Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Page 3

STORM’S DIRE WORK

A Cyclone Devastates Three States. DEATH IN ITS WAKE. lowa, Illinois, and Michigan the Sufferers. The Death 801 l Will Pass the Hundreds, and Hundreds More Are Injured—Terrific Downpour of Water in Several Instances Completes the Destruction Which the Wind Hagan —Damage to Farm Property Is Literally 1 nconcei vable—Several Towns Are Wiped Off the Karth. A most fearful storm originated Sunday night, a little northeast of Des Moinet., lowa. Traveling almost due east, it devastated portions of that State, Illinois and by Monday evening had reached the eastern boundary of Michigan, culminating in Macomb County. In lowa it raged most fiercely in Polk and Jasper Counties, killing twenty-seven persons, fatally injuring three, seriously injuring nineteen and demolishing a large part of five towns —Valeria, Bondurant, Santiago, Mingo nqd Ira. The country between the towns was devastated and the crops utterly ruined. All the stock in the path of the storm was destroyed. In Bondurant five were killed; in Santiago, two; in Valeria, seven; near Mingo, four; and in the intervening country between Mingo and Ida, nine. Eighteen were injured, several fatally. Besides the loss of of life the damage to farm buildings, fences and live stock is fully $1,000,000. Drowned in the Flood. In eastern lowa, a terrific downpour of water occurred, doing greatest damage at Dubuque and ‘Durango. At the latter place, the depot was carried by the flood a mile and a half, and Mrs. Clark, station agent, four children, Engineer Griffin. J. Dillon and P. Moss were drowned. The combined fury of wind and water wiped out the family of John Maloney near Fostville, numbering six, and near North McGregor fifteen bodies, unrecognisable, were found. Miles of railroad track, several depots and eighteen bridges were swept away. Delaware County escaped with large property damage only. Passing into Illinois, the first effects were felt at Elgin. Engineer Keough, of the asylum, was killed. The bicycle factory was demolished, loss over $200,000. A wide fanning territory was devastated,

m’gregok, where sixteen were killed, was not in the cyclone’s path, but was visited by a cloudburst.

and railroad property suffered' greatly. Near Rockford four were killed. In Chicago and suburban towns, scores of residences were utterly demolished; miles of street paving washed away; hundreds of basements filled with goods flooded, and over two hundred people injured. Strange to say, not a fatality was reported, though the ruin of many dwellings was so instant aud complete that escape of many from death seems miraculous. Everything in the path of the storm was leveled. The suburbs suffering most were Norwood Park, Niles, Niles Center,' Edison Park, Irving Park and Ravanswood. Churches, trees and dwellings were razed. One Hundred Die in Michigan, Leaving Chicago, the next report of damage came from Ortenville, Oakland County, Mich. Seventeen lives were reported lost and a half-hundred persons injured, while the town is practically wiped out of existence. Prom Oakwood, northeast of Ortenville, word was received that eight had been killed. The villages directly in the line es the storm were Thayer, Groveland, Austin, Brandon, Seymour aud Davisburg. A message from Clarkston late Monday night said that there liad been a large loss of life there, and that Davisburg, Clarkston and Springfield h;«l also a large list of Killed and injured. Mount Clepiens, in Macomb County, was given a bad scare, and while much property damage was done and a few injured, yet no loss of life resulted. Thirty

MURPHY’S STOCK FARM, EDISON PARK.

houses were blown down. The path cut by the cyclone from Oakland and Metamora on the northwest through Thomas, Orion, Goodison, Washington, Disco and the country located between is filled with populous towns and it is feared that many of them have been wiped off the map. It seems that the list of dead and injured would pass 100, and no estimate can be given as to the property damaged. * Storm Was a Twister, Actual details of the devastation caused by the cyclone were meager, but all of the witnesses agree that the storm was a regular Western twister. Its first, appearance at Thomas station was from the southwest in the form of a {densely black funnel-shaped cloud, moving with almost incredible swiftness and seeming to take long leaps. It seemed to have the elasticity of a gigantic rubber ball, and would •trike the ground, then, leaving a footprint of devastation, bound into the air

