Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 29, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 October 1890 — Page 2
. . ™, ] he Ligonier Banuer, LIGONIER. ’ : INDIAN" T e e RIS . TSN AX association of Philadelphia housewives will abolish kitchens in théir homes and start a co-operative central cooking-house. 4 TN M AST RN ST VDA : WlTm;\'l&he last nine months 7,667 miles of railway have been consolidated with other companies and have ceased to represent the companies which had previously controlled them. AA B TR YRR PRSI T T Rs] Tnr Treasury Department can take no action providing for new designs in our gold and silver currency until next spring. The necessary bill has become a law, but the officials having this matter in charge can not.now find time to consider new models and designs. ) ‘ S ~———— A GERMAN of Boston, well-known at the Scuth end, recently took a trip to the fatherland. There he died. While living he turned the scale af three hundred and fifty pounds. His body was crircted and the remains, weighing six ouncis, were inclosed’in an envelope and scut to his family in Boston by mail.
T fourteenth annual report on the administration of the New York TriTne's fresh air fund shows how much Mol interest may be aroused in such a charity, and how compre-°nsive its scope. This last year the number of ‘contributors was 1,225; the number of boys and girls benefited, 11,193; and .the total of contributions, $24,514.
Mps. LENA SMmithH, of Columbus, 0., whose sixteen-year-old son was 12561 y banged, has gone crazy. On ‘pa night ©f the execution she wWi.ots to the GovTinor: “Curse yuu, his murderers, and thelr desgendants; may his shagow saunt you to the hour of your death! May all the tortures plague you which I have suffered all this time! This is my wish.”
Tue University of Pennsylvania is to send out a scientific exploring and dredging expedition to the Bahamas and about Carribean waters. The craft is the yacht Whitecap, of fifty-one tons. Columbia College, Park Davis & Co., of Detroit, and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. St. Louis, will also have repre= sentatives on board, making a scientific corps of seven or eight men. :
-IT is reported that three nails of the true cross have been found in the ruins of the theater at Zurich, which was burned down. They were in a little Ivory casket, of admirable workman—ship, together with a manuscript of parchment, and were bricked up within a little cavity of the sub-structure. It is presumed that these relics were hidden by monks during the reformation.
A sHORT courtship is reported from Maine. Deacon Marvin, one of the early settlers of Buckfield, mounted his horse with only a sheepskin for a saddle, rode in front of the house where Betty Lee lived, and, withoutdismountiig. requested Betty to come to him. On her coming he told her that the Lord had sent him there to marry her. Betty, without much hesitation, replied: “The Lord’s will be done.”
ONE of the most remarkable old ladies in Maine, if not in the world, is living on the island of Monhegan. Although seventy-five years old, she not only knows nothing of the cars, telephone, electric lights, etc., but has never seen a horse. She has always lived on the island, several miles from the mainland, and her world has been Monhegan. Bheep and cows-are kept on the island, but there is no call for horses.
Trr Chinese have begun to build another railroad, and it will not take long for the new method of transportation to revolutionize the ways and customs of the ancient Empire. The children of this day and generation may live to see a trunsformation in the East+—both in Asia and Africa—such as the world has never befere witnessed. The agencies to work a mighty change in a short time are at hand as never before, when a great continent or a populous empire was opened to the influences of Westoern civilization. ;
DurING the last twelve -months actual settlers have taken up some nineteen million acres of land in the United States, or nearly thirty thousand square miles. This is a big acquisition to the producing area of the country, and nearly everyi acre of it is fertile. , When, says the Chicago Tribune, we can increase our actively agricultural area in one year to an extent mearly equal to the whole of Scotland, and have the fact passed over with a mere paragraph of comment, it may no longer be doubted that we are a great Nation, inhabiting a great country. ‘
THERE seems to be no limit to the triumphs ofiinventive genius. A. L. Bancroft, of San Francisco, has invented a method of naming and numbering the roads, lanes and by-ways of sparsely populated country districts so that a traveler can find his way to any isolated and remote dwelling as readily as he could find his way to aresidence ina city. To people living in the country, and still more to those who want to find the residences of people living in remote sections, Mr. Bancroft’s system will be of much prdctical value. The world is getting a great many valuable things from California. b —— , T. B. HARNED, of Camden, N. J., gave a dinner to Walt Whitman recently. “I publish my own books,” says the venerable poet, ‘‘and havedone soeversince my first little volume, entitled ‘Leaves of Grass,” was returned to me unnoticed by every leading newspaper in the country save one. Things have changed since then, and scarcely a day passes in which 1 do not receive a request with satisfactory honorarium to write for some leading newspaper or magazine, But I have to go slow, and only work on days when the spirit moves me; for you know 1 am half a Quaker, and go a little on the light within.,” ————— £y Tnr career of Mrs. Smart, of Grayson County, Tex., shows what you can do in the matrimonial business if you give your whole mind to it. She is fifty-one vears old and is now living with her ninth husband. She started the record by baving her four first husbands killed in the Confederate army. While of course not bent upon marrying every available man in the Southwest, she in. due time had to replenish her stock ‘of husbands, sfnee. one was sent to prison. for fiftean ¥ R b 0 nod ied from life o R “‘w'w , ?ww i ,g‘,sy;’ " *, ( . o
| ° 7 Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION., FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States:the visible sup- ' ply of grain in store on the 20th was: Wheat, 18,607,246 bushels; corn, 8,259,409 ‘bushels. ' l PrESIDENT HARRISON has been peti--tioned -by the local Wage-Workers’ iPolitical Alliance in Washington to . present the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the Senate of the - United States as an Associate Justice, ' in the place of Justice Miller, deceased. ' INSPECTOR-GENERAL DUMONT, of the - Steamboat Inspection service, shows in ’ his annual report that during the past - year there were 34 accidents, resulting in the loss of 2384 lives, a decrease of ’as compared with the preceding jyear. General Dumont says that no.mode of travel at the present day shows so low a percentage of accidents as the travel Dy steam vessels. - .IN session at Washington the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Masons initiated thirty-four members in the thirty.third, the highest Masonic degree. J THE Sixth Auditor of the Treasury in his report shows that the total postal -revenues of the Government for the last 1 fiscal year were $60,882,097, an increase over the preceding year of $4,705,486. The excess of expenditures over revenue was $5,048,619, against $5,201,236 for the year before. The total value gf siamps sold was $57,651 724, an increase over the previous fiscal year of $4,698,622,
- CLAZuS to the numbar of 47,038, aggrerating $168,185,479, were settled by the Treasury Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890.
