St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 September 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . . - INDIANA HURLED DOWN A BANK FOUR LIVES LOST AND TWEN-' TY INJURED. An English Colliery Horror—Bob Sims and His Gang Captured—Bad Blaze in Minnesota—Hungary Afraid She Will Be Hungry—Valparaiso Looted. Art NONE ESCAPED INJURY. In a Disastrous Railroad Accident in Indiana. Four lives were lost in a wreck on the Cannefto branch of the Louisville, Evansvihe and St. Louis Railroad, between Toll City and Troy, Ind , and twenty passengers were injured. A I Token drive wheel flange derailed the entire train. The train bumped a'ong for several yards, and then the engine took a header down tlie eml ankment, and tl’e train so lowed. Steam ■poured into the passenger coach, in whi h were twenty occupants, sca ding a'l of them. The wreck tock fire, and rescue was extremely difficult. Two farmery aided the tra'intnen, who MlßMMWiW^W^rettiii? everybody out. Four of them, however, died from their injuries. 1 hey are: Emma Sehu, ten years; Robert Grau, four years; Mrs. Sarah Grau, Miss Barbara Niemeyer. The badly injured are: Sidney Hess. Henry Bodine, Katie Kelshoe, Michael Elberthorn, William Newman, Mrs. Wil iam Mewman, Mrs. William Chase and child, Magzie Hudson. Naural Durbn,G. F. Boit. Most of those injured were from local points on the branch. MANY THINGS TO CONSIDER. Questions to Be Decided During the Extra Session of the Tennessee Legislature. The extra session of the Forty-seventh Genera! Assembly of Tennessee has assembled. The chief bu -iness to come befure the body is the settling of the quest ons that have gr^wn out of the recent trouble between th’ miners and convicts at Bricevi le, referring to th > abolition of t e lea e system and to the rebuilding and enlarging of the State prison. The lease system, as now operated, yield- the State §100,003 per annum and if it is abolished the tax rate of the State mu t be increa ed. PASSENGERS' NARROW ESCAPE. People Injured in a Collision on the B. & 0. at Lodi, Ohio. A coal train on the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad colided with a I through excursion train on the B. &O. at Lodi, Ohio. The rear car of the excursion tra n, bearing twenty-eight passenger.-, was thrown from the track, falling on its side and being totally de-moli-hed. The escape of many passenger’ from being killed was almo t ' miraculous. DISASTER IN A MINE. An Explosion Causes a Loss of Life in a Somersetshire (England) Colliery. UA* in luo-Muiago shire, England. A large number of miners were at work in the mine at the time of the disaster, and the greatest excitement prevailed throughout the district. Tire bodies of seven dead miners 1 ave been recovered, and two others are missing. About a do.en men are serio sly injured. BASE-BALL. Standing of the Different Clubs According t« the Latest Contests. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the diffeient associations. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. pc. W. L. Pc. Chicago (16 41 .617 Brooklyns.. 47 56 .456 | Bostons 62 3 .590 Clevelands. .49 59 .454 New Y0rk...55 43 .561 Pittsburgs. .43 61 .406 Ptiladelp’s. 55 49 .529 Cinciunatie..42 65 .393 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. ^c. W. L. Pc. Bostons 76 32 .704 Columbus.. .51 6'2 .451 81. Louis... .71 41 .634 Milwaukees.46 61 .430 | Baltimores. .59 47 .557|Louisvilles. .38 71 .349 . PUladelp’s. .57 52 ,523 ; Washingt n. 35 67 .343 | WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W, L. pc. W. L t?c. । Sioux Ci y 5.55 49 .529 Omabas 48 47 .505 I Kansas C’ys.ss 51 .510 Denvers 14 59 .427 ; llrrit Distillers Captured. Marshal W.lkes and his deputies, i who followed the notorious Bob Sims | and gang of illicit distillers and murder- j ers from Alabama, captured six men close to Do Soto. Miss. Information was received that Sims himself and several of his gang were secreted in a vacant house near D; Soto. The house was surrounded and all the occupants—six