Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 September 1895 — Page 6

CkfPto&nmtgfenwmt X. fisOL 8T00P8, Editor tad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - « * INDIANA. Roxurr Brinxerhoft, of Mansfield, O., was, on the 18th, ebosen president of the Prison congress in session at Denver, Col. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics of Pennsylvania held/ Its thijrty-sixth annual state meeting la McKeesport, beginning on the l?th. The British foreign office, on the 17th, denied the report that the aultan of Turkey had accepted the plan of the powers for reforms in Armenia. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 17th, said that seven of the prisoners convicted of complicity in the reoent | massacres were executed at Ku Cheng, on that day, in the presence of the for* sign consuls The family of J. L Waller, exTTnited States consul at Madagascar. bow undergoing a term of twenty years' imprisonment in Clarvoix prison, arrived in Marseilles, on the 20th, from Mauritius. The funeral of Admiral Delgado Farejo, who was drowned by the sinking of the Spanish cruiser Sanches Barcaizetgui, off Moro castle, took place in Havana, on the 20th, with imposing ceremonies. The Paris Journal says the report finds credence that Mr. J. B. Eustis. United States ambassador to France, will shortly change places with Mr. Theodore Runyon, United States ambassador to Germany. Failures throughout the United States, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., for the week ended^the 20th, were 218, against 210 for the corresponding week of last year; for Canada the failures were 82, against 48 last year.

The quarto centennial reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, meeting in conjunction with the 'dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National park, was held at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 18th. The Spanish transport steamer Santa Barbara arrived at Havana, on the 18th, with additional n troops from Spain. She was enthusiastically cheered upon her arrival by a large crowd of people who gathered to welcome her. A pispatch from Madrid, on the 17th, said that Gen. Martinez Campos had written to Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish premier, declaring that the Cuban rebellion ia a great deal more serious than it was at the time of his last report. The water in the bay at Alpena, Mich., receded suddenly, on the 18th, lowering the level about three feet and leaving several vessels on the bottom. It came back gradually. The same phenomenon occurred last year about the same time. M. Turpin, the French inventor of the explosive melinite, asserts that the porte has asked him to apply his new discovery in fortifying the Dardanelles. “When my engines ?get to work,” M. Turpin says, “the straits will be impassable to the united fleets of the world.”

Tot Cotton States exposition at Atlanta, Ga., for which preparations had beenunceasingly makiug for two years, was formally opened, on the 18th, President Cleveland, at Gray Gables, near Buzzard's Bay, Mass., staring up the ponderous machinery by touching an electricfmtton. Following the example of the justices of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, the judges of the common pleas court of Philadelphia have decided to wear gowns while sitting on the bench. The gowns will be fashioned sonwwhat after those worn by the judges In the courts of England. Dr. Park hirst returned to New York city on the steamship Germanic, on the 30th, after an absence of three months in Europe. The great crusader spent his vacation in Switzerland, and in his own words “derived both health and mental profit from the contemplation of nature in her most rugged mood.** Tot Cincinnati Price Current, on the 10th, summarized the crop conditions for the week as follows: Generally favorable for maturing corn. But a •mall proportion could now be seriously injured by frost. The yield indications have been maintained.' Autumn wheat seeding is deficient, but may ultimately prove equal to last year. According to the Independence Beige the agent in the Bahamas of a Belgian firm has telegraphed to h is principals that an imipense quantity of rifles, ammunition and other military stores, intended for the Cuban insurgents, has been found oq the British island of Andros. These stores, the agent says, were secretly shipped from New York. Tot steamer Edam, from New York, September 5, for Amsterdam, foundered off Start point, on the southern •oast of England, on the 19th, after a collision with the steamer Turkestan. Her passengers and crew were saved, lieing picked up by the steam trawler Vulture, which was afterward taken lu tow by the steamer Beresford and safely escorted to Plymouth. Tot Spanish war ship Sanchez Barcaiztegui, with Admiral Delgade Pare jo on board, was struck by the incoming coasting steamer Mortera, in front of Morro castle, Havana, at midnight of the 18th, and sank almost Instantly. Admiral Parejo and thirty* ‘four of the crew of the war ship, in* eluding Capt. Ybauez and three other officers, ‘were drowned. The remainder of the crew, 11* in number, were

