Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 10 May 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY,

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

SOME Maryland people think they have solved the problem of an automatic railway, for the transportation of the mails, express matter and light freight generally. It is to he operated by electricity, powerful dynamos being placed at stations 25 miles apart, and a very high rate of speed is said to he possible. The system wor.-:s very well on an experimental basis, but may fail when tried on a commercial scale, in spite of the enthusiasm of experts, including Edison, who declares it to be the greatest conception since the telegraph.

TUB statistics of divorce in New Hampshire given in the New York bun were surprising. It appears that the ratio of divorces to mar ages u.e. Granite State has been 'larger for some years than in any other State of the Union, larger than in Connecticut or California.. Within five years 1.000 cases of divorce were decreed, or about one divorce to every ton. marriages. Surely there must be gn-ut. careles.3ne.js among the young men and women of New Hampshire about -n?ei wig imo wedlock. Surely the old folks must «e negligent in giving the proper advice about it to the yomur, .Surely the clergy of the State who bind the bonds of matrimony in nearly every ease mustdisregard the duty of warning the candidates that their union us for iife. In an event, there is certainly eonifcthina: wrong New Hampshire.

THS. DEADLY GYGLOMS:. A Kansas Town Aluioi-t. iptftl veralP«ipt«KUleil, ami ."U:uiy Injur. 1.

The town of Stafford, Kan wa swiped out by a cyclone Tuesday nijjht. A number of people were killed and about thiity wounied. 'l'he wind had boon blowing a gale for throe days, and developed into a cyclone that swept over the counties of Mafl'ord an'I Rice in a ncrt.heastor.ly direction. Croys, farmbouses anil barns were moved down, and the fall extent of t,t damage is not yet reported. The town of Stafford was almost entirely destroyed. hut foitunatelv the people saw the cyeloue coming, and had time to escape to cellars and places of safety, 'lhree an: known to be killed and thirty badly injured. Among the latter were E. Slade, Mrs. iC. Lindsay and daughter, George Davis and two children, William Crawford was instantly killed, and his father, £5. S. Crawford, fatally injured. Mrs. John Love was blown fifty feet from her house, into a w8gon. Sne was fatally injured. The Eureka school house was entirely blswn away, there being nothing left but a few foundation timbers. Ail the houses were frame, and were lifted up and distributed over the adjoining fields.

The Release of James D. Fisli. An Auburn (N. Y.) special of Tuesday, says: James D. Fish, ex-President of the defunct Marine Bank, who was convicted nearl}* nine years ago of maladministration of the bank's finances and sentenced there for ten years in State's prison, will be a free man Saturday morning. The commutation of the sentence of the ex-banker was one of the last executive acts of ex-Presi-dent Cleveland before he left the White House. Fish's sojourn in prison here has certainly lengthened his year3. When he came here be was broken down physically and feeling keenly the diserace of his position, but his health has steadily improved.

Didn't Tntenl to Hurt, Him, As President Carnot was leaving the palace of the Elysee to attend the centennial celebration at Versailles. Sunday, a stranger drew a pistol, and, pointing directly at him, fired. The man was immediately seized, and a rush was made toward the President to discover the extent of his injuries. M. Carnot quickly assured the crowd that he was not hurt, and the excitement was over. The man who did the shooting gave his name as Perrin and his occupation as a marine store keeper. He stated that he had no desire to kill the President, and showed the truth of hiB assertion by proving that he had fired a blank cartridge,

Libby Prison] is Wreckod.

A dispatch from Maysville, Ky., says that the freight train which was transporting the famous Libby Prison from Richmond to Chicago was wrecked seven miles east of there, Monday, by the breaking of an axle of one of the cars. The remains of the war relic were profusely scattered about and people flocked to the scene all day to secure old bricks and lumber as momentoes. No one was hurt.

Woman Snffragfl in tlie Woolly West. The. woman suffragists are making a hot and vigorous campaign throughout Wyoming Territory for the purpose of having a clause inserted in the new State Constitution by the Constitutional Convention favoring ballot by the women. Noted speakers are stumping the Territory to this end, but thus far the primaries have gone against this idea. The Constitutional Convention meets in Olympia, July 4.

