Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — Page 3

In Sheeps Cloting.

BY Capt. Ormond Steele

CHAPTER XlX—Continued. ■“You are quite right, sir. But may I ask when Captain Fox is expected back?” "It may be 10-day, or it may be tomorrow. Mr. Frenauld is to inform me. In the meantime, Mr. Dayton, I can say to you, sir, in unofficial confidence, •that lam not at a'.l pleased with the appearance of things ” “On board the Wanderer, sir?” “On board the Wanderer and on board the Sea Hawk, on ship and on shore. Shiver my timbers, Val—beg pardon, sir—l do not like the appearance of things, so let us get on shore, where we can talk without man-o’-war restraint. ” Valentine was more than willing to agree to this. They were soon at Dr. lledces’ house, much to that gentleman’s delight—and they insisted on talking in a room apart, greatly to that gentleman’s surprise. During this conversation Mr. Hodges told his nephew that the Wanderer, in the absence of Captain Fox, was a very different ship from what a man-of-war should be. “Man and boy, I have been to sea for over thirty years, % ai, and may I be swung to the yardarm, if I ever saw anything like it," said the excited lieutenant. “I do not understand you, Uncle G eorge. ” “Then I’ll be plain, Val. Yonder ship is without doubt sailing under the commission of good Queen Anne, whom •may heaven preserve; but, sir, she looked so much like a pirate when I reached her deck this morning, that, as I am a sinner, named Hedges, I feel like hurrying to the Sea Hawk and preparing for an attack.” “What particularly attracted your attention': 1 ” ( “First, the evident familiarity of the men and officers; and then many of the !bearded pirates, for such they looked to be, wore rings in their ears and ■jewels «f great value on their fingers. Think of such things on the hands of sailors with seven pence half-penny a day, and a penny for rum when at sea. There is something wrong, if one could only lay his finger on It.” “Why did Capt Fox leave the ship to go among the Indians?” asked Valentine.

“He went to see this Col. Graham.” “How did he know this Col. Graham was there?” “I don’t know, Val.” “When did the ship leave New York?” “I was so thunderstruck I didn’t ask.” “Well, ail we can do is to wait till Fox comes. I see no reason to feel alarmed, for everything is right. We are acting under orders,” said Valentine. “That is true. Come, letus stroll out. It may be that I am getting womanish in my feelings; but them that know George Hedges will say that it hasn’t been his habit to get alarmed at shadows.” The uncle and nephew walked out and strolled down to the inn, attracted by a large crowd gathered about the place. In answer to Valentine’s question, one of the bystanders said: “A man been found killed, sir.” “Found with a bullet through his head,” said another, “on Hempstead road boyond Kiverhead.” In response to further inquiries, it was learned ttiat the unfortunate man was a post-rider on the way from New York to Sag Harbor, that inscription being found on his empty leathern pouch. Some of the people thought this the work of robbers; others were sure it was done in revenge by slaves who had taken to the woods, and a few very wise, ones shook their heads and hinted that this was the forerunner of a general Indian revolt. While these rumors and comments were flying right and left, a man in the dress of a common sailor mounted a step before the inn door, when he was recognized as an old acquaintance, and some believing that he was going to make an address, shouted out: “Silence! A speech from Sam Tallmadge. ”

Though evidently perplexed by this introduction, the sailor, a fine, sturdy fellow, called out: "I ain’t geing to make a speech, hut I have more news to give you. “ “Lot us have it,” shouted a score of people, and the crowd,with eager faces, surged around him. “I came from Gardner’s Island this morning, and two days ago I was in New York.” “Oh, that ain’t news!” broke in a man who knew that Sam Tallmadge’s business as captain of a small schooner took him to New York very often. Kot at all disconcerted by this interruption, the sailor continued: t “And in New York I was at the Governor’s office, and I heard officers of ships, just in from the Atlantic, saying that there was a pirate ship making for these waters.”

“A pirate Ship!” came like a gasp from the crowd. “Aye, neighbors, a pirate ship commanded by Captain Kidd, him as has been away raising the devil in the East Indies and the Spanish Main. And one officer swore that the ship was the Adventure Galley.” “Where was the ship heading for?” asked a man in the crowd. “Due north. I heard the officers say she will come into these waters or cruise off Boston, and sink and rob till she’s driven away.” “Let her come here if she wants to,” -aid Doctor Hedges, catching a glimpse of Frenauld in the crowd. “We have two good ships here, and if Captain Kidd doesn’t tackle them, I pledge my word they’ll tackle him." A cheer greeted this little address, but it did not satisfy the people, who plied Sam Tallmadge with questions that caused the honest man to repeat himself again and again. The story of the murdered post-rider and the coming of the noted Captain Kidd at once became the all-absorbing topics of conversation. Men- gathered in knots at street corners to discuss it. Women, with all their little ones clinging to their skirts, like chickens about a mother hen when the shadow of a hawk falls upon them, came out of their houses, and talked with other women about the awful topics. The servants discussed it over the fences of back gardens. The good old dominie thought seriously of summoning the people together and holding religious services suitable to the occasion. The sailors from the Sea Hawk and Wanderer suddenly became objects of

