Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Page 3

AN IDYL OF HONOLULU.

A Bold Stroke for a Husband. Written for This Paper.

CHAPTER V. * THE KANAKA LOVER. A look of marked aversion mantled the face of Miss Bullet, as the intruder emerged more distinctly from the evening shadows. It was such a look as only a woman can bestow after she is off with an old love and on with a new one. The new-comer was a Kanaka, as we have said, although only half native. His father had been one of the many runaway sailors domiciled upon the island, but as is often the case with the lower races, the blood of civilization had been assimilated and obliterated by the blood of the savage. Keeri had, in fact, inherited so completely from his mother that it would have been hard to detect any difference of color or form between him and his full-blooded brethren. He was tall and muscular, with keen, dark eyes, long black hair, a strongly marked nose, a wide mouth and prominent chin, and with a complexion that was brightly tawny, as if his whole person had been subjected to a vigorous polish. Aside from the passions of the moment, which were sufficiently violent, there was nothing rough or repulsive in his aspect, and there wafe ever a certain dignity in his bearing, and a rare intelligence in his glances. “O, it’s you, eh'/” greeted the old sailor’s daughter, in a voice of insolent indifference that annoyed her rejected admirer immensely. “Yes, it’s me,” was the rejoinder, as Keeri planted himself squarely before her.

“Did I not tell you to keep away from here, that all was over between-us, that I wouldn’t have anything more to say to you, that I was tired of having you hanging around here eternally?” asked Alma, all in one breath. “Yes, you said so,” assented Keeri, still more doggedly. “Then why are you here?” “To have a talk with you —m C have already stated." “I do not want anything to do with you,” declared Alma, looking swiftly around to assure herself that Ralph was not within hearing. “You must go away from here immediately. I told you several weeks ago that it was impossible, and always would remain impossible, for me to marry you in your walk of life, and that it would consequently be as much for your peace of mind as for mine that you should turn vour attentions upon some other woman. Did I not tell you this?" Keeri nodded grimly. “Well, I said my last say on that occasion, ” resumed Alma. “My views are just the same now as then—and always will be. You must go away immediately.” It was clear, that this repeated injunction fell upon unwilling ears. So far from complying with it, Keeri dropped into an easy attitude upon the old sailor’s favorite rustic seat under the flowering vine that shaded the door-way of the cottage. “Well, that's cool,” commented Alma, as she began tearing the nearest flowers to pieces in her impatience. “What great regard you have for my feelings and wishes! It’s easy to see what an obliging and gentlemanly comE anion you would have made if I had een such a fool as to accept your proposal of marriage.” Keeri was not affected at all by this scorn and bitterness, or if so, his countenance onlv became more adamant.

“I did not, of course, make any allusions to your stove-pipe complexion upon the occasion in question,” proceeded Alma, with increased vehemence. “I didn't even hint at the dilapidated state of your treasury. But if you insist on forcing your presence upon me in this way, I shall be compelled to say things to you that will be decidedly unpleasant. ” Keeri fumbled in one of his pockets, drew out a pipe and tobacco, and was soon smoking like a furnace. “Say them,” he muttered. Alma’s face reddened instantly. She looked around twice in quick succession; first, to see if her father were visible; secondly, to see if Ralph were still invisible. “This is too much for human endurance,” she then proclaimed angrily. “If you do not go away immediately I will call my father. ” “You may call him a long time before he will hear you,” rejoined Keeri, with a fresh cloud of smoke, as a mocking smile curled his'iips. “He is just now busy with Kulu —particularly busy. I overheard him riding his high horse under Kulu’s shed as I came along the road.” , “Do you mean that he was quarreling with Kulu?” demanded Alma, her anxieties changing their object, or rather widening. “Yes, they were quarreling.”“You are not the kind of man to come away without learning what they were quarreling about. What is it?” Keeri took a still more vigorous pull at his pipe, and jerked his head with an air of mystery toward the interior of the cottage. “They were quarreling about the very thing that you and I are going to quarrel about,” he muttered. “They were quarreling about him!” The girl started, her looks attesting that she considered the matter serious. She turned and closed the door, and then seated herself upon a rustic bench, opposite that so freely appropriated by her rejected suitor. “They were talking about Mr. Benning?” she asked slowly. l “They were not onfy talking about him,” communicated Keeri, “but quarreling. Mr. Bullet has heard some rumor in town to-day that does not please him—some rumor as to this Mr. Benning, who he is, how he came here, what he is staying here for, or who his friends are, or what is the secret of all this mystery in which Mr. Benning seems to be living and moving, ana having his being.”* Keeri talked so fast, now that his tongue was loosened, that it made Alma breathless to listen. “And it seems that Mr. Bullet blames Kulu for not having kept the secret sufficiently close—whatever the secret may be,” said Keeri, continuing to make himself quite at his ease. “But Kulu responded that no word or hint of the real state of affairs had ever passed his lips, from the hour when he first discovered Mr..Benning until now. I must do the dog the justice of saying that he seemed to me to be perfectly sincere and honest in all he was saying. Very naturally I should have bees giad to witness the conclusion of the quarrel, but I was in a great hurry to improve your father’s absence, and here I am accordingly.” “Well, you can go back as quick as

