Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 February 1892 — Page 1

). L. MOUHT, Editor aad Proorietor. Our Motto is Honest- Heirotion to Hrlijciples ef kighu OFFICE, om J. Petersburg, Indiana, Wednesday. februArT 24,1392 VOLUME XXII NUMBER 10.

Attorneys at Law* Pktersbuko, Ini>. Prompt attention given to all business. A Jtotary Pobl.-e constantly in tho office. office Jn Carpenter hnlldtng, Klglith and Main. MKNTISTRJT. - W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND, Office in r6oms6 and 3 in Carpenter BuildIn*. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anesthetics used tor painless extraction of teeth. L H. LaMAR, Will practice in l*iko and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night aa-Disenses of Women and Children a specialty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S„ PETERSBURG, IKD. Owing to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case ot instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all diseases of Horses and Cattle st7cch;svSJ*,ux,i,y. . He also keeps on hand a stock ot Condition Powders and Liniment, which be sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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THIS TAPER 18 ON FIIJS IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. I. KELL066 NEWSPAPER CO. ntUSTECS* NOTICES or OFFICE day. ATOT1CE 1. hereby siren that I will attend |I to tbe duties of the office of trustee of ay township at Union on EVERY SATURDAY. AH persons who hare business with the IBce will take notice that 1 will.attend to nslness on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. OTECE Is hereby siren to all parlies Ini terested that I will attend at my office Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, transact business connected with the of trustee of Lockhart township All ha v ins business with said office will take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. E Is hereby siren to all parties eoned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY. ttend to business connected with the of Trustee of Monroe townsblp. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. is hereby siren that I will be at r residence EVERY THURSDAY b (tend to business connected with tbe J Trustee of Logan townsblp. osltlvely no business transacted ex's office days. SILAS KIRK. Trustee.

WORLD AT LAME. of the Dally News. to! WASHINGTON NOTES, i house ways an 1 means commit ts ordered reports on bills placing binding twine and cotton bag- ■ On the free list W. McCusb, of the Farmers' Al* addressed the house committee culture in favor df the anti-op-bill on the 16th. W. AUlkSton, the noted Chicago , Opposed anti-option bills before sate judiciary committee the ^rday. honse committee on public i has agreed to recommend an i in the Kansas City appropria>83.000,000. 8. Brown, a miller of Fostoriu, In his remarks before the honse |mitteo on agrieultttre said that any option bill should be made unt1 operative on all and should not |riminate. Chief Justice Fuu.br declares >r oldest daughter was married an Remo to Colin C. Manning, of Carolina, with her full consent, i apparently on her deathbed. honse ways means oommit|ias decided to call up the tariff the first week in March. This (delay action on the silver bill : president has appointed Frank am on, of Oklahoma, to be comaer from Oklahoma to the I's fair rice John IX Miles, re- ; report that United States Miniseid had resigned is denied at the [ department It is 6aid on excelauthority that he has agreed to ’his diplomatic service until a ity treaty has been concluded an France and the United States. THE EAST. ' The report that there was a leather combine is denied by the dealers in New York. Corrett, the California pugilist, nominally knocked out three men before a huge New York crowd the othfci night, but many charge that it was all a fake. The New Jersey house has ordered an investigation of the recent coal roads combine. Boston, artists are excited because they have been slighted in the world’s fair jury. An Allegheny, Pa-, tailor was found with two bullets through his heart and one through his brain. The authorities sav it is suicide. Because she was unable,to give him money a tramp out off thebairof Daisy Kane, aged IS, near S.ottdalc, Pa., recently. The Pennsylvania republican association. formed to defeat Senator Quay’s re-election within party lihes has issued an address to the people of that state. An explosion of molten metal occurred at MeConway, 'Torley & Co-’s foundry at Pittsburgh, Pa., recently, terribly burning Patrick O’Brien, George Thomas, Josef Mofsk, Anton •fle&mki-nnd Anton-ScMrti** Fire in the extensive works of the Tygert-Allen Fertiliser Co. at Greenwick Point, Pa, recently destroyed most of the buildings, causing a loss estimated at $50,000. Rev. Father Suite, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been charged by members of his congregation with drunkenness, immorality and attempted murder. Between fifteen and twenty wolves made their appearance io West Seneca, a suburb of Buffalo, N. Y„ and women and children are afraid to go out ol doors. Dunham Withers, the “sage of Brooklyn,” as he is known in the turf world, died the other day. Relatives of Walter B. Earle, of New York, allege that his death was due. to the bi-chloride of gold treatment and will bring suit. The Massachusetts republican state convention has been called to meet April 1,_

