Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 October 1889 — Page 6

The Zigonier Banter,

LIGONIER, : : INDIANA.

ONE of the novel features of the constitution of North Dakota is a declaration that ‘‘log-rolling” in the Legisla-~ ture is to be regarded as bribery.

A WELL recently found near Pittsburgh, Pa., delivers fresh water, salt water and gas at the same time. There are two casings, one within the other. i :

Roßerr P. PORTER, superintendent of the census, estimates our -population at 65,000,000. He thinks there are 50,000,000 in cities and villages, and 8,000,000 negroes. - e

~ Ear-rings, long out of fashion in England among aristocratic people, are to be worn again, because the Duchess of Fife wears a pair which were presented to her as a wedding gitt. i y

A NUMBER of Brooklyn capitalists have decided to open a hotel on the New York plan in Paris. They believe it will attract American customers as well as the trade of English persons who have visited the United States. SR -

E. C. BRUFFY, a reporter on the staff of the Atlanta Consticution, has been sent to) jail for fifteen days by Judge Clarke for declining to tell the grand jury whether or not he saw a certain policeman in the party which brutally whipped some colored men at East Point. ¢ i

- Tae city of Richmond, Va., has a unique way of designating its wards. Instead of numbering them as other cities do they are called after great names in our history. For instance, ,they have a Marshall ward, a Jeffer“son ward, a Madison ward, a Monroe ward, ete. ¢

~ AN old man in North Carolina- who had lived all his life without seeing a railroad, recently got on a train, and before he had traveled a mile, was thrown off and killed. Yet; on the other hand, according to a writer in Scribner’s, a man might travel 51,000,000,000 miles before being killed. -

ANDREW YOUNG, ' author of the hymn, “There is a happy land, far, far away,” is eighty years. of age and still vigorous. In 1838 he heard an old Indian air that impressed him deeply, and he composed words to it. So the hymn was made. It has been translated into nineteen different languages. o

A CARRIAGE road to the top of Pike’s peak has been completed. It begins at Cascade canyon and extends sixteen miles, until it reaches the summit of the mountain, 14,147 feet above the level of the sea. There is one point, Grand view, where at an altitude of 10,852 feet one may see the smoke of a locomotive crossing Marshall Pass, ninety miles givay.

Nova Scoria is remarkable for the number of its old people. It has. a larger number of centenarians than any other country, there being one to every 19,000 inhabitants, while Englénd has only one to “every 200,000 inhabitants. They are chiefly of the farming class, in comfortable circumstances, accustomed to exercise in the open air, plain food and plenty of it, with good inherited constitutions.

ABouT $1,000,000 has been spent in relief and improvement operations at Johnstown, Pa., and the commission has decided to devote $1,600,000 more to the work. Most of this money is made up of subseriptions ' from alt over the country, and contsibutions are still coming in. = Johnstown is a mooument to the destructive power of the: ‘elements, but its relief is the noblest of memorials to the generosity of a great-hearted people. ~

- THE Governor of Rhode Island declares that the abolition of ‘the death penalty in that State has been demonstrated to be a wise law. The penalty for murder in Rhode Island‘is imprisonment for life, and the Governor presents statistics to show that as to erimes. of violence that State is exceptionally free as compared with other States, and the trials and convictions there are spcedy.” In this respect it approaches nearer to England than any of the United States. =

THE startling discovery is\madel ,that Cuba*is cracking. ~Numerous fissures have appeared- in ‘the earth \ near Matanzas. These disturbancesi are mno doubt a continuation of i those recently felt on the South Atlantic coast. Scientists find that the “ ' earth’s crust thickens from the sea in- | land, and that therefore the inland: - pressure is towards the nearest coast line. The crust there and in the ocean beyond, being thinner, is more ‘sensitive to central disturbances than ~ are ocher portions of the earth’s surface. ) il l

Miss CAroLINE WHITING, seventyone years of age, has been a’teacher in New York City for fifty-three years. Says Miss Frances Willard: “For fifty years she has not spent a day in bed; has taght always in the same . sehool (No. 14), and worn out two school buildings; has been forty years prineipal and has twenty ‘teachers under her care, and has had not fewer than twelve thousand pupils. Miss Whiting has had her home for fifty . years with" Mrs, Sabin, and the latter's ' mother, both of whom were her ! pupils.”‘; / f Glb X ‘ ; | CorLoNer Besserr H. Youwe, of . Louisville, was a prisoner at Camp . Douglas, near Chicago, ggrm% the _ (eivil war. When he wenthe carrieda . small Bible with him, and this was . alken from him in prison by James Sy & soldier. He' prized the « S 881 ad bosn prosshied 19 Bim .by his parents wion he went to fight e S %f“m s Pheenix Hotel i 1

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION,

FROM WASHINGTON.

Dr. JamEes P. Kimßarny, of Pennsylvania, Director of the Mint, resigned on the 24th. Ox the 24th the Government printing office completed the immense work of printing the testimony in the seventeen con-tested-election cases.which will come up for settlement before the Fifty-first Congress. g !

For the eight months ended August 31 last the immigrants arriving in the United States (except from Canada and Mexico) numbered 300,564, against 392,942 during the same period in 1888, TeE Jews of the country on the 25th began the celebration of their 5,650 th New Year. . :

Tsvr Kwo YiNg, the nmew Chinese Minfster to the United States, arrived at Washington on the 26th. 5 Ox the 26th the contract for furnishing postage stamps for the next four years was let to the American Bank-Note Company of New York, the present contractors.’ 5

Ix the United States there were 165 business failures during the seven days ended on the 27th, against 177 the previous seven days:. ‘ : THE . President returned to Washington on the 27th from his summer outing at Deer Park, Md.

