St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1891 — Page 4

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, ... INDIANA. BUCKEYE BUMS’ WORK.j — A VILLAGE? TRRIFIED BY THEIR) ACTS. Faith Fail* to Cure Her—Knocked from a Train and Killed—Fire in Philadelphia) - Record of the Fall Clubs—A Farmer,’ Killed by Lightning. TERRIFYING A VILLAGE, Roughs at Rardon, Ohio, Set Houses Afireand Poison Dogs. A special dispatch from Portsmouth, Ohio, says that there have been throe more incendiary fires at Rardon, a village of probably 200 inhabitants. There Is a lawless element in that vicinity, and it is thought these fires are set by them to avenge themselves on those who voted liquor out of the place. The citizens of Rardon are in a state of terror. It was also found that seven dogs had been poisoned in the immediate neighborhood, and a fresh biscuit, split in two and nicely buttered, was found on the doorstep of one of the leading citizens, just where his little children would have picked it up. He brought the biscuit to a competent chemist, and the analysis showed the butter permeated with “rough on rats.” BASE-BALL. Standing of the Different Clubs According ta ^the Latest Contests. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. tic. I W. L. ¥c. Chicagos... .56 39 .589 Brooklyns.. 44 47 .484 Bostons 53 38 ,582|Clevelands. .44 61 .463 New Yorks. .50 86 .581|Cincinnatis.88 66 . 404 Fhiladelp’s. 49 44 .527|Pittsburgs. .35 58 .376 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. ^c. W. L. pc. Bostons 67 31 .684 Columbus.. .48 53 .470 St Louis... .65 37 .611 Cincinnatis.43 57 .430 Baltimores..ss 39 .579 Louisvilles.,33 69 .343 Fhiladelp’s..sl 46 .526 Washingt’n.3o 64 .319 western association. W. L. #c. W. L. ^c. Milwaukees.s9 37 .615 Kansas C’vs.so 47 ,sia Minneapo’s.,s2 45 .536 Lincolns.'..4s 47 .481 Omahas 46 40 .535 Denvers 38 55 .404 Sioux Citys.49 16 .516 Duluths 39 60 .394 FAITH DOES NOT CURE HER. Massachusetts Woman's Stupidity Likely to Cause the Death of Her Daughter. At Taunton, Mass., Mrs. J. F. Montgomery, one of the best known women in the city, of a wealthy family and prominent in temperance circles and in ail movements for the amelioration of human woes, has a IC-year-old daughter suffering with a dysentery trouble whom the faith cures have been treating for some time. The girl has been gradually sinking, and the pastor and many friends of the family have expostulated in vain with Mrs. Montgomery, whose only regret seems to be that she once disregarded the “treatment” by giving the child some blackberry c rdial. COAL MINING IN MEXICO. Mines at San Felipe Producing4so Tons Daily. -John F. Attfield, civil engineer of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf Railroad, who has just returned from a visit to the Alamo and Hondo mines, says that they are together producing 450 tons of coal daily. The miners are Americans and Chinamen, and the mines are reached by a branch line of the International Railway. KILLED BY THE CARS. Brakeman Knocked from His Train and Crushed. George Bender, a brakeman for the Kansas City Road, while in the act of crawling into the cupola of the caboose cf a moving train was struck by a projecting waterspout and knocked off, being horribly mangled about the face and head. Can Not Build on a Government Pier. Acting Secretary Grant, of the War Department, has declined to grant the request of Mr. N. P. Ramsey, the General Manager of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway Company to construct an elevator on the Goverament -dyke at Benton Harbor, Mich. Isolating the Chinese Lepers. President Wilson, of the New York Health Board, has announced that the Chinese lepers Ong Mow Tow and Tsang Ding, have been removed to North Brothers Island, where they will be placed in a hospital tent, isolated from the other building^. Killed by Lightning. Michael Mahon, a prosperous farmer, residing nine miles south of Slayton, Minn., was killed by lightning while unharnessing his team. One of the horses was also killed. An African Expedition Fails. M. Dybrowsky, the explorer, has telegraphed from De Brazzaville, West Africa, that the failure of Crampel’s mission is certain. No Reduction to Be Made. The official organ of the German Government says that no reduction will be made on the duties of grain imported into Germany. Fire in Philadelphia. The extensive paper warehouse of A. G. Elliott & Co., at Philadelphia, Pa., was gutted by'fire. Loss, §55,000; fully insured. Worse than Reported. The storm did much more damage in Minnesota than was at first asported. Saratoga Race Track Changes Hands. The sale of 90-per cent, of the stock of the Saratoga Racing Association to the Hudson County Jockey Club is completed. The track anti grounds will be transferred at the close of the present 1 race meeting. Insurgents Issue a Manifesto. The last mail from Panama brings a copy of a manifesto issued by the Executive Council of the Chilian revolutionists. It is a long, boastful declaration and contains nothing of general interest.