Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. < R MARSHALL, - Publisher.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Four families of "assisted” immigrants from Ireland, and four from Germany, who arrived at New York the other day, will be sent back:The brick manufacturers of New York and New Jersey have agreed to close their yards for the season Sept. 20, thus greatly curtailing the produc-' tion. Edward Yard, Jr., & Co., laoe merchants, of New York, have foiled. The liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000. The value of the assests is not fully known.... J. J. Deavitt, formerly a practicing lawer at St. Albans, Vt., has foiled for $50,000. While in the woods near Fritztown, Pa., William Seachrist was attacked-by seven polecats, who scratched and bit him for twenty minutes. He killed six of them with a club, and lay helpless when found by his neighbors. Henry C. Pedder, manager for Arnold, Constable <fc Co., of New York,, has transferred his valuable New Jersey property to the firm, from whom he has embezzled, it is alleged, between SIOO,OOO and $500,000. Herbert Seymour, the confidential bookkeeper of the company, is said to be a defaulter in the sum 0f550,000..... Mrs. C. E. Browne, the mother of Artemus Ward, died recently at Waterford, Me., in her 78th year Five suspected cases of cholera in New York proved to be summer complaint among childrenA company has been formed to build and operate a public crematory, to be heated with natural gas; on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE WEST.

A woman who keeps a saloon at Marshalltown, lowa, continued to sell liquor contrary to the prohibitory law. She was arrested and gave bonds, but still defied the law. The Sheriff attempted to arrest her. She resisted, drawing two revolvers on him. After he had secured assistance he managed to take her to the jail, but the people threatening to tear it down she was released. The woman's resistance is said to be instigated by a local brewery.... The Rev. L. 0. Thompson, a popular author and preacher, his son, Sidney, and another lad named Freddie Bishop, Were drowned in the Illinois River at Henry, 111., by the skiff capsizing in the eddies near the dam.... Charles Pulty, a fare-collector on the bridge at St. Louis, was hurled from the structure by the protruding step of a mail car. He fell eighty feet to the water, and was drowned before aid could reach him.... D. E. Swan, chief clerk in the Treasurer's office of the Northern Pacific- at St. Paul, has embezzled several thousand dollars and fled with a woman... .A dispatch from Ironton, Ohio, announces the failure of Hiram Campbell & Sons, iron manufacturers, and places the liabilities at $300,000. An artesian well is to be bored at Aber deen, Dakota, with a view to obtaining permanent power to run a mill producing 200 barrels of flour per day..... The aeSuittal of Lair, implicated in the murder of re Ward brothers at Devil’s Lake, Dakota, was followed by the quashing of all the indictments Frank E. Everett, banker at Golden, Colo., committed suicide while insane from the use of chloral Mrs. Sylvia S. Olds, living near Paw Paw, Mich., committed suicide by drinking kerosene and arsenic. - -.—-- The village of Cedar Springs, Mich., was destroyed by fire, four persons losing their lives. A damage of $50,000 was done by flames at the saw-mill of John White, at Cheney, Mich Four men lost their lives in a fire at Toledo... .A. &J.C. S. Harrison, the Indianapolis bankers, suspended last week, the firm applying for a receiver. Two of the men proposed declined to act. and the Sheriff was placed in possession The deposits are between $500,000 and $600,000, a large amount of which is trust, and $40,000 city funds.... Cotter, Beattie & Co., general merchandise and lumber manufacturers at Ovid, Mich., are insolvent... .The. Commission firm of Harmon, Spruance & Co. , of Chicago, has suspended. A shortage in corn amounting to 1,000,000 bushels is said to be the cause of the failure. A Helena (Montana) dispatch sass that five horse-thieves, whose names are unknown, were hanged at .Rocky Point, on the Missouri River, by a band of cowbovs, organized for the purpose of clearing out the thieves infesting that section. Thirty - two stolen horses were recovered. This makes a total of thirteen horse-thieves hanged and shot in the Judith and Muscleshell section within the past three weeks. Judge Reininger, at Mason City, lowa, has decided that the prohibition law.of the State is constitutional. At Muscatine a similar decision has been rendered, but an appeal has been taken.... The owners of 50,000 head of cattle in Oklahoma have formed a pool to reduce the expense of taking care of herds, ahd will employ one man and eight horses to every thousand head...., By a boiler explosion at Mount Vernon. Ohio, two tramps sleeping in a blacksmith shop near the scene were killed—one named John Carey and the other unknown.... Some boys playing in a lumber-yard at Davenport unearthed a box containing several pounds of counterfeit 10-cent pieces, bearing the date of 1845.... Some carrier pigeons liberated at Springfield, Hl., flew to Cleveland in about eight hours.

