Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — Page 2

gllcScniocraticStntinel J. W. MeEWEN, T*ut>llslier. RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN*

A FIELD FOR SILVER.

ORIENTAL COUNTRIES WOULD USE A “CHOP” DOLLAR. Great Britain Already Issues Such a Coin and It Is Proposed that This Conntry Shall Follow Her Example —Disastrous Canadian Wreck. For Trane-Pacific Trade. Representative Doolittle, of Washington, who has recently made a trip to China and Japan, speaks very encouragingly of theprospects of extended American trade in those countries and he thinks that the opening up of he interior of China under the provisions of its new treaty with Japan will furnish an opportunity for American enterprises. He suggests various methods of developing this trade, one of which would be the coinage of n portion of our silver product into coins such as would be accepted by the Orientals. He observed with especial interest the popularity of the English silver coin known as the chop dollar and expresses the opinion that the United States should lose no time in imitating the example of Great Britain in preparing a special coin for the trans-Pacific trade. MADE SENTENCES CONCURRENT. Judge Woods Carries Out His Original Determination in Debs’ Case. Judge Woods Tuesday morning ordered that the sentence of Debs and the other officers of the American Railway Union be made concurrent, as lireeted in the original sentence. Judge Woods directed that commitments be made out in the case of Debs for six months and of the others for three months each, to expire at tlrn same time as the sentence in the government contempt case. In commenting upon his action the Judge said that he did not desire any opinion to be formed to the cud that he was seeking to punish the men for acts committed in the strike, but that the punishment was simply for contempt of court; that he had originally fixed concurrent sentences and s iw no reason why they should not be reinstated, inasmuch as they had been sepirated in order to permit a vital issue to go before the Supreme Court.

Fourteen Killed. A terrible accident occurred at Craigs Road Station on the Grand Trunk Railway, about fourteen miles west of Levis, Can. A very ..large pilgrimage were bound for the shrine of St. Anne De Beaupre. There were two sections of the train, one running a few minutes behind the other. The second section dashed into the rear of the first section, smashing it to kindling wood. The number killed is placed at fourteen and the number injured thirty-four. Among the dead are three priests. Must Use Their Guns. President Cleveland has laid down explicit rules for the guidance of the army in dealing with mobs through the medium of the new army- regulations which will soon be issued by the War Department. The army has heretofore been without explicit orders in that respect. According to these rules sharpshooters must pick out men who assail the troops with stones etc. Woman Kills a Negro. Sallie Harkins, a young woman living near Kiamic-hi, 1. T., shot and killed John Burgess, a negro, who cursed her because she charged him with burning her father's residence. The negro admitted the crime and told Miss Harkins he was sorry she was not in the house when it burned. Miss Sallie replied by putting two bullets in John’s head. A Fatal Precaution. Miss Katie Connell, of Pittsburg, found a revolver in the pocket of her young brother, and for safety she took it away from him. She went out on the porch, intending to fire off the cartridges in the chamber of the revolver. The first shot she fired struck Mrs. Catherine Kelly, a neighbor, and killed her instantly.

Regulations for Federal Prisons. A new regulation for the management of prisons under the control of the military has been issued from army headquarters. It makes four classes of prisoners, according to the status of their trials or grade of punishment, those “in arrest or confinement,” “garrison prisoners,” “general prisoners” and “military convicts.” Victims of Hoodlums. As a result of a riot at a picnic at Siberia, Perry County, Ind., three persons are dead, five fatally wounded and fifty seriously hurt. The desperate fight, which lasted for an hour, was precipitated by a gang of roughs. Suicide of an Ex-Governor. Ex-Gov. E. A. Stevenson of Idaho committed suicide at I’araiso Springs. He was afflicted with sciatica and was in a helpless condition. It is supposed that in desperation he took a large dose of laudanum. A July Freeze. Ice formed in some parts of lowa, Wisconsin, and South Dakota Tuesday night, and at Sioux City the mercury stood the lowest recorded in July since the weather bureau was established. No damage to crops is reported. Storage Warehouse Burns. Six hundred families lost their furniture in a fire at George Parry’s storage warehouse, 156-160 West Monroe street, Chicago. , Cochran for Speaker. IV illiam G. Cochran was chosen Speaker of the Illinois House to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John Meyer.