‘ ~ FirsT AuDITOR FISHER, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, | shows that during the lass fiscal year that office passed on 2,761 receipt accounts, representing $1,019,684,430, and on 31,867 disbursement accounts, representing $1,165,879,639. In the United States the business failures during the sevendays ended on the 24th numbered 225, against 227 the preceding week and 225 the corresponding week last year.. . - : Slx MILLION packages of free seeds will be distributed this season by members of Congress. THE EAST. ORDERS have been issued by the United States Express Company to its agents not to receive money, tieckets or lists of drawings from the Louisiana Lottery Company or in any way to assist in the transaction of lottery busi_ness. * ;
At Forest City, Pa., John M%rchel sold his young .and pretty wiie to Stephen Muskar for $ll5. - : - THE mayor of Philadelphia thinks the census count of that city is 75,000 too small, and proposes to take a police census in November.
For assaulting a newspaper reporter Mayor Gleason, of- Long Island City, was sentenced to five days in jail and to pay a fine of $250. -
- HENRY W. SAGE at a meeting of the Cornell University trustees at lthaca, N. Y., added $200,000 to his previous gift of $60,000 for the establishment of a department of philosophy. Mr. Sage’s gifts now aggregate more than $l,OOO, - 000. The president’s report showed 1,314 students in actual attendance, an increase over any previous year. IN a storm off Fall River, Mass., a yacht was lost and six persons on board were drowned. 5
AT Concord, N. H., the bronze statue of Major-General John Stark, the hero of the battle of Bennington, was unvailed in the State house yard.
- ALoNG the Atlantic coast terrific storms raged on the 23d, doing great damage to shipping, and incoming vessels were roughly handled. % Ox the 24th Mrs. Adam Wuchter, of Whitehall, Pa., had.fasted for 225 days. IN a blacksmith-shop in New York Joseph Wood and Carl Harg fought a duel with crow-bars and fractured each other’s skulls. :
Fire destroyed Leighton’s shoe factory and several other buildings at East Pepperell, Mass., causing a loss of $300,000, :
. WEST AND SOUTH. THE death of Pete McCartney, one of the most noted counterfeiters in the United States, occurred in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus at the age of 60 years., . Tue death is announced of Mrs. Mary Jane Mills at Snowhill, Md., aged 102 years and 6 months. In Collinston, Utah, four workmen were blown to pieces by the premature explosion of a powder-blast. ‘ NELsoN, the Maine phenomenon at Cambridge City, Ind., knocked half a second off his mile mark and put the world’s stallion record at 2:1034. INn the Seventh Illinois district the Prohibitionists nominated D. E. Holmes for Congress, and the Republicans of the Third Kentucky district nominated A. D. James. : : ! NrAr Milan, Tenn., the boiler of .an engine exploded, killing five men. Isaac WEerss killed Mrs. August Mehlin, the handsome young wife of a railroad laborer at San Antonio, Tex., and then killed himself. Weiss was drunk and mistook the woman he killed for his wife. NEeaARr Grayville, 111., David Grubb, a farmer, was shot dead by his step-son while he was trying to stab his wife. AccorplNG to the Census Bureau the population of South Dakota is 327,848, an increase of 229,580 in ten years. OWING to domestic troubles William Galow, a German laborer, shot and killed his wife ac Oshkosh, Wis.,rand then committed suicide. Both were over 50 years of age and leave eight children. At Casco, Wis., Albert Ludermeyer, in a quarrel with his wife about the quantity of potatoes they should put away for the winter, seized his rifle and shot her dead and then blew his own brains out. They had been married but a short time. : : TENNESSEE bankers met at Memphis and organized a State association. AT Smith Creek, Mich., a tramp fatally stabbed James O'Hara and wife, his intention being to rob the house. ' Tur. fourth game at Louisville of the world’s championship series was won ‘by the Louisville base-ball team, defeating Brooklyn by a score of 5 to 4. ~ IN a crash on the Kansas City & Memphis road near Birmingham, Ala., two lives were lost and twenty-six pas‘sengers hurt. , ' IN a collision in a tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern railroad at Sloan’s Valley. Ky., six trainmen were killed ‘and seven persons injured. i A PASSENGER train approaching Chickamauga, Ga., struck a wagon and o e o i e ‘:‘fif» Wl e e e