BY LEON LEWIS.

you came,” declared Alma, with an anger under which was visible a certain uneasiness. “I will have nothing to do with you! I want no speech with you whatever!” “Then the proposed talk will be a little one-sided, for I have quite a number of things to say to you, Miss Bullet, and I am here to say them. I won’t leave this place until I have unburdened myself, or until I have made an awful row with your Mr. Benning. My decided impression is that you had better hear me!”

The manner of Keeri, no less than his declarations, impressed Alma strongly. She saw that he was in one of those sullen and ugly moods which can be inspired only by a bitter jealousy. Her decision was promptly taken. “If you can possibly have anything to say to me, after what I have already said to you,” she murmured, in a voice of soorn and with a look of defiance, “why, say it, and quickly.” Keeri took his pipe from his mouth, and his air became the attentive air of business. “When you sent me adrift the other day,” he began, “had you ever seen this Mr. Benning?” The girl’s features contracted and she blushed to scarlet. This questioning was visibly and deeply revolting to her. But she controlled her emotions and answered with an outward show of calmness. “No, I had never seen him. I rejected you because I did not love you; because you were a half-breed; because you are poor; because you have no home to take me to; because your wife must inevitably be a drudge and a nobody, and because I have other and higher views for myself—all good and substantial reasons, if I am not immensely mistaken. ” , The Kanaka’s countenance brightened in the same ratio that one would have expected it to darken. He evidently saw in all this series of declarations only one essential point, namely, that it was not because of the stranger under Bullet’s roof that he had been rejected. ’’There is no reason why you should abide by your former decision, Alma,” he declared, his voice softening, and a look of mingled love and admiration pleading in his eyes. “I have, not for a moment accepted it. I love you today better than ever. You are the prettiest and best girl in all these islands. As to the drawbacks you have heretofore refrained from mentioning, I have not been unmindful of them, and have sought and found a remedy for such of them as are important. With my love, I can now offer you a home all ready to move into, and a snug little fortune bequeathed to me by an aunt. I refer to the Creeka place, which is now mine.. As to my complexion, that does not paovent me from having both brains and heart. With my changed circumstances I shall be able to move in the best society of the capital, and in that way I shall acquire polish and all the marks of a gentleman. So that I shall become, if not so good a husband as you deserve, at' the least as good a husband as the island can afford. Let me hope, therefore, in conclusion, that you will change your mind in my favor and marry me.” This was all said so respectfully and so effectively that Alma could not, listen with entire stoniness of heart. She knew well the value of the inheritance which had reached her suitor, and had a sufficient appreciation of the man himself. But an immense gulf now exisited between his ideas and her own, and she did not hesitate an instant to place herself in direct opposition to him.

“You have reached your good fortune too late for it to have arty weight in this matter,” she declared, in a hard voice and with an icy manner. “I congratulate you, of course, as a friend, upon your improved condition in life, but it can never change my late decision. It is impossible that I should ever marry you.” “And why impossible?” asked Keeri quickly. “Do not ask me.” _ “But I will ask you, and I have a right to an answer. Why is it impossible for you to marry me? Mr. Bullet has never seemed very friendly to me, but he will not now refuse ” “Oh, he will—he does, as I do.” The declaration served as prompt fuel to the flames already raging in Keeri’s soul. “But why should your father object to me?” he demanded, in a hoarse, concentrated voice. “And why do you refuse me?” “Since you force me to tell,” replied Alma, looking him coldly and squarely in the eyes, “it is because I love another.” The shock of this assertion was so terrific that Keeri, old smoker as he was, dropped his pipe for the first time in his life through a mental cause. “And who is the man you love?” he breathed, in a hoarse whisper, as he leaped to his feet and stood trembling before her in a jealous and despairing rage. “Is he Mr. Benning?” Either Alma thought she had gone too far to hesitate now, or she was willing to make an end of Keeri’s hopes in a breath, for she instantly anfiWPPAfl * “Yes’ he’s Mr. Benning.”

