Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Page 2

BJjt JlcmocraticSentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, - - Publisher

TWO WIVES TOO MANY.

BECAME REPENTANT AND CONFESSED HIS CRIME. Most Terrible Disaster In the History of Northwestern Collieries—Bad. Girl from Polecat Creek—Her Child Devoured by • Bear. At Washington. On tbe lOtb, after passing several resolutions for printing various government reports, including the thirteenth annuel report of the geological survey, the last reports of the fish commission and of the bureau of animal industry, tho Houso proceeded with tho sundry civil appropriation, Mr. Cogswell, of Massachseutts, opposing the policy of the committee in neglecting to make proper provision for certain public works, notably public buildings and lighthouses, whilo Mr. Wilson of "Washington, Mr. Sweet of Idaho, Mr. Clark of Wyoming, and Mr. Hermann of Oregon all spoke i? fa-vor of larger appropriations for surveying the public lands. Mr. Enloe, Tennessee, criticised the coast and geodetic survey, and Mr. Dingley, of Maine, closed the debate In a general criticism of tbe Committee On Appropriations for the duplicity displayed in the ponding bill. The House then adjourned. In the Senate, a bill was passed changing the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park. Four bills for this putpose have been pending in the Senate, and the measure passed is a sort of compromise. fOkty-thbee are dead. Explosion from Unknown Causes In a Roslyn, Wash., Tunnel. At 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon a terrible explosion occurred In the slope of Mine No. 2 of the Northern Pacific Coal Company at Boslyn, Wash. The loss of Ufo exceeds In number that of any other disaster that has ever been chronicled in the Northwest or on tho Pacific slope. The exact nature of tho explosion or the circumstances that led to It will probably never, bo known, since It Is believed that every miner who was working in the slops at the time perished. It is believed that between fortyfive and fifty men were in the three levels that were affected b 7 the explosion. Most Of the men were 1,500 to 2,000 feet down the slope and In the immediate vicinity of the accident There is no doubt either in the minds of the miners or the company’s officials that every man was instantly killed by the explosion. A FRANTIC MOTHER. Her Baby Devoured Before Her Eyes by a Black Boar. Mrs. Mary Carter, a widow with a family of small children. Is a raving maniac as a result of a raid upon her little cabin by a half-starved black bear. In which two of her children lost their lives and one was half devoured before her eyes, says a Mountain Home (Ark.) dispatch. Her cabin stands upon a hillside some distance above the town. A heavily wooded grove extends up to a small clearing immediately before the house. In this clearing her five children were playing while the mother was engaged inside the cabin. Suddenly the wild scroamlng of the children Startled her. She saw an enormous bear strike down her oldest boy. who had bravely attempted to defend the others. The ferocious .beast seized the baby *Dd shuffled rapidly away, the frantic mother dashing after them In pursuit The auimal tore the little one limb from limb before the mother's eyes, and before help arrived from the village completed his meal and escaped within the forest CONSPIRATORS CONDEMNED.

judgment Pronounced Upon the Anatalni of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Agent. The two men. Merdjan and Christo, who were charged with the murder of Dr. Vulkovlsch, the Bulgarian Diplomatic Agent 12 Turkey, hare been found guilty at Cftiyftpnttnople and condemned to death. Tn fektchletT and the brothera Naonra, wiio known to be the Instigators of fin crime, lied to ela, but they, too, though without Turkish 1 jurisdiction, were tried and each sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. It Is believed that the result of these trials will cause a relaxation of the tension between Bulgaria and Turkey, which it was thought at one time would lead the former to throw off all allegiance to Turkey and declare herself independent. Owns Up to Three Wives. E. H. Olney. the husband of three living Wives, gave himself up to the police In Augusta, & C,, and confessed himself a scoundrel He says one of his wives lives In Paris, Tenn., another in Augusta, Kan., and the third in a small country town In Tennessee. Olney professed religion not long ago and this led him to confess tho crime Olney Is a machinist and |went to Augusta from Blackstoue, Maas., about a year ago. The Augusta authorities would not take him In charge, but advised him to go back to Tennessee of his own accord, which he says he will do. Moonshiners on Trial. The United States Court convened at Covington, Ky., Tuesday, and 100 moonshiners, men. women and children, are up for trial It is a strange-looking crowd. Most of the men and all of the children are barefooted. The women chew and smoke, and one of them. Jane Melton, Is the most notorious moonshiner in the State. Her distillery is at Pole Cat Creek, Leslie County. She can ontshoot Bogardus, has whipped every man she ever a'tacked, can knock a yearling steer down with one blow of her fist and for years has defied the United States revenue officers.