REPRESENTATIVES of various women’s organizations met in Washington on the 27th and took preliminary steps toward erecting a monument to the memory of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, the deceased wife of ex-Pres-ident-Hayes. il _ THE EAST. ~ _ A NEw directory of the city of Johmnstown, Pa., issued on the 24th, showed that the mumber of deaths by the flood was 3,500. - : " STATUES are to be erected in Boston of Grant, Sheridan and Farragut, $lOO,OOO having been provided for that purpose, one-half by the city and the rest by the State. ; ey TaE Republicans of New York met in State convention on the 25th at Saratoga and nominated a ticket headed by John I Gilbert, of Malone, for Secretary of State. The resolutions affirm faith in the tariff, congratulate President Harrison upon the success of his Administration, and arraign Governor Hill for his various vetoes.

. Flre destroyed the Columbia Hotel at Cape May, N. J., on the 25th. Loss, $lOO,OOO. It was a new building. :

ON the 25th six men who had served five years in Yprison at ScBttsdale, Pa., were discharged, their innocence of the crime having been established. Arr the Pennsylvania railroad divisions .east of the Pittsburgh and Erie showed. on the 25th an increase in net earnings for the past eight months over the same period in 1888 of $458,005. The divisions west of Pittsburgh and Erie showed a gain of $321,825 over the corresponding time last year. IN the Ives case at New York the jury failed to agree and were discharged on the 25th. They stood ten for conviction and two for acquiteal, :

ReEPUBLICANS of Massachusetts met in State convention at Boston on the 25th, axd J. Q. A. Brackett . was mominated for Governor. :

A FARMER named Hornberger, of Mohrsville; Pa., went to New York and paid $3OO for *‘queer” greenbacks. He expressed the bundle to his address at home, and on opening it on the 26th found sawdust and clay. 5

‘Mlss ANITA - McCormick, of Chicago, daughter of the late Cyrus Mc€ormick, inventor of the reaping machine, was married to Mr. Emmons Blaine, son of the Secretary of State, at Richfield Springs, N. Y., on the 26th. : By an explosion at Laflin & Rand’s powder mill at Cressona, Pa., on the 26th, three men were killed and several others injured. ’ 4

TuE firm of Pagensticker & “Co., of New York, the largest exporters of petroleum in the country, failed on the 26th for $300,000. _ ON the 2th seven men were horribly ‘burned by molten metal at the Edgar Thomson steel works in Braddock, Pa. One had died and three others were fatally injured. ; NEAR Palatine Bridge, N. Y., the rear sleepers of an express train on the New York Central railroad were telescoped by another train on the night of the 27th, and the number of killed was placed at twenty-five and many others were injured. .JoHN H. QUINN, who recently murdered his wife at Alton, Pa., committed suicide in jail on the 27th by hanging himself with a sheet. s :

Louis Dußors, aged fifty-three years; Nathalie Dußois, his niece, aged thirtyeight years; Mrs. George Michaud, her daughter Leah Michaud, aged seven, and Rosanna Levitere, aged eight years, were all' drowned on the 27th mnear Fall River, Mass., by the capsizing of a boat. Ox the 27th the Cold Springs Presbyterian church, the oldest in New Jersey, celebrated its one .hundred and seventy-fifth ‘anniversary.. It wasfoundedin 1714, At Johnstown, Pa., two more bodies were taken from the debris on the 27th.

~ Fire damaged the building of the WestInghouse Electric Light Company at Pittsburgh, Pa., to the extent of $lOO,OOO on the 27th. :

WEST AND SOUTH.

Five men held up a train on the Santa Fe road on the 24th near Fort Worth, Tex., and robbed the express car of $lO,OOO, 3

Fire destro}ed the newt Hotel Princaton at Buena Vista, Col, ‘on the 24th. Loss, §200.000, s i

AT Provo, U. T., thirteen violators of the Edmunds law were on the 24th sentenced to the penitentiary for terms ranging from two to six months. ; {

“THE Society of the Army of the Tennessee commenced its twenty-second annual session at Cincinnati on the 25th. | Ox the 25th the American Bankers’ Association met in annual convention at Kansas City, Mo., with one thousand delegates in attendance.

ON the 25th Rev. Father Roles, rector of Bt. Mary’s Catholic 'Church in Chicago, was found dead in his chair at his home.

NEAR Greeley, C 01.,, Mr. and Mrs. Gale and Miss Gleason were killed by the cars on the 25th.

. Bor PURCELL, a negro who had assaulted a_fifteen-year-old white. girl, was taken from the jail at Winona, Miss- ,on the 25th and hanged to a railway trestle, EARLY on the 25th a Mobile & Ohio train was stopped by three bandits near Buckatuna, Miss, who robbed the express and mail ‘cars, getting about $3,000 in money and a number of registered packages. The robbers overlooked 870,000 of Government funds en route for Rlorida. : THE Minneapolis lumber cut this year was on the 25th plased at 225,000,000 feet, against 335,000,000 feet a year ago. RepuBLICANS of Mississippi in State convention on the 25th at Jackson nominated General James R, Chalmers for Governor, W. C. Mathison (colored) for Secretary of State, and James D. Lynch (white) for Lieutenant-Governor, b

CHEYENNE was selected by t2e Wyoming ] Constitutional convention ofi the 26th as the seat of government for ten years, orl until the people voted a change. Mgzs, WiLRIE, seventy yeurs old, was burned to death on the 26th at Aurora, lIL, 1 ‘her clothing having ignited from a lighted pipe which she had dropped in her lap. Dox Cossack, one of the most noted stock horses in the West, valued at $25,000, died on the 26th at the State fair grounds at Peoria, IIL He was owned by Arthur Caton, of Chicago. . All Here, another stallion, wvalued at $lO,OOO, died on the same day. L : - - Tue Maryland Democrats in State conifg%tlon on the 26th at Baltimore nominated L. Victor Baughman, of Frederick County, iorcomptwlgw sh e e e L e - Mavon Oxrater revoked the licenses of thirteen saloons in Ohicago dn the %th for ping thelr hlinds closed on Sunday. | Wity it Mg s st st o Mtetatore A i

