Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 11, Number 18, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 July 1889 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. WAPPANEE. : : INDIANA. Epitome of the Week interesting news compilation. DOMESTIC. A heavy hail-Btorm on the 17th at Lynn, Mass., did much damage to skylights. Many horses ran a-.rsy and several windows were broken. . The stables of the Lowell Horse railroad At Lowell, Mass, were burned on the 17th, together with one hundred- and twenty horses and forty cars. Lop, 1150,000. Zim Tilean (colored) was murdered on the 17th at Graysport, Miss., for reporting to the police places where gambling was carried on. At the annual meeting of the Western Associated Press at Detroit, Mich., on the 17m J. F. Mack was elected president The Colorado river at Columbus, Tex., wde*Jtoty-ohe feet high and still rising on the nC The lowlands were all inundated, and crops were entirely destroyed. The damage to the cotton crops alone in that vicinity was estimated at half a million dollars.

While endeavoring on the 17th to recovor ft watch which had fallen into a cesspool at Lincoln, Neb,, lour men were overcome by gas and foul air and were killed. The Russ House and stables at Fresno, Cal, were burned on the 17th and a number of horses perished. Loss, $40,000. The extensive car shops of the Eel River division of the Wabash road, located at Butler, Ind., were almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 17th, throwing over one hundred men out of employment. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Two runaway coal “gondolas” loaded with one hundred thousand pounds of. coal crashed into a passenger train on the 17th near Shamokin, Fa, causing the death of two persons and mortally wounding four others, while over fifty received various injuries. 'The report that Legitime had found it necessary to enlist female troops was denied by Captain O’Brien, of the steamer Caroline Miller, which arrived at New York from Hayti on the 17th. Hartmann Plaao, who had been twice arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of John Koldiz, his father-in-law, was fatally beaten by unknown parties at Peoria, 111, on the J7th. Louis Clabbado, while pursuing his fourteen-year-old daughter on the 17th, who was eloping near Waterford; N. J;, with Michael Vinopoli, was shot by the lover, who in turn wa3 battered to death by Clabrado’s frienda In the woods of Multnomah County, Ore., and in Southern Washington Territory forest fires had on the 17th done damage to the extent of a million dollars Foub children of Joseph Hunter, a planter living near Star City, Ark., were fatally poisoned on the 17th by eating food in which arnica had been placed. The criminal and the motive were unknown. John Elkins, a farmer living in Elk township, Clayton County, la, and his wife were found murdered in their bed e arly on the morning of the 17th. An eleven ydarold son was suspected of the crime. Specimens of the first paper money ever issued in Siam were received by the Secretary, of State at Washington on the 17th Its issue was sanctionedtfy the King. The business portion Shell Rock, la , was destroyed by fire on the 17th. Duhing a perforUmhce of Bristol’s circus on the 17th at Milfoip, Mass., several tiers of seats fell and thirteen hundred persons went down, many of whom were bruised and a few seriously hurt At Brewton, Ala, a man named Gastor committed suicide on the 17th by throwing himself upon a circular saw. Disappointment in love was the cause. A passengeb train on the Cairo & Vincennes road went down an embankment on the 17th near Mt Carmel, 111, and fifteen persons were seriously injured. A fire on the 17th at Columbus, O.,which started in the buiding of the German - Furniture Company, caused a loss of $150,000. At the session of the National Education- “ arT AsSociafrOTr atc Naffhviite, Tens.,. e-a-tto lSth James IL CiwUUsUl, of Kansas, was chosen president for the ensuing year. The Rhode Island Legislature on the ISth passed a bill making the license fees for wholesale liquor dealers from SSOO to SI,OOO, and for retailers S4OO in Providence, and grading down to $303 in other towns according to population. , Captain Daniel Appleton was unanimously ■ elected Colonel of the famous Seventh New York Regiment on the 18th, vice Colonel Eminons Clark, resigned. Fifteen men visited John 8. Schmidt, a farmer living two miles from Sibley, 111., - on the 17th and administered to him a terrible whipping