Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — Page 2

llje Pemocroitt Sentinel RENSSELAER. INDIANA. *W. McEWEH, - - . Pumumk.

THE WORLD OVER.

'MIRROR OF THE OCCURRENCES OF A WEEK. — ■ Things That Do Happen—A Complete j Record of Interesting Events the World Over Shocking; Accidents. Startling Crimes, and Other Topics. SUNK IN THE LAKE. The St ’amship Pontian Run Into and Srnt to the bottom by tits Athaha ca. The steamship Athabasca arrived at 'Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., with nearly the entire hurricane deck and anchors of tho Pontiac on her deck. The two boats had ’been in collision, and the Pontiac sunk. The wheelman on the Pontiac had both legs broken, but no others were injured. Tne Pontiac went down in thirty feet of water, and is badly damaged, her bow being all stove in. She was built in Bay Cty In 1889. is owned by the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, and valued at 8200,000. Tlie Athabasca’s stern was bent and her ’forward deck damaged. It will cost a largo amount to raise the Pontiac. BLAZE AT MONTREAL. The Total Losses Will Amount to Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Montreal, Que., was swept by a fire, which burned the sash factory and lumber yards of Charles Brouillette & Co., and spread with such rapidity that the entire block bounded by Palnoau Itoad, Shaw, St. Catharine and Kent streets, which was largely occupied by lumber yards and manufacturing concerns, was destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property was consumed. Never has the fire department worked so hard. Men lay in tlie streets while comrades played water on them to save them from burning to death. Several of the men were seriously burned. ON THE DIAMOND. How the Clubs Engaged In the National Game Stand. Following Is a showing of tho standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, TV. L. flc.i. W. L. Wc New Yorks..3B ii .504 Philadelp's. .34 81 .600 Chioagos... .4) 2J .5* ißrooklyn*.. .32 33 .4/1 Bostons 88 30 .6id]Pittsburgh. .2B 39 .400 Clevelands. .Bß 85 .507: Cincinnati*. 27 42 .391 amebican association. W. L. Wo. W. 1,. Wo. Bostons 4. 2> .0 b Columbus.. .3 . 4/ ,4 <i St. Louis >2 21 .6 0 Cincinnati**.3 i 43 ,494 Baltiinores. .'3 2' .5 17 Louisville* .2' 51 .**B3 l'hiladelp s. 37 87 .50 • Washingt’usil 47 .338 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W. L. wo. W. b. Wo. Omabas t 2a .01 ■ Kuisas C’ys.HO 3/ .41 Mllws.iikees.43 21 .-.97 Sioux Citys.3l 59 .4 8 Minneapolis 40 .'3 .54 < Denvers 23 »1 <OO Linc01n5....33 31 /S 5 Onlaths 25 46 .312 Dissolution of the Watch Trust. Tho Ferns anti-trust act passed by tho General Assembly of Illinois atlts last session caused the dissolution of tho “.waljh truit,” which was the Jobbers’ ussodhllTon of manufacturers of American watches, and included every large watch caso manufacturing concern In the United States.The act also threatens the existence of tho American Watch Case Manufacturers’ Association and the National Association of Jobbers in American Watches Wasn’t in a Hurry. An express train on the Fort Wayne Road near Lin wood, Pa., struck a man und knocked him about twenty-five feet. When the trainmen reached him he was sitting up. lighting a pipe. The conductor said: “You had better ride with us to tho next station where medical attendance can be procured.” The man icmoved his pipe and replied: “No, I have read too much of railroad accidents and I guess I’ll walk. 1 ain’t in no hurry.” Last of tlie Bucket Shops. ... Tho Western Grain and Stock Exchange,*.; the lasi survivor of the St. Louis bucketshops, announced that it will close business and settle all deals previously closed. The exchange was under the management of Arthur A. Wiseman, who said the exchange had in no sense failed, but the business had become unprofitable, and the company hud decided to retire. Lynched Without Cause. A lynching without any cause occurred at Love, DeSoto County, Miss. The victim was a negro. Samuel Gillespie.' Gl.lespie was arrested for rescuing another negro charged with larceny from an. officer. A mob of masked men took the negro, marched him to a tree a short distance away, tied him and shot him to death. Shot by a Policeman. At Jersey City, Ni J., Policeman John D. Byerson became Involved in a row with James Brennan. The latter’s wife interfered. Brennan was shot dead and- his wife fatally wounded. Byerson was arrested. Had Too Many Stores. Hcvoner Bros, of Buffalo, who have stores iu Jamestown. Bradford and Western cities, and who opened a dry goods store at Buffalo, N. Y,. three months ago, assigned. Liabilities, 850,000. Fatal Dynamite Explosion. The tramp steamship R. C. Booth, 2.000 tons, lyltvg at Brooklyn, was seriously damaged whi*c reloading a box of dynamite cartridges that exploded, killing two men. Soi l a Piece of Her Skin. Mrs. Lucy Pratt, a young San Fiancl-co widow, sold forty-five square inches of her skin for SIOO. to be grafted on the leg of William A. Daggett, arailway mail clerk. Under Forty Feet or Earth. God fried Walther, a farmer living south of Phillips, Wla, was buried übout forty feet deep by the caving in of a well that be was digging. Gathering of PedagogMi^k At Toronto, Quebec, the annual convention of the National Educational Association of the Uttlted States opened, with over 1,000 delegates. '* White Earth Indians Quiet. Indian Agent B. J*. Schuler and Robert Beaulieu, of the White Earth Indian reservation. arrived in St. Paul, and declares the reports of se.ious Indian troubles absurd, and says that they have no knowl- . edge of the threatened commotion telegraphed over the country. Murdered by HU Nephew. At Murfreesboro, Tenn.. Professor John Lloyd was shot and killed. Tom Morton, bis nephew by marriage, is suspected of the crime. He has disappeared and.it is known that tbare was trouble between them.

