Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1887 — Page 2

TILE IXDIAAPOIilS JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 23, 1SST.

H. Reagan io the Hanse of Representatives. Bill" has lived all his life in the pine woods of Henderson county, Texas. lie never saw a gas burner in bis neighborhood. Pine knots and tallow dipa are pood ei.ouph for Bill's vicinity, aod there is not a two-story house within fifty miles of where his ramshackle cabin sits on tilts. There are ten hie comities in the congressional district. When the convention met o Palestine last cummer, every one of them had k candidate, ' and all ' the aspirants were invited to address fbe . delegates. When Bill, Martin stood no and swung his arms around, be gathered in the mney woodsmen at the first word. II is manner and bis gestures were never learned from books of elocution. His competitors were well-dressed men, otneof them with a better reputation for statesmanship. Bill had come in on his mule from Henderson connty. He had his pants in his boots. He wore a butternut shirt and bis bands were bie enbngh to cover a wide expanse ef territory. Bill told the boys bow be had been Drought up to raise cotton, whittle pine sticks, ehew tobacco and hunt razor-backed hogs of the Texas persuasion. He said he was no statesman, but he wanted the office and wanted it bad, and above all things be thoneht there onght to be one genuine home made Texan in Washington. Tben the convention howled, but they howled louder and longer when Bill shouted out that when he went to Washington he would be the same old Henderson-county Bill Martin as before, and would go in the time clothes that he then wore. They turned right sronnd, and after emptying the other candidates out of the convention, they nominated - Bill, and be was elected by a big majority. Nothing was heard of him nntil a few days ago since last summer. A week ago he appeared at the little railroad station in Palestine, in his old )in-y-wood toggery, and started for the national capital. He had never ridden twenty miles on a railroad in his life before. He carried no grin-sack, for he had nothing to put in one. He made a speech before he left, and said that if Congress did not like his ways and cloths "trier could be darned, for Bill Martin never would chang." The other Texas members in Washington had taken measures to capture Bill. Congressman jrain. from the Galveston district, and Roger jy. Mi.'ls, from Waco, watched for bim at Baltimore and corralled him. Bill foneht hard against their suggestions, but finally consented to have his hair cut, They kept him in Baltimore three davs, and got his pants out of his hoot. On Thanksgiving day tbev bought him a new suit of store clothes and emptied bis butternut coverings into the cellar. That night tbey brought him to this city, and after warning him against the wiled and dangers of the pi ace. tnt him in Siis room at Willard's, and thought be was safe. Then the Hon. Mr. Martin blew ont the gas. When he had recovered consciousness and was himself again, he made a solemn oath that no such death-trap snonlrl catch him again, and early this morning be left the hotel to find a place of rest where only candles are burned. And the, dainty Mr. Cram and the well-dressed Mills are hard after him, for old Bill Martin has only commenced the sensations be will create in Washington. When be left the hotel to eeeK another boarding-place, he forgot his coat and went in bis rhirt-sleeves. and the other Texas members want to lasso him. MINOR MATTERS.

What the Agricultural Department Says of the Crops In Indiana. Special to the Jndianaoolis Journal. Washington; Nov. 27. Commissioner of Agriculture Colman, in his monthly report upn the condition of the crops of the country, has this to say of the State of Indiana: "The weather has favored the gathering of the corn crop, and a large portion has already been secured. The quality is fair and the yield will be greater than the appearance indicated some months ago. The yield of Irish potatoes is above what was expected, with quality medium and no reports of rot. Sweet potatoes have generally yielded fair and of good quality. The hay crop will compare favorably with that harvested in 1886, both as regards quantity and quality, but a greater per cent, will be required for home consumption. The yield of buckwheat will be light "The drought can scarcely be said to be broken, as there has not been sufficient rain to cause the wheat to make a satisfactory growth, and much of it will go into the winter with a poorly developed plant. Much uneasiness is manifested by farmers On this account. From failure of wells and water-courses, stock water is becoming a matter of serious concern in many portions of the State. " Allison's Strength as a Presidential Candidate. V ashing ton Special. Judge Lyman, member of Congress from Iowa, and one of the leading Republicans of the Northwest, was asked to-day in regard to his visws on matters political. The Republicans of Iowa, he said, and of the other Northwestern States, have always taken a deep interest in political affairs and never so assiduously as at the present time. He declared that Senator Allison was their unanimous choice for President, Blaine standing second on the list; that Allison was exceptionally strong throughout the West, and his candidacy would make sure Republican States of Michigan and Wisconsin, which late elections have placed in the doubtful column. 'Speaking for myself," said Judge Lyman, "I regard Senator Allison as the strongest Republican, East or West, before the people to-day. He is a man against whom no antagonism could be raised, whose character no man could malign, and. best .f all, he possesses a liberal amount of brains. But as I understand matters." concluded the judge. ' Mr. Aliison will step abide if Mr. Blaine is presented as a candidate and will give him his unqualified support under those circumstances."