CURRENT TOPICS. THE IEW8 H BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tint verdict of the eoroner’a jury in restigating the Osceola mine disaster at Houghton. Mich., in which thirty persons lost their tires, made public on the 18th, said that the cause of the fire is unknown, and exonerated the pmine officials from all negligence. A defalcation of 919,800 on the part of the receiving and paring tellers of the National Bank of Illinois at Chi* cago, was, on the 19th, admitted bjr the officers of that institution. The shortage had all been made good, and it ia understood there will be no prosecution. Tiie treasury gold reserve stood at the close of business on- the 18th at 905,248,843, the lowest point reached since the last bond issue raised the reserve above the 9100,000,000 mark. IT is said that English capitalists will import several hundred thousand head of Mexican eattle into Texas, fatten them on cottonseed meal and ship/ them alive to England. * The supreme court of Nebraska met, on the l?th, for the usual September term. Among the first decisions handed down was that in the Omaha fire and police board muddle. The decision was rendered by Justice Post, and was unanimous in favor of the new board.

A dispatch xrom smock noun. on the t?th, said the Norwegian bark Cl©dian, Capt A% Johannsen had been wrecked off Umea, Sweden, and her entire crew lost. She was owned by , O. A. Johannsen, of Frederikstadt A man giving his name as Frank Smith broke into Joseph Emmons* house at Elwood, Ind., on the night of the 16th, and became engaged in a desperate conflict with Emmons. A sick child was frightened to death,and Emmons presented a sickening sight when rescued by officers. Smith was placed in jail, feigning insanity. The coroner held him as the murderer. A notable reunion was held at Indiahapolis. Ind., on the l?th. It was that of the One Hundred and Twentythird Indiana regiment, known to history as “Hovey’s Babies.” They were' reoruited by Gen. Alvin P. Ilovev, afterward governor of the state, and they got their name from the fact that the average age was the lowest of any regiment that participated in the war. Of the 1,000 men enlisted 700 at the time of enlistment were under 25 years of age, aud many were but 15 years old. The regiment made a great fighting record. In cop nection with the celebrations commemorative of the entry of the Italian army into Rome, King Humbert issued a decree, on the 17th, liberating all prisoners except four cf the leaders of the Sicilian riots. The rumor that one of the steamers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. had foundered was, on the 17th, emphatically denied by the officers of that company. The ceremonies in connection with the dedication of the Chattanooga and Chickamauga. National Military park began on the 18th with the dedication of state monuments. The free silver forces of the United States will be consolidated and headquarters will be established in Chicago. Gen. A. J. Warner, president of the National Bimetallic league, will be the president of the consolidated body, apd Secretary Edward B. Light of the American Bimetallic union will occupy a simliar position in the new

Robert Coombes, the boy who stabbed his mother to death iu London, a few months ago, has been ad judged guilty, but declared insane, and will be confined in an asylum at the pleasure of the queen. At Dubuque, la., on the l?th, creditors libeled the revenue cutter William Windom in the federal court for $3,500. This is expected to precipitate action by other creditors of the Iowa iron works, whose experience i.n the construction of the Windom and the torpedo boat Ericsson has been very disastrous. Dqdge, Neb., was almost wiped out by fire on the 17th. Forty business houses were burned, twith contents, and also many residences. The damape is over $100,000. Fremont, Scribner and other towns sent special trains with fire apparatus, whieh arrived too late to be of service. OyuKOSH, Wis., was visited by a destructive conflagration on the 18th. Property, including millions of feet of lumber, was destroyed to the amount of $350,000. Only after the city fire department was reinforced by engines and men from Neenah, Menasha, Apipleton and Fond du Lao, were the flames checked and the fire extinguished. Jake Gaudaur, the oarsman, said, on the 18th, that owing to other engagements he can not accept Harding's challenge to race in England, but he will row the Englishman in Texas, one week after the regatta at Austin, for $8,500 a side, and will allow hiih $500 expenses from England. Tub national encampment of Sons of Veterans at Knoxville, Teun., came to an end on the 18th. On that day the encampment elected officers and at night a display of fireworks was provided near Fort Saunders. On the 18th Chicago customhouse inspectors arrested Raphael Cordina, a Mexican youth aged 17, in whose possession $4,000 worth of smuggled diamonds were found. Four persons were injured, one probably fatally, by a collision between a trolley car and an ioe wagon in F ort Scott, Kas., on the 18th. Fibk in Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th, destroyed property variously estimated at from $400,000 to $600,000. Russian agents have gone to Pekin to negotiate for the establishment of a Russo-Chinese bank in that city. It was reported, on the 18th, that a second Chinese loan, guaranteed by Russia and France, will be concluded in November, France undertaking to

