Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 September 1894 — Page 2

> $lir gifce (Etomtjj fjmMrat • M ilcC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor- * PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Fresh forest fires were reported from Minnesota on the 5th. Dr. Cowan, coroner of Pine county, Minn., believes that the death list from the forest fires in his county will reach 700. It is reported that the Chinese government has arranged to purchase half of the vessels comprising the Chilian navy. A reward of $100 has been offered for the discovery of President Kennedy of Amity college, at College City, la., who my steriously disappeared early in August. Rev. Dr. J. C. Welding, president of the Columbian university of Washington, D. C., died in Hartford, Conn., on the 4th, of heart disease. He was 69 years of age, and leaves a widow and two children. JonN Jacobs and John Green, of Toronto, Ont., were arrested in St. Clair, Mich., on the 7th, just after landing from a rowboat in which were two trunks containing 600 pounds of opium, which Was seized. The bodies of twenty-three Chippewa Indians, bucks, squaws and papooses, were found upon the baked sands between Pokegama, Minn., and Opstead, a small settlement on the eastern shores of Lake Mille Lacs. To prevent the exportation of rice, wheat and other food supplies the Chinese have established a system of inspection of vessels coming down the rivers from the interior. Whenever such supplies are found they are seized. A strong force of Japanese troops ' have occupied an island in Society baj’, northwest of Port Arthur. The island is a base of operations. The Chinese were taken completely by surprise, and, consequently, were able to offer * no resistance. The attendance at the St. Louis exposition, on the night of the 5th, was greater than on any opening night of the eleven successful years of its existence, over 20,000 persons being present. St. Louisians are justly proud of their big show. The little village of Bruce, Wis., was enveloped in flames, on the afternoon of the 4th, and destroyed completely. The people only saved themselves by running to Elder creek, covering themselves with wet blankets and allowing the flames to sweep over them. The hearing in the application of Judge Long, of the Michigan supreme court, for a mandamus to compel the commissioner of pensions and the secretary of*he interior to restore his pension of $50 a month to the former rating of $72 a month, was, on the 5th, continued until October 26. J. M. Adsit, one of the pioneers of Chicago and the oldest banke*j- in that city, died at his Dearborn-avenue residence, on the 4th, aged 85 years. He was born in Spencertown, N. Y., and established a private bank in Chicago in 1850. He passed through all the great panics without much loss^. and retired rich in 1885. :

The death roll resulting from the forest fires in Minnesota increases. On the 4th 650 persons were known to have been lost, the greater part being women and children. The greatest mortality and percentage of deaths occurred among settlers, where whole families were swept out of existence in the twinkling of an eye. Two Japanese spies who were surrendered to the Chinese authorities by the United States consul at Shanghai, under whose protection they had been, were promptly tried and, on the 5th. beheaded. In consequence of this summary action all of the Japanese remaining in Shanghai, about 700, decided to leave the city at once. Mayob Hofxins of Chicago issued a proclamation, on the 5th, asking the people of that city to give liberally and promptly out of their abundance to the relief of the sufferers by the Minnesota and Wiscorifein forest fires in the same measure that relief came to the Chicago fire victims from the people of the civilized world. Up to the 4th the general executive committee in charge of relief work in the Pine City (Minn.) section, reported bodies recovered from the great forest fires as follows: Hinckley 271. Sandstone 77, Miller (often called Sandstone Junction), 15; between Skunk Lake and Miller, 12; Pokegama, 25; in lumber camps, 50. Total, 450. It is thought nearly every foot of standing pine in Ontonagon county, Mich., was burned by the late fires— fully 500,000,000 feet. The N ester estate has lost 90,000,000; the Trout Creek Lumber Co., 20,000,000 and the THamond Match Co., 150,000,000. The balance is owned by homesteaders at Paynesville and Brush’s Crossing. Sib Chabues Tuppeb, Canadian minister of fisheries, received a message from Victoria, B. C., on the 7th, stating that at a meeting of interested sealers the question of accepting the $425,000 offered by the United States government in final settlement of claims for seizures was fully discussed, and it was rnanimously decided to accept the offer. Peteb Rouke, who claimed to be 115 years old, was found dead in bed, on the morning of the 7th, at the county poorhouse in Valparaiso, Ind., of which he had been mb inmate twenty-eight years. He came to America eightyfive years ago from Ireland, where he served during the war in 1798. He lived in New York fifty years, and at one time was verv wealthy.

ICUBBENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BHIEP. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. It was reported in Kingston. Jamaica, on the 3d, that an uprising had taken place in Port-au-Prince, resulting in ; severe fighting in the streets. Several of the ringleaders of the outbreak had been arrested and promptly shot, but the revolt was said to be still spreading. The monuments erected at the mausoleum at Charlottenburg in memory of Emperor William I. and Empress1 Augusta were consecrated, on the 2d, in the presence of Emperor William j and members of the royal family. The cable steamer Maekay-Bennett passed up New York bay close to the Long Island shore, on the 2d.laying the shore end of the Commercial cable, which was accomplished without the slightest difficulty. A party of 1,000 Berliners will go to Varzin to visit I*rinee Bismarck on the 16th The commander of the Prussian army corps will not allow a military band to accompany them. An imperial Chinese decree has been issued rewarding Gen Yeh and 700, other Chinese officers for their victory I over the Japanese troops at Ping Yang. | Aldace F. Walker, receiver of the ! Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, j arrived at New York, on the 3d, on the steamer Friesland, from Europe. The name of the son of Senator j Peffer has been stricken from the senate pay roll by the sergeant-at-arms. Jane Finley, of Philadelphia, aged 20 years, was shot on the night of the 2d, three times by Matthew Dunlap, 20 years old, her rejected lover. The lower portion of the town of ! Wichita, Kas., was inundated, early on j the morning of the 4th, by a cloud- | burst. The lightning, which was incessant, killed a little son of Thomas Herman, fatally burned a 9-year-old daughter and tore the honse to pieces. - Seven prisoners escaped from Hillsdale county jafl at Hillsdale, Mich., on the night of the 3d. They cut through a wall lined with four inches of stone. The veering of the wind at a critical moment saved the town of Kilmanagh, Mich., from destruction from forest fires on the 3d. The president has appointed W. F. Darbury, of Maryland, to be United States attorney for the district of Maryland. It was reported, on the 5th, that a levy of 250,000 troops had been made upon the Chinese province of Shang Tung, which had hitherto withheld the men and war supplies demanded by the government. Gov. Turney of, Tennessee offered a reward of $5,000, on the 5th, for the apprehension of the parties engaged in the lynching of six negroes near Millington, Shelby county, some nights be

lore. 1 ne guveruur tuat ljuuuin" in Tennessee must be stopped. Ex-President Harrison and Mrs. McKee arrived at Elkins, W. Va., on the 5th, to visit ex-Secretary Elkins. They were tendered an ovation at the depot by delegates to the republican congressional convention in session there. » The town of Churchill, O., had a narrow escape from burning, on the 4th, caused by boys setting fire to grass in a pasture where they were playing. Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of California, died, on the 5th, at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin Williams, of Buffalo, N. Y. The town of Fisher, ^[is., was wiped out of existence by forest fires on the 5th. The fishing schooner Rigel,of Gloucester, Mass., Capt. George W. Dixon, arrived at North Sydney, C. B., on the 5th, with the passengers and crew of the ill-fated steamship Miranda, which left New York July 7, carrying Dr. Cook’s Arctic expedition. News from Honolulu to August 28, per steamer Belgic, announced that Minister Willis had presented an autograph letter from. President Cleveland to President Dole, acknowledging the Hawaiian republic, and congratulating tire people of the midpacific state. The C. H. Over window glass works at Munice, Ind.. and the Muncie flint glass works resumed work, on the 6th, with nearly S00 hands. All the Muncie glass factories are preparing to start this month. The Orestes window glass factory at Anderson, Ind., employing 200 hands, was put in operation, on the 6th, for the first time this season, under the 22% per cent, cut in labor made in the settlement at Pittsburgh on the 3d. It is thought that every plant in the gas belt will be running full blast in a short time. „ On the evening of the 5th, as the steamer City of the Straits was starting out from Cleveland, O., for a moonlight excursion, she was run into and badly injured by the schooner Emma Hutchinson. There were 1,000 passengers on the City of the Straits at the time and it was a miracle that no one was seriously hurt. The supreme grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, adopted the report of the special committee of the uniform rank, the result of which is to practically divorce the uniform rank from the supreme lodge. 