Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1891 — Page 6

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The heads of the bit? European nations have good reasons for their dislike of France, Twice in its career in the past hundred years France started movements which upset several Governments in the Old World and shook a few of the rest of them. Its present prosperity under popular rule is a constant menace to every monarch is Christendom. The res torationof either the Bonapartes or Bourbons to power iw France would, in a figurative sense, be greeted with a regular hallelujah chorus by every crowned head from the Thames to the Neva and from the Mediterranean to the Artie Ocean. There is uo douot the World’s Fair will be somewhat influenced by European politics. With Germany and England in close friendship and Russia allied with France to offse* the power of the Dreibund, there is a very sensitive and jealous “feeling in all quarters, and our commission, will have to use infinite tact in orde r to bring all these countries to the point of making generous exhibits at Chicago. Of England we are certain, and probaD’-y of Germany; but France seems coy, and it is not un. likely that Russia will need a degree of persuasion to induce her to do justice either to herself or to th e Fair. ■ ' " What is this talk about a dress reform club in Boston, and a parade of dress reformers “on the first rainy Saturday in October, in a short skir j made of waterproof cloth, reaching but an inch or two below the knee?’ Where is that prim and prune-lippet delicacy for which Boston has lon# been famed? Are the dress reformers prepared to publish to a ribald work the fact, if fact it be, that the Boston women have knees? If knees, then 1-gs—but here Propriety hides her face and props her tottering limbs against the Cass monument. Mayor Matthews should call a meeting to protest against the threatened outrage. —N. Y. Sun. Our esteemed contempory, the Atchison Citizen, avers, with modest pride and a sweet simulation of veracity, that an Atchison genius has invented a vine called potamato, which bears potatoes under the ground and tomatoes above ground. The idea is able, but the potamato vine seems to be a reminiscence of the ingenious combination which Dr. George Bailey Loring of Salem, Massachusetts, discovered when Minister to Portugal. Dr. Loring grafted the common corkscrew upon the cork tree, and succeeded in producing corks with the corkscrew growing in them. For this brilliant service to agriculture, the King of Portugal decorated him with the Garnd Order of the Leather Medal ■(second class). —New York Sun. Exglakb is having great excitement over graveyard insurance, which seems to be a new thing in that country. Ten or a dozen years ago Ohio and Pennsylvania were infested with rotten concerns, organ, ized to do just this kind of work, the agents of whieh would take a risk up r on an octosrenariau when in articulo mortis. Other States were more or less affected by the evil, but these two easily held the lead. It was a long and tedious operation, rooting out the system, but after a few of the pirates had been placed within stone walls, the rest of them gave up the business in disgust and turned themselves to some other work probably quite as congenial and quite as rascally, for men of this class would rather at. chicanery than thrive in an honest pursuit.

The game of politics in Europe is interesting to study from this side of the water, especially as we are involved in none of its complications. Wilhelm, hates the English, but Wil. helm makes a ceremonious visit to England, is feted and feasted, submits to a kiss from his grandmother, -whom he does not like, and leaves with a fair assurance that the moral if not the physical force of Gr»at Britain will be with the dreibund in the case of a general war in Europe. The French profess to detest absolutism, and the Czar certainly does detest republicanism, yet the meeting of Wilhelm and the Queen has driven France and Russia into at least a show of friendliness. On the side of the latter it is free enough in material entertainment, but one can see that it Sits ill with the Czar to consider an alliance with a power that represents all that he is endeavoring to repress. The westerly side of the Atlantic Is a pretty good place in which to live. j

