Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 August 1889 — Page 2

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INDIANA REPUBLICAN EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. The regular summer meeting ot the Republican editorial association will occur at Warsaw, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September :id, 4th and 5th, when the following programme will be rendered:

AT THE GROUNDS UN ARRIVAL.

1. Address of Welcome Mayor L. W. Royse, Warsaw 2. Response S. Vater, Editor Call, Lafayette

TOKSDAY KVKNING.

Address—"Mound Builders of Indiana" ..W. 11.

Smith,

Cincinnati Commercial Cazette WKDNKSDAY MORNING.

The time till noon will be devoted to pleasure seeking, riding, baiting and sight seeing. WKDNKSDAY AFTERNOON.

Banquet, tendered by Byer Bros., to the association, rollowed by toasts and responses. WEDNESDAY EVENING. Address—"Benefits of Commercial Relations with

South America" ..The Hon. W. D. Owen, Logansport THURSDAY MORNING. Karewells. The Bee line and C„ W. & M. railroads have tendered courtesies.

Communicate with the secretary for transportation for yourself and lady over these lines. Train leaves Indianapolis at 11:55 a. m., on Tuesday, September 3d, and arrives at Warsaw at 4:33 p. m.

RKUH WILLIAMS, 1'resldent, Warsaw. J. A. KAUTZ, Secretary, Kokomo.

The gravel pit is said to be a deep one. Some would-be public citizens of Terre Haute are liable to fall into it.

was well that President Harrison came back to his home state. The hearty welcome and endorsement he received will give him courage to go on his good course.

It is to be hoped that the little trick of the purchase of the gravel pit will continue to so arouse public sentiment that the council will feel called upon to take action by which many thousand dollars go wrong in the city's finances.

The report is that money is tight, but the explanation is plain. An unusually large amount is needed at present to "move the crops." So, indeed, the tight money market is in fact a good omen, and when the crop is moved we will tind more money than usual in all hands.

According to law the lives of four men were taken in cold blood in New \ork City yesterday by lawful but none the less horrible means, and with the usual revolting incidents. With the gallows erected, the newspapers and the public mind tilled with the dread penalty, there were several murders and a half dozen attempts to kill in New York City within a few days prior to the execution of the four men. And, if the law of averages holds good, there will be an epidemic of murders following the event of yesterday in the very vicinity of the scaffold.

C. O. D.

No Sure Thing.

Wtbble—I guess Sullivan will stay sober for one your at least. Wabble—1 don't know about that. You know the contractor who will have him in charge has promised to let him go lishlng, and he will have to have bait.

A lieninrkablo Coincidence.

Sir. Bsmyser—Well, Mary, here's that bug polS )H. Mrs. Bsmyser-A II right. That Is a cnriouslooklng bottle. Lemme see where did 1 see a bottle like that?

Mr. Bsmyser (uneasily)—Nowhere, my dear. I guess. Mrs. Bsmyser—Ah, 1 knowlnow. It looks exactly like mother's medicine bottle! Oh, you Hend.

In No Mood to Ho Corrected. irk»lre—How did you get that black eye1 Mmlge'.'

Mudge-Old man I'otts came Into theolliceand said lie had a "bile." and I undertook to tell him that lie ought to say "boll."

Tiintiilus.

••old Tantalus had a pretty tough time of It." said the young men with the blonde mustache, "but I doubt If lie ever had a pretty slrl with glasses on slug 'Darling. Kiss My Kyellds Down, to him."

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Dayton Journal: It Is curious how sensitive the Southern chivalry are about associations with negroes In view of the fact that betore the Democratic rebellion there was hardly a young scion

chivalry who was not intimate with a "wench." N'ew Orleans Times-Democrat: The only semblance of kingly power In this country is that which the people confer upon their judges

the sanctity

final

decree. And the people, who voluntarily give them this authority. In their official capacity, will always see that their persons are altorded protection equal

kings.

St. Louis (Jlobe-Democrat: In seeking to justify the recent effigy-burning folly at Atlanta, the Constitution unfortunately asserts that the Indians were better treated by the cavaliers of Georgia than by the puritans of New England. As matter of ract. (ieorgla never had any cavalier* having been settled by Insolvent debtors amt idle, thrlttless ne'er-do-wells and in the next plac\ her dealings with the Creeks and Cherokees were characterized, according to the historians, by the most scandalous avarice, treachery and Inhumanity.

