Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gbom 18. Makseall. Publisher. RENSSELAER ± • INDIANA

A woman in North China was once heard to say that the remarkable whiteness of foreign children is due to the practice of their mothers log them every day, as cats do their kittens. It is true that white women lick their children to some extent, but not in the way the China woman thought. ■ The eldest son of Cornelius Van derbilt, William H., who died about two weeks ago, was aged about -t twenty-two years and was the presumptive heir to the Vanderbilt 1110,000,000. He was already in possession of $1,0Q0,000, given him by his grandfather. of Vanderbilts, a million is a very small sum; speaking of death, he seems, indeed, to be no respecter of persons. _______ f Another New York clergyman has “advanced’’ ideas. It will be remembered that very 'acently Rev. Dr. Parkhurst visited the slums of that city, drank beer and deported hlmself in a sporting manner that he might have evidence to convict the owners of* the places visited. Now oomes Rev. Dr. Rainsford with a proposition that church people establish saloons, and sell wine, beer, coffee, chocolate, etc., obey the laws and keep the places orderly. What next from New York, please? Governor Poster, of Louisiana, hag appointed his predecessor, Governor Nidholls, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Four years ago Governor Nicholls appointed his predecessor, Governor MpEqery,who had been his competitor for the nomination, a Judge of the same court, and now the peculiar picture is presented of two political rivals occupying positions on the Supreme Bench of the State, both of whom have been Governor of the State for two terms and each having at one time defeated , the other for re-election. It may interest the great body of women wage earners to hern: that Lottie Collins, the London concert hall divinity, receives SSO a day at the Gaiety Theatre for her Ta-ra-ra Booni-de-ay dance. The most highly j cultured women of the country, who 1 have devoted the best years of their j lives to preparation for educational, work in the schools and colleges, | seldom receive SSO for a week’s sal-.j ary. Higher mathematics is ;a less ( profitable investment than high kicking, it would seem, and-nimble j Sfita and a trained intelligence have less market value than agile feet and | a suple body.—N. Y. Sun. The proposition to reduce the salary of the Director! General of the World’s Fair from $15,000 to SB,OOO, recalls the fact that this Is a small salary compared with that paid Di- j rectors of other Expositions. The Director of the Centennial Exposition received SIO,OOO per year and $25,000 for expenses, while the Directors General of the Paris and Vienna Expositions received $50,000 each. These expositions were not more than half as large as the Chicago World's Fair, covered less ground, and a half less money was invested, i »j, , - A new dormitory is to be built at Harvard University with all possible modern improvements.. The suites' of rooms will be rented at from $350-j----to SSOO yearly. Evidently the old idea of college life as a time of dis-j cipline and plain living has grown 7 I [ very dim at Harvard. But, .reaHy, should a university spend money in building luxurious apartment houses for its extremely wealthy students—its leisure class, so to say—who are abundantly JJgelves? In our humble opinion, it vastly more good to the cause ol sound education, if the Harvard authorities, instead of putting their w $l5O, building where $350 to SSOO yearly must be charged as rental for the suites, should use j the money to build two or three; modest but comfortable dormitories where students of restricted incomes could get a pleasant room at a very low annual charge. It is the students who seek Harvard to study that reflect honor on the great university, not the wealthy young fellows to whom college life is only, or mostly, a season for display and dissipation. It is stated in a fashionable Lon- ; don journal that one million bonnets were sold in tha British metropolis during one week recently.

NEWS SUMMARY.

