St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 January 1892 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. 1 i WALKERTON, • - - INDIANA SILK TILE AND CHOKER THE WEARER BOUNCED FROM A TEXAS TRAIN.

Tuberculosis Cattle Haired from Maine- I An Arkansas Brute Kills His Child j The Italian Indemnity Rumor a Canard —Havoc by Natural Gas* Work of a Natural Gas Explosion. At Pittsburg. Pa., the th"eestory brick dwelling of M. P. Pritchard, was blown to atoms by an explosion of natu.al gas. Mr. Pritchard, wife, and three children, a hired boy named Dav.s Bennett, and Barbara Reich, a servant girl, were buried in the ruins. When rescued they were all found to be more or lets seriously burned, but no one was fatally injured. The cause of the explosion was a gas leakage in the cellar. Mr. Pritchard keeps a grocery store in his building, and went to the cellar to get a basket for a customer, which he had stored away. He struck a match and the explosion followed. The concussion was terrific, nieces of the build-

CUSbIUIi wa.’* voiiiuv, ing being blown half a square away. The Merry Texans’ Way. A half-dozen cowboys took posse - sion of the south-bound passenger train on the International andGr.at Northern Railroad forty miles north of San Antonio, Tex. They boarded the train at Buda station, and their first act was to , force a Chicago drummer off the train ( because he wore a red cravat and a high j silk hat. They then continued their | depredations by making a number of young ladies in the 1 oilman coach sing for them, enforcing their demands with drawn pistols. They ruled the train foi twenty-miles, when they stepped oil at a way station.

No Indemnity for Italy. None of the officials of the Depart- j m?nt of State has any knowledge of any agreement made by this Government with the Government of Italy to pay indemnity on account of the New Crleans affair, as reported by English correspondents at Rome. So far as can be learned, the correspondence on the subject between the two Governments, which was interrupted last spring by the recall of the Italian Minister here, has not been resumed Deaths in the Northwest Storm. Specials from different part- of the Northwest indicate another fall of snow. Two deaths were reported from the storm of last week, and George Wightman, a shoemaker aged 63 years, was found dead near Car ,S. D. When last a quantity of whisky and tiTOUdU drunk -

WK. f. _ and allowed to remain some time, and the father then took it out and thrashed it with a heavy leather strap, cutting its body in ahorrible manner. Shocking Death of a Farmer’s Wife. While Mrs. Frank Gerrett, wi c of a a farmer of Johnson County, Ind., was su{ erinten ing the household cares "she was seized with a ft, and, falling on the hot kitchen stove wa- horribly burned. The stove was almost knocked down by the poor woman's struggles. Death relieved her sufferings. Massachusetts Cattle Quarantined. The Maine Catt e Commissioners posted a quarantine against Massachusetts cattle because of tuberculosis, but the “regulation shall not apply to Western cattle coming through Massachusetts for the purpose of slaughter.” A Shortage of SIOO,OOO. A statement of the affairs of Rosenberger, Spendler & Co , the New Market (Ya.) bankers, places the shortage at about SIOO,OOO. The News Condensed. The Navy Department reiterates its denials of war preparations The Countess of Clan'arty has be- i come the mother of twin boys. Fike in Federal street, Boston, dcstr yed property to the value of 56)0,090. The members of the new Tory Cabiinet were hissed cn their arrival in Montreal. Sii! William Arthur 'White, the British Ambassador to Turkey, died in Berlin De Brazza is equipping an expedition in the French Congo colony for Lake Tchad. A fire in an apartment house in New York destroyed $15,000 worth of property belonging to the tenants. ( hili is credited with an intention to ask for arbitration of the - o itroveisy pending with the United States. Phin' e Christian, of Schleswig-Hol-stein. was accidentally shot in the face by the Duke of Connaught, while gunning (M‘t. McCalla, formerly commun'f r of the Enterprise, who was sir-pend'-d for cruelty t > his subordinates, ha; b co reinstate 1. I,' ' f *i,L7 heavy snow have fallen ji. the Terra Levada range, j ive men fro n 'a: son -< v , ar : believed to have peH-h d in the >torm. h khl of ’', ,00 1 5 offered for I lie. of p»r on;-, who La. /<: b o.n -tea Ing 1 lo'.-; x •. numO'-i from ranchers ! MoLiaea and Wyoming lln - : and ' In th' O W tone ’. - U '-J. bit l^ ii ii . Is said to have pi on o■< to •h< 'id lan Go,<rnmcnl py an: .t J :s' .f from 'h' Piei-adcni ■. I ; ■_. . y ..'a uu '' ;' ih'j n ■ <-. Re . D Lz ii.- Aimoi i told hi ■< on vat ■ ni‘ J 'th 'hl- h Brook I . v ■oa ■ a' 'lO o’. 0' e < and that no 'zi.' '. ' o‘ :v y ■ IC ' P, o. wa ■ inf al 11 Ei la;-' Lio'D o. M - L . Marshal ‘L Vi ..- = ^-.0 I.s i < P.t e,■ >IU< rid '.no Pi a- . / s Al< /a n d'. / Pare a AoO •-- Rot: a. 'J he Ma,seal shot Pi, . a a'-O ’a-u.,/ woundef I otila.

