Marshall County Independent, Volume 2, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 October 1895 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH. INDIANA. LOSES HIS STATION. REAR ADMIRAL KIRKLAND IS RELIEVED. Has Uten Too Free with His Opinion and Courtesies Stat itic of Minion Keiiion Politicians 'Weep Over lecreased Fees Ilia Steamer Sink. Kirklaud Talks Too Much. The announcement that Hear Admiral Kirklaud is to be roliei-c.i of the command of the Kuropeau squadron has caused a sensation in natal ein bs. For some time past it has been rumored that Secrets ry Herbert was not plea cd with the conduct of Admiral Kirklaud. Dissatisfaction was first cause I by the action of the mimiral in sending a letter of congratulation to 1 'resident Faun of France on his election. Secretary Herbert construed this as entirely wrong, holding that the ofiidal position of the admiral precluded him from making any comment whatever with reference to French politics, and sent a letter of reprimand. Admiral Kirklaud responded by appealing to the President to overrule Secretary Herbert's strictures u his conduct. He claimed in hi own defense that lie had known President Fame personally, and he had merely congratulated him in a personal capacity and not as en ottb-er of the Fnited States navy. It is i tot known what action the President took, but the detachment of the iolmirai indicates that the secretary was sustained by .Mr. Cleveland. Admiral Kirklaud next came into public notice through a newspaper interview in which he made somewhat insulting comments on the character of American missionaries in Syria, whither he had been sent to give tlieni protection during the Armenian troubles. Klectiou Juducs Disappointed. A bitter disappointment was experienced by the -4.! V judges and clerks of election who registered voters all over Chicago and Ceok County Tuesday. The last Legislature passed a bill purporting to increase the pay of the-e officials from .?." to S." a day. The bill was introduce by Representative .McCarthy, and when the news of its passage readied Chicago there was i.uidi rejoicing among the small-fry politicians who act as judges and clerks. They rose ip ami called McCarthy blessed, lint the law is inxulid. The pay remains the same. S.I. and Cook County thereby sa es -n arly Sltt.lMO on one day's work alone. The bill as passed amended the law of IsTl! instead of the later law. enacted in 1SX.. and hence the measure is no; worth the paper mi which it is enrolled to the judges and clerks whom it sought to hendit. or to anvbodv Ise. Steamers in Trouble. The steamer Vega. Lorain to Daluth with oal. struck n Crecian shoal, off Colchester. Out., Tuesday morning. She succeeded in reaching Detroit Liver, when- she partly sank. Her starboard after compartment is full of water and the middle compartment is leaking. The captain thinks that by lightering some of the cargo he can go toi to Didüth lie fore going into drydock for repairs. The loss will be between Sli.lMMI ;iud Sl'l U I. Th" steamer Waldo Avery. Chicago to lhiffalo with grain, struck, at ISallard's lieef. ami is at dock leaking badly. This is her first trip to Lake Lrie since being rebuilt after burning in the st raits t wo years ago. The steamer l'lanehaid. u hi!e coming out of Toledo, hroke her .hoe. Two tic;s lowed her to I Mloi?. Output ( row I.cs. The statistics of the mining regions, which will be included in the forthcoming ieMrt of tin- Department of Internal Affairs, show the productio'i of coal for lS'.M in the anthracite and bituminous di'rVts of Pennsylvania to have beeil S"..tH-.'S! Sons, ;i decrease of !.". 7l! to:is from the production of IMC!. The production of anthracite coal was 4.".öiN;.17i ions, as against 17.17.).r.cr; tons in is;i::. ii-iuri;.ni of i.i;7:...".st tons. The bituminous production was "P,NKl.'JlO tons, as a-.':iinl 4:..4M..s. tons in IS''."