Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 February 1889 — Page 2

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LIGONIERB. ’ s INDIANA,

THE latest official returns indicate that the population of Japan is over 88, 000, 000. ;

Tue United States are eating more oranges, lemons, bananas, figs and raisins' than any other country on earth.’ ) o

THe California Legislature has evoived a new word. -1t is “difflequibble,”” meaning a flank attack on a main gquestion by criticising some minor detail. /

Two MEN in Texas had a dispute as to what ‘‘pro bono publico” meant, and they settled it by carving each other with knives. The term means just what it did before.

SAVANNAH claims the oldest wine in America. Some of the oldest families there have Madeira nearly a century old. One gentleman has several lots of the famous All Saints’ Madeira, imported in 1791 and 1793, :

- FlcAro says two professors connected with the Pasteur Institute in Paris have succeeded in identifying the generative microbe of diphtheria. The discovery of a preventive of this disease by means of vaccine virus is expected to follow. ,

A GANG of Italian railroad hands attempted to thaw out a frozen dynamite cartridge the other night near Williamsburg, N. Y. They succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectations, and every one in this vicinity thought an earthquake had materialized. -

IN trying to cuta *‘pigeon-wing’ on the ice on the Kennebec the other day Charles Johnson got a fall by which he broke an arm, a leg, two ribs, cracked his skull and knocked out four teeth. Those not satisfied with the performance had their money refunded.

THE annual income of the young German Emperor is estimated ‘at $4,000,000. 1t is to be hopéd for the sake of their own peace of mind that when the German paople contemplate these figures they feel moved to exclaim philosophically: “Emperors .come high, but we must have them.”

A PENNSYLVANIA paper says: “The Shakers are among our 'longest lived citizens.” An iistance,, strikingly corroborative of this assertion is furaished in the case of a native Missis« sippian, who boasts that he has had the ague twenty-seven consecutive years and still weighs one hundred and fifty pounds.

BURGLARS up and down the country are assuming the disguise of White Caps for the purpose of robbery. In Lima, 0., the other night, such a band broke into the residence of Wesley Os‘man, a wealthy farmer, overpowered #and bound the members of the family and stole $1,500. “‘There is no clew to the robbers,” asusual.

THE greatest national debt among the nations of the globe is borne by France. It is $6,250,000,000. Russia comes next with $3,600,000,000; then England, with $3,560,000,000; Austro-Hungary, with $2,485,000,000; Italy, with $2,225,000,000; United States, with $1,650,000,000; Spain, with §1,207,500,000, and Prussia, with $l,OOO, 000,000. :

THE natural resources of the great West seem boundless. ‘A great lake of asphalt has been found.in Utah and one of crude petroleum in Wyoming, respectively. Asphalt is worth twenty dollars per ton. The Wyoming lake of pstroleum is to be dipped into barrels and shipped to market. A company with $1,000,000 capital will work the Utah asphalt deposit. Great is Uncle Sam and marvelous arc his possessions. =

No sucH storms have this season visited the United States as have beset a large portion of Western Europe within the last few days. In some places in Germany the snow was five or six feet deep. Of course railway and other traffic was obstructed, as it was in France and the British isles. In Holland the visitation assumed the form of sweeping flooas, and many cities and towns were more or less inundated.. The loss to industrial interests was simply inestimable. =~ - .

Inzsnm emigration has taken a new direetion. During the month of January sizty-eight British steamers took 25,000 emigrants, mostly Irish, to Buenos Ayres. A small propoition of these, as might be expected, are skilled working-men. They are principally the sons of small farmers. Not more than a fifth of the entire number were females. The Argentine Republic is bidding high for those .emigrants. They are given each about 200 acres of Government land for settlement and are guaranteed employment when they arrive. Lo }

TuaE eons of the late President Garfield are practicing law in Cleveland, under the firm name of Garfield & Garfield, and they are said to be succeeding better than they expected. Harry is married and lives in Cleveland with his young wife, while James, who is unmarrfed, lives at Mentor with his mother and goes in and out by the train every day. Webb Hayes, the son of the ex-Presi-dent, also lives in Cleveéland, where he is secretary and treasurer of the National Carbon Company. He is a bachelor. , N O TS SNSRI ISR T THE largest cargo ever taken from the port of New York was cleared recently for Liverpool by the steamer ‘Cufic of the White Star line. 1t represents 4,000 tons, dead weight, equaling 8,000 tons measurement goods. The cargo in detail was as foows: Six thousand one hundred and forty-two bales of cotton, 66,429 bushels corn, 518 boxes bacon, 179 tierces lard, 100 barrels provisions, 200 pails lard, 8256 hogsheads tallow. 67 hogsheads tobacco, 3,350 bags flour, 9 bales hops, 18 bales leather, 11 cases maple lumber, 10 packages mer-

Epitome. of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FIFTIETH CONGRESS. . Second Session.

TUurEsDAY, Feb. 19.—A resolution was introduced in the Senate to ascertain whether in any State the election of members of the Fifty-first Congress was impaired by violence, intimidation, fraud or other crime. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considewed and several additions were made. In the House Mr. Butterworth introduced a resolution authorizing the President to invite Canadian officials and legislators to visit the United States about May 1. The Post-office Appropriation bill was discussed. :

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20.—1 n the Senate the conference report on the admission of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington as States was agreed to. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further considered. All the correspondence concerning the dismissal of Lord Sackville West as Minister of .Great Britain to the United States was received from the President, also notice that he had signed the Nicaragua Canal bill. In the House the bill providing for the admission of the four States of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington was passed. The conference report on the Direct Tax bill was also passed, and the measure now goes to the President. - : THURSDAY, Feb. 21.—1 n the Senate the Army Appropriation bill ($24,970,658). was agreed to. The greater portion of the time was occupied in discussing the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. In the House the Post-office Appropriation bill was passed. A pefition against the Sunday-rest bill was presented. The conference report on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was agreed to. A message was received from the President vetoing the bill for the relief of settlers on the Des Moines river lands. ;

