Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 July 1889 — Page 2

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Bisaor Bowwman; of the 'Methodifi‘t‘ church, has dedicated one or hmoj:‘e_ churches in every State and Territory of the Union. L

Cow’s HAIR is now used in making carpets. The process is described asa cheap one and the product as an improvement on the woolen article. ‘

Pror. E. B. ANDREwS, professor of political economy and social science at Cornell University, has been 'a‘é{“ pointed to the presidency of Brown University at Providence, R. L. i I S ATS A RIS TR i B

CoNGRESS will be petitioned next winter to Bnact laws for the coinage of:la half-cent piece. "It is held that in the large cities, and especially ‘in New York, such a coin would be popular. |

JAMES W. BRADBURY, of Maing, Alpheus Felch, of Michigan, and Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, are the oldest ex-United States Senators now living, all three having entered the Senate in 1847. e B. P. SHILLABER (Mrs. Partington)\ is tied up in a complicated knot by rheumatism, but his cheerful disposition stands by him still. To a friend he recently spoke of himself as‘,sittini “from year’s end to year’s end, armed with paper, pipe, pills and patience.” g T SR PPN S A curious illustration of abuse of process in the criminalicourts re,ée,ntlyi occurred in the Punjaub. - Six men were convicted of murder. Soon afterwards the ‘“murdered’” man turned up alive and well. The criminal courts in India, it is said, are noi infrequently used for gratifying private animosities. |

IN 1868, before the newspaper stamp was abolished in Hungary, there were only 120 newspapers and magazines published in the whole kingdom. After the abolition, the number of papers rose to 201 in ‘1873, 824 in 1879, 412 1n 1882, 516 in 1886, and now there are more than 600, 267 of which are publisheéd in the capital, Budapest.

Miss HowEe and Miss Burbank, teachers in the high school at Hartford, Conn., sailed the other day for Europe, bound on a long tour all® by themselves. After leaving the steamer they will take passage northward ‘along the Norwegian coast, going as #igh as North Cape, toward the ‘‘Land of the Midnight Sun.” The journey will last for about three months.

Persoxs who have a superstitious dread of Friday will be pleased to hear that this is a’ year for Fridays. "It came in on Friday, will go out on Friday, and will have fifty-three of tha ill-omened days. There are four months in this year that have five Fridays each, changes of the moon occur five times on Friday, and the longest and shortest days eof the year each fulls on Friday. i il

CarrLisLe D. GrAHAM, who proposed to ‘‘shoot’’ 'Niagara Falls in a barrel, took the barrel to Chippewa., Onf, recently and let it drift down the river and over the Horseshoe falls. It was broken into a thousand pieces in the rapids and the pieces were seen going over. This settled the question with Graham, and he will never again attempt to go over the talls in his “patent boat.”’ ey

THE longest recorded examination of a legal witness was recently concluded in New York in the case of the State of New Jersey against the Morris & Essex Railway Company for $1,000,000 back taxes. Richard F. Stevens, the expert who éxamined the railvay company’s hooks, was put on the stand two years ago and testified for two hours every week up to the conclusion of the case. o

THE more this usefiil hint circulates during the summer the better: Dr. Hammond, an authority, says there is no agent more powerful with some persons as a depressent. of the heart than a latge draught of ice-water. Under certain circumstances ‘it acts with all the !force of prussic acid. The faintness &nd paleness that fre. quently follow a draught of it are due to the weakness of the heart’s action. Had the draught been colder in such cases life would have become extinect.

WiLLiaM F. Moore and Bertha A. Van Dusen were married at Irontén, 0., the other night. Miss Van Dusen was employed in a woolen mill at Wheelersburg, 0., and while knittigxg socks finished one pair handsomely and inclosed her name and address in onc of them, requesting the buyer to write to her. Moore, who keeps a store near South Point, bought the socks. He wrote the romantic maiden. Tﬁey' exchanged photographs, the result being that Miss Van Dusen has ﬂfb’w entered into a life contract to knit fancy hose for Moore. Ve g e

Mgs. HavEs, known -among the soldiers under her husband’s command as the “Mother of the Regiment,” won the sobriquet in the following way: A half-witted fellow was told by his comrades upon her arrival in camp that she had ¢ome to domending. In good faith he earried his blouse to her to. mend. After a moment’s thought she saw the situation, and determining to save him from ridieule she mended it as if it were really her business. The men were' .ashamed, but, delighted with her way of treating the matter, gave her the above title. | « ’ ; At the Post-office Department a eurious thing has been found in the line of applications. It is a photograph of the applicant for a post-office, and is. accompanied by a request that the picture be filed with the papers in the case. What is intended to be a genial smile has évidently been too much for the skil of the country photographer, and the result is an expression of minglad mﬂ’@d dis a ri_“"-s;’d 3 A M',ﬁ uch more amusing than the avigiast e This is the Bhrd sprle SAtion &N g;ﬁ ?f'.i« otogr L&w #ocoiviel ot he Bét-offd Depariment: eRN T P LT

. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. A r s I —————— ¥ WS % ; FROM WASHINGTON. : - Tae public debt statement issued on the ‘lBt showed the total debt to be $1,651,401.891; cash in Treasury, $71,484,042; debt less cash in Treasury, $1,076,646,621. Decrease ‘during June, $16,255,920. Decrease since June 380, 1888, $BB 398, 035. i 3 .. TrE death of Mrs. Thomas, the widow of “Gen éral Thomas, Commander of the Army of the Tennessee, occurred in Georgetown, D. 0, on the Ist. - yeoa THE President made the following ap_pointments on the Ist: A. L. Snowden, of Pennsylvania, Minister Resident and Consul General to Roumania, Servia and Greece; William H. Edwards, of Ohio, Consul General to Berlin; Augustus 0. Bourne, of Rhode Island, Consul General to Rome; Eugene Schuyler. of New York, Consul General to Cairo; William Harrison Bradley, of Hlinois, Consul General to Nice; Arthur MacArthur, Jr., of Washington, .Assistant Adjutant-General United States Army. TeE Government receipts from all sources during the fiscal year closed June 30 aggregated $388,591,675, against $379,266,074 for the preceding year. The ordinary expenses were $153,734,137, against $134,640,442 during the preceding year. The pension charge was $87,977,682, or ‘about $8,000,000 more than for the previous year. The surplus revenue for the year will amount to $106,000,000, against $119,612,116 the previous year. 'ON the Ist'Secretary Blaine left Washington for Bar Harbor, Me., where he will remain until September. 1 THE annual statement on the Ist of the Oomptroller of the Currency showed that the National bank ecirculation had fallen from $252,000,000 a year ago to $215,000,000, or about seventeen per cent. It was said that at a conference held at Washington on the 2d by the President, the members of his Cabinet and several United Btates Senators, a decision to call a special gession of Congress to meet about November 1 was reached. WARRANTS were issued by the Secretary of the Treasury on the ¥d_in payment of $16,000,000 on account of pensions, being the first payment on this account for the new fiscal year. ' TerOoUGHOUr the country Independence Day was generally celebrated on the 4th, President Harrison passed the day as the guest of Henry C. Bowen at Woodstock,. Conn.

AT the United States mints the coinage executed during June amounted to 8934,765 pieces, representing $4,770,413,40" in value. There were 88,495 gold pieces, of $1,392,095 in value, and 8,514,440 silver pieces, of $3,289,208.50 in value. | ?

In the United States there were 152 business failures during the seven days ended 'on the sth, against 184 the previous seven days. The total failures in the United Btates to date from January 1 is 6,037, against 5,401 in 1888, - On the sth Hadje Hassein Ghooly Khan, the Persian Minister to the United States, resigned his post and said he should leave this country, never to return. He gave as his-reason the articles published in American newspapers from time to time concerning the ways and doings of his royal master, the Shah.

THE EAST.

- ON the Ist ex-President Woolsey, of Yale College, died at New Haven, Conn., aged eighty-eight years. . Lypla FERRIN celebrated at Charlestown, Mass., on the Ist her one hundredth pirthday,in the home to which she went as a bride when nineteen years old. She was well and active.

The official majority given against prohibition in Pennsylvania at the recent election was 188,027. IN the United States the total number of failures during the past six months, as reported by Bradstreet’s, was 5,918; assets, $52,808,940; . liabilities, $67,411,711, against 604 failures in the first half of 1888,

Ox the 2d the Chautauqua Assembly began its sixteenth annual session at Jamestown, N. Y. : ;

AT his own request Colonel John G. Paine, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point, having served forty years, was retired on the 2d.

AT Lockport, N. Y., on the 2d Lizzie Hawkes, aged sixteen years, and Mary Hawkes, aged eight years, were struck by lightning and killed. ON the 2d a waterspout broke over Al toona, Pa., doing great damage. NEAR Johnston’s Station, Pa., an oil-tank was struck by lightning on the 2d, and twenty-six thousand barrels of oil were burned. . i

ON the 4th the towns of Cushing and Freeport, in Maine, celebrated the centennial of their incorporation. . ON the 4th four young people were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at the pienie of the Arch Street Methodist Church of Allegheny City at Forest Grove, Pa. AT Johnstown, Pa., cholera morbus in its worst form had made its appearance on the 4th. There were over one hundreg cases among the workmen, and General Hastings and Colonel Douglass were sick in bed. ' AT Johnstown, Pa., six more bodies were found on the sth, but they were unrecognizable. Governor Beaver senta communication to Mayor Grant, of New York, saying that they had expended £1,000,000 for the relief of the sufferers in food, clothing, shelter and furniture. No distribution of money had been made. Every thing possible was being done to give prompt relief. A CARRIAGE containing Mrs. Joseph Ward, Mr. Keating, a New York hat manufacturer, his daughter and her nurse, was struck by an express train and smashed to pieces near Long Branch, N. J., and all were killed. -

THE failure of the Goodyear Rubber Boot and Shoe Company, of Providence, R. L, for $716,000 was announced on the sth. i Oxthe sth one hundred Mormon disciples reached New York from Europe and were at once shipped to Salt Lake City. g

Ox the sth Frank Hoyt, paying teller of the First National Bank of Hoboken, N. J.. was arrested on a charge of embezzling $lB,OOO of the bank’s funds. j . HENRT ANTOINE NouLE, who stole 163,000 francs from the Paris banking house of Beligaire, - Journal & Co., while ucting cashier, was arrested on the sth in New York. ’ i

, WEST AND SOUTH. . JouN KuNzE, indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago, was arrested on the Ist and placed in jail, . A TRAIN on the Norfolk & Western road was wrecked by a washout on the 2d near Thaxton’s, Va., and it was reported ‘that several cars were burned and that twentyfive persous lost their lives. Many were also injured. - ' A, C. ForpEs, Judge-Advocate General of Minnesota, died on the 2d at his home in Marshall, ‘ ; GOVERNOR FIIFER on the 2d pardoned Joseph O. Mackin, convicted of perjury in connection with ballot-box fraunds in Chi cago. His five-year term would have expired in August. | i ~ IN session at Jackson on the 2d the Missisgippi State Prohibition convention resolved not to form a separate party, but to vote for candidates favorable to prohibi‘tion, ;- S : ; : Morriz RAY and' May Parker, inmates of the same ' disreputable house :Ztg}ﬂfe Haute, Ind., killed themselyes witir poison on'the 2d. Neither knew of Afhe other’s ;Rurpose. 3 i ol ' BEVERAL blocks of streets, forty or fifty stores and cellars were inundated on the 2d at Richmond, Va., by a heavy rain, and damage done to the amount of om,mw.j JregEo m;f”““ PRI e g Ox the 2d Arley Morris, son % DA, w Mm and his face horribly burned while bl b O o En APAR D BNELIE . e vl T w&h gf %w@ww w@%%gwﬁ SRR e

