Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 36, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 May 1895 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOiOfK, 2?ubUHlir. JASPER. - INDIANA. Ex.-Gov. Rouekt Stockton Gkerx, of New Jersey, tiled iu the city of Eliza beth, on theTth, aged Gl years. Tub tjuc d'Orleans was, on the. Gth, pronounced out of danger, and his physicians announced that no further bulletins id regard to his condition would be issued. O.vthoGth the president offered the vacant civil service eommlssionership, caused by the resignation of Theodore Kooevelt, to Col. IHce, of Albany, Is. i., and it was said that the latter would accept. Mns. Maiiv Bhown. a monogarainn pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Kuoxville, Teuu. She was the widow of Joe Prown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1601. Her husband died fifty-one years ago. It was announced in London, on the 9th, upon authority of the Exchange Telegraph Co., that the Xiearaguun government would pay the entire amount of the indemnity demanded by Great Britain at the foreign oilice in London in a few days. On the 9th Gov. Morton signed the Lexow Naw York city bipartisan police bill and Assemblyman Ainsworthjs bill, prepared by the New York city tenement commission, providing for the construction and supervision of New York city tenements. Scotland Yahd detectives, on the 9th. submitted to United States Ambassador Ilayard evidence that Mendal Howard, now in custody in London as a counterfeiter, was fully prepared to make and issue spurious t'nited States greenbacks and postage stamps. Ralph K. Paiuk was paroled by the Ohio prison board of managers on the 7th. Under the Ohio law this gives him the same freedom as a pardon, save that he may not leave the stale and must report to the state peniteutiarv authorities once each month. Despite an almost universal belief to the contrary. Mr. Lorrin A. Thurstou is still recognized by the state department as minister from Hawaii. The diplomatic list for May, an otlicial issue of the department, contains his name with the simple word "absent'' after it. It was stated in Santiago de Cuba, on the Sth, that the revolutionary chiefs, in interviews, had declared their opposition to annexation to the United States. They desire the independence of the island under the protection of and free trade with the United States. The Nicaraguan legation in Washington received a telegram, on the 3th, from the minister of foreign .affairs at Managua, stating that there was no foundation for the reports that rioting hud occurred in that city or in anspart of Nicaragua during the british occupation of Corinto. The post oßice department has revoked a fraud order, issued in February last, against the llenntic ISrotherhood Circle of Isis, represented by Dr. Phelon, of Chicago, Dr. l'helon having agreed not in future to sem' out through the mails the curative discs which were the subject of the order. Simon Jacohs, the retiring city treasurer of Butte. Mont., committed suicide on the Gth, the date of his retirement from oüice, by shooting himself through the head. It was reported that he was short in his accounts 30,000 or SIO.OOO, but there was no pusitive informction regarding it. The post oflice department has taken steps to secure and destroy the counterfeit postage stamps recently unearthed in Chicago. Should a counterfeit be discovered in the mail, the parcel carrying it will be held for postage and not delivered until the name and location of the sender are discovered. Ge.v. Martinez Campos has offered the American Railroad Co. in Cuba a monthly payment of S2O,O0l in consideration of the company's employing the idle natives along the route in the work of extending their lines of track. Gen. Campos has also advocated an extensive improvement of the harbors as a means of giving wark to the unemployed. In a fight between striking furnacemen from the Illinois steel works at South Chicago and a large force of police, on the 7th, quite a number on both sides were more or less seriously injured, though no one was killed. The strikers were finally routed and the immense works of the company were taken possession of and patrolcd by the guardians of the public peace. The Waubansee club of Chicago gave a banquet at the Auditorium hotel, on the night of the 4th, for the purpose of protesting against the free coinage of silver and to voice the sentiments of the sound money elements of the democratic party. About 200 guests were In attendance, and speeches were made by lion. Kichard Knott, of the Louisville (Ivy.) Post; Prof. .1. Lawrence Laughlki, and Hon. John M. Palmer. Waisuen S. W. Omsk of the Kansas sUte penitentiary, on theCth, swore to a complaint against Edmund M, Morrill, governor of the state, charging him with obtaining money from the state treasury under false pretenses. The ehargc was brcscd on certain vouchers Issued by the governor against the contingent fund of the executive department in payment of certain salaries and oftIce rent incurred for tho state before Oor, Morrill's inauguration.

CUKJtENTJOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL A dispatch from Paris, on the dth, kaid that Mr, Soue Arasuke, the Japanese minister to France, on the 5th, informed M. Hunotanx, minister of foreign atfairs, that Japan, iu deference to the wishes of the protesting powers, hud renounced her claim to permanent possession of the Lino Tung peninsula, including Port Arthur. Vr knacks 3. $ and 12 of tho Calumet and Ileela smelters at South Lake Linden, Mich., were closed down on the Gth. It was announced in Havana, on the Gth, that Campos had received a telegram from Madrid authorizing hiiii to promise the Cubjins a home-rule government, similar to that of Canada, commencing October 1, if they will lay dowu their arms, and it was stated that, should this prove true, the Cubans would accept the otfer. A kea A-'t'L wind, rain and electric storm swept over the west part of Bartholomew county, Ind., on the Gth. causing great damage to farm property and timber. Loitn DofoLAS ok Hawick, eldest

surviving sonof the marquis of Queensberry, and Ilev. Stewart Delledlam, well known as u staunch supporter of stage dancing, appeared in the How Street police court, London, on the 7th, and became sureties for Oscar Wilde. On the 7th the committee appointed to select a course and date for the race between the boat crews of Columbia, Cornell and the I'niversity of Pennsylvania, decided to hold the race on the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie. N. Y. oti June 21. The courae will be a triangular one. The Paris newspaper La Lanterne, in an article on the result of the protests against Japanese occupation of Chinese mainland territory, says: "Russia lias duped France unless she returns, the service in Egypt which we rendered to her in Pe-Chi-Li." It is claimed by the London police that an ex-soldier named Grainger, a native of Cork, now doing a ten-year term of penal servitude for stabbintr a woman in the Whitechapel district of London, is the real "Jack the Ripper." Michigan Centhal freight cars were broken open, on the night of the Gth, between Niles and Jackson, Mich., and plundered of their contents. No esti mate is given of the loss, which is believed to be heavv. On the 7th notices were posted in the Berkshire (Mas. i cotton mills that on and after the 20th instant, the opera tives would receive an increase in wages. In an explosion of dynnmite at the lbright colliery, near Llewellvn, Pa., on the 7th. one man was killed and several others injured, perhaps fa tally. On the 6th four freight conductors and eight brakemen on the Nickel Plate railroad, who had been long in the service, were discharged for vio-lat'.-u of a general order to the effect that "all trainmen, engineers and fire men seen entering or leaving a saloon. either while ou or otf duty, would be immediately discharged." Forty other j. employes were ordered to report for xnmination on similar charges. The stage coach running between CalMoga and Clear Lake. Cal., was held up and robbed, on the 7th, by two masked men who secured about S1.20O :ash and looted Well-Fargo's treasure box. Fifteen workmen employed in the Gheens cement quarries at Cemcntvillc, Ind., were reported, on the Sth. in a critical condition from asphyxiation, as a result of the influx of gas and foul air, generated by blasting into the quarry where they were working. rhe quarry is fully 300 yards deep. stretching underground, backwards, from the edge jf a pond. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 7th. said that the Chinese emperor had sent an autograph letter to the czar, and another to President Faun, asking Russia and France to assist China in bearing her war expeuses, and promising special commercial ad vantages in return. I!. L. Bciutows. Mayor Strong's confi dential secretary, on the Sth, delivered to Clerk Kenyon, of the senate, the mayor's approval of the Lexow New York city bipartisan police commission bill, together with a memorandum stating his reasons for approving St. CinvAni) P. Clakk. a tool dresser, was caught iu the rope of a hoisting derrick near FhiJlny, O., on the Sth, and his body was carried to the butt wheel and literally cut into four pieces. Ex-Oov. James A. Wkston, of New Hampshire, died at Manchester, in that state," on the Sth. Ciiaiilkm Johnson, a post oflice robber, wanted in the Indinn territory, escaped from United States deputy