Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 April 1889 — Page 2
The Figonier Sunwer, “LIGONIER. : : INDIANA eT R o A T R A SA3T I S S SARRN ST SRS _ GENERAL MCCLELLAN'S monument at T'renton, N. J., will be dedicated May 30 next. Friexpsaip for the Australian (or secret) principle of balloting seems to be making headway in all parts of the country. : x v
THE oil of black birch brings eighty dollars a gaßon. In the halcyon days ofgyouth the ordinary black birch used to bring—tears, usually. . :
FRENCH engineers are utilizing the poppy to strengthen railroad cmbankments. The roots of the plants form a network that can not be exterminated without great difficulty, and are, therefore, admirable for the purpose named. = o
Prorre living in comfortable homes and reasonably contented and happy, should think several times before emigrating to Oklahoma, says the Chicago Inter Occan. It will be some time before it will become a pleasant locality to raise a fainily. ; 0
A STATISTICAL crank has figured that a man fifty years old has spent three years in buttoning his collar. Now, if the crank will tell us how many years have been spent in fastening suspender buttons with rusty hairpins we will rest content. _
A MAPLE sugar trust is the last one talked of. Maple sugar is an article that is usually taken on trust.. That is, you trust that it is not more than half treacle—unless it comes from “Vairmount,” which always insures its pristine purity, and no mistake.
MRr. Craßrk, .the well-known ’tele-scope-maker of Cambridge, proposes to construct a forty-inch telescope for the observatory of the University of Southern California. This will surpass in size and power any telescope ever made.” It will cost $lOO,OOO.
REV. MR. SPURGEON, of London, in a recent sermon alluded to the United States as the land “where Christian principles were a fundamental portion of social and official life. A man who scoffs at the word of God in America,” exclaimed Mr. Spurgeon, *‘can neither hope for commercial nor social recognition.” - o
EplsoN has, it is stated, devised a doll with a small phonograph inside, which talks when the handle is turned. The phonograph ig placed in a receptacle within the chest ol the doll and the handle protrudes. When it is turned the words appear to issue from the doll’s mouth. Edison has also devised a clock which anuounces the time by speaking; the talking appa~ ratus being, of course, a phondg—raph.
A MARRIED lady in New York City named Amalia Krzywoszynski, nee Czysnersky, eloped recently with John Jwinjinjynsky, a nineteen-year-old youth. Her husband, John Krzywoszynski, has sued her for divorce. His suspicions were first aroused. by finding letters from her lover in her dress pocket. It would seem as if the family had a right to have carried some of the letters of their namesin their pockets, if their pockets had been big enough. :
- Tue. American war vessels Alert, Richmond and Adams. have been ordered to Samoa to takc the place of the unfortunates which were knocked out by the tornado. Germany has likewise issued orders to have the gap made in her fleet by the same visitation promptly filled from her Zanzibar squadron. It is evidently Admiral Porter's ofiinion that the disaster will have not a little influence for good in the coming negotiations over the Samoan troubles. e e
MixEßs -have a superstition that rich gold diggings are always found every ten years,and the record, thus far, fairly sustains the notion, as the historic *big find’ in California was in 1849; Pike's Peak, 1859; Nevada, 1869, and Leadville, 1879. This belief, more than any thing else, is said to constitute the reason why the recent Southern California imposition was so successful; and it was also likely the inspiration ‘moving its perpetrators to spring their scheme at this time. Ly
Tue inventor of the ‘‘Pigsin Clover” puzzle is Moses ' Lyman, a farmer living near Waverly, N. Y. He has a large number of children and keéps a great many pigs. One day he wished to amuse his youngsters, and the idea of his famous' puzzle came into his head. He thereupon made out of a piece of wood and a little pasteboard the original of the *‘Pigs in Clover."” A toy-manufacturing firm in Penfisylvania heard of his puzzle and made him a handsome offer, which he accepted, for the exclusive right to patent and manufacture the plaything.
.~ THE official at the White House who does the President’s newspaper reading and clipping is Benjamin Montgomery, the telegraphic secretary. He is one of the most valuable officers of the force, as, in addition to his knowledge of telegraphy, he possesses & wonderful acquaintance with men and measures, and is singularly active in clerical work. He now attendsto a duty that was formerly performed by Colonel Lamont, n#mely, perusing the newspapers and transferring to a scrapbook all articles regarded as worthy of the President’s consideration. | S——————— Sy . James. CLARK, a mnegro boy of Al bany, Ga., is one of the wonders of the place, because, though never having _been taught, he is well educated, a ' good mathematician and ' writes a “pretty hand.” He buys many booke - and suys when he studies a text-book and tries to master o lesson ho can’t - @derstand {t; but at pight in hie f»* wfh v*:,g«»*?sww aw&%rf*@ sLtey e *‘fi' Pt L wfl‘e
‘BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL, FROM WASHINGTON. TaE death of Rear-Admiral William Rodgers Taylor occurred at Washington on the 15th. . ON the 16th Emancipation Day was celebrated by the colored people of the District of Columbia by a parade of military and civic associations. ) THE President on the 16th appointed Willfam P. Hepburn, of lowa, to be Solicitor of the Treasury, and James A. Sexton to be postmaster at Chichgo. TaE President made the following appointments on the 17th: E. 8. Lacey, of ‘Michigan, Comptroller of the Currency; Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census; and Will}um H. Calkins, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington. WHITERAW Riip, the newly-appointed Minister to France, took the oath of office _on the 18th at the State Department. Frowu all parts of the country reports on the 18th indicated that the peach crop this season would be the largest ever known, that the crop of fruit generally would be good, and that the yield of vegetabies would be enorinous. TuERE were 211 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 19th, against 2.9 the previous scven days. ON the 19th a new commandery of the Union Veterans’ Union at Washington was named for Philip H. Sheridan.
