Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 14, Number 33, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 November 1892 — Page 2

TIIE NAPPASEE NEWS. BY O. N. MUHRAT HAPPANKE. : i INDIANA. The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parte. DOMESTIC. Twenty-one persons, mostly firemen, were nearly suffocated by smoke during a fire in the cellar of a leather establishment at Pittsburgh, Pa. Two men, Joseph Koontz and Henry Bowers, who were trying to extinguish flames at Lima, 0., fell into a limekiln and were roasted to death. A FIRE in the Chinese quarters in San Francisco destroyed eight buildings and contents. Loss, 3100,000. Henry Irving, a desperate. hurglar, was senteflbed at Houston, Tex., to sev-enty-four years’ imprisonment. Sevex couples eloped from Kentucky in one day and were married by Justice Keigwin at Jeffersonville, Ind. Stamboll has secured the world’s atallion record, trotting a mile at Stockton, Cal., in 2:08X, beating Palo Alto’s record one-quarter second. The wheat yield of Ohio this season is placed at 40,000,000 bushels, being short of last year's crop about 5,000,000 bushels. It is estimated that about 4,000.000 bushels of the crop of last year is still in the producers’ hands. Capt. Porter, of the United States secret service, says there is abroad one of the nicest two-dollar counterfeits ever executed. The bill is a Hancock certificate of the issue of 1882, check letter D. ■ The Hot Springs (Ark.) Valley bank, s private corporation, has closed its doors with liabilities of *BO,OOO. Jamf.s S. Heagf.y, a telegraph operator in the office of the Baltimore & Ohio road at Pittsburgh, shot himself fatally while en route to Beatty, Pa., to get married. No cause known. Eight negroes on trial at Chestertown, Md., for the murder of Dr. Hill were declared guilty. During a fire at Clarksville, Mo., that caused a loss of 380,000, Thomas Crowley and William Schubert were crushed to death by a falling wall ■while fighting the flames. Afire in the Croker block at Cleveland, 0., caused the Koblitz Bros., rag warehousemen, a loss of SIOO,OOO. Two girls perished in the flames. Flames that started in the second floor of the American Sugar Refinery Company coopershop in Jersey City. N. J. , caused a loss of 3200.000. Rowena, a 3-year-old Palo Alto filly, made a mile against time in 2:18% at Stockton, Cal., being the fastest mile ever made by a 2-year-old filly. The flavoring extract house of E. W. Gillctt <fc Cos. in Chicago was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Tina Mobrings and her 9-year-old son were instautly killed by a Chicago, Burlington A Quincy train at Hawthorne, 111. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has refused to pay SIOO,000 insurance on the life of William M. Bunk, of Philadelphia, who committed suicide. Mrs. Elizabeth Stenoer’s barn near Naperville, 111., was burned, and twenty-three cattle and seven horses perished in the flames. Mrs. Harrison's portrait, to be painted by an artist not yet selected, has been provided for by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, and will be sent to adorn ths gallery in the white house. Mbs. Peter Minch, aged 38, living at Ogden, Mich., gave birth to her seventeenth child. She has been married eighteen years. At the leading elearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 28th aggregated •1,174,159,128, against *1,181,662,788 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1891 was 1.8. Three men were killed and three others were badly injured by an explosion at a nitro-glycerine factory near Lima, O. Is the United States the business failures during the seven days ended on the 28th numbered 187, against 220 the preceding week and 255 for the corresponding time last year. The annual meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance union opened at Denver with an address by the president, Miss Willard. Two fires which occurred within an hour in the heart of the city of Cleveland, 0., caused a loss of $250,000, the loss of one life and the serious injury of half a dozen persons. Five men were probably fatally scalded burned by the bursting of a steam pipe in the Webster manufacturing works in Chicago, Fire in the dome of the great machinery hall on the world’s fair grounds in Chicago caused a loss of $5,000, and for a time the entire building was threatened. A fire that started in the Union Oil Company's store in Milwaukee spread until the lower part of the Third ward, including much of the most extensive wholesale district, was burned over, causing a loss of nearly $7,000,000. The Insurance was estimated at $2,500,000. Several lives were lost and at least 1,500 persons were homeless. Manager paced a half mile on the track at Independence, la., in 1:00!^. V Reports from Wyoming say that the cattlemen’s war yet smolders, and that the situation is critical. The Chicago, Burlington A Quincy Railroad Company has made a contract with the Adams Express Company by which the latter will occupy all the lines on that system on and after January 1. The number of trials by general •ourt martial dnring the year in the army, as shown in the report of the acting judge advocate general, was 2,000, of which number 1,817 resulted in eonvictiou. A scow loaded with provisions for a lumber camp at Big bay, Mich., was wrecked on Lake Michigan and six lien were drowned.

