Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 5, Number 11, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 June 1883 — Page 2

ftojpnee HmMij JjUtcs. NAPPANEB. : * INDIANA. —im——NEWS OF THE WEEK. BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. ! DOMESTIC. John Baber, a Brooklyn (N. TANARUS.) brewer, bos (ailed (or $175,000. The special report o( Hr. Burchard, Director o( the Mint, issued on the 2d, shows that the production o( the gold mines o( the United States last year was $32,606,000 and ol silver $46,800,000. As compared with the previous year the gold product declined $2,200,000, but silver increased SBOO,000. About $23,000,000 o( the gold went into coinage. During a storm at Crystal Springs, Hiss., a (ew evenings ago Miss Clara Cook was struck by lightning and killed. She was surrounded by several ladies, none ot whom were injured. Hostile Apaches had on tbe 3d made their reappearance in Arizona, going toward San Carlos. Some herders were fired upon but were not injured. Statements were made that the Government o( Sonora re(used to co-operate with General Crook In bis campaign against the Indians. Theodore Martin, a seven-year-old boy o( Troy, N. Y., (atally shot his (ourteen-year-old brother the other night while ex amining a pistol which he had (ound. The Gra(ton Iron Company, o( Leetonia, Ohio, has (ailed, with $500,000 liabilities. In the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis on the 4th Judge Treat rendered a decision declaring the Washburn A Moen barbed-wire (ence patents void. This decision is considered important to people in all parts o( the United States. A strike o( the speeder-tenders at the Blackstone (R. I.) Cotton Mill on the 4th caused the shutting down ot the machinery, and the throwing of eight hundred operatives out ot employment. The exchanges at twenty-six of the leading clearing-houses in the United States tor the week ended on the 2d were $846,335,123, against $882,926,916 (or the week previous. Near Allendale, S. C., a (ew nights ago a colored woman locked her two children in the house while she went to church. While she was absent the house and children were consumed by fire. The loss by the recent cyclone at Greenville, Tex., and vicinity, was on the 4th estimated at over $1,000,000. The main tent ot Barnum’s circus, six hundred (eet long and three hundred (eet wide,was destroyed by fire, in Chicago, early on the morning ot the sth. Sparks from a passing locomotive were supposed to have caused the fire. Paradise, of Paradise Range, Davidson County, Tenn., a (ew days ago shot his father, John Paradise, through the heart. The parricide was the outgrowth of an old quarrel. A STORE on the lower Rio Grande, in Hidalgo County, Texas, was recently raided by a band of outlaws from Mexico, and robbed of $2,000 in casivwnd $3,000 worth of goods. Two todno men named Harry Quinch and Charles Pennock were drowned in the Stranger River, near Leavenworth, Kan., a few days ago, while attempting to cross the river with a horse and wagon. Great excitement prevailed on the New York and NatlonalOll Exchanges on the 4th, the market opening at $1.21 per barrel and closing at $1.1414. The total sales were over seven million barrels. Seven cases of sunstroke, two fatal, occurred In New York on the 6th. The coasting schooner Fannie A. Bailey went ashore at Cape May on the 6th, and three men and a child perished. During a circus performance at Suspension Bridge, N. Y., on the evening of the 6th, a gale of wind prostrated the tent, creating a panic smongthe audience, In which s great many were severely hurt, though none were killed. The boiler of an engine on the Memphis ft Charleston Railroad exploded near Lagrange on tho 6th, killing Engineer Harry Roberts and Fireman Lee Transcomb, and badly Injuring two other persons. ▲ desperado named Whitney, who operated on the plan of the late James gang, was taken from jail by a mob at Hermann, Mo., the other night, and hanged. An old lady named Maxon was crushed to death, by a team that was running away In Troy, N. Y., on the 6th, and four other - persons were seriously, if not fatally, injured. At the Inquest on the 6th into the Brooklyn bridge disaster, the acting President of the trustees deposed that all the policemen In New York could not have stemmed the panic-stricken tide of humanity at the time of the accident. The Jury found Oat the "officers and trustees were reprehensible,” and recommended improvements in the toad for foot passengers. In a fight at Dover, N. H., the other night, between striking las tore and men who had taken their places, one of the former was fatally shot. A destructive storm blowdown several houses at Comanche, Tex., a tnr days ago. Ho lives were lost. Drought fn the vicinity „f Lynchburg, Va., has resulted in incalculable damage. Information from the southwest on the 6th represented an alarming state of affairs, the cattle-raisers having to purchase food for their stock, the pastures being all dried “P- . A passengertrain want through a trestle at Farrington, Ind., on the 6th. David Hutchinson, the engineer; Millar Humes, the fireman; George Ammons, tl)e baggago- - master, and tie porter of anew Pullman sleeper, were killed. Ho passengers were fatally injured. Ah addition to the Northwestern marine elevator at Milwauk' > collapsed on the 6th under the pressureof its oontente, the walls. It was feared, burying seven tramps who

