Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Page 2

Clje JJemocraticSc ittiitf I RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. MoEWES, ... Pomnnm.

FOUR DIED INSTANTLY.

A TEMPERANCE LECTURE FROM THE GALLOWS. Climbing Pike's Peak by Bail—Juryman Went to Sleep Canadian Archbishop Dying Outrages by White Caps A Fleeing Sheriff—Murders and Suicides* ARCHBISHOP TAC HE IS DYING. Work of the Great Missionary and Explorei Among the Indians. Archbishop Tache, who for Iwo decades has been the head of the Roman Catholic Chnrch in the Canadian Northwest, and is the foremost Canadian prelate, is lying at the point of death. Alexandre Taclie was born at Katuoweaska, Lower Canada, in 1822. After being ordained at St. Boniface he devoted himself to the Indian tribes b*yond the borders of civilisation. Like LaSalle and Hennepin, he was a great explorer, being the first to penetrate the unexplored Northwest During the Riel insurrection in 1869 he exerted himself to prevent bio >dsbed, and after Kiel's surrender and election to the Dominion House of Commons the archbishop successfully resisted all attempts of the authorities to punish him for treason. HURLED INTO ETERN’IIY. Four Men Killod by the Burs tng of a Locomotive Boiler. By the bursting of the boiler of a switch engine on the Jersey Central near White Haven. Pa.. Engineer Thomas Trip, Fireman J. Pope, and Brakemen Gallagher and Smith were instantly killed. The body ol Engineer Trip was crushed and bruised in a terrible manner and was found 100 yards from where the explosion occurred. Nc trace of Fireman Pope’s body lias yet been found and it is thought he was blown tc atoms. The locomotive was totally wrecked, the boiler being blown 800 feet up the mountain side. There was some defect in the water pipes. DIED FOTESTING HIS INNOCENCE. L’oudtnot Crumpton Pays the De<th Penalty lor the Murcl - r of Sain Morgan. At Fort Smith, Ark., Boudiuot Crumpton, alias Bud Burris, was executed. Crurnptou died protesting his innocence. He attributed his downfall to whisky. He warned those present when tiiey took a glass of liquor to look in it and they would see there the hangman’s noose. The crime was committed Nov. U; 1880, near Mus'togse. Creek Nation. The evidence against him was circumstantial, but very strjng. ON THE DIAMOND. Bow the Club* Engaged In the National Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, . . . w L c -' W. L. i?cNow *„orks. .38 >» .till Pkiladelp'B. ,2-i 2J .491 ( h:cHgo*....Bl J 8 .589 Brooklyn*.. .as 30 .463 Bostons 80 27 .626 Pittaburga. /si 33 .40/ Clevelands. .80 2J .508 Cincinnatig. 22 33 .atso . AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. sc., w. L. sc. Bostons 41 21 .(ill Columbus.. .31 bn .463 Bt. Louis. ...44 25 ,63CPhiladelp's. 29 36 .446 Baltimores. .37 2; .687 Louisville* .23 41 .4t > Cincinnatis..3 2 83 .492 Washfmgt’nslO 41 .317 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. . . W. L. Vc. W. L. s>c. Omaha* 84 2i .6 8 Kansas C’vs.2i 30 .492 Milwaukees/'O 25 .590 Sioux Citys.26 32 440 Lincolns....3a 24 .779 Denvers 23 80 >9;) Minneapolis 34 28 ,548Dnlnths 21 40 .314 Terribly Whipped by White Cap*. Further details of the whipping of old man Maguire and his stepdaughter, aged eighteen, near Leavenworth, lad., show it to have been a most brutal affair. Two hundred masked white caps dragged their victims to the woods, where they were stripped to the waist and tied to Irees. The girl was given fifty lashes and Maguire seventy-five, and both were terribly mangle J. Both fainted under the puulsbtnenL After the whipping Maguire and his stepdaughter were ordered to leave within twenty days or they would be lynchod.

