Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gsoob E. Marshall. Publisher. RENSSELAER INDIANA

A mine-boss named Gallagher cowhided a girl at Wellston. 0., the other day. Mr. Gallagher’s sense of propriety should have induced him to let ’er go. A man at Frankfort. Kan., who has worked forty years /upon the problem announces that perpetual motion is nothing more or less than wind. This confirms a popular impression. ________ Prof. Eissenweller of the University of Berlin announces that human baldness is produced by bacteria. This may be a euphemistic, scientific term for matrimonial incompatibility. Frankfort, Ky., is apprehensive lieeause she has learned that a large dam about twenty miles north of the city is in a dangerous condition. No true Kentuckian want to get nearer to water than t wenty miles. At Wellington, Kan., a clergyman preached upon the subject: Beauties of the Ideal Home Life,” after which he eloped with a member of his flock. Preaching and practicing are two diJfeyeriVthings in Kansas, it seems. - The Omaha Beo rises to remark that “business usages are outraged by the spring mosquito presenting his bill in the middle of the month.” No one will object, however, so long as the bill is presented nowhere else. There is likely to be a great hay crop this year, and that is more important than most people imagine. ■' The hay crop is worth more than any other except corn. It exceeds in val ue the oats crop, the wheat crop or the cotton crop. In 1885 the value of the hay crop in the United States was $389,752,873, while that of the wheat crop was $275,320,390, and of the cotton crop $369,989,812. Railroad men say the moving of the hay crop is a very important item in transportation. The announcement that Professor Snow, of the University of Kansas, woufd attempt to destroy chinch bugs by inoculating healthy specimens with the germs of disease and turning them loose into the fields where the pests appeared, caused not a little general amusement and incited the professional paragraphist to his best efforts. But now the practical results are being reported, and these results sustain the Professor. The infection of healthy bugs with bacterial disease did not work so well, because the season was wet and cold, but the infection of the captured bugs with a white fungus he found to be very’ destructive and Arpiite successful. The Professor has wsued reports from a dozen farmers in Kansas, all of whom testify to the deadly effect of the white fungus infection upon the bugs where they began to appear in large numbers. This is a scientific result which vindicates the wisdom of the study of entomology and the chair of “bugology” in agricultural colleges.—lnd. Journal. k

The supplement to the Western Brewer contains a statement showing the quantities of beer sold in the United States by States and Territories, for the years ending April 30, 1890, and April 30, 1891. The total for the latter year was 30,021.079 barrels, against 26.820,953 for the year ended April 30, 1690, an increase of 3,200,126 barrels. New York leads in the sales for 1890-91, with a total of 9,088,109 barrels, nearly three times the quantity sold in any other State; Pennsyltania being second, with 3,118.248 barrels, and then follow in order: Ohio, 2.* 636,668 barrels; Illinois, 2,608,916 barrels; Wisconsin, 2.403,640 barrels; Missouri, 2,038,398 barrels, and New Jersey, 1,609,350 barrels. These are the only States in each of which more than 1,000,000 barrels were sold, and the total in these seven represents more than threefourths of the entire aggregate. Michigan stands tenth in the list, the sales in this State amounting to 004,557 barrels. There are only six States in which no sales are reported. These are Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina and Vermont. The figures indicate the extent Of the brewing industry in the respective States and Territories, but do not show the consumption of beer in each. The aggregate, however, shows that on an average throughout the United States nearly half a barrel of beer per cap

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was reduced 12.218.666 during J tfnb. During the secdndqnarter of 1991 there were 992 new industries established in the Month. Pennsylvania. Republicans have issued An. address protesting iratnrt Quay’s leadership. At Boone, lowa, on tho Ist, hall as large as hen's eggs felL-doing great damage to every: lung In its track. A syndicate has been organized with a capital of fl .«Wi o oto cultivate a farm of 112.000 acres in Florida. The horse shoe mills of tho Diamond State Iron Co., at Wilmington, Del., were burned on tl.e 28th. causing a loss of 5400,000.