f LITERALLY BOILED. Thirteen Passengers Horribly Scalded, and Seven An Dead. A horrible railroad accident occurred at Aspen Junction, eighteen miles west of Aspen,. Col., on the Midland Road. A special train, composed of ond baggage car and one passenger coach, was returning to Aspen ’from Glen wood Springs. Tho passenger coach contained about thirty persons, mostly Aspen people. The train was backing from the water-tank to the switch to the 1 Aspen track, where a road engine was run out of the railroad round-house, and the rear end of the passenger traiu hit the checkvalve 01# the side of the boiler, which exhausted the hot steam into the broken end of the passenger car, scalding thirteen pasjsengers—five men, seven women, and one j child. Seven are dead and It is thought 1 others will die. The car was thrown from [the track. All possible was done to relievo [the sufferings of the unfortunate passengers. CONSE RVATISM PREVAILS. ; But Healthy and Sound Business Im--1 ‘ provements Are at Hand. —R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The unusual conservatism which prevails In nearly all sections aud branches of .business Impresses many as a most disheartening symptom. But It may, with at 1 leust equal reason, be Interpreted as tho very best ground for confidence in a healthy and solid improvement when new and large crops come forward more freely. The absence of, speculative excitement, tho indis- : posltioif'tp buy in haste, are.having a most 1 wholesome Indue nee. This >cqnaervntivo attitude is the more necessary tills year , because, while money is now abundant here and cheap on call, the possibility of ; disturbance abroad, or of in obtaining needed supplies for moving crops at the West, Is not yet entirely ; removed. Crop reports have never been more full than they are this year, and they grow more clearly satisfactory as to spring 1 wheat every day, improving also as to ; other grain and cotton. At Chicago and other Northern points generally the supply of money is ample, though In the West there la more demand than heretofore. At Southern points the markets are close as a rule, though only firm and In fair supply at , New Orleans. The business failures throughlout the country during the last seven days number 247, as compared v Ith a total of 237 last week- For the corresponding week ,of last year the figures were 107.

