Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. M VTtCU 18. 1891-TWELVE PAGE3.

TWO MILLIONS

IN SMOKE i

Syracuse the Sufferer by Two Large Fires. Hotels, Business Houses and Papers Burn Out. Both Fires Raging at Nearly the Same Time. Lack of Water Gives the Flames a Good Show. Partial Idst of the Ixsse The Cause. StRaCTse, N. Y.t March 14. Syracuse never opened its eyes on such a spectacular drama aa roused her from her morning elumber today. Hardly were the early risers astir when the -who'e population was tuddenly roused by cries of "fire," "the Hogan block is going, and all Fayette-sL ia going." The first show of fire was at 6 :30 o'clock and in less than half an hour the splendid new Ilogan block was onlv aehost of its former self. The massive limestone wallg were blackened ruins and flames were shooting through the open window. The fire was spreading in all directions. The fire eoon spread to the north 6ide of TV. Fayette-st. and Chief Iteilly quickly taw that the threatened destruction was too great for his apparatus to fight. He wired to Utica, Home and Oswego to send relief and he had hardly done so when the danger was suddenly doubled. Fire and smoke buret without warning from the top of Roscoe Bros.' five story block in E. Washington-st. four blocks way. A flying brand from W. Fayettest. bad caused it and before the already over-worked firemen could send relief, the flames were beyond control. Crowds ot people ruuning to W. Fayette-st. were appalled to see the fire rapidly spreading in Roscoe's with only a single stream playing upon it. At 8:30 a fierce conflagration was raging in the two upper floors of the Yale block, along the entire Genesee-sL front and was rapidly making its way around the Montgnjery-6t. corner. Jnst at this time a man thrust a sofa out of the third story window and let it down to the sidewalk by means of a rope. "What a fool that fellow is," a spectator cried, and yet there seemed to be no immediate danger. A moment or two later there was a tremendous crash and an immense volume of smoke was thrown out from the burning building, while the flames rose high arxve the ruins below. A cry of horror went up from the crowd and everybody felt that the man was lost. The wall for about the distance from the Montgomery-sL comer to the Roscoe building hall fallen in. crushing the floors below and bringing them with it to the ground. When the smoke cleared away, as it did in a moment or two, under the sweeping rush of the flames, the man was seen in the act of raising a window, which be immediately closed and as quickly raised again. The fire was raging all about him and the feeling was that he was a doomed roan beyond all poseibdity of escape. lie was not seen to emerge from any other part of the building and it is thought that he perished in the flames. From the Vanderbilt house and the Old and New Montgomery flats people rushed in all stages of dress. Bedding, furniture and cooking utensils were hustled out of rooms, only to be entangled in the meshes of wires. Cartraen drove through the crowds recklessly in order to et goods from the buildings. About 9 o'clock the Oswego relief came by special train having made the run from Lamsons, nineteen miles, in 17 minutes. Half an hour later the Utica engine, with a hose-cart and company of Jiremen, came in and began playing on the "Washington-st. fire. The flames, urged on by the gale, were hardly checked by the firemen, and two locomotive fire engines from the Central shops were sent to the Vanderbilt house corner. They probably saved the hotel. The whole loss is estimated at $1,000,000 and at 11 a. m. the fire was under control. In the W. Fayette-st. lire, the Ilogan block, a six-story stone front building was first destroyed. The center store was occupied by Hires & Lighton, cigar manufacturers, and next by M. P. Wa.sh, hardware. Theodore P. Hogan's loss on the block is $40,000 with $25,000 insurance. Hires & Lighton lose $18,000 with 512,000 insurance. Walsh has $10,000 insurance and his loss exceeds this. The four story building next east was burned. It was also owned by Ilogan, was valued at 59,000 and the insurance is $6,000. The furnace company loses $10,(XX), nearly covered bv insurance. Chryst & Zehl have $20,000 insurance and claim that their loss will exceed that. Justin Zubert's cigar factory was damaged by water. His atock was valued at SIOO.OOO with S7o,000 insurance. John IL Link, wholesale liquors, suffered something from water. The United States hotel, which was burned, was owned by Daniel O'Keefe and his loss is put at $10,000. On the north side of Fayette-st. the Van Rannesler block, owned by "William Ayers, first burned and the Seneca house next east also burned. The loss on buildings is $00,000; insurance, $22,000. Several tenants lost small amounts. David Davis owned the next building cast and the loss is put at $20,000. John F. Kautfman owned the three story brick block next. His loss is $15,000. J. J. Davis, broker, lost $0,000, with, $1,500 insurance and W. C. Tucker, furniture dealer, lost $10,000. The brown-stone Fay block also went. pnn For a good spring medicine we confidently recommeiid Hood's Sarsaparilia. By Its nse the blood is purified, enriched and vitalized, that tired leeling Is entirely orercome and tie whole body given strength and vigor. The appetite Is restored and sharpened, the digestiT organs are toned, the kidneys and liver Invigorated. If you have never tried Hood 5 Sarsaparilia do so this season. It Is a thoroughly honest and reliable preparation, purely vegetable, and contains no Injurious ingredients whatever. Thousands who bare taken it with benefit testify to Its peculiar curative power. I take Hood's Sarsaparilia as a spring tonic, and I recommend it to all who hare that miserable tired feeling.' C. Pmurtii SO Bridge Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Makes the Weak Strong IT. B. If Toss decide to take Hood's SarsaparUla, to not be ladoesd to bay any other preparation.