Jakes R. Bartlett, one of the survivors of the Jeannette expedition, shot and killed his wife’s niece, Lottie Carpenter, In San Francisco, shot his wife in the shoulder and then killed himself. Since his return from the arctic regions Bartlett’s mind has been weak. At Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Clara Seiger, aged 65 years, put a pistol ball through the head of her 4-year-old grandson, Frank Volckers, and then fired a shot into her own brain. No cause was known. Several business blocks were burned at SL Johnsbury, VL. the loss being $150,000, and a man and his wife were cremated. .A building in Chicago occupied by’ the Tudor Buggy Company and other manufacturers was burned, the loss being $109,000. A cow caused the wreck of a train on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley road at Gordon Station, Ky., and the engineer was killed and the fireman and a colored man fatally hurt. , Superintendent Cnisi.ETT, of Crown Hill cemetery at Indianapolis, has selected six men from among the employes at the burying ground to guard Mrs. Harrison’s grave. The boiler of the steamer Wakefield exploded off Maryland point, Va., and three colored men were killed. Edward C. Sotar and Miss Ella Cole, of Scranton, Pa., were killed by the cars near Lehigh while returning home from a visit to friends. Ai.len Parker (colored) was lynched by a mob at New Monroeville, Ala., for burning a cotton gin. Further advices say that the great fire in Milwaukee sweep over thirteen blocks of business houses and sesidences, containing 465 buildings in all, caused the loss of four lives, destroyed property valued at $5,800,000 and made 2,500 persons homeless. The town of Callery Junction, Pa., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Six fast horses, valued at SIO,OOO, were lost in a fire at Milo Thomlinson’s barn near Indianapolis. The Euclid Avenue opera house at Cleveland was burned, the loss being estimated at 8100,000. L. H. Driscoll, an aeronaut, was fatally injured by falling 80 feet from his balloon while leaking an ascension at Harper, Kan. The Phoenix national bank at Phcenix, N. Y., was robbed of 82,900 in cash. Flames among shipping In Philadelphia caused a loss of nearly $200,000. While delivering a temperance lecture at Grand Army hall in South Norwalk, Conn., Henry S. Leer, aged 62, fell from the stage and died of apoplexy. William D. Fui.ler was arrested in Boston for passing counterfeit silver dollars, and he confessed that he had put over $20,000 of the spurious coin on the market. Two men were killed and one fatally hurt as a result of a collision of a train with a hand car of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road near Sioux City, la. The building of the Chicago Athletic association, almost ready for occupancy, was partially destroyed by fire, involving a loss of about 3100,000. By proclamation President Harrison has extended the benefits of the American copyright act to Italy. Reuben Jones, member of the state senate, dropped dead near the capitol in Atlanta, Ga. John Collins and Jacob Krell were killed at La Porte, Ind., by falling from buildings. In a fire in a dwelling house near Des Moines, la., the three children of George Cage and their grandmother were burned to death. W. B. Macdonough, of San Francisco, has purchased the celebrated stallion Ormonde, the peer of the English turf, from the Rothschilds, for 8150,000. While walking on the railroad track at Akron, 0., W. J. Golden and Robert H. Conley were struck by a train and killed. Jake Winters, who had not washed or shaved himself for twenty-five-years, died in Carson, Nev., aged 60 years. The Grunewald opera house in New Orleans was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $206,000. The Pennsylvania railroad is experimenting in the matter of lighting its track with electricity, and, if successful, it is proposed to place a powerful arc light on every telegraph pole along the line. E. C. O’Brien, commissioner of navigation, in his annual report to the sec-, retary of the treasury notes an increase in the tonnage of shipping on the great lakes from 711,269 tons in 1882 to 1,183,582 tons in 1892, and says it now embraces a fleet of large steam vessels, models of beauty and efficiency, which are offering nnequaled transportation sefvices. Mrs Susan ManAk, one of the Esquimaux colony oh the world's fair grounds in Chicago, gave birth to tho first child born on the grounds, and it was named Columbia Susan Manak. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 81st ult was: Wheat, 161,685,000 bushels; c0rn,81,295,000 bushels; oats, 8,465,000 bushels; rye, 1,048,000 bushels; barley, 2,301,000 bushels. The Burlington and Missouri hotel at McCook, Neb., was burned, and two persons—Mrs. Granger and Mrs. Coleperished in the flames. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Susie Conrad, a fat woman who had been on exhibition in most museums in America, died in Chicago. The body when inclosed in the casket weighed 598 pounds. The prohibitionists of the Fourth district of Wisconsin have nominated E. L. Eaton for congress. Rev. William J. Potter, for thirtythree years pastor of the Unitarian church at New Bedford, Mass., has resigned, and his congregation has voted to pay him 82,000 a year for five years. Dewitt C. Littlejohn died at his home in Oswego, N. Y., aged 75 years. He was a member of the Thirty-eighth congress and took the One Hundred and Tenth regiment to the front in the war of the rebellion aa its colonel.

The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Harrison were held OO the 28th in the First Presbyterian ehurch in Indianapolis, the pastor, Bev. M. L. Haines, officiating, after which the body was laid to rest in Crown Hill cemetery. At 6:30 in the afternoon President Harrison and others of the party left for Washington. Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic candidate for the vice presidency, sent his letter of acceptance to the president of the national democratic convention. Mrs. Margaret Donaldson, aged 105 years, was buried from the homo for aged women at Pittsburgh, Pa Jonathan H. Wallace, one of the best-known attorneys of eastern Ohio and a member of congress from 1882 to 1884, died at his home in East Liverpool, aged 63 years FOREIGN. Herr Lenge, a master cooper of Bremen, Germany, becoming jealous of his sweetheart, shot and killed her and two other women who tried to prevent the crime and then killed himself, Thomas Neill Cream confessed in London that from 1874 to 1891, when he was arrested in Chicago, he made a practice of poisoning dissolute girls in Canada. Thomas Liston and his wife, both 74 years old, died within a few hours of each other at Kingston, Ont In the recent gale along the Newfoundland coast ten vessels were wrecked and twenty-two lives were lost At Greenspond the sea unearthed the bodies in two graveyards The Heinitz colliery near Berlin, Germany, caught fire, and five miners perished in the flames. The house of correction at Goeliersdorf, Austria, was burned, and twelve inmates perished in the flames. Tiie British steamer Roumania wap wrecked at the mouth of the Arelho river near I’eniche and 113 pennons were drowned. While a ferryboat was crossing the River Douro near Sinfes, Portugal, it capsized, and eleven persons were drowned. TifE Zacatecas (Mexico) observatory reports the discovery of a comet in the constellation of Cancer. The steamer Touvre, bound for Bayonne, was wrecked at I’enmarch, Finisterre, and seventeen persons were drowned. "Edouard Maniers and his daughter committed suicide in London through fear of starvation. The kaiser has refused permission to the German regular military bands to go to the world’s fair in Chicago. According to the latest accounts 115 persons were drowned by the wreck of the steamer Roumania off the coast of Portugal. By the overflow of the Saldo river in the state of I’axaca, Mexico, thousands of acres of coffee and cane lands were inundated, causing a loss of $300, <)00, and over forty persons and 2,000 bead of cattle were drowned. The medical surveillance of the railroad depots in Berlin has been withdrawn. as the danger from cholera is considered to have passed. The four children of Mrs. Morrier, a widow living near Alexandria, Out., were burned to death during the absence of their mother. Tiie Liberator Building association in London failed for £3,313,000. In a battle near San Juan, Mex., between government troops and brigands three of the latter were shot dead. W. E. Gii.es, special agent for the Columbian exposition in the Western Pacific