By Rail Up Tike’s P ak. The Pike's Peak Railway is now in successful operati n. The first passenger train consisted of an engine and one car, occupied by sixty-five peop’e, mostly excursionists from Denver. The lower termini s of the line is 6,400 feet above sea level and the upper 14,147. The distance is nine miles, and the steepest grade is 25 per cent, on a rise of one in forty. There is a double reck rail In the center of the track. The track is standard gauge, steel rails, and fifteen feet roadbed. The road Is operated on the Apt system. One Juror Went to Sleep. At Indianapolis, some lime ago, A. J. Kestlin secured a judgment against the National Accident Insurance Company for *a ,000. Application was made for a new trial on the novel plea that Juror Norwood, an old and very feeble man. was asleep during the greater part of the trial, and did uot. therefore, hear all the evidence. Norwood admitted that he slept a part of the time, and the court set the verdict aside, grunting the deleadant a new trial. Four Cruel Murders. John Baker, a colored man, killed his wife and himself at Huntsville, Ala. Ik a fit of jealous rage, Jesie Cartwright, of Baldwin County, Ala., killed his wife and his brother. John Rausch shot aud killed his swoe heart, Marla Bucket, at Lawrence. Mass., aud then put a bullet through his own head. Pugh Prewitt, a colored boy, residing iu Germantown, Tenn.. was stabbed to death outside the church at that place. Hli as ailant is unknown. Flight of a Defan ting Sheriff. Sheriff and Collector John WgrJeld. of Desha County, Arkansas, Is missing. He is shqrt in his accounts at least $25,000. He left saying be was going to Dumas, but went to Little (£ock and thence to Memphis. Failure of a Texas Bank. Bank Examiner Spauldlug took charge of tbe Dallks, Tex.. Ninth National Bank, and its doors hrlll be close!. He makes ast tement that every depositor will be secured. Tbe causes assigned are stringency in tbe money market and tnora loans than the capital would warrant. * High I rice to Fay for a Collision. The awards lit the cases of persons who brought suite to recover damages for the Itwa of re’&tives. or for personal injuries. In the collision of the steamers Virginia and Louise, at Balt more, grant a total of

RESPECTED THEIR DEAD. Because the Grave Was Dug Next a Murderer’* a Burial Was Postponed. There was great consternation at the Park Cemetery where lies the body of Scheelo, the murderer, says a Bridgeport, Conn., dispatch. Thomas Thornton, an Englishman, died Friday night. His friends purchased a single burial plot at the Park cemetery. In this cemetery graves are sold by number. The number they had called for a grave next to that of Scheele. After the coffin had been taken from tbe heaFse and mourning friends had about the grave some one remarked that it was a shame that a man like Thornton should be buried beside a murderer. Others thought so. too, and it was decided to persuade the sexton, if possible, to dig another grave. He said, however, that he had no authority to do this, and it was finally arranged to place the body in the receiving vault until another plot could be bought.

COMMERCIALLY SOUND. Activity at Pit sburg—Brisk Trade at Chic* go. R. D. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Signs of Improvement in business grow more frequent and distinct, though there is nothing like a radical change us yet. The situation which has prevailed during the year gives way but slowly to increased confidence, the more slowly because of a few failures in woolens at Philadelphia and in leather and shoes in the East. Yet the soundness of the commercial situation is generally recognized, and the hesitation which remains is rightly attributed mainly to uncertainties regarding the demand for gold from Europe and tbe financial situation there. Hence dispatches announcing the settlement of difficulties which have been banging over the London market, and which were supposed to affect one or more houses having large interests in this country, are regarded with satisfaction. iVhlle gold continues to leave England for Russlu the banking Institutions of Western Europe are well supplied, and in this country treasury disbursements have been enormous. Tbe one point of danger is still the exceedingly strained condition of credits abroad on account of past disastrous speculations. AID FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS. Tlie Mayor of Cherokee Sends Out an Appeal—Five Huntlred Homeless. Mayor David H. Bloom, of Cherokee, lowa, has sent out an appeal for aid. There are 500 people In the place who are homeless and who will have to be supplied with food and shelter. The loss to the town is estimated at $250,000. The damuge has been great along he Maple River and Ida Grove, Correctlonville, Danbury, Holstein and Battle Creek, including the intermediate country, have been deluged. Two children were drowned near Correctlonville and one man near Galva. Large numbers t f cuttle have been drowned. Hail storms at Holstein' ruined all crops on a tract throe miles wide and ten miles long.

