Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Page 2

ftp 3 rmocraticSc ntine I RENSSELAER, INDIANA, i. W. McKWXN, - - - Tvmumm

A FAMILY ANNIHILATED

BY A FLYING RAILWAY TRAIN AT ELMIRA.

A Disastrous Blase Benders Many People Homeless—Shock ng Accident at a Pic* ! nic—Two Kentucky Tramps Kill Many People—Counterfeiter Captured. t 1 • STRUCK BY A FLYING TRAIN. A Wagon Containing Seven Persons Caught on a Crossing and Six Killed. At Elmira, N. Y.. an Erie train struck a wagon, in which were a man and his wifo and five children, at a crossing. Four of the party were inst'antly killed, while two others are fatally injured. A freight train Was cut in two, leaving a space between the cars sufficient to drive through at the crossing. The party were driving in a covered wagon and came upon the tracks at a rapid pace. The fast parsenger train came down upon them at a speed of forty miles an hour. The dead are Wellington Wulte: his daughter Lillian, aged 9 years; Hattie Hastings, 9 years; and Susie McCarthy, a little nurse girl, aged 12 years. Mrs. White sustained a severe fracture of the skull, as did also her infant daughter, and neither can recover. Mr. White was a minister to Japan, a graduate of Amherst College, and of the New York Theological Seminary. BLAU IN ASHES A Thriving W.scon.in Town Is Almost Tota’ly Obliterated by Fire. t The village of Blair; of about 403 inhabitants, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, and one of the most nourishing on the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Hailroad, was almost entirely destroyed by lira, entailing a loss of at leust 8150,000. The town had no fire protection and everything was built of wood, and a brisk wind was blowing. There was nothing to do but try to save what was possible, though the amount was inconsiderable. Ten or twelvo families were left homeless, though there were no Injuries or fatalities. Some of the individual losses are as high as $15,900; the insurance light. The town will rebuild Immediately.

ON THE DIAMOND. flow tile Clubs Engaged in the National Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each.of tho teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. tfc.! W. L. |9o. Chicagos....47 82 .6<siPhiladelp’s. 88 40 .4*7 New Yorks.. 42 81 ,576lRrooklyna.. 85 42 .465 Bostons 43 34 .558jCincinnatl8.33 40 .418 Clevelands. .41 4J .606|PlttBburgs..31 46 .408 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. w. L. spc.l W. L. ii?c. Bostons 66 2G ,KS3lColumbus.. .48 44 .491 fit. Louis. ...37 81 .64SlClncinnati».37 49 . 430 Baltimores..47 32 .695lLouisville8..3G Cl .33C Philadelp's..4l 41 .600iWasliiugt'n.20 C 3 .92W WESTERN ASSOCIATION. V/. L. sc. W. L. »c. Omahae 43 26 .628 filonz Cltv».4o <2 .4-8 Milwaukees.M 82 .Cl 4 Kansas C’vs.3B 42 .47. Minneapo's.,4s r» ‘.536 Denvers..B2 47 .40 Lincolns....4l 97 .626 Duluths 80 ;5 ,P 5. Policeman Killed In a Row. There was a fight oji the platform of a coach near Lockwood, Pa. Jumos Ke.l,\ u policeman of Johnstown, drew a revolver to quell the row. The crowd sprang upon him and forced him between the ears. Kelly dropped under the wheols and was killed. Lucas Myres, of Latrobo, was thrown from the plutform and killed.

Je-.se Jumos' House at the Fair. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of Jesse James, the outlaw, has accepted an offer from Chicago to exhibit their house, a one and a half-story log structure, at the World's Fair. The up-stairs is a low loft in vhi'h the James boys used to hide and the north and east sides are fuil of loopholes from which they could shoot their encmlos. Fahey lVa< Not Hurt. Near Wheeling. W. Vn., at a family picnic, Andrew Height came up with a shotgun and Joseph Fahey took it from him, asking if it was loaded. Height said It was not, and Fahey snapped it. Miss McGowan died in ten minutes. Woatzel will loso one of his eyes. Yellow F.ver in Mexico. Vera Cruz advices state that the yellow fever is spreading. The British consul ut Baker and Pedro Baraua. the noted Mexican general, died recently. Advices from Tampico say that work on the harbor improvement is progressing rapidly, and will soon be finished.

