Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 August 1894 — Page 2

The Figonier Banuer,

LIGONIER, 2 x INDIANA.

. 8o dreadful is' the midday glare of the senate chamber that Senator Hale and Senator Carey wear dark glassss to preserve their sight.

¢ PRESIDENT DlAz, of Mexico, has appointed a committee to make an exploration of the crater of the volcano Popocatepetl, to determine the amount of sulphur it contains and the best means of extracting it. The mountain belongs to Gen. Ochera. -

- THERE are now 340 school savings banks in this country. Pennsylvania takes the lead, but some very flourishing banks of this kind have been established in Colorado, Kansas and North Dakota. As a rule three per cent. interest is allowed on three dollars and over. ‘ :

I THE oblique eye will soon cease to be a means of identifying the Japanese type if the fashion which is at present being set in Tokio continues. An American physician is doing a rushing business by straightening the slant in the eyes of the natives by neatly stitching up the eyelids with a fine silk thread.

' ONE of the finest bridges in Europe is now being constructed across the Danube at Cernavoda, Roumania, by French engineers. It hasa length of 2,400 feet, divided into five bays. Its height is 103 feet to the roadway and its highest point is 123 feet above high water. It is of steel and is supported on 30 piers. )

PEOPLE whose judgment in such matters is entitled to respect estimate that the growing corn crop will exceed the famous crop of 1889, which was returned at 2,113,000,000 bushels. A large corn crop means a revival of business in the corn-growing states, which comsprise pretty much all of the country west of the Alleghenies. ‘ lABo ow e Te e e - - N v )

i GEorGE FINNEY, an Omaha express wagon driver, has clothed his mules’ ‘.fore]egs in trousers. In speaking of it he said that flies bothered the forelegs of a four-footed animal more than they did the hind limbs, and he therefore, having some respect for the comfort of his faithful servants, had made a pair of trousers to protect them from the pests. -

' THE present sultan of Zanzibar, Hammed bin Thueni, is one of the best swordsmen in his empire, and this accomplishment arouses great respect in the breasts of his subjects. He is also a traveled and educated man. His predecessor, Sultan All bin Said, was a brilliant rider, and, it is said,’ could {ick up a finger ring from the ground vhen 4t full gallop. S

GEN. HowARD was recently chosen president of the National Temperance society. He explained how a publie man could attend banquets, and, without drinking anything, be considered a good fellow. He arranges for the filling of his wine glasses with water before the -occasion. When a toast is called he drinks what looks like wine, but is in reality water."

It is officially stated by the Russian embassy at Washington that the transSiberian railway when completed in 1900 will be 6,700 mileslong. More than 25,000 men are at work on the enterprise now,and 1,500 miles have been completed. If trainsrunatan average rate of thirty miles an hour over this route it will require about nine and a half days to go-from St. Petersburg to Vladivostock on the Pacific. .. .

' ‘A PECULIAR incident happened recently in connection with therifie practice of 2 New York regiment at the New Jersey state camp at Sea Girt. While one of the officers was firing at

a target, three hundred yards away, { three black birds flew across the range,

and at the-crack of the rifle one of the birds fell. Upon examination it was

found that the bullet had gone through the body of the bird, and, without deviation, had buried itself in the center of the target. o

HANNIBAL BOBBLESCHMIDT, an, ine genious inventor, of Little Hardscrabble, 0., has devised what he calls a “portable boarding-house.” It consists of a stout strap, which may be placed around a man’s chest and under his arms. There isa hook.on the back, and with this he hangs himself upon any convenient nail, staple or turnbuckle that may present itself, and sleeps calmly without fear of kicking off the covers. The *‘portable boardinghouse” is for summer use only. ,

WueN Nathan Strauss, the New York philanthropist, established his so-called sterilized milk stations in that city and declared his intention of selling milk at a cent a glass it was predicted that he would lose money through the venture. . As he had no desire to make any money out of the project. he was not deterred by thé predictions of its failure. = The sales at those stations, however, have now reached the large figure of 6,000 glasses and 3,700 bottles of milk a day, and are increasing at such a rate that Mr. Strauss has decided to erect a permanent plant.

OXNE trick of the coffee shipper, says a correspondent of the New York Sun, is;to put a stove-pipe into the middle of the bag, fill all around it with good coffee, fill the pipe itself with a very inferior grade of coffee, draw out the pipe, and then tie' up the bag. When the coffee comes to be sampled a tube is suqk for some inches through the side of the bag, and from the sample the .whole is judged and appraised. The tube, however, seldom reaches the coffee that was placed in the center of the package, and so the whole bag is raised much above the quality of the core.

