Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 5, Number 31, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 1 November 1883 — Page 2

ftojpncc ‘SBcchli) NAPPANEE. : t INDIANA. WEWS QF THE WEEK BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. DOMESTIC. Three men were drowned on the 22d by the foundering of a sloop off Newport News, Va. The National Horse-Show opened on the 22d in New York, with four hundred fine animals on exhibition. Henry Mosher, brother of the mail who admitted having abducted Charley Ross, was lynched near Cheyenne, Wy. TANARUS., on the 22d, for the murder of J. H. Wentzell and a brutal assault on James Knight. The store of S. B. Smith, of Middleville, Mich., was destroyed by fire on the 22d, and four men were burned to death. . For three days a severe snow-storm raged at Tellweide, Col., and the mountain passes were on the 22d covered to the depth of four feet. The issue of silver dollars for the week ended on the 20th amounted to $511,957; for the corresponding period of 1832, $953,000. A difficulty between the Rogers and Syms families at Mcßean, Ga., resulted a few days ago in three of the Symses being shot—one being killed on the spot, one mortally, and another seriously wounded. Jhe belligerents were well-connected farmers. '• * younq man named of Stony Creek, Conn., recently returned from a long sojourn in the West, fell in love with tiis father's second wife, and eloped with her. Daniel McMahon, a dissolute young man of Kansas City, went to a dancehouse at Armourdale a few days ago and indulged in a wild spree. His father •ought him out, and found him engaged in an affray, the end being the accidental lolling of the father by his son. As the crowd was passing out of a circus tent at Nashville, Tenn., on the evening of the 22d James P. Brierly killed Robert P. Bates with a revolver, causing a stampede. Ten years ago Bates murdered the brother of Brierly at a dance. An explosion of powder on the 23d in J. H. Smith’s Excelsior squib factory, at IKingston, Pa., blew eight children out of fehe building, one falling in the creek. Their ages were between fourteen and sixteen, and all were horribly burned and blackened by the powder. One was already dead, and five others could not recover. A fire at Miles City, M. TANARUS., a few days ago destroyed thirteen buildings on Park street. Six miles from East St Louis on the 23d a broken rail caused two coaches of a Louisville & Nashville train to jump the track and they were dragged some distance on their sides. Thirty-seven persons were injured—ten seriously and one fatally. A boiler exploded on the 23d in the pump factory at Belpre, 0., killing one man and wounding eight others, four fatally. \ While a dance was in progress at a •house near Gardiner, Col., a few evenings ago two Mexicans while standing outside fired several shots into the house, killing two Mexicans, one of whom was the owner of the house, and two white men, one the son of a prominent citizen. Intense excitement prevailed, and a lynching was probable. The rear car of an Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western train jumped the track on the 23d near Rainstown, Ind., injuring eleven persons, two fatally. An officer of the Secret Service on the 23d discovered near Brattleboro, Vt., a gang of twenty-three yonng counterfeiters, who had been at work since June in a secret place in the mountains. Only two had "been captured. John M. Glidden, ofeCleveland, 0., Secretary of the Republic Iron Company, is insolvent, and on the 23d confessed judgment on claims aggregating $lll,OOO. Francis J. Kelly, seventeen years old, confessed at Rockport, Ind., on the 23d that he murdered R. T. Arnett, the owner of a trading boat, on the night of Septem? ber 29. Kelly claimed that Arnett threatened to kill him if he left his employment. A four-story building at St. Louis, the Tipper part of which was used as a hotel, .was destroyed by fire on the 23d, and five persons were reported as burned to death. At Tlacotepee, Tex., a few days ago a party of bandits seized Ignacia Garcia Veyran, an old capitalist, and tried to carry him off. His servants came to hlr assistance and killed two of the bandits and wounded several others. The latter fled, first killing Veyran. Emil Trampetf.r, who killed Anthony Delano in a saloon-row at Cincinnati on the 29th of October, 1882, andLwas convicted of manslaughter, demanded; through his attorneys, anew trial, which was granted, and which resulted on the 23d in a verdict of murder in the first degree, for which the punishment