Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 January 1891 — Page 6

The Ligonier ¥ he Ligonicr Banmer, LIGONIER, ‘ : INDIANA. PRESIDENT CARNOT contemplates the entire demolition of the fortifications about Paris. Mgrs. HENRY M. STANLEY now says that if her husband goes on another trip to Africa she will accompany him. : : SENATOR JosgrH M. CAREY, of the new State of Wyoming, is physically the largest man in the United States Senate. ; ‘ ————————— ON the Persian New Year every one is expected to put on a new suit of clothing. Here every one is expected to pay for the last year’s suit. 1

SWITZERLAND gets about two million dollars a year out of American tourists. She makes the best return she ecan, however, by sending her strongest cheeses to, America.

GRACE GREENWOOD’S name is now more closely allied to works of charity than to literary labors. She still writes a little, but can usually be found where sorrow and suffering hold sway.=

A TELEPHONE line about five miles long has been established in Iceland and is regarded as a great curiosity, being the first ever established on the island. The ‘‘hellos” are kept in the refrigerator.

Tur late General Spinner was the first official to propose the employment of women in the public service. The thousands of women holding office under the Government ought to raise a monument to his memory. -

Tur guns of the British man-of-war Aceton that went down off Charleston (5. C.) harbor in 1763, when Admiral Sir Peter Parker was attacking that city, were recovered from the wreck a few days ago and thréee of them have been purchased by a St. Louis commandery.

A XNEGRO in Chattanooga, who had killed a very large rat, was persuaded that it was a great delicacy with the Chinese and they would buy it. He took it to a laundryman and barely escaped with his life. The Chinaman threw flatirons and every thing throwable about the place at the frightened negro, and chased him several blocks up. the street. :

Tur Railway Master Mechanic reports that during last year 1,293 engines were purchased and 864 others built by the railroad companies of the United States. This is at the rate of about one for ecach 100 miles of road in the Union. The total number built in the United States and Canada for home use was about 2,750, or a little more than 7 per cént. of the number running. The construction of 1889 was 2,100. i

IT is not often that a lost art is recovered, but it is said that the chemists have triumphed in thé matter of the ancient ‘“Alexandrian blue.” This blue, the ideal of painters and decorators, was a peculiar and remarkably durable color. The chemists are said to have achieved a successful analysis of the coloring on the Pompeiian frescoes, and to have reproduced the paint, identical with the ancient coloring in every particular. ! G

- It is reported of Dion Boucicault that £40.000.000 have been spent in the last Lwenty-five years by the public to see Lis plays; that a single play, “The Colleen Bawn,” brought him $1,000,000, and ancther, “The Shaughraun,” $400,000, and that thirty-five dramas out of his total of over four hundred ran for at least one hundred ‘and fifty nights each at their first production and have been each played over five thousand times altogether, ™ :

A MAINE exchange says a very intelligent dog is one of the residents of Bar Hurbor. e was carrying a. paper the cther day, when several canine companions began to bother him. He put the paper on the ground, and when a dog attempted to touch it sprang on him and gave him a good shaking. These tactics he repeated several times, till at last he could not get any dog to touch the paper, and then he quietly picked it up and walked away,

- Mn. GRorRGE HARLAN and Mrs. Kate Woodson were married recently in Dyer County, Tenn. The bridegroom is o hale and hearty man of one hundren and seven years, and the bride wis blushing: under the weight of cighty-three summers. The groom scrved in the Mexican war and the great rebellion. Mrs. Woodson is his fiith wife. The last one he married in his cne hundredth year. The groom is Ihe fourth husband of the bride.

It is reported that a novel door, especially intended for the economy of space, has just been patented. The door is an adaptation of the principle of the roller-top desk and cover, and consists of a series of slats about one and onc-half inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick, joined together by wooden spindles, one revolving within anciher. When the door is opened it is wounnd upon a spiral drum at the top and bottom, and all is inclosed within adoor-casing. A three-foot door is made to wind up in a roll seven inches in diameter. The arrangement should make money for its inventor. :

“Inave,” saysa Maine pension agent, “what I consider a funny pension case on hand. Several years ago I secured a peasion for a soldier of a certain regiment and company, and then after his «dcath secured a pension for his widow. Ivow she comes to me to help her secure another pension as the widow of another mnember of the same regiment. You see that sinee I secured her first widow’s pension she had married a comrade-in-srms of her first hushand, and now that he, too, is dead, with a frugality that is commendable she is applying for the second pension. I have never known exactly a similar case.” ;

