Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — Page 6

ghe jßepubliran. Gio. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA

Bismarck is worth $10,000,000, besides his intrinsic valuation. than to a little one. This has often been confirmed by observation; The. Empress Eugenie still keeps the hat which the emperor wore on the occasion of Orsini’s unsuccessful attempt It is riddled through with small holes hardly bigger that pin thrusts. lowa offered a prize of SSOO for the best design for a soldiers’ monument’ for the state. The award has just been made to a woman. Mrs. Harriett A. Ketchum. Women are natural artists and architects.

The Spanish cortes has beforeJit a bill for universal suffrage and its friends expect it to pass. When Spain comes out of its present lethargy there are new hopes for the world. It has long been in the background. The movement to give every town In the United States a public building scoops the cream from the victories achieved by aspiring Congressmen, who have been patting themselves because they secured appropriations for building in their native villages. Italian editors have tried hard to translate the words Buffalo BilL One of them makes it: Compagnia Americana di Guglielmo Bufalo Occidental Selvaggio” (the troupe of William Buffalo Savage West!”). Another paper says: -‘Sui capo e Guglielmo il bufalo" (“its chief is William the buffalo!”). Russia, with the view of checking British commercial progress in Persia, will found a bank at Teheran, will obtain a concession for a railway from Teheran to Mashdishar via Barfurush and Amol and will open a permanent exhibition at Barfurush. There will also be a special Russian agency established at Ispahan for the purpose of watching the British agent there. — The life of Jefferson Davis is being prepared by his widow, aided by James Red path, a former associate of old John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, while Miss Winnie Davis, “the daughter of the confederacy,” is soon to wed a grandson of the famous abolitionist, Samuel J. May, at Syracuse, N. Y. The old slavery and anti-slavery lines, supposed to be everlastingly irreconcilable, are getting so tangled up as to be scarcely distinguishable. » ; Phillis, the slater, who climbed to notoriety at Newark, on the sides of tLe big chimney of the Clark Thread Company’s mills, got SI,OOO for doing the perilous job, and is now assisting the masons who are repairing the top of the chimney, for sl2 a day. Young men who imagine that fame lies only at the top of a political ladder should ponder the success of this slater, who could command his own price for a piece of work that has made him famous. f ' A somewhat startling noveltv in railway construction comes from Mexico In connection with the building of the new Monterey & Mexican Gulf railroad. If the equipment be equal to the track, the line must certainly be classed Al among railways, for it is reported that its sleepers and woodwork are mostly made from mahogany and rosewood, while the bridge? and culverts are built of marble, both the wood and the stone being abundant along the route. M. Heriot, the owner of the big store called the Lovvre, in Paris, was sent to the insane asylum by his relations because he insisted in giving sl,ooo,ooo,which he could really afford to lose, to founding an orphanage for soldiers’ children. The local authorities finally ordered that he should be removed from a private asylum and placed in a public one, and it was quickly found that he was not insane r.talL For thirteen months’ treatment the private asylum doctors demand $22,000, the local doctors want $20,000, three medical students who helped find him crazy, $13,500, and the keepers $5,000.

The recent death of the unfortunate Viscountess Kingsland ended a life o' strange vicissitudes. She was married in 1319 to Viscount Kingsland, the needed representative of an old title. At bis death she fell into the greatest poverty, and occupied a small room it the back street of Lambeth, wHI hardly any furniture. By making shirts at 4 cents apiece she managed to earn from 50 to 75 cents a week. For nearly twenty years she epntinuee her employment of shirtmaking, re ceiving occasionally outdoor relie from the parish. When she was 71 she applied to the Universal Beneficent society for aid. The committee imme diately made her an allowance of |2.5( per week, and eventually secured foi her a gift of SSOO from the royal bounb fund. Afterward a special subscrip tion was raised and a government pen sion of |250 a year purchased for her so that the last few years of her check ered existence were passed in com par ative comfort