WHITE CAPS IN ILLINOIS. Marshall County Torn Up Over the Murder or Royal Frisby. Marshall County. Illinois, Is all excitement. The body of Royal Frisby was found dead with two loads of shot in his body. The whole- matter originated in a family quarrel. John Carver died about thirteen years ago, leaving u widow, one daughter and three sons. Some time after his death Royal Frisby married the widow and ran through the property left, by Carver In short order. The wife sued for u divorce and received a decree. Frisby afterward married tho daughter, whom, it is said, hd.rulned while lie was yet the husband of the girl's mother. DEADLY DUEL IN A CANOE. Two Michigan Indians Figlit with Paddles and Both Are Drowns I. Swift Arrow and Guide of ihe Woods, two noble Michigan red men. both belonging to the Walpole Island Indian Reservation, disposed of a canoe-load of cherries, the first of the season, and got drunk off the proceeds. They slaggero.l to their canoe and bo’li got In. Guide of the Woods was not so drunk as Swift Arrow, and hud not taken twenty sweeps when lie conceived the Idea that the latter was shamming to avoid work, and lie ordered him to help | addle. A figlit ensued, and' both fell overboard and drowned.

WILL ACT INSTEAD OF PREACH. The Rev. John Jayni to Leave the Pulpit lor the Stage. One of the most brilliant ministers of the Christian denominations in the Wost lias boen the Rev. John Jayne, of Falmouth, Ky. He is but 28 years old and unmurried, though it is said he is about to load to tho altar a lineal descendant of Henry Clay. The announcement is authoritatively lnude that he has resigned his pastorate and is going on the stage. He will essay dramatic parts. The news causes a wide sensation in the leading church circles and great regret among the heads of the denomination. HER MAJESTY’S FIRST PIPER. Death of William Boss, for Thirtv-Seven Tears in Queen Victoria's Service. William Ross, the, well-known first piper of her majesty Queen Victoria, is dead. His sturdy and his thrilling pibroch strains were familiar and welcome ut every great gathering of Scotsmen in London, and he will be greatly missed on such occasions. His death was a blow to her majesty, who sent a messago of condolence to her old piper’s widow. Nebraska Under Water. A perfect doluge of rain has fallen throughout Nebraska, says an Omaha dispatch. Railroad traffic is entirely suspended In the State. There were no trains iu or out of Omaha for the West to-night In many places in the State the tracks are under water for miles, rendering traffic entire y Impossible, Tho Missouri is a raging torrent. It is rising fast, and is within a few feet of tl.e danger line. Crop damage is incalculable throughout the State. ~ » • Simmons Gets Six Years. James A. Simmons, who was convicted of aiding General Peter .T. Claassen. President of the Sixth National Bank, in the etubezzelrnent of the funds of that institution, was brought up before Judge Benedict in the United States Circuit Court at New York and sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary. Au appeal will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. Tho scheme which nearly wrecked the Sixth National Bank caused a sensation In hanking circles in March, 1890. Explosion ft an Oil Tank. Reports come of the explosion and burning of a large tank of oil at Coraopo.is Station, on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, fifteen miles from Pittsburg. One report states that four men were killed by ihe explosion. Another report says that teo men were fatally hurt. Special Census Agent Thompson Discharged. Chief Special Agent of thfe Census Thompson, charged with the collection of the statistics of manufactures, in Philadelphia, was removed by Superintendent Porter.

Thompson at once surrendered all , matters pertaining to his office to General Agent Williams, who will be in charge temporarily until a new agent bus been appointed. The ground for Mr. Thompson’s removal was disobedience of orders. Refused to Naturalise a Chinaman. At New Haven, Conn., Lee Hoo, a Chinaman who has lived far fourteen years in this country, made application for naturalization. Judge Deming refused to grant full naturalization papers, though he thought that tbe act of Congress forbidding the admission of Chinese, as citizens was wrong in principle, but issued first papers, so that in case of the repeal of the law Hoo can be admitted on this document without further trouble To Repair the Dolphin. The Navy Department will resume the repair of the Dolphin July 1 at tbe Norfolk navy yard, when the appropriations for the next fiscal year will be available. But the department appears to have abandoned the idea of fitting up the vessel to replace the Dispatch and only the ordinary repairs will be made. The President and such guests of the nation as are t ) be transported by water from place to place must continue to use the old vessel. Fatal Fight Auung Huns. A desperate fight took place In the Hungarian district at Plymouth, Pa. A party of Huns had been drinking, tlielr shouts causing disturbance. John Majak requested them to desist. Ho was brutally beaten and fled to his home, where he aroused a number of friends, A free fight ensued, fully 100 Hungarians taking part. Andrew Kiimski and Stanislaus Sazcheska were fatally injured and a large number seriously hurt. No arrests. Ohio Farmers Victimize!. Detectives are In Canton, Ohio, after a gang of sharpers, of whom Samuel Camp, of Marshallvllle, Is the leader. They have victimized farmers and others out of $20,000 worth of property. Samuel Kehm, the Wayne County farmer who reported to the police some weeks ago that he had been robbed of SIO,OOO, is a leader. Rehm took this course as a ruse to avert suspicion. He has disappeared.

