St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - . INDIANA. MAY HAVE A RACE WAR OKLAHOMA NEGROES WARN THE REGULATORS. Three Hundred People Massacred in th J Comaro 1 '^ncls—Presidential Appointments—Missionary choouer Lost—Fired Into a ^row’de ’ School-Bourn. THREATENED RACE WAR. Colored farmers in Oklahoma Warn White Rfgu'ators to Go Slow. A race war of no mean proportions 1 is threatened near Kingfisher, 0. T. Several nights ago a party of white men rode through the part of the county occupied by the negro farmers and threatened them with punishment if there was any more petty stealing from the whites. [ The negroes did not appear to be much alarmed at the threat, and told the regulators that they would have a hard time of it if they attempted any rough treatment Subsequently the Mayor received a communication, signed “The . Committee of Safety/’ which stated that ' tT violent hands were laid on any colored man without authority of law, the colored race would go to his assistance, and if they were persecuted too far the I town of Kin rfisher would be reduced to | ashes. There is great excitement over j this threat. LEGALITY OF TEXAS LAWS. | Chuf Justics Fuller Decides that the State Courts Only Have Jurisd'ction Chief Justice Fuller in the Supreme Court of the United States an- f nounced the decision of the court in the i notable case, Dick Duncan against Sher- ' iff Me. al, of Bevoir County, Texas. | Duncan was convicted of murder and : sentenced to be banged, lb- appealed on the ground tha the new criminal code of Texa* under which ho was tried was not enacted legally, and the case came to the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus, Duncan claim tig that he was held without due process of law and should be set at liberty. The court, holds that the legality or illegality of the code is not a quest’^n for it to determine, the State courts being investci with that power. THREE HUNDRED MASSACRED. Outbreak of a Revolu ion in the Comaro Islands in the Mozambique Channel News has come from Zanzibar of the outbreak of a revolution in the Comaro Islands in the Mozambique Channel, about 350 miles northwest of the Madagascar coast. On the Island of Anjouan the natives, after the death of Sultan Abdullah, supplied themselves with arms and spread over the country, mas acring 300 people and carrying desolation far and wide. The war vessels of the French squadron now in the waters of the Indian Ocean have been directed to proceed to the islands and put down the insurr ction. The Comaro Is’an Is are under French protection, but are nominally ruled by Arab princes. ■ ■ Will G:t n New Trial. James J. West, the ex-editor of the Chicago Time.*, is in great luck. He is not going to the penitentiary for live years, as many people in the Garden City expected. The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois reversed the judgment of the lower court and remanded the case. The opinion does not enter into the merits of the ex editor's guilt"or innocence, but deals exclusively with the lower court’s rulings and instructions and the indictment, in both of which errors are discovered. Shot ths Woman Who Jbf'uwl t > K op' Robert Bartlett, Town .Marshal of Friestville, Ky., being infatuated with the young wife of Contri, a pr. minent physician there, shot her through the breast be.ause she would not elope with him. Mrs. Contri wi.l die. He also tired two shots at M. C. Hunt an I wife and escaped. Bartlett is a genuine desperado. Fired a Shotgun I to ;> C wI. Some unknown person fired a doublebarreled shotgun into a crowd of persons at .an entertainment at the Nev.Zion Church near Liberty, Mi s . wounding fourteen of them. Some were seriously hurt, others slightly. The assassin [-.scaped. No cause is known for the deed. Thomas I! Ca-'or G-’s I . The President has appointed Humas 11. Carter, of Helena. Mont., Commissioner of the Gene: al Land Office, vice Lewis A. Gross, resigned: also James Compton, of Fergus Fais, .Minn, Surveyor General of Minnesota, v.ce John M. Norris, t rm expired. Missionary Schooner Lost. Advices from Hawaii say that tha missionary schooner Chapman was Jost on the west coast of Tahiti. She was bound from Honolulu to the Pitcairn Islands. The crew numbered sixt -en, and they were all drowned. I Welcomed in ’9l. Mobb'd in ’6l Arrangements have b on completed to give the old Sixth Mas-achusetts Regiment a hearty welcome on their visit to Baltimore on April 19th, the. thirtieth anniversary of that n emorable day when they were attacked by the mob in passing through the city. Suffocated by th * Sm>ke John Millins, 35 years old, who was employed to do odd jobs in the liquor store of Uriah Ellis in Brooklyn. N. Y., was suffocated in a fire wllich occurred there. The loss by the lire was only about SoCO. Strikers Make Trouble. Thousands of strikers in the Scottdale (Pa.) coke region attacked the plants and destroyed considerable property. The sheriff of Westmoreland county asked the governor for arms, but the request was refused. Approv'd of th ■ Lynching The foreman of a gang of Italian railroad laborers in West Virginia was killed by the men for saying the citizens of New Or.cans did right to.lyuch the Mafia.

