Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — Page 7

3dwaro v P. dorian, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ig*a Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

udson J. Hunt, un. min. low oiki mi m. RENSSELAER. IND. ffice up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of VanKensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, •wyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The N. A. AC.Ry, end Rensselaer W.L. A P. Co. Sea. (over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, ludiana.

I. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams, Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loans. Heal Estate and, nsurance. Special attention given to colleclooa of all kinds. Office oesfßacket Store.” Phone 3a». RenSSBLAKR, . INDIANA.

4.Jt.lrwln 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collection,, Farm Loans and Fire luauranoa Office in Odd Fellow,’ Block. BSNBSBLA.BR, INDIANA.

* ' 11 R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practice, in all courts. Special attention gpven to drawing up wills and settling decedent’s eatatea. Office In county building. «aat aide of ctfiltt house square.

<V«ANC 90i.ru. o. ®. HAUNT «. RURRII Foltz, Spi tier & Kurrie, (Suooeaaors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Eat ate. Insurance Absract* and Loans. Only set erf Abstract Books in tha County. RENSSELAER. IND.

Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington. ... Indiana. Law. Real Bstate, Collections, Insurance nod Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand

Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will giro special attention to Diseases of the Rye, Bar. Nose, Throat aed Chronio Diseases. He also tests eves tor glasses Omoi Tiumssi No. 48. Nssteesee Smsm Ns. 11, Rensselaer, - - Indians.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Offiea over lines’Millinery store. Rensselaer. OmM s»o«« try. NastMHOS Pmomc. lie.

Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYBICI AN ND SURGEON. Keqwielaer, - - Indiana. Office up-stairs in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence 'phones. >O4 (Jasper Co.): nlao (Halleck) 4$ afveaidence.

W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Eieciic pmor ond surgeon, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases ■ Specialty. Office ’Phone 808. Residence ’Phone 848 Or. Francis Turfler. Dr. An na Turfler, Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTBOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9 to 19ra; 1 to 4:80 p. m. M -

H- O. Hswts, E. T. Harris. J, C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposit* received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Motes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loan* mad* at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share e< Your Bsslfless.

ff. L. Brown, DENTIST. L--' . Office over Larch's drug store ■ '^lnpr. / ®y Crown. Bar and Bride* ■Kn | l Work. Teeth Wlthottt Ur I /■‘9L Plates. Without Pain. ~ J. W. HORTON .. itruuiN RINHtUI* h Teeth carefully stopped with cold and other dliups. Consultation fro*. Nitrous Oxide Om administered dally. Cka rget within the reach of all. min sere bits sewer mows*. Sold by k. r Lon^**

CLOUDBURST ENGULFS X TOWN; OVER 300 ARE SWEPT TO DEATH

Heppner, Ore., Practically Wiped Out in a Moment, with Property,Loss of Fully $1,000,000. TORRENT SWEEPS A GULCH Bowlders Weighing a Ton Are Carried In Current, Crushing Those Who Escape Death by Drowning—Corpses Piled Many Deep at Bends in Stream. Word, was received in Portland MonJ 4ay that the little town of Heppner, Ore., was destroyed by a tor spent Sunday evening and that between 400 and 300 live* were lost. Only meager reports were received, but as it was stated that 105 bodies were recovered by 5 o'clock in the morning, the belief was held that the disaster is one of the worst known In the Pacifie eoaat States. Quickly following the cyclones in Missouri and lowa, the floods at; Kansas City, Topeka and other points, the cyclone at Gainesville, and the Hood at Spartanburg, involving an aggregate loss of 416 lives, cotnes the news of a cloudburst and consequent flood at the little town of Heppner. Ore., by which nearly 400 lives have lieen lost. Fatalities of this kind have been so common during the last, four weeks that they almost have ceased ;o attract more than pass inf attention. The world is becoming familiar with horrors, bo fast do they tread upon each other’s heels. Heppner is a town of about 1.250 inhabitants, the seat of Morrow County. Oregon, at the terminus of a branch of the Oregon ltailroad and Navigation Company. Farming and stock raising are the chief industries.

