Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 October 1895 — Page 6

tfkt fib* County gcraoaat K. Mot). STOOPS, Editor* and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, . ■ - INDIANA. Mrs. Hakkikt Rvax, aged 65 and demented, set fire to her night clothes at Wilton, N. Y., on the 11th, ran into a field and was burned to a crisp. A dispatch from Trebizonde says acrious conflicts took place there on the 8th, between Turks and Armenians In which many of the latter were killed. Mrs. Sauaii V. Emery, the wellknown lecturer and writer on woman suffrage, died at her home in Lansing, Mich., on the 10th, of cancer, after several months’ painful illness. ». There was a sale of American apples in London, on the 9th, at which 8,888 barrels were disposed of. Baldwins brought 19s; greenings, 11s to 10s, and Canadians from 15s to 10s. Rev. W. H. Evans, supply at Christ’s church in Warwick, N. Y., has fallen heir to an estate worth between 840,000 and $50,000 per annum, and to the Irish title of Lord Cor bury. BritI8ii and American consuls reported, on the 9th, that everything had been done to obtain an inquiry into the outrages upon the missionaries at Ku-Cheng short of using force.

The heart of Kosciusko, the Polish patriot and general under Washington, will be transferred on the 15th, from Vesia to the Polish museum in this Chateau Raperswiji, near Zurich. A passenger train on the Grand Junction line plunged into the Ontonabee river near Peterboro, Ont., on the 11th, through an open lock bridge. Several persons were badly injured but no fatalities were reported. Failures throughout the United States for the week ended on the 11th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were S68, against 231 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 52, against 43 last J’ear. » On the 9tli the governor of Wisconsin appointed commissioners to confer with commissioners from Minnesota about carving a new state from territory now embodied in the two old states. _ The Antwerp Matin says Chat 6,000 men are being enlisted in the Congo state for a great expedition, which is to be headed by liar on Dhanis. The objective point and purpose of the expedition are kept secret Gen. William Mahone, ex-United States senator from Virginia, died in Washington, on the 8th, after a brief illness, from paralpsis, aged 69. His remains were taken to Petersburg, Va., on the 9th, for interment. The tenth annual convention of the Christian Endeavor societies of New York state opened in the Brooklyn academy of music on the 8th. It is estimated that 15,000 persons took an active part in the proceedings. Ep ParpridgI:, the Chicagb3»oar,d of trade plunger, has sold to 1^ II. Kohlsaat for $775,000 the property at 112 to 116 State street, at the rate of $12,100 a foot Not long ago Mr. Pardridge refused $900,000 for this property. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the JOth, said that Admiral Duller, commanding the British fleet, would return to Foo-Chow on board the dispatch boat Alacrity the viceroy having assumed an attitude of defiance. Maj. Armes was, on the 10th, discharged from custod}’ by Judge Bradley, of the District of Columbia supreme court, who characterized the action of Gen. Schofield, uuder whose orders Armes was held, as “unwarranted, illegal, unjust and tyrannical.*’

The American fishing tug Grace, which was seized by the Dominion cruiser Dolphin, in Lake Erie? in April, 1894, for illegal fishing and condemned by the admiralty court at Toronto, was sold at public auction, on the 9th, for SI,260 to satisfy the judgment against her.__ A dispatch from Madrid, on the 10th, laid the United States government had pointed out to the Spanish minister at Washington the necessity that Spain -should take prompt action to crush the rebellion in Cuba. This statement created a sensation in political circles in Madrid. 'J'he officers of the Western Paper Co., Thilmany Pulp and Paper Co., Kaukauna Electric Light Co., Kaukauna Lumber Manufacturing Co. and Russell ’Bros.’ flouring mill, all of Kaukauna, Wis., have been arrested for drawing water from the canal at that place belonging to the United States. Proseeutious will follow. Owen Jones, a lunatic from New York state, called at the White House, on the 8th, to see the president He presented a newspaper poem, the burden of which? was that a boy was -wanted Aby the executive family, and in all seriousness offered himself for adoption or ^employment in some capacity. __ Geokgk Benton, a Buck Creek (Ind.) termer, started to walk to Lafayette, a distance of five miles, on the 8tli. He had several dollars in his pocket, but wished to save car fare by walking. On the road he was met by two tramp*, who took his money and clothing, leaving him standing nude by the wayside. Mbs. Ballington Booth, wife of Commander Booth of the Salvation Army, left New York city, on the 10th, fear a six weeks’ tour of the oities on the Pacific coast Great preparations are being made to receive Mrs. Booth n San Francisco. She will address Salvation Army meetings in all of the tciUM.onth.P’WlUceo**1