General Notes. Fr-eeial to the Indianapolis JournaL Washington, Nov. 27. Manning Weller, of Mnncie, is here, and will likely open a manufacturing confectionery establishment on Dec. I, on F, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. General Brown has arrived and will occupy his old quarters at 1332 I street during the session of Congress. WOEK AND WAGES. Strikers Tlave Plenty of Money, and Employers Say They Have Plenty of Men. Chicago. Nov. 27. "We have just received information,"' said President Streat, of the Typographical Union, "that one labor organization will contribute $29,000 to the support of our strike. I refer to the National Amalgamated Bnilding Trades Council. They have a membership of 400,000, and propose to levy a five-cent assessment upon all their members. We are now in a condition to continue this strike until Jnlv I, 1888." "A number of union printers have annlied for work," said Mr. C. II. Blakely. of the Typothetse; "some of them were given their " old places, but others were informed that there was no work for them. It makes no difference to us how much money the strikers receive. I hope they will get $100,000: they will need it for the support of their families . before the winter is over. I have been here all day and have not received any applications for men from our raembersT Va received a letter yesterday from St. Louis informing us that they could send ns a number of first-class job printers. For fear they would send them I snt a telegram telling them that no more men were wanted. I am afraid that the union will declare the strike off to-morrow. We do not want that done. If the strike lasts one week longer there will cot be a situation left vacant." ' Threatened Strike of Coal-Miners. Pittsburg, Nov. 27. The officers of district assembly. No. 5, Knights of Labor, comprising ;he coal-miners of the Monongahela and You eh ibeny eoal regions, bave addressed a letter to t'he Pittsbuzg Times for publication to-morrow. They declare that unless the operators of those regions grant the miners fortnightly pay and make various other lesser concessions a strike will occur at once. Over 5,000 miners are involved. Interviews have been had with several leading operators on the subject. They are unanimous in saying tbey matt abide a strike if it comes. The coal barges in the rivers are all loaded at present and awaiting a rise to go south. Until the water rises they are unable to accomplish much. They think a strike would be a mistake on the part of the miners. Under the circumstances the operators feel unable to grant the demands.

New York Central Labor Union. New York, Nov. 27. To day's meeting of the Central Labor Union was, as usual, a turbulent one. An application for admission of the brewery engineers, who are said to be socialistic, and who have left the Knights of Labor, was the bone of contention. The Socialists and anti-Socialists called each other dynamiters ami scabs. The application was finally rejected, 58 to 48. Many Socialists thereupon left the hall in anger.

A PECULIARITY" of Hood's Sarsaparilla is that while it purifies the blood, it imparts new vigor to verr function of the body.

H0ERIBLE TRAGEDY IN A JAIL.

Two White Prisoners Fatally Beaten tj Indiaus. Who Afterward Commit Suicide. Glentdive, M. T., Nov. 27. Early yesterday morning three Sioux Indians, named FingerNail, Sitting-in-Front and Pete Matthews, confined in the county jail here for horse-stealing, made an rttaek on two white prisoners. Their weapons were table-knives, a pair of scissors, and common chairs with which the jail was supplied. After inflicting mortal wounds on the white prisoners, . Finger-ail and Sitting-in-Front hanged themselves in their cells with their bunk-straps. They were assisted by the other Indian, Pete Matthews, who, after they committed the deed, tried to butt his brains out against the walls of the cell, but was secured and ironed by Sheriff Tuttle and several others. The two Indians who hanged themselves stabbed themselves all over their bodies before resorting to hanging. Francisco Salamo, an Italian, who was confined on a charge of burglary, was stabbed . in several places, and the county physician does not expect him to live until morning. The other prisoner, L. H. Turck, awaiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of rape, was stabbed and pounded over the head with chairs in the hands of the Indians. He regained consciousness late this afternoon, and only remembered that the Indians attacked him with knives, after which he became unconscious. The doctor says he will recover with proper care. The Indians who did the work tried to starve themselves to death several months ago, and after that remarked that they would not live to be tried for horse-stealing. During the te rm of court, which convenes on Monday, the 28th, they had their war paint, and no doubt the assault was premeditated. The prisoners appeared jolly and contented last evening when the janitor made his rounds. They were allowed too much liberty, neither of the cells being locked, only the outside door of the cage being secured. They had access to all the cells, and the Indians waited until they thought the white prisoners slept the soundest. DAILY. WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington. Nor. 28 1 a. m. For Indiana Fair weather; light to fresh winds, becoming variable; slightly colder in the southeast portion; slowly rising temperature in northwestern portion. For Hlinois Fair weather; slowly rising temperature; light to fresh, variable winds. For Ohio Fair weather, preceded by light snow in the northeast portion; light to fresh northwesterly winds, becoming variable; colder. For Lower Michigan Colder, generally fair weather; light to fresh westerly winds, becoming variable. For Upper Michigan and Wisconsin Fair weather, slowly rising temperature; light to fresh, variable winds.

Local Weather Record. Indianapolis. Nor. 27, 1887.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weaih'r Rain. 7 A. M... 30.00 44 88 N'wst Hy Rain 0.44 2 P. M... 30.24 23 89 West. H Snow 0.36 9 P. M... 29.46 14. 71 N'wstjClear. 0.02

Maximum thermometer, ; minimum thermom eter. 13.

tion of temperature and rain-fall for Nov. 27, 1887

Tern.

3t 27

9

23

Normal.......--.--.-.. ........

Mean. ............................... Departure from normal.............. Total excess or deficiency since Nor. 1. Totalexceas or deficiency since Jan. 1.

Rain.

0.12 0.82 0.70 0.44

12 12.77

General Observations. Washington, Nov. 27. 9 p. if.

Stations.

Nw York eitr......(3(

PhiladelDhia. ' Pa. - 30. 1 3

Wash in erton CitV. 3(

Charleston, ti. C... 30.16 San An ton i a. Ga...- 30.40

Jacksonville, Fla... 30.14 Atlanta. Ga- 30.22 Pensacola. Fla 30.12 Titusville. Fla 30.14

Montgomery, Ala.. 30.20 Vicksburg. iliss 30.40 New Orleans. La...- 30.20

Shreveport, La. 30.48 Fort Smith. Ark.... 30.58

.Little Rock. Ark... 30.54

Galveston.Tex 129.98

Palestine. Tex 3O.40

MemDbis. Tenn . 30.50

Nashville. Tenn 30.42

Louisville. Kv...... 30.46

Indiacanolia. led... 30.46

Cincinnati. O...... 30.40 Pittsburir. Pa 30.14

Boise Citv. I. T-... 30.34

fhwaro. S. Y. S30.04

Calearv. N. W. T.... 30.42

Toledo. 0 30.30 Minnedosa, N. W.T. 30.46 Esoanaba. Mich. 30.28 Prince Arthur's L'g. 30.38 Chicasro. III. 30.46