A CURIOUS temperance society exists in the Siberian village of Ashlyka. Every yeaf, in September, the members meet in the church @rd make a solemn promise to abstain from wine-and spirits for a year. They also sign an agreement that any person breaking the pledge shall pay a fine of twenty-five rubles to the church and submit to be spat upon by his more continent fellows. The most peculiar feature, how= ever, is that the members on the one day of the year when the pledge expires allow themselves wine and brandy during the few hours which intervene before the pledge. /\(

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION., ' FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Regular Sesslon. MoxpAyY, July 80.—A bill was jntroduced in the senate to provide for the issue of $50,000,000 in treasury notes to be distributed pro rata among the states ‘‘for the relief of the worthy poor.” The house joint resolution extending the appropriations for the last year until- August 14 was agreed to. In the house a bill was - introduced by Mr. Boen (pop., Minn.) making it unlawful for aliens to own land in the United States. A joint resolution was presented by Mr. Boutelle (Me.) congratulating the people of Hawaii on the establishment of a republic and recognizing it as a free and independent republic. Referred tothe foreign committee.

TuEsDAY, July 21.— The general deficiency appropriation bill was reported to the senate and placed on the calendar, as was also the house bill to provide a uniform system of bankruptecy. The sundry civil bill was passed. In the house Mr. Boen (Minn.) introduced a bill to abolish national banks, making it unlawful to charter a bank or provide additional currency for those already chartered, and directing the secretary of the treasury to withdraw all deposits of public money from -the banks and return them to the treasury. - )

WEDNESDAY, Aug. I.—The senate passed a resolution providing that the decision of the commissioners of immigration in regard to the admission of aliens should be final. The contested election of Moore against Funston, from the Second district of Kansas, occupied the time of the house, but no decision wasreached. THURSDAY, Aug. 2.—A bill was introduced in the senate by Senator Hill providing that no alien anarchists shall be permitted to land at any port of the United States. The house Hatch anti-option bill was reported. In the house the army officer at Omaha who ordered target practice on Sunday was scored by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. The contested election case of Moore ¥s. Funston was decided in favor of Moore. FripAY, Aug. B.—The last of the appropriation bills, the deficiency, was passed in the senate and the bills for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona to statehood were reported and placed on the calendar. Adjourned to the 6th. In the house a resolution was introduced by Mr. Bland (Mo.) to platce all sugars on the free list and to raise $100,000,000 revenue by an income tax. ‘A bill was introduced by Mr. Baker (Kan.) to establish reservoirs for.the storage of rainwater for the tillable lands west of the 96th meridian, and Mr. Blair (N. H.) offered a resolution for the investigation of lynchings in this country in the past ten years. Adjourned to the 6th.

FROM WASHINGTONM.

AT the age of 87 years Judge Joseph Holt, who was judge advocate general of the army, and at one time acted as secretary of war, died in Washington. TaE monthly statement of the treasury shows a decrease of $6,486,993 in the money circulation throughout the country during July. The total circulation of the country was placed at $1,657,574,239, a 4 per capita of $34.19,~ against $1,611,099,017 a year ago. SENATORS suspected of having dabbled in sugar stock were exonerated by the investigating committee’s report.

- IN the United States there were 192 business failures in the seven days ended on the Bd, against 249 the week previous and 436 in the corresponding time in 1893.

THE president set aside the courtmartial sentence of Lieut. Maney for the shooting of Capt. Hedberg-and restored him to command at Fort Sheridan, 111. ' .

THE EAST.

IN Pennsylvania the production of bituminous coal last year was 48,421,898 tons, and anthracite 47,179,558 tons. The number of men ewmployed was 160,589. _

IN the Hudson opposite Hastings a yacht capsized and Thomas Pickett, aged 45, his son Edward, aged 15, and James Martin, aged 28, were drowned. THE constitutional convention of New York decided in favor of abolishing all limitation of damages in case of death by injury. The statutory limit is now $5,000. Hexry C. TYLER rode a mile at Waltham, Mass., standing start, on a bicycle, in 1:57 8-5, making a new world’s record. ' FIrE broke out in the residence of Cornelius Place at Spencerport, N. Y., and three of his sleeping baoys were burned to death. .

I New York government officials were after counterfeiters who ‘had issued $1,000,000 in bogus notes.

WEST AND SOUTH.

ON trial at Georgetown, 0., for the fourth time for the murder of his son, Edward H. Jones was for the fourth time convicted of murder in the first degree. !

INQuIRIES by the strike commission will begin in Chicago August 15. FrAMESs swept through sixty acres of the lumber district in Chicago, causing a loss.of about $1,600,000 to fourteen business firms and the sacrifice of three lives. . . , 2

J. 8. Mort, dealer in dry goods at Independence, Mo., failed for $100,000; assets about the same. : CTHE Jowa democrats in convention at Des Moines nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, Horatio F. Dale; state treasurer, L. W. White; auditor, Jchn Whitfield; attorney general, J. D. F. Smith; railroad commissioner, W. L. Parker; justices of supreme court, John Cleggett and E. W.. Mitchell; clerk of supreme court, L. R. Nortk. The platform demands the election-of United ‘States senators by direct vote; favors liberal pensions! holds to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and favors a tariff for revenue only. . . = o STATE bars opened for business again all over South Carolina. Tae National bank at Baker City* Ore., suspended, owing depositors $75,000. : :

WHILE drunk Anderson Halliday shot and killed Wesley Cobb at Elkhorn, W. Va., and was soon after lynched by a mob. " LoN Gorpox and Henry Munson. members of the Cook gang of Indian territory robbers, were killed by marshals at Salpulpa. e THE republicans of Wyoming in state convention at Casper nominated W. A. Richards for governor and Frank Mondell for congress.