. THE execution of the negroes Prince Fleming and Richard Jordan, for the murder of John Taylor (colored), took place at New Orleans, La., on the 3d. $ At the race track in Oklahoma, Ind. T\ the grand stand collapsed on the 4th, injuring more than one hundred persons, many fatally, and one killed outright. KeENTUCEY Reépublicans met in State convention at Lexington on the 4th and nominated David G. Colston for State Treasurer.

AT St. Louis on the 3d four negroes were arrested for the killing of seven white men in an election riot at Marion, Miss., in November, 1881. . THE Mobile Insurance Company at Mobile, Ala., made an assignment on the 3d. It was the last of eighteen life insurance companies started in the South about 1870. TrE North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana constitutional conventions met on the 4th to adopt State constitutions. ON the Chesapeake & Ohio railway a train was wrecked near Ona, W. Va., on the 4th, and George W. Walsh, the oldest engineer on the road, and his fireman were killed.

AT Adair, la., seventy-five people were seriously poisoned on the 4th by eating icecream which was made in vessels that had not been properly cleaned. Several would .die and all were suffering badly. - IN MiMaukee the large Falk, Jung & Borchert brewery, with fifty-two thousand barrels of beer in stock, was burned on the 4th. Loss, $750,000; insurance, $330,000, In the North Dakota Constitutiohal convention on the sth at Bismarck J. B. Fancher (Rep.) was elected permanent chairman. In South Dakota, at Sioux Falls, A. J. Edgerton (Rep.) was made permanent chairman. In Montana, at Helena, W. A. Clark (Dem.) was elected chairman, and in Washington, at Olympia, . John P. Hoyt (Rep.) was chosen as chairman. The Idaho convention met -at Boise City and chose Judge Morgan (Rep.) as chairitan. Frank Brepisa killed his wife at Memphis, Tenn., on the sth because she refused to live with him, and then took his own life. : :

FraMes destroyed the business distriet and a large part of the residence section of Ellensburg, W. T., early on the morning of the sth. One hundred families were homeless and penniless, and financial help was asked. The city was practically wiped out. SEERIFF BRANsON attempted to arrest William and James Mills on the sth, at Kirbyville, Mo., for carrying concealed weapons. The Mills brothers opened fire on the sheriff and Ed Frenk, his deputy, killing them both. ‘ : FroM crop reports received on the fith Secretary Mohler, of the Agricultural De--partment of Kansas, estimated the total .yield of wheat at 54,000,000 bushels, just double that of last year. TrE Ohio Union Labor party in State convention at Lima on the sth made the following nominations: For Governor, J. W. Rhodes; Lieutenant-Governor, C. L. Rice; Supreme Judge, H. A. Tuttle; Auditor, Martin Krumm; Treasurer, D. D, Martin; Attorney-General, William Baker; Commissioner of Public Works, Oswald Dietz. T S

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DuRriING a recent terrible destructive rainstorm at Hong Kong, China, fifteen lives were lost by flood and lightning. AT Brunn, Austria, fifteen thousand workmen struck for higher wages on the Ist, including all the bakers in the city.

Ox the Ist the Massachusefts rifle team contested with the Honorable Artillery Company at rifle shooting at London, and the American team won by a score of 1,015 to 961. :

MiceAEL DAvITT in his testimony before the Parnell commission in London on the 2d said that the Clan-na-Gael inciuded some of the best Irishmen in America, and was no more a murder c¢lub than the Carlton Club of London. .

ON the 2d the World’s Sunday-school convention opened at Parker’s Temple in London. .

RuGGIERE's fire-works factory in Aubervellieres, France, exploded on the 2d, killing seven persons.. ON the 4th Mr. Hirsch, the new United States Minister to Constantinople, presented his credentials to the Sultan and met with a cordial:reception. : IN a coal-pit at St. Etiennc, France, an explosion of fire-damp occurred on the 38d., There were three hundred miners in the pit, and ‘two hundred were killed by the explosion. -

At Winnipeg on the sth Ex-Premier Nog» quay, of the Manitoba Government, died suddenly, aged forty-eight years. ON the sth Miss Ida Phillips, lately a missionary in India, was drowned at Winnebago City, Minn. . S LoNe and deep fissures appeared in the earth in the Matanzas district of Cuba on the sth, causing great alarm among the people. ‘ . :

- Ir was decided in the World’s Sundayschool convention in London on the sth to hold the next convention in America in 1893. s

_ON the docks in London a fire on the sth caused a loss.of $300,000. '

LATER.

THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 6th . aggregated $1,127,114,523, against $1,124,899,294 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 27.5. .