Two Hanged at One Time. L. D. Slaughter and Tom Bailey were banged at Little Bock. Both executions took place from the same gallowa The men were negroes. Slaughter murdered his mistress in a fit of jealous rage in June, 1801. Bailey shot and killed a peddler from Jacksonville, 111., afterward robbing the body. Canadian Women Want to Tote. Eighteen thousand women have memorialised the Dominion Parliament to be enabled to vote for members of that body. Prime Minister Abbott has Informed Mrs. Mary McDonell, of Toronto, the women’s representative, that their request will be granted. Senator M. W. Mathews Dead. State Senator MOton W. Mathews died at bis home In Urbana, 111., at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. His death was due to repeated attacks of Inflammatory rheumatism, which had induced heart trouble and a complication of diseases. * Mew Gold Fields Found. A Denver mine owner has received a letter from one of bis prospectors In Arizona Sying that he has discovered a new gold Id in the Chasco Mountains, just off the Kavajo reservation. He says that the belt extends for thirty miles and there are no Indications of Its having been prospected. , J Hagenbuek Secured n Wife. A sensation was created at Laporte. lad., by the elopement of Miss Minnie Hill, the Id-year-old daughter of John HIU, with Barry Hagenbuek. A telegram received from Hagen buck from Kalamatoo states that they were married in that city. The rooms man’s borne H In Locansnort.

WOMEN AND DANCING. fwo Big Subject* Before the Methodist Conference. Omaha dispatch: The Methodist General Conference had two sensations at the very beginning Monday. The women’s question was sprung In the form of a resolution of J. B. Maxwell of Nebraska, which asks that they be admitted to membership In the General Missionary Committee. Without debate It was referred. The second sensation showed that young blood in Methodism as well as In politics Is hound to come to the front and make itself felt. The only thing that had kept many young people out of the church Is the rule that dancing be prohibited. The oldschool Methodist will hold up his hands In horror when he hears that a scheme is on foot to allow the religious to mix a little gayety with their piety. But such is a fact. Among the memorials presented was one from the Troy conference, which petitions tho general conference to expunge from tho discipline section 242, relating to amusements, or at least asking that it he modified so that dancing may be permissible. The memorial Is signed by Rev. Wm. W. Foster, Joel W. Eaton, William H. Hughes, John W. Thompson, E. P. Stevens, E. E. Sawyer, and several others, all of New York. Bishop Foster, of Boston, approves the movement and has given It his official sanction and will no doubt advocate its adoption.

BROKE THE LEVEE. Appalling Catastrophe In the Morganxa, Above New Orleans. New Orleans dispatch: The groat Morganza levee In Polnte Coupee patlsh—the biggest levee In Louisiana—broke Monday In consequence of the great pressure of the swollen river against It At midnight the crevasse was 400 feet wide, and the water, six feet In depth, was rushing through with appalling force. The levee Is 25 feet high, from 60 to 150 feet wide and a mile long. It is one of tho most Important levees along the lower Mississippi, and parted at a point where a break will cause the greatest possible amount of damage, since it will lot tho water down on Polnte Coupee, Iberville, West Bnton Rouge, Assumption, Ascension, La Fourche, Iberia. St. Mary, and St. Martin parishes, and may flood all the country between it and the Gulf. This levee broke in 1884 and caused $10,000,000 of damage, cutting down the sugar crop of the State materially. It was partially •broken in 1890, but enough of It was held then to reduce the amount of damage. The United States government assisted in rebuilding It both times.

CROP OUTLOOK IS BAD. Heavy Rains and Cold Weather Threaten Disaster. The farmers In the West and Northwest have a good right to be blue these daya The heavy rainfalls seriously dolay those who have not finished their seeding, and the unseasonable snowstorms In the more northern regions have played havoc with the crops already In. The corn belt Is souked, and the tillers of the soli In Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and lowa are fretting away the time until the sun dries tho land so they can do their drilling and seeding. Wheat, too, will have to wait in many States until the land assumes a better condition for plowing. The outlook at present Is not at all encouraging. Cloudy weather still prevails In the vicinities visited by rain, and In those still visited by snow and sleet the temperature evinces a most discouraging tendency to hover about tho freezing point. RIOTOUS MOB OF MINERS.

PaUte Attacked and Property Destroyed and Stolen at an English Colliery. Quite a serious riot occurred Saturday evening at the Castledeu Colliery, near Hartlepool, England. The trouble grew out of the employment in the mine of a non-unionist named Stockdale. The union men attacked him, and would no doubt have seriously Injured him had It not been for the Interference of (he police. The mob wai in strong force, *aud finding that Stockdale had escaped them, they rushed to the colliery and smashed the engine-house to piece Some one lu the crowd suggested they attack Stockdaie’s house. This suggestion met with Instant approval, and. howling and yelling, the mob rushed to the house, and In a very short time It was totally wrecked. Great indignation is expressed at the action of tho mob, and there Is no doubt that the ringleaders will be severely punished. KILLED A WRECK. At Least Seven Lives Lost in an Accident on the Santa Fe. A terrible accident occurred shortly before I o’clock Thursday morning on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at the little town of Revere, In Missouri. The through California vestibuled, east hound, went through a bridge into a creek swollen by the heavy rains. The fact that tho telegraph wires are down makes It Impossible to obtain definite Information as to the number of killed and Injured, but as the whole train, with the exception of the last sleeper, went into the creek tho number must be largo. So far as known at the present time seven were killed, all residents of Missouri; teu were severely hurt. Sentenced to Hang. .The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has denied the application of Almy, Christie Warden's murderer, for a new trial, and he has been sentenced to be hung on the third Tuesday lu May, 1893. Tried to Kill His Brother. Henry Rogers, colored, shot his younger brother Charles at West Stockbrldge, Mass., during a quarrel. Charles will probably recover. Henry gave himself up.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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WITHOUT A WARNING.

SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN A SANTA FE WRECK. In the Midst of a Howling Storm the Transcontinental Express Plunges Through a Bridge—The Disaster Caused by a Tremendous Raln-FalL Down to Death. Without a word of warning, in tho midst of a frightful storm, the east,bound transcontinental express on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, filled with human beings wrapped in slumber, plunged through a trestle weakened by rain to death at about 1:45 Thursday morning, between Revere and Medill in Missouri, about 265 miles from Chicago. It was a frightful night, the rain fell as It never fell before, and only an occasional flash of lightning could be seen in tho gloom. The great express had come through from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Mexico to Kansas City on time. On arriving at Kansas City at 4:40 Wednesday afternoon orders were received to hold' it until 6:40, and run to Chicago on the time of the Denver limited, which was very late. At 6:40 the train, which was composed of a postal car, a baggage car, smoker, chair car, tourist sleeper, and two Pullman coaches, commenced its run to Chicago. All went well until a pile and trestle bridge over tho Fox River near Revere was reached. This bridge was about 175 feet long and 30 feet high. Two hours before the transcontinental express struck the bridge a heavy freight train passed over it in safety, but the pouring rain had swollen the raging torrent which rushed beneath the rails to a miniature Niagara, which finally carried the bridge out of line, yet left It standing and, so far as the engineer on the locomotive could see, all right. With wheels turning slowly for safety’s sake, for the storm was terrific, the train crawled slowly on the bridge. The engine crossed in safety. Then the bridge went down. Only the engine and rear sleeper were not precipitated into tho swiftly flowing waters which coursed through the ravine below. Five cars, with their load of human freight wearied into deep sleep with a long trip, and the remains of the bridge sank together in one conglomerate mass of crushed timbers, torn and twisted iron work and mangled humanity. Then came a wild cry from the wounded and dying rising above the noise of the storm. Lighted to their work of rescue, the engineer and fireman from one side of the stream and the uninjured occupants of the rear sleeper from the opposite bank hurried to give what aid was possible to thoße in the ravine. Men sprang from the windows of the wreoked cars, and fighting their way through whirling waters filled with debris reached the banks and fell exhausted. Not less than seven and possibly nine or more sank in the wreck to die. Twenty-five are known to have been injured. wires went down in the storm and only meager information reached Chicago regarding the wreck. Third Vice President J. D. Springer of the Atchison, and W. F. White, the passenger traffic manager, used every effort to obtain full details of the. accident, and freely furnished all information in their power to the reporters and anxious relatives of passengers who besieged the Atchison offices demanding information. It was with great difficulty that messages could be put through, but the Atchison officials received the following list of dead and injured, which was at once made public: Killed —William Hynes, Oklahoma City, Ok.; Lou Murkel(or Markee)Kansas City, Mo.; Luther Cornelius, Klrkville, Mo.; 8. E. Verkler, Westport, Mo.; John C. Grones, Macon, Mo.; lady and child, names unknown. A press dispatch confirms this list, and adds an unknown child, the engineer, and fireman as killed. This is not confirmed by the Atchison report from the officers on the ground to Vice President Springer, and regarding the engineer afad flrerrian was denied, as the locomotive crossed the bridge in safety. Injured .J. Tucker, conductor, Downers’ Grove; Martin Regan,’brakeman; W. A. Isham, brakoman, Riverside;. Andrew J, Ronajj, express messenger; Claud 801 l and R. E. Butcher, postal clerks; Mrs. Jane Hißey, Riversjdej J. C. Winslow, H. M. Cutler, H. C. Cowling, and N. Lanoaster, Chicago; W. A. Allen and Mrs. E. T. Allen, Athens, Pa.; Robert Schultz, Lexington Junction, Mo.; J. F. Hartgen, Reading, Pa.; William Adams, 0. L. Boys, J. Gunther, W. B. Barnes, J. H. Snider, S. H. Laugh, J. Mason, F. Graves, and W. G. Smith.

In addition to this there Is an unconfirmed report that an Italian woman and child were injured. Tho extent of the injuries could not be ascertained. The Atohison was in very bad shape. Superintendent 11. C. Ives started for the wreck early, but was confronted with three feet of water on the track at Lockport. The road was also under water east of Fort Madison, between Fort Madison and the wreck, and wires were down in places for many miles in length. The oast-bound Denver express, which followed the transcontinental express, attempted to run around the wreck on the Keokuk and Western branch of the Burlington, but was stoppod by a landslide a few miles out of Keokuk.