»4*AAlAiA« E If I4IM+4M444* * OCTOBER—1896. Sun. 6 13 : 20 27 Ion. 14 21 28 Tne. Wei 8 15 22 29 9 16 23 30 Uhl 3 10 17 24 31 FrL li 18 25 Sat: 12 19: 26t CURRENT TOPICS. TEE NEWS IN BEIEP. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Six men were seriously injured, by the explosion of a boiler in the Wharton Iron Co.'s mine in Hibernia, X. J., on the 8th. The town was shaken as by an earthquake, aud scarcely a window in any of the frame houses remained unbroken. - A hand of robbers attempted to hold up the Grand Rapids & Indiana northbound train near Kalamazoo, Mich., on the 7th, but the engineer opened the throttle and did not heed the signal to stop, dashing through a fustylade.of bullets. The headlight was shot out and the cab riddled. J. Don Parpen, treasurer of the Adams Express Co., who absconded from Terre Haute, Ind., three weeks agy with a large sum of money, and who was arrested in Baltimore, Md., pleaded guilty befor the United States commissioner at Indianapolis on* the 8th, and was placed under §5,000 bonds. Hinpa Fink, aged 108, died in Detroit, Mich., on'the 8th. She was born in Sehwendt, Poland, in 1798, and came to this country fourteen years ago. She had been a widow for forty-four years, and was remarkably? active up to within three months, when she began to fail. To AVoio arrest and conviction for being the head of the “transfer gang” of thieves, whose peculations had recently been uncovered by the police of Kansas City, Mo., II. C. ftitcbfield, manager of the railroad transfer company in tha*t city, committed suicide on the 9th. EAiiTHqt’AKE shocks, accompanied by subterranean noises, were felt at Laibach, thirty-five miles east of Trieste, at midnight, and repeated tremors of the earth were again felt toward the morning of the 9th. Eighteen hours after ,her apparent death from paralysis, Mary Kunze, wife of a farmer living’ near Logansport, Ind., arose in her coffin, on the 9th, and asked for a drink of water. She is now rapidly recovering. Eari.y on the morning of the 9th thirty houses were destroyed by fire and many poor families were rendered homeless in the town of Bavard, W. Ya. Gov. Clough of Minnesota issued a proclamation, on the 9th, forbidding the fight which had been announced to take place between Needham and Moore on the night of the 12th. A costly rear-end collision occurred on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad at Reaver Falls, Pa., on the 9tli, due to an unusually dense fog.' Fifteen freight cars and one engine were wrecked, causing a loss of $50,000. Andrew J. Sterling, a swindler and confideccfeman, was arrested in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 10th, for swindling girls by promising them positions in a Pasadena (Cal.) hotel, and requiring a deposit from them. Near East Haven, Conn., on the 10th, Dominick Braun and Robert Cirillo, while out gunning attempted to crawl through a hedge, Braun's gun was discharged, seriously wounding him and killing Cirillo. At Snider station, 80 miles north of Tweed, Ont.r the' dwelling-house occupied by Thomas Lindsay and family was destroyed by fire, on the 10th, and siit 'of the occupants were cremated. Part of a large building used as a spinning mill in Hocholt, Westphalia, collapsed, on the 10th, burying twenty workmen in the ruins. Several dead bodies were taken put.