ngaaMHaBBWKSeBHnSUSHHSBKBMBMKOKSnSSSQaaa I EASTERN. j Edward M. Field has manifested no ■ Interest in the decision rendered by the lunacy commission that he was insane, i and is seemingly as obliv ous to his surroundings and fate as heretofore He still refuses food, and spends his time in his cell on his cot. He refuses himself to all callers, and denied himse’f the one thing that seems to have been his only comfort—the newspipers. When they were handed to him the other morning he merely glanced at them and then threw them away.

A horrible murder took place in Lowell, Ma s The murderer is Frank L. Moulton, a disipated barber, who beat out the brains of h’s wi.’e, Alma R. Moulton, with a flatiron. He appears to have been sober at the time of committing the cri re As Moulton toils the story, this quarrel began in bed, because his wife would not give him room enough. She slapped bis face and he tried to choke her. They then arose, partially dr ssed, and went at it again, when he got a flatiron, and, after asking her if she would give up, to which she said no, he said: “I let her have the flatiron three times, as hard as I could hit.” Th' first blow felled her, and her face and head was pounded out of shape; one car was severed and the skull fractured. Moulton says: “I did the job, and it is a good one ” Thebe were two collisions on e New York Central Railroad lines the other night In the first no Ife was lost The , rp iin RnfTnln

se ond was disastrous. Ine Buffalo and Niagara Fails special was dolaved one mile north of Ilas - | in’gs The roar brakeman was sent back to Hastings to signal the St Louis express Instead of standing on the tracks and waving his lantern, as the rules of the road d rect, he went into the i depot. In the moment or two he was j there the St. Louis expre s thunI dered by the station. In less than | seventy-five seconds it lied covered I the distance between the depot and the delayed express and there was a crash The engine liteially disappeared inside the first sleeper of the express, the heavy wood and iron work of the ear was smashed to bits, and seven passengers were lying dead

and many wounded Some of the wounded arc likely to die. Four of the dead bodies were not recognizable. WESTERN. Miss Millie Pfaffman, who has since August 1 been under arrest at Kansas City, charge I with blowing up the residence of Joseph M. Juvenal, in Armourdale, has been released from custody. There was no ev deuce to show that she committed the deed. At St. Louis the ice-plant of the Nelson Morris Packing Company was wrecked by an explosion of the ammonia pipes The latter be ame overcharged, and when they gave way under the pressure forced one ot the ice machines through the roof. No one was in the building at the time. During an altercation over the ownershin of a tract of Government land iicar