hanged at Rolling Fork, Miss., for the murder of a white man. THEe death of “Old Tom Starr,” aged 80 years, one of the most remarkable desperadoes in this country, occurred at Muskogee, Ind. Ti He was a Cherokee Indian, and during his life Kkilled seventy Indians to avenge his father’s murder. : IN séssion at Nashville, Tenn., the American Humane Society elected Edwin Lee Brown, of Chicago, president. Tue Indians of the Indian Territory were reported to be growing discontented over the occupancy of their lands by white men, and they were said to be secretly plotting an outbreak under the leadership of a Messiah whom they expected daily. : WiLLiAw NilcH’s, 16-year-old daughter was frozen to death in a blizzard near Folsom, N. M.~ : THE population of the State of Florida is given by the Census Bureau at 390,845; increase, 120,945. Two sHocks of earthquake occurred at Cape Girardéau, Mo.,~and ' buildings, furniture, crockery, ete., were visibly affected by the movement of the earth. A TRAIN was robbed near San An-. tonio, Tex., by three disguised men, who secured §1,500 from pasgengers and trainmen, e : FLAMES destroyed the business portion of Leavenworth, Ind. PEOPLE by the hundreds were flocking to the Arbuckle mountains in Oklahoma, where gold, as reported, had been discovered in paying quantities. | ALLERTON broke the 4-year-old stallion record at Independence, la. He trotted the mile in 2:14. - AX express train on the Santa Fe jumped the track twe miles west of Topeka and thirty passengers and trainmen were seriously injured. C. J. Hamlin’s great team, Belle Hamlin and Justina, at Independence, la., smashed the double team one mile. record of 2:15 held by them, trotting the mile in 2: 1224, Iv Terre Haute, Ind., Ann Sixbury Baldy celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary, at the Old Ladies’ Home. She was born October 24, 1789, at Saratoga, N. Y. : TaE Ohio Legislature passed the bill on the 24th giving the mayor of Cincinnati power to appoint a non-partisan board of public works and the extra session came o an end.
IN the Maré Island navy yard at San Francisco a fire caused a loss of $lOO, 000. JUDGE LEGGETT in his instructions to the grand jury at Bloomfield, la., said that it wasa violation of the laws of the State to sell any liquor without a proper permit,whether imported and in the original package or not. He declared that the action of the courts in other States on this subject was not binding on the, courts of lowa.
A MoB at Miller, Ga., lynched Georgg Williams, a negro boy 17 years old, who shot and killed the 5-year-old son of ' J. R. Roberson (white). THE ex-Sheriff of Lyon County, Kan., W. R. Baneroft, committed suicide. He had just taken out two accident policies on his life for '53,000, good for twentyfour hours. ;
THE death of Patrick Hawley, aged 106 years, occurred at Davenport, la.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE death of Captain Richard Francis Burton, the well-known African explorer, occurred in London. LocoMmoTIVES have arrived at Jaffa, Palestine, from Philadelphia, to be used on the new railway to Jerusalem.
"THE ocean race from New York to Liverpool between the City of New York and the Teutonic was won by the latter. E
SEVEN dervishes were killed by Egyptian cavalry -and others wounded at Suakim for stealing cattle: In Russia an alarming state of affairs was reported. The prisons were crowded with suspects, chiefly young men of the educated classes, and disaffection was spreading everywhere and incéndiarism was rife. i
Mr. GLADSTONE, in‘a political speech at West Calder, confidently predicted a Liberal victory at the coming general election.
A MAN named Gast fatally poisoned himself and his five children in Berlin. No reason was known for the crime. At Canton, China, the Government powder-mill exploded, destroying 200 houses and killing over 1,000 people.
LATER.
A STAND-PIPE containing 280,000 gallons of water at Temple, Tex., burs and flooded the town, sending houses, barns, fences, etc., floating in every direction. An immense amountof damage was caused. B. G. Noßre, the war Governor of Wisconsin, died in Williamsburgh, N. Y.:on the 25th, aged 74 years. " THE tide of the Hudson rose higher on the 26th than it had for forty years, and destroyed millions of brick in the vicinity of Rondout and Albany.
Tur steamship Elysia from Palermo with 1,038 Italian immigrants on board arrived in New Orleans.
