Ligonier Banner., Volume 21, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 January 1887 — Page 2

' THE BANNER. | ‘LIGONIER, ' : ~: INDIANA - “~ SENATOR STANFORD, of California, distributed $lO,OOO in Christmas ‘pres- . ents among the poor of*Washington. : s T — ¥ | . EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, cel- . ebrated on New Year's-Day the eight“ieth anniversary of his entry into the < German army. - | l vt T m——— T o - TeE last book that General Logan . read was|the biography of General R.E. Lee. He finished the book the day‘ before his fathl sickness began. .. 'WHEN the people the other d'ag' saw the venerabld Hannibal Hamlin drawing on his oyercoat, ‘the first time in forty years,”’|they began at once to cut an éxtra lot pf cord-wood and to pre- * pare for a hard winter. « g Or a'total ©f 825 divorces granted in Indiana last.year, 581 were granted on ! complaints of wives and 244 on complaints of hushands. This shows that the Indiana women are “more* than twice as good as the mpni} . e e e . Thae annual accounts are coming from Dakota of the snow-balls, some the size of apples, others as large as peck measures, that cover the prairies there.* . These balls are rolled by the wind, and gbhere are thousands of them. Tur amount of new life insurance written in the United §fates in the year. 1885 amounted in round figures to - $378,000,000." It is bélieved that the new policies written during the past year will aggregate $400,000,000. LR R Y2WS e TTS RO TY (Y & 3 THE man who is anxious to bet one hundred dollars that ‘he can live three months on hay 'and bats has got out . ‘West as far as Montana: An exchange is more than ever convinced that he is ‘;an experienced editor who is out of a job..

o THE Chicago Journal says that «“Mr. » O'Donnell, of Michigan, is evidently of ~opinion that no Congressman who spits __on the floor.of the House can expeet to rate as a gentleman. The first to pick - this chestnut and get it to market . ought to have credit for it.” ,

THE Detroit Kree Press says about one hundred peﬂple .were shot, blown np,“drogmﬁd or crippled for life while celebratin’g the adverit of the New Year Jn the United) States, and the next batch are warned to be on hand at an early hour on the morning of July 4.

-IN 1868 GGeneral Grant and Horatio Seymour were opposing candidates for the Presidency. They both died jn 1885¢ In 1881 WJohn A. Logan and Thomas A. Hendricks were opposing candidates for the Vice-Presidency. They died within about a year of ' eéach other. . i :

Tue ‘Svt. Petersburg Academy of Science has received ‘a telegram. from Dr. -Bunge, at Orlinga, reporting the successful termination of the labors of the R‘%ts'sian expedition which had been qxploring the I'eg'ion!u'o:und the mouth of the Lena river in Eastern Tib%ria and the new Siberian ‘lslands, where the Jeannette expedition came to grief.

A MAN of about thirty-five years succceded the other day in palming himself off on an old Pennslvania farmer as his son who had been absent seventeen ‘years. He remained at the old man’s house several days, glibly: talked over the family affairs, learned where the old man kept, his money, and finally left in. the night, taking $5,000 “with him. Ly

Dr. WiLLiaM PERrny, of Exeter, N. H., a man remarkable in many respects, celebrated - his ninety-eighth birthday the other day. He is the sole survivor of the passengers.on Robert }f‘ulton’§‘steambqat on that memorable trial trip down the Hudson seventyminé years.ago, and is also the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College. He was.a« member of the c¢lass of 1811.

. THE total number of pension certifi--cates issued during the fiscal year 1886 was 81,427, against 7 4,7ol"‘)the previous ‘ year. Since July lof the curreht year: 42,673 certificates have been issued, of which 15,339 were original pensions, 13,914 were increases, 2,713 were reissues, 9%2 restorations, 358 duplicates, ‘ 1,024 accrued, 7,842 were “untler the supplemental .act of July 4, 1886, and stiall ‘wambers under | various. ‘other special acts and orders. ™, .. .

DuriNG 1886 there wered,Bo2 railway locomotives built in the: United States and Canada.. T}le prices ruled low, but the tendency was towarid .very heavy . machines, so that the amount of eapital invested in the new locomotives was not fess than $15,000,000. The production was large comparéd to that of the pre- ~ vious year, but it was not equal to the mnatural indrease -of railroad rolling stock. The railroads in the United btm? ‘@t present 27,900 locomotives an _’tkj@éeg«%nnaﬁa 1,376 locomotives to do the work of transportation, “THE dnegtnd for small bills and coins,”’ says i Philadelphia sub-treas-ury official, “4is such -that we can not begin to supply one-dollar and two-dol-_lar bills as fast as they are calied for, -and we are awdy behind in the matter of smallchange. Oneof the peculiarities ~of the day is ‘P;&W demand from,the - Southsnd Bonthwest {gr pennies. Heretofore the people 'ﬁhbxgg:ffwfé had no use for one-cent piecesjthey have rather inclined to sneer at such money; but the growth of liveliness in trade down there seems to have: l;%n ed affairs. mate- . :i'},’#isfﬂ'%mhﬁ;sﬁewibaé & new ,;ma%w‘f n Chica J; It is nearly “perfect and any one not an expert would ‘take it without question, and ' sven an expert would be deceived unless he made a critical exafnination. It is LM W 0 B 8 Sihdard. welght, . « iwg?ﬁm%: e :’m R R TR . Golob s Gght-colored Wftaeded Whtdes 't | 1 b L T ) T LVR S T