The accident seems to have been one of those unfortunate events that human foresight qan not guard against. The bridge was as strong as such a structure could be built, but tho heavy rains of the last few weeks, crowned by the awful storm of Wednesday night, so weakened it (that it went under. The accident will cost the Atchison over SIOO,OOO, and probably $150,000.

O’SULLIVAN PASSES AWAY.

The Iceman Breaths Ills Last in Joliet Penitentiary.

At the prison in Joliet, 111., Patrick O’Sullivan, imprisoned for life for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, at Chicago, drew his last breath at 7:40 o’clock Thursday evening. He passed away peacefully, as if falling asleep. No one was with him but a brother from lowa, his sister, Miss O’Sullivan, and a brother from Wisconsin. He was in a condition of semi-consciousness for the first time in a week, and recognized his sister and Dr. Ferguson, the prison physician, but said nothing. The doctor was not with him when he died. He was conscious just before his death and knew the end was approaching. His last words were: “Tell the world I died proclaiming my innocence to the last."

To Whiten the Hands.

Melt a pound of white castile soap over the fire with a little water. When melted, perfume slightly with any one of the extracts, and stir In half a cupful of common oatmeal. Use this preparation when washing your hands, and you will be surprised at the improvement in their appearance.

Sure Cure for Corns.

Mix nine parts of salicylic acid with one partof extract of cannabis indica and forty-e-ght parts of collodion. After bathing the feet in warm water apply this mixtu e to the affected parts with a camel’s hair brush. Do not resume tha st ckiug until the foot has bee une perfectly dry.

SILVER MEN HOPEFUL.

Obtaining Signatures to a rctltloa tar a Reopening o t the Great Question. According to a Washington dispatch the silver question threatens to cotae up again as a subject of present legislative Interest. The silver men are not disposed to accept their defeat, and there are again in circulation petitions urging the rules committee to bring out an order to fix a time for a vote on a treecoinage bQI. Some fifteen or more signatures have been obtained to one petition within the last two days, and Representative Pierce, of Tennessee, who has been the principal mover in the matter, says that with the signatures obtained several weeks ago ninetynine names altogether have been secured. Exclusive of the members of the Rules Committee US constitute a majority of the Democrats in the House, so that fourteen names yet remain to be obtained. Mr. Pierce says that he does not know what will be the result of his efforts —that he may fail to secure the requisite number of signatures—but that he intends to keep at work until he becomes convinced that he can not succeed. The anti-silver men are not giving themselves much concern over the matter,and say that they do not believe the silver bill will again be taken up at this Bession of Congress. They say they do not believe the requisite number of names can be secured; that the House looks upon the silver question as settled for this session, and is not in a mood for a renewal of the fight over the Bland bill.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Association Held In Washington. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the American Sunday-school Union was held in Washington; D. C. The-Hon. William Strong, the retired Justice of the United States Supreme Court, presided. . The Rev. Dr. James M. Crowell of Philadelphia presented the annual report. Sixteen hundred and sixtyfour new Sunday schools have been established, with 7,018 teachers and 50,551 scholars. Addresses were made by the Rev. J. S. McCullagh of Kentucky, W. K. de Gross of Kansas, and the Rev. B. W. Chidlaw, D. D., of Ohio. The latter is 85 years old, and his college diploma at Miami University was signed fifty-nine years ago by the Rev. Dr. Scott, father of Mrs. President Harrison, who, though 94 years of age, was upon the platform and pronounced the benediction.

BEHRING SEA TREATY SIGNED.

Queen Victoria and Lord Salisbury Affix Their Signatures. The other afternoon Minister Lincoln drove in a carriage ,to the Foreign Offioe In London, carrying a little leather case under his arm containing a copy of the Behring Sea treaty signed by President Harrison A quarter of an hour later he drove,back to the legation with the little case, which then contained a copy of the treaty signed by Queen Victoria and Lord Salisbury. The actual exchange of ratifications occupied only two or three minutes. It took place in the Secretary of State's room overlooking St James’ Park, and Lord Salisbury and Mr. Lincoln each signed his copy of the treaty with a new quill pen. The pens, together with the blottingpad used, were placed in a special bureau for preservation through the ages.

EXCITEMENT IN WAUKESHA.

Bmall-alzed Riot Between Citizens and Imported Laborers. Up to the present it has never been Buepeoted that bo innocent a beverage as water is capable of inciting, n riot. The town of Waukesha, Wis., however, where water in clear springs is abundant, has found the beverage productive of a certain quality of disorderly conduct. A party of 300 laborer?, who went thither the other night by instruction of a company of spring owners to begin laying pipes whereby to conduct water to Chicago, received a dlscouragfng reception. The whole town arose from its beds to discourage them. Firebells were rung, toe residents dashed to the soene of ketion, the fire-hose was mercilessly trained on the Incoming laborers, and the latter finally gave up the battle for the night.

