Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 June 1894 — Page 2

£hr §?ilw County Brmorrat X- McC. 8TOOP8, Editor tad Proprietor 'PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Thk bullion in the Bank of England increased £1,034,064 during the week ended on the 21st. The Hungarian house of magnates, oni 'he 21st, passed the civil marriage bill py a majority of three. is announced by private letters JPFom Japan that the sealing schooner Unga was lost by capsizing in a typhoon together with all on board. Thk Williams Palace Car Co., cap- * italiaed atf $3,000,000, will soon begin the construction of cars in St. Joseph, Mo., to compete frith the Pullman and Wagner companies. It said is that glacial action in the moving of mountains on the jight-of-way of the U nion Pacific along the Columbia river may result in damages it will take $1,300,000 to repair. The honorary degree of D. C. L. was conferred on Capt. Alfred T./ Mahan of the United States cruiser Chicago, by the university of Oxford, England, at Its commemoration festival. . Omaha and Lincoln, in Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, in Iowa, together with many smaller towns in both states, suffered from a cyclone on the afternoon and night of the 20th. „<

The military governor of Antwerp apologized to Admiral Erben, on- the 19th, for oversight in not replying to the salute of the Chicago when she arrived at that port a few day's before. The senate of^he Dublin university decided, on the 31st, to confer the degree of LL. P. upon Lord Charles llussell, of England; Bishop Stevens, of Ohio, and Bishop Walker, of Dakota. Ox the 19th the budget committee of the French chamber of deputies rejected the supplementary credit of 38,000 francs asked for by the government in connection with the Chicago World’s fair. A resolution demanding the resignations of the national^fficers of the United Mine Workers for compromising the strike was tabled in the convention of Ohio miners at Columbus on the 31st. A decision of the supreme court of Ohio in the case of the State vs The Lake Erie Iron Co. of Cleveland, holds the law requiring semi-monthly payment of wages to employes to be unconstitutional. Rev. R. H. Rivers, D. D., one of the most distinguished ministers of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, died, on the 31st. at the residence of his son, B. M. Rivers, in Louisville, Ky., aged 80 years. - On the 33d Emperor William caused the arrest of his own chamberlain, Von Kotze, whom he detected in writing anonymous letters, containing ihfamous accusations and dire threats, to Berliners in high life. On the 20tfi the grand-jury at Ottawa, 111., returned indictments against thirty of the striking miners engaged in the riQts at La Salle a few weeks ago. Twenty saloon-keepers and gamblers of that city were also indicted. Democrats in Washington, who had been sanguine of the speedy passage of the tariff bill, reached the conclusion, on the 19th, that the bill can not pass before the end of the fiscal year, and are now looking forward to the final vote about July 3. The five national banks of Columbus, 0.,.in a communication to Gov. McKinley, on the 19th. offered to advance the money to pay the officers and men of the local troops called out to quell the riotous strikers, upon such vouchers as the governor may issue. According to late advices from Hayti, President Hippolyte's government is on the eve of dissolution. Five of his ministers had threatened to resign, and the most influential governor in the north had refused to carry out instructions given him bv the president.

News was received, on the 18th, from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, that efforts were being1 made to induce President-elect Moraz to resign in favor of Peixoto, whom it is proposed to establish as dictator. The army, it is said, was favorable to this programme. The engagement, for export on the 20th. of 81,500,000 in gold from the New York subtreasury reduced the treasury gold balance to 866,984,446, the lowest point reached since the gold reserve was strengthened. February 1 last, by the 850,000,000 bond issue. ---- Ox the 1,9th Frank T. Morrill, of New York, owner of the famous little steam yacht Vamoose, deposited 81,000 and issued a challenge to race the Vamoose against the steam yachts Norwood or Yankee Doodle, or any other boat, the race to take place on July 2, over the course of the American Yacht club. Os the 20th fifty miners were entombed by fire in the Mary Lee mine at Lewisburg,Ala. Many of'them were*rescued in a pitiable condition by riding through the smoke and flame on tram cars drawn by wire ropes, and several were taken out dead. It was thought the mine,* which was being operated by new men, was fired by strikers. After an investigation® of ten days the grand jury at Brazil, Ind., on the 21st, indicted James Booth, Robert Rankin, Ernest Poor, Charles Stock, William Wilson, William Worlen, Wil*liam Carr and William Gardenning, for the assassination of Engineer William Barr, on the Vnndalia road east of that city on the 6th. They are charged with murder in the first degree- t