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Sixteen people met death in one, of its most terrible forms at Cold Spri ig Grove, Long Island. Their lives were crushed out of them. Twenty others, and perhaps more, wore injured, some of them fatally. They w'ere members of an excursion party, composed of the employes of Theodore Kayser, a dry goods merchant of Brooklyn, E. D., and their friends. They left Brooklyn on the steamer Sylvan Str am and the barge Republic. During the four hours’ trip to the grove they danced and sang. They ate their lunches in the grove and had re-embarked and were about to start on their return when a mighty squall of wind struck the barge, raising one portion of the roof and dashing it down on the other, crushing to death the people beneath it. All the reports of the cata^trophe agree that it eou d not have occurred had the barge been a vessel of proper strength Its timbers are reported to have been rotten. Elizabeth Jones, 80 years of ago, of Washingtonville, N. Y.. undertook to convey some real estate, when it was found that an insane nephew had forged deeds to it and a large amount of other projerty, and succeeded in having them recorded. George Jones, editor of the New York Times, died at Poland Springs, Me. Mr. Jones was born at I’oultdney, Vt, Aug. 11, of Scotch parents. In his boyhood he served apprenticeship in a print ng office, and later was associated with Horace Greeley, on the Tribune. Ho was the principal in the’ establishment of tho New r York Timex in 1851, and in 1871 led the assault that finally broke up the notorious Tw’eed ring. America has seen few more able editors than Mr. Jones.

Two lumbermen, Mahlon Dotton and Cornelius Zacharius were killed by a Lehigh Valley Railroad train near Weatherly, Pa. A Rochester, Pa., young woman answered an advertisement of a Chicago firm who claimed to furnish profitable employment to persons at their own homes. She remitted 31 for material with instructions for fancy work, for which she was to receive SI for each article. From this she made several articles which she forwarded, but lias failed to receive the promised money. The five-year-old son of Charles Adams, of Ashland, Mass., who was one of the children taken to the Pasteur Institute in New York City for treatment for a supposed mad dog bite, has died, and it is believed that without doubt hydrophobia was the cause of death. The children were discharged as cured. The establishment of Cleveland, Brown & Co., manufacturers and dealers in gentlemen's neckwear. Boston, was entered and upward of a thousand yards of silks, aggregating fully §3,000 in value, were removed Wm. Spellman, in jail at Camden. N. J., awaiting trial on a charge of obtaining money on false pretenses, stabbed Jailer Andrew Robinson and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. Robinson’s injuries are not fatal. At Goshen, N. A'., Miss Anna Dickinson lectured on “.loan of Arc ” The house was crowded, and Miss Dickinson had an enthusiastic reception She showed no sign of derangement, and spoke with all her well-known eloquence. At Jamestown, N. A’., a section of the dock crowded with excursionists gave way. precipitating about thirty persons into the water, but all were res su'd alive. Alfred White, of Medina, N. Y.. induced thirteen-year-old Ida Biss *li to elope with him. The couple were captured. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The members of the charivari party who have been making it interesting for J. Schainbarker, in Dupage County. 111., visited his house once too often. They went to his place for the third time, when a load of buckshot was fired into the crowd, killing Frank Marvin and wounding several others. The Rev. Frederick Wolfenden, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and cashier of the Dime Savings Bank, was drowned in Orion Lake, near Detroit.

