Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 November 1895 — Page 2

«&*§£ HuGtoBntjjifenwmt j X. Moa 8T00P8, Editor tad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. Mob. Satouj, papal ablegate to the United States, has been created a car* dinal by the pope. At 5:10 o’clock, on the morning of the 31st, severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at St Louis. Senator Sherman. says that pub* llahed extracts from his forthcoming book misrepresent his statements in respect to the national conventions of 1880 and 1888. _ j; The detail of officers for the cruiser Boston has been completed, and she will be put in commission at Mare Island (Cab) navy yard, CapL Frank Wilds commanding. The national debt statement issued on the 1st showed a net increase in the public debt less cash in the treas* ury, during October of $5,321,472. Total cash in the treasury, $812,137,810. A heavy snow-storm set in at -Nogaunee, Mich., on the morning of the 28th, and continued until fully ten inches of snow had fallen. Sleighs were in use for the first time this sea* son. _ The porte has sent a circular note to the Turkish representatives abroad in regard to the recent disturbances in the provinces, in which it is declared that the Armenians were the aggres* sors. • _ On the 80th Mayor Oakley of Fort Wayne, Ind., issued a call to the citi* sens requesting them to assemble in the circuit court, on the 7th, to express sympathy with the cause of Cuban liberty. Cei.80 CJesar Moreno, who was convicted in Washington cfyy, on the 30th, of criminally libelling llaron Fava, the Italian ambassador, was sent to jail pending a motion for a new trial, being unable to procure bail.

It is officially announced that the national revenue of Italy for 1895 amounts to 21,000,000 lire above that for 1894. The general situation, it is said, is improved, and the government will impose no fresh taxation. It was rumored in London^ on the 81st, that the-prince of Wales contemplates building a yacht to challenge for the America’s cup next year, the new boat to be designed by Watson and constructed by the Hendersons. Mrs. Db. Mabel Spencer, daughter of Mrs. Mary Cunningham, of Sedalia, Mo., has been appointed county physician of Riley county, Kas. She is said to be the first woman ever appointed to a like position in the United States. The supreme court of South Dakota, on the 29th, decided in effect that the Western Union Telegraph Co is not compelled to accept a message for transmission unless written on the company’s blanks. The case was a test from Sioux Falla Col. Ivan N. Walker, commander-in-chief of the O. A. R., when asked what he thought of the proposed massmeeting in Indianapolis, lnd., to express sympathy with the Cubans, said: “For forty years I have hoped for the annexation of Cuba to the United States.” Fox Lake (Wia) republicans are rejoicing over the recovery of a cannon which ivas unearthed, on the 80th, by Josopja-Good while digging a trench, ft was stolen and buried by local democrats in 1860, to prevent republicans celebrating the election of Abraham Lincoln. At the close of the case for the prosecution in the Pitezel murder trial in Philadelphia, on the 1st, the defendant, H. H. Holmes, without offering any testimony, submitted his.cause, claiming that the prosecution had failed to make a case, and throwing himseF upon the mercy 6f the jury. A dispatch from Madrid, on the 1st, said: The Guadalquiver has overflowed its banks, submerging vast tracts of land. The railway tracks are under water and railway trains are unable to run. Several boats have been capsized by rushing water and some of their occupants drowned. The Mount Olympus volcano exploring party returned to Port Townsend, Wash., on the 28th, from a five-days’ trip into the heart of the range, ^hey reported that while the outburst is not a regular volcano, there is good ground for the impression that a fierce subterranean convulsion is in progress.