A uNIQUE and remarkable tourney was witnessed in New York. A cabman, while trying to get out of the way of & car, ran his vehicle into another cab. He turned to apologize, but reeeived a blow across the face from the whiplash of Jehu number 2. Jehu number 1 retaliated, and then commenced a most remarkable duel. The two cabmen drove round and round each other, managing their horses with the left hand and ging the lash with the right. R!fi&é&% ¢ 4 scene from some old Grecian history. The two-wheeled cabs answered very well for war chariots and the whips for spears or swords.

Epitome of the Week. ! INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. ‘ FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. : Seeond Session. i . TUESDAY. Jan. 13.—1 n the Senate a bill was passed transferring army officers on the limited retired list who have reached the age of 64 to the ! unlimited list, and providing further that the number of officers on the limited list shall be 3850. Senator Sherman . spoke against the free coinage of silver. | In the House a bill was introduced to ' vest the legislative power of Alaska in a Governor and a legislative assembly . and that the Territory shall have a del- | egate to Congress. The report on the l House apportionment bill was preI sented and the army appropriation bill ' was discussed. -

- WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14. — After the Senate had adoptéd the Stewart freecoinage amendment to the financial ‘measure and had stricken out the $200,000,000 2-per cent. bond issue clause Senator Vest surprised the Senate by offering, as a substitute for the whole affair, a free-coinage bill pure and simple, and the Senate promptly passed it by a vote of 39 to 27. The bill provides that the unit of value in the United States shall be the dollar, to be coined of 412}4 grains of standard silver or 25 8-10 grains of standard gold. In the House the army appropriation bill’ was passed and the District of Columbia appropriation bill was discussed. . THURSDAY, Jan. 15.— A bill was passed in the Senate to credit O. M. Laraway, late : postmaster at Minneapolis, with $11,115, the value of postage stamps stolen from his office in July, 1886. A bill was introduced to establish branch mints at Omaha, Neb., and Boise City, Idaho. The elections bill was again taken up and discussed. In the House a message from the Senate was received announcing the passage of the financial bill with a freecoinage substitute. The immigrant bill was reported. A committee was named to investigate the silver-pool question. FRrIDAY, Jan. 16. —ln the Senate a bill was introduced proyiding for a temporary government for Alaska. A bill to equalize standard time in the United States was introduced and the fortifications bill ($3,800,435) was reported. The elections bill was then discussed, the session lasting all nignt. In the House bills were passed granting a pension of $5O a month to General Franz Sigel, $lOO a month to General N. P. Banks, $lOO a month to General Isaac Quinby, of Rochester, N. Y.; and one increasing to $lOO a month the pension of Joseph J. Bartlett, of New York. In all seventy pension bills were passed. FROM WASHINGTON. . AMERICAN manufacturers of spools, bobbins and shuttles, in conjunction with British capitalists, were said to be forming a syndicate with $5,000,000 capital to control the business. Tue Washington authorities received a telegram from General Miles on the 15th that he considered the war at an end, and that ‘‘a more complete submission to the military power has never been made by any Indians.” AFTER a service of forty-six years General S. V. Benet, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the War Department, has been placed on the retired list of the army. . . It was decided by Secretary Windo that all foreign cattle im'ported,whethg* for consumption or for transit, must undergo a veterinary inspection. THE business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 16th numbered 411, against 403 the preceding week and 336 the corresponding week last year. TrADE at different points in the country showed general improvement in the volume of business, easier money markets and a more cheering outlook. , - THE EAST. ; By the bursting of a steam pipe in the Edison Electric Light Company’s works at Philadelphia three men were fatally scalded. ' FLAMES ruined E. M. Van Tassell’s grain elevator in New York, causing a loss of $200,000. ! /AT an- Ttalian wedding at the residence of Michael Sussano in Erie, Pa., the baby son of the host fell into a caldron of soup and was cooked to death. THE representatives of thirty tanning establishments, with $12,000,000 and covering the whole country, were forming a combination at Pittsburgh, Pa. THE directors of the Bell Telephone Company at Boston voted to issue $2,500,000 new stoek. 'This would increase the capital stock to $15,000,000. Ox the Long Island Rapid Transit railroad pine persons were injured in a collision near Denton station, Long Island. :

Ice gorged in the Susquehanna river near Wilkesbarre, Pa., and the surrounding country was flooded. TELEGRAPH operators on the line of the Nickel-Plate have been given an increase of five dollars per month in wages. .

