Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 April 1890 — Page 2

s®* | W Che Ligonier Banner, ; &IGONIE&‘ 3 : INDIANA. . Tir United States has expended $9,€00.000.000 for railroads, and the averz2z¢ cost price has been $30,000 per mile. - Inr is stated that two million orange trees have been planted in San Bernardino County, Cal., since January 1, 1540. . : I'ni new German Chancellor, General ~ Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and 'a moderate drinker. He manifests a marked preference for wine over beer, which he touches very rarely and sparingiy. o ' : Naruvne is very good. Eighty thousand years ago, in anticipation’of the vast mild winter, she deposited thick Jayers of ice in the Stevens mine on Mount McClellan in California. They have just been found., Hinre is the name of a Western Tennessee eolored girl. It is pronounced in a. sing-song way: Cary-Ann HappyAnn Ann-Eliza-Scales Blow-the-Bellows Potterfleld Rosa-Ann-Thomas. - There " is much in such a name as that. | DuriNG the late snow blockade six hundred passengers at Reno, Nev., te amtuse themselves, issued a handsome ~ little paper entitled **The Snowbound, a Souvenir of the Sierra.” It contains very handsome illustrations of the place, and recites the efforts made to pass the - two weeks of waiting. e T Tuere are to-day royal and imperial orders in the world, with a prodigious - assortment of collars, crosses, stars and - other fancy insignia, laid up for the tickling of human ambition. The old~ . est is St.. Andrew’s Order, first instituted in England in 787, disused after ward and re-established in 1540. ; & AL T SST VAT STP SR RN 1T Tur plan is favored by some of the papers and likely to be adopted by the Board of Education in Boston to give teachers who have served nine years continuously a years’ vacation, on hali : pay. Itisclaimed that constant service * in the schools shatters the nerves and a period of recuperation is needed. The usual Western expedient of matrimony for the lady teachers is not available in the East on account of the surphus.

A REPORT says that within the past four weeks two hundred icebergs have been seen floating in the Atlantic ocean. No one but a mariner can realize the menace which these monsters are fo nuvigation. KEvery winter vessels sail from port and no tidings are ever heard of them again. Until the sea will have yielded up its final- secrets, no one can estimate how large a proportion of catastrophes has been due to collisions with these pitiless floaters.

OxE of the Tndustries of New York is the insurance of babies. The sum paid is usually five cents a week on each child. The system is productive of good in so far that it assures very poor people against being put to extremes in the event of a death in the family. On the other hand; the possible and even probable abuses are obvious, for it gives heartless’ parents a direct personal interest in the death of one who is entirely at their mercy.

Cuarres E. Cross, formerly president of a bank at Raleigh, N. C., has been convicted of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to seven years’ penal gervitude. An old slave, who belonged to the young man’s father, made a per. sistent appeal to serve out the sentence in his “young massy’s” place. Instances of the fidelity and devotion of the negro are not rare, but seldom has there been a wmore affecting case than this. The olid slave's request could not be granted.

AccorpiNG to a recent official return the length of the telegraph lines on the globe is at present about 600,000 miles, or twenty-six times its circumference at the equator. The length of wire is 1,685,680 miles, or eighty times the length of the equator. Europe has telegraph lines measuring 232,270 miles; America, 176,264; Asia, 50, 375; Australia, 26,053, and Africa 12,973. These are the land lines. There are, besides, 950 submarine cables of a total length of 112,YOl nautical miles. . :

T widow of Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name “V. Jefferson Duvis.” Many persons doubtless supposes he has added the name Jefferson to her Christian name, Varina. But this is _not the proper explanation. V. is the Y mbhraviation of veuve, the French for widow, and it is the custom of Louisiana, andc perhaps in other parts of the South, for widows to place that letter before _ the Christian names of their husbands, V. Jefferson Davis simply means the. widow of Jefferson Davis.

Onro and one or two other States have tried the parole or ticket-of-leave pian to some extent with results that ave in the main very encouraging. . New Jersey is about to experiment in that direction. 'The prisons in' that State are. overflowing and this plan will furnish relief. It is claimed that under its operation a much larger per cent. of the convicts become good citizens ‘and a much better opportunity is afforded them to get out of the bad ruts and become useful members of society. DBesides, the State is relieved of a good deal of expense by this method. 5 ) o

REV. DR. PARKHURST, ot New York, says he knows a man, and offers to give his name, whose life ambition has been to amass a fortume of millions. Until he had reached the goal he promised himself neither rest nor cnjoyment nor - benevolence. A few days ago he was appealed to on behalf of a most worthy object. He gave her just twentyfive cants, and in reply to the expresgion of astonishment such a contribution from a millionaire could not fail to bring forth, he said: “You don’t know bow it hurts me to give away that twenty-five cents. I've nearly reached ™ my twenty-million-dollar mark.” Tur rapid increase in the wealth, business and prosperity of the United States during the last ten years is sim- . ply marvelous. The total wealth of the country is now $71,459,000,000, equal to ~ mearly $l,OOO per head. This is an in- ~~ crease in ten years of $18,000,000,000 or forty-two per cent. England’s wealth in . 1885 is given as $50,000,000,000, giving an - average wealth per head of $1,545. The average in Scotland is $1,215 per head ~ and in Ireland $565. The total wealth of ' France is estimated at’ $36,000,000,000. England exacts in taxes $2O per head of population, while each individual in . the Unit>d States pays but §12.50,