Flames.

Five persons we burned to death by the destruction of the dwelling house of W. Bownes, at Chester, N. Y., Tuesday. Four hundred thousand feet of lumber and 200,000 shingles were burned at Ludington, Mich. Thirty stores and dwellings, constituting the village of Waldron, Mich., were destroyed. Six business houses at Greenfield, III. caosed a loss of $60,000.

The President Tuesday evening appointed Frank W. Palmer of Illinois to be public printer Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Hugh 8. Thompson of South Carolina to be civil service commissioners.

At Morrilton, Ark., an attempt was made by a politician, 0. B. Bently, to assassinate ez-Sheriff Harry Coblenta.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has 3,214 school children. Bluffton is building a courthouse. Seymour has 1,740 school children. Chess playing is the rage at Shelbyville.

Crawforuevilie has 2,539 school children. One hundred convicts in the Prison South have the mumps.

There is a probability of the removal of the Aurora nail works to Anderson. The streams in Bartholomew county are being despoiled of lish by dynamiters.

David Smith, /colored) of Crawfordsville, aged one hundred and one years, died Saturday.

L, Peters, of Markleville, was damaged $.1,1)00 hy the burning of his bare by an incendiary,

Eushviile had a chicken, which lived a day, with four legs, four mas, two bodies and one head.

Matt. Hurley, of Evansville, having but thirtv days to serve, has escaped from the Prison South.

CaWin Todd, near Alamo, bitten by a dog. is reported to have gone insane through fear of hydrophobia.

Smith Faulkner, of Jeffersonviiie, scratched himself with a nail. Lockjaw resulted and his death followed.

It is told on Kokomo that a cook stove goi-'a as a chromo to every pur"hfser of a lot in the new additions.

Captain Henry Finch, of Manistee, Mich., has been assigned to the care of the life-saving station at Michigan City.

The Southern prison made its quarter ly settlement with the Auditor of State Monday, handing into the treasury $15,885. "7.

George E. Mullen, of Ne^ Castle, ased fifty, attempted suicide on Saturday by hanging, but was discovered and cut dr.wo by his wife.

Edwin Franksteiu and Nellie Marks, of Louisville, the groom aged sixteen aad the brhie thirteen, were married in Jeflersonviile, Tuesday.

Aureiius Payne, of Ft. Wayne, aged sixty-two, was married Thursday for the eigth time his bride. Miss Alice Coleman, aged twenty-seven.

Henry Smith, of Indianapolis, while Sailing near Riverside, in Bartholomew county, caught & shovel head catfish weighing fiftv-five pounds.

The body of Miss Anna Holmes., of Connersvilie, v."ho left home nearly one. v..jr ago, wAti recently found in the Ohio rive/, at Newport, Ky.

The New Albany Presbytery, at the meeting to he held at Hanover on the 1.4th inat., will ordain several young men for foreign mission work.

Brooks Brothers, of Fort Wayne. have been awarded he contract for building the Asvmm for Feeble Minded Children at Fort Wayne price, $111,423.

Woo'sey Barbour, near Terre Haute, an early pioneer of Vigo county, died Sunday. In 1832 lie studied law under Judge Jeremiah Black, in Indianapolis.

Henry Stockhoff, a young German, working as a farm hand near Brownstowa, committed suicide Tuesday, leaving a note saying he was tired of life.

A mistake has been discovered in the figures of the judges at the interstate oratorical contest at Grinnell, la., which gives Wilkerson, of DePauw University, first place.

A bundle of switches and a warning note having D.O effect in scaring away the only p.?loon keeper at Newtonville, a keg of powder underneath his drinkery lifted it into space.

Ambrose MacNeii, the Scotch artist, is painting a portrait of Lincoln, to be presented to ihe city of Fort Wayne as a companion piece to Captain White's gift of Washington's portrait.

