Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 November 1895 — Page 6

AVläKKLY COURIER,

C. IlOAKII, luhlthhor. JASI'BR. INDIANA. Tun president has appointed John I Peak, of Kansas City, Mo., as minister to Switzerland, vice Uroadhead, resigned. Thk president has appointed Wm 1.. . , l nusvc, oi .iarymii, ,v.., cas, Venezuela. SrcnsTAUv Cakmsi.k was the principal speaker nt the New York chumloerof commerce banquet on the night of the 19th. Ills address was contlued to financial topics. The coronation of Bmporor Nicholas II. has been fixed to take place at Alascow on May 24 next, the date of the seventy-seventh birthday anniversary of Queen Victoria. . A nisrATcn from Vienna say that a telegram received there from St. Pctersbnrtr announces that the czarina was afely accouched of a daughter at 0.0 o'clock on the evening of the 15th. Co.Vsn. IL J. KinK writes the department of state from Copenhagen that the Danish Millers' association has petitioned the rigsdad for a protective duty on nl Hour imported into Denmark. Among the American missionaries in peril at the eastern Turkey minion are Miss Etile M. Chambers, of Anderson, la.: Her. W. C. Dewey, Lonlon, 311., and Miss Johanna L. Griffin, KpringSeld, Mo. Martxnrz Campos has accepted the services of Winston Leonard Churchill, eldest son of the late Lord Knndolph Churchill, who has arrived in Havana, as a lieutenant o hussars in the Spanish army in Cuba. Tun funeral services over the body of P.ev. SL F. Smith, famous as the au thor of the national hymn, "America," were held at the First Baptist church in Newton Center, Mass., on the 19th, in the presence of thousands. Tnr. Tall Mall Gazette asserts that it Has high diplomatic aihorlt for the statement that the powers hare no immediate intention of malting a joint naval demonstration against the porte. Each lieet will in the meantime act under independent instructions. Tun Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, tVimii", thetr delegates, mnde nubile their answer to the Dawes commission on the 20th. They refuse the overtures of the commission and make an appeal to the government to see that they are not despoiled of their tribal rights. According to the proclamation of President Cleveland the Nez Percos reservation in Idaho was thrown open to - 'tlement, on the ISth, atnoon. It wa nected that the scenes enacted in Oklahoma would be repeated there, only on a smaller scale, but such was not the caie. The conviction of W. II. Chine and other officers of the American Railway union for conspiracy to obstruct the passage of the mails on the Southern Pacific railroad in California during the railroad strike in 1594, was affirmed in the supreme court of the United States on the 15th. An imperial proclamation announcing the birth of a daughter to the c:nr and czarina of Russia, concludes: "We give notice of the jojfnl event to all our faithful subjects, and join them in fervent prayer t the Almighty that the new-born princevs may grow in happiness and strengt!." Cheat Ubitain's fleet now cruising near the Levant, awaiting the return to Constantinople of the Uritish ambassador, is by far the must formidable .she has had in eastern waters sice the bombardment of Alexandria, and exceeds even that fleet in fighting force and the number of men carried. The liritish government has decided to support the project of a fast mall service between Great Hritain and Canada to the extent of SSTS.OOn annually for a class of vessels similar to the Teutonic, with a speed capacity of 20 knots an hour. The proposed subsidy is to supplement the S750.O00 already Toted by the Dominion parliament. One iicxDREn .und twenty settlers of South Ashland, Wis., arc, by a decision received from tho general land office made homeless. Their claims, aggregating 20,000 acres of land, with every quarter section con taining a house and barn, will be taken away from them by the govern xnent and given to the Wisconsin Cen tral Railroad Co. DcniNG a stereopticon lecture at the Methodist church in Farmland, Ind on the night of the IGth, a panic was caused by the bursting of a rubber hose attached to the gas generator, In the stampede women and children were thrown down and trampled on und several were In danger of asphyxiation by the cas, but outsiders burst in the windows and rescued them. An awful catastrophe occurred nt Cleveland, 0.. on the night of the Htth, "when, through the criminal eareless sesso: a conductor ami the unac countable stupidity of a motorman, an electric car on the Dig Consolidated line plunged, with Its living freight of fifteen passengers and the conductor, through a draw of the Central viaduct which crosses tho Cuyahoga river at 120 feet above the water. In its fall the car struck a projection of piles nd was broken to pieces. Ono man Rnd one woman were rescued alive, but the other thirteen were killed in Jthc wreck or drowned.