~ Tur Census Bureau announces the total population of the Stateo of Maryland to be 1,040,303, an .increase during the last ten years of 105,360. IN the fifth game at Brooklyn of the world’s championship series the Brooklyn base-ball team defeated the Louisville by a score of 7 to 2. | THE 124th anniversary of the old Jo.n Street Methodist Church in New York City, the oldest Methodist church in America, was celebrated on the 26th. THE country around Vicksburg, Miss., was flooded with ‘excellent counterfeit ‘silver dollars. THE little village of Stillwater, Pa.. composed of a planing mill, butcher shop and thirteen dwelling houses was wiped out by fire. % ~ JUDGE SHIRAS, of the United Stages District Court, in a decision rendemsd at Des Moines, la., held the Wilson law operative, and that the sale of liquors in the original package in Jowa was clearly illegal. i JAMES NErLsoN and his wife were found unconscious in a Philadeiphia hotel, having blown out the gas. Both would die. A pueL was fought near Danielsville, Ala., in which William = Sanders, a prominent planter, and William Martin, his neighbor, were killed. - A FIKE in a mill belonging to the Youngstown (0.) Rolling-mill Company ca used a loss of $lOO,OOO. : IN trying to make the harbor of Cleveland, 0., in a storm the barge Wahnapitae went on the break-water, and John Williamson, O. W. Smith and Mrs. Nichols were ‘drowned., ; AN the city of Berlin the 90th birthday of Count von Moltke was celebrated with great pomp on the 25th. - | MopiLe, Ala., suffered severely by fire, several thousand bales of cotton, warehouses, compresses, steamboats, aills and other property being destroyed. The loss was estimated at EOOO,. . o T
A WARRIOR HONORED. Festivities in hermany Attending the Celebration of the Ninetieth Birthday of Q()ullt Von Moltke. — Brrrin, Oct. 27.—The city was brilliantly illuminated Saturday night in eSS honor of the 90th ('(7/ birthday of Count 5 ' \ von Moltke. The Efi . ceremonies attend--2 ~«z\\ _ing the celebration (:?/ ‘@/ v were inaugurated > /“A by haln hi m m ense “ _£.){ torchlight proces-! o = sion. Fully 20,000 A= people were in line LARSN=/~,, and all classes parB | B 5] ticipated. The : o, [4741% Count was presented with an address
VON MOLTKE. from the people of Berlin. In reply he thanked the citizens for their manifestations of love and regard. The celebration was continued Sunday: = -
' At 9a. m. the Count was serenaded by the Teachers’ Choral Seciety and he received the congratulations of his rel‘atives. +At 9:30 he received army officers, officials and the members of the geuneral staff, who came in a procession. At 11:30, in the presence of the Emperor, the guare #&nd cuirassiers, with their colors, paraded beiore the officers of the general staff whore Count von Moltke is residing. The veteran stood on the balecony. The colors were afterward taken to his room. Then all the German and foreign Generals, including Chancellor ,von Caprivi, General Kutossow, of Russia, and the Austrian deputation bearing an antograph letter grom Emperor Francis Joseph, assembled in the great hall, where: they were greeted by the Emperor. Count von Moltke, led by Conunt Waldersee, entered, followed by the staft officers, and there was a general offering of congratulation to the old gentleman. Deputations from the municipal councils of Munich, Breslau, Koenigsberg, Chemnitz and Mewmel presented addresses conferring upon Count von Moltke the freedom of their respective cities. Dresden and Magdeburg presented illuminated addresses. Cologne sent a splendid field marshal’s baton, artistically wrought in gold in the style of old Cologne. The Czar, the King of Sweden, the Sultan, Prince Bismarck and the Prince of Wales telegraphed their congratulatiohs. In the evening the Count went to Potsdam by the imperial train and was greeted- on arrival by an enthusiastic crowd. A banquet was given in the Hall of Shells in honor of the veteran. The King of Saxony sat 2t the Count’s right, and on his left sat Empress Augusta Victoria. = Emperor William sat opposite the Count.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
[Field Marshal von Moltke is a Meckleaberger by birth. His father was a Captain in the Prussian army at the time of the birth of the present Count von Moltke, but had resigned and settled down to a peaceful life at Lubeck, but in 1806 the town to which Blucher had retreated before the overwhelming forces of the first Napoleon, was stormed by the French and the home of the Moltkes, with others, was laid in ashes. - Y ;
Thus at the age of 6 years the future greatest soldier of Germany and conqueror of France acquired his first knowledge of war. The incident so reduced the circumstances of the family that the father took service in the Danish army, where he rose to high rank. At 12 years of age Hellmuth Karl Bernhard Moltke entered the Danish military academy at Copenhagen, where, in spite of uncongenial surroundings, he made very satisfactory progress and'was awarded first rank in his class upon graduation. A year or two later, when he was 22 years old, he entered the Prussian army as lieutenant, and having shown a superior talent for military science was permitted to resume his studies at the Prussian military academy, continuing them afterward in the more practical school of division"at Frankfort-on-Oder. At 35, having in the meantime become a member of the general staff, Moltke went to Turkey on leave. His letters of introduction brought him to the knowledge of Sultan Mahmond 11, who at that time was attempting to reform the Turkish military service. The Sultan procured trom the King of Prussia permission to employ Captain Moltke to draw up a plan of military reorganization, and this work and others that grew out of it protracted the young Prussian’s stay in the East from one year, as criginally intended, to nearly five years. . Moltke's next assignmeut was as adjutant upon the staff of Prince Henry of Prussia, with whom he passed two years in Rome. Then he became equerry to the Crown Prince, father of the present Emperor of Germany, and was his companion in his travels in Turkey, England, Russia and France. He was present at the coronation of Alexander lIL at St. Petersburg, and was in Paris when the Prince Imperial was bornin 1836. ]
In his correspondence at this time there are indications that Moltke looked forward to a possible war between Prussia and France, and when soon after his return he was released from service on the Crown Prince’'s staff and, in 1858, made chief of the grand general staff he began the reorganization of the Prussian army that made the victory in the war of 1870 so easy. Meanwhile, however, there were several lesser wars, which might be regarded in the light of dress rehearsals for the great drama of two decades ago. These were the war with Denmark over the Schleswig-Holstein question in 1864 and the war of 1866 with Austria., which concluded with the campaign in Bohemia and the battle of Koniggratz, which serve to illustrate Moltke's theory of strategy, “marching separately and striking together.” Both these wars were conducted upon plans drawn by General Moltke and demonstrated his genius for strategy only in a lesser degree than did the campaign against the French in 1870. The latter was a succession of victories broken only at Saarbruck, where the Prince Imperial had the ‘‘baptism of fire,”” about which Napoleon 111. telegraphed so grandiloquently to Eggenie. : ‘The peace of Paris ended the field services of Moltke, who was made a Count and field marshal in recognition of what he had done, but he did not relinquish his firm hold upon the German military system until about two years ago,when he retired to Kreisau, in Silesia,where he has a comfortable home purchased with money voted to him by Parliament. The Count was married in 1842 to his sister’s stepdaughter, who died in 1868. He is a man of huge frame and in his stern and wrinkled countenance are seen the traces of his long life struggle.]
