Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Page 2

C’r w-TF-jr*- ■ T T* , Bl)egfniocrotitSc«t;ittl J. W. McEWEJT, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

LEAD MINES INACTIVE

LOW PRICES HAVE RESTRICTED OPERATIONS. Old Schooner and Cargo Lost in Tuesday’s Gale—Secretary Morton Will Enforce Laws Concerning Stock Transportation—Juvenile Scamp. Lead Mining in United States. In discussing the lead mining industry for 1894, the geological survey report says that the year was one of exceptionally low prices. Mining declined, and it was necessary to draw on foreign sources to supply the deficiencies. The production of refined lead in the United States has grown, from 1,500 short tons in 1525 to 219,000 in 1894. The product of 1893 was the largest on record, amounting to 229,000 short tons. The lead markets of the United States are supplied from four sources. The first is from domestic mining, divided between the soft lead ores of the Mississippi Valley and the silver lead ores of the Rocky Mountains. The second source is Mexico and British Columbia. The third is the base bullion sent from Mexico for desilverizing and refining in bond in this country, and the fourth is refined foreign lead. The following table shows by States the domestic product smelted: Tons. Colorado 50,900 Idaho 33,300 Utah 23,200 Montana 9,000 Other producing States are Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona. California, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin and Tennessee. The total domestic product is put at 132,700 tons and the consumption at 102,371 tons. Priges during the year ranged from 3.70 to 3.0214 cents per pound.

roads ark warned. Must Take Better Care of Live Stock in Transit. Comparatively frequent complaints have been filed at the agricultural department alleging violations of the law by railway companies in keeping live stock in transit confined in cars for over twen-ty-four continuous hours, the legal allotted limit, or failing to give the stock five continuous hours of rest when unloaded. Most of the complaints involve Western roads. Secretary Morton is determined that the laws regulating the transportation of stock shall be enforced, and lias sent to all railway companies engaged in live stock transportation a circular insisting on strict compliance with the law, in which he says: “The failure of the railway companies to conform to this Jaw eauses animals great suffering while in transit to points of destination, which it is the intention of the law to prevent. Railway companies will therefore make such arrangements as are necessary in their train service, and provide the necessary feeding and watering stations, to comply with the statutes, and any failure to do this will render them liable on conviction to the penalty provided in section 4388.”

SCHOONER REPUBLIC SINKS. Crew Rescued from the Rigging, but Boat and Cargo Are a Total Loss. During a heavy gale Tuesday morning the schooner Republic, in tow of the ateambarge Swallow, coal laden, became ' water-logged and sank in forty feet of water, two miles off Lorain, Ohio. The tug Cascade succeeded in rescuing all of the crew of eight men, who were clinging to the rigging. The cargo of the bargo was 618 tons of soft coal for Detroit. The Republic is so old and unseaworthy that it is not likely any attempt will be made to recover her. YOUTHFUL INCENDIARY. Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Admits Starting Numerous Fires. Henry G. Clark, 15 years old, was in the municipal court at Chelsea, Mass., charged with breaking and entering. His case was continued in order to permit State Fire Marshal Whitcomb to prefer more serious charges against him. By his own confession the boy is one of the most dangerous firebugs in Massachusetts. Last spring he started fires that caused a loss of more than $50,000. Clark has already servfed time for incendiarism. Refuse to Accept Salaries, Five members of the Ohio General Assembly have refused to accept salaries for the current year for the reason that there was no session of that body. The law, however, provides for their payment as if they actually performed duty. These five members are: Senators Joseph MeMaken, of Butler County, and Jay Manning, of Huron, and Representatives W. A. Reed, of Huron; D. A. Spooner, of Seneca, and W. A. Walton, of WyandotUnderground Wire a Success. The first regular trains were run ut Washington Monday over the new Ninth street electric railway, equipped with the underground system of a Chicago company. It is declared the road is a success, and the problem of the successful operation of an underground trolley system has been solved. Work will begin at once on the construction of an electric railway between Baltimore and Washington, a distance of forty miles. West Superior Bank Fails. The West Superior, Wis., Keystone National Bank, capital $200,000, ‘closed Tuesday morning by order of the bank examiner.