...Xuu 1 ox .*■ . 'oolS M 3™ v ^ sn f Dup™!: hor e thieves. Mami? Crews' tflo twonty-one yearyear old daughter of Capt. H. Crews of | the United States army, of Denver, Colo, met with a horrible death in Little Rock, Ark While Wright Lindsay, the fifteen year-old son of Dr 11. W. Lind ay of that city was showing Miss Crews how to unload a forty-eight caliber se’f-cocking Smith & Wesson revolver L.O weapon was discharged, the ball entering Per breast passing through her heart and killing her instant y. Miss Crews was the gue t of her uncle, Col. R. G. Jennings, in the dining-room of whose residen e the accident occurred. The bodies of two infants were found in a woodshed in the rear of Mrs. J. J. Bebout’s residence at Sedalia, Mo. The woman is a renter, and has formerly let a part of the property to Mrs. Mary j 801 l Bokee, who failed to pay her rent Mrs Bebout went to remove some trash which had been left there by her former tenant, and the e found two jars containing two human bodies, the back of the head of each crushed in by some blunt instrument. One was about fiVe । months of age and the other about three | months. Th( re is no clew to the guilty ! parties. Mbs. Charles T. Johnson, the High I’riestess of the Adventists, sat at her home in Kansas City, Kan., all day Christmas day and waited for the end of the world to come. According to her predict) a, the hour was 5:30 p. m. The woman and fifty of her followers assembled in her parlors at noon, and b: gan to pray. They kept on their knees and continued their supplications for hours. At 5:40 some of the firm believers became scoffers, and very soon all were up except the Priestess herself. She said, time and again: “Believe in the Lord, and pray without ceasing. ” There are still many followers of th > Johnson woman who claim that the end will come within a week. SOUTHERN. John P. Richardson, a millionaire of Chattanooga, Tenn., died recently, a victim of the cigarette habit. Galton Hall, the outlaw imprisoned at Bristol, Tenn., who is said to have killed twenty-seven men, is likely to be lynched. Joseph Shllivan, superintendent of the, penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky , has mysteriously disappeared. He was suffering from the grip The finale in the case of the notorious Bob Sims gang came when the leader | and five of his partners in crime were | strung up to pine trees in the woods of . ( hoot aw Conn ty, Ala. A -oi iH-Boc.xo vestibule train on the ; hl at. Toimessec Railroad was derailed in a । lit. near Williams Station, (<a, and cvenieeii pers ns were injured, but nor.e badly, i' ifty feet beyond the cut was a deep fill and the train was almost on the brink of it ’.'. hen it. ran off. M:.\(o.n detail': ol a collision near ( in-rix'. j j z 'a, Me-Jeo, on the Southern I Iti'.il'oid have pi I. been reeei\ed. 'I we|ve deal bodies hn'.e been taken finm tin wii । k, and 11. Is km wn that, a li I, 111 b*‘r of ot her : Were li Ilie I. Fl ■: of till a,eeldent, ill St ('lall* I.|,|"|l y, till ,ha b -en leeetved. By it

two boys, and perhaps three, were kilh d. Pink Franklin and son and John Canterbury had been in Gadsden 1 shopping, and left at dark for home. On the way a terrible storm came up. A i large tree standing near tne road fell ; across the wagon, killing Franklin and his son*. Canterbury will probably die. I WASHINGTON. On the 23d, in the Senate, in the absence of the Vice Hrcsident, Mr. Manderson occupied the chair. Mr. Cockrell presented three memorials, asking for Congressional legislation for deep water at Savannah,

Ga. Many bills were presented and re ferred, a grist of nominations of United States ministers, consuls, and postmasters ! was confirmed, and adjournment taken un- 1 til sth prox. In the House, the Speaker announced the appointment of the various committees of tho House. Mr. Meredith, of Virginia, announced the death Os his predecessor, W. H. F. Lee, and as a mark of respect the House adjourned to meet Jan. 5. FOREIGN. The continued display of hostility on the part of Chili to the United States i will, it is alleged, be made tho subject of a special message to Congress, which will make such a showing of facts that the President must be at once authorized to use force, if necessary, to compel due regard being paid to the rights of American citizens in Chili. Contrary to general expectation the election in Waterford, Ireland, to till the va ancy in the House of Commons cans d by the death of Richard Powers, passed off without any serious disturbance of