TeE following congressional nominations were reported: fllinois, Eighteenth district, Rev. Thomas W. Hynes (pro.).. lowa, Tenth district, J. C. Baker (pop.). Indiana, Fourth district, James E. Watson (rep.). Tennessee, Fifth distriet, J. D. Richardson (dem.). Kentucky, Eighth distriet, Oswald Thomas (pop.). Texas, Eighth district, C. K. Bell (dem.). Idaho, James Gunn (pop.). Oklahoma, Joseph Wisby (dem.). FurTHER claims for damages aggregating $55,000 against the city of Chicago on account of labor riots were filed. ;

WoORK was resumed in the repair department at Pullman without any rioting. American Railway union men were not employed. s By the explosion of a thresher engine at Dahlgren, 111., Bruce Miller and the two sons of John Underwood were killed and two men injured.

" FraMES that started in the lumber yard of Hunton, Myles & Weeks, in Detroit, caused a loss of $lOO,OOO, and Eugene McCarthy, a fireman, was killed. g

Tre Idaho Populists in session at Boise nominated K. J. W. Ballentine for governor. S e R

"THE miners at Streator and Braceville, 111., after three months of idleness, decided to return to work. TrE town of Lamoure, N. D., was practically wiped out by fire, the loss being $150,000. TroxAs C. FULLERTON, republican candidate for congress in the Eleventh district, died in a hotel at Fairbury, 111., of heart disease. He was 55 years old and a veteran of the late war.

THE lumber yards of the John Spry company in Chicago were destroyed by fire, the loss being $lOO,OOO, and also a building occupied by manufacturers, who lost $125,000. - » Tue Georgia democrats in convention at Atlanta nomirated W. Y. Atkinson for governor. Resolutions were adopted for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. . o : THE following nominations for congress were made: Ohio, Nigth distriet, Rev. George Candee (pop& Illinois, Eighteenth district, Rev. T. W. Hynes (pro.). Nebraska, Sixth district, Matthew Dougherty (rep.). Frames that started in a gas plant at Marion, la., destroyed a business block, entailing a loss of $120,000. ExcHANGES 2t the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 8d aggregated $764,5890,968, against $770,418,888, the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1803, was 21.8. :

It was decided at the convention in Chicago of the American Railway union officials that they could not declare the strike off, and that such aection must be taken by the local unions themselves on each line of road affected by the strike. Flre swept away thirty-five buildings, comprising the business portion of Lake View, Mich. Loss, $130,000.

AT Raleigh, N. C., Orange Page, the murderer of a negro woman more than 100 years old, was hanged for the crime. o

A porTION of a freight train was burned near Bucyrus, 0., and four tramps who were stealing a ride were burned to death. ‘

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.,

WHILE in transit between Havre and Paris a cask containing $50,000 in gold, shipped from New York, disappeared. THE Chinese war ship Chen-Yuen was sunk in a battle with the Japanese fleet, two cruisers were captured or destroyed and nearly 1,000 men were killed or drowned. ' .

WAR was formally declared against China by Japan. ASBIGNING as reasons his age and infirmities, ex-Premier Gladstone has declined the invitation to visit America. DeTECTIVES in Paris found the $50,000 in gold stolen in transit from New York hidden in a coal heap at Havre station. ) )

ApvVICES from Tien-Tsin say the Japanese were repulsed in the battle at Yashan with a loss eof over 2,000 men.

THE noted landscape painter, George Innis, of Mont Clair, N. J., died while traveling for his health in Scotland, aged 69 years. :

LATER NEWS.

IN the United States senate on the 4th bills' were passed to amend the quarantine regulations so far as they apply to vessels plying betwen United States ports and foreign ports on or near the frontier and to subject to state taxation national bank notes and United States treasury notes. GEN. CACERES, elected president of Peru in May, has assumed the duties of his office. : ' .

AvusTliN. W. BLAIR, the war governor of Michigan, died at Jackson from uremia, aged 76 years. Mr. Blair was governor from 1860 to 1864, and a member of congress from 1866 to 1872. Hexry E. Smite & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes at Worcester, Mass., assigned, with liabilities of $200,000. ‘g A BAILBOAT in ich were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Campbell, of Burlington, la., capsized in the Mississippi and they sank clasped in each other’s arms. DELEGATES from twenty-four American Railway unions met in Chicago and declared the strike off on all roads but the Santa Fe and Eastern Tllinois. WHEELMAN HARRY C. TYLER made a mile with flying start in 1:53 4-5 on the Waltham (Mass.) track, lowering the record a second. :

- JosepH BUNT, of New York, killed his wife because she refused to permit him to pawn his clothes to buy liquor and then shot himself.

