Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 December 1889 — Page 1

T 3. L. MOTTHT, Eli tor and Proprietor. VOLUME XX.

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. terms of subscription: For one jre»r...tj j$ For *U month*. ' » For three months.....ft.. » INVARIABLY IN ADVANCS. ADVEBrildXG KATES: One iqasre <» Unee). one Insertion.tl 00 Faeh additional loeertlon . SO A liberal reduction made on advertisement* running three, sti and twelve months. Legal and Transient advertisements most be paid for la advance.

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The American' Bank Note Company prints twenty thousand million postage stamps per year. It is estimated that there are six thousand conversions to Christianity per day now going on. Hoi*. Haxkiual Kami.in has survived all hut two of his fellow members of the Maine Legislature of 18.40. Hakd upon the revolution in liraxil came the intelligence of a movement in Australia for an independent federation, and now comes a rumor of uneasiness in Spain and Portugal. Pfiiiso 1880 slightly ovCr a hundred million dollars’^ worth of gold has been dug from the earth on the four continents; the largest quantity came from Australia, California and South Africa. Africa is looking up. Accoitnixu to a London daily there are about two° thousand five hundred building associations, with oversix hundred thousand members, in the United Kingdom. Last year the receipts were upward of $100.000,000_ l*liacticAI.I.Y all the orange growers of Florida have consolidated with the ; Florida Fruit Exchange. Out of the j estimated crop of 1,800.000 or 2.000,000 boxes this year, at least 1.500,000 will bo handled through the exchange. Women have boon admitted to the bar in all the New England States except New Hampshire and Vermont Mrn. Kicker, a successful practitioner in Washington, has now asked permission to practice law in New Hampshire. lx 1891 the charters of all Canadian hanks expire, and the plan upon which they shall be reissued will sum have to be determined. Whether it is better to xmtlnue the old system or take pattern by the newer and simpler method in the United .States is the point to bo dotided. « Samvel Mims, of Essex. Mass., has liecn hungry all the time /or thlrti'on l^r*. He drinks three quarts of water P“r day and eats hearty meals every hour. His age is sixty-one years old and his weight one hundred and thirty-five pounds. His ease is a puzzle to the physicians. IsiM l’nuto is an exile, hut with a pension of 84.Vl.0iKi a year and a snug fortune of $■.*,500,000. The dark clouds that hangover this Brazilian exile have a very good border of silver and a touch jf gold from the sunset of his glory of fiftv-elght years as Emperor. l>om IVdro Is sixty-three years old. and his feign has been longer than any living monarch.

Tiikkk members of the sophomore cl.v i of Vile Culler were alxmt to ho expelled recently (or baaing freshmen, when the class came U> ihetr wlatur* ill U IkmIt and promised that if the hoitems> was not executed they would refrain from hazing for the present. Da thes*' conditions the facility agreed to suspend punishment until the next offense. The strain on the students in the meantime, however, is something intense, . Mn. A.niuikw Yorxii, the writer of the religious song. “There Is a Happy land, l'ar, Kar Away,” is still alive, a man eighty years of age, vigorous in utind and body, and having all that sympathy for children without «hleh it is impossible to influeni'e the little one* for good. It is about fifty years since these words were written to the music of an Indian air, and they have since l«cn translated into nineteen languages. Tine Government has given instructions that persons living in Windsor, Can., ami pursuing thoir daily occupation in Detroit, must either give up their Canadian residence anil come to live in the United 8talcs or be fined Sl.OflOjgach under the alien contract law. This will probably increase the population of this country ivbaut twenty-five hundred or by 1-ouipelling tho Canucks to earn their bread in the Queen's territory furnish,so much more work for Americans. Tint young men who a is- seeking homes on the farms of the West an* warned to examine the possibility of Connecticut agriculture before th,ey buy their tickets. 1'p at Reynold* Itridge, Conn., not only beans but bean poles grow from the same bill. James ltunnell hrd a j-olo from a button Imll which had Is-on cut for several years. He used It for his bean vines to grow on, and now he finds that the pole has sent out roots and started several sprouts from tho top, Thomas A. El»lso.v®%aa made a con* tract with the Mexican Government U. furnish the post-offices of the republic with phonographs to be used for the transmission of messages. In place ol writing a letter, a Mexican hereafter can say what he wants to say to a phonograph, and tho wax impression of his tone will bo forwarded to the post-offioe nearest to the residence of the person for whom the message is intended. The latter will bo notified on its arrival and the message will be ground out to blip by tho local phonograph. It is believed that the phonograph will be extensively used in correspondence.

