Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 August 1895 — Page 2

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(Efye3nbcpenbent ZI3IMKHMA V .SMITH, Publishers and Proprietors

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. IN OPEN EEBELLION. FU KHIEN PROVINCE IN A DEPLORABLE STATE. Strange Experience of an Indiana Farmer Life and Health of Miners Held in Better Itecard by Owners of Mines. Chinese in Open Rebellion. The Shanghai Mercury publishes a dispatch from Foo-Chow spying that the position of the Europeans is critical, owing to the open hostility of the natives and native official. It is added that if an outbreak occurs the native officials will be unable to cope with the mob. FuKhien Province is said to be in a state of rebellion, and the American mission at Fung-Fook, in that province, has been burned. The Europeans and Americans have telegraphed for gunboats to protect the foreign settlement. In an interview with some of the survivors of the KuChcng massacre they declare that the outrage was carried out in the most diabolical manner, and that it was evidently a premeditated and carefully arranged attack, entirely unprovoked, made upon the occupants of the missionary station while they were asleep. The bodies of the victims were buried at Foo-Chow. Suddenly Lost Sight. Friday evening Thomas Barnes, a prominent and wealthy farmer near Muncie. Ind., retired enjoying his usual good health, and when he was awakened next morning he was totally blind. Numbers of physicians have examined him, but are unable to account for the sudden blindness. Although an aged man. his eyes have never required the use of glasses when he was reading. The balls and pupils still retain their action and are natural, but everything remains dark to Barnes. Prominent opticians have examined his eyes and are puzzled. Protection for Miners. The report of K W. Bryan. United States mine inspector for the Indian Territory, for the liscal year ended .lune MO. lS'Jöy has been received at the Interior Department. Mr. Bryan says that he found a general disposition on the part of mine owners to comply with the law and suggestions as to the improvements not specifically required by law have been as -a rule adopted. The ventilation in nearly all the mines has been increased and the air-courses have all been well timbered and cleaned. Fish as Big; as a Cruiser. The officers of the Spanish men-of-war Sanchez Barcaiztequi and Maria Christa nia rejort at Havana that near the Colorado reefs they met a monstrous fish of great length. The Maria Christania collided with some unknown substance, injuring her bottom plates. After a thorough search they found the monster, which was followed by others of the same species, but smaller. The officer declare that the fish was almost the size of the cruiser. NEWS NUGGETS. Five bodies have thus far been recovered of the victims of last week's cloudburst near Adelaide, Colo. A contract has just been awarded to the Keneely Bell Company of Troy for placing a peal of bells aggregating 22.700 pounds in the tower of the new city hall at Minneapolis. This will, it is said, the largest chime of bells in this country. At Keystone. W. Va., J. M. Stroud, coke boss for the Pulaski Iron Company, shot W. A. (filbert and James Owens, two white miners working for the same company. The trouble originated at a dance given by strikers last month. 5 II bert may live, but Owens will die. Hans Hanson was sentenced in the United States Court at San Francisco to be hanged Oct. IS for the murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of the bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas St. ('lair killed the mate as the first step in a mutiny. St. Clair will di? the same day as his companion in crime. News has reached Seattle. Wash., from the Behring Sea fleet that seal life in the sea is fast being destroyed by the vessels engaged in taking the seals outside the sixty-mile zone In a short lime there will Ik? no seal s to protect in American waters, it 13 said, unless some means can be reached to prohibit the seal-fishing by sea. PaiKTS have been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Boston, Mass., by the Hell Telephone Company asking for an injunction against the National Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Boston, to prevent alleged infringement of the Berliner patents held by the plaintiffs. A hearing has been si t for Sept. 2. The British steamship Brawnmor sails from San Francisco for Peru, calling at Central American iorts. This is the first actual opjMjsition to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Central American route since the New York oiirts enjoined the (oast Hue vessels of the Panama Railroad Company. The rate charged will be 40 per cent, less than the Pacific Mail tariff. Two well-known British ships, one bound from Melbourne for London, and the other from Newcastle, N. S. W., to Panama, an? long overdue and insurance men have given up both for lost. The bark Florence sailed from Newcastle on Jan. -' and ha not been heard from since. The supposition is that she ha foundered or gone ashore on the South American -onst. The ship Stoneleigh sailed from Melbourne on Feb. 27 and therefore is now out lo'J days. The discovery that the supiosed burglar who entered the residence of Mrs. John Scdgbeer, of Wichita, Kan., taking her diamonds and jewelry and considerable money, was none other than the woman's 10-year-old son Charlie, caused it sensation. The boy was found trying to dispose of the stolen property. The family is prominent in social circles. Brockway and his notorious gang of counterfeiter have been arrested in Jersey City. Consul Doederlein, at LeipsJe, reports that plows are operated by electricity much cheaper than by steam.

