Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1889

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TIIE .FEATHER WEIGHT FIGHT

A long and Weari?ome '(3ontest, with Sow and Then Very f hicL.7 Work. After a Single Lasting , Through lignty Hounds, a Postponement Is Ordered, and the Fight Practically (Hoses in a Draw. Chicago, March SI.--Tho long-talked-of fight between the father-weights, Ike Weir, the Belfast Spi'ler, and Frank Murphy, of England, for tho championship of the world, took placo. at Koutts, Ind., this morning, but resulted, as so many fights have lately, in a raost unsatisfactory manner, the referee, alter the eightieth round, "being obliged to declare the ligbtoff for the day, announcing,' tbat it would have to be finished some "Vime before Tuesday. It is extremely douMful, however, if the men come together again certainly not within "that time aiad another draw will have to go on record. The fi ht this morning was a most peculiar one. For eighteen rounds it was as Scientific and linTillt fnrnrlit. n. VnttlA oa hoa ever been seen in tho prize-ring, but the other srxty-two rounds, save the sixty-seventh aud sixty-eighth, amounted to absolutely nothing. In not more than ten of ihem was a blow struck, and most of tho time the man did not even put their hands up. Tho explanation for this is the fact flint: nftor fpn ri vc- a 1 v r rnnnrla fljA Kr5 der'a hands went back on him, and he could do nothing with them. Murphy, who proved himself a most plucky fighter and a -V CJ H 1 ldlili. k.CAAY:itl9 It&AiU. IU fcC it LI J rvlvantage out of Weir's predicament, who .kept dancing just out of tho English lad's reach. Another thing was that Murphy nvas not in tho best condition, and the gTeat welts left from each blow plainly showed "that he had not been "rubbed" enough, as 3illy Myer put it. Tho Spider proved himeelf much tho cleverer of the two, and tho "way in which he sailed into Murphy during rthe first few rounds, smashing him first on and twice knocking him down, with a resounding crack on the neck, convinced many that he could havo won the fight had liis hands held out. Thero were others, Ihowever, who were loud in their assertions that Murphy showed himself the better man of the two. lie certainly proved himself to be one of the gamest men that ever entered the ring, and with his two eyes almost closed, and in spite of having been &ent to grass twice, ho rushed his longlimbed antagonist all over the ring. This "was in the early part of tho fight, however. During the rest of it neither seemed inclined to do much of anything, and the two men alternately chaffed and blackguarded each other, tho spectators occasionally varyiug tho monotony of tho proceedings by taking a jhand in the talking match and urging the , iishters to give them their money's worth. -After round after round had been fought without a blow, Weir made a splendid rally. The sixty-6eventhand sixty-eighth were as lively as the most bood-thirsty could desire, and Weir almost had tho httlo fellow . knocked out. The spurt was a short one, however, and the old tactics were again resumed, under the instruction of tho backers. When the spectators saw that nothing could be expected, they soon tired ot tho . ehow, and tho postponement was really made at the crowd's demand. Weir's backer acted very square, and before the rally repeatedly urged the spider to go in and tight, ven iihe got licked. Parson Davies's management of the affair was excellent, and his ' arrangements were all carried out li ke clockwork. A special train, guarded with Pinkerton men, took the party down and back, 1 - 1 4. 1 1 a ii u me crv.u wus a inuui. oraeriy mil, cousidering. There were one two little encounters between the sports and tho natives of Koutts that served to enliven the proceedings. A very queer specimen, representing himself as an officer, worked his wav through the crowd, and cried "This light is stopped." "The you say," said one of the Chicago admirers of the manly art, as he let hira have one behind the ear and sent him rolling toward the door. Another gave him a lift, and the man finally reached tho outside in a somewhat dazed condition. , After the fight Weir showed but .little fiunishment. though he said his ribs were rightfully sore aud ho thought his jaw was broken. Murphy was badly bunged. His yes almost closed, and on his ribs was a lump as big as a California pear. On entering the ring at 1 o'clock, the men. sparred cautiously for a minute in the firsts when Weir led, but his blow was neatly stopped by Murphy, who countered. The Spider danced around in front of his antagonist, swinging his long arms and showing his right to the name of "Spider." Suddenly he fed and landed on Murphy's left eye, cutting a great gash below it. First blood was claimed and allowed for Woir. When the men came together again Weir gave Murphy a frightful smash on the ye, which was now freely bleeding. Again the Spider led, aud, reaching Murphy atrain, knocked him squarely down. Five hundred to two hundred dollars was here ottered by Weir's backer. No takers. After the ten seconds allowed for a knockndown. had elapsed, the round closed without fnrther damage. Heavy slugging marked the opening of the second round on both sides, Murphy coming to the scratch in an evidently wicked frame of mind. His eagerness led him too far, however, and partly, from a slip and partly from a blow on the chest, ho went down. A moment later ho slipped again. Now becoming more cautious, but more resolute than ever, ho began a long, clever, gamey struggle. It was give and take till the close of the round. Both men had apparently increased respect for the other's prowess at tho opening of tho fourth. Each was covered with blood, which came mainly from Murphy's left ear and nose. Tho eye w:s in an awful condition, and Weir kept going for that organ, while Murphy directed his blows at Weir's ribs. Closo in-fighting characterized the fourth round in the Urst moments, during which Murphy got decidedly the worst of it. Sparing tor wind ensued until just as the word "time" wiw called, when there was a sharp exchange of blows, each man getting in a jaw-breaker. , The men came quickly to the scratch in the fifth round and tho Spider led again. Muiphy was lighting gamely and got in a good one on Weir's ribs, but the wily Spider again swung his right aud landed again on Murphy's damaged eye, from which tho blood was once more lhmwing in streams down Murphy's neck and chest, and bespattering Weir as -well. The round closed without further fighting When