Canadian Flour Mills Burned.

ST.CATIIAKINKS, Can.,

August23.—The

Empire and Phu-nix flour mille, both owned by Sylvester Neelon, were totally destroyed by tire this morning. The tire burned so rapidly and fiercely that nothing could be saved. The Empire mill was tilled with the most improved machinery, all of which was destroyed. The total loss is now estimated at about two hundred thousand dollars insurance, $05,000.

Cause 2ind KtVect,

Miss Prim—Really, I can't bear children. Mrs. Grim—Perhaps if you could you would like them better.—[To-Day.

HAMERSLEY'S GIRL BABY.

A girl baby was born Tuesday morning to Mr. and Mrs. J. Hooker Hamereley, at their summer cottage at College Point, L.I— a girl baby who will be famous as the baby who brought joy to numerous charities in the state of New York and whose advent had been anticipated with an interest that extended beyond the usual small circle of immediate relatives and friends. She little knows what changes a change in her sex would have brought in the disposition of a great estate, or how, far across the sea, a lord and lady in one of England's most famous ancestral homes awaited the cable announcement of her arrival. Although no courtiers filled the halls of the house in which she was born, although no armed guards kept watch without, although no nation awaited her coming and no cannon were fired nor flags flung to the breeze to signalize her earthly debut, rarely has a princess or a queen been born with all these accomplishments whose birth has involved larger properties than that of Miss Hammersley, infant daughter of J. Hooker Hammersly of the good city of New York, and cousin by marriage once removed of Blenheim's mistress, the American Duchess of Marlborough. At least, all this sensational fact is vouched for by a New York correspondent.

There died in New York in 1883 Louis C. Hammersley, sr., for many years a prominent member of the New York business and social worlds. A quaint old man, of courtly bearing and pleasant manners, he was well known to all the older resident of the city. He had one inseparable companion—his son, Louis C. Hamersley, jr. The two men dressed alike, talked alike, and, save for a wide difference in age which naturally showed itself, were a counterpart in form and feature. They were called the "Hamersley twine," and rarely a day went by in winter that they were not seen walking on Fifth avenue together engaged in close and earnest conversation. They became almost landmarks, and when the elder man died New York society felt it had lost one of its found-

ers'

A man of large wealth, there was little discussion as to who would be his beneficiary, and in a few days it was announced that he had left his vast estate entirely to his son. Notwithstanding his devotion to his father, the younger man had not been entirely insensible to the charms of the fair sex. He h&cl become engaged a few years earlier to Miss Emily Iselin, a niece of the well-known banker, Adrian Iselin, but the engagement was broken. Soon after New York society was called upon to welcome as the new fiancee of the rich Mr. Hamersley Miss Lily Price, a leading belle of the good city of Troy, New York, and daughter of Commander Price, one of the Union's war time defenders. Their marriage soon followed, and the elder Hamersley with conscious pride introduced his son's wife to society. The father's death, however, was too great a blow to be borne by so devoted a son, and a few months after his demise the younger Hamersley followed his father to the grave.

Society's eyes were now turned on the young widow, who it was supposed would inherit the whole estate. But wills oft bring surprises, and the will of Louis C. Hamersley, Jr., was the veriest bombshell that has ever been thrown into New York society. It WBB found that the estate was put in the hands of trustees, who were directed to pay the whole income of the property to Mrs. Hamersley during her life. Then followed this remarkable clause: "In the event that no issue of mine shall survive my said wife, then on her decease I give my 6aid estate, real and personal, to the male issue of my cousin J. Hooker Hamersley, and to the male issue of such of them as shall have previously died. In the event however, that my Baid couein shall die without leaving male issue surviving him or surviving my wife, then, on the decease of my wife, I give the whole of my said estate to such charitable and benevolent corporations located in the Btate of New York and in such shares and proportion as my dear wife by her lastwilljand testament, etc., etc., designate."

The three trustees were George S. Williams, Jacob Lockman, and Mrs. Hamersley. It was known that J. Hooker Hamersley, although a bachelor of uncertain age, was much addicted to the writing of poetry and the driving of maidens fair in his handsome "T" cart. Then, too, if the will should not be admitted to probate Mrs. Hamersley would receive her widow's dower, amounting to something like $1,350,000 in fee simple instead of the mere income. A contest was soon instituted, headed by John W. Hamersley, the paternal uncle of the testator, by Mrs. Mary Mason Jones, a great aunt, and by all the little Joneses and Masons, cousins of the testator and grandchildren of Mr. Hamersley. The decision was finally handed down by Surrogate Rollins. It sustained the will.