CURRENT TOPICS THE REVS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 18th. schedule M. “]*ulp. paper and books,” and > schedule N, “Sundries," were disposed of in the further consideration of the tariff bill, and the free list was reached. Mr. Hill's motion to put bitudiinous coal on the free list was rejected—M to 7......In the house a bill was passed authorizing railroad companies to issue interchangeable 5,u0b-mile tickets with privilege of excess baggage (requested by the National Association of Commercial Travelers). The Hatch anti-option bill was then taken up. Messrs. Hatch and Bryan advocating and Mr Warner opposing its passage. f In the senate, on the 19th, thirty-three pages of the tariff bill were disposed of, the most notable feature of the day's proceedings being the defeat of the committee managing the bill, by the taking of quicksilver from the free and plating it on the dutiable list at the rate of 7 cents per pound.In the house, after the passage, among others, of a bill for the public sale of 100.000 acres of pine lands in the Chippewa reservation in Minnesota, and one to surrender to the city of Newport, Ky.. for park purposes, the old site of the Newport barracks, the day was chiefly spent in debate on the Hutch anti-option bill. In the senate, on the 20th. phenomenal progress was made in the consideration of the tariff bill, sixty-seven pages being disposed of. a halt only being made when the income tax sections of the bill were reached, consideration of which went over. The senate, by a vote of yeas 33. nays 22, removed sugar from the free list. During the morning hour senate bill to prevent the carrying of obscene, literature from one state or territory to another was passed.In the house the day was devoted to the further consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. A joint resolution was agreed to directing surveys to be made of the harbors«of Duluth and Superior, with a view to making them a uniform depth of 20 feet. In the senate, on the 21st. Mr- Hill delivered a speech against the income tax provision of the tariff biii. occupying over three hours of the time of the session. The senate then proceeded to act on amendments to the section, little progress being made .....In the house several bills bere disposed of in the morning hour, after which consideration of the Hatch anti-option bill was resumed, several speeches for and against the bill being delivered. In the senate, on the 22d. the day's session was spent in discussion of the income tax feature of the tariff bill, but no vote was reached on any of its amendments.In the hoysethe anti-option bill was passed by: Yeas, 159; nays, 87: present and notvoting. 1. The bill as finally passed was the bill that cfcme from the committee on agriculture, with the single amendment adding flour to the list of articles which may not be traded in.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mrs. Haludat was. on the 22d, sentenced'to death in the eleetric chair during the week beginning August 6 for the murder of Mrs. McQuillan, of which she was convicted in Monticello, N. Y., on the 21st. She is the first woman ever sentenced to electrocution. An official declaration was made, on the 18th. by the authorities of Hamburg, that there had not been a single case of cholera in that, city this year, nor had there been even a suspicious case of sickness. All reports to the contrary are declared to be maliciously false. Forty-five out of a party of seventy young people of the Russian government of Samara, returning from a fete, on the 19th, were drowned by the sinking of the boat on which they were crossing the River Jek. Attorney-Gen krai. Olnky characterizes as sensational and* untrue the statement telegraphed from Washington, on the 17th, to the New York World, to the effect that he had decided to institute suits against the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads jointly to recover $151,000,000. Two fine veins of coal, one eight feet in thickness and the other ten, were discovered near Kentland, Ind., on the 18th. The seam was struck while drilling an artesian well at a depth of forty feet and sixty feet. It is of fine quality. and preparations are being made to sink a number of shafts, and the price of land has gone up to $150 an acre. John W. Easby, United States navy, retired, died in Washington, on the 18th, aged 75 years. He was an inspector of government gunboats during the late war, and subsequently became a naval constructor. During President Garfield's administration he was appointed chief of the bureau of construction and repairs.