. Fripay, Feb, 22 —The Agricultural and Army Appropriatiqn bills were passed in the Senate, also the Sundry Civil bill with an amendment which declares Tuesday, April 30, 1889 (the anniversary of the inauguration of the first President of the United States, George Washington), a National holiday. A bill, was introduced appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of four pneumatic dynamite guns, to be located at the harbor of San Francisco. In the House the Senate bills to pension the widow of General Sheridan, with an amendment fixing the pension at $2,500 per annum, and placing General Rosecrans on the retired list of the army with theé rank of Brigadier General, were passed.

FROM WASHINGTON.

JUsT eighteen men were affected by the act recently passed by Congress and approved by the President increasing the pensions of those who have lost both hands to $lOO per month. _ ON the 20th the centennial celebration of Georgetown University was held. : THE report of the Commissioner of Labor on the 20th relating to marriages and divorces in the United States for the twenty years from 1867 to 1886, inclusive, showed that the number of divorces granted, as reported from mninety-six per cent. of the counties in the United States, was 828 721. Of this pumber 216,738 were granted to wives and 111,983 to husbands. THE death of Dr. D.W, Bliss, who attended President Garfield during his illness, occurred on the 21st at his residence in Washington, at the age of sixty-two years. ON the 22d Washington’s birthday was generally observed throughout the country. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 22d approved the bill to admit as States of the Union Washington, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.

THE EAST.

AT Philadelphia on the 19th Rudolph Blakenburg & Co.’s large importing house was gutted by fire, adjoining buildings and their occupants suffering heavy losses. The total loss yras figured at $500,000. A ¥IRE on the 19th destroyed the Greenwich Hotel, which had for some eighty years been one of the landmarks of the village of Greenwich, Mass. :

JoE SNYDER, aged eighty years, and Henry Baker, aged seventy-six years, walked a four-mile race at Ithaca, N. Y., on the 19th. Snyder won, making the distance in 4314 rainutes.

ON the 20th Mrs. Max Schwartz and her baby were burned to death in a fire at Philadelphia. Mr. Schwartz escaped by jumping from a window. TuE death of John B. Bass occurred on the 20th at Quincy, Mass., at the age of sixty-one years, from the effect of a rifle bullet wound in the leg received in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., during the civil war. AT Boston on the 21st news was received of a serious engagement in Hayti on February 9, in which from two hundred to three hundred of Hippolyte'’s soldiers were killed and his army completely routed. THE Boston Board of Police announced on the 21st that it would grant only 790 liquor licenses for the year beginning May 1 nexs, as against 2,600 granted last year. Hotel licenses were .placed at $1,500, and bar-rooms at $l,OOO. . A SUMMARY of the results of the recent Hartford (Conn.) hotel horror gave the following figures on the 21st: In building at time of explosion, 42; killed, 22; injured, 10; escaped, 10. -

. ONE HUNDRED Catholic pilgrims, in charge of Father Vissani, sailed from New York on the 21st on the steamer Wieland for a tour to the Holy Land.

. At Allegheny, N. Y., ten buildings were destroyed by fire on the 2¢d. . ProHIBITIONISTS of Rhode Island met in State convention at Providence on the 22d and nominated a ticket, with H. H. Richardson, of Barrington, for Governor,

WEST AND SOUTH.

THE death of Prof. Joseph Mesmer, a talented musician, occurred at Austin, Tex., on the 19th, in the ninety-fifth year of his age. j S !

. THE American Tariff Reform League commenced a three days’ conference on the 19th. A letter was read from President Cleveland heartily indorsing the object of the meeting. ¢ :

On the 19th the forty-eighth death from diphtherietic croup within afew days occurred at Wabash, Ind. Every case had proved fatal, and the physicians were unable to arrest the progress of the disease. AT Attala, Ala., four earthquake shocks were fels on the 19th.

ADVICES of the 19th say that twelve persons were killed by the recent cyclone in Banks County, Ga., and dozens of houses were destroyed. Ox the 19th H. W. Van Dyke, proprietor of the Minnie Douglas Opera Company, now traveling through lowa, fell heir to $140,000 by the death of his uncle. AT Franklin, Ind., James Robbins was sentenced on the 19th to two yearsin the penitentiary for stealing two chickens valued ab thirty centes. :

Ar Clermount Mills, Md., excitement prevailed on the 19th' over the discovery that last September Miss Hannah Colder, aged thirty-five years, and Miss Catherine Begll, a pretty girl, were married by a Catholic priest, who mistook the Colder woman, from her male attire al.d masculine appearance, to be a man.

THE entire business portion and a large section of the residence property of Guerneville, Cal., was burnt on-the 20th. . At the American glucose works in Kansas City an acid tank exploded on the 20th, and an employe named Roseuthal had his eyes burned out. g

A MOB on the 20th hanged John Puckett aud wife in the Indian Territory. They were charged with stealing. HArrY BrROWN, John Williams and a third man, whose name was unknown, were crossing the Kanawha river at Rush Run W. Va., on the 20th when the boat was overturned and all were drowned. - JoserH BROGAN, of Upson, Wis., a drunken laborer, on the 2th cut the throatsof his wife and two little boys, aged five and

seven years, respectively, with a razor, and then slew himself with the mm?eapon’.% : EmmA BeEsNETT, clerk in a store in San Francisco, fatally shot 'Emanuel Davis on the 20th and then killed herself. The cause was unknown. A .