PiuxiKSs IwHtU is said to be main ly responsible for the recent overturn in It; .sail. The Princess is a self-confessed follower in the path of that other Isabella of Spain, who sent Columbus on his Western journey. Although tht Katnau Catholic is the State religion ol ltrttv.il there is toleration for any creed “not prejudicial to the best interests ol the State." A popular impression existed that Isabella, if Dom Pedro should die. would not only succeed to tht throne. hut would wage a bitter religious persecution against all who did ■ itattend confession. The new republic ends all fears of this kind. Tits sou just born to the King and Qjccn of Portugal has been given the single name of Alanuel. This Is not in accordance with the usual customs o! crowi ed hesds in such matters. They usually give the infant a list of names a wile or two long. The young Prince's two-year-old brother has eighteen names, and the rest of the family are about as well supplied. Perhaps, however, the baby was restricted to ont name for the reason merely that the li.jcral use of nature here toff re h as temporarily exhausted tho supply- It may be tho intention to give him wore names as they happen to think 'em up. Tint ttrst Republican convention that ctcr assembled In Alaska met at Juneau on the -till of November. Resolutions were passed that they he allowed a delegate to IVn.fi're*. and for home tea-i. thnK-rwtHHUijf and oUtpr 'ftwrltorird

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. PROM WASHINGTON. Mu. Lacey, tho Comptroller of the Currency, showed In his report on the 35th that there were inr existence 3,319 National banks, the largest number since the inauguration of the system. The aggregate capital was $620,174,383, The amount of circulation outstanding was *803,603,733, of which S132,3$3,S34 was secured by United States bonds, and tho remainder, #72.379,396, was repre-sented-by the deposit of lawful money in the Treasury. Within the year fortyone banks went into voluntary liquidation and only two failed. The General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service in his annual report on the 27th showed that at the close of the fiscal year there were 235 stations. During the year the number of disasters was 538; value of property involved, #6,416,775; value of property saved, $5,054,440; number of persons saved. 3,426; number of persons lost, 43; number of persons succored, 787. In his annual report on the 29th nit. Comhiodore J. G. Walker recommended thatHhe enlistment of aliens in the navy be discouraged. TiiKltr. were 249 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on tho 29th ulL. against 277 the previous week. Foe the corresponding week in 1888 the number was 3;t2. Tut: annual report on the 29lh ult of Third Assistant Postmaster-General flaxen shows that the total cost of the service for the year was $63,751,871, or $7,608,856 in excess of the revenue. The revenue exceeded that of the previous year by $3,453,838.

THE EAST. In Brooklyn, X. \\, the Hoc) a Iron worts wore bnrmsl on the 25th, musing a loss of $200,000. Over one thousand men were thrown out of employment ON the 2«th a fire at Lynn, Mass., destroyed 200 buildings, causing a loss of 5”,o6<i,000. Eighty acres, containing the handsomest business and residence por- ! lions of the city, were in ruins, 104 famj ilies were turned into the streets and H.OOo workmen were thrown iu to "idleness. Two lives only were'Uwt El.amkh on the 30th at Iwechburg, Pa,, ! destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss, | $100000 Off Nantucket, Mass., the steamer Santiago, valued at 5500.000, was burned on the 20th. No lives were lost. Pol.I.A no A Moss, New York publish ers, failed on the 27th for $100,000. Tin: monument to the memory of Thomas A. Armstrong by the members of the labor organisations of the country was unvailcd at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 25th. Josephine Wki.sh, of West Elizabeth, Pa,, shot and instantly killed her lover, ('hatlea Weitc, on the 25th while handj ling a revolver. They were soon to have j tx-en married. Mb. am* Mus. Mead. of Springfield. X, Y., were fatally wounded on the 38th by burglars. In lioston on the morning of the 3Sth a fire burned over two acres in the section where were massed the large wholesale dry and fancy goods establishments, and some twenty large granite and brick blocks were destroyed. These with their contents involved a bsts of $5,000,000. Six persons were missing; In a gale on the 37th off West End, lamg Branch, the bark Germania went ashore and ten of the crew, including Captain Windhorst, were drowned. The storm along the Atlantic coast was one of the severest in the memory of the old mariners, and many other wrecks were reported, with the loss of several lives. A11 Vicks of the Mth ult. say the loss by the rts-ont great con fi agration at Boston was estimated at .$10,000,000. Four firemen lost their lives. Mb*. Evk Shannon, for years matron of the home for the aged and Infirm Hebrews in New York, di<-d on the 29th ult, aged one hundred years and six months. One of the Hartford Carpet Company's mills at Tbompsonville, Conn., was burned on the 29th ult laws, $150,000.

