Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 August 1895 — Page 6

dufikt dmntjj Jrmortat X. Baa 8T00P8, Editor md Preprittor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. i Tw« dake of Argyle was married at Ripon, England, on the 30th, to his cousin. Ins- Irskine McNeill, who is one of the queen’s extra bed-chamber women. J. D. Catos, one of Chicago’s oldest residents, died at his home in that city, on the 30th, aged 84 years. He was an ex-judge of the supreme court of Illinois. Dispatches from Market Lake, Idaho, on the 2d, stated that there was little danger, as most of the Indians seen by alarmed settlers Were on their way back to the reservation. The debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during July, of 838, &5,737. Total cash in the treasury, 8807,397,83a 4 Eve hard R. Todd, for many years document clerk at the Smithsonian institution, died in Washington city, on the 2d, as the result of injuries received by being thrown from an electric car; ---- The Merchants’ Bar Iron association, | composed of representatives of twenty- 1 two firms west of Pittsburgh, Pa., met in Detroit, Mich., on the 30th., and advanced the price of bar iron two dollars per ton. Failures in the United States during the week ended the 2d, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 2G1, against 230 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 28, against 44 last year. The Spanish courts have declared void the will of Don Alexandro Soler, who bequeathed several million pesetas to Queen Regent Christina. The decision is based upon a technical Haw in the document. Notice was posted at the York (Pa.) rolling mill, on the 31st, announcing that on and after the 1st the price of puddling would be S3 per ton instead of 83.75 as formerly, with a proportionate advance in other mill work. Cholera continues its ravages in Ja- j pan. Out of a total of 7,305 cases ofti- ! cially reported, 4,376 proved fatal, | showing a death rate of 60 percent, j Highly creditable efforts to check the j spread of the loathsome disease are reported. On the 1st the Edinburgh university conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Dr. *S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, who is described in the university oration as the “chief ornament of medical science in the new world.”

* The schooner W. C. Watson, which it was rumored was to carry a filibustering expedition, arrived at Honolulu, on July 21, with 585,000 feet of lumber from Seattle, Wash. All of the reported pirate expeditions have so far failed to materialize. ’ A magnificent new vessel will be added to the already growing list of the new navy, on the 15th, when the second class battleship Texas will go into commission. She was built at the Norfolk navy yard under the direct supervision of Naval Constructor Bowles. The International Geographical congress, in session in London on. the 1st, resolved that the greatest geographical exploration yet to be undertaken was to be pursued in Antarctic fields, in view of the great additions to geographic knowledge which must result from such exploration. On the 2d a daughter of Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, U. S. A., shot and killed a boy, who, she claimed, was stealing fruit from her father’s garden in Washington city. The young wojnan was arrested, but later was discharged by the coroner, who found the killing to be unintentional. In a magistrate’s court in East Norfolk, England, on the 30th, Lord John Wodehouse, eldest son and heir of the earl of Kimberly, was fined £5 for disorderly conduct. His offense consisted in having disturbed and practically broken up a political meeting in Walshara during the late general elections. The Maryland state democratic convention for the nomination of a state ticket met in Baltimore, on the 81st, less than fifty delegates being present. John E. Hurst was nominated for governor on the first ballot. Marion DeKalb Smith was unanimously re-nom-inated for comptroller, and Charles C. Crothers for attorney general. W. S. Stratton, the millionaire mine owner, struck a vein of ore in the Independence mine at Victor, Col., on the 30th, that is believed to be the richest lode ever found in any mine in the country, if not in the world. The statement is made that there are millions of dollars, worth of ore, assaying 9140,000 to the ton now in sight. The defeat of a boat in a race at the Dragon festival at Ping Yang, China, in which a native priest found an eye-; less idol which he declared the Christians must have mutilated and thus caused the defeat of the boat's crew, was the cause of the late anti-Christian riots at that place which resulted in the razing or burning of twenty bouses. « Mrs. James Rosier, of Logansport, Ind., and Mrs. John Mills, sisters, who had not seen or heard of each other for fifty-eight years, met, recently, at Lake Maxinkuckee. They had lived only forty miles apart for fortytwo years without knowing it, and their reunion was brought about by a casual mention of the name of one to the other.

