Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 31, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 17 October 1894 — Page 2

TIIE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. HAPPANEE. * : INDIANA. The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. The engineer and two of the crew of • runaway train near Asherville, N. C., Were hilled. Four persons were killed in a wreck on the Kock Island road near Harvard, lowa. Mary Kebsee Wjis killed by Frank Sczick at Scranton, Pa., because she Would not marry him. The girl arrived from Germany only a day or two before. Through its minister the Chilian government has paid into the state department at Washington $245,564.35, in aatisfaction of war claims. Four miners were hemmed in by flames in a colliery at Shamokin Pa The carpenter whose carelessness caused the fire was suffocated. A hurricane struek Pehsacola, Fla, wrecking many buildings and forcing a suspension of business. Several vessels were wrecked. George Reams, a farmer living near Charles City, la, murdered his wife with a razor and then cut his own throat. TnE wholesale business in Sew York •f Hilton, Hughes & Cos., the old house of A. T. Stewart & Cos., is to be closed out. Benjamin Slusgrave, of Terre Haute, Ind., while drunk fatally injured his mother with a hatchet. The corner stone was laid of the commercial travelers' home at Binghamton, N. Y. William Bick and Richard Brown Were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each at St. Louis for attempting to wreck a Missouri Pacific train during the recent labor troubles. All the cloakmakers in New York, •ome 12,000 in number, went on a •trike tor a ten-hour day and abroga lion of piece work. It was reported that during a heavy Wind in New York city two houses Were blown down and twelve persons killed. James Chambers, a democrat, shot •nd killed William Weaver, a populist, In Early county, Ga., in a quarrel over the election results. Both were prominent farmers. The National Association of Agricultural Implement manufacturers met in annual convention at the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago. Government returns for October •how a slight gain in the percentages of all crops excepting cotton. It was reported that forty old soldiers had been robbed and murdered •t the national military home in Dayton, 0., in the past few years and only passing Dotice taken of the crimes. Fire destroyed the establishments of the Cleveland Foundry company and the Enterprise Desk and Stamping company in Cleveland, the ’loss being *125.000. The annual meeting of the American board of foreign missions commenced in the Congregational church at Madison, Wis.

Troop L, the last of the Indian companies; has been disbanded, the government considering them poor soldiers. The twentieth annual convention of the American banker's association was opened in Baltimore with 300 members present. Mitch excitement prevailed at San Pedro, Col., over the loss by drowning of a party of four citizens, including the postmaster. An explosion in a mill at Dexter, Mo.. killed three men and seriously wounded another. The killed were brothers named Johnson. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the North American Beekeepers’ aasociation met at St. Joseph, Mo. Twenty-five railroad men, including E. V. Debs, were indicted by the federal grand jury in Milwaukee. The American Debenture company of Chicago, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the country, went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $1,500,000. Ge6bge Van- Taylor, of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide in jail, leaving a letter in which he confessed to having committed twelve murders. At the annual convention of republican league clubs of Illinois, held in Springfield, C. W. Raymond, of Iroquois county, was elected president. The eighteenth annual meeting of the American Humane association convened at Evansville, Ind. An unfinished building in New York was blown down by the wind, killing aix persons and injuring thirteen others. Mbs. Miller, wife of Lon Miller, a Wealthy farmer near Liberty, 111., and her 10-year-old daughter were killed by robbers. Ames Mysox for the murder of Dudley Carrey and Jackson Hicks for the ■larder of James Preel were hanged at Union Springs, Ala. At an incendiary tenement house fire in Boston two men leaped to death and two others were fatally hurt. The Lakeport stage was held up by ■ lone bandit near Pieta Station, CaL, and the Wells-Fargo express box stolen. Fry* men were killed, two fatally hurt and several more seriously burned by a boiler explosion at Shamokin, Pa. Corbett and Fitzsimmons signed artlclee to fight after July 1, 1895, at Jacksonville, Fla., fora purse of 841,M 0 and SIO,OOO a side. The steamer Hartford went upon the rocks near Woodville, N. Y., apd Capt. O'Toole and his crew of six men were lost. Maj. Gen. Schofield, in his annual report to the secretary of war, asks tor an increase in the national forces, ■ays state troops are not enough and that the government should be allpowerful against uprisings.