CHAPTER VI. keeri resorts to violence. Alma’s avowal instantly plunged the Kanaka into a state of mind bordering upon frenzy. “It is as I supposed, then!" he muttered, as he came nearer, while ’ his eyes gleamed as savagely as a wolf’s. “You rejected me because of this stranger?" Alma made a gesture of disgust. “No,” she declared, with angry edphasis. “Must I tell you a thousand times over how the case stands? I rejected you for the reasons I have given, and at the date of that rejection had never set eyes upon Mr. Benning.” “Then you have fallen in love with this man since that time?” “Yes, I have —since you are such a fool as to force me to say so many things that must annoy you. I expect to become his wife at an early day, and that day will come all the sooner, because of the annoyances to which you are now subjecting me. So, you now know that I will have nothing to do with you, and the sooner you take yourself off the better." The realization of the hopelessness of his suit that dawned upon Keeri’s mind was such as to drive him to desperation. “I thank you for your confidence,” he muttered, with an icy sneer, “and will answer it in kind. You sav. that you

are going to marry this Mr. Benning, but lam resolved that you shall never, never marry him. I’d sooner kill yon both, and myself afterward.” “Hush! What dees all this mean?” suddenly broke from the old sailor, as he emerged into view around the corner of his dwelling. The joy of Alma was so great at this timely,interruption that she could not immediately find voice to tell what had happened. But when she did find it, she talked so fast that her father was scon in possession of the facts, as seen from the daughter’s ttandpoint. “And now, hear me, sir,” said the Kanaka, with illy repressed excitement, as soon as ne could cast a word into the torrent of explanation and denunciation that flowed from the lips of Alma. “Is it not better that your daughter should marry a man she has always known, and ” “Hush! You don’t know what you are talking about!” interrupted Bullet. “ ’Familiarity breeds contempt.’ A girl should always marry as far away as possible from the paternal mansion, and choose, if possible, a husband with whom she has had no previous acquaintance.” At these declarations the Kanaka looked as blank as if he had received a s!ap in the face. But his passion was too ardent for * him to be easily impulsed and he hurriedly resumed: “Since I last had the pleasur e of seeing you, Mr. Bullet, a remarkable stroke of good fortune has befallen me. My only aunt has died ” “Silence! This is horrible!” cried Bullet, recoiling in pretended amazement. “What! you are so lost to all sense of shame, so hard-hearted as to rejoice with these untimely jibes over the scarcely closed grave of your unfortunate relative. Out upon you. Why, sir, if you were the husband of my daughter I should expect, at the very flrot reverse of fortune, to be carted off to the hospital.”

Keeri raised both of his hands in a frenzy of vexation. “I did not mean that I was glad of my aunt’s death,” he hurriedly protested. “I merely meant to say that having!, in her own goixl time, reached a happy and peaceful end, she has been so good as to leave me all her wealth ana assets, including the well-known Creeka premises, so that I am now the possessor of considerable money— —” “Enough! You shock me!” broke in Bullet again. “Am I indeed such a viper th at,you should suppose me capable of selling my only daughter for money? What is wealth but ‘vanity and vexation of the spirit?’ The marriages I am in favor of are marrirges of pure affection, and such, sir, I am proud and happy to say, is the marriage upon which my daughter is about to enter. Not a word! There is not the least use, Mr. Keeri, of pestering us with your vain hopes. We shall never, never marry you. And so, hall and farewell!” He whipped his daughter into the house by a dexterous and significant pressure, and then as dexterously entered himself, clcsing the door in the very face of the rejected suitor, and as promptly locking it. “That’s an iron well planted,” muttered the old harpooner, as he dropped into a chair and rubbed his hands gleefully together, “and I only hope it will hold until after you are married.” For a minute or two the Kanaka stood motionless at the door, as if at a loss what*to do with himself, and then he walked moodily away, soon disappearing in the direction in which ho resided. [TO BE CONTINUED. |

Not Looking for a Ladie.

Not many years ago, before the “boom” struck Southern California, Mr. L , an old New-Yorker, had a large ranch near Los Angeles. Ho was fond of good company and a good dinner, and frequently entertained house parties at the comfortable old-fashioned Mexican hacienda. Among others who made a stay with one of the New York parties was Miss M . Although a woman of “uncertain age,” she retained much charm of manner, and her quick wit was respected by every one who had come in contact with it. Mr- L was a jolly bachelor of forty summers, who had seen niifbh of the world and had a magnetic personality. He was a man of enormous proportions; some of them, no doubt, encouraged to their growth through his fondness for good things to eat and good wines to cheer the bachelor. The party was at dinner at the ranch one day. The host, the bachelor, sat at one end of the table and Miss M was on his left. He had been chatting with her for some time when she asked for a spoon. Mr. L arose at this and, bowing in his most suave way, said, — “My dear Miss M , won’t you take me?” “Mr. L ,” retorted the lady, “J did not ask for a ladle.”

