Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 March 1893 — Page 2
"WEKKLY COURIER. CU1MEXT TOPICS.
O. DO AX IC. Vohllshcs.
JASPER. - INDIANA.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
hx-u.MTKi) States Sbnatok Km
Saclsiiuhy died at Wilmington, Del..
nnthc&l. Iii hail Wen uucousciou
for many hour.
A him. granting to women tho priv
ilege of voting at all state, county ami municipal elections passed the Minnc-
ttota senato on the iMst
'Ihk university of Cambridge, England, has conferred the degree of doc
tor of olenoc on Prof. Rudolph Vir-
cliow, the celebrated pathologist aud
anthropologist.
Pope Leo gave a ceremonial audi
ence, on the Ultd, to the princes of
Wales, her daughter, Princesses Vic
toria and Maud, und her son, Prince
fJeorge, the duke of York.
Fl KTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Is the enate on the 90th, ihn aumerous er tvrs thiit have come to lhrht In the enrollment
of Imjwirtant appropriation bill at the last session formed the ubject for diacusslon for an hour, More than ninety uea morn Mere stated Mr Hale to have beea dlscovereil ty htm la the naval appro-Utlo bill alone Various resolutions as to iHerlci of committee
ami changes of rules were offered, but not acteil on, A number of presidential nomination
were continued in executive session,
IX the senate, on the SSd, Mr Cullom ashed
to be relieved from nervier on tho joint coin-
mission U Inquire Into the workings of the several executive departments of the government, but It developing that there was no provision
made for fllllnj: vacancies, thesenatör withdrew his request. Mr. Manderson resigned his position an president pro tetnporedf the senate, anil Mr. Harri (dem.. Tenn i.was elected in his
place, and the senate then went Into executive
session.
I.v the senate, on the 'M, ten minutes was pent In open session after which the doors
were closed and an executive session of three-
quarters of an hour' duration was held. The senate then adjourned until the 27th.
Thk Rhine family will leave Wash
Ington early in May and go abroad for
a years residence. The liar Harbor
place will le leased, and the Washing
ton mansion will probably be sold.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
It is said that the jurv convicted
Charles de Lessens by a bare legal tnn
jority of two, aud suspicion is growing
that the government is concealing the
real list of Panama canal offenders.
IHK Princess haiulani, her guard
ians Mr. and .Mrs. Davies, their dutigh tor and Miss Whatopp, were passen
gers on the steamer Majestic, which
sailed from .cw York on the Ü2d. for
Europe. The two Columbus caravels, the Pinta
and Nina, havearrived at Havana under
the escort of the two United States war ships Newark and Hennington, on the way to taue part in the great Columbus naval review at New York.
Thk bureau of statistics reports that during the month of February last, the balance of trade against the United States amounted to f 20,000,000. For the twelve months ended on February 2S the balance of trade against us was t-TJ, 000,000.
A.ndkew Moses, Strickling, Tex.. Norton IL Darrough, Watseka, 111.; Charles Postin, Marion, Kns.; Henry Abbott, Hillsb'oro, IlL, nnd William I), Connor, Clinton, la., were among re
cent appointments to the West Point
military neademy.
Ex-Unitep States Senator David H. AitMSTKON-n died in St. Louis, on the ISth, as the result of heart failure, with which ho was attacked the day previous. He was one of the first guests of the old Pinn tors' house in St Louis, and one of the last to leave when it was closed.