Milwaukee. Wis 30 4

TnWh Minn 30.46

St. PauLMinn 30.50

Davenport. la...... 30.54 Des Moines, la...... 30.56 Concordia, Kan. 30.54 Keokuk. la. 30.58 Cairo 111. 30-56

SnrincKftM. Til 30.58

St. Uuis. MO 30.50 Snrinefield. Mo 30.62

Leavenworth. Kan. . i30.60

Omaha. Neb 30.56

Valentine. Neb 30.40

Yankton. D. T 30.42

Moorhead. Minn.... I30.50

Bismarck. D. T. 30.52 Vort Kuford 30.48

Fort Custer. M.T.. 30.34

Qu'Aoelle. N. W. T. 30.54 Deadwood. D. T 30.34 Cheyenne. Wv. T- 30.20 North Platte. Neb.. 30.50

Denver. Col 130.30

W.Las Animas, Col. 30.20 Dodge City, Kan... 30.56 Fort Elliot, Tex.... 30.46 Fort Sill. 1. T 30.60 Port Davis. Tex 30.38

El Paso. Tex 130.30

SaltLake City ,30.42 Santa Fe, N. M j30.44 Montrose, Col 130.56

Bar.

Ther Wind. R.F. Weather 5 8, South I Cloudy. 62, South (Clear. 62 1 North ... .iFair. 64 East. .04 Fair. 38 North Fair. 64 S'east Clear. 58 N'wst T Rain. 70 Calm. .... Cloudy. 70 N'wst .01 Clear. 56 N'wst .Ol Cloudy. 34 North .14 Cloudy. 28 North .12 Cloudy. 34 North Clear. 22 Neast Clear. 28 North Clear. 42 North ..... Cloudy. 30 North Clear. 24 1 N'wst T Clear. 22 N'wst .74 Cloudy. 22 N'wst .20 Cloudy. 14 N'wst .02 Clear. 22 N'wst .30 Cloudy, 42 N'wst .01 Sn. 30 Calm Cloudy. 44 West. .02rRain. 6 Calm. T Clear. 26 West. .06 Cloudy. 16 N'wst Clear. 4 N'wst T Clear. 10 Calm Clear. 6 West Clear. 2 West Clear. 8 Swest Clear. 8 Swest ..... Clear. O N'wst Clear. 0 S'east ..... Clear. 6 South Clear. 8 West. Clear. 18 Neast Clear. 8 N'wst Clear. 14 N'wst Clear. 10 North Clear. 8 South Clear. O South Clear. 4 N'wst Cloudy. 2 1. S'east Clear. 10 Calm Clear. 14 West Clear. 20 Swest Clear. 12 East. .01 Cloudy. 20 Calm Clear. 14 Swest .. Cloudy. 30 N'wst Clear. 4 Swest Clear. 26 South Clear. 2 West. ..... Clear. IO S'east Clear. 18South Clear 16North ..... Cloudy 34 1 East. Clear. 44! Calm Clear. 28 1 West Clear. 24. North Clear. 18, S'east Clear.

T Traces of rain.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Manager John Stetson, of the Globe Theater, Boston, had $2,200 worth of jewelry and diamonds stolen from his apartments early yesterday morning by an unknown thief. The safe in the county treasurer's office at Centerville, Reynolds county, Missouri, was blown open, Friday night, and robbed of about $20,000 in cash, recent tax collections. Ryan II. "Willis, son of a saloon-keeper near Fort Hamilton. Long Island, was shot and killed, Saturday night, by Patrick King, a private watchman at the fort. King will be tried in the United States Court. Savarro Ciganino, a wealthy Italian speculator and real estate owner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was shot and fatally wounded, last night, while visiting at 36 Union street, in the Italian quarters. His assailants escaped. The object of the attack was robbery. Martin Cody and two companions were out on Lake Michigan, near Chicago, yesterday, in a small sail-boat. The craft was capsized, by a strong wind, and Cody was drowned before assistance could be rendered. The body has not been recovered. The residence of Elmer E. J acobs, at Winchester, O., burned on Sunday night. A son. sixteen years old, who was confined to his bed with fever, escaped from the building by jumping from an tipper window, but in doing so received fatal injuries. John Minater, of the Wooster County (Mass.) News, was horse-whipped at Webster, on Saturday night, by Mrs. Eliza Martin, of Webster, who claims that she was slandered in the paper. Minater broke the whip and the woman then went at him with her fists. Henry Ebert, of Jersey City, shot his wife at their home, last night, and then shot himself. Mrs. Ebert died almost instantly Ebert is still alive, but it is not expected he will recover. The couple's only child, a girl aged four years, was not in the house, and there were no witnesses. Wm. Kuzzler, of Cincinnati, janitor of the fifth district public school buildings, his son and Mr. Keller, a member of his family, were taken violently ill Saturday night, with symptoms of poisoning. The two men wero relieved by a physician, but the boy is in a precarious condition. It is thought the poison was put in their supper by some accident. Lawyer Ke bier's Frauds. Cincinnati, Nov. 27. Mr. Charles Albert Kebler, the suicide, having been buried, his late partners are free to speak of the causes. The revelations confirm what has already been stated, that be bad fonnd himself face to face with exposure, and avoided it by seeking death. On a scrap of paper found in his room was writ, ten. apparently just before he took the fatal Prussia aoid, the words: "The time has come." Messrs. Roelker and Jetke. bi late partners, say