THE SPUTH.

Three masked men nt Mitchell’s Station, neat Culpeper, Va., bound and gagged Frank Somerville, took him to the cellar of his store, where they removed his clothes and tarred his limbs. They then blew open the safe and carried off SI,BOO in money. When Somerville was discovered he was unconscious. Mbs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, an educational authoress and teacher of i high repute,, died at Baltimore July 15, her 91st birthday. She leaves an estate valued at $1,000,000. While Valentine Fritz was lying in bed at his home in Baltimore, his idiot son, 20 years old, entered the room, and with a hammer drove a three-inch nail into his father’s head. The presence of the nail was not discovered until the following day, when a doctor extracted it by cutting around it with a'knif e to secure a hold for the nippers. Fritz is still living. Bob Hunt and Dan Parker (both colored) were hanged at Greenville, Miss. The former killed Barrel Best (motored) at , Befuge, Oct 6, 1888.

The latter killed Richard Barrett (colored) on Deer Creek, May 11, 1884. Both confessed their guilt... .Commings Nelson was hanged at Houma, La., in the presence of 2.000 spectators, for the murder of John Martin, ih Terre Bonne Parish. The culprit remained firm’ to the last.... Sam Williams, a colored man, was executed at Waynesboro, Gn., for the murder of Clem Bush. ’ ( Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Standard, the organ of the colored Republicans of Louisiana, recently accused the Custom House officials of seriding gangs to break up Blaine and Logan Club meetings. Dupont, the Naval Officer of the New Orleans Prrt, resented these statemento, and meeting Martinet the other day, angry words were exchanged, which led to a rough-and-tumble fistic encounter. Both were considerably damaged. Some of the adherents of Martinet and Dupont renewed the row’ at a later hour, and considerable blood was spilt

WASHINGTON.

The President has issued the following proclamation: While quarantine regulations are committed to the several States, the General Government has reposed certain powers tn the President to be used at hlsdiscretion in preventing a threatened epidemic. Feeling it my duty, I hereby call upon all persons who, under existing systems in the several States, are intrusted with the execution of quarantine .. regulations, to be diligent and on the alert, in order to prevent the introduction of the pestilence, which, we all regret to learn, has made its appearance in some of the countries of Europe, between which and the ports of the United States intercourse is direct and frequent. I further advise that the cities and towns of the United States, whether on the coast or on the lines of intercommunication, by sound sanitary regulations and the promotion of cleanliness, be prepared to resist the power of disease and to mitigate its severity, and I further direct the Consuls of the United States in the ports where the pestilence has made or may make its appearance to exercise vigilance in the carrying out of the instructions heretofore given, and in communicating to the Government of the United States any information of value relating to the progress or treatment of the disease.

POTITICAL.

Gen. Butler arrived in Washington last week and had an interview with the President. He refused positively to state what he intended to do politically during the campaign. His friends, however, assert with great positiveness that he w’ill accept the nominations of tbe Greenbackersand Anti-Monopolists, and make the race for the Presidency. Butler says the statements which have been published concerning his political attitude since the Democratic convention are fabrications of ingenious reporters .... The Democrats of Michigan will hold their State convention at Detroit Aug. 19. The Greenback State Convention will convene at Grand Rapids Aug. 27. Col, John A. Martin, editor of the Atchison Champion, was nominated for Governor-of Kansas by the State Republican Convention at Topeka. Albert H. Horton was nominated for Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, and W. A. Johnson for Associate Justice.