Denver Bank Closed. The Union National Bank of Denver, was closed Monday. It will liquidate its affairs and go out of business. p- ■ £.- Riot Ends in Death. Jim Biggars, a negro miner at Brookside, Ala., killed the mine boss in revenge for having been discharged. He fled, in company with other lawless negroes. An armed posse followed, and in the ensuing battle four of Biggars’ crowd were killed. Ten of the posse were wounded. Conrthouse Burned. The courthouse in Frensno, Cal., was burned Monday night. Only the hall of records was saved. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, most of which is covered by insurance. , Firing; on the Lane.The reported firing on the Carrie E. Lane, an American schooner, by a Spanish cruiser off the Cuban coast has not yet been reported officially to the State Department, and in the absence of any definite statement of the act the officials decline to express an opinion Oklahoma People in Need. In response to an appeal from Rev. J. T. Irwin, of Pond Creek, 0. T., the secretary of the Denver Chamber of Commerce has appealed to the public to contribute generously for the people in that Territory, who are without the necessities

TALK OF GEOGRAPHY. International Congrtis Now in Session in London. " Nearly every country of Europe and America was represented Friday afternoon when the sixth international geographical congress was formally opened by the Duke of York at the Imperial Institute, in London. Delegates were present from nearly all of the American societies. The deliberations of the congress will continue for four weeks. Papers will be presented by eminent authorities bearing upon every phase of geographical investigation and exploration. There were numerous expressions of regret that Mr. Peary had not found it possible to return from Greenland in time to address the geographers upon his discoveries in the icebound regions of the north. A geographical exhibition is also being held in connection with the congress, one of the most striking features being a series of globes illustrating the progress of knowledge of the earth's surface from the remotest historical period. There are also collections of photographs, geographical instruments, explorers’ equipments and a series of maps showing the development of English cartography.

THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clubs In Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P W. L. cent. Cleveland 86 52 34 .605 Pittsburg 79 47 32 .595 Baltimore 74 43 31 .581 Boston 74 42 32 .568 Cincinnati 80 45 35 .563 Chicago 85 47 38 .553 Philadelphia 74 40 34 .541 Brooklyn 76 41 35 .539 New York 75 39 36 .520 Washington 70 25 45 .357 St. Louis 82 28 54 .341 Louisville .75 16 59 .213 WESTEUX T.EAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis 74 45 29 .60S Kansas City 75 44 31 .587 Milwaukee ......79 45 34 .570 Detroit 75 38 37 .507 St. Paul 77 33 44 .429 Minneapolis 74 35 39 .476 3rand Rapids... .79 36 43 .456 Terre Haute 77 29 48 .377 IMPROVING THE MISSOURL Report of the Commission on Operations of the Last Fiscal Year. The annual report of the Missouri River Commission of the work performed duriug the last fiscal j’ear shows the expenditures to have been: Missouri River, $533,970; Gasconnde River, $2,061; Osage River, $9,993. There is still available: For the Missouri, $745,794; Gasconnde, $2,950; Osage, $52,006. The greatest "part, of the work done was from the head of Murray’s Head to the mouth of th,e river, a distance of J 55 rnjles. Upon this section the commission is carrying out a systematic and continuous improvement, revetting the shores when necessary, constructing dykes and building contraction works. A complete topographical survey of the Missouri River Valley, between Sioux City and the mouth of the river, a distance of 800 miles, was begun in October, 1894. The survey is intended to cover thoroughly nil of the vnlley within one and a half miles of the stream, and to locate the linos of all the bluffs.

