Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 October 1895 — Page 2

4Ru gike County gf mortal K. Mad 8TOOP8, Editor tad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. The British parliament was, on the 4th, further prorogued until December 28. Uwcsuai.lt cold weather has succeeded the recent heated spell in England. Frosts hare prevailed in the midlands and snow in Scotland. A dispatch from Constantinople, on the ad, said that it was officially announced that Laimail Pasha had been chosen to replltce Said Pasha as graud ▼icier. Secret*by Carlisle has accepted an invitation 10 attend the banquet of the Reform club at Boston on the 12th. He will be the principal speaker at the feast. The public debt statement, issued on the 1st, shows a net decrease in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during September, of $1,834,686. Total cash in the treasury, 8827,889,408. The order appointing Gen. Nelson A. Miles to the command of the army was issued on the 2d. The same or- • der assigned Gen. Ruger to the command of the department of the east. The German government has received notification that China is ready to satisfy the claims of Germany growing out of the destruction of the German mission at Swatow by a Chinese mob Reports from Constantinople that Armenian prisoners taken in the late riots in that city were brutally mur- • dered by their Turkish captors while on their way to prison were confirmed on the 3d. Premier Crispi celebrated his sev-enty-sixth birthday anniversary with ▼ his family in Naples on the 4th. He received a large number of congratulatory messages, including one from King Humbert. Treasury receipts for the month of September were 827,549,678; expenditures, 824,320,481; receipts for the first three months of the fiscal year were 885,572,072, and expenditures, 895,459,785; net deficit, 89,SS4,655. . --—tBy a provision adopted by the South Carolina constitutional convention at Columbia, on the 1st, divorces for any cause shall not granted in that state, nor will decrees obtained in other states be recognized there.

M. Leban, French minister of commerce, announced, on the 1st, that a contract had been signed for laying a submarine cable between Brest and New York and for a link between the French cable system and the Antilles, Judge Robert Crozier, of Leavenworth, Kas., died, on the 2d, of paralysis. During his career he was associate and chief justice of the supreme court. United States senator by appointment, and district judge for sixteen years. * v Nearly 150 cities and towns of Pennsylvania and neighboring states were represented in the fireman's parade at Reading, Pa., on the 8d, in which it is estimated that 10,500 men ftoolc part, and which took five hours to pass a given point. Estimates made by correspondents of the Louisville warehouses of the loss to the tobacco crop by the recent frosts placo it at from 10,000 to 80,000 hogsheads. The lowest damage put by any warehouseman is 10 per cent., and the highest 20 to 25 per cent John W. Young has brought action at Peru, Ind., against the Wabash Railway Co. for blacklisting, and asks $20,000 damages. He claims that since March, 1892, he has been prevented by that compaby from obtaining employment, though he has applied for work to over sixty different roads. , The Paris Figaro asserts that the French government, finding itself without ready money to carry on the campaign in Madagascar, withdrew 20,000,000 francs in rentes from the Des Depots and realized that amount from the securities on the bourse. The effect of this action was a deoline in 3-per-cents. The American liner St Louis ar rived at Southampton, ou the 2d, from New York, after the remarkably fast passage of 6 days, 13 hours and 25 minutes, cutting her own record down, about five hours, and failing by only two hours and thirty minutes to equal the record, which is held by the Ham-burg-Ainericau liner Fuerst Bismarck. Dispatches stating that Secretary Olney had given Great Britain ninety days in which to accede to arbitration in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, were, cn the 3d, pronounced at the state department absurdities on their face. An ultimatum implies war if its conditions are not complied witli, and congress alone has the right to declare war. The bulk of the increase in British revenue returns for the past six months, £2,698,000, was derived from the sale of revenue stamps, chiefly arising from the extraordinary development of stock exchange business and the promotion of new companies. Every department of the revenue service showed an increase, proving the existence of a solid improvement in trade. The second annual fair of the Oneida Agricultural society began at the reservation near De Pere, Wis., on the 2d. The fair is exclusively managed by the Indians, being the only exposition of the kind in this country. The exhibits were very creditable, and the programme of amusements very fine, the musio being furnished by a band all the players in which are jOmeida Indians.