Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 October 1895 — Page 6

CRUSHED AT CHURCH.

Disaster Attends the Laying of & .Corner Stone in Loraine, O.

Platform Falls fnto a Baseqent, and o Large Crowd of People Go with It —A Little Girl Killed—Many . : FPersons Hurt. ;

LORAINE, 0., Oct. 7.—The laying of the corner stone for the new St. Mary's Catholic church in this city Sunday | was accompanied by an awful disaster. Fully 5,000 people were in attendance and the priests were about ready to proceed with the services when an accident oceurred that created a panic and killed a little girl and wounded about twenty-five more, several of them fatally. : "The foundation for the building extended about 10 feet above the basement bottom, and on this was erected a platform where the ceremonies were being held. Over 1,000 persons were standing on the floor when a section of it, containing - about 300 people, sank beneath its burden and precipitated them into the pit. The section which gave way was in two wings, and as it sank it formed a death trap for the .people, from which there was no chance to escape. 'The pit resembled an inverted roof of very steep slant, the ends being closed up by stone walls, and into this it was that there were crowded men, women and children in one struggling heap: As the floor gave way, a great cry went ap from the multitude, but in another second it shad-fallen and carried in its ruin the lives of several persons. Those at the top of the mass escaped easily, but when the pit was partly emptied those victims = still entrapped could not clamor up the steep sides, and they trampled each other like so.many wild creatures, the strong getting on top aund the weak being crushed beneath the great weight. Althoagh there were a thousand people ready to rush to thc rescue they could render very little aid to the helpless persons in thé pit, and several minugzselapsed before ropes and ladders could be procured. When help finally reached the unfortunate victims, several had already been trampled to death and others fatally injured. The old Catholic church "near by was

turned into a hospital and morgue. Into this were carried those who were killed and injured. The following is a list so far as ascertained: Rose MceGee. of Loraine, skull fractured. l\‘Katie Griffin, 8 years of age, of Loaine. injured internally; Mrs. Mary MecGrath, of Lioraine, left leg crushed and injured internaily; Mrs. = John Ensten, an aged lady of Loraine, lett leg crushed, chest injured;m Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan, of Loraine, spine: injured. left leg crushed: Mary Sieder, an aged lady of Loraine. chest ¢crushed and hurt internally; Mrs. Mike Kelling, of Lioraine, injured internally; John Feldkamp, of Lorainz, hurt internally; Miss Kate Deidrick, of Sheffleld, both legs broken and hurt internally; Mrs. Margaret Mgckert, of Loraine, hurtinternally; Nicholas ‘Wagner, of Elyria, skull fractured. Nellie Dollard, of Loraine, head cut; Leo Theobald, 3 years old, back of head cut; Col. W. I Brown, of Loraine, right arm and left leg bruised: Mrs. John Fox, ot Sheffleld, both :legzs broken; Mrs. William Burgett, of Loraine, *hurt internally; Mrs. Mary Latimer, of Carlisle Center, right leg crushed; Mrs.© Mary O'Keefe, of Loraine, hurt mnternally; John Martin, of Loraine, left leg broken; John Ensten, of Loraine, back hurt; Mrs. I. M. Bruce, of Hoganville, left ankle broken: William Ryan, of Loraine, right leg broken: Mrs. O'Keefe, of Loraine, les crushed, will have to be amputated. . Notwithstanding the shock of the accident, the priests succeeded in guieting the crowd and continued the services. Very -Rev. Mgr. Botff, of Cleveland, delivered the sermon. The confractors are said to be responsible for the accident, poor timbers being used for the support of the platform. The mayor and other city officials lent a helping hand in caring for the injured. The town is in deep mourning ever the accident. ; :

