fdlftwi af.game.<?t «f/pczeout” in a Cintiiindtft Jaloon. Joseph Hughes, the bav-iieepei. shot and killed Frank Bell, a former ball player and now a private policeman. Hughes said Bell was beaten In the game and began to attack him, first by kicking, then throwing chairs, and at last was drawing his revolver when Hughes got a revolver and killed him. Rushing Cattle Into the Strip. Thirty trainloads of Texas cattle were unloaded in the Cherokee Strip in one day and more followed the next, yhe Osage Reservation is already full of cattle, over 30,000 head being in. and as the Santa Fe has contracted to haul 50,000 head more, the cattlemen no doubt intend to take forcible possession of the entire Cherokee Strip. Trampled to Drath by a Horse. Miss Emma Leete, aged 35 years, was trampled to death at Gullford, Ct, by a vicious horse. She was holding the horse by the bridle when he reared and threw her to the ground. He then brought both front feet down with terrific force on her body and repeatedly trampled on her.' Her back was broken in two places and she was injured internally. Natural Gas in California. A special from Pleasanton. Cal., says: While workmen were boring a well in Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, and were at a depth of about 100 feet, they came upon a strong flow of natural gas. It was ignited, and burned steadily In a pillar of flame ten feet high. It has been extinguished and relighted several times. The supply shows no signs of exhaustion. Died of a Broken Heart. At Arthur. N. D., Joe Remington died in a peculiar manner. He was the aged father of the young man who recently murdered and robbed an Arthur grain dealer to get money for his approaching wedcUnx with aLa Crosse girl. He had wept almost constantly since his son’s arrest, and died of a broken heart. The Commercial Congress. The Western States C mimercial Congress met at Kansas CRy to consider ways and means for stimulating Western 1 udness and commercial interests. Delegates from twen-ty-four Western and Southern states and Territories were present. Six Hundred Italians Arrive. Six hundred Italians were udde 1 to the population of New York by the uni lading Of the steamship Columbia. A rigid mydical examination will bo held and some* of these immigrants will ba returned to Naples as unfit to land. Big Sugar Export. Thirteen thousand font of sugar were exported to the United Statas from Honolulu between the 15th and 23d of March by BtdSiner, and between March 31 and April 7, by sail. ' Chinese Consul General. The President has ricognized Li Yr.ng Yew as Consul General of the Chinese Empire at the port of Ban*Francisca New Fair President. William T. Baker. President of the Chicago Board of Trade, was elected President of the World’s Fair Directory. A German Deal. Germany is making commercial treaties •with Belgium, Austria. Italy and Switzerland, with the aim, it is believed, of injuring France. .Want a Distinct Third Party. President McGrath, of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance, has addressed a letter to the Southern Alliance, in which he says that unless they come to the Cincinnati convention prepared to act with a third party that the Northern branch of the order will go back to the Republican party. The Fire Recori. An early morning fire in Pittsburgh. Pa., destroyed three acres of sheds at the stock yards and cremated 137 head of cattle. The Eastern Hotel, adjoining the stock yards, was saved with difficulty.