Persecuted His Barber.

“Hum?” said the irritated barber. “It’s easy enough to kick. Didn’t I slice all the hair off your face? What more do you expect for fifteen cents?” “The stubble has been removed,” remonstrated the customer, “but with it a large amqunt of my cuticle.” “Well, what of it?” demanded the barber. “Didn't I dab alum on that gash in your ear?” “You did,” the exacting customer confessed, “but you cut the tip off my nose.”. “And I pasted it on with court plaster.” “True enough, but you severed one oi my eye-brows and lost it on the floor.” “I kept the razor out of your eye, didn’t I?” “You did.” “And only gashed your neck in four planes?” “Quite right.” “I am afraid you’re a kicker. My advice to you is to grow a beard or buy a safety razor, and not come around insulting union barbers. You’re one oi those fellows that want a dollar’s worth of surgery with each shave and then kick because you weren’t chloro formed.”

Highly Trained.

A Southern man has taught his dog, a water spaniel, to extinguish fire whenever it sees anything burning. To test the little dog, a piece of paper tfas ignited and dropped on the floor. In an instant the dog jumped upon ii and very quietly extinguished it bj rubbing it with its paws. The dog was tried with a lighted cigar, with the same result.

Cortez’s Jewels.

Cortez obtained in Mexico five emeralds of wonderful size and beauty. One was cut like a rose; another in the shape of a horn; a third in that of a fish, with diamond eyes; fourth like a bell, with a pearl for a clapper; the fifth was a cup, with a foot of gold and four little chains, each ended with a large pearl. He had also two emerald vases, worth 300,000 crowns each. You must always know who said a thing before yod can determine just what it means.

SOUTH CHICAGO AFTER THE RECENT FIRE.

ROUTED THE RIOTERS

CHICAGO POLICEMEN DISPERSE A MOB. Parade of the Unemployed and Hungry Becomes a Lawless Rabble—Dispersed by Police—Several Officers Badly Injured —Rioters Clubbed and Arrested. Clash with a Crowd. Chicago’s unemployed, led by shiftless agitators, again brought on the inevitable riot which has lately followed their daily street parades. For a brief time the elements were at work which create destruction, both of life and property, and the results might have been lamentable had not the police been

DISCUSSING THE SITUATION.

men. Five police officers wore hurt, but by vigorous use of their clubs they put the rioters to flight. Fortunately, says a dispatoh, the battle was fought in the shadow of the city hall directly in front of police headquarters. Elsewhere it might have been more serious. Instantly there were enough of the officers of the law at hand to supress and disperse the crowds. But there were exciting movements afterward, for the police from the neighboring precincts had been summoned and they came by dozens in patrol wagons with horses at full gallop. For twenty minutes these re-enforcements poured in fropi every direction. For a week unemployed men have been parading the streets in violation of the ordinances and to the obstruction of business traffic. Emboldened by the reluctance of the police to provoke trouble, the men became bolder day by day, until several persons had been assaulted for attempting to pass through the line. Saturday, after listening to several incendiary speeches from loud-mouthed agitators, the crowd started on its daily parade, headed by a band furnished by some one who, it appears, has money to buy bands but cannot buy bread. There were fully 1,000 men in line, and, a cabman going north on Clark street attempted to drive through the line.

THE BEGINNING OF THE RIOT.

In less time than it takes to tell it driver and horse were surrounded by 100 howling men, many of whom flourished ugly clubs in the air and threatened to brain tne victim of their wrath. The terrified cabman applied the whip to his horse and succeeded in breaking away. In a few minutes a United States mail wagon attempted to pass through the line and again the mob surged arQund the vehicle, threatening to upset it, when some one. cried: “Hold on, boys. That’s Uncle Sam’s wagon." “D n Uncle Sam, * cried a black-browed tough who had hold of a wheel. “Let’s spill the mail.” His less brutal comrades urged him to desist, and the parade was resumed, but it was evident that the men meant mischief. Numbers of them bore clubs. Others stooped as they walked and were observed to pick up paving stones and carry them in their hands. All this time there had been nq interference on the part of the police. ' Burst Forth L.lke a Volcano. As the turbulent portion of the procession, which had just been cheated of a victim at the intersection of Clark street, reached the Washington street entrance of the City Hall the brooding storm broke loose. The object of the mob’s wrath was H. H. Martindale, who was seated in a buggy and was driving east on Washington -street. Martindale asked for passageway, and this was the signal for an outburst of a volcano. Two dozen flerce-looking men sprang from the line and surrounded Martindale. Two big fellows seized his horse by the bridle and others grasped the wheels of the vehicle, while they poured horrible curses upon the trembling occupant of the vehicle, 1 who was too much frightened to utter a word. Those in front and those in the rear saw the crowd of excited men and ran toward the buggy. In a moment the street was jammed with hundreds of howling, cursing, frenzied men, who seemed wild with rage. With a howl of anger the mob made a united lurch at the buggy and threw it completely over, Martindale being thrown under the feet of the mob. It was then that the police interfered, taking vigorous and effective means of quelling the disturbance. A number of arrests were made. Mayor Harrison has issued orders that no more parades will be permitted under any pretext, and meetings of idle men will be closel/ watched for signs of disorder.