tbey had jnst discovered, the week before his death, that be had sold a mortgage for $3,500 to a client when there was no such mortgage on record. This led to a confession by Kebler, and in a day or two his suicide followed. Until an administrator is appointed it cannot be known to what extent bis wrong-doing has gone. So far as known now, it appears that the sufferers are among his own clients, and include members of his family. His forgeries reached even to court records. There was no possibility of avoiding exposure, yet it now appears that the forgeries have been going on at least six months. INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. A Twelve-Tear-Old Girl Tries to Save Her Two Brothers, and All Are Drowned. (Special to the Indiaranolis Journal. Morrison, HL, Nov. 27. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. "White Lillie, aged twelve, Georgie, aged thirteen, and Charles, aged eight were playing with their sleds on the thin ice on Rock creek, when Charles broke through. Georgie ran to his assistance, and in his efforts to rescue the drowning boy he also went tinder the ice. Their sister, Lillie, then made a frantic attempt to save her two brothers, and all three were drowned. The bodies were recovered after they had been in the water about an hour. Not That Coombs. Special to the lndianaoolis Jonroau Fort "Wayne, Ind., Nov. 26. The "Washington correspondent of the Journal errs in the statement that the Thomas Coombs, whose skeleton was found in Virginia, was a citizen of Fort "Wayne. There is a Thomas A. Coombs, a resident of this city, son of ex-Judge Coombs, of the Supreme Court, but he is alive and well The two are first cousins. Indiana Notes. Virgil Little, an old and leading citizen of Steuben county, is dead. His wife died a few weeks ago. Mr. Little was a full cousin of Roscoe Conkling, the New York lawyer and exSenaor. The grand jury of Tippecanoe county has retarned an indictment against the trustees of the old "Wabash &Erie canal A. "W. Dukes, Milton Shirk and T. J. Immel charging them with maintaining and permitting a pernicious, healthdestroying nuisance to exist, the same being the old State ditch. The owners of the canal recently turned the w.ter out of the canal to shut off Lafayette's source of supply. The Tipton Gas Company has beei incorporated with a capital stock of $75.0Ct), aad operations have been commenced. The company is leasing all lands within a radius of five miles of the city, and will pay for the leasing of such lands, whether they use them or not. The company is a foreign company, but some of the most prominent citizens have take a stock ii it. Sharpsville and Windfall, small towns in T'pton county, are using gas for heating purposes. Illinois Items. The appointment of Thomas McFall as one of the trustees of the Soldiers' Home is hailed at Quincy with pleasure by the Democrat.?. He is superintendent of the publie schools of Q;v'ju.'y. George Ml Glassco, of Tuscola, aud Bruce Glassco. of Charleston, have purchased tae Charleston Plaindealer, the leading Republican paper of Coles county. Bruce Glassco will take control at an early day. A lawyer from Dahlgren was taken" before United States Commissioner Bradford at Springfield, on Friday, charged with having withheld $100 from an amount of $500, the first payment on a pension for the widow of his brother. Mrs. Martha Cremeens, of McLeansborough. He was held in the sum of $300, and furnished fra.fl.

A Fruit and an Ice-Qoase. Rural World. ' Those who have not good frost proof cellars in which to store fruits and vegetables can easily and cheaply make a house that will answer the purpose admirably. A room built with double walls, having a two-foot and a half space between, boarded up on the inside and out, the space closely filled with cut straw, a double roof with a three-foot space, and also filled with straw, will maintain quite an even temperature the year round. Such a room is all that is needed for an ice house, and now is the time to be thinking of making one for this purpose. The two ideas will work together well. Both the fruit and the ice need a low temperature for their preservation, and what provides it for one will do so for the other. Therefore, simply inclose more space, divide it into two parts, one for fruit and vegetables, the other for ice. A supply of ice will greatly aid in preserving the summer fruits, by simply putting a piece in the fruit-room daily. To be able to keep fruits fresh for a long period is a source of profit, and to have a supply of ice during the hot weather is a luxury so cheaply obtained that it. is simply astonishing any farmer does without it. Young Incendiary Lynched. Special to the lndianaoolis Journal. Modesto, CaL, Nov. 27. A body was fonnd hanging to a tree in Patterson's field, about half a mile west of Oakdale, yesterday. Investigation proved the body to be that of a boy named Frank McCutcheon, and that he came to his death at the bands of a mob. Oakdale has been visited by a great many fires recently of incendiary origin. On Friday evening young McCutcheon was causrht in the act of setting fire to a barn, and was taken 'before Justice Warder, who held him to answer before tbe Snpreme Court. Excitement was running high in Oakdale, and it was deemed a precautionary measure to move the prisoner immediately to the connty jail, and Constable James Sawantol started out at a late hour for this city. At Patterson's field the constable was overpowered by a crowd, who took the culprit ont of tbe officer's charge and banged him to an oak tree. Before being banged the boy confessed, acknowledging ten or twelve incendiary fires with which Oakdale has-been visited within the past two weeks. Obituary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Champaign, HI., Nov. 27. Hon. M. Thompson, a member of the Illinois Statt Senate, a prominent citizen and a leading Republican politician of this district, died at his residence here this morning very suddenly, of heart disease. He was for many years prosecuting attorney of Champaign county. He leaves a widow, three daughters and two sons. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 27. Mrs. Benjamin F. Bruff died yesterday, aged fifty years. Mr. Bruff, who was agent of the United States Express Company, through worry over the illness of his wife, fretted himself sick and died a few weeks ago, and is now followed by the wife. Three sons constitute the family. Chicago, Nov. 27. Giovanni Bressan, a wellknown artist, who has won considerable distinction in his profession, died suddenly in his study to-day of apoplexy. He is said to have a wife and children in Philadelphia. A "Would -Bo Train-Wrecker Arrested. Charleston, "W. Va., Nov. 27. One of the Enreka detectives. Lieutenant Baldwin, arrested Noddy Moses in the mountains back of Woods, Putnam connty, yesterday, and placed him in jail at Win field. Moses piled cross-tries.last Monday evening, upon tbe . & O. railroad track, for the purpose, as is alleged, of wrecking the pay-car on that road. Instead of the pay-car, Superintendent Sweeney's car and engine, hauling a number of the officials over the road on a tonr of inspection, came near being wrecked. The engineer saw the piled ties jnst in time to save bis train. Moses confessed, and gave the name of his accomplice, who, as yet, is still at large. t f Killed in a Falling: Building. 1 Minola, Tex.. Nov. 27. Late last nieht a heavy wind-storm visited this town, blowing down a ball during the progress of a dance held by colored people. Five persons were killed &nd about twenty injured. About seventv persons were in the hall when it collapsed. Six of tbe injured have arms or legs broken. Tbe killed are: Thomas Hardeman, Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett, Fannie Benson and Rose Benson. ." The store-rooms below tbe dance ball were occupied by R. P. Glenn & Co., L. A. Denson and N. S. Sodkesome, whose aggregate loss on groceries and general merchandise exceeds $10,000.