CUBKENT TOPICS.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Drni.so n galo off the Thigllsh const, on the 15th, a Fife fishing boat was oapslyed ami tlvo of its crow wore drowned. A rjtoMt.NKNT Spaniard In the City of Mexico, who is in close touch with the tnluii ..nt-, ,,, tii.nt k!l 1v flint lu.fnrf. I '!" ,...........,.............. g j will concede Cuban independence or permit the Island to come under a United States protectorate, or rule, she will throw Cuba into the hands of England, conceding to England ostensible possession for a number of ; years. O.v the night of the 15th John IL Fell, n member of the coal operating firm of Ario, Pardee A Co., and son-in-law of the late Anthony J. Dre.vel, died at his home in Philadelphia, after a brief illness. He was about S years pt age. His wife was Mr. Drexel's youngest daughter. A Panama cable says that Vene zuela i& again in the throes of revolu tion. The revolt against President Crespo is led by Dr. Itojas Paul. Caracas Coro ami Marueuibo are disaffected. The rebels are well armed, and the overthrow of Crespo is conlldently predicted by Dr. Paul. JriiOB Uinnoxs, of Chicago, has declared the state la.v closing barber shops on Sunday to be unconstitutional, as being class legislation. An appeal has been taken by the Harbers' Sunday Ckvduir association, which appeared as prosecutor in the ease. Diu S. F. Smith, of Newton, Mass., the venerable author of "America," died in Hosten, on the afternoon of the lGth, from heart failure. He was in the corridor of the New England depot, and was awaiting the departure of a train, when he sank to the lloor in a semi-conscious condition, and only spoke a few inarticulate words after'vaid. FitniUNANi) KnNNKTT, c::-chhf of police of St. Louis, who killed Detective A. 1U Lawrence, has been sentenced at Los Angeles to ten vears in the Cali fornia state prison. Ohio oil is again on the rise, and local operators expect it to reach the dollar mark before the end of the month. A avntKortAsi has been received at the navy department announcing the satlIng of tlie San Frauelsco from Marseilles fcr Alexandre ttn, whither she was ordered on account of the Armenian troubles. The distance from Marseilles to Alexaudretta is about 1,5(K miles, and the San Francisco should arrive on the 23d. Tnn Northern Pacific liner Strathnevls was sixteen days overdue at Yof",,!traa on tl,e 17th She left Tacoma, Wash.. October 12, and had not been sighted since. Gen. TuoMAf IL Tavi.oh, chief of police of Louisville, Ivy., was robbed by one of a gang of pickpockets who were at work, on the night of the 17th, in the crowd of G,f00 people at the 15. Fay Mills evangelistic meeting at the Auditorium. Gen. Taylor's heavy wnteh-ehaln was snapped and his tine gold watch stolen. Assistant Secp.etaiu- McAnoo has transmitted to Secretary Herbert the report of Lieut. Xiblack upon the operations of tho naval militia during the past year. In indorsing the report Mr. McAdoo says the organizations are growing rapidly in favor, and the interest of the public in them is steadily increasing. Ex-PjiBsmnNT IIav.iii?on has issued a denial of the story, started in St. Louis, that lie had made S100.000 out of an investment in a South African gold mine. He says: "The only money I ever made was made by diligent, hard work. " The historic tomb of President William Henry Harrison at North Rend, 0., was opened, on tho I-th, to receive the remains of Arch Erwin Eaton, nephew of ex-President Hcnjamiu llai-! rison, and great-grandson of the hero of Tippecanoe. This makes four generations of Harrisons in this notable mausoleum. Tin; populace of Messina. Italy, were badly frightened, on ihn 18th, by a secies of earthquakes and iled from their homes. No damage was done. Fl'.ANCts Sciti.ATTKH, who disap peared from Denver, Col., recently, has written that he will be in Chicago on the 30th. IIustem Pasha, the Turkish ambas sador to Great Hritain, is ill in London with congestion of the lungs, and ow ing to his advanced agehe is 3.1 his recovery is regarded us improbable. Tim: battleship Jupiter was launched in the Clyde on the lath. She Is a sister ship of the Magnificent, which was launched from the Chatham (England) dock yards last December. At Worcester, Mass., on the ISth, tlfe National Grange re-elected J. A. Hrigham, of Delta, 0., as national master to serve his fourth term. The election is biennial. A dispatch from Hong Kong says that while the launch of the Hritish war ship Edgar, containing seventyone men, was returning to tho ship with reefed sail in a heavy sea and strong wind, she capsized seven cable lengths from the ship, and all but twenty-three of her occupants were drowned. Tin: plurality of Gen. Asa S. Rushnell. republican governor-elect of Ohio, is 92,1 .IS. M. Vt.AXOAi.t, the Russian ambassador, had a long Interview with Huron Blanc, Italian minister of foreign affairs, on Lhe Irtth, after which It was reported that Kusski had decided upon independent action in the east. Tnitnii-i'OL'HTns of the town of Parcel I, I. T., was burned early on tho morning of the 10th. Purcell was a place of 3,000 iuhabltants. A Tr.t.KOKAM was received at the war department, uu the 19th, from Indian Agent Day of tho Southern ITto agency, saying that tho murder of the two Indians In that seoliou, supposed to have been done by white men, had been t rf.ee d to an Indian, the son of tho ooce-fatnous renegade "Hatch, who was killed several years ago.