IN Chicago on the 26th William J. Collins, a teamster, killed James Cosgrove, another teamster, for calling him a liar. . ArreN PerrUs killed Alfred Barnett on the 26th near Columbus, 8. C,, in a quarrel over Carrie Black, a young woman, and when Miss Black heard of the murder she committed suicide by taking peison. ! THE American Bankers’ Association, in session at Kansas City on the 26th, re-elect-ed President Parsons and Vice-President Michael. GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN was re-elected president at a meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati on the 26th. : = COUNTERFEITERS were on the 26th circulating spurious dollars on the North side in Chicago. OvER $1,000,000 worth of pasturage and timber was destroyed by the xecent ferest fires in California. The fires spread over one hundred miles north and south and ten to eighteen miles east and west. ; THE American Humane Society in session on the 27th at Louisville, Ky., denounced the dehorning of cattle as unnecessary cruelty and the docking bf tails 6f horses was declared to be inhuman. Edwin Lee Brown, of Chicago, was re-elected president of the society. : THE death of ex-Congressman William Loughbridge, of lowa, occurred on the 27th on South Mountain, near Reading, Pa., aged sixty-three years. .Ox the 27th A. M. Miskinim, a manufacturer of counterfeit coin, was arrested at Solomon City, Kan., and over $2,000 in bogus gold and silver coin was captured. FraMEs swept away twenty-two business places at Cresco, la., on the 27th. AT Péntwater, Mich., a fire on the 27th destroyed all the buildings on the west side of the principal street and five on the east side. e

JOHN AVERS, a farmer living near Elmore, 0., while intoxicated on the 27th fatally shot his wife. :

THE Springfield Base-Ball Club won the Inter-State League pennant on the 27th, The per cent. of the clubs was as follows: Springfield, 541; Quincy, 526; Pearia, 482; Burlington, 460; Evansville, 456; Monmouth, 142. : IN a race on the 27th at Clinton, IIL, between a trotting mare owned by William East, and Silas Long, a famous bicyclist, the mare went twenty miles in ninetythree minutes, the wheelman being only half a minute behind.

AN open switch wrecked an excursion train on the Big Four road on the 27th four miles east of Greensburg, Ind., and many persons were badly shaken up, but none were killed.

leNATZ N. MORGENSTERN, of Chicago, general secretary of the Polish National Alliance of North America, left for parts unknown on the 27th with $12,000 belonging to the order. : GEORGE lEsTEs, William Benton, King Vann, John Steele and a woman met violent deaths in Jefferson County, Ala., on the 27th. . ;

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Ox the 24th Joseph Kemp, aged seventytwo years, was resecued alive from the ruins at the scene of the recent Quebec land-slide. He had been imprisoned one hundred and eight hours. . CrETE dispatches of the 24th say that the Christian inhabitants of the island were fleeing to the mountains, and that their cattle and other property was being stolen by the Turks. Many Christians had been cast into prison. -

~ THE death of Eliza Cook, the English poetess, occurred at Wimbledon on the 25th at the age of seventy-one years. AT Naples a terrific storm raged on the 25th and a large part of the city was submerged. » : IN Odessa, Russia, a teacher named Sause committed suicide on the 25th. His wife was so much affected that she lost her reason, killed her five children, carried their bodies to a third-story window and threw them to the ground. She then threw herself out, receiving fatal injuries. : THE steamer City of New York, which arrived at Queenstown on the 25th, made the trip in six days, five hours and twenty-five minutes. 5

By the collapse of a house in Milan, Italy, on the 26th five persons were killed and twenty injured. ‘THE Government on the 26th declared void the votes cast for General Boulanger at Montmartre and for Henri Rochefort at Belleville, in the recent elections in France, and the candidates receiving the next highest number of votes were declared elected. .

A FIRE on the 26th destroyed the Temple of Heaven at Pekin, China, containing the great throne of the Sacred Dragon. THE United States Minister to Germany, Williamp» Walter Phelps, presented his credentials to Emperor William on the 26th. s,

ON the 26th the body of Richard Maybury was recovered in the ruins of the recent land-slide at Quebec, Can. Forty-four bodies had thus far been found. Up to the 27th the Eiffel tower in Paris had earned $1,000,000. ;

LATER.

‘DurinGg the week ended on the 28th ult. no jurors were obtained in the Cronin murder case in Chicago. Four jurors only have been secured since the commencement of the trial.

ALBERT NELSON and Harry Walton, aged ten and twelve years respectively, were killed on the 28th ult. at Elkhorn, N. Y., by anlexplosion of giant powder. :

ENGINEER SETH TwoMsLy and Fireman Henry La Cloche were on the 28th ult clarged by the coroner’s jury with being responsible for the death of the seven persons killed in the recent Rock Island disaster at Eighty-seventh street, Chicago. Jubpee JoEN T. NixoN, of the United States District Court of New Jersey, died on the 28th ult. at Stockbridge, Mass. IN Waterloo, -la., on the 29th ult M. E. Biilings was declared guilty of the murder of County Attorney Kingsley at Waverly, la., in September, 1887. This was the second trial. : AN explosion occurred on the 28th ult. in the Rhein-Prussen colliery at Hamburg-on-the-Rhine, and ten men were killed and several injured. . AN incendiary fire on the 29th ult. at Butte, M. T., destroyed the. finest block in the business district, entailing a loss of over $500,000. Three firemen were fatally injured while fighting the fiames. : i A BOILER exploded on the ¥Bth ult. in a quarry at Wrightsville, Pa., killing Lemuel Barnes and his wife. $ ;

