Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 October 1891 — Page 1

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rnoFK«sioxAi. muds. J. T. KIME, M. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, ISO. CrOfflce tn Rank building. first floor. WIN be found at office day or night. hunn* B. rom. Dkwitt q. CHtmu POSEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ikn. _ Will practice In aU the oourts.. 8p ~— — o ' * r— ■ as a» nviw/ Public constantly in tiK. office. -- On first floor Bank Building. : ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, I HD. WOfflcc over J. K. Adams A Son’s drag •tore. Prompt attention given to all bnelness. t P. Richardson. a. n. Taylor RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Lawf Petersburg, Ihd. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in tbo office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. Office over J. B. aS-Offiee hi o’clock p. ui. X. A. Kir. 8. Q. Davenport.

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THE WORLD AT LARGE, of the Dally Neva. viSHDrann The chief of the bureau of statisi reports that the total value of the e: ports of merchandise from the Dili' States during the twelve months ei August <1 was *909.8#*.486. The val of the imports was $839,089,341. The statue of the pope presented tc the Catholic university at 'Washington has been formally unveiled. * Wild rumors were in circulation in Washington that the white squadron and other vessels were to be sent to Chili'but these stories were inconsistent with Secretary Tracy’s .statement that no more vessels were to be ordered thither. - t -«• -V- gy . 1■ *' lx the case of Deputy Marshal Clem Lee, convicted of carry lug a.eoncealed, weapon, Juethfe Large*, of the tlnltiW States supreme court, has handed down a decision that a federal deputy marshal has no right to the possession of a weapon outside of his jurisdiction, even when following a suspected criminal from one state to another. Mr. Foster expresses himself satisfied with the result of the bond continuances at 3 per cent Thk president has commuted to one yew’s imprisonment the sentence of Arthur Campbell, of Utah, convicted of adultery. The original sentence was eighteen months’ imprisonment The secretary of the interior has decided to keep one of the allotting agents for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands on duty in the Indian territory in the field until the small balance remaining of the appropriation of 815,000 is eked out in paying his salary and expenses. By direction of the president a request has been sent to the governorgeneral of Canada for the postpone ment of the reciprocity conference. The reason given for the postponement is the continued illness of Secretary Blaine. Massachusetts democrats have renominated Hon. William F. Russell for governor. * Mott’s cider refinery and storage bouses at BouckviUe, Madison county, N. Y., the largest in the country, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. (X H, VenneR & Co. have announced their suspension. This was a large house in Boston and New York doing an extensive business iu investments and securities. Nine thousand railroad miners of Pennsylvania have struck. General Master Workman Powderly, speaking of the coming presidential election, says the Knights of Labor from all America and the Farmers’ Alliance will hold a congress in Washington February 1, and at this gathering a third candidate will be chosen. There was intense excitement at Houtzdale, Pa., over the closing of the Dill bank at Clearfield and trouble with the old Houtzdale banlc. George William Curtis has again been chosen president of the Civil Service Reform league. Two freight trains were telescoped at Audubon park, New York, on the morning of the 1st, Nine cars of cattle were smashed and the animals killed. A fireman was also killed and several trainmen injured. A lone robber boarded the American Express Co.’s car between Little Falls and Utica, N. Y., and covering the messenger with his revolver took the packages he thought the most valuable and jumped from the train and disappeared in the darkness. Wong Chin Foo, a naturalized Chinaman of New York, has been refused a passport by the state department. It is held that a Chinaman can have no rights of citizenship under Judge Sawyer’s ruling. Typhoid fever is epid emic in Auburn, N. Y. The big Harper woolen mill at Norway, Me., was burned the other night Loss *l00,000i Three hundred job printers and pressmen of Pittsburgh, Fa., have gone on strike. The Connecticut tobaccb market is excited because of the shortness of the crop. The soldiers’ monument at Pottsville, Pa., has been unveiled. Gen. Horace Porter, of New York, delivered the oration. It really was Dr. Mary Walker who bobbed up so mysteriously at the murdered Christie Warden homestead near Hanover, N. II., with a theory that Frank Almy was not guilty. The big sidewheel steamer Northern has been stranded at New Haven, Conn. The following resolution has been adopted with only one dissentient: “That in the opinion of the chamber of commerce of the state of New York the existing law compelling the purchase by the government of 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month is against the public welfare and should be repealed.” A reproduction of S. C. Pratt’s “Allegory of the War in Song” was given the other evening at Madison Square Garden, New York, under the auspices of the Grant Monument association and for the Grant monument fund. The murderer Fitzsimmons, who shot Detective GUkinson, and who recently escaped from the county jail at Pittsburgh, Pa., has been heard from. He sent 81,000 to hie attorney to obtain a new trial for his wife, who was indicted with him, and after his escape found guilty of murder in the second degree. A telegram to the New York Herald says that reported distur bances in Guar tern ala mm pure fa

