Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS; JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1889.

Jotin Enricht, Daniel Carter, Manuel C. Swaidner, Benjamin F. Fleenor. Increase Burton (iillesple, Wm. M. Winkler, Fcott Gar J. John L. Juday, Tboinas Worth, Hentt Crone. Charles Crate, Valentino Stout, Johu liart. John 8hvr. Florence Iluchanan. Jacob Faurote. Charles Tucker, Kobcrt Mewart, Washington Levi, Win. Wise. Conrad Mailer, Lowfa C. Moore. Isaac Muffins. Jacob Norman, Joseph A. Brayboy. Eelsue Bohert Dunn. Original Widows, etc. Caroline, mother of Jerome Hayes; Hannah, mother of John.W. Timberman; Celia, widow of John Wood; Catherine, widow of Jame S. Tilberry; Margaret, mother of William J. Smith; Mary, mother of Francis M. Wheelan. The President Will Tak Little Rest. Special to tli Iuiianapolls Journal. Washington. May 10. Washington will "be deserted by prominent public men tomorrow afternoon. The President intends going down the Potomac on the revenue cutter Dispatch for a couple of days1 breathing spell. The lawyers give a shadbake on the banks of the river almost opposite Mount Vernon, and most of the Cabinet officers have promised to attend. The jnstices of the Supreme Court are to be there, too. General Note. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 10. N. II. Myera and John Lynch, of Indiana, arc here. The funeral services for Miss Myla Charles will take place at the New Yorkavenue Presbyterian Church, at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Fred S. Church, of Lafayette, is at the Ebbit. Alfred P. Kluger has been appointed postmaster at Bingtou, Wayne county, Indiana, vice B. II. Shrimer, removed, and John P. Carr at Oxford, Benton count, vice A. II. Maeguire, removed. The bond offerings to-day were $200,800, as follows: Registered fours, $10,000 at $L29 flat; $300 at $1.20, ex. interest; coupon four-and-a-balfs, $5,000. at $ 1.08 Hat; registered four-and-a-halfs, $74,500, at fcl.Otf; $50.(XX), at $1,005-8, ex. interest; registered four-and-a-half per-cents., $250,000. at $1.08. All the offers were accepted, except the $.;00 four per-cents. registered, at $1.29 ex. interest. The office of United States Treasurer will be transferred from Mr. (Hyatt to Mr. Huston next Monday morningAssistant Secretary Tichenor has idformed a correspondent that the department has no power to grant to informers in customs cases, who have received proper compensation for their services, any pecuniary assistance because of alleged persecution or los of business resulting from the fact of their acting as informers. Representative Cheadle arrived this afternoon from his home at Frankfort. He comes to look after some local oilices and interests of constituents in the departments, and will remain till some time next week. John Jarrett, of Pittsburg, has been agreed upon for the consulate at Sheffield, England, now occupied by "Cousin Ben" Folsom. Society circles credit the statement that Senator Allison, of Iowa, and Miss Teresa Ktonghton, of this city, are engaged, and will be married the coming autumn. Senator Allison is now in the West. Miss Stoughton is a member of one of Washington's oldest and best families. Her father was a distinguished lawyer, and her sister is the wife of Paymaster Bacon, of the navy. Senator Allison has been a widower seven years. The Department of State authorizes tho most positive contradiction of the story ..that Minister Enander has declined the Danish mission because ho had learned that his Appointment was not acceptable to tho Danish government. The department has not, up to tho present, received official information of Minister Enander's resignation. THE FIRE RECORD. Ten Men Temporarily Suffocated "While Putting Out a Blaze Among Straw. - Cincinnati, May 10. Fire started, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, in a lot of rye-straw sheaves which wcro stored in the first floor of the wareroom of Grossman, Gouvion fc Co., manufacturing saddlers, Nos. 74 and 76 Main street. The loss and damage by the lire, which was soon extinguished, were trilling. There were sensational incidents, however, in the laying out of ten firemen by suffocation from smoke. It was a narrow escape for all of them. They? had to be carried home to their respective engine houses by the police patrol-wagons, most of them limp as rags. The names of the lire men that were put out of service temporarily by suffocation, were: Cant. Dory Moses ana pipemen Schroeder and Anderson, of company No. 1: F. Meyers and J. Fallon, of the Babcock Chemical Company, and every member of the hook-and-ladder company No. 1, except the driver. Those affected were Capt. Milton Campbell, Lieut. Jack Schnler, Wm. Bocklage, Lon Kinderman and Wm. Fleming. Nearly all of these men. however, are on dutv to-night. Thev