with switches for drunkenness and wife-heating. More than seven hundred employes in the silk mills at Faterson, N. J., went out on the 18th, refusing to accept a reduction . of ten per eent sy v Vy' ; ' ■ ■ V : '\\ V Ten by fire at v Corinna, Me., on the 18th, Anita andMeriam Boggs, maiden Sisters, living in Jackson County, Va, committed suicide on the 18th by taking arsenic. Tbey left a letter, signed jointly, saying that there was nothing in life for old maids, and that, they were tired of itIsrael Landis, eighty years of age, and one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of St. Joseph, Mo., was swindled out of $5,000 in Str Louis on the 18th by bunko men. Three men were drilled and five others seriously injured in a boiler explosion on the 18th at the R. B. Stone Lumber Company’s saw-miii in Chicago. Mrs. John McGregor drowned her two children in a stream near Youngstown, Or,' on the 18th, and then took her own life in the same manner, while temporarily insane. Her husband wus away from homo. In Lansing, Mich., on the 18th William McKellops, a millionaire of Perry, Mich., and president <jf the First National Bank of Corunna, was swindled out of about $7, (XX) by the ancient gold brick scheme. O. P. Cheney’s stables at Columbus, Q., •were struck by lightning and burned on the 18th, together with five valuable horses. Captain Abbqtt with , a posge of seerdt--77 service men raided the United States Hotel near Dayton, 0., on the 18th, and secured two carpet-sacks of spurious ten-dollar Bills. It was an&ounced on the.jlSth that there was a shortage in the wheat crop of Dakota of from twenty to thirty million bushels, and in many counties there had been an almost total failure. At Lebanon, Ind., on the 18th John Glenn, a twelve-year-old boy, playfully pointed a supposed empty gun at Lewis Smith. The gun exploded and Smith received a fatal • wound. ' The managers of the recent SuUivanKilrain/nght, Referee Fitzpatrick, Bud lienaud and others, were arrested on the 18th at Purvis. Miss., and gave hail to appear at the next term of court Thebe were three fatal cases of sunstroke in New Orleans on the lstlt ■

An unknown, vreil-dresaod stranger walked boldly into the Chesapeake A Ohio railroad ticket office in Louisville. Ky., on the afternopn of the 18th, jumped over the counter, took $750 from the. cash drawer, and then made his escape. There were 188 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 19th, against 318 the previous seven days. during a storm on the 19th neat the Standing Bock Indian Agency in Dakota, a wigwam containing \ five Indians was struck hv llghtnihg and three were killed. James T. Dal's, a SL-Lguts gambler, on the 19th shot and killed Lillie Davis, an inmate of a house of ill-fame, and then killed himself. \ Pearce A Ryan, wholesale whisky dealers at Nashville, Tenn., failed on/the 19th for $100,030. \ -At Kenosha, W 1&, on theT9thMr. RichardLyman and Miss Bertha Head went out for a ride on the lake, and both were drowned by the capsizing of their boat Arthur J. McQuade, who was indicted in 1885 for alleged bribery in connection with the Broadway (New York) railway franchise, and sentenced to Sing Sing, was acquitted at Ballston Spa, N. Y’., on the 19th, his counsel having secured a change of venue and anew trial. .. The greatest disaster which ever befell the Little Kanawha valley in West Virginia occurred on the 19th in the shape of a terrible cloud-burst which completely flooded the country, destroying many lives, carrying off thousands of dollars in property and ruining the crops for many miles. At Chesterville, a small town, half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn-fields. At Morristown tho cloud-burst concentrated ih all its fury, coming down on tho village and totally destroying it,' together with many of its.people. At Londonderry, Pill Brush and other places great damage w as also done and lives were lost. Rev. Dennis Spurrier, pastor of the Methodist church at Owensboro, Tenn., died suddenly on the 19th while visiting the Mammoth Cave. He was on his bridal toon A pitched battle occurred on the 19th In the western part of Jefferson County, Ala, between the Simpson and Houghton families and friends of both Rides, in whiohAwe of the Houghtons, one of the Simpsons and Sheriff Morgan were killed. An old feud was the causa Pbof. Cbaig made a balloon ascension on the 19th at Coldviater, Mich., and dropped with a parachute from a height of four thousand feet, foiling in the lake. He was