Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1894 — Page 2

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THE IKDJAKAI'OLIS JOUllKAL, MONDAY, , OCTOBER 29, 1891.

thus obtained. Wahash is taking up work along1 this line, and much Interest Is manifested In the investigation of the mind from this point of view. The work Is especially carried cn by graduate students, though members of the senior are also njoylng the benefits of it. Later on in the year this seminar will be followed by one in the history of philosophy, as was the case last year. A detal'ed study is made of the systems of modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes. The object Is to handle the fundamental elements involved in present philosophic thought the great problems of present philosophy as they stand related to the developments In thought since the revival of learning. Careful work from the sources is carried on by graduate students, and valuable results are attained. Inrenillnrlam at North 3Inncheter. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind., Oct. 2SAt 5 o'clock thl3 morning fire was discovered In the woodshed adjoining the Rays of Light office, and the same moment another fire was started In the upper story of a barn belonging to Michael Henny, about a block west. The barn was burned, together with one home and other property, before the fire company could render any service. The fire fit the Rays of Light office was discovered In time to be extinguished without serious loss. Both fires are known to be of incendiary origin, and as a similar attempt was made to burn the Rays of Light property two weeks ago, the citizens of this place are alarmed. J. J. Martin, publisher of the Rays of Light, cannot explain the attempts to burn Ms property, as he has no known enemy. He will offer a liberal reward for the apprehension of the culprit. Farmer Innurance Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., Oct. 28.-The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Madison County Farmers' Insurance Company was held In this city yesterday. Jesse Hall, of Alexandria, .was elected president; John L. Thomas, of Pendleton, secretary ard treasurer. The board of directors includes the following gentlemen, representing each township In the county: Allen Borum, John Reesom. J. Sullivan. Ziba Darlington. John G. Haas, I. D. "Woodsmith, Mllburn Collins, J. T. Jackson. Perry Heritage. J. J. Hlacklidge. Chris Bodenhorn. Kd Oustln. George Morris, Cyrus Noys. The company has written policies in this county amounting to $l,775,0urt. This company was the lirst of the kind organized in Indiana, and now similar ones exist in sixty counties of the State. Knocked Overboard and Drowned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. K VANS VILLK, Ind.. Oct. 2S. Bert Wilson, a young man well known here, was drownel at 10 o'clock to-night in the Ohio river, opposite Howell, a suburb of this city. He was coming from Henderson on a barge attached to the excursion steamer s 1. A. Nisbet, and became involved in a fight with Clarence Applegate. A 'blow from the latter knocked Wilson down, and he rolled overboard. He was drawn under tha boat and lost from sight. When the boat landed here Applegate disappeared and his whereabouts remain unknown. Roth were formerly considered the best of friends, but were under the influence of drink at the time.

Woman Struck by n Train. Special to the. Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Oct. 28. Mrs. Josephine Howard, aged fifty-five years, of Chicago, who since August 2) has been traveling over the country in search of her son Albert, aged fourteen, formerly a Chicago newsboy, was struck this morning by an east-bound freight train on the Wabash railway in th western limits of the city. The woman, who walked Into Wabash from the East, sat on c tie and was in a stupor, for she did not heed the locomotive's whistle, and was thrown twenty feet. She was picked up and brought to th station, where it was found that her injuries were not dangerous. The woman has one eye out. Struck hy a Glnnclnrc Ilullet. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 23. Albert Wilson was shot in the thigh to-day by Burt Needham. The young men were driving home from Cellna, O., where they had been fishing. Two miles north of liedkey. they stopped to kill a squirrel. Needham tired, th ball struck the tree, glanced off and wast turrled In Wilson's left thigh. Wilson lives two miles west of Muncle and Is badly Injured. i Another Can Well. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Oct. 28. Contractors O'Nell & Kelley have been working night and day since Friday morning on a gas well on the Eli Gough farm, northeast of this city, trying to get the monster racked. It was drilled for the Manufacturers' Company, and will be a bonanza with a -pressure of at ieast three hundred pounds and a. capacity of nearly 10,000,000 feet: Killed by Jumping from u Cnr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Oct. 28. Thomas, the nine-year-old son of Nancy Tuttle, residing at Westslde, jumped from a Jackson-street electric car this evening, near White river bridge and fell down an embankment. His head struck a rock, crushing in the skuil till the brains oozed out. He died Instantly. Indiana Notes. An old lady named Rowan fell In fire at Madison yesterday and was prjbabfy fatally burned. Columbus defeatel Madison in a ball game at the latter place yesterday by a score of 9 to 7. The Kokomo High School football eleven defeated a like team at Marlon Saturday by a score of 12 to 0. Saturday William Harrison, of Deer Creek. Howard county, returned a sorrylooking object. Hy the explosion of his powder flask all his clothes were burned M and blown off and his face and hands are scorched. .NOVEL CONTEST. $3,000 Watered on the Unborn Colts of Tenny nnd Snlvntor. LEXINGTON. Ky., Oct. 28. Tenny, the Immortal little swayback, was shipped in a special car to California to-night. The horse will be placed in the stud at Rancho Del Paso, the. stock farm of millionaire Haggln. Tenny has been doing service at the Beaumont stud for some time.' Several months ago David Pulslfer, the owner of Te.nnj- and J. B. Haggin( matched Tenny and Salvator for a contest ini siring speed, S5.0CW being posted. Each horse will be bred to three of the bent mares on Haggln's farm, and the produce raced In their two and three-year-old forma against each other. Should the g?t of Tenny defeat the youngsters by Salvator. then I'ulslfer sets the stake money and vice versa. It Is the only contest or the kind on record. Fast llornen 3Iny Cio. . PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2S.-It is an nounced that the cracks, Robert J., John R. Gentry. Alix, Fantasy, Phoebe Wilkes and Nightingale, will show at Point Breeze race track this week. Match races for lib eral purses are sail to have boen arranged an ) fast time Is looked for ThursJay and Friday and the days set for the main events. More Cy clinic tleoordn Lowered. DECATUR. 111.. Oct. 21-To-day I D. Cabanne, of St. Louis, covered the quarter of a' mile, unpaced, flying start, In :25 Hat, lowering Ziegler's world's record. Risby and Johnson, the tandem team, rode an unpaced, flying-start quarter of a mile, and did It In :23 flat: ard Rernhart an 1 (Joetz covered one-third of a mile, unpaced, flying tart. In 31 4-5., Herr Moat ot I'erniltlel to lMny. NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-Herr Most and hl3 company were to have presented the play. "Die Weber." In Oertel's Phoenix Park Hall. Newark, to-night, but they were refused permission by the police. For two or three days circulars printed In German have been circulated in Newark announcing the production of the socialistic play. Prosecutor Crane feared that, owing to the bitter feeling arising out of the hatters strike at Newark, the strikers might be incited to violence by Herr Most's realistic interpretation of the character of the traveling weaver, and instructed Chief of Police Hopper not to grant a permit and to ce that the play wa.- not given. Child Afflicted with liable-. FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 23. The slx-year-ol l child of Mrs. Ollie Shackleford was taken with hydrophobia to-day. The child was bitten about three weeks ago by a dug, but gave no evidence of rabies until last night. The city has appointed a nurse to attend the child. The only way to cure catarrh Is to purify the blood. Hood's Sirsaparilla purifles.the tlood and tones up the whole system.

