Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 December 1893 — Page 2

§ifec County § mortal ji. McC. STOOPS, Editor sad Proprietor PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. 1 During the recent pales that swept over the North and Baltic seas 137 fishermen were drowned oft the peninsula of Jutland. • The Bride Lane Polytechnic institute, buil.t by the corporation of London, was formally opened, on the 30th, the prince of Wales making the opening addrvss. The steamer China, which sailed on the 33d from San Francisco for the Orient, touching at Honolulu, carried official dispatches to Minister Willis and Admiral Irwin. The Odessa emigration commission la giving assistance to Jews,, who are making preparations to leave Russia by the wholesale lor the Argentine Republic in the spring.

During the recent gales the lifeboat crews at the various stations on the British coast responded to sixty signals for assistance, and saved at least 800 persons from drowning. James C. Stone, the murderer of the Wrattan family, was placed in the death cell at the Jeffersonville (Ind.) prison, adjacent to the cage where the scaffold is situated, on the 81st. Springfield, Mass., suffered from the most destructive fire that that city has known for years shortly after midnight on the morning, of the 23d, the losses being estimated at $1,500,000. Bey. J. G. Stewart, the evangelist charged with teaching the doctrines of Divine healing, was suspended from church membership by tire synodical commission at Monmouth, 111., on the 23d. _ As a result of the failure of the American Casualty Co. of New ^ ork many northwestern railroads and street car companies will be called upon to pay again damages they had already adjusted with the Casualty Co. At the coroner's inquest, in Cincinnati, on the 2Sd, it developed that Frank Cabell, who cut his throat, had Studied theosophy, worshiped as a god a Mahatma of India named David Sineta. who commanded suicide as a penalty for some unpardonable sin. A petard was exploded outside the residence of the secretary of the agriculture committee at Cajar, near Grenada, Spain, on the night of the 23d. The house was badly damaged, but none of its occupants injured. Three anarchists have been arrested charged with the offense. The steamer JMiowera, which had been ashore at Honolulu since October 8, was floated November 13. She was but slightly damaged, although she was forty days oa the reef. The vessel, after repeated examinations made by divers, was pronounced not to be seriously injured. The trial board of the cruiser Columbia^tas figured out her official speed to be 22.8 knots, and thus the premium of $350,000 is assured. This is the largest ever earned, but the United States navy possesses by a far greater margin than $350,000 the finest and fastest cruiser afloat. Gen. Jeremiah McLane Rusk, exgovernor of Wisconsin and ex-secre-tary of agriculture in the Harrison cabinet, died at his home in Viroqua, Wis., on tbeSlst. Although he had been confined to his bed for some time, his death was sudden and unexpected, owing to recent apparent improvement.

The greatest destitution prevails among the Indians all over Canada, .and from Labrador to British Columbia comes continuous tales of suffering. More than 400 Indians have perished because of hunger, and it is expected that thousands more must inevitably starve before the winter is «ver. > *- t Father J, B. Eib, of the Sacred fisjfcfi, G“tiiolic church at Columbus, O., was fired upon five times bv two burglars, who aroused him while robbing his house on the night of the 21st., A bullet struck him in the right forearm, making a painful wound, but the plucky priest ejected the burglars by main force. I The latest hews from Hawaii was received per the steamer Alameda, which arrived at San Francisco on the 23d. No Steps had yet been tpitch for the restoration of t^c tnonafchy by United State* minister Willis, though expec* Nation that it was to bo attempted WU* yife.^ It is believed that the provisional government will not surrender without a struggle. -- When the Rio Grande & Wester* train pulled into Ogden, Utah, at 1 o’clock on the morning of the 81st, Express Messenger Sayers was found on the floor of his car dead, with a bullet through his heart and a pistol under him. It is supposed that he was locking the safe when the pistol was accidentally discharged. The Paddock,'Hawley Iron Co. of St. Louis will sustain a loss of 8240,000 by the recent fire on Main and Morgan streets, of which the insurance companies will share to the amount of $189,000. The owners of the buildings announce a loss of $69,000, of which the insurance companies will pay $40,000. The buildings will prove a total loss. A recent decision in the land cases ■gainst the Northern Pacific led the people of Spokane, Wash,, to believe .that that portion of the city known as (Shantytown was open to settlement, land hundreds left their beds at midnight of the 20th to stake off town lota. Us many as ten persons would stake off the same lot and, as a consequence, innumerable fights took place.

CUBRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BRET. 1 PERSONAL AND GENERAL. MR", JoCS HALL, aged 55. was burned to and several other persons were badly injured, on the 31st, by a pra'irie fire in Lincoln county, Okla. Like some mighty engine, the black stallion Directum, king of trotters, inarched away from the western mare Alix at Fleetwood park. New York, on the 91st, winning the race in straight heats for a purse of $5,000 with such ridiculous ease that it was really no contest. Alix, game and speedy as she is, having taken a record of 2:0T% in a race during the past summer, was outclassed.

A movement has been started at Sioux City, In., which, it is hoped by its promoters, will terminate in the passage by the legislature of a bill authorizing the payment of a bounty of one and a half cents for each pound of sugar produced in Iowa. It is intended to encourage the -manafacture of beet sugar.' Commercial organizations ail over the’ state are oo-operating. M. Gkodet has been appointed governor of the French Soudan. The .Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy. formerly called El Cid, started southward from her anchorage outside New York harbor on the 21st. James Newson, colored, who is under arrest at Algona, la., for taking part in theKessler (Ind.) train robbery, has made a confession, lie was one ot .seven who participated in the robbery, but did not get a cent of the proceeds, the others, who carried ofNthe swag, failing ,to show up at the appointed rendezvous. Otlicials of the United States Express Co. state that not a single statement of Newson’s is true. f La Grippe is rapidly becoming epidemic at Fort Dodge, la. Three of the teachers in the high school were prostrated, on the 21st, and a number of pupils were suffering. All other departments of the schools were affected and school work seriously interfered with. Physicians report cases scattered all over the city. Rumors are current in Washington that Secretary Gresham realizes that he has made a blunder in advising the president to the course pursued in the Hawaiian matter, recent developments pot hearifig- put the representations made in the report io tne president. A report was sent out frorn Washington on the 21st to the effect that Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith ipight be expected to resign shortly, the president having intimated his disapproval of the secretary’s coiirse In regard to pensions, John C. Moore, investor hi Moore’s patent canning machine, who, two years ago, was unknown and poor, but whose invention brought him prominence and money, died at Columbus, Ind., on the 21st, of typhoid fever. His wealth is estimated at $40,000. The cholera in Russia is becoming less virulent. The official statistics show that from May to September, 1892,there were throughout the empire 433,043 cases of the disease and 215,157 deaths, and from January to November, 1S93, 70,107 cases and SO,2S4 deaths. A carriage containing three young ladies was struck by a train at a crossing in the suburbs of Xenia, O., on the 22d, and Miss Annie Ke|fco and Miss Mary McDill were instantly killed and Miss Eva Kelso was fatally injured. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone visited the queen at Windsor castle on the 23d. They dined with her majesty, and spent the night at. the castle. The Princess Waldemere has started a fund for the relief of the families of Copenhagen fishermen drowned,during the recent storms.

Ihk French police seized an anarchist manifesto in Paris, on the 23d, and arrested a number of anarchists. Germany celebrated its first annual fast day on the 32d. Director Preston of the United States mint bureau has prepared a statement showing1 that from the date that the Sherman law took effect, August 80, 1S80, to the date of its repeal, November 3. 1898, the amount purchased wasl68,674,500.46 fine ounces )t Silver, costing 8155,930.940.84, the average cost per ounce being .9344. rhe present market price is about 70 sents per ounce. The brotherhoods held a meeting in Buffalo; N. Y., on the 92d, and by a unanimous vote decided to call out the Bngineers and crews of any road which handled a pound of Lehigh freight during the strike on that road. Gov. Flower of New has refused to interfere ip me case of Mrs. Annie V.’aiden, who is dying in t’Je penitentiary under a life sentence, for the murder of her husband. Gustave Truhn, a well-to-d*., farmer In Bush Lake township, near perham, Mina., killed his wife andJo'n;i(j at a a m., uf the 23d, while in. a fit of religious Insanity. A WsUatch in London, on the 93d-, stated, that. King Lobengula of MataWloianil t>ad been captured by the trotkis of tthn South Africa Co. It hfis 'beta computed that during the receht storm the Yarmouth (England) fishing industry suffered damage to the extent of £100,000. The Egyptian budget for 1894 shows a surplus of 500,000 Egyptian pounds. It is proposed to further reduce the tax by 90,000 Egyptian pounds. | By a fire in Detroit, Mich., on the i2Sd, seven lives were lost, and propferty amounting to over 8500,000 was (destroyed—.— i It was reported, on the 2Sd, that the ; Yaqui Indians of the northern portion of Chihuahua had joined the Mexican rebels. Gov. McKinley of Ohio delivered en addiess at the banquet of the Home Market club of Boston on the 34d. o Considerable agitation is going on in British military circles on account of the death of two soldiers, during the recent storm, at Portsmouth'. They had recently returned from tropical Aden, and were competed to wear the light uniform used at that station.