., a reduction if ::.;' 1.1 71 ions. While the production shows this great falling off. the total number of employes in and about the mints has increased. The number employed during 1MM was L-JtLSTL. against -Jlt'.l in IMC!, an increase of 7.C' I. . NEWS NUGGETS. I'll'aski. X. V.. rejMirts a fail of seventeen inches of snow Monday, accompanied ly heavy thunder. The lira ltd .Jury at Covington. Ky.. has adjourned nitleoii reference to the killing of Hanker Sandford by Senator l loche. A ferryboat having sixty passengers on lionrd collided Fri'lay n-ar Cairo. Fgypt. w ith a steamer w hich was at anchor. The ferryltoat capsized and fitly of those on lmard, inaptly workmen, were drowned. The ent ire business po-1 ion of Pairchihl. Wis., was destrove! ley tire Monday morning. Tie loss is S7".'nhi. Among the places burned were; X. C. Poster's store. .Joe Kivard's store, the po.ttlice. two hotels. tJie town hall. blacksmith sliojM find drug store. The Crescent Linseed Oil plant, at Chicago, burned Tuesday night, ami In.lMNl people yelled with excitement ami delight at the magnificent $ 1 7ö.t M M I display of fireworks. The inflammable stuff produced a grandly beautiful effect. Ample Insurance was carried. Insjtector John M. Pit zpa trick, chief of Chicago detectives, has learned by exlerienee that there are criminals in Chicago ami that they are let respecters of tersons. In short. Inspector Fit zpa trick's residence has leen robbed ami he is in no wise proud of the fact. Sneakthieves robbed the house of Japanese Minister Ktiriuo at Washington of decorations, jewelry, etc., valued at between $Cti ami $1.1 NM. Thomas St. Clair and Hans Hansen, the murderers of Mate Maurice Fitzgerald, of the bark Hesper. Were hanged in the prison nt San Quenthi. Cal. Hoth maintained I heir innocence. Charles Stockey. the missing cashier of the suspended Statt- Hank of Duluth, is alleged to have embezzled 1 1 U H IO. The tidewater price of coal was advanced UT ami -10 cents a to;i by the Philadelphia ami Heading Company.

EASTERN.

At Buffalo. X. Y.. Dr. C. S. Smith was elected president of the l'nin Veterans i League. Pennsylvania millers will try to induce Congress to retaliate upon foreign nations tv h have discriminated against American Hour. At Cambridge. Mass.. the old Louisburg cross was stolen from the entrance lo the library at Harvard. It is years old and was brought back by troops after the capture of Louisburg. Students are suspected. During a row at a colored cake walk near? Jdttorestown. X. J., James Haggerty, a North Carolina negro, shot Charles McKim. Mrs. Silas Wessels. tJeorge Whittaker and Charles Wiman. none of whom are expected to recover. Some one then shot Haggerty in the back. His wound is considered mortal. The blotter of the MacCowan's Pass Tavern Subpolice Station in Central 1'ark. New York, bore this entry Friday: 'Arrested by Officer Michael J. Sweeney. I hike of Marlborough. 1." years old. resident of England, n cupaiion. single: temporary residence. Plaza I lot el : charge, violation of oark ordinance: reprimanded and discharged by Kotindsman Hyan." Thus briefly and officially is recorded the arrest of the voting Duke of Marll-orough. who is to wed Miss Coiisnelo Vanderbilt. There m ai ordinance which forbids wheelmen from riding faster than eight miles an hour in the park or from coasting down hills. The Duke did not know this when he hung his feet over the handle-bar and went sliding down the road to llllth street Officer Sweney gave chase and overhauled the young nobleman, informing him he was under arrest. At the station he was lectured and lisch a rged. WESTERN. At Kansas City thieves robbed Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hassett. who are on their honeymoon trip, of valuable wedding presents. At St. Johns smugglers have brought in enormous quantities of rum. One schooner owner in twelve tuoiiihs ot 4.11 H gallons of rum. A negro named Hob Marshall was tarred ami feathered at tireeley. Colo., for having insulted Cov. Melntyiv at the Potato Day celebration. There were eight fatal casualties at Milwaukee Friday. The worst of the accidents was at No. SJS 7th avenue, where three men were asphyxiated in a well. The satchel containing J? lü .f m I securities of the defunct Fort Scott Hank. lost by Hank Examiner Hreidenthal. of KanFas, was found in a railroad car at Denver. Five women who had been attending a Duukard inci ting at Ottawa. Kan., were thrown from a carriage by runaway horses. All were seriously .