St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 December 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. I WALKERTON, . - - INDIANA ! — —— I DOWN TO THEIR DEATH. SIX PEOPLE KILLED BY A FALLING BRIDGE. A Story of a Frightful Accident and Startling Inhumanity Confirmed—Heath of Two of Austria’s Nobility—Lottery Men in a Bad Scrape. Abandoned to Their Fate. The story that twenty men were left buried out of sight, but alive, under ■ the earth and mud of the landslide at Canyon Station, in the Cascade i Mountains, by the Northern Pacific Railway Company's bosses | was confirmed and is considered true. | No effort is being made to recover the । bodies. Foreman Stout said shortly I after the accident that the bodies would i make “good rip-rapping” if they were I not washed out and down Green River by the swift current. Foreman Murray, who feels the inhumanity of the act on, was induced to talk. Tie said; “I had sixty-two men at work Wednesday morning. After the accident wo counted forty-four, including the dead and injured, and sent eight for help, leaving ten missing. These were probably buried under the mud or floated down the river. About ten. more or less, are still unaccounted for.” Th’ Chinese Situation. The situation in China grows more serious daily. Instead of one outbreak of the revolutionists the movement seems to be divided, one disturbance oc- j curring north of Kin-Chow, where one ■ town has been looted, and a second and more serious uprising near Takou In ; the latter place the mandarins have pur- ■ chased immunity for the natives by allowing the rebels to wreak their vengeance on the foreigners, more than three hundred of whom have been ki led by the rebels and their property destroyM^^The government Is concentrating! fek^^^Uegic points ah.ng the v ■' ' 1"g ; a '! ■ ■ - t • >Ui ■ - ^^^F'fted io have e.nu lthe <! !is ' Mm ।.a t liy with the r< \. -i t lauU' —' lll seem.- D b- ukmr no ion. Al in the Fami'y. M. P. Doland, of San Francisco, and IM ary F. Helmer, of Oakland, were married. The only witness was Miss Victoria Helmer, a sister of the bride. । The couple went on their honeymoon ' and returned in a day or two. The next afternoon the bride appeared at the clerk’s office to have her marriage certificate recorded. She had been cruelly ! abandoned by her husband, and the | worst of It is that he eloped with her sister. Victoria, for parts unknown, but Mrs. Doland thinks tha’ the couple have | gone to Albany, N. Y. It is Mrs. Doland's intention to start for Albany in pursuit of the wayward couple. Chib Waking Up. At Valparaiso, Chili, the judge of , crimes has appointed a commission to i inquire into the cause of the death of , Boatswain Riggin, of the United States I ship Baltimore. The committee will also undertake to ascertain whether the bullet hole in Johnson's neeke chief was caused by a rifle ball or by a bullet from a revolver. If it was made by a rifle ball, then Riggin was killed by the police; otherwise by a member of the mob. Boodlers Badly Wanted. There is no longer a doubt that, if possible, the government at Ottawa, j Ont, will bring Owen E. Murphy and Robert McGroevy ba k to Canada, if the > offenses with which they are charged can be brought within the scope of the last extradition treaty between Great Britain and the United Sta es. After the Lottery Sharks. The Louisiana Lottery managers who were indicted by the Grand Jur. at Sioux Falls, S. D . in October have been held to appear at th ' April term in that city for trial, each giving bail in the sum I of §2,000. Overwhelming proof has been secured by the prosecution Bicyclists Stopped bz a H ghwayman. Two bicycle ridei s of Branford,Conn, were stopped by a masked highwayman. He ordered them to throw up their hands ar.d took from then ‘.35 In cadi and two gold watches and then ordered them to move on Nine Men Fall with a Biidge. The west span o c the Great Northern bridge a ross the north fork of the river, six miles from Columbia Falls, Mont , fell, carrying with it nin? men, three of whom are dea 1 and six injured, three fatally. Chris Favors Blame. Chuis Magef, of Pittsburg says that « the Pennsylvania delegation to Minne- 1 i apo'is wi 1 I<> for Blaine. B'aine can Live tlx- nomination it tie wants it and the indications are that he is in the field Dried Fruit by the Tram Load. The ( a’.ifornia Fruit Associat’on, of Vacaville, Cal., shipped a special train of seventeen cars of dried fruit, con- ! signed to Chicago. St. Louis, and New York: value, §35,000. Two Murderers Hanged. At Mansfiel I, La., Gus Simmonds and Frank (Jarrett were hangedforthe murder of an unknown white man near Gloster. They confessed their crime. j Died of Pneumonia. At Vienna, the Archduke Henri Renier, of Austria, and his wife, the Baroness von Waldeck, died of pneumonia within a few hours of each other. Two Families in Peril. A leak in a gat pipe nearly caused the asphyxiation of two I ittsburg. Pa., families. After several hours’ work the physician succeeded in reviving all but Herrmann Vogt and his. eleven-months-old child. Elevators at Galveston. The construction of a grain e’evator, with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, was begun at. Galveston, Texas. The Galveston Wharf Company has decided to erect another shortly.

I EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At N< w York. Goodwin & Co's cigar- [ ette factory was damaged to the extent of §25,000 by fire. I At Lancaster, Fa., 105 rigai makers' I employed by Oblinger Bros. A- Co., have i struck by order of the Cigai makers' 1 I International Union The cause is ' change of system of work, which the I employes claim means reduction of f wages. Fredekic Faltek, of Atlantic City, N. J., who has excite I the wonder of ; the physicians all over the country by I living fifteen days with o k aw, is dead. I Fa ter stepped on an upturned rustv I nail: the nail was taken out of the foot and the wound I andaged. The next day, however, lockjaw s t in. and resulted in death A papeu that doubtless will have an । important bearing upon the lona stand- ; I ing litigation over the s t ■ of the famous i Conemaugh Furnace■ at Johnstown, I a., j was found recently, It is a deed, and J was discovered lying in t' e bottom of a i tin box of old coins dug up by some j I laborers excavatfn t for a house in the i I Lawrenceville district. The deed was j ! executed in the city of Pittsbur; on . Fob. IS, 1775. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. At Wapakoneta, ( Ino. two neighbors, Joseph Wolph and John Miller, fought with an ax and hatchet a' out ti fenc > I which divides their property. They I oth present a terrible aspect, and are in a very critical condition Atkaix on the Flint and Pere Mar- , quetto Railroad collided with a I.tike Shure passenger train at Toledo, and three people were killed outright Ten others were probably fatally hurt, while a score more were slightly hurt At Cincinnati an order was filed in tin l I nited States C ourt confirming the sale of the ('., .1. a M road. The highest. bid at the s.t'e by Benjamin F. Wade and Hi. am F. Carleton, on ( ctober la t. was §1,642,270 for the central division. , and §2,525,000 for the property of the company exclusive of the centra! division. Cai t. Pakkeb, of the Salt Lake City (1 tah) police, was shot and almost install ly killed. Ho was drunk and , picked a quarto] with Officer Aibrizht, ending by placing a revolver at Albright's stomach and pulling the trigger Tiie cattridge failed to explo le. Albright shot three times. Parker died ins-ven minutes As Anx'Eit Wilson, a farmer, was seining in a creek which runs through his pia e near Platte County, Missouri, his net caught on an obstruction He reached down and pulled o t an o d coffee pot, which he foun I to contain §lO and §2 • gold pieces to tin- amount of 8670. Nono of the coins ha ea later date than 1857. It Is supposed that the gold was sunk in the creek before the war. At Cincinnati, while a freight train of the Ch< s ipeake and Ohio I ai way. with loaded ears, was passing up one of I the approac hes to the ( I osap< akc and j Ohio bridge a truck of one of the heavily | laden cars broke. In mediately the car i plunged down into the ditch beb w a ! distance of twenty feet, drawing titter it ten other cars and carrying away thirty I feet of the approach. The loss and damage is estimated at §30,00). John Emmeut, aged 51, and ,1 L Emmert, aged 23, lost their lives while out duck shooting by tin- t a-sizing of ther yacht, the White (loud, in the lake at the foot of Hubbard <ourt. < hi cago. There were six men in the boat. A strong wind was blowing, and the yacht suddenly swung broadside to the wind and t irm I over Five of the men managed to clutch the s'des of th«* boat and four of them were saved by a tug. Valentini Wi n rz. an a-sistant pressman of the Leavenworth (Ivan 1 Times, was distantly killed by a shoc k of electricity. He was about to ad ust a lamp , over a press when his hand came in contact with a wire that was partial y “dead.” th-- current hav ng been turned off on account of a tire in the city. Sud d-.