Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — Page 2

SbeJcmocraticScntincl JT. W. McEWEIf, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

CUBANS TAKE A TOWN

ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY FOR INSURGENTS. Atlanta’s Fete Is On—Man Hunt Started in Georgia —Knights of Honor at St. Louis—Lynching Mob in a Kansas Town. Mello to the Rescue. Cuban rebels hare pained * decisive Victory over the Spaniards. They captured and sacked the town of Banes on the northern coast, and now have possession of the seaport and fort. Fully 5,000 rebels are encamped within sight of the town, which is the most important port on the northern coast. This information was brought to Boston by thk, British steamer Tass. The Tass also brought information that there was a rumor at Banes and Gibara, when tiny Tass left those places, that the Brazilian rebel, Admiral Mello, was expected any day with a war vessel and 500 men to aid the Insurgents, and one of the officers of the Tass, who saw Mello bombnrd Rio, says that there is evidently some good ground for the rumor, and he further says that Mello can whip the Spanish guhboats with even an ordinary man-of-war. NOT BARRED. Knights and Ladies of Honor Still Admit Bartenders, Railway Men, Etc. The amendment to the constitution of the Supreme Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor, which was proposed by Dr. Witherill, barring from the society as engaged in hazardous occupations, bartenders, railroad men,. electric linemen, etc., was lost at St. Louis on a final vote. While a majority was in favor of its passage, it was not two-thirds of those present. An amendment was passed decreasing the maximum amount of insurance obtainable from $3,000 to $2,000. The question of selecting a new ritual for the Supreme Lodge was referred back to the committee on the state Of the order for further investigation. SHERIFF ROUTS LYNCHERS. Prisoner at Osage City, Kan., Rescued from a Mob. Osage City, Ivan., is in a fever of excitement over an attempted lynching. Lew Thomas, a dissolute character, was in jail charged with assault. About midnight the jnil was attacked by a mob of masked citizens. They made short work of the barriers and soon had the culprit put of the jail and were leading him to the outskirts of the town. The Sheriff meantime had organized a posse and gave chase. He and his mcji overhauled the mob and rescued the prisoner, who was hurriedly taken back to the jail.

GEORGIA FEUD STARTED. The Brown and Stephens Families Hunting Each Other. The male members of the Brown and Stephens families, living near Midville, Emanuel County, - t?a., among the most prominent people of that section of the State, and all well-known throughout Eastern Georgia, have begun a hunt for one another, armed with Winchesters. News of a bloody encounter and the probable killing of several of them is expected hourly. The trouble grew out of a horsewhipping affray between Thomas Brown and Benjamin Stevens, resulting from political matters. Great Day for the South, At 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon an electric impulse flashed into the grounds of the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition from Gray Gables and the pressure of President Cleveland's finger on an electric button set in motion the big engine in the machinery building. The fountains played, the flags unfurled, the great throngs of visitors cheered, nnd Atlanta’s big fair was formally opened for 102 days. Atlanta had made great preparations for the opening day. There were many handsome decorations in the business part of the city, and a general holiday had been declared. , Quickest Divorce on Record. Mrs. Julia A. Leonard secured a divorce in just ten minutes and two seconds in the district court at Wichita. Ivan., Monday. Judge Reed drew out his watch and timed the proceedings. They occupied nine minutes less than the recent divorce suit before Judge Jennings, which was heralded far and wide as the quickest divorce on record. Postmaster Is Murdered. Thursday morning at daybreak G. M. Singer, postmaster at Dunfee, Ind., was found murdered in bed. The postoffice was robbed and the grocery store plundered. Deceased was an old soldier and a widower and lived alone. The Fort Wayne police and the Sheriff are in pursuit of the murderers. /jjWgK'-' ■ -* -*- a Big Sum by Frond. A few weeks ago Sol Hughlett shot a lawyer and instantly killed himself at Wellsvjlle, Mo. He was preparing to go to the woods, and the people thought the killiug was purely accidental, but the developments indicate that he was a defaulter. Bogus deeds issued by him aggregate, it is said, $20,000.

