Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 9 September 1895 — Page 1
Regular
five dollar g«.
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This is a (I Wi
money. need
MI
West
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111ft
And be on baud at the shoe sale atom* store on Saturday and Monday next. We will sell:
Men's nice dress lbr_— -^1-1— -1-81.00 Men's regular two-dollar f-hoe.s for
?u !iie
"Women's heavy calf.' Women's Donyo.'a pn
Kangaroo
•loo. worth 1 50, lent t.iu. button.
Misses' Dongola pntmt tip. button, for -k Misses' grain .school shoe, 12 to |2 ^Men's 5 00 oil gnvn'boot for r— i$j|sMen's 4.00 French Kip boot for p|. Men's 2 50 iiaoc
Boys' shoes, W!,rth 1.50, ior
All kinds of summer shoes at awful low pj have the largest stock of boots and shoes in town.
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Ad i'.i'M THE
LEE C. THAYER.
REMOVAL SALE
In order to reduce stock before removing to our new room on Xortli State street, we will give
SPECIAL BARGAINS
In all
furiiituro this fall
you to do Service the
h'(t
O.'
departments of our
BIG FURNITURE STORE.
•count sale have too
that discounts,.and will saye you big ianv iroods to move, and every one
should .-.!.-
call at once. It will pay
Our Undertaking Department is complete. Prices reasonable.
R0TTMAN,
CYCLES.
ARETHE
HIGHEST OF ALL HIGH
GRADES.
Warranted Superior to acy Bicycle br.ilt in the World, regardless of pirico. Built and guaranteed ly tiie lnuiaiia Bicycle Co., a Million Dollar corT'ora'.ion, whose bond is as good as gold. Do not lniy a wheel until you have seen the WAVEllLY.
Catalogue Free,
in every town. A ABICYCLECO„ Indianapolis, Ind
"Imprcvrliiciililie Onlui' of llio igo."
Three- New:Model
Will
HAVF: YOU EXAMINED THEM? Many Imp uveinents Heretofore Overlookeddiy Other iManu^icturers.
SMITH
Ipiriteis
Premie]
^^Nos. 2. 3 and 4.
PRRMIER,TYPEWRITER CO., 76 E. Market St., Inc it napoiis, lud.
VOL. I. NO. 247. GREENFIELD LXl.'lANA MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 9,-1895.
1.50 3.00
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C9c 00c 65 3.00 3 00 150 98c
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ra A MINE
Thirty Men Meet an Untimely Death in Michigan.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF OTHERS.
Two Hundred Mvn in the ?iline When the
Fire liroko Out—All Could Have Jis-
caped if They Had Attempted to Do So.
I The Bodies Not Uurneil, the .Hen Having
Died of Suffocation. I CALUMET, Mich., Sept. 9.—A mine
horror occurred here Saturday. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon fire I broke out in the shaft of the Osceola copper mine, and it is more than probable that 80 men and boys have been burned to death or suffocated.
The names of men kuv\vn to be in the mine are as follows: Trembath, boss Richard Bicket, Michael Johnson, Richard Grenfell, Michael I Schulte, John Matzen, William Bryant,
Francis Lauder, Alex Daut'ell, John Cudiip, Thomas Curtis, Robert Johns, Peter Martin, Joseph Snght-e, James Harrington, William Donald, Barney Elmore, Anton Scezweak, Frederick Peardon, Isaac Harlow, Mike Voke, Isaac Matrison, Andrew Rossawick, James Wins, M. Cook, Samuel Williams, all miners, and Peter Standard ami Walter Dohle, drill boys. .Five Poles, whose names are unknown at the headquarters, are also among the missing. I The lire started in shaft No. 8, which is used to carry mi-ners to the surface from the mine and when the fire broke I out all the men itad boys employed in the mine, about 200 in number, made a rush for the shaft in the hope of being taken to the surface. The fire was too rapid for them, however, and the chance of escaping by the shaft was entirely cut off by the flames and smoke.