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL Secretary Lamont directed, as a mark of respect, that the United States lock at Sault Ste. Marie, MiC’h., one of the important works constructed under the supervision of the late Geni. Poe, be closed from 2 until 5 o’clock, on the 5th, the hours of his funeraL The investigation into the circumstances of the fire on board the steamer Iona, on September lfi, while on her way from Leith to London, by which six women and one child lost their lives, resulted, on the Sd, in a verdict charging the officers of the vessel with negligence. Iowa numbers among its little incidental crops this year 200,000,000 bushels of oats, averaging forty-seven bushels to the acre. The state leads in corn, but has no prejudice against carrying a little side line. Rev. G, M. Thorpe, pastor of the Evangelical church at Audubon, la., has decamped. He had been pastor of the church about two years, and was very popular. He borrowed all the money he could get and ran extensive bills. He left a letter which his wife found after he had been gone two days, saying that she would not hear from him again. The question of Sunday opening of the Atlanta exposition was settled by an overwhelming vote at the directors’ meeting on the 30th. HI. H. Cabannis, manager of the Atlanta Journal, moved that the grounds be opened and the midway closed on Sundays. CapL J. W. English moved that the whole matter be laid on the table. This was adopted by an overwhelming vote. ■*-' As much of the population of Chicago as could find entrance to the auditoriums of Central music hall and the Y. M. C. A buildings in that city, on the night of the 30th, shouted itself hoarse in approbation of a series of resolutions, in which the United States government is asked to recognize the Cubans as belligerents.

in citj, uu u»c own, uumediately preceding the discharge of the grand jury, a written recommendation was submitted to the court iavoring the establishment of the whipping post in the District of Columbia for the punishment of wife-beaters and other petty criminals. The question as to whether or not a Chinese born on A meridian soil is a citizen of the United States is to be teste<| in the courts. Wong Kim Ark arrived at San Francisco, recently, from China, demanding a landing on the ground that he is a native of California. The collector of the port, while admitting his nativity, refused him landing. I. Rhey Boyd, once an eminent lawyer and politician and recently a minister, was found dead in bed at Paducah, Ky., on the 30th. He had several times threatened suicide, but the verdict of the coroner’s jury was that Boyd died of alcoholism. James Davenport, a farmer, 50years old, and the father of ten children, was Jtmrned to death in the town lockup at Cleveland, Okla., on the 30th. He was drunk, and had been locked up for disturbing the peace. George Holbrook's s-year-old child, while playing near the home of its parents in Letcher county, Ky., on the 2d, was stung by a yellow jacket just below the left knee. The limb swelled rapidly, and in ten minutes the little one was dead. The Produce Cold-Storage exchange of Chicago, with liabilities of $500,000 and assets §800,000, went into the hands of a receiver on the 1st. Charles M. Stratton was appointed by Judge . Brentano to act as receiver, and gave bond in $10,000. The company had been in financial difficulty for{ some .time. A novel feature of the Church congress which opened at Norwich, England, on the 1st, will be the performance of the Oberammagau Passion play, under the patronage of the bishop of Norwich. Bach's passion music will be rendered during the performance of the play. Two men were killed and several wounded in New York city, on the 1st, by the breaking of a derrick, causing a heavy iron beam which they were hoisting to fall upon them. The czar gave an audience, on the 80th, to Count von Moltke, aide-de-camp to theGerman emperor, who was the bearer of an autographic letter from the kaiser. Wm. Connors, captain of the schooner Southwest, lying at Marquette, Mich., for shelter from the storm, was drowned in that harbor on the 1st. King Humbert, learning that Queen Victoria is desirous of visiting Naples, has placed the palace of Capo di Monte at her disposal. A dispatch from Cape Town, on the 2d, said that Bishop Maples, of Nyassaland, and Rev. Joseph Williams, a missionary, were drowned in Lake Nyassa, on September 12, and that Rev. Mr. Atlay, a missionary, was recently murdered on the Zambesi river by natives. On the Sd Mrs. Langtry made a formal demand upon the Union bank of London for the sum of £40,000, the value of the jewels she deposited with the bank, which were subsequently surrendered by the bank to a strangei upon his presentation of a forced order.

