Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 May 1894 — Page 2

- * e .. W . The Ligonier Banner, <. LIGONIER, : = INDIANA. w ’- - . . " RicuMoxD, Va., has grown so fast that some of the fortifications con‘structed outside of the city during the war are now within the city limits. THE earl of Dufferin has in his possession the smallest book in the world. It is half the size of a postage stamp, and is an edition of the sacred book- of the Sikhs. ) )

SuicipEs have become so alarmingly frequent in Denmark that it is proposed to check the desire for self-destruction by a law which will give the bodies of suicides to the dissecting rooms.

ACCORDING to a decree issued by the French minister of war, the. following defects, among- others, will no longer exempt a man from the obligation of military service: Toothlessness, dwarfish stature, hair-lip, squint-eyes, superfluous or deficient fingers or toes. varicose veins, hernia, stuttering and baldness.

Ax automatic apparatus for indicating to passengers in railway cars the name of ®he next station has been adopted on the underground railway in London. As each station is passed a card bearing the name of the gext station drops into place in a glass-covered frame and an electric be]l rings to call’ attention to the change. :

STURGEON fishing in Delaware bay promises to make up in some measure this year for a dull shad season. Omne sturgeon boat sometimes earns from $l5 to §2O per night. = A sturgeon fisherman recently caught in one night two roe sturgeons worth s£lo each. A day laborer in that region would be several weeks in earning that much. )

Lorp ROSEBERY. the DBritish prime minister. has just placed over the grave of his wife, in the Jewish cemetery at Willesden. near London. a magnificent monument, inscribed with the dates of her birth and death. the Jewish year being given, also, and insceribed: "“*The Child of Many Hopes. The Woman of Rich Fulfillment. So He Giveth His Beloved Sleep.” .

SiNncE the dismemberment of the famous Spitzer collectionof antiquiti@s, whig¢h was sold at auction in Paris last summer, an American. collector, Mr. Riggs, now living in Paris. is considered to have the finest private collection of ancient armor. Mr.. Riggs is a native of Washington and very wealthy. His collection is estimated to be worth nearly £1.000.000. 1,

. UNDERGROUND London is getting to be many stories deep. The new City and Waterloo Underground Electrie railway, in,traveivl‘sing Queen Victoria street, passes for a considerable distancevnderneath the low level sewer, which in its turn runs underneath the wanderground railroad. The electrie road at this point is sixty-three feet below the surface. - ‘

Dr. J. A. Grupert. of the Yale psvehological laboratory, has just completed some tests regarding the mental and physical developments of the pupils of- the New Haven public schools showing that boys are more sensitive to- weight discrimination, that girls can tell the difference in color shades better than boys..and that boys think quicker than the other sex. -

Gov. Ti.LMAN has issued an®appeal in behalf of the starving whites on the South Carolina cog st. who swere ren‘dered destitute ani{ homeless by the hurricane which swept that region last fall. Contributions:arc not requested for the Negroes. as it is stated that the Red Cross society has fed and otherwise aided them. while the suffering whites were left to shift f‘)r themselves.

THE recent carthquakes in Greece were observed in England. The earth‘quake which shook Thebes to pieces Jhad occurred only fourteen minutes be--fore the pendulum in Birmingham began to move. The distance between the two places is 1.550 miles: from ‘which it appears that the shock traveled through the rocks underlying Europe at the rate of nearly 111 miles a minute. . =Y

A NEW-YOoRK bacteriolegist has made a report to the New ' York = health department of his investigation into 268 cases of so-called ““membraneous croup” and says he has seen enough to justify the conclusion that the disease is nothing more or less than laryngeal diphtheria and he recommends that the disease be listed as contagious and physicians made to promptly report all such cases to the health authorities.