TUB WEST. There has been a great rush to take up sapphire ground along the Missoivr' river near Helena. Hedspeth the train robber arrived at St Louis. Mrs. Sly was released oc her own recognizance. Chari.es Doubuccheck, of Leadvitle, Col., started out in a storm. Be was lost and frozen. His boy searched for hi-n and perished. The highbinder war in San Francis co has broken out again The other night Leong Chnn was fatally stabbed by Loni Fook. The coroner’s jury in the case of the Morton family poisoned recently at Salem, 111, rendered a verdict that death was caused by poison placed in the flour by an unknown party. Ex Senator James G. Fair, of Nevada, has made a - will bequeathing $500,000 to charity, $300,0^ to the Catholic orphan asylum in memory 01 his late wife, $201,000 to the Protestant orphan asylum of San Francisco and $10ff,000 to the Hebrew orphan asylum. In Ottumwa, la., the other night two witnesses against jointists were badly beaten by thugs. Dr. 0. A. Macy, of Guthrie, Ok., has been arrested for forgery by raising a check. Nebraska has started nearly 2,030,003 bushels of corn for shipment to Russia. v The wife of Gen Booth of the Salvation army was given a reception in Chicago recently. Among those present were ex-Senator and Mrs. Farwell and Potte* Palmer and wife. The Minnesota democratic convention to elect delegates to Chicago haa been set for Mareh 3 at St Paul. The text of the letter of Judge Ducne, of Ohio, in regard to the coming Catholic congress has been made public. Much of it is an attack on Arehbishop Ireland. A rich copper And has oeen reported from Washburn, Win A rocf -YEAR-ou> daughter of Senator Lewi-, while playing in a yard at Pc Moines, la, recently, crossed a cistern, when the hoards broke and damped her into seven feet of water, en feet from the top. John Green, us near plunged himself and the fifteen minutes

Mrs. Chippki.a, said to bo the largest woman, in the world, and wbo was to have boon exhibited at the world's fair, died recently a t Dog's Lake Indian reserve, 100 mites from Winnipeg. She was 46 yearn old and six feet high, and weighed 750 pounds. A representative body Of westerh North Dakota farmers have formed this Wehtdrn Missouri Stock Growers’ association and have sent for brand books. ■tiTAbllA Toirtoi, daughter of Count Tolstoi, of Russia, has sent a letter to a Chicago lady stating that assist ance 4n feeding Die starring would be gladly received. At the national butter makers' convention in Madison, Wis., recently H. J. Noyes, of Richland City, Wls., was elected president; E. J. Bnrridge, Holly, la, secretary and H. E. Lbyiton, Hudson, Midi., treasurer. A Jfionr occurred at fort Stanton, & 11.. oh the 17th between Mescalero and Lipan Indians, duriug which four men were killed and one wounded. A sale of 28.000 80*68 of pine timber land in Ca'ifornia was recently made. Wtomino has quarantined against New Mexican eattie. — The divorce case of Mrs. James U. Blaine, Jr., was submitted to the court in Deadwood, iS. IX, the other day. An explosive was placed on the track near Paso, Cal., recently and a passenger engine struck it, hut was not thrown from the track. Two young men of Chicago will race across Lake Michigan in Paul Boy ton suits. ____ THE SOUTH. CbtrNtr officials lit Ban Antbhio, T»s. i have been Indicted for misappropriation of funds. Coll. J. B. Simpson, president of the fourth national basic of Dallas; Tex.; fehd h business leader of that city, is a fugitive, With All sorts of crime charged against him. A maniac set fire to the Mississippi insane asylum on the 16th and himself perished in the flames. The loss was 1300.000. I Jambs Stick, a noted criminal at San Antonio, Tex... tore the bandages from his amputated leg and died rather than go to prison. Firs in New Orleans the other night destroyed property in the business center of the town valued at $2,000,000 The real estate men in congress at Nashville, Tenn., have formed a national organisation. James B. Simpson, the Dallas, Tex., financier, alleged to have fled under a cloud, was at Hot Springs, Ark., but has returned home. He denies all charges of crookedness. Electric wires are blamed for New Orleans’ big fire. Gov. Hoeo^of Texas, has issued a proclamation c onvening the legislature in extra session, March 34, f< r the reapportionment of the state, for enforcing the constitutional amendments submitted by the last legislature, for preventing fraudulent railroad bonds, for protection of live stock interests, for prohibiting trusts and for electing a United States senator and for other matters. The actual loss by the fire at New Orleans amounted to $1,109,000 and the "tnsuranee foots up $75,000. The national real estate congress perfected permanent organization on the 18th and elected «.Ulcers. The East Tennessee mining troubles have been settled in favor of the free miners. The democratic factions of Louisian a have practically agreed to submit their differences to a state primary election, the stronger ticket to be the state ticket. The real estate congress will meet next time at Buffalo, N. Y., October 4, 1882. Two blooded Clydesdale stallions in the stables of William Price, at Crawfordsville, Ind., in some way forced themselves from their stalls aud began fighting. One of them kicked and bit his opponent to death and was himself badly injured. A few davs ago six conductors were dismissed from the St Panl city railroad Co. for conspiracy with conductors of connecting lines to turn in transfers wrongfully prepared in Hen of cash fareB collected. The discharged men have brought slander suits aggregating 130.000. _ _ r

