Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 April 1894 — Page 2

* She £ifc; Counttj fkraorrat M- McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. *■!—■——■———^ At the city election in Spring Hill, K&&,'oh the Sd, women were elected to all the municipal offices, including mayor, councilmen and police judges. Sib Juuan Pauncefote, British ambassador to the United States, will probably succeed Sir Edward Malet as ambassador to Germany at the end of this year. ' Hon. A. L. Thurston, of Honolulu, Hawaiian minister to the United States, was married, on the 5th, at Benton Harbor, to Miss Harriet E. Potter, of St. Joseph, Mich. The house of representatives, on the 4th, refused, by a vote of 144 to 114— less than the necessary two-thirds majority—to pass the seigniorage bill over the veto of the president. The business failures during the week ended on the 5th, numbered 249 in the United - States, against 195 for the same time last year; and 20 in Canada, against 28 last year. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, daughter o2 ‘Baroness ‘Schlinger, was convicted at Kokomo, Ind., on the 8d, of killing Oscar Walton, ooe of her tenants, andsentenced to ten years in prison. The navy department received a cable message, on the 8d, that the cruiser San Francisco arrived at St. Lucia, British West Indies, on the 2d, thus relieving the anxiety felt on her account. The public debt statement, issued on the 3d, shows a net increase in the public debt, l$ss cash in the treasury, during the month of March of $18,754,472. Total cash in the treasury $790,780,717. The decision of Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, in the Northern. Pacific cases was read on thp 6th. He strikes out the order forbidding labor union chiefs to consult with the men regarding a strike. A dispatch was received in New York city, on the 5th, stating that the decision in the South Carolina dispensary cases had been reached by the supreme cohrt of that state declaring the larWunoonslitutional.

The senate bill to enforce and give effect U> the recommendations of the Paris tribunal of arbitration for the protection of the fur seals was passed by the house of representatives, on the 5th, without division. The sentence of the naval court* martial in the Heverman case, for carelessness in permitting the Kearsarge to go on Roncador reef is two years’ Suspension on waiting orders. The court recommended clemency. * The president, on the 8d, sent to the senate the nominations of John B. Brawley, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant register of the treasury; and George A. Howard, of Tennessee, to be auditor of the treasury for the post office department A requisition from the governor of Michigan upon Gov. Flower of New York for the surrender of Thomas P. Tuite, ex-city treasurer of Detroit, “' tvho absconded from that city two years ago, taking with him funds to the amount of 515,000, was honored on the 6th. Three children of John L. Price, of Kentville, Ind., were burned to death in a fire which destroyed his cottage home late on the night of the 2d, His wife and infant child, whom he succeeded in carrying from the burning structure, were probably fatally burned. A dispatch from Seottdale, Pa., on the 5th, said: “That the strike is a failure is not questioned now, and it is only a matter of a few days until the shortest and most destructive labor trouble in the history of the coke region will be but a deplorable thing of the past.” A bill was introduced in the house, on the 4th, looking to the construction of a grand boulevard, with a roadway on each side and a promenade through the center, shaded by trees, from the Atlantic ocean at New York to the Pacific, the cost of which is roughly estimated at 5100,000,000.

President Hubbard of the Belfast blast furnace at Wheeling, W. Va.. idle for ten months, which was to have employed over 100 men, and to have been blown in on the 4th, gave notice that on account of the stride in the coke regions resumption would be postponed indefinitely. Nicaragua has sent a confidential note to all the other Central American governments inviting them to join her , in a protest against outside interference in the Mosquito country. San Salvador has refused to join in such a protest, but Honduras, which is practically ruled by Nicaragua at present, is reported to have done so. ---- A A large bomb was found jn the courthouse at Leadville, Col., on the 4th,with the fuse burned to within half an ineh of the bomb, when it had fortunately gone out. There were over hOt) persons in and around the building at the time. A reward of $1,000 was promptly offered for the apprehension of the miscreant who placed the bomb. T^e new; silver coinage bill was discussed in the German reichstag on the <Jth. Count Posadownky,secretary of the imperial treasury, who has charge of the bill, said, that it would be impossible for Germany alone to renew the coinage of silver. That was not to be expected; but as an international regulation was still a distant possibility Germany must act for the best under 4 the erir sums lances.