Heirs of Lord Antrim. Four of the thirteen heirs of Lord Antrim, who live in Indiana, are preparing to make a vigorous contest for their share of the $75,000,000, taken in charge by the English Government because there were no direct heirs in the old country. -'4l- ’ ? • * » Robbers Meet Death. One robber killed, another fatally injured and a third in jaij is the result of an attempt to break into the store of W. F. Kattman at Poland, Ind. Parachute Failed to Open. John Cunningham, an aeronaut, was instantly killed at Winigan, Mo. He had made three successful ascensions during the day, but the fourth time, when about 1,200 feet high, the parachute failed to open and he fell to the ground. His body was mashed to a pulp. Doesn’t Fancy Women Cyclists. While ex-president Harrison was at. Dana last vyeek hunting the subject of bicycling came t|p for discussion apd he expressed himself very |M)phatieally upon it, taking the ground that it was ungraceful in women to ride bicycles.

, NEW TORPEDO BOATS. Chance for Gulf, Mieei»«lppl River and Pacific Coast Constructor* The navy department has advertised sos proposals for building three new torpedoboats large enough to go to sea and make twenty-six knots aa hour. The act under which these boats are to be built permits them to be constructed on the Atlantic coast only in the event that the navy department is unable to secure reasonable offers from responsible bidders on the Pacific coast, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Inquiries are being received from iron-workers and ship-build-ers along the Gulf and on the Mississippi which encourage the department officials to hope that bids will be 'forthcoming from these sections, and to stimulate the inauguration of new naval shipwrights the department has been at some pains to furnish the inquirers with all information that might properly be given them in the way of detailed plans of the boats and matters of internal construction that will assist them in submitting estimates. One purpose is to correct a very prevalent impression among embryo naval constructors that a torpedo-boat is easy to build, being nothing more than a powerful engine encased in the smallest hull that will float it, for in reality it is one of the most uncertain products of the naval architect, and only the highest degree of designing and structural skill and the use of the best material will stand the severe strains and develop the very high speed absolutely required by the contracts under which the torpedo-boats are built. Success in building vessels of ordinary type and merchant craft is no guarantee of good results in the first attempt at building a torpedoboat. SIX KILLED BY GAS. Fritz Hellman, His Wife and Four Children Meet Death. Fritz Hellman, his wife and four children were found dead in their beds at their home at 601 Cornelia street, Chicago. They had been asphyxiated by gas. The family'retired as usual on Thursday night, and it is presumed that they had neglected to turn out the gas properly. Mrs. Hellmtnt, mother of theJiead of the family that was asphyxiated, lives in the next house to the west. She arbse early* Friday morning, but it was 9 o'clock before she noticed that none of her’Bon’s family had been about. The window shades were down and there was every indication that the family was not yet astir. This was noted as an f:p-'t, for Mr. and Mrs. Hellman were'' Ordinarily early risers. Airs. Hellman watted until 9:30, and then she resolved Io go and awaken her son. She knocked nt side door, but there was no response. Repeated raps failed to bring any one, aad tfaen Mrs. Hellman began calling her son’s name. It was then that she fearecl some harm had befallen the family. She remembered that iu her own home wks a key to a rear door of the Hellman house, and procuring it she entered the kitchen. There was a very perceptible odor of gas, and as Mrs Hellman hurried through the house she saw that death was everywhere. Her son. his wife and four children were all dead in their respective beds. According to the finding of the coroner’s jury Hellman had deliberately planned and committed the crime.

THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clubs in Their Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Base-ball League: Per P. W. L. cent. Bjiltiiporess 34 21 .618 Boston 55 33 22 .600 Chicago 68 40 28 .588 I'iffkburg 63 37 26 .587 Cleveland 65 37 28 .56!) Brooklyn 59 33 26 .559 Cincinnati 61 34 27 .557 Philadelphia .....5S 32 26 .552 Washingtonsß 23 25 .479 New Yorks 9 28 31 .475 St. Louis 64 21 43 .328 Louisvilles9 10 49 .169 WESTERN LEAGUE. In the Western League the clubs close the week iu the following order: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... .57 36 21 .632 Grand Rapids. . .59 34 25 .576 Detroit ...59 32 27 .542 Kansas Citysß 31 27 .534 St. Pauls7 30 27 .526 Milwaukee6o 31 29 .51$ Minneapoliss7 25 32 .439 Terre Hautes7 24 33 .421 AMERICAN FARMERS VICTIMS. An Immense Amount of Poor Seed Annually Sold to Them. An immense amount of poor seed is sold to American farmers and gardeners, according to a report recently issued by the agricultural department. While other countries have been looking into the subject with a view to protecting their agriculturists from abuses, no investigations have been made in the United States except at a few experimental stations. Great apathy prevails, however, among purchasers, who, as a rule, buy the cheapest seed in the market and trust to luck for it to produce the crop. Such seed, says the report, is dear at any price and the principal source of the hosts of bad weeds, whose eradication costs vastly more than the few cents a pound extra which good seed would have cost. The report makes the charge that American seed i has acquired a poor reputation in foreign 1 countries, in some of which it is difficult I for it to gain a foothold through prejudice.

■ Fell in a Flood. Kansas has not been so thoroughly drenched with rain in five years. Thursday night for eight hours the Hoodgates were opened from the Missouri river west 300 miles over a territory 400 miles wide,’ and an average of three inches of water fell. In many localities in eastern Kansas the lowlands were completely flooded and fields of corn were under water, For the first tune in years all the streams have been bank full, many of overflowing. Throughout the valley of the Neosho river large triicts of bottom Hind have been overflowed and many fields of corn ruined. The railroads have suffered greatly. The Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad lost several large bridges and several hundred feet of track near the southern line of the State. Many families were driven from their homes because of the swelling floods. The Manhattan, Alma and Burlingame Railroad, a branch of the Santa Fe, and is minus three big bridges. The Howe truss bridge, 135 feet span, near Harveyville, is gone, andwith it about 2,000 feet of track that cannot be found. Two pile bridges are out near Halifax, and it will be a week before the trains are again running.

Speaker Meyer Dead. John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, prominent Republican politician and well-known lawyer of Chicago, died Wednesday at Freeport. For some time the Speaker had been in poor health, but it was not known that the end was near. Death came suddenly while the patient was seeking rest and proved a great shock to his political Colleagues and associates at the bar. Dun's Trade Review. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of ;trade says: The midsummer reports commercial centers indicate distinctly better crop prospects than other official or commercial 'tifecdMfts, a marked increase in retail distribution of

products, airactive demand for goods, and a general enlargement of the working force, with some advance in the wages of more than half a million hands. At the sathle trine they show that the rapid advance in prices has somewhat checked the buying of a few classes of products. In some parts of the country the outlook for fall trade is considered bright. There, were 6,657 commercial failures in the first half of 1895, against 7,039 in the first half of 1894. These commercial failures involved liabilities of $88,839,944 this year, against $101,739,305 last year. Manufacturing failures for the half year were 1,254, against 1,501 last year, and liabilities $40,301,949, against $41,376,102 last year. Trading failures for the half year were 5,335, against 5,402 last year, nnd liabilities $45,669,830. against $52,345,978 last year. Banking failures not included in above statements were 63, with liabilities of $16,653,276, against 63 last year, lyjth liabilities of $13,184,461. The details show a decrease in every class of failures in the second, compared with the first qparter of 1895, both in number and magnitude, and defaulting liabilities averaging $34, against S4O for every firm in business, and $3.04, against $4.03, for every SI,OOO solvent payment.

