Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 17, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 August 1895 — Page 2

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MiILITARY authorities estimate that in times of public danger we could put into the field a force of, 2,500,000 or 8,000,000 men.

Sixce the United States government was organized less than 900 people have served as United States senators, while of these more than 200 had previously been members of the house of representgtives.-« v o :

It is said that of the 3,000 visitors to the National Yellowstone park during the past three years hardly 100 were Americans. Probably more Americans have climbed the Alps than have visited the Yosemite valley. '

A sIIcK individual is roaming around in southwestern Michigan, selling, what he claims to be a new variety of seed wheat, and which is guaranteed to produce a yield of from forty to sixty bushels per acre. Strange as it may seem, the fellow is finding some buyers at $4 per bushel. .

MaAregrriTA, of Italy, is not only the most stylish but the most intellectual and accomplished of gqueens. Bhe speaks English, Frengh, German and Spanish, reads Latin and Greek, knows the great poets thoroughly, reads much theological literature and is a fair botanist and geologist.

A GerMAN method is now in operation of manufacturing glass which will transmit light freely, but not heat. A thin plate of this material allowed less than 1 per cent. of the }fat‘ of gas flames to pass, although transmitting 12 per cent. of the heat from sunlight. Ordinary window glass lets some 86 per cent, of the heat through.

A rReECENT English writer on trial by jury says it was derived from Normandy. But it existed in Iceland from the earliest times, where the Normans certainly did not introduce it. As the Icelanders and the North Saxons were practically the same people, it is hardly open to question that their primitive customs were as mearly identical as their language. :

IN Texas a ‘“‘norther” is a chilling blast that sweeps over the country, sending the temperature down as much as thirty degrees in asmany minutes. But in California a ‘‘northe er’ is a hot wind that puts the temperature up ten to fifteen points above comfort, and, instead of freezing vegetation, does great damage by causing & too quick ripening. b

WHEN Zerah Colburn, the Vermont mathematical prodigy, visited Harvard college, he told in four seconds the exact numbeér of seconds in eleven years, and answered other similar questions with equal facility. He could no more tell how he did it than a child in singing can tell the laws of melody, but it is certain that it was done under natural law, and not in opposition to it. '

A XNOVEL co-operation system has lately been started among the carpenters and - painters of San Francisco, through which the individual works men are becoming owners of homes of their own without any cost for con--struction. As soon as any member of the local organization has saved enough money to buy a lotand the necessary lumber, all his fellow-work-men turn to the next Sunday and build the house for him. L

A smALL lake on the prairie near Constantine, Mich., has gone dry. The like has not occurred before in many years, if ever. It is a legend of this pond that an early settler on the prairie dug a well in thelowest part of the hollow; that when he struck water it rose until the well was filled and overflowed and made a considerable pond of pure, cold water, which became a great watering place for the stock on the prairie, and was never afterward dry. \ e

RoserT J. KRk, the United States consul at Copenhagen, says in a report recently submitted to the department of state that the consumption of American petroleum in Denmark has ine creased from 225 000 barrels in 1890 to 412,000 barrels in 1804, arfd that at the same time the Russian oil supply im the same country has dropped off from 68,880 barrels to 41,440. A statement from the treasury department shows that the petroleum exports in the past five years have been constantly on the increase to nearly all the countries of Europe except Germany‘and the Nethe eriands. sl o U

. THREE miles southwest of Dansville, Mich., there lives a family named Hewes. The great-grandfather, aged eighty-five years, and the great-grand-mother, eighty-three, are members of the family. They have been married sixty-four years, and have resided on the same farm fifty years. Their son, aged fiftv-nine years, and his wife are also members of the family, and their son, twenty-six years, and wife and infant son, also dwell under thé same roof. They eat on one table, use one pocketbook. and as far as known there has never been any unpleasantness in the family. i