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. ~ Interesting News Compilation, | XLIXth CONGRESS.~"« e Second Session. - © WEDNESDAY, Jan. s.—Bills were introduced in the Senate: By Mr. Plumb, to ¥ix the amount of United States bonds to be required of National banks; by Mr. Sherman, that all persons on the pensionrolls for loss of limb onlimbs ' shall receive. arrears’ of pension from the date of discharge or disability; by Mr. Blair, to appropriate §600,000 to promote. the colored people’s world’s exposition to be held at’ Birmingham, Ala., in 18375 by Mr. Call, to" establish not less than one agriculiural experiment station and farm in eath of the,} several States; by Mr. Mitchell, to grantto the widow of General Logan a pension of #2,000 per annum. Mr. Platt spoke at length on the. Inter-State Commerce bill. In the House the Indian Appropriatiod bill, covering §5,115,000, and the Military Academy Anprop;iatidn bill were passad. ‘ 'lffuuusn’AY, Jan. 6.—Bbills were passed in the Senate granting pensions of $2,000 per annum to the widows of Generals John A. Logan and Frank P. Blair, and to carry into effect the treaty with China for the suppression of the opium traffic. ' Mr. Blair presented a memorial from a large number of organizations in all parts of the country, asking legislation to prevent the: violation of the Sabbath in the running of railroad trains. The Inter-State Commerce bill was further discussed. " In the House the Pension bill, which appropriates §76,247,500, was passed,: and the Naval Redrganization bill was discussed. ;

Fripay, Jan. 7.—Several petitions were presented in, the Senate ‘in favor of the Experimenta] Agricultural Stations bill. Bills were passed «to adjust the claims of any State for expenses incurred in the National defense, and appropriating $30,000 for the widow and daughter of Erskine . Allin, the inventor of the Springfield breech-loading rifle. Adjourned to the 10th. In the House-the time was principal"ly occupied, in committee of the whole, on »the private calendar. At the evening sest 'siogn forty-two pension bills were passed, including. one granting fifty dollars per thonth to the widow of General Durbin Word: - 1 o oo

. BSATURDAY, Jan. B.—The Senate . was not in gession. In the House the Senate bill repealing the Tenure-of-Office act was reported, and Mr. Hiscock introduced a bill to reduce revenue taxation and duties on raw sugar. o :

FROM WASHINGTON.

_ Ix the United States the coal production during the year 1886 was 22,426,722 tons, against 81,893,160 tor 3in 1835, ' ' ° : 1 the election contest of Page vs. Pirce, a Rhode Island case, a majority report on the 6th from the Elections Committee of the House held that neither is entitled to & scat in Congress. In the case of Kidd wvs. Steele, of Indiana, a unanimous report was mede in favor of Steele, Republican. =

Tan Secrotary of the Treasury has given a special agency to Herbert F. Beecher, of Washington Territory, a son of the Brooklyn divine,;: . i : DuriNe the seven days ended on the 7th there were 271 business failures in the United States against 273; the previous seven days. ° . _

A ’Lwen(}y-six leading clearing-houses in the :United States the. exchanges during the week ended on the Bth aggregated $1,195,325,911 -against §811,614,636, the prev.ous weelk. *As compared with the corresponding week of 1856, the decrease amounts to 13.2 per cent. i .

THE EAST.

Tur failure is announced of E. Duncan Sniffen, an advertising agent of New York City, for $lOO,OOO. » Tne Connecticut Legislature on'the 6th elected P. C. Lounsbury Governor and James L. Howard, Lieuten&nt-Governor. They were the Republican candidates at the late election. wlr h¢s inaugural Governor: Lounsbury cailed attention to the alarming extent of illiteracy in the State.

ON the 6th Governor Ames took the oath of office as Governor of Massachusetts. HENRY GEORGE'S new paper, the Standard,. made its appearance in New York City on the 7th. A% |

Ox the 7th Henry Morris, of Woodbridge, N. J.) tredsurer of the New York 'l‘exfgil@ Filtering Company, disappeared with funds of the company amounting to $70,-

Tne Valley .Falls (R. 1) horse-shoe Works were ’oui'ned on the 7th. Loss, $330,'OOO. 3 57 Feiny o !

JosePH PERRTY, aged seventy-three years, and Robert Price, aged: sixty-five years, cousins and misers, were found starved to death on the 7th in.an old/ frame building in Philadelphia which they ocetipied. Their combined wealth was estimated at $250,000{ Tre National ‘convention of the American Agricultural -and Dairy Association will meet in eighth annual session.in New York City on the Bth and 9th of February next. Dairying and dairy legislation will receive considerable attention from able speakers; and by contributions from ab‘)“g writers. F. K. Moreland, 169 Chambep street, New York City, is secretary and treasurer of the association.

FERDINAND GENTNER, thel first man to brew lager beer in the United - States, died on the Bth at College Point, N, Y., aged sixty-eight years. © * 7 '@ fhors ‘THREE girls, no one 'of whom is aver twenty years of age, werc placed in'jail on the Bth at. Lewistown, Pa., for the murder of Johm Ackley. Liquor eaused the erime, . DuriNg 1886 there were’ 63,742 cabin and 300,918 steerage passengers' landed .at the port of New York. ° o It was stated on the Bth that.the continued strike of the dock-laborers at Perth Amboy, Hoboken and other places keptin idleness 'six thousand men and boys in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa. . ..

G. C. SswyEß & Co.’s dry-goods|store at Hartford, Conn., and two other buildings adjoining, were destroyed-by fire on the 9th, the losses aggregating $125,000. Thomas, R. Laughion, a clerk, perished in thefitaibf, 0o ' 40 8 3 38 B . TaE death of Elijah Babbitt; the. oldest practicing attorney in the United States, occurred at his homein Erie, Pa., on the 9th, at the age of ninety-two years. He was a -member of Congress during the