in number—were captured. Estimate of the World’s Wheat Crop. Ox the basis of Consular reports Hun- . jary has issued an estimate of the | world’s wheat harvest at from 725,000,- j 000 to 730,000,000 of hectolitres; rye, I 359.000,4)00 to 360,03'*,000 of hectolitres; 1 tire wheat tiefnsc 44,000,000 to 50,000,000 j and rye 90,000,030 to 100,C00,030 below I the average. Starch Factory Burned. At Monticello, Minn., the Monticello Starch Factory and two story residence of E. B. McCord, President of the Citizens’ Bank, were totally destroyed by fire Loss, §14,000; fully insured. The factory made a market for 100,000 bushels of potatoes. Destroyed Two Millions’ Worth. Two million dollars’ worth of property is esthnated to have been destroyed by the mob when the city of Valparaiso was surrendered to the insurgents. Gen. Balmaceda is still a fugitive. Minister Arrested for Arson. S. C. Stone, an ex-preacher, who has had at different times charges in a half dozen places in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, and who was at one time presiding elder in the Granville district of Mississippi, has been arrested on a charge of arson at Memphis Another Switzerland Disaster. Another railroad disaster is reported from Switzerland. Four passenger cars were wrecked and many passengers injured. -

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. 1 Miss Fenis Boyer committed suicide ( at MilLGrove, N. Y. She was despondent because her face had been disfigured. At New lu. the search for victims ' of the Park place disaster has ended. The police record gives the number of bodies taken from the ruins.as sixty-one. There remain twenty-one bodies unidentified. Mayor Grant lias appointed a relief committee, and money for the families of the dead has commenced coming in. Cne thousand dollars has been received from Mrs Crain, owner of, the building that col apsod. Sho sends a letter saying sho wished sho could give more for the families of the dead. An Italian laborer who was detected robbing the body of one of the victims of the diaster in Now York was sentenced to six months in prison. At Philadelphia, Frank Johnson, of New York, shot hims If in the head, using the mirror to direct the aim. The American ship Frederick Billings arrived in Now York fro n Havre, flying her ensign union down. The patrol steamed alongside, and Captain Herbert H. Williams turned over three sailors. The prisoners sey that the mutiny charge is trumped up to prevent them from prosecuting the captain for cruelty. At Sandy Creek, N. Y., at a depth of 1,020 feet a largo vein of natural gas was struck which ble-w the tools in all directions. The no se of the escaping gas can be heard for mi’es. Alfred IL Hildick, an Importer, committed suicide at his office, in New York. After murdering his wife and two children, John Baxter, a Harlem, N. Y., painter, killed h inself. Baxter left a letter addressed to his mother. In it the triple murderer and suicide said that he contemplated the act. The couple had been married seven years. The neighbors say they quarreled on'y occasionally. James Davenport and Miss Mary Pieton, of Plymouth, Pa., eloped. They expected to take a train but it was delayed. The couple then walked through a blinding rainstorm seven miles to another railroad. The elopers are both under 18 years. A cloudburst over Berlin, N. Y., and the town of Petersburg was followed by a food that did damag * i nparal'eled. The storm also swept se eral other smaller places, ai d several lives were lost. Newark, N. J., suffered severely. At Binghamton, N. Y., Mrs S. 11. Rumner was burned to death by upsetting a lamp while reading in bed. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The Grantsburg accommodation train of the St Paul and Duluth road was | wracked near Grantsburg, Minn. 