For women who do not employ a bookkeeper there has come within the last few years a boon in the form of® ‘‘professional house cleaner.” She isa responsible woman.well recommended, who takes the entire charge of opening aud clesing city and country houses in the spring and fall. She takes her own staff of cleaners, carpet sewers, etc., und becomes responsible for the care of the house and everything im it from the time she takes possession of it until she turns it over to its, mistress in perfect order. She will ‘also hire any servants that may be needed. 4 : - ; S ————— THE reports from the west and north« west as to the harvests for 1805 are encouraging. Unless something unlore”ep“!gi ppens the wheat crop this year cm' in volume the yvear 1891, which was & bsnner year. The conservative estimates have named the ‘wheat yield of Minnesota and the two Dakotas at 140,000,000 bushels, There _ are sanguine observers of the situation . who claim that it will clean up175,000,+. 1000, ‘).;h;’hw government estimdte 000,000 bushels, while some railway: G A T U s s e e W e

° % Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON. = For the last fiscal year the tonnage tax collection is shown by the records of the navigation bureau to have been §522,234, against $589,023 for the preyious year. i

- THE statement of the public debt issued on the Ist showed that the debt increased $33,135,038 during the month of July. . The ‘cash balance in the treasury was $187,149,530. The total debt, less the cash balancein the treasury, amounts to $1,127,258,435. "THE comptroller of the currency says the amount of national bank notes outstanding July 31 was $211,281,908, an inerease for the year of $3,836,419. The amount of circulation based on United States bonds was $186,577,433, an increase for the year of $5,521,499.

Tue director of the mint shows in his monthly statement that during July the total coinage of the United States mints amounted to $3.235,800, as follows: Gold, $2,910,000; silver, $277,000; minor coins, $48,800.

THE government receipts during the month of July were §29,069,697, against §24,809,339 for July, 1894, disbursements, $38,548,008, against $36,648,582 for July, 1894. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 2d aggregafed $915,847,680, against $726,665,760 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1894, was 18.6. : 1x the United States there were 261 business failures in the seven days ended on the 2d, against 202 the week previous and 230 in the corresponding time in 1894. ;

IN the United States the corn crop this year was estimated at 2,500,000,000 bushels, the largest ever known.

THE EAST.

IN a satchel left in New York Central station in Buffalo was found 28,000 counterfeit stamps made by George Morrison, now in prison in Chicago, OLLIE CORBETT was granted a divorce in New York from James J. Corbett, the pugilist. - : NEARLY 20,000 thembers of the Brotherhood of Tailors were on a strike in the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Newark. -

‘IN New York Simon Wormser, of the ‘banking firm of I & S. Wormser, well known throughout the United States, died suddenly of apoplexy. : NEw YoORK republicans will hold their state convention at Saratoga September 17.

Tae famous architect, Richard M. Hunt, of New York, died at Newport, R. 1., aged 67 years. _ - FrAMes among shipping in New York caused a loss of $150,000. .

ORDERS were issued by Bishop Phelan, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa., to the clergy to prohibit round dances by Catholics in that diocese. A

. ON Long Island thirty life-saving stations were opened a month earlier than usual. '

. At Pittsburgh papers were signed which increased the wages of 100,000 in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and put a stop to the contemplated strike. :

~ TaE failure was announced of Frank A. Magowan, a Trenton (N. J.) millionaire, and president of several big corporations, for $500,000. : By making the run from Southampton to New York in 6 days 23 hoursand 49 minutes the United States cruiser Columbia broke all records for warships. .

WEST AND SOUTH.

JupGe JouN DEAN CATON, who was for twenty-two years a justice of the Illinois supreme court, died at his home in Chicago, aged 83 years.

C. H. E. GriFrFiNg and Otto Miller left Chicago for New York to establish a tandem bicycle record. . . At the Brookside coal mines, 20 miles from Birmingham, Ala., Deputy Sheriff Joel Baxter, Sheriff Wood and three negroes were killed in a race war and George Hill and Charles Jenkins (both colored) were lynched by a mob. AT Wellston, 0., a cloudburst flooded streets and cellars, carried away the waterworks dam and drowned several Italians working 'in a street railway cut. .

JupeE HOLLAND sentenced the Christello brothers to life imprisonment for the murder of Benjamin Gennette and wife last March at McGregor, Minn. . A FoREST fire wiped out Maywood, a pleasure resort in Michigan.