nu wan. Th* Redding & Alturss express was robbed near Stillwater, nine miles from Redding, Cal., by two high way men It was not known how much they got from the express car. The confederated Irish societies of Chicago have issued an address antagonistic of the convention of the Irish league. J. H. Broady, nominated by the Nebraska democrats for associate justice of the supreme court, has sent a letter positively declining to be a candidate. Fob several days past there has been raging in the “Georgetoivn divide," Eldorado county; the most terrible forest Are ever known in California. It began near Greenwood and fanned by a strong wind has swept over almost the entile stretch of country between Georgetown and Halmon Fal la Dunne a heavy gale the tag Bertha

—--TRahr, one of the state 'air commissioners, was thrown horse at Manitowoc, Wis., ahtl ijuries like ly to prove fatal, on the Cincinnati, Portsmouth A Virginia read, near Peebles, 0„ Frank Colley was intoxicated and boisterous when John Kino asked him to be quiet Colley immediately shot him dead. Four hundred armed men with rifles and shotguns were pursuing Frank and James Jarvis, highway robbers, and an Unknown (lend who assaulted a thir-teen-year-old girl at Augusta, near Carthage, 111. " »/'- • Therm was an exciting contest Jor lots on the opening of the Chandler townsiteon the 29th. The wild rush, it was e&id, was worth a long journey to see. Several fights occurred. An Indian killed a white man and a young woman was seriously hurt by accident Tax Jeffersonville, Ind., police sta--linn mnaiuhtowa up by djmamipJ the Other night The doors and windows were blown to pieces and the stone was cracked. It was thought to have been the result of a plot to kill certain of the police. Dr. Jbnkks, rector of St Paul’s church, Indianapolis, Ind., recently prophesied the world was to end in ten yearn Now bis congregation wants hhn to resign. Tramp S., one of the best known trotting horses in the west dropped dead at the Pueblo, CoL, state fair just after trotting a heat in one of the races. He was owned by James CL Leonard, of Denver, and was valued at 815,000. Michael Davitt has left Chicago for Ireland. Hog cholera is again ravaging South Dakota. Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 2:09 | flat without a skip or break at Richmond, Ind. English debenture holders of the United States Rolling Co., Chicago, have applied for the appointment of a receiver. South Dakota democrats have nominated J. M. Wood, a wealthy cattleman, for congress. The Mille Lacs Indians in Minnesota refuse to go to the White Earth reservation unless the president visits them and adjusts all grievances for the past hundred years. The Chrisman bank, of Paris, 111., has failed. St. Aloysius orphan asylum, Cincinnati, has been destroyed by fire. W. H. Smith, of Minnehaha, has been nominated for congress by the South Dakota independents. There was a notable gathering of Irish-Americans at Chicago on the 1st to consider th$ schism existing in Ireland. A prairie fire west of the Missouri river in North Dakota has burned over a strip of country 300 miles long and 200 miles wide, destroying everything. The fire was started by a buffalo hone picker, who found his calling unremunerative owing to the 'heavy growth of grass. Tub revenue cutter Rush has arrived at San Francisco All the British war vessels have left the Behring sea and the United States steamers Mohican and Thetis will leave in a short time. The Bear will remain until December. A large number of sealing vessels had been “warned” during the season. A daring jail delivery occurred at St Louis on the 2d, ten notorious burglars, sneak thieves and murderers escaping. Simeon Ray, who has been secretary of the St Louis Globe-Democrat company for. the past sixteen years, and connected with the paper for a quarter of a century is dead. ** Another United States deputy marshal has been killed in th&Jndian Territory, William Rogers killing R. S. Taylor in tho Osage nation. » The butter manufacturers of the northwest met in Chicago to arrange for an association to advance the grades of hutjer. Examinations for buttermakers are proposed. Detectives are on the lookout for Abe Standiford, the abscomding banker of Chrisman, 111. The schooner Frank Peirew has been lost in Lake Superior. The crew of nine men perished. Tuk deliberations of the Irish conference at Chicago resulted in a decision to steer clear of the home factions. A motion to support the McCarthyites was voted down. M. V. Gannon, ol Omaha, Neh., was elected president to succeed Fitzgerald.