Glass Fa-tories Close for the Summer. All but one of the fourteen flint and window glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, have put out their fires for the summer vacation, which will last until Sept 1 and probably longer, as a wage schedule lias not yet been agreed upon. The closing of the factories of Findlay gives over two thousand employes a two months’ vacation. Cattle Thief Escapes and Is Recaptured. Officers recaptured ' Frank Evans at Drakes ville, lowa. He was arrested charged with stealing cattle, but told such a plausible story that he was released. Later evidence more criminating made his rearrest necessary. He lias confessed that his cattle peculations had been going on for two years. Indiana Murderer P.irdnnetl. Sylvester Bassett, of Shelby County, Indiana, who was sentenced in 1887 to eighteen years' imprisonment for killing his brother, has been pardoned by Governor Hovey. The brother was drunk and abusing his aged father, when Sylvester interfered. A fight ensued, in which the elder brother was stabbed to the heart. Drunken Fight Ends In Wife Murder. At Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Mary Ryan was shot and fatally injured by her husbaud, Dennis Ryan, in a drunken fight. They quarreled about some money which Ryan had, Five shots were fired, of whicli two took effect, one in the left breast and the other In the head. Ryan was captured. The Obituary Record. Dr. John L. Northrop, the instructor in zoology at Columbia College,, who was so badly burned by the explosion of a cask of alcohol in the basement of the college building; died at ihe Presbyterian Hospital. Ban Away with His Wife’s Money. G. W. Stranahan, the tailor who ran away from Atchison, Kan., a few weeks ago, taking witli him a certificate of deposit for SI,OOO belonging to his wife, was arrested at Salt Lake City. Broke tile Steamship Record. The steamship Furst Bismarck, from New York for Southampton, made the trip In 6 days 16 hours 10 minutes. This beats the record. I’attfmore Maltsters Fall. At Baltimore Levy & Joseph Straus, maltsters, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The assignee’s bond is SBOO,OOO. Three Men Killed. At Janesville, Wis., lhitrick Hegenry, Richard T. Bennowitz, and John Flaherty were instantly killed by the fall of a wall. Un'tml In Death. James Holden, of Fostervtile, Tenn,, was fatally stabbed by an unknown negro. Holden shot the negro dead.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime 33.53 0 0.30 Hoos—Shipping Grades 4.00 ® 4.55 Sheep... 3.20 £.6.00 Wheat—No. 2 8ed..... 94 .93 Cobh—No. 2 55)4® .56?.i No. 2 31 ® .S*?4 Bye—No. 2 VO ® .vs Botteb—Choice Creamery IV ® .171* Chef.be—Full Cream, flats 07u® .08 Egos—Fresh Ilii® .15 Potatoes—New. per brl 260 ® 325 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 (<* 5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 4.15 @405 Sheep—Common to Prime 4.00 & 45J WHEAT-No. 2 Ked OIL, .A .95 Corn—No. 1 White 59U,@ ,60‘4 Oat3—No. 2 White, 41 ® 42 bT. LOUTS. Cattle 4.00 «tt 6/0 Hoss 4.00 @ 4.60 Wheat—No. 2 Ked 97 <$ .9714 Corn—No. 2. 55 Oats-N.. 2.... .35 ® .30 Hye No. 2.... ,vi (d 72 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.0) @ 5.50 Hogs 3.50 ® 4a5 ohfep 3,75 ® 6,0 j Wheat—No. 2 Bed l.« Cohn—No. 2 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 4iu DETROIT. ' * Cattle 3,00 (at a. 75 1 Hogs 3.01 @ 4.50 bHEEP. 3.(0 @ 4.75 Wheat-No. 2 Bed 1.01 & 1.02 Cobn—No. 2 Fellow 56 ka .57 Oats—No. 2 White 42 ,a '43 TOLEDO. ‘ Wheat 1.03)4® LOl Cohn—Cash 58 @ .53 Oats—No. 1 white 42 @ ' .42w CLOVEB bEED ; 4.15 ® 425 * BUFFALO. Beep Cattle.... , 459 @575 Live Hogs 4.30 & 4,'m Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.08 Lo34i Cobn—No. 2 60 @ .61 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring Bl @ .92 Cohn—No. 3 57 <a .5714 Oats—No. 2 White 40 @ '4l Bye-No. 1 81 @ '.H3 Babley—No. 2. 59 @ jo Pobk—Mesa 10.25 @10.60 NEW YOBK. Cattle 4.50 @ 6.25 Hoos 4.30 @6.25 Shbrp 4.g5 @ 5,40 Wheat-No. 2 Bed 1.G5 @ u* Cobn—No. 6 0! @ .87 Oats-Mixed Westeru 40 @ .18 Buttes—Creamery 17 @ Jg Eggs—Western 17 ® .17 v PcM-New Mess 10.50 ftlLO)