Wife-Murder and Suicide. At Corona, L. I.‘, Henry Nelson committed suicide, after a horrible murder of his wife, Jennie. There were found in the room scraps of paper upon which Nelson had written that he killed his wife In selfdefense. An Old Offender. •William A. Teal, who has served three terms for counterfeiting, is held for the same offense by Indianapolis officers. Ho was first arrested in the ’7o’s, lie is a chip of i&tir- his father having died iu prison. Kentucky Murders. Near Paris, Ky., a tramp killed a farmer, his wife, and son. and dangerously wounded another son. Five miles away, a negro killed Charles Conway, his mother, and wounded another of the family, when he was shot dead by a neighbor. Formed a Gypsum Trust. The price war between the gypsum stucco mills of the West has come to an end. Two years ago stucco sold from 80 to $S a ton. During the war it sold as low us 5:1.50. The old prices are restored. Made a New Keeor.l for Divers. At Kansas City, Mu., Frank Lindensttne broke the world’s high diving record by fire feet. He dived eighty-five feet. *John Brown's Body. John Brown, a negro desperado of Jackson. T6nn., was lynched for the unprovoked murder of John Gardner. He Killed His Rival. Near Paineoville, Ohio, William Wood was found in a dying condition in a field, and a German named Herman was arrested. Herman and Wood had been c mrtlng Agnes Schwind. Herman was jealous. When arrested his clothes were covered with blood. Heap hick Indiana. Three Indians, at Billings, Montana got drunk and started borne Two went to sleep on the railroad tracks, and the third told the station mas ter he was “heap sick. *> A few minutes after a train ran over his two companions and killed them.

I ROYAL ARCH MASONS. Convocation of tbo General Grand Chapter at Minneapolis. The General Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America held Its twenty-eight triennial convocation ut Minneapolis, Minn. Tho body is the largest Mas ;pic body in the world, having a membership of 141,901. it Is also the oldest body in the United States,and it will celebrate Its centennial in 1897. The addressrof welcome was delivered by Mayor P. B. Winston and the ’ response was by General Grand High Priest D. F. 'Bay, ‘Of Buffalo, N. Y. The report' Of tho general grand scribe showed that in two years the net growth of the order was 14,942. The total membership now is 141,901. Since 1889, 8186,790 was collected and $108,097 expended. There wpre 2,069 enrolled chapters. Interesting reference was made to the growth of the order in Asia. Mexico, and South America. .The grand chapter in Chill had not been heard from on account of tho civil war. The general grand high priest, in his address, said that the grand chapters of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, which were still independent, would probably be brought under the general chapter, as well as the Canadian grand chapters, before the centennial.

TRADE IS FAIRLY GOOD. General Improvement Noted, with Confidence In the Future Unstinted. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Borne improvement in the business situation Is still noted. There is more actual trade in most of the leading branches, and more gonerui confidence as to the future. But the monetary situation does not grow clearer. A speculation in products is springing' up which threatens to mnko trouble when the crop movement becomes large. Distribution of circulars in enormous number from Minneapolis and Washington, professedly by the Farmers’ Alliance, advising all farmers to bold tbelr wheat, does not yet affect actual receipts, but stimulates speculators to buy largely, in expectation of a boom, and much money has already been locked Up In carrying accumulating stocks. With the utmost freedom In movement of wheat, tho recovery from Europe of tho $70,000,000 gold shipped this year would bo difficult, but with wheat exports checked for some months scarcity of money would be felt in all markets and in all branches of Industry. The condition of trade Is generally more favorable than a week ago.