I - WILL ITALY ACT? I DfspatoNes Report Bitter Feeling Against America. A Rome dispatch says that everybody is on the Q’il vivo for the next act in the Ital-ian-American drama. Crisp! has openly declared that the Rudini cabinet dare not make a serious demand for redress upon the United States, and that the Italian people have been held up to ridicule by the vacillation of the ministry. The statement that American utterances have had an influence in provoking hostile feeling is confirmed. In addition to the press dispatches the Consul General at New York has kept his government fully informed of the editorial expressions of tlie press of that city. These arc considered as extremely obnoxious in their tone of contempt for Italy’s strength, both naval and military. The caricature which is said to have given personal offense to King Humbert is one in which a monkey figures with a crown on its head and features bearing a resemblance to those ot the King. The clerical, or Vatican, faction is alleged to have circulated widely wood cuts of these caricatures as showing American hatred and contempt for the Quirinal. Altogether, whatever the outcome of the difficulty, the feeling toward America in high Italian circles is very bitter. Among the lower orders the complication is having a contrary effect. The people seem to anticipate that the gates of the American paradise are about to lie shut on Italians, and there is a rush to get in before they close. The ports are thronged with intending emigrants, and families, from patriarch to babe, can be seen-trudging along the highways that lead to the points of departure. The authorities are making efforts to discourage emigration, but without effect. Nothing short ot bayonets can stay the torrent. THE WEEK OF TRADE. Iron nd Wool Dull. Collections Bad, Failures Big, and Labor Threatening. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: It cannot be said that the business of the country is expanding when there is a decrease of nearly one-sixth within a single month in the output of pig-iron. In nearly all quarters the admitted slackening of trade is attributed to merely temporary causes, but the state of the iron trade cannot be thus explained, and while it may at any time change for the better it is at present an unfavorable symptom. Another element which may prove of great though temporary importance is the decision of a great body of miners to strike May 1 for eight •hours a day. The Eastern coal trade is very irregular, buyers waiting the effects of the Coxe interstate decision. Other industries show no material change, though the wool market is more dull. Reports from the various centers of trade a re about the same as last week, but recognize temporary slackening even more generally, while it is attributed mainly to bad weather and the state of country roads. Pittsburg reportlower prices for ir >n product-, but glass is sustained wit li improving trade. At Cleveland general Hade Is fairly active, lumber e-pccially. and at Cincinnati machinery is very brisk, but other trades only fair. Collections are not, as a rule, quite satisfactory, owing to bad weather and bad country roads. But the Treasury has again put out about 83.000.000 in a week more than it has taken in, and no signs appear of heavy gold exports as yet. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 243 as Compared with a total of 243 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the •figures were 200. BALLETS IN MINNESOTA. McHale’s Prohibitory Bill Passed by the State Senate Counter-Move by Managers. The managers of the opera houses of St, Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth, who at first regarded the McHale ballet bill, prohibiting the wearing of tights at theatrical performances. as a joke, have become alarmed at the outlook, the Senate having passed the measure by a vote of 37 to 12. After fully considering the very dubious outlook, the managers drafted and sent to the House the following amendment: “Belt further enacted, that no female person, or persons, shall be allowed to assemble at any theater, public hall, banquet room, dinner party, or any gathering whatsoever, wearing what are known as ‘low-neck’ dresses with shjort sleeves, exposing thereby their necks, shjoulders, or busts. Any person, or persons. found guilty of so doing shall be subject to a fine- ot not. less than SSOO, or Imprisonment for not less than one year.”

PATENT ANNIVERSARY. That Is, the Ptent System Han Been In Existence Just One Hundre I Years. The opening session of the Congress of Inventors and Manufacturers of Patented Inventions, in celebratim of the beginning of the second century of the American patent system, was held in Washington, D. C. President Harrison and a large number of prominent men who have been selected as vice presidents of the congress occupied seats on the stage. The hall was filled with a representative gathering of the Inventors and manufacturers of the country. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, Mr. George Westinghouse, Mr. Gatling and others whose names are well known in the annals of Inventive achievements, have co-operated with the committee in making the exhibition worthy of the event. ' HAILSTORM 1N MEXICO. Several Persons Injured While Riding in a Railway Coach. At San Antonio, Texas, two sleeping coaches, the Romulus and Vallejo, running between the City of Mexico, San Antonio and Washington, D. C., via the Mexican National Road, came in in a dilapidated condition. The Mexican train to which they were attached passed through a cyclone and hailstorm near Torreton, Mexlpo. 8o large were the hailstones that the beadlight of the engine and every pane of glass on one side of the train of cars was smashed. The tin roofs were battered so badly that not a particle of paint remained. Several persons in the day coaches were injured, and a Mexican at Torfeton Station was killed. The train was forced to stop for half an hour until the storm passed. Those in the sleepers say the*cyclone must have created great havoc.

MALICIOUS REPORTS. Plenty of Feed for Catt’e in Sioux City, All Rumors to the Contrary, Reports telegraphed from Sioux City, lowa, regarding the wholesale starvation of cattle by reason of feed shortage are absolutely unfounded. There is plenty of hay for sale both in city and country, and the present condition of the cattle market indicates anything but an eagerness'to sell. Stock and feeding cattle of all grades fall short of the demand. Prices rose 30 to 50 cents in a week, and are now higher than at any time during the past twelve months. DIED FROM THE GRIP. Extraordinary Mortality Among Old Women in West Virginia. La grippe has caused an extraordinary mortality among old. people In West Virginia during the past week. From Greenbrier County alone are reported the "deaths of five women over 91 years old, as follows: Catherine Wilson, of Williamsburg, aged 94; Miss Polly McClung, of Meadow Bluff, aged 98; Mrs. Polly Flint, of Blue Sulphur.

