Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Page 4

SljcltcmocraticScittmd RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, - - - Puixisheb, ■

FROLIC OF COWBOYS.

THEY WILL RIDE FROM CHADRON TO THE FAIR. "lew Orleans Has a Gigantic Strike on J' Hand—Ohioans Claim Descent and Property from an Ancient Spaniard—Two Successful Robberies. I Bobbers Ron the Train. A clever train robbery is reported oh the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Road, Some miles north of Anniston. The southhound express train stopped at a tank just below Piedmont, where the robbers got aboard. They went Into the express car and the messenger, J. H. Rogers, promptly yielded up $705. The mall agent was equally accommodating and gave up a number of registered packages. The robbers then pulled the bell cord, the train slowed down and they jumped off, disappearing In the woods There were two of the robbers, both masked. AWFUL WORK OF A MADMAN. Murders His Wife's Sister and Throws Ills Daughter Into a Well. Dr. G. W. Kelly, one of the lerding physicians of Jefferson' County, Goorgla, Is In custody at Louisville for killing his sister-in-law, who tried to rescue his eight-year-old daughter after be had thrown the child into a forty-foot well. Kelly had suddenly become a raving maniac After being arrested he alternately chuckled fiendishly and moaned piteously as he related In an Incoherent way what he had done, declaring that God had told him to kill both to save them from eternal damnation. Wbon the sister-in-law first realized that the Doctor was insane" he had thrown his Little daughter in the well. With a scream Bhe rushed out of the bouse to try to save the child. At this Kelly drew his revolver and fired. The woman ran into the house and seeing no other way of escape leaped through a window. As she did so tbo Doctor fired again, inflicting a wound in the back. Her screams attracted neighbors and after a severe struggle the madman was overpowered. Meantime the wails of • the child In the well attracted the crowd to that point. By what seems a miracle she bad not sunk beneath the water. A bucket was lowered, tbo child got Into It and was brought to the surface. Tho wounded woman died, but the child will live.

VICTIM OF LEntOSV, A Philadelphia Woman Believed to Be Afflicted with the Terrible Disease. An American woman showing every symptom of leprosy has been admitted to the municipal hospital in Philadelphia, where she will probably remlan in close confinement until she dies. That her malady is leprosy has not yet been absolutely proved,but the physicians who bavo examined her frequently and carefully are convinced that she suffers from nothing else. Some of tbem expect to prove It by microscopic examinations of her skin. Her skin Is badly discolored and bears large spot! of a bronze color. The cuticle Is dry and lifeless in places and her whole appearance Is that of a leper. The patient is a woman of 07 years, who has always resided in Philadelphia. She has nover been abroad nor hrs Bhe been near any person with leprosy, to CLAIM MEXICAN LANDS. ■ v»rSEr~ ~—’ - -Tgera.,, American Heirs Assert that Their Title Comes from the King of Spain. A special from Durango, Col., says: A claim has just been filed In the United States Court of Private Land Claims, at Fanta Fe, which Involves a tract of land thirty-three miles square In the southwest corner of this State, claiming that the grant was made to Senor Corpus Chrlsti, by the King of Spain, 214 years ago. Tho plaintiffs are Benjamin Hodges and several relatives, all of whom reside in the neighborhood of Rockford, Ohio. They ure great-grand-children of the ancient senor. The United States Government and all persons laying claim to any part or parcel of tho land arc the descendants. P ' WILL RIDE TO THE FAIR. Nebraska Cowboys Will Have a Horse Race to the Building of Their State. The old-time cowboys of Northwestern Nebraska are going to the World’s Fair. A large number of them met at Obadron Monday, and formed a company. The company will run a horse race from Chadron to the Nebraska Building at tho World’s Fair grounds. starting on or about May 15. It will be a pistol-shot mount and start, and the winn3r will get *I,OOO and a gold medal. Side purses will be numerous. Over 300 old-time cowboys have agreed to enter the race, and have posted forfeits. A system of registry ■will be agreed upon to insuro fair riding, and as many horses will be used as each rider may deem necessary.

WItTL PARALYZE TRADE. Thirty Thousand Men Quit Work at New Orleans. At 1:30 o’clock Wednesday morning every labor organization in New Orleans decided to strike for higher pay, shorter hours, and the employment of only union men. About 39,000 men will go out. The strike will absolutely paralyze the city’s commerce. Every business man in the city is ■directly interested in the movement Escaped in Night Clothes. The five-story tenement house, Na 357 East Fifty-first street New York, was com- , pletely gutted by fire. The loss on furniture and building will amount to $20,000. The nineteen families who occupied tlio ■building all escaped In safety, many of them only in their night clothes. Killed While Resisting Arrest. At St Henry’s, ten miles south of Celia a. Ohio, Fred Drees shot and killed an alleged horse-thief named Dean McVeagh. The latter resisted arrest • 1 Not a Confederate Flag Seen. Charleston’s earthquake celebration eclipsed all its predecessors. The city was wrapped in “old glory," the stars and stripes fluttering from every pole. Not a confederate Bag was to be seen. Visitors poured Into her hospitable gates In thousands. Tsai Ko Yui Superseded. It is unofficially reported at the stato Department that China has appointed a new Minister to this, country. His name is Chi Vni. and upon his arrival Tsai Ko Yui, the present Minister, will take up his bed and walk. Died While Lecturing on Temperance. While delivering a temperance lecture at Grand Army Hall, South Norwalk, Conn., Henry R Leer fell from the stage and died ot apoplexy. Deceased was 62 years old and prominent in the borough. He served with the Connecticut volunteers and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He was a prominent Prohibitionist sad candidate for Representative on that P&Tty § ticket « prof. Swinton Dead. ftot William Swinton, compiler of school book* and late prof<MSor in the California day. i Bx> . , i .<- . ■ >