! EVENTS OF THE WEEK.! EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., George W. Moss was hanged for the murdei of his wife. The drop fell at 10:19 a. in. The fa’l broke Moss' neck and he died instantly. The hanging was witnessed by only a . few persons. Before the condemned man left his cell he said: “I am sorry for the Sheriff, whois my friend; it must be an unpleasant job for him.” Moss walked to the gallows with a firm step and a smiling face. He said: “God does not hold mo responsible for the murder of my wife, and I do not hold myself responsible. I die like a soldier, with a smile.” At Mauch Chunk. Pa., William Stangley was hanged for the murder of his landlady. He walked to the gallows with faltering step, being very weak from the effects of disease. He said he was ready to die and expected to meet, his brothers and sisters in heaven. He was cut down twenty-two minutes after the drop fell. At Boston, the granite block manufacturers of New England and several other States held a meeting to take action on the alleged exorbitant demands Jof the Paving Cutters’ Union. Resolutions were adopted impowerlng a committee to order a suspension of work by the various manufacturers whenever they deem it necessary in the settlement of disputes. At Tiffin, Ohio, the Sterling Emery Wheel Works were damag. d to the extent of $15,000 by escaping natural gas igniting from a watchman s lantern. The watchman was badly, but not fatally, J burned. Insurance on the building, i $12,500. Chari.es Arbuckle, the millionaire ' coffee merchant, is dead. Mr. Arbuckle j ' gained notoriety in a breach of promise suit by Miss Clara Campbell, in which Mr. Arbuckle received the sobriquet of “Baby Bunting.” The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck, at । Hainesvi le, Me . was burned, and Mrs. | Tuck was burned to death in her bod. I At Lancaster, Pa. the turnpikesand ! county roads arc bio Red with drifts, while the snowfall on the level measures about nineteen inches. A number of freight trains on the Reading and Columbia Railroad have been abandoned on account of the heavy snow on the tracks. All telegraphic and telephonic communication is badly crippled Kate Castle ion. the actress.ha* been admitted to a hospital in Philadelphia by the, advice of her physicians. She is suffering from a serious complication of ailments and the chances are against her recovery. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Mr. and Mrs. John Losev, residing northwest of Jackson, Mich., are in a precarious condition, poisoned by arson- j ic. They lived on their grandmother’s j farm, and a continuous row has been in | progress for a year. The old lady served ! notice on the Loseys a few days ago to i get off the place. A few evenings afterward the Loseys ate a hearty supper, and immediately after both became alarmingly sick. Dr. Lewis Ward, of Hillsdale, being in the neighborhood, was sent for, and he said arsenic was the cause. He analyzed the cabbage eaten at the supper and found a large quantity of the poison. Four mysterious murders commuted within the past year, which puzzled the officers of the law, now seem to be in a fairway of being solved. The victims were Alexander Handlin, who wa* killed Juiy 9, 1890, near Purcel, I. T.: an old i German and his son. vho were called ' from their cabin shortly after the open- i ing of Oklahoma, and shot, and a clerk j employed by the Santa Fe Railroad at j Bolton, in the Cherokee strip. The murderers are believed to be none other than Bill Hudging and his gang, who were captured at Paris, Texas. Ar Spokane Falls. Wash., at the Casino ; Variety Theater, Charles Elliott, a faro ■ dealer, shot Mabel Debabian, killing her j almost instantly. Another bullet struck I Carrie Smith, a variety actress, indicting 1 a fatal wound. Elliott then blew his . own brains out. The shots were intended ■ for an actress named Lulu Durand, who ! was on the stage at the time, and of j whom Elliott was insanely jealous. At St. Joseph, Mo, Mr- Mary B. Cushing died, aged 84 years. She was I the mother of Milton B Cushing, at one time paymaster of the United States I Navy; of Luther Ward Cushing, who i was killed by Indians in Arizona in 1874: I of Colonel Alonzo Cushing, killed at the , battle of Gettysburg, and of Commander i W. B. Cushing, o' Albemarle fame. Mr. Curry, Countj' Clerk. Mr. Gloder- I ly, Treasurer, and County Commission- ; ers Morton and A. Co’e, of Comanche > County, Kansas, have been