Fights with the Court. When Judge Moon adjourned the Circuit Court at Chattanooga and stepped down from the bench. Deputy Sheriff Poe sprang forward from the crowd and hit him in the face with his fist. The trouble grew out of the Judge's action in disallowing a fee and lecturing the deputy on some alleged irregularity. 1 Struck an Open Switch. * South-bound passenger train No. 224, on the Erie and Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania Railway, ran into an open switch Thursday morning at Sharpsville.. The entire train was derailed and several of the passengers were slightly hurt, but all escaped serious injury. Overturf Is Indicted. John W. Qverturf, president of the defunct Citizens’ Savings Bank, Portsmouth; Ohio, was indicted for the embezzlement of city money deposited with him as city collector when the bank failed Syracuse Is All Ready. All the arrangements have been practically completed for the reception and entertainment of the delegates to the ninth triennial session of the National Council of Congregational Churches which commences at Syracuse. N. Y., during the second week in October. ? Rhode Island Storm-Swept. At Scituate, U. 1., a thunder storm destroyed $5,000 worth of property. The famous General Lafayette tree was split in two. The tree is the one under, which the General ate his dinner while the Continental armies were marching from Rhode Island to Connecticut.

SIX DEAD AT LOUISVILLE. Terrible Accident at the Grand Army Celebration. A horrible accident resulting in the death of aix and the wounding of aeveral members of the Louisville Legion ocshortly after 5:30 Wednesday morning by the explosion of a caisson. The dead are: Corporal A 1 Robinson, Private Charles Oestrich, Private Charles Woods, Private Mcßride, Private Hutchins, Private Howard Irwin, Private Driver William Adams (colored). The wounded are: Fred Cohn, William Hobbs. All the men excepting the colored driver were members of Battery A of the Kentucky National Guard and all resided in Louisville. The place where the accident occurred is one oj the finest residence districts in the city. Few people were on the street, owing to the early hour, or the list of killed would have been greatly increased. Every window in the block was blown out. Nearly every one in the neighborhood was asleep, and as half-clad men and terrified women came running from their homes a most horrible sight met their eyes. The body of the colored driver, mangled almost beyond recognition, fell on the front porch of a residence fully 300 feet from the' place where the accident occurred. Two of the bodies were blown over the house tops and were horribly mangled. The wounded have been removed to the hospitals. Two horses attached to the cannon were so horribly mangled that they will be killed. All the killed were members of the First Kentucky Artillery of Louisville, which has always been considered the finest in the State. THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clnbs in Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore ......117 73 39 .007 Cleveland 123 78 45 .034 Philadelphia . ...121 74 47 .012 Chicago 120 65 •55 .542 Brooklyn ......120 (55 55 .542 Pittsburg 120 65 55 .542 Boston 119 04 55 .538 NV.v York 120 03 57 .525 Cincinnati 117 60 57 .513 Washington ....117 38 79 .325 St. Louis. 118 30 82 .305 Louisville 120 30 90 .250 WESTERN' T.KAOUB. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per F. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... .118 77 41 .653 St. Paul 118 09 49 .585 Knnsas City.... 120 09 51 .575 Minneapolis ... 120 02 58 .517 Detroit ........ 120 50 04 .407 Milwaukee 122 57 05 .407 Terre Haute... .119 52 07 .437 Grand Itapids. ..120 38 82 .317

LARGE MEMBERSHIP. Annual Report of Adjntant General Jones, G, A. R. The report of Adjutant General C. C. Jones, of the G. A. R., made at Louisville, shows tlmt on June 30, 1894, there were 0,432 posts, with a total membership of 353,038 The total amount expended for charity was $198,898. Ho recommended that the time for holding the department encampments be not before Jun. 1 nor later than May 15. The report of Inspector General C. V. It. Pond showed that the posts have $1,305,913 in securities und $1,949,007 in other property, a total of $3,254,570. The re-' port of Quartermaster General J. W. Burst showed receipts from all sources $33,427 and expenditures $29,493, leaving a balance of $12,333. The receipts from the per capita tax wore $9,154, a decrease of $293. _____ SAVED A TRAIN. Woman Prevents u Horrible Accident on the Union Pacific. Mrs. Oistrom, wife of a section foreman, Saved the west-bound fast mail train on the Union Pacific, consisting of two mailcars, a day coach and a Pullman sleeper, from n probable frightful wreck near Wolcott station, six, miles from Rawlins, Wyo. While alone at the section-house she discovered that a wooden bridge spanning a small gully crossed by the track was Ivruing. The fast mail, nearly an hour lute, was approaching at a high rate of speed, endeavoring to make up lost time. Mrs. Oistrom ran down the track and flagged the train, which was stopped within fifty feet of the burning bridge. The passengers made up a nurse for her. Now More Benrnble. Chicago will now have normal September weather. The feverish spasm of high temperature which afflicted that community in common with most of the area of the Mississippi Valley relnxed about 10 o’clock Thursday when, on a shift of the wind to the northeast, the mercury in the thermometers began to descend, and during a quarter of an hour declined at the rate of one degree a minute. So rapid a change in temperature has seldom been noted by the weather observers. The pronounced alterations of the temperature of the air may be accounted for on the theory that the unreasonable and unseasonable weather of the last three days was caused by unusual meteorological conditions held in such unstable relation that the return of the normal was jradden, once the tension was removed.