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ex-Secretary Whitney has gone abroad Natural gas was struck at Pulaski, N. Y. At Marshal, Mo., ice one inch thick formed Friday night. Nathaniel Edwards was horribly bitten by a mad dog at Bethel, O. General Francis E. Spinner is dying of cancer at Jacksonville, Fla. The Ohio Sewer Pipa Works have been -old to an English Company. The damage by the recent tornado at Akron, 0., is estimated at SIOO,OOO, A fire destroyed $300,000 worth of property at Winona, Minn., on the 15th. Federated railway employes have won their strike on the O. & M. for increase pay. Apache Indians are murdering whites along the border between Old Mexico and Arizona. The Chicago Real Estate Board has ■selected the lake front as the site of the World’s Fair. The charity conference in session at Baltimore regards the admission of pauper immigrants as a great evil; Prohibition was defeated in Caldwell county, Ky., by about 300 majority, and carried in Hopkins county oy not less than 150 majority.

Mrs. Elvira Elliott, who died at Lansing Mich., leaves $25,000 to the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Metholist Church. Hon. Edward Oliver Wolcott, United States Senator from Colorado, and Mrs. Frances Metcalfe Boss were married Thursday at Buffalo. Noah Jackson and his wife took refuge ip a barn during the recent tornado in Mercer county, Pa., and the building collapsed, killing both. C. M. Witaker and G. M. Stubbs were crushed to death jn a quarry near Monrovia, a small town east of Los Angelos, Cal., Wednesday afternoon. _ R ev \ J ames Kerr and his wife were .1 rowmed in Boykin Creek, Sumpter, Ala., Sunday, while on his way to preach in a :hurch in the country.

Hon. Richard Vaux was nominated for Congress by the Third District (Pa.) Democratic Convention on the 12th, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel J. Randall. - Great forest fires which have been raging in Northern Wisconsin at intervals for two weeks past, are gaining ground. The greatest 1055 has been in the vicinity of King’s Bridge. A large meeting of stock breeders was held at Chicago on the 15th for consultation and united action in regard to demand for space and general arrangements for an exhibit at the World’s Fair. Lieutenant Edwin B. Weeks, Quartermaster of the United States Army Post at San Antonio, committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a revolver. He possessed considerable wealth and leaves a family. Captain McC alia, late commander of the U S. ship Enterprise, and who was charged with various heinious offenses against his m6n, has been found guilty by a court martial, and by the action of the Secretary of the Navy has been suspended from work and duty for a period of three years. Four thousand employes of the National Tune .Works at McKeesport, Pa., struck Monday morning for shorter hours and a 10 per cent, advance. General Manager Converse issues a statement in which he says that the company is now paying higher wages than any tube works in the country. Twenty seven men were entombed on the 15th in the Hartford mine at Ashley, Pa. One Of the miners, after hours of labor, was taken out fatally burned, indicating that an explosion had occurred. There is at this writing very little hope of ’ the lives of the other men who were entombed. An insane mother at Chicago, on the 16th, threw her two babies, one aged nine months, the other two and a half years out of a second story window. The oldest was fatally mangled ’and the baby may’ not recover. The insane woman seemed to delight to see them writhing on the ground. Hon. John G. Carlisle was nominated for United Senator by the Democrats of the Kentucky Legislature on the evening of the 16th. The nomination creates great enthusiasm. His greatest opponents before the caucus were Ludsey.and Gov. McCraicy. Nine ballots were had to decide the contest. The American Book Company, a consolidation of the largest school-book publishing firms in this country, has opened its offices at New York. The firm has bought the school book interests of Ivison Blakeman & Co., D. Appleton & Co., and Van Antwery, Bragg & Co. It has offices in Cincinnati and Chicago.