THE SOUTH. Another Urge care occurred about two miles above Plaque mine, La., taking in a warehouse, the levee and pari ot the public road. A number of horses were drowned. Ei> Powkli. "and Jim Lee per were banged in the jail yard at Gatesville, Tex. December 17, 1689, they murdered and robbed a farmer named Mathias. Cal McCarthy, charged with prise fighting at New Orleans, was acquitted on the ground that it was a glove conThbobore Schwartz, the Louisville banker \vho has been on trial at Shelby ville,Ky., for grand larceny by obtaining money from a depositor when bis bank was insolvent, was acquitted of the charge. Trial on the charge ol embezzling $37,800 from the German orphan asylum was postponed till January 18 next There was a disastrous waterspou! at Elizabeth, near Mammoth Springs, Ark. Cotton and corn were greatly damaged. District Judo it Paschal, of Uvalde, Tex., has refused naturalization papers to B. V. Sanr, who avowed his belle! in socialism. The southern inter-state exposition opened at Raleigh. N. G, on. the 1st Gov. Hold delivered the address. Tht whole town was decorated. The cotton pickers’ strike culminated near Helena, Ark., in the shooting ol two negroes and the banging of nine others Harvey Wattebson, father of Editoi Watterson. of the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal, died on the 1st A generation ago Harvev Watterson was prominent in political Ufa He supported Douglas for the presidency and sided with the union iu the civil war. GENERAL. A sensation been has caused by an article in the Wurzburg Frankisches Volksbtatt a Catholic organ, proposing the disintegration ot the German empire and the re-establishment of the presidency of the emperor of Austria A» eccentric lsdy *“ '* named Courberet

The Teutonic has made the trip frrm New York to Queenstown in 6 days, 21 hours and 30 nr notes, beating previous records by 1 hour Mid *0 minutes. It is reported that the Mendelssohns, finding that they mistook the attitude of the German government, have d«* eided not to take part in the issue of the Russian loan. Great astonishment was caused throughout Europe by the suicide of Gen. Boulanger, which occurred at noon on the 80th on the grave of his mistress, Mme. lionnemaio, at Brussels. The fortunes Of the general had for some time been at au ebb and since the death of his companion last July ha had been greatly despondent. Tax Missouri Pacific passed Its divldend as was expected. The financial statement showed a heo y deficit Lx Matin, of Pari*, says that there h.as been a revolutionary agitation in several provinces of Brazil and that gECO.tyiiaeasin0ks.haa,been caused ther#* by. According to this paper the troops have mutinied in many places The Australian colonies have entered the universal postal union. “ English liberals met in convention at Newcastle on tne 1st The Russian press censor has for* bidden allusion to the famine. Don Carlos, the Spaolsh pretender, now in straitened circumstances, is a frequent visitor to the pawnshop The Santa Fe statement for August including the St Louis &■ San Francisco is: Gross earnings, 88,866,878; increase, *237,477. Net, *1,299,920; increase *127,130. Eight miners were killed near Bridmenne, Glamorganshire, Wales, by the fall of a hoisting car. Denmark has issued a formal notice removing the restrictions on American pork. Nervous strain so worked upon Jay Gould that he had a fit of hysterics in the recent meeting of the directors of the Missouri Pacific Co. when the dividend was passed. An attempt was made recently to wreck Emperor Francis Joseph’s train. Two bombs were exploded under the bridge at Reichenburg, supposed by anarchists. By the collapse of an unfinished tunnel at Orada, near Genoa, Italy, twen-ty-one workmen 'were buried under debris. Seventeen were extricated bnt it was feared that the others were dead. Advices state that the island of Tanna has been visited by a hurricane and devastated by a civil war. Fierce fighting has been going on and two villages have been wiped out of existence. In the midst of the fighting came the fearful hurricane. Two vessels, the Bayre and Amazon, returning from Labrador laden with fish, were overtake^ by the recent violent storm, driven ashore and became total wrecks. The captains and crews, numbering ten or eleven men, were all drowned. The Pennonia, reported lost with all hands some months ago, has been heard from. She was wrecked on one of the islands of the Marshall group May 4. AU on board escaped to the shore and after much suffering reached Apia in safety. The Pennonia was a total wreck. The expulsion of Bishop Dobs from the German Evangelical chnrch has been confirmed. The Rothschilds hare promised *50,000 toward a Russo-Jewisb relief fund. A special prayer is to be said in all synagogues of England on the day of atonement. The situation in the Samoan islands was, according to last mail advices, again uncertain. Mataafa, the ex-king, was a disturber and the German officers are not liked. Some little excitement was caused in Rome by French pilgrims deriding Victor Emanuel’s name and shouting for the pope. A mob gathered and for a time it looked serious nntil the national flag was displayed at the hotels where the pilgrims were staying. A meeting held in Windsor, Ont, favoring annexation to the United States broke np in confusion. Tbe Farmers’ Voice counsels holding corn nntil next spring. Halifax, N. S., lost between $200,000 and *400,0)0 by a fire which broke out in the Morelin planing mUl near the Cunard wharves.