EASTERN. F

John L. Sullivan has applied for a saloon license at Boston. Louise V. Kissam, a niece of W. II. Vanderbilt. and Louis S. Kerr, the Wall street broker, eloped from Monmouth Beach, N. J., and were married at New York. It is alleged that a number of smugglers of tobacco from Canada to the United States, at House's Point, N. Y., have been detected by customs officers, and many arrests will follow. Vicar General J. J. Kennedy, of the see of Syracuse, N. Y., has been invested with the title of monsignor, the honor coming from Pope Leo XIII., on the recommendation of Bishop P. A. Ludden. Justice O'Brien, of the New York Supreme Court, has issued a temporary injunction to prevent the whisky trust reorganization committee from acquiring stock under the reorganization agreement. At Brooklyn an extensive fire was started Thursday noon by the explosion in the Columbia stores at the foot of Atlantic avenue. Bear's wharf adjoining was destroyed before the flames were checked. A fhip also burned. Eugene Blumenthal, a brother of the playwright, Oscar Blumenthal, committed suicide by taking poison in his room in the Great Northern Hotel. New York. Blumenthal had been ill for some time and unable to procure employment. A letter was found addressed to the coroner. It was da-ted July 20. In it Blumeuthal stated that he intended taking his life, and asked that his body be given to some medical college for study. The Hamilton Savings Fund and Loan Association, Pittsburg, with a capital stock of $::0,000,0(0, was closed by the State bank examiners, and the Union Trust Company placed in charge as temporary receivers. The liabilities, according to the officers of the association, are but $0.(00 and the assets $11,000. The association is a national concern, but the depositor are believed to be all local people, mostly wovkingmen. The books show altout 1,000 shareholders. The statue of Chancellor James Kent, nearly a century ago justice of the New York State Supreme Court and the author of the famous commentaries on the American law, was visited at Poughkeepsie Wednesday by a number of his descendants and several members of the bar, who in this way recognized the l.'i-d anniversary of his birth. The statue, which is approaching completion in the studio of Sculptor George E. Bissel, will be placed next fall in the new Congressional Library at Washington. WESTERN. Thousands of bushels of peaches ami apples will be lost in the vicinity of West Plaitis, Mo., for the want of means to take care of them. There are 1 ."7,000 barrels of good apples in sight there. The marriage of Edwin Holt and Mabel Eaton, the well-known theatrical people, has been indefinitely postponed because of the arrival at Toledo, where they are playing, of Mr. Holt's wife and three children. Indictments were voted Wednesday by the Grand Jury at Chicago against six election judges charged with fraudulent practices in the First and Second Wards last November. The indictments grow out of the evidence adduced in the investigation of the McGann-Belknap contest. An accumulation of gas caused an explosion in the cupola of the top mill blast furnace at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Mid pieces of iron, coke and cinders were blown 200 feet in the air. Samuel Cashnich, a filler, was fatally burned and James Carman was badly injured by flying missiles. F. E. Wilson, alias C. B. Walts, William A. Black, C. C. Woods, and F. II. Woodward, awaiting trial at Pueblo, Col., on a charge of forgery, is said to have operated throughout the West and Northwest. The detectives who have worked up the cases against Wilson say then' are few towns of prominence in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming where he has not swindled people by means of raised checks. Stark Siding, two miles east of Canton, Ohio, on the Fort Wayne, was the scene of a disastrous freight wreck at 2:0 o'clock Friday morning, in which three men lost their lives and eight more are lying in Aultmau Hospital, more or less injured. The train, which was an extra, going west, broke in two at the Summit, and the rear portion ran into the front end when it stopped for water at the tank. Eight car were smashed into kindling wood and tratlie was delayed about two hours. The killed and injured were all tramps, riding on an empty boxcar. The trainmen escaped without injury. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pittsburg, has developed a bloodthirsty quality of which he was never suspected. It all came about since he took to bicycling. This advertisement in the pajK-rs explains the case: "Tweuty-five dollars rewardstolen, from the corner Dithride :inl Bayard streets, Victor bicycle No. ,',- t, full nickle finish, 1S04 model, raised handle bar, wood rims, two-inch tires, scorcher saddle, rat-trap pedals, toe clips. Itell, and Spalding cyclometer; no brake; Pittsburg license No. 'Ml. The above reward will be paid for wheel and thief, dead or alive. F. T. Iovejoy, 012 Carnegie Iluilding." The United States cavalry reached Jackson's Hole, Wyo., Friday. The infantry was stopped en route, as there were no Indians in sight. The scare existed along the route the Indians took in returning to the reservations. Notwithstanding the threats made against the life of Agent Teter and his chief clerk, Kavaucl MeBeth. they vent ahead of the troop into Jackson's Hole, to warn the settlers not to attack the redskins and to obtain the name of all the parties concerned in what Akcnt Teter insists on calling the massacre of the Indians. Captain Jim, chief of the Shoshones, will ask all the Indians to go back to their reservations without fighting. If they will not go he will assist the soldier in removing them and will call upon his tribe to help. Cloudbursts and flood in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming did great damage Tuesday night, causing much loss of life ami great destruction of property. The dead are: At Socorro, N. M.. the infant son of E. Baca, ami six members of the Duran family. At Caspar, Wyo.. two Harrison children and Mrs. S. Newby and ehild. At Fort Scott, Kas., Walter Austin nnd Willie Gould. At Adelaide, Colo., Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Tracey, and an unknown woman. Four men are missing, thought to have been caught in a landslide near Adelaide. The greatest damage seems to have been done at So