Ceased by Clondhursts. Willow creek, which is given as the cause of the disaster, is ordinarily a small stream aud early reports indicate the flood was caused by either one or two cloudbursts. It is said the waterspout descended on the town shortly after 6 o’clock Sunday evening. The torrent rushed down Willow creek, causing the stream to overflow its banks and spread over the doomed village so suddenly that few of the inhabitants had a chance for their lives. News of the disaster came to Portland from lone and Arlington, which had telephone communication with Heppner. The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company general offices received a telegram from lone stating that rhe company's station at Heppner was washed away by a flood and that many people were drowned. Later advices from Arlington estimated the loss of life at more than 400. The flood came so suddenly that escape was impossible. Rushing down the gulch in which the town is situated, a twentyfoot wall of water engulfed everything but a few business blocks on high ground. Bowlders of a ton ia weight were carried down by the current, and many who escaped drowning were killed by being dasbed against them. A heavy rain followed the cloudburst, small streams overflowed their banks, bridges were swept away like straws, and the fall of darkness made the situation still more appalling. Though the town is the seat of Morrow County and has a population of 1,250, so complete was the destruction and f-o difficult the roads that news of the disaster did not reach the outside world until the next morning, when mounted couriers reached neighboring villages to beseech their assistance. The cloudburst had been preceded by heavy rains all day, and about 5 iu the afternoon by a violent electrical storm. The crashing of the thunder drowned the roar of tha approaching torrent which, although it was seen before it actually struck the town, was moving so rapidly that escape was Impossible. As soon as the water had subsided sufficiently the work of relief commenced by the surviving citizens. In the darkness and heavy rain it progressed slowly, but with the dawn scores of bodies were found. As soon as neighboring towns were notified help began to be rushed in from every direction.

Town la Beep Volley. Heppner is the center of a large farming and stock-growing country. The town is built on the banks of Willow creek, in the neighborhood of the converging point of. four other mountain streams that drain a large area of roiling and hilly country, , reaching from three to twenty miles to the foothills and along the course Of Willow creek itself for a distance of twenty-five miles to the base of the Bfue Mountains, To the east and west of the town, running southwest and southeast, respectively, until they empty into Willow creek, are two deep gulches, which run back some three miles along the foothills as they narrow to form the valley in which the town is located. Flowing almost directly south to Willow creek and joining a half mile or so above the town is Balm creek, which drains, in its course to the foothills, for a distance of fifteen miles, a wide region' es hilly country. _ _ Next comes the main water course. Willow creek, with an immense area of drainage that extends northeast for a distance of twenty-five miles to the Blue Mountains. Tha greater part of the business and residence section of the town'tying to the went es the creek is a low bottom, covering an area of 1,500 to 1,200 feet

RECORD OF RECENT STORM AND FLOOD DISASTERS

May 20—One killed and four Injured In Southern Indiana cyclone. May 20—Two killed and one Injured In Texas cyclone. May 21—Three killed and twelve Injured In three cyclones which swept Assarts, Ashland. and Blaine, Kan. May 22—Twenty-two killed In cyclone In Clay County, Kansas. May 22 —Eleven killed and ten Injured In windstorms throughout Ohio, Indiana and .Nebraska. May 24 and 25—Nineteen Allied and twenty. Injured in seven cyclones aud tornadoes In the Mississippi -Valley. The storms were general In Illinois, lowa and Nebraska, and caused inestimable loss of property. May 23—One killed and damage of $300,OQp caused by cyclone in Chicago. May 26 —Eighteen killed by cyclone which wiped out town of Elmo, Mo. May 20— Six killed aud eighteen injured by three tornadoes lu Iowa; damage $200,ixxl. The storms extended to Southeastern Nebraska, where damage was caused to the amoant of $500,000. May 2<i Three killed at St. Joseph, Mich., by tidal wave on Lake Michigan. May 27—Four killed and six Injured in wind aud rain storms at I.ogansport, Kokomo.and Hammond, Ind.; loss, $1,000,000. May 27—Five hundred made homeless by flood at Sioux t’lty and Webster City, lowa. May 29 to June I—Seven dead and $2,000,000 loss at Dos Moines on account of flood. May 30 to June 6—Elghty-two persons dead ns result of flood nt Topeka, Kan.; mil Jons of dollars' loss (uuestlmatcd). May :X) to June 6 -Fifteen dead and thousands homeless la flood nt Kansas City, Mo.; loss, millions (uncstlmnted*. Flood nt Armourdale caused loss estimated at $3,000,om. 7 May ;:o and 31 —Miles of country in Southeastern Nebraska Inundated; damage, inllItoiiN pineallimited,. Julie I—One hundred killed and damage of $300,000 caused by cyclone at Gainesville, tin. June 2—Hannibal, Mo., flood damage $2,ooo.mw. June 2—Boonerllle, Mo., flood damage $2,000. non. June 3 to 6—Twenty lives lost and $300,000 damage done by floods at Venice, Madison. and Granite City, 111. June 3 to 6- Eleven killed and $10,000,000 damage by flood at East fit. I-on is, 111. June C—One hundred killed, 300 homeless, sod damage of $3,500,000 In flood at Pacolet, Cllftiiu. and'<!lendfl|e, fi. C. June.6 —Great property loss by cloudburst and fl,Hid <rt Burton and Hundred, W. Va. June 10—Seven dead and great property loss mused by cloudburst at Blsliee, Arts. June 13—Three huudrod killed In the destruction of the town of Heppner, Ore., bj a cloudburst; property loss, $1,000,000.

