St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 52, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 July 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTOM, - - - INDIANA DEATH IN THE STORM. FRIGHTFUL DEVASTATION AT BATON ROUGE, LA. Deeds of Lunatics, Love-Sick Swains and Desperadoes—Tremendous Failure sit Montgomery, Ala. —Lightning’s Fata' Work in Maryland —An Elephant Stepped on Him. KILLED IN A HURRICANE, Ten Convicts Lose Their Lives and Thirtyfive Are Injured. A terrible tornado struck Biton Rouge, La., passing from southwest to northeast. Ten convicts in the penitentiary were killed and thirty-five were injured. The cyclone was 300 yards wide, and ricocheted along its course like a cannon-ball, devastating as it went In the city no one was killed, though several persons were seriously injured. The State penitentiary is partially wrecked. Ten convicts were killed and thirty-five injured, five of these dangerously. — - BASE-BALL. Standing of (he D. : ff rent Clubs Accor ling to the Latest Contest Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L VC. w. L. Vc New Yorks..3s 25 .633 Clevelands..32 33 .492 Chicagos... .36 25 .581 Brooklyns...3l 32 .492 Bostons 35 27 .565 Pitteburgß. .24 36 .403 Philadelp's..3o 31 .492 Cincinnatis.24 33 .381 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Vc. W. L. Vc. St. L0ui5....48 2> .649 Cincinnatis 32 3i .457 Bostons 4 5 25 .613 PhUadelp’S. 31 3> .413 Baltimores..4l 2? .603 Louisvilles .2 • 45 .392 Columbus,. .35 33 .<.'9 Washingt’ns2l 44 .321 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. w. l. yc. w. L. yc. Omahas 38 22 .613 Kansas C'ys.33 33 .500 Milwaukees.3B 28 .576 Sioux Citys.23 35 ,4>3 Minneapolis 38 29 .567 Denvers 2’> 37 .413 Lincolns... .34 £9 .540 Duluths 22 45 .318 Stepped on by an Elephant. An immense crowd gathered at Manhattan Beach, a resort near Denver, Co!., to witness a balloon ascension by a woman. There is a menagerie at the Beach. An elephant had eight children on his back, when the balloon started up. The animal became terribly frighted at the balloon and the children all fell off. A little boy named Johnny Eaton was caught under the elephant’s feet and crushed out of all semblance to humanity. Threatened by a Mcb. At Spokane Falls, Wash.. Charles B ooks, a negro janitor, fired three bullets into the body of his white wife, killing her almost instantly. Bro >ks was one of the most prominent negroes in the city, and at one time was poss s^ed of a considerable fortune. When informed that a mob was being organized to attempt to lynch him he showed no trace of alarm, and declared that he expected to die when he shot his wife. The Sher- ■ iff guards him. Faded for $500,000. At Montgomery, Ala , Moses Broth- ; ers, one of the largest and oldest bank- j ing houses in Montgomery, failed. I.ia- ; bi ities $500,000, with largo assets, but which are not available. A local bank offered Moses Brothers $103,000 to tide over, but they refused. The firm stands high for integrity, and few believe that ther ■ is anything ugly abut the suspension. Each individual has included his ! home, all real estate and persona! property in the schedule of assignment Shot His Successful Rival. George Rothecock, a young farmer of Hope, Ind., was shot three times ' while in his own residence by William Bullard, a neighbor. In the scufl'c Bullard received a bail through his left lung, but the wound is not fatal. The cause of BuPard's enmity against Rothecock was that the two were rival lovers for a girl, and Rothecock came out best, marrying the girl three months ago Grasshoppt: s Stop a Train. Til: passenger train on the Rock Island road was stopped by grasshoppers cast of Lyman Junction in Colorado. They covered the track for a distance of fixe miles, and the wheels of the engine rolled helplessly. .Another engine , was procured, which pushed the train : through the five mile column, it taking j two hours to accomplish this even with two engines. Three Men Struck Uejo*” J New-is received of a terrib’e thun- I derstorm at St. Inigo’s villa. St Mary’s i County, Maryland, and of the death by ■ lightning of three scholastics of Woodstock College. The scholastic* were John B. Lamb. William J. Holden and James Walters. Rage of a Woman Scorned. John