BRICK DESTROYED.
Greaf.vDamage -Caused by the Highest Tide mwKnown in the Hudson for Forty Years. Roxvour, N. Y., Oct. 27.—The Hudson on Sunday showed the highest tide in forty years. The brick-yardssuffered enormously. Millions of brick are lost. The yards between Roseten and Albany are submerged, and the green brick awaiting burning were thrown down by the flood. It is estimated that 4,600,000 brick have been lost in the Kingston district. The fires were, put out in the kilns in process of burning.” Green kilns were thrown down and the brick underneath sheds were washed away. . CHOOSING LEADERS. - Election of Officers by the Brotherhood of ; Locomotive Engineers, PirTsBURGH, Pa., Oct. 27.—At Saturday’s session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the following officers were elected: First Grand Engineer, T.: 8. Ingrahamj Second Grand Engineer, D. Everett; Third Grand Engineer, Ash Kennedy, of Winnipeg. The latter office was created at this convention. There was no election for grand chief engineer, as Mr. Arthur was reelected at the last convention for three years, 2 o . ot
+ « THE-PETTIT TRIAL. . Damaging Evidence Against the Acomsed Brought Out on Wednesday. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 23.—1 n the Pettit case Wednesday five witnesses were examined and some important evidence obtained. All the witnesses were with Mrs. Pettit during her convulsions and testified as to their characteristics — stiffened body, clinched hands, turned-down toes, distorted face and perfect consciousness during the agony. Mrs. Annie Francis saw Rev. Mr. Pettit give oil to Mrs. Pettit half an hour before his wife’s death and 'observed him stir it with a spoon. . He would allow no one to assist. On cross-examination she said both Pettit and wife faced those in the room when the oil was given. During his lamentation just after his wife’s death Pettit’s voice was S 0 ‘heartless and feigned that it chilled the witness. Mrs. Lettie Hawthorn testified that Mrs. Whitehead suggested the consultation of physicians and Pettit urged it, but Dr. Yeager demurred, saying he understood the case thoroughly, and would not call Dr Black for some time. Mrs. Hawthorn talked with Pettit about his actions with Mrs, Whitehead, and he said he wished to marry her at once to get a home for his little daughter. . A SHOCKING CRIME,
A Young Man in Michigan, Actuated by Greefl; ected of Having Killed His Fathe
CrOSWELL, Mich., Oct. 23.—News of thé most horrible murder ever committed in the Thumb was received here Wednesday night. Tuesday wmorning the body of William Swader, of Adams’ Corners,was found in his barnyard with his head full of shot; the skull crushed and other terrible marks of violence. Evidence points to his som as the perpetrator, and he was arrested and placed in the Huron County jail at Bad Axe to await trial at the next term of court. An attributed cause of the crime is the estate. The son had an idea that a portion of the property would become his should the old man die without a will, and in no other way. The victim of his child’s brutality leaves a family of nine children.
WISCONSIN TRAGEDIES. Two Husbands Kill Their Wives and Take Their Own Lives. OsHkosH, Wis.,, Oct. 23. — William Galow, a German laborer, shot and killed his wife here Wednesday and then committed suicide. Domestic infelicity is the cause. Both were over 50 years of age and leave eight children. KewAUNEE, Wis,, Oct. 23.-— Albert Ludermeyer, a young farmer living near Casco, Kewaunee County, quarreled with his wife, a bride of a few weeks, in regard to the quantity of potatoes they should put in for the winter. Ludermeyer grew insanely angry at his young helpmeet and seizing his rifle shot her dead as she ran from the house. Ludermeyer: then put the muzzle of the weapon to his head and blew his brains out.
VIRTUALLY A FREE MAN.