A PTATEiioort convention has been called to meet at Shawnee, Okla., December , to name a delegation to go to Washington and lobby for tho admission of tho territory. The Chickasaw nation will also send a delegation. A Gitr.AT Nohtim:un" train was hold up by eight or ten men three miles west of SU Cloud. Minn., on tho night of the ISth. The robbers cut tho train in two and ordered the engineer to go ahead. On its arrival In St, Cloud a posae was organized, and a special train was made up and left for thu scene of the hold-up.. The amount taken is not known. A DOumTUi. report from Havana, on the 19th, said the Insurgent lenders had expressed willingness to surrender If granted autonomy. Tin: sultan has made an appeal to tho pope for thu Intervention of the Vatican in nnu!rort for the pacification of Armenia. Kcstkm Pasha, the Turkish ambassador to Groat Hritain, died In London at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 20th. A SKitiofS rear-end collision between trains occurred on Hroohlyn bridge,

j on the 19th, owing to thu dense fog. j Several cars were telescoped, and Conductor Thomas Cooper and several I passenger were severely hurt. Tho conductor's legs wore cut off, and he cannot recover. The cruiser Hoston, which was placed in commission on the IStli, at Mare Isjund, Cal., will be sent to tho China station to relievo tho gunboat Concord. Fast Mau. train No. 0, cast-bound, on the New York Central railroad, was ditched by train wreckers near Koine. N. Y., earlyon the morning of the luth. There were about fifty passengers in the three sleepers, and not one of them was hurt. Engineer linger was killec. Three men were arrested on suspicion, one of whom confessed. On the 20th the supreme court of Minnesoto filed its decision in the Hay ward murder case, sustaining the action of the lower court and refusing a new trial. ON the 20th Secretary Herbert ordered the cruiser Minneapolis to take on coal at Norfolk, and sail at once for the European station, to assist the San Francisco and Marblehead in looking after American interests in the sultan's possessions. The Hcchuanaland chiefs, Khama, Scheie, and Hatluen, who have been in London for some time, seeing the sights and being entertained by distinguished persons, paid a visit to the queen at Windsor, on the 20th, and delivered their presents to her majesty, who presented the chiefs with suitable gifts in return. I'ETTiNon.r., the wild man of the River mountains, has been found dead in his mountain retreat, lie went to Montana in the early period of the war. and had ever since lived alone among the wild animals of his mountain home. It is stated that Andrew Carnegie has decided to give an organ to the Hethel Evangelical Swedish Lutheran church at llraddock. Pa., to cost about S5.000. It is stated that the ,,squecze"of the salt combine in forcing up prices will cost the leading packers of Chicago S400.000 or SS00.000 per year. The full crew of the battleship Indiana, placed in commission at the League Island navy 3'ard, on the 20th, will number -4?0. Recent press dispatches announced that anti-foreign riots were apprehended In the Chinese province oi Shan-IIeL LATE NEWS ITEMS. Thiiee buildings, occupying nearly a block on the west side of Canal between Jaekson ami Adams streets, Chicago, being respectively nine, seven and four stories high, were burned, on the2.st, with an aggregate loss on buildings and stocks of gr.Uü.OOO. Near ly 500 persons, mostly girls and women, wore rescued with difficulty, many of them in a bruised and fainting condition. One entire chemical engine company had narrow escapes, wjiile falling walls endangered the lives of hundreds in the streets. Ai.exandeh T. Williams, a wealthy farmer and pioneer settler and a Mexi can war veteran, died nt Ch 11 cothe. Mo., on the 20th, aged 73 years. He was one of the 930 Mlssouri'ans in Col. A. W. Doniphan's famous regiment that conquered Arizona and New Mexico and fought its way to Huena Vista to reinforce Gen. Zachnry Taylor. All uncertainty as to