About SIOO,OOO worth of military stores belonging to the United States Government >vere burned Saturday night at Willett’s Points, L. I. The fire broke out late at night in the storage house of the military post, and Colonel King, who is in command there, believes it was the work of an incendiary. The building burned was located on the outskirts of the post The firm of Doran, Wright & Co., of 10 Wall street, New York, announced on the 15th.its inability to meet its obligations. The firm has been in trouble since the latter part of April. At the time all obligations were met by notes for thirty, sixty and ninety days, with the privilege of covering half of all margins with the thirty days paper. All profits were to bo paid in cash. Liabilities are $300,000. John W. Sama, editor of the Warren News, announces that by reason of the trouble existing between the merchants and the farmers of that neighborhood, his paper will be discontinued, and he will relocate in Niles, Mich. Mr. Surran established the News twelve years ago and was succeeding fairly well until the farmers, through the Alliance, began boy-J cotting Warren because the merchant would not bid for their trade. Preparations have been made to attempt to secure the release from thepenitehtiary of the convicted Anarchists, Flelden, Schwab and Neebe, by a method nst heretofore hinted at in the case. In a ajjott time an application will be made in the United States Court that the prisoners are dbtained with undue process of law.

No less an authority than General Benj. F. Butler says that the effort will almost beyond doubt be successful, the opinion being based on the expressions of the United States Supreme Court in the proceedings heretofore brought before that body. “Ben” Butler is a regular associate counsellor in the case. . James Maguire, a rich resident of Lima, 0., was cleverly buncoed out of $5,000 by two well dressed strangers on the 16th. One pretended to be a bank cashier and the other to be drunk. The drunken man showed Maguire $20,000 in bills and Maguire and the alleged cashier tried to coax him to put it in bank. The man consented providing the cashier and Maguire would each put in $5,000. To humor him Maguire and the other stranger consented. The. ffioney was put in a tin box and Maguire took it to the bank to deposit it. The tin box, of course, was empty, and the two strangers cleared out with the other tin box and the cash.

A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kan., says: Judge Crozier, of the First Judicial District of Kansas, has rendered a decision declaring part of the State prohibitory law unconstitutional. The decision was rendered in a case where -the Assistant Attorney General for that county summoned Street Commissioner Ryan and others before him to give information under oath as to violations of the prohibitory law. Ryan and the others refused to give any information, and the Assistant Attorney General had them committed to jail for contempt. Habeas corpus proceedsecure their release were begun before Judge Crozier, who handed down a lengthy decision ordering their discharge from custody. In the decision the Judge pronounces unconstitutional the provision of the law conferring power upon the Attorney General and his assistants to summon persons before them to testify as to violations of law so that they can issue an indictment against the persons so informed on, as it is an attempt to confer judicial power upon a prosecuting officer. The decision gives great comfort to liquor men, and resubmissionists here who are preparing to make a determined fight this fall for the repeal of the prohibitory law.

FOREIGN. It is said Minister to Spain Palmer will resign his post at once. ! The city of Tomsk, in western Siberia, has been almost completely destroyed by flood and fire. Many lives have been lost. Emperor William has positively refused to give his sanction to the re election of HerrFocrkenbeck as Mayor of Berlin. A shocking accident occurred Saturday on the river Oder, near Ratibor, Silesia. A ferry-boat, loaded with passengers, was crossing the river, when it suddenly capsized and thirty-six of tne people were drowned before assistance could reach them. The passengers were all children. Elaborate preparations are being made for the Queen’s birthday, which, although actually occuring on May 24, will be observed this year on Wednesday, May 21. The infirmities and vagaries of her Majesty have combined to place her birthday in the list of movable fetes, and the annual celebration of 4ho event requires special appointment in order to secure spontaneity in its celebration. It is learned upon the very best authority that a marriage engagement has been entered into between Henry M. Stanley and Miss Dorothy Tenant, a young English lady of artistic tendencies, and greatly admired for her beauty. Miss Tennant resides in Richmond Terraoe, Whitehall, and is a daughter of the late Charles Tennant. She is well known as the painter of several well executed pictures which have been exhibited in the Academy and other galleries. The marriage will probably take place in June.

A MAYOR ON THE WAR PATH.