all think there must have been 'something peculiar about that straw to causo its moke to be eo quickly suffocating. Had it not been on the ground floor, where speedv rescue was possible, several men would have perished. Machine Kstabllslnnent Destroyed. Columbus, O.. May 10. The Case Manu facturing Company's establishment, manufacturers of milling machinery, burned to night. The building was entirely consumed, the machinery destroyed, and a large amount of stock, as well as finished goods, is a total loss. Their trade was ex tensive, including all Darts of the countrv. The damage to machinery, stock and trado is estimated all tho way from $50,000 to $75,000. There was an insurance of $25,000 on tho property among about twenty companies in different parts of tho countrv. There were several adjoining residence buildings destroyed, which were partly covered by insurance. Other Fires. Chicago. May 10. The origin of the lire at Moreland, by which seventy cottages " were destroyed, has been discovered, audit is a peculiar one. Some children were playing with a burning glass and set fire to home paper. Ihis in turn set fire to some dry grass, and then tho Presbyterian Church took fire and the cottages followed. Trcsox. A. T.. May 10. About 2 o'clock this morning tire was discovered in the rear of the Arlington Hotel, at Lordsburg, N. M., which destroved Smyth it Winplee s office, J. M. Gadde's store, tho Arlington Hotel saloon, ami a number of other dwell ings. The lire unread ranidlv. and if it had not been for the udobe buildings, the vil lage probably would have been destroyed. Loss, .x),OUO; insurance small. MARINE NEWS. Remarkably Fast Time of Lake Steamers Fifty-Four Hours from Iinflalo to Chicago. Chicago, May 10. Tho big steamship Chemung came down the lake front early this morning with the speed of a railroad train. She was on tho home-stretch of the greatest long-distance run ever made on fresh water. On her lasttrip up.the Owego, the twin boat of the Chemung, made the remarkabio time ot mty-eignt nours up from Buffalo. Between tho two boats, al though thev belong to the same line, tho sharpest rivalry exists. The Chemung left Buffalo at 70 r. m. Tuesday, reaching Detroit in thirteen hours, and Port Huron iu nineteen. The long run up Lake Huron was made in fourteen hours and ten minutes. Then the none of the big boat was put for Chicago harbor, and she came up Lake Michigan as fast as her powerful machinery could bring her, arriving h?re at J:30 this morning. Her time was twenty hours and thirty minutes from the strait?, and fiftym r i k .m i i' . .lie ionr nours irom jiunaio, couuuiik iuo uiiference of an hour in tune. Ocean Steamship Arrival. Bremerhaykx, May 10. Arrived: Trave, from New York. Havick, May 10. Arrived: Persian Mon arch, ironi New lork. Philadklphia, May 10. Arrived; British r: t i f -1 x tuitcsn, jroin Liverpool. Qukexstowx. Mav 10. Arrived: Wiscon sin, from New York for Liverpool. New Yokk, May 10. Arrived: Aller, from Bremen; Britannic, from Liverpool. Lontov. May 10. The Helvetia, from New York, for Liverpool, passed Kinsale this afternoon. Sighted: Thingvalla, from