B. F. llayf.s Co., the oldest clothing firm in Greencastle, Ind., made an assignment. Liabilities over 310,000. assets nominally the same; Their creditors are Chicago and Cincinnati firms. Tons of wool and tallow and thousands of |>stly hides were destroyed by fire in the big warehouses of George Oberne ' and H. M. Hosick, at the corner of Michigan street and LaSalle avenue, Chicago. The loss, roughly estimated, is 3250,000. The double five story building which the wool men occupied was completely gutted by explosions of oil I stored on one of the upper floors. The south-bound fast passenger train on the Grand Rapids *and Indiana Rail- i way ran into a freight at the Briant siding, in Indiana. The engine toppled over. Engineer Dick was found dead. Fireman Brown was found crushed and : bleeding, and died later The accident was caused by the air brakes of the passenger train failing to work. At Eau Claire, Wis., Christian G. Forrest, a returned Montana miner, was i decoyed into a hack by a woman calling herself Alice Melnotte, and robbed of 3240. The woman and the hackdriver were arrested. The former rode an : elephant and posed as an albino with ! Forepaugh’s circus this summer. At Huntington, Ind., Mrs. John Col- I lins left her baby in a carriage on the sidewalk to get a drink at a fountain. The baby carriage rolled off the side- j walk into the street, throwing the baby under a Hbrse’s feet, where it was instantly crushed to death. The yacht Nellie C., with a pleasure party of four young men and six girls aboard, was caught in a sudden squall j on Maumee. Bay, off Toledo, and capsized. । Three of” the girls—Lena Sani erg, Ellen Feeley, and Clara Boards—were i drowned. Di king five days of unusually hot weather in Chicago there were seventeen suicides reported, and several i deaths from unknown causes, believed ' to be self-destruction. Poison and drowning were the favorite methods. At a meeting of Wichita, Kan., i Board'of Trade members the following < telegram was drawn up and forwarded : to the Mayor of Fin y, Ohio: “We ■ see by the dispatches tnat grasshoppers i aj-e devasting your country. Be of good

cheer. Kansas has an abundance for .11 Sedgwick County will respond ’ At Terre Haute, Ind., Ge 01 ._ n w Carico, a well-known horseman a 1 t one time a prominent politicly a J official, died. 1&n and The friends of Crawford Fain, of Terre Haute, Ind., are begi nni aRkS ’ be a'armed lest an attack of hic?^ ing may cause death. oughAt Burlington, lowa, while t^ children of James Moore were at one of them, a boy of six. got h o u P r' ’ bottle of carbolic acid, the come./” f which he poured into his brother's , The little fallow died after t^ble agony. “The Soudan” has entered on ]a<t week at McVicker's Theater, In a letter received by Mr. Shar® f ^om Josephine Chatterton, who witn^j a representation of “Ttie Soudan”« Vicker s Theater, that well-knqk ’ " thoress states: “1 cannot tell ho, lni ‘ ch 1 enjoyed the performance o' * T^ dan.’ When 1 saw dear old T> a j Square, the Nelson Monument, |. Q ^ Grenadier Guards marching t j le only regret was that the curtsJj Cou ]d not have been raised to give u^u an _ other glimpse of tins so trg.t o _j jfe scene. And 1 want to add of thing more, and that is about your CiHtjfui theat r. It is absolutely the II 4somcst house I ever was in. ” so A most terrific storm struck I! .^orth, Minn., and left the town a pre^r^,.^ complete wreck. A dark clethl Wltl? a greenish tint along its edges came swirling in from the northwest and crushed everything in its path. Tiie lowa, Minnesota, and Dakota elevator was completely blown to pieces. The Congregational Church was partially blown down. The dwelling of D. F. Cramer was thrown from its foundation and the Burlington depot suffered great damage about the west end. Several box cars were hurled from the track. No lives were lost. There is not a building in th. village that was not hit by the storm. The loss will reach 325,000. Around Lake Benton. St Cloud. Fulda and Worthington, the storm was very severe, tho wind and hail leveling what promised to be the largest crops in the history of the country.