Epitome of the Week. - INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. . TurspAy, April I.—Thoe Senate committee on pensions reported favorably the bill granting a pension of $lOO6 a month to the widow of the late General . Hartranft. A bill was introduced regulating the manufacture, sale apd importation of lager-beer. In the House bills . were introduced to establish a National gbanking code; providing that pensions granted to the dependent relatives of deceased soldiers shall tdke effect from the date of the soldierfis death. . Bills were passed limiting to six years the ‘time within which suits may be brought against accounting officers and their bondsmen; Senate bill creating the officés of surveyors general in North and South Dakota; admitting free of duty articles from Mexico to the St. Louis exposition in 1890, and the fortifications appropriation bili ($4,521,678). WEDNESDAY, April 2.—ln the Senate Mr. Edmunds reported a ‘substitute for Mr. Sherman’s anti-trust bill, entitled ‘‘a bill to protect trade and com- - merce against unlawful restraints and momnopolies.” The rest of the day was devoted to the Montana Senatorial contest.. Mr. Hoar presented the majority report favoring the admission of the Republican claimants and Mr. . Gray - spoke for the minority, which recommended the admission of the Democratic contestants. In the House tbe bill for the admission of Idaho as a State was discussed. A bill was introduced to repeal the act making fractional silver coin a legal tender for only $lO, and increasing the limit to $2O. e

THURSDAY, April B.—The Senate spent most of the session in debating the Chinese enumeration bill, which finally went over. The Montana Senatorial contest was also discussed and laid over without action... A bill was introduced to regulate the compensation and per diem of laborers employed by the Government. Adjourned to the sth. [ln the House a concurrent resolution was presented requesting the President to invite arbitration with foreign governments to scttle disputes or differences. The bill for the admission of Idaho was passed by yeas 129, nays 1, the Democrats refusing to vote and the Speaker counting a quorum. s 0 ” " FRiDAY, April 4. — The Senate was not in session. In the louse a joint resolution was introduced providing for the election of Senators by the qualified voters of the States. lavorable reports were made on the bills to prevent the enkstment of aliens in the navy; to investigate the liquor traffie; granting a pension of 8100 per month to the widow of General Kilpatrick; providing that all publications purporting’ to be issued periodically and to subscribers, but which are merely books, shall pay postage as third-class matter. At the evening session thirty private pension bills were passed.

FROM WASHINGTON.

Tug public debt statement issued on the. Ist showed the total debt to he $1,599,862,544; cash in the 'Treasury, $32,615,842; debt less cash in Treasury, $1,028,157,672; decrease during March, $11,389,857; decrease since June 30, 1889, $53,488,949. L b

SMUGGLING frauds in the glove trade in the country to the extent of $1,000,000 had, it was said on the 4th, been discovered by United States officials.

IN the United States there. were 206 business failures during the seven days ended on the 4th, against 189 the previous seven'days. The total of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 3,386, against 3,569 in 1889. : THE EAST.

:In New York City Isaac S. Wirmer, a retifed Jewish rabbi, died on the Ist at the age of 100 years 1 month and 14 days. : . :

Fraxes nearly wiped out the village of Cornwells, Pa., on the Ist. - THE death of David Wilber, Congressman for the Twénty-fourth New York district,occurred at his home in Oneonta, N. X, on the Ist.! i -

NEArLY 7,000, men in the employ of the Reading Railway Company were discharged on ‘the Ist in order to cut down expenses. - i S

Ox the 24 Evan Novagrats, a Norwegian, was drawn into an Ore-Crushing nf¥chine at the Vulcan _iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa., and almost instantly ground to pulp. THE firm of Rhodes & Bros., operators of the Aston,, Knowlton and West Branch dress-goods mills at Aston, Pa., failed on the. 2d for $lOO,OOO, throwing 1,000 persons out of work. THREE men were killed and four fatally injured in.a mine explosion on the 2d at Nanticoke, Pa. o At Albany, N. Y., Isaac Howes and wife while out driving on the 2d were struck by a train and killed. IN Boston on the 3d: Miss Lelia J Robinson, the first woman lawyer admitted to the Massachusetts bar, was married to Eli B. Sawtelle, a business man. : & 3

Ix the recentelection in Rhode Island for Governor, Ladd (Rep.) received 19,217 votes; Davis'(Dem.), 20,667; Larry (Labor), 1,767; Chase (Pro.), 773. This result leaves the choice of State officers with the Legislature, which stands: Republicans, 45; Democrats, 86.