AsA BRowN and J. W. ‘Smith, citizens of San Saba County, Tex., were on the 20th hanged by unknown persons. The cause of the lynching was unknown. . ON the 21st George Dunaway, of Rutherford County, Tenn., murdered his uncle, fatally shot hig aunt, and then cruelly beat his cousin, whom he had been courting. 3 ATt Columbia, 8, C., the heaviest ‘snowstorm on record in that region prevailed on the 21st.

TaROUGHOUT 8 large portion of Dakota a furious gale prevailed on the 2lst, the wind reaching a velocity of sixty miles an hour. - : :

Joun E. KENNA was re-elected to the United States Senate on the 21st by the West Virginia Legislature. :

ON the 21stthe United States man-of-war Monongahela sailed from Mare Island, Cal., for Samoa. - :

OscAr EvaANs, a contractor, near Romney, W. Va., on the 2st killed Jacob Kirby and mortally shot A. L. Hoke, both men having assaulted him.

MrcHIiGAN Republicans, in State convention on the 2lst at Detroit, nominated Judge C. B. Grant for Supreme Judge, and renominated Regents Cocker and Draper. - UNENOWN persons on the 21st hanged D. D. Smith, a negro, who had been inducing hands to leave the vicinity of Artesia, Miss., for Arkansas.

NeAr Atkin, Minn., timber wolvesrecently attacked two white children while returning from school and killed and devoured them.

ON the 22d Miss Minnie Marseales, of Norwalk, 0., died in a dentist’s chair. She had taken chloroform preparatory to having teeth drawn and it caused her heart to cease beating.

ON the 22d Rev. James Gibson, a prominent Baptist minister of York County, 8. C., was drowned while attempting to ford a stream. 3

A PASSENGER train was boarded by five men on the 22d near Pixley, Cal.,, who robbed the express car, and made their escape after fatally shooting two passengers. JAMEs M. LANE, treasurer of Pickaway County, 0., was on the 22d said to be $47,00¢ short in his accounts.

GEORGE DUNNAWAY, of Lascassas, Tenn., had been paying attention to Miss Melissa Dunnaway, daughter of his uncle and aunt, who objected to his advances. On the 22d Dunnaway went to the house and shot both husband and wife, killing them. A moB lynched Wesley Thomas (colored) on the 22d at Port Gibson, Miss., for a criminal assault upon a young white lady.

THROUGHOUT the Northwest extremely cold weather -prevailed on the 22d, the thermometer ranging from 6 degrees below in Chicago to 25 degrees below in Minnesota, Nebraska and Dukota.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A FINELY dressed swindler, who arrived at Iberville, Can., from California recently, skipped out on the 19th after swindling a wealthy farmer named Dumas out of $40,000 by claiming to be Dumias’ son wko mysteriously disappeared forty years ago. ADvICES of the 20th from Berlin say that Germany will demand of the United States Government that it arrest and punish Klein, the American whom Germany charges with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa at the time of the repulse of the Germansin December last. :

ON the 20th the British ship St. Joseph, bound from Fieetwood, Eng., for New York, was, with her crew of twenty-five men, given up as lost.

THE deu(%of James C. Flood, the California bonanza king, occurred at the Grand Hotel at Hefllelberg at ten ¢'clock on the morning of the 21st: He had been in Germany for some, time, but had been steadily wasting away, and his end was not unexpected. He was sixty-three years old. ON the 21st the British Parliament was formally opened. ' The Queen’s speeeh contained little of interest in favor of increased appropriations for the National defense.

AN edict was issued by. the Sultan of Zanzibar on the 21st forbidding import and ex. port trade in arms and ammunition. British residents had been notified by their Consul to strictly obey the order. |

THE bandits who recently captured planter Modesto Ruise, in the Remedios district of Cuba, released him on the 21st on the payment of a ransom of $30,000. THE British ship Anglo-Indian was on the 21st said to have been burned at Tamsui, China, by natives, and Captain Cattanach and twenty-three men perished. MrriNG interests of Canada on the 22d asked the Government to increase the duty on American flour from fifty cents to one dollar per barrel.

SWITZERLAND dispatches of the 22d say that heavy snow-storms had prevailed in the Bernese Oberland, and many houses had been wrecked and their inmates killed by avalanches in the canton of Solothurn. . LATER. - THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 23d aggregated $887,890,305, against $1,097,189,727 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 19.9. : MormoN missionaries were flogged by citizens of Dubois County, Ind., on the 23d, and driven out of the county. . . DuriNG the seven days ended on the 23d there were 302 business failures in the United States, against 311 the previous seven days. The total of failures in the United States from January 1 to date was 2,484, against 2,112 in 1888, - ’ ‘A LAW was passed in Chili on the 23d excluding Chinese immigrants from the republic. . AN express train on the Northern Central road was thrown from the track on the 23d near Ralsten, Pa., by a broken rail, and thirty passengers were injured, but none fatally. THE Germans on the 23d dispatched four war-ships to the scene of the late disturbance in Samoa. = .

