St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 July 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA - ”1 A NEWSY MELANGE. DOINGS OF OUR NEIGHBORS AT HOME AND ABROAD. Events of Interop and Importance In Every Quarter of the Globe—-^Religious Intelligence— Crimes and Casualties— Industrial Notos—Personal Mention. RATS FEAST ON HUMAN FLESH. Asylum Officials Shamefully Neglect the Body of an Insane Man. There is a hot fire brewing under the official seat ot Superintendent Rodgers, of the Logansport, Ind., Insane Asylum. A case of the grossest negligence has just wbecn brought to light One of the Inmates, Itt. Ewing, died, and the remains were placed in a dark cellar alone ahd unattended. When Fisher Ferry, of Wabash, called ^at the asylum to have the remains sent home he found that in addition to the inhumanity of allowing the corpse to remain in that hole unattended all night, rats had gained access to the corpse and had eaten away all the lower part of the face and both eyes. DAMAGED BY HAIL. A Storm Destroys Half the Crops of Many North Dakota Farmers. • Further particulars of the hailstorm in Spring Valley Township, Dickey County, N. D, show that it extended over a strip two miles wide and several miles long. Some of the hailstones were enormous, one measuring nine and one-half inches in circumference, and another meas ring twelve inches. Much glass was broken and farmers sought refuge In their cellars. The storm was accompanied by very little wind, otherwise the damage would have been greater. Several farmers lose half their crops. BASE-BALL. Standing of the Different Clubs According to the Latest Contests. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of’tho*different associations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. Ix ^c. w t, » c New Yorks..3B 25 .W 3 Philadelp - 8..33’ 34 .498 Chioagoß... .39 29 .574 Brooklyns.. .32 36 .4H 805t0n5.....39 29 .567 Pittsburgs. .26 30 .<OO Clevelands..3s 35 .500lCincinnatis.27 41 .897 American association. r, X ■' WL. SO. w. L. SO. Bostons 47 25 .6 3-Columbus...3> 42 ,455 St. Louis... .51 28 .6-43 Cincinnatis 3J 42 440 Baltimores.. 13 28 .601 Louisvilles .D 50 '.M7 i Philadelp’B. 36 37 .4 )3 Waahlngt’nß2 4 46 .343 , western association. W. L. ^o. W. L. Oxnahas 43 23 .6,2 Kansas C’ys.36 36 500 Milwaukees.l9 21 .592 Sioux »Cltys.3O 39 435 Minneapolis 40 32 .55 > Denvers 27 41 R 97 Linc01n5....37 83 .529Dul u th8 25 47 .347 Was Smuggling Coolies. The Collector of Customs at Victoria informs the department of the seizure — near that point of the sloop Hiora, 'of Seattle. Wash., for neglecting to report , Inward. A fine of §403 was .imposed. । The Captain, Alfred Zetterman. said that he was about to take eighteen Chinamen into the United States. lio was given thirty days in which to pay the fine, at the end of which time, if the fine is not paid, the vessel will lie con- . fiscated and sold to the highest bidder. Mormonism Got a Biack Eye. Enthusiastic Liberals made Salt Lake ring because of their victory in the school election. The Mormons and their allies made a desperate effort to capture the Board of Education, but the Liberals held their own. They retain six of the ten members of the board, and carry the city as a whole by 700 majority. Shot His Brother Five T mes. Near Butler, Pa, John 'Mininger drove up to his brother Adam’s house and said he intended feeding his horse I in the barn. Adam remonstrated, and an old feud of ten years" standing was revived. Adam drew a revolver and I shot John live times, one lodging just above the heart Valuable Horses Burned. The livery and boarding stable belonging to Samuel Loughery, Germantown, Pa, was completely destroyed by fire with its contents. Thirty-two horses, many of them valuable animals belonging to private individuals, perished. Loss. §35,000; partly, insured. Left Uncle Sam in the Lurch. Three deserters are reported from the United States steamship Boston and five from the United States steamship Atlanta. Two of them registered at a Boston hotel They were found uncon- > scious from escaping gas. Both will die. Suicide of a Soldier. Conrad Tenneter, who served at the i battle of Wounded Knee during the re- j cent Indian troubles, took a dose of Rough on Rats at St Louis, from the effects of which he will probably die. Driven Into Texas. Intruders or citizens of the Indian Territory who can not show proper permits Eire being dumped on the Texas border at the rate of from 25 to 120 daily. Victim of