Aa A result of a house to house investigation in Scranton, Pa., the police, on the 23d, reported to the mayor that they had found 110 families on the south side on the verge of starvation. The big stock barn on the estate of Col. "Fdward Morrell, at Torresdale, Pa., was burned on the 23d. So quick* ly did the flames spread that only part of the stock was saved. Nine valuable blooded mares were burned to death. The loss is estimated at toO.OOO. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Sims has rendered a decision holding that the surplus lafads in the Shoshone or Wind River reservation ij, Wyoming can be leased for grazing purposes, and that the leases should be made for five years, or thvee years at the minimum.

Geo. Harrison. » scab barber, was found guilty by a jury at Leavenworth, Has., on the 23d of shaving a man on Sunday. The fine and costs are over (100. This is the result of a puritanio sentiment to stop all Sunday business. The b»rv'ers’ union are the instigators, and much bad feeling prevails. XVilliam K. Vanderbilt's beautiful yacht, the Valiant, left New York, on the 33d, on her trip around the world. Before she sailed Nlr. Vanderbilt held a reception, and many of the millionaires of the metropolis were present to say farewell to the distinguished owner of the floating palace. A fire that started in James M. Litter’s planing mill at Allentown, Pa., on the 3Sd, destroyed that building, including much stock, and also half a dozen houses. The loss will be between $250,000 and $300,000. Burglars swooped down upon the town of Stockwell, Ind., on the night of the 23d, and raided a dozen stores and residences. The local police attempted to capture the men, but after a vigorous chase, in which a number of shots were fired, the burglars escaped with a large amount of booty. James Early, a well-known character at Lafayette, Ind., was discovered in the act of robbing a Monon freight car on the 23d. Officer Canaday gave chase, and after running several blocks fired at the fleeing man to frighten him. The shot took effect in Early’s back, producing a dangerous wound. Hermann Fricke, a well- to-do cigar manufacturer of St. Louis, took the river route to reach the end of his life on the 2Sd. He had been suffering from a running sore on his chest for nearly a year, and the belief that his case \vas hopeless promoted his suicide. AYhii.k temporarily insane, on the 23d, AY in. Leuv-, oJ An(lrew c0lmly) M0., jumped from a train at Fort AA'aync, Ind., and received injuries that may* result in his death. He is 62 years old, and was accompanying his daughter, Mrs. AA'eiland, to her home in Philadelphia. Frank Ellison, the New Y«Ark club man who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment recently for assault in the second degree upon Broker AA’illiam Henriques, was taken to Sing Sing on the 23d. It is estimated that the coal output for Colorado for 1S9S will reach $10,000,000, for AA’yoming $5(000,000, New Mexico $4,000,000. The health commissioner of Chicago, on the 23d, declared that smallpox was epidemic in the city. There were eighteen cases of the disease in the city pesthouse. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, was reported seriously ill at Turin, Italy, on the 23d. It is reported in London that the marquis of Dufferin will succeed Sir Julian Pauncefote as ambassador to th« United States.