Mrs. Hamersley's friends congratulated her. Mrs. Hamersley threw off her weeds, took an opera box and became one of the leading figures of the winter social season. Then came the owner of Blenheim, the noted and notorious duke of jMarlborough, to these shores. He gazed upon the widow's beauty he learned of her estate, and returned home, only to come back and carry her off in triumph to his English home. The will case was passing into history, and the charitable institutions had settled down into a hope of future benefits upon the decease of the duchess, when once more a bombshell was thrown into society by the announcement of the engagement of J. Hooker Hamersley to Miss Margaret Chisholm. The wedding soon followed, and society has closely watched the. social register which duly records all births, marriages, and deaths since that time. A month ago a report was current that a Bon and heir had been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamersley, but to a reporter who journeyed to their villa, at College Point, Mr. Hamerslay said: "The announcement is premature." Tuesday, however, an infant Hamersley saw the light, but, as the Irishman remarked, "the first boy was a girl."

Once more the charitable institutions breathe more freely and once more the duchess of Marlborough may in pleasing fancy contemplate the list of charities in New York state to which she still has a thance of becoming, at her death, a Lady Bountiful. Meanwhile the infant girl will kick and crow as lustily as if she had not put any one's nose out of joint. The proud father will tell of her charms to admiring friends, and another chapter in the famous Hamersley will case comes to an end.

Milwaukee Prepares for Sherman. The Plankington house chef has invented six new kinds of pie for General

Sherman. General Sherman will arrive Monday night for three or four days in Milwaukee, and the girls are beginning to pucker up their lipa.— [Milwaukee Sentinel.

DAMALA.

Something About Bernhardt'!? Husband Who Died Laat Saturday. Damala was known in the theatrical circles of Europe as Daria, says the New York Sun. He was a Greek by birth, and as there are no titles in Greece, except official ones and in the royal family, he has no birthright to the title of count. His diplomatic experience was extremely short, and his connection with the Greek consulate for a few dayB was an accident. His true profession was that of a commercial traveler for his father, who was a trader in raw silk and had a house at Syria. This house was represented at Marseilles and Lyons by Damala. Damala is said to have assumed, without any right, the name of Aristides. His right name, it is said, is Jacques.

He received his education at the Marseilles lyceum. After, he left school he lived fast. He lived faster after his father died, leaving him a moderately good fortune, which he soon squandered with companions as reckless and joyous as himself. He was over-generous, and always ready to tend moiioy. After his money was all gone he returned to business, and was doing well enough, when he got entangled with Mile. Mineli, an opera bouffe singer who was filling an engagement at the Grand theater in Marseilles, and who afterward starred at Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Lisbon and Rio. Damala followed her about ten months, and on her return to Provence it is said he married her.

They couldn't agree, and Damala went to Paris, where he took dramatic lessons from Delauay under an assumed name. He sought and obtained the patronage of Mme. Adam and M. Rouvier. He never played in any theater except the Vaudeville until he went on an eastern tour with Bernhardt. It is said that he was valuable only for his extraordinary manly beauty. Damala was fond of gambling, and a swarm of creditors is believed to have hurried

hiB

marriage and to have followed him unrelentingly until he left for Barcelona. He was once mixed up in a gambling case with Lambri Pacha, but his friends

Bay

that he was never a blackleg. At the time of his marriage with Bernhardt nobody seemed to know whether his first wife was dead or not. During the time he played with Bernhardt he did all he could, it is said, to excite her jealousy. When she was on the stage and he was in the wings he used to flirt abominably with Mile. Lima Maute. This was in Italy, where Bernhardt had frequent fainting fits on the stage.

Damala first became acquainted with Bernhardt in October, 1881, when he called on her and asked her to induce M. Duquesnel to get him an engagement in a company of which she was to be the star. He recited selections from "Hernani" and "Phedre" to her. She did not like his style, but she did like him, and it was through her' influence that Damala was engaged as a supplementary actor.