and travel a mile or more before again touching the earth. Beyond Macomb County the storm was lost somewhere in the Canadas. A terrific hurricane and cloudburst struck Cairo. IIL, at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. The extent of the destruction of property could not be ascertained, but it is known that at least a dozeiglives were lost through the capsizing of the steam ferryboat Katherine. The disaster occurred at the month of the Ohio river. As speedily as possible relief parties were organized to drag for bodies and rescue the ill-fated passengers and crew from the mad fury of the waves. The captain, engineer and clerk of the steamer succeeded in keeping afloat until succor reached them and they were brought ashore. All attempts to save the other victims were unavailing. FIRST WORK OF DESTRUCTION. Hnrricane Came Like a Thief Upon Sleeping lowa Families. In the lowa region, where the storm started, Sunday had been a fearfully hot and sultry day, the air had been oppres-

sive and still and many people had remarked that there was danger of a cyclone. Most of the people were in bed. There Was a rain and thunder storm just in advance of the cyclone, and while the wind was whistling through the trees nnd the rain heating down in sheets suddenly the awful roar that every prairie fanner knows as the dread forerunner of the cyclone would be heard. Another instant and the storm would strike and then all was chaos. Those who heard it early snved themselves in some cases by getting into their cellars or caves. In other places whole families were killed or terribly injured, and their property destroyed. A typical bit of destruction was at the Bailey home, northwest of Bondurant. In the house were nine persons, four of whom were killed and the rest injured so badly that it is doubtful if any of them recover.

ROUTE OF THE CYCLONE THROUGH IOWA AND ILLINOIS.

Their house was on a high hill, above the surrounding country, and the funnel dipped down to it. Houses, barns, outbuildings and grove were destroyed alike. Two minutes after the storm struck there was no trace of the house save the cellar, and iu it were piled the chimney and stove and half the furniture. The house was torn to pieces, the boards into splinters. They were scattered so far that no trace can be found save here and there for a mile east pieces of the broken lumber. The trees were stripped of their bark, but left standing. This was a freak of the storm. At places, as this one, it would strip the trees of their leaves and bark, blit leave the trunks and branches; at others it would twist them off or uproot them. At the Bailey place the members of the family were blown a considerable distance from the house. The bodies of the victims were found in the fields, where were also found the bodies of a dozen horses, two score of cattle and about 100 hogs, that had occupied the barns and other buildings on the place. Every animal was dead. Freaks of the Storm. The storm perpetrated all the remarkable feats that cyclones are. famous for. The first large building ?wrecked ip Jowa was the Monarch school, house, west of Bondurant. Here it took; up a large school house, shook it to’ pieces, scattered it so that very few of the boards are to be found, and even distributed the stone foundation over the fields, while a big wooden stile over the fence, three rods from the building, it left unharmed. The huge cylindrical cast iron stove was tossed into an oat field a quarter of a mile from the site of the building. The storm came in some places in 'the form of two and in others in the form of a single funnel. At Bondurant there were two, sweeping along the earth side by side. Between them was a calm space, and in this little damage was done. After the two consolidated their force seemed to be greater. It was at Mr. Markoff’s barn, near Elgin, however, that the cyclone played its most curious prank. The barn has an interior covered stall, like a small she I, where Jim, a bay horse, makes his stall. The furious wind reduced all the rest of the barn to splinters except this stall, which it threw fifty feet through the air and stood bottom end up In an adjoining lot. Jim was found standing on the ceiling Monday morning chewing hay from the roof of his home as contentedly as if nothing had happened. He had not received a scratch. LIST OF THE DEAD. Those Whose Lives Are Known to Have Been Blown Ont, lOWA. Valeria —Two children of Douglass Aikens, Miss Monita Dickey, Solomon Dickey, Charles Phalan, Sr., Charles Phalan, Jr., Daniel Phalan, Dennis Phalan, Susie Phalan, Michael Phalan, Mrs.

WORK OF THE CYCLONE IN NORWOOD PARK.

Schell, Mrs. Lucretia Whitney. Bondurant—Mrs. John Bailey, Lizzie Bailey, John Bailey, Jr., John Bailey, John Maxwell, Robert Bailey. McGregor—Mrs. Morg Burke, William Burke, John Godlet, Michael Havle, John Lavotch. John Maloney, Mrs. JohD Maloney. Michael Maloney, Lawrence Meyer. Mrs. Lawrence Meyer, Anton Meyer, four Meyer children. John Nichols. Durango—Four Clark children, Thomas Grithn, brakeman. Santiago—Peter Bolenbaugh, Mr*. Peter Bolenbaugh, Theophilus Milburn, orphan child. ILLINOIS. Rockford—Mrs. Isora Bird, Mrs. Godfrey Hildebrand. Elsie Hildebrand, Godfrey Hildebrand, daughter of Mrs. Isora Bird. Elgin—John Kehoe. Cairo —Captain Rittenhouse, Dr. Otr, Miss Orr, Miss Orr, Richard Thurman, Charles Gilhoffer, seven members of the crew of the Katherine. MICHIGAN. Ortonville—Mrs. T. G. Heaton, two