'I he l train was a’ out an hour and a half late, and was thundering along at the rate of forty miles an hour when a freight-car jumped the track, turning completely over. Th l passenger coach at the icar was derailed and dashed into the ground I about four feet The passengers, twenty in number, wore thrown in all directions, and it i’ nothing short of a miracle that some were not killed. Two freight trains collided near Palmer, Wash. Engineer David Young and j 1 Fireman Frank ( coper were killed. । Mbs. John Hartman^. j the woo ’s, and hanged herself to a tree. I l The deceased was 45 years old. It is I supposed she was insane. Two men, each named A. 11. Whitney. : but neither relatives no • acquaintances, । died at the same hotel in Detroit, Mich. I The farmers about Martin s Ferry. 0., i are out in large numbers scouring the woods in search of some wild animal that has made a groat slaughter of hogs and sheep in that section. Harding’s saloon building in the suburb of West Indianapolis, Ind., was burned, and the pumps at the three wells near by had been broken. Before water could be obtained the saloon and a business I lock adjoining were in ashes. I The loss was §6,000, and all the indica- j tions point to incendiarism. This is the | fourth lire within forty-eight hours, all ; of which were incendiarv. At Oklahoma, O. T., a call for a stat'- ■ ' hood convention, to bo held at Oklahoma | | City, Sept. 24 next, has been issued by I I the Commercial Club. j At Eureka, Cal., the boiler of a largo ; ■ donkey engine at Beudixsen's shipyard I exploded, fataly injuring lour persons. j । The gauge registered only forty pounds j a moment before the explosion, making j i the cause a mystery. The eng ne was | i thrown 600 feet in the 1 ay, and one per- j j son was blown upon the deck of a vessel j I on the ways. The Wabash Railway Company paid the Wabash (Ind.) Count .- Agricultural Society §2,SCO for burning the buildings of the association a short time ago. The factory of the Worden Furniture Company, at Grand Rapids, Mi h., was I burned. Loss, §55,000; insurance, §45,- , 000. Near Fort Wayne, Ind., Morehead's 1 j barn burned to the ground The io-1 I m&ins of an u.iknown man witli a ri;c ■ ' woie found in tho whec supocSed to ■ have boon a tramp sleeping in the barn. I j At Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. .John I Oxford has a 4-year old boy who has a j I habit of running away. The neighbors | । were startled by the child's screams, j i Other little children who peered through ; I the door sa d the mother was holding . ; the litt’e follow's hand upon a red-hot I j stove. She will be prosecuted. The Government steamer Vixen struck a sunken pile in the Mississippi Fiver near Kittsburg, lowa, and went down. The water is only twenty inches above the low-water mark. Milwaukee millers arc paying five cents per bushel more than the market price in Minneapolis for Northern spring wheat. About 44.090 bushels of wheat are required daily. A yoke of oxen i ear Canton, N. D.. I attached to a bind r and led by a wom- ! an, ran away. The woman was liters I ally cut to pie es. j । At Danville, Ind., fire destroye 1 alk , most the entire west side of the public square. It was caused by incendiaries. | The total loss will aggregate §40,000, on j which there is §30,00) insurance. 5 i The balloon ascension at the Detroit . i exposition grounds ended n a frightful i tragedy. George Ilr gan, the aeronaut.

when 2,500 feet from ", ~ grip and shot through /A n a V h hls ward. Hogan stSk ®* r h ^ d dow "- So great was Ihe ALtA^ ? idew ? Jk ' inch planks were that the twaHogan was a br o th "A7 made an ascosion i n rLn/h who in New York sever! ' 8 a ' r Bhip and never returned. ° ra year ® a# o Chicago K BurnX ldOat ha PPened in the ta cago, Burmgton and Quincy yards at leston. lowa, and in the sight ot numerous pop e. Mrs i t t "> Creston, started to thn 1 an ^a e, of sistir, Mrs. Lizzie nd? PA W,th her lade, of Freeport 11/ Ck ’ a widow return afti-r a vis op her Exposltlo,,. T,.e y s ; c just as an engmewas ba-klng down and were run o or. Nirs I i \ a 1 wasse ered from her body and Langda e was Htera'ly cut to pieces -a' 0 < Urrent was tun “ ld pp the ANest Bridge street Electric Ra Iroad urand Rapids, Mich., for the first time, Aitd" A’ h ,ura »»an and h s horse were kilKd. George E. Heydorn’s team ran against the telegraph pole. A small copper wire was broken and fell across the street railroad trolley wire. The end struck one of the horses and it began to stagger. Heydorn Jumped from his seat to the horse’s head and was killed by the shock. A destructive fire swept over the greater part of Faulk County, s. D., devastating a belt of country twenty miles wide and fifty miles kjng- ^’ho farmers arc ru ned. For a sn&i*! twenty miles not a foot of gra^s * or stock which escaped vne tlaata'A REAK-KND COMI^R betWO'll tWO freight trains on thtfjb’r seo Road occurred near Phillipsburg, Ma Engineer Huoston, of Springfield, and the fireman and two unknown trainmen were killed. About 700 Cherokees have staked off claims in the Cherokee strip. Their selections include the best town sites. A number offer to se.ll their rights for amounts ranging from §35 t> §IOO. At Canton, Kan.,’ the breaking of a shaft in a large wheat elevator caused a belt to drag Joseph File into the ma chinory. He was fata (y mang cd. Ar Salt Lake City Dr. Hiram 11. Eldredge committed suicide by cutting the main artery in his left arm. He bled to death. He was 40 years old and loaves a wife in Chicago. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The cave in of the bank of the Mississippi River below Plaquemine, La., lias reached alarming proportions. It is now over 1,060 feet long and about • 350 feet wide. It has taken in over 300 j feet of the levee and half of the public | road, and also part of the <ld embank- I mont that was used by the I’nion sol- > diers as a fort during the Ut ■ war A concerted attempt by I’nited States i marshals in Alabama is being made to | recapture the outlaw SimS. Forty dep- j uty marshals form the posse, and a fight | is expected Ar Frankfort. Ky., Hardin Davis, of! Harrodsburg, a member o' a ml itia company on its way to the regimental encampment. jumped playfully into the air for an apple and in coming down was impaled on the bayonet ot a comrade The bayonet caught li..i behind tho right ear and went cltar through his I head. Wmioi a a momenHA-uUitng. in tho rwft) WWirrmru I'.Vnr.W Nort h I /’T’den with pas ; sengers, dashed off a trcXle e> k Jnv feet i above tho Catawba R vbr and v j of the peop'o on board met instant death. ; The accident occurred t ■ ar Statesvi.le, ; N. C. Tho death-roll i- known to exI ceed twenty-live, and it Deludes memI bers of tho best families of tho South, who wore returning home from seashore resorts The immediate cone of the wreck is but thinly itihabitod, and the work of rescue was slow. Fire ensued short!j- after the crash but was controlled bofo o it reached any live victims. Several, however, were drowned At a negro church festival at Woodlawn, Tenn., Abe Slaught-r struck Evans Quarles with a base ball bat. kill--1 ing him instantly. Ix an affray at Georgetown, Ky.. not a bullet missed a human target. A. .1. j Montgomery, a bystander, and John Jarvis, a ; artieipant, were killo l and Burrell Jarvis mortal y wounded. For I some weeks bad feeling lias existed be- i . tween the Kendall and Jarvis families, i Tim Kendall vaermelon path was rob! ed and it was repor cd the Kendalls thought the Jarvises robbed it. At Cumberland, Md., while workmen were re a'r ng the Cumb rland street viaduct, the bridge fell. T'lbert Mini nick', aged 20, and Walter Mille - , aged ■ I 2-', were instantly killed. The bridge | I had boon condemned and closed for I some tim\ General R. & Dykenforth, in i charge of recent Government ex- ' jeriments at Midland, is jubilant I over his experiments. Ho says in three weeks under great disadvantages, six rains were produced, three of which were down-pours and the last was tho h-avie.