the construction of the new ore railway from Ishpeming to Marquette, Mich., was removed, on the 21st, by the official statement that the contract had been let to Winston Hros., of Minneapolis, for the construction of fifteen miles of road, terminal tracks, freight and passenger depots and an ore dock. When little Mina Schaefer went to the stone quarry near Oakland, Md., on the 21st, to take her father's dinner, she found both her father and her uncle, Charles Schnufer.buried beneath a heap of limestone, which they had loosened by a blast of dynamite, lloth were dead. Tin: Calumet and Hecla company, which has been smelting Its reserve miaural, and has increahud the output of ct.pper nearly one-third, will probably drop back to former figures of production by January 1. Smelters are now several weeks behind In filling ardors. Wau.ack G. Mn.i,i:n, clerk In Justice Krueger's court In Kansas City, Mo., accused of election frauds, whose case had been on trial nt Independence for a week, was found guilty, on the 20th, and sentenced to two years in tho penitentiary. Miw. Adai.ame Munik, who wai reared near Helleville, but who now lives at Pocahontas, III., is one of si; heirs to r. fortune of SJ.OOO.OQO which they inherit from a grandfather In France. Gen. Ut. Hon. ShiP.Ponsoniiv, manv years keeper of the privy purse anil private secretary to her majesty, Queen Victoria, died at Osborne cote tage, Cowcs, on the 21st, aud 70.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. C. II. Smith a Hue renalror, has r.ued the Central Union 'JVlephouo Co., of

Lognnsport, for months ngt Smith wires when a polo $30,0). Several was repairing thu broke and lot him fall. MoNTfioMKur Phakos, who was arrested at New Castle and taken to Huntington on tho charge of forgery, was sentenced to tho penitentiary for two years. Micssks. IIayne and Apperson of Kokomo have completed two motorcycles of their own invention und will start both of them In tho horseless carriage race at Chicago Thanksgiving day ns competitors for tho .1,000 prize offered. Newcastle hunters report that possums are plenty. Clinton county 111:13 put up a cottago at tho soldiers' home. Hev. William Mciuiay, tho evangelist, who is assisting Rev. Mills, has been holding a series of meetings at Howard's ship yards, .IcH'ersonTtlle, immediately after tho noon hour. Tho employes of the ship yards were much interested in the religious service conducted in this unusual place, and tho scene during tho meeting was a strange one. Many of the men wore moved to tears by tho minister's story of his early life, and the touching way in whice ho referred to their homes and mothers. Mr. Mills conducted services in the prison chapel Sunday, speaking to the S.0 convicts. The doctors have decided to place T. J. Riley iu a plaster of paris east from the hips to thu arms. Mr. Riley is the man who was riding on a hand car and broke his back. His sufferings are terrible, and it is necessary to administer amesthotics before ho can be moved. The three hundred employes of the Great Western pottery works, of Kokomo, have gone out pending a settlement of the wage question in the east. The factory has closed down, and the proprietor.1; have gone east to attend the conference of employers and employes. Andehson police aro after people who abuse horses. Knkihtstown is figuring on a newtheater. Stock company may build it. Michigan City Is going to have a fox hunt Thanksgiving, if it doesn't rain hard. A MoitoAN cor.VTY man has S100 to bet that he can peel the husks off 120 bushels of corn a day. The boiler iu Snmucl Kelly's sawmill, Columbia City, exploded tho other morningand killed Engineer Joseph Allen and Frank Kelly. It is thought the engineer built a fire under the boiler without putting water in it. The explosion occurred about one hour after work was commenced. The Union Trust Co. recently took possession of the stock of tho Monarch Grocery Co., Indianapolis, on replevin dues. No etatcment so far has been made. "Em" Luce, of Indianapolis, ate a handful