an intenser interest than they had yet attracted, for the people saw in them the heroes who must soon be brought face to face with Captain Kidd and destroy him, or be destroyed. There was enough doubt about the former contingent to keep up the excitement —indeed, to add to it. In the midst of this hubbub three men j mounted on horses and followed by two servants, one a white lad and the other a negro youth, came into the town. One was (aptain Fox, looking as fresh and smiling as if he had been off on a most enjoyable picnic; by his side I rode Uncas, chief of the Montauks, and-I slightly to the rear was Colonel Gra- j ham, looking very pale, and Othello, j looking, if possible, blacker than ever. This party dismounted before the inn door and sent their horses to the stable, j Their appearance would ordinarily have caused some excitement, but they now entered the house nearly un- ; noticed, excepting that some of the people whispered together about Uneas and his warriors bearing a hand in the general defense, in the event of Capt. Kidd’s making a landing. As soon as F'renauld could do so without attracting attention, he drew Capt. Fox to one side and whispered nervously: “It is known in New York that we are in these waters.” “Who told you so?” said Fox, showing no sign of alarm. rrenauld gave a synopsis of Pam Tallmadge’s report, and closed with a | reference to the murdered post-rider, i Great was his surpriso to hear Fox say: I “Good! By all the powers of sea ! and sky, things could not have hap- j pened better. Their very efforts to de- ! feat me will but further my schemes. ; Why, man, I would have given this : sailor a thousand pounds for what he : has done for us for nothing. Now, I shall to work, and when the cruisers come after Capt. Kidd they will find he has two of their provincial ships under his command. The Sea Hawk is ours Frenauld, as surely as is the Adventure Galley, rechristened for prudential reasons the Wanderer.”

CHAPTER XX. CAPTAIN FOX ACTS WITH CHARACTER S IC FROM! TXKSS “Will you remain here, sir, or go on board?” asked Frenauld, whoso admiration lor his audacious commander rose with the latter’s confidence. “We’ll go on board. Have the boat ready. In the meantime, I must speak with some of these people,“replied Fox. “Will Colonel Graham go with you?” “I think so; he will if ho is wise.” Fox waved his hand, an l Frenauld left to obey the order he had justieceived. Dr. Hedges, who had been watching Captain F’ox ever since he entered the inn, now approached him and said, as he took his hand, “I am very glad to welcome you back, Captain.” “And I £>ru doubly glad to be back,” said Fox, retaining the Doctor’s hand, while he held his head down as if thinking of something of importance. Suddenly he added; “By the way, Doctor, have you a few moments to spare?” “All the time you wish,” replio 1 the Doctor, who was more and more impressed by the gallant bearing and aristocratic manners of the Captain of the Wanderer. Fox asked the landlord to show him and the Doctor to a private room, and then he motioned to Don to follow with the tag which he had brought from the ship. When Don went out tho Captain closed the door cautiously, and said, as he began to open the bag: “When in New York City a few days ago, I found a few trifles, ant? with Miss Lea in my mind I bought them. I know she does not like me as yet, but that is because she does not know me, and perhaps she retains a girlish affection for Capt. Denham, I know nothing about Denham’s family, but be it high or low he is a g od sailor, and that is saying a great deal.” “And that is saying all,” said tho Doctor, with vigor. “We all believe that Balph Dennarn is th > natural child of some one. Of course, he is not to blame for that, but my daughter shall never wed a man she knevs nothing about.” “Perhaps you are right,” said Fox, averting his face to conceal the smile that he could not suppress at the other’s absurd reasoning. “But 1 was going to ask you to do me a great favor.” “A thousand of them,” said the Doctor, at once. Captain Fox drew an ebony, inlaid casket from the bag, and taking a small key—it looked to be made of gold—ho displayed the contents. Great diamond stones that glowed with the brilliancy of rainbows mirrored and held under tropic suns, flashed in earrings and brooches; emeralds, tho light of which seemed to fill the room with a cold, green glow that was dazzling, gleamel in wristlets and other jewelry. And at one end of the casket, like a disjointed white serpent, there iay a pearl necklace, worth in itself the combined fortunes of all the dwellers in Sag Harbor.

The Doctor knew something of the value of these things, and dazed at the concentrated treasure as well as dazzled by its beauty, he bent his head over the jewel case, and trembled with excitement. “I secured those things from a Burgundian prince, who has recently been exiled, and came to the new world with the only wealth left him. The price was much to him, but nothing, fortunately, to me. I thought at once of the beautiful Lea, and bought (hem.” “But surely not for my daughter!” exclaimed the Doctor. “Fes, for your daughter. Now, I know, beautiful as they are, that she wiil refuse them at my hands. She i cannot do so if you give them to her.” “But she 1 nows I have not the wealth nor the ” “I know what you would say, my clear Doctor, but you can tell Miss l.ea that the jewels were given or sent to you lor ' her by a highly Valued lr.end. Keep back the name, and she will be more than woman, more- than human, if she does not accept. After she has learned to love the ge-ms, and it is a love that grows very fast, she will demand to know the donor’s name, then, I think, you can tell her without harm to my cause. ”