Hydrophobia. Jacob Goodrich, a well-to do farmer, living southwest of Princeton, Ind., was bitten by a young dog and died of hydrophobia. Colored Boy Mysteriously Shot. At Topeka, Kan., Robert Ellis, a «Nstored boy, was shot and instantly ki’lad. His slayer is not known. Choked to Death. At Omaha, Neb., Mrs. F,annie Tate, a respectable young colored woman, was found in an out-bjuilding outraged and choked to death. A big negro named Jake Price is suspected of the crima. Police are looking for him. Born with a Full Set of Teeth. Mrs. Kate Williams, a Houston, Texas, domestic, has given.birth to a boy baby w'ho has a full set of teeth. Not since the days of Richard 111. has guch a youngster been heard of.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK." EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The four murderers at Sing Sing? N. Y., have been executed by electricr ity. Each of them, oven the Jap Jugiro, from whom a desperate struggle was expected, was calm and ready. Slocum, Smiler, and W< od helped the ’ Warden adjust the straps which bound them to the fatal chair. Before the > men were killed, the dynamo had been tried on severa 1 horses and killed them instantly. All of the mistakes made in the execution of Kemm er were । avoided in this case. lie was killed by i a current of 750 volts, and revived after the first shock, making a second application necessary. The dynamo used at Sing Sing sent a current of 1,750 volts through the victims; the current was maintaincd»twenty seconds, and, to the twenty-four de ctors present, it seemed that, death was instantaneous. Yet, in each instance, as in Kemmler’s case, there was a marked contraction and expansion of the muscles of the chest, the lips parted, and a long-drawn sigh—perfectly. life-like—escaped. The current was applied a second time, with perfect effect The physicians agfee that the apparent resuscitation was not real, and that death was painless and quick as thought j At New York, the Empire printworks 7 were destroyed by fire, property to the amount of §200,000 being burned up The ih ot certificate of admission which Yale University has ever granted to a woman has just been received by Miss i Irene W. Coit, of Norwich, Conn. At Now York, one of the first praett- : eal experiments in New York waters to show how ammonia a tidewater can be ' employed to run boats was made on the tug Fdwin T. Hartley The boat was fitted with,tho appliances of the ammonia patents, owned in Philadelphia. The inventor says about twice as much work can be perfoßnod with ammonia vapor as with steam. The experiments showed a saving of 37 per cent of fuel during the trip. “Frenchy No. 1,” the New York Jack the Ripper, was sentenced to life impris- ■ onmont for the murder of “Old Shak- , speare.” At Buffalo there was a lively time aft the ( ity Hall. The British colors were floating at the top of one of the flag poles in front of the hall. A crowd of angry men soon collected. Finally a boy climbed the flag staff and pulled the offensive emblem down and it was Immediately torn into shreds by the maddened I men. It was a large silk flag of excellent manufacture. How it came there no one can ex; lain. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Mi£ Hans Yepson, a Dan ■, and her | 14-year old boy Louis, were drowned in i the Little Beaver Creek, near Fort Mori gan, Col. The boy w nt in bathing and I struck a washout. His mother came to i his rescue, and stood on the bank trying to savo'him when it caved in. Telegraph circles In Leavenworth. Kan , are considerably stirred up over the summary removal of Mrs L. M. Harker, who has managed the office of the company for the last six years A shortage of several hundred dollars in the company's funds has been found, it 1» .05- » ' wer* carried on the pay rolls The pay rolls also show that operators were re ’ ported as receiving from 85 to §lO a month more salary than was actually paid them. At Wahcka. the capital of th ■ s-mi-nole (Indian Territory) reservation. Umost, a full-blooded Semin le. was executed for the murder of a fellow Ind an Umosct wa- led to a rock aid a bandage was ted over h’s eyes. He was not bound in any way, but sat erect a- much unconcerned, as if his photograph was about to be taken Tw > of the braves were given load' d rifles, and at the word each sent a bullet into th condcmiK d man’s heart. A dastardly attempt was mad ■ P> wreck the special military train between Columbus. Ind , and Franklin on the Pennsylvania lines A “T" rati had been firn ly fastened on the track b it was discovered by a farmer named \\ 11 Ham Carnes a few minutes before t ■ ■ । time for the arrival of (he train, and dragged from the track u-t as the i heavily loaded train swept by. There Is a scare in th'largo man’i fiwturing centers in central Ohio. w hich, as in the vas? of Springfield and Dayton and many smaller towns, are supplied with natural gas from the Mer er t o my field The natural vas supply vJI-non be exhausted. Vas: interests are involved. Mus Sydie Phu.i.ips committed -ui- ■ cide at the home of her father, James Martin, of New Richmond, Ind. She : had been despondent for seme time, owing to unpleasant neighborhood gossip. News comes of the drownii g of a litt’o child in the river near Arrow Roch’, Mo., ; named Li y Gargur. The child went to the river for a bucket of water and : fell in. Ai Indianapolis, Edward Matheny, a i conductor on the electric street car line, killed his wife and suicided Matheny 1 was Insanely ’cnlnir. of his wife, nni hi> inhuman a t is attributed to that cause. Matheny was 23 years of age and his wife 22. An 11 months-old babe sur- . vives. The Kansas abor organizations are । fighting to have the. eight hour law en- > forced. The enforcement of the law would necessitate the employment of 1,200 new employes in the various State institutions, for whose -pay there is no appropriation. Mrs, Rebecca 11. Raymond and her I son Arnold were killed at Olney, HL, by a passenger train on the O. &M. The ! boy was deaf and dumb and was on a i bridge His mother attempted to save ; him, but both were run over. At Stevens Point, Wis . George Whitney and Mrs. Maria Seivright, aged respectively 75 and 74 years, were married. The groom is a well known lumi berman there. Richard Breeze, the Kansas City bov who by clever forgery had negotiated §1,003 worth of Trimble & Bradley’s bank stock and stole §2,000 worth of other securities and ran away with them, was arrested by the Pinkertons at Charleston, Mo. All but §3OO of the stolen money was recovered. Elder Hall, chief of_ the Hedriekiti branch of the Mormon church at Independence, Mo , required the sisters to

dross In plain "black dresses and sun'hn^' ’ nets without ribbons, laces and. f-mT Ho forbade the men to u 9n toU n Disobedience, he said, would be nnni.i s , Tho mvnok ' and sisters however, rather than Xe - up their tobacco and their frills g av „ „n ■ the church, v ich r now'conffists of > thirteen members. ou ( Fire at Jennings, Mich., destined Mitchell Bros.’lumber yard and cmAcd . a loss of §200,000. Three hundred citi zens of Cadillac responded to the call for ( help and wore taken to Jennings L a , i special train, but, owing to the wind the flames were beyond control. ’ J. B. Whippy, a wealthy fani> or of । Poitago County, Ohio, while'’ running a j mowing machine, was thrown j n front of the cutter-bar. His left leg wa . entirely severed below the knee and his body torn in a terrible manner. H] S injuries are considered fatal. Jim Ferrell, a farm laborer, w3 s killed in Comanche County, Kansas by ’ a horse suffering from hydrophobia, ’and the whole neighborhood is in a state of terror, as the dog that bit this particular horse also bit a number of dogs, cattle. and horses. . At Cedar Rapids, lowa, the home of i J. E. Hannegau, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Burlington, Cedar । Rapids and Northern Railroad, burned Miss Huff, a servant, perished * llO flames. At Marshal), Wls.. Miss Eva^n^. a highly respected young woman, Miss Hnrt had boon a suco ssfi^Scbool ; teacher for a number of years. A hour Bt.E railroad accident occurred at Aspen Junction, eighteen miles west 1 of Aspen, Col., on the Midland Roa-J. A special train, composed of a baggage ear and cnc passenger coach, was returning to Aspen from Glenwood Springs. The passenger coach contained about thirty persons, .mostly Aspen people. The train was backing from the water-tank to the swit h to the Aspen track where a road engine was run out of the railroad round-house, anS the rear end of the passenger train hit the j check-valve on the side of the boiler, i which exhausted the hot steam into the broken end of tno passenger car, scalding thirteen passengers—five men, seven women, and one child. Seven are dead and it is thought others w.ll die. The car was thrown from the track. All possible was done to relievo the suffer- 1 Ings of the unfortunate passengers. Ar Columbia Park, Chicago. John McNeff and Miss Lucy Kaiser