St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 April 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. THEY WOULD HANG HIM A DRUNKEN BRUTE ALMOST LYNCHED. Nebeker Appointed Treasurer —A Decision for the Importers—Good Crops in Texas —Fire in New Jersey—Executed by a Mob—Tite President’s Tour. TAUGHT HIM A LESSON. A Drunken Brute Nam w y Escapes Ornamenting a Lampp >st. In New York, Hugh Mooney, a delicate lad of 15, was standing at the door of his house when Joseph Davis, who was drunk, came up and ordered him “work de growler for him.” Mooney said that his mother would not let him enter a saloon, and Davis, enraged at the refusal, struck the boy a violent blow on the side of the head, knocking him down. Then he kicked him in the stomach and head until the little fellow's screams attracted the attention of neighbors, who at once gave chase to the brute. A crowd of over 200 excited men and women caught the trembling man, and cries of “Lynch him!” “Hang the brut*!” were heard on all sides. Some one ran into a house and reappeared with a clothesline, which was thrown over a lamp-post and Davis was dragged to the spot Ue struggled hard and was very roughly handled. At the lamp-post Davis’ courage had entirely disappeared and. realizing his grave position, he fell upon his knees and begged for his life. At that minute two policemen dashed into the crowd and dragged Davis to the station house. DECISION FOR THE IMPORTERS. Tae Federal Scp/eme Court Upholds the Claim < f Ear we 1 & Co. The Supreme Court has decided the cases of Seebcrger, Collector at Chicago, against Farwell & Co. and others, and Magone, Collector at New York, against Edward Luckenmeyer, in favor of the defendants. These cases came to the Supreme Court on an appeal from the Circuit Courts of Illinois and New York. The point involved in each was whether the dutiable value of certain importations of dress goods made of wool, but into the warp of which had been introduced from 2 to 6 per cent, of cotton, the evident purpose being to have the goods classified at lower rates under the provision of the tariff act of 1883, making lower duty on goods composed in part and not wholly of wool. The court, in deciding the cases, holds that, notwithstanding the small amount of cotton in the goods, they are dutiable at 5 cents per yard and 35 per cent, ad valorem, and not at 9 cents per yard and 40 per cent, ad valorem, as assessed by the collectors. Crop R port for Texan The Fort Worth Gazette prints a crop report covering seventy-five counties in the Texas grain belt. Out of the seventyfive counties sixty-four report an increased acreage of wheat, seventy-two report an increased acreage in corn, and sixty-three an increased acreage in oats. The e increases range all tne way from 14 to 10 per cent, and show a total increased acreage over last year in the State for wheat, corn, and oats of between 75 and 100 per cent. Hall County, in which no wheat was raised last year, this year raised 100,000 bushels. His Nam ■ I Nebek r The President has appointed Enos W. Nebeker, of Indiana, to be United States Treasurer, vice J. N. Huston, resigned. It is said to be probable that he will not assume charge of the office for some time yet, and when he does the usual formalities, such as counting the ca-h. including 4,500 tons of coin and hundreds of millions of notes and bonds, must be undertaken. J bund Dai by th“ Wayside The body of Rev. Father Gordon, a Catholic priest of Newport, Ky., was found lying in an excavation near a sidewalk in Cincinnati. It is supposed that the priest fell into the hole while walking in the darkness and his death was ; the result of suffocation. C* uit T>w.mhanp‘ Deal. Count Reinhold Lewenhaupt, son-in-law of ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard, died at his home in Wilmington, Del. He was stricken with typhoid fever a few days ago. His wife is prostrated w.th grief. They were married April 2. 