Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 19, Number 12, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 June 1897 — Page 2

TO ipMOBY DEAR. Dead Heroes of the War Are Tenderly kemembered. VraKram Tributes Are Placed Upon Tbtlr Urarea—Decoration Day Observance la General Throughout the Land. Washington, June I.—Memorial day "was generally observed in Washington: The senate adjourned over for the day nd the house held only a 15-minute cession. All the departments and business houses were closed, and the day ■was given up to patriotic observance cpd tributes to the heroic dead. At ten o’clock there whs an impressive parade of the G. A. Ik and other patriotic organizations, which broke up at 11 o’clock, the several posts holding memorial exercises in tbe various cemeteries. The most imposing ceremonies were held at the national cemetery at Arlington, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, which was before the war the magnificent estate of Robert E. Lee, the confederate chieftain. Here bivouac almost 35,000 of the nation’s dead, 2,000 whose identity will never be known being buried in a single grave. Among ■the most famous of the heroes buried beneath the spreading oaks and elms are Gen. Sheridan, the great cavalry leader; Admiral l’orter, the hero of .Mobile; Brig. Gen. Harney and Gen. Picketts. The exercises at Arlington were made particularly memorable by the presence of President McKinley. They began at 12 o’clock with a national salute of 12 guns from the light buttery, Fourth artillery, U. S, A. The beautiful ceremony of strewing dowers on -the graves followed. The organizations ■and guests afterward gathered at the amphitheater, which was impressively ■decorated, where the exercises took place. The programme at the uinpliitheater opened with buglers sounding the “assembly.” After the "Funeral March" by the Marine band the "Burial of the Dead” wus sung by the choir. Thomas S. Hopkins, department commander, called the assembly to order and Rev. W. H. Black invoked Divine blessing. The choir sang again, and then Representative Dolliver, of lowa, delivered the oration of the day. The oration was followed by music and a poem delivered by Dr, Thomas Calver. VVehster Davis,assistant score 4 ' tary of the interior, followed with an •oration, and the exercises concluded ■with Beethoven’s “Funeral March ol a Dead Hero,” played by the Marine band. At tbe Soldiers* Home cemetery the cervices were conducted by Henry Wilson post No. 17, G. A. R. Special services were held nt the tomb of Gen. John A. Logan, under the direction of n subcommittee, composed of the Logan guurd of honor und a committee from <be Legion of Loyal Women. The exer•cises nt the Congressional cemetery were conducted by Furvugut post No. 10, G. A. R. Similar services were simultaneously held ut St. Elizabeth's,Oak Hill, lloly Rood and all of the other cemeteries in and about Washington where the union deud found resting places. A noticeable feature of the ex•ercises here wus the greut inroads the '.past few yeurs had made In the ranks ■of the veterans. In severnl instances the bunds outnumbered the posts they were escorting. 'Chicago, Juno 1, —Memorial day was fittingly observed. A parade was given by bid Veterans; regular troops from Fort Sheridan, militiu und civic organisations. Decoration day exercises were (held ut Forest Home, Waldheim and Concordia and other cemeteries. Springfield, 111., June I.—Decoration day was observed here with great interest. Federal, state and city and nuay business places were elosed

■during the day. The exercises ut Quit Itidge cemetery and the tomb of Lincoln were interesting and attended by thousands, The parade was Utngi Hundreds of the grund army and sons of veterans were in line. Military exercises were held over graves of dead soldiers. St. Louis, June I.—Decoration day here this year received practically a double cclebnatioh. The memorial sermons and otherlexereises of literary character were mostly held on Sunday. Monday, being the legal holiday,*was rc- * served for the grand ariny parade and the decoration services proper. The latter included the grand army demonstrations at the cemeteries and ut Jefferson Barracks, and appropriate ceremonies by the regular army troops in connection With the veterans at the national cemeteries. There vvus general suspension of business, banks, public •ofliees and commercial houses being closed. The pnrade was not large, but Interesting, and the fact that the ranks oT the G. A. l]p are becoming decimated more mid more as euch yeur goes by was plainly evident to theUliousunds whp ' shewed the procession. Cincinnati, June I.