rescued unharmed. Pete Willis, a negro prisoner in tho jail at Warsaw, Ind., was lynched on the 19th by a mob. Willis was charged with having assaulted a little girl A severe thunder-storm in Montana on the 19th flooded the entire Milk river valley from Assinaboin to a point twenty-five miles east of Chinook, doing immense damage. A salt “trust” was incorporated at Albany, N. Y., on the 19th under ‘the name of the North American Sait Company; capital stock, $11,000,900. President, W. K Burt, of Michigan. A strip of oountry about five miles in width lying a few miles northwest of Aurora, IIL, was visited on th'3 19th by a terrific wind and rain-storm which did great damage to cropß, laying low the corn and wheat for miles. Five bodies were found on tho 19th at Johnstown, Pa, and there were indicatioris that many more were under the debris where the men were at work. A big strike of silver was reported on the 19th about thirty miles from Great Falls, M. T Lightning struck a house in the village of Georgeville, 0., on the 19th, and set it on fire and burned half the town. The large mill of W. L and W. H. Churchill in Alpena, Mich , was struck by lightning on the 19th during a severe storm and burned to the ground. Lose, $130,000. Below will be found the percentage of the base-ball clubs in the National League for the week ended on the3oth: Boston, .051; New York, .036; Cleveland, .000; Philadelphia, .565; Chicago, .471; Pittsburgh, .383; Indianapolis, .367; Washington, .317. American Association: St Louis, .684; Brooklyn, .635; Athletic, .579; Baltimore, .549; Cincinnati,' ,540; Kansas City, .430; Columbus, ,378; Louisville, .316. JWestern Association: Omaha, .698; St Paul, .651; Minneapolis, .515; Sioux City, .484; Denver, .468; Des Moines, .435; St Joseph, .400; Milwaukee, .338. 7 TheT" ex“?hWg6s"jJTjfwenty-six leading clearing houses in tile United States during the week ended on - the 30th aggregated $1,1'64,881,539, against $1,100,050,48S the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 tho increase amounted to 13,3. At Fraokville, Pa, on the 30th a dwelling house occupied by an aged couple, Michael McGrath and wife, was destroyed by lire, and they perished in the flumes. On the 80th New York City was visited'T|J, a'most dcstructivo storm, which inflictim great damage upon streets and railroad property. Moses Weil’s livery stable in New York .City was burned on the 31st, and one hundred and twenty-five horses were crematefl. Fifty tons of provisions raised in Chicago for the relief of miners’ families at Braidwood, UrarpviHe and Coal (City, 111, wore delivered oh we 30t'h. v . ' ' All the saloons in Cincinnati, 0., anil Kansas City, Mo., were closed on the 21st. The Dodge A Olcott chemical works at Jersey City, N. J., were burned on the 33th. Loss, '5533,000. The steamer St. Nicholas, with five hundred excursionists on board, ran ~ into a closed draw-bridge four miles south of Savannah, Ga,i on the 30th, demolishing the forward part of the steamer and killing two women and injuring twenty-eight men and women, some of whom would die. The National Editorial Association will hold its fifth annual session in Detroit on August 27, 38, 39-and 30. ATEdgerton, 0., on the 31st Hiram Hoadley, Jr., shot and killed his wife and her father, a farmer named Newman, and then killed himself. Headley’s wife had applied for a divorce and was living with her parents. Eight skeletons were found in a cave near St Helena, Neb., on the 30th. It was thought they were the skletons of early immigrants who sought the shelter of the cave when attacked by Indians years ago, and that they were either killed in' a body or starved to death. , Robert Marvel, eighty-five years of age, living seven miles from Indianapolis, Ind., had on the 31st gone thirty-five days without food and was still living. At Columbus, O , Tommy Williams and his sister-Agnes, aged three years! put a lighted match in a coal-oil can on the 31st, and the explosion which followed killed them both. A noon on the 20th a package of registered letters said to contain slo,ooowas stolen from the Milwaukee post-office by a sneak-thief. Gray s lake, a popular picnic resort six miles from Gabon, 0., a fine body of water, was destroyed on the 20th by a cloud-burst, which carried away its. embankments. • At Rockford, lit, on the 20th Mr. and Mrs. George J. Sus'smilch, an aged couple, each over' seventy five years of age, wffo for some time had ■ been in poor healthy committed suicide by drawning in the river.