INVESTIGATING BOSTON RIOT. Two Men Charged with Wills’ Murder Held for Trial. Harold G. Brown and John Ross, charged with the murder of John W. Wills in the East Boston parade riot, were arraigned in the district court and heldwithout bail for a hearing. The police investigation resulted in a conclusion that Brown used leaded shells in his revolver, although he claims he fired only blank cartridges. Ross, it ip asserted, once emptied the chambers of his revolver into the crowd, but when arrested there was but one empty shell in the weapon. The police authorities declare that the paraders were properly guarded and the aldermen disclaim any responsibility, having refused the association authority to parade. There were at least six rows during the progress of the procession and these culminated iu the general tight at the rear of the line. OVER $3,000,000 GONE. Some Guatemalan Officials Are Accused of Big; Defalcations. High officials of the Guatemalan Government are said to be implicated in recently discovered defalcations amounting to over $3,000,000. The alleged stealing has been going on for two years. The money missing is said to have been charged as expended for arms which never reached there. Frauds are also reported iu the purchasing of railway material, that put in being nearly useless. Both the civil and military employes are enraged over a report that the Government is about to refuse to pay back salaries, covering several month#, due and unpaid at the end of the last fiscal year, on the plea that a new fiscaF'year should not be responsible for them, and that as the last year left nothing to cover them they must go unpaid. APPLYING FOR THEIR MONEY. People Who Paid Income Taxes Request a Refund. The internal revenue bureau has already received a number of applications for the refund of the amounts paid as income taxes prior to the decision of the United States Court declaring the law to be unconstitutional. The blank forms of application for the refund were sent out about ten days ago, and almost immediately began to return from near-by points. The question as to whether the commissioner can repay the amounts without formal authorization of Congress has never been formally raised, but the officials have no doubt that the law authorizing the commissioner to refund internal revenue taxes wrongfully collected will be held to apply to taxes collected on incomes. The amount collected does not exceed $83,000.

DROWNED IN THE DELAWARE. Three Persons Lost While on a Y'achtin« Excursion. Three persons, all residents of Philadelphia, were drowned in the Delaware Rjyer at Beverley, N. J., a town about twelve miles abo.’e the city, by the cap--sizing of a boat. The party, consisting of six persons, left on Wednesday night, intending to spend the Fourth of July cruising on the Delaware. When the party reached Beverly it was suggested that they go ashore, and the small boat was lowered. The boat was overturned, all the occupants being thrown into the water. Three were carried away by the swift current before rescuers reached the scene. Peru Eats Humble Pie. According to advices received Peru has made ample apology for insulting the British Vice Consul, William Fry, in September last, when Fry was arrested and compelled to subscribe to a forced loan. Another Girl for Grover. At Gray Gables, the quiet and picturesque summer home of President Cleveland, at 4:30 Sunday afternoon a little girl was born to Mrs. Cleveland. Mother and child are doing well. To Push Waller’s Case. It is understood that the StatqJJepartment has requested Ambassador Eustis to push the Waller matter with the French Government to a final conclusion as speedily as possible.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.70 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2,45 cto 46c; oats. No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2. 55c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to ISe; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; potatoes, hew, per barrel, $2.25 to $2.75; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 6%c per lb. I “Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; h'ogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn. No. 1 white, 48<S to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. r St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2, white, 24c to 25c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 3 mixed, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No- 2 yellow, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 57c to 59c. 1 Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye. No. 2, 59c*to 61c; clover seed, prime, $5.60 to $5.70. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 1 hard, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,47 c*o 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; barley. No. 2,48 cto 50c; rye, No. 1,59 cto ,60c; pork, mess, $12.25 to New York—C attic, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No, 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2. 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, West-, ern, 12c to 14c.