Veterans at a Barbecue. The twenty-ninth encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ended at Louisville Friday night. A fitting finale to the encampment festivities was the brilliant ball given at the Auditorium by the ladies of Louisville and of Kentucky. The feature of the day, however, was the old-fashioned Kentucky barbecue and burgoo at Wilder Park. The attendance was about 150,000. The last business transacted was the adoption of a pension report protesting against the cutting of pensions, and the selection of the following council of administration: Illinois, T. W. Scott; Indiana, AV. H. Armstrong; lowa, A. W. Swalip; Kansas, D. B. Dornblaser; Michigan,- G. H. Hopkins; Minnesota, Albert Schaeffer; Missouri, F. M. Sterrett; Nebraska, T. J. Majors; Wisconsin, H. L. Thomas. Engineer Haines Blamed. The verdict of the coroner’s jury in the Melby, Minn., railroad wreck was as follows: “AVe find that the direct (,-ause of the accident is to be laid to Engineer Haines, in acting on wrong orders, AA'q further blame the company for ordering passenger trains to' theet at a blind sidig, where there is no agent, fttid Where no lights are kept; also in allowing a conductor to send two orders to the engineer when only one was-needed.” Officials Are Indicted. The Oakland, Cal., grand jury has presented nine indictments against County Auditor Myron A. AVhidden and one indictment against Ernest Maydrisch, - Jr., chief deputy under County Tax Collector Barber. The indictments grew out of the shortage in the tax collector’s office. Chili' Wants a Better NavV* ’ Chili intend sending several naval officers to Europe to buj; a new armored cruiser and four torpedo-catchers, to add to her navy. „ ■ ,;. War «n American Meat. Secretary Morton has received through the State Department a report from United States Consul General Mason at