BLUE FOR TAMMANY

STATE I)RMOCIl.lCYS VIEW OF TIIC IlICi ItE;iST.ATlOX. Lender- Relieve' Hint Strong; Will Re the xt 3Inor of Xcw York State Employes Working; for Hill. NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Sunday is always a quiet day with politicians, and dullness was the feature of the politic?.! headquarters in this city to-day. The work of cor respondence was carried on as usual, but there were few visitors and no signs of activity, except at the Grant headquarters. where Mr. Grant's letter of acceptance of the Tammany nomination for Mayor was made public. Colonel Strong's headquar ters were closed during the day, and Colonel Strong himself was not In evidence except to a few of his closest supporters. At Republican headquarters a long dis patch was read from Albany, and was at once given out for publication, to the effect that the employes In the State departments there were employed In preparing and distributing thousands of campaign documents in the interest of the Democrats. The dl3patch says In part: "The campaign work which should be done by tne Dem ocratic State committee has been forced on State departments and paid for from the State treasury. These documents are printed by State Printer James B. Lyons, and a large force of the department clerks are taken from their duties to the State to shove out, in individual envelopes, Hill's campaign documents." The very iarge registration cf voters in this city has been the subject of much discussion and speculation with both old parties, each claiming the advantage from the additional votes that will probably be polled on election day. At the State Democracy headquarters, on Twenty-third street, there was a general feeling of elation to-day over the results of the registration. The leaders agreed in saying that it meant the overwhelming defeat of Tammany Hall. Francis M. Scott said that in his opinion Mr. Grant would not get more than 1J0,UW votes. He believed that the Socialistic, Labor-Populist-Prohibition vote would not be over 2imj;0, which would leave In the vicinity of 245,mX votes to be divided between Grant and Strong, thus allowing 4."i,uX plurality for S;rong. This was the substance of a computation made by the various leaders early in the day. The recent arrest of several hundred men for alleged fraudulent registration, it is believed, .had a deterrent effect, and the large registration is considered a big Increase in men entitled to cast their ballots. District Attorney John R. Fellows to-day, however, expressed hmself as not at all surprised at the registration. He thought there was nothing extraordinary In It, and said that he could see nothing substantial to be derived for either side from it. Corrections made In the returns to-day shovs a total registration in the city of 309,931, the largest registration ever recorded In New York. The largest preceding was that of 1892, which reached a total of 30P.025. The registration of ,1S93 was 2K.90S. The chief Interest of the present week among Republicans centers In the appearance of ex-President Harrison on Wednesday evening next at Carnegie Music Hall. In Democratic circles the starting to-morrow of Governor Flower on a tour through the State In the Interests of the Democratic ticket Is raising much interest because of the master stroke the Democrats claim Chairman Thatcher has made in securing the services of the Governor on so important a mission. There has been a disposition on the part of the various organizations here to make public their allegiance to their respective tickets. To-day, however, the executive board of the Grand Lode of the Independent Order Sons of benjamin, resolved not to permit the use of its name In connection with politics. This decision was arrived at at a meeting of the board to-day, at which resolutions were adopted repudiating any attempt to make use of the order for political purposes. This action was taken because it was said an attempt had been made to represent the order as opposed to the candidacy of Senator Hill. Tamiuatiy Arraigned. NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. The committee of seventy to-day issued a statement In reply to Mayor Gilroy's defense of Tammany in which it arraigns Tammany Hall for malfeasance in the administration of municipal affairs. It is signed by Joseph Laroque, chairman, and John P. Faure, secretary. P.riefly this manifesto charges: First That the organization of Tammany Is despotic, and Is not in a proper sense a political body, but constituted for Individual gain. Second That Tammany Hall has appointed to Important and responsible otlices of the city men dishonest and criminal. Third That under this administration systematical blackmail and extortion wrung frexn the citizens many millions, and that the expenses of the city government have constantly increased without any corresponding benefit to the community, quoting from the comptroller's report to prove this assertion. Fourth That It has wasted public money by extravagant expenditure of funds raised by taxation, quoting the increase during the past three years, and the appropriation for police and street cleaning departments to substantiate tne charge. Fifth