Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — Page 6

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ly tbb Indians will now turn their attention to hard work they will find life much e wier and more enjoyable. Dr. Hamiltom, of the U. £. Marine hospital service, in his report, warnthe country that it may be visited food by cholera, or other scourges. He believes it would pay thia country to make Havana a healthy seaport Pro* bably he is right. Clean up. A baseball combination has been termed in which all the leagues have become a part. We are pleased to note that 150 of the players will be unprovided for, and may now proceed to toil and spin like others of the lower order of the human family. This is indeed hard times for memhereof Congress, which is not confined to the Senate: Blair in New Hampshire. Ingalls in Kansas and Evarts in New York, all sot aside by the> Legislatures, Indeed, farming soon be known as the only vocation in which a man may be seen he can hold his job. . - The Leavenworth Times says that such suffering from hunger as exists among the Indians results, not from governmental neglect, but from the gluttony and improvidence of the Indians themselves, who, as soon as they obtain their supplies, begin a season of festivity and gorging which ends only when their rations are well nigh exhausted.

Kams as farmers have organized, as a side issue to the Alliance, to protect themeelves against the foreclosing of mortgagee by investors who have loaned them money. As we understand it, it is a mutual affair whereby they may aid each other when in financial straits and are about to lose their farms because unable to pay interest. The object is a good one. A better scheme is sot to give mortgages on a farm, only in an extreme emergency. First day after bank breaks: "We will be able to pay 1.30 on the dollar.’’ First month after bank breaks: "We will surely be able to pay 30 cents on 4he dollar.” Banks withinthemselves are all right, but too often men who eonduct them are dishonest and ought to be highwaymen; or are incompetent and ought to be wood-choppers Banking is a business, nothing more por less, had it requires men of more than ordinary business capacity and opacity to conduct it

Portugal seems to have got the better of England in the agreement between the two countries regarding their conflicting claims oB territory in Africa. Undoubtedly Portugal got more than she had any right to expect, and more than she would have obtained in a dispute with any other European joatioa, ; tiement will stop all the war folk which has recently been heard in the Portugal capital, and the work on the fortifications around London may now be suspended. Senator Cockerell, of Missouri, has turned Farmers’ AHiaooe, and is talking as if he has done nothing all his days but hold plow handles, etc In a recent interview he says: “One idea is that the corporations* and monopolies bear the same relation to .government and society to-day that slavery did some thirty years ago. A new machine had to be built with which to down slavery. This machine was the Republican party. It has accomplished its work. But all parties, If continued in power, becdme corrupt and both the great parties are now, in their different modes of action, fostering and supporting the monopolies. Our purpose is to build a machine that will bring about as gratifying a change as did the Republican party. It is time tor a new party, and its organization is our object'*

All Hope Gone:

Fwek. Kinney: You tee that fellow over there? Three years ago he was writing poetry for a weekly paper. After that he drifted down to Philadelphia and Wrote sporting editorials; and then he waa engaged as humorous editor on a religious weekly, Ginter: What is he doing now? Kinney: Don't you see? He is smoking a cigarette. Why Behring .ie G< od The finest furs come from those an - male that inhabit the coldest climates and the season of the year in which any of them are killed greatly influeooes the qu .lity of the fur, a'summer •kin of some of these animals being comparatively valueless, however excellent it might be in the winter season.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Larrippe has again put in an appearance at Jeffersonville. . John Mills, of Medora, dropped dead while wood. Noblesville business men have subscribed $2,000t0 wards a canning factory. Bartholomew Surver.near Clay City,exSheriff of Clay county, attempted suicide by poisnn. 1 .. ■■ ....* I. F. Force, of New Albany, was fatally injured by falling from aseebndfioorwindow at Rochester, N. Y., while asleep. Mrs.— Ellen Jones, of Joffsrsonyille drove a tramp, at the point of a pistol, to the police station in that city, on the 2»th W.llis Norris, a once notorious gambler and once the wealthiest man in New Albany, died in the Floyd County Poor* house. Terre Haute is wrestling with a newepL demic, which the physicians class as a com** bination of la grippe, tonsolitls and pharx yngitia.