H. A. PEARsONs, aged forty-five years, a Chicago bachelor millionaire, was drowned in the lake on the 7th while bathing. AN express train collided with. a freight train on the 7th near Frankfort, Ky., wrecking the locomotive and several passenger coaches of the express, and eight persons were killed outright and eleven were se: verely imnjured. : Mr. Lupwig, who had the key, the only thing remaining of the German Lutheran church at Johnstown, Pa., died on the 7th of grief at the loss of his three sons and one daughter. - i - Four young men were drowned on tae 6th near Buffalo, N. Y., by the upsetting of a boat. _ s

- EIGHT business houses at Geneva, 0., inc‘l;uding the post-office; were burned on the 7th. :

AN Eastern syndicate on the 6th purchased the breweries at Indianapolis, Ind. IN a conflict at Duluth, Minn., on the 6th between strikers and the police two of the former were shot dead and many others were wounded. :

THE village of Übendorf, on the Wesse river, in Germany, was destroyed by fire on the 6th. The loss was enormous. No loss of life wasreported. Hier D. MrLLER, cashier of the National Bank of Malta, 0., was on the 6th discovered to be a defaulter to the extent of $32,000, ADVICES of the 6th say that in recent encounters between Egyptian troops and derwvishes 900 of the latter were killed and 700 ~others were taken prisoners or driven to desertion. f SBAMOAN advices of the 6th state that a peace treaty had been concluded between the warring chiefs Mataafa and Tamasese. AT Johnstown, Pa., the coroner’s jury on the 6th returned a verdict holding the ddm-owners responsible for the loss of life resulting from the great flood. ; EvERY business house and forty dwelling _houses at Bakerfield, Cal, were destroyed by fire on the 7th, cuusing a loss -of . $1,000,000, - G * IN a fight on the 6th between rival crews of the ferryboats at Cairo, 111, three negroes ‘were killed. Sy e Brrow will be found the percentage of .the base-ball clubs in themuw for the week ended on ﬁwﬁﬂhm (Cleveland, .650; New York, .592; Phila. Gelphia, .500; Wﬂ;& +491; Pitteburgh, Aoshion: ' aah, .708; 8, Paul, 708; ”"*W?ﬁw i Minneavol is. 48l: Den. L gt Niassapo . Tossblt aad. M ’Emgﬁw‘%’* "‘%&;@, ih

TO FOUND AN IRISH REPUBLIC. A Movement to Establish One In Canada, i Chili, Peru or Mexico. - _ CHICAGO, July 6.—A number of prominent Irish-Americans held a private meeting Thursday afternoon at the Grand Pacific to discuss the feasibility of organizing an Irish-American Republic to advance the interests of Ireland and the Irish race. After a lengthy discussion it was unanimously decided to adopt a plan of action formulated and proposed by William T. Grifin. Accordingly, an organization was perfected to be known as the Irish-American Republic Association, and an election of officers was held with the following result: President, Willfam T. Griffin; Vice-President, Edward T. Cahill; Secretary, Edward P. Lynch; Treasurer, David F. Sullivan. It is the intention of the projectors of the above-named association to organize a land syndicate, composed of influential and wealthy Irishmen, send representatives to Canada, Chili, Peru and Mexico. The latter country, it is understood, would be willing to dispose of Lower California or a neighboring State, under certain conditions, with the privilege of establishing an Irish-Amer-ican republic therein. It is proposed to secure a grant of land there, or elsewhere, sufficient to accommodate from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 of people, and divert the enormous immigration pouring into this country from Ireland to this land, erect improvements on the same, and furnish immigrants with necessaries until after crops can be raised. The money expended on improvements, necessaries and land will be secured by mortgage, without interest (or at a very low rate), and collected in small annual instalments, the same as rent. This money will be utilized to build and equip a navy, organize an army, develop the resources of the country, and establish a republic.

THE GROWING CROPS.

South Dakota Wheat and Corn Almost 8 Total Failure-Big Harvest in Kansas.

Mason Ciry, la., July 6.—John R. Elder has just returned from a trip through nearly every county in South Dakota, and with the exception of very few localities pronounces the-wheat crop an almost complete failure. Much of it stands less than six inches high, and is headed out with the kerhel inside dried up, nothing being left but the hull. Corn is showing the effects of the drought, and at the best will be but haif a crop Water is very scarce and pasturage very short,. - .

KaxNsas City, Mo., July 6.—Crop reports received by¥Secretary Mohler, of the Agricultural Department of Kansas, are to the effect that the wheat harvest is almost finished. The secretary estimates the total yield at 34,000,000 bushels, which is just doub'e that of last year. The crop may now be said to be Slf(?é%%ﬁxl_ly harvested. The largest yield is in Sumner County, where 3,000,000 bushels have been harvested. St. Louss, July 6.—The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture reports the condition of crops as being quite favorable, taking the State asa whole. Excess of rain and cool weather has interfered with corn, and in some cases the crop has been abandoned. Better weather during the last ten days has improved the condition, which is now 8). The condition of winter wheat at harvest time and after eonsiderable of it has been put into the shock is put at 92. The average of estimates of correspondence in every county in the State indicate that the yield per acre will not be less than fourteen bushels and the quality of the grain will be good, if not damaged in the shock. The conditiun of oats is 92.5; estimated yield of meadows per acre, 1.5 tons; condition of apples, 67. . FURY OF THE FLAMES. Two Hundred Houses in the Business Portion of Ellensburg, W. T., Laid in Ashes—Losses Estimated at $£2,000,000 EriENsBUrRG, W. T., July 6.—Fire broke out at 11 o’clock Thursday night in the grocery store of J. T. Anthony, on Main street. A high wind prevailing it soon spread to the adjoining frame buildings and then got beyond control of the limited fire department; sweeping the entire business portion of the city, embracing Main street from Fifth to First, Fourth from Main to Pine, Third from Water to Sprague, Pearl from Fitth to Second, covering an area of ten Dblocks in the business heart of the city. The only brick buildings left are the Lynch block and the Ellensburg National Bank. Two hundred bouses were totally destroyed, and the space burned over is ten blocks, or about fifty acres. The loss, as far as can be ascertained, is $2,000,000—5750,000 in buildings and $1,250,000 in goods. ' ~ Among the principal buildings destroyed are the Stone Bank, Snipes & Co., Ashler Hotel, Oriental Hotel, Masonic Temple, Odd-Fellows’ Hall, Geddes block, Fish block, Post-Office Localizer printing office, Dexter stable, Shoudy block, the new brick post-oftice, and Davidson block. |

The only stores left are: Blumauer & Son, O’Connor & Hogan, Gatzian’s shoe store and Coffin’s grocery. There is not a restaurant, hotel or boarding-house left, and there are about 150 people destitute. Mayor Abrams has called a meeting of citizens, and action will be taken for relief. While the loss is terrible for a city of 4,000 the citizens maintain a cheerful disposition and are determined to build more substantially than ever. The fire exhausted itself after burning five hours. ‘

A NARROW ESCAPE.