—Monday’s demonstration presented tlie greatest seen here. It took an hour in passing. On both sides of Fourth street the girls of the schools were ranged to witness . jtlie. parade. They were ull provided ■With small flags. The passing of the {gray-halred and tottering veterans, bearing with stern pride their cher- ' iefaed battle flags, was to these children a lesson in patriotism not soon to be forgotten. Follojyiug them came the battalions of boys, with boys’ drum hands and flags without number. Fatally Slabbed/ Marquette, Mich., May 31.—Kichurd Tulmer applied to Alexander Boulton, ■an aged and prominent citizen of Newtberry, Luce county, for employment, ■and being refused drew ji dirk und stabbed Boulton, who died shortly after. The raeu were in a saloon, but neither had taken any liquor. Palmer bad recently served a jntMertn for wife beating. Dledltfrom fSxpoaurc. Sioux City, la., June l.—F. D. Frey,a farmer, died on the bank of Mill cre*k, near Rrinigbar, from cold and exposure. ' —"

FIVE KILLED. Train Crashes Into a Tallyho Coach Laden with Merrymakers. New York, June I.—Five young people were, killed and n number of others Injured In an accident which occurred Monday afternoon at Valley SpMug, L. L A tallyho with a party of 21 excursionists from the Greene Avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, which started out for a day’s outing through Long Island was struck by a train on the Long Island railroad at the Merrick boulevard crossing, and these were instantly killed: George F. Fashley, Jr., 824 Halsey street, Brooklyn; William Gilchrist, Jr., 233 Rutledge street, Brooklyn; Winslow Lewis, DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn; Lester E. Roberts, Monroe street, Brooklyn; Miss Dora Burtsch, Stuyvesant avenue, Brooklyn. The injured were: Emma Brugc, skull fractured; Clara fltuart, skull fractured: Mrs. Annie Andrews, both legs broken: Lawrence Barnes, scalp wound; Walter Wellbrock, both thighs fractured; John Lewis, bruise#; Edward McCormick, driver of the coach, badly Injured; Earl Barnes, slightly Injured; Miss Pashley, back broken; TillteHorn, severe shock; Edna Bulger, severe shock; Richard Bates, scalp wound; Bessie Oilson, •.scalp wound; Miss Debettes, leg broken and head Injured; Miss Ray Stillman, badly injured. Some of the dead were frightfully mangled. The body of Lester W. Roberts was ground to pieces. The body of Miss Burtsch was also badly mangled. Winslow Lewis had his neck broken, both legs were broken, his head was badly gashed and he was severely cut about the body. The crush came utmost without warning and the occupants of tbe conch had no time to muke any effort to escape. Before the most of them knew of the impending danger the train was upon them, the coach was upset and the engine pushing it along the rails, the dead and injured being cut and mangled beneath it. The train that struck the tullyho was bound east from Mineolo. It was not running fast when the accident happened, and accounts differ ns to whether the whistle was blown'. It is nlso a matter of dispute whether the bell was being rung. It is claimed by some that it was, and that the merry party on the coach was making so miich noise that the driver could not hear the bell. The double team of the tallyho had crossed the truck and had the front wheels of the conch upon the rails when the pilot of the engine was seen by the driver. He gave the horses a cut with the whip, but It was too late and a moment Inter the crash cnine. The heavy engine, driven forward by the momentum, raised the* eoaeh and its loud of passengers from the ground and hurled it forward. As the engine came into sight the women of the pnrty uttered serenmß which were ended by the crash and then followed by screams of agony. When the engine struck the coach the occupants were In all positions, as they had started to jump to their feet upon realizing their danger. Some had gained their feet while others had made an effort to reach the side steps. Others were too frightened to move, had clutched the seats or the side rail and waited for the crash.

