Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 189-i.

FR03I THE FAR NORTH .Return of All but Three Members of the Peary Expedition.

Jlnjrli Ice, the Lieutenant Himself and a Colored Servant Left at Bowdoin L'ay, Where They Will Stay a Year, STOR5IS AND COLD WEATIIER Played Ilavoc with the Outfit and Purposes of the Explorers. Score or ITore of Dogrs Frozen Into Solid Blocks Mrs. Peary's Baby Born in September, of Last Year. ; ST. JOHNS, X. r., Sept. 13. Tho steamer Falcon, Capt. Henry Bartlett. returned hero this afternoon, bringing1 back the whole personnel of the Peary expedition of last year, except Lieutenant Peary himself, Hugh, Lee, a companion, and Matthew Henson, a colored servant, all of whom, remain at Bowdoin bay for another year, hoping to accomplish the work of the expedition which is still left unfulfilled. The story of the expedition is very thrilling". The first incident of note was the birth of Mrs. Peary's baby on Sept. 12, 1S03, a month after the Falcon left last year. Ihirtng the month of October last frightful storms swept over Falcon harbor, smashing ' th naphtha launch and washing: away , laryo quantities of oil Intended for use in illuminating and heating: purposes. The various scientific observations were pursued all winter. The meteorological observations were most successful. These urera taken by Mr. Baldwin. On March 6 last the- expedition started across Greenland to Independence bay, the furthest point north reached by Lieutenant Peary on his previous journey. The eight men, Lieutenant Peary. Entrekin, Astrup, Dr. Vincent, Lee, Davidson, Baldwin and Clarke, with twelve sledges and ninety-two 'dog; met with frightful weather almost from the time of starting. After a week Dr. Vincent was so used up that he had to return. The storms reached their worst point during the equinoctial gales on March 20. ' The party wa then In camp about fifty miles from Anniversary Lodge, in a temporary house at the head of Bowdoin bay. The thermometer dropped to fifty-five and sixty degrees below zero and remained so for several days, while a gale blowing about seventy miles an hour buffetted the party." Dr. Davidson and Lee were both badly frost-bitten, and Astrup, the Norwegian, Lieutenant Peary's chief dependence, gave out from hardship. The dogs perished in great numbers and froze into solid blocks. After the storm was overt thi whole party returned to Anniversary Lodgre, where they left three sick men, together with plenty of supplies to form a base of operations. The four healthy ones Lieutenant Peary, Entrekin, Clarke and Baldwinstarted again and continued onward for fourteen days. But the dogs continued to die, and those left were unable to drag the sledges and provisions. The party was so weakened by exposure and the time occupied in traveling was so long as to render it Impossible to reach Independence bay in time to accomplish anything. Coneiuntly, Lieutenant Peary decided to abandon the attempt to cross Greenland and returned to headquarters, which wera reached on April lit). The party was absent about forty-five days and only got 130 miles away. It started with ninety-two dogs and returned with only twenty-six after having abandoned all the sledges on the way. It covered only a quarter of the distance nedessary. and never made more than twenty miles 1m any day. The members of the party claimed that their experience In the equinoctial gales was worse than that of any previous arctic explorers. All had very narrow escapes from being frozen to death. Davidson was sick for four months after his experience. Entrekin had both hla feet badly frostbitten. After the party regained health other explorations In the neighborhood were organized. Astrup made a survey of the unexplored part of the coast of Melville bay, and charted ICO miles of it. He tad a native crew of five men to help him. Lieutenant Peary and his wife made a sledge journey to Olrika hay, 100 miles distant, lintj-ekm and Dr. Vincent started to try and reach Kano's winter quarters at Littleton inland, but the ice broke up, compelling them, to return. The auxiliary expedition which sailed from here on July 7, on board the steamer Falcon, met with very much ice and the uteamer was seriously hampered in her cpersijons. Sne had extreme difficulty in makit; her way through the Ice. floes and only sighted Bowdoin bay on July 23. Then an ice pack, three miles wide, prevented communications with the shore until Aug. 11. and the steamer only anchored in Falcon harbor on Aug. 20. She found all the Peary party in good health and spirits and glad of the opportunity to return home. While going north the Falcon searched Carey Islands, Cape Faraday and Clarence head, but found no traces of the long missing Swedish explorers. BJorUne and Kalrtenius, who sailed from here In June, 1S92, in the little schooner Ripple. Their death is now regarded as certain. The Falcon secured some relics on Carey Islands and buried a skeleton supposed to be thafi of a sailor. The Falcon started on her return trip on Aug. 26. - Lieutenant Peary decided to remain another year m the north and try to cro&V Greenland next year. Lee and Ilenson agreed to remain with him. Lieutenant leary accompanied the Falcon as far south as Cape York, where he had discovered a magnificent iron meteorite. He hoped to put it on board the ship and send It to the United States, b it he found that th Ire blocking the shore made it impossible to cet to land and, therefore, gave up the attempt. ALTGELD'S AILMENT. The Governor Says He Is Suffering" with Locomotor Ataxia, NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Governor John P. lAltgeld. of Illinois, in explaining hJs visit to New York, says: "I came to see just how long I've got to live. Last February the doctors told me that I would not live until 'April, but 1 made a good fight and here I am. I don't care t live, however. If they told me I would be taken back home in a coffin tomorrow I'd go to the theater and take a drink of wine just the same to-night. The doctors said 1 was threatened with locorrxitor ataxia. I think 1 can fairly say I am on the road to .conquer it entirely. I came on to consult some experts in nervoos troubles. You know locomotor ataxia is the outcome of a general undermining cf the nervous system. I went to see Dr. tpitzka this morning, and I am to have another consultation with him very soon.? SO SUIT FOR DAMAGES. South Fork Fisbin- CInb Will 'Sot Be Asked to Pay Johnstown Teople. JOHNSTOWN. Pa.. Sept. 11-After the creat flood a fund of &1.530 was raised by. business men .here to pay for the prellmlnarl toward Instituting suit for damages against the South Fork Fishing Club cn account of the flood. A fee of Jl.OCO was paM to lawyers for an opinion, which was no: favorable, and at a final meeting last n!ght the idea of bringing suit was whollv abandoned and the remainder of the fun turned over to the hospital. This will end all further thought of claims for dam-' ase3. as a number of individuals who had thought of bringing- suit will now give It