LATE NEWS ITEMS* Joseph Dios', thg once-celebratert billiard player, ex-champion of America, has been removed to the Ward’s island asylum for pauper insane from the Bellevue hospital reception pavilion, whither he had been conveyed from a private sanitarium in Connecticut by his wife. The fraternity of which he was once the acknowledged leader is to be called upon to raise a fund for his benefit. It was agreed by a caucus of de'^e. ! rates to the Knights of Labor co jV^n_ lion in Philadelphia, on the 26* n i resolution declaring the 0f^ce 0( general master workman v t shoald be pushed through the ^nvention, the abject being to furth humiUate Mr. Powderly whose ^ Uon was al. ready m the ha ^ of ^ convention. v ** '' e%*ly statement of the New j^Ociabed banks for the week ' f e -*'on the 18th showed the following lor ges: Reserve, increase, $5,354,700; ns, increase, $S,46S.90O; specie, iu'rease,$1,069,300; legal tenders,increase, $6,952,300; deposits, increase, $10,627,S00: circulation, decrease, $344,700. Congressman Chari.es O'Neill, the “Father of the House of Representatives,” he having been a member of the lower house of congress from the Second district of Pennsylvania since 1862, with the exception of the forty-second session, died at his home in Philadelphia on the 35th. Count Kalnokv, of) Austria, has assured King Humbert that Germany and Austria would not object to Italy reducing her army by two corps, as they prefer an ally with less military strength if the difference will result in placing her finances on a more solid basis. The jury in the case of ex-Banker Rockafellow, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., charged with embezzlement, returned a verdict of guilty on the 25tli. There yet remained twelve indictments against him. Twelve thousand persons were killed in Kuchan, northeast Persia, by recent earthquakes. Ten thousand bodies have been recovered from the ruins. Fifty thousand cattle were killed. Mart Tower, aged 160 years and 4 months, died on the 25th, at Lorraine, a suburb of Elizabeth, N. J. When her 100th birthday was celebrated she was in good health. 1 Sexor Quanabara, formerly Brazilian deputy, received, in Paris, from Rio de Janeiro, on the 36 th, a dispatch denying that Fort Lags at Rtethad dseen captured.

INDIANA STATE NEV;& The family of Conrad Mey _ an Wall street, Ft Wayn^ row escape from death ♦ ... escape l™uiu»vu , other night At supper theynkrtor^ Qf ch|es<> which contame4 sc jtle kind ^ ous substance. ,he entire family were takf“ 7“1«nt -y ill, and only prompt medical mnA theiriiv^ x£e cheese ^ anal (L Hen* -<v Will., one of the wealthiest . in the neighborhood of Farmland, -*ed at his farm residence near Xew Burlington, just across the line in Delaware county, the other day. Mr. Will was a bachelor, and aged about 85 years. His estate is estimated at nearly a half million. He is well-known throughout the state, and has only one relative in this country, a nephew, John Will, at Windsor. Mr. Will waa a German, and came to this country when but 16 years old, without a cent. Eddie Herbst, aged 8, has confessed to burning Uaeton's barn at Moore’s Hill. He was smoking cornstalks. | ’ Mrs. Prior Kern died of typhoid fever at Bedford, the other day. A son who attended the Indiana university died a few days previous Wsl N. Owens, deputy recorder of Jackson county, and Miss Mary Estilwell, a farmer's daughter, eloped to Columbia and were married. A stranger, giving hisnameasChas Marshall, worked off a forged cheek for *10 at Loring & Klendening's store, Lawrenceburg, and escaped. Mrs Frank Widner died from t"he effects of a self-inflicted bullet wound

The saloon and buildings at Sportsman's park, a noted resort at Vincennes, were destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Loss, $2,51)0; insurance, $1,250. The Vincennes jury to try John B. Kirk for the murder of his brother-in-law, Luther M. Smith, last March, disagreed and was discharged. Kirk's plea was self-defense. The other evening, at Seymour. Mr. Geo. Clow, a prominent citizen, and the inventor of the Clow scythe blade fastener, died of consumption, aged sixtsfour years. He had been an invalid | for nearly two years. Ho was a prom- | inent Mason, a member of the Knights | of Pythias. Another dynamite explosion oc- j curved at Marion after 3 o'clock the ( other morning, by wljieh the SwelliB* occupied by Depulr Prosecutor barker was Bi'Vfhe were shaken from their slumber in great confusion, but ho one was hurt. This is supposed to be another episode in the war between the saloon and the antisaloon elements there. James Kibi.er and Isaac Lantz, stockholders in the Salamonic Dairy association, Portland, have filed a petition for a receiver for the concern, alleging insolvency. James Pares died at Crawfordsville, a few nights ago, from an injury in the head from a horse's kick during the afternoon. Miss May Areiieart, of Goshen, who shot herself a few days ago because of the desertion of her lover, Fred Widner, died the other morning. On her death-bed she was married to Widner, who returned when he heard of her desperate action. James Wood, for several years connected with the Elkhart Daily Review, was found dead on the office floor the) other morning. Heart disease was the cause. He was seventy-seven year*1 ofa.