Auditor Al Graham, of Lebanon,' 0., decamped on the 20th with $50,000 belonging to the county, and County Treasurer (l F. Coleman was arrested on a charge of embezzling SIB,OOO. \r Advices of the 21st from \thfl recent flood near Parkersburg. W. Va , say that nineteen dead bodies had been recovered, that hundreds of people lost all they poßseßßed, and that many families were homelesa PERSONAL AND OUT(CAL. The Prohibitionists of Virginia met at Lynchburg on the 18th and nominated Thomas E. Taylor, of Louden County, for Governor. John P. Morton, a veteran book publisher of Louisville, Ky., died on the 19th of general debility caused by old age. He left a fortune of over $1,000,000. Mbs. John A. Logan arrived in New York Trave. She left at once for Youngstown, O. Count Leo Schwab, familiarly known as the “Soldier’s friend,” died at Beachmont, Masa, on the 19th. He expended a large fortune in relieving the wants of soldiers and sailors in distress. Ex-Representative Nichols, of North Carolina, was on the 19th appointed chief of the mail division of the Treasury Department, vice Major Kretz, resigned. William Rule, editor of the Knoxville (Tenn ) Journal, was on the 19th appointed Pension Agent for the Southern States, with headquarters in that city. Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, on the 19th fixed Tuesday, September 3, for the election of a Congressman in the Third district, vice Hdward J. Gay, deceased. President Harrison issued a proclamation on the 19th restoring the Fort McDermot (Nevada) reservation to the publio domain, it being no longer noeded for military purposes. THE-Prohibitionists of New Jersey on the 19th nominated George La Monte, of Bound Brook, for Governor. , Mrs. Mary Robins, aged ninety years, died on the 21st at Sharon, Pa. She /was never inside of a post office or on a rail ©ad train during her life. Nelson Dewey, the firstGovemor of iVisconsin, died on the ;20th at Cassville, Vis., aged seventy-fivd years. Captain John Oliver, the discover r of Miobigan iron mines, died on the 20tn at Norway, Mich. \ FOREIGN. When the Parnell commission mot in London on the 16th Mr. Parnell and the other members of Parliament against whom charges have been made by the London Times, through their counsel, withdrew from-any further preseutatiou of their cases before the commission. A shock of earthquake was felt on the 17th on the Island of Arran and the main land of Scotland. The shock was so severe that houses, were violently shaken. The. Emperor of Brazil attended a theatrical performance in Bio Janeiro on the 17th, and when leaving tho theater a Portuguese fired a shot from a revolver at him. The bullet,, however, missed. The wouldbe assassin was arrested. A tire on the 18th in Constantinople destroyed two hundred houses. \ Six men were drowned on the 18th while attempting to “shoot” Roche’s rapids, near Ottawa, Ont, with a raft They were lumbermen, but their niulies were unknown. Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along tho Dakota line were in bad shape on the 19th, Farmers were almost destitute, and some instances were reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers. \ It was reported on the 20th that the Queen of England had decided to place, her burden of state-documents on the shoulders of the Prince of Wales. \ By the falling of the Mexican customs house at Sassily, Sonora, on the '2oth twelve men were caught in the ruins and three' were dead when extricated. In the town of Paks, Hungary, a fire On the 21st destroyed four hundred houses, and a large number of persons were left homeless and destitute. ■. The Vaudel paper mills near Pontarlier, France, were burned on the 30th. The lcsi was enormous. - The jury in London in the case of Mr. William O’Brien against Lord Salisbury for damages for slander returned a verdict on the 20th in favor of Lord Salisbury.— - LATEST* NEWS. -• -TjrKkirhbys, sons of prominent citizens of Maharioy City and Shenandoah, Pa, while driving across the tracks of the Reading railroad near Mahanoy City on the 33d were struck by an engine, and one was killed and the other two fatally injured. Dan Malone (colored), was taken from the officers at Covington, Ga., on the 32d by masked men and hanged for attempting an assault on a white woman. 8. S. Cartwright, aged sixty years, a resident of Topeka, Kan., who had been living in a garret for years and dining at lunch-counters, died on the 23d, leaving to his relatives a fortune of $350,000. Rev. Edward E. Randkin, D. D., one of the best-known Presbyterian ministers in the country, died on tho ‘33d at Newark, N. J. , aged seventy years, Stephen Bilby was drowned in White river at Anderson, Ini, on the ‘33d in the presence of his wife and two hundred neighbors. He was dragging the river for the bodies of Charles Hosier and ScotiTodd, two boys recently drowned. It was announced on the 22d that Mrs. , Hattie Gibson Heron, a missionary, wife of Rev. David Heron, late of Jonesboro, Tenn., was under sentence of death in Corea for teaching tho doctrines of Christianity. Mrs. Heron preached the Gospel as well as her husband. • ' * A party of cowboys overpowered the guard and hanged two Mexican horsethieves near Kelly, N. M., on the 33d. Three large grain elevators and their contents, belonging to H. Kelly,' E. Strowbridge <fc Cos. and Henry Hover, at Blue Hill, Neb., were burned on the 22tL Three surveyors-Frank'M. Brown, Henry C. Richardsand Peter Hasborough—were drowned on the 23d while running the rapids of the Colorado river noar Marble canyon.ry Near