were resting in the building. Twothousand bushels of wheat .went Into the river. A severe rain and windstorm prevailed in portions of New York and Pennsylvania on the Oth. At Uuncie, Pa., lightning struck an eight thousand gallon oil tank, which was burned, together with several houses. At Albany, N. Y., 1(80,000 damage was done. Tbe schooner Charles P. Slnnickson, from New York for Charleston, was on the Bth believed to have foundered at sea, and the Captain, his wife and seven men were supposed to have perished. Lightning struck the Hazard Powder Company’s magazine at Hutchinson, Kan., on the 6tb, exploding it, the concussion doing great damage to tbe town. Adelaide 8. Smith has recovered $2,500 damages from two saloon-keepers of New York for selling liquor to her husband and causing him to become a drunkard. A fight a few days ago between negroes in the suburbs of Wilmington, Del.,resulted in the fatal injury of three of the participants. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Grand Jury at Austin, Tex., on the 4th indicted forty members of the Legislature for gambling. Borne one entered the County clerk’s office during the night and stole all the indictments, including those against the Legislators. There was no clew to the thieves. The Pennsylvania State Senate on the 4th passed the House bill to abolish the contract system in prisons and reformatory institutions. Chief-Justice Waite stated on the 4th that the United States Supreme Court was about three years behind in its work. It was impossible for the court to consider more than four hundred cases annually, while very many more were filed. James Fisk, father of the noted financier slain by Stokes in New York, died a few evenings ago at Brattleboro, Vt., aged seventy-one years. The Congregational General Council met at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on the sth. Cardinal HcCloskkt, of New York, owing to ill-health, on the sth gave powers of attorney to Vicars General Quinn and Preston to manage his estate and attend to business matters. The thirty-fourth annual Convention of the American Medical Association began on the sth at Cleveland, O. Addison Gardiner, the first Justice of the Peace of Rochester, N. Y., and Lieu-tenant-Governor under Governor Wright, died in that city on the sth, aged eighty-six years. The Ohio Republican State Convention met at Columbus oh tbe 6th. Judge J. B. Foraker, of Cincinnati, was nominated for Governor, and William G. Rose, of Cleveland, for Lieutenant-Governor. The platform adopted favors a tariff which will provide a revenue for the Government and protect American producers and laborers; approves the taxation of the liquor traffic for revenue; favors Civil-service reform; approves the action of the State Legislature in submitting Constitutional amendments to the people in relation to the liquor question, and indorses the administration of President Arthur. Dr. Knickerbocker, of Minneapolis, was on the Cth chosen Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Indiana. > The lowa Democratic Convention, in session at Des Moines on the 6th, nominated L. G. Kinne, of Tama County, for Governor; Justin C. Clark, of Montgomery County, for Lieutenant-Governor; Judge Hayes for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Edgar B. Farr, of Page County, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform declares in' favor of Civil-service reformr denounces the late Republican Congress for extravagance; pronounces for a tariff for revenue only; opposes constitutional prohibition, and favors a well-regulated License law, The New Hampshire Legislature organized on the 6th by electing Republican officers in both branches. The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned tint die on the 6tb. Dr. Alexander Means, the prominent Southern divine and scientist, died recently at Oxford, Ga., aged eighty-five years. Rebecca Hamilton (colored) aged one hundred and fourteen years, five months and twelve days, died in New York City a few days ago. She went to that city when Canal street was filled with boats, and Fourteenth street was considered out of town. . President