TURKEY WANTS PEACE. Snltan Insists First on nn Armistice for n Fortu lullt. Constantinople, June 1. —The Turkish government has replied to the collective note presented by the ambassadors to the porte lust Saturday. The ambassadors then announced that they did not object to the conclusion of at military arfidstice, which the Turkish government insisted must be signed, between the military commanders in the field, after which the porte will negotiate the pence conditions with the ambassadors, the treaty to be signed by the Turkish und Greek plenipotentiaries in Thessaly,- In this Infest note the porte insists upon an armistice of a fortnight, which can bo renewed in the event the peure negotiations arc not finished. The porte, however, desires that pence be concluded ns soon as posKttJRE —“ An irnde hns just been Issued and communleut.ed to the representatives of the powers by which the sultan agrees to an armistice of n fortnight, beginning May 30. Fresh instructions, consequently, will be sent to Edhem Pasha, the Turkish commander In Thessaly. Hut I*By TLtt*r Rates. / Washington, June 1. —From the large number of Inquiries now being received by the post office department there seems to be a general belief that congress has authorized the issue und ÜBe of private postal cards, mailable at one cent rate of postage. This belief is unfounded. The department Jias called the attention of nil postmasters to this fact and has notified them that no law tyas been enacted 911 the subject, so that private mailing curds, bearing written messages, wliefi deposited in the mails are still subject to postage nt the letter rate. Tributes to Flood Victims. Johustown, l‘u., Juue 1. —The eighth anniversary of the Johnstown flood was appropriately observed in this city Monday, when thousands of people, many of them having lost relatives and near friends in the most uppulling disaster, of recent times, visited the benuti-. fid cemetery of Gruhd View. The plot flint contains tbe unidentified bodies of over 800 victims of the disaster was literally covered with flowers, contributed mostly by persons who lost dear ones in the flood and whose bodies were never recovered. Wins llrooklyn Handicap. .New York. June I.—Amid the shouts of thousands Howard Mann, from the stable of George E. Smith (Pittsburgh l’hil) won the eleventh contest of the funious Brooklyn handicap Monday afternoon by soundly beuting a field of ten user a mile und a quarter of mud and wuter on the Gravesend course. 2:09%. t Sentenced to the t.nlleya fop Life. Rome. May 3l.?r.Pietro Aecirito, the anarchist who on April 22 last attempted to stab King Humbert, while the latter was on his way to the races, was sentenced to the galleys for life

MOW TRACE IMPROVES. Dan Sees Slow Bat Itesdy data—Bradstreet Disappointed. New York, May 29.—8. G. Dun & Cos., in, their weekly review of trade, say? "People are actually doing more business than they realise. They reckon by values, but -these are much lower than lp say previous year of prosperity, and leave little margin tor profits. In quantity, there Is almost as much business being done as in the years of greatest prosperity, and though the Increase In population would call for a material expansion, the comparison is not discouraging. The recovery Is slow, hesitating and gradual, but more bos been done on the whole In May than in April, while returns of April showed the volume of business only ten per cent, smaller than that of the best year heretofore. Yet hesitation is doing its work every week, and multitudes are watting because of poesibillties at Washington, who .ought to be filling the demand for labor and the products of labor! “Events have proved that tbe crop of wheat going out Is much larger than any of the markets expected, and western receipts for the week were 80 per cent, larger than last year, while Atlantic exports have been for four weeks 6,316,329 buahels, flour included, against 4,988,777 last year. Besides the outgo of corn largely taking the place of wheat in foreign consumption is far beyond precedent or expectation, and for four weeks has been 9.360,091, against 6,001,985 last year. With liberal Interior supplies the price has declined a fraction. Cotton Is unchanged, although at this season exports were Insignificant. "The Iron manufacture gains In spite of the closing of some furnaces. The production of pig exceeds consumption, and is somewhat decreasing, while the consumption has gradually gained, this week, In part because of several structural contracts, and in part because the agricultural implements works have made larger demands, and also because of the proposed leasing of nearly ail the rod mills in the country, which has caused some buying. "Failures for the week have been 214 in :he United States, the smallest in any week since September, 1895, against 239 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 20 last year.” Bradstreet’s says: "Results of the spring trade in staples, which is now over, are disappointing. The volume of seasonable merchandise distributed is less than expected, without taking into account an improvement In business compared witty a year ago. Nearly all central, western and southern trade centers report business very quiet. Dry goods continue depressed, cotton products selling with difficulty, some varieties only on concession. "The more favorable features are relative activity among woolen goods manufacturers who are working on old orders; Improved demand for shoes and leather; a continuance of the comparative activity on the general demand at Ehvannah, Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis and Bt. Paul, the better demand for lumber at the west, and In the trade outlook In Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Increased exports are reported from Pacific coast ports, but there is comparatively mao’ ashr *ttf* dtfflttiatlc trade here, exoept in cattle,' Wool and hardware at Portland.” f'nnonlsatlon of Zaccurla. Rome, May 28.—The canonization of the Blessed Zaceai iu, founder of the Order of Barnabites and of ttye Blessed de Mataincour, surnamed the Apostle of Lorraine, was the most impressive ceremony witnessed nt St. Peter’s since the abolition of the temporal power of the popes, the only difference in the ceremonial and those which occurred under the sovereignty of the popes being that the external gates of St. Peter’s were closed and that tickets of admission to the cathedral had to be obtained. At night there • was a grand illumination of the facade of St. Peter’s, for the first time within 30 years. The facades of mnny other churches were' nlso illuminated and great crowds were in attendance nt the services nnd thronged the streets to view the illuminations, which were extremely brilliant and beautiful. All the church bells in the city were rung.