FATAL FLOODS IN IOWA

EIGHT LIVES LOST FROM CLOUD-BURSTS. Bridges, Railroad Tracks, Crops, Farm Buildings, and a Village Swept Away— Twelve Inches of Water Said to Have Fallen in the Cherokee Valley—Hundreds of People Homeless and Hundreds of Cattle Drowned. Late telegraphic dispatches indicate that the storm in the northwestern counties of lowa was more severe than at first reported. A dispatch from Waterloo says 100 houses at Cherokee were washed away, and euerythlng is in the wildest confusion. The same is true at Correctlonville and no word by telegraph can be received from there. It is now known, thoiugh, that six persons met their derffh in the country around about Correctionville, and the number is reported increased to eight. Houses, barns and outhouses were reported floating in the Little Sioux past Cherokee a 1 day. No one knows where they came from, but they are presumed to be from Sutherland. Aurelins, nine miles east of Cherokee, reports storm clouds gathering in the vicinity of Cherokee agan. An Illinois Central work train has succeeded in reaching a point about one jnile east of Cherokee, further progress being barred by a vast expanse of water stretching as far as the eye can reach. It is feared there will be added to the present sufferings of citizens the pangs of hunger. All the surplus stock of provisions was destroyed by the flood, and the town is now as effectually isolated from the rest of the world as though no railroads were In existence.

Says a Sioux City dispatch: Reports are received from all quarters of unprecedented high water in the streams, injury to railroad property, loss of bridges, and destruction of crops along tho rivers. Ihe Floyd Rivtr is out of its banks, and people have been compelled to make hasty departures to higher ground. The following additional particulars of the flood at Cherokee were received this morning: The wagon bridge over the Sioux south of the town went out about 10 o’clock Tuesday night. This was followed by all the houses on the flat in that part of tho town, numbering over one hundred. The number of people driven from their homes was between twelve and fifteen hundred. The river continued to rise until 3 o’clock, at that time being ten feet higher than was ever before known. The destruction of property alone in Cherokee is about 8200,000. Besides, almost all of the stock pastured along the Sioux were carried away by the flood, only a few animals being saved as they came down the river. Yesterday all passenger trains were stopped at Storm Lake. The flood in the Floyd River which came past LeMars and Merrill yesterday, doing great damage in the country, reached here early this morning and the river rose about twelve feet. One hundred and fifty houses In the valley are partially submerged and the families have move out to the hills. The Laral stove works, shoe factory, flour mill and foundry in the suburbs of the town are closed. A man in from Molvilie, eighteen miles east Gs here, reports that tho whole town was swept away and only ome house was untouched. A heavy flood came down Willow Creek, entering the Floyd River a mi e above this place, says a telegram from Le Mars. The bottom land along the river was at once a raging torrent nearly a mile wide. The flood washed out over a mile of embankment twenty feet high on tho Illinois Central tracks a mi!o east of Le Mars, where Willow Creole runs under the railroad. Crops on the bottoms were entirely destroyed. Hundreds of head of cattle and horses were found swimming in their pastures and were rescued by mea iu boats. The flood is the highest ever known here. The water came down from the Sutherland storm, the larger part of 1t having gone on the other sido of the divide to Cherokee. Malls were delayed thirty-six hours. It tyill take several days to fix up the Illinois Central from here to Cherokee.