Geo. S Haskell. ex-President of the Illinois Board of Agriculture, died at his home in Rockford. For twelve ears hi- had been an active member of Gio Board, and was one of the most piominent seedmen of the State. In I oring for water on his farm near Crothersville, Ind.. Thomas L Davis struck a strong flow of jetroleum and strong Indications of natural gas, and the find has < ause Igr at excitement A company will he formed to make further explorations. John E. Valentine, alias “Stiffy Jack,” a noted bank robber, is dying in the Ohio state prison of consumption. One of his big pieces of work is said to be the robbery of tiie Ocean Bank in New York in 1866. The Nebraska Columbian Commission formally organized by the election of A. L. Strang, of Omaha. a< President, and J. H. Powers, of Stratton, as Secretary. Among the resolutions adopted was one calling upon the architects to submit plans for the erection of a building for Nebraska, the cost not to exce**d§ls,W»v At Elkhart. Ind , Anthony ning. aged 77 years, and Mrs. Agella Thompson, aged 79. both among Elkhart's oldest and most highly respected citizens, were marrried A meeting of the World's Fair managers for Colorado was held and reports made showing that nearly every variety of fruit ha I liven collected and that arrangements were being made to properly preserve 1.500 varieties. One hundred varieties of wild ’lowers have l eencoS lected by the florist and botanist. Springfield. Ohio, workmen, in faring down “Welch’s Arcade." found several skeletons in the debris in the eelar. The place has been the resort of toeghs and crooks of worst description for many years, and tiie finding of tiie skeletons suggested a dark and mysterious crime or series of crimes in years gone by. John R. Gamble died at Yankton, S. D . of paralysis of the heart. He was elected tongre-sman from South Dakota la-t fall. Wolfgang Bali.esfrom, a German tramp who has been staying at Santa Cruz. Cal.. ha< inherited a fortune of §500,000 and the title of count by the death of his father near Berlin.

SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A desperate due! to the death took place at Norfolk Landing, Mis?. The principals were I). 15. Wall, employed as manager of R. H. Shaw's plantation, and a negro named Reed. They had a dispute about the length of time the negro had worked. Reed was carrying a shotgun At all secured a revolver, but the negro shot him. VV all was mortally wounded,but emptied his revolver at the negro, then reloaded when he fell dead. The negro feh at the same time, one of the bails from Wail s pistol having passed through his bodj. AV all was < nlv t weril^j^b^SE year> old and unmarried. A party oi Brandenburg. K/.. young E±L W T, 07<,r ,o *»>*« • prints A horse be- ame unmaaagable and George Bonner and his companion C yntlna Inman .cere thr< wn out mT’ Dugan struck her head against the stump of a tree and was instantly Vm ' , whne Bonner reeebed injuries from which he is not expected to recover Joe Ozbern. a cousin of (lories Ozburn hanged at Atlanta, Ga.. two weeks f actc r"' lugg ‘ e at Newton At th inquiry bv the Federal authorities under direction of United SX Attorney General Miner, as to the alleged brutal treatment of Federal eonwcts in the penitentiary at Little R O ck A' l '-- Ab’-aha n Davis, a convict testih. d that shortly a.ter his term beg a nl e was branded three times on the bins with a red hot iron, s verelv whi P i and subsequent y confined in a dark^H two days and nights and fed on bread and water. The lessees of the n tiary denied branding and in £ tion of the whipping and confinement introduced testimony to show tha? dT v J was lazy and impudent. uavis The jury in the case of Dr. Baker of Abingdon, Va„ charged with the I’ P . der of his wife by poison, brought in a verdict of guilty. The conviction Jas largely upon the testimony of Mrs ru mer, a woman of social prominence who confessed her criminal intimacy