President Dlaa'a Birthday. irCTIICO CITY, dot. 15. The three days' f-rtlritlu 13 r-zcr a! the b'.rtMay cf p-cs-i 1 li'.-L-s cn.i thi cUration of llencan I Vt- r : cr.ti throujtrut ts

battle on the plains of Peralvlllo was one cf the grandest military pageants witnessed for many years. At night the government palace was thronged with the nation's elite attending the President's grand annual reception. STKEET DUEL IN TEXAS.

Editors Kill Each Other and Fatally Wound a Bystander. . WACO, Tex., Sept. 15. At Gatesville, the terminus of the Cotton Belt, forty-three miles west of here, to-day, a fatal street duel took place between J. L. Goodman, editor of the People's Voice, and B. G. Armstrong, editor of the Star, both weekly papers. The duel grew out of 'a personal controversy in the papers over the Ed Cash lynching a few months ago. The two men opened fire on each other just as they met in front cf Goodman's office. The latter was shot through the heart and Armstrong through the bowels, both dying at once. J. G. Beeman. bystander, was fatally wounded in the neck by a stray shot. All leave families and were well known in this section of the State. REVENUES VERY LOW DCCIIKASC OF $ 13,000,000 IX FOURTEEN DAYS OF THIS 3IOXTII. Probable Deficit of $17,000,000 Dnrlnp the First Ilnlf of the Present Flncal Year Caune of the Loss. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 The revenues of the government have fallen off almost 113,000,000 in round figures for the first fourteen days of this month, compared with the last half of August. The receipts from customs for the first fourteen days of thl3 month amounted to $9,227,000, In round numbers, against $6,730,000 for the last half of August, while the receipts from Internal revenue were but $2,292,000, compared with $20,664,000 for the latter half of August. The loss is due to the enormous sums paid on the whisky which was withdrawn for consumption Just before the new tariff act Increasing the tax from 90 cents to $1.10 p?r gallon went Into effect, Aug. 29. The receipts from Internal revenues for the first fourteen days of the month dwindled to $2,972,000, about $4JSOO,000 below the normal, and were not counterbalanced by the increase in the receipts from customs due to heavy Importations under the reduced rates immediately following the enactment of the new law. The custom receipts increased about $3,000,000. The receipts from internal revenue are now confined almost entirely to the tax paid on beer, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco, and average about $250,000 per day. For the two months, July and August, . while so much whisky was being withdrawn, the receipts averaged over $1,000,000 daily. The normal withdrawal of alcohol spirits, both for the arts and spirits, amounts to 8,500,000 gallons per month, and the Treasury Department estimates that about four montns supply, in addition to that for current use, was withdrawn during July and August. It is not expected the receipts from the tax on alcoholic spirits will reach normal again before Jan. 1. 1893. Tills will have the eftert, it is believed, of keeping the receipts of the treasury down to about two-thirds of the normal, or, In other words, to about $22,CO0,00O per month until Jan. 1, the normal receipts averaging about $32,000,000 or $33,000,000. The estimate, it should be stated, leaves out of, account any large increase of Importations arising from the operations of th2 new tariff law. The expenditures have averaged about $31,000,000, but without the sugar bounty, which is now a thing of the past, they will be reduced to about $31,000,000. For the next four months it is estimated that the receipts will be about $53,000,000 and the expenditures about $124,000,000. Jan. 1, however, the collection of the income tax for the last six months of the current year will take place, and this will swell the receipts to about .JIOO.OO.OOO, so that at the beginning of the next current year the treas-. ury, when the receipts win resume their normal figures, would be on the wrong side of the ledger about $24,000,000 on the first half of the present fiscal year. The;-e is to be deducted from this, howaver, $7,000,000 which the treasury gained during July and August, leaving a net loss to the treasury for the first half of the fiscal year of about $17,000,000. XO BOUNTY OX SUGAR. Secretary Carlisle Telia Senator Mandemon He Will Xot Pay. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Secretary Carlisle has written a letter to Senator Manderson declining to pay any sugar bounties since the date of the new tariff act. The Secretary states that he has arrived at the conclusion, that such payments cannot be made without further legislation by Congress. After quoting from the act of Oct. 1, 1S30, the Secretary says: "This provision confers the only authority heretofore possessed by the Treasury Department to pay a bounty for the production of sugar, and contains the or.ly appropriation made by Congress for that purpose. The sugar for which bounty is now claimed was all produced while th'.s statute remained in force, and some of the claims were actually adjusted and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department before the 28th day of August, VsX, when the act entitled 'an act to reduce taxation. to provide revenue for the government and for other purposes,' took effect. The question presented for consideration is not whether the producers of sugars have or have not a valid claim against the government of the United States for the bounty which had accrued before the repeal, but whether the Secretary of the Treasury now his authority to pay it. As no money can be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation by law, it follows that If Congress has repealed the appropriation made by the act of Oct. 1. IS'jO, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay any bounty for the production of sugar of any kind, under the said act, is terminated. The sugar for which bounty is claimed was produced under that act, and the claims are made under that act. I do not think the word 'hereafter as used in Paragraph 1S2. can be held to relate only to the "production of sugar so as to prohibit the payment of bounty only on sugars hereafter produced. The entire provision for the allowance and payment of bounty is repealed, and, in addition. Congress has seen proper to declare, in express terms, that it shall be unlawful to pay any bounty after the net took effect For the reasons thus briefly indicated I am constrained to decline to make payment upon any of the pending claims." Jury After Sugar Trust Ofllclalfi. . WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-The cases of Messrs. Havemcyer and Searles, of the Sugar Trust, and Seymour, of the brokerage firm of Seymour Bros. & Young, of New York, who refused to give testimony before the Sugar Trust Investigating coramittrie, are under consideration by the grand jury of the District. The cases were presented to the Jury by the United States District Attorney about a week ago. and have been discussed by the Jurymen at practically every day's session since. A number of witnesses have been examined daring the week. It Is understood that true bills nave been found against the three witnesses, and thry will be presented to the Criminal Court when that -body reports before the end of next week. All the? parties, probably, will furnish ball in New York city. . Hoke Smith Subordinates. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. The register of the Interior Department, complete to July 1, will be Issued in a few days. It shows that the, total number of employes then was 14.043. Of these 1,042 were In the department proper at Washington. 719 outsiae ihe department proper, but in Washington, and 9.2i outside the depart rnent roper, and not in Washington. Of the atter class there were 720 in the land service, 3.675 in the Indian service. 4.7C2 in the pension service and 108 miscellaneous. Of the tcta! number 432 were appointed by the President. iZt' by the Secretary and 9.224 by subordinates. Army Officer on the Anxloun Sent. , WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-3reat anxiety Is felt by the officers of the army and their friends over the orders making assignments of troops, which have been prepared by General Schofleld and approved by Secretary Lamont T.ie orders were ready for announcement to-day, but It was decided not to make them public until Monday. Inquiries came to tne department from irony cuarters '.to-dav. bit m inHmM 1- 1 - " ' V www V W cl tin izr-zzz: r.j charge wero civcrv