The Pre-ident loft Washington Friday morning for Cape May, and for the next five or six weeks will transact al) public business requiring his attention at that place. The Dalton gang of outlaws is reported to have robbed the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory, of a large amount of money.' . The Michigan House, after a long fight, has passed the Senatorial gerrymander without any change, aud it has been signed by the Governor. - A Grayson county (Iowa) boy tied a gentle cow's tail about his neck while driving the animal to the pasture. The cow became frightened ami dragged the boy to death. Preparations ate being made for a series of naval maneuvers off the New England .toast to test the value of our ships in actual war. The enormous tobacco business of the Lorlllards, of New York, has been turned over to a stock company,. to be known as the P.Lorillard Company,with a capital of 15.00 JJWO. The statue of General Grant, the largest bronze ever cast in America, has arrived at Chicago ready for erection in Lincoln Park. It will be unveiled the first week in October. The Huntingdon (Pa.) Manufacturing Com pan y, con t rolled by the Iron Car Company, of New York, has indefinitely suspended operations. Three hundred men are thrown out of employment, Frank Melboum. t he Australian inventor of an alleged rain -machine,will attempt to cause a fall of rain over seventy thousand square miles of territory, next Tuesday, with Canton, 0., as a central point. The insurance on the stock and fixtures in the coffee-roasting house of E. Loverug & Co., which was burned Sundaylight, amounts to f9?.StXX Of this 582,500 was on the stock alone, and 19,800 on machinery. ’ Harvey Mullins and Pike Cooper, two of a notorious gang pf moonshiners, were •aptured in McDowell county, Va., on the !7th. The gang was a desperate one, and were accused of several murders. The arrests were made at the muzzle of Winehes-

xws. - - —----- --- A Chicago agricultural paper gives the ’ollowiug estimates of average yield per *cre for the chief winter wheat States, )&?ed on the current harvest: Illinois 17 oushels, Indiana 20, Ohio 15 to 20, Rentee* y 10 to 15. Kansas 18, Missouri 19,10wa t 9 to 20. All the details of the transfer of the dgnal service from the War Department o the Agricultural Department have been completed. The transfer goes into effect £ Wednesday, July 1. It is generally •oncedcd that General Greely, the present •hies signal officer, will be soon succeeded jy a civilian, and it is said that the jew man will be Assistant Secretary >f Agriculture Willets or Prof. Nipher, of St. Louis. In the spring of 1890 the Winona (Minn.) Mill Company's buildings were burned, mtailing a loss of 5300,000. The company tad insured its plant In thirty companies, ■hrough a s .igle agency. The policies forold further insurance on the property, but in attached slip made an .exception as to rrain and flour on hand. After the fire it was discovered that 5100,000 moroinsurince had been taken on tl}& plant , and the •ompanies refused payment. Suit was 'ironght. the mill company holding that :be slip was a substitute for the prohibition clause in the tody of the policy, and is it did not prohibit additional insurance •he action of tlie company was regular in taking such insurance. Jndge McConnell sustained this view. Secretary Rusk, when asked in regard to he results of the pork inspection at Chicago. said, to-day. that it had been very satisfactory’. The proiwtion of animals ’onrid affected was less than was expected, :ndhe b<diev«s less than In the hogs )f any other country. Our uork, he continued, is the most wholesome of any produced, because onr hogs are raised under he best sanitary conditions. They are utconfined to small pens and filthy quarters. as in other countries, but they have Tie run of large fields, and are fed upon plover and corn. Hogs here are not treated as scavengers and fed upon slops and garbage, as they are in Europe; but, on the contrary, they 1 are raised as a means of marketing, in a concentrated form, the bulky produce of our farms. The inspection has demonstrated without question that the pork of the United States Is befoud suspicion, and the inspected product will be by far the best which finds its way to the European markets.