He Locks Up Citizens and Ttrnorizes the ~F’ 1 Good Townspeople. ; ■ News was received on the 13th from Cedar Keys, Fla., that that city has been in a commotion since Saturday. The mayor and marshal are holding high carnaval. The light-house keeper had a pistol discharged at him while he was on the’ street, and was warned to keep off the street. An inoffensive man—an episcopal clergyman—and his wife nave left the city to avoid horse-whipping. The U. S. Collector has been held up by Mayor Cottrell and his ally, the town marshal, and threatened with imprisonment if he stepped outside of his office, and R. M. Dozier, agent of th e Florida Central railroad, was waylaid and an attempt made to shoot him. The telegraph operator was terribly whipped by a negro, a yor Cottrell, holding a loaded pistol to the negro’s head, and forcing him to do the whipping. He grossly insulted ladies of the town, and, in fact, things are so bad that many of the oldest and leading citizens have left the place, including several ministers. It is a perfect reign of terror, and every person met on the street or the last few days is armed.

TOMAHAWKED THE CASTAWAYS.

News was received at San Francisco, Sunday night, by the steamer Zealander, that in a great storm March 4, the schooner Eliza Nary was driven on the reefs at Mallicoloin, the New Hebrides. It was impossible to see anything in the blinding rain till just before the ship struck. There were on board at the time a crew of eighteen men, two passengers, forty-four recruits and fifteen returning laborers, making a total of seventy-nine. The first boat which was lowered was manned by four white men and several of the black crew. The boat was dashed to pieces while going on shore, and the four white men were drowned. Those who remained on the ship were saved. Several of the recruits swam for the shore and were either drowned or killed after landing. One boy had to fight his way from the shore to the Mission Station, distant ten miles. He,with twenty of his companions, went with somß natives to a village near the coast. They were given food, but, while eating, the savages set upon them and began tomahawking the castaways. The boy ran and escaped. In all, four white men and forty-seven blacks were lost

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

’Cyclin 1 therage at Ft. Wayne. Ft. Wayne is proud of her shade tree's. The Jeffersonville Car Works built 126 cars last week. Wabash College will erect a $30,000 library building. i Laporte still pastures cows and geese on the public streets. Bicycle nding is very popular with th ladies of Kendallville. Terre Haute appears to be enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Fontanet claims to have the champion football team of Indiana. A barn with seven houses was burned near Greensburg on the 13th. Laporte County Commissioners offer bounties for woodchuck scalps. Since its organization, St. Joe county has. had but one Democratic Auditor. There is an indiscriminate poisoning of dogs by unknown parties at Columbus. Huntington is alarmed for fear of losing the Chicago & Atlantic Railway shops. Richmond is disconsolate over her failure to receive the State Military Encampment. .--■■-■- - ~