CrEORGE HENDRICK sox, who was m* I jured a few days ago by a prematura shot in Schufferman's mine, south of djed the other evening. Mr. Hendrickson was one of the wealthiest and oldest minersJh__the county. Hr leaves a wifeAnct family. The plrjit of the BartWiKhew County 'Trotting association, club house, r jnphitheater and the finest mile track (a the state, were sold by the sher'jj some days ago to satisfy a $10,000 judgment, and the organization l\a& disbanded, and the buildings will be torn down, except the club house. Tex years ago Woodson Bryan, o! 'Plainfield, applied for a pension. He has just been granted $3 per month.. R. H. Frank and Q. H. Keller have brought suit against the Panhandle Railroad Ca, at Marion, each demanding $5,000 for the killing of their sons, Evan Keller and Henry Frank. The remains of Charles F. Tucker, who was found drowned in the Chicago river, were brought to Laporte for interment. County Recorder Peter Carsox died at Indianapolis suddenly the other morning of apoplexy. At Richmond, J.W. Fuller, the noted bank swindler and crook, was arrested the other afternoon for attempting to realize c* a worthless draft for $1,000 drawn on S. Farnham & Ca, of Sandusky, O. -Wit. B. Lacy, an Evansville hatter, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Liabilities about $6,000; assets sufficient to protect creditors. The high school pupils of Muneie have organized an athletic club, Harry George was sent to the state’s -prison from Muncie for two years for ;pocketpicking. Sheriff Samuel Wixtrode has sued John Renbarger for $10,000 damages for slander, claiming that Renbarger accused him of keeping the Huntington jail in worse condition than Libby prison. At Madison the three-year-old child of Alphonso Edwards fell into a grate ■fire and was fatally burned. William Chambers, superintendent of Anderson Steel Casting Ca, has brought suit in the circuit court asking >for the appointment of a receiver. The capital stock of the company is $60,000, with liabilities amounting to $30,000. The Indiana Brewing Ca, of New 'Albany, went into the hands of J. O. Endres, as receiver. The company claims that it can pay two for one if allowed a little time. There is general dissatisfaction be- - cause the grand jury failed to indict 'the proprietors of the Indiana cotton -mill, at Cannelton, for employing chil- ■ dren under fourteen years of age and work inn- them eleven hours ner day.

DISASTROUS FIRE. Hannibal, Mo., the Seene of a Moat Dint* troua Conflagration—A Large Cap Horned In the Bu^iuess Portion of the City. Involving Losses Aggregating Fully Three Hundred Thousand Dollars— Timely Help from Quincy Saved Much Property. Hannibal, Mo., Xov. 2G.—A large portion of this city was destroyed by fire last night, entailing an aggregate loss of about $800,000. The fire originated in the store of the Williams-Voorhis Dry Goods Co. by a lamp breaking in the millinery department. The surroundings were as inflammable as powder, and the interior of tliegreat building was<. soon in flames. The fire soon spread to adjoining buildings, and in less than an hour twelve imposing briek buildings with their contents were destroyed. The eity fire department was powerless, and tlftt Quincy department was summoned and arrived wi^iiu forty minutes. Brave work confined the damage to two blocks. '1 he losses are about as follows: M illiams-Voorhis Dry Goods Co., building and stock, $150,000, insurance $95,000; llolmes-Dakin Cigar Co., buildings and stock. $25,000, insurance $10,0OO: Robinson Bros., wall paper, paints and oils, stock and buildings, $80,000, insurance $20,000; Boughton Jfc MeChnij, wholesale stationers, building and stock/ $35,000. insurance $10,000; Courier-Post, totally destroyed, loss