THIEVES broke into the post office at Scranton, Pa., and stole $8,300 worth of stamps. : : MRs. GEORGE PooLE, who as Mme. Osborne had won operatic laurels, died penniless in New York, her weualthy husband having deserted her. . MARK RICHARDSON, of the town of New Diggings, Wis., killed his brother George as the result of a ten years’ quarrel over their father’s estate. i

Caprr. AporpEH FREITSH sailed from New York in the Nina, a 40-foot boat, in which he proposed to cross the Atlantie. . ‘

AcTUATED by jealousy, Mrs. F. J. Froman, at Buffalo, N. Y., threw sulphuric acid in the face of Miss Louise Leber, burning out her eyes. THE national pawn shop at Roubaix, France, was destroyed by fire, the loss being 2,000,000 francs. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the nationdl league for the week ended or the,4th were: Boston, .647; Baltimore, .634; New York, .624; Cleveland, .578; Pittsburgh, .585; Philadelphia, .581; Brooklyn, .b 18 Cincinnati, .471; Chicago, .447; Bt. Louis, .411; Louisville, .845; Washington, .291.

STRIKERS GIVE UP. BBwitchmen on All But Two Roads at Chicago Ready to Work. Those of the Santa Fe and Eastern Illinois - Roads to Continue the Fight—Synop- . sis of the Appeal of the A. R. U. Convention. : e — DECLARED OFF. CHICAGO, Augi; 6.—With the exception of the unions on the Santa Fe and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroads the local organization of the American Railway union, through their delegates in Uhlich’s hall Sunday afternoon, declared the strike off so

far 4s-Chicago is concerned. This action will not necessarily afféct the condition of the strike at other points, the unions of those places being free to take whatever action they may deem fit. ; t

The striking employes of the Stock Y&rds company decided Sunday night to return to work. :

SpriNG VALLEY, 111., Aug. 6.—A mass meeting of miners was held near here and it was unimously decided:to continue the strike for last year’s scale. Teßrße HAvuTE, Ind., Aug. 6.—At a meeting Sunday night of the local lodge of the American Railway union the men on a strike voted conditionally to declare the strike off. A committee was appointed to make an appeal to.the railway officials to reinstate the men now out, but it could not be learned if the demand would be made to take back all or none of the strikers. Two of the roads have declared that no agitator could secure work under any condition. CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—The report of the special committee on resolutions of the American Railway union which was submitted to the convention last Friday, .and which was referred to the board of directors and the lawyers of the organization for revision, was completed Saturday evening and given to the public. Synopsis follows:

It explains the cause which brought the organization into existence to be the protection of railroad employes frdm the aggressions and impositions of their employers, the railway corporations of the country. It denies that an effort was made to destroy the older brotherhood, but the onlyintention was to bring about a more perfect union, in which the will of the members should at all times ruls, and to this end no strike was ordered except upon a majority vote of the local unions themselves. It says the employes of the Pullman Palace Car company were taken into the union at their own request. Here follows a description of the town of Pullman and the conditions under which the workmen are said to be employed, It issaild that while wages were reduced the price of rents remained the, same, and that at the time the strike of the Pullman employes began they were indebted to the company in the sum of 870,090 for rents. ‘‘Thus the workingmen,” says the resolutions, “found themselves in worse condition than did the workingmen in chattel slavery, inasmuch as they did not receive their board. and clothes for their labor, but found themselves in debt to their employer after fajthfully Jaboring for him." * Continuing, the report says that the General Managers’ agsociation was formed in 1893 and prior to the organization of the American Railway union, supposedly as a soclal organization, but in reality for the purpose of crushing out the organizations among the railroad men.

It is said that the association promptly came to the assistance of the Pullman company and violated the interstate commerce law and interfered with the movement of the mails by refusing to carry passengers Or express or mails unless also carrying the cars of the Pullman company. The excuse of the roads is said to have been that they had contracts with the Pullman company, and that if they did not carry its cars they. would be liable for damages, and the claim {s made that in most of the states the company could not have recovered damages because of the laws which excuse the breaking of contracts when their performance is made impossible by general strikes. + On the subject of violence the report says that it is’ the belief of the raiiroad men that these acts were committed by persons mentally irresponsible or else at the dictation of those who were the enemies of the workingmen. Itis said thatthe only ones who could profit by such acts were the rallroad ocompanies. . pThe resolution then brings the American Rallway union into politics by the following appeal: ‘‘We also appeal to the people to desert the old political parties which have shown them-~ selves equally inimical to-the interests of the common people and friendly to the great vampire corporations of the land. Let none but friends of popular rule be put on guard throughout the nation, so that when the next struggle takes place betwcen workingmen and their oppressors it may not be found that militia, soldiery, constabulary, public prosecutors, courts, congress and the president are ready to throw their influence and - authority on the wrong side. In this connection we call attention to the praiseworthy fairness of Govs. Altgeld, Hogg, Waite, Pennoyer and Lewelling, and also the anly course of Mayor Hopkins, Chicago, whiclg indicates that the people might well expect thé preservation of peace without the oppression of workingmen if they will but see to it that the men whom they select to office are not the mere hirelings of corporations. 5 “Such a state of anarchy is no longer endurable. These disagreements between employers and employes are zat intervals fought at enormous expense, not merely to the parties to . the quarrel but to all the people of the oountry.. These people are in thisland of the free -the sovereign whose peace should not be disturbed and whose Interests should be preserved. The sovereign people should assert their right to rule. We, therefore, citizens of the republic, appeal to you, fellow-voters of our common country, to support the party which bears the' name of the sovereign people, which party stands ready to pledge itself that when into its hands is given the government, disputes between employer and employe will be no longer the only exceptions in the various states and the nation from the jurisdiction of the established courts. Letno man sit as your representative in state or national legislature who is not pledged to the adoption of a law which will cause all such differences tc be submitted to the unprejudiced decision of a properly constituted court and jury, to the end that public peace may be permanently preserved and tremendous losses be no longer inflicted upon all the citizens of the republic. And since the American Railway union has at no stage of this pursuit asked more than this of their antagonists it is for this and nothing more that we come before you with this appeal.”