WEST AND SOUTH. | On the *5th the bodies of two uroro j victims of the flood were found at Johns1 town. I’a. Ovkk one thousand hops died of cholj era near Seymour, Ind., in the two ; weeks ended on the 35 th, and many more were affected. At Salt Lake City arguments in the I matter of admitting Mormons to citizenI ship were finished on the 35th, and tho court reserved its decision. Dmims of the 38 th say that liana I Jacob Olson, of Preston. Wls., a troublesome character, was taken from hla j home by masked men and lynched because he refused to leave* town. Is the Cronin trial in Chicago on the 38th the efforts of the prosecution were I directed toward breaking down the alibis of Beggs, liurke and O’Sullivan. A number of witnesses testified in contradiction of statements made by previous witnesses for the defense. Os the 36th the Citiaens’ State llank of York. Neb., suspendedOx the Topeka A Santa Fte road an express ear was tobbed of 530,000 by fifteen masked men on the night of the 38th at Borwyne, Ind. T. The North Pacific whaling fleet arrived in. San Francisco on the 38th. The catch this year was the:poorest in ten years, and comprised 13,000 barrels of oil sml 317.000 pounds of bone. Tut: death of John 3. Emery, the oldest Grand Past Master of the 1.0.0 F. of the United States, occurred in Baltimore on the35th. aged eighty-three years. The failure of McLeod A Anderson, toba&o warehousemen at Louisville. Ky., occurred on the 35th for 5100.000. A. J. Gekstel, of Peoria, III., tobacco dealer, was on the 38th charged with defrauding creditors out ct §40,000. He had fled. Thomas Davimsox, a wealthy farmer, aged seventy-fl vc years, who lived alone at a farm near Areola, I1L, was found murdered In his stable on the 30th. At St Louis on the 30th the National Silver convention met with 850 delegates present from all parts of the coun'Ftrk nearly destroyed the town ol Wesley, la., on the 37th. The death of Peyton Wilkes, aged one hundred years, occurred at Greenville, Ore.. on the 37th. Ox the 38th the National Silver convention closed its sessions at St Louis. It adopted a platform calling Tor the free and unlimited coinage of standard •liver dollars to be legal tender for all debts. Orricr.RS on the 38th arrested nine men at Berwin and Ardmore. Ind. T.. for the recent Santa F* train robbery. Ox the Lev Er-iaau Delorme, s i minister of tho Gr-nnar Reform'd church column ted tukide at 11 tiny

ton, Ind., while Insane by shooting himself. At Cleveland, O., the National Dairy and Food Commissioners' Association of the United States was organized on the 97th. its object being to promote purity in articles of human food and drink. Thirty Mexican herders and five American cowboys perished in tho recent Colorado blizzard. In his annual message to the Legislature on the 87th the Governor of South Carolina recommended separate accommodations on railroads for whites and blacks. At Caredo, O-.a train ran into a washout on the 38th and three men were killed.

J. Dobson was murdered on the 38th at Osgood, Ind., by A. Bishop, his fa-ther-in-law, for mistreating his wife and following her to her father's house, where she bad been induced tb return. In Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia terrific storms prevailed on the 37th. All the low ground was under water and the swollen streams, aided by phenomenally high tides, had done an enormous amount of damage to buildings, bridges, roads and orchards. Thk State at the Cronin murder trial in Chicago on the 39th ult. introduced a witness to break down the alibi for Martin Burke, produced the knives of Dr. Cronin which were found on Dan Coughlin, the defense finished its surrebuttal testimony, and State's Attorney lxingenecker began his argument for the prosecution. Korn little girls, children of Hugh Dunn, a wealthy mineownerat Elliottsville, W. Va., were blown to atoms on the 39th ult. by the explosion of a keg of powder. Tint barge David L. Dows was wrecked in a storm on Cake Michigan on thc2»th ult. twenty miles southeast of Chicago. I.oss, $100,000. The crew had a narrow escape, and all wore badly frozen. A t'vci.osi: in Buford County, N. C„ on the 39th ult. blew down houses and trees were torn up by tho roots. The residence of a farmer near Washington was wrecked and the entire family, consisting of father, mother and four children. was killed. A factory near Washington was also destroyed and t wo people killed, while a dozen others received bad injuries. Nkah New Amsterdam, Ind., White Caps severely beat a young man on the 39th ult who was found with a dissolute woman, and the woman was warned to mend her ways. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Eighty women were placed on trial at Grosse llecskerck, Hungary, on the 35th for poisoning their husbands. Constantinoiujs advices of the S5th say that the steamship India, with five hundred Mohammedan pilgrims on board, had been sunk in the .-Kgcun Sea, and that of ail on board only the captain and two passengers survived. At Rome on the 35th the Italian Parliament was opened by King Humbert, who made a speech expressing confidence in the continued peace of Europe. Tiik death of Hon. George II. Pendleton, of Ohio, ex-Minister to Germany, occurred at Brussels on the night of tho 34th, at the age of fifty-four years. Several coffers containing about $30,000 in gold and silver in Spanish pieces dated ltMMJ were on the 30th taken out of the sea near the Island of Andros, in Greece. A stt.aukr from Port-au-Prince arrived at New York on the 30th and reported that five thousand Ilaytians had risen in revolt against l*resident llippoly U>. Messrs. Kkitpi.kr, the famous bankers of Vienna, failed on the SOtli, with liabilities of 3.500,000 florins. Ix a colliery at lloeham. Germany, an explosion on the 38th billed fourteen persons and injured four fatally. At Aldershot, Eng., White's drapery establishment was burned on tbo 3Sth. Loss, $600,000. Brazil on the 39th nit. readopted the old flag, and France recognized the republic. Near Quebec, Can., a storm on the 39th ult. wrecked several houses and barns, and in Quebec houses were unrooted and the electric-light works destroyed, leaving the city in darkness. On the 39th ult. W. II. Harvey, who shot his wife and two daughters last March, was hanged at Guelph, Ont.