TEACHERS IN DENVER

VEETING OF NATIONAL SDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Thousands of Educators from All Parts of the Country Assemble to Discuss the Best Methods for Carrying; on Their Work. Is a Brainy Body. Denver during the past week has been filled with educators from all parts of the country, who assembled by thousands to attend the annual convention of the Natioqai Educational Association. It is the largest educational l>ody in the world. The claim is also made that it is the most influential body, not only because it is the largest body, but also because it is differentiated into so many specialties. There are in the association thirteen departments, each independent in itself, yet forming a part of the whole. The constitution provides for eleven departments and a National Council of Education. The thirteenth department is found in the Herbart Club. This is perhaps to be regarded more as a group than a department. It is an association of Herbartians to whom philosophy is both food and drink, and who take advantage of the association meetings for their gatherings, making a very welcome accompaniment. The other regular departments of the association are school superintendence, normal schools, elementary schools, higher instruction, industrial education, art education, kindergarten instruction, music ed-

PRESIDENT N. M. BUTLER.

ucation, secondary education, child study, and business education. Each of the morning sessions was devoted to the discussion of a special subject. The debate began with the reading of papers prepared by educators of experience, followed by a general expression of opinion. All addresses were limited to five minutes. The topics discussed were as follows: 1. The co-ordination of studies In elementary education. 2. The duty and opportunity of the schools in promoting patriotism and good citizenship. 3. The instruction .-.nd improvement of teachers now at work in the schools. Papers bn the first topics were read by President DeGarmo, of Swarthmore College, Prof. Jackson of the Cook County. 111., Normal School, and Prof. Charles McMurey of Illinois University. The second topic had treatment at the hands of Supervisor Martin of Boston, Principal Johnson of the Winthrop Training School at Columbia, S. C.. and Superintendent Marble of Omaha. The leading speakers on the program for the third topic were: Prof. A. D. Odin of Kansas State University, and Superintendent Jones of Cleveland, Ohio. At the evening sessions addresses were made by the president of the association, by Chancellor W. B. Payne of Nashville, Prof. Joseph LeConte of the University of California, President Baker of the University of Colorado, and by Hamilton W. Mabie, editor of the Outlook. Of the twenty-eight names which appeared on the program for the general sessions, fourteen are those of persons engaged in pub-

VICE PRESIDENT A. G. LANE.

lie school work, six in normal schools and seven in colleges and universities. ’1 ho National Teachers’ Association was established in 1857 in Philadelphia, and in 1870, at a convention held in Cleveland, the name was changed to the National Educational Association. The objects of the association are to "elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." Any persons in any way connected with the work of education are eligible to membership and the enrollment, which now includes Canadian educators, was last year 6.000. The officers are: President. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia College, New York; first vice-president. A. G. Lane, superintendent of Chicago schools; secretary, Irwin Shepard. President 'of the Minnesota State Normal at Winona, Minn.; treasurer. I. Q. McNeal, assistant superintendent of schools. Kansas City. These, together with Assistant Superintendent N. A. Calkins of the New York schools, president iff the Board of Trustees of the National Educational Association, make .up the executive committee of the association.

BRIDGE THAT FELL AT BRISTOL, IND., ON JULY 4.

The National Council of Education, which met in advance of the general association, is composed of sixty members, also of the National Educational Association, and chosen from that body to membership in the council On account of special prominence in educational and association work.

ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE BABY.

The Third Daughter of the House of Cleveland Is Horn. At 4:30 Sunday afternoon a girl was born to President and Mrs. Grover Cleve* land at Gray Gables, their summer borne.

MRS. CLEVELAND. (From a recent photograph.)

Mother and child are both doing very well. The'new baby had been expected by all the summer residents of Buzzard's Bay, though beyond vague rumors of such an event it was not known generally outside. Saturday Mr. Cleveland did not go fishing, and the grown people told their children it would be well to look sharp, as the long-awaited visit of the stork to Gray Gables was close at hand. All of the neighbors of the Clevelands, both rich and poor, were in a' state of suppressed excitement, and many of them strolled by Gray Gables in the hope of hearing something. A few saw Mr. Cleveland and asserted that he looked anxious but hopeful. There was a general feeling that the stork was going to do the proper thing and would bring a little one that would perpetuate the name of the great man. But Dr. Bryant found the Cleveland stork had again behaved itself in the traditional manner of the storks that bring baby presents to the houses of the great. And so Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have three daughters each separated from the other by almost exactly two years. Ruth Cleveland, the first child, was born Saturday, Oct. 3. IS9I, shortly after midnight, at 816 Madison avenue. New York. She was named Ruth, as that had been the name of Mrs. Cleveland’s grandmother, and the mother always liked it. The