Frankfort, Germany, on methods adopted in some of the German cities to obstruct and discourage the trade in American meat?. Investigation showed that local authorities at Freiburg had destroyed American -trade because they would neither accept our certificates nor inspect the meat, preferring to thus publicly discredit our meat products. Meats of precisely similar quality and origin continue to be sold in Frankfort, where they have frequently been examined by municipal -inspectors and have always been found wholesome and in good com dition. The matter was referred to the American ambassador at Berlin. PAID THE MORA CLAIM. Bpain at Last Satisfies a Claim Due Yearft Ago. Senor de Lome, the Spanish minister, at Washington, Saturday delivered to Mr. Adee, acting Secretary ot State, a draft for the equivalent of $1,449,000, drawn on the Spanish financial agent in London in settlement of the Mora claim. This marked the close of an international question that'has dragged along for twentysix years, giving rise to fiery debates in the Spanish cortes and protracted committee inquiries in both branches of our own Congress. Having settled the international feature of the case the State Department is now likely to encounter some difficulty at home in disbursing the money. Much litigation is threatened, as was evidenced by the taking out of an injunction by one of the assignees Saturday to restrain the State Department from paying over all the money to the claimant, Mora. During the years of the pendency of this great claim Mr. Mora has been obliged to make assignments of part of it, the larger items being on account of legal expenses. Some of these assignments have been recorded in the State Department. CIfOPS ARE MOVING. Will Offaet the Übuhl Period of Fall Dqllncsq. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this seasqß. If the government crop reports were correct the situation would not be encouraging. But not much contide'toe is placed in the reduced estimate of corn, none at all in the estimate of wheat, and even the most enthusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government report as to cotton. The fact is that we are beginning to market not far from 2,200,000,000 bushels of corn (though only about 500,000,000 bushels will be moved from the counties where it is grown): about 460,000,000 bushels of wheat, qf which the farmers are unwisely holding hack a large proportion; and about 7,200,000 bales of cotton, if the later indications are not erroneous, as , they very easily may be, to add to the stocks carried over. PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY. Civil Service Exutniner at Washington Is Given Timely Warning. Replying to a recent communication charging that a member of a local civil service board of examiners for the international revenue service was guilty of improper partisan activity in connection with a recent political convention, the Washington civil service commission asked the accused for such reply to the charges us the facts may warrant, and in its letter to him added: “While attendance at a political convention ns a delegate is not in itself a violation of the civil service rules, the commission holds that partisan activity sufficient to impair usefulness as n representative of the civil service commission is sufficient cause for removal from membership in any of its board of examiners.” Valkyrie at Fault. Although it is almost universally agreed that the regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club could not have acted Wednesday other than it did in awarding Tuesday’s race to the Defender because of Vulkyrie’s fouling and crippling her right on the starting Hue, a good deal of regret Is expressed that there was not a way out of the difficulty which would have permitted the committee to call it “iio race” and order it to be run again. When the decision was announced, Dunraven did not sulk, but declared he would race to the end. Not a Line of, Advertising, Friday morning’# New York World was probably the only regular issue of a newspaper which contained not a litfe of advertising. The flooding of the pressroom during a fire Thursday night reduced the press capacity so that it was possible to print only eight pages instead of the eonsixteen. Eight solid pages of advertising were, therefor#, thrown away rather than cut the news down, nnd the eight available pages were devoted entirely to news. Great Fire at Gonaives, The officers of the Clyde Line steamer Delaware, at New York, firom Hayti, report that while they lay at Port de Paix a great fire raged at Gonaives. Passenger Trains Collide. Two passenger trains on the Consolidated Road collided at Smith’s Hill bridge, uear Providence, It. I. Several passengers were injured. Fr.st Time for a Train. The New York Central’s “flyer” ran from New York to Buffalo, 440 miles, in seven hours.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $.‘1.75 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 56c to 58c; corn, No. 2,31 cto 33c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 25c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to line brush, 2V&c to 4V£e per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,57 cto 59c; corn, No. 1 White, 33c to 34 c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to 60c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 39c. . Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; ( jvheat. No. 2,62 cto 64c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c t,o 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c *,t0,23c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3,00 to. $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 61e to 62c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c tv 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 41c to 43c. Toledo—'AA’.hent, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No, 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white. 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 36c to 3Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. Milwaukee—-AAheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23e; barley, No. 2,42 cto 43c; rye, No. 1,39 c to, 40c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to-$5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68 to 63c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 15c to 17c.

THE CUP AGAIN OURS.

VALKYRIE HAD NO CHANCE AND DUNRAVEN KNEW IT. Beaten in the First Race, He Fonls the American Boat in the Second and Demurs to the Club's DecU'on— Salks and Refuses to Play. Story of the Fiasco. New York correspondence:

-GAIN the Arnerj/rjlf ica yachting cup stays on this \ //jll B ‘de of the At- \ jlj 111 lantie, and the J II Britishers who IX v have vainly tried KV since 1851 to wrest it from our Ib A Yankee boats ■EOPunk may this time to discomfiture over failure chagrin attaching to childish jgL behavior of their champion. I n St-' — the first heat the Defender outsailed the Val-

kyrie so clearly on every point that it was confidently expected she would win three straight heats. Just before the start of the second heat, the British boat, possibly not Intentionally, but none the less in violation of the racing rules, fouled the Defender, and crippled her so that she could not carry two of her sails. Valkyrie crossed the starting line nearly two minutes ahead of Defender; but crippled as she was, that gallant yacht gave her opponent such a chase that at the finish there was but 47 seconds between them; she was more glorious in apparent defeat than she would have been in a repetition of the first victory. But the club committee, conforming strictly to the rules, gave the heat to Defender, and it is believed this was what caused the remarkabledisplay of t>ettishness on the part of'Lord Dunraven in Thursday’s contest. Ho made no attempt to put his boat in racing trim, but loafed across the starting line with short canvas, and what was spresid was slovenly. Hardly had he made the start when he put about, tod with the signal of acknowledged defeat flying, laid hie course for the club house. The Defender sailed the course alone, an 4 was awarded the cup. Dunraven alleges as cause for his action that he was hampered by excursion boats. The incidents of Tuesday’s race are worth recital. Both boats were standing for the line, wind on their starboard beam and booms to port. Valkyrie was leading by fifty yards, fully lOO'vnrds to

