Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889.

nelins X. Blis. of New York; Charles Studebaker. of Indiana; T. JellV r-on Coolidge, of Massachusetts; W illiam Htury Trcscott, of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennvlvania: ex-Senator Henir G. Davis, of West Virginia: Hon. Morris Estee. of California; Job n F. Hanson, of Georgia, and Charles It Flint, of Now York. Indiana Tension!. Pensions have been granted to the following-named Indianians:' Original Invalid Jonathan Cnller. John Ptoutuour. John W. CrutchCeM, Thomas J. Crane, William It Wibhle, James P. Sillery, George Uptrraft Maon Eilev, Anibroe Uamon. Ilarvey II. Todd, Emanuel Leckrouc, Henry Wise, James Grlgz. James White. Restoration John Richardson. IocrraM Ianiel Miller. Isaac H. Clark, Georjre Watson. Samuel McDonald, Robert II. Ph ares, Jame W. Smith, Jonathan J I. Bennett, Carey Tuttle. Jewe I. Doden. James li. Iildrwoj", "William II. bailor?. Oscar F.I-arwell, John M. Thomas. William fcpray, fcbadrach M. Earhee, Isaac Clapp. Jeaeini W. Fetzer. John V. Barlow. John W. fete wart, Samuel Brown, George W. Logan, Andrew J. Van Hook, John Conway, William II. Lemond, John (I jMe. Allison 8. Ray, Farlow fc. Peek, Jasper N. Layman, l:ci..ne Amasa Edwards. Original Widows, etc. Margaret E. Arnold, former widow I J. W. CrutclUleid; E., widow J. M. Gilbert Site of an Ohio Hirer IJrldjr. Washington, Oct. 1. The board of army

officers appointed to determine the fitness of the site already selected for the bridge across the Ohio river at Louisville has reported adversely to the building of the bridge at that site, which is on Mulberry (street, and recommended its location at the foot of Wall 6treeU Secretary Proctor, however, does not feel warranted in revoking the consent to bnild the bridge given by his predecessors, and will content himself "with a transmission of the report to Congress, which may act upon its recommendations, providing the bridge be not already built by that time. Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Washington, Oct. 1. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, to-day, as follows: Martha A. Carter, Amo, frult-canner; Edward Dawson, assignor of one-half to P. N. Haff, Terre Haute, vise; Charles N. Kill. New Albany, gate latrh: Henry Fatlc, Jliddletown, cane or cornharvesting machine; Phillip J. Hairah, assignor of one-third to H. Lehman, liloomfield, shaftholder for vehicles; Geo. E. Eichetts, Goshen, fcrtifcL for moLsteulne the sheets of copying-looks; Robert S.Taylor and M. M. rdattery. Fort Wayne, automatic synchronizing commutator. Indians and Illinois Postmaster. Washington, Oct. l.The President today appointed the following named post-., masters: Thomas L. Merrick, at Fowler, Ind; James K. Gore, Elkhart, Ind.; C.J. Hovey, Mt. Vernon, Ind.; John Fable, North Vernon, Ind.; William G. Carruthers, Fairfield, 111.; Cyrus W. Matthews, Jacksonville, 111.; Thomas Jewitt, Oregon, I1L; Philip II. neither. Nashville, III; Wni. F. Hunicr4 Elgin. 111. Consul Officially Received. Washington, Oct. 1. Any donbt which may have been entertained a9 to the reception by the Mexican government of United States Consul Sampson, at Paso Del Norte, has been set at rest by the reception of news at the State Department that ho has been given his exequator, or official acknowledgement of his recognition. 311nlster Douglass Off for Haytl. New York. Oct. l.The newly appointed minister to Hayti, the Hon. Frederick Donglass, and party failed for the West Indian island on the United States steamer Kearsarge, from the Brooklyn navy yard, this morning. The customary saluto of fifteen guns was tired in honor of the minister. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 1. A marriage license was issued to-day for Francis H. Ulhek, of Etna Green, Ind., and Elorlo E. Crandall. of this city. McDonald, Fay and Bright, former wellknown Hoosier Democratic lawyers, now of this city, have been appointed special counsel to represent the United States government in the prosecution of the Buttcrfield claim against Denmark before the arbitration commission, meet at Athens. Greece. whicb will soon Oran Perry and wife and iowell, of Indianapolis, are theEblMt. Charles . Holregisterpd at The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a report of the condition of national banks at the close of business Monday, Sept SO. Secretary Tracy denies that Captain Shepard, of the Kearsarge, refused .to 'nail with Minister Douglass, notwitbstandinc that his relief grew out of a ditliculty concerning cabin accommodations. To-day's bond offerings aggregated $418,CjO, as toll s: Coupon fours, $400, at 81.27; registered nurs. SO.iCO. at $1.27; registered lour-and-one-halfs, 5405.000. at SLOSr. 900, at.Sl.05io; coupon four-and-one-halfs. SI.cuu, ui CV A. 11 - 1 A PASTOR'S DOUBLE LIFE. Canadian Minister Arrested at Chicago for Bigamy A Touching Scene in Court. Chicago, Oct. 1. A local paper says: "A Canadian pastor's double life was brought to light by the police last evening. At the armory the reverend gentleman, Frederick T. McLeod, walked the floor of a cell, de tained on a charge of adultery and bigamy. In another ceil was his alleged wife, her eyes red witti tears and her babe in her arms. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod were arrested at their home, last evening, on warrants sworn out by Mrs. Mary McLeod, of Cena. 1 . r trai economy, 1. o. ine compiainaut, a prettv blonde, said that Kev. Mr. McLeod married her two years ago while pastor of the Congregational Church at Central Kconomv. 