Skcretary Lamoht'* bashful new bald him shseut from the Chickamauga rostrum, with his maiden speech yet undelivered. In spite of the wide advertisement given to the prospective speech by the press, as the time drew near the secretary pleaded pressing family matters and hurried away to Maine. PuLisixiRT to the formal dedication of the Chickamanga National park, the various states that were in readiness dedicated their monuments, on the 18th, and turned them over to the >park commission. The various ceremonies were of a very interesting character. Boss C Van Bokkci.rn, receiving teller of the Xierchants* Loan and Trust Co. of Chicago, was reported missing, on the 19th, as was also about 888.000 of the money belonging to the institution. Mr. Vau llokkelen is supposed to be in Mexico. Tun steamer Turkestan reached Cardiff. Wales, on the 10th. in a damaged condition, as a result of her col* lision with the steamer Edam, having on board some of the passengers and crew of the latter vessel, picked up after the accident. A biui.di.no in course of construction in Klosterstra&se, Uoben, in Brandenburg, collapsed, on the 13th. burying sixteen workmen in the ruins. Nino of them were killed, and the others severely injured. It was estimated that 30,000 visitors to Chattanooga, Tenn., helped to swell the attendance upon the exercises at the opening of the national military park on the field of Chickamauga, on the 19th.

A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, on the 19th. said the liras ilia a government had decided that if England established a eable station on the island of Trinidad, the British minister at Rio Janeiro would receive his passports. While crossing a bridge on the North Pennsylvania road near Ogontz, on the 20th, Mrs. Wm. Moorhead, of Oak Lane, Pa., and her 16-year-old daughter, were struck by an express train and hurled from the bridge. The mother was instantly killed and the daughter fa^ly injured. On the 20th Mrs. W. M. Thompson, acting secretary of the West Virginia State Historical and Antiquarian society, fell from the third floor of the state house at Charleston to the bottom of the elevator shaft, crushing her skull and killing her instantly. She leaves six children. The steamers Constantine and Trevethick collided, on the 20th, off the entrance to the River Tyne. The Constantine, cut to the water’s edge, was run ashore to prevent foundering. The crew were rescued by means of life-line rockets. , Dispatches from Guayaquil], Ecuador, say that Generals Bowen and Trivono, caught red-handed in a conspiracy to overthrow the president, have been dismissed from the army anti deprived of their military grades. Mayor McCarthy of Lernont, 111., was, on the 19th, held to await the action of the Cook county grand jury under three charges of bribery, the bail being fixed at $5,000. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 20th, said that China expects to occupy Liao-Tung in October, and that Russia is pressing Japan to immediately evacuate that territory. The Central Labor union of New York has declared a boycott on all the Bibles, prayer books and all religious works published by Benziger Bros., on the ground that the firm employs nonunion binders.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The eold wav© from the northwest reached Des Moines, la,, on the‘-’3d. The early part of the day was very hot and the sky almost clear. At 1 o’clock the temperature fell with remarkable rapidity, going down 33 decrees in fifteen minutes. At other points throughout the entire west the fall in temperature was radical and severe, and in many places caused much damage to fruit trees and crops. The weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week “uded the 31st showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $4,241,750; loans, decrease, $5,450,000; specie, decrease; $554,900; legal tenders, decrease, $7,019,800; deposits, decrease, $13,294,800; circulation, increase, $1S7,000. Dispatchss from Madagascar, on the 22d, said that Gen. Duchesne, with a force of Freneh troops surprised 0,000 floras in a defile near Spahinodri. After a short engagement the Hovas lied, leaving eighty dead. On the French side no one was killed and only three were wounded. Menotti Garibaldi, son of the patriot Gen. Gniseppe Garibaldi and a member of the Dalian chamber of deputies, has announced that he will no longer support the government in the chamber, inasmueh as it lias refused to grant complete amnesty to political prisoners. The boiler at the county infirmary, which is situated about 4 miles west of Dayton, O., exploded, on the 31st, smashing the walls of the engine room and killing Paul liutterhorn, the engineer, and Albert Rude, an inmate.Four other inmates were badly injured. Ix accordance with a resolution adopted by the Chicago Union League club, arrangements are being made for a big mass meeting to be held in Central Music hall in that city, on the evening of the 80th, to take up the cause of the Cuba n struggle for lib erty. Hope for the safety of the four* masted British ship Stoneleigh, over 300 days out from London for Melbourne, has been abandoned. It is believed the ship and crew of thirty-six went down while roundiug the Horn. Wit. C. Curtis, just returned from the orieut, says that the Japanese cabinet lias practically decided to have four ships of Japan’s new navy constructed in the Uuited States. On the 21st the banks of New York city held $32,443,500 in excess of th« requirements of the 35-per-cent, tal*