JUDGE LONG'S PENSION.

Petition for Mandamus to Compel ResBfi¥ toration to the 872 a Month Rate.

W ASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—The legal controversy over the action of the pension office in reducing the pension of Judge Long, of the Michigan supreme court, has been revived by the filing of a petition in \the district supreme court praying for a mandamus to compel Secretary Smith and Commissioner Lochren to restore Judge Long’'s pension to the former §s72 a month rate and to make up the loss he suffered by the reduction of his pension. : . .

Died in the Park.

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—John Oliver, an old citizen of Chicago, who amassed nearly $2,000,000 in the lumber business and successful speculation, died very suddenly while seated on a bench in Garfleld park. He was affected with attacks of heart failure, which came upon him very frequently during the past year, but it was not thought that his condition was especially alarming on the evening of his death.

Caceres Becomnes President.

LIMA, Aug. 6.—Gen. Caceres, elected president of Peru in May, has assumed the duties of hisoffice. o

CHINA AND JAPAN. Rumors of Another Battle—Uncle Sam’s ' Attitude. SHANGHAI Aug. 6.—The rumor current to the effect that the Japanese fleet had captured three men-of-war has not yet been confirmed. It is believed here that the report is possibly a rehash af the reports of the prior engagements of the fleet. . WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—A strong denial is entered at the state department of the story that the United States has entered or will enter into a treaty with European powers to. forecibly occupy and keep open the treaty ports of China. It is also denied that any overtures to that end have come tous from other countries. When

the conditions were such that war was only threatened the United States did use its good offices to avert the evil. It

did so to carry out a solemn obligation imposed upon us by the treaty with Corea, whereby we bound ourselves to protect Corea. " - It is said at the state department that the attitude of the United States toward the belligerents in the present war will be patterned upon our course at Rio. We will side with neither China nor J apan, but, as was indicated -by Mr. Bayard, our ambassador to Great Britain, who is fully awure of what is going on, the attitude of the United &ate's will be one of ‘‘benevolent neutrality.” This plan is in keeping with our traditions, and its prudence and safety has been amply demonstrated in the past. .

As far as our own commerce is concerned:we will accord it such measure oi protection and immunity from interference as may be justly claimed as our rights, but the present disposition at the state department is to do this fndividually or not in concert with other European nations. In other words, while we may act as the other powers on this point, we will not be a party to any joint treaty or combination the object of which is forcible interference in'China or Japan. Doubtless it will develop that in many points we may act in accord with other commercial powers, but as it remained for usat Rio to adopt a bold and radical course single-handed, so it may be in China or Japan that we shall act independently upon a certain condition of affairs. ;

At present we are scarcely in a position to make much of a naval demonstration in Asiatic waters. The entire United States fleet there consists of two vessels—the Baltimore and the Monocacy. About a week ago orders were sent to Behring sea to have the Concord and the Petrel sent over to join the station, and that is all that has been done in ‘hat direction so far.

DEATH OF AUSTIN BLAIR.

The Famous War Gove»rnor"ot Michigan : Passes Away—His Career.

- JACKSON, Mich., Aug. 6.—Ex-Gov. Austin Blair, Michigan’'s ‘war governor,” passed away at his home in this city at 1:20 o’clock this morning. His death was peaceful. At 11 o’clock Sunday night the attending physician said the ex-governor could not live two hours and summoned the members of his family to his bedside.: They were with him when he died. He has been unconscious since ' last Friday ‘and grew weaker and weaker until his strength was exhausted. His ailment was inflammation of the bladder and kidneys. The bladder trouble had bothered him for years, but this was mot considered dangerous until complications of the kidneys arose,from which he has been gradually sinking for some time, having been confined to his bed for two months. During the last three weeks he has falled rapidly. A year ago he announced that he would write a book on ‘‘Recollections of a War Governor.” He was busily engaged on this for some time, and it is believed this had sgmething to do with hastening his end. ; With the exception of Gov. Felch, who still survives, Gov. Bldir was the oldest governor living: Of his successors Gov. Jerome, Gov. Begole, Gov. Alger and Gov. Luce are living, while Gov. Wiman died a month ago.