Frames on the 8d destroyed the old Greeley homestead at Chappaqua, N. Y., which was formerly the home of Horace Greeley, being built by him in 1851. THREE supposed wealthy farmers of Lancaster, Pa., failed on the 3d, Benjamin L. Gamber, for $39,000, Jacob H. Hostetter for $42,500 and Daniel E. Heifer for $13,564. i :

~ BEVERAL counterfeiters were captured on the 2d at Buffalo, N. Y. It was said on the 4th that Sheriff Johnson, of Atlantic County, N. J., had sold within two days 200 farms to satisfy foreclosed mortgages, and it was said that forty families in the town of Germania were homeless. IN the Cameron (Pa.) colliery the fire was on the 4th beyond control, and the entire mine would have to be flooded. The loss was estimated at $lOO,OOO. WEST AND SOUTH. IN a quarrel over the latter's farm mnear Grand Haven, Mich., Michael Millman shot and killed his wife on the 2d. RepusricaNs of Towa who are opposed to prohibition met in convention in Des Moines on the 2d and adopted resolutions asking the General Assembly to so modify the law as to give to each community the right te decide whether it shall have prohibition or not.- ' = Ox the 24 Mrs. Ann Kise, of Vincennes, Ind., aged 70 years, fell into an open fire-place and was fatally burned. In the flooded districts along the Missigsippi river the water was gradually falling on the 2d. > S ‘At Hamilton, 0., Dolpha Grabham was killed and his younger brother fa-

tally injured by a piece of falling scantling on the 3d. : Wirriam Hicks and Robert McCoy (colored) were hanged on the 3d at Homerville, Ga., for the murder of William Hughes and his wife last November. ‘ . Turee children of William Brown, who had been locked in their home near Huron, S. D., were burned to death on the 3d. .

A cYCLONE at Galena, Monmouth and Champaign, in Illinois, on the 3d unroofel houses, leveled fences and uprooted trees, causing great damage. No lives were lost. i ‘

THE retirement of Murat Halstead from the editorial management of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette was reported on the 3d. o

DrEMOCRATS in Tennessee will meet in State convention at Nashville July 15.

OxN the 3d the female crusaders at Farmington, Mo., destroyed ' another wagon-load of beer and attempted to enter several saloons but found them barricaded. ¢ -

PLANTATIONS near Greenviile, Miss., which were always considered above high-water mark, and were never before submerged, were inundated on the 3d, the fleod being the highest on record.

Tue death of Mrs. Elizabeth Price said to be the oldest person in Centra Illinois, occurred on the 8d at Blooming ton in the 100th year of her age.

At Lima, 0., Adam Beach had hi eyes blown out on the 4th by a natural gas explosion. ; :

It was said on the 4th that six revenue officers had been shot by moonshiners at Fleminsburg, Ky. : EAGLE Hogrse, an Indian, shot and killed Frank E. Lewis, a school-teacher, on the 4th at Pine Ridge agency, in Nebraska, and then killed himself.

. A TORNADO on the 4th at Thomaston, Ga., blew down several buildings, and in its track through the country the ground was swept as if by a brush, and the crops would have to be replanted. Ix St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati a new counterfeit $lO bill was in circulation on the 4th. Itis on the Germania National Bank of New Orleans, letter “C,” bank No. 889, series of 1882. -

Ox the 4th a severe storm of wind and rain prevailed ‘at Arkansas City, Ark., and nearly every house was flooded to a depth of ten or twelve feet. Two churches and three or .four residences were blown from their foundations. ForTY-FIVE ;directors of the world’s fair were chosen in Chicago on the' 4th. Ture relief for the cyclone sufferers at Louisville, Ky., amounted on the 4th to $135,000. Eight hundred applications for aid had been received.

ON the 4th the sixtieth general annual conference of the Mormon church opened at Salt Lake City with'Presideut Wilford Woodruff presiding._ . IN a tunnel near Santa Paula, Cal., an explosion of gas on the 4th killed six men. o ) ;

NEeAR St. Charles, Mo., fifteen passengers were injured on the 4th by the plunging down an embankment of an express train. = . . : FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.,

~ Ar Vienna 10,000 builders’ employes and 800 bakers’ apprentices were on a strike on the Ist. ; :

PRrINCE BISMARCK’S 75th birthday was celebrated throughout Germany on the Ist. :

Mzexlco’s Congress was opened on the 2d. President Diaz in his message said that the finances of the Republic were flourishing and the affairs of the country generally were in a satisfactory condition.

Tae Cosipuiriachic reduction works near Chihuahua, Mex., owned by a New York company, were recently destroyed by fire at a loss of $2,000,000. Ar Szegedin, Hungary, a man was hanged on the 2d for the murder of eight women. : -

OX the 3d the State:Treasurer of the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, was arrested on the charge of embezzling 1,000,000 franecs. : :

A DISPUTE in a restaurant at Debreczin,’ Hungary, caused forty challenges to duels to be issued on the 3d. el

- Two woMEN and a negro girl were burned to death in a ‘fire on the 3d which destroyed the Chamber of Commerce at Santiago de Cuba.

IN Russia all the universities were ‘ordered closed on the 4th owing to disorder among the students.