GENERAL,

It is reported by way of Jamai&Sthitt tho Cuban insurgents under Aguero obtained two rather important victories over the Spanish troops recently. The CaptainGeneral has summoned a council of officers to agree on a concerted plan against the rebels. The Government troops are said to be demoralized. Lieut. Greely and six of his fellowexplqyers were taken from their permanent camp in Smith’s Sound, on June 22, by the steamers Thesis and Bear, and were landed July 17 at St. John’s, Newfoundland. Seventeen others of the expedition perished “from starvation, and one was lost while hunting seals. The corpses of twelve of the party were brought back, the remains of the other five having been swept out to sea by the winds. Greely and his surviving associates would have perished in forty-eight hours but for the relief expedition. They won the honor of reaching the farthest known point to the northward. Capt. Ash, ice-pilot of the Bear, gives the following particulars of the discovery and rescue of Lieut. Greely and hie companions: An officer of the Thetis found a record on one point of land, intimating that Greely and party were all well, and had left Fort Conger Aug. 9, and, after an auspicious journey, arrived at Barred Inlet Sept. 29. The record also indicated the exact point on Cape Sabine where the victorious exploring party were encamped. The steam launch of the Bear was immediately dispatched to the indicated locality, which was distant about three miles. In the meantime the Thetis sounded her whistle, which was heard by Greely in his camp. The unwonted sound awoke the slumbering and fast-sinking explorers. When the launch reached the ice in the vicinity of the camp a solitary man was seen descending to the strand with uncertain steps. He had heard the whistle and saw the approaching boat. The crew of the launch regarded this as an evil omen. As soon as the ice foot was touched I jumped ashore, and accosted the lone stranger: “How are you all?" He answered faintly: “There are spven of us left. yet." We were all struck with dismay. Gathering up hastily a little food and stimulants we hastened to the Greely encampment and there beheld a heart-shattering scene. A gale of wind was blowing. The tent had been shattered and had fallen on the wearied and dying men. We entered and saw a scene of unspeakable misery and desolation. Haggard faces, staring eyes gazed at us. One of the six sufferers was pointed to as dying. We at once began to feed them vrith light food, and dispatched the launch to the Thetis for assistance. Cant. Emro and Dr. Ames came on shore, a fire was kindled, hot milk-punch was prepared, restoratives were applied, and in lees than an hour the woebegone sufferers were able to stand staggeringly on their feet. Ten bodies were unearthed and two disinterred from the ice foot and brought down to the steam-launch to be transferred to the ships. Two of the living party were strong enough to be led along on their feet. The other five were borne down on stretchers with the greatest care. In the midst of a tempestuous sea and a terrible gale of wind the living and dead of tbejGreely arctic colony were placed on board the Bear and Thetis and conveyed to Stu Johns. A correspondent of a London journal, who was sent to investigate the commercial resources of Mexico, reports having been so badly clubbed by bandits that he lost his hearing, but he boasts that he killed his assailant The cholera scare, is materially affecting European travel.

FORFIGN.

Paul Hammer, the alleged American who has been arrested in Austria on a charge of preaching Mormonism, turns out to be a portrait painter, a Dane by birth, and only a resident of Nevada for a very brief time. ... .Owing to the disaffection of the native police at Cairo, British officers will be appointed to take their place. Gen. Walker, United States Consulat Paris, says that city is unusually healthy. There has been no cholera there as yet He promises to use every precaution to prevent the introduction of the contagion into the United, States... .Advices from China indicate that the Chinese troops have been withdrawn from the Tonquin frontier, as was demanded by Fiance. Thu., it is thought, will avert war between the two countries. During the voyage of the steamer St

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

Dunstan between Marseilles and Diverpool two passengers died from the effects of cholera. Gn its arrival at Liverpool the steamer was twice disinfected, and the 'stores taken on board at Marseilles were destroyedL. A. Englehardt, a London merchant, has failed, with liabilities put at £270,000 The Marquis of Lorne is becoming interested in the importation of healthy cattle from the Western States of America through Canada, and is to introduce a deputation to Lord Carlingford in that interest..... Therehavebeen 1(10 arrests at Warsaw in connection with the plot to blow up the palace during the Czar’s visit