WEST AND SOUTH.. . . Tae, Republican Congressional - convention for the Eighth district met on the 6th at Fau Claire, Wia,, and nominated Hugh | 3. Price’for the short term and Nels P. Haugen for the.long term, made vacant by the death of the late Congressman Price. The nomineée for the short term is'a son of the lattér. ; 5 GOVERNOR 'THAYER, of Nebraska, and Governor Luce, of Michigan, delivered their inaugural addresses before their respective State Legislatures on the 6th. FoUrRTEEN pouches of letter mail and about a truckload of paper .mail were , bumoed‘-iﬁf the regent rdilroad wregk at Tiffin, O. S e e " Ox thet6th-the Republicaus of the Minnesota ' Legislature nominated ex-Governor C. K. Davis for United States Benator, Senat%r Cockrell was renominated by Missouri Democrats, and Michigan Republictﬁs:émmgm&- Francis Bgtnckbri ge. E. P. Auis & Co.’s foundry at Milwabkee was burned on the 6th. Loss, $250,000. Tae loss near Cape Flattery of the American ship Harvey Mills and her crew g: htwenty-tv\io men was reported on the . THE thermometer marked 36 degrees be,Jow zero at Moorehead, Minn., on thé 6th, -2 below at Bt. Vincgnt and 23 below at St. Paul, In the same State. At Bismarck, D. T, it was 80 below; at Huron, D. T., 25; at_ LaCrosse, Wi, 17’ at Dayondort, 3a., 17Fort, Garry ‘and Minnodosn, “Norihwast ¥ et ke yof the I*ﬁ brd |Bk Sty orcinized {#%’ B IRt s tha De ATR A ao9 Py g % %’”‘* h ;?3‘« b o ”W%P&?' 6 the ﬁj _mg'%ém b AR R R, S b imatnte i e, s e o s R iST s

in the Senate refused on the 7th to mee\c in joint Session with the House to histen to the

‘Governor’s message, and the document was’ ;ﬁaaqf; y the’x%ﬁgrlgﬁ%ln the House the mes. sage was tabled without reading.. The )xnﬁ& adjourned until the 11th, A FIRE on the 7th destroyed the machineshops of the Northern Pacific road at Fargo, D. T., valued at $120,000. THE sub-treasury in Chicago received during the seven days ended on the 7th an average of five counterfeit silver dollars each day. A new variety bears the date of 1882, and was passed at a mercantile house. THE Democrats of the Eighth Wisconsin district on the 7th nominated Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Bt. Croix, for the long term, and Joseph Bardeam, of Superior, for the short term, made vacant' by the death of Representative Price. The. Knights of Labor nomimatedDr. C. Alexander, of Eau Claire. ;

_ For thirty miles between Pellys Island and Little River, 8. C,, the beach was on the 7th covered to the a!epth of over a foot with dead fish, mostly menhaden and porgies. It was thought that they were killed by some volcanic disturbance. Such an occurrence had never Before been known on that coast. . §

- Ox the 7th Isaac W. Sprague, long known as the living skeleton, died in Chicago. He was forty-six years old, and weighed fortyfive pounds. . ; : GOVERNOR GRAY, of Indiana, on the 7th reported the total debt of the State- at §6,006,000. The insane hospital consumed about one-fourth of the entire reyenue of BBt 0 o e ? o A BILL was introduced in dach ‘house of the Missouri Legislature on the 7th for the submission to the people of the question of prohibiting the liquor traffic. = ' - R. RormSCHILD'S Soxs, saloon-fixture manufacturers at Chicago and Cincinnati, failed on the 7th for $lOO,OOO. - A At Artkim, Minn., during the night of the 6th the thermometer registered 60 degrees belotv zero. : e |

Ox the Bth Judge Aaron Shaw, ex-mem-ber of Congress from the Sixteenth Illinois district, died at his home in Olney,.at the age of seventy-six years. , . THE officers of the steamer J. M. White, which was burnéd recently near Bayou Sara, La., with .such terrible loss of life, were all indicted on the Bth' for manslaughter. = = : DRr. JAMES GRAVES, who was one of the first patent-medicine makers in the United States, died on the Bth at Louisville, Ky, aged seventy-two years.' it Ox the Bth the four-year-oid daughter of Andrew Hersch, living near Peru, Ind., was burned to death, her dress taking fire from a stove. e ;

TrE fund raisedin Chicago for the benefit of Mrs.” Logan and forwarded to her amounted to $13,000 on the Bth.

A Fire in Lawrence, Kan.; on the Bth, which started in Kahnweiler & Bros.’ drygoods store, destroyed property valued at Tre thermometer on the Bth registered 50 degrees below zero at Miles City, M. T., and at Pembina, D." T., it was 56 degrees below. Sty ;

Ox the Bth Grand Sentinel, the Dbest stallion in Michigan, died at Kalamazoo from blood poisoning. His owners, 8. A. Browne & Co., valued him at §25,000. Tur German ship Elizabeth was wrecked near Cape Hgnry, Va., on the Bth, and twenty-five men were drowned. o MrirorlAL scrvices were held in Chicago on the evening of the Bth,’ in Honor of General Logan, gotten up by the Departmens of the lilinois G. A. R., over three thousand persons being present. ' ;

" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Tre death of William Thompson, United States Consul at Southampton, eccurred on the sth {rom bronchitis. . FrEpErICK RAINE, OConsul-General at Berlin, informed the State Department on the sth that American citizens suffered great annoyance in Europe unless equipped with passports. ] ‘ Apvicrs of the 6th from London report tfearful snow-storms at Florence, Venice, Genoa and in the whole of Piedmont, interrupting railway and -telegraphic communication. L : ; /

AX earthquake on the 7th at Djemel, Africa, destroyed many houses and killed Seven persons. o L

THE destruction of several villages in Switzerland by avalanches was reported on the 7th. No lives were lost.

TeE British Government has refused the privilege to parade with arms to the Gate City Guard, of Atlanta, Ga., which hal iplanned a tour of Europe. : : | At Sydney, New South Waies, four 'young men were. hanged on the 7th_for ‘ brutal assults vpon a girl of sixteen years, ;whom they had decoyed into a suburb.’ HEeAvy snow-storms still prevailed on the Bth in the midland counties in England. Travel of all kinds was suspended, and it ‘was feared that many persons had perished 4n the storm.. % : % | )

" OFFICIAL reports from Ireland on the 9th showed little diminution in the number of non-payments of rents and evictions of tenaats. e : o .

LATER.