NATHAN STtrAUSS, one of New York's practical humm@itm\'ians. has reopened his summer depot for the sale-of ragw ~and sterilized milk. - It is now held that babies who do'not have mother’s milk should be fed on sterilized milk: The poor do not generally understand this, but Mr. Strauss had much success last summer inducing them to use'it, and this summer he. will afford in- ~ creased opportunities for obtaining it, as well as ordinary milk, and some . children’s foods.at low prices. - THE new compulsory education law "~ which New York state wilk put in force - after January 1, requires every child between the ages of 8 and 16 to attend ~ school from October 1 to the following - June. An exception is made in’ behalf of children bet(veen the ages of 14 and 16 who are ‘“‘regularly and lawfully engaged in useful employment or service,” and child®n from 12 to 14 are required to attend only eighty consecutive days in the school year if engaged in useful employment for the rest of _ the time. . This reduces the class within the strict letter ofvj;ve law to children from Bto 12 yearsof age. .. i . ExX-POSTMASTER UENERAL WANAMAKER. who is now in London as one _of the delegates to the international ' jubilee convention of Young Men's Christian associations, has been the ob_ject of a great deal of social attention, , He is pleasantly situated at one of the : small and cozy, but very exclusive, - London hotels. Desides that he has ~ been tendered the hospitalijties of Lord . Kinnerd, the earl of Harrowby, Lord . Chancellor Herschell and other distinguished men. The convention will open sometime in June, but a special reception in honor of Mr. Wanae maker was given a few days ago.’ ¢ |

. ; ¢ R Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.: ' » FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ' Regular Session. s Moxpay, May 21.— Debate ‘on the tariff bill occupied the time of the senate. An amendment to put iron ore on the free list was defeated. In the house in committee of the whole.an amendment to the legislative appropriation bill declaring the statute authorizing the sergeant-at-arms to “dock” members for absence to have been repealed was carried. - " TuEsDAY, May 22.—Seven paragraphs of the metal schedule of the tariff bill were disposed of in the senate after eight hours of debate. In tkle,hpusex in committee of the- whole the section oft helegislative appropriation bill providing for the civil service commission was stricken out by a strictly party vote of 109 to' 71. The committee on the eloction of the president and vice president voted to make a favorable report on the bill providing for.the election of the president by a direct vote. . '

WEDNESDAY, May 23.—Senator Gorman:- defended the tariff bill in a speech in the senate. A motion to lay the bill on the table was defeated by a strict party vote of 28 to 38. The house continued its on\slaught on the civil service commission by striking out of the legislative appropriation bill the paragraph transferring department clerks to the classified service. A bill was favorably reported providing a fine of §5OO and imprisonment as a pendlty directed at any ex-soldier who postdates his voucher for pension before the 4th of-tlie month. PR

TaURsDAY, May 24.—At the opening of the session of the senate Mr. Kyle urged the passage of his resolution declaring that it was not the pur« poSe of the United States to use force’ to restore Liliuokalani as queen | of. the Haswaiian islands, but it went over for the day. The tariff bill was further considered. In the house the amendment to the legislativ‘e‘ appropriation bill to have struck out the provision for contingent expenses of the civil-service coOmmission. was voted down and the measure was passed. The bill to. incorporate the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias was also passed, and a resolution was adopted setting aside Saturday, June 22, for eulogies' on’ the late Representative Houlk, of Ohio. '

FROM WASHINGTON. THE commonweal leaders, Coxey, Browne. and Jones, were senténced to twenty days in jail for displaying partisan banners in the capitol grounds. - Ix his opeaning address before the. Pan-American Bimetallic association Mr. Fiske said arevolution would come if relief were not granted in ‘the line of free coinage. - . . ¢ THE EAST. GREAT dathage was done by high water at Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Dansville and Rochester, N. Y. ~ ‘ . At the :meeting of the American Baptist Educational society at Saratoga. N. Y., thereport of the executive board showed phenomenal growth. 1N sessiom at Saratoga, N. Y., Gov. Northen, of Gegrgia, was elected presidentof the American Baptist Educationalifi&iety. Appropriation of publie moneys tO sectarian schools was opposed by speakers. : : IN-convention at Harrisburg, the republicans of Pennsylvania nominated Gen. D. H. Hdstings, of Center county, for governor and Galusha A. Grow and G. E. Huff for congressmen at large. The platform declares adherence to protection; attributes the national disturbance of trade and labor to the policy of the democracy; demands legislation against pauper or criminal immigration, and a further change in the naturalization system,. such .as will deny the rights of American citizenship to anarchists-and all' others hostile to the government. T e, PETITIONS with 32,000 signatures in favor of- woman suffrage were presented at the session of tlie state constitutional - “convention in Albany, N. Y. ° oo . L

IN northern Pennsylvania and southwestern N e‘t* York the entire tobacco crop. was destroyed by sthe recent flood. - o~

In a fight with deputy sheriffs at Stickle HoHow, Pa., five strikers were shot to death and a dozen woundel and three deputies were injured. TrE bill to prevent display of foreign flags on New York public buildings was veteed by Gov. Flower. |

WEST AND SOUTH.