Julius Lichtehberg, a Detroit school Inspector indicted for receiving a bribe, shot himself fatally. Furious gales swept Lake Erie and lower Lake Huron, disabling several large boats and injuring a number of tailors. J. J. P. Odell, of ChicagSi was elected president of the American Bankers’ association in session at Baltimore. Charles B. Allen, alias Harry Conway, leader of a gang of bank swindlers, was arrested in Chicago and confessed his crimes. Nathan Green, Elsworth McAfee and William Green perished in a burning hay mow in Mercer county. Official estimates of the wheat crop in Ohio place it at 60,852,433 bushels, the largest in the state’s history. The First national bank of Kearney, Neb., suspended because unable to make collections. On account of the tailurdof the corn crop all the hogs in Nebraska were being shipped into Mates where feed can be secured. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 12th aggregated $927,428,877, against $999,555,127 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 3.0. Negro Catholics, in national convention at Baltimore, petitioned the president to protect colored men. The report of Commissioner of Pensions Lochren for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1894, shows that the number of pensioners on the rolls at that time was 959,544. The amount paid for pensions during the year was $139,804,401, leaving a balance in the treasury of $25,205,718 of the appropriation. There were 231 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 12th, against 219 the week previous and 393 in the corresponding time in 1893. Online paced an exhibition mile at Sioux City, la., in 2:04, lowering his own world's iWord of 2:O7J£. The striking Niphftiers at Fall River, Mass., voted to accept a reduction of 10 per cent, and returVto work. Gov. Mitchell says he will convene the Florida legislature if necessary to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in that state. Prof. David Swing’s death ends the organization in Chicago of the Central church. No successor will be named. A labor parliament will be held in Chicago on November 18, at which the relations of labor and capital will he discussed by leading thinkers from all: standpoints with a view to bettering present conditions. The Buffalo epunty national bank at Kearney, Neb., closed its doors. The schooner Sea Foam capsized at Shears, in the Delaware bay, and the captain and crew of five men perished. December wheat sold down to 50% cents in New York, the lowest price in the history of the mrfrkct there. Seven masked robbers held up a fast mail train near Quantico. Va., and rifled the express car and mail pouches, securing probably 850,000. Further advices state that the two bandits who robbed the Overland express near Sacramento, Cal., secured between $50,000 and $75,000. Wholesale grocers of Chicago are leaders in a revolt against the sugar trust which is spreading over the entire country. The will of Richard Smith, the wealthy typefounder, leaves more than $1,000,000 to tlie city of Philadelphia. G. \Y. Howard, vice president of the American Railway union, had his pocket picked in Chicago of a book containing forty railroad passes. The federal grand jury at Madison, Wis., found indictments against fiftyeight persons charged with stealing land.

Af.mf.d tramps took possession of a freight train in Ohio and terrorized the crew and passengers for an hour. Oscar Morton, a wealthy resident of Stanton, Ky., shot and killed Sheriff William Simms as the result of an old feud. A mob took Morton from jail and hanged him. John Joy. who robbed a man of five dollars was’ sentenced to prison for life by a San Francisco judge under the habitual criminal act. Tiie directors of the-- Washington Park club in Chicago decided to abandon racing, but will maintain the clubhouse. During a riot among drunken Slavs at Maltby, Pa., a hoy was shot dead, two girls fatally wounded and two persons badly hurt. Col. Breckinridge, was suspended from communion by the congregation of Mount Horeb (Ky.) Presbyterian church until February, T. L. Dixon, an ex-state official of Kansas, made affidavit that Mrs. Mary E. Lease urged him to steal $20,000 from the state. Four members of the American Railway union were arrested for wrecking a Grand Trunk train at Rattle Creek, Mich., July 16, whereby one life was lost. Experiments at an Omaha distillery of making spirits from beet sugar molasses proved very successful. Investigation showed that the soldier’s home at Dayton, 0., was haunted by thieves who rob the inmates on pension days. Two youno daughters of John N. Scatcherd and Miss Emily Wood. Mrs. Scatcherd’s sister, were killed by an engine at a crossing in Buffalo, N. Y. Chester Hill, an Ohio village, was almost wiped out by fire. Twenty-one persons were seriously injured and property worth $40,000 destroyed by a train collision at New Orleans. Mbs. Ada Weineb, who shot and killed her husband at San Francisco while he slept, was sentenced Jts life imprisonment. At Ogden, U. TANARUS., De Camp, McConnell and King were found guilty of attempted train wrecking daring the A. R. U. strike and King was sentenced to four years and De Camp and McConnell to twelve years each in the penitentiary. Experts discovered that Stark county, 0., had been robbed of $17,000 by dishon est officials.