Rry. William R Hinshaw, pautor of the leading Methodist church in Belleville, Ind., was convicted, on the i 2d, of mnrder in the second degree for the killing of his wife, and his punishment was assessed at imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The Edward McGhee school for girls, at Woodville, Miss., one of the finest institutions in the south, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 1st. The inmates were rescued through the windows with much difficulty. Brig.-Gen. 0. M. Poe, colonel of engineers of the northwest district, diet! at his residence in Detroit, Mich,, on the Sd. aged 63. The immediate cause of death was erysipelas. The United States cruiser Brooklyn was successfully launched at Cramps' shipyard. Philadelphia, on the 3d. The prevalence of icebergs in the South Atlantic and Pacific oceans is becoming serious. Cold weather is the rnle, and ships are frequently frozen up aloft so that the manning 6f the yards is an impossibility. The condition of Gen. Mahone, on the 3d, remained practically unchanged. His physicians said there was nothing on which to base any hope for the sufferer’s of recovery. Dr. Elliott F. Rogers, of Chicago, formerly of Worcester, Mass., instructor iu chemistry at Harvard, was found dead in the laboratory of that institution on the 3d. Manuel Romero Rubio, secretary of the interior and father-in-law of President Diaz, died in the City of Mexico, on the 3d, from blood poisoning. Harry Wright, the veteran baseball manager, died at Atlantic City, N J., on the Sd. Firb, on the 3d, destroyed the cotton mill plant of the Warren (R. I.) Manufacturing Co., causing a loss of over $1,000,000, and throwing 1.600 employes out of work. It is said the disaster practically destroys the town. After leaving the army hospital at Fort Sheridan, 111., where he had been getting rid pf the effects of his last spree, on the 3d, First Lieut. Pague fired three shots at Col. R. E. A. Crofton, commandant of the post, the last shot inflicting a painful though not serious wound in the abdomen of the officer. The lieutenant was seized before he could fire again. The attorneys for Rev. Hinshaw, the convicted wife-murderer, have decided to carry the case to the supreme court if they do not get a new trial in Danville, Ind. Detqctives working on the case are said to have struck a trail at Sheridan, Ind., where they have two men under suspicion as being the burglars who killed Mrs. Hinshaw. Christopher Roberts, aged 81 years, and Mrs. Eliza Jane Williams, aged 50 years, were married by a justice of the peace at Columbus, Ind?, on the 4th, it being the third matrimonial venture for the bride and the second for the crrnmn

At the meeting of the Episcopal council in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 4th, a resolution was adopted thanking the governor and legislature of Texas for its action in preventing the CorbettFitzsimmons prize fight. The world’s champion shot-putter, John McPherson, fell'from one of the lower gates at the new lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., on the 4th, to the lock floor, a distance of forty-six feet, and was fatally injured. The Seeolo fiomana and other Ro* man newspapers assert that a marriage has been arranged between the prince of Naples, crown prince of Italy, and one of ttie daughters of the prince of Montenegro. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The laying of the corner stone for the new St. Mary’s Cathedral in Lorain, 0., on the 6th, was accompanied by an awful disaster, caused by the collapse of a platform upon which 1,000 persons were standing, 500 of w^om were precipitated into the basement. One person was killed and fifty more or less severely injured. The weekly statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 5th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $5,824,650; loans, decrease, $1,754,000; specie, decrease, §739,600; legal tenders, decrease, $7,314,300; deposits, decrease, $9,037,000; circulation, increase, $151, 600. The funeral services over the remains of the late Gen. (X M. Poe were held at Detroit, Mich., on the 5th. From 10 a. in. until noon the body lay in state at the family residence, and was viewed by his old comrades in arms and his friends, neighbors and acquaintances. 