GRAY GABLES, (The Pres dent's Summer Home.)

baby was baptized .Tan. 9, 1892, in Lakewood. N. .1.. by Rev. Dr. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. The second girl was born Sept. 9. 1893, in the White House, being the first child of a President to be born under that roof. It was decided to name the child Esther, and it was said that there was no special significance other than the parents’ partiality for Scriptural names and that it means “a star” and "good fortune.” The baby was christened in the White House Feb. 19, 1894, by Rev. Dr. Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington.

ADD TO DEATH LIST.

Loss of Life in Kansas and Missouri Now Reported to Be Forty-Two. The recent storms in Kansas and Missouri covered an area of 200 square miles in that section and cost thirty-seven lives as far as reported with many others missing, and a property loss that will exceed a million dollars. The probable loss ot life, including those reported previously. is as follows: Dead. Injured. M inolta. Mo 11 Not estimated Baxter Springs, Kan. . 6 11 Columbus. Kan 1 Not known Ottawa, Kan 2 Not known \ an Buren. Ark. ...;.. 2 Not known Fish Creek. I. T 5 Not known Thomasville, Mo 5 Not known Fayetteville, Ark..... 3 Not known Richards. Kan 1 Not known Indian Territory (hunters) ... G Not known Total 42 Throughout the entire section dwellings, farm buildings, bridges, and fences were swept away. At Winona eighty buildings succumbed, l-.ve residences, a church, and a warehouse wont.down at Baxter Springs. A schoolhouse and a church were blown down at New Albany. Kan. Many buildings Were leveled at Ardmofe, I. T. Bridges suffered’chiefly at Guthrie, Ok. The path was from northwest to southeast and covered a wedge-shaped area fifteen miles wide at the northern portion and extending a length of nearly fifty miles. Two-thirds of the windmills in the path of the storm are down and sheds and barns without ’lumber are wrecked. A freight train was overturned at Canton. Several buildings were blown down at Chickasaw, I. T., among which was the Rock Island freight depot and a large grist mill near by. These summaries are only a fraction of loss in property. The greatest burden falls upon the farmers, as the season is too far spent to plant new crops, and suffering must surely follow in the storm’s wake. The country’s granary has been cleaned out. Details of individual suffering and experiences will fill volumes.

JOY TURNED TO WOE.

MANY ACCIDENTS ON THE NATION’S BIRTHDAY. , A Score Are Dead and Others Will Die —Toy Pistol and Crackers Reap a Harvest—Four Hundred Fall with a Bridge. Celebration Costs Lives. .Press telegrams indicate that the national holiday was generally observed throughout the, country, and attendant to the celebration were the usual number of fatalities and accidents. The pistol of commerce and the toy pistol got in its work in the death list, many in the roll being victims of this deadly machine. Firecrackers came next in the list, with a number to their credit. Then came stray bullets, persons being hit at various times and places by shots from instruments held by cheerful idiots who shut their eyes and blazed away. Torpedoes hurt few persons, while the rocket list is small. Five persons dead and thirty-three injured was the record in Chicago. The dead were not all killed on the day itself, however. Three were victims of the day before, and one fell dead, presumably from heart disease, while watching the celebration, and one man was drowned. At Marion, Ind., while firing a cannon at the Soldiers' Home John Haupt, an old artilleryman and a soldier in the regular army for seventeen years, was killed by a permature discharge. During ths progress of a ball game at Hinckley, HI.. Peter Anderson’s 6-year-old daughter was struck in the stomach by a foul ball, causing her death. At Kangley, 111., a man named Mozener had one leg taken off by the explosion of a small cannon. In East St. Louis, two serious accidents happened on account of the celebration, and both will probably result fatally. Eddie Laumann and Willie Strathman, sons of prominent citizens, attempted to fire off a can of powder with a short fuse. In firing a salute at Milwaukee a cannon exploded and an old soldier was killed at the Old Soldiers' Home. A shotgun in the