THE EAST.
Ox the 15th the pilot boat Enoch Turley was reported as lost while trying to reach the Delaware breakwater.. Ten men, residents of ' Philadelphia, were on board and lost their lives. : : :
Tue death of Mrs. Hannah Battersby, said to be the largest woman in the world, occurred on the 15th at her home in Frankford, Pa., at the age of forty-seven years. A few years ago she married John Battersby, a “living skeleton,” and when married weighed 6588 pounds. At the time of her death she weighed 800 pounds. : GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL resigned the office of Pension Agent at New York on the IGth. He is sixty-five years old and much broken down by his son’sdisgrace. : JosePH P. STEWART (colored),'after spending twenty-nine years of his life in prison at Trenton, N. J., was given his frcedom on the 16th.
Tae Standard Oil Company, it was said on the 16th, contemplated changing its base of operations from the Pennsylvania-fields to those of Ohio. : !
FrAMES nearly sweptaway Centerville, R. L, on the 16th. | : - TroMAS DoMINQUEZ, a Spaniard, killed his wife and himself with a razor on the 16th at Buffalo, N. Y. Jealousy was the cause. PaTriICK McATAMNEY, a Switchman, at Jersey City, N. J., on the 17th jumped before an engine and saved the life of a ten-yéar-old boy, but he was run over and killed. : 5
. ON the 17th Fred Grant, the newly-ap-pointed Minister to Austria, left New York for that country. Hon. Albert G. Porter, United States Minister to Italy, sailed on the same steamer.
Tae failure of Thomas F. Scanlon, a piano manufacturer with offices at Boston and New York and a factory at Roxbury, Mass., occurred on the 17th with liabilities of $200,000, .
Mges. Janes FieLp, of Butler, Pa., shot and killed her husband on the 17th. The shooting was in self-defense. ATt Hartford, Conn, John H. Swift was hanged on the 18th for the murder of his wife.on July 7, 1887.° He shot her because she refused to live with him. Two MEN engaged on the 18th in tearing down telegraph wires in New York were pulled from the window of a building by the sudden falling of a pole and killed. .
ON the 18th Charles Rice, living mnear Franklin, Pa., sought relief from asthma by rubbing kerosene on his breast. While thus engaged the can exploded, burning the house and fatally injuring Rice. ON the 18th Edgar King, son of Joseph King, a wealthy farmer near Montgomery, Mass., murdered his father, set fire to the house and then killed himself. He was supposed to have been insane. : CHESTER CoLLINs and Frederick Broderick were arrested on the 18th at Roundout, N. Y., for making and circulating counterfeit money. :
It was so warm in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 19th that two men were overcome by the heat and would probably die. FraMES among elevators and warehouses in' New York City on the 19th did damage to the extent of $3.,500,000. The east bank of the North river was swept clear from Fifty-ninth to Sixty-fifth street. Five men probably lost their lives in the flames, and several others were injured. HaviNg taken the office under the Government of Minister to. France, Whitelaw Reid retived from the editorship and direction of the New York Tribune on the 19th.
The failure of the Callendar Insulating and Waterproofing Company of New York occurred on the 19th for $400,000, THE battle of Lexington was fought one hundred and fourteen years ago, and at Lexington and Boston on the 19th anniversary exercises were held. 1
WEST AND SOUTH.
ON the 16th Edward E. Littell, of Marcellus, Mich., celebrated his one hundredth birthday. He is the father-of twenty-three children, has been married three times, and is still healthy and hearty. In the municipal elections on the 16th throughout Illinois candidates in favor of liquor licenses were victorious in amajority of the towns. :
ON the 16th Ex-Governor John 8. Pillsbury, of Minmeapolis, presented to the Minnesota State University, of which he isa regent, the sun of $150,000, : '
No léss than five persons committed suieide in Chicago on the 15th. Sickness and despondency were the causes. AT Fletcher, 0., Dora Webster, aged sixteen years, was shot and killed by her cousin, Joseph Heath, with a revolver which he thought to be empty. A Jury in Chicago on the 16th found Mrs. Josie Gurley guilty of Kkidnaping little Annie Redmond, and the jury fixed her punishment at five years in the penitentiary. :
FIIRE on the 16th at Muir, Mich., destroyed twenty-seven buildings. A BLAST. fired revealed a vein of copper “ore of great richnegs, while excavating at Duluth, Minn,, on t,fe 16th for a new Masonic temple. , FrAMES on the 16th at Lynchburg, Va., destroyed the tobacco warehouse of J. W. Childs, together with a large quantity of leaf and manufacbured tobacco stored therein. . At Santa Fe on the 17th L. Bradford Prince was duly installed Governor of New Mexico. :
NeAr Bainbridge, Ga., five men were drowned on the 17th by the capsizing of a boats - .