A DISPATCH from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 38th, said: “Official advices report a small uprising in San Domingo, * near the town of Barnica, on the frontier. President Hereaux promptly sent troops, who suppressed the revolt. The rebels were all butchered. Gen* oral discontent prevails throughout the island.” Out of the $10,000,000 which Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt will receive from her father as a bridal present, she will give $3,000,000 to the former Mrs. Hammersley, now Lady Beresford and etep-mother to the duke of Marlborough, her fiance, to reimburse her for expenditure^ in restoring Blenheim eastle and settling the liabilities o' the estate. ♦ Caesar Celso Moreno was eonvicteo In the District of Columbia criminal court, on the 89th. of having libeled Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador, in having caused a publication which accused the ambassador of being connected with the padrone system. Moreno's bail was increased to $8,000. The punishment is within the discretion of the court

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Texas was again disgraced. on the 19th, by the slow roasting At a stake, In the public square at Tyler, in Smith eounty, of a negro charged with a revolting crime culminating in the murder of his victim. Fully 7,000 persons witnessed the burning, and the husband of the brute's victim applied the match. Sir Mackenzie Boweix, premier of Canada, and Sir Charles Tupper, minister of justice, who are in Washington to attend the Behring sea conference, were presented to Secretary Olney on the 28th. They were accompanied by Sir Julian Pauncefote and the staff of the British embassy. Two persons, tjhe engineers of the colliding trains, were killed, two fatally and several severely injured in a collision at St Louis, on the night of the 29th, between two passeuger trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad. Both trains were badly wrecked. During the absence of Samuel Robinson, a homesteader, living some miles from Tower, Minn., recently, Carel Lesure, also a homesteader, and a former ffiend of the family, went to the former’s cabin and at the muzzle of a rifle compelled Robinson’s wife and two daughters to accompany him to his cabin, where he held them prisoners. Robinson appealed to the county authorities for assistance in recovering his family. A dispatch received from Seoul, on the 29th, says that the Japanese officials have announced their intention of evacuating Corea at the time of the evacuation of the Liao-Tung peninsula. A passenger train from Paris to Toulouse came into collision between Lexos and La Guepie, in the department of Tarn et Garonne, France, on the 29th, with a train from Toulouse for the north. Two passengers were killed and eight injured. < The house of Francis Neil, of Osborn, Ont., was burned to the ground on the 39th. Mrs. Neil perished in the flames and Mr. Neil was badly burned. The couple had been married only a few months. George. W. Boggs, city treasurer of Tacoma, Wash., from 1890 to April, 1894, is charged with the embezzlement of $109,000. The safe of U. tS. Leach’s general store at Vanlue, *0., was blown open and robbed of $1,100 on the morning of the 29th. Reports on the progress of the civil war records show the completion of the first volume of the first series, covering the campaign of the war in Virginia and the Carolinas, and in the transmississippi region. The remaining volumes of this series will be in type ;before the close of the current calendar year. Dr Orlando F. Bradford, a New York city dentist, recently convicted of having in his possession plates for counterfeiting $100 bills, was, on the 30th, sentenced to six years in the Kings county penitentiary. An explosion, supposed to have been caused by escaping gas, wrecked a house, reducing it to atoms, on New’ Church Court, Strand, London, on the evening of the 29th. Six persons w’ere killed and many injured by the collapse of the house. The building consisted of three floors and its tenants were mostly Covent Garden market porters. The Lagonda hotel at Springfield, O.. caught fire early on the morning of the 30th. The guests escaped. The Western Union Telegraph Co., a elothing store, the hotel and a drug store were burned out. The loss is a|>out $200,000.

Thk contract for the construction of the new tobacco and cigarette factory of Ligget & Meyers in St. Louis, has been let to Thomas Clark & Sons, of Chicago. The cost will exceed $1,850,000. There will be sixteen buildings, mostly of large proportions, ranging from two to six stories high, and all connected. During the performance of the “Captain Paul” company, on the night of the 29th, at the Bijou theater in Milwaukee, Sol de Liser, the gunner of the company, was fatally injured by the premature discharge of his gun. His right leg was shot off, and he died in a short time. Thousands of tons of hay have been burned by the marsh fires in Porter, Laporte, Jasper and Stark counties, Ind. Some farm houses have also been burned, and many head of, cattle. In some places the ground is said to be burning to a depth of three feet. Thk South Carolina convention, on the 29th, voted down the woman’s suffrage amendment by a most decisive vote of 121 to 26. The whole morning session was given up to the discussion of the question. George D. Tillman made a great speech in advocacy of the idea. Thk Belfast and Sligo ship builders have conceded the demands of tbeir employes for an increase of 5 per cent, in their wages, to go into effect February 1 next Two students have b$en expelled from the State college at Bellefonte, Pa., and fourteen indefinitely suspended for hazing. Thk treasury deficit for October, from figures officially announced, on the 1st, is approximately $6,300,000. The receipts show $27,900,000, and the expenditures in round figures $34,201,903.