FEUDISTS USE TORCH.

Hotel of Chief Witness for the State Burned at Jackson, Ky. At Jackson, Kjr.. the feudist’s torch was touched to tne large tvto and onehalf story hotel, owned by B. J. Ewen, Sunday morning, and the fourteenth arson committed during the Hargia-Cock-rell feud, begun two and a half years ago. was recorded. To this record of srsou must be added five assassinations during this time to make the feud story at Jackson complete. Strange to say, the murdered were anti-nargis partisans and the houses burned were owned by Card well-Coekrell sympathizers. Captain Ewen, who is the man who testified agaiiwt Jett, against the warn ing that he would be killed if he did was in the camp under guard of the sol diets. It was expected by the Hargir feudists that he would run unaccompan ied to the burning building and could b« assassinated by men stationed near th? bridge for this purpose. He was not ah lowed to go, however, until a large guard could accompany him. Ewen's wife and nine children and a number of boarder* were at the hotel. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Word was received in Portland Monstired, but a week ago Captain Ewen was notified that on account of threatening conditions, the company had decided to cancel his policy. The house and fixtures were the savings of a lifetime, and Ewen and family are homeless and dependent on the hospitality of the troops in camp. The burning of Ewen’s house fulfills In part the threat made by the man whom Ewen says called at his home and offered to bribe him by giving him $5,000 if he would alter his testimony.

LABOR NOTES

Chicago porters hare organized. Denrer tinners receire $3.75 a da Spain controls the Cuban shoe market. Toledo has a blacksmiths’ helpers’ union. The constitution of Mexico forbids monopolies. The saw smiths will meet in St. Louis next year. The best laundered people are the Americans. Wheeling tobacco workers want the nine-hour day. Cincinnati’s building laborers hare formed a union. India exported $46,000,000 worth of cotton laat year. On many railways cement ties are displacing wooden ties. _ Mexico will employ Chinese coolie laborers in the hemp fields. The coal teamsters of Paterson, N. J., struck for increased wages. On# concern in Wurtetuburg exports 5,000,000 harmonicas per annum. At Reading, Pa., 200 bat finiehers went out because of a disagreement over wagea. Mexico raises 50,000 bales of the 100,000 bales of cotton used each year in that country. There is a movement on foot among the school teachers in Council/ Bluffs, lowa, to combine for mutual benefit. It is proposed to make a demand for a general advance in salaries. At San Antonio, Texas, the threatened •trike of the San Antonio Brewery employes over the wage contract for 15103 is off, through an amicable settlement of the eontrover*y. Brantford, Canada, a city of 10,000 population, did not know wbat a labor organisation was a few years ago, and now she has thirty, nearly ail organised in tho past two years.

"THE BLOOD ACCUSATION."