London anarchists, arrested-^with dynamite on their jiersons, hare been held in £1.000 bail. A plot to wreck a passenger train of the Pittsbnrgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago road has been discovered. The governor of Florida has issued a proclamation asking' relief for suffering Russians. A fishing boat foundered off Newcastle, England, and fire of her crew were drowned. The German East African management has been hotly arraigned by a newspaper correspondent The Notoc Vremya asserts that the wood from the state forests, which was placed at the disposal of the famine sufferers by order oit the czar, does not go to the poor, but t» the profit of rich peasants who take the logs to build houses while their unfortunate brethren are perishing with cold because ihev do not possess horses to transport fohh ^ Sixtt-bevkn prisoners, who recently participated in the revolution at Chihuahua, Mexico, will be taken squad of aoldiers to the capital Despite the precautions taken tan by the hoard of agriculture to prevent the spread of the foot and mouth disease smong the cattle of England, it appears that evident further trouble foctually stamped out. Attempts to assassinate the disease will before it is efPresident Montt and Gen. Canto, of Chill have flitted. The Russian government has taken steps to relieve disease stricken work to the starving, were attended

A nephew of the late Matthew Ainold. Dr. Howard Arnold, ccmmiited suiyidc with prnfsic acid in a fit of insanity, caused hy grippe and sleeplessness. A strong shock of earthquake has teen ftlt at fcaffarafeo R market tdwil Bf Sicily, twelve miles north of Catani, on the eastern declivi y of Mount .Etna. Several houses at Kaaturk, county Cork, were attacked the other night by “moonlighters,” who fired a number of shots at the doors and windows. A monster moss meeting was he’d at the Prt gresso theater, Monterey, Me*., the other day to express the popular will of the suffragists of the state of N iters Leon for Gen. D'os’ re-election to the presidency. Tan North German Uoiette says Chancellor Caprivi is usidg oil energies to get the education bill passed during the, present session of the diet so R ; to prevent it being used for politidal capital in the elections to be held in 1898. Thk United Workmen of Canada have noted not to secede from the United States supreme order. The Austrian war minister has issued a decree enjoining the officers of the army to take the men of their respective commands to church at least once a month. Thk French ministry resigned on the 18th as the result of an adverse vote in the chamber of deputies. Thk oldest daughter of United Statefi Chief Justice Fuller was married in Italy recently to Colin C. Manning, sod of eX-Gov. Manning, of South Carolina Edward Parker Deacon, an American, shot and killed a Frenchman who had ruined his home. The tragedy occurred in a hotel at Canoes, France. Thk long talked of Balfour Irish local government bill was intr&dueed in the British house of com cons on the 18th. Irish members and liberals hotly opposed it * Eighteen men of the bark Tamerlane were Host in the wrecking of the vessel on one of the Sandwich islands. Honolulu papers of February 9 state that the elections of February S passed off quietlv. The national reform party elected all of the five nobles on the island of Cahu, while the liberals elected all the representatives in Cahu, except in the first district Bush, Wiloox and Ashford were elected. Those interested in the limestone industry, have made complaint that an injury has been dine br statements made in the census bulletin. Advicks received from Fort Alesio, the capital of the stats of Ceres, Brazil, state that disturbances occurred in that state and that the people of the capital drove the governor from the city. Thk prince of Wales has decided to close his connection with the tnrf. All bis entries have been cancelled for three months. He bod several remarkable horses in the training stable and a handsome return was expected for the first time in the history df hii stable. Reports to Dun & Co. of general* business in the various trade centers make a good showing. Iron is, however, weak. Details of the revolt in Cera, Braail, show that the overthrow of the governor was accomplished only alter desperate fighting. Mr. Deacon, the American who shot the destroyer of his home dead in Coynes, France, the other night has been held without bail. The guilty wife is th9 daughter of the late A dm. Baldwin, U. 8. N. if