As Bad aa a Dynamiter. Prescott, A. T., Nov. 27. The coroner's inquest on tbe bodies of the six men who lost their lives in tbe boiler explosion at Wilson & Co.'s saw-mill, on tbe 19th instant, was concluded last night. Tbe jury found that the explosion was caused by the placing of some foreign substance in the boiler, and names Louis Beck as suspected of being implicated in the affair.

A Grest Legacy. ; To bequeath to your children is a strong, elean, pore constitntion better than wealth, because it will never prove a curse. Yon cannot give what you do not possess, but mothers will find in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription a wonderful help correcting all weaknesses, bringing their systems into perfect condition, so that their enildren, nntainted, shall rise up to call them blessed! There is not a druggist in the land ! , Bat air-ays keeps a stock on band.)

THE FIRE RECORD.

Grand- Rapids Business Houses S offer to the ' Extent of About S3OO.O0O. Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 27. One of the most serious fires that has visited this city for years broke out at 2 o'clock this morning in the basement of the Nelson & Matter Furniture Company's five-story brick warerooms, Nos. 9 to 15 Lyon street. The fire quickly ascended the elevator shaft and communicated with inflammable material in the finishing department, situated on the third and fourth floors, and in a few minutes the flames were beyond control. As soon as it was seen that the warehouse building was doomed, the attention of the fire department was directed to saving the immense factory, separated from the warehouse on the west by an alley only thirty feet wide. The factory covered an acre or more of ground, and was filled with dry lumber . and shavings. The firemen succeeded in saving the building, though it caught fire several times. East of the burning warehouse, separated by a sixteen-foot alley, was a block of three and fourstory brick buildings, occupied by the Fourth National Bank, about a dozen stores, a large number of offices, and in part by the Nelson & Matter Company. The fire communicated to these buildings, and made rapid progress, but it was confined chiefly to Nos. 29 and 31 Canal street, though the buildings on either side were much damaged. The goods throughout fhe entire block were also seriously damaged by water. The loss is estimated at $300,000, pretty well covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by" spontaneous combustion. Five hundred men will be thrown out of employment. The warehouse will be rebuilt as soon as the weather will permit. Other Fires. Pittsburg, Nov. 27. The large tannery of the Acmetonia Tanning Company, at Acmetonia station, on the "West Pennsylvania railroad, was burned to the ground yesterday, entailing a loss of S100,000, about two-thirds of which is covered by insurance. The fire originated in the engineroom and spread rapidly to all parts of the building. PrxTTTK, Nov. 27. The new Pilgrim Congregational Church burned this evenine, catching fire from a stove in the auditorium. The church would have cost, completed, $40,000, and would have been the finest in the city. About $28,000 had been expended upon it. Insurance, $13,000. It is thought the contractors will have to bear the loss. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Singular Story of His Arrest on Suspicion of Treasure-Stealing. Anniston (Ala. ) Special. Jefferson Davis has had a good many narrow escapes, bat one of them has never been told in print, and the chief actor in the affair has never cared to talk about it. 4 Somewhere along in the fifties the Nobles, an English family residing in Pennsylvania, decided to move southward. Tbey selected Rome, Ga.. as their objective point, and started on their journey, after making the necessary disposition of their goods and chattels. The Nobles had some family jewels and about $4,000 in cash. How to carry these valuables safely, bothered them not a little, but they packed tbe money and jewels in an old-fashioned English hand-chest and took them along. The travelers landed at Charleston, and took the next train for their destination. Some extra fare was demanded, and in paying it they had to open their chest and expose their treasure. Sharp eyes were on the watch, and the glitter of the contents of the chest attracted attention. Aa a matter of precaution, the chest was confided to Miss Mary Noble, who sat in a secluded section of the car with her back to the door. At Branchville, S. C. two gentlemen boarded the train. One was a young, wiry-looking man, and the other was tall and slender, past the meridian of life, and of distinguished appearance. . When Angnsta was reached tbe two strangers went on to Atlanta and the Nobles discovered that their precious chest was missing. Tbe conductor was clamorously appealed to, and he instantly gave it as his opinion that "the oneeyed man had stolen it. n ''He is a bad lookiog fellow," said the condnstor. Tbe chest had evidently been snatched out of the rear window of the car, as tbe suspected man took his departure at a moment when Miss Noble s attention was fixed in soma other direction. After a consultation, it was decided that Mrs. Noble and Miss Marv should proceed to Atlanta