with the accused and declared that he had admitted killing his wife. In Winston ^County, Ala., four masked men broke into the residence of Col. John Coyle, dragged him from his bed and demanded the hiding place of his money. He refused to tell and they strung him up to a tre?. The hanging was repeated three times. They were in the act of hanging him again when he consented. The counsel of Martha Millen, the negro woman who was to have been hanged at Chester, S. G, for poisoning her husband, has secured a stay of proceedings and carried the case to the Su--1 re me Court. The powder mill at Central City, Ky., on the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, was blown up Tho building contained 14,000 pounds of powder. Policeman H. J. Pinton, of Tallahassee, Fla., has resigned to capture, dead or alive, Hannon Murray, the negro desperado and murderer, and thus win a §3,500 reward. R. Dudley Frayser, President of the Security and the Memphis City Banks, and one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Memphis, Tenn., was chloroformed and robbed at the Gavoso Hotel by a man giving the name of John A. Morris and his residence as New Orleans. FRESH AND NEWSY, ^George E. Belknap, in command of The United States squadron in Chinese waters, has two ironclads at the scene : d the missionary troubles, and lias cabled the authorities at Washington for AS more. ^iie lake lines from Chicago have made j a c^an sweep of thjs season’s clip of wool. In >ne day there were shipped by lake 966 ons of wool, as compared with 16% tons by all the railroads to the East, j The ake lines have done much for the I slice;industry, for the clip has been carried !rom Chicago to the mills in the East it just half the freight paid in previQßS years. A nwe for 320,000, made by the city of Galveston, Tex., has been protested : for nonpayment The city's cuedit has never adore been questioned. TiiEwifc of Matthew Weiser, a Langentnug, Man , farmer, was found dead in bed. The cans'* is a mystery, but it is supmsed she starved to death, her hushaid being absent from home. Minster Douglass has resigned his position as ministerto Hayti. The letter terjering his resignation is simply a forinalresignation, giving no reason for his acton. It is quite likely that a col- ( ored min will be his successor, and just now o» of the most premising candidates s T. Thomas Fortune, a bright, clever ind able editor of New York City.

Uhe Sioux Indians are about to bo paid by tiie Government for tiie lands they ceded. Trouble is likely to arise, as the reds object to receiving agricultural Implement- in lieu of cash A boat containing a party of seven persons capsized on Rice La -, near Bowmanvilk*. tint Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins and Miss May Bee were drowned; the others were resued. At Mitcheli. tint., Daniel White was arrestid charged with the murder of his wife, who was found dead in her house with terrible wounds on her head and face. W hite was f< rmeily a hotelkeeper in Toronto an 1 has been drinking heavily of late. It is be’, ve I that the United States steamer Pensacola, which is now at Mare Island, will soon be put out of commission, as her present condition is hardly seaworthy. K. G. Dun & Co.'- weekly review of trade savs: Tin prohibition of • xp rt- of rye by Ku--sla becanM- of official declaration that fan.lne I- impending ha- -.iddenly affected the grain market- , f the rht Crop prospects grow hr gi.tc r every clay, and with assurance that the country will not only have enormous -upplle- of grain, but a market for it- at good prices, business is improving throughout the North. The me vement begins close to the farm-: country merchants art* buying more freely, and their purchases are felt by wholesalers and manufacturers. In tin main tin interior money markets are in fairly good condition. excepting at the South, and at Philadelphia confidence is gaining. If Eurtip - able* tc -end cash for all the food it will require* this year it is probable that this country will not lark a. ney long. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the ia-t seven days number, for tie United States 2('2. and for Canada 25. ora total cf 227. a- compared with a total of 231 las; week and 247 the week previous to the ia-t. For the corresponding week of la-t year the figure- we re 197. representing 174 failure- it. the United States and 23 in the Dominion of Cana la.