Mr John Jay Knox airing the last five years of his life had been engaged upon a history of banking in the United States which was about pady to go to the public at the time of his death. Mrs. Knox will carry oat the plans of her husband by an early publication of this, his last and most important literary work. Tbs whisky trust is backing a syndicate which will endeavor to secure control of all the breweries in Chicago belonging to the English syndicate. Tub National Press, of Dublin, in an editorial on the new Irish local government bill, says: "The bill is a beggarly account of meaningless provisions. It is like a Japanese toy, a succession of empty boxes within one another." Great Britain and Ireland have been snowed under. The weather was the worst ever known. THE LATEST. Juan Antonio Tlokjcs has been arrested iu San Antonio, Tex, by a deputy marshal and placed in jail charged with violation of the neutrality laws. He is said by the officers to be Catarino Garza’s chief lieutenant, and is one of the wealthiest ranchmen of the llio Grande. “Juan Antonio Flores'* is the name signed to the fiery revolutionary proclamations which were scattered through the troubled districts. A meeting looking to a monetary conference was held at Secretary Foster’s residence in Washington on the 89d. Secretary Foster, Senator Teller, Senator Aidrieh and other prominent public men, representing both sides of the silver question, attended. Prince Alexander of Battenberg, now more generally known as Count liartenau, has made formal application to the emperor of (Austria for permission to accept a pension of 50.000 francs a year recently voted him by the sobranje of Bulgaria. Aaron Hamacher, a keeper in the state prison at Jackson, Mich., convicted of furnishing clothing to several prisoners and assisting them to escape, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment—the fnll limit of the law.: Lewis Buffin and Alice Colton, both colored, have been arrested at Hillsboro, N. C., charged with pouring rosin over Miles Toomer, a yonng negro, while he was asleep on the ground and setting it on fire, causing his death. Tint Boston Journal says it is known that Mayor Matthews has deckled to veto the prder passed by the common council for an investigation of the it Of the city institutions on ■ States Senator Henry > of New Hampshire, who has »ted as an advocate of Preali for a renomination, has 1 himself a presidential eandi

Fred Stewart, knocked bit teacher down v. E NEWa Kokomo, i a chair tai t’bRrfe citizens are worked against the 2, insurance companies f< failure to pay their losses in the Kites & Scott fire, Charles Carr, the Valparaiso hoy murderer, feas been released from the. Michigan City pen. „ Indiana }has engaged quarters for 1,500 members of clubs at the democratic condition at Chicago Newton {Hamilton, of Wilsei, fell frtan a thirty-five foot scaffold at the Uaught-KjCHjs steel-mill, in Anderson, and was picked up unconscious and fatally injured ThE Park f’iace Natural Gas Co,, Hi Anderson, the Other day, drilled in one of the best gas wells yet Attained id that field. ' The well is but 810 feet deep and seventeen feet in Trenton rock. The Row is perfectly dry and the capacity plkced at 10^000,000 cubic feet per day. | Miss Ida Quick, of Brookline, waa found dead on a sofa in her home, with a rifle ball ’ whether^ After the John county, H i gas wa plied to strong gas was ir head. It is not known snicided or was murdered >men had felled a tree on Abrell farm, in Delaware said the smell of natural and a match was apstnmp. Immediately a sprang up, showing that ig through tjus grain of the wbod ' E. A. TuaatLElt, a Columbus school teacher, bitffijppcd, leaving a number of unpaid debt? Sam Miu.er firas jailed at Muneip fob ,id:|eV*; _AiSus eras„____ forging a, bfind man’s name to mtpy orders. -W 'fc NatcrA* gas has been struck wiWtn four miles Of Richmond .' ■ V The Anierson rolling mill will he located at Murjcie. * John Krarnkoan walked but of the Lawrcnceburg ja£ in the absence of the sheriff, some one having unlocked the door- vf #■ *, ~ Mate Chapman, of uB Albany, went to th£ penitentiary fur fire years, a few daysago, it being his thud term. He had alio served one term in Kentucky. ; , - Since a union'revival of all churches in Jeffersonville, conducted by Dixon Williams, the Methodist Church has had ninety-three new accessions}, the Christian, fifty- dne, and 150 haveffonC to the Presbyterian, Southern Methodist and St. Linens* German Reform. A revival is Friends’ Church in i preaching of Rev. lass, the Quaker Moines, la. fine persons united sons have be con and are coming progress at the ige, under the fohn Henry Dopg* : svangelist, of-files indred and forty the church. Perdeeply interested, miles around to hear the preacher, who is said tA he one of the most effective evangelist workers among the society of Friends. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, wife of Judge* Gray, deceased, of Osgood, aged eightyfive years, has cheated the dentist twice during her lifetime, as the third ance and are protruding through the hardened gums A prominent young lady named Cordie Hall committed suicide at Cbristney. She took strychnine, and died without giving any reason for the act. There is a mystery in connection with the affair that has not been explained. Lorenzo Williams, a young man of Anderson, died at his home Sunday afternoon. Last Monday he fell in a