: CAPTURED. One of the Terre IHaute Adams I;:_{presln Office Robbers Arrested. Bairivore, Md.,, Oct. 7.—John Don I'arden, alias T. J. Franklin, formerly a clerk in the Adams express - office at Terre Hlaute, Ind., was arrested here Saturday night charged with the ~ theft of $lO,OOO froin .« his employers. Ile waived extradition proceedings and was ‘taken, west by a Pinkerton detective, who has been on his trail since the robbery, a few. weeks ago. Farden admivted that he took the package coutaining the money, and implicated J. R. Barnett, ticket agent of the Vandalia railroad at Terre Illaute, in the crime. The men sepa!rated. after dividing the spoils, Farden going south while Barnets traveled westward. The latter is still at large. . DRIVEN TO SEEK DEATH. Defendant in Two Breach of Promise 5 ¢ Suits Kills Himself. ' Couxcin BLurrs, la., Oct. 7.—Frederick Leutzinger, one of the oldresidents of this city, was found dead in bed Saturday morning, having committed suicide by taking a dose of : earbolic acid. The suicide was caused Dby worty -over two breach of promise - damage suits that were _pending in the courts. Miss Clara Uhlenholst, of St. Louis, asked $35,000 ‘ and Mollie Grabham, of this city, asked | {or $25,000. Leutzinger was a wealthy retired baker, who became complir cated with the Graham woman some months ago. A few days ago she sent bim word that she would kill'him unless he settled with her. : : Has a Month to Pay His Fine. . Bax Fraxcisco, Oct. 7. —H. J. MeCoy, secretary of the Young Men's Christian ' ussociation, who was fined #2350 by Judge Murphy for making the remark 1o one of the Durrant jurors: “'lf you ~ don’t hang him we will hang you,” was ~ Saturday morning given by the court untl November 1 in wlxic‘x to pay the fine. o W e ~ Colorado Town Has a #5125,000 Fire. Fort Covriss, Col., Oct. 7.—The Colorado Milling & Klevator company's flour mill and elevator weré burned - Saturday. Loss, $125,000; partly in- - sured. ' i | © Milwaukee’s Populution. : Mapisoy, Wis., Oct. 7.—According to the retarns of County Clerk A, ¥. Zent- - uer, the wtal population of the city cf Muwaulkee, us shown by the new enumeration, 1s 249,290, an increase of . zssuver the first census, This makes - et yopgiution of M thyudive covu;:‘?W‘?*f,,., W e /. Great Stughter of Senls. Ay Fuaxos 1 Oct. 7.—Lietouant itk ASRRI e evl G R . s i e BTN L .3*557‘&%*

MACEO WOUNDED.

Leader of the Cuban Insurgents Shot in a Battle. ¢ S

HAVANA, Oct, 7.—The Spanish have dealt the Cuban insurgents a severe blow, if the official reports given out are to be relied upen. The rebels have met with defeat and Gen. Antonio Maceo has been badly wounded. Many of his followers were killed or wounded.

The battle, said to be the most bloody of the present war, was fought in the country between Soa Arribia and San Fernando, in the Holguin district of Santiago de Cuba. The insurgents were commanded by Gen. Maceo, while the Spanish troops ‘were commanded by Gen. Exchalgue.

The insurgents, numbering 3,000 infantry and 800 cavalry, laid in wait for Gen. Exchalgue, who appeared at the head of 1,300 infantry and 300 cavalry. The Spanish troops also possessed one field cannon. Gen. Exchalgue distributed his men in admirable fashion and planned to fall at certain specifled times upon the positions held by the insurgents. The revolutionists, aware of his.movements, arranged for a strong outpost to check the impetuosity of }‘he Spanish troops. The regular Spanish forces paid little attention to the small body of men stationed at the outposts and rushed to the main force. i The insurgents made a desperate resistence, which lasted seven hours. ]

Finally Gen. Maceo, seeing his men in a critical situation, rushed: to the front with his staff. He had scarcely taken a position in front of the line, when he fell seriously wounded. His followers at once placed: him on stretchers and succeeded in carrying him off the field. = : . As soon as it was known that Gen. Maceo had been wounded all was confusion in the ranks of the insurgents, who, according to official advices here, were put to flight, leaving upon the field twenty killed and several wound-~ ed. Spanish officials estimate that before Maceo fell fully 180 dead and wounded insurgents were carried from the field. These officials also assert that many of the insurgents surrendered, discouraged by the defeat and the wounding of Maceo, and they expect that others wili give themselves up. : WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The question of whether the Cuban revolutionists shall be recognized as belligerents by the United States government will be determined, it is believed, by the events of the next six weeks iz Cuba. The feeling in favor of such a step is stronger at the state depurtment now that it has been at any time heretofore. Secretary Olney is being influenced by the public sentiment springing up all over this country for the Cubans. The meetings held redently in Chicago and the published interviews with the governors of many states, all showing a strong sympathy for the revolutionists, have had their effect on both the president and his secretary of state. They would not hesitate a day to recognize the belligerency of Cuba but for the fact that it has been learned officially that Spain has recently strengthened her military forces on the islands until they now number 100,000 instead of 80,000 as has been generally estimated. A number of important battles will be fought in the next few weeks, the result of which will determine whether Spain can suppress the rebellion. It would Dbe a costly experiment .for the United States to recognize the belligerency of the revolutionists and throw open our ports to themand then hate the revolution suddenly fail and the Spanish government move on us for indemnity. Nearly all -the South and Central American republics are ready to extend recognition to the revolutionists, but will wait for a signal from the United States. EXPORT OF GOLD CEASED. Business Conditions Better and a Slight Gain in the Reserve. - WAsHINGTON, = Oct. . 7.— The true amount of the gold reserve at the close of business Saturday was $93,006,886, a ‘pmet gain for the day of $208,-

097. The present situation as to gold withdrawals, as viewed at the treasury department, is more lopeful than at any time within the last several weeks, and, in the opinion of many, the reduction in the rate of sterling exchange, the cessation of withdrawals for export, and the apparently increasing willingness of banks to exchange gold for non-legal tenders, indicates a return to normal conditions, and a turn 1n the tide of gold movements. The reported arrival of $250,000 in gold from Europe, although a comparatively insignificant amount, has strengthened the belief ‘that the'drain of gold has ceased for a considerable time at least.