9 In deference to the wishes of President Cleveland, Buchanan Schley, surveyor of the port of Baltimore, has resigned as chairman of the democratic committee of Washington county, Md. The steamer Peru arrived at San Francisco, on the 6th, bringing Chinese advices to August 8 and Japanese advices to August 23. ' " Con. Henry O. Kent was nominated for governor by acclamation by the democratic convention at Concord, N. H., on the 6th. At Indianapolis, Ind., On the 6th, Robert J. broke the world’s pacing record, traveling one mile in 2:02>£. The Pullman strike was formally declared off on the 6th. Police Captain John T. Stephenson, of New York city, was found guilty of bribe-taking and dismissed from the force. The verdict of guilty was an unanimous one on the part ol the police commissioners

Post office officials, on the 6th, captured A. L. Naples in Fort Scott, Kas., who has long been wanted for carrying on an extensive green goods business in Kansas and Missouri. He is charged with sending circulars advertising cheap money through the mails. On his premises were found thousands of dollars of confederate money and bogus coining utensils. The Chicago police, on the 6th, located a remarkable “fence” and recovered several thousand dollars’ worth of stolen property. The place was fitted up with double floors, trap-doors and secret closets, and the goods found had been stored at various times for a year past. Six men and two women were captured. Mbs. Augusta Webster, the novelist and poet, died at Kew, 7 miles from London, on the 6th. She was the daughter pf ‘ the late Vice-Admiral George Davies. Ox the 6th the much-mooted German question was decided by the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias by a decisive vote against permitting the use of the ritual in other than the English language in the United States. The body of Mrs. L. A. France was found, on the 6th, in the river near Hoganburg, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Murder is suspected. The authorities are looking for Louis Paul, who had been living with her. Hugh Porter, a visitor at Leadville, Col., shot and instantly killed himself at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. D. Dickeman, on the evening of the 6th. He left a sealed letter to be forwarded to his father. Porter was about 25 years of age and prominently connected. His home was in Bridgeport, Conn. Anton von Korab, an Austrian, of noble birth, and formerly, an officer in the Austrian army, was, on the 6th, adjudged insane in Chicago, and was committed to the Jefferson asylum) Anton von Korab is the son of Count von Korab, a memberjof the cabinet of the emperor Of Austria. The Wisconsin democratic state convention, on the 6th,renominated George W. Peck for governor. ' The laying of the corner stone of the Iowa Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument took place at Des Moines on the 6th. The parade was second only to the great battle-flag day celebration. During a running race at the Ohio state fair at Columbus, on the 7th, one of the horses. Col. Bliss, was crowded against the fence and fell. His -rider, Ed Murray, was thrown fully fifty feet, and, it is thought, fatally injured. A Yokohama dispatch says that Marshal Yamagata started for Core3, on the 6th, to assume command of the Japanese army in that country. It is said that the Japanese forces in Corea will soon number 100,000. An anarchist named Solero threw a bomb into the Cafe San Carlo in Turin, on the 6th, causing a terrible explosion, which wrecked the place. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Solero was arrested. Failures for the week ended the 7th were 215 in the United States, against 313 last year, and 48 m Canada, against 25 last year. Mr. Howard Gould, who is in London, has offefed a cup valued at £30(1 to start the Bay club contests for firstclass yachts in 1895. Mont Armstrong, who with his brother Calvin, deputy treasurer of Tipton county, Ind., a year ago lost $43,000 of public funds on the racL track, has been located at Santa Mazetta, Mexico, through a lost letter written home. He is penniless and asked for aid.