Money is needed for the sufferersln the oil refions. v * Minneapolis flour mills produced 114,939 barrels of flour last week. ' - Chicago on the 15th began receiving arrivals to the national Democratic convention. The primary school at East Tawas, Mich., owing to the prevalence ofdiphtheria. The Indictments against the Maverick Bank Directors of Boston were quashed In the United States District Court. Dr. Ogden and Dr. Houser. Christian science doctors of Lincoln. Neb.. are under arrest for practicing without a license. ) Four men were killed and twenty-five more or less injured by the wreck of a C., B. & Q. construction train near Gladstone. 111., on the 18th.; Tbeßupreme Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv congressional districts. An alleged weak minded woman at Cincinnati resolved to stop eating. As-she stuck to her resolution till she died of starvation her will mu?t have been strong enough. The saloon'men of Washington dornot take kindly to the proposed license, and are threatening to start drug stores and groceries and sell liquors under Government license. At Kingfisher, OkJa., a negro mob attempted to hang James Holland, a negro real estate agent, who swindled hundreds of blacks by promising to give each a claim in exchange for 110. . - -- At Cleveland. Q„ on the 16th. the livestory wooden cooper shop of the Standard Oil Company was burned. The flames extended to one of the separators and destroyed that also. The loss is about $500,000. Tho postoffice at Genesee, N. Y., was entered by burglars at 2 o’clock Wednes-day-morning, and robbed of about SBSO. Postmaster Olmstead was shot at and had a fight with the burglars. He is slightly hurt. The iron workers of the Pittsburg district remain firm in their opposition to the ieduction in wages proposed by Andrew Carnegie, and a big strike is expected next Friday, when the new segfe is to go lnt 0 effect. At Angora, Pa., two men who jumped off a train in obedience to orders were run down and killed by a train coming from an opposite direction. Three of their friends, who had also been put off, opened fire on the trainmen, killing ono and fatally injuring another. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has secured control of the immense Win. Penn colliery at William Penn, Pa. The output of the colliery has heretofore been shipped via the Reading road. This is the first blow dealt that combine by its big competitor. At Elizabeth, W. Va., on tho 10th, fire destroyed $300,000 worth of property. It broke out in the Independent bung factory, the largest in the United States, which was destroyed, with a loss of OCO. The flames spread to Burns Brothdfe’ aud Honman’s work?, and they also were destroyed. Mrs. Jules Leroy, wife of a coal miner at Imperial,Pa., tried to hasten breakfast Tuesday .by pouring kerosene on the firo. An explosion followed and Mrs. iLeroy and her two children, aged three and tea years, were burned so badly that tho yOnngest child died in an hour and the njother and other child can not recover. Father Mollinger died at Pittsburg, Pa.V" on the 15th.rt» Father- Moliinger-was-the-noted Catholic priest, who, for several | years, has attracted thousands to Pi US- j enrg to be cured of affliction by the power ■ which they believed him to exercise. Dur- ! ing this week he has had thousands of j people attending his services in the hope I of being cured. The will of Robert J. Anderson, the ! steel manufacturer of Pittsburg, who died two weeks ago, was probated Wednesday. One-half of his estate is bequeathed to D. Shaw, a bnssness partner, the balance to Mrs. Mary Miller, who was Mr. Anderson's housekeeper. The bequests occasion great surprise, as Mr. Anderson had a number of near relatives. During a thunderstorm that passed over Chicago Thursday evening lightning j struck the Grant monument in Lincoln! Park, in the corridors of which nearly five ! hundred people had sought shelter. Three ! were killed and two seriously injured. All j of the others, witMthe exception of three, I were thrown violently toithe stone floor of the monument, and some received severe sjiocks. The monument was but slightlydamaged. Darker,A-profflinenUarmereighty- . nine years of a“ge~feslsitig'‘"hear Otway, 0.. in attempting to catch a mule was attacked by the animal, which bit and j kicked him, tearing his lower jaw and the ! -flesh on his Shoulder and face loose and ; crushing his body beyond resemblance to five neighbors were attacked aud only es- ’ <ape4-by-climbrngtreesnearbfrArtflei was secured and the brute killed, after 1 being shot six times. r. is a local option tutfß.Several days ago Henry A. Burdette, a 4ottetive.took the “blind tigers” in hand hnd bcgah~to~wdrk~u‘p^ ~£Sses agai nst theIllicit whisky selling on “Battle Row,” a negro settlement, and one white man and five negroes were arrested on warrants. ,Frank Turner, the white man, hails from [ Berks county. He was fined SICO each in'f 1,577 cases, amounting to $157,700. A ne- j pro named Jphn Smith, who was engaged in the business with confessed in JSSSS cases. His fine was $158,500, Presbyterian minister named Bolden', who prophesied that in 1846 and'47 there w,ould be a three years' war in the United States, with auothef war in IS6I-'65. He also prophesied that in IS7O-‘7l there would be war in Europe. Still that in 1887-’93 ;there would be tlieigregtest destruction of Jife and property ever known, while in 1913 or 1914 would come the final dissolution of all things. These propecies are now in the hani§ of William Miner, aged jelghty-two, a cousin of David G. Phillips, Madison. All but the last one has been fulfilled. , ' r ... '-i™** The Vi-ginia Supreme Court of Appeals