The block was valued at $25,000, partia"ly insured. The S'vractise supply company had a stock of $.'io,i0;), insured for J2d,0O0. The brauch of Park Bros, of Pittsburg, had a stock of $12,000, insuranco $1,000. Other losses here amount to $50,000. In the Montgomery-sL tire the blocks burned were the Journal, the Roscoe, the Yates and Montgomery flats and a part of the Candee house. Among the individual losses is that of Kinney & Doolittle, liquors, $15,000 to $20,000; insurance, $10,000. The heaviest lo-s in the K. Washington-st. fire is on the Montgomery. The building were owned by the Yates estate and the loss is put nt SJOO.OOO, with insurance of $100,000. The hundred tenants lose $50,000, partly insured. The Journal company's loss is $50,010 ; insurance, twothirds. The loss on the Christian Cook block is $10,000, partly insured. B. W. Koscoe, wholesale fruits, loses $20,000, partly insured. Other losses by this fire are about Sto.OOO. FIVE APPELATE JUDGES

Appointed by Gortrnor IIoey SeTentT-Ono I sappolnted Applicants Each individual of the seventy-six members of the legal fraternity who aspired to positions on the bench of the newlycreated appellate court felt that his claims were a little better than anybody's else, and therefore there was a sore disappointment in store for exactly seventy-one citizens of Indiana. Governor Hove? made bis appointments known Wednesday morning. They are as follows : First Distriot Judge George L. Tteinhard, democrat. Hock port. Spencer county. Second District Judge Jeptha D.Xew, dem oornt. North Vernon, Jennings county. Third District James U Black, republican, Indianapol s. Fourth District Milton S. Robinson, republican, Anderson, Madison county. Fifth District Edgar D.Crum packer, republican, Valparaiso, Porter county. The jurisdiction of the new court was clearly defined by Judge Taylor's decision which was published in yesterday's issue of The Sentinel. For yea s the supreme court has been overburdened with work, and litigants throughout the state have been complaining of what to them seemed long and unnecessary delays. It became apparent to the last general assembly that re;ief of some sort was an absolute necessity, and the result was the enactment of a law creating the appellate court. Its powers are specifically limited, but it will operate on the same general plan as that ot the supreme court. The court will begin operations just as soon as rooms can be provided in the state house. The judges will severally receive $3,500 per annum, and the clerk of the supreme court, who will also act a clerk of the new tribunal, will receive in addition to his present salary the 6um of So.OOO per annum. Clerk Sweeney will at once bejrin preparations for transfering from the docket of the supreme court to that of the appellate such cases over which the latter snail have jurisdiction. All of the gentlemen named arc lawyers of more or less reputation and sev era I of them have served on the judicial bench heretofore. Judge George L. Reinhard, one of the democratic appointees, was born in Bavaria, Gcrm iny, July o, lSIi, and catno to this country when quite a small boy. lie atter d school in Cincinnati for four years, working at the same time in a wheel factory. It was in I860 when he first put foot on Indiana soil, taking up his residence ia Union county. He served bravely in the war of the rebellion, being engaged in many of the great battles. "When the conflict ended he went to Ohio and resumed his studies, finally graduating from the Mian:a university of that state. Ho began the practice of law at Owensboro, Jy., in Isttf, but remained there only a year, removing to Roekport, Ind., where he has since resided. He is now serving as judge of the First judicial circuit, coiniosed of the counties of Warrick and spencer. Jeptha 1. New is a native of this state, having first se n the light of day in Jennings county "ov. 2S, s:;o. He completed his education at Bethany college, Virginia. In 185 ho formed a partnership with the Hon. Thomas W. Woollen, excttorney general ot state, and the firm began the practice of law at Franklin, Ind. Six years later, however, he returned to Jennings county and served a term as prosecuting attorney. He was then elected judge oi the common pleas court, serving in this capacity for four years and declining a re-election. In 1374 he was nominated for congress and carried the district, although it was strongly republican. In 1876 he was unanimously renominated and declined, but accepted in 187S and was again elected. Col. Milton S. Robinson is also a hoosier. He was born at Yereaille, Ripley county, April 20. 1$:J2. After completing his education he began to study law, being admitted to practice at Anderson in 1851. He eerved in the war with distinction, entering thearm,y as lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-seventh Indiana infantry. He was finally brevetted brigadier-general for gallant conduct, lie has represented this county in the legislature and served two terras in conn-rees. Col. James B. Black, who represents the Third district on the bench of the appellate court, is a resident of this city and is very weil know n' here. He is a member of the grand anny and was at one time reporter of the supreme court. He is at present on the advisory board of the soldiers' orphans' home. Edgar D. Crumpacker is a native of Pennsylvania, anl coming to Indiana when quite young, took up his residence in Porter county. He resides at Valparaiso and is professor of law in the normal school at that place. The term of office of the judges of the appellate court expire Jau. 1, 18'JS. Frrlsked in The Flames. Jew York, March 15. The residence of