ANNIHILATION OF A RACE. Horrible Massacre of the Temochlans by Mexican Government Troops. The news of the annihilation of the Temochlans, a people who inhabit a villago of Temochlc, Mexico, and who are nearly pure Aztecs, has been received. Two months ago the Government sent the 110th battalion, in command of Gen. Ranjel, to make the people pay the tax require 1 of them and accept government officials appointed to take charge or to kill every one of them. When the soldiers made their descent on tho village they were met and driven off, with twenty-two officers and fourteen men killed and two officers and'forty-five men taken prisoners. When tbo news of this affair reached the ears of President Diaz he decided to annihilate the village, and last Monday the attack was made on all sides. The Temochlans, who only numbered thirty-eight, with their families, took refuge in the church and awaited the attack that took place at about 10 o’clock. The attack was made on all sides and the slaughter was terrible. At dusk the soldiers gained an entrance to the church and a terrible hand-to-hand fight took place, and the soldiers completed the massacre, with 368 of their number killed and many wounded. The village the next day presented a terrible view. The streets of tho little village leading to tho church were filled with bodies, and blood seemed to have flowed in torrents. Not a man of the Temochlans was leftexcept those who happened to be out in tho mountains, but the government has paid dearly for its victory. The Temochians were some time a?o a very wealthy people in cattle and farms, but tho lack of rain and failure of their crops had brought they to poverty and they were unable to exist under the extortion of the government and Its petty officials, and were brought near starvation. Tho feeling against tho government Is very strong, and the Incident has been called the second Alamo, which will bring light and liberty to the Mexican people as It did to those of Texas.

NATIONAL W. C. T, U. Opening of the Annual Session at Denvei -Miss Willard Talks. Tho National Woman's Christian Temperance Union began Its annual session In Denver. A large number of delegates were present when Miss Frances E Willard, the president, called the meeting to order. Lady Somerset aDd other leading temperance workers occupied seats on tho platform. After devotional exorcises and the transaction of routine business, Miss Willard proceeded to deliver her annual addresi Bpeaklng of the growth of the W. C. T. U., Miss Willard said: “I think In steady purpose and method that reaches out Into the future the W. C. T. U. Is stronger to-day than ever. This is shown by plans, Investments, and organizations that mean an outlook on the work yet to be done rather than living on the glories of the past.” Special attention Is paid to thp question of the sale of liquor at the World’s Fair next year. On this point Miss Willard said: Chicago. IIL, will be tho national battle-ground for the next year. Every possible attempt will be made to secure from our Legislature the repeal of such laws as give us a measure of protection at the World's Fair from tho uprising tide of strong drink that Is determined to break down every barrier and flow in to take possession of the great Exposition. The same effort will he made in tho municipality if dramshop politicians can summon the brain or the “boodle” to bring this about. The utmost power of the W. C. T. U. should be put forth tohelpthe gallant division of the army In Illinois and Chicago which have from the £rst “fought with tho beasts at Ephesus ” - BURIED IN FLOWERS. Brief Service* In the White House Over Mrs. Harrison's Remains, The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Harrison at tho White House, were beautiful and Impressive, hut Were chiefly characterized by the simplicity which wa9 so dear to her heart Except the sable rosette of crepe at the door-way, there was no sign of mourning about the exterior of the mansion. Tho floral tributes to the memory of the dead were very numerous and of rare beauty. Rev. Dr. Hamtlu, the President's pastor. In a low voice, repeated a few pages from the scriptures, beginning: “In my father's house there are many mansions,” and Including several verses from the psalms. He closed with tbß Lord's prayer, which was repeated with him by almost every person In tho room. Then Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Churcfy who was formerly Mrs. Harrison's pastor at Indianapolis. took up the scriptures and road a number of passages from the Old and New Testaments and the psalms which had been selected. At the conclusion of the services Mrs Harrison’s remains were taken to tho funeral train, which started for Indianapolis SWEPT BY FIRE. A Loss of Seven Million Inflicted Upon Milwaukee. A portion of Milwaukee’s business district was swept by fire Friday night. More than eleven blocks were burned over, and over 1,000 people rendered homeless Several lives were lost and many people fatally injured. Many buildings were blown up with dynamite by the firemen, materially aiding to check the flames During the blaze the wind was blowing furiously at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Losses are estimated from $6,000,000 to $7,000,000. Chicago, Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, and Waukesha sent aid. and by their help the fire was under control at daybreak in the morning.