on the 16th, decided the celebrated Bettle I Lewis Thomas case In favor of the plaintiff. By this action a colored woman,who is a resident of RfcSftond, becomes the possessor of an estate valued at about $200,000. Her father, W. T. Thomas, who was a white man, died in 1689, at the home of this daughter, and left no will. of the deceased, as well as Bettie. engaged some of the ablest legal talent in the State, and sought to obtain possession of the property. The Chancellory Court decided in favor of Bettie, and the Supreme Court affirms that decision. The will of tho late millionaire, Samuel B: Duryea-who died suddenly in Brooklyn last Week, has been offered for probate. The bulk of the estate is left to the widow Kate Duryea, and liberal bequests are made to Hermanns Duryea, father of the testator, to bis half brothers, and to numerous cousins, aunts and other relatives. The executors are directed to sell the extensive property in Flatbush, and distribute the proceeds in equal shares to theso institutions: *Y. M. C. A., Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute, University of the City of New York, Yale Theological Seminary. memorial fund of Plymouth church, the National Temperance Society and Publication House, New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and the Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn library. The estate of Mr. Duryea has been valued at over $5,000,000.

FOREIGN.

The President of Venezuela has resigned. Ifcis authoritatively denied that Emin Fashals dead, Hcls In good health. Lord Hannen and Sir John S. Thompson have been appointed representatives of Great Britain in the Bering sea arbitration. A cyclone wrought in Quebec, a number of school children being killed and injured at St. Rose. A plague has broken out in Uesopota‘mia country between the Euphrates and the Tiger rivers. The dispatch does not mention the nature of tho disease, but it is thought to be cholera, which is traveling east from Turkey. A great anti-home-rule convention was held in Belfast, Ireland, on the 17th. Business in the city was generally suspended. Resolutions were adopted strongly resolving, as the sentiment of the Ulsterites, not to be governed by an Irish parliament, and favoring the present position of Ireland as ajn integral portion of the ' nde’ Kingdom.

DEATH OF EMMON:

Emmons Blaine died at Mrs. Cyrus McCormick (his wife's mother; at Chicago, on the 18th. He returned from Minneapolis a few days previous physically prostrated, due to some extent to his earnest work there in the interest of his father’s candidacy, and the failure to secure the nomination to the senior Blaine, it la believed, contributed to hi 9 illness. Though sick and confined his bed, it was not believed that his

EMMONS BLAINE.

condition was precarious’until a sow moments beftre he expired. His wife and •.child were huTso sudffenly 2Ti(f death do its work that there was not time j even to summon other members of the household. Mr. James 6. Blaine was at Bdr Harbor, out of reach of telegraphic communication, and did not know of his son's serious illness. His. death was caused bjfe. blood poisoning, and brought about by disease of the bowels. Emmons Blaine was the second son of James G. Blaine, and is tht third member of the family to die within two years—the other two being Walker Blafhe and a married sister. Emmons vrits about 35 years old. He was the general ag£nt of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Chicago and* was also a Vice President of the road. He began a railroad career put a few years ago, and had achieved a decided success. He did not care for politics, and the only active part he was ever known to take was in the interest of his father at tlie Minneapolis convention. Four years ago hefmarried the daughter of the Sate Byra?''McCormick, the great reaper manufacturer, and a son, McCormick Blaine, now two years old and his wile, survive him, The most excellent powder for razor strops is mpde as follows: Ignite together fin a crucible equal parts of well-dried copperas and seasalt. The heat must be slowly raised and well regulated, otherwise the material will boil over in a pasty state and much of the product be lost. When well made, and out of contact 'of air, it has the brilliant aspect of plumbago. It requires to be ground and elutriated, after which Jt affords, on drying, an impalpable powder that they be either rubbed one a strap of smooth buff leather, or formed into a stiff errate by mixing with lard and tallow. The Parisian method for cleaning ..black silk is as follows: Thoroughly brush aud wipe with a cloth; then lay upon a .skirt board and sponge on the right side with coffee that has been strained through muslin. Iron on the wrong k side. The coffee removes every pafticlfe of grease and restores the brilliancy of silk without imparting to it either the shiny appearance or crackly or papery stiffness obtained by beer or, indeed, any other liquid. The silk really appears to be thickened by the process and this good effect is permanent. Experiment on a ribbon or cravat and be satisfied that this is the best method for cleaning silk. There is no middle course for the aver, age man during housecleaning time. Hu must be ef'V.er a poltroon or a hero. , jk

THE STATE.