time was ealled for the sixth round Murnhy repsonded pluckily, and his evo had been stuck together anew with sticking-plaster. Murphy led, but Weir danced out of his way. and then with and undercut again reached Murphy's eye and scattered tho sticking plaster and blood profusely. Tho round ended with light sparliner. Weir led again in 1b seventh, but the plucky Murphy was fighting well and stopped Lis blow and countered. There were frequent clinches, but the men obeyed the referees ery of "break away" promptly and Myers felt called upon to say in response to some comment from the crowd: "The gentlemen are fighting nicely as I ever saw; leave, them aloue.'' Weir got iu another smash ou Murphy's eye beforo the round closed. Signs of exhaustion were visible in both men in the eightlu Murphy's solid stand was eliciting unbounded admiration from the crowd, aud ho was not failing to get in his work on tho Spider's ribs. Though le a idle than the Spider, Murphy was much moro stable. A spectator said: "Weir is a song-and dancu man, aud Murphy is a fighter." Weir now bcg.n a series of uppercuts with his left, but apparently accomplished little by the new tactics, except to make the strangle more showy. It was noticeable that eir, for some reason, let up on Murphy's right eye aud turned his attention somewhat to the body blows, imitating Murphy. In the ninth, Murphy seemed to get the best of it. Weir was rrather winded, and

iiurpny gotnn turee blows to tho Spiders cs?. but thu Belfast man's long reach was rr' S tcaako tho intervals betweea

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Murphy's success too long to have a cumulative effect. Murphy seemed to be iust warming up at the call for tho tenth, lie was not as strong as he at first appeared, however, for Weir managed to eludo him by almost running away repeatedly. At tho close Weir aimed a fearful back-hander, but Murphy calmly turned away his head an inch and escaped. Iu tho eleventh Weir showed what ho meant by abandoning Murphy's left eye. The Spider planted a stinger on Murphy's right optic, and noticed, with grim satisfaction that the left was completely closed. Weir then danced around and drove Murphy to the ropes, but there the latter got in a good blow ou the neck. A series of mad rushes on each side, with frequent clinches tells the story un til tho end of the fifteenth round, after which the men were too weak to keep up such work and began a genuine walk-aiound. In the sixteenth and seventeenth rounds not a blow was struck or any sparring done. In tho. eighteenth round, both men sparred very cautiously for an opening. Weir finally led but fell short. Mnrphv rtid the same thing, and as the round closed. Weir got in a good one on Murphy's ribs. Nineteenth Kound Murphy's eyes seemed almost shut. After a few moments of caution. Murphy made a vicious rush, which Weir dodged. The round closed without anv damage to either. Twentieth Round Weir led as 60on as Murphy had come to the scratch. A clinch followed, then a short lead from Murphy, and the round closed with the men cautiously walking around each other. Twenty-first Round Another clinch opened this round as the result of Murphy's lead. Weir got in a good ono on the ribs, but at the end of the round the Spider seemed to be out of wind and a little sick at the stomach. Twenty-second Kound Murphy opened with a rush, aud got in a good crack on tho Spider's ribs, which were by this time considerably cut un. Weir tried his vicious upper cut. but fell short, and, as the round closed, Murphy gavo him another good 6mash on the ribs. Twenty-third Hound Not a blow was st ru c k. Twenty-fourth Kound Murphy cornered Weir against tho rope, and got in another crack on tho Spider's ribs. This was tho only blow of the round. Twenty-fifth Kound Weir led and the men clinched. After tho break-away. Murphy with a rush knocked his antagonist against tho ropes. In doing so, however, ho slipped, but, regaining his feet quickly, chased Weir until time was called. Twenty-sixth Kound This was a walk around, but just at tho close there was a sharp exchange and the round ended with a clinch. The men stood with their hands down during Kouuds 27, 28, 29. SO, 31 and 32, not a blow being struck. "I cawn't run around the ring like you," said Murphy; "come and foight me." Thirty-third Kound Murphy at last made a little rush, but no result followed. The Spider seemed to have recovered his wind and spirits, and resumed the dancing tactics practiced early in the fight, but kept well away from Murphy. The next thirteen rounds were without result, and not a blow was struck, the men standing looking at each other and tho crowd urging them to light. Tho Spider's hands lo jked badly, and thcro was a great big swelling on his right elbow. Forty-sixth Kound McAvoy, the Spider's backer, told his man to 6tand up in the middle of tho ring and fight. AN eir seemed reluctant to obey, and the same old story followed until the fifty-first, when Weir

varied the monotony bv getting in a good one on Murphy's eye. They soon relapsed, and the Sd, 53d, 54th, 5Cth, 57th and 58th rounds passed without a blow being struck. When the fifty-eighth round was called and the men resumed their old tactics, many of tho spectators left aud the backers and seconds seemed to have no more interest in the affair. Murphy's eyes were getting better all tho time, out he looked terribly bunged up. Weir, too, had a neat little lump uuder his left eye, aud his ribs were pretty well smashed up. Fif ty-niuth Kouud Both men started out ferociously, as if they meant to kill each other, but the old came was soon resumed and continued till the sixty-seventh, when the Spider made a spleudid rally, and with a bang, crack, smash, seemed to hit Murphy when lie pleased. Toward tho end ho Lad the little Englishman a bit groggy, and McAvoy yelled to the Spider to fiuish him, but Murphy seemed able to take caro of himself, and time was called. Sixty-eighth Kound Weir went at it again, but was not able to do much damage, and this proved thelast fighting round of the battle. Tho men simply stood up during the next twelve rounds, and at the end of the eightieth Billy Myer, the referee, announced tho postponement of the fight until some time beforo Tuesday next. At this juncture Weir's backer asked to have tho rules chanced to those of tne London prize ring, so that the men could be made to fight, willing or unwilling. This met with a storm of objections, and was withdrawn. It was a weary crowd that boarded the train, and soon the majority were