MARKET Kht OKU. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3 50 ® 6.25 Hi gb—Shipp.n? Grades 4.00 ® 5.75 Sheep 3,00 (ft. 5.2> W heat—No. 2 lied . 90 & .96}^ CoRS—No. 2 62 ig- .63 Oats—No. 2 28^® .2.<^ Rye—No. 2 85 .83 Butteb—< hoice Crtamery 13 @ .2 > Chkf.se—Full Cream, tla.s _.UB’viS -'Wi Eggs—Fresh ^.lO^W .159. h Potatoes —Ne», rer bu 40 <<?> .45 ■.. INDIANAPOLIS. Kr-A-TT^— Shipping 3.50 ft 5.75 ^■(MpEChi ice I. uh' 1-.5J ~ . S^^:p— Common o Prime 3.5 1 hi 475 Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 .87 Cork—No. 1 White 63 st .65 i Oats —No. 2 Whit- 29.^31 .301 s ST. LOUIS. : Cattle 3.51 @ 5.75 > Hogs 4 ;, 0 >S 5.u0 1 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 .93 * ‘ Cobs—No. 2 56 .58 Oats—No. 2 .27 & .28 Pork —Mess li.5J (dIMO ; CINCINNATI. • 5 ' Cattle t 3.96 @ 5.25 j , L'kl . 4.00 & 550 ; ! Sheep’’’- •■••••• 3 - 00 » 5.25 < Wheat —No. 2 Red 86 & .88 I COBS—No 2 Cl & .61’4 । Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31,32fs DETROIT. ; Cattle 3.06 @ 5.00 ; Hogs f j •• • 3 -’ 0 4 < Wheat-No. 2 lied 9’ .91 . Corn- No. 2 Yellow c 2 Oat'S —No. 2 White 34 @ .36 , U TOLEDO. Wheat —New 97 .98 Corn—Cash. .. <’*4 .66 Oats —No. 2 White .33 (ft .36 vv v ........ • •to •36 ' BYE BUFFALO. I Beep Cattle 3.50 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 4.25 & 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1.06;g Cobn —No. 2 69 i<s .71 v MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 95 ft .9$ COX —No. 3 *63 @ .64 Oats—No. 2 White 33 .34 rye—No. 1 87” @ .88 BaiuEZ —No. 2 65 .63 PoßK—Mess 10.25 @IQr7S x NEW YORK. Cattle - 3.50 & 6.25 Bogs - 4.00 @ 6.00 SHEEP - 4.25. (g 5.50 Wh’E at —No, 2 Red.............. LOS 1.07 C OB n_No. 2 74 & ,76 । n AT s—Mixed Western 42 @ .46 1 butteb— Creamery 17 @ .20 Pork— New Mess 12.00 «12.50

RUSSIAN RYE IS SCARCE." exportation of the cereal PROHIBITED. Extremely Likely that Europe's Shortage in Breadstuff.. Will Have to Be Supplied b, American Corn-Virtues of the Golden Grain but Little Known There. Until a generation or so azo the staple bread of the New Eng and farmer was a mixture of rye flour and corn meal, popularly known as “rye and Indian.” The main ingredient was the meal. Rye has never been a popular food product in this country, except among those of our people who came from the continent of Europe. Occasionally the early frost would nip the qorn in the milk and the farmers would be obliged to rely mainly upon rye. The time seems to have come for corn to fully repay ail its indebtedness to rye as a substitute, not only upon tlie continent of Europe but here at home, wlierc the indebtedness was incurred. Wheat has very nearly taken the place of all other cereals as food for man in this country, unless it be that the Soutli still clings to corn. The’working classes of the world, on the contrary, can net afford “white bread.” especially at semi-famine prices. Whatever the producers may realiie on their crops, the European consumer is bound to pay exceptionally dear for his bread, be it black or white

Jhe latest edition of Mulhall gave the rye product of Europe as 1,290,G0?,0< 0 bushels, and of wheat, as 1,167,000.000 bushels, a difference in favor of rye of 123,000,< 09 bushels. Those figures giv • a fair idea of tlie relative yield of ordinary years. Fully one-half of all the rye of Europe is grown in Kussia which produces at least three bushels of rye to one of wheat, while the United States produces about fourt eu bushels of wheat to one of rye There are not far from 300,6.00.000 people in Europe who rely upon rye as tin* staff of life. When, therefore, Russia prohibits the exportation of rye, as it did the 11th of this month, it may be said to take the bread out of the mouths of many millions of people and compel them to either go hungry or eat something else Fortunately forth * poor of Europe, there is every prospect of the greatest corn crop in this country that was ever known in agri, ultural history. There seems to be a disposition in some quarters to condemn the policy of Russia as cruel. If there were no other sources gs supply, it would be mean to shutoff the exportation summarily and rigidly, but there is really a good quantity of food in the world, and ample faciiitv for its transportation. Russia might keep every kernel of its rye at home, and the United States would come to the re-cue with its corn. The sooner a'l the parties in interest know what to expect the better it will be. It is highly probab e that the lesson of necessity will outlive the necessity itself, and that American corn will gain a footho'd in Europe during the next year from which It can not be dislodged. Russia may be building better for the farmers of Hie United States than for the Russian peasantry. Ordinarily a country is anxious to find a market for its surplus, and so far from putting an embargo on exports is happy in the prospect of a foreign demand It is probable that American corn will be al> e to retain In future tears much ol the advantage it is about to enjov. If Russia is not careful it will overdo the prohibition policy and inflict permanent injury on its own agriculture. Certain it is that corn is quite as good food as rye, and many of the millions who try it for a year or so will learn to pre.er it. That feature of tin* present relations of corn to rye may prove to be the most important of the whole case.

