St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 October 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . INDIANA. TO FREE ANARCHISTS. SCHWAB AND FIELDEN PLOTTING FOR LIBERTY. Moody and Sankey Will Swing Around the Circle —Chill Recovers Her Senses— From One Wreck to Another and Death. Reds Gain a Point. The plea of Moses Salomon for an early hearing of the Chicago anarchist cases has been granted by the United States Supreme Court, says a Washington dispatch. The court also advanced the cases of the New York murderers, Nicola Trezzia, and James McElvane, for argument on the first Monday in December, and the cases of Schwab and Fielden will be taken up as soon as the electrocution cases are disposed of. Salomon nor Butler was present, though quite a number of spectators who had learned that the decision on the motion to advance would be decided, were present, in the hope of hearing something of tho famous case, but they were disappointed again, Justice Field merely announcing that the motion to advance the appeal case of Fielden and Schwab, with others which he mentioned, would be advanced. Will Jaunt Around the World. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists will sail from New York for Scotland, from which country they will start togeti r for a trip around the world. This is a lung-talked-of journey, which until recently Mr. Moody intended making alone. On his return from Chicago he met Mr. Sankey and persuaded him to accompany him to the Holy Land. They will probably be absent from this country about eighteen months. The object of the trip is to gain rest and a firmly seated desire to see the eastern lands and the country written about in the book they have spent their lives studying and expounding. Upon their arriving in Scotland the evangelists will hold a series of meetings as of old, after which they will start immediately for the east. Short Work of a Wife-Beater. At New York, Justice Ryan, on his way to court, saw a man striking a woman in the face with his fist. The first impulse of the Justice was to thrash the follow, but, remembering what was due to his judicial dignity he merely grabbed him by the collar, dug his knuckles into his neck, shook him till his teeth rattled and then handed him over to a policeman. Aft<-. the justice had taken his seat on the bench in Essex Market Police Court the man was arraigned before him, and sent to the Island for six months. Buildings Destroyed and Cattle Drowned. . / hurricane prevails in West Ireland. The Shannon has overflowed, submerging much land, destroying buildings and drowning cattle. The stoi mis

the worst for twenty years. A gale alsQrages on tho Channel, and £He miiTlTton in arrived at Kingtown badly damaged. Thirty small boats have been wrecked and much property destroyed. Youghal is partly floodeu. Much property has been destroyed by the overflowing of the Blackwater River. Bad Box for a Bachelor. Mrs, Eva G. White, a charming widow of Detroit, has sued A E. Cramton, a wealthy bachelor of Vassar, Mich., for §50,000 damages for brea h of promise. Cramton and Mrs. White met in 1889 and the widow claims that Cramton had known her but a short time when he proposed marriage. She accepted him, but Cramton posponed the ceremony by one excuse or another and Mrs. White became impatient. Chilians Ccme to Time. It is officially stated that the Chilian government has given an intimation that it will soon issue a safe conduct to those persons who have taken refuge in the American and Spanish Legations. The Government has recognized the right of asylum in a letter to Mr. Egan. The Spanish Minister is acting in conjunction with Mr. Egan. It Was a Plunge to Death. A wreck on the Santa Fe about ten miles south of Wichita, Kan., resulted in the instant death of two men. fatal injuries to another and ba I fractures and scalds to two mere. The locomotive had been to the scene of the wreck and was returning to the city for m re help when it jumped the track.

