Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 December 1893 — Page 6

£hc f i fee C0imtg Jeraaerat M McC. STOOPS, Fditor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. 1 Ax earthquake shock was felt at River Moisie, Quebec, at 5 o’clock on the morning of the 1st. The American Crayon Co.’s extensive works at Tiffin, O., were destroyed by fire on the 1st; loss, $40,000. In the highest and most reserved circles of Rome it is said to be well known( that the present dream of the Vatican is the establishment of a federal Italian republic ■ The imports, exclusive of specie, at the port of New York, for the week ended on the 25th, were $6,880,887, of which $1,180,072 were dry goods and 500,765 general merchandise. Tns failures throughout the United States for the week ended on the 2d number 278, against 236 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 48, against S3 last year. The duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (duchess of Edinburgh) has ordered that her share of the income from the ducal domains be devoted to charity, mainly in the form of Christmas gifts to the poor. . King Humbert of Italy had a long conference, on the 28th, with Signor Zanardalli. who was summoned, on the ■87th, to form a cabinet. The conference turned upon the reduction of the army by two corps. The indicted officers of the wrecked Madison Square bank of New York appeared before Recorder Smythe, on the 1st, and pleaded not guilty, with the privilege to withdraw or put in a demurrer within a week. The forty-ninth birthday anniversary of the princess of Wales, was celebrated in London, on the 1st, in the customary manner. The queen gave a dinner at Windsor castle in the evening in honor of the princess. An order for retrenchment was sent out by the officials of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad on the 80th. The order was issued along the vyhole line from Pittsburgh to Chicago, and affects more than 3,000 men. Letters found upon the body of Augustus M. Scriba, ex-United States bank examiner, who committed suicide in San Francisco, on the 27th, set up the claim that he was a descendant of” Alfred the Great, the first Saxon king of England. TnE resignation of General Master Workman Powderly was accepted with practical unanimity by the delegates of the Knights of Labor in session in Philadelphia, on the 27th, and J. R. Sovereign, of Iowa, was chosen to fill the vacancy.

Mrs. Sylvanrs Miller, of Alliance, O., has gone insane as a result of visiting the World’s fair. It is said the sights .in the art gallery turned her head. Mrs. Miller is the second victim in Alliance of the same unhappy result of visiting the great Columbian exposition. The funeral of Congressman Charles O’Neill, the “father of the house of representatives,” who died at his home in Philadelphia, on the 35th, took place, on the 27th, from the Arch-street Presbyterian church, of which Mr. O’Neill was a member, to West Laurel Hill cemetery. Arrangements were completed, on the 38th, whereby Schaefer and Ives will play a match of 14-inch balk-line billiards next January for $2,500 a side. The event will take place in Chicago and will last six nights, 600 points to be played<each night. The anchor shot will be barred. The credit mobilier of Rome has suspended payment. The news of the suspension created a deep impression, owing to the various branches the concern had in different parts of,Italy, all the depositors in which will suffer severely. The failure is attributed to the fall in rentes. SqHEiG and Floyd, the two Americans arrested in London on the charge qf having robbed the bank of Minneapolis, Minn., of $90,000, were on the 28th, arraigned in the Bow-street extradition court and again remanded to allow the magistrate time to examine the extradition papers. On the 1st the Brazilian rebel admiral Mello ran his flagship, the Aquidaban, out of the bay of Rio Janeiro, where he had been hemmed in by the: fire from the federal forts ever since proclaiming the insurrection. The spassage was not made without receiving and inflicting considerable damage. In the British house of lords, on the 10th, the marquis of Ripon, secretary of state for the colonies, moved the second reading of the employers’ liability bill. He argued that a settlement would be impossible if workmen were allpwed to contract themselves out of the benefits of compensation for injuries. The Spanish government has appointed a commission to visit the 'United States with a view to increasing the export of Spanish wines to this country. The commission is charged to study the native American wines, in the belief that the Spanish wines .are adapted for blending with Califor’ma wines. The governor of Barcelona stated, on the 38th, that fifteen anarchists, eleven of whom are Spaniards, would be charged with complicity in the recant dynamite outrage at the Lyceum theater. One hundred and eighteen persons were detained on suspicion of .'having been in some manner concerned jin the outrage