The quarrel over Damala between Bernhardt and Mile. Maute became common gossip. Bernhardt once ordered Lima to leave Damala alone. "What right have you to interfere?" asked Lima. "The best of all rifehts," replied Sarah "he is to be my husband." "What!" cried Lima, "do you think that a handsome fellow like him would tie himself for life to a pair of castanettes? Besides he has a wife and children hidden away at Marseilles." "I don't mind that," Sarah retorted "I'll buy out her interest in him. As she has not seen him in three years she'll sell out cheap."

At the time of the marriage Bernhardt's fortune is said to have amounted to 1,200,000 francs, independent of her jewel of a house in the Rue de Fortuny and her place near Havre.

BAILBOAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest* Will Dodson is now breaking on theE. & T. H.

Coach No. 25 was housed yesterday to be repainted. Dan O'Neil has been appointed night yardmaster of the E. «fc T. H.

Engine No. 21 was sent to the round house yesterday thoroughly overhauled. Master Mechanic T. A. Lawes, of the Big Four, was in the city Thursday evening.

Jake Sargent resumed work in the blacksmith shop yesterday after a long spell of sickness.

The Pennsylvania railroad company, which has in the last thirty days contracted for 5,000 new freight cars, will let an additional contract this week for 1,000 more.

Foreman Bardsley, of the boiler shop, is visiting at Lake Maxinkuckee. On his return home he will be accompanied by his family, who have been encamped at the lake for some time.

With the assistance of a number of friends geneial George Watson, of the master car builders' office, yesterday covered his writing desk with a billiard cloth cover, and has under serious consideration the placing of a Brussels carpet on the floor.

All but eight of the locomotives that were wrecked at Conemaugh and Johnstown have been received at the company's works at Altoona. Seven have been repaired and are now doing service on the road. One of the foremen said the engines were not damaged as much as one would suppose. Some will have to have new boilers and some new fire boxes, and others only a few repairs to the frames and trucks.

Charles Mosier, about 17 years of age, an apprentice in the boiler shop, was called from his home by a stranger Thursday evening and since then has not been heard from by his mother. Many inquiries were made yesterday as to his whereabouts but without a trace of him being found. He was a sober and industrious young man and his disappearance is a mystery to his mother and friends, as there was no known cause for his leaving. The day of his disappearance he received his wages for the month, $17.50, of which he gave §12.50 to his mother with the remark that that was all he had earned. It is thought by his friends that he has gone on an excursion with the §5 that he retained, and that when it is gone he will return home. The person with whom he left was unknown.

Elevated Road* In St. Louis. The building of the St. Louis elevated railroad is now assured beyond question. For days p8Bt New York capitalists, accompanied by civil engineers and experts, have surveyed the route and satisfied themselves as to the desirability of the investment. The capitalists will furnish $7,000,000 to construct the road.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24. 1889.

"£D" VANDEVEB'S REPORT.

The Condition of Affairs at the Navajo Indian Agency. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.

WASHINGTON, August 23.—Agent Chaa. E. Vandever has submitted to the department his annual report upon the condition of affairs at the Navajo Indian agency in New Mexico. The last report from this agency was made by S. S. Patterson, then the agent, and as Mr. Vandever was only appointed last December, the present report is his first. It was re: ceived to-dav by the acting commissioner of Indian 'affairs. Last year's report showed a population of about 1(,000 Navajoes, but Agent Vandever estimates the present population, according tq a recent census, at 20,000. The stock belonging to the tribe has increased to a considerable extent during the year, and the Navajoes now own about 2o0,000 horses and ponies, 500 mules, 1,000 burros, 5,000 castle, 700,000 sheep and 200,000 goats. By a rule of the tribe the sheep belong to the women, and during the year they have sheared and sold to traders 2,100,000 pounds of wool. Hitherto the wealth of the Navajo has been estimated by the number of his horses and ponies, and some of the chiefs have counted their horses and ponies by the thousand. Outside of the tribe, however, the value of a horse or pony

small, as the supply greatly exceeds the demand. Some of the Indians, recognizing this, have become cattle growers, and are paying attention to cattle instead of horses and ponies. The result is that the number of cattle now owned by the tribe is nearly double that reported a year ago.