The Michigan City papers look upon Pettit, the convicted wife poisoner, as the most distinguished prisoner ever received tn the prison Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wohlford, of Roanoke, have celebrated their golden wedding, and among the guests were five who attended the ceremony half a century ago. Tvro men of cultivated appearance canvassed Tipton county in the organization of mathematical night schools, charging $1 n advance for eaob pupil. After the field had been well worked they disappeared, leaving a number of unpaid debtsand untaught pupils. Col. John Lee, of Crawfordsville, recalls that Sen a tor-elect Peffer, of Kansas,resi iod near Ladoga for some years prior to removal West in 1857. At that time Peffer was an iron-clad Whig, and was a quiet man, respected by his neighbors, but considered a trifle odd. Charles T. Doxey and others have organised the Alexandria Land and Gas Company and have secured a number of leases, conditioned that gas shall not be piped outside the township in which Alexandria is located. It is intended to locate factories and otherwise boom Alexandria.

Davy Squire, colored, and Elizabeth Tillotson, white, were united in marriage, and to avoid unpleasant interference,they crossed the bridge to the Illinois side, while the colored minister, who would not dismount from his buggy, marri?d tbem offhand. The bridal pair then footed it back to Vincennes, where they were met by a crowd of youngsters and given a hilariuus reception. During the September term of the Floyd Circuit Court, Bud Ashby, colored, was convicted of attempting murder, but when the prisoner was called to be sentenced it was discovered that he bad escaped from' the court-ijpom. On the 27th,a colored man applied for permission to look through the prison south. This led to bis identification as the fugitive prisoner, and he wes detained and the court authorities were notified. Marshal Medlock made a queer arrest on the public square iu Salem. Some animal ran past some ladies as they were going from the opera house home a few nights ago, at about 10 -30 p. m. They screamed, and the marshal, going to their assistance, ran the animal into a recess door in Walker’s millinery store, capturing a large oppossum. How he got so far from hisfavorite haunt* is a mystery no one has solved.

Indiana patents: T. M. Fisher, Mecca Mills, car-coupling; M. Kiier, Indianapolis, wire fustner; Ed. C. Mead, Elkhart, wreneh; T. Nesom, Indianapolis, steam boiler; Al. Ogle, Muncie, washing chine; J. B. Okcy, Indianapolis, combined harrow and sod-cutter; T. H. Perry, Indi*. 1 anapolis, combined paper-cutter and books mark; R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, • fence-post base; C. 8. Tingle, Hortonvilie weather strip; J. J. Wright, Bremen, gate hinge. ’ ’’ There is an old feud between Juli.ua.’ Blount and Silas Favors, of Jefferson ■ county, arising from the fact that both ; were suitors for the same girl, in which ; Blount captured the prize. The other day ‘ Favors rodein frontof Blountsfarm house and demanded permission to cai. upon his old flame, at the same time drawing his revolver. Bioun t answered him with a Wins Chester, and rapid flight of his horse alone prevented a leaden messenger from overtaking Favors. Miss Alice Follick, of Montgomery conn- • ty, charged with stealing chickens from James Beam, stood trial this week at Craw fordsville, and Wednesday evening she was acquitted without prejudice, the verdict of the jury being cheered by the crowd in attendance. The high standing of the accused girl attracted great attention to the case. A dramatic scene followed the close of the argument, Miss Follick’s mothsr fainting in tte court room, while the entire family broke into tears. Wednesday morning, Sheriff Haynes, of De ar bon County, was awakened by apull ?n the door-bell of the jail at Lawrenceburg, and upon responding to the summons found one of the prisoners en the outside, and that he had voluntarily re" turned. Investigation showed that all the prisonershad escaped during the night* Two prisoners, named Levi, soon after also surrendered. and during the day an' other was gathered in. Perry Guffln was the only one not recaptured, and he avoided arrest by fleeing to Kentucky. The Dearborn jail is wretchedly insecure. Vienna is located within two miles of the scene of the Pigeon Roost massacre; the last Indian butchery which occurred iin Indiana. This happened in September 1812. Twelve Shawnee Indians first killed two men, and then they attacked the Pigeon Roost settlement, killing one man,five .woihen and sixteen children; after which all the cabins were burned down. The graves are now unmarked, save by a large sassafras tree. The rifle with which Henry Collins defended himself is now in possession of William C. Collins, a grandson, and it is still in serviceable condition, although over one hundred years old. The Fortville Natural Gas Company has issued an order cutting off all flambeau . jets in store-rooms and dwellings, and also gas for manutacturing purposes; and the causd is the failure of the great Faussett well, which from as original output of