It was announced on the 28th ult. that four persons were killed outright and a i dozen injured by the recent accident on ‘the express train on the yew York Central ’ road at Palatine Bridge, N. Y. ~ THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th ult. aggregated $1,002,126,768, against $1,044,680,783 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1883 the the increase amouted 10 6.8. ' , - ALLEN CHALKER, a farmer, and his daughj ter while crossing the Erie railway track in a buggy at Garrettsville, 0., on the 28th ult. were struck by a fast train and killed. THE cruise around the world of the United States dispatch steamer Dolphin, which commenced two years ago, came to an end on the 286 h ult;, when the steamer arrived in New York. ” i o Emmons | WniceT, a farmer living near Indianapolis, Ind., shot and killed a tramp on the 28th ult. who had camped on his farm, i i ! 3 . ' TeE percentﬁ of the base-ball clubs in ‘the National League for the week ended ~on the 28th ult. was a 3 follows: New York, 653, Boston, .647; Ohica%o. A 496; Phile adelphia, .495; Cleveland, 476; Pittsburgh, +464; Indianapolis, 484; Washington, 306, %ﬁﬂmﬂ“{: Columbus, .4%1: Kan.. sag Citv. . . < Touiaville. 208 Western Minneapolis, .537; Sloux City, 500; Milwaus

A FATAL WRECK.

A Cargless Engineer Ruuns His Engine Into a Loaded Passenger Coach Near Chciago, Killing Five Persons and Ine Juring a Number.

CHiCcAGO, Bept. 25.—Through flagrant carelessness of Engineer Seth Twombly five persons were almost instantly killed and several others fatally and seriously injured shortly after 6 o'clock Tuesday evening at the Eighty-seventh street crossing of the Rock Island railroad. : The killed are:

Mrs. Captain Brown, of ' Washington Heights; Miss Saddie Kelly, of Dummy Junction; FreC Hipner, thought to live in Washington Heights; James McKenzie, of Washington Heights; Mrs. Ward, of Washington Heights. - Anton Schuback, of Washington Heights, and Gus McCarthy, of Auburn Park, were fatally scalded. The bdadly scalded and seriously injured are: :

John Mulcahy, Edward Smith, Jr., Daniel Lawrence, G. Kiein, John Tierney, Mrs. A. K. Steele, Michael Haggerty, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. ‘Wheeler, Daniel O’Connor, all of Washington Heights; Parker Haraden and sister, Miss Haraden, of Tracey avenue.

. The accident was caused by a freight train telescoping a detached passenger car known as the Washington Heights car that was standing in front of the station at Eighty-seventh street. This car had been attached to suburban train No. 5%, which leaves the Rock Island depot at 5:35 and arrives at Eighty-seventh street at 6:18. At this crossing the car, as is customary, was detached from the main line suburban train and was waiting for an inbound passenger to pass, then to be coupled to a dummy and taken on to WashingtonHeights and points beyond. ' Freight train 97, which follows the 5:35 suburban train, was ten minutes ahead of time, and soon appeared in sight up the road, running twelve miles an hounr. ‘The semaphore which protects the standing trains was across the track, telling the engineer of the freight, Seth Twombly, to stop his train. : Not heeding the signal the freight continued its course and struck the detached passenger car with terrific force. The ear, with trucks half lifted from the track, bounded ahead, striking the rear car of the suburban 'train proper. The force of the collision sent it backward several feet and it was again strugk by the freight engine, which complebel? telescoped it, penetrating as far as the tender. :

The demolished car contained about thirty passengers at the time of the accident. They were reading and talking, waiting for the arrival of the dummy to take them home. The first shock sent every body plunging head forward to the front end of the coach, where they hoped to escape by the door. Several attempted to jump from the windows and the wildest confusion followed. e

The women screamed and tried to get to the door but were trampled under foot or castaside in the rush. When the car struck the passenger train the people were thrown off their feet. Before they could arise the engine had again struck the car, and in an instant the’pilot and wheels were crashing the interior of the car into a thousand fragments. o - Singularly enough, no one was violently injured by the engine. But in an instant the car was enveloped by a rush of steam escaping from a break in the steam-chest. 'The scene which followed was one of awful horror. The women, frantic with agony, tore the scalded skin from their hands and cried aloud from the pain of the deeply burned wounds. : - The firemen and all hands about the yards were soon at work rescuing and carrying out the dead and injured. The work of removing the bodies was a difficult one because of the density of the steam, which, notwithstanding the fire in the engine had been put out, continued to pour forth in great violence. E. C. Lewis, conductor of the passenger train, said that the ensire biame of the accident rested on Engineer Twombly. He was not only running ten minutes ahead of time, he said, but at a greater rate of speed than the -schedule called for. Twombly is the son of the master mechanic of she Rock Island road and is said to be addicted to excessive drinking. It is also said that at the time of the accident he was under/the influence of liguor and not in a fit condition to runa train. When he jumped from the engine he ran toward Chicago and has not been seen since. The company is also severely censured by some for its gross mismanagement of affairs at the Englewood crossing. e

FULL OF HOPE.

Boulanger Has Faith in the Fut_ure—-He Says France Will Yet Call Him Into Power.