CUBE to TOPICS THE HEWS IH BBIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS* — Ik the senate, on the 2d, several unimportant measures having been disposed of, a bill on the subject of fur seals was, by unanimous consent for its immediate action, hurried through its regular legislative course until its final passage was pending, when, upon questions raised by Mr. Hoar, action was suspended for the tithe being, the bill being ordered printed meanwhile. Mr. Voorhees opened the tariff debate with a two hours' speech,, after which | Mr. Allison took the floor to reply, but consent- ' ed to withhold his speech, and the senate proceeded to executive business.In the house no business whatever was accomplished, filibustering against the O’Neill-Joy contestedelection case occupying the entire session. In the senate, on the 3d. the vote by which the Behring sea bill was ordered to a third reading was reconsidered. After a statement by Mr. Morgan the bill was passed. The tariff bill being'laid before the senate. Mr. Allison spoke two hours upon what he called the “defects that linger around the bllL” After an ex* ecutive session the senate adjourned — In the house, the O'Neill-Joy contested-election case was decided id favor of O'Neill (dem.), the contestant. The English-Hilborn contested-elec-I tlon case was taken up, but action was prevented by the absence of a quorum. In the senate, on the 4th, Mr. Quay presented and briefly stated the contents cf a memorial from the board of trade of Philadelphia asking for adequate duties on sugar. Mr. Allison resumed his speech in opposition to the tariff bill, and was followed by Mr. Mills in favor of the measure. After an executive session the senate adjourned..... In the house a motion to pass the seigniorage bill over* the veto of the president was defeated, the vote being: Yeas, 144: nays, 114—not the necessary twothirds. In thelsenute.on the 5th,the bill appropriating 11.000,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle was further considered. Mr. George offered a resolution—which was referred to the judiciary committee—for a 30 per cent, reduction of all United States salaries not protected by the constitution. After anexeeutive session the senate adjourned.In the house the fifth-urgent deficiency bill was passed, as was senate bill to enforce and give effect to the recommendations of the Parts tribunal of arbitration for the protection of the fur seals. Is the senate, on the 6th, after unimportant preliminary business, the tariff bill was taken up. and Mr. Peffer addressed the senate. In the course of his two hours' speech he alluded to “the army of the Commonweal’’ as a body fof men, gathering strength as it moved, like an avalanche, coming towards the capital of the nation, showing that' there was trouble brewing, and all “the result of unjust taxation''.In the house the bill was passed authorizing the secretary of the interior to lease hotel sites in the Yellowstone park. The post office appropriation bill occupied the further attention of the house until recess at 4:55 o’clock. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension bills. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Six members of the senate committee on the District of Columbia decided, onthefith.'by a vote of 4 to 2, that they would make an unfavorable report on the nomination of Charles H. J. Ta3’lor, of Kansas, -to be recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. John Murrel, of Bedford, N. Y., visited a neighbor, who was ill, on the night of the 1st. He took along his gun. His neighbor died while he was with him. When preparing to leave, Murrel’s gun exploded, killing him instantly in the room where the corpse lay. Edison says that he has worked steadily for seventy-two hours at a stretch and never felt the loss of sleep. It is safe to say that Mr. Edison c&uld not pass an examination for an appointment on a metropolitan police force. The treasury statement published on the 2d showed a deficiency for the month of March of $6,294,76}'., making the deficiency for the nine months of the current fiscal year $55,432,027. Emmett Seymour, who, on the 2d, completed a#three years’ sentence in the Anamosa (la.) penitentiary for grand larceny, was rearrested just as he stepped from the prison door. It is understood the charge this time is for the murder of his father-in-law, Geo. F. Fifield. Walter Berdan started, on the 2d, to ride on a bicycle from Denver, Col., to Paterson, N. J. The distance will be 2,500 miles by the route he will take. He will strive to make a long-distance-record. Margaret Walber, 53 years of age. was executed in Walton jail. Liverpool, on the 2d. Mrs. Walber in November last murdered her husband. The woman, who was extremely jealous of the deceased, confined him in a garret and chained and padlocked him until he was hardly able to move, and otherwise brutally ill-treated him until he died. Mr. Braida, the American consul, and Bingham, the British consul at Bluefields, have been &iven their passports by the Nicaraguan government because of their “pernicious activity” in the Mosquito territory, by which the rights of Nicaragua were disregarded. Thrke naval vessels were put in commission on the 2d—the Atlanta, at Norfolk, the Alert at Mare Island, and the Marblehead at New York. The Alert is already assigned to Behring sea service, but the others have not yet been disnnsed of.