The majority of the imprisoned miners made a break for a cr«ss cut and in this way managed to reach another shaft from which they were taken to the top. Thirty were missing when the roll was called. Within a short time after they had reached the surface smoke began pouring from all the shafts and the escape of the men below was entirely cut off. The men in charge say now that there is not the slightest chance for any «f the men now in the mine to escape with their lives. If they are not burned they must have been choked by the dense smoke within a short time after the fire started.
Fortunately the mine is not as heavily timbered as some of the mines in this locality and it will not take it a great while to burn out. A.s the thing now stands, there is not the slightest thing that can be done for the men. I Captain P. Richards with a gang of seven men went down shaft No. 5 and wont about 500 feet toward No. 4 shaft
AY lien they had to tjirn and flee for their lives oil account of the smoke and gas. Some of these men were nearly overcome, only reaching the surface in time to save their lives.
It is learned that the place where the fire caught was the worst place rhat it could have caught in the whole mine, and the only place in the mine where fire of auy extent could have caught. Many of the men that were working several levels below the 27th, which place the lire caught, were seen as far up as the ISrh level, working their way up. Several of the men who escaped claim to have passed others on the ladders that were unable to proceed further on account of being overcome with smoke and gas.
At tiie time the alarm w^as sounded over MOO people were under ground, and all could have escaped had they used proper precaution, Several miners in their iiight passed a group of seven or eight who had stopped to rest and were smoking their pipes. They seemed to Le in no hurry or think of danger. When told to hurry to the surface, they remarked that they had plenty of time and not one of them reached the surface. The skips have been kept running up and down all the time in order to give any of the entombed miners a chance to escape if they could reach the skip alive, but none came up.
There is no danger of the bodies being burned, as it is generally thought the men escaped from the burning shaft to some of the drifts leading to other shafts and were overcome by gas and smoke before they could reach a place ox safety. This being the case, tne bodies will be recovered as soon a.s the lire is gotten under control and the gases leave the mine. All hope has been given up by the officials of ever rescuing any of the men alive.
LANDED AT LAST.
florenie lluntaineute Taken From :t 1'aciflc Mail Meame r. KKW YORK. Sept. !).—A special to a
local paper from Colon says: Official advices are that Florence Bustaiaente, W1K, with ex-President Carlos E/.ota, took refuge on the British steamer Bennington in IbiM from the revolutionists of San Salvador, was taken off the steamer Sidney at Liber-tad by judicial order of San Salvador.
The charge against him is that he committed crimes under the Ezeta regime and his surrender by the steamship company is in accordance with clause 24 of the Pacific Mail contract-, which makes the company subject- to the lavs, ordinances and authority of the (Salvador republic while sailing in its territorial waters.
Church StcM'pU
J''ell Jt'rom a
9.--- Shortly be lore
TOLEDO, Seut.
noon Charles Freuiul, a steeple carpenter in tiie employ of Contractor \I. J. Malone fell from the top of St. Patrick's church, where he was working,
feet below. He was an oid aad experienced workman, and none of the scaffolding was disturbed. How lie happened to lose his looting can not be told. He was heard to cry, "Oh, my God 1" as he started downward, his body revolving like a wheei until he landed, a bleeding, bruised and shapeless mass, near the outran:e of the church.
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NILES, Mich., Sept. 9.—Owing to the scarcity of huv the farmers in this vi-
W4*
W'lien
I You Can Go
To a first-?lass, neat and cb an grocery, where they haudle nothing but the best of goods, and sell them at the lowest possibie prices, what is the use to stop at credit and Cheap John stores. You can find just this kind of a place if you will stop at the
J£ous& Qrcoerif
Where they make a specialty of handling nothing but the best of goods, and sell them at one price to all. No deviation no deception.* Fresh fruits and vegerables every day.
HARRY STRICKLAND.
You Will Soon
Begin to pot your plants
for winter, and will want
FLOWER POTS
and
Jardeniers!