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A case of fully developed leprosy Is reported from Chicago. Maryland Republicans have nominated Col. W. G. Van Nort for Governor. The Patriot ic Order of Sous of America voted against the admission of negroes. Thirteen beer saloons in Indian Territory have been closed by federal officers. Tho directors of the World's Fair have decided upon offering 1150,010 premiums for live stxrck. The Worden Furniture Company’s factory, at Grand Rapids, Mich., burned. Loss, 570,000. Secretary of War Proctor, will be appointed Senator by tho Governor of Vermont to succeed Edmunds. An explosion of gas at Chicago on the 26th resulted In the death of one man and the serious injury of seven others. The search of the ruins of tho Park Row building was completed on the 26th. Sixty one bodies in all were found.--The boiler of a largo donkey engine at Ben Dixon s ship yard, Eureka, €al., exploded, fatally injuring four persons. The wheat crop in Minnesota this sea-' son will not bo below 70,000,000 bushels, and will probably exceed that amount. Ai a stenographers’ contest at Dayton, 0., Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago, wrote 315 words in short hand from new matter in one minute. •' - V It is thought In Washington that cxGov. Cheney, of Now Hampshire, will become Secretary of War when Mr. Proctor goes into the Senate. Three bundled employers of San Francisco have organized a manufacturers’ association for the purpose of resisting the encroachments of trades unions. The postmaster at Chicago will return to the senders all the money orders and registered letters addressed to the National Capitol Savings, Building and Loan Association. Isaac Newton Raker, Col. Ingersoil’s private secretary,who was shot in a family quarrel at Croton Landing,N.Y.,on the Istlingers between life and death with four bullet holes in his body. The World’s Fair management has accepted the proposition of the Henry R. Worthington Company, of New York, to put in a pumping plant with a capacity of forty millions gallons per day free of charge. It is announced that the total number of seals taken in Alaskan waters since August 1, 18i(0, by the North American Commercial Company is 7,234, and it is estimated that poachers took about forty thousand. St. Paul Camp, Sons of Veterans won in the competitive prize drill at Minneapolis, with the Tacoma second. Judges, were officers in the Third Infantry, U. S. A.> from Ft. Snelling. Tho markings were: St. Pail, 93.6; Tacomaf 90.26. At Quincy, Ala., A. K. Allison, a son of ex-Governor Allison, was fatally shot in an altercation with C. A. Gee. Allison had been drinking for two days and behaving like a hoodlum. Gee first horsewhipped Allison and then shot him. The Census Bureau has Issued a bulletin on the assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the States and Territories. The bureau places the absoluto wealth of tho United States at $62,610.000,000, or nearly SI,OOO per capita, Michael Cramer, a wealthy farmer near Napoleon, 0., aged sixty, was arrested on tho 26th, on a charge of polygamy. Cramer has three wives, all living on the same farm. There aro three houses on the farm, and in each of them Cramer keeps a wife.

Tho friends of Estee, of California, arc urging his appointment to the Cabinet to succeed Secretary of War Proctor. It is said that Estee was promised a Cabinet position when he voted the California delegation for II arrison at the last Eepub ican convention. The largest sale of bottled whisky ever effected in the world took place at Lexington, Ivy., on the 26th, Tho stilling firm of Jas. E. Pepper *fc Co. sold to Strauss, Hart JbFelbil, New York, 36,000 ~calesof~ten-year-old Pepper whisky. The sale amounted to nearly $500,000. The first flouring mill to be erected in the United States by the Farmers’ Alliance, is now in course of construction at San Miguel, Cal. The corner stone of the structure has just been laid with appropriate ceremonies by lodges of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union. Divers have discovered an old wreck in Newport harbor which is believed to be that of one of the seven vessels sunk by the Hritish in Newport harbor August 8 1778, at the time Count de Estaing forced his way with part of his fleet and anchored between Great Island and Canon"lcut. Paul Conrad, President of the Louisiana Lottery, and a number of the employes of the company were held to answer at Philadelphia, on the 27th, for violating the anti-lottery postal law. The offense was the mailing of a circular captaining the revised report of tho Louisiana Supreme Court on the lottery revenue case. Wiiat would have been a terrible disaster was narrowly averted on the Illinois Central railroad, near Holly Springs, Miss. For the purpose of robbery two negroes placed a “stirrup” on tho track on a high bridge, and but for tho merest accident the entire train would have gone over. Tho engineer did not stop until the front wheels of the jocomotive had left the track. ‘ The wife of tho President on the 26th received a set of engrossed resolutions from the order of Patriotic Sons of America at Bellevue, Ky., extending their thanks to her fpr her determined efforts in having nothing but goods of American manufacture brought into tho White House, and congratulating her on her American ideas. Mrs. Harrison has acknowledged the receipt of the resolutions. Telegraphic advices received from points in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota detail the damage to veget- ■ able crops by the frostSuuday night. Tho 1 small grains are not damaged to any ctl tent, much of the standing wheat being ripo. or beyond the period when frost would damage it. After the first scare b over it will probably be found that the damage is not great enough to seriously