T ;t THE HEW8 IH BEIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The barge Republic, loaded with eoa':, and being towed from Cleveland, O., to Detroit, Mich., foundered, on the 80th, off Lorain. O. The waves washed the coverings from the hatches and she filled and sank in 75 feet of water. Her crew of five men got off in a yawl and were picked up The courthouse at Fresno. Cal.,, which cost the county 8180.000, was j damaged by fire, on the night of the j 29th, to the extent of $9,000. The fire j started in one of the upper floors, and • is supposed to have been of incendiary j origin; fuily insured. E’ire on the island of Stein warder, in the harbor of Hamburg, on the 29tb, destroyed several warehouses and their contents, causing a loss of over 1.000,000 marks. Mrs. Fannie Ford, wife of the janitor who has charge of a building until recently used by the health officers of this District of Columbia, recently found two SI,000 bills in the attic of the building. So far no one has claimed thje money. While a Pennsylvania passenger train was rounding the bend at Scottsburg. Ind., on the evening of the 30th, it struck a buggy containing a man, woman arid child. The man and woman, whose names have not yet been learned, were killed and the child injured. The horses were also killed. The London Daily News published a dispatch from Berlin, on the 31st, which said that the Tageblatt had word from Constantinople that Turkey hud accepted ia their entirety the reforms which the powers had demanded ini Armenia, after receiving a firm note from the Salisbury government. ^ On the 30th Brookside, Ala., a mining camp of the Sloss Iron and Steel Co., Was the scene of one of the bloodiest race riots in the history of Alabama. A’s a result two deputy sheriffs and four negroes were killed and several other negroes seriously, two probably fatally, wounded.

James H. Cockrell, aged 64, a farmer, near Lafayette, Ind., was, on the SDth, blown to atoms by the explosion of twelve pounds of dynamite cartridges, which he was carrying in a basket while engaged in blowing up stumps in a field. The monument-erected in Louisville, Ky., in memory of; the Kentucky confederates was unveiled, on the SOth, in the presence of a vast concourse of people. Thirty horses were burned to death in the destruction by fire of Danbe^g’s livery stable in Wells, Minn., on the Jtlst. The fire is charged to tramps; loss, 540,000, insurance, 510,000. * Richard N. Hunt, architect of the Administration building at the World’s fair; of the new Vanderbilt villa at Newport, R. I., and many other prominent buildings of his class, died at his summer residence at Newport on the 81st. ( The Spanish cabinet, at its meeting, on the 31st, formally approved the amount of the indemnity to be paid in settlement of the Mora claim. On the Slst the British admiralty placed orders with the Messrs. Thomp-1 son, shipbuilders of Glasgow, for the I construction pf three torpedo destroy- j ers capable of maintaining a speed of thirty-six land miles per hour. The intention is that these boats shall be the fastest vessels of their kind afloat. During the 34 hours ended at 6 a. m. of the 31st, the converting department of the Carnegie-Edgar Thomson steel, works at Braddock, Pa., made the unprecendeted run of 1,110 tons and 90 pounds, being seventythree heats of the two 15-ton convertiers. Police Captain Michael J. Murphy, of New York, who was under suspension as a result of the Lexow committee investigation, died at his residence in that city, on the 31st, of Bright’s disease and dropsy. A portion of the embankment of Geneva lake, near the village of Montreaux, Switzerland, gave way, on the 30th, leaving a gap 100 meters long and twenty meters deep. The pecuniary damage is enormous, but fortunately no one was injured. Gkk. Anson G. McCook was, on the 81st, appointed city chamberlain of New York to succeed James J. O’DonPghue. The place is worth $35,000 a year. A cable dispatch was received, on the 31st, at the rooms of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, m New York city, announcing the death from cholera in India of Rev. and Mrs. August Hull man, missionaries, in the town of Azanol,,in the Bengal-Burmah conference. Mr. Knllman went to India from Vineland, N, J., in 1892. Fraud orders have been issued by the post office department against J. M. Bain, W. H. Griffith & Co., the Zanesville Chemical Co. and the Black Diamond Manufacturing Co., of Nev* Concord and Zanesville, O., and against the Excelsior Poultry Co., of Decatur, council of Emporia, Kas., which required bells and lamps on every bicycle there, and made it compulsory to ring the bells at every street crossing and alley, was, on the Slst. declared by Judge J. F. Culver, unreasonable in its requirements, and therefore unnoinctUutionai and void. 111.