-nly a Ini! current was turned on that pas < d through Went' s tody. He gave one loud scream and fell to the floor life css. William Smith, 1 virg at sts park I av enue, (bieapo i- i n ler an e-t < barged , with the frightful crim- of lu ning off the hands of his little daughter Kitty. I wh) new lies at the Count. Hosp ta! witli loth arms amputated at the elbowSmith got drunk and fore d his daugh- * ter to drink liquor ill she could s arcely I stand He then ce nand-'d that she get i dinner, and. incens-d ai her inability, i he d thechilds hands on a re l-ho: stove I unt I neighbors were attracted by 1 e. sen a ms. The particulars of-an attempt at train robbery in ( alifornia have .list come to I light. The Les Angeles express stoppe d , at Fix ey on its way south. When j about to start again the trainmen were ; warned that three men, n asked and I armed, were waiting in the shadow of the tank house just beyond the depot. ! They Fad been loitering about during the afternoon and were- seen at ’he last minute bv a Chinaman, who gave the alarm 'lhe train vv as bac ke I some dis lance and then ran by the ambush at j very high speed. No clew to the would- I be re bbers has been found It i- a favorite plan of robbers to beard a train 1 just as it is pulling out of the station. A TEimiiii.E. aecide.it occurred near i an- i yon Station o i Gioen River, some seventy I । miles east of Tacoma, Wash., caused by . I a landslide on the Northern Pacific track. ! j Sixty workmen were sent to the locality to repair recent washouts on the railro d. While thus employed at : the base of a high blutf extend- , ing from the river, several thousand | y ards of earth suddenly tumble.l upon [ those beneath, killing twelve men outj right, carrying 20D yards of railroad । track and two men into the river below, burying several others, some of whom it is thought may be lescucd alive. Re- । lief t aims were forthwith sent from j both sides of the disaster, and were, at | last report working hard to rescue the buried men A disas'i nors riot occurred at, Yorkville, a small village on the Chicago and Erie Railroad, about twenty-five mile; i northwest of St. Mary s Ohio, that resulted in the fata! wounding of three of the participants and dangerou; injur es to two others. The west-hound lo al crew have been on very bad terms with I a party of some twenty Italians who are I employed on a C. & E. work train for ! some time past. A pitched battle j ensued between the two factious,

j and tilings wore fast assist i I alarming aspect, when the Itap!,? B , aI ) ! a hasty retreat. When the , c leared away three Italians who«„ , ! were given as Frank Lorani a ■ Marzetti, and Frank Cappani Antonio ceived perhaps fatal wounS’s^ hands of the train crew. Th th ° received two bullets, one in ♦, fo Tn br. ast and one in the thigh ^,..1“ was shot in tie neck and Cam a | rectly oyer the heart. Two of the train I ! crew, win so names could notbo''®’ * I were also dangerous y Injured by Hying . missiles-, but may recover. y z b ■SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The indications are that the wreck of the ( incinnati Southern Express train near ( hattano. ga, Tenn , wasdel b -lately planned by persons who dLpi a ced a Near Fort Worth, Texas, Walter W inters, an engine or on the Texas and ' Baell-.c railway, was instantly killed by jnn ping from his; engine while am roU ch in j a burning brid r e. At Denison. Tex., while out Iftntlng. ! Conductor Miko Dwyor, of tli^4ssouri Kansas and Texas Railway®^ accidental y shot and instantly kmUj by h| B I c mpan on, Roadmaster WrlglnTTSwyer i was from ! hlladclphia. .. Tm stc-amshjp A1 ।> sw iek, k <a., t O jui VC Norfolk. Va., with (aptufno-’J.':,^^® and crew of the schooner M a. . iMf-rsc lee, which foundered off t<l Wictv—ua Georgia Captain Hill had liwwife and three c hildren on the schooner%lth him aml they wen- aH resenod. .1. R Cot.eman, an American engaged in bu- n ss at Guanajuati, Mexico, has arrived hom -, and brings particulars ! ot an accid nt wh ch took place I lin that city. resulting 4n the ; killing of twelve people and tig serious injury of nine others Several J hundred । eople had as cmbled in a bull- : fight ng arena to witness a figßt be I twe-n two goats, when a part qjf the amphitheater gave way. The heavy ■ tim! er- fell on tile mote y crowd, crush- ! i g nen and women beneath their weight Theiii- was a serious wreck on the Cincinnati Southern Road. opress train No which left Chattanooga for । ( incinnati at O:3J p m.. ran iff the tra k sx miles out of Chatf<no>ga and 150 yards south of thus Ten, nesseo River bridge Tho sng ne tumbled down a bg embankment, com ph t-’ly wrecking It and killing fireman Bat Wolff and injuring thiiengli neer 'I he- haggago. mail, express, and smoking cars jumped the- track, blit did not go down the cm -iuiKnicuL Tho t alntnen were badly shaken up, hut not seriousl) In ured No passengers were hurt A trami> stea ing a ride was badly In ured. The ladies’car and two sleepe s - id not leave the track, and were taken I ack to the city to be hold until the wreck can he cleared. A broken I rail Is siippo-el to have been the cause । o! the accident. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. Reli mh.e Information confirms the rumor that the I resident has decided to aj point Gen. Lewis A. Grant, Assiilant Secretary of War. to the Secretaryship Hindi vacant by the rcsfgnat ISMiuKodf c’d I’roctor. । Tin-, aimumt of the ton । (X j ’*■ J’* > Into sight at New Orleans tJTihig tm week is 435,hi? bale , against for cot r -s|>ondlng s ven days last year. The movement since >(>pt 1 show s receipts at all ports of the I'nitml States 3,444.2.’", aga nst i'. 138.U80 last year, luc'udin : stocks left over, tho supply to date Is 4.815.V73 bales, against 4,i(J >,2J7 for tho I same jieriod last year A M ANsriei.u ^ohio) telegram aaye: If Senator Sherman gets a 1 the vote* that are pledged to him he will o-rtalnly be reelected by the Legislature in January. There was a cam usof gentlen en friend ly to Senator Sherman at his home Tho>o । resent camo from all parts of Ohio Information, verbal and written, was e-changed on the senatorial qui-s ticn. and after carefully weighing all doubtful mom! ers his friends came to th ■ conclusion that he certainly would i be re-elected. Sll I-- are I cing taken by all tho St. Louis (ommercial exchanges and busines; men generally to bring the Democratic National Convention to St Louis The Executive ( omniitteo of the Demo ’ cratic National Committee will meet n Washington on December 8 to eispos- | of soi <• important bus Dess, and though this commit toe will not pass upon the j time and place for the national conven- । tion, yet it is expected that the various cities seeking it will be represented in Washington durl g the meeting. Bynvm, of Indiana, has coma out in a card withdrawing from tho Speakship I contest In his card Bynum says: “I never pros ed my candida y and consented to only use my name unlit the contest narrowed down between Mills and (ri p ” -Who will the delegation now sui port?” “In Indiana there is no boss rule Every representative votes and : speaks for himself, and you will have to seo the re] resentatives to as_ erttHn their preference’. As for mysidl 1 shall heart ly support Mills. Whff<mauy of the candidates are strong tari' reformers, none is so prominent.” FOREIGN GOSSIP. Ai Berlin, the del ate on the budget begat: in the Reichstag. Ihe Secretary of the Treasury sa d it was expected that there vyould be a d ti -it of 8,0,0 000 marks during the present fiscal ve'ar. The . government would not issue a 4 no • cent loan; it hoped to obtain tnorefai vorable t-rms .Tin press of St. I etersburg is continually publishing vehement denum-iat'ons of merchants who are holding g ra j n f or , an advance, and clamor for the govern I ment to compel them to sell their grain or that it be confiscated against v O uche rs of future payment, as was done dminthe Crimea-i war. during ; / ri "'- influenza, now so prev aen t at 1 I.er.in, is of a much more v rulent t- rm than that which cans D so much suffer ing in js-j. Thirty deaths from the affection during the eight days nJ * ‘ reported. Physicians estimate J WO persons have been attacked with in’ 1 uen a since November 1 j h } 1 a one. 11 Berlin The centenary of th ■ birth of m I „ . Wiltshire Summersum. who fo^^ the American war of 1813 wa, ht ln at Itrightlingsea, London, 2 , ■ qifrt. The veteran sang the \ a ,bananthem in fine stylo, and j n , latlonal ■ speech he said he hoped to carrv. boar ty j like a man to the last day

1 After the banquet forty octogenarians 1 and twenty-seven septuagenarians I 1 headed by Summersum, marched iu pro- ' cession through tho town. . GENERAL NOTES. Assistant Secketaky Nettleton has directed tho assignment of medical ' inspectors at Detroit and Port Huron to I board and inspect trains coining from Canada. This action is taken with a I View to preventing the introduction of smallpox, said to bo prevalent in Canada. The Imperial Government has notified the Newfoundland Government that i.s bait act is un onstitutional, and proposes that Canada and Newfoundland ' shall submit a joint test case to the Ini- ' pet lai Privy Council. Lhe Pres lent has directed revenue - vesso's to cruise along tho Atlantic ' 'coast from St. Croix River to Charles-I j ton, S. C., from Dec. 1 to April 1, for j the purpose of affording ro.iof to all - vessels found t» bo in distress. The fol- - I lowing named have been selected for I ’ this special service: Levi Woodbury, ' j Alex. .1. Da las, Albert Collatln. Samuel ' | Dexter, I’. S. Grant, Alex. Hamilton, i j William 11. Crawford ami Schuyler i Colfax. | Du. Mott Smiih, a member of the i cabinet of the Queen of the Hawaiian I ± Islands, who was sent to Washington ’ J^Oine time ; goto secure modifications', ■ of the reclp ocitv treaty botwo n Hawaii and this Gevoi nni'-nt has concluded his • wvrrk The treaty has been signed by ■ Dr. Smith and by the representative of ■ j the I'nited States through who n the ! J negotiation was can led on It has been In the possession of the Piosident for several days The report of James E. W’hlte, Gen- 1 t era! Superintendent of the Railway Mail i Service, shows that at the close of the fiscal year tin- mails were carried on 150,5 is miles of ratlroa I in the I nited States. I Postal cletks were employed in the dis- ■ trlbution of the mails on 140,73f>.74: service 011 the remainder having been pei- . fortm d by means of c osed pou hes. Tho total number of cars under control of the department is ?,s i There w-re 1 1,()8s railway post >:t ce lines and a total of ',5<i.5 clerks at work. The Nov ember corn deal remains as much of a mystery as ever. The ( hicago market opene I the other day at -0 cents, a 10,030 bushel lot se'ling the o by a ventures >me scalper who had calle I at that figure The price dropped to 7-> cent.-, reacted to so cents, an i re eded to 75 cents, when the scalper who sold at 80 cents bought back his 10,000 bushels and clea <-d up f> cents profit. The failure o: Field Lindley ami the offers to s-II by Arthur. wh >is one of tho insiders in tho ileal, caused a de -lino to !73 cents Theclos- was at 71 cents. •> . cents lower than the open ng From the owi-st price tom hed to tho highest I point there was an ad ance of > 1 , cents. The Pacific Mail steamer China, which arrived at San Francis o fn tn the (irh-nt. was strueji on her outward trip by a tidal wave, Fir-t (Ulcer Smith was on the bridge nt the tiin - "I saw an immense wall of water dead ahead,” he said. “As it came on us then- was an overhanging curl to ’t like a breaker. । The steamer poked her i ose into a big . mountain of water, and the next minute everything was floating on tho deck I was forward, was caught l^owivi^iiir washed the whole length of tho ship, and I Liken out of the steering gear with his leg broken. The Iron door of the butcher shop was torn fiom its hinges. One life I oat was washed from its fastenings, and another stove tn ” It Is b lieved that the wave was cau-ed by tho Japan earthquake. R. G I), n X Co.’s weekly review of trade says; A week broken by a holiday has shown : the usual characteristics weak speculation. an active retail trade, and a modvrato wholesale busines's But the great factors which go to make National prosperity are I unaltered. At Boston trade Is steady. At ; I’itt'burg pig-Iron Is wt aker. but inanI ufaeturod Iron and steel aro In good deluund. and the glass trade is fair. At Cleveland, trade Is good in all lines, excepting a ie-s i| niand for manufactured Iron, and manufactures ore active. At Chicago some decrease is seen in cured meats, lard, butter and cheese, but a slight Increase in barley, 20 per cent In flour, the week’s trade being the largest of the year, un increase of a third in cattle and oats. < f half in hides, and receipts of dressed beef and corn are double Ins; year's, and of rice and wheat three times last year's. Merchandise sales largely exceed those of last v«ar. am! pr —pects are favorable. There is the same confidence at St. I’aul. wher - cold weather stimulates trade, and Minneapolis saw mill-, have closed the largest season on re- ' rd. while the flour ; mills, though troubled by Ice, turn out 28,000 barrels daily, MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime S 3 50 @6.25 Hogs Shipping Grades 3.50 @ 4.52 I Sheki—Fair to Choice 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—ho. 2 Bed Od-’ A .03$ Corn—No. 2 69 @ .71 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 j Bye-No. 2 94 @ .95 Bctieii—Choice- Creamery 27 @ .28 Cheese —Full Cream, flats 12 @ It Egos—Fre h 21 @ .2 > Potatoes —i ar-loads, per bu . .30 @ 4) INDIA NAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping ;i.25 D ’-.r.i . JI os-Choice Light 3.50 @ 40) Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 (A 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 92 .94 Coin —No. 1 W hite 49 @ .51 Oat s—No. 2 White .34 @ .35 ST. LOVIS. Catti e 353 (® 5.25 H' G- 3.50 @ 4.(0 Wheat-No. 2 Red 93 & .94 Cohn—No. 2 43 @ .44 I Oats—No. 2 »J 3 @ .4 I ItYR—No. 2. 