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windward. The committee boat was about 200 yards ahead and somewhat to windward of Valkyrie, which was not at all close hauled. Defender was in no position to interfere with Valkyrie. The start was close at hand, and if, as has been claimed by some of the Englishman's apologists, Valkyrie was in danger of crossing before gunfire it could have avoided doing so by luffing, which would have put it still more to windward of Defender nnd in a still more advantageous position. Instead, it bore broad off and run down on Defender so straight that to many, spectators It seemed the English boat was going into the American. Then, by rounding up sharply on Defender’s bow, Valkyrie’s boom was made to descrit e an arc over Defender’s deck, with the result that the American’s starboard topmast shroud was torn from its fastenings at the. spreader. The essential objection to this maneuver is that Valkyrie had no business to make it. It was forbidden by the rules of the New York Yacht Club and the sailing regulations of nearly every yacht elub in existence, besides being contrary to the rules of the road on the high seas. How, then, could Defender be blamed.for the accident? It must be said again the effort to place the blame on Defender was at once ridiculous and dishonest. As to Dunraven's charge that the excursion boats interfered with him in Saturday's race it is well founded, but he suffered IeBS from their interference than Defender, so that except for the expression of a querulous disposition he had

THE AMERICA CUP—THE TROPHY FOR WHICH THE DEFENDER AND VALKYRIE III. FOUGHT.

nothing to complain of. In Tuesday’s race the,interference was much less, but again Defender suffered as much if not more than A’nlkyrie. To sum up the evidence we have Dunraven resting apparently satisfied with the- conditions of Saturday’s race until Tuesday’s race had demonstrate d beyphd a doubt his boat could not,sail with Defender. Then he suddenly displays a querulous spirit while trying to back up a dishonest claim as a means of escape from an inexcusable breach of the regulations under which he was sailing. The conclusion, therefore, seems unavoidable that, being satisfied by Saturday’s race his boat could not win a race from Defender, and bejng chagrined at the prospect of returning a second time to England without ‘scoring a single victory, ho deliberately planned t> foul and disable Defender so as to wi a at least one race of the series. Undoubtedly he foresaw the race would be protested and

the protest would decided against him and his boat disqualified, but that would give him the opportunity he was seeking—namely, to refuse to sail the last race of the scries and thus throw up the oontest. It is deplorable to be forced to this conclusion, but Dunraren's conduct fully warrants it. Earl Dunraven gave an exemplification Thursday of the English sportsman that it uot pleasant to American eyes. The attitude of the sujker and the churl is not a creditable one ander any circuuMstances; in the field of international sport it is at once disgraceful and disgusting. By his action Lord Dunraven placed himself squarely in that attitude, and forfeited the respect of sportsmen the world over. By crossing the line with bare topmast, “en deshabille” as it were, and at once putting about, he ’deliberately intended to icsult the American people, but he has injured himself aud the name of English sportsmen far more than he has affronted his hosts.

FALLS LIKE A TRAP.

Grand Stand at Louisville Gives Way ( Injuring Many. Many persons were injured Thursday night by the falling of the section of the grand stand erected on the river front at Louisville, Ky.. for the purpose of witnessing the fireworks in honor of the G. A. R. The portion of the grand stand whfc-h fell was about 400 feet long and sixty feet wide. It wus the lower part, and only elevated about two feet. Immediately behind this part were seats elevated eight to twenty feet. On the entire stand there were 50,000 people. That no one was killed is one of the marvels. As the stand careened the planks were forced together, and the feet and legs of hundreds of spectators were caught as in a huge trap. The noise of the exploding bombs and the fireworks and the cheering of the crowd was so great that only those adjacent to the portion of the grand stand which fell could hear it. Had it become generally known a panic would have followed. As to the exact number of people injured it will probably never be known. Four policemen who were standing at that part of the stand say that they saw front fifty to seventy-five persons taken away by friends in vehicles. They assisted at least as ninny more to got back on the street behind the stand. All the ambulances and patrol wagons in the city were sarumoned, and those only slightly injured were taken to the hotels at which they were stopping or to their homes. • • On tlje portion of the grand stand which fell there was a scene of horrifying c6nfusion. Mr. Vreeland, assistant city editor of the Courier-Journal, was present when the accident occurred. “It was awful,” he said. “I saw men and women falling everywhere. Whether they were fainting from ffight or pain

