Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — Page 2

The gkpubliran. Gio. E. Marsbalu Publisher. RENSSELAER. • INDIAN!

It f« reported that the marrlaje enjngenfent of Miss Winnie Davis, ’‘the Daughter of the to Mr. Alfred Watkinson, of Syracuse, has been broken. There, are 1.300 blind in Glasgow, most of whom have lost their sight in adult life. A young spendthrift suggests that they should not have overworked their hyes in looking so hard after the pennies. A CmzEx of Boston who weighed 850 pounds died while abroad, and was cremated. His remains, weighing six ounces, were enclosed in an ■envelope and mailed to his family. This is an item for egotists. Col. Clahksu.n is reported as having prophesied that Hobart T. Lincoln will be the next Republican candidate for President. The probabilities are, however, that Robert T. Lincoln will not be the next Republican Candidate for President. Senator Evaris announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the Lnit6d States Senate from New York. It is now remarked with con. siderable truth that Mr. Evarts is not the success as a Senator os was anticipated he would be when elected. General John H. Rice, of Ft. Scott, Kan., and his son are opposing candidates for the Legislature. The boy promises to show the old man bis heels, whila the General indulgently ■ays: “The boy is sincere, no doubt, and wants to be elected the worst kind. He is young yet, and doesn’t know near so much as his dad.” George Gilbert., a Boardman (O.) miser died a few days ago, leaving a fortune of $150,000. It used to bo his boast that his actual living expenses were not more than 8 cants per day. Be probably thought a boast was belter than a, roast, realizing that he would get all the “roast”, he required from the newspapers after his death. There has been some ba.l guessing, it seems, with regard to the total population of the country; or perhaps it would be more correct to say that thire was a good deal of bad enumeratipg.At any rate, the final showing is not likely to exceed 63,500,0)0, and we ■hall have to moderate our boasting accordingly until the end of the century. , Mr. Blaine’s face is heavily seamed and he has of laic allowed his beard to grow in rather a bushy fashion. It is not so trim and as in earlier days, and there' is a slight stoop in the statesman’s shoulders. His eyes are full of,expression and life, however, and they belie the somewhat aged look which has of late come over him. It is noted by men who know him well that the Secretary has also of late years lost something of the directness and briskness of speech which once characterized him. He is not only very slow and deliberate in diction, but he has adopted a manner which might be described in a general way of being indicative of gentle thoughtfulness. Prof. W. D. Marks’ prophecy, which has been going the round of the papers, that within ten years the journey from New York to Philadelphia will be made in thirty-six minutes on a train going at the rate of 150 miles an hour, is by no means an extravagant one. In point of fact the length of time given for the accomplishment of this distinct progress in modern rapid transit gives a very wide and safe margin. A car can be seen to-day propelled over a track at a speed of 120 miles an hour, and when the important problem of dealing with the excessive resistance of the atmosphere at such high speeds, which is rio& engaging the attentiqa of some of the first electricians es the country is solved, there is every reason to believe that this rsame car will be made to travel at the rate of 180 miles an hour. Electricity is nowadays supposed to be capable of doing everything under the sup, but in the matter of iu appiica. ten to rapid transit It is difficult to exaggerate the possibilities which !’• hi the sear future. Thai It StopseS. A queer old codger in a town it Rhode Island drew his $28.00) out of n local bank he dreamed that the bank was going to bust. A large crowd assembled to guy him and call him a Crank, but he drew it out just the same. Next day the bank went sny-high. and the way the folks stopped laughinq produced an awful silence for ten milsE around. “Poverty Is bo disgrace,” said Jinks “In many cases it is something to b« proud of.” “Yes.” replied Jones. “It’s • oonetant straggle for me to keep my pride down.” *

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A heavy ard destructive storm prevailed along the Atlantic, coast Friday. ; It is proposed to put in a $500,000 beet sugar planl at Sioux CiLy. lowa. ===== Israel Love, aged eighty years, was married for the sixth time'Monday at Beloit, W:s. ' J George Furnivai, who murdered five people in Nebraska, has been captured at Ellisville, Miss. The Ohio legislature passed the bil Friday for a,non-partisan Board of Public Improvements at Cincinnati. , The cog rail way to the summit of Pike’s Peak has been completed, and on Sunday, he first locomotive made the ascont. A mysterious person known as “Jack the hair-cutter,” has cut the hai£-cf ten girls in Detroit at’d Iff scent times recently. Eight of the. crew steamer Annie Young perished in a fire which destroyed the boat off Lexington, Mich, Loss on boat, 830,000. Durham University has conferred the degree of doctor of laws japotr Henry M. Stanley and his friend and companion, Dr. Parke.