marshals between Olcan and Salamanca, N. Y., on the Sth. He was captured In Brooklyn and was being taken west in an Krie train. He was handcuffed to a seat and wns seemingly In safe custody. The question of intercollegiate football was brought up again, on the 8th, in the meeting of the Harvard faculty. No otlicial statement was given out, but It was learned from authentic source that a motion prohibiting the students from taking part in intercollegiate football contests failed to pass by a good majority. Nathaniel STiiotoiir.it, 101 years rf age, celebrated his birthday anniversary, on the Sth, near Kngltsh, Ind., and took part in the festivities with more agility than many present, who were ulmost half a hundred years younger than himself. Mr. Stroughcr Is one of the oldest. If not the oldest, men In the state. He is n native of Tennessee. Col. John E. GowkN, who died recently at Paris, France, after an illness of three days, was born in Lynn. Mass., Mnreli 0. la2S, He was an engineer oi distinguished abllltv. It Was he who raised the Kassian fleet, sunk In the harbor of Sebastopol by the Russian, 1 utter the r.h.ean nur. I

Dr. S.O. HocKEit.mayorof Stanford Ky., a prominent lumlness man. com

mitted suicide, on the Sth, by bunging with a small cotton rope Iu his uicatliouse. He was t$2 years old. A family consisting of a widow and two ehil dren, survive him. His enemies had accused him of illegally selling whisky iu his drug store, and were continually Humming mm. A Washington dispatch of the Sth said; "Unless there is a decided change in the sentiment of Justice Jacksou toward the income-tax law, he will vote against that law. In that event the whole section of the Wilson-Gor man act will be stricken from the statute books." Col, A. IX Ciioss. one of the bestknown men in southern Indiana, died at Shelbyville, on tho evening of the Sth, from a stroke of parnlvsls. He located in Shelbyville in 1840, moving from Lexington, Ky., and at the time of his death was drawing a pension of S72 per mouth. J. C. MoNACiHAN, United States con sul at Chemnitz, Germany, reports to the department of state that an effort is being made there to keep foreigners out of the technical and industrial art schools. Petitions to that eud are be ing circulated throughout Saxony. Hie covert object is to keep out En glishmcn and Americans. Roheut K. Gooinvi.v, assistant cash ier of the wrecked bank of Lexington, Va., was found guilty, on the evening of the Sth, of having made fraudulent, entries, and his punishment fixed by the jury at four year in the state prison at Richmond. It is understood that Russia will not make any opposition if Japan aug ments the war indemnity from China. This will be a sort of return for the abandonment of the Liao Tung province. Ut. Hon. Sin Rohkut Pkel, baronet, eldest brother of ex-Speaker Peel of the British house of commons, died in Loudon, on the Oth, aged 73 years. Acting Secjjf.tauyofthk Thkaspiiv Cruris has decided to invite proposals for a temporary public building in Chicago, to be occupied as local government otllces pending the construction of the new public building. Nine hl'NDHei) employes in the woolen and worsted mills of James Lee &. Son. at Rridgeport, Pa., were thrown out of employment on the 0th. Three hundred of the hands struck for an increase in wages and the firm decided to close down the mills. The increase demanded was 40 per cent. Sampkl Atmkr. the defaulting bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather bank of New York city, who emltezzlcd S20.000 belonging to that institution, pleaded guilty, on the Dth, before Judge Benedict in the United States circuit court, and was remanded for sentence. Judge Thompson after listening to arguments for four hours iu the Gordon-Brown murder ease at Louisville, Ky., on the 0th, decided that Fulton Gordon should not be held for trial, and discharged him. The Delaware legislature adjourned sine die, on the Dth, with the senatorial deadlock still unbroken. Speaker MeMiillcn of the house declared H. A. Dupont elected United States senator. A nisi'ATCii from Yokohama, on the 9th, said that 1,300 persons died from cholera in the Pescadore islands during the month of April. The disease, the dipatch added, was abating. At the meeting of the Greek cabinet, on the Oth, the ministers decided to resign niter the public business then in hand should have been