LATER. An. the houses of the Montana Legislature met. on the 30th, but adjourned to attend the Mineral Land convention. The political situation remained unchanged. Upon the arrival of ex-Emperor Dom Pedro at St. Vincent, on the 30th, he telegraphed to the King of Portugal, gratefully thanking the latter for his kindness in setting apart the Necessidades Palace for hla use. but declining to avail himself of the ofTer. He would go to his former quarters at the Hotel Hraganxa, he said, and after a few days* rest would go thence to Nice. Frank MacAkthcr, a young lawyer of New York City, the son of Judge Arthur MacArthur, of Washington, committed suicide, on the 1st, by jumping from the limited express on the Pennsylvania railroad between Baltimore and Washington while the train was running at full speed. There is another trouble on hand between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore A Ohio railroad companies on account of cut rates, which may lead to a rate war in Baltimore-Pittsburgh passenger bustness. The Navy Department was informed by telegraph, on the 30th, that the United States steamship Thetis bad touched at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island, en route to San Francisco. Within the last few weeks a gigantic English syndicate has been quietly but rapidly and very aystematicaUy buying up all the acreage property in Ashland County, and the entire northern portion of the State of Wisconsin thatits agents can get options on. The Emperor of Germany has sent to Count Von Moltke a crown of brilliants and the decoration of theOrderof Merit. At the inquest at Long Branch, N. J., on the 90th, on the six victims of the Germania wreck, Major Edward Warden, agent of the Board of Underwriters, declared that the Germania was unseaworthy, and Adolph PUm, one of the crew, testified that the captain fell from intoxication just before the wreck stranded. It is estimated at the Treasury De

STATE INTELLIGENCE. This house occupied by the Montgomvj try County Orphans’ Home has been' remodeled and a lhrge addition erected* Is a collision between two freight' trains on the Nickel-plate road, near Argus, James Wilson, engineer, was fatally crushed and several otherp slightly injured. Os account of the failure of the orfg-' inal purchasers to have their patents from the general government recorded, over four hundred tracts of Mhd in Dubois County have clouded titles. The fact was only recently discovered by the recorder Of that county. ' At Peru, Mrs. Levi Elbertson attempted suicide the other night by the morphine route, but the stomach-pumfc* saved her. Domestic trouble. At Munele while Albert Orgle iraj hunting a natural gas leak with a light-. ed match in the basement of his mother's house, the gas ignited, causing a terrific explosion. The house was l»M>wn to pieces, while Albert was left with but one leg. Ilis sister was also badly hurt and may die. ^ Patrick Mckpkt was terribly burn' " by a natural gas explosion at For£ Wayne.