ROW AT A WAR DANCE. A Chiefs Use of His Scalping Knife Leads % to a General Fight. The Indians of the White Earth (Minn.) Reservation are In a turmoil. At a war dance Friday night Chief White Cloud, the most noted Indian in Minnesota, made a murderous attack with a scalping-knife on his son. William Wright, wounding him in such a terriblo manner about the head and lungs that ho lies dying in his tepee. In the general fight which ensued several other braves were severely wounded. Eight Negroes to Hang. At Chestertown, Md., eight of the negroes on trial for the murder, of Dr, Hill were declared guilty. The verdict was received with wild applause. Potts alone was not convicted. There were threats that he would be lynched, but the Judge appealed to the crowd not to carry out their threat, as they would be amenable to the law. M?be Sheriff was instructed to summon a posse to protect the prisoner. No Present Change In Coal Prices. At New York tho Eastern and Western wholesale coal agents met The price of coal, it was decided, would be allowed to remain unchanged for the present. The Eastern agents expect the output for November will be between 3,500,003 and 3,750,DOO tons. To Hang for Murder. At Pittfield, Mass, in the Superior Court, the death sentence was passed on William Coy, convicted of the murder of John Whalen fourteen months ago. It was the first death sentence pronounced by a superior court of justice of that commonwealth. Deep Snow in Russia. A very heavy snow storm has been prevailing in Russia and In many places the ground Is covered to the depth of five feet. Railway traffic has been interrupted in every direction. Head on the Cow-Catcher. When the Panhandle express train from the west .pulled into the Pittsburg Fourth

avenue station the other evening the people gathered thero hud a fright Standing upright on the cow-catcher' of the engine was the corpse of a man Impaled on a piece of pipe. The body proved to be that of Frank Carmaux, of “beridanvllle. He had been loading potatoos on a truck near his home. He was struck by the engine of a west-bound freight trafn and thrown onto the cow-catcher of the Sust-bohnd train, where a piece of pipe connecting kith the air brake apparatus ran into bis back. BAREFACED PIANO SWINDLE. Indiana Farmers Relieved of Large Amounts by Clever Crooks. At Elkhart, Ind., men claiming to bp agents for the Howard Plano Company, Boston, Mass., are working a confidence game. The victim is told that the company will pay him as agent $l2O a month. The man Is well worked up While this conversation Is being carried on another team drives up with a piano in the wagon and two men on the seat, who immediately lug the piano into the house Then the general agent gets out a roll of bills, says times will be dull for a few days and counts out 560, or fifteen days’ pay. Of course be wants a receipt Thomas Vanderson had no sooner signed the paper than the agent turned to him with a smile and said: “Now what will you give for It?” To the astonished inquiry of what he meant he replied: “Why, my dear sir, I have your note for $480.” It was in vain that the farmer expostulated. Mr. Vanderson concluded to accompany the man to the bank, where he finally recovered his note by paying $360 cash for it. He of course kept the piano, which Is said to be worth $l2O, costing sllO delivered.

FIRE AT ST. JOHNSBUKY, VT. The Green Mountain City Sustains a Loss of 8150,000. The worst fire St. Johnsbury, Vt, has ever known began Sunday morning and raged fiercely for two hours. In that time several business blocks were destroyed. A gale was blowing from the northeast and the fire swept on with resistless force. The local fire department did splendid work, but the high wind and the oil that was stored In the burning buildings did much to assist the progre-s of the flames. Most of tho business buildings burned were substantial structures, but in the rear were a lot of old houses which had been lcoked upon for some time as veritable tinder boxes. It is thought certain that a man and woman occupying rooms in the building whore the fire started were burned to death. The other tenants had to fly for their lives. The total loss will reach $150,000. WILL OFFER (A 810,000 PURSE. Coney Island Club Bids for the Hall-Fitz-simmons Fight. The directors of the Coney Island Athletic Club, West Brighton, decided to bid for the contest between Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall, and Judge Newton was authorized to offer a purse of $16,000 for the fight A cablegram was received at New York that Hall had beon notified and that be accepted the offer with the understanding that the fight take place in April. Alex. Greggains. accompanied by his trainer, Martin Murphy, arrived in New York from San Francisco. They Immediately repaired to the Coney Island. Athletic Club, where Judge Newtou signed Greggains to fight Martin Costello for a purse of $2,500, the contest to take place next month.