FOMENTED BY CHINA. The Se-Cliucn Riots Were Intended to Scare the Foreigners. The Japanese authorities are now in possession of information from China riving a new explanation of the riots in Se-Chuen and directly implicating the Pokiug Government. Among commercial stipulations in the peace treaty with lapnn, that of opening the remote interior to foreign trade has met with the strongest objections from the court and the Tung Li Yameii, and it is alleged that Viceroy Liu was secretly instructed to foment disturbances iu order to prove that the Upper Yang Tse provinces were unsafe for strangers. By this means it was hoped that aliens might be prevented from availing themselves of the privileges, but since the outrages have been resented with a wholly unexpected spirit the Government has taken fright, and endeavors to escape responsibility by de- . grading Liu and making him the scapegoat. This is more than the deposed Viceroy is willing to endure, and his followers threaten trouble. Speculators in It. Representatives of the Louisiana sugar planters who are to appear before the Comptroller of the Treasury at the hearing upon the validity of the claims for sugar bounty, assert that most of these claims have passed out of the hands of the sugar growers and are now the property of innocent holders. Not a. few of the claims, it is said, are in the hands of manufacturers and dealers of machinery in Chicago and elsewhere. What is regarded as more probable by officers of the treasury is that the most of these claims are held by speculators, who purchased them at a discount. Comptroller Bowler informed the Louisiana Senators that his reason for holding up the claims was because of the decision by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, rendered iu January, 1894, dismissing a mandamus proceeding brought by the Miles Manufacturing Company to compel the Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner of Internal Revenue to pay sugar bounty for 1894: The mandamus proceeding was dismissed by the court on the ground that the McKinley law, giving the bounty, had been repealed by the new tariff act of 1894. Subsequently Congress passed the special bounty bill under which the claims before the treasury are now pending. The Louisiana planters have engaged counsel and in case of an adverse decision from the Treasury Department, will commence a mandamus proceeding to compel the Secretary to pay the bounty.

Greatest in the World. Henry W. Martin, consular clerk at Southampton, has supplied the State Department with a full description of the new graving dock and deep-water quays at that place, which are to be opfened on Aug. 3 by the Prince of Wales and Emperor of Germany. The new graving dock, he sayaowlil be the largest in the world. It will have a floor length of 750 feet and a width of 112 feet. The cnpag-„ ity of the dock at high water will be about 14,500,000 gallons, which will be pumped out by the large engines used in from one to two hours. The new quays inclose 3,830 linear feet, with 28 feet of water alongside. To show the extent of the new works Mr. Martin gives the quantity of material used in the construction. There were 2,000,000 bricks, 10,000 loads of timber and 40,000 tons of cement, besides immense quantities of granite, chalk and filling material. Dies for Killing Two Men. Phillip Norman Nicholas was hanged at Richmond, Va. He made no confession. Nicholas murdered William J. Wilkerson and James Mills by drowning them. Depending on the Corn Crop. President Cable, of the Rock Island Road, declared his belief that the corn crop of the West was beyond danger, and that along his line, at least, it was larger,than

in any praviona year. This alone will give the Rock Island all the tannage it can handle for ten months. Corresponding reports are made by officials of all Western lines in the corn belt. When these reports and beliefs are crystallized into fact, Western roads are certain of at least a year of prosperity as great as any in their history. The corn will not begin to move much before January. WHOLE FAMILY PERISH. Terrific Work of the Wind at Three States, Mo. A terrible storm swept over the town of Three States, on the Mississippi River, forty miles below Cairo, 111., Sunday afternoon. The killed are: George McClellan, Mrs. George McClellan, three McClellan children, Mr. Thomas, at Barnes Ridge; Mrs. Thomas, at Barnes Ridge. The funnel-shaped cloud whirled through the dense timber, cutting a swath 100 yards wide, uprooting huge trees and tossing them high in the air. Just before it reached the village the cloud seemed to rise sufficiently to clear the cottage houses, but it caught the high smokestack of the Three States mill and twisted it to the ground as easily ns if it had been built of straw. The power of the wind may be imagined when it is known that this stack wds considered the strongest in the world. It was made of sheet steel, and anchored on an iron base by ten iron guy rods. NOT DEAD, BUT ALIVE. Fall River Woman, Bnpposed to Bo Drowned, Suddenly Appears. It was reported at Fall River, Mass., that Mrs. Annie Mulvey had been drowned. The body was identified by three neighbors and her son as that of the woman named, and every preparation was being made for the funeral. Next day, while the son was cleaning up the house, preparatory to the reception of the body from the undertaker’s, Mrs. Annie Mulvey wnlked into her home, loaded down with groceries. Explanations were made, but before Mrs. Mulvey could believe her souses she sent for a nephew of ex-Sena-tor Howard to have the newspaper account of her drowning read to her. The drowned woman is much like Mrs. Mulvey in appearance, but who she is has not been determined as yet.