The Indians in South Dakota, who are ■waiting for their Indian Messiah's coming ■re killing themselves by their dances and, fasting. : : A fire at leaven worth on the 28d destroyed two blocks of buildings, including twelve business houses. The loss is not less than 8135,000. Wm. N. Nye and his sons Harry and Grant Nye, all prominent business men of . Add, 0., have been arrested for passing twen t y-dollar cou n terf ei tbill s. Two men were killed and many injured in a collision near Birmingham, Ala., on the 22d, and nine injured, one fatally, in a wreck near Kansas City on the same cate. A special dispatch from Milwaukee says that according to a report received there, a consolidation of tire Adams and United States express companies is said to have been agreed upon. r A disastrous fire occurred in the warehcuse at the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, Friday. The Government s loss will probably reach 8100,000. A $300,01.0 fire occurred at East Pepperell. Mass. Robert Lincoln, Minister to England,hawritten a letter discountenancing the use of his father’s name by a mugwump faction of Pennsylvanians, who are organized to defeat the regular Republican ticket. The steamship Peking, which arrived ■t San Francisco, Friday, browght 162 cases of prepared opium, valued at 1133,000, tl o duty on which amounts to SBO COO. It is the largest importation for some time past, It is announced at Pittsburg that no more gas will be supplied for puddling furnaces. The gas companies deny that this move is made because of a scarcity of pas. but because it can be disposed of to better advantage. Seventeen liquor dealers were arrested in Faw Paw county, Mich., under the local option law, which the Supreme Court re centiy decided constitutional. Paw Paw is the only “dry” county in the State, and the result of these cases will be watched with much interest. Tuesday every window-glass factory in Findlay, 0., went into the new trust which has been organized to control the produc. tion and sale of window glasv. This trust embraces all the window glass houses in the United States west of Pittsburg, with the single except of one at Celina. O. The Chicago Anarchists will commemorato on November 11 the death of Spies, Fisher, Engle and Parsons, who were hanged on that day three years ago. The program as outlined includes a visit to the anarchists’ graves at Waldheim, where addresses will be made. While playing about a stove on which sat a pan of polling water, two children of Nicholas Brandt, of Dubuque, la., aged respectively two and three and a half years, managed to upset the stove and ths hot water was poured over them. They both died within a few hours. —A-SantoFe train was wrecked near-To-peka, Friday, and a large number of passengers were injured. A collision took place on the C. H. & D. near Oxford, O. Three train men were injured. A train went through a' bridge near .Dubijcjue, la. A boy was killed and four men badTyTgr jured. Il is reported that Mr. J. Black, the newly appointed Consul of the United States at Pesth, while journeying to that city to assume the duties of his office,com mentedpublicly upon Austrian affairs in a manner which has offended the government It is further said that the government has withheld its exequatur from MrBlack, and will perhaps refuse to issue.it at all. A special from Omaha says: The relations between Ex-Senator Charles H Vanwyck and President Burrows,- of the Farmers’ Alliance.are becoming decidedly strained. Vanwyck, who was one of the chief organizers of the Farmers' Alliance movement, prints an open letter in which he denounces Burrows in unmeasured ’terms. He refuses to be read odt of the Alliance, and accuses Burrows of manipu lating the Alliance for his own personal . ends. =_ ... - ■ ....