hurt th« or grade of the berry, savt in the fields which were backward. Cort and small crops have been seriously damaged. Gen. R. S. Dryenforth, in charge of th« recent rain experiments at Midland,Tex.. passed through Ft. Worth on his way tc Washington. He is jubilant over his successful experiment. He says that in three ! weeks, under great disadvantages, six rains were produced, three of which were down-pours, and the last one was the heaviest rain in three years. General Dryenforthsays the principle is correci I beyond question. A mile in 39 4-5 seconds, at the rate o! overninety miles per hour, is the fastesl run ever made by a railroad train. This unparalleled feat was accomplished on the Bound Brook railroad, between Neshami-j ny and Lanhorn, by engine No. 206, drawing two ordinary coaches and President McLeod’s private ear, “Reading,” which is equal to two coaches in weight. The fastest five miles in 3 minutes 26 4-5 seconds; the fastest ten miles In 7 minutes 1‘ seconds, averaging 43 seconds per mile. An attorney named Cattln, hailing (rons Terre Haute, was placed under $2,00( bond at Chicago on the 25th. It is alleged that at the Palmer nouse he called upon J. W. Phillips, agent of Keeler &Jennings carriage manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. and while Phillip’s attention was diverted, purloined papers valued at $50,000. Among the documents was a conveyance to Phillips of a half interest in a patent for aroad vehicle invented by George Herman, oi Terre Haute, a client of Cattin’s. After caving the Palmer House Cattin is said to have atonco mailed the coveted papersto Herman. Tho board of directors of the Gettys. burg Battlefield Association has decided to restore (he line of breastworks along the front of McGilvery’s artillery brigade on the left center of the federal line, to construct the traverse along the position held by Green s brigade. It was discovered that Indiana is the only State whose troops were at Gettysburg that has failed to make an appropriation for tho purpose of keeping in good condition the monuments erected to its regiments. At the meeting of the association, held on the 27th., a committee was appointed to lay this matter before the Indiana authorities, Charles E. Davies, better known as “Parson” Davies, manager for Jim Hall, the Australian pugilist, and Hall himself, got into a fight in a saloon at Mt. Clemens, Mich., on the 25th. After an angry word or two Hall struck viciously at Davie 9 with a bottle. The big prize-fighter’s arm was caught by a bystander, but shaking himself free, Hall attempted to repeat the blow, and Davies, at, bay, grabbed a lemon knife lying on the bar and dodging Hall’s powerful fist lunged back at him with the knife, striking him in the throat and cutting a terrible gash from chin to ear on tho right side and narrowly missing the jugular vein. Hall had a close call, but will probably recover.

FOREIGN. A woman named Lombard has Ibeen arrested in Paris for an attempt to murder her husband by pouring molten lead into his ear while he was asleep. Russia will not allow exported grain tq contain more than 3 per cent, of rye or I per cent, of bran. Reports, from Odessa say there is a talk thero of a prohibition ol maize. Four women have been arrested at Szcnttamas, Hungary, on the charge of poisoning their husbands and selling poisons to other women for a similar purpose. Orders have been issued to exhume tho bodies of many supposed victims. A tame bear, belonging in a village of Vitna, Russia, having been trained by tho servants of its wealthy owner to drink whisky, entered a tavern on the 27th, and staved in a keg of whisky. The owner tried to prevent the bear from getting at the whisky and the bear set upon him and killed him and three children. British society is.scandalized by a statement made by the Edinburg Scotmanthat a daughter of the Prince of Wales was recently seen lounging outside the pavilion of the naval exhibition smoking a cigarette ia full view of the crowd. Officials hasten to deny the truth of the report.

CRUSHED AND KILLED.