ON the 15th the Republicans of the New Hampshire Legislature nominated Jacob H. Gallinger to succeed Senator Blair in the United States Senate.

ON the 15th Charles King, of Middletown, Mass., was 110 years old. His health was good.

At the Bannock granite quarry at Split Rock, N. Y., a runaway car instantly killed Engineer Norton, George Talbot and Robert and. David Robertson, and fatally injured four other men. Tue Sandy Lake Savings Bank and the Stoneboro Savings Bank, both of Pennsylvania and both managed by the same parties, have failed. : IN the carpet-mill of John and James Dobson at Philadelphia fire caused a loss of $500,000. ‘ .

A BsHOCK off earthquake was felt in Pepverell, N. H., and adjoining towns which rung sleigh bells in stables and crockery was rattled.

WEST AND SOUTH.

AccorpiNG to the State Commissioner of Railroads there are 7,018.73 miles of railroad in Michigan. The gross earnings for the year 1890 aggregated $906,323,071.62; net income, $31,809,279.54. HARRY LEWIS, Dennis Simmons and Joseph Hughes were killed at Deadwood, 8. D., by an explosion of dynamite. ' :

MiLT GILMORE, Grant Fleming, Rube Babcock and Charles Ream attempted to cross a track ahead of a train near Clyde, 0., and were killed. All were farmers. .

OxN the 14th Mrs. Melvin A. White, of Wheaton, Wis.,, had been . asleep for three weeks, and all efforts to awake her had proved fruitless. i Frames damaged the locomotive machine works at Richmond, Va., to the extent of $125,000, , _ Tnr report of the State Treasurer of Michigan shows a balance on hand at the close of the fiscal year of $1,151,259.

~_IN session at Detroit the Seamen’s Union decided to withdraw from the Knights of Labor and form an independent society. . : Some fiend distributed poison in the pasture of B.F. Siebert at Beaver City, Neb., and twenty-two head of fineblooded cattle were found dead. THE State militia of Nebraska engaged against the hostile Indians would return to their homes, General Miles saying that their services were no longer required. - At Columbus, 0., the supply. of natural gas is expended, and the fixtures were being taken from the houses. Bos FirzsiMymons, of Australia, in a prize-fight at New Orleans defeated Jack Dempsey, the champion middleweight of America, in thirteen rounds. Ex-GovERNOR THAYER, of Nebraska, at the demand of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings gave up pcssession of the executive apartments under protest.

At Springfield, 111.,, the Republican Senatorial caucus on the 15th nominated ex-Governor R. J. Oglesby to succeed Charles B. Farwell as United States Senator. .

FLAMES in the Dickson block at Peoria, Tll., caused a loss of about $200,000; insurance, $150,000.

Joux C. HALL, a San Francisco lawyer and trustee of two estates, confessed to the embezzlement of $150,000. L

AT Fort Wayne, Ind., counterfeit fivedollar silver certificates were in circulation. The bill is of the department series of 1886, check letter B, signed W. S. Rosecrans, Registrar, and Isaac W. Hyatt, Treasurer. The paper is poor, thin and of a yellowish tint. The vignette of General Grant is a very poor imitation of the original. AT Baltimore, Md., the 11-months’-old baby of Oscar M. Spurrier was relieved of thirty-six different articles which he had swallowed surreptitiously, including several buttons, eight tacks, four needles and eighteen pins. It was believed he would recover.

. THE citizens of Lincoln County, Neb., appeal for aid, claiming that 500 families are suffering for the necessities of life. - I~ Kansas City Mrs. Maggie Hughes was kicked to death by her drunken husband. ‘

BLODGETT & OSGoooD’s planing mill at St. Paul was burned. Loss, $200,000. TaHE firm of A. C. Petrie & Co., wholesalers in lumber at Dallas, Tex., failed for $190,000. :

Frames at Milford, Neb., -destroyed Dunnegari’s livery stable and fourteen horses were burned to death.

