Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 August 1895 — Page 2

(Shtfikc Counts Hcmoant X. XoO. BT00P8, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. The port® has again rejected the demand of the Powers that the proposed reforms in Armenia shall be under foreign control. -5 The official statement of the a&sts of Bingen Bros.. Genoa bankers, who recently failed, shows them to be £3,500,000. The liabilities are £14,000,000. A cablegram was received at the department of state, on the 19th, from Consul Jernigan at Shanghai, stating that cholera was not epidemic there. It #88 stated* at the treasury department. on the 31st, that the longdelayed World’s Fair medals will be ready for delivery early in September. Failures for the week ended on the 83d were: For the United States 223, against 234 for the corresponding week last year, and for Canada 43, against 3S last year. * Ex-Gov. Morris, of Connecticut, sustained a shock of apoplexy, on the morning of the 33d, at his office in New Haven, and died shortly after S o’clock in the afternoon. ^ The French steamer Charibon, which arrived at Marseilles, on the 23d, from Chinese waters, reported Tonquin infested with pirates, who constantly harass the French troops. e The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article treating of the Chinese outrages, says that Secretary OJney may l>e relied upon to take vigorous action in behalf of the Americans maltreated. A mortgage for $7,000,000, from the Maryland Steel Co. to the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Co., of Philadelphia, was filed for record in the clerk’s office at Towson, Md., on the 20th. The Madrid authorities deny that the prevalent risings in Spain have a republican tendency, but the government is, nevertheless, taking the strictest precautions against further disturbance. The present British government has declared its intention to follow up the efforts of their predecessors in office toward the establishment of a parcels post service between the United States and Great Britain. It is alleged that Ainsworth R. Spofford, the ' venerable librarian of congress, is many thousands of dollars short in his accounts with the government, and that his financial affairsare in an inextricable tangle. M. Cambox, the French ambassador to Turkey, had an interview with the 6ultan, on the 23d, and strongly urged his majesty to accept the proposals of the powers in regard to the administration of affairs in Armenia. The county board of Cook county, 111., at a special meeting, on the 20th, resolved to begin at once an investigation into the management of the county institutions, covering charges of murder, boodling and appointment of criminals to office.

lHKKKure no Auicncuu vunawwuo in that part Of Turkey between Sassoun and Moosh, where Turkish officials are said to have driven the Christians out of their houses and given them to Kurds. Most of those Christians are Turkish subjects. Thk Lloyds committee communicated with the London board of trade, on the 23d, urging that the government send a representative to Washington to arrange with the United States government a joint scheme to destroy derelicts, especially in the North Atlantic. The London & Northern Railway Co.’s new fast train, which left Euston Station, London, at 8 o’clock on the evening of the 20th, arrived at Aberdeen at 4:58 o’clock on the following morning, having covered the distance of 540 miles in the shortest time on record. The Chinese government has appointed the formerly disgraced Liu, who is generally regarded as the actual originator of the Cheng-Tn riots, infperial high commissioner to investigate the circumstances which led to the outbreak and the facts connected with th^ outrages themselves. A dispatch from Shanghai says: The Chinese soldiers at Tien-Tsin revolted, on the 21st, and assembled outside the gates of Li Ilung Chang’s palace, where they raised a clamor for their arrears of pay. Later tSey made an attack upon the shops in the city, wrecking many of them and killing over 100 persons. According to a report to the department of state by Minister Eugene Germain, at Zurich, the damage to vineyards in Italy by the insect commonly; known as the vine louse has been enormous. Since the appearance of the in1sect in that country it has totally ruined 283,529 acres of vineyards and injured 186,160 acres. In her official trial, on the 20th,' the new American line steamship St. Louis maintained an average speed of 22.3 knots per hour for over four hours, carrying the Stars and Stripes faster than any flag had ever been carried through the English channel. She made the outward run, with the thde at a speed of 23.06 knots. S. T. K. Prime, the crop expert, in a letter to a New York morning paper of the 20th, said: “In tweiity-five years’ experience I have never seen anything dike the prospects of the growing corn oropof 1895. Under present conditions you can look for a harvest of over two . thousand million (2,000,000,000) bushels of corn in the United States.