I the peace. Both the McCarthyites and । the Parnellites worked hard all day in , the interest of their respective candi- I dates, and though there were many j wordy arguments over doubtful voters, . yet as a whole the election was remarkably quiet. The official returns show that Redmond, the Parnellite candidate, I has won over Davitt, McCarthyite, by a majority of 496 votes. Twenty men were killed by an ex- ; plosion of dynamite at Antwerp. The city was startled by a tremendous ex- i plosion, that fairly shook the eartlu The concussion was felt all over the city, ; and many people thought it was an

earthquake The roar and the shock ; were t rrible, and many a face blanched i with terror at the thought that perhaps the next moment houses would come tumbling into the streets. In a short time, however, the truth \\a-> . learned. A French lugger named the । Pilot, a part of whose cargo wa- dyna- I mite, was dis barging into a lighter ly- I ing alongside. Suddenly there was a i flash and a tremendous roar and the lugger was blown to atoms. Ihe upper । part of the lighter was shattered into a < thousand fragments and the wrecked i hull immediately sank. All of the i twenty men who were employed on the , vessels in the handling and stowing the dangerous material were either instantly kil ed or blown into the water and drowned. It is thought that a package of dynamite fell to the deck of the lighter and that the concussion caused it to explode. IN GENERAL

U I Jinn Cabir“ f H aiino^m* 2 pub’ ueieganons. im lu ling fb>v Humphrey " and dYher 'State dignitaries. Further particulars of the religious riots in Pueblo, Mexico, are to the effect that they were caused by the enforcement of an old law against organized religious bodies. It appears that priests and students for the priesthood had organized themselves into societies of monks in various places, and it was the efforts of the police to break up these organizations that aroused the people. The first arrests took place in Colahuila, nine priests being placed in prison. The work was done so quickly that the populace was utterly ignorant of what was going on. The evening of the same day the “rurals” with a company of policemen entered the Church of San Augustine an 1 arrested a number of other priests and students. As the soldiers and police were taking their prisoners to the po'ice station a rabble gathered, filling the main streets and endeavoring to rescue the priests. All sorts of missiles were hurled at the officers and many of the rioters had pistols in their hands, but owing to the coolness of the officers in command of the soldiers and policemen, who kept their men under strict discipline, only one of the rabble was shot and killed, while another was shot in the leg. But a number were mor *or less injured by the horses of the “rurals” as they forced their way through the i mob. _ MARKET REPORTS, CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime §3.59 ® 6.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 © 4.00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 3.00 @5.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red ‘JO^® .91,^ Cohn—No. 2 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 31 45 .32 i Rye—No. 2 86 @ .87 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 @ 128 Cheese—Full Cream, flats .12 @ .13 Eggs— Fresh 23J^@ .21}$ Potatoes—Car-loads, par bu 30 ~@ .40 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 & 4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 @ .94 Cohn—No. IJWhite 421$@ .4316 Oats—No. 2 White 35 @ .35’4 ST. LOUIS. Cat IUE 3.59 @5.01 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.M Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ 93 Cohn-No. 2 37 jss Oats—No. 2 so @ .31 Rye-No. 2 go @ .87 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep \. y>oa 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 Corn -No 2 J 44 jc, Oats—No. 2 Mixed 35 «b 36 i DETROIT. ‘ Cattle 3.09 @ 4.75 I Hogs 3co @ 4.00 I Bui bp 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 @ ,97 I Corn - No. 2 Yellow 44 @ .45 Oais—No. 2 White 34 ’bs i T.LEDO. Wheat—New 94 @ ,93 I Cohn—No. 2 Yellow ’4O @ ’42 Oats—No. 2 White ’.33 @ '35 Bye @ .91 BUFFALO. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 425 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.03 @ 1.04 ' Cohn No. 2 55 >57 । MILWAUKEE. Wh: at—No. 2 Spring 35 @ >B B I Cohn No 3 38 m .39 : Oats—No. 2 White 3; @ .34 i Rye-No. 1 jsc, @ 88 I Hahlby—No. 2 55 @ .57 I Pohk—Meas 10.25 ® 10.75 I NEW YORK. | Cat le 3.50 @ 5.00 Homi 3.00 @ 4.00 ! Sheep 3.50 @ 5.75 Whkai—No. 2 Red 106 @ 1.08 I Cohn No. 2 55^® .f.6>s Oath Mixed Western 39 (t# .42 Hutteh Creamery 20 @ .30 ’ Point Now Mose 10.25 @10.75