were drowned while boat riding. They were attending nt an A. O. U/W pienic. In Calumet Lake, n< ar Pullman. Henry Campbe I ami Leslie Young, boys, were drowned; and tn an excavation which had filled by drainage young August Maraysta met his fate Near Vln ennes, Ind., a threshing machine boiler exploded on the farm of John Sart r. John Flack was instantly killed, the entire side of his head being blown off. ami Richar 1 Pri o fatally Injured. William < oan. Herman Mulburn, J Newton. W. Baker and tha l-s Gibson were also seriously scalded and Rickard Hunter's back wa- -1 ghtly 1 hurt. The steam gauge marked forty jiounds of pressure, but the gauge waout of order and the pressure »Ss probably much greater At D s Moines, as J. s, insane in tho~nt'^» n ’' hateiiet. umped upon him an^Vat , Ina terr.b’c manner. As-istar ti DvpiH , Passwater came up and wa«alsokno< ked dow । and beaten b-rribly ^Another guard came to their ns--i<tan< o ami Reynolds was diiven into a cell. Outland is fatally injiired and Passwater seriously hurt. Reynold- is in for twenty years for shooting Sbrnrlff McCord, of Marshall County, in ISSS. A tight occurred nt Shoals, Ind., be tw cri circus employes and local tough-, in which stakes and revolvers were freely used. James Ri hey was struck on tiie head with a stake and his skull crushed, from wliich he died bevera’. of tie* circus employes wore injured. No arrests were made. Titi entire faculty of Lane University. Abilene, Kan , H' res gned. and all the members have accepted positions in Enterprise University Lane is one of the oldest colleges in the State, and it is expeeied that nearly all its 3JO pupils will go to Enterprise. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Ai i eh the storm at Baton Rouge, La , several of the convicts distinguished themselves by heroic action ami labor in beha f of their fenow-convicts, notably Edward Dewitt, who was sentenced t > two years at hard labor for raising an insurance p dicy. and win served as a surgeon in the army opposed to Lee. Before th ' surgeons from Baton Rouge arrived Dewitt had set seven broken legs and a muni er of fractured arms, and bandaged almost Innumerable cuts It i; understool the Board of Control wit take some action looking to clemency for a number of convicts who showed them? Acs worthy of a better fate. A picnic par;y of twelve persons were poisoned at a picnic at AUu>. Ark. Four arc at the point of death. " ♦ Cai i.uv Tr-ther Martin coininitted ( suicide at bt. Simons Island, near Brunswick. Ga He was 73 jears o d and wealthy. In 18S1 his wife com- 1 mitted suicide at the same point by plunging Into the ocean while insane. He said he had lived long enough and would de as his wife died He eluded the watch that was kept on him. and walked into the water fully dressed, । even to a straw hat Other bathers in the water who did not know him thought lie was too modes' to wear an ordinary bathing tuit Martin walked out to deep , water and deliberately swam out to sea. ; In the Louisiana Supreme Court , opinions were read in the cases of the i Hennessy jury bribers, affirming the de- i vision of the Criminal Court of the Par- | ish of New Orleans, and consigning the iwo accused to the penitentiary. The ' Court holds that the statute embraces 1 talcs jurors as well as regular jurors. At Chattanooga. Officer James Looney, . of,the police force, was shot and killed i by Zack Munsey, ex deputy sheriff and i ex-constable. From the testimony of ; eye witnesses Munsey killed Looney in i I self-defense. The Bank of Commerce of Sheffield, ! | Ala., which has been embarrassed, has provided arrangements, to meet all its obligations in cash as called for, and re- ■ | sumed business. 'I lie bank was and is > now perfectly solvent, but for lack of

currency to meet a rush that was peered to result from the failure of Moses Brothers, bankers of Mont^om wn? Yu S decidcd to temporarily's™. the ba U nk c™' 7 COUld bo sh, PP® d to Osnus Lee, colored, ran amuck in Savannah, Ga., and attempted to kill Jhn TT 1 ^u drew Cla *ton, whom he shot twice through the body. PolicekH'o !i® HgCr ran to tho rescue ami hta heart ° t,y Wth a bu,,et thrOll ^ Lire destroyed the Birmingham (Ala.) soap works, causing a loss of §25,000, on which there was §15.000 insurance. The Mmb Crn pasU>r works, at Alabaster, -Boh-. w®re partly burned, causing a loss of A.30.0C0. The Insurance is §26,000 The house of S P. Anderson, living fifteen miles west of Clifton, Tex was struck Ly lightning, killing his wife and hree/laughters, all that were in the house. At Lamar, Ark., Mrs Eliza Ryan, a widow, 80 years old, who has been totally blind for thirty years, had a tooth pulled from her upper ;aw. When it was extracted Mrs. Ryan complained of intense pain in her eyes, and later she could seo plainly. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. The employes of the Groen Ridge Iren Works in Scranton, Pa , have gone out on a strike under novel circumstances. The men recently joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron and I Steel Workers, and arranged a scale of I prices in accordance with those de- । manded by other association work- | ers throughout the country. Mr. I Spencer was astonished to see that I it was 10 per cect. lower than that he I had been paying, and surprised the men by the eagerness he manifested in agreeing to their terms. Some one among them in the meanwhile had discovered the blunder, and a committee was appointed to ask Mr. Spencer to allow the old scale of wages. Ho refused, and as the men refused to return to work it has I placed them in the josition of refusing : to abide by an agreement which they originated themselves. FOREIGN GOSSIP. It is rumored at Romo that the local authorities of Catania, a city of s i ily, have v:o ated the United States Consul- ’ ate at that place, and that the Consul : has asked the officials at Washington to permit him t) close his office and to place the an hives under the protection of the German flag. FRESH AND NEWSY, When Congress passed the bill refunding the direct tax Indiana’s share was 8750.000, but. finding settlement, the Government discovered that §40,000 of the amount ha I &-en paid. Noone in the Indiana Capitol knows where the money went to ■At Dubuque. lowa, Ben Markey -hot himself with suicidal Intent and wi ) die. He tied the stock of a shotgun to a bedjM»st. and th 'ii placed a string am ;nd the trigger in such a manner that when he pulled on it the gun was discharged, sending the entire load of -hot Into his loft -ide At Waterloo, lowa, the stranger who blew >s lira ns out at the (uuUu Hrs- Ua-i Ip-Ph 14‘:ntitied qs Mr-”PhP'p ’Fr- Irrirk*. of I »b-T s? yea s, threw her- If Into a cfsU rn ami wa-drowned Millie Farwell, daughter of a well-to-do farmer living near Akim , lowa, committed suicide by poison A love affair wa- the ■ ause. R G Den a- Cats weekly review of trade says: »uv unu-mil r»n->orvutisni which pre- ‘ n't- In uc ,rl, all -i tl"ii- and bram lr s d buslnvs- impri'N-cs many as a most dlshcurleiitng ymi tom. Hut It may, with at least e<jU.»l reason, be Interpreted as the very be*, ground forronfideuce In a healthy and -olid Improvement when new and large crops cm” forward more freely. The absence f speculative excitement, the Indi—p sit.on to buy tn haste, are having a most whole-ime Influence. This con-ervatlve attitude i- the more necessary this year twaus ■. while money is now abundant iicre and che ip on -call, the possibility of ilt-turban- u abroad, or of difficulty In obtaiti iit n<'< e i sippii - f..r moving crops at the West, i- not yet entirely rem o ed. < rop reports have never t>een more full than they are this year, and they grow unite clearly satisfactory as to spring wheat every day. improving also as t> other grain and cot>on. At Chicago und other Northern point- -rem ral y the supply of money Is ample, though in the West there is more demand than heretofore. Al Southern point- tin 1 markets are close as a rule, though only firm and In fair supply at New Orh an-. The bu-ines- failure- throughu: the country during the last seven days number 747. a- compared ' ith a total of 23" last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 197. MARKET ItEFOKTS. CHICAGO. Cattle - Common to Prime. .. $3.50 @C. 53 Hoos-Shlpping Grades. 4.00 c l 5 2-5 Sheep 3.00 5,25 V. hut-No. 2 Red 92 Corn-No. 2 58 (<4 .59 No. 2 37 ,37‘j Rtf. No. 2 77 ,78 Bctter—Choice Creamery 16 @ .17 Cheese Full Cream, flats 08 («6 .09 Eons- Fresh 15^^ .16^ Potatoes—New. jht brl 2.00 *<!• 2.75 " INDIANAPOLIS. Ca.tle—Shipping 3.50 @ 5.75 Heos—Choice I. ght. 3.50 5.00 Sheep—common to Prime . 3.50 a4 59 Wheat No. 2 H.-i SSO ’ Cohn—ao. 1 blue vi 3 Uais->u. - Wince 10 55 .41 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4-50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.0) & SM Wheat—No. 2 Red «7 ..