cuddled up in tho car-seats, fast asleep, or, too famished to rest, sitting bolt upright, gloomily cursing their luck, and vowing never to go to another fight. When tho gang at last emerged from the train in the depot at Chicago, a number of travelers, newsboys and railroad men were standing at the gates, gazing curiously at the muddy, unkempt ono hundred "high rollers." The centers of attraction were Weir and Murphy. Tho Spider's fare was a variegated blue and ghastly yellow mass, but comparatively tree from cuts or swelling. Murphy's countenanco was a horrible sight; both eyes were closed, the features putted almost out of semblance to anything human, and rendered still more hideous by the crisscrossed sticking-plaster, which revealed rather than hid the gashes. He was not anxious to be observed, and, using an extra overcoat as a sort of cowl to hide his battered head, limped to tho door of the depot and dropped into a carriage in waiting. It was just 10:30 a. M. Sunday, and in a moment the spectators of tho world's championship feather-weight prize-fight were lost to view among tho littleknotsof people onthestreets hurrying to divine worship. To-night "Parson" Davies said that if by any means he could prevent it, there would le no second meeting between Weir and Murphy. After the return of the fighters to Chicago to-day, it was ascertained that one of Murphy's ribs was broken. Weir, in addition to his injured hands, has a fracture of the jaw, though not a bad one. The "Parson" says that, under tho circumstances, another light within three days would be bestial. He is willing to divide the 1,500 purse equally between the men, declaring they have earned it. In this case all bets would virtually be declared off. Should pomo sucn arrangement not bo made, Davies intimates that, if forced, ho will call on the police to arrest the lighters and their backers. Murphy and his backer have asked that special mention bo made of the fair play accorded them in every detail. They make this request in view of the gossip among Eastern "sports," previous to the match, that there was a probability Ma ruby would be given mighty little show in Chicago. If the purse of $1,500 is divided equallv, it would mean thatthe fighters each obtain half of the gate receipts. The purse aad the net gato receipts are ono ana tho same thing. The agreement was that Manager Davies should guarantee a prize of 81,000, he to bear all expenses and to recoup himself by the sale of tickets of admission. The affair was therefore practically a contest for the gato receipts, and one explanation of the listlessness of tho lighters during the last twethirdsof the contest is that by that timo they were tacitly agreed it would be most agreeable to make a division, share and share alike, and not injure their future business by spoiling either man's reputation with a knock-out. The men who paid the fancy price of $25 to see a finish light have not been heard from, and it is not unlikely that some of them may criticise the referee. Mver, who recently made the "drawJ with McAuliff after a "walk around" of four hours and thirty-five minutes. Good News for Play-Goers. London Globe. Some ingenious person has invented a collapsible bonnet, which by an ingenious arrangement of wires can bo sat upon without it suffering the smallest injury. Then the lady with tho Eiffel tower on iier head need no longer be a terror to those behind her, for sho has only to tako off her hat and sit down, and it will bo as fiat as Salisbury plain. Pay More and Have Better Weather. Springfield (III.) News. The United States pays $000,000 a year for its weather service. Would it not be better to pay a little more and have a little better weather? Vitality, exhausted by overwork or disease, is quickly restored., by use of Ayvr'a Sarsapariila-

NEWS IS SUNDAY'S JOURNAL; Eesume of the Principal Home and Foreign Events Recorded in the Issue of March 31.

The Duke of Nassua will be declared Regent of Luxemburg. It is estimated that the public debt has decreased 12,500,000 since March 1. Father McFadden is to be tried for the murder of Inspector Martin, at Gweedore. The French Public Prosecutor has resigned in preference to prosecuting Bulanger. The Enfield election resulted in favor of the Tories, both sides showing a largely increased vote. Herbert Bismarck has returned to Berlin after arranging for a demonstrative reception of Emperor William in England. The President held a public reception Saturday afternoon. He shook hands with 700 persons, most of whom were ladies. Secretary of the Interior Noble has issued an order to heads of bureaus, directing that no resignations are to be called for except by instruction of the Secretary. Alonzo Burt has been appointed superintendent of the lifth division of the railway mail service, with headquarters at Cincinnati. Mr. Burt was removed from the same position in 1SS6. Tho bottle supposed to contain deadly nitroglycerine, with which the daring robber frightened President Moffatt, of the Denver bank, making him hand over $21,000, has been found, and proves to have contained only castor oil. The robber has not been captured. A count shows that there are 200,000,000 stamps in the vaults of tho Internal Revenue Bureau, their total value being $45,000,000. The count, which was made necessary by the transfer of of tho oftico from Commissioner Miller to Commissioner Mason, was completed yesterday. Among tho Presidential appointments that received tho seal of approval from the Senate were Robert Todd Lincoln, to be minister to England; Allen thonidvkeKice, to be minister to Russia; Thomas Ryan, to be minister to Mexico: Patrick Egan, to bo minister to Chili, and Col. William O. Bradley, to be minister to Corea. By a vote of twenty-five to nineteen the Senate refused to reconsider the rejection of Murat Halstcad to be minister to Germany. Two Democrats, Senators Blackburn and Call, voted for Mr. Halstead, The Republicans who voted against him were, according to General Boyntou, Senators lugalls, Plumb, Evarts, Teller, Dawes and Quay. The storm disaster at Samoa was confirmed by official information received at the Naval Department at Washington. On March 10 a terrible hurricane swept landward from the sea. passing directly over the harbor. m Every vessel at anchor, with ono exception, was either wrecked on the reefs or beached. The American men-of-war Trenton aud Vandalia were coinletely destroyed, and tho Nipsic was lo wn ashore, badly crippled. Two Ger man war vessels were wrecked, and a third was beached. The