OVERWORKED HIS EMPLOYES. Why a Railway Official Js Fined 850 at Minneapolis. At Minneapolis, A E Law, the Northern Pacific Division Superintendent, was found guilty of overworking emDloyes and was fined SSO, with the alternative of sixty days in tho workhouse It has attracted considerable attention among those Interested in laboring matters. They will look upon the decision as a precedout Used a Gun on His Father. C M. Baker, district passenger agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad, was shot and killed by his son Fraocls. aged 18, at his home In the Knoxville, Ten n., surburban town of Lonsdale The boy gave himself up to the police and said his father was beating him over the head with a heavy stick. He gat hold of tho shotgun for the purpose of fighting his father, who, was drinking, and shot him unintentionally. He also stated that Lis father was in the habit of abusing his family when drunk. Ten Vessels Foundered. Details arriving daily from St John’s, N. F., show that the gales which raged along the coast recently was very severe. The coast was devastated, and ton vessels are clthor lost or missing, and twenty-two lives wore lost At Greenspond the sea unearthed the bodies In two graveyards. Lawlessness at Homestead. Assaults upon non-union men at Homestead, Pa., are so frequent that the authorities may, In order to afford protection to person and property, be obliged to declare the place under martial law. New Bank for Gotham Decembor 1 the doors of tho old North River Bank Building In New York will bs thrown open and will be called the Franklin National. The capital Is to be $200,003. Hayes Elected President. Ex-Prestdent R B. Hayes has been' elected President of the Ohio Archmloglcal Society. Hot Springs Bank Lets Go. Tho Valley Bank of Hot Springs, Ark., closed Its doors. Liabilities. SSJ,OOX

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... f 3.50 @6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.60 @5.75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 @6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 70 @ .71 COBN—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 @ .30 Rye—No. 2 49 @ .61 Butteb—Choice Creamery 27 @ .2.) Eggs—Fresh 20%@ .2116 POTATOES—New, per bu 60 @ .70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.60 @ 6.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.60 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 @ .6514 Cobk—No. 1 White 39 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ .3414 ST. LOUIB. Cattle. 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs... 3.50 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 55 @ .os COBN—No. 2 87 %@ .38% Oats—No. 2 28 @ .211 Rye—No. 2 50 @ .51 CINCINNATI. Cattle. 3.00 @6.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ f.oo Wheat—No. 2 Red 66 @ .66% COBN— No. 2 43 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 32 @ .33 Rye—No. 2 56 @ .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 6.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 6,00 Wheat—No. 2 Red..., 72 @ .73 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 43%@ .44% Oats—No. 2 White Bo%@ .36% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 71 @ .72 Cobn—No. 2 White 41 @. .41% Oats—No. 2 White... 31 @ .31 y> Rye--.., 53 @ .55' BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime..... 3.00 @6.25 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @6.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 86 @ .87 Cobn—No, 2 46 @ .47 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 67 @ .63 Cobn—No. 3 40 @ .41 Oats—No. a White 33 @ .34 Rye—No. 1.. .51 @ .63 Bablby—No. 2........ 66 @ .68 Pork—Mess' n. 75 @12.25 „ NEW YORK. Cattle 8.50 & 5.50 Hogs ./ 3.00 @6.25 5heep........ 3.00 @6.25 Wheat—Na 2 Red..,. 76 @ .77 Cobn—No. 2 so @ .61 Oats—Mixed Western 36 @ .37 Bittteb—Creamery. 29 @ .30 Pom—Now Mess., 13.00 @13.50

ADLAI HAS ACCEPTED.

Declare* He Is In Hearty Accord with the 1 ' ex-Pre*ldc'nt. Adlal E, Stevenson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, has sent the following letter of acceptance to the President of the National Democratic Convention: . , charleston, W. Va. To the Hott, William L. Wilson, Chairman, etc. ,:ltj When, In the presence of 20,000 of mjr countrymen, I accepted the honor conferred npon me by the convention over which you presided, I promised to indicate by letter, in a more formal manner, my acceptance of the nomination tendered me by the assembled representatives of the Dempcratlc party of tho United States. SlnCKthht tlffleihave been engaged continually In the -dteonssion before the people of many States of the Union of the Issues emphasised by the convention and represented by our candidate for President, Grover Cleveland. Opportunity has thus been dented me to write with the care I would like the more formal answer promised to your committee. The full discussion of public questions commonly expecWdffrom s candidate for Vice President has been rendered jess imperative by the complete presentation of the Democratic creed by the gentleman with whom 1 have the honor to be associated as a candidate on the national ticket. His treatment of the issues now before the country for discussion and settlement was so complete that I can do little more than Indorse his pbsitlon and give it the emphasis of my unqualified approval. Pbwer of Taxation. The greatest power conferred upon human government is that of taxation. All the great struggles of the past for a broader political liberty have looked toward the this power by right to tax, a right which should always be limited by the necessities of government and to benefits which may be shared by all. Whenever this power Is used

AI LAI E. STEVENSON.