A tAmuaff urnvcu at nunapolis, Md., at 5 p. m. of the 18th, having left the United States practice ship Monongahela, Capt. Johnson commanding, with naval cadets aboard, at 9:30 a. m. The ship was 90 miles from Cape Henry and 40 from land, and 200 miles from Annapolis. The bird beats all records of the academy loft. The supreme lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in session at San Francisco on the 19th, fixed the date and place of the next meeting for the second Tuesday in June, 1895, in Atlanta, Ga. Ox the 20th the czarowitz, on board the imperial yacht Polar Star, arrived at Gra vesend, England. He was received by the queen’s equerry. The Deckertown express, due at Paterson, N. J., at 8:21 a. m., on the 18th, crashed into a trolley car at the Riverside crossing at 8:16 o'clock of that morning, wrecking the car and injuring eight persons, two of whom are expected to die. Rev. Dr. Johx Paxton, of New York city, on the 18th paid a fine of $10 for neglecting to record the certificate of marriage of Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge and Mrs. Wing. The republican state convention of Michigan will be held at Grand Rapids July 81. Efforts to float the steamer Plymouth, aground off spindle Rock, R. I., had vet been successful up to the 20th. The steamship Lahn, which sailed from New York for Europe on the 19th, carried $2,000,000 gold. On the 20th C. P. Lelaftd, “The King of Figures,” auditor of the Lake Shore road, died at Cleveland, O. He was 58 years old, and had been auditor of the Lake Shore since the consolidation with the Michigan Southern in 1869. On the 20th the steamer Neath Abbey, of Swansea, Wales, was wrecked off Nash Point. The captain and three sailors were drowned. Foult leading members of the Osage Indians have been arrested for conspiring with a syndicate of white men to rob the tribe of millions of feet of fipe timber from their reservation. Two-thirds of a million feet of Walnut en route to market has been seized.

Judge Ingraham, in the New Yors. court of oyer and tenniner, on the 20th, sentenced Erastus Wiman, convicted of forgery in the second degree and recommended to mercy by the jury, to five years and six months in the state penitentiary at Sing Sing. Hon. Bishop Perkins, ex-sen a to. from Kansas, died in Washington, on the ‘20th, from the effects of cholera morbus contracted during a recent visit to the Indian territory. Mr. Perkins was in his fifty-third year. The Peary relief expedition, unde* the leadership of Mr. Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, left New York, on the 30th, on the steamer Portia, of the Red Cross line, for St. Johns, N. F., where they expected to arrive about June 23. They will embark on the steam whaler Falcon for North Greenland the first week in# Julv. The Eckington hotel, in the suburbs of Washington city, was totally destroyed by fire, which broke out about midnight of the 19th. The hotel contained about sixty guests, including several congressmen and their families, all of whom escaped without panic. Many of them, however, lost their clothing and effects. It is said that steps are being taken looking to the amalgamation of the American Railway union, the Knights of Labor and the Farmers’ Alliance into a great political alliance. This, if perfected, would bring into line 1,500,000 men with an object in view. Emil C. Knapp, assistant teller oithe Chicopee national bank of Springfield, Mass., was arrested, on the 21st, charged with the embezzlement of §49,000 from that bank. A man and a little child were killed, many persons injured and fourteen houses demolished by a tornado at Bangor, S. D., on the 20th. The weekly statement of the Bank of France, issued on the 21st, shows an increase of 2,400,000 francs gold and 975,000 francs silver. During a severe storm at Faribault, Minn., on the 20th, the tent of Reynolds’ circus blew over, injuring fifteen persons, one fatally.