THIRTY young Swedish people left Omaha for Shanghai, China, where they will become missionaries of the Swedish Evangelical church. Another party of fifteen will leave next month.

At Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Sarah Cable, a well-known woman, dropped dead of heart disease while walking on the street. She was 50 years of age. .-

Tuae death of Lewis Landers, the oldest citizen of Limestone County, Tenn., occurred at the residence of his daughter in Shoalford Beat, at the age of 99 years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. :

Mgs. MATTiIE HETCHER, a povertystricken widow at Lehigh, Ind. T., choked her two little boys, aged 4 and 6 years, to death and then, with them in her arms, jumped into a spring and was drowned.

ON the 16th John Chambers, the oldest citizen of Morgan County, 111., celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth at Jacksonville.

- JoHN JOHNSON, a 15-year old colored boy, was hanged at Opelika, Ark., for the murder of Jenkins Moore. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FIrE destroyed two hundred houses at Bombay, India, and many families were rendered homeless. A sHARrP shock of earthquake was felt at Brockville, Ont., which sounded more like the crackling of buildings during a severe frost than the usual rumbles. . AT Montreal, Can., fire caused losses aggregating $lOO,OOO. . The jinsurance was $30,000. - : At Parral, Mex., three earthquake shocks occurred, causing the gallery of a convent to give way, killing six and wounding nine persons. - : At Goderich, Ont., Donald McKinnon shot his wife and then killed himself in a fit of jealousy. ' , f - LATER. - - THE time of the United States Senate on the 17th was occupied in discussing the elections bill. In the House. the District of Columbia appropriation bill was considered. - A LARGE number of business buildings at Horton, Kan., were burned. Loss, $200,000. WORGF CrLARKR, his wife Maggie and davghter Mary, 5 years old, were suffoeated by illuminating gas while asleep at their home in yoston. - _ At Shelbyville; 111., a dangerous $lO counterfeit bill raised from $1 was in circulation. . :

Furrner advices say that the loss by the recent:fire in the Dobson carpet mills at Philadelphia was $1,500,000, and 5,000 persons were thrown out of worlk. :

Two WoRKMEN were burned to death in afirg at the mills of the Otis Company at Three Rivers, Mass. ‘

By an explosion of natural gas the Hotel Marvin at Findlay, 0., valued at $40,000, was left in ruins, two girls were killed and seven other persons were injured, some fatally. , ' Tue Sultan of Turkey has granted a complete amnesty to the hundreds of Armenians accused of political offenses. - WHILE crazed with liquor Judge J. A. Warder, of Chattanooga, Tenn., shot, and killed his son-in-law, S. M. Fugette, and fatally shot his daughter. - WiLriay NAIR, of Tipton, Ind., shot his wife and then himself. Both died instantly. Jealousy was the cause. GEORGE BANCROFT, the venerable historian, died at his home in Washington at 3:40 o’clock on the afternoon of the 17th, aged 91 years. . He had been sick only two days. : A FIRE at Buffalo, N. Y., in the hardware store of Walbridge & Co. caused a loss of $225,000. . :

Five men were fatally shot by two masked men at McCartheysville, Mont. The cause for the shooting was not known.

| ANDREW KENMIRE, Jameés Newgent ‘and John Muller were fatally injured ‘at Carnegie’s works at Pittsburgh, Pa. ~ While a party of young people were coasting at' Appleton, Wis., the sled ran into the river and Jay Briggs, Emma Asid and May Cary were drowned. THE city of Alamosa, Col., was almost wiped out by fire. : At the Pine Ridge agency in Sbuth Dakota Little Wound said that there would be no more fighting and that the bucks realized this, and, while not liking the thought of the surrender of their guns, they would not use them against the whites any more,

BANCROFT IS DEAD.

The Venerable Historian and Statesman Passes Away at Washington—An Outline of His Eminent Career.