That much of the increase of the expenditure is due to dishonesty, supplies Deing bougnt wasteruny and extravagantly, and names placed on the pay roll and money paid for services never rendered. Sixth That the dock department to which the official head of Tammany Hall points with satisfaction Is an ever lncrea.In burden to tne taxpayers, wnue u should be a source of large revenue. Seventh That also since the year 1SSI tne taxpayers have paid orr X),oeo of tne city debt, yet at the present time that debt is JS.3fl0.CX) more than in 1884. Eighth That the taxpayers have been called upon to bear greater burdens than are shown by the tax levy and this statement of the public debt. Ninth That because of . the extravagance In expenditure a comparison of London and Paris with New York in regard to the tax burden shows New York in an unfavorable light. Tenth That because of Tammanv Hall's ignorant and inelllcient management we are lelt far behind the other large cities in the world in respect to the comfort and con veniences which all citizens hav.? a right to expect; further, charging that those In con trol of municipal affairs have failed to provide proper and suitable accommodation. public baths and lavatories, parks in the overcrowded districts of the city and other necessities. Wnlte Dexeern te fUinriny. CHICAGO. Oct. 23. When Gov. David E, Walte, of Colorado, reached Chicago this morning he was met at the depot by a del egation of several hundred Populists and a brass band and escorted to the Grand Pa cific Hotel, where he held an Imnrnmnhi reception In the lobby for an hour. At 2 o'clock the band headed a nrreisiinn of three hunired People's party men who es corted the uovemor to the L.aKe Front I'aric. At the coiumnus monument a crowd of nerhans ten thousand neonle waa as sembled. Colonel Copelanl. chairman of thf rnnr.tv committee, introduce! th i,ivernor, who was received with cheers. He srnlc fnr h-.ilf on h.nir. Ha nsmii-Md V! auditors that. Colorado wa.s aroused and thit th IVm'nlIsf would h friiltnnh.Tnf In the evening he spoke to a large audi ence In Tattersau s pavilion. SIcKlnley Canuut ila to nnhvlllc. vllle, met Governor McKlnlcy, who stopped over here to-day on his way to Illinois, IhirrUnn AVI II Spenli front it Car. NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.U was announced to-day that ex-President Har.-ison has con sented to speak from his c?.r on his way back to Indiana. It was sr.id that the exPresident would give a few talks on his way up the Mate from the car platform. the first to be at Albany, next Friday aft ernoon. IndiniiM IttKltcrrd tin Voters. SAN DIKGO, Cal.. Oct. 23. It is alleged that several hundred Indians who have been allotted lamls in severalty have been registered as voters In this county. The authorities are divided in opinion as to the constitutionality of the procedure. Obituary. llAITfMORE, Md.. Oct. tS. Mrs. Margaret K. Caster, poetess, died at her home here to-day, aired lirty-five. She had been ill for some time. She was the author of "Clytle" and a number of other popular X'oems. LONDON. Oct. 23. A dispatch to the

Times from Paris says M. Leon Paulestre, the famous archaeologist, died to-day at Tours.

OPPOSITION OF MARS. Something About the lied Plnuet That m Worrying: Astronomer. ' Wylie, in Pittsburg Dispatch. Mar3 is now nearer the eartn than at any time since August, ISI'2. The opposition of that year was the occasion of such widespread interest that It i3 probably still fresh in the minds of most readers. It certainly served a good purpose In familiarizing the general public with a few facts In a branch of science hitherto little understood. It was really remarkable what Intense Interest was taken In the subject cf the habltabillty of Mars. A few third-rate astronomers, gifted with wild and vivid Imaginations, sought to advertise themselves by airing their views on the subject, knowing that it had a peculiar fascination for most people. Editors scented the possibility of a news Item which would far eclipse In Importance any of this age. or of any age; for, certainly the man who should first observe and prove the existence of life on Mars could claim a discovery beside which all others that ever came from the brain of man since the world began would be of little moment. The craze spread before reputable astronomers could give it lt3 deserved Quietus, and soon it bid fair to rival the famous "moon hoax" of a few generations back, when a certain scientist claimed to have immensely increased the power of the telescope by some new optical invention and to have discovered cities, buildings, and even a strange species of human beings on the surface of the moon. The absurd story actually gained credence for a considerable length of time, but knowledge Is more quickly disseminated In these dnys, and there were few who seriously expected any sensational discoveries In reeard to Mars. At any rate, as the fiery planet once more makes his appearance in our evening skies, we shall remember what Professor Keeler. of the Allegheny, Ob33rvatory. said in 1S)2: "The popular ex-' cltement on the question or the haDltabulty of Mars was not Justified by any known racts. nor was It shared by