LATE NEWS ITEMS, The cloudburst at Bethlehem, Pa., on the night of the 8th, did damage to the extent of 360,000. The flooded district is more than a mile square and extends towards the Monocacy valley and includes a portion of Bethlehem proper, West Bethlehem and South Bethlehem. Residences in many places were flooded to their second stories. Thkee hundred special police were sworn in in Pittsburgh. Pa., to go ou duty during the G. A. R. encampment and keep the city rid of all suspicious characters. There were also engaged twenty-five expert detectives, some of the number females, from various parts of the United States. The associated banks of New York city issued the following statement for the week ended the 8th: Reserve, decrease, 33,886,550; loans, increase, 31,821,500; specie, decrease, 3478,900; legal tenders, decrease, 38,956,100; deposits, decrease, 83,938,800; circulation, increase, 382,300. The American bark Alice arrived at Cape Henry, Va., on the 9th, from Havana, Cuba, with three cases of yellow fever on board. The vessel was tovfted over to Fisherman’s island pending an examination \>y the Marine Hospital service. D. J. Burbridge arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 8th, from St. Louis, having made the entire trip on a bicycle. He left St.‘Louis on August 25, | and estimates that he covered about 11.000 miles in making the trip. The war in China is being conducted so near to the tea-growing territory that future importations are uncertain. Wholesale prices of the cheaper teas used in America are said to have already advanced 100 per cent. Prof. Herman Ferdinand Helmholtz, the celebrated physiologist and physicianfbf Berlin, died, on the 18th, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, aged 73. A street car employe of New Orleans named George From is the father of a tiny babe whose weight is nine ounces. It is a boy and perfect in form. A late decision of the supreme court of Oklahoma territory nullifies all divorces—fully 400—granted by probate judges in Oklahoma since March, 1893. Ten mammoth ice houses near Hamilton, O., belonging to the Cincinnati Ice Co., were burned to the ground on the 9th. The associated banks of New York city held 361,984,275 in excess of the re- | quirements of the 25-per-cent rale on I the 1st

INDIANA STATE NEWS A Turkish bathhouse , has hecn erected at Seymour.. Sneak thieves are stripping grap*1 arbors at Knightstown. j Florence Boors won first prize in the oratorical contest at Crawfordsr ville. An elaborate counterfeiting plant is thought to be in operation at Elkhart. A Lafayette grocer was recently fined $80 for selling cigarettes to two boys. New Albany division No. 5. Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, won the fifth prize in the competitive drill at Washington. The First Indiana regiment won the battalion drill withoui competition. The Labor day celebration was the largest ever held in Brazil. Over 6.000 people were attracted, while over 2,000 laboring men were in line, making a procession two miles long. Typhoid" fever is raging in an epidemic form in the southern part of Shelbyville, and through the southern part of the county. The malady is of a singularly fatal variety, and many deaths among prominent farmers have occurred. Thomas S. Finley, ex-coun-ty surveyor and engineer of fehelbvville, died the other night of the disease. Madison expects a boom this fall. The new militia company of Franklin is a crack one. At Muneie, over a month ago, Harry Hobbs and Miss Anna Austin, of Albans, were secretly married by Rev. Asby. She thought it was a mock wedding and now wants a divorce. The Guilford pioneers’ association held their eighth annual reunion at West Fork church, near Guilford. The Irondale Tin Plate Mill, which has just been erected in Middletown at# cost 6f $200,000, has started. At a dance, at a beer hall in Anderson, John Oates stabbed Omer Huley several times, inflicting probably fatal wounds. William and Edward Hathaway, the last named of Terre Haute, while painting the smokestack of the street railway power house at Indianapolis, were both thrown by the slipping of a hook. Edward fell on the roof of the building. William struck the pavement fifty feet below and was killed. Indiana ga^s belt cities will be pleased to learn that Rev. Henry Covert, the great Raub locomotive factory man, who was figuring in all parts of the belt last year for a location, but was unsuccessful, returned to Anderson from the east the other day and announces that the plant will be located if he can get a bonus and a location. His plant is guaranteed to work 5,000 men. He wants free gas and about $1,000,000 bonus in cash and land. The labor celebration at Marion surpassed anything of the kind ever given there. The industrial parade represented the various business houses, factories and unions. Addresses were made by John Merritt Driver, D.D., and Hon. Hiram Brownlee, of Marion, and Hon. Weldon Webster, of Logan sport. The other morning, at 8 o’clock, Lafayette became officially a republican pity, the first time for several years.