~ Ix lowa the oldest person thus far shown by the census returns is Mrs. Lucy Alexander (eolored), of Keokuk. She was born in Virginia 119 years ago. - NEAR Socorro, N. M., farmhouses and crops were entirely swept away by a cloudburst and seven persons were killed. The property loss was over $1,000,000. . FramEs started by tramps sleeping in the livery barn of M. A. Donbarg at Wells, Minn., destroyed property worth $40,000 and cremated thirty horses. . In Kansas City, Mo., the Dollar savings bank went into voluntary liguidation for the purpose of retiring from business. It would pay dollar for dollar.

FrAMES at Menominee, Mich., swept over thirty acres of ground occupied by the A. Spies, the Girard, the Bay Shore and other lumber companies, destroying two lives and property worth nearly $1,000,000. MEXICAN war veterans of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kentucky and Missouri will hold their interstate reunion ‘on August 19 and 204 t Belleville, IIL Porurists of Mississippi in state convention at Jackson named a full ticket headed by Frank Burkitt for governor. The platform declares for the free and’ unlimited coinage of silver. i IN ‘convention at Paltimore Mary land democrats nomjinated John E. Hurst, of that city, for governor. The resolutions adopted dpprove the administration of President Cleveland, declare against free silver and approve the Wilson tariff bill. : At Ashland, Wis., I\ka,ry Thrush was sentenced to state’s prison for life for murdering her husband last spring. At ‘Adelaide, Col., ig cloudburst destroyed property andx‘dlled three persons. : B Harxgy City, Ore,, *was wiped out by ‘apincendiary fire. 15 o Tug home of wm}tm Hogan at Mae« rion, 0., was destroyed by fire and Mrs.. Hogan and her son Frank were fatally Tur king of the light harness pacers, RobertJ., wasdefeated at Cleveland, 0., by Joe Patchin, the average time for the i U R R R SRR . bl B R Bie R g

THE doors of the Colorado @ityiState bank at Colorado Springs, Col., were Melosedis. &b < a 4 S : ~ Fiße destroyed Reame’s tobacco warehouse and opera house, A. Max, ‘and Ellis & Stone’s|dry goods stores and several other Wusiness houses at Durham, N. C. Loss| $lOO,OOO. THE total ore shipments from Duluth, Minn., during July were 536,148 tons, the largest on record. . I~ Cincinnati the! Standard Wagon company assigned wéth assets of $300,000 and liabilities jof $400,000. The Davis Carriage company was carried down by the failure with assets of $150,000, and _liabilit%s of $300,000. Fire swept away four business blocks at Lima, 0.,, the loss being $lOO,OOO. { L IN session at Baltimore Maryland prohibitionists nominated Joshua Levering, of that city, gor governor. A CABLE at the ‘‘¢hutes” in Chicago broke and twenty; persons plunged with terrific velocity in a runaway car down a 250-foot incline, thirteen being injured, one'fatallyfig‘ IN Wyoming the Indian scare was said to be at-an end| A’ MASKED man hgld up the Coulterville stage 6 miles from Merecer, Col., and secured the Wells-Fargo express box, with its valualjle contents. Ix Omaha the first round in the fight between the old ang the new boards of fire and police ended in a victory for the new board. f THE firm of Woodrough & Hanchett, one of the largest wholesale hardware houses in Chicago, failed for $lBO,OOO.

Onio populists x%ominated Jacob 8. Coxey, of Massillonj, for governor. At Carrollton, %0., William P. and George Taylor were found guilty of murdering a man named Meeks, his wife and two children on the night of May 10 last. E : THE special session of the legislature of Illinois adjourned sine die. ALMOST the entire business portion of Crystal Lake, Mich, was burned. For killing his{ wife Philip Roundtree was hanged a’tj Hayneville, Ala. ' Ixn a freight train wreck near Canton, 0., three tramps were killed. FEARS were entertained that 100 residents of Beaver islind, loecated in Green bay, at the entrance of the straits of Mackinaw, had béen burned to death in the forest fires yhich had desolated the entire island guring the last few days. i - AT Corsicana, Tgx., Lee Thomas was hanged for the mirder of J. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. | :