Pope Leo has informed the French government of his decision to crown Iiis episcopal jubilee by the beatification of the French heroine, Joan de Are, who was burned by the Knglish at; a sorceress nnd heretic, " May !!0, H31, and was formally pronounced to have been innocent in H5ö.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has refused to grant the petition to admit to bail and allow a special allocatur to Hugh Dempsey nnd Robert Beatty, tinder conviction and sentence on the chargo of felonious nnd aggravated assault and battery for complicity in poisoning workmen at Homehteaii. Aftkh a prolonged voyage of .'ifS2 days, during which she twice rounded the Horn, and twice crossed the Atlantic, met with ami vanquished the last Hritish ship Kensington in an ocean race, and finally fell in with a
whole family of waterspouts, the American ship Shenandoah arrived at New York on the lUtli. At a meeting of Congregational ministers, in Chicago, on the iiOth, a set of resolutions was unanimously adopted urgently calling the attention of President Cleveland and Secretary of State (iresham to the outrages perpetrated on .American missionaries in Turkey, and asking that the present state of affairs there be investigated. Chaiilespe Lessep.s accused of corrupting the minister of public works, M. Haihut, to support the Panama lottery bonds bill, was, on the '21st, found guilty. Haihut, who confessed his guilt in open court, and Hlnndin, who acted sis go-between iji the bribery of Haihut, were also found guilty. All the other prisoners were ncquitted. The Prussinn government hnving Issued an order prohibiting Russian und Austrian emigrants from crossing tho frontier into Prussian territory, and from buying railway tickets that would give them passage through Prussian territory to (Senium ports, the agent of the Liverpool and (Slnsgovr lines of transatlantic steamships have opened oflices in Rotterdam, Holland, whence tho emigrants reaching there will be shipped for America by wav of Great Hritain. Okouok Aiunoiion Baiup, or, as he was more familiarly known. "Squire Abingdon," died in New Orleans, on the ISth, of pneumonia. He came to this country with Mitchell, the pugilist, as his patron nnd backer, and the pace nt which ho went among the various points he visited proved too much for an already undermined con-
htitution, and a cold brought about the fatal illness Haird was the richest "gentleman" sport and the best amateur jockey in England. In an illustrated talk before the United Service club of New York, on the tilst. Commander .lewcll, U. S. X., nid that an era has been reached in the world's history when war is practically impossible. Tho implements of wir are now so terribly destructive that no nation can afford to go to war. ritill, each nation must lie prepared for war in order to have pence, "and our wn country, imperial among the nations of the world, must Im; thoroughly prepared tocouc with nny other power.'"
Mit Bhock's residence at Hristol
Tenn., was burned, on the night of the
mil, anil his mother, Margaret Brock,
aged N,, nnd two sons perished. A
daughter dropped from a window and escaped with trilling bruises.
It is estimated that there will be 150.-
000 deadheads at the World's fair.
Tue Herlin Sclilescho Zeitunsr. organ
of Chancellor CaprivS, states on authority that dissolution will occur at tho
end of April unless tho relchstag passes
me armj lull.
JOHX BitrxEH, 3S years of aire, a shin-
ping clerk at S. Hamilton's music store in Pittsburgh, Pa., was crushed todeath
by a piauo elevator on the 20th. His
head was caught between tho sills of
the elevator and a crossbeam and
crushed to a pulp.
IN the New lork court of ceneral
sessions, on the üOth, after a speech lasting an hour and forty minutes nnd full of dramatic interest, by the pris
oner at bar. Uccordcr Smvthe reaf
firmed the sentence of death previously
passed upon Carlyle AV. Harris, for the murder of his young wife, Helen Potts
Harris, and ordered that the sentence
be carried out during the week beginning May.S.
Ex-Fnitei) States Sknatou Em
Sai'I..sih hv, of Delaware, who had been
critically ill for several days and de
lirious occasionally, suffering great
pain, was thought, on the 22d, not to be in immediate danger. Among the more important nominations sent to the senate by President Cleveland on the 20th were": James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be minister to France; Theodore Runyan, of New Jersey, minister to Germauy; John E. Risley, of New York, minister to Denmark; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, commissioner of railroads. Joseph Fi.v.v.n, who owned the two buildings m Toledo, O., that wore crushed to the earth by the falling of the walls of the Wlieeler opera house recently, has become insane on account of the loss of the buildings, on which he had not a cent of insurance. He was piaceil in the padded cell at the
police station on the 2 1st CSov. Kevxoi.ph of Delaware, on the 21st, appointed Hon. Charles It. Lore.