of crudo opium because life over a washtub had become unbearable. Saved. William Ckateij, of Laporte, has just found his father, Morris Crater, at Quinccy, Mich., after a separation of 2." years. Wm. Fehouson, of Morgan county, was probably fatally injured by being struck by a train on the Itig Four near Marshallsville. AiiNEii Yonker, of Noble county, has celebrated his one hundredth birthdny. The centenarian is passionately fond of pitching quoita, and daily engages in his favorite sport. Ai.iseut Fields, aged 17, living north of Wakaransa, met a horrible death by falling from a loaded wagon, breaking his neck. James Williams, a water boy on a now building constructed at Indianapolis, fell from the seventh to the third floor the other afternoon, receiving injuries from which he soon after died. James Loldin, of Hammond, hasbeen released from the Marion county jail, where he has been confined since August on a charge of counterfeiting ltLAc:; diphtheria is raging in Tipton county. Several deaths were reported a few days ago. The country schools aro being dismissed. The malady is mostly confined to children. Monti'elieh people are going to turn tho faucet next spring and the new water works will do the rest Wm. IL Evans, a veteran editor of southern Indiana, died at his home at Oakland City. Nohlk county has granted a franchise to the Huntington, Columbia City & Ligonier Electric railway. Tin: 25-barral oil well devolopcd in the vicinity of Fortville is tho property of a private company. Gov. Matthews has selected Mayor Thomas Toggart, Dr. J. L. Thompson, Col. William IL Holloway and Charles K. Williams, of Indianapolis; Gen. Lew Wallace, Crawfordsvillc; Hon. S. P. Sherin, Logansport, and Hon. Arthur W. Hrady, of Muncic, to act in conjunction with himself and John II. Holliday. of Indianapolis, in selecting a silver Bcrvico for the battleship Indiana. Gov. Matthews the other day pardoned James Rodgers, of Jasper county, convicted of attempted murder on the testimony of two tramps, and Charles Itoden, of Hamilton, found guilty of shooting at a neighbor. In both cases a review showed tho accused were innocent. Fhank Mati.kv, an employo of tho Kokomo Wood Enameling Co., was awarded 81,000 damages against the compauy for injuries sustained in the fall of an elevator. He sued for 520,000. At Rockport Mrs. Sarah Davis shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Isbell Goodman, her neighbor. They quarreled about their chickona. Mits. Maaoie Uahk, of Indianapolis, while in the Union Railway station the other morning intending to take a train for Mlddletown, 0 to attend the burial of a kinaman, died suddenly of heart disease. She was 54 years old, and the wife of Charles W Garr.

CUOA FOR THE FREE.

IZiilliiuluHlln 31f.ttlutr of lit Frl'n! at tlin SlruKvlliii; t'liirlutH In I'lilLulolplilit Koii'.lni." spiTt'lit'4 liy liny. .Mull livu of I 1 1 1 1 i . (Itinz tin du JiipuIi mitt Oilier -Arni'K ,1. Cummlni:' John IU-koIiiIIihi. Pnil.AMEi.rniA, Nov. 22.- The cunsu of Cuba was eloquently and boldly advocated at the Academy of Music last night at a meeting held under tho auspices of tho Philadelphia brigade, Pennsylvania reserves. Thu principal address of the evening was made by Gov. Clnudu Matthews, of Indiana, who delivered the speech upon "Free Cuba" that ho had prepared to dullver at tho Atlanta exposition. The audience was not largo, but it made up iu enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers, and Gov. Matthews and the other speakers were heartily applauded and the sentiments, they gave utieranee to in behalf of Cuban liberty were thosu of their auditors. Gov. Matthews was followed by U011zalo do Quesiida, of Now York, the secretary of the Cuban junta. Mr. Do Quosudu made an impassioned and dramatic speech, appealing to tho sympathies of tho audience for the struggling Cubans, and asking that they bu recognized as belligerents by this government. Resolutions of sympathy and promising aid to the Cubans were adopted. The resolutions also called upon the