Aeronaut Allen’s Balloon Collapses at a Height of 1,200 Feet—His Nerve Saves Him.

_ ProviDENCE, R. L, July 6.—One of the most fnghtful experiences ever had by an aeronaut was that of Prof. Walborne Allen Thuxiay afternoon. The ascension was made about 4:30 o’clock. Reaching an altitude of about 1,200 feet the balloon collapsed. It reeled and turned bottom up and them it rolledy around once more and the basket lay out horizontally from the envelope. Then it fell rapidly. The terrified spectators next saw the gas-bag on top once more and fast nearing: the earth. They saw a form clamber up into the ropes. Whipping out his knife, Allen pierced a rent in the canvass and the bal« loon spread out like a parachute and shot downward like a disabled bird and landed in alot. The concussion threw the aeronaut out. He was picked up semi-uncon-scious, badly shaken up and pale, but was not seriously injured. =~ ‘'

{STOLE FROM A PARIS BANK.

Two Men and a Woman Arrested for the Crime in New York — Henry Antoine Nolle Confesses to Embezzling 163,000 Francs from the House of Belisaire, Journal & Co. New Yorx, July 6.—Henry Antoine Nolle, who has confessed that he stole 163,000 francs from the Paris banking house of Belisaire, Journal & Co. last May while he was its acting cashier, is° now in Ludlow street jail awaiting extradition on the charge of embezzlement. His wife, Blanche, and & dandified young Hebrew numed Paul ‘Hement are also prisoners in the same jail, charged with being accomplices in the crime, v _ : Death at Winnipeg of John Norquay, Exe : " Premier of Manitoba. . - Wixnipee, Man,, July 6. —Hon, John Norquay, the veteran ex- Premier of this prov-. ince, died here suddenly Friday night of “heart disease. He was a native of this | country, of Scoteh and Indian parentage, -and was. “hﬁt’wm politics since . gf province entered the Gm“% ‘be an irreparable mﬁ“mitmﬂd

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

A Great Celebration at Woodstock, Conn. -—Speeches by President Harrison, Senator Hawley, Congressman Reed and Others—Notable Observances Elsewhere.

~ WoopsTock, Conn., July s—Despite a drizzling rain the crowd at Roseland Park Thursday was fully as large and enthugiastic as at any previous celebration. Congressman Russell rapped the company to order at 11 o’clock and nominated Governor Bulkley for = chairman of the day. The Governor in a brief speech ace cepted the honor and expressed his pleasure at officially welcoming and presenting to the audience President Harrison. Hearty applause and ringing cheers greeted the President as he arose. Among other things the President said: X ‘I am sure I ook into the faces this morning ot a body of citizens tilled with honest pride in the story of their country, and full of serious purpose to maintain those - institutions from all taint of corruption or decay. We stand to-day as a Nation exempt from all fears of foreign hurt. It is not in the power of any people upon earth much to harm us, except our own peonle. We do not say this in any spir:t of boastfulness, but rather in one of thankfulness for that Divine providence which has given us such location. and assignment among the uations of the earth that no people of great nower touch |us on any side. All the more exempt from' thoughts of fors eign assault, ought our thoughts turn to dangers which are internal and from which alone we can have serious harm. All the more should every thoughtful citizen consider how he may promote the public weal, how he may hold up our institutions in honor among ourselves, securing and promoting both in State and National legisliation those measures which have best promoted, not individuals, not the special, but the general good of all the people.”

Senator Hawley was next introduced and spoke briefly in advocacy of a worthy celebration of the Fourth of July. He said a Nation which has no sacred days, no traditions, no bit of cloth to wave and shout for, is mighty poor; but a Nation which has such days and traditions and such a flag, and does mnot improve them, is worse still and deserves to die. It was the boys who were taught to celebrate the Fourth of July that saved the Union. Congressman Fhomas B. Reed, of Maine, was the next speaker introduced. His subject was “The Victory.” When Mr. Reed had finished Governor Bulkley introduced Secretaries Noble and Tracy. Neither was down on the programme, but each made a few remarks marks in a patriotic strain. The first speaker of the afternoon was President Gates, of Rutgers College, whose subject was “Liberty Through Allegiance to Law.” Will Carleton then read his poem, ““Rhymes to the Day,” and Senator Hiscock got through part of his address on ‘‘American Political Pessimism.” But the rain soon began to fall more heavily than ever, and Mr. Bowen announced that the rest of the programme, consisting of the Doxology and the benediction, would be carried out at his resdence.