corro, N. M., where seven lives are known to be lost. Three small towns near by may have been swept away. The surrounding country is devastated. The property damage is said to be over $1,000,000. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., while the steamer Alva, bound down with iron ore, was aground below the dyke Thursday morning, she was run into and sunk by the whaleback barge Hundred and Seventeen, in tow of the steamer E. M. Peck, bound down with iron ore. The whaleback took a sheer when near the Alva, which caused the collision. Her nose punched a hole in the Alva at the engineroom gangway, three feet below the main .deck, filling the engine-room with water. Steam pumps will be put on board, after temporary repairs have been made, so that she can proceed on her way to Chicago. The whaleback barge is badly damaged in the stem and her ballast tank forward is full of water, but as she can free herself with her own pumps she is still afloat. The Alva's stern is on the bottom, and the bow is in four fathoms of water. The San Francisco Chronicle publishes an article in regard to alleged frauds in the railway mail service on the Pacific coast, which, it says, promises to lead to one of the most far-reaching Federal investigations ever held. It is alleged by Railway Postal Clerk E. S. Culver and others that United States mails were fraudulently stuffed, with the advice and consent of Supt. Samuel Flint, of the eighth division of the railway mail service, during June, 1JS04, in order that weights carried during that mouth, which formed the basis for estimating the compensation to be paid the railroads for the next four years, might appear unduly large. Railway iostal clerks of long experience say there are grei.t opportunities for stuffing cars in such a way as to rob the Government of millions each year. The Chronicle adds that his local scandal opens up a wide field for Congressional investigation. Fourteen negro miners fell victims to the fury of an Italian mob at Spring Valley, III., Sunday. Three probably will die, and the result of the wounds of many of the others is doubtful. Fully 1,000 Italian miners armel with all sorts of weapons and preceded by a band of music marched on No. II location, where a colony of negro miners and their families are domiciled. The mob was bent on revenging one of their countrymen, who had been killed in an altercation with some negroes. The negro colony was completely misled as to the intentions of the mob on account of the baud, and some of them flocked to see the supposed parade. They fell easy and defenseless victims to the fury of the crowd. Ii was an attempted massacre, and in the anger of the foreigners no discrimination as to age or sex was made. The feeling of hatred which has existed toward the negroes ever since their importation during the strike a year ago was given fierce vent, and it was with the ferocity of long-restrained malice that the mob leaped to its work. That dozens were not killed seems almost miraculous.