CUBBENT TOPICS THE HEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The closing1 4own of the iron mines in the upper peninsula of Michigan has thrown thousands of men out of employment—estimates range all the way from 10,000 to 15,000—and caused great destitution. Gov. ” Rich invited the mayors of all the principal cities in Michigan and leading men from the upper peninsula to meet in Detroit and take some action toward relieving the distress. A large mass meeting was held at the opera house in Terre Haute, Ind., on the night of the 26th, for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the great distress prevailing among the unemployed. Senator Voorhees and ex-Sec-retary of the Navy Thompson addressed the meeting. Senator Voorhees prophesied that within ninety days the greater part of the present industrial depression would be over. William W. M armor was found dead in his bed at his home in Bloomington, 111., on the morning of the 26th. It is •belieyed he died from apoplexy early in the night He was 61 years old, and had been engaged in the wholesale drug business at Bloomington for more than forty years. The tariff bill of 1893, prepared by the democratic majority of the ways and means committee, was submitted to the minority, on the 27th, for their information and consideration. The republicans,-under the rules, have ten days in which to prepare their report, at which time the majority report will be finished, and the bill will then be presented to the house. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt, on thg^27th, at Montreal and many other places in Canada. Herbert Skii.es, colored, of Louisville, Ky., is ill of varioloid, which he and his physician say he contracted in a laundry where Pullman Car Co. linnen was washed. The United States supreme eourt, in an opinion read by Chief Justice Fuller on the 27th, dismissed the appeal of James Lennon from the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio. This is the case growing out of the famous strike last spring on the Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad, in which Lennon, a Lake Shore engineer, was fined $50 for contempt of court in refusing to haul his train because it contained some Ann Arbor cars. Ikihctmen'ts charging perjury, fraudulent insolvency and misdeameanor in receiving deposits after the institution was known to be insolvent, were found,on the 37th, against the officers and directors of the Madison Square (New York) bank. Joseph F. Blaut, the president, was indicted on two counts for perjury. The trial of Ud Markley, the bogus foot-racer, at Fairfield, la., resulted in a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to the Fort Madison penitentiary for three years. This case was one that attracted much attention on account of the prominence of parties connected with it. The American bark Helen W. Olm reached San Francisco, on the 96th, from Apia, Samoa, bringing news that the schooner Fleur-de-Lis foundered during the gale off Butaritari. Thecrew escaped in small boats.

It was learned, on the 38th, that Mrs. Balfour and her daughter had sailed from London for Buenos Ayres to join her husband, Jabez Spencer Balfour, late member of parliament, who is a fugitive from English justice. He became mixed up in the fraudulent transactions of several building societies, and when the crash came fled to the Argentine republic, where he is living in style about 35 miles from Buenos Ayres. It is rumored that starving miners at Iron wood, Mich., are eating dogs. Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, on the 38th, ordered an investigation and gave instructions that relief be forwarded from Hurley, if the report should be found to be true, until relief arrived from the Michigan authoreties. Baron Manderode, chief of the Berlin political police, was, on the 38th, charged to investigate the attempt to assassinate Chancellor von Caprivi by an infernal machine sent from Orleans, France. The president has appointed Col. E. D. Otis, Twentieth infantry, to be a brigadier-general in the army, to succeed Gen. Carlin, recently retired. Capt. Marshall Perry Wu.i>,known to almost every actor of note in America, died at Portland, Me., on the 38th, very suddenly, aged 62 years. He was the intimate friend and advertising agent of Artemus Ward. He was also the manager for Charles Dickens when he made his tour of this country reading from his own work. The general assembly of the Knights of Labor at Philadelphia adjourned, on the 38th, after passing a vote of thanks to ex-General Master Workman Powderly for services rendered to the order during the past seventeen years and of kindly wishes for his future, to meet in New Orleans next year. On the 27th King Humbert charged Zanardelli, president of the chamber of deputies, with the formation of a cabinet. * It was reported at Buffalo, ST. Y., on the 27th, that the strike on the Lehigh Valley railroad would be extended to the Nickel Plate, Erie, Lake Shore and West Shore roads. The people of Rhode Island, on the 28th, voted on an amendment to the constitution in favor of plurality elections in place of majority elections, as at present. The change has been demanded for years, and the proposed amendment was introduced into the last senate and received the support of all parties, and the people, by an overwhelming majority,decided in its favor. Death dissolved the firm of H. Ken nedy & Son, architects and builders, St. Louis, on the 28th. Henry Kennedy, aged 88, the senior member, died at noon, from old age. Herbert F. Kennedy, aged 45, the junior membar, passed away at 7 p. m., a viotim of pneumonia.