LoxpoN, Sept. 25.—1 n an Interview General Boulanger said he had no hope of his party having a majority in the new Chamber of Deputies. He had not, however, much faith in the future. The Government, he declared, had everywhere stolen votes with raven-like characteristics. The Republican majority would prove unmanageable, he said, and the country would soon be calling him to power. L | PARts, Sept. 25. —The French Republican journals are jubilant over the result of Sunday’s elections for members of the Chamber of Deputies, and say that the second ballot will only add to the success of the ‘Bepublicans. They regret the defeat of M. Jules Ferry, and express the hope that his absence from the Chamber will be only temporary. The Monarchical and Boulangist journals express disappointment at the result of the elections, and say they hope that the second ballots will strengthen the position of the opposition. | ~ Paris, Sept. 25.—A1l the Migisi_;ers have returned to this city. President Carnot holds a' Cabinet council at the Elysee today. The Chamber will be summoned to meet in November. It is now estimated that the body wiil contain 300 Moderate Republicans and sixty-five members of the Left. The Chamber is certain to annul the electious of Boulanger and Dillon. In order to assure success in the re-ballots Republicans having a minority im last Sunday’s election will retire from the candidacy in favor of Republicans polling more votes. (s : b

BerriN, Sept. 25.—The Post says: ‘‘Although we are conscious that every party in France desires the honor of revanche, we do not desire to fight against a nation crippled by Boulangerism, If there must be a struggle let it be an honorable one in the full sense of the word. - No other ¢an be decisive.” . L e

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. An Aged Man Taken Alive from the Ruins

e at Quebec. I ' QUEEEC, Can., Sept. 25.—At 9 o'clock a. m. the laborers at work in the ruins causcd by the recent :land-slide heard a | slight moan under a heap of wreckage, and, digging vigorougly, soon reached Joseph EKemp. When extricated, Kemp, who i 72 years of age, was still able to speak, after having been buried 108 hours. Fatner McCarthy administered the sacrament to ﬁhe appar- | ently dying man, Kemp answering to the prayers. Stimulants were adminz istered and hopes are’ now entertained that Kemp will recover, ' et | THE CZAR'S ENEMIES. They Make Another Unsnccﬁ'psfnl' At __tempt on Mis Life. Loxpox, Bept. 25,—A story reaches here from Bt. Petershurg on what appears o be credible authority that just Oopenhagen a chest of dynamite ex- | Mﬂgmﬁmmﬂzf%w tion w %%m a rallway signalman was killed. Ty is fully belleved %ﬁﬁ»ﬁ»w‘? e "%‘%‘T I @fﬁﬁ:ﬁi‘%

SUNK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

Dr. _Plem 2 Heavy Loser by the Collapse of a Chimerical Mining Scheme.

- Burraro, N. Y., Sept. 27.—The Big Bend Mining and Tunnel Company, founded some time ago with a capital stock of $20,000,000, bascollapsed. Dr. R. V. Pierce, of this city, ‘was chief stockholder, and has lost nearly $1,200,000 in the venture. It was intended to alter the course of the Featherriver in California so as to get at the gold and silver believed te be in its bed. The eaormous bowlders which lie so plentifully around the river made operations too coatly, and last year the output amounted to only $17,832. This did not pay, and the work ‘has been abandoned. The stock of the concern has never been listed, and until recently could not be bought for less than four times its par value. About §2,000,000 of the capital stock-had been paid up. The proposition was to bore a tunnel two miles through a mountain, and through 'it drain fourteen miles of the bed of the Feather river. Mr. McLaughlin, of Butte County, who devised the schéme, claimed the company could clean up. millions in gold dust which had lodged at Big Bend. Placer miners in the early days took fortunes out of the river a little further up, and samples of sand” from the river bed were very rich. McLaughlin succeeded in enthusing Dr. Pierce and work was begun. Four years were spent in boring a tunnel through rock for 12,000 - feet. When finished it proved too small and was enlarged from nine by sixteen feet to twelve by sixteen feet. Then about a year ago the water was -turned into the tunnel and the river bed drained. But fortune wasn’t found, as it proved very expensive to get gold from under the big bowlders in the river bed, and the mine soon became in the condition of nine-tenths of those on the Comstock lode—it could not be run without assessments. Then Pierce, who had sunk over $1,000,000, became disgusted, and the whole undertaking, which has cost about $2,000,000, will be dropped. It is reported that a large number of newspaper men in New York have lost heavily in the enterprise. ,

HORRIBLY BURNED.

Tons of Molten Metal Pour Over a Number of Workmen at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pa—They Are Frightfully Injured—Captain Jones the® General Manager, May Die.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 27.—A frightful accident happened at Carnegie’s Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock Thursday night. Captain W. R. Jones, general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were horribly and perhaps fatally burned. Furnace C, one of the largest of the blast furnaces, gave wiy at the bottom, and tons of molten metal, like water escaping from a reservoir, ran out. The furnace hadmnot been working properly during the day, and Captain Jones called to see if he could not ascertain the cause. He was working with a number eof men near the base of the furnace when the break occurred. In an instant flames of fire shot forth and the hot metal exploded and fell like sheets of water. Tons of the molten metal poured out of the furnace, and that any person near the furnace escaped instant death is regarded as a miracle. As it was, Captain Jones and four or five others were horribly burned, the former’s life being despaired of.

* Captain Jones is well-known threcughout the United States and Europe wherever iron and steel are manufactured. He received -a salary of $25,000 a year and a per cent on the product of the large mill, making his income almost $50,000 a year. It was he who took 300 men to Johnstown at his own expense a few days after the flood, and remained there for a couple of weeks directing the work of rescue. He is 60 years of age:

THE BANKERS.

They Conclude Their Annual Convention . at Kansas City—Tuesday’s Proceedings.