is death. William Young, President of the Commercial National Bank of Reading, Pa., confessed judgment in favor of the bank on the 23d for $72,367* He used the money in speculation, and could not pay the notes when they fell due. At Chanute, Kan., the other night R. J. Barkley, who maligned a young lady because he was not permitted to visit her, was shot and mortAlly wounded by her brother, Rant Waters. A steam circular saw at Muncie, Ind., burst a few days ago while running at * high rate of speed, splitting open the head of Jacob Rader and cutting an arm from a man named Ellis. At the National Horse-show in New York on the 23d engine Company ha massed Its team and made ready for a fire in SH seconds. O. J. Haller, a Denver (Col.) barber, in • fit of jealousy oo the 23d upon discover-

ing bis wife in company with another barber, named S. H. Morris, drew a revolver and shot his wife through the heart, killing t her instantly. Then he turned upon Morris and fired twice, shooting him throbgh the body and fatally wounding him. On the farm in Kansas once occupied by the murderous Bender family, near Cherryvale, J. C. Murphy plowed up a sealed tin can containing $30,000 in Greenbacks and coin a few days ago. Other parties were digging up the ground in the hope of similar discoveries. The annual report of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, issued on the 24th, showed the total cost of transportation by all methods to be $19,234,899, an increase over the preceding year of $333,847. Increase in railway service, $1,034,616; in steamboat service, $33,602; decrease in the cost of the star-route service, $814,371; estimated cost of latter service next year, $5,600,000; estimate for itoilroad service next year, $13,735,216. An aged couple named Crawford, living on a farm near Clinton Falls, Ind., were fatally clubbed on the 24th by strangers for whom supper was being prepared. The villains secured only fifteen dollars. About forty East St. Louis strikers were on the 24th indicted by the Grand Jury for Interfering with railroads and intimidating employes during the recent strike. Postmaster-General Gresham has put new energy into his war against the lotteries, and on the 24th announced it to be his policy to proceed against the patrons of lotteries as well as against the lotteries themselves. Those who buy lottery tickets probably are unaware of the fact that tfaoy are not at liberty to use the mails for that purpose. Snow fell steadily on the 21th throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. N ear New Comerstown, 0., Albert Fintzer killed his wife an i three children and ended his own existence on the 23J. His health having failed, hisjphytoician advised hljnto quit work. He tien brooded oyer liis condition until he lost his miiitL The wholesale clothing house of Stem, Trautmau & Cos., of Philadelphia, failed on the 24th for $150,030. In the billiard game at Chicago on the evening of the 24th for the cushion carrom championship of America, Slossou defeated Sexton by 500 to 486 points. Burglars blew open the safe of the Texas Central Railroad office at Terrell a few days ago, and secured $l5B in money. This was the third raid on the same treas-ure-box in three months. It was estimated at Washington on the 24th that 4,000,000 postal notes, representing a money value of $10,000,000, would be used during the year. The fiercest northeast gale for years raged on the 24th on the Massachusetts coast, and there were great fears for the safety of several craft seen east of Cape Cod. At the breakfast-table recently of a boarding-house in Leadville, Col., Frank Gallagher killed James B. Garvin for yaking insulting remarks about the former’s bride. Joseph D. AVeeks, Secretary of the Western Iron Association, who returned from Europe on the 24th, gave a gloomy account of the condition pf the laborer and mechanic. One-third of the puddling furnaces m Northern England, he said, were idle, and mills were working but part of the time. Arbitration, he stated, was becoming a factor in the settlement of labor questions. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL In New York City on the 21st Rev. Dr. Henry C. Potter was consecrated Assistant Bishop of the diocese of New York, and at Baltimore Rev. Alfred M. Randolph was consecrated as Assistant Bishop of West Virginia. James Dun, a colored citizen of Windsor, Ont., brought suit a few days ago for the admission of his daughter to the public school, but the court sustained the plea of the school officers that there was no room. A great mass-meeting of colored men was held at Washington on the evening of the 22d, which was addressed by Colonel 'lngersoll and Fred Douglass. Colonel Ingersoll praised Justice Harlan, and placed the recent opinion of the Supreme Court on a par with the Dred Scott and other ante-war decisions. The official vote for Governor of Ohio at the recent election was announced on the 22d as follows: Hoadly, 359,593; Foraker, 347,064; Schumadßer, 8,361; Jenkins, 2,783; Hoodly’s majority, 1,883; total vote, 721,464. Majority against the Prohibition Amendment, 38,543. Captain Matnb Reid, the novelist, died in London a few evenings ago, aged sixtyfive years. The wile of John Russell Young, American Minister to China, died at Paris on the 22d. The grave of President Jefferson at Monticello, Va., has been inclosed with a handsome fence and adorned by a suitable monument Hon. Elisha Foote, Commissioner of Patents under Andrew Johnson, died of heart-disease at St. Lonls on the 22d. The “old line’’ Democrats of Massachusetts on the 23d issued an address repudiating General Butler and invoking Democratic support for the Republican candidate for Governor. At Portland, Me., on the 23d a young man alleged that he wa* Charley Rosa, claiming to have been kept in a dark room four years and then taken to Brazil. Upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the Interior on the 23d ordered the suspension of the following-named pension attorneys for illegalities: J. R. Cilley, of Rockland, Me.; Francis Regester and William H. Druen, of Philadelphia; Milo 8.. Stevens Sc Cos., of Cleveland. Washington, Detroit and Chicago; William H. Walls & Cos,, of Washington, D. C., and James R. Russell Sc Cos., of Trenton, If. J. Mil Abbott, of Boston, wrote a letter on the 24th declining the Democratic nomination for Lleutenant-GoVernor of Mas.achugettr

A large number of the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland gathered at Cincinnati on the 24th, the oooasion being the annual meeting of the society. Full returns received on the 24th from all the counties in lowa at the recent election give the following: For Governor, Sherman, Republican, 164,182; Kinne, Democrat, 139,093; Weaver, Greenback, 23,089; Sherman’s majdftty over all, 2,000. For Supreme Judge, Reed, Republican, 163,896; Hayes, Democrat, 141,049; Church, Greenback, 21,439; Reed over all, 909. Among the cases recently docketed in the United States Supreme Court at Washington was the City of New Orleans vs. Myra Clark Gaines. The record in the case is the largest ever submitted to the Supreme Court or probably any other court. It Is bound in one immense volume, which weighs over 200 pounds and contains 8,200,000 words. It takes two man to open and shut the book. FOREIGN. - Six men were killed and three others were injured by an explosion in a colliery near Stokes-upon-Trent, Eng., on the 22d. Shocks of earthquake were experienced at Malta and Trieste on the 22d, and residents of Smyrna were said to be afraid to enter their houses. Much excitement was caused at Quebec, Can., on the 22d by a rumor that the police had discovered a plot to assassinate the Marquis of Landsdowne, the new Gov-ernor-General of Canada, it being asserted that the plot grew out of Irish dissatisfaction with his course as a landlord. Four additional deaths from cholera oo* curred on the 23d at the Arab village near Alexandria. The Marquis of Lansdowne landed at Quebec at ten a. m. on the 23d, and was immediately sworn in as Governor-Gen-eral of Canada. The populace exhibited much enthusiasm. Order bad beep restored on tjjc 23d Port-au-Prince, where 1,500 lfves were lost and $4,000,000 worth of property destroyed during the recent massacre. Three children named Ingus, the oldest’ a girl of twelve years, were drowned in a pond at Elkhorn, Manitoba, on the 23d. The girl was on the pond skating, when the ice broke and she fell into the water. The younger brothers tried to save her, and all three perished in the presence of their mother on the bank. It was announced on the 23d that the Egyptians had completely defeated El Mahdi, the False Prophet. A black-list circular, containing the names of the jurors in the Phoenix Park murder trials, was mailed to thousands of Dublin’s citizens on the 23d.. Constantinople advices of the 24th state that many deaths from fever and exposure were threatened in the ditricte recently wrecked by earthquakes unless help was given. Clothing, medicine and building materials were mostly needed. The Poor-Law Guardians of Limerick, Ireland, announce that they will