'He was dnvcn.ont of town not jong ancr mat,' sne earn, -011 account 01 a family matter, and came to Chicago. He has been here now two years, but I did not bear of his second marriage until this month. I at once came from Nova Scotia and had warrauts for his arrest sworn out. 1 have one child, a boy, fifteen months old.' Mr. McLeod refused to inako any state ment. ' The parties were brought before a justice To-aay. w e ass lor a continuance so as to secure witnesses," said Mrs. McLeod No. I s attorney. McLeod began to tremble. He looked first at No. 2 and then at the court. "They con i neeu any witnesses." lie saiu. "Do you wish to waive! asked the court. "1 gness so." But No. 2 bugged her baby closer andrelnseu. to nave it so. lhe matter dawned upon nor in all its seriousness. She uttered a loud shriek, and then stnfied her shawl into tier mouth so' as to prevent any iuriner onicry, wmio me rears uoweu in etreams from her ccs. ell, I will continue tho case until to morrow. Bonds of Sl.Oco cn each charge i or .nr. lci.eou, xv lor irs. icLeod." A Family's Sore Mlnfurtunes. Springvtkli). 0.. Oct. 1. Late last night hunters in the vicinity of Pitclien. this comity, came upon a family, comprising xiusuaim. who auu seven cniiOTen. all campeci in ine woons. ine nine persons had been traveling, but several weeks ago their money gave out, sickness attacked tne father, and, too proud to beg, they lived in the woods. Since then they nave, suusisieu on sour niUK and potatoes. 1 heir clothes have become so raggedasto barely cover their nakedness, and all of them are more or less diseased. A sixteen year-old daughter was found in an aban doned pig pen. She had typhoid fever, and a baby lay in her arms, lo-day tho members of the family were brought hero to the couniy lnnrmary. and tney ate ravenously 01 mo ioou piacea neiore them. Obltuary. HOME. Ga.. Oct 1. Capt. George Skin ner, superintendent of the Chattanooga, ikomeiv ioiumous railroad, and a prominent man in railway circles, died here this evening of paralysis of the brain. His re mains were f orwarded to-night to his home Mail Coach Kobbed. Edinbchg, Tcx., Oct. 1. Tho mail beiwetn uio uranue ana isrownsville was stopped last night two miles from Havana. The driver was taken into the woods, his eyes bandaged and the mail sacks riiieiL when he was allowed to proceed on his way. Is ease of sudden coida, and for conghs of long I tan din , t&e AVer's Cherry 1'ectoral

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

Kokomo School Board Tests and Repudiates the Becktold-Williams Books. Great Knights Templars Train Kev. John Fox's Expulsion A Ghastly Find Mrs. Nuckolls Flees the State with ITer Child. INDIANA. The IIecktold-V iUlara Books Kicked Oat of the Kokomo Schools as Worthleis. Epecial to th InlLaJiaiKlia Journal Kokomo, Oct. 1. After two weeks' use the Becktold-Williams-Mferrill geographies were condemned to-day by the city school board, and thrown ont of all the city schools, believing their use to be a rank injustice to the pupils and school patrons. The new Eclectic series, formerly in use, have been agian utilized, to the creat deli eh t of nnnils and teachers. The Board of Education has also decided to use only "White's New Arithmetic." the Indiana series being considered worthless. The high standard of Kokomo schools is fortunately to bo maintained, and the act ion of the board in casting aside the fraudulent books is generally commended. Politics did not figure in tho decision. Republicans and Democrats alike voted to discard the inferior books, Hon. A. F. Arm strong, the most prominent and popular Democrat in Howard county, with all his coueagues on tne uoara. neing ior ine rejection of the new books. f Knights Templars Train for Washington. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Plymouth. Oct L A vestibule train of seven Pullman cars (over the Pennsylvania railroad) will be made np with the following Knights Templars and their friends on their pilgrimage to attend the triennial conclave to be held at Washington next week: Valparaiso Commandery, No. 2S, with twenty-five Knights, under command of Em. Sir II. B. Brown; Plymouth Commandery, No. 6, under command of Em. Sir George II. Thayer, jr.. with twenty-five Knights; Warsaw Com mandery, No. 10, with twenty-two Knights, under command of Lm. Sir U.J. Hoyt; rort Wayne Commandery, No. 4. with fifty Knights, under command of Lm. Sir C. D. Law. A largo number of ladies, wives and friends of the Knights, also Past Grand Commander Henry G. Thayer, and Past Grand Master Daniel McDonald, will accompany these pilgrims to the Nation's capital, imminent fcir Uharies u. iiaw, Commander of Tort Wayne Commandery, will have the entire supervision of this train, and says that it will be the finesttrain that will pass over his road from the west. . 1 The Case of Kev. John Fox. Special to tho Indianapolis journal. Terre Haute, Sept SO. In tho Journal of the 24th a statement was printed, giving Kev. John Fox's version of the trouble which culminated in his expulsion from the German Evangelical Conference at tho session recently held at Marshall, I1L The facts are as follows: Mr. Fox was not expelled on the charge of intemperance,' for the reason that no such charge was pre ferred against him at his trial, which was held in Olney, I1L, in July last The statement that the charges brought against Fox were not substantiated is denounced as untrue. The charges alleged unchristian con duct, telling and writing lies, calumniation and transgression of his ministerial ordination vow. Almost every specification was proven. Ho was found guilty, and the cominitteo suspended him till conference met The latter body approved the verdict by an almost unanimous vote. The entire proceedings of the Olney trial were read before the conference, and Mr. Fox did not produce new evidence nor ask a new trial. Indian Skeletons Fonnd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Oct. 1. Workmen employed in repairing a road in the northern part of this county have unearthed five skeletons of human beings in a gravel-pit located on the farm of David Kyle. One skeleton is that of a child about twelve years old. Tho other four are of men fully six feet tall and of large bones. With two of the men had been buried two lower jaws of some animal. The jaws are of peculiar shape, and have set in them monstrous teeth. The largest set of jaws had been sawed in two and strangely marked. A bone powder-charger and the prongs of a deers horns were also found with tho skeletons. It is presumed they are those of Indians who have been buried many years. Many citizens of that locality have knownthe mound, where the skeletons were found, for sixty years, and there were largo trees growing upon it that long ago. Fled with Her Kidnaped Child. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville, Oct 1. Tho cases against Mrs. Frank Nuckolls and Mrs. J. T. Wallace for contempt of court in abducting the Nuckolls boy,' was called in court this morning. Airs, vv anace made amdavit to the effect that she was an innocent party to the affair, she not knowing that Mrs. Nuckolls was intending to kidnap her boy from the schooL The judge then dismissed the case against Mrs. Wallace. But when the cause against Mrs. Nuckolls was called, she was not present, and it was soon ascer tained that she had left town. It is supposed that she went to Louisville, on her way to Fort Worth, Texas, where her sister. Mrs. Craig, resides. Thus she again has brought herself into contempt of court, and now ihere are two charges against her on thje docket Kesult of a roll Heal Assault. Epecial to the IndiananoUs Journal. Martinsville, Oct l.The caso of the State vs. William J. Swope and others for assault with intent to kill was called in the Circuit Court here yesterday. The defend ants pleaded guilty. Mr. Swope was fined $100, and the others $10 each. The fines and costs will aggregate several hundred dol lars. 1 his case grew out of the assault on Eli Jackson, last election, because he wished to scratch his ticket Mr. Jackson was severely, and for a time it was thought fatally injured, but he is now able .to be out again, with the aid or cane and crutch. He was awarded $3,000 damages for his in juries, in tne Hamilton circuit court, last spring. Kev. Myla F. Tupper. LaPorte Herald. Miss Myla F. Tupper preached at the Unitarian Church yesterday. All who had the pleasure of hearing this talented lady speak of her in , tho highest terms. Miss Tupper has accepted the call to this church and will be ordained here in the near future. Miss Tupper graduated from Cornell University last spring, and has been assisting her sister, who has a circuit 111 Wisconsin of six churches. 1 he reverend lady is tine looking, is robust in appearance. possesses a strong voice, and is probably twenty-five years old. Left the Town in Darkness. fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal Hartford City, Oct l.The fight between the gas company and the City Council tamo to a head last night Tho lights were turned out, and the city was left in darkness. The board aro determined that the gas company must furnish lights for one-half tho present price 75 cents a post per month being the price heretofore exacted. The gas company say they will not do it. Publio opinion is divided in the fight . KlUel In Flay. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Muntpexjer, Oct. 1. Bennie, the six-ycar-ojd sn of Philipp Bobbins, while playing on the school ground with his sister, to-day. ran against her and burst his head, causing death instantly. Fired Upon from Ambnih. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Montfelier, Oct 1. About 10 o'clock last night, while some boys from the country were going home from town, they had

to go by a tilc-mill close to town, and when they got opposite the mill, some persona commenced firing at them, iust missing them. Eleven shots were tired. The boys say they had a pretty close calL They went over to tho mill, but could not find anybody. Minor Notes. The stables of W. S. Jacobs, coal dealer at JelTcrsouville, were burned by an incendiary fire yesterday. Loss, 2,000. Jasper Griffy, a railroad yardman, was killed and F. M. Merrill had his hand crushed while coupling cars at Cambridge City. Miss Ella Kay has begun suit against Edward Kisner, a young fanner in Wabash county, for breach of promise, asking $10,000 damages. Conrad Smith, a farmer living three miles east of Winamac, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by cutting his throat Cause unknown. There will be a Teunion of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry in Winchester to-day. Gen. T. M. lirowne, M. C, was the lieuten-ant-colonel of this regiment Tho Logansnort Daily and Weekly Re

porter bejjan publication yesterday. The Keporter is an alternoon paper, with J. E. Sutton as editor and proprietor. At Bedford. Thomas Keith shot and fatally wounded Henry Dixon at 9 o'clock Monday night. Keith was arrested. Dixon married Keith's niece Sunday night The remains of the stranger found dead in a saw-mill at Columbus have been identified as being those of a man named Benjamin Szubiger, a tramp harness-maker by trade. Isaac Williams, a prominent farmer of Montgomery county, died last Monday from a disease resembling cholera. He was sixty-three years old, was a soldier and a Mason. Sunday night two robbers entered the house of young James Boatman, a boy, near Scottsburg, who had recently inherited 2,000 from the death of his father. They secured $00 in money. Fire was started by incendiaries in the large barn on the dairy farm, at Fowler, Benton county. lasY night and before tho department could reach the fire the whole concern was burned, heavy on the owners. The loss is very Maggie Sorrel, a handsome country girl living two'miles south of V maniac, at tempted suicide by taking poison. Disap pointment in lovo and