SEVEN KILLED AND SCORES INJURED A Freight Crashes Into an Excursion Train at Middletown, Ohio. While the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton excursion train of fourteen cars was returning with the National Cash Register employes from a picnic at Woodsdale Park a freight train crashed into it at Middletown Station, Ohio, killing seven persons and injuring fifty more. The excursion train broke a draw-bar while pulling on the siding, and in the delay of repairing a freight train came along and ran into the next to the rear coach, causing the awful disaster. Tho breaking of the excursiontrain couplings was caused by one of the excursionists pulling the air-brake cord for a joke. FIFTY PER .Oil's KILLED. AH Excuri on Train W recked Just Outside of Paris, Franc?. Just out of Paris, France, a collision between excursion trains occurred at St. Maude, In which fifty persons were killed aud 100 wounded and threo carriages wrecked. Both trains were returning from a musical festival at Fontenoy. The guards' van aud the throe rear carriage* of the first train were wrecked and caught fire from the gas. Most of the dead victims are legless, their limbs having been crushed off through the jummlng together of the seats. The driver aud fireman of the second train were burned alive. It is reported that the statlonmaster has gone mad and decamped.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. B. Wilkerson -May Mo Lynched Because ot I His Infatuation fur a Stepdaughter. About a weok ago H. B. Wilkerson eloped from Belton, Texas, with his stepdaughter. He was arrested at Lorena, Texas, and brought back. The affair has finally culminated in a double murder. Wilkerson shot and killed his wife and then attempted to carry off the stepdaughter. Her cries brought some of the neighbors to her rescue, and as one of them, W. Hamilton, got within ten feet of him Wilkerson leveled his shotgun and shot him dead. Wilkerson will be lynched if caught. ELOPED WITH A GABBLER. A Wealthy Pennsylvana He ress Unites Her Fortunes wi h “Handsome Harry.” At Sbumokln, Pa., a sensation has been caused by the elopement of “Handsome Harry,” the king of Pennsylvania gamblers, and Miss Lizzie Johnson, daughter of Lawyer Johnson, who for forty-five years was Register and Recorder of Montour County, and who died nearly a year ago. leaving SIOO,OOO. Miss Lizzie is a- beauttful brunette, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and a favorite in society. Harry Lattimer has long been called the king of gamblers. He has won and lost thousands of dollars.

HIRING SAILORS FOR BALMACEDA. An Agent of tho Chilian President Trying to Securo Now Englanders. It is stated that an agent of Balmaceda’s government has traversed tho whole coast of New England, from Cape Cod to Eastport. for the purpose of hiring sailors to make up crews for two men-o T-war. The ships have been fitted out in France, but the necessary officers and crews could not be secured in Europe. The agent offers large bounties and big wages. How far he succeeded is not known. CONVICT WAR IS OVER. Miners Agree to Keep th- Peace anti No Blood Will Be Shed. The Tennessee convict war is over, at least for the present. Tho law will be enforced without resistance and tlie dignity of the Stato maintained. A telegram from Coal Creek says everything is quiet and orderly, and the miners are rejoicing over the peaceable ending of the trouble. The convicts will return to work for the present and the miners will depend on the Legislature to repeal the law. ELLIOTT BREAKS LOOSE. Sensation in tlio Murder Trial at Columbus, Ohio. W. J. Elliott, on trial for murder at Coiambus, Ohio, caused a sensation by calling Prosecutor Hullng a liar, when in his argument he referred to charges against a female member of Elliott’s family. Elliott’s lawyers tried t« stop him. but he wildly gesticulated and continued: “If'lhangl want to hang like a gentleman.” The Sheriff seized him at this juncture and forced him into a chair. HOLD BANK ROB ERS. Throe Crooks Get Away with 94,000 In i Broad Day i.ht at Kashin, Pa. A daring robbery was committed in the Easton, Pa., National Bank at noon by

three men who secured fi.OQ,O and mads good their escape. At the hour mentioned' three men entered the bank And white two of them engaged the two clerks who were on duty in conversation tiie third man managed to get to the vault from which he secured a package containing $4,000. ’