The Indians are paying more attention to agriculture. There are 50,000 acres of tillable land'in this reservation, which lies in northwestern New Mexico and northwestern Arizona, and of this area the Indians have brought under cultivation about eight thousand acres. Irrigation is practiced and an extension of the system is needed. Twelve thousand dollars have been spent on irrigation ditches, which Agent Vandever says are practically worthless. This useless expenditure of money was made before he came upon the reservation as agent, but he explains that a different system has been pursued under his administration.

Lieutenant J. M. StotsenDerg, of the Sixthjcavalry, is now surveying the tillable lands of the reservation with a view to forming irrigation districts. The agent recommends to the department that the districts thus formed be used for farming purposes and that he be authorized to allot the lands and superintend the cultivation and improvement. The sanitary condition of the Navajoes is reported as good. As a rule the tribe is rugged and healthy. There has been no epidemic disease during the year. In December, January and February there was no physician on the reservation, but in March one was secured. Since that time he has treated 250 patients. The medicine men of the tribe are no longer in repute, and the Indians are rapidly getting away from their influence. The chiefs, too, have lost their preetige and control of affairs, and everything is now submitted to the agent for settlement or advice.

The attendance at the agency school has not been good. Last year the average attendance was thirty-five, but the total enrollment for the present year reached only twenty-seven. Mismanagement of the Bchool under a former administration of the agency affairs has caused a loss of interest, and^ the Indians have not taken kindly to the instruction of their children. Mamileto, a war chief, sent two of his sons away from the reservation to one of the Indian schools in the East, and they were both taken ill and died. This incident created a prejudice against the schools off the reservation, and none of the Indians have since been induced to send their children east to be educated.

The agent reports that rumors of heavy silver deposits in the mountains in the reservation haye created some excitement among adjacent white settlements, and he says that several parties of cowboys and miners ventured to enter the reservation for the purpose of prospecting. This invasion occurred last March, and for a time trouble with the Indians was threatened. The prospectors were finally dissuaded from their purpose, and the rumors of silver discoveries have since quieted down.

Agent Vandever closes with a recommendation that the boundary of the reservation be extended five miles south, in order to take in some land that is needed by the agency.

THIRTY HORSES KILLED.

Bavnuni & ISalley's Show Wrecked and Many Valuable Animals tost.

WATERTOWN, N. Y., August 23.—The second train of the Barnum & Bailey ehow was wrecked late last night, about two and a half miles east of Potsdam, while en route on the Rome, Watertown & O^densburg railroad, from GoUveneur to Montreal.

A broken axle was the cause. Two camels and thirty ring horses, including one of the four chariot teams were killed. Six cars were derailed, and two telescoped. Three trains conveyed the show from Gouveneur. The first train, which carried tents and utensils, passed into Canada safely, but the second train, conveying all the animals, met with disaster. The scene is one of great confusion. On either Bide of the track are distributed the bodies of dead horses. The loss will be 310,000. The New Hampshire and Maine delegations of the G. A. R. encampment at Milwaukee are delayed at Norwood on account of the accident^

Henry Shaw, of St. Louis, Dying.

ST.

LOUIS, August

23.—Henry Shaw,

of botanical garden fame, and one of the oldest and wealthiest of St. Louis' citizens, is dying at his residence in the botanical garden. The attending physicians express little hope of a rally. Mr. Shaw is 90 years old. This month was the first he ever failed to personally pay off his hands. He tried to but was too weak and gave up. His will is made and affairs in good shape. He will leave the bulk of his property to the city.

Escaping From Judge Lynch. WICHITA, Ran., August

23.—On

August 10 Robert Snyder, a saloonkeeper at Eldorado, killed his wife and mother-in-law. Last evening a mob made an attack on the jail, and when the officers saw that they could not hold out Snyder was dropped out of the back window with two officers, and run across the country to Leon in a buggy, and from there brought to Wichita. The Eldorado people threaten to send a committee of 100 to this city to lynch Snyder.

Three Society Girls Cowhide a Traduce^ WICHITA, Kan., August

23.—Threeso

ciety girls of this place. Misees^ Mary Gore, Addie Dowan and May Klantz,

caught a man named Wm. Prince, who had been traducing their character, and berated him with raw hides until he cried for mercy, and retracted all the statements previously made by him.

CHARMED THE HUGE PYTHON.