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I could not say. Then a panic followed. Those who escaped being caught in the trap made a mad rush for the entrance, trampling over those who had fallen, while those who had been caught screa med for aid. Meantime the vast multitude on all sides continued to cheer and applaud the grand fireworks that continued to explode and light up the sky.” A number of Grand Army veterans who were witnesses of the accident said they aided a large number of people who had been bruised and injured about the legs to carriages and sent them to their hotels and homes.

THE EARTH GAPED OPEN.

Honduras the Scene of a Terrible Disaster. The earthquake in Honduras was the most frightful calamity of the kind that ever befel that country. The shocks'eommenced Sunday in the Yetapan district, continuing all day at iutervule, there being much damage. The city was filled by refugees from the mountains and outlying villages. Tuesday morning the shocks ceased, quiet was restored and people left tow-n for their homes. At 9 o’clock that night heavy rumbling noises were heard, followed by a reappearance of the flames in the mountains, which shot up several hundred feet Frightened people again flocked to town. At midnight the church tower fell, carrying with it the roofs of three houses. Nine people were killed and eighteen wounded. Just before daylight another prolonged shock rocked the whole tow* as if it were a cradle. Many fleeing people were killed.by rocks, which fell in a show er like a hail storm. Smoke from the mountains to the northwest rose to an enormous height, followed shortly after by the bursting of flames from the mountain sides and the throwing out of rocks aud lava. Shortly after streams of molten lava set fire to a number of houses on the mountain side. Cattle grazing near by fled and were killed, being engulfed in the lava which continued flo\™ig in immense streams. It is reported at Yetapan that seventy-one houses were destroyed. One hundred and fifty-three dead bodies have been recovered am] many more are missing. At Covajuanca thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Ninety-five bodies were recovered. At Cayuseat tw’enty-nine houses w-ere destroyed, and eleven bodies W’ere recovered. . It is impossible yet to give a full account of the disaster. Many small settlements are believed to have been destroyed. A company of soldiers* w hich left in pursuit of bandits from Yetapan to the coast has not been heard from, and it is feared they are killed. People are still leaving the scene of the catastrophe in fear of their lives. Help for the victims is being asked for from the capital.

Dringing Him to Time.

Our Idea of a thoroughbred is a man who gets shaved In the morning.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Out Neighbors are Doing—Hatters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Per* sonal Pointers About 1iwU.ni....,, Minor State News. Greenfield is to have a new $150,000 court house. Oaktow seems to be the Mecca for burglars. The glass workg at Cicero have resumed operations and 300 men are employed. The business men of Logansport are protesting against the erection of telephone poles in the streets. The Thirty-sixth Indiana Regiment will hold its annual reunion at Cambridge City on Sept. 25 and 26. Delaware County Commissioners refused Jpool and billiard privileges to 25 saloon applicants at Muneie. A beer war is on at I.ogansport with prospects of the stuff becoming cheap enough to sprinkle the streets with. David Markland, Kokomo, having a presentiment of sudden death, arose in bed, kissed his wile and fell back dead. John Graham has filed suit against 30 prominent Burlington citizens, asking SI,OOO from each for destroying his saloon with dynamite. Winamachas no jail and the City Marshal has been using a Panhandle box-car to lock prisoners in. He locked several in the car, and a freight train hauled car and all away. At Goshen, Miss Katherine Stutsman, aged 68, tripped as she was crossing her kitchen floor and fell, death resulting in a few hours afterwards from internal injuries. John C. Stone, of Chica|o, one of a trio of crooks who had a desperate battle with Deputy Sheriffs in Fort Wayne on May 28, was sentenced to serve 10 years In Michigan City Penitentiary. By reason of the Nicholson law’nine saloons have so far been forced out of business in Clinton County. Two withdrew at Kirklin, one at Sedalia, one at Colfax and three at Frankfort. John Leisure, aged 34 years, while hauling school desks near Arlington, struck a rock and was throwm from the spring seat of the w’agon under the horses’ feet. They began kicking and trampled him to death. Miss Mary Ward, school teacher near Farmland, was struck by lightning. It struck her on the forehead, circling the head, and then shot down the backbone to her feet, tearing her shoes off. Her recovery is doubtful. At Rushvllle, Jesse Williams, a boy was leading a cow to pasture and became entangled in the rope, frightening the co\y. It began to run and dragged the hoy several blocks, injuring him seriously about the head and shoulders.

