Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1889.

ingly directed that the pay of each of yon bo increased to tbo maximum amount that can bo allowed by existing 'law to officers

f vnnr crrade. namely. $300 per annum, to fate effect from the d3te of th 16 official oath of each. THE CIRCULATING MEDIUM. Changes In the Amount and Character During the Tait Year A General Increase. Washington, Oct. 13. There have been several decided changes in the amount and character of the circulating medium during the past year. In the first place, the circulation has increased from $1,384,310,280, Oct. 1. 18S3, to $1,405,018,000, Oct 1, 1889, or $20,677,720. The principal change in the character if the money in the hands of the people is in silver certificates. The circulation is now S276.C19.T15, or $58,053,114 greater than a year ago- This increase is attributed more to the withdrawal from circulation of national bank notes than to any other ono cause, although the increasin g business demands of the country contributed materially to the result The reduction of national bank note circulation since last October is $37,799,225. The total amount outstanding on the lstinstant was $199,779,011. There has also been a decided decrease in the circulation of the gold certificateswhich has declined from $1SJ.838,1W in October. 1888. to $116,675,349 on the 1st instant Exeeptingsilvercertificates, United btates notes have increased in circulation more than any other form of mnnov. Of theme there are now in circula tion $325,510,758, which is $19,458,705 more than "was in the hands of the people a year rrt 1 . : 11 onSn ta ago. ice circuiauuu ui kuiu tuiu m Tmw 375 -947.715. or Sl.2S2.149 less than it was last October. There are about half a million less silver dollars and nearly, a million dollars more of subsidiary silver in circulation now than at the same time last vtao y T)i imnnnt. nf ail vpr rlol larft nnw in circulation is $57,554,100, and the amount of subsidiary silver in circulation is $oz,vji,uj. MINOR MATTERS. Assistant Secretary BacheUor's Secret Sys tem of Marking: Applications for Office. eelil ta thm Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct 13. It is stated that Assistant Secretary BacheUor, of the Treas ury, who hears the applicants for places in that great department has devised a sys tem of private marks, legible only to the appointment clerk, so that when papers are placed on file their value may be easily known without rereading them. These marks are cabalistic. They are Greek to the ordinary observer, and the candidate and his Congressman, who may call tbem up from time to time, in common parlance ther mean "consider." "a no."- no fjo, "sure pop." etc So an anxious pleader or place may cull his papers over,weigh them in his partial scale, wonder if this will hit the mark, or whether, on the whole, he had not better omit that, and, finally, return all to the tile clerk with the sigh of mingled satisfaction and fear that goes with the hope deferred of the office-seekers. Meanwhile, the appointment clerk sees on the application the secret lead-penciled sign of Mr. Rachellor that would DUt the hooeful out of his suspense if he could only decipher and translate it A Comal's Report Suppressed. Etwdal to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Oct. 13. Consul Turner, who has recently been appointed from the great State of Kansas to represent this country among the grandees of Cadiz, Spain, is making quite a name for himself at the State Department It is not often that a consul can furnish such interesting matter as to cause the suppression of his first report, but Turner has succeeded. A day or two ago the Department received a paper,' and the officials reading it were somewuat surprised to nna mat n contained nothing save a very elaborate attack upon the sanitary condition of Cadiz and thq filthiness of Spaniards in general. The report was referred to Surgeon-general Hamilton, of the revenue marine service. He had intended to have it printed in one of his weekly reports, but the Kansas dele gation heard of the existence of the document, and after a great deal of labor succeeded in having it suppressed. Turner has been sent a lis of subjects upon which he can safely write during the remainder of his term. To Be Thrown Overboard When In Danger. Epecial to the Indlanajjolla Journal Washington. Oct 13. The Government Printing Office is turning out a book which differs in make-rp from all the other books ever issued from that largo establishment The work contains the secret signals of the Navy Department Tho peculiarity of the binding is that the covers are made of lead, and an order printed conspicuously on the first page directs the officer having the custody of the work to throw it overboard in case there should be the slightest danger of its capture by an enemy of the United States. Maavaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa General Kotes. Epeclal to tie Indlanaiolls Journal. Washington, Oct 13. Mrs. Julia Whiteford, of the Interior Department, and who has been on a visit to her home in Indiana, has returned. A national bank examiner for Indiana is to be appointed soon. Who will be chosen is not known. George W. Kobertson, of Mount Vernon, was slated for the place by his friends early last spring. It is understood that Kear Admiral Daniel L. Braine. of the navy, will to-morrow be appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in place of Commodore Walker, detached and ordered to command the European squadron. . DAILY WEATHER BUZXETXN. local Forecast For Indianapolis and Vicinity For the twenty-four hours ending 8 p. m., Oct 14 Fair weather. GENERAL INDICATIONS. Washington, Oct 13 8. r. m. Forecast till 8 p. m. Monday: For Indiana and Illinois Fair; stationary temperature; northerly winds. For Ohio Clearing; stationary temperature, except slightly warmer on lakes; northeasterly winds. For Michigan and Wisconsin Fair; slightly warmer, except stationary temperature in the southern portiou of Y isconsin and lichignn: variablo winds. For Minnesota and Dakota Fair; warmer; winds becoming southeasterly. Local Weather Report. ISDIANAPOLW, Oct IS.