FOREIGN. A terrible storm visited England on the 2d, destroying many lives and doing great damage to property. The stoppage of the Welsh tin plate works, it is estimated, will keep boxes off the market, the average consumption being I,Gt O,OCO boxes per month. Much indignation exists in government circles at Berlin over the renewed bitterness of the Bismarck organs toward the Kaiser and his policy, and especally the covert assaults upon the triple alliance. Most of the articles are inspired by Bismarck and serve to widbn the breach between the ex-Chancellor and the Emperor, and there is yet a possibility that Bismarck may find himself called to account, notin the way of a judicial proscution, butts an bfficw of ThaTrnperTaT army en-

deavoriug to undermine the faith of th* people in the sovereign. Those who an near the Kaiser say that his animosity toward Bismarck has grown rapidly of laU. and may taka a form unpleasant to tht Pr i n ee. /.-8 ■'——.

ALGER SAYS IT'S BLAINE.

Tha General Talk* Aboot the Approach. Ing Presidential Campaign, General Alger, who arrived at Omaht from his Westenrtour on the 29th, said it an interview that “without doubt if Secretary Blaine wants the presidential nomination he can have it. I find this feeling generally gaining throughout the West and his acceptance is all that is necessary. In the cast I am confident he is stronger than a year ago. I have personal knowledge to the effect that many of his mos' influential opponents of 1888 are now anxious to have him nominated. Harrison it second choice—not that hisadministratior has not been successful, but for the simpk reason that Blaine is the most populai man in America. “From my observation throughout th< Western States, Cleveland has the lead n Democratic popular favor. His silve: ideas, I find, injure his chances very little, I scarcely think the Alliance will be it the field with a national ticket, but th< old solders wifi certainly cut more figurt in the approaching contest than ever before. This element virtually nominated Harrison in ’BB, and its strength will settk the contest in any event.”

FELL INTO THE VOLCANO.

Horrible Fate of a Traveler on Mount Ve. ■uvtua. Dispatches from Naples give meager details of a terrible accident which occurred Wednesday at Mt. Vesuvius, by which a Brazilian traveler lost his life. Another Brazilian was rescued with difficulty. Mt. Vesuvius, as has been recorded, has for some months past been showing signs of activity at intervals. Withir the last week or so, however. Vesuvius has been somewhat quieter, but Wednesday renewed signs of activity were noticed, and travelers were warned that it woulc be advisable not to ascend to the crater In spite of this warning, two Braziliar travelers, accompanied by a guide, determined to make the ascent, They did so. and reached the top of the mountain ir safety. They were noticed to be standing near the crater, gazing into its mysteries. Suddenly the whole was enveloped by a dense cloud of siilphuroU s smoke, which so stupefied the traveler that one of them reeled about for a moment, then staggered forward and fell head foremost into the crater. The guide who accompanied the two Brazilians had in the meantime caught hold of the second traveler, and half dragged, hall pushed him into a position where the fumes could not reach him, thus saving his life.

FIFTEEN LONG YEARS

Ih the Sentence Passed Upon “Honest John” Bardsley. John Bardsley, ex-treasurer of Philadelphia, had sentenced passed upon hirr on the 2d for the confessed crime of loan ing, speculating with and receiving interest on public funds intrusted to his care as the chief fiduciary officer of the municipality. The sentence of the court was that Bardsley undergo fifteen years solitary confinement in the eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine equal to the amount oi his embezzlement arising from the transactions to which he pleads guilty. ’ District Attorney Graham places the deficit at 5553,835.38, which is 538,000 more than Bardsley admitted in his statement. -This amount wUL be reduced by payment to be made by his sureties, so the amount of his fine will not be determined until the examination of accounts is completed.. Bardsley returned to Moyamensing this afternoon, and it is expected he will be at once taken to the penitentiary, where he will be shaved of his beard and be given a striped suit and thereafter be known bya number.

FOUR PEOPLE KILLED.

The Mining Troubles tn the Northwest Lead to Serious Trouble. A special from Franklin, Wash., says that the white strikers, angercd_at the action of the Oregon Improvement Company in taking negroes to tho New Castle coal mines, started to clean out the negre camps Sunday night. In the scrimmagt four persons were killed. The deputy sheriff, who had been at the scene for th< ytasVfour has called for the militk and two companies left on a special train Later—Companies B and D, of the First Regiment National Guard, left for th< Franklin coal mines on a special train a< one o’clock on the morning of the 29th The only news received so far is that on< white miner was killed and three wounded, and one negro guard wounded. Ovei one hundred shots were 6xoll in the riothe night before.