CELEBRATING.

hands of Charles A. Hull, a son of Silas Hull, a prominent farmer residing near Attica, Ohio, was accidentally discharged, fatally injuring his mother and his 11-year-old sister. William Boiler, 7 years old, of Tiffin, had both eyes put out by the explosion of a toy cannon. A Sioux Falls cannon improvised from a piece of gas-pipe exploded, breaking $2,000 worth of plate glass and dangerously injuring Richard Peterson, a boy who happened to be standing near by. At Dubuque, Henry Hilderbrand lost three fingers by the explosion of a torpedo, and William Callahan, 17 years old, had past of his face torn off by a cannon cracker.

FIFTY ARE INJURED.

Three Hundred Persons Break Down a Bridge at Bristol, Ind. At Bristol, Ind., while about 300 of the population were gathered on a bridge spanning the St. Joseph River watching a tub race, 100 feet of the sidewalk of the bridge went down, carrying with it 100 persons. The fall was about thirty feet and the iron fell on many. As the racers got into their tubs and prepared for the race the immense crowd on the bridge grew wildly enthusiastic. As the crowd surged up against the railing there came a fearful crash and roar. The whole side of the bridge gave way, slowly at first, and then with frightful speed, carrying the panic-stricken and shrieking crowd down forty feet to the river. For a moment there was almost absolute silence before the horrified crowd on the banks could realize what had occurred. Then as the cries and groans of those who had struggled out of the water were heard the farmers and their wives rushed to the rescue. The water is onlyfive feet deep at this season and the rescuers hurried into the river with boards, tubs, and anything that would help the wounded to keef> afloat. As rapidly as possible they were carried to the shore, while those who escaped injury scrambled out and assisted in the work. Messengers were hurried away for doctors and surgeons and every house in the town of Bristol was turned into a hospital. When the surgeons made a hurried examination they found thirty-eight people laid out along the shore and in the residences, many of them insensible. Broken legs and arms, hands smashed, and serious bruises were found to be the injuries in the majority of cases. The bridge which gave way has been used for years. Only last spring it was repaired, and considered able to bear any strain that might be put upon it. Thugs on a Picnic Train. In an attemptto murder the crew of a Santa Fe picnic train as it pulled out of Chicago by eight members of the “Henry street gang” a conductor was wounded and two of the thugs bruised and beaten seriously. Over twenty shots were fired by members of the gang and the passengers were terrorized and several women fainted. Many Are Hurt at Buffalo. While the riders were taking the track of the fivc-mile handicap in the bicycle races at the Buffalo, N. Y., driving park a section of the grand stand fell in. It caved from the very center of the stand, taking with it a section stairway, two private boxes and about sixty people. George H. Murphy, vice-commercial agent of the United States at Luxemburg, Germany, reports to the Department of State a decree of public works discontinuing wherever it is practicable the use of petroleum at railway stations in consequence of the rise in the price of American petroleum. Dennis'O’Connbr. 21 years of age. married, was instantly killed at Pueblo, Colo., by lightning while putting up a pole for electric light wires. -s i I. .ir 1 Corbett had his diamonds stolen last year and now is playing the divorce racket. Oh, James is an actor, all right.

HARRINGTON IS OUT.