‘8 Corn—No. 2 SSln® -56 a Oats—No. 2 37*t>(3 .38 Pc tlK—Mesj 10.59 H.OJ CINCINNATI. Cattle 4.00 & 4.75 Hogs 4.01 & 5.00 Sheep 3.50 sci 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 89 dJ .91 ; Corn—No. 2 60 & .61 I Oa i 8 —No. 2 Mixed 10 @ .41 DETROIT. I Cattle 3.01 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 & 4-50 | Sheep -3.0 u id 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 ^1.02 I Corn—No. 2 Yellow 61 @ -62 Oats—No. 2 White l 6 («; .47 TOI.EDO. M HEAT 95 @ .90 ' Corn—t ash 61 i® .62 i Oats—No. 1 White 36)4^ .Spa ( lover Seed 4.25 & 4.35 BUFFALO. Beef Caitle 4.50 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 (® 5.25 Sheep 4.00 & 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.06 1.0? Corn—No. 2 66 & .67 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 68 .90 Corn—No. 3 38 & .60 Oats —No. 2 White 42 .41 Rye—No. 1 .82 .84 Barley—No. 2 68 cj .70 Pork—Mess 10.25 ©10,75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 6.25 Hogs 4.00 © 5.50 Sheep 4.25 © 5.5) Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 © 1.04 Corn—No. 2. 70 © .71 Oats —Mixed Western 42 © .47 Bitter—Creamery 14 @ .18 Pork—Now Mess .....11.75 ©12.25

burned alive.' MURDERERS RUN AMUCK IN MISSOURI. Ra,ns c au-e Washouts in North »akota-An Ohio Treacher Umpires a Game of Base-Ball Played by Ladie,. sava- d Ti fr ° ln Nanai mo, B. C., from su ™ seamer Princess Louisa. en ’ brings news of a terrible andslide on the banks of the Skeena It ver, resulting ln the death of one Xgf^utfrylndiansnerv at s'k thp * orthcrn I’aelfie Cann<r> at bkeena River hear 1 a treeat ruslnng noise in the direction of the high steep mountain at the back of the clnrneL a moment an avalanche of rocks and earth and trees was uron the before^it carr y in » everything nerv - °‘ e slou « h c >ose by thecannciy ih o oc upants of the houses lad time to get outside the but dings but be.ore they could escajie from die a-|-vancing column of debris, they were ’ ! vtffießv 11110 ! Ca „ r,ed aIo,1 » ? at a fearful । 'Ocity. In a |] nino houses and their I occupants were destroyed, including the . mes-house and residence of the foreman of the tannery. In the mess-rcom । was the young Swedi-h wife of the forelUain'j S: !° Wa ' carrled along in the mad ami deadly current, and da-iied to death j hundreds of feet be ow. Indians claim that among those destroyed were about । forty Indiansof the Port blmpson, Sitka, Motlakahla, and Kitimiat tribe-. Two days after the s ide thirteen bodies of the Indians were recovered. The body of the foreman’s wife ha- not yet been found, but there is not the slightest hope for any living thing within the range of the terrible slide of bowlders, trees, and earth. The slide just missed the cannery building about two feet. Had the slide struck th® cannery or occurred half an hour earlier, the death roll would hate reached into the hundreds. It had been raining in torrents for the previous four days, and it is thought that the accumulation of water in the ravines on the mountain side broke away, carrying death and destrut tion with it The Indians are greatly ccit d over tiie disaster, and are mourning bitt rly for their d a l. ETOKMS SIOF THE TRAIN-. H»4 Washouts Reported in North Dakota — Damage in City and Country, StM'eials fiom various points n North Dakota report heavy rains for fortyeiglit hours, which have caused it any wash mts on the railroads and much destruition to ; roperty. Between 300 and 400 west-bnund pas senders on the Northern Pacific were stopp'd at Mam an, N. I) Tremendous rains washed out a 'ar e number of smal bridges and culvirts and track west of this point All the bridges that are gone are small ones, those of the Heart River be ng all intact The Heart River is running bank full, and is rising. In Mandan most of the sidewalks were lifted and scattered along the street. Numbers of cellars are fu'l, and a good deal of damage done. The rain extended fn tn west of Medora to Jamestown and poured in torrents for several hours. This supposed arid region has enough rain now to insure a bounteous crop. At Dickinson, N. D., the rain was wors' than at first supposed. Crews of track repairers are working both easts , r-• ' )o>nr- S roams nro rising rapidly and ft has commenced to ram again Farmers will sustain damages from lodged grain. Ml KOEKS AND SUICIDES. A Jealoun Ex-Policeman*.