A special from Kansas City says: When the first reports were sent out that rich leads of gold-bearing quartz had been found in the Arbuckle Mountains in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, the stories were thought to have 1 been exaggerated, I>ut now the news comes that several car-loads of rich quartz have been taken from the minds. The company recently chartered tooperate the mines will meet at Tishomingo, the capital bt the Chickasaw Nation, next Saturday, and take steps to put a large amount of stock on the market. Sena-or Tabor, of Colorado, who has had specimens of the quartz, pronounces it the richest he ever saw. Inspector General Dumont, in his an*, nual report of the Steamboat Inspecting Service of the United States, presents some interesting figures for the fiscal year during which there were thirty-four ae cidents, resulting in the loss of 245 lives. Five hundred million passengers were carried by steam vessels during ths year, and General Dumont asserts that no method of travel present* so low a percentage of casualties. President Palmer, es the National World’s Columbian Commission, has received a letter from Secretary Wind rm in regard to the expenses of the commission

The Secretary first state* that of the 81.-. 50O,(0J appropriated, $400,000 must be used in the construction of a govern merit builaing, leaving $1,100,v00 Tor other expenses. Foz the fiscal year ending June 30. 1891. ,-there is appropriated jointly 8200,000 for the expenses of the commission and the use Of the government board of control. ■ The government board has estimated that ' it will need $50,000. leaving $150,000 for the ; jseTfiiß comm is »i on.' The Becr e tary I then shows that in salaries foroffleers and other expenses the. commission has disposed of; KO,OOO of this 8150. GOO, and that the expenses of meetings of the executive committee now in session and of the meeting of the commission to be held on Novi | 15 will bring the total up to SIIO,OOO, leaving only $50,000 to run the cemmisaion on from that date till June 30,1891. The Tom Thumb Combination reached j Louisville on Monday, and thesame afternoon t wbila William J. Maxwell, the ’ manager, Was walking along Jefferson street, be met Miss Ida May Pike, a woman of soiled reputation, and. within an hour they had plighted their troth. The next I morning they crossed the river to Jeffer. sonville, and were united in marriage by I Elder J, S. Ti bbett.s.--- I The weddlßgiwas kept secret until Tuesday night, when it I was frankly avowed by Mr. Maxwell, and was afterward approved by Mrs. General Tom Thumb, as she expresses it 1 , because it may be the means of saving a life from ruin. Mr. Maxwell has been maniager of this company for several years, and is aged about forty. Previous to this mar riage he was a widower .

FOREIGN.

“Jack the Ripper” has committed another dastardly murder ; of a woman in . London. At Pesth, on the 20th, in a duel fought with sabers, Lieutenant Lazar, one of the combatants, had one of his arms severed ■ from his body. ( Ari accoun tof a fatal duel comes from Cronstadt. Count Marenzi, one of the duelists in this affair, received a shot wound from which he is dying. | The Prince of Wales i» making himself ■ very-popular in Vienna among both the titled and the poorer classes. Though indefatigable in performing social duties, he has found time to visit nearly all the charI itable institutions and make liberal coatri buttons to their funds. The Indians about the Goat river district in British Columbia are threatening to ex terminate the whites who have gone into that country', unless they are compensated for the minerals taken from that district. The latest advices state that the Indians have gone on the war-path. | The Austrian government has notified . the Prince of Montenegro that under the I Berlin treaty he has no right to maintain a fleet, Austria being intrusted with, the defense of the Montenegrin coast. The notice has relation to the cruiser which the Czar of Russia has presented as a gift to Prince Nicholas.

GREAT FIRE AT MOBILE, ALA.

Twenty Squa res of Buildings Burned, En tailiug a Loss of Abuut 8700,000, One of the most disastrous conflagrations ever witnessed in Mobile, Ala., began on Sunday about 2:30 o’clock, and. owing to the strong northwest wind prevailing, was not checked until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and only then after a favorable changain the wind. The scene of the i fire was in the extreme northern eqd of thg city, and irdudes the destruction of between seven and eight thousand bales of cotton, eight warehouses, three cotton compresses, the large cotton seed oil mills, the big ice factory, the Mobile fertilizer factory, two wood and coal yards,; three of i the river steamboats and a box factoryThere was no loss of life, although nrapy of the firemen were overcome w&b-~hent and, smoke, .ami many narrow escapes from falling walls occurred. The Joss is one of the most serious ever known thercThe paid fire depart ment fought manfwHy aud were ass : sted by many old volunteer firemen in trie face of smoke and flame Ten or more streams were kept going, fed from the Bienville water-works. At six o’clock at night the fire was well under control and no fears were entertained for its continuance. More than twenty squares were burned, bounded by. Beauregard, Magnolia and St. Louis streets and the river. The loss is now estimated at $700,000, with about $400,000 insurance. The tracks of all rail roads centering here have been obstructed by the debris in the burned district, ami the trains are delayed.