-.ml one fatally injured. Hy the explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Paris. Texas. (leorge Johnson, the colored engineer, was lorn to fragments. Two farmers standing near were fatally hurl. A brutal murder occurred in I rant County. South Dakota. Frank Kaatsitz. a tierman. went home about 4 p. m.. in an intoxicated condition, ami quarreled with his wife and kieke! her to death. Peculiar meteorological conditions p rerailed in the Northwest Friday. In North Dakota the first snow of the season fell, and in South Dakota and Minnesota high winds and sand and di.st blizzards prevailed. Dan E. Young, an old citizen and prominent politician of Folsom. X. M.. was murdered in Oak Canon. He hail been shot from behind and was badly bruised on the head. It is thought the v.hitccaps, some of whom he had exposed, are connected with the murder. Lern l 'amnion, postmasier and general storekeeper, at Ilamah. Colo., was boim I and gagged by four masked men. who robbed the store and postotliee of "-"JlMi in cash, a quantity of stamps and other valuables. The sluviff ami posse are Irving to track the robbers with hlodhoumis. Meredith Mahan ami Francis M. Chilton, of Eminence. Shannon County. Mo., were found in their room at the Kidgeway Hotel. St. Louis, the former dead and the latter uuconseious ami dying from suffocation by gas. The men were well-known stock raisers. It is supposed to be a case of blowing out the gas. Developments in the case of Defaulting Cashier J. Ii. Colean, of the Fort Scott, Kan.. State Hank, shows his shortage to be $."O,0J0 instead of $L2'. M M ), as at first sup-tosed. Vice President Stewart says that Colean literally gutted the reserve fund, realiziug on Jj'l-tUKMJ of the best sucurities held by St. Louis, New York and Kansas City bank.5. San Francisco has had bloomer balls, bloomer marriages and now a bloomer restaurant has been opened in the very business center of the city. The restaurant is called the "Hlooiner Cafe" and has been a success from the start. Four shapely jzirls. attired in neat fit ting bloomers, attend tit the wants of the customers mid have proved such an attraction that more girls will have to be employed to take care f the increasing trade. At Ceylon. Ind.. the pay car on the ("rand Kapids and Indiana Hailroad was wrecked Friday ami three men killed and several badly injured. A gang of bridge workers had pushed their car on a switch to let the pay car pass, but neglected to close the switch ami the train, running fifty miles an hour, dashed into them. Tin pay car and engine were wrecked. Physicians from Decatur ami a wreck train went to the scene. Two of the dead men have large families. Fire broke out in the main hoisting slope of the Oregon Improvement Company's mine, at Franklin. Wash., causing the death of John II. (Hover, S. W. Smaller, John Adams and James Stafford. The accident was caused by August Johnsoil, who dropped his lump, setting lire to a gas feeder. Instead of throwing a fdiovelful of dirt to put it out. he ran down the slope to get the pit foreman. While he was bringing help the timbers caught fire. Finding that the flames could not be extinguished, the four men named voluntered to go down, and close a door between the main and auxiliary slopes. It is supposed they never reached the bottnn alive, but the bodies have not been recovered. The sawmill of E. W. Hack. is & Co.. nt Minneapolis. Minn., was destroyed by fire Friday evening. The loss will lte $PT.(MN and 4(H) men are thrown out of employment. The mill shut down nt I o'clock, but had considerable lumlter to saw and as a general thing has been running night and da j. There was considerable lumber around the mill, but it was all saved in spite of a fierce wind. The mill con

tained four engines and four boilen. and all are destroyed with the exception of perhaps one engine. Seventy-five i:: n were employed in the mill and .!'J. in the yards. The work of rebuilding will be commenced immediately, as there was .vlUUMM) insurance on the property, ami little trouble is expected in ndjustii.g the loss. The mill was built ten years ago. Terror pervaded the ranks of West Side thills ::nd robbers at Chicago Friday night. AH day lonjr Inspector Shea's men had been gathering them in. ami when the shades of night had fallen those who escaped the net sought their hiding places and remained there. As one West Side citizen remarked after gazing down Halst ed and Madison streets: "A fellow could tire a cannon ball down the sidewalk and not hit a person." It was the quietest night for years up to VI o'clock. The streets seemed to be almost deserted. From early morning until late in the evening the Desplaines street wagon rumbled throughout the district, bringing in its load of victims. It was a grand "cleaning up" ami one of the most thorough ever made in the city. The books of the station showed the names of forty suspects and thirty more whose names were not hooked were below.