Saltan Objects to Ansel). New York,May 29, —The Turkish government hns made formal objection to receiving Dr. Frank B. Angell, of Michigan, as minister from the United States, according to a Washington dispatch to the Sun. The ground of the objection cannot be definitely obtained, but it is Raid the porte does not want as the diplomatic representative of this country a man who is in close touch nnd sympathy with the Christian missionary element in the sultan’s domnin and strongly disapproves of the aetianof tbe porte in the Armenian massacres. Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister in Washington, lias notified Secretary Sherman of the position of his government with reBpect to Dr. Angell. As an intimation of this character is final, Dr. Angell cannot go to Constantinople in his diplomats capacity. ' .• To De Special Ambassador. Washington, May 28.—Hon. Whitelaw Reid lunched with the president on Thursday. Mr. Reid’s visit wns for the purpose of talking over with Mr. McKinley the proffer made to him of aejepting the honor of special ambassador of the United States qt the queen’s jubilee. Before leaving for New York he accepted the mission nnd will represent the United States oh that occasion. . r ' New Minister to llrasll. Washington, May 20. The president Tuesday sent thefollowingnomluations to the senate: State— Edwin H. Conger, of lowa, to be envoy extraordinary and minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil: John G. Foster, of Vermont, to be consul of the United States at Sherbrooke, Quebec. Canada. 1' War—Brig. Oen. John R. Brooke, to bo major general. Flaed for Sunday DaU Playing;. Paducah, Ky., Moy 27. The cases against the Paducah and Terre Haute players and Umpire Bolen were decided ugainst them, a fine of two dollars being assessed in each case for Sunday p foyig. New Bridge for Niagara. Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 29.—Another new bridge is to span Niagara’s gorge./ .It will take the place of the upper suspension bridge, and is to be finished April 1, 1898. The bridge, designed to replace tbe upper suspension bridge, wil be built on the parabolic principle, and it will undoubtedly be one of the greatest engineering feats ot the year, Gen. Porter Formally Received. Tori 8, May 27.— President Faure formally received the new United Sttfte* ambassador. Gen. Horace Porter, Wednesday.

MORE FAVORABLE TO GREECE Peace Itgstiatlmi Sold te Have Takes a Tara fas the Better. London, May 28.—'The peace negotiations have taken a turn more favora** ble to Greece, according to dispatches which the government at Athens has received 'from it* representatives abroad. The correspondent of the Times at Athena telegraphs that Turkey’s proposal to occupy Thessaly no longer receives any consideration, owing to England’s attitude, while the proposal to abolish the capitulations in the case of Greek subjects in Turkey is rejected, and the suggested extradition treaty is apparently set aside. The powers have fixed £ 6,000,000 as the highest limit of indemnity and will allow ohly such a strategic alteration of the frontier as will not involve the subjection of any inhabited district to Turkish rule. According to a dispatch to the Frankfort Zeitung from Constantinople Count Muravieff, the Russian foreign minister, told the Turkish ambassador at St. Petersburg that Turkey must renounce her impossible claim to annex Thessaly. He added that, in his opinion, the claim had only been advanced to prolong the negotiations or a pretext for renewing the war >c yhich Europe would on no account permit* This statement so impressed the sultan that he has been making special efforts to restore friendly with England. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Constantinople says: The porte has replied to the note of the powers and consents to negotiate for peace, provided the Greek commanders first sign an armistice. As soon as this is done the government will negotiate as to the peace conditions with the ambassadors, and the treaty will be signed by the Turkish and Hellenic plenipotentiaries in Thessaly. TRANS COLLIDE. A Terrible Railway Accident at American Falla, Idaho. Pocatello, Idaho, May 28.—A headend collision between a freight and a passenger train at American Falls, 25 miles west of here Thursday, caused the death, so far as known, of nine men and the serious injury of nine others. Two of the latter will die. It is the worst wreck that has occurred on the Short line in many years. The Westbound passenger train was waiting for the freight at American Falls, standingIri front wf the station building! The freight train, coming east, ran away on the hlll-weat of American Falls. It is thought the air brake was tampered with. The freight train, running 50 miles an hour, crashed into the passenger train, which was already backing up, right in front of the station. The station building was shattered. Both engines were converted into scrap iron and 20 freight cars piled up in a heap. The dead are: C. W. Shields, about 35, residence unknown; D. L. Thompson, Dayton, Wash.; John R. Cooper, Wellsville, Utah; J. Steffen, Dillon, Mont.; five unknown men, all sheap shearers, beating their way. George Moore, the engineer of the freight is seriously injured, sustaining a compound fracture. The fireman, Dick Cosgrove, had a leg broken; C. E. Heckman, engineer of the passenger, sustained slight injuries. He stayed with his engine until he had reversed it. William Connelly, of Great Barrington, Mass., was crushed and his bowels were torn out. He wjll die. G. W. Brennan, F. D. Springer. John Bergan and John Peters are all'suffering froip broken legs.