chief justice of the state, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Chief Justice Robinson. In isi2 ho was
elected to congress on tho democratic ticket, and was re-elected in IPs-l. Qi-kex VtcTOHiA started from Portsmouth, on the 2lst, on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, on her way to Italy, where she will spend the spring season at the villa Palmieri near Florence. The grand army posts of Indianapolis, Ind., are practically unanimous in opposition to holding the national en
campment in that city this year. Piu.vckss h'Airr.ANi embarked for England on the 21. Capita I. has been subscribed in New York city to start a new factory to compete with the White Lead trust. The ten days' statement issued by the treasury department gave the gold in the treasury, or. the 21st, as f I0',rr0,000, a gain of f 4,000,000 within the ten days. Op the 105 deaths reported to the health department of New Yorlc.clty on the 'list, five were caused by la grippe. Six bombs were thrown in the city of Rome on the 21st, and a general alarm is felt The mayor of Moscow was assassinated in tile council chamber, on theOlst,
by a man named Adricanoff. Timm on worrying over the condition of his soul, W. R. Newell, a student of the Western Theological seniInnry at Allegheny, Pa., has gone crazy. He wns a brilliant man, Ü7 years of age, of attractive appearance, and bid fair to become one of the most talented of his profession. James Wu.mam Hoiihs and Henry Jrauvillc Wright were convicted of forgery and fraud in connection with the Liberator Building society of London on the 22d. The charges were forgery and uttering bills of exchange and stealing money belonging to thu Liberator society by falsification of wage sheets. The great university boat race on tho Thames, on the 22d. between Oxford nnd Cambridge was won by Oxford.
Miss O.utittK Swanky lost a leg and wns injured internally, and ('. W. Davis was cut and bruised about the head and chest, in a collision, on tho 22d, at O.shkosh, Wis., between a Northern Pacilic freight train and a street car. Miss Nancy Mahvin, of Monrovia, Ind., died on tho 21st, aged 10!)(yoars. She was liorn in London,, England, but was brought to this country when 8 years old. She remembered well the
visit of Washington nnd Lafayette to her father's house, and says tho former often took her upon his knee. Font big Hritish ships left San Francisco, on the 22d, on a race around Cape Horn to England. They are the Howden, Plnmore, Lord Teinpiemore nnd Lache. The ship City of Athens, which
sailed on the 23d, expected to join the race. The captain of each ship put up
f..w, anu tno winner will take f 1.000, wldle the second ship will save stake money. Detectives of the Pennsylvania and Big Four lines have unearthed a gigantic combine that has been robbing railroad cars and taken thousands of dollars' worth of goods. The robbery has been going on for over a year, and cm-son both rdads have been literally gutted of their contents in transit through the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. C.vnr.vi.E W, Hahhis was taken to Sing Sine (N. Y.) prison, on the 23d. and placed in a cell in 'Murderers' Row," there to remain until, in the
week-beginning May 8, he is taken out to die. Hurris has broken down under the conviction that the efforts his friends are making to obtain executive clemency will not avail. John Teihiv and Hen McCoy, negroes, were hanged, on the 22l, ' at llnzlehnrst, Miss., for tho murder of J. C. Davis, white, in October last. For complicity in the same crime two other negroes are serving each a ten-3'car sentence in the penitentiary. Tvvo are still at large, and will be hanged if ever caught. Bkcavse of unrequited love Will
INDIANA STATE iWS.
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BUTTONS.
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TIh-iii. limiANAPOLts, .March '.vi GeT Matthews ploced bin estabJUhment on a military footing Tuenday by unROtaelng his stall The fU.owInjr are the iippolntiv: Adjutant Ueaerol-Iryin KobMns, of Indianapolis, rack of bricadler gownil QuarteraiastenirtiTJl-S. ,M Comptoa. IndiunuKilla: rank of brlpadlerr.eueraL Hank of Colonel - Commissary Ueneral-ChaK. Iturhaiian.Unlon City Payniabtcr-CieiR-ral-L. II. Martiu, Tcirw Huutc. Surgcou-Generol-R. P Stone. Indianapolis. Military Secretary Myron D. King. Indlaapolls. Instpcctor-General-O..!'- Lee, Danville... Chief of Artlllerr-J H Curtis. Indlnnaiv
olis. Chief Signal Ofhcer K. K, CJiavcs. Kviusvllle. Chief of Ordnanie-J. 11. Plcsslnper, Muffton. Chief of Knglneer Uirpn I.eGrand T. Meyer, Hammond. Insprcior of Hille Praeticc-Clm. Kablo. Indianapolls. Hank of Lieutenant Colonel AsaUtant Adjutant-General Leon T. n.igley, Huntington. Assistant Quartermaster-tlcneral-Daniel Faeilt. Tcrre Haute. AksistantCominissarv-ciencral John Adam.