An Expert Succeeds in Freeing the Monrovlaof Its Long-Hidden Reptile. About three weeks ago the sailing vessel Monrovia arrived at New York with a choice collection of anakee, monkeys and other products of the dark continent. A huge python escaped and succeeded in concealing itself so effectually that it could not be found. When the cargo had been unloaded the owners sold the veesel, and the new proprietors have been for some time overhauling and remodeling it for the Central American trade. Thursday 'longshoremen were put to work storing oil and merchandise in the veesel. Shortly before five o'clock Captain Chase thought more room could be secured by removing a small partition in the center of the ship. A box about Bix feet by three was in his way and he thought of removing it. He is a prudent man, and put his hand into the box to see what it contained. He felt something like a coil of rope, except that it was rather Bmooth and slippery. The light in the hold was dim, and it took him about a second to realize that he had the missing python by the neck. This he learned by the hiss the serpent emitted and by the flashing of its eyete. Captain Chase did not hold the snake long. He broke three rungs of the ladder in his ascent, but his speed was such that he did not stumble. Over the side of the ship he jumped and kept on running until he collided with the desk at which William H. Swan sat. "I've got the snake," he gasped. "I think so," said Mr. Swan. "I did not know you were a hard drinker." "Not that," said the captain, as his breath returned to him. "I mean a genuine snake. It is in the ship."'

A Bnake charmer was sent for and the huge python was induced to crawl into a sack, when it was secured by nailing boards over the top of the box. The reptile is about eighteen feet loag and four or six inches in diameter. It is nearly six weeks since he has been fed, and hunger is making him rather lively.

S§ WOE IN KNOXVILLF, TBN\

The Victims of Yesterday's Awful. Wreck Brought to Their Homes.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. August 23.— Great crowds gathered around the railway Btation last evening when the relief train arrived with the victims of the wreck of the excursion. train on the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville railroad at Flat Gap creek.

The excitement was intense. Over a hundred carriages were in waiting, and the streets leading from the station were thronged. The scene, as the wounded and dead were carried from the cars and placed on stretchers, was a ghastly one. There was a great dearth of physicians, and many of the injured had to wait several hours for attendance. It is now know that Attorney Charles Seymour and Edward Parker will lose their legs. There is little chance for the recovery of Aid. Barry. With this excep tion, it is believed that all the others will do well, unless the exposure to the ram brings on complications. An inquest will be held to-day. It is believed that the wreck can be attributed to the condition of the road.

To-day all the city organizations will meet to prepare for public obsequies over Judge George Andrews and Alexander R9eder, who were instantly killed. The body of S. T. Powers, formerly president of the East Tennessee fire insurance company, will I taken to Kentucky for burial. He is a member of a wellknown family of that state.

A Telephone Witness Dead. Zanus T. Wilbur, perhaps the most important witness in the government's suit against the Bell telephone company, was found dead in his bed at Denver, Col. Dea'h evidently was the result of hard drinking. Wilbur was chief clerk in the electrical department of the patent office at the time the Bell telephone model was submitted and the patent applied for. Subsequently Wilbur acknowledged having been bribed by the Bell people, but denied this on the witness stand, causing the government a setback in its presentation of the case. Pending the trial of the Bell case Wilbur was placed in charge of a secret service officer, who brought him to Colorado ip hopes of breaking him of his drinking habits. In this the officer was successful for a time.

Dusty Weather on the Atlantic. The German steamship Argentine, now in port, had a serious experience in her passage across the Atlantic. When north of the Cape Verde islands the sun suddenly became obscured by clouds of small reddish yellow dust, which covered everything. Though the sky was cloudless, the sun could scarcely be seen. This lasted four days, and at times the dust was so thick that it interfered with the machinery of the vessel.

The Argentine was Bteaming constantly at the time, and when she got out of the dust and Captain Sheon was able to make an observation, he found that he was several hundred miles north of the Cape Verde islands. It is supposed that the dust was swept from the islands by Bome wind storm.—[Philadelphia Record.

She Played It Herself.

While Bill Nye was in Paris he promised to attend a reception and assist Mrs. Shaw to entertain the company. Something happened to prevent our William from going, and when Mrs. Shaw met him here she chided him for his negligence. "I had to take care of your eh are of the entertainment as well as my own," she said, "and I shall retaliate sometime by asking you to entertain somebody for me." "I will do it with pleasure," responded the gallant William. "1 assure you I have often whistled for a queen." "Ah, then you held three," promptly replied la belle siflljuse," "I'm something of a poker player myself."—[New York World.

