Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The town of Ypsllantl, Mich., was demons hed'By a cyclone, Wednesday. Free Press, died in that city, Wednesday night An enterprising St Lonis pickpocket saved a drunken man from drowning and then picked bis pockets. 1 William Maxham, thirteen, and his nine-year-old sister, have tramped back to Boston from the Pacific coast. Carter Harrison, ex-mayor and mayorelect of Chicago, has been recuperating at West Baden since his last election. Cincinnati reports two distinct earthquake shocks, Tuesday night At the same time a terrific gale was blowing. Experienced captains say boats can now get through the Straits of Mackinaw. The .weather is very warm, with rains. John Hill, colored, was hanged at Camden, N. J., Friday, for the murder of Joseph Dodson, also colored, in October last

Bradstreot reports the business failures through the United States the past three months as the smallest of any quarter in the past eleven years. The total earnings of the whisky trust for tho year ending March 31, wore 12,432,of which f 1,262,158 has been paid in dividends and expenses. Mrs. Jennie Northern, o aged 110 years, died of measles, near Princeton, Ky., Monday. A daughter, aged ninety, is left an orphan by her untimely death. At an immigration convention held at Vernon, Tex., resolutions were adopted calling a convention to map a new State out of the panhandle of Texas. A sensational story is printed to the effect that Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, will abandon the ring and enter the ministry as an evangelist. Mitchell has not denied the report. The French count Do Keratri is in New York. He will try to raise $3,000,000 in tho United States to form a new Panama Canal Company. Hd hopes to complete the organization in two months. E, W. Henesley, his wife, son and daughter, living in a cabin on Grassy Mountain, thirty mllos from Greenville, S. C., were found dead in tho ruins of their home. They are supposed to be victims of a feud. John Sehardt. ca?hii r of the Mechanics’ Savings Bank and Trust Company, at Nashville, is short in his accounts from 140,000 to SBO,OOO. Ho is confined to his home by sickness and will not talk for publication. There is an exodus of small boys from Now York to Chicago. The district telegraph service has been embarrassed on account of it, and it has been found necessary to employ 100 men to fill up tho vacancies. Charles Hamburg was found seriously if not fatally wounded on the road near his home at Milan, Tenn. Ho had been beaten by his brother, who was in love with the same girl and who clubbed him through jealousy. A bronze statue of Columbus was unveiled at Chicago. Saturday. It is twenty feet high, and represents the discoverer at the moment ho sights land. "The location Is almost directly opposite the Auditorium; Hotel, and faces Michigan avenue. The Hungarian, Italian and Polish miners near Ilazelton, Pa., engaged in a bloody fight, Saturday night. Two men are dead, two arc missing and throc others are seriously injured. The trouble has been brewing for some time. Lieutenant Totten, whose interpreta tloft of Biblical prophecies has occasioned much comment, regards the destruction of the John Brown statue at Osawotamie by an serolite as ominously significant and a direct warning from heaven. I Judge Kelley, of St. Paul, has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on a set of false teeth attached to a gold plate after they have been attached to the mouth. The case had been before the courts for some time and had attracted much attention.