It Was This Ancient Chars* That Caased the Klshlaaf Bfassacra. William E. Curtis in a Washington ■pecial to the Chicago Record-Herald Bays: The recent massacres of Jews in Russia, according to newspaper reports were provoked by what has come to be known as the ’’blood accusation.” It is charged that the Jewish rabbis killed a Christian child for its blood, to be used in the unleavened bread of tha passover. The origin of the charge is supposed to bo based upon the notion that as the Jews ceased to make animal sacrifice* after the destruction of the temple, they would endeavor to find a substitute in a Christian, and sometimes the idea is put forth that, after sacrificing a Christian child, ita blood is used for mixing the unleavened bread. This accusation has been formally made hundreds of times, resulting in riots, criminal trials and several massacres, and although distinguished rabbis have publicly and solemnly sworn that human blood is never used in the Jewish ritual, and many popes, emperors and distinguished Christian scholars have expressed their belief in these statements and have condemned the authors of the accusation, it continues to be reiterated in eastern Europe, and even in- this, the twentieth century. There is a similar superstition among ignorant Chinese who have been taught to believe that the Christian missionaries kill little children and boil their bodiee in order to extract oil for medicinal purposes. Several riots have occurred in China on this pretext. The anti Christian riots in 1805 were started by an imprudent missionary, who took a little child away from a mother, who was beating it, and carried it to his home. The mother started the story that the missionary had stolen the child for the purpose above described and called upon the neighbors to assist in its rescue. Out of this grew a riot in which a church and several houses were burned and several people killed, and the trouble spread all over the province. The old women gossips of China used to represent—and probably do so still—that the Protestants sent their oil of children to Queen Victoria and that the Catholics sent theirs to the Pope.

CURRENT COMMENT

Forest and Flood. The recent floods in Kansas damaged property in the twenty-five principal cities of the State aud in Kansas City, Mo., to the amount of $12,300,000. The losses in the 200 smaller towns in the tone of the floods will probably increase this to $15,000,000. The losses in Nebraska are scheduled at $10,000,000. The losses in Missouri, iucluding St. Louis, will probably reach $20,000,000, and the losses to farmers and others in Illinois and other States along the river will increase the total to $50,000,000. The losses by the flood in the Ohio valley a few weeks ago were estimated at $50,000,000. The losses along some of the smaller Pennsylvania rivers in Pennsylvania amounted to $1,000,000. The storms in South Carolina on Saturday destroyed $3,500,000 worth of property. At a low estimate, the floods of this spriag have entailed a loss to producers and business interests and private property in the United States of $120,000,000. This is not an exceptional record. Every two or three years the floods are as disastrous to life and property interests as they have been this year. It is believed that one-half of this loss might be prevented by the reforestation of lands on the water sheds of the great rivers and by tree planting on the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Experiments In New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Minnesota aud other States show that trea may be grown at a profit. A liberal estimate places the first expense of planting trees at $l4O an acre. In one case in Illinois the preparation for planting, the plsnting, and the care of ten acres of trees for ten years was S2OO. At the experiment station at the Illinois University seven acrea were planted with 36,749 trees, at a cost of $433 for trees, $lO6 for planting, and $43 for cultivation, or a total of $382, or SB3 an acre. It is contended by the Minnesota forestry department that crop of trees can be grown as surely as a crop of corn, and, in proportion to its value, with far less expense; that ten acres properly planted with timber and properly cultivated will in five years supply fuel for a family and fencing for a farm of 160 acres; that the most worthless lands of treeless regions, when planted in trees, can be sold for SIOO per acre within twenty years; that the net profits on a quarter section of prairie, properly prepared, planted, and cultivated with forest trees, will within ten years exceed the net profits of ten quarter sections of wheat. Taking the first cost, however, of tree planting, the 5,000,000 trees planted in •this country every year involve an expenditure of not more than $250,000. If the number of trees planted annually were increased one hundred fold, the cost would be $25,000,000, and if we planted 600,000,000 trees a year vie could have in twenty-five years such a measure of reforestation as would produce the conditions that prevailed when the water sheds of our great rivers were covered with forest*. THs would be a moderate outlay, even if thgre were no profit iu tree planting, but the experiments of railway managers and of farmers prove that tree planting as a business is profitable. Therefore it is not easy to understand why the farmers of the country, the railway managers, the manufacturers, and business men generally, do not unite in a common movement to recure practical safety from disastrous floods at an annual expenditure of money not one-fourth as large as the annual loss by floods. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

Notes of Current Events.