Marien wants a public park. Harvest is approaching rapidly. Pulaski has good crop prospects. Richmond wants a federal building. 3 Ft. Wayne is agitating for high license. Logansport has Sunday balloon ascenlions. Clarksville charges SIOO for liquor licenses. Wabash county’s wheat crop promises id be large. Fish-worms are a plague to farmers in Miiam county. , .. The Kokomo pulp mills were damaged 110,000 by fire Sunday. Mrs. Critvrford, of Ghentj was gored to death by a cow on the 18th. Laporte will lay the corner stone of its now court house on the 30th. Two thousand Odd Fellows hetd a pife oTc at Centerville on the-181h. El wood young ladies gave an onion picnic to their gentlemen friends. Hiram B. Patton has purchased the plant of the Morristown Sun. " A gang of juvenile counterfeiters is supposed to be operating near Muncie. John Warren has succeeded in getting a license to sell liquor at Charlestown. Robert Blum Lodge I. O. O. F., of South Bend, has celebrated its silver jubilee. The bloodhounds at Seymour are proving a great success in tracking crimiaals. The wheat crop in a portion of Clark county is badly damaged by smut and rust. , James Lykens, of Henry county, while overheated, drank freely of ice water and died. Decatur county horticulturists report the cherry crop a failure, and a poor prospect for peaches. Tho small daughter of Frederick Jacorha, of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. George Scoville, who defended Charles Guiteau, the assassin, is now living in comparative retirement at Cedar Lake, in Starke county. Nelson Jackson, of Walkerton, aged seventy-eight, frequently walks to "Laporte and back in a day, a distance of thirty-six miles. Mrs. John Taylor, widow, of Anderson, is said to have fallen heir to an immense estate by the death of John Goodman, a bachelor brother, who resided in California The trustees oi Clarksville have not inly passed an ordinance increasing liquor licences to SIOO per year, but a fine o* k-0 and costs is imposed for every yio‘Ltion. While the female oaii players wefe playing a game with a club at Muncie Sunday, they were arrested by the police for desecration of the Sabbath. The gang gaye bond and left for Union City. After three years’ litigation with the Vincennes Gas Company, the city of Ytn:enneS finds itself compelled to observe ihe original contract and to pay the costs. Altogetor they collect $20,000 arrearages. The corner stono of the new Masonic Temple at Wabash will be laid July 4, and th« lodge is making preparations for a calibration of magnificent proportions. The temple will be the largest and handsomest building in the city. The Over window-gkss Works and tliß tlemiugway flint glass factory, at. Muncie, burned Saturday afternoon. Total loss, 1300,000, with $150,000 insurance. Tho fire caught from a spark from a railroad engine. Both factories will be rebuilt. While a crowd of boys and girls were celebrating tho marriage of Lewis Recte r in Perry township, Clay county, _W!lßiam_ Boberts, aged thirteen,was fatally wounded by the discharge of a revolver In the hands of Alfred. Vanness. Another Jjoy was badly hurt by a blow on the head by a flying missile John Glasgow, an official of Hereford, England, has resigned his position, and with his family will remove to Newbergi near Evansville. Mr. Glasgow has three sturdy sons, and after looking over the field he concludes that America, and not England, offers the best opportunity for men of worth. Holmes Fisher, telegraph operator and ticket agent in the Monon railway at Orleans, about 1:3) a. m., Friday, whileseated at>hl3 desk reading, wgs overpowered by two masked men, who bound and gagged kim, robbed him of $9 and plundered the office of $45 and some tickets. Fisher remained bound until 8 when he was released by the conductor of a passenger train stopping for orders. The rolibers are supposed to be ex-employes. Mrs. Louise Bowman McClain, wife of RevTTßomas-R.JM.cCiatn, of the SouthAst Indiana Milton, Is said to have fallen heir to an immense estate in Germany under peculiarly romantic circumstances. Her broth srs, Charles, Milo and Elijah Bowman,are well known residents of Madison, and she is kinswoman of Bishop Thomas Bowman. Mrs. McClain is a gifted woman, of strong literary ability, and she has been chosen as Indiana's representative poet at the World's Exposition. Years ago, in her girlhood, an exiled German officer, who was traveling In this country, paid court with great persistence, bnt his offer wag declined, although twice repeated. T 1& lady afterward ma the man of her choice. Six years ago her German admirer died, and he bequeathed to her his en-, tire estate, estimated at $2,000,000, provided she was alive at the end of seven years. Should her death occur before this period has elapsed, then the estate reverts to a nephew. The lady is now laying claim to the bequest, and her interests are being looked after, it is said, by Bishop Bow map and ex-Governor Cumback. The Indiana World’s Fair Commission has arranged the construction of thq Indiana State building so that it will be an exhibit of Indiana’s best building material,, consisting of stone, hard woods, glass and encaustic tiles. The best archmlogical exhibit belonging to any private individu al in the dnited States is said to be owned by Josfeph Collett,of Terre Haute, and it is understood that he Will loan it for exhibition. The committee on agriculture has formed an alliance with the State Board of Agriculture and with seventy-two .county and district agricultural associa-. Jtions. The educational committee has enlisted the assistance of lndlana’e 15,000