Mbs. Thomas Wilkins, whose stage name is Dollie Emerson, was held up in front of her residence in Denver, Col., on returning from the theater, on night of the 27th, by three masked men, who took a diamond necklace and other jewelry amounting in value ; to $1,700. Her husband was with hei at the time. After a consultation between the attorneys in the Coughlin case at Chicago, on the 28th, State's Attorney Kearn said that Jurors Gates and Wilson, who were charged with securing their places on the jury by fraud, would be dismissed by consent of the lawyers for the defense. At Eau Claire, Wis., a negro tramp crawled into a car of lumber bound for Burlington, la., and lay down on top of the pile. He fell asleep, and the lumber being wet swelled up, crushing him against the roof of the car. When the car arrived at its destination, on the 28th. the dead body was found. Members of the New York cotton exchange had their annual guessing match, on the 28th, on the cotton crop for the year ending next September. ; Estimates were submitted by 140 memI bers. They ranged from 0,750,000 bales to 7,885,000 bales. The average was 7,2S4,708 bales. Fifty millions of dollars, in round numbers, represent the capital employed in the lumber industry of the Pacific coast, which, it is claimed, will suffer serious loss if lumber is placed upon the free list. On the 29th Henry Disston's Sons, saw, file and tool makers of Philadelphia, announced a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of their employes. Their works are the largest in the world. United States Minister Baker has requested the government of San Salvador to arrest Louis F. Menage, the Minneapolis (Minn.) embezzler. On an average there are fifty cases of cholera and fifteen deaths daily in Pera, Turkey. The disease is still more severe in Constantinople. The great ship canal connecting Manchester, England, with the sea, will be opened to traffic on the 7th. The quarantine at Constantinople ! against western arrivals has been reduced to twenty-four hours. The situation in Madagascar is reported to be serious. France has sent an inspector to Tamatave to watch French interests. Judge Edward Coke Billings, of the United States court for the Eastern district of Louisiana, died, on the 1st, at his summer residence in .New Haven, Conn, aged 64. Tiie Hotchkiss Ordnance Co. started up its two factories at Providence, K. I., on the 29th, on 24-hour time, the orders for torpedoes having been largely increased. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fc Railroad Co. has contracted with the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia for the building of seventy-one locomotives. The public debt statement issued on the 1st shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during November of $6,716,18S.47. The Erie Railroad Co. defaulted on its second consolidated mortgages, on the 1st, but paid the interest on its funded fives. The duke of Leinster died at Carton, county Kildare, Ireland, on the 1st, of typhoid fever. He was born August 16, 1851. Hon. Barelett Tripp, American minister to Austria-Hungary, gave a banquet in Vienna, on the evening of the 30tli, in celebration of the American Thanksgiving day.