f-Mri cause tbe arrest of the supposed thief, while

Mr. Noble and the others remained in Augusta, awaiting, not very confidently, the result. Mrs. Noble succeeded in tracing tbe two men to their stopping place in Atlanta, and identified them as soon as she saw them. At her request they were arrested and carried to police headquarters, where the astonishing discovery was made that "the one-eyed man" was President Pierce's Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, and his companion was bis private secretary. Mr.: Davis was in a good humor, and. of course, the two gentlemen were at once released with manv apologies. - Before leaving, Mr. Davis told Mrs. Noble and her daughter that be regretted their loss, and he tendered them a $20 gold piece as an evidence of his sympathy. Mrs. Noble declined to accept the rift, but Miss Maty spoke up and said: "Yes, take it. That is some of our money that the old rasoal took." Mr. Davis smiled acd pressed the money upon Mrs. Noble, who finally took it, and carried it to her husband in Aueasta. Suspicion was tben directed to the conductor, but bis sudden death in tbe course of a few days stopped farther investigation. ' After the election of Mr. Davis to the Presi dency of the Southern Confederacy, Mr. Noble, then a prosperous contractor, visited him at Montgomery, and talked with bim about manufacturing cannon. Mr. Davis asked him several questions, and tben referred to the loss of the chest. He then introduced Mr. Noble to Mrs. Davis, and told the story of the arrest. Mrs. Davis laughed heartily over the incident, and, with her husband, took quite an interest in the Nobles from that time. Noble went to work and made hundreds of cannon for tbe Confederacy. Later, be founded and built up the flourishing city of Anniston, in Alabama. In the midst of his prosperity he is still devoted to the "one-eyed men,': who was once supposed to be the author of bis greatest misfortune. REMARKS BY BILI. NIE.

The Annoyances "Which Follow the Taming Lonte of a Menagerie. New York World. " The late combined menagerie and holocaust at Bridgeport, Conn., under the management of Phioeas T. Barnura, and the fire fiend brings to mind the zoological panic near St. Louis about the last day of October of the present year, and which, of course, is still fresh in tbe memory of those who tried to recapture some of the animals. On that date, owing to a misplaced switch and the misplaced confidence of the engineer, old John Robinson's great aggregation of modesty and menagerie was thrown from tbe track quicker than the proprietor could pronounce his own name. As soon as tbe cars were derailed cages began to open ap like an insulted hornest's nest, and to yield up various kinds of animals not indigenous to Illinois. Tigers with long, limber tails and mouths that opened like a red-plush reserved seat lit lightly on the trembling earth, deftly cracked their heels together two times in rapid succession, and then moved softly away towards the primary schools of St. Louis. Jaguars bounded oat of tbeir bursting cages and proceeded to take in the town. The scene beggared description. Pale women, who, as a general thing, could not carry in a hod of eoal for their poor, sick husbands, slid casually up a freight car, followed by fleecy clouds of embroidery, or shook their parasols at the Numidiau lion, and told him to go right away from mere. Nine cages of animals were shattered at onee, and these denizens of the forest for the first time in many years felt the beautiful earth beneath their feet and breathed the redolent air of St. Louis. A magnificent leopard oozed ont of his" shattered cage, like a spray of macaroni emerging from tbe mustache of an Anarchist, and softly went upstairs to tbe railroad offices to see about getting a pass, but did not find any one in. On tbe door be fonnd a line written hastily by Mr. Gill and pinned up. it stated as follows: .... ...... j Gone to Siberia. Will be back in a few minutes. : The leopard went in and tried to telephone to Indianapolis for a sleeper, but as soon as his hot breath struck the transmitter the girl at the central office went and concealed herself in the store of a man who did not advertise. When the train pulled out it was short one gnu, one leopard, one hyena, one deer, one ibex, one coyote, six monkeys and two black tigers. A mountain lion escaped, but was recaptured afterwards. Mr. Thomas Riley, of New Haven, Conn., is still short one lobe of himself, which he attributes to tbe mountain lion. Mr. Riley stumbled while twisting tbe tail of the lion to -induce him to go into his cage, and inadvertently sat down in tbe open mouth of the low, coarse brute. He thinks the railroad company wiil be liable. Mr. Joseph Charles was on his war down the stairs when he met the lion coming up. The stairway is not very wide, and Mr. Charles cannot bear the idea of giving a dumb animal need

less pain, so he went back to the superintendent's office about three-quarters of an inch ahead of the lion. Mr. Charles shut the door and locked it just in time to prevent a scene. The ferocious beast climbed op and looked through tbe transom at Mr. Charles and the other clerks with a keen, searching glance. One of the clerks had tne presence of mind to ring for a messenger boy to coma and remove the lion, but there was some delay about communicating with the boy when he came, and so peace was not restored until tbe circus employes came upstairs and captnred tbe lion in a tarpaulin. For several daye, according to reports, people who lived around there were liable to fall over a black tiger in the front ball, or be shocked by the latest guns. Farmers found hyenas in the hen-house or were met by belated jaguars coming home with a jag on. Monkeys fonnd their way rnto homes of affluence, and nervous women required tbeir husbands to get up in the night in their bare feet to search for vampires and boa constrictors. It is a disagreeable thing to have a circus and menagerie tamed loose in a town, and nothing will make a man decide quieker to take his lunch down town than to come home and find a bengal tiger on bis front door-step. No one enjoys watching the haughty sneer of a rhinoceros, or listening to the carol of a cage full of tropical birds, peacocks and guinea hens better than I do, bat they ought to be made to know their place. I am also a great admirer of the elephant, having gone so far as to carry water to a large, Asiatic elephant for several hoars, asking for no further recompense thitn the sweet consciousness of duty well done and a ticket to tbe performance, but I don't want an elephant to come to my house, ring the doorbell and expect me to board him nntil he can get a new menagerie built for himself. Before closing, I wish to state that old John Robinson's circus has not been in any way impaired by the catastrophe out west, but that newer and redder cages will be introduced next summer, and that almost every cage in the parade wiil contain an animal of some kind. I desire also to state that the cages will be no further apart in the procession next year than usnal, and that there will be a choice and moral minstrel performance after the main show, and that highly connected but modest yonng man will climb over tbe audience and refer to it during the ring performance. I say this hoping that, while Mr. Barnum seems to almost fill the entire horizon, no one will lose