-t rain in th:ee years. Gen Dyrcnforth says the principle is correct । beyond question. Major William Tillman, until recently a member of the Board of Sink- ! ing Fund Commission rs ot Louisville, Ky., cash er of the dofunet Falls City bank and a so- al leader. Is gone, and so । Is a large -hare of the bank’s money, । something over *103,000. lhe Board of Education has granted , certificates to twenty-three Sisters of 1 Charity to teach In the public schools of ' Texas, so long as they du not teach the doctrines of their church. At New Castle, Ky , Senator J. C. S. Blackburn suffered a stroke of paralysis' His recovery will bo rapid unless ho has a relapse. Ai Galveston the first contingent of tho Fat Men’s Association arrived There were fifteen, aggregating from oh) to 22;. pounds. Ten of Galveston’s fat men met them at the depot T} lOV weighed on an average 250 pounds each. PCLITICAL PORRIDGE, Hon. Redfield Proctor has received a letter from Governor Page, o f y er _ mont. informing him that ho will bo appointed to the vacancy in tho Unital States Senate caused by the resi^na’i-.n of Hon G. F. Edmunds. ^nation At Hastings. Neb . the liid epondont State Convention completed its labors by placing in nomination J. W Fdo-../

Jud^ t>f nf S ?r th <i Omaha ’ for Associate" Me Su P romo Court, and Pro- । ltd FA e R a n d ’ ° f Furnba County ’ rl™ . Had!ey . of Stromsburg, as ' regents of the State University. foreign gossip. The Governor of the island of Marmique, recently visited by a fearful can ® , wfilch resulted in tho loss of and injury of over 1,000 people, th/ > h C ! v caused immense damage throughoc the colony, has sent by teleuprieal asking for help for the suffeiing people of Martinique. Large numbers of people are without either n -?d ? r in s Plte of the efforts made by the colonial authorities to succor them. Whole villages have entirely vanished, and the crops from one end of the s.and to the other have been almost totally destroyed. A frightful explosion took place in the AbercanaJdpit, near Merthyr-Tydvil, \N ales. Sixty people were re-cued’ Thousands of people flocked around the pit. Many are yet missing, the searchers being unable to penetrate the mino owing to tho gas. The English Postmaster Genera', IL C. Raikes, went cut walking when’ he received a fatal electric shock during a thunder.-torm The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from an English port for Drontheim, caught fire and burned to tho water’s edge. Eight of her erew were drowned. A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia. stater that a collision occurred in the port of Philip Heads between the steamers Gambier and Easby. Seven minutes after the collision the Gambier disappeared, canying with her five saloon passengeis, fifteen steerage pas sengers, and six of tho crew. Riots to prevent the expoitation of rye are reported from Russia. The Moscow Town Council is considering a propo itlou to torn el all employers of labor to supply their workmen with rye bread at about one half the present price. FRESH AND NEV/SY. Ax effort will be made to reorganize tho lead trust, enough proxies having been o urod to accomplish the purpose, thougii opposition to the plan has suddonby developed, which may change tho programme of the friends of the reorganization scheme. M. T. Magee A- Co., New York, were informed that President Diaz, of Mexico, ' had ordered a young American writer on I | the Tao lirpublicf to leave the country, because he had criticised some act of the I President In a desi eiate five-hour battle around Valparaiso the Congressionalist forces under Gen. Canto completely routed i I Balmaceda s army. Over 5,0 >0 fell in ' I the engagement Generals Barbosa and । ALerreku. of the Government army, were killed. President-elect Vicuna ' j sought refuge on a German warship. : Balmaceda himself is a fugitive, and , Vaiparai o. while surrendered to tho I I rebels, is under the protection of marines from tho United States, German, | French and English warships in the . harbor, who landed to protect the for- I eigners' interests. ( tmtirmat on of the abuse has been received at Washington. Intelligence