Gen. K. B. Fowler, in -Brooklyn, was partly burned this morning and the General's non, Williain.aged twenty-two,per-ished in the flames. The othtr members of the family were rescued with ddliculty. The loss on the building and furniture amounts to $80,000. ledici ne Ilood's Sarsaparilia Is prepared from Parsararilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Juniper Berries, aiid otlicr well known vegetable remedies, ly a combination, projorton aad process peculiar to Ibelf, r.nd ty which the full medicinal vnltro of all the ingredients used Is secured. II.?nee It possesses superior and positive curative power. P tints the Blood " Every erring for years I have made It a practico to take from three to Cvc bottles of Flood's SarsapariJLi. I ccause I knowit purifies the blood and thoroughly cicr.nscs the cystem f all fmpnriSies. That languid feeling, called spring fever,' will never vhit the system that has been properly ctred for by this neverfailing remedy." V'. II. Lawrence, Editor Agricultural Epltomist, Indianapolis, Ind. BOO Doses One Dollar Hood's Sarsaparilia la sold by irvgzUf. $ ; six forM. rreBaxedbTC.LHooU4Co..LoweU.lUas.

HOW THE LAND HAS GONE.

JUDGE HOLMAN ON THE SITUATION. II Thinks tne Tim Will Soon Com When the Gorerntnent Wl 1 Be Asked to Day Lands for A marl can Direct Taxation Coming. Washington, March 15. Special. '"In your time, young man, you are likely to see the American government urged to buy up land it has so lanre'y given away in order to provide its landless citizens with some means of eettiug a living," said Ck)n?resman Holman of Indiana to me, speaking with all the experience of many years' service on the public lands committee of the house of representatives. When Judge Holman entered the house in 1859. at the beginning of the Thirtysecond congress, the public domain of the United Statea Beemed aa boundless aa the ocean, and the feeling of that time was reflected in the popular song of the day: Come alon, come ml rr, make no drlay, Cur.ie troiu etary nation, come by erery way Our linds they are broad enough, so have no alarm, And Uncle am ia rich enough to give you all a farm. Yet in his own time and under his eyes the Indiana congressman has beheld this vast empire eo squandered that within measurable distance he sees demands like those of evicted Irish peasants pressing an! echoing in the Washington capitol and his gloomy forebodings of "the pressure among us of a great mass of landless people who will terribly strain our institutions" recall to those who have heeded them the contrast which Thomas Jefferson, writing to Madison from Taris, drew between the conditions of America and those of Europe, "o Ions as there is in our country plenty of free land to be had," said Jefierson, "our people will remain virtuous and happy, but should the time come when they become piled up in great cities &s they are here in Europe, then they will go to eating cne another as they do here." Judge Holman paid that in his opinion it would have been far better in the end if the western railroads, and particularly the transcontinental railroads, had not been built for five or six generations later, for then settlement would have pushed westward more slowly, keeping more in pace with the natural, healthy growth of population. As it was, the building of the railroads over the western country flung the door wide oren to vicious grasping and speculation, and, indeed, the very manner of stimulating the building of these roads, through the donation of immense land grants, put a premium on speculation, and quickened the work of squandering the public domain. So well has this work of waste and dissipation been accomplished in the hardly more than thirty years since it began that there now remainsbut a very small portionof land available to the settler yet in the control of the United States. There etill remains some good public land, says Judge Holman ; there is some in western Nebraska, some scattered ebewhere, and there still remain the Indian reservations. But all this is little to what has gone, and the tendency to its disappearance etill continues. In the meantime the essential social- conditions which to Thomas Jefferson seemed to presage the dangers of the revolution which w us Boon to deluge France with blood are unquestionably growing up here. 'ot merely do American cities of our day dwarf the Londons and Parises that to Jefferson seemed so monstrous, but the rackrentcd tenant has become an American institution. It is no wonder that men like Judge Holman look to the time they see approaching as rife with the greatest dargr-rs to the stability of American institutions. Feelings such as those expressed by Judge Holman led to the passage in the first session of the recent congress of the act restricting to 320 acres the amount of land which any one person could obtain under the existing land acts. But as all such restrictioca heretofore have failed to set bounds to the greed of speculators so is it likely to be with this one. And I am told by men who are well acquainted with the working of the land laws that it is probable that a breach through which a stage coach may he driven has been left in the last restriction act. In the last bourn of the session jut concluded an act was passed revising the land laws of the United states in conformity with the act restricting to 320 acres whnt one person could obtain. In sec. 8 is this passage : And in the states of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota oud South Dakota, Wyoming and in the district of Alaska and the gold and silver regions of Nevada, and the territory of Utah, in any criminal prosecution or civil action, by the Lnited