Simon Wilson, a colored hostler, died in Newark, N. J., of glanders, which he contracted from a diseased animal. A Yale degree was granted to Thomas H. Cnrran of New Haven on his death bed because he wished to die a graduate of Yale. Prompt and heroic work by two policemen'saved the lives of sever?! women and children, who bad been caught in a burning building in Fulton street, Brooklyn. Policeman W. H. McAaley was so badly burned that he was erased and had to be placed In a strait Jacket. ■ -*s ■ * •

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. •“ L 1 Dearborn County Farmers Deetroy Toll Gates—Poacher Killed by Private Watchman—Unian Men JBlackliated by Shelby villa Employers. One hundred and fifty determined farmers, armed with guns, pistols and axes, raided seven toll gates in Dearborn Oounty, cutting away the poles and nearly demolishing three of the toll liom.es. No resistance was offered liy the toll gate keepers and all of them promised not to attempt to collect any more tolls. The destruction of the toll gates is the result of a refusal by the county commissioners to buy the roads nt the expense of the county and throw them open to the public. They now belong to private corporations, some of which have refused to sell. No attempt at disguise was made by members of the mob, but it is not probable that any bf them will be prosecuted, • though many were recognized. - Shot Dead by a Sheriff. At 4 o’clock the other morning John Hager of Ford and Division streets, South Rend, was killed by Alfred Smith, a deputy sheriff of St. Joseph County. Hager, accompanied by John Dreckes, C. Putz and S. I-espodjoun, was fishing at St. Mary’s lake, Notre Dame. The officer requested the men to leave the place, vrhkth is private property under his care. They refused to do so and when he insisted they turned upon him. Smith’s club was taken from him and Hager made a fierce attack, breaking the club over Smith's wooden arm. After repeated attempts to ward them off and to preserve his own life. Smith shot Hager, killing him instantly. Union Men Are Blacklisted. The numerous strikes which have re-tard.-d building aud manufacturing since April 1 at Shelbyviile culminated in all the union men in that city being placed on the blacklist, and no union man will hereafter be employed. All the master builders and factory owners have set their faces against the unions, and some of the largest manufacturers have closed the doors of their plants till other labor can 1m- secured. The immediate cause of this action was a third strike at the furniture factory of the Foster company, ami threatened sympathetic strikes of union men employed in other industries. Kvaaaville Man Shoots Hijnself. David Nisbet, at one time one of the most prominent business men of Evansville, committed suicide by shooting himself. He returned that day from Bt. I.ouis, where lie had been on a visit to friends. He was the son of D. A. Nisbet and inherited a large estate. At one time he was the vice-president of the Louisville and Evansville Mail Line Company and the president of the Maekey-Nisbet Dry Goo,ls Company. He was a brother-in-law of Captain G. J. Grammer, traffic manager of the Lake Shore Railroad. He was 50 years old and single.

Brief State Happenings Horse thieves at Greenfield. Black smallpox at Washington. Auburn will have three iuterurban lines. House painting is quite a fad at Princeton. Washouts at Rtishville suspended work on the iuterurban line. Vandals are doing serious damage to cemeteries at Waterloo. The Kirklin ‘‘Autocrat” will be issued “every once iu a while.” Big fire destroyed general store of H. D. Snowbarger at Summit. A boiler explosion blew up Mossman & Co.’s lumber mills at Jasper. Faith Cornwell, 4. of Orleans, fell in a barrel of rain water and was drowned. In the death of Miss Carrie Wood, Sullivan loses one of her best teachers. I.auford Stephenson, farmer, near Walton, was killed by lightning while baling straw. ■William Daniels and Hall Youmans were killed by black damp following a blast in the Briar Hill coal mine at Coxville. During a quarrel Frank Burriss and Heury York, brothers-in-law at Merom, exchanged a number of shots. Burriss was injured. Moses Fowler Chase, the young millionaire, has been ordered into a sanitarium at Indianapolis by the judge at Fowler, on the ground that he is becoming violent. W. A. Noyes, head of the department of chemistry of the Bose polytechnic at Terre Haute, has resigned to take a position as chemist in the bureau of weights and measures in the new department of commerce at Washington. At a meeting of the trustees of Gaylor University at Upland Dr. A. L. Whatcoins of Evaustont 111., was selected president of the institution. The new president is named to aueoeed Dr. Thaddeus C. Beade, whose death took place last July. Saufonl H. Love, aged 2A, a clerk in a Marion hotel, shot his sweetheart, Miss Nora Miller, because she hyd jilted him. She fell with a bullet it) her breast. Love then turned the pistol upon hinifclf, but was overposj'eced before he could shoot. The girl is probably mortally wounded. Because he was assigned to a seat next to a colored girl at the commencement exercises of the Manual Training High School in Indianapolis. George O. Wildhack, a member of the class, refused to attend the ceremonies. When the diplomas were distributed Wildhack's name was not called, though it appeared on the program, and he was not presented with his sheepskin. Principal Charles E. Emmerich said that the affair is a serious one, calling for serious action. Etkhatt parents opposed to corporal punishment in the schools are organising a society one feature of which will be that every father shall himself to whip the teacher who whips his child. If not physically able he must employ someone and the society will pay his fine. > Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, who died at Brqwuotowii a few days ago,- had not been upon the public square of Brownetown for thirty years, although she resided within half a square of Tt during alt that time. She had not been to the depot since the Ciril War. Bhe was ia good health, but had long been a reclue*