erect one thousand cottages for laboring men. Advices of the 24th state that a swindler had secured five dollars or ten dollars each from eighty men and women in Montreal by selling appointments as private detective in connection with a bureau in Chicago. LATER NEWS A ranchman reported at Tombstone, A. TANARUS., on the 25th that Mexican troop, had routed the Apache, at the Hwisshelm Mountains with great slaughter. A large body of the defeated Indians were making for the Son Carlos reservation. William H. Jenkins fee Cos., door manufacturers at New York, failed on the 25th f6r $179,000. Advices of the 25th from Mazatlan, Mex., reported that since the outbreak of yellow fever in that city five thousand persons had died from the disease. It was believed that the plague was at an end. The wholesale fur house of Eddy, Harvey & Cos., of Chicago, failed on the 2oth for $250,000. \ Citizens of Gardner, CoL, on the 25th tied a Mexican murderer to the horn of a saddle and frightened the horse into a run, the culprit being dragged to death over the rocks. An insane man named Keeny, who was locked In a room in the court-house at Warrenton, Mo., hugged a red-hot stove a few days ago until dragged away from it, and died soon afterward. Nearly three hundred children in Guilford County, N. C., died from diphtheria during the tjeo weeks ended on the 25th. The large fishing schooner F. B. Tower, ,of Boston, went ashore at Princeton on the 25th, having lost its Captain and eight of the crew. Cholera was reported on the 26th as again epidemic in Egypt, nine deaths having occurred at Alexandria. The inhabitants were greatly alarmed. , A planixg-mill, five dwelling bouses and a million feet of lumber were destroyed by fire at Pittsburgh on the morn ing of the 25th. I Four foundrymOti were killed on the 25th in an accident at Le Creuzot, a large town two-thirds of the way between Paris and Geneva. General Sheridan was on the 25th reelected President of the Army of the Cumberland. At Kent, Portage County, 0., Samuel Bail}], an employe of the glass-works, leaped into flaming furnace need for making glass, and was cremated. Why he committed the deed was unknown. Rev. I. W. Pembroke, the oldest Congregational minister in New Hampshire, died on the 25th at Concord. The Treasury Department at Washington on the 25th purchased 425,600 ounces of silver for delivery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco mints. The robbed tfnd mutilated remains of two unknown Americans were recently found in Mexico, twenty-five miles from El Paso, , Tex. 1 Bt the capsizing of a schooner on the 25th off Vineyard Haven, Mass., the Captain and three seamen.were drowned.

BLOWS TO ATOMS. A “Squib” Factory Near WUkesbarre, Fa., Destroyed by a Powder Explosion—Several Persons Killed and Others Fatally Wonnded. * Wilkesbabre, Pa„ Oct. 24.— About one o’clock yesterday afternoon the mining town of Plymouth, four miles from this city, was the scene of great excitement The Excelsior gas squib factory exploded with terrific force. As soon as the explosion occurred those near by ran to the rescue of the operatives who were buried In the debris. Sympathetic hands were soon employed In removing as tenderly as possible the blackened and disfigured victims. Five dead bodies were found. One girl, Mattie James, aged sixteen, when found had nothing on but her corsets and shoes, her clothes having been literally tom to pieces. She was burned to a crisp. The others presented almost as sickening an appearance. As the injured all resided near by they were taken to their respective homes as quickly as possible and medical aid summoned. All the local physicians and one or two from a distance responded promptly to the call, and everything was done to ease the terrible sufferings of the unfortunate children. The scenes in their homes were heartrending. Mothers fainted and fathers trembled with grief as the black and disfigured forms of their loved ones were borne by sorrowing neighbors into the house. The news of the disaster spread rapidly, and mechanics, 'miners and nfen engaged in other employment quit work and hurried to the scene. In some of the houses it was difficult to get through the crowds that filled them. Women thronged the apartments where the sufferers were placed. The mother of Mamie Norris, aged sixteen, whose body is one mass of scarified flesh, and who can not live, remarked that her daughter said when site came home to dinner that just before she left the factory a little bird flew in at an open wjqclow and alighted ou her shoulder. This the