sight of old John lobinson. whose speckled horses and long-waisted snakes have done so much towards breaking np our public schools. Bill Nye. LOUISIANA LEPROSr. How Tbey Treat the Victims In the Acadian Colony by the Mississippi. Kew Orleans Special in Philadelphia I'ress. The discovery of two lepers in Philadelphia and the excitement which this event seems to have caused, was a modified reprod action of a far more 6erioas affair, which, indeed, reached tbe dignity of a panic in a southwestern Loasiana town this summer. It is a notorious fact that leprosy has existed and exists to-day in southern Louisiana, bnt with rare exceptions, it is confined to certain well denned localities, where tbe lepers live to themselves in colonies, holding no intercourse with their neighbors and separated wholly from the world. The two principal leper colonies are on the lower end of Bayou La Fourche and a prairie in Vermillion parish. The La Fourche lepers are the most numerous. They live in a swampy country, out of all lines of travel and, indeed, not easily reached. They are quiet, well-behaved people, intermarrying with each other and thus perpetuating the tearful heritage to their children. The State Board ot Health has made several attempts to investigate them, but they are so fearful of being arrested and taken up that they fled to tbe swamps when tbe officers visited them. The existence of leprosv in the La Fonrche district is well known, bat the fact that the lepers held intercourse with those in geod health, caused little alarm on their account. Early this summer, however, reports became current that leprosy existed in tbe town of St Martinsville, the principal town of that section. St. Martinsville is known as the Acadian Paris. It is a town of 2,500 people, beautif ally situated on the banks of the Teche, and one of the oldest settlements in the State. It is the seat of Longfellow's poem of "Evangelino." has a population mainly of Acadian origin, with old fashioned houses, streets lined with orange trees, and with the civilization of France a century ago. It lies at the head of navigation on the Teche, and since a railroad has been built there, has become an important trade centre, and does a large business with the surrounding couetry. The rumor of leprosy was first heard this summer. The story gathered strength as it traveled, and within a couple of weeks had reached terrifying proportions. It was declared through all the surrounding countrv that there were from 600 to 1,000 lepers in St. Martinsville. The town was shunned as though it was placue-stricken. The people of the country refused to venture within its limits; its business died away, and a line was drawn around the town into which but few ventured. Every one suspected his neighbor of leprosy. Kissing and handshaking went outof practice, and the barbers bad nothing to do because no one was brave enough to be shaved by a razor which might have been used previously on a leper. Two or three families who suffered from boils became pariahs, as every one refused to have any relations with them. This condition of affairs, which continued for a few weeks, became finally intolerable, and the

citizens of St Martinsville requested the State

Hoard cf Health to send a committee to the town and investigate the alleged prevalence of leprosy there, so as to relieve the town of the panickv feeling. The president of the board himself went, and an investigation was becun, the like of which has never before been E6en. Every person in the town who was suspected, every one who had so much as a pimple on his face or hands was examined. The investigation showed that the leprosy story had this much foundation, that there were four persons, two women and two children, undoubtedly affected with this

loathsome and disgusting disease, and two others who appeared to bave it, but of whom it

could not be fully determined. The lepers were removed and isolated, and the panic disappeared as rapidly as it had originated. The town of St Martinsville is now free of the disease and doing its usual very good business.

FLORIDA KU-KLUX.

Infamous Outrage Perpetrated Upon Colored

People in Sawanee County. LaVe City Special. The colored peoples' troubles in Suwanee county, west of here, still continues. Last week two colored men and four girls, two grown, were taken out of their beds and brutally whipped. The men were stripped and tied to trees, while the women were stripped to tbe waist and also exposed to shameless indignities. In both cases the gang nnmbered four and six white men masked. No excuse was made or cause given for their merciless act. Since then a reign of terror has existed in the southwestern portion of the county, which is sparsely settled with negroes of small means, but intelligent and thrifty. Mondav night an attack waR made on the cabin of Sam Madison, near Belton. He was aroused in time, and with his two sons resolved to resist In answer to their demands to open the door, he warned them off and threatened to shoot if any demonstration was made. They attacked the door with a huge timber for a battering ram, and Sam and his sons fired at them through a small window. Tbe mob fled, and Sam says one bad to be carried. Blood and pieces of bloody clothing were found in his yard the next morning, but no further trace. His two mules were poisoned the next day, and "coffin letters" sent him to leave the eonntry at once. His offense was that he voted wrong. On the same night, a few miles off, James Abrarns was hauled out of bed, together with his wife, grown-up daughter and son, and tied near their cabin, while the ruffians burnt up the house before their eyes. This was done as ?.hey told bim for a warning, as he was getting rich too fast and had forgotten bis place. Two other outrages of violent character are reported, but no details have yet been received. A Fireside Game. Home Journal. Do not play unless you can give a little margin for surpressed giggles of merriment and surprise. Each child provides himself with slate or bit of paper and pencil. Mammn. too. in the first round of the game, to start interest. Then every player draws the very cutest pig that he can, pen and trough and swill bucket, too. if he chooses, but the pig large and plain in the foreground, and then all in the game close thnr eyes, "honor true," and put on piggy's tail. The squeals come in when eyes have popped open, and, it is found that one has hung this curly appendage to piggy's eye, another swung it .from his ear, and others represented it as spirited comets dangling in the firmament high and dry above his rigship. Chimneys to houses, bails to buckets and pails, andhats to extravagantly dressed ladies and gentlemen can be added in like manner, creating a deal of fun. and sending every little boy and girl to bed with sunshine in heart and face. The best part of these games is that the bulk of their thought and work can be thrown into the children, giving mamma a grateful and needed rest. Steamship News. New York, Nov. 27. Arrived: Willkomxnen, from Bremen; La Gascogne, from Havre.