DEATH CLAIMS A DOZEN.

Terrible Accident Occur* ea the Long I*l- - Bond. Twelve persons are dead and others will die as the result of a terrible rail-

way collision just outside of Long Island City. The accident happened near the bridge across Newton creek, on the Long Island railroad. A Rockaway train had just emptied its passengors at the Hunters’ Point dej ot. It started to return to the bridge at the yards at Blissville. Just across the bridge it collidod with a passenger train from Manhattan Beach. The Manhattan Beach train had been standing in the block to permit a train ahead getting at a sate, distance. The Rockaway Beach train came dashing along behind, ran into the same block, and crashed into the roar end of the Manhattan Beaoh train. Both wore crowded with excursionists, and both were the last trains from their respective resorts.

There were five cars in the Manhattan beach train, all of them open. The Rockaway train plunged in and plowed its way completely through the two rear cars and partly wrecked the third. Passongors in each of those three were maimed and mangled horribly and their shrieks of terror and pain were awful. Everybody in those cars was either killed or injured. The third car was completely thrown from track. The Rockaway engine was wrecked. Its smokestack was carried away and its huge boiler rosemblod a pincushion from the timbers of the wrecked oars sticking into it. Upon those timbers human beings were Impaled, seme doad and others gasping their last. List of the Dead. The list of those killed outright la as follows: Cot,. E. A. Buck, editor of the Spirit of the Times. . Oscar Dietzel; died at St. John's hospital. Mbs. Maooik Dietzel, wife, vj years; died at morgue. Mrs. Bbrtha Weinstein. Sidney Weinstein, her son. Thomas Finn, bra'^eman. Unidentified youno woman, blonde; two oards in pockets; upon one "Laura Duffy,” on the other “Miss Young.” Unidentified woman, 40 years; two oards in pocket, upon one "Mrs. John Conrad," on the other "Mr*. Dyokoff.” Unidentified man with letter in pooket addressed to Alexander Grillette, New York. Unidentified man with letter in pocked addressed to Mr. Ditman, New York, also cheok for $l2O, signed D. J. Needburg. Unidentified man with bnnch of keys marked “J. J. Hyland,' Westerly, 11. I," and small prayer book with ”J. J. Clancy” on fly leaf. Unidentified man, shirt marked "E. P.:* card in pocket with George Fielding upon it, and a valise tag marked with tho same name. Unidentifed man, with letter addressod to Miss MoKenna, Clifton Terrace, Bosobank, S. 1., in pocket. Unidentified man, with lottorin pooket addressed to Mr. Stein, New York. The Beene Was indescribable. The dead and wounded were scattered through the wreckage both upon and beyond the tracks. Everything was spattered with tho blood of the doad and wounded, and tho cries of the latter rose above the hissing of steam and the calls of the frantic trainmen. As fast as the injured could be taken from the wreck they were carried to the relief train and carod for. The doctors on board worked swiftly and well, while tho other medical men were out in the wreck applying restoratives and making hurried dressings of wounds to sustain the sufforers until they could be put on the relief train for more careful treatment. The dead were taken by special train to'Newtown, which is nearest tho scene of the accident, and placed in a morgue by th« order of tho Coroner.

prompt and vigorous in suppressing the outbreak. As it was, there were bruised heads and laoorated flesh, both of policemen and laymen. It was a very short but bloody battle between the officers . and a riotous mob of at least 1,000