Columbia City. Assistant Paymaster-General S. V. Strause,
LtlgOUltT. Assistant Surgeon Jeneral-K. E. Carey. In
UlitUUJXHlt,
Assistant Inspcctcr-General J. 1L Murpay,
inuiunapuus. Hank of Major a
urunance Offlc r-Louis, Centikvre, Kt.
n ayne. Knglneer A. J. Friend PL "Wayne.
Aiuu ue Camps Louis Nickel. Jr. South
ucna; j, .si. Mealy, IndiaiiapoliN. P. A. Hy
spencer. .1. W. Haugher, Tyner ( ay. w H.
K. lullen, Greencastle: A. II. MenUinucy,
itrrri-.jiiiuic.
I ry, nged 17 years, laid his head on the Louisville Southern track near Shelbv-
ville, Ky., on the 22d. and suffered decapitation. He had been in love with a schoolgirl and she did not en courage his attentions The court of arbitration appointed to adjust the difficulties betw.ecn Great Hritain and the United States in relation to the Behring sea seal fisheries met in Pans, on the 23d, in the office of the French foreign ministry. All the members of the court were present. As one result of the destructive cyclone which visited Tennessee and northern Mississippi, on tho 23d. a Achoolhousc at Tunica, Miss., was demolished, burying 150 colored children in the ruins many of whom sustained broken limbs and fractured skulls.
Fiiie broke out in the Claggctt saddlery shop of the Southern Indiana prison at JefFersonville, Ind., on the 23d, from a defective fine, and spread to the diniug hall, the tailor shop and hospital, causing damage to the amount of M0.OO0. Skcuktahy Caiu.isi.e has given it out that he will spend a great deal of time the coming summer in preparing what wiH be known as an administration tariff bill for submission to congress as soon as it, assembles. Seven persons, including a blind woman nnd a little boy of IS months were suffocated during the burning of The Morgau. a fashionable boarding house in Cleveland, O., on the 23d. One HC.viHtED people were killed inside of four days, recently, by snow avalanches in Yetshlki Gun, Hiiia province, Japan. LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Cor- Em.iott' F. mikpahd. editor and proprietor of the New York Mail und Kxpress, for many years u practicing lawyer of New' Vork city, nn active agent in organizing and equiping troops for the Union army, and the founder of the New York Dor association, died suddenly at his home
in New York, .m theMth, from the effects of ether administered by his physicians preparatory to performing an operation for gravid. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the seven days ended on the 24 th, number, for the United States 217, and for Canada, 2(5; or a total of 243, as compared with a total of 220 the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 200. A passkxoei: train on th.e Flint River division of the Flint. ,t Pere Marquette railroad was ditched by a rotten cnltert. near (ienesecviile. Mich., on the 2 1 th. There were ten or twelve passengers in the two coaches, and all were more or less injured, but none seriously. The portraits of the secretaries of state, which form a part of the furnishings of the diplomatic parlor in the depart menlof state, are being packed for shipment to Chicago ns apart.oflhe exhibit of the department ut thu World's fair. Mus. Pickett, widow of the confederate general, nnd Mrs. Custer, widow' of the great cavalry leader, were given a reception by the Southern society of New York city, on the evening of the 24th. at the society's club rooms. Tm: Summit Seed and Feed To. 's building nt Denver, Col., wns destroyed by fire on the 24th. Fred Pierrenont.
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Tm: University, a preparatory Insti- inir wuIIr. nnd ihi "l"l flriMlll'tl 'nl-n li-nl-
lution for younir men. nt Knorvillr. h- in ?nr..l f...,ii,.