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS IK BRIET, PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A statement of the condition of Os- ! car Wilde’s finances, issued on the 22d, ! showed his liabilities to be £3,591, with I no available assets. He has been in* j solvent two years, l»is7 expenditures ! greatly exceeding1 his income of £2,000, , derived from his literary and dramatic work. ,Bt an explosion, on the 19th, at the artillery barracks at Toola, the capii tal of the government of that name in Russia, 300 persons are said to have been killed, including many officers. The French expedition that is marching on Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, had reached Mevatanana on the l?th. The natives had secured a number of Maxim guns, which had arrived at Antananarivo. By th,e death of Daniel Polk, at Denver, Col., on Che 19th, a conspicuous figure was removed from the sociul and business life of that city. He was born in Shelby county, Ky., in 1814. He was one of the Polk family which settled in Maryland two centuries ago, and afterward scattered over Kentucky and other southern states. The oldest Iowan yet discovered by the census bureau is Mrs. Lucy Alexander, colored, living at Keokuk,whose age is reported at 119 years. She is a native of Virginia, and lives with her son, Thomas, himself 64 years old. James Cooxet, who was born in December, 1792, in County Wexford, Ireland, and who came to this country about thirty years ago, died at Canton, Pa., on the 19tli. Until within a week of his death he was able to assist iu farm work. Ex-Associate Justice William Stkong, of the United States supreme court, died at Lake Minnewaska, X. Y., oil the 19th, aged 87 years, lie was retired December 1, 1880. Deceased hacjl long been a sufferer from a catarrhal affection, but the immediate cause of his death was a stroke of paralysis. The 5 p. m. Chicago & West Michigan passenger train, east-bound from Chicago, was held up by four highwaymen just' south of New Richmond, Mich., op the evening of the 20th. But little booty was secured. A flagman was.shot in the right groin while signaling and seriously injured. Thomas M. Grady, a former cash?er of the First national bank at Marietta, Pa., was found guilty in the United States district court, at Philadephia, on the 20th. of embezzling the funds of the institution and making false entries in the bank's books. He was sentenced to seven years in the Eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine of $100 andcosts. Furnace “11” of the Edgar Thomson, steel works (Carnegie’s plant) at Bessemer, near liraddock. Pa., exploded, on the 20tli, killing six men and badly burning eight others, not one ot those employed about the furnace escaping injury. Four carpenters who were trying to save a Northern Pacific bridge near Cceur d’Alene, Wash., on the 19th, .were cut off by the flames and compelled let jump 1S6 feet to the bottom of the chasm, where they were dashed to Diectfs.

Advices from Honolulu, per steamer Australia, arrived at San Francisco on the 21st, stated that the Hawaiian legislature had granted a contract and exclusive franchise to Z. S. Spalding to lay and operate a telegraphic cable from San Francisco to Honolulu, the vote in both houses of the legislature being practically unanimous. The business portion of St. Kilan, a small to\vn near West Bend, Wis., was wiped out by fire on the 20th. The total loss is $25,000; insurance, $9,000; Many residences were burned and eight business places destroyed. By a fire that broke out on the aft* ernoon of the 10th, the laboratory of Johns Hopkins university, at Baltimore,- Md., was completely gutted, and the building otherwise badly damaged. The preliminary trial of John Walker, J. M. Rodan, M. D., W. B. l'adgett and Thomas Phillips, white men. charged with lynching the negro preacher Robert Bennett, on July 4, took place at Lake City, Fla., on the 20th. There was little evidence introduced against the accused, and they were discharged. It was announced in Madrid, on the 22d, that 25,000 fresh troops will embark for Cuba in November. Victor R. Blbndox, of Buffalo, N. Y., was, on the 21st, appointed grand receiver of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for the state of New York to succeed the late John Hodge, ol Lockport. The appointment was made by Pr. J. S. Armstrong, grand master workman of this state. The temperature on Mount Washington^, N. H., went down to 28 degrees early on the afternoon of the 21st. Snow was falling and the mountain summits were white, suggestive of