MINE-OWNERS SUBMIT TO THE LAW. Whltebreast Coal Company Will Pay Weekly—tloliet Iro.i Men Defy the Statute. A large number of miners In La Salle, who 1 have been out since May in the hope of securing the benefits of tho recently enacted truck store weekly payment laws, were rejoiced to learn that the Whltebreast Coal Company of Ladd had decided to comply with the law. They will pay tho miners for unscreened coal welghod at the bottom of the shaft 70 cents per ton until November 1 and 77% cents from that date till May 1, 1892. At Joliet, 111., the 350 employes of the Lambert & Bishop Wire Fence Company demanded their weekly pay, according to the weekly pay bill passed by tho last General Assembly. Tho manager told them that ' they would fight It The men In tho rolling mills will take the same stand, and ull the employ es will light. CONVICTED A MINISTER OF LYING. Tho Verdict iu un Ecclesiastical Tr al tepMte a.Kansas. City, Church. Rev. 1 Dr. A. 11. Tevis, pastor of the Washington Avenue Methodißt Episcopal Church, of Kansas City, Kan., was convicted on eight charges of lying and hypocrisy. The charges preferred were filed by twelve members. Among the signers was Presiding Elder Gill. Dr. Tevls immediately filed a suit for $20,000 dnmages against tho Rev. Gill und said that he would file similar suits against all others tvho had signed the charges. The Washington Avenue Church, which is tile oldest and ono of tho wealthiest in Kansas City, Kan., Is split aud many members already have withdrawn their letters. RACE AGAINST RUIN. frpeciul Trains Brought Into U*o to Avert Financial Disaster. 1 George W. Howell, a prominent lumber dealer of Atchison, Kan., passed through Kansas City on a race against ruin to Jefferson. Tex. He was required to bo gt Jefferson tbfore the close of banking hours tlie following day and affix his signature to a check to save tho Jefferson Lumber Company, the Jefferson Woolen Mills, and J. 11. Rends from financial ruin which threatened them. Mr. Howell went from Kansas City on a chartered train over the Memphis. At Roxlo, Art., he tcok a special train over the Iron Mountain to Jefferson. NAVAJO INDIANS ON THE RAMPAGE. They Take Pmsesslun of Arizona Ranges arid Slaughter the < attic. , During the last month Navajo Indians in Arizona have been acting in a defiant manner toward the whites. A courier from the Little Colorado says that a band of 600 Navajos have take* possession of the stock on William Roden’s range, driving the herders frjin tho range and slaughtering large lumbers of cattle. The Navajos are tho largest tribe In the Territory, there being about 18,039, and they uro tvell fixed financially.

DEATH ’MIDB r PLEASURE. Chicago Picnics the "cmie of Several Sad Drowning*. At Columbia Park, Chicago, John McNcff and Miss Lucy Kaiser were drowned while boat riding They were attending at an A. O. U. W. picnic. In Calumet Lake, near Pullman, Henry Campbell and Leslie Young, boys, were drowned; und in an excavation which had filled by drainage, young August Maraysta met his fate. THE DEALER FELL DEAD. Police Raid a Guinb leg House and the shock Kill* One oi the Players. Lieutenant Wheeler and a gang of his men raided a gambling house at Chicago, and found thirteen men engaged in a pokor gams. Officer O’Day said ‘•Cash in your - chips, gentlemen; the house Is under arrest.” At that the dealer, Tom Roche, dropped back in his chair, dead from heart disease. DULUTH’S 8150,000 HOTEL BURNS. Guests All Escape Without Ha m and Haft Most of Their Property. The St. Louis Hotel, the second largest of Duluth, Minn., burned. All the guests escaped safely, and most of them have been able to save most of their baggage. Frustrate I the Wedding. At WUkesbarre, Pa.. Myer Goldstein, a tinsmith, lost his wife six months ago. He became engaged to another girl of means. The latter would not mar re Goldstein until he I hit got rid of his children. Goldstein took the children to New York and lost them. He then came back to Wilkesbarre and reported that the children were In a home. The night of the wedding one of the children, a boy 5 years old, returned to WUkesbarre with a tag on bis coat. Be

managed to reach his father’s home before the wedding and broke the affair up. Goldstein was arrested. Forming a Big Steel Combine. Preparations are being made at Pittsburg, Pa., for the consolidation of the National Tube-Works Company, the Monongahela Furnace Company, Republican Iron Works aud Boston Steel and Iron Company. The concern will be reorganized under the laws of New Jersey, and will have a capital stock of $11,500,000. The stock Is not watered, but represents the value of the various plants. The neve c ;ncern will be the largest of Its kind In the world: The annual output will be $15,000,000. Reciprocity with Guatemala. Advices received from Guatemala are to the effect that ample Instructions have been sent to Senor Butres, the Guatemalan Minister at Washington. to arrange for. a treaty of reciprocity with the United States. An effort will bo made to bring about closer trade relations between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States, and to this end Guatemalan Commissioners will be sent to both countries. Indian Girls slay Their Fa’lier. A Chickasaw Indian named Nulnto', living eighteen miles west of Duncan, I. T-. was found dead In bed. He had been murdered with an ax. His step-daugbte.rs. aged 10 ' and 22, were the only persons in the house at the time of the tragedy, and they were apprehended. The youngest confessed that she held the lamp while the elder-slster committed the deed. The son by the second wife is also under suspicion. Two Mariners Bow Out the Gas. At Boston three deserters are reported from the United States ship Boston and five from the United States ship Atlanta. H. S. Stron and Axel Jansen, head t*x>k and gunner on the New York, registered at a hotel. They were called and responded, but? later the chambermaid entered the room and found tho men unconscious from escaping gas. Jansen was dead and Stron may die.