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

DiscoveßlES show that the Honduras treasury was robbed of $2,500,000 during President Bo,;:an’s administration. THE returns from the British elections, with only jone vacancy to fill, show the division-fof the partiesin the new parliament to be as follows: Conservatives, 341; liberal unionists, 70; government totail, 411; liberals, 174; McCarthyites, 70; Parnellites, I 3; labor, 2; total opposition, 259; government majority, 152; conservative majority overall 12. = .| ‘ AT Quebec Geiorge Porter, paying teller in the Bank of Montreal, was arrested for embezzling $25,000. THIRTY citizens belonging to leading families in San salvador were said to have been arreste%d and shot inside the barracks. e L CHOLERA causefl the deaths of Rev. August Kullman and his wife, Methodist missionaries in the town of Azanol, India. Mr. Ku}jman went to India from Vineland, N. J.

THE safe landing of a large and wellequipped expedition to ‘aid- the Cuban insurgents was donfirmed. ; LATEST news [from Cuba was that the towns of Baire, Jiguani and Guantanamo had been captured by the insurgents. - | TWELVE persons were killed by an earthquake at ithe Russian town of Krasnovodsk. ! : 5

MEgssßrs. FRATGLLI GINGEN, one of the largest and oldest banking houses in Genoa, Italy, clot:sod its doors with liabilities of about ®2,000,000. At Salt Coats, Scotland, the Auchen Harvey colliery {was flooded and fourteen miners wex}e drowned. A MASSACRBE of Christians was said {6 have occurred a§ Ku Cheng, China. . e . LATER NEWS. ; ‘'ToE mission and sanitarium at Wha' Sang, China, was attacked by the Chinese and ten British subjects killed. Rev. Mr. Ste\van?t, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss Marshiall, two sisters named Saunders, two jsisters ‘named Gordon and Steetie Newcombe were murdered with spears. } - -} o THoMAS BUT:@ER and Timothy Sweeney were caughit in a storm on Niagara river and were ¢arried over the falls. ‘Tnk Northerfn Pacific railroad was the heaviest loger by a fire at Sprague, Wash., which iwept over 320 acres of territory and destroyed property valued at over $1,000,000. A TELEGRAM ih'rom Charlevoix, Mich., says the report/that Beaver island had been devastate?l by a fire wasa hoax. DuriNe¢ a tdrnado along the New Jersey coast h}-ses were wrecked and five persons were drowned ' by the capgizing of boats A sIcTTLEME:’iT of 200 negroes near Spring Valley, 111.,, was attacked by 500 white mil}ners, many shots were fired, and forty of the negroes were wounded, somJ fatally. SIX acres wtre burned over at Berlin, Md. . The total number of houses burned was seventy-five, and the loss was §200,000, - | ‘ ,

Mgs. MiNNIE MURRAY died at Olneysville, N. J. She claimed to have been 116 years old. | It is known she was alive 108 yearsiago. : Tur Methodist church at Quakertown, N. J., was struck by lightning during services and a score of people were injured, several of them probably fatally. bl : ‘ IN a trial of speed at Decatur, 111, Lffie Powers and Pestora Wilkes paced a mile as a team in 2:15 flat. 'This beats the world’s record one and onehalf seconds. , bai Pror. EvLiorr and Mary Peak, of Jackson, .Miciz, were probably fatally injured by fdlling from a balloon at Vandercooli’s lake resort] = 7 l A Fiaur was reported near Baracoa, Cuba, in wi;?ich Col. Sandoval was wounded, and the insurgents bLurned Jiguani and Haracoa. . - Mzs, Euzssern Davis died at Munele, Ind., aged 106 years. * .- o - Tug percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week and OBy the. 3d -were: - Cleveland, - .696; Pittsburgh, * .595; Baltiesagmm 8 Brooklyn, ,643; Phila: delphia, .538; New Yorl, .513; Washe PRI ei i T

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

AT Marion the other day a murderous assult was made upon J. F. Powell, a tailor; by John Wiggins, with a hatchet. Powell has several severe cuts about the head and his recovery is in doubt. The attack was made apparently without provocation. :