AFTER being supposed to be dead for thirty-five years, John Schindler, of San Francisco, returned to St. Joseph, Mo., and claimed a fortune left by his father. - ‘

THE democratic convention at Montgomery, Ala., nominated W. C. Oates for governor. |, } Jounx VAN NIMMANGS is serving a life sentence in the prison at Jackson, Mich., for the murdes of John Crow, who is alive and well at Muncie, Ind., and has just learned of his supposed death in 1885. ' . o FraAxNk GrRANY and John Roeschlein found a package containing $1,500 worth of diamonds in Chicago and hunted up the owner, though both were out of work and had eaten nothing for two days. v . :

"THE case of - Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison in Chicago, will be heard on June 11.

MINE owners in ‘lllinois will try to settle the coal strike by offering to advance the wagei scale in the southern and cengral districts. S e C. H. MoreAN was nominated for congress at the democratic conventionzof the Fifteenth Missouri district.

SEVERAL earthquake shocks, accompanied by a rumbling noise, were felt at Anna and Cairo, 111., and at Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, Mo.

At Colorado Springs, Col., warrants were issued for the arrest of W. D. Richmond, who is charged with having six wives in various places. . FrLAMES wiped out the business portion of the town of Luten, la.

| R.F.WzED, B. F. Hughesand Charles ' O’Brien, leaders of commonwealers . who stole a Union Pacific train at . Méntpelier, Idaho, were sentenced at Chefienne, Wyo., to five months’ im- . prisonment, and twelve others were - sentenced to four months in jail. | IN session at Minneapolis business . men of the northwest formed an assow ciation whose object is to build up a home market for home-manufactured goods. ~ STRIKING miners marched to the Mission Field coal mines near Danville, ‘l., and compelled the 200 men at work to come out and take an oath not to re- - turn, Z e e

FraMes destroyed the most important portion of East End, New Orleans’ most popular summer resort, the Joss being $lOO,OOO. . THE republican convention of the Nineteenth lllinois district nominated Benson Wood, of Effingham, for congress. e :

THE prohibitionists in convention at Little Rock, Ark., nominated a full state ticket, headed by Dr. M. L. Curl for governor. : i ~ln Chicago fifty-nine indictments were returned by the special grand jury against persons charged with violations of the election layv. CONGRESSMAN Davis, of HKansas, ha§ made a careful estimate of the different bands.of Coxeyites on the way to Washington and claims thét there are 5,000 men framping or riding on boats and borrowed trains toward thecapital. = i

For systematic horse’ stealing thirty well-known citizéns of Tecumseh, .O. T., were indicted. ' = : : AT Portland, Ore.. the J. K. Gill company, wholesale -dealers in books and stationerv. failed for $130,000.

TuE Indiana populists in convention at Indianapolis nominated a full state ticket. headed by C. A. Robinson, of Fountaintown, for secretary of :state. The platform recommends the free coinage of silver; advises an increase of the currency t0"%50 per capita: denounces national banks and interest bearing government bojids; recommends ‘the election of United States senators and postmasters by a direct vote of the people, and favors an income tax and local’option. o AFTER living on water forty-six days John Dewright, a well-to-do farmer, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., aged T 2 vears. He was determined to. starve himself to death and succeeded. .