W. A. Walley, of Muneie, at the depth of 245 feet, has struck a vein of water highly impregnated with magnetic qualities. There is a strong flow and the water is considered a valuable find.

Mrs. Sarah Bolton, one of the earlier settlers of Vigo county, was knocked down by a cow last week, breaking her leg near the thigh and causing other injuries. Mrs. Bolton is aged seventyfive.

Wednesday night burglars entered arp sleeping room of Isaac Alexander, at Rochester, and after appropriating $225, took his keys and went to his saloon, where they regaled themselves with the best of his stock.

A farmer named Ring, Thursday, at Lawrence burg, tendered a female ground-hog with three young in exchange for his taxes, and was overwhelmed with disgust when the county refused to accept the offer.

Martin Skinner, ot Greensburg, has been sentenced to the penitertiary 8Ba horse-thief. Afttr his conviction his promised bride insisted that their marriage should follow, but the consent of the Sheriff could not be secured.

Highlands, three miles from Vineennes, the male Orphan Asylum of the Catholic church, burned Monday mornirg. About one hundred and forty boys are, homeless. The buildings were insured for $2,500. The loss is complete.

Miss Emma and Louise Stuckey, of Cr'wl'ordsville, comely country girls, cl arged with disturbing a religious meeting, pleaded guilty and were committed to jail. Their father is a prosperous farmer, hut he refused to pay the fine.

The report ot the Union Railway Company, for April, shows that 3,208 regular passenger trains entered the Union Station at Indianpolis during the month, and 61 special trains. The total number of coaches included in both was 23,721.

An egg measuring 10A inches in its largest circumference was the product of a Kendallville light Brahma pullet, and when broken a full sized and perfect egg was found within the same surrounded by the white and volk of the larger egg.

At Laport, Sunday, fire destroyed sixteen ice-houBes and" their contents of 26,000 tons of ice, together with twenty Lake Shore freight cars. Charles Ohlis. son of the superintendent, was, it is feared, fatally burned. The loss is estimated at $33,000.

John Sinkman obtained a license and attempted to operate a saloon at Newtonville in opposition to the overwhelming sentiment of the community. All other means tailing to abate the business, powder was placed under his saloon and it wag blown to atoms.

Dr. A. B. Collar, of Syracuse, convict­

ed of criminal malpractice and sentenced for six years Otto Riley, colored, who attempted to kill Moses Nelson at a church festival Wm. Kibler, accused of larceny, and Webb Brat, escaped from the $700,000 jail at Kosciusko, Saturday night.

Monroeville Republicans are so determinedly opposed to Hugh Stewart, recently appointed postmaster, that a boycott has been organized against the office, and citizens have arranged for a pony express, and send theivmail to a little town across the Ohio line to be forwarded.

Lillie Roberts, of Jeffersonville, aged sixteen, made a dying request that Jier father and brother, both confined in the Prison South, should attend her funeral. As this was not permissible, the coffin wascarriedtothe guard-room, and in this way the convicts were enabled to take a last farewell. -v

The Bee Line and Indianapolis & St. Louis railroad will run no more freight trains on Sunday, and only the passen g«r trains required to transact business. This is in accordance with the determination of the Vanderbilts to stop ail unnecessary Sunday labor on all the lines controlled by them.

Elijah Clarkson, of Jennings county, secured a marriage license for himself and Miss Rosa E. Combs, of Columbus. Afterward he returned t.he document, explaning that a differencearosebetween himself and the iady over religious mat ters just previous to the time set for the ceremonies., and the engagement had been declared off.

Sunday night Jordon Rhodes, a lad who is under sentence to the State Reformatory for larceny^ at Waba3b, escaped from the Sheriff's custody and went to Roanoke, where he was given lodging in a private house. Monday morning Rhodes stole a watch and other valuables from his benefactor and again fied.

Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows Brice, Peter F. and A. F., Indianapolis, bread making machine Burns, John B., Indianapolis, automatic break adjuster Barrel), Geo. 8., Indianapolis, carpet protector, Myers, John A., Monroe City, combined harvester and threshing machine Owen, W. H.. Onarga, .111., A. B. Bosweli, Fowler, and J.J. Oarlock, Watzka, ptove Scott, Stephen E. riainweil. Mich., and W. Ohern, Fort Wavne. railway bridge 2i?.ard Will Brandt Emit, Indiana polls, surgical needle cane,

It is the opinion of State Superintendent LaFoliette, judging from the reports that have been received, that the enumeration of echocu children in Indiana this year will show a smaller population than in previous years, the decrease in some counties being from 300 to 500. This is due,he believes,to the care of the persons taking the enumeration to make it correct. In his instructions the Superintendent required affidavits from the enumerators, and it is already evident that it will have good effect,

Patents were Tuesday issued to the following Indiana inventors: Jasper Ackerman, Lowell, pen Charles E. Adamson, Muncie, apparatus for printing in imitation of type-writing Jonas 8. AlJrick, Butler, wind-mill Cbas. G. Colon, Elkhart, cornet Robt. C. Elliott, Frairie Creek, bame connection John M. Fellows, Burlington, fence Gideon Flake, Centerville, gate Jas. A Graham, Fort Wayne, draft rigging for railway cars Mo. Higgins, North Indianppo^ basket John F. Laeey, Domestic, posthole boring machine, Henry G. Niles and Vanhnfiel, Mishawaka, low clevis Franklin P. Spangler, Goshen, broadcast seeder Alexander Staub, Fort Wayne, stove-pipe thimble Hiram B. Trout, Terre Haute, attachment for mowing machines Jan. Weathers, Indianapolis, sash holder.

Charles Osborne, of Montgomery counly, acted as a Federal Deputy Marshal at the last election, and he arrested Charles Haas, of Waynetown,for alleged violation of the election law. Mr. Haas was acquitted. Osborne was fined for assault and battery on both Mr. and Mrs. Haas,which was paid by his friends. Mr. Haas sued Osborne and Marshal Hawkins for damages, and Mr. Hawkins petitioned to be released on the ground that the law did not authorize the appointment of Federal Deputies towns of less than 20,000 inhabitants, and that he should not be held responsible for acts of Deputies in places ol less population. The point was sustained. Judgment was then taken against Osborne for $500, and Friday his entire possessions, consisting largely of wearing apparel, was sold by the Sheriff to satisiv the judgment. But. $17.50 was realized by the sale, and afterpayment of costs, but 55 cents remained to offset the judgment,

INDIANA JKLKCTIONS.

Town elections in Indiana on the 7th, were largely controlled by local questions. Anderson, Democratic Attica, Rebubb'eau Brazil, Rep. Connersville, Rep Crawfordsville, Rep,, Columbus, Dem. Delphi, Rep. Elkhart, Rep., Frankfort, Rep. Fort Wayne, I). L. Harding, Rep. elected mayor over C. F. abler, incumbent council a tie, This is the first Republican mayor for 22 years the Democratic majority is about 2,000. Harding's majority is about I,00 ?. Franklin, Dem. Greencastle, Rep. Greensburg, Rep. Greenfield, Dem. Hop.", Rep. Jeffersonville, Dem. Kokorao, a Democrat was elected mayor by a Democratic and indefendent movement. Lebanon, Rep. LaPorte, Dem. Lafayette, Dem Muneie, Rep. Madison, Dem. Noblesville, Rep. New Albany, Rep.: Peru, Rep. Mayor, Dem. Council Portland, Rep. Richmond, Dem. Salem, Rep. Seymour, Rep. Shelbyvilie, Rep. Terre Haute, Rep. Tipton, Dem. Union City, Rep. Vincennes, Dem. Valparaiso. Rep. Wabash, Rep. Washington, Dem Marion, Rep. Plymouth. Dem. Huntington, Dem.: Michigan City, Dem. Rensselaer, Rep, South Bend, Dem. Bluffton, Dem.