If Do-tor Hedges, good easy man, had entertained any doubts about (he wealth and high rank of this nautical Midas, it was dissipated now. Here was a prospective son-in-law, richer than any man in the province—yes, richer than any man n all the American colonies. His warm beard and hair seemed suddenly (o become composed of threads of gold. He was handsome before, but now he turned into an Apollo, before whom the mythical original was dwarfed. ith an invitation from Fox to come on board the Wanderer that night, Doctor Hedges secreted his rare treasure in his breast and hastened home. He heard the people still discussing the murder of the post-rider, and the coming of Captain Kidd; but he gave no heed to them. When the doctor lett. Captain Fox threw himself into a chair, and gave way to a fit of laughter that shook every

muscle in ills body, in his efforts to suppress it, and he was still laughing, when the door opened, and Colonel Graham, looking very pale and stately, walked in, and said: “I knocked, but you could not have heard me. ” “Heard you, Colonel? No, faith; I have beon laughing at as grim a joke as I ever played, ’ replied Fox, pressing the moisture of hi arity from his eyes. “I am glad you enjoy it.” “Oh, Ido enjoy it immensely. But I am over it now. Sit down, Colonel, and let us have a chat,” said Fox, suddenly becoming sober, if not stern. “There is no time ;or sitting, and less for chatting.” “Why not. Colonel?" “You have heard the rumors, and you know them to be true?” “Of course; and let me say, the rumors delight me.” “I fail to understand you,” said the Co’onel, showing anger. “Faith, as I don’t understand myself, after eight-and-thirty years of acquaintance, Ic an hardly expect you, who have only known me since my seventeenth year, to understand me. But whac do you say to going on board the Wanderer? We can talk with moio pr vaey there.” “I am agreed. When do you start?” “At once. Frenauld has the boat reacy. I shall have but little time to give to hospitality, for I soe before me much work, which, to be done well, must be done at once.” They left the inn, Don carrying tho leather bag. and Othello walking beside him with the double valise. On the way to the beach a man who, having seen Captain Fox on his previous visit, fancied that he knew him, called out: “Been to New York, < apiain Fox?” “Yes, sir,” replied the Captain, still keeping on. “Heard anything about the pirate Captain Kidd?” asked the man, so much encouraged by tho reply that he foil in behind tho little procession. “Oh, a great deal. Every one in New York is talking about Captain Kidd,” said Fox, with captivat ng graciousness, [TU BK CJKT.SUU J

Linen in Winter.

It is a great mistake to allow linen to fieeze on the line in winter. Even at some sacrifice in purity of color linen goods should be dried in the house. This is the advice given by all dealers in linens who understand the subject. The reason is a simple one: When the goods are frozen the liber is strained to some extent, and every fold or crease in the linen strains it still more, and in a short time cracks appear where there wero folds. No linen is proof against this strain. The host way of washing large pieces of linen, like lablecloths, is to soap the soiled places after first removing all stains that you believe will not come out with washing. Different stains require to bo treated differently, and every housekeeper has her own rules. The majority of stains that will not wash out should be treated before the cloth is wet. Alter wic stained places are attended to. and special places are soaped, pu* the cloths to soak over night in cold water. In the morning wring them out into warm water, rub them on the rubbing-hoard, and put them into a boiler of cold water, in which a teaspoonful of kerosene is dissolved to every gallon of water. Let the cloths boil; remove them irom the lire as soon as they boil up well, and put them into clear, cold water. Ilinse them from this water into another, and then Into a third, and, if the clothes are to he blued, put them finally through a bluing water. No table linen should be blued every time it is washed. If the cloths are blued for two weeks and bluing is omitted for two weeks, each set of cloths used alternate weeks is blue once a month, or every alternate time it is washed. By this means soiled spots and stains cannot be covered up by bluing, as they frequently are by careless laundresses. The best bluing is old-fashioned indigo. This may still be purchased at large drug stores, but is seldom sold at groceries. There is one kind of bluing against which every one should be warned. This is Prussian blue, though it is never or seldom st Id by that name. It is a compound of iron, and will, in process of time, produce iron rust spots. Test the bluing you use by making a solution of a little in water and add a piece of washing soda to it. If it turns a dull reddish color it is Prussian blue, and must not be used. —New York Tribune.

Too Mortuary.

A Congressman tells this story: “When I was about 30 I hung out my shingle in a small town in a Southern State, and, being Irom the North, I dicl not receive at first the agreeablo recognition I expected. One blatherskite of a fellow made himself so obnoxious that one day I slapped his jaws. I was feeling pretty good when I was knocked out by receiving a challenge from Mr. Blatherskite. I tried to get out of it some way, but couldn't, and finally accepted his ci allenge and chose double-barreled shot guns at ten paces, I didn’t hear anything from my man for twenty-four hours, and then I had a personal call from him. ‘I have come in,’ he said, after a lew preliminary remarks, ‘to make a statement about this duel. What I’ve got to say is that shot-guns are too doggoned mortuary for me, and if you have no objection, I’ll apologize and call it square.’ I accepted the situation graceful!}*, and ever after Mr. Blatherskite was most respectful.”