islands, and his wife and two children, were drowned near Loma Lima by the capsizing of a boat. LATER. a The public debt statement issued on tiie Ist showed that the interest and non-interest bearing debt decreased $196,280 during the month of October. The cash in the treasury was $766,202,480. Fierce forest fires were raging In Pennsylvania along the mountains from Ohio Pyle to Delaney's Cave, a distance of 20 miles, doing great damage. At tiie annual session in Denver of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Miss Francis E. Willard, of Chicago, was reelected president Three men robbed the bank at Spearvilie, Kan., of SIO,OOO in cash. Dr. G. W. Kelly, one of the leading physicians of Jefferson county, Ga., in an insane fit threw his 8-year-old child into a Well and killed his sister-in-law. During 1891 109,515 persons emigrated from Russia to America. In 1890 the number was 85,588. Ferdinand Wiltzeb, while training a team of colts at Winamac, Ind., fell between two stumps of trees, became wedged in, and the colts started on a run, tearing his head off. Max Schoexthal, a New York hop and malt dealer, has failed for upwards of $250,000. Two brothers named Burgess, who were in jail at Lebanon, Va., charged with the murder of Oak Sutherland,' were taken from the prison by a mob and lynched. Ten persons died at Warsaw, Poland, from eating the flesh of a cow that had been suffering with cattle plague. At Ballinadrina, Ireland, Constable Pilkington in a fit of insanity killed Sergt. Logan and his wife and two children and fatally injured the sergeant’s three other children and then killed himself. George S. Batchellor tendered to Secretary Foster his resignation of his office of United States minister to Portugal. It is the expectation of the mint officials that by the middle of this month they will he prepared to strike the souvenir world's fair silver half-dollars and that they will be ready for distribution about Thanksgiving day. Two men held up a train on a souther* railroad near Piedmont, Ala., and got $750 and some valuable mall packages. The government receipts from all sources during the last ten months of the current fiscal year aggregated $132,281,701, against $119,746,995 for the corresponding ten months of the preceding year.

RUIN IN MILWAUKEE. A Dozen Blocks in Her Business District Burned. Tho Loom Are Estimated at Nearly •?,* 000*000—Several LI res Lost and Man/ Persons Injured—A Thousand Homeless People* GREAT FIRE IN MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, Oct 29.—There were several alarms Friday afternoon for fires, all of them the resnlt of the heavy gale of wind that sprang np shortly before noon and increased until at $ o’clock it reached a velocity of about 50 miles an hour. Between 5 and 6 o'clock there were five alarms, and ths fire department, including the fire tug, was scattered in various parts of the city, when shortly before 6 o’clock an alarm was sent in from tho box at the corner of Detroit and East*Water streets. It was for a fire in the Union Oil Company's store at No. 275 East Water street, situated on the west side of the street, about midway between Detroit and Buffalo streets, the rear of the store being on the river. From this point the flames spread until the lower part of the Third ward was burned over, causing a lost of nearly $7,000,000. The insurance ia estimated at $2,500,000. At least 1,50$ people are homeless. Among the more prominent firms burned out were the following: Utiion Oil Company, M. Bloch A Cos., wholesale liquor dealers: the F. Dohman Whole salt Drug Company: Milwaukee Mirror and Arl Glass Company: J. P. Kissinger, wholesale llqubr dealer; J. E. Patton wholesale paints and oils; Hub A Kipp, wholesale furniture dealers; Jacob Wellaucr & Cos., wholesale grocers: Roundy, Pcckham & Cos., wholesale grocers: Milwaukee Chair Company: Weigel & Vilter. machine shops; National Distilling Company, warehouse; J. E. Bailey, Iron foundry; Wlrth, Hammel & Cos., etables; MeLinden Milwaukee Gas Company; J. G. Hansen, malt house; Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company’s freight houses and cars Leading insurance men say that about half of the losses is covered by insurance. They estimate the big losses as follows: Hub & Kipp, furniture f300,000 J. E. Pattern A Cos., oils and paints 250,000 J. I*. Kissinger, wholasiuc liquors 75.H1K) Milwaukee mirror works 50.00 B. Leldersdorf, tobacco 250.000 Gugler Lithograph Company 100,000 Roumly, Pcckham A Cos., wholesale grocers 300,000 H. L.SchcflclsA Cos., wholesale grocers. 