States for trespass on such publio timber lands or to recover timber or lumber cut thereon, it shall be a defense if the defendant shall show that the said timber was so cut or removed from the timber lands for use in such state or territory by a resident thereof, for agriculture, mining, manufacturing or domestic purposes, and baa not been transported out of the same. There is a further declaration that "nothing herein contained shall apply to operate to enlarge the rights of any railroad company to cut timber on the public domain." But my informants fear that anybody else may under this provision go in and practically do what they pb-ase, since there are many ways in which timber may be got out of the state or territory after it has been cut, so thre U nothing to prevent gang paws Indng set up and all the timber on the public domain being sawed up. Judge Pay son, chairman of the house committee on public lands in the recent congress, does not, however, take this view. He says, and in this Judge Holman concurs, that ev"n if this grabbing of timber were popsible under the above quoted passage, it can he prevented by virtue of a short supplementary net providing that the law shall be subject in its operation to such rub-8 and regulations as the secretary of the interior may se fit to make. This free timber provision, he savs further, was inserted for the benefit of the Battler. In California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada there exis:s a epecial timber land law, pa.-sed in 1878, makinir it possible for a settler to obtain as much as a quarter section at $1.50 an acre. But this law extends nowhere else, and hence, says Judge Paypoii, the provision in question was inserted in thn act jjudt passed giving free timber to settlers in all other etates and territories. But it will be observed that this freedom to obtain timber is also given to manufacturers and miners, and, for domestic purposes, to all others in the respective states or territo'ies. It remans to be seen how the land office ot the interior department will construe the new law. In tho meantime it is certain that there are disinterested experts who fear that as the law now stands no construing can stretch its words so as to prevent the public domain from being stripped clear of every stick of timber. - Tho Speakership. Though its deeds remain after it, the echoes of the Fifty-first coneres3, with all its sins of omission and commission, are passing away. But in the talk of Waah-

inzton politicians and tha conversation of the members who remain, the figure of the coming Fiftv-second congress, like that of a huge bulk in tho dark, ia beginning already to loom up. Tho lirst of tl r: exciting questions with which it will engross public attenti n who snail be speaker seems to be settline between Mills of Texas and Crip of Georgia. Of these, so far as can be seen from Washington Mills seems to have the lead and to be gaining. There is no question as to the competency of either man ; but. whi o Crisp's success woul I mean the election of a good presiding officer, Mills' success wou d mean tho election of a leader. Mi Is much more represen t the aggressive spirit of the radical democracy, and that is now certainly gaining ground. His election will mean that the day of timidity on the tariff question has goue and that the streng h of the democratic organization has pasi-ed over from an attempt to reduce protection to an attempt to destroy it. It is suggestive of what lies behind all personal preference on this speakership question that Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, who was elected not as a tariff reformer, but as an avowed free trader, and who fairly represents the more radical element that is coming into the democratic ranks in the new congress, avowed himself on leaving here last week as the idrenuons advocate of Mills' election. And the feeling is growing that if the democratic party is to preveut a breaking on the currency question, it can only be by taking the r idical ground on the tariff question. The representatives of the fanners' alliance who are here actively working the plans for the combination of ail the elements of sociadissatisfaction into a third party movement, laugh at the idea of any mere question of percentages of tariif reform sufficing to keep the elements on which they count in the democratic line in the next election. And a trustworthy observer recently sent into the west by certain Xew York supporters of Cleveland for the purpose of observing the polith al indications, cs me back with the report that the only thing that could prevent a disaetrous eplit on the currency question would be tne pushing of the free trade issue in the most aggressive form. Direct Taxation. But the most starring thing that the talk of thoughtful men in Washington makes one feel is already looming before the coming congress and the thing that will most hasten radical discussion ia the imminence or direct taxation. Like the spread of a thunder cloud over the sunshine of a summer fky, we have suddenly passed from the question of how to get rid of the surplus to that of how to keep up the revenue. I had a taltc this week with Louan Carlisle, the compi er of the last democratic congressional campaign book on this subject. He puts the matter in this form : "The last congress has enacted laws that will make largo appropriations hereafter necessary, so that the next congress must repudiate some of the obligations made by this one or it must devise means for increasing the revenue. There 6cems to be but two practical ways of obtaining that incronfe. One is to so increase the rates of duty that the volume of importations