- Trc Indiana House, with the assistance of nineteen Republican Senators, canvassed the vote for Lieutenant Governor on the 10th and witnessed the swearing in of R. 8. Robertson by Judge Walker. The new . official delivered: his inaugural ad dress amidst the greatest confusion, and declared the joint convention adjourned to January 19 . o : : - TuErEe were several shocks of earthquako at Charleston and Summerville, 8. €., on the evening of the 10th,” accompanied by the usual roaring sound. “ : Joax RoacH, the famous ship-builcfer, diecd on the 10th in New York, in his sev-enty-ninth year, from cancer. When a lad of sixteen he came: from Ireland, without friends or capital. Before His failure he employed three thousand men. He leaves a wife and two gons and two.daughters. Tae, wholesale toy house of Vergho, Ruhling & Co., established in ‘Chicago in 1:55, was on the 10th closed by an assignment to secure liabilities of $102,000.

ALIGE OATES, the well-known comic opera singer. died at Philadelphia on the 10th, aged thirty-eight years. o & JonN 'G. RocERS, one of the judges of the circuit'court of Cook County, fell dead in a dry-goods store in Chicago on the afternoon of the 10th. Up to that moment he appeared to be in perfect health. He was born in Kentucky December 23, 1813. He leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters. 3 ; _BNow fell throughout New York State, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England on the 10th. Nearly all trains wera delayed, -. | g s ; GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, was inaugurated at Topeka on the 10th. One of the features of tge oceasion was the prasence of six of the nine ex-Goviernors of Kansas. GEORGE LricuroNy and Fred Mclntyre were }frozen to death on:the 10th. while hunting near Farmington, N. H. IIN the United /States S mgz the 10th petitions mag#:éﬁéfgr% uction of internal taxes, the repeal of internal-reve-nue laws and a reduction of the tariff. The Inter-State Commiefrce bill was further considered. In the 'Héuse bills were intro'a.uoed: Making a ten years’ ,resmnce of ~aliens a prerequisite to naturdMzation; granting aid for the establishment of com‘mon’whodls and for the professional edu~cation of public school teachers; for the relief of dependent parents gt ‘honorably ‘discharged; o 8 and sailofs; to place i lég:erandﬁ m&g 'tﬁ free list and g re~duce the duty on sugar; to %ra.de.taxe’s on ‘the basis :ﬁ income; to forbid the use of stoves or oil on passenger % g; to cevote the tﬁ;;ury:u; "lmﬁfgﬁ pui jg& school putx": ‘poses; for .myqu; ivil list; to disfranSt eet gt oi, + PTEILOTION $0 pegsong who, “H itatio IS reot [te speculative transaco g ey ei w g;,g fifty PEORIIN Wintin wh omos o i O por eT R osSl T e L

N . v - TERRIBLE COLLISION. Passenger and Freight '!.‘g.ins Col- : lide Near Republic, Ohio. = : 3 The Cars Take Fire and Nineteen Persons are Burned to Death—But One L Person Escaped Froxj ; v . the Smoker, - o : LIST OF THE KILLED. : TIFrIN, 0., Jan. s.—Details from the wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, seven miles from this city, which occurred about four o’clock yesterday morning, are meagre. The fast ffain which left New York about nine o’clock Monday morning, with five common coaches, four sleepers, three baggage and ' express cars, for Chicago, collided with ~an east-bound freight, and 1s now a shapecless and.burning wreck. The fast train was about an hour late, and was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour.’ h “Passing Republic, the first station east of here, at great speed, it rushed upon the curve, one mile west of that village, and the next instant the fearful crash came, which hurled into eternity nineteen persons and in jured thirty others, some fatally. When the engineer of the fast train discovered the approaching freight, both trains were within 100 yards of eachether, and although the brakes were applied and the engines reversed, it was too late.

The engine of the fast train is on top of the freight engine, and the coaches and sleepers are telescoped, and to ‘add horror to the disaster, fire broke out in the smolking car and soon spread to the coaches, and while miany were killed outright, others were wedged in among the broken cars and slowly consumed by the flames. The screams of the wounded and dying were heartrending, but no immediate assistance ecould be given. Notuntil a farmer, ‘awakered by the crash, came with his neighbors, who labored with great zeal to rescue the dead and dying, was relief obtained. ik ;

-Nineteen bodies have been taken from the burning mass and their charred and mangled remains lie side by side in the snow, a ghastly monument to the incapacity or criminal negligence of spme one as yet unknown. : By s 4

Assistance was sent from Tiffin a§ goon as the news of the disaster reached ' here. It is a fearful spectacle and' vividly recalls '{397 Ashtabula horror of the winter of (6. . 4

The men on the freight train saw the impending danger, and were enabled to leap from the train, but the fast train, coming on with therapidity ofa hurricane, afforded no such opportunity. Engineer, Eastman made his escape, but it was at the cost of a broken leg, while William TFredericks; the fireman, kad his right leg crushed, and lingered in slow anguish, perfectly conscious, for an hour, when he died. The fast train consisted of a baggage car, smoker, ladies’ coach and twosleepers. Strangeto relate, none of these left the track. The passengers in the ladies’ coach and in the sleepers in the rear were uninjured, but the baggage car and the smoker could not be opened. .The stoves in the smoker were upset and the car immediately took fire. It is Impossible to tell the full number of occupants, but they suffered death in its most horrible form, being slowly burned alive. . Four of the bodies only were identified, onc- being that of a man by the name of Bradley, from Washington, D. C., a prominent Knight of Labor, who made known his name while suffering the tortures of the damned in his fiery prison. The other three bodies were those of Joseph Dostlethwaitei and two sons. Mr. Dostlethwaité’s wife and children were removing from néax Martinsburg, W. Va., to Chillicothe, Mo., and had all théir effects turned into cash and notes, some $1,300, which was burned with Mr. Dostlethwaite’s body. The mother and her three surviving children, one an infant.in arms, will be cared for until her relative, can be heard:from. 'A man by the name of Forrest ,?)m Chicago, received a severe flesh ngn ’ ] .