Beer for Thirsty Kansans.

Thousands of people crossed the pontoon bridge opened for travel over the Missouri-river at Leavenworth Thursday. Men, women, and children and all styles and degrees of equipages figured in the throng, while an enterp-ising saloonist on the Missouri side was obliged to engage eighteen .bartenders to wait on thirsty Kansans.

Senator Culloin Has An Engagement, United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom is advertised to deliver the address at the unveiling of a soldiers' monument at Crystal lake September 12, under the auspices of the McHenry county soldiers' and sailors' association, which holds an encampment at that place September 11 and 12.

HKB FRKFKRKNCE.

We sat upon the topmost step, And talked ot this and that *,v She asked me If I'd been away,

And how I liked her bat

We chatted about various tilings. Of novels and the weather For hours, on almost every theme, ...

We there conversed together.

I asked what paper she preferred She hesitated some, While through the dark around we lieard

The gay mosquito's hum.

She moved a little closer tlien, And answered, "Can't you guess?" Why. the one of all that suits me most

Is the Dally Evening Press?" —IChlcngo News. Switzerland has built 1000 inns since tourists have began to visit her.

The Label rille is still an uncertain fact, judging by the continued experiments of the French government with other patterns.

Sir Charles Russell's fees in the Maybrick case amounted to 1,100 guineas as a retainer and a "refresher" of 100 guineas a day.

The latest thing in hat-racks is the ferocious head of a bulldog holding in his mouth a silver-plated bar from which the pegs protrude.

According to a New York fashion writer, women who ride on horseback are going to lighten up the glades of Central park with bright red Derby hats this fall.

A kitchen table with as many drawers beneath it as a writing desk, and having a high back like a sideboard, full of pigeon holes for kitchen utensils, is a recent addition to the hired girl's comfort.

Tea gowns are reported to be emerging from the domain of silk, and to be made from woolen goods, striped or otherwise. The fronts are still of fine goods, but the only, garment that retains the old quality is the tea jacket.

Robert Buchanan has begun a suit for 82,000 damages against Mrs. Langtry for the non-production of a play written for her by him. The question will probably turn upon the point whether the parts in the play were written as stipulated.

Three school boys of Sompoe, Cal., thought they'd have fun this vacation playing gold-mining. So they began on a worn-out claim on the beach near Point Sal, and in twenty-four days, working not more than eight hours a day, made $210.

There was a terrific thunderstorm at Standing Rock Indian agency the other day. It frightened the aborigines thoroughly, and with reason, for one bolt of lightning struck a wigwam in which were five Indians, killing White Horse and Black Eagle outright, and stunning the others. One did not recover the other two were unconscious for several hours.

A business firm in Chicopee, Mass., offered a prize for the best guess as to the number of marbles in a big boot exhibited in their window. A shoemaker of the town, anxious to win the prize, made a boot, as he thought, of the same size, ahd filled it with marbles. Then he counted the marblep, and gave the number as his guess. He wasovor two thousand out of the way.

The Rev. Henry Montgomery, a negro preacher of Atlanta, Ga., was shot the other night, in a cornfield, by Amos Johnson, an old negro who was employed to wa^ch the field. Johnson called on the preacher a few days ago and told him that somebody was stealing corn. "Git a gun and shoot 'em," was the preacher's advice. Johnson^ got a gun, and the preacher was the first person shot.

In 1885 Farmer Stanley's house and farm were ruined by the Cherry mountain landslide in New Hampshire. He thought that he was a ruined man, but the exhibition of the devastation to sightseers, whom he charged for the sight, brought him enough money with which to buy him a small farm in Jefferson. He has just sold his farm to a hotel company at a big profit, and invested the proceeds in a large farm not far from his old home.

The total original cost of the British war ships of all sorts at the last Spithead review, paraded for the inspection of the emperor, was £10.853,7G5. The number of ships present was seventythree of torpedo boats, thirty-eight. The weight of metal contained in the heavy guns was 8,G09 tons. The tonnage was approximately 300,000 tons. Five hundred and sixty-nine heavy guns, irrespective of quick firers and machine guns, composed the armament.