vhas. m.k.ykr, agoa eignieen, w□iujj out coon hunting with some companions,, four miles below Madison, the other night, was shot and killed by Ollie Rosese. The gun was accidentally dis?' charged while climbing over a fence, the contents entering Keener’s stomach. Tins extensive fruit jar works of Wilson, McCullough & Co., at Marion, were diet roved by Are a few days ago. A okay eagle, measuring six-feet four inches from tip to tip, attacked a farmer named Engelman, near Nashville. After an hour's fight the bird was vanquished.. Thicks was a disastrous wreck the other night on the Nickel Plate roarf^ sixty-six miles from Fort Wayne. Fouji | men wore injured, and one will die. 1 Tiik Crawfordsvillo Electric Light and| Gas Works have been bought by New York, capitalists for $105,000. • * Wm. Morris, of Logansport, was shot in the woods north of that place, by a stranger. No eause is given for the act, and the man has not yet been captured. The second annual memorial exercise^ in honor of Viee-l’resident Hendricks, under the auspices of the club which , hears his name, were held at the grave a few days ago, and were largely attend^] ed. Judge Niblack delivered the address, and the grave was profusely decorated with flowers. Mrs. Hendricks attended and was visiblj^ffected during the exercises. A novel result of the temperance meetings a^Koblesville, is reported. So many havVwgned the pledge and received that the supply of blue ribbon™! the stores of the town has been exhausted. An Indianapolis woman wants her husband sent to the asylum. He objected to spiritualistic seances at his house. Mrs. Eva Smith, daughter of the late Major Isaac Elston, died at Crawfordsvllle from paralysis resulting from the bursting of a' blood-vessel in her right temple forty-etjrht hours previous. She was a sister of Mrs. General Wallace and also of Mrs. Henry S. Lane. Citizens of Fairland have determined that there shall be no more saloons in that place. They have organized and raised a fund for that purpose. At Memphis, Clark County, a band of women have sent a White Cap warning to anchor female to leave town. The last toll road in Bartholomew County, went out of existence as such a few days ago, when the people voted to purchase the Driftwood Valley Pike for 850,000. An effort was made to assist the Mor- | gan gang to escape from the- New Castle | jail the other night, hut it was frustrated j by the vigilance of the sheriff, i Probably one of the largest bicycles ever known has just been finished in i Peru, and is the property of John Ward. ! a man weighing over two hundred pounds and over six feet tall. The j frame is of iron and steel, with a wheel | having sixty-nine-inch diameter. The stallion Atwood, by Almont, owned by J. M. Gwinn, of Rushvillo, and valued at $4,000, is dead. Chas. McClelland was fatally crushed by falling slate in a mine near Harmony. t It is claimed that the oldest living ; member of the Grand Army of the Re- ; public is a resident of Randolph County, ; named Elisha Mills, sr. Tub contract for the superstructure of the new High School building at Marion, has been awarded to F. G. Prail for $30,IKUI

Bedford will be lighted by electrioity. Hi KT Gore, a hrakeman. tell from the top of ajar while his train w» crossing a bridge over the Wabash river at Covington. The fall vaa seventy-five feet and fatal, CoMMUteioxKs Rat-»i has appointed Dr. A. Puchman a member of the Board of Examining Physicians at Fort Wayne. The Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of this State, elected the following officers; Master, C. C, Binkley, of RichhtiMRt'"Qeputy grand master, W. H. •na—t las— Leedy, Of Indianapolis; grand warden, C. Z. "Wiley, of Fowler, grand secretary. U. F. Foster, of Indianapolis; grand treasurer, Theo. P. Haughey, of IndianapolistWilliam Wallacer.John A. Ferguson, John W. McQuiddy, all of Indianapolis, grand trustees; representative to sovereign grand lodge, J.B.C.F. Harper, of Madison. The Rushvllle Trotting and Pacing Association was incorporated there the other day with the following officers: F. J. Ilall, president; J. H. Seed, vicepresident; Chas. F, Kennedy, secretary: L. Link, treasurer. The association has a capital stock of #10,000, and is now constructing a mile track. James E. Sfckeock, a wealthy eiiisen and ex-treasurer of Dubois County, suicided the other morning by cutting his throat with - a razor. No cause is assigned for the rash act. He leaves a large family. A wedmho was prevented at Goshen, by the arrest of the prospective bridehunting near Logansport, the i of William Crist accidentally a heavily-loaded shotgun.the taking effect in the lower jaw, upward, plowing a deep furrow is cheek, cutting away a part of the. , and lacerating his flesh in a most sickening manner. He may but will be disfigured for life. The farmers of Harrison f interesting institute, at Corydon, the day. Prof. Latte, of Purdue, UniProf. W. W. Stevens, of Salem; Robert Mitchell, of Princeton, and others read essavs and delivered i dt|