PEOPLE'S PARTY CONSTITUTION

The Constitution and By-Laws, as re vised and changed by Secretary Schilling of the new People’s party,have been mt»d« public. The articles cal! for the organize tion and regulation' of local elul.s. to b conducted under the auspices of tjte na tional body. Stated meetings shaftbe belt by every club. The President/shall b< elected at each meeting. Any citizen o the town or county niay become a membet by signing the declaration pf principle: and the platform of the national body an< pledging himself toAinqualifledly supper the principles as enunciated. Any mem her who makes a motion to indorse a can didate of or to unter into a fusion with any other political party shall immedtoteh cease to be a member of the club aud o the new party. ,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seymour has a street railway. Pera will have free mall delivery. Muncie has organized a trades union. Buchanan reports a good* blackberry ci op. Evansville is suffering from an epidemic oftai -e - . - r "The Anderson flint bottle works vfill be enlarged- _ ‘ . Anderson is negotiating for a gatlinggun factory. ‘ Muncie glass factories have closed for the summer. Hamilton county reports an enormous yield of wheat. Steel ship-building is now an industry of Jeffersonville. The army worm has made its appearance in Howard county. A violent storm greatly damaged wheat and corn in Putnam county. Bainbridge has organized a militarycompany, headed by George F. Scott. Muncie ordered a car load of fire works for its municipal celebration of the Fourth. A yellow catfish weighing fifty pounds was caught at Martinsville on a trot line. Thirty-six coaches car-tied 2,4oopicnickers from Fort Wayne to Warsaw SaturdayMichigan City claims to be the most prosperous community in northern Indiana, ' * Robert McCutcheon, of New Albany, fell from a cherry tree and was paralyzed by spinal injuries. ;; A district meeting of Odd Fellows will be held at Lafayette July 10, and at Logansport July 23. Thomas Worrell, of Clark county, Inas a shepherd dog that knows the name of every horse and cow on the farm. The bones of a man six feet in height, representing an unknown race, were found in a mound near English last week. John Torbett, of Patoka township. Orange county, has been whipped by white caps for mistreatment and non-support of family. A copper box filled with continental! scrip was unearthed at Leavenworth a few days ago. The box was inscribed “H, 8., 1822,” J — ; W’llliam Maguire and his step-daughter, living in the of Leavenworth, were whipped by white caps for alleged cohabitation. \ The Ohio Falls iron works shut down for repairs Saturday. In the meantime the wage scale formulated at Pittsburg will be submitted to the Western iron masters. -> There are sixty thousand acres of wheat being cut in Montgomery county, which, on an average of twenty-five bushels to to the acre, will bring the yield up to 1 J. 03,000 bushels. A number of gas regulators in Howard county have been recently struck by lightning, and local meteorologists are trying to figure out the affinity between electricity and natural gas. Miss