Sweetwater, Wy. TANARUS., on the 22d Jim Averill and Kate Maxwell, known, as the ‘‘Cattle Queen,” who lived with him as his wife, were hanged by ranchmen, who accused their victims of cattle stealing. John Rose, the most prominent citizen of *Clay City, Ky., and the wealthiest man in Powsil County, was assassinated from ambush on the 32(1 The discovery was made on the 32d that a farm directly west of Topeka, Kan., contained a fine bed of terracotta clay. Beds in New Jersey and Ohio have previously furnished ail the terracotta works with clay. RicHAEn Hyatt, aged thirty seven years, the largest land-owner in Southern Indiana, died on tho 22d near Washington. Ind., from the effect of, sun-stroke. He owned fourteen thousand acres of rich valley land. KaVtian advices of the 23d state that General Hippoiyt-e had made several attempts to capture Port au Pjince, but-was repulsed with loss. Advices' of the 22d say that the sfieamer Lorenzo D. Baker was burned while on her way from Jamaica to Boston. The passengers and crew numbered twenty -seven, of whom all but two were saved

THE SECRET BALLOT. _ In Its Use, Mr. Powderij Declares. Lies the Sole Weapon of Protection for tho Toller from tho Dictation of tho Corporation Boss—Austin Corbin Criticised. New York, July 18. —A special from Scranton, Pa., says: General Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, has written a scathing criticism of Austin Corbin’s course in prohibiting members of labor pyganizations from obtaining employment at the Reading works, and it will be published in this week’s issue of the Journal In reviewing the history of this corporation Mr. Powderly declares that Molly Magulreism was the legitimate offspring of the policy of insubordination to constitutional authority which the " Reading ''Company pursued in the past and continues to pursue to-day. He says the Reading Company is an outlaw, and, in defiance to constitutional law, continues to do two kinds of business, when the constitution of Pennsylvania expressly forbids it Mr. Powderly continues: “Mr Corbin goes still further, buys up the Reading iron works, and then -tells the men that he will have no more organization among workmen. This Is one of the be%,t acts of Mr. CoTbln’s life. If he will only follow it up by telling the men that they will have to vote the ticket he votes In future, go to the church he prescribes, and sneeze when he takes snufT, he will be doing a greater service to the workingmen.” -Mr. Powderly continues: ‘‘Shout for eight hours if you will, men, but what are your short hours if during the time you are not at work Austin Corbin shall dictate what you shall not do? Don’t blame Aus tin Corbin for what he is doing. Bo mep, and take the responsibility on youi own shoulders. It is cowardly to whine about the oppression. of capital when we have a reraeuy in our own hands. It is worse than cowardly to know how to dot a thing and not do it. There is a remedy while the State of Pennsylvania, is cursed with the presence of millions of Democratic and Republican workingtmen who do nob realize that they should be citizens, freemen, patriots before be lng partisans. What will you do? I ask. HoJ will you remedy the evil short of anarchy and. revolution? I answer, through a wise, judi c ous use of ballots. A man who even hints at a deed of violence is a traitor to the State.’ ’ Speaking of the “labor legislation” of past years Mr. Powderly said it was not worth the paper it was printed on. The remedy for the great evil is in a judicious use of the ballot He says: “We can not compel obedience to the constitution of Pennsylvania while men can be brow-beaten at the polls and compelled to vote as the corporation boss, the political boss and the rum boss dictates. What we require Is a secret ballot, one by which the man who is partially free may become, in truth a free man. How many of the citizens of Pennsylvania will raise their hands With mine when they read this and pledge themselves not to hsk for another measure of reform at the coming session of the Legislature except the passage of some such system of ballot reform as the Australian system?” Mr. Powderly makes a strong, earnest plea to tho Knights of Labor to take up this question at once and support no candidate for the Legislature who will not pledge himself to vote for the passage of a reform bill. He is strongly impressed with the belief that there can be no real labor legislation until such time as work-ing-men are free to support such candidates as they know to bo their friends without fear of corporation or political intimidation. . “Allow no fault-finding, grumbling member to stop you because it is a political question. It concerns your daily bread, that bread for which you pay hut for which you have to work like slaves or do without. I do not ask you to stop payibg for bread, hut I would ask you to work for it and vote for it in a different manner from that in which you have been working and voting for it. How many will cease to tie the American citizen’s highest prerogative to the chariot wheels of a party and caucus that they may forge to the head of the procession and there do their duty Beans who know how to wield jle’ tragedy. ;r and His Wife Brutally Their Beds—The Victim’s 1 of the Crime. July 18.