Gol English, a brutal uxoricide, was taken from jail at Bakersville, N. C., early on the morning1 of the 31st, by a.mob and hanged. He had been confined for about a week and the talk of lynching, which was freely indulged in when he was first incarcerated, had died out, and the sheriff ceased to fear any effort in that direction. William Barnks met with a tragic death at Klinger's Lake, Ind., on the 2d. He was breaking a colt, when the animal threw him on a hedge fence which had just been trimmed. He was impaled on a sharp stick which penetrated his neck. He was dead when found. , Congressman W. L. Wilson, who is still at ex-Congressman Cable’s ranch near San Antonio, Tex., took a horseback ride on the 2d, and is rapidly gaining strength and health. James Owen O’Connor, whose aspirations to fame as a Shakespearean scholar gave him much notoriety in 1888, died recently in the insane asylum at Morris Plains, N. J. Mrs. Mary W. Faulkner, widow of the late Hon. J. C. Faulkner, and mother of Senator Charles J. Faulkner, of We6t Virginia, and of Judge. Boyd E. Faulkner, died suddenly, on the 3d, at Winchester, Va., of congee tion of the lunga

% ■ ■ James D. Yeomahs, named for the inter-state commerce commission, is now a state senator from Woodbury county. Ia. Up to fire years ago he was a resident of Buffalo, and was a warm friend of President Cleveland in his early career. He is considered a very able man. The Spanish cabinet has resolved to establish public works in the provinces of Granada, Cadiz and Andalusia for the relief of the thousands of unemployed workmen. The Iowa state senate, on the 3d, killed the valued policy bill by tabling an amendment, President Dungan ruling that the bill went to the table with the amendment. The propeller William H. Barnum, which left Chicago on the 1st, loaded with 55,000 bushels of corn, was lost in the straits of Mackinac on the 3d. The nomination of Michael Ryan to be assistant treasurer of the United States at Cincinnati was ordered to be favorably reported, on the 3d, by the senate committee on finance. A free-for-all fight between about thirty-five tramps on one side and railroad trainmen, under the leadership of Detective Graday, occurred as the westbound mail train pulled out of Lebanon, Ind., on the 4th. Two of the tramps were seriously hurt. Ex-Sheriff Leonard Tressed, recently convicted at Mansfield, O., of embezzlement on the first of several indictments found against him, was, on the 4th, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Paul J. Sorg, of Middleton, was nominated by the Third (O.) district democratic convention, on the 4th, as its candidate for congress to succeed the late George W. Honk. The pope had a fainting fit, on the 3d, which lasted half an hour. He rallied, however, and, showed no signs of weakness thereafter. , Gex. Frye’s peace army\prossed the Mississippi river at St Louis, on the« 4th. and proceeded eastward. There is a deficit of $125,000 in the Kentucky state treasury.