Put Paris Green In Farrell’s Beer. Mrs. Martin Farrell, a wealthy woman of Pittsburg. Pa., was arrested on a charge of poisoning her husband. The couple bare never lived happily, the bone of contention being a fortune of $60,000 left to Mrs. Farrell. They spent the night in drinking, and Mrs. Farrell arose to get her husband a bottle of beer, and, It Is alleged, she put paris green into the bottle. Killed on a Naphtha Launch. A parly of eight started from Rockaway, N. Y., for a day’s fishing. The naphtha launch Ethel had cruised about until It reached a point some way out from the shore of Long Beach. Then a terrible explosion occurred. Every per so 1 on board was burled into tho water, und all but one drowned. A Pa*.eager Train Runs Into a Landslide. The west-bound passenger train No. 1 on the Northern Pacific ran into a landslide at Marshall Grade, Mont. Two men who were stealing a ride on the trucks were killed. Engineer Draper was scalded and slightly cut on the bead, but no others were injured. Drowned While Dertnged. Mrs. Peter Mahan, wife of a prominent and wealthy farmer living about four miles east of Mitchell, Ind.. was drowned in a pond near tho family residence. She has shown signs of mental aberration for several years, und it is a plain case of self** destruction. Goss’pv Drove Her to Suicide. Mrs. Sadie Phillips committed suicide at New Home, Ind. Mr.s. Phillips left her husband about six months ago. This started the New Home gossips to talking. Mrs. Phillips, hearing of their cruel sayings, was so grieved that she resolved to take \ier life. Killed by a Rabid Horse. John Farrell, of Comanche County, Kan., was killed by a horse afflicted with hydrophobia. A man who witnessod Farrell’s death said tho horse was only a little res tive until be was taken to a water trough, when the sight of the water seemed to infuriuto liirit. Drowned While Fishing. Henry Kek, a saloonkeeper of Sandusky, Ohio, and Joseph Braunllch, of Cleveland, went out la a small boat to fish. They failed to return and search Instituted for them resulted In finding the bodies of both -men. Kek leaves a wife. Braunllch was a single man.

Heroic Willie Addis. At Plainfield. N. J., Mrs. William Addis’ oil stove exploded.- Mrs. was all ablaze in un Instant. Her 10-year-old son Willie ran Into the house and snatching up a rug from tlie floor wrapped It around her until he had completely ext nguished the flumes. Took the Law Into Their Own Hands. A negro entered the store of an old man named Whitaker, at Whitaker’s Station, Miss., and beat the old man, robbed him and fled. The negro was captured and soon afterward lynched. Old mau Whitaker Is in a critical condition. Bishop I)wenger Said to I?e Dying. Tho Rt. Rev. Joseph Dwenger, Bishop of tho Fort Wayne Diocese of the, Catholic Church, is very low, ami has been given up by the attending' physicians. At his own request the rite of extreme unction a as administered to the dying prelate. Honor Was satisfied. L. P. Bouhy, editor of L'Orlean •, and A. S. Carruthers, of the Mascot, New Orleans, fought a duel In which Carruthers was cut in the faco. Seconds interfered, declaring honor satisfied, and a reconciliation followed between principals. Valuable Hor>*» Burned. The livery and boarding stable of Samuel Loughery, Germantown, Pa., was completely destroyed by fire with its contents. Thirty-two horses, many of them valuable animals, perished. Loss SJo.ODO, partly covered by Insurance. Intruder* Expell-d from the Territory. Intruders or citizens of Indian Territory who cannot show proper permfts are being dumped on the Texas border at the rate of from twenty-five to 120'daily. The Indian militia now number 1,220 persons, not including officers. , Engineer and Fireman Killed, A freight on the Madlsqn branch of the J.. M. & 1. Railroad struck a horse near Elizabethtown. Ind.. and nine cars and the engine'und tender were .ditched. Edward Fenton, engineer, and John Boss, fireman, were under the wreck dead. Texas* Big Fal’ure. The debts cf the Jefferson, Texas, Lumber Company and J. H. Bemissso far aggregate nearly 81,000,000. The creditors from all over the country are gathering at Jefferson and much litigation will result front toe failure. Fatal Freight Wreck in Indiana. Freight No. 163, Columbus, Ind., to Madl»on, on the P., CL, & & St. L. Road, was