English man-of-war Calliope got to sea in tho face of the storm and escaped disaster. All tho merchant vessels in port were lost. Sixty Americans and ninety Germans were drowned. From t?ie Second Edition of the Sunday Journal. Storms That Sweep Over the Equatorial Delt. Washington, March SO. The terrible disaster at Samoa will give special interest to the following statement, furnished for publication by Lieut. G. L. Dyer, U. S. N., hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation, ono of the divisions of the hydrographic office. The divisiou of marine meteorology has charge of all data received by the department relating to the meteorology of the various oceans of the globe, but the facilities for publication are such that not one-tenth part of the information at hand can be published, and almost all the timo of the division is taken up in the preparation of the monthly ' pilot chart of the North Atlantic. This gTeat disaster lends redoubled f orco to the urgent recommendation on tho April chart, published to-day, for the establishment of a more comprehensive system of telegraphia weather reports from the West Indies during the coming hurricane season, July to October, for the benefit of the Gulf : and. At -5 lantio seaboard, and the commerceof ovk nation frequenting these waters. "The Smoan islands," Lieut. Dyer says, "aro rh the southern hemisphere, and the hurricane months are therefore tho summer months of that hemisphere, that is, December to March, inclusive. In the West Indies the terrific tropical cyclones that originate there as gigantic whirlwinds rotating in a direction against tho hands of a watch (as you look at the watch laid down with the face up), movesbodily westward, then northward into the temperate zone, and eastward again in higher latitudes. In the southern hemisphere, howeverabout Samoa;, for instance tropical cyclone that originate near tho equator have an opposite rotary motion, revolving in a direction with the hands of a watch, and move bodily westward, then curve to the southward away from the equator and then eastward again in the south temperate zone. The hurricane that struck Samoa with such furious intensity on the loth inst. originated, probably, some 300 miles to the northeastward of the islands, in about latitude 13 degrees south, longitude 1G5 west, and moved rapidly south west ward, directly toward them. If tb- signs characteristic of the approach of a hurricane were observed long, feathery cirrhus clouds, a thickening veil of cirrhus clouds, halos aud fiery tints at dawn and sunset no doubt all possible precautions were taken to ride out the storm at anchor. The center of tho hurricane must have passed directly over or very near the harbor, and in tho case of a very severe tropical cyclone, as this must have been, absolutely nothing can resist its fury. In the great hurricane that crossed the island of Cuba in October, 1844, for example, seventy-two vessels foundered at their anchors, in a few hours, in the landlocked harbor of Havana, a port almost unrivaled for the security of its anchorage. Lieut. R. G. Davenport, U. S. N., the navigating officer of the Nipsic, was on duty at the hydrographic office in Washington as late as 1S87, and a recent report mado by him from Samoa contains the following information, quoted in part from "Nineteen Years in Polynesia," by the Rev. George Turner, LL. D.: The climate of the Island is variable, and there is much bad weather, particularly during the winter months, wben long and heavy rains, attended at times with high winds and northerly gales, are frequent. The normal reading of the barometer Is about 29.9 inches and the temperature is about 80lu8unimerand7S:ln winter, the maximum, in seven years obserYatloxif, only reached 93, and the minimlm C53. Such uniformity of temperature is, of course, almost unknown in tho temperate zone, -where the extrems of temperature, as well as the dally range, are very preat. The weather la of ted cloudy and rainy, with frequent squalls, accompanied by thunder and lightning, particularly at night. Between the months of December and Apnf cyclones are expected If the barometer fall and the winds come from the north. Hardly a year passes without hearing of one of these pales in the neighborhood, their course being generaUy towards E, S. E. In April, 1850, ono swept over the center of Upolu. In April, 1855, another skinned," as the natives caU it, everything all along the east coast, but between 1855 and 1850, no cyclone visited the island. Mr. Hayden, in charge of the publication of the pilot chart, visited Havana last September on purpose to study cyclones, and his description of the great hurricane of August, 1878. will bo of interest. What a tremendous engine of destruction! Let us watch its origin and progress. Imagine to yourself a hot, sultry Aujrust day in the tropics, off the Cape erde Islands, about the northern limit of the belt of equatorial rains and calms, where the northeast trades have been htful and irregular. The uniformity of the trade sky is disappearlnir, and tho little masses of cumulus clouds that have flecked the sky from zenith to horizon, gather together here and there at it undecided what to do, and now and then rise in tall, massive columns, that grow before the eye, and mount higher and higher, till one lazily wonders how high they will rise before they reach some upper current that will scatter their beautiful crests, and spoil their snow-white symmetry. In the distance an occasional dark mass is seen, from which heavy rain is falling, with sometimes a broad na.h of pale sheet lightning. In ono of the tall masses of cumulus, oflf to the westward, taller and more majestic than it niate, a slow, gyratory motion can be detected, which, gathering strength, rapidly draws iu the warm air from below, saturated with moisture, and feends it aloft Into cooler and cooler regions, to add rapidly to the growing and darkening mass of clouds. Anew feature catches the eye: long, graceful, snow-wh J te, feathery plumes reach out at the top of the mass, projected against the deep, clear azure sky. Beneath them the sharp-rounded, upper edge of tho now dark and threatening cumulus begin to grow mlty and Indistinct, and the inner shaft of the ladiatlug cirrhu plumes are lost to sight in this new misty veil. Gradually, faint and then sharp, dark horizontal Hues appear ngainst the cumulus, and rapidly grow in stratus clouds as though a fine rain were tailing and settling at the lovel. Below, the distant horizon X& now obscured by heavy rain.