* THE LATEST. Mb. Dhedge. one of tie English Columbian exposition commissioners, says: “I think one grand result of the fair will be to bring about a stronger sentiment of good will between the two countries. If prejudice how exists in any form on either side it is the result of ignorance. The exposition will banish ignorance; it will cause the people of both governments to understand each othei- better, and when they know one another as they ipeally are, the best of feeling will naturally exist.” Sib John Thompson has applied to the governor in council of Canada for power to i mmediately commence prosecution, both civil and eriminal, against those who have been fbund'conspiring to defraud the government. This is in connection w ith the recent investigations before the privileges and elections committee. fi , The president ha*? directed that Chong Sam, a Chinaman, be deported to China as the country “whence he come," notwithstanding the request of Sir Julian Pauncefote that he be sent to Canada, the country from which he crossed into the United States. The first bell that ever rung in America, now the property of the heirs of Padre Bellini, a patriotic priest of Santo Domingo, is to be exhibited at the World's fair,having already reached Washington city. It is about 400 years old. ~ The president has, in accordance with an act paiised by the last congress, prescribed miles providing for a system of examination to determine the fitness for promotion of all officers of the army below the grade of lieutenant colonel. A few y*,rs since Jericho was one of the most prosperous villages in Van Buren county, Mich. On the 8d the last building was wiped out by fire, and its former site is less marked than the ruins of its biblical namesake. The holy synod of 8t Petersburg, has appointed Archimandrite Nicolai, now at Tifiis, to be bishop Of the Greek church at San Francisco, in place of Bishop VI sdimir, who is transferred to % bishopric in Russia. Receipts of wool in Boston, for the

ate news. ah, of Jeffersonville, $300 against his wife that she sold ter of Charles rho strayed Laporte, two weeks by illness, received a telegrttaut few days ago stating that the dead body of his son was found in Milwaukee. % En. Dowble was flogged by White Capa, near Shakerville, Harrison county, the other night. He is a young man and ir charged with getting drunk and abusing his mother. He was given a severe whipping and a promise of more in the fntnre ifhe did not reform. Thk Richmond Gas company drilled a mammoth gas well, eight miles southeast of Alexandria, a few days ago It is almost as large as the Big Alexandria well,- ~~ Later reports from The earthquake show that it was felt quite distinctly in the vicinity of Crawfordsville. At Waynetown the brick walls of the Masonic building were badly cracked by the shock. The street railway system of New Albany will be operated by electric motors within six months. The 80th Indiana regimental association held a reunion at Hagerstown and elected Gen. Wm. Grose president and Benjamin S. Parker, the poet author, and his wife, of Newcastle, honorary members. Geo. Lewis, of Evansville, went to sleep on the railroad tracks in a drunken stupor, and was chewed to pieces by a locomotive. Adah Hess, while working at a sawmUl in Corydon, fel&against the saw and was killed. The westbound limited mail on the Pan handle road struck a carriage near Centerville, in which were Joseph Black, his wife and two daughters. Black, his wife and one daughter were instantly killed and the other daughter was fatally injured. The Black family was on the way to attend the Cambridge races. At an election a few days ago Monro® City was voted dry by the temperance element. The drought dried up Indian creek, in Floyd county, and fish are dying bjr the thousands The peach season has closed, with shipments from Madison by railroad of 163 car-loads, averaging 530 bushels to the ear, besides immense shipments by river. Bloom riEi.D decided to put down $8,000 worth of good streets Hot weather caused the Seymour fair to be a failure. Twenty-one deaths from maglinant typhoid fever occurred in the neighborhood of Columbus in eighteen days Since May 1 $.52,000 worth of real estate mortgages have been paid off by Morgan county farmers Mant grapevines at Jeffersonvill. are sa d to be bearing a second crop of fruit this season? John Swisher, an old resident of Yorktown, Delaware county, fell out of a haymow, receiving injuries from which he may die. A party consisting' of one hundred farmers are sconring the woods in Pipe Creek township, Miami county, for a tramp who has been burning hay stacks and insulting women who refused to feed him. Gov. Hovey commuted the sentence of Charges B. Harden, convicted by the Marion county circuit court of larceny, and sentenced to the state prison for two years, to commitment to the reform school. Harden is eighteen years of age. so that if he serves out the requirements of the law he will have a year longer than he would have had had he gone to the penitentiary. Human bones have recently been found in the mound known as the ‘'Knoll” on the farm of D. P. Hinderlider, two miles south of Medora. They are supposed to be the bones of an aboriginee belonging t o the race that once peopled that region. Axes, arrows and other relics have been found there before. The place is of peculiar interest on account of the great number of mounds to be found in the vicinity. Mabel, aged 2% years, daughter of Charles Mead, of Lafayette, and a beautiful, bright child, ate “rough on rats” and died. The question of colored children attending the public schools of Charlestown, has been settled by the employment of a special teacher. The new $30,000 opera bouse at Union City will be ready to open about the middle of December. At Crawfprdsville the case of Dr. S. 8. Washburn against the Big Four for injuries received while going to Chicago to attend the last Democratic national convention, was decided the other day, after being in the courts for several years. He sued for $10,000, and the road offered him $200, but he refused to settle for that figure. The jury returned a verdict awarding the plaintiff $10 damages. —