CoxFErmos for the location of the National college of mechanics and fine arts, to be erected by the Knights Templar, has narrowed down to Pittsburgh and Chicago. The knights will decide on one of these cities in their convention at Boston, August 24. Wa Pickle r, who was awaiting trial for implication in the mint-bul-lion shortage, was found dead in bed at Carson, Nev., on the morning of the 31st. A clot of blood in the heart was the cause. Pickier was a confidential employe in the Carson mint for many years. F.t.i.a Jenkins. aged £5, while standing in the door of her honse in the suburbs of Jacksonville, Fla., on the 31st, during a heavy storm, was killed by an electric bolt. The babe she held in her arms was unharmed. A fire at Menominee, Mich., on the night of the Slst, swept over a territory of nearly forty acres and destroyed S5.000.000 feet of lumber, the property of A. Spies, the Girard Lumber Co. and Bay Shore Lumber Cot, together with offices and buildings, one wood mill and about 6,000 cords of slabs. Several firemen and some citizens were injured. At Potts’ Camp, Miss., on the night of the 31st, J. A. CaUin, a prominent local politician, shot and instantly killed Ed West, telegraph operator, who he thought was too slow in receiving a message which Catlin wanted to send off. Jri.U'8 A. Tati.OR. United States district attorney for the western district of Tennessee, died in Memphis on the 1st. Earthquakes have been prevalent of late on the Tonga islands, but no serious damage is reported. Ox the 1st the Greek chamber approved the budget and the parliamentary session closed. Ex-Mayor Hugh O’Briex, of Boston, died at Somerville, Mass., on the 1st. Aeronaut Burke made an ascension by moonlight at Phcenix, Ariz., on the 1st, in a hot-air balloon, but in descending in his parachute he fell on top of a house, sustaining injuries from which he shortly died. His partner, Nelson, got a fall the same evening, sustaining a broken arm./ The Coulterville stage was held up ami robbed about 12 miles northeast of Merced, Cal., on the 1st, by a masked highwayman. There was only one passenger, who contributed whpt he had—a 310 gold piece. Several packages of coin were taken, the value of which is not known. Mrs. Eijzabeth Davis, aged 104 years, died, on the 1st, at the Delaware (Ind.) county infirmarj*. where she had been for twenty-five years. Up to the time of her death she was agile and possessed all her faculties. Four tramps were killed near Capton, 0., on the 2d, by a collision between two sections of a broken freight train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, upon which they, with others ,were stealing a ride. Lightning struck a company of German soldiers at drill imthe district of Die Senneya, Westphalia, on the 2d, and most of the men were prostrated. Eight of them were left in a dying condition.