x -ICIdIBS liuipuu v . ftu * e.v York, the summons in th^ suit brought by Henry Sanford, Hoey’s suc^ i cessor, m hi. official capacity, to recover I ocr -.00,000, alleged to have been misappropriated. Quiet at Clifton For^e. A dispatch from Clifton Forge, Va . says there has been no renewal to-day ot the disturbances caused by the lynching of negro rioters. The Monticello Guards of Charlottesville are on hand to preserve order if needed, but no outbreak is ! expected. Sicilian Immigrants Held as Paupers. „I he Stura, from Pa’ermo, arrived at New Orleans with 776 Sicilian immigrants. Twenty-seven were held as paupers, and unless bonded will be returned with the ship. Favors Delivery to Farmers. Postmaster General Wanamaker is said to favor free delivery of mails in farming districts. Bold Bank Robbery in Nebraska. Three cowboys rode up to the First J National Bank at Enterprise, Neb., and ' while one held the horses the others ' with drawn revolvers demanded the money-. The cashier was threatened with instant death, and handed over v 3,500 in bills. The robbers were not masked. The Statue Completed. The statue of Admiral Farragut, made ' for the city of Boston by H. 11. Kitson 1 is completed. It is said to be a master- i piece. _ _ _

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Ar Lincoln, Mass., Katharine Kelly, Lincoln’s old hermit, is dying, and she has told the secret of her life She was born in New Orleans in 1829, and in the years before the war she was the belle of the city. Her father's name was Samuel F. Gibbons. At the age of 18 she met a young man named Hiram Kelly and clandestinely married him. A* the beginning of the war Kelly enlisted and sailed under Admiral Farragut He was killed in the bombardment of New Orleans. The three-masted schooner B. R. Woodside, of Bath, Me., trailed into New York behind the screw-steamer Finance, of the New York and Brazilian Mail Steamship Company, with a prize crew from the Finance on board. The schooner met with disaster in the great storm that swept over the Atlantic. The seas swept over the vessel, deluged the provisions stored there and rendered them useless. Without food or drink the men labored to save their vessel, until they dropped down exhausted. The forged steel shot from the twelveineh mortar at New York, weighing 628% pounds, was fired with thirty-six and one-half pounds of hexagonal powder, giving a velocity of about 730 feet a second. The shot struck at the point selected and passed, through the plate and tho oak brace of the backing. Then, having passed through the heap of sand behind, scooping out a large mass, it foil just beyond. Tho plate, three and a slf inches thick, was completely demolished, while the shot, when recovered, showed that it had sustained no injury whatever. Rev. Phillips Brooks was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts at Trinity Church, Boston, of which he lias been rector for many years, in the presence of a most distinguished gathering of church dignitaries. Representatives of the church from all over the United States were present, and the imposing old edifice was crowded to the doors. Nearly 1,009 people were unable to obtain admission and stood in the streets to greet the new Bishop upon his arrival The ceremony was of a most interesting character. Bishop Potter delivered the consecration sermon. At Biddeford, Me., a peculiar ease of ■ cruelty due to either willfulness or ■ ignorance was discovered by the police. , Mary Goodreau, a French girl, 24 years 1 old, was found locked in a small tene- [ ment attic bed-room, where she had been ! confined by her parents since last j March. There is only one small window i ! in the room, and that is nearly covered j i with thick boards. Miss Goodreau’s i s parents s^y that she is crazy, her mind । , having been affected by Ilie death of । • her lover in Canada. Local physicians I admit that the girl’s mind is somewhat I affected, but they agree that it is great I cruelty to keep her locked up without I an opportunity to take exercise, see daylight, or get a breath of pure air. Engineer Wm. Arnor, of the night express train, bound for Shamokin, l a , saw an object on the track ahead. He immediately reversed his engine, and succeeded in stopping his train a distance away. The fireman got off to remove the obstacle. When he approached । he found that it was a ferocious bull- ■ dog lying by his drunken mast r, who i 5 lay across the track asleep. The dog ।