LATE NEWS ITEMS, -Nicholas Bergstrom and his wire and two children, aged la and 10 respectively, and a young habe, were buried under a snowslide, at Glendale, Mont., on the 2d. Bergstrom and two of the children were killed, but the mother and her babe were dug out without receiving serious injury. At least a score of building and loan associations in western Pennsylvania have gone out of business, pending a revival of prosperity. The embarrassments were due to the failure of members to meet their obligations either on stock, statements or loans. The steamship New York, of the American line, sailed from Southampton, on the 2d, for New York, having on board in custody of United States officers, Philip Scheig and Prank Floyd, charged with robbing the bank of Minneapolis, Minn., of $90,000. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Standard says that China is preparing to support actively Great Britain’s policy towards Siam. Four British gunboats and several Chinese war ships were reported on their way to Bangkok. Among the passengers on the steamer La Bretagne, from New York for Havre, on the 2d, were L. G.' Stevenson, the son of the vice-president, and his wife, who are bound for Europe on their wedding tour. The Fifty-third congress assembled in regular session on the 4th at 12 o’clock. The session is expected to be the most active and probably the most exciting that has been held in many years. The Swiss government denies that it is about to expel hundreds of anarchists from the republic. No such action will be taken as long as the anarchists remain inactive. Hon. William C. Owen, of Scott county, Ky., has stated positively that he is unconditionally a candidate for congress in opposition to Col. W. C. Breckinridge. .The attempt of the London anarchists to hold a mass meeting in Trafalgar square, on the 8d, proved a dismal failure. Senator Hawlet says the republicans in the senate will make no factious opposition to the Wilson tariff bill. The trial of Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison of Chicago, was begun on the 4th. Lake navigation at Buffalo, N. Y., was practically closed on the 2d. The earl of Warwick died, on theBd, at Warwick castle.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Two ijttlz daughters of Davis Davis, Veedersburg, were burned to death in a fire caused by an overturned lamp Mrs. Davis was also fatally burned. A I.ARGELY attended mass meeting was held at the opera house for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the great distress prevailing here among the unemployed. Senator Voorhees and ex-Seeretary of the Navy Thompson addressed the meeting. 1 Senator Voorhees prophesied that within ninety days the greater part of the present industrial depression would be over. Uxioxtows, near Seymour, the other night, furnished a quadruple murder, followed by suicide. It is stated that John Foster, a well, to do, but erratic farmer of Uniontown, in a fit of temporary insanity, killed his wife and their three children with a revolver, and then blew out his own brains. Foster has always been regarded by his fellow-villagers as a little weak-minded and queer. He has frequently had trouble with his wife, and several years ago they separated. Recently a reconciliation was affected and Foster returned to his family. There was no witness to the terrible affair, but the position of the bodies point to the fact that the wife was the first one killed, and the slaughter of the three children followed, then his suicide. Eight tramps attempted to overpower the crew of a freight train on the Lake Shore railroad, near Goshen, late the other night, intending to uncouple several of the cars and leave them standing on the track so that the fast express could dash into them, leaving the dead and wreckage to be plundered. Owing to the plucky behavior of the crew, however, they were foiled. John Messick, a trakeman in ■ the Alonon yards at Bedford, fell under the wheels from the top of a box car, and both his legs were cut off above the knees. He was also severely injured internally and can not possibly live. At Marion Wm. Mendenhall was thrown upon his head from a wagon in a runaway, and has since been lying unconscious, with but slight prospects of recovery, lie is a well-known citizen of Marion. He is being cared for at the home of David Overman. George Jordan, a well-known and wealthy farmer, was found lying in his yard, west of Richmond, the other morning,with a bullet hole in his head and a loaded revolver at his side. It is thought that he suicided, but as no cause can be assigned for such a deed a theory of murder exists. At Indianapolis the U. S. grand jury, before it'adjourned the other day, voted to indict the five men who are under bond for the wrecking of the Indianapolis National bank. These are Theodore P. Haughey, president of the Indianapolis National bank; Schyler C. Haughey, president of the Indianapolis Glue Co. and of the Indianapolis curled hair works; -Francis A. Coffin, president of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co.; Percival 11 Coffin, secretary of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co.; A. S. Reed, treasurer of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co^ The other forenoon, while John Grondahl and family, living east of Chesterton, were attending church, parties entered the house, taking every thing of value they could carry away with thftm k«TPt,lipr with n. rvwkpt*