Four steamers arrived in New York on the 24th with 832 immigrants on board. Two. cHILDREN named Calahan, at Belmont, M. T., were burned to. death on the 24th and a third would probably not survive. The mother was absent, and the house caught fire. ; PRINCE RUPERT, the eldest son of Prince Ludwig, of Bavaria, the heir to the Bavarian throne, was on the 23d said to be insane. ErpER U. C. BREWER immersed in White Lick river at Brownsburg, Ind., on the 23d eight persons while there was blowing a blizzard filled with a driving snow, the mercury being below zero. :

TrE Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company of Michigan on the 23d bought the Port Huron & Northwestern narrow-gauge road. The price paid for the road was $2,300,000 . W. A, PRAG, one of the most noted horseraiscrs and dealers of Missouri, was kicked to death on the 23d by a vicious stallion at Nevada, Mo. : C. H. WrirLniams, general cashier of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis and Erie railroads, at Cincinnati, was on the 23d said to be $20,000 short in his accounts. He was missing. ’ THE British bark Josie Troop, en route from London to Philadelphia, went ashore off Cape Hatteras on the 23d, and eleven of the seventeen persons on board were drowned. ¥

EIcHT men were badly injured on the 23d by an explosion of gas in the new water works tunnel at Cleveland, O. CoNSIDERATION of the resolution regarding election outrages in the Bouth occupied the time of the United States Senate on the 23d. In the House the Senate bill opening to settlement the unassigned lands in the Indian Territory ceded by the Creeks to the United States was passed. The Deficiency bill was discussed. Kulogistic addresses on the late James N. Burnes, of Missouri, were delivered and appropriate resolutions were &d()ptfid. B 1 il

FORTY-TWO STARS.

That Is the Number the American Flag . Will Likely Soon Contain—Both Houses of Congress Pass the Bill to Admit as States North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Montana—The President Will in All Probability Sign It—Outline - of the Measuve.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—One necessity for an extra session of the Fifty-first Congress was disposed of yesterday by the passage by both houses of the conference report on the T srritorial bill, .

‘The slight fear of a pocket veto which haunted the friends of the Territories Tuesday has been entirely dissipated by the easy triumph of the measure. The bill is completely engrossed, and will be signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Benate early this morning and sent at once to the President. Mr. Springer makes no sort of doubt that he will sign it without delay. , i [As agreed to the, bill provides for the ad. mission of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington. Dakota is to be divided on the 47th standard parallel, and the two constitutional conventions are ta meet at Bismarck and Sioux Falls. Delegates to the conventions of each of the two yroposed States are to be elected on the first Monday in May and are to meet on July 4. Itis provided that at the election for delegates in South Dakota the electors shall vote for or against the Sioux : Falls constitution, If a majority of the votes shall be for the con stitution the convention shall resubmit to the people of South Dakota for ratification or rejection the constitution framed at Sieux Falls, and also the articles and propositions separately submitted, including the question of locating the temporary seat of government, and if a majority of the votes cast on the ratification shall be ior the constitution, irrespecttive of the articles separately submitted, the State of South Duakota shall be admitted under said constitution; but the archives, records and. books of the Territory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota, until an agreement in reference thereto is reached by said States. But if at the election for delegates a majority of all the votes cast shall be against the Sioux Falls constitution it shall be the duty of the convention to form a constitution as if that question had not been submitted to the people. It 1s made the duty of the President to admit the four new States by proclamation if the constitutions formed are ratified at the election to be held on the first Tuesday in October. Each of the new States shall be entitled to one representative in Congress, exeept South Dalkota, which shall be entitled to two representatives. s i

“All lands granted for school purposes are exempted from entry under any of the land laws and can only be sold at public sale at not less than $lO an acre, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which only can be used. Such lands may, however, be leased under leg.siative restrietions. All mineral lands are exemipted from the grants made by the act. i

The two Dakotas uge to be added to Justice Miller’s circuit (the Eighth) and Washington and Montana to Justice Field’s (the Ninth).| READY FOR THE PRESIDENT’S ACTION.,

WasHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The House has agreed to the conference report on the Direct-Tax bill. It now goes to the President. ;

SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT. WasHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The President has signed the Nicaraguan Canal bill.

HORRIBLE.

A Dissolute laborer at Upson, Wis,, Kills His Wife, Two Children and Himself. ASHLAND, Wi3., Feb. 21.—One of the most atrocious murders and suicides that has been reported for some time occurred at Upiion, in this county. A laborer named Joseph Brogan killed his wife and two children, the latter aged 5 and 7 years respectively, and then committed suicide with a dull razor at 7:30 a. m. Brogan drank heavily and had a heated quarrel with his wife. She protested because he spent all of his earnings for whisky. The couple quarreled frequently and nothing was thought of it. This morning, when several persons were passing by, the fiend attacked his wife with a razor and nearly severed her head from the body. The little boys awoke from sleep and were both horribly cut by the raving father. He started for the doeor and cut his own throat, his body falling against and barring the opening of the door. He was about 35 years of age, and had no particular business. When the neighbors broke in it was a horrible sight. The single room of the house was literally covered with blood. The bodies of the victim and murderer were still warm, but all were dead. The affair has thrown the littie village into an uproar. Brogan has wealthy parents living in the East, who have been telegraphed to.

Marks upon the body of the woman examined at the inquest show that they had had a struggle before the cutting occurred. Her face looked as if she had been struck geveral times by the villain. The little boys, Hugh and John, were murdered in bed. The murderer was a big man and very dispolute, the wife having had to support the family.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.

Labor Commissioner Wright Sends His - Report on the Subject to Congress—ln- - teresting Statistics. :

WasHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, has submitted to Congress a special report on marriages and divorces from 1867 to 1886. During the ' twenty years cow ered by the report there was a total of 328,721 divorces granted in the United States, increasing from 9,937 in 1867 to 25,535 in 1886. Of these 216,738, or 55 per cent., were granted to wives, and 111,983 were granted to husbands. The causes in which wives arethe petitioners more largely than husbands are cruelty, where the wife seeks divorce as 7to 1; in desertion, where the proportion is over 114 to 1; in ‘drunkenness, where it is 9 to 1. Desertion was given as the cause for 126,557 divorges, and 66,635 were obtained on the ground of adultery. The commissioher says it is apparent that the divorces g'mnteg for drunkenness—the total being 13,848—can not represent the total number in which drunkenness or intemperance is a serious factor.