has just been received that tho Mouteiey and Mexican Railroad Ih WYnple '-it t<> Tnmplco Tliis gives tho road 400 miles through the best . (Olintry in the republic, and < onucction by steamship with foreign ports Santiago ha- been formally surrendered, tho triumph of the Congressional pu»ty is complete, ami । eace and quiet tuny bo fovhid for in Chili before many days have passed. R G. Di n A Co.'s weekly review of trade -ays; The speculation in breadstuffs has broken i down. The threaiened withdrawal of the ’ -•heat crop amounts tosolittle that receipts were 11.409,000 bushels for the last weejc reported, against 4,900,000 for the corresponding week lust year. v. bl le receipts of other grain slightly decreased. Crop p ospocts are iu all re-pecis exceedingly bright and the reports of Injury by frost do not appear to affect any considerable propoitiqn of the crop. There is every reason to sup- I pose that the yield ot wheat will be much larger than the 544.090,003 bushels estimated by the Agricultural Department, i though a yield no greater would leave 200,000,900 bushels fur export. Hog products i are somewhat stronger. In sympathy with | corn, but oil is lower and also coffee Cot- ; ton has advanced threo-slxteen'. .s. It would be a good thing for producers, in all i probability, if a considerable part of the j forthcoming crop should be cut off by un- • favorable weather. The business failures during the last seven days number 226. as compared with a total of 216 last week, for the corresponding week of last year the figures were 189. MARKET ItLHIETA CHICAGO. I Cattle—Common to Prime S 3.5 > @6 50 111 >os—Shipping Grades 4GO 5.75 j Sheep 3.00 ® 5.25 ■ Wheat —No 2 Rod 99 <g> 1.01 Cohn—No. 2 61 gi .64 i Oats—No. 2 2 9 @ .299> I Bye—No. 2. 88 (til .90 Butter— < hoice Creamery 22 @ .24 Cheese —Full Cream, flats 0J ® .09'i Egos—Fresh lotsig; .165$ Potatoes—New, per bu 45 ® .55 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @5.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.25 SuKtp—Commc nto Primo ..... 3.53 @ 4.59 Wheat—No. 2 Red g.) @ 1.00 Corn—No. 1 White 631^® .64)6 Oats —No. a Whittx 3,i @ .33)s ST. LOUIS. Cattle 8.50 @ 5.75 Hoc? 450 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ .99 Corn—No. 2 58 & .59 Oats —No. 2 28 @ .29 Rye—No. 3 82 @ .83 CINCINNATI. Cattle : J .50 5.50 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red...,, 1.01 @ 1.08 CoBN —No. 2 64 @ .66 Oats—No. 2 Nixed 32}g@ .33)s DETROIT. Cattle 3.01 @ 5.2 ' Hogs 3'o @ 5.00 Sheep 3(0 4.5'J Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.0-5 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 67 @ .68 Oats—Nc, 2 White 35 @ .86 TOLEDO. Wheat—Now 1.01 @ 1.02 Corn—Cash 65 @ .6*5 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ .33 Rye. 92 @ .9:3 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 3.50 @ 575 Live Hogs 4.25 @5 5) Wheat—No. 1 Northern 1.14 @ 1.16 Corn—No. 2 71 & .72 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 98 @ IJO Corn—No. 3 .63J^@ *64 Oats—So 2 White 83 @ .34 Ryh—No. 1 88 @ .9) Barley—No. 2 64 @ .65 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 & 5.75 Hogs 4.00 & 6.25 Sheep 4.25 & 5.75 Wheat^-No. 2 Red 1.10 & 1.1'2 Coen—No. 2 75 @ .76 Oaßs—Mixed Western 33 @ .3.5 Butter—Creamory 15 @ .24 Pork—New Mess 11.50 (®12.u0 4

CHILIAN REBELS WIN. CRUSHING BLOW FORTHE IRONWILLED> DICTATOR. Balmaceda’s Troops Are Defeated in Two UlooUy Lngagements and Valparaiso Is Capture.! b- the, Insurgeata-It Is 1 bought tho Cruel War Is Over. A Decisive Battle. Balmaceda’s power in Chill is broken JU’ army lias been crushed a ter five hours hard fighting, and is scattered ho-

atuci eu ueyond all hope of reorganization. "he revolutionists have taken possession of Valparaiso. This is is the latest budget of news from Valparaiso. The future of (hili, continues the dispatch, for the time has been settle d, and settled conclusively, on the hills to the east of this city ty the grim

W 1 V. j i t It ( v\ \ : DON JOSE BALMACEDA.