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Kansas Democratic State Convention will meet at Topeka Aug. 20, to nominate candidates for State officer... .It is said that Senator Mahone will endeavor to enjoin the Secretary of State in Virginia from issuing poll-books under the new apportionment, claiming that the measure failed to pass the Legislature by a twothirds ■voter- ■ ——— —— The assignment of Tucker, Hammond AjGo., jobbers of small wares, at Boston, is announced. Liabilities, $100,000... .The private bank of G. Hall, at Elmira. N. Y., patronized by business men, laborers and famfers, has failed. deposits are reported at about SIOO,OOO. President Arthur has called for the resignation of Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal of the District of Georgia. Attorney General Brewster complains of Longstreet’s inefficiency and carelessness, and has recommended his removal. Mr. John E. Bryant, it is thought, will succeed Near Chesterton, Md., two thousand men engaged in a riot at a negro campmeeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally injured, and a number of others seriously cut. A dispatch from Chesterton gives the follow-” ing particulars of the bloody affair: “Excursions were run to the colored campmeeting in Jarrell’s Woods, near Worton Station, in this county, from several points in Maryland and Delaware. From Millington, in the latter State, came a crowd of men who had a feud with the negroes of this vicinity. The 3,000 negroes on the grounds had been drifiking whisky all day, and were in a good humor for a fight. One of the Millington men commenced to ill-treat the horse of a negro from this town and precipitated a row, in which 2,000 men participated, which lasted nearly three quarters of an hour and during which fully one thousand shots were fired. The mob became thoroughly infuriated and carried on a guerilla warfare from behind -trees until a Sheriff’s posse, two hundred strong, charged through the woods into the center of the camp. The new’-comers had arrived by special train from Charlestown, and promptly scattered the rioters right and left, capturing eighteen of the ring-leaders. William Ashley, of Millington, was found dying with a bullet through his body. Razors had been used freely, and nearly every man captured was bldwding profusely from wounds inflicted by these weapons. Many of the Millington party were also hurt, but escaped. About ten men were fatally wounded,” The Rev. Dr. Henry Cosgrove, VicarGeneral of the Diocese of Davenport, lowa, who became its administrator on the death of Bishop McMullen, has been appointed to succeed that ecclesiastic as Bishop of the diocese.... .The Laflin & Rand Powder Company attached the property of the St. Louis Ore and Steel Company, and Ethan Hitchcock was appointed provisional receiver. It is stated that an extension is all that is needed by the company, as their assets are ample to meetall claims. The capital of the company is $5,000,000, and the bonded debt, $2,600,000.... Judge Blodgett has decided that the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal must pay internal-revenue taxes on what money it uses in business at Chicago, which formerly averaged $1,500,000 per month. He gave judgment in favor of the Government for $59,229.68, with interest at 6 per cent, for the past three years... .Frank Calvert, divorced husband of the present wife of ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, died suddenly in a Cincinnati hotel. There are suspicious of suicide, but all his friends agree that he died of a broken heart.. .. Representatives of St. Louis, Omaha, Burlington, Ottumwa and other mills formed a linseed oil pool last week at a meeting at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. Manitoba, with a vastly increased acreage of wheat, estimates the yield at 9,500,000 bushels.... The "Clearing House exchanges last week—5690,735,112 were $12,910,477 less than reported the previous week; and when compared with the returns for the corresponding period in 1883 show a decrease of 32.6 per Cent.

THE MARKET.

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MOB VENGEANCE.