In the number of divorces during these twenty years Illinois takes the lead with 36,072; Ohio comes next with 26,367; Indiana granted 25,193; Michigan, 18433; Towa, 16,564; Pennsylvania, 16,020; New York, 15,355; Missouri, 15,278; California, 12,118; Texas, 11,472, and Kentucky, 10,248. :

TWENTY-TWO BODIES FOUND.

All of the Victims of the Hartford Disaster Thought to Have Been Recovered.

HArTFORD, COnn., Feb. 21.—The work of excavating in the ruins of the Park Central Hotel was prosecuted with renewed vigor Wednesday. About 10 o'clock some charred pieces of flesh were found which _are bhelieved to be portions of the body of Andrew F. Whiting, of the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company. A little later what is thought to be the body of Night Clerk Percy was recovered. This makes the number of dead twenty-two and accounts for all positively known to have been in the building.

—_—— — Tragedy in ’Frisco. BAN FrANCIsco, Feb. 21.—Emma Bennett, a clerk in a Japanese goods store, shot Emanuel Davis twice Wednesday, seriously wounding him, and then either shot herself or was shot by Davis and died soon afterwards. The cause of the quarrel ia unknown. | : . el - P e A California Village Wiped Out. - BANTA Roga, Oal., Feb. 21.—The business houses and most of the residences in the village of Guerneville, Cal., were burned Wednesday, the fire starting in a defective flue in a hotel. There are about 500 people in the place. The loss is stated at 0&&.000. :

. {*BONANZA" FLOOD DIES. The California Money King Expires at ' Heidelberg, After an Extended Illness—- ! Something Abbut the Life of the Great Speculator. : : . LonNpoN, Feb. 22.—Mr. James C. Flood, of California, died at the Grand Hotel at Heidelberg at 10 o'clock a. m. He had been in Germany for some time, but had been steadily wasting away, and his end was not unexpected. |James C. Flood, the Bonanza king of California, was born in the city of New York in the year 1826. He re- CTUEEN o ceived a plain, common (#\fix AN AR - school education. How AN - his time was spent Wiy before his schooldays NN and his majority is not ¢, S, SNUE known, but in 1849, 7 Q ! _ when about 23 years ‘ : G / old:- he sailed for Cali~ iy \ o/ fornia, making the G ) ALt long journey around ,j-]"f.,\,;,l'é =9 /B Cape Horn. Like all = 7 the adventurers of that _i) "'- Zis period, Mr. Flood had Z= r" AT troublous times, his EZE LM ////7,:,/ disappointments and ’/,,7/4 < YRR failures, and plentyot " ‘YA |./ 'Y : hard work. It was not b until 1854 that he JAMES C. FLOOD. emerged from obscurity and became known as the leading partner in the firm of Flood & O'Brien. . S It was Mr. Flood who projected the Nevada Bank. He had as associates such men as James C. Fair and John W, Mackay. It was after finishing the immense row of buildings called the Nevada block in San Francisco, and just before starting the Nevada Bank, that Flood made his heavy call on the Califormia bank which led to its suspension and, incidentally, to the death of ‘William C. Ralston. From this time Mr. Flood's popularity waned. Ralston had been so great a favorite that none of those immediately concerned in bringing about h's fatal misfortune was ever qu.te forgiven by the people. At the height of the bonanza excitement, when shares in the leading mines brought $9OO and paid 0 a month dividend, Flood’s wealth was rated at §40,000,000,but then came the great shrinkage ia Comstock values, which cut down the fortunes of all the mining millionaires fully one-half, and Flood's loss by the Nevada bank wheat deal was fully $5,000,000. : He deaves one son and a daughter. The latter was always Flood’s favorite, and at one time possessed in her own right §5,000,000 in real estate and Government bonds., She gave much of this to help her father ocut of his embarrassment about a year ago, but she still owns about £2,000,000. Young Flood is shrewd, but is said to have no stability, and it is said his father never trusted him in any large deals,

THOUSANDS FOR HORSES.

Bell Boy Sold for $51,000, While Edge mark Brings $16,000.

LexingToN, Ky. Feb. 22. —The combina tion sale of trotting stock in W. T. Woodard’s aggregation assumed sensational features yesterday morning. Ten head were sold, bringing an average of $6,918, selling for an aggregate of {69,185, The famous Bell Boy brought $51,000 and whipped away all records, as the price is the highest ever paid for a horse this side of the Atlantic. Bell Boy was sold jointly to Mr. Clark and G. H. Hopper, Unionville, 0., and his destination is the stud of Genesse Valley farm; Elmira, N. Y. After purchasing Blue Grass Hambletonian for $5,850, Mr. Madden sold him for $lO,OOO to E. P. Neil, Bowling Green, Ky. Gret Paris, Ky., Feb. 22.—Claude M. Thomas and bceother, of this county, sold yesterday to H. R. Russell, of Boston, the unbeaten four-year-ola stallion Edgemark, by Victor Von Bismarck, dam Edgewater Belle by Edgewater, for $16,000. FEdgemark has made eleven races and has a record of 2:21.

SBAN Fraxcisco, Feb. 22.—L..J. Rose yesterday sold the noted stallion Stamboul and brood mares Sweetheart, Bonbon and Astrion to W. 8. Hobart, the capitalist of this city. Mr. Hobart refused to tell the price paid for the stallion, but well-informed horsemen say that it is not under $50,000.

VETOED.