PURE FOOD BILL FAVORED.

n inois Farmers Want the r.x’.dook Mea*ure Passed—Condemn the Conger Bill. The following resolutions wero adopted by the State Association of the F. M. B of Illinois, by a very larga_jote, at Spring field, Wednesday; “Whereas, Tnere has been •introduced in the Senate of the United States a bill known as the Paddock pure soc-d bill, which bill was referred.tn the agricultural committee of the Senate, and reported favorably Horn chairman of said committee; nnd, ■ ‘‘Whereas, Under the procsion of said bill all drugs and feed products are required to be properly branded when offeree for sale, and all adulteraticns prohibi t under heavy penalties, thus preventim. fraud and enhancing the value of all farm products: therefore b& it '•Resolved, That we favor the passage of the said Paddock bill, but oppose any measp ure of taxation such as the Conger compound lard bill, which is class legislation, taking the industry for the benefit of anotb»r.’’ “Resolved, That a memorial to Congresbe prepared setting forth our ifriews, and that as delegates we affix our.signatures ti the same. ” A petition favoring tho Paddock bill anr condemning the Censer lard bill as ameas ure of fraud for the benefit of the Big Fou packers and other monopolists was signed e a large number of the delegate*. 'I

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Muncie is said to bare a man who relishes ttais.and he is no Chinaman either. Joseph Howell, of Scottsburg, who shot Frank Richey and fled the State, has been captured in Chicago. I “Father” Beatop, of Huntington, a very spry old gentleman, claims to be one-hun-dred and-nine years old. • - James Grantham, in leveling a sand ; hill on hjs farm in Adams county, found several Indian skeletons, a lot of pottery and several implements of war. Frank Claypool, who has been elected State Secretary of the F. M. B. A . is a farmer of Delaware county and editor Of the Farmers’ Record; A peculiar disease has broken out among the swine of Marion township, St. Joseph ' county. No one has yet been able to tell its nature. Ope farmer has lost five good hogs. j While Joel Hollingsworth and Charles Rice were hunting quail on the Indiana border near Dana, Rice accidentally shot Hollingsworth in the face, destroying both eyes. The flouring mill owned by J. R. Phillips and W. A. Oliphant, at Union, hear Petersburg, was destroyed by fire this week, causing SIO,OOO loss, with $6,500 insurance. Joseph Van Buskirk, employed in the rod mills at Anderson, while standing at his-reel,-was struck by a red hot rod, which passed entirely through his thigh, crippling him for life. South Bend manufacturing Industries had thirty five representatives at the St. Louis Fair, and there was not a city in the country better represented than this Indi ana home of industry. Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Gister, of Peru,. Wednesday attended the burial of their child, who d.ed of diphtheria, and upon returning home they found a second one had also died of the same disease. James Varinata, an employe of the Lesh Manufacturing Company, of Warsaw, fell against a band-saw Friday afternoon and was frightfully cut about the face and head, and his right arm was almost severed from his body. , A couple were married at the Alabama State Fajr Friday at Birmingham in the presence of 10,000 people, and then took a a bridal trip in a monster balloon. The State Fair people gave the couple $250 and they also received many presents. Cyrenus Johnson, of Tippecanoe, accompanied Willie Tinney, his grandson, on a hunting expedition, anc| in his enthusiastic efforts to shoot a rabbit the youngster broughtdown his grandfather by a load of shot which took effect in his legs. At Cambridge City, Ind., on the 21st, Nelson, the Maine phenomenon, knocked a half second off his mile mark made at Terre Haute, and set the world’s stallion record at2:10%, where neither Axtell nor Stamboul Is likely to touch it for a year, at least. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre sented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public importance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises. The Muncie Herald predicts (if the gas holds out) that within twenty-five years Muncie, Marion, Kokomo, Anderson, Hartford City. Elwood, Alexandria and all the smaller villages will be one continuous city, made so by manufacturing Establish' meats which will come into the gas belt. The Peru Natural-gas Company is now the possessor of a wonder ful gusher, tyhich Thursday night was abandoned as worthless. During the night gas burst forth with tremendous power and in such quantities that all efforts to chain it down have proven futile. The noise is heard miles away. After long neglecting her coal interests Knox county has at last been aroused, arid will soon be one of the best producing coa counties in the State. Vincennes already has one good mine in operation, with another shaft soon to follow. Every town in the county now has a coal shaft, and the coal is of the finest quality. E. M Stone, a prominent and influential farmer living four miles northwest of Connersville, was attacked by a mad bull, near his residence and badly bruised and gored by the .nfuriated animal. The brute would undoubtedly have killed him on the spot had not his wife and daughter had ccurage enough to drive him off. Omei Thompson, a “life timer” in the Prison South, is dying of consumption. Some years ago he joined Jack White in killing Jacob Johnson, near Salem, and twelve months ago he headed a daring break from prison, and would have gotten off entirely; but an inquisitive dog smelled out his hiding place.