The Vossische Zeitung says that the American commissioners to the Samoan conference are instructed by their government to demand the neutrality of the island and the administration of Samoan affairs by Samoans, and to urge the claims of the United States to the right to establish a coaling station at Pago Pago. The demands of the United States, however, are not intended to prevent the other powers from exercising their influeribe in accordance with their interests.

Assistant Secretary Bussey, Tuesday, rendered an opinion of great importance, broadening former constructions ih "the line of duty" cases. In the case Tuesday, Mary E. McNeil applied for a

pension as the widow of Alexander McNeil, who, while engaged in a wrestling contest with a comrade in camp, received injuries which resulted in his death. The Pension Office rejected the claim on the ground th?t McNeil was not in the line of duty at the time he sustained his injuries, but Mr. Bussey holds that he was. and lays down the Droad principle that soldiers, while in camp and not disobeying orders or acting in violation of military regulations, are always in the line of duty.

NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE.

More Lawlessness in Hie Sowtli—Armed Regulators I'rtvent tho Ntgroes from Voting.

At 0 o'clock Monday morn nig a party of twenty-five or thirty men, armed with Winchester rifles, surrounded the court-house at Lafayette, La., while several other bands, also armed, remained iust outside of the town limits. These men, in menacing tones, proclaimed that no negro would be allowed to vote at this municipal election. A large number of men, with arms, were in the immediate neighborhood of the court-house squaie, and at the several entrances to the square armed men were posted, and negroes were not permitted to enter.

At 6:30 Sheriff Brcussard offered to escort a number ol men at ihe north entrance to the square to vote. lie attempted to enter with the men, when there was a rush of armed men to the entrance, and shouts were heard, "Shoot them!" "Kill him!" "Don't allow them to jro in!" and the voters turned back. The sheriff entered the courthouse, and the commissioners and clerk of the court and sheriff, who were holding the election, then closed the polls and retired. A sworn statement by these ofificeis was forwarded by mail to the governor.

Late dispatches from Lafayette fully confirm this repcrt. Gov. Nichols received a dispatch from Sheriff Broussard concerning the affair, and stated that he had succeeded in arresting and landing in jail ten of the regulators. The sheriff thinks the parish authorities will be able to suppress the disorder and punish those engaged in the outrage. As a precautionary measure, the military have been ordered to move at a moment's notice. The postponed election for mayor and town council will be held at a future day.

It is stated that the larger portion of the regulators were non-residents of the town and that but lew of t.hem lived in the parish where he trouble occurred,

WHITE SUPREMACY.

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Four hundred, armed men under Gen. Alexander Declouette, of St. Martin's parish, rode into Lafayette, La., Tuesday morning, took post assion of the town, and demanded the resignations of the negro justice of the peac^ and negro constable. The latter had disappeared, but the former complied with their demands. The regulators, pretending to have heard that Mr. Vignaux, a promi nent Republican, who had been suggested by Congressman Coleman as United States Marshal of the Western District of Louisiana, had furnished arms to the negroes, called on that gentleman, who is now town marshal of Lafayette, and discussed with him the matter of his having attempted to vote negroes at the election last Monday. They informed him that their purpose was to prevent, negroes from voting, and they intended to enforce their views on the subject, intimat ng that the best thing Mr. Vignaux could do was to desist from any further efforts on beftalf of negro suffrage. Mr. Vignaux stated that he had no more anxiety than they had on the subject that he was at the poll Monday morning, performing his sworn duty under the law. This statement being satisfactory, the regulators concluded to allow Vignaux to live 3 while longer, and he now «xists by probation, so to speak.

The regulators and authorities finally agreed that an election should be held next Monday for municipal officers of Lafayette, at. which only white men shall vote. As this election will not be legal, the names of those receiving majorities of votes cast will be sent to the Governor for appointment. Attorney General Rogers left for Lafayette, Tuesday evening, by order of the Governor. "White Supremacy" is the slogan of the regulators, but as there are but few negroes in Lafayette parish their war cry would seem to have no application there,

DISAPPOINTED BOOMERS.

Hundreds

tit Find Themselves Destitute—Much Safferiiig.