A Southern Tragedy. Birmingham, Ala., May 28. —The little town of Oakman, in Walker county, was the’scene of a desperate Bhopting affray Thursday afternoon. Two men were killed, as follows: Isaac Appling, aged CO, mayor of Oakman and a leading merchant; Charles Williams, aged 30, a machinist. Andrew Richards, clerk in the store of Appling Brothers, was shut .in-the head, and will /die. Montgomery Appling, brother and business partner of Mayor Appling, was shot in the body, but this wound is not necessarily fatal. William Duncan, an Englishman, was shot in the head and back, and will die. The two AppUngs, Duncan and Richards were shot .by Williams.- The latter was slain by Montgomery. The shooting occurred over the mayor’s ordering Williams, who wns intoxicated, out of the business house of Appling Brothers. Ranker Gets Tea Years. Indianapolis, Ind., May 29.—John F. Johnson, l&te president and cashier of the State national bank of Logansport, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the Ohio state penitentiary at ten o’clock in the morning, Thursday, by Judge Baker, of the United States court tor the district of Indiana. There was no sensation, and Johnson received the wonls of the judge without a tremor, and Mrs. Johnson, who was present in the courtroom, listened to the sentence without emotion. By counting off good time Johnson vtill have to serve about seven years. Johnson pleaded guilty to indictments charging him with wrecking the Logansport bank. These indictments practically include every section of tho national banking law. Will Meet There Again. Eagle Lake, Ind., May 28.—The Presbyterian general assembly has voted to hold its next session here. Iron Ml)|s Cat Wnares. Youngstown, 0., May 29.—The Mahoning VaU*y Iron company, the Brown Bonnell Iron company, operating extensive mills here, and William Tod, engine builders, have posted notices of ten per cent, reduction in wages, taking effect Jane 1. Fla (ah Their Convention. Detroit, Mich.. May 29. — The annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America has completed its sessions. President Mahlon M. Garland was again reelected. Next year’s convention will be held in Cincinnati.

GAGE BPEAK& Secretary el tbe Treasury Haa Com* adenee la tbe Future. Cincinnati. May 2C.— The crowning; event of the visit of the commercial .clqbs was the banquet Friday night at the Clifton mansion of Alexander MeDonald, who was host for the Cincinnati club. The dinner was /nost befitting tbe dignity of such clubs. Lueien Wulsin, president of the Cincinnati club, opened the speaking with an address of welcome. The first response was by Jerome Jones, president of the Boston club. He was followed by Presidents Glqssner, of the Chicago club, and West, of the St. Louis club. Secretary Gage was vocifeipusly applauded as he rose to speak. He said in beginning his remarks that before coming he had called on the president and asked permission to say for the administration that there must be proper revenue raised nnd there must be a sound system of currency established. The president said: 'That is exactly what I want you to say.” Secretary Gage said in part: "As I listen to the words passing; from lip to lip of the members of the commercial clubs gathered here. I discover two particular themes which have a first place -4o the thoughts of all. These two themes e the tariff and the public finances. Upon ttys settlement of these two questions enterprise waits and industry languishes. Over fifty times have I been asked: ‘When will' the tariff discussion end and the measure proposed receive the final vote which ■ will formulate the measure into law?’ Over fifty times more I have been asked: ‘Have the financial reforms, for which the people struggled in November last, been forgotten?’ Now, it is not to be wondered at that you who have so long borne the burden of anxiety and fear, who have so long waited and watched for the restoration of conditions upon which some secure estimate of to-morrow can be made, should grow nervous and impatient over every act, or word; which seems to suggest doubt or delay in the establishment of such conditions. "I have thought that on this occasion I could do no better service than to give you needed reassurance and hope. As to the great fahric now before congress, known as the tariff bill, T have nothing to say in detail. I want to bear testimony, however, to the zeal and good faith of those In both houses who have that measure in charge. They are fully conscious of their great responsibilities, and are working faithfully to discharge them. Nor do I think that the opponents of these measures are likely to oppose with willful and unjust obstructions the course of legislation. Protest, there will be more or less; fencing for