THE schooner Eva, with her captain, Henry Parks, and five men, wis report,edl as Jost on the 17th at Baltimore, Md. | PERRY WiINE, of Brocton County, W. Va,, was felling a tree on the 17th wben it broke across the stump and fell, demolishing his gouse and killing his wife and three chilren. ‘ON the 17th George Kramer and Charles Heidke, two Oklahoma boomers, quarreled at Kiowa, Kan., over the right to a certain claim, and during the fracas both were killed. A fight also occurred between cattlemen and boomers west.of Oklahoma City, and four men lost their lives. A RAIN and wind-storm passed over Summer County, Kan., on the 17th, doing great - damage to ororu and - property. Several ‘houses at Wellington were unroofed and _others were blown down, and a Mr. Hacker « Watg fighting the forest fires in Patrick Gounty, W. Va, on the 17th Dr. Abe Robertson was overcome by smoke and burned to. %!,mwwgmw %nmd AN ;L%éfi‘fiéfi:
THE death of Felice Viart, aged seventytwo years, a professional beggar, occurred in New Orleans on the 17th of debility and neglect in an old shanty where she had lived twenty years. She was supposed to be very poor, but the coroner in inspecting the circumstances of her death -discovered. hidden around her shanty $33,500. ONx the farm of Richard Davidson, near Crawfordsville, Ind.,, a large barn was ‘burned on the 18th with its contents, including six horses and a number of cattle. Isaac JonEs (colored) broke neurly every bone in the body of his four-year-old child with an iron bar and then beat his wife to death on the 18th at Jacksonville, Fla. He claimed to be subject to fits, und that he had one aft the time. : :
A TrRAMP assaulted Mrs. Henry Bennehoff, seventy-five years old, on the 18th near Tiftin, 0., and so badly injured her that she died in a short time. ON the 15th the steamer Everett, a raftboat belonging to the Burlington (la.) Lumber Company, waus sunk at the head of Otter fsland, and five of the sixteen persons on board were drowned. ,
AT Isabell, Ean.; a wind storm on the 18th destroyed five houses and ruined crops. ON the 18th a bag containing $15,000 in gold’ disappeared trom the Northern Pacific Express office at Brainerd, Minn., and officials and elerks were completely in the dark as to its whereabouts
CuarLie'HAYES, aged four years, and his sister Mamie, aged two years, were fatally burned by their clothes catching fire while playing near a burning brush heap on the 18th at Tipton, Mo. Froops had on the 18th ruined the potato, pea und bean cropsin portions of Virginia. . : v AN incendiary fire destroyed the business part of Cheney, W. T\, on the 18th. NeAR life-saving station No. 21, near Norfolk, Va., a vessel went ashore on the 18th, and all on board were drowned before any assistance could reach thewm. ‘ - JaMES MiLLS, a half Indian and half negro, and Michael Allen, a one-armed negro,were hanged on the 19th at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder. s ;
AT Vincennes, Ind., Sylvester Grubb:was i banged on the 19th for the murder of hls‘ sweetheart, Gertrude Downey, at Prince- | ton, Ind., September 13, 1888. : | THE town of Hinckley. IIL., was struck by acyclone on the 19th, plowing a path one hundred feet wide through the village, unroofing or blowing down every building in its course. 'No one was Killed. ONx the 19th five Mormon missionaries were whipped, tarred and feathered and driven out of Dale County, Ala. Tae thirty-ninth regular session of the Wisconsin Legislature terminated on the 19th. A G SpALDING and his band- of base-ball players arrived in Chicago on the 19th and were given a hearty welcome after an absence of six months on a tour around the world. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARrIs authorities on the 16th searched the residences of General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort, and a number of more or less compromising papers were seized. Mr. PARNELL instituted a suit against the London Times for libel on the 16th, claiming £lOO,OOO damages. By an explosion five persons were killed on the 17th in the Rothschild colliery at Tiefblau, Austria, and six other workmen were missing. CHOLERA was raging on the 17th in the Philippine Islands, where, out of fifteen bhundred persons attacked, one thousand died. ~ IN Paris on the 17th warrants were issued for the arrest of sixty more members of the Boulangist party. : - Apvices of the 17th brought details of the ~slow starvation of thousands in the north Chinese provinces. In one town on the banks of-the Yellow river women walked the streets and publicly offered their children for sale to save them from famishing. Missionaries were feeding eighty thousand persons, but this was not more than a fiftieth part of the number that were starving. . ON the 17th six thousand emigrants sailed from Liverpool, a few of whom were bound for the Argentine Republic and the rest for the United » tates. B
AT Bicze, Waag and Bistritz, in Hungary, a famine was raging on the 18th, and hun. dreds of persons were starving and dying. FRENCH-CANADIAN papers stated on the 19th that the volume of emigration from Quebec to the United States this year promised to exceed that of any previous year in the history of the province. One paper said it would reach one hundred thousand.
A NimiuisTic plot to assassinate the Czar was discovered on the 19th at. St. Petersburg. EMiIGRATION from the southwest of Ireland was on the 19th causing alarm, as the country was being rapidly depopulated. A FIRE on the 19th nearly destroyed the Indian village of Iroquois, in Canada, having a population of eleven hundred, all Indians. ‘ = -LATER.
TeE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 13th aggregated $1,008,786,278, against $1,083,120,475 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 8.3. }
Isaasc Ricu & Co., fish dealers of Boston, failed on the 20th for £330 000.
AT Attica, Ind., on the 20th Simon Houty, a well-digger, in a fit of jealousy shot and killed his wife and then took his own life.