trance, ana upon awakening, saia to bis friends that he was going to die. Later in the week he told those at his bedside he would leave this world at S o'clock Sunday. True enough, he passed away at that hour, and the strange event has caused a slight sensation among those acquainted with the circumstances. John Books, an escaped convict, was captured near his mother's home, a few miles east of Princeton,the other night Ho recently escaped from the prison at Jeffersonville. Joseph Eldrkp, a brakeman, was killed in a freight wreck between Goshen and Kendallville. Nancy Russell, of Cory don, was burned to death—her clothes catching fire from the grate. Wm. Webb, a Lancaster, Q., clerk, died at Anderson from delirum tremens after an eight weeks* spree. Gov. Chase has issued a proclamation calling for grain and flour for the suffering residents of Russia The Pennsylvania Co. is discharging brakemen at a lively rate on the Jeffersonville suburban lines. Religious enthusiasts of Seymour have started a movement to close butcher-shops on Sunday. Mr. Lockhart, of the state board of agriculture, is preparing a full statement of the recent bribery charges at Indianapolis. Mayor Robinson, of Jeffersonville, has taken the task of closing the saloons in that city on Sundays Mrs Elizabeth Lakham, one of the pioneers of Decatur county, died a few days ago, at Richland, aged ninety years She was born in Switzerland, county. Grant Laws a New Albany burglar who W.as badly wanted, is under arrest. Richmond claims to have struck a rich vein of lead near there. Tee Coats had his forearm cut off in Benner’s furniture factory at Union City. Charles Carr, a life prisoner at the Northern penitentiary, was paroled a few days ago by Gov. Chase, after a confinement of twenty-one years Carr, with a confederate named Brooks, murdered A. M. Slater, at Logansport, in 18T1. May Moore, aged ten, with a legacy of 915.000 in her.Own name, was sent to the Fort Waynd Institution for Feebleminded Youths by her guardian, at Seymour. Thompson ft Co., millers of Edinburg, shipped 3,500 pounds of flour in a special ear the other day for the starving peasants of Russia Millers cl Franklin shipped 10,000 Bounds Shepard Burch, a blind man, got •500 damages from the Indianapolis ft Vincennes railroatt for being put off a train when he refused to pay full fare for the hoy who leads him around. Cary Stogkr, a recent convert of the Brazil United Brethren church, during a revival, grasped the hands of George Stamper, shook him, cuffed his ears and dragged him about the floor until there was a panic in the congregation, Buei. W*