GREAT MATCH RACE

DOMINO ASD UKXRY OF 'NAVARRE RUX EVE AT GRAVESEXD. Mile and a Farlongr in 1x351-2 find Xot n. Xone Between Them nt tho Finish Victory for Banquet. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. After raining more or less all night, with ,a sharp shower early this morning, the air cleared and a warm sun came out, with a cool breeze, which dried out the track at Gravesend. A more propitious day could not have been desired for the race at one mile and a furlong' between Domino and Henry of Navarre. The attendance was the best of the meeting. The odd3 were 1 to 2 against Domino and 7 to 5 against Henry of Navarre. Riley Grannon, the plunger, hung out 3 to 5 on the former, after the Banquet race, and soon had all the business he could attend to, for within a few seconds he hid taken three $10,000 bets and three of $3,000 each. Smaller amounts rushed in and he soon had taken in IGO.OOOV At the end of the -betting, his total was $106,700, on which he : stood to lose $53,042, and then he had got all he wanted, and stood at ease waiting for the race. The bugle called the horse3 to the post at 4:20. There was scarcely an instant's delay at the post and the two went away in perfect order. 'Coming to the grand stand for the first time both were under a gentle pull, but were moving pretty fast. In the next eighth the pace was quickened a bit, for Domino went out and took the rail. Both Taral and Doggett steadied their mounts as they rounded tie lower, turn. Then there was a little eising up of the tight rein and with Domino still a length in front they made the next eighth in 12V4 seconds. The three-quarters was reached in 1:16, the last eighth toeing rolled off in 114 seconds. Both Jockeys were riding for dear life. Faster and faster they flew and the next eighth was covered in 112 seconds, the last quarter around the turn being run in 23U seconds. Into the straight they rushed and when they were straightened out for home it could be seen that Domino was faltering. Up into the air went Taral's whip and down It came on Domino's flank with a swish, while Doggett had not yet taken to fhe whip. "Domino's beaten" went up from the thousands of on-lbokers. It was not all plain .sailing for Henry of Navarre, however, as he, too, was faltering, and fourteen seconds was the best they could do for that eighth. Doggett went to the whip, for he could not hold the . advantage of a head which he had at that point, and the black colt slowly crept up until their noses were even, and so they ran to the end. The judges were unable to separate them, and, amid the cheers of the crowd, the "dead" signal was huns out. and the owners agreed to divide. For the second time Domino ran even with a rival, Henry of Navarre holding him at the distance as Dobbins had previously done in a match race. Summaries of the day's races: First Race Mile and one-sixteenth. Harrington. 10 to 1, won; Dobbins, 1 to 5. second; Kd Kearney, 50 to 1, third. Time, 1:49. Thurston and Stonenellie also ran. Second Race Five and a half furlongs. Ru bison, 6 to 1, won; Jack of Spades, 2V& to 1, second; Chattanooga, 20 to 1, third.Time, 1:071.2. Melba, Wernberge Armltage and Sorcerer also ran. Third Race Algeria handicap; six furlongs. Harry Reed, 1 to 2, won; Counter Tenor, 12 to 1, second: Salvation, 20 to 1, third. Time. 1:14V4- Lissak, The Coon, Sir Galahad, Dolabra and Hermanita also ran. Fourth Race Special; mile and one-quarter. . Banquet, 119 (Simms). 10 to 5. won by four lengths; Sir Walter, 122 (Doggett), 4 to 1. second. Time, 2:lo4. Fifth Race Special : mile and an eighth. Dead heat between Domino, 122 (Taral), 7 to 10, and Henry of Navarre, 122 (Doggett), 8 to 5. Time, '1:55. Sixth Race Five furlongs. Tings, 7 to 10, won; Sir Dixon, Jr., - 20 to 1, second; Second Attempt. 