arrested, j charged with ma'feasance in office. Sev- j oral tax-payers have retained lawyers to j institute suits for the recovery of money i illegally withheld. At Omaha, Neb., in the family of J. i S. Hascall, a prominent politician, live : members were taken suddenly sick, and I next morning Emma Anderson, the house- ; keeper died. The doctor who ca’led to see Miss Anderson, declared the patients ' had been poisoned with either nux | vomica or strychnine. At the meeting in Kansas City of the i Executive Committee of tho Commercial I Congress of the Western States the fol- : lowing speakers and subjects for discus- । sion were agreed upon: “Improvement of Waterways,” G neral T. J. Henderson, of Illinois, and Newton C. Blanchard, of Louisiana; “Reciprocity,” Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, Ben Butterworth, and J. C. Burrowsof Michigan: “The Coinage Question,” General A. J. Warner, of Ohio: “Agricultural Depression and the Remedy,” J. J. Ingalls, of Kansas: “The Promotion of Manufacturing Inter- ’ ests,” Major Wm. J. McKinley, of Ohio: “Taxation,” C. R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas. John 11. Gear, < f lowa, anti Chas. Stewart, of Texas: “Immigration and Settlement of Unoccupied Lands.” Gilbert A. Pierce, of North Dakota, and J. M. Thurston: “Union Commercial Laws,” Judge J. L. Torrey, of St Louis, , author of the Torrey bankrupt bill: i “Railway, Transportation,” George R. | j Peck, of Topeka: “Legislation as Affect- I ing Commerce,” General Wheeler, of Alabama; “Irrigation of Arid Lands," । T. C. Henry, of Denver, and John Jay, | of Junction City, Kan Among the i others who will be present, are General i David Henderson, of lowa, and Benton McMillin, of Tennessee. Near Mansfield. Ohio, an attempt was 1 made to wreck the New York limited vestibule train No. Bon the Erie Road, by placing a heavy rail on the track.

f The train was running at a high rata of 1 i speed when it neared the obstruction The engineer saw the rail and applied the air brakes in time to prevent what might have been a horrible accident The railroad officials think the attempt was for the purpose of robbery, as at this point the track is over a high embankment, down which the cars would have gone if derailed. It was in this locality that the express company was robbed some time ago. The officials arc making every effort to discover the perpetrators. Reports from many parts of Kansas show a falling off in the registration of women voters. In Topeka, however the registration is unusually largo.. Over 25 per cent, of the 9,000 voters are women. The increase is duo to the colored women, who were hauled to the registration offices in droves. At, Atchison but 224 women registered, and it. i s believed not over 100 will vote. At Leavenworth there is a big falling off. At Wichita there is an increase, but reports from most pla' es show a decrease. While George Steele, Sheriff of New Madrid County, Mo., was en route for the penitentiary with a colored convict on the Iron Mountain train, the prisoner in some way got loose from the seat to which he was chained, and. raising the coach window, crawled out backward, letting himself down at full arm’s length, and dropped to the ground. The train was running at full snoed at the time, and before, it could be stopped the convict had secured a guua not been recaptured. * In Chicago the “grip,” instead of los- I ing its deadly hold. is. according to the L returns, more fatal than ever before. | The death roll for the week, according | to tin* weekly returns, reaches the ap- I palling total of 920. It is almost unparal’cled in the history of Chicago, except during a great epidemic Last week the total was *o t. ami this was looked upon as abnormally largo. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Wa o. Toxa*. G. U. Soloman failed ! recently for over >IOO,O 10. A New Or- I leans house was a creditor for a large ! amount. II N. McElroy went to make 1 a settlement He succeeded in getting I only >17.50. After securing this amount ' he waited in the street until Soloman ; came out and then gave him a fearful I cowhiding. Ho then telegraphed his firm: “Collected $17.50 and cowhlded | Soloman for the rest. ” McElroy wa>* ar- i rested, but gave bond at.d was lionized by citizens. Ai New Orleans some sensational disclosures are made in connection with the grand jury investigation. It is learned that the defense in the Hennessey ca*e made an effort to doctor the n cords of the electric light company in order to show that the light at the corner of Girod ami Basin was burning dimly when the assassmatlon occurred. i A subpuna wa* issued for the records. I but for some reason they were not ofi sered; why, it is not known. The report : of the grand jury promises to be start- j i ling, as Detective O'Malley is said to ! have had a hand in having the records I altered to suit the purposes of the de- 1 sense. The Warren Lumber Company, of Beaumont, Tex., ha* been placed in the j hands of a receiver. The mills are about | the largest hi the State. The liabilities are placed at half a million. 