A FATAL WEDDING. Seventy-Five Guests Mysteriously Poisoned © —Two of Them Dead. DuBUQUE, la., Oct. 7.—Two deaths occurred near Sabula, Jackson county, I'riday as the result of a poisoning at H. D. Gage's wedding, three weeks. ago, which has affected seventy-five or a 100 of the 300 guests. The groom’s condition is reported dangerous. The physicians from several towns are unable to agree whether the poisoning was caused’ by pork or by pressed chicken, and have forwarded to Chicago for analysis the biceps muscles of George Bryant, who died Friday. Pastor Dies in the Pulpit. : - DAyron, 0., Oct. 7.—While delivering a sermon before a large audience’ Prof. Lorain L. Langstroth, the eininent authority on bee culture, for twenty years a professor in Yaleand for fifty years a leading minister of the Presbyterian chureh, died of apoplexy. He was 85 years of age and was so feeble he was sitting to speak. = . ‘ ' Against Free Coinage at 18 to 1. FrEsNo, Cal., Oct. 7.—ln convention the State Bankers’ association Saturday adopted a resolution opposing the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. . " Clevelund Ready to Return. Buzzarp's Bay, Mass,, Oct. 7.—President Cleveland will probably leave Gray Gables for \ashington some time during the present seek, after _one of the longest sojourns at his summer home here ever made by him. Mrs. Cleveland and the three children will remain for & week or two longer. 9 . Cleveland Wins Agaln, ~ CLEYELAND, O, Oct. 7.—Twelve thousand people attended the third game of the series for the Temple cup here on Saturday. The Cleveland club won wmwgwwhmmfimmw | Cleveland, 7; Baltimore, 1.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ~ HowArp county divorce docket is heénvy thistall. = = % - ; - AN Elkhart freak is a Siamese twin set of kittens. : A I.ONG-DISTANCE telephone may be put in at Seymour. J. M. Hooker was acquitted at Tipton of altering a tally-sheet. AT Kendallville, the other day,while 20,000 people were on the grounds of the Northern Indiana fair, the horse barns were discovered to be on fire. It took hard work by the people and the fire department to prevent the grounds being swept clear of buildings. Four hundred feet of barns were burned and a number of valuable horses killed. Great excitement prevailed. Gov. Matthews was present during the conflagration. The total loss was about $lO,OOO. , : :

Two ball clubs at Warsaw played for the benefit of the poor and took in $133. 25. :

DuRiNG a storm at Elkhart: five electric alarm boxes were burned out by lightning. e Gov. MATTHEWS will ‘make eight or ten speeches, during four or five days, in Ohio, in the latter part of October.

D. CARVER, a boot and shoe merchant of Columbia City, assigned, with liabilities of $5,000 and assets $7,000. JAMEs FURGESON was crushed to death in one of the furnaces at the new steel mill at Alexandria. :

' ’SQUIRE PARKER’S team was being driven across the I. & V. railroad, near Centerton, by two men in & wagon, when a special freight train dashed on them, killing both horses and wrecking the wagon. The men escaped.

AN Elkhart woman had Alonzo Hulce arrested for trespass because he persisted in visiting her after she told him to stay away. A jury dismissed him. THE state appropription for 1896 will be available on and after November 1. The present. year will leave probably $50,000 on hand, and to this will be added the portions of money which come in from counties and are attached to various funds.

Tue police chiefs of Indiana, at Terre Haute, the other day decided to hold the next state convention at Indianapolis at some date in 1896 when the eriminal courts are not in session.

AT Montpelier David Caines and William! Grose were killed by the explosion of a nitroglycerin can. They had built a fire over it while coon hunting. , j

Toe two-year-old daughter of Phil Bordner, living near Helmer, fell from a haymow, striking on a lot of scrap iron. She was fatally injured. S. G. CorELAND, while cutting.down trees near Helmer, was caught by a failing limb and crushed in a horrible manner. Hisrecovery is doubtful. AT Madison, Harry ‘‘Red” King, who shot and killed Basil Angell, last May, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced tothe penitentiary for three years. : £