‘The accident is charged to the conductor and engineer of the freight train. They pulled out of Scipio, a small station west of Repubtic, when they should have remained there. ; g

.Thiey claimed they had thirty-five minutes to make the run of four miles and a quarter, which only requires eighteen minutes. Tyler, the engineer, is said to have been in toxicated and a bralkeman on his train said he had four drinks with him the evening PREVIORRIY. S et i

~ Conductor Fletcher, of the freight train, corroborates- the statement that Engineer Kyler, of his train, was drunk. An old gentleman named Ferguson, of Bloomdale, is - believed to be among the killed. Engineer Kyler is now at Chicago Junction. S " MASSFIELD, 0., Jan. s.—lhe following is a complete list of the killed and wounded in the collision: Xilled—Joseph Postlethwaite, Belton Wetzel County, W. Va., and his twosons, Spencer and Henry; W. Scott Pierce, express messenger, Newburg, W. Va.; Frank Irwin, lineman, Blackhand, O.; J. M. Francis, lineman, Blackhand, O.; William Fredericks, fireman, Washington, D. C.; M. H. Parks, officer o} Knights of Labor, Washington, D. C. ] . There are nine distinct bodies that are burned to a crisp and a mass of charred remains, including pieces of skull an@. bones. How many persons this represents never will _be known. - The railroad official¥ claim that%‘here were but ten persons killed, six of whom were passengers and the other four employes. Only one person -escaped from the smoker unhurt, and his name is ,unknown. -In the crushing of the baggage ‘car against the smoker he was shoved up through the roof of the latter, and escaped without a scratch. : g .

John Teehill, an Irishman, who resides at :San Francisco, and has a brother-in-law. who owns a large liquor store on Pacific avenue, that city, was on his way home from a yisit to County Dare, Ireland. He ‘was wedged in the wreck, but succeeded in releasing himself and fell head foremost out of the window into a ditch. His head and hands‘were terribly burned, his collarbone broken and bruised all over. He was taken to Chicago Junction, where he is now /coughing and blood is flowing freely from his mouth and is not expected to live. Baggagemaster John Gates was shoved the length of the car over the seats by the baggage car and was landed in the rear of the smoker. His ankles were injured, eye burned out, arm burned, but not seriously e being able to extricate himself withou: assistance.. He 'was taken to his home a Newark. : : S o

Assaulted By Tramps.

' GALENA, 111., Jan. s—Miss Anna Scheller de Bual, a highly respectable lady, eightes: years of age, daughter of Colonel U. G Sheller de Bual, engineer on General Grant’s staff Suring the war, was assaulted by three unknown men, .supposed to be tramps, three-quarters of a mile from town, Monday forenoon, and outraged in a most ‘shocking manner. 'The young lady had ‘brought her two sisters to school in a buggy, and was returning alone to her home, near this city, at the time. After accomplishing their fiendish Ipurpoeue; the villiang decamped, and up to a late hour had nat -bné‘;n captured. :Oﬂfoars and: citizens are in search of them, and if cdu%ht and identified are likely to have a hanging bee on short notice. . . = o — & ————— Nebraska Legislature, “OmAmA, Jan: 5.—A Lincoln special reports the organization of both houses of the Legislature. Anti-VanWyck men captured the Benate organization and VanWyck men that o}ntgé ‘House. Democrats in both houses stood fast on party lines. The organization decides nothing on the Senatorial question, balloting. on. QWNW&“ ‘weeks.

. . HEROES MEET DEATH. Five Brave Life-Savers Drowned in a Fu. " tlleEffort to Rescus Shipwrecked Sailors—A (i%nap Vess_'el‘,Go?l Down Off the " Coast of Virginia—All on'Board, Twenty i Number, Lost. 2y ‘ : NeorroLx, Va., Jan. 19.—The German ship ‘Elizabeth, #om Hamburg for - Baltimore, went ashore Saturday morning on the Virginia beach fourteen :miles south of Cape Henry, and every man on board, numbering twenty, together with tive members of the life-saving crew, Station No. 4, which attempted to rescuie the mariners, were drowned. The names of those of the vessel’s crew are unknown. The. five heroes who sacrificed their lives in endeavoring to save others.are as follows: ABEL BELANZA, - J. A. BELANZA, . J: WiLaxp, . - GeorceE W. STONE, JOSEPH SPRALLBY. ;

A terriblestorm was raging at the time of the disaster and the morning was bitter and cold. The wreck was discovered by the patrolmen of station No. 4 and Dam Neck, who fired rockets and gave the alarm. The life-saving crews ran immediately to the scene and fired six lines without résult. A life-boat was manned, and under the command of Captain Belanza started for the wreck. The vessel was safely reached and four of the ship’s crew ‘were taken into the life-boat. ‘A ship’s boat was launched and the xast of the ship’s crew entered it. - Both boats made good headway thArough the boiling surf until suddenly 'a wave of great force struck and capsized them. Then began a desperate struggle for life, and with many of the men it was a prolonged one. The: horrified life-savers on| the beach were powerless to® assist their drowning ocomrades or the . unfortunate strangers. The drowning men were carried southward by the seas, and some of them were washed ashore. As they came within reach they were picked up, and endeavors were made {o revive them. Two of the life-saving crew—John Etheridge and Frank Thetford, of'station INo. 4— alone reached shore alive. They wera unconscious when picked up and only recov.ered their senses yesterday. Ethkeridge is badly hurt. { . The bodies of tho five men of the life-sav-ing crew and four of the ship’s crew were recovered Saturday. They were in lifepreservers. Three more of the ship’s crew without life-preservers were picked up lower down the' coast yesterday morning. - Not a word of conversation passed between the ship’s crew.and the life-sav-ing men when the latter boarded the vessel in their desporate attempt at rescue, and the eause of the wreck can never be positively known, although it is supposed ‘that in attempting to make the capes of Virginia under reefed sails sufficient allowance was not made for the strong currents, which have caused several disastrous wrecks along the lower Virginia and North Carolina coast during the last few years. °

A REVENUE BILL.