working astronomers. The solution is still too remote to' make discussion profitable except for exercise of the imagination or for amusement." These wise words of caution are being heeded now, and there Is apparently little popular interest taken in the present opposition; in fact, not as much as it deserves, for it Is considerably more favor-' able to astronomers in the northern' hemisphere than was the one of 18I2. This is because the planet's altitude is now very . much greater than then, when Mars with a south declination of 23V degrees never,' rose more than 26 degrees above the horl--zonn this latitude; 1. e., less than one--third of the distance to the zenith. Now its altitude here is about 58 degrees, and the telescopic advantage of This high altitude is very noticeable, the steadiness and sharpness of the Image being much In-, creased, simply because the observer now looks through a much thinner and purer mass of air. Professor Keeler already , re ports some very satisfactory views of Mars, and has observed some very start- : ling changes in . the region of the Soils ' Locus. The latest news from the Lick Observatory corroborates his observations In a most gratifying wiy, Professor Schaeberle s drawings with the thirty-six-inch telescope showing almost exactly the same changes noticed in Allegheny. Professor Keeler's work here with very Inferior means and great atmospheric disadvantages has certainly been wonderfully successful, for his observations always command the respectful attention of the whole scientific world. We can certainly congratulate ourselves on having in Allegheny an observer second to none. One powerful argument against the prob ability of Mars being inhabited must al ways be the constant occurrence of such changes on the planet's surface as those mentioned above. A change such as if the Atlantic ocean should casually move inland as far as the Mississippi would be a mere incident on Mars. You see life on that planet would have its inconveniences, to say the least. If they ever succeed in translating those signals we used to hear about. doubtless the first one we get from the un happy Marsians will be an earnest appeal for us to stop and take them aboard. Perhaps M. Flammarion will then devise some way of anchoring the earth and transporting the Marxians via air-llne. ?peakin of those signals, there are a few difficulties In the way of signaling which do not seem to occur to some writers. In the first place, both planets could not signal at the same time if we use the. method of reilected sunlight. At the . present - time signals could be flashed from Mars directly toward the earth, but when you consider that we are now. directly between Mars and the sun you will see that It would be quite Impossible for us to reflect-any sunlight toward Mars, our dark or night side is always turned toward Mars I and will be until a considerable time after op position, and by the time the earth has moved from between the sun and Mars and forms a sharp enough angle with the two to permit of reflection from the one to the other, then the distance to Mars will be so enormously increased that any such thine as signaling would be quite out of the question, even supposing it to have been possible In the first place. So It will be seen that It is much easier for Mara to communicate with us than It is for us with it. Perhap0. we can console ourselves with the fact that we stand In about the same relation to Venus that Mars does to us. and if we find it Impossible to respond to Mars's messages why. we can just pass them on to the next. Mars and Venus were old lovers according to the Greeks, and the old war god ought still to have some tender messages for the fair goddess of love. If he has we are prepared to forward them at the usual rates. Hut of course this whole subject of signaling Is visionary, and not considered worthy of any serious regard by reputable scientists. Just a word abo-'t these oppositions of Mars. They are such Interesting and simple phenomena that It seems a pity that more do not understand them. Remember that Mars and the earth both revolve around the sun. the orbit or path of the earth being within that of Mars. Sun, earth and Mars are now in a straight line, earth In the middle. Now the earth moves much more rapidly than Mars, and in a few months will have moved out of the line, and will be considerably ahead of Mars in their course around the sun. In a year from now the earth will have returned to the same place in its orbit, but the slower-moving Mars will be only about half way around. That is, next. October Mars, sun and earth will be lined up again, but this time the sun will be in the middle, and Marj will be invisible. Now if Mars went around the sun in exactly two years then in October, 1S96, the two planets would line up just as they now are. Hut Mars takes less than two years (Oil days) to complete Its circuit around the sun, and consequently will arrive again at Its present position before the earth has had time to get around twice. Hut after fifty days in the earth's third lap the earth will have overtaken Mars, and in December. lS'JG, Mars will again be in opposition. At some oppositions the