AT Indianapolis the jury in the bank wrecker’s case, the other afternoon, returned a verdiet .of guilty as to Grant Coffin and not guilty as to his brother Percival. The Coftfins were at the head of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co. and .were charged with getting nearly $400,000 from the Indianapolis National bank, with'the connivance of its president, Theodore P. Haughey, now in prison. At the former trial both brothers were convicted, but the supreme court reversed the case. TrE Good Citizens’ league of Indiana, in convention at Indianapolis, sent a telegram to Gov. Culberson and the Texas legislature congratulating them on their action in suppressing the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight ‘‘in the interest of good citizenship.” ' . WALTER BCURGE, recently paroled from the Northern prison by Gov. Matthews, was struck by a freight train at [Lake and killed. An hour later Fred Rice, a Chicago & Erie brakeman, was caught’ between two cars at Hurlburt and cut to pieces. NINE trunks and all the baggage belonging to the colored people who held a camp meeting in the fair grounds at Huntington recently, were the other day attached for debts. : CHARLES WiILsoN, who is wanted at Huntington on a charge of forging a check for $BO on James R. Stack, was captured at Warsaw. : A sTROXG flow of gas was struck at Oldenburg while-drilling for water at a depth of 200 feet. : A NEW hog disease has broken out in Tipton county, and good, fat hogs are dying in great numbers. - JACKSON AMOB, of Shelbyville, while handling timber ién Morgan county,fell through a bridge with his team. Both legs were broken. ' ' “A. J. HINKLEY, aged sixty-four, a patient in the Central hospital for the insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel.

IN the circuit court at Crown Point Judge Shirléy has rendered his decision against the Lakeside Jockey club, which knocks out racing at the old Roby track until April 15. The new Sheftfield track is running, but it is understood that Gov. Matthews. will stop itinmadavy orso

Tur Union Shoe Co., a large eastern manufacturing concern, will locate a shoe factory at Wellsbore, near Laporte, that will give ¢mployment to four hundred men. Ohio capitalists are -booming Wellsboro as the coming Birmingham of Indiana, ard have already located a large number of industries. 4 e

At Union City Bert Morris died at 4 o’clock the other morning from the result of injuries received in a runaway. He was a well to do young man, and is the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Morris who has died from accident. .

Fire the other afternoon destroyved the Arnold hotel at Milford. Loss, $11.000; insured for $%51,200 in the Ohio Mutual. : . SHERIFF DAN McKAnax, of Wabash county, found two large iron bars concealed in the berth of a prisoner in the county jail. The bars were passed in through the windows by friends of some of the prisoners to facilitate a jail delivery. S

. C. E. Fisngn was fined $21.55 at Elkhart for throwing an avbple, which stivck and ceriously injured a young woman. e

SANITARIANY WyNN has made an expert examinuation of a portion of the remains found in the Holmes ‘‘castle” at Irvington. He finds that the portion is probably the lvngs of Howard Peitzel. . s Ox the appliecation of local stock‘holders the offices of the Indiana Telephone Construction Co.,with beadquarters at Frankfort, were placed in the hands of a receiver, Charles V. Lish, of Elkhart. e

~ A NOTABLE GATHERING.: The Triennial Council of the Episcopal s . Church Opens. e - MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oect. '4.J—The ' triennial convention -of the Episcopal church was opened Wednesday morning with the celebration of holir communion. The regular order of common prayer and litany had been said at the 7 o’clock service. The epistle was read by Bishop Neely, of Maine, the Gospel was read by the archbishop of Rupert’s Land, and the alms were received by Assistant Bishop Gilbert, of Minnesota.” After the reading of theLospel the sermon was delivered by Rt. Rev. Bishop Cox, of the diocese of ¢entral New York. This service was commenced at 11 o’clock and it was :fte»r 1 o'clock when Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri, pronounced the ®enediction. Shortly after the formal organization of the house of deputies had been effzcted the consideration of thereport of the commission appointed Ey the convention of '92 was made the special order for Thursday morning, to be continued in the same status until finally disposed of. Outside of this tlfia proceadings of the session were of a purely routine nature. When the roll was called by Secretary Hutchins, of Hart~ ford, Conn., between 500 and 600 clerical and lay delegates answered to their names. By unanimous vote Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York, who has presided over every general convention since 1886, was elected chairmani Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, of New York, was againelected general secretary. | While the deputies were in session the house of bishops organized in Knickerbocker hall, adjoining; Gethsemane church, and which had been fitted up with individual desks hoaned from the senate chamber at St. Paul. In the absence of the bishops ¢f Connecticut and Rhode Island, Bishop Whipple, the senior bishop in attendance, presided, and Bishop Doane was