Jacob Hixig, a well-known sign painter and decorator, was instantly killed, on the 21st, by the breaking oi a scatfold upon which he was working in the Schultz opera house at Zanesville, O. He fell 40 feet. Ox the 22d a detachment of gendarmes attempted to seize the belongings of ' some peasants near Pontevedra, the capital of the French province of that name, in satisfaction of tax arrears. They were set upon by a crowd of armed peasants, and in the fight which ensued three peasants, one a boy of 12, were killed and several were wounded. A FEARFUL hail storm swept through Monroe county, Ind., on the night of the 21st. Standing grain was beaten into the ground and farm stock killed. Four horses were killed by a stroke of lightning. The loss to farmers is enormous. Thk bodies of Harry and Frank Rice, 10-year-old twins, were found in Huber’s lake, near Lima, O., on the 22d. The boys had run away from home to go swimming. Re^. Orlando Watkin Weld Forester, the fourth Baron Forester, died at his residence in York, England, on the 22d.-%He was in his fifty-fourth year. ' Fire of unknown origin destroyed almost the entire city of Exeter, Neb., on the 22d. The losses will be far up in the thousands. Sixty cases of cholera and fifteen deaths at Jemoppe, & village of Belgium near Liege, were reported on the 22d. _ L^TE NEWS ITEMS. 1» the senate, on the 23d, Mr. Hill again spoke for nearly two hours, worrying alike the senators of his own and the populist parties. Many amendments of the finance committee to the ineome tax sections were adopted, several offered by others were rejected, and one by Mr. Hoar, exempting the salaries of United States judges, was agreed to by common consent At adjournment the income tax had not been disposed of..In the house a brief session was devoted, in committee of the whole, to consideration of the general deficiency bill for the current year. Senate amendments to the house bill incorporating the grand lodge Knights of Pythias were agreed to. M. Sadi Carnot, president of the French republic was stabbed in the abdomen and mortally wounded in Lyons, on the 24th. by an Italian anarchist named Cesare Giovanni Santo, just after leaving a banquet given in his honor at the chamber of commerce. President Carnot died soon after midnight on the 25th. The impqrts, exclusive of specie,at the port of New York for the week ended on the 23d, were $6,343,885, of which $957,830 were dry goods and $5,386,055 general merchandise. For the corresponding week of 1893 the imports were $12,654,388, of which $1,871,210 were dry goods and $10,783,178 general merchandise.

By the foundering' of the tug James D. Nichols, of New York, off Atlantic Highlands, on the 24th, twenty-five persons of a party of excursionists ot sixty-eight and a crew df- five, were drowned. The remainder of the party were rescued by boats and Jugs which hurried to their rescue. Adjt.-Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, was taken from his hotel at Colorado Springs, early on the morning of the 23d, by a masked mob, driven some mi}es into the country and tarred^and feathered, and then warned not to return to the Springs. Rev: A. F. Kloszwski, the head of the rebellous Roman Catholic Fbles in Cleveland, 0., was formally excommunicated by Bishop Horstman on the 23d. Oit the 23d the associated banks of New York city held $76,335,375 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent, rule. The steamship La Touraine, which sailed from New York, on the 23d, for Europe, carried $8,500,000 gold. The duchess of York gave birth to a ion on the 23d.

FROM HOOSIERDOM. t Telegraphic News of Interest to y TndUnlunn. ^ Cloudburst at Brookrille. Brookville, Ind., Jane 22.—There was a cloudburst at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon and the downpour of rain was the heaviest ever known here. The fall lasted for two hours. The damage to property will reach $25,000 and the crops are damaged severely, especially the wheat, which was almost ready for harvest. The % Blue creek bridge was washed away. William Bender, wife and child were on it at the time with a wagon and team. ' Mr. Bender was taken off by a boatman l mile below. One horse was drowned and it is supposed that Mrs. Bender and the child were drowned, as Bender did not see them after the bridge left its abutments. Farther up the creek a barn was washed away and» three horses drowned. Mr. Kuhn, who was in the barn trying to get the horses out. was taken out of the creek almost drowned and will probably not recover. Dozen House* Struck by Lightning. Brazil, Ind., June 22.—Cine of the severest electrical storms in the history of the county passed over this city Wednesday evening. No less than a dozen houses were struck by lightning, while the display of electricity was wonderful. The house of Benjamin Monce in the east end was badly injured by lightning. The bolt shattered all the windows, passed through the house, shattered the furniture and tore off one corner of the building. Mrs John Berry, a neighbor lady, was rendered insensible and badly burned. The house of John Krieder, in the same neighborhood, was badly damaged. the windows being knocked out and the furniture shattered. Several houses south of the city were also struck by lightning. Counterfeiters Sentenced. Indianapolis, Ind.. June 22.—Judge Baker on Wednesday passed sentence upon the eight counterfeiters who made and passed so much of the bogus money during the Grand Army encampment-^ at Lafayette. Joseph Bennett, the- leader,, received two years; - John S. Wehr, father, thirteen months; William Wehr, son, ninety days ib workhouse; Alfred M. Collins, one year and one day; George Clawson, seventy days in the workhouse; John Marks, fifteen days, and William Hitt and George Siston were each released on suspended sentence. They tried to pass the money while drunk. Terribly Stung by Bees. Wabash, Ind., June 22.—rNear Mount Etna Frederick Corkett tied his team to a post near some beehives. The bees attacked the horses and Corkett took of his coat and shirt and threw them over the horses’ heads to protect them. The bees then settled upon Corkett in great swarms, stinging him terribly. He escaped and reached a physician’s office. His neck, arms, shoulders and face were swelled. The doctors said that the condition of the injured man was critical. _ Shot Down by a Burglar. Frankfort, Ind., June 22.—W. C. Davis attempted to capture a burglar who tisited his room at an early hour Wednesday morning, and after a fight that lasted several minutes the thief succeeded in drawing his revolver and shooting Davis twice, one shot passing through his arm and the other entering the body near the stomach. Davis’ wounds are probably fatal ones. Alike O'Brien, a tramp, has been arrested on suspicion. The burglar in his flight left his hat, and when O’Brien was arrested he was hatless.