SOUTHERN. Charles E. Cunningham, a young banker of Little Hock. Ark., and Miss Annie Heyburn. of Frbana, III., were married in Little Kock. At Baltimore the National Association of Builders sent greetings to the Institute of Architects, in session at St. Iouis. urging action toward a general enforcement of the uniform contract. That portion of the city of New Orleans. La., known as Algiers, was almost wiped out by flames Sunday morning, causing a loss of from .".l I.I M K I to s.,m.HM. and rendering 1 . M M persons homeless. An immense crowd went across to Algiers at night to look at the ruins. They were packed so densely on the wharf awaiting the ferry that it gave way. and over sixty persons, including nviny women and children, were precipita;ed into the river They were all rescued, but several sustained broken limbs and in'ernal injuries. The tire started a few minutes after midnight in the shanty occv.pud by Paul Bullia. Six Ii res have started in this place before the piesent one. and the facts surrounding this one indicated he started it for the ins'tirance. He bought six gallons of coal oil Saturday, and those who at first responded to the alarm claim they plainly studied the burning oil. The house burned as though it had been saturated by eil. So plain did the citizens consider his guilt that they made an effort to lynch him. and a strong cordon of police was all that saved him. The lire wiped out nine squares, er I'd" hotjyfs. WASHINGTON. President and Mrs. Cleveland arc jigain domiciled in the White House. Maj. (uinn. Fniled States Engineer. insists, after a most careful examination, that the lower delta and the sea marshes along the Julf of Mexico are slowly sinking. For more than a year experiments wiih tide gauges have been in progress at the mouth of the Mississippi Hiver. and as a result Maj. tjuinn has reached the tnciusion that the level of the yrulf has been raised one foot since 1N77. This the Major attributes to a gradual, though irregular, subsidence of the land along tin coast and. he believes, throughout the Mississippi delta. New Orleans and the southern portion of Louisiana. President Cleveland will not begin the preparation of his ::nuual message to Congress until after he returns from the Atlanta exjtosition. Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet olhcers hint that the forthcoming message will be the most important state paper ever launched by the President. Questions of a foreign policy w ill for ihe first time be given first prominence, it is saitl. The message in this respect will be so linn and aggressive in tone as to h ave no future doubt of Mr. Cleveland's devotion to a firm foreign policy. The financial question will be thoroughly discussed and t!ie recommendation for a retirement of greenback currency will be renewed. Some suggestion will he put forth for legislation to increase the revt lines !."ln,(KH(.(KtO lo .."O.tKM 1,(11X1, but the President is not satisfied in his own miml yet. it is said, where this extra lax can be most advantageously laid. A Washington correspondent says: President Cleveland looks like an athlete hi ihe pink of condition. The llabb'ucss of fat. dullness of eyes ami heaviness of movements that gave his watchful friends grave concern last spring have given place to a glow of line health and an elasticity of step that tell the whole story of complete restoration of physical vigor. His real condition four months ago was such as to occasion serious apprehensions. There wen aggravated symptoms of heart and kidney troubles, and he was threatened with a physical breakdown. His physicians, Drs. Bryant and O'liiley, ordered him owt of Washington ami directed him to spend a long summer in the open t.ir regardless of the weather. Tlie prescription was most welcome, and from June to the middle of October the President put in every hour he could spare from otiicial duties fixhing, hunting ami sailing. The salt air and the exercise wrought a wonderful change, and the President returns to Washington apparently a well man. His cheeks are brown as mahogany and Iiis ilesh hard as iron. He steps off nicely, his eyes sparkle with buoyant spirits, ami he is bright as a new dollar. FOREiGtf. Fifty Armenians are reported to have been killed by a .Moslem mob at Akhissar, Adin. An unconfirmed report that Dr. von lb etlicher, the Herman Imperial Minister of the Interior, had resigned was in circulation in Berlin. During a