, v ... „ , , arbitrament of war. With Balmaceda practically a fugitive without resources in n en or money, with the principal seaports of th • country in the hands of the Congressionalists, aud a consequent shutting off of all income from customs receipts, with President-elect Vicuna a r.-fuges on board a German warship, aud the country flocking en masso to the stand-

1 U 1 JS > H AM/ GEN. CANTO, REVOLUTIONARY LEADER. .. . i

ard ot the invaders, it is a matter of only a short time when the capital will fall into the hands of the revolutionary leaders. A new government, with possibly Judge B ell sar i o Frats, head of the. last parliamentary cabinet of Balmaceda, or Manuel Jose Irarrazaval, head <f c the congress eab net,

at its head, will be L rmed, and things ! will go along in about the same way in Chili as they did before Jan. 7, when hostilities were formally begun. Gen. Canto and his army won the battle by superior generalship, g od bard fighting, assisted by good fortune in the killing of

Balmaceias Generals and the consequent demoralization ot the army and t’he desertion of entire regiments. Ever since the arrival ofthecon--5 gressionalst army at ^Vina del Mar there Ihas been a constant 'series of maneuvers for position on the part of both Generals. Ever dav, and

A. FUEUTIS, COM

mander OF THE^arly every hour of captured TORPE-^be day. there have do-boat, ^LMi-becn skirmishes, in haste lynch. some instances amounting almost to battles. In nearly 1 all of these the opposition has had the better of it. A c'cse censorship of dispatches was established by l’alinaceda, however, anti only an inkling of the reverses to his arms could be got through. The bo m of cannon announced to the people of Valparaiso that a movement beyond the ordinary skirmshes had begun. The occasional laud reports of the SW. ■ A3 A > i i w mA ! w \ v a’ s R w AAnA ,iCA X <X \ V SCENE OF THE CHILEAN WAR. heavy guns soon swelled into one continuous roar, and then it wa* known that the final decisive struggle which, at the cost of thousands of lives, per- ( haps, was to decide whether Balmaceda ior the junta was to be the j ruling potver in Chili had begun. I Excitement was intense in Valparaiso. ' General Canto’s position was on the hills above the race track at Vina del Mar, outside of the city. He had absolute control of the railroad at Santiago and commanded the ordinary roads. Hence Santiago was pract cally in a state of siege. Affairs had come to such a pass that it was necessarj for President Bal- : maceda to make some move, and a little after daylight the word was given to attack the position he’d by the revolutionists. and, led by General Barbosa and Alcerreca, the Government troops left their breastworks and advanced on the enemy under covqt of a heavy fire from their batteries. The insurgents were generally armed with Manulicher rifles and used smokeless pewder. The Government troops were also well armed. As soon as the approaching column got within range of the Mannlichers, a destructive tire from the intrenched revolutionists, shot and shell, grape and canister and rifle bullets, tore through the ranks of the advancing troops until it became too hot, and despite the efforts of the officers they broke and retired almost in a panic. ; Officers worked like beavers to re-form their columns as soon as they got within range of the deadly Mannlichers and at last succeeded. Then came another attack. In steady ranks the government troops started on a double-quick up into the torrent of tire and lead which blazed from the ranks of the insurgent army Early in the second charge General Barbo-a was shot down and killed. The line wavered but kept on. Then General Alcerr< ca fell from his horse, wounded unto death. He was removed fi*m the field and died within an hour. Another break and then General Camo gave the order to charge. With a wild yell the congressionalist army left their defenses and charged on tho retreat ng enemy. Their artillery poured a deadly fire । into the ranks of Bal maced a’s army. The loss of their genera s left them without a head, and all the efforts of th®

subordinate officers to rally them to meet the onset of Canto’s regiments and squadrons were of no avail. Th«~ retreat became a rout, tho rout a panic and then came utter demoralization’ The Government cavalry made a stand, but it was short They were literally cut to pieces. Volley after \olley was poured into the demorali ed mob of Balmacedists. Whole regiments which had no. lost their regimental formation went o.er to the victorious troops of Canto and joined in the attack on their late comrades. The lighting lasted a little less than live hours, and its desperate character may be judged by the fact that fullv 5,00° men were k.lled and wounded'. Ihe defeat of the government is absoute and complete. J here is no possibility of a reorganization, and if Balinaeeda dors not succeed in making his escape through the mountain passes which are yet open the chances are that he will be captured and shot. 1 he inhabitants