Arthur has appointed William S. Roulhac, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Civil Service Commission. A circular has recently been Issued by the Chairman of the Kansas State Central Committee of the National GreenbackLabor party, stating that, after consultation with other members of the committee, and many prominent men in the party, the conclusion had been reached that “ as a party organisation we ought not to send delegates to the approaching Chicago Convention, the Convention having been called by individuals and not by authority of the party, and it* avowed object being the formation of anew party.” The circular states, however, that there is no bbjeotion to Greenbackers and individuals taking part in that Convention, and suggests that all Anti-Monopoly men unite and hold mass-meetings in each Congressional District and elect four delegates to the Convention, and “if the Convention does what is expected, Indorses our Chicago platform of 1886, we as a party will heartily Indorse It.” * FOREIGN. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese Prime Minister and commander of troops in the provinces adjacent to Tonquin, declared on the 4th that unless France recognized the rights of China in regard to Annam, China was resolved to fight. Expatriation is to be the reward of the informers in the Phoenix Park murder trials. James Carey objected, bnt the authorities on the 4th imperatively required that he should leave the country. The Ship-Laborers’ Society of Quebec has adopted a resolution that eight hours shall henafter constitute a day’s work.

Favorable weather during the past few days has materially improved the condition of Hie growing grain in Greet Britain. Count von Molten's recent tour to Italy is believed in France to have been undertaken for Hie purpose of determining the best route for an invasion of Southern France. In the Sherbro district of West Africa fifty persons were recently roasted alive for witchcraft. Queen Victoria was on the sth reported to hare developed dropsical symptoms, and her health was said to be precarious. Her joqrney to Balmoral from Windsor was undertaken in opposition to(the wishes of her physicians. The Mayor of MoscoW has been banished to his estates for expressing the hope at a recent banquet, that the Czar would institute a constitutional regime. German soldiers to the number of one hundred and fifty-three, stationed at Posen, were accidentally and dangerously poisoned a few days ago. Near Laqura, Mexico, a few days ago Eradia Bernal, a noted bandit, tortured Senor Yela for money concealed. He cut off Yela’s arms singly, and then cut off his head. Five little girls were burned to death in a fire at Santa Clara, Mex., on the sth. The Telegraph, a liberal Moscow journal, has been supposed by the Government for a too free expression of opinion regarding tbe policy and acts of the administration. The Dublin (Ireland) police on the 6th claimed to have proof that tbe Irish Invincibles had been engaged in removing obnoxious individuals by the use of poison. The name of P. J. Tynan (No. 1), at present in Brooklyn, N. Y., was associated by the police with the alleged poisoning of a Dublin hotel-keeper named Jury. Two Mexican horse-thieves, who were being conveyed from Gonzales to San Diego on tbe 6th, were taken from the officers by a party of twenty-five men and hanged to a tree. ' A London cablegram of the 6th states that General Hicks’ forces had defeated the False Prophet’s followers in the Soudan, killing five hundred Arabs. The General’s loss was only two killed. A Nihilistic publication asserts that the Revolutionists took advantage of theconcentration of Government spies and officials at Moscow for the coronation ceremonies to spread their opinions broadcast at St. Petersburg and elsewhere. A wind and rain-storm at St. Johns, Quebec, on the 6th flooded the stseets, blew piles of lumber from the wharves into the river, unroofed many houses, and did considerable other damage. The Public Prosecutor at Xeres, Spain, claimed on the 6th to have evidence regarding the doings of the Black Hand Society that would send at least sixteen of them to the gallows on one occasion. Fatherßechet, a French Catholic missionary, has been beheaded by th? Annamites. In Toronto on the 6th a decision was rendered in an alimony case that divorces granted in the United States are not valid in Canada. France was on the 6th pushing its prepa." rations for war with China. Three corps of troops and a fleet of war vessels were ready to proceed to Tonquin. LATER NEWB. Two attempts having recently been made to burn the city of Bllverton, Col., for the evident purpose of creating a stampede of the citizens and then robbing the First National Bank, on the Tth seventy-three indictments