BLOOMERS NOT POPULAR. And Then the Girl Came from Chicngo, Too. Miss E. Johnson, a typewriter in the employ of a well-known Rochester firm of lawyers, appeared in a suit of bloomers and astride a man's high-geared wheel. She was completing work in the office previous to her departure on a spin to the lake, when a senior member of the law firm entered. He was astonished to find so many of ins gentlemen clients present. He shw the girl with the bloomers and jaunty cap and ordered her to go home and not return. The young woman recently came from Chicago, where such raiment is common. She spent much time iu tears, and declures that she will demand satisfaction. Her employer says her costume was disgraceful. Settlers Not Butchered. The story of an Indian uprising at .Tackson Hole, Wyoming, told Saturday by Associated Press dispatches and published by every daily paper in America ami most of those in the civilized world, was utterly without foundation. Not a white settler had been killed; and all the bloody, hair-raising detail which accompanied the yarn was the output of the over-heated imagination of some tenderfoot correspondent at Market Lake, Idaho. Latest information is to the effect that many Bannocks, Lemhis and Utes are yet off their reservations, and that troops are in the near vicinity. Every effort will be made by United States authorities to arrest the lawless whites who murdered the party of Indian hunters. This wanton butchery was the cause of all ensuing trouble.

No Shrinkage Shown. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “It is not the season for the tide of business to rise, but there is perceived scarcely any shrinkage except that which comes naturally with midsummer heat. The volume of new business is small compared with recent months, but large enough to encourage more openings of long closed works and more advances in returns to labor. Important strikes show that the advance is not enough for some, but the strikers seem not more threatening than before.” Pilgrims Killed in a Wreck. A train crowded with pilgrims returning from the shrine of St. Dauray, was wrecked near the town of St. Bricuo, France. Twelve persons were killed and twenty-five injured. Fredericks is Hanged. William Fredericks, who murdereu Cashier William A. Herrick in an attempt to rob the San Francisco Savings Union Bauk in March, 1894, was hanged at San Quentin Friday. Troops to Be Called Out. The Secretary of the Interior has requested the Secretary of War to send troops to the scene of the ludian disturbance in Wyoming. Jealous Man Murders His Wife. George Reed, a St. Louis painter, 30 years of age, shot and killed bis wife, as the result of jealousy. The murderer was arrested.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 08c to 69c; corn, No. 2,43 cto 44c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 50c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12p; potatoes, new, per barrel, sl.2;> to $2.00; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to G'/ 2 c per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.23; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn. No. 1, >vhite, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to st>.2o; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40e; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No 2,44 c to 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn. No. 2, mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 48c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; com, No. 2, yellow, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Sc to 29c; rye, 47c to 48c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,43 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; barley, No. 2,46 cto 48c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; pork, mess, $10.25 to $10.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00;i wheat, No 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,' 47c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, Western, 13c to 14c.

MURDER HIS TRADE.

K. H. HOLMES ACCUSED OP DIABOLICAL CRIMES. More of Hie Devilishness Coming to Light Every Day— Startling Discoveries Made in Chicago— Building with MysterioueChambere—Bones Found. Fiend in Human Form. There is incarcerated in Moyamtnsing Prison, in Philadelphia, a man who, according to his own admission, has deserved hanging a dozen times, and, if guilty of half of the crimes laid at his fioor, is, without doubt, the arch-criminal of America, The name he is known by In prison is H. H. Holmes, but he has as many aliases as a chameleon has colors, and, when at liberty, he could change them as quickly.Holmes’ real name is Herbert, or Herman, Mudgett, and he was born in Gilmanton, N. H., about thirty-four years ago. His father was Levi H. Mudgett, and he was postmaster of Gilmanton Corners. He gave his son a good education, the boy graduating from the village academy with honor. When but 18 young Mudgett married Clara Lovering, the pretty daughter of a well-to-do citizen of Louden, N. H. Mudgett supported his wife for awhile, first by teaching school and after by clerking in a store. Then he took a notion to study medicine, and partly through his parents’ and his wife’s parents’ assistance ho become a student in the University of Vermont, at Burlington. His wife in the meantime supported herself as a dressmaker. By and by Mudgett went to the medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich. Here he run out of funds. He and a chum went to work during the summer vacation on a farm. One day it*occurred to Mudgett that i* was possible to obtain a quantity of money by swindling a life insurance company. It is said that he told his plan to his chum, who at once fell in with it. The chum had his life insured under a fictitious name, and shortly after they procured a body from the pickling vat of a medical college, boxed it up and