Off to the northeast some little trade-wind clonds are moving this way. Watching them a moment as they rise toward the zenith. Some mysterious force over there to the westward seems to attract them, and their paths curve that way. What does it meant you say, and, looking in that direction, you see more little patches of scud moving across from left to right, and notice that a breeze is springing up from the west, while the barometer is falling slightly, and the whole great . mass of clouds is moving westward. A hurricane has had its birth, a great cyclonic storm has started on its westward march towards Saint Thomas, natteras, Capo Race and Norway. One of our eastern tornadoes is to this monster as an electric light to the noonday sun, and the tornadoes in the'records of the signal ortice rolled into one and added to it would hardly add appreciably to its energy. Let us now take our station in advance of tho approaching storm and await its coming. Whirling along its ocean pathway at an average velocity fit nearly twenty miles an hour, it sends out a lo&r, rolling swell a thousand miles in advance and Is heralded by a long, high, feathery plume of cirrhus clouds, radiating far beyond the slowly thickening cirrhus veil that casts its pale halo over sun and moon, and at dawn and twilight envelopes heaven and earth with an awful tiery glare like the light of some conflagration. Soon the massive, , leaden colored cloud bank heaves in sight above the horizon, a great mountain range Ossa piled upon Pelion and flying eeud forms overhead and drifts to leeward, not with a surface wind, but with a marked angle to tho right, moving with the upper current of the great whirlwind. At intervals line, misty rain seems to grow out of the air and then vanishes again and the squalls lreshen. Tho barometer sinks lower and lower, heavy clouds cover the whole horizon, and the low, distant moan gradually changes into the shrieks of a thousand demons when wrenching at the stout masts and spars, tearing the storm canvas and fluttering pennants, hurling timber and masonry Into heaps of shapeless ruins, driving wild breakers high upon land, laughing to scorn the feeble strength of man. Suddenly a pause, silence, calm; the warm, bright sunshine of a summer day. A brief glimpse of heaven, and then another 6ecming eternity of hell. From "Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes." by Abercromby, among the riles of the meteorological division the following description is taken: , Taking tho world over, the most violent hurricanes seem to be those of tho West Indies and the Mauritius; then would come the October cyclones of the Bay of Bengal, and next to theso the typhoons of China peas. The May cyclones of the Indian coasts, and the raro hurricanes iu the youth Facinc, from New Caledonia to Tahiti, might probably be classed together as of a secondary degree of violence. Cyclones in the Arabian sea and on the west coast of Mexico are so rare that ono cannot generalize upon them, and then the list of hurricane countries is exhausted. Much has been written about tho handling of ships in hurricanes, aad elaborate maneuvers described which they are to perform near tho center of a , typhoon. Many a ship has been saved by skillful sailing on the out-skirts of a cyclone, and even after the characteristic squalls and driving rain have commenced; but when near the center she gets in the kernel, as it were, of the hurricane, and the wind comes in great gusts which no canvas can withstand; when the roaring of the wind is so tremendous that no voice can be heard, when tho sky, and cloud, and spendrift are made up lndlstinguishably from one another Into a general darkness then it is as impossible to givo an order as to obey it, and the sailor can only hope that her timbers may not open so as to spring a leak, and that her steering gear may hold good, so that she may not beach and be overwhelmed by the waves. "Watterson on Rejection of Tlalstead. Louisville, March 80. Of Mr. Ha' tead's rejection, Mr. Watterson in to-morrow's Courier-Journal will writo as follows: The rejection of Mr. Halstead carries with it, trimarily, a warning from the Senate of the rnited fetates to the press of the country to look .to its utterances when dealing with that body, or any of it3 members. Mr. II al stead's oflense ' to tho Republicans who voted against his conlirmation, or who did not vote at all, lay in his criticism of certain liepublican Senators who had refused to enter upon au investigation, asked by the Republican Legislature of Ohio, into the election of Senator Payne. The election . of Senator Payne was notoriously open fp question. With the lights now beforo us, no intelllfrent Democrat doubts that it was, from first to ast, a most corrupt affair. That party spirit and sympathy with an old man, who?e personal knowledge of, and complicity with, the means to which he owed his seat in the Senate, was believed by no one at all familiar with his character, should lead Democratic Senators to stand between him and an impending scandal, was natural. But why tho investigation demanded by the Republicans of Ohio should be denied by any Republican Senator cannot be explained, even at this late day. In Ohio the controversy was one of equal importance and acrimony, and Mr. Halstead threw all the combative elements of his essentially combativo character into the tight, and especially against the obdurate ReEublican Senators. From his rarty stand-point e was entirely in tho right He did what any other brave and honest Journalist would have done, and should have done under the circumf taut That : he may have been too rough in his methods of attack is beside the question. lie had the truth of it in his premises, was sincere and upright in his purposes, and a little access of temper, more or lefts, does not materially affect the case. He is punished, therefore, by those of his own party whom he dared to call to account, for doing his duty as a partisan Journalist. The Democrats of the Senate havo assisted these Republicans of the Senate to punish him, and thus a dual notice is served by both parties in the Senato upon the journalists of America to the efi'ect that whenever a Senator is publicly criticised, he will bide his time to get his revenge by stabbing his critic in the back and In the dark. Without doubt the Democrats of the Senate, and particularly the Democratic Senators from the Southern States, think that they are getting even with Mr. Halstead for his abuse of tho South. But, even if this were so, their position would be at once inconsistent and injudicious. With the light over the connnnation of Lamar, and the ready confirmation of many confederates to foreign posts of honor, in our mind, it lies not in our mouths to talk about eeotional revenges. Such talk cannot fail to do more execution at the breach than at the muzzle, and, in the long run, must recoil upon ourselves. It puts a stop to our protests against proscription and places a powerful weapon in the hands of our enemies. e do not question any Southern Senator's sincerity or right to vote agaiust Mr. Halstead; nor do we set up any claim of Mr.