JUDGE THURMAN’S HEALTH. The Stad’ooi Hab t« of the Venerable Statesman Producing I ad Effects. Word comes from Columbus, Ohio*that Judge Allen G. Thurman Is failing fast. Failure to take exercise is causing him to lose his physical strength. Since he left public life he hus practically shut himself In his library. TOWN CAVING IN. Edwardsvl’Je, Pa,. Falling Into the Mines Beneath Ihe Town. The earth has caved in in many places in Edwardsvlile. Pa, causing houses to topple over and renderlrig the land in the vicinity useless for further building.

Car Shops Purchased. The great East street shops, Springfield, Ohio, the largest in America, and excepting the Krupp gun works at Essen, Germany, the largest in the world, built by William N. Whito’.ey, quondam Reaper King, seven years ago at a cost of over $1,500,000, have Just 4>eon sold to a syndicate of Chicago, Cleveland and New York parties. The purchase price agreed upon is $290,000, two-thirds of the appraisement. The company’s corporate name will be “The Central Car Repair Manufacturing Company.” Its manufactures will b 3 railway cars, car repairs and railway supplies of every kind. Tragedy Among Criminals. At Topeka, Kan., a tragedy was enacted at the State penitentiary. While returning from divine service two colored convicts happened to be togother. One of them,' through accident or designs, kept stepping on the heels of his fellow convict. A fight ensued, during which the offending convict was thrown or pushed to tho stone floor beneath, a distance of thirty feet. He soon died.

Bapk Thieves Snatch 82,000. At Akron, Ohio, while George C. Berry, Jr., cashier of the Werner Printing and Lithographing Company, was answering a decoy telephone call his assistant, Otto Schoenduve, aged 18, swept $2,000 in greenbacks and gold Into a basket, ran through the open door; jumped into a two-horse carriage In which were two confederates about his own age, and disappeared. Preacher Commits Suicide. At Indianapolis, Ind., the body of Rev. J. N. Wright was found floating In the canal. It is supposed that he drowned himself. He was 78 years old and was one of the oldest Methodist preachers In the State. Will Cultivate Figs. Great interest Is aroused among the people of Pomona Valley (Cal.) by the purchase of 400 acres of land, with an option of 300 more, for the purpose of planting the largest flg orchard in the world. Guatemala Unable to Pay. It Is announced that Guatemala Is unable to pay the $30,000 due the San Salvador Government for cable messages paid by Salvador to the cable company at Libertad on her account.

Alter an Alliance Judge. G. W. McKay, the Kansas Alliance Judga who ignored a decision of the State Supremo Court, was summoned before (.hat tribunal and was made to promise to abide by Its decisions hereafter. Murderer Ozburn Hanged. Charles M. Ozburn was hanged at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of John M. Bradley on May 5, 1890. Tho execution took place in the county jail before about forty witnesses. Will Test the Law. An editor of the New York News has been indicted for publishing an account of the recent electrocution at Slug Sing. The New York law forbids such publication. Tlife Only Ones Now Out. The only countries now outside the Universal Postal Congress are Capo Colony and the South African Republics.

Fired His Bedding. At Woodstock. 111., Anton Motll, an Insane prisoner In the county Jail, fired his bedding and was burned t» a crisp. Women’s Home Missionary Society. The Womon’s Home Missionary Society of America is holding its annual session at Ocean Grove, N. J. Business Failures. The Citizens' Bank, of Jefferson, Texas, has made an assignment, witli T. B. Rogers as assignee. Didn't Reach Pork. The French Senate adjourned before reaching the pork section of the tariff bill. Damage to the Crops. A ball-storm did great damage to crops in McPherson County, S. D.