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

An Ingenious Young Man Comes to Grief by Infringing a Telephone Patent. Embezzling County Treasurer Convicted and Sentenced Chill Assaulted by a Negro Farmer Fatally Crushed by a Lo. INDIANA. A Young Man Infringes a Telephone Patent nl Is Forced to Fly. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, May 10. A few weeks ago a young man giving tho name of Charles W. Evans, and claiming Evansville as his home, came to this city and engaged in putting in electric bells in residences and business houses. Ho also solicited orders for telephones, which ho manufactured himself. He stopped at the Farley Hotel until Wednesday night, when he suddenly left the city. leaving an unpaid board bill. To-day E. 8. Hotchkiss, of Chicago, wno is erapioyea, as a ueieciive for the Bell Telephone Company, arrived here in search of "Charles V. Evans," which is an alias assumed by William Hazel rig. who. Hotchkiss alleges, is in fringing on the Bell patent by manufacturing transmitters for telephones. Hazelrig has been working a number of Indiana towns as he did this, and his captnre is a dillicult job. Defaulting Treasurer Sentenced. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomfiej.d, May 10. The case of the State of Indiana vs. Edwin R. Stropes, extreasurer of Greene county, which has been on trial since Monday, was brought to a close yesterday by the jury returning a verdict of guilty, and assessing the punishment at a fine of $1 and imprisonment in the State s prison for one year. The jury 6pent twenty-two hours considering their verdict. Mr. Strope is fiftv-five years of I age, and is well known in this part of tho oiaie. iio was a very popular man, naving been twice elected treasurer in this county on the Democratic ticket when the balance of the officers were Republicans. He has a wife and two children, now living in Terre Haute, who have the sympathy or their entire acquaintance. A motion has been made for a new trial. His shortage as treasurer was alleged to be about fourteen thousand dollars. New Castle School-Teachers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New Castle, May 10. Tho following corps of teachers has been selected to teach in the public schools of this city for next year: Superintendent, J. C. Weir; principal High-school, Miss Mary I. Root; assistant principal, Mrs. Rosa Mikels; eighthyear grade, Miss Ida Mullen; sixth and sev enth. Miss Mamie McKmstrey; hfth year. Miss Carrie Harris; fourth year. Miss Cora Bowers; third year. Miss Emma Shriner; second year, Miss Maud Ellis; first year, Miss Almeda Donahoe. . East building sixth and seventh-year grade. Miss Mary Johnson; fifth year. Miss May Moore; fourth year. Miss Cora Redding: third year. Miss Georgia Byer; second year. Miss Lizzie Din gle; hrst year, Miss Emma mm. Child Assaulted by a Negro. Ppeclal to the Indianapolis J urn&L Bkazil, May 10. The nine-year-old daughter of a farmer named Tribble, while in a pasture after tho cows at her father's home, near Newburg, two miles -west of Brazil, was assaulted by a negro, who forced her to the earth. She was greatly alarmed at his approach, and cried loudly for help. Fearing her screams had attracted attention, the villain fled. The child told her storv. and the neighbors . ,i : i. ri 1 : r e ii.:. oiancu iu yuisuiu Alio puuee lurco 01 mis city joined, and search is still being made in the woods southeast of the city. Great excitement prevails. Natural Gas at Falem. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Salem, May 10. Gas has been found by the Salem Lime and Stono Company at its quarry. It is the strongest well yet opened. and people aro greatly pleased. A goodsized excursion of visitors, from Bloomington. Bedford. Mitchell. Orleans. Paoli and West Baden, came down to see the gas wells, and Salem people showed them many attentions, making their stay pleasant, and also exhibiting the city and its attractions. Crushed to Death by a Iog. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Columuus, May 10. A fatal accident be fell James Miller, a prominent farmerliving near Flatrock, this morning. He was en gaged in loading logs on a freight car. when one of them became unmanageable and rolled over him, crushing his head and causing instant death. He leaves a large family. Charged with Forgery. Special to the iBtuanapolis Journal. Martinsville, May 10. S. G. McCracken, formerly assistant postmaster here, and a prominent local politician, was arrested here to-day on a charge of forgery, and on iauing to procure uau was lasenio jau. Minor Notes. "Old Chip." a Chippewa Indian residing in Crumston. claims to be over one hundred years old. He is very feeble. James Miller, a farmer one mile south of Flat Rock, was instantly killed vesterdnv morning by a log falling upon his "head, lie was hf ty years old, and a man of family. Leon Mellen. engine hostler in the Jeffersonville. Madison & Indianapolis railroad yards, at Columbus, had his left hand split open on I hnrsday with a rusty meat hook, upon which he fell. Mrs. Dennis Cassev. of Greenfield, has compromised her 810.000 claim for damages. against the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad Companv. growingout of the kill ing of her husband, tho company paving SVJOO and costs. A buzzard fell out of a flock that was soaring over Madison, on Thursday, and alighted against a large plate-glass window in V'al Dehler's store. The bird was stunned by the shock and easily captured, while the glass was broken into small fragments. Rev. Wm. L. Githers. of Jacksonville. Fla., has declined tho call to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of New Albany, his bishop refusing to permit him to leave, and the choice of tho congregation has fallen upon Rev. John H. Ely, of College Hill suburb, Cincinnati. Mrs. Ellen Mottweiler. of Floyd connty, who was assaulted by the murderer, Bensou, after he had killed Captain Mottweiler, on Dec. 0, is recovering rapidly, although her skull is fractured from the temple to the base. The indenture made on the side ot the woman's head by the hatchet greatly disfigures the face. John Prather, employed on the Compton farm, near Bridgeport, while preparing ground for sweet potatoes, was overcome by the heat, on Thursday, and started for the house, but was prostrated before he reached shelter and died in a few minutes. He was aged thirty. The thermometer marked 91 at the time. The joint exhibition of the Zetelathean and Christomathean societies of Hanover College took place Tuesday night, at tho Presbyterian Church at Hanover. Tho speakers were Miss KateTorreuce.of Greensburg; the Misses Jessie Archer, Rennie E. Wilson and Nellie Morse, of Hanover; Miss Ella V. Martin, of Logansport and Miss Victoria C. Arbuckle, of Swanville. All the young ladies handled their subjects with eaie and credit. ILXLNOIS. Great Damage Dono to Growing Crops by a Hall-Storm and the Extreme Heat. Belvidere, May 10. A most terrific hail, wind and rain storm visited this city and vicinity yesterday afternoon. Hail-stones as large as walnuts fell for thirty minutes. The fruit trees are all in full bloom, and much damage will be doue to cherries and late apples. Corn planting was about completed, but much will probably have to be replanted, the seed being literally washed out of the ground. The florists will bo the worst sufferers, hundreds of lights of glass being broken, and the plant being cut to nieces. Stock which was out in open fields and unable to get under shelter, suffered badlv. Reports have not yet begun to