Miss Sadie Mp&ns, a telephone girl, was expelled from the Second Presbyterian church, at Charleston, S. C., becauso she worked on Sunday. She appealed to the Charleston Presbytery, and that body sustained the action of the church. The case will bo carried to the synod. *» Pardrldge, the ruined Chicago speculator, declares that he was misled by his friends and sacrificed by false information from those ho had a natural right to trust. Ho claims that with the resources yet at his command ho will stick to thn floor of the Exchange and yet get oven with his enemies. A citizen of Rumpass Mill, Stewart county, Tonn., purchased a barrel of molasses, a few days ago. The first of the syrup used seemed to have a peculiar taint and an Investigation was made, which disclosed the body of a 10-year-old negro boy partially decomposed. Authorities are now Investigating the case. In the Bering Sea court of arbitration, Wednesday, the President refused to admit the British supplementary report. Ex-Secretary Foster, In an interview, said that this action substantially sustains the American position. It is regarded generally as a strong point gained for our Gov - ernment. Miss Bessie Mitchell, who left Chicago ou a wager that she conld visit San Francisco, City of Mexico. New Orleans and New York and return to Chicago without setting foot on the ground, arrived at the World’s Fair City, Monday, having successfully completed tho trip eighteen hours ahead of time. South Carolina has a now liquor law which goes Into effect duly 1, by which the State will control the traffic and the profits will be covered into the treasury. Gov. Tillman and other officials were in Pittsburg, Monday, looking after the cost of bottles and liquid refreshments. Another big coal combine has been Incorporated in New Jersey under tho name of tho Consolidated Coal and Iron Company. It has a paid-up capital stock of •3.1,000, which It is authorized to increase to t 10,000.000. Tho object of the new concern Is said to bo to act as pooling agent for other concerns. A boy named Alllson.'sixlccn years old, murdered Mrs. Flanders, aged sixty, at Corfu, N, Y., Tuo3dfly. Mrai Flanders kept a little store and the lad owed her a small account for which sho asked payment, The father of the boy has become insane over tho crime of ills son. Yellowbacked literature Is said to bo responsible for the atrocious act of tho youth.

FOREIGN.

A flro in Vosprim, a town of Hungary, has destroyed 141 houses and done damage to property to the extent of half a million

florins. One thousand persons are homeless. - - The labor riots in Belgium are growing finrifuifl. ODi iu um— —:—■— i - • -- - t —:—— The report of the death of ex-President Gonzales at the city of Mexico is said to be unfounded; ——-—* ■ Most European sovereigns have. congratulated King Alexander o£Servia upon his newly acquired power. The dock laborers at Hartlepool resolved to support the Hull men, and will hot unload vessels of the Wilson line while the strike is pending, t There was a total eclipse of the sun on the 16th, visible in South America and southern Europe. At Madrid the eclipse was successfully observed by astronomers. IMore than, two hundred Methodist ministers in Ireland have signed an appeal to ministers in England to oppose home rule In Ireland both on religious and com? mercial grounds. A furious battle was fought at Oruro. Colombia, between the Indians belonging to the estates of Guancaaoma and Quelcata. The battle lasted five days. Thirty of the combatants were killed and a great number injured. William Waldorf Astor has bought the splendid estate of Cliveden, on the banks of the Thames, from the Duke of West-. minster. The sum paid is stated to have been $1,250,000. Cliveden is at Maidenhead. Berks, and is one of the ancestral seats of the Duke.

WASHINGTON.

6 The President, Friday, sent tq the Senate the name of L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, to be Recorder of the General Land Office. Mr. Lamar is a son of the late Justice Lamar. The President, Thursday, sent to the Senate the name of Alexander Watson Terrell, of Texas, to bo Minister to Turkey A few other unimportant nominations were also sent in. Capt. Guthrie, who arrived at Antlers on Tuesday, has made a telegraphic report of the situation to the War Depart, ment. He regards the -situation as very serious. * An unofficial list of the members of the lower House of the Fifty-third Congress, compiled by the Clerk of the House,shows that, with one seat vacant, the Democrats have 220 members, Republicans 127 aqd Populists 8. Governor McKinley called on the President, Tuesday. A pleasant and somewhat lengthy interview took place between the champions Of adverse tariff views. Mr. Cleveland is said to have tendered his sympathy to the Governor on his business troubles. 3Sir Julian Pauncefote. having been raised to the rank of an ambassador, becamo dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington, Tuesday. As Sir Julian is the first ambassador from any government to the United States, the occasion was one of more than ordinary interest. Accordingly the British embassy called at the State Department and afterwards accompanied by Secretary Gresham proceeded to the White House, where they were received by the President. Sir Jhlian made a formal address to which Mr. Cleveland nißd» an apnrnnflate response.