were found by the Grand Jury against those connected with the plot, and a Vigilance Committee was formed, who gave notice that the first person who attempted incendiarism would be hanged. Miss Edith Fish, daughter of Hamilton Fish, ex-Secretary of State, was married in New York on the 7th to Mr. Hugh Oliver Northcote, son of the Parliamentary leader of the British Conservative party. Charles C. Fulton, the editor and publisher of the Baltimore American tor many years, died on the 7th, aged seventy-two years. Utah advices of the Tth state that in an interview BrighSm Young, Jr., said the re. ports from the laborers in the vineyards in Europe and this country warranted the expectation that there would be fully twenty thousand converts this year. Over three hundred striking miners left Belleville, 111., on the 7th, bearing a ban. her having “Blood or Bread” Inscribed thereon in bold letters. Nobody seemed to know their destination or what their particular mission was, but it was supposed they were bound for Collinsville, 111., and .trouble was feared. The schooner Senneckson, reported lost at sea, with nine souls aboard, arrived in safety on the 7th at Charleston, S. C. Several of General Crook’s Mexican guides reached Oposur, Sonora, on the 7th, and reported that the General was encamped at Trescastillos, where General Garcia defeated the Apaches April 18. General Crook at last advices had'not met with the Indians and his troops were In excellent condition. : Two EMPLOYES at an iron-mill in Chattanooga, Tenn., had a difficulty on the 7th, when the larger one, becoming frantic, seized the other and laid him on his back on a red-hot slab of iron, holding him there until his head and back were badly roasted. Near Skipwlth, Miss., on the 7th Thomas Paris, a boy, killed his stepfather, Isaac Adams, who had threatened his life, and in a family row at St. Louis George Marshal shot and killed his stepfather, Thomas Edwards. A recent Washington special to the Cleveland Herald states that “PostmasterGeneral Gresham denies tbe published statement that he has decided to exclude *patent insides’ from the mails as secondclass mattes.” In view of the law of Congress passed in 1874,'providing “that newspapers, one copy to each actual subscriber, residing in tbe county where tbe same are printed, in whole or in part, and published, shall go free through the mails,” such a decision by the Post-office Department ss that hinted at would be in violation of law and of no binding force.

LYNCHED. The Doers or the gad at Hereaaaa, Mass Broken la by a Bead of Vigilante- Whltaey, a Cringing Aseaeela, Takea Front Ola Cell and Hanged to a Tree. fir. Louis, Mo., June 8. A special from Hermann, Mo., says that the city was thrown Into a state of intense excitement, shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, by the lynching of Whitney, the murderer of yoimg Burchard. The mob numbered about two hundred. They surrounded the jail, guards being stationed with drawn revolvers to keep back the curious crowd which was attracted by the noise made in breaking the jail doors The Jailer refused to surrender the koys, when axes were brought. Whitney supposed the purpose of the assault, and crouched upon his cell floor and preyed fervently. His voice could be heaid outside. The Jailer was forced to lead tbe Way to Whitney’s ceil, which was then forced open, and a long rope which the mob had brought with them was put around his waist. Half fainting, the doomed man fell on his knees. When once in the open air he asked leave to pray again. This was granted, but as he continned his appeals to HeaVen too long he was jerked to his feet and dragged through the town into a dense woods that covers the bluffs, a dozen of the lynching party warning the crowd not to follow, and intimidating them by displaying revolvers. When the woods were reached, the prisoner was handed over to a dozen masked men. He said his real name was Fisher, and not Whitney; that his parents lived in Virginia; be did not know whether be killed Burchard or not, as he and his partner, whose name was Collier, fired five shots each. He then shook hands with part of the mob, bidding them good-by, after which he was strung to a tree. The mob then dispersed. It was expected that the Court would hold a special session to try the accused, but when it was announced yesterday that the trial would go over to the fall term the indignation was general, and threats of lynching were made. The inob was quite orderly in its behavior. There was an absence of conventional masks, and many of the lynchers were recognized. Whitney was a desperado of the James stripe. He and another outlaw named Collier, after robbing several stores in Gasconade County on the 19th of last month, attempted to burglarize the