WILL FIGHT THE LAW. Indiana Bankers Wi 1 Refuse to Expose ttieaAccounts oi Their Depositors. The bankers of Indiana have announced their determination to tight tiie propo-ed effort of tiie state Board of Tax Commissioners to compel them to expose the accounts of their depositors. With that end in view tiie associated banksof Indianapolis have already taken action, and at a meeting of a special committee, composed of President Haughey, of the Indianapolis National; President Gallup, of the Meridian National: and President Malott, of the Indiana National, a course of action based upon the advice of Addison C. Harris, the attorney for the Clearing House Association, was agreed upon. Bank officials refuse to say much as to the course they will pursue, but the sentiment against the law and its enforcement is pronounced and unanimous. President Haughey says that there is not a banker but will refuse to make his customer's business relations known. “A merchant may have a large balance on deposit,” said he. “and he may have given his check for two-thirds of the amount: but. as we have not received the check, he is credited with the full balance, and upon this they propose to tax him. He maj^purchase a negotiable cert ficate of deposit, assign the next day, but it may not reach us for a month, but stili our books will show that man credited with the certificate. Bankers an- -ustified in resisting tho law. ” As the oTiei r- of all the 51 banks in Indiana have been cited to appear before the boar i and show their deposits it is probabie that a test case will be made up at once and decided as soon as possible. It is claimed by the bankers that this feature of th * tax law is in conflict with the National Banking act. and furth rmore, that a compliance with it would ruin the banking business of Indiana. In answer to a question as to how it would do this it w-as replied: “Because just before tiie first day of April all depositors who are now in the habit of understating their deposits or not giving them in at all, will draw out from the banksgtnd conceal the money. It will practically lompiel the banks to call In their loans and go into liquidation once a year, and that would paralyze business. ” James Russell Lowell. In every regard Ja»es Russell Lowell was a grand character, and his life and work shed luster upon the republic.— Bufalo Ent^uirer. More than all. Im was a true American. a thorough puitriot. and did much to secure the abolition of slavery and to preserve the Un'.on. — Elgin News. James Russell Loweli, po-M, scholar, orator, author and diplomat has passed away. The whole civilized world will mourn with America the loss of one of her most distinguished sons.— Pittsburg Chronicle.

TO TIIE COURT OF GOD. J. RUSSELL LOWELL’S SPIRIT HAS FLED. The Renowned Poet and Diplomat Dies at the Ajr- of 7«—Sketch of His Lile and Literal. Successes—A Typical American. James Russell Lowell, the great American poet and diplomat, died atC ambridge, Mass. He was born in thatcity Feb. 22, 1819. He graduated atHarvard College in 1838, and studied law. but soon abandoned law for literav l e 'i Betore leaving college he published a class Doe;n. A volume of miscellaneous poems entitled “A Year's Life” appeared in 1841; a new collection, containing a “Legend of Brittany.” “Prometheus” and others, in 1844: “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, ” containing a series of well-studied criticisms, both in prose and verse giving indications of Mr. Lowell’s interest in tiie various political and philanthropic questions of the day and of his attachment to those principles of which he has since been the champion, in 184-5; a thir 1 colie -tion of poems and “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” founded on a legend of the search for the San Grael, in 1«48; “A Fable for Critics,” in which hesatirically passed in review the Jitterati of the United States, and his most remarkable work. “The Biglow Papers,” a collection of humorous poems on. political subjects, written by “Hosea Biglow, ” in the Yankee dialect, in 1848. “1 ireside Travels,” including graphic papers on Cambridge in old times, and the second series of the “Biglow Papers” appeared in 5 864.