SOUTHERN. James Graham was assassinated by moonshiners at Birmingham, Ala. He had been informing on them. Lee Thomas was hange'! at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of .1. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. Ed West, operator and night agent at Potts Camp, Miss., was killed by Joel Gatlin. a politician. The latter may be lynched. An unknown man was murdered at the mouth of Hart's Creek, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, the locality infested by the Bromfield and McCoy factions. In a shooting affray at Fort AVorth, Texas. Frank 1 tippy was shot dead and Frank Thomas, a "trusty" in the city prison, probably fatally wounded. Four children of M. S. Trimble in Bayou Rapids, La., were poisoned by morphine given them by their mother in mistake for quinine. Two have died. The Alabama health ol'icer has called Gov. Oates' attention to the frightful death rate at the Coa Iburg mines among the convicts, it being ninety in every 1,000. George and John Pierce, who were sentenced by Judge Parker to hang at Fort Smith for murder, have been granted appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, and their execution will not take i dace. The non-union men are being forced to leave the Bluelields, W. Va., coal fields by the strikers, who threaten personal violence to those who don't quit work. Gov. MacCorkle has reached there and his hasty return is attributed to the threats. Serious trouble is expected within the next few days. John Enhart, a farmer, of Robinson, Ark., was killed Wednesday night at his home, his head being crushed with an six. Enhart and his wife quarreled liecau.se he whipped two of her farst husband's children, and as there is nothing to indicate a motive for the crime outside of the household, an investigation is being made on the supposition that the murder was committed by some member of the family. FOREIGN. Cuban insurgents are reported to have captured the towns of Baire Jiguani and G uautanamo. A dispatch to the Itndoii Standard from Berlin says that a severe earthquake occurred at the Russian town of Krasnovodsk. It is reported that twelve persons were killed. A dispatch from Madrid says: Republican and Carlist Senators and Deputies have addressed a protest to the Government against the payment of the Mora claim without the sanction of the Cortes. The protest declares that the Government precipitancy in settling the claim of the United States is unconstitutional and humiliating to Spain, nnd that the conduct of the United States in taking advantage of the Cuban insurrection to press the claim is an exhibition of an unfriendly disHsitioii. The Government has decided to pay the Mora claim tn three installments. It is the intention afterward to induce the United States to recognize Spanish claims for damages to proper! j in Florida of citizens of the country which were incurred during the civil war in America. Foil turn Xavier, the Brazilian Consul General in New York, believes that the Island of Trinidad, which was recently taken possession of by the British, will be regained by Brazil, lie said the Brazilian Government was making every effort to settle the difficulty by diplomacy, but

if these means failed he believed Brazil would try to take the island by force. "My country's navy cannot, of course, compare in strength with that of Great Britain, Mr. Xavier said, "but our citizens are determined to nsert their rights and have no fear of Fugland." When asked what iositim he thought the United States would take in case of war, Mr. Xavier declared that it could not remain neutral without violating the Monroe doctrine, and thi't, he thought, the administration would be unwilling to do. A Shanghai dispatch to the London Times says that the mission and sanitarium at Wha Sang, near Ku Cheng. Province of Fokein, was attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Steetio Newce-mbe 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. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Mabel C. Hartford, were both wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chan Fu. The Prefect of Cheng Fu. who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously implicated in the Cheng Fu outrages.

IN GENERAL Isaac Gauthier, a Montreal, Que., cigar-maker, 2-'l years old, emptied five chambers of his revolver into a beautiful young girl to whom he was engaged to be married, Celiua Consign.", also years old, killing her. Gauthier, after his arrest, said he bought the revolver for the express purpose of killing his sweetheart. He also, he said, intended to take his life, had he not used all the bullets in the revolver in killing the girl. It appears that he is dying of consumption. The forthcoming review by the geological survey of the mineral resources of the country will show that the production of aluminium in the United States in 1JS04 ivas rT0,000 pounds. The imports were valued at $4,110. Bauxile, which is an oxide of aluminium, has been found in sufficient quantities to be commercially valuable in only three localities in the United States. These are New Mexico, Arkansas and the Coosa Valley of Georgia and Alabama. Aluminium, the review will say, has now found the iositioii in the arts predicted for it, and the demand is increasing. Its metallurgical use has proved more valuable than was expected. R. G. Dun 5c Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "There is a perceptible halt which may deceive if attributed to wrong causes. Trade two months late in the spring pushed forward into July a large share of business belonging to April or May. Seeing a rush of orders out of time, many imagined it would continue, and hurried to give other orders. The jam of two months' business into one lifted prices. Then other orders came to anticipate a further rise. But the midsummer halt was inevitable, and it is yet somewhat uncertain how much improvement will appear after it. The crop of corn promises to be the largest ever grown, and is almost out of harm's way The crop of wheat appears perhaps '-."O.OOO.OOO bushels less than was expected a month ago. and had the best holies been realized it would have been more than 100,000,000 bushels short of a full crop. Cotton has lost a little, and more people seem to believe in 7,."IH .000 bales than believed in 8,000,000 a month ago." The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per