IN an eighteen-hour bicycle contest which closed in Chicago on the 20th Miss Oakes was winner, she traveling 255 miles. Miss Woods made 246, Miss Baldwin 241, Miss Brown 225 and Miss Lewis 224 miles. . PrEsiDENT HARRISON decided on the 20th that applicants for office must file petitions with the proper department. : A MASKED robber entered the express office at Pattersonville, Mo., on the evening of the 20th, robbed the safe of $lO,OOO and made his escape. SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, the new British Minister to the United States, arrived in New York on the 21st. :
Frank Haxcock, of Blue Run, Pa., killed his four children and himself on the 20th during the absence of his wife. Domestic trouble caused the tragedy.
THE steamer Missouri which arrived at Delaware Breakwater, Del., on the 20th had on board 340 of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated steamer Danmark which was wrecked on the 6th inst. in mid-ocean, and the other 320 taken from the vessel were left at the Azores. : ;
~ DeEwisoN, WinriamMs & Co., hide and leather dealers of Boston, failed on the 20th for $200,000. ‘ At Carthage, Mo., on the 20th Mrs. A. W. Lucas, accompanied by her two daughters and a hired man, tried to ford aswollen stream in a wagon and were swept away and drowned. : :
Frrry buildings in the little village of West Depere, Wis., were destroyed by fire on the 2uth. Tl A FIRE on the 21st in\penn’s Hotel at Detroit caused the death of three men from suffocation. G
THE two little sons of Michael Cunningham, aged nine and ten years, of Dunmore, Pa., ate some wild parsnips on the 20th and died in great agony. . Ex PostmasTEß HENRY G. PrAßrsoN, of New York, died at the residence of hs father-in-law, éx-Postmaster Geneéral ThomnaB L. James, at Highwood, N. J., on the 20th, from cancer of the stomach, ’ THE street-car strike in Minneapolis was the cause of a riot on the 21st, during which policemen and drivers were geriously injured by stones thrown by a mob. - Frawk LynN, a young man boarding at Mr. Wilborn Noah's in Lebanon, 0., shot and killed Mrs. Noah on the 21st and then committed suicide. No cause was known. - A FIcHT occurred on the 20th between a party ot Oklahoma boomers and a number | of United States deputy marshals, near Purcell, L. T., two men being fatally wound. ol el SO e L) e e
lOWA REMEMBERED. | ey e Ex-Congressman William P, Hepburn Aps pointed Solicitor of the Treasury. | WasElNazroN, April 17.—The President has made the following appointments: William P. Hepburn, of lowa, to be Solic. ftor of the Treasury; William H. Whiteman, of New Mexico, Associate Justice of the AN [/ \ 3 ; { ; ‘ ’/'/ ‘ \\ kul\\\i‘&“ : ; ~‘, : ?4. 7 i (%% M 5 S S i /.'({7;',;‘_.,‘/ /4 7 . ,;// '.:'."f."g ; /,//’ / wy / & A / Lo WILLIAM P. HEPBURN. Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. [General William P. Hepburn represented the Eighth district of lowa in Congress for seve eral terms. He was born in Columbiana County, 0., in 1833, and began the study of law in 1833, In 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Marshall = County, Ja., and was subsequently elected Chief Clerk of the lowa House of Representatives. He served in the Union army during the war, and at one time commanded the second brigade, cavalry division, sixteenth army corps. He has always been an earnest Republican and was recommended for the solicitorship by the leading men of his party in the State.]
MRS. GURLEY PUNISHED.
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VICTORY FOR LEGITIME.
A Decisive Battle Fought in Which Fort Dessalines, Hippolyte’s Stronghold, Falls —General Bayard Among the Forty-Four Killed.
New Yorx, April 17.—Mr. Charlas Preston, son of Haytian Minister Preston, who represents Legitime’'s government, and who has just returned ifrom fhat turbulent Republic, was called upon by a representative of the United Press. He declared that Legitime was rapidly putting down the rebels under Hippolyte, and by way of corroboration handed the United Press man a copy of Le Moniteur, published in Port au DPrince, dated April .4, which contains an account of the capture of Hippolyte's stronghold, Fort Dessalines. @The account states that the attack was made at 6 o’clock in the morning and the fighting lasted until 4 o'clock, at which time Hippolyte’s forces vacated the position. Among the killed was General Bayard, the veteran commander of the place. The total number killed was forty-four, and wounded 132. Onehundred and three prisoners were taken. This battle is regarded as a decisive one. :
IN THE LAW’S CLUTCHES.
Failure of 2 Daring Attempt to Rob » Minneapolis Bank,
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 17.—A bold and nearly successful attempt was mads at noon to rob the State Bank. Two men went into the bank when only two employes were present. One covered the employes with a revolver while the other vaulted over the railing and thrust about s#B,ooo on the teller's table into a valise. At this moment & depositor entered, and this forced the uncovering of the assistant cashier, who rushed to the safe to get his revolver. The robber threw the valise to his accomplice, who dashed into the president’s. room Dby mistake. He then jumped through a window and fled. Meanwhile the other man had escaped.” There was a wild : chase in which three or four policemen:joined and finally the two robbers were captured and lodged in jail. The names of the men are given as James Henry and Fred Douglass. All the money was recovered. -
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Man Ha(_:ks His Wife’s Face to Fieces, Cuts Her Throat from Ear to Ear, and Then Takes His Own Life. ; :
BurraLo, N. Y., April 17.—Word has just been receiwed at police headquarters of a murder on Seneca street in a block known asone of the avorst in the city. Thomas Dominquez has been living in the house with his wife, who was ‘found in one of the rooms lying on the floor with her face hacked to piocces and her throat cut from ear to ear. The room resembled a slaughter-bouse. After killing his wife the murderer cut his own throat and lay by her on the floor, dead.” The authorities are becoming alarmed at the frequency of murders and suicides here.