Howe children, John Milty, William Mitchell, Mrs. William Mitchell, two Mitchell children, John Porritt, Abram Quick, two Quick children, Mrs. Henry Quick, Mrs. Scott and son, Daniel Thompson nnd son. Oak wood—Mrs. William Davis and child, W. M. Fifield, Charles Laird, Roger Werber, Mrs. Roger Werber and others. Thomas—Eleven were killed hereabout; names could not be obtained. Minor Damage of the Storm. Several houses at Laporte, Ind., were struck by lightning, but the damage was small. At Fowler, lud., James McDaniels’ barn was fired by lightning. Four valuable horses perished. Lightning struck the residence of Councilman Jackson and Emery Swett at Kokomo, Ind., doing much damage. The

German Lutheran Church at Kappa was demolished by lightning. The new Methodist Church at Stavanger, 111., was struck by lightning and burned. Loss, $2,500; uninsured. At Westville, Ind., lightning struck the high school building and it was burned. Loss, $5,000; insured for $3,500. Lightning struck and burned the barns of Henry Lilly in Matteson township, near Coldwater, Mich. Loss, $1,500; insured. According to late statistics there are in the United States 40,000 deaf mutes. At Bay City, Mich., the city electric light tower on Center avenue, 220 feet high, the highest in the United States, was blown down and wrecked. Lightning struck the cabin of a settler named Cook, near Superior, Wis., and the owner and a companion narrowly escaped being roasted alive. Fruit growers near Benton Harbor, Mich., consider the storm a blessing to them, as a great many young peaches were blown off overloaded trees. The residences of Clem Hoover, Lewis Cowin and Robert Campbell at Muncie, Ind., were badly damaged by lightning and Mr. Hoover was dnngerously injured. In’the vicinity of Emporia, Kan., bottom lands along the Cottonwood river have been flooded for miles on both sides by continuous rains during the last two weeks, but the water is now receding. Sunday night a storm at Mount Carroll, 111., was terrific. Carroll creek rose twenty feet in almost as many minutes, carrying away the J. M. Shirk Company’s mill dam and flooding the mill, and the Electric Light Station, Gilbert’s glove factory and Libkicher’s carriage factory. North of Lanark barns and outbuildings were toppled over by the wind. Three new iron bridges were swept away, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had 200 feet of track washed out Fields that were beautiful and promising twenty-four hours ago are now dreary wastes. It is safe to say that SIOO,OOO will not cover the damage in Carroll County.

Chance for Doctors.

Eight hundred thousand francs, $160,* 000, have been given to the Parts Academy of Medicine by a Mme. Audriffred, the Income to be paid yearly to the man that discovers a specific for consumption, whether a Frenchman or a foreigner.

Profits of a Steamship Line.

The Cunard company’s profits for the year just closed were £50,000 ($250,000) more than for the previous year. Grease stains on cloth may often be removed with magnesia. The stained place is first dampened; then the magnesia is moistened and vigorously rubbed on the stain. It must be allowed to dry thoroughly. Then the powder can be easily shaken off.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