hurricane at Ancona. Italy, a fishing smack foundered and twelve fishermen were drowned. It is feared other disasters to shipping have occurred. The insurgents in the Province of Santa Clara. Cuba, have circulated pamphlets advising the inhabitants not to use the railroads, as they have determined to blow them up with dynamite. Dispatches from Formosa announce that Takao, on the west coast of that island, was captured by the Japanese. The dispatches also state that the Japanese intend to bombard Tai-Wen-Fu, the Chinese capital of the island. Missionaries expelled from Cuzco by the Prefect have presented, through the British Minister, a claim against Peru for damages. They claim that their expulsion was in violation of the ('Institution fiml of the treaty with (Jreat Britain. The British bark Sharpshooter, Capt. Watts, width left Kanin, Chili. July 1

j for San Fraud sen with 700 ions of nlj irate, struck a hurricane Aug. ! i,; lati- ! lud; 11 degrees ::;.;: !i. She w:.- partially jdimautld and dulled for sixtv-foiir

days. Hussia at present is iudimd to allow Japan a free hand in Corea in connection with the present outbreaks. As a sign of pacific intentions the Io er;,,,i- of ihe Aim tor, (Jen. Doukhovsky. has been grunted leave of absence to come lo St. Petersburg. A dispatch to the Paris Journal front Metz says that while the Emperor and Empress of Ocrm::ny were on their way to the cathedral there some person shouted from a window. "Vivo La France." It is added that several arrests were made in consequence of this demonstration. The Spanish Oovcrnment lias acceded to the request of Secretary Olney. it is statetl, by a very high authority, and has restored diplomatic functions to Consul (ieneral Williams at Havana. The Spanish (lovernment explains that the suspension order was issued from the Covernor (ienotal's otlice at Havana through a misapprehension. Dispatches received at Hong Kong from the Island of Formosa announce that Takao, on the west coast of that island, was captured Wednesday by the Japanese. The dispatches also state that the Japanese intend to bombard Tai-Wan-Fu. the Chinese capital of the isl-nd. That city is held by th- Black Flag leader, who refuses to surrender unconditionally, and heavy lighting is expected. Additional ail vices received at Shanghai from Kin-Chow, near which place, on Wednesday last, the steamship Kun-Pai was destroyed by an explosion which sank her in shallow water, confirm the dispat h which staled that the loss of life was believed lo be very great. It is now announced that the explosion occurred in the fore part of the Kun-Pai. which vessel was loaded with troops. The explosion, the cause of which is unknown, completely wrecked the forward portion of the steamship, ami only twenty-four persons of those on board of her were saved. An explosion occurred Wednesday on a steamship at Kung Pai. m ar Kin Cho.v. The steamship was loaded with troops, and it is rc'torted that lIUO of them were killed. The troops were probably Japanese soldiers leaving Chinese territory, as insisted uon by Hussia and France. Kin Chow, of Kin Chow Foo. is a large and populous city in the Province i Hoo V. it is rightly regarded as one of the keys of the Chinese Empire. Its site on the left bank of the Yang Tse Kiang. about S(K miles from its debouchment into the Yellow Sea at Shanghai, makes it a great mart of commerce. IN GENERAL. At Ottawa. Out., an order has been issued for opening the 'anadian canals on Sundays during the remainder of the season. In Ontario tons of grapes are go'nig fe waste because of the excessive rates of the Western railroads. The Interstal Commerce Commission has been appealed to. The committee appointed by the Chicago mass nioe'inj-s on September .'. which were heid to express sympathy with the Cubans, has issued an appeal that similar meetings be held throughout the I'nioii not later than Oct. III. ami wherever practicable on that day. in order that the movement may derive the benefit of such simultaneous action as ao'ding lo its imprcssivencss. The British bark Sharpshooter, which left Kanin. Chile, on J uly 1 for San Francisn, struck a hurricane on Aug. Ji in hitit tide 11 degrees north. It was partly dismantled ami drifted for sixly-fout days. It was Friday lowed into (Suaymas. Mexico, by ihe Mexican steamei Oaxaea. just as it was :dotit to s-.rike on the rocks. Tin crew suft'etcd severely from lack of water. Flieh' Sam's hatthd.ip Indiana