m* the caving-m ox one ox the snatts of the Koscheleu nine, near Breslau, on the 5th, eleven men were killed and a large number injured. The killed were nearly all buried beneath the falling earth and debris. It leaked out, on the 5th, that the Exchange national bank of Eldorado, Kas., had been robbed some days before of 515,700. The robbery was kept a secret in the hope of catching the thieves. » Cardinal Joseph Benedict Du Smet, archbishop of Cantania, died on the 5 th. He was born in 1818, and was created a cardinal in 1889. The execution of Prendergast, the Chicago assassin, has been further postponed until July 2. Taff's grain wharf at Woolwich, England, was burned, on the 5th; loss, 8250,000 The United States cruiser Lancaster arrived at Suez on the 5th. The president, on the 6th, sent to the senate the nomination of Lycurgus R. Woodward, of California, to be commissioner in and for the district of Alaska, to reside at Ounalaska. About 200 of the striking carpenters at Indianapolis, Ind., went to work, on the 6th, at the union scale. King Humbert, accompanied by Sig. Boselli, . minister of commerce, industry and agriculture, left Rome on the 5th, for Venice, to meet the German emperor. Frank P. Slavin, the pugilist, has been formally adjudged a bankrupt by the London courts. His liabilities are £700, and his assets nothing. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on ihe 7th, alter the passage of some unimportant bills an executive session was held at which, after the transaction of considerable routine business, consideration of the Chinese treatj' was taken up.In the house, no quorum appearing on one or tiyo questions of no general interest, adjournment was had at 2:10—the eulogies upon the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, going over. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 7th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, 82,802,125; loans, increase, 86,627,900; specie, decrease, 8561,200; legal tenders, decrease, 8552,800; net deposits, increase, 86,752,700; circulation, decrease. 869,200. Danjel Whorling was released from the Pittsburgh (Pa.) workhouse, on the 7th, and went to the vegetable stand kept by his wife, an estimable woman who had supported him for years, and shot her three times. She died in fifteen minutes. Three men were killed outright and three others seriously injured, on the tth, by a premature explosion of giant powder and dynamite near the new works of the Westinghouse Electric Co., now in course of construction at Brinton, Pa.

rsE.v king, ine micmgan poet ana humorist, who appeared at the opera house in Bowling Green, Ky., on the night of the 6th, with Opie Reid, was found dead in bed in his room in the Morehead house on the morning of the 7th. The navy department is not concerned about saving the wreckage from the Kearsarge, and no further attempt will be made to procure anything from the vessel, except the memorial plate and the ship’Nbllt^ Rev. W. M. Thompson, figed 85, the well-known author of “The Land and the Book,” and for forty{five years a missionary in Asia Minor, tgied, on the 8th, at his daughter’s home in Denver, Col. It is believed that the Costa Rican government has granted certain concessions to the church. Many more political prisoners have been released. Representative Whiting, of Michigan, has announced himself a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in nis state. On the 28th the New York associated banks held 880,797,175 in excess of $he requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. Col. C. S. Milla :d, one of the bestknown citizens of Indianapolis, Ind.« died, on the 8th, oi paralysis.

STATE TELEGRAMS. News Flashed Over the Wires from Indiana Cities and Towns. Travelers Menaced by a Maniac. Hammond, Ind., April h.—A young man giving the name of James Bay* ling, of Chicago, held a car full of pas* sengers at bay on the east-bound Chicago & Erie train Wednesday afternoon. He threatened to kill every one on the car, and when taken by Hammond officers was flourishing a revolver in the faces of the passengers, declaring he would shoot if they did not hand over their valuables. He was taken to the city jail, where he raved terribly and made several attempts to kill himself, which were frustrated by the jailer. It is said his parents are wealthy Chi cagoans. _ Be I* Marching Now with Coxey. Brazil, Ind., April &—Edward Blake, a well-to-do resident of Brazil, who left home threo weeks ago and was supposed to have been foully dealt with and robbed, as he had considerable money with him, wrote his wife that he had joined Coxey’s army and would tramp to Washington. Mrs. Blake received the -information Wednesday morning and left immediately for Pennsylvania to overtake her husband and induce him to give up the tramp and return home. A Young Woman Fined. Indianapolis, Ind., April 5.—Misses Agnes Cruse, Julia Green wait and Mamie Forrester, well-known young ladies of the south side, climbed the soldiers’ monument shaft a few days ago and cut their names in the stone at a distance of 234 feet from the ground. The superintendent discovered the names and swore out warrants for their arrest, and Wednesday they "were arraigned in the police court on a charge of defacing the monument. The evidence showed that Miss Forrester had done the cutting and she was fined 810 and costs. Drunken Juror Causes New tukl. Indianapolis, Ind., April 5.—Cyrus Brown, of Columbus, sentenced to hang April 16, has been granted a new trial by the supreme court for the reason that one of uie jury that condemned him was shown to have been drunk during the trial. Brown is charged with having shot his wife August 17, 1893. Three years ago his wife endeavored to have him sent to an insane hospital, and left him six weeks before he killed her. In his trial it was claimed Brow n’s mind was unsound.