Ayas .vicious, uua.uuu.Ju a tor i tho tiro in ran. but. ho nnd »•»»». ’ back for assistance. It was proposed to shoot the dog, but that action was disregarded. fearing fatal results to the I man. After the train was delayed half an hour a friend of the drunken man coaxed the dog off and removed the man At Canoga, N. Y., on the shore of , Seneca Lake, on tho spot whore Rod Jacket, chief of the Six Nations of tho Iroquois, was 1 orn, was unveiled the granite monument to his memory erect- | ed by tho Waterloo Library and His- । torical Society. A delegation of Indians from tho 3.700 Canadian survivors of the I Six Nations was present Red Jacket's title came from his dress. His eminence as tho successor of Chief Brant in the Six Nations, his services to the crown in the revolution, and to the United States in 1812 are all recorded in history. Red Jacket's remains lie in Forest I awn Cemetery, Buffalo, and within a few weeks a monument will be erected over his grave there. Shortly after the curtain rose at Palmer's Theater, Ne w York, the otjjer night, a carriage drove up to the side loor, and four people alighted. T lie fast to leave the carriage was a man whose head was bowed upon his shoulders, and who reached out feebly, as if for support. Leaning on the arm of a companion, he walked, almost tottered, through the door. He was Edwin Booth At the close of the play the party waited ! until the house was emptied, and the [great tragedian walked slowly to the I waiting carriage, which was driven I to the Players’ Club. It cannot be do I nied that the tragedian looked very weak i and 111. He walked with a halting, al- [ most tottering step, and his features

Lwyre pa'o and drawn. i and killed John q electric light works Bur^F^P^ I Intimate vli, ar ,. c ,. 1u ... „ iWrf}’? icrer vas arrested, but expressed no sorrow for his deed. Samuel Reems, the oldest man in Minnesota, died at Dayton, Minn . from a. severe cold, aged 103 years. Mr. heems was born in Pennsylvania March U ’ 1788, and from 181,-. to IS4O was : prominent in the politics of that State. By the settlement of the Renick contested will case at Clevdan I, Wooster University receives a 820,000 addition to Lor The ori ' inal was , 5-),000, but the case has been in litication for yearsand the college authorities were glad to compromise for the smaller sum. The Tecumseh (Neb ) National Bank was closed by Bank Examiner Griffith. The failure is not considered to be a bad pne and is duo to poor business There lls a deficit of $70,000. This has nearly ill been made good by the officers of the I oank, who have deeded over all their ■ property. i A. gang of glassblowers undertook to . demolish Kuntz's saloon at Alexandria, Ind. Michael Sapp, the bartender, opened fire. James McCann and An- < Jrew Gallagher were mortally wounded, i bapp was struck on the head with a beerI glass and his recovery is doubtful, tsix arrests have been made. The Baltimore and Ohio fast mail No. S to New York jumped the track at Hicksville, Ohio, killing two passengers, I wounding five others fatally, and twenty

others less serious'?. The train was 1 rushing along at a speed of sixty miles • an hour and in turning a curve the rai’o spread, causing the disaster. A serious collision occurred on the Great Northern Road at Anoka, Minn A fireman jumped and was badly shaken up, and a passenger in the caboose of the Great Northern train, which was smash d into atoms, was hurled through the top of tho car over a train on the side track. It was a miraculous escape Wieeiam Rose was hanged at Redwood Falls, Minn. When the trap was sprung tho rope broke with a snap. Will out a moment's delay the limp body was picked up and place I face downward on the scaffold. A second noose was pulled down and adjusted, and the trap was sprung again without attempting to place the body on its feet, and the condemned man was slowly strangled to death. The limited express and a freight train on the Panhandle Railroad came together head foremost at Mingo Junction, near Steubenville, Ohio. Two men were killed and four injured. Both engines and several freight cars were demolished. The combination baggage and express car caught fire and was consumed. Brakeman Marshall and Express Messenger Joseph Vestner, of Columbus, Ohio, who wore in this car, ‘ were caught in tho wreck and burned-WF death No passengers were injured. J At Gretna. Nob., llunoock dealers in general merchandise, were closed on a mortgage for §10,500 held by tho Gretna Sate Bank. The mortgage was given by A. N. Babcock, Vice-President of the bank and immediately after the store was closed the bank suspended. Excitement reigned all tho afternoon when it was learned that the Vice-President Lad decamped with some of tho securities. Charles Key, President of the bank, said tho affairs of I the bank are in very bad shape. The treasurer said there are ample securities to pay all depo itors in full if properly handled. A receiver will be appointed. Three newspaper men and an engineer of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway were in a flash sent into I eternity. They looked upon death but an instant—scarcely time to ' realize its approach—and it came. I Not ton seconds had elapsed between i I their first intimation that they were in i | peril and the culmination o’ tho calamity, i jlt was another railway horror Crete, i -a small town thirty miles south of Chi- I । cago, was the scone A switch was left [ l open. A passenger train running be- ; hind time came. There was a crash, a j roar of escaping steam, the crunching I ।of timbers and of iron. Four lives lost I and 100 jeopardized. This was the cost i i of some one's criminal heedlessness. । A terrific explosion occurred at ; South Park, a manufacturing suburb of St. Paul, and shop headquarters of the ' Chicago, St Paul and Kansas City Road, by which thirteen persons were burned and scalded and pro 1 ably four of them fatally injured A large engine had been taken from the shops and fixed up for t.se as a switch engine. With 120 pounds of steam on, it was standing on I a side track preparatory to start ng and i was surrounded by a group of workmen, I when suddenly, with ate ritie roar, the crown sheet of the boiler gave wti«| 1 seal A ; ing steam. Two men standing near by'. । were thrown over a box car fifty feet distant and both fatally injured. No- [ body within a radius of thirty feet escaped uninjured The sound of the explosion was distinctly heard five miles • away. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A slight earthquake shock was felt in East. Nashville. Tenn. It lasted about seven se ends and moved in a southerly I direction. Nodamaze resulted. Gaeli.no Barkogaxa, an Italian lug-ger-owner, was assassinated at New Orleans. The affair bears all the marks of the Mafia. There was a jolly game of cards at an Italian saloon near the