In tne Circuit Court of Bartholomew county Judge Keys rendered a decision setting aside the will of Mrs. Bolton, which involved the title tosoo acresof real estate, worth $40,0U). It Was the intention of Mrs. Bolton to place the title to the land in her two grand-daughters, but the wist was so poorly worded that it would not stand. The F. M. B. A. Assembly of Vanderburg county has adopted resolutions calling for the entire protection of quails because of their value in destroying chintz bugs and other destructive insects, and demanding that the Legislature forbid killing of them at any season of the year, and also make it a misdemeanor for any man to shoot or carry a gun on the Sabbath day. J. H. Bass, of Ft. Wayne, has stocked his private park with buffalo, deer and other animals, which are suffered to run atiarge. Ou tbe&d, while William Hochsietter, one of the laborers, was crossing the park, he was attacked by one of the bucksand tossed into the air. Other workmen ran to his relief and he was finally! rescued, but not until he was badly injured. “ 1 •■ Patents were issued to Indlanainventors on the 21st as follows: A. A- Anderson, Indianapolis, pocket for fare conveyors; H. C. Beardsley, Michigan City, latch; W H. Conner, Jndiapapolis, mail pouch; C W. Cotton, Indianapolis, spoke facing m* chine; T. Dugsdale, South Bend; drff 1 equalizer; J. H. Forest. Marion, type..writing machine; R. G. Guptill, Pendleton, glass pipe casting machine: O. H. Haaseiman, ludianapdia, election booth;