8 to 1; third. Time, lrOO-. Manchester, Cherry Blossom colt. The Bluffer. Tollie Easton and Chicot also ran. Seventh Race Mile and one-sixteenth. Emin Bey, 3 to 1, won; "Song and Dance, 8 to 1. second; Jack Rose, 5 to 1, third. Time, 1:49U. Galloping King, Illume, Coquette, Harry Alonzo, Plenty and Mclntlre also ran. Heavy Track: at Latonln. CINCINNATI, Sept. 15. A shower at noon made the track at Latonia a trifle heavy. The attendance was the best of the week. Only one favorite won. Other winners were, as a rule, good second choices. Summaries: First Race Six furlongs. Charm, 3 to 2, won; Harry Lyman, 40 to 1, second; Saroose, 7 to 1, third. Time, 1:19. Ruth V., Hodgson, Captain Tip, Kosinette, - ltoyal Lady, Mary Alice Lawrence, Scotland, Lyons, Marie Welsh, Fiorella, Shawnee, Annex finished as named. Second' Race Five furlongs. Swifty, 8 to 1, won; Annie M., 8 to 5, second; Seville, 4 to 1. third. Time, 1:05. Conjecture, Bertha Cohen, Bridget, Linetzin, Julia O., Pure Delight finished as named. Third Race Mile and one-eighth. Oakwood. 2 to 1, won; Henry Young, 11 to 10, second; Lehman, 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:5S4. Resplendent and -Ell finished as named. Fourth Race The Newport stakes; mile and seventy yards. Egbart, 5 to 1, won; Volt. 20 to 1, second; Rhett Goode, 6 to 1, third. Time. 1:4S. GUorge Beck. King Charlie, Floreanna finished as named. Fifth Race One mile. St. Maxim, 2 to 1, won; Charlie McDonald, 15 to 1, second; Arapahoe, 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:434. Wightman, Rlgtrtmore, Russell Gray, Sister Anita, Syntax, Bolivar Buckner iinished as named. Sixth Race Five furlongs. Gurgle, 10 to 1. won; Li!..n C. 9 to 5, second; Isabel, 8 to 1, tb:rl. Tlruf 1:01. Jane, Katherine, Lily of tho Wc 't, Julia Arthur, Prytania, Fayette U'Mle, Mountain Madge finished as named. ,i TEIIRE HAUTE RACES OFF. Rain Prevented Carrying Oat the Last Day's Programme. Special . to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Sept. 15. The unfinished 2:13 and 2:15 pacing races, carried over from yesterday, and the free-for-all trot, which was not started, were declared off about noon to-day when It was seen that the bad effect on the track of. the heavy rain la3t night was being heightened by a drizzling rain during the day. The association settled with the horsemen for. the unfinished races. The gate receipts for the four days were several thousand dollars short of what was expected, and the association will be $1,000 or $5,000 loser. The money went as the horses were placed in the two unfinished races. Bourbon Wilkes wins first money in the 213 pace; Direction second. Col. Thornton third and Ed Easton fourth. In the 2:15 pace Merry Chimes was given first money; T. N. B. second, Monbars third and Menegain fourth. Closing Events at Cleveland. CLEVELAND. O., Sept. 13. Results of the concluding day's events at the driving park fall meeting: 2:25 pace; purse, $600 (unfinished yesterday.) Sable Gifl won fourth heat and race in 2:144. Cheerful, Aley, Hermlone, Bacillus and William Walter Scrlbner started al3o. 2:1S trot; purse. $300 (unfinished yesterday.) Florida Monarch won sixth and seventh heats and race in 2:174 and 2:184. Silver Plate won fifth heat in 2:204. Wistful, Ceviltine, J. M. K., Blackstonn, Repetition and Forest Boy also started.. " Races at "Warren. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARREN. Ind., Sept. 15. The third day's race3 were as follows: Free-for-all pace and trot. Rocktown won in straight heats; Dan K. second. Locomotive. Jr., third. Best time, 2:23. 2:4;) trot. Doranda won In straight heats: Lydia Wilkes second. Best time. 2:40. Mile run won by Napoleon. Best time, 1:4$. BIKES I. THE 3IFD. Wclker, Ward and Williams Take the Prizes at Ruhvllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Sept. 15. The bicycle races were run here to-day in the mud. They were closely contested and great Interest was manifested. Mile Novice Four starters. Walker first. Whltlock second, Reilford third. Time, 3:CS. Mile I Tand leap Seven starters. Ward CO yard3) nrst. Mefford fl50 yards) seccr.d, Holley (:o yards) third. Time, 2:43. Hzli-xUli: L'lylr.z Ctart ITlv tartera.