Time. Bar. Ihtr. 11.11. Wind. Weather. Ire. 7a.m. 30.07 51 86 N'east Cloudy. 7 P.M. 30.27 47 52 North Cloudless.

Maximum thermometer. 57: minimum ther mometer, 40. Following 1a a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on Oct 13; Tern. Pret. Normal. 5ti O.ll Mean 52 0.00 Departure from normal j o.ll Kxcess or deficiency since Oct 1... 5J 1.30 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. 233 7.31 General Weather Conditions. & today-. Oct. 13, J r. M. Pi: esscke. The barometers continue high everywhere, except on tho Atlantic coast from Maryland southward to northern Florida. ' Temperature. Cooler temperatures are reported from all sections except in the Htates bordering on tho gulf, where tho temperatures are TO and above. From New Mexico. Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, ami Virginia northward. 50 and below is reported; 40 and below near Lake Superior. Fkkcipitation. Heavy rain il.H)) fell at Lynchburg. Va. Numerous light rains are reported from the central and southern portions of the United States. Sure to Do Him Good. Tmj Tlmr. Mr. Smart (as the church-goers pass) I'm surprised that Miss Sweet permits Bodworth to accompany her. He is about the freshest young fellow I know. t Mrs. Smart Perhaps that's the reason the lets hm carry her Psalter. To care any scrofulous disease or hnmor, try Vrers barsaparilla. it clcanaes the blood.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

Was Farmer Barrett Insane When He So Brutally Murdered His Aged Wife? . Bold Attempt at Train Robbery Foiled Sad End of an Elopement Peculiar Demand by Fanners Three Murders Recorded. INDIANA. Trial of Wife-Murderer Barrett Preparing a Defense on the Emotional Insanity Flea. Epeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Oct IS. As the day set for the trial approaches, interest in the case of John Barrett, the wife murderer, revives. Barrett is a prosperous farmer of Perry township, where he has resided for many years. He had been married over half a century, and apparently lived in harmony with his wife. They were the only occu pants of a rather spacious farm-house. On Sunday, April 14, the couple arose at 5 o'clock in the morniug, Barrett started a fire in the kitchen stove, and the old wom an busied herself with the preparation for breakfast Suddenly, and without warning, the old farmer struck his wife a terrific blow on the head with a heavy iron poker. The blow knocked her senseless, and the murderer rained blows on the face of his helpless victim. She bled profusely, and Barrett, believing he had killed her, dragged the body into the cellar, covered it wiin a Diooay piece 01 carpet, ana set auoui cleaning the blood stains off the stove and the floor. Before he had finished, William Meyers, a lad living in the neighborhood, happened to pass the house, and looking in, Baw the evidences of a bloody battle, lie raised the alarm, and soon the neighbors congregated. Barrett was placed under arrest and a physician summoned to look after the old lady, lie pronounced her injuries fatal, and on May 11 she died, after having named her husband as the murderer in her ante-mortem statement John Barrett is of small stature, with long white hair, and is a cripple, by reason of having one limb frozen. He owns a valuable farm, and has engaged eminent legal talent to conduct his defense. The cose presents many inexplicable psychological features. It puzzles all to account for the murder, as no motive for the deed has as yet been discovered. Barrett seems entirely sane. He claims to know nothing of the case, and says tho whole all air is a blank to his mind. The jury, under these circumstances, will have a difficult task before them, and there is much speculation as to tho verdict in the case. The trial will probably last two weeks. Farmers 31atual Benefit Association. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNE8, Oct 13. For two days tho Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association of this county, a powerful organization, has been in session in this city. E. W. Swope was elected president, to succeed Kobcrt Jacobus; S. S. Weaver was re-elected secretary, and ten delegates were elected to the general assembly, which meets in fMt. Vernon, Iud., the third Friday in November. They passed a resolution to the effect that they wanted the legislatures and Congress to pass laws to make profits on arti cles uuitorm throughout the county, lhe resolution is a remarkable one, and is as follows: Whereas, Tho prices of hay, feed, grain, etc.. as charged the farmers and shippers of five stock by the union stockyard companies, are the most extreme, una being more tnun aouoie tne prices toe iarmers received ior saia nay, ieeu, cic., therefore, be it Resolved, That we ask our several legislatures and Congress to remedy thU evil by the strictest legislation, making a uniform per cent, of profit tnrougnout the country. They also passed a resolu ti on f avorin g Chi cago as the proper place for holding tho world's fair mlRC Much of a secret charac ter was transacted, of which the public isnot made cognizant. They will start a gener al store hero and keep a general stock of merchandise, lhe organization hero con sists of 1.00 members. Bold Attempt to Itob a Train. Epeclal to the Indianasolis Journal Vincennes, Oct. 13. No. 6O.