Lowerman was fa'ally shot by J Miss Nellie Bowenkamp at his home some miles out from Oak Lodge, Indian Territory. Lowerman is a Choctaw Indian of some note, and is wealthy. He had jilted the girl. Suicide of a Girl. At Shelbyville, Ind , Mrs. John Morner discovered the lifeless body of Maggie Zcb’e. a domestic in her employ, hanging from a joist in the woodshed. She was said to be in love and despondent. Mary Nimmer's Insane Deed. Mus. Mary Nimmer, of Pittsburg, Pa., while in a fit of religious hysteria, killed her youngest child with a hatchet. Hurled from a Moving Train. Wilt.ie Coe: and Charles Adgate, while on a passenger train leaving Youngstown, Ohio, quarreled over a gir', and Adgate threw Coe off the coach. He fell on the rails and both feet were amputated and his skull fractured. Burned by a Lamp Explosion. Ar Erie, Pa., Mrs. Margaret McCarthy was fatally burned by a lamp explosion. Her son Michael was also serirously burned.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The ladies of the Christian Church, of Brushton, N. Y., gave the first ice cream sociable of the season. Forty-three people who ate ice cream were poisoned. The pastor of the church and two ladies have died, and all the others are in a critical condition. A deal has been recorded in Marlboro, Conn., transferring to the Baron Hirsch fund trustees a large tract of land in that town, on which buildings are to be erected and occupied by beneficiaries of the Hirsch charity. This is one of a number of charitable institutions by Baron Hirsch, the philanthropist, who has done so much for the Jews. The authorities of Birmingham and ! Torrington, Conn , are looking for David ■ Bassett, son of Philo Bassett, a wealthy farmer. The Torrington people want him for stealing a horse and the Birmingham people hold a warrant charging him with eloping with his brother’s wife. Ar New York Alexander Weiss, an advertising agent for the Deutsche Herold, shot a woman named Marie Hodig and then attempted suicide. Webs is the man who went to the Cosmopolitan i Hotel at South Beacon, L. 1., accompanu d by a strange woman and who subsequently wrote to several of his friends in New York that he con tern- ■ plated suicide. Tub boiler of shifting engine 235 on the Central Railroad of New Jersey ex- j ploded at Mauch Chunk, Pa. Four men I were killed. Engineer Tripp and Fire- I man Pope were blown to atoms. At Pittsburg, Miss Carrie Duff, the 19-year old niece of Levi Bird Duff, a well-known Pittsburg attorney, was arrested upon the street for stealing over $2,000 worth of diamonds from several of Pittsburg’s leading jewelers. With ' her was arrested J. C. Cameron, a well- I known young man, who is Treasurer of the Metropolitan Fishing Club Miss Duff and Mr. Cameron wore to bo married. Cameron was short in his accounts and, furthermore, they needed money for wedding expenses and a wedding trip A Newcastle, Pa., special says a traction engine d'rawing a shanty on wheels went through a bridge. John Byron, Charles Newton and Chaliner Shaffeiywere caught in the wreck and so bad!) scalded by the escaping steam that they will hardly recover. While sitting in his club rooms at Bangor, Me., ox-Vice President (during Lincoln’s firs: term) Hannibal Hamlin was stricken by heart failure and died within an hour. Mr Hamlin was born in Paris, Mo , in 1809, and was therefore. 82 years old. Until within a few months he had been in robust health, frequently going fishing and engaging in other outdoor exercise. Nearly all his family were present at his death bed. His son Frank, at Chicago, was summoned to attended tho fumoral 'An explosion occurred on the steamer Standard, loading oil at Point Breeze, Pa Five men were injured. William Morton and David McVey will doubtless die. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. A company playing interior I'llnols j towns announce their lady star as supI ported by tho “McVicker Theater (omi pany of Chicago.” There is no McVicker Theater Company on the road. Manager | McVicker pays exclusive attention to I McVicker's Theater in Chicago and to jno other business No dramatic thieves ' should be a'lowod to prosper by the use of his name, or of any other of repute and honor. The stocks of wheat in California < all Board warehouses July 1 aggregate 19,j 300 tons. Sal s on call during June amounted to '.r.’j o.i tons, as against 61,- ; 000 tons for the same period ia*t year. E. L. LfTHi.lt Manager of the l.eav- ; enworth (Kan. । Telephone Exchange, is ■ 51,500 short in his accounts Luther says he will make good the shortage and there is an understanding that he will not bo prosecuted if this is done. Luther is a prominent chur. h man. Ai.beiit Zermpsky, an 18-year old youth, has been in the employ of Mr Warner, a farmer near Keosau jua an i has been paying attention to his dauah- | ter, Miss Killa, but his affection was not .re iprocated The young woman declined his proffer of marriage and Zcr nipsky pulled out a revolver and fired, the ball taking effect in tho left jaw. but not producing a fata! wound. Miss Warner's scrims brought her brother James, a young man 25 years of age. into the room. Zernip-ky re-entered the room with a rifle while the brothe;was dressing his sister’s wonn I ami tired two more shots, on - taking effect in young Warner’s breast and the second ! crashing into his brain killing him inJ stantly. He then made his escape in j the darkness and up to this time has I eluded the officers who are in pursuit Tho cfrl will recover. Dispatches report a cye’ono at Gray, lowa. A large number of hou«' 1 s In the 1 track of the storm were destroyed and a ’ number of peop'e injured. One man is reported killed. At Halbur there was a heavy storm of hail, doing much damage ।to crops of all kinds. Audubon also ieports a heavy hai'storm with hailstones as large as hens' eggs. The storm lasted twenty minutes and greatly damaged crops. Arcadia and Westside also report great damage. Three men in a wagon were driving ; across the Chicago. Burlington and j Quincy tracks at St. Louis avenue, Chicago, when a passenger train crashed into the vehicle and hurled the occupants high into the air. Two of the men, Teter Becker and John Norton, will die from their injuries. John Newi man was severely bruised. 1 Fob many years Robert James of Blue Lick, Clark County, Ind., has been blind, and had given up all hope of ever I regaining his sight Several days ago his wif ■ was taken dangerously iii, and । in his distress he wept ami prayed incessant'y. Suddenly his sight cane ; | back to him, an I he now sees as well as i j ever. I A messenger who has Just arrived at I Holbrook, Ari. Ter., fr m Col. Corbin, reports that he arrested the eight Indians whom he went after for destroying landmarks and threatening the destruction of life. At Denver Cecil Dean was given SIOO,COJ damages against S. W. French for alienation of t'iu affections of Dean’s wife. Dean had deeded all his property

to his wife, believing her to be true + ' him, and French profited thereby. 0 It is understood that Evan P. Jonis of Wisconsin, for many years Unt^J • States Consul at Cardiff, will renew Im allegiance to Great Britain, of which was a former subject, and run for Pa. liament. He was a native of Wales, aw became a naturalized citizen of tu United States. r Lakeville, Minn., was tho scene o r a terrible tragedy. EH Mui inax, noted desperado and horse thief, whs 8 Q home is in Princeton, Mo., shot and stantly killed John Johnson. Mulling was then wounded by a son of Johnson but not seriously. Teter Brizendine » companion of Mullinax, then shot ami Instantly killed young Johnson, ah ■ wounded Mrs Johnson, who rushed » o i the assistance of her husband and son I Mullinax and Brizendine are noted horse thieves, and wore making away with a pair of fine bay horses belonging to Johnson. They escaped, but will be lynched if captured. Cherokees will compel tho stockman grazing cattle on their lands to pay 50 cents per head for their privileges, jf they do so tho Cherokees will call f or injunction proceedings In case tho General Government attempts to eject the cattlemen. At Sioux City it is 1 uporieu authority that the C., B. Q. hasc chased tho interests of the Hoon rSK d in tho Burlington, Cedar Rapid-f^ Northern, and will form a compact wrth : the Sioux City A Not thorn which will give it a lino into Sioux City. Two bodies, one that of a man of 50 ami the other that of a woman somewhat younger, were found in Superior Bay, M is , near the St. Paul and Pacific docks The bodies have been identified as those of a man named Whitehall and his wife. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. At Charlotte, N. C., Brabham, the negro to be hanged soon for murdering the j Italian, Mocea, made an attempt on the life of the sheriff. The negro would have killed him but-for a prisoner named ( aidwell, who rushed from the corridor and pulled Brabham away. Tho prisoner begged to be killed, so lie would not live to be hanged. Mu. E. L Maxn, manager of the Shelby plantation, near Shelby Station, Bolf- j var County, Miss , was murdered. He was eating supper, and the assassin -h<>t through the window at him A negro tenant with whom Mann had quarreled Is suspected. The negro has run away. Ix New Orleans Mayor Shakc<|>< are ordered the telegraph poles of tho Postal To egraph Company cut down. Tho Mayor stated that he did not think the move was justifiable, but ho could on y obey the order of the Council. The telegraph company is - ut off from doing business by the breaking of tho y fes. Near Charleston. W. Va., James Hawkins and Howard Dotson were halted by two masked men and lied on Dotson escaped, but Hawkins was shot ami robbed Before dying text num ing ho described his assailants Luther Glenn ami Joe lawket. Jr , wore arrested. The murderers got sls. At Huntsville, Ala , John Taker, a ’ colored man. shot his wife foty* .times, killing her instantly, and timn^®'' throat with a razor in a terrible malner. lid then cut hF ow n throat. H. Clav King was found guilty of murder in the first degree at MemphL, Tenn , for the killing of D. H. Poston. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The Republican cm ntlon at Cedar Rapids, lowa, was at'cmled by ab>ut delegates But I Itie time was ponded in getting to work, and the nomination of Hiram < . Wheeler, of < bolt. Sae ( minty, for Governor was cfb . ted early. H.s opponents forth hmmr were Hen 1 . Clayton, a farmer of Potta wattamie County, and • x-iongrosman Daniel Keir, of Grundy ('minty Two ballots were roquire.it ■' (t> tie Li. uten ant G vernor-hip. the surpr -e of the day bong the dole.!' o' th. present In urnbent. Alfred N. Poyncer, of Tama A spirited <ont st over the S npienmt our? Judgeship ensued, requiring thr-*- ba lot- The ba'am e of th' t cket was chosen by acclamation. The platform declares for prohibition, a pr to, tive tariff, ami favors free <o uage of silver Following :s the ticket nt re Governor Hiram (' Wheeler Lieutenant Governor ... <•,. rg- Van Houten Su pre no Judge. - M Weaver Supt, ruhlic Instruct:.>n Henry sabin Railroad Comuiissioner Frank T. Campbell INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Ai Pottsville. Pa., the lishba-. Rolling Mil's, operate I by the I’ot’svil e Iron ami Steel ( Tipanv. c os> d down The men refus d to work unless the company signed the We-tern s. ale.whieh they josit vely refused to do, and the fires were drawn and 1.000 emp ! oye> marched from the works, fully deter mined not to resume their places until their demands had been granted. At Cleveland, 650 employes of the Union and Lake Erie Rolling Mill tbmpanies wont out on a strike Fmtrouble was al cans,- 1 by the adoption . of a nine hour scale by *wiaten ma'.-1 ^tiou of iron and steel j Workers. Formerly they were paid by 1 the ton. Ihe companies refused to ac- ’ cept the scale. The conference between the Pittsburg. Pa., ironmasters and the men has adjourned, the Amalgamated men being jubilant and the manufacturers satisfied The scale as signed has but one change from that first 1 resented. The manufacturers insisted that the nine hours heat must be extend- > ed. and at the last moment the men agreed to make it nine hours and fifteen minutes. This wholesale signing of the scale is expected to bring in the j Mahoning and Shenango Valley operators, who are now the only objectors. Reports aie rapidly coming in of outside firms signing the scale. The latest addition are the Sharon Iron Company and I the Atlantic. Iron Works, of Sharon. Pa.; . Massillon (( hio) rolling mill: and the La i Be le Mills, of Whce ing. W. Va In the last named district there is but one other union mill, all being unorganized owing principally, to trouble with the millers a I few years ago. FOREIGN GOSSIP. A Berlin dispatch says that the renewal of the triple alliance is no longer a matter of speculation. Italy's formal adhesion has ben received by both Austria and Germany, and the document has been signed oy Emperor William, who said in a conversation that