THE HOLMES BUILDING IN CHICAGO. [The star shows Holmes’ office.)

shipped it to Connecticut. Then it was given out that the chum had died, the body was palmed off as his, and Mudgett got the insurance money, some $12,000. After securing his degree Mudgett began the practice of his profession at Moore’s Fork, in his State. His wife was with him for awhile. She bore him a child, and then went back to her parents on a prolonged visit. Commits Bigamy, The young doctor built up a fairly good practice, but did not ask his wife to return to him, as he thought his field of action too circumscribed and he talked of going to Chicago to establish himself there. His was a flirtatious nature, and meeting an adventuress in Boston, he married her. She soon found that his means were poor and left him. Then he paid his real wife a visit and told her he was going west. That was the last she had heard of him for several years. Believing that she was deserted she went to hard work as a dressmaker to support herself and her child. Holmes, by which name he is afterward known, then entered into various schemes in Chicago. He employed a typewriter named Minnie Williams. He learned that she and her sister were worth $50,000 and determined to have the money. Ho persuaded Minnie to live with him. Then they sent for her sister Annie. Tho latter soon disappeared and no clue has ever been found of her whereabouts. It was not long after this that Minnie also disappeared. Then Holmes met Benjamin F. Pitezel. They laid a plan to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Pitezel took out a policy for SIO,OOO. In September last the body of a man was found in a certain house in Philadelphia. By his side was a broken bottle of carbolic acid. He was identified at the time as the man who, under the name of B. F. Perry, had rented the house some time before. The doctors said he had died in a natural manner. The body was buried in the Potter’s field.

HOLMES IN HIS CELL.

Then Holmes came forward with a man named Howe to represent Mrs. Pitezel, whaclaimed that the body was that o*f her husband. It vras exhumed and she identified it. The insurance money was paid. The largest share went tp Holmes. He then persuaded Mrs. Pitezel to let him take care of three of her five children. She agreed and he took them with him. They have not been seen since, dead or alive, until the finding last week of the Vodies of two of them in the cellar of a house in Toronto, Ont., and every circumstance indicates that they were murdered by Holmes. Holmes Arrested. In some way the insurance company became suspicious. 'When Mrs. Pitezel was pressed she admitted that the whole thing was a conspiracy and that Pitezel,

■ki believed, was alive. She wvl arrsstsd, as was Howe. Then the detective* chased Holme* from city to city until they arrested him in Boston. Pitezel ha* never been found and the belief is strong that he waa murdered by Holmes. When the children could not be located detectives began to hurt for them. They were tracked with Holmes to Detroit Then one of them seems to have disappeared. The other two were traced to Toronto.. It was discovered that Holmes rented a certain house in that city and that he had two children with him. A search waa made. The earth forming the floor of the cellar had been disturbed. The detectives began to dig and soon they uncovered the nude bodies of the two children. Where the other one is, whether dead or alive, whether or not their father is living, and whether or not Minnie and Annie Williams were murdered are matters the police and detectives are trying to solve. That the Williams girls met death at the hands

MINNIE WILLIAMS. ANNIE WILLIAMS.