earth is much nearer Mars than at others, for Mars's path is elliptical, parts of it being much nearer the earth's path than the rest of it Is. And when an opposition occurs at thU point the two planets are unusually close together, as now and in 1S92. The next one will not be nearly so favorable, the next still less, and Mars will not be so bright again until 19X. So it is worth your while to take a good look at this magnificent object, so marvelous a counterpart of our own world, the next chance you get through a telescope If posslbi?. The planet rises at sunset and Is quite unmistakable in the east by 7:30 p. m. STORY WITH A MOHAL, A YotiitR Man 1m Itcuurded for Ileln;r AbtttcmlouN. Philadelphia Inquirer. Frank Herdlc, who is well known to the sporting fraternity all over the country, has just parted with a hundred dollars In the cause of temperance In accordance with a promise made eleven years ago. At that time Mr. Herdlc was a patron of Johnson's Hotel, which stood where now is the Reading Terminal. One day his attention was attracted to a bright-faced little boy around the bar-room who was belnir petted by some of the men. one or whom oirered iilm a glass or beer. The lKy refused it and Herdlc felt so pleased that he at once made the promise that he would rclve Mm $1") if he abstained from drink until he attained his twenty-first birthday. Under date of the 15th Inst. Mr. Herdlc received a letter from Fred W. Johnson with Fari & Thayer, Ftock brokers. New York. In which the writer Inclo.'od an afildavit made before W. K. Kimball, a notary public In New York city, to the effect that ho was twtnty-or years oil and had kept his promise not to drink any intoxlouing llqior. In a personal letter to Mr. Herdic the young man wrote that he "did not Intend to commence drink now, so don't promire me any more hundreds, as this is very easy work for me." He wanted the reward sent on to New York, hut Mr. Herdic sent him a ticket to come to Philadelphia Saturday afternoon, and in th. presence o.' Chief Clerk W. V. Power, of the Ilingham House, the check was paid over and promptly cashed by Mr. power. When the check has leen through t'r-e Clearing House and returned to Mr. Ilcnlic it will be framed and presented to young Johnson.

DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE

TWO FHKIGIIT WAHBIIOirSES AT EAST ST. LOtlS DESTROYED. Tiro Hnndrcd Loaded Cnrs Also Darned, Cnunlntc n Total Lons of 950),MO Other Firc. EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Oct. 2S.-A fre'.ght warehouse and a number of cars were burned to-night, causing a loss of $150,0s. The warehouse, which was 700 by 150 feet. wa3 owned by the St. Louis Terminal Company, by whom it was leased to the Jacksonville, Southeastern & Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis roads. It cost $50,000, and was nearly new. It was well filled with corn, cotton and wheat in transit. The. cars on the side tracks, which were destroyed, or practically so, numbered nearly one hundred, and a majority of them were loaded. As nearly as can be ascertained the insurance Is about two-thirds of the loss. At 1 o'clock th.s (Monday) morning' the fire took a new start, attacking an adjoining warehouse of similar dimensions, filled with a large quantity of . miscellaneous freight. This was also destroyed, together with a sufficient number of loaded freight cars to swell the total of these to two hundred. By this new sweep of the llames the loss was Increased to fully a half million dollars. The additional Insurance, If any, cannot be learned. The fire is now under control. FirolitiKH Run Ont of Town. NEWPORT, Ark., Oct. 23. Last night, about 7 o'clock, fire destroyed the barn of Dr. Lu E. Willis, with contents. Some valuable horses were saved. The department bad hardly turned In when a second alarm was given. This time the stable of Judge Phillips was burned. About 11 o'clock a third alarm came in for the new gin of the Newport Ginning Company. This plant, Just completed, was also destroyed. The city by thl3 time was In a state of excitement. A large number of armed men patrolled the streets all night, but no further alarms were reported. To-day, at a mass meeting, thirty deputies were sworn in and divided Into squads, with the purpose of ridding the town of the numerous thugs and thieves called here by the fair. At 4 o'clock twenty-one of the gentry were escorted out of town, and woe to the man that fails to give a good account of himself to-night. Foreitt Fire. TRIMBLE, Tenn., Oct. 28. Forest fires are spreading ruin In this section. The long drought has made the timber andrass as dry as tinder and the flames spread with lightning-like rapidity. The valuable range in the Obion river bottoms have been swept bare, causing a loss of thousands of dollars. PTkT? TVTII flce riot 90 rarest Area are raging In the vicinity of Corinth and a dense smoke overhangs the town. Several cotton fields have been destroyed in the outlying districts, valuable timber ruined, and the country laid waste. Hundreds of farmers are fighting the flames. Race Home Ilurned. RED OAK, la., Oct. 28. Between Vi and 1 o'clock this morning the barn belonging to N. Yeager, of Omaha, was destroyed. It