it renewed the triple alliance' I for six years. Ihe French Government ’ appears to have had an inkling of what I was going on, and the result has been an . increasing irritability j n the foreign 1 policy of France and renewed efforts to exact pledges of co-operation on tho part of the < zar. By agreeing to use J her fleet in the Mediterranean to uphold the existing status England has nfacti tally joined the triple alliance, and this fact is also recognized with deep chagrin in Paris. ~ 1 FRESH AND NEWSY, 1 At last tho now President of the Gov- 1 ernment party has been elected in Chili.' ’ As was a foregone conclusion, Balmaceda's candidate, Vicuna, was chosen as his successor. This is only the general report of the vote. Tho final result will not be made public until July 25. b O . tween now and then Balmacoda will re- 1 main in office, and will hesitate at nothing to stamp out tho revolution. He is in the fight to tho bitter end. There 1 will be no compromise. Either he must fall or the Insurgents will have to make an unconditional surrender. Everything points to a fierce fight at an early date. Nows reaches Coquimbo that all the insurgent Hoot, with the exception of the Esmeralda, are in rendezvous at . Caldera, 200 miles to the north, tho port, -'“’•e the Blanco Encalada was sunk tackCoqri?.^ atgoveriunent troops In <’o Much less than one half of these ar „ regulars. The rest are volunteers. They are not to be much depended on It is from their ranks that most of the deserters to the other side are gathered. There is no tolling what the strength of tho insurgents at Caldera Is. It is reported that they have 8,000 troops in all, who are well armed, and that only for ; the lack of ammunition they could put a I much larger force in the field. While going from Norfolk tho cruiser 1 Chicago was disabled by breaking her port engine. Admiral Walker then ' , transferred his flag to the Newark. Dfiuxg the last six months there have been (’>,071 business failures in the I'nit- I ed States, with total liabilities of $92,- ' 000,000. During the same period of la<t year the number of failures was 5.355 : and the amount of liabilitiesS‘;s,ooo,ooo. j Tin: “Thunderbolt.” the Erie road's* east bound Chicago-New York train, j was standing at the -tation at Ravenna, , Ohio, ha\lng trouble with tho coupling of- - special excursion car from Findlay. Ohio, carrying forty glass workers returning to Corning. N. Y. A flagman failed t<> signal a fast freight following, and in the rear end collision which ensued 21 people were killed and 30 injure I, 5 of the killed being from Brooklyn, N V., and the balance arc from Corning. Eight miles west of C harleston, W. Va , a train on the Kanawha and Michigan Road went through a burning trestle and of nearly eighty-four passengers on hoard thirteen were killed outright, six fatally hurt, and all but one of the other- le-s s Tousiy injured They were excursionists the Unite! American Mechanics—from Charleston. At the crossing of the Northwestern Roa 1 with the Madison street cable line. In Chicago, a -w t h engine smashed into a horse car. killing one jiassenger, fatally injuring two, and seriously wounding three others, 1 Ai Scranton, l a.. Brown's “B'ehiso” has been gutted by fire. The stock was valued at SW,o<K»: Insurance, $.3u,030. At Columbus. Ga , tire broke out in W. i T. Harv -y A- fix's lumber yard The ' tot 11 loss wli; amount to Sloo.ooi; insuran'T alxuit $ >7,eo > A slue factor, occupied by Trask* Brothers and 51 G | Nichol', Epping. N II , burie d Trask ' Brother-' 10-s N sij.ijm; Insurance, | $25,000 The loss on building and ma chinery. own dby J F. Cloutinan. is \ s9.'sHi; insured. The lumber shells of Grand Fuller A Sons. Boston, were burned Loss, «.',ii,un R. G. Di s a six’s weekly review of trade says: * L>viy thing waits for the crops. It Is. I therefor, , of ihe 6r«t importance tn rep .rt I that Ihe Crop pr —p, t- have never b,-, mere uniformly -aCsfactory at this — a-on ' than they are n> > hi other respect- the , general outlook Is In the main unchanged While the volume < f