In 1869 Mr. Lowell published “Under the Willows and Other I oems,” and near the close of the same year “The* Cathedral,” an epic poem; in 1870 a collected volume of essays entit ed “Amonir My Books,” and in 1871 “My Study Windows.” “Three Memorial Poems” appeared in 1876. In 1855 he succeeded Longfellow as professor of modern languages and belles-lettres in Harvard College. The degree of D. C. L. was conferred upon him in 1873 by the English University of Oxford, and that of LL. D. by Cambridge in 1874. The latter degree he received also from St. Andrew’s, Edinburgh, Harvard and Bologna. From 1857 to 1562 he was editor of theAtlantic Monthly, and he had previously been connected with Tie Pioneer, amagaz ne of high character, the AntiSlarery Standard, Putnam's Monthly, and from 1864 to 1866 was editor of the* North American Beview- He had also* been a lecturer before the Lowell Institute. in Boston, on the British poets. Toward the close of 1874 Mr. Lowell was offered the post of Minister to Russia. which he declined, but in 1877 accepted that of Minister to Spain, from which he was transferred in 1880 to that oi Minister to Great Britain. On thechange of administration in 1885 he resigned this position and returned to the United States. The speeches which he delivered in England were republished in 1887 under the title of “Democracy and Other Addresses. ” Though a lifelong Republican, Mr. Lowell supported the candidacy of Mr. Cleveland for reelection to the presidency in 1888. During the slavery agitation prior to thecivil war he was a prominent advocate for its abolition, and had been equally outspoken in more recent years in urging the reform of the civil service. “Harvardiana, ” which Mr. Lowei^ edited in 1837-8, was a notable i^em, composed under peculiar circumstances. At the time of writing it the collegiate senior was undergoing a brief period of rustication at Concord in consequencOof inattention to his text books. His forced sojourn in this Arcadia of scholarship and reform brought him into relationship with the transcendentalists, who at that time were in the habit of gathering at the home of Emerson, with whom then began that friendship which, despite the playful sallies of the younger poet in his earlier writings, only terminated with the death of the elder. The young satirist saw the humorous side of the social movements of the day. and the class poem, scintillating with wit, attacked the abolitionists, Carlyle, Emerson and the transcendentalists. In the winter oi 1887 Mr. Lowell read a paper before the Union League Club, of Chicago, on the authorship of “Richard III.” Since his return to private life Mr. Lowell's home had teen with his only child, the wife of Edward Burnett, at Southboro, Mass. BOMBARDED THE SKIES. Farwell’s Kain-Makers Are Abundant y •*u<*ces&ful in Texas. The rainfall expedition sent out by the United States Department of Agriculture under the charge of R. G. Dyrenforth arrived at .Midland, Tex., last week, and has scored its first success. Last week was spent in conveying the supplies to the ranch of Nelson Morris, of thicaso, which is located twentythree miles north of Midland. A part of the apparatus was set up and a test of it was made in which a number of blasts were fired. The explosions of “rackarock” bombs caused great concussions, and were heard and felt distinctly at a considerable distance from the field of operations. The explosives were al! tired from the around by means of electric batteries. The trial was made primarily to test the ; apparatus, and was not calculated to bo I on a scale extensive enough to secure rain. However, in about ten hours after th" explosions clouds began to form and gather over the Morris ranch and surrounding country, and about seventeen hours after the operations the rain began to fall in copious quantities. The storm seemed to gather directly over the ranch and the fall of the rain was heaviest at that point. The storm extended over a space of 1,000 square miles and at the ranch the rain continued to fall for a space of six hours. About two inches fell at that point. This storm breaks a drought of long duration in this locality and is the best rain that has fallen on the Morris ranch for more than a year. All the apparatus will be in position in a few days when full trial will be made, which will be watched with greatest interest. A* if he did not have enough to do with his projected observatory on top of Mont Blanc, M. Eiffel has cabled the World s Fair directors for permission to erect a tower in Chicago that shall bo superior to the one at the Paris exposition. He has been notified to send on his proposition and it will receive immediate consideration. But is Chicago enterprise going to let a Frenchman take the crowning honors of the great fair with a second-hand show that has lost its novelty?— Philadelphia, Bulletin. Gol^ without saying—a mute.