arranged. LATE NEWS ITEMS. An explosion, supposed to have been caused by natural gas. wrecked a big lodging house at No. 10 Sherman street. Chicago, at 1:15 o'clock on the morning of the 11th. The entire front of the buildtng was blown out and Ihmes immediately burst from the side and alley windows. A number of the occupants were either killed outright or so badly injured that their recovery is doubtful. A dispatch from Tokio, on the 10th, said that Admiral Viscount Kabaynma, with Mr. Mdzuno, chief secretary of the lower house of the diet, the latter, us the head of the civil administration, with a suitable escort, would proceed to Formosa in a few days for the pur pose of formally annexing that island Passk.vokus arriving by steamer at Tampa, Fla., on the 10th, reported the condition of things in Cuba as very encouraging to the insurgents, who had captured the city of Guaymaro, on the Gth, after a desperate battle In which the insurgents lost 700 killed, and the Spanish troops 3,000. Asa result of the action of the immigration authorities in Washington, General Manager Carter of the Detroit Sc. Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., on the 10th directed that all aliens in the employ of that company be removed and that none but citizens be employud. Tiik 15,500 for settlement of the Hritish demands was deposited by Nicaragua with the Managua agency of the London Hank of Central America, on the 10th, for payment In London in accordance with the agreement reached by Nicaragua ami Great Britain. Fol innen were instantly killed by un explosion of coal dust In a mine at Sopris, jjeur Trinidad, Col., on the 10th, supposed to have been caused by Humes communicating through a crevis from an adjoining shaft which was on lire. Tin: Spanish postmaster at Santiago tie Cuba has been tampering with United States Consul Hyatt's mail. His eopies of American papers dcllv ered to him on the 10th had all the Cuban news cut up. On the 10th Gov. Morton signed Assemblyman Lawson's New York city magistrates bill, which legislates the New York police justices out of olllcc. FoiMtTKi.N dwelling houses were burned In Fayette City, Pn.t on tlm 10th, as tho result of trying to start a tire in a stove with carbon oil. . Tiik plant of tho Importal varnish works at Akron, O,, was destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss, 35,000. "

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Ihtowx rouxTV is suffering from a M-ater famine, no rain of any consequence htvlug- fallen for the past year. The farmers are taking their stock to the low lands In order to have water for (hem. A Goshen man is said to be getting rich selling recipes for a new corn cure

which Is nothing but flour and water. Tiik Henry CJas Belt Electric rail way has begun the survey of its lines between Anderson, Marion and Elwood. Josiah L. Rt'llTox, of Martinsville, has patented a tectional boat for fishermen and duck hunters. Wm. Hidav, aged 73, died at Ingalls. He had lived in Madison county for 71 years. Oka Pickktt, aped 10, who fell from a haystack near N'oblesville, died from her injuries. Coi'ncii-man McMasteks was thrown from a bicycle and badly hurt at Frankfort. A.vsKi, Johnson, of Cowan, pardoned from the penitentiary, is dying of consumption. At Indianapolis Dan L Fainc, poet and journalist, died of paresis. Madisox county undertakers will form a combine. A df.teiiminki) effort will be made by the fcSloon-keepers to have the Nicholson law- declared unconstitutional. Tiik contract for building the new courthouse at Rochester has been awarded to J. E. Newton, of Logans port, for 5T3.0O0. Will Dimax. a glassworker, of Steu benville. 0., was killed bv cars at El wood. Ciiaiii.kv RtWELL, of Bridgetown. says he has n meerscnaum pipe nftv one yen rs old. South 1!j:.vi citizens don't like the plans of the new government build ing. A mad bull vicious! v attacked a horse driven by James MeCombs near Logansport. MeCombs was ieriouslv hurt. Worms are destroying crops, mead ows and other vegetation in Clarke and Floyd counties. A.UIOX Mosslkh, for thirty years a prominent merchant of Hoone county, has assigned. Assets about $20,000: liabilities unknown. Ullik Thomas, 9-vear-old 6on ol John Thomas, of Knizhtsville. was horribly mang-led by a vicious dog. His recovery is doubtful. Hon. ii. M. Copelaxi), of Madison, an ex-member of the general assembly and a