-FEARFUL HOLOCAUST. Lotion by Firo of the Minneapolis Tribune Building, f" vn Urn Known to Ik Sfintef of l'ertous Mart or Lcn Burned—'Tho Building was Considered ‘'Hrr-Proot“ njjeapoms, Minn., Dec. 1.—Tho tory Tribune building was gutted by <re, which started about half-past ten o'clock last evening, and it is beyond $$tbt that at least seven people perished. This number may be doubled when tho facts become known, it being impossible, owing to the confusion, to Set at tho exV-t truth, as nearly one liWndred people were employed in various capacities on the seventh floor when nhe fire broke out. The Are originated in a law office on the third story of the building. The elevator man noticod the smell of smoke, and called the attention of some of the persons around building to it. The cry of fire was and several persons went down from the seventh story to tnveetiand then returned to work. Before smoko began to fill the narrow ■way—the only one in the building l5*»id every one began to make leisurely pflfparations to leave, no immediate danger being feared. The only esits to thabuilding, which was as usual erroneously supposed to be fire-proof, were a narrow staircase, scarcely wide enough for two persons to come down abreas* the elevators and a single escape in the north end of the building. Several persons had made their escape in the meantime, but in less than ten minutes the flames sought the elevator shaft, which, acting as a mammoth flue, conveyed the fire to tho ■ top story, and soon the editorial rooms in the same side of the uildingwjjgarwthe fire originated were seething mass of flames. In a few inutes it reached the other side, ere tho comp»s#ag*oom was situated, ■general alarm was turned in, and e engines in the city Responded to call. The imprisoned printers gathat the windows!# the south end id shrieked desperately for aid. lurry the ladders!” was the awful rein thst rent tho air. ‘'Hurry the ers, for Clod's sake!” shrieked with icmenoe and power by dozens in ■il of their lives by an awful death, was all they could utter. The vast crowd that from the opposite side viewed the fire do its work shouted words of encouragement to them in strenuous endeavors to. Cheer them up. The long ladder seemed to move at a snail's pace, but was finally rested in position, and the crowd began to descend, the flames making steady encroachments from the corner where the frightened men had huddled like cowering animals. The life nets were brought and some were saved by this means. The entire building at this time, less than an hour after the blaze was discovered, was on fire. High above the hoarse cries of the firemen, the rattle of engines and the stamp of horses, could he heard the agonizing screams for aid sent forth by the crowd of men hemmed in by the swirling masses of flame which surged around the top windows of the doomed building. When the ladder was finally adjusted, after what to firemen, printers and spectators alike seemed an eternity, the employes of the Tribune began to descend. So eager were they toget out of their scorching prison that they would have fallen headlong out of the window and been dashed to pieces dta the sidewalk, seven stories below, had they not been restrained by their mote cool-headed fellows. As it was, however, two of the terror-stricken men broke away from their would-be preservers and dropped from a window to the sidewalk. They were both Instantly killed.

While the work of rescue was .going on from the window where the crowd of printers and others had assembled, Prof. Olsen, presidentof the Vermillion (Dak.) University, met a terrible fate. Mr. Olsen had been spending Thanksgiving here with his brother, and Friday evening made a call upon a friend who was employed in the editorial roonis of theTribune. While seated in his friend's room the alarm of Are was raised, but as investigation seemed to show that no particular danger need be apprehended, both Bat down and resumed their conversation. In a few minutes every body realized the fact that nearly all hope of escape had been cut off, and Prof. Olsen I amPhis friend started for the fire escape leading from the sixth story on which . wen located the editorial rooms. Some of those who were on that floor when the blaze was discovered are of the opinion that the Tribune employos escaped. Prof. Olsen got out of the window all right and had proceeded down a short distance on the fire escape, when from some unknown reason he let go his hold and fell to the sidewalk. A couple of firemen rushed In »nd carried him to the nearest drug store, when it was found that ho was dead, his body bearing terrible bruises and crushed badly by the fall. The printers, meantime, were making their way down the ladder as rapidly as possible. But It is not known, yet whether all escaped. The following is a list of those known to have failed of escape: l*rof. Olsen, of Vermillion University, fell from Are escape. Harry Colwell, compositor in the Tribune office, leaped from a window and was killed.

Slcvuteheon, compositor, Also killed by jumping from the window. James Igoe, telegraph operator. Jerry Jenkinson, compositor in the Tribune office. Milton Pickett, reporter on the Pio-neer-Press, who had been calling on a friend in the Tribune office. Inquiry among surviving employes of the paper goes to show that a number of others have perished either by being burned to death or by leaping from windows, some putting the total number of fatalities as high as twenty. It is impossible as yet to obtain a list of the injured, of whom there are known to be mr-ny. One of the unidentified bodies qt the morgue has since been recognised as that of Patrick Miles, the day Associated Press operator and also the night agent of that company. How be met his death is not yet known. Jimmy Kohl, a messenger boy on the Tribune, is said to be missing.