French Market, a quarrel, a stampede, and as the victim reached the door he was riddled with bullets. Ar Gainesville, Tex., Cleaver and F. Letcher, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware and agriculture implements, made an assignment. Assets, $235,000; liabilities, 820(\00(>. The Columbia, Tenn., Banking Company, capital 8100,(100, and Bank of Columbia, capital £6\ooo, both made assignments. FailI uro was caused by inability to collect. A Fernandez, Fla , special says the German bark Solideo Gloria, from Kingston, Jamaica, bound for St. Si--1 ; mons, is ashore at the mouth of the 1 Nashua River between Amelia and Tal--liv Islands, and is fast toing to pieces. AVnen pilots went up to her the Captain I said that three of the view had died •of fever and two more were sick. He F had only live men lit for duty, including the cook and himself. Ihe surviving members of the crew are ■J—ikL t.lie hou.-c of some colored people on . I to prevent th

It JS probab e That the Board of He alt IF will burn the vessel as a safeguard against infection. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Fighting between the factions has already begun in Ireland. In ewry the two McCarthys were victorious in the municipal election. Their supporters ' । tho streets with a band • then hea l. Ihe Parnellites attacked the procession and smashed the instruments of the band. A general fiaht fni j lowed in which clubs were us d and I SnolT^^ Wer ° ^ io ^yhurt. ight police were injured in the melee. A dispatch from Sydney, N s W i says: in Parliament the government

« Posed a motion to the effect that a ' h e Jaw? U re S ul aHng the minmnt e whti? ? ret . urncd t 0 the comtlmt\„ CoGS!de reit ’t, in order tnatan eight-hour clause which it contained might be stricken out Notwithstanding tl.e utmost efforts’ of tho probably Disign. S d ° fCat " l ° Cabinet wiil ri L . ondon ’ a storm prevailed for thirty-si^ hours, and much damage has been done. In some street -it was danturn'l'n^o^cl'i °" account of the overturning of chimneys and the falling of off n seve?a? “l^ 8 ’ K °° fS haVe beon b ’own j oil several houses and many persons