The Rev. P. J. Albright, pastor of the M. E. Church at Farmland, having been elected State Organizer of the Partriotic Order Sons of America, will resign from the ministry, and remove to Indianapolis for permanent residence. At Diamond Lake, about thirty miles from South Bend, a pleasure steamboat, the Leo Roy, had on board a party of people from Mishawaka, and when out in mid-lake the boat sprang a leak. The captain ran her into shallow water just as she sank and saved the lives of those on board, who were taken to land in a row boat. Thomas Cook, aged 74, who was sent to prison for one year from Greene County, has been pardoned by Governor Matthews. Cook was convicted last February on the charge of embezzlement. He was guardian for several heirs, and when he made his settlement he was SI,OOO short. He disappeared for two months and his friends contended that his mind was unbalanced, 'ftie Judge and jury that tried him exerted an influence in behalf of the pardon. An accident occurred at the Bodson gravel pit, near Russiaville, resulting in the death of Alexander James, who was working in the pit shoveling sand. He was getting his sand from under a high bank, which caved in and buried him alive. His son-in-law, tvho was with him, worked almost an hour in removing the earth and sand,and found the old gentleman still conscious. He was taken to town, but died in the wagon. He was 75 years old. Cora Teal, 13 years old, '"daughter of ’Squire P. J. Teal, of Oakland, was strangely afflicted, and the death which came to her a few days ago was a relief from terrible suffering. Her head had grown enormously, weighing, perhaps, more than all the rest of the body combined. She had never stood upon her feet during her lifetime, as the weight of her head over-balanced her. Her arms and hands were normal, hut the lower limbs did not grow correspondingly. Indianapolis capitalists are said to he behind an enterprise tor the construction of an electric railway linefrom Huntington to Ligonier, by way of Columbia City. Ruch Bros., of the latter place, who represent the Indianapolitans have applied to the Common Council of Columbia City for a right of way through the streets of that place and the franchise was readily granted. The object of building the line is to tap a fine summer resort region, the territory for miles on either side of the proposed line being dotted with beautiful lakes. The distance between Huntington and Ligonier is about forty miles. The grand jury at Rockville has returned an indictment against Daniel Kellar, Nannie, his wife, and Maggie, his sister, charging them jointly with the murder of Clara Shanks, July 6. The motive for the crime •was jealousy on the part of Mrs. Kellar, who suspected her husband of intimacy with the girl. It is supposed the girl went to the Kellar house, where a fight ensued, in which the girl was killed. Her body ■was concealed until night, when it was carried and thrown into a pool, where it was discovered early next morning. Suicide was the first theory. This is disproved by wounds afterward found on the body. The first annual picnic of the farmers ol Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan was held at South Bend .with an attendance of about 6,000. lion. Alpha Messei of Vermont, Worthy Lecturer of the National Grange, delivered an address. Lewis Allen accidentally shot and killed Charles Sturrus at Brewcrsville, a small station near Holton. Allen playfully pointed the gun at his companion, telling him he would shoot him, at the same time pulling the trigger. The entire load struck Sturrus in Hie stomach, killing him instantly. Coroner Cox was called and viewed the remains. Allen is almost distracted over the deed. During the reunion of old settlers oi Tipton County, at Goldsmith, the first bell ever brought into the county was exhibited, as well as the first threshing machine, the first wooden mold-board plow', the trow that rived the .clapboards for the old log court-house; the hand-made padlock on the first jail, and other articles ol pioneer days. Considerable excitment w’as caused when it was reported that and dumb man was frightening; women by asking them, by writing in a note book, for something to eat and then drawing a revolver. The officers se trehed him, and the supposed revolver proved to he a large fog whistle. He was under the influence of liquor anc was run out of town.