Ture governor- ordered troops to La Salle and Centralia, 111., to suppress striking miners,.who defied the local authorities. o 3

Ax aged <ouple, Michael Bash and wife, started from Clinton, la., in a roadcart drawn by a mule for an overland trip th New York city. _ , THE repnblicans of the Tenth Indiana district nominated Charles B. Landis, of Delphi, for congress. . MicHIGAN democrats will hold their state con¥ention at' Grand Rapids on June 28. & . : N IN the%irst district of Indiana ‘Arthur H! é,‘aylor was renominated for congress#)y the democrats. . ,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE king of Servia has abolished the liberal constitution of 1888 and restored that of 1869. Many of the radical leaders have become fugitives. : “TuE new Hawaiian constitution provides that the new government is to be called the Republic of Hawaii. The cabinet will consist of' five ‘members and the senate and house of fifteen membersfie,ach, congress to meet every two years, the sessions to be limited to ninety days, and all members must be able to read and: write the English language. ' The new constitution will be presented to the convention on May 30 for its approval. - ' ONx the plaza at Bdrcelona, Spain, six of the accomplices of Pallas in the attempt to assassinate Marshal Campos were shot.” - s

FLAMES in Annui province in China destroyed 2,500 houses. ' At Toronto, Ont., the worst wind and rainstorm known-in fifty years prevailed, and considerable damage was done. 7

QUEEN VIcTORIA formerly opened the Manchester shipcanal to the commerce of the world. . ' A MoB stoned Miss Imhoff, a teacher in the Anglos Japanese school at Yonewaia, Japan, who preached against idol worship, and afterward tore her eves out.

ExraceEDat governmentrule, Coreans assailed the government quarters at Sing ‘Latoa, wrecked, the buildings and killed the governor and forty clerks. SR

In Paris a gigantic anarchist plot to explode bombs in various European cities was djscovered. - Tae 75th birthday of Queen Victoria was celebrated throughout England. THE German Banking association ét a meeting in Friedrichroda adopted’a resolution in favor of a gold standard.

LATER NEWS,

SENATOR KyLE'Ss Hawaiian resolution was considered again for half an hour in the United States senate on the 25th but no action was taken. The tariff bill was f\fl"@hei‘ considered. In the house the time was occupied in the discussion of an omnibus resolution. from the committee on war claims, grouping together thirty-seven claims for cotton, ete., aggregating $1,040,000. " AUSTIN BROWN (colored) was hanged at San Antonio, Tex., for. the murder of Anderson Harris, an ex-police officer.

THERE were 237 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 25th, against 220 the weelk previous and 259 in the corresponding time in 1893. !

“F. StoMRE & Co., steamship owners and brokers of LLondon and Liverpool, failed for $560,000. . DruNkEN Canadian soldiers tore down the American flag in frontef the United States consul’s office in St. Thomas, Ont. : :

Tur Rookery ‘cotton mills at Huddersfield, England, were burned, the loss being $200,000. | i Suit for $lOO,OOO damages, caused by fire in the-Manufactures building January 8, has been commenced in Chicago by the republic of France against the Columbian Exposition company. STRIKING miners blew up a gold mine at (ripple Creek; Col., killing eleven men who were at work in the mine. STRIKERS visited a coal mine near Ottawa, 111., burned the tools and destroyed the mine by removing the props. : i AporLra BRENNER; a Chicago anarchist, attempted to:' kill a family in New York and then shot himself. InvESTIGATION shows that farmers of the northwest have abandoned wheat ‘as their only crop. The decrease this year will be 25 per cent. 4 JosepH GuiLEs, alias John D. May, was hanged at Kansas City, Tex., for the killing of Fireman Krank Martin while attempting to rob a train. THE republicans of the Sixth Kansas district nominated Abram H. Ellis for,congress. _ - v Cuarres W. BurTtz was found guilty by the investigating committee in Washington of attempting to bribe senators. = ; -

BRADSTREET'S trade review says that the unfavorable conditions prevailing in commercial and industrial circles throughout the country, together with the prospect for no material improvement during the summer, mark the present season zs probably the dullest relatively for twenty years.

THE MINERS.