to draw tribute from the many for the benefit of the few, or when part of the people are oppressed in order tbar the remainder may prosSer unduly, equality Is lost sight of, injustice ardens Into precedent, which Is used to excuse new exactions and there arises artificial distinctions whloh the beneficiaries come to look upojiin slue time as vested rights, sacred to themselves. - It is plain that our present inequitable system of tariff taxation has promoted the growth of such conditions In our land, favored though It has been by an Industrious and enterprising people, a friendly climate, a productive soil and the highest development of political liberty. , If the beneficiaries of this system shall be able to add a new tenure of power to those they have already enjoyed the development of these unfavorable conditions must continue until the power to tax will be lodged In those who are willing and able to pay for the perpetuation of privileges originally conferred by a confiding people for the preservation inviolate of their own government. There Is no longer pretext or excuse for the maintenance of war tariff In times of peace, and more than a quarter of a century after armed conflict has ceased. The platform of the National Democratic Convention demands the reform of this system and the adoption in its place of one which will insure equality to all our people. I am In full and hearty accord with these purposes. Concerning Currency. The convention also declared its position on the currency question in no unmeaning words when it said In Its platform, “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the oolnage of both gold and silver, without dlscriminitliiff against either metal or charge ror rplntage, l}ut the dollar unit of coinage of both metall mast be of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable valne or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the parity of the tw<s metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times In the markets and In the payment of debt, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such ooln.’ To this plain and unequivocal declaration In favor of sound, honest money I subscribe without reservation or qualification. A safe circulating medium is absolutely essential to the protection of the business Interests of our country, while to the wage-earner or the farmer it Is all-important that every dollar, whatever Its form, that finds Its way Into bis pocket Bhall be of equal, unquestioned and universally exchangeable value and of equal purchasing power. j The Lodge Bill Another Issue of great moment in the pending contest is the force bill, the magnitude of whloh cannot be overstated. It may mean the control of the election of representatives In congress by the bayonet. The republican party, by Its acts In the List congress and by Its platform In its late national convention, stands pledged to the passage of this bill. That It will pass It when It has the power no sane man can doubt. To all our people who desire the peace and prosperity of our common country this question is all-important. Since my nomination I have been in eight of the Southern and Southwestern States of the Union, and have talked with men of all classes and conditions there. I found a general and growing apprehension of evils which, It is believed, would result from the passage of the Lodge hill or similar threatened legislation. 1 found the industries established by Northern capital during Mr. Cleveland’s administration In a languishing condition, that the immigration of labor and the investment of capital Invited to those States by their then peaceful condition had in a large measure ceased. The enactment of the force bill into a law, while it would threaten the liberties of the entire people, would undoubtedly retard the material growth of the States at which it is specially aimed, would Incite in many communities race troubles and invite retaliatory legislation which would disturb property values and discontinue and destroy the security of Northern investments. And its reflex action upon the Northern States would result in a consequent loss of commercial and trade relations with the vast territory now becoming tributary to .their wealth and prosperity. I say nothing now of the inherent vice of the un-Amerkau and revolutionary spirit involved in the Lodge bill which was pronounced by a Republican Senator "the most infamous that ever crossed the threshold of the Senate." 1 appeal to the instinct of self-interest and to the sense of common justice in the American people. The era of good feeling and renewed commercial relations commencing with the administration of Mr. Cleveland In 1884 should not be interrupted by the Inauguration of a policy which tends to destroy popular representation and the purity of local self-govern-ment, which furnishes an instrument to discredited federal power to perpetuate Itself, which seeks to keep alive sectional jealousies and strife, which threatens important and material interests and which offers no excuse or palliation for its existence except the perpetuation In power of a political party wTiicn has lost public confidence. I accept the nomination tendered me, and, should the action of the convention meet the approval of my countrymen, will, to the best of my ability, discharge with fidelity the duties of the important trust confided to me. Very respectfully, Adlai E. Stevenson.

Fathers of Great Men.

Defoe was the son of a butcher, and himself was a stocking-maker by trade. Jean Beethoven, the father of Ludwig von Beethoven, was a chorus singer. Marshal Massena was the son of a sailor, and, for a tinre, was a cabin boy. John Stow was a beggar’s son, and in his later days was himsslf a beggar. The Emperor Galerius was the son of a herdsman and himself a shepherd. The father of John Phillip, the English painter, was a hedger and ditcher. Sachs, the German poet, was a tailor’s son, and himself followed that calling. The father of Thackeray was a clerk in the service of the East India Company. Howard’s father was a grocer and the future philanthropist acted as his clefk. Cherubini, the great Italian opera writer, Was the son of a theater violinist. Christopher Columbus was the son of a weaver, and himself learned that trade. Marshal Victor was a hostler’s son, •enlisted as a private and rose from the 'ranks.

SIX MILLIONS LOST

MILWAUKEE’S TERRIBLE VISIT TATION. Swept by Flames with the Wind Blowing a Slxty-Mlle Gale—Entire Lower Portion of the East Side Is Gone. Wild Night at Bnln. The lower portioh of the East Side of Milwaukee went up in a whirlwind of flame Friday night. The burned portion comprises the wholesale district, the Northwestern Bailway yards, and gas works. It is also thickly inhabited by Italians, Poles, Germans and Irish, most of whom are poor and have lost everything. The loss will be between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000.