'lhe assets ! will about meet, this sum. Thr rd civer • thinks the company will be able to meet t all claims and resume business in a short* time. J Another att mpt was matb-last night to wreck a passenger train on the Bur- I J lington branch of the Pennsylvania RailI road at the Fountain woods, about a | I mile from Burlington. N. J. The engine of the passenger train struck the obstruction. but fortunately kept the rails. All train* have orders to run slowly the place A most thorough investigation ha* failed to reveal the slight st clew to | j the would-be wreckers John Dance*, colored, wa* lynched ' for attempting t > assault a white woman ;in Shelby County. The affair occurred at Columbiana Two officers who attempted to rescue Dances from the mob were forced to go along and witness the ' hanging. Mil'. Sid Keitneh, who resided in Lauderdale County. Tenn . while as- ' I sisting her husband in burning corn I stalks had her dress catch fire and was I in a mass of flames in a moment. Her ! husband tried to extinguish the flames i ; but without success, and the woman i । burned to death in a few minutes The Norwegian bark Dictator wa* . driven ashore near Life Saving Station No. 2 at Virginia Beach, Va. Os the j crew of seventeen nine were rescued. ! the captain among them. Including those who perished were the captain's ■ wife and little child. The Dictator was ! putting into Hampton Roads in distress [ and leaking, having encountered a series jof gales and hurricanes. Captain Jor- ; gensen never left the vessel until she ; broke up. Then, lashing a life preserver ; around his wife, while bis child was seI cured to his body, he jumped into the ‘ raging waters. The captain was picked ! up on the beach senseiess. Ar San Antonio, Texas, H. M. Stanley will not lecture. His manager, Major Pond, has received a telegram from Agent McKeown, of Austin, which says: “Criticism of Stanley is so severe that I have, been comi died to cancel all Texas dates. ” A disastroi's wreck occurred on the Ensley City Dummy Line at Burningham, A'a. A train heavily loaded wilb pleasure seekers, and going at a rapid rate, ran off the track about five miles from town from no apparent, cause, and fell down an embankment about ten feet high A. L. Brown and Bob Taylor. two negro passengers, were instantly killed. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. At Washington, in the trial of Charles E. Kincaid for killing ex-Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky. William McCor- ■ mick, an assistant doorkeeper of the । House of Representatives, testified that ( Taulbee told Kincaid that he. want d to । see him. Kincaid replied that he did . not wish to seo Taulbee. Taulbee repeated that he wanted to see Kincaid. i Kincaid replied, “Well, you see me | now.” Taulbee then took Kincaid ।by the lapel of his coat and gave him a pull and exclaimed, I “Come out here.” Kincaid replied that I he would not go, and did not wish to talk - with Taulbee. In response to this ! Taulbee called Kincaid a liar. About an । hour after this Kincaid returned and , asked witness what he should do about

hia trouble with Taulbee. Witness replied that he had no advice to give. Kincaid then told witness that he had been • sick, and was unable to cope with Taul- 1 bee, being unarmed. Kincaid then walked away, and a few minutes after witness heard the report of a pistol. FRESH AND NEWSY. At Albany Assemblyman Byrnes, of Brooklyn, introduced a characteristic Knights of Labor bill which was sent him from Powderly's headquarters in Philadelphia It provides for the appointment of three commissioners, and their duties shall be to investigate railroads. especially as to the facts relating to the acquiring of privileges and property, and also as to the cause of any railroad troubles with its employes since Jan. 1, 