Careful Estimates Prepared by the Austrian Ooyrnmeut Officials. The estimates of the harvests of the world, which are prepared annually by Austrian Government officials nave been made public. The estimated yield for North America is 382,000,000 bushels of wheat, 24,333,000 bushels of rye, and 1,809,000,000 bushels of corn. The Hungarian Minister of Agriculture estimates the world’s production of whoat this year at 2,279,000,000 bushels, against the official average of 2,280,000,000 annually for the last ten years. He also gives the following figures: The deficits to be filled by tho importing countries will require 379,000,000 bushels. The surplus available in exporting countries to satisfy this demand is 378,666,000 bushels. The production of wheat and the deficit (amount needed above tho domestic supply) in each importing country is given. Product In bushels. Deficit. Oreat Britain 50,780,(100 184,127,000 Prance 283,764,000 46,818,000 Germany. 00,796,000 25,637,000 Italy 122.012,000 22,700,000 Netherlands 6.384,000 8,612,000 Switzerland 4,539,000 12,768,000 Belgium 15,606,0*10 24,118.000 Denmark 4,266,000 3,688,000 Norway and Sweden 4,823,000 2,270.000 Spain 70,012,000 8,512,000 Portugal 6.076,000 6,676,000 Greece.... 4,265.000 7,377,000 Austria 45,400,000 38,726,000 The production and surplus in each exporting country are given thus: Product In bu. Surplus. Russia 432,806.000 97.893,000 Hungary., ..,,.141,870,000 46,400,000 Roumanta 46,918,000 34,060,000 Turkey 23,376,000 6,875,000 Bulgaria 81,977,000 10,782,000 Servla... .i 8,512,000 3,406,000 United States '.. .397,250,000 69,618,000 Canada 43,980,000 9,931,000 India 274,885,000 42,662,000 Rest of Asia 66,262,000 7,093,000 Africa 36,710,000 3.688,000 Australia 39,726,000 19,296,000 Argentina 66,780,000 26,106,000 Chill, et« 19,862,000 6,626,000 Telegraphic Clicks. During July 120 deaths from yellow fever occurred in Havana. The Fourth National Bank at Louisville has resumed business. Coup & Co., tanners, assigned at North Attleboro, Mass., owing $70,000. The Columbian liberty bell has been shipped from Troy, N. Y., for Chicago. Trainmen on the Louisville & Nashville decide to strike against a cut in wages. The St. Louis lumber firm of Stern & Mohlman has failed. The debts are $50,000. Four pontoons and a schooner were wrecked two miles north of Narragansett, R. I. Ilsley, Doubleday & Co., paints, failed at New York. Liabilities, $150,000; assets, $210,000. J. H. Hanan's new steam yaoht made 201 miles an hour on her trial cruise on Long Island Sound.

CROPS OF THE WORLD.

WRECKED BY WIND.

Life and Property Destroyed at Savannah by a Hurricane. Savannah, Ga., was swept the other night by one of the severest storms it has ever known. Tho storm, which had been predicted by the weather bureau for several days, began early in the afternoon and, according to a dispatch, increased from then on until it reached the climax between 11 and 12 o’clock at night, having lasted for eight hours. The storm and rain ceased for awhile hi the afternoon. It began again with terrific foroo and tho work of destruction reigned supreme and lasted until midnight, when tho storm spent its fury. All tho wharves along the river front and cccan steamship companies and Savannah, Florida und Western Railroad wharves wero under water. The city streets wore impassable on aocount of debris and sullen trees, twisted roofs, masses of brick fences, and broken limbs and branches. It is difficult at tho time this is written to estimate tho damage as tho result of the storm, but it was very general, and it is safe to say it will go up in th# hundreds of thousands and perhaps higher. Nearly if not quite all the property owneife in the city have been damaged to some oxtont and some to the amount of thousands. .Fourteen lives are known to be lost, and this will certainly be augmented when details oome to hand. There are forty or fifty other persons who aio loported missing, and it is supposed, as nothing has been hoard from them, that their bodies will be found later on. Twelve barks and barkentinos which wore anchored off quarantine station were thrown high upon tho island, and some of them were carried by tho storm 801*08.8 tho marshes into an island twenty miles distant from tho quarantine station. Tho ruin at quarantine is immeasurable. Nothing is standing whore one of tho finest stations of tho South Atlantic was twenty-four hours before, except the doctor's house, and how this weathered the fearful gale is miraculous. The wharves are gone, the new fumigating plant, which cost tho city so much monoy, is in the bottom of the sea, and nino vessols which wore waiting there ior release to go to the city arc high and dry in the marsh, and no doubt will bo total wrecks. Tho Cosnlno was tho only vessel which managed to keep alloat. It is reported that eight of tho crow of a terrapin sloop which went ashore on the south end wore drowned. All tho bath houses are gone, tho Knights of Pythias’ club house was washed away, two of tho cottages of tho Cottage Club are also gone. Tho Ranch and Rambler club houses woie wrecked and tho railroad track is cleaned out. Tho water swept with tremendous foroo over tho island, railroad tracks being carried from 300 to S(X) foot. Tho par vilions On the beach are gone. The switch back with an empty train was carried into tho woods. Trains on all reads have stopped to repair washouts. Tho church steeples are demolished, ami at least 500 largo troos are blown down all over the city. The Tybeo Read is under water for tho ontiie distance, and in many placos is entirely washed away. The storm was first felt on Tybeo Island, an hour and a half by boat from tho city proper. Tybeo Is ut tho mouth of the savannah River and tho port of the city. The people of Savannah and at Brunswick had warning of tho coming storm and took to flight. But for this tho loss of life would have boon terrible. Whole rows of houses wore wrecked and everything in the path of tho wind went down. The known property loss is already over $1,000,000.