o > | //’ | ay ~ Y 1 -e 3 | fl}‘ fi\k i ' AN L] 27 /' L ' , ./”/@?‘f, e Zzzz=l WY 7 e \ ; AN Y {/// :-\\f‘{. ° \ \\\"fa‘a\ 3 \ $ \ RN | /l/// AN A BISHOP. WHIPPLE. 3 elected as chairman, or vice president. Reve Dr. Hart, -of llartfoil. was chosen secretary. Greetings of the Church of England were presented by the archbishop of Van Rupert’s Land and the bishop of Qu'Appelle, after which the bishopsadjourned. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. s.—The prospect of a battle royal over the disposition to be made of the revision report brought the clerical and lay delegates to the Episcopal convention out in force - at Gethsemane church Thursday morning, while the gallerie§ were crowded with local and visiting churchmen and churchwomen. At theoutset of the session Dr. Dix announced the committees on the state of the church, new dioceses, canons, the prayer-book and other subjects to be brought before the convent,iort After much discussion a resalution of fraternal greeting was vo‘ied sent to the Methodist conference of northern Minnesota, in session |a few blocks away. This is the first time in the history .of a |general convention of the Episcopal church that greetings have been sent to a conference of another denomlination, and the action is regarded usfl.’significant mark of the advance of Christian unity. | " When the hour arrived for]the(special order Dr. Hoffman in behalf of the revision commission made a brief explanatory statemert. Himself and ‘his associates, he said, would have been gladly relieved '}Of the responsibility, =~ but onece | having -accepted the trust they had endeavored to discharge it to the best {of,their ability. - The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole to hear and consider the report. L In committee of the wholeiat the Thursday afternoon session, the house of deputies threw ofverboard bodily the ‘solemn declaration of faith with which t},fie proposed new constitution and canons was prefaced; refused to concur in the recommendation of the c({)mmlttee that the name of the trienial gathering be changed to the “Gener;fi Synod,” and likewise twice r'ejtcted a proposition to recognize the title “The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.” The overwhelming victory of the antiirevisionists in the matter of the declaration of faith and principles and upz)n which the commission of 1892 had expended much time, thought and lgbor, apparently demoralized its stppOrtex's, and to the motion to reject|the’ new ' name of the assemblage theylmade but a feeble resistance. ) b The anti-revisionists abandgned their intention of endeavoring to sj}h‘elve thie report at the outset, and; as|the document, when re-revised by the present g'at.hei'%ng, must be submxttel& Y 0 every diocesan convention in the United States for its action, the contest between the two elements will fixecessarily be renewed in the convention of ’9B. Meanwhile the old cohstitution remains in force. ! )

Cholera in the Orient. Sax Fraxcisco, Oct. 3.—The Japanese official cholera report for the week ending September 14, received by the City of Peking Tuesday, shows that there were (20 new cases in the empire and 425 deaths. The total mumber of cases 'reported since the plague started is 42,073 and the number of deaths 28,078. 'l'he Japanese consul at Gensau, Corea, under date of August 9, reports that the number of cholera patients is gradunally increasing in the native quarters of that settlement. The death rate is comparatively hf&'h. Sent to FPrison. § ¢ : Ricnmoxp, Va., Oct. 4, —Rinhlax-d Cardwell, the elerk in the Stnte?bal;k who was indicted for making false entries whereby Samuel B. Nels%; was allowed to overdraw hisaccount, pleaded guilty in the hustings cour'i Thursday morning and was given two years in penitentiary. o Will Satisfy Geérmany’s Claims. ' BrrLiy, Oct. 4.—The government has received notification = that China is ready to satisfy theclaims of Germany growing vut of the destraction of the German mission at Gwdtow by a Chivese mob. ! oL

HONORS FOR LIBERTY BELL. Remarkable Scenes on Its Uourney to Atlanta. ; K~NoxvILLE, Tenn., Oct. 7.—Like a benediction the liberty bell sped through the lovely Roanoke valley, over the rugged Blue Ridge mountains and down through the picturesque valley of East Tennessee, on an ideal October Sabbath. Reverently earnest thousands paid their tribute of homage 'to the venerated relic. Sunday schools of all denominations, marshalled by their pastors, and educational institutions turned out the youth and beauty of Virginia and Tennessee and bullet-scarred exconfederates walking side by side with G. A. R. veterans, uncovered their heads in silent but stately salute. . Truly it was a wonderful day. From Roanoke, Va., where the party spent Saturday mnight, the progress of the relic has been one continuous ovation, quiet and dignified though it was. At every cross road men, women and children stared with uncovered heads and waved flags as the train flew past. Church bells tolled and little children pelted the bell with flowers. At Elliston a great-grandson of Patrick Henry, himself a white-haired man of 70 years, pressed forward and craved permission to touch the bell. Here a full Sunday school sang a patriotic hymn. At Christiansburg the boys of the Blacksburg military academy stood in line as a’, guard of honor. There was a great crowd at East Radford, where Mayor Warwick and Thomas L. Hicks made brief addresses to a concourse of public school children. The great zinc and iron town of Pulaski gave hearty greeting. At Marion, Glade Springs and Abingdon the population were all out, and between them were kuots of people at every mountain cabin. :