! have been injured by the flying frai ments Wherever the wires are working to the coast reports come of wrecks n increasing number. The damage in the piov inces has been very heavy, but as nearly all the wires are down scarcely any details have been received. A St. Petersberg dispatch’ says that Russia is pushing with vigor the increase of her navy. An ironclad, tho Navasin—rather a significant name for H? 0 '®ssel—and a half armored gunboat, the Otia;oy, were launched on the same day. A gunboat, now about completed wiil soon follow and a feet of torpedo cruisers is under way. The last mentioned order was given since the Chilian war and their construction was undoubtedly due to the proved efficiency of torpedo cruisers in that conflict. Great activity in naval shipbuilding also prevails in the Black Sea, where Russia has a formidable fleet. A Calcutta dispatch says that the news of an encounter between the Afghans and the Russians is awaited with much anxiety, as it is believed that a fight of a serious character cannot long be put off. The v iceroy has received profuse assurances of loyalty from a number H the Indian princes, including the Nazim, who is prepared to put a strong force into the field. While a Russian attack on India is not expected, the ^lcoregal Government anticipates a ■"Russian struggle for a foothold in Afghanistan. Owing to Russia’s increase ! armament on its western boundaries Austria has strongly ro-enforced tho frontier between Lomberg and Przenysl. GENERAL NOTES. Much anxiety is felt for the safety of Lieutenant Russell and party, who wore sent out by the Smithsonian Institution to explore Mt. St. Elias Alaska. Russell and his men were to have mot the re\enue cutter Corwin at Yakatt, Sept 1, but when the Corwin went there he did | not appear, and a searching party sent out failed to find any trace of him. Among recommendations made in the I report of the Governor of New Mexico I are the admission of N< w Mexico as a State, the survey and marking of the boundary line on the Texas side, the reoccupation of Fort Marcy, the amendment of land courts so as to protect small owners. The report also deals at length with public schools, irrigation, I climate, rainfall, agriculture, and stockraising. [ Acting Secretary Ramsay, of tho . | Navy Department received a dispatch । | from Lieut Cowles, of the wrecked [ j steamer Dispatch, saying that the weath- , |er is clearing. Lieut. Cowles has sent j most of his crew to Philadelphia, retain- [ ! ing a few to look after the clothing of I the sailors, most of which was saved, | I and to search the beach for what wreck- . ; ago may come ashore. No news has ' i been received at the Navy Department I from the Atlanta, and it is thought that ' I the first information concerning her will ! ccme when she puts into some adjacent I port ' Three, perhaps four, American mani of-war men were killed and several othI ers wounded in a desperate str -et tight ! at Valparaiso, Chili, with a crowd of , Chilian sailors. The Chilians did not do ; all the fighting, for when the tight was [ ended a number of them were pretty i badly hurt The American buo jackets ■tavere from the United Stn t ••• • mG-r Hui ****4inore am< the Chilians were from thw J vartaus warships now in tho harbor । Gip. itrmuitrf the difficulty which seems i plaujble Is tliis: Ever since the triumph 'loftneJunta th re has boon a feeling ■ among the lower c asses of hostility to i the Americans, and the blue ackets I from the American warships v.ere some ' limes subji eted to insult. A partt- of men from the Raltimore, ashore on liberty, went up with the Chilian man-of-war men. The hatred of the ankees” [ led to some insulting remark, which was I resented by one of tin- hotter-headed j Americans, and this brought on the gen- ' oral light which was attended with such । fatal results ' I R. G. Drx & Co.’s weekly review of , trade .-ays: ’| Business throughout the West and South 'j is strong and improving. At Eastern ceni ters there Is less satisfaction, and the ex..ooto/i from harvpstinir of

pected results irom tue huivcmuik vi j large crops are more slowly realized. Yet the volume of all trade is as large | as it ever has been, and for Oct >ber may even surpass the unprecedented record , of last year. The prevailing confidence in the future of business continues unabated, and is seen even in some branches which coinplain most of dull trade at present. The iron industry Illustrates these contradictory conditions, i The output of furnaces in blast Oct. 1 was 181.615 tons weekly, yet t£is enormous production is marvelously absorbed. The demand for us? in producing : all kinds ot farm machinery and implements is far greater than it has been in any previous year, and the quantity of iron thus used is enormous. On the other hand, the wool manufacture is short of orders. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Catti e— Common to Prime $3.50 g? 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 4.75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.O<J 5.2> Wheat—No. 2 Red 96';^ .97'2 Corn—No. 2 53 5 -54 Oats—No. 2 .28’3 Rye—No. 2 68 ig .89 Butter—Choice Creamery 31 @ .32 ■T Cheese— Full Cream, flats 10 @ .10‘c