E. D. Hostler, Gosrien, feed roller mechs anism: J. Hutchins. Kendallville, wire tightener; W. S. Magers and F. P. Parker Goshen, split pulleys; M. Manner, Lebanon, check punch; G. W seat: G. Phi lion, ■’•awjtlts. pulley; A. H. Hasse, Evansville, gate for drawbridges; G. W. Schaefer and F. Mehnert, Goshen, seed distributing disk; F.Scholes, Huntington, grading machine. William Bright eloped with Gerdrude aged fourteen, daughter of Joseph Bricker, of Shedtown, and they were married in Grant bounty, Bright bribing a man to make affidavit on which the license was issued. Returning to Delaware Bright was arrested for abduction, and he has been sent back to Grant county for trial, while the child-wife has brought suit for divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osterman, Stringtown, attempted to drive to Howell’s Station,but while passing along the road where a deep ravine lined each side, thej’ overtook two hunters who were slpwly trudging "along and who disputed their passage. Finally Osterman ’succeeded in passing, whereupon one of the fellows fired Upon the occupants, severely wounding Mrs. Osterinan in the back arid arms. Mr. Osterman escaped unhurt. Friday morning, at 9 o’clock, after the arrival of the south-bound passenger train, on the Indianapolis division of the L. E. & W.,i at Tipton, a terrible fight occurred on the depot platform between conductor John O’Brien and a passenger, who had boarded the train at Kokomo, c alming be hadqiaidhis fair to the brakeman. Revolvers were drawn, and nodoubt some one would have-lost his life had it not been for the timely interference of unexcitable persons. The Evansville Courier offers a reward of $25 to any person injured or killed in any railway accident at any time, provided he has a copy of the Courier in his possession at the time of receivingthe injury; the reward holding good only on trains running out of Evansville. It also agrees to pay $5 per week to any employe in an Evansville manufacturing establishment who is a regular subscriber, and who is disabled while at work, the benefit to coir tinue for five weeks. Mrs. Alvira Wells, of Ft. Wayne, who died two years ago, bequeathed her prop, erty to her sister, who afterward died, and the estate passed to the care of an executrix. Mrs. Julia A. Scott then filed a claim on a note for $3,0J0 as compensation tor having named her daughter in honor of the eldest of the deaq sisters. This note bore the signature of Alvira Wells. The defense alleged it was forged,“but after a sharply contested trial a jury has awarded the claimant $4,765. St. M.ary’s-of-the-Woods was founded by the Catholic sisters, six in number,fifty years ago, and they settled in the woods near Terre Haute and erected a little log cabin. A magnificent educational institute now crowns the original site. Of the founders. Sister Olympiade and Sister Mary Xavier are still living. The original sisterhood of six, now numbers nearly live hundred, and they hava fifty mission schools scattered through Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, with one recently established at Boston, Mass. August Brentane, Democratic Election Commissioner of Vanderburg county, has protested against the name of Colonel J. S. Wright being printed on the election tickets, claiming that of the 16 names signed to the petition, as required by the new law, nearly forty are in the same handwriting and fraudulent. Col. Wright is the F. M. B. A. candidate for Congress in that district, and as he has been indorsed by the Republicans the protest has caused great commotion. The effect will be, it the protest is regarded, to place his name entirely on the Republican ticket. Wednesday last three masked men went to the farm house of Mr. and Mrs. Monte i th, an a ged" co a pie livi ri g near, Orin us, in Whitley county, and compelled them to re veal tire hiding" ptaennf SBOO and other valuables secreted on the place. Before they could secure the prize, however Frank Barlow, the hired man. entered and attacked the robbers with a club, and two were driven off and the tnird was powerless in his grasp until he was disaoled by a bullet which passed throngh his shoulder. The would-be-thieves escaped, and the Monteith family have banked their wealth What is known as the “French Settles ment,” three miles distant from New Albany, has been noted for its wickedness with hoodlums in control and lawlessness rampant. Within the past year, however, there has been a great religious |awakening in that neighborhood, which had it. origin in the evangelistic labors of Harry Mix and Joseph Duvall, young men ol New Albany, and as a result there is a pr; sperous church otganization,a flourishing Sunday school, a handsome housb worship and one of the best public in the county. Last Sunday fifty-five converts were baptized.

ELECTION DON'TS.

Don’t take a ticket from anybody but thq election officer. Don’t mark your ticket except with th stamp. Don’t forget that all marking is to be done with the stamp, and only on tho little squares to the left of each ticket. If you want to vote a straight ticket don’t stamp any place but the square at the head of your ticket. If you want to vote sot ono or more men on the other ticket, stamp opposite the name of that candidate on the ticket. Don’t fail, however, to stamp every name you want to vote for for candidates for Representatives or Superior Judges. , Don’t let holders of sample tickets pother or confuse you. Don’t be afraid to vote a mixed ticket if you want to. It is very easily done. ..When yon go into the booth don’t be in a hurry. Take your time and stamp yotfr ticket as you want it. > Don’t get nei vous or tattled. Don’tfail to go to the polls. Every mat; ought to vote. s Don’t fail to fold your ticket with the clerks’marks outside. If you spoil a ticket don’t destroy”!!, but return it to the poll clerk and get another Don’t fail to return the stamp to the pol clerk. - Don’t have too much politics and tdo little business sense in voting for good, men. ' Livjxgstoh HoWnaxp.

WRECKED IN A TUNNEL.