LEADING LIFE OF A RECLUSE.

William H. English, Hancock’s Running: Mate in 188 >. A great many people nowaday* would find it difficult to answer offhand the question, Who ran" with Han-

W. H. ENGLISH.

have dropped more completely from the public view even if he had been elected Vice President when he ran for that office. For the past ten years Mr. English has been engaged in literary labor that has completely absorbed his attention and made him practically a recluse. After his defeat in the. Vic© Presidential race he continued the even tenor of ’his way at his home in Indianapolis until 1885. when a reunion of the surviving members of the Indiana constitutional convention awakened his interest in the history of the State. The constitutional convention W’as held in 1850-’sl, and Mr. English was theprincipal Secretary of the body. Hd was also the speaker of the first House of Representatives that convened under the new’ constitution. At the reunion of the convention’s survivors ten years ago a committee w’as appointed to carefully collect and preserve data relating to the early history of Indiana, and Mr. English was made Chairman. He became intensely interested in the. subject, and w T as soon doing the entire work of the committee. He had not been thus engaged very long before he concluded to write a history of Indiana, and since he has (been engaged in the work he has been rarely seen on public occasions, even In Indianapolis. It Is said that he fre< quently has five or six assistants aid" Ing him, and that he has expended fully $50,000 In buying historical documents. Mr. Engish lacks a few’ weeks of being 73 years old, < but is still able to perform a great deal of work, and Is as enthusiastic over his history of Indiana as a schoolboy would be over a new ball. He Is worth between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, and is said to be the largest individual owner of real estate in the State of Indiana. Despite their difference in politics, he and exPresident Harrison are warm personal friends.

OLD IRONSIDES.

The Gallant Ocean Fighter Now Rest* at Portsmouth. Since she went out of commission years ago the gallant old Constitution, the most famous of American battleships, has rested peacefully in the Kittery Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. Thousands visit the old ship annually, and often there come to mind the lines from Holmes’ tribute to her: “Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor’s tread, Or know the conquered kuee.” Stained by time and the elements, she rests contentedly In her harbor, safe torever from the “harpies of the shore,” for her memory is now’ too deeply enshrined in American hearts to permit of her being molested. Efforts have been made to remove the ship to Boston and Washington, but it looks as If she had found her last resting place.

THE CONSTITUTION.

The history of the old battle ship Is too well known to n6ed repeating. Her service for the American people in 1812 can never be forgotten. The latest picture of the Constitution does not make her look much like a ship of war. Indeed, rooied over as she Is for her former use as a training ship, she reminds one rather of a Noah’s ark.

A Mean Speculator.

The “boom” in copper mining shares has brought to the front at least one candidate for the position of the meanest man in Boston. A State street broker tells the Observant Citizen that W’hen the excitement in Montana was at its height a couple of weeks ago, a business man, w’ho had not previously traded in stocks, came into his office and gave an order to buy 1,000 Mintana. The stock was not delivered until next day, and so he did not put up a cent of margin. The next morning “Monty” opened some four points up. Mr. Business Man came in with a rush and said: “Sell my Montana.” H’s order w’as executed at the market. “Give me a check for the full amount,” was his next utterance. The cashier wrote a check for $4,000, w’hereupon the man said: “That’s good. lam going to make this bouse a present.” Sure enough the next day the hoiise received a valuable gift in the form of a box of 50 hardly fair domestic cigars. In other, words, this thrifty merchant succeeded In making $4,000 within twen-ty-four hours without a cent invested capital at an outlay of not more than s2.—Boston Post

The Scorner Scorned.

A skeptic, engaged in a religious discussion with a country pastor, thought to end the whole matter by declaring that there was no such place as heaven, and that, for his part, he believed in metempsychosis. “You believe, then,” said the pastor, “that your soul may enter the body of a beast after your death?” “Certainly.” “And yoi% expect to feel quite at home, I suppose?” Thereupon the skeptic decided that the last ms with his antagonist

cock on the Democrat i c ticket In 1880? William H. English is % the man in question, and, though th* obscurity which A-*yait* a retired Vice President of the United States is proverbial, it Is doubtful if Mr. English could