poor gill considered a premonition of deatli, for she said to her mother as site came Into the house: “Mother, I am going to die to-day, I know I am.” Miss Norris’ home is one of apparent culture mjl refinement A fine upright piano, ’’■a 'gift to Mamie, stood in the handsomely furnished parlor. She is ail only daughter. She was conscious when seen by the correspondent, and was apparently resigned to her fate. Eight hands were employed in the factory, whose ages ranged from eleven to sixteen. Mattie James, whose body is a crisp and filled with powder, i* about sixteen. She. is unconscious and is wrapped in cotton. Her death is hourly expected. In another room lay the body of her brother, aged eleven, who, while terribly burned, is not thought to be hurt internally. The doctors think he will recover. About the children moved the forms of tha gray-haired parents, trembling with grief. Mary Quinn lay in her home oil the hill, above the iron bridge, blackened and burned like the rest of her companions. She is twelve years old, and can not live. Hattie Moss, aged fifteen, was blown into a creek which runs behind tiie factory, and, though her feet are badly burned, it ia thought she will recover. John Evans, fourteen years of age, will •Iso reoover, though burned severely. James Steele, aged fourteen, is terribly mangled, and his life is despaired of. Lizzie Edwards was lying bandaged front bead to foot, but she said the physicians had hopes of her recovery. No one appeared to know what caused the explosion. Mr. Smith, superintendent of the factory, liad not returned from dinner, and could not explain how it happened. He said that besides a quantity of powder used for manufacturing the squibs, there was about a keg and a half of damaged powder scattered in five different kegs. Lizzie Edwards toki her mother that they were burning wood hi the ’ stove, and that a spark Hew out and ignited some straw on the floor which set fire to the powder. Mr. Smith could not estimate the loss sustained. The factory was located in an old shed that stood on Skeer’s property, about one hundred feet from the road leading to Blindtown. It was started last April It is expected that at least five of the injured children will die. A Railway Wreck. St. Louis, Oct. 24. —An accident occurred on the Louisville & Nashville Air Line. As the passenger train from Louisville was about six miles from East St. Louis it struck a broken rail. The engineer felt the shock and put on the brakes, and all the coaches passed over in safety except the Inst two passenger-cars ahd the sleeper, all of which were crowded. These two tipped over and were dragged along a short distance when the couplings broke. The number of persons injured, as of'ficially reported, is thirty-seven; but of these only about eleven are badly hurt Mr. Stem, a clothing merchant, of Philadelphia, received a severe scalp wound and a violent contusion on the left side of the face. Mrs. Weldner, of Canton, Mo., has a very severe scalp wound, and her shoulder and knee hurt ’ The scene and excitement were heartrending among the sLxty men, women and children who occupied the coach and sleeper. The women shrieked and the wounded groaned, and blood flowed profusely from the numerous cuts the Inmates received. It was a long time before the women could be quieted. The wounded were brought to East St Louis’ when those who were not badly hurt went on to their destination. Others of the wounded were brought to this city. Mr. Anthony received a frightful scalp wound. He cried: “Oh, my poor wife and children,” when, he became unconscious and delirous. Anthony’s Injuries are not so bad •s at first reported. The physicians now express strong hopes of Ills recovery. He b Treasurer and ,General Manager of the Household Sewing Machine Company, of Providence, R. L It to now believed that none of the Injured are fatally hurt Another Foolhardj Man Ld2t"London, Oct 24.— Captain Provy, who left Dover Monday in a miniature paddleboat to attempt to cross the, channel, met with gales when part of the way over, and has not since been neard from. It to feared he has been drowned,