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The strike of the 1,000 men employed by the Standard Oil Co. at Whiting, has been declared oft Miss Ella Kino, of Ossian, aged JO years, committed snicide the other day by taking a dose of morphine and strychnine. Several years ago she was an inmate . of the Richmond insane asylum, and becoming deranged again, killed herself to prevent a second trip to the asylum. At Franklin the ease of the state of of Indiana versus James W. True* lock, Edward Kirk and Lee Martin, charged with robbing the grave of exSheriff James Curry last Christmas eve, was nollied the other afternoon on motion of the prosecutor. Tipton is having a spasm of street paving. New opera house is going up at Monticello. An artificial ice plant is to be estab* lished at Crawrfordsville. Indianapolis reports a heavy passenger traffic eastward. Darlington farmers are complain* ing about chicken thieves. Ft. Watne will celebrate her centennial anniversary October 15, 16, 17 and 16. Dr. David Smith, the oldest physician in Koblesviille, died, aged 81. The sword in the hand of the young wonan on the top of the soldiers’ monument, Indianapolis, can be seen to bend in a strong wind. Roscor Kimpije, receiver of the Citisens’ bank of Converse, which went to the wall in June, 1893, has declared a dividend of 15 per cent to depositors, payable September 21. Paou people are giving watermelon

Franki.ix college has a good attendance this year. Elias Boyer died at Bluffton after two weeks of constant hiccoughing. At Franklin, Prof. Elmer E. Tyner, principal of the Green schools, was found guilty of assault and battery on a 17-year-old young lady, whom he punished for violating the school rules last year, and fined $40 and costs. A huge tank, holding 125 tons of molten glass, burst in the Wilson & McCudlough glass factory, Marion, entailing a loss of $500, besides compelling the factory to shut down for at least 30 days. Pleasant Ridge people will put a stop to the Mormon meetings being held near there. The Northwest Indiana conference has tried to admit women to the general conference. * Catherine Williams, early settler of Hancock county, is dead at Wilkinson at the age of 90. Patterson, living near Helmer, was seriously injured by a loaded wagon passing over his body. Window glass factories at Anderson will resume September 21. The National Vehicle Wood Stock association met at Indianapolis the other day and advanced prices ten per cent At Shelby ville burglars entered the residence of Robert Hearne and robbed Capt Bruce of $150. While the family of L. A. Davis were at church thieves entered the house, securing money and valuables to the amount of $100. The Home »Land and Improvement Co., with a capital stock of SCO,000, has been incorporated to build houses at Alexandria for factory employes. A carrier , pigeon was shot at Fountain. On its leg was a tag marked ‘D L. M. (95).” The Methodist Episcopal church at Rolling Prairie was destroyed by fire. Gas syndicate’s going to put a pump in at LoganspoYt and help the pressure along. A cask to test the validity of the Nicholson law is in the supreme court. As John Stevens and Frank Martin were returning home from South Milford they were held up by three masked men. Fred Buel, a well to do farmer living near Eden, fell from a stepladder, striking on his head and cracking his skull. William Shaffer, of Packerton, who was arrested at the instance of MYs, Charles Brown for kissing that lady against her will, and who was fined five dollars for assault and battery, appealed the case to the Kosciusko circuit court, and at the trial a few days ago the jury rendered a verdict of acquittal without leaving the box.