Origin of the Word “Socdollager.”

A writer in the March Atlantic gives this as the origin of- the slang word “socdollagcr,” which was current some time ago. “.Socdollagcr” was the uneducated man’s transposition nf “doxologer,” which was the familiar New England rendering of “doxlogy. ” This was the Puritan term for the verse of ascription used at the conclusion of every hymn, like the “Gloria,” at the end of a chanted psalm. On doctrinal grounds it was proper for the whole congregation to join in the singing, so that it became a triumphant winding up of the whole act of worship. Thus it happened that “socdollager” became the term for anything which left nothing else to follow; a decisive, overwhelming finish, to which no reply was possible.

Lassoing a Runaway Horse.

Zach Prentice, keeper of a San Francisco bar-room, and at one time a cowboy, recently saved a number of persons from harm by iassoing a runaway horse that was about to dasti into the midst of them.

TEN MET WITH DEATH.

EIGHT OF THEM BURNED IN AN OLD WELL. Terrible Fate of Unfortunate Who Took Ke uje from Michigan Raging Forest Fires In a Deserted Fit, Never to Emerge Again. Flames In the Forest. A forest fire destroyed Louis Sands’ lumber camp near Lake City, Mich. Out of a total crew of sixty men fortynine escaped uninjured. One, Edward Sullivan, was seriously burned and ten are dead. Of these, eight took refuge In a well and were cremated there by the timber and curbing falling in on them and burning. Two tried to run the gauntlet and were burned to death. The men were assembled at dinner and the forest fire, which was burning all around, entirely cut off escape. When the men, realizing their danger, rushed out of tho building in which they had been sitting the smoko so blinded them that they became bewildered. They ran hither and thither, unable to find a moans of escape, and their horses stampeded owing to tho confusion. Eight of the men jumped into a well to escape the flames and there died of suffocation. Thoir bodies have since been brought to the surface. Other men rushed to the woods and some of them thus escaped, but tho bodies of two of them were afterward found burned. One man reached Lake City terribly burned and there died in fearful agony. Eight teams of horses were cremated. The bodies of the burned have been taken to I.ako City, where they await burial. Most of the unfortunates were strangers, and the bodies will be shipped to friends where known. The fire in the timber near the camp of Blodgett, Cummer & Dwiggins is under control and no further hunger is feared there. SaTlnrw’j Big: Bl*zc. A little spark and a strong southwest gale at Saginaw, Mich., resulted In a very destructive fire. In a brief period the work of years of toil was destroyed and tho fairest portion of Saginaw left a mass of smoldering ashes and debris. The flro is said, to have started from the chimney of Briggs & Cooper, on what is known as the middle ground, and, wafted by the gale, It swept down into the dismantled mill plant of Sample & Camp, on the docks of which were a number of piles of lumber. The Bristol street bridge next caught and a portion of it was destroyed. Thence the flames leaped to the east side just below Bristol street and north of tho city hall, where were located a large number of buildings, including hose-house No. 6, J. F. Winkler’s ice-houses. Eleven residences on Tilden street and on both sides of Washington avenue down to Holden street were quickly licked up. Then the sparks wero carried across the old bayou into the premises of the George F. Cross Lumber Company, the planing mill, lumber in the yard and a dozen tenement houses melting like 6now. Next came the Allington & Curtis Manufacturing Company’s extensive plant and Passot’s old soap faotory, all of which were wiped, out. Here the fire struck Jefferson avenue, and in an hour some of the finest residences in the city were in ashes. The flames made a clean sweep north to Emerson street, where the fire continued eastward, south and along Emerson street toward the city limits. It cut a wide swath on Owen, Howard, Sheridan and Warren avenues and other streets east, St. Vincent’s Orphans’ Home succumbed early, but tho inmates wero ull removed to places of safety. In many instances houses caught fire and were destroyed before the occupants were hardly aware that they were in danger, und dozens of families saved practically nothing. It is impossible to give a correct account of the losses and insurance. The former will reach nearly $1,5C0,( 00, with probably an insurance of $700,000. Fully I,uoo men employed in factories burned aro thrown out of employment and hundreds of families are homeless, as about three hundred buildings were burned. Only one life was lost, that of John Clark, employed in McClelland’s file factory, who burned in front of his own house. A fireman named McNally was quite severely burned. There will he many cases of distress, but the great majority of the losses are distributed among people comparatively well-to-do. Tho heaviest loss is that of E. Germain, which foots up to $350,000 and throws 350 men out of employment. Wisconsin Towns Destroyed. Saturday was a bad day for the towns and cities of Northern Wisconsin, which aro surrounded by the pine woods. The wind blew a gale, and vegetation is so backward that everything was as dry as tinder. The conditions were those that generally obtain late in the fall, and precautions against fire are then taken. As it was, forest fires raged all along the line of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad from Antigo to Buckbee and from Eland Junction to Waueau. The town of Bryant, near Antigo, was entirely wiped but, and the inhabitants forced to flee for their lives. Thirty buildings were destroyed and not a single house of any description was left to mark the town site. About one million feet of lumber and three hundred thousand feet of logs were also destroyed. There was little insurance. Many of the inhabitants of Bryant spent last night in tho woods. It was a day of great excitement at Antigo. Forest fires blazed all around and thero were several alarms of fire in the city. The last lire started in the afternoon and swept over the southern portion of the city, destroying Weed’s mill and about forty houses. The damage will exceed SIOO,OOO and 200 people were made homeless. Miune o n Town Burncc?. A dispatch from Rock Creek, Minn., 6ays that that town is destroyed. Among the buildings are two general stores, a depot und several residences. The loss will probably re< ch $30,000. The wind at that point blew a gale, and the town had not appliances for fighting fire. Rock Creek is a railroad town in the pine country, sixty miles north of St. Paul.