covered one stretch of six miles Friday at a sustained speMd of l'i.."l ktiot. ts average speed for four hours, covering a distance of sixty-two knots, was l.Yi'l knots an hour. After four Ii uns continuous work it was touched tip a bit ami reeled off two miles at a 17-knot dip. The Indiana is the most powerful boat of its class alloat. Cnele Sam's navy otlidals were dclighicd with its performance. Obituary At Elgin. III., Henry Olney Billings, of Chicago. -10; at Hodielle, HI.. William Delaney, of Chicago; at Canastota. N. Y.. Commodore dedrasse Livingstone, i at Janesville, Wis., IJichard O'Donm ll. at one time a Chicago policeman; at Saginaw. Mich., Henry Nienstedt. Jr.. 2; at Adrian. Mich.. Dcwitt C Clark; at Chesterton. Ind.. John (J. Coulter: at Kock ford. III.. Elikam Norton. t0; at Franklin, Ind., Elba Ecpue; at Bloomsburg, Pa., Judge William Elwdl, S7. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, ,$o.7r to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades. i:..l0 to $4.": sheep, fair to choice, .'.") to $.'.70; wheat. No. 1! red, ."'. to i.lc: corn. No. 1!, oOc to .",1c; oats. No. Ü. 17c to 1!c; rye, No. 2, ölk- to -bc; butter, choice creamery. 21c to 2tc; eggs, fresh, te to lSc; potatoes, per bushel. 2i'c to '(; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl. 2Uc to 4Voc per pound. Imliami'tolis-(.'a tile, shipping. $..(M to .S.V2Ö; hogs, choice light, .$:'..MI to .$4.2."; sheep, common to prime. S'J.OO to Jfl.tMl; wheat. No. 2. lioe to i.e; corn. No. 1 white. 2!o t, ,".lc; oats. No. 2 white, 21c lo 22e. St. Ittuis Catlle. n!..i0 to $0.0': hogs. $o.ro to 2,-UKi; wheat. No. 2 red. frjc to i'Clt-; corn. No. 2 yellow, 2Se to 21e; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to LSc; rye, No. 2, to ."Sc. Cincinnati-Cattle. $:...- I to ..".IUI: hos. .'.l H to $4.2."; sheep, ?'i.."f) to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. '7e to t'Ne; corn. No. 2 mixed, .'Ue to .'toe; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2c to 22c; rye. No. 2. 44c to HU: Detroit-Ca tile, .$2.."tO to $r.r0; hogs, Jjsf.tK' to .$4.2:: sheep. $2.( to ?;k,"rO; wheat, No. 2 red, tJöe to Wie; corn. No. 2 yellow, .'lie to .'UIc; oats, No. 2 w hite, 22c to 24c; rye. 42c to 4'tc Toledo-Wheat. No. 2 red, t7c to (Sc; corn. No. 2 yellow; IHe to ,"2c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 2,'tc; rye. No. 2, 42c to 44e. Buffalo-Cattle, $2.r0 to $0.2."; hogs. $.'5.00 to Jj!4..rVI; sheep. JF2.."iO to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red. (JNc to title; corn. No. 2 yellow, .'Uie to .".7c; oats, No. 2 white, 'Slv to 2.V. Milwaukee Wheat. N. 2 spring, ."i7e to ric; corn. No. ."Oe to .'lie; oats. No. 2 white. 20o to 21c: barley. No. 2. 40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, "0c to 41c; Mrk. mess, $S.2." to $S.7.". New York Cattle, .$."..00 to $r..OO: hogs. $:..00 to $4.70; sheep, $2.00 to $.'1.00; wheat. No. 2 red. 'Se to 00c; trn. No. 2, .".No to .'!!..: outs. No. 2 white, 2'tc to 24e; butter, creamery, lOV to 24c; eggs. Westin. ISc to 21 c

VAMG ON A TROLLEY.

MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE EEING KILLED. Tar Crashes Into a Swiftly Moving Passenger Train-Over Thirty I11jurcil in New Orleans AeciUmt-Ka-tal Cr s-ing Collision in Ohio. LIcctric Car Takes a Plunge. Licet ric car No. r!l. of the Western avenue line, at Chicago, took a wild plunge into a moving passenger train of the Ibirliugtoii Load at the l'ith street crossing at fi:."(i o'clock Monday evening. Atter the collision there was not enough left of the street ear to make kiudlmg wind, but the passengers all jumped in time to save themselves, and escaped with more or less severe injuries. The worst injury received was by Mrs. I lugt Miller, of West Madison street, who had a sprained ankle. A curious feature of the affair is that a year ago the P.urlington secured an injunction forbidding the street car company from using electricity in crossing its tracks, ami until a few das ago it hail been using horses at that crossing. The injunction, howcxer. was dissolved ami the trolley wires strung across the right of way. Accident at a Ferry. At New Orleans thirty person- wer injured and three tit hers, it is feared. Here drowned ly the breaking down of the little iron bridge which leads from the Algiers ferry-house to the floating wharf, where the ferry -hoat is accustomed to land. It was nearly dusk when the accident occurred. The waiting passengers crowded onto the bridge as soon as the ferry-boat was in sight. The boat, the Thomas Pickler. was also crowded. The engines were slowed down on approaching the wharf, and as usual the boat almost drifted to her landing. However, the stern of the vessel bumped against the end of the pontoon, and with a crash the iron span parted and a hundred or nmre frantic people were dumped into the water among the piling and drifting timbers. The men on the pontoon and those in the ferry-house did not wait a moment before they began to look to.vr.rd assisting those in the water. While hundr.