MET A HORRIBLE DEATH.

A Freight Train In Nebraska Rushes Into a Washout Seventy-five Feet Deep. A Burlington fast freight of twentythree cars on the Lincoln and Black Hills branch plunged into an abyss seventyfive feet deep, says a telegram from York, Neb. Engineer Delaney and Firoman Bean ate lying dead and horribly mangled beneath the upturned engine and twelve cars. Brakeman Moore was rescued from the death trap with a derrick. An enormous iron spike passed through his body, pinning him to the bottom of the hole. In falling, an arm and leg had been torn from his body. For several hundred yards wide wreckage is piled in confusion, surrounded by dead t attle with which the train was loaded. Owing to the frightful condition of the wreck, as a result of the storm, no effort has been made to repair the damago. The wreck was caused by the flood. Had tho express been on time the death list would have been great. The damage will reach $50,000.

Her's and There.

Prof. William S. Tyler has taught Greek at Amherst Colhge for forty-live years. Miss Beatrice Kipling also has the itch of 8 -rib ing She has turned out a novel about “The Heart of a Maid.” Mrs. Jefferson D vvis has been formally asked by a special committee representing the city of Kichmond to allow the remains of her husband to bo removed to that city. Col. W. W. Clapp, editor of the Boston Journal and owner of a large block or its stock, will not favor nor aliow the execution of recently mentioned scheme to reorganize the company and put the paper under new control. Smith College started sixteen years ago with twelve pupils. It has graduated 600 young women and has on its roots. The baccarat case has awakened the talk of the world, but one man says nothing—Gladstone He is both faithful to the Queen and wants to head tho Government once more. The water of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, is one of tho. purest and strongest brines kpown, holding in solution twenty-two per cent of chloride of sodium (pure salt), with but a slight mixture of other sa ts.

HOUSES BUT BUBRLES.