Williams first, Holley second, Allen third. Time. l:20H-Half-mile Four starters. Williams first, Holley second, Casady third. Time. 1:23. Two-mile Championship of Rush, Fayette, Decatur and Shelby Counties Four starters. Won by Dow Williams, of Shelby; Ward, of Rush, second; Holley third. Time, 7:18. - Cycler Senrle Starts for Netv York. CHICAGO, Sept. 15. R. P. Searle,. mounted on a -twenty-pound '.bicycle, with tires weighing but two and three-quarters pounds, started from the City Hall, at 10 o'clock to-day, expecting to reach New York at 5 p. m. Thursday, thereby powering the record so far as to make it inaccessible to any but extraordinary riders. His effort differs from previous ones In that he is physically superior, and because he will be paced through by relays of riders. He has covered thirty-four one-hundred-mile rides, lias ridden 200 miles In sixteen hours on poor roads, and has ridden through Illinois and Wisconsin in thirtyseven hours without rest or unusual fatigue, covering 293 miles. - In his present effort he expects to ride thirty hours and rest ten hoars alternately. Bicycle Races at the Fair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind.. Sept. 15.-The great Gibson county fair came to a fitting conclusion to-day with two hotly contested bicycle races. The first race was three best out of five, and had five starters. Stocker, of Evansville, won; Tripp, of Winchester, 111., second; Laswell, of Princeton, third. Best time, 1:20 for halfmUe. Second Race Two and one-half miles, handicap; five starters. Won by Tripp; Laswell, second; Stocker, third. Best 6:2-1.