come in from the surrounding country, and

it is difficult to ascertain the amount of damage done by the hail. A wave of - remarkable heat was experienced in.-Central Illinois yesterday. The temperature at Bloomington reached 5C to in the shade, much the highest temperature known in May for twenty J: ears, at least. The scorching wind that ias been blowing from the South during the past three or four days became almost suffocating. The country is suffering greatly from drought, and the crops are in dauger. A Satisfactory Appointment. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CnAMPAiGX. May 10. The announcement of the appointment of Dr. Levi Spencer Wilcox, of this city, as United States collector of revenue for the Springfield dis trict, caused great gratification here to citizens generally. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, at Evanston, and has been an untiring worker for the Republican party, in which he has exercised a controlling influence in this part of the State for many years. His a?e is fortv-one. He has been a frequent delegate to Republican State conventions, and was a delegate to the national convention in 1SS4. His integrity is unquestioned in all relations, and he has great power of leadership and organization. Suicide Caused by Too Much Liquor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, May 10. John B. Dalliba, of this city, committed suicide by taking an overdose of laudanum. He retired yesterday at noon, and on going to his room to-day he was found dead. He at one time wasonoof Bloomington's most prosperous merchants, but his love for liquor became irresistible, and for drink he gave up all else. His business he lost, his family was obliged to forsake him. and he became a wreck physically and mentally. He was aged forty-two, was a native of Marcellus, N. Y., and is of wealthy parentage. Two Boys Terribly Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Danville, May 10. Two boys, Willie Raymond and Charlie Pearson, ten aud eleven years of age, were barefooted, and in trying to cross some smoldering slack at the coal mines near this city, terribly burned their feet, nutil.it is thought, they will lose the use of them. Both boys are under the care of the physician, who says they are burned to' the knees. Change of Speakers in the House. Springfield, May 10. After the reading of the journal this morning. Speaker Matthews tendered his resignation, in view of his appointment, by President Harrison, to be First Comptroller of the Treasury. The resignation was accepted, and Representative J. H. Miller, of Stark county, was chosen his successor.

Glanders Among Horses. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Danville, May 10. The State Veterinary Surgeon, Dr. Casswell, has been in the neighborhood of Ilamrick and killed one horso and ordered twenty head quarantined, owned by A. D. Cook, all on account of glanders. Drlef Mention. The cattle disease known as blackleg has made its appearance in Jo Daviess county. At Dixon, 111., on Thursday, Lieut. Fred Norton, United States navy, was married to Miss Miller. Miss Hyde, of Bloomington, became insane through joy at meeting a long-lost sister. She was taken to the insane asylum on Thursday. Robert Peale was smothered to death in a clay-bin, at Morris, on Thursday. The bin was thirteen feet deep, and held about 100 tons of clay, nneas powder. Mrs. Edward Cleveland, living near Rockford, ' was knocked senseless by lightning Thursday evening. Her clothing was torn almost entirely off from her, and the steels in her corsets were burned out. The Whito Can warning received bv the Rev. Schweinfurth, of Rockford. has resulted in tho insurance companies canceling all policies on his home, known as Heaven." and the sacred struct nre is now at the mercy of the White Caps and the elements. The sixteenth annual reunion of the First Illinois Association of Mexican War Vet erans was held at Galesburg on Thursday. The officers elected were: President, M. S. Barnes, Galesburg; vice-presidont, Aaron Weir. Knoxville; secretary. S. W. Smith. Monmouth. VUVU AAA WiljVU4lVV4 OUi)01WU J t.Tltl li JT j A a special grand jury called. Win. RusselL of Ashmorcf was indicted for stealing, and Quincy Sutton, of Oakland, for forgery. Both pleaded guilty, and received sentences of one year each in tho penitennary. Serious Illness of Senator Drown. ' Atlanta, May 10. Senator Brown has been at the point of death at his residence in this city for several days. "The Senator," sa id Mrs. Brown, last night, "has been a very sick man since his retnrn from Washington, and has been closely confined to tho house. Last Friday he was taken with a severe attack, and has been in bed ever since Sunday, and on Monday ho was critically' ilL The doctors almost despaired of his recovery, but on Tuesday ho began to regain his strength and is resting well now." When asked about the condition of the patient. Doctor Connolly said: "Tho crisis was during Saturday, Sunday and Monday. At any time during these days a slight turn for the worse might have S roved fatal. Now, however, he is out of anger, we hope. When he was in Washington he had a very bad attackof pleurisy. Last Friday' ho was taken with dysentery of a malignant character, and has been seriously ill. but we consider him as beyond the dangerous period of his sickness." Fight Between Cowboys and Indians, Santa Fe, N. M.. May 10. Tho Pueblo Indian agent, Williams, to-day received a telegram from General Carr, at Fort Winf ate, N. M., saying that, in a fight between ndians aud cowboys near that post, three of the former were killed. Tho perpetrators of the deed were arrested. It is feared the end is not yet, but the military has taken precautionary measures to prevent further trouble on the part of the Indians. The Policeman's Handy Revolver. Kansas City. May 10. .Toe Williams, a negro, was snot and killed to-night while rnnning away from Sergeant Pat Sheehv. of the Pinkerton. police. Williams had grabbed a pair of pants in a clothing store, and an outcry was raised, with the abovo result. . m , - An Aeronaut's Peril. Prof. Colby, In Philadelphia North American. "Yes. I have had a good manv narrow es capes. That's why I'm lame now. Once when making a parachute descent in North ampton. Mass.. I found myself drifting in the jaws of death. The big parachute a 1 1 m uruiea. aown uirecuy over a railroad iracK. Thi rlpiit. TV'ia slnvr mul I nf rn )ir giving danger no thought. Suddenlv i chauced to look along the track. Coming toward mo with fearful speed was an express train. I tried to change the direction of the parachute by oscillating on the bar. Nearer .and nearer came the train. 1 was in aironv. fori wasreachinguearertho ground. When within twenty feet of the ground the parachute swerved and the top caught and fell over some telegraph wires. The express tdiot past with a roar and in a cloud of dust. I fell to the ground and broke my leg. Kough expennce, ehr Rather." Why Not Bore lor Beer Nebraska State Journal. The discovery of a lager beer spring in the peninsula of Corea is the most cheering news of the y ear. If there is a reservoir of lager beer in Corea it is very likelv that beer may bo tapped elsewhere if one sinks a shaft deep enough to reach the store house. The people of Kansas are possibly thirsty enough by this time to make an effort. The time may come when cverv real estate owner will have an artesian w ell of this wholesome beverage in his cellar. Why She Talks Better. Hartford Tost A woman cannot throw a stone as well ns a man because sho has two long a collar bone. She can talk better than a man be causeshe knows how. Improve the nutritive functions of the scalD by using Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Rcnewer, and thus keep tho hair from falling ana becoming gray.