of Holmes, there is scarcely a doubt. That they died in Chicago in a violent manner has been proved almost conclusively. The police found in a stove in a three-stprv brick building at 701 63d street, which was built by Holmes and in which both he and the Williams girls lived, a quantity of charred bones, buttons known to have been on a dress owned by Minnie Williams, and the partly melted portion of a watch chain which was positively identified as having been the property of the girl. The contents of th* stove were quickly dumped, and portions of bones too badly burned to admit of positive identification as belonging to any particular portion of the body were found. All of the ashes and debris removed from the stove was carefully preserved. The police are now of the opinion that not only Minnie Williams but her young-

er sister, Anna, and the boy Howard Pib zel met death in this house. Anna Williams has not been seen or heard of since Holmes left the 63d street building. If she has fallen victim to Holmes’ murderous instincts sho will be tho sixth he has killed—Pitezel, his three children and the two Williams girls. Holmes pleaded guilty to conspiracy in defrauding tho insurance companies out of about $250,000, and was awaiting sentence therefor when the bodies of the children were found and the suspicion that he murdered Pitezel was aroused.

THE TORONTO COTTAGE.

Of course he disclaims all knowledge of the manner of their death.

EXPRESS IS HELD UP.

Chicago Limited on the Lake Shore Boarded by Bobbers. Masked men boarded a west-bound Lake Shore and Michigan Southern express train at Iteece Siding, Ind., at 12:35 Wednesday morning, forced open an express car and at the point of revolvers compelled the messenger to unlock the safe. It is known that at least SB,OOO was taken. The train is a heavy one, made up of several express cars, baggage and mail cars, two coaches and three Pullmans. Reece Siding is a lonely spot in the woods, between Archbold and Stryker, about ten miles west of Wauseon. A blind sliding is used by this train nightly to allow the western express to pass. This usual stop is well known to those familiar with the locality. L’or a mile in each direction the woods are dense close to the railroad right of way. The noise of the coming western express was ringing louder and louder when Conductor Darling, who stood by a coach, saw three masked men ride out of a road' from the woods which led directly to an express car which crossed it. He was ordered inside the coach and at the same time three men, approaching the other side, joined their companions in demanding admission to the express car. This was gained at revolvers’ points, and the express messenger, under threats of instant death, was compelled to open the safe. The entrance to the express car was made quickly and no commotion was created in the other cars. The robbers seemed to know just how to handle the railroad men and to board the cars. Their evident familiarity with cars and the time the trains met give rise to suspicions that they are railroad men. Express and qailroad officials at Toledo were at once notified when the train reached Bryan. Superintendent Blodgett and Manager Caniff left at once on a special train- for the scene of the robbery notifying the police officials of all ad jaccnt towns to be on the lookout for the robbers. Officials express the opinion that the robbery was committed by persons in close touch with the road and its methods, or at least the express company, for that night an unusually large sum of money was, express officials say, carried in the express safe. This admission gives rise to the belief that a much larger sum than SB,OOO was carried off.

CORN FOR THE WORLD

GREATEST CROP IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY. Estimates of Conservative Statisticians Place the Yield at 2,375,000,000 Bnshela —Bailway Managers Put the Figures 25,000,000 Higher. Prospect Is Good. Confronted with a corn crop which promises to be hundreds of thousands of bushels larger than the largest ever recorded in the history of the country, the question arises: What is to be done with it? Railway managers estimate the crop at about 2,400,000,000 bushels, and even allowing that the interests of railway properties may have caused such managers to let their imaginations color the facts, the estimates of conservative statisticians based on the latest Government crop report make the crop over 2,375,000,000 bushels. Shortly after the war there was a time when corn had to be sacrificed in various ways to get rid of it, but only twice since 1874 has the yield reached 2,000,00Q,00C > bushels. In 1880 the yield was '2,112,892,000 bushels, and it was thought te be a record breaker for all time. The crops of 1891 aggregated 2,060,154,000 bushels, and the "Surplus was so great that in Kansas the corn was burned for fuel, it not being worth shipment out of the State. However, some of the best posted men in the grain trade are of the opinion that none of the crop of 1895 will need to be burned, even though it exceeds any previous crop by 300,000,000 bushels. On the contrary, the statistical position of supply and demand would seem to justify the opinion that this enormous corn crop will be a great boon to the country and prove the financial salvation of many a farmer whose wheat crop has been nearly ruined.