1810. Captain Henry E. Catley, of the Second Infantry, tried on the charge of malingering at Pine Ridge, has been acquitted. General Brooke disapproves the finding and acquittal. Miss Susan Dickinson, the sister of Anna Dickinson, says: “Os her entire recovery from this attack of • nervous prostration I have not the least doubt, and neither have her physicians.” Miss Dickinson intimates that Anna has not ^>y any means given up her intention o£ going on the stage.” I The British steamer Strathairly Is kshore below Chicamicomico life station, Im the North Carolina coast. Nineteen or the crew of twenty-six were r frowned, including all the officers except IVhe second mate. The steamer is a total woss. Th Strathairly went ashore ‘■during a heavy northeaster. Those who i were saved owe their lives to the brave ' life savers, and it is thought that all would have been saved if they could Lave remained on the wreck, but the heavy sea washed them away before the rescuing crew arrived. The vessel is fast going to pieces, and little will remain of her when the weather clears. The Strathairly is a wooden vessel and was built in New<a*tle, England. Sho ■ is schooner-rigged and was engaged in ■ the trade between the West Indie* and i Baltimore On this trip -he was bound | from Santiago, t üba I Miss Zoe Gxyion arrived in New I York from San Francisco, having walked i the entire distance from the Golden Gato. In >an Francisco she made a | wager, through G. H. Church, that she j would walk t । New York before April, i 1891. The stakes were $2,000 a side, the expenses of the trip to be paid by the loser, and she should follow the ra’lroad tracks as far a> possible. Miss Gayton left San Fram iseo at 4 p. m. on Aug. 27 last. A syndic co: of Ohio capitalists has purchased 4(i,ooo acres of timber lands in Clay and Nicholas counties, Va , at 810 per acre. The; residence of Mr Marchand at St. Valere de Bulstrode, Canada, was destroyed by tire. Two of his children were buruc d to death. : A very important revenue measure i went into effect on April 1. That was | the dat " iixt d by tlje provision of the j McKinley tariff act for the free admis- | mission of sugar not above No. 16 Dutch Miwdard. Sugars not above 16 may now r® refined in bond without paying duty j Sider rt gulations established by the Sec- । Ipaiy oft! e Treasury, and transported K bond and stor?d in specified bonded ^Qa^hoi^e.-. G Dun A Co.’s weekly review of |de says: if no news is good news, as ^rf&cern* the condition of business at MMb *'a-on, the outlook i* fairly satisT factory. Trade has been rather quiet and hesi- | fating, as Is natural at this season, and there is rather more complaint of slow collections, hut throughout the Northwe-t bad feather and the bad state of country ron l.s supply an explannti m. Money Is in fair anti increasing supply, and th.ugh still tight at Salt Lake and scarce at Jacksonville. and in stronger demand at Omaha ami Milwaukee. Is almcst everywhere ea*ier. so that the wants of legitimate busine—are met without trouble. The outlook for the coming crops continues exceptionally giHid. Wheat rose to 81.11.’,, and at Sl.ld 1 ^ 1- still 2 cents higher than a week ago. sales here having been 73,000,000 bushels. and corn with sale- of 73.000,000 bushels, and corn with sales of 35,050,000 bushels has risen 4 , cents to 7sb; cents, while oats at 59 1 ( cents are less ; than 1 cent higher. Pork products have adi vaneed. and coffee and oil a small fraction ■ each, while cotton is a sixteenth lower I The general average ..f prices reached its ! highe-t point this year, and though now a j fraction lower i* --till 1 p r cent, above last i week. Hut manufactured products do not i share in the advance, except in a few cases. I The iron market has a better tone. Copper is weaker, tin steady, with lead a shade higher. Wool is selling steadily at Boston, and the very large consumption of Australian is a surprise. Carpet works at Thi!adelphi are fairly busy. MARKET RExKJRTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime $3.25 cl 6.25 Hogs —Shipping Grades 3.00 C't, 4.75 Sheep 3.00 <3 6.03 Wheat— No. 2 Red 1.02 «<- 1.03 Cohn No. 2... 06 @ .67 Oats No. 2 53 <3 .51 Rye No. 2 8> « .87 Bciteh— Choice Creamery 25 .29 Cheese Full Cream, flats 11 @ .12 Egos- Fresh 16 <3- .17 Potatoes —Western, per bu 1.05 (g 1.15 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shirpiufi 3.50 @ 5.50 Ho» Choice l.iglit 3.00 gt 5.0 J gjdKp—Common to Primo 3.0) <« 5.25 No. 2 Red 1.00 (y; 1.01 Cl® —K°. 