THE MARKETS.

_ CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.50 @6.50 Hoes —Shipping Grades... too @ 6.75 Sheet..,., 3.00 @ 5.75 Wheat— No. 2 Red 8S @ .80 Corn—No. 2 eo @ .61 Rv® —No. 2...... os ,0 t 7O Butter—Choice Creamery 16 @ !l7 Creese—Fall Cream, flats 03 @ .09 Egos —Fresh 13W@ 14W Potatoes—New. per bu 50 @ 'eo " _ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping..... 3,50 @ 6.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3,50 @ 5.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 mi 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 82 @ 83 Corn—No. 1 White 64 @ 6414 Oats-No. 8 White « % Vgj _ ST. LOUIS. ij ATTLE 3.50 @ 6 00 dogs 4 bo ftfi 575 Wheat-No. 2 Red 84 @ 86 Corn—No. 2 5a gt 50 No.a Pork—Mess 11.25 @11.75 „ CINCINNATI. g ATTI - E 3.50 @ 5.25 Wheat-No. 2 Red ..I"; 2 S -Corn—No. 2 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 37 @ 38 * „ DETROIT, £ A 3” rr ‘ 11 3.00 @ 5.25 DHEEP.., 300 /a 400 Wheat—No. 8 Red "...1... 90 @ 91 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 03 *O4 Oats—No. 2 White 44V. @ '4SU _ TOLEDO. Wheat—New oa <a qi coRN-ca.h. f, g ;« 2 Oats—No. 2 White 40 @ 42 Clover Seed 415 @ 4.25 „ BUFFALO., Beep Cattle 4.50 @ 0.00 Live Hogs ’ 4'25 @6.00 Sheep 4.C0 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 104 @ loe „ MILWAUKEE. ’ Wheat—No. 2 Spring 89 @ .91 Oa«-No. 2 White 41 I Al* Barley—No. 2 j ~... .69 @ . 70 Pork—Mass 14.55 @u. sa „ NEW YORK. £ A^ r,K - 3.50 @ 6.00 g™*”- LOO @ 6,00 Wheat-No 2 Red. . w % Corn—No. 2.... .70 @ .72 Oats—Mixed Western 99 @ .43 Butter—Creamery 14 ® 'ig Posa—New Mesa 12.75 «1S 85

PEACE NOW RESTORED.

FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE MINING TROUBLES. - - -i Successful Adjustment of What Might Have Been a Serious Matter—Militia Sent Home—Resolutions—Origin of the Trouble. Peace has been restored In the Tennessee mining.regions, and the trouble, which seemed about to necessitate shooting down probably scores of miners to uphold the law, has been adjusted.

COL. SEVIER, OF MILITIA.

half an hour the trouble was ended. The Hon. Dennis Leahy, at the beginning of the session, presented the draft of a series of resolutions, which were unanimously received. The resolutions

were presented to the Knoxville committee of citizens, and by them approved and signed. An interview was then had with Gov. Buchanan and Attorney General Pickle. To say that the

opportunity t o obtain peace without blood-

EUGENIS MERRILL, THE MINERS’ LEADER.

shed was jumped at puts the thing mildly, for a “love meeting” followed in which all took part. Following are the resolutions: We, the undersigned, committee on behalf of the miners and their friends of