non. r. n. ia iucuimcv, ucmuauc, stepped down and out as mayor, being succeeded by Noah Justice, republican. Mayor MeGinley is probably the best i known mayor in Indiana. Ed Keixy, a glassblower. met a terrible death at Swayzee the other night, after a long spree. Kelly rose from his bed for a drink. By mistake he drank from a can of concentrated lye that the chambermaid had been using for cleaning the floors. He died after four days of agony. Al Lell, a prominent young man of Anderson, in attempting to jump from a moving train, was thrown on his head and probably fatally injured. A destructive fire occurred in Union township, Shelby county, the other day, in which a large barn belonging to S. B. Macey, and used by Franklin Worth, was consumed, together with its contents, including five head of horses. Loss, $2,500; partially insured. Grant Kimmell, one • of the best known young men in the vicinity of Ligonier, committed suicide the other night by taking carbolic acid. Opposition to his marriage the cause. John W. Haskett, a merchant and ex-postmaster at Straughn’s, shot himself in the head. IU health was the cause. Labor day had the biggest celebration in its history at 'Terre Haute. Ten thousand people gathered at the fair grounds. All business houses were elosed. National President M. M. Garland, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, made the address. Columbia City has a bakers’ war. At Decatur Joseph W. Smith fell through a cellar door and was probably Fatally injured. Franklin is overrun with tramps and thieves. Anderson is anxious to have a superior court. At Indianapolis Mrs. Ida Spring was stung by a tarantula concealed in a bunch of bananas. She will recover. A South Bend man recently shot a buzzard that measured eight feet from tip to tip. The New Albany militia company was paid $1,350 for services during the miners’ strike in Sullivan county. The Kosciusko County Teachers’ institute held its annual session at Warsaw. Prof. C. H. Gurney, of Hillsdale college,. Michigan; Hon. L. W. Royse, of Warsaw. Prof. L. W. Fairchild, of Angola, were the lecturers. [ While attending the M. E. Sunday school picnic at Brook’s lake, near Winchester, Judson Caffey, aged thirteen, went into the lake to bathe and was drowned. At Ft. Wayne, Henry Vodde, a fif-teen-year-old lad, was almost instantly killed the other evening by falling under a Wabash passenger train while trying to >un across ahead of the locomotive.

GAVE THE PLOT AWAY And the Kerrville Lyncher* Will Soon bo In Limbo—Tbe Attempt to Trap tbe Sheriff by Getting His Son to fake Part In the Affair Leads to Exposure. Mfmphis, Tenn., Sept. 10.—The whole plot of the Kerrville lynching is now laid bare. Before many hours elapse it is thought everyone who had anything to do with the affair, or the majority of them, will be behind the bars. ; Bpb McCarver, son of Sheriff McCarver, gave the snap away. He was invited to participate in the massacre by H. N. Smith, one of the men now languishing in the county jail under indictment for murder in the first degree. When the invitation to assist in the assassination was tendered to McCarver it was reoresented that Sheriff McCarver knew all about it, and that Judge Cooper of the criminal court was not in the dark. Of course these representations were untrue, and were' made by Smith for the purpose, if possible, of mixing Sheriff McCarver up in the affair through his son, so his hands would be tied if an investigation should bq instituted by the authorities. The scheme was a bold one, but it filled. McCarver’s examination resulted in the arrest of Jailor Cox for perjury and .the fixing of a $10,000 bond on McCarver's head to insure his remaining in the city. McCarver did not give this bond yesterday and as a consequence he spent the day behind the trig gate of the Shelby county bastile, nominally a deputy, but really a prisoner. , Sheriff McCarver had been told of the plot by his son several days before the grand jury had got hold of the boy’s story, and because he did nbt tell what he knew to the inquisitors he is receiving some censure at the hands of the members. He and Judge Cooper; had a long conversation Saturday night and it is said that the judge read the riot act to the high sheriff. Humors have been floating around for several days to the effect that the prisoners charged with participation in the lynching were being treated wilh more leniency than will be allowed by the order of the judge. The grand jury must have looked into these rumors for they recommended tlen. Kellar Anderson for the position of jailor so highly that Sheriff McCarver had no option but to tender it to Anderson. It is conceeded that the grand jury is now in possession of the most damaging evidence against the parties now in jail charged with the killing an«k it is confidently expected that an indictment will be returned in the next day or so, and that bench warrants will be issued against the parties suspected. AN OPERATOR BLUNDERED.