Austin Blair was born in Caroline, Tompkins county, N. Y., February 8, 1818, and was in his 97th year. He came to Michigan in 1831, and settled in Jackson in 1842, beginning his political career when elected county clerk the same ‘year. He held several other minor offices before being elected governor in 1860 and again in 1862. He was a prominent factor in the formation of the republican party under the oaks in Jackson in 1854. In 1858 he was defeated for the nomination for congress, ‘but in 1860 he headed the Michigan delegation to the Chicago convention that nominated Lincoln, being elected himself the same year as governor. He was - elected to congress in 1860, 11868 and 1870. ;

During his last term he became somewhat antagonized toward the administration, and in 1872 took the stump for Horace Greeley. He was the democratic candidate for governor in 1874, but was defeated, and a few years later returned to the party which he helped to organize. In 1883 he was elected on the republican ticket as regent of the state university. From 1885 to 1887 he was prose‘cuting attorney of Jackson county and was ‘nominated for justice of the supreme court, but suffered defeat.

HUSBAND AND WIFE DROWNED.

Sailboat -Containing Three Persons Capsizes at Burlington, la.

BURLINGTON, la., Aug. 6.—C. C. Campbell and his wife were drowned here Sunday afternoon by the capsizing of their boat. They, with Mrs. Henry Heffner, went for a sail, Mr. Campbell sailing the little craft. When some distance from the shore the boat became unmanageable and went over: The, Campbells could not swim and sanefi almost immediately. Mrs. Heffner was rescued. . o

Salmon Fisheries Poor.

VARCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 6.— The salmon in the Frazer river are still very small and canners express great anxiety regarding the outlook. The price of fish here has risen to twenty cents. Fishing in the northern rivers is also poor. As a number of white fishermen and Indians are dependent upon the results of the fishing season, there is much financial distress.

Valuable Paintings Ruined.

NEw York, Aug. 6.—Paintings valued at §60,000 were destroyed or ruined by a fire in the Van Dyck studio building 1n this city Sunday.

Killed While Playing Ball.

GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Aug. 6.—Frank Vedder, of Brooklyn, while playing ball with the Broadalbin club, in a match game with: the Northampton club at Fish House Sunday, was struck by a ball on the right temple with such force that he was killed almost instantly. . Vedder had been visiting friends at Broadalbin. :

A Perilous Voyage Begun,

New York, Aug. 6.—Capt. Adolph Freitsh sailed from here Sunday in the Nina, a forty-foot boat, in which he proposes to cross the Atlantic. Three thousand people bag‘aie him godspeed.

SPOILED THE SPORT. Fire Puts a Stop to a Ball Game in Chi- . cago—Many Persons Hurt, CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Time was called in the seventh inning of the ChicagoCincinnati baseball game Sunday afternoon at the West side park by the ery of fire, followed by scenes never before witnessed at a sporting event in this city. Curiosity to see the fire led more than 1,000 spectators torush into danger, and in their frantic efforts to extricaté themselves from their perflous positions they became panicstricken. They found themselves hemmed in by fire on-one side and high barbed wire fences on the other, erected to keep the people from encroaching on the diamond. The exits were {’ew and small and although other means of escape were provided by the quick action of players Ryan and Wilmot of the local team and President Hart the imperilled and fear-crazed crowd bucked against the barbed fencing. Their mad rush to get away from the advancing flames resulted in the injury of scores. Cuts, bruises, contusions, a broken arm and ileg were the in?urie's sustained. The property of the club was damaged $15,000 before the fire department extinguished the flames. A cigar stub thrown among rubbish started the fire. Capt. Anson had just stepped to the home plate in the seventh inning when a red light began to flash and rise along the side stand, where the fiftycent spectators sit. There were 1,600 of them in the seats and 9,000 witnessing the game altogether. The breaking out of the fire caused a general rush of the people in that part of the ground to the top of the stand to take a look, as there was no longer any game in progress. In ‘a few minutes they realized the danger of their position and broke for the narrow exits, which had already filled with smoke. .The spectators who were in the grand stand and in the bleachers were at a safe distance from the fire and got away into the field without any mishap. From that position they witnessed the destruction of the stands and the serious plight of the other less fortunate spectators.