aged 93: Ms. Elizabeth Price, of Meadow Bluff." aged 91: and Mrs. Elizabeth ,Wiley, of Anthony Creek, aged 93. These deaths all occurred within a few miles of each other in one week. Mrs. Elizabeth Keys died in Doddridge County, age 99. RAN INTO A LANDSLIDE. A Passenger Train Derailed Near Pittsburg —Two Persons Fatally » calded. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The westbound passenger train which left this city for Cleveland, Ohio, at 12:05 a m.. ran into a landslide at Vanport. Pa,, twenty-five miles west of here, derailing the locomotive. baggage, and mail cars. The baggage car Is said to have gone over an embankment. It Is reported that four trainmen and a number of passengers were Injured. George Liebtage. the engineer, and W. E. Brown, fireman, are said to have been so badly scalded that they will die. The others are believed to have been only slightly hurt. Italians Fire on the American Flag. At Kingston. N. Y., Pratt Post. Grand Army of the Republic, has appointed a committee with Major Martin Snyder at its head to investigate the recent Italian outrage at Lefever Falls in the Ulster cement district where several Italians who worked in the quarries held an indigation meeting over the New Orleans shooting, and out ot revenge hoisted an American flag to the top' of a pole and riddled it with bullets. As the Italians who were implicated in the outrage were at once discharged by the quarry owners, it is believed that they will make rapid strides for New York Or some other haven of refuge.

Bloody Affray in Arkansas. News comes of a bloody affray near the junction of Black and Current rivers, Ark. Eight men indulged In a free fight, two being killed and two mere probably fatally wounded. Steve Ross and a man named Anderson had some words about the division of some whisky. Anderson cut Ross. Ross seized his gun, but before he could use It Anderson had buried his knife several times in the bodies of four other men. one of whom, Moore, died instantly. Finally Ross sent a ball Into Anderson’s body which passed through his heart. He made an attempt to reach Ross with his knit?, but fell dead in the effort. They Stole a Barn. At Grand Forks, N. D.. John Marble and William Rogers, farmers, were arrested on the somewhat remarkable charge of stealing a barn belonging to Joseph Murphy. It appears that Murphy impounded two cows belonging to Marble and Rogers and refused to give up the animals except on receipt of payment for damage done by them. The owners of the cattle waited until nightfall to get even. About midnight they came back with three teams and dragged the barn entirely off the Murphy farm. A Priest Suffocated in a Mud-Hole. The body of a man supposed to ba a priest was found in a mud-hole in Newport, Ky., where he bad evidently fallen from the sidewalk. The body was identified as that of Rev. McGoren, from some point in the South not yet ascertained. He had been visiting at the Cathedral. The place from whi h he fell was wholly unguarded and poorly lighted. He was not drowned, but suffocated from falling head first Into the deeprmud. Tlie President’s Trip. The President has started on his tour across the continent. The special train is in charge of George W. Boyd, the Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The train Is one of the most convenient andcomfortable which have ever been furnished, by the Pennsylvania Company. Outside of the President’s personal and official family the only persons who will accompany the expedition will be the representatlvesof the Press Association. Two Persons Murdered by Burglars. A terrible murder occurred in Ce :il County, Maryland, near the Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, line. Granville Richards and wife were aroused by the presence of two men in their room, On Mrs. Richards arising, she was shot in tho neck, and Mr. Richards, upon going to bar rescue, wan shot twice Iq the stomach. Bbtli will die. Tho two murderers escaped. Mr. Richards is connected with the Custom House in Baltimore.