COL. JAMES O. BROADHEAD.

Our New Minister to Switzerland, -.T;une* O. Broadhead, recently named by President Cleveland as United States Minister to Switzerland, is a lawyer by profession, has long been prominent in Missouri politics and has represented his

JAB, O. BROADHEAD.

State in Congress, fie was at one time a member of the Democratic National Committee for Missouri, was a member of the Missouri constitutional conventions of 1861 and 1863, and'was Aie of the representatives of this country at Paris in the matter of the French spoliation claims. He resides at St. Louis and is about 65 years of age.

BREAD ON THE WATERS.

Twenty years ago Attorney Eimermann, of Milwaukee, then a journeyman barber in Chicago, befriended a man named Walter, a comparative stranger, who was in hard luck. Finally Walter asked the loan of $lO, saying he could get a job at St. Louis and would return the money. Elmermannn loaned the sum and never heard of his friend Walter until Saturday last, when ho received a letter from a Houston (Tex.) law firm stating that Mr. Walter had died and left him sole heir to an estate worth $17,000.

A RARA AVIS.

Congressman J. C. Sibley, the only man since the death of the Hon. W. L. Scott who has been able to carry the ErieCrawford district against the Republicans, has written a letter to the Grangers, Alliance and labor Unions of his district in which ho donates his entice salary to the farmers and workingmen. In the letter ho says that ho did not accept the nomination and election to Congress for financial betterment or any selfish ends, but to aid in the institution of such reforms as seem to be imperatively demanded.forthe protection of the Interests of bis constituents.

NEW MISSIONARY BIBLE.

The first printing of the entire Bible in the language of the Gilbert islanders took place in the composing and press rooms of the American Bible Society, in the Bible House, at New York, Wednesday. It marked the end of thirty-four years of labor on the part of Rev. Hiram Bingham, a missionary to that group of islands in thesonthern Pacific. Mr. Bingham was present to see the last type set and the first revolution of the press which mado complete the first Gilbert Island Bible.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

- Dearborn county is building a new jail. ! Muncle is jubilant over a big real estate deal. —Burglaries are alarmingly frequent at Anderson. A child died from eating jlmson weed seed at Sheridan. Kokomo claims to be the largest shipping point of stone in northern Indiana. The City council of .Goshenlias ordered the telephone and telegraph poles down. Governor McKinley will make the Memorial Day address at Indianapolis this year, Fire at Hnntingbnrg, Sunday, destroyed the Stratman block, entailing a loss of $21,500. W. W. Pavey, of Crawford county, well known In spiritualistic circles, has become insane. The Albany Land Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, has filed articles of incorporation. Burglars cleaned out a jewelry establishment at Laporte of watches, revolvers and fine jewelry. Early fruit buds were nipped by Jack Frost in the northern part of the State on Saturday night. Farmland is proud of its floral decorations, its inhabitants showing a phenomenal love for flowers., —; ~ . - k. Daniel McCallister blew his brains out at Anderson as he was being arrested for embezzlement, Tuesday. Mrs. Nellie Payne, charged with the shooting of her husband at Fowler, has asked for a change of venue. Mrs. B. Busch, of Columbus, Is tho owner of a parrot over fifty years old and that swears in six different languages. Indianapolis is to have a new morning paper, to be known as the Dally Record. It will be Independent in politics and religion. While hjrs. Augusta Wolfe, of Frankfort, was strewing flowers on the grave of her son, she fell dead. Her son died three years ago. There are now 623 children In the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, at Knlghtstown, and the Institution Is In good condition. Fairmount is still booming. Building Is prospering and the electric line and Chicago & Eastern railroad are expected to strike the town this spring. The demand for houses at Gas City exceeds the supply. L. C. Boyd, the manager of the land company, has secured 250 tents in which one thousand people will live until houses can Be built. Another factory, With $50,000 capital, Is to be located at Richmond. A patent carriage wheel will be manufactured. The factory will employ fifty men. The ten-year-old daughter of John Kirkpatrick, of Crawfordsville, was dangerously poisoned by eating “turkeypeas,” while walking in the woods. The storm of Tuesday worked serious damage at Grcencastle, Frankfort, Terre Haute, Kokomo, Jeffersonville, Martinsville and many other cities. No lives wpre lost.