will be increased, and, therefore, the volume of revenue augmented. The other is by levying additional tax's. I do not think it is possible, bi-cause of the opposition of the senate, to get through a bill reducing the rates of tariff taxes sufficiently to make the required incre. se in revenue. In my opinion, the people of this country understand enough in regard to the incidence of taxation to justify, if not to make neceesHry, the imposition of some sort of a direct tax, if additional taxation U required at nil. Of courso a direct tax as commonly understood is not what is called a direct tax under the constitution. There are only two direct taxes according to the supreme court; one, a poll tax. the other, a land tax. But an income tax and various other taxes are commonly said to be direct taxes. Just what wou d be made the object of any additional taxation lie within the boundaries of prophecy, and I am no prophet. I have no wed settled conviction as to what is the best object of taxation incomes, inheritances or iand values but if wo can once get a direct tax of any kind in operation it will not take very long to determine what the best kind of a direct tax is. There were a great number of men in tha last congress who wvrc in favor of an income tax, and there will be many more in the next congress. Meanwhile the Hand to Hand club is doing all it can to destroy the protective feticli." Jerry Slnipton. The people ia Kansas who predicted that Jerry Simpson would not get out of the obscurity of the cloak room of tho house of representatives would have been astonished had they been here, at the figure he cut in the closing days of the session. A speech he delivered on tho evening of the 3rd of March, at a meeting of the Citizons' alliance here, made nothing short of a sensation. It called forth more enthusiaem than, to the memory of many men, had ever been witnessed at a public meeting here, for Washington, owing doubtless to. the amount of oratory in congress, is not a demonstrative place. Thouuh the nk'ht was very ttormy 1,500 peop'e crowded into the" hall. Senators-elect Fe. er and Kyle spoke first, picturing the condition of the western country and declaring that the currency question was the all important one, and that through its settlement lay the only possibdity of relief to tho people. Jerry Simpson followed. He frankly stated that he differed with the gentlemen who had preceded him as to tho relative importance of the currency question, and proceeded to arjfue, first, that the transportation question was, for western farmers, at least, as important as the currency question, and secondly, that the question ot natural opportunities was the most important of all. His speech lasted about twemy minutes and roused his audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. He made his pointi with great clearness and force, and struck straight out in this fashion: "You have fooiishly allowed a few people to get hold of all the land and hold it out of ue, and now you have got to pay them for the privilege of livinir on the earth. Where did they get their titles? Can they trace it back to God Almighty? No, sir. If not, theu it is not any more their land than it is mine. We should say to them: 'If vou will hold this land out of use we will make you pay well for the privilege. We will tax you so that you will either have to malce good use of it or let go of it. We will put the tax so infernally hieh that it will not bejirofitable to keep the land outof use. ou will have to build houses on it, or make good use of it in some other way to cet your money back. . Then there will be two houses to rent where there is only one now, and rents will go down.' "There are millions of acres of excellent land in Kansas uninhabited. What is the matter? Monopoly. There are counties tons of coal in tle bowels of the earth and the people of Kansas are burning corn for fuel. Those coal lauds should belong to the people eo that the people could work them. If all this valuable, idle land were thrown open to use there would be two jobs look for one man, instead of, as now, two men looking for one job. 'The political situation in Kansas reminds tne of the story of two Irishmen who had just come over to this country, and were walking; alonx a railroad track, Children Cry for.

whWi at length ran through a'cut'in a hii side. It being a warm summer night they lay down in this pace, beside the track, to sleep. About midnight the limited express came through, with its blazing eye and its puffing and blowing and tenffic noises. "Neither of the sleepers had ever seen a railroad train, and one of them started up in alarm and pressed up against the wa'd as the monster swept past. Then he roused his companion, who inquired as to what was the matter. 'Matter enoimh,' said the other. 'They are moving hell, and the first load has just gone by.' That is just what we have been doing in Kansas. The first lead was John James Iugalls." Henry George, Jr. DR. WINDHORST. IS DEAD.