WAsHINGTON, Jan, 19. — The community was greatly shocked Saturday evening by the news ithat George Bancroft, the venerable historian, was dead. It had been realized that Mr. Bancroft could hardly survive much longer because of the increasing infirmities incident to his extremely old age, but he had been in cheerful spirits and apparently better health this year since his return from Newport than for several seasons past, so that his death was sudden and unexpected to all save a few intimate ; / /‘M\\\ \\-\\.\‘_ 2 1 ! ,;" Z o] Vasse/ N /1 T W EoiY N ( (% = :-F&)‘ : WOl T &) “\\\)/ N \ ;?:;'r;"gn‘\&’ /’\ N . \‘ 1 2L. Y ’/.1‘;;,;;;';5&1;?‘.-\“, SN, (V’ R\ l[. a“‘\ i‘_{!.“i \ N w o "I By S O A RN | e Y \§t§:\ N N e e } L , \ | HEE=— ~ Qko. BANEROFT '

friends who knew of the attack of illness which earried him off. Death occurred at 3:40 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The end was quiet and peaceful and came after a period of unconsciousness lasting about twenty-four hours. The interment will take place' at Worcester, Mass., where Mr. Bancroft’s wife is buried. - - [George Bancroft was born in Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1800. He was one of a numerous family, was educated at Exeter, N. H., under Dr, Abbott, who saw that he had ‘‘the stamina of a distinguished man.” In 1813 he entered Harvard College, and graduating with high honors in 1817, went the follm?ving year to Germany to pursue his studies, receiving his degree as doctor of philosophy at Gottingen in 1820. Mr. Bancroft later visited Berlin,” and made an extensive tour of Germany, Switzerland, Italy and England, enjoying personal acquaintances with many of the most distinguished men of the period in those countries. He returned to America in 1822, and was for a year tutor of Greek at Harvard College, He had been designed for the ministry and preached some sermons, but abandoned that profession = for the pursuit of letters. Mr. Bancroft’s most enduring fame will rest upon his History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent, of which the first volume appeared in 1834. Mr. Bancroft had early associated himself with the Democratic party, and was in the lecture-room and on the stump a frequent and . earnest advocate of its principles. In January, 1838, he was appointed by President Van Buren collector of the port of Boston, an office which he held until the accession of Harrison in 1841, discharging its duties with marked energy and fidelity. In 1844 he was the Democratic , candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but was not elected. In March of the following year he was called by President Polk to a seat in his Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, a position which he held until September, 1848. His brief tenure of the Navy Department was signalized by several needed reforms, and especially by two important additions to its’ usefulness—the naval school at Annapolis and the astronomical observatory at Washington. Mr. Bancroft resigned his seat in the Cabinet to accept the appointment .of Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, where he remained until the summer of 1849. His residence in London, apart from the distinguished post he occupied as his country’s representative, derived yet further luster from the intimate association into which he was called with the eminent men of letters and statesmen of the day. Of such were Macauley, Milman, Grote, Rogers, Dickens, Whewell, Pecl and Brougham, in England; and in France, Guizot, Mignet, Lamartine, De Tocqueville and others. The historian did not fail to avail himself of the rare opportunities which his public and private relations afforded for enriching his store of documents upon American history. The public archives in England and France were thrown open.to him, and many private collections of manuseripts were placed at his disposal. Upon his return to America Mr. Bancroft made New York his place of residence and resumed active work upon his history. At the obsequies held in New York upon the passage of the remains of President Lincoln through that city after the assassination in April, 1865, Mr. Bancroft, by request of the municipal government, delivered the eulogy. In February following, by invitation of Congress and in the presence of that body and of the assembled ofticers of the Government, he pronounced an oration upen the life and services of Abraham Lincoln in the House of Representatives at Washington. In the summer of 1867 Mr. Bancroft received the appointment of Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin. The Kingdom of Prussia at this time, as a result of the civil war of the previous year with Austria, had formed with the lesser States of North Germany the North German Confederation, and to it the new envoy was also accredited. Mr. Bancroft at once applied himself to the settlement of an fnternational ® question which for threequarters' of 'a century had been an unceasing source of discord between the United States and Germany, as well as other European powers. On February 22, 1868, six months after his arrival at Berlin, a treaty was concluded by him with the North German Confederation mutually recognizing the right of expatriation and naturalization. Treaties to like effect were during the ensuing summer concluded by Mr. Bancroft with the remaining (then separate) powers of Germany, viz: Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemburg and HesseDarmstadt.. Upon returning to the United States in 1874 Mr. Bancroft established himself at Waghingtor, and in the same year published the tenth volume of his history, which brought the narrative to the treaty of peace in 1782. In the succeeding years Mr. Bancroft devoted himself wholly in continuation of his great work, to the preparation of the history of the formation of the constitution, which appeared in two volumes 1n the spring of 1882, Mr. Bancroft’s hours of relaxation have been for many years devoted to the enthusiastic culture of the rose, of which his collection both at Washington and at his summer residence at Newport surpasses probably in number of varieties and perfection of specimens, any other private collection in the country.] : To Meet in March. . WAaAsSHINGTON, Jan. 19.—A circular just issued by the National American Woman Suffrage Association announces that the twenty-third annual convention of that body will be held bere. March 1. The cireulgy congratulates advocates of woman suffrage upon + the victory achieved in Wyoming, where equal rights to women are guaranteed by the organic law, and declares there is every reason for the belief that statesmen are looking upon woman suffrage with an educational qualification asthe safest and surest remedy for evils arising from the illiterate vote. Winter in France. . PAris, Jan. 19,—Heavy snow-storms prevail at Bordeaux and Perigueux. Traffic of all kinds is suspended in those neighborhoods. All rivers in the department of Dordogne are frozen. Wolves are ravaging the sheep pens in the villages. Farms in Partarlier are isolated from all communication. il mec e e v Cost of the Scotoh Strike. . LoxpoN, Jan. 19.—1 t is estimated that the railway strike in Scotland has cost the parties more or less directly concerned over $1,200,000, of which $500,000 is accounted for by decreased seafio receints; .. - . .