11. J. McCoys, secretary of the San Francisco Y. M. C. A., who was fined $250 by Judge Murphy, for making the remark to one of the Durrant jurors: “If you don’t hang him we will hang you,” has been given by the court until November 1 in which to pay the fine. The lawyers claim to have discovered a flaw in the anti-prize-fight bill exacted by the Texas legislature on the 2d, and say that it is unconstitutional. However, they will not try to have the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in that state. The new torpedo destroyer Sokol, which was built for the Russian government, had a trial trip on the Thames on the 5th. Her speed exceeded thirty knots an hour. A recent consignment of sheep from this country to England were found to be suffering from scab, a fact that may result in the exclusion of American sheep from England. I Great Britain, France and Italy have decicred upon a plan of combined action with a view of obtaining satisfaction of their respective claims in Brazil. Harry Hukill, manager of a Chicago shoe company, is said to be one of four heirs to an English estate valued at $100,000,000. On the 5th the banks of New York city held $16,471,575 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent rule. Lord Salisbury has sold the chalet Cecil, his property at Dieppe, France, to the due d’Aumale.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Union City Bert Morris died at 4 o’clock the other morning from the result of injuries received in a runaway. He was a well to do young- man, and is. the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Morris who has died from accident Fire the other afternoon destroyed the Arnold hotel at Milford. Loss, fl1.000; insured for $1,200 in the Ohio Mutual. . Outer O’Neill fell into a vat of boiling lard in Jones A Sons’ slaughter house in Wabash, and was fatally scalded. C. E. Fisher was fined 821. at Elkhart for throwing an apple, which 6truck and seriously injured a young woman. Saxitariax Wyxn has made an expert examination of a portion of the remains found in the Holmes “castle” at Irvington. He finds that tbe portion is probably the lungs of Howard Peitzel. Ox the application of local stockholders the offices of the Indiana Telephone Construction Co.,with headquarters at Frankfort, were placed in the hands of a receiver, Charles W. Fish, of Elkhart The block coal operators and miners of the district met at Brazil, a few days ago, to arrange a new schedule of mining rates. The operators granted the miners’ demand of seventy cents per ton, and work will be resumed at once. A prominent operator said that the advance was granted the miners in the face of a rumor that the Ohio and Indiana operators would not grant an increase to the miners, and that a strike would be called in those states and probably several others soon. At Point Isabel, fifteen miles southeast of Wabash, there is a war on in regard to the maragement of the school which threatens to disrupt the community. J. H. Salyers, the principal, desired to admit to the schools children from other districts, but the patrons objected strenuously, and such ill-feeling was bred that Salyers was forced to resign, Frank Sherwin being appointed in his place. Sherwin was not popular at Point Isabel, and a boycott was begun on the school. The citizens resolved to contribute enough to hire a hall ahd pay the services of a first class instructor during the school year unless Sherwin is withdrawn. Xixk trunks and all the baggage belonging to the colored people who held | a camp meeting in the fair grounds at i Huntington recently, were the other j day attached for debts. Chari.es Wilson, who is wanted at ' Huntington on a charge of forging a I check for 880 on James R. Stack, was captured at Warsaw. Montgomery horsethief detective association met at Crawfordsville and