Tenn., wns burned to the ground on the sad. CoxnitESSMAX H. .s, Mi EVEXi, of Arizona territory, nnd a wealthy cattleman, suicided nt Tucson, on the 22d. bv
shooting himself through tho bend with a revolver. The International Nickel Co., which owned the great nickel mines at Uiildles, Ore., has sold out tonn English syndicate, which is capitalized for es,000,000. The recent order issued by the war department forbidding re-enlistment for privates afler ten years' service is creating gna. dissatisfaction amon
the privates in the department of tho
riatle. M Ills ortlpr applies to all prJ
vutcs except musicians, Wacksmitj
wagoners and farriers,
Chas. 'I iiomas, the engineer who pulled the first train over the Niagara Fails division of the New Vork Cen
tral road, died at Rochester, N. Y, on the 2"(l. aged (50 years. A Chinamax who got off a train ut tSreat Falls, Mont., on the 2Uh, narrowly escaped, lynching at the hnndsof a mob. Thoy allow no Celestial in that town. Anton A. Wood, the boy inurdorerof ISoorgo Smith, was found guilty nt Denver, Col., on tho24thi of murder in tho second degree.
Mathp.w II. Ueadv, of Portland. Ore., United States district judge, died on thu 24th. The grip has again broken out in New York city.
.bX-POSTMASTEP. E. K. HoSKOHI), of Edinburgh, died within two days after
Hearing oi President Cleveland's an
nouncemcnt that no ex-postmasters
would bo appointed. The body of James Brown, a prominent contractor and builder of Lanortc.
who was recently drowned in the, Kankakee river while hunting, was found
tne other day.
Thk largest pressed brick manufactory in the United States has been lo
cated at (.as City by Monroe Sieberling, of the Diamond Plate Glass Co., of Kokorao. The output of the works will be something over 37,000,000 brick annually. The plant will cost about 1100,000, and give employment to 150 men. John Roise, a tramp from Milwaukee, Wis., was run over and killed by an Ohio A Mississippi train nt North Vernon. He was 3S years of age, and left a widowed mother. Eleven well-to-do farmers of Crawford county have been indicted for white-capping. Davih WnmitT, a brakeman on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road, was kill
ed near Decatur. He stepped between tho cars to make a coupling, and his head was caught by projecting timbers. His home is in Ft. Wayne. The trial of Charles Behannon fir the murder of Charles Doan, January 21, has begun at Vinccnnes. P.otli Doan and Behannon were navine- at
tention to Sallie Madden, and the rivalry caused Behannon to become jealous and meeting D ;an he shot him down, killing him instantly. BV a vote of lft to ß the Indianapolis city council passed the Grand Army encampment ordinance levying a special tax of 4lj cents per S100 on city property. The ordinance is for the purpose of raising $75,000 to defray tho expenses
oi entertaining the (.rand Army of the
Kepuimc next September. The counci
aiso increase! tne salaries o: the city
patrolmen, captains and chief
iimuiuus ranging irom K to lb per
month.
At Indianapolis, Mrs. Amanda Scott died and a post-mortem disclosed that
she had swallowed chloral with sui
cidal intent Her husband, a traveling
salesman, committed suicide at Tipton
some mouths ago, and the loss, coupled with the death of her only child three years ago, saddened her life. She made
her home with relatives in Indianapo
lis.
At Richmond, William Marshall sued
Henry Ganen for money lost at cards,
and the court has mied that the latter
must tell whether or not he is a com
mon gambler, and if he does not keep a
common gambling house.
B.W. S. Resbi.ek was elected postmas
tor at 'Upton from a field of ten candl
dates.
The residence of Rev. T, Kuhn, Tip
ton, was burned together with all his
clothe. He preached Sunday in bor rowed garments.
A Bllij.E which has been in the family
of Mrs. James Pierce, of Wnnatah, for
many years is said to have been used at
tho marriage of Pocahontas.
The motion for a new trial in the Mc
Donald will case was overruled at No-
blesville.