eight o'clock there was a crowd on hand. Dark and the wall# of the wrecked loomed up in the gray light of dawn, and as the spectators ga: awful fact that frenaied human half-stifled with smoke and singed flames had but a few hours before i the death-plunge from the giddy height to the hard, cruel atone pavement below. seemed to dawn upon them afresh, with all of its terrible force. As the day advanced and the light became more distinct, the completeness of the wreck became more and more evident The upper floors had given way, and their weight, together with the job presses and heavy iron safes, had carried all before them into a confused mass in the basement Mere and, there an Aron girder remained in position, but so insecurely fixed that it appeared that hut a alight jar would be required to send it crashing to the bottom. A few of these girders were bent and twisted out of shape by the heat and the heavy masses that fell upon them from above. It had been hoped that the solidity of the first floor, supported as it was by heavy iron posts and girders, would support the overlying mass and thus protect the presses in the basement. But an examination of tho ruins proved the probable delusiveness of this hope. Every thing had given way before the stupendous weight, and the basement was plied full of the heavy debris. The vanlts in the newspaper offices appeared to be in good condition, and u»'e« the heat was too intense the contents wilt be found to be in a good state of preservation. Tho walls are cracked but little, and in the opinion of Chief Stetson there is no danger of their falling.

Charles A. fmiith, the elevator man on the night service, did very creditable work. He was a new man, having only been in the place since the first of the week. After the fire broke out he made five trips (the last when the shaft was actually on fire), and saved a number of people. Smith says he smelled ftwHfor three-quarters of an hour befortgfhe could find its location. After looking on all the floors he finally felt the heat on the third floor and was about to break in the door of the fateful room when the transom burst and the flames sprang up. He is confident that the fire originated in E. A. Harmon’s office, and worked through two partitions before breaking into the hallway, but this seems wellnigh impossible. Smith is sure that more people were burned than have been reported. He says that about five minutes before the fire was discovered he carried a heavy dark-complexioned lady to the sixth floor. She asked for the editorial rooms of the Pioneer-Press. He did not take her back in the elevator, and ho is sure she could not have gone down the stairway. Smith also says that a tall young man, with a black mustache, shot, himself on the seventh floor, near the composing-room door. Smith was up on his last trip and called to the young man to come into the elevator, but he seemed dazed by the heat and smoke and deliberately drew a revolver anil fired into his own head, falling, as Smith supposes, quite dead. Just before be fired the shot he exclaimed: “My God; my wife and-,” then the bullet did its work. Chief Stetson charges that the loss of life is due to the absence of proper fire escapes. Anton J. Dahl, a book-bin^r, was on an upper floor and is believed now to be among the dead. The following is a complete list of the dead and injured so far as can be ascertained: DEAD. Milton Pickett, assistant city editor of the Pioneer-Press. James F. Igoe, Associated Press operator. Edward Olsen, president of the University of South Dakota, at Vermillion. Jerry Jenkinsou, a printer. Robert MoCutcheon, a printer. W. H. Mitman, commercial editor of the Tribune. Waiter E. Miles, operator and agent of the Associated Press. ixjvred. . William Lawn, printer; burned onhands and face. E. C. Andrews, printer; burned on hands and face. George E. Worden, printer; burnod'on hands and face. Frank Gerber, a deaf mute printer; hands and face burned. Adam Weischmir, printer; hurt about the hips. Charles Alf Williams, managing editor of the Tribane; badly burned about the head and face. W. H. Williams, foreman of compos-ing-room; badly burned about the face and hands. S. H. Jones, Pioneer-Press reporter; hands and face slightly burned; and Frank Hoover, printer; burned about the neck. A Cheerful Oatloek to Lynn, Xu. Lynx, Mass., Dec. 1.—All is Hfe and activity throughout the devastated district again. Nearly every burned firm has built temporary quarters. Manufacturers who are heavy losers by the fire are contributing generously to the relief fund. The committee on relief decided to supply all homeless families with tenements and such articles of furniture as are absolutely necessary. They have ordered % supply of furniture,, bed-clothing, stoves and fuel. There is plenty of food. As soon as the work is systematized there will be no trouble hr securing relief.

A Jealous Kecroe's Knife. Somehskt, Ky., Dec. 1.—Hugh Elliot# has been living with a w oman not his wife for some time^ and a short time ago she left Friday eight he wentj the h*use of Carter Hayden, where 1 found Hayden's wife, Mrs. Easter i daughter and Robert Elliott. He cused them of coaxing the woman an and in a jealous frenay cut the of every one. Three'of the Ticti dying, and the other Is in a crit state. All are colored. The escaped. Florida by the Queen & Atlantic and the Georgia. Solid doir and Pullman szir*