& M. pas senger train going east, due in this city at 1:20 a. M., had a narrow escape from rob bery by a gang of tramps. Somewhere about Olney, 111., last night, tho trainmen became aware that some fakes' with wicked designs were on tho train, and they were forced from the train. But botween Bridgeport and Lawrenceville tho train managers discovered a mau in tho act of uncoupling the last coach from the train. He noticed that ho was discovered, and at once escaped from the trajn, but his pal, ou the top of the coach, was discovered and taken. He pretended to be very drunk, and was unable to walk or talk. When he reached this city he was still pretending to be in a dumb, drunken 6leep. He was conveyed through to Washington, where he was arrested and locked up. The robbers desigued to cut oil this passenger coach full of passengers, and rob its occupants at their leisure. Somewhere along tho line, at a lonely place, they would have committed the act and then abandoned tho coach and the passengers. Tb,e fellow captured was not disposed to givo his name. It is reporied that four or five men were on the roof of the coach, waiting tho signal, but escaped .when they found they weie discovered. moping Girl Abandoned. Epcdal to the Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Oct 13. A gentleman from Chillicothe, 0., came to this city yesterday to seek the daughter of his partner, who eloped from his home there about ten days ago with Frank Gary and came here. She went by tho name of Mrs. Gary, and said she was married. The eloping couple arrived here Saturday preceding the fair and lodged at a boarding-house in North Vincennes. They lived there smoothly till Thursday night of fair week, the night of the militia ball. Gary told the girl he would be back and take her to the ball, but she never saw him again. Sho notified the Solice of his desertion of her, and they unted for a man .twenty-two years old, six feet high, blue eyes and light mustache. He was a member of the Ohio State militia. He had over $00 with him. Ho persuaded her, through an older woman, to elope with him, and then dropped her here. He has not been seen since. Being penniless, in a strange place, she wrote to her father for mouey. Ho was sick, but sent his partner after his daughter. The girl is a nice, respectable girl, but she trusted a scamp. She left last night with her father's friend for her home. . Miami County Farmers Institute. Epecial to the Iurtianapolls Journal Peru, Oct. 13. The first regular meeting of the second year of the Miami county Farmers' Institute met in the court-house, this city, yesterday afternoon, and was a success as regards numbers, enthusiasm, and practical benefit. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Joseph Cunningham; secretary, Lewis Bond; treasurer, J. B. Joyce. Sixty new names were enrolled, showing an average age of seventy yers. In the old pioneer class Saiuuel Phillabaum was awarded an elegantly mounted farm scene as the oldest farmer in Miami couuty, aged eighty-three years. The order of exercises consisted of a solo by Miss Gertrude Bearss; a paper on"The Value of a Good Dairy," by N. B. Heover, of Mexico discussion by A. J. Phelps, of Bennett's Switch. "Corn Culture," by John Blair, of Peru discussion, by Lewis Bond; "Noxious Weeds and Grasses and their Effects upon Crops, and the Best Modes of Kxterminating 1 hem," by J. D. Smith, of Santa Fe discussion by D. O. Fisher, of Denver, and J. 11. Harlan, of Peru. Prizes for live stock were also delivered to persons and townships winning them during last spring's meetings. Murdered by a tad of Fourteen. PpcUl n the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Oct 13. Yesterday John West was hit across the back of the head while stooping down in a ditch in which he and James Mahan were at work. West and

Mahan had been quarreling about some trivial matter, and Mahan probably hit him. but has left tho country and West is

unable to tell anvthintr about it. They both lived in the north part of the county. where thev were at work. v est can live hut a short time. Mahan is only fourteen years old. The Fight Was a Fizzle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Oct. 13. Fully 500 per sons gathered in a field at Fontenct, in this county, early this morning, to witness a prize-fight to the finish between Harry Gates, of Brazil, and Steve Kerns, of Peoria. There was much wrangling about the collection of gate money from the crowd, and the upshot of it all was that no ugui took piace. mucu iu iuo uiskubv ui several hundred men from here and other places, who paid $1 for a ticket Death of an Aged Ex-Slave. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Cambridge City, Oct 13. Mrs. Phofnix Johnson, better known as 4Aunt Winnie," probably the oldest colored representative of the slavery times in this country, died here this morning. She has been living in this city ever since the abolition of slavery, and although her exact age is not known, it is supposed to bo near 103 Found Murdered. Cpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Sullivan, Oct 13. George Farmer, an aged man who ran a cheap restaurant in Shelburn, Ind., was found dead on the sidewalk in front of his house at 4:30 a. m. to-day. He had a cut across his forehead and is thought to have been foully dealt with.. No clew to the murderer has been discovered. Killed the Peacemaker. Jeffersonville, Oct 13. Near this city, last night, James Bishop shot and killed Charles Phipps. They were at a dance. Bishop was abusing his wife, and threatening to beat her, when Phipps interfered and the shooting followed. Minor .Notes. An increased acreage of wheat will be sown in Clark county this