Btrikers and Deputies Come Into e Open Collision. ;

Trouble at La Salle and Centralia in Iliinois—Militia Called Out—Four Strikers . , Shot Down by Armed Guards > . in Pennsylvania. :

WORKERS FORCED TO QUIT

DAXNVILLE, 111., May 25.—Wednesday morning 250 strikers from Kelleyville came upon the Beard mine. This being the third visit of the kind and fearing serious trouble, the men at work fled to the woods. A little later a mob of over 1,000 miners started for the« Mission Fields mine. They were armed with knives, pistols and clubs ‘besides having a covered wagon loaded with rifles. Those in charge of the mine seeing that the thirty-five deputies would be no protection told the men they could stop work. Many took the opportunity. The men who. remained -at work were compelled to swear that they would come out of the mines and stay out. - el

Brazir, Ind., May 25 — Ftriking miners formed in groups‘Tuesgayievening and visited every slopei in the county where :men were at work and ordered out the employes. All complied, and not a pound of coal is being’ dug. These slopes furnished coal for the city only, and since they have ceased operations it is difficult to secure coal for domestic use.

La Sarre, 111., May 25.—A mob of 200 striking miners took possession of the Illinois Central Railroad company’s property - Wednesday afternoon and emptied all “the coal out of the chutes on the tracks. The sheriff was called and with his posse finally dispersed the mob. 5 Ciry oF MExico, May 25.—The strikh of American coal miners has caused the price of northern coal to rise very sharply in Mexico. This, coupled with the attending scarcity of coal, is sériously inconveniencing many Mexican manufacturing industries. £ ® SpRINGFIELD, 111., May 26.—0 n Thurs day Gov. Altgeld ordered out four companies of the Illinois national guard to La Salle and five more to Centralia.

Sheriff- Taylor, of La Salle county, telegraphed the [zovernor the condition of affairs at the La Salle County Carbon Coal company’s mine. He said he with a large force of deputies haf been attacked by several hundred miners with stones, revolvers and other weapons,’ shooting three of the deputies, severely injuring several others, including himself. Hé was unable to quell the riot, and; there was imminent danger of greatr‘ioss of: life and:’ destruction of property if immediate action was not taken by the governor. e appealed: to the governor for such military aid as could be : furnished. There are 3.000 striking miners at Spring Valley, Ladd and Seatonville, who ! are likely .to come there at any time' and comtinue ‘the riot.: A mob is surrounding the hotel where he is lying wounded. The telegram was confirmed by one from the mayor of La Salle, F. W, Matthison, who states the mob has released one of the arrested strikers from jail.. Later the sheriff'telegraphed that the strikers wererunning riot and to forward troops at once. L Sheriff M. J: Helms, of Centralia, telegraphed that \he had arrested sev-enty-five, men for conspiracy in destroying property, that he has 200 armed deputies. The mines at Sandoval, Kinmundyand Odin are threatened with destruction by approaching miners, who are also determined to release those under arrest. il ]

EvANsVILLE, Ind., May 26.—A story which had been ‘circulated of a riot and bloodshed at Little’s mines was greatly exaggerated. Miners from Washington went ‘to Little’s to persuade the men to come out, and during the negotiations a slight contest arose, but with no serious results. _

UxroxTowy, Pa., May .26.—The lpngthreatened attack by striking miners on the pits of the Washington Coal & Coke company at Stickle Hollow was made Thursday morning. fi‘he.figllt was one of the fiercest in the history of the mining troubles in western Pennsylvania, and in the section where it ocgurred as well as throughout the whole coke region the situation it has developed is one of the most intense excitement. St : v

Four strikers are lying dead, and double that number are badly wounded, some of them mortally. Thomas Kenan, of Wood's run, is the only American killed in the encounter with the deputies. The other dead men are Slavs. The wounded men, who .fell under ‘the first volley from the deputies, were taken off by the retreating strikers; and even mnow the actual number of wounded is not definitely known, their friends having the strongest motives for concealing them.

Sixty-six of the strikers were. placed under arrest and taken back to the company’s ground, -where they were closely guarded during the rest of the day. The whole lot of them were later placed in box cars, which were nailed up, and kept there until this evening when they were brought here to the jail in charge of twenty-five deputies. The situation at the mines is alarming and more serious trouble is expected. Reports from there are to the effect that 3,000 strikers from the:lower end of the fourth pool were marching on Stickle Hollow, thoroughly armed, for the purpose of .storming the works regardless of consequences.: :

BLOODSHED IN KENTUCKY.

Three Men Killed in a Battle with Threse Others in IHarlan County.