x nJb uiu jdii an niuimav uao wcu condemned by the county commission* era, and pending: other arrangements a freight car on a side track was used for the detention of prisoners. A Pan* handle train crew coupled to the car and the jail and prisoners disappeared. Thu Hartford City Paper Co., at Hartford, has a trout pound supplied with artesian water, in which the trout are making remarkable growth. Car* roll creek, near Hartford City, which is fed by springs, is also well stocked with trout. An epidemic of diphtheria is prevail* ing in York town, and the opening of the public schools has been indefinitely postponed. William W. Jones, a pioneer of Delaware county, who purchased land for 81.25 per acre, now worth 580 per acre, died of paralysis upon the anniversary of his birth. At Elwood Dr. S. W. Edwins sued the Lake Erie and Western railway fox 515,000 damages for injuries sustained in a recent collision. Well drillers near Brownsburg drilled through a twenty-foot layer of substance resembling India rubber. At a depth of eightv-fire feet they struck a piece of pine timber in good preservation, then came a black deposit resembling very coarse gunpowder, followed by an indigo bine substance, the water also being bine. A great lunar rainbow spanned the heavens at Farmland the other night, and was seen by hundreds of jteople attracted by the beautiful spectacle. Tbe 2-year-old daughter of Williamson Hogue, of Muncie, pulled over a bucket full of hading water and wa« Htallr scalded.

RETURN OF THE KITE, ■rtiftag Fmtj, Lm ud Bhmu S»f»lj Bom* from Tli«tr Anth Kiplontlou- *» laterwtlag Story of Tbclr KipvriMM* Which. However, woo o Foliar* So For o* tho Chief Object of the Voyo*o Woo 8t. Johns, N. F.. Sept 28. -The Peary relief stemmer Kite arrived here yesterday afternoon, bringing Peary, Lee and Henson safe home. The Peary expedition party endnred much hardship last winter, but undaunted, started northward again in April in an attempt to make a new record. They succeeded la reaching Independence bay, where they camped. They were unable to make any pronounced advance northward owing to the weak