PELTING HAILSTONES.

Immense Damage In Pittsburgh and Vicinity by a Terrific Storm. Pittsburgh and vicinity was visited by the most violent hail-storm every known the other afternoon. The effect was most disastrous to life and property. Heavy black clouds suddenly obscured the light of the sun, while the air became oppressively hot Following a terrific electric flash came the crash and roar of thunder, shaking the very earth. Before man or beast could seek a cover, the deluge of Ice came and for five minutes there was a terrifying war of the elements. Chunks of ice as big as goose eggs fell. Telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated in every direction; electric and cable cars were stopped by bro'4m wires or debris choking the conduits and traffic was suspended for a long time. The stinging peltingof the hail caused a number of serious accidi nts by frenzied hones. Twenty horses, some of them valuable, are known to have been killed in Pittsburg, cit er by collision or becoming entangled in electric wires. John Downey, the driver of one team, was dragged several squares and fatally hurt. Michael Dunn, aged fourteen, was almost electrocuted by stepping on an electric light wire on Second av'euue.

One valuable team attached to a car* riage standing in front of the Mononga* hela House plunged into the Monongahela river and was drowned. The funeral of Joseph Craig was proceeding along Rtockton avenue, Allegheny, when the storm broke. In an Instant there was terrible confu-lon. Some of the teams ran away, crashing into the carriages preceding them. The hearse was badly damaged, and the casket was broken open.

WORK DONE IN A YEAR.

Report* Submitted to the Presbyterian General Assembly. The annual reports of the various church hoards submitted to the Presbyterian General Assembly, in session in the New York Avenue Church at Washington, show encouraging results in every branch of the work. The report of the permanent committee on temperance enters into that subject largely in detail and makes many recommendations. The report emphasizes the statement that the church is not a political organization, but owes it to God and humanity to give unequivocal utterance on such moral questions. The total reoeipts of all the boards during the year amounted 1o $2,709,'><>2, an increaso over .1892 of $178,705. The report of the Board of Church prection Fund shows that during the year there were 239 applications for assistance, upon whioh grants were made aggregating $105,391, and loans $01,192. This total exceeds any previous year in the history of the board, and still there is an insufficiency of supplies. The result of the year’s work of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Acudemios has

NEW YORK AVENUE CHURCH,

not provod a disappointment to the expectations of the church. During the year the receipts havo boon $75,134, and the donations in the shape of aid aggiegated $63,030. Forty institutions have been assisted and twenty States occupied. The aggregate enrollment of etudents is 4,002, of whom 2,704 uro engaged in systematic Bible study. The report of the Board of Foroign Missions displays a very satisfactory condition of affairs, the only gloom being caused by the death of lour missionaries. During the year forty-tix new missionaries were sent into the field, making a total in connection with the board of 622 missionaries, which with aotive agents of all grados roaches a total of 1,047, Including 187 ordained ministers. The detailed reports from the missions in Japan, China, Corea, Siam, and Laos, India, Persia. Syria, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and South America, the board says, call for thanksgiving. The outlook was never more encouraging. The expenditures for missions in the more important flolds wero as follows: Africa, $34,407; China, $180,067; India, $157,070; Japan, $94,902; Corea, 33,583; Mexico, $89,401; Persia, $96,042; Siam and Laos, $47,953; South America, $87,103; Syria, $61,206; United States Indians, $19,848. The expenses of the home department wore $50,200.

SHOT IN A COURT-ROOM.

Lawyer Wegner Murdered by Coley ISrown Before the Judge’* Desk. The noonday quiet of Danville. Ind., was disturbed the other day by two shots that rang out of the court-house windows and were plainly heard around the business blocks that surround the court-house square. Immediately some one ran out Into the streets from the court-room exclaiming: “A man has been murdered in there." “Who is it?" exclaimed several. “Coley Brown has just shot Lawyor Wesner,” was tho reply. Brown is president of the Indiana National Gas Company and Samuel Wesner was an attorney of the Boone County bar. The shooting occurred in the court-room direotly in front of the Judge's desk. For several days a suit, Martin Hope against the Lebanon Gas Company, for damages has been on trial and been bitterly contested on botn sides, and the shooting was the outcome of this suit. Brown drew his revolver and fired two shots. Wesner moved toward Brown and pulled a long dagger. Just as he laid hands on Brown Brown fell and Wesner dropped upon him. He was taken off und laid down. Wesner’s strength began to fail and he died in forty minutes. Brown was arrested, his revolver confiscated, and he w'as taken to jail. The coroner was called and his verdict was In accordance with tho fads as stated, practically charging Brown with the murder. Brown was taken to Indianapolis, where he will be out of the way of mob violence.