Infuriated Citizens of Owensboro, Ky., Lynch a Negro. The Jailor Shot Down, and Two of the Mob Killed. [Owensboro (Ky.) telecram.] An armed mob attacked the County Jail, killing the jailor, W. J. Lucas, breaking in ( the doors of the cell-room, and taking Richard May, a negro, out and hanging him to a tree in the court house yard. The court house and jail are surrounded by crowds of people, discussing the outrage and deploring the loss of a brave county officer, who died at his post of duty. The negro who was hanged was charged with attempting assault on the person of ■ "'Miss Kelly, daughter of a farmer living a few miles above Owensboro, about ten days since. The mob had organized on several nights during the past week, but did not attempt to carry out'their deigns. Last night about midnight, as your correspondent was-retuming to the city, he was halted by five masked men near the gravel road toll-gate, but suffered to pass without molestation. Many persons in the city were on the lookout for a Sunday night visit from the mob, and they were not disappointed. They entered the city about 1:30 o’clock and surrounded the jail. The jailer called to his wife to have his pistols in readiness, and refused to open the doors of tire jail. They demanded of him the keys. He replied that “he was an officer of the law and intended to do his duty. ” They replied “that he would give up the keys and then do his duty.” He replied that “he would do his duty or die, ” and some one in the crowd cried, “D it, die then!” The jailer was at this time up stairs on a back porch on the north side of the jail, and just between the jail and the residence. The mob then began firing, and the fire was returned by -the Sheriff and his son Thomas, a boy aged about 16. They fired thirteen shots, the mob firing, in the opinion of some, as many as 100. Jailer Lucas fired from the porch and his son from the front windows. Two of the mob are reported as killed, eye-witnesses saying that they saw one man fall shot by Tom Lucas, and that he was placed on a horse and, quickly carried off. After firing six shots from the porch the jailer was shot, the ball entering his right side, near the nipple. He was carried to his room, still refusing to give up the keys. His wife took a pistol and tried to repel the mob, but they crowded up the stairs and forced her to give up the cell keys. The outer door was battered down with a sledge hammer. They then took May from his cell and Kung him to the only available limb in the Court House yard. It was stated they had ropes prepared for two other victims. Tha rope was a new one, and the knot a regular hangman’s knot. The jail premises are badly riddled with bullets. The jailer carried a lantern in his hand and afforded a good target for the mob. After hanging their victim the mob departed, leaving a number of masks about the jail premises. It is stated that among them were a number sf negroes and that a portion of them caine from Indiana. opposite Owensboro, w'here the girl’s father once lived. Maj’ was the third negro hanged in the court house yard by a mo,b and the fourth victim of the gallows in the county. The outrage of last night is universally condemned. Jailer Lucas, in spite of prompt alleviation, died at 7 this morning. He was a Virginian, a brave ex-Confederate officer. The report of two of the mob being killed has not been confirmed. One of the mob was heard to say as they left, however, that two of their number had been wounded. The excitement has continued all day and late this evening it was reported that the negroeswere organizing to mob Kelly, the father of the, girl, for they.think, he. raised the mob.

IN THE TRACK OF DEATH.

The Cholera on the Increase In France —Washington Authorities Anxious. A cable dispatch from Paris says: Three cases of cholera occurred here yesterday, one of Which proved fatal. It is believqa they are sporadic. The heat is intense and the streets are deserted. All the cholera patients have been removed from tha hosu pitals to pest houses in the suburbs. The Mayor of Toulon has been stricken down with the plague. There were seventy-two deaths at Marseilles during the last twenty-four hours, showing an increasing virulence in the epidemic. Dr. Koch has gone to Berne to confer with the Swiss authorities as to the best means of excluding cholera from Switzerland among the country people around Toulon, as the cholera is increasing in the. country districts. Thirteen deaths occurred here last night. Austria is becoming' alarmed, and has asked the Porte to co-operate in measures to prevent the cholera from entering Austria and Turkey. The authorities of Odessa, Russia, have quarantined French vessels from the Mediterranean for two weeks. Every effort possible is being put forth to keep the cholera from the port. London dispatch: Edwin A. Merritt, United States Consul General, has refused to grant clear bills to vessels leaving London and Liverpool for ports in the United States unless the American Inspectors certify to the health of those on board. Washington dispatch: Secretary Frelinghuysen has instracted the Consular officers at London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen, and Hamburg to at once appoint competent physicians to inspect all vessels and passengers departing for the United States from those points. The Consular officers referred to are instructed to refuse clean bills of health in all cases, except upon the recommendation of the Sanitary Inspector. The Consuls are instructed to report by cable any case of infectious or contagious disease.

CLIPPINGS.

Young men are in great demand at Saratoga. Ordinance against hand-organs in Pittsburgh. California ostrich eggs are only $1,200 a dozen. The new Lord Mayor of Dublin is a saloon keeper. Battles between snapping-turties is a common amusement for the people of Staten Island. In Tiflis recently a remarkable hailstorm occurred. The stones were as large as the eggs of geese. Forty lives were lost and seventy houses ruined. The Chilian newspapers announce the recent sudden death of a certain Don Jose Miguel Herrera, at the age of 122 years, and aver that his age is well attested by official records. He was born at Talca and died at Santiago. . A WOMAN of Greenwood, Me., is reported to be cutting her fourth set of teeth.

LASHED TO A BRONCHO.