1 White 67 @ .63 2 W hite 54'«,<® .5514 > ST. I,GUIS. CahULE 4.00 5.50 Hogl 3-90 @ 4.75 Wl. 'AT - No. 2 Red 1.02 & 1.04 Cons»-No. 2 63 @ .64 Oa rsUNo. 2 53 @ .54 Babley —Minnesota 74 (<§ .76 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.03 @ 5.50 H'sG» 3.00 & 5.00 ”Hi:vp 3.Q0 6.00 Wheat -No. 2 Red l.Olt; a 1.(5'4 Cohn-No. 2 .70)., Oats —No. 2 Mixed 56 kJ .57 „ DETROIT. Uattle 3.00 @ 5.0) H os 3.00 @ 4.25 bHEsp 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.05 (« 1.06 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 71 gj .72 Oats— No. 2 W Lite 55 ks> .57 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.01'4® 1.05’4 Corn —Cash.. 71 ® .73 Oats —No. 2 White 54 @ .o 5 Clover Seed 4.50 ® 4.60 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Common to I’rimo 1.03 (0 5.75 Hogs— Light 3.2 > & 5.0) Bhf.ev— Medium 4 <*J 6-53 Lambs .. ... 6.03 @ 7.03 MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 2 Spring .97’4 Corn— No. 3 08 @ - 70 Oats— No. 2 White 55 ® • s ' ; Rye— No. 1 H7 ® • 8 9 Barley— No. 2 69 @ .70 Pork— Mess 12.00 ® 12.25 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 @ 6.50 Hogs 3.25 4.75 Shkep.'.' 7. 5.00 & 6.50 Wheat —No. 2 Red Ll 6 ®I D Corn No. 78 < ® ’s6 Oats— Mixed Western 53 ® .59 Better —Creamery 21 ® .32 I Eggs— Western D $ -2® I Pobk— New Mesa. 13.2a @14.00

TIED BY THE PRESIDENT i YOUNG MARTIN IS IN SERIOUS | TROUBLE. He Told His Companions that He Was Going to •• Uo Up the President”—lnstead, till President “Doos Him Up” Very Securely. It appears that the attempt to secure the release of young Harry Martin, who attemped to break into the White House when intoxicated the other night, without any punishment whatever will not bo successful. An effort, however, is likely to be made to have the offense charged against him changed, so that ho can plead guilty tekit and pay a fine. A change which has been suggested is that he will be charged with assaulting Policeman Kenney, one of the officials of the White House. It is now learned that the assault was of a more aggravated character than has been supposed. It is said to be true thai young Martin, when crazed with liquor before he started to the White House, told some of his companions that he was going “to do the President up.” The language attributed to him in words is: “I am going to do up the President.” If it could be sustained in court, and the President or the Government chose to prosecute, it would be a very serious offense indeed. Under any other Government than this such conduct would not. be excused as a drunken freak. It appears that when Martin broke througn the window of the red parlor the President himself camo to the rescue, and that he assisted the two police officers in capturing the young athlete. The story is that Piosident Harrison, on hearing the noise and seeing the difficulty the policemen ha I in struggling with theyoung fellow, himself procured a rope by cutting away one of the ropes that fasten the curtains at the window, and with the officers' a-sistance bound Martin securely. Tlie President himself tied the knot, being very much less excited than the officers. The President has been entreated by a great number of influential people since the event not to permit any action to be taken against the young man. RACED WITH A WATERSPOUT. riirilli Experience of a Norwegian Steame ’ in "e’it Indian Waters. At New Yo k, the little Norwegian steamer, America, came in from the West Indies with a story of a race with a gigantic waterspout. The steamer was 100 miles off Hatteras on March 23, making h> r way north in a moderate sea over which hung low and heavy clouds. Suddenly from the northwest, the direction of the land, a gieat watersp >ut was seen approaching. The America was headed in the direction that would give the spout a wide berth, but it came down on the steamer so rapidly that the captain put the vessel on a northeasterly course and signaled the engineer to crowd on all the steam. Then it became a race between the waterspout and the little steamer. The former was shaped like an hour glass. Its base was about thirty feet in diameter, and it tapered up for seventy feet, where it became seemingly no more than a foot in thickness. Then it spread out again, and its top wa* lost in the clouds. The waterspout was revolving from right to left with great rapidity and roaring like a small Niagara. The signal cannon of the America was loaded and run