Mgrs. RACHEL VAx PELT died at Laporte at the advanced age of 91. Her husband officiated as sheriff at the only execution that ever took place in northern Indiana. : ,

Tae Miami Indians, near Peru, are being paid the §99.49 due"each of them by the government. : RicHLANXD and Taylor townships, Greene county, have voted for the construction of $BO,OOO worth of gravel roads. :

EIGHTEEN prisoners are confined in the Knox county’jail. A TRIBE of Modern Woodmen is being formed at Bridgeton. ' RoBERT MARsHALL, sent to prison from South Bend in 1891 for stealing a horse and buggy while drunk, has been released, and will be rharried to his sweetheart, who has remained true to him during his confinement. Fire damaged the works of the Jenney Electriec Light «Co., Logansport. Loss $6,000. Insured. ' .

CarsoN CooOLEY, a photographer of Brownstown, died from a stroke of apoplexy. -

SALOONKEEPERS over the state have undertaken to have an obnoxious feature of the new Nich»olson law overcome by local legislation in cities and towns. A resolution has been introduced in the city council at Huntington, to allow the saloonkeepers to use their billiard and pool tables, as they did before the law was passed. If the saloon men win their point there they say they will make similar efforts in other towns over the gtate.

Tue Indiana state prison south at Jeffersonyille, for the first time in twenty-five years, is in control of républicans. = Warden Patten retired a few days ago. "’ ‘ Geo. GIVENS, aged 23 years, son of , William Givens, of North Salem, drop|ped dead in the bar room of the Famous hotel, as is thought from an overdose of chloral, as a bottle half full of the drug was found on his person. by the coroner. .

Tnr C. T. Henchman Wholesale Confectioner, Richmond, failed the other day. The amount of the liabilities is said to be about $15,000, but the assets are unkrnown. .

SWITZERLAND county is overrun by petty thieves. ’ WARSAW is going to have a lecture on theosophy. ! :

Two PrEcocrous. inmates tried to burn the orphans’ home at Shelbyville. - ?

THE Clara Shanks murder case, near Bloomingdale, is still a mystery. ' THE income from the berry crop in Clark county this year was about $20,000. | S

RoyaL CENTER, Cass county, voted in favor of water works. Y g

- CorN is a glut on the market at Vincennes at 35 cents a bushel.

- A FRANCHISE has been grantéd and Sidell will soon be lighted by electrie lights. .

NEWSPAPER offices at Kokomo have been fitted up with long-distance telephones. Ty

INDIANAPOLIS, electrical wires may go under ground. : 4 BELLE VANDIVER suicided by shoot-| ing near Shelbyville. : ; Tue Nicholson law received a fall in/ the test case suitin Vigo county the other day, and the state, recovering from the blow, caused an appeal to the supreme court, which was granted. Judge Taylor delivered his opinion about noon, before a ecrowded conrt-room. The court did not pass 'on the constitutionality of the law, but held that the law is inoperative because of a blunder of the legislaturein- the wording of the penal clause of the act. | THE Wabash distilling plant at Terre Haute is to be sold. o 5 WHITECAP notices are being served on many persons in Davies county. GRANT county now claims to have; three of the largest-oil wells in th% state. e 2o Fr. WAYNE capitalists will drill fol. oil in the southern part of Wells county. : . L ELKIART reports many mishaps atf night on account of having no street lights. i TuE Marion bank has purchased th¢ Citizens’ Exchange bank at Fai mount. AT Anderson one of the fire department horses was instantly killed by 'r, live electriec wire in his stall. e A TEN-YEAR-OLD boy at South Bend exploded a cartridge with a stone. He only has one hand now. s

Tue prospect is that a company of Chicago capitalists will build a large sanitarium at the Morgan mineral well, near Huntington, which has become famous since its discovery few a meonths ago. : i

AT Myncie a bottie of chemical used to extinguish fire, exploded in Cyrus Wilkenson’s hand, shattering his rigit arm at the elbow. e Mgs. FRED DRAKE was probably fatally hurt by being thrown from a buggy near Brazil. i