200,000 J. Wellaucr A 15)., wholesale grocers... 200,000 Milwaukee Chair Company 250,0J0 Northwestern freight houses, contents and cars 300,000 Milwaukee, Lake Shore A Western freight houses 50,000 Me Linden hotel 25,000 Pflugradt A Cos., confectionery 25.000 Joseph W. Sauer, glove manufacturer. 10,000 Fifty smaller business houses 500,000 Five hundred dwellings and cottages.. 500.U00 F. P. Dohman A Cos., drugs 150.000 Weigel & Vilter, machinery 100.000 Topfer A Sons, machinery 40,000 Bailey A Sons, machinery 50,000 Imbuseh Bros., grocers 250,000 Fernekes A Hro.. confectionery 25,000 Delaware & (juenlln. tool shop 35,000 Milwaukee Bag Company 50.000 A. J. Hilbert A Cos., flavoring extracts. 4,000 Total 15,7,00 e Chicago, Racine. Kenosha, Sheboygan anti other, points were early appealed to for help and responded promptly, firemen and apparatus arriving from the several points as rapidly as steam could bring them. They left the trains sbuth of the fire and did much to confine it to the north bank of the river below tho turn at Walker'a Point bridge. At 12:45 Chief Foley announced that the fire was under control. Two dead firemen are in the mdrgue on River street They are: Henry Pruddenbruck, No, 3 station, residence No. 255 Reid street struck by falling timber and smothered: Charles Stahr, No. 4 hook and ladder, No. 622 Fourth avenue, struck by beum and smothered to death. There was one other body -at the morgue at midnight—that of a woman of perhaps 50 years, small in stature, with dark hair. There are no marks on her body to show how she met her death. She must have been suffocated by the moke. At Peacock’s undertaking rooms at taidnight the only body was that of a Mrs. Callahan, a widow who lived on Jackson street, opposite the Northwestern freight depot. She evidently died of fright, for it was known she was a sufferer from heart disease. When she was first found in a helpless condition she was taken to the Third ward schoolhouse, where she died. There are many persons at the Emergency hospital. Two of these are seriously injured and may die. The most eeriousiy hnrt are: James Bcrgenthal, No. 110 Twenty-ninth street, head and face Injured by explosion; Richard Gardner, Hutnboldl and Auer streets, face and head hurt by explosion; J, H. Roesch, 09 years old. No. 184 Garfield avenue, broken leg, Injured about head and body, may die, buried beneath falling walls; William Witte, 80 years old. No. 379 Greenfield avenue, leg broken, Injured by falling bricks, may die. The entire lower part of the Third ward, inhabited largely by poor Irish families, was devastated. About 500 cottages were destroyed. The fire originated from an explosion of something in the cellar. Fed by the inflammable stock it soon spread through the three upper floors. At V o’clock, by order of Mayor Somers, the militia alarm was sounded from the central fire-station. Within an hour a number of the Lighthouse Squadron troopers, as well as many infantrymen) reported for duty. They were detailed along the burned district to assist the police in keeping back the hundreds of thousands of people gathered about and to assist the homeless in finding shelter from the bleak winds. The Milwaukee fire deportment consists of 252 men, eighteen engine companies, seven truck companies, seven chemical engine companies, the fire boat Cataract and the water tower. The fire losses last year amounted tc $325,000. FATAL FIRE AT CLEVELAND. Teachout’c Saali and Door Works and a Window Glass Warehosue Burned—One Life Lost. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 29.--An incendiary fire in the Cleveland window glass warchoise destroyed $40,000 worth of sash doors and blinds. M. F. Sullivan, an ornamental glass-cut-ter, and Kate NolaD, a girl employed by him, were at work on the third floor when the fire started and being overcome by smoke were unable to get ont. They were removed by the firemen, bat the girl died half an hoar afterward and Sullivan is not expeated to recover