JUSTICE IN ALABAMA. METED OUT IN ALLOPATHIC DOSES. Seven of tlie Notorious Sims Gang Lynched by an Infuriated Populace How the Outlaws Were Made to Surrender—The Hunt Continues. Swift Retribution. Bob Sims anl two members of his bloodthirsty gang named Thomas and

nW'**' « — - John Savage were lynched in ( hoctaw t ounty, Alabama, by a mob. John Savage, a son of Thomas, was only 19 years of age. The Sims gang had been guilty of many crimes, the culmination coming when the McMillan family was murdered because of some trouble about land, the circumstances of the fiendish < rime having been already related. Ihe people of Choctaw County, tired of the bloody doings of Bob Sims and his crew, determined that no ap cal to law was tolerable at this time.and that summary justice be meted out A sheriff’s posse.

! armed with a six-pound cannon, proceeded | to Sims’ cottage, determ.nod to take : the outlaw d ad or alive. Sims and his two companions were heavily armed, and had expected to hold the cottage unt 1 night, when a dash for l.berty would bo made. ( n seeing the cannon, however, the outlaw sought to “parley” with the Sheriff, offering to surrender if the, i Sheriff would guarantee him protection from the members of the posse. This ( ' the Sheriff sa d he could not do under । 1 the existing state of al airs and the in- | ' tense excitement prevailing, but he I , , , . > .a. . x *A- ~ ,1.1.1 t

I would do the next be-t t.'Kng he could j ; and give him a guard of fifty armed ■ i men. This preposition Sims finally acI cepted, saying that by holding out ho ! ! felt he won d sacrifice the lives of his : wife and daughters, at tlie same time j remar that he di 1 not expect he ! i wouh tas lar as HuT r either dead , or alive. I I The armed guard started with the : prisoners, consisting of hob Sims, Tom > ' Savage and two sons of John Savage on i t the journey to Butler. After their dej parture the remainder of the crowd. I which had gathered at the s: one, num- ; bering about 150 determined men, held I a meeting and took counsel as to what

action was advisab e. It was soon cetermined that the prisoners should be lynched, so. mounting their horses, they starteil in pt rsuit On the road they met Jolin Savage, previously reported as captured and hangid ihristmas l.vc \\ ithout much ado they put a rope around his nock and strung him uu to a convenient tree Continuing on. theyo ertook the other | prisoners about two miles from the starting point and. returning with them to the same tr c from whic 1 John Savage was hanging, the mob adjusted rop ‘S about their necks and mounted them two at a time in a buggy. : ims and one of the younger Savages were the first of those who surrendered to fall victims to the fury of the enraged popu a e. M h n asked if he had any tiling to say, Sims replied, defiant y; “Come, feel my 1 u se, and 320 if you I think 1 am a coward.” ! The buggy was then driven out from ■' - them and they swung into eur- *—- *» in . manner Tom Savage and