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Ik* Business Situation Ifsrdly a* Satis, factory as It Has Rsea-Tks Speculative \ Mania Threatening to Result In Further Depression—The Continued Weakness la Cotton a Cause of Dullness Throughout tkh South-Business Failures for the Week, Etc. New York, Feb. 20.—R. 0. thra A Cot's weekly review of trade says: The business situation is not quite so satisfactory or encouraging as it has been. While the gradual increase in distribution of many Bnes of merchandise continues, there is shrinking demand and much depression in iron. A further decline in cotton blights hopes of rerival hi southern trade, and the speculative mania stimulated by cheap money and by the great success of the coal speculation, now extends fo wheat and threaten^ to restrict exports. Meanwhile more talk Of free silver incbn^reea tends to Cause distrust of the futnre.although the well-informed know that ant sefiorts change at this session of congress is lilk VmntVvk11 ’" ** ■'**’ We. Fromall parts of the count turns regarding the mrfney mi, satisfietdry, indicating ini ample and on the whole tetter tions than usually seen at this Notwithstanding the tact that exports of wheat have teen diminishing while western receipts continue large, speculation at Chicago has - lifted the price #»» cents during the week, auk' ■aleehere have teen ST.OtffllDO bushels Corn has declined half a tent with large exports, but very large receipts Pork receipts mnd coffee are substantially unchanged and oil a only 1% cents higher on small transactions Cotton tea shade lower, with sales of 507,000 bales here, re-w eeipts being St per cent, greater tor the week than bat year, but exports 36 pm- cot t. greater.* At Boston trade is reported satisfactory. At* Baltimore the lamher ‘trade is more active. Themavement in dry goods at Philadelphia promisee an active spring trade, though the south is still behind, but in faquMiktdbsccoV. chemicals, paints and glass trade and in groceries dull. The wool market jjsuull, the worsted mills leaking orders At l%£tsburgb trade In iron and steel has grown duller, and prices are weakening. At Cleveland Improvement Is seen in most lines and trade is larger than last yeaf, and ipanufachuing at Detroit also exceeds butt year'll record. while vessel rates are better. At Chicago sales of merchandize continue fair increase over last year. Trade Is good at Milwaukee and collections are satisfactory. At Minneapolis and St Paul business irfair and the outlook is promising. At Omqpghlnii Kansas City, both trade and collections' hre^fair and money is plenty. St Louis business begidti to sho* signs of revival, the outtookfor the siring trade is encouraging and the cor* crop is in full movement much of it going*ti> the Aver. Trade also improves at Denver. Throughout the aonth the continued depression of cottoh is noted as a cause of dullness. The week has teen gloomy in the irosglHde, from pressure to realize on qualities or imteili welhknowD, or produced in excess of requiremenHKMhe copper market has been steadierand tin and lead : are stronger.-The odal market is very doll waiting the results of the combination. Boot trade Is steady and growdfcg. In woW^girb distinct improvement in use, since the slight advahfc in products by some makers and also in onVfourth or threfeeights Wood wools because of the strong d.v for cheviot goods. The sm^ng demand 'a woolens is large, and many tarty find their orders long delayed orreTrade in dress goods is also improving,at this city there is mneh cut :ladto rb-' tail prices. Cotton goods are more *stre* ■than inany previous week, and a few otlier hare slightly advanced. Domestic makes are otir supplied with money, and if A check the tendency to excei con, some exports of gok^migfct value of all exports from Mew weeks of February has beeMM^gg cent, larger than for the samo weeks last year. " The business failures occurring throughout Itthe country during the last seven days, number, for the United States, 261, and for Canada 48, or a total of 836; as compared with 276 last week and 31# the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week Of last year the figures were 290.

TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE* Great Excitement and Narrow Escape ov Many of the Tenants of the Ferclval Flats la New Tork City. New Yoke, Feb. 20.—Fire in the Pereival flats on West Forty-second street, yesterday, caused considerable excitement for a while, the terror-stricken tenants leaving everything behind in their frantic dash for their lives. While the occupants of "the lower floors were in comparatively little danger, the position of those of the upper floors was more serious, those who escaped by the stairway fighting their way through the smoke and heat while those who were driven back sought to make their escape by the fire escapes. Ladders were hastily raised and several women, too frightened or excited to avail themselves of the fire escapes, were carried down to the ground by the firemen. The fire had by this time assumed proportions which rendered the fire department's efforts futile. The rear of she building from the third floor upward was completely gutted and the lower floors completely deluged. The loss of the tenants were very heavy, many of them losing almost all of theif personal effects. The loss is estimated at 850,000, fully insured. _ __ The President* Behring Sea Proclamation. Washington. Feb 20. —The president- has issued the usual proclamation prohibiting the killing of seal in Behring sea: It refers to the law contained in seetion 1,956, R. S., chapter 3, tilde 33, which enacts that no person shall kill otter, mink, sable or fur seal or other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska territory or in the waters thereof, and every person guilty shall, for each offense be fined not less than 8200 or more than 81,000 or imprisoned not more than six months or both; and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo found employed in violation of this seetion shall be forfeited; but the secretary of the treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, marten, otter, sable or other fur-bearing animal, except fur-seals, under sueh regulation as he may prescribe and it shall be the duty of the secretary to prevent the killing of any fur-seal and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall he gi-ant any special privileges under this section. A Socialist Paper That Knows Too Moch to salt the Aothortlcs. Berlin, Feb 10.—1The socialist journal Vorwaerts, which has front time to time made startling statements showing the growth of socialistic ideas, and giving inside facts regarding events in government circles which reveal remarkably high sources of information, stales that it will shortly publish another batch of interesting revelations. The Vorwaerts claims to have agents in every government office. Whether this be mere boasting or not, much annoyance is known to have been caused in high circles. Tremendous Powder Work* Explosion. Columbus, Kas., Feb 90.—At 11 o'eloek Thursday night lightni ng strnck mill of the La Bin-Rand ■ilMI miles