7110 Preside ilia! T< ur. President Harkison and his party have left Washington for their tour through the South and West The train in which they are making the trip is described as one of the finest ever fitted out in this country. Ex cute l by a M >b Alexander Foote, the negro who j murdered Watchman J. J. Meadows, at Bluefield, W. Ya., was taken from jail at Princeton, Morocco County. Ya., and hanged to a tree ba k of the village school house. I Con Mi's Avpaint« <l. The President has appointed Edwin A. Berry, of Florida, United States Consul at Santos, Brazil, and Alonzo Spencer, of New York, United States Consul at Pictou, N. S. Flrj a’ E izab-th. N J. The Arcade Building, the finest in the city, burned at Elizabeth, N. J. It contains the postoffice, District Court, First National Bank and many offices. The loss is $500,000. General Spinola Dead. General Spinola, a member of Congress from a New York district, died in Washington. Balm fur Newfoundland. Tiie London Times expresses the belief that the Newfoundland delegates will be permitted to present their appeal at the bar of the House of Commons, but that it is hardly probable that they will be able to change the intentions of the government with respect to the alleged grievances with the United States. F v • Were Drew -rd A boat containing twelve boys, while crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis, was capsized, and live of tho young men were drowned.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The veteran showman, P. T. Rarnum, has passed to the

other world. At his residence in Bridgeport, Conn., surrounded by his family, he breathed his last peacefully. He Z was born in Bethel, z Cann.. July 5, 1810. j In 1835 he began his < career as a showman, v and. never once u passed in the strug- ' gle for supremacy, he became the greatest proprietor of mammoth amuse-

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ment enterprises the world has ever seen. Near Meadville, Pa, Lynn Hites. Edward Skeel, Jr., and Burt Pcelman, three boys were arrested for murder. On the morning of March 16 Norton J. Hotchkiss, a farmer, was found lying by the road near here covered with blood and nearly frozen. Both his feet were amputated and he died. The three boys named were with Hotchkiss the night he j was hurt. They say he had a bottle of alcohol, treated them, got drunk himself, let his horse run away and throw him out of his buggy, and that they were so frightened at what had happened that they ran to their homes. At Brooklyn, Benjamin Horton, a wealthy retired dry goods merchant, committed suicide by shooting. Mr. I Horton had been suffering from the I grip, and was despondent. Foaming and frothing at the mouth, Joseph Smith, a prominent citizen of South Hadley, Mass, lies strapped to I his bed at his home, a victim of hydro- | phobia. No one dares go near him ; without exceeding caution for fear ot | being bitten. The victim tries to bite I himself, snaps at the bedclothes and at | any one who goes near him. A week ago ! the victim was bitten by a dog which I was not supposed to be mad. The next day he began to show unmistakable symptoms of hydrophobia. It was with the greatest difficulty that he was restrained from biting members of Ils own family. A case of spotted typhus of the wer.-t kind was developed among the patients in the Elizabeth (N. J.) Hospital. It giea .y alarmed tho medical staff. It is eleven years since a similar case was found there. The Eighteenth Regiment has left the coke regions. The Tenth Regiment will remain in the field and will be redistributed at important points. The return of the troops causes very little anxiety, as it is now generally considered that the troubles are over and that the Tenth Regiment will be able to cope with any possible outbreak. General Manager Lynch, of the Frick Company, says that the strikers are virtually defeated and reports the Jimtown, Adelaide, and other plants operating in full. The company will ship a hundr?d cars of coke at once and he says they have all the ovens in operation they desire at present. The special convention of the { strikers at Scottdale met in executive session, but what they have accomplished has not yet been made known. Mr. Barnum left an estate valued at over $5,000,000. In h's will he gives his wife Nancy SIOO,OOO absolutely and an annuity of $40,000 for life. Certain real estate in New York City is set aside to pay the annuity to Mrs. Barnum. Sho also receives valuable real estate in Heu of dower. Various specified sums are bequeathed to his children and grandchildren, and to charitable and educational institutions, $2(10,000 per year for the maintenance of the Barnum & Bailey show, $50,000 for publishing Universalist literature, and the residue of his estate is divided among his descendants. At Du Bois, Pa., a dozen children, who had been playing in a vacant lot. were poisoned by eating some wild parsnip roots which they found there. Two of August Weigclman’s children and one of J. M. Boring’s have died in convulsions. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The engine of freight train No. 25, north bound, on the Wisconsin Central Road, jumped the track near Vernon, Wis. It ran on a bridge near by and । tipped over, pinioning Dan McMullen, engineer. B. B. Moore, fireman, and | Peter Seipp, a brakeman. All were terribly scalded. Moore and McMullen died a few hours later, and Seipn will probably die. The Kansas City Packing Company, which failed last November and which has since been reorganized with a capital stock of $2,000,000, and is now styled the “Phoenix Packing Company,” resumed active operations. At Kenton, Ohio, William Bales, who murdered Policeman Harper last week, was taken from the jail by a mob about fifty strong and hanged. The Sheriff refused to get the keys, not having them with him. "'hey found the । keys in an adjo ig room and ! opened the jail doors, got Bales and | gave him only time to put on his pants and a pair of slippers. The mob was well organized and all wore black masks except one, which was white, apparently the leader. No noise was made. All spoke in whispers. The work was quickly ami systematically done. Not I more than twenty minutes elapsed from | the time the door was broken open until Bales was dangling between earth and ■ sky. He did not make any fuss, only ; groaned a few times while lea ing the i jail cell. Sentinels guarded al! approaches leading to the jail and nobody was allowed to appi ach nearer than a I square. The mob dispersed as quickly ■ and silently as it gathered, all going in ; i different directions. At Omaha, David Kimball, local agent iof the Chicago & Northwestern Road, committed suicide. lie had been drinking heavily recently. William Powebs, a powerful lunatic, I got loose in the corridor of the jail at Jeffersonville, Ind , and no one dared enter it for a time. He boat two guards nearly to death. State Senator R. M. Ward, of Falri mont, Minn., died at the Palmer House, J Chicago, of pneumonia. He came there 1 April 4 and was attacked by the grip. | The best medicai aid was secured at his ! . bedside, but he grew rapidly worse and j passed away. The most disastrous fire experienced i in Chicago since 1874 started during the afternoon performance in Kohl & Mid--1 dieton’s dime mus um on West Madison street, and in spit-' of the combined ef- > forts of forty tomj antes, aggregating i

nearly five hundred firemen, the flames 1 consumed almost an entire block involv- ' ing a loss of nearly a million dollars. ! Those injured bodily are: Francis Gam- ' ble, injured.internally, since died: C. 11. 1 Messenger, left leg and arm broken; I Alexander Grant, right leg broken and ! serious scalp wounds; Bessie Higgins, I internally injured; an unknown, right | arm broken: Charles Benson, of Truck I Company No. 19, left arm broken. Frank Barnard, a San Francisco coal dealer, has failed with liabilities of i $83,000. He expects to pay 15 cents on the dollar. The heavy influx of coal caused the failure. News received from Southeastern Arizona says that the White Mountain Apaches arc very restless, and It is feared that they will go on the warpath. They are having much trouble among themselves, there being shooting or cutting scrapes daily, and a general feeling of uneasiness prevails, which bodes no good to settlers in that part of the Southwest. The Occidental Hotel at Winters, Cal. was burned, and one of the guests, P. H. Ray, perished in the flames. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Memphis, Tenn., Toof, McGowan & Co., one of the most prominent firms of wholesale grocers and cotton factors, made an assignment. The liabilities are $126,728; assets, $375,469. The causes given are poor collections, brought about largely by tho high water now prexaiL j ing, and large balances carried over tau, i last year and the year before. US* Cot. J. 11. Hollingsworth, rccei 'i I of the Texas State Lana om< e, arrested in Hardeman County. He is said to be short in his accounts about $13,000, and the last grand jury found two true bills against him. John Jones, of Dale County, Alabama, has been arrested on a charge of assault with intent to murder his 9-year old boy. He tied him up by the thumbs, whipped him unmercifully, and then left him to die. Tho little fellow was almost dead when rescued. Ar Little Rock, Ark., James Sumpier climbed to the top of a windmill for the pur) use of repairing it. but neglected to fasten it When he reached the top a gust of winds started the fans, and Sumpier was thrown to the ground, a distance of sixty foot, and instantly killed. At Austin, Tex . the jury in the case of Radman vs. Aiff has returned a verdict giving Aiff, the defendant. SIO,OOO damages. The case was about a patent microbe exterminator, which both parties claim to have invented. A special from Lebanon, Md., says: William Skaggs, a United States prisoner on route to the prison at Columbus, Ohio, jumped through a car window on the “cannon ball” train and escaped. The train was running at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. M. S. Good, a forger fleeing from Nebraska justice, killed Officer .lames P. Paxton, of that State, near Pinnacle i Springs, Ark. Arkansas officers, after a desperate fight, wounded and captured Good. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. At Washington, D. C., in the case of Charles E. Kincaid, charged witto-AKf murder of ex-Congressman Taulbc^ the ’ jury brought in a verdict of not p*** Kincaid was warmly congratultnen 9 his R**q<*i*tnl lilthoiixch, the rgstd* 4 ’ been generally expected. At Washington, D. C.. the Bre session of the congress of invent* tn ; manufacturers of patented invent^ As celebration of the beginning of the second century of the American patent system was held. President Harrison and a large number of pKominent men who have been selected as vice presidents of i the congress occupie I seats on tho stage. The hall was filled with a representative gathering of the inventors and manufacturers of the country. Thomas Edison. Alexander Graham Bell, George AVcstiimhouso, Mr. Gatling, and others whose names are well known in the annals of invention achievements, have co operated with the Executive Committee in making the celebration worthy or the event. Gen. Rosecrans, who has been ailing and confined to his room in Washington, D. C., for several days, is much better. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The contest for the Chicago mayoralty is once mote ended, and the figures are as follows: 11. Washburne (Rep.), 45.752: DeWitt C. Cregier (Dem.),44,088: Carter H. Harrison (Dem.), 40,820; E. Washburn (Cit. Rep.), 23,276; Morgan (Soc.), 2.005. The election passed quietly, and over 165,000 votes were polled These figures are from the Tribune, and are not claimed to be absolutely correct; but the Times and Herald concede the probability of Republican success. Thi*has been the most memorable election Chicago ever held. There were those who professed to see in it direct precursing of party success in 1892, and the contest was spirited and acrimonious in the extreme. Never before has there been such a strange array of candidates, and it would puzzle the most astute worker in political figures to tell with^y accuracy anything about the 'reiWvo strength of the two great politica’ ties in Chicago. Carter Harrison’® 010 camo largely from all parties. Jvixu: It. M. MoMuoMinv is elected Supreme Court J ustice of Michigan. over Champlin (Dem ), by 3,000 to 5,000 plurality. Judge Montgomery has long been on the bench in Kent i county. j In Kansas, the marked feature was । the presence of an unusually large number of women, who voted with as much | enthusiasm as the men. No political j significance ittached to the election. In Wisconsin, S. U. Pinney (Dem.), the lawyers’ candidate for Supreme Court Justice, was elected over E. H. Ellis (Dem.), candidate of the politi--1 cians. Party lines over this office were 1 not drawn. In Kansas City, Republicans elected 1 their Mayor. With very few exceptions, all Arkansas cities elected Democratic officials. In Ohio, Republicans made largo gains in municipal elections. Cleveland went Republican. In Nebraska, the Australian ballot was used, and high license wins. Republicans championed it. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Gustavus Goward, Commissioner to Japan from the Illinois Board of World’s ; Fair Directors, is having much success jin Yokohama. In addition to $600,000 1

' to be expended by the Government, largo amounts will be subscribed by trading ! companies and rich merchants, so that the total amount raised by Japan will ' exceed $1,000,000. The Japanese-villagc i project, it is anticipated, will prove a most lucrative affair, so much so that al1 ready there are several sets of applicants ! for the privilege of carrying out the I scheme. . A Rome dispatch says that everybody is on the qui vive for the next act in the Italian-American drama. Crispi has openly declared that the Budini cabinet dare not make a serious demand for redress upon the United States, and that the Italian people have been held up to ridicule by the vacillation of the ministry. The statement that American utterances have had an influence In provoking hostile feeling is confirmed. In