11 • J. Win A* " and took things as eodiiy as though eat- | ing a Christmas dinner instead of p ay-| ing a leading role in a tragedy whh h was to land him in et rnity. Alter the lynching th ' mob farmed n a circle about the dangling bodies, which ' they filled with lead. They then dis- * persed in the direction of their several | I homes Miss I’ede McKinzie, the young j lady school teacher, who was board.ug । at McMillan's and who was shot three , I limes in the neck n hen Sims attacked । the McMillan homestead, is dead. A later di patch says that the lynch- : j ing still goes on. Two mor ' victims— I 1 John Sims, brother of 1 ob, and Mos ey, । । his nephew—were both hanged the fol- ; ' lowing night, and the avengers are in i hot pursuit of a negro that was with the Sims gang the night of the massacre, j They have burned Bob Sims' dwe ling I and all the houses on his place, and ' ki led every living thing to be found on ( the place except the family, and they I . had to e cape t > a neighbors hou c. i The Sims family say they are going to leave the country. The < rowd continues , to enlarge, and is fu ly SCO strong, and is limiting for Neal Sims. It is reported that Neal Sims has gotten together j about f< rty nun, and intends to bum ' i Womack Hill. The bodies of Bob Sims | and the three Savages Lave been cut down and thrown over in the graveyard. I John Savage, the first hanged, was left । hanging. INJUNS HAVE THE GRIP. I Tuscaroras Prest rated — The Reservation Overran with Garter Snakes. Garter snakes and the grip have de- । scended on the Cl use ar or a reservation i near Lockport. N. Y., and the Indians, , their squaws and papooses are in a bad i | way. They have suffered severely during ; the last two weeks, and a number of i j the victims have died. Nearly two- I thirds of all the Indians on the ■ reservation are prostrat d with the grip, wh ch takes the form of a fever i accompanied w th fearful jains in the head, arms and legs. There seems to be I little rel es, and those who survive are 1 left weak and powerless. With the । l stanch characteristics of the race, the , Tmcarorus have refused to ask their whito neighbo s for aid, and their a hie- 1 tion was discovered only by the remarkable demand for patent medicines for use on the resarvation; The medicine men of the tribe have also been making al- । leged remedies from roots and herbs I gathered by the few members who were I able to be about, and barrels of the | stuff have been swallowed by the suf- ; ferers. God will put up with a great many I things in the human heart, but there is 1 I onething that he will not put up with in । I it —a second place He who offers G< ua ■ second place, offers him no place.— ! Ruskin. William Pitt entered the ministry at 14, was Chancellor o’ the Exchequer a i [ 24, and so continued for twenty years; ! and when 35 was the most powerful I uncrowned head in Europe.—Young ; I Men’s Era. i “It is the dispos tion of women to ! ; marry,” says a thoughtful contempo- j I rary. But what dispositions some of [ them show after they are married! Tin: heartless husband wh > uses his ' wife’s first cake as a paper-weight will I some day find it a millstone around his neck. j

WONDERFUL WORLDS OF LIGHT. Some of tbe Marvelous Things Revealec by the Telescope. By the increased power of telescopes, the number of stars within our ken has been increased from 2,000. the number which may be seen in both hemispheres by the naked eye, tc nrobably about 80,000,000. I lie star

nearest to the earth, a Centauri, is about 275,000 times as far from us as the sun is, and Sirius is about twice as far away as that: it, however, we could view these bodies at an equal distance, a Centauri would appeal nearly twice as bright as our sun, and , Sirius forty times as bright. Star sixty-one, Cygni, has a velocity of not less than thirty miles a second. | or 3,(100.000 miles a day. So far,then, j we find that the stars are at different distances; that they are of different sizes, and that, instead of being fixed, they are all in movement.