Peaches weighing 11K ounces were grown st Lafayette. Dr. Gatling, of the destructive machine gun fame, is about to manufacture a new kind of heavy siege gun, at Marion, where he wiltestablish a great plant. Thk Novelty iron-works, of Buffalo, will move to Anderson in the near future.. Thk Commercial club of New Albany decided to postpone itB industrial parade until next spring. ' John A. Lister, a sawmill workman at Evansville, was pierced through the abdomen by a huge splinter and died soon afterward. Sarah Robinktt, daughter of L. Robinett, of New Washington, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire at a stove. Conrad Fritz, of Rossville, has sold 30,003 cucumbers at 8& cents per one hundred, and has several thousand left The special grand jury at La Grange, called to investigate the death of Sherry Hughes, found an indictment against Martin Hall, charging murder in the first degree. Mrs. Annie Hamlkr, of Kokomo, has sued Elmer Nuding, of Elwood, ft* $5,000 damages, for breach of promise. William Kelly broke away from Officer Bass at the jail door, in Anderson, and made a break for liberty. He climbed a fence, but was brought to a halt by a shot that pierced both his thighs John Bertress, JIHHML P™*** tected Henry MeElw.in applying a arsas*’ The latter's friends lag, trat wore far* and fired a '*» bowels. * r® lynch, i tmtU

DEATH qp THE RIVER. debt Persons Killed mm* m Down Injure* by an Explosion on- the To* ChnHee Parker on the South Branch of the Chicago River—Many of tie FatalRIee Among People who Lined the Shore Watching the Operation! of the Tag in Releasing a Grounded Propeller. Chicago, Oct 8.—Eight persons were almost instantly * killed and a dozen others injured, yesterday afternoon, by th« explosion of the tug Charles Parker in the south branch of the river near Archer-avenue bridge. Three ‘of the dead belonged to the crew of the beat while the others were by-etenders who were killed by flying debris. The Parker, together with the tugs Van Schaack, Perry and Schields, had been working all day endeavoring to free Ike propeller H. 8. Packards, which had grounded in the south draw of the bridge. They had puffed and pulled away almost in* cessantly until shortly before 5 o|clock when, with comparatively little steam the boiler of the Parker explodedColumns of water were thrown into the air, falling upon the other tugs, drenching and blinding the crews. A moment later, the debris showered upon the ground on either side of tho river. Pieces of broken iron and woodwork fell upon the docks and tho streets. At the time Archer avenue near the scene of the accident was crowded. The noise of the explosion and the falling wreck cansed a terrible panic. When the spectators partially recovered their senses it was discovered that eight persons were dead, while many more were injured, some of them probably fatally. The dead are: Mrs. Mary Rice, aged 23, of 3013 Archer avenne; head crushed by falling debris. Barbara Rice, 18 months oil, daughter of Mrs. Rice; head crashed. Samuel Sawyer, aged 91, switchman fcr the Illinois Steel Cb. Bartholomew Cnrtin. aged 10, of 3233 Pauline street; struck on head by an iron bolt. Jones B. Carter, captain of tho tug, married; body not yet recovered. J >hn C. Meore, of Highland Park, engineer of the tug; body not yet recovered. Samuel Armstrong, of Manistee, cook of the tug; body not yet recoveired. Unknown man, killed by piece Of the furnace door; about 30 years of age, dark complexion, brown mustache; body at Klaner's morgue. The injured are: Jos. Cullen, 390 Ma man of the Parker? will die Henry Bell, linesman < badly scalded. Frank Wagner, street; arm broken. Joseph Boraarack, 809 South Ashland avenue; skull fractured; may die. George Jnell, captain of tug Van Schaack; leg and hack braised. Louis Demaas, linesman of the Van Schaack; back injured. James Cunningham, cook of the Van Schaack; htSWT cut. ,• —* A. Manusus, fruit dealer: hip injured. Edward Mahoy, both knee caps badly injured. Bichard Powers, 10 years old, hurt about legs. John Norton, 12 years old, slighly hurt When the feeing of fright caused by the catastrophe had passed away, the spectators crowded around the spot .vhere lay the body of Mrs. Rice, her little daughter and the unknown tnan. Mrs. Rice lay on her side, her face crashed and bruised, while-blood poured from her mouth, pose and ears. By her side lay her little daughter. The fate of the two was peculiarly sad. Before the explosion Mrs. Rice had been standing on the south side of Archer avenue, holding the babe in her arms and in endeavoring to escape when the crash came, her skull was crashed by a piece of iron. At the same moment her little daughter was struck on the head by a piece of the furnace door. On the other shore, Bartholomew Curtin and Bichard Powers, boys aged 10 and 12, were standing watching the tugs. Curtin was struck on the head by an iron holt and fell to the ground. His skull had been cut open and the brains were oozing out when he was picked up. Young Powers was also struck by the flying missiles and injured.