A DARING ROBRE& || A Masked Mac's Bold Attest a t ' Robbers the Central the Soens-A B^P tMomollteHTtf («f Wofiftded snd the MobW C*pt*r<ml< Rocewstek, N. 1r.,- Fhfei 32;--1 T. Mclnerney, a messenger in 4! ploy of the American Express Css] at his home in Waveriy pla city, with three bullet m< person, the result of an a most desperate train robber. The American Express train which reached this city at 7:15, on the Sew tork Central railway, left Syrsenits yesterday taMming at ft o'elocViU time, in fchnfgh of Cohdhetof Emil Lasss sad Enginkhr Caleb Cherry, A bo tit half an horir after the irelo left Syracuse SthSsePgfcf Melnerncy was startled by tha sohikt tit breaking glass. Before WS> Could diseotc* fits cause a masked man sprang through the broken window and confronted him wi|6h a revolver. Mclnerney drew b:is weapon and both men fired at the same time. Mclnerney missed his mirk, but the robber did not. His collet penetrated Mclnerney’s left hsn<| and it wdfe. followed by two others, f one of which entered bis leg, and the other grazed his forehead, pie robber knocked him senseless w(th the but of his revolver and Went at the -packages h^rthfe ear.- The ‘story Is low asfol-' Between iiVeedsport *«d Jordan the cohdnctor; E. Lucas, thought that le heilrd the air signal sound, but as ho one Ppe had heard it he paid no attention to it. In A few minutes it to&ndad again, this time unmistakably, sod the conductor said: “T1 wrong, and in the where Mclnerney is hrakeman, H. A. Cut wentffcthe platform between the too ca •sJWfc'he conductor rapped at the door^Hsut received no reply. Then climbing onto the iron haad-Yhtl, he peered into the car through the opening that the beil rope rap through. He saw nothing of MeldePncy, ’but instead saw a strange, -ifiap standing in the car over whose^ead was drawn a red hood which covered alU>f his face but the nose cc« eyes aifll,fell below his chin to his breast. Stepping cm the platform the aftridUcis something ear ubiatl, ie.” He ftud *■ accordingly

tear said to the br&keman, “ Ff ere cs something wrong in there,” sad signaled for the train to slow rap. jjgTtytn l>eth* he and the brake mnn leaned off the platform oa the aonth side of the car and at the same time the red hooded head of the robber probed front the door of the express ear at d a voice said: ”0— d—— you. shove irifeahead,” and before cither could reor dKPPtihMk a bullet whisked past their sara Both sprang back into the coach and the brpkeman locked the frost door. The ^ayt^, back to Jordan, signal any train he might meet and telegraph to this city concerning the affair. The tram then swung rapidly ahead, but on nearing Port Byron, again slowed rap on account of the semaphore being set against it. Arriving at the station the conductor set the brakes of bis train and jumped on to the depot platform and called the telegraph operator. Presently Mclnernejr appeared in the door of his car and called for help, saying that he was wounded and was all alone in the car.. On hearing this the conductor supposed that the robber had become frightened and left the train while it bad been running slowly, but future developments were to show him hotv much he was mistaken. Another ratssespsr was pnt in the ear to care for the wounded man till they should reach Lyons. The conductor and bis crew returned to the rear coach, and the train proceeded on its way to Lyons. The train pnlled into the depot of the last-named station, Mclnemey was taken of? and cared for and then the train backed up to take water. The conductor remained on the depot platform talking of the occurrence iotbe station agent, and some dozen or fifteen oilers who happened to be at the station, stating that he thought the robber had left the train before reaching Port Byron, when the agent interrupted with the remark that be had seen a man jump off his train while it was standing at the depot. While Conductor Laass was looking over his train just previous to its pulling out of Syracuse had seen a man loitering near it. asd sharply scrutinized the face, as St was a new one around the depot to him, but- he supposed it was some one on duty there, and so thought nothing of it. Now, as the agent made this remark, he turned aronnd and found fcimse’f face to face with that same indiridua.l. The man had evidently gotten off the further side of the train while it stood at the depot, had walked around both train and station, come down the street as if from the town, and was now leaning coolly and carelessly against the building: \ Turning to thh brdkeman who stood near, Mr. Laass said: "Didn’t we see this man in Syracuse?” To which the brakem&n replied: «Yes that’s him; that’s your man, boys” With that all made a rush for him. But they had reckoned without their host, for the stranger pointing a brace of revolvers at the crowd, said; "Oh, no, boys; keep easy and don't be in a hurry.” He then backed up a littio ways keeping the crowd at bay witn his threatening pistols, then turned arid ran across the tracks to the oapreiss train, which was on track 2, and tried to uncouple the engine of that train. He could not do it, however, and crossed to track 3t ral “ - train, drawn by one of the 1