. Kaxsas City, Mo., Sept. 27.—The bankers’ convention concluded its work Tuesday. President Parsons and Vice-President McMichael were re-elected and a new executive council chosen. :-The council re-elected Secretary Baker and Treasurer Green, Resolutions asking Congress to take action and revive the American marine and indorsing the deep-water harbor scheme were referred to the council. A resolution asking Congress to provide for at least one more gegular statement yearly of the condition of the National banks was adopted. Reports of officers were read and a special committee reported in favor of amending the law in regard to usury so that a usurious bank shatl forfeit only the amount of interest taken in excess of the legal amount. Itiwas decided to consider Mr. St. John’s plan for the retirement of legal-tender notes and vote upon it by mail. - :

SWORN IN. Judge Groff Qualifies Himself to Enter Upon His Duties as Land Commissioner. : WAsHINGTON, Sept. 27. — Judge Lewis Groff, of Omaha, Neb.,, the newly-ap-pointed Commis- TN gioner of the '@ v,i_'\'\‘ N : General Land PSRN @ : Office, appeared : ’;:{Q - at tne _lnterior - @ SN Department and _ J \" M was sworn in. o O He will take P charge at once, ) relieving Acting ‘t: /t) Commissioner BN 200 Stone, who, //.'..\‘,','fv' R/ './/jfﬂ/’ since June, has (‘ﬁfé} \ J‘,\ WY, been filling three AR\ = positions, name- JUDGE : GROFF. Iy, commissioner, assistant commissioner and chief clerk, there being vacancies in the first and the latter offices. —_—— AN . EMBEZZLER SENTENCED. A Young Man Who Ruined His Eme ployer Sent to Prison. for Three Years. . PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27.—Dennis Kelleher pleaded guilty to embezzlement of money belonging’ to Oaptain George R. Beck, a tug-boat owner, and was sentenced to imprisonment for three years. Kelleher, who is about 27 years of age, had been taken into Captain Beck’s employ when a boy, and had full charge of his affairs. It was claimed that he had appropriated between $40,000 and $50,000, completely ruining his employer. ' : :

HEAVY FAILURE.

Leading ‘Petroleum Exporte"rs Make an Assignment — Liabilities Over 8300, 000. B ; f

NEw Yorxr, Bept. 27.—Pagenstecher & Co., until recently the largest exporters of petroleum in the country, assigned Thursday. The direect liabilities are stated at $20,000. to $40,000, and contingent labilities $300,000, on accommodation acceptances and indorsements for Andrew Brown, of Buffalo. Mr. Brown’s omission to take oare of this paper is given as the cause of the assignment. Mr. Brown is a leading lumber merchant. Pagenstecher & Co. have been thought by the trade to be in difficulty for some time past. - g ; , i - SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. . Resolutions Adopted at the Paris Con= _gress -President Harrison's Views. ' PARis, Sept. 2¢. —The Sunday Observanse congress passed a resolution Thursday to the effect that in cases where the observ« ‘ance gsundav is impossible a weekly holi« ‘day should be given to employes. The ‘congress also adopted a resolution advising ;mpimn;:ﬂﬂw their men on SaturP\, Bopt. 1. Tn his ettar o the Sab.. ‘bath Observance ‘congress President Har< ‘*“'“’*‘*éﬂ“"ﬁ*”z‘r,‘*ﬁ"” bl Slohs A it S e L L S S BT SN

MANY MEET DEATH. ; Frightful Railway Accident at Pd,atlnb .Bridge, N. Y.—The Death List May Reach Thirty—Four Bodies Recovered. PArATINE BRIDGE, N. Y,, Sept. 28.—The Bt. Louis express No. 5, which left Albany at 10 o'clock last night, was telescoped about two miles east of here at about miduight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The rear | brakeman was sent back to signul‘ the second section, but for some reason failed to perform - his duty. The engineer of the second section says he did not see him and the first he saw was the lights of the first section directly in front of him. The first section was made up of baggage, mail, express and three passenger cnﬁs. packed with people, and a Wagner sleeper on the end. The crash was - terrific. = The = second section telescoped into the first section, knogking out the lights and plunging everything into darkness. Up to this hour—2 a. m. —Jlour bodies have been taken out of the sleeper, and it is feared the total number of deaths will ‘run up to twentyfive and possibly more, as the car was full - It is difficult to get particulars. ‘The four tracks are blocked by the wreck. East-bound trains are stopped at Palatine. The first section left Fonda at 11:21, ten minutes late. The sec-. tions of the St. Louis express usually run ten minutes apart. : | NEw York, Sept. 28. —A correspondent of the Times was aboard the wrecked train, and in aspecial dated Canajoharie he writes | thus:

‘*Just how the accident happened is not determined. Conductor Abel says his rear brakeman was sent back, but Engineer Horth, who is very badly hurt, has said that he did not see him, and the first he saw was the lights of the train. Horth is in a bad way. Both legs are broken. : ¢ “When the crash came the TimBs correspondent was asleep in the coach next ahead of the sleeper of the first section. Every seat in the car was itaken. One-half of the passengers were women. They made a wild ‘break for the door, but were deterredifrom jumping out in the darkness by the coolerheaded passengers. s : *‘There was not a surgeon or doctor on the train; and it was with the greatest difficulty that whisky and brandy were proeured for the wounded. It was not until a large bonfire was built on the north side of the track that a realizing sense of the disaster was obtained. ‘“‘The wreck could not have occurred in a more unfortunate place. On the left, in the pitchy darkness, and fifty feet below, was the roaring Mohawk. Not'a light could be seen except those in the coaches. The lights in the sleepers had all been exhjpgqished. One-half of the passengers were awaKened from a sound sleep to find themselves wrapped dn gloom. For awhile the people were too dazed to do any thing. The 'trainmen were mute and reserved as usual under such circumstances. . :

“Axes and saws were procured and willing hands set to work to cut away the sides cf the telescoped cars. How many bodies, if any, are left in there at this writing it is impossi~ ble to tell. When the correspondent left the scene at midnight they had not made much progress. e .