B,ooo,ooocubic feet daily, has dwindled down until it is nearly dry. The company also reports that the other two wells have fallen off one-fourth. While some claim t that the wells are choked, others fear tin i gas is exhausted, although James 8. Merj rill, who owns 1 two wells, reports that hij flow is stronger. 1 ixannmlttees of.the F. M.8.A.-fTwtirrr and Federation of Trades met at Indiauapoils on the 29th and considered ructi matters as they deemed of importance for the present Legislature to enact, In their memorial the farmer’s organization will ask for legislation on the following points: Rate of interest, fees and salaries, re.lu: tion in passenger tares and freight rates, on railroads: taxes on insurance, railways, telegraphs, telephones, gas lines, building Sdbey State, incomes and mortgages; apportionment of school revenues, investigation of the Union Stockyards. The demands of organized labor will be for abolition bf contract labor and the placing of prisons under one board of directors, union label

statute, court of arbitration, to give to towns of over 10,000 population the right t 0 vote on franchises. Representative Brown and Senator Mounts were appointed topresent the matter in. theirresoective branches of the General Assembly. Delaware and Jay county c itizens are losers over 83,000 as the result of a shrewd piece of swindling manipulated by Amos Weaver, who was raised near Dunkirk, to which point he came from the West two weeks ago, ostensibly to visit his parents. He represented that he was en route for Europe to secure a fortune which his pretty young wife had Inherited. In working up bls swindle Weaver introduced a land company supposed te be located in the new State of Washington. He offered a contract calling for 160 acres of land, also to furnish railroad transportation, all for 8501 the purchaser to pay 8200 more for his claim, remain on it ninety days and then resell to the company and receive SBOO Weaver also represented that he could dis pose of but thirty-two contracts in a coun, ty; and by shrewd work he soon found customers, many of them among his own kin dred. Altogether he secured 83,200. He promised to furnish the tickets this week* but on Saturday night, accompanied by his wife, he drove to Hartford City and lef b for parts unknown. Sixty-four indignan holders of his worthless contracts were left in the two counties. At Dunkirk the enthusiasm ran high, the contracts ehanged bands, and some of the original purchasers doubled their money by selling out.

MERELY BOBBED AROUND.

Hitch in the First Test of the Mt. Carmel Fljlng Mach ne. Thursday night, at Chicago, was the time set for the first public test of the much talked of Mt. Carmel air snip. Quite a crowd of newspaper meu and others having special invitations gathered at the Exposition building. When the doors of the main hall wore finally op< ned the curious spectators saw, high above their heads* floating about in an apparently aimless fashion, the strange cigar shaped Grattan uncanny looking object in the dim light of the great room. After considerable bobbing and a hound or two toward the roof the model was hauled (-own aud the exhibition was prematurely over. The inventor, Mr. Pennington, gloomily claimed that at the next trial there would be no “hitch.” He said that the storage battery j. was insufficiently charged, and that the propeller, instead of having a velocity of 240 revolutions a minute bad onlyforty.

The Workinc Jtan’a Coffeo Bone. A large building on East 23d street. New York, has been fitted up as a resort for laboring men, where coffee, is substituted for beer or stronger beverages. There is a large and cheerful reading-room well supplied with newspapers and periodicals, and certain games are allowed. Wholesome foou_ is provided at a Very low faXfC“"The in tention is to counteract in this way the malign influence of saloons, where the working man is robbed alike of hie money and reason. It is upon the wages of the hard working and pooi that the thousands of saloons with which New York is cursed fatten their coffers. They make their places comfortable and attractive and thus allure theii victims, and no better work in the interest of temperance and morality ear be done than to offset these ptbce.s with coffee houses like the one above described. They have been sue essful. we believe, wherever the experiment has been made, and we yet hope t<» set the good example generally followed. Texas Siftings.

THE MARKETS.