fall. Farmers are usin unusually largo quantities of fertilfzers on wheat ground. Squirrels have begun to emigrate from the extreme limits of Clark. Floyd and Jennings counties. Hunters attribute it to the scarcity of the mast in southern Indiana. Tho large new dining hall at the Jeffersonville State Prison has been completed and will be used next week. Over tXX) convicts in that institution will be dined, but not wined, in this massive structure. At Goshen the Jury in the case of tho State vs. Dr. Luella Day, for criminal malpractice, at 7:30 last evening, after l.. iug out twenty-seven hours, returned a veidict of guilty, and fixed tho punishment at three years in the peniteutiary and $50 lice. Queen Wilson, the yearling that made the fastest half-mile record ever made in the State, was sold at Edinburg for 1,000, and was shipped to Warsaw, Wis. Otaway ivickbury was tne purchaser, mo motner of Queen Wilson was sold a fow years ago for $20. Tho eight-year-old son of Sewell Stewart, who resides iu Iowa Falls, died Saturdayafternoon, showing every indication of hydrophobia. Some two weeks since tho boy was bitten by a dog that was not known to be mad, Thursday ho was taken with convulsions, which continued ono after another until death cauioto the little fellow's relief. He showed no inclination to bite at any one. but would froth at the month, and his death was a horrible one. Samuel Schimmerhoru, who resides near Cbarlestowh, sent his six-year-old son to the woods, Friday evening, to drive up the cows. The boy. not returning nntil after dark, the father became uneasy and went out to look for him, but was unsuccessful. An alarm wa3 given, and all of the men in the neighborhood searched every nook and corner for him. At last accounts he had not been found, and it is generally believed that he has been abducted. W. M. -Ellis, a traveling salesman of Norwalk, O., arrived in South Bend Saturday evening, and registered at the JSheridan Hotel. He was assigned a room and retired about 10 o'clock, leaving instructions. .With tho hotel clerk to call him prompt P?, at 7 o'clock iu the morning. At that hour the clerk knocked at Kliis's door, but, receiving no response, broke in, to find the room full ot escaped gas. Kllis was unconscious, and, despite medical skill, he still remains in a comatose condition. Horace Sebring, the young man who poisoned his father, step-mother and stepsister, at Three Oaks, July 12, has been ar raigned in the Circuit Court at LaPorte, and changed his plea from not guilt" to guilty, asserting that the evidence against him was conclusive, and to fight the matter would be foolish. Retiring says his mad infatuation for a young woman in tho neighborhood led to tho crime. He was poor, and the girl refused to listen to his protestations of love. He then resolved to murder the family, ko that the little property would come to him. ILLINOIS. National Convention of tho Thi Delta Theta Fraternity at llloomington. (Special to tlm Indianapolis Journal. Bloomixgton, Oct 13. The Phi Delta Theta Association, one of the Greek letter college societies, will hold its national convention in this city this week, the sessions commencing to-morrow and lasting till Friday night. There are sixty-six chapters of this fraternity in the United States, and it is expected that about. 150 delegates will be present. Tho convention will bo held in Odd-fellows' Hall, with closed doors, except on Tuesday night, when tho meeting will be public and in the form of a musical and literary entertainment. A large number of delegates have already arrived. They come from all parts of the Union. The founder of tho order, who established it thirty years ago, Kev. Robert Morrison, of Aurora Springs, N. Y is here. . Brief Mention. . Charles Herb has been appointed a government gauger in the Thirteenth district. The Spring Valley miners' relief committee report a cash balance of $015 on hand. The money is coming in faster than they are using it Mrs. Hattie Gray, wife of John Gray, of the Piatt county Herald, died at an early hour yesterday morning, at Monticello, aged thirty years. Governor Fifer has. issued a requisition for the return of Lewis Keideubaugh, alias Wilson Keichenbach, now in t custody at Lancaster, Pa., wanted at Elgin for highway robbery. The Farmers' Mntnal Benefit Association of Montgomery and Fayette counties held a big picnio at Fillmore Saturday. Addresses were delivered by prominent farmers, and trusts of all kinds were denounced in the strongest terms. The State Auditor has authorized the State bank of Hamilton,' Hancock county, to engage in business. The whole of the capital stock ($25,000) has been paid in. 11. M.Elder is the president of the bank and It K. Wallace is the cashier. , "W. E. Hayes, of Ludlow, raised this season on the farm of his wife. Electa M. Hayes, in Harwood township. Champaign county, 156 bushels of corn of the "Dutton'' white variety on one acre and sixty-eeven square rods of ground. This is at the rate or about 112 bushels per acre, which, he claims, beats anything in this section of the State. Indictments have been returned, at Rockford, against Amos Wallace, a police officer, of Pecatonica. who is charged with beating a disorderly ymng man bmtallv with club, and Patrick Dormey, who ran a whisky shop in Cherry Valley without a license. Doroey's scheme was to sell a soda cracker for 10 cents anM give a glass of whisky with it At Bloomington, William A. Hull, a stencil en oraver, twenty-five years old, committed suicide by shootinghimself through tho breast three times with a pistol. He stood in the door of his shop on one of the principal business streets to do the shooting, which caused considerable excitement Hull was to have married a j'oung lady Wednesday, but she backed out at the last moment The Deserting Sin of the Republican Tarty Bpchestf r (N. T.) Democrat. If Republicans will take the trouble to goto the polls this tall they can carry tho State. Nothing but negligence can defeat the Republican ticket