J^E.gs—Fresh.... . 425 Wheat-No. 2 8ed.... “Lm Z ■ Corn—No, 1 White... 57^ Oats—No. 2 White W";;: '23 @ m ST. LOUIS. ® ' 75 ;;; Corn- No. 2.... =2,. § I?,, Oats-No. 2 4 , Ryv 9 Ari .^8 E • r '°- 2 .85 @ .86 CINCINNATI. £ Attle 3.50 @ 6.25 Sheep 4do 475 Whflt' kA'o bl 300 ® 5 - tlo ci,' 2 Ked 99 & i- 01 Corn—No. 2 50 59 No. 2 Mixed 31 @ ‘32 „ DETRoiT."’ Cattle 300 @ 525 ® OGS 3.00 @ 4.50 Sheep... ....... 300 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 9S'o@ .99’.. ’ Corn—No. 2 Yellow 57 i n *

gats—No. 2 Dime 31 @ 12 TOLEDO. Wheat—New 99 @ j n Corn—No. 2 Yellow ’ .55 @ .57 Oats—No. 2 White 2) © 30 Rte .87 @ ,’s'3 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 5.00 & 7.00 I Live Hogs 4.2.5 @ 5.00 1 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 1.05 @ 1.07 Cohn—No. 2 60 @ .62 w MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 92 a 93 I Cohn—No. 3 .55 @ ; 57 ■&ATS—No. 2 White 36 @ .32 Rye—No. 1 sa , 9J Barley-No. 2 61 @ .63 10HK—Mess H. 50 @12.00 । NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.50 Rogs 4.X @ 5.75 4.75 ” Heat— No. 2 Red 1.06 @ 1.08 Corn—No. 2 ri @ .62 ; Oats—Mixed Western 33 @ .30 I BUiter—Creamery 20 @ .22 I . lons—New Mess j 0.75 @11.25 i

WHAT OF THE WEATHER A SYSTEM THAT WILL BENEFIT FARMERS. By Flags and Whistles on Railroad Trains the News Will Be Carried Throughout the Country— The System to Bo Put in Operation This Year. New Signal Service. One of the first discoveries made by Secretary Rusk after he took charge of

the weather of this country was dis crimination again t the farmers. Jie found that, while city people were getting government forecasts regu-larly in their morning newspapers and by flags in the big rail-

NO. 1.

road stations, their country cousins obtained no information until the weather had come and gone. The Secretary sent for Prof, Harrington, Chief of the At eather Bureau, and told him to figure out a scheme to give the country as much and as va'uable information as tho city roccivds.

I‘rof. Harrington bejran work at on -o, and thinks he lias solved t.lio problem.

81 1 NO. 2. I

So, apparently, does Secretary Rusk, for an official circular has just been issued airnouncing that the bureau wishes to find in every town and village a responsible 1 arson who will un dertake to display weather flags When

these persons are employed the forecasts will be telegraphed to them, and the people will know what kind of weather to expect. I EXPLANATIONS OF THE FLAG SIGNALS. The flags are to be made'’of tin, and I their size, shape, and color, will be as follows: No. I—White flag, six feet square, will indicate clear or fair weather. No. 2 —Blue fag, six feet square, will indicate rain and snow. No. 3 —White and blue flag, six feet square, will indicate that local rains or

" showers will occur and that the rainfall will not be general. - No 4 —Black tri.'angular flag, four ^feet at the base and gsix feet long, always refers to temperature. When placed above flags Nos. 1, 2, and 3 it will in-

NO. 3.