A dispatch from Arkansas City of Monday the ()t.b says: The suffering of the baffled boomers finds most prominent evidence along this northern border. Monday 1,(100 wagons in the march down and 8'0 wagons on the way back were counted. The groves in the Arkansas and Walnut river valleys that offered camps the boomers before the descent arefiiling again with the returning unfortunates. There are hundreds of families among them who have sold everything to make the trip, and now have nothing left, Tho sight of men, women and children, who are thus unprovided for and desolate with the mere frames of horses surviving to drag them along, is pitiful,

Guthrie still holas the majority of population and is not yc-t symmetrically formed. Oklahoma City is the most, promising town site. Capt. Crouch, the old successor to boomer Payne, was, Saturday, elected mayor, defeating a preacher, whose platform was againBt gambling and whisky. As long as the latter is excluded, as it is now, serious trouble cannot occur in Oklahoma.

A rather sensational repoit upon the subject of teas sent to the American market has been made to the State Department by Consul Crowell, at Amoy, China. The consul says a large proportion of the Amoy oolong tea is dirty and adulterated. The Amoy commissioner of customs calls it "stuff" which was alone wanted in America. Nearly the whole crop is marketed in the United States. The consul hopes the tea-drinkers of America may be protected against the so-called tea known as Amoy oolong. Most of the oolong soes to New York, and honest inspection there would p/event the importation.

THE STATO CAPITAL

Secretary Johnson, ol the State Board of Health, returned Thursday from a trip of inspection through Northern Indiana. He visited the Michigan City prison, the Logansport asylum and several county asylums. He speaks in high praise of the two institutions first named. He describes the Carroll county poor asylum as the worst of all the bad places he has eVer seen. The buildings are old and dilapidated, the insane ward being "little more than a pen. There are six insane persons confined there, two of them are capable of taking care of themselves, and the others are not violent. Three of the women are kept in a pen. One of them is a repulsive and indecent woman, but one was a woman whose face showed that she was not of the coarsest kind, and, she appeared to be rather clean, The, filth of the room in which they were kept, described in the only language that, can be decently used, was simply horrible, and the odor arising from it was sickening. Tb.f are kept confined in the place constantly, and if they were not insane, their surroundings would certain^ make them so.

The State Medical Society met here Wednesday and Thursday, There was a very large attendance, and much interest in the discussions and the varior.3 papers contributed. Dr. J. B.. Gatch, oi Lawrenceburg was elected President Dr. S. T. Yount, o? Lafayette, Vice President Dr. E. S. Elder, Indianapolis, Secretary for the tenth consecutive term*. Dr. T. C. Kennedy, Shelbyvilie, Assistant Secretary Dr. Erank C. Fcryuson, Indianapolis, Treasurer, and Dr, I. i?'. Hibbard, of Richmond, Committee on Necrology.

The attempt oi Evansville to aet rid of its Metropolitan police system is being watched here with considerable interest. There area great many politicians au.d others here who would not heiitate to go back to the old tystem, shaking the force partisan in every leepect. it is not believed, however, any positive action will he taken at leaot unul alter tbf fall eklion.

-irate Treasurer Leinek« regards it almost positive that the German Savings Bank of New York will accept the State loan, now that the Supreme Court has decided the law under which action is taken as constitutional,

Superin1 evident Galbraith,of the Insane hospital, does not propose to resign for about a month, and there is little inclination to force it earlier than thai,.

The advertisement for Eealed proposals from publishers for supplying school books under the new system have brought inquiries regarding vai'ious provisions of the law from publishing firms in St. Paul. Chicago, St, Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Danville, Ind., and Tyrone, Pa. There is some objection to the provision of the law requiring the publisher to ship the books into each county and wait for his pav until they are sold by the school trustees, in the meantime taking the risk of loss by fire or damage from other causes. Still, they seem willing to enter the competition for the contract. Circulars are now being sent direct to all of the 300 school-book publishers in the United States in order that all may be informed of the chance for them to submit their proposals if they care to do so.