NOTED CIIUKCH DESTROYED

Rev. T. DeWittTalmagc's Brooklyn Tabernacle Burned for the Second Time. Loss Estimated at $150,000, Which Is Covered bj Insurance Cause of the Fire Unknown Canadian Lumber Town Burned. Brooklyn, Oct 13. The famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which tho Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage is pastor, has, for the sec-, ond time in its history, received its baptism of fire, and for a second time been destroyed. The lire was discovered at 2:45 this morning, by a policeman, who turned in an alarm. The flames had gained much headway, however. The firemen found the fire had assumed large proportions, and ad-, ditional alarms were sent in. It became evident that the edifice was doomed to destruction. It burned like a tinder-box, and the firemen, despairing of saving it, directed their efforts to the adjoining property. Many of the occupants of tho neighboring dwellings were already awake, and the police proceeded to arouse those who were sleeping. The three-story frame structure: No. S53 Schermerhorn street adjoining the church on the east side, was the first to take fire, and No. 355, a similar structure, followed. No. S57 was also damaged. On the west side of the church the flames extended to the two brick dwellings, and on the opposite side of Schermerhorn street a row of three-story brick dwellings, numbered S38 to 348, Buffered from the intense heat. Wi n-dow-glass was broken and wood-work scorched. The residents of the neighborhood, awakened either by the roar of the flames or by the pounding of the police on their doois. became frightened, and rushed out, half -dressed or in their night-clothes, and the police had great difficulty in assuring them that they were in no danger. Fortunately there was no loss of life or limb. The police carried out one old lady of sixty years from No. 337 Schermerhorn street, and placed her in a house at a safe distance. All the other inmates were able to care for themselves. But while e firemen and police worked .for the i . - tion of property and persons, tne church building was rapidfy being ccnsutned, and in an hour's time only tottering walls remained. Dr. Talmage was on the scene soon after the first alarm, and didnot leave until he had seen the edifice w hich had been his pride laid in ashes. Then he returned sorrowfully home. All day to-day crowds visited the spot and gazed upon the ruins. Nearly all the members of the Tabernacle congregation received their first intimation of the tire upon rounding the adjacent corners and bing confronted by the blackened walls and smouldering ruins. No church services were held to-day. but a nothso upon a tree at the corner of Ihird and Schermerhorn streets announced Sunday-school in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, where about six hundred teachers and scholars assembled in tho afternoon. Superintendent R. L. Eelis told them that the present was no time to cry or mourn. A calamity had befallen the church and it was the duty of all to work together until a new homo was built. The origin of the fire is not known. The sexton denies the rumor that fires had been lighted yesterday in tho furnaces, and this explodes the defective-flue theory;. Edison's men were in the building until 5:30 p. m., yesterday, arranging a new electrio plant, and it is thought that during the thunder-shower which prevailed during the night, lightning had been carried into tho buildiugonthe wires, which run around the gallery ou a level with where the flames were first 6een. The loss on tho church building. including tho organ, which was one of the finest iu the country, is 150,000. It is said to be covered by insurance in a number of companies. The building was of fourteenth-century Gothic architecture, and was dedicated Feb. 22, 1874. It was of brick, with stone trimmings, with a frontage of. 150 feet, and a depth of 113 feet, to which had recently beep added an extension sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep. Thescatingcapacity was 2.8CO. and it was always fully taxed at the Sunday services. The previous structure, which was built of corrugated iron, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morniug, Dec. 22, 1S72. That fire was also of unexplained origin. The trustees were in session at the house of Dr. Talmage, to-night, and stated the insurance to amount to $129,450. The building originally cost SUN.OOO, to which improvements costing $85,000 have been added. The organ cost 20,000; church furniture, $2t,800; new carpets, etc., $5,800. Dr. Talmage has issued an appeal to the public for help, saying that the church has never conhned its work to its own locality. The church, he says, has never been large enough for tho people who came, and he wants 100,000 besides the. insuranco to build a larger and more suitable structure. 