An English Cattle-Owner Stripped and Tied to a Wild Pony. Rescued After Seven Days—A Wronged Husband's Terrible Revenge. [Omaha dispatch to Chicago Herald.] M. Boussaud, a wealthy cattle-owner, whose herds range in the unorganized territory of Northwestern Nebraska, has just returned from the annual “round-up” in that region, and relates a tale of the plains that is, in some respects, a counterpart of the orthodox Mazeppa. When Boussaud reached his ranch about the middle of June he found his cowboys nursing a young man whom they bad rescued from the back of a broncho... When discovered the modern Mazeppa Was lasheh to the horse, entirely naked and unconscious. The animal was about broken down, as if from long running, and was easily lassoed by the cowboys, who cut the thongs and released the strange captive. This happened about two weeks before Boussaud’s arrival, and during all that time the stranger had lain in a stupor. A few days before Boussaud left on his return journey to, Omaha, having a little medical knowledge, he succeeded in restoring the patient to consciousness, and his recovery was rapid. When able to talk he said his name was Henry Burbank, that he was an Englishman, and 34 years of age. About three years ago at Falmouth, England, he formed a -partnership with a friend named Thomas Wilson, some years his senior, and with him came to America, to embark in the cattle business. They cast about for awhile and finally settled in Northwestern Nebraska, where the range was unlimited, and herders few and far apart. They built a comfortable ranch by a little stream, where Wilson’s young wife reigned as housekeeper, attended by two or three female domestics. Burbank, who is a handsome young gallant, found it agreeable, while Wilson was absent riding about the range, to make love to the latter’s wife. This continued for some months, until in the latter part of May one of the cowboys who had a grievance against Bur-bank surprised him and Mrs. Wilson in a compromising situation, and reported it to the woman’s husband, whose jealousy had already been aroused. That night Burbank was captured while asleep in bed by Wilson and three of his men and bound before he had a chance to make any resistance. After mutilating him Wilson had him stripped of every bit of clothing and bound on the back of a wild broncho, which was started off by a vigorous lashing. Be - fore morning Burbank became unconscious, and was therefore unable to tell anything about his,terrible trip. He thinks that the Outrage was committed on the night of May 27, and he -was rescued on the morning of Jiune 3, which would make seven days that he had been traveling about the plains on the horse's back, without food or drink, and exposed to the sun and wind. Wilson’s ranch is about 200 miles from the. spot where Burbank was found, but it is hardly probable that the broncho took a direetcourse, and, therefore, must have covered many more miles in his wild journey. When fully restored to health Burbank proposes.to make a visit of retaliation on Wilson, and in this he will be backed by Boussaud’s men and those of the Ogallala Land and Cattle Company, whose range is near Boussaud’s.

BOILER CATASTROPHE.

Several Men Killed and Wounded— The Bodies Shockingly Mangled. [Bloomington {lnd.) dispatch;] A terrible boiler explosion occurred near Harrodsburg, this county, causing the instant death of three persons, and perhaps fatally injuring four others. The shock could be heard for miles. Soon after the noise neighbors began gathering from every direction. When they reached the place a fearful spectacle presented itself. For yards about heavy timbers were thrown, and pieces of the boiler were scattered for hundreds of feet. It seems that a new inspirator had recently been placed on the engine, which would not work, and it exWesley Carter, head engineer, was instantly killed. When found he was lying under a pile of rubbish. He had “been thrown over thirty feet. His head had been almost blown frojn4iiß body, and both arms were broken. He was a single man. Near him lay his son, dead, his breast terribly lacerated, the skull broken, and one leg almost blown off. He died instantly. The most pitiful sight of all was old Billy Graces, who had only a few minutes before come over to the mill. He was standing near the boiler watching Carter’s experiment when the explosion occurred, He lay fifty feet away, his head almost tom from his body, his legs broken, and pieces of the metal had pierced through his breast. When found he was alive, but soon died. He was one of the best citizens of the neighborhood. Billy Graves, his son, an employe of the mill, was also badly injured about the shoulder. His head was bruised terribly, and it is feared he cannot recover. John Reed, another employe, was injured in the same way, though not seriously. He was thrown in the air twenty feet while working at the saws. A Mr - . Collins, a stranger employed in the mill only a few days, was injured so that he cm hardly recover. His aim is broken and pieces of the metal entered his abdomen. Another fatally injured is John Foddrill, ah old man employed in the mill. He is injured about the head and breast, and, at this writing, is resting easily, but there are fears that he is internally injured. A workman named Calahan is seriously hurt about the back, though the physicians say not necessarily fatal. All the injured were carried to a house pear by and a number of physicians lent the best aid possible. Three only 6f the men employed were injured, being in the rear of the mill.