P. W. L. cent. Cleveland 10 54 VM .000 pittsimrg sr no ::. .rss Baltimore 70 40 Xl .."S-J Chicago iHJ Tl o! .Ö07 Boston so 4." :r .r.ra Cincinnati N'. 45 ."S .542 Brooklyn S2 41 lS .5.'17 Philadelphia SI 4'i 'AS .."i-'Jl New York SI 42 .7.) .510 Washington 70 28 4S ..'IS St. Louis SS 20 50 .:0 Louisville SI 21 GO .250 WKSTKKX I.F.AC. UK. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per I. W. L. cent. St. Paul N" 40 .",4 .500 Indianapolis ....SO 47 V'. .5SS Kansas City S4 40 .15 JXi Detroit SI 44 40 .524 Minneapolis S'J 41 41 .5O0 Milwaukee S" 40 411 .482 Terre Haute 85 33 52 .3.SS Grand Rapids. ...85 20 50 ..'Ml

MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $.".75 to J?0.lMi; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 'to $5.23; sheep, fair to choice, ?2.50 to J?4.l!5; wheat, No. '2 red, 7e to tJSe; coin. No. 2, 4-V- to 43c; oats. No. Ü, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2. 45c to 47c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to lllc; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, new, per barrel, 1.00 to $1.30; broom rorn, common growth to fine brush. 4c to MU? per lb. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $.(MI; hogs, choice liht, .."..OO to $.VJ.; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to .$4.00; wheat, No. 2. lM5e; to O.'Sc; corn. No. 1 white, 41e to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e to 2So. St. Iouis Cattle. f.'l.OO to $,.O0; hogs, $.50 to Jj;5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to t0c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 3Se to 3!)c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 450. Cincinnati Cattle. $.'i.."tO to $;.00; hojrs, $3.00 to J5.25; sheep, Jf2.50 to $4.00: wheat, No. 2, 70e to 72c; corn. No. 2, mixed, 42e to 44e: oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Ce to 28c; rye. No. 2, 40c to 51c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.O0 to $5.25; nheep, $2.00 to $3.."0; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 20c; rye. 48c to 40c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 red. 72o to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 22c to 24c; rye. No. 2, 40c to 51c. Buffalo-Cat tie, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 70o to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48c to 50e; oats, No. 2 white, 2!- to 31e. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 spring, (?c to 70c; corn. No. It, 42c to 44c; oats. No. 2 iitc, 20c to 28c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 47: rye. No. 1, 48c to 40c; pork, mess, $0.50 to $10.00. New York Cattle, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, $1.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73e to 74c; corq, No. 2, 4Se to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, ISc to 20c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c.