Selling Bogun Convention Tickets.

People outside of Minneapolis are beginning to realize that the pressure for seats in the convention hall will be great and all sorts of schemes to gain admission will be sprung upon the doorkeepers. An enterprising Chicago swindler, the local executive committee has learned, has printed thousands of fraudulent tickets in that city which he is disposing of at such prices as he can obtain to the unwary. A Minneapolitan recently came across one of these tickets in the windy city and informed the local committee of the fraud. The impostor has obtained a fair idea of the interior of the hall and the numbers of the seats, and has thus been able to perpetrate his fraud with considerable skill.

Fatal Duel in Kansas.

At Marlon, Kansas, J. E. McCarty shot and killed E. A. Gross. A bad feeling had existed between the parties for some time, and they met and quarreled. Gross told McCarty to arm himself and meet him at an appointed place. McCarty prooured a shotgun and met Gross with the above fatal result. McCarty is a respected citizen and an auctioneer of more than local reputation, while Gross was a butcher.

Deep Know in Nebraska.

Snow has fallen at Bushville, Neb., to a depth of sixteen inches. It will be severe on cattle in the satid hills, and will retard farm work. About threefourths of the small grain is in and the first sown is up and looks fine. •

Odds and Ends.

Any one going to bed without moving the chair sat in last will be subject to the nightmare. The difficulty with the young is they don’t do as the old folks advise, but as they have done. It is said that 127,000,000 boots and shoes are yearly manufactured in the United Kingdom. The king clam of Penobscot Bay was taken at Islesboro recently. It weighed eighteen ounces. On an average there are 106 boys born to 100 girls, but more boys die in infancy than girls. “While endeavoring to swallow a mouse an owl choked to. death at Nockamixon a few days ago. Don’t talk about yourself In company —it can be done much more satisfactorily after you have left. To step over a child will stop it from growing unless the same person steps back the same way. When a cat washes itself and puts its hind leg straight up behind its ears there will be rain. Put your right foot out of bed first and into your shoe and you will have good luck that day. To be perfectly proportioned a man should weigh twenty-eight pounds for every foot of his height. Massachusetts has more cities with a population of $5,000 or over than any other State in the Union. This is a world of envious detraction. How many more people look at the sun now that it has a spot on It

RIVERS ALL RAGING.

DANGER THREATENED AT MANY POINTS. Wont Floods for Many Years—Farmers In the Overflowed DUtrls|| In Imminent Peril—Loss of Live Stock and Crops Will Be Very Great. Wide Waste of Water.

HE Ole Missip Is a boomin’ ” is the correct river expression for the condition of the father of waters at St. Louis. The danger line has

been reached and the mighty stream has already spread itself over territory not rightfully its own, doing great damage to its banks and to the movable property of citizens along the shore between Bremen on the north and Biver des Peres on the south. The rise came within thirty-six hours, and the water is still creeping up. Near the Merchants’ bridge, in North St. Louis, scores of men in the employ of the lumber companies are at work securing lumber piles from the water. Last Saturday these piles were from twenty to thirty .feet from the water. Where the river seems to have created the greatest havoc is a squatter” settlement about half a mile below the Merchants’ bridge, called "Oklahoma.” The greater number of the squatters’ homes are small flatboats or floating houses, some of them in the water, others on land supported on stilts. The danger line is 28 feet for a number of houses along the river front. At last reports the water was 27 feet 7 inches. Damage Beyond Estimation. Near Brunswick, Mo., the Missouri and Grand Elvers have been rising rapidly for several days. Monday was spent in rescuing the inhabitants of the bar south of that place, which was formed about twenty years ago by the Missouri Elver changing its channel, and has lately become valuable farming land. Much stock was also taken off the bar. Hundreds of acres are covered by the floods and dozens of homes destroyed. Monday evening the ferryboat, loaded with people and horses, was broken from its cable by drift and floated down the stream. One woman fell into the river, but was rescued. The drifting ferry-boat was carried down the stream for almost four miles, where it landed on a bar in the Missouri Elver and the people were rescued by some fishermen. Much Suffering In Nebraska.