The Taylor brothers, on trial at Carrollton, Mo., for the massacre of the Meek’s family, were found guilty by the jury, on the 2d, after two hours and thirty-seven minutes’ deliberation. A dispatch from Majuna, Madagascar, on the 2d, said that ^he Hova soldiers were deserting en masse, after being routed from day to day by the steadily advancing French army. LATE NEWS ITEMS. SnuaiHE, the county seat of Lincoln county and the division point and location of the Northern Pacific car shops, having a population of 8,000, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 3d? The loss is placed at over $1,000,000, and as it is possible the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. may remove its shops to Seattle, the fire may prove the deathblow to the town. Tax associated banks of New York city, in their statement for the week ended the 3d, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $1,079,400; loans, increase, $8,151,000; specie, increase. $107,400; legal tenders, decrease, $416,400; deposits, increase, $3,361,600; circulation, increase, $24,600. The state department received a cablegram from Consul Jernigan at Shanghai, on the 4th, in reference to the reported massacre near Kuchang, China, which stated that the Americans there were safe and unhurt, but that ten British subjects had been killed by the native mob. Hunters returning from Crown mountain, in British Columbia, report that an avalanche has swept away the crown of the mountain. A party of explorers built a fire on the peak recently, which thawed the frosen ground and caused the avalanche. The Woodrough A Hanchett Co., one of the largest wholesale hardware houses in Chicago, failed on the 3d. The failure occasioned a good dead of surprise, as the company had been regarded as a most substantial concern. The steamship Saale, which left New York, on the 3d, for Europe, carried $1,350,000 gold, the La Bourgogne $116,400 and the Aurania $70,000. The gold shipped by the Saale is for the accounts of coffee importers. The employes of the Franklin copper mine at Hancock, Mich., have had their wages restored to the figure paid before the cut caused by the panic of two years ago. Atty.-Gen. Harmon has gone to Nantucket, Mass., to spend three weeks’vacation. Solicitor-General Conrad will be acting attorney-general during his absence. On the 3d the associated banks of New York city held $41,996,635 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. Assaf Saduixah, secretary of the Turkish embassy in Berlin, committed suicide in his residence in that city on the 3d. « . The negt meeting of the International Geographical congress will be held in Berlin in 1S99.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Thk Wabash distilling plant at Terr* Haute is to be sold. Kosovo is to have cement sidewalks around the courthouse. Whitecap notices are beings served on many persons in Davies county. Grant county now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the state. Fr. Wayne capitalists - will drill for oil in the southern part of Wells county. Elkhart reports many mishaps at night on account of having no street lights. The Marion bank has purchased the Citizens’ Exchange bank at Fairmount. ' At Anderson ope of the fire department horses was instantly killed by a live electric wire in his stall. A ten-year-old boy at South Bend exploded a cartridge with a ston». He only has one hand now. Anderson youngsters place stones on the tracks to watch the street cars crush them. The plate glass company the other morning started up their third furnace at the Eiwood plant, and the factory is now running at full capacity with eight hundred men. The demand for plate glass continues to increase, and the outlook for the future of the Elwood plant is assured. It is given out upon good au^thority that within ninety da3's operations will be resumed at the Depauw Plate Glass works at Alexandria and New Albany. These plants employ 1.000 men when in full operation. The Depauws will continue ’to have charge of the plants. The common council of west Indianapolis the other night passed a resolution appropriating $300 as a reward for the murderer of little 3-year-old Ida Gebhard, whose putrid body was found with evidences of outrage. The Big Four fast express, bound from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, while running a mile a minute, struck and smashed to smithereens a buggy eight miles east of Indianapols. Ellis Brown, the occupant, was instantly killed. He had been to call on a young lady and was returning home. The prospect is that a company of Chicago capitalists will build a large sanitarium at- the Morgan mineral well, near Huntington, which has become famous since its discovery few a months ago. Charles Flack, living near Stanley, while attempting to place a belt on a separator, was caught by the belt and thrown over and badly hurt. At Boonville the entire family of Gustavus Decker, consisting of himself, wife and four children, were poisoned by mistaking toadstools for mushrooms, resulting in the death of Decker’s wife. Decker is a farmer and his wife had cooked toadstools for dinner, of which they all ate.