Grace Forney, of Wabash, who was persuaded to elope with Prof. Walter Koenig, and was made the victim of a pretended marriage, was recovered by her friends, at.Russiaville. *—““ 1 Three time deer make their home in the court house and grounds at Scottsburg They are so tame, that they wander all over the building, and are often found sleeping on the stairways. The main building of the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co., at Portland, Ind., was destroyed by fire on the 28th. Loss, 510,000. This is the largest creamery package company in the world. Thomas Kelly, a farmer near Pilot Knob, owns a ewe but four years old which is the mother of twelve lambs, having dropped four lambs each spring since 1889. The ewe is of the Cottswold Southdown breed. Annual Shroud, of Crawford county, caged three large copperhead snaks and undertook to show his prowess as a snake charmer. While exhibiting the reptiles one of them sank its fangs into his hand and hung on until it dropped off dead. "SMTOud 1 was'tmhai'iued.' William Nash, Edward Bowles, Thomas Groves and Thomas Palin, young boys, near Birdseye, found an old coat in the roadway, and w hile pounding one another ‘with it, the old garment fell to pieces. Several bills dropped out, and altogether c 1,711 dollars was fotind in the several pockets. The 500,000 stock to secure a natural-gas pipe line to Crawfordsville has been secured, and the company furnishing the balance of the necessary funds will commence work at once. The line will start from the Sheridan gas fieldsand will be thirty-five miles in length, Three more bags of brass stolen from the repair shops and freight cars of the Vandalia and Monon lines were Recovered at Greencastle. Two of the thieves, Davidson and Kelly, arraigned for trial, entered a plea of guilty and waived examination. Morristown bitterly complains of the character of the picnickers infesting Blue River Park every Sunday, charging that they are “the worst trash of Indianapolis and Cincinnati.” It is also charged that beer is shipped there by the carload and that the day is spent in drunken carousal. Twenty-eight thousand copies of the Detroit Commercial Advertiser and Home Journal, issued June 26, were held in the postoffice at that place as unmailable under the lottery law. Tho president, vicepresident, secretary and treasurer of the company were arrested and fined 5500 and costs. Z v In the suit brought by the First National Bank, of Evansville, against Charles IL Ritter, the defaulting paying teller,and his bondsman, judgment has been entered for 570.000. of which 554,752.55 is against the bondsmen. The ■‘defense entered a general denial, claiming Ritter had simply borrowed 550.000, The busy, brick-making village of Little Ferry, has a sensation. Charles Miller, the village barber, fell off into a doze in his shop Monday. Charles Blazel, who wanted a shave, awoke the sleeping bar* ber. u He was startled by Miller exclaiming: **My God. I can't see. I am blind!’* And the man was totally blind. James Myers, aged fifteen years, adoptoi sen ofTames Larimore, near Anderson, was attacked by a bulldog and horribly