BALD-KNOBBERS EXECUTED

Horrible and Bungling Scenes Attending the Hanging of the Three Men. The Rope Stretches and the Victims Fall, Groaning, to the Ground, Compelling a Second Attempt and Prolonged Snfferin?. Ozark, Mo., May 10. The carpenters gave tho scaffold its finishing touches last even ing, and everything was ready by 8 o'clock for the execution of the three Bald-knob-bers to-day. William Walker was baptized at 6 p. m. by immersion iu a bath basin, carried into the jail. The scene was very affecting. John Matthews made a long prayer, which could be distinctly heard in the street fronting the jail. The prisoners ate their supper with as much relish as usual, and appeared very quiet, except Matthews. He passed a restless night, praying at short intervals, asking the Lord to give him strength to go through the ordeal, and claiming he was a martyr. He did not sleep over two hours during the night. The two Walkers retired about 11 o'clock, went to sleep and did not wake until after 4 o'clock. They stated that they rested well. They were up early and ate their breakfast at the usual hour. The jail-yard was full of guards armed with Winchester rifles, shotguns and revolvers, and were in charge of Capt, G. W. Taylor, who was foreman of tho grand jury which indicted the Bald-knobbers. Matthews's wife and mother came in last evening, and several others of his relatives are here. Divine services were opened in the jail at 7:30 o'clock, conducted by Revs. Thomas Hanks, D. E. Graystono and T. B. Horn, assisted by a few Christian ladies. Mat thews took part in the exercises, and de livered an earnest prayer in a loud voice. Yv imam walker also led in prayer once. At 8:53 o'clock the sheriff entered tho jail and read the death warrant to the doomed men, after which Thomas Delaney, one of their attorneys, was admitted to have an interview and bid them farewell. Johu Matthews came to tho window and had a conversation with the reporter. He said: 'I have to die, but, thank God, I can say I am innocent, and nave told the truth all along about this matter. I have nothing to regret. I went out through the hole, not because 1 was guilty. but to escape a shame ful death. But it was the will of God that I should die, and I ought to be proud of it. I was a soldier in the federal array, and am proud of my record. I am willing for the people who have known me all my life to say what kind of a man I have been." At 9:10 o'clock the prisoners commenced dressiug themselves for the scaffold. They were dressed with white shirts, linen collars, black cravats, low slippers and black coats, vests and pants. 1 he jury and reporters were admitted to the inside at 9:30 o'clock. Just before leaving his cell John Matthews proclaimed his innocence in a loud voice. The sheriff helped Matthews up the steps. Youn g Walker followed wi th a firm step, his father following close be hind, as firm as ever. At tho trap a short prayer was delivered by Rev. T. B. Horn, after which all joined in singing. Rev. T. B. Horn rendered a selection from the book of Job. Rev. Thos. Hanks delivered a beautiful prayer. The nooses were adjusted at 9:40. John Matthews said he had nothing to add. He was there, but took no part in the crime. Matthews called on all who were willing to help his little ones to hold up their hands. Nearly every one in his sight held up their hands, lhe black caps were adjusted at 9:51. At 9:53 the drop fell. John Matthews fell praying. The stretch of the rope let all fall to the ground. The rope broke, and William Walker fell loose and lay there struggling and groaning. He talked for three minues, when he was taken up bv the sheriff and deputies on the scaffold. Dave Walker was drawn up and died in about fifteen minutes. Matthews lived about thirteen minutes, and died with his feet on the ground. The scene was horrible in tho extreme. Matthews and Dave Walker wore cut down at 10:10. The trap was again adjusted and William Walker lifted helpless, and groaning, and gurgling, and almost insensible, and the rope again adjusted, and the trap again sprung. This time his descent came to a Kiiaaen siop, wiin ms ieetinii xnirry incnes from the ground, and he died without a struggle. Another account says that the scenes on tho gallows were revolting in tho extreme. Less than a minute after the three men were dangling in mid-air the rope around William Walker's neck broke off short and ho fell heavily to the ground, struggling and gurgling ternblv. The feet of Matthews and Dave Walker touched tho ground, and the noose almost slipped over Dave Walker's chin. His body was raised waiting thews to die. Bill Walker uat on the gal lows coughing and spitting bloody mucus on his black cap and coat front. It was a chastlv spectacle, as young Walker sat there until the trap could be raised for his second terrible drop. He groaned: "Oh. I hope no other man will ever have to suffer what I have in dying." When carried back on to the scaff old young Walker was laid on his side, still breathinc heavily, hawking and muttering. While moaning "Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord!" the noose was a second time tightened around his neck and at 10:13, his body again dropped heavily through the trap, and alter lifteen minutes he was pronounced dead, no died of strangulation. The Bald-Knob hers aud Their Crimes. Tho three Bald-knobbers, Dave Walker, better known in Christian county as "Bullcreek Dave," chief of the Bald-knobb era his son, William Walker, and John Mat thews, were hanged for the murder of Charles Green and William Edens, com mitted on March 11, 1887. The arrest, trial and conviction of tho Bald-knob leaders attracted widespread attention, and for the first time the history of the Bald-knob-ber organization was made public. Taney county, Missouri, was the birthplace of tho order of masked regulators. It is in the wildest section of the State, and early-day lawlessness caused the formation of leagues for the protection of life and property. Tho regulators first came into prominence when the notorious Frank and Tubal Taylor entered tho home of a Mr. Dickinson, in Forsythe, Mo., and mur dered an entire family. 1 he outlaws were captured by the new Law and Order League, and promptly lynched. Capt, IS at Kinnev. a phvsical giant, was then leader of the regulators, and was shot and killed by one ot his old followers at Ozark, not many months since. Christian county, which adjoins laney county, first adopted bald-knobberism in lb)-). Dave Walker was the first leader, and the order soon numbered between 300 and 400 members. All new-comers were invited to join the order, and the ma1'ority did so. The candidate for Baldaiobber honors was compelled to pass through a trying ordeal. Instead of being inducted into some fraternal order composed of his neighbors, as he had anticipated, he fonnd himself at midnight in tho dark recesses of a lonely wood or . ravine, surrounded by hundreds of hideous 'masked men, who imposed upon the candidate a blood-curdling obligation, tho infraction of which was punishable by death. Once a member he could never desert the organization and remain in that section of the countrv alive. The Chadwick raid was the first work.of the Christian county Bald-knobbers that attracted attention. Chadwick is a small station located at the terminus of the St. Louis &un Fruiciseo railway extension from Spriugtiehi southeast. The opening of the saloon at Chadwick was followed by utter demoralization of the residents of the place, and the Bald-knobbers ordered that the saloon be closed. The warning was disregarded, aud one bright night along in tho summer of 1N00, the famous regulators entered Chadwick, destroyed the saloon, and poured the liquor in the streets. The saloon at Chadwick required one more visit and then ceased to exist. There were numerous visita by the Bald-knobbers to petty offenders, but nothing occurred to attract especial attention uutir the GreenEdens affair, which terminated in the downfall of Bald-knobberism. The Green-Edens killing occurred on the