midwinter. Louis Bezel's promising 4-year-old sprinter Rap-a-Tap, dropped dead on the track at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 21st. Heart disease is believed to have been the cause. Miss Mary Manning, youngest4child of the late ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, was married in Albany, N. Y., on the 21st, to Mr. Julius Cornelius. Von der Oudermeulon, of The Hague, Holland, 'V= At the session of the supreme council of the American Legion, held in Detroit, Mich., on the 21st, the ritual committee reported that no drafts oi rituals had been submitted and recommended, and that it was inexpedient at the present time to taake any changes in secret work. The big fly wheel in the 10-inch mill at the Oliver iron and steel works it Pittsburgh, Pa., burst with terrifh force on the 22d. The mill was in full operation at the time, but the em ployes miraculously escaped serious injury. Pieces of the wheel wen hurled in all directions, wrecking th< rolls and engines and damaging th< whole mill. '

Os the 21st the president Issued an order extending the civil-serviee rules to include all printers and pressmen in the executive departments. Tax town of Coin, in the province of Malaga, Spain, was shaken by an 1 earthquake, on the 23d, which lasted twenty-five seconds. The damage done to buildings is very serious. At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 21st the Graud Rockland hotel at Congers, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. The building cost 963.000 and the furniture $18,000. Since the outbreaK of cholera in Japan there have been 25,000 cases and 16.000 deaths. lx an Indian camp 40 miles from j Maniwaki village, on the borderland | of the great northern forests of the j Upper Gatineau, an Indian named ; Francois beat his 16-year-old daughter to death. The provincial authorities | have the case in hand. The expenditures of the government for the first two-thirds of August exi eeeded the receipts by 97,009,293, but only $1,230,000 remains to be paid on account of pensions, and the treasury officials estimate that the deficit will be reduced during the last third to about $3,000,000. The excess of expenditures over receipts last month was $8,478,366. In response to representations made bv Mr. T. P. O’Connor in the British house of commons, on the 22d, Sir Matthew White Ridley, home secretary, said he would consider it his duty to inquire into the case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, serving a life sentence for the poisoning of her husband. Prof. Booker T. Washington, the negro orator of Alabama, has been invited to deliver an address at the opening of the Cotton States exposition in Atlanta, Ga.. September 18. Washington is president of a normal and industrial school for blacks at Tuskegee, Ala. He is one of the ablest negroes in this country. On the 22d the steamer Terre Bonne, from Kingston for Montreal, Can., with several commanderies of Knights Templar on board, struck a reef at the foot of Cascade rapids and sank shortly after in the entrance to Lachine canal. So far as reported no lives were lost. The Suffolk county (Mass.) superior court decided, on the 22d, th%ta Chinaman has as much right to snuoke opium in his own house or apartments as an American has to smoke cigars or a pipe in his residence. “Kish” Dugan, proprietor of the American house, in Pittsburgh, Pa., was assaulted by a gang of toughs and robbed of $655 in cash on an Allegheny Valley railroad train on the night of the 22d. Four of the robbers were captured, but the fifth made his escape, carrying off the plunder. Among the passengers returning from Alaska by the steamer Queen, which touched at Vancouver, R C., on the 22d, was Vice-President Stevenson, accompanied by his two brothers, Messrs. W. W. and J. C. Stevenson, and his wife and two, daughters. Mrs. Lora Perkins. was arrested in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 23d, on a charge of having killed her sister, Mrs. Lola Hawkins, by setting her on fire, on the 9th, for the sake of $7,000 life insurance. The sehooner Wanderer, which put in at Sand Beach, Mich., on the 88d, reported the loss of her captain, Alexander Spence, and a seaman named James Body, during a severe gale. The Fjrst national bank of Franklin. O., closed its doors on the 23d. Mr. Mvtsi Minimutsc, Japanese minister of foreign affairs, has been elevated to the rank of count.