A Donation of £150,000 to the Minnesota State University.
SBt. Pavr, Minn., April 17.—1 n view of the shortage in the appropriation of the present year. for the maintenance of the ilinnesota State University, ex-Governor sohn 8. Pillsbury, who is one of the Regents of the institution, has presented the sum of $150,000 for the immediate use of 4he university. The gift was announced to the members of both branches of the LegisJature at a meeting with the Regents Tuesday afternoon. Parnell Brings Another Suit. ¢ LoNDoN, April 17, Mr. Parnell has instituted a suit against the London Times for libel, claiming £lOO,OOO damages. : Vil )TR — . ; To Build Big Refineries. BAN FraNcisco, April 17.—The Beet Bugar Company was incorporated Tuesday with & capital of $5,000,000. The directors are COlaug Bpreckels, John D. Spreckles, F. Ehrmann, A. L Cutts and Louis Bchloss, the first two holding half of the stock. The object sto erect large sugar refineries at _various points on the coast in addition to _the one already established at Watsonville, Cal, with s capacify of refining 50,000 o 1 60,000 tons of sugarayear. =~ CHNE A e S R pAtion P Beonie: aF ’fi‘% fi%é‘%m‘%, K b il i o g Dt st
BOOMERS’ BLOOD SHED.
A Battle Near Purcell Between a Party Who Had Crossed the Oklahoma Line and a Band of Deputies — Seven of the Former Wounded and Thirty of Their Number Taken Prisoners, but Afterwards
Purcery, I. T., April 22 —There was abattle Thursday between United States officers and boomers and thirty boomers were taken prisoners. Seven of them were severely wounded and one deputy marshal was slightly hurt. A raid was made by United States deputy marshals Thursday afternoon on boomers who had disreg?ded the law and taken up claims in Oklahoma. For several days men on horseback and in wagons have been seen fording the South Canadian north of Purcell and disappearing in the timber to the eastwards i
~ Thursday morning at sunrise thirteen prairie schooners, well manned, crossed the Santa Fe tracks below the dity and forded the river. The drivers urged their animals with whip and clubs and the train was across and out of sight before many of the residents of Purcell were stirring. A prominent citizen saw them, however, and he acqaainted others who have staked out claims and hope to occupy them soon after noon Monday next. The story soon gained general circulation and before noon a meeting was held in the Methodist church. The chief deputy marshal was called upon to do his duty, and immediately rallied his men. In a couple of hours, accompanied by thirteen assistants, he started in pursuit of the trespassers. About. four miles out one of the men mnoticed a thin cloud of smoke arising above the cottonwoods to the right. LA halt was called and three of the party reconnoitered. They discovered four wagons about 300 feet from the trail and five men seated around a fire eating their dinner. These were unceremoniously ‘ordered to ‘‘hitch wup.” The chief deputy told them that if they delayed their outfits would be confiscated.
' The enterprising boomers were thorough- ‘ ly scared and in less than fifteen minutes were on the back trail in charge of ome of the deputies, who was ordered to escort them across the river and then picket the fording-place until his comrades returned. The latter deployed as skirmishers and advanced slowly sever-l miles. Suddenly a shot was heard on the left and a bullet clipped a leat above the head of one of the party. A minute later a volley rang out in front, and the pony ridden by one of the deputies sank to the ground with a bullet in the head. ‘The chief of the deputies .is noted for his bravery, and he called out for his men -to “‘charge.” FEach had unslung his Winchester, and all surged forward. They fired into the thicket and shouted like madmen. There was no response for several minutes, and the men began to think they had dispersed the assailants. They soon discovered their mistake. A man popped from behind a log and fired at them, and this was the signgl for another fusillade from his friends. He retreated down a ravine just in time to escape the fire of the d puties, who continued to advance and pump their repeaters. Half way down = the ravine the deputies discovered a rough barricade of logs and brush across the entrance, and simultaneously a voice exclaimed: ‘‘Now give- it to them, boys.” A sheet of ttame poured from the face of the barrier and another shower of bullets sped toward the officers. .They had been sufficiently warned, however, and but one of their number was hit, and his wound was not serious.
The chief deputy ordered a retreat and gathered his men about him for council of war. It was evident that the barricade was quite heavily manned, and that a direct assault would prove disastrous, therefore it was decided to divide the party and attack the flanks of the enemy. This movement brought the deputies directly above the barricade. At a given signal they began shooting from the top of the ravine right into the midst of the boomers, who were utterly unable to defend, themselves from such an attack. Ten minutes of rapid firing ensued and then a cry for quarter went up from the barricade. “We surrender,” shouted a man when the firing ceased. The blood pouring from a wound in his forehead attested that he knew he had had enough. A hasty advance to the fort and the officers were in
charge of thirty prisoners, seven of whom were severey wounded. Two of these, Thomas Mullins and David Winship, will probably die. Mullins hasa bullet in his left lung and Winship one in his abdomen; Marcin Fallon, of Gainesville, ‘Tex., received a ball in his left thigh; John T. White, of Fort Worth, was struck in the shoulder; Samuel Dodd, of North Carolina, hasa deep gash in his forehead; Edward Frabishey, of Texas, suffers a shattered arm; Jobn Young, of Louisiana, is shot through the shoulder. . The prisoners, all of whom had rifles and revolvers and plenty of ammunition, were disarmed, the wounded cared for as well as possible under the circumstances, and the march to Purcell was taken up. The wagons and personal property of the boomers were - destroyed. The gang were all Southerners, mostly from Texas, and presented a forlorn appearance. Mclntosh and the other prisoners were taken to the prison pen, five miles southwest of Purcell, and placed under a strong guard. i
THREE BROTHERS EILLED.