AN IDEA FROM KANSAS

PENSIONERS URGED TO DEMAND GOLD. The Wife of the Rev. Dr. Talniage Dies as the Result of Shock Sustained Last Year-Colliery Horror in Scotland. Who Originated This? Monday was pension day at Topeka, Kan., and the following circular was distributed among the old soldiers of Topeka and Shawnee County who visited the pension oflice to get their quarterly allowance from the (Jovcrnnient: "Comrades: Halt. You are entitled to gold in payment of your checks. Demand it. Do not accept depreciated currency." The pensioners are paid by checks, which are cashed at the Topeka hanks. It is claimed the circular was prepared by a bimctallist. who wants to show that there is not enough gold in the banks to pay the pensioners alone, aside from doing the other business of the country. It has also been suggested that this may be part of the Sovereign boycott of national bank notes. It is not known who distributed the circular. Dr. Talnia;jtV Ucrcu vein etit. Mrs. T. DeWitt Tahuage died at Dausville, N. Y.. at 5:l',0 Monday morning. Since the burning of the Brooklyn tabernacle last year Mrs. Talniage has suifereu from nervous prostration and she has never fully recovered from the shock sustained then. The tire broke out while the Doctor was holding his usual Sunday reception, and a large number of parishioners and visitors were in the church. They all made good their escape, but Dr. Talniage went back into the burning edifice for something he had left behind. During his absence Mrs. Talniage, who. with other members of the family, was outside awaiting his reappearance, became greatly excited and alarmed for the Doctor's safety. As soon as she was informed that he was all right she broke down completely. The sufferer was removed to the Dansviüo sanitarium about a year ago. with Miss Daisy Talniage as her constant companion. While Dr. Talniage was absent on a lecturing tour in the West he received a telegram summoning him to his wife's bedside, lie at once canceled all his engagements and hastened back To find that there was very little hope for the patient's recovery, and he remained with her until the end came. The deceased was the second wife of Dr. Talniage. His first wife was drowned while boating in 1802. having a daughter. Miss .Jessie, and a son, who has since died. Ji$ the House Down. "Swing yo pahdner. balance all. hands around! ' It was at Nancy Harris' party at her house. No. 1725 Dearborn street. Chicago. Friday night, and a dozen dusky belles and their beans were mingling in the mazy dance. The fun waxed warm and furious. "Salute yo' pahdners. Down de middle!" and just as big Eph Miller, the fiddler, got those words out of his mouth the foundation posts under the house gave way and the crazy structure almost went "down do middle." Nobody was hurt, but the loss was as follows: House, $0O; some insurance. Furniture and contents, $125; not total. Eph Miller's violin, value S I; no insurance. Susie Jones, dancing tumps, ;.li cents; no insurance. Die in a Flooded Mine. Tiie Auchen Harvie colliery at Salt Coats, Scotland, a town on the Bay of Ayra. twenty-four miles southwest of Glasgow, has been flooded. Sixty men were rescued and fourteen were entombed in the mine. Searching parties were unable to penetrate to the ioint where the unfortunate victims were buried. BREVITIES. A fraud order was issued by the Post ofiice Department Monday against Chas. a. I Jorg !v Co.. No. IS! IS Carpenter street. Chicago, 111., for conducting a fraudulent book concern. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company applied for a receiver at Little Kock.. Ark., for the Pine lOunT and Eastern Kaihvny and for the Stuttgart and Arkansas liiver IIa il way. Seven men called .lames Mason, a negro, out at Dangerfiold, Texas, and shot him dead. His wife ran into the house and got in -bed with her child. They shot her through a crack in the house. The child will get well, but the woman will die. The Secretary of War has awarded a medal of honor to Christian Albert, private, Company (I. Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, now living at llrest, Mich., for gallant conduct as a member of the storming party at Vicksburg, Miss., Mav 22, 1801 An opinion favorable to the defendants has been filed in the case of Samuel Harber et at., heirs of John Harber, against the Pennsylvania Company, in which the plaintiffs lay claim to the property on Penn avenue, Pittsburg. Pa., occupied by the extensive ofiice building of the Pennsylvania Company. The Woodrough & Ilanchett Company, one of the largest wholesale hardware houses in Chicago, failed Friday afternoon, and the store of the company was closed by the sheriff. The failure occasioned a good deal of surprise among the wholesale houses in Lake street, as the company has been. regarded as a most substantial concern, doing a large business, hut the collapse, they say, is the result of the protracted period of dull times. The liabilities of the company are about SISO.OOO. and the assets are placed at $240,000. Versailles, Ky., was thrown into excitement Monday afternoon by one of the bloodiest tragedies that ever occurred within her borders. It was the unprovoked killing of James Kodcuhaugh, a young man of 122. and the mortal wounding of II. C. Kodcuhaugh, his OO-ycar-ohl father, by W. N. Lane, a fence-dealer of Lexington, who was drunk. State Hank Examiner Cow dry closed the Citizens' State Pank at South Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about $.10,000; assets, $2'U0O. with affairs in bad condition. This bank wns the county deuositorv. nnd ever SS.000 was on deposit. Mrs. Mary St rouse, of Wooster, Ohio, tried to prevent her son from keeping company with Maggie Webb, whom she does not like. Thursday night Mrs. St rouse shot at Miss Webb, the bullet grazing her shoulder. Mrs. Strouse told tin neighltors she was going to shoot the