* Crryl Deed— Doable 1 ragcily on the Road from < h irch. Ex Poli, eman Crowley, of Kansas City. Mo., who has been married only six months, shot and killed his wife, of whom he was insanely jealous. He then turned the weapon on himself, but inflieted only a scalp wound. Running down to the kitch -n, Crowley snatched up a < arving knife and attempted to cut his throat, but male only slight gashes. Crowlev. fearing vio’ence from the largo crowd attracted by the disturbance, ran up the street tiie crowd pursuing him crying “lynch him, hang him.” and throwing rocks and other missiles at him He was i rotect *d by tiie police with drawn revolvers. Crowley’s injuries are not serious. Murder and self-slaughter were committed at Teos, nine miles southwest of St. Louis. Mo. brand I’ademan, the teacher of the Catholic church, and Joseph Frank were coming from mass at 9 o clock when Frank tired at Bacleman with a revolver The bullet took elle t but did no kill, but the second shot did. Frank then, in the presence of a hundred or more people, turned the revolver against himself a id took his own life. Had lie nottione so he would have been lynched. No reason can bi assigned for the deed. BELLES AT THE BAT. Society Girls Flay Ba-e-Ball, with a Preacher Acting as I mp re. The s< ciety girls at Washington, Ghio, have dropped the tennis racquet and taken up the base-ball bat An exciting and amusing game was played between a nine they have just organized and a flicked nine of the society young men. Y J { Mderson i). D, a prominent 1 resbyuinau uuuisieru. yLu and an enthusiast on base-bail, stood behind the bat as umpire, and dodged the foul tips wish great agility. The young men played left-handed, so as to give tiie girls a fair chance. The score score stood 22 tol7in favor of the young men. The girls say they will not play in public or travel. They belong to the , best families. Hannibal Hamlin was a candidate for Congress the year President Harrison’s grandfather was elected President. And yet Hamlin’s career was considerably shorter than that of Josiah Quincy, who saw the whole of the revolution and nearly the whole of the rebellion, for he was born in 1772 and died in 1864. He saw Washington a id exchanged let- | tens with Lincoln. — ilujul-) Courier. A man named Hut h. livi g in Fancy ' Bottom, near Weston, Mo., stole a wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary Bland, a widow, and started to town with it, b it got stuck in the mud before he was a n.iie away, and had to abandon the <orn and wagon, both of which are now in the possession of the w dow San Francisco has 4,503 saloons or places where liquor is sold at retail.’ If the populafon of the city is 330,000, there is one saloon to every 73 persons. If the voting population is 50,000, there is a saloon for every 13)4 votes.

CHEERING PROSPECTS^ HAY AND GRAIN CROPSJN THIS SECTION. If No Disaster Happens the Crop Will Be Iwmerie-Fam, Draught anJ St Tins Have Affected Different Localities— M chigan and Wiscon-In Hay Is FoorThe following appears in the Farm.crs , Rei lew: The report) of our correspondent- tn twelve States show that iu some the hay crop will be enormous, and in two or three an almost complete failure. c- n J 11 * 110 ’ 3 fifty-nine correspondents -ay that the pn spects for a large crop are good Thirty-five correspondents say that In their counties the crop will be light, owing to the spring drought. Ehe outlook for the State, as a who’e is good. In Indiana the condition does net vary greatly from that in Illinois. | In Ohio the condition is the same as in । the two above-mentioned States. , Ihe condition of the hay prop in Ken- . t icky is just the opposite of that of the ' a 1 ® 3 P revs OU 3l y referred to In I two-thirds of the conntie-, the crop is ; very poor. The drought in Mav gave it a back-s t from which it was mot able to recover. In some counties the clover is good, but timothy, in the same count! s Will* not make half a crop. Michigan Is very much woise off than ! h, e ,t tl H ky ’ Forty-six correspondents repoi t the outlook as bad, and only t<. n ' report the crop as average in condition. [ Missouri is rejoicing in an abundant crop; the hpy crop was never better. Only one county reports the crop as below expectationsKansas and Nebraska are in the same condition as Missouri, the hay crop being uniform y large, and in good condition. The reports from evi rv correspondent in Nebraska, and from all but one in Kansas. a:e to the same effect. In Wiscons n the drought has blasted the hopes of even a fair hay crop, and only ten correspondents report the condition as good, while, on the other’hand, fifty-three report the crop as in a very bad condition. In lowa the early drought was not able to retard the grass beyond