TREES BENT AND BROKEN LIKE REEDS. Detractive Floois in Town—Many M ies of Kai way Tiack 11 ashed Awsr and Many Families Mad. Homeless—Gravity or the situaton Increasing Hourly— Scenes an! Incidents of the Deluge. Northwestern lowa has been visited by the heaviest rainfall in twenty years. An eye-witness of the recent floods in the vicinity of Cherokee, states that it is necessary for one to see to have the least idea of tho great amount of damage, done. “Why," he exclaimed, “It is simply terribly wonderful the way that immense body of water swept things before it Houses were but bubbles on its crest. I was at Cherokee when the cloud-burst came, aud in less time than it takes to tell it a flood was upon the town. Houses were seen to tremble, swing half around, and then carried along by the torrents. Trees were bent and broken like reeds and not a thing could stop the terrific onward rush of the water, and all this occurred before the people could possibly realize what had happened. The most remarkable feature of the disaster is that any of the people in the track of the flood escaped with their lives. As far as I know no lives were lost at Cherokee and tho Immediate vicinity. ” The storm rendered between 300 and 400 families homeless in and about Cherokee. These are being cat ed for in the Masonic, Grand Army of the Republic and Knights of Pythias halls at ■Cherokee. The Illinois Central lost 12,777 feet of roadbed end 085 feet of piling. This does not include the bridge taken out over the Sioux River. The amount of damage will reach $250,dt)0. As tho waters recede the carcasses of catt e are landed and to-day the stench from them permeates the air. It is estimated that hundreds of head of stock have been lest. Two miles of track of the main line of tho Illinois Central has been washed out between Cherokee and Sioux City, and it will take a week to repair the damace. The Onawa and Sioux Fall branches of the same road are in a worse way. and it will be about ten days before traffic can be resumed. Both wire connections aro still broken. The Sioux River is subsiding, but it is still forty feet deep, and covers a quarter of a mile of country. The average depth of the river when in its channel is about four feet The work of clearing away the debris is now in ptozress, and aid is being rendered the unfortunate inhabitants. The town of Moviilo is still flooded and not one of the 200 inhabitants is able to occupy his house, and all are camping out. There is only 250 pounds of hour in the town. The town is almost completely cut off from succor. Hundreds of horses and other live stock out in tho fields in the valley were fearfully lacerated by the barbed wires carried down by the swollen torrent, in which the beasts become entangled. The damage at Cherokee is estimated at over 8500,000. The river fell about ten feet, but was still twenty feet above low water mark. At ordinary stage of water the river is only about 200 feet wide, while it is row 1,200 feet The engineer of the relief train which was the first to go from Fort Dodge to Cherokee after the big storm, has returned to this city, says a Waterloo special. It took them eight hours to run from Aurelia to Cherokee, and many times they were compelled to stop on account of tho rain, which came down in torrents. From Storm Lake to Cherokee the country resembled one vast lake almost as far as tho eye could leach in every direction. Only water was visible, while debris of destroyed buildings, bodies of horses and cattle and other farm animals floated past Cherokee in large numbers. Most of them were still struggling to escape, but the rush of the torrents prevented tlieir reaching dry land. The farmers along the line suffered very much. One farmer living south of Cherokee stated that over 200 catt e are missing from his pasture, and he expects all are drowned. The merchants in the small towns have had their stores undermined, tho basements filled with water, and in many instances the water has come on the first floors aud damaged their goods extensively. At Cherokee seventy-five to one hundred houses are destroyed and many of them have been swept away. The gravel train which was in the p t at Cherokee is buried out of sight, the cnly portion of it that is visible being the top of the smokestack of the steam shovel. Superintendent Gileas reports that the damage to the Illinois Central track already in sight will foot up $200,000, and butl.ttleis yet known of the condition of two branches from Cherokee. The water fell about ten feet at Cherokee, and many occupants of houses in the flooded district were able to regain entrance to day. The ruin wrought made many a heart sick. Where the houses were not destro . ed their contents are all covered with thick, black mud, ruining them. Three hundred poor people in Cherokee are being fed and clothed by the relief committee, and a dispatch from there says outside aid will have to be asked. A. W. Thesher, a mail-clerk on a Milwaukee and St. Paul train that was water-bound, at Hornick, thus relates his experience: “Between Hornick and Hedge’s Siding the track is out iu many places, and so great was the force of the water that the rails were carried far from the roadbed. I got hungry, as did all tire passengers. Our rations were rather slim, and so I made up my mind to come to Sioux City. I put my letter mail in a pouch together with my clothing and started to wade. I waded through fully a mile and a half of water betweeu Hornlek and Hedge's, and in many places it was up to my heck. At Hedge s I caught a construction train and rode into Sioux City. “The low lands are covered with water as far as you can see. Field after field is submerged, and all over the l.ats the water is from one to four feet deep iu the first floors of houses. Tho farmers have moved out to the high ground in nearly all instances. “I saw farmers wading in the water up to their waists pushing rafts, on which were loaded their fa i ilies aDd household 1 goods, ahead of them to the high land. One farn er at Hornick. whose house was flooded, pushed a big he g trough ahead of him in which his wife holding her baby was seated He was making for the high ground near our train." In a single day 75,030 shad were caught In the Delaware River as a result of the hatching jar and its appliances. There has been a rapid increase in numbers during the past three years. i

A DESPERATE BATTLE.