SMALL TALK.

Cleveland is a Presbyterian. Big crop of Delaware peaches this year. The poor w’ord bosm will now get a rest. English papers are engaged in scientific discussion of the new American word “mugwump.” A Chinese gambler died at Portland, Ore., last week, leaving $15,000 in bank and a will providing for a gorgeous funeral in the old country. A New Yobk theatrical manager says that he receives on an average thirty-five or forty plays a week throughout the ,entire year. During three years he has accepted but three of these, and neither of them has yet been produced. Independence, Cal., has a horned, fish with rattles and tail like a rattlesnake.

RESCUED JUST IN TIME.

Lient. Greeley and Six of His Party found Off Cape Sabine, in Smith’s Sound. The Remainder of the Party Killed by Cold and Starvation—Terrible Tales of Suffering. The following dispatch from Commander Schley to the Secretary of the Navy tells the story of the rescue of Lieut. Greeley and his six surviving comrades: , L _ __ St. Johns, ILF.. July 17. The Hon. William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, Washington: Thetis, Bear, and Lock Garry arrived here today from West Greenland. All well. They separated from the Alert 150 miles north during a gale. At 9 p. m., June 22, five miles oft Cape Sabine, in Smith’s Sound, the Thetis and Bear rescued alive Lieut. A W. Greely, Sergt. Brainard. Sergt. Fredericks, Sergt. Long, Hospital Steward Beiderback, Private Connell, and Sergt. Ellison, the.only survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. Sergt. Ellison had lost both hands and feet by frost-bite, and died July 6 at Godhaven, three days after amputation, which had become imperative. Seventeen of twentyfive persons composing the expedition perished by starvation at the point where found. One was drowned while sealing to procure food. Twelve bodies' of- the dead were rescued and are now on board the Thetis and Bear. Esquimau Turnevik was buried at Disco, in accordance with the desire of the inspector of Western Greenland. Five bodies buried in ice near the camp were swept away to sea by winds and currents before my arrival and could not be recovered. The names of the dead recovered, with dates of death, are as follows: Sergt. Cross died Jan. 1, 1884; Wederick (Esquimau), April 5; Sergt. Linn, April 6; Lieut. Lockwood, April 9; Sergt. Jewell, April 12; Private Ellis, May 19; Sergt. Ralston. May 23; Private Henry, June C; Private Schneider, June 18. The names of the dead and buried in the ice fort, with the date of death of those whose bodies were not recovered, are aafollows: Sergeant Rice, April 9, 1884; Corporal Salen, June 3; Private Bender, June 6; Assistant Surgeon Pavey, JuneG; Sergeant Gardner, June 12, drowned by breaking through newly formed ice while sealing; Jens Edwards (Esquimau), April 24. I would urgently suggest that the bodies now on board be placed in metallic cases here for safer and better transportation in a sea way. Greely abandoned Fort Conger Aug. 9,1883, and reached Baird Inlet Sept. 29’foUowihg,' with the entire party well. He abandoned all his boats, and was adrift thirty days on an ice floe in Smith’s Sound. His permanent camp was established Oct. 21, 1883, at the point where he was found. During nine mofiths his party had to live upon a scant allowance of food brought from Fort Conger; that cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isabella by Sir George Nares in 1875 but found much damaged by lapse of time; that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882; and a small amount saved from the wrdfck of the Proteus in 1883 and landed by Lieuts. Garlington and Colwell on the beach near where Greely’s party was found. When these provisions were consumed the party was forced to live upon boiled seal-skin stripped from the sealskin clothing, and lichens and shrimps procured in good weather, when they were strong enough to make exertions. As it took 1,300 shrimps to fill a gallon measure, the labor Was too exhausting to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. The channel between Cape Sabine and Littleton Island did not clcse on account of violent gales all that 240 rations at the latter point could not be reached. From Hare Island to Smith’s Sound I had a constant and furious struggle with the ice in impassable floes. Solid barriers were overcome by watchfulness and patience. No opportunity to advance a mile escaped me, and for several hundred miles the ships were forced to ram their wav from lead to lead through ice varying in thickness from three to'six feet, and when rafted much greater. The Thetis and the Bear reached Cape York June 18, after a passage of twenty-one days In Melville Bay, with two advance ships