Snow fell in many connties of Pennsylvania to the depth of 8 inches. Frank Mclntyre, James Ford and Frank Britton, of New Brighton, N. Y., were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. -I PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Levi P. Morton has written a letter formally accepting the republican nomination for governorof New York. 1 Funeral services of the late Andrew Gregg Curtin, the war governor of Pennsylvania, were held in Bellefonte. The funeral services of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes were held in Boston. They were simple and largely attended. Nominations for congress were made as follows: New Jersey, Sixth district, T. D. English (dem.)j Eighth, C. N. Fowler (rep.l. Rhode Island, First district, Melville Bull (rep.); Second, W. O. Arnold (rep.). New York, Seventh district, Franklin T. Bartlett; Eighth, James J. Walsh; Ninth, Henry C. Miner; Tenth, Daniel E. Sickles; Eleventh, William Sulzer; Twelfth, George B. McClellan; Thirteenth, Amos J. Cummings; Fourteenth, John Connolly; Fifteenth, Jacob A. Cantor, all democrats. Perry Mayo, of Calhoun county, lias been placed on the Michigan democratic ticket for lieutenant governor to succeed J. Milton Jordan, declined Mayo is the populist candidate for the same office. Attorney General Moloney rules that Illinois women must furnish their own ballots and not vote with the men. Charles F. Duiiston, aged 54, warden of Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison, died after two weeks’ illness with malignant typhoid fever. Uncontradicted rumors were to the effect that Nellie Grant Sartoris was to marry Gen. H. 1C Douglas, of Baltimore. Oran Foi.lf.tt, a prominent official and newspaper writer of Ohio, died at Sandusky, aged 95 years. Henry IT. Green, a classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point and a Mexican war veteran, died at Mora, N. M., aged 71 years. In the Fourth New York district the democrats nominated W. J. Coombs for congress and in the Sixth James U. Howell. FOREIGN. Dispatches from Shanghai state that 40.U00 Japanese troops had beefl'landed on the Chinese boundary. In a railway accident at St Anne, Qne., three men were killed and three others fatally injured. Thirty persons lost their lives and many vessels were wrecked in a gala which swept the coast of Newfoundland. An alleged plot to kill the czar was discovered in Russia and many arrests were made among army officers. Kaffirs entered the port of Lourenzo Marquez, burned several buildings and murdered seventeen persons. England was endeavoring to enlist other powers in an effort to stop the Cliinese-Japanese war. Owing to the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil, importers of that country will sue the United States for duties which iiave been paid. Brazilian customs officers fired upon American sailors who were endeavoring to save tlie cargo of the wrecked Comet. The French boat Alice was sunk by a collision in a fog near Antwciqi and six of her seamen drowned. Radicals and Irish were moving to crash the English house of lords anil would force Rosebery to act or resign.

> LATER. Thf, exports of domestic merchandise of the United States for tlie last nine months amounted to $577,047,022, against $603,221,878 for the same time in 1898. Tlie imports amounted to $503,529,738, and for the same time last year $625,825,372. The Pacific Express company’s office in The Dalles, Ore., was robbed of $15,000. George Peterson started to establish anew walking record from New York to Chicago. lie expects to reach Chicago i,n thirty-five'days. The Tabor Amusement company at Denver assigned with liabilities of $275,000. Wii.lis Griffey (colored), charged with assault on Miss Lcha Berry (white), was taken from jail at Princeton, Ky., by a mob and hanged. The new issne of postage stamps was rapidly being disposed of, the government sending out 20,000,000 a day. William Pattison, an escaped madman, entered a church at York, l’a., and stampeded the congregation by firing right and left. A CIPHER letter received by a German traveler intimates that the illness of the czar of liussfa is the result of poison administered by nihilists. In the Belgian elections the liberals met with defeat Surprising gains were made by the socialists. By a vote of 65 to 85 the general conference at Greenville, IIL, of the Free Methodist church decided against the ordination of women. An imperial decree wfcs issued guaranteeing protection to all foreigners in China. Mrs. Jennie Harrington and her three children perished by fire in the barn upon, their farm in the outskirts of Elizabeth, N. J. During the nine months of 1894 the excess in gold exports from the United States over imports was $78,603,619 and of silver $25,531,589. Jacob Sweininger’s fifth wife died very suddenly near I.uray, lnd. She was the third to die of upoplexy. In the recent storm on the gulf coastfifteen fishermen lost their lives on Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fia. The democrats made the following congressional nominations: New York Seventh district, Cornelius Flynn; Ninth, A. J. Campbell. New Jers y. Fourth district, Jacob Geisscnhainer. Connecticut, Seventh district, Norman Sperry. Massachusetts, Thirteenth district, Robert Howard. Alabama, Fourth district, C. A. Robbins, renominated.