store of Burchard A Lakes, In the little town of Bein, during which they shot and killed young Burchard, R son of one of the proprietors. Shipwreck. Cape Mat. N. J„ June S. The schooner Fannie A. Bailey, Captain Manson Hume, Jr., came ashore in a thick fog on the north bar of Hereford Inlet at 4:30 o’clock on Tuesday morning. The vessel left Windsor, N. 8., fifteen days ago, with a cargo of three hundred and seventy tons of rock plaster consigned to Philadelphia. The thick weather and south winds were encountered during the passage down the coast, the land being hidden entirely the greater part of the time. Some time on Monday evening Barnegat light was sighted, after whicli the fog settled and obstructed the coast At 4:30 the next morning the lookout reported breakers ahead. In another minute the afterpart of the vessel thumped upon the sand and immediately she bulged and commenced to show signs oi going to pieces. The weather was so thick that the Captain could not tell where she was, and consequently could not decide as to what course to pursue. Hastily gathering in the ship’s papers, which he afterward lost In his struggle with the waves, the Captain ordered a boat lowered. Into this were lowered all but the Captain and one sailor, and the boat was dropped astern to wait the lifting of the fog. Era many minutes tbe heavy sea capsized the boat, and all, including the Captain’s wife and only son, a boy of three years, were thrown Into the sea. The now almost, distracted husband and father lowered the only remaining boat and succeed in getting the unconscious wife and child Into It, at the same time throwing a line to the unfortunate steward, who was struggling with the waves. The poor fellow, however, was too much exhausted to use it. The next wave capsized this beat and the only means of succor remaining wastthe line in the hands of the man who had not left the vessel. With this the Captain reached the schooner, bearing in his arms the almost lifeless form of his wife. At eleven o'clock Captain Holmes, of Life Saving Station 36, and Captain Ludlam, of Station 86, manned the surf-boat and brought the saved to the beach. Tbe crew consisted of Captain Hume, F. Bruce (mate), Thomas Shields and Harry Hiding (steward), Harry Worden and Charles Dailey, who were drowned. Harrold, the Captain’s sen, was also lost, but the mother waa saved. The vessel was nineteen years eld, and hailed from Portland, Me. Railrend Decision by Comptroller Lawrence. Washington, June a Judge Lawrence, First Comptroller of the Treasury, has given his opinion in the matter of the right of the Utah A Northern Railroad Company to payment tor sendees rendered In carrying mails for the United States. He hold* ae fellows: L The aotof March 8,1871, gives no right to any officer of tho Government to withhold from the railroad company which did not re* oeive aid in subsidy Mnds of the United States, payment aa compensation earned by it in carrying the malls, even though such company Is “controlled" by a bond-subsidized railroad oompany. f. Neither the so-oslled 'Thurman sot," of May S, 1178, nor tbe aotof March a, 1I7(, give* any authority to withhold suoh compensation from a railroad oompany which received no aid Inisubsidy bonds of the United States. 8. Thus statutes relating to the bond-subsi-dised Pacific Railroad Company, do not repeal or in any manner interfere with tho statute! giving jurisdiction to the accounting office re of the Treasury Department. 4. The Utah ft Northern Railroad Company is entitled to payment from the United States for tts rervloes In oarrylng the malls of tba United States In pursuance of the regulations of toe Post-offloe Department. This decision finally determines In favor es tbe Pacific Railroad companies the longpending controversy as to their right to receive payment in cash for mall transportation service to the Government on leased or non-tubsldlzad portions of their respective Hum. Edmund L. Cashing, ex-Chlef-Justice of New Hampshire, died recently, aged seven tywix yean. j

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Indianapolis grain quotations arer Wheat —Ho. 2 Red, $1.1801.11 Corn No. 2, 53053)4. Oats—4lo42c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red* <1.1601.11 Corn—No. 2,64054*0. Oats— No. 2, 42K0430. Rye—No. 2, 62)40640. Barley—No. 8 Fall, nominal. Tho examination by the State Board of Education of applicants for State license as teachers, will begin in Indianapolis June 19. Applicants will be required to give a statement of the names of the institutions where they have studied, together with their courses of study. They will, also be required to give satisfactory evidence that they have taught school for atleast seven years—at least two years of which have been In Indiana. The