;‘'Engineer Weeks, of the first section, said: ﬁy engine had broken down, Something had happened to the steam-chest, and I was out by the side of my engine when the crash came. I immediately sent my fireman back to see what was the matter, and Conductor Abel dispatched a flagman to Palatine Bridge, two miles away. for assistance.” ‘“The correspondent tried in vain before leaving to find the rear brakeman of the first jrain section, but could not find him. He 18 the most important person 'just now, for it was his duty, as prescribed by the rules of the sompany, to run back at least 60@ yards the. moment the train stopped. L “There is a discrepancy as to the length of time that th?rst section was standing there; some persons claiming that scarcely a moment slapsed before the crash and others that they were standing fully five minutes. ‘‘The first news was brought to Palatine Bridge by the correspondent and Mr. T: H, Coleman, of Hornellsville, who covered the two 'miles over the railway ties in less than half an hour. 'The village was asleep, but Mr. Coleman, by the assistance of Dfficer Barret, went from house to house awakening surgeons,who were hurried to the front as quickly as vehicles could take them. All trains east and west, freight and passenger, were held at Palatine. Withinhaif an hour every doctoy had gone forward and as sistance had been telegraphed to from Fonda and Little Falls. ¢‘lt was just by a. miracle that the disaster was not rendered tenfold more terrible. Within five minutes after the crash the meat exoress came tearing along on the .fourth irack at the rate of _thirty miles an aour. It was stopped just in time, else it would have dashed ‘into the debris of the wreck. The kecond Atlantic express, due in New York ati 7;30 'in the morning, was also lailed at the station just as it was pulling sut.” - < : v 4

Arpany, N. Y, Sept. 28, 3:35 a-m.—Au-thentic information received here says four persons were killed in the accident at Palatine Bridge, three: men and one woman. Train No. 10 from the West, due here at 2:80, left Palatine at 2:05, one hour late. Bhe stopped at the scene of the accident just long enough to take on Engineer North. An ambulance was in waiting at the depot and he was conveyed to the hospital He talked freely and said he slowed up his train near Spraker’s thinking he would crawl up on section one. A#t the #cene of the accident there is: a sharp curve, and he did not see the first section until almost on to it; then he applied the brakes, but they would not work. He did not jump, but stood between the engine and the cab, where he was caught and both legs were crushed. It is not known whether he will survive or not, fears being entertained that he will die from the shock. Urica, N.. Y., Sept. 28, 3a. m.—A special from Canajoharie says that between forty and fifty persons were killed at Palatine Bridge railroad accident. Therailway people here know very little abotit the accident. At this hour, 3a. m., wrécking trains have left St. Johnsville and Little Falls.

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.

The Annual Brotherhood Convention to Be Held Soon in Denver. :

CHicAGoO, Sept. 28 —The annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomnotive Engineers will be held in Denver, Col., on the second Tuesday in October next. The convention will partake of an international character, the delegates coming from all portions of the United States, Canada and Mexico. It will be a delegate body. ‘Each of the 410 divisions of the organization will be entitled to one representative, so that the convention will be wuite a large and important body.

LITERARY ODDS AND ENDS.

TrE father of Edgar Saltus sold Louis Na. - poleon the guns with which he won the bat- ‘ tle of Solferino. : THE United States,- Holland and France are said to send to England the largestsupplies of alien literature. ; ' Lorp TENXNYSON asserts that his coming volume of poems will be hisabsolutely farewell contribution to literature. A rLirrue church has been built by the ladies of Grovetown, Ga., as a memorial to Paul H. Hayne, the poet, who made his home there. : i S - A MEMORIAL is to be erected at Canterbury to Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabeth- - an poet, from one of whose dramas Goethe builtup his tragédy of “Faust.” Among | the subscribers to the memorial are George ‘{l‘] 'W. Childs, H. H. Furness and James Rus: bl Lowell: 0 v e T AN effort is being made to get Oliver Weadall Holmes to writs an antopiography. o refuses on the ground that his works al*%vﬂhé&bl{ »Wﬁtb‘%izw esires Lﬁﬁiﬂmﬁw@%m#’{é?z«a T the Univsreity of Talnsis, 0a ke tuaicto {*ﬁ,%‘}t‘ f;:ﬁa&‘»‘*ﬁ«'z“ Ermt sel U e A L ANARUR SRV NN e R R N AN

DIDN'T GET IT ALL. Bandits Board a Train In Algl?aina and 'Secure $2,700 and Some Registered Letters, but Overlook a Package Containing About $70,000.

MoBmLE, Ala, Sept. 26.—The Mobile & Ohio south-bound mail and passenger train was boarded by thieves at Buckatunna, Miss.,, seventeen miles north of this city Wednesday morning. As the, train was leaving that station two men mounted behind the tender and crawled overinto the cab of the locomotive. There they covered Engineer' Jack Sherell = and Fireman Hust with their revolvers. The robbers, who were well masked, then ordered the engineer to stop the train aé the bridge, two miles south of Buckatunna. This order was given a}, the point of a revolver, and the engineer was con%pelled to obey it. Arriving at the bridge, the engineer and fireman were to detach the mail and express cars from the balance of the train and to pull these two cars across the bridge away from the other cars. At that point two other men joined the robbers. The express messenger was then forced to dump-the contents of a safe into a canvas bag. ‘The amount thus obtained war about $2,700. The robbers overlooked $70,000 of Government money en route for Florida. The mail car was then raided and a pouch filled with registered mail matter secured. This pouch was made up at Meridian and the value of the contents are unknown. The robbers then fired several shots at the train men and disappeared in the undergrowth. ~The train then proceeded to Citronelle, where a posse raw made up and started in search of the robbers. :