—John Elkins, a farm of Allen Porter, in about seven miles north>od, and his wife were ed ia their sleeping-room oek Wednesday morn■wHs--' fcfffetr with"' a e had in the house, and which after being used had been hung baok in its place op the wall Mrs. Elkins’ head was battered'to pieces with a heavy stick, and her body* horribly broken and 'mutilated. Suspicion rests strongly on two sons of Efkin.s 'by a former wife with whom Elkinß has had frequent quarrels. The elder of the boys, about 23 years old, has been living away from home a great deal and the other, aged about 11, Blept in the barn Tuesday night, contrary tifms usual custom. Elkins was supposed to have had about $330 in the house, which has not yet'been found ”• Notice of the murder was given yesterday morning by the 11-year-old son of Elkins, who slept in the barn. The boy heard a rifle shot and going into the house some time afterward found his father in bed, shot through the head,... ind his stepmother with her head battened with a club. Both were dead / A little babe in the bed was uninjured— There was evidence of a terrible struggle on the part of the woman. The ball from the rifle passed through Elkin's head was hurried in the pillow. He was ilso beaten with the club and his skull fractured FOITI TTvES LOST. Peculiar Manner in Which Death Came to a Party of Men at Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln, Ned, July 18. —At 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon four men lost their lives in this city under peculiar circumstances. A watch was dropped in a cesspool and the men were . endeavoring to recover it They dug a dole at the side of the pool The hole was filled with water by the rain. One man stood on a ladder above the water and made an opening into the cess-pool The foul air and gas rushed out and overcame him and he fell into the water. A friend went to his assistance and was likewise overcame. * One by one seven men fell into the water, which by this time was full of muck and slime from the vault Three men were rescued, some by men who afterwards perished in attempting to save the others. The dead" are: James Crawford, bricklayer; Alfred Kunkler, laborer; John Cleary, blacksmith, and Frank Malone,,, plasterer. Crawford and Cleary were married. Two Accidents in the Same Evening at u Show at Milford, Mass. Milford, Mass., July 18—While W. -IL Bristol & Cos. ’8 circus was exhibiting here Tuesday evening a large portion of the en- ’ tire west side seats gave way with a crash ; and let 630 .people to the ground, badly in- : jurinsr and bruising hundreds of them. The broken seats and Injured people were'removed and the performance was continued, i Suddenly half of the reserved-seat section fell in with about 200 spectatois, creating a panic, which was quelled with great dis ficulty. Ia the second accident no ont was seriously hurt, but many were cut or bruised. Five persons sustained broken limbs or were injured internally in the first fall

WITH CURSES ON HER UPS. Kate Maxwell, the Notorious Cattle Queen and Bandit, Meets Death at the Hands of a Mob of Stockmen, Enraged at the Depredations Committed by Her and Postmaster Averill, Her ParamourBoth Are Hanged from the Same Limb. Cheyenne,* Wy. TANARUS., July 33.—James Averill and the notorious cattle queen, Kate Maxwell, were lynched by cowboys Sunday night The bodies of the “rustler” and the range queen dangled from the same limb of a big cottonwood. The scene of the lawless- but justifiable deed of the midnight riders is- on the Sweet Water river, in Carbon County, near Independence Rock, a landmark made historical during the rush overland to the California gold fields. Averill was postmaster at Sweet Water. Kate Maxwell is the heroine of a sensational story which appeared throughont the country a few months ago when she raided a gambling bouse and recovered a large sum of money won from her employers. Stockmen of the Sweet Water region have been the victims of cattle-thiovos for years. On account of prejudice against the large outfits it has been impossible to convict on this charge, and the rustlers have become very bold. Averill and his remakable partner had been very active in thieving. The woman could hold her own on the range, riding like a demon, shooting on the slightest pretence and handling the lariat and branding-iron with the skill of the most expert vaquero. Fifty freshly-branded yearling steers were counted in the Averill and Maxwell herd Saturday morning. A stock detective whose suspicions were aroused was driven from this place when he was noticed viewing I tho stolen property. This circumstance ! was reported to the. ranchmen, who j determined to rid the country of \ the, desperate pair. Averill and ! the woman had several times been ordered to emigrate or cease appropriating mavericks, but bad disregarded all warnings. After.her celebrated, gambling-house escapade Mrs. Maxwell degenerated from a | picturesque Western character into a reckI less prairie virago of loose morals, and lost ’most of her following, but continued partnership with the postmaster. ' Word was passed along tho river, and fifteen to twenty men gathered at a designated place and galloped to the cabm of Averill and Cattle Kate withoutunnecesary noise. The "rustlers’’ were at home, and a peep through the window disclosed the thieves and a boy in their employ sitting beside a rude fire-place smoking cigarettes. As half a dozen men rushed into the room a Winchester was poked through each window and the command to throw up hands given with unmistakable-earnestness. The trio sprang for their weapons, but were quickly overpowered. Averill blubbered, begged and whined, protesting his Innocence. The .boy was quiet Kate cursed. Her execration of the lynchers was something terrible, in its way. An extensive vocabulary collected during long association with roughs and ruffians was exhausted and repeated. In summing up, she cursed everything and every body, challenging the Deity to harm her if He possessed the power. Ah attempt was made to gag her, but her struggling was so violent that this was prolonged. She galled for., her own horse to ride to the tree selected for a Beaffold, and vaulted astride the animal’s back from the ground. Averill did uotresist, | and the boy, who had been told that he | would not be harmed, followed. Either end ' of the same rope was fastened about the j necks of the “rustlers” as they sat in their saddles. The boy made a pass with a knife at the man who was preparing Kate for hanging. He was knocked insensible by a blow with the butt pf a revolver. It appears that the Jad was a nephew of the bandit queen.