some oi tne sappmres ana ruoies, which formed part of the jewelry belonging to Mrs. Langtry, which was obtained by means of a forged order from the Sloan Street branch of the Union bank of London, August 24 last, have been discovered iu the possession of a firm of merchants in business in Hatton Garden, London, to whom they had been sold. As he was returning home, on the 10th, a farmer named Eruba was held up 3 miles from Cedar Rapids, la., and robbed of $44 and a gold watch. The robbers climbed into the wagon before they were observed, and while one held a revolver to the farmer’s head the other went throughhi s clothes. The Darling hotel, the largest hostelry in Lorain, O., was burned early on the morning of the 8th. Forty guests escaped in their nightclothes, losing all their effects. Nothing was saved from the burning building,but a piano and one chest. It became known on the 10th that the Turkish govern|nent had finally presented to the envoys of the six powers a reply to their collective note on the subject of the recent disturbances in Constantinople. This reply, however, is not satisfactory to the ambassadors. A dispatch from Coolgardie, South Australia, the center of the new gold fields, on the 10th, announced that a whole block of buildings there had been burned by a fire which was starts ed through the upsetting of a lamp. 1$ is estimated that the damage done will amount to $1,250,000. The Holland radiator works at Bremen, Ind., were entirely consumed by an incendiary fire on the lltb. Loss, estimated at $150,000, with practically no insurance. The socialist congress at Breslau, by a vote of 158 to 63, approved a resolution offered by Herr Kautsky which is tantamount to rejection by the congress of the proposed agrarian provruiniim._

The returns to the statistical dirt* slon of the department of agriculture for the month of October make conditions show a decline of 5.7 points from the September condition ot cotton, which was 7U.8, against 65.1 for the present month. Ox the 10th Mr. Tenago Selivoun, of Benda, Egypt, arrived in Cincinnati to study American and English jurisprudence at the Cincinnati law school. He is a graduate of the Alexandria law school, and is the first Egyptian to pursue his law studies in the United States. SiGNon Michele Raffayolo, who has so often charmed the people with his beautiful solos on the euphonium, will play no more. He died of Rright'sj disease, on the 9th, at his home in Bayonne, X. J. ltaffayolo had been one of the principal soloists of both Gilmore's and Sousa’s bands. Gov. t'LOt'Gll of Minnesota has pardoned the Floyd ltoys, who were sen-; tenced to the penitentiary several years ago for complicity in the r^^iery of the bank of Minneapolis by Baying Teller Seheig. It is reported that the earl of Elgin, viceroy of India, has resigned for personal reasons.

On the 11th ex-Chiei ot the uim*a States Secret Service Janies J. Jtrooks died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa.; after carrying a bullet in the sac of his heart for over sixteen years, lie was 71 years of ape'. Antoine Hoffman, the anarchist, who murdered Police Inspector Baum* garten on June 11 last, was put to death in Prague on the 11th. He refused all religious ministrations and uttered anarchist cries until the last. The navy department has desipnated Miss Gray, daupliter of Senator Gray, of Delaware, to christen the new boat Wilminpton, and Miss Guild, dauphter of the mayor of Nashville, Tenn., to christen the Nashville at the launchinp of the two boats at Newport News on the 19th. ^ * Edward Drewitz. a Brooklyn (N. Y.) hat dealer, died recently of Rnyn&ud’s disease, which is also called Marvin's disease, a lnaludj* which is rare in this country. The peculiar result of the disease is that the blood drives up and disappears. Science, it is said, has not been able to tiud anythin" to check the progress of the disease. Dispatches have been received at Washington stating that a new line Of railway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Nicaragua is contemplated in that country. The work will be placed in the hands of an American engineer of •international promineuce. A woman known as Gaetna Stomoli has been arrested at Catania, Sicily, for the wholesale poisoning of children with phosphorus. She administered the poison by mixing it with wine and prevailing upon the children to drink it. Her victims already number twentythree. It is stated that they all died j in fearful agony. President Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber left Buzzard’s Bay, on the night of the-llth, on board Commodore E. C. Benedict's steam yacht Oneida for Washington. With favor- | able weather the party was expected to reach their destination on the 14th. Mr. Ciiaiii.es M. Hays, vice-presi-dent and general manager of the Wabash railway system, has tendered his resignation in order to become general manager of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, with headquarters in Montreal. It is now stated upon good authority that the total number of killed, wound* ed and missing Armenians up to date, as a result of the recent riots in Con* stantinople, is o»-er 700. LATE MEWS ITEMS. The Temple ope:a house at Duluth, Minn., one of the finest theaters in the northwest, was burned as the result of an explosion in the basement early on the morning of the 13th. The beautiful rooms of the Scottish Rite consistory, which were in the upper part of the theater building were destroyed, together with the valuable records and library. Loss on building, S90.0O0; fully iusured. A dispatch from Rome, on the 13th, said: “It is stated that there is a strong probability that the protest, of the pope against the proposed visit of King Carlos of Portugal to Kiug Humbert, and the threat of his holiness to refuse to receive Kiug Carlos should lie come to Rome, will be effective to prevent the coming to this city of the Portuguese king.”