-5 A aerolite 'weighing sixty pounds was dug up on the farm Of David Kyte, in Owen township, Jackson county. It has been placed in the Gerrish museum, at Seymour. Brazil is all worked up over the eow question. The city council has passed an ordinance ordering all cows to be kept off the streets, but the people are not abiding by the law. While Everett Adams was serving the breakfast to theprisoners in jail at Bloomington Michael Welch knocked him down, bounded over his body through the open door and escaped. The Rev. Dolphin B. Roberts, of Evansville, recorder of the general land office, resigned his position, Wednesday, which pays $2,000 a year, and he will soon leave for his Indiana home. A young colored woman was knocked down and soused with nitric acid at Jeffersonville, Tuesday. She was horribly burned and disfigured. Her assailant escaped and is unkhown. Vincennes capitalists have organized the Second National Bank in that city, with Postmaster Rudolph president and County Treasurer, George W. Donaldson cashier. Capital stock SIOO,OOO. Fifteen freight cars fell through the old bridge across Sugar creek on the L. N. A. 6 C„ road near Crawfordsville, Wednesday. One span of the bridge was. entirely torn away. No one was injured. C. E. Eyster, an Indianapolis druggist, was shot by a negro customer on whom he was waiting, Yriday night, without any previous quarrel or provocation. Mr. Eyster is probably fatally injured. The negro has not been arrested and was not recognized by his victim. The “wild man” who has been wandering around Vigo county for several weeks, to whom several incendiary acts were attributed, has been captured and confined atiTerre Haute. He was recognized as Alfred Montgomery, who recently came into that section from some unknown point in Ohio. A cloud-burst south of Columbus, Tuesday afternoon, flooded the Pennsylvania lines until the track was washed out in several places between Vienna and Henryviile, and all trains between Louisville, Indianapolis and Chicago are running over the Ohio <fc Mississippi tracks via North Vernon and Seymour, Simeon Cay, of Indianapolis, is projecting a sporting resort to be established on an Island in White river near tho northeastern part of Hamilton county.' The island is neutral ground, it is claimed, and local authorities can not interfere with prize fights or other transgressions of the law! Carl Richard, a fortune teller of Terre Haute, has confessed to having been employed by Mrs. J. C. Prelles, who is suolng her husband for divorce, to murdor a Mrs. Miller, at Riley, Ind., for S4OO, and that he went to Riley and sent a bogus dispatch to Mrs. Miller’s daughter announcing her mother’s death, by which he secured SIOO on account from Mrs. Prelles and left Terre Haute. Mr. Richard is under arrest. For two weeks trouble has existed among the Methodists at Richmond, ovc r the removal of the Rev. Ernest Neal, of Peru, falsehood and forgery being charged against several members. Bishop Joyce has decided that the Rev. Mr. Neal must go. The result will be a split in the church. Sensational chargee will be preferred against one member of the official board. McDonald Cheek, a life prisoner in the Prison North, was pardoned, Thursday, by the - Governor after twenty-two years of confinement. Cheek was convicted in