Never has Nebraska experienced such a long-continued down-pour of rain. The Missouri Elver is nine feet above low water mark. There is no flood at Omaha, but reports from points below indicate that the river is rising rapidly and already out of its banks and flooding the lowa and Missouri bottomlands. Eeports from all along the lines of the Omaha roads tell of rain and snow in the Black Hills and in Western Nebraska and cloudiness all the way to Salt Lake. All trains were late and there are a number of washouts reported, though none of them have caused accidents. There is a washout between Beatrice and Lincoln on the Union Pacific branch, and the Eock Island main line trains are using the Burlington tracks instead. The rain has so filled the approaches of the Missouri Pacific Plattßmouth bridge that the opening of the bridge has been delayed until June. Snow has fallen in Western Nebraska, ranging in depth from sixteen inches in the northwestern portion to two inches in the southwestern portion of the State'. iowans May Seek the Hills. At Ottumwa, lowa, a heavy rain has set the Des Moines Elver booming again. The water has risen rapidly and continues to rise. The rain, it is feared, will swell the river to the highest point since 1856, when all the city except that part on the hills was submerged. Dead Farm Animals Floating By. The Maumee near Toledo, Ohio, is on the rampage, being higher than was ever known before, except at the floods caused by ice gorge in 1883 and 1881. Parts of buildings, trees, fence rails, dead cattle, hogs, sheep and general debris came down- Eeports tell of extensive devastation at Defiance, Antwerp, Napoleon, Fort Wayne, Maumee and Perrysburg. Marengo Island, off Perrysburg, where are many summer cottages, was nearly covered, and six or seven houses have been washed away. Bad Snow In South Dakota. At Bedfield, S. D., quite a heavy snowstorm occurred Tuesday morning, but melted almost as fast as it fell. Eain has been falling all the time since. During the past forty days eight inches of water has fallen there, the heaviest downpour known since the settlement of the country. There has been no damage to crops. Five Children Killed Outright* William Wilkins and wife and five children, colored, thinking a storm was brewing, retired into a cyclone cave at their home in the southwest part of Anthony, Kan. The heavy rain so undermined the house that the roof fell on the sleeping people. Wilkins succeeded in getting out and arousing the neighbors, who assisted him in rescuing the wife alive. The five children, from 6 months to 14 years of age, were taken out dead.

World's Fair Notes.

The fine art exhibit will be much more extensive than was at first expected. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., is preparing to make f a notable exhibit. A collection of finely mounted birds and animals will be shown in the Penn-‘ sylvania building. A New Jersey pottery firm is making a large number of specimens of fine work for exhibition at the Fair. The gold and silver and other mineral exhibits at the Exposition will probably aggregate in value several million dollars. A telephone exchange having, It is now thought, about 600 instruments, will be established; in the Exposition grounds. It is the intention, if possible, to arrange for a grand international regatta for both salt and fresh water yachts during the exposition. It is announced that the Pope has directed that specimens of the beautiful mosaic pictures, made at the mosaic works in the Vatican, shall be exhibited at the Exposition. A company has been granted the privilege of carrying visitors by lake to and from the Exposition grounds. It is planning to run at least fourteen steamers. Between the "lake front” in Chicago and the grounds, four large boats, two of them whalebacks, and all having a capacity of 5,000 each, will make trips every half hour. The charge will be 15 cents one way and 25 cents for the round trip.

DISASTROUS FLOODS.

MANY ILLINOIS TOWNS IN UTTER DARKNESS. Vast Damage to Manufacturing and Agricultural Interests Pitiable Plight ol Alexandria, Missouri—lt Will be Weeks Before the Damage Can Be Bepalred. A Second Deluge. Seas of water are over and in the five unfortunate Illinois cities, Ottawa, Marseilles, Peru, La Salle and Utica. The Illinois Elver rose steadily for twentyfour hours, commencing Friday, and the cities are in total darkness, the result of the flooding of the electric light and gas plants. Boats were used for communication, and their twinkling lights glistening over the unbroken expanse of water add to the appearace of ruin which is all around them. Despite all efforts, the manufacturing district was totally covered by water. As the waters rose building after building would close down, and the employes leave to await the subsiding of the flood. Ottawa will be helpless for a week at least. Marseilles, La Salle and Peru are in an even more desperate condition. At Marseilles the river, steadily rising, is more and more dreaded as the levees weaken. There is little hope they will stand much longer and every one in the district threatened has removed all property to high ground. At La Salle the situation is even more desperate, the water having advanced from two to three feet all around the city and the manufactories, the water works, street railway, and electric light plants still being under water. The same condition Is present at Peru and in both cities ail business is practically suspended. At Utica the waters have encroached still further upon the lower end of the village from the river and the outlets east and west are blocked by water. Ottawa, Marseilles, La Salle, and Peru are without either electric light or gas, and are.in total darkness. The waters still cover Ottawa’s parks and her street railway is useless.

The thousands of acres of rich tillable lands lying in the bottoms south of Warsaw, 111., and reclaimed by a system of levees forty miles long are threatened with inundation. The rains have caused a heavy rise in the Mississippi, and the river now stands at eighteen feet and above low water mark, with the tendency upward.’ A rise of five feet within twenty-four hours was unpcecedented. At Lacon the Illinois Biver is higher than it has been for a qua rter of a centifry. The long-continued rains have swept out nearly all the 'small bridges in the country. Travel between Lacon and Sparland is suspended except by small boats, the bridge across the Illinois being covered with water and liable to-be carried away. The track of the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific E ailroad is badly damaged between Peoria and Bureau and all trains stopped. The bottom lands are all under water and no corn will be raised on thousands of acres.