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Changes Wrought by Fashion Id These Ad Juncta of Dress. London Housewife. The manufacture of buttons seems to hav made great progress during the reigns that followed that of William I1L for buttons came to be used to an extravagant extent It was the fashion for gentlemen, at the end of tbe last century, to wear exceedingly long-tailed coats, having large buttons, tight buckskin breeches buttoned at the kcee. and tied with bunches of ribbons, and when gaiters were worn they battoned all the way down. This fashion, occasionally modified, continued nntil about fifty years ago, and may be called tbe golden age of button-making. All duties on buttons were done away with by Sir Robert Peel. A carious button was made about a century ago and worn by the English dandies of the period. It consisted of polished brass, and waa ruled with lines so fine as to be almost microscopic. Tbe roughness of the surface thns obtained broke the reflection ot tbe light falling on it and gave it prismatic colors. The beauty of mother of pearl and its iridescent brilliancy are believed to be produced by three plates over lapping each other unevenly, and thus they disperse the light as tbey reflect it Tbe brass buttons appeared iridescent from the same cause, and as they cost a guinea each, tbey were highly fashionable at the time. It might be interesting to trace the gradual change from the long Line or snuff-brown coat with rilt buttons and breeches buttoned at tbe pockets and knees, with leggins buttoned all down, to the present almost buttonless styie of garments. Covered buttons were introduced by ML Sander. He lost his fortune in Denmark when Lord Nelson bombarded Copenhagen, and came over to England to try and earn a little money, not dreaming that be would more than recoup himself for what he had lost He introduced first a covered button consisting of cloth or lasting, with an iron shank. His son improved this into what is called t. flexible shank button, which, when made of s:Ik, however, -soon wore out Another advance was the corded edge batton. Next it became tLe fashion to have but tons to match the colors of the clothes. Ivory was too expensive and difficult to dye. Resource was bad to the corozo cut, which is soft, easily cnt and takes any hne required. The changes and caprices of fortune, which at one time covers our clothes with buttons very large and at another time extremely small, affect, of course, the button trade and the persons engaged therein. It seems preposterous that the well-being or misery of a large portion of our laborious population should depend upon apparently so trivial a matter, yet it is so.

Household Hints. A very excellent professional baker in Louisville, Ky., lines his cake pans bottom and sides with thin biscuit dough smoothly rolled out. After the cake is done this is peeled off. He claims that the cakes are of auniformj:olor, and are never burned or scorched. For lemon jelly put half a boxful, or one ounce, of gelatine into a large bowL with four tablespoonf uls of cold water to soften it. "When soft pour over it three pints of actively boiling water; add one cupful and a half of granulated sugar and the juice of two lemons. Stir well, strain through flannel, and when cool put in a cool place. To make saner-kraut shave a head of cabbage into a clean barrel, sprinkle with a teaspoonful of salt and pound thoroughly with a wooden mallet; cut up another, sprinkle with salt and pound, repeating the process until you have the desired quantity. The cabbage should be covered with its own liquid after the last pounding. Cover with a cloth, put on a board and a heavy weight. Leave in a warm place for six weeks. Throw away the cabbage to the depth of three inches, cleanse the inside of the barrel and lid, and it is ready for use. Pupils of the Boston public schools are taught to cook and among other dishes they prepare is the following: Prepare crackers with cheese by mixing one tablespoonful of crumbled or grated cheese, one-half a saltspoonful of salt, one-quarter of a saltspoonful of pepper, for each whole cracker; split the crackers in halves, spread with a thin layer oi butter, put them, buttered side up, into a pan, and brown in a hot oven; when brown spread with the cheese mixture, put them in a shallow earthen dish, add a quarter of a cup of milk for each whole' cracker, and bake until brown. For oyster pie line a buttered baking-dish with pastry and place in it a layer of fine large) oysters. Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter smooth with as much flour, and place small bits of it here and there on the oysters. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Follow this with another layer of oysters, dotted with butter and seasoned as before. Continue this process until the dish is f ulL Pour in enough oyster liquid to fill the dish to within an inch of the top, and cover all with a rich pastry. Bake until a delicate brown, rub over with a little butter or white of egg. and serve hot. Croquettes of beef are infinitely more tempting than unappetizing cold beef cut in slices. Cut a pound and a half of lean cooked beef into very small, dice; place in a stewpan a heaping teaspoonful of finely chopped onions, with a piece of butter the size of a walnut; stir over the fire until the onions become slightly browned; then stir in half a spoonful of flour, with which mix by degrees half a pint of broth or water, adding a few drops of browning; let it boil five minutes, continually stirring it; then throw in the beef, season ratner highly with pepper and salt; when hot. pour it in a deep dish until cold. Beat up two eggs on a plate, also some bread-crums in a separate dish; then divide the preparation into as many pieces as are needed, roll these into round balls or any other shape; roll among the bread-crums till quite covered, then roll them into the egg, then the bread crumbs again: take them out gently, patting the surface lightly with a knife; put them into very hot lard or butter to fry of a golden brown color, being careful not to break them. When done, drain them on a cloth, and serve either on a napkin or bed of fried parsley. A Massachusetts man says that on making an experimental application of Paris green to one side of an apple tree he found that the half to which he applied the solution was completely cleared of the worms, leaving the other half as it was.

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