wrecked at Rock Creek. A trestle collapsed and the engine and thirteen cars are now in the creek bottom. John Booz, the fireman, was Instantly killed. Engtneor Killed. At a crossing near Perry, lowa, a Minneapolis and fit. Louis passenger train collided with a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul freight. The passenger engine was thrown down a steep embankment and Engineer Knight aas instantly killed. Murder and Suicide at Indianapolis. Edward McThciiy. an Indianapolis streetcar conductor, 24 years of age, shot his wife, aged 22, and "then tired a ball through his own brain. Death was instantaneous with McTheny. His wife is. fatally shot. • The motive was jealousy. Murderous Inventor. In a difficulty at McComb City, Miss., between L. E. Ford, inventor of the FordWhiteworth car coupling, and R. M. Cloy, City Marshal, Ford shot Cloy with a rifle, from the effects of which be died. The murdered man leaves a family. Bio Head Was Blown Off. B.v the explosion of a thrashing machine boiler at Bruceville, Ind., John Flock had his bead blown off. Dick Price was fatally injured, and a team of horses were horribly scalded. “Frenchy” Sentenced for Life. Ameer Ben Ali, alias “Frenchy,” the Arabian outcast, who was convicted of the murder of “Old Sbakspeare” in the East River Hotel, New York, was sentenced to * life imprisonment. Noland Gets a Light Sentence. At Jefferson City, Mo., the jury in the case of ex-State Treasurer Edward T. Noland returned a verdict of guilty, and fixed the punishment at two years in the penitentiary. Born with a Full Set o' Teeth. At Houston, Tex., Mrs. Kate Williams, a domestic, has given birth to a hoy baby that has a full set of teeth. Medical men are puzzled. Not since the days of Richard 111. has such a youngster been heard of. Teminatei a Feud with Fratricide. At Butler, Pa., John Mlnlnger quarreled witli his biother Adam. John grasped him by the throat, when the latter fired five 6hols, every bullot taking effect, one lodging just abovo the heart.