addition to the press dispatches the Consul General at New York has kept his government fully informed of the editorial expressions of the press of that city. These are considered as extremely obnoxious in’ their tone of contempt for Italy’s strength, both naval and military. The caricature which is said to have given personal offense to King Humbert is one in which a monkey figures with a crown on its head and features bearing a resemblance to those of the King. The clerical, or Vatican, faction is alleged to have circulated widely wood cuts of these caricatures as showing American hatred and contempt for the Quirinal. Altogether. whatever tho outcome of the difficulty, the feeling toward America in high Italian circ les is very bitter. Among the lower or rfers the complication is having a contrary effect. The people seem to anticir’ttte that the gates of the American paradise are about to be shut 011 Italians, I and there, ’ ■ ~ .... 1. )n y, p f ore f ijey ■Seloso. tho ports are thronged 'm, i..,.,.,./ I Illg emigrants, and families, fi m patriarch to babe, can be seen trudging along the • kjitgbways that lead to the points of departure. The authorities are making efforts to discourage emigration, but without effectNothing short of bayonets can stay the torrent. A remarkable fact in regard to this year's conscripts for the German army in Silesia is the extraordinarily large number who are maimed in hand and foot. This is said to be due to the growing belief among the peasantry that a war is imminei t. The most common form of maiming is the loss of the small toe on the left-foot. FRESH nND NEWSY. The wholesale hardware house of Shultz & Hosea suspended at St. Joseph, Alo. The embarrassment is attributed to slow collections. The assets arc placed at $240,000 and the liabilities atsl7o,ooa At Birmingham, Ala , the Osborn & Cheeseman Co., brass founders, was put into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are $350,000 and the nominal assets $750,000. Thomas Beard, a Santa Fe employe at Kansas City, was killed by accidentally touching a live electric wire. John Benton, while working in a boiler in the city hall in Richmond. Va , was suffocated and taken out dead. Baron Fava, the Italian minister recalled by his government, left Washington for Italy via New York. He left so quietly that few outside the diplomatic corps knew of it until he was well on his way to New York. A number of prominent diplomats and other friends went to tho railway station to see him off. He declined to be publicly entertained at a farewell dinner. details received from the ~"r in Chili say that SllHuijcT qof s ruimSil! r at 'Avpans -toAO aaoq Inwood SSfe A A or Tr . iMENTS 4 - WNHOUSES rngnth P r °mi- . ^'-overnment, has also been" adjudged a traitor. All the property of these men has been confiscated. Minister Atunez, who has been in Paris, has also been branded as a traitor. This gentlemen not only placed himself at the disposal of the insurgent Commissioner in that city, but accepted drafts made upon him by the rebel leaders. <Tic money with which he paid these drafts had been sent to him by Balmaceda to pay for the new cruisers in course of construction in France for the government. In spite of all the statements of the government officers the revolution is rapidly extending in the southern provinces, which had heretofore been considered loyal to the government. The Secretary of State has received information from the United States Minister at Santiago, ( hili, stating that the Government of Chili has closed the ports of Chanaral, Taltal, Antofagasta, Ocozilla, Iquique, Calctabuene, Junin and Pisagua. All vess -Is attempting to trade with those ports are liable to confiscation. • MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle--Coupuon to Prime.... $3.25 @ 6.50 Hogs-Shipping Grades 3.00 <5 5.50 Sheep 3.00 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.03 @ 1.04 Cork—No. 2 68 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 55 @ .57 R^e—No. 2 87 @ .88 Butter—Choice t reamery 21 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream, fiat’s .12*4 Eggs—Fresh .15\> Potatoes—Western, per bu 1.15 & 1.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle —Shipping 3.50 @ 5.5 > Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 & 5.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 ® 5.2 > Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.05*4@ 1.06*2 Cuks—No. 1 White 70*2C£ .71*** Oats—No. 2 White 56 e .57 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 & 6.25 liras 4,i0 (a, 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.05 1.36 Corn—No. 2 ....... .68 @ .69 Oats—No. 2 54)s@ .55’^ Baulks:-Minnesota 76 @ .78 CINCINNATI. Cattle. 