Killed by His Pals. Shumway, the suspected accessory in the wrecking of the Chicago night express, was found dead near Holyoke, Mass. Death was evidently due to poisoning. It is known that two hours before the wrecking of the tram Shumway drove two men to the scene of the wreck. Shumway was the driver of the pony express between Westfield and Springfield. He Made Her Get Up Too Early. At Jackson, Miss., an Ignorant negro woman named Ann Baker was lodged in jail, charged with killing her husband. She says the charge is true, and offers in justification the plea that lie made her get up too early in the morning. Sne also volunteers to give her services for one month as a cook to.any one who will pay her fine and have her released. . Uneasy Feeling Among the Apaches. Dispatches from Southwestern Arizona state that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared that they will go on the war-path. They are having much trouble among themselves, and a general feeling of uneasiness prevails which bodes no good to the settlers In that part of the Southwest. Denounce the Article as False. The Indiana State Encampment. G. A. R., by resolution denounced the Century article on Camp Morton as “false and infamous, and a libel on the military honor and civil integrity of the State,” and appointed a committee of fifty to procure and compile evidence of the falsity of the charges made in the Century. Scalded to Death. The engine of freight' train 25, northbound. on the Wisconsin Central, jumped the track near Vernon, Wis. It tipped over, pinioning Dan McMullen, engineer; B. A. Moore, fireman: and Peter Seipp, a brakeman, beneath tho wreck. Moore and McMullen died a few hours later, and the other will probably die. Chilean Revolutionists Victorious. News has been received that Arica and Tacna have been captured by the insurgents, and that the Department of Tacna is in the hajyjs of the Congress party, who now control all Northern Chile as far south as Copiapo. No fighting occurred, the government forces fleeing toward the frontier of Bolivia. Killed Her Own Children. A special from Herman. Neb., says: Mrs. Andrew Doll, while Insane, murdered her two children and then committed suicide by taking concentrated lye. Killed His Little Playmate. ( At Richburg, N. C.. Clarence Robertson, aged 8 years, and Emma Straw, aged 4 years, disputed over a game in which they were engaged, and the boy in a rage picked

jup a stone and killed his playmate. The I boy, about a year ago, attempted to set i fire to his home because his father whipped hfru. Another Scandal in High Life. A sensation has been caused In social cir- ! Cles throughout England by the fact that a I warrant has been issued for the arrest of ; Captain Edmund Hope Verney, member of j parliament for North Buckinghamshire. I Captain Verney is charged with leading a girl astray. Trouble Anticipated. The coal-miners of Pennsylvania will make a united effort on the Ist of May to have an eight-hour day established throughout the mining districts. The demand of the men will probably be resisted. and It is probable that 150.000 men will strike. Jumped from the Train. William Skaggs, a United States prisoner en route to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary. escaped by jumping through the window of the car on the “cannon-ball” train near Lebanon. Mo., while the train was moving at a rapid rate. Casualties and Suicide. Two unknown'men were seen to capsize in a boat on the Mississippi River, at Davenport. lowa, and drown. While temporarily insane Mrs. Susan Robinson, of Detroit, Mich., drank sulphuric acid at Erie, Pa., and died in great agony. Tragedy at Waukesha. At Waukesha, Wis., Christian Pretse, aged 75, and his wife, aged 72, were found lying on the floor of their home, the wife dead and the husband dying. It is supposed to be & double murder. Job for a Chicago Man. The Board of Regents of the Nebraska University appropriated SIO,OOO for the in vestigation of diseases of domestic animals, and appointed Dr. F. S. Billings, of Chicago, director of the experimental station. Shot Himself Through the Head. Benjamin Harrison, a man about fiftyfive years old. son of a former Treasurer of Cedar Rapids. lowa, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He was despondent from long sickness.