8-5 @ .87 CINCINNATI. Cat lee 3.50 @ 500 | Hogs 3.01 @ 4.0 > Sheep 3.00 @ 4.50 I Wheat—No. 2 Bed 97 (<4 .98 Corn—No. 2 44 @ .4 > ' Oats—No. 2 Mixed 36 @ .37 DETR IT. i Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.00 Su EP 3.C0 @ 4.25 I Wheat No. 2 Red 90 @ .98 • C ‘KN—No. 2 Yellow 49 .51 ! Oats—No. 2 White 35'..^ .36'* TOLEDO. I Wheat—New 96 @ .97 Corn - No. 2 Ye low ^53 ,55 ; Oats—N . 2 White 33 .35 i Kye @ .95 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 3 75 4.25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 1.01 @1.03 Corn—No. 2 @ .95 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 89 @ .93 Corn—No. 3 44 @ .115 Oats—No 2 White 33 @ .35 Rye—No. 1 93 @ .94 Barley—No. 2 .57 @ .59 ' Pork—Mess 8.25 @ 8.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 & 5.50 ' Hirns 3.75 @4.25 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.75 i Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @ 1.08 Corn—No. 2 75 @ .78 , Oats—Mixed Western 38 c<a .41 Butter—Creamery 20 @ .30 ■ Pors;—New Mess f, 10.50 @ILOO ■

GOV. HOVEY IS DEAD, h I SUDDEN DEMISE OF INDIANA’S CHIEF EXECUTIVE. • 1 La Grippe Does Its Work-Trained as t 1 Lawyer, He Was Successively a Soldier 1 n Diplomat, a I.e K lslator and an Kxecu tive—lra D. Chase, the New Governor. A War Hero Gone. The death of Gov. Alvin P. Hovey, whi h occurred at Indianapolis, was a> shock that Indianians were nM pre pared to receive, although it did not 1 < ome unexpected to those who have: lately been more or less intimate with him. M hen he became Governor it was !

with health as vig- I orous as one could i look for in a man i 6 8 years of age. I During the summer ' of 188'J he was at t times confined to his room Uy illness, ■but it was nothing 1 of a dangerous char 1 ' actor. Early in the year following he was attacked by la

GOV. A. P. HOVEY.

I grippe, and that led to the immediate । cause of his death —heart failure. : For weeks la irript><» lio compll- । cations kept him in his room, and ' when ho was able to leave it a great ■ change for tho worse was observable in the m;| 1 on. e so robust Two months ago it was suggested by j friends close to him that a trip to Mexl ico would do him good. He did not readily fall in with the idea, and to the last would have been willing to abandon i tho journey had it not been for his I friends. He left the city with his party on Oct 31st, their absence to cover three ' weeks. Crossing the alkali deserts he began to show feelings of discomfort, and reaching the City of Mexico the air of the high altitude affected him so much that it was decided to return home at once. The party reached home with the Governor a very sick man. From that time on he would have his hours of feeling better and his hours of relapses. The rainy weather and the heavy atmosphere checked improvement, it becoming more and more difficult to restore tho respiratory organs to their proper functions. Gn the day of his death he himself realized that his condition was extremely critical, but appeared to bo hopeful. His mind was clear, and he talked occasio ially in a reminiscent way. His me-'enger, ( tto Dfadiin, ar. old veteran who attended him all through the war R' a bugler, was constantly at his bedside, tenderly and devoted caring for him. During his waking hour’ the Governor persisted in talking with Bfa'llin about war times, recalling wi h remarkable accuracy the scenes of blood, and carnage, and triumph through which they passed side by side. The Governor showed much emotion and Otto stroked his forehead, assuring him that Me lernand was clearly to blame for the result, and the old warrior sank into peaceful sleep again. As the day wore on ins breathing became more and more difficult. Dr. Hayes said that tho immediate cause of the patient’s dangerous condition was the damp atmosphere, which impeded his respiration. He said that e'ear weather would do fol^_tl m sutferer „ wj13.6 ^medicine could not f??