3.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 2.00 ©. 5.25 Sheep. 4.00 @ 6.50 Wheat-No. 2 Red 1.08 ct 1.09 Corn—No. 2 73J$@ .74'^ Oats —No. 2 Mixed 58 @ .59 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ -1.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.C0 Sheep 3.C0 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @l.lO Corn—No. 2 Yellow 71 @ .72 Oats—No. 2 White 57*$@ .58^ TOLEDO. Wheat Loß*£@ 1.09*2 COBS—Cash 71*i@ .7215 Oxts—.No. 2 White 54 @ .55 Clover Seed 4.30 @ 4.40 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @ f.OO Hogs—Light 3.25 @ 5.75 Sheep—Medium 4.00 @ 6.00 Lambs 5.09 @ 7.00 j MILWAUKEE. Whe vr—No. 2 Spring 1.03 @1.05 1 CoBN —No. 3 08 @ .69 Oats—No. 2 White 55 @ .57 > Rye—No. 1 .89 & -90 Barley—No. 2 .73 @ .74 Pork—Mess 12.75 @13.25 NEW YORK. Cattle. 4.00 @ 6.00 Hogs 3.25 @ 5.5 Q Sheep 5.00 7.00 Wheat —No. 2 Bed 1.18 @ 1.20 Corn—No. 2 78 @ .80 ; Oats—Mixed Western 57 @ :62 Butter —Creamery 21 @ .27 ' Eggs—Western 14 @ .16 • Pork —New Mess 13.50 @14.00

SISTER SUSAN IS GREEDY ANNA DICKINSON’S INSANITY A CANARD. Her Sister Thought to Prey Upon the Public's Sympathy—So Says Anna Herself, and the Is Corrob irated by an Eminent Physician. Anna Dickinson in a public mad-houso —that was bad enough. But Anna Dickinson in a public madhouse and perfectly sane —Anna Dickinson, gifted and eloquent, noted and honored figure of her time, famous for her labors in behalf of the enslaved and her championship of her own sex—Anna Dickinson shut up with maniacs and gibbering lunatics, and still in the possession of her own reason—that is infinitely revolting to a country that still respects her. Shocking as it is, that is her story. Worse than that, it is her story that the wrongs and sufferings she has undergone are the result of a sister’s designs. Released from imprisonment by chance, Miss Dickinson, who is now in Kew York, has chosen to give her extraordinary narrative to tho world for the first time. In moderate language, with the bearing of a woman who had weighed every word and understood the significance of all she said, she told what she had gone through and why she believed she had been the victim of a conspiracy. Feb. 2 > —so ran the substance of her story—she had been seized in her home at West,Pittston, Pa., carried off by force, ui.a i lx violation of law confined in the State Asylum at Danville. There she had staid five weeks and a day, without examination as to her mental or physical condition, sick, worn with terror and anxiety, needing medical attendance and lacking it, knowing all the time that a terrible wrong was being practiced upon her, but deprived of communication with her friends and tho world. From this situation she was taken on April 2 in a sad state of destitution and misery by a physician from another State, who had been called Upon to remove her to his supposed private asylum. Instead of shutting her up in another institution, this physician, a practitioner of repute and standing, had recognized her sano condition and sat her free. To account for her incarceration stories had been set afloat of her viol^jce and desp rate madness. These Miss 's Dickinson circumstantially declared to bo utterly false. ^The object of subjecting her to these dreadful ordeals was, as she believed, to get money from the public by arousing sympathy for her pretended condition. Tho person whom she accused as tho chief instrument in this unnatural design is h r own sister. Legal proceedings which will test the justice of these sweeping charges are to bo begun at once. Miss Dickinson went to New York with Dr. Frederick W. Seward of Goshen, N. Y., at whose house she has been since she escaped from Danville April 2. “It is unfortunate,” said Miss Dickinson, “that I must begin my defense against the charge of insanity Dy making a charge of insanity against somebody else. Disagreeable as it is for me to reveal to the public in this way the misfortunes of our family, I am obliged to say that for many years my sister Susan has been a monomaniac on the subject of money. “Looking back over the last few years j 1 putting together many things which 'ieme d to mp then to be strange^ but not I think I see very plainly ^at she has been influenced by two mo!q = es - had first the intense and - 'grasping desire for money, and a belief that if she fyad it she could handle it better than I could. She had, second, an