Kincaid Acquitted. At Washington the jury in the case of Kincaid, tho newspaper correspondent, charged with the murder of ex-Congress-man Taulbee, of Kentucky, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Destroyed His Books. At Rush City, Minn., the village recorder, Charles G. Anderson, burned all his books and papers and then took his life with prussic acid. If there was a shortage the evidence of It was destroyed with the books. Fired at a Kentucky Judge. At Covington Ky,, two shots were fired by an unknown assassin at Judge J. T. Garvin through the rear door of his office without effect. The J udge is unable to account for the attempt. Ex-Senator Ingalls to Lecture. It is probable that ex-Senator John J. Ingalls will accept a proposition to deliver thirty lectures during the present year for $15,000. Glass to Stay Up. It was resolved at the regular monthly meeting of the Western Flint Bottle Association at Pittsburg Wednesday that prices should be sustained. TwoSodiers 111. Gen. Rosecrans. United States Treasury Register, and Congressman Spinola, of New York, are both at their homes in Washington, seriously ill. A Railroad Man Kills Him-elf. At Omaha. Neb., D. E. Kimball, ticket agent, Northwestern Road, shot and killed himself in the Turkish bath rooms. No cause known. Deal in Ostriches. At Anaheim, Cal., 162 ostriches were sold for $6,000 to a company of capitalists and 1 speculators. They were claimed to be worth 8’30,000. Fatal Result of the Omaha Fire. Captain Carter, one of the firemen injured at tho Paxton Hotel fire In Omaha, dlei, and Pipeman Mulvihill is not expected to live. Tho others are recovering. Thinks ’Twas Justifiable. Ex-Minister Phelps thinks the killing of the Mafia assassins at New Orleans justified by the events that led up to the lynching. Woman Against Woman. Miss Minnie Meyer was severely whipped with a rawhide on the streets of St. Louis by Mrs. J. E. Rothmeycr. General Francis B. Spinola. General Francis B. Spinola. member of Congress from the Fifth New York District, died in Washington. Count Lewenhaupt Dead. Count Lewenhaupt, who was married to a daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard on April 2, died suddenly.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... *J.2S @ 650 Hooh -fchipplng Grades B.UQ @ 5’50 Sheep•••••••••••••• 3.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Bed iu3 @ 104 BfK-N0.2.... @ M Butter—Choice Creamery 21 ($ .25 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 1136@ Eggs—Fresh .157 Potatoes—Western, per bu 1:15 @ 125 INDIANAPOLIS. ' Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.5.3 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 5.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 300 ® s'2'l Wheat—No. 2 Bed Corn—No. 1 White 707® 717 Oats-No. 2 White s 6 @ 67 ST. LOUIS. ’ Cattle 4.00 @ c 25 Hjg5.............. 4.(0 @5.25 Wheat-No. 2 Red 1.05 @ hJO Corn—No. 2 68 @ .69 Oats-No. 2 Barley—Minnesota 76® 78 CINCINNATI. ’ ' Cattle. 3.00 @5.50 H gs 3.00 @ 5.25 phaep 4.00 @ e»0 Wheat-N0..2 Red 1,08 @ LO9 Corn—No. 2 737@ ,747 Oats-No. 2 Mixed @ 59 DETROIT. ' Cattle. 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.C0 SHEEP... ... 3.C0 @ 5.5(j Wheat—No. 2 Red 109 @ 1 10 Corn-No. 2 Yellow n 1 72 Oats—No. 2 White TOLEDO. Wheat..... Oats—No. 2 White 5} S 55’’ Clover Seed 4'30 4 \a east liberty. • ® Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @ cOO Hogs—Light-. 3.25 & s ’ 7s Sheep— Medium. 4 ,0 j @6.00 Lamm. 5.03 @7OO MILWAUKEE. Wheit—No. 2 Spring 1.03 @1.05 CORN—No. 3 ........ .88 @ 69 Oats-No. 2 White .56 g $ Rte—No. 1.... 89 ® ,'yo B ablet—No. 2 73 S PoHK-Mesß. 12 75 §13’25 NEW YORK. « Catt1e....:.., 4.00 @6.00 f 0 3.25 @ 5.50 SHERPA... 5,00 @7 00 OATs-Mixed WeUern 57 @ 6a Butter—cTsßipery 21 97 Eggs— W F estern .14 @ jg Pobk— New Mess 13.50 @14’93

THEY WILL RISE AGAIN.

GREAT DESTRUCTION BY FIRE IN CHICAGO. Lobs Occasioned by the Flames Amounts to a Million Dollars—Bungling Work or a Juggler Doing Tricks with a Lighted Lamp—Miraculous Escape of the Audience in, the Museum and of Occupants of Other Structures. Once more has Chicago received a costly visit from the fire king. Not since the little Chicago fire which swept everything from Twelfth and Clark streets north to Van Buren in 1874 has this latest call ever been eclipsed in its damaging work. The other afternoon fire started under the stage in Kohl & Middleton’s West Side Dime Museum on Madison street, and before it was taken In control by the fire department it had destroyed the immense furniture establishment of John M. Smyth. Kohl & Middleton’s Museum, and five other five-story business blocks, and damaged several of the adjacent structures. A low estimate to place on the loss is §l.250,000. Aside from its tenible effects, says a Chicago dispatch, the fire was a grand sight to behold. Fierce and furious were the flames, eating all before them. The sky, at first blackened by the huge volumes of smoke that poured forth from the seething flames, soon took on a roseate hue as the tongues of fire darted through the black mass. Great firebrands sailed through the air, and falling started blazes which threatened with destruction the surrounding edifices. It appeared as though the western part of the city was doomed. The high wind carried the firebrands here, there, and everywhere. People ran about demoralized. Thousands of persons were in peril of their lives. Kohl & Middleton’s museum was jammed with amusement seekers, who in an instant had their pleasure turned into greatest terror. So fast did the fire burn that it was hardly, a moment fiom the time it broke out until the entire place was in