position must be expected, but having now come Into contact with many of the representatives of the people in both hoHises of congress, I deem it my duty.to bear witness*-*© -tor-twit- may“lTave Value/To the honorable and jpatriotlc motives that inspire the minds” of the great. witetHer ntyon one side of the house or the other, end I prophesy an early result tn the national councils to which this great commercial question is now committed. "As to the financial question to which I have already referred. I want to content myself with few words. lam glad that they may be words of assurance. It any of you harbor the suspicion that the administration, hut just now installed into the responsibilities of high office, has forgotten, or Is likely to forget, the mandate of the people, whose voice In behalf of honest money and sound finances rang out loud and clear in November last, put that suspicion aside. It is unjust and unfounded. In good time and In proper order the affirmative evidences of my declaration will appear. In the meantime, my friends, do your part to help' those charged with legislative and administrative duties. Do npt let the inertia engendered by fear and distrust creep over you. "We have been passing through a period of great trial, and nobly have we endured the strain. The future is not dark with forebodings. It is illuminated with rational hope. The revival of Industry Is near, and with the establishment of a revenue law sufficient to bring Into the treasury an amount adequate to meet the reasonable needs of our government, and with the establishment of our finances on a sound and enduring basis, nothing now foreseen can delay the recovery of past losses and the Inauguration of anew forward movement along the lines of material advancement and social progress, which we may humbly trust Is In the benevolent mind of God to bestow upon the American poo pie." Mr. Elihu Thompson, of Boston, undertook the severe task of talking after dinner on a scientific subject the recent advance in electrical science. An address by Franklin MadVeagh, of Chicago, was followed by a -number of impromptu speeches. The lUßiquef closed at midnight, when the special t trains were in waiting to carry the guests to Boston, Chicago and St. Louis.

Tho Qoeen’s Birthday. London, May 27. The official celebration of the queen’s birthday was observed Wednesday in London with the usual closing of the courts and government Offices, the ringing of the church bells, a display of flags, artillery salutes and tfiie tgremony of trooping the color on the Horse Guards parade, in which the colonial troops nowin London took part. Although this ceremony was somewhat marred by rain, it was witnessed by large throngs of people. The New South Wales, Indian and other detachments of colonial troops present attracted considerable attention. The royal family waalargely represented at the trooping of the color. , Booth-Toeker Found Guilty. New York, May 27. —Frederick de la Tour Booth-Tucker, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, has been convicted of maintaining a disorderly house at tbe big army barracks in West Fourteenth street. Sentence was postponed until June 8 and the commander was liberated on tbe same bail as he had been under. Complaint was made by residents of the neighborhood of the barracks, who allege that they were greatly disturbed by the singing and band playing at the Salvation Army meetings, especially those that lasted all night. BoothScbooner Loses Her Crew. Provincetown, Mass., May 26. The fishing schooner Joseph P. Johnson arrived Tuesday afternoon with the death flag displayed. All her fishing crew of 16 men went astray in the fog on the western banks on Friday last. The schooner waa seen working her way alowly past Race point with only two men on board and her nest of dories missing. Seat to tho Senate. Columbia. S. C„ May 26.—Gov. Ellerbe appointed Representative John L. MoLaurin to succeed the late Senator Earle Tue^ay

miAKJL STATS NEWS. LEBANON'S annual horse show was held a few days ago. Ten thousand people were in attendance. In 15 classes there were nearly 300 entries. Horses were entered from six counties. About S4OO in prizes was awarded. Pbof. G. F. Kehaoton, of Mankato, Mich., has been elected superintendent of the public schools at Crawfordsville at a salary of 81,500. Thk friends of Wab*sh. college who favor coeducation are talking about getting up a plan to Consolidate forces with Coates college at Terre Haute, transferring the latter to Crawfordsville. At Muncie Oscar Fisher, colored, was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory for stealing a tow and a bicycle, this will be his sixth term in prison, two in Ohio and four in Indiana. Thk city council of Bluffton haa