uaitead upon our ioroearance. we are not aware that he, or any of his friends, have made the slightest appeal to us in this regard. But we thought, and we think, that it would have been far better public policy, and at the same time a far nobler revenge, if Mr. nalstead had owed his rescue in the House of his friends to those whom he has so incessantly, and so unjuttly, but so openly, assailed as the incarnation of all that is Intolerant and irreconcilable. Every forgiving action done, and every kind and generous word spoken, on occasions of trouble and trial by sectional and political antagonists one to another, tends to heal up breeches between the people and to bind up the wounds of war and to make the Union once more a union of countrymen and brothers. When Horace Gi celoy went to Richmond to sign tho bail-bond of Jeff Davis, when Lamar laid a wreath of flowers upon the coilinof Charles Sumner, when the South accepted Greeley for its Moses, when Johnson, and Lee, and Buckncr followed the bier of Grant to the tomb, steps were taken out of the morass of mistrust and strife and toward the high and solid ground of national unification and the end of sctionalism. We had hoped that, in the case of Mr. Halstead, which afforded a striking opportunity for the display of a large and liberal rarty spirit, there would have been found in tne Senate enough Senators from the South, big enough in bruin and heart to seo this, and brave enough to act upon it, and we can only regret that in this hope we have been disappointed. We are more 60, beeause Mr. lJaMead is singularly fitted for the position to which he was named, and is perponally as honorable and clean a in an as he is, politically, a stubborn and implacable tighter, making his rejection turn, as far as we are concerned, upon partisan objections which should have no weight. We have It from very high authority that, if the name of Governor Foraker is not sent to tho Senate before adjournment, the Governor will be dispatched as minister to Germany very soon thereafter. If this be ho, the Democrats of the Senate will have helped the malignant Republicans of that bod) to wreak their private revenge on Mr. Halstead only to saddle a man like Governor Foraker, who, in hatred of the South, double discounts any other Republican in tho country, on our diplomatic service. Ou that issue, we have an impression that gentlemen will find it as little easy to satisfy their own consciences as to explain themselves to public opinion, which. In the end, is tolerably just in these matters and will not give its approval to the conversion of the Senate into a den of assassins. A BLOW AT LIBERTY OP TIIE IMtESS. Washington, March SO. Gen. II. V. Boynton, Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, received the following telegram this evening: "Baxooh. Me., March 30. "Mr. Boutelle has sent the following telegram to the President: 'In rejecting Murat Halstead's nomination for the reasons stated, the Senate has struck one of the most desperate blows ever aimed at the liberty of the press. I hope you will resist it with all your power. Got Ills Money After Thirty-Four Years. PiiiLDELPHiA, March 30. Mr. A. Souires was to-day, paid $3,201.78 by Superintendent Cox, of the mint Mr. Squires is an old California miner wno presented mmseii at; xne mini a iew montns ago and presented an old yellow piece of paper, on which could be seen a few lines and letters showing that something had. been written on it, and which he claimed was a receipt for gold dust which he had deposited with the officers of the Philadelphia mint in 1S55, amounting to $2,201.78. The mint officials, upon referring to the books of that date, found that a deposit of such a nature had been made at that time and had never been called for. Mr. Fox questioned the old man and became convinced that there was some truth in his story, and that ho was the man referred to in the books; but to make sure of his authority to pay over the money, he referred tho matter to tiie authorities at v asningtnn. lie pent twenty-live or thirty pages of depositions to the capital, and had Squires send him his photo graph, which he nent to California for the pur pose of identlhcation. lie ahjo sent to various parties, both iu California aud Wheeling, txiuirca'a home, and they all teat baclc word that

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TELEPHONE 804. tl M Er;::: fsr ii, THE SWEETEST AND he was a thoroughly honest man, and sent such other testimony as proved beyond a doubt Uiat SqulrcR was the man he represented himself to be. The authorities at Washington were also convinced of the truthfulness of hi3 claim, and ordered tne amount to be paid. The Denver Bank Robbery. Denver, Col. March SO. W. II. Clark the man who was arrested last evening on suspicion of being tho mau who robbed the First National Bank of $J1,(KX), and subsequently released after D. II. Moffat failed to identify him, was re-arrested, and will be held to await further developments, on the charge of being an accomplice. He positively denies any connection with the affair. Detectives, while searching the building in the vicinity of the bank, to-day, discovered in the hallway leading to tho Zollinger Printing Company's rooms, a light brown overcoat, in the pockets of which was a loaded revolver and a bottle, supposed to contain nitro-glycerine, which evidently had been thrown there by the robber as he passed through the building making his escape. The find was taken to police headquarters, the bottle and contents to a chemist. Analysis of the deadly explosive proved it to be simply a bottle of castor oil. No other new developments havo been made in the case. Clark came here recently from Grand Rapids, Mich., where his father is engaged in the lumber business. Soon after his arrival here, he opened a loan office for tho purpose of loaning money ou chattel mortgages. This he gave up two months ago and became Interested in a poker club-room In Uallock fc Howard's block, and was in these rooms at the time of his arrest. Sensational Scandal in Austria. Loxdox, March 30. Court circles in Vienna are in the throes of a tremendous sensation, owing to the discovery of a scandal whose features are not altogether