Such bodies are masses of glowing gas, the materials of which are, for the most part,' precisely the same as those of which our earth is built up, the great difference between such stars and the earth at the present time being that they arc hot while the earth is cold. The sun is so hot at present that its outer atmosphere, instead of being composed of cool oxygen and nitrogen and water vanor. as happens with our

ami wulci vapui, — i own, consists of brightly shining hy- ’ I drogen gas and iron vapor chiefly. ( I The iron is not solid and it is no I molten, but exists as iron steam at, i I perhaps, a distance of 200,000 mile- i j above tlie shining orb that we see ami < I call the sun. This. I think, may be ' j taken as a fair indication that the ’ sun is a very hot body, especially I when we remember that, as its centci ■ is approached, the temperature must I always increase. I 1 have said this much about the | sun. because it is very natural to ask j whether all stars are like tlie sun. It i used to be thought that they were,

but I, for one. do not think that this is so. When we come to examine vhc bodies which shine in the sky. those dim patches of gray light called nebula-. as well as many of the stars tliemselves, the prism tells us that the light which they send to us is very different from the light s» »t to us by the sun and by other stars, the light of which is exactly like sunlight. A great deal of work recently done shows that probably many stars, instead of being like the sun, are built up, as the comets are. of enormous 1 clouds or swarms of little bodies,some of them, perhaps, no bigger than grains of dust.the different quantities and qualities of heat given out depending upon the motions of these little particles and the average distance between them. So, when wq have a great many ol

imo these little masses closely packeU t j flier and moving rapidly, they w I in those other so-cailed"'“sHirs<^^ 1 the dust is sparser and tKs motion ■ less rapid. As soon as the supply of heat ceases, the mass begins to cool. Our sun is i such a cooling mass. The coolinggoes I on until at last a body such asour own earth is formed. This is why it is 1 that the chemical composition of the sun and earth arc so similar. If this is what really happens, we i can easily explain the colors of all the I stars. Each stage of heat in a star | has its own special color. It is true 1 that sometimes very nearly the same color is produced at two different stages of heat: but aside from this.we know that very white stars are at the condition of their greatest heat, and i that yellow stars arc cooler, though I some are old. some young; and that very red, but especially blood-red stars ! are tottering on the verge of invisibil- ! ity, having run through all their changes.—Great Divide. Some Curious Sponges. ! ‘'Some of the most beautiful things that live in the ocean are the sponges 1 of the great depths, which have often very curious and interesting forms.” said a naturalist to a Washington Star reporter. ‘-Not least remarkable are the so-called -sea-nests,' which

■ are in the form of spheres or some- • times egg-shaped. The outer coat of ! one ol these specimens is a complij cated network over which a delicate i membrane is spread. An ornamental | frill adorns the upper part while the Hower portion throws out a maze of j glossy filaments like fine white hairs. ' These hairs penetrate the semi-fluid ■ mud in every direction, thus holding i the sponge in its place, while a con- ' tinuous current of water is drawn by ; waving ‘cilia’ through all paits of the । mass, passingout by a hole at the top. In this manner the animal absorbs whatever food may be afloat. "Another singular sponge is the ‘glass rope,' which semis down into the mud a coiled wisp of filaments as thick as a knitting needle. The latter opens out into a brush, fixing the creature in place after the manner of i a screw pile. Still another remarka- : hie sponge is found in deep water off the Loffodon Islands. It spr< ads out I into a thin circular cake, surrounded i b\ a fringe of what looks like a f ringe ol unite floss silk. Aet anol tier curi- j osity is the ‘cupectella’ sponge of the i Vhillippines. which lives imbedded to its lid in the mud and supported bv a * lovely frilb” ‘ J ; Havana Hackman. Havana lias about four thousand conveyances, and the drivers are the I most unscrupulous men in the business. Thev c mid give the old-time ; hackmen at Niagara Falls points, and then beat them in getting fares. v traveler sums up the situation in three sentences: “Hide at the peril of your purse: walk at the peril of your life. If you ride, they will rob you. If you attempt to walk, they ' will run over you.”