I. Lowextraub's roller and ice slratn factory, a four-story brick structure at Newark, N. J„ was burned on the 31st, Thousands of (cross of skates were destroyed, alone with 975,000 worth of machinery. Loss, 9240,000; insurance, 978,000. Three hundred and fifty employes were thrown out of wOrk. A dispatch fiom Trebitond, on the 31st, said that three Armenians of prominence, one of them a notable ecclesiastic, had been summarily tried and condemned upon charges connecting them with the recent disturbances there, and it was reported that the government intended to execute them without delay. Sir Chari.rs Tupper and Hon. Mackenzie Howell, who had been in Washington for several days in the capacity of advisory counsel to Sir Julian Panncefote, British ambassador, returned to Canada, on the Hist, having concluded their mission in connection with the Behring sea negotiations. The body of Mrs. James B. Gustis, wife of the United States ambassador to France, who died in Ireland recently, left Queenstown for New York, on the Hist, on board the steamer Majestic, in charge of her son, Mr. J. B. Eustis, Jr. It was announced in St. Petersburg, on the 81st. that the condition of the czarowits was steadily growing worse. He was coufined to his bed, and remained in a completely apathetic ■> state. Numerous cattle have died in southern Kansas from a disease pronounced to be dry murrain, caused by feeding on dry cornstalks. The business portion of Miller’s Falls, Mass., was burned on the night of the 31st Loss, 973,000; insurance partial. The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., on the 1st, declared a semi-annual dividend of is# per cent in cash.