A SAD STORY. A. New Jersey Mother Commits an Awful Deed. While Insane She Locks Xlerself and Three Children In * Barn and Fires the Structure All Burned to Death. Elizabeth, N. J., Oct. 10.—Mrs. Jennie Harrigan and her three children perished by fire in the barn upon their farmjn the outskirts of the city. The residence also was burned. The husband and father was absent. The goneral belief is that Mrs. Harridan became suddenly insane and set the house on fire; that she then took her children and went into the barn, and locking- the door, set the hay on fire. As the flames began to close around them the mother gathered the children about her and held them until they were all overcome. The eldest of the children was 6 years of age and the youngest 14 months. Mr. Harrigan is quite poor and peddles for a livelihood. He went to Newark this morning to sell his wares. When neighbors, attracted by the smoke, reached the home of the Uarrigans they found a box of wood on fire in the house and quickly extinguished it. The flames in the barn, however, had gained Such headway that nothing could be done until the flimsy structure had been burned to the ground. It was then that the fate of Mrs. Harrigan and her three children became known. Mrs. Harrigan, who was 30 years of age, had shown no signs of insanity, though she had been despondent over the circumstances of herself and family- ___ ; _ HONORS FOR STRAUSS. The FamouH Musician Celebrates Ills Jubilee in Vienna. Vienna, Oct. 10.—-The jubilee of Johann Strauss, the “waltz king,” \vas celebrated Monday. The reception and presentations took place in Herr Strauss’ house in Segelgasse in tlie Wieden. As the guests entered all tlie tables, sideboards ancj other pieces of furniture were covered with costly presents from all quarters of the globe. Herr Strauss and his wife and his brother, Edouard, greeted the distinguished company. The actual ceremony of tlie celebration began with a serenade composed by Robert Fuchs, sung by students, who were accompanied by the Conservatorium orchestra. Then followed the presentation of a little silver table of choice design, ornamented with gold. After this a gold medal from the members of the celebration committee was presented to Herr Strauss. Baron Bezeeny made a speech. At 10:45 o'clock Burgomaster Gruble arrived from the rathaus. The crowd was then so dense that he found it difficult to reach a position beside the “waltz king.” After he had reached Herr Strauss the burgomaster tendered greeting iD the name of the city. Addresses were mftde by the spokesman of a deputation of the Vienna pi ess, presented by Government Counselor Winternit, and Hr. von Spiegel and Dr. Gustav Kohn from a deputation of the Vienna Mannergesang verin. Then Herr Strauss, his voice displaying intense emotion, spoke a few words of thanks. The festivities closed with a banquet, which was attended by the burgomaster, all the world of music and letters and a number of foreigners. The Johann Strauss wreath, the gift of American admirers, was presented to the great musician by Rudolph Aronson. The wreath is all of silver except a gold medallion resting upon a lyre at the top. The medallion has a portrait of Strauss. The silver ribbons at the side of the wreath at the bottom bear the eagles of Austria, and those on the other side the stars and stripe, where they unite in a shield with the inscription: “Johann Strauss from His American Admirers.” Tlie wreath itself is composed of fifty leaves, and on each one is engraved the name of one of the composer's works. The total weight is fifty-six ounces, and the wreath is 21 inches high and 16 inches wide.

MRS. FULLER’S DIAMONDS. They Are Stolen from Her Washington Residence, Rut Are Recovered' Washington, Oct. 16. —Mrs. Melville W. Fuller, wife of the chief justice, recovered 5i,500 worth of diamonds Monday ;at were stolen four days ago from the family residence on Massachusetts avenue. The chief justice and his wife after their return from the coast of Maine, where they had spent the summer, were supervising the work of putting the finishing touches on some interior improvements in their residence. The house was therefore opened to workmen. The articles taken were earrings, a brooch and two stick-pins. Mrs. Fuller carried them in a chamois bag. This, containing the jewels, disappeared from a ’ bureau one aftornoon. The chief of police was notified, who put two detectives on the trail. Suspicion pointed to some of the workmen. Tlie search became so diligent and the workmen were subjected to such strict surveillance that on Monday the chamois bag and the jewels were returned to the bureau. The chief justice intimates that he will not seek to fasten the crime on anybody by prosecution. WILL PROTECT FOREIGNERS. Important Imperial Kdlct Published bj the Government at Peking. Peking, Oct. Iff. —An imperial edict has been published at Pekin# assuming for tlie tfovernincnt full responsibility for the protection of foreign residents, denouncing rowdyism and punisliin# certain cnlprits.shown to have taken part in the recent assaults upon travelers. The imperial edict also assures strangers that their persons and property will be protected and its wording especially favors the missionaries. The whole tone of the edict is highly satisfactory.