Two Boys Fatally Injured. At Pittsburg, Pa., James Brown and William Collins were playing on a freight car when the train started and they were thrown under the wheels. Both will probably die. • Fell Down an Old Stufft Near Butte, Mont, two juvenile baseball nines wore playing near the Stevens mine. Willie Cjrotte ran for a fly ball and fell headlong into an old sbuft, breaking his 1102 k. Lovod Money More than Llfj. ■, At Mitchell. Ind.. Mrs. Peter Mahan committed suicide. The cause was trouble in regard to the division of her mother’s estate, by which another heir got the most of the property. Four Persons Killed by I lghtnlng. The house at S. P. Anderson, a Swede living fifteen miles west of Clifton, Tex., was struck by lightning, killing his wife and three daughters, all that were in the house. Damaged by Grasshoppers in Wyoming. Portions of Cheyenne County, Wyoming,, aro lie!tig: devastfited'ljy grasshoppers. For 1 weeks past they have been hatching out, and myriads cover the prairie for miles. One Million Bales of Cotton. Receipts of cotton thus far this season at Galveston, Tex., passed the million bales mark. The occasion was celebrated by a banquet given at the Cotton Exchange. One Boy Kilted. At Pittsburg, Pa., a Duquesne electric car and an electric feeder of the Pittsburg Traction Company collided. John Hazlett, Jr., aged 14years, was fatally hurt. Ghast y Find or Ranchmen. Near Denver two ranchmen discovered the headless and armless body of a man in tho Platte River. There was a bullet bole over tho heart. One Taken, the Others Left. At Eastport, Ind., Carl Mroff was killed by a stroke of lightning while asleep in bed. Ills wife, who lay beside him, was uninjured. Sorr wing lor Her Mother. . Miss Effie Scovel, a Nashville, Tenn., society belle, attempted suicide. Brooding over the receut death of her mother was the cause. Big Loss by Fire In New York. At New York the Empire Print Works were destroyed by fire, property to the amount of 5200,000 being burned up. Morphine Drove him Crazy. Dr. Oliver T. Brown, a prominent yoting physician of Lexington. Ky., was adjudged a lunatic. Cause morphine.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 @6.50 Hoos-Hhipping Grades 4.UJ @ 5.a3 Sheep 3.0.) <ts 5.25 IVhkat—N<v2 Bed B 2 <9 MU Corn—No. 2 5b (A .50 OA'is—Up. 3.,, 87 @ .87U Kte—No. 2. 77 @ .78 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 @ .17 Cheese—Full Creaiu, data 08 © .09 Eoas—Fresh 15)i@ .16J4 potatoes—New, per brl 2.C0 @ 2.T5 INDIANAPOLIS. Battle—Shipping *8.50 @ 5.75 Hogs—Choioe L ght. 8.50 @ 5.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 8.50 <9 4.50 Wheat -No. 2 lied 80 @ .boy. Cobn —No. 1 White 61 <® .62 * Oats—No. 2 Whim 40 © .41 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.00 Wheat-No. 2 Bed 87 @ .18 Cons —No. 2 55.56)$ OAJS—No. 2 87)3(9 .38>3 Pork—Mesa 10.50 <u 11.00 CINCINNATI. CATTLE. 4.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep 3.60 © 5.00 Wheat—No. a lied ,8s) @,.91 Corn—No. 2. 60 <9 .61 Oa.b—No. 2 Mixed HO @ .41 DK'IKOIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 8.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Rod LOl @ 1.02 Corn—No. a Yellow 01 @ .62 Oats—No. 2 White 46. @ .47 TOLEDO. '■ heat., ■ 95 @ .96 Corn— ash .6) @ .93 Oats—No. 1 While 3«)s@ CLOVER SEED 4.35 @ 4.85 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 4.50 @ 5.75 Live Hog., 4.25 (9 6.25 No. 1 Hard 1.06 <9 1.u7 Corn—No. 2 06 @ .67 MILWAUKEE. ' Wheat—No 2 Spring 88 #» .90 Corn—No. 3 ;58 @ .60 Oats-No. 2 White 42 @ .43 Bye—No. 1 82 @ .81 Baklet—No. 2 68 @ .70 Pork—Mess .10.25 @1475 „ NitW YOB*. Cattbe 8.50 @ 6.23 Hoo 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep © Wheat-No, 8 Red ...W 1.02 # LOl Corn—No, 2. 70 @ .71 Oats—Mixed Western .42' <ui .47 Blttsb—Crsfamery 14 @ .1$ Poiii—New Mess U. 75 @12.25

MANY BURNED ALIVE.

MURDERERS RUN AMUCK IN MISSOURI. Heavy Bains Cause Washouts In North Dakota—An Ohio Preacher Umpires a Game of Base-Ball Played by Ladies. A dispatch from Nanaimo, B. G, Bays: The steamer Princess Louisa, from Skeena, brings news of a terrible landslide on the banks of the Skeena Eiver, resulting in the death of one woman>nd about forty Indians. Those residing near the Northern Pacific Cannery at Skeena River heard a great rushing noise In the direction of the high, steep mountain at the back of the cannery. In a moment an avalanche of rocks and earth and trees was upon the doomed settlement, carrying everything before It into the slough close by the cannery. The occupants of the houses had time to get outside the buildings, but before they could escape from the advancing column of debris, they were caught and carried along at a fearful velocity. In all nine houses and their occupants were destroyed, including the mess-house and residence of the foreman of the cannery. In the mess-room was the young Swedish wife of the foreman. She was carried along in the mad and deadly current, and dashed to death hundreds of feet be ow. Indians claim that among those destroyed were about forty Indians of the Port Simpson, Sitka, Motlakahla, and Kitimiat tribes. Two days after the slide thirteen bodies of the Indians were recovered. The body of the foreman’s wife has not yet been found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within the range of the terrible slide of bowlders, trees, and earth. The slide just missed the cannery building about two feet. Had the slide struck the cannery or occurred half an . hour earlier, the death-roll would have reached into the hundreds. It had been raining in torrents for the previous four days, and it Is thought that the accumulation of water in tho ravines on the mountain side broke away, carrying death and destruction with it. The Indians are greatly excited over the disaster, and are mourning bitterly for their dead.

STORMS STOP THE TRAINS.