iu£ express ana railway omce ai> Taswell, on the L. E. and St. L. railway was robbed of 5500 worth of tickets. At Mnncie a bottle of chemical used to extinguish fire, exploded in Cyrus Wilkenson’s hand, shattering his right arm at the elbow. Mrs. Fred Drake was probably fatally hurt by being thrown from a buggy near Brazil. Tub western part of Wayne county is suffering for rain, and the corn crop, which promised to be enormous, is beginning to show damage. Benjamin Timberlake, of Wayne copnty, and a graduate of Earlham college with the class of 1894, has been elected to the principalship of the high school at Parker City. John A. Duet, of South Bend, has been notified that he is the rightful heir to an estate in England, the value of which is estimated at a half million dollars. The title comes to Mr. Duey through his first wife, an English woman named Woolger. President Brown, of the Northern Indiana Normal school, has secured ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, to deliver an address to the graduates Thursday evening, August" la. Go -. Matthews will make an address ard present diplomas to 235 graduates. Franfort has a telephone war ard one can almost talk for nothing now. Geo. Hallis, near Sidney, was attacked by a bull a few nights since, and was butted, trampled upon and dragged until he was injured so badly that he died. Clyde Smith, who recently escaped from the Plainfield reformatory, was captured at Union City. Judge McCray, of the criminal court, Indianapolis, held the Nicholson law constitutional, and an appeal followed to the supreme court. Frank McKinney, in the northern prison for alleged housebreaking, was pardoned by Gov. Matthews a few days ago, the governor being satisfied of his innocence. The large frame residence of Mrs. Elisabeth Summers, three miles north of Windfall, was destroyed by fire. Loss, 51,000; with 5600 insurance in the Home of New York. Richmond’s good citizen’s league is just beginning a campaign against liquor law violators. A child of J. W. Leonard, residing near Hartford City, was stung on the tongue by some poisonous insect, and is in a precarious condition. The tongue is so swollen as to nearly choke the little one. Franklin is working on its new 525,000 city building. A stranger, giving his name as Ben Lapidus, of Cincinnati, robbed four clothing stores and attempted to escape with the goods at Madison. He was arrested by Sheriff Kohl and was held under 51,000 bonds to the September court. — The Madison county board of equalization made an increase in the valuation of the El wood plate glass works erf 550,000 over former estimates, and the plate glass company has taken an appeal to the state board of equalization. A Greensfork man has been arrested for whipping a horse until blood ran down its sides.

BURNED AND DOOMED. ft* City ®f Sprac**. Wuik, AtaaM Cow ptotelr Dwtratrctf-lM. Ow o«> Jttt> Itoa DoUan—Maajr of tlw CIUmm Hoar l»» food and TmU Prompt It Seat from Hrattle—Map bo a Death Blow to the Town. SPOKAXK. Wash.. An*. 5.— Sprague, the couuty seat of Lincoln county and the division point and location of the Northern Pacific car shops, harm* a population of 3,000. was almost destroyed by fire Saturday. A Wlgh wind, amounting almost to a hurricane, was blowing at the time, and the fire swept over the town with resistless fury, destroying over $1,000,000 ' worth of property in two hours’ time. The fire broke out in a livery stable on the south side of the railroad track, and from here the flames swept across to the north side and within half an hour both sides of the tracks were a seething mass of flames. On the north side the depot was the first to go, and from there the flames spread to the railroad headquarters building, ice house, hotels and railroad restaurants, taking everything in the shape of a building. * From the starting point another arm of fire began to lick up the buildings on the outside of the tracks. First, two blacks of frame buildings facing the tracks went like a flash, and the immense car shop and roundhouse next talk fire. Seven of the engines were gotten out in time to save them before the round-house fell