misplaced conhdence in a neignoor ooy is supposed to do ine cause. She will not recover. A shortage of SL200 has been discovered m the accounts of Theodore McClelland, agent for the Michigan Central railroad at Michigan City. McClelland's father is a wealthy banker at Valparaiso, and it is said will sottle the matter with tho company. In Clark county, Charles McCoombs and Robert Grayson were attacked by a rattle snake seven feet long, while tearing up an old culvert. The 6iiake devoted itself to an attack upon Grayson's rubber boots, and he fainted with fright. McCoombs killed the reptile before it did any harm. A second crop of green apples is being gathered by many farmers in Montgomery county, mis was caused by the hail storm in July, which knocked all the leaves and lrmt from the trees and then tho trees put out again like in the springtime. Prof. W. W. Borden has . purchased and added to the Borden Institute library, at Now Providence, a superb copy of the noted second edition of Shakspcare, published In 1632. It is a valuable addition to the list of rare books in Iudiaua, as it is probably the only copy in the State. This volume cost about 150, Saturdav eveninc John Bolton and J. C. Thomas, miners, who were on their way from .ucst Virginia to Veedersburg. sat down on the railroad ties, about ten mileswest of Crawfordsville, and went to sleep. A tram came along and both men were thrown into the ditch, badly injured in the back. They were taken to Veedersburg. In the Randolph Circuit Court on Tues day, the jury gave Miss Jessie Lacey, of llartfort City, a verdict for S.00 damages against Jacob II. Piatt, ac old and wealthy widower of that county, for breach of promise to marry. Some exceedingly sweet love-letters indicted bv the aired Piatt were read in evidence. Plaintiff sued for $10,000 damages. ILLINOIS. A Cool and Daring Burglar Attempts to Add Murder to Ills Kepertolre of Crime. ' Bpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Marsiiall, Oct 1. Another daring rob bery and attempted murder startled the citizens of Marshall last night At about 11 o'clock Barney Hensey and wife, who had just retired, were surprised by the do liberate entrance to their sleeping-room of a masked man, who commanded them to cover their heads while ho rifled Mr. Hen sey's pockets, taking all the money he had. not a large amount, however. Mrs. itensey started up in bed, finally, when the burglar bred point blank at her, just missing her, though he was not six feet away. Then. alarmed at the sound of his revolver, he fled, and no clew has yet been found to his identity. Hensey's residence, is in a crowded part of the citv, and but a short distance from a largo mill, which was running at the time. Pardons and Kef u sals. Springfield, Oct 1. Governor Fifer to-' day granted pardon to Lyman Ackerman, who was sentenced in April, 1S87, from tho Cook county Criminal Court to eight years at Joliet for assault upon an uneducated German girl. Pardon was also granted Richard Berry, who was sentenced at the May term, 1888, of the Circuit Court of Morgan county, to five years for man slaughter, and to Henry Lawson, who was sentenced at tho February term, 18SG, of the Boone Circuit Court to five years for robbery. Pardons have been refused to tho following: Louis Kahn, Cook county. assault; Eugeuo Darnell; of Christian county, murder; George Kistner, of McLean county, larceny; Thomas, Murray, of Cook county, burglary: Edward Howard, of Cook county, burglary; Sidney Peppers, of Christian county, burglary; Stephen atts, of Look County, burglarj-; Joseph Guentherman, of Stephenson county, assault to murder; A. J. C. Rudolph, of Cook county, lorgery. ; Aged Couple Married. Special to tli 6 IiKUaua'polis Journal. Marshall, Oct. 1. Giles Jones, of Paris, Edgar county, and Mrs. Louisa Markle, of Livingston, three miles east of hero, were married to-day. Mr. Jones is seventy-two and has been twice married, his bride is seventy-one and this is her fourth venture. Brief Mention. Henry Piatt, formerly a well-known resi dent of Delavan, was killed by an enraged bull on his farm near Larned, Kan. Albert McKinley, aged nineteen, was kicked by a horse 011 his father's farm, near Biggsville, and died shortly afterward. At Stanford, McLean county, Monday night. Mrs. John L. Kaufman, a prominent lady of that place, committed suicide by hanging. Amanda Bright and John Wrice are on trial at Lincoln for the killing of their infant child, whose body was found under a sidewalk at Atlanta, last spring. George F. Kessler, of Decatur, tried to kill himself, Monday evening, by chopping himself on the head with a hatchet. Physicians say that his wounds will provo fataL Rev. Geo. W. Barnum, a prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church of Greeucastlc. Ind., has accepted the call of the Presbyterian Church at Bement, Piatt county. II. F. A. Poedell has been appointed deputy internal revenue collector at Pekiu. T. D. Walker and George Brand have been appointed deputies at Decatur and Danville, respectively. Valentine Stoskopf and wife celebrated their golden wedding at Freeport Monday. They were married in Canada. Michael Stoskopf, the Democratic member of tho Legislature, is their sou. The collections of internal revenue at Peoria.' Monday, amounted to $42,880. The total collections for the month were $J,$.)3,207 on 1.WG.S00 gallons. Two hundred and fifty packages were exported. W. C. Gannard, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, says the recent fair at Peoria was the most successful ever held in the State. From a financial 6tand-poiut, too, it was successful. Tho Let balance is $10,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has made the following Illinois appointments: H. IL Deal, Morris B. Kinney aud J. O'Connelh

store-keepers in the First district; John B.