out-, ready to fire at the approaching monster, but the steamer won the race and the spout passed fifteen feet astern of the America. The commotion of the water caused by the waterspout as it whirled by the America lifted the vessel’s stern completely out of water. Gave Up the Gold. A lump of gold was received at the Treasury Department at Washington from New York and placed to the credit of the conscience fund. Accompanying it wa* a note signed “Honor,” which stated that the lump of gold had been left in “Honor's” possession for some time, but, as he believed that the gold belonged to the Government, he now turned it over to the Treasury. The lump of gold will be sent to the mint, its value a-eert lined, and “Honor” informed through the press of its value. Negro Murderer Lynched. Tom Hunter, a negro emp’oyed by R. L. Burk* in the telegraph office at Cumberland Gap, way.aid Burks and killed him. Hunter wa- captured at Middlesborough, Ky., and returned to Cumberland Gap. when a mob took him and hanged him to a tree and fired 100 shots into his body. Not a Cent for the Fair. In th ■ Arkan a* Senate the bill appropriating >25.00 i for World's Fair purposes was defeat d. In “ A. ->l n-r” Key. A rising artist—the steeple painter. A potato social is when the young folks go to pair. A fox terrier is -o called because He never disturbs a fox, but is rough oa rat*. It seems to be the burglaries and not the burglars that are committed nowadays. A Newark wig-maker is engaged in writing a novel, which he calls “The False Heir.” Dress like a tramp and your friends will overlook you, but a policemen will look you over. There are men who think less of seats in the Legislature than they do of the possible receipts. D?:af mutes may speak with signs, but they don't go around shaking hands with barber poles. Indian* are not much disposed to join secret societies, although they are fond of establishing lodges. One may pity the unfortunate from the bottom of the soul, and yet not have even the top of the wallet affected. Men are drawn and quartered even in this enlightened aae. They are drawn tip from the railroad station and quartered at some hotel. Damp sheets are the terror of everybody except the editor, who likes to have a sheet brought damp from the press. Baron Maurice de Hirsch’s signature to the document by x^Kich he gives s2,soo,CCruto ameliorate the condition of liis countrymen in America ix thus described: “There was a bold start, a Wild zigzagging of pen marks up and down, and’linally a tangle which might be taken to mean anything that suited the fancy of the reader. Yet nobody felt called upon to criticise the I penmamdfip.”

BATTLED WITH WAYESi I WRECKED ON VIRGINIA’S DESOLATE COAST. Tne Captain’s Wife and Cliild and Six Sailors Find Watery Graves—Herai® Rearue of Nine of the Crew of the 111T’atod Ves>eL The Norwegian bark Dictator, from Pensacola, Fla.., to West Hartlepool, England, laden with pine lumber, with a crew of fifteen and the captain’s young wife and little boy of 3 years, went ashore in a strong easterly gale four miles south (f Cape Henry, Va , and two miles north of the Virginia Beach Hotel. The weather was so thick that the vessel was not seen until 9 o'clock a. in., and then she was in the breakers broadside on, within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Full crews from two life-saving stations, those of Cape Henry and Seatick, under command of Captain Drinkwater, were piouptlyon hand and began firing lines to the ill-fated bark. "The guns could not deliver the lines so far, though they were repeatedly fired. The ship finally succeeded in getting a lino ashore tied to a barrel, which the surf carried to the life-savers. The breeches buoy was quickly rigged and sent to the vessel, but unfortunately the barkjs crew were ignorant of its use, and the rescue was delayed until Captain Drinkwayer, of the life-saving i crew, wrote instructions, put then:, in a । bottle, and sent it to the Dictator cytbo line connecting the vessel with the shore. The men on board broke the bottle at once, as could be seen by glasses from the shore, and proceeded to carry out the directions. The first man was delivered ashore in eight minutes, and seven others were res ned before sunset, four of whom came ashore in a life boat which was capsized, but the men succeeded in reaching the shore in a half dead condition, oue man having his arm broken, During the entire day the ship ro'led and pitched terribly, and