of the ordinary character. Recently, Count Paul Fostich surprised his wife, who was one of the ladies of the imperial court, flagrante delicto with a son of Baron Bleichroder, the noted banker of Berlin. The Count condoned the offense of his wife, and challenged Blelchroder to light a duel. The challenge was accepted, and at tho appointed time the Count was on the ground, but his antagonist did not make his apjearance. He waited two hours, and finally returned to his home. Arriving there, he found that his wife had fled with her paramour, leaving a letter imploring her husband to take care of her four children. It is not definitely known where the couple went, but it is supposed they are in Paris. Punished for Illegal Voting. Wheeling, w. Va., March 30. In the United States Court, this morning. Judge Jackson sentenced George B. Hale, charged with voting 11gally, and who pleaded gnilty, a week ago, to pay a line of $100 and be imprisoned In tho countyjall three months. In passing sentence his Honor took occasion to deliver an earnest address upon the Importance of checking the growing tendency to use money Improperly in elections and deprecated the rapid Increase of partisanship, in which he thought ho saw a decided menace to the Republic. Foundered at Sea. Mobile, Ala., March 30. The French bark Lecoq, loaded at PascagoWa by Hunter, Benn Ac Co., with lumber for Diikar, St. Louis, Senegal, foundered on Saturday, thirty miles off Pascagoula. Captain Chatelard, his wife, child and all hands were lost, except one sailor, who was rescued after being four days exposed. Pitiful Condition of Taylor's Family. There was a family at the station-house, Saturday night, in pitifully destitute circumstances. E. F. Taylor, his wife and three children left Adkin, Ark., about the middle of this month, on their way to Chicago. In Wagner, Ind. T., Taylor claims that he was robbed of $780, his entire worldly posiessions, after which, through tho kindness of the railroads and the people on their way, they arrived in Chicago. From that city they arrived hero yesterday afternoon, penniless and without food. They applied to Superintendent Travis, who gave them a room in the police station, where, ou the board floor, the littlegroup of four slept all night. Mr. Taylor claims to have been the owner of a small grocery in Adkin, and when ho decided to come east to seek a diff erent climate, he 6old his stock for nearly $800. He is a man forty-two years of age and apparently In almost the last stages of consumption, for as he told his story last night he was compelled to stop time and again a hacking cough would almost seem to 6ap his strength. His wife, a few years younger, appears as if she too had been much overworked, and in her arms she held a one-year-old child, while on either side of her were two other children, one a boy of twelve and the other a girl of ten. Some effort will probably be made this morning for their temporary support IAST STORY OF RUDOLPH'S DEATH. He Was a Spiritualist, aud a Ghost Was the Cause of Ills End. Vanity Fair. In certain circles in Vienna there Is a Btory current regarding tho death of tho Crown Prince Rudolph which is generally not believed, hut is accepted by some as the true account of the unhappy termination of his life. The Prince was, it appears, much given to the study and practice of tho mystic arts, and was also greatly influpneed by any woman who prepossessed him. Ho was a medium, and on several occasions had boasted of having Been tho Burggeist, an apparation which has for centuries haunted the Palace of the llapsburgs at Vienna, as the white lady does that of the Hohenzollerns at Berlin. Only a few days before his death, while dining with Count C , the door of tlw dining-room suddenly opened. The Count was startled; but the Prince said, laughingly: "Don't be disturbed, that is only tho Burggeist; I have often met it, and we are intimate friends." The Crown Prince was always surrounded by mystics and mediums, and it was at his request that Baron H brought tho medium Bastian to Vienna. Thero was much discussion at the time whether Bastian "was or was not an impostor, but the Crown Prince himself was never ablo to determine in his own mind that he was. There was considerable controversy on the subject between the Prince and Baron H , in tho course of which the Baron offered to give palpable proof of tho possibility of citing spirits, even without the aid of a medium. In order to put tho Baron to the test an appointment was made, and he and tho Prince, with Couut C , met one dark night at tho Castle of M . The Baron lighted seven torches, and produced his book of incantations. Tho Crown Prince looked at it, and was immensely amused on iinding it to be only a French Ollendorff grammar, but tho Baron explained that liwas immaterial how he excited his will; all that was necessary was for him to produce the spirit, T'he conjuration of a spirit then began, the Baron reading aloud one of the dialogues. As he proceeded his voice resouuded iu the chamber with terrible intensity, and the very air seemed to become alivo with invisible horrors. At the same time a rushing blast extinguished the lights. Count C fainted awav, and tho Prince rushed out of the room. His mind subsequently became much affected by what ho had witnessed, and he insisted that the Baron should produce some Elemental for him to fall in love with. Baron H then employed various arts to work upon tho Prince's imagination. He abstracted" blood from his side and burned it, at the same time making him recite some incantation. At last the Elemental, in the shape of a beau tiful woman, appeared wher the Princo was alone in his room. Sho repeated her visits, growing each time more tangible, and one day the charm was broken by a