of the Dundee whaling fleet, and continued on to Cape Sabine. Returning seven days later, we fell in with seven others of this fleet off Wostenholm Island and announced Greely’s rescue to them that they might not be delayed from their fishing grounds nor be tempted into the dangers of Smith’s Sound in view of the reward of $25,000 offered by Congress. Returning across Melville Bay, we fell in with the Alert and Lock Garry off Devil’s Thumb, struggling through the heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admirably to get along so far with the transport so early in the season before the opening had occurred. Lieut. Emory, with the Bear, has supported me throughout with great skillfulness and unflinching readiness in accomplishing the great duty of relieving Greely. The Greely party are very much Improved since the rescue, hut their situation was critical in the extreme when found and for several days after. Forty-eight hours’ delay in reaching them would have been fatal to all who are now living. The season in the north is late, and has been the closest for years. Smith’s Sound was not open when I left Cape Sabine. The winter about Melville Bay was the most severe for twenty years. W. S. Schley, Commander. The Greely party reached the highest latitude ever attained by polar explorers, namely, 83 deg. 25.5 min. The coast of Greenland was carried up to 83 deg. 35 min. Interviews with Lieut. Greely and other survivors of the unfortunate arctic colony elicited the following facte: After passing two winters at Fort Conger in scientific research, Lieut. Greely, with his whole party intact, broke up the encampment and commenced a southward descent. Thia was accomplished amid great perils from gales of wind, ice-nips, and other casualties. Cape Sabine having been reached, a temporary home was built of stones and covered by the boat’s sails brought along by the party. On the 29th of September winter quarters were established at Cape Sabine. The commissariat had become very meager, and the cache of provisions left by the Proteus last year but poorly supplemented it. The steam launch had become, fast in the ice a few weeks previous and had to be abandoned during the whole winter. The first havoc in the ranks was early in January, when one of the men dropped off with scurvy. On the 9th of April Lieut. Lockwood and Mr. Rice, .the photographer, succumbed after a heroic attempt had been made to secure about two hundred pounds of meat supposed to be cached at a place named Bad Creek, distant about fifteen miles from 'the encampment. Israel, the astronomer, perished May 27. Lieut. Klslingbury dlSd June 1, and Dr. Pavy, the naturalist, Slept in death June 26. Notone of the victims realized that death was aear. They all died a tranquil, painless death. The two Esquimaux also perished, one of starvation. The other was drowned, his kayak being pierced by some newly formed ice April 17, thus cutting off all hope of getting any supply of seal meat for the starving explorers. The Esquimaux were most faithful and devoted followers and helpers of Lieut. Greely. Ellison was rescued and safely brought on board the steamship Bear, where he died a few days subsequently. His is an extraordinary instance of human endurance. While away some ten miles from his hut one day last winter the temperature suddenly fell to 48 degrees below zero. His hands and feet were frozen to the very bone, and he was dragged by his comrades in an almost dying condition to his hut. His feet and hands were literally amputated by the incisive frost, and in this terrible state he lived through the dismal months that intervened between that time and the rescue. A Washington dispatch states that President Arthur, in conversation with some friends, said he was very’ much gratified at the finding of Lieut. Greely and the remnant of his party. He added: Thia is the last of arctic expeditions as far as I can prevent the’m. None of them has ever paid for the extreme suffering and loss of valuable Jives they have occasioned, and I think it is about time that some other nation try them for awhile. President Arthur, in previous conversations, has characterized the whole business as a species of “arctic insanity." There is general recognition of the fact that some one is responsible for the death of the members of the Greely expedition who died from cold and hunger, and a general expectation prevails that a coprt of inquiry will be ordered when the Secretary of War returns, to place this responsibility where it belongs. ... i Vanderbilt’s household expenses are. said to reach $250,000 a year. About 40,000,000 pennies were coinedin the United States last year. A telephone fifteen years old has been discovered in New York.