sonators and representatives of Pennsylvania and upon tho two houses of congress when they meet to pass a concurrent resolution directing thu president to recognize "The Republic of Cuba as a belligerent nation." A committee of the Philadelphia brigade will present the resolutions to President Cleveland. Capt. W. W. Kerr, assistant district attornej' of Philadelphia, made the mot radical speech of the evening in favor of the Cubans. Capt. ICerr has attained wide notoriety of late as the owner of tho steamships Leon and Laurada, which have beeu accused of landing filibustering expeditious upon the shores of Cuba. ' Capt Kerr boldly proclaimed his right under the laws of this country to land men and munitions of war upon the coast of Cuba and that thu burden of preventing him doing this rusted upon the maintenance of a blockade by Spain. Col. William Frazier, a commander of the Philadelphia brigade, announced to the meeting that he had roeoivVd word fro. n Congressman Amos Cummiugs that the latter had yesterday drawn up a concurrent resolution, which he will present to congress, recognizing Cuba's belligerency. IN WILD WEST STYLE. A Mlchlcxn Woiiihii A Ixl net. mI liy Mm lluv haiiil V.'ho DcHcrtt'd Hit Miniy Year Ak. Huikson. Mich., Nov. 22. The village of Medina, 0 miles from this city, was the scene, Wednesday, of a wild west raid and abduction. Years ago, when a girl of 17, Mrs. Asa Manning, now a prepossessing matron of :J.j, was married to a man named Davis, who disappeared when the honeymoon was sped, and after years of search and waiting she gave him up for dead and was married to Mr. Manning, a well-to-do farmer in Medina, and has lived a happy life. Wednesday Davis arrived in Medina from the west with a lot of cowboy companions, and terrorized the little hamlet by riding up and down tho street. He saw tho wife of his youth, and made several attempts to capture her .single-handed. Failing in this, he called upon his companions, and they seised and gagged her, and started with their victim for the Ohio line, a few miles distant. Officers were hastily notified, and are iu hot pursuit of the abductors. MORMON ELDERS RUN OFF Talliilinscf, l'lu., C(MiIIit(m1 Tlirm n M enure in IViirn mill (iiniil .-MoniU. Jacksonvh.lt:, Fin., Nov. 22. A spocial to the Citizen from Tallahassee says: Elders Ncbeckcr and Rogers, who came here to sow seeds of the Mormon faith, wore arrested Wednesday. They were charged with being a menace to the peace, dignity and good morals of the city. They ottered no defense, and were fined 200 or ixty days in jail. The mayor stated that execution of judgment would be held in abeyance for ono hour, during which time they would be permitted tc leave the city. They Immediately left town, and said they would leave thu state. A CHILD'S SAD FIND. Father and Hiiclo Crnnlioil to liejith In h Slonn Uimrry. Kino wood, W. Vn., Nov. 22. -When Little Mlna Schaefer went to the stone quarry near Oakland, Md., Wednesday, to take her father's dinner she found himself and also her uncle, Charles Schaefer, burled beneath limestone. These two men were working alone at the quarr', and after setting off a blast of dynamito were caught under the shower of falling stone and horribly crushed to death. ALMOST A BUZZARD. London CovcmmI with 1 IlUuket of Hnnm Ninrly n l'ont llnrp. London, Nov. 22. A snow-storm amounting almost to a blizzard raged here all night, and nearly a foot of snow fell and tho car service is badly crippled, but railroad trains aro not affected, as the storm seems to by local. CRAZY OR SHAMMING. I'rlett O'Gradr to he Exuiulned foi I.ttnac. Cincinnati, Nov. 23. Domlnlck O'Grady, the Catholic priest who killed Mary Gllmartin over a year ngo In a fit of jealous rage, was carried Into Judge Ilolllster's court yesterday on a stretcher to be examined for lunacy. For several months O'Grady has been confined in lhe strong ward of tho city hospital because ho persistently aetcd as If craay, after being locked up in the county jail. The case went over till Monda aast.