1 he fuucral oi William Wetmore Story, the distinguished American sculptor and author, who die# on the ?th, took place, on the 18th, at the American church of St. Paul in Rome. .The- principal American residents of the city and a large number of visitors attended the services. During the week beginning on the 13th the National lladkers’association, the National Lauudrymen's association, the National Road parliament and the National Editorial association, will meet in Atlanta, Ua., as will also the press associations of North and South Carolina and Texas, N. Jasxogropsky, the New York city chess expert, defeated M. M. Sterling, the champion of Mexico, on the 13th, in the first game of a chess match of five games at the Manhattan Chess dub in New York, in a queen's pawn opening, after sixty-two moves. Eight stacks of hay were burned on the farm of.S. It Patterson, 10 miles south of Chillicothe, Mo., on the 12th. On the 13th the charred remains of a man were found in one of the stacks, burned beyond recognition. Circumstances pointed to murder. The United States revenue cutter Commodore Perry, which reached San brancisco, on the 13th, from Behring sea, brought intelligence that the celebrated Aleutian chain of volcanoes are again in aetive eruption. The Bronberg Tageblatt of the 13th reported that a number of Russian frontier guards had looted an inn at Polanoviff knd * murdered the hostess, her dau^hternnd a servant. Work\onjrhe great Transsiberian road, one or the most colossal undertakings of the oentury, is being poshed

INDIANA STATE NEWS. When the Pinkerton detective who was bringing? Don Farden, the agent who robbed the Adams Express Co. at Terre Haute, from Baltimore to Terre Haute, he was confronted on the train by a federal deputy marshal with a warrant for Farden. and the prisoner was put in jail at Indianapolis. The $16,000 stolen by Farden at Terre Iiaute was money deposited by an internal revenue collector, and the government will prosecute him. The alarming spread of diphtheria in Hammond has compelled the authorities to take measures to close all the schools to check the ravages of tho disease. From one to three deaths have occurred daily for several days. The Chase memorial fund has been completed. Trustee Atkinson has received 165 in cash. A house in Wabash costing 82,100 has been bought for Mrs. Chase. Natural, gas ignited at Muncie and two buildings were wrecked. William Teverbaugh was badly burned and two ladies were slightly burned. Judge Baker, of the federal court at Indianapolis, overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of Francis A. Coffin, convicted of complicity in the wreck of the Indianapolis national ban}c. A town not far from Kokomo has a unique method of circumventing the Nicholson temperance law. A big Newfoundland dog belonging to the village baker acts as purveyor, carrying buckets of beer from the saloon at all hours to the thirsty waiting guzzlers about the all-night restaurant. The law’ does not forbid selling liquor to dogs, and the animal does a land-office business. Albert Drayton, a prominent business man of Rolling Prairie, near Laporte, forged a large number of notes, which he attempted to negotiate. His forgeries threatened to convict him, and the other night he shot and instantly killed himself. Ke leaves a wife and famil}’.