A 9-years-old Bon of Maine, living eleven miles from Bangor, heard of the electric lights in that city, and teased his father to take him there that he might see them. The father said he hadn't time. A few days afterward the boy was misBed. His fa her drove straight to Bangor, and at o'clock that night found him under an electric light, gazing in open-eyed delight, lie walked all the way. A Maine newspaper thinks that the boy may be a future Edison.

A novel suit is in progress before Justice Rowe, of Danville, Ohio. M. T. Walker, the plaintiff, keeps a restaurant and fruit stand. P. J. Donnelly, the defendant, keeps a good-natured bull-dog, which is fond of fruit. Walker asserts that Donnelly's dog has recently made several trips to his stand, has stolen soipe fruit and damaged more, wherefore he requires damages. The whole town is interested about the decision which will be made next week.

A New England manufacturer says that street musicians are a serious expense to manufacturing companies in country towns. A Gypsy girl plnying a tambourine recently passed his establishment, and, he says, cost the company about two hundred dollars. Every employe in the big factory ran to a window, and work was suspended for fully a quarter of an hour. Every circus parade costs them hundreds of dollars, and when a minstrel brass band marches by it cost from twenty-five to fifty dollars.

In comparing the literary merits of Dickens and Thackeray, an after-dinner orator in London said: "It's the wonderful insight inter 'uman nature that Dickens gets the pullover Thackeray but,on t'other hand, it's in the brilliant shafts of satire, t'gether with a keen sense o' honor, that Dickery gets the pull over Thackens. It's just this: Thickery is a humorist and Dackens is a satiris. But, after all, its 'bsurd to instoot any comparison between Dackery and Thickens."

The Swami of southern India have always been greatly celebrated for their skill as jewelers, but the forms and figures usually made have been_ of a character that was inadmissable in Western society. A Parsee gentleman, having obtained the appointment of Indian jeweler to the queen of England, obtained sufficient infiuenae among the Swami to induce them to abandon their old style, and the result was a beautifully wrought casket for Princess Louise, of a workmanship comparatively unknown.

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The ,1. Town noods Arc exclusive to us. They are offered to you "Without feathers or fuss As, Indml, art'all otlfers. We Invite you to come. l.lke sisters or brothers. And see for yourself With what little delay You can kcI all these ijoods For so little to pay.

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I2^~Agents for Butterlck's Patterns. N. B.—The remainder of our Summer Wash Hoods, including Sateehs, Lawns, Organdies, Challles. etc., very cheap to close.

_JlMUSEMENTS__ NAYLOR'S OPERA H0USH

Saturday Ev'g, Aug. 24.

Presentation of the (Jreat Melo-Drama. ,'

Michael Strogoff!

By a Capable Company, Introducing

New Costumes New Specialties

A Well Trained Ballet

A Complete Ladles' Orchestra and Hand (irand Display of Klreworks In the Kvenlng!

Sale now open. Usual prices.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE.

During Fair Week. August 20, 27, 28, 29 and 31.

'And Saturday Matinee.

THE FENNBR & CRANE

In a Repertoire of Comedies.

Admission, 10c, 20c

and

30c.

Change of Flay Nightly. Sale opens Monday, August 'U.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked tluis (I*) denote i'arlorCarat tached. Trains marked thus (3) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thug (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANPALIA LINE.

T. H. ft I. DIVISION. I.KAVB FOB THK WKST.

No. 9 Western Kxpress (SAV) 1.421 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.18 a. 111. No. 1 Kast Line (P4V) 'A16 P. m. No. 7 Kast Mall p. m.

L.KAVX FOB TUK KAST.

No. lH Cincinnati Express (3) 1.S0 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SAV) 1.61a.m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. Atlantic Kxpreis (PAV) 1U.C1 p. m. No. Kast Line P- u»

ABUIVJC FKOM THK KAST.

No. Western Express (SiV) 1.80 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train NMii a. m. No. 1 Kast Line (P4V) 2.lX)p. in. No. 8 Mall and Accommodation 0.46 p. m. No. 7 Kast Mall ».U0 p. m.

ABKIVK FKOM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.20 a. m. No. 0 New Yurk Express (Sft V) 1.42 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress (P4V) 12.S7 p. in. No. BFast Line* 1.40p.m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAYK FOB THK HOKTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.U0 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. in. ABKIVK PBOM THK HOKTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.1)0 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.S0 p. m.

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