5 BLEW ‘UP THE HOTEL. An Explosion of Natural Gas in the Hotel Marvin, at Findlay, 0., Completely Wrecks the Building—Two Girls Killed ‘and a Number of Persons Injured. FINDLAY, 0., Jan. 19.—The first great disaster Findlay has ever experienced from the use of natural gas occurred shortly before 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon while the guests of the Hotel Marvin were waiting to be summoned to dinner. Sunday morning it was discovered that gas was escaping from a leaking pipe somewhere into the diningroom, and Mr. Marvin, the owner of the hotel, with three plumbers, spentthe entire forenoon trying to locate the leak. About 10 o’clock they entered a chamber underneath the dining-room and found such an accumulation of gas that they could not breathe, and it was suggested that a hole be sawed through the floor of the dining-room in order to obtain fresh air. This was done, and just as the hole was made one of the dining-room girls, who was sweeping the floor, stepped upon a match, and in an instant an explosion © occurred which not only wrecked the building but killed two girls and maimed and injured a dozen other employes. The force of the explosion was so great that .it = blew out the flame of the ' ignited gas and no fire followed the awful ruin which the shock ' had caused. The whole city rocked as if in an earthquake and all the windows on the square were demolished, while the wreck of the hotel building was all but complete, the only rooms in the house escaping destruction being the parlors and the office.

When the work of removing the dead and rescuing the dying was begun it was found that Katie Walters, a waitress, had been killed outright. Ella Johnson, a dining-room girl, was found alive under a mass of brick and mortar, but she died shortly after being carried to a place of safety. Kate Rooney, another dining-room girl, was also fatally injured but is still alive. Frank Poundstone, day clerk at the hotel, was painfully bruised and cut about the neck and face, but will recover. Anson Marvin, owner of the building, who with the plumbers was under the dining-room floor when the explosion occurred, was probably fatally hurt, as he /inhaled the flames of the burning gas. Albert French, a porter at the hotel, was cut on the neck and head, but will recover. Frank Andrews, one of the proprietors, had his right eye knocked out and was seriously bruised about the face and throat. Charles Graves, Philip Weil and Jack Cahill, the plumbers, were painfully shocked and stunned, but will soon be themselves again. The financial loss will be about $25,000 6n the building and $lO,OOO on the furniture, all fully insured. It is a question whether any insurance will be realized, as nome of the destruction was caused by fire. The excitement throughout the city over the catastrophe is§'reat; - FOR A BROTHER'S LIFE. Chicago Knights Templar Give of Their Own Flesh to Save a Fellow Mason, CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—An event that will be historical not only in Masonic but in humanity’s record took place Sunday forenoon. The deeds of self-sacrifice were in keeping with the day. The event and all its surroundings, personal, moral and scientific, were phenomenal.. In order to save the life "of John O. Dickerson 146 Sir Knights of St. Bernard Commandery, Knights Templar, submitted to the surgeon’s knife, contributed each his portion of skin sliced from the tender, quivering flesh to be grafted upon the body of their brother. The strips cut from 146 arms were transplanted to Mr. Dickerson and 144 square inches of his body were covered with these voluntary contributions. It was a feat in surgery and a demonstration that heroic sgntiment is not a thing of the past. ) : . Mr. Dickerson is 44 years of age and a widower, his wife having died several years ago. Since 1870 he has been recorder of St. Bernard Commandery of the Knights Templar and during that time has been active in Masonic work. About a year ago he became affected. with a cancerous growth on his thigh and right hip, which rapidly developed into a dangerous condition. Last summer Dr. Fenger performed a surgical operatiou, cutting away the diseased portions of the skin and flesh to suchr an extent that the epidermis could not again join and cover the exposed surface. In other respects the patient improved rapidly. The surgeon made an attempt to cover the place with a piece of goat skin. This promised to be successful, but the piece was too large and had to be removed. Then Dr. Fenger announced that the. only certain method of " healing the patient was to graft small pieces of human skin on . the exposed and tender surface. St. Bernard Commandery heard of this and immediately offered to furnish as many subjects as the surgeons desired. It was suggested that 150 members volunteer to assist in patching up the afflicted brother. :