Taylor, gauger in the First; Anus Baum. gaugcr m the 1 if th. At Lincoln the following wero sentenced to terms in the penitentiary: Thos. Ritter, forgery, one year; Sanford Ramey, larceny. one year; lhoma Burns and lhomas Jfoit, sodomy, two years each; Joseph Benson, sodomy, seven years. Aunt Fannie Holein. aged seventy-two. started from her home near Vandalia, last Wednesday, to visit a neighbor, but lost her 1 - A, 1 11 1,. .it way aim wanuereu iiirougu me wuuus uum Sunday, when she found her way home. During this time she had nothing to eat but drank water once from a mud-hole. Yesterday morning occurred the death of Mrs. Sapper, wife of Rev. C. F. W. Sapper. pastor of the German Lutheran Church of Bloomington. She had been sick three years, fehe was agea ntty-nve, a native or Coblentz, on the Rhine, and is the mother of eight children. Re Sapper camo here from St. Louis six years ago. A citation has been issued against Na thaniel J. Brown, of Lemont,.to restore the hies in the case of the estate or lienj. r. Brown, destroyed by the sreat Chicago tire of 1S71. Nathaniel J. Brown is administra tor of Benj. F. Brown, who died in 1SC2. New York and California heirs of tho de ceased say that he has not accounted for the estate froth which they are entitled over SXX),000 and on which Nathauiel J. Brown has ben receiving ST5.000 a year. The restoration is the first step toward an accounting. BIG FIRE AT GKAND IIAYEN. Forty-One Balldlngs Destroyed, Includlngthe Cutler House Loss, 8500,000. Grand Haven, Mich., Oct 1. A fire broke out in N. V. Slay ton's provision store, on Washington street at 1 o'clock Jhis morning, and in a few minutes it had communicated to Mull's meat market, adjoin ing the Cutler House on the west. Tho firemen were promptly on hand, but by the time they were ready to throw 'water the flames had caught tho cornice of the hotel. A perfect gale was blowing from th west. which drove the flames into the building. and in a very short time flames and smoke were pouring from every window of this structure, in which were situated the First National Bank, Pfafl's insurance agency, tho Signal Service and the Western Union telegraph offices, and N. Beaudery's dry goods store. Grand Rapids and Muskegon were askea ior assistance, ana both responded promptly; but before they arrived the fire had crossed the street, burning Mrs. Jones's millinery store, Mrs. Squire's residence. and with difficulty was kept from the Sanitarium. Then crossing Third street it swept the r irst Keformed Church and parsonage, the Cutler livery stable and all the build ings in tho block, including the residence of of H. I. Potts and a bath-honse. By this time the Spring Lake firemen were on hand, and the Grand Rapids and Muskegon companies had arrived, but the Muskegon company's hoso was too largo for use upon the Grand Haven , hydrants. Grand Rapids acted nobly, and did much to assist in con trolling the fire, which, however, spread through south of Washington street, taking all the residences as far as Fourth street. including that of Mrs. Cutler, burning tho Unitarian Church and telephone exchange. Crossing Columbus street to Fourth, the flames swept out all the residences Upon the north sido as far as Fifth street, including the Methodist Episcopal Church, the resideuco of A. S. Kenie, editor of the Herald, and Postmas ter Sanford. The vigorous efforts of the county officials and the isolated situation of the jail and court-house did much to ward saving those buildings from names. The total number of buildings destroyed is forty-one, while the loss is estimated at fully half a million dollars. Some of the losses and insurance are as follows: U. formed Church, 15,000; insurance, $7,000. N. 1. Beaudery. $20,000; insurance, $9,500. M. 1). Slayton, fcS,C00; insurance, 4,000. PfafFs agency carried policies for $95,000, DanhafTs, $15,500; Sanford's. $20,050. The bank resumed business in the American Ex change office to-day. The contents of the vault in the First National Bank are supposed to be in a safe condition. . Many families have lost their all, with no insurance. The fire was most disastrous in its results. There will undoubtedly bo much suffering among tho poorer classes, as in some cases they havo lost their alL The Mayor has telegraphed to neighboring cities for substantial aid. Many guests of the Cutler House barely had time to escape, some rushing into the streets in their night clothes. Many exciting scenes were witnessed, but happily no lives ate reported lost Other Losses by Fire. . San Louis Orispo. Cal., Oct. l.The village of Cambria, in tho northwestern part of this county, was almost destroyed by tire yesterday. As there was little water at hand and almost no fire service, building after building was consumed beforo their contents could be removed. No lives wero lost The postoflice, telegraph and express office were destroyed. The total loss is about $125,000; insurance about $12,000. The cause of the fire is unknown. TELEGRAPniC BREVITIES. John Fitzpatrickj alias ''Liverpool Jack," was convicted at New York, yesterday, of kidnaping men and sending them to the Isthmus. J. J. Hefleran. who figures in the Cronin case, and was Desmond's companion in the East, is a bar-keeper in San Francisco, working under the name of Richard J. Ueffcrnan. At Dunning, Neb., on Monday S. W. Wells and James Gilkenson, two farmers, quarreled about the division of some corn, when Wells shot Gilkenson dead with a shotgun and escaped to. the sand