*WMW),r insurance *5.500: C. Roberts. / building, *5,000, insurance $2,500: Kester hotel, loss $25,000, no insui-ance; Dan Kelly, Kestor house building, $10,000, no insurance; John Logan, building. $5,000, partially covered by insurance; \Y. W. White & Co., druggists, loss $1,500, covered by insurance: H. II. Clayton, building, $5,000, .partly insured; Andrew Hill, tailoross and insurance unknown: W. C- Brown, building, $5,000, insurance, $2.50(1; Andy Masterson, saloon and hccsdkold furniture, loss, $2,000, insurance. t»,400: T. C. James, music store, los* ;inknown. The fire at midnight was gjitj .burning, but under control. •* ■ Tlje flames broke out at 5:80 p. nt. At 6 o'clock a telegram was sent to Quincy for aid from their fire department. They got cut their apparatus, loaded it on a special train 3rd by 6:45 were at the scene of the tiro, working liand> in-hand with the Hannibal men. The promptness of the Quincy men no doubt saved much property from being destroyed. The dispatch to Quincy was sent none too soon, for in a few minutes after the telegraph and telephone wires were all down and it was impossible to send a message. So far as was learned no serious accidents happened to any of the fighters of the flames. « FIEVDISH ROBBERS Bind.an Old Farmer and Try to Torture Him Into Kevealinj* the Whereabouts rof Supposed Hidden Treasure. Columbus, O., Nov. 27.—Three men assaulted Daniel Thomas, a farmer and capitalist living a half mile from this city, when he went to his barn early yesterday morning, and binding him securely carrier! him to the house where Mrs. Thomas the only other person on the farm, was also seized and bound. Searching the house, the robbers found no money and then demanded to know where $50,000. which thej’ claimed to know was In the house, was kept. told th?')l tbit the only money he had out of the Unnlj vras $25 in his pocketbook. ‘fhey Insisted that there Wr.v money in the house, and removing his 'bogs applied lighted matches to the Soles of his feet. They tortured him this way for an hour, and left, securing only the $25 and a gold watch and leaving Thomas and his wife .bound and with towels tied abeatt their mouth so they could not give tie alarm. It was late in the day when Airs. Thomas managed to free herself and arouse the neighbors. They are both elderly persons, and may not •survive tha rough treatment.

Death of Father O'Neill. Philadelphia, New. 26.-'Congress-man Charles O'Neill, the 'if'ather of the House of Representatives,’’ he having' been a member of the lowl'V house of congress from the second district of Pennsylvania since 1S62, with the exception of the forty-second session, died at his home in this city at a o’clock yesterday evening. [Mr. O'Neill was born In Philadelphia on March 21, 1821. and was graduated at Dickerson college. He was » member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives In 1830.1851, 1832 and 1S«0, and was a member of the state senate In 1833. Mr. O'Neill left Washington August 28 last, when for the ttrst time in his life he was stricken with illness. Pneumonia developed and this caused his death. He was unmarried and resided with two nieces. Politically lis was a republican.] Sad Fate of Josesph Dlou Ex-Champion. BUlard Player of America. New York, Nov. 27.—Joseph Dion, the once-celebrated billiard player, exchampion of America, was removed to the Ward's island asylum for pauper insane last Thursday from the Bellevue hospital reception pavilion, whither he had been conveyed from a private sanitarium in Connecticut by his wife. It is proposed to give aid to the unfortunate man, and. the billiard fraternity all over the country, and Canada, whence Dion came, and in Paris and London are to be called upon to give exhibitions in every town and city where experts with the cue can be found. Two Colored Children Cremated. Kansas City, .Mo., Nov. 27.—Roy Lucas and James R. Williams, t^o littlo colored hoys residing with their parents in Kansas City, were burned to death yesterday. Their parents live in adjoining houses, and the former went out for the afternoon. They left the boys in the Lucas house. At 3 o'clock the house was discovered in flames, which had gained such headway that it was impossible to make any effort to save the children. When the fire had burned itself out tho bodies of the children were found, burned .to .a crisp.

A FIENDISH ATTEMPT J To Wrwk the New York FMt.Kxpresi « the Lake Shore Ron*) by . I'narined Ba Deoperate Tramps—The Awful Consummation Prevented by a Brave Treb Crew—A Fight Against Odds-K<rap* o« the Would-Be Wrecker*—Two Arrests. Goshex. Ind..Nov. 27.—This city was thrown into n fever of exciteuq^t Sat unlay night by a desperate at tempt, made almost within the city limits to wreck the New York fast express on the\ La ke Shore road, whict is due heroftt 12:09. At 12 o'clock a shrill whistling in the Lake Shore railroad yards, and from the waterworks plant, which is located very close to the Lake Shore freight depot, brought two of the night police and a number of.citizens to the scene. They found the first section of No. 60, the Chicago and New York fast meat freight train in the yards and a badly battered up train crew. It was soon learned from the apparently dazed crew that two attempts had been made to use the last ten cars of the train to carry out a dastardly attempt to wreck No. 12, the New York fast express on the Lake Shore road. The city was quickly thrown into a fever of excitement, as the attempted hold-up was conducted on a plan singularly new in the annals of’ modern train robbery. It was; however, brought to an unsuccessful end i by the heroic resistance of the trainmen, who fought a constant battle during the run of ten miles from Elk- 1 hart here.