The volunteers were readily forthcoming, and Sunday at the emergency hospital, where Mr. Dickerson has been lying for a long time, a dozen surgeons assisted in transferring strips of epidermis from the intrepid knights to the body of the patient sufferer on the cot. When the last patch was neatly set in Surgeon Fenger announced with some satisfaction. that the operationgave every appearance of being a signal success.

BURNED TO DEATH.

Two Workmen Perish in the Flames Which Destroyed a Dye-House.

PALMER, Mass., Jan. 19.—The main partof the dye-house ofthe Palmer mil. of Otis Company at Three Rivers was destroyed by fire Saturday. . and two employes were burned to death. The men who lost their lives are: Elijah Frame, who leaves a large family, and Joseph Babcock, unmarried. The men are now searching the ruins for the bodies which are covered with piles of brick and masonry. The loss is about $20,000, of which $lO,OOO is on stock; insured. ‘ . A Widow’s Awful Deed. ° DenisoN, Tex., Jan. 19.—A courier from Lehigh, I. T., brings news of a triple killing. Mrs. Mattie Hetcher, a widow, and poverty stricken, choked her two little boys, 4 ahd 6 years old, to death, and with them in her arms jumped into the great spring from whicl the town is supplied with water. The bodies were found Friday morning. : __Recognized Boyd. 7 : LixcoLN, Neb., Jan. 19.—The only thing of interest in the Legislature Sat~ urday was the adoption of a resolution by the Senate recognizing James E. Boyd as Governor. o

CUT DOWN EXPENSES. The Congressional Committee Makes Its Report on World’s Fair Affairs—Salaries of Officials ' Are Too High—Some Suggestions. ; : g WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Representa~ tive Candler (Mass.), chairman of the select committee on the world’s fair, on Saturday presented to the House the report of the sub-committee that went to Chicago to examine into the condition of matters there in relation to the world’s fair. A synopsis is as follows: .‘ It says that the power assumed by. the World's Columbian Commission has produced confusion as well as caused unnecessary expenditure of public money which had been intended by Congress to pay the expenses of the Government exhibit, and not to pay excessive salaries to the officers of the commission. Provision, the report says, had been made to pay the president, secretary and director-general annual salaries of $12,000, $lO,OOO and 815,000 respectively, and also §B,OOO to the ‘‘vice-chairman of the,executive committee.” These salaries, in the opinion of the committee, are:excessive and should not be continued. Excessive expense has also been incurred in the appointment of such a large number as 115 women on the board of lady managers and the calling together of the board when the duties which will devolve upon it were not ready for its attention. The report says: .