hill. The eighteenth annual session of the National Board of Steam Navigation opened at Pittsburg yesterday with sixty-four delegates present from all parts of the country. Ihe board will be in session two days. Joseph Wills, a Fort Scott, Kan., molder, committed suicide, yesterday, by cutting horriblo gashes in his throaty body and lower limb. and then jumping from a third-story window. He. had -been on a protracted spree. A military court of inquiry convened at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., yesterday, to investigate the charges of bad treatment of army recruits at that post The court was organized and three witnesses were examined in secret session. Benjamin Jones, only son of the Chicago millionaire street-railway magnate, Jersuha Jones, has been adjudged insane and committed to the State asylum at Kankakee. Dissipation was the cause of the young man's mental wreck. W. F. Woods, a Fort Worth gambler, shot and killed W. II. Shuck, a building contractor in Oklahoma City, yesterday. The trouble arose about a ditterenco in settlement on a hotel Shuck had just corn.pleted in Oklahoma for Woods. A compositor named Alphonso Daudet. who came to New 1 ork on the steamer Elb from Bremen, was detained at Castle Garden yesterday under tho contract labor act! He had intended going to work with Brakeslea & Co., the Chicago publishers. Mr. J. C. Shorb, one of tho most prominent physicians in San Francisco, was found dead in bis lodging-house yesterday. A small bottle of chloroform was found near him, and it is believed he took the drug to induce sleep, and was overcome by it. At New York, yesterday. Sheriff James A. Flack, Joseph W. Meeks and Jndgo Ambrose Monell were held in $5,000 bail each, and Will Flack and George AY. Hart in $2,000 bail each, to plead to the indictments charging them with conspiracy and perjury, on Wednesday next The new Midland College of the Lutheran Church at Atchison, Kan., was dedicated yesterday. Dr. J. W. Conrad, of Philadelphia, conducted the ceremonies, assisted by Dr. G. S. Scholl. of Baltimore, secretary of the.Lutheran Foreign Missionary Board. The college was erected by tho Kansas synod. The trial of Avery L. Rand, formerly of the Rand-Avery Printing Company, who was charged with entering the store-house of E. L. Fitzgerald, in East Boston, and removing a number of stereotype plates about which there was a disputed claim of ownership, was finished yesterday in the District Court at Boston. The result waa the acuuittal of Mr. Rand.

DEMOCRATS OF NEW YOEK

State Ticket Nominated, and a Pharisaical Set of Resolutions Adopted. Republicans Arraigned for All Manner of Things, and Cleveland's Administration Applauded as the Embodiment of All Yirtu.es, Syracuse, N. Y., Oct l.The convention hall was crowded when, at 12:15 p. m. today, Edward Murphy, as chairman of the State committee, called the New York Stato Democratic convention to order and announced the action of the State committee in nominating hdwnrd A. Jones for temporary chairman. Tho committee's action was unanimously adopted and a committee was appointed to escort Mr. Jones to the chair. After thanking the convention for the honor. Mr. Jones made a spoech, in which he lauded the record of the Democratic party. In speaking of Grover Cleveland, he said: 'The history of our government does not record a more successful administration than that from 1885 to 1SS9. It tells not of a single one that commanded the respect and confidence of the people, regardless of party prejudice, to the extent of that of Grover Cleveland, and had wo been contented to havo gone beforo the peoplo relying on the prestige of four years of honest and able administration of public affairs, during which every interest was subservient to tho public good, we could not have been defeated." He attributed Cleveland's defeat to the tariff question, which was not fully understood by the people. They had been duped by falso representations of wealthy plutocrats, trusts and monopolists. In regard to pensions, he charged the ReSublicans with placing bounty jumpers and eserters on a par with deserving veterans, and that in the last campaign pensions galore had been promised as a lure to catch soldiers' votes. The party had become alarmed when an old comrade (Mr. Tanner) had tried to keep the promises made on tho stump, and therefore removed him. In closing he paid a tribute to Governor Hill, "a gallant knight who bore his banner far above the heads of the surging masses of combatants, on the one side of which were emblazoned tho arms of the State of New York, with the motto, 'Excelsior,' on the reverse the name of our honored leader, and beneath was the legend, 'I am a Democrat' " The convention had presented an extremely animated appearance when the body was called to order at 5:45, after tho afternoon recess. James W. Ridgcway, as chairman of the committee on resolutions, reported the following platform and moved its adoption: The Democratic party of the State of New York, in convention assembled, renews the pledges of It fidelity to Democratic faith and reatlirms the doctrines of the national platform of 1888, adopted at St. Louis. We have not advocated and do not advocate free trade,. dui we steaarastiy aavocatectne principles of tariff reform, believing that adherence to the right alone carries in itself the certainty of triumph. We heartily Indorse the honest and fearless administration of the national government by Grover Cleveland. Second We charge that the