'I make appeal," he says, "to all our friends throughout Christendom, to all denominations, to all creeds, and those of no creed at all, to come to our assistance. I ask all readers of my sermons, the world over, to contribute as far as their means will allow." The tire forces Dr. Talmage to postpone a trip to the Holy Land. The advisory board adopted resolutions expressing submission to Providence and a determination to rebuild, the locality and style of building to be indicated by tho amount of contributions made. Services will be held hereafter in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A letter was received from Dr. Abbott offering Plymouth Church for Sunday evening service. Dr. Talmage's text to-day was to haye been "Looking Unto Jesus." . Canadian Town Destroyed. . Sault Ste Marie, Mich., Oct. 13. Fire broke out in Cook's lumber-yard at Serpent River, Ont, ninety miles from here, yesterday afternoon. A heavy northwest wind was blowing which extended the flames to the docks and warehouses of this extensive firm, and at C p. M. the whole town was afire. Thirty-four buildings in the town, dwellings and general stores. were consumed. A special train and fire engines and a brigade of Sault Ste Marie, Ont. firemen left at once for the scene of the conflagration. The Canadian Pacific railway is usiug every effort to assist tho sufferers. Fifty millions feet of lumber, this year's cut, has been consumed. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Tho vicinity is strewn with household goods and homoless families for acres. The steamer Africa and schooner Marquis, which were loading at the docks, pulled out into tho lake and are safe. Special trains, with engines and fire brigades, have arrived, and there is some prospect of saving the mill. Further particular from Serpent River, the scene of the conflagration last night, says the fire was extinguished early this morning, there being a few buildings and tho saw-mill saved, out jio lumber. Cook Brothers had the finest lire protection on their premises of any firm in this section, but the strong wind spread the fire rapidly. The stock was insured for about half the loss. There are about two huudred people homeless to-day, and temporary structures are being erected to house them. Other Fires. Epeclal to tlia Indianapolis Journal. Mattoox, 111., Oct 13. The engine-house aud office adjoining D. N. Harwood & Co.'s mammoth hay barn, in this city, was discovered on lire at 10:30 to-night Prompt work by the fire department saved the valuable barn and contents, worth thousands of dollars. No insurance. Dhtkoit, Minn., Oct. 13. It T. Frazee's large flour-mill and saw-milL situated at Frazee City, were destroyed by fire last night. C. P. Wilcox's lumber-yard also caught but part of it was saved. The loss will be large. Insurance not known. Farmekvillk, La., Oct 13. Neal Key's gin-house, one of the best and most complete iu the parish, together with twenty bales of cotton, was destroyed, by nre yes terday. No insurance. Ilack-Door Journalism. , Oil City Derrick. Gentlemen, so-called, of the metropolitan pre, who gather the kitchen gossip of the White House, report that there is great dissatisfaction there because Mrs. Harrisonnsists on having something to say concern ing her own domestic arrangements. Moro

power to the first lady, and withered be the noses of the back-door reporters who go sniffing aronnd among her pots and kettles. Marine News. New York, Oct 23. Tho City of New York reached her docks shortly before neon to-day. looking the worse for her encounter with the mud. Divers wero engaged to go down and ascertain if sho had sustained any damage to her bottom. As far as could be learned, theylound nothing wrong. She will probably leave here on Wednesday, as scheduled. . Liverpool, Oct 13. The Umbria, which was to have sailed for. New York yesterday, but wa3 detained by a strike of her liremen, sailed to-day with a crew of nonunion men, who were secured to take place of the strikers. . New York, Oct 13. Arrived: La BourgDgno, from Havre; P. Caland, fr,om Amsterdam. Quf.enstown, Oct. 13. Arrived: Servia, from New York for Liverpool. Havre, Oct. 13. Arrived: Le Bretagne, from New York. , W1LKIK COLLINS AND mS NOVELS.

The "Woman In "White" Ilia Favorite How He Came to Slake Fosco Fat. An English journalist describes an interview that took place between himself and Wilkie Collins at the hitter's residence a year or two ago. T remember," said Mr. Collins, "that I used to receive scores of letters from all parts of the world complaining of the abstruse nature of mv nlots. And why. do you think Because, forsooth, they were too difficult to follow. 'You make us reaa every line; we can't skip cried the plaintilf We have got to go back to follow the clews.' I need scarcely say that I took these letters" as so many compliments." "Then you were accustomed to receive criticisms after the publication of a novel!" "Certamlv. and especially when I deal with what it is the fashion to call risky subjects, as I did when I wrote 'Fallen' Leaves' and The rsew Magdalen I no women objected to the first, the parsons to the second." He told me his favorite authors were Scott, Byron and Dickens. With latterday novelists he had but ' slight .acnuaindance. ''Perhaps 1 am oldi asm on ea, no saia, wun a moaesi smile of self-depreciation. . I gathered that, though ho liked to have pleasant things 6aid about him, he held that a review, however favorable, was 'of no real service. If the people did not liko a book they would decline to read it in spite of all the reviews in the world, and it was the same about notices of plays. "Whenever I have produced a play," he said, "I have made a point of going to the pit door when the people came out I listened to their talk, and that was my gauge of popular opinion." I happened to ask the novelist now ho came to evolve the famous Fosco, and whether he had any particular person -in his mind. "He was a combination," laughed Mr. Collins. "When I was writing the story, I was at a dinner party one night, and the table talk ran on the villains of fiction. One lady said that no fat man could be a villain. 