“Your committee are of the decided opinion that the fair can not well be conducted to a. successful termination under the dual management which is now in operation in consequence of the construction placed upon {the law by the World's Columbian Commission. The commission has exceeded its power by the appointment of officers and committees to conduct the management of the fair in its executive details, which, in our interpretation of the law, belongs solely tothe World’s Columbian Exposition and its officers. The commission was given a quasi veto pewer and not that of taking charge of the execution of the plans for the fair. From the fact that the commission is honorary and without salary tne conclusion is reasonable that its duties were not intended to be exacting or continuous so that they would seriously interfere with the members’ private business. " o

According to our interpretation of the law,it was the intention of Congress that the World's Columbian Exposition—that is, the company incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois—should have the executive control of the fair, and. this being so, the election of thei di-rector-general, the chief executive officer of the fair, by the World's Columbian Commission and the payment of a salary to him ‘out of the Government fund should be discontinued. The reporté expresses the opinion that the city which was selected by Congress to have the privilege of holding the fair and which will bear practically the whole burden of the expense should have the sole control of each executive management, and believes that Chicago will. prove herself fully equal to the successful management of the enterprise. ; ]

The report says that the progress in the preparation of the Government exhibit is as great a 8 could have been expected, and that the result of the work of ‘the board of Government control has taken tangible and satisfactory shape. B In order to earry out the suggestions-of the report to place the whole enterprise on a more solid footing and carry out the evident intention of Congress the board submits a joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury not to approve the payment of any expense attendant upon a meeting of the World’s Columbian Commission or of the board <of lady managers, except such meetings as may be called at the time of the dedication and opening of the world’s fair, nor to approve the payment of any expense attendant upon a meeting of the executive committee of the Worlds Columbian Commission or the executive committee of the board of lady managers, except such.meetings as may be held not oftener than once in six months; nor to approve the payment of any salary to any officer of the World’s Columbian Commission out of any money which has been or may be available for such purposes other than an annual salary not in excess of §5,000 to the president, 4,000 to the vice-chairman of the execntive committee and $3,000 to the secretary; nor to approve the payment of any salary to any officer of the board of lady managers -in excess of §5,000 to the president and $3,000 to the secretary; nor to approve the payment of any expenses of the World’s Columbian Commission or of the board of lady managers other than those hereinbefore mentioned which shall amount to more than $lO,OOO per annum in the aggregate. . In conclusion the report says: “Your committee also desire to recognize in this report a liberal and pariotic spirit displayed by the board of directors of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition corporation and by the citizens of Chicago and the State of Illinois, who have responded generously in every detail connected with the great undertaking.”

‘MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 19.—Honorable John L. Mitchell Congressman elect, has resigned the position of commissioner of the world’s - fair for this State. Honorable David W. Benjamin, of Milwaukee, has been recommended to President Harrison by Governor Peck for the position. ; WILL FIGHT NO MORE. The Indians Promise to Behave Thems= : selves in the Future. : PiNnE RIDGE AGENCY, S. D., Jan. 19.— General Miles held a conference on Saturday with the principal Brule chiefs, who, when the subject of returning to their agency at Rosebud was broached, they said they were in favor of returning if a military man should be placed over them as agent. After some parleying regarding the question Big Road stood up and dramatically proclaimed himself as in favor of peace. At the same time he asked those who wished to join him in restoring peace and working for the prosperity of their people to raise their right hand toward Heaven. Immediately every right hand in the gathering was raised and with a general shaking of hands the conference came to-a close. o

The situation is just as it has been for three days past. General Miles insists on having the guns, and the Indians, while fearing the force of soldiers that surround them, are reluctant .about giving wup. Little Wound says that there will be no more fighting and that the bucks realize this, and, while not liking the thought of the surrender of their guns, they will not. use them against the whites any more.’

THE FORCES OF NATURE.

It is said that the shores of France are sinking so rapidly that in twenty centuries the French capital will have become entirely submerged. : DunixG one year the sun attracts toward the skies and makes clouds of fourteen feet of the entire sea—oceans everywhere—much of which is precipitated as rain on land, and flows back by rivers into the sea. o A RECEN® survey has established the number of glaciers in the Alps at 1,255, of which 249 have a length of more than 43{ miles. The French Alps contain 144 glaciers, those of Italy seventyeight, Switzerland 471 and Austria 469.

TABLES of the density of the atmosphere, calculated from telegraphic weather reports, have been found to give a better clew to the movements and origin of cyci_ones .than the usual method of a comparison of the. isobars and isothermes alone. o THE most recent observations as to. the amount of heat the earth receives from the sun show that in. clear, pleasant weather 63} per cent. of heat is. absorbed by the atmosphere and only 865 per cent, reaches the soil. 'This figure rises in. October to 41 per cent: and sinks to 28 per cent, in Januvary. -

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