dicate warmer weather. When placed ; be'ow the numbers it will indicate colder weather. When it is not displayed the indica- : tion< are that the temperature will rei main stationary, or that the change in temperature wiil not vary more than 4 degrees from the temperature of the same hour of the preceding day from March to October, inclusive, and not I more than 6 degrees for the rema ning months of tho year. No. s—White flag, six feet square.

n center, will indiNO. 4.

with black square ii cate the approach■ of a sudden and de-f cided fall in the tem-l perature. I This signal will® not be displayed tiu-1 less it is e-xpectodj that tho tempera-j ture will faT to 421 degrees, or lower, | and will be ordered

displayed at least twenty-four hours In advance ot the cold wave. AA hen No. 5 is displayed, No. 4 is always omitted. AVhen displayed on poles the signals will be arranged to read downward; : when displayed on horizontal supports a small streamer will be attached to indicate tho point from which the signals un to be read. INTERPRETATION OF DISPLAYS. No. 1, alone. Fair weather, stationary temperature.

No. 2, alone. Rain or snow, stationary temperature. No. 3, a’one. Local rain, stationary temperature. No. 1 with No. 4 above it Fair weather, ! warmer.

No. 1 with No. 4 below it. Fairweather. colder. No 2 with No. 4 above it Warmer weather, rain or snow. No 2 with No. 4 below it. Colder weather, rain or

no. 5.

snow. No. 3 with No. 4 above it. Warmer weather, local rains. No. 3 with No. 4 below It. Colder ' weather, local rains. No 1 with No. 5 above it Fairweather, cold wave. No. 2 with No. 5 above it Wet weather, cold wave. 1 Prof. Harrington will also make arI rangementsto have the da? dispjaye^ot^.

uu ~ tiro'' lorecas t, ' and one man on each train will be as- ; signed to the duty of displaying the flags. When the public has mado itself familiar with the code every person can > ascertain the forecast by looking at any passing train. THE WHISTLE SIGNALS. Ihe professor has also invented a plan to have locomotives and factories whistle j the forecasts for the information of ■ farmers who live too far away to see the flags. Notification will be given in every tovyn and village where there is a steam I whistle that at a certain hour every day I the whistle will sound the signal to indi- I cate the probable weather for the ensu- |

I ing twenty four hours. Factories will receive the forecast by telegraph, and locomotive engineers will receive it at their starting points. The warning signal to attract attention will be what is caked the long blast, la-ting twenty seconds. After this signal has been sounded blasts of from four to six seconds’ duration will I refer to the w.. ather; short blasts of three I seconds each will refer to the temperature; those for the weather to be sounded 1 first, like thFs: Blasts. Indications. One long Fairweather Two long Rain or snow | 1 hree long Local 1 ai 11 s One short Lower temperature skort Higher temperature Ihrre short Cold wave He expects to have the system in full operation before 1892.

CURRENT COMMENT. Parnell. He was the ablest of Irish pollticiani since Daniel O’Connell—Washington Star. Among the sons of Ireland there has been no truer patriot —Cleveland Plaindealer. Parnell raised up the Irish nation and then stood a block to its progress.—Minneapolis Tribune. Ire’and cannot sufficiently honor bis memory for the nob'e work he did for her.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Impartial history will rank Parnell in the iront rank of political organizers and leaders.—lndianapolis Journal. It will be said of Charles Stewart Par- , nell in times to come that he died a broken-hearted man.— Phi.adelphiaTelegraph. Parnell failed only because he so willed it. His life, aside from the last sad months, was a shining succe-ss.—Buffalo Express. I’arnell being dead, perhaps wise counsels may prevail, and Gladstone, if he " shall be spared, may become the great 5 Irish leader.—Cincinn^l Gazette. It would doubtless have been advan-