DEVOURING FLAMES

Ieror I'niperty Vulunl nt llulf a Hun Dullum mill Imperil I'Un llu,M"rpi l.lvi-x, Wlillw TIii-iIiiIiii; Uimtriict Inn ( Ailjitiuiiii; HiiililliiK-N4i-rim' li-tn. 1111 Hut In KiikIiiii Coiiipiiiiy-liaiii:.., from riillliiK Wall. Chicaijo, Nov, 22. A fire which caused a property loss of .',00.000 ainl imperilled tho lives of half a thoiiKiml persons, mostly young women, bruk0 out at !l o'clock yesterday afternoon on the third lloor of Charles Hnuuoi ie), & Co. 's feather and down goods, factory, l?,i-181 Smith Canal street. The coutlu'. gratloii was attended by scenes of in. tense excitement and a score 1 i,x. men narrowly escaped being killed ,y falling walls. When thu llauicis raging most furiously, in spite of tii best oA'orts of twenty-live engine ami a small army of firemen, Uro brands were carried by the wind to adjoin ia manufacturing buildings and iMookeü as if many nun would have to go. The seven-story brick building ex. tendiug froir. 175 Ciuiul street smuh to the corner of Jackson street, Ilm nh,. story brick building ad joining on tho north and the greater part of the J-ntr. story brick building in the maw IIrectlon were entirely tlestroyeil. These buildings occupied m:irly t!nj block on the west side of ' anal str. yt' between Adams and JnoWtn struts' The seven and miiO'Storv InlUtingä wer..- owued by Warren Springer and the four-story .structure, which Is unathird saved, is owned by WiUin-.n .1. Wilson. The buildings were munstly insured. The los'ses to the firms occupying the burned buildings are estimated at 3.10, (00, und the building loss at S15D,ÜU0. Tho firo started from an explosion of chemicals used in cleaning featln-rs, and the rapidity with which the Humes spread in the Emmerich factory, where 2lK girls and women were employed, created a panic In that building. Tho frightened employes on the upper floors rushed for the elevatorn. wii.ch were small and few, and thu stairways were soon jammed with torror-.svrichen and fainting females. Cool-headed mun and police ofiicors, Miinmoned by the lire alarms in quid: succession, caino to tho rescue and prevented a fire horror. Officers stood guard at the elevators and stairways to prevent more than a safe number of women using those means of exit. The excitement was as .great :imon, the V0U female employes of the ll.tnner Waist Co. .whose factory adjoined the Emmerich factory. Only a thin partition wall divided tho Springer buildings, which were practically one, and in an alarmingly short time the flumes had extended up and down and through thu walls to tho buildings on each side. The police and firemen had a hard task to get all the young women in safety to the street, many having to be carried out unconscious or else driven out because they wanted to save their small personal property, while there "was not time for all to get their cloaks and hats. So far as tho police learned, all who were employed In the buildings escaped without serious injury, although many wcro bruised and scratched. When the fire was apparently under control a large part of the north wall of the nine-story stuctnre crashed on the four-story Wilson building, .starting Harnes and making havoc with the contents. The spreading of the flames in this direct inn gave the firemen additional work, but they were helped by tho thick fire wall iu the center of tho building. The lire was under control in two hours, in spite of a high wind and a big start. Nothing but parts of the Springer buildings remain, all thu lloors having been burned through, carrying with them the costly machinery, lithograph presses and other stock. ROBBED HIS EMPLOYERS. Arrrnt of 11 Trnvellnn Hnlrnnuin of A. I". Miit(!elqh In ,ikini:n. Litti.k Rock, Ark., Nov. 22. A gennine sensation was created here yesterday, when the announcement was made that William J, Rlnley. tho well-known traveling salesman of tho A. R Shapleigh Hardware Co., of fit. Louis, had Ir-cii arrested nt Conway, on tho charge of grand larceny preferred by hl.s house. Samuel Allendor, a St. Louis oilicer, was in the cily, tinned with a requisition from Gov. Stone of Missouri, upon which Gov. Clark issued his warrant of arrest. The Indictment' was returned at the present term of the St. Louis criminal court, November 18. It cited that on the 27th day of September, IS'J'i, at the city of St. Louis, Hinley stole from Shapleigh & Co., goods amounting to 540. TURKEY WILL YIELD Ami ho A Minted hi IiutltuthiK Urform hy tlio 1'imtit. Huda-Pkstii, Nov. 2. -Huron Ranffy, premier of Hungary, replying to an terpellatlon upon eastern affairs in the Hungarian chamber of deputies yesterday, said that the representatives of the Powers hint directed the attention of the porte to tho necessity of the iu htitution of reforms in Asia Minor. Happily, he said, Turkey had recognized the necessity of these reforms and sent troops to suppress tho troubles. The Rowers had sent naval squadrons Into Turkish waters, Huron llanffy said, but ho could make the reassuring statement that tho Power would assist Turkey to maintain peace nutl preserve thu statu quo. A MEDAL OF HONOR Awarded la n llrnvn Color Ileiirer of Urn I.nte Wiir. Washington, Nov. 22. Ry direction of the president 11 medal of honor has been awarded to James C. Walker, lato private company K, thirty-first Ohl" volunteer Infantry, for most distinguished gallantry in action at Mission Ridge, Tenn., November, 25, 160:1, At this engagement this soldier voluntarily carried tho regimental ling in clinrgo In which thu Hag received thlrty-nlnc bullet marks and the fiug taff ten.