As the air cleared after the explosion, the Parker was seen rolling slowly and settling, stern foremost, into the water. A moment later Jos. Cullen and Henry Bell, were seen strngglingin the water. Life lines were thrown to them and they were helped on board one of the other tugs. . Cullen’s flesh was almost parboiled, and in clinging to the life ropes the skin was torn from his hands. The explosion was a peculiar one. The fatalities on shore in each case r occurred some distance from the wrecked tog and in places where the victims would seem to be in almost perfect safety. The almost unanimous opinion oi vessel men is that the explosion was caused by the filthy water in the river. It is so full of grease and dirt of every sort that when it gets into a boiler it foams up just like soap suds, which makes it very dangerous The Fall of Jericho. Decatur, Mich., Oct 5.—A few years since Jericho was one of the most prosperous villages in Van Buren county. Saturday the last building was wiped out by fro, and its former site is less marked than the ruins of its biblical namesake. A Bad Wreck Ceased by Stupidity. Chicago. Oct 4.—Through the stupidity of John Thomas, gateman at the junction of the Illinois Central and Lake Shore roads, near Grand Crossing, yesterday morning, a freight train on the latter road ran into the New Orleans limited on the former line, severely injuring Thomas C. Lee, a mail clerk, and making a wreck which do layed traffic for some time. Lee wat hurt about the head and legs, and was taken to his home at Central in, III After the collision Thomas fled, and uf to a late hour yesterday afternoon had not been arrested._ The Coming Mining Congress. Denver, Col., Oct, 4.—The executive committee of the Mining congress bat issued a call for a convention to be held in Denver, November 18, 19 and 30, on the occasion of the dedication ol the new mining exchange building. I sets forth the fact that grave s affecting the mining and inns,u,cui world are to be discussed. Among these are mentioned the investment of domestic and foreign capital; « desire to elevate the mining industry ‘rom dtsgrawful speculation to a lag!imate Standard; a Stocks, ety