. . LATER, . Mgr. F. W. NEWLAND, of Chicago, died on the sth from poison mixed in food by a servant girl named Emma Stark, and eight hours later his wife passed away in great agony. The two remaining members of the family, Francis D. and Grace Newland, the former 21 and the latter 16 years of age, were still dangerously ill. No cause for the deed was known. 5 : A CLOUD-BURST on the sth near Ithaca, N. Y., curried away many dams and bridges and inundated the country. THE business portion of Theresa, N. Y.. was burned on the sth, the loss being- estimated at from $150,000 to $200,000. . |

TWELVE negro women were drowned on the sth while attempting to escape.in a skiff from the overflowed section near Greenville, Miss. - |

CoNFEDERATE Decoration day was observed throughout the South on the 6th.

Two MEN were killed by an explosion oun the sth in the Bay Chester powder works near Bartow, N. Y., and several houses were wrecked. ,

Mrs. WiNDIATE died at Pontiac, Mich., on the sth, aged 103 years. She was the oldest person in the State. . IN a fit of jelousy on the sth Ramey Akerman shot Mrs. Hess, landlady of the National Hotel at Bushnell, 111., and then shot himself dead. , IN the United States Senate on the sth bills were passed for the inspection of meats for export; to provide for townsite entries in Oklahoma; ‘appropriating 150,000 for an Indian industrial school at Flandreau, S. D.; appropriating $500,000 for an additional fire-proof building for the National Museum; to give preference to honorably discharged soldiers in appointment to civil office; for an assistant general superintendent and chief clerk of the railway mail service at salaries of $3,000 and $2,000; giving a pension of $lOO a month to -the widow of General Hartranft. Senator Ingalls introduced a bill to establish a department of banking, where the banking business of the people can be done at cost. Mr. Blair offered an omnibus pension bill, a bill limiting to 640 acres the amount of public domain to be held by any person or corporation, and a measure to settle railway troubles by arbitration. In the House bills were .passed providing for retaining four dollars from each month’s pay of enlisted men during the first year of enlistment, to be forfeited unless there is an honest and faithful service; increasing to eleven the membership of the board of managers of the National homes for disabled volunteer soldiers.

WIND AND FLOOD.

Another Mississippi Levei Breaks, Sub- ~ merging Many Plantations— A Fierce Gale Adds to the Hardships of the Ine habitants of Arkansas Cflty. }

~ ArkANsaAs Crry, Ark., April s.—News has reached here of a bad break in the ilevee just above Catfish Point, Miss. The break ocourred at 1 o’clock Friday ; morning, and was a complete surprise, as the river was: falling and the levee - was thought to be safe. The levee was about fifteen feet high and was constructed principally oJf sand. - The ~crevasse is nearly QOQ‘feet wide and very ~deep. It is rapidly widening, and there +is no telling how much wider it will - become before the ends can be fastened. Catfish Point is on a big bend in the -river, Mound Landing bj%[i‘ng about ten miles below and Bolivar Landing about the same distance above. The entire ~bend is in cultivation, and the principal plantations are the Miller, the Connelly, the Martin, the Edmunds and the Ousley places. The break occurred between the Miller and the Connelly places. Every plantatioxJ is flooded, and the depth. of the water will not fall short of twelve to fifteen feet. The water will back up to Bolivar Landing, will help to increase thE depths there and will make matters worse below Mound Landing. . | , The break is said ‘~to be by far the worst that has yét occurred on the Mississippi side. |A tremendous

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The above map shows the locatin and ecx tent of the flooded arcas. North of Arkansas City, for some distance above the mouth of the White river, at Emporia Circle, the land on the Arkansas side is all under water. To the east in Mississippi, from Greenville a short distance below Arkansas City nearly down to Vicksburg, the whole basin of the Deer creek and Sunflower river is flooded and the back-water threatens the Yazoo. On the westward again, in Louisiana, the Tensas basin is flooded from the break in the Lake Providence levees and many rich plantations lie three and. four fcet under the rushing tide. Where the river turns to the east there is another series of crevasses above New Orleans, the water from which, flowing into Lake Ponchartrain, sayed New Orleans from a disastrous flood. Taken altogether, the flooded areas cover hui;dreds of squaré miles and will cause a loss of ‘ upwards of a million dollars. i L

volume of water is coming out of the crevasse and is sweeping every thing before it. Houses, cribs, stables and fences are being washed away, and many head of stock have already been lost. Mrs, L. T. Martin lost fifteen mules, and nearly all the corn, hay and cotton seed on two or three plantations have been swept away. No lives have been lost. . i

NEw ORLEANS, April 5. — A special from Arkansas City says: Another wind and rain storm raged here Thursday night. = About 1 o’clock - several strong blasts of wind in rapid succession severely tested -the strength of every house in town, and brought the occupants out of théir beds. For several . minutes it looked as though the town would be blown away. The terrors of a storm in a town covered by waterfl to a depth of from eight to twelve fee‘F, can hardly be imagined. The Catholic church, an elegant Ilittle structure, was blown from its foundations and considerably damaged. The | building was flooded to the depth of f%ight feet, and all of the furniture and fixtures badly damaged. A mnegro cerch was also blown from its foundation, but did not sustain very serious damage. Three or four residences were treated likewise.