Hew to Avora Disease. Yonng chickens frequently die,and it Is almost an impossibility to raise every chick that is batched, more especially where the broods are large. It does not follow that whole broods should be lost That so many die, is Hie result of carelessness and negligence. Unforseen accidents happens in every one’s experience, bnt can be avoided the second time. The gapes is not the worst disease known to the fraternity, for when this difficulty is once thoroughly understood, it vn9y.be avoided. There are always soiumlDi, puny birds among the broods, thfltoan never reach healthy maturity’Mßt .is. better for these to drop off while yodßg, as no amount of care or nursing ctoe of avail. The strong, robust oad’ean be raised. To avoid weakness, wMch is the hand-maid of disease, thM9|fl should not be closely bred. secure strong chicks from thsflart,jrhe breeding birds should be yonßMmjlin full vigor. They must be weTnp|HkM| cared for. Then the chicks com*. the shell strong and active. weakness, feed this strength with HMUi hearty food. Eggs from well-kept hens than those from poorly fore it is better to keep the fowlooNL If the chicks are well fed, and fcefMry and warm, they are proof against Kl disease. It is only the poor, haif-sjtorwd, ones that are attacked with diseasmr A strong, vigorous constitution willmand a good deal. Moistened meal, aroiany young beginners are apt to think, is not good for them. It is almost an impossibility for them to endure it day nttJP day, even if freshly wet, and not in acid and fermenting state. ChickSP should be given whole grain, and corn as soon as old enough to manage M a kernel, which they will 'do quite young. Strong, hearty food is sure *o* prevent gapes, and full crops keep tb&m young blood in motion. Jf* Strength and activity keep _pSc 1 animal’s blood in motion, and this motes growth. . All of this is about by giving good food, and keepmK the chicks clean, dry and warm. Ak thing which retards growth, and interferes with temperature and action, (promotes disease. Any dampness of ajhartments whore the fowls are confiqfgMr a t night or throughout the (lay, roup, which is often incurable. ness and cold, chilly quarters pqvtflL the gapes, which often ends in onfflMa Chicks can endure quite a degree _ of® cool air if it is dry, without receiving an injury, but dampness and cold are almost sure death. The diseases which chickens are subject may all avoided with care and Fowls are regular in their strict regularity should lie feeding.— Cot. Country Oenllems^f^^ ~ jjPSff Primeval Tinder. ~ There are some kinds of mushrooms/, notably the woody and leathery ones, that no more suggest ideas of a meal to us than a log of timber or a pair of old boots do. Hut if we do not think of eating them we can fashion them into excellent razor strops or other useful articles on occasion. Several polypores make first-rate tinder and for such purpose they have undoubtedly been nsed from very remote times'. We infer that fires were kindled by theit means in the ancient Swiss lake dwellings from the fact that the} - occur among the remains in almost every one of these old habitations. The common*tinder polypore has also been found in the lake dwellings at Lochlce, in Ayrshire. Perhaps they may have been put to some other use. These old lake dwellers were probably not without their vices, and may have pounded'polvpores to dust and snuffed that up as eagerly as certain natives of Northern Asia do at this day. —(loop Words. —A California lady has a pair] of scissors which have been used by herself and her mother for seventy-six years. —San Francisco Chronicle. THE MARKETS. New York, October 28. LIVE STOCK—Cattle'........ 13 90 @ (6 75 Sheep 8 75 @ 525 _ Hours 625 @ 565 FLOUR—Good to Choice .... 450 @ 725 Patent ; 5 60 @ 750 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 1104® 1124 Np.2Sprkiff 1 024® 108 COHN—No. 2 554® *T OATS—Western Mixed 33?i® 38 RYE 66 © 664 PORK—Mess 11 50 @ll 75 LARD—Steam 770 ® 775 CHEESE 10 © 11JA WOOL—Domestic 32 @ 45 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra *0 70 @ |7 00 Choice 60J @ 650 G00d...... 6 50 @ '(|o Medium 4 26 @ 525 Butchers’ Stock. 2 90 © 400 Inferior Cattle 200 @ 260 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 4 30 @ 625 -SHEEP 200 @ 450 fBUTTER—Creamery 25 @ 28 Good to Choice Dairy.... 19 @ 24 EGGS-Frcsh 224® 23 FLOCH-Wlntor 600 © 576 Spring 4 00 ® 675 Patent 650 @ 700 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 91 © 914 Corn, No. 2 464® 46q Oats, No. * 274® 274 Rye, No. 2 644® —55 Barley. No. 2 80 ® 604 BROOM-CORN-Hcd-Tlpped Hurl 44® 64 FlneGreen..,.., 64® 6 Inferior 3 ® 4 POTATOES—Good to Choice 30 @ 45 PORK-Mess 10 40 © 10 50 LARD—Steam’. 7 40 @ 750 LUMBER— Common Dressed Siding. 18 00 ® 20 OO Flooring. 16 00 @ 36 00 Common Boards 12 00 @ 18 00 Fencing 12 00 @ 14 50 •SfiStoi"'!!"";:"!:;":; ISS §> iao C Al^B.^ r . l ' I . BEBTr ri #•* HofS IS | IS, -*SB£==3lll> CATTLE—Best 26 00 ® 26 25 i" iwiip-iwto' Chbtoe....; 220 t 6*