The leader of the train-robbers is believed to be Rube Burrows, a noted desperado, the man whom a search for created 80 much excitement in the northern part of the State a few months ago. : A special’ to the Mobile Register fror Buckatunna says the suspected parties wereseen camping near the bridge abou? 9 o’clock making their way east on foct. They were armed and were avoiding the houses by going around them. They are believed to be the train robbers. A posse was in pursuit up to last accounts and confident of overtaking the men.” The Mobile & Ohio railroad offers $l,OOO reward for the. arrest and conviction of the robbers, Gia THAT TEXAS ROBBERY. AvusTlN, Tex., Sept. 26. —The Governoi' has received no particulars of the big ex-. p.ess robbery on the Gulf, Colorado &.Santa Fe, near Fort Worth, Tuesday night., ‘lt is rumored here, however, that the robbers suc:eeded in getting away with at least $30,0 0. : ey el @~ st : FIXING THE BLAME. ' From All Indications Engineer Twombly Was Responsible for the Terrible Rail~ - way Accident Near Chicago—Another Victim. : ' ‘CHicAGO, Sept. 26.—Conductor Buford and Brakemen Whitted and Parker, of the freight train which crashed into the suburban passenger train at Washington Heights Tuesday evening, were arrested Wednesday evening on a south-bound passenger train on the Rock Island road, near Auburn. They are wanted as witnesses, and it 1s believed they were about to leave the city. : Conductor Buford and his brakeman declare; that they were running ahead of time. He saw the daunger light on the semaphoro half a mile from where the collision occurred, and sent his men to set the: brakes, The engineer did not seem to pay any attention to the signals, and no blame could be attached tc any one but Twombly. He was running with the throttle: ‘‘wide open,” and must have been crazy. Engineer Twombly was badly bruised as the result of his jump from the engine. He is under arrest at his home, 4600 Dearborn street. - Henry La Cloche, the fireman: of the ill-fated engine, is also under arrest. Twombly denies the story that he was drunk. He admits, ' however, that he was running at a higher rate of speed than was allowed by the rules. There was nothing to show that there wasa passenger train ahead, and the first intimation he received was when the target gate dropped. His engine was then within three car-lengths of the coach, and it was an: utter impossibility for him. to bring the train to a halt. The whole accident, he says, could have been avoided. . had the conductor of the passenger train followed the rules, and hung a light on the rear end of his last car. This he neglected to do. ; : ‘Conductor Ellis, of the passenger train, declares that the signal lamps were burn--ing on the rear of his train, and the light from them was sufficiently bright to have enmabled Twombly to see them ‘in time to stop his train had he been attending to his duty. Superintendent Chamberlain does not attach any blame in the matter to Conductor Ellis. : Gus Mulcahv, a 19-year-old youth, died from his injuries Wednesday night, making six victims in all. The injured are ina fair way to recover, except one, a man: named Smith, who inhaled the steam that filled the car. Only eight other persons were seriously hurt, though a number were shaken up and considerably bruised.. CONTESTED ELECTION CASES. The Next Congress Will Have a Large Number to Decide—Death as a Factor in Politics. s W WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The Government. printing office has finished printing the testimony in the contested election ocases: which will come before the next House for settlement. The contests are: 4 Chalmer vs. Morgan, Mississippi; Langston: vs. Venable, Virginia; Waddill vs. Wise, Virginia: Posey vs. Parrett, Indiana; Miller vs. Elliott, South Carolina; Bower vs. Buchanan,. Virginia; Kernogan vs. Hooker, Mississippi: Threet vs, Clark, Alabama; Akinson vs. Pendleton, West Virginia; McDuffe vs. Turpie, Alabama; - Hill vs. Catchings, Mississippi; Goodrich vs. Bullo¢k, Florida; Eaton vs. Phelan, Tennessee; Mudd vs. Compton, Maryland: Featherstone vs. Cole, Arkansas; McGinniss vs. Alderson, West Virginia; Smith vs. Jackson, West: Virginia. , | Thus far death has claimed five members of the Fifty-first Congress. Cox, of New York; Burnes, of Missouri; Gay, of Louisiana; Townshend, of Illinois, and Laird, of Nebraska, and others may follow bhefore the assembling of that body. The narrow margin which must determine the organi. zation of the House is sub&:cb to other in. calculable contingencies than that of cou. tested seats. SR 3

NO VERDICT REACHED.

The Jury in the Ives Case Disagrees, Discharged, and the woung Fina Isncier Sent Back to the Tombs to ' Await Another Trial - ¢ NEw: 'YORK, Sept. 26.—The jury in t.:e Ives case was discharged Wednesday morningat 11:45 o’clock, having failed to reach an agreement. The jury stood ten tor conviction and two for acquittal Ives was remanded to the Tombs. ; : _ Colonel Fellows says that Ives will again be placed on trial as soon as the district attorney’s oftice can perfect the arrange. _ments. There will ‘probably be a motion: arg_u‘ed before Recorder Smyth to-day which will decide the place of abode of the = young financier until hisnext trial. = Death in Charlotte, N. C, of Daniel - Rarmiem, N. O, Sept! 26.—Major-General Daniel Harvey m%ﬂiﬁeﬂmm Vednes. ‘day at his home in Charlotte aged 68 years. - _|He was & native of South Oarolina, was -graduated from West Point ia 1 méﬂ Dochims - profostor. of . matheraasics " 5. / | Washington_Colloge, Virginia, and Davia- | son College, North Carolina, ond su | .»»»mwwv;gﬁg't «%%‘%@?& ~»*‘z“‘f‘~ ot g; 'gwuxnf;@?m«,'rgwm}»” iR SR o ,k,‘ {:‘w’” L ;:\rkg:‘,,}v*'x ‘Hi g ooy G Qonled v