bustnes- r,'pri'*vnte<l hr ch arlng-hmise esena- ge- out-Me of , New York Is .1 •.1 ■ per eent. h--s for tie week, and atxnit I per cent, h-- for the month than last t ear, there 1- prevailing confldvt.ee in the - 1M ,dy r . very atidexpm - *ion of trade. Tr ideln bieadstuflls ha* tint been especially active, though wheat declined Isdow Si p< r bushel, ri-log again a little within tin past few day-, atid In corn | eotlon I- un-'anngi'd. notwithstanding ini- i proved crop poo; t ot- Th" buslae— failure- occurring thr "izl.o it t o country dur- ’ ing the la t s v. n day- number 237 a- ’ compare I with a I tai of 2.1 last w< ■ ' For the corrv-potiding v..’’k ( I ,-t year . ti.e figures w■ : 1> '. MARKET KEFOKTS. CUICAio). Cattle— Common to Prime S3.M • 6.53 Hoos—Shipping Grades 4.0 U vt 5.0 S lEKP 3.20 gj 5.2 • Whew-No. 2 Red 93 <t .91 Cobs-No. i .’ J .s Ai Oats-No. 2 33 v 5 .34 Kvx No. 2 75 e- .77 BfTTKB Choice Creamery 16 ..18 Cheese— Full Cream, data U 8 d .01 Enos—Fresh 14 * A !■ . laiATOBS New ver tn-1 2.50 40 ' 1 INIHANAi’CU.IS. Cattle —Shipping 3.50 (It 575 Hoos—Choice Light 4 15 4.65 Sheep—Common to Prime 4.00 tg, 4.5) Wheat —No. 2 Red 9P$ a. 95 Cohn—No. 1 White 59^/'. .60'6 Oats—No. 2 White, 41 gj .42 NT. LOVIS. Cxtile 4.00 n 6.'XI Ho is 4.00 yy 5.03 Wheat—No, 2 Red 87 gy .f£ Corn—No. 2 55 ,56 Oats—No. 2 31 .35 I Rye-No. 2 71 gj ,72 j CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.03 ® 5.75 I Heos 3.50 (g, 5.0> ; Shi EC 3.75 t 5.25 Wheat —N o. 2 Red 1.04^^ 1.05 h> I Cohn -No. 2 59 .61 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 39 .40 DETROIT. i Cattle 3.00 <a 3.75 Hogs 3.0a (J 4.5 J Sheep 3.00 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 101 @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 56 .57 Oats—No. 2 White 42 .43 TOLEDO. ■ Wheat 1.03 @ 1.01 । Corn—Cash 56 <<t .58 j Oats—No. 1 Mbits 37 (it, .39 i Clover Seed 4.25 & 4.35 BUFFALO. I Bee? Cattle 4.50 (® 5.75 Live Hogs 431 & 4.85 , Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.01 iA 1.05 Corn—No. 2 62 & .63 MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 Spring 86 & .88 Corn—No. 3 57 & .58 Oats—No. 2 White 37 & .39 Rye—No. 1 78 & .89 Barley—No. 2 67 @ .69 Pork—Moss 10.01 (^10.50 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.50 @ 6.50 Hogs 4.30 @ 5.25 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 1.'4 1.06 Corn—No. 2 63 .69 Oats— Mixed Westara 31 @ .12 Butter —Creamery 14 & .IB's Eggs—Western 17 @ .1734 PoBK-New Mess 11.50 <<512,25

OVER TWO SCORE LIVES LOST IN OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA WRECKS. Many Excursionists S.- htonly Meet DpatJl in Awful Form, One Party by Collision and the Other by a Crashing Trestle— I 4 Ire Adds Its Horrors. In quick succession two frightful railway accidents have horrified the country. Iwo score of victims instantly killed, several fatally hurt, and nearly a hundred more or less seriously injured, is the awful result. 1 ho first o ‘cui red at an early morni .g hour, at Ravenna, Ohio. Just as dawn was mingling with the darkness, passenger No. 8, east bound, on the New York, Lake Erie and Western, pulled into the station a few minutes late. The train consisted of an express and baggage car, three day coaches, two Pullmans, and a special, the latter occupied by forty glass-blowers from Corning,

2.’ ^turning from an excursion at Findlay. Trouble with a coupling detained the train men, I and a flagman was sent back to warn a fast freight which was following close. Before he had gone two car^"ffths past tho special <ar the heavy grade?and"in t^il"’ii|. O x r ^ n ^ l a loi, R qu-ckly started, and the scene lowed beggars description. Haveuna’s fire department was summoned, and but for its ass stance the list of fatalities must have been greatly augmented. The rear special car, the freight engine, and tho sleeper “Warsaw” were totally destroyed, entailing a property loss of over SIOO,OOO. The sleeper “Warsaw” had no passengers. In tho s'eeper “Ascoli,” next in front. Mrs Jas. Gasser and child, of Chicago, and three men from Brooklyn, N. Y., were killed. Os the forty glass-blowers, seventeen wore instantly killed, and all tho rest injured, two fatally. Several of those fatally hurt suffered such agony from wounds and lire that they bgged the rescuers to k 11 them The wrecked passenger train was the famous “Thunderbolt.” the favorite east-bound train on the Erle route. It is one of the new solid vestibuled trains Uhicigo to New York. There were many 4 hicago pass. ng' rs on the train besides Mrs Gasser, and before the news of the accident had reached that city they had wired their friends of the r safety. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Captain E. L Huggins were of »he number. Tho kilio i and wounded w re all from Brooklyn and Corning, N. Y. The second accident, folowing before the public had fully realized the awful extent of the first, was none tho loss terrible and but slightly less fatal. The list of wounded is much larger, while tho dead and fatally hurt number nineteen It was the worst a cidout in tne history of West Virginia, and oc -urred eight miles west of Charles ton, on the Kanawha ami Michigan Railway. 'I ho passenger train for Columbus, Ohio, was pulling two carloads of excursionists the Charleston ’ odge of United American Mechanics. The sleepers of a high trestle had been weakoned by fire, presumably caused by a j-as-ing engine t' night before. All the train excel he excursion cars passed the trestle safely, but the latter were de:aih d by spreading rails. HANNIBAL HAMLIN DEAD. stricken bv Hv irt While at His < tub. He Nov r Ka Ues At Bangor, Mo., on Indepondenco Pay. «*\-V ce Pres dent Hann bal Ham lin was duwn town and went to the Tarratine c u‘> rooms, w here he was playing pedro. when his head tell forward on his chest. A gentleman remarked; “Tho S- nator -penis to feel badly.” Mr Hamlin -aid “I do ” Th" men gathered around him. a’.d he wa - taken t' n lounre. Pr Robinson, who was in the next room, attended him, and Pis Mason and I hillips were cade I No j ul-o was visible for an hour, a d It was thought they could not bring him out. Finally he revived somewhat and managi' ito articu ate free y. Th" doctors worked over him faithfully, and his fain Hy wa- sent for. Boon Mrs Hamlin. Gen Charles Hamlin, hi- wife and his - n. and other members, were at hi- - <io A 1 was done for him in human power, but failed, and he pa sed away pea efuily. He leaves a widow and tw sons. Cen 1 harle- Hamlin, K-q.. a lawyer o' Ellsworth, and Frank Haml n, now liv u_’ in ( hicago. Mr. Hamlin has beep per • pt > y failing for a year, but se nv d about a- usual this afternoon and walkel down town. The remains were removed from the elul rooms to hi- ics donee. His son, Hannibal Hamlin, arrived from El sW'irth ab ut twenty minut s after his father - death. His son Frank, in Chicago. wa- sent for. Hannibal Hamlin was torn at Faris, Me . Aug. 27, Is u. He was admitted t< th" bar in ls 3?, and contim.cd to practi . until J'is. In 1'36 he wa-elected a member of the Lcgis'ature, of which he was speaker from 1837 to 1840. In 1842 lie was elect'd to Congress as a I'emociat, and re-elected in 1844: and in 1818 he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, and in 1851 was elected for a lu 1 term of six years. In 1856 li • withdrew from the Democratic party, and was elect'd by the Republicans as Governor of Maine: but he res gned that office on being reelecte i Senator. In 1860 he was elected Vice Preside it of the United States on ! the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. In . 1865 he was appointed Collector of the port of Boston, but soon resigned, and in 1869 he was again elected United I States Senator for the term expiring | March 4. 1875. He was re-elected for! the term expiring 1881, and then gave place to Eugene Hale. .Mr Hamlin re- : tired from politics at this time, although ' he continuea to take a great interest in | public affairs until the last election. He I attended the Pres'dentia] convention in Chicago in 1884. A strange pair of bird hunters belong to Mr. Willia ns, of Mud Turtle Lake, Ga. They are a pointer dog and a large brown cat. They ramble off on hunting ex; editions, and the dog points the birds and attracts their attention, while the cat. with a strategic movement j in the rear, rover fails to secure a bird. ; They never banquet until they have se- I cured four birds, wh n each of them ! dines on two birds No man has a grain of relig’on who is trying to see lew lift e ho can get along with.