prominent attorney of outhern Indiana, has been placed on trial fox the attempted murder of his brother-in-law. um. Brüning, a wealthy busi ness man of New York citv. At lied ford, while intoxicated, Homer iruce snoi ana Kiiica raui .lonnson. a boy 10 years old. Ycatrer Ilruce ana m. Emery were with him. All three are now- in jail. They are all vouiir men and have been friends of Johnson's. No bne spoke a word before the shooting. At Mitchell fire consumed two frame buildings on Main street, owned by- W. T. Moore and occupied bv H. F. I'uquav grocer, and Charles Vitc,s restaurant. Contents partly saved. Loss, S3.OO0: insurance, S2.2O0. Vi. H. ItwiWN, a tendcrof the rolls at the wire nail works. Anderson, was caught by the red hot wire, which wound around his leg like a snake, and burned him in a horrible man ner. At Franklin, Klber Quick pleaded gutity to a charge of horte stealing and was fined five dollars and seilten' ced to the prison south for two years. The horse, buggy and harness wert stolen from Warren Taylor and Harvey Feathering-ill. In the annual contest in declama tion, open to the freshmen class o) Franklin college, .Miss Grace Fctroc won first place, and Miss Leone Kerlin. second. There were seven eon testants. At Jefferson ville, a 3-vear-old chile of Wm. Hus&ey swallowed a number oJ capsules containing atrophine and is now a corpse. 3Ikh. G. W. Jloss who last wintei fell through a grating on Main street. Itrazil, and received serious injurier. has filed a suit for 320,000 from the city Er.swoiiTti Pknkins, a farmer of Ed wardsport, disappointed in love, shot himself through the heart and died in stantly. SKVKKAi.weeksago Edward W. Dric man was injured in a wreck on the I. and V. railroad at larico. He hat sued the Pcnnsyluania Co. for S.1.00C damages. Pnr.8HVTKRiAN church ladies of Ko komo gave a black face minstrel show for the benefit of the church. Oeouok W. Smith wns given twe years in the pen at Noblesville, for incest. AccoitDl.vo to the report of Chief Fendrlch Vinccnncs has had just sixty fires during the year ended April 30. F. 1'. .iKrpitnvs, of hransville, ha been appointed assistant general freight and passenger agent of the E. t T. II. railroad. Tin: pretty little steamboat Peankishnw, which linsbecn plying the Waash, Is to be sold. The boat will b taken to Evansvillc. Safk blowers tecurcd about SM from the post ollicc and general store of Wood Hros., Deep Iliver. The safe n the post oilice was wrecked with nitroglycerin, but the robbers could not open the doors. Tiik Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. refuses to pay the life Insurance on Lewis Aadc, who perished in the starch works fire nt Columbus the other dny, unless absolute proof of hit leath can be given. adc s body now ies beneath several feet of debris. TllK Dietrich syndicate which hai recently secured several gas plants it ndiana, purchased the plant of the ogansport Natural Gas Co. The con sideration whs not made public, but it reported to have U'en about S.00,0OO. msnv Wknhf.l, H abash, rendered nsane from injuries received In the rmy, nan received S-1,400 back pen-

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THE TREATY OF PEACE

Ketirr.-ii .lttutn uim! 'hin KirtMiicrit at t'he-I'oo-.liipttii lCi'lliiitlhr I. Iii" Tune. Hut iim- Ko it It hu I'mtUo I liu t it Miltubli liuL'fiinltr sliitll l I'mIiI. hihI, It Hy Im-, Artrtm Term ut Yritr. Washington, May 10. Au official dispatch from Tokio, received at the Japanese legation yesterday afternoon, nates that the ratifications of the treaty of peace between Japan and China were exchanged at Che-Foo on Wednesday. It is understood that no change was made iu the text of the treaty as originally concluded, but that taking into account the recommendations made by Russia, Germany and France, the Japanese government has agreed to renounce the permanent possession of the Liao Tung peninsula, ju condition, however, that the arrangements regarding the form and the terms of the renunciation shall be reserved for adjustment between itself and the government of China. This latter stipulation is construed to mean that Japan will not surrender the peninsula until a suitable indemnity shall have Won paid, and that it ma) even 1h agreed between Japan and China that the posses.ion of Port Arthur itself will be retained for a term of yenrs extending beyond the date when the indemnity