The Are started shortly before 6 o’clock in the wholesale liquor house of A. Blade A Son. The wind at the time was blowing fully sixty miles an hour. As the Are broke through the roof the hurricane caught up the brands, and, whirling them across the block, flung them full on the seven-story building of Bubb A Kipp on the corner of Broadway and Buffalo streets. Before the engines, on a third alarm could arrive and come' into action the Kipp building was a mass of flames. This was the beginning of the end. The sparks were caught up by the gale and whirled hither and yon, while the firemen, fighting bravely in the molten shower, found their efforts powerless to stay the progress of the flamd's. A general alarm was turned in, bringing the entire fighting force of the otty into action, but it was unable to stay the steady march of the flames which now were rioting blocks away. From this on it was a steady conquering march. The big streams of water looked like squirtguns playing against the roaring sea of flame. From Bubb A Kipp’s the fire had eaten backward to East Water street, but there it was held by hard fighting, with the fire companies enveloped in smone and flames, undistincuishable except as the wind whirled the curtain apart at times for a second. People Driven from Their Homed. Balked here, the flames threw themselves with renewed vigor on the territory to the eastward and leeward. There no engines stayed their progress, and they rioted down across Broadway, stopped for a moment in the block between that street and Milwaukee street, then jqmped over that and continued Vheir unimpeded career toward the lake, a half mile away, carrying destruction, ruin, and despair to poor families who were in their path. These people hurriedly left their homes, carrying with them what they could, and where this was Impossible by the sudden onset of the hurricane of fire fled swiftly, not stopping 1o look behind, only glad to escape with their lives. Mixed in with the small wooden buildings, which were the dwelling places of those unfortunates, were huge wholesale houses. The fire king made no Invidious distinctions. The big trade warehouses went with the humbler home. The only difference was that he stayed longer with the former. The territory burned out is in the shape of a slightly obtuse triangle with the apex at Blade A Co.’s, on the river, the upper side Detroit street, the lower Menominee street to Milwaukee and then to the Milwaukee River, and tho base Lake Michigan. Roughly it is a space two-th'Tds of a mile long on the ease line.

At 7:30 o’clock Friday night Fire Chief Swenie, of Chicago, received a message from Chief James Foley, of Milwaukee, asking for immediate assistance. Exactly at 9:30, less than two hours after the call for help was received, the train left the north end of the Northwestern yards, with G. M. Harshaw, a trusty driver, at the throttle. ' The train consisted only of four flat cars containing the fire apparatus and a caboose, and looked more like a circus train than anything else. The caboose was filled with firemen, reporters, and fire-insur-ance adjusters. It was run as a special, and was givon a through right of way from Chicago to Milwaukee. Assistance also came from Kenosha, Racine and other towns near by. In the meantime in Milwaukee the scenes of Chicago’s big fire were repeated. Hundreds of poor householders carried in their arms, in carts or wagons whatever they had been able to seize and save before they were obliged to fly from their burning homes. They did not feel safe until they put the Milwaukee River between them and the destroying enemy. The few engines which could be brought into action were unable to prevent the wild riot. Every street looking south was a molten hell. The efforts of that portion of the department to the west and north of the fire had been'directed toward holding it from any retrograde march, and in this the men were successful. The flames showed considerable eoeentricity in their ravages. They would jump across buildings for a block, leaving them untouched, only to return later and wipe them out in spite of the efforts of the firemen, who fought gallantly against the heavy odds. Capt. Davis of the revenue cutter Johnson, which was lying -in tho harbor, tendered his crew to Chief Foley for uso in fighting the fire. They were gratefully accepted, and relieved the firemen in places where they had become exhausted by their hard fight. The reserve force came just in time, and the Johnson’s men fought gallantly and effectively. The Fourth Regiment, under the command of Col. King, was called out to assist In guard duty, as the crowds in the vicinity of the burned district numbered thousands, and the police force was in need of assistance. A platoon of the Fourth which assembled at the armory earliest was sent to the House of Correction, near which institution a fire was reported raging, where there were no police for guard duty, all the men being busy at the other fire. Companies E and F were used for guard duty along Detroit street, where there were piles of household goods which had been hastily removed from the burning houses. Company A was on guard duty around the Northwestern yards, where thieves had taken advantage of the fire to attempt the looting of box cars. Fully 10,000 people were made homeless, and leading insurance men say that about half the less?, is covered by Insurance. They estimate the total loss at $5,775,000. The losses are as fellows: Bubb & Kipp, tumlture $300,000 J. E. Patton & Co., oils and paints 250,000 P. Kissinger, wholesale liquors 75,000 Milwaukee Mirror Works 60,000 B. Leidersdorf. tobacco 250,000 Guyler Lithograph Company 100,000 Boundy, Beckham & Co., wholesale produce 300,000 H. Scheftel & Co., wholesale grocers... 200,000 J. Wellmure *fc Co., wholesale grocers... 200,000 Milwaukee Chair Company 250,000 Northwestern freight house, contents and cars 300,000 Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western freight houses 50.000 McLanden Hotel 25,t0:i P. Finger & Co., confectionery 26,000 Saner & Co., glove manufacturers 10.000 Fifty smaller business houses 600.001 Five hundred dwellings and cottages... COO, 000 F. P. Dohmen & Co., drugs 150,000 Welser <fe Vllter, machinery 100,000 Toepfer & Sons, machinery 40,000 Bayley & Sous, machinery 60,000 Inbuschßros., grocers 260,010 Femeker & Bro.. confectionery 25, 1100 Delorme A Quentin, tool shop 35,000 Milwaukee Rag Company 50, 000

ASLEEP IN THE CRAVE.