.•tiuH Kfu pj rigm j ramp<i. The fii-st section of Xo. 60 pulled out of Elkhart at 10:2S p. m. with orders to run to Eigonior without stop. All seemed well with--the train, but. when about a mile from Elkhart, the conductor, John Hickok, and two brakemen, were attacked by a. band composed of eight burly tramps, who it is ■since learned, boarded the train at Elkhart and had been concealed, between the cars. They overpowered the crew and were proceeding to disconnect the last den oars, when the crew, assisted by the engineer and fireman; again secured control of the train. A second attempt was made five miles further on, and frCun that point into Goshep. a run of four miles, a desperate fight was waged between the eight robbers, ntvT the cr’-Y. \.r fordFoa-r Miles. I Conductor Uickok, whp knew the imminent danger !Co. 12 was in. of running into the freight, encouraged the brakemen and an extra conductors, Campbell, who happened to Ik- on the train, and they waged a successful fight until the train reached the Goshen yards. The battle for the control of the train was desperate for the last four miles, and Conductor 'llickok was badly bruised and pummeled, as was also one of the brakemen, who resides, at Elkhart, The robbers secured four watches, and all the money K-longing to the crew. The engineer whistled for help, and officers were quickly upon the scene. That the eight robbers who were upon the train when it arrived in the Goshen yards should escape seems in- , credible, but such is the fact. Owing to the daiod condition of the crew and tlie ignorance ol those here as to the pause of the stopping and alarm, they all escaped. Two were subsequently captured, and the sheriff and a possfe are at present in hot pursuit of another., llenry Zimmerman was a!S rested within the city limits and later in the morning William Cone was cap-o--yl. These two are now in custody here.

acgp.-tug we touairy tor uie iwmuw A posse of officials and Lake She redetectives are scouring' the surrourding country for the remaining six. The plan of the robbers was one wh'ch would, had it been successfully earned out, incurred great loss of life ind money. They, were endeavoring tc leave eight or ten cars of the freight on the track, which they expected No. 13, which was following close after, would dash into. In thg consequent wreck it is surmised that the wreckers expected to get away with considerable booty from the express ear. The place where the first attempt was made, one mile this side- of Elkhart, was one singularly well adapted for that kind pf work. It is a sparse-ly-settled locatioh. and one of the darkest places on the Lake Shore road. There is a rather sharp curve there, as is also one not far from this city. No 13. the fast express, is the same train which was so successfully looted at Kessler two months ago, and is a very heavy train, never being made up of less than ten or eleven cars. The Lake Shore Officials Aroused. The two attacks have aroused the Lake Shore officials, and every means possible will be taken to apprehend and punish the robbers in such a manner as to discourage future attempts of the kind. President John -Newell came from Chicago at noon yesterday and. was in conference with the attorneys of the road, Messrs. Baker & Miller. A reward of $4,000 will be posted all over the surrounding country for the arrest and conviction of the eight robbers, or $500 for the arrest and conviction of any one of them. Tlie Captured Robbers. Henry Zimmerman denies everything. saying that he came to Goshen from Elkhart on the passenger train Saturday night; bnt the inconsistency of the stories he tells are almost proof of his guilt. The conductor of the “pin? ’ swears that lie was not on his. train Saturday night. Zimmerman said he bought l,is ticket, at Elkhart and paid twenty-five cents, for it, while the regular fare is thirty cents. His heme is in Kendallville, and he has been in the employ of the Chicago & St. Paul road. In his shoe was found four silver dollars, which was the amount taken from the engineer, while Cone had in his possession $13, the exact amount of which Conductor Hickok was relieved. Cone claims Benton Harbor as his home and claims he is. tramping to Fort Wayne in search of employment. He does not state, however, why it. is necessary to tramp with $13 ini his pocket.