SLOATS SOLILOQUY. 5 am bat a Utile FassjW; puivs t»« b«*r. Tint is wStj- U>a tiBesspiROied - . Huptwiit-d to ‘Thrusangl DM jm thWc '-tm l ahe aid 1*1 Great Soottl , ti dm -Tom Piatt wkc bow»« it* Mat's abut mite ami all the otter fellows Were aoi iis tt. Rat'! They'd a uoifea that tba sirens Wasb't Plait's t twssreaee Uke that Is wretched; Thar woatd refer tte ‘Po <3® a gerertsor tike Thomas Art i me too! 1 am willing so be haltered; I'm net that Xtoa »*»'« always aayins U6 and Plait! ®f eeerae I’m not; fm a Hut that'* i-onutwhat chlttered Op, Slat a till Hltf> knows on Wfci;h side his bread ta buttered. Orf get there, bet yoar bottom. Dollar i’tl be seen Jfel' lre my creator lick the Flatter cteani Iff* arc -geckhsK now to captor* AH too rote: TT1U you please to drop a ballot In tisaSlant J 1 am fcot a little Faascti; Platt's the bung: That is why the unexspijoted napaoEcd to Chemung! —N. Y S an. SOUND CURRENCY. I Striking eretrews Between and. Republicsu Principles, Two political conventions, one republican and one democratic, met the liber day in two states—the former in Massachusetts, the latter in New York —and made a formal declaration of the principles of their respective parties in regard to the currency. It is profoundly significant that these two declarations were, in almost identical language. in favor of honest money and against every form of depreciation. It is still more significant that the language in which the republicans of Massachusetts and the democrats of New York made their declaration was substantially the language of the president of the United States upon the same subject. The most obvious effect of this striking agreement between the two great parties is that it is sure-^ so far as anything in politics can be sure —to take the question of the currency unt of the field of political struggle in the national elections of nest year. Since both republicans and democrats have resolved that every dollar issued l.y the government shall be as good as very other dollar, there Is nothing in he direction at further currency legisfor them to dispute about iticn of the republicans in east where they still >bity and eom- ^ Sidy fixed for iheinXwith great courage.and „ with admirable precision ad completeness of statement, had laid own the doctrine which they were ound by every consideration of party spediescy and by honor to adopt, .nything" different, and certainly anyling less, would have been on the one and an open or covert declaration of ostilUy toward the administration, ud on the other “hand would have iven the party in two. The deliberate nd grave words of Mr. Harrison at Alany were the official leader of the spnblican party to the mischievous nd senseless utterances of the repubcan conventions in Ohio and Pennsylania. Until they were spoken no one juld say what would be the course of i»e party on this question. Men were mnd saying that the next congress •onld pass a f re e-coinage bill and resident Harrison would sign it. Bat ihen Mr. Harrison had once declared •!th all the weight of his authority in lie party and in the government that every dollar issued by the government, whether paper or coin, should be s good as every other dollar," the pol:y of hri party was irrevocably setled. Very different was the situation of he democrats of New York. The great lody cf the representatives of that arty in the last congress, and most of Is senators, had voted for a free coinge bill. The democratic convention ,f Ohio and that of Kentucky had delared in favor of free coinage. These cts were sound evidence of a strong entimer.t in the party. Against them vere to fee set the firm and simple dec3ration of the late democratic presilent, Mr Cleveland, and the known entimeni of the business men of the tale of New York. It-is. not surprisng that a policy of evasion andecomiromise should have suggested itself » that it should have found an advoate in sach a leader as Gov. Hill. It is o the credit of the sagacity at the eaders of the New York democracy hat in a situation of this sort they saw it once the dnty and the advantage of , policy absolutely beyond misundertanding. Referring to the past, they ay: “Ws notv, as then, steadfastly adiere to principles of sound finance. Ve are against the coinage of any debar which is not of the intrinsic •slue «r every other dollar of he United States.” And, as if they vere resolved that there should be no hance for auv *a«h trickery as that of he Fifty «rst congress, they proceed o denopace the Sherman silver law, ‘under which one-tenth of onr gold took has been exported and all our silver ontnut is dammed up at home.” It is impossible to exaggerate the effect of this declaration. It banishes he free coinage issue, not only from he campaign in th'a state this year, lut practically from the presidential lampaigtt of naxt year. It leaves the ield clear for an honest fight on the inestion of tariff reform and removes ,he most serious obstacle to the triimph of that reform. And, above all, t gives assurance to the business men ind the worklngucn of the country hut the harvest of prosperity now aplairenfcly awaiting them shall not be flighted by financial folly—N. Y.

A SENSATtDNAL ISSUE. Mi Head (HT lk« K>r.'Uc»'i 8*I»9h»« tJ itu from Maine. A Washington correspondent reports a republican politician who took a prominent part in the last campaign as saying that before the dost presidential %bUt vrUl be necessary to interest the people in a more “sensational” issue than that ©I the tariff it the republican* a«* to go into the contest with any hope of winning. According to this politician the prelection issue cannot ho relied on so hold the republican rotors, since tt has been p eally nbartdiMnsd by one of their poimlar J^eiftwe, The oevy aad sensational issue, aecording t<; this. parly schemer, is to i« annexation---Csnsti.a, Mexico, no matter what m that the prfae looks huge. He latitat that, the talk about the pyiahasa oiiSfc :.Vhomm, am a&ue*atit*s treaty wjtfe the HawaHw iKlandb, mi the lib*, }m fete* ias%ht®4 fitom .,Hi«