Mrs. Harrison’s Remains Laid to Best at Indianapolis. f j President Harrison and> the griefstricken members of his personal and official family arrived in Indianapolis Friday morning for the sad purpose of placing the remains of Mrs. Harrison at eternal rest in the place she lovingly called her home. The elegantly equipped special conveying the party arrived promptly on schedule time, and was greeted by thousands of sympathetic friends and admirers. It was a quiet, good-natured throng and manifested its appreciation of tbe sadness of the occasion by a grave and respectful demeanor. The President’s grief wag generally respected and nearly all tbe men in attendance removed their hats and towed their heads when he passed through the station, leading his sorrowing family to the carriages provided for them. A delay of half an hour was caused in transferring from the funeral car the wealth of floral emblems that typified the love and devotion of hundreds of friends. Everything being in read'ness the casket was lifted and slowly and reverently the cortege moved out through the

THE HARRISON RESIDENCE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

Union station to the carriages in waiting. The casket was borne by John B. Elam, the President’s law partner, Judge YYcods. the Hon. E. B. Martindale, Gen. Lew Wallace, Dr, Allen, and T. P. Haughey. The earriaces proceeded directly to the church, which was a thing of beauty in its somber and graceful decorations. On either side of the pulpit tall pyramids of beautiful snow-white chrysanthemums towered out of a bed of large green palm leaves and long, graceful ferns. Back of the pulpit, surrounding the organ, were great plants and palms. Over the organ were draped in evergreens large curtains of black crepe and white fabric, with bits of ivy here and there at every intersection of the folds. On the back wall between the two entrance doors was a semicircle of black and white crepe with two large silken American flags hung on either side —the only warm colors to be seen. The only decoration of the exterior of the church is a heavy black draping over the large arch-like entrance on Pennsylvania street. All the Immediate family friends and relatives were admitted to the church, so far as its capacity would allow. It was Impossible to seat clubs and organized bodies. Representatives only of these could be accommodated. An exception in behalf of sixty representatives of the Seventieth (Harrison’s) Regiment was made. The President’s pew, No. 84, was not used during the services,and was draped in black and white and strewn with flowers. On either side of the pew magnificent pyramids of white chrysanthemums and pot plants along the chair railing. On top of the railing the floral offerings were placed. When the funeral procession arrived at the church a crowd of 5,000 people thronged the side-

THE LOT IN CROWN HILL CEMETERY.

walks and pushed into the streets, not boisterously, hut with a show of the most intense interost. The police had no difficulty in pushing the crowds back. The church services were characterized by the greatest simplicity, in accordance with the wishes of the President. As the coffin was carried up the aisle and deposited in trout of the chancel the organ pealed forth a soft melody. The choir fhen sang, “Lead, Kindly Light,” with beautiful effect and Dr. HAines offered a short invocation and read a selection from the scriptures, after wh : ch he made brief and appropriate remarks, his text being. “Therefore Comfort one another with these words.” Prayer was then offered by the Rev. Dr. Byde, followed by the rendition of the hymn, “One Sweetly Solemn Thought,” The services closed with a benedictiin by Dr. Haines, and tho remains were at once taken lo the grave in Crown Hill cemetery, where there was scriptural reading by Dr, Hyde an.l a prayer by Mr. Haines.

The News Aftermath.

Mrs. Emmoxs Blaine has given SI,OOO for a new public library at Augusta, Me. Br the explosion of a locomotive on the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad at Palos, Ala., Engineer Harry Monroe and Fireman William Church were instantly killed. A heavily charged wire at the Westinghouse electric w rks, Pittsburg, Pa., killed Edward Wood, a nephew or General Manager Wood, of the Pennsylvania Company. At Onadarka, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Commiss on finished its labors and agreed to give the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes $2,0; o,uoo in return lor lands relinquished. Half a square, between Sacramento and Clay streets, in the heart of Chinatown, San Francisco, was burned. Many butcher shops, cigar manufactories and opium joints were destroyed. Loss, $70,000. The Empire Express attained a speed of ninety miles per hour over the worsi grade on the New York Central system. The run from Rochester to Buffalo, sixty-nine miles, was made in seventyone minutes.

A marvellous memory.