book containing a sum of money and several valuable notes, and two revolvers. Upon the return of the family the above discovery was made, and search was made, and tracks leading toward Chesterton were found. ,A stranger visited the saloons of Chesterton in the afternoon, and was spending considerable money. When the robbery was reported in Chesterton he was hunted up, and found on the street in company with another man. When an attempt was made to arrest them they showed fight, one of them being knocked down and severely injured. He broke away, and in his effort to escape' shot at the crowd. He was followed through the park, and captured. He gave his name as John Wolf, of Cleveland, O. His injuries are considered serious, as he was kicked in the head and side several times Ed McGuire, a cattle thief, of Bloomfield, was taken to the penitentiary to serve out a five-year sentence. He had pleaded guilty. Redfield Nelson, a farmer living about eight miles above Petersburg, was killed by a falling tree, his body being frightfully mangled. Al-McPherson, who walked out of the courthouse at Indianapolis, where he was being tried for criminal assault, went straight to the house of John Haviland and robbed it of $25. A determined gang of thieves looted the town of Linwood, just north of Anderson, robbing the post office, railway office and two stores The Martinsville electric light and power plant was sold at auction for $70,000 to the Central Thomson-Houston Co., of Cincinnati Mrs Perry Layman, who lives in tjie oil field, eight miles north of Portland, while building a fire in the cook stove was literally roasted from head to foot .She can not recover. Wit Winn and his son Hord, managers of the Nutt house, Crawfordsville, have disappeared. An Anderson firm has patented a new balloting machine, built after the order of a cash register,each key bearing the name of a candidate. Each vote is numbered as cast the result being that in twenty minutes after the polls close the result is known. After a chase, during which the fugitive dodged three shots from a policeman’s revolver, at Lafayette the other night Peter Early was captured with an arm-load of canned goods that had been stolen from a Monon car. The Citizens’ Street Railway Co., of Indianapolis, ; was informed the other day of a plot to blow np its powerhouse. It is supposed the scheme was gotten up by discharged employes. Lanham’s road house, east of Indianapolis, was burned to the ground the other morning. It was a well known sporting resort The suburban residents objected to it and incendiarism is charged. Loss, 17,000

DUN'S REVIEW. Th© General Condition of Trade nnd FU nnnre Throughout the Country ns Reflected by R. G. Dnn * Co.*s Weekly Review—Tariff Uncertainties Thought to be Affecting Some Linen—Money Abundant nnd Rates Lower, But Industries Waiting for a More Settled State of Affairs— Business Failures! Etc. New York, Dec. 3.—R. G. Dun A Co/s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: It cannot be said that business during the past week has grown better or worse. For some days the gain in demand and In trunsaeactions which had been previously noticed continued. But afterwards tariff uncertainties were thought to affect some branches of business, and whatever the causes, the state of trade was less clear. Money was everywhere abundant, with rates comparatively lower, and commercial demand was remarkably small, while the demand for speculative uses appeared to be increasing. When these are symptoms of a transition state, ordinary indications tafcjed upon the course of business down to a tew Ida.?* ago are not as valuable as usual, but ou the whole such signs are, however, less encouraging than they were a week ago. Reports of different branches of trade and from different cities frequently mention the tariff uncertainties as a cause of natural hesitancy, but it will take some time to determine whether the general tendency toward improvement has been checked, or to what extent. The volume of trade has been somewhat increasing, and yet not as much as expected, the exchanges for last week showing a decrease of 36.5 per cent, compared with last year, iu part because the week covers only live business days against six last year. For two weeks, covering the same working days, the decrease has been 33.3 per cent. The railroad earnings' for -the last week of November show a larger decrease than for either of the preceding weeks, but in freight alone the business was about the same as for the first half of the month. In general the statement shows a slight increase in eastern traffic and u heavy decrease on western and Pacific coast business. But the report covers a period ending more than a week ago. and casts only an uncertain light on the present situation. Speculative markets have shown but little change except for trust stocks, which average t&per share lower, with railroad stocks but a sliade lower. Wheat is slightly stronger, receipts being considerably smaller than in recent weeks, though exports are also remarkably small. Corn is unchanged ia price, with ■heavy western receipts and large exports. Pork nrd hog products are jprsftfically unchanged as well us oil. Cotton is a shade lower, as receipts from the plantations continue to exceed those of last year, in spite of the very positive estimates of a short yield, aud the average of guesses by operators on the New Orleans cotton exchange is over 700.00J bales greater than the government estimate. The stocks of American cotton in sight are again so large that they retard any rise in prices. The industries are waiting with visible uncertainty regarding the outcome of legislation, and beliefs that the pendiog tariff bill will or will not be passed, affect action as much as the varying judgments in regard to its effect if passed. At 'present the iron i ndustry shows no gain, on the whole, with the demand for pig iron not urgent, and bessemer iron a little lower at Pittsburgh with no sales of rails at the combination price, and with slightly lower prices for some finished products. and a rather scanty demand for any. It is questionable whether the working force employed is larger than it was a week ago. The cotton manufactures show a decided improvement because the market is in urgent ueed of more goods, but there is no change in prices. The sales of wool ure again larger than for the same week last year, amounting to 6.619.80) pounds, against 4.354.500 pounds last year, but that part of the transactions are said to be speculative in their nature, being based on the tueory that whatever may happen later, the necessities of the Country will compel a larger consumption of wool within the next few months. Nevertheless. dispatches show that several woolen works have been closed within the past week for lack of orders, and the increase in demand for goods, which appeared to some extent a week or two ago. cannot be said to continue. In boots and shoes no increase in the workiug force is seen, and while eastern shipments are cnly about 9 per cent, less than a year ago. the greater portion of the works have orders only for part of their capacity.