Harrison county xs soo.ouu m aeot. Forty thousand dollars of this is bonded. At Waldron Dr. R. R. Washburn was perhaps fatally shot bv Jame$ Thompson. The next annual reunion of the Nineteenth Indiana battery will be held in Etwood next September. The Good Citizens’ league of Indianpolis has elected S. E. Nicholson, president: M. E. Shiel, sccretarj*. and Kenneth Reid, treasurer. At the state W. C. T. U. convention, at Vincennes, Miss Laura Newlin, of Bloomingdale, won the diamond Demorest oratorical medal. Frank Bennett, living near Helraer. who was terribly bitten by dogs while gathering nuts, died of blood-poison-ing. A big gas well has been struck eight miles north of Farmland. It is said to be the best well in Randolph county. While out hunting, Samuel Cromwell, a farmer, living near Brazil, was attacked by a ferocious wildcat Mr. Cromwell succeeded in killing the animal, which measured three feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. The corner-stone of Grace M. E. church, Kokomo, was laid. Church will cost S40,000l There are a lot of California quail near Goshen. They were released several years ago. John Coburn, aged 9t, accidentally shot himself in the head at Anderson and is temporarily insane. He was fooling with a revolver. Rough Notes, an insurance paper, says the qitizens of Indianapolis pay SI00,000 a year that would not be needed if the fire department was properly equipped. The paper wants a water tower purchased for the department. Benjamin Wilson, a rich farmed, living near Peru, was approached by card sharpers, one of whom showed a game of cards, and, after allowing Wilson to win once, proposed that he go to the city and get $10,000 to continue the game. Wilson dispersed the fellows with his revolver. Rev. Seymour Guernsey, a pioneer of Clarke county, died at llenryville the other night, aged 82 years. * John Elder, aged 87, an old pioneer of South Bend, died the other morning. • Henry Millman, of Tippecanoe county, met death in a well the other ^forenoon from noxious gases. Two ball clubs at Warsaw played for the benefit of the poor and took in $133.25.

Gov. Matthews will make eight or ! ten speeches, during four or five days, in Ohio, in the latter part of Oetoaer. D. Carver, a boot and shoe merchant of Columbia City, assigned, with lit .bilities of 55,000 and assets S7.000. James Furgesox was crushed to death in one of the furnaces at the new steel mill at Alexandria. The police chiefs of Indiana at Terre Haute, the other day decided to hold the next state convention a Indianapolis at some date in 1896 v -hen ‘the criminal courts are not in ses .ion. At Montpelier David Caines and ! William Grose were killed by the explosion of a nitroglycerin can. They had built a fire over it while soon hunting. ; At Madison, Harry “Red.” King, who shot and killed Basil Angell, last May, was found guilty of manslaughte 1 and sentenced to the penitentiary for hree years, f ’Squire Parker's team was being driven across the I. & V. railroad near fenterton, by two men in a wngon, when a special freight train dash ki on them, killing both horses and w recking the w'agon. The men escaped. Ax Elkhart woman had Alonzo Juice arrested for trespass because h s persisted in visiting her after she tol L him to stay away. A jury dismissed 1 im. The state appropription for 1S9 > will be available on and after foveml er t The present year will le ive prc oably $50,000 on hand, and to this v ill be added the portions of money vhich come in from counties and ar sati iched to various funds.

TROLLEY CAR WRECK. Down » Or»d« and Over an Embank men*— Three Killer! and Many Injured—Tha I rightful Accident Caused by the Knap* ping of a II rake- Rod—Dropped Her Daughter from the Car Wtnduw. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 14.—Three persons were killed outright and nine others injured by a runaway trolley car on the West End electric line jumping’ the track and over an embankment at 6:20 o’clock last tfigliL The killed are: s George Rothman, aged 50; furniture dealer, Carnegie, Pa. Fred Ileisel, aged 55; glass worker, Carnegie, Pa. Unknown woman, abput SO years of age; body taken to mor|ne. The car wrecked was No. 56. on the Carnegie branch of the West End electric line, and left Carnegie at 6:04 O’clock. Just before the city limit is reached there is a sharp curve and hill along the track for about a quarter of a mile. When the car reached this point, the brake-rod broke and the motoriuan lost control. The car dashed down the hill until it reached McCartney street, where there is a sharp curve. Here it jumped the track and turned completely over, landing in a ravine alongside of the road. The car was broken into spinj ters and the three persons killed were horribly mangled. Just before the car jumped the track. Conductor McGuire yell^n at the passengers to all fall down to the bottom of the car. llefore they obeyed this order Mrs. Foley dropped her young daughter, Katie, outof the car window and probably saved the child’s life. As soon as he could extricate himself from the wreck Conductor McGuire, who was badly injured himself, rushed to the houses of several residents in the vicinity and secured assistance* As soon as possible the city ambulances were called and all care possible w-ar rendered the injured passengers. There were sixteen passengers on the car, when it left Carnegie, a suburb of this city. Two got off just before the car leaped the track and ar* perhaps not injured.