CLOSED WITH A CRASH.

Serious Accident Marks the Und of the Woman’s Congress In Chicago. Loaded with more than 100 women a section of the flooring in tho Chicago Art Institute gave way. Falling a distance of ten or twelve feet the women were thrown in a frightened mass among the wrecked timbers icstlng cn the solid foundations of the building. Eight oi ten women suffered from severe sprains and bruises, and a scoro of others received a severe shaking up. Insecurity of the supports is assigned as the cause of the accident. The section of the floor which gave way was n the vestibule entrance to Washington hall, one of the large audi oriums of the institute. During the week thousands of people have crowded back and forih through tho vestibule, and It has suc esstully stood the strain. Weakened, however, by continued use the supports failed. The break occurred lirst in the m’ddle of the floor. A s.lght cracking sound greeted the ears of tho women, and at once the boards began to .-ink beneath their weight. The descent was gradual, and this was one of the reasons that more serious injuries were not sustained by the victims. HurkboDC «f the Whl kv T rst I roVen, The backbone of the 'Whisky trust will now be sorely tried if not broken. Five of the largest houses have withdrawn therefrom and will run independently. The houses are both tho Woolner distilleries of Peoria, the Peoria, Northern and Manhattan Distilling companies, all of Peoria. Tho trust pays rent to these houses to the amount of SIOO,OOO. These five houses are the largest and best in the country. They have a total capacity of 16,000 bushels, and are capable of manufacturing 80,000 gallons of spirits every day. The Ontario Coal Company, of Toronto, lias failed, owing nearly half a million.

FARMERS ARE ENCOURAGED.

Government Reports Show That Crops Generally Are In Good Condition. The following bulletin of the weekly crop report has been issued from Washington: New England—Fine growing week; farm work Is rushing. New Jersey—Under very favorable weather all vegetation pushed rapidly forward; a light frost In the southern portion did some damage to tender plants. Maryland—Com about all planted, some up; wheat, oats, rye and grass show healthy growth: generally tobacco plants are plentiful, out the Hessian fly Is doing some damage. Fruit is not damaged to any great extent by Iroats; prospects excellent lor a good fruit Hop; strawberries promising. Illinois—Wheat improving; oats, meadows and pastures generally good; planting in fair progress; nights too cool. Indiana—Weather more favorable to crops p.nd farm work; much corn planted; wheat is Jointing: rye heading; oats, grass and fruit in good condition. Michigan—Wheat, grass and clover have Improved rapidly; all kinds of fruit promise well. Wisconsin—Seeding nearly done; potato and com planting begun; tobaoco plants backward, but coming up In good shape; winter wheat and rye excellent; spring wheat, fair prospect 8. Minnesota—Wheat seeding oxcept on low lands, about finished; corn and potato planting general; grass coming up nicely. lowa—Considerable progress made In plowing and corn planting; with favorable weather buik of plautlng will bo completed this week; decided improvement In grain, pastures and meadows. North Dakota—Rapid progress in farm work during the past week; wheat seeding nearly finished and much oats and barley sown; corn planting begun In western portion. South Dakota—Small grain soeding. except flax, completed; corn and garden planting progressing; rapid growth of grass and grain stand excellent; ground In splendid condition everywhere. Nebraska—AVarm sunshine of last half of week very beneficial, but tho southwestern parts of State are suffering from drought, and all sections would be benefited by rain; rapid progress in com planting; crop half planted. Kansas—Rainfall greatly Improved crop conditions; wheat, com, oats, and pastures assuming better color; wheat heading in tho south. Oklahoma—ln the west portion crops arc suffering; In tho cast portion all crops are growing rapidly. Colorado—Crops outsldo of tho southeast portion arc suffering from drought; most favorable and promising week of the season; com and potato planting progressing. Washington *— Excellent growing weather tills week; grain, grasses and fruits doing nicely. California—Grain crops short; apricots and poaches below the average; almondß short; cherries, prunes and berrios, large crop; hops Improving; honey crop lmmouso; hay below the averago. Ohio—condition moro favorable. Much plowing and planting done. Oats and corn not all planted. Wheat, oats, grass, clover, timothy, rye, pastures, meadows, tobacco and potatoes Improved. Fruit blooming. I'rospocta good. Gardens backward.

NO MERCY FOR DYAMITERS.