J. E. GOODWIN, ASST.

supt. OF convicts, means to prevent any Interference with them. 2. Reposing confidence In our Governor, and believing the General Assembly, when they meet in extra session, will give us the necessary relief from the oppression that now hangs over us, we will endeavor to conduct ourselves as law-abiding people, so as to maintain the confidence and sympa-

thy of the public in the future as well as in the past. 3. And we do hereby express thanks to Governor Buchanan for the kind consideration in holding the militia in this city and thereby preventing a conflict that might have resulted in bloodshed. 4. And to the committee of citizens we also express thanks for the interest they have shown by their counsel and advice in their efforts to adjust the oxisting difficulties. Jobiah T. Thomas, J. W. Hardin, 8. R. Pickering, 8. F. Moore, W. F. Smith. We. tho citizen committee, hereby approve of tho above. Dennis Leahy, William Rule, J. C. J. Williams, D. A. Carpenter. This ends the trouble In the mining districts. The militia were drawn up at dress parade and orders read releasing them from strict discipline. Tho orders were received with tumultuous cheering, for the troops did not relish a week or

THE COAL CREEK DEPOT.

two in tho mountains. The fourteen compauies left for their homes on a special train. The’convicts will be removed to Briceville and Coal Creek at once. The miners’ committee remained in Knoxville to accompany the guards and convicts to guarantee protection when the train arrives at Coal Creek. This action will not meet the full approval of all the miners, but the terms of the agreement will be kept. Never In the history of labor agitation have i'legal acts been committed in as orderly a fashion as were those of the Coal Creek Valiev miners. They are so thoroughly disciplined and so thoroughly controlled by the miners’ union that it is universally conceded that the end of the struggle has come. ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. Last week about 403 armed strikers attacked the guards who had charge of fifty felons at Briceville and liberated them. Gov. Buchanan was immediately notified and responded by ordering two companies from Chattanooga and one from Knoxville to the scene. Of the fifty convicts taken from the guards at Briceville, two escaped and the others Were brought to Knoxville. When the militia arrived they took the convict*

A Knoxville special savsi When the situation looked to those on the inside more dangerous than at any time since the bcgiiining of the Bri cev 111 e agitation, the miners’ committee met in a room at the Lamar House, and in

Briceville and Coal Creek, and In the lute r e s t of harmony, do submit the following, trusting that It will meet with your favorable consideration : 1. The status quo to be restored,, and. guards and cohvicts not to be molested on their return to the mines, and we will use all ordinary caution and honorable

THE BRICEVILLE MINES.

back with tnem and warned the ihob that they would protect them at ail hazards. Gov. Buchanan at once proceeded to the seat of trouble and explained his position to the rebellious miners. He told them that it was his • sworn duty, to uphold the law, and if the convict lease system was wrong be was not to blame, and that the only recourse of the men was through the Legislature. The miners announced that their families were starving and they were compelled to drive out the convicts if it cost the life of every man in the valley. They made all sort 3 of fun of the beardless youths, but declared they would not harm the “spiderlegged, cigarette-smoking dudes,” as they characterized the militia, but that as soon as the militia were withdrawn they would release every convict in the region. Bet oming impatient, however, at the delay in recalling the troops they decided to try to overcome the soldiers by force of numbers, and succeeded only too well. W'hile there have been differences existing between the mine operators using convict labor and the miners for years, never did the people of-Coal Creek and vicinity feel that the State militia would be needed to settle the differences between Fast Tennessee miners and convict operators. But when it became evident that another mine heretofore using free labor was to be handled by the outlaws of the State there at once arose mutterings of discontent Had the Tennessee Coal Mining Company not made an effort to put in convict labor instead of retaining the lree miners, it is thought there would have been no call for troops at the company’s mines. The people could have endured the convicts they had had to fight against for years, but when it became apparent that more free miners were to be displaced, and work had to be sought elsewhere, a halt was called. Indignation reached a fever heat, and .but for the cool heads and good of the leaders there would sjubt:ess have been b oodshed.

EARLY DAYS.