teachers as well as the aid of her fifteen colleges-and universities, ' Especial from Brownsburg to the Indianapolis News on the 15th says: Frank Adams, a farmer and cattle buyer, was murdered at 6 o’clock this morning by a neighbor, Benjamin Wing, a farmer and dairyman. For several days Mr. Adams has shown signs of being demented, which manifested itself, among other ways, in laying down a partition fence and turning bis cattle Wing's premises. This enraged Wing, notwithstandieg he was given assurances that whatever damage was dono would be paid for by the Adams family, and that arrangements were making for ti e transfer oi Adams to the insane asylum. Wing was instructed not to go about Mr. Adams, but this morning he armed himself with a shot- gun and went to the field where Adams was and shot him off his horse, the shot tearing away his nose and eyes and blowing out his brains. Wing claims the killing was done in self defense, Adams threatening to kill him and running over him twice with his horse. Adams was never known to carry a weapon, and none was found upou him after tho murder. Wing surrondered himself to tho authorities, and he was removed to tho jail at Danville. Adams resided on the farm wi th his helpless mother and ho leaves one daughter. Wing has a wife and several children. Owing to the threats made against Rev. i Benjamin Van Cleave and wife, of Moberl/, by friends of the parties whom Mr. Van Cleave is prosecuting as white cappers, they have abandoned the parsonage and are sheltered by friends. In a mass meet ng which was held at AJoberly the whitecappers were denounced in the strongest term. The lady who was slandered by the anonymous circular distributed by the enemies of Mr. Van Cleave was indorsed as a woman of the highest personal character . STATE INSTITUTIONS. Mr. Johnson, Secietary of the State Board of Charities, returned recently from a trip to the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, the School for Feeble-minded at Fort Wayne, the Prison North and tho Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orßhans’ Homo at Knightstown. The appointment of John P. Thistlewnite as steward of the Eastern Hospital was confirmed. When first appointed, several weeks since, one member of the board opposed Thistlewaite. having a friend of his own that he had been booming for the place. The successful appointee is a man of sterling honesty and unusually competent. Though a strong Democrat, his personal popularity led to -his election as Mayor of Richmond by the aid of Republican votes. Mr. Johnson was gratified, he says, to find that Warden French had adopted two new features in prison government, pne was the “free hour,” which means that prisoners in their cells may do as they please—sing, play instruments or talk. It is esteemed a safetyvalve in prison control. .The other innovation is a system of private boxes, one at each door, into which the prisoner may drop a note of any complaints he may have without fear of interference by the guard. The warden alone has a key to the boxes. The plan is said to be working well. Mr. Johnson, strongly denounces the kitchen facilities at the prison, and also the inconvenience and undersize of the dining room and chapel. The prisoners have to sit edgewise at the table when they eat. It is expected., that: tho prison authorities will soon have trouble in the cooperage department. The contractors have introduced a costly labor-saving *inachine, which will require tho daily task to bo twenty-five barrels instead of fifteen, As the prisoners have been granted over"tlmeior their otjrn benefit' heretofore, it is •probable that they will object to th<s increase. In other departments the prisoners have no opportunity to earn anything for themselves, and there is dissatisfaction with the contract labor system on all sides, except that of the contractors.