-ds of strong hands grasped every plank within reach on the pontoon and dashed them into the water for the unfortunates to ding to dozens devoted their efforts to pacifying the women ami children on the pontoon. Four Men Killed. Last -bot: ml accommodation No. " on the Panhandle Itailroad crashed into a wagon at Miller's Station. Ohio, about 7:''.o o'clock .Monday morning, demolishing the vehicle ami killing the four occupants. Their names were: IMward Cogan, Samiid Cogan. dr.. Samuel (V.gati. Sr.. .lohn Campbell. The Ik dies were horribly nwuiglcd. There is a sharp cure near the crossing ami the engineer claims he did not see the wagon until too late to stop the train. The victims were residents of Youtigstown. m ar La t robe. Pa. Kattlc of Words Only. The Fitzsitnnioiis-Corbett fight will not come off after all. either at Hot Springs or anywhere else. What (Jov. Clarke has endeavored to accomplish was done Monthly by the Florida Athletic Club when it declared the liuht off. Corhett and his manager wanted to postpone until the present e" cited opposition to the affair had died out. ami a meeting could be arranged on the quiet. I'it.simnion.'j objected to this, ami declared for what he knew was im-tossihle under ihe law. l'at h tif the principles is already busy calling the other coward ami liar, and preparing for the stage tour which after all was the paramount ami pre-anange4 object of 1 be plojcc led light. BREVITIES, Ai;stro-I Iuugarian sugar reiiuers h.n-s formt d a trust. ("eneral Coxey is about to siart a daily paper to boo ui his candidacy lor ( Jovernor of Ohio. Lighted! Poo-Choo rioter, convicted of murdering. foreign missionaries, are to lie put to deal h. At rniohtown. Aia.. City Marshal Hoben Krittoii will shot dead by V. C. Metzger, a merchant. Prairie fires have caused great dotruetioii in Finney, .leeley und Wichita Counties, Kansas. TLirty persons were drowned at Caliacau. Lower California, by the storm which destroyed La Paz. At Philadelphia Fnited Stales .Judge liutler held it is a crime to send dunning letters in black envelopes. P.arnato's sister-in-law. Miss Alice IIoIhrook, is an actress now playing in NewYork City. She says the "Katlir King's" real name is Iternard Isaacs. Burglars wrecked the safe of Iloge, Ialy Co.'s bank at Anaconda. Mont., with dynamite. The noise of the ex plosion arcused the town ami led to their capture. The mine strike in the mountain region, extending from .lohnstown. Pa., to Altooua. is not nearly so serious as reported. About one thousand men are out and at least four thousand are working. The olio miners employed at the North Leavenworth. Kan., coal shaft quit work ami visited the Home Liver mines for the purjMise of inducing the miners at lhat place to quit. The North Leavenworth Company is paying SO cents a ton and the Home Company 7 cents. The wa:k-out is to ft tree the Home Liver Company to pay SO cents. A general strike seems almost certain, as Ihe Home Kiver people are not disposed t accede to the demands made. A serious tire at Millville, Minn., -starting in A. J. Muehlberg's blacksmithshop, destroyed the shop, Leonard's store. Schmidt's Hotel ami .Klin Larson's ' dwelling. Albert Hargeson. an employe : of the machine shop, was burned to : death. The postotliee building also burned, but the mail was saved. Loss. . I.OOO. .1. S. Ilackley. who claims credit for arresting Fraker, Ihe insurance swindler, will sue the insurance companies for Ihe reward w hich he says was promised him. He threatens sensational disclosures if ihe case is tried. At the Leavenworth shaft in Kansas, miners quit work on receiving notice of a cut of 1(1 cents a ton. A lonj; slruirjrle is expected. At Dallas. Texas. Dr. It. .1. Rjiy was ' shot ami kilbtl by Marion Ilardcastle. who charged Hay with unprofessional conduct. Hot h men are prominent.

CHEMISTRY IN CRIME.