Superintendent of Public Instruction has received reports of the annual enumeration of school children from all the counties except Posey, Putnam and Owen. According to the enumeration, exclusive of the three counties named, there are 696,847 school children in the State. Mrs. Anns Faulkner, aged elghty-fonr years, who lived in Orange County for seventy years, died at her home in Paoli a few days ago. She removed to that place with her parents from Virginia in 1813. A partially-rifled mall-sack was found near Seymour a few days ago. No clew to the perpetrators could be found. William Middleton,of Connersvllle, Fayette County, arranging a conductor at the corner of his house during a shower a few days ago, received a slight stroke of lightning, the electric fluid running from his knees down his limbs. He was paralyzed for some time after he was picked up, and was severely scorched. A few days ago Dwight Wheaton was seen to go to the river bank, in the city limits of Logansport, and dig np several ■mall and mysterious-looking packages which he put in bis pocket and hastened off. He was soon afterward arrested, when on bis person were found eighty bogus silver dollars. A Justice of the Peace committed him to jail in default of SI,OOO bond. Tbe other morning some person set fire to tbe railroad depot at Slate Cut, Clark County. The post-office was located at thet? depot, and the building and its entire concents were consumed. Orgus Dean, one of the largest peach growers in Indians, says there will be a good yield this season. Grace Reformed Church was organized In Fort Wayne a few days ago. The charter membership is fifty-seven. Rev. T. J. Bacher, of Ohio, an appointee of the Central and Northwestern Synods, is the minister. The cyclone a few evenings ago, besides wrecking two churches and the town school-house and ruining a number of ■tructures at Southport, Marion County, made a descent into the cemetery and tore up or broke in pieces its tallest monuments. Cottages, farm-houses and fences were blown down in all directions. Governor Porter has, during two years in office, apointed fifteen Judges, and is not through yet. Raccoon Station, Putnam County, is excited over the reported discovery of a Urge amount of gold and silver near that place. The dam at Cody’s grist-mill, at Williamsport, Warren County, was partially destroyed a few nights ago by the explosion of some dynamite placed by malicious parties unknown. Eight hundred dollars would repair tbe damage, and six hundred dollars that to houses in the village. Nobody was hurt. The explosion was heard six miles. F. W. Smith, a young hostler in Fort Wayne, has fallen heir to one-third of an estate worth $60,000, by the death of an undo nt Dayton, O. A turtle-hunter from Richmond, Wayne County, named Henry Hnkemeyer, was fatally injured at New Bremen, 0., the other day, by the accidental discharge of his gun while climbing outot a wagon. Alvah Bush, convicted in the Steuben Circuit Court in September, 1880, of assault and battery with intent to kill, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary north, was pardoned recently by the Governor. It was shown that tho assault was committed under very exasperating circumstances, and the pardon was recommended by the jury and oourt officiate before whom the case was triad besides a number of prominent citisons of Steuben. On tho 9th of March Mrs. Elizabeth Foreman and her daughter, two unprotected women living at Royalton, Boone County, were brutally murdered by unknown parties. Suspicion was attached to several .parsons, and one arrest had been made, but no case found. Excitement waa caused recently by the arrest of Milton 6. Foreman, son and brother, respectively, of the murdered woman, for the crime. At the time of tho crime it was suspected that grove-yard insurance might hare had something to do with it, but Milton Foreman denied positively that there was any ins nr-’ ance on tho life of his mother or sister. Later, howsvar, it was developed that )ie had a SB,OOO policy on each in an Eastern grave-yard company in bli own name. By ths death of the old lady ha also becomes heir to the farm on which she lived and other property. Ha has previously borne a good reputation, and to a farmer of soma means. A tramp broke into a district school-house ■rear Fort Wayne a few nights ago and slept there all night. When the teacher opened the door tho next morning she was surprised to find on the blackboard the following: “I had a hard bed, but it was the best I could do under ths droumstsnoes. Nothing disturbed. 'How is your school) And how is your wages)” On account of the arrest of the twentyseven students at Franklin, Johnson County, for dunking tho Professor a few days ago, fifty other students threatened to tear* ths institution.