Twenty Persons Killed on [a North Carolina Railroad, Spreading Kails Throw a Train SixtyFive Feet Into a River— Many Injured. One of the most disastrous railroad wrecks in the annals of North Carolina occurred about 2 o’clock a. m. at the Boston bridge, two miles west ol Statesville, on the Western North Carolina railroad. Passenger train No. 9 known as tho fast mail, which was made up at Salisbury, pulled out on time (1 a. m.) loaded with passengers. It was composed of a baggage and mail car, second and first-class coaches, Pullman sleeper and Superintendent Brißge’s private car “Daisy.” This sleeper, which was from Goldsboro, usually hasanumberofpassengers from Northern points and last night was no exception. The run to Statesville was made on time, a distance of twentyfive miles, hut just after leaving Statesville there is a high Stone bridge spanning Third creek, down into this creek plunged the entire train, a distance of at least sixty-five feet, wrecking the wholr train and carrying death and destructior with it. Twenty passengers were killed outright nine seriously injured and about twent) badly bruised gnd shaken up. The scent at the wreck beggared description. Tht night was dismal, and, to add to the horror of the situation, the water in tho creel up. It was only through the mos 1 heroic efforts of those who hurried to th* sccnoof the wreck that the injured wen not drowned. The accident was caused b] the spreading of the rails. The bridge wai not. injured, and trains are running oi schedule time. Twenty dead bodies an now lying in fc warehouse at Statesville Tho Injured are having the best of care a private residences and hotels.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Them am thirty divorce cases pending In Bartholomew county. Mre. William Syndsr,‘ of Clarksville,was dangerously gored by a cow. The cold rain killed off the grasshoppers tn Jay and adjoining counties. Louis Dukes’s elevator at Colfax was destroyed by incendiarism. Loss $3,000. Four members of Albert Henney’s family died of milk sickness while he lived near Saluda. It is reported that a tin mine has been discovered in one of the out townships of Howard county. John Vanhorn, of Rnshville, attempted to shoot Alexander McCarty and drove a bullet through his own hand. Mrs. Alvin F. Moore, of Greenfield, gave birth to four babies on the 26th—three girls and one boy. The girls died. An oil well, with a daily yield of 250 barrels, has been struck on tho Glendenning farm, in Jackson township, Jay county. Alpha Summers escaped from the Logansport insane asylum, leaving not the slightest trace of his present whereaboutsThe public pumps at Logansport have been thrown out of service because of the impurity of the water in the various wells. Quails aro unusually plentiful throughout the State this season. Many are breaking the recoid by hatching second Broods; Thirty-four sheep belong l ng to William Halton, near Gosport, clustered under a large tree during a storm, and Were killed by lightning. Forty-five head were sold at the second annual sale of Jersey cattle by the White River Company, near Muncie, averaging slll per head. The Owen County Agricultural Society cleared several hundred dollars, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather attending Nine children and fourteen grandchildren aided in celebrating the golden wedding anniversary of William Harlin, Sr, and wife, of South Bend. Muncie has appointed a soliciting committee of twenty-one leading business men ooking to raising a fund of $200,000, to be used in locating manufactories. An incendiary burned John Simmons’s barn, near Hrpe, destroying 1,000 bushels of wheat, sixty tons of hay. eight horses and other property. Loss, $5,000. Cornelius Corticipian, a half-breed Indian has beon arrested at Winnemac, charged with attempting to kill James McWhorter, a farmer by whom he was employed. Charles Fidier,- a wealthy and wellknown citizen of Cass county, residing in Washington township, was killed by a tree blowing down and falling upon him Tuesday evening. A syndicate proposes to erect a magnificent hotel on Silver Hills, at New Albany, the same to give superb views of the Ohio river, Louisville and other points of interest. _ -- ' " —i '

Hoodlums stoned Gus Faber’s saloon, at Logansport, because ho refused to sell them intoxicants, and seriously stabbed Schuyler Neff, who chanced to pass after the assault was made. Eleven skilled workmen from Chemnitz, in Saxony, Germany, have arrived at Ft. Wayne, and seventeen are en route. They will be employed by the knitting factory recently established in that city. Thousands of martins are gathering in Clark county. The birds roost on the islands in tho Ohio falls and in the trees near the river. In the evening, as they return to roost from the north, their flight fairly darkens the sky. John Henry, aged fifteen, son of W. M # Henry, of Logansport; jumped from a moving train at Burrow’s station and was tßStantly killed. The train was running Bfty miles an hour at the time and his neck was broken. The boy was stealing 1 ride and he was afraid of the conductorChas. Waterman was arrested at Michigan City as a horse-thief, and he proved to be an cx-convict, having served several terms for various offenses. It also developed that he had been making his home at Three Rivers, Mich., where he had suc;eeded in gaining the confidence of the community, while he continue*} lijs dqpreiations elsewhere. The auditor of Carroll county, in connection with the Bowen estate, has added 12,445,745 sequestrated property to the tax duplicate, and whilo the heirs have threatened to enjoin the collection o property taxes, no move has yet been made by them. They have already paid more in attorney fees than the disputed taxes aggregate. <. According to a bulletin issued by the Census Bureau, giving the assessed valuation of the property of the States, the total assessed valuation for Indiana in 1890 was $782,872,126, an Increase of $55,396,995 for the last ten years. The valuation per capita in 1890 was $35.70, an increase of 7.56 per cent, on tho valuation of 1880, while the increase in population was 10.87,