The wood work of the stand and the piles of paper and other rubbish thrown around provided fuel for the flames which gained on the imprisoned men and women before they knew it. All was confusion in an instant among the occupants of the flaming wooden structure. Women screamed in their freight and men got jammed against the sharp fence. The exits might as well not have been thers; hands,faces,limbsand clothing were cut and torn by the scrambling mass of humanity in trying to force a passage through the wire strands or over them. The fence would not give way, but Ryan and Wilmot made a gap in it by using their bats like blacksmiths. Hundreds escaped that way. Mr. Hart bhad the fence behind the stand demolished 50 feet in width, but the crowd was beyond the stage of reason or observation. Five minutes after the last spectator had got out of reach of the flames every seat was being consumed. The grounds will be used to-day by fencing off the burned part. i The seriously injured number but three. They are: E. W. Bartlett, jumped from roof of grand stand and broke his leg; Fireman E. O’Hearn, head, face and hands burned while rescuing two -small boys; George Platky, badly cut by barbed wire while: saving his nephew, aged 4, in crush at the fence. : - : ' The following table shows the position occupied by each club of the National baseball league in the race for the championship pennant: = CLUBS. Won. Lost. Per Cl. BOBUOH . .. iiceesrsnssivesisibD 30 .647 BAILINOre ... ..o veins i B 30 .684 INOW YOTK. . .iiciovsrsininiisess 08 82 624 layslana . ... ... 0000 48 85 578 PlEEbUrgh ... ... vh biiiees 40 40 - 88 Philadelphia,....... ccevus .... 43 38 .631 BIYOORIVD. ... . ooeeiave.snss 083 X @0 .blB Cincimnati...... ...l ..., .40 43 471 ERIGAPO. ... .l .codesverveions =BB 47 447 S FOMWE. .. oe BT 53 . 411 FOUAVIIIe ... .. isaiiiiieee 29 0 B 8 .883 Washington..... .....cc.00000:20 - 61 .201 Western league: ° CLUBS. Won. Lost. Per Ct. SIONE Ity oo iiiin et 52 28 . <650 AIBNO. Lo i eii i ciee B 36 .561 Mlinneapolis...... cicesansvess 48 87 .b 54 Kangag Clty.......ceeodie i, 4D 37 .49 Grand Rapids.....ccoeivoee ... 43 45 . 480 Jnatanapolls ... . .aliioi 08T 44 457 POIOIL .- o i 0E 50 .405 MEIWRBKEO. .. ..o eoA 50 84 Western association? CLUBS. Won. Lost. ler Ct. Roolc Island. =...... c....i.0u4D 34 .570 IRGN NSE e [ 87 .632 Jack50nvi11e..........i00 00000 42 37 532 BE JOREDO .. ..civosvio i 43 38 .b3l QIIANR 1.0 i iidesesyd] 87 .526 %inc01n........................39 38 * .bos @8 Molnes......ccccveevencee..B7 44 457 Qalnaye .. s R 51 - .86 ‘SHOE DEALERS GO UNDER. Henry E. Smith _&_—Co., of Worcester, : Mass., Make an Assignment. - WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 6.—Henry E. Smith & Co., the largest wholesale dealers in boots and shoes in this city, have assigned. The liabilities are $200,000 and the assets about $240,000. Last year the business of the house amounted to over $600,000, but it fell off greatly this year, and this, with the failure of several customers, caused the assignment. The outstanding accounts due the firm amount to $1380,000. |

A Post Office Robbed.

ScRANTON, Pa., Aug. 6.—Some person who new the combination of the safe in the Scranton post office, worked the same on Thursday night and stole from the safe stamps to the value of $B,BOO. The robbery was discovered late Friday afternoon by Assistant Postmaster Osthaus.

A WCMAN IN IT.

%] BAW a very curious thing to-day.” “What was it?® ‘A woman driving a nail with a hammer instead of with the back of her best hair brush,"—Exchange. '

' “Docror,” sald the maiden, ‘‘has kissing ever been known to disseminate disease?” “Yes,” said the medieal man. “1} frequcntly leads to heart trouble.” —Adams Freeman. . !

THE enthusiastic admirer: ‘Really, you have the most beautiful natural complexion I ever saw in my life.” The thoughtless girl (with surprise)— “Why, you have never seen it.”— Steamship Bulletin. - Mgs. LITEEEART—*My husband gave me some money this morning.” Mrs. Spendit—‘‘And are you going shopping to-day?” Mrs.| L.—*“No, indeed, no shopping for me to-day. 1 am going downtown to buy something.”—N. Y. Press. : .

OLD GruMPPSs—*‘‘Sure that girl loves you instead of your money?” Son—“‘Absolutely. Why, she actually keeps count of the kisses I give her. *Old Grummps—‘‘Hum! That’s bad, She may keep it up after marriage.”—kxchange. ‘

\ | YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, . Season of 1804. - _ OrrICE OF NORTHERN PACIFIO RAILROAD Courany.—We wish to call attention to the fact that durini the months of Aumand September-is the most favorable to make the tour of the Yellowstone National Park—the World’s Wonderland. The eotel and Transportation Companies in the Yelloivstone National Park are furléx predpared to take care of all business offered and itis hoped that fome of those who haveé abandoned their tn%eon account of the labor troubles may be induced to take it now, : . Our through train service betweeg: Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, and Port~ land, Tacoma and Seattle has been completely resumed, so that no one need fear any material delays en route. The usual equip-~ ment.consisting of Pullman tourist sleepers and Pullman vestibuled standard sleepers,i together with vestibuled first and second. class coaches and palace dining cars, is car« riedon all through trains. : *. Illustrated g%mphlets and detailed in< formation will be promptly furnished upon. application. o OEASS B General Passenger and Ticket Agent. -Bt. Paul, Minn., July 25, 1894, : < e f———— - HE was a countryman, and he walked alorig a busy thoroughfare and read a vsi%n: over the door- of a manufacturing esta lishment: “Cast-Iron Sinks.” It made him; mad. He said that any fool ought to know' that.—Christian Word. |

- Free from Dust. : ] _ The Great Northérn Railway has a rockballasted track, free from dust. The ling owns and -operates {ts entire e ulpmex‘:&ro : Palacefileepinvf and - Dining &rs. Buffet Cars, Familg ourist Sleepers, High-back Seated Dag oaches and Smoking Cars. The famous uffet-Library-Observation Car runs on through trains between Bt. Paul, g‘flnne%golis and éhe Pacific Coast, Write .I, WarrNey, G. P. &T. A, St. Paul, Minn., for publications and fnformation about routes, rates, etc.