A number ol delegates from local camps of the democratic union soldiers' veteran association met at the Hendricks club rooms here, Tuesday. The reports showed that the organization is growing rapidly. Fifteen camps have been established in Indiana, and a number in other states. Applications for other charters are coming in freely. The following officers of the national board have been elected: President., Gen. George W. Koontz, Indianapolis secretary, W. C. Tarkington, Indianapolis treasurer, M. H. Daniels, Indianapolis executive board, C. W. Bridges, Isaac N. Bradwell, Peter Weis, Indianapolis Gen. Rice, Ottawa, O. Samuel T. McCormick, Mnncie, Ind. C. N. Spencer, Columbus, Jnd. G. W. Alison, Nashville, Ind N. A. Myers, Huntington, Ind. The officers of the state board, are: John D. Hale of Adams county, president Col. John S. Scoby of Gieensburg, vice-presideni F. Effingerof Bluffton, secretary W. C. Barney of Elkhart, treasurer.

The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we indorse the four years of Grover Cleveland's administration as president of the United States that we regard all his important official acts as in harmony with true democratic principles, and we believe him to have been at all times a true friend, of the soldier. __

THAT CENTENNIAL BALL.

Drunken 'Walters, Vulgar P*oplear.d Gambler* Colili'ivn Ma he If si Disgraceful

The New York World says: Now that the centennial ball is over, people who paid from $10 to $25 apiece to participate in it, and whose lun was represented by the figure L. are taking out the balance in criticism. The tongues of the ball-goers were blistered with fault-finders Thursday. On all sides it was conceded that the centennial ball was the biggest executive failure of the century. People who were most competent to speak, were loudest in declaring the ball a monument of incapacity and vulgarity. As Mr. Ward McAllister read his private dispatches in his Washington retreat, a complacent smile overspread and softened bis features. The scenes in the supper-room cannot be discribed safely in a newspaper. Never since the palace of the Tulleries was invaded in 1779 by the sans culottes of the Seine department have euch startliug contrasts been witnessed in similar circumstances. When it is said that the waiters, policemen and messenger boys drank most of the free champagne, the si that ion at midnight may be suggested.

Justices of the Supreme Court, Governors, staff officers, club men, lawyers, poets, millionaires, with beautiful and refined women crowded blankly along the supper counter and demanded in vain the attention they were accustomed to receive. The functionaries around the place showed undisguised contempt for the "free lunch fiends." Waiters who did not have to account for the unlimited wine took occasion to neglect guests

and treat themselves. The excellent supper was largely wasted. There was no responsibility for anything to anybody. The "gentlemen's dining room"' '•dea was shown to be an utter fallacy.

By 12:30 a. m. the supper room bad bern given over to people whose ideas of enjoyment had been learned in free-and-easy resorts. Drunken men invaded the ball room, flourishing bubbling bottles of champagne, l'u the corridors free lights were of constant occurrence Gamoiers, book-ma'iers and women, dozed or made merry on the staircases. Never once did an accredited officer ol the evening interfere to anybody's knowledge, The policeman who were sober were helpless. Th«y couid not tell the dress coated waiters from the guests. By J. o'clock most of the respectable element v/ere making frantic and eunpcrless efforts to pel. away. Even this privilege was denied them. A line extei-dinsf from the coatrooms for 500 yard'!, and mci.de up o* some oi the leading citizens of thutown, surged for Lours against the fei-bie and inadequate partitions of the qoat-room. G^ntieiaen grewangiy ar-l desperate at the ut*er inadequacy of trie arrangomenis. With lorn coats and wrinkled shirt fronts, men whose name." are known ail over the Union, fought their way toward their coats under the frequent c.lubs of the police, the jeers of the mob outside, a~:d the pernicious activity oi the pickpockets. It was 5 o'clock in ihe morning before the last battered and ragged guest joined his family at the doors ..and. reached hie hack. 53 its executive aspects the centennial ball was the worst of its sort ever known in the history of the city," said a well Known man about town. Thursday. 'The possibility of letting the attendants get at ail the wine they wanted was enough i:o uin any plane which might have been made. 1. left at S a. n:., without rny hat or coat. Two the checkers inside the cloak room were drunk. I got my umbielln by paying '51 for one exchanged for it in my sight, by the fellow v/no Hvmanderi the dollar. Oi the l&di? I met, one's dresss was ruined by a plate oi salad thrown over it by & drunken brute, and the shoulder of another was cut from a bottle which a stranger had broken upon it. I saw more respectable women insulted in the supper room than I ever saw even accestcd at the French ball, knocked down a man who tried to kisw the daughter of a leading iawy here."'