The prince of Wales attended a requiem mass celebration in the Russian chapel in Welbeck street, London. on the 1st, the service being held in observance of the anniversary of the death of pzar Alexander 111. The province of Rome was visited by violent shocks of earthquake, on the 1st, at 5:40 a. m. In Rome people were aroused from their slumbers and fled to the open squares, and the greatest consternation prevailed. The convent of Santa Maria Maggiore was greatly damaged. A portion of the outer wall was overthrown and part of the ceiling felL One of the inmates, a monk, was injured. A dispatch from Constantinople, on the 1st, said that eight Albanian guards connected with the Yidliz kiosk had been executed and twentyfour others imprisoned as the result of the discovery of their complicity in a plot against the palace. The Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., were closed down, on the 1st, temporarily, for alterations, throwing nearly 2,000 men out of employment. The Swiss federal council at Bernt gave a farewell dinner, on the 81st, to J. O. Broadhead, of St. Louis, the retiring United States minister. The St. Paul (Minn.) Gas-Light Co has sold out its plant to eastern parties, including its gas and electric works and franchises. The German ministry of marine has ordered the German Asiatic fleet to concentrate at Swatow and Amoy. The Berlin KruezZeitung announces that the next session of the reichstag will open on December 3.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. A special dispatch to a Chicago morning paper from Pachuca, Mex., on the 3d, toid of the burning of ten persons as heretics at Texacapa, a small town inhabited by Indians and Mestizos (half breeds), by order of the auxiliary town judge, who claims he was acting according to the will of God, manifested to him in an extraordinary vision, accompanied by indications of divine wrath against heretics and people living immoral lives. On assurance of good behavior and immediate departure from, the state of Arkansas the peace warrant cases against both Corbett and Fitzsimmons and Julian and Brady were dismissed on the 2d. The injunction issued against them still holds good and will be invoked should there be any attempt to pull off a fight. Commodore Sigsbke, chief of the hydrographic office, navy department, has instructed his officers stationed on the great lakes to take advantage of the low water to make observations of obstructions to navigation, so they «an be shown on hydrograpic office charts. Tub whole town of Waloott Mills. Rice county, Minn., with the exception of two dwellings, was wiped out by a conflagration on the 3d. The chief loss was the mills of the Sheffield Bros., valued at $150,000, with an insurance of but $81,000. A Burrell Bond, a negro planter apd ex-slave, farming in Crittenden county, Ark., has consigned 200 pounds of tea to a wholesale grocery house in Memphis, Tenn. The tea was grown on his farm, and is the first ever produced in Arkansas. The citizens of Windsor and Essex county, Onh, who formed an “Independence of Canada" club recently, have become a political party, and will promulgate its principles throughout the dominion. John W. Cadman, an uncle of Mrs. President Cleveland, attempted to commit suicide in Chicago, on the 2d, by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver. In Chili the democrats are using violent language in regard to Spain, and a conflict between them and the Spanish residents is imminent. Henry H. Holmes was convicted in Philadelphia, on the Sd, of murder in the first degree for the killing of Benjamin F. Pietzel. The London Daily News announces that a Tyneside firm has received a Japanese order to build three new battle-ships.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Ft. Ways* council will spend 5500 to suppress diphtheria. At South Bend Eph Brick shot Saloon ist Adam Wunderlich three times. Adam may recover. Got. Matthews will choose the men who are to select the battle-ship Indiana's 58.500 silver service. The B. AG. wants to buy 75,000 gallons of water a day from North Vernon with which to supply its engines. Barker Corns, of Indianapolis, has been admitted to bail until the United States supreme court can pass on his case Mbs. George W. Belli kgs, of Ligonier, had trouble with her husband, and then attempted suicide on her mother’s grave. The Chickamauga commission will ap» peal to congress for permission to place the Ninth Indiana regiment monument on top of Snodgrass hill. At Elkhart the residence of John B. Comstock, together with all his barns, outbuildings, farming implements, grain, hay and furniture, burned. Loss 510.0001 The Winona assembly is preparing to widen the canal and add new boats between Warsaw and Eagle lake. The Home Telephone Co.,of Wabash, has commenced to do business. The rates are S3 a month for business houses and 51.50 for residences The Jackson county seat war has been transferred to Scottsbu rg. Indiana Christian endeavor people will meet at Muneie nest year. The C., C„ C. & St L Railway Mutual association has 1,388 members. Jesse Johnson, of Tipton county, who disappeared fifteen years ago, is an heir to 550,000 left by his father. The Cleveland (O.) board of trade will visit Muneie. in November, and will be entertained by the Commercial club. Brazil has extra coppers out looking for that firebug. Rolun Stibbins, the young painter, who fell from the roof of a factory in Kokomo the other evening, died a few days later. The barn of Cleve Cook.near Darlington, Montgomery county, burned the other night. The Model clothing house, of Hammond, is in the hands of the sheriff, on an attachment suit brought by a Chicago firm. Liabilities, 85,000. All debts of the Terre Haute car works have been paid and the .plant will pass out of the hands of an assignee and be put in readiness to begin work by the first of the year, which will mean the employment of about