Chief of the Weather Bureau la Removed by the President. "Professor Mark W. Harrington is no longer chief of the United States weather bureau. He has been removed by President Cleveland, after declining to hand in his resignation. The cause of his removal is ascribed to incompatibility of temper between Secretary Morton on the one hand and Professor Harrington on the other. Mr. Harrington was appinted four years ago by President Harrison, and, almost from the first day that Secretary Morton took charge of the agricultural

PROF. MARK W. HARRINGTON.

department, two years ago last March, there has been frietjon between him and the chief of the weather bureau. So severe has been the strain’lh their relations, it is understood they had held no personal communication with each other for more than a year, but that their correspondence had been confined almost entirely to missives of the most severely official style. The difficulties -came to u> climax soon after the change <>LadmiaisU;ation, when an investigation, wap instituted, by Secretary Morton into the business affairs of the weather bureau*.the results of which did not implicate Professor Harrington in any way. This, however, did not ease the strain between him and the Secretary, and it is well understood that for nearly two years the chief of the bureau has had practically nothing to do with the routine management of his office, which has been governed almost entirely from the department. It is no surprise to those who are well informed that the difficulties have now culminated in the summary removal of Ptofes'sbr fiarrington, as it is known that he has steadfastly refused to resign. .. '.J'.

FIELD ON FIRE TWO MONTHS.

Peculiar Phenctuanon Near Indianapolis—Was Once a Swamp. A field which has been burning ceaselessly for two months is the remarkable phenomenon presented by a farm adjacent to the village of Maywood, near Indianapolis. This field is not a toweringsVesuvius,. but is rather a valley, and from its deepest part comes the smoke that some believe is the precursor of a worse flame that may reduce the village in the number of houses if not in the number of persons. Two months ago smoke was seen coming from the ground on a lowland spot of the Campbell farm. It was thought strange by those who saw it, but it was believed to be nothing more than ths smoldering remains of some fire. But day after day the smoke ascended or blew a great distance, clinging, although treacherously, to the ground. After a week or so farm hands passing the field saw flames mingling with the smoke. They investigated and found the dry grass and black earth on fire. Sticks were driven into the ground and it was discovered that for a depth of from two to four feet the earth was absolutely reduced to ashes. The field in which this peculiar fire is burning is a bottom field of black earth that shows clearly its vegetable origin. Those who have lived at the village for years say that twenty years ago the field was a swamp, seemingly ages old, and that it was years before even cattle could be suffered to tread it in search of pasture food. Recently attempts have been made to cultivate it, but none was made this year. The field looks as though a giant mole had gamboled under its surface, for it is ridged with tunnels, whose upper sides sometimes assume the prominence of miniature mountains. The manner in which the fire is breaking out is evidence of its subterranean origin. So complete has the destruction of the earth and grass been in the district patches that the little portions where yellow, withered grass may be look like oases in a desert.

The Comic Side of The News

The wheat crop is the only thing we can recall that is worth most when there are flies on it. There are no .swear words in the Japenese language. How does Japan express her opinions of Russia just now? A Brooklyn church has built a stable for the bicycles of its congregation, thus laying the path to heaven via Wheeling. There is fame and fortune ahead for the horticulturist who succeeds in crossing the Georgia watermelon with Jamaica ginger. John L. Sullivan says he wants to open a hotel. He might have owned a few hotels before this if tie hadn’t opened quite so many things with a corkscrew. Campos has ordered 25,000 more troops from Spain. Probably he has just found out that three or four American correspondents have joined the insurgents. Nearly all the important iron furnaces in Pennsylvania have advanced wages 10 per cent recently. . They are evidently driving their pigs to the Tight market. The defaulting exTreasqrer of South Dakota should at least express regbet that the authorities have been put to so much trouble in preparing a reception for him. A Springfield biqyclist claims that a snake bit the tire of hip wheels and burst it. It is remarkable that any man who sees such things could keep in his bicycle saddle. “What mates Chicago the healthiest of cities?” inquires the Times-Herald. Precisely the same thing which makes it the most moral and religious of cities. Anybody can guess it. Says the Boston Globe: “We hear a great deal about raising potatoes on the vacant lots about Boston. Wij»ji potatoes alone?” The point is well, taken; beans should have the call in Boston. The winners of the Columbian prize medals should take courage. A Minnesota man has just received from the Government a medal for valorous deeds performed as a soldier more than thirty years ■go. ; Here comes another Indian story about a man who “dikes into water and catches fish with his hands.” We believe a close investigation will prove that that.fellow dives into,his imagination and catches fish with a lead pencil.