Building a Log Cabin on the Desolate Frontier. Log-cabin building was great fun to the boys, although they did not find it easy work. There was a certain novelty about the raising of the structure that was to be a home, and an interest in learning the use of rude tools, that lasted until the cabin was finished. The maul and the wedges, the frow and the little maul intended for it, and all the other means and appliances of the building were all new and strange to these bright lads. First, the size of the cabin, twelve feet wide and twenty feet long, was marked out on the site on which it was to rise, and four logs were laid to define the foundation. These were the sills of the new house. At each end of every log two notches were cut. one on the under side and one on the up-

per, to fit into similar notches cut in the log below, and in that which was to be placed on top, Sp each corner was formed by these interlacing and overlapping ends. The logs were piled up, one above another, just as children build “cob-houses” from odds and ends of playthings. Cabin-build-ers do not say that a cabin is a certain number of feet high; they usually say that it is ten logs high, or twelve logs high, as the case may be. When the structure is as high a 3 the eaves are intended to be, the top logs are bound together, from side to Bide, with smaller logs fitted up&i the upper logs of each side and laid across as if thev were to be the supports of a floor for another story. Then the gable ends are built up of logs, shorter and shorter as the peak of the gable is approached. and kept in place by other smaller logs laid across, endwise of the cabin, and locked into the end es each log in the gable until all are in place. On these transverse logs, or rafters, the roof is laid. Holes are cut or eawed through the logs for the door and windows, and the house begins to look habitable.

The settlers on the Bepublican Fork cut the holes for doors and windows before they put on the roof, and w T heu thelayer of split shakes that made the roof was in place, and the boys bounded inside to see how things looked, they were greatly amused to notice how light it was. The space between the logs was almost wide enough to crawl through, Oscar said. But they had studied log-cabin building enough to know that these wide cracks were to be “chinked” with thin strips of wood, the refuse of shakes, driven in tightly, and then daubed over with clay, a ime bed of which was fortunately near at hand. The provident lonnkins had laid away in his own cabin the sashes and glass for two small windows; and these he had agreed to sell to the newcomers. Partly hewn logs for floorjoists were placed upon the ground inside the cabin, previously leveled off for the purpose. On these were laid thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven out of logs drawn from the grove near by. These slabs of hardwood ere “puncheons,” and fortunate as was the man who could have a floor of sawed lumber to his cabin, he who was obliged to use puncheons was better off than those with whom timber was so scarce that the natural surface of ground was their only floor. SL Nicholas. A New Yoke girl, suffering from the grip, meditated suicide. Then, changing her mind, she sought relief in another way—she got married.

WERE SLAIN BY A JOKE.