One of the Most Kcmnrknhle Formerits or. If ecord. The Interest in questionable Joeunieiits coming into co;:rt in one form or another, which has been excited by ihe mystery surrounding the character of the will of dudge Joseph Holt, in connection with the general suspicion that the sender of the document has a sinister motive in concealing his identity, brings to memory a rather remarkable crime which occurred in YYiiliaiiiburg County, South Carolina, in tho spring of 1S71. At the spring term o? the Court of Common Pleas for Williamsburg County. ,L 11. Livingstone brought suit against W. W. anl. the or: SIi?ri?r of the county, for the recovery of ".- 000, money loa net on Ward's sealed note. The court was presided orer by Judge T. S. Mackey. Py consent of parties, the case was heard without :i Jury. Livingstone, the plaint ill, proved the execution of the note, and closed his case. The defense set up the id 1 that the note had been paid, and produced a receipt slgnc-d by Livingstone, dated two years previous to the tri.tl, for the whole amount of the note, principal and Interest; and a witness testified that he had seen the payment made in $100 bills, and four $.r.(K) bills to Livingstone himself, on the day named in the receipt. The plaintiff took the witness stand and, on examining the receipt, admitted that It bore his true and genuine Bignature. He solemnly protested, however, that he had not received one dollar from Ward, and had 11 vor -atered. Ward's house for any purpose. nt declared that he was ruined, and Mi at he and bis wife would be made li-wueless by a false receipt which he couM not explain, but which hr- had never knowingly signed. On cross-examination, Livingstone, who was an old man, admitted that his memory was v ry infirm and that on a previous svaIoa he had received a payment of ? jx front another debtor, which he afterward denied receiving, but which h r 'called to memory when shown his reevipt. The plaintiff and his counsel at this stage of the proceeding v. er in ntter despair, for their cause was ri-iAreiitly lost. Judge Mackey. w ho bad m.id - a lose study of criminal history. k.;i ". er. directed that the receipt be lianJed to him. He then ordered the Sjr:ff to proceed to the nearest dr ig .-'ore and purchase a drachm of mi:r:.i":c acid and a sniail piece of sponge, (in the return of the officer with i:i- articles named the Judge said to the 1! liutiiT: "Mr. Livingston", did yni: n .r :idiress a letter to the defend:.-!.. Ward, demanding payment of yv.;r money?'' "Yes. sir," answered the pl ii'itiu. "I wrote him many letters. !::: r ver received a reply from him." Judge Mackcv then saiil - "'tinned: "I perceive that on the !-.-e of this receipt there are several peci: ;ar brown spots, and the original surfac. ir sizing of the paper has been removed, except In that portion of the paper 'en ere the signature was written. The body of the receipt is in the hantlwrifi-jg of the defendant. In my opinion i!i defendant has taken a letter of ti:e plaintiff and removed the writing; w;fh muriatic acid and then written le receipt above the signature. I u ii! now apply this acid to the writing ei the b.-ick of the complaint in this case and it will bo seen that the wrltin-r w V.l msiantly tlisappear and the paper w-!! at once exhibit several brown spe.t.s : ; i 'ntical with those on this receipt." The acid was applied to ;t paper, and as the writing öis;: ;., it-ed the brown blots were seen upe.n the surface, and the crime of th" defendant was clearly rev-aled. Ward, at this juncture, looked as horror-stricken as La?y Macbeth, when, gazing ujkui her fair but murderous hand, she exclaimed, as .she vainly rubbed it: "Out, damned spo'I" The Judge immediately rendered a decision In favor of ihe plaintiff, adding that it was the duty of the solicitor to have Ward prosecuted for bis audacious forgery. The next morning Judge Mackey left for Georgetown, forty miles distant, to hold court. While there lie ;v -eived a letter from a friend, warning bim not to return to Williamsburg, as he. bad promised to do in a few days, for the purpose of hearing an argument in chambers, as Ward had .-solemnly sworn to hill him on sight. In five days, however, he returned t Williamsburg, and seeing Ward in th street demanded if he had threatened to take his life. Ward answered tint h had. but had abandoned his purpose. Ward was indicted at the nexl term of court and placed on trial for forg-ry. When the verdict of guilty was rendered. Ward rose ami dhcharged his pistol at Livingstone, the prosecuting witness, and title of the balls passed t:iro"";h bis coat. lie was Instantly disarmed, ami sentenced to a term of seven years at bard labor in the penitentiary, where several years after he died. Ward had been' a man of wealth and hieb Mantling; in the community. --Washington Post. Through Animals. A correspondent writes to s.iy that many fires originate through animals. Mice and rats ignite matches while gnawing them; and one tire vv-is caused by a jackdaw pecking at a box of matches, and so Igniting the contents. Cats have caused fires by upsetting lights, scattering red-hot ein tiers, and in other ways; fires have occurred from carelessness in bug hunting; by fish globes full of water, the sun's rays have been concentrated suttie'.ently to Ignite furniture: aud birds' n.sts have caught sparks from neighboring chimneys, and have thus been tired. "I wonder, said Tommy, who had been reading the poem about Hie Arab who refused a purse of gold for bis beloved steed. "I wonder what he would have did If they had offered to trad 'iw a byslele." Indianapolis JouruaL