A IApY who performs with lions was recentlgy severely bitten by one that she was about to kiss. .As we have repeatedly said, this miscellaneous osculation must be' stopped.—Judge. > e :

~ Were You Ever'flouth in Summer? !} - It is no hotter in Tennessee, Alabama, or Georfii‘a than here, and {t “is posit= ivelr delightful on the Gulf Coast of Mississ fppl and West Florida. If you are looking for a location insthe South io down now and see for yourself. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad and connections will sell tickets to all points South for trains of August 7th at one fare round trig Ask t'your icket agent about it, and if he cannot sell Eéd excursion tickets writeto C. P. Atmore, General Pasgenger Agent, Louisville, Ky,

A CHIOAGOo man has discovered a wonderful force that is geing to supplant the steam, engine. It is probably a. motive gower caused by confining vboardin% house butter in a strong iron box.—Texas Siftings. _ :

Disaster Follows

When liver trouble is neglected. Uneasi~ ness below the right ribs and shoulder blads,! dyspepsia, nausea, constipation, sick headache, furred ton%ze. Do you want ’em#? Of course not. Use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters-and you won’t be bothered with them, or MlV\dOther symptoms of liver disturbance. Make haste when the first signs show themselves.

Tre last sad right was administered to"f &ne man killed in a prize fight.—Tammany, imes. : . :

“New Broopn” willi be continued everr\: night at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, with' matinees Wednesday and baturd:fi until futher notice. Seats secured by mail.

CAN électricia;_ s explain why a decided negative is always a positivet

SILENCE is only golden when you cannot think of a good answer.—Puck. ;

|ee S e \ Tax armless wonder is quite/ handy with his feet.—Puck. &

LAwYERS may be poets; they write lots of| Hyursus.” : {

Dyspepsia, Indigestion are caused by bad blood, and by ! a run down, worn out condition of the body. Remember Hood’s sarsa--2B parilla -] Be sure to et (NISIES ’ M .. Hood's _ 2PN S —————————————————————————————— A ————————— ' Hood'’'s Pllis aregentle, mild and effective. ee e e e, Do we not present s smiling eountenancet Why should wenot? It is true we have been overworked and even wlfi our {Mntly jncreased facilities, have had to work aighh, ) supply the demands made upon us for Aermotors, tanksand towers. This cover increasing, never .ceasing demand for oup aocds, even in times of great business depression, makes ug, ired, but happy, as witness tho smiling countenance in: our. glittering Aermotor. 'While others cannot get work to do, we are overwhelmed with it. “‘ha . Beeduse we make the best thing:that can made, of the best: material that is ’ made, at the lowest. mcke“ fil‘l.tt: :;er 7\ s A‘ . was made, and, | all bythe AR ZATW best reputation e,._/:\n‘\ /m‘% ever mads for ;=§};\'/f ‘s",? ™E ; {:%wix;ls Wh:ot ml‘ « ;’@‘ OMOTOR 0, how ot (X R - do it and in- (SR ) ; o«c“;oc’ variably accom- “@V/\. L J z‘llilhinx the re- ‘,” PR It. Al the /fi \ \ world knows that the Aermotor -1 Co. alone knows how to make Wind- ] mills, steel towers! end tanks. Orders: 1 for them pour in ng: .on us from every nook o and corner of the eart ‘A business depression in ‘!" any one localit¥ is not felt by ‘us, The world | is our fleld. Is it, there- - fore, any wonder that H we are busy and are doubling our‘last years output, even in these days of depression? . ‘ Everyone on the Aermo‘tor premises, from the i office boy to the owners, resents this well fed, i smiling countenanoe. - Kll - are grosporoul, 1 B busy, hnfpy-—work is plenty, and prosperi- tx attends the designers, makers, managers and sellers of Aermotors. Even the purchasers of Aermotors are the wide-awake, intelligent, up -to-the-times cash buyers .in .any community. Aermotor eople have no forebodings of disaster and hard times. Xormotor employes never striko. They aore prosperous and' contented. Even in the civil commotion and great upheaval recently raging in Chim, the Aermotor people were at work, radiant with .smiles good cheer, and uul{to help bring and welcome back tho genéral Xrosperity, which must, at once, inevitably return to our land. AERMOTOR CO., }2th, Rockwell and Fillmore Sts.. Chicago, lil. (Preserve this as No. 8 in the series of 13,)

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