The heaviest rains for the same length of time ever known fell at Hennopin. Three and one-lialf inches of water fell Sunday night, one and three-quarters inches Monday night, two and one-half Inches Wednesday night, a total in the three nights of seven and three-quarters inches. The Illinois Biver is the highest it has been since 1849, rising at the rate of two' inches an’ hour. Bottom lands are all submerged aiid great damage has been done to bridges and fences. No mall has arrived for two days. At Eock Island there were no trains from the east on the Book Island Eoad for seventy-two hours in,consequence of the washouts in the vicinity of Bureau. It is the longest period of suspension of traffic in the history of the road. Arouhd Bushneil the roads are impassable and streams are away out of their banks. Crooked creek is a mile wide, and Spoon river is higher- than it has been for years. Trains on the Toledo, Peoria and Western could not run, as a half-mile of track was washed out. Passengers were transferred each way. The river is rising rapidly and great loses of property are reported up and down it. Business is suffering. * ALEXANDRIA IS INUNDATED. The Des Moines River Breaks the Levees and Sweeps Through the Town. Alexandria, Mo., is under water. The levees which _ protected the town ordinarily from the waters of the Des Moines Biver succumbed on Thursday night, and as a result the town is a lake, dotted here and there by houses in which the water is standing from two to six feet deep. The disaster was anticipated. All the prior day the Des Moines Was booming, the result of heavy rains along its course through lowa. The advices from above showed that it would reach high-water mark. Those residents who had upper stories to their buildings moved their household goods there, and extended the courtesies of storage to those not similarly favored. When the water broke it found tenantless floors over which to splash. The town was a Venice. All communication was by boat. The waters of the Des Moines leave that river above town, and, flowing through Alexandria, join the Mississippi below. It will be impossible to. transact any business whatever until the floods go down and the levees can be repaired. The tracks of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern and the Keokuk and Northwestern have been washed out, and traffic is at a standstill.

The Grunt Monument.

Now that New York has got a “corner” on the Grant monument, will she please push the enterprise?—St. Paul Globe. A beginning was made yesterday on the proposed Grant monument in New York. At last! When will it be finished? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The corner-stone of the New York Grant monument will be laid to-day. It is not improbable that some further steps in the enterprise will be taken before the present century ends.—Kansas City Journal. Another spasm of Grant monument enthusiasm has attacked New York, the newspapers are printing columns about it and it is confidently expected that no less than $2.83 will be added to the funds already in hand before the attack passes off.—Detroit Tribune.

An Affair of “Honor.”

Honor that is satisfied with a wounded coat-tail might just as well pocket the insult.—Pittsburg Dispatch. A painful rumor has gone forth that Mr. Fox was not in his coat when it was perforated by Mr. Borrowe’s bullet.— Kansas City Star. B OREO WE shot Fox in the coattail and honor is satisfied. It does not take much to satisfy the honor of some people.—Pittsburg Times. In the Fox-Borrowe duel Fox received a bullet in the coat-tails and “honah” was satisfied. The "code,” in its own defense, ought to require that the principals should jump off of a beam with ropes tied to the beam and fastened around their necks, and the fellow whose rope broke should be considered vindicated —the other fellow to hang. The penalty for seconds who provided ropes that broke should be life imprisonment, —Minneapolis Journal.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed.. and Acted Upon. * Doings of Congress. On the 4th, Senate hill to convey to the State of Kansas -a p rtion of the Fort Hayes military reservation (about 3,200 acres) for homes for old soldiers and their families, and to open the rest of the reservation to homestead Settlement was amended to, .make the Whole reservation Rply 'to soldiers,* and passed. The following 'bills Awerc passed: Creating two additional land districts in the State of Montana; House bill to authorize the construction of abridge across the Osage Elver between Warsaw and the mouth of Turkey Creek, Mo. Senate bill to authorize the constru® of a bridge across the Bed Elver of the North at Quincy, N. D. House bill tor the disposition and sale of the lands of the Klamath Elver Indian Reservation, Californfis: The House passed Its time considering the Chinese, and river aud harbor appropriation bills. The House spent the sth discussing the river and harbor appropriation bill. A letter was also received from the Postmaster General, urging the extension of the free delivery experiments to villages and farming districts. It, was accompanied by a batch of 472 newspaper opinions, taken from 326 different papers, all in favor of the propdHsd rural free delivery extension and eight against it. all that could be found. These have been sent In from all the States and Territories except Alaska, Indian Territory, New Mexico, and North Carolina. Senator; Mitchell, of Oregon, who has re-, ported from the Senate committee am amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill, appropriating 8200,000 to continue the! Postmaster General’s free delivery experi-i ments, said that he had every reason to believe that so far as the Senate was con-' cerned, at least, the amendment would be adopted. The Canadian Pacific Eailway has sent an agent here to ascertain whether; the administration is in earnest In the matter of retaliation as to the canal tolls. After disposing of some business of no general interest, the Senate, on the 6th,| took up the resolution heretofore offered 1 by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, for payment toj the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for their interests In the Cheyenne and Arapa-i hoe Eeservation (about 83,000,000) as thei unfinished business, and Mr. Hawes, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, addressed the Senate In advocacy of the' resolution, but without finishing his address. Then Mr. Gorman offered res-: olutlons, which were agreed to, expressing regret at the death, in February, 1891, of the late Senator Wilson of Maryland, and suspending the business of the Senate to enable his associates to pay proper tribute of regard to his character and distinguished public services. There! was a large attendance of members in the House. The first business in order was the Sibley bill, but the House refused to; consider it and went into committee of the! whole (Mr. Hatch of Missouri In the chair) on ihe river aDd harbor bllL On the 7th the House, after the transaction of routine business, went into commit- 1 tea of the whole (Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, in the chair) on the river and harbor bill. The appropriation for the improvement ofi the Missouri Eiver between the foot of the great falls in Montana and Sioux City, lowa, was increased from $70,0001 to SIOO,OOO. An amendment was; adopted appropriating SIO,OOO for improving the Colorado Elver by the construction of a levee on the Gila Elver, near its junction with the Colorado The. committee then rose and reported the bill! to the House. Mr. Hlchnrdson, of Tennessee, moved to lay the bill On the table. This motion was rejected—the opponents of the bill not being able to muster sufficient force to order the yeas and nays. The amendments were agreed to in gross and the House adjourned In the Senate, the 9th, the House bill conferring an American registry upon the Inman steamships City of New York and City of Paris was passed by a vote of four to one, and a bill reported by the foreign relations committee conferring jurisdiction upon United States courts in cases of crime against State laws committed on aliens Btarted a lively debate, which was In progress at adjournment In the House, after two hours spent in considering amendments to the river and harbor bill to recommit It and curtail its powers, tbe measure was finally passed by a vote of 186 to 66.