Sketch of One of tho M"t Remarkable Men of His Time. Berlin, March 14. Dr. Ludwig Windthorst, th parliamentary leader of the catholic party in Prussia, who has been dangerously ill for some days past, died at 8:15 this morning. He was born Jan. 17, 1812. Dr. Windthorst at midnight was merely able to whisper replies to inquiries as to his condition. Suddenly, however, his voice returned and, evidently imagining that he was ia the reichstag, Dr. Windthorst delivered an impassioned address in favor of the abolition of the law expelling the Jesuits from Germany. The veteran leader's voi;'e, while he delivered the add rt'ss, could be clearly heard through the rooms. He never spoke after having concluded his remarks upon that bill. In the reichstag today President Levctzow delivered a most a3c-cting eulogy upon the dcalh of Dr. Windthoist. Ludwig Windthorst, the parliamentary leader of the catholic party in Germany, was born Jan. 17, 1812. He attended the "Carolinum" in Osnabrneck and continued his studies at Gottinen and Heidelberg. His parents first intended h m for the priesthood, but he changed his mind and studied law instead and became first advocate, then syndic and afterward ober-appeilationsrath in Kalbe. Ho rose to prominence in the city of Osnabrueck end played an important part in Hanoverian politics as early as 1849, as a strong supporter of the Hanoverian dynasty, of its absolute power and as an opponent of Prussia and of a constitutional government. He was min.ster of justice from ISol to 1853, when he used his influence in behalf of the appointment cf catholics to positions at the roval court and for the establishment of the diocese of Osnabrueck, and cgain held the same office from 1S02 tolSoo. He resigned the position of attorney-general of Hanover when the kingdom was annexed to Prussia in 18G6, and in the year following represented the fallen Hanoverian dynasty, the Guelphs, in negotiations with Bis'dank. Fro-ti 1840 to 18M he was a member of the general assembly of the states of the realm, and in 18)1 president of the second chamber of the body. He was a member of the constituent and regular reichstag and since 1SG7 of the Prussian house of deputies from tho third district of the province of Hanover. He enjoyed the absolute confidence of the Vatican, organized the catholic laity of Germany for political action and gave Bismarck more real troubic than anybody else. He has never admitted the independence of the state or society from the church and maintained the latter'a claim to chief authority over human affairs. As a parliamentary leader he never has had his equal in Germany, and he has shown the great statesmanlike quality of patience and perseverance throughout his career. At first extremely cautious and reserved, he has of late been the most aggressive of opposition leader, and has confounded the government, even ia the days of Bismarck, by Ehowing himself a complete master of the situation. For years he did not conceal his purpose of restoring autonomy to the catholic church in its administrative and educationa work, and to obtain full recognition for every separatists power, hflsed on here lity, by the government, that is to make Germany a federation of tho Roman church to control tho spiritual affairs of all mankind. Herr Windthorst was a writer of no mean ability, and contributed art critiques to the journals of the French capital. In speaking of the death of Herr Windthorst, Mr. J. B. Jeup, tditor of the German Telegraph, said: "Windthorst was a very powerful man, of great mind and always proved true to the province he served, which was Hanover. Although the king of Hanover and his whole court were protestants and Windthorst a catholic. lie was the head of the catholic and Guelph parties in Hanover, and wa3 the leader of the catholic party, otherwise the centre party, since the annexation of Prussia and Hanover. Ha was three times a member of the cabinet in Hanover, his position comparing to that of our attorney-jzeneral. His was the most powerful mind in that body up to the time the war broke out in I800V When Hanover was annexed to Prussia, the property of the king of Hanover was all confiscated and it was Windthorst who entered into negotiations with Bismarck (who needed the assistance of such a powerful man as Windthorst in the reichstag). and recovered some of the confiscated property for Queen Mary. While Bismarck drove ail thn other leaders of parliament ! ry opposition to the wall, he could not do so with Windthorst. Windthorst had a hold on the catholic masses such as no other man had, and was always elected to the reichstag in his district, which was Mppen and Linzen. He was called the "Pearl of Meppen." His death is a great loss to the center party, and I don't see who they can get to fill his place. Under Windthorst, his party got all they fought for, except the right of Jesuits to return to German-, who were banished in 1S47. The strict protes;ants gave him credit for not being a bigot, and even those who are for German unity and strictly opposed to the catholics concede him to have been a very powerful man, though they are probably glad of his death. SHOT EOTH SWEETHEARTS. The Doubly i:ff-ot!ve Accidental Shot of sm Knraiicl Fattier. Cairo, 111., March IX Samuel Witt, living at EIco, a few miles west of this city, attempted to take his sixteen-ycar-bld daughter from her lover and cousin, William Wriaht, who he said had abducted her. During a scuttle which followed Witt's revolver exploded, fa'ally injuring Wright and wounding the daughter, who was assisting her lover. The father says the pistol was discharged accidentally, but he wa- arrested. I spp-nrrd Lightly Attired. Gkaxd IIapids, Mich., March 13. Preston Ford, a young man related to some of the prominent families of the city, disappeared in a most remarkable manner today. He was stricken with fever and ns'-ed his nurse to let him visit the bath room. 1 Ho was clad in a suit of underclothing, and had a blanket over his shoulders, lie was gone a haf hour when the nurse searched for him. He could not be found, and none of his outer clothing is missing. He disappeared at 6 o'clock in the morning, and no trace of him has beea discovered. Hundreds of citizens, school children and the police are all searching diligently for the mieeing man. Pitcher's Caotorla.

KNOCKED OUT BY KILRAIN.