M’KINLEY’S NOMINATION. Accepting as virtually a foregone conclusion that Major McKinley will be nominated at St. Louis next month, some importantsiuestions press for immediate attention upon the American people. The policy for which tho Ohioan stands pre-emineirny—the policy for which his enthusiastic supporters in every part of the Union clamor with brazen tongue-is revolutionary, It is a reopening of tbp great tariff war, the re-enactment of- the sp-called McKinley law, the granting. of ngtold bounties and of unheard-of prohibitory rates of duty upon Imports, with all the Imsiness-dls-turblng, commerce-destroying, monoi>-oly-fostering and currency-debasing consequences which experience has fully taught us resulted from the flfst McKinley tariff, and have always followed “protectionist” legislation. In 1892 tlie people rose and with tremendous Indignation rejected this policy and proclaimed themselves for tariff-reform, If not for commercial liberty. This was nothing new in American history. In 1828, when John Quincy Adams ran tho second time for the overwhelmingly defeated on'the “protection” issue. In 1844 Mr. Clay’s splendid campaign for "protectionism” metwithalikeslgnaldefeat, and in 1884 the Republicans, even with Mr. BMlne as their leader, were unsuccessful. It may therefore be asked, Has the coun try any new light upon the workings of a “protectionist” policy which will Induce It in 1898 to approve what since 1828 It has so often condemned. The favorite pretext for the new and furious tariff war which Major McKinley’s followers are now stirring up is that under the Wilson law the revenue has not kept pace with the lavish ( of the government. But It has been shpwii over and over again that the Wilson tariff yields as much customs revenue ns the McKinley tariff could possibly have yielded had the latter been in force during the last twenty months of trade-depression, currency troubles and war scares. The people will look into this and several other like pretexts on which they will be asked to vote for a huge augmentation of the burdens of taxation, euphoniously Styled “protection,” It will not do for blind partisans to assume that the people can be always mystified by fine phrases. If the Republicans are wise they will guarantee the country a respite from business-de-stroying agitntion of the tariff.—New York Herald.

A Shoddy Great Man. Another type of the shoddy grout man Is McKinley, of Ohio. His delusion is that the people have gone crazy about protection, that they are madly eager to elect a high-protectionist, and that if his views on protection are only rabid enough be need have no views on any other subject. Accordingly be announces himself as prosperity’s advance’ agent, nnd no doubt honestly feels that the accidental linking of his name with a high tariff bill that once wrecked bis party will make him a great man. In his campaign methods be aims to combine the bluff, diffusive geniality of Blaine with the quiet, practical wire-pulling of Hill; and yet he has not a tithe of the ability of either man. Much less is he great. None but a man of hopeless mediocrity would try to escape a clear declaration upon tho most vital issue of the day, and none but such could avoid seeing that the issue of to-day is finance rather than tariff. Yet he has chosen to stand ypon a platform framed with Intent to deceive both parties. Peffer, of Kansas, Is a greater man than McKinley, because he has the courage of hls convictions. He believes in rtinkiug everybody rich by the simple device of issuing the money to do it, and he says so. If McKinley has any views at all upon finance he is too much of a coward to make them known, and he is quite stupid enough to believe he may win in spite ol this cowardice. He would dearly like to be a great man, and If he knew just how to go about It he would be. But he doesn’t know. He hasn’t even learned that a truly greht man Is never afraid td say what he thinks.— Puck.

To Settle the “Cheap-Goods” Question. There is a very easy way in which to test public sentiment in regard to the respective advantages of cheap versus dear goods. The Republicans as a class profess to believe that ji .low tariff is-an .evil, in that it lowers, prices and enables the consumers to, buy things cheaply. Major McKinley, the most prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for President, declared in a recent interview that he saw nothing good in chejy> products, and his views have been eiithusinsticilly endorsed by the protectionist press. On the other hand, the Democratic party, stands for a policy under which goods of all kinds can be most cheaply and, abundantly, produced. If the McKioleyites are really convinced that.it Is'better to have tilings scarce and dear they suould try the experiment on a small scale by haring their village, town or city Impose tales of fifty per cent on all goods manufactured outside of its boundaries. This would at once put prices tip higher than under the tariff of 1890, and would effectually do away with nil danger of cheap goods. Then, according to the men who are afraid of cheapness, everybody will be far more prosperous than the natural condition of affairs. Why does not some Republican town or city show its faith in Its political theories by abolishing Cheapness through heavy taxes on all products brought within its borders^ McKinley’■« Strength and Wesknens. We are not questioning the genuineness of the popular enthusiasm iii'mauy parts of the country among the rank and file of the Republican party for McKinley. There is much enthusiasm —more that appears to be spontaneous than for any other candidate. But along with that are these other facts. Let us recapitulate them and in inverse order: 1. The independent voters