John H. Thompson’s farm residence, near Wabash, burned Thursday. Loss $2,000. The rain has seriously interfered with the work of farmers in Allen county this spring. The Eighth District Republican Congressional Convention will be held at Brazil July 16. Ella Collins, of Cortland, swallowed a pin about two years ago. She is now in a critical condition. A rat plague is troubling Clark county people. At North Vernon white rats infest the depot building. Mrs. Stuckman, of Elkhart county, on Saturday last completed teaching her seventy-fourth term of school. One thousand dollars has been forwarded by the National Brotherhood to aid the striking carpenters of Ft. Wayne. John A. Gray, of Columbus, has been arrested for illegal voting at the recent city election. Beecher Flora is also charged with similar offense. The Indianapolis Music Festival closed on the night of the 16th It was a series of magnificent performances, and was a financial success as well. The out-going City Council of Tipton passed an ordinance increasing the saloon tax to $250 per annum, and the first work of the new Council was to repeal this ordinance. David Munson, aged nineteen, of Shelbyville, was killed by lightning on the 12th, while riding on a load of hay, and the hay was burned. One horse was also killed by the same stroke. Professor Boone, of the Indiana University, is credited with the assertion that of the 6,500 theological students in the United States, less than one fourth are college graduates. An unknown assassin Monday fired two shots at Father E. Andran, of St. Augustine Catholic Church at Jeffersonville, but he escaped injury. The venerable priest is not known to have an enemy. While Etta Wyant, aged fourteen, of Forest, was fooling with a revolver, the weapon was discharged, and the bullet struck her sister Mary over the eye, causing a wound which may terminate fatally. Two hundred and sixty ladies and gentlemen of Wabash have joined in a petition asking the press to refrain from publishing divorce proceedings, that the disgusting details may not come to the knowledge of children. The Supreme court decided on the 15th that John Worrelly appointed by the Governor is the State Statistician. The case was brought by Wm. A. Peele, Jr., who claimed the office by virtue of a forme r appointment. Evansville has twelve large furniture factories, but the local papers complain that the County Commissioners go junketing about the country to find how to furnish the Court House, instead of patronizing the home market. James Gerald, of New Albany, has gone insane, grieving over the murder of his sister, Mrs. Elian Wheelan, by Henry Ritter, her brother-in-law, which tragedy Was swiftly followed by the mysterious death of Mrs. Ritter. Mrs, Edward Bierhaus, Jr., of Vincennes, claims to be one of the heirs to an estate in Germany valued at a fabulous amount. Mrs. William Hodgen, Mrs. Nancy Hornbrook and Mrs. Peroy Boyd, of Knox county, also make similar claims. During a heavy thunderstorm at Hartford City an aerolite fell making a large hole where it entered the ground. The stone-metal object was dug out, and found to weigh four pounds ten ounces, and measured fourteen inches in circumference. There are 9,927 school children in New Albany and Floyd county, of which 250 are colored. It is asserted that but two children in the entire number can not read and write, and Floyd therefore put up the claim of being the most intelligent county in the State. Sunday night Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, of Seymour, aged forty-seven, who has been separated from her husband for ten weeks after a futile attempt at reconciliation,and while despondent over her troubles, took a large quantity of “Rough on Rats"” from the effects of which she died. While Lafayette Barnes, near Minshall, accompanied by his family, was driving through the woods near his home, the wind at the time blowing very strongly, a tree fell upon the vehicle In which they were riding, killing two of his children outright, and seriously Injuring a third child ana Mr. Barnes.James Monroe, postmaster at Zlpp’s Station, was tried this week for criminally assaulting an orphan girl, aged thirteen, and was acquitted. The child made charges several months ago, and Monroe agreed to give $1,200 to keep down the scandal, but after paying SSOO he refused to submit to further extortion, and the prosecution followed. A farmer named Tullis, living four miles west of Rockport, has in his possession a ewe that is twenty-two years old, and in that time has given birth to thirty-eight lambs, all bucks, and coming in. pairs. These lambs he has sold at price* ranging from $5 to $9 each, and still ha* the ewe,

which is apparently in as good condition ar she was ten years ago. Charles Miller, aged eighteen, and his mother, aged sixty-eight, reached Marion Wednesaay, the boy pulling a buggy filled with remnants left after the burning oi their home at Terre Haute, which left them penniless. They are trying to reach relatives in Fort Wayne, and have walked over one hundred miles. They started tc drive but their horse died before going thirty miles. On the night of the 12th a party of masked men went to the house of James Atwood, in Luce township, Spencer county, with the intention of “White-capping” him. Atwood heard of the arrangement, and when they tried to force an entrance to his home he opened fire with a shotgun, most of the load taking effect in the body of William Miller, a neighboring farmer. Two of the others also received a few shots, but escaped. Elder Ludwig, pastor of the Christian church at White water, Davies county, was observed to kiss one of the lady members of his congregation good-bye, in the presence of her husband and on the public street, and the gossiping was severe. On the following Sunday he discussed the subject of kissingin his pulpit, and explained that the kiss given the lady was one of friendship, a sort of holy kiss, and that in all his life he had kissed but five women. After the close of his sermon he called fdr a rising vote of his congregation on the sinfulness of his kissing, and the audience arose en masse and voted him innocent of sinful osculation.