THOUSANDS STOLEN. Bobbers Plunder an Oregon Express Office —•14,000 or *IO,OOO Taken. The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 10.—The Pacific Express company’s office in this city was robbed Sunday at an early hour of $14,000 or $15,000. money was sent here from Portland and arrived Saturday night. F. N. Hill, express agent, and two officers took charge of the money as soon as it arrived, taking it to the express office. Details of the robbery are very meager. IL is thought that the robbers came here on the train with the treasure'box, and knew where it was consigned and its contents. Following it up after it arrived, they made easy work of capturing it. Charles Tibbitts, the company’s driver, sleeps in the express office, but on the night of the robbery he was attending a ball and did not return until 1 o’clock. The robbery was evidently between 11:30 and 12:30 while Tibbitts was absent. There is no clew to the robbers. Richmond, Va., Oct. 10.--The express officials here now express the opinion that the Quantico train robbers did not get over $5,000. Mr. Murray, who handled the pouches and cut them open for the robbers, says he is satisfied from the feeling of them the amount did not exceed this. He says that tlie bonds were all saved, as he threw them in a pile of stuff the robbers discarded. It leaked out Monday that one package marked SI,OOO contained $20,000, the shipper doing this to save charges. Clarence, I. T.,Oct. IC.—On account of the recent robberies the Pacific Express company has a notice _posted in its offices in the territory to the effect that it will not receive any money or valuables for transportation nor issue any money Orders further notice. There is a report that all Pacific Express offices in the territory are to be discontinued. Washington, Oct. 16. —Apropos of the daring train robbery which occurred last Friday night within a few miles of Washington, special attention is being given to the subject of federal legislation against train robbery. Bills were introduced at the last session making the holding up of trains engaged in interstate commerce a national offense punishable under laws of the United States. The bills were referred to committees and are still slumbering there. They will be rescued in „all probability at the next session because of the recent robbery. WORK FOR GOOD ROADS. ▲ Conference to He Held at the Atlanta Exposition. Washington, Oct. 16.—The road parliament to be held in connection with the Atlanta exposition October 16, 17 and 18, 1865, is looked upon by the advocates of the good roads movement as perhaps more important than any meeting held to advance the interest in this cause. An official invitation has been sent to Gen. Roy Stone, in charge of the road inquiry bureau of the agricultural department, to preside. The programme of the parliament, as outlined in the invitation, will include discussions of the construction and maintenance of public highways, employment of engineering skill, utilization of convict labor, use of improved road machinery, and regulation of the width of wagon tires. Preparations are being made to place some practical demonstrations of {be various road construction ideas about the publio grounds there. NOT hT DANGER. Minister Denby Says Reports from China ■ Have Been Exaggerated. Washington, Oct. 16.—A cablegram was received at the state department Monday from United States Minister Denby at which is calculated to reassure persons who have friends in China and who have been fearful as to their safety. The minister says that the reports of danger to the foreign residents of Peking are exaggerated. There has been only one instance of an attack on Americans and adequate .punishment was meted out at once to the perpetrators. A proclamation has been issued by the authorities enjoining protection for foreigners. '

FISHERMEN PERiSH. Fifteen of Them Lone Their Lives Off the Florida Coast. Apalachicola, Fla., Oct. 16.—1n the recent storm fifteen fishermen, all white, were lost on Sand island, 10 miles from Apalachicola. It was known that these men were caught in the gale, but Dntil Saturday it was hoped that they had escaped. Since the gale subsided searching parties have been out, and Saturday three were found dead. Their bodies were swollen and so badly mutilated that they could not be identified and they were buried on Sand island, where they were found. There is no doubt now that all fifteen lost their live3. For the Greater New York. York, Oct. 16.—The greater New York commissioners held a meeting Monday in the office of President Andrew 11. Green, 214 Broadway. An address to the voters resident in the area of proposed greater city was adopted and issued. The address recites that the area proposed tt> be joined under one government square miles, all lying within a radius of about 16 miles from the city hall and having a population of more than 8,000,000. A Brutal Negro Lynched. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 10.—Sunday night a mob of 100 or more men rode into this city, and proceeding to the jail demanded of Jailer Pool the keys. These he positively refused to give up. Pushing him aside they searched the house and found them. The mob then went to the cell of Willis Griffey, confined pending trial for committing rape on Miss Lena Barry, an estimable young lady, 23 years of age, near Lafayette, last Tuesday. Griffey was dragged to a beech tree 8 miles south of this place and hanged. His body was horribly mutilated and perforated with bullcta.

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