The Hoosac Tunnel Blocked by a Serlona Wreck. Springfield, Mass., Sept. 9.—A dispatch from North Adams says that the Hoosac tunnel is blocked by a wreck. A relief train was sent out from North Adams at 1:30 this morning' with three doctors. It is reported that three men are killed.' Later. It is reported at North Adams that the relief tran has not been able to enter the tunnel. The railroa d officials have telephoned to the hospital to prepare for patients and arranged with the livery stables to have teams at the depot to take the injured. One train is not allowed to enter the tunnel until another has left. It is said that a telegraph operator blundered. One of the Worst, Wrecks that Ever Occurred In the Vicinity. North Adams, Mass., Sept. 18.—The railroad wreck a short distance from the central shaft in the Hoosac tunnel Saturday "night was one of the worst which ever took place in this vicinity. By it two men lost their lives and two others were seriously injured. A freight train had to stop in the tunnel to repair a break onthe engine. By some blunder a second freight train was permitted to follow into the tunnel before the first was out of the way and crashed into the standing train. The tunnel was completely blockaded by the wreck, and it was impossible to get trains through all day yesterday. THREATENED TOWNS. Mora and G roundhouse. Nineteen Miles from Hinckley Said to be Doomed. St. Cloud, Minn., Sept. 10.—During yesterday afternoon a report was received at ‘the Great Northern dispatcher's office, that the towns of Mora and Groundhouse, nineteen miles this side of Hinckley, were both on fife, and doomed to destruction. The operator at Mora informed the office here that he would leave his post and lock the office. Citizens had gathered around the depot and were prepared to flee from the threatened danger. At about 8 o’clock last evening another dispatch stated that by the change of thfc heavy wind which had been fanning the flames all day, the fire had taken another direction and Mora might possibly escape.* At Soule station a large sawmill and lumber yards were wiped out. The people at Mora had ample warping of the approaching fires and if the fire did enter the town they have found safety in Snake river. A GRAVE CHARGE. Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Farmer SlcGraw. Bradford, Pa., Sept. 9.—James W. Brown, of Glean, N. Y., was arrested to-day on telegraphic advices from Inspector ol Police J. P. Cleary, of Rochester|^sY. Brown is suspected of being unplmated in the murder of John McGraw7a farmer who was killed at Chili, N. \Y., near Rochester, last Sunday. Brown has been working here for a week in the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh yards. He will be taken to Rochester for examination.