LnwAitt) Hawkins, of Noblcsville,
tho sc-called Indian doctor, has been
sent to prison for assault
'Hit: dead body of E. J. Hurley, of
alparaiso, was found in a pond near
his home. He disappeared last Decem
ber.
An unknown man, supposed to be a
minister, wns killed by the cars at Union City a few days since!
A Kr.r.i.r.Y institute has been organ
ized at Liberty. Bit Lkti IliTTKn, of Indianapolis, is dend. Ox Monday, March 27, Winchester will vote on the question of incorporation as a city. Mits. Geo. Buipcoe was driving into Grcencastlc. the other day. in a spring wagou, When one of tho wheels camu off and the team ran away. She was thrown against the curbstone, fracturing her skull and otherwise injuring her. Her recovery is doubtful. Pappy Ckoak and father, while-
Kiiiim, iiiiiicriuoK to unve ciown a street pavement nt Anderson. Deputy -Sheriff Coburn attempted to arrest them, but were fired on by Croak, Jr. The shots were returned. ' Coburu will dia Cjiaiu.es Kp.ineu, hunting ducks near Martinsville, lost an eye by reason of his gun exploding.
SWEPT OY STORMS. WldMprtad lleatrurtlnn bjr t'jrlon nn 'liu.tiirt-ToVM In II Ymun Vallt-y WrerLnl-TIi,. fjrlo.ir at ltciiH.t-lirt-cu, Ky.. itm! In Northern Mll.lnl - Our lluiiilrt-d ami Fifty 4lrnl ( lilt, ilrru lliirlrd In Ihr Itulu tl the x-liuol. Iiouao ut Tiliilru, All. Memphis, Tenn.. March sxScsttcrIng news coming to Memphis from HInt hr'lVnncsaee and northern Mississippi indiivita .lhata terrific cyclone whirled up the' Mississippi valey from the southwest this afternoon, crashing and sweeping houses like straw stacks along its made path. Telegraph wires in every direction were twiste! into tangles like delicate silken threads. News from the storm-swept localities was exceedingly meager anilunsatisfaetory. The swath of the storm as it crossed the Kansas City, Memphis fc Birmingham road seemed to embrace a territory between Capesville and Olive Branch. Dozens of houses, huge trees
and barns were razed to the srround
by the violenceof the storm. The dam-
ace at Tunica, Miss., was great
AlHMit li-AW in the afternoon the skr
in the .southwest began to 'darken, and
a low, wailing sound announced a storm. Within a few minutes the wind
came along with terrible velocity, and with a ssvish and a whirl that portended danger. The first hard blow gave way to the cyclone, and houses were crushed like egg shells hugh rain drops fell, and the scene was a weird one indeed. On' one side of the .square, where Mood a handsome building, occupied by tho Knights of Pythias and Masons, was now only a help of timber and jutting Wams from a mass of ruins, j
x ins was one oi the mist pretentious buildings in the town. The people first noticed this wreck, and then they saw the roof of the courthouse was gone. lint there was more than this. There were cries and screams of children. Men rushed to the colored Rchoolhouse where ISO children had been gathered at their levvons. The building, a two-story frame, had Won blown down, and beneath the ruins was a mass of struggling children. So farns known none were killed, but there were many maimed and bruised. Sonic with broken arms and some with fractured skulls. The full extent of the damage is not known, but the loss to property will go into the hundreds of thousands.
IN A FIRE
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apartment house on prosn .
known as The Morgan caught f in a short time was blnPri,. s The building was a mass of ifai, very few minutes. There wa, " erable delay in sending ;n an and it was fully half an hour w '- firemen arrived. By this t-,,. flames had made great he4.!a. was crowded with tenants, an' Jt mense throne catht-re,! .....- ,J
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Itovrllnr iirrrn, Ky., Ieratatr.t. Locisvii.i.K. h, March 23.-It is re
ported hero that a cyclone has devastated Bowline Green. Kv. All wires
nre down to that pointand nothimr
definite can le learned.
Latl-il At 10 o'clock to-nlL'ht the
train dispatchers of the Louisville .t
Nashville in this citv report the depot
at Rowling Green and the roundhouse destroyed. It is very hard to eet de
tails at this hour, as the Western Union
office is closed at that place, and the railroad wires are all broken. A late
train, which reaches thi- eitv about 2
o'clock, will probably bring further de
tails of the cyclone.