- Two Cincinnati Southern trains collided, in a tunnel, the most hopeless place thall trainmen met death, near Sloans Valley Station, Ky., Wednesday. The wreck caught tire and six trainmen were either! ‘ killed or burned as follows: John Pimtott, engineer. Detroit. Mich. . Firemen Welsh, Somerset, j Fireman Gould, Ludlow, Ky. John E. Montgomery, brakeman, Albany, N.Y. C. L. Doegen, postal clerk, Cincinnati. ' Edward P. .Ruffner, express messenger. Cincinnati. | The heat from the burning wreckage made it almost impossible .to recover the injured. Here is a story of heroism that has not-' been told. The heroes name express messenger Brenner had forgotten, but he was until recently a sthtion agent of the railroad at Somerset, Ky. Well, this brave man heard the jcries of George Long in the baggage car. Seizing an ax he cut a whole in the side of the car and drew him out from under [a pile of trunks and boxes. In the compart ment of the same 'car the voice of E. P Ruffner, the express messenger of the United States • Express Company, was heard. Our hero, scorched jwith the approaching flames, cut a hole in the s de off the car. Ruffner was walking about there unscathed, but in a death prison. The brave rescuer; ready to sacrifice his own, life in the effort to save another, kept on! cutting away with his axe, his own clothing singed by the Are, the hotair consuming his strength and his blows growing, feebler at every stroke. Ruffner, doomed! in his prison, shouted to him to go away.' “Save yourself while you can,” he said. “I am Ed P. Ruffner, of Cincinnati. Jtfjn h6me is at No. 410 West Fourth street. Gw and tell my family good-bye. Tell them you did ali a man could do to save my life Go, or you will burn up with the rest of us.” The unnamed hero staggered out,, and reaching the open air fell down ex---haustedr^-^'--=-^ : -^=-~= k -——==---=4= Tbo escape of postal clerk J. G. Gayle was wonderfnlr He says: “I had waked Doegan at Burnside and it seemed to me that the crash came immediately afters ward. I was in the front end of the car. I never heard a word or a moan from Doegen. When I found myself on the front platform next to what I supposed, was the tender, I worked myself dowa under the car and crawled in the other 1 direction and kept on, now to the right j now to the left, now up and now down, til I saw light, and then I struggled for dear life and came to where assistance wasi rendered me. My escape is a mystery to myself. Rescuers went into the tunnel? and got brakeman J. E. Montgomery, and brought him to a safe place, laid him against the side of the tunnel while they went back aud got engineer Pat Taylor. They carried Taylor clear out of the tunnel, and then went back for Montgomery, but the flames cut them off and they had to retreat and Leave the poor fello w to a fiery death.”

STANLEY DENOUNCED.

The Commander ot the Fated Column Tells Hi» Story Art. r Death. : o The diaries and letters of Maj. Barttelot, “the murdered commander of Stanley’* rearguard,” were published at London ow the 23d. They contain serious charges against the African explorer. The book was edited by the dead man’s brother/ Walter Barttelot, who in the) preface gays: “It is not likely that this book would hava been written, or one word of its contents ever been oublisbed, had justice been even partially done, or any kindness shown by the leader of the expedition to the officer who was left at Yambuya with his imped! m°r.ts, stores a>d baggage.” . ■ Charges of malignity, ingratitude, misrepresentation. mid! desertion ape then - brought against Sfanley. Besides other le«s important accusations, the issue pres sentedis whether the misfortunes of the rear column were due to the indecision of Maj Barttelot and that of his companions or whether Stanley himseif was ? responsible. In his book, Mr. Stanley finds fault because the rear column did not follow the advance column as directed. Mr. Barttelot asserts that his brother’s diaries and letters, as well as the testim - ny of the surviving officers, show that Stanley made it utterly impossible to ca.ry out his orders, as he took all the strong, able men, and those of good character with him, leaving to the rear Puard the sick feeble and incorrigible. Maj Barttelot. diaries declare that Stanley threatenedlto blast the Major’s reputation with> Lor Wolsely and to ruin bis career in the army. In referring to this incident MrBarttelot gives his brother’s wot s. Afterward Mr. Stanley said that it was in his power te ruin me in the service. I said to him that this was an empty threat, as it would take a great deal more than he could say to do that. He punished me afterward by taking me march to Leopoldville with seventy men who were noted for laziness and incapacity for carrying loads. Warning me that if I lost a single load ikiust stand the consequence. The expose of Stanley’s character, as shown by the diaries and letters, makes spicy reading; Ttia story includes an account of a quarrel between Stanley and Jephson, on which occasion Stanley offered to fight Jephson.

Housekeepers Ought to Know.

That to have good coffee your coffeepot must be bright and clean inside. That ydu can sweep a rag carpet much cleaner sweeping crosswise of the width. •Th it in making up the unbleached muslin allow one inch to the yard for shrinkage. That if you fold yo-ur clothes as you take them from the line they will iron much easier. \ That your copper wash-boiler, if well rubbed with a cloth dipped in coal-oil, wijl be clean and bright. That to keep your bedding pure and wholesome open up your beds to air the first thing in the morning. That to wash smoothing-irons in dish-water, after washing yonr skillets, will make them smooth and prevent rusting.