I Ilf vast accumulation or line money icnusic stimulate speculation, but it is not a good symptom. It shows a remarkable shrinkage in the volume of trade, and the reports from all quarters make it clear that the demand for money is unusually light for the season. Kates are exceptionally low here, and this helps to prevent the movement of gold which the state of foreign trade might now usually cause. The domestic exports for four weeks from New York amount in value to $30,112.339, against $29,871,173. while the decrease in imports is over $18.0(X),(XX>, or 38 per cent, for the four weeks, so that the excess of exports for the whole country must be large. But exchange bills against productions are exceptionally scarce: no gold comes this week, and heavy shipments of silver are made to London, the price declining, although India is taking more than last year. Apparently the country is paying off with its surplus, loans amounting to many millions which were effected in Europe to avoid very great disaster last summer. The failures this week number 278 In the United States, against 236 last year: and 48 in Canada, against 33 last year. TOO MUCH MARRYING It Likely to Urt a South Dakota Merchant Into Serious Trouble. Kimball. S. D., Dec. 2.—Something of a sensation has been created here by the action of the supreme court in affirming- the decision of the lower court requiring L. D. Bardin to pay temporary alimony and.nttornevs’ fees to his second wife, who is suing for a divorce/ Mr. Bardin is one of the leading merchants of this place, and is prominent in social affairs. His first wife died four years ago and about a yeai later he masried a Mrs. Osborne, of Troy, N. Y. He brought her here with him and introduced her as his wife. They lived together almost a year, finally quarrelling and separating, whereupon she begun suit for divorce. Soon after the suit was begun Mr. Bardin went to New York and married a Mis» Hattie O. Gile, and is now living with her. Mr. Bardin’s defense in the suit is that he was never legally married to No. 2, as she had a husband living at the time from whom she had never been divorced. She claimed that while this was true, she did not know his whereabouts, and under the New York law needed no divoroe. The action of the supreme court indicates her position was 'well taken, and also indicates that she will obtain a divorce when the case comes to trial. Soldiers Sent Against Rebels Kill Their Officers aud Join tbe Enemy. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 3.—Some exciting news is given out from Mexican revolutionary sources here. It is to the effect that the cavalry force which left San Jose two weeks ago for the seat of the disturbance, on the fourth day out murdered the most of their officers and joined the revolutionary contingent, now under the command of Santa Ana Perez >n person. This became known to President Diaz a a week ago, and is given *as a reason for the lack of aggressiveness by th« government.