^anx ouslyteh> “phoned to signal service headquarters for information regarding tne indications. The answer came that it would continue cloudy an I rainy ah day, with a probable change to snow. The doctors countenance changed to an expression of desrair as he turned irom the telephone. The words were like a death-knell to the sufferer up-stairs. The Governor rapidly grew weaker, every breath was drawn with an effort. Mr-. Menzies, the Governor's daughter, and other friends and attenda it- went out for a moment, leaving Major Menzies and Dr. Hayes remaining w ith him. Looking abo .t the r< om, the dying mau thought he saw his gran daughter. Miss Mary Menzies. She was always a favorite with him, and at s ght of her. as he thought, his lace brightened and lie called out “Mary.” At that moment his heart stopped beating. and th • pallor of death overspread his features. He was laid gently back among tho pillows, and hiß family and friends were called in. As they gathered about the bed he drew one convulsive breath and was dead. Alvin I’. Hovey was Forn on a farm near Mount Vernon, Bosey County, Ind , Sept. 1821. and was educated in the country schools and by private teachers In 1840 he was a school t acher. and while so engaged pursued the stu iy of law evenings, being admitted to the bar in 1842. He practiced with success. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Contention of Indiana in 1850. In 1851 he became Circuit Judge of the Third Judicial District of Indiana and held the office until 1854, when he was made Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, j He was chosen United States District Attorney for Indiana in 1856 and held the office two years. I uring the civil war he entered the national serxi e as Colonel of the Twen-ty-fourih Indiana volunteers in July, 1861. ( n April 28. 1862, h • was ] roaroted Brigadier General of vo'unteer.s and , brexcited Alajor-tieneral for m< ritorious ' and distinguished services in July, 1-61. ; He was in command of the eastern disi trict of Arkansas in 1863, an lof th • district of Indiana in 1864-5. In Cctober, j 1865, he resigned his commission and was appointed Minister to Peru, holding the position for live years. lio was ’ elect d to Congress in 1886 on the Ro--1 publican ticket, and two years ago was : ihosen Governor of Indiana. On the morning following the Gov- ' srnor’s death the remains were taken to the rotunda cf the Capit >l. where they . lay 7 in state until the afternoon, when ।an impressive memorial service was ! held, under th? auspices oi the Grand I Army of the Republic The following : morning the G. A. R. posts and other zivic and military bodies turned out and I escorted tl remains to the depot, where i a special . tin was in waitin; to carry ’ the body and a large escort to Mount ; Vernon, the Governor's old home, where the interment trok p ace. Ira J. Chase, who as Lieutenant Gov- ’ ernor will succeed Governor Hovey, is I 57 y*ears of age, and a native of Monroe I County, New York. He spent h s early manhood on a farm thirty miles from i Chicago. He served as a private of i Company C, Nineteenth Illinois Regi- : ment, b it ill-health led to h’s discharge lifter more than a year's service. After I several years in business he entered the ■ m nistry of the Church of Discip es, and ; tilled many important pulpits of that j ienomination in this State, the last bei [ng at Danville, where his home is now. 1

CURRENT COMMENT? The Convention. While Chicago is ot course the best city to hold a convention cf this kind, no objection can be found with the final choice.—Quincy Whig. —■ The location of the convention in Minneapolis is the most sensible thing next to tiie selection of Chicago that the committee could have done. —Milwaukee News. It is a great triumph. It so tifies immensely our p esti;e. It is in a la'go tense a national indo sement of the n etropolitan claims of this city —Minneapolis Journal. St. Paul ( an well rejoice with her sis-^ 1 ter city at this hou •, for she, too, had a. finger in the pie, a shoulder to the wheel, and a hand in tho hot engage--11 ent.—St. I’aul Globe. I ^This is a decided victory fo - ' the Northwest. It is a re ognition of thissection that a few years ago would have been impossible in national politics.— Oshkosh Northxvestei n. That Wolf. That wo’f which was captuied in Chicago was pro! ably looking for a p'ace on the Mayor's non political police force. —Milwaukee Journal. 1 ne wolves a:e laKingcLv Nviiat I w ith bulls and bears and wolves t! e city I is little better than a howling wilder--1 ness.—Kansas City A real lire wolf was ty-fifth street, Chicago. He had probably wardered in from the dense forests t in the city limits and got lost—Milwaui : kee News. i How long the people of Chicago will s tolerate tiie presence of these marauders >• of the wlldwood remains to be seen, but ? । it is ev dent that from now until the ? formal opening of the World’s l air vig- , orous wolt hunts should be prosecuted r from day to day until the “varmints” j are exterminated.