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The Senate, on the 27th, discussed the bill to prohibit the use of natural gas for flambeau lights. It was engrossed. Boyd’s bill concerning .highways was also engrossed as was several other bills of more or less Importance. By a strict party vote the resolution refusing ah appropriation furthe Worid’sFair was adopted. The House considered bills from committees, engrossing many and indefinately postponing others.- —™—~—— The Senate on the 25th passed bills as follows: Making the Mine Inspector an ap pointee of the State Geologist; requiring him to pass an examination, to have been a practical miner at least ten years, and fix ing his salary at 81,500 per annum; the bill also provides for an assistant inspector, whose salary shall bq <I,OOO per year; also the bill fixing the terms of township road supervisors at four years, but limiting the time of their paid service to fifteen days each year; the pay, 81.50 per day, is the same as under the old law. and for the use of a team the supervisor is to receive 81 per day; also, the bill to prevent the waste of natural gas in flambeau lights, permitting the useof out of door lights in jumbo or similar burners, compelling their extinction between the hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and 5 o’clock p. m.; to legalize conveyances by attorneys; repealing the law which authorizes officers of insane hospitals to collect the support of patients from their estates; requiring payment of miners every two weeks; concerning legal process in courts; authorizing constables of horse thief detective associations to arrest suspected persons without warrant and hold them until a warrant can be procured. Several bills were introduced. Others read a second time and engrossed. Mt- Byrd introduced a reapportionment bill in the Senate on the 28th. It proposes to give the Democrats 30 majority in the House, 10 in the Senate and 11 of the 13 Congressmen: The apportionment is as follows:

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. First—Gibson, Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vauderburg and Warrick.: Second Crawford. Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox,-Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Pike. 2 bird—Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington. Fourth —Dearbon, Decatur, Franklin, Ohio, llipley, Kush, Shelby, Switzerland and Union. Fifth—Bartholomew, Brown,Hendricks, Johnson, Monroe, Morgan, Owen and Putnaui. Sixth—Delaware, Fayette, Grant, Henry, Randolph uud Wayne. Seventh—Hancock, Madison and Marion. . Eighth—Clay, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo. Ninth—Denton, Boope, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Tippecanoe, Tipton and Warren. " Tenth—Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Jasper, Miami, Newton, Pulaski and White. Eleventh—Adams, Blackford, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, Wabash, Wells and Whitley. 2__; Twelfth—Noble, Steuben, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart and Lagrange. Thirteenth— Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Porter, Starke and St. Joseph. SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. Adams, Blackford and Jay. Alien. Allen and Whitley. Bartholomew ana Johnson. Bartholomew, Jackson and Lawrenoe. Benton, Jasper, Newton aud Warren. Boone, Hamilton and Hendricks. Boone, Marion and Shelby. Brown, Monroe and Morgan. - Carroll ana Cass. Cass and Miami, Clark, Jennings and Scott. Clark, Floyd and Jefferson. Clay and Owen. Clinton and Tipton. Crawford, Harrison and Orange. Daviess and Martin. Dearborn, Ohio aud Switzerland. Decatur and Shelby. Delaware and Randolph. DeKalb and Noble. Dubois and Perry. Elkhart and Marshall, Fayette and Henry. Floyd and Washington. Fountain, Parke and Vermillion. Fountain and Tippecanoe. Franklin. Ripley and Union, Fulton aud Marshall. Gibson and Posey. Grant and Howard. Greene and Sullivan. Knox and Pike. Kosciusko and Wabash. Lagrange and Steuben. Lake and Porter. Laporte. Madison and Tipton. Marion, 3. Pulaski, Starke and White. Montgomery and Putnam. Randolph and Wayne. Spencer and Warrick. St. Joseph. Vanderburg. Vigo. REPRESENTATIVES,