intense hatred and jealousy for me. “With the few people who live in Pittston I had scarcely the slightest acquaintance, and absolutely no friendship. My sister knew everybody, and everybody knew her. In this way she was able to circulate reports about me and my condition, which the villagers, not having any knowledge of the subject, even the slightest, were bound to believe. “One day while at work I wa« seized and hustled off to the asylum at Danville without being allowed to communicate with anybody. I tried to send out various dispatches to my relatives and friends telling of the outrage to which I had been subjected. But the next day passed and the next, and I heard nothing. Then I began to realize that I had been cut off deliberately from any communication with the world. “The Danville Asylum is a horrible place. My tortures in it were more than I can describe. All my associates were maniacs, nevertheless. There seemed to be a regular system of amnoyances adopted toward them. All the daily newspapers in which accounts of my supposed madness and false representations of my violence were conspicuously printed were placed where I could not help seeing them. Attendants and halfwitted patients nagged, followed, pestered, and teased me. “I needed tho services of a physician. But from first to last, from the moment 1 entered that horrible den to the day I escaped from it, no examination was made of my condition, no physician inquired as to whether I needed any help, no medicines were provided for me, no attention whatever was paid to me, ” Dr. Seward, whose name is a famiiiar and irreproachable one in medical science, said: “Miss zYnna Dickinson is perfectly sane. I have studied her case attentively, and know there is nothing the matter with her. I investigated some of her statements, and found them to be true. ” Lotta at McVicker’s. Since its opening, March 30, after having been rebuilt from the fire in a stylo more resplendent than ever, McVicker’s Theater, at Chicago, has been doing a phenomenal business, with Jefferson and Florence. For the week commencing Monday, April 20, the attraction will be * the ever-charming Lotta. Already or- “ dors are received from outside towns for seats. Jurors Compromise on Manslaughter. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the Egan murder ease went to the jury, and in two hours a verdiot of manslaughter was brought in. Tho prisoner and his attorneys appeared delighted with the verdict, and Egan shook hands with all the jury as they passed out. .The jury stood three for first degree and one for acquittal and the verdict was a compromise. Sweat and dust cause the horse's shoulders to gall. So do poor, ill-fitting collars.

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. ANNA DICKINSON’S STORY IS FLATLY CONTRADICTED. Her Sister Susan Tells Her Side of tho Story—Anna Scared the Servants anti I’ounded the Walls —Miss Frances Willard's Opinion. A dispatch from Scranton, Pa., says: Miss Susan E. Dickinson was in the city in consultation with friends relative to the statements made by her sister to a reporter in New York. Miss Dickinson said that she had telegraphed Dr. Seward that he wduld be held in damages for the injury he is doing her sister’s mind, confirming her delusion, and a'so that friends in West Pittston and vicinity will testify that she has devoted her life for years to the welfare and interests of Anna. In denying the story published in New York, Miss Susan Dickinson first refers to the charge that a removal was made io West Pittston clearly to please herself. The true reason of the removal, she says, was because Miss Anna had lost the means to support her mother as she desired to in Ihi a lelphia. She xplains facts relative to their family arrangements and then answers the charge of extravagance, saying that she was her sister’s private secretary and bookkeeper, and was allowed $250 a month to meet expenses, which included the rental of a SI,OOO a year house. The house was generally full of Anna's company, and they had to be provided for. It was impossible, therefore, to avoid the standing aver at accounts until her return home to settle at times. “I never made an investment of any kind in my life.” continued Miss Susan. “I never bought trinkets for myself, and was not in the habit of making gifts to other people. In answer to my sister’s allegation that I have an intense hatred and jealousy for her, I have to say that it has never taken any other form than that of striving to further her interests to the utmost of my ability. Physicians