It was left for Bristol, half in Virginia and half in Tennessee to turn out a crowd that overflowed the railroad station and stretched out as far in every direction as the eye could reach. Volnnteer firemen acted as guards, while Mayor Winston, of the Virginia side, and Mayor Anderson, of the 'Tennessee side, joined in the welcome. Girls from the Southwest - Virginia institute sang a hymn and placed a banner of black and gold on the peak of the bell. Then they clambered over the car, each in turn touching the bell. A line was formed, and for two hours a steady stream of people of all ages, colors and social standing passed across the bell ear. One venerable woman who admitted that'she was 88 years old knelt at the bell and-invoked a divine blessing upon the old mass of historic metal. :

At Johnson City, Tenn., 900 public school children sang and pelted the bell with flowers. KEvery house, and even the street cars, showed the national colors. Another brief stop was made at Jonesboro, the ancient capital city of the one-time state of Franklin, which was part of Tennessee, a slice of Kentucky and a corner of North Carolina. Here Andrew Jackson presided as judge over the.cireuit court. A great crowd poured out "of the quaint old town and Mayor Warwick made a brief address. A 4 Greenville, the home and last resting place of Andrew Johnson, there was another dignified ovation. At Morristown the choir of the hethodist church sang. hymns, in the chorus of which hundreds of children joined. It was dark when Knoxville ‘was reached, but people swarmed on the bridge over the railroad and into the big railroad freight yards where the bell car was sidetracked. The crush of people was tremendous, and stalwart policemen quickly formed a line, and until nearly midnight there was a steady stream of -people around the Pbelt.. o . :

CALL FOR AID AT FOO CHOW.

Appeal to Admirals Brings Two War-

ships to the Scene.

Foo Cuow, Oct. 7.—The consuls have telegraphed to’ the admirals for warships. Two British cruisers have arrived. The British vice consul has started from Foo Chow. He will go to Peking with dispatches to Sir Nicholas Q’Connor, explaining the hopeless situation and the futility of continuing the farce of inquiring into the massacre.

SuANGHAI, Oct. 7.—The Chinese authorities are contesting every point of the inquiry into the massaere of Christians at Ku-Cheng. They maintain that the seven executions of natives that have already taken place have amply avenged the murders of the missionaries and members of their families. : :

ALIBI. DESTROYED.

Student Graham Alleges Durrant Con-

fessed Flis Absence from Lecture.

Sax Fraxcisco, Oct. 7.—One of the greatest sensations in the Durrant case, and one which comes now as a climax with crushing weight upon the accused, has become the property of the prosecution. Theodore Durrant not only confessed to a classmate that lie had no notes of Dr. Cheney’s lecture, but he begged his friends to take his notes to his mother, Mrs. Durrant, that they might bLe copied. ‘‘'l have no notes of that lecture,” the accused student said, ‘*and I only need them to complete my alibi.” The student to whom - Durrant made the fatal acknowledgment is his classmate and friend, Dr. Gilbert . Graham.

Cummings Nominated for Congress.

New Yoßk, Oct. 7.—Amos J. Cummings was nominated for congress by Tammany hall in the Tenth congressional district tofill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew J. Campbell. The state democracy of the sam= district nominated William J. Brown, who is a printer and a leader in labor circles. ' Killed His Son-in-Law. LeabpviLLg, Col,, Oct. 7.—Ex-Sheriff Patrick KKennedy was murdered Saturday evening by his father-in-law, exPolice Justice Thomas Powers. The men bave had several quarrels of late. ‘ : Ag-{gg;or Aid. : NEw Yorg, Odt”/ 7.—From the headquarters of the Irish National alliance in New York city a stirving appeal was issued Sunday. 1t was a call for money “to carry on the new campaign for “‘the .complete independeunce of Ireland by any means consistent with the laws of nutions.” .« i e ‘ ; County Treasurer Robbed., Arcapia, Fla., Oct. 7.—County Treasarer B. 1. Wood was held up by four masked men Friday night at 12 o’clock _snd was made to open the county safe ‘and ‘turn_over the contents, which R D O R RSB e e .:;f.,.,-n_ fl“