up and the rope readjusted, but he died by strangulation, writhing violently, While

for Dave Walker and John Mat-

night of March 11. 1SS7. At a point eight miles east of Ozark and near the Edens dwelling, ono John Evans was whipped by the Baul-kiiobber.s for misbehaving in church. Old man Edens. who was a friend of Evans's, interfered and received four blows with the whip before Chief Walker could interfere. Edens afterward fearlessly denounced Bald-knobberism, and on the night of March ll the band met to consider what punishment should be meted out to the old ui.in who dared to criticise tho regulators. There were twenty-six Bald-knobbers at the meeting, and after very brief deliberations they proceeded to the Edens residence to punish the inmates. They first went to tho home of William Edens, but finding no one there, proceed to the house of James Edens, William's father. There were in the house at the tiino father, mother, son. daughter-in-law, (laughter and son-in-law. and two gramlchildreu. Tho Knobbers fired promiscuously into the house, without regard to sex or age, killing young William Edens and Charles Green, his brother-in-law, and leaving old man Edens on the floor for death The daughter barely escaped with her life. During the melee Bill alker was shot in the leg. and this afterward aided incompleting the chain of evidence against the offenders. This outrage brought abont a culmination of public indignation, and Zach Johnson, the fearless sheriff of Christian county, with a picked posse of men. had the murderers, save Bill Walker, in custody within forty-eight hours' time. Bill Walker was captured weeks later in Douglass connty, where he had fled to nurse his wound and avoid detection. The captureof Bill Walker was a very clever piece of work. Tho sheriff knew that Bill had a sweetheart in Ozark, and came to the conclusion that sooner or later Bill would send for her, and he did, and when she arrived in Douglass comity to meet her young out la w lover, a detective was shadowing her, and in ten minutes after the meeting of the lovers. Bill Walker's wrists were decorated with hand-cuffs. At that time there was no jail in Ozark, and the prisoners were taken to Springfield, Mo., for safe keeping, until one could be built, which was promptly done, and the Bald-knobbers transferred to Ozark, where they paid the penalty of their crime to-day. The trials of the men were attended with many scenes of an exciting character, but three of the prisoners finally confessed, to secure immunity, and Chief Dave Walker admitted the assault of the Bald-knobbers on the Edens home, bnt pleaded that he did not arrive until after the shooting had ceased. A very peculiar feature of Baldknobberism, now dead, is that a majority of the most prominent members of the band of regulators were devout church members. Chief Walker was an exhorter, a temperance advocate and a generally flevout man. Tho Bald-knobber chief clung to the belief that the aegulators were champions of the right, claiming that tho Edens-Green killing was an unfortunate, but unavoidable, mistake. NERVOUS EXHAUSTION IN CITIES.