PixkviLLe, Ky., May 24.—James Middleton, Sinclair Middleton and R. 8. Hackleford were shot and:killed in Harlan county = Tuesday in a fight with Gilbert Saylor, Bert and Noble Hensley. *There lis considerable excitement over the affair, as the men are all well known. The sheriff and posse left Harlan courthouse for the scene of the fight to arrest the men, who have fled to the mountains. The difficulty is said to have occurred ove w e of one of the men. /.. : ey o

! A Test Vote.

WasniNgTON, May 25.—Senator Teller (rep., Cold) in the senate movexil to lay the tariffy bill on the table.. The motion was made to test the sense of the demccratic majority and to see if the bill was to be the bill which the democratic party intended to pass. The motion was defeated by a strict party vote—2B yeas to 88 nays. : Both 'SenatoryHill (N. Y.) and Senator Irby, whose positions have been the subject of gossip from time to time, voted with their democratic associs. <. as did the three populists, including Senator Peffer, o

o TO GOVERN _HAWAI[, "Some Features of the Proéosed New Cone o stitution. : HoXoLuLU, May .15, via San Fran cisco, May 22.—The constitutional ¢onvention, the members of which were elected on May 3, will meet on May 30. The new constitution will be presented to the convention for- its approval. Its main features are as follows: The new government is to be called the Republic of Hawaii. The executive power will be vested in the presideént. The executive council will consist of ive members instead of four as at present, a minister of health and education'being added. The upper house will consist of fifteen senators. The qualification of a . genator will be that he shall be 30 years old, shall be able to read and write the English language, shall have resided in the:islands three years, shall own property of not less than $5.000 in value and shall have an income of $1,200 a year. : - o ;

The assembly or lower house is to consist of fifteen members. six from the island of Oahu and three each from Hawali, Maui and Kaul They will serve for two years only. A member of the assembly must be a citizen of Hawalii or a citizen of any country which has treaty relations with Hawail, and have resided in the islands’ for at Jleast a year. He must be able to read and ' write the English or Hawalian language, excépt in case of those who voted in the recent elections to whom this requirement does not apply. Meetings of the legislature are to be held every two years. Each session is to be limited to ninety days and neither house can ‘adjourn more than two days without the consent of the other. The president will have the power of veto, which can be overruled by a two-thirds vote of both houses. It is the present intention to have President Dole: reappointed for a term of two years, probably six, after which the offices will be filled by regular elections. It is more likely that the present ministers will be retained for a yeéar, as their appointment rests with the president. 2 . F ¢ The rew constitution can be amended or re vised in the ordinary way, but it is expressly stipulated that amendments containing a proposition for the establishment of a monarchical form of government shall not be presented.

The claim is now made that when the republic is declared the natives will make ‘the A looked-for uprising. Royalist leaders say they are. only restrained by the expressed 'wish of the ex-queen, who still has great faith in the United States. ik |

NO CORRUPT INTENTIONS.

Report of House Judiciary Committee Re-= specting Judge Jenkins. .

. WasHINGTON, May~ 24.—The house judiciary committee has adopted the | report of the sub-committee which investigated the action of Judge Jenki ins, of Milwaukee, in restraining the | employes of the Northern Pacific rail{r way from striking. 'The report of the | committee says the evidence fails to ' show any corrupt intention on the | part of the judge; that he believed the i orders granted by him were legal and | that while he erred in this respect his i ‘errors afford no ground for prod®ed- ' ings against him. - | A resolution and two hills will be rei ported to the house. The resolution : will: set forth that the house disapproves of the action of Judge'Jenkins and holds that he exceeded his powers ~of enjoining the railroad men from ' striking. The two billsto be reported will be drawn to carry into, effect the - sub-committee’s recommendation. re- | garding compulsory labor, which was i as follows: . | “Your committee recommends that all possi= . ble doubt as to the powers of judges of ‘the ' courts of the United States to enforce specific performance of labor contracts by legal process or to compel any person to render involuntary service under any pretext be set at rest by . a prohibitory statute.” - : | * The second bill will be inaccordance e g e AR R R g 5

* The second bill will be in-accordance with this recommendation: . “The power to punish for contempt is limited by the laws of most. of the states, and we can see no reason why a like limitation should not be placed upon the powers of federal judges.”

BANDITS IN TEXAS.