ness ox the party. The Peary party are very reticent, but generally conceded that in the main the expedition was practically a failure. Last winter was passed uneventfully at Anniversary Lodge in preparing for the great expedition over the ice cap, which left Anniversary Lodge April M All three, Peary, Lee and Uenpelf/ took part, having five sleds and^forty-nine dogs, besides a supporting party of natives durioTg the first stages of the journey. When they arrived at a point 1*5 miles from headquarters, where he had cached provisions on the failure of the expedition in ISM, Peary could not find the cache, which had evidently been snowed over and buried. Consequently he decided to continue on toward Independence bay, hoping to augment his limited stoek of provisions by shooting game. He expected to reach the bay and do some coast exploration which two hopes were realised, although at the cost of dreadful hardships. Lee gave out and had to be hauled for several days till the bay was reached where they contrived to shoot several musk oxen. Owing to the smallness of the party and the fatal defect of a scarcity of food, Peary could not make liis way northward. The dogs became emaciated from want of food and then developed contagious sickness. Peary was compelled to kill the weaker’ones by degrees to supply the stronger ones with food. During the return Lee again collapsed and had to take to the sledge, which Peary and Hensoh, with the remaining dogs, drew over the frozen snow until he recovered. For over two weeks all three lived on one meal a day. The Kite reached the mouth of Inglefield gulf July 21, but could not penetrate north of Umberland sound owing to ice, and eventually entered McCormack bay on August 2. The relief expedition started and walked thirty-five miles to Rowdoin bay, where they found the gallant trio. Doth parties returned to the ship August 4. She then started on a walrus cruise. Next she followed the coast south and crossed Melville bay to Cape York, where she explored for meteorites and contrived to get two safely shipped, one weighing half a ton. and the other three tons, but a stone common!} known as Sir John Ross, an immense block of almost pore iron, weighing about forty tons, it was found impossible to move, aud they were compelled to abandon it. The Kite has on , board, the most valuable collection ever brought out of the Arctic regions. It is mainly the work of Prof. Dyehe, of Kansas university* who collected nearly 4,000 specimens of birds, eggs and animals In the neighorhood of Holsteinburg. Peary secured many valuable meteorological data. All the members of the combined expeditions agree that this gives the death blow to any Arctic expedition under American auspices for many years to come. Peary feels his failure keenly, and much sympathy is expressed for him here. SNOW AND ICE.

0»“»C* BeyouU Computation Dun* to Fruit anti Simile Treed. Dknvkk, Col.. Sept. 22.—The damage done to fruit iu this state by the heavy snow-fall of last night is beyond computation. In the vincinity' of Denver fruit and shade trees were broken by the weight of the snow freezing to the limbs yet in full leaf, and scarcely a tree for miles around escaped injury. Reports from the interior show the same deplorable conditions. varying only in degree. While the fruit growers may save most of the matured fruit out of the wreck, the more serious iujury is in the broken tree. t Telegraph and telephone wires suffered locally from the same cause. The snow storm was general all over the state, the amount varying from four to twelve inches. To-day the sun shone clear, but did not succeed in melting all the snow that lay on the ground. The indications are favorable for a killing frost to-night. Fell Thirty-Two Degrees la Fifteen Mia. a tee. Dks Moines, la., Sept 22.—The cold wave from the northwest reached here this afternoon. The early part of the day was very hot and the sky almost clear. At 1 o’clock the temperature fell with remarkable rapidity. In fifteen minutes the fall was 33 degrees, and since then has been slowly sinking. It is very cold to-night and a frost is expected. It will do little damage, as nearly all corn is out of danger and only late pastures will be hurt SIR GEORGE NEWNES Mill Build a Cutter to Compute for tt« America’a Cep. London, Sept. 2a—The Graphic today says that Sir George Newnes, 1 formerly a member of parliament has ’ expressed his intention to build a outter to compete for the America’s cup. provided arrangements can be made ; to avoid interference by excursion : steamers. Sir George is the proprietor of Tidbit*, the Strand magaaine, and the ' Westminster Gaaette, an evening '

CANCER CONTAGIOUS. Death «r a Phyeletea Wha CoakraehMt Ik* DIiwm While Traattac a FUmI. P.UfitC —-Ongular Meaner of Seir.iaoculat ion ui Rapid Development of the Caneer. Death Occurring While the Ladjr Patimat Still Line New Tome. Sept. 23.—Dr. E. W. Baranett, of 115 West Thirty-fourth street, who some time ago. while professiontlly caring for h patient suffering from Dancer, became inoculated with the cancer, died yesterday afternoon. Dr. Roland Jones, who attended him, will probably give fall particulars of this, extraordinary case. Dr. Barnett was a native of Connecticut. He studied medicine and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this city in 1869. For a number of years afterward he was house surgeon of Bellevue hospital. The doctor was unmarried. His only known relative is a brother in San Francisco. Something like a year ago the doetor was called to attend a Mrs. Hatch. - The patient had a small pimple on her tongue. Dr. Burnett treated It with nitrate of silver, making the applies- ° tion with his finger. A couple of hours later, while shaving, he cut a slight gash in his left cheek. To check the hemorrhage he applied,some alum, using the same finger as in the patient’s case. He made one more call upon Mrs. Hatch, whose case was soon diagnosed as one of csncer, and she suffered the removal of her tongue not long after. < A month latter, a small, glandlike swelling developed on Dr. Burnett’s cheek. He thought little aboat it at first, but as it became more troublesome. he recalled the incident of the cutting while shaving and consulted high medical authorities. The swelling of his face was diagnosed as a. cancer and the doctor submitted to an operation for its removal. But the cancerous taint had evidently penetrated and-thoroughly tainert his blood and rapidly developed again, finally causing death. Mrs. Hatch, from whom he contracted the disease, is still living.