THE OHIO WRECK CAUSED BY WANTON FOOLISHNESS. Several Lives Are Lost—Nearly Fortv I’er- , sons Injured, Some Fatally—Two Cars Thrown Off the Track and Demolished— Tbrl ling Stories of Eye-Witnesses. The wreck at Middletown, Ohio, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, was one of the worst that have ever happened in that vicinity. The National t ash Register Company of Dayton had given its employes an excursion to Woodsdale, in a train of sixteen coaches. The day had passed merrily, and everybody was laughing and chat~ ting when the train reached Middletown at 8 o’clock on its way home. Some one had turned the air-brakes on for a joke* and the engine was puffing and wheezing to pull the heavy load with the brakes on. Pretty soon a draw-bar broke, and the train was stopped on the siding at Middletown for repairs. William G. Douglass, one of the foreman of the National Cash Register Works, tells this story of the wreck: The train of fifteen crowded fiats' started on its return trip from Woodsdale about 7 o’clock and about an hour later the accident occurred at Middletown. A drawbar about the middle of the excursion traih broke and they stopped at Middletown to patch it up for the run to Dayton. Brakemfen were immediately sent out with red flags to flag the approaching train, and nearly half an hour was consumed in repairing the disabled car. Red lights were not promptly changed to tho rear of this car, though the train was pulling out when the accident occurred at nearly 8 o’ciock. The 250 men, women, and children were in the last three coaches ana all knew that freight train No. 44 was following and they appreciated and ti’ked of their danger. Some of them called Conductor Peter G. Clancy’s attention to their peril and he cautioned them that if they heard train 44 coming they should jump from the car. Five minutes later the awful disaster was upon them. The excursion was slowly creeping off the side-track, when an ominous roaring was heard from the expected train No. 44, not over a quarter of a mile away. Nearer and nearer came the monster mogul with thirty-five loaded cars, and when in sight of Middletown Station Engiseer the flagman waving the danger signal, and he immediately called for brakes, shut off steam and applied the sand. He saw that a collision was inevitable. Then he and his fireman jumped and an instant iater the crash came—a rear-end collision of mighty force. The excursion train was pulling out on to the main track and all but the two rear coaches had left the siding when the mogul engine with the heavy train behind it went plowing through. The two rear cars and human freight were hurled into the ditch and the next coach was struck fairly in the end, and the locomotive, pushing under, elevated it to an angle of forty-five degrees, and there it stood, filled with shrieking peop e This car caught fire, but Engineer Schwind and his fireman were able to extinguish tli3 blaze by use of hose from the locomotive. Two ears lay crushed in the ditch with a mass of maimed and mangled people moaning in agony, pleading for help. Rescuers set to work at once to extricate them. Legs, arms and heads could be seen through broken windows or pinned under the wreck. Moans t of the helpless sufferers, and moans of tho dying, mingled with the frantic cries of mothers seeking husbands and children. Many had been cut by glass and the timbers in the rush to escape, and bloody faces and hands bore ghastly testimony to the great number who were injured. Physicians and citizens ol Middletown were soon at the scene to join in rescuing the unfortunates. The terror-stricken excur.-ionists were made comfortable in the houses, the dead persons were properly cared for, and the injured received all necessary attention. A tramp named James Wilson, of Columbus, Ohio, who, with his two little boys, was having a free ride on the freight train, says he is a railroader by occupation and was on the third cai from tho front when approaching Middletown; that he plainly saw the red lights swinging, and that the engineer tried to stop the train but could, not, and the heavy cars crowded him into the excursion train.

WIND FANNED THE FLAMES.

Twenty-two Buildings Burned in Sou til Haven—Foundry Damaged in Toledo. At South Haven, Mich., fire broke oul in H. Zeedyke’s grocery store. Before the flames were under control twentytwo buildings were burned. A strong northwest wind was blowing at the time, and before apparatus was at the scene the fire had full sway, and the people could only look on and see 11 burn. The tearing down of two small stores finally stopped the flames. Loss, about 840,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. Among the heaviest losers were: Guy Smith & Co., grocers, $0,000; insurance, $4,200; G. B. Pomeroy, agent implements, $3,000; no insurance; C. Coinstock, groceries, $4,500; no insurance; C. J. Fletcher, store and house, $4,000; insurance, $500; D. Peckham, $3,500; no insurance; H. Zcedyke, J. McCrimmons, the Public Library, the G. A. R. armory, Masonic Hall, and many othei buildings. Fire broke out in the foundry-room of the Central Chandelier Company’s building, Toledo, Ohio, destroying the greater portion of the two upper floors. The loss was chiefly on machinery, and is roughly estimated at $15,000; insurance, $19,0C0. Near Vacaville, Cal., fire in the Blue Mountains burned over a large extent of territory. There are a large numbei of thriving orchards recently planted in Gate’s Canyon, besides a number of residences, and, as seen from the town, the entire section is burned oyer. No cal' for help has been made, and no advice as to the extant of the damage ts obtainable. Miss’lvr Links. Butter is sold by the- yard at Cambridge, England. ' •'/£*’ Philadelphia claims the largest cold storage warehouse in the Uiilted States! It is said that the five leading hotels at Saratoga take in an asrgiogaite of $2,000,000 a month during the busy season. Berlin's Society for the Homeless lasi year provided shelter for 100,000 nen and 15,100 women. In the eleven years of it* existence it has furnished lodgings, food aud medical care, to 2,2Q0.00C persons.