Burglar* Get a Warm Recept Ion. Warsaw, Ind, April 5.—Burglars attempte d to effect an entrance into the store of George Weirick at Palestine. Weirick, who sleeps in the store, heard them and as they stepped in from the rear window fired both barrels of his shotgun, instan tly killing two of them. A third man he wounded with his- revolver. The wounded man gave his name as John Jones, but refused to give the Dimes of his comrades. > Drainage Law Unconstitutional. R enbselaeb, Ind., April 5.—Judge Wiley, of the Thirteenth judicial circuit, has decided the district drainage law of Indiana wholly unconstitutional. This law was passed by the legislature of 1893. The decision has a far-reach-ing effect throughout Indiana, and will render invalid all proceedings commenced under the law. ^Indianapolis Carpenters Strike. Indianapolis, Ind., “April 5.—The Carpenters’ council at a meeting Wednesday night voted unanimously to go on a strike. Twelve hundred union carpenters will lay down their tools. If the fight be prolonged it will affect all other building trades in the city. The carpenters want 30 cents an hour. The contractors refuse to pay more than 27% cents. Poisoned by Poke Root. Vincennes, Ind., April 5.—Four children of Frank Bilski, of Johnson township, were poisoned by eating poke root In plowing their father turned up some poke root, Which the children mistook for parsnips and ate. One child died Wednesday morning and three others are in a precarious condition. Bmn&er Swindled. Muncie, Ind, Aprils.—C. H. Church, cashier of the Delaware county national bank, was completely taken in by green-looking country youths for over $150. The boys were Leopold and Wayne Hutchinson, residing near Selma, aged 16 and 18 years. Nntnrnl Gas Explodes. Mtjncie, Ind, Aprils.—An explosion of natural gas wrecked the furnace in the cellar of the High Street Methodist church in this city, injuring Janitor G. W. Davis. The damage is slight to the building. Davis will recover.

Oldest Resident Dead. Lebanon-, In<L, April 6.—Riley Perkins, the oldest resident of this county, died Wednesday evening', aged 93 years. Sixty-eight years ago he entered the farm upon which he lived at the time of his death. __> Took Poison end Died. Shelby ville, Ind., April 5.—Lloyd McGinnis, aged 45, took poison in this ■ city and died. Domestic troubles are alleged to have caused the act Mo ginnis was a prominent local politician. •- New Concern Incorporated. Mcncie, Ind., April 5.—Articles of incorporation were filed with the county recorder Wednesday by the Hubbell ;Sulky Harrow company of Muncie; capital stock, #100,000. Fresh Supply of Natural Gas. Indianapolis, Ind., April 5. —• On Fletcher Hines’ larm, 7 miles from this city, a big flow of natural gas was struck Wednesday at 950 feet Died Suddenly. *^i Elkhart, Ind.. April 5.—Mrs. John Kelsey, one of Elkhart’s oldest residents, died suddenly Wednesday, aged % 9 years.

A TERRIBLE BLAST. Thre* M«n KUl«d and Scvenal Injured at ltrinton. Pa.. By an Explosion of Giant Powder—They Were Excavating for an Eleetrlc-Ucbt Plant and Were TtakerInc with a Charge That Had Failed to Explode Properly. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 8.—Three men were killed outright and three others seriously injured by a premature explosion of giant powder and dynamite near the new works of the Westinghouse Electric Co., now in course of construction at Brintop station. on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Braddock, at 7:30 a. m. The men were all Austrians. They were engaged in excavating for the foundation of the new electric plant. A heavy charge of giant powder was placed in the solid earth. In some unaccountable manner the dynamite cap placed on the powder went off, but did not explode the p<jw*der charge. The men were called back to drill for the powder, and in so doing their steel drills ignited ‘ the explosive. Twenty tons or more of rock fell upon the laborers, while an e<jual quantity of earth was scattered in all directions. When * the men were extricated, half an hour later, ! three were dead and three were in a critical condition. The dead were lpangled and torn almost beyond recognition. The injured were brought to the West Penn hospital. The dead were taken to an undertaker's at Turtle Creek. j A correct list of the casualties by the explosion at Brinton is as follows: , KU.LED. Nick Sischnowich, lived at Port Perry; leaves a widow and two children. ? Mike Shahn, livid at Walls; unmarried. Fred Gunter, lived at Walls; unniar* ried. •»