BUT GODFREY MAKES A GOOD FIGHT. Forty.Fonr Rounds Necessary to Decide the Battlo Kilraln's Power of Endoranes FroT to lie Too Much for the Colored 31 an. Sax Francisco, March 13. Jake Kilrain of Baltimore and George Godfrey (colored ) of Boston met in a finish fight at the California athletic club to-night for a five-thousand-dollar trophy. Kilrain, who had been trained by MuMoon, was in fine form. The betting ranged from $100 to JCO to $100 to $73 in Kilrain's favor. Godfrey bad also been trained well, and much of the difference in the odds placed on the men was due solely to the fact that Kilrain's backers were more numerous. At 9:52 p. m. Kilrain entered the ring, followed closely by Godirey. Kilrain was seconded bv Muldoon and Jim Hall, the Australian, with Ernest Koeber as bottlediolder. Godfrey's seconds were Frank Steele and the latter's brother, Jack, while Peter Jackeon officiated as bottle-holder. Kilrain weighed about 192 to Godfrey's 174. Bound 1 Time was called at 9:53. Godfrey lay well back with his left extended, Kilrain standing easily. Tho xcen came together with rights on ribs. A couple of clinches followed. Kilrain led his left for Godirey's ear, and was countere 1 by Godfrey. Kilrain sought to get in both hands on Godfrey's face but the force of his blows was lost by Godfrey breaking guard. The men came together again and exchanged a number of blows for the head. Round 2 Kilrain led with bis left lightly on Godfrey's shoulder. He seemed disposed to rush matters, while the Tostonian exercised more science and stopped several ugly leads. Kilrain trot in hisHght on Godfrey's ear and c osed the round by a rush, which was cross countered by Godfrey. Hound 3 Kilrain landed a good left on Godfrey's cheefe. The latter rushed, fading short. o c feinting followed at long range. The round closed with a lead and a atop by each man. Kilrain had a light bruise under the left e'e. KounJ 4 Kilrain swung a powerful left, fell short and the men clinched. Godfrey placed his right for the ribs as usual, while Kilrain guarded the head. Godfrey cleverly ducked a wicked left, but soon after caught a punch in the chest that caused him to groan. Round 5 Godfrey led for the head, falling short Clinches followed, Godfrey taking the agcresive. Kilrain for the second time cauirnt Godfrey's head under his arm, but cries from tho spectators caused hirn to re inquith his purpose of doing damage. Godirey was apparently much cooler of the two and in the infighting displayed much good humor. Hound ti Godfrey again dodged a wicked left arm swing. Kilrain caught him with his left on the cheek several times, Godfrey countering on the ribe. Godfrey's left temple Mas slijhtly cut. Round 7 Godfrey ee:ayed several straight two-handed drives at the B;i.timorean, who took his time about responding, but eventually scored a left-hander on his opponent's head. Kilrain appeared more ponderous than his adversary, but his delivery at close range was rapid. From the eighth to tho thirteenth rounds the fight progressed slowly, though the tenth and eleventh Tvere marked by some hot exchanges, Kilrain being somewhat dazed in the eleventh and was apparently makicg a waiting fight, while Godfrey endeavored to draw him on. Round 13 Little done. Round 14 Kilrain drove bis left into Godfrey's jaw, but was too far away to do any damage. He drove a powerful left into Godfrey's face and neck several times and three times caught him on the jaw, once staggering him. Bound 15 Godfrey rushed wildly, while Kilrain. who was now wanned up, cleverly eluded him. Ki rain made use of his leit in upper cutting at close range. Bound 1G Kilrain started in to slug his man and though Godfrey gamely endeavored to return his blows, was powerless against the shower of tierce swings rained upon hia head. He continued to smile and hung on bravely, but a second more added to the round would have seen him knocked out. Round 17 Godfrey essayed to rush, but his strength appeared to be gone. Kilrain, however, did not force the fight, and the Bostonian gained a little time by clinching and feinting. He bad a large lump over the right eye. Round 18 Godfrey rushed the Baltimorean into his corner but was too far away to do any damage. Kilrain's dilatory tactics lost him what he might have gaiiied in the eighteenth. Round .19 Kilrain again started to rain his blows on the negro's hard head, but except when h: succeeded in landing on the cheek or jaw he did little damage. Godfrey improved each opportunity to get a punch in over the heart. Round 20 Clever exchanges of half ana blows elicited much applause. Kilrain seemed more powerful and forced Godfrey to give ground. Round 21 Godfrey slipped to the floor during a rapid exchange of half arm blows near the close of the round. He received three stagerers on the jaw, but came up smiling in the next round. Round 22 Little done. Round 23 Godfrey had up to this time taken punishment suificicnt to wear out many pugilists, but the contest was apparently no nearer termination than a half hour" before. He continued to receive punches in mouth ana jaw and ears with perfect equanimity that seemed to non-plus the doughty Baltiraorean. Round 24 No damago. Bound 25 A left punch from Kilrain caught the negro square on the jaw, but he was too. far away to get fud efiects and quickly recovered. Godfrey secured but two wood blows to his credit in this round, while Kilrain, placing his loft g ove on tho negro's jaw, hammered him repeatedly with his rfcht on the ear. Round 2G Kilrain again got in under the point of the chin, but as usual wa? too far away". He seemed to have a wholesome regard for tho neuro's right. Kilraiu forced him into his corner and punched him with the right and left, while Godfrey helplessly hugged tho ropes. Kilrain finally let up and the negro, who was all hut knocked out, went to the corner smiling at the end of the round. Round 27 Godfrey caught a Founding left on the ear, a couide of short lends n the jaw and a hard right in the ribs, for which he made little return. The contest was pre-eminently on of endurance in which the more powerful build of Kilrain was gradually drawing the contest in his favor. Round 23 The exchange of blows was more even. Godfrey getting his left in on the side of Kilrain's guard several times. The latter's drives, which were n ore than once caught on the point of the jaw, kept him from getting too close. Round 21) Barring a chance blow, Godfrey's chances of winning seemed hopelees, but the manner in which he took