in, burying three others. The huge oil tanks in the rear of the shops exploded, scattering the burning oil around and served to spread the fire to the business portion of the ! town. The firemen were powerless to stay i the awful sea of flames, and within an I hour every business house with the exception of three small stores and ! the First national bank was in ashes. Very little, if any, merchandise was sa ved. Many of the citizens are homeless. A special train left here.,Sat imiay night carrying food and tents to the sufferers. The fire may be a death blow to Sprague, as it is probable the Northern Pacific will now move its shops i here. AN APPEAL

For Fund* to Aid Mrs. lTytlrr and Her Family to Reach America. Washington. Aug. 5.—Messrs. Crammoml Kennedy, John M. Langston and W. T. McGuire, counsel in behalf of John L. Waller, ex-United States consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, hare issued an appeal asking for contributions to a fund which will enable Mrs. Waller and her family, now at Mauritius, to reach the United States. After narrating the facts in connection with Waller’s arrest, conviction and sentence by the French officials, the appeal proceeds: “Funds are needed to bring Mrs. Waller and her family home. She has mportant evidence in support of her husband's innocence of the charge on which he was convicted by the French court-martial at Tamatave. The department of state is inquiring into Waller’s claim against the French government for illegal arrest and impris* oninent and the virtual confiscation of a valuable concession which had been granted to him by the queen of ftfadagasc.ar, but has no funds available for bringing Mrs. Waller and her children to the United States. “Mr. Waller was one of the leading men of color in this country; his efforts and sacrifices in behalf of negro elevation cannot be overlooked; audit is hoped that systematic and immediate efforts will be made by the colored people, in their churches and through other agencies, to raise funds for the relief of his needy and unfortunate family. “It is believed that a grievous wrong’ has been done to Waller and Bray by the French military authorities in their war of conquest against Madagascar, for which, sooner or later, apology will be made to the United States and indemnity paid to the sufferers. “But this appeal is made to citizens of the United States without regard to the question of Waller’s guilt or innocencfe. His wife and family are American citizens and through no fault of theirs are destitute and helpless far away from home. It is to be regretted that the government has no funds available for such cases as that of Mrs. Waller’s family, and it is on this account that an appeal is made to the general public. “All contributions may be sent to the department of state.” The document states that Mr. Waller was assistant superintendent of the Kansas asylum for the education of the blind, and had held other responsible positions in that state before he was appointed consul at Tamatave, having been one of the presidential electors-at-large in Kansas In 1888. Killed by Lightning. , Altoona, Pa., Aug. 5.—During a heavy thunder storm yesterday afternoon a large barn belonging to David Bell, on the outskirts of this city, was struck by lightning and burned, together with its contents. About the same time a wandering family from Williamsport Pa., sought shelter under a tree near Duncansville. The tree was struck and John H. Miller was killed. The mother, Mrs. Miller, was so badly burned that she will die. Two others, a boy and a girl, were severely shocked. '•WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK." A Hawaiian Sugar Trust Intended to Break Down the American Trust. San Francisco, Aug. 5.—The Hawaiian sugar planteis have undertaken to form a trust which has for its object the breaking down of the American Sugar trust and the establishing of a free market for sugar. Nearly $1,000,000 has been subscribed and the Spreckels brothers, of this city, have been asked to join the combination. At first it was thought that the local sugar kings would join, bat they have since refused to do so.