Caught.

Teacher —-Johnny, take the sentence, “He went home.” Is “went” a verb' or a noun? Johnny —A verb. Teacher —Next! • Willie—A noun. Teacher —Johnny is right. Willie, you may remain after school and say your lessons oveF again.

THE MARKETS.

iNDiiHApoi.ts. June 21. 1832, All quotations lor lu JiaiLipolU wlieu Dot spociliod GBAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, 8”p; No. 3 red. 79c; wagon wheat, 83c. „ Corn—No. I while, 50$; No. 3 white. 50c; white mixed, 47Ke: No. 3 white, 46-„«Z49c, No. 2 yellow, 47cf*No. 3.yellow, -46><c; No 2 mtTee.47ciNo. 3 mixed, 46c: ear, 44Xc. Oats—No. 2 white, 36c; No. 3 white,'34c; No. 2 mixed, 34}<c; rejected, 29c. Hay—Timothy, choice, $13.50; No. 1, prairie,sß.oo; No. 2,56.50; mixed hay, $7.00; clover, fSJJO; Bran $12.50 ——- : Wheat | Corn. Oats, i Rye. Chicago. ..... 2r’d Ciuciuuuti.... 2 r'dSS 48 S St L0ui5...... 9 r’d 87 44 38 7b New York.... 2 r’4 » 57- 8754 Baltimore.... Iw 63V4 jS,/ TTlnVor Philadelphia. 3r 4 91)4 M 8754 seed T01ed0........ #J 50 33H 700 ‘ Detroit IwliKl 50 34 ........ Minneapolis.. . Bil 4 CATTLE. Export grades. J $4 35@4 gs Good to choice shippers 3 Bj@4 J 5 Fair to medium shippers 3 4<ka/3 75 Common shippers.... . 2 8. r >(c£3 2.) Feeders, good to choice 3 l.ygs 35 Stockers, common to good 2 50(®3 00 Good to choiqe heifers 3 50@4 oo Fair to medium heifers 2 75w3 2; Common, thin heifers 2 2.'®2 65 Good to choice cows.... 3 25(®3 75 Fair to medium cows. . 2 t)5(«3 lo Commortvdfd cow?. 1 25@2 25 Veals,common to g00d........ 3 tXKai 50 Bulls, cumibon to medium.... 2 oo@2 50 Bulls, good to choice .. 2 75(@’3 75 Milkers, good to choice. 30 00^40oo Milkers, common to medium.. 15 00@2500 lions. v Heavy packing and shit ping. $4 *o@s qq Lights..,'. 4 75qj4 95 Mixed 4 60@4 y > Heavy roughs 4 ou<a 4 30 sheep. —^ Good to choice , $i oO@4 5J Fair to medium .. 3 0 (gj 75 Common to medium... ~ ~.2 (Jo(s4 0, Lambs, good to choice . 6 00@3 p 3 ‘ MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs; 13c; butter, good country, 10 @ , 12c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, 35@40c; wool, <130(533c; unwashed,23c; turkeys 12c; clover seed, tc.00(93.50. ,

STILL ANOTHER.