1,000 men. The prosecution of the Hinshaw case cost Hendricks county about $3,000. Attorney Henry Spaan’s fee for prosecuting' Rev. Mr. Hinshaw for wifemurder was $800. The stockholders of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Western Railway Co. a few days ago passed a vote authorising the issue of $1,824,000 in bonds. Gustav Rockenbrandt, aged 41, unmarried. residing with his sister near Middle Fork, ten miles north of Madison, was killed by a tree falling on him and breaking his neck the other day. Mohawk Cycle Co. has incorporated with $30,000 capital and will erect a big factory at Indianapolis. Ft. Wayne’s diphtheria epidemic proved a false alarm. Capt. James Duffy’s coal fleet, at Jeffersonville, took fire the other day and one barge was destroyed. Loss $6,000. A milk wagon was run down by a Pan Handle passenger train at a grade crossing at Hartford City a few days ago. Driver John Scott was fatally and Roy Henderson severely injured. Both horses were killed. At Muxcie, Mrs. Isaac Martin, aged 28 years was burned to death by natural gas. She was lighting the gas in the cooking stove and her dress became ignited and all of her clothes were burned from her body. Pieces of flesh dropped off in chunks. Twenty-five miles of street railway tracks are to be laid at Jeffersonville. Kaolin of a superior quality has been found in Lawrence county. At Elwood Mrs. William Kramer was terribly scalded by the accidental spilling of a pot of boiling coffee upon her left side and limb. She will recover.

Mi’NCiE is going to hare a special messenger service. State Statiscian Thompson will brings suit against county officials who have not complied with the laws regarding statistics. West Indianapolis schools are closed. Diphtheria. The Indiana Trust Co. was appointed receiver for the Indiana Suspender Co. The indebtedness is estimated at $49,000. Wholesale grocers of the state have organised for the establishment of the “equality plan,” by which sugar and package coffee are sold at uniform prices by retailers. Over fifty miles of free pike, costing $120,000, will be built in Greene county. Some of Shelby county’s schools are closed on account of scarlet fever. Cbawfordsville's First M. E. church has ordered 400 individual communion cups. Daniel McDonald will write a history on Indiana Masonry. People are driving across the Ohio at New Albany. A double burial occurred at Yorktown, the other day, the deceased being the children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stauffer, two little girls, aged 3 and 6, of diphtheria. Their son, aged 8, died two weeks before, leaving the parents only a baby now. The militia court of inquiry has made ita report on the looting of a Peru eating house by soldiers last July. The civil courts may take the matter up. f A. Fobtneb, for thirty years a teacher in the public sehools of Howard county, died at his home in New London. He was principal of the West Middleton high school.

THE MIDDLE AGES, With Their Lmi HI»t«T Dark u4 Awfel Ktvaled la a Mexican Coax, ■aanitv, Where Tea Were Placed In a Jail and Horned to Death bj Order of the Auxiliary Town Jndfo. Chjca( ts Nov. 4.—A special dispatch to a morning paper from Pachuca, Mex., tells of the burning of ten per* sons as heretics at Texacapa. a small town inhabited by Indians and Mestisos (half breeds), by order of the auxiliary town judge. lie claims he was acting according to the will ol ! God, manifested to him in an extra* ordinary vision, accompanied by indi* cations of divine wrath against here* tics and people living immoral lives. When the news reached Mollango, the chief towu in the distriet, the president and other officials of the municipality, with ap escort of sixty men, went to the town. They found the inhabitants in the public square executing grotesque danoes in honor of the virgin of Guadalupe, the ruins of the jail, close to the parish church, being isurrounded by the dancers. In this jail had been confined six men three women and one infant. They had, been roughly removed from their homes at night on the charge pre* ferred by the judges, that their lives were evil in the sight of God; that they were enemies of the faith and heretics whom God hail ordered through his holy saint to be consumed by fire. This confession was coolly related! to the authorities by the judge, who j could not be made to see that he had I dope wrong. He milled that directly j following the revelation God had j made the earth tremble and had bowed j trees to the earth in shame am^|jiad spolcen to him, saying that Texacapa must purify itself of people of evil lives and the liorible heretics by fire. Then the judge related how he had executed the divine command by ordering his constables to drag the “sinners’1 from their beds, weeping and wailing to the jail. When they were locked in the building the judge ordered his constables to set it on fire. The caged victims cried for mercy, but they were consumed to their bones. Only the massive stone walls of the jail remained standing. Twenty-one arrests were made, although the fanatieal mob threatened death to the authorities. The manacled prisoners were marched to Mollango, where a trial will be held. The whole population of Texaeapa believe the yarn told by the auxiliary judge. They profess to see miraculously traced on the pile of bones the outlined forrasof the saints who left their images after advising the judge to burn the heretics. s