A Bank Is Robbed and Blood Shed by e Desperadoes. : " :

‘LoNgVIEW, Tex., May 25.—At 3 p. m. Wednesday two rough-looking men walked into the First national bank, one with a cloak with a Winchester concealed in its folds. He handed the following note to President Joe Clemmons: ; “HOME, May 23.—First National Bank, Longview: This will introduce' to you Charles Speckelmyer, who wants somie money and is going to have it. B.and F.” It was written in pencil in a fairly good hand, on the back of a printed poster. The bank cashier thought it ivas an: importunate solicitor for some charity and started to donate,when the robber pointed his Winchester at him and teld him to “hold up.” The other robber rushed in at:the side door and grabbed the cash. Tom Clemmons and the other bank officials were ordered to hold up their hands. The robbers hurriedly emptied the vaults, securing $2,000 and some unsigned Longview bank notes, which may lead to detection. - |

While this was going on two of the gang were in the alley at the rear of the bank shooting at everyone who appeared and were being fired on by City Marshal Muckley and Deputy Will Stevens. In this melee George Buckingham, a citizen, and George Bennett, one of the robbers, were killed. Besides these several citizens were more or less seriously wounded. 5

WON BY THE DEMOCRATS.

Judge Bookwalter Sustains' the Illinois Apportionment Act of 1893. :

DAXVILLE, 1111., May 22.—Judge Ferdinand , Bookwalter has rendered his decision in the apportionment suit in favor of the democrats. In a brief opinion he declared that his court. cannot question the senatorial -apportionment law of 1898, and therefore denies the petition of plaintiff,; James P. Fletcheir: republican candidate for the legislature, who sought to enjoin Walter C. Tuttle clerk of Vermilion county, from calling an. election under the disputed statute. For want of equity the court dismissed the suit and declared that the costs must’be paid by the revublican petitioner. ' THE BRIBERY INQUIRY. Witnesses: Before the BSenate Committee - . Appointed for Investigation. WASHINGTON, May 28.—The committee to investigate the charges of bribery in'.the senate met in secret session on Monday. Senator Hunton and ‘his son were bLoth called before the committee to testify, and both stated that C. W. Buttz was the man who had approachedcsSenator Hunton, Senator Kyle (8. D.) testified that Buttz approached him about two months ago, offering him $14,000 for his vote against the tariff bill. At 8 o’clock Maj. Buttz was called and his attorney was admitted with him. . o e et i Killed Herself. | _ MoBERLY, Mo., May 25.—Miss Lillie Ross, of St. Louis, committed suicide by shooting herself in the right temple with a revolver in her room at the ‘Arlington hotel at 10 o’clock Wednesday night. She recently left St. Louis after being arrested on suspicion of stealing money from her employer.

CITIES INUNDATED. °

Disastrous Floods in Many Portions of

o - l’ennsylvaifla.' : : i ALTOONA, Pa., May 22.—The reservoir at Kittanning point, 6 miles above here, broke at 2 a. m. Monday morning, sweeping down upon Holidaysburg. A locomotjve was sent down to that place to warn the people who had already been put upon the lookout. -