recuperation. and the copious rains have brought it forward in tine shape. Fifty-eight correspondents report that the crop is first class, while only a few report it afrom one-half to three-fourths of an av ■’•age. nc condition in the Dakotas is l even better than in lowa, eight out of every nine correspondents giving an encouraging report. in Minnesota the hay prospects are good in two-thirds of the counties; poor in the others. The annual crop report of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company. Racine, Wis., which is made from careful reports sent by their agents throughout the country, states that should no adverse condition set in during the next two weeks tiie Northwest will have, secured the largest grain crop ever known. The dangers to be apprehended are from too much rain and hot winds. Except in tentrai Wisconsin abd some parts of South Dakota there is an exce-s of moisture already, seriously interfering with the cultivation of corn and causing an excessive growth of ^traw in wheal and oats. Harvest is progressing in Southern lowa and Nebraska The folio wing table gives the results, in sumI’”**"— Ststp* mentioned; lowa —One hundred and one reports -jr .ln- S 2 good. 17 DD- 3 _ corn, 4. goou, 4a fair, y d>oor Minnesota—Fifty-eight reports small grain: 51 good. 7 fair; corn, 19 good, 27 fair, 12 poor. Nebraska—Sixty reports small grain: 53 good, 7 fair: corn, 30 good, 23 fair, 7 poor. North Dakota—Fourteen reports small grain: 14 good. South Dakota —Thirty-eight reports sma’l grain: 32 good. 6»fair; corn, 14 good, 13 fair, 11 poor. Wisconsin—Fifty-six reports small grain: 16 good. t 2 fair, 18 poor; corn. 26 good, 20 fair. 10 poor. lowa complains of too much rain, especially in the north and northwest, and damage by hail and flood in northwest counties. , In Minnesota the conditions are very favorable throughout the State. Nebraska reports excessive rain in the eastern part. Harvest, is now under way and well over in the southern portions. North L akota s present prospect is'for a crop in excess of any ever raised 7outh Dakota conditions are favorable for wheat. Cold anh late spring and cutworms injured corn. Wisconsin—This Stake, except in the northwest and along the south line, is below average, owing to dry weather in April and Mav. Ihe last storm appears to have been quite general, and d -übtless did more or less damage to the heavy stands of small grain, besides further delaying attention to the corn-fields where the weeds are struggling for the mastery. CONFESSES AN OLD MUftDER An Acquitted Man Says He K lie! <J. P, Cash Twenty-four Years Ago. About twenty-four years ago J. P. Cash was murdered four mile- west of Paris, 111., and Bruce Ray *and G. W. Perry were arrested charged with the crime. Vendever Perry escape*!. Ray and C. W. Perry were acquitted. A letter was received at Paris which exonerates Vandever Ferry < f all complicity ia the crime, and is as follows: To ’I whom It may coacern: 1 1 itevtng that lam about to die, I wishto . . ike a confession of the murder ot J. F. Cash on the evening - 'of the 18th of December. 1867, at the residence of the deceased’s brother, Johnson Cash, about four miles west of Paris. Edgar County, Illinois, the | crime of which niy brother, Vandever Perry, was charged. But when I met my brother i on the 26th of January, 1868, I told him just how it was. that if he had done as I wanted him to do and kept out of the way ; as much as he could and did accidentally I get caught, I would step in and give myself up and he should be vindicated and j exonerated from all harm. If he did not he would have to suffer an unjust punisb- ; merit; that I had been tried and acquitt d. and they had nothing against me ias far as they knew. Some of them : thought my brother had a knife, but he did not. I took the knife and used It, but in ; self-defense, as Mr. Cash came at mc^witb a club, swearing he would knock my brain'S out. He struck aS mo with the club. I threw up my left arm and knocked the Eck ofT.iand we came together and I had to du sonKthing to save myself. Now I make I this confession to let the people know wbc did it and to clear my brother of the charge I against him. as I am about ready to die and I be out of the way. Pe:rry. j’. When this is found have it pub’ished"ln the papers so all who are concerned may know that I was the man. and not my brother, who killed Mr. Cash. Whenever a soul is converted it be comes possible for God to make the world a little richer.