ForT SyitH, Ark., April 22.—Tuesday last five brothers named Arnold, who reside in Choctaw Nation near this place, started with their teams for Oklahoma. A rumor reacher here late this evening thatf; three of them were killed on the road. They attempted to pass other boomers on the road, which.resulted in the fight for the right ot way, Albert, Ward and Jones Arneld being killed. It is not stated whether any one ‘was killed on the other side. The Arnolds are well known as railroad confractors.
WiceiTa, Kan., April 22 —John Murphy, a member of the Improvement. Company, met John Horton, a 1 member of the League, at 2 o’clock Monday morning and a quarrel followed. It was stopped. by a party of the friends of each, but revolvers and Winchesters were called into requisition and firing was kept up in the main streete of Purcell until daylight. The contending parties being under cover, the firing did not result as seriously as it was feared it might. Three of the town-site men were injured, Tom Myers bemg shot in the head, Joe Martin in the arm and one SimpKkins (colered) was struck in the leg. At daylight the fighting ceased. :
THE WORK OF INVENTORS.
It is reported that a Dr. Eisenmann, of Berlin, has invented a piano which, by the aid of electro-magnetism, can sustain, increase and diminish sound. R
A MAaINE mechanic is tbe inventor of a sleigh which is to be run by steam. The model which he has built has capacity and l motive power sufficient to carry 15,000 feet of logs. ' The sleigh has made a number of successful trips this winter. A sHoEMAKER named Schon, living in a town in Moravia, has invented and patented & boot which the wearer can make smaller or larger without spoiling the shape; it is especially suitable for tender-footed travelers. . } : A FreNcEMAN has invented a new system for propelling canal boats. It consists of an endless cable running along two banks. The boats are moved at double the ordinary speed, and can readily be attached and detached from the cables.. -« . Tar Swiss watchmakers haye invented a wateh for the blind. A amfl%tiflf 89t in. -the middle of each figure. - When the hour hand is-mflingwm:dagivm hour the peg for that hour drops, The porson finds the peg is down and then counts back to twelve. ~ A Cmicago man has invented a spring gong, to be attached to an umbrella or cane, el with o whiee that s ert god ebl S e S e
A SEA OF FLAME.
It Engulfs a Number of Immense Buildings in New York—The Largest Conflagration Known for Many Years—A Loss of Over $3,000,000 Results—One Life Lost and Several Persons Badly Hurt. . New Yomk, April 20.—The biggest andfiercest fire New Yorkers haye witnessed in this generation swept the east bank, of the North river clear Friday from Fifty-ninth street to what would be Sixty-fifth street if that street ran to the river. It destroyed more than $1,500,000 worth of property belonging to the New York Central railroad, and at least $500,000 worth of lard, flour and the like, belonging to other persons, notably N. K. Fairbank, the. great Chicago lard merchant. The flames destroyed the two big elevators, “A” and *“B,” of the Vanderbilt system; a big brick building stretching from Fifty-ninth street to Sixtieth street, and occupied jointly by the Fairbank lard refinery and the Rossiter stores, and wiped eut the dock property of the New York Central railroad system from Fifty-ninth to past Sixty-fifth street. At least one man was killed in his ‘headlong flight from the fire at the first. outbreak. A number were injured jumping from the windows of the burning building, but in the terror of the conflagration it was impossible to obtain a complete report of the casualties. The following list includes the killed and injured so far as is known: * Henry Benning, single, 694 Tenth avenue, & workman in Fairbank’s refinery, Kkilled by ' jumping from a third-story window; John Johnson, 517 west Forty-second street, likewise a workman in Fairbank’s, severely injured on the back by jumping from a window; Charles Brown, 605 west Forty-third street, severe injuries about the head from the same cause; William J. Noble, fireman of engine ' No. 2, prostrated by the heat while at work at the foot of Fifty-ninth street; Edward H. "tl;obén, fireman, likewise prostrated by the cat.