GOV. BOIES, OF lOWA, ASKS AU> FOR CHEROKEE. The Puteh Co onies of the West TnriiesWIU Make a Fine Display at the World’sFair. FIERCE LABOR RIOTS IN WASHINGTON. Several Lives Lost in a Tattle Between, striker* an I Non-Union Men. Matters at the Franklin (Wash.) coal mines have assumed a still more threatening form, and Colonol J. C. Haines, wired to iseatt e for another company of mi it a to report at once and tobring ammunition, camp equ page, and rations for a week s service. Porter Rob. neon, one of the mine bosses, was brought to tho city by a military guard, charged with killing Tom Morris and Ed J. Williams, leaders of the riot The first authentic information concerning the riot was received from Franklin. At least 1,000 shots werefired during tbe r.ot, which lasted about thirty minutes and resulted in the ceath. of Tom Morris, a white striker, whowas killed instantly; Edward J. Williams, who was shot through the abdomen and died six hours Jater, and th» wounding of four strikers, two women and one colored guard. The trouble commenced with the return of the train, at 7:40 p. m. from New Castle, which contained a number of Pinkerton men who had escorted a load of negroes tothe latter mining t amp. The guards say that when the train was pulling intoFranklin it was fired upon by some of the white miners in ambush, and that while no one was hurt bullets whistled through the windows of the train at a. lively rate. The guards returned the tire from the windows, and the eug.necr seeing the danger put the train under full head and t an it to the depot, which is inside the dead line. When the train had stopped tho white miners commenced firing upon the negroes’ camp, 'j hey were between twomes, as the outside miners were situated on the fiats below and oi. the hill abovethem. The negroes went perfectly wild, and all the eflorts of the guards could not restrain them. They kept within the camp l.nes, and poured vo.ley after volley upon tho miners on the fiats, whorep ied with squally as much vigor. The miners on the hill kept up a good fire, but were answered shot for shot by the negroes. After the shooting intense excitement prevailed among the negroes, and they gathered about their camp in groups,, threatening to make another charge upon the white miners. They were finally quieted by the officers of the company. Three companies of militia are now camped betweeu the strikers, and the negroes.

GOV. BOIES APPEALS FOR AID. Tbe People of lowa Asked to Assist 500 Homeless Persons in Cherokee. Gov. Boies, after surveying the flooded district at Cherokee, lowa, issued the following proclamation to the peop e of the State: To the People of the State of Iowa: You have heard of the affliction which hasfallen upon some of tho towns of our State. I have made a personal examination of the; condition Jn this city by coming here and going over the flooded, districts and find that at least seventy-five families have lost everything and some twenty-five morehave lost most of their household goods and much of their clothing, while their dwellings have been greatly injured by the floods. In addition to this loss of hemes, and furniture and clothing the county at. large has suffered greatly in the less of nearly every bridge, both iron and wood, within its limits. A careful estimate places the number of families which require help at once at 100, thus making a population of about 500 that require and will require for a considerable length of time to be cared for by the charity of our people. In addition to the above many of the surrounding towns have alsosuffered greatly, aud will necessarily be compelled to appeal to the people of the State for aid. In view of this calamity I recommend that the Mayors of the several cities of the State and all other charitably disposed persons immediately take steps to organize proper committees to solicit aid for these unfortunates, and see that the same is promptly forwarded to David H. Bloom, Mayor of Cherokee, for distribution am ng those of this city who have suffered losses, and to such persons as may-be named by the roper authorities of the other towns which have suffered from the same calamity. All contributions so forwarded will be faithfully applied to the purpose for which they are sent Let contributions be prompt and liberal. Hohace Boies. At Dubuque a public meeting was held, and $2,000 will be forwarded to the relief fund.

DUTCH COLONIES AT THE FAIR. They Prom ie to Make a Most Interesting" Exhibit of Their Natural Wealth. Lieutenant Roger Welles, Jr, of the United States navy. Commissioner to Venezuela and the neighboring colonies, reports that tho Governor General of the Dutch Colonies in the INcst Indies, composed of the islands of Curacoa, St. Martins, Bonaire, Aruba, St Eustache and icaba, has accopted the invitation toparticipate in the exposition, and has appointed a commission to take charge of the work. Phillip Walker, formerly chief of a, division in the Department of Agriculture devoted to experiments with American silk, has been placed in charge of the preparation of the extensive exhibit of that industry which the department proposes to mako at the World’s Fair. The work will be under the supervision of Assistant Secretary Willetts, and will be done in the museum of the Department of Agriculture. At a meeting of representative shoe and leather men held in Boston it wasdecided that New England could raise $15,000 toward the construction of tho shoe and leather building at the World’s t air, for which subscriptions are being received from all over the country, and t’>e committee made plans for securing" the necessary subscriptions. The first garnets and nearly all the peridots found in the Unit'd States aro collected from ant hills and scorpion ucsts in New Mexico and Arizona. Analtsis of individual beets indicate, that maturity more than size determines, the sugar contents of the beet A high weight of leaves, as compared with the roots, was no evidence of higher sugar" content, but rather tbe reverse T ie irony of fate is again illustrated in the fact that tho old home of Alexander H. Stephens in Marietta, Ga., is now owned by a negro. We know men who ar3 very pionswhenever God vets them in a tight, p ace.