injured: Owen Dugan, f oreman; skull fractured, badly > burned, several ribs broken, will probably die. David Livingstone, aged 60, lived at Port Perry; limbs broken and badly bruised. Mike Bosser, legs cut and hands badly burned. The others injured are known only by numbers, their names notappearing on the company’s pay-rolls. One has several ribs broken and is otherwise badly crushed; he will likely die. Another has both legs broken, and another is badly burned about head and may lose his eyes. Eight others were more or less injured, some seriously, by flying rock and debris. A BRUTAL HUSBAND, Who Sad Lived on His Wife Earning*, Murder* Her at Her Stall In the Market House In Pittsbugrh, Pa. $ . Pittsburgh, Pa., April 8.—At 12:85 p. m. Daniel Whorling, a worthless character, fired three shots into the body of his wife, who keeps a vegetable stand in the Pittsburgh markethouse, from which she died in about fifteen minutes. Whorling had just been released from the workhouse, where he had been sent on complaint of his wife, who for a number of years had supported the dissolute husband, herself and children. When Whorling was sent to the workhouse, his wife, who was an estimable woman, notified h im that he could no longer depend upon her for support. Whorling returned home and asked his wife if she still meant what she had told him. She quietly said that she did, whereupon Whorling drew a, revolver and fired. At the first shot the woman ran for the markethouse door. Two shots followed in quick succession and the wife dropped to the floor unconscious. Harry Exler, a member of the city fire department, ran up and arrested the murderer. The markethouse was thronged at the time and there was great excitement. Hut for the prompt arrival of the patrol force, the assassin would doubtless have, been lynched. Whorling was removed to the central police station and locked up. The Homeopathic hospital ambulance was called, but before that institution was reached the woman was dead. The body was taken to the morgue. She was 35 years of age, and leaves two children. IS LE CARON DEAD?

ft lit Claimed the British Spy Has Been Departed to a Distant Colony to Secure His Personal Safety. London, April S.—-The Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette says that a report is current that Maj. Le Caron, the British government spy, who was so prominently connected with the prosecution of Charles Stewart Parnell, and who was apnouneed to have died recently in this city, is not dead. The Gazette adds that rumor has it that Le Caron is now en route to one of the most distant colonies under a government officer’s protection. It is added that this disappearance of the British spy is due to the fact that the detectives who have been guarding Le Caron ever since he was brought so strongly into public notice discovered some time time ago that a Fenian plot, having its ramifications in New York and other American cities, existed with the object of puttin him out of the way. A Couple of St. Louis Crooks Arrested for the Freeburs (111-) <fob. St. Louis, April 8.—James Rooney, alias Kelly, alias Spoons, and James Crawford, alias Sam McCord, were arrested Friday night at 230 South Eighth street^ in this city, on a charge of complicity in the safe-blowing Thursday night at Reichert’s mill,Freeburg, St. Clair county, 111. A crook is said to have informed against Rooney, stating that he was one of the gang of safe-blowers who have been operating here, but the prisoner has not yet been shown to have been in the Reichert job.

UNDER THE DEBRIS. CollapM or a Crowded Tenement BnlldIn* In Memphis, Toon —F®ar Person* Milled. Five In Jared And Many Mis* In*, the Latter. Supposed to be Dead to the Ruins—Horrifying Scene# Attending the Work ef Rescue. Memphis, Tenn., April 9.—Four cheap coffins laid in a row in the morgue, and five bandaged forms reposing on cots at the city hospital, represent the dead and injured taken from the debris of a tenement building on the northeast corner of De Soto and Beale streets, at 7:15 o’clock yesterday morning. There is no doubt that there aremore bodies beneath the immense pile of brick, lime, sand and splintered timbers that now covers the place where the building stood, but it is safe to say that no haste that may be made for the recovery of the bodies will avail to save life. ' , JJIE COLLAPSE WAS WITNESSED HY SEVERAL FERSONSThe collapse took place at 7:15 o’clock yesterday morning. It was witnessed be several persons on the outside, and several qf those who were on the inside survive to relat^what little they know of this, one of tlie most appalling disasters that ever occurred iu Memphis, There was a creaking and cracking, A swaying of walls,then the collapse,that came with a crash. A great cloud of dust floated out upon the air, filling the street each way for a block. There was a hurrying forward of police, firemen and citizens, and then the work of rescue began.