MOBBED BY WOMEN.! THEY ATTACK A TRAIN OF k> “BLACKLEG” MINERS. The Men Pelted with Rocks—Declaration Made that Nobody Should Escape Alive I —Are Finally Driven Away—Miners Deny that They Are in Want.

In the Coal Fields. A mob of women, half crazed from hunger and want, made a furious attack on the “blackleg” train when it stopped at syndicate mine No. 8 the other morning, says a Bra I) (Ind.) correspondent. With curses and screams of rage they i pelted the trail, with stones, and when 1 it came to a standstill they made a rush for the cars in which the “blacklegs” were, declaring that not one of them ।sh u'd escape alive. Fortunately for ' the men. they were well armed and soon drove their savage assailants back. Several of the miners were severely bruised with blows from the clubs the i women carried, though none were seri- I ously in ured. There were several . hand-to-hand conflicts, but the women | were weak from want of food and were | easily overpowered The fight was y over in less than ten minutes, but for linearly an hour the women loitered , around the mine, screaming like a band i of Indians at a ghost dance and swearing vengeance against the “blacklegs.” Having vented their spleen, they joined their husbands, who had been i highly interested spectators on the top t of a high bluff overlooking the mine, and

then returned to Caseyville. It was a complete surprise to the operators. They had recei ed no in^ ! mation of the trouble, and for the time since the mine resumed opeuition General Manager McClelland did not go out with thetiain. The women were concealed behind a long, row of coal cars, and did not show themselves until ; the train was within a few rods » of the stoppi ig p’ace, when they made a rush from their ambush, showering stones on the train as they came. Robert AV allace, the mine superi .tendent, and August Narkais. the pit । boss, attempted to intercept them, Cut they might as well have attempted to ( stop a torrent. Mrs. Thomas bhort carriel a pick-handle, and with the fury of a bear lobbed of her wl el[ s she made at , Narkais. He dodged the blow and qu ck as a flash sei ed her about the waist and attempt d to wrest the club from her gra p. He was not equal to the task. With the strength given by ’ rage and desperat on she threw him off and a second time rushed upon him? I screaming With a 1 her might that she | would kill him. Again he dodged the | blow, and this time he teized her by the ( throat and threw her tacK several paces. In her effort to Keep from falling she let go the < lub and the pit boss got it Mrs. Sandy Jenkins, Mrs. Talkner and Mrs. MeDona’d, who, in their efforts 1 to reach the “blacklegs,” had not before ; noticed tbe fight between Mrs. Short 1 • and tho pit boss, now came to the re - 1 cue. a d he tied, with the worn- n in hot ■ pursuit Superintendent Wallace tried to stop them, wh n he became «nvolv. d < in a hand-to-hand conflict with Mrs. Jenkins. The other women set upon

V?; him with sugh fury that ho had to_gi\e 3 A t ’ n ’° the “o? P '^ CU the train was sent back to Brazil, and in the afternron it returned with a s uad of ] oli< e o Heers and General Manager McC elland. Wrrd was then sent to Casey ville that if the women came to tijp mine in the evening they would bo rested and taken to . ail. ! It had tb-i-ired effect, and none of them ar when the train pulled out. -- z The women and men of / persist that they are not in w. ,ut they condemn the State and ik^.onal officers in bitter teims fqr not sending the aid that was promised when the strike was declared. When talking at homo they are frank in expressing themselves as wishing to go back to work without being ostracized as “blacklegs” when the trouble is over. Syndicate Mine No. 8 is the only place in the Brazil coal-fields where the “blacklegs” hav • been mo'ested. At i other mines three times as many “b'acklegs” are at work, and none of them have been molested. In the communities away from Perth and Caseyville the str.kers agree that a man is justified in “blacklegging” to prevent his family from starving. The State officers of tho United Mine Workers of America deny that the men are returning to work at the different parts of the districts. In spite of this as-er.ion th- number of “blacklegs” is daily increasing. Not around Perth and Caseyville, to be sure, but in the mines around Brazil and south it is so.

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