Dearborn county in 1871 on & charge of being an accomplice In the murder of his father-fn-law. The other accomplice was Omar C. Bailey, who was pardoned In 1890 by Governor Hovey, The three-year-old daughter of Caleb hanged herself In a swing, Saturday. A binder twine swing was attached to a frame windmill, just high enough for the little one to get her head Inside. She fell off the platform, the swing twisted around her neck and she was choked to death. family were near at hand, but the child was not missed until found dead. iWSnnd&y evening a party of travelers, lflcThtfing six men and three women, who had been camping on the banks -of the Little river, near Huntington, had a bloody fight. Clubs, stones and revolvers were used, and the fight became a regular battle in which men and women alike took a hand. A man named Feelabaum was seriously injured, his face and head being pounded to a jelly. Every one In tho party received injuries, but none except Feelabaum were badly hurt. An eccentric old fellow tramping around northern Indiana mending umbrellas, is John Gable, of Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors at an Eastern college, and in 1868 he was elected to Congress from the district of which Wilkesbarre is a part. Life at Washington was too rapid for him, and he contracted convivial hab-

its which finally drifted him into a and two years in prison. His confinement bad no erfectTri abating his appetite for liquor, and soon as he was released he began drinking. For twenty years and more Gable has been tramping around the United States. He claims that he has drank whisky in two-thirds of the towns, and slept in half the jails in the country. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors. Tuesday, as follows: J. W. Barnes, Mausey, gate post; J. M. Carr, New Castle, feed-water regulator; T. J. Corcoran, Peru, pattern mechanism for looms; R. D. Culver, Veedersburg, railway sleeper block; I. C. Gray, Ilion, traction engine; D. H. Mahoney, Olney, 111., and H. D. Hanover, Aurora, railway cattle-guard; O. Reasoner, Upland, gas separator or Eurifier; G. J. Reichart, Indianapolis, inge; E. M. Skinner. South Bend, and O. M. Farrand, New York, combination loci; G. M. Storre, Auburn, device for stringing meats; T. C. Workman. Lebanon, submerged force bump. Trade Mark—Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, suppositories. Hop Sing, a Chinse laundryman of Washington, went to Vincennes to visit a felloW-Chinaman, taking with him the nine-year-old daughter of Mrs. Susan Padgett, who is in his employ. The little girl was left with friends of the mother while Hop Sing was in Vincennes, but when the Chinaman again took charge of the little one and started upon the return home, he was set upon hy a crowd of Vincennes toughs and narrowly escaped lynching. Hop Sing and the little girl were escorted to the depot by the marshal, who was acquainted with the true facts in the case.

INDIANA MORTGAGES.