CHIcAGO, July s.—The Fourth was celebrated in the ordinary way. A notable observance was the parade of the Eight-Hour League and its picnic at Cheltenham beach, Thousands attended the circus, ball games and races. All the city parks were crowded. At snight there were many public and private displays of fire-works of an elaborate character. The record of accidents forms a long list, many of them serious, and some may prove fatal Twen-ty-eight fires were recorded between midnight Wednesday and 6 o’clock Thursday evening. The losses, however, were slight. Dispatches haye been received announcing the observance of the day at Braidwood, Galena, { Bloomington, Galesburg, Joliet, Windsor, Paxton, Benton, andin fact nearly every city and town in the State. ;

Des Moings, la., July 5 —There was no celebration of Independence day in this city, but business was suspended and everybody was abroad. The chief attractions were the new zoological garden and a bicycle tournament at Athletic Park. Over 20,000 people attended the celebration at Cedar Rapids. The usual military display, horse and foot races, balloon ascension and parade were features. The trades display was three miles long and represented over 200 firms. The speakers were Hon. Frank Zdrubek and Hon. Carter Harrison, of Chicago. A lavish pyrotechnical display concluded the celebration. THE FOURTH ABROAD. 3 PAris, July 5. —President Carnot unvailed the Bartholdi statue of Liberty here in the presence of an immense crowd, in which there was a large sprinkling of Americans. The speeches all contained references to the day and were complimentary to America. M. Spuller, the French Foreign Secretary, recalled the Centennial ‘exhibition at Plgladelphia, _where France had been especially saluted for her wonderful progress in all that made a nation great, under the ®gis of arepublican constitution. America was to-day a grand and glorious Nation, but all that Amerjcan society was it owed to labor, to peace under the reign of liberty, liberty under the reign of law and equality by law. These were the cardinal principles upon which was built the glorious edifice of our republicanism. Whitelaw Reid, the American Minister, also spoke. LonpoN, July s.—Mr. Lincoln, the American Minister, held a reception Thursday at the legation, at which over 400 guests were present. Music was furnished by the famous Hungarian band. In the evening Mr. Lincoln presided at a floral fete to commemorate the 106th anniversary of €hrist Church in Lambeth, :

FALL OF A GRAND STAND. A Child Killed and Over 100 Persons Injured at a Race in Oklahoma City. OrraHoMA Crry, Ind. T., July s.—The grand stand at the race track collapsed at 8 o'clock Thursday afternoon, injuring more than 100 persons, many fatally. One thousand people crowded into the stand when the horses came to the post, and then suddenly, = without any warning, the structure went down, burying more than 500 in the ruins. For a second! the outside spectators were paralyzed by the accident. Then, as the cries and groans of the wounded filled the air, they rushed forward and began the work of rescue. The victims were dragged out and carried to places of safety or put in ambulances and sent into town. Colonel Wade, the commanding officer here, sent the military and physicians to the scene promptly and gave material aid. The escape of the crowd from death was miraculous, and, incredible as it appears, only one person was killed outright, a child of Dr. J. A. Ryan.

Five Young Peoplef prqwned at a Picnlg

in Pennsylvania.

PirrTsBURGH, Pa., July 5.—A sad accident happened at the picnic of the Arch Street Methodist Episeopal Church of Allegheny Oity at Forest Grove, on the Pittsburgh & Western raflroad, Thursday, by which five young people were drowned, Their names are: Nellie Burton, aged 18; May Royal, 16; Ida Cassiday, 22; Fannie McComb, 18, and Bert Freeman, 20. The five named, together with Edward Shaffer, took an old barge and started for a ride on Con‘naquenessing creek. The stream was very turbulent and the barge capsized. Shaffer succeeded in reaching the shore, but the others wenti down before assistance could reach them. o i

‘ . Trains Wrecked. ; Des MoiNges, la., July s.—Meager reports reached here Thursday evening that.a collision occurred on the Chicogo, Burlington & Quincy railroad about noon, near Batavia, between the regular passenger train going east and a fast freight, badly wrecking both trains and killing an express messenger. o : et sttty QY Wi < % s Robbéd a Blind Soldier. - LawreNcesure, Ind., July s.—Wednes. § -’%,wmh Thomas Acres, a blind soldier, muﬁﬁn%a roll of bills George Hess et oice Tt ond shot brought Hess down, but he récovF s e ey e e

'~ A BIG BREWERY BURNED. The Immense Establishment of the Falk, . Jung & Berchert Company at Milwaukof? Wis., Entirely Destroyed—The Loss Will Reach Nearly $1,000,000, and InJcludes the Consumption by the Fire Fiend of 52,000 Barrels of Beer. s MiLwAUKEE, July s.—The entire brewery plant of the Faulk, Jung & Borchert Brewing Company burned to the ground Thursday afternoon. The loas is $800,060, and the insurance less than $400,000. In the matter of area and financial loss the fire is the biggest in the history of Milwaukee. The plant covered an area of about three acres on the Muskwango road in the Menominee ‘valley, just outside the city limits. It was the original plant of the Falk Brewing Company. Less than a year ago the Jung & Borchert Company abandoned their plant and consolidated with the Falk Company, the capital stock of the consolidated company being $1,000,000. Since the consolidation extensive improvements of the old Falk plant were made, including an addition to the main brewery of a brick building 146x257 feet, an elevator 40x100 feet, 7 feet high,/ with a capacity of 125,000 bushels of malt, and a large engine-house. In the latter were six new boilérs and a new $50,000 ice machine with a capacity for making 100 tons of ice'daily. Additions and improvements cost $lOO,OOO and increased the capacity to 600,000 barrels of beer a year. Three hundred men were employed. ~ The brewery had been ghut down, and few men were “about the establishment when the fire was discovered in the interior of the new malt-house at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The brewing company maintained a fire company of its own, and assoon as possible they were at work. Being outside the city l%nits, the brewery depended on an artesiah well for its water supply, but when the fire company attempted to work - they found that the water supply was for some reason shut off from the hydrarts, jand they were left helpless. On receipt of a telephone message Chief Foley dispatched four engines from the ecity, but, as they were ‘obliged to set on the river bank, it was half an hour before the first stream of watet was thrown on the flames. In the meantime the fire had spread to all of the adjoining buildings, all of which were in flames before the firemen from the city got to work. ‘ )