Malachi William Scott met Mary George on the streets of Crawfordsville and knocked her down for keeping company with another man. Then ho proposed marriage and she accepted, and he bor rowed 12 with which to secure a license and a squire volunteered to hitch them for life. Complaint is made that Scott is a bigamist, and the grand jury has been railed to investigate. An infuriated bull made a dash for Sheriff Thornton, of Floyd county, but by rapid running the officer animal to the nearest fence, over which he vaultewith tho agility of a three-year-old, Some friends attempted to protect the sheriff and called upon him to stop, but he shouted back, “I won’t; I’m not selling this race.” A remarkable relic has been found at Brown Hill, Clark county, imbedded in a large tree. It is a sandstone tablet three by six by eight inches. Upon it are carved the names of L. Wetzell, Jacob She!by> John Wetzel!, Daniel Boone, and the date 1812. The first and fourth names are in Reman characters; the otber two In script The tablet had growh deeply Into the butt of the tree. Tho Wetzells, like Boone were celebrated Indian fighters, and Shelby was one of Indiana’s first pioneers. Pro-

lessor W. W. Borden pronounces the relio 1 '--X #r - r~— The Hawkins affair is said to be tho first successful lynching In which the citizens of Shelby ville ever participated. In 1862 an insane man named Watson cut the throats of two little boys who were being detained in jail, and a mob attempted to hang him. Cooler counsels prevailed, and Watson was transferred to the insane hospital where he soon after died. In 1878 John C. Wagoner, In order to obtain title to property, attempted to starve his twelve-year old daughter to death and she was subjected to unnatural cruelty before her condition was discovered. The entire populace turned out to lynch Wagoner, but the sheriff managed to protect him and he was escorted to a train and shipped away. The death of Mrs. Nancy McNally, of New Albany, developed tho strange fact that her daughter, Miss Nettie McNally, aged forty-eight, who was supposed to be mentally unsound, and who always remained in seclusiorf at home, is really of mind. The daughter is overjoyed >4 her release from Jhe house where she has spent so years, and she says: “It seems as if I had been in a living tomb, or the only inhabitant of a desert island, and was now placed in anew world.” She speaks reverently of her parents, but intimates that in early girlhood her father objected to the attentions of a cousin and this was the original cause why she was so closely guarded. The only criticism is concerning her mother, who she says did wrong in keeping her in a forbidden back room for twenty years. Miss McNally has found friends, and her means will enable her to enjoy what life remains. • a The caving in of a sand-bank Tuesday morning near the Walnut Hill Cemetery, Jeffersonville, came very near burying alive two men. Robert Harold, the sexton of the cemetery, and Charles Kopp have been running the sand pit for soma time, when, without any warning, the sides gave way and buried both men under several tons. A number of men were standing around, and, taking in the situation at a glance, began to dig away the sand. It took several minutes to accomplish this, and Harold and Kopp were rescued more dead than alive. Both were unconscious, and received shocking injuries. Several of Kopp’s ribs were broken, and It is feared that he Is internally injured. Harold’s Injuries aro also of a dangerous nature. His limbs are badly crushed, and his right leg was broken below the knee. Harold has been sexton of the Walnut Hill Cemetery for a number of years. He has a wife and several children. B. F. Musgrave, of Terre Haute a real estate dealer,because of varied rascalities, one of which resulted in swindling Mrs. Dr. Ball out of $2,000, became a fugitive from justice two years ago, and part of the time he has been hibernating In Chicago, where his mother and sister reside,and where he did business under the name o T. B. Burnham. Last Friday he surreptl tiously returned to Terre Haute and concealed himself in a log hut not far from the city limits, where he was visited and cared for by some of his former cronies. Sunday night the hut burned down, and a quantity of bones were found in the ashes, together with a Pythian charm and other trinkets. Seeing these, it was given out that Musgrave had met his fate. The impression prevails, however, that the whole thing is a clumsily executed conspiracy to call off the officers, so that he will not live in constant fear of arrest. Musgrave slept in the loft of the cabin. His friends clalnj he was in good spirits, and it is their theory that the fire caught below and suffocated him in his sleep. At Georgetown, Brown county, 20 miles from tC railroad, twenty-two years ago, Flora Staple was born, Since that time she has been more helpless than a babe, having no power of motion, except the perpendicular movement of her jaws. During all those years she has taken nourishment only in fluid form. Strange as it may seem, it is a fact that she has grown to be very beautiful and of perfect form, except a slight curvature of the spine. Her power of speech has beon developed, and she reads and speaks the English lananlFeorrectryr Two ye&fi ago she was taken to see a circus parade, Seeing a large elephant, she informed her mother on returning home, that the sight of it had made an impression upon her mind that she would never forget, and that she believed if she had some pliable substance she could form with her mouth an image of the beast. iSbc was first given an apple-peeling, and her parents were greatly surnrised on seeing that a perfect image of the elephant was formed with her teeth. Since that time she has learned to form with great rapidity letters, words and sentenoes as perfectly as print, and in this she takes great' delight.