Result of the nigh-Pressure System of living A Itemedy Suggested. The Churchman. The migratory restlessness of the frontiersman finds immediate relief in "pulling up stakes' and moving on to a new settlement. There is no such relief for the inhabitants of cities. City life is in some respects an imprisonment, with liberal space to move about in, but still with a virtual compulsion to remain within city bounds. The restlessness of city people is often greater, and unspeakably more painful, than that which overpowers the frontiersman. There Is a constant strain of the nervous system in nearly all departments of life. The majority are engaged in a daily struggle for mere existence. Perhaps the hapiest are those who look for nothing more; but a large proportion of all city populations are obliged to look for something more than the bare means of supporting physical life. There is a struggle harder aua fiercer than for daily bread. The cares of business and the direct strain of the brain which is incident to bo many vocations of modern life nre playing havoc with the constitutions of city men. In a touching article in the Forum, Mr. James Payn tells in a patient way how he has gradually lost his hearing. When tho first symptoms began to appear ho thought it was one of the warnings which aro given to men before tho last notice to quit this present life, but a great physician made light of that supposition. "Stuff and nonsense, sir," he said, "lam your elder by ten years, and 1 don't intend to be either deaf orbliud for many a day. What has happened to yon is through what I call, for want of hotter name, nervous exhaustion." Mr. Payn acknowledges that he actually has been under nervous strain, and he had robably been overstraining himself much onger and much worse than ho knew. The result was incurable deafness. Mr. Payn'a punishment, bravely as it is borne, was comparatively light. The penalty of many thousands who sin in the same way is nervous dyspepsia, long-continued ill-health, sudden break-down, premature death, or, worst of all, insanity. These nre the too frequent penalties of the high-pressure system of citv life, especially among the professional and business classes. Not a day passes that the fact is not illustrated in the lamentablo close of some career of usefulness. Is there no way to escape this neurasthenia, this nerve exhaustion, which is threatening tho best life of the communitvT Undoubtedly there is; and it is simplv the way of obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Men would do well to remember that, as He said, "the life is more than meat," and to pay some attention to tho conditions of health in the life they aro called to lead. Niue-teViths of the cares which beset men in this world relate to a future which never comes as it is looked for, and which often does not como at all. Would it not bo well to apply in their obviously rational sense tho words of Jesus, "Take no thought for the morrow; the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself?" And this so-called "struggle for existence." is it. generally speaking, a struggle for existence at allf Or is it not mostly a struggle for superfluities! What if men were to try to live their daily prayer for "daily breadi" In a thousand ways tho teachings of Jesus, if they were followed, would contribute to the lessening of that nervous exaltation which is the cause of so many maladies, and the sure end of which is nervous exhaustion. HEATING A TAVERN. But It was Clear Waste, for the Hill Had Al ready Been Settled. New York Sun. One afternoon in 1873 1 entered the village of L , in Missouri, as dead broke as the poorest tramp on the highway. 1 had already walked thirty miles, and had fifteen more to go before I could hone to find friends and raise money. I had been out with a barn-storming theatrical company, and had got left. Watch, rings and everything but the clothes in which I stood had already gone, and I knew that I must beat the hotel or take lodgings in a fence corner. I might tell my tale of woo to the. landlord in vain. He probably beard a hundred such in tho course of the year. Therefore, as I entered the village I determined to give Boniface the grand stand-off in good shape. Just before reaching tho hotel I picked a child out of tho street just in time to save it from being trampled under the feet of a runaway team, but I handed it over to a store-keeper without a dozer words in regard to the incident. It was a fair village tavern, and I asked for the best room in tho house. After a good supper I got half a dozen cigars on tick, and at 10 o'clock went to my room and turned in and slept like a top until an hour before daybreak. Then 1 got up, quietly dressed myself, and slipped down stairs and out of the front door, and started off. After "hoofing it" for about four miles I sat down to rest, and was about ready to move on again, when a buggy in which my landlord was seated drove . up. I went down into my boots at once, supposing, of course, he had followed on to arrest me, but as he drew rein he called out in a cheery voice: "Ah, good morning. Moving early, I see." "Y-yes," 1 stammereL "You are too modest, young man altogether too modest." "Y-yes." "Yon left early to avoid being lionized, I suppose, but I was determined to prove our gratitude. Here, take this." "What forfl gaRped.asheld out four $5." "For saving the life of my sister's child last evening. They paid your bill after you went to bed, or, rather, there was none to pay. Put this in your pocket." "But. 1-1 " "Shut right up! We aro not in grates, and we know a hero when we see ono. Jump in and let mo drive you over to Tipton, where you can get a train." And tho landlord I had figured to stand