MempHlS, Tenn., April s.—The committees of the citizens’ relief fund sent down theriver to Laconia and Henrico to investigate the condition of the flood sufferers returned Thursday. They report that in Laconia alone fully 600 people, mostly negroes, are without food or houses. Few houses are left in the city, and in ome gin house there are .150 persons huddled together like so many cattle. The water is from six to twelve feet deep on the plantations. Forty houses were washed down by last Thursday’s storm. At Modoc, Ark., 420 people were found to be suffering for food. At islands Nos. 46 and 47, below Helena, 100 people were found in the same condition, and at Henrico 125 more. In the limited investigation made by the committee fully one thousand people were found to be homeless arfid hungry, and these were all found a;tifi points on the river. - ; |

ADMIRABLE ADVICE.

CULTIVATE a gentle, even temper. The man who flies into a passion upon every provocation, is like a wasp, senseless and exceedingly annoying. |

IN contemplating your misfl;ortunes always look beneath you; in thinking of your virtues and wisdom always look above you; thus shall you be kept from despair and from pride. Wl e IF you want success, do not expect to get it by chance, but seek it through the open doors of the things that lie next you, and seek it as if your soul depended upon your finding it. " , WHETHER young or old, tt(i]nk it neither too soon nor too late to turn over the leaves of your past life and consider what you would do if what you have done were to be done agai

Toe knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order and without an inventory; we ought to know vi"hat we possess and be able to make it»EFI'VB us in need. : . | ArLwAYS make the other fellow feel, if possible, that he is having his own way. The secret of the success of great leaders of men is that while they lead they cause their henchmen to think that they are leading. v |

A SERVANT GIRL’S CRIME.

Without a EKnown Motive She Mixes Poison in the Food of the Englewood (Ill.) Family by Whom She Had Just Been Engaged—Her Employer and His Wife Dead, and Their Son and Daughter Dangerously Ill—Arrest of the Culprit—Belief That She Is Insane. d

. Curcago, April 7.—Poison was administered in their food Friday night to the family of F. W. Newland, the retired real-estate dealer who lived at 6236 Wabash ‘avenue, and as a result both Mr. and Mrs. Newland are dead, while their children, Frank Newland, aged 21, and Gracie Newland, 16 years old, have been violently ill, but will recover. A girl who had been employed as cook by the family and who disappeared as soon as they showed symptoms of poisoning after dinner Friday evening is now under arrest suspected of having administered the fatal dose. The prisoner was sent to the Newlands on Thursday from the Anchorage mission, where she had given her name as Mamie Starr, but to the Newlands she gave it as Emma Stark. Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock the girl complained of toothache and borrowed a quarter of Gracie Newland to buy medicine. About that hour Dr. F. D. Rogers, 6110 State street, says a woman bought a box of rat poison at his drug store. ‘

The Stark girl, for it is almost certain it was her, returned to the Newland residence from the drug store and at once set about getting supper for the family. Among other things prepared for the meal was a quantity of canned corn, of which all partook, and it was in this that the poison was supposed to have been mixed. Shortly after eating supper Mrs. Newland was taken with a violent attack of nausea, and her son Frank went in search of a physician. While returning 30 his home with the doctor the young man became so ill that his companion was forced to carry him a great part of the way. Arriving at the house it was found that in addition to the illness of Mrs. Newland, her husband and daughter were both very sick.

“Another physician was dalled. The symptoms were an intense burning sensation at the stomach, vomiting and great prostration, indicating arsenical poisoning. The proper antidotes were ‘administered, but Mr. Newland expired at 4 o’clock Saturday morning and. Mrs. Newland died just before noon. The son and daughter will recover, but are still confined to their beds and are not aware of the death of their parents. Shortly after Mrs. Newland was attacked the servant girl left the house. When the police were notified of the affair they obtained a description of her, and as it answered that of the woman who had bought the poison at the drug store, search was begun, and ended in her arrest at the Park Theater Saturday afternoon. She positively denied all connection with the poisoning or that she had ever been employed at the residence of the Newlands, in spite of the fact that she was identified by a number of persons. Later on, however, she admitted her identity and also the.fact that she had purchased the poison, but stoutly maintained that she did not put any in the food. Rhe was despondent and wanted the stuff in order to put an end to her ' life. When the family became sick she was alarmed, and fearing that she might be charged with poisoning them . she rolled the rat poison in her apron and left the house, throwing it away afterwards. The girl had no possible motive for committing the crime, and the belief is prevalent that she is crazy and irresponsible for her actions. She gave her name as Della Fosterwand said she was a variety actress and that Her real name was Mrs. Starr William Ray. She said she had a daughter 9 years old who was living with her husbsnd, a bill poster at Fort Wayne, Ind. o

TRAGEDY OF THE FLOOD.