THE MARKETS.

INOIANAPOLIS, AUg 2ft 1891. | Wheat. | Corn. Oats. Rye. Indianapolis.. 3 r’d 99 1w 65 3w 32 Chicago 3 r’d l 02 6414 39 Cincinnati.... 3 r’d 101 .*6314 83 95 St Louis 2 r’d 1 03 60 29 00 New York.... 3 r’d 113 78 34* 113 Baltimore.... 1 1214 70 *8 „1 02 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 108 75 60 Clover Seed. Tolcdh 1.. 10714 « 30 4 80 ' Detroit t wli I 06 66 SIH Minneapolis.. 1 06 ■ CATTLE. Export steers $5 SOJ'S 85 Good to choice shippers 4 25(g5 60 Fair to medium shippers, 3 00.0,4 00 Common shippers 2 75(2/3 25 Stockers 2 07«t2 75 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 25@3 75 Fair tomedimn heifers 2 550*3 05 Light, thin heifers... 1 75<g2 25 Good to choice H 75w3 35 Fair to medium cows 200 @2 60 Common old cows. 1 o\<sl 75 Veals, common to choice. 3 00.35 00 Bulls, common to choice l 7.5@2 75 bilkers, good to choice 15 00@35 HOGS Heavy packing and shipping...ss 15@5 GO Mixea packing 5 (XXg5 43 Light,...4 .5(055 50 Heavy roughs 3 s;Xff4 50 SHEEP. Good to choice clipped ..$4 !5@4 6 Fair to medium cupped 3 0 Common cupped 3 5, Bucks, V head 2 uxgj oj MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs, 12c; butter, creairery, 20@3?c; dairy, 20c; good country 10c; feathers, 35c: beeswax, A(§ 0c; wool 30(33 r. unwashed 22c; hens. 8c; turkeys 8c toms 7c;c over •eed 4.3504.50.

BANTIAGO HAS FALLEN

Balmaceda is a Fugitive Fron His Capital, The Mob Takes Possession of the City, an Applies the Torch to Salmaceda’s House—Other Outrages. New York, Aug. 31.—The Herald thf morning prints special advices from ChiF as follows: Valparaiso, Chili, Ang. 30—The Con gressional army took formal possession o Santiago tonight and practically the las act in the bloody drama of the revolutiw which has torn Chili to pieces for the pas- * seven months is closed. The capital city was in the hands of a bloodthirsty mob last night, and while iwas unable to satisfy its murderous in stincts, it did destroy a vast amount o. property. As soon as the news reached Santiago yesterday of the overwhelming defeat o; the government troops on the heights o; Placilla and the fall of Valparaiso, and tin people knew that Balmaceda’s power wai gone and they had nothing to fear front his wrath, their enmity to his government broke forth. The cry was raised that the presldem should be killed, and a mob started for lib house/ ■lt grew in pumbers and fury as it went through the streets, and by the time i' reached tho executive mansion was rip« for a bloody deed; ~——““““7 Short shrift would have been allowed t< the president had he been caught. The bloodthirsty fury of the mob was balked. Then the mob’s thirst for revengi found vent in the application of the torch Soon Balmaceda’s house was in flames Before it had been destroyed the mob wen to the house of Senor Goday, the en-min' ister of the interior, an ardent Balmacedest, and fired his house. „ Then the residences of Balmaceda’l mother, General Barbosa, who wa3 killed at the battle of Pacilla; Senors McKenna and Eastman, tho government newspapei offices and tho houses of several prominent ifficlais were burned to the ground. The city was panic stricken, businest was suspended and people outside of th« mob kept close to their houses. The sky was lurid with the light from the burning buildings.