THE COUNT OF PARIS. Heath of the Head of the House of Boof- - bon at His Retreat In England — He mlnbreores of His Services in the United States During the Civil War and His - Subsequent Visit to this Country. - London, Sept. 9.—The count of Paris died at exactly 7:49 a- m- The remains will be buried at VVeybridge, Surrey, but the date of the funeral has not been, fixed. Paris, Sept. 8.—A council of ministers was held to-day to discuss the question of permitting the interment of the body of the count of Paris at Dreux, in the event of a request on behalf of the family for this privilege, j NO OFFICIAL RECOGNITION. Washington, Sept. 8.—Though the services which the late Louis Albert Philippe, count of Paris, rendered to the United States during the war, are remembered by his army comrades, no official notice of his death will be-taken by the war department for two reasons: First, his rank in the service was only that of a captain of volunteers; secondly, diplomatic considerations, the count being exiled by the French republic, would render any official mark of respect by the government liable to political misconstruction. Briefly recorded those services were as follows, SERVED IN THE tTXIOX ARMT. In the autumn of 1861 he and his brother, the duke of Chartres, aecom- r panied their uncle, the prince de Joinville. to the United States. At the invitation of (len. George 7B. McClellan, the young princes entered the military service of the United States, and were ■ attached to his staff, with the rank Of captains in the volunteer army. They stipulated that they should receive no pay, and should be free to resign their commissions whenever they desired. They served oh Gen. MeCfellan's staff until the close of the Virginia campaign and the retreat of the army ! of the Potomac in June, 1862, when they returned to Europe. Whilein the field they frequently volunteered on detached expeditions. At Gaines’ Mills they displayed courage and zeal' in conveying dispatches, and in efforts to re-form the line of battle. PLEASANT REMINISCENCES. In an informal way army officers acknowledged the friendship which the Orleans prince manifested for the Union cause during the war. One of these personal tributes came from Maj.-Gen. Schofield, commanding the' army of the United States. “I knew the count of Paris v§ry , well,” said Gen. Schofield, “but I did * not become acquainted with him until he had returned to France from America. I met him while traveling in Europe, and found him a charming, sincere gentleman. He seemed to me to be more democratic than aristocratic in his ideas, but his peculiar political position made it necessary that he should appear in the latter light. H§ was exceedingly modest for a man. of his high position, and fouild many friends. His history of our civil war appears to me to be an exceedingly able work, free from bias and prejudice. It was fairer and more impartial than any history written by an American, for the count was, not influenced by any political or sectional sentiments.” 1

. HIS SECOND VISIT. When the count of Paris visited America several years ago the question arose in government circles whether any official notice should be taken of his presence in this country, and it was determined that this government could not consistently give him recognition. Officers of the government, however, and particularly those in the regular armyr took an active interest in the receptions and other events given in his honor, and the Loyal Legion, an unofficial military /organization as nearly official as copM be, was particularly prominent in fiiaking the count’s stay pleasant. i Gen. Thomas M. Vincent, assistant' adjutant-general of the army, knew the count of Paris well during the war. He paid a tribute to the geniality and integrity of the dead man, and told of his gratification when the count recognized him during his second visit to America and recalled a pleasant evening the count had spent at thehouse jointly occupied by Gen. Hancock and Gen. Vincent. 4 OKLAHOMA DIVORCES. All Granted Since March, 1893, Are Nell; and Void. Guthrie, Okla.. Sept. 9.—The decision of the supreme court of the territory handed down at noon nullifies all divorces granted by probate judges ifi Oklahoma since March, 1893. There have been fully 400 divorces so granted, and as a very large percentage of the persons so divorced have been married since they are guilty of bigamy. The people affected are in every state of the Union, having come here to take advantage of the liberal divprce laws of the territory, which allow divorce for any of thirteen causes^ after a residence of ninety days. The decision will cause a sensation all over the country. Resulted la Three Deaths. Staunton, HI., Sept. 9.—Engineer S. C. Planning, injured in the railroad, wreck last night, has (tied of his injuries. This makes three deaths as a. result of the wreck. Wire Tappers About Ready to Bleed the Foreign Book, Captured in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 9.—A nest of wiretappers was raided Friday afternoon at Forty-seventh and Rebecca streets by G. W. Cook, manager of the Hawthorne race track, and the Cicero police. One man caught is now locked up in the Hawthorne village calaboose. He gave his name as Albert Hueston, and denied at first that he knew anything of any scheme to rob the foreign book by means of intercepted information. It is expected that Hueston will 'divulge the names of his accomplices. The connection was not vet connleted.