Four miles of track of the Glen-Allen Lumber company have been swept away. The boom at Lock- Haven has broken and 15,000,000 feet of logs have been lost. The Upper Linden boom also broke at 5:30 Sunday afternoon. It contained 10,000,000 feet of logs and they have gone down. L = WILLIAMBPORT, Pa., May 22.—The river continued :to rise during the night and nearly the entire business portion of the city is under water. The Western Union Telegraph office, which is situated on' comparatively high ground, has 6 inches of water on its floor. There has been no telegraphic communication with Lo¢k Haven since 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which hour the telegraph operator was driven from his office by the rising"flood. - BRADFORD, Pa., May 22.—The worst flood in Bradford’s history is rushing through Tuna valley. Twenty streets contiguous to the creek are inundated and hundreéls of families are driven from their homes. The east and west branches of the Tuna are both transformed into good-sized rivers. Below Foreman street, at the confluence of the two streams, the flood is 8 quarter of a mile wide and is - high enough to ruin all the carpets in the houses on Hilton and ' other streets in the lower part of the Sixth ward. Hu~TiNGDON, Pa., May 22.—Within the last forty-eight hours the Juniata and the Raystown branch have risen 22 feet, flooding the low farms and imprisoning whole .families in their homes. Portstown, a suburb of this town, - was flooded to the second floors of the houses, and Allegheny street in this city was under. water. The gas company’s works here have been abandoned to the rising waters, and many residences and business houses are flooded to the second floors.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28/—All the rivers and streams of western Pennsylvania had been swollen by Monday to floodtides; and were still rising. Ten lives were reported lost. . . The greatest damage done is along the line of the Pennsylvania railroad between Altoona and Johnstown. The loss to the company will amount to £1,000,000. Bridge No. 6, which was washed away during the Johnstown flood of 1889, was swept down again. Severa] miles of roadbed and track were washed away, part of it being the eastern approach of the stone bridge at Johnstown, . Three buildings were carried away in the rcentral part of the city and a large number of others badly damaged. The store of Anthony George was submerged, and, although anchored with ropes, the water swept it away. ‘ The residences of Emanuel James and Charles Statler also went down stream.

Near Edensburg on Sunday night occurred a cloudburst which swelled the Conemaugh river to many times its normal size. The volume of water reached Johnstown about 8 o’clock in the morning and was accompanied by wholesale destruction. The flood was first felt at Southfork, where numerous small buildings were sweépt away. i ‘

DANSVILLE, N. Y., May 23. —The worst flood in years in®the Genesee valley has just been experienced. The valley is one vast expanse of water. The destruction to growing and newly planted crops is complete. The Bradner creek at Cummingsville has swept everything along its banks, carrying down acres of rich farming land and depositing the.soil in the creeks in the ; valléy below. The Canfiserag@' valley ~has suffered terribly. S . WiLLiamsporT, Pa., May 23.—At 1 p. ' m. Mon@ay the river reached a point 1 ' foot higher than it did in 'B9. The ' entire city was under from 4to 20 feet of - water. - All the logs at the boom were ' swept away. The loss to property will %xceéd $1,000,000. - = ;

BURNED TO DEATH. l One Life Lost a.nd Several Badly Injured ; ~’ in an Oregon Fire. , MEMINNVILLE, Ore., May 24.—The ‘ residence of M. Shaddon was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Shaddon’s 10-year-old daughter was burned to death. Mrs. Shaddon’s son was thrown out of the e window and so badly hurt that he begged ' those near by to end hisl sufferings. His bowels were frightfully crushed and he cannot live. Mrs.” Martha Shaddon, 80 years of | age was | taken from the house in a nude condition, and the shock may kill }ber. Her blind son, 45 years of age, was also carried‘l out, but not before he was badly burned. Shaddon is a sonof T. J. Shaddon; a pioneer of '42. The fire caught from an open grate. The house - was the largest in town and was entirely consumed. The residence of Judge. Galloway, the democratic candidate for governor, opposite, was badly scorched. [ : g w 1 SET| THEM: FREE. : The Chicago Ele¢ion Commissioners Are | . Discharged. - pot : CricAGo, May 24.—Election Commissioners Keenan, Hutchings and Schomer have been ‘discharged from the custody of the sheriff by the con- | current order of Judges Tuley, Adamsand Sears. These judges thus held. that Judge Chetlain had np authority to fine them for contempt of court . for refusing to obey his order to —;;ioduce the Dballots before the grand jury, because’ the order was in .violation of the election law. The three judges were united in the opinion that, although the provision might rniot be a wise one, the legislature meant what it said in ‘providing that all ballots be burned ‘without opening, except when needed in a contest | e ' DEATH OF EDMUND YATES. Editor of the :;London World, Taken with " a Fit, Expires in a Few Hours. ' Loxpox, May 23.—Edmund Hodgson Yates, editc’g and proprietor of the World, died Sunday. Mr. Yates’ death was .quite sudden. He attended the Garrice thedter Saturday evening, that being his first appearance at a place of public amusement since his prolonged illness. While in the theater he had a fit and was removed as speed: ily as possible to his residence. The physicians who were summoned to ate tend him held out little hope of his re_covery, and at 4 o'clock Sunday mornlogtheendpame .~

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