1 OSES. C, Oar stork covers tne nhola zunjre cf OAS, 77 South Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. MOST NUTRITIOUS. keeper firing a gun at the appariation. At the same time the Baroness Vetzera, a most beautiful wornau, lay dying at Vienna, but recovered as by a miracle. The alleged reason is that the Prince's Fire Elemental had taken possession of her. Later on tho Prince met the Baroness and fell violentlv in love with her. They met at tho Castle of Meidling. and by some meaus the Princo found out that the Baroness was his Elemental. He had in the meantime become turned from spiritualism, and was terrified at the discovery. The Elemental, insulted, departed, leaving tho body of tho Baroness a corpse in the Prince's room; but as the Elemental had become a part of his own life, he. in a lit of mental alienation, shot himself." PIGS IN A FIGHT. A ratent on the Puzzle That Is Setting Everybody Crazy. Philadelphia Record. "Pigs in clover" will soon be transformed to pigs in court, and the lawyers will reap a part of the harvest from the sale of tho brain-twisters. The local toy-dcalcra and manufacturers of the toy received a shock yesterday upon being informed that tho Crandalf Manufacturing Company had entered suit against them lor the sale of the puzzle. It has been known that tho company had purchased the right of securing a patent on the puzzle from its originator. Moses Lyman, of Waverlv, N. Y.t and that it had made application for a patent. Day alter any the local toy-dealers havo received tho intelligence from their lawyers that the patent had not been awarded to the company, and that such being tho caso they were entitled to proceed with the manufacture and 6ale of the article. This information has made them work all the harder to 6ell as many as possible beforo their brief successful venture cau be legally stopped. This has spurred tho Craudafi Manufacturing Company to get their patent through as soon as possible, in order to put a quietus on rivalry. It was learned yesterday that the patent would be secured to-day from tho government. In order to partially 6tor the alleged unfair vending of its puzzle the Crandall Manufacturing Company has endeavored to intimidate the local manufacturers by issuing tho following notice: CAUTION". : : "Waverlt, N. Y.. Fe'o. 18?9. : : Notice is hereby given that I have applied : I for letters patent for my "Pigs in Clover" : : toy. Anyone manufacturing, vending or : ; using any spurious imitation thereof will : : be prosecuted acordlng to law. : : c. m. craxdall, : ; Assigned to Moses Lyman. : : Selchow & RIghter, New York, sole selling' : : agents for Pigs in Clover." : The warning has, however, passed tinheeded, and within the past two weeks there have sprung up at least a half-dozen small firms who manufacture the puzzle. They have conducted their business openly without fearof legal proceedings since they had been informed by counsel that tho Crandall Manufacturing Company had placed no trade-mark on tuo puzzle nor had it secured a patent. They have succeeded in vending, by means of this loop-hole, fully 200,000 "Pigs in Clover" puzzles. As tho craze will, in all probability, not last over two weeks longer, which is tho limit that local toy men givo the affair to die out, it is not likely that the Crandall Manufacturing Company will get the benefit from a sale of more than 100,000 of the braintwisters. It is estimates that the venders of the bogus "Pigs in Sty" have already made, in their brief run, at least $10,000. JOHN M'KEOWN'S LUCK. He Enjoys an Income of Nearly 855,000 A Month from His Oil Wells Alone. Pittsburg (Pa.) Special. Everybody in the oil country is talking about John McKeown's luck. He is a resident of Washington, Pa., already the richest individual oil producer in the world, and still he is finding great liowing wells where other producers would expect "dry holes." To-day his three wells, recently drilled on tho Knox farms, in tho Taylorstown district, aro liowing in tho aggregate fifty-six barrels an hour. The urice of oil in the Taylorstown field, including tho premium, is $1.10 a barrel. This makes Mr. McKeown's income from these three wells alono $1,559 a day. This is a very small part of his income from his wells, as he has productive wells in almost every district in the Pennsylvania oil regions. He has wells in tho Washington, Taylorstown, Butler and Bradford fields, and persons familiar with his business estimate his production at fifty thousand barrels a mouth. On all of this oil, except that from his wells at Bradford, ho receives a premium of from twenty to twenty-five cents a barrel above the market price. His income cannot be far from $55,000 a month from his oil wells alone. About the time the oil excitement broko out on Oil creek McKoown lauded at Castle Garden, from Ireland, without 10 ahead. lie came at once to the oil country and fonnd ' Ms first employment at $3 a day, using the pick and 6hovclf grading for oil derricks and tank seats. He soon became a contractor himself, grading for derricks and tanks, but was not heard of a producer until the great Bradford field began to attract attention. Ho had obtained some leases on the Bingham lands that subsequently proved to be among the richest in the district. Every well was a success. He left Bradford a very rich man, and went to Butler county, then coming in as oil territory, nnd bought a small f arm near Martmsburg. Although undeveloped, like his Bradford lands, it proved to be a bonanza property, and he soon realized another fortune here. From Butler he followed the oil excitement to Washington county, and his luck hero has been the wonder of the oil trade. It was in this county that he developed probably the richest spot ever discovered in the oil regions, not excepting the rich strikes of the early oil excitement. He had three farms in this county that are believed to have produced $3,000,000 worth of oil, and are still producing considerable quantities. From here ho moved ten miles to Taylorstown, where he is operating at present, and there he has opened up another bonanza, as is seen in the yield of 1.559 a day from the three wells above reported. Besides his oil interest he has 23,000 acres of yellow pine lands in Alabama, the largest ilouring-mills in Minnesota, a business block in Baltimore worth $1,000,000, all made from oil. Nature Working Against the Democrats. Boston Journal. A leading doctor at Astoria. Ore is puzzled. He says that so far as he knows ever since the Xoveiuber election all tho boy babies born there in the vicinity have Bepublicau parents, whilo all tne girl babies born since have Democratic parents Ho can't understand it.