passed a resolution to pave Main, Market, Washington and Oak streets, 35 squares in all, with asphalt. A post office has been established at Sleeth, Carroll county, and James H. Johnson appointed postmaster. The post office at Tacoma, Grant county, will be discontinued after May 3L ■ • President Johnston, of the wrecked State national bank of Logansport, squandered the stolen funds in speculation, losing large sums in phosphates, in gas and oil leases, in wheat deals and in Colorado and Wyoming mines Two car loads of corn—l,ooo bushels —were shipped the other day from Muncie to New York, where the grain will be received by the United States war vessels and taken to India lor the relief of the famine sufferers. -l - Bryce Snyder, living with his parents in Steuben county, was drowned in Hamilton lake, northwest of Waterloo. Young Snyder, with companions, was rowing on the lake, and while eating a boiled egg he suddenly choked and fell overboard. , The arrangements for taking care of the convention of the K. of P. supreme lodge and the encampment of the uniform rank, which are to be held in Indianapolis in 1898, are progressing. Fifty thousand dollars will cover the necessary expenses and an effort will be made to raise that amount. This will cover the prize drills, which will require 810,000. T .."Xsr oil well which has been sank on - the Buck farm by Spellacy Bros., of JLiima, aboqt a mUe_south ot. tfie Carver well, near Alexandria, was completed “the other day, andlit 0 o’clock in the ? evening was shot with a heavy charge of nitroglycerin. Greatly to the disappointment of the drillers, no oil was found, but gas in immense quantities came out The hole was drilled 80 feet in Trenton rock. The gas will be saved and sold to the Chicago Gas Cos. The Bowers well, one mile northeast of Alexandria, was shot at 4:3) o’clock the other afternoon with 120 quarts of nitroglycerin, but has so far developed no oil. 'J be drill was Sunk 158 feet in Trenton rock, the well being 1,082 feet deep. This is much deeper in Trenton rock than any well has yet been sunk it the attempt to find oil, the Carver well, which is only a half a mile north, being 120 feet in Trenton rock, and the Decker 80 feet The shot the other afternoon, however, produced a gas well whose output is estimated at 4,000,000 cubic feet per day. John J. Johnson, late president and cashier of the State National bank of Logansport, was sentenced to ten years in the Ohio state penitentiary at 10 o’clock the other morning, by Judge Baker, of the United States court for the district of Indiana* There was no sensation, and Johnson received the words of the judge without a tremor, aud Mrs. Johnson who was present in the court room, listened tp the evidence without emotion. By counting off good time Johnson will have to serve about seven years. Johnson pleaded guilty to indictments charging him with Wrecking the Logansport bahtc. At Brazil Constable Donahue levied on a freight engine belonging to the Chicago Southeastern Railroad company to satisfy a number of judgments held by mechanics and merchants of the city. Donahue secured the locomotive to /the track with a heavy chain and a padlock. The engine was steamed up and attached to a heavy freight train ready to pull out of the city at the time. The officers made a similar attempt several days ago, but the engineer put on ateam and left the city. The company promised to settle. Early the other morning Frank C. Kitchell, of Hammond, committed suicide by taking Rough on Rats. Despondency occasioned by a protracted debauch is assigned as the cause, i Kitchell was formerly an influential farmer near Valparaiso, but a few months ago moved to Hammond and engaged in the carpenter business. He was 53 years old and a veteran of the rebellion. He leaves a wife and four children. One of the industrlea in which Richmond capital is largely interested is that of Nicaraguan coffee raising. There is now a total of $155,000 of Richmond money invested in the basiness. Mbs Eliza Johnson, aged 98, died at her home near Decatur, the other morning. She was a pioneer of the county, being a member of the first family that located there and hoe resided on her farm that she helped to clear ever since. ’Squme Jerry Swofford, of Centerville, is one of the oldest justices of the peSee in the state, in 1840 he via a candidate for justice of the Washington township and he wafejfo only man in Wayne county eeived more votes than Gen. \Vnn, w Henry Harrison, who was then running for president Mr. Swofford is very preud of this fact L. W. Filling, retail .dealer in shoes at Logansport, made assign meet late the other mgm. Liabilities, 814,000; assets about the same amount The failure o the State National bank was the cause of the assignment