A special bulletin has been issued from the Census Office at Washington, giving the statistics of farms, homes and mortgages in Indiana. It shows that Indiana’s per capita mortgage indebtedness is but ssl. The existing mortgage debt of Indiana is $110,730,643, of which $64,554,217 is on acres and $36,177,426 is on lots. Mortgages in force cover 6.822,490 acres and 94,230 lots. Allen and Marion counties are more in debt than any of the other counties in the State. A new bank is to be organized at New York, to be known as tho National Union Bank, with a capital of $6,000,000.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis. April 17.1893 Quotations for Indianapolis when notspsclded GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, No. 3 red, 62c; wagon wheat, 6 ,e. Corn No. 1 white, 41Wc; No. 2 whito, 4114c;while mixed, 4>c; No. 3 white, 4ic; No. 2 yellow.-40c; No. 3 yellow, No 2 mixed, 4c; N 0.3 mixed, 39>4c, ear, 40c. Oats—No. 2 white, 36c; N 0.3 white, 34Wc; No. 2 mixed, 34>£e; rejected, 30c, Hay—Timothy, choice, 113.00; No. 1, $12.00; No. 2, $10.00: No. 1 prairie, $7.50; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay,*7.so. Bran $12.50 per ton. I Wheat ' Corn. | Oats, i Rye. Chicago... ... Br’dßß 4064 30 l Cincinnati.... 3 r’d «» «364 34 5j St. Louis 8 r’d S 8 3664 S 3 61 New York..:.. 8 r’d-77 L --A# 85 Baltimore.... J'4 4H!4 41 ' #264 Philadelphia. 3 r’d 7864 49 18!4 Clorer I j Seed. Toledo 7364' 42 >4 34a 850 Detroit 'i W h 72 41 8864 Mlnneapolla.j 6564 CATTLE. Export grades $5 Oo@s 57 Good to choiceshlppers 4 oO(tss 00 Fair to medium shippers 4 Common shippers 3 4 uJ3 85 Stockers, comtnou to good 3 Good to choice heifers 3 7>@4 25 Fair to medium heifers 3 25@3 Oj Common, thin heifers 2 50j$3 oo Good to cholco cows 3 6 (g\ 00 Fair to medium cows. 2 25 a? 3 , r o Common old c0w5..... 1 50(22 o Veals, good to choice 3 50<£5 Oo Bulls, common to medium.... 3 oj Milkers, good to choice 3000(34000 Milkers, common to medium... 1600@2500 HOGS, Heavy packing [email protected] Mixed 7. [email protected]> Light 1 6.50 37.00 Heavy roughs 5.50@ i. 50 SHEEP. Good to choice sheep [email protected] Fair to medium sheep 3.50.0,4.25 Common sheep 2.50^3.00 Good to choice lambs 4.75<*5.5'j Common to medium lambs 3 75(34.25 Bucks, per head [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—liens,jj4cß R»;youug chickens 10c V R>; turkeys, lb. ducks, 7c V lb:geese, *5.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying I3c. Butter—Choice country butter, 183)20c: common, 8(gl0c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheese—Now York full cream, 13@lic; skims, 5(37c f (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese 40c lb; mixed duck, 20e V lb. Beeswax-Dark, 15c; yellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Fine merino, 16<*18c; unwashed combing, 21c; tub washed. 31@33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green hides, 2)4c; No. IG. S. hides, 4>4c; No. 2G. S. hides, 3>4c: No. 1 ttallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3>4c. Horse Hldes-$2(353.25. Tallow—No. 1,4 c; No. 2.3&C. Grease—White, 4c; yellow, 3Xc;brown, 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.. Potatoes—B 4<iw*>cTß bu. Lemons—Choice, $3.50 II box; fancy, |4.0 ■. ljyj Onions —$3.75@4|? brl; Spanish,sl.so per crate. Maple syrup, $1 per gallon; maple suar 10c per pound.

THE NATION'S GUEST.

A Genuine Spanish Grandee Gomes Over the Bea. Arrival of the Duke of Veragna, Lineal of Christopher Columbus, at - • • iVtmJtsnic. Christobel Colon de la Cerda, Duke de Veragoa, Marquis de la Jamaiea, Grand Admiral of the Indies, only living direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, through the grand daughter Isabella, of Cordova, arrived at ‘New York, Saturday, *nd was received bv General Horace Porter and a committee of citizens. He will be the guest of the United States government, and the State Department has deputized a special representative to tender him all the courtesies proper to so remarkable an event. He has held few offices of note, bul ls one of the few grandees of Spain' and Is Admiral by reason of his descent from Columbus. He Is now president of the Spanish cattle commission. His palace at Madrid Is a fine building,

DUKE DE VERAGUA.

said to be worth $500,000. Sunday the Duke and party attended the Catholic Cathedral and the Rev. M. J. Lavelle welcomed him from the pulpit. The Duke will probably be the greatest social lion in attendance at the World’s Fair.

GREAT STORM IN THE SOUTH.

Cyclone and Flames at Robtnsonvllle, Miss. —Seventeen Killed. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the havoc made by the cyclone and fire at Robinsonville,, Miss., Wednesday. There are parts of two houses and a water tank still standing, and everything else was razed to the ground and most of It burned. The number of the killed, so far as can be ascertained by a census of the bodies found, Is seventeen, one white and sixteen colored, end about ten more Injured, two so seriously that they are expected to die. Probably a hundred negroes received slight injuries, but none of them will die. One of the curious features of the storm was the experience of Mr. J. L. Elliston, who had a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol blown out of his pants pocket without suffering any Injury. A man named McCormick who was listening to Elliston’s story was hit in the breast by a barrel of flour that was flying through the air and fatally injured. Mrs. Emma Lusk, the only white person killed outright, was the wife of the flight operator. She and her two children and her husband, who was-at home, were In the house when the cyclone struck. None of them got out, but Lusk and the children were unhurt. The children were carried some distance by the wind and they were naked when found. At Memphis the storm was unusually severe.