Wanted to Kill His Daughter. Columbus, Ind., June 23.—The wife of G. Puri field, of Clifford, 4 miles north of this place,' is violently insane and was restrained with some difficulty from killing her little daughter. She is now confined in the county jail. She imagines that her husband's former wife, who died a violent death some years ago, and who was her friend, is coming back to deprive her of her home. Northern Indiana Baptist s. Goshen, Ind., June 22.—About IOC delegates are in the city at the annual convention of the Northern Indiana Baptist association. Officers for the ensuing year were elected Wednesday afternoon as follows: President, Rev. C. F. Vreeland; vice presi-. dent, J. M. Reese; secretary and treasurer. Miss Hattie Kreps; executive commi ttee. Miss A. Parker, R$s. J. C. Rhodes and C. J. (iarvin. To keep Ont Kelly's Army. JEFFRSokviLLE, Ittd., June 22.—Gen. Kelly, with his army, of 1,200 men, is now within a few, miles of the city. The authorities have sworn in a large number of deputy sheriffs and patrolmen will do all in tblteir power to keep them ont The people are greatly excited by its approach and say that they will do nothing for the men.

To Honor “Had Anthony.” Washington, June 22.—In the sen* ate Senator Sherman presented a joint resolution passed by the Ohio legislature, relating- to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the victory of Gen Anthony Wayne at Fallen Timber August 7, 1794, which marked the conquest of the Indian nation. It was appropriately referred. Populists Name a Congressman. • La Porte, Ind., June 83. — The populists of the Thirteenth congress* onal district met in mass convention here Wednesday and nominated J. W. Forrest, of South Bend, for congress, The nominee is a young lawyer and is said to be a broker and money lender. Heavy Hall Storm. Kentland, Ind., June 22.—One of the heaviest hail and rainstorms that was ever witnessed in this county fell here Wednesday, cutting whole fields of corn and oats to the ground. The damage will amount to thousands of dollars.