A Cluiiil-ltumt In Indian Territory. AltKANs.vs City. Ka., March Last night there was a heavy rainstorm in this vicinity. From reports it was general in this section anil oxtended from Pureell to Kansas City. The rain at Pomona Agency. I. T.. was very heavy and at places in that vicinity the water was running ever the Santa Fe track when the morning train reached there. There must have been a cloud-burst as the Black Bear
rose aiKiut l.i feet All trains are delayed here from the south because of the rains.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON.
The slujrr r .t. Abritte Arrlvr In Nrw York, Arroniiaiilril by III llanshtf-r. , mill l'nlio.iiiii lllinrir to a i:, irl-r. . New YoitK. March 24. Edward Parker Deacon and daughter were passengers on board the Trave, which arrived ut quarantine from Bremen, via Northampton, last evening, but were invisible. The officers and passengers, saw but Iitt'e of him during the voyage. The Trave readied her pier last evening, anil Mr. Deacon was seen by a reporter. His hair was gray, and the effects of his imprisonment through the hot summer in Nice are evident in his face Ami carriage. He looked worn. 'I nin very tired,- he said; "I have had no peace the last year. What do you want me to say. You have general ly Wen kind to me during mv trouble. Only h few individuals have tried to harm me. Mv examination before the judge was one of the longest ever known in France, and during it progress the magistrate stid to me: 'She
was without moral cne. She
was wrong here (touching hi
forehead). Only two Parisian jour
nals worked for my conviction
La lianlois and l'igaro. They received
forty mines a hue for all they wrote
against me. I know this to be a fact, and what a despicable familn the
Abeilles were. Amcl Abcille. a broth
er. produced forged letters saying I in-
tended to murder him as soon as I was
out of prison. I would have had a
uuoi ooiore i lelt i raiice, but the two
deputy friends of mine dissuaded tne
I he AIh-iIIos are deeply
the Panama scandals, wealth most of it came
speculation and bribes.
u.-vpiisure saveu me irom incir ven
geance. They would not stop at any
thing. Thoy even tried to bribe the
judges to convict me.
.T ' s. TS. It
j - "..ami lurin a
Krca icsi. contusion eusueiL It
came known that a numWr
had undoubtedly lost their
tne excitement anion-- th
In'eame intense.
An urgent call for more ftV
mm in, anu tin- tr . ', thundered up. and inun,-! firemen and a crowd of w, . were seeking for those wh tu, penned up in the building ber of women were vn i,. forth, two of them having l-.-n from sick beds, and the .t !.-- ing from partial siilTKiti..n ai ries sustained in their w ih'. , escape. A ha-ty calculation was m i ! va announced that four v... n. missing. It was considered a tain that they .had been sm.. , death. Several fainting urtt. taken to the offices of m physicians, and ambulan. Itn.l Ii...... .... t .l.t.. .
...... ,un-ii siinnnoncii. s . others away to hospitals. The once went up that Mrs. P. S..,u, til;... i - ,
. w. ii.iii. H.-i., in iwr arii- -, on Hie third-tl or. A her.n.-. - Wi, made tiy the firemen to sav.she was dead when found I were rumors that many of ti; people in the buildine had p but it is now definitely known. I t fir lost their lives as follows: Mrs. Mary Abliey, widow of t w .ate J. G. Abbey. M rs. P. G. Sommers, a blind .t.i Mrs. Emma Sommers, her str daughter. Mrs. F. R. Hunt daughter fEmma Sommers, and Percy Hnot sr son. aged lh months. Mrs. Hunt who lives in Ilm. rn r -la?e. a suburban town, was viit n? .-r relatives, when the terrible evn" incurred. The blind woman was v-r burned while the others died fp-t :ffocition. The lby boy was a t when taken out but died a few mitin after leing rescued. The inj-ir.-' iDr. Klein, face and hands !"i-n-Mrs. J. II. Miller, who gave t!ie . .-3
and jumped from a econd--t,rv w z-
low. badly bruised. Mrs. V. M. GiiT.inl. jumped f- x upper window and was eaug'i - 3 blanket; badly bnrscd M rs. Samplincr. who was -v. t burned in rescuing a daughter. It was reported during the pf .Tv of the fire that Mrs. Sarah K. II -the well-known authoress and p. v had been burned to death. Sert-nl person's asser ted that she was In ? apartments. Mrs. Bolton, however was down t iwn on a shopping i' The cause of the fire is tinkn-iur. i.-th-up.'h it originated in th Iws t near the 'irnne. It will bo r. -oaghly investigated, as the b'tii !