THE REMAINS OF SMYTH’S BIG ESTABLISHMENT.

flames. A stampede followed. In the fierce fight for life eight women were knocked down and trampled under foot. Several men jumped from windows, and one of these, Alexander Grant, a painter employed on the place, leaped from the third story and struck a sign in his descent. He fell to the ground senseless, his skull fractured, and one leg broken. When all those who were able to get out had left the building Officers Welbaskey and Pat Sheedy entered the burning bui ding and went as far as the flames would permit They pulled out several women who had fainted from fright or been crushed in the stampede. Across the street in tho Haymarket Theater a similar panic was averted only by tho coolness of George Fair, the treasurer. When it became apparent that the theater was in danger Mr. Eair called the ushers into his private office, and instructing them to stand at tho fire-escape and to by no means permit crowding, he quietly went around from one gallery to another and told the spectators that there was a fire-across the street, but that there was no immediate danger. They were then led to the fire-escapes and male their way easily. As in the case of the great fire, this last conflagration was started by a lamp explosion. While the audience in the museum theater was watching with interest a juggler balancing a lighted lamp on a wand, at the same time walking a tight-rope, the juggler slipped, the lamp fell, there was an explosion, and a flame darted up the scenery of the stage. The stage curtains took fire, and before the panic-stricken men and women could make their exit the entire stage was a mass of flames. John M. Smyth is the heaviest loser. The Kohl & Middleton edifice, as well as the building occupied by himself, was his property. His loss on buildings is 8400,000, and on stock 8600,101 He carried an insurance of 8175,000 on the buildings. Kohl <t MiddletonTose their entire equipment, valued at 820,000. The five-story buildings 147-149 West Madison street were owned by James Casey and were destroyed. They were valued at 8210,000. Alfred Peats occupied the entire building with a large stock of wall paper. His loss is 855,000. The next building, occupied by Louis Laberge, was six stories, entirely destroyed, and owned by Col. Thompson. Loss on building $40,000, stock and fixtures 815,000. Joseph Stein’s shoe store was at 153 Madison street. His loss on stock is $20,000. Other losers are: Adam Gerhardt,barber shop at 155 West Madison street. $3,00J; Baer Bro.’s hat store and Eureka laundry at 157, $13,000; M. J. Jrrmin, cigars, $6,000; Neely Bros, boots and shoes, $20,000; L. Kaempfer, jewelry, loss unknown; Lawyer Payne Fittz, $5,000. Two persons were fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. The peculiar reach toward Lake Erie In the State Line of Pennsylvania, known as the Triangle (from its being originally .the State of New York extension) was a special purchase, Sept. 4, 1788, from the Government, of a slice of the Northwest Territory, containing 202,187 ac.es, at a Stat? cost of 8157,640. Washington, D. Q.' the home of the “Senators,” was the former, site of a settlement called Rome, whicli was located on the Tiber (stream or creek still so called), and curiously the proprietor of the soil was a gentleman named Pope.

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS.

ANNA DICKINSON’S STORY IS FLATLY CONTRADICTED. Her Sister Susan Tells Her Side of the story—Anna Scared the Servants and Founded the Walls—Miss Frances Willard’s Opinion. A dispatch from Scranton. Pa., Miss Susan E. Dickinson was in the city in consultation with friends relative to the statements made by her sister to a reporter in New York. Miss Dickinson said that she had telegraphed. Dr. Seward that he would be held in damages for the injury he is doing her sister’s mind, confirming her delusion, and also that friends in West Pittston, and vicinity will testify that she has devoted her life for years to the welfare and interests of Anna. In denying the story,published in New York, Miss Susan Dickinson first refers to the charge that a removal was made to West Pittston clearly to please herself. The true reason of the removal, she says, was because Miss Anna had lost the means to support her mother as. she desired to in Philadelphia. She explains facts relative to their family arrangements and then answers the charge of extravagance, saying that she was her sister’s private secretary and bookkeeper, and was allowed $250 a. month to meet expenses, which included the rental of a SI,OOO a year house. The house was generally full of Anna’s company, and they had to be provided for. It was impossible, therefore, to avoid the standing over of accounts until her return home to settle at times. “I never made an investment of any kind in my life,” continued Miss Susan. “I never bought trinkets for myself, and wasnot in the habit of making gifts to other people. In answer to my sister’s allegation that I have an intense hatred and jealousy for her, I have to say that it has never taken any other form than that of striving to further her interests to the utmost of my ability. Physicians will testify that in the summer of 1877 it was my nursing which saved her life. Dr. Hileman, whom she