The fire broke out in the southeast corner of the Fairbank refinery where workmen | wére busy at the time settingup a new | lard-cooling apparatus when the fire started, how no one knew and probably no one ever will know. Soaked in grease as the old ~ building was, it was aflame in an instant. From the = ground floor thej fire swept upward to the roof almost with the speed of thought. The men at work in every story dropped their tools and ran to save their lives. The staircases formed a glowing chimney, throwing:out fire through every floor. The windows presented the only means of escape. Pursued close by flames men flung themselves out by scores headlong, and behind them burst out the flames How many were there no one could tell Those who came out were picked up and carried away by their friends, shuddering to think that some might have been left. Crying wives and mothers crowded the police lines shouting for their husbands and ‘sons, or begging mnews of them. They were turned back and bidden to look in the throng for those they sought. They would, the policemen hopefully said, - probably find them there. v The fire swept om. The Fairbank refinery, the old establishment of the W. J. Wilcox Company, stands upon the' water front ‘between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth streets, occupying half of a building 200 by - 200 feet, that tilled out the block. The refinery was on the south half, the Rossiter gtores for general merchandise on the } north side. ‘ ' Thefiremen took their stand on abrick | wall which divided the buigdings and endeavored to stop the progress of the flames. The fire beat against it and heated it red hot. Other brick walls and the roof fell in upon it, but it stood like a rock. Any thing save such a fire it would have resisted, but flames fed by melted and flowing lard burn fiercely and leap high. They leaped above and around the sturdy barrier and reached across Sixtieth street and the dock 'slip. Over there stood the first and .the big-l gest of the enormous grain elevators of the New York Central railroad. It was elevator ‘A the consguction of which cost $500,000. It stood preSenting its gable end to the flames that were blown toward it. Once that caught fire there would be no saving elevator “B,” 500 feet farther up the river, and no telling where the fire would stop, for beyond were freight sheds inriumerabie. o Between the elevators on the water front and Twelfth avenue were first twenty-sev-en railroad tracks which np fire engine could cross, and a half-mile "of stock-yard pens equally impassable. =Chief Shay gaw this and led his men to a very life struggle in order to save the elevators. He telephoned for fire-boats and. they came to his assistance. . But the efforts of the valiant men were in vain. The tremendous heat from the fire across the street dried and warped the wood work | of the big frame building. Though it t was sheathed with corrugated iron and protected by slate, it shriveled up like withered leaves, the slates fell from its i sides in a red-hot rain,a thin, blue, film ! smoke arose from its roof and sides, then a tiny wreath of something darker curled | from one of the corner windows, a dull, ! red light showed behind i§. A shout went { up: “‘There she goes!” and then came { a burst from half a. dezen windows |at once, and the building was !on fire. The covering of slate and iron ! rolled off in great crackling crusts, the flames shot upward for hundreds of feeb, l and burning pieces of material slid and lew in all directions with vicious force. : ' The Rossiter stores still stood dark and ! with closed iron shutters. But the water | thrown by the firemen sizzled and { boiled when it touched them, bef traying the burning heat within. The ! northwest corner of the wall swayed }a moment, then it fell with a thunder- { ing crash. The entire building was seon in { lames and presented an awe-inspiring | sight. The heat was most intense, and it was found advisable to clear a number of the stock-yard pens. -The huge elevator was soon destroyed and the flames i began their- attack on the second | elevator. This building was cox;?imed, | and at 11 o’clock, when the fire was con- | trolled, a half-mile of ruin sent out a furnace heat. The elevators had about 150,000 bushels of grain valued: at nearly $lOO,OBO, and the buildings were worth about $1,300,~ 000. The following is the most reliable estimate of the loss obtainable: = = ° The Rositer stores, contents, §900,000; Wil- | cox Company, stock, $450,000; elevator *A.” $30),000: elevator “B," §750,000; dock “D" (contents); $:00,070; dock “‘A,” $%5,000; the Wilcox bulding, § 20,000. Total, ¥8,855,000. At a late hour it was reported that four men were in the ruins of the Wilcox Company'sbullding o & e LGB
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Little Girl Falls from the Dome of the Ohilo Capitol — Hér Skull Orushed—A Brave Uncle’s Narrow Escape. S
Corumsus, 0., April 20.—As Mary Estelle. Saltzman, aged 5 years, accompanied by her mother and uncle,were looking over the city from the dome of the State capitol the girl toppled backward through an open window. A stone coping twenty-five feet below the window caught her body, but her skull was crushed so as to make it certain that she can not live. Her uncle, R. M. Hull, clerk of the Senate, so lost his presence of mind as to leap after the child. He barely caught _hold of the coping and saved bimself from being dashed to pieces on the ground, 200 feet below. ~ o - GONE TO CANADA. i & S ARt o g ‘Susplcious Absence of the Leading Mems= - ber of a New York Firm Which Recente _ 1y Failed for an Enormous Sum., - New Yok, April 20.—Rumors are current in the shirt trade that D. H. Downs, senior | ?523“ of the firm of Downs& Finch, whioh failed recently for 500,000, has gone to g‘mummmbmmdw% after the failure, but his wife says he is_ B Deis SR e W A e e (el R Toa ki b S e LA AR N e Uhgv R THN S T O SOV S . pohe.
FRUIT PROSPECTS.
There Will Be a Plentiful Supply of Peaches and Grapes, but Other Varieties Do Not Promise So Well. b
f, Louts, April 19.—The Republie prints a report giving the fruit and vegetable prospects of the whole country. The reports have all been gvrltten during the present month by the best-informed parties in theit{_ respective States, and no unfavorable” . weather having intervened, are considered. as reliable as though just written,” and. therefore of especial value. Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi furnish very full and complete - reports. The peach crop will be the largest ever grewn, the: peach buds being alive at thistime in every State in the Union, and the seasen being now so far advanced that a crop is assured in the West and South, and although toe ear.y to safely predict a full yield in the East, a good crop is expected at ninost pointe: there. : i - :
' Fortunately for apple growers the crop of apples will be much smaller than that of’ last year, it being the off year for the crop at many of the big shipping peints, notably Western New = York, a sectien - that can flood every market in the country when a full crop is gathered. The strawberry crop is hardly up te the average, yet much larger than that of 1888, which was the lightest in many: ivenrs. The pear crep will average: ight through its great enemy, the: “blight.” The grape crop (in the West and South has been favered with such a mild winter that but little injury hasbeen inflicted, and, though late frosts are: not yet all gone, nearly double the yield of last year is looked . for. In Ohiox and the great grape growing regions in New York and Pennsylvania a good crop is anticipated. @ The general crop of other small fruits will not‘be large, be.ng at many points rather neg--lected. The outlook for vegetables is good. in all portions of ‘the country and the yield. promises to be large. L Norrorg, Va:;, April 19.—Truckers heresta e that owing to the flood the potatocrop was gone and it was too late to replant now. The pea crop was an entire loss, and the bean crop will have to be pulled up and: replanted. ; s
BISMARCK ON SAMOA.