MILWAUKEE'B DISASTER. The Loss by the Fire Aggregate# 85,*05.•00, with IWfearaace of About *2,800,00*— Four I,tree Lost-Buildings to the Humber of M named, and 2,600 Person* Left Homeless. Milwaukee, Oct. 81.—Four hundred and slxty-fire buildings destroyed. Three hundred and fifty-eight families—including a total of 2,500 persona —made homeless. A total property loss of $5,805,000, with insurance amounting to about •2.800,000. Four persons killed and eight or ten injured. Such, in brief, is the resnlt of the fire which threatened for a time on Friday night to sweep Milwaukee off the face of the earth. There are many sorrowful faces to be seen along the streets in the vicinity of the fire districL Many families lost everything but the clothing they wore, still there is not as much gloom as might be expected. The general relief committee held a meeting and issued the following; “It Is estimated that there will be needed tbe sum of tIOO.OOO to properly care for the people made homeless by Friday night's Are. At the meeting of citizens held In the chamber of commerce Saturday morning tho sum of 156,000 was subscribed; and, while we appreelatc the kindness of those outeido who have already made generone subscriptions, we desire to say tbat we are confldent the remaining amount required will be subscribed by our citizens without It being necessary to appeal to the outside public. We confidently appeal to ourtltlzens to raise tbe full amount needed." There is promise that those who were rendered homeless will not be permitted to suffer. -Already $62,968 has been raised, aDd all but about SIO,OOO cam* from this city. Many offers of assistance have been received and accepted, so that there is no doubt that a fund of $200,000 will be available within a few days. Many of the people made homeless by tbe fire and now in actual want may soon he placed in comfortable circumstancca Their homes are gone, but their land is still there, and it is valuable land. Wealthy corporations, business men and speculators will be ready to buy these lots. The greatest individual financial loss sustained by the great fire was that suffered by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, which officials and local agents of tho road ndw estimate will foot up from SBOO,000 to $1,000,000 and will likely go nearer the latter than the former sum. The burned property includes both of tiie great freight houses, one for incoming and one for outgoing freight. They were nearly 100 feet wide, covering the iengtli of about three blocks. That devoted to incoming freight was thoroughly, filled with merchandise of all kinds and descriptions which had been unloaded during the day and wa* ready for delivery. That devoted to outgoing freight was but partially filled. Asa rule an average of 125 cars are loaded there daily with outgoing freight. The usual number of cars had been loaded during the day, and many of them were standing on tiie switches ready to be taken out during the nighL As to the value of the freight iu the houses and in cars ready to he taken out no accurate estimate can" he made until the losses are adjusted between the company and the shippers. One car is said to have contained $30,0(10 worth of holiday goods just shipped by a local firm, and it is expected that many other* were filled with valuable goods. There were burned in all on the freight house tracks 198 loaded freight cars, perhaps three-fourths of them, received aiid ready to unload. Their contents can only be ascertained by a complete checking up of the way bills. Many 01 them are said to have been loaded wlDvaluable dry goods of various lilrlds which merchants were providing for their holiday trade, and on sneb the loss will be heavy. There wert a good mauy cars loaded with grain of all kinds shipped to this market and a Dumber of cars loaded wit! potatoes. The freight cars empty are estimated to be worth an average of SSOO each, but those values are small as compared to the contents of the cars. There were also forty to fifty of the Northwestern’s .coal cars In the company’s coal yards, all loaded, whicl were completely destroyed. The aggregate of the insurance carried on the burned property, as compiled by the insurance men, exclusive of that carried by the Northwestern rood, is $2,750,000, and is divided among about 163 companies, which, with one