Provisions of Mr. Hiscock’s Measure to Abolish Taxes on Tobacco and Reduce _Those on Sugar. ! . WASHINGTOY, Jaa. 10.—Representative Hiscock’s bill to reduce internal revenug taxes and’ the duties on raw sugar, introduced in the House Saturday, provides that all sugars not above No. 13 Dutch«standard in color, all tank-bottoms, sirups of cane: juice, or of beet juice, melada, concrete and concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, ° testing by the polariscope not above 75 degrecs, imported into the United States shalf pay & duty of 70-100 of 1 cent. per ‘pourd, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree ;:hpwn,by the polariscope . test they shall pay 2-100 of 1 cent per pound additional. It is provided, however, that sugars imported from countries levying an export tax ° shall pay the rate of duty.-now in force. For the encouragement. of sugar cultivation it is provided that a bounty of §2 shall be paid for every 2,000 pounds of sugar-beets or cane raised by any farmer or planter in the ‘United States. For the encouragement of sugar manufacturers the bill divides domestic sugars into five grades, on which bounties will be paid ranging from 67 to 87 cents per;100 pounds. : - Andther'section of the bill abolishes the internal revenue tax on manufactured tobacco and the special taxes paid by dealers in the same. Also ' the’ internal revenue Jaws limiting, rostricting or regulating the manufacture, sale or exportation of tobacco in its various forms. pal e |

Other sections allow grain distillers to methylate certain spirits “with. wood atcohol or naptha, and authorize the importation in bond and the free withdrawal from warehouses of methylated spirits for use in the arts and manufacturés.

The eleventh section provides that all articles, preparations or compounds intended for sale or use in the United States, except wines, liquors, spirits, cordials ' and other alcohol compounds used and sold as beyerages, may be made. and manufactured in internal-revenue manufacturing ' warehouses and with the use of distilled spirits, free of internal-revenue tax, provided that the spirits so used shall be of an alcoholic strength of not less than 170 degrees proof. . . : &

~ The remaining sections of the bill relate to the employment of gaugers, penalties, bonds, etc. : S

i “BLACKLISTERS” PINED.

NEw HAVEN Conn, Jan. 10.—In the City Court, Judge Pickett rendered a decision in the cases of William H. Wallace, Assistant Superintendent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and Stacy B. Opdyke, Superintendent of the New Haven & Northampton road, ‘accused of conspiracy by Thomas F. Meany, who charged them ' with “blacklisting”” him. The ae cused were fined $5O each. They will tndoubtedly appeal from the decision. ‘The judge, in his deécision, =nid that he was clearly of the opinion - that & conspiracy designed to hinder any man from putting his labor ,or the market, when, where and for such compensation as he may'agree for is equally criminal with any conspiracy designed to hinder the sale of the merchandise of any producer or dealer,-and is more disastrous in effect than any other form of conspiracy, except that to take a life.

‘ A Mammoth Diamond. NEw YoRK, Jan. 10.—In an excise case Saturday in the Tombs police court, where & saloon-keeper was held to bail for a violation of the Excise law, his counsel offered as bail a monster diamond. Justice White at first refused, thinking it was glass.. The lawyer, however, explained, and it was taken as security. It is the largest finished diamond in the United _Btates, and it is known as ‘“The President.” | It is fifty-two carats in weight and cut with sixty-four facets. It is valued at $45,0. It was brought from the Kimberly -mines in Scuth Africa, in 1885, by Charles Levy, of this city, and originally weighed 125 carats. It outranks the *Cleveland,” which is valued at $40,000. The Oldest Practicing Attorney in the . .. United States Dead, 3 ~ Erig, Pa., Jan. 10. Elijah Babbitt, the oldest practicing attorney in the United States, died at his home yesterday after- . poon, aged nineolgt,-wo years. He was " born in Providence, R. 1., but came to this _city when amere boy. He served in Con~gress as Representative of the Tweity_seventh Pennsylvania district during he [T A 0 i popnenal: Sejop of Lincoln, -He oontinuod practiciog ‘st the - bar until a few months since, when he was . e b e ey o j e PeA i T B Lee e e RR s s

AR ) RRNE R e U Tiy R G TR WRECK.Survivors Giving a Description of U TREAcoldent b Freight Conduetor Fletcher Held Responsible for the Collision, as His Train = j was Running on the Time of - . ‘ : ‘ the Express. 5 : : SCENE OF THE WRECK. - : 5 TirFIN, 0., Jan. 6.—The scene ‘of thewreck on the Baltimore & Ohlio is fast losing its horrible shape, and by noon yester . day every vestige of the disaster disap-. peared. The track, which was torn up fortwenty yards, has been replaced. The dismantled engines and broken cars haveall been removed and traffic is again resumed. JAll that' remains to.tell the tale is a few chared timbers, which are being covered by the gentle snow, and the horrible burned trunks of nine bodies which were disfigured - beyond recognition. They have been cared for-by the undertaker at Republic and will | be kept as long as possible, so that friends may identify them. Every piece of burnt clothing, keys and everything that was not ntterly destroyed has been gathercd up to uid in the identification of bodies. These 1 will be held by the coroner, who will immediately institute a thorough investigation..l The responsibility of the accidentis now placed upon Freight Conductor Fletcher, who pulled out of a siding fowrr miles west of Republic without orders| intending to make the siding at Republic for the train. 1 He missed his calculation just one mile, and the ashes of the unknown victims testi£y to his criminal carelessness. SRy

~ Telegrams from many parts are constantly arriving makin2 inquiries for friends supposed to be lost. 2Tost of them are happily assured of'the safety of their friends, but not a few are still in doubt. 53

_CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—A¥nong the survivors of the wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio. railroad who arrived here, Harry Forrester, of Baltimore, was the mdst severely injured. ' To a reporter he said: “I can’ttell you | much about the way the thing happened. It was quick as a flash, and how I'got through the millions of splinters 'and falling timlers I don’t know. When I got élp the cars were on fire and I could' hedr the people all crying out in agonized tones. for help. I was somewhat dazed, but thede. cries brought' me to a realization' of the calamity. The sights were terribly. There seemed to be wounded people: everywhere and all were crying for aid. Iwas covered’ with blood:from the wéunds on my head, and could not do much toassist. The groans of those in the burning cars were awful. I wa4 near the express messenger, who was killed, and the baggageman, Gates, who" had all the flesh nearly torn off of oné of his legs. There were only four of us, I think, out of eighteen, who. got out the smoking car.” Mr. Forrester has a verysevere contusion on his left shoulder, made, he thinks, by striking some timber when he and his -seat. were forced through the!roof of the car. Prof. Francis Kendall, of Cretey Neb., said: *“I was sitting in the first-class coach which was coupled just in the rear .of the smoking car and ahead of the two sleepers. ' Our firstintimation of danger was the sharp applicatior of the brakeés and the reversing of the engine with such suddenness that we, were thrown forward in our seats, < Then came a deafening crash in front of us and our car was sHaken up ‘as if by an earthquake. All the glass in the . windows was broken, we were thrown allover the car, and the women screamed.. We all got out as quickly as mossible. The Jbagzage and smoking cars were one pile of kindling wood, and had already caughf fire. We tried to aid those at work on the. burning cars, but the heat was so intenge that wewere driven back. There were several persons to be seen in the flames, but they ‘were beyond human help. Some of them! were alive and their cties could - be heard. We then ran forward to the engine.; Here. we found the fireman jammed in: between: the boiler head and water tank., With axes, saws and timpers we worked for nearly an hour to release him, but without success. He was caught by the lower ilimbs, and. finally died before our eyes, hayving uttered {xmt'_,dly a word, though conscious till the ast. : R = i

. “Fred Betzold, of Rushville, Neb., was another who escaped. His wife was in my coach. He found himself caught by both legs and with great difficulty succeeded in - wrenching himself-free just as the flames reached him. He told me that there was a man on each side of him and that one of them caught him by the foot and held him for some time before he could free himself from his desperate clasp. Each wasjammed " in past help. He ‘then jumped ten feet to the ground. Beyond severe bruises he was not hurt. How the fourth man gotout he did not know, nor anybody else. We found him lying on the snow with his skull laid bare. I presume he was shot bodily out of the wreck.” We carried him to one of the sleepers and the surgeons said he could - hardly live. 3 gor Tam el e e “The statements made concerning the .cause of the disaster by the erew of the freight train were very conflicting. The general excuse given was that they thotight there was time to reach Republic before the. ‘express arrived. They Xknew they were running on the time of the express, but /Tiffin and Republic are but five miles apart. They did not agree as to whether the train was standing still or moving. A brakeman said the freight was moving slowly, while others'of the crew said it was standing still, having become stalled. There were probably sixty people on the train and about thirty of tlyzm came on to Chicago on the train with“me. It was the most sickening and horrible sight a man ever saw.”* . Several other passengers tell substantial-: ly the same stories. All unitein saying that the death of M. H. Parks, who js supposed to have been connected with the Bureau of Labor Statistics at Washington, was undoubtedly the saddest and most heartrendering of the whole wreck. When the crash came he was riding in the simoker. He succeed in getting the upper half of - hig ?_dy out of the coach window, when his legs were pinioned by the debris in the interior of the car, and there he was bufned to death before the eyes of . those outside, who could do nothing for him. “I shall never forget,”” said one of the -Burvivors. “As the ﬂ?mes dWhere creeping closer and closer to him, and he came to the conclusion’ St Ko Wik dosind Jo g %ﬁf“‘awﬁsz; he pitched 'his poclet book tous and gave: us the address of his;mother in Waghing.: ton. After that the flames closed around him and we did not see him again.”? =

- ——A bottle of catcbup, exploded on the breakfast table of & Michigan- citi=: zen the'other morning. It wasonly a few days ago that an.ostrich egg burst” its boiler.. Dynamite and giant powt . der are not goipg to have all- the fun to themselves. But it is becoming sérious when a man isn't secure from @ blows ing up even in his bwn“'hoﬁs‘éh?gtdi-"‘-—f** BostonTranserpl. . 0 oot e

—The cave animals.of North America, according to Prof. A, S. Packard,. comprises a total of one hundwved “and seventy-two species'of blind creatures, nearly all of which are mostly whitein | color.—Arkansaw Traveler. .~ =~ "~ —A touching incident of the recent burning of the 4. M.. White is reported.: A little boy was saved who:was too young to know his'name. «All heknetv' of his identity was that he was ‘*mam‘ma’s boy.”"—N. O. Picayune, ©=~ " <uWhit s & hero" haks ‘W exs: _change. A hero is a man who can pass. W %‘”i"*’* £ ‘make sure that they haye: nojdesigns ot SR R s O e e

. INDIANA LEGISLATURE. ‘the Indiaua Legislature met and drganized in ‘the new Capitol at here interest centering in the Senafe.’ Green 'Smith. took the chair against the protest of the übnqnné, who were not permitted. to be heard, and who, - without voting, were counted .as ,T;regen“t; the . Democratic.caucus nominees being elected and - a set of prepared rules adopted, giving the majority all the powér. In the House the Repub-. . lican nominees were elected, Hon. !*V G, Sayre,. as Speaker, and W. H. Smith, Chief Clerk. Be::, yond the formal organization no business was’ . INDIANABOLIS, Jain, 7, — SENATE~Yesterday | the Senate adopted a resolution to meet with ~the House this. morning: to hear the Governor's - message, but immediately after the opeming ex_ercises this morning u change of front.was fa< - “dicated by Senator Bailey’s motion to reconsider~ ‘this action. It was carried by a party vote, and, - upon. the order of President Smit#x, the clerk - * read the message to 'the Senate, the protests of ~the Republican members against such s course ‘being unavailing, all the proceedings being uhder the operations of the rule of the previous question. .This action wds much commentdd ~upon, and it is’ understood to mepn that the Democratic majority in the Senate | is not will- . -ing to take ochances ona jointiesilon for any . _burpose. In the afternoon:the Senste pasced 2 - | ~ resolution that the recent "electi(?ﬁ of Robert- - son, for Lieutenant-Governor, to fill a.vacancy, - ~-was illegal and void, and in responsg to a House - ~ Invitation to meet and canvass the ballots cast i for: that' officer, sent the resolution to the Fisause, declining to meet on Monday to CaNVaES the'ballots; as provided by law in ordlnary elcetions. The Senate adjourned until/Tuesdoye | - - - HOUSE.~-The Speaker announced o the Héuse - that Governor Gray's message had been sub~_mitted to the House. Mr. Kellison| moved lat the Clerk be directed to read. it.| MfF, Stock - moved that a committee of two bg appointed ~to notify the Senate that the Housd was ready, : _ and Mr, Reynolds offered a further ; amenfiment that one thousand copies of the messaze be *) printed and copies be laid on the -desks of members. - The proposition was defested. The first | #hing before the House in the afternoon was the announcement of.thé Committee on Elcction Privileges. That: ‘committee | ds Representatives = Kercheval,s; . Lingk, Judge - Gardiner, © Griffiths, . | Dunn, Carrigl, -+ Cushman, Bertram and Clarke, six Republicans, . ‘the threes last named being Democrats. The . resolution to invite the Se¢nate to join the Fouse to listen to. the reatling of the Governor's mossage then came up. A yote was finally taken, "and i%' was decided not to read ‘the message.’ Judge : Gardiner then moved to laythe message | -upon the table, which was d¢arried. | Bpeaker - . Suyre then Interrupte¢proce'eding.~§ 10 ~;zhuounge i that the returns on the vote for Litutenant: _Governor had béen turned over to the House, and'thathe would on Monday start to canvass -them. The ‘Clerk was also instrupted to so inform the Senate. A number 6f bills were introduced and other matters discussed. At a late hour the House adjourned until Monday. . -