CHANCES FOR RECOVERY DOUBTFUL. Of the injured the chances for the recovery of Cora Murphy and Catherine Boyd are extremely doubtful. All ' the persons taken from the building are colored. The building was erected thirty-four years ago. It was of brick, three and a half stories high, with a slate roof. While it was4 all one building, it was divided by a thick wall into two compartments.' The building had never been condemned as unsafe. It was considered as one of the staunchest of the older buildings in this city. HORRIFYING SCENES. p The scenes attending the rescue were horrifying in the extreme. The bodies that were found with life extinct were all badly crushed, the flesh tom and mutilated, and some of them were almost nude. A half hour after the collapse occurred, the news of it had traveled over the entire city and the attendance at the churches ‘showed a decided falling off, as the worshipers could not resist the temptation of visiting the grewsome place. The, result was that a great crowd gathered there until Beale and DeSoto streets in the vieinity were densely packed. The time for church services came and went and still the crowd remained. As each corpse was lifted out. a groan would go up. The noon hour brought no diminution of the mass of people, and the heat of the afternoon was unnoticed by the throng. When darkness set in there was still a large gathering. THE WORK OF RESCUE. Men went to work on the debris as soon as the collapse took place. First 1 an old negro woman shook the dust from off her back, arose from the top of the heap and got away without assistance. Then the form of a woman was lifted out, still alive; and soon the * body of a man still breathing was pulled out. These were sent to the city hospital. Then came a corpse, and so the work of rescue proceeded slowly throughout the day. The exact number of lives lost will’not he known until the debris is cleared, away. There were about fifty rooms in the tenement, about half of which were occupied. Twenty-two people were known to be in the building at the time of the collapse. Of these six escaped with- > out serious injury, four were ..taken out dead, five wounded, and the remain- ^ der are missing. 1 AGAIN AT LIBERTY.

Second Escape of the Famous Train Robber and Desperado, tV O. Summers, From the Mississippi Penitentiary. Memphis, Tenn., April 9. — A dispatch to the Commercial i'rom Jackson, - Miss., says: C. O. Summers, the famous train robber and desperado, again made his escape from the penitentiary yesterday. This is the second escape within the last few months. The one yesterday was as adroitly planned and skillfully executed as the other. In his escape a few months ago he fooled, the guard by telling him the sergeant wanted to see him and he had instructed him to act as guard till he returned. The gun was handed him, and during the brief interval Summers succeeded in leaving and was not heard from again till Pinkerton caught him in California. Yesterday Summers carried the guard off with him. Everythingpoints to the fact of a perfect under* ' standing between the two. Several days since, the guard purchased three suits of clothes, two of which the couple left in to-day, leaving their convict’s clothes in the guards’ tower. The escape was made soon after 0 o’clock yesterday morning. Summers answered to the fi o’clock roll call. Shortly after this a prisoner saw Summers and Guard George Funches enter the tower, and a few minuted later swing themselves ..off from the wall with a new rope. He gave the alarm, but before pursuit could be started, f the fugitives had disappeared. Attempted Murder and Suicide by a Jealous Lover. St. Louis, April 9.—Driven by jealousy to the verge of insanity, John Furzen Heinz shot his sweetheart, Emma Strahl, and then . turning the weapon on himself, inflicted wounds that will likely prove fatal. The tragedy occurred at 4:30 o’clock yesterday morning in front of the residence of the girl’s parents, 2008 North Eleventh street, where the two had just returned from a ball, H^inz was removed to the . City hospital and the girl carried into her home.