Lawyer Billings, the lowa Murderer, Out on a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
INDEPENDENCE, 1a.,, Oct. 23.—M. E. Billings, the Waverly attorney convicted a year ago in the Black Hawk County court of the murder of W. S. Kingsley and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, was brought before Judge Ney in thiscity Wednesday night on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Ney admitted him to bail in the sum of $5,000 to appear before Judge Lenehan at Waterloo November 3', and- he was released on his own recognizance in view of the decision of the Supreme Court reversing the finding of the lower court. It is almost certain that the case will be dismissed when called up in Judge Leneltan’s court and that Billings is now virtually a free man. The prosecution of this celebrated case has cost Bremer County $lB,OOO. .
A BIG DECLINE IN OIL.
The Standard Oil Company Announces It Will Hereafter Pay but Thirty Cents.
. FinoLAy, 0., Oct. ' 23.—Buckeye oil took another drop in price, the Standard announcing that it would hereafte: pay but thirty cents a barrel for the product. This is a reduction of seven and a-half cents in three weeks, and the producers -of = mnorthwestern Ohio feel that, now that they are virtually at the mercy of the great monepoly, prices will be forced downward until the old figure of fifteen cents & barrel is again reached. There is much excitement among - operators and the production will be shut off where it is possible, thus throwing out of employment hundreds of men and losing to the producers thousands of dollars daily.
HELP FOR THE SCHOOLS. Agricultural Colleges in Various States Given a Neat Sum by Uncle Sam. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Wednesday the Secretary of the Interior signed certificates for . the amount of $15,00( each appropriated under the act of Congress approved August 380, 1890, for the present fiscal year in aid of agricultural and mechanical col leges in the following States: In diana, Kansas, Ohio, New Jersey, Mich igan, New York, Pennsylvania, Massa: chusetts, Delaware, Mississippi, Ten: nessee, Texas, Virginia, .Colorado, Illi nois, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon. Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Alabama, Idaho, North Dakota and Territory of New Mexico. o To Relieve Needy Indians. AsarLaNDp, Wis., Oct. 28.—The dead and down pine on the Lac Count Oreilles, the Lac du Flambeau and the Bad River Indian reservations will be sold November 10. This timber amounts to about 50,000,000 feet, worth to the In. dians about $1.50 per 1,000. The proceeds are to be applied to the relief of the needy Indians on the reservations. _ Catholic Church Burned, MAaTTOON, 11, Oct. 28.—The Catholic church building erected a few years ago at a cost of $40,000 was entirely gutted by fire Wednesday evening. Only $lO,OOO insurance was carried. Overrun with Rabbits. ; StaAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 28 —The fsrmers of Connecticut are so much tfoubled by rabbits eating up their grain that they have been compelled to kill them off with strychnine. Druggists say that there is a steady demand Por the poison from the farmers, who oomplain of the devastation created on their farms by rabbits. S . ~_ Seven Dervishes Killed. 1) BuAkiM, Oct. 28.—One hundred dem vishes who were riding cattle Wednesday were attacked by the Egyptian cavalry.’ Soven dervishes were killed and a number younded and taken prisoners.
: A GREAT FIRE. = Warehouses, Factories, Wharves - and Thousands of Bales of Cotton Burned at Mobile, Ala.—A loss of Over %£600,000, MosILE, Ala., Oct. 27.—Mobile suffered severely by fire Sunday, the buildings consumed being a shingle mill, three cotton compresses, five cotton warehouses, 5,630 bales of cotton, the Gulf City oil mill, the Mobile ice factory, three steamboats, eleven loaded and five empty freight cars, two coal and wood yards; a freight depot, and six wharves. The fire was aided by a strong northwest wind. Had the wind been a point or two nearer north nearly all the town would have been burned. - The losses amount to over $650,000, the principal ones being as follows: z 5 ;
Stewart & Butt's shingle mil, $17,000; Collier's cotton compress and warehouse, owned by G. M. Townsend, New York, $70,000; Taylor's cotton compress and warehouse, owned by John L. Taylor & Co., New York, §25,000; Merchants’ cotton press and warehouse, owned by G.B. Thames and others, §30,000; Brown’s eotton warehouse, owned by Beste & Barker, $10,000; Goodman’s cotton warehouse, owned by Barker & Levy, $10,000; Selma cotton warehouse, owned by E, W. Townsend, New York, $10,000; Truwitt warehouse, owned by John T. Taylor, $10,000; Emanuel warehouse, owned by Emanuel estate, $lO,OOO. These warehouses, -and cotton presses. contained altogether\zbout 5,630 bales of cbtton, all destroyed. $281,500. The Mobile & Birmingham temporary freight depot was burned entirely; loss of freight, $4OO. Gulf City oil mill and warehouse and stock, owned by the cotton ail trust, loss on buildings,machinery and stock, 875,000; Mobile phosphate ard chemical works, warehouse and stock, $50,000. Gage Lyons, ice faotory, $40,000: Yellow Pine Lumber Company, loss in lumber burned, $2,000; Gulf City Coal Company, office, coal and wood, 88,000; John Gaillard, coat and wood, §2,500; Mobile & Birmingham road, freight -cars, §2,500; Mobile & Ohio railroad, elevgn freight zars and contents, $,000; sundry other losses, 15,000, :
The insurance amounts to about $350, - 000. S
The fire began at 12:30 p. m. and continued uncontrolled until 5 o’clock, when it was checked. a change in the wind favoring the firemen. There was no loss of life, although many of the firemen were overcome with heat and smoke and there were many mnarrow escapes from. falling walls. The fire originated in a pile of shavings at Stewart & Butt's shingle mill at One Mile creek, and communicated to the mill. which was soon swept away. From here the flames spread to Goodman’s cotton warehouse, and then followed the other places named above. v The report was spread that the entire business portion of the city was in danger, and thousands of men, women and children rushedto the scene. No one felt safe, and wagons, drays and all kinds of vehicles were engaged-in carrying away valuable books and papers. : - :
More than twenty squares were burned. They were bounded by Beauregard, Magnolia and St. Louis streets and the river. The tracks of all railroads centering here have been obstructed by the debris in the burned district and trains are delayed. !