Calamities Follow Other in ~ Rapid SuccessionMany Persons Killed and Drowned by a Falling Bridge Near Covington, Ky. - " d » One of the most fearfnl accidents in the history of that vicinity was that of the' fall, on the 15th’ of the bridge which was in course of construction over the Licking river, between Covington and Newport, Ky. Forty-five workmen were on Hie structure. So far as is now known only two escaped unhurt. The others were either killed or injured bs3he crashing of the iron and timbers, or were drowned In the water. The cause is sufmised to be the weakening of the wooden., false 'work. The high river has washed qnt the earth about the supports, and it is said one of contractors said a day or two ago that he was afraid the structure would not stand under the weight of the heavy material. But still they kept at work. On the 15th a force of forty-three men, was engaged In putting in ptace the heavy Iron work on the main span. Suddenly, without warn* ing, there was a crankling sound of breaking timbers, a sadden swaying of the structure and a headlong plunge of the mass of timbers, iron and helpless workmen into the muddy waters of the Licking river, fifty feet below. It was alt most like the foundering of A few forms were to be seen the surface; the others weref drowned or "crushed by the material. • 1 In a short time the river was lined with rescuers on both sides, and by their efforts something of the horrible story was revealed. At this writing seventeen boddies have been rescued. At the hour of the accident there were , few other than the workmen on the bridge or near the scene, which leaves the few survivors among the victims as the only ones to tell the story. Bruce Thomas wa9 working on the truss. He says: “I was Bitting in a sling working a racket. The first thing I knew I was falling. I heard no cracking of timbers, no outcry of hu- i man voices. I only knew I was going down. I had hardly time to think when I found myself on the bottom of the river In ten feet of water about twenty feet from shore. I arose to the surface —I don’t know how. Then I heard cries for help. A young man near me, whose name I don’t know, shouted: ‘l’m kiUed. I’m killed.’ He only had an arm broken. I helped him out. I helped three others out. I have heart disease add I worked till I got deathly sick. I got bruised a little on the legs. I saw several others that escaped. I don’t know their real names. We know each other by nick names.” At a cottage on Thornton street, Newport, not two hundred ya*ds from the bridge, lay the dead bodies of John R. Roby and his brother, William Roby. Mrs. Catherine Baer, the occupant of the house was the mother-in-law of John Roby, a sturdy man of who leaves a wife and two children. The two brothers were taken there to die, □ Never in the house of royalty, riches or greatness was there snore real mourning than in that house to-night. John died' first. His dying brother, William, said to the young widow: “Don’tcry,sAnnie, John will getwell.” When told that John,was dead he said: “Then I wan’t to die, too,” and these were his last word 9. In the same house was C. H. Fetters, of Irohton.O. His back was injured and his left ankle was crushed. He talked freely. He said: “The crash came without warning, I heard no sound, saw no excite, ment, only knew that we were all going down in a heap. I scrambled on some timbers and some one rescued mo in a boat, and here I am.” >

WASHINGTON.

Mr. E. S. Lacey, Controller of the Currency, has resigned. N % Thomas H, Sherman, United States Consul at Liverpool, has tendered his resignation to the President. Congressman Shively, of Indiana, made * a speech in the House, ou the 15th favoring his bill reducing the duty on tin plate to one cent a pound. _ ....... -• Representative Davis, of Kansas, on the 15th, introduced In the House a bill, providing that United States Treasury notes, _ commonly known as greenbacks, standard lilver dollars and gold coins of the United States shall hereafter be full and lega ‘ fender in payment of all debts, and declaring void any Instrument stipulating payment in any particular kind of -■■ All the gnver ~~ cither formally or informally accepted the Invitation issued by the President to participate iu A -i^etaJV T time and place been settled. While thecenfreeson the part of the United States hdve not been announced, it is generally accepted that Mr. H. H. Cannon aud Senator Jones of tferada will be appointed. The President and the Secretary of the Treasury will confer netft week on the subject of the meeting. President Harrison has sent the follow* ing message to his Indiana supporters at Minneapolis: “Ills quite impossible for me to acknowledge individually aad in writing the warm congratulatory messages » of my Indiana friends. If this great company of friends were before me I could not express my feelings in speech. I have tried that once and failed. Itls not the renomination for the Presidency which you did so much to bring about, but just your great and unfailing respect and love that moves me. My’ gratitude would not haye been less if your discreet and friendly efforts had been wholly unavailing.”

Papa’s Bulge on Cupid.

LifeHe —Your father does not withhold his consent to our marriage because I am his employe, 1 hope? ! She —Oh, no. He says he’ll give his consent as soon as you get your salary raised. r ' ■ 'a- v ■ L - A local dealer who advertises reels, among his stock will have to hustle to dlsI taace the saloons in the competitive race.