was used as winter quarters for the race horses In charge of J. TMen. The three-year-old stallion Antwerp, by Anteo (2:16'i), and Elgin Girl (2:19), valued at jo.OuO, were- both burned. A yearling colt by Ited Wald (2:23,2 was also lost. The fire was undoubtedly of incendiary origin. Peddler llnrned. NDW YORK, Oct. 28. A fire that started on the top floor of the two-story brick stable at No. 205 East Ninety-fifth street, today, destroyed the building and burned one man, John Kelly, to deatn. Val Williams was so badly turned tna: he was removed to; the hospital. Both men were peddlers who had leased a stable in which to spend the night. It is supposed that a spark from Kelly's pipe "started, the fir-?. . HELEN I' PUHIi.t A I IONS. (From the Bowen-Merrill Company.) ;That John Brown's soul is "marching on" seems to be proved by the fact that, thirty-five years after his execution, appears a large volume containing the fullest account of his life and career yet written. "John Brown and His Men," by Richard J. Hinton, Is an exhaustive account of that remarkable episode in American history which just preceded and ushered in the great rebellion. It contains the history not only of John Brown, but sketches of all the men who participated in the invasion of Virginia, with the story of their capture, trial and execution. The work also contains much of the political history of that period, especially of the struggle between the pro-slaverv and anti-slavery parties In Kansas, and is an Interesting contribution to American history. It is published in the American Reformers series. Illustrated. Cloth, 11.50. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Just now. when the war between China and Japan is attracting considerable attention to those countries, a timely book Is "A Corner of Cathay," by Adele M. Flelde. It embraces sketches from life among the Chinese during a residence of fifteen years In that country, part of the time In villages that no other foreigner had ever visited. Acquaintance with the local dialect and with many native women enabled the author to gain information directly frJm 'all classes and from both sexes. The result is an interesting and instructive work containing much new and curious Information concerning Chinese life and customs. It Is published in handsome form bv ; Macmillan & Co., New York. Ornamental cloth covers, gilt top,,J3. The "Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee," by his nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, is not an Impartial biography or a great literary work, but from both points of view It is a respectable and even a creditable performance. It drives a picture of a notable man which, though not In all respects truthful, is nevertheless interesting and contributes some new matter to American biographical history. It is, of course, written from a confederate point of view, but, in making up history, all points of view must be considered. The book is published in the Great Commanders Series by D. Appleton & Co. Ornamental cloth, $1.50. It would seem difficult to find place for another edition of Shakspcare, but the Ariel edition differs in so many respects from any other that it furnishes its own Justification. Some of its distinctive features are, first, each play i3 in a separate volume; second, each volume is a handy size to hold or carry in the pocket; third, the text is complete and unabridged, conforming to the latest scholarly editions; mth. tne printing is clear and the illustrations numerous and unique. The complete edition will make forty volumes, full leather, gilt top, 75 cents per volume. Other bindings at different prices. New York: G. 1. Putnam's Sons. Novel readers ought to be Interested in the new edition of Henry not Charles Kingsley's novels which the Scribners are juat beginning to Issue. This new edition. In convenient form and attractive style, Is printed from new plates, ani "Ravenshoe." the novel selected to begin the publication, shows to a marked degree the author's power and picturesque narrative. Some critics have expressed the opinion that Henry Kingsley's novels would outlive those of his better known brother Charles. However that may be. this new edition of them is likely to find readers. "Kavenshoe" is In two volumes, cloth, 51 ' each. Max O'Rell's books are always interesting. He has a style peculiarly his own, and the faculty of putting things in an original and effective way. His latest work, "John Bull & Co. The Grezt Colonial Branches of the Firm: Canada, New Zealand. Australia ajid South Africa." U an Interesting description of the countries, peoples, cities, towns and resources of thj great British colonies. In addition to Its readable quality the book contains much fresh and valuable Information. It is published in uniform style with "Jonathan and His Continent" and "A Frenchman in America." New York: Charles I. Webster. The stream of Shakspearian literature never ends, and. In truth, the subject is one of perennial Interest. "William Shakspeare, a Studln Ellzibethan Literature," by Professor Barrett Wendell, of Harvard College, contains a series of lectures deliv

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