mbits opinion and gptUing things ready for the sudden springtitg of the * atonal issue before snow flies. And according to tie same authority Blaine is not “in it.” The president is ■arming the state department dnring Blaine’s absence, and is getting ready ;o spring this issue an one of bis own invention, and a great deal bigger and Better one than Mr. Maine's littie ro* ;iprocity issue. In short, the stoiyr ia that Mr. Harrison means to out jingo lingo Jim and beat the great sensation11 republican statesman at his own lame of sensationalism. It m an interesting sltory aa it stands, but It is hardly to be aseepted without some grains of salt Mr. Harrison is not generally supposed lo be the kind of man to play such risky political games or to try conclusions with such an adept as the Maine statesman in tha practice of the art sensational. Besides, the assumption upon vrhicb the whole story rests is that in going into the small business of reciprocity with tlio poorest customers Mr. Blaine has abandoned protection as an issue. He has done nothing of the hind, as he has said himself. He has only proposed to enlarge the territory in which the American tariff beneficiary can collect bis toll. That is alL No doubt many of the McKinley politicians would he glad to get Mr. Blaine out of the way, and still more glad to arouse the people with some bogus sensational issue next year, and prevent them if possible from having a chance to express tbeir opinion squarely on the McKinley system af spoliation. These -worthies would be glad enough to make the president a party to this little game, and they are no doubt playing ,oa his ambition to that end. But if Mr. Harrison has the boldness god recklessness to play the band he has been gre atly misjudged by his countrymen.—Chicago Herald. DIFFERENT NOW. He Republican Candidate and Ills T of Prowlers. Time was when a candidate on the •publican ticket went before his contituents with the party platform uner .hi« arm. and, following a long-es-iblished custom, pledged himself to ertain measures more or less of a reBrmatory nature. But that time has assed—in Pennwl vania at least row down in thb Keystone state, hen a cgndidat»|js presented to his riends, he does not say he is going to langnrate this or that reform. He onlines himself tfl a solemn pledge Bat he will iry not to rob the state of ss millions, will try his level best to e honest and attempts to impress upn his hearers that, he has sufficient >ural character to overcome tempta-( ion. Tbns do we hear the republican andidate for city treasurer down in ’hiladelphia define his position. But e goes further, as will be seen in this xcerpt from bis letter of acceptance* I further desire tossy.to you and to the pubic at largo that I havo not given to anyone ay pledge or pledges other than those wbleh : now make, to do my lull duty in the highest ad best sense ol the word, sad if sleeted I rill not protect or cover up anything la «r perlining to the offlee. past, present or fnture, Mrs o my whole duty In a tearless, honest and lmartial manner, so as to warrant at the end of m ly term the approbation of my fellow eltlsens. rhich I will faithfully strive to merit and hope 9 receive. The “Thou shalt not steal” cainiaign started by the democrats will :lut the market with republican pro-, essions of honesty. The last repubican treasurer of Philadelphia made imilar professions. During the next ifteen years he will stick to his word -and the penitentiary. — Chicago * ’ ‘3 > « PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

--The ridiculous republican yam that the English Cobdeu club bad collected a fund of a million to defeat McKinley in Ohio is authoritatively denied. It deceived very few people.— Boston Globe. ' -Iowa republicanism is in a bad way when McKinley lias to be taken from his own dubious campaign to brace up the wavering Hawkeyes. An ultra-protectionist is a poor proselytet in Iorva.—Omaha World-Herald. _The Blaine yells emitted by the Nebraska republicans almost made the Harrison corporal’s guard in Washington vanish in a mad panic. The disgust about the white house is thick enough to gather up with scoop shovels—Kansas City Times. _The Harrison administration has thus far paid only #15,000,000 of the overdue bonds. It has asked and received further time, on #35,000,000, and it is still trying to get further time on •the #10,000.000 overdue and not yet arranged for.—St Louis Republic. -McKinley’s ‘‘American tin-plate industry” in Ohio is likely to die election day. A World correspondent has investigated the Piqua deception, by which a little mill, a little melting pot and one hundred pounds of tic are made to Berve as a great enterprise called into being by the all-beneficent McKinley bill.—Boston Globe. _The republican candidate for governor of New York insists that state issues should subordinate national issues in the campaign here. The republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts insists that national issues should subordinate state isSnas there. Republican policy seems to be a matter of geography. — Brooklyn Eagle. , , - -“Star Route" Dorsey has joined Steve Elkins in prophesying that Blaine will be the next nominee of Ms party. There seems to be little doubt that a stray vote taken among the men who • | at different times have too tottered ! upon the narrow lane that divides epnblican polities from the peniteniary would give the author of the, Jnlligan letters a decisive majority.— ihicago Times. -The Boston Home Market dub las sent fifty thousand documents )nto Ibio to help McKinley. One of the q n ocuments has for its” title: ‘‘Wage iarners and How They Are Affected >y the Tariff.” If there is anything ihioh can give comfort to a McKinley* epnblican in a document having that tame it must have been written by ome subsidised dreamer who has not ead the daily papers for the lastaix nontha—N. Y. Times -If Maj. McKinley were a «mjientions man he would denounce toe was perpetrated in his *0,0. He is now at Fraud which making of pi see and been so e? trated by the deliberate triek to in Ohio. Wm exposed and so-called