Adams 1, Allen 8, Allen, DeKalb and Steuben 1, Bartholomew 1, Bartholomew. Jackson and Jennings 1, Benton, Cass ana White 1, Blackford, Huntington and Wells 1, Boone 1, Brown and Monroe..l, Brown and Morgan 1, Carroll 1. Cass 1, Clark 1, Clark, Floyd and Washington 1, Clay 1, Clay, Montgomery and Putnam 1. Clinton, Crawford and Perry 1, Crawford, Orange and Perry 1, Daviess 1, Dearborn 1, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland 1, Decatur 1, Delaware 1, Delaware, Randolph ana Wayne 1, Dubois and Martin 1, Dubois, Lawrence and Marlin 1, Elkhart 1, Elkhart, Marshall and Noble 1 F Fayette and Franklin 1, Floyd 1, Fountain 1, Franklin and Union I, Fulton and Miami 1, Gibson 1, Gibson, Posey and Vanderburg 1, Grant 1, Greene 1, Hamilton 1, Hancock 1, Hancock. Madison, and Suelby 1, Harrison 1, Hendricks 1. Henry 1, Howard 1, Huntington 1. Jackson 1, Jasper and Newton 1, Jay 1, Jefferson 1, Johnson 1, Knox 1, Knox and Pinkl, Kosciusko 1, Lagrange 1, Lake 1, Laporte 1, LaPorte and Starke 1, Madison 1, Marion 7, Marsha’l 1, Miami 1, Montgomery 1, Monroe and Owen 1, aNoble I, Parke 1, Porter 1, Posey 1, Pulaski and White 1, Putnam 1, Randolph 1, Ripley 1, Rush 1, Scott and Washington 1. Shelby 1, Spencer 1, St. Joseph 2, Sullivan 1, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo 1, Tippecanoe 1. Tippecanoe and Warren 1, Tipton 1, Vanderburg 2,Vigo2, Wubash 1, Warriok 1, Wayne I, Wells 1, Whitley 1. The House passed bills as follows: Fixingtime of holding court In the tenth circuit; to legalize acts of incorporation of Westport, Committee reports were con aidered. Additional bills passed: Regulating the holding of courts in fifty-second judicial circuit; prescribing six months’ imprisonment or <OO fine for removing mortgaged property from the county; authorizing cities to fill vacancies in the offices of mayor clerk or councilman by appointment; legalising the acts of notaries public whose commissions have expired; authorizing boards of county commissioners, on petition of two-thirds of the trustees of incon>orated towns, to appoint justices of the peace where there are no such officials

within the corporate limits of the towns; ceding to the United States jurisdiction over the lands of the National Cemetery at New Albany; legalizing tfieincorporation of the town of Clifford. The Senate on the 2?th passed the following bills: To legalize the acts of deputy county officers who are minors ; making I’ne penalty for criminal assault two to twenty-one years; raising the age of c-n----sent of girls from twelve to Iqurteefr years; making certified reports of the decisions of ths Supreme Court permissible legal evidence in certain cases. The House also passed bills as follows: Allowing but fifteen days to record mort--gages ; abolishing office of State Inspector of Oils and creating office of State Super visor of Oil Inspection (intended to legislate present incumbent out of office*; enabling cities to license junk dealers: amend ing the act relating to Plainfield Reformatory by providing that boys must be convicted of crime before being sent there. Defining rape and providing penalties, making decisions of the Supreme Court evidence in certain cases, making more specific the provisions of the Barret law for the improvement of streets and alleys proviaingfor the organization of a State Board of Health of five members, four of them to be elected by the Governor, Secretary and Auditor of State, for the relief of Stewart Porter, giving town trustees the same authority in the matter of making street improvements as that possessed by township trustees and road supervisors legalizing the incorporation of Leavenworth.

The Senate on the 30th passed a resolution deploring the death of Secretary Windom. The following bills passed: Defining fifty-second and seventh judicial circuits; legalizing the incorporation of Fisher Station; requiring county clerks to turn over to the treasurer all unclaimed fees; legalizing conveyances mortgages, etc., not properly acknowledged; prohibiting the obstruction of drains. ———22-: The House also adopted a resolution deploring the death of Secretary Windom The report of the committee to investigate the Northern Prison management exonerating Warden Murdock was adopted. Bills were introduced. Adjourned until Monday. LEGSILATIVE NOTES. If the Democratic program is carried out. Dr. Yancy, the State inspector ofioils, will soon be an ex-inspector; He is one of the Governor’s appointees and cannot be removed outright by the Assembly, but they can legislate him out of office, and this is what they propose to do, bypassing a bill giving over the duties of his office to the State Geologist. New apportionment bills were in trod uoed in the Senat-e Wednesday m orn in g. They are arranged to give the De nocrats a majority of ten in the Seriate, and thirty in the House, and eleven out of the thirteen Congressmen. The bills are drawn with the vote of 1888 as a basis, and a number of changes are made in the legislative and congressional districts, counties being taken from some districts and added to others.