—§t. Paul Globe. 1 ' 2 The Czar’s Ukase. It will not have so pronounced an efs feet on our markets as it would have f done but for the fact that it had been r anticipated, but it is a strong bull argu- , ment, and will tend to advance pr ces, j both of st< cks aud of grain.—I’hiladelr phia Telegraph. A rumor in foreign countries that the I Export of horses to foreign co.intries - will soon be prohibited, leads to the impre sion that some sinister motive rather - than one of humanity lies at the base of s the recent imperial edicts. The belief 1 is gaining ground that Russia's plans lor 11 grand coup arc nearing comp. etion.—' - Cleveland Plain Dea’er. r '1 he edict has already had a temporary nfluence as a stimulant to speculation,, 1 ind has caused a slight advance in prices ' In the markets of this country and in' Euiopc, and it may be of further service 1 to the spo ulators It would stem, how-, s er, that its of ect should have a ready! been well discounted by the general foreKnowledg of a situation demanding its ' promulgation.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Learning Monkey Talk. Processor Garner, of the Smit' sonian Institution, is going to extend his vozabulary of the languages of goril as ind chimianrees by living in a cage in ’the heart of the African forest—Philadelphia Press. IJ, iHimmWßEgfeing to Africa to study the language of monkeys, has already studied their orzans of speech. These have been popularly designated as barrel organs upto ‘ this time.—Philadelphia Ledger1 rofessor Garner, who is studying tha [ simian language, has already imbibed so ‘ much of the monkey as to deswe to have him elf caged H) intends to put him- ; self in a strong iron cage in the gorilla country so that he can communicate ‘ with them at pleasure. In that case it ’ will be only a step from the man to tha monkey.—Harrisburg Patrol. Washington’s Cyclone. Reciprocity begins to tell. We are ’ gett nc fresh crop West Indian cyclones ( now.- Philadelphia Record. 3 The cyclone is no respecter of persons » or p'a es, and is as much at home in tho . national capital as in the wild and wool- । ly West—lndianapol s Journal. c Old Boreas on a jamboree has little rel spect for place or person. The White I House and the poorhouse are all one to e the old blowhard.—Louisville Times. ’I he fact that the Republican National 1 ; Committee and a cyclone struck Wash- , ington the same day is n^t particularly 3 ignificant These coincidences will happen.—Buffalo Courier. f Tried io Beat Tanner. r The death of Stratton, the faster, 3 ought to put an end to one era e.—Bus--1 falo Express. 1 The world is probably very little tho I worse for his end by what is practically 3 i suicide, but it is about time for these 3 exhibitions to stop.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Other men have succeeded in living J without food for a similar period, but it 1 was probably owing to a peculiar organism and practice of alstihence, and ) the test is of no practical value. —In- - Jianapolis Sentinel.. Odor'ess Whisky. [ The invention of an < dorless whisky is i eagerly awaited by the auditor whogoo^ out between the acts to blow a ciud^ . I out of a man’s eye,—Memph s Appeal- . Avalanche. , An odorless brand of whisky is the I ! latest discovery. If there can be patent- ; ed some way of pre venting the si airs ; from dancing all over the front hall a - man can pass the post-lodge-night cate-' 3 chism with an even show of success.— Minneapolis Journal. Governor Hcxey. ! As Governor he ha I the confidence of the ] eople of Indiana, regardless of ‘ party, an Ihe will b- truly mourned. — । Milwaukee Wi c nsin. His career was a full and well-rounded • one, hon >rablo to himself, ho orab e to h's State. Indiana can justly be pro- d of this one of her sons, xvhose death sho mom ns to-day and whoso memory sho will cherish. —Indianapolis News. Since the war he has been the devoted friend of the veterans of the Union armies and the champion of their cause in pension legislation. —Toledo Blade. Governor Hovey was not a great n an n ot a genius. He was rather a studious, judicious and just publje officia , a brave soldier and a genefousr-lY^W**^ hearted man.—lndianapolis Sun. Governor Hovey was a man of character, a brave soldier, a popular leader of R publicans and a man of the people, else he never would have been elected Governor of a Democratic State. —Toledo Bee.