or two exceptions, th insurance men say, could easily stand ten times the loss sustained here without crippling them in the least There are one or two mutual companies which lose heavily and may be seriously affected. Unfortunately, one of these is most largely represented in the residence district burned, where, should it fail to pay in full, the losses will fall upon a class of people who can least afford to stand them. Following are the insurance companies which sustain the heaviest losses: Hartford ...075,000 Home. 70.000 Lancashire (England) so,ooo Milwaukee Mechanics' 75,000 Commonweal lb (New York) 75.000 German-Amcrican (New York) flo.ooi Ohio Farmers’ 50 000 London and Lancashire 60,000 Phcenix of Brooklyn 50,000 Commercial Union 60 000 Continental 40.00 J North British 60,030 Northwestern National 60.00.) Concordia 40,000 The balance of the losses are shared among the many companies in amounts ranging from $’3,000 to $25,000. BLOODY FIGHT IN KENTUCKY. Outlaws and a sheriffs Posse Come Together with Serious Results. Middlesdoiio. Ky., Oct. 29.—A bloody battle took place Friday at Walnut Hills, 12 miles from this place, between Sheriff John Colson and posse and a band of outlaws, headed by Rice Green. Green had shot and killed James Gibson In cold blood and Sheriff Colson was endeavoring to arrest him. About seven rounds were fired, resulting In the serious wounding of Green and Frank Lee, of Harlan county. Green is the half brother of the notorious Chnrles Johnson, now serving a term in tli< Kentucky penitentiary

ON® ENJOYS Both the method and result* when Bjmp of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses ths system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Svrup of Figs is th* only remedy of its kind ever pro> dneed, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt ia its action and truly beneficial m it* effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, ita many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of* Figs k for sale in 6Co and 91 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hana will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any lubstitute. CALIFORNIA F/0 SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, nr. NEW YORK. N.f. ‘August Flower’' \ “What is August Flower for ('* JA.S easily answered as asked. It isfor Dyspepsia. It is a special remedy for the Stomach and Liver. — Nothing more than this. We believe August Flower cures Dyspepsia. We know it will. We have reasons for knowing it. To-day it has an honored place in every town and country store, possesses one of the largest manufacturing plants in the country, and sells everywhere. The reason is simple. It does one thing, anddoesitright. It cures dycoepsia®Did you ever see ?, sickly baby with dimples ? or a healthy one without them ? A thin baby is always delicate. Nobody worries about a plump one. If youj can get your baby plump, he is almost sure to be well. If) you can get him well, he is almost sure to be plump. The way to do both —there is but one way—is by careful living. Sometimes this depends on Scott’s Emulsion of cod-liver oil. We will send you a book on it; free. Scott & Bowns, Chemists, xy South jth Avenue,. New York. *_ Utlike the %ch Process Qi No* Alkalies Other Chemical* nHf|A an used In tho preparation of W. BAKER k CO.’Sf wreakfastdocoa H which If tnlM* ■ pur. and soluble. Eli mfiPll l th** more than three time* B Bb fc H the strength of Cocoa mixed awu. **ll'l fa with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, aod la far more economical, costing lett than one cent a asp. It le delicious, nourishing, and lUUV digested. Sell hrOrorera everywhere. W. BAKER A CO., Dorchester, Has*.

D!’BU LL'S (OJUGH\fRUP THE m'.TPi r- :>• Hr. ML nr. PRICE ... CC.

S alvatWjHl r&ti *o ** YOUNG MOTHERS We offer you a remedy which if used as directed, insures safety to life of both mother and child. “ MOTHERS FRIEND" Bob! confinement of its Paw, Hobbob end Kies, u many testify. “ Mjrwtfe need only tiro beta lee of Blethera. '■2"o d w SURSSUSP * m ' h,r r * ,u ” r J. S. Monmy, Harlow, N. C. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, *1.60 per l.ottle. Sold by all druggists. Book To Mothers mailed free. Bbadfiild BsauiaTos Cos.. Atlanta, Os. DTs Mm Balmgpsai CfeTARRHrM Mil WAfMA mmt