shall have been paid in full, thus guaranteeing to Japan not alone the payment of the indemnity itself but also sutlicieut time to safeguard itself against any thing like a war of reprisal. The treaty of peace itself provides that Wei-Hai-Wei shall be held until the first $100,000,000 taelsand the next two annual installments of the in demnity have been paid, so that with the added guarantee of the possession of Port Arthur, even although only temporary, the Japanese government appears to have taken every possible precaution for the future. The facts would thus seem to h ex actly as reported in United Press dis patches from time to time ever since the peace negotiations were entered upon, and effectually dispose of the numberless canards sent out bv Heuter's agency and Shanghai correspondents circulated by the European press. RETIREMENT OF GEN. CASEY After an Active ami Kmlncntly I'xrful Ca-rt-er hi nil Kiiglnccr. Washington, Mav 10. The retire ment to-day from active service of Hrig.-Gen. Thomas L Casey, chief of engineers, which oilice he has held since 1SSS, possesses more than passing interest to the general public because of the great public works that have been completed under his direction. den. Casey was born in New York, his father, (5en. Silas Cusev, being a distinguished army ollicer. He was graduated from the West Point mill tary academy in 1S."2, standing at the head of the class which included among its members such men as Henry W. Slocum. D. S. Stanley, Jerome ISo naparte, Peter T. Swaine, Alexander U. McCook and George Crook. With the exception of two years service as assistant engineer in the construction of Fort Delaware, he was attached to the West Point academy as instructor of engineering, leaving there as lieutenant iu 1?39 to take command of engineer troops in Wash ington territory. When the civil war broke out he was appointed assistant engineer on the staff of the general commanding the department of Virginia. In August. 1501, he was made captain and superintending engineer in charge of the permanent defenses and fortifications on the coast of Maine and on recruit ing service for engineer troops, which duty he performed until 15G0. In the men n time he was engaged on special dot v with the North Atlantic squadron during the first expedition tc Fort Fisher. N. C, and as a member ol a special bar.l of engineers for work at Willet's Point, N. Y., and for work on forjs in Maine, since abandoned. During the war he was promoted tc the rank of major, and his serv ice gained for him the brevet ranks of lieutenant-colonel and colonel. From IsOti to W7 Maj. Casey wns superintending engineer of Forti Preble and Scannet, in Portland har bor, Me. In 1ST7 he was placed in charge of the public buildings and grounds at Washington, a position he retained until 18SS, a period marked by many improvement in public buildings, parks and avenues of the capital. The fine building Occupied by the state, war and navy departments wns constructed under his supervision, and the Washington monument, which, for a generation had re muliied a broken marble shaft, was finished under his direction in ls31. In 1ST4 he was advanced to lieutenant colonel, and in Is J to colonel. Since 1SSS, when he became chief of engineers, Gen. Casey has expended nearly half a billion dollars for the government in river and harbor Improvements, public building: and grounds and coast defenses. A BIG WINDFALL. An Ilxprm llrltor Fall Ilrlr to Jx Unailrril Thousand Dollar. DnxvKU, Col.. May 10. Thomas Gwillin, aged 23, employed as drivei on an express, has received word that he 1ms fallen heir to S00.000 by the death of a distant rilntivt in Fn'rlnml. - . - w - - --,-"---1 the'.etter so notifj'ing him inclosed a draft for Sil, 000 to enable him to reach home. Me bonirht a third-class ticket through to Loudon yesterday morning lor sid aim leit on me nrst train. AN ILL-ADVISED STRIKE Throw Nine llandrril Kniplojc Out ! Work. MoitiUSTOWN. Pa.. Mav 10. Nine hundred employes In the woolen and worsted mills of James Lee & Son, at Hridgeport, are thrown out of em ployment. Three hundred of the hitnds struck for an increase Jn watres and the flrfn decided to close down the mills. The increase demanded was 40 per cent. One hundred hands of tin oodstock woolen mills and seventy at Uambo Ucgar's hosiery mill have also struck for an advance- I

AN AWFUL EXPLOSION.