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The London Sun of the 25th said: “It is rumored that the marquis of Salisbury, the British premier, has determined upon decisive action in regard to China, and that a British fleet will occupy one or two Chinese ports and perhaps land marines in order to enforce Great Britain’s demands in ; connection with, the investigation of ' the recent massacres.” The committee of the English Church union has startled church circles by declaring that civil marriages are an offense against church discipline. Parties who have incurred censure by entering into such marriages ought* according to the committee, to obtain absolution before being admitted to communion. The associated banks of New York city, in their statement for the week ended the 24th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $3,700,200; loans, increase, $2,258,300; specie, increase. $510,300; legal tenders, decrease, $3,688,800; circulation, increase, $85.2001 Prksidekt Cleveland, at the suggestion of the civil service commission, has removed the maximum age limit of the requirements for applicants for appointment in the government printing office. The modification of the ruin will apply at the next examination. Canadian cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, were recently landed at Deptford, England, and the Canadian authorities were refused permission to examine them, American inspectors are threatened with the same prohibition. A dispatch from Rome, on the 25th, said that Signor Achille Naginelle, under secretary to the Italian ministry of commerce and a member of the chamber of deputies, had suddenly become insane in the baths at Levico, in the Tyrol. “ . Paul Reclus, the anarchist agitator, who, though absent from France was recently sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment, has informed the public prosecutor in Paris of his intention to return and surrender himself to the authorities. At the Twenty-eighth annual Trades Union congress to be held at Cardiff, | Wales, the week of September 2, Samuel Gompers and P. J. Maguire are ex- | pected as delegates fgom the American , Federation of Labor. Comptroller Bowler has begun the , preparation of his decision in the sugar i bounty case and expects to complete 1 U t,. «k.

INDIANA STATE NEW S. Jobs Williams’ stable borne! in the heart of the business cent >r of Mancie late the other night. Two valuable hones, a carriage, baggy and a large quantity of grain were burned. A dozen big business blocks were in danger, and the electric tight supply to scores of business house iwal cut off. There was no insurance. Before the fire was subdued the Calvert sisters’ business block on High street was on fire. It was occupied by Franklin A Mahoney, pioprieton of the York town flour mills as an exchange depot. Two houses and a lot of flour and 1,500 dozen »gga, with two horses owned by Chas. Haston, of Rochester, Ind., burned. The High street theater was aadly scorched. The police fear the fires were started by robbers attr&cted there to the fair. A. C, Denny, aged 40, was .'ound hanging to a tree in the woods, ten miles southwest of Winchester. Warsaw has a revival. Four young women are holding it. That El wood counterfeiters' gsng is said to be at work again. Vincent Mosley,who claims clos« kinship with the late Gen. Mosley, cf Virginia, was arrested at Kyana, upon a j charge of child murder and was jailed. The Hancock A Conkle m ne at Farnsworth has conceded the demands of the miners and resumed work the other morning at the 60 cents scale. C. W. Hewixger, a Big Four ‘reight conductor, had a $40 suit of clothes | stolen from his caboose while it was : standing on a sidetrack at Crawfords- j ville. A boy at Crawfordsville bought a horse for 5 cents at a sale and sold the | animal to the rendering factor}’ for 85 j cents. A cuii.d of John Dill, of Rock Creek j township, Huntington county, was J very sick for some time. The other : day it seemingly died. The child was laid out and all arrangements i perfected for the funeral and bur- J ial. Before 'the time arrived for the funeral to occur the child showed signs of life. Its body was well rubbed and wrapped up in warm flannels, # It soon began to breathe and is now in a fair way to get well. Tiie old soldiers of Grant county have elected William Feighner, colonel of a battalion which will go to the national encampment of the G. A. R. at Louisville. All the posts in the county will be represented. The other officers will be William Shepard, lieutenant colonel; John Sanders, adjutant; Joseph Lugan, quartermaster. The Seventieth Indiana, Gen. Harrison’s old regiment, held its annual re-union at Bethany park, Indianapolis, a few days ago, but Gen. Harrison was not present, not having returned from the east. Solomon Wilson, of Wabash, general manager of the Wabash School Furnishing Co. of that city, has purchased the Suman block, one oi the largest in Anderson, for $42,000. The property was recently sold to K. C. Haworth, of Liberty, who will soon remove a large implement factory from Liberty to Anderson. At Portland Mrs. Trent Conlson took 30 drops of belladonna by mistake. She may recover. •...