and press are opposed to McKinley, 2. Very few of the leading party papers favor McKinley. 3. The more thoughtful and conservative men of the party either openly oppose McKinley’s nomli nation or doubt Its wisdom. '4ms most of the active, experienced politicians of the party are working against McKinley.—-Indianapolis News. Unprecedented Kxporta. The Bureau of Statistics of the United States Treasury Department furnishes the Herald’s Washington correspondent some interesting returns which show that the exports of American manufactures are now far outstripping all previous records In our history. The official data of the bureau show that during March last the value of our manufactured exports reached the unprecedented total of $10,125,785, or 25.85 per cent, of the gross exports. The phenomenal Increase of manufactured exports began in 1895, and during last year they exceeded 200 millions. In March the flood of such exports was at the rate of 229V6 millions per annum. . The striking increase, which began idl 1895, has not been spalpiodlc, but has byen steadily gmgmeuted. The Bureau of Statlstjys notj reports that To? the nine months ending with March last the manufactured exports amounted to $1(i;,187,920, aud were 24.57 per cent, of our gross exjiorts. The great significance of those figures can best be seen by noting that in no year before 1895, when the Wilson tariff went fully into effect, had tho exports of our manufactures reached u total of 1891 the exports of domestic manufactures were only $108,927,315, or 19.87 per cent, of all exports of merchandise; In 1892 they were only $158,510,937, or 15.01 per cent., and in 1898, $!&3,718,484, or 21.24 per cent. The present marked increase In exports of the products of American labor speaks much encouragement for our mills and factories and is an earnest of new and still larger conquests o{ foreign markets by our domestic fabrics.— New York Herald.

Hlgh'Tnriff Absurdities. Says a tariff paper: “Uncle Bam ought to chaige enough for the privilege of coming into Ids market to yield him enough to pay all the expenses of the Government, with a handsome surplus each year to apply to the extinguishment of the nntlonal debt.” How very nice that would be if you could only do two things: First, charge enough; and, second, make thy “pauper” foreigner pay tho charges. But it so happens that you can’t do either. You can’t make a tariff that will cover tho cost of a Republican administration, to say nothing of surplus. If you could, not the foreigner but the American people would pay it to the last cent, and thoy would pay in proportion, uot to their abilities, but to the number of mouths they have to feed and backs to clothe. And, what is worse, they would have to pay from three to five times as much to enrich the Government’s pet classes. Uncle Sam ought not to be guilty of any such monstrous Injustice.—Chicago Chronicle. Heed’s Chickens Come liorne to Boost. The whirligig of time brings Its revenges. When Speaker Reed made Major McKinley chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and then jammed through the House without debate tho monstrosity known as the McKinley tariff act—which was licked Into a more tolerable shape In the Senate—he dug a pit into which be himself has tumbled. Instantly the country repudiated MfcKinley and his tariff act; but under the operation of one of those puzzling revulsions of popular sentiment which defy all precalculation McKinley lins suddenly been pushed to the front and Reed remanded to the rear. And to make disappointment more bitter, the McKinley managers have had the assurance to ask Speaker Reed to play second fiddle.—Philadelphia Record.

Secret of Tanner's Nomination. Tanner, the Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois, Is said to be Illiterate and strangely deficient In grammar. If he Is “well up” In other matters this deficiency will, 1 perhaps, not Interfere with his efllclency as Governor, but as the Republican party has plumed Itself on having exclusive possession of all the education and learning in the world, one is curious to know Just how his nomination was brought about “Bill” Chan&ler says the manufacturers chipped in and bought up sentiment for McKinley so as to effect his nomination, but what sort of rascality was used to secure Tanner’s nomination?— Indianapolis Sentinel. Heed Naturally Dcairea Retirement. The Republican newspupers an beginning to protest against the political retirement of Speaker Reed, declaring him to be a man who is too able and too big for them to lose. This sort of talk, .comes rather late in the day. The humiliation Reed has received at the hands of ills party very naturally leads him to seek retirement. No man vlih self-respect can view the Republican situation with complacency. When a party sets the barrel above tin* br.thi and puts aside men like Reed‘and Allison for men like. McKinley it must expect important retirements from Ils leadership as wejl as from its ranks New York Journal. A New Tall to the Ticket. Henry Cabot Lodge Is the latest vice presidential candidate on the McKinley ticket. Senator Lodge would doubtless prefer to remain a Senator from Massachusetts than to be vice president. Besides, the ticket of McKinley and Lodge would be an unsymmetrlcil one. The biggest man would be at the bottom of the ticket.—Boston Globe. Why Platt Hates Ohio Men. Mr. Platt’s hatred of Ohio men In politics Is not unnatural. Garfield, who had an important part In Mr. Platt’s Senatorial career, wag Jrom Ohio, and so is William L. Strong, the present Mayor of New York.—Springfield Republican. .I, ' ' '.i-r

GOVERNS CAPE COLONY.