made the work of rescuing the unhappy sailors exceedingly difficult and slow, as the lifeline | wou'd tighten or slacken in response to ( the motion of the vessel. Cnee the line I broke with a man midway to the s,h( re, I and he wa* hauled back to the bark half | dead. The line w’as mended , and the । same man safely landed. Tho i beach was lined with j eople who | had come from the country houses j and the hotel, and to the spectators the anxiety and suspense was awful, as they could plainly see the people on the bark and hear their constant cries for succor. At nightfall there were still nine persons on the bark, and among the number the captain. his wife, and little child. The captain had urged his wife all during the day to take the buoy and come ashore, but she steadily refused, as sho would not leave her husband and child, and only one could take the buoy at a time. The wife and child were already greatly exhausted, according to the report of the sailors At night the work of rescue was continued, and the captain vainly besought his wife to make the attempt for life. It has been impossible to get the names of the rescued to-night, owing to the fact that they are entirely exhausted and all are foreigners. Lloyd’s register gives the captain's name as Jorgonson. The bark is a complete wreck and went to pieces fast: the sea was tremendous. Ail that could be gathered from the half-dead-saiiors as to the cause of the stranding of thdTcs'Sm —" was that they did not know where they were, the sun not having been seen for four days, and the weather so thick last night and this morning that they struck the breakers before they could see the coast. The life-savers worked all day with great heroism without food since raorning. The apparently slow progress of the work of rescue is due to the fact that a life-boat could not live in the surf, and that the guns would not reach the bark, and that the crew could not use the breeches buoy unt 1 they were instructed from shore, which caused great delar. The captain,.just before the ship went to pieces, sprang into the sea with his son strapped to his back and reached tho shore alive, but the boy was lost, making a total of eight lives The,Dictator was trying to make Hampton Roads, having been fifteen days disabled by hurricanes. WENT WEST FOR NAUGHT. i A Pennsylvania Damsel Travels to Spoi lane Falls lor a Husband to Meet Disappointment. An advertisement inserted in a Chicago i matrimonial paper by Harry F. Fleming, ! a wholesa'e baker, of Spokane Falls, । Wash., caught the eye of Miss Grace I G'assgow, of Marklesburg, Pa. She is a l petite brunette of 30, and is the e dest daughter of Professor Samuel L. G’.assgow, a leading educator and prominent figure in Huntington County politics. An ardent correspondence ensued, photographs were exchanged and . Miss Glasgow finally accepted a proposal of marriage from her unknown Western wooer. The gallant Fleming furnished her with a through ticket and an abun--1 dance of money for the traveling ex- ' penses, and Miss Glasgoxv left quietly for j 1 Spokane Fails. The other night she i returned unexpect.‘d'y to her parents’ I home still unmarried, weary and deject- ; ed over her fruitless and fatiguing jourI ney. She had met her fiance, but his ; material and physical charms were not । in keeping with his written and pictured representation of himself, and so the disappointed damsel nullified the engagement with a frigid farewell bow. Big Mine in Danger of Floodin-. At Plymouth. Pa., Dodson colliery, one of the greatest in the coal fields, is in danger of total destruction. Water is breaking int i it from abandoned work- : ings. The mine is connected with a ; vast number of old works. The water i has gained such headway that the work j of pumping mach nery seems to be of no avail. The sus; ension of the colliery means a total loss of work to SOO men : and boys. Kansas’ I'irect Tax Refunded. The Treasury Department paid to tho , State of Kansas ■■ C ’,918, ts share of tho , direct tax. Rabbit’s Foot Fhilosopliy. The first snow fake of winter, how I significant—and the first white hair. J Beware of the man who has no petty . vices. Some j eople spend their vacation in worrying oxer the business they left behind them. She was regal, she was haughty, she. was high-born an I distinguished: and, like the rest of us, she was clay. Friendship’ at the highest height is stronger than love. Dig, sow and reap: but the harvest is Death's.