TRAGEDY ON THE TIPPECANOE.

Steamer Nellie Bly Demolished by an Explosion. The little passenger steamer Nellie Bly, while making a trip down the river at Winanjac, Sunday afternoon, blew up, seriously injuring eight persons. Those possibly fatally injured are: George Cram, proprietor of the Eagle machine shops, both legs broken and crushed and severely injured Internally; J. F. Fishborn, proprietor of the boat, scalded and hart Internally; Clarence Fishborn, his son, badly scalded; Daniel Rhodes, badly bruised and internally injured; James Long, badly scalded. When the accident occurred the boat was In shallow water. The pilot had discovered that there was something wrong with the machinery and was steering for shore. But for this fact it is probable that every person on board would have lost his life. Dai.iel Rhodes was blown about thirty feet inland and covered with wreckage. His recovery Is doubtful. James Long was blown into the river, and his rescue was accomplished with great difficulty by those who were not seriously injured* The physicians have amputated Crane’s legs, and it is not expected that he will live. The boat was demolished, and sank immediately after the explosion. No person on the steamer escaped injury.

HE GOT THE SWAG.

A San Franclaco Cashier Embezzles •104,000 and Is Locked Up. J. W. Flood, for twenty-seven year? cashier of the Donohue-Kelly Banking Company, is under arrest, charged wivb embezzling $164,(0). The banking company has filed suit against Flood to recover $139,000. The complaint was verified by Howard Havens, the vice-presi-dent of the corporation. He alleges that the defendant was the cashier and agent of the bank, and that while acting in that capacity between Jan. 1, 1892, and April 14, 1893, he received cash, checks and bills receivable amounting to $1,000,009. Of that amount he misappropriated $164,000, and ho has reimbursed the company only in the sum of $25,000. The plaintiff demands judgment against him for the balance. Immediately upon the filing of the complaint la the county clerk’s office the sheriff issued a writ of attachment on the residence of Flood. This property is valued at SIO,OOO. The’ developments have created a sensation in financial circles.

ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.

James Shockley, alias James Madison, the horse-thief and “escape” from the Prison North, who was recaptured at Noblesvilic on Saturday night last, is said .to have been fifteen years serving out a fiVe years’ sentence, and it is still unfinished, lie has made four escapes from that institution, all of them sensational in their outlines. If his record at escapes continues, he will be all of his life serving out tho original sentence.

THE STORM GOD'S WRATH

BAd Scenes In tfee Awful CyeloM’S Path, The town of Akron, la., on tho Hoe «f the Chicagq. Mflwantree A St. Panl rallway, thirty miles north of Omaha, which has a population of abont 10,000 persons, was devastated by a cyclone, Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 3 o’clock It commenced to grow dark and in a half hour ft was necessary to have artificial flight. About 4 o’clock the storm struck the place. It was a regular whirlwind and came from the northeast. Houses were torn from their foundations and overturned and many of them blown to pieces. A double span wagon bridge across the Sioux rive# was wrenched from the pier* av dashed against the river bank. "The iron rods were twisted and bent out of all shape. A large elevator was demolished and the debris carried across the railroad tracks and deposited on the site of a lumber yard, while the lujnber yard and buildings were carried back and deposited where the elevator stood. Cars loaded with stone that were standing on the railroad tracks were piled up by the wind and turned completely over. Nearly every building in the town was wrecked and many people killed. At Page, la., much damage was done. At Hiawatha, Kan., reports were received of great damage throughout the State. The town of Parker Mo., was completely wrecKed. Several were killed. Reports from various Sections of the West indicate that the storm was general and unusually violent and destructive. Reports from various sections of Missouri Indicate that the storm was even more destructive of life and property than in other sections of the West. At Coudray, a mining town of about three hundred inhabitants, only three houses are left standing. Nine persons were killed outright and fifty injured, many of whom may die. The damage to crops throughout Kansas and Missouri is incalculable.