TWO PERSONS KILLED And » Large Number Injured In w Wrecta on the Baltimore SS Ohio. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 4.—Two persons were killed outright and twentyfive or thirty passengers, were injured by the wrecking of the Cincinnati express at Elm Grove, near Wheeling, on the llallimere & Ohio railroad at 10:20 o’clock yesterday morning. The aceident was caused by the breaking of a flange on the combination car which caused the derailment of that car together with two coaches and a parlor car. The cars .derailed turned completely over and were badly demolished. As soon as possible after, the accident a relief train was sent from Wheeling with doctors, and the injured passengers were taken to the hospital. The accident seems to have been one of those kind that is wholly unavoidable. Great excitement prevailed in the vicinity for a time after the accident. That no more fatalities occurred seems to be due to a kind providence, as the wreck was one of the worst of its kind that has occurred in this vicinity for many years. HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST. Four Bead Bodies Found In the Ruins of Burned Sweat Sliupe—Other Probable Victim*. Nkw York, Nov. 4.—When the smoking ruins of the sweat shops in Pelham street, which were burned early yesterday morning, were searched, it was discovered that four lives had been lost in the blinding smoke and flames. Three buildings were totally wrecked, and a conservative estimate of the damage places it at $100,000. The position of the bodies taken from the ruins and the horrible condition in which they were found show how terrible had been the struggle of the unfortunates for life and how hopeless their fight before the swift advance of the flames. The three buildings took fire from floor to floor as though their walls had been soaked in kerosene and all avenues of escape were quickly cut off. No one knows how many persons were in the darkened sweat shops when the fire started, and even yet beneath the mass of charred debris there may be lying the bodies of homeless and friendless tailors who had found shelter for the night within the walla of the doomed buildings. HOLMES CONVICTED

Of the Killing of Benjamin r. Flteael la Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Not, 4—Henry n. Holmes was convicted of murder in vhq first decree at 8:15 o’clock last night | for the killing of Benjamin F. Pitezel. i He coughed slightly when he heard the verdict_ CAUSE BY CARELESSNESS. Bad Freight Wreck on the Pittsburg I Western Railroad. Pittsburgh, Pa.. Nov. 4.—Twc freight trains on the Pittsburgh & Western railroad collided head-on near Evans City at an early hour yesterday. Engineer Simpson and Brakeman Flood, of Millvale, were badlj injured. Both engines and about twenty cars were wrecked. The wreck is supposed to have been caused by tht failure of an operator to deliver an order. The Chicago express was delay*! about five hours. Prayers were offend to-day for rain.