Twelve Negroes, Seeking to Escape,the Raging : Waters in Mississippi, Are Drowned by the Capsizing of Their Raft . —Much Distress Among the Homeless ~ Refugees of the Stricken Region.

NEwW ORLEANS, April. 7.—The Picayune’s Vicksburg (Miss.) special says: ‘‘Nineteen negroes, the survivors. of .a large party of refugees whi®h attempted to escape from the overflow down Bayou Falaya on a raft, arrived here on the steamer Hill City. They report that twelve women and childréen were drowned when the current lashed their crazy vessel against a tree and that they escaped with extreme difficulty. This is the most tragic event of the flood.” GREENVILLE, Miss., April 7.=—Parties who have arrived here from Greenwood, the greater part of their journey being made in a skiff, describe the situation in the sunflower lowlands as a terrible sight to look upon. ‘At an astonishing speed the water is spreading over the vast improved and cultivated lands and forests of the planters, many ol whom would have been at an end of another week or so through witk their planting. . St. Louls, April 7.—The dispatchet show that the breaking of the Missis: sippi levees is steadily going on, and new districts are being inundated. It is im possible as yet to estimate the damage done in dollars and cents, but it will be ‘enormous. The planting of the Orops will have to wait till the waters have run off and the ground has partially dried up, and this year’s crops may be only a tithe what they would otherwise have been. The levees, laboriously heaped up by the contributions of individuals, counties, States and the National Government, have received damage which it will take many hundreds of thousands of dollars to make good. v MADE A JUDGE. Edward Cahill, of Lansing, Appointed to . the Vacancy on the Michigan Supreme : Bench. : . - LANSING, Mich.,, April 7.—Governox ‘Luce has appointed Captain Edward Cahill, of Lansing, a former member of the Chicago bar, to the Supreme Court Judgeship made vacant by the death of Justice Campbell. ; . [Captain Cahill is 47 years old and was born .in Kalamazoo. In 1863 he raised a company of colored troops and was made Captain. In (865 he was admitted to the bar and was an attorney in Chicago from 1871 to 1873. He has lived in Lansing for sixteen years, has served two ‘terms as prosecuting attorney and at present is a member of the State Advisory Pardon Board.] i Jealousy Was the Cause. Busu~eLL, 111., April ©.—At 5 o’clock Saturday evening Ramey Akerman shot Mrs. Hess, landlady of the National Hotel, and then put a bullet into his own brain, causing instant death. Mrs. Hess will recover. "The deed is supposed to have been committed during a fit of jealousy. e © Oloud-Burst in New York. ; - IrmAca, N. Y., April 7.—A cloudburst near this city caused freshets in southern and eastern sections of the ccounty, carrying away many bridgesand the dam to the upper reservoir of the Mty waterworks, -

TO RUN THE FAIR. At a Gigantic Meeting of Stockholders of the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Held " in Chicago, Forty-Five Directors Are Chosen. z ; CHicAGo, April 5.—A memorable -assembly was ‘the first stockholders’ meeting of the world’s exposition of 1892. - It came together early Friday morning in the great hall of Bate tery D, 8,000 individuals representing a total of 800,789 shares. It was in the most popular sense a representative gathering. - Prominent citizens conspicuous for wealth and position were there alike with men from the humbler walks of life intent upon the same purpose, animated by thesame motive. The motive was to promote the interest and honor of the Chicago world’s. fair.. The, purpose, to elect a board of dircctors competent to adequately and disinterestedly organize and maintain it. Mayor Cregier, chairman of the executive committee, ‘was elected president of the meeting, which was called to order shortly before noon. At 4:30 o'clock it adjourned, having elected the following-named list of forty-five directors: - e Owen F. Aldis, T e lietong s = o -0 Samuel W. Allerton, Cyrus H. McCovmick, W. T. Baker, Andrew MeNually;: Thomas B. Bryan, Joseph Medill, . .= | ¢ Mark L. Crawtorq, Robert Nelson, . W. H. Colvin, Potter Palmer, D. C. Cregier, J. C. Peasley, S J. W. Elsworth, Ferd W. Pecx, : Stuyvesant kish, . .M. Phelps. - L. J. Gage, K. S Pike. -~ H. W. Riginbotham, M. A, Ryerson, . - s C: L.'Hutchinson, ' A, Nathan, @ E. 1. Jeffery, C. T, Yerkes, s RA, I%yes, ‘W. D. Kerfcot, e M. M. Kirkman, J. J. P. Odell, e H. H. Kohlsaat, J. V. Farwell, Jr., E. F. Lawrence, A. F. Seeberger, r Otto Young, : W. B Strong, o C. H. Wacker, R. A. Waller, L E. G. Keith. Edwin Walker, E. B. Butler, John R. Walsh, : F. H. Winston, C. C. Wheeler. - . Charles H. Schwab, . The meeting which thus set in motion the official machinery of the world’s exposition of 1892 was remarkable in the fact that it represented ‘the largest number of stockholders in any corporation in the world. ; .