The trio-State Millers’ Association of Fort Wayne, closed proceedings Wednesday night with a banquet. Resolutions were passed denouncing the injustice of the restriction which had been placed on jute manufacturers; favoring the passage of the Butterworth bill; recommending treaties with South American countries, reciprocal or otherwise, which will open, markets for the products of ftie United States; favoring the increased use of the telegraph in connection with the postal system, and commending the proposition of the Postmaster General looking to govermental operations of the lines. “Dealings in futures,” as practiced by “Old Hutch,” of Chicago, and other grain manipulators, was strongly condemned. Patents were granted Indianians, Tues ■ day, as A B Albert, Indianapolis, folding chair; Louis Bell, Lafayette, lightning arrester and system of electrical distribution : C F Blandon, C A Ross and J J Lumm, 1.1 ichigan City, combined cantor socket and corner brace;' J W Bridge, Young America, plow attachment.; Samuel Buskin, Anderson, straw stacker; E M Colles, R C Kitchell and D C Applegate Princeton, washing machine; E O Hopkins, Maxwell, bee hive; J R Lamb, Goodview, post hole boring machine; L Logan, Plymouth, washing machine; J B McKeely, Bro vn’s Valley, wire stretcher; W W Mullen and F M Mullen, Bunker Hill, cultivator; Sigourney Wales, Terre Haute, safety package; Lewis Wallace, Crawfordsville, combined joint bar and railway tie, railway cross tie and metal pad for railway ties; A Wilke, Richmond, china firing kiln. Thefight over the office of State Statistician took a new turn Friday afternoon. Mr. J. B. Connor, of the Indiana Farmer now proposes, it is understood, to step in and make a legal fight for possession of the office. Mr. Connor was State Statistician when the act was passed making the office a legislative one six years ago. At that time Mr. Connor urged Governor Porter to veto the act legislating him (Connor) out of office on the ground of unconstitutionality. The Governor said the question was a doubtful one, and if he should veto it, the Legislature would pass it over his veto. Furthermore, Mr. Connor protested when he was turned out of office and gave it over to Peele, on the ground that the Legislature had no such power; MrConnor not only entered a protest, but he served a month and a half after Mr. Peele was given 4he office. The suit to be filed by Mr. Connor will bring the whole case for trial on its merits. The suit will be for possession of the office and its emoluments since 1884. A prophetess dwells in that part of Harrison county known as “Blunk Knob,” and she is called Mother Bowers. She is a large, fleshy woman, aged about seventy, and the mother of a daughter who tips the beam at 340. Her husband and son constitute the remainder of the family, both of slight build. Mrs. Bowers’s peculiar ability to read the stars and prophecy happenings has wop her a great renown in that region, and even hundreds of people from a distance have visited her to secure information and counsel on personal affairs. She not only predicts affairs of sentimental and financial character, but she is a political soothsayer of no small dimensions. She foretold the election of Tilden and Hendricks, but claimed they would not be inaugurated. When Governor Gray ran for office the first time she predicted his defeat, but prophesied he would be successful when nominated the second time. She keeps a portrait of Gray hanging in her best room, and she boasts that she has been honored by a visit from him, and that she furnished him with valuable political pointers when he was on the eve of a critical canvass. Her most important prediction of late is to the effect that a war of races is impending, that many whites will join the negro demonstration, and that eventually the blacks will be colonized in Mexico, or some other southern country. During the war she made many enemies by her violent denunciation of the Union cause, and there was once a threat to mob her, but she frightened away her assailants by the vehemence of her maledictions. Mr. Powderly has written an appeal to the Knights of Labor for money to support the carpenters belonging to that order in Chicago, who are doing nothing forthemselves because on a strike. In his appeal the writer, after reoitlng that the strike demands recognition of the order, and refusal to employ any not members, adds: “The demands include the formal recognition and strict enforcement of the eight hour day, but the truth is that except insulated cases the Chicago carpenters have only been working eight hours per day, and in the few oases where they worked longer it was, as a rule, of their own accord, so that the eight-hour question had little influence in themiatter.”

MINE DISASTER.