He Declares Germany’s Desire Is Only toProtect the Interests of Her Subjects i the Islands, Not to Meddle with Affairs.
—Ex-Consul Knappe' Sevei-ely. Censured..
BERuLIN, April 19.—A white book regardIng the Samoan question has been published. undér date of April 16 by Prince Bismarck. and Herr Steubel, ‘the present German: Consul at Samoa. Herr Knappe, the: late German Consul at Samoa, i 8 censured for his conduct througheut all the troubles at the islands. The white: book dwells upon the fact that Knappe's: actions were entirely unauthorized and without necessity. It states that he took. measures on December 17 last which re--sulted in deplorable deaths and effected an. undesirable change in the position of planters, and which jeopardized peace: between Germany and America,. while ~ quiesence . would have, preserved a situation that at least would have been tolerable. ' Prince Bismarck con--cludes the report by declaring that Germany has nothing to do with the internal affairs of Samoa. The German mission i Samoa is restricted to protecting German citizens and enabling them to develop their commercial interests. Prince Bismarck has issued an order im: which he defines the responrsibilities of Commanders of war-ships with respect torequests of Consuls abroad. The Chancellordirects Commanders to. examine for themselves the legal and political grounds: for such request, unless the Consul produces &pecial authority frem the: German Foreign Office., As a reason -for his action, Prince Bismarck refers tothe recent events in Samoa, where, he says, an unauthorized request resulted in great loss of life and in injury to German inter ests, and danger was thereby incu.rred_o? Germany becoming embroiled with a friendly nation, with no conclusive reason exist--ing for the intervention-of an armed force..
MISSING MONEY.
A Package of £15,000 in Gold Mysterious—ly Disappears from the Office of the: Northarn Pacific Express Company at. Brainerd, Minn. | !
MinNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 19.—The Jour--nal’'s Brainerd (Minn.) special says: A. package containing $15,000 in gold has: mysteriously disappeared from the offide of’ the Northern Pag¢ific Express Company in this city. Louis Hohman, the night ¢lerk in charge, received from the train arriving atl:4sa. m. four sacks of specie, two of which contained $15,000 each in goldjand two $5OO each in silvér. The money ‘waus consigned to the First National Bank at this city. by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to be -used in paying employes of the road.. Hohman says he carried the specie with otherf:;xpress packages on his truck to the: door of. the express office. He is positive that he then carried all the specie into the vault and turned the combination. Half an hour later, in checking up, he discovered that one of the bags of gold was missing. He at once notified his superior, but a elose investigation failed to reveal a clew to the missing money. Hohman has been in the employ of the express company for several years and is regarded as honest and faithful. : ;
DEATH ON A COUNTRY ROAD.
A Farmer and His Wifte Fatally Burned While Riding in a Lumber Wagon.
WaTERLOO, la., April 19.—Robert Shidler, of Manson, was buried Thursday. His death was caused by burns which he received. while trying to save his wife from being burned, to death April 5 They were riding to town «din a lumber wagon - during a high wind “and the hay in the wagon was set on fire by a. spark from his pipe. Before they noticed it Mrs. Shidler's clothing was on fire. Mr. Shidler got her out of the wagon and tried to smother the flames. In doing so the dry grass besidé the road caught fire from her clothes amnd the heat was so .intense that she suffocated, dying in her husband's arms. His hands and arms were fearfully burned, the: flesh coming from them in shreds. He suffered intense pain, but lingered until Tuesday last, when he too died. Mr. Shidler: was 68 years old and his wife 64.
Death of the Merrimac’s Pilot.
NomroLk, Va., April 19.—Captain Hezekiah Williams, one of the oldest members of the Virginian Pilots’ Association, died: Wednesday night, aged 72 years. He was a native of Middlesex County. He was one of the pilots of the iron-clad Merrimae, and: was at the 'wheel in the encounter between that war-ship and Ericcson’s’ Monitor im Hampton Roads during the late waz. .
..~ Millions Disposed OF 5 . New Yorg, Aprill9.-The will of Mrs. W. E Vanderbilt Allen, daughter of the late: Commodore Vanderbilt, bequeaths the estate, valued at $5,000,000, in six equal parts; one to each of her five living children and. one to the children of her deceased son. : ' All Were Drowned. - Barrimore, Md., April 19. — The Sun's: special from Norfolk, Va., says: A vessel went ashore Wednesday night meal life- | saving station No. 21, but asail on board - IR e ' reach them, and the vessel went to! pieces shortly after she struck the heach, it has _been impossible to ascertain Mie sVs | strvstion in Hungary, );.J:@}Q'{""};\i'F““‘i"“fir.\f&"‘],“'; b f\,‘ oS LS .f' S -‘" ;‘A“V?‘,J\’?f"