AT LOUISVILLE.

The Kentucky Metropolis Rapidly Recovering from the Effects of the Cyclone. -

- LoursviLLE, Ky., April s.—One week has now elapsed since the tornado, and the city is rapidly recuperating from its effects. ' The work of repairing the wrecked district is going yigorously forward, and that portion of the city 1s a bee-hive of carpenters, masons and laborers. Business has resumed its regular channels. . !

The danger of a water famine from the destruction of the standpipe at, the waterworks has been averted by thesubstitution of a temporary apparatus which has been working satisfactorily for two days. Water will be turned on to all classes of consumers to-day and many factories which wera forced te stop will resume. L e

- An exaggerated impression has gone abroad as to the extent of the district devastated. Except in the direct track of the whirling tornado, no damage was done and nineteen-twentieths of the city is unharmed. In fact, outside the cyclone’s path the storm ~ was not one of unusual severity. = There is mno suffering for food or for shelter, but many poor people who lost their homes will require money to rebuild. Louisville people are subsecribing liberally, but will not be able tec meet all the derhands upon their liberality. While Louisville is not soliciting aid from the outside, voluntary subscriptions’ from other cdities will' be gratefullyreceived and usefully applied. Only two or three of the wounded by the cyclone have since died, and the list. of deaths is only seventy-six, a gratifying reduction from the wild reports the first day that hundreds were killed. The union depot will be rebuilt on a larger scale and the tobacco district will be built up better than it was before. None of the public buildings in the city were damaged in-the least. o - - THE CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS.

Official Report of the Loss to Property at Metropolis, and Grand Tower—Aid Will Be Gladly Accepted. : : ’

SPRINGFIELD, 111., April s.—AdjutantGeneral Vance, whom Governor Fifer sent to Metropolis, Grand Tower and Campbell’s Hill to ascertain -the needs of the sufferers from the recent cyclone; has ' returned and - made his report to ° the . Governor. He found property at Metropolis destroyed to the extent of SSO,OOO, and that farmers in the vicinity had been damaged to the extent of .about $20,000. He says thereis no immediate distress at that place, although funds are needed. At Grand Tower he found the people: in need of food' and clothing, At Campbell’s Hill the damage was comparatively small and there is ample iocal relief for the sufferers. The Governor has decided not to issue an official proclamation calling for aid, as he thinks all necessary relief will be furnished without the asking. ~ ! : ' . Two Fatal Explosions. e SANTA - BARBARA, Cal., April 5.—A térrible accident occurred Friday morning at Adams’ canyon, near-Santa Paula, where the Hardison & Stewart Oil Company is boring a tunnel for oil. An explosion of gas took place in the {unnel and a sheet of flame shot out, blowing away a building. Two men were terribly burned and one has since died. = ¢ A force of men were put to work clearing the.tunnel, and in the afternoon another explosion took place, the whole tunnel collapsing.. Five .men, were buried in the ruins and are certainly dead. So far as known their-names are Britton, Hardison, Taylor and Young. Hardison is a brother of the head of the. company. ‘ o i Accidentally Shot and Killed. . GoLDEN, 111., April s.—Jesse Cane, a young jeweler, while in the act of taking a revolver from Charles’ Himake, who wished it repaired, was shot in the temple by the weapon’s accidental dis-. charge and died in half an hour. No blame is attached to Himake., = . . Heirs to a Fortune in Germany. JEFFERSON, Wis., April s.—Henry Colonius, probate judge of this county, has received notice that he has fallen heir to $lO,OOO by the recent death of an aunt in Germany. Mr. Colonius’. brother at Portage City receives a like amount. s . S France to Expel German Residents. - Panis, April s.—lt is reported that the Government has ordered that a census be taken of the Germans residing in the suburbs of this city. It is understood that this step is taken so that German residents without means of subsistence may be sent to Germany. Archer’s Bondsmen Decline to Pay. ‘Bavrtivore, Md., April s.—The bondsmen of defaulting State Treasurer Archer have decided to refuse to make good the deficiency on the ground that the Governor had been derelict in his duty in not semi-annually exanining the treasurer under oath. .

EASTERN FARMERS.

‘A Great Many of Them Unable, Through - Competition, Low Prices and Railway Discrimination, to Meet Their Obliga= ~ tions, and Are Forced to Assign. " PHILADELPUIA, April 4 —Every day hrings fresh evidences of the financial distress among the farmers of the State, snd it is exciting much alarm in the smaller cities. ‘At Lancaster Thursday failures were announced of three farmers conducting large farms and of a number of others whose liabilities are smaller: Jacob S. Hostetter failed for $25,000, Benjamin L. Gamber for $40,000 and Daniel E. Piper for $16,000. . In Northampton County the sheriff is kept busy levying on farm stock and State quarries to satisfy claims amounting to from $5OO to $3,000. Farmers claim to be unable to meet their obligations owing to the low prices. The same story comes from Berks, Montgomery and other neighboring counties. = 'This widespread distress islargely attributed to the competition of the cheap Western land with the high-priced East~ ern farms, making.it impossible for the farmers to raise wheat, corn and -other staple crops ©at . & profit. 'The railroads. are’ charged with discriminating in favor of the Western farmers. Many of the farms were bought at high prices during or soon after the war, from .$lOO to $250 an acre, and the shrinkage in values since that time. has made it impossible for many farmers to make enough to pay interest on mortgages given in those flush times. A variety of other cases; such as. the high price of labor, the competition or Southern vegetables and failure to properly diversify their crops, all tend to embarrass the farmers. Farm lands in many cases ane worth fully 50 per cent. less than they were ten years ago.