We have anew lot of these
goods just opened,
50 Decorated Jardeniers, 15c
25 Blue, Pink or Yellow, 6Sc
'rai am STORE.
eimcy are curing peppermint pi a, LB. Experiments have indicated that they give better results than timothy hay when fed to stock. Growers of peppermint have realized over $100,000 this season from the oil. It is fast taking the place in wet lands of oth^r farm products.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
Still the County Treasurer Claims to lie Guiltless.
IRONTON, O., Sept. !).—A shortage of $lS,000'lias been discovered in the accounts of County Treasurer M. G. Clay, through the investigations of examiners appointed by Probate Judge Russell, in fullfillment of the statutes. The treasurer admits the shortage, but claims that $'-2,000 of the amount was lost by tiie Merchants' bank several years ago, and the balance was missing when he assumed office three years ago.
He has assigned all his property for the benefit of his bondsmen, but the amount wiil not cover tne delinquency. Thus far no legal action has been taken against him. Expert accountants will be yuc in charge of the treasury.
Pension Appeal licjected.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The pension appeal of John Godfrey has been rejeciud by Secretary Reynolds. Godfrey served in Company F, Third Kansas volunteers, which was called into service by the governor of tiie stare. Tiie secretary holds that no person other than the president of the United States has authority to call the militia of any state into the United States service, and a militia organization called into service by other authority is not- thereby in the service of the United states for pensionable purposes.
fjiuurai'ii Quarrel.
NASHVILLE, tyJpt. y.—Saturday at Coiiiiabia two linemen of the Western Uuion Telegraph, company engaged in a jig'ul because of allegations one of them, W. P. Keitner, had made reflecting upon the wife of the other, Fred Laowitz,
WJio
was a bride
of
a
few
weeks. Laewitz, his wife and her mother accused Keitner of starting tne slanderous stories and a row loltowcd. Keitner seemed .about to draw a pistol and Laewitz shot liiui, inflicting a fatal wound. Laewitz was arrested.
Arrested Jb'or Wife nrli r. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9.—Frank Golin
wanted in Houston oil the charge ot wile murder, was arrested here yesterday on information from the authorities of that city. He wTill be held here to await the arrival of Houston officers.
Two Thousand Die Daily. ft'i,
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 9.—A Vladovostock dispatch to The Novo Vremya says that cholera is raging in China and that 2,000 deaths occur daily in Pekin.
DYMMITE IS DEADLY
Five Persons Blown to Atoms, the Result of an Accident.-,*
Owens pointed out the danger of an explosion, and the lad promised to stop firing the gnu. Owens passed along, and had got about 50 feet, when the gun was again fired and an explosion of dynamite followed. There were seven persons in the building, which was blown to atoms. Ot' the seven, four were killed, also the boy outside who fired the fatal shot.' The killed are:
Edward Ln tshaw. Charity Latshaw, his wife. Ray Latshaw, h^ sou, aged 12. Hat Latshaw, iV son, aged 8. Hans Bjornsten, the latter of La Crosse.
Mabel Latshaw, aged 15, had her «kull fractured. Matt Faber of Wabasha suffered isevere contusions.
E Bench of Lansing had his eye blown out and sustained other severe injuries.
A little girl, aged 5, standing outside, had her clothing entirely stripped from her, but was not injured.
The scene of the explosion is a little hamlet, containing only a hotel, depot, warehouse and a few shanties. Word was telegraphed to Dubuque and in a short time doctors were on a special train which made the 12 miles in 13 minutes. The injured were taken to the city and platv/l in a hospital. It is thought one of the men and the girl will recover.
The force of the explosion tore a hole 15 feet deep in the solid rock, wrecked the building above it and damaged nearly every other building in the place. The mother, two daughters and younger son were found in the wrecked house, the baby girl lying across her mother's dead and mutilated body, crying piteously for her. figggf
Latsliaw's body was found 200 yards away, his head partly buried in the earth.
Tiie boy who did the shooting was thrown over the tops of a high tree, falling to the earth a shapeless, unrecognizable mass.