BexsaMlN' TIMBERLAKE, of Wayne county, and a graduate of Eartham college with the class of 1894, has been elected to the principalship of the high school at Parker City. ]

ANDERSON youngsters place stones on the tracks to watch the street cars crush them. :

IT 18 given out upon good authority that within ninety days operations will be resumed at the Depauw Plate Glass works at Alexandria and New Albany. These plants employ 1,000 men when in full operation. The Depauws will continhe to have charge of the plants. o Tuk common council of west Indianapolis the other night passed a resolution appropriating $5OO as a reward for the murderer of little A-yeam old Ida Gebhard, whose putrid body was found with evidences of outrage. Tugp plate glass company the other moruning started up their third furndace at the Klwood plant, and the factory is now. running at full capacity with eight hundred men. Fhe demand for plate glass continues to increuse, and the outiock for the future of the Elwood plant is assured. B i CnarrEs FLACK, living near sfinlféy‘ while atteripting to place a beltona sepurator. was caught by the belt nTnd thrown over ahd bndl%v; tape. . Tnm express and railway office at Tasivell, on the L. E. and St L. railway was robbed of 8500 worth of ffig}fl“‘v Bhingar e ey H‘;H SeBT s S N s T e B S S S S e I

: TMISSIONARJES ~.fl»l-lt"‘figl‘ifip Thirteen Killed in the Late Massacre in ‘1 China—Americans Safe. 3 Loxpox, Aug. s.—The Telegraph prints a dispatch from Shanghai stating. that.the. massacre at Ku Cheng oc¢urred om July 31. The of ficials suppressed the news fo three days. The names of the killed are: Miss Elsie Marshall, Miss Annie Gordon, Miss Bessie Newcombe anid Miss Flora Stewart, all of the English Zenana mission; Miss Nellie Saunders, ‘Miss Topsy Saunders, Rev. Dr. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart,of the Church Missionary society. -Five of Mr. and Mirs. Stewart’s children were killed and two survive. One had one knee broken and the other, a baby, lost an eye. The following were saved: Miss Hartwell, of the American mission: Miss Coddington, of the English Zénana missior, and Rev. H. S. Phil'lirf)cs. of -the English church missionary sgciety.

“[United States Consul Hixson, who is stationed at Foy Chow with a party of volunteers, upon receipt @f the news of the massacre started on a steam launch for the scene and has returned, bringing with him the wounded Americans. The experiences of the survivors were terrible. They say that death was the least part of the sufferings of the butchered women. The indignatvion here is intense. Nevertheless, the many warships in the harbor are idle. ¢ ' Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and children, were burned in their house. The Misses Yellow and Marshall, two sissrs named Saunders; two sisters named ordon and Steetie Newcombe were . murdered with spears and swords. Miss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head and Stewart's eldest child had a knee cap badly injured, while the youngest had an eye gouged out. Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Hartford, were both wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chau Fu. . o

The Standard’s special from Shanghai says that the newsof the massacre was suppressed for three days by the Chinese officials. The mandarins will endeavor to throw all the blame upon ®e secret societies, but it is known that they were encouraged by responsible officials. The Chinese troops have been dispatched to the scene. The British and American consuls will have an interview with the viceroy to- day.

LIGHTNING’'S WORK.

It Strikes a Church and Injures Many o : ‘Worshipers.

.. FLEmingTON, N. J., Aug. s—The ‘'words of a fervent benediction had Iscarcely left the lips of Rev. Mr. Bow/man, in the Methodist church at |Quakertown, 7 miles above here, Sun- | day, when there came a blinding flash of lichtning and a terrifying burst of ‘thunder that all but wrecked the little building. The bolt entered the church | and injured a score of people, several |of them probably fatally. TJRe list of ithose most seriously injured follows: } James Hoff, Minnie Grace, Miss K. Hoffman, Asa Bannon, the sexton, and fi Mrs:. Bowman, wife of the pastor.

The bolt seemed to enter the edifice by the basement, shooting up through the floor and bursting with the force of a huge cannon. Members of the congregation who had started to leave or were standing in groups conversing with each other were thrown into a wild panie, while at least twenty of them received injuries more or less severe.