A strong flow of gas was struck at Oldenburg while drilling for water at a depth of 200 feet. A new hog disease has broken out in Tipton county, and good, fat hogs are dying in great numbers. A Huntington man is said to have a beard 53 inches long. Jackson Amos, of Shelbyville, while handling timber in Morgan county.fell through a bridge with his team. Both legs were broken. Sheriff Dan McKahan, of Wabash county, found two large iron bars concealed in the berth of a prisoner in the county jail. The bars were passed in through the windows by friends of some of the prisoners to facilitate a jail delivery. Rev. Nathan Caldwell McDill will have completed his forty-third year as pastor of the United Brethren Church, at Richland, Rush county, in November. He is now seventy-one years old, but continues in the active discharge of his duties as pastor. He has been married three times. A. J. Hinklet, aged sixty-four, a patient in the Central hospital for the insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. The Union Shoe Co., a large eastern manufacturing concern, will locate a shoe factory at Wellsboro, near Laporte, that will give employment to four hundred men. Ohio capitalists are booming Wellsboro as the coming Birmingham of Indiana, and have already located a large number of industries. In the circuit court at Crown Point Judge Shirley has rendered his decision against the Lakeside Jockey ti^ub, which knocks out racing at the old Roby track until April 15. The new Sheffield track is running, but it is understood that Gov. Matthews will stop it in a day or so.. Five Putnam county people were fined 55 each on pleas of guilty to having caught fish with a seine. Grandma Mercer, living five miles northwest of Edon« has just celebrated her 100th birthday. The Indianapolis Commercial club committee on city interests favors a 550.000 appropriation for parks. William T. Pierct, superintendent of the New Albany Cement Co. dropped dead at Haussdale, near Sellersburg. The post office at How, Jefferson county, has been discontinued. Mail goes to Big Creek. The 3-year-old daughter of M. G. Wilson, of Wolcott, fell under the wheels of a heavily loaded wagon and was crushed to deat|i. A trip to the Atlanta exposition is being planned for the Anderson schools. ' It is thought that from 300 to 500 will go. ‘ Muncie colored citizens celebrated Emancipation day anniversary a few days ago Tuk 2-year-old daughter of H. M. Baldwin, living near Summit, drank the contents of a bottle which contained poison, and can not recover. The residence of John A. Kers, a well-known farmer, living twelve miles southwest of Ft. Wayne, was entered by three burglars between 1 and 5 o’clock the other morning. He and his wife were bound and gagged and the house ransacked, the robbers securing $40 in gold, a gold watch and chain and other articles of value. No clue to the robbers.

THE CRACKED RELIC. TIm OM Libwir H«il nd Its Jnnroif Southward Mwtt with Ovstlonn Et.rr* «hrK-PrMMmtlal S»lat« from » Bic Onion—A tnbbnth Dnjr'i JoarMjr Thmtieh Snnnjr tonlM»nd-Crowdin( lorward to Touch the ML Farmvii.i.k, Va., Oct. A—The Liberty bell and its escort completely captured this famous spring city yesterday. The entire population turned out and the crowd was swolleu by hundreds who poured in - from the near-l?y country. Not half the crowd had passed the bell when time was up and the inspiring strains of “Dixie” mingled with the cheers as the train started fo* Lynchburg. Determined to Soo the Famous Relic. Ltnchburg, Va.. Oct d—The Liberty bell arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and remained about an hour. Long before the arrival of the special train the station was crowded ! with people determined to see this j famous relic. As the traiu drew into ! the station it was greeted by enthusi- j astic cheers from the assembled multi- j tude. Mayor Warwick made a brief j address to the crowd, and was enthusiastically applauded. Five - minute j speeches were made by several other 1 member of the party. The train pulled' out for Roanoke amid enthusiastic cheers. A Veritable Oration. Roanoke, Va., Oct 6.—From Lynchburg the southward progress of the/ Liberty bell was a veritable ovation. 7 At Lynchburg the entire city coun-^ cil of Roanoke, headed by Chairman R. A. Buckner and Mayor S. E. Jones boarded the train and told of the royal reception awaiting the bell in their hustling blue lick city. The city was in gala attire, and as the train entered a big cannon belched out the presidential salute, but even the boom of the gunx was drowned iu the ear-splitting volley of cheers and shouts of greeting that rolled up from the great mass of people that stretched out in every direction. In a vast freight yard the train was run, and the people packed , in and about the yard, exceeding iO.OOa iu number. Co. G, Second regiment. National Guard of Virginia, was the guard of honor, but patriotic orders of all kinds displaying gay banners marched past the ear in all the glory of regalia and plumed helmets.