NEWBY DENIED A NEW TRIAL.

The Cate Will Go to the Nupreme Court of the United Mtatei. At Springfield, 111., Judge Allen overruled the motion for a now trial made by the defense in tho celebrated Newby case. A motion for arrest of judgment was likewlso overruled, and the court then sentenced the convicted man to two years ut hard labor in the Chester penitentiary. An appeal was allowed, and the caso will thus go to tho United States Supremo Court. Ex-Attorney Gonoral McCartney has been engaged to carry the case up. Pending the appeal the defendant will go to prison. Ho takes tho outcome indifferently. Grand Army men are taking a deep interest in tho case, and Department Commander Blodgett has authorized Post to appeal to other posts for aid in raising a fund defend Newby. Steal a llnat of Clover Seeil. Sunday night thieves stolo a canal boat on tho Miumi and Erio canal, which was tied up about thirty miles south of Toledo, Ohio. They next caught a horse in a neighboring pasture, hitched him to the boat and hauled it to Defiance. Here the thieves broke into J. B. Woieenberg’s elevator and stole about $660 worth of olovor seed. This they loaded into tho boat, and a start was then made for Toledo. After getting through three locks tho robbers ran the boat into tho Maumoe River, hoping the current would carry them down. By this time tho alarm had been given, and the men, being closely pursued, ran the boat into the bank, then escaped into Wood Countt. Tho police have no clew to the robbers. Scandal at the Fair. There is a-scandal in awards matters at the World’s Fair, and involved therein are no less personages than tho National Commissioners from Oklahoma and Wyoming—Beeson and Mercer. Mrs. I. E. Harmon approached the superintendent of the Russian wine and liquor exhibit and offered to secure a gold medal for $15,000, reducing the amount to SIO,OOO later. She brought to the superintendent, as men who would vouch for her, the two national commissioners named, who went under the names of “Brice" and “Oregon,” The woman has been arrested, and Mercer and Beeson are making statements. t Overflow of New*. Carlos R. Wiley, Auditor of Noble County, Indiana, died at Columbus, Ohio. J. C. Crimmins, of Oakland, Cal., was shot and killed by his wife, with whom he was quarreling. Southern members of the Epworth League threaten to secede unless thdir Northern brethren bar the negroes. . M. Jaggerson, from lowa, went on the Cherokee strip to cut hay. His body was found with a bullet wound in the head. Robert Hardwick shot and killed. W. H. Averill at Stanton, Ky., and was in turn killed by Asa Petit, a friend of Hardwick. At Valparaiso, Ind., burglars carted Sargeant & Scofield’s safe, containing $2,000, a quarter of a mile, when, being shot at, they fled. R. S. Heath, of Fresno, Cal., charged with the murder of McWhirtey, on whose first trial the jury disagreed, has been released on bail of $150,000. ( Burglars broke open the safe in H. Kraus & Co.’s store at Akron, Ohio, securing several hundred dollars, then setting fire to the store. Loss, $30,000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THB PAST WEE;K. An Interesting Summary of the Afore Important Doing! of Our Neighbors—Wed* dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Hoosler Happenings A SON of Otto Woodard, near Farmland, was perhaps fatally kicked by a horse. Work has been suspended on the Wabash High School because the bonds cannot be sold. A Washington man has been arrested charged with selling beer as soup in large bowls. Motorman Nathaniel Bowskr was terribly crushed between two electric cars in Fort Wayne. Bloodhounds aro being used to chase .thieves out of watermelon patches around Seymour. William McMain, a prosperous miner at Donaldsonville, was crushed by falling slate and died. The large farm residence of Lee Driver, six miles northwest of Farmland, burned. Loss, $4,000. The malleable iron works of the Sweet & Clark Company, Marion, have closed down, throwing 350 men out of work. Mrs. John A. Alsfasser. living west of LaPorte, committed suicide by hanging herself. The act was caused by ill health. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Grant County Agricultural Society it was decided to postpone the annual exhibition until tho times improve. The remains of an unknown man wero found strewn along the Cleveirnd. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis* Railway, ten miles east of Lebanon. It is thought he was a tramp. Governor Matthews has announced that ho would appoint James M. Wintors Judge of the Superior Court of Marion County to fill the vacancy caused by tho douth of Napoleon B. Taylor. Mr. Wintors is the acting judge of tho oourtand a well known attorney. Ivan Cox, a soetlon foreman on the O. & M., of Loogootoo, recently placed a package of bills containing #llO in a bed-tick at his residence for safe-keep-ing. In his absence his wife emptied tho straw, money and all into the street and burned it, having f orgot about the monoy, which was completely consumed. Mrs. David Dalman, wifo of a prominent farmer, residing noar Fort Wayno, committod suieido by taking ursonic. After taking the dose she walked to tho field whore her husband and hands wero throshing and told what she had dono and that she did not want to dio ulone, that sho loved him, but her troubles, wero more than sho could hoar. Sho oould not bo saved and expired in groat ugony. Near Fort Rltner, Byford E. Cunningham, a popular Ohio & Mississippi Conductor, was instantly killed by being thrown from a carload of lumber. He fell on his head, breaking his neck. Mr. Cunningham was at one time editor and proprietor of the Seymour Republican. Ho loaves a wife and daughter. Ho was ’35 years old und a member of Seymour Chapter, F. & A. M. and tho Order of Railway Conductors.

Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors us follows: John H. Allison, Elkhart, electric railway trolley switch; George W. Altman, Marlon, button sowing machine; Robert C. Anderson, Jefforsonvillo, wire stretcher: Georgo G. Boswell, Indianapolis, thill support; Robert Poindexter, Indianapolis, post base; Louis Townsend, Evansvillo, harness suspending device; John H. Williamson, Munclo, grain scouring und polishing machine. C. S. Arthur, president, and William F. Smith, socrotary, have issued tho following notice to their comrades: “Inasmuch as arrangomonts have already been made for a Reunion of the 75th and 101st regimentß, Indiana Volunteers, and tho 19th Indiana Battery, at Indianapolis, on tho 6th day of September, during the gonoral encampment of the G. A. R., and the time being so near that of our annual meeting, which was appointed for Portland, to bo held on tho sth and 6th days of October next, it has been deemed bqst by a largo number of members of the society, who have given expression to thoir opinion, to hold but one meeting this yefir, aqd that to be at Indianapolis, and hold in thp Court room, on September 6, where and wnen the usual program will bo carried out so far as it may be possible so to do. Wo earnestly nope to meet you and your family there.”

A gas explosion that occurred at Morristown, probably fatally injured one and seriously burned four or five others. A gas engine and force pump on Main street furnish water to the principal part of the town. Jesse Denlinger had descended into the well to make some repairs to the engine, and while at work remarked that he could’nt see to fix it on account of tho darkness. Some one above lighted a match, and this ignited the escaping gas. A fearful explosion followed, ana a column of flame shot twelve feet into the air. with a loud report. Denlingor received the full force of the shock and the flames, and was frightfully burned from his waist up. It is thought he also inhaled the flames. Large pieces of flesh and skin fell from his hands and arms, and his face, neck, and breast are almost cooked. His recovery is thought to be doubtful. T. C. Wrenich, who was leaning over the well, was badly burned about the hands and face, but not dangerously. John Nelson, who stood near, was seriously burned and is in a bad way. All are suffering intensely from their injuries. Three or four others, who stood near, were slightly burned. JOB Holmes, living in Monticello, is In a position to sympathize with the White Caps who attacked the Conrads in Harrison County. He is lying at his home with one eye destroyed and the other injured with bird 6hot. Holmes and several other parties went to the residence of Hugh Davis, an alleged undesirable neighbor, and began to stone the house. Davis emptied the contents of a shotgun at the gang. They all got some of it, but Holmes fared the worst. Davis’residence has been stoned frequently recently, and he served notice that he would shoot one if the assaults continued. Franklin was shaken up by a fearful explosion of a boiler in the Franklin Water, Light and Power Company’s power house. The middle boiler of the three in the battery was the one which exploded. The brick building, including the dynamo room, was mown to. pieces, and bricks, stones, pieces of machinery and debris were hurled in all directions for 250 yards or more. John Dennis, the fireman, was injured re badly that he will probably die. Ho was out, bruised, scalded, and literally roasted, being caught in the hot bricks from the furnace. Martin Dennis, a brother, was also cut and burned about the face and shoulders, but not so badly