of \ alparalso are now apparently revolutionists in their sympathy for as the insurgent troops, Lushed with victory, march d through the streets they were greeted with the wildest e-.thu-iasm. From the windows of the houses showers or flowers were I ung by the enthusiastic women on the heads of the-maders SKortiy after the hH entry of the a’*my of General Canto, Capta n Alberto Fuentes, of the torpedo boat A mirante Lynch, which was lying at the Fiscal Mole, was summoned to surrender. lie attempted, to steam out, and opened lire with his machine guns on the insurgent troops. There was a tharp engagement. lasting fifteen minutes, and then ( apt in Fuentes hauled down h s flag and the e was not an en< my to tho ievolution from Fort Aidivia to Vina del Ma - . Va paraiso is as quiet as could 1 e expected under the circumstances and i o troub e is expected Not much has be n done as yet toward jeorsanizing the city. But th s Mill ie attende 1 to as soon as possible. Notody here has any 1 now! dge of the whereabouts of President Ba maceda. The insurgent lea lets ar > exceedingly anxious to find o t where he is, and if they sue eed to fin ling him the chances । ar.* that it will go hard with him. The general Lel.ef here is that he is making his way out of th * . juntry, perhaps over’ar.d to 1 uenos Ayres. Senor La cano, the Chil an Minister at Washington, on being interviewed, said that lie had received no lows from Chili other than the dispatch given to the pre-s. The fall of Va’paraiso in tires that of Saut ago. General Canto, the congress* '€■ 1 •••••• • W/ • THE ALMIRANTE LYNCH. ional leader, has had this object in view in every movement he made since he landed on the Leach of Vina del Mar. Mar. He waneuve ol so that he was able to swing his little army round until he got it iuto a strong position between Balmaceda and Santiago. The President had already drawn every avail- S able man from the capital for the defence of Valparaiso when Canto got possession of tho railroad and cut it so Sb effectively that it could be of no further use. Then he stationed one of his best regiments in a strong position gd tho Hue to prevent the possibility of repairing it until ho .hould be through with & Balmaceda. The President saw his intention, and hastily made arrangements to smuggle of! on one of his steamers in .; tho dead of nizht a body of troops to reenforce Santiago's depleted garrison. But it will not bo able to make even a decent show of resistance, and the sur- ■ render of the capital is only a quest on of the length of time it will take the victorious array to get there. With Santiago in the hands of the junta’s army, tha war is over. Ancestors and Titlet. In regard to aristocracy Daniel Webster once wrote: “There may be, and there often is, a regard for ancestry which nourishes only a weak pride; and there is also a care for posterity which only disguises an habitual avar- , ice or hides the working of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a. moral and philosophical regard for our ancestors which elevates the character and improves the beast.” Aristocratic titles are of ea obtained by dishonorable means. Many a man becomes ignoble to become noble. The confidence of nobility of birth has rendered men ignoble, just as the opinion of wealth makes some men pcor. Lord Bacon has compared those who lived in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies iu the firmament which have much admiration but little rest. Titles are properly the insignia of wise and honest men. Tho fool or knave that wears one is a falsifier. They who dilate upon their glorious ancestry are foolishly vain of a debt which probably they will never be able to pay. It has also been remarked that a liver generally becomes narrower aud more insignificant as we ascend to its source. The stream of ancestry, on the con- 9 trary, says Texas Siftings, often vigorous, pure and powerful at its fountain head, usually becomes more feeble, shallow and corrupt as it flows downward. “ Honrsty tho Lest,** Etc. • For years there was a beggar on the steps of St. Sulpice, with a hump which. ! steadily grew. A few months ago he ! was taken ill, and in delirium jumped out of a vdndow and was killed. A neighbor, who picked him up, upon, investigating his hump found that it ‘ contained §20,1)03 in bonds and coin. Finding that the beggar had Imo relatives, to whom he had left his fortune by Mill, the finder sent the money to them, with the exception of $4,000. The relati* es discovered this fact, and, after prosecution for theft, tho man in question Mas condemned to two years’ imprisonment. — Argovaut. In the year 1240 tin was discovered in the mountains of Bohemia, by a Cornish tin man m ho had been banished from his native country, either on account of his religion or because he had committed murder. Jr urther discoveries followed at Altenburg, in Saxony, 1458, and in Barbaiy, 1640. Philadelphia taste is growing French'.’. The general exchange soon, to be established has been christened “The Philadelphia Bourse.” j