A Sabbath Day’s Journey Through Sunny Southland. Knoxville. Tenn., Oct 7.—Like a benediction the Liberty bell yesterday sped through the lovely Roanoke valley, over the rugged Blue Ridge mountains and down through the picturesque valley of east Tennessee. Reverently earnest thousands have paid their tribute of homage to the venerated relic. Sunday-schools of all denominations were marshalled by their pastors; educational institutions turned out; the youth and beauty of Virginia and Tennessee and bulletscarred ex-confederates walked side by side with G. A. ,R. veterans uncovering their heads in silent, but stately salute. $ t "Not for §.>,000 would I have missed the scene of this wonderful day,” said Mayor Warwick last night, and his words voiced the sentiment of all the members of the Philadelphia escorting party. Truly it had been a wonderful day. From Roanoke, where the party spent Saturday night, the trip was one of continuous ovations. At every croSs-road men, women and children stood with uncovered heads and waved flags as the train flew past. Church bells tolled and little children pelted the bell with flowers. At Elliston a great-grandson of Patrick Henry, himself a whitehaired man of 70 years, pressed forward and craved permission to touch the bell. Here a Sunday-school class sang a patriotic song. At Christian berg the boys of the Blacksburg military academy stood in fcne a guard of honorThere was a great crowd at East Radford, where Mayor Warwick and Thomas L. Hicks made brief addresses to a concourse of school children. The great zinc and iron town of Pulaski gave hearty greeting. At Marion, Glade Springs and Abingdon the population were" all out and between them were knots of people at I every mountain cabin. I It was left for Bristol, half in Virginia and half in Tennessee, to turn out a crowd that overflowed the railj read station and stretched out as far in every direction as the eye could reach. Volunteer firemen acted as guards, while May*#- Winston, of the Virginia side, and Mayor Anderson, of the Tennessee side, joined in the welcome. Girls from the Southwest Virginia institute sang a hymn and placed a banner of black and gold on the peak of the bell. Then they clambered over the car, each in turn touching the bell. It was dark when Knoxville was reached, but people swarmed on the bridge over the railroad and into the big railroad freight yards where the bell car was side-tracked. There was po formal reception, but Mayor Thompson, with the board of aldermen received the party. With them were committees of the Daughters of the Revolution and other patriotic organizations. The crush of people was tremendous and stalwart policemen quickly formed a line, and until nearly midnight there, was a steady stream of people around the bell. QUIET IN CONSTANTINOPLE Dispatch Received at the State Department Irom Minister Terrell* Washington, Oct 6.—The secretary ,^of state has received the following cable from United States Minister Terrell dated at Therapin, a suburb of Constantinople: "There has been tranquillity for the last forty-eight hours. Kiamil Pasha was appointed grand vizier. Dreading the influence of recent events in distant provinces I have renewed my demand for efficient protection of missionaries.”