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE UUNURKD TEARS AGO. An election for members of the Washington (D. C.> City Couaeil showed a total vote of only 230. Du Bue Marentelli, a French scientist, astonished New York citizens by exhibiting his “insubmersible and iaversibie” boat, the pioneer of the modern lifeboat. Bids were asked for carrying the United States mails once a week in Indiana territory, leaving Louisville, Ky., at 6 n. in. Thursday and reaching Vincennes it 4 p. m. Saturday. 4 Gov. Tiffin of Ohio reported that constant vigilance was needed to prevent an Indian outbreak in that State because of the imprudence of white settlers. bkvknty-fivß years ago. The Emperor of Chins issued an edict censuring sheriffs for frequently executing the wrong prisoners, and urging them to exercise more care thereafter. A cargo of provisions worth $50,000 was dispatched from New York to the starving people of Greece. A grant of 800,000 acres of land was made to the State of Ohio to aid the extension of the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie. Settlement of American claims amounting to 250,000 rubles was obtained from Russia by Henry Clay, Secretary of State. FIFTY YEARS AGO. New gold mines were discovered ia Peru which it was predicted would outrival those of California and Australia. „ The United States pension office reported that warrants had been issued for 9,935,320 acres of public land. The New York Legislature made an excursion over the new railroad between Albany and Niagara Falls, the distance of 31)5 miles being covered in seven and one-fourth hours. FORTY YEARS AGO. A mass meeting of 10,000 persons was held at Sheffield, England, and the government was. urged to recognise the Confederate State* of America. Richmond (Va.) newspapers urged that Gen. Grant’s army be driven from around Vicksburg so that a treaty might be made with the Northwestern States, and the latter induced to secede and form another confederacy. New York editors, headed by Horace Greeley, adopted, resolution* asserting the right of the press to criticise the national administration and military authorities. The Illinois House of Representatives refused to appropriate money for the relief of wounded Illinois soldiers in Gen. Grant's army. St. Louis newspapers reported a reign of terror in Missouri, Uuion soldiers being shot by bushwrackers and farmers murdered in their fields by guerrillas. THIRTY YEARS AGO. President Grant was nrged by a committee of Guatemala citizens to annex that country to the United States. The Alexandra palace waa burned near London with the loss of seven lives. Bishop Whipple appealed to the government in behalf of captured Modoc Indians, declaring that “we are dealing with God, not with a handful of aavages.“ Magin Diaz and twenty-two Cuban revolutionists were killed by Spanish troops. Italian monks were reported emigrating to Bolivia and Chili as the result of government proscription similar to that how being enforced in France. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Suleiman Daoud and Mahmoud Sami, former Egyptian government officials, were sentenced to death for setting fire to the city of Alexandria during the British bombardment. Gen. Crook reached Silver City, N. M., with 250 Apache prisoners captured during his Mexican campaign. The body of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home,” waa buried at Washington with military honors, thirty one years after his death in Europe. The Ohio Republican State convention met at Columbus and. appointed “William McKinley, Jr.,” of Canton a member of the resolutions committee. The famous Harper high license bill waa passed by the Illinois House of Representatives and sent to the Governor for signature. Admirers Of Gen. Phil Sheridan paid $43,000 for a Washington residence, which was to be presented to him. TKM TEARS AGO. Fargo, N. D., was nearly wiped oat by fire. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller granted a writ of supersedeas allowing the opening of the Chicago world’s fair on Sunday. William McKinley was renominated for Governor of Ohio, President Cleveland being criticised by him in his speech of acceptance for doing nothing and announcing no policy to allay the growing distrust of the business world. Ford’s Theater in Washington, where President Lincoln waa shot, partly collapsed, hilling twenty-one pension clerks who were at work there and Injuring fifty others. Gov. Altgeld ordered the Second and Third Illinois regiments to Lomoat to gnell a riot of striking quarry men and drainage canal employes.