AN AWFUL ACCIDENT. rwenty-FlT^ Persons Drowned Off Atlmtitle Highlands by the Sinking of a fire Tog Returning with » Party of Excartoonists from the Fishing ltanbs of Sen Bright. J.. to New York City. New YoAk, June 74.—The tup James D. Nichols, owned by ffm. Beeves, of this city, foundered off the Atlantio Highlands shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon. The Nichols had on board a party of excursionists numbering sixty-eight persons, and also a crew of five men. As near as eau be learned at this writing forty-eight persons were rescued by the steamer Algonquin, of the Clyde line, and the tugs Governor, Wallace & Flint and R. J. Morgan. This leaves twenty-five persons unaccounted for and these have probably been drowned. The tug Nichols was chartered by an association known as the Herring Fishing club, whose headquarters are at 55 First avenue, this city. The tug, with the party on board, left the foot of Fifth street. East river, at 7:30 o'clock this morning. She stopped at pier 3 on her way to the fishing banks of Sea Bright, N. J., where several more persons were taken on board. There was a quantity of beer aboard, but from the accounts of the rescued passengers no one was intoxicated. The Nichols passed on down through the narrows, and then moved over to the fishing banks. She arrived there about 0:30. Here the excursionists; fished until a lx vat noon, when the start for the homeward journey was made. As the tug proceeded on her eourse toward the city, the wind freshened to some extent, and the waves rolled higher. The change in the weather and sea seemed not to affect the craft or the spirits of those on board of her. The steamer Algonquin, of the Clyde line, passet^the tug and the latter followed in the wake of the big steamer. At that time there appeared tor be nothing amiss on the Nichols. Butin a half hour the situation was completely changed. The big waves became more boisterous and dashed up against the sides of the tug. throwing spray over the excursionists who were on the deck. Here, where the trouble commenced, the stories as to what next happened, begin to conflict. According to one chapter of the narratives, the fishermen, to avoid getting wet, moved around to the side of the vessel where the waves did not strike with such foree and it is claimed by some that with the increased weight on one side the tug toppled over and the water ran into her to such an extent that it became impossible to navigate her. She struggled for a short distance and then, as the water continued to roll into her, she sank further and further into the swells and went down. Others say that the shifting of the passengers had nothing to do with the accident. These allege that the tug was an old and rotten affair: that she was terribly overcrowded and consequently topheavy, and that when she got into the heavy sea she simply went over.

When the accident occurred the Algonquin, which was headed for New York on her journey from Jacksonville and Charleston, had reached a point about four miles southeast of Scotland lightship. It was just 12:4'» p. m., according to her officers, when the scream of a whistle, given in such a way as to denote distress, came over the sea. It reached the ears of Capt. Samuel Platt, who was standing on the bridge. The captain observed the big tug rolling and pitching on the waves. With the aid of his glass he saw the craft was crowded with people, and that she was on the point of foundering. He signalled the engine room. A mo* inept latter the big ship was in the face of the wind, rolling easily on the big waves. Before the screws of the ship had ceased their revolutions, an order had been issued to First Officer Rich to lower and man the life boat. The command was quickly executed. Boat No. 4, on the port side of the steamer, was hurriedly swung from its davits and Officer Rich, accompanied by four seamen, scrambled into it. It was a dangerous task, but it was accomplished, and the people on the big steamer looked over to where they had seen the tug. As they did so the little vessel careened away over to the starboard and her smokestack almost touched the crest of a wave. Just at this time another big whiteeap came rolling along, and striking the tug sent her over the other way. Thus the wafers played with her for a minute or more, and then she went to the bottom. As she sank out of sight the top of the wheelhouse, together with a raft and a lifeboat, remained floating.

As soon as the Algonquin s boat reaehed the scene of the accident and commenced the work of rescue, she was joined in her labor by three tugs— the Governor, the Wallace 11. Flint, and the R. J. Moran. All of these vessels had been cruising in the vicinity when the tug that had passed beneath the waters first sent up her whistle of distress. They responded to the cjall, and though they were farther away at the time thaw was ttie Algonquin, reached the drowning people about the same time as did the steamer’s crew. Together they commenced to take the people from the water and from the raft. Everyone was cool and collected and in less than twenty minutes from the time the rescurers arrived those who remained afioat had reached havens of safety. The Moran confined its attention to those on the raft. These, together with the few that it had picked up from the water numbered thirty-four. The Algonquin’s crew secured nine, while the Governor and the Flint also got a number on board their respective boats. The J lost tug’s lifeboat was found floating about by the Algonquin's crew. It was full of watei and had evidently been overturned many times. In the bottom of it, however, tangled in ropes, was found the body of a man. Whoever he was, he had probably prepared for the plunge into the sea. His coat was off and his shirtsleeves rolled up to his shoulders.