Bail Washouts Reported In North Dakota —Damage In City and Country. Specials from various points in North Dakota report heavy rains for fortyeight hours, which have caused trany washouts on the railroads and much destruction to property. Between 300 and 400 west-bound passengers on the Northern Pacific were stopped at Mandan, N. D Tremendous rains washed out a lar.e number of small bridges and culvcris and track west of this point All the bridges that are gone are small those of the Heart River be ! ng all intact Tho Hejart River is running hank full, and is rising. In Mandan most of the sidewalks were lifted and scattered along the street Numbers of cellars are full, and a good deal of damage done. Tho rain extended from west of Medora to Jamestown and poured in torrents for several hours. This supposed arid region has enough rain now to insure a bounteous crop. At Dickinson, N. D., the rain was worse than at first-supposed. Crews of track repairers are working both east and west repairing heavy washouts Westbound passengers were de.ayed forty-eight hours. S.reams are rising rapidly and it has commenced to rain again. Farmers will sustain damages from lodged grain.

MURDERS AND SUICIDES. A Jealous Ex-Policeman's Crnel Coed— Double Tragedy on the Road from ( h'lrch. Ex-Policeman Crowley, of Kansas City. Mo., who has been married only six months, shot and killed his wife, of whom he was insanely jealous. He then turned the weapon on himself, but inflicted only a scalp wound. Running down to the kitchen, Crowley snatched up a carving knife and attempted to cut his throat, but made only slight gashes. Crowley, fearing vio’enco from the large crowd attracted by the disturbance' ran up the street, the crowd pursuing him crying “lynch him, hang him,” and throwing rocks and other missiles at him. He wai protected by the police with drawn revolvers. Crowley’s injuries are not serious. Murder and seif-slaughter were committed at Toos, nine miles southwest of St. Louis, Mo. Frand lacleman, tho teacher of the Catholic church, and Joseph 1-rank were coming from mass at 9 o clock when T rank 1 red at Bacleman with a revolver The bullet took effect but did noi kill, but the second shot did. Frank then, in the presence of a hundred or more people, turned the revolver against himself a id took his own life. Had he not done so he won Id have been lynched. No reason can b) assigned for tho deed.

BELLES AT THE RAT.

Society Girls Play Ram-Unll, with a # Preacher Acting: ns limp re. Tho society girls at Washington, Ohio, have dropped the tennis racquet and taken up the base-ball bat An exciting and amusing game was played between a nine they have just organized and a picked nine of the society young men. Tho Rev. S. B. Aldorson, D. D , a prominent Presbyterian minister of the pla-e, and an enthusiast on base-ball, stood behind the bat as umpire, and dodged the foul tips with great agility. The young men played left-handed, so as to give the girls a fair chance. The score score 3tood 22 to 17 in favor of the young men. The girls say they will not play in public or travel. They belong to the best families. * Hannibal Hamlin was a candidate for Congress the year President Harrison's grandfather was elected President And yet Hamlin’s career was considerably shorter than that of Josiah Quincy, who saw the whole of the revolution and nearly .the whole of the rebellion, for he was born in 1772 and died In i&fg'. He saw Washington and exchanged letters with Lincoln.— Buffalo Courier. A man named Hutrh, living in Fancy Bottom, near Weston, Mo, stole a wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary Bland, a widow, and started to town with it, but got stuck in the mud before he was a mile away, and had to abandon the corn and wagon, both of which are now in tho possession of the w dow. San Fbancisco has 4,500 saloons or places where liquor is sold at retail. If the populat'on of the city is 330,000, there is one saloon to every 73 persons. If the voting population is .-,0,000, there is a saloon for evory 13% votes. ,