bitten. The lad would have been killed but a shepherd do* went'to his assistance and, seizing the bulldog by the throat, Anally compelled him to release the boy. Myers was bitten fourteen times in one arm, and the other was alsojbadly torn. Isaac Montgomery, aged twenty-two, died at New Amsterdam, Harrison county, Tuesday morning. His death was the result of a fiendish prank played on him a few nights ago. Some of his companions nailed him in a box and told him they were going to throw him in the river. When he was released it was found that he was badly hurt by having a nail driven in one of his .shoulders. Next morning- he had lost his reason, and before he died became a raving maniac. The wheat crop in Knox, Daviess and Gibson has been put in shock, and a trip across the land is a cheering sight, for the crop is unparalleled. The farmers are rejoicingin the bounteous harvest Such a yield was never before known in that part of the country. Good judges place the yield of Knox county at about a million and a half of bushels, and in each of the other two counties named the yield will not fall behind that of Knox. Already the threshing has begun, and shipments of new wheat East are being made. Delaware county claims the honor of having among its citizens the oldest born Hoosier. He lives near DeSoto; his name is Asail Thornburg, and he is ninety-eight years old. He voted for John Quincy Adams for President, and has voted at every Presidential election since, Re was at Greenville When Gen. William Henry Harrison negotiated the treaty with the Indians, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Gen. Harrison for President; he also had the pleasure of voting for the grandson, Benjamin Harrison, for the same office. His history is a part of the history of Indiana. Mr. Thornburg's health is reasonably good, and he promises well to round out a century. He lived over seventy years with the wife of his youth, she having died about five years ago. A son, Joab Thornburg, lives in the same house with his father, who is well up in the seventies and was the first white child bom in Delaware county. Otto Krause, aged two years and* a half, was fatally poisoned by drinking whisky Tuesday at Seymour. The child was the son of William H. Krause, a prominent business mau of this city, w’ho left Monday morning on a visit to relatives in Germany. The day before leaving Mr. Krause purchased a,quart bottle of whisky a part of which he had put into a pocket flash for use on his journey, leaving the rest in the bottle for medicinal use in the family in his absence. He was in the habit of giving the children a teaspoonful each morning as a tonic. Mr. Krause left on the 4 o'clock train Monday morning, leaving the whisky on the table within the reach of the little child. An older brother discovered little Otto lying on the floor asleep, with the bottle of whisky in his arms, and failing to wake him, told his mother that his brother had been drinking whisky. The mother found him as described. She tried to bring the child back to consciousness, but failed their efforts were unavailing. At 8 o’clock Wednesday morning the Tittle boy died, of what the physicians term passive congestion of the brain, caused by whisky. The story is again revived that the ghost of Mrs, Pettit, victim of W. Fred Pettit, wife murderer, is haunting the church at ShaWnee Mound, over which Mr. Pettit formerly ministered. The ghost-walk is between the parsonage and the church, along a private path first made by Mr. Pettit, and after the appari tion enters the church it is never seen t< leave it. It is also claimed that after th< apparition enters the church the strains o the organ can be heard playing the tune:which Mrs. Pettit loved so well while it life. Among those claiming to have see: the ghost is Jonathan Meharry, father o Mrs. Whitehead, the woman who ft go rrd so conspicuously in the trial of Pettit. Mr Meharry describes the apparition as re markably life-like, tho face looking troubled, with the lips moving in prayer, while the hands are wrung in a supplicating manner. He also heard the organ playing “Rock of Ages,” which was Mrs Pettit's favorite hymn, but the music wa>unearthly and grewsome. He also describes another selection as unfamiliar ineffably sweet,dying away in a strain which filled his soul with rapture. Others claim an experience similar to that related by Mr. Meharry.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, July # 1891. grain. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye. Indianapolis.• 2 r'd 91' 1w 02 1w 44 3 r’d 91 lyesfi Chicago. 2 r’d 93 68 35 Cincinnati ... 3r’d 102 58*4 42K 85 St. Louis 2 r’d 100 57 43 83 New York.... 3 r’d 104 95 53 95 Baltimore.... 103 84..> 50 92 Philadelphia. 2x’d 105 09 44 Clove; Seed. Toledo .. 103 59 43 425 Detroitl wb 1 03 61 43 Minneapolis.. 101 ' CATTLE. Export steers»'|s 25®5 75 Good to choice shippers 4 70tf5 It Fair to medium shippers 4 OQ.g4 3.' Common shippers. 3 35(®3 7! Stockers 2 75@3 41 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 7!k®4 2 Fair tomeditnn heifers 3 (MW3 ffi Light, thin heifers 2 50®3 U Good to choice cows 3 50(34 a Fair to medium cows. 2 50(33 2. Common old cows 1 25(33 2 Veals, commcn to ch0ice....... 3 00<«5 0 Bulls, common to ch0ice........ 2 50@4 0 Milkers, good to ch0ice........15 00@35 bode. Heavy packing apd shipping...M 55@4 Mixed packing.... • 4 .">o(a4 Light • * 5&®4 '■ Heavy roughs.... 3 5Ju4 2 SHEET* • Good to choice clipped. .M 25@4 75 Fair to medium clipped.. ... f .... 3 7.V34 10 Common copied 3 00®3 50 Bucks, V head 2 50@ 100 miscellaneous. Eggs, 13 c; butter, creamery, 3X33’c; dairy. 20c: good country, I'c; feathers, 35c beeswax, 18@20c; wool, 30@35c, unwashed 2 c; hens. 8c; turkeys, Bc,toms, 7c;ciov<M seed, 4.3504.’» .