FRANCE IN MOURNING. President Carnot Palls by the Hand of an Assassin. rhe Foal D«d Committed Ja*t After th# 1’rrsKlent Had lL»ft a Banquet Given iu HU Honor In the City of Lfoii*. Paris, June 25.—Sadi Carnot, president of the republic, was stabbed mortally at 9:05 o'clock last evening in Lyons, by Casrio Santo, an Italian anarchist, 21 years old. President Carnot went to Lyons tovisit the exhibition of arts, sciences and industries. He left the ehamberof commerce banquet, given in his honor, shortly after 9 o'clock, and walked to ohis carriage, which was waiting in the Place de la Bourse. Ho had hardly taken his seat when Santo, a newspaper in his hand, pressed through the crowd and sprang upon, the carriage step. President Carnot started slightly. Santo snatched a dagger from the newspaper and plunged it into the President's abdomen near the liver. The president sank back unconscious. He was taken at once to the prefecture and the most, skillful surgeons in the city were summoned. Meantime Santo was arrested.

° f President Sadi Car no'. The news spread swiftly to every part of the city. Infuriated crowds tilled the streets*: Before 10 o'clock an Italian restaurant had been sacked and the police were obliged to strain every nerve to protect the Italian consulate. President Garnot arrived in Lyons Saturday and intended to remain there over Tuesday. He was accompanied by Gen. Borius, chief of his military household, most of his other house** hold officials. Premier Dupuy. M. Bordeaux and other members of the cabinet. He was received enthusiastically at the station by-" the mayor and the district officials, who. in twenty-seven landaus drawn by horses draped with the tri-colors, escorted him and his party to the hotel De Ville, about three kilometres distant. Cheering crowds filled the streets and gave the president such a welcome as he had seldom received. There was a luncheon at the hotel and in the evening a dinner at the prefecture. From the balcony of the prefecture the president reviewed a large torchlight procession, which was followed b\r fireworks and an illumination.

Yesterday the president and his party paid a state visit to the exhibition in the Pare de la Tete d'Or. Afterward the president held a reception at the prefecture. He planned to go to the Grand theater on the Place de la Comedi last evening, after the banquet = at the chamber of commerce. He was in a peculiarly happy mood during the banquet, and was noticeably elated at the cordiality of his reception. not onlj* by the crowd outside the building, but also by the guests within. He was cheered incessantly from the moment he left the chamber of epmmerce until he took the carriage for the theater. , When Santo was within a few feet of the carriage he waved a paper as if intending to present a petition, and thus threw off their guard the persons nearest to the president. He' was seized just as he was about to jump from the step, and had but half drawn the dagger. The demonstrative enthusiasm of the crowd caused the confusion which gave Santo his opportunity, as he was able to push his way forward quite unnoticed until at the step of the carriage. As Santo sprang away from the carriage step and tried to escape he was seized and surrounded. But for the prompt interference of the police he would have been torn and trampled to death on the. spot. As soon as the police extricated him from the hands of his captors they hurried him off to the station house. The president had repeated hemorrhages after he was taken td the prefecture. He sank gradually, but steadily until 12:45 o’clock this morning when he /lied. Mine. Carnot and her two sons left Paris at 11:59 o’clock last evening by special train for Lyons. AH the ministers who could not go to Lyons with the president were in counsel at the Elysee at midnight. The senate and chamber will be convoked to-day. r Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, president of the French republic, was born at Limoges in August, 1835. He was grandson of Carnot, “The Organizer Victory,” under the French convention. and was a civil engineer by profession. , At the age of 20 he entered as a student the Ecole Polytechnique, and passed with distinction to a school for special instructions in the building of road and bridges. During the siege of Paris in 1861 he was appointed prefect of the Seine Inferieure, and as commissary general gave valuable assistance in organizing the defences of that department. In February, 1871, he took his seat in the national assembly as deputy for Cote d'Or, and subsequently for Beaune. In 1886 he took office in the Brisson cabinet as finance minister. On the resignation of M. Grevy. in December, 1887. M. Carnot was elected president of the

Four Persons Killed at a Crossing. - McHenry, Ky., June 24.—Four pep* sons were killed at a crossing near here yesterday afternoon by an east-bound Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern passenger train. They were J. P. Maddox, one of the most prominent farmers of Ohio county; his. sister-in-taw, Mrs. Lewis Maddox, and her two children. > Mr. Maddox was bringing his sister to town to return to her home in Texas, when their carriage was run down. The woman and her two children were killed instantly and Mr. Maddox died two hours later*