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. e THE WISE LITTLE SCHOLAR. The wisest of my scholars is a gentle little - maiden, e s Who looks at life and learning with a pair of ‘soft blue eyes: : o She has an answer ready, with a deal of logle laden, . And solves all knotty questions and problems as they rise, We were learning in'geography of surface elevations— , “Can yon tell meé what relief maps are?” I asked the little class. ' { expected only hanging heads and verbal hesitations: i But my wisest little scholar couldn’t let & f question pass. . “If you please, sir,” sald she, joyously—with pride her cheeks were burning, : To think that she could answer when the others couldn’t do it— : “A relicf map is a map you've been a awful time a-learning, : ‘And you're awful tir?d of it, and you're so : glad to get th'oo it.”’ : 3 —Louisa H. Bruce, in N. Y. Independeat. THE PECULIAR TURK. i What He Does When a Fire Breaks Uut : g in His Neighborhood. - American boys and girls accustomed to the dash of fire horses through the streets, and the reaching of the burning house or shop in five or. ten min‘utes, only a fair perf;rmance of our fire departments, will.laugh to hear how the slow-going Turk manages the matter. 3 3 1 In Turkey’s most important -city, Constantinople, there are no electric fire signals to be rung at almost any street corner, but the fires are watched for from several fire towers that are built in various portions of the city. The one shown in the accompanying picture is in the old part of Constantinople, just inside the gate of Soulamanie, and is a historic one, for it is built onithe site of the forum of Constantine the Great, from whose name, as many of you probably know, this beautiful city of the Bosporus is named. Toward the top of this-tall, graceful tower a.rod or pole projects on each side; these are for the fire signals. On the top of the tower stands, day and night, a watchman, who looks all about on every side for the first sign of a fire. If he sees a suspicious smoke anywhere he at once hangs out on the rods a sort of ball-shaped basket or lantern,

-\ “ PR LY s ' | I | ee e N ”nre ) ,"k % o ‘.\\y Il'fi" . 14y Y 7 s sty Y WL YT S N U o i g Yfi] %o \fi R | Jn il ' / . TURKISH FIRE TOWER. as it is called, one for each district, up to the one where the fire scems tao be. The city was built on sever hills, and each hill is a district, so if the fire is in the third district thrce balls will hang on each side, that all may know where to run for the fire. ‘ . The street watchman, whose duty it is to kecp his eye often on the tower, soon sees the signal, and if it isin his. district he starts on a run to warn the firemen. Ilc hasa club, and ashe runs he beats on the pavement with it, and crics at the top of hisvoice: “‘Yanghin var! Yanghin var!” “‘There is fire! There is fire!” The first to " hear the nroiseé and din are the -dogs of the city, and the: dogs of Constantinople ought to have a story all Dby themseclves, for they are very prominent. There are ten thousand of them, and the visitors say that it seems as if every dog in the city turned out for every fire.| It is certain that almost at once the 'watchman has a great crowd of dogs yelping and barking at his heels, and this - commotion soon arouses the firemen. These are volunteers, not a regular company of trained men as we have, and part of them ran to where an old-fashioned hand engine is kept, and get it out and start for the fire with it, and another set of men grab their leather water bags, which they sling over their shoulders as they run, and go to the nearest public fountain to fill them with water. Then they, too, rush to the fire, the engine pipes are attached to the bags, the men begin to pump, and at last, when the fire has had a good half hour’s start; some small streams of water are played on it, without, however, as you may guess, very much efiect. : ‘ . At night a’ colored light isused on the towers, its color showing the district where the firéd is. As the districts are large and the firemen have no idea in what part of the district the_ fire may be, they sometimes racc over the most of it, with dogs and pcople following, before they find the blaze; by that time, perhaps, a good part of the water has leaked out of: the -bags; which are kept in us¢'when they arc old and worh, and - little good: can be done. It is because their means of fichting fire are so slhight and imperfeet that the eity is often visited by most serious fires, and this is why. too, the snost dreadful sound in the streets, parcicudarly at night, is the shrill “Yanghin var!” of the watchman, Many of the wealthier citizens, keep on hand large heavy curtains, almost as thick as the Turkish rugs, and of great gize, which they hang in front of their ‘honscs when a fire is near and sceius threatening, This curtain is called kuzkeelim.—N: Y. Times. . b

lle Wants to Know. : ommy Traddles—Papa, you call that little Lit of a tiny wee cngine a donkey engine, doun’t you? : ~ Mr. Traddles—Yes, my boy. Tommy—\Well, papa, won’t that donkey engine have to grow a great deal bigger before it can have any horse | power?—Harper’s Young People. : Ifow Papa Was Pinned Dowa. “Papa, I'’ve got some mending for you ‘o do. My roller-skates ave broken.”” . “Well, put them away till morning. It’s too late to mend anything now.” “VWhy! you said this morning that it was never too late to mend.”"—larper'’s Kound Table P sl e e : _ An Act of Real Hérolsm.v Wil - “Iwish I were a man! I would ”fio something noble, self-sacrificing.” = - “Propose to a girl like yourself?”—