A SEETHING MASS OF FLAMES. Destruction of the Temple Opera House In Duluth, Minn. DriXTH. Minn., Oct. 18.—At 12:1.* this morning1, an hour after the engagement of Daniel Sully’s company had been concluded, there was an explosion in the basement of the Tempi* opera house, oue of the finest tbeaten in the northwest. In a few :minutes the whole interior was a seething mas of flames, which shot a hundred feet above the roof as soon as they obtained an outlet In half an hour the rear wall Tell. 1 The building was part of the Masonic temple, but a wall separated them. The doors between were closed and the Masonic temple was saved. Hoirevar, the beautiful rooms of the Scottish Rite consistory, which were in- the upper part of the theater portion, were destroyed, together with the valuable records and library. The insurance on the double building was $110,000 and its value was $200,000. The burned portion was valued at $90,000. Rut three walls are lefw It was a wonder that other portions and a whole scpfttre of wooden buildings were not destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown.A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN Kilted In a Street Duel by MU Intended Victim- $ New Orleans, Oct. 14.—A desperate fight with pistols took place at tli< Poydras market Saturday between Dennis Corcoran and Tony Lavia. in which the; latter was killed and Corcoran severely wounded. Eighteen shots in all were fired. Lavia attacked his intended victim from behind and emptied his revolver, hitting Corcoran every one of the six times h« fired. Corcoran with wonderful pluck and courage, stood his ground, and though wounded by the first fire, and his right hand crippled by the second shot, got out his pistol and returned shot for shot. After Lavia had emptied his pistol he ran. Seizing another from a friend, he renewed the shooting. Corcoran’s pistol was empty, but without a sigr of flinching he stood firmly while Lavia tired at the human mark until his pistol was emptied. Then h« wheeled, ran a short distance and fell dead. He had been hit in the right breast. Corcoran will recover.

A DASTARDLY ENDEAVOR. g^ad Attempt to Blow up Buildings at Auderson, Iud. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 14.—An attempt was made at 1 o’clock yesterday morning to blow up the new brick and stone Hurst block. The hoist engine used in elevating brick and mortar bad been shut down and the small shed enclosing it locked. At 1 o’clock Night Officer Stratton found the engine blowing off. The door was found nailed and barred but it was broker open and the gauge found drj\ The gas was burning full blast and the steam was forty pounds above the boiler test pressure. A similar attempt was made two months ago to blow up the Masonic temple now being completed. It is denounced as anarchy growing out of the labor complications which have become very bitter. A 51,000 reward has been posted foi the conviction of the persons. One Killed and Another Wounded In > Street On el. Gloucester, Q., Oct. 14.—In a duel last night on the streets, ex-Marshal Elmer Donnelly was instantly killed by Marshal David C. Cooke and the latter was mortally wounded. An old quarrel existed between the men and when they met Donnelly drew his .pistol, Cooke immediately doing likewise. Booth of Anson A. Bigelow. Chicago, OcL 14.—Anson A. Bigelow died yesterday after an illness lastinji ten days, lie was one of the best known lumbermen of the northwest.