STRANGE INLAND SEA.' ITS SUDDEN APPEARANCE IN THE WESTERN DESERT. Threatening the Homes of Settlers—Seventy Miles Long, Twelve Miles Wide, and Still Growl g—Damage to Roads and Crops Imminent. Settlers in portions of Colorado and - alifornia are in no small degree alarmed at the sudden appeal ante of a large body of water in wi.at has teen known as tite desert portion of that country. It ’ lo , w s ® ems as if nature had decided to s'if ° 9uestion of irrigation for her..1 e water appeared immediately itaL lc recent seismic disturbances in Franc'seo V Ug . hter shocks fclt in and Ponng parties are out, and. from the report of one, the inland sea is estimated to be twelve miles wide and from fifty to seventy miles long. terti b ° at Wa< ’ I , a ”, nched ’ and the crew set forth on one of the strangest trips ever known '1 here was a stiff and rattling n r r L C ' <, ’ii aild o tho l ” at danced merrily upon the blue waves. There was

plenty of salt, sodine, and ozone n the air, and early in the morn1 ing the trip was extremely pleasant A । mile out a sina 1 smelt was picked up—a i salt water fisi -and to the most of the sailors in the party this seemed to prove I conclusively that the water was the result of a cloudburst. Others thought it was from the gulf by a subterranean pw»»a K o, while Roadmaster Mulvihill , Clung V> the idea that the water was coming from the Colorado River Water went'Sol 0 ^ , au S its B ravit y found. It In the pool water while tho ocean is about 3oT s s® enL • not be told whether the newly arrived water was salt or fresh There was a fair wind and the party sailed to a point fifteen miles sou'.beast of Saltan. Here a current about a mile wide and running like a mill race was struck. The water was fourteen inches deep and very clear. The swiftness of the current caused the shallowness of the water. This current settled the question in the mind of Mr. Mulvihill that the water came from the Cololaio River; the naval contingent returned to Salton without further incident. A ' dispatch was found there from G lonel Blaisdell, superintendent of the Cargo Muchacho mines, which confirmed the ( olonel's theory. He said during the flood last February the Colorado River overflowed its banks and filled New River and many basins. The water has since continued to pour out of the Colorado River into these basins and New River, and to pour out of these in turn. He had always wondered where the water went to. and the Salton flooJs settled the question. The water started to Salton five months ago, but owing to delay caused by the sandv soil and evaporation has just arrived. It was behind time, but it came as fast as it could over the desert It is thought the flood will last as long as the Colorado River is high, and it is now twenty-seven feet above high-water marK. At places on New River, where the wat r is overflowing, the banks are about twenty-five feet high and of sand. They are gett ng w. ak, and if they give way a bank of water twenty feet high, and many miles long will rush down like a tidal wave. If this occurs, which is very probable, it will make things very lively with tho railroad company and will change the course of the Color>*lA.or NeM^Rivpr^ . entirely. In fact, it the water holds but ~ in these rivers, it will simply form a :ea 100 m les long by fifty wide, and Bannng will become a port of entry. Men have been sent to a po nt on the desert ten miles south of Volcano Springs, and if the current is found there it is certain that the water is from the Colorado The place where the break occurred is thirteen miles below Elryo and seventy miles from Sa.ion. SUDDEN RISE OF TULARE LAKE. Muuy Settlers Driven from the Ranehes by Floods. The wo. derful phenomenon now witne-> d oa the Colorado Desert, atSalton, is being r- p *at d at Tulare, Cal., where th ■ pnu tically dried-up Tulare Lake, t ie largest body of fresh wat r in the Stau- s beginning to till up, driving out many settlers who have located ranches on the rich alluvial bed of the old lake. There is a legend among the Indians of Tule River that the lake one? covered many times its present area, ^that it receded year by year tiii it had shrunk to a small pond, around which were gathered fish-i-h i Llages of their grandfathers, but, suddenly tic waters from the snowcapped Sierras rolL d down into the great Tu are Valley, which is a hundred mi ea wide at this point, the akc began to spread, Indian villages were swept away before the occupants could remove their • fleets, and many In lians were drowned. Th s" who escaped fled to tho so tti Ils. and they and their deseen ants refused to dwell near the shore of the lake. The heavy snowfall last winter in the mountains brought .down an enormous quantity of water when the spring thaws set in. The soil was as" heavily soaked and couldn't abs"rl> the usual amount of moisture,hence all the streams have carried water to the lake, but principally the Kern and Tue Rivers. H. H. Fuman, a sett er who has a ranch at the mouth of Tule River, says the stream is sixty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, and has swept away several ranch houses. Fuman says the lake has spread out nearly ten miles in a few days and the waters have risen ten feet A new road made round the lake is under water, and several men who tried to ! follow it had narrow escapes from drowii- ! ing. This sudden rise of the waters a-nd spread of the lake is remarkabfe, as for I ten years the lake has been gradually I receding, and scientists who have exam- : ined it predicted it would entirely dry |up soon. The loss to settlers around the ' lake is heavy. The land is extremely | fertile, and there is a project of building ale ee to confine the waters of Tulare Lake, w K ich is noted for its large sup- ! ply of fish and mussels. Before the ; present rise it was about twenty-four by I twenty miles in area, but ten years ago it was fully double this area. Missouri Storm Sufferers. Dispatches received at Kansas City from Blairstown state a heavy rain and wind storm swept over that town and did serious damage. Several houses : were blown down and several persons \ were injured, though not ba-dly. The depot, a large, substantial frame bui'd- ! ing at Landis Station, on the Kansas I City, Osceola and Southern Railway, was blown off its foundation and Seriously damaged. The rain stoim was a terrific one, and the low lands are covered with water.