lUAol vuuuiu^ ac*owiauvuo uu i v • failed to make their reports to the ; state auditor, as required by law, and j this official is now sending out copies I of the law bearing on the question, with the information that longer de- I lay will subject the delinquent assoeia- I tions to a fine of 5100. * Ax Elkhart florist has succeed in producing a perfectly black pansy. William F. Gray, Muncie, has fallen heir to $10,000 by the death of a cousin. Farmers near Anderson are hauling water for miles in order to save stock. I Dr. C. C. Loder, widely known as ' Dr. Wau-A-Toh, the great- Indian doctor, is dead at Columbus. He was bopr and rea^pd in Rush county, and entered the army at the age of 13, first j serving in the Ninth and then the Thirteenth Indiana regiment The ! body was taken to Hancock county for j burial. * • Portland’s new oiler is spouting 150 barrels daily. Mr and Mrs. Wm. Murphy, pioneers of Elkhart, celebrated the fiftieth anniversity of their wedding the other day. The Nineteeth infantry will hold its annual reunion on August 28, at Union City. Geo. Wray, of Brown county,, was I 96 years old on his last birthday. He has been married three times, his last wife being 35 years old, and his youngest child being less than 2 years old. The state board of tax commissioners have finished the work of equalizing the appraisement of real estate and improvements, and as a result the assessment in 50 per cent, and more of the counties is increased. Postmasters appointed, John Bilner, Sexton, Rush county, vice Miss A. Hanson. resigned, and J. E; Carson, Tower, Crawford county, vice W. E. M err is, resigned. Richmond business men arc pushing the electric line project to Connersville and Liberty. Dobs without tags are being put in the pound at Evansville, and it costs $3 to have them liberated. Eighteen republicans are making a hot fight for the position of school superintendent of Bartholomew county. A meeting of the Antrim heirs of the vicinity of El wood was held at Frankton to take steps to secure their share of the $75,000,000. There is some talk of employing ex-President Harrison to look after their interests. Henry Scribner superintendent of the Flint glass works, at Dunkirk, and a somnambulist, got out of bed the other morning, walked through a sec-ond-story window and fell to the ground. He was badly hurt A party of Vincennes ladies and gentlemen left that ciay, the other day. for a tour across the state and back in carriagen They will camp out at night.

SAM JO^ES AT ASBURY PARK. 4mm Crude 1'ittntMM C»lr«Uted «• Cuw Goodt-UiNtdr People to Stop and Think—The Card Ploy ere *u<l Kumteltera Get* ft Scoriae. Amcit Park. N. J.. Aug1. 26.— Rev. 5am Jones teas the star* attraction at Asbury Park yesterday. He preached morning1 and evening. The morning text teas “For God so loved t he world," etc. He spoke of parental love, and told how much greater was God's love to his children. He said, in part: “Woman, if yon play cards and don't* want your son to be a gambler, you're a fool. If I got a telegram from my oldest son to-day, saying that my wife had a progressive euchre party or gave a wine supper last night, I would wire back at once to my son: ‘Watch mother; she must be demented.’” “A gambler worth hundreds of thousands will go to New York and nearly every knee will bow to him. Let an angel of God visit New York and try to get away without paying His board bill, and the police department will be called out and told to stand gnard at the gates of Heaven and intercept that angel when he tries to enter tlie celestial city. “The whole manhood of America is trying to hunt up an easy job I like the man with corns on his hands as big as nickels for that man knows what it is to work. “If we can get the saloonkeepers of New York on the run, we can cleanliquor out of the country. The rumsubsidized editors sav we can't keep the saloons closed on Sunday: that the laboring man has gpt to have his l»eer. They said to Parkhurst: ‘You're a liar; you have disgraced yourself, you’re a failure.’ But he went up and ] up until Supt. Byrnes was compelled ; to put in his resignation. “Its funny to see the prayers of As- 1 bury Park and Ocean Grove trying to i run out the devil. It reminds me of the i dog chasing tlje hog—the dog was in j front. The devil knows that he has got control of the country as long as the republicans and democrats are in power. Man, if you don't change | your politics pretty soon you ought to tell your wife to put your summer clothes in j’our coffin. “The World’s fair whs not all that it was advertised, for the mauagep claimed to have the products of the world. Did they have the produets of the liquor traffic? I suggested that they ought to have exhibited forty red-nosed bums in a glass case. Asbury Park could then have been represented. ” NOVEL AND SENSATIONAL. Bloody Riot Inaugurated by ft Jealous Woman at a Picnic. Vanckbirg, Ky„ Aug- 26.—One of the most novel and sensational cutting and shooting affairs in the history of Lewis county took place on Spy Run creek, near Vanceburg. Saturday afternoon. j John Brown, of Vanceburg. gave a picuic at Paradise grove. The attendance was large, gay and select. All went well until 6 o’clock, when the trouble began. For some time Mrs. John McPiney has been jealous of her husband. He was dancing with Mis6 Birdie Smith, and when the set was finished he kissed her. Mrs. McPiney immediately jumped upon the platform ami leveled a revolver at Miss Smith’s head. The latter instantly drew a dirk knife and made a slash at Mrs. McPiney. Mrs. Martha Charles attempted to save Mrs. McPiney and had her right hand severely cut near the wrist. Harry Cole then ran in to disarm Miss Smith, when she sprang at him like a tigress and plunged the blade into his breast just above the heart. The tumult now became wild. Men flew at each other like beasts. On every side men fell bleeding with broken heads, knife wounds, etc. Women fainted and children screamed. It was some time before the riot abated. It is reported this afternoon that Cole will die.

A VERITABLE 'FIEND. Murdered by a Woman Whose Ho;i He Had Ulren out of His Corn. , Knoxville, Teiin., Aug. 26.— News of a sensational \pirder comes from Chad well, Lee County, Va. One of Andy Sutton’s hogs got into a corn patch belonging to Andy Bowling. Bowling drove it out, and was assaulted by Sutton’s wife, who began throwing stones at him. The first stone stone knocked out three of Bowling’s teeth, knocking him down and senseless. Mrs. Sutton then climbed over the fence between her place and the ground outside the corn lot and struck Bowling a second blow in the temple, killing him instantly. M’KINLEY AT CHAUTAUQUA. Compelled to Hold an Informal Reception at the Close of Service. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Dr. W. W. Rarasev, pastor of the Tremontstreet church, Boston, preached the sermon yesterday morning. Gov. McKinley and Senator Miller were both in the congregation. Gov. McKinley left the grounds yesterday with Dr. Flood for Williamsport, Pa., and Senator Miller left for his home in Herkimer. So eager were the people to see Gov. McKinley and sl>ake hands with him that the governor was obliged to receive informally at the close of the morning session. LORD SALISBURY Determined Upon Declelve Action In Regard to China. London, Aug. 25.—The Sun says that it is rumored that the Marquis of Salisbury, the British premier, has determined upon decisive action in regard to China, and that a British fleet will occupy one or# two Chinese ports and perhaps land marines in order to enforce Great Britain’s demands in connection with the investigation of the recent massacres. The prevalent opinion is that the time for temporising is past.

