Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — BIG SWAMP ON FIRE. [ARTICLE]

BIG SWAMP ON FIRE.

FLAMES SWEEP OVER THE KAN. KAKEE MARSH. ,* • a ' . Two of a Mob Shot Deaid—Exploding Tag Boiler Brings Death to Three- ' Georgia's Capitol Suffers by Fire— Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued. Swept by Flames. Kankakee marsh, the famous hunting grouml in i lilnois, was swept by a prairie. Jire Saturday, and trees, brush, and grass to the ground. The roaring blaze, headed so as to include towns and farmhouses in its destructive sweep, had its course changed by a fortunate shift in the direction of the wind. This gave the homes of the farmers on the border of the marsh a chance. This swamp fire is responsible for the Grand. Trunk disaster near South Bend on Saturday, in which eleven persons were injured:Tbecause oftlie^reckwasa weakened culvert, which was burned, but which owing to the dense smoke that swept across the tracks was obscured from the view of the engiheer. Crown Point, Hammond, and Kouts, Tnd~ were threatened by the tires. Kouts had the closest call, and was saved only by the extreme efforts of the citizens, who fought the flames until the wind aided them and changed the course of the flames. Blackened aiid weftry the men. who maintained for twenty-four hours the unequal tight against the fires, which were fanned by a wind,that at times blew almost the violence of a cyclone, retreated in dismay.

The Prussian Census. Prussia has just published the result of "the recent census. The entire population June, 14.1895, was 31,491,209, an increase of, 1,535,928, or 5 13-100 per cent, since December, 1890. The males increased 773,051 and the females 702,877. In Berlin the increase of females was two and one-half times that of men. One of the surprises of the new census was the small increase of Berlin's population, all the more startling owing to the unprecedented increase pf Berlin for the years between LB7o—ttnd 1800,- Jt was-tmly--36,288, or 2 2-10 per cent., for the l«*t four and a half years. The census shows a continuance of the movement towards cities from the country, in which Berlin had not its.usual share. Would-Be Lynchers Killed. A mob, composed chiefly of farmers, stormed the Seneca County jail ut Tiffin, Ohio, early Sunday morning in an effort to lynch Lee F. Martin, the murderer of Marshal Shultz. The Sheriff's jail force fired on the mpb, instantly killing two men. Several more men were- shot but not fatally wounded. Sunday was the day of Shultz’s funeral, and the sentiment against Martin broke out with redoubled fury. The mob was composed mostly of neighbors of the murdered marshal, and the marshal's brother acted as leader. Martin was a prominent Dunkard. and killed Shultz while resisting arrest for a trilling offense.* The militia was called out to guard the jail.

Three Men Are Dead. The explosion of the tug T. T. Morford nil •Clci iico River, resulted in :1m deutir of John Erickson, fireman; John Ferguson, captain, and Charles Dick, engineer. The Morford had in tow the grain steamer lonia. The tug is a total loss—slß,ooo. Destruction of the Morford deprives Chicago harbor and Lake Michigan tills winter of the protection afforded for the last eleven years to storm-tossed and wrecked vessels by that remarkable product of the shipbuilder’s art. On Lake Michigan there is no boat to take her place, either in the “bucking” of ice or iu the power to steam through ice to the rescue of a disabled vessel. Heavy Loss at Augusta, Gn. Augusta. Ga., was visited by the largest fire in years Fridny afternoon. The lumber mill of Jesse Thompson & Co., the largest in the South, was burned to the ground, with 2,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards. The loss to them is $75,000, one-third insured. The fire then spread for two blocks. Forty-two dwellings occupied by operatives were entirely consumed. Three hundred are homeless. The loss oil these buildings is $40,000, with little insurance. The entire fire department was called out, Blit owing to the distance from water and a gale from the south nothing could be done. The flames stopped when everything iu line was burned. Crew of Parthia Safe. The nineteen men of the burned American ship Parthia have reached Valparaiso, Chili. The Parthia, Capt. Carter, with a crew of nineteen, was bound from Liverpool, which port it left June 25. to San Francisco. It burned in the Pacific Ocean Oct. 1. The crew landed at Juan Fernandez Island, all safe. The ship belonged to Ilaughton Blips, .of Bath, Me., and was a double-decker of 2,371 tons, 250 feet in length and 44-foot beam. It was built four years ago.