POSTAL AFFAIRS. Report of AnltUMt Attorney-General Thomas ou the Operations of ills OflteB for the Last rtscal Yeaiv-Lottery Bui. Bess lladly Crippled—Drafts of Hills Covering Needed Legislation. Washington, Oct 14.— Judge John L. Thomas, assistant attorney general for the post office department, has sub* raitted to the postmaster general areport of the operations of liis office for the fiscal year ended June 30, J895. During the year 213 fraud orders were issued, 55 of which were against* lottery companies operated by socalled “bond investment” companies; ri^Kgaanst avowed lottery companies, and 21 against’miscellaneous games of chance. The Remainder were various schemes to defraud. Judge Tlmuias says that the bond investment schemes have been abandoned by ail the' companies except a very few. - . In reviewing the lotterj* question, he says it may be confidently asserted that the death-kuell of the avowed lotteries in this country has been 6ounded and their business' has been vastly crippled, if not ruined; but he, is sorry to note the fact that many business men think they must, in order to succeed, resort to schemes to appeal to the gambling spirit of. their people, and they accordingly sugar-coat , their legitimate enterprises with Tottery attachments and thus create a desire for other and more pernicious modes of obtaining something for nothing byhazard or chance. The nuinber of claims allowed for losses by burglary, fire, ete., during the year was 1,308, aggregating $138.688. This amount does not represent the actual monetary loss to the government, as about 823,917 worth of stamps and other material was destroyed by fire. At the end of th« year there were 680 claims not disposed of.

Judge 1 nomas renews his recommendation for the, passage of a law making postmasters ami their sureties liable for the defalcations and acts of their subordinates, and submits that “the failure of the government to take 'security from subordinates in post offices, who number thousands, and handle millions of dollars of public money annually, or to, hold the postmasters liable for the acts of their subordinates is not unfy anomalous in practice but dangerous to, the publh/ interest.” In til’s connection he has prepared a bill to-be introduced iq (the next congress to remedy this defect in the law. Judge Thomas says that his attention has several times during the year been called to dangerous and injurious matter deposited in the mails, and. upon investigation it was discovered that there is now no penalty prescribed for depositing such matter in the mails, and indeed, there is no statute forbidding its being mailed, lie has accordingly drawn up a bil| which covers two classes of articles: First—Those which are dangerous to life, health, comfort and body of the employe or ad dr esse, such as poisons, live animals, reptils or insects, explosives, etc.; and, Second—Those •' artmjes which, though liable to injure employes or damage other mail matter when loose in the mails, when properly packed may be safely handled, such as oils, liquids not poisonous or explosive; sharp instruments, dyestuffs aud the like, which may be mailed if properly packed. * No one is by this bill permitted to mail the articles of the first-class under mpenalty of imprisoment or fine or both at the discretion of the court, nor to mail the articles of the secondclass if not packed according to the regulations prescribed by the postmas-ter-general. > • THE FRAKER CASE To Go llefore the Grand Jury of Ray County this Week. f Kansas Gitt, Mo., Oct. 14.—The grand jury of Ray county meets today aud during the week the evidence t against Dr. G. W. Fraker, will be presented and the jury will be called upon to indict him. The charge on which he is now held is attempting to obtain money under false pretences. Dr, Fraker has been in jail a month now, but does "hot seem th have suffered on account of his confinement. Every day he receives many visitors, most of whom sympathize with him, aud in many cases bring him fruit or other dainties. To most visitors he says he went away on account of his health, though he is unable to explain why he stayed so long. ; ,

JEALOUSY’S CRIME. Auotlier Young Larty Fulls a Victim to Lare’t Insanity. Eaton, O., Oct. 14.—At 11:30 o’clock Saturday night Miss Gertrude Lally, a beautiful girl of 19, was shot dead by John Monosmith, her lover. Monosmith was jealous of Mis£ Lally and they had quarreled frequently. Saturday night she was m£t by Monosmith on the public square and harsh words passed. At 11 o’clock Monosmith went to the girl’s home and called her out. When she appeared he said that if she would have nothing to do with him he would kill her, and. drawing his revolver, ne tired one shot arid the girl fell. Monosmith then went up to the home of Sheriff Johnson and gave himself up. Miss Lally lived only a few minute9 after being carried into the house. SUFFERING WITH ERYSIPILAS. Trie Condttiou of Ex-Gov. llulloch, of Georgia. ‘ Minneapolis, Minn.. Oct. 14.—The condition of ex-Gov. Bullock, oi Georgia, lay delegate to the Episcopal convention, who has been confined to his room at the West hotel, for several days with an attack of erysipelas, was unchanged last evening. He sent word to the United Press that his head and * face were still badly involved, but that the case was moving along as favorably as could be expected undei uduer the circumstanes. '