A STRANGE LAKE.

Nature Forms a Vast Laks in a Sandy Dasert. Old Dry Lake Bisln, the LHtle California Sahara, Flooded with 360 Sq. Mlles of Water One to Fourteen Feet Deep. A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., o» the 3d, says: There is no improvement oi affairs in Saltan. The water in the lak« is rising, but no special uneasiness is fell by the railroad people. Owing to the almost unbearable heat it is impossible u get any white man to venture on the desert at this time of the year. This is such an out-of-the-way spot, so out of touch withall that can be called life, that even birds of the air avoid the desolate marsh. Even coyotes slink terrified from the great, mysterious white fringe, whiehjike a hug* Ice-pack, glitters and glistens under th* rayspf the sun that almost heats to redness iron tools exposed to it. Imagine heal so fierce that if one stood immovable.without clothing, water would run from him as if he weie undei a douche; imagine heat sc fierce that it is necessary to keep watei bottles continually to one’s mouth, and that if the water were not immediately forthcoming your tongue would cleave to your mouth, your lips w’ould b« swollen, veins in your face and neck stand out as if varicosed. All that one craves is water for the throat to cool the warmth oi the body, which is fanned to intolerable heat by wind as warm as the famous winds of northwest India, and as violent as that which blows along the northern coasts of Africa. The Southern Pacific railroad company has sent out its engineering party to investigate the flow and discover, if possible, the real inlet. The nwOod pwii H that marked on geographical maps at “Old'Dry Lake.” The water now is estimated to lie thirty miles long by twelve wide, with an average depth of twentyone inches in Old Dry lake basin. The stream that feeds itruns at tho rate of sou r and one-half mites per hour. The Southern Pacific engineers have discovered that tho water rushed to tho‘ Sal ton underground passage beneath a low range ol hills that separates the sink of the Colorado desert from Salton. The railroad people at present, however, have-no fear of the track overflowing, as evaporation is so rapid on the desert that that alone would keep down the water unless it came in more rapidly than it now does. The Indian runner sent by the railroad people has not yet returned, and the boat sent out from Salton has only been able to get a short distance. A telegram received from a courier says: “A strong wind Tuesday night from the southeast raised the water on the north shore. The west water line is moving westward slowly. I cannot reach the end of the track, and I fear the track will go with the next strong wind. The waters are surely but slowly rising. The saturation is 16 per cent, fresher than on Tuesday. That the water comes from the Colorado •Iyer, which it leaves at a point near Pilot Knob, there is little doubt.” Another dispatch sayss The water around Salton is now within 2,000 feet of the main track. It came in 200 feet in two hours yesterday. If it continues to come in as it has been doing it will wash out the Southern Pacific track? in three days. The deepest water found was three feet and the shallowest in the current, fourteen Inches. The Indians are badly scared, and all the desert Indians have fled to the hills, and even those as high up as Banning are leaving for the mountains. A week ago a medicineman came to the Banning reservation and the Indians that the Messiah said there would be a big flood by July 4; that all the whites would be swept avay and only Indians saved. Ho said that lldians who worked up to July 4would not have tlSie to get away. All Indians are much excited, and even the most intelligent ones are going to Gray back with their families.

PILLAGED AND BURNED.

Methodint Mission Buildings Attacked and Destroyed by the Chinese Babble The steamer China arrived at San Francisco on the 3d from Hong Kong Yokohama. The threatened riot atNanking took place. The Methodist girls' school was attacked, pillaged and burned May 35, by the Chinese rabble. Several other mis-, sion buildings were attacked, and would have been demolished but for the inter - ference of soldiers sent by the Viceroy, after urgent appeals from the missionaries. On the Sunday previous, the missionaries were semi-ofHcially notified the premises would be burned and accordingly all took a steamer for Shanghai the day before tho rouble. Further rioting is anti cinated at Kiang. The outbreaks are said to be the work of secret societies, the prime object being not to Injure foreigners, but to entangle the Chinese govern - ment in foreign complications in the hope that thereby successful Insurrection may oe started. At Taniang on .Tune 1 a mob pillaged the mission buildings, overpowering the nandarin and soldiers. The Christian cemetery was dug up, the heads piled in a heap, and the mandarin dragged to the ipot by his queue. The Governors of Annan repo t the bemad! ng of twenty-five ringleaders in the trouble at Nichu. Andy Roy, the wealthy stock man and mine owner, was taken from the eastM>und train at Waseka, Minn., Wednesday. in a violent state of insanity. H» .vas on ids way to Europe. On his person •vere found drafts on a bank at Spokane Fall, Wash., for 11,000, and 1300 in money. He imagines that the train is off the track ind thinks he is to he killed. His valise, containing deeds to valuable mining property, is either lost or stolen. The entire population of Averyvilla, (H., have been fruitlessly searching for three little children-David and Luther Crandall and Arthur El warm—who disappeared last Tuesday afternoon.