INDIAN SLAUGHTER. Imace for Xardcn S«*rtr TwHtjr Y*»n Aca Prompt* »n Attack om* the lUnnarki, In Whirl* It h Mi ftf. teen of the Indiana. Inr Gulina One or Two Rquavs were Slain While neetatf for Their Liven. Chicago. A op. ft*.—A special from Burns, Ore., savs: A courier from Diamond Valley reports the killing of fifteen Bannocks by cattlemen under the leadership of “Rye* Smith. Smith’s reason was revenge for the * murder of his father in 1878 in Diamond Valley. There is great excitement in the town and through the country. Troop - A is in readiness to march on short notice. and is awaiting orders from the county sheriff for authority to act. While particulars of the affair are difficult to obtain, it is learned that , the matter has no bearing on the Jackson’s Hole troubles. Ever since Smith’s father was killed in 1878 by - warriors of the Bannock tribe he has been on their trail and not a few have met death at his hands. It seems a party of Indians were on . their summer hunt near Diamond Valley and killed a number of cattle belonging to the stockmen whose herds pasture in that vicinity. A party of cattlemen was organised to punish the marauders, and bmith readily an*’ dertook to lead them. The pursuers located the Indians; about an hour before sundown at their camp near the western edge of the valley, and without warning opened 5 fire upon them. The Indian bncks - were thrown into a panic and fled for thehills, the squaws following suit. The stockmen pursued them and fired a volley at the fugitives dropping several of them, including one or twosquaws. The pursuit was not continued, the cattlemen believing sufficient punishment had been inflicted. The courier reports fifteen dead Indians were found after this one-siaed battle. BEAT ALL NATIONS. Practical Superiority of American Battle Ships Demonstrated. Washington*. Aug. 26.—An unofficial’ report to the secretary of the navy, recently received, contaips further evidence of the general superiority of the new ships of the United States navy over the best of the navies of the European countries, especially of those of Great Britain: Mention has already been made of the-fact that at the Kiel celebration, at midnight, without a moment’s .warning of preparationsthe engines of one of the vessels were coupled and uncoupled, at the request of Emperor William, who was spending the evening on board, the whole operation requiring but two minutes and fortyfive seconds, greatly to his majesty’s astonishment But rit has not been published that the same operation on board the cruiser Blake, the crack ship of the British navy, at drill, when every preparation had been made for it, required thirty-three minutes for its performance. Another thing which elicited expressions of praise and astonishment from the official visitors to the Col urn-, bia at Kiel, was the condition and pea ranee of the vessel so soon after its. trip. Everything, to their surprise, was found to be shipshape. After the Blake had undergone her trial trip, it •was said, months were required to put e her in order, the machinery havingracked so in that ordeal, and it was difficult for visitors to the Columbia to understand how the AmericaU ship had been so speedily put in condition, The report further stated that? the machinery in the Blake was to be torn 1 out, and that she was to be practically reconstructed, although still one of" the new vessels of the British navy.

AN INFERNAL MACHINE, In the Shape of a He;«rr Letter Addrewedu to Boron Rothschild, Rx pi odes. Pari8, Apg. 25.—A heavy letter ad* dressed to Baron Alphonz Rothschild was delivered at the baron’s office last evening' daring his absence at Trouville. The baron's confidential clerk. M. Jacobsky opened the bulky parcel with a knife, whereupon it exploded. Several other clerks were present in; the office when the explosion occurred, bat none of them was hurt. Expertsare surprised that the .machine was not exploded when Uie package was. stamped in the post office. >1. Girard, principal of the municipal laboratory, after a careful examination of fragments of the exploded machine, expressed the opinion that it consisted of fulminate of mercury placed between two pieces of cardboard, enclosed in a strong envelopeami so arranged as to compel the person opening it to exert a force sufficient to explode the detonator. M. Jacobsky is doing well and it isndt expected his condition will become^ more serious. BLOODY AND FATAL BATTLEThe Victor Panned by Officers and Friend*. I of the Bead Man. LexiS'GTOX, Ky., Angv 36.—A bloody battle occurred yesterday afternoon atthe Middlesboro waterworks in which*. James Lyle cut.Peter Sullivan to death. Lyle fought like a wild man and literally carved Sullivan to pieces. After he had accomplished the deed Lyletook to the mountains. The officerswere soon notified of the tragedy, and! together with about fifty friends of Sullivan’s started in pursuit of thenpurderer. Sullivan's friends vow. tbejr will hang Lyle if captured. A BIG FIRE. Twenty-Five Bntldins* Burned nnd Manyr Damaged. Kingston, N, Y.,4 Aug. 2d.—Early yesterday morning a fire started iu ac. barn owned by R. and C. I. Lefvre, at. Rosendale, about eight miles south of this city, and spread both up and dowbt Main street Twenty-five buildings* were totally destroyed, and a dozen dwellings on the opposite side of Main* street more or less damaged. Amongn the buildings destroyed was the Re-4 formed church and parsonage. Th«*j loss will reach $125,000.