PENT DENIED for I unlike J brittle, lion of i tot a baling ' l says: conspicuous chn produce liis uInstitution of cob . . of bagging, it cotton was especial!; nelt manufacture, i lily inllamn gli, and tb with jute, nt> r cost. He farther old Us value for sucl) | experiment, attend ^curtaining how t iwith a great deal < r.smoothness i .a weight; aud also if to omit the sizing standing its { that the dh was the l by large exp threads should twist so as to i_ hardness and lij that he found It i process, which the threads. The the recent do in Brown vs, Dis the alleged Invention in a j sisted in substituting wooden blocks, laid and Bile way. for blocks of stone, 1 standing the advantage leged invention, and the« It had received, the appllt_tut lag one material for anot her,'onlyd vailed himself of tho resources and knowledge of the weavers’ art; that the experiment and.'-, trials practiced by him were merely along the lines suggested by the skillandoSttprl- *’£ ence pertaining to the calling, lnvolvitl?jlm Intelligent manlpniatron i>f the mat^Ku and that the supposed Invention was not tihK, creative work of the Inventive faculty which % she tuws contemplated to encourage and retard. deity of Mowing Court * (wbeta at con-f-shaped I certaiu _ with- " the ai* plat success , Itrsubstl

THE OYSTER WAR. Bats. upon Sensational Arrest or Two Oyster-Dredg-ing Captains—Great Excitement Among the Oystermen Along the Border lUue— Dismissed with a Small fine. Baltimore, Mtk.Nov. 80.—The American’s special from Readsville, Va., says the excitement among oystermen was intensified yesterday by the arrest of two oyster-dredging captains—Swift of the pungyParks, and Hoadley of the PuniO^Hjj^tor—txith of Tappahannock, V^Kr dredging on Hog Island rtwo oysterers were pounced *the police tug Augusta, Captain Russell, and ordered to surrenders instead they made for the Coan river, the Augusta in pursu^. The police steamer Chesapeake joined in the chase and overtook the pungies. Captains Hoadly and Swift were taken before a magistrate, to whom they exhibited copies of Baltimore newspapers containing the proclamation of Governor Jackson of Maryia throwing the Hog Island flats opej the oystermen of both Virginia. J The magistrate cifScKarged both tains with a small fine. Governor Jackson’s proclamation wa* issued on the strength of the decision rendered by Mr. Whiting, of the United States Coast Survey, that tho flats woro on the Maryland side of the boundary line. There is great excitement among the oystermen. -—-— \ THE NAVY. V Annual Report of Admiral D. D. Dorter, Commanding Officer of the United State* Navy. Washington, Nov. SO.—The annual report of Admiral D. D. Porter, the commanding officer of the United States navy, shows that most of the ships in the navy are in good condition. Tho re • living-ship Dale has a rotten hull. Four vessels? the Antietam, the Juniata, the Pilgrim and the Quinnebaug, nave been condemned and ordered to bo sold for the sums of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $15,000 respectively. The Admiral makes but one recommendation, which is contained in tho following paragraph: It has been customary for reports of exercises on board sbips of war to be sent to me for examination. I have frequently found these reports so unsat Isfactrry, and the regulations to Imperfectly con plied with, that I am of the opinion that they should be made directly to tho Bureau of Navigation, where they would come directly under the eye of the department. Many things which are obsolete are still adhered to in these reports, tha forms for which were mudu twenty years ago. • Since then the system of naval tactics and exercises has entirely changed. 1 therefore beg leave to recommend that under the system about to be inaugurated in the navy, entirely new forms for exercise reports be adopted. T CUTS A BIG FIGURE. A Knife that waa Found on Dan Coughlin when Arrested Just Identllled as Having Belonged to Pt. Crouln.But Almost Too late to Cnt Any Figure In the Case. Chicago, Nov. 3a—Barney Flynn, the officer that took Dan Coughlin to jail the day hia arrest was ordered by Chief Hubbard, yesterday informed his superior officer that at the time of Coughlin’s arrest two pocket knives wore found in his possession, and that at Coughlin’s request he took them to the Fidelity Safety Deposit and locked them up. After a conference of police officials Chief Hubbard visited the deposit vault and secured the knives. It is reported that one of these knives has been identified as having belonged to Dr. Cronin. When seen in regard to tho pocket-knife story Chief Hubbard said: “Yes, it is true. It’s another case, in my opinion, of Clatt-na-Uaol control: And to think that H comes just when it is too late to use. Great God! When will these disclosures cease?” Chief Hubbard would not say who identified ■toe knife, nor any thing fwrther in regard the case. Datkr— Evidence in relation to tho atoove was admitted at the last moment, despite the objections of counsel for th« defense.

u Frederickses In Jfew York. New York, Nov. 30.—It is known to rthe police authorities here that Fred' ericksen, the head of the firm that is accused of land swindling in Chicago and ^pther Northwestern cities, cametaNew York aboat a week ago andr$sited friends in this city and Brooklyn. No demand for his arrest has heen feceived ™ — consequentiy the police are merely keeping track of his its. From information they ", the police believe that _n has no money and that he made the victim of sharpers than himself.