1 argued the point, and determined to make Fosco fleshy. I took the idea of tho white mice from a schoolfellow, who used to carry the little things in his pocket. I thought they would serve as a foil. I made him Italian because I had spent many months ' in Italy, and thought it would be interesting to work up some of the local color." For years Mr. Collins had been subject to violent attacks of gout. In the preface to "The Moonstone" he mentions that the amusing chapter in which Miss Clack tells her portion of the story were written between tits of agony. When his brain was highly wrought in the throes ot composition he suffered fearfully from nerves, which meant ghosts. "I would begin," he said. "sav at nudnight. and work on till 3 or 4 o'clock in tho silence of tho night, as the fit took me. smoking cigars and drinking mack coitec, my minu absorbed in my situ ations. "Then tho ghosts would begin to appear, and I used to make a rush to my bed-room. There was one particular ghost which would greet me when the situation had been particularly horrible. It was a fearful, shapeless monster, with eyes of tire and big green fangs. He came to bo quite a faiufliar in those days.' "'Would you tell me how you work. Mr. Collins!' I asked. The veteran replied: 'Well, I am not one of those who have tho patience to write a scenario. I get the main subject well into my Lead and leave the details and complex elaborations to come afterward. Some novelists find it possible to begin at the beginning. I tried that method in "lhe Woman in YY hue," and failed egrogionsly.'" Of all his works, I judge that Mr. Collins liked "lho Woman in White7 best 1 re member his saying that translations are tho best gauge of popularity, and if any oue takes the trouble to consult the cata logue of the British Museum he will find that Mr. Collins's novels have been translated into many languages. The Particular 3Ir. Johnson. New York Sun. "Is there a Mr. Johnson in this car?" called the conductor, as he entered a coach on a Lehigh Valley train and held np a telegram to view. "There is!" replied three men in chorus, as thev rose up. "But this dispatch is for John Johnson." "That's me!" replied two of the men. while the third looked relieved and sat down. "Which of you is married!'' continued the conductor. "I am!" both answered. "Well. I think this dispatch relates to tho birth of twins at home, and is congratulatory." "That lets me ont. thank heaven!" exclaimed one Johnson, as he sat down to wipe his brow, while the other flushed red and white for ft moment and then recived the dispatch. Steel Ties to Keplace Wood. Oil City Derrick. One of Carnegie's mills in Pittsbnrir is turning out steel railway ties at the rate of eighty per hour. This new departure in this country will give our forests a rest and the steel mills more business, though it is likely on the other hand, to decreaso the demand for axes and wood-choppers. The Way They Act. Philadelphia RecordThough generally believed to be the law of the land that women nra denied thnrifht of suflrage, yet a visitor to the Women's Christian lemperance union convention yesterday would have thought that women Old an tne voting in tnis Mate. Reducing the Needless Surplus. Omaha Republican. Mr. Clarkson is reducing tho surplus of Democratic olhce-holdcrs. Farm Notes. Vav a irarden a stiff clavev soil can often be greatly improved by the addition of sand, spreading a good layer evenly over the surface aud then mixing it well with the soil The Rural New Yorker saysr "If you want a quick-growing vine that is absolutelv hardy, that will grow luxuriantly in a northern, shady position, that will travel from tree to tree, forming pretty arbors and wild entanglements, try tho Actmidia polygaina." It is reported that tho Swedes have in vented a centrifugal machine that churns butter directly from the milk, instead of separating the cream. If true, the invention will be a very important one. as it will entirely revolutionize dairy methods. A pound of saltpeter to each squaro rod of ground is recommended as an excellent quick-acting manure for flower beds, aud it is also excellent for strawberry plants. As it is easily soluble in water it is soon appropriated by plants and gives immediate results. A fruit-grower reports that, having an orchard of young trees badly infested with bark lice, he made a solution of sal soda half a pound to a gallon of water and applied it with a whitewash brush. In a week's time they were all dead and washed off. The trees grew two feet a year afterward, and remained very healthy. It will cost but a trifle to use ordinary building paper in tho stable. As it can bo fastened to the walls in a very short time it should be used especially on the north side. It is usually fastened on the inside of the walls and held in place with plastering lath, which are nailed over the naner. the lath bciug two feet apart. Paper is an excelleut non-conductor of hi-atandservesadmirably in keeping out the draughts. It should be used in all stables that are not closely built and warm.