Plans Bjoriisten's body was found a hundred feet from the building, every bone broken and his body bruised and blackened.
The mother's head was crushed to a jell}*, while her body bore no marks of the terrific explosion.
In Specht's hotel every window was shattered and the building otherwise damaged. Tiie side of the warehouse caVed in, and a smaller building near it was unroofed.
Barges moored on the opposite side of the river were so much damaged that it is feared they may sink.
The hamlet has every appearance of being swept by a cyclone, there being scai'cely a sound building left.
The noise of the explosion was heard at Plattsvfile. Wis., 10 miles away, and parties six miles up tiie river thought a steamboat- had bnrsted her boilers Every boat and train that could be had was busy carrying people to the scene, and during tiie day thousands were there. The wounded people hospitals here are doing weil. The bodies of the dead were taken to Dubuque.
EXPRESS COMPANY ROBBED.
fact that
fc'
ALL DUE TO CARELESSNESS
A lioy's Untlioitghleciiiess Causes Disastrous
Explosion—A liuildins Blown to Atoms.
Nearly an Jititire Hamlet Destroyed. Hoars Upoa the River Damaged Karnes
of the Dead Knd Injured.
I MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 9.--A frightful I accident, resulting in the death of five persons, occurred yesterday at Spect's I ferry, a small station on the Milwaukee road, 12 miles above Dubuque, la.
A. K!*schner of Fountain City has the contract of putting wing clams in tho river and has a large force of men employed. These men boarded in a large sliauty, run by Edward Latshaw, whose home is. in Victory, Wis. Yesterday I morning Foreman C. H. Owens was passing the boardinghou.se when -he I noticed one of the Latshaw boys firing a l'ilie near the house, which was raised from the ground and under it a large amount of dynamite.
Frobabiy
A Large Amount, of Money Ha Gone Glimmering.
TERKE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 9.—The discovery that the Adams express office at this point has been robbed of a package containing $10,000 and possibly more, has caused a great sensation. ,T. O
D. Farden, the cashier of the eomnany
here, and «l. M. Barnett, city ticket agent of the Vandalia line, have botn disappeared.
Assistant Superintendent G. D. Curtis of the Adams Express company arrived here at an early hour yesterday morning from Columbus, O., aad is making a thorough investigation of the robbery of the riompanv's safe. The city ageut of the Vanualia railroad. J. Robert Barnett, is known to je nnplicated in the crime, but it has not vet been disclosed, if*, in addi-iou to his participation :u the express company
robbery, he has taken a banch of Caii
fornia tickets Barnett checked up on
the 1st in-s" and '•bevfrire roald not
have stoien more than -200
the .vr.-V.vry had been
.for the last, three months
PRICE, TWO CENTS
Special Sale lof
•':x:
Ladies' Underwear Now
Prices
Quoted.
Show Window.
We'll
planned
n-T
it. as
certa'.ued tnat botn Farden a^i,l Barnett i'
bad packages of money in tit:r pesses-
sion before leaving town Friday r.ig!:t
The belief is widespread that Farden. |__
who for munv years past was a trusted employe of ooth the government ana express company, would nor have run away with so smaii a sum as $16,000 or §ld,000. the amount conceded by th? express company's oiliciais as uaviu£ been stolen.
Cholera Scare
I'"rom .INPUT! EXAGGERATED.
TACOMA, Sept. 9.—The steamship coma arrived, .roni the Or.out, bringing 8,500 tons o. cargo, incladlug ii.OOO tons of tea and 1,000 bales of silk. Her officers say the cholera scares from Japan -are greatly exaggerated, and that the scare there lr-^s not assumed the propor
tions indicated bv some of the
f\
1
OCA v3/
You Money
it: I
cash l'rom cue Vaiulaiia road. Yesterday's disclosures developed the
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H. B. ITHAYER.
Green fie Id,^ Ind*.
8 Main ind 13, 15 ai.d 17 State Sts.
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