DREADFUL ACCIDENT. On* Person Trampled U> Death, and PSfty More or Less Injured, by the Collapse «r n Platform at the Layla; of a Corner Stone for the New St. Mary's Cathedral at Lorain. Ohio. Loraix, O,, Oct. 7.~Tbe laying of the corner stone for the new St- Mary's Catholic church in this city yesterday was accompanied by an awful disaster. Fully 5,000 people were ip attendance and the priests were about ready to proceed with the services, when uh accident occurred that created a panic and killed one person outright and wounded about fifty more, several fatally^ The foundation for the/building ear* tended about ten feeVabove the basement bottom, and on^Wis was erected a platform where the ceremonies were being1 held. Over 1,000 persons were standing on the floor, when* section of it, containing about SOCipeople, sank beneath its burden and precipitated them into the pit. The section which gave way was in two wings, aud as it sank it formed a. death trap for the people from which there was no chance toescape. The pit resembled an inverted roof of very steep slant, the ends being closed up by stone walls, and into, this it was that there were crowded men, women and children in one struggling heap. Those at the top of the mass escaped, pasily, but when the pit* was partly /Emptied those victims still entrapped could not clamber up the steep sides, and they trampled eaeh Other like so many wild creatures, the strong getting on top and the weak being crushed beneath the great weight. Although there were a thousand people ready to rush to the rescue they could render very little aid to the helpless persons in the jpit and several minutes elapsed before ropes and ladders could be procured. When assistance finally reached the unfortunate victims, one had already been trampled to death and others were fatally injured. The old trathoTn^chnrch near by was turned into a hospital and morgue. Into this were^c^rried the killed and injured. / ■- Notwithstanding the shock of„ tho accident the priests’ succeeded Jfin quieting the crowd and continj^jiythe services, f, " The contractors are said to be responsible for the accident, poor timbers being used for the support of the platform. The mayor and other city officials lent a helping hand in caring for tho injured.

INTO A TURN-TABLE PIT. Fatal Accident to a Fait Freight on the New York, New Haven St Hartford. Woonsocket, R. I., Oct 6.—Southbound train No. 1,657, the fastest freight on the Worcester division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road, ran through an open switch at Blackstone Junction yesterday afternoon into a turn-table pit, wrecking the eugine, nine loaded cars and the turn-table. s The dead are: ' Chester R. Lawton, engineer, of" Providence. Edward Fay* brakeman, of Providence. ”uf The following persons were injured: George L. Monroe, of Providence; scalded by stearin-all flesh above the waist roasted and in Vhreds; will probably diey^Albert Holden, fireman; cut J. H. ^Fontell, of PawujCket; bruised. TJ»e engineer whistled for brakes when he saw the switch^but the train could not be stopped. Lawton waa pinned in the cab and brnmed to a crisp. He was a married man. - Fay was deep under the debris, and sev^vpl hours’ work was necessary to recover the body. _.j ". THREE MEN ASPHYXIATED At the Bottom ot • Well They were Drilling and Had Snot with Nitroglycerin. Pemberville, O., Oct. 6,—Three men lost their lives here yesterday in an attempt to drill to a successful conclusion a water well on the Fappel property. The dead are: Henry Fappel, married; leaves a family. Lewis Wegman, single Charles Wegman, married; leaves a family. \ The well had been in process of construction for several days Yesterday afternoon it was shot with nitroglycerin, and iu due time Henry Fappel was sent down to ascertain the result. He had been down over half an hoar without those above getting any response, and Charles and Lewis Wegman went down to see what, if anything, was the trouble. An hour later the three men were taken out dead, having been asphyxiated. SI M PLY A FARCE, lint It May End iii a Serious Casualty for * the Obstinate Celestials. Shanghai, Oct 7.—The Chinese authorities are contesting every point of the inquiry into the massacre of Christians at Ku Cheng. They maintain that the seven executions of natives, already taken place have avenged the murders of the missionaries and members of their f. milies. The British vice-consul has started from Foo-Chow. He will go to Pekin. wi*h dispatches to Sir Nicholas O’Con- ... nor explaining the hopeless prosecution and the futility of continmngtha farce of inquiring into the massacre. TENNESSEE DAY . Breaks the Record of Attendance at the. Atlanta Exposition. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6.—The exercises ®f Tennessee day brought the largest crowds yesterday which the exposition has yet seen. A large party cam* down from Nashville, headed by tha directors of the Tennessee centennial. Large parties also came from Knoxville, Memphis and Chattanooga, and an enthusiastic reception was prepared for them by Tennesseeans in Atlanta. The exercises lasted for several hours. ‘