CENTRAL AMERICA Th( Proimbl* Scene pt Senantionnl Deeel>|wa A Secret AIUmm ' Hu Been Formed Looklar to the CreoUoo off • Ootoo off the State*, with Guatemala Et* err let ok the Uomluaat lstflueac*—A M*nldrant SI teat toe. WARHIRQTOX, Aug. SL-Printe advices received from Guatemala indicate that sensational developments,, affecting possibly the future of Central America may be expected within, the next thirty days. These advices state that President Barrios of Guatemala has formed a secret alliance with. Costa Rica, looking to the formation of a union of all the Central American states, with Guatemala exercising the dominant influence in the new federation.. The first step in thin, programme >vill be the downfall of the present Bonilla administration in Honduras and the appointment of- his successor in the person of Marco Soto. This lastnamed gentleman is favorable to the ^ proposition, and if the present plana are perfected so that he may, by a coup d'etat, assume the presidential office, the assistance of Honduras can he obtained in the plan for a federation of the five states, and Nicaragua and Salvator will thus, it is claimed, be compelled to join with other republics as a matter of self-interest. Marco Soto filled for a number of years the office of president of Honduras. He owed his elevation to the - chief magistracy to the powerful aid of Gen. Rufino Barrios, who was then the dictator of Guatemala, and easily the, greatest political and military force in Central America. When Barrios made war on Salvador, Soto refused to co-operate with him. Barrios at once incited a revolution* in Honduras. Through his aid the revolutionists were suc6essful and Soto was overthrown. Subsequently Barrios was killed, and his ambitious scheme of a Central American union, with himself as the central and predominating figure, came to naught. 1 The presidency of Guatemala is now filled by another member of the Barrios family, a nephew of the distinguished dictator. It is claimed, without any qualification, that, following the example of his uncle, he will again use his influence to place Soto in the presidency of Honduras. Those who are familiar with the po^ litical conditions in the little LatinAmeriean republics, say that a new revolution ean be easily started in Honduras, composed of the dissatisfied elements now out of power, with Soto at their head, and that these, with such assistance as Guatemala can covertly give them, can speedily overthrow the present Bonilla administration. The three republics of Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica, therefore would practically dominate the situation.

President Barrios or uautemaia, it is said, is the wore desireous of this new alliance, inasmuch as at present Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador are closely allied. This trio of republics, which are contiguous to each other, forms a geographical wedge, so tospeak, between Guatemala on the north and Costa Rica on the south. Without the active co-operation of one of the three it would be difficult, for Guatemala and Costa Rica to assume an offensive attitude toward theremainder. The withdrawal of Honduras from the triple alliance and her-co-operation with the other republics would give to the latter a preponderance of power, the valne of which can be readily appreciated. To what extent President Barrios can carry through his programme can only be? conjectured, but it is believed in Guatemala that he will succeed in the undertaking. What renders his plan the mores feasible is the hereditary enmity or lack of comity at least, which exists, between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Costa Rica would, it is said, delight to see her ancient enemy, Nicaragua, humbled, as she would necessarily beif compelled perforce to join a Central American federation, the controlling influence of which would be friendlytoCosta Rica. Should Nicaragua, on the other hand, decline to join the union, she would still be at a disadvantage in that she would enjoy none of the benefits which would result from it. The situation, therefore, is pregnant with> significance, and future developments; are awaited with interest by the poJi-tr, ical leaders In all of the Central, American states by whom the forego-i ing facte seem to be perfectly understood. __ AN INFERNAL MACHINE. The Man Who Volunteered to Open life Badly Injured. • Detroit, Mich., Aug. 4.—Early evening a box about one foot squarewas delivered by an expressman at thehome of D. W. If. Moreland, a member of the water commission and a prominent Pingree official. The family was. suspicious of the contents of the box and ordered it conveyed into the back; yard. Mr. Moreland inspected thebox, but refused to open it. William Takesbury.a delivery clerk, happened along and volunteered tea open the box. He went at it with a hammer, Mr. Moreland standing ini the background. Suddenly there was. a terrific explosion. The clerk received the full force of the infernal, machine, for such it proved to be. Hisface and hands were badly burned. An examination showed the box was; loaded with nitro-glycerine and wasstrong enough to have killed a dozen men. By some lncky chance the machine did not explode with full force, -ASERIOUS ACCIDENT. Mourners and Corpse Precipitated Into a Cellar. ■ V ' St. Joseph, Mich., Ang. 5.—Whiler the funeral services of Eugene Shuart, who hanged himself Thursday, were in progress yesterday afternoon, the floor gave way and the Knights of Macabees, mourners and corpse, were all precipitated into the cellar. Several women fainted, but aside from few bruises no one was hurt. Everything was righted the services proceeded and the funeral was concluded according to programme.