Republican party at the last federal election obtained power in the nation by corruption and false pretenses, by intimidation and coercion of voters; by promises unperformed and pledges unredeemed; andby shameless trafficking or caoinet ana otner omces in its girt to the highest bidders; and though Its candidates by these unscrupulous means received more than half the votes of the Electoral College, its doctrines and principles were repudiated by a majority of the voters of the country. We arraign the chief executive of the United States for a diseraceul violation of the pledge contained in his letter of acceptance, to-wit: "In appointments to every grade aud department fitness and not party service should be the essential and discriminating test, and fidelity and efficiency the only sure tenure of ollice;" in that not exceptionally instances, but with sweeping hand he has removed hundreds of honest and capable officers before the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed. ThirdMaintaining, as heretofore, that imS roper combinations of capital which limit prouction, fix the price of commodities regardless of the cost of production, reduce the wages of labor and crush out tho smaller independent dealers, and thus strangle legitimate competition, are conspiracies. Tho Republican party in this State is next arraigned for havipg. last year, made tho heaviest tax rate since 1875, being an increase of from 9,000,000 to $12,500,000. Governor Hill is, on the other hand, lauded for having saved to the people, by his vetoes, about $2,000,000. The plank dealing with the excise question is, in part, thus: We do not favor the unrestricted sale of intoxicating liquors on the one hand, nor prohibition on the other. We believe that the liquor traffic should be restrained and regulated by iust and equitable excise laws, rigidly enforced, which laws, in their operation, should be substantially uniform throughout the State. We believe all excise revenues, whether called license fees or taxes, should belong to the local treasuries of the localities under whose authority licenses are Issued, to be applied in reducing the burden of local taxation. v e oppose the passage of the prohibition amendment, upon which the next Legislature is required to act, and we denounce the hypocrisy of the Republican party of this State, and of the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, in submitting, or proposing to submit prohibition amendments, only to defeat them at the polls. We arraign the Republican party for its dishonest treatment of tho temperance question. In support of this last arraignment tho Republican legislation of last winter is analyzed, tho defeat of an excise revision bill and support of a high license bill being characterized as dishonestly inconsistent Electoral reform next receives renewed , pledges of support from tho party, but not' as embodied in the Saxton bill, which was a Republican party measure last winter. , The failure of the Republican Legislature to pass enumeration or constitutional convention bills is a basis of the charge in the platform that the Republican party is guilty of treason to the constitution. Home rule for cities and the administration of Gov. Hill are indorsed. The platform was adopted as was a "resolution of sympathy with Gladstone and Parnell. Lx-As8emblyman,,Frank Rice, of Ontario county, was then made nominee for Secretary of State: Edward Weinple. present incumbent, for Comptroller; lion. Elliott Danforth, for State Treasurer; Chas. F Tabor, present incumbent, to be Attorney-general; John Bogart for State Engineer and Surveyor, aud Dennis O'Brien' for Court of Appeals judge. This closed the work of the convention. Maryland Republicans. Westminster, Md., Oct 1. This is an oft year in elections, a State Comptroller being the only office to bo tilled, and so there is not quite the usual interest manifested in the Republican State convention. It was called to order shortly after noon, and Dr. Jacob J. Weaver, jr., was made temporary chairman. After tho appointment of tho usual committees the convention took a recess. At 2 o'clock the platform was presented and adopted. It favors the enactment of a registration and election law, which embraces the salient features of the Australian ballot system; the restriction and 'regulation of tho liquor traffic (virtually high license): the reassessment of property throughout the State, the latest one being made in 187C; colored teachers being employed in all colored schools and the extension of educational facilities for colored people higher education for their race. It also denounces the alleged systematic attempts to disfranchise and intimidate the negro. George L. Wellington was nominated for State comptroller. A Jumper's Terrible Death. T11ENTOX, N. J.. Oct 1. A terrible accident occurred at the Interstate fair grounds to-day. It was announced that Baptiste Penaud, the French jumper, would leap from a one-hundred-and-fiftv-foot tower into a net below. Though the day was wet, fully 7,000 Sersons visited the grounds. Penaud, ressed in gaudy tights, ascended the tower, and, after a few seconds, leaped iuto the air. On nearing the net he gave a sudden turn and fell ilat on his back on tho ground. He was almost lntantly killed. The Juryman of the Future. Washington Post. The increasing popular desire for modern conveniences legitimates the belief that the court-room of the future will be supplied with wooden jurymen, built in by the contractors.