Hatural U'rrt-k a Wc Chirac Ixxlf. RK IIuum- Manjr IVrMMM Takrn from the Kulua. Mint of Wheat arc Kiiwrlrd I llt-Ttta- hpjrcta CaatlHUt-d lj the Flrrmrn ud I'ellrc Durlcc a TrrrlMr hit Cmcuio, May 11. A terrific explosion In the blj: building at No, 10 Sherman street roased the people In that vicinity, and shook the big boanl of trade building at 1:15 this iSaturdayi morning. When the firemen arrived in less than live minutes they fouad the whole front of the building blown out and flames bursting from the side aud alley windows. The building was occupied as a lodging house, which wa-, run by August Mitchell. Just as the police arrived they saw a man leap from the third-story wiudow and land in the paved alley. He" was picked up and found to be August Mitchell. He was disposed of in an ambulance, and the firemen, aided by the police, rescued his wife and child from the rear of the thini floor, but the daughter Mary jumped, and it is feared that she is fatally injured. Latkii 1:30 a. m. The tiremen in irroping around the building found the dead Itody of a man on the second floor near the rear of the building and in live minutes found two others, who it is believed cannot recover. They were taken to the hospital. Search is proceeding with all possible haste. Wild rumors of llf teen killed areatloat. but they cannot In? verified. It is known that natural gas was used on the second floor of the bnilding, and as the explosion has every apIearaiice of an explosion from that source. It is Iwlievejl to be a natural gas explosion. Nine persons, all badly burned, have already been taken out up to this time, all of w hom are expected to die. The bartender. John , who always slept in the barroom, cannot I found, aud it is supposed thut he was blown to pieces. The name of the dead man taken out at 1:30 K not yet known. All the injured were taken to the county hospital and it is impossible to learn the extent of the injuries at present. The police and firemen now have the fire under control. The search for iKxlies is being proseeuted rapidly. Mr. Mitchell says he "does not know how many people were in the house und the register has been burned up. A territie storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, greatly retarded the work of the searchers. CapL Hartnett of the Harrisonstreet station, headed the corps of rescuers. He had men from all the jlice stations down town, aud the work was prosecuted with great vigor. At 2 a. m. Capt. Hartnett gives it as his opinion that all the bodies have been recovered. The board of trade building, which stands directly across the street, is not thought to have been injured by the explosion, although gla was broken In all the buildings adjacent. The financial loss will hardly exceed $2.000. MAY CROP RETURNS A Krporti-il to the Inrt nirnt of Acrlrtiltunc A Criirrl liiipniirmrnt. Washix-oton. May 11. The May returns of the department of agriculture show an increase in wheat of l.r points from the April average, Iwing s9, against si I last month, and sj. in May. 111. The averages of the pr.ncipal winter wheat state- are: OhiS., Michigan 7. Indiana .sT. Illinois W. Missouri '.0, Kansas I, California !7. The average of these seven states is 82.3. against -1.5 in April. Wing aa increase of a little less than one point. In the southern states the averages range from 55, in Texas, to 03. in Alabama. Winter rye, like wheat, has advanced nearly 2 points since last month, its average for May Wing .T. ajrainst ST for the same date in AprilThe percentages are: New York 17. Pennsylvania '. 7. Michigan Illinois 12, Kansas 54. The prospects for rye throughout the rye lelt are fair except in the state of New York, where it is too dry, while In Minaesota and Kansas the crop was considerably damaged by the severe winter and has not recovered. The average condition of winter barley is '.'I, against G2.3 in the month of May, 1MM. and --iC in 1S1X The lowest conditions are in Texas. Indiana and Iowa, and the highest in New York, California and Oregon. The condition of spring pasture is 80.7. and of mowing lands S3. 4. The proportion of spring plowing done May 1 is reported at S2.S percent., against S3.5 last year, and 73.4 in 1593. TALKED TOO MUCH. dmiral Mrailr Lay Himself Liable to Court-Martial. WashixotoN. May 11. -Admiral Meade's interview severely critici-ing-the administration, as widely published yesterday morning, created considerable excitement and comment at the navy department, All the higher oüiciuls of the department frankly K.-iiil tlii! tin. iinnnlnnnt. nilflliral lias rendered himself liable tocourt-martial under article 235 of the regulations. .vlitr-Ii i.Ynrr.iU- ni-nhüiit; 3J1 officer to communicate by interview or othcr- , ,-St. . am- r.,,i,i..r,f .nr mltllMm nf 3QV department of the government. It is under tins same arncic mat .'mucai Inspector Kershner Is to le tried at NVw Yorlr next week noon chartres preferred by Admiral Meade. A DISCHARGED LABORER, Kfnl K. Employment, .Mkrt an At tack on Chicago' Mayor. Chicago, May 11. Philip Chester, a discharged city laborer, waited all day yesterday around the city hall to demand reinstatement, and when he wan dm it ted into the presence of Mayor Swift at 2:30 o'clock and rcfased re employment, jumped at the mayor with an oaui. a uciccuve scijmtu ihc miuir ated man before he could do the mayor any injurv, and took him to Central Mat ion headquarters. The news led to all sorts of rumors of assassination.