-~ TOMBSTONE RHYMES. Remarkable Samples Discovered in New -+ ' Fngland Cemeteries. - It is common to say' that makers of grayestones have little regard for the truth; “monumental liars,” they are sometimes called. But though the good side of the departed is generally —and properly—emphasized, there are many instances in which a spirit of frankness seems to have possessed the village poets, whose services are so much in demand on mortuary occasions. ’ ; % - Ina Vermont cemetery, according to an exchange, one may read the following epitaph, which certainly does nof’ rr on the side of flattery: 5 : - Here lies in silent clay © . . Miss Arabella Young, e /% Who, on the 21st of May, { - Began to hold her tongue. And here is a quatrain, never before in print, of a curiously similar: imt: P A : pgere lies the body of Hannah Thurber, _ Once she talked; and none could curb her; ~Three husbands had she, all are dead, * They died of earache, so 'tis said. In the same rural cemetery where this last outspoken epitaph is found, visitors sometimes pause to smile at the ingenuous grief of a widower whose change of mood in the concluding couplet was perhaps quite unintentional: In memory of Susan Glover, - - My wife most true and kind; - Though I should marry ten times over, " Her like I shall not find. " Grammatical correctness is perhaps too much to rask of the unprofessional ‘muse. . Meter and rhyme are hard taskmasters, and while a man is intent ‘upon minding them, he is almost to be pardonéd for using a little too much of that very convenient article known as poetic license. In a case like the fol 4 lowing we may: praise the smoothness of the verse rather than laugh at the ruggedness of the grammatical construction: - Pause, good friend. and drop a te.’\r. ; The body of John Pratt is here. Think of the day when you will be - Under the sod as deep as me. : * The amateur poetis troubled not only by the trammels of meter and rhyme, but by the narrow space in which he isobliged to work. It is impossible tosay ‘everything in four lines, and, as a consequence, much must be left to the un‘derstanding of the reader. So it was, no doubt, with the author of the following:. - ;o e .. Beneath this stone lies William Bett, In the river he was drowned: - A squall came u), his boat upset, His body wuas never found. J

- THE GOOSE BARNACLE. - One of the Most: Interesting Members of the Shellfish Family. ) . The goose barnacle does not attach itself to an object rigidly by its shell, like the common barnacle, but by a disk, at the base of a stem or a neck, and it is from this stem or neck that it gets the name of goose barnacle. With a glue or.secretion of its own it attaches itself so tightly that it is diffi-. cult to sérape it off; but the neck is| flexible.. 'ff"he body of the goose ba‘rn-‘! acle, when its hand or feeder is within] its shell and out of sight, looks some-| thinglike a soft-shelled clam; and it is, } in fact, sometimes called the clam bar-| nacle. The goose barnacle is not unusual in the waters around New York:| ' In its earliest existence the goose| barnacle, like other barnacles, is a free| swimmer, but it very soon attaches it-| self, and thercafter it remains fast. It] may hitch on to a spile in a tideway or| to some other fixed object, butitis gencrally found moored to a-floating ob-J ject, a piece of wood, a plank, or the| side of a vqgsg% fastened to a moving object it is more likely to get sufficient sustenance. ; v

- The barnaclc lives upon animalcula.| It fishes for its food with a 2 feeder,

i - 1 2 : 2™ < '.,» ,( f‘;:’-\-, : f | o — v(h ;g,;fl ‘:1:“?15\,"'(' | 7~ SN i Z D D - —\BZ T oWL — = ‘/ l/,‘» ./ - AR 6 ; \—"F___;' 7 e 3 ' GOOSE BARNACLE. | which it throws out from its sheil and .uses something like a hand or a net. The feeder is ' made up of many slende'& little fingers, with delicate feathery lateral projections, through which th‘F water passes easily, but which retain the animalculee. The barnacle throv this feeder onut from its shell agg sweeps it through the water and over into.‘its shell again with whatever it can collect. It repeats this until it is no longer hungry. | - The barnacle here pictured was until reccently av the New York aquarium at Castle Garden. It was taken from the back of a loggerhead turtle capturcd‘% the bay. - The goose barnacle.is delicate in captivity, and this onec proved no cxception to the rule. In color its shiell was not unlike that of a clam. The growth seen on the side and back - of the shell and con the neek of the bar- . nacle is a fine, brown, mossy, marine vegetation often seen on such barnacles. There were also on the shell of this barnacle three or four minute barnacles of the ordinary kihd, cxtremely small, each perhaps not' more ‘than an cighth of an inch across, a{d yet cach provided with cne of those ‘wonderful hands or nets wherewith to supply itself with food.—N. Y. Sun. [ - . The Gramblers Retired in Haste. | * An excursion party from Boston wett | to a rural part of thestate, and in default of hotel accommodations some of the members were obliged to seek quarters in a farmhouse. Everything ‘'was neat and clean, and the meals were excellent, but there was anatural absence.of somce of the luxuries of city life. Two of the ladics of the party presently made the. alarmim%ldiscove "y ‘that there were no keys in the locks of their rooms. They waited ‘on the farmer's wife to complain. She listened - ‘quictly, and then said, with 4 smile: “We don’t, usvally luck our doors,-and ‘there’s no one here but you. But I suppose” you lknow your own party best.™ Tho visitors id not nsist apon © Tho youth with scorn regarded him. | 4" Quoth he: “Fm just tro; %:";‘3 MO N