abuses, was her own selection, and she praised him to the skies. After a time, on Thursday, Feb. 19. Anna became violently delirious, and her actions were very curious. Among other things she began screaming and pounding on the partition walls The servant was afraid of her, ran out of the house, and was followed by Anna. She then came back and ate her supper. Her story of gleaming white crystals in a cup of coffee is a pure fabrication, which only insanity can account for. Several days before she had been accusing Howe & Hummell, her attorneys, of the vilest treachery in her case against the Republican National Committee, and she asserted that an old friend in Boston was concerned in a plot to ruin her reputation.’* Miss Susan speaks of Miss Anna’s violence toward her and then says that on Feb. 25 it became necessary to deliver her sister to Danville, because she had eaten nothing for three days. She was not roughly'handled and her clothing was not injured, as stated in all the papers, at the time her door was forced open. Her papers have been carefully assorted, and they now await her disposition. Her stage jewels in one package and her private jewels in another are safe in her own bank in Pittston, subject to her order. The attempt to secure money for her was inaugurated by Mrs. Longford and Miss Willard without any action or word on Miss Susan’s part The Pittston Gazette says: “Of course there is not to be found in all this region a single person who for one moment believes the ridiculous story sent out. Miss Susan has been greatly devoted to her sister Anna, and for years she has placed her welfare above all, else, even to the extent of relinquishment of the greater portion of her literary work in order that she might be able to better attend her sister during her late illness. ”

“I really do not know what to make of the report published in regard to tho unjust incarceration of Anna Dickinson, • said Frances E. Willard. “I have no authoritative information upon which to base a hypothesis,” continued Miss Willard, “and I was neveria my life more astonished than when I read the statement. What Ido know is that I have been acquainted with Susan E. Dickinson, Anna’s sister, for the last fifteen years, and that to my knowledge she has been a most generous.Jaithful and also beloved sister. There were the most cordial and loving relations between the two sisters, and I have, times without number, heard Anna speak in the most affectionate way of Susan. Indeed, I have always regarded Susan as the mainstay of the family. Anna was always erratic, but Susan went on in the even tenor of her way, and was always to be depended upon, “I could not believe Susan Dickinson capable of the base conduct attributed to her under any circumstances, but really I do not see what she could hope to gain by such a course. The plan for the fund which we hope to raise is that it shall b» p aced in the hands of trustees. and that only the interest shall be pay! to Anna Dickinson, and that it shall be kept as a permanent fund for the purpose of aiding any woman who has given her life to the public and is no longer able to care for herself. That A. J. Drexel is the treasurer of the committee that is to take charge of the funds is, it seems to me. sufficient guarantee that all will be conducted as it should be. “Here is a letter from Susan E. Dickinson which I received recently,” said Miss Willard. “She tells me of Anna’s removal and says: ‘I could not go with her because, as is so usual in such cases, she turned suddenly and violently against, me, and until I have the assurance that it is better instead of worse for her tosee me I shall wait’ “Miss Susan closed with: ‘How earnestly I thank you for ail you are doing and for all your tributes to Anna in whatyou write I have no adequate words tosay. But I pray God to bless you, and I look forward to the day when you. and Anna shall take loving, counsel together.’ ”

Crops in Great Shape.

April returns to the Department of Agriculture show that the condition of the erowing wheat crop throughout theentire country is the best since 1882.

Coal Failure.

Frank Barnard, coal dealer at San. Francisco, failed with liabilities of $83,OGO, and assets sufficient to pay 15 centson the dollar.

A Smashup.

Seven persons were injured in a collision on the Chicago, Rock Island and> Pacific Railroad, near McJunkin, lowa~