GALES IN ILLINOIS.

Wind-Storms Visit Several Small Cities—--5 i Buildings Unroofed. .

GALENA, IL, April 4.—This city was visited by a hurricane at about 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. It came from the southwest and was accompaniel by a rumbling sound. The roof of the Armbruster & Ross furniture factory was partially ‘destroyed’ and the cosily smoke-stack of the Galena boot and shoe factory was wrecked. L

- CmAMPAIGN, IIIL, April 4.—During a’ violent wind and rain-storm in Urbanga Thursday morning the roofs of three business houses were blown off. No other damage is reported. = ' _ArEDpO, 111., April 4. —A cyelone struck about half a mile east of this city at noon Thursday, almost demolishing William' Graham’s residence. Little other damage: was done. . .

MoxyouTH, 111., Aprili4.—A small cyclonc ‘swooped down. on this. city Thursday morning . and some damage resulted, but the storm fortunately lifted and passed over the principle portion of the city.. Part of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney round-house was blown down. Several buildings were damaged and roofs blown away. ]

.. CREELEY’S OLD HOME. Destruction by Fire of the Famous Old : Mansion at Chappaqua, N. Y. CHAPPAQUA, N. Y., April 4—The old Greeley homestead, which was formerly the home of Horace Greeley, being built by him in- 1851, was destroyed by fire Thursday morning. Since Mr. Greeley's death the house has been owned by Miss Gabrielle Greeley, his only surviving child. The inmates were compelled to léave without being able-to save much property. © Some of - -the neighbors, however, managed to save most of the library, a marble bust of Horace Greeley, and the only existing picture of Mrs. Greeley. The property destroyed included muech valuable furnituie and two pianos. A secretary and other articles which belonged to the great editor were saved. = There was about $4,000 worth of jewelry in the house. - A portion of it, including a diamond- bracelet and sevs eral gems, was found after the fire wag extinguished. It is believed that $l(,000 will cover the loss. - - -

/ GIFTS TO BISMARCK. - A Curious List of Articles Received by the German Statesman on His Birth- . Qay. Lo - ‘ " BERLIN, April 4.—The list of Prince Bismarck’s birthday gifts is an amusing’ one, but proves conclusively how dear the veteran diplomatist is to the popular heart. The gifts include two mastiffs, forty-three drinking mugs, over a hundred long pipes—-meerchaum and wobd—three hunting guns, many pounds of tobacco, 4 large arm-chair_made of horns, several dozen canes{ innumerable packages of preserves,. cakes and can-. dies sent by farmers’ wives, barrels of egg, sides of bacon, keblitz eggs from Plattdeutschland, half a sheep, a medicine chest containing a dozen bottles of some wonderful cure for rheumatism, hair pomade, brushes, cushions, rugs and an enormous salnron from Wales.

Little Rhody’s Election. : ProviDENCE, R. 1, April 4.—The result of the State election in brief is that Ladd has 19,217, Davis 20,667, Larry 1,767, Chase 773. Davis lacks 1,091 of a majority, and the election is thrown into the hands of the committtee of both houses of the new Legislature, and fifty-five votes are needed to secure a majority. -The other State officials also fail of an election by the people. The Legislature will stand: Republicans, 45; Democrats, 36; to be elected, 27. The large total vote shows that the Australian system of balloting did not shut out or scare away the illiterate voters as it was thought it would.

Platform ‘'Adopted by the Conference : of National Reformers. g - WAsHINGTON, April 4.—The Reform conference, an organization formedl for the purpose’of bringing religion into the settlement of political and State affairs, is in'session in this city, and has adopted a platform declaring in favor of employing the teachings of the Bible in the settlement of public affairs and of the insertion of the name of the Supreme Being in the constitution. The platform also approves the Blair Sun-day-rest bill and all measures against gambling, pool selling and the liquor traffiec. = j : L . A Washington Statue for France. . WASHINGTON, April 4.—An organization of ladies, headed by Mrs. Levi P. ‘Morton, has prepared a call for subscriptions to a $20,000 fund for a bronze statue of Washington, to be presented to the French Government in recog- - nition of the close relations between the United States and France in move« ments relative to personal liberty. - . - Lost a Hundred Hogs. o - BroomiNaron, 111, April 4.—Albert Heinrich, a farmer of Washburn, has lost a drove of 100 fine hogs, nearly all Jersey reds, by cholera within the last fwowesky, e iR