The President Refuses to Sign the Bill for the Relief of Settlers on Des Moines River Lands. WAsSHINGTON, Feb. 22.—President Cleveland has returned to the House with a veto message the bill for the relief of settlers on the Des Moines river lands. The President says: *One result of this legislation, if consum. mated and is effectual, should be to restore to the United Siates as a part of the public domain lands which more than twenty-five years ago the Government expressly granted ald surrendered and which repeated decisions.of the Supreme Court have judged to belong by virtue of this action of the Government to other part:es. : ‘lt is by no means certain that this proposed legislation, relating to a subject peculiarly within the judicial function and which attempts to disturb rights and interests thoroughly intrenched in the solemn adjudication of our courts, would be upheld. In any event it seems to me thatis an improper exercise of legislative power; an interference with the determinations of a co-ordinate branch of the Government: an arbitrary annulment of a public grant made more than twenty-five years ago; an attempted destruction of vested rights, and a threatened impairment of lawful contracts.’

DEATH OF DR. BLISS.

The Noted Physician, Who Attended the Lamented Garfield During His Last Illness, Passes Away at Washington. :

WasHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Dr. D. W. Bliss, who attended President Garfield during hig illness, died at 7:15 a. m. at his residence in this city. The funeral will take placg Sunday and the remains will -be interred in ‘Washington. n . £

[Dr. Bliss was born August 19, 1825, at Auburn. N. Y. When a young man he moved to the Western reserve of Otio, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical €ollege about 1850. In 1851 he moved to lonia, Mich., and a year later to Grand Rapids, where he madz quite a repu tation as asurgeon. During the war he served as an army surgeon in charge of the Armory Square Hospital in this city. His services in President Garfield's case are matters of recent history. His deyoted services to the dying President seriously impaired his health, and only. his remarkable will-power kept him up during the past few years. After the death of Presideat Guarfield Dr. Bliss resumed his practice here and was actively .engaged in it up to a few weeks of his death.]

KENNA RE-ELECTED.

The West Virginia Joint Legislative Assembly Chooses Him for United States Senator by a Strict Party Vote.

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 22.—There were two ballots by the joint Legislative: Assembly for United States Senator, and on the second ballot Dorr and Harr came over to Kenna and elected him by a strictly party vote. There was great applause when Mr. Kenna was declared elected.

‘ FOR THE HOLY LAND. Departure of the Catholic Pilgrims on 'Their Trip to Palestine. NEw Yorg, Feb. £2.—The Catholic pilgrims, numbering 100, in charge of Father Vissani, sailed for their destination on the steamer Wieland yesterday morning. On boarding the steamer they carried a silk banner bearing on one side a picture of the resurrection and on the reverse side a figure of the American eagle soaring aloft with the stars and stripes in one claw and the olive branch of peace in the other. The banner was thickly ornamented with gold fringe and bore the legend: ‘‘First American Pilgrimage to Pal‘estine, 1889.”” , ok —_———————— Theé Next House. - WasHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Up to date all buk fifteen of the certificates of members-elect of the next House have been received by General Clark, the Clerk of the House. Among those lacking are the certificates } of two Representatives from West Vir‘ginia and one from Tennessee. As[suming that Evans (Rep.) will receive the certificate from the Tennessee district, -the clerk figures the Republicans will have 164 and fhe Democrats 159 m: mbers at the organization of the next House, not counting the West Virginia members, fihw thens go e wmémogtgitti . _leave the Republicans a majority of three, tonand Montaxia will ingrease this majority. PO SRS Al o R e< RN QT SIR WS e G T SN S

HIS PASTOR'S FAREWELL.

Impressive Scene at Church on General Harrison’s Last Sabbath in Indianapolis —Rev. Dr. Haines’ Eloquent Tribute to -the President-Elect.

INpraNaporis, Feb. 25.—President-elect Harrison spent his last Sunday in this city, preparatory to his departure for Washington, in a quiet manner. With his family he attended services at the church where he has been a worshiper for many years. The edifice was crowded. At the conclusion of his sermon, Rev. Dr. Haines, the pastor, spoke as follows:

“Before these services close I can not but bearin mnd that which to-ds{ is prominent in the thoughts of us all—the fact that this is the last service prior to the departure from among us' of onme: who for more than a third of a century has been identified with * this Christian church as -a member and an officer. When new members come 10 our communion we bid them welcome in the name of our God. Certainly it is not unfitting, when long-tried and honored members goout from us for a season to plaees of influence and of responsibility elsewhere, that we should tender to them our heartfelt assurance of our godspeed. ; *“I am sure 1t would be a grief to the members of this church were I to fail to break through the silence that has characterized this pulpit in its relation to the peculiar excites ment of the last eight months and permit.you, sir, who have been so long and so intimately associated with us here in Christian. life and work, to go out without one word expressive of our earnest, affectionate wish and prayer. This is not the place nor the time for words of mere congratue lation, however sincere. Our sense of personal esteem and gratification over your elevation to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation is to-day overshadowed by the necessity of separation, and especially of the sense of the serious, the solemn, responsibilities that are to be laid upon you~—responsibilities which no man on earth’ is qualified to meet in his own wisdom and strength. For unto you in no small degree will it be given to influence for weal or for woe the interests of 60,000,000 people. - *“You go forth to meet these responsibilities carrying with you, as you well know, the unwavering confidence as well as the warm personalregard of our fellow-Christians. We have learned to believe in you—in your personal integrity, in your tested, established, Christian character. Character is superior to achievement. It is itself the highest achievement. Office without character is nothing. We joy in the anticipation that you will exhibit to the people of this Nation that crowning glory of magistrates and sovereigns, a 4 genuine, broad Christian manhood, pure in its purpose, catholic in its spirit, undeviating in its loyalty 1o duty and to God.