ALMOST SWEPT AWAY.
A Standpipe at Temple, Tex., Containing 280,000 Gallons of Water, Bursts and Floods the Town, -
TeEmpLE, Tex., Oct. 27.—The great water-works standpipe here containing 280,000 gallons of water burst Sunday morning and the entire town was dooded. Immense sheets of boiler steel, hundreds of pieces of scaffolding, houses, barns, fences, and ‘all the debris of the surrounding neighborhood went floating and crashing in all directions. The people of the town were awakened and stood in frightened groups about the town watching the destruction of their homes and property. The house of O. T. Rigdon was crushed as an egg-shell and afterward took fire from an overturned lamp and was burned. Rigdon was seriously burned and his recovery is doubtful. Lying on one street are sixteen sections of the pipe, a great hollow cylinder twenty feetin diameter, and of the heaviest boiler steel. The lower sections eof the pipe were thrown in different directions. They., were torn, twisted and crumpled. Barns and houses near by were washed away. The fences of the mneighborhood are gone and .the streets, alleys and back yards are scattered with the contents of houses and barns. The damage done is heavy outside of the standpipe itself. The accilent is unaccountable. :
EX-GOVERNOR NOBLE.
Wisconsin’s War Governor Expires from Injuries Recoived by a Fall,
NEw Yorx, Oct. 27.—Butler G. Noble, 3x-Governor of Wisconsin, died Satur»lay at Williamsburgh from -the effects )f a fall down the steps of his house. It vas thought he had been stricken with wpoplexy, but examination proved that sheory incorrect. He was unconscious irom the moment of his fall until his leath. ' ey
[Mr. Noble was born in Geneva, N. Y., in 'Bl6. He was edugcated in the public schools nd studied law. :At the age of forty he went to Wisconsin, where, after a two-years’ resilence, he was elected: Lieutenant-Governor »n the ticket headed 'by Alexander Ranlall. In 1860 President Lincoln appointed. Jovernor Randall Minister to Rome and Mr. Noble succeeded him as Governor of the State, During the civil war Mr. Noble raised anes squipped several regiments of volunteers. He lgg }Vi sconsin in 1864 and went to Brooklyn to Indian Commissioners Named, WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—The Secretary of the Interior has appointed Charles M. Dale, of Mattoon, Ill.; J. Clifford Richardson, of St. Louis, and Rockwell J. Flint, of Menominee, Wis., members of the Crow Indian commission in Montana, under the act of September 25, 1890, with compensation of $lO a day and expenses. = : Remarkable Growth of the Farmers’ Alliance. ! . CorumßUS, 0., Oct. 27.—L. L. Polk, National president of the Farmers’ Alliance, addressed the County Alliance at the Board of Trade auditorium Saturday. He has just returned from a tour through the States of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, lowa and Illinois, where he says the growth of the Alliance is unprecedented. He says Alliances have been organized in thirtyfive States, numbering in all' 84,000 lodges, embracing a membership of 2,000,000. He expects the membership to be increased by 500,000 within the aext year. : . U
Celebrated Its 124th Anniversary.
NEw York, Oct. 27.—The 124th-anni-versary of the old John Street Methodist Church, the oldest Methodist church in America, was celebrated Sunday. The exercises were of a most interest. ing character, and included speeches by ex-Senator Warner Miller and ex-Postmaster-General Thomas L. James. A Sheriff’s Death in the Woods. . BaNGOR, Me.,, Oect. 27.—Charles I. Pickering, sheriff of Lincoln, was found dead in the woods, where he had gone to a lumber camp after witness. es. He got lost and died from ex _posure. Leiine ot che e i oaon i
T D e et SO THE GAS SHUT OFF. Pittsburgh Furnaces Receive a Severe Set-Back—They Must Return to the Use ‘of Coal, the Company Having Decided to ‘Furnish Fuel Gas to Private Consumers Only, - PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 25.—An annonncement that will be made this morning by the directors of the Philadelphia Gas Company will create a sensation in the iron and steel world here, such as has not been experienced since the discovery of natural gas. At a meetirng of the officers of the company Friday afternoon it was decided that hereafter no -puddling furnaces in the city or vicinity should receive natural gas as fuel. No date was mentioned, but-it is said the order will take effect ~ve;y Bapp. - o - ~ There are 1,000 puddling furnaces in this city, and over one-half of them will be shut off as the result of the order. This wili necessitate an enormous expense in the changing of the construction of the furnaces so that coal can be used. In addition to this there will be a heavy added cost, owing to the higher price of- coal, as most of the furnaces had contracts with the company for gas at prices marvelously low. Besides, it is feared that something in prestige will be lost by this sudden and awkward move, as Pittsburgh has long been 'known as the head and center of the great natural gas belt. : :
At the office of the company, how= ever, it was stated that the move was not:made on account of the scarcity of gas, but because the gas could be used to greater advantage in private houses, as the price poaid there is many times greater for the same amount of gas tham when used in the furnaces, as in the latier it has been found impossible to place meters of any description, and, as a result, there is an enormous waste.