pursuing1* weuM, so an overtake his ! heavier one, so h»“ stopped bis engine. . . reversed it and fi?w down the track tfc 1 fipeet hit! purs.aersu They saw. hit*., S looming and got down in the bottom o# j she cab. „ It was weli they did so tor 1 Vs he, flew past he let go two Bhota j ihnfBgh the window of the cab white * lag engine of the ro®Sir. The shots of fteithag pursuers nor pursued, however. ' # took effect, and the ouduetor reversed Again the desperado reversed his en- J in pjSouit eronehSd in the bottom of ? the o?b. ‘ Again, the shots of the dew r perate man rang o«i, and as before V the balls passed through the window of the cab and whittled harmlessly ff over the heads of th see crouching at T. the bottom of it, Tho switch mur fired? his remaining charge, hut fronxAhjs crouching position his aim at the ttfatjfr engine eonid be bat inaccurate andjgU shot was but a random one, and tkw ^.t bullets rattled withe nt avail against f fee iron sides of t&> rapidly-passing monster. On up the road wont the engine, bearing the daring desperado, carrying him each moment farther away from his pursuers. The men on the pnrsuing engine held 4 a council of war and concluded that nodded as, they were, any further attempt at pnrsnit and capture of the robber would be worse than madness, for he was well armed and past experience had taught them that he carried his weapons for use and would use them if the emereeney required, so they run their engine back to Lyons. The fugitive kept on. bnt soon found that hfe steam wa# giving out; and at fiiuc Cut, about Similes east of Newark, he deserted the engine find op dered the switchmfch, stationed at the* . cut, at the point of his revolver to take the engine back to Lyons and the command was quickly obeyed. As soon as word was received in this w city that an express robbery had been ■ committed sndit was learned that tho l-r-gjrr j~ tOTWjh—‘—— within a fewmiles of Lyons, preparations were made'to have R Chester detectives join in the pursuit. nRpot Master Warren telegraphed to the police station and sent a carriage jtfter Detective Lapointe. OettlPs Kavanaugh and Further^ at 'ifcjg wenl to the central soon followed b» /engine was placed ' ... be officers, find the Sere thus told to a Red by Chief Hayte» Rochester at 4:50 tihier Hayden, at the service, details of pArs United PresS : den, who retn m. p.

“We had tWegmfUied to Newark to have a team meet ji8. but when we arrived team to he found. We wenw^ibveral houses and tried to get a horse before we succeeded. Finally we found a farmer who consented to drive ns for a short distance at least. In the meantime we had heard In regard to the desperado’s course after he left the engine nt Bine Cut. We followed in pursuit, I should think, about 4 miles on the road runningsoi " until we reached the house of a farmer by the name of Beals, where we heard from the man. He stopped at Mr. Beals’ to pet a fresh horse. Mr. Beals informed him that he had no outfit that he would let him take. The robber did not stop to repeat his request, hut pulling out his pistol fired two shots so dose 'lo Beals’ head that his face t£as blackened by the powder. The horse ond cotter were brought out without further parleying, and leaving the other horse with Mr. Beals the fellow started off again. ‘‘After tracing the robber about 4 miles to the soutg| we found that he bad turned to the tasfand then.again to the south, travelling in all probability 10 miles. He was finally found secreted behind a stone wall, and finding that the odds were against him surrendered quietly. SAVINGS SANK SWINDLES. Hatr n Score eC-dtattwa Institutions O® t« Pisces in Australia—More to Follow— Officials in tha Swim ns Shareholders. SrnsET, N. St. W., via PanaumJFeb. la—No less thisn ten of the larger __ the local savic^s banks have stopped payment during the last fortnight, and many of the remaining ones are likely to follow. Societies that only a few months ago paid at their annual meetings from 19 to 3S per cent, dividends to their shareholders, could not see their way after a couple of days of • “run” on them, to repay to the poor widow el hoc genus homes their few pounds of hart: earnings, deposited in these miscalled saving banks, let alone fixed deposits that had matured. Liquidation will give to the unfortunate depositors perhaps five shillings on the pound, after a period of three years. Some will not even get that winch. And this has been going on for years under the: very noses of parlta-s meat and the executive government’ and nobody lifted as muefi as a finger to check the swindle. But the members of parliament;, magistrates and even min liters of the crown were in the swim and headed the lists as and shareholders. Cal. Hernandos' Trial. Monterkt, Mexico, Feb, 82.—A dts» latch from the City of Mexico states bat the hearing of the case -«—*'*«* Col. Neives Heraades, under of court martial to be shot, ’ place before the higher on appeal to-dey. He request of President - iss own bel^di in the lues* was refused. afarahall l*a »<