will testify that in the summer of 1877 it was my nursing which saved her life. Dr. Hileman, whom she abuses, was her own selection, and she praised him to the skies. After a time, on Thursday, Feb. 19, Anna became violently delirious, ana her actions were very curious. Among other things she began screaming and pounding on the partition walls The servant was afraid of her, ran out of the house, and was followed by Anna. She then came back and ate her supj er. Her story of gleaming white crystals in a cup of coffee is a pure fabrication, which only insanity can account for. Several days before she had been accusing Howe & Hummel!, her attorneys, of the vilest treachery in her case against the Republican National Committee, and she asserted that an old friend in Boston was concerned in a plot to ruin her reputation. * Miss Susan speaks of Miss Anna’s violence toward her and then says that on. Feb. 25 it became necessary to deliver her sister to Danville, because she had eaten nothing for three days. She wasnot roughly bandied and her clothing was not injured, as stated in all thepapers, at the time her door was forced open. Her papers have been carefully assorted, and they now await her disposition. Her stage jewels in one package* and her private jewels in another are safe in her own bank in Pittston, subject, to her order. The attempt to secure money for her was inaugurated by Mrs. Longford and Miss Willard without any action or word on Miss Susan’s pait The Pittston Gazette says: “Os course^ there is not to be found in all this region^. — a single person who for one moment beY t*" lieves the ridiculous story sent out. Miss Susan has been greatly devoted to her sister Anna, and fpr years she has placed her welfare above all else, even to the extent of relinquishment of the greater portion of her literary work in order that she might be able to better attend her sister during her late illness. ” “I really do not know what to make of the report published in regard to the unjust incarceration of Anna Dickinson,” said Frances E. Willard. “I have no authoritative information upon which to base a hypothesis,” continued Miss Willard, “and I was never in my life more astonished than when I read the statement. What Ido know is thatI have been acquainted with Susan E. Dickinson, Anna’s sister, for the last sis- • teen years, and that to my knowledge she has been a most generous, faithful and also beloved sister. There were the most cordial and loving relations between 1 the two sisters, and I have, times with--1 out number, heard Anna speak in the 1 most affectionate way of Susan. Indeed, 1 I have always regarded Susan as the ’ mainstay of the family. Anna was al- ' ways erratic, but Susan went on in the ' even tenor of her way, and was always ’ to be depended upon. “I could not believe Susan Dickinson * capable of the base conduct attributed to her under any circumstances, but really I do not see what she could hope to gain by such a course. The plan for the fund which we hope to raise is that J it shall be p’aced in the hands of trus- ’ tees, and that only the interest .-hall be paid to Anna Dickinson, and that it ' shall be kept as a permanent fund for the purpose of ab^ng any woman who has given her life to the public and is nolonger able to care for herself. That A. J. Drexel is the tr asurer of the committee that is to take charge of the funds is, it seems to me. sufficient guarantee that all will be conducted as it should be. “Here is a letter from Susan E. Dickinson which I received recently,” said Miss Willard. “She tells me of Anna's 1 removal and says; T could not go with her because, as is so usual in such cases, she turned suddenly and violently against me, and until I have the assurance that it is better instead of woise for her to see me I shall wait’ j “Miss Susan closed with: ‘How earni, estly I thank you for a'l you are doing 1 and for all your tributes to Anna in what . you write I nave no adequate words to j say. But I pray God to bless you, aud . I look forward to the day when you • and Anna shall take loving counsel together.' ” Crops in Great Shape. April returns to the Department of ‘ Agriculture show that the condition of . the growing wheat crop throughout the entire country is tin best since 1882. 1 Coal Fai ure. ' Frank Barnard, coal dealer at San Francisco, failed with liabilities of $83,000. and assets sufficient to pay 15 cents on the dollar. A Sinashup. Seven persons were injured in a collision on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, near McJunkin, lowa.