A Terrible Calamity at Wilkesbarre, Pa.— The Work of Rescue—Many Lives Lost. Twenty-seven men were entombed on the 15th, No. 6 colliery, at Wilkesbarre Pa. Rescuing parties were at once organs ized and an opening broken through into a man-way along the bed of a mountain stream, where the chambers in that part of the mine came within a few feet of the surface. All day long these men toiled like Titans at the hard and stubborn rock, while the weeping wives and little ones of the doomed victims stood around the opening and rent the air with their cries and lamentations. Gang after gang relieved one another, until at 5 o’clock the news was passed that they had succeeded in breaking through the chambers beneath the cave. The men toiled on in silence until 6:30, when there was a commotion at the mouth of the dark opening and the foreman crawled out on his hands and knees and announced they had found one of the victims. He was lying at the bottom of a fifty-foot plane, and in order to rescue him it became necessary to lower a miner down with a rope. This was done and the charred and blackened form of Anthony Froyne, the first of the victims, was hoisted to the surface. He was still apve, but his injuries are considered fatal. Two more bodies were taken out at nine o’clock. Exploring parties bS the 16th penetrated the mine. They found nineteen deadgix men are still missing, and it is more than probable that they, too, are now all dead. The scene at the mine as the nineteen dead and charred bodies were brought out was heartrending in the extreme. Men, women and children shrieking and groaning, fell upon their knees, lifted their hands and their eyes toward heaven and prayed for the dead. Up to the night of the 16th, twenty-one bodies, all charred and mangled, were taken from the mine. Six men are yet in the fatal chamber. All operations at the mine have been abandoned.

DEATH OF JUDGE DRUMMOND.

Ex-Judge Thomas Drummond died at Wheaton, 111., on the 16th inst. He was born in Maine in 1809. In 1850 President Taylor appointed him District Judge for tbeDistrict of Illinois. The great work of Judge Drummond,which has impressed itself upon the judicial history of the country, was done after he went upon the circuit bench. The panic of 1873 swept over the West like a simoon and wrecked railroads in common with every other expanded interest that had sprung into life under the inflation which followed thejwar. By the middle of 1876 nearly 16,000 miles of railroads, which were in whole or mainly in his circuit, had passed into the hands of receivers appointed by Judge Drummohd, and this vast interest represented over $300,000,000in bonds and nearly twice that amount in stocks. Every one of these receivers made their detailed reports of their financial and operating actions directly to Judge Drummond, and upon every act of theirs he had to give his approval. In this way ho gave more attention to the actual details of their operation than Mr. Vanderbilt or Mr. Gould ever did, and yet he controlled as muny miles of road as did both of the great railroad kings, with a large slice from Tom ITcott’s roads. These roads were wrecked 'when the court tsok them, and the almost superhuman amount of labor necessary to s ave the property and make it of any vaiue to the creditors had to be done by one man. His policy was so wise that it saved every one of them. Judge Drummond resigned in 1884. I____L '-

LUTHERA IS IN POLITICS.

' Will Endeavor to Send Men to the Illinois J Legislature to Change the Education Law. The first move in Illinois in the Lutheran , church plan to go into politics for the {purpose of attacking the compulsory odu 'cation law was made on the 13th, when ex* County Commissioner Senne announced himself as a candidate for the State Senate. At the recent meeting of the Lutheran Synod, at Springfield, it whs determined to put up candidates for the Legislature in certain districts where the Lutheran chprch is the strongest, pledged to vote-for a repeal or modification of the law. The particular clause aimed at ia i the one requiring that all the common ! branches be taught in the English language i and this is the one which the church des sires to have stricken out. Mr. Senne said that the Lutherans would try to , nominate and elect members of the Legis* lature in a number of northern districts, i hoping to elect enough members pledged to a modification of the compulsory education law to control the balance of power in the Legislature and force their point. The Lutherans are almost all Republicans but in this they expect the aid of the Gorman Catholics, who are largely Democrats, and between the two forces it is thought half a cozen districts can be carried.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The Sqpate on the 13th continued debate on the silver bill. The House substitute to a pension bill was noa-concurred in. The House debated the tariff bill. Mr. Butterworth, Republican, made an exs tended speech in opposition to tbe bill, the Democrats giving him their time. The Senate on the 15th debated the silver bill. , The House on the 15th agreed, after a vigorous protest from the Democrats, to close tbe debate on the tariff at once and to vote on the passage of the b.ll on tbe 21st. The Senate on. the 16th continued th debate on the silver bill. The matter of public debt redemption funds came up under the discussion, and Plumb and Sherman took issues on the former proposition that an amount less than 910,000,000 be kept in the. treasury for the redemption of treasury notes. It was stated that the real surplus now stored in tht treasury was $35,000,000. The House considered ths tariff bill.