said to have been a fin-trap
building was owned by W. J. : and was rebuilt less tlun tw-. ago at a cost of f i'l.tHHl. Mist, timated at S1S.000; insurance, i". Mrs. M. M. Banna, who was tn.see. will lose S12.0OO on fnni'f -The looses of tenants will foot tip (HW. Then; were manynarrow -during the fire, the flames spr sv rapidly that the building v ss teil in a very short time.
T. .
tar sevrii l.lvr I.ot. Ci.r.vni.ANP. O.. Marchers. -Six h.. have been recovered fmsi the ru -The Morgan, and a seventh vir? .72 known to have perished. FIRE BEHIND BARS.
Tni- Clacc-tt'Ma'Mlrry Shop, thf Tillot Minp am Dlanlnr Hall r llir- smillirrr Iixllana IValtrntlary. at .Irfr-rniiiil lliirnnl AuUtmirr trnm Iil!Tl Al.lrd In Hrlnclnr Ihr I'lamr I I'r ( ntrol o. of the Contlrt Trlrl tt
Jeffek'oxvii.i.e.
Fire broke out in
tilery shop of the
prison here at 10;.'
fective flue. The
Ind., Mandl . the Clagget sii
Sonthern In ar s
a. in. from a
discovery was ?
implicated in Their great
from Panama The Panama
I. I'lerpunt .M.irfran'a .Slltdnn. New YoitK. March 21. Despite de
nials from Washington, there is irootl
authority for tho statement that J. Pfvnont Morgan, of the Itankfng houe
of Drexel, Morgan ,t Co., who sailed for Europa Wednesday on the Majestic,
ms a commission from the government
to arrange for the sale of bonds abroad.
an issue becomes ncccssarr to re
plenish the treasury stock of gold. The lionds would be issued under the re
funding net, and would bear interest at the rate of 4 percent The bonds would
probably commaud a premium of 12 or 13 percent
made until the fin; had gained r a? headway and many of the inmate 1 barely time enough to i 1 without injury. The fin part men t of the prison was -in ble to check the flames, anl h fire rapidly consumed th b,n I Z TIie:Litnes then conimunic:ited to -5 part of. the prison in which nre th dining hall, the tailor shop an! ; hospital; In the latter being the iniiprisoners. AH of the iinnit v üfely removed, and th-; fire d ; mentof Louisville was telegrap'i ' " for ns-dsfinee, Tho IOtiisrille H'-'i"1 rcponilesl at lü o'dock nnd, wit' prison force and tint of the Ohio car works, got the fire under eont"1 The tailor-shop nnd tliediniu.' wen rui nisi. '!agget the cotttr-u r of the saddlerj'-shop. estiimtes h nt f20,00l. ami it Is K-lieretl that t' tot.-il loss will not bo less than t'" Claggctt was insnrcil for ri.iW0. a of the prisoners tried to escape.
ireretary CarlNl Will Hay Him!' Ilurliic the SBmmrr ob a Tarln ItlUBAI.TI5IOKI, MiL, March 24. The n lias the following from its Washins'0 cornrspondent: "Secretary Carlisle has stated he will spend a great deal of time -summer in preparing what n known as an administration tariff 1 for Submission to congress as soon . assemble. Besides the measure r!?" pared by E. Kllery Anderson and 1 associates of the Heform cluK of N' York, other measures are likely t' rf sent to SccreUtry Carlisle frnm var eominercial and politiialorffaniza "