The police, the fire department and the irmy were demoralized and made not the semblance of any attempt to maintain Drder. Balmaceda, when he heard of the fall of Valparaiso, sent for General Baquedano* :ommander of tho government troops in Santiago, to meet him at 3o’clok yesteriay afternoon at Moneda. This Baquedano jeclined to do, but suggested tbat the meeting be held at the house of General Valasquez. A council of was war held at Velasquez’s souse, at which President Balmaceda, tha jenerals and other leading Balmacedists were present. The situation was thorraghly canvassed and it was decided that She capital was tho only proper course. Baquedano was given charge of tho city tnd was authorized to arrange the )f surrender with the congresslonalistsi Word was at once sent to Gen. Canto that >ll the troops in Santiago had declared their adhesion to the congressional party ind that Santiago was at his disposal. Senor Don Jorge Montt, who is in charge »f affairs in the south, ordered that the jhanaral regiment proceed at onco to San- ~ liago, where they are to assist tho force* »f Gen. Baquedano in keeping order and llso to prepare barracks for 2,000 additiontl troops. Accompanying the troops which went >o Santiago to-day was Senor Alimieno, I who will act for the present aa intendente if the capital. From those who came in on the special train from Santiago to-day it was learned that the city is in a terrible state. In addition to the destruction by the mob the city was threatened by an irupUon of all the desperate characters, robbers and outlaws in tho surrounding country. Gen. Baquedano has posted the imperial regiment in a cordon about the city to prevent robbers and other dangerous people from coming into the capital The task is almost hopeless. Gen. Canto and his staff, with additional troops, have left Valparaiso for Santiago. A new chief of police for Santiago and a new administrator for the railroad have been appointed. I have it on good authority that Balmaceda went by special train to Talc&huano* cm Conception Bay, and that there he will make connection with tho Condell and Imperialle, and in one of these vessels, probably the former, make for Bueno* Ayres or Montevideo. If this is so ho will. In ail probability, escape. Comparative order has at "last been festored in this city. It took strong measures to do it Rioters who were caught in the work were summarily dealt with and many of them were shot out of hand But rioting was not stopped until property estimated to be worth $1,800,000 had been destroyed. Many acts of tyranny have been perpetrated hero by government officials since last January, and every war ship in the bay has its quota of refugees. This gave rise to much dissatisfaction on tho part of the Congrcssionalist’s leaders. The feeling was particularly bitter against the Americans,for Admiral Brown had given assistance to many unpopular officials on board the Ban Francisco and Baltimore. Admiral Brown has had a long consultation with the leaders of the junta and his explanations have had tho effect of putting an end to the irritation against the Americans. The junta are exceedingly anxious to secure recognition from the United States government and are now hopeful that it will be accorded them, a N uir.orous arrests of government officials have been made. The insurgents shew a moderate disposition, however, and the .eaderssay thatjßvery man against whom charges are made shall have a full and fair hearing before the proper civil authorities when order is restored. In all the campaign from the landing of the congressional forces at Quintero bay on August 20 until the capture of Valparaiso on August 27, there was only on* battle worthy the namo, and that was a! Curicon, when the congressionalits forced the passage. The ambulance service here has simply been disgraceful.’ Hundreds of wounded were left on the battle field to die whs might have been saved if prompt of relief had been taken. The surgeons of the foreign warship* have done most valnable service in caring f. r the wonnded. Especial credit is duets « th*i medical staffs of the United St&tef/ ships San Francisco and Baltimore. ■