Encyclopedic Knowledge of, a LlttU French Girl of FlveT An infant phenomenon has been discovered at Plaisance, a suburb of Paris, in the person of a little girl ealled Jeanne Eugenie Moreau, aged only five, but endoWed'with’dmbst extraordinary memory. She is a Walking on alt matters' appertaihitig to .Jjqjty' history of France, and especially of the great revolution ; is an adept also in natural history, and at the same time answers without ihesitation or error * pract.cal jJEjfestions about ccoking, gardening management, , • s t The, youthful prodigy wSsHaorn in, Paris in Jauuaiy, in 1887; her father, Phillippe Moreau, being a humble laborer, but fn*m< as revolutionary hero whose name figures .in the annals of 1786, and who was decorated by General de Lafayette after the taking of the Bastile. Owing to the poverty of her progenitor, Eugenie Moreau was adopted by a widow—Mme. Cally—who, noticing the retentive faculties of the child, cultivated and developed' them with assiduity until the phenomenon had become capable of passing a stiff competitive examination and of putting to shame many a schoolboy or schoolgirl of maturer years and more extpttsivb 'education. The fate of Eugenie Moreau "will no doubt be that reserved for all intellectual prodigies of years. She will be exhibited to scientific men and reported upon; she will probably receive an offer from an enterprising showman, and in all likelihood Eugenie, should she survive academical testings and publio examinations, will eventually settle down to the life of a schoolmistress—a calling for which her marvelous memory will preeminently fit her. —{London Telegraph.

How a Trout Swings.

We sat an hour or more a few evenings ago on the east bank of the Beaverkill at Rockland, , says the ' American Angler, and watched the trout of that celebrated river passing over the dam, which i; nearly thfee feet' high, with about a four-inch volume of water pouring over it. The trout ranged in size from ten to eighteen inches, and during the time wo sat there at least twenty mahaged to gee over. i n many instances a first attempt failed, owing, however, more to an apparent want of judgment, or perhaps experience, then from lack of r physical ability in the fish to accomplish the feat 4 the smaller fish, as a rule, jailed to get over in the first effort. But a few of the larger fish made a clean jump into the smooth water above the apron of the dam. Most of them passed perpendicularly up the falling waters, and with apparent ease. These fish were enabled to swim straight up this downpour of the waters by the great muscular power they possessed ; there was no trick, no sleight of hand about it—it was mere strength of body, which is evidently centered in the peduncle or tail and the tail fin. They actually sculled Their Bodies up this comparatively dense mass of water. The query naturally arises: If a teninch trout can swim up such a fall what is the capacity of a salmon forty inches under similar conditions? What we saw the trout do has never before, so far as we know, been placed upon record, and it establishes a fact from which greater swimming power should be assigned to the salmondae than has been given them. by previous observers.

A Wonderful Railroad

When the railroad between Moscow* and St. Petersburg was opened it inspired great terror in the breasts of the superstitious peasantry, who thought there must be some witchcraft in ac invention which could make a train of heavy cars run along without horses at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Some of them, would not go within sight of a. train. Others took timid peeps at the Smoke-breathing creature, which they believed to be alive and ready to devour whatever came in its way. When the whistle sounded they said: “The monster is hungry; he’s screaming for some body to eat!” By degrees, however, their terror wore away, and following the example of the village priests, the peasants began to try the “smoke-wagons,” though with fear and trembling. The superstition had gone, but the mystery still remained. One day an old man who had never been away from his own village determined to take a look at“ Mother Moscow,” which is regarded by all the Russian peasantry as the most wonderful city in the world. The down express and the up express met at Bo'.ogoe— half way between St. Petersburg and Moscow—and the passengers ot both trains were allowed half an hour for supper. Among the people who alighted from the other train the old peasant recognized a friend whom he had not seen for a long time. They had a delightful chat together over their tea in the restaurant and thtn, without any thought of what he was doing, the old peasant boarded his friend’s train instead of his own. The talk was very merry for some time, but at last the old man became grave and silent and appeared to be puzzling deeply over something. At last he broke oiqt: “Ah, Ivan, what a wonderful thing are these railroads! Here we sit in tae same car, I going to Moscow and you to St. Petersburg!”—[Youth’s Companion.

Columbus or Vespucci.

Every schoolboy of course, knows that if Columbus had never America would have been discovered all the same, when Pedro Alvares Cabral, the Portuguese admiral, was carried by the trade winds over to the coast of Brazil in 15-30. But in that case it would not have been discovered by Spain and the whole course of the inevitable European settlement on the continent must have boon mod.tied. When that can be said of tjt.v particular event there can be no question as to its importance. There is a kind of historical critic, rather conspicuous in these latter days, who finds a peculiar satisfaction in pointing out that Columbus discovered America without knowing it—which is true. That he believed and died in the belief that he had reached Asia is certain. It is not less sure that Amerigo Vespucci, from whom the continent was named, by a series of flukes, misprints and misunderstandings, went to his grave in the same faith, lie thought that he had found an island of uncertain size to the south of the equator, and that what Columbus had fouud to the north was the eastern extremity of Asia. But the world which know* that Columbus did, as‘a matter of fact, do it the service of finding America, and is aware that without him the voyage from Palos would never have been undertaken, has refused to belitjfie him because he did not know beforehand what was only found out through his exertions.— [Saturday Rev«w.