EXCITING FLIGHT FROM INDIANS

A Frontiersman Followed Six Mile by Piesaus in War Paint. In August of 'CO I was running a bull train between Helena and Fort Benton, on the "down trip," and at noon "went into camp where the house of John D. Brown now stands. At about 2 o'clock camp was broken and we moved on toward Friest Crossing, the water being too high at Sun River. After going about two miles I shot and wounded an old doe antelope, accompanied by two fawns, and I determined that I would have all three of those animals, and gave chase, firing whenever I could get within range, until I had exhausted my ammunition. This was before the days of breech-loading guns. I finally got the two fawns and tied them on behind my saddle and started to catch up with the "train." I was as much as six miles behind, without a cap or a bullet, only two empty six-shooters and a rifle. I paced along until I came to what is known as the Signboard Coulee. I noticed that my saddle pony kept turning to the left Finally I looked over that way myself and could see tho head and shoulders of a person down In the coulee. I spurred up Into a gallop and In a moment could see that there wcra eight persons Instead of one, and also that they were Tiejan Indiacs in full war paint and feathers. They Immediately gave chase, and for the next six miles occurred one of the most exciting races that I ever took part In. Seeing that the weight of the fawns was telling on the speed of my horse I cut them loose and at the same time threw away my overcoat, and taking the ramrod out of my rifle used it as a whip and gained a little on my pursuers. Tho last two miles of the race was In plain view of the train. The train halted, and I supposed that one of the driverswould come to my assistance, but norelief came. They dropped their whipsand Jaws at the ranie time and waved their hats and hands and halloed "Ptun." I was'doing the host I could. The Indians chased me to within 1Z yards of the train, when Bob Chestnut,, now of the Chestnut Valley, came in sight from the direction of Sun liiver, and opened fire on the Indians. They stopped chasing me and ran the otherway. It never occurred to the driversthat they had guns until after Mr. Ckestnut commenced firing. There are many old-timers in Montana who will" remember this incident well. Sun River (Mont) Sun. Some Forms or Fungi. Scarcely a day passes' In which we do not see some fonnsof fungi, so common are they inhabiting every nook and corner. If we walk in the fields, the woods, even in the dooryard, we see the little white, gray and brown umbrellas of the toadstools and mushrooms. Going to the preserve closet, we see that on the tops of many of the bottles a white growth has formed. Our old shoes hidden away in tlm dark have a greenish dust upon them; this is another fungus; and the "mother" In vinegar claims cousiuship with the yeast which raises our' broad. Tho paste-pot is flecked with pink, green and gray spots, all fungi. Some of the grain crops are often subject to partial or complete destruction from different kinds of fungi the 'smut" of wheat and corn, ergot of rye and others. Silkworms are destroyed in vast numbers by a mcl.1. Its spores, entering their bodies, till the'whole interior, nnd cause death in from seventy to a hundred and forty hours. The hop crop is often ruined by "mildew." One strange fungus attacks a kind of eaterpiller. growing like a tree from his back until it is much larger than the poor worm, that crawls about with his unwelcome guest until it kills him. St. Nicholas. Luminous Mushroom-?. A man traveling in Australia found a large mushroom of this genius weighing live pounds. He took it to tho house where ho was stopping and hung it up to dry in the sitting-room. Entering after dark, he was amazed to see a beautiful soft light emanating from tho fungus. He called in the natives to examine It and at the first glance they cried out in great feur that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually decreasinguntil it was wholly dry. Dr. Gardner, while walking through tho streets of a Brazilian town, saw sonio boj's playing witJi a luminous object which, he at first thought was a largo firelly, but he found on inspection It was a brilliant mushroom (Agaric) which now bears his name. It gave out a bright light of a greenish hue, and was called by the natives "Uor do coco," as It grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a brilliant light, and the older ones a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphorescent. Humboldt describes some exqulskely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow in rotten wood Is caused by Its containing the threads of light-giving fungi. Juno St. Nicholas. Needed Praying For. "The chief of police of Athens, Ga,sald Supt. Eldridge, of Boston, "is a. delightful man to meet, but he is a Methodist one of the old, sincere style. At the last convention in Boston ho proposed that the association have a chaplain? That roused the Western men. especially one from Omaha, who didn't want prayers. But the Georgia man got up, and looking solemnly over the gathering of police officials, said: 'Gentlemen, I think if anybody in this country needs the guidance of Almighty God, it is the heads' of the police departments In our large cities.' He won nnd we made him chaplain." Boston Traveler. A girl who has a good vigorous steadyBeldom becomes a whist fiend. j