AFTER A LONG CHASE. A Maek-WMtad Swindler aad Blfanld It Captared—He la Ika Haabaad of Tkraa Wlwa, will a Long Lino of rargarita to Am war for. Memphis, Tenn., Not. i.—Sheriff M. H. Patterson, of Woodruff county* Ark., passed through here yesterday with J. M. Leslie, alias Ryan, alias. Lewis, whom he arrested at Okolona, Miss., Saturday. His chase of th* man extended over 9,200 miles, but then the crimes warranted the per*- , sistent pursuit. Leslie is wanted for two bigamous marriages and certainknown forgeries, with a line of the latter crime the length of whieh la not known. Some time ago Leslie met at Moody* Tex.. Miss Itaelah Carter, of Riverside* Arlc, who wm visiting an aunt there. Miss Carter is the daughter of J. IX. Carter, president of the Riverside Lumber Co. In June Leslie dropped into Riverside as a traveling salesman for Ordorff A Co. of Delias, Tex. He was formerly in their employ, and had traveled for them in Texas and Mexico* but forged their name and since that time they have vainly sought him. After a stay ef two weeks in River* side, Leslie induced Miss Carter to eiope with him, and they were married at Newport. While Mrs.- Leslie No. 1 was in Texas ignorant of the existence of Nos. 2 and A Leslie’s funds were getting low, and he felt that one was as much as he could care for. To get ritl of Mrs. Leslie No. 3 he fixed up a telegram, ostensibly from Riverside, that Mrs. Carter was at the point of death. While her daughter was going to her he forged a. check on Mr. Carter for $!?•>. and on that went to Omaha. Sheriff Patterson started out to round up Leslie. He first went to Texas and there found that Mrs. Leslie No. 2 was living near Eagle Pass, on the Mexican boundary. Hearing that Leslie wastn St. Louis* Patterson went there, only to find that his game had gone to Omaha. From the latter point he was traced to Elk Point, S. D. There he passed under name of J. C. Lewis and was selling groceries for Haight A Co., Omaha. But Patterson was a few days too late and returned to Omaha. Going to Uaight A Co. for information about Lewis they refused to disclose bia whereabouts. The sheriff was not to be so easily thrown off, and received a position with liaight A Co. Soon gelting into their confidence, they told him that Lewis was in Okolona, Miss.; that he had $1,000 on deposit with them. Here he also learned that Lewis passed in Nebraska\mder the : name of J. C. Ryan and that his first j wife had joined hint in Omaha, they going south together. Patterson then stated for Okolona. He arrived there yesterday and found no trouble in locating Leslie. He was ... selling groceries for Haight 4 Co.' When arrested he confessed the crimes and said that the arrest was a greatrelief to him as it was preferable tothe suspense in which he had been Uv* ing. ’

EXCEPT TWO BUILDINGS 1 he Town of Walcott Mills, Minn., Is Do* ■trujred or Fire. Winona, Minn., Nor. 4.—The whole town of Walcott Mills, Rice county, with the exception of two dwellings* ‘ was wiped out by a conflagration be* ! ginning at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The fire departments oi both Faribault and Northficld were called out, but owing to a high wind neither was able to check the flames tc any extent. The chief loss was the mills of the Sheffield brothers, one of whom is mayor of Faribault. The mills aloneyvere valued at 8150,000, with an insurance of but 831,000. Fourteen buildings were consumed, including the mills, an elevator, an engine house, a bran feed house, five dwelling bouses, a large boarding house, a packing house, cooper house, office building and several barns. Five cars of flour standing on a spur of the Milwaukee track were also burned, to* gether with 700 cords of wood stand* ing in the immediate vicinity. Another Extensive Moor Mill Totally Destroyed by Eire. Humboldt, Neb., Nov. 4.—The Hum* boldt flour mill, the largest of its kind in southeast Nebraska, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. It was owned by O. A. Cooper, mayor of Humboldt, who places his loss at 860,'JQG. with insurance not to exceed $£5,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The night watchman claims he went through the building shortly after midnight, and an hoar thereafter it. was all ablaze. A Burlington freight car and* a team of valuable draft horses was also burned.

ONLY ONE STORE LEFT. rhe Town of Arcadia, In., Literally Swept. Aw ay by Tiro. Arcadia, la., Nor. 4.—The m st dis- -y astrous fire that has visited this town in its history occurred last night. There is now only one general store left in town. The flames burned over an area of four acres, taking with it sis residences, the hotel, opera house, one livery barn, harness shop, two grain elevators, one lumber and coal yard, a barber shop, the post office, two drug stores, . 'two saloons, three general merchandise and one furniture store, one hardware store, a butcher shop, and shoe storfc, four barns and a vacant store buildiAg. The estimated loss ia $55,000, partially covered by insurance, THE HIGHEST TO DATE. tveraga Percentage* of TerifleaUoaa ot Official WmthwFoNMts Washington, Nov. 4.—Under the orders issued by Secretary Morton three months ago the weather bureau officials have informed the secretary that the average percentage of verifications of the official morning thirty*-six-hour forecasts of weather and temperature made by the weather bureau for the country east of the Rocky mountans during the month of; October, 1895, was 85. a, the high teat percentage ever recorded.