WASHINGTON.

The Force bill received an other Set back on the 27th. _ It is now believed that no sliver legislais possible at this session. Gossip is busy appointing a Secretary of the Treasury to succeed the late Mr. Win dom. McKinley, Spooner, Tracy, New, Foster, John J. Knox and Igalls have been suggested. It is announced that Secretary Blaine has successfully negotiated reciprocity treaties with several South American nations and will submit the same to the Senate very soon. The Senate passed the apportionment bill on the 29th by a strict party vote. Attempts v ere made to increase represention in Arkansas, New York and Minne-«ota,-but failed in each,instance. ...... A committee of Boston business men called on the President on the 28th and discussed informally the silver situation aud apposed free coinage. The President, it is understood, was non-committal as to his intention of favoring or opposing any silver legislation during this Congress,and told the delegates it would be eminently improper for him, at this time, to give any expression regarding his views on silver' or his future action.

LEGISLATURES.

In the Kansas Legislature on the 27th Wm. A. Peffer, the Alliance candidate, des seated Senator Ingalls for re-election by a vote of 93 to ,"8. In the Wisconsin Legislature on the 27th, Wm. T. Niles was elected to succeed John C. Spooner as United States Senator by, a strict party vote. The Republican meinbersvoted for Senator Spooner.

JONES COUNTY CALF CASE.

Final Decision tn a Dispute That Has Lasted Twenty Years and Cost 520.000 The lowa Supreme Court has finally a"flrmed the decision of the lower court in the celebrated case of Johnson vs. Miller etal., better known as the “Jones County calf case.” The verdict of the lower court was for the plaintiff in the sum of <I,OOO. The case has been in the courts for about twenty years. It has bankrupted everybody connected with it except the attorneys. The total cost of the case has grown to between 115,000 and <20,000. The calves were worth |ls. Jeffersonville boasts of a most philanthropic crank. His name is Jack Baber, and, though poor, he whitewashed every telegraph, telephone and electric lightpole last year at his own expense. Now he proposes to build board sidewalks where-ev-Vr it is muddy and has already begun the work. _____________ Oa His Last Mrs. Talloan Hydo observes with horror that her new coachman just floated over, has on u pair of overalls. she says, “those overalls don't look very etylish; you’d 1 better take them off.” “Yes, me lady,’’ says Hodge Fotherinjham. “but Ah*vc nowst else annernealh'em, me lady.' They drive on. —Brooklyn Eagle.

DEATH IN THE MINE.

ONE HUNDRED ANO THIRTY LIVES LOST. Frightful Disaster In ths Pennsylvania Coke Regions—Mammoth Shat [Wrecked! —The Deadly After Damp—Particulars of tiie Calamity,

By an explosion of fire damp in the Mammoth shaft of the H. C. Frick coke company at Scottdale, Pa., Tuesday, lit) sturdy miners were ushered into eternity | and a number seriously injured. The explosion occurred in the morning shortly I after 9 o'clock, and it is supposed was the result of the ignition of gas by a miner’s oil lamp- The after damp which followed the fire-damp explosion suffocated nearly every workman. A few men. realizing the awful situation, fell to the ground, thereby preventing the gas from striking them Not a soul is left to tell the.story of the ca lamity. The persons not killed are in such a critical condition that their deaths are momentarily expected. Up to this writing fifty bodies have been recovered, all with out the sign of life. The fire which broke out after t>e explosion was soon extinguished by the immense fans which were put in operation. The gas has about all been driven from the pit, and the work of rescuing the miners has been commenced. General Manager Lynch. of the H. C. Frick company, is on the scene, helping to devise means to rescue the perished workmen. His assistance is invaluable, as he has had many years’ experience in mining operations. The Mammoth plant embraces 502 ovens, one of the largest plants in the coke region but it is hard of access. It is situated near the United works, where an explosion recently destroyed the entire shaft. The affair has cast a gloom ovet* the entirecoal region, and hundreds of miners are flocking to the scene of the disaster, offering assistance. The appalling loss of life in the Dunbar disaster is more than overshadowed by the destruction of life in the Mammoth calamity. Language is too weak to describe the scenes at the mines. Horror is piled upon horror. The news spread throughout the entire cone region with great rapidity, aud eVerybodv was awc-stricken. The coffins have already been ordered for eighty persons from Mt. Pleasant undertakers, and it is understood that the Frick Company, the owners of the plant, will bear the expense of the same. The only man who escUt ed from the fata mine was mine-boss Eaton . Among those killed are John Beverage and James Boles, formerly of Scottdale. The-former resided there for many years, and was held'in high esteem. He was a road man in the shaft.