tageous to the cause which he repreRented, and better for Ms own fame, had he dleck a, year or t.wo soonor. Vitt,st»urts Gazette. That the death of this man at this time should be, as it is, of momentous benefit to his country is a striking illustration of the irony of fate—St Louis Globe-Democrat. None will deny the services he has rendered, and the future will doubtless forget his frailties in summing up his claims te remembrance as a benefactor. —Cincinnati Enquirer. As simple as a child, as honest as the day, as intrepid as Richard of the LionHeart, mankind < ould not refuse him the homage of its admiration and pity.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Methodism. It has been given to few men to exert the influence John Wesley did, and it is doubtful if the world will see his career duplicated.—Philadelphia Press. This conference of Methodists is a notable gathering, one of influen m and power in the religious world, and a sign and proof of the increasing strength of Christianity.—Memphis Commercial. The day of the old circuit Elder, tracking his way through the “forest primeval,” and pausing wherever the curling smoko told that some sturdy pioneer had settled down to clear the way for'coming thousands, is past and gone. The lerm Methodist is no longer one of reproach. —Philadelphia Record. As a consequence of such a meeting the horizon must necessarily widen and enlarge, opinions will be liberalized, new practical adaptations will be discovered, and more than ever Methodism will become an active and potent, influen< e in the moral, social, and religious world. —AVashington Post. The fault of the religion of to-day is i that it tends to exclusiveness; that there i Is too much Pharisaism about it; too [ many fine and expensive churches and I cushioned pews, and too little recogni- । tion of tKo trutK tKat tlio ricli and poor should meet together for the reason that : tho “Lord is the maker of tho.-n all. , Philadelphia Times, Methodism is about to confront new conditions and to face new problems that will test to the uttermost its capacity as a system of propogating Christianity. Thus far it has not bean disturbed by the spirit of questioning unrest that has so profoundly affected some of the other religious bodies. But it cannot always hope for such immunity.— New York Tribune. Grant in Bronze. Chicago has glorified Gen. Grant in bronze. How is that New York monument getting along?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Chicago has unveiled her statue of Grant New York— but the less ^said about New Y’ork in this connection the better.—Omaha Bee.

The Grant monument at Chicago was unveiled, but the one in New Y'ork is still veiled i'n the mists of an uncertain future. —Detroit Free Press. Chicago deals New York a stab in its tenderest spot by the dedicating with impressive ceremonies a 8200,000 monument to Gen. Grant—Pittsburg Dispatch. Enthus’astic Chi . ago shows dilatory New Y’ork and its multitudinous millionaires how to carry out to successful completion a great memorial to Ulysses S. Grant —Boston Globo. Chicago’s splendid tribute to the great captain's memory should serve as a fresh incentive to the people of New York to fulfill their duty likewise in the same regard.—Philadelphia Record. St Louis was the first city in the country to erect a statue to Gen. Grant, although it made no parade of its intentions in this direction. Even Chicago Is ahead r of New York in this work. —St Louis Globe-Democrat.

, Rainmaker Melbourne proposes to . water 2,000,000 acres of Kansas land for j 10 cents an acre. If the proposition is accepted Mr. Melbourne will be in the way of receiving a handsome reward for his faith in providence.—St Louis Post- , Dispatch. It takes a great deal to shake the faith of some people. Melbourne seems to have secured a firm grip on tho credulity of the farmers of Western Kansas, and. though he has done nothing to confirm their faith, they st 11 stick to it. —Kansas City Journal. The citizens of Western Kansas aro | about c osing a contract with Prof Mel--1 bourne t o wat r some 2.000,000 acres of I farms at 10 cents an acre for the season. 1 his is cheap enough, surely, and at the I CO 1 i .

same time it is very remunerative to Mr. , Melbourne; but how are they going to । decide whethei it is the Professor' or Jupiter Pluvius that dees the waterinir’ > —Philadelphia I rcss. Our Ili-Fated Navy. The loss of the United States ship Dispatch is a serious one. The Dispatch was the most accomplished junketin’* ci aft in the navy. She could easily bo floated in the liquors that have b«en consumed in her cabin —St Ln.uis Republic. The United States ship Dispatch was only a Government pleasure boat and was never intended for figh*ing, bun there may be some inquiry to find out whether the naval officers are capable of keepmg the new cruisers off the shoals. I —Buffalo Express.