Sir Hercules Robinson Prominent la South African Affairs. Recent developments iu South Africa have brought Into prominence the uarne of Sir Hurcules Robinson, governor and high commissioner of Cape Colony, whence the ill-fated Jameson

SIR HERCULES ROBINSON.

expedition set out for the Invasion of the Transvaal. 4!r Hercules Robinson has figured conspicuously in the colonial history of Great Britain, having been at various times governor of Hong Kong, Ceylon, New South Wales and New Zealand. He was boru In 1824 and Ills first public service was In the army. It was he who annexed the FIJI islands to the British empire and after the annexation he remained a considerable time at the head of the provisional government on tho Islands. He Is an able administrator.

THE NEW TOLEDO UNICYCLE.

Ita Invert tor Kxpecta It to Boon Roll Into Public Favor. The latest 111 unleycles Is the idea o< L. Z. Phillips, of Toledo, Ohio. It Is a imlcycle that the Inventor says Is bound to be a success. The cog wheel Is inode of brass and works in u gear made of rawhide. The long hookllkc arrangement lu front Is tho liallast and serves In the place of the forward wheel as a balance for the rider. The seat may lw adjusted to suit the rider, as In the old ordinary or on the present pneumatic safety. The hnndle liars nre adjusted lu a similar manner to those on the regulation bicycle, and may be of the

THE TOLEDO UNICYCLE.

pattern desired. There Is no danger o| the wheel tipping forward to any greai extent, ns the ballast piece will serve ni a guard to prevent anything of the nnd Mr. Phillips argues that there Is no more danger ol n rider tipping back' ward than upon a bicycle. The gearing Is properly eased, so the dust cannot get into the delicate parts of the ma chine, It will weigh about fourteen ot fifteen pounds, and can be nianufac< tured at n little more than half tho cost of tho bicycle.

QUITE A RARITY.

Two White Pcacocka Are Owned in New York City. In a New York City bird store nre a pair of white peacocks. Thoy came from Madagascar, nnd arc as scarce ai

WHITE PEACOCKS.

the white elephant. The pair Is valued at SSOO. Many years ago there was a white peacock In New York, but none since, until now.

A Chinaman’s Indignation.

Thor i Is a Chinese laundryman in San Francisco who was convinced that the patrolman who arrested him several nights ago should be committed to an Insane asylum. Unmindful of the existence of a municipal ordinance prohibiting laundry work being done after 10 o’clock at night, Wong Sam was busily engaged at the Ironing board when arrested! On the way to the station he was informed of the gravity of the offense, and cautioned against ever working at midnight in his laundry. The desk sergeant was busy when Wong Sam was bustled into the police station. A South Side vagrant was being searched preparatory to being thrown into one of the cells. “Washa matta him?” asked the laundryman, pointing to the prisoner. “Vagrlncy,” replied the patrolman, tersely. “Washa callee vaglancy?” “He don’t work.” “No workee?” remarked Wong Sam, Inquiringly. “That’s it,” said the patrolman. “You pieecemans heap dazy!” exclaimed Wong Sam, angrily. “One man ’lested no workee. Me heap workee get 'lested alle same. Too much damfoolee. Me tellee my lawyer, he flnee ou all same quick. You go dazy house, you 3ee.’’—San Francisco Examiner.

Distinction.

“When yer own plans goes wrong,” said Uncle Eben, “it’s bad luck. When anuddab man’s plans goes wrong he orter done knowed better.”—Washington Star. Evepy poor man Is ready to make fun of a rich man, or borrow money of him. *

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Despondent Woman Burns Herself with Oil—Recent Find Max Diacloae the Fate of the Zetecarea Near Panama-Shooting Near A villa. Shocking Attempt at Suicide. At Jeffersonville, Miss Bertha Meyers, 24 years of age, a beautiful Swiss, rendered despondent by her inability to return to her native country and'the death of her sister a few days ago, attempted suicide Saturday afternoon. She sent the children out to play in the afternoon, and, going to a summer kifcheb, saturated her clothing with coal oil and applied a match. Every vestige of skis was burned from her body and her death was a matter of but a few hours. In endeavoring to save her, her brother-in-law waa seriously burned.