Ex-Mine Inspector Keiger y, superi n tendent of the fatal shaft, is nearly distracted. It is a singular fact that misfortune seems to follow him. His experiences ’ii the Hill Farm oleaster resulted iu the tender of his resignation as mine inspector. Master Workman Peter Wise, exMaster Workman R. D. Ker foot, James Mcßride, Mike Disinan and John IL Ryan Secretary Parker aud James Keegan, all prominent labor leaders, have left for Mammoth to render any assistance in their power, financially or otherwise, to the stricken and bereaved families. Superintendent Keighley has been in three big fatalities in this region, but this 14 larger than any. lie said: "No man living knows the cause of the accident and it will never be known lor a certainty. About 300 feet from the bouom of the shaft we encountered a full of rock iu the gangway, which was caused by the explosion. Empty cars completely wreckea, were piieu up against it. We cut our way through aud fell down into the dip where the men were working and then We were constantly falling over dead bodies. Not so niany were killed by the explosion, but the dreaded after-damp came on the poor fellows, aud they succumbed to it. This is evident from the fact that only a small proportion of the dead taken out were bruised in any way. 1 never knew before that there was gas in'teat. This makes the explosion all the more terrible.” Belßfire said: '“About two years apo there was an explosion ot gas at this mine, and one man was burned tv death. No safety lamps were used here. I don't know whether or not the fire boss did his duty, but let us be charitable enough to hope he did. ’I hers was too much work here for one fire bose anyhow. They discharged one a couple of weeks ago to reduce expenses,and one man has been forced to do the work.

John Biles, whose brother is in the fatal shaft, relates the following story: “About 9 o’clock Tuesday morning we beard a loud report in the direction of the shaft. We immediately started to the opening only io find a suffocating volume of smoke and gas gushing therefrom, mid at once knew what was wrong. We the work of subduing the tames and creating the shaft of gas. This we accomplish, ed by starting the large fans. I am convinced that every man who was in the shaft at the time was ki’led either by falling timbers or by the alter damp. Not one was left to tell the story of the disaster. Not more than tiftv of the men were killed by the explosion. The others were overcome by the afterdamp and while some of the bodies are horribly torn, burned and mutilated, others were found with their teeth clinched on the iron ’’ Of 160 men in the min i at the time of the explosion it is now known that but nine escaped, 151 being killed outright or suffocated by the horrible after damp. Never in the history of American coal mining has there beev such an unexpected accident with such a complete annihilation of all within its reach. Tne mine ha 8 been notable always as being particularly free from gas. Fire boss Smith, a man who has worked in mines in Great Britain and this country for thirty years,made his usual careful inspection of all the rooms and headings at the customary time, between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. His duty was to enter every place where men worked, and to mark upon the wall of the room or herding the sign of his approval—the figures of the day of the month. When the miners went to work on Tuesday morning they looked for the indication of the Are boss’s visit, and it was there, scratched into the black—“ 27;” and so, on Jan. 27,1891, as on the days that had gone before, there was the familiar “all is well.” As the best indoseinent of his belief in the safety of the mine, he remained for an hour longer than » usual with the men at work. His body was found scattered in fragments fora hundred feet. His home is now in the public morgue, where scores, of blackened bodies are washed and made decent for the grave; and there is a widow nud a fatherless girl in the house across the hill tops, where friendly hands are ml nl« taring to them.