~_GOVERNOR GRAY'S message is a lengthy -dociment, reviewing ‘the ﬁnzﬁucial ‘condi- . tion of the State and-showing a total in‘debtedness of $6,006,608 34, of which ﬂmmj nt ° $1,701,825 is foreign-debt, and-staoﬂa,as Ris. domestic debt; the total annhal interdst paid by the State being 318,261 99. Referring to this condition, he says that the Statehaslargely developedin ger material, - financlal and commercial .Tesurees, and the cost of the maintenance of her institutions has also increased on account of the: increased number of inmates! The State ‘has been enabled to pay the large anfount of extraordinary appropriations by anticipating the'revenue of eaeh ensuing year, in the why of advances by the county treasurers as provided by law,and these -advances now amount to a sum of $440,804 65. The educational and benevolent institutions of ‘the State dre réfebred to ats. considerable length, and an; epitome of ‘their. condition as shown in their annual ‘reports is given, On the ques{cion»of Pprison reform hepays: . . 0 40 B

“Twe-thirds of the prisonérs%in our State, prisons are under thirty years of age. To expect to reform this class ofi’ris‘oners by the forced associatiop with hasdened and . confirmed ecriminals, murderers, thieves and counterfeiters, would be tg reason that, evil associations do not c»opﬁaminatcfu@r corrupt. .The sending of ybung men to%g‘; penitentiary for slight off.e,hs%si is:-objec-tionable for the reason that however good his condrict may be, he finds that the world - does not look kindly‘on an ex—@enitentijary ) convict, ‘notwithstanding thes offense/for which he was convicted was not- a grave one. It is cruel. to'visit ag{i@ _terrible punishment fora slight offense. A punishment that ends oyly.-Witﬁ;;iiéqg}i?apd &l punishment that deprives the young and first offender of obtaining’ honorable employment and association of reputable persons, is a disgrace to Christian icivilization a mockery of the administratioi‘g of justice, | and ‘2 sad commentary upon statésman BRIt e i

.. The decrease of nearly £54.000,000 in the last appraisement.of property, notwithstanding the State is constantly increasing in wealth and population, shows conclusiveT&hht a large amount of ‘property is escaping taxation, and upon this subject the message recommends a system of the " most rigid examination, in order toprevent the escape from tdxation of various kinds of personal property, including money, promissory nates, stocks, mm%:g'ages_,,etcu On the question of labor and the laboring . classes the message says: 1 j ' ‘“The aggregation of individual wealth -in" various combinations of power, the dombination of manufacturing monopolies and the organization of coal mines and other syndicates, with the railroad compaTnies, are subjects that should receive your _careful consideration.. All these combinations of capital and eorporate poweriare _organized for the purpose of forcing up the prices of commodities. and necessaries. _of life, and of controlling the wages of la- ~ bor to the serious .detriment of the people and oppression of the laboring classes,” ' He therefore';ecog@mgpds thé:-enactment. ~Bf such laws as will protéct thé fastirights |of the Jaboring classés agalagt & combipition of capitel and corpbrate power, and _secure the prompt and full payment of § ‘their wages ‘and give relief friu‘ competi_tion with convict contract labor.-. The message closes with & reference to the fre_quent defaleation of county: officer yoand. ggcommengﬁe%l:pﬁg\ﬁ, ing 7-' . o cial _bonds 0f%&%“ﬁ%%ﬁ treasure ;é%ibe “signed by“fifty freehold stiretice, wheseaggregate wealth, over and above.all indebtedness is double the amount of the bond. . Ar Goshen James . Smith and James MW‘:{ Were sou - o twoiyears in tho pe ntiary, G oho bundrof dollars Ma‘qh,&n(‘l;« isfranchisi :d. oby i .years ;fﬂl’, _burglarizing the stores of Dr. Mathews and Postmaster Stontenor, at New Paris, a. few monthsago, =~ . % -:‘ il ot LaSasigpodibas. Mining: Compar m 5 lay their ‘pipes along the streets and alleys of the‘city for the term of five years." Théy will ‘commence boring soon.. They feel confi~ ‘dentofsuceess. mhr %”’«. ;ﬁ_,-‘\-'. 3 ,avf LOC! ’u_,. ;‘f:! i; 't '3\ Awe 1 ] aiablp o 7 e Franx McDoxaLn, son of Seustor MoDonald, died at Washington on the. mornSR s obten b for life, his nurse accidentally "M&% fall: The deceaséd Was aged nbont thirty.. SRR e s 51 SR I,__'&‘_,"4;‘, ﬁmﬂﬁ L ot i datlal b Galimeon B basads delie o A «&?% ?mfék N W ’~*i(~?‘