On the Diamond.

Following la a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL league. w. li, sc.! W. Xi ¥O. 805t0n......15 4 ,iB9 Waahlmft'n. 9 9 .000 Brooklyn.... 11 5 .722 Philadelp'a. 9 9 .500 Louisville. ..12 7 .#32 New York... f 10 .4 2 Pittsburg....l2 8 .300 Chicago 7 11 .889 Cleveland... 10 9 .526 Bt. Louis.... 5 14 .833 Cincinnati..JO 10 .500 Baltimore.. 8 18 .158 WESTERN LEAGUE, W. L. #O.; W. I* SO. Milwaukee... 8 3 .727 0maha...... S 6 .455 Kansas Clty.lo 5 .6671 St. Paul... ~ 4 7 .364 Columbus. ..10 5 .667!Mlnneap’lls. 8 7 .300 Toledo 6 6 JOOi Indian’pi's.. 1 8 JU THE ILLINOIS-lOWA LEAGUE. W. L. f j.I W. L. tfc. Toilet 9 0 1.09 ; Jacksonville ..3 6 .375 Peoria 9 1 .900 Quincy. 3 6 .266 Evansville....B 8 .6-6,Terre Haute..2 6.250 Rockford 3 8 .500;R. 1.-Mo Line... 1 8.111 Cincinnati Girls. A 19-year-old girl of Cincinnati plaoed a chair over a hole in the sidewalk opposite her father’s house, where Western Union workmen were about to put a telegraph pole. She sat on the chair until her father obtained an injunction. This is the first occasion cm record when Jay Gould was sat down on by a young lady.—Pittsburg ChronicleTelegraph. Cincinnati young ladies are fast attaining' a reputation for steadfastness which will make them envied of their sisters. Miss May Grief balked the purpose of a gang of telegraph-pole raisers, who had dug a hole in front of her father’s residence, by placing a ’ chair over it. She occupied the chair while her father hustled around and got out an injunction.—Grand Rapids Herald. Cincinnati girls are doing themselves proud this year. One of them has refused to marry a count, and another, by sitting in a chair over “a hole in her father’s sidewalk, has prevented the planting of a hideous pole for electric wires in front of her home. Governor McKinley in hi 6 nejt message should make especial mention of these young ladies and congratulate the State of Ohio on its good fortune in having such daughters.—Courier-Journal.

About Men.

On the day that a man finds out that he is a fool he has become a near neighbor to wisdom. People are a good deal like trees, Those who make the most bows do not often bear the most fruit. A Chicago man recently advised his betrothed to eat sauerkraut and beans as a preventive of the grip. Herb HauleSO-" What do you think of my voice, madam?” She—“l don’t think of it if I can help it. ” A tombstone is about the only place where the average man doesn’t really care to have his name in print. The devil gets a good many men by persuading them that the way to be happy is to make lots of money. “There’s a gieat art,” says Mickey Lennon, “in Knowing what not to know whin yez don’t want to know it.” ' A man reaches after the unattainablo when he finds fault with everybody and expects none to find fault with him. The man who has sworn off profanity should spend a few minutes in meditation before removing a porous plaster# An Italian woman living in New York has, during her eighteen years of married life, given birth to thirteen chli* (Iren.