The Noblesvilie vetefan who was honored by ids election to the position of commander, Indiana Department, G.A. R. Body of May Hill Identified. The body of May D. Ilill, the Colonnade (Now York) Hotel suicide, arrived at Columbus aud was identified by the father and other relatives. The body was buried in tho family lot, city cemetery. The diamonds she was known to possess were tlbf found among the effects In her trunk. The family believe she wub murdered aud robbed. The woman left ft note asking that her body lie cremated, but, standing by the casket, Col. John H. Keith, the dead woman’s father, declared: “I'll kill tho man who attempts to creninte my daughter’s Ixtdy or disturb it after burial. ’’ Judge Hill and wife of Indiannpolls, parents of the dead woman’s husband, attended the funeral, Miaaing Men Probably Slain. Charles Manning, while digging a cellar under an old log house three tulles northeast of Panama, found the skeletons of three human beings. This created much excitement, as ulxnit twelve years ago an old man by the name of Thomas Valentine Zeteeiitv aud Ills two sons dwelt there. Tho old man was Wealthy and, being afraid to deposit his gold in the hanks, kept it buried. The people seldom went to town. They never went to see their nelgh|wn> anil ,Uu'.v never attended any gatherings. Finally they disnp|M>ared. It was supposed they hud moved away to ports unknown. The discovery of these human Isiues leads people to believe the three men, were murdered for their money. Asausaln Firoa on Brothers. An attempt: to assassinate two young men occurred a few mill's south of A villa Saturday afternoon. Frank and Ulysses Badger, two young farmers, were t(t work In the woods when some person fired on them frpjn a chimp of bushes a few feet away. Frank Badger Is shot through the breast, tho ball entering from his back, nnd he will die. Ills brother has a bullet lu the right shoulder nnd the tipper part of Hie right arm is shattered by a second ball. The exact identity of the woulil-bo murderer is not knowu, though suspicion points strongly to a man who formerly residisl in the vicinity and who has threatened the lives of the boys for some flinch'd grievance.

All Over the State. Henry Siefke, aged 40 years, wns found dead in Bloomington, the presumption being that he mot death in a runaway. Mrs. lOlir.nlM’th Caldwell, widow of William Caldwell, one of the pioneer residents of Wabash County, and the mother o£ Hezekiah Caldwell, for many years president of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, celebrated her ninetieth)! birthday In her home in Wabash. During the day she received numerous calls from lady friends, who brought her lavish floral offerings. The Indianapolis sanitarium has addressed a note to the superintendent of the city schools, nnV. among other thingH suggested that kissing us practiced by wsuicn school teachers among their pupils la* Interdicted, because disease m thereby apt to bo communicated. Ho also condemned tlie habit of pupils of driuking from a common vessel and of using the same lead pencils. The superintendent lias promised compliance with tVesc suggestions.

An official sensation was caused at Anderson by Judge Diven, of the Superior Court, appointing Attorneys Foster and Walker and instructing them to at once prepare and tile eases against Prosecutor Scanlon and ex-Prosecutor Doss to disbar them. Doss brought suit ugainst Prosecutor Seanlan several weeks ago asking for nn accounting of fees, claiming the official had juggled them. He got judgment for $230. In the trial he endeavored to show that Prosecutor Seanlan wob conducting the office on n boodle plan and was accepting bribes. Evidence was also Introduced to show that Doss, the Eiwood deputy, was accepting bribes. Judge Diven proposes to sift the matter to the bottom. It is claimed criminal prosecution will follow. At Wursuw, fire destroyed the large furniture factory of Robert H. Hitzler, causing a loss of about $15,000.... There iB $3,500 insurance, SI,OOO on the building in the Concordia, and $2,500 on the contents in the Milwaukee Mechanics’ and German of Freeport. John Abnet, a very wealthy farmer living a few miles south of Decatur, attended a circus at Portland on Tuesday and while there he was robbed of $4,100. He did not believe in banks and wis afraid to leave his money at home because he lost a large amount that way by fire a few* years ago. * John Baum, aged 90, and Emeline Hendrick, aged 00, were married at Valparaiso. The bride was given the deed to a farm worth SB,OOO before the nuptial knot was tied. ~p . , . On account of the prospects of a mammoth fruit crop Ball Brothers, of Monde, the largest fruit jar manufacturers in the world, have decided to run all summer. Heretofore ail the glass factories In the World have shut down in the summer on account of the excessive heat. The blowers at Bail Brothers only consented to work when they were offered wagea of $l5O per week from now until Sept. 1. Ball Brothers average 172,800 Jara, or 1,200 gross a day.