The ticket-takers had no check placed upon them and there is no question they made lots of money letting in people who never should have been there. Tho policemen lost their temper completely und eareu people out with their clubs. Hundreds of bottles of wine were passed out of doors and sold by waiters and others. One man was drunk, fell down stairs and was so badly hurt he had to be carried off in an ambulance. ?.iaxry slags and potted plants were stolen, and some of the boxes were shockingly soiled after their first occupants had left The supper-room was cleared by clubs shortly after 1 o'clock. The lights were turned out in the ballroom long before the crowd had left the building.

Dr. John W, Gibbs said at the Hoffman House. Thursday night '"I have inst finished a letter of congratulation to Mr. Ward McAllister. The ball as itwent off' was about the best answer hebe could make to those who removed him, Mr. Stuyvesant Fish may know something about railroads, but he knows nothing of how to conduct ball,"

FURIOliS FOREST F^RES

Wi sconsin and Minnesota are Visitel \y Severe Conflagrations.

A dispatch, on the 6th, from St. Paul. Minn., says that furious forest fires are raging in northern Minnesota aud northern Wisconsin and an imnaenss amount of damage ha3 been done. For milesjon three sides of Daluth the fire rages and many country residences have been destroyed by the flames. On the Ifeimantown road, ear Dulnth. every dwelling for four miles has been destroyed. It is (eared that some (iv.-t. have been lost, as incoming 'armers report a vast fire which is sweeping everything before it. A high wind is blowing, which makes it impossible I or anv headway to be made against the fireIt must simply bum until there is nothing more for it to destroy.

In some places, too, ties ou the track have burned out, making it dangerous to move trains. South of Ash la ad for 150 miles the forests are hblaze. On the Fou du Lac Indian leservation over f^0-, OiiO worth of skidded logs wont up. Other losses aggregating $U',(100 also occuried on the reservation. Cumbt. rland, Wis., is almost wholly surrounded by fire. 'Ihe losses aggregate 0,000. North of Grantsburg, Wis., the fire has swept the country, destroying everything in its path. Along the Northern Pacific, in the neighboi hood of Cromwell, the Tamarack forests aad whatever else conn's in the way is being burned. Near Hinckley, Minn., Thomas Campbell and Ernest 'i'owc.1 were surrounded by fire and firaliy their camp ouilit was burned about them. They took refuge on half ail acre of plowed grouud, but weie terribly burued and will die.

An engineer on the niirht train on the St. Paul & Duluth, which arrived here Sunday morning, says that on the run from Mission Creek to near Duluth, sixty miles, there, was no need of abendlight, the tracks being lighted up by the flames. The damage to settlers and farmers and to lumbermen will be great.

HAWES WILL HANG.

A jury at Birmingham, [Ala., Saturday, found Hawes guilty of murder of his wife and daughter, and sentenced him to death. It will be remembered that the bodies of his wife and daughter were found in a lake near Birmingham, weighted down, and the skull ol. his wife crushed. Hawes had married another woman tne day after the murders. When the body of his daughter was discovered, he was arrested and jailed. The finding of the body of Mrs. Hawes aroused the people to intense frenzv, and it was determined to lynch Hawes. On the morning of December 0, a mob, which had been surging about the jail, made an attack. Sheriff Smith repeatedly warned the crowd that he would order the troops to firs if the attack was made. No heed was taken by the maddened throng, and at the command of the Sheriff the Gatling gun was turned on tne crowd and fired. Twelve killed and fifteen wonnded was the result of the firing.