It takes a long stretch of the imagination to grasp the fact that 82,000,000 acres of corn, one of the largest acreages known, are now flourishing, under the most perfect weather conditions ever seen. Railway' managers have already begun to arrange proper transportation facilities for the corn, and the chance# are that every bnnhel of it will be used up or sent out of the country at fairly good prices. In view of this prospect it will be of Interest to note certain facts iu connection with our corn crops. Iu the first place, it is n fact that as a ru’e the larger the total yield the greater has been th* export, and generally speaking, the greater the yield the larger has been the percentage of the whole exported. The three largest and two smallest yields for the last thirteen years will prettv fairly illustrate the general fact. The'figures are as follows: Bush., Bush., P. Ct. r ' cro P- export, export. 1890 ...2,112,892,000 103.418T09 4.85 1892 ...2,060,154,000 1889 ...1,987,790,000 70,841,673 3.57 1888 ...1,450,161,000 25,360,869 1.74 1891 ...1,489,970,000 32,041,529 213

INDIAN WAR ON.

Wyoming Settlers Arm Themselves and Prepare to Fight. The Indian war has broken out in earnest. The vague rumor that a white man and his wife and child had been killed in the Wyoming Salt River Valley, and that settlers in retaliation had killed six of the redskins is confirmed. The excitement among the settlers in Northwestern Wyoming over the threatened uprising of the Bannock and Shoshone Indians is growing more intense every day. They are leaving their ranches in lurge numbers and gathering at favored points for mutual protection in case the irate Indians return to seek vengeance for the death of their brother braves. The story of the killing of the three whites and six Indians is spreading alarm at rapid rate. The settlers are becoming thoroughly aroused, and if they are not soon protected by government troops they will take the field in protection of their own homes and lives, and they are well qualified by long experience in this country to do even more effective fighting than the regulars. The Indians realize that the cowboys are more dangerous than the troops. The reds know they can surrender to the soldiers and they will be in no further danger, but when the frontier volunteers go out to hunt Indians they fight as the Indians do themselves. They shoot to kill and kill all in sight. The trouble originated when thirty men set out from Jackson's Hole to arrest a band of Indians for violating the State game laws. In Hoback canyon they discovered an Indian camp and at daylight surprised the Indians and captured them all without a shot being fired. In this camp they found 135 green elk skins. Each Indian was started back for the Hole with a white man at his back with, his rifle across his arm ready for any emergency. The squaws were in the rear with the packs, and William Crawford in the rear of the squaws with the constables in charge. When nearly through an Indian let out a war whoop and every Indian, squaw and all, broke from the trail and attempted to escape. The posse immediately opened fire, and in the laconic language of the report, “all the Indians were killed except one papoose.” The posse immediately covered up all trace of their deadly work, shot the Indian horses and hastened back to Marysville, Jack-

SEAT OF THE INDIAN TROUBLES.

son’s Hole. The settlers there immediately began to prepare for the worst. Governor Richards said: “This Indian trouble must be settled quickly, and unless the Washington authorities take decisive action soon I will make a State matter out of it and order out the State troops to arrest all of the roving Indians who are causing the trouble and turn them over to the authorities. I am determined that the Indians shall be made to respect the laws of the State as well as their white neighbors. The authorities at Washington do not seem to understand the situation and aro careless in regard to correspondence on the subject. My predecessor, Governor Osborne, wrote a letter to the Interior Department in relation to these Indians killing game last summer. That letter wns never answered. Neither was the one I wrote last month.” R. S. Strahan, ex-Judge, of the Oregon Suerans Court, died at Portland.

TRICK ON A DRUMMER.

The Boys Filled His Hand Grcnfldc* with Turpentine. It was Into the small town of Newnan, Georgia, several years ago, just after the invention of chemical band grenades for extinguishing fires, that a young man strolled with a valiae full of these globes to sell to the good people of the village. “Yes, sir,” he told th& crowd that gathered around him, “a. half a dozen of these will put out a whole house afire. The grandest invention of the age. In a few moments, gentlemen, I shall get numbers of dry goods boxes, set them afire, and then 6how you the workings of this remarkable fire extinguisher.” Now, Newnan is famed the world over for the astuteness of its practical jokers. The valise had been left under a tree in the public square while the drummer went for the dry goods boxes. An idea of genius took possession of some man In the crowd. He whispered to a friend, the friend laughed incontinently and ran over to the drug store, coming back presently with a four-gallon can of turpentine. The grenades were snatched from the valise, uncorked, and filled as fast as these wicked men could pour the turpentine Info them. They had just completed their task when the exhibitor returned on a dray piled high with shoe boxes.