punishment in various parts of his anatomy precluded Kilrain's m inning in a canter. Round SO Godfrey tired, and a right hand punch on the jaw nearly sent him to the floor. Kilrain's It it eye "is somewhat swelled. Round 31 Kilrain scored two drives on the negro's jaw that might have done damage had tly not glanced. Round 32 The negro caught the left point blank on the chin three times handrunning, but the force was not great enough to knock him out In the next three rounds Kilrain graiually let up on his man. Round 3(3 Kilrain started to force matters and, encouraged by tho cheers of the spectators, threw Godfrey to. the fl.oor. He then proceeded to knock him about the rinir and drove him into his corner over against the ropes until it seemed impossible the neuro would stand. Twice be fell into his chair. Once he fell helpless through the ropes and just before the gong sounded fell helpless to the floor alt but out. He rose two seconds before the gong sounded and amid uprorons applause, and so g eat was Kilrain's exhaustion that he couid not touch the man, who needed but a touch to go to the floor. Round 40 Kilrain developed a little more strength and again punched Godfrey to the ropes. Godfrey tried a pivoted blow, but miss'-d and received a drive in the stomach that caused him to groan. Kilrain was on the point of knocking him out and again by straight two-handed punches on the jaw but failed somehow to push in at the critical moment, and battered and almost groggy, the negro came up smiling. In the forty-first, forty-second, fortythird and forty-fourth rounds the negro kept growing weaker and weaker. In th forty-fourth Kilrain knocked Godfrey down in his comer, and the negro failing to respond to the call of time, the fight was awarded to the Baltimore boy amidst the wildest applause. A WOMAN IN THE CASE.

Mysterious Shooting of llennrt Keeper by a Cincinnati l!unlne Min. Cincinnati, March lfi. Fred B. Woods, proprietor of the Knopp union shooting park on Ghnway-ave., Price's bill, was shot and killed in his saloon about midnight last night. One story was he was attempting to separate two men when he was accidentally shot. He died today. Late this afternoon a sensation was caused by the appearance of Mr. Will A, Stevens, of the well-known dry goods firm of Weatherby, Stevens Co., at the office of the superintendent of police, accompanied by his attorney, Judge M. F. Wilson, where he made the voluntary statement that he fired the shot which killed Mr. Woods. By the advice of his attorney he refused to say anything further than that the shooting was accidental. It is said that there has been an effort to cover up the facts, but that it has been discovered that Stevens h?.s been in the habit of visiting the place with a Mrs. Armstrong, a nie-e of Woods; that they were there last night after midnight, and fcteven. iu the presence of Woods, was showing a new self-tockincr pistol. Suddenly there was a report and Woods soon afterwnri exclaimed: "I am shot." He refused to tell who shot him. Stevens ai.u the woman drove into tha city, and umil he voluntarily roadf his statement to the superintendent of police, it was not known who fired the fatal shot. There is nothine known of the relations of the two men to jus ify a suspicion that the tragedy had any other cause than accident, and it there had been no attempt at concealment the eensation would have been less profound. Mr. Stevens is manncer of the establishment with which he is connected, and not long ago served as one of the police commissioaets of Cincinnati. DERVISHES BLCWN TO ATOMS. One Hundred LWn !t by an lZxploa!os in Ejypt. Cairo, March 16. A terrible disaster occurred today at the arsenal of Omdurman. From the report received it appears that about one hundred dervishes were kil'ed by an explosion there which destroyed immense stores of ammunition and shattered tho arsenal building and everything in the immediate neighborhood. LYNCHED A WOMAN. A Kentucky Mob Hangs aa Alleged Fols. oner. Cincinnati, March 16. A ML Sterling, Ky., dispatch says a mob went to the house oi Mrs. Wicgintoc, whose husband and sons are charged with poisoning Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Watts, and hanged her, and now are searching for Mr. Wigginton, who has tiown. Two of the Wigginton boys are in jail, which is strongly guarded. A Murder of ICnlikhmec. Pakis, March 16. The Journal Ojjh-id today publishes a dispatch from Touquiu stating that Mr. William Keable, an agent of the Chinese custom house, and his wife, both of whom were Rriti-li subjects, have been murJered by the Tonquinese near Bade, a post of the French army of occupation. Talking of patent medicines you know the old prejudice. And the doctors some of them are between you and us. They would like you to think that what's cured thousands won't cure you. You'd believe in patent medicines if they didn't profess to cure everything and so, between the experiments of doctors, and the experiments of patent medicines that are sold onlv because there's money in the; "stuff," you lose faith in every thing. And, you can't always tell the prescription that cures by what you read in the papers. So, perhaps, there's no better way to sell a remedy, than to tell the truth about it, and take the risk of its doing just what it professes to do. That's what the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., does . with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, Favorite Prescription, Pleasant Pellets, and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. If they don't do what their makers say they'll do you get your money back.