RAGING FLAMES. rwenty-Thr«» Acr«a Darned Over lu Fob* da Lae with Heavy Lomm. Fond du Lao, Wis., Sept. 23.—The Moore & Galloway Co.’a yards caught fire at 3:35 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and with a heavy gale blowing1 from the southwest, the flames spread rap* idly. From the start it was evident that the local department could not control the fire. Aid was sent for to Oshkosh, Neenah aud Appleton, and the former city sent two engines and B.000 feet of hose. The combined efforts of the departments were fruitless to stay the flames which .swept everything over a tract of thirty-two acres. The property destroyed was 10,000,000 feet of pine and hemlock lumber; a warehouse filled with sash, doors and blinds; the company’s mill, barns and offices; ten cars, and all the tramways and tracks on the grounds. Tlie loss will aggregate 5250,000 with not to exceed $100,000 insurance. Valuable Timber Burned In the Vicinity of Appleton, ITIi. ArrLKTON, Wis., Sept. 12.—Fire has broken oat again in Center swamp, and yesterday burned over a small tract of valuable timber. The rain checked it considerably, but, unless long continued, soaking rains come the whole swamp seems destined to burn. Farmers of that region have proteoted their property by a system of back fires during the past *' week, and in the event of the destruction of the swamp the loss will W nearly confined to timber.

i noua»uu» or root or Hoy and .Maujr K Bnild)a{i Burned. Laporte, Ind., Sept. 2$.—Fire is sweeping over the marshes in the region of the Kanttakee river in Laporte, Porter and Lake counties*. Hundreds of acres of swamp are burning arutthe high wind which prevails gives rise to the’fear that great loss will result. The damage has been confined to the burning of thousands of tons of hay nnd buildings alpng the river, but the close proximity of several villages to the Kankakee causes considerable ap- , prehension for their safety to prevail. •} ' Terrible Prairie Fires Ragtag la Oklahoma. Wichita, Kas.. Kept 23.—Terri bio prairie fires are raging in the southern part of Oklahoma. Thousands of acres have been devastated, and the loss will be very heavy. The damage tothe hay crop is great and other crops have suffered. The cowboys have organized into fire brigades and are doing radiant service fighting the advancing flames. ^ Bay and Fences Burned-Great DamageFrom the Fire Spreading. Grxax Bat, Wis.. Sept 23.—A tract »f swamp land abont three mileasquare in the towns of Eaton and Humboldt this county, is burningover. Damage so far has been confined the burning of stacks of hay and fences, but there is great danger from, its liability to spread! All the Neighborhood Turned Oat t» Fight tho Fire. Kikl. Wis.. Sept. 23.---A-great fire is raging in a swamp half a mile north of the villago of New Holstein. All < the neighborhood has turned out to * itay the progress of the fire. A NOVEL SWINDLE. Advertised fur Guides far the Atla*t» Exposition and Fleeced the Applicants. Chicago, Sept 23.—L. M. Adams resently opened an office in this city and idvertised for men to go to Atlanta in the capacity of guides at the expcsiion. He had numerous callers and from each he exacted $30 in advance for a uniform and as pay for his servees. Yesterday Adams was arrested >n the charge of obtaining money tinier false pretenses. ^ Adams claims be a Unauthorised agent of New York jconlo who own the guide concession.