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Ilarhin, reeJdlngrat'No. f3 West 25th Street, Nevr York City, : has" passed through a most wonderful experience Mrs. Harlan ha h happy home and througi r devotion to her home duties ovcr-tajced her strength. She had do pressed feelings, entire lack of energy in life, and finally a cough at night and morn ing which grew worse each day. Upon looking la the f-lassshesaw dark circles under her eyes and ound that she was growing thinner and losing all Interest in lift. This painful state of things continued for months until finally she became to weak she could not attend to her duties and was confined to her bed the greater part of the time. One day Mrs. Harlan's very dear friend Mrs. WiUard called and was amazed to seo her so wai? an faded. Two bright hectic soots stood upot. each cheek, her lips were blue, her tace pinched and drawn, and there was a piteous look in her ercs. Mrs. WUlard knew this meant consumption and her heart was touched for her friend. At her earnest request. the use of an Emrli&ii itemedy lor consumption, was tried. At the start very little effect could be seen, so great an Inroad had the disease made, but by degrees Mrs. Harlah began to reysin her lost appetite, then her strength, then her hope, then her health, and sbe it tonArfMt ohraical con dition, -wholly as a result of the use of Dr. ACicer s jvng. Ugh Kemedy for Consuxaplon. ( The lesson of thlg simple 6tory should bo plain to all. No man or wemaa can afford to neglect those first symptoms of consumption, which seem so slight but which becomes so terrible unless taken in time. This Great Remedy hat laved the Uvea of hundreds of well known men and women who were on the verjre of the grave from consumption but who are well and bappj to-day. It ia sold urdversaUy. Sold hy Geo. W. Sloan & Co., 22 West Washington stree'4 C. II. Schad & Co.. cor. Washington and Noble sts.; Frank 11. Carter, 300 MasHachusottA are.; C. C. Watson, 611 Virginia ave.j S.Mnti, cor. Illinois and First sts.; Izor Ilros.. 25D West Washington st. off and knock out drove me seven . miles over tho country and left mo with $20 in my pocket! MOVABLE nOSPITALS. A Plan to Transfer Invalids from One Climate to Another According: to Season. Philadelphia Press. It is noticeable that there has been of late a decided reaction against tho hospital idea, of which Baltimore's institution is such a complete realization. It has been questioned whether tho best results can bo obtained for the relief of suffering and tho euro of disease by devoting large sums of money to permanent and costly buildings. This method compels the retention of patients all the year round in climates which for some months must necessarily be injurious. The suggestion has been "made that in place of the old plan it would bo moro economical in both a money and a health sense to take advantage of climatic conditions. The advance of medical science has shown that particular localities havo some special adjustment for the cure of particular disease, and it would appear to be wise to profit by this knowledge. 1-or instance: In some of tho Eastern States tho people ap especiallj' liable to consumption, while this diseane is very rare in several of ,tho Western Mates and Territories. Maine has ono consumptive in every IiV persons, Massachusetts ono in every 842, Pennsylvania one in every Wl, but Colorado has only ono in every lcT, Florida one in every 1,019, Arizona one in 2,247, New Mexico one in 2,440, and Wyoming oue in every 4,157. It would seem to be cheaper and more humane, then, to cnd a consumptive to Wyoming to bp cared for by a private family than to retain him in Massachusetts in the most costly hospital and under the best medical care. Kdward Everett Hale has expressed the hope that the near future may see an invalid car starting every Monday morning from Bos ton, from December to April, aud carrvin to Florida patients to whom the climate o tnat fciaic is Known xo do oenenciai. Some such plan, it is to be hoped, will be worked out by science and philanthropy. The medical stafl'of the United States an.iy have already put the idea into partial practice by stationing in turn in Florida each regiment of tho army. But until it is realized the world will admire and welcome the generosity which founded and the practical wisdom which carried out the purpose of tho Johns Hopkins Hospital. A Hopeless Outlook. Omaha World. Sister Thcysay I greviously regret you leave our church, dear pastor. Pastor Peaceful You should not grieve. No doubt the Lord will fend you a better servant to till my place. Sister T. I have no such hope. Of the last thirteen pastors wo have had cver3 one has been worse than the other. Laboratory axd Office of J. X. IlfRTr, ) Analytical chemist, JIXDiANAroLif, Ind., April 1:5, 1SS7. Messrs. Mnllaney & Hayes, Indianapolis: Gentlemen In accordance vith your letter of March 18, 1 purchased rroui Mr. Kobert Ilro wiling, individually, a tattle of your special wine. Cote d or. This wine i cave exuaiiMiveiy ana caret uUy analyzed, and herewith hubnili my result: The wine poscscs a heavy lKdy, has a deep wine-red color and natural, rich flavor. Its citlc gravity is l.Ol'J, contains 0. per cent of alcohol and 10.31 it cent of solid matter. ThU eolid matter 1m found naturally iu the grape, und Is composed principally of graie sugar. It contains, also, some vegetable nlhiimeu, a little tutural coloring matter, and certain mineral phosphates. This wine, then, certainly Is a pure, fermented grape Juice, and has not been manipulated' in any way. I wltdi to call your attention to a fact not generally known, namely: that pure grape Juice in com posit Ionfatty matter excepted very closely resembles fTe&u milk. Thin explains the valuable uutritivo properties and wholesomenesM of grape Juice, "ionr wine. Cote d'Or, l very rich in the UMiid constituents of grape lulce, and contains nlout the right quantity f alcohol lO per cent. to enhance these nutritive und medicinal properties. J. N. Hi kiT. For sale b j all fixiVclast druggists.

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