All the clothing was torn from Sexton Bannon, while his shoes looked as though they had been run through a corn sheller, being literally cut to pieces. He lis suffering from the shock and can hardly recover. The bolt struck through the floor, right at the feet of Minnie Grace, and she was thrown down with great violence. Her watchguard was melted, and the timepiece looks as though it had gone through a furnace. Itstopped at 12:10, a grim record of the time of the cruel visitant. Miss Ggace’s life is despaired of. Mrs. Bowman, who stood near Miss Grace, was also thrown down by the awful explosion. Her hat was torn {from her head and a steel ripped clean out of her corset. She isstill unconscious from the shock. G

Examination of the building aftér the excitement had subsided somewhat ‘showed that the bolt had struck an outer wall, ran down to the basement, 60 feet ‘along the joists, and shot up throug‘t the floor like a huge bullet The large bell in the tower was loosened from its hangings and only a slender strip of scantling kept it from crashing down upon the heads of scores of people at the doorway.

FELL FROM A BALLOOCN, A Female Aeronant Badly Hurt at Van=- - dercook Lake, Mich. JacksoN, Mich.,, Aug. 5 — Sunday afternoon while Charles A. Elliott and Anna Peek were making a double ascension at Vandercook Lake an accident happened to the balloon which may cost the lady ber life. The ballecon was an old one, filled with hot afr. When the deronauts were up - 55 feet the ropes holding the basket to the gas bag pulled out, dropping both aeronauts to the ground. They struck a tree in their descent, breaking their fall, or both would have been killed outright. Elliott was badly bruised, but had no bones broken. Miss Peek had a leg and arm broken, and it is feared suffered internmal injuries. - ; Second Advance in Wages. LEBANON, Pa. Aag. s.—The Pennsylvania Bolt & Nut company has notified the employes in the puddle and rolling mills that their wages are iacreased 10 per cent., the order to go into effect ~August 16. This is the second increase of 10 per cent. within a month, and _the puddlers will receive three dollars per ton. Shel ' Died of Her Injuries. : Morixg, IIL, rAug. 5.-—Mrs. George W. Pauley, prominent in church and ‘social ¢ircles here, died Saturday. She ~was thrown from a bicycle about eight weeks ago. AT ik feixs Fire at Joliet, : - Joriey, I, Aug. s.—Pire broke out ‘Sunday night in the Lambert & Bishop wire mill, a branch of the Consolidated ‘Steel and Wire company. The fire ‘started in the spool department and | ‘burned the warehouse, carpenter shop, il room, storehouse and about §2,000. ~worth of spool lunber. The total loss was $50,000, with 45,000 insurance. ' Scheme of Reforms. | | - CoNSTANTINOLLE, Aug. s.—At a cabiBt lageting Just held b sshome of e E“‘“f? CHATHAIE R AN

- @OOOD -:REWL-T&@Q“_N. ¥ The Passage of the Wilson Biil Has Broughta Vfil@fa'ry Increase of Wages. Attention was called by this paper recently to Bradstreet’s report that more than 1,000,000 industrial workers have received ‘voluntary advances in wages, averaging 10 per cent., within a couple of months. A republican organ correctly says that ‘‘nothing like this has ever before been known.” It was not known during the four years the McKinley law was in force. Wages were not generally advanced soon after that law took effect; nor at any time before its repeal.. Such a thing as a voluntary increase of wages on a large scale was unheard of under that law. Reductions were made in every part of the country, but no advances at all of consequence except a few resulting from strikes. ;

'The Wilson bill was passed last August. Sections of it went inte effect soon afterwards and other sections later, some not until the beginning of 1895. | It is worthy of note that the upward movement of wages had ‘its beginning in September .and has been growing ever since. » It began in the weoolen mills, one of the results of the placing of wool on the free list. It spread toother textile industries and then became general. As soen as the winter was over reports of advances in wages were received daily. The list for April includes 67 in which the increase was as much as 5 per cent. In all but six cases the increase was 10 per cent. or over. In 10 it was 15 and in several others from 12 to 20 per cent. In the case of the Cincinnati cloakmakers, where 4,000 persons were employed, an advance of 25 per cent. was given. The wages of 10,000 brick manufacturers on the Hudson river were increased from 10 to 25 per cent. One report for -April shows a 10 per cent. increase in the wages of 25,000 employes and another a similar advance in the pay of 24,000. These were all mill hands in Massachusetts. One of the 15 per cent. advances that month affected 10,000 men in Youngstown, O. -