Gov. Holes Talks of the Muscatine Outrode—Working on Important Clews. Dos Moines special; Gov. Boies was In his office this morning, having returned last night from Muscatine. M hen asked what ho had to say about tho Muscatine affair ho said: “Tho crime of tho murder of tho threo men whose homes were destroyed, horrible as that would have boon, seems to have been less than what was attempted. A twenty-llvo-pound cask of giant powdor was exploded under each of tho houses. Thero were liftoen people In tho housos, and as I looked at the wreck that was made I thought it was miraculous that all of them wore not killed. Tho two frame housos are totally destroyed and the interior of tho brick, Is a ruin, only tho walls slanding. “Cerialnly I hope, for humanity's sake, that tho men who did tho villainous act wero ignorant of tho force of giant powdor But it looks ns though they intended to (ako the lives of ull tho people in a most horrible manner. Public indignation is properly aroused, and I hope tho perpetrators will be brought to Justico. The people of Musoutino are doing all they enn (o ferret out tho perpetrators of the villainous outrago. “Those having the matter specially In ohurgcliavo some clews which are being carefully followed up. The powdor was stolen from a point on tho other side of the river and six twenty-live-pound cans wero (alien. Only three wero used, one under each of tho buildings. There is hope of I racing tho others into the possession of tho parties who did (lie dastardly net. “Of course there are other clows, hut at present nothing that soems to warrant arrests being made; but tho people of lowa, who nro justly indignant that such a crime should bo committed in our State, and hope anxiously to soo Iho perpetrators brought to justice, may rest assured that no stone will bo left unturned and no act unperformed to accomplish Hint end."

RIGHT TO SAIL IN BEHRING SEA

Sir Charles KiihmUl Argues tlmt It I'reo to All Niitlonfl. Sir Charles Itussell, in behalf of tho British case boforo tho Behring Bea tribunal of arbitration, at Paris, argued that tho seizures mado of British vessels in Behring Bea wore not justifiable, and be reviewed at' length tho origin and nature of tho rights transferred by Bussia to the United States In 1867. Sir Charli s claimed that the ukase of 17US\ in which Bussia asserted jurisdiction over her subjects on all huntinggrounds and establishments on tho (oast of America from the 55 th degree of north latitude to Behring Strait and thence southward to Japan, und on the Aleutian, Kurile and other islands in all the “northeastern o.:ean,” applied only to llussian subjects. Tho ukase of 1821, in which tho Czar of Bussia laid claim to exclusive jurisdiction over tho northwest coast of America down to the 51st parallel of latitude, together with a considerable portion of. the opposite coasts of Asia and tho neighboring seas to tho extent of 100 Italian miles from any part of the coast and intervening Islands so appropriated had, Sir Charles Bussell pointed out, elicited earnest protests both from Gr< at Britain and tho United States, and subsequent treaties reoognlzod that the pretension of liussia to exclusive jurisdiction over the waters of Bering Sea was untenable. Hence the rights derived from Bussiu by the United States were merely the ordinary property rights in the soil and not in the seals.

DANCER FROM HIGH WATER.

Manufactories and Public Property Tlurcat- . ened with Destruction. At Erie, Pa., the flood situation is serious and a large number of manufacturing establishments are in the road of the high water. A train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio was ditched near Saegerstown and Engineer Lake, of Salamanca was killed. SevAral were injured. A train load of Denver excursionists were transferred from the Nickel-Plate to the Lake Shore for safety. . One Nickel-Plate bridge at Moorehead is out and only the weight of a freight train holds the main bridge in the city. The Pittsburg and Erie is under water for miles and other roads are submerged. The Are department bells have rung several alarms to get out citizens’ assistance for the hundreds whose homes are now involved by the Increased floods. The damage to city factories, city property, and private pioperty will aggregate $250,000. The services of William T. Sullivan, a postoffic e inspector at St. Louis, have been discontinued owing to the insufficiency of tne appropriation for this service. Ten or twelve officers will be dropped from the rolls next week. A memorial to the late Jay Gould is to be erected at his birthplace, Koxbury, Delaware County, N. Y., in the shape of a Presbyterian church.

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING; Important Happonlngs or tlio WsrkC rimes aud (annuities suicide*— Deaths— Weddings, Etc. Minor State News. Wrr.UAM H. Hinson, 75, Moores viile, dropped dead. Dr. IC. A. Armstrong, old and wealthy physician, is deid at Kokomo. Frank Meyers, aged 12, was drowned, while bathing near New Albany. A i. edge of diamond-gray glass stone, rare and valuable, was struck uear Albany. During his official career Justice Chamberlain of Goshen, lias married COO con pics. Seymour papers advise the citizens of that place not to feed tramps or give them money. Daniel Cover, aged 05, prominent farmer of Decatur Couutv, is dead of heart disease. August I’arnin, a farmer near Fort Wayne, was kicked in the stomach by his horse and died. John Seward, a farm laborer near Anderson, who was kicked in tho stomach by a horse, is dead. J. .1. Wilson, Elkhart, paid an alleged Chicago lawver $5(4-to hunt up an estate for him and Is out that much. George Davidson, aged 34, living near Richmond, committed suicide by shooting Financial troublos. A spoonbill cattish was taken from Eagle lake, near Warsaw, tv Tony Osborn, a fisherman. It weighed 107 pounds. George Poland, wife, and four children, formerly residents of Noblesville, wore killed in a cyclone in Oklahoma the other day. Powder In the freight depot of the C. &E. I. road, at Cayuga, explodod. The building caught fire and was totally destroyed. Fire, caused by an explosion of natural gas, destroyed a drug store and grain elevator at Adams, near Greeusimrg. Loss, $5,000. The farm residence of Hugh McDonald, In Lagro Township, Wabash County, was entirely destroyed by lire originating from a dofoctlvo flue. Loss, $1,500; Insured for SSOO.