. “We remember that you are called not only to be an example but a leader to the people of thisland., When Moses, who as an organizer and statesman stands without a peer in all history, received his commission from Jehovah as leader of the chosen Nution he was overwhelmed by the sense of his own weakness and deficiencies. Unto him Jehovah then spake and gave this all-sufficient assurance: ‘Certainly, T will be with thee.” The eternal God is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. May you hear His voice speaking unto you those very wo\xd{ He spake unto the law-giver of Israel, girding you for the coming tasks, guarding you from threatening perils, and-enabling you to lead this great American Nation forward to higher conditions of freedom and righteousness. - *ln the stormy days of our civil war we recall that in the charge on the tield ot battle once and again you led the ranks forward and planted the flag of our country upoun the ramparts gallantly won. Now, as the leader and ocommander of three-score millions of people, we pray Almighty God to .grant unto you strength and courage and wisdom to lead these hosts forward in the paths of justice and truth until our standard shaill be planted on the heightof a God-honoring and therefore enduring prosperity. We know that you have set before you ‘aB the' pole-star of your public life—to use your own wcrds—'a patriotic purpose to promote the true glory of :onr country and the highest good of our people.’ We are glad in the belief that the righteous hopes inspired by your words and by your own life among us will be justified in days to come. We rejoice in the confident expectation that the coming quadrennium will be marked by priceless blessings from the Father of Mercies conferred upon our beloved country through your character and administration. i 2

I speak for all the members of this church when Isay that we will hold you and yours tenderly in our hearts and we will remember you at the throne of grace in our prayers, ever beseeching that God of nations unto whom our fathers looked and were lightened to guide you by His counsels, to shield you by H.s Providence, to enrich you with heavenly wisdom and to make you perfeot in every good work to do His will.” ~ s

Dr. Haines during the delivery of this farewell tribute spoke with much feeling and had the close attentien of his large audience. General Harrison sat with head slightly bowed as though greatly affected by the solemnity of the occasion; as also were Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. McKee: At the conclusion of his remarks the pastor closed the service with this prayer: s

‘* Almighty and everlasting God, Heaven is Thy throne and the earth Thy fdotstool, and both Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Thou alone art the sovereign Ruler of all nations. Thou givest the kingdoms of the world to whomsoever Thou wilt, Thou workest all things after the counsel of Thy will. We beseech Thee now to take into Thy holy care Thy servant whom Thou hast catled to be the Chief Magistrate of this people. Endow him plenteously with the gifts of Thy spirit. Let Thy wisdom be his guide. Let Thine arm be his strength. Direct him in all his counsels and actions to Thy glory and to the welfare of this land, that through him | justice. and truth and peace may abound, that from him, and those associated with him in authority, there may go out influences to develop the highest interests of our Nation and to build up in a yet nobler way a Christian civilization that shall be a bened.ction to generations yet unborn. And, together with thy servant, regard, we pray Thee, all the' members of his ‘household. Keep them under the shadow of Thy wings. Crown their lives with the blessings of Thy Providence and Thy grace. As they go forth from us, our Heavenly Father, we commit them into Thy care. We make this our prayer. Will Thou, Lord, make Thy face to shine upon them and be gracious unto them. Wilt Thou, Lord, lift: up the light of Thy countenance upon them and give them peace. and now, unto Him who is able to'do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or thiak, be honor and glery through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever, amen.” y

As the congregation arose from the prayer-offering many handkerchiefs were visible and the older members of the church were particularly affected. Just before dismissing his congregation Dr. Haines asked them all to rise and join in singing “‘Our Native Home” to the tune of ‘‘America,” and the words of thé hymn were sung with so much pathos that hundreds of the audience were affected to tears and both General and Mzrs. Harrison were visibly affected. '

THE CHINESE SHUT OUT.

Chili, While Welcoming All Other Classes of Immigrants, Closes Her Doors Against the Celestials. 2 PaxaMA, Feb. 25.- Chili has passed a law excluding Chinese immigrangs from the republic. But all other classes of immigrants find a warm welcome, and the Government hasrepeated its orders to its immigration agents abroad authorizing them to give free passage to all who desire to emigrate to Chili, where, on their arrival, they will receive board and lodging for fifteen days. Whilst Chili is encouraging immigration on a gigantic scale, her own people are emigrating over the Andes, A

BASE-BALL IN ROME.

The Chicagos Defeat the All-Amerion Team in the Presence of King Humbert. Romge, Feb. 25.—The American ball teams played here Saturday on the Plazza di Sienna, many notables being present. Among the spectators were King Humbert, Prime Minister Crispi, Prince Colonna, the husband of Miss Mackay, and many Americans and ¥nglish who were in the city. During the preliminary practice the crowd of 5,000 people was simply amazed at the gkill displayed by the boys in batting, throwing and catch~ ing the ball. ,Thegame iteolf was extremely well played and resulted 3to 2 in favor of

TO SPREAD THE LIGHT.

Sunday-School Workers Getting Ready to Attend the Great International Convention to Be Held in London in July—Dei» egates from Every Country in the World Expected to Be Present—Some of the Objects of the Gathering. : :

CHmicago, Feb, 25.—The Sunday-school workers’ of the country are largely occupied at present with preparations for the World’s Sunday-School convention, which is to be held in Memorial Hall, London, Eng., July 2, 3 4 and 5 next. The holding of this convention grew out of the action taken at the International convention held in Chicago in 1887, which instructed the Executive Committee to inquire into the practicability and wisdom of holding such a convention, and recommended that it should be held if suitable. arrangements could be made on the otker side of the water. The Executive Committee took such action as led to the issue of & preliminary call by the London Sunday-School Union on behalf of all parties interested. All countriesin the world are invited in this call to send delegates. The United States and Canada will be represented on the ratio of one delegate for every 100,000 of the ‘population. These delegates will be appointed from well-known Sunday-schoel workers by the executive committees of the various States, Territorial and provincial ‘associations. The object of the World’s convention, briefIy stated, is, in the first place, to get the best views that can be obtained on Sunday-school work in the world at large, and, in the second place, by the consideration .of the different methods pursued in different -parts of the world to have suggested, if.. possib.e, how the work can be improved and advanced. It is admitted that Sunday-school work has made a greater advance in the United States than in any other country in the world, and it may be expected that the delegates from this side the Atlantic will take a leading partin the deliberations of the convention.. The third object of the convention will be to consider whether itis possible to bring into one organization the different Sunday-school bodies of the world,’ and thus extend the ‘influence and work of the Sunday-school. . The convention will be aninterdenomina~ tional one, and will have the co-operation of all evangelical denominations. The American department of the convention will be in charge of the Executive Committee of the International Sunday-school convention.