None of these employes are included in the 1,000,000 covered by Bradstreet’s report, which goes bacla only a couple of months. The total number whose wages have increased since the Wilson bill took effect is probably not far from 2,000,000. And a conservative estimate places the average advance at 10 per cent. For every déllar received by these 2,000,000 wage-earners. under the McKinley bill, $l.lO is received under the Wilson lagv. If their aggregate monthly earnings amounted then to $100,000,000 & month—an average of $5O per man—they amount now to $110,000,000--a clear gain of $10,000,000 a month or $12¢,000,000 a year to the wage earners of the country.

If the reduction of the tariff under the Wilson bill has not been a leading factor in this wage-advancing movement, why is it that the advances have been confined in the most part to our protected industries? Will some hightariff republican answer the question? —St. Louis Republic. :

The Tariff and the Coal Industry.

In spite of the fact that this country exports large quantities of bituminous coal the democratic proposition to put coal.on the. free list, so as to give New England industries the advantage of getting their coal from near-by mines of Nova Scotia has been vigorously opposed by the protectionists. It was claimed that without- the duty of 75 cents per ton the coal industry of this country would be ruined by foreign competition, and that to remove or reduce the tariff would close mines and reduce the wages of miners. The Wilson bill, as finally passed, cut down the. duty on coal nearly 50 per cent. Was the result what the protectionists had predicted? On the contrary the output of coal has been increasing during the past six months, and the industry is on a better footing than it has been for years. Under the high tariff wages of coal miners were frequently reduced all over the country during 51891, 1892 and 1893, and numerous mines were shut down, throwing the employes out of work. Now under a tariff which has stimulated manufacturing the increased demand for coal in the iron and other industries has raised wages and given more men employment. Thus have the facts contradicted another pet theory of the high tariffites.

The South Still Against Protection. . Encouraged by the demand of the sugar growers of Louisiana for either a protective duty or a bounty on their product, the high tariff organs have been claiming that the southern states ‘were becoming converted to protectionist notions. There is absolutely no ground. for the claim. Here and there a few men may be found who are willing to sacrifice their principles and the good of the whole country to their selfish interests. But the great mass of the people of the south are still firm free traders, knowing as they well do that they have everything to lose and nothing to gain under a high. tariff. The main industrieés of the south need no protection and the few exotics which cannot exist without publie support, ought to be allowed to die. Hatred of paternalism in ali its forms is too deep rooted in the south to allow a change at this enlightened day, and there need be no fear that the southern people will ever be found voting for McKinleyism and -allits evils, ;R : R

In a ;’rot_optqd Industry.

Under the heading “Women Toiling inulron,” the New York Press publishes a detailed account of the ewmployment by the Monongahela Tin Plate Co. .of a number of women to assist in making tin plate. Had this been in Wales, or England, we should have had from the Press denunciations of the terrible effects of free trade in driving women into such disagreeable occupations. But as itis in Pittsburgh, ‘the chi‘gt-.mnllfmtu%qfly of Pennsylvania, and as the industry is a pet one of the protectionists, wesuppose it is all right. How do Ameriedan working men like the idea of their wives or daughters ‘‘toiling in {ron?” [

Democratic Tarlff Reform. The first cargo of sugar ever imported lirect to New York from H_onohsu has reached port. This sugar, under the special clause inserted in the Wilson bill by BSecretary Carlisle, will enter free of duty. . But, though the govern: ment will get no revenue from it, the consumers will get no cheaper sugar ' on that account: The duty saved by l the kindness of Secretary Carlisle will go into the pookat::jvkh.tmlt,mhm it was intended it shonld go.—Buffalo

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