A series of explosions followed each other as one after the other’ the gix new. boilers burst; and then followed one. after another the explosion of seven large tanks of ammonia, used .in the manufacture of ice. It was most remarkable that not a single person was injured through the explosions. Heavy pieces of - iron fell in the immediate vicinity,;but thie intense heat had kept the thousands of spectators at a safe distance. When the fire had burned itself out every one of the buildings was in ruins excepting the storehouse, where the firemen concentrated their efforts. Here was stored 52.000 barrels of beer, but, as the building was gutted, the beer stored there is probably all spoiled by the heat. In the immense bottling house, which was tot:%ly destroyed, were 600 barrels of er in bottles ready for shipnient to the?eSouth. The buildings destroyed were the malt-house, elevator, brew-house, the engine house with its new $50,000 ice machine,; storehouse and bottling works. Falk’sresidence and the stables with their many horses and wagons alone were saved. Where the office was the vault now stands alone. S

Mr. Falk, president of the company, thinks the loss will reach §1,000,000, but Mr. Borchert, the secretary, says it will be between $700,000 and $BOO,OOO, with an insurance of between $300,000 and $400,000. He was not able to give the exact amount until the books in the wvault could be reached. It is not known as yet that the company will rebuild, as the fire seriously cripples them. Before the fire had burned itself out every other brewing company in the city had offered assistance,: and_arrangements were made with two of the breweries to “supply the company’s customers as long as it wiH be necessary. The origin of the fire, which was first discovered in the malt-hotse, is unknown.

SEVERE FLOODS IN TEXAS.

$2,000,000 Damage by High Water in the Trinity and Brazos—Fatalities.

ForT WorTH, Tex., July s.—Heavy rains in this section have turned the Brazos and Trinity rivers into raging torrents. The Texas & Pacific bridge at Brook and 500 feet of track have been washed away. The St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Fort Smith & Denver tracks north are submerged and have been abandoned, the roads using the Santa Fe tracks to enter the city. . : The Trinity rose four and a half feet in an hour, and dwellers on the lowlands barely escaped. The city marshal and sheriff and their entire forces for a time became a rescuing corps and manned boats, which brought people to the city where they are quartered in large warehouses for the time. There are 200 men, women and children thus cared for. H. Plumm and sister are said to have been washed away, and Mrs. H. 8, Bentley, a one-armed woman, and Patrick, her son, who lived on Trinity, are missing and are said to be drowned. Their house was carried away. g It is meported that an eight-foot rise is coming down the West Fork of the Trinity. Six inches more water and waterforks will have to be abandoned. Wheat, oats, fruit and cotton are badly damaged. The -loss can hardly be computed, but conservative estimates place it as high as $2,000,000. There are fears for the little villages along the Trinity above Fort Worth, but there is no telegraphic communication and nothing definite can be learned. : Al

TWO BOYS SLAIN.

Frightful Accident at a Pyrotechnic Display in East Boston, Mass.

BosTon, July s.—ln East Boston Thursday night a large ship’s signal bomb which was being fired in celebration of the Fourth exploded in a crowd of children who had gathered to see the fire-works. George Hoffman, aged 16, was instantly killed, and Frank O’Connor, aged 10, so 'badly injured that he died on his way to the OQhospital. John Green, aged 11, David, Joseph and Burton Burg, Joseph Monahan and Bernard Doyle were frightfully lacerated and otherwise injured. It is feared that some of those hurt may die from their wounds.

THE HAILEY (IDAHU) FIRE.

The Business Portion of the Town Destroyed—A Loss of $500.000.

Berrevue, L T., July 4 — The business portion of the mountain town of Hailey, but a few hours ago the most prosperous town in Idaho, is now but a mass of smoldering ruins. The fire which raged here Tuesday exceeds, in proportion to the size of the town, that of Seattle. The total loss is closely estimated at $500,000. The insurance, on account of excessive rates, is small, being estimated at $150,000. Few ‘residences were burned, fortunately, and. but two families were left without means. No lives were lost A few persons were alightly burned. .

Horrible Explosion in a French Mine, Paris, July 4—Another torrible colliery disaster is reported from the district of St. Etienne, An explosion of fire-damp occurred in one of the pitsin which 300 miners were at work. Their escape was complete1y cut off, and there is small chance of any of them being rescued alive.. So farit is known that 200 of the entombed miners are Two pits were affected by the explosion, One of these is inundated; the otheris on fire. S.i:g;aen ?odm %umrm::i | Ten of the miners who were taken out alive are so hﬁl M provably ‘die, Nixty horsen smployed. i the mine waxe burned to death.

MACKIN AT LIBERTY.

Governor Fifer, of Illinois, Grants a Pare don to the Neted “Fine-Worker”—Just in Time to Restore Him to Citizenship—- . History of His Crime. ¥ SeriNeFreLp, lIL, July 8. —Joseph G Mackin has ‘been pardoned by Governor

~ Fifer. This action when made known caused considerable surprise, as the general impression was! that the Executive had concluded to let the ballot-box fineworker serve out his term, which would have ended in AuEgust. Mackin’s sentence was five years, but the commutation on account of good behavior would have freed him during the

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latter part of the summer. ; Mackin was convicted of perjury in answering falsely questions put to him by the grand jury which investigated the election frauds in 1834, and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. His sentence, with the ‘“good time” allowance, would have expired mext August, so that his pardon now releases him only two months earlier than the date fixed by the jury. 4