- When preparations for the execution had been completed Averill and the woman were asked to speak. The man spoke only of his ofhce, saying that he did not wish a ! certain man to be his successor. He was promised the influence of the party for another candidate, Kate made quite an address. She wished the affair kept quiet as possible, desiring that her mother remain in ignorance of hfir. disgraceful career and tragic death. It was useless to deny that their herd ■ has! ■ stole® ’from'tho- ranch- ! men of that section, but if they did not wish to divide it among themselves she would like to have 4t sold and the money given to a home for wayward girls. She bade her nephew good-bye and commenced to deliver a blasphemous harangue. The horses were led from under the pair while Kate was still cursing. Both kicked in lively style from ten to fifteen minutea. A fewbullets were Vent into Averili’s body and the lynchers rode away. It is doubtful if an inquest will be held and the executors have no fear of punishment. The cattle men have been forced to this, and more hangings will follow unless there is less thieving. ELECTIONS* IN 1889. Only Elevei States Elect State OfiScers During the Present Year. The current year is notably an “off year”" in general politics. Only eleven States elect State officers this year. Kentucky will hold a genera) election for the State Treasurer Augusts. Elections in five other States will take place Novembers., On that day—lowa will elect Governor and LdeutenantGovernor. Maryland will elect Comptroller and At-tdreey-General Massachusetts will elect Governor and State officers. Mississippi will elect Governor and State officers Nebraska will elect a Supreme Court Judge and two Regents. New Jersey will elect Governor and State officers. New York will elect State officers, except Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Ohio will elect Governor and State oflieers'. Pennsylvania will elect State Treasurer. Virginia will elect Governor and State officers. • Political kiterest this year, accordingly, is centered in the'elections of the newlyadmitted States—North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Montana—which are now framing their constitutions and will elect full State governments and Legislatures, which will choose eight United. 6tates Senators Each new State will also elect n Representative in Congress except South Dakota, which will elect two. A Hotel Burned. Meadville, Pa, July 23.—The St Cloud Hotel was destroyed by fire at midnight. The guests escaped without injury, but several servants were badly injured by jumping from the third story windows. Mrs. Maggie Ebrich, of Youngstown, 0., jumped-ftom the third floor, strikinpMiber back. She will probably die. Susan RerUihad both legs broken. Barbara HillnfiggEiad her back badly burned before an awning which probably saved her life. Archie Carman, a fireman, fell from the second and sustained Injuries of .the spine. He is in a - critical condition. The hotel was surrounded by wooden buildings and for a time tbe whole block was threatened Joss, $10,000; fully insured •

AT PLYMOUTH ROCK. Preparation* at tho Historical Spot fbr the Dedication of tho Monument to the Pilgrim Fathers on August I—History of a Work First Proposed In Utih Plymouth, Masa, July 23— The magnificent Pilgrim monument Is be dedicated Augustl, and the citizens not only of this historic town but of aU the country about have united to make the occasion the proudest in the history of the old colony, and, so far as they may, one of the proudest in the history of" the American Union. The monument is situated on one of the highest hills in the town, a little northwest of-the rock at which the pilgrims landed and about west of the anchorage of the Mayflower. It was in 1853 that the proposition was first made to erect a suitable memorial to commemorate the landing of the pilgrims. The monument as it now stands has cost $300,000, and, with the exception of one tablet, has been the work of the Hallowell Granite Company. It is solid granite throughout and consists of an octagonal pedestal forty-five feet high, upon the center of which stands the figure of Faith, thirty-six feet high, resting one foot upon Plymouth rock and holding in her lift hand an open Bible, while the right arm, uplifted points toward Heaven. The pedestal has four large and four small faces. Upon the former are tablets bearing the names of the founders of the colony and historic facts connected with the original settlement, while from the smaller faces project four buttresses or wing-pedestals. Upon each of these is seated a figure of heroic size representing, with the figure of Faith,;the principles of the founders. These figures