FOR KILLING THEIR FATHER.

Thomas Morgan and HU Three Slitsn Don Convict Attire. Thomas Morgan and his three sisters, Jennie, Rebecca and Caroline, entered the Western Penitentiary at Pittsburg, Wednesday, under long sentences for the murder of their father, John Morgan, near Waynesburg, last August. Morgan was a farmer, worth abont $40,000. fJFhe four children, ranging from fifteen to twenty-three years, lived with him, and were popular in the neighborhood. Morgan installed a strange woman as housekeeper, who was objectionable to the children, and frequent quarrels occurred. During one of these the father was driven from his house to an outbuilding and shot by Thomas, who also, but unintentionally, shot his sister Caroline in the breast, from the effects of which she has now barely recovered.

THE HAWAIIAN SITUATION.

The Star* anil Stripe* Have Been Replaced by tba Native Flag. Advices from Honolulu, dated April 0, state that the stars and stripes, which for tiro months have floated from the government buildings, have been hauled down and the remaining forces from the U. 8. cruiser Boston have been sent aboard. Nothing indicative of American authority remains in Honolulu save Minister Stevens and Commissioner James H. Blount, of Georgia, the latter of whom site In his easy c hair at his cottage, cogitating no one knows what. Blount has maintained a Chinse wall about the purposes of his mission there, and has satisfied neither side as to whether he came as an envoy to investigate or a minister to negotiate in a matter of vital importance to them.

A SUPREME COURT RULING.

A decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court, Tuesday, in a case from Illinois, involving the right of a drummer to check his samples as personal baggage. In 1889 a traveling salesman left Springfield for Petersburg, 111., and checked his samples as personal baggage. The train was wrecked and the baggage car and baggage were burned. The employers of the salesman sued the company for the valne of the samples, and secured judgement for $7,287 for their loss. The case was appealed and the Supreme Court has reversed the decisions of the lower courts and bolds that the employers have no recourse on the company for value of samples lost.

A BUFFALO "JAG."

Wednesday night, April 5, John Driscoll, of Buffalo, N. Y., while intoxicated, crawled into an empty freight car in the yards and secreted himself, intending to sleep off Ms jag in its shelter. In thenight the car was locked and pnt into a train bound for Pittsburg. On awakening Driscoll was unable to attract attention, and after intense suffering for several days lost consciousness. Tuesday morning, April 11, muffled moans were heard coming from a freight car in the yards at Pittsburg. The car was opened and Driscoll was rescued in an unconscious condition. Fortunately Driscoll had a brother residing in Pittsburg, to whose home he was taken on regaining consciousness. Driscoll’s condition is serious, but he will likely recover. One of the century plants to which the late F. P. Randall, of Ft. Wayne, gave such care, is shooting up a plant preparatory to blooming. The plant blooms only after it becomes eighty years old and then dies. One of the plants bloomed while Mr. Randall was still living, and it was the first plant to grow and blossom In the upper part of the Mississippi valley. Wilkinson was revisited by a tornado, Wednesday evening. Seven barns, five houses and a school house were torn to atoms. The track of the storm was about one-fourth of a mile south of the track of the cyclone of May 12, 1886. No person was killed or seriously injared but from former experience the people become unduly excited.

A Handful of Chaff.

Ram's Hyo. The easiest way for a man to pack a trunk is to get his wife to do it. There is one good thing to be said in favor of the hornet. He alwas has an aim and generally hits it.