^■HERDED LIKE CATTLE. Extraordtaarv Fmk of a fianc of B«U. Robbers-The Victims Robbed »mi Placed Voder Ouard—A Cautious Conductor WUIt Determination and Courage for UL { Emergency, and a Train-Load of Badly Scared Passengers. Cedar Rapids, la., Dec. ■*.—About T o'clock Saturday night three men entered the depot of the Chicago & Northwestern at Luzrene, a little town west of here, and at the point of a revolver, commanded the agent to deliver the money he had. lie quickly gave up the express and railroad money, when the bandits opened the door to the freight room and pushed him in. telling him not to make any noise, and that if he attempted ,to escape he would be shot. In a few minutes the night operator came down to relieve the day man, and the robbers, went through his pockets and pushed him. also into the freight room. After a few minutes more of waiting the conductor of a special train1 went into the depot, and the robbers had hardly time to dispose of him before in walked the tPain crew. "Hold up your hands!” shouted the largest of the highwaymen, and his con federates quickly went through their pockets and relieved them of their money and watches. The men were sent to join the gang in the freight room. It was getting to be near tyain time. A stranger went into the station, and. was about to ask for a ticket to Chicago. He joined his fellow-unfortu-nates, and the door opened to allow the postmaster to enter. He was treated . as had been the others. It was now nearing the time for passenger No. S from the west to areiye. Tlie instrument in the office was clicking away, but there was no one there to answer it, and those who had been robbed were standing huddled, up in the little room shaking with fear, wondering what would happen next. Hut they were not the only ones wondering No. 8 had arrived at Belle l’lain. the next station west, and was waiting tb hear from Luzrgne before proceeding on. No amount of calling could get an answer from there, however. and after waiting half an hour over time, Conductor Ward in desperation took one of the operators'from the office at Belle Plaine and started out' on a slow run for Luzrene. When his train pulled into the depot. Conductor Ward jumped off and started for the depot. As he did so, the robbers came out of the depot and passed him. The tallest of them stepped in front of him and closely peered into his face. The conductor took ho notice of this at the time, but ran into the building. But no one, was there. He called out and wanted to know what was the. matter. An answer came from the freight room, and opening the door, he saw the men all huddled up in a corner. After a recital of the story of the last few hours and the- conductor remembering the men he had passed, hastily hurried to his train. He opened the door and shouted: "Every man who has a gun get it ready. I think the train is going to be held up.” He went all through the train, telling the passengers what was about to happen. The greatest excitement prevailed, the women screaming, and proceeding to secret their valuables. The men who possessed revolvers hastily inspected them and awaited the threatened attack. But it never came. After waiting some time the train pulled out and reached here at 1:10 o'clock yesterday morning, nearly three hours late, when the first news of the robbery became known. Descriptions of the men have been telegraphed to all . points within a radius of 100 miles, and 1 their capture is probable.

WHERE WERE THE POLICE? Extensive Safe Kobbery in Brooklyn Hardware Store. Xew York, Dec. 4.—Burglars forced their way into the safe of S. 0. Burnett's hardware store, in Brooklyn, Saturday night and stole securities valued at more than $60,000. They broke the combination from a large safe by a soldering iron, -which was afterwards found in the rear of the store. They secxired stocks and bonds of the Brooklyn City Railroad Co., the King's county bank, Edison Illuminating Co-, Toledo & Ohio Railroad Co. and several insurance companies. The bonds and mortgages amount to $15,400, and the stock id the various companies to $4-2.536. To break into the safe and secure the papers must have taken at least twenty minutes. The policeman on the beat is supposed to pass the store' every quarter of an hour. This is one of the busiest parts of the city, and much, excitement prevailed among the business men of the vicinity when the fact of the robbery was learned. Mother and Daughter Frozen to Death, Pine Crrv. Minn., Dec. S.—Mrs. Russell and eldest daughter, 18-year-old, were frozen to death in the woods threo miles from their home. They followed a horse till lost and failing to catch him could not reach home and so perished. Several small children who were found at hdr home by the party who found the woman and daughter, were almost frozen. A Denial. Berne, Dec. 4.—The Swiss government denies that it is about to expel hundreds of anarchists from the republic. No such action will bq taken" as long as the anarchists in Switzerland remain inactive. The J>per»' Friend. Berlin, Dec. 4.—Kate Marsden, tvho is stopping here for a few days before continuing her journey to St. Petersburg, gave an interview yesterday concerning her work among the lepers. Although she has found a herb which is useful as a preventive, the only sure way is still the isolation of the patient Her last book on the “Lepers of Siberia” had not given offense in St Petersburg. The high Russians, from the empress, down, had no unpleasant feeling toward her. Everybody whom she had mft, Miss Marsden said, had been eager to help kes. «