“Now, gentlemen,” he said with a busy air, “just be patient and we’ll start the circus.” It was a difficult matter for the crowd to be patient, but the exhibitor came to the conclusion that there never was such an interested gathering. The boxes were heaped high, straw was piled about them, and .the hand grenade man wiped his brow of the dampness of ardor and touched a match. “No,” he said, “not yet. Wait till she gets a little higher. I want to give you a good test” “Now, look out, everybody!” he shouted, taking up one of the grenades and hurling it into the midst of the seething flames. It struck, broke, and a great flame shot up twenty feet into the air. “That’s the way she acts sometimes,” said the fire extinguisher. “It generally takes three or four.” ; With that he seized a half dozen and hurled them in quick succession into the fire. Seldom, if ever, was there so large and well fed a conflagration. The exhibitor, in frenzy, threw his entire stock into the midst of the boxes, and when he had completed the task and stood pale, chagrined and aghast, a great shout went up from the Newman-, ites, and one of the best practical jokes for which the town is famous had been successfully performed. Shortly after this an interview took place between the drummer and his firm. The drummer told the firm candidly that he did not propose to work for a set of damned rascals; the firm told the drummer that he was a poor fool—and the drummer took up other lines of goods.

A New Man.

A 77-year-old citizen of Great Falls, Wash., is undergoing a peculiar process of physical regeneration. About a year ago he contracted pneumonia and his life was for some time despaired of, the doctors saying liis right lung was hopelessly wasted. He recovered, however, but when just able to hobblo around he fell and broke his thigh bone, and was confined to the hospital again for six months. Since leaving, however, his physical condition has improved remarkably. His lungs began to open up until they became almost as well as ever; his skin shed off and a new skin grew, and his hair and beard, which were a snow white, aro coming out a jet black. His limbs and muscles have limbered up, and he started a week or so since to take a herd of young horses across a long trail to market. He says if he continues to grow young he will get married again and grow up with the coun* try.

Yale College Expenses.

The average expenses of the students at Yale College, according to the senior class book, are $912 for the freshman year, $943 for the sophomore, $942 each for the junior and senior years. There are many students whose expenses are much less than these amounts, but there are many others whose expenses are much more, to raise the average to more than the earning capacity of the average graduate for several years at least after he leaves college. These figures would require an earning capacity of from $lB to S2O a week, or more than $3 a day for the six working days of tho week. How many college graduates can secure positions where they will earn S2O a week?

A Trained Cat.

Dr. Samuel Hopper, of Bound Brook, N. J., has a cat that Is the talk of the town. It is a large tiger-marked tom of a pugnacious disposition and very Bohemian habits, and the doctor has taught It to hold firecrackers in its teeth while they are exploded. He says It took considerable patience to accomplish this result, but that, now the cat has become accustomed to the noise, It comes and begs for firecrackers every evening. Dr. Hopper, by the way, is the physician whose trained rabbits keep his grounds clear of thq neighbors’ chickens and protect the dower beds from their attacks.

Combustion.

When a subtance combines with oxygen heat is evolved, and if the union is rapid and fussy light may be emitted as well. The burning of a candle seems -to be a very different thing from the rusting of a nail; but in truth the latter process is simply a mild and dilatory species of combustion. It is really a little conflagration, though it does not afford sufficient heat to singe the wings of a moth or sufficient illumination to enable one to read a line. “I can’t have whistling at the table, Mr. Slocum,” said the boarding-house keeper. “I thought you said yesterday you liked to hear a man whistle at his work?” replied the boarder, as he made mother ineffectual attempt at cutting his piece of beefsteak—Yonkers Statesman. things may be righted some day above, But here they’re wrong, it is plain to| see; The girl that loves me I do not love, And the girl I love, O, she loves not; me. V 1 -Boston Courier. 1