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Ho must protect his teeth, too, andtherefore his masticators re quire careful cleansing, not alone to pre vent decay, but in order to keep his gustatory sense perfectly neutral. "1 nave been a molasses taster for several years." said a Boston man to a Herald re porter, "and 1 assuro YOU mine is no easv job. There is a strain that the occupation imposes, ana one mat many 6eocuiuo to, and therefore quit the business. Thetoague being very sensitive, it requires great care, and therefore 1 feel it best not to use tobacco, sweetmeats or highly seasoned food. Doctors tell me that sugar of itself does not injure the teeth, but after remaining on them for some timo undergoes a chemical change from the saliva and food, and that the chemical result is corrosive. 'W hethcr this is so or no. I know that m v teeth have suffered from this business, al though I take extraordinary care. The 'difference in taste between some grades of molasses is so slight that the tongue must be in a perfectly neutral condition to be an accurate guide. But not' only must the tongue be cared for, but month, lips and teeth must be as free as possible from any foreign substance. "In tasting the various brands I place only a drop on tho most senstive part of the tongue. 1 try to keep it away from the lips, mouth and teeth, but do not always succeed. Now, to discriminate between twenty-hve dillerent samples I must keep a clear htad. concentrate my attention and make, as it were, an instantaneous analysis. To do this faithfully requires brain worK that book-writers know nothing about In fact, a day at honest, painstaking molasses-tasting is a day of hard I almost said solitary labor." the zetetic rniLosornx. One of Its Disciples Tries to Prove that the Earth Is Flat Carpenter's Folly, Philadelphia. The zetetic philosophy, which nrove absolntely and without a shadow of doubt that the earth is a piano and not a planet, has in it no theories, but establishes its conclusions uponv farts alone. 21 any of theso facts are of such a naturo that not to know all about them will soon be deemed a sign of ignorance. The peoplo should know that the surface of standing water is level, whether it be in the form of a pord.a lake, a canal, a sea or an ocean, and that it makes no difference at all how many people, in consequence of false teachings, believe it to be curved; that in no surveyors' operations in tho construction of railroads, tunnels or canals is any "allowance" made for tho "curvaturolJof the earth's surface, although the books tell us that it is necessary: that the view from a balloon in the air is that of a flat earth and not of a globe; that tho river Paraguay, in IXX) miles, does not fall a . A A. X J l 1 A s-v A . . loot mat, ior ine last wju miles, the Amazon falls but 10 feet 6 inches and that the Nile, in a thousand miles, falls but a foot. Sailors can see the licht at Cane Hatteraa forty miles out at sea, whereas on the globo theory it onght to be more than IKX) feet below the level line of sight; strain your eyes a3 you please, you can never seo a ship coming "up," for, at the furthest distance that you can, bv any means, seo a ship, it is on a level with the eye; tho horizon always rises on and on just as you rise on; if tho mariner were to tako a "globe" with him with which to navigato the ocean, he wonld wreck his ship; merid- . A. t A! . k lans are siraignt lines diverging ironi tno central north toward the south in ail directions horizontally "parallels of latitude" only aro circles and on a globe, the pointing of a compass north and south is clearly impossible; sailing westerly is 1, 1 II 111. 1. sailing rouua norizoniauy, wiin uie norm star ou vour right hand, and sailimr east erly is sailing iu tho same horizontal mode. with the north star on your left and all the money in the United States Treasury would not buy a proof of so much as tho bare possibility of sailing down a globe, under a giobe, and up tho other tide! i The Old Inhabitant. Detroit Free Preaa. llol'' ArolniniAil 4lm ftirart na Via turned into Washington avenue and met an acquaintance, "but this sort of weather reminds me of the fall of 1815. That fall " "Sa3't have you any . tobacco about jou! ' interrupted the other. "Yes. here it is. When I walk out of a day and see what changes fifty years havo wrought, I am 7 ' "Thanks. Buying any real estate now!" "That calls to mind the prices of real es tate iif ty years ago. Do 3011 know that when 1 came to Detroit the only buildins on this street was" "iavf Anvthine new with tno era ml - - v jury!-' . . . "As I was going on to say, sir, there wa only one building between here and Grand Kiver avenue, and that" "Well, so long. Got to be at the postoffice at sharp 10. The old citizen looked after him and shook his bead. He turned and made his way homewards with grave doubts in his mind doubts if any man who won't stop and fool away his time with fifty years ago will ever become a successful business inita or a good citizeu. Wanted It Good. Harper's Barar. "Are you fond of music?" asked Mra. Sym phony of an elderly relative from tho country. "Well, yes; I am," was tho careful reply; that is, when it is 4ood music, Laury. Now, you tako a pood accordeum, an' a riddle, an' a pair o' bones, an' a llute.au' let 'em all play 'Old Nicodemus' all at thd aanio time, "ami I tell you it's sweot!" Where the Uenelit Would Come In. Er-rinrflrld Kejiunlicsn; ... Members of the-Knights of Labor executive board say that a union of tho order with the Farmers' Alliance is possible, aud desired by both sides. In the case of a strike, for example, the farmers, who could only strike against themselves, would no doubt be of great assistance to the Knights. Modeled on the Tate rian. Philadelphia North American. It looks as if Kentucky had Dick Tatcd. the plan on wh?ch Major BurLo managed the Louisiana State Lottery. Not While Pennsylvania Miner Have Votes,. Peoria Transcript. It is very safe to 6ay that W. L. Scott, prominent Democrat, will never sit iu Dou. Cameron's scat