The committee have chartered the Cunard steamer Bothnia for the exclusive use .of the American delegation. This vessel will sail with the party from New York at 10 a m., Wednesday, Jume 19 next, and will be due in Liverpool Friday, June 28. From Liverpool to London the delegates will be takén by a ‘“‘special train” over the famous Midland railway of England—a distance of 220 miles. They will be given a reception in London Saturday evening, June 39. :

A DESPERATE DEED. Further- Details of the Recent Southern Pacific Train-Robbery—Two Men Killed - and $60,600 Stolen. ’ .TULARE, Cal., Feb. 25.—The robbery of the express train on the Southern Pacific road Friday night and the brutal murder of two of the passengers has caused intense excitement throyghout Southern California, and amost determined effort is being made to capture the perpetrators of the crime. No valuable elew has thus far been obtained, however, and it is feared that the robbers will escape. | The robbery was committed near Pixley. As the train pulled out of that city it was boarded by five men, who had given out that they were going on a hunting trip. When the train had run about three miles three of the men crawled over the tender and, presenting ' rifles at. the engineerr and ' fireman, compelled them to stop the train. As soon as the train came to a standstill John Kelley, the messenger for the Wells-Fargo express, opened the door of his car to see what the trouble: was. He was ordered to get baek, and did so, barring the door and preparing to defend himself. A little later Kelley was ordered to open the door. He refused, and a bomb was exploded directly under it— This a armed the messenger and he threw open the door. One of the robbers covered him with a gun and compelled him to open the safe. After securing what plunder they could find the robbers ordered the engineer, fireman and messenger to turn theit backs to them, and as they did so the fellows disappeared in the darkness. : : :

After the disappearance of the robbersit was found that Charles Gabert and a deputy constable named Delano, who had descended from the train to see what was going on, were shot and killed. The officials of the road say that only $3OO was secured by the robbers, but some of the trainmen are reported to have given out that between $50,000 and $60,000 was obtained. A lot of horses have been shipped to Pixley and over 200 men are searching the. country for the bandits.

ELEVEN SEAMEN DROWNED.

The Bark Jose Troop Wrecked Off Chi-~

camacomico — Most of the Crew Are Lost.

RicaMoxD, Va., Feb. 25.—Information has reached here of the wrecking of the British bark Jose Troop off Chicamacomico, N. C. A terrible storm raged along the coast during the day, and about an hour after dark the vessel struck the beach. The weather was intensely cold, and, as heavy seas burst over the vessel, the seamen were drenched from head to foot and their clothes were frozen to their bodies. Their sufferings were terrible. ' The life service on the beach saw the rockets of distress and hastened to the vessel as fast as possible. They did every thing in their power to save the crew, but only succeeded in rescuing six out of seven‘teen. ! :

VALUABLE MINE DISCOVERED. ‘Some Michigan Prospectors Strike a Won- : S derful Lead. ' IsgpEMING, Mich., Feb. 25.—Finn Bros., of .Grayling, Mich., working -on prospects north of the Michigan mine, struck gold ten feet from the surface. The gold is in quartz in nuggets, and from a few pounds of rock a gold button worth $136 was smelted. This is the fifth prospect on which quartz carrying gold in wonderful amount has been found. 5 ] ~ X et @, THREE MEN KILLED IN A WRECK. The Postal and Mait Clerks and a Fire- ! man Meet Death in a Railway Smashup. BANGOR, Me., Feb. 25.—The morning train - from Bangor to St. John on the Maine Centralrailway jumped the track near Kingman | at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. W. D. Budgett, the railway postal clerk, , John ' English, mail clerk, and Fireman Goodman were killed. None of the passengers were seriously hurt. The cars were warmed by Sewall heaters, but they caught fire from the locomotive after it left the track. The mail, baggage and parlor cars were burned with all the mail, express ! and baggage matter. A wreckingand relief train was sent to the scene and every thing was done for-the injured that was possible. 5 —_————————— ; - - Comments of the London “Times” on the f Admission of the Two Dakotas, Wash- % - ington and -Mont”a.;aa. S : s ‘ib - Loxpon, Feb. 25.—The Times, commenting . ‘upon the addition of four States of the ‘ Unbewieame o e el B e nic s passed the ordeal too‘many titmos oL IhE Insest Tnerohes WENGSE bopionk | ‘mess. But It s ua imposible for & comimuatly like America not to be transformed by the Plpg o (S ol e N %’fi A “tg;'m of @& potent olingredient not to ihemseives mperiooly somprehend the st | predics the eventual modifios 3@@*“ vhiet a“fi’%;"‘ _points. But neither they nor foreigners oah hey mgé‘g;* nter of Nation &’"‘% e it kb e et el ,Ewgq‘-fi;;y .‘,Lk LE Sl sk e G T T e 3”* o Jflks’*ffm:g o %”?‘z‘, fi%&?fifi%‘%flfi‘%‘"?*?i }% el fa%””fif‘%%fi@fifl*