The Governor, in signing the pardon of Mackin, refers at considerable length to the offense for which -he was imprisoned, and says his perjury was not destined to affect the life, liberty or property of anybody, and had it not been committed in trying =to escape from the conse.’ quences of another offense of which he was accused,” and which the people justly regard with alarm, it is mnot fair to presume thatit would have attracted any more attention fhan,/ any'ordinary case of perjury, and his punishment would have been, in all probability, less than that fixed by the jury. In his petition for pardon Mackin professes sorrow fomhis crime, and makes earnest pledges of an upright life for the future.” The Governor continues; ‘lt 1s doubtful if any petition for pardon was. ever presented to the executive authority of this State more strongly indorsed than the present one. Imnmediate pardon is recommended by Judge Moran, who presided at the trial, and who now writes a strong letter urge ing that the sentence was excessive. Pardon is also recommended by State's Attorney, now Judge Grinnell, who prosecuted the case. Likewise by the grand jurors who' indicted and nearly all of the. petit jurors who convicted Mackin; by the chairman and many of the most influential members of the citizens' committee that aided the prosecution, and, in short, by nearly every body who had any thing to do with the arrest, indictmeptfind Soqviction of the defendant, In addition to th foregoing ' many hundred worthy citizens,”lawyers, doctors, influ ential - ministers of the Gospel, editors and proprietors of newspapers, Congressmen, members of the Legislature and practical busie ness men, representing all the industries of the State, have asked that executive clemency be shown. Nearly all. who have had any thing to: say on the subject, instead of signing the ordinary petition, have written letters wherein they have urged with so -much earnestness and apparent candor why the law, the penalties of which Mackin has long borne, should now give way to mercy. | It is insisted that greater good will be accomplished by this course than would be by holding on to Mackin to the last hour of his sentence. The warden of the prison certifies ~ 'that Mackin's conduct as a prisoneg has been . good: that he has never been punished or reported for any infraction of the prison rules. Ihave given this case much: thought and consideration and have finally . concluded to remit a small portion of the prisoner’s sentence by granting him a pardon at this time, and I do so in the hope :that he may yet become a useful member of society and prove h mself worthy the love\and affection of the devoted wife who has in the hour of his misfortune stood by him so faithfully and who has so long and patiently waited for his coming. Whether Mackin ought to be pardoned or not it is very evident that a great many good and thoughtful people think so.” : HISTORY OF THE CRIME. Mackin went to the penitentiary on a fiveyear sentence for complicity in the ballot-box frauds of 1884. A few days after the election in November of that year it was apparent that the strength-of the two leading political partiés would be about equal in; the Legisla~ ture, so nearly so that a single vote in either the " Senate or House might control the election of a United States Senator. In the Sixth Senatorial district, which included the Eighteenth ward of this city, ‘Henry W. Leman, Republican, was apparently elected Senator over Rudolph Brand, Democrat, by a few hundred votes as shown by the unofficial .- returns on election night. When, however, the official canvass was made, it was found that the tally-sheets and certificate from .Ihe second precinet of the Eighteenth ward had been altered and forged and made to show a decreased vote for Leman and an increased vote for Brand sufficient to ‘elect the latter by a majority of about ten votes. On the sworn returns .of the United States supervisors as well as from other collateral evidence it was so evidently a fraud - that the Federal grand jury of Chicago, then in session, took jurisdiction of and investigated the matter. Meantime the county canvassing board, being powerless to g 9 behind the returns, abstracted the vote as it appeared and returned the sameé to the State canvassing board. This body heard such ‘evidence as was = available and proper, and, = following - their action, the Governor ‘- decided to issue a certificate of election to Leman as being the actually elected Senator. The Federal grand jury found several indictments, but after that body had adjourned new and important additiomral proofs of the fraud were discovered, aog Mackin, William J. Gallagher and Arthur Gleason were tried and oon;victed of conspiracy on a charge brought by Intormation instead of indictment. The two former were sentenced to two years in prison. The case was then taken by writ of error before Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court and Circuit Judge Gresham sitting together. Upon disagreement between them it was certified to the United States Supreme Court mainly upon the question -of the legality of the prosecution of the information. @ ; b

' The State court took up the matter and indicted Mackin and Gallagher for violation of the State law. Mackin testified before the -State grand jury and for the testimony given there he was indicted for pevrjury. His trial began on June 29, 1885, before Judge Moran. He was found guilty and sentenced to ihe ponitentiary for five years, this takin% place July %, 1885%. He was taken to Joliet November 19, 1885. His wife made - strenuous effort to secure his pardon after he had served about two years, but Governor Oglesby refused to interfere. Lately other attempts have been'made, which resulted in the . pardon issued Tuesday. By reason of *good time’” Mackin would have been out next month by the expiratior of his sentence. 3y reason of his pardon his citizenship is restored. ; ; ; et )~ e, ‘ A Thief Enters the Ligonier Bank at Noon and Ge!s Away with SI,OOO. LIcoNIER, Ind., July B.—A bold bank rob- | bery was perpetrated here Tuesday. While the cashier of Sol Myer’s bank was at din- ‘ ner some bold thief entered the bank ‘through a side window and rifled the cash drawer. Fortunately the vault was locked ~and the thief had to be cantent with something less than SI,OOO, which he hurriedly gathered up. The window through which entrance was effected is but a few fees - from the street and in plain view of every passer by. The thief got away undetected. . Four business blocks were burned Tuesday in Hailey, L, T., entailing & loss of §500,«. New Yorg, July 8 —Willlam Oonnelly, the ‘superintendent of the w at “had received a message from his frend Dr. | Mclnerny, whose disappearance has been ' dv. The message read: “I am well and was #‘ T q;&@*-rgmg e A e e ‘i’gi@é&g%éﬁ*wﬂ}*mﬂfw & e e Y R e Syt e A mn s e S o el i ..v.mn;i"‘“.f--;‘»::; f&l. e it :».‘ AT e PR ]