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mum m Absolutory Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and w holefomriieu. Mor onoaomlcal th&a the ordinary klnls. an'l cannot l noUl in .mjMiUtu.in with the multitude of low-test, short-weight s:uraof phowpate powers. Soil on 1 7 In ecus. IlOYAl BAKING POWDER CO.. lot Wall Ptreet. N. Y. PROGRESS IN SL'UGERY. Remarkable Advance In the Science In Recent Years Treatment of the 11 rain. Dr. W. W. Keen, la October Harper. In the Lancet for Dec. 20. 1SS1. Dr. Ben-" nett and Mr. Godleo published an article which startled tho surgical world. Dr. Bennett had diagnosticated not only tho existence, but the actual locality, of a tumor in the brain, of which not the least visible evidence existed on the exterior of the skull, and asked Mr. Godlee to attempt its removal. Tho head was opened and tho brain exposed. No tumor was seen, but so certain were thoy of the diagnosis that Mr. Godlce boldly cut open the healthy brain and discovered a tumor the size of a walnut, and removed it After doing well for three weeks inllammation set in, and tho patient died on tho tweuty-sixth day. But, like tho failure of tho first Atlantic cable, it pointed the way to success; and now there have been twenty tumors removed from tho brain, of which been removed from the thirteen recoveries, and more dantrerons reirion of seventeen havo cerebrum, with three from the the cerebellum. all of which proved fataL Until this recent innovation every case of tumor of tho brain was absolutory hopeless. The size of the tumors successfully removed has added ' to the astonishment with whish surgeons view the fact of their ability to remove them at all. Tumors measuring as much as three and four inches in diameter, and weighing from a quarter to over a third of a pound, have been removed, and the patients have recovered. Another disease formerly almost invariably fatal is abscess of tho brain. In tho majority of cases this comes as a result of long-standing disease of tho ear, which, after a while, involves the bone and finally tho brain. 60 long ago as 1S79 Mr. Macewen, of Glasgow, diagnosticated an abscess in the brain, and wished to operato on it. The parents declined the operation, andtho patient died. After death Mace wen operated precisely as he would have done during life, found the abscess and evacuated tho Eus, thus showing how he could probably ave saved the child's life. Mnco then tho cases treated in such a manner amount to scores, and more than half of them havo recovered without a bad sj'niptoiij". In injuries of the tkull involving tho brain the larger arteries are sometimes wounded, and the blood that is poured out between tho skull and tho . brain produces such pressure as to be speedily latal. In Borne cases, even without any wound, the larger arteries aro ruptured by a blow or fall and a similar result follows the hemorrhage. Nowadays in both of these injur-' ies any well-instructed 6iirgeon will open the head, secure the bleeding vessel and turn out the clot, with a good chance of recovery in a large number of cases. Even gun-shot wounds of the brain aro no longer necessarily fatal. Among a number of other successful cases one has been recently reported in which tho ball went all the way from the forehead to the back of the head, aud after striking tho bone, rebound into the brain. The back of the skull was opened, the ball removed, and a rubber drainage tube of tho calibro of a lcadpencil passed in the track of the ball completely through the head, and the patient recovered. So little danger now attaches to opening tho skull, wiih antiseptic precautions similar to those already described, that the latest writer 011 trephining (Seydel) estimates that trephining per so is fatal only in 1.0 per cent of tho cases. Mr. Horsley has recently published a most remarkable paper, including ten operations on the brain, in which, without anything on the exterior to indicate its situation, tho site of the disease was correctly located in all, and nine of them recovered, after operation. Almost equally astonishing are the results of brain enrgery in certain cases of epilepsy; for the surgical treatment of tho cases justifying such interference has been attended with tho most brilliant results. In these cases tho spasm begins in a particular part of the body, for example, tho hand or the thumb, or it is limited toono arm, or to one side of the bod?. Some of them have been operated upon without any benefit, but a largo number of other cases have been operated on and cither benefited, or, in not a few cases, havo been completely restored to health. That tho words "brilliant results" are not inappropriate will certainly be granted when we look at Mr. Ilorsloys table of cases. One patient had 2,870 epileptic convulsions in thirteen dayf, and completely recovered, not only from the operation, but also from his tcrriblo malady, after the removal of a diseased Sortion of the brain, the esnltofan old epressed fracture of thv. fdrull. Besides this, a few cases of he'1 as to make ordinary oc ble, and life itself a I cured by trephining th 'O inyetcrato .on s impossin, havo been KiilL Even insanity itself has been cured bv such an operation in erases in which it has followed, injuries to the head. What tho ultimate result of these recently inaugurated operations will be it is impossiblo to tell as yet. but thus far they have bten so beneficent and so wonderful as to arouse not only our greatest astonishment, but also our most sanguine hopes. Building in 'Washington. Cleveland Leader. When one saunters about Washington and sees tho large number of dwellings that are being built on every hand, ho can scarcely help wondering where all the people will come from to occupy them. And yet they seem to be tilled about as fast as they are finished. More than two thousand new dwellings have been erected there during the past year. These include some very elaborate and ornate residences to be occupied by the owners, though nine-tenths of tho new houses are put up to rent or slL The great majority are of the medium class, that rent from thirty to fifty dollars a mouth always in advance. Tbee are gauged to fit the salaries of department clerks and subordinate officials. '1 hese are, aa a rule, more profitable to the owners than expensive honses, which must bring from a thousand to three thousand dollars a year. For a few such there is a demand, but in the proportion of not more than one to fifty of tho former. Almost without exception the low and medium priced bouses are built in blocks, tho long rows often extending a whole fcquare without a break. The Middle of the Train Iiet. rhUadelphia Inquirer. That was a keen observer who exclaimed as he clambered out of the wreck at Ninth and Brown streets, yesterda3 that be would not r-d hereafter at 'itlier end of a rail road train. The middle cars are always the safest. They do not receive a destructive blow from either a front or rear collision; if the engine leaves the track they usually remain in place, and they are never snapped oil", as the rear car sometimes is. Almost the only case in which the middle cars suffer is when they aro thrown of tho track by the breaking of a coupling or of some part of the running gear, aud that is as likely to happen to one part of the train as another. No Chum to Fear on thai Score. Iowa Register. May we long be delivered from a generation of millionaires' daughters who shall compete, in vocations already overcrowded, with poor nu u's daughters whom necessity compels to labor. 4

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