are Morality, Education, Freedom and Law, and on the faces of the pedestal at their feet are alto-relief tablets representing-the embarkation at Delft Haven, the signing of the social compact in the cabin of the Mayflower, the landing at Plymouth, and the first treaty with the Indiana The sides of the wing pedeßtais have figured tablets carrying out the ideas of the figures above them. The pedestal and the tablet? are the result of contributions from all parts of the United States. The figure of Faith was the gift of the late Oliver Ames and cost $32,000. Toward the figure of Morality the commonwealth of Massachusetts appropriated SIO,OOO and for the accompanying relief the State of Connecticut gave $3,000. The figure of Education, with the tablet, was the gift of Roland Mather, Esq., of Hartford Conn., while for that of Freedom, with tablet, an appropriation of $15,1)00 was secured from the United States Government, mainly through the instrumentality of the Hon. John D. Long. Law and its tablet were paid for by contributions from lawyers throughout the country. The corner-stone of the monument was laid August 2,1859, with impressive ceremonies, which included addresses by Richard Warren, of New York, then president of the Pilgrim Society; General N. P. Banks, then Governor of Massachusetts, and Colonel John T. Hoard, then grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of the State. A box containing valuable records was placed in the stone by tho late Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, of Boston, in behalf of the building committee. The pedestal was completed and the figure of Faith was placed in position in 1887, and in 1878 Morality was added Education followed not long after; but it was not until last year that the figures of Law and Freedom completed the monument. The exercises of dedication have been planned by a committee of the Pilgrim Society, to which the selectmen of Plymouth have been joined, headed by Hon. William T. Davis, who presided when the corner-stone was laid At 9 o’clock in the morning the Masonic Grand Lodge will dedicate the monument according to the ritual of the. order. At 11 O’clock a procession will form, included in which -will be the Governor and a large militia escort, the Grand Army of tbe Republic, the Masons, the Odd-fel-lows, the members of the Pilgrim Society and others. Dinner will bo served at 1 o’clock, probably in the hall of the Pilgrim Society, and here the literary exercises will take place. Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, will be the orator of the day, and John Boyle O’Reilly, of Boston, the poet, and after-dinner speeches are expected from ex-Govemor. Long, president “Os -Pflgtffir Sbclery; "• Presidents Harrison, ex-Presidents Hayes and Cleveland, Secretary Blaine, Senators Ingalls, Evarts and Hoar, Congressmen Carlisle, Randall, Lodge, Banks arid Greenhaige, Chauncey M. Depew, Joseph!M. Choate, Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, General 'Sherman and others of the invited guests, and Myron P. Whitney will sing “The Breaking Wayes Dashed High.” A ball and a pyrotechnic display in the evening will bring the festivities to a close. Already she streets have been spanned by arches, and other indications of a gala occasion are visible; and unless the weather proves inauspicious the Old Colony people will make it the biggest of their many celebrations. Boston, July 23. —Ex-Govemor Long has received a letter from President Harrison stating that he hopes to be present at the dedication of the Pilgrim National monument at Plymouth on Thursday,j)f next week! ' GAINED THE'iR LIBERTY. • Two Desperate Convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary Effect Their Escape in “a Daring; SI inner. Columbus, 0., July 23.— John Hill and James Davis, convicts-in tbe penitentiary, both sent up from this city, escaped about 4 o’lock Monday morning by drugging a guard’s supper with morphine stolen from the hospitals, where they were night nurses. They also drugged all the patients found to be awake. They dug a hole through the ceiling of the kitchen arid got into the loft of the hospital and thence through a scuttle on to the roof. - They then, by means of ropes made of bandage muslin, suspended themselves on to the roof of a shop, two stories high, thence went through a skylight to the leather-room and reached the clothing-room. There they rigged themselves out in citizen’s’ clothing taken from prisoners on entering the penitentiary and lowered themselves to the ground. They ascended a stockade around a gate and mounted the walls, and with their muslin rope swung off to liberty. The drpgged guard was doing substitute duty In the hospital and fell an easy prey to the sharp prilonera Both of the escaped men are desperate fellows, Davis being -a- Government convict for counterfeiting. ' f Showing Its Hand. Pittsburgh, Pa, July 33. —The Pittsburgh Salt Company has positively refused to sell out or enter into an agreement with the salt trust, known as the North American Salt Company, and hs a' consequence the latter is determined to crush the big Pittsburgh firm if possible ‘The Pittsburgh Salt Company is the largest firm opposed to the trust; It comprises what was known as the central salt district before the trust was formed One of the firm said Monday: “We shall, of coarse, not antagonize the North American Salt Company, but if, when it begins operations on January 1, it tries to ruin our company, we think we can defend ourselves, and hope for the patronage of the consumers”