The large stock barn on John Mohr’s farm In Moral Township, ,Shelby County, burned causing a loss of $3,000; Insurance, $1,500. Eight horses and a largo quantity of grnlu wore destroyed. 11. W. Mohdhurst, C. L. Carter, H. W. Tapp, J. E. Younge, tho masters of the lour Masonic Lodges of Fort Wayne, with E. F. Llebman, tho High Priost of Fort[Wayne Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, havo established a Masonic relief fund for Fort Wayno. John Hope of Elkhart, has a genuine $8 bill Issued bv the United .States ot America in 1778. It Is good on its face for olght Spanish dollars, but Mr. Hobo has rofusod a standing offer of S2OO for ills prize. He claims that it is the olJost specimen of United States mouey in existence. At Torre Haute a Jury gave Mrs. Gloanor Denny a vofdlet for $1,500 damages against tho Chicago <fc Eastern; Illinois railroad for Injuries received In October, 1891. Sho was a passenger on one of tlio company’s trains, being on a car platform, and had not time to enter the car when tho train moved, wrenching hor, and causing Injuries to her head, r.eck and spine. An accident occurred at Roann that resulted In tho death of William Ponce, aged nearly 85 years, and ono of the wealthiest citizens In that community. Mr. Ponco attempted to “block” a log that was bolng loaded on a car In Thomas’ saw-mill yard. Tho chain broke, and tho log crushed Mr. Ponco to death. Ho was a pioneer ot Wabash County. A widow and sevoral children survive him.

Hon. John VV. Clayton, President of tho Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank at Farmland, was visited at his home near that ulaco by two men who wanted to buy some land. A trade was made and as thoy were going to town to get a deed ono of tho strangers proposod to Clayton that they play three-card monte. Upon Ills refusal the man tried to rob him. Clayton threw him out of the buggy and succeeded in escaping. . As a freight train on tho Ohio and Mississippi Railway was going cast through Oakdalo, four miles east of North Vernon, tho coupling broke, causing tho train to part and then come together again. Several cars wore thrown from tho track. Morton liarth, a brakeman, was thrown from the top of a box car to the ground and, striking on his head, was killed. A tramp, who was stealing a ride on the train, was also injured. A had and fatal accident occurred nino miles south of Goshen, resulting in tha instant death of the 3-yoar-old daughter of Charles McCrants. The father was engaged in hauling wood when his two little children ran out to meot him, approaching on either sido of the wagon. Ho did not notice them until ono was under tho wheels. Tho wagon was on tho down grade at the time, and beforo it could be stopped tho wheels had passed over the bead of one, crushiug qgt its brains.

Patents havo been Issued to Hoosiers as follows: John B. Deeds and A. Mack, Torre Haute, grinding machine; Aaron Delatter, Goshen, vehicle scat; Frank Farmer, Richmond, pawl and rachet mechanism; John M. Harter and S. G. Ilersch, Wabash, gag swivel) David Hay, North Manchester; Zabby Lassar, assignor of two-tblrds to C. C. Dunn and A. Conner, Srlnesvllle, stone-channeling machine; Warren B. Martlndale, Rochester, automatic time stamp; Jacob W. Turner, Van Wert, Ohio, assignor of one-half to T. Clapper, Hartford City, saw swage; Ernest Walker, New Albany, device for chalking lines; James A. Ward. Greenwood, lathing harness; Joseph G. Whtttier, Attica, door check. At Madison, Alfred Lockard, an old soldier of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, was found In an unconscious condition and died soon afterward. He had just received his pension money and is believed to have been drugged and robbed. Hiram Curry, tne little son of Dr. H. M. Carry, of Graudvfew, had a narrow escape from drowning. He and his Newfoundland dog were playing on the largo iron bridge over Big Sandy River, when the boy fell off the bridge into the water, a distance of thirty feet. He sank and rose the second time, when the dog sprang off the bridge and rescued him. Only 55,000 of the necessary 810,000 to keep the Y. M. C. A. from disbanding at Richmond could be collected, so the organization is a thing of the past in that city. August Vonderembse was shot by James Maher west of Terre Haute, because he insisted on calling on Maher’s sister, who had beeu deceived into a mock marriage with him. When Maher learned a few mouths ago of the deception he brought bis sister home from Chicago. Vonderembse had been warned not to come to the house, when he appeared Maher got his shotgun and fired. Vonderembse was hit in the arm and leg and badly wounded, perhaps maiming him for life.