The Philadelphia Gas Company at present furnishes natural gas to 750 different manufacturing establishments, including furnaces, glass factories, etec.; also to 24,000 houses as per the secretary’s report January 1, 1889. This number 'has grown immensely since that time, as thé company has been steadily extending its lines, but even at those figures the daily consumption was 500,000,000 cubic feet per day. This is equal to 25,000 tons of coal per day. The consumption now is far greater, as the’ company claims it has more gas than ever, but that the demand from that valuable source of income, the' private residences, is also far greater. : - The 'company also decided to go into the illuminating gas business. 'This will be done on a scale never before attempted here, as the Philadelphia company has a capital of $15,000,000, with George Westinghouse at its head, and will push into this new industryat once. These two cases combined, the shutting off of gas from the furnaces especially,” will give an almost incredible impetus to the coal business of this: vicinity, which has lain dormant since the finding of natural gas. Many mines: have been abandoned, others are working on but half time, and altogether the trade has been in a bad way. The new move, however, will stimulate operations at once, and the only fear is a scarcity of miners, as the poor prospeets have driven so many a.wajr that even now men can not be secured to work what mines are running.
VICTIMS OF WRECKS.
A Score or More Injured by the Derail‘ment of a Santa Fe Train Near Topeka, Kan.—Fatal Smash-up in Ohio—A Railway Bridge Falls Near Dubuque, la.
ToreEkA, Kan., Oct. 25.--The Santa Fe Denver express train which left here at’ 1:15 p. m. was wrecked thirteen miles. south of the city Friday. The train left the track at a curve just this side of Wakarusa,” a small station where the train does not stop. The engine kept the track and the tender left: the rails, turning upon its side. The express, mail and baggage cars and three Pullman vestibule cars all left. the track. The chair-car, sleeper and tourists’ cars were overturned., The track is torn up for about 400 feet.. Fortunately no one was killed. A. relief train with a number of surgeons sent out from here brought the injured to this city. They are being taken care of by the Santa Fe Company at the various hotels. The injured number twen-ty-three, seven of whom are badly hurt.. .. AN lOWA BRIDGE FALLS. DuBUQUE, la., Oct. 25.—A serious accident occurred Friday evening on theIllinois Central at Cascade crossing, six miles from this city, where a new iron ‘bride is being constructed. A freight--train ‘started to cross the bridge, but after most of the train had passed safely the bridge went down. There were twenty-five men working‘on the bridge, and as it went down they jumped for their lives. The distance was sixteen feet. Most of" them escaped, but several were badly hurt. The water-boy for the gang, Rob--ert Keatty, of Center Grove, was caught. by a falling car and killed. Dan Doher‘ty, of Chicago, was thrown to the bot--tom and pinned down with his head. above . the ‘water. He was- badly hurt. Four others were seriously injured, howbadly is not known. 41 COLIIDED.IN Alctr. OxroßrD, 0., Oct. 25.—Two freight. trains collided . about 7 o’clock Fridayevening in a cut and curve on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis rail--road about two miles east of here. The wreck-took fire. A rough estimate of the ioss is $50,000. John Mathers, a. fireman, is mortally hurt; others slightly hurt: John Kasner, of Indianapolis; John McNeill, Charles Monahan,GeorgeMozzelle, F. J. Carney and John N.. Spencer, all railroaders. : - GIVING OUT SEEDS.
The. Department of Agriculture Expects-: = to Send out 6,000,000 Packages.
- WAsHINGTON, Oct. 25.—The season for the distribution of seeds to the constituents of Senators and Representatives is about to begin, and it is estimated by the Department. of Agriculture, which performs this work,” that something like 6,000,000 packages of seeds will be sent: out. - Liast season 445821 packages of seeds were sent out, an increase of 7,130 over the preceding year. The cepartment has a speeial agent traveling about the country buying fine seeds.
‘Broke the Team Record. INDEPENDENCE, la., Oct. 25.—Almost. the first thing on the programme for the races Friday was the driving of Belle Hamlin and Justina to the pole: to beat the record of the world. They flew down the stretch, round the turn and to the third quarter without. a skip. ‘On the home stretch Justina made & slight break, but Belle Hamlin carried her along and lost no ground, coming under the wire in 2:18%, as recordéd by hundreds of watches. Mr. Hamlin was taken off the wagon and escorted to the stand by anadmiringrerowgs U e