DOWN A STEEP HILL FRIGHTFUL RUNAWAY ACCIDENT AT A COUNTRY FUNERAL. Tiro Sisters Fatally Injured and Other1 Persons Seriously Hurt Disnatrons Explosion of Oil. ALLIANCE, O.; Sept. 15. A frightful runaway accident occurred at- a funeral near Irondale, twenty-five miles south of here, yesterday afternoon, in which fifteen persons were injured. While the funeral cortege was returning from the cemetery the horses attached to a carriage became frightened and the driver lost control of them. The animals dashed into the front carriage, wrecking it and causing the second team to run off. Both teams dathed into the front carriages, causing the horses to run away, and all four teams plunged down a steep hill, wrecking the conveyances and throwing the inmates under the horses' feet. A partial list of the injured is: Miss Anna BURNSIDE and a younger SISTER, faces and hands cut in a shocking manner and breasts crushed; both will die. WILLIAM HOT7SKHQLDER, both legs broken and crushed. ALEX M'BANE. seriously injured Internally. v ELI COPE, head and face frightfully cut; unconscious. Last March Mrs. McBane was caught in a runaway and injured, dying after giving birth to the child that was buried yesterday. Physicians ;were summoned from several towns around."; Eight Burned by Blazing OH. . HUDSON, Wis., Sept, 15. An oil tank on a west-bound freight . on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road exploded near Roberts to-day, burning up two freight cars and a caboose. While the passengers were being transferred around the wreck another tank exploded and scattered the burning oil broadcast. Eight people were badly burned, as follows: THOMAS FREDERICKS, conductor, hands and face burned. WILLIAM . CONWAY, . Ellsworth, Wis., hands and face burned. MR. DICKEY. Cleveland, O., hands and head burned. L. R. HUEDGER, Menominee, Wis., hands and face burnedJOHN BELWICK, Minneapolis, Minn., back, hands and face in bad condition.. LEVI W. MEYERS, consul to Victoria, who was returning to his home at Wapello, la., hands and face injured and clothing all burned. OLAF OAKWELL, Hudson, Wis., section man, hands, face and body Injured and all clothing burned off. JOHN I1YLAND, Hudson, hands burned. The injured were taken to St. Paul on a special train. --- - - Ground Under the Wheel. SEDALIA, Mo., Sept. .' 13. Charles A. South wick, of Louisville, Ky.. in attempting to board a moving "passenger train in the yards here to-day, intending to steal a ride to St. Louis, was thrown under the wheels and literally ground to pieces. BLAZE AT SCJRANT0N LOSS OF $230,000 IN THE BUSINESS PART OF THE CITY. Three Firemen Fall Through a Roof and One Suffers Serious InjuryLosses ly Forest Fires. SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 13. The most extensive fire In point of loss that ever visited trils city broke out early this morning in the business section of the city. When the flames were brought under control at 10 o'clock the loss had reached, at a conservative estimate,' $250,000. For a time it was thought that the entire business section of the city would surely be destroyed. The fire was discovered In the basement of Matthews Bros. wholesale and retail drug house. No. 320 Lackawanna avenue. An alarm was sent In, and when the four companies of the district responded, the building was a mass of flame and had spread to No. 416, occupied principally by Gross & Goster, one of the largest dry goods stores In the city. Another alarm brought six more companies to the scene. The fire continued to spread and at 8 o'clock a general alarm brought the entire fire department of the city into service. Before the flames were under control Nos. 310. 31S and 320 Lackawanaa avenue were in ruins, Nos. 220, S22 and 324 were gutted and the stock of No. 314 badly dajnaged. At 8 o'clock three liremen fell through the roof of No. 316. Two landed on the first floor and one went through to the basement. They were extricated by ropes a few seconds before the walls collapsed. Charles F. Beckett was seriously Injured internally. The losses, so far as can be' ascertained, are as follows: - No. 220 Matthews Brothers, owners and occupants; stock, $50,000:- buildlng3, $20,000. No. 322 M. Norton, paper dealer; stock, $30X00; building. $10,000. No. 324 F. L. Crane, owner and occupant of three floors;loss on stock unknown: on building, $51,000. H. L. Langfleld, first floor, millinery goods; stock, $5,000. Nos, 316 and 318 Owned by Dr. Hen wood; buildings, $23,090. First floor. Gross & Foster, dry goods, $100,000; lien wood & Wardell. dentists, unknown; Dewitt, pho- ' toqrapher, lors unknown. ' No. 314 Williams & Brother, toy3 and confectionery: water damage, $3,000. v Forest Fires Extinguished. ? ASHLAND. Wis.. Sept. 13. Heavy rains. last night, extinguished forest fires to some extent. Homestead people around Mellen were reported to be ficrhting fires" with every energj- yesterday. Nar Mineral lake a large dam was burned, entailing a loss of $5,000 to the Mineral Lake Lumber Company. Burned trees falling across the track o" the Bessemer branch of the - Wi?consln Central road have given a great amount of trouble. - ' ' Losses Will Reach $1,500.000.. ISHPEMING, Mich., Sept. 13. The first heavy rain for three months . came last evening and lasted all night, effectually ouenching the serious forest fires In Ontonagon, Gogebic and Houghton counties. All-danger, for the present, from forest fires is over.i The losses In the upper peninsula will reach $1,500,000. Panic in nn Apartment House. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Fire iri the Hodges apartment bulldlnsr at Twenty-second street and Indiana avenue tfcU afternoon caused a wild pn!; aniens th2 tcrr.ts. The tiara cLirtci la tL t- zrztT.t. cr.1. t: 7c:-t3

A BOOK WITHOUT PRECEDENT. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF SIXTEEN PRESIDENTS.

By RICHARD Ex-Secretary

Jefferson sixty-seven years ago, and was present at tho inauguration of Andrew JacksonV He was President of the famous Panama Commission, is the oldest living member of Congress but one, and during the administration of Hayes he entered the Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. At tho close of this long and brilliant career, Colonel Thompson has given to the world his own personal recollections of tho Presidents, in which he does not refer to documents, but draws entirely upon the wonderful resources of his memory. It is remarkably full and accurate as to the principal transactions of all the administrations from the beginning of tho Government, thorough and exhaustive as to the origin and growth of political parties. He Knew Personally Every President Since Adams Of Washington and the elder Adams he writes as he learned of them from the Revolutionary men who were personally acquainted with them; but Rfter those two he discusses each of the Presidents as he saw and knew them. All of these rulers of the Nation have leng since passed away, and Colonel Thompson, in his eighty-sixth year. Is left as the connecting link between the present and the stirring past. Now that his active Intercourse with the world has ceased, and the bustlinj affairs of life are laid aside, he communicates to the public in this book his recollections of over three score years. He alone of those living saw Jefferson, Madison. Monroe, Lafayette, and knew every President of the country since their day. With his death the world would have been deprived of the valuable impressions of one who knew personally sixteen Presidents, had he not devoted his last years to recording his vivid thoughts and recollections.

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