GHASTLY MURDER DONE

SIX CORPSES FOUND IN A NEBRASKA FARM-HOUSE. J. B. Poter'baugh, a Prosperous Firmer Living Near E lis, Big Wife, and Fqur Chi’dren Discovered Lead wiih Bullet Holes in Their Beads. Mrs. Dr. Alien', of Beatrice, went to Ellis, Neb., on a visit to hor brother, John H. Puterbaugh, who lived a mile and a half south of town. She was driven to the farm by Louis Perling and knocked at the door, but receiving no response entered the house, the door not being locked. As she entered she saw her brother on the floor near the door, and supposed ho was asleep. She spoketo him, but there being no response, she looked more, closely, and saw blood on her brother’s ghastly face. Mrs. Alien called Per ing In, who made an investigation, and found a horrible state of affairs. On a bed in the room in which the husband and father lay was the mother with a bullet through her head. In bed with her was a 2-vear-old babe, also shot through the head. On a lounge In the room lay a lad of 10 years dead, shot, through the head. In the room above was another bed occupied by two young, girls, one 13 and one 15, both dead with bullet-holes in their heads. The dead are John Puterbaugh, his. wife, and four children. How they met. their terrible fate is as yet not known, only by surmise. The general belief is that the terrible aeed was the work of the husband And father. The motive ia not known, as Puterbaugh was a peaceable man in comfortable circumstances, and it is believed no trouble existed in the family. It seems certain that the terrible crime was committed by Puterbaugh. By his side, under his arm, lay a 32-caliber sixchambered revolver with all the chambers empty. The scene in the house was a horrible one and made the strongest hearted turn away. The faces of the dead, though covered with blood, were calm as though sleeping. No signs of fear were portrayed on any of them, and no evidence of a struggle werte seen anywhere. All seemed to have been killed while sleeping, and all were shot directly through the skull. In every case the pistol was placed close to the head, as powder stains were visible upon the pillows or bed clothing. Puterbaugh was not a drinking man and had the reputation of being an honest and peaceable citizen. He suffered from grip last spring and since then has not been ip the best of health, frequently complaining of a pain in his head. He was a man about 38 or 40 years of age, and his wife was a year or two younger. The murdered children were as follows: Carrie, 15 years; Mabel, 13 years; Charles, 10 years; Ralph, 2 years One son, Allen, 17 years of age, survives. Ho was away from home at work. Puterbaugh was in Beatrice a few days ago and is said to have then purchased the revolver with which the terrible deed was committed. In the barn near the house were the two mules and three horses Hitched to a wagon in front of the barn were two more horses, and in the field a number of cows. Tho house was farly well furnished for a farm bouse, and in the cupboard Was an abundance-of good food. Puter- - baugh owned 240 acres of land, which lie purchased in March last from A. Wisnell, of Beatrice. He was liked by all who knew him there and at his former home in Diller.

The Electric Chair. Many States will follow New York’s example within the next few years.— Minneapolis Tribune. So far as preventing publicity in the press is concerned, the law seems to bo a failure. Perhaps It would be more exact to say that those who are charged with the execution of the law talk too much.— lndianapolis Journal. Those electrocutions in New York appear to have been entirely successful in removing from this life the four condemned murderers. Electrocution is probably more merciful than hanging.— Dayton Times. If wo must have capital punishment it Is possible the new,mbtlmd is preferable to the old, but the people are entitled to know whether that is so or not, and they never could know if the press gag clauso of the law were respected and observed.— Rochester Herald. It will undoubtedly bo many years before the electric death is adopted In the other capital punishment States of the Union, and perhaps before it Is generally adopted there may be simpler, although probably no less painful, methods of execution. — Detroit Free Press. On the whole, there is every reason for tho opinion that electrical execution of crimina s is a distinct advance of civilization. The only respect in which the new law is a failure is in its attempt to prevent the press of the United States from giving the news with regard to that important change.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Evidently tho eloctrical process of killing is morp.hijmane th»n s hgpging, although It is barbaious enough, heaven knows. Capital punishment is a hideous and an awful thing, and it seems a safe prediction that twenty-five years hence It will not be j raeticed in any form by any people pretending to civilization. — Indianapolis Sentinel. It does not need a careful reading of tho official story to convince any one that the attempt to regulate by law the sencationalism in reports of executions is a farce, and that the regulation cannot bo repealed too soon. Apparently executions by electricity comply with all iho requirements of a humane law, but the off eial report must be filed away with other unsuccessful experiments. —Troy Uimes. The exeent on of the four murderers,. Sioeum, Smiler, Wood and Jugiro,which occurred in Sing Sing Prison, seemed to demonstrate the fact that electricity furnishes the most humane method of taking life. The tions which made the taking off of Kewunler a horror were avoided, and all witnesses testify that the four men died quick.y and painlessly.— Orand Rapids he nocrat It is safe to say that In New York at least tho rope and scaffold will never more be tho method of legaJly puttingcondemned murderers to death. The adoption of electrical execution by other States will not long be deferred.—Cleveland Plain D;aln\ There are differences of opinion as to the deterrent influences of the death penalty on evil-doers, but there is n» room at all for donbt that while this penalty remains in vogue the electrical system of inflicting it has many and conspicuous advantages over all other methods jei devised.—Sf. Louis Globe-Demo-crat.