St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 November 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON NDEPENDERT, B e e e WALKERTON, - = - INDIANA 3 T MAD DEED OF A MANIAC W. R. BINDERKILLS WIFE, CHILD AND HIMSELF. Carelessness Leads to a Doubly Fatal Wreck in JYown—Three Lives Snuffed Out in a Mine Explosion—Bank Robbery at Ashland. : Terrikle Triple Tragedy. WiLniaM R. BINDER, manager of the extensive Milwau'tee tobacco factory of B. Leidersdort & Co., Monday morning killed his wife, his only child, and himself. Mr. Binder was 38 years of age and his wife 32. As the murderer was a man of steady habits and undoubted honesty, no other cause can be assigned for the deed than that overwork, together with a fear of having to take a less important position in the tobacco house, deranged his mind. : Two Killed and Three Injured. THE conductor of a Chicago, Milwaukeo and St. Paul train left a caboose and fifteen loaded ecars standing on the top of a heavy grade near Hartley, lowa, Monday morning while the train crew with the engine went to do some switching. In the caboosa were five | members of a bridge gang sleep- !' ing. None of the brakes on the | detached cars were got and the! wind blew them back over the grade, and | when near Everly the cars crashed into ! a rapidly moving freight train. Os the | men in the cakboose Daly Siephenson | was dead when taken from the wreck. I J. Stephenson was burned and crushed | and will die. The other men were res- i cued, but are badly hurt, although it is | thought they will recover. Two Explosions in a Coal Mine. ' THREE men were instantly killed, i three others fatally and several others i badly injurel by a terrible explosion | Monday afternoon in the Blancke Mine | at Collier's Station, W. Va., on the | Pan-Handle Railroad. Forty-five men i had been working in the mue, | but at the time of the explosion only about one-half of them were inside. One of the miners, it is reported, struck a match, anl had no : sooner done so than a terrific exploson of gas followed. The flame from this j - ignited ten cans of powder standing near the mouth of the mine, and a seec- | ond and more powerful explosion occurred, Hotel Responsible for Overcoats. ' JupGE FISHER, of St. louis, Mo., ! gave a decision in the case of J.N. | Labold against the Southern Hotel | . Company. Labold gave his over-]: coat to the man who attends the ’ ' hat-rack. When he came out he found j that some one had taken it. He was | | ‘refused satisfaction and sued for the |: ~value of his overcoat. In giving his de- 1 ~eision Judga Fisher said that while the | was. not compelled to receive an |. -2, _oat at the entrance to ingt | 2 u‘mw. B ~ In Memory of President Garfield. ; THE annual meeting of the Youngs- | . town (Ohio) Garfield Club was held on | Friday night. Several hundred mem- | bers and delegates were present. 'Tt}e ) : club held a business meeting ear.y in | the evening. After electing Henry and % James Garfield honorary members of | the club and appointing oflicerg for the | j ensuing year, the meeting adourned, | - and was followed by an elaborate ban- f quet. Covers were laid for over 30¢. | Gov. McKinley delivered an elojuent | tribute to the lamented Garfield. Fatal Collision. Two FREIGHT trains collided on the ; Chicago Beltfßailread Sunday morning, ! near the Chicago and Alton crossing, ! and three men lost their lives. The deadare: John Beauchamp, conductor; Lous Obitz, fireman; and Richard A. 1 Otlo, brakeman; all of Auburn Park. The insured are: John Best, brakeman; and Thomas Garland, engineer; bruised about about face and scal&;d, left arm | broken, ] NEWS NUGGETS, i FRrRAMQuLINO LUNA, the Republican leader of Ceuntral Neiv Mexico, died at Albuquerque, N. M. He was delegate to Congress from the territory and be ‘onged to the largest family of sheepTaisers in New Mexico. | PRESIDENT RpERTS, of the Penn- ' ;}?l;'f““‘fl Railroad, in an interview at e ‘lfi‘;ma. said he did rot believe o \s would be warranted in ?fia.\mfim?gh lower rates to the Fair mggting. % *wreed upon at the Eastern [ _ EXPRussING Mobinion on the Home- | - stead troubles, Gugpay Master Work- | man Powderly "lui""’-‘\mmflo}gat OLHe 1y was never better, anl Uu;il)atwn ‘ cratic party stole into poy., i ?“?0‘ ] pretenses. He predicts g l‘fo 6{15‘0 ! party will oust them in 184, = “°Ple's | 1 THE I'eqnla.‘r monthly €TOP vaport ot‘ ] Becretary Mohler of the I ARy Board of Agriculture shows thy “‘i’\‘ total yield of corn threuzhout the Ny, last season was 138,658,621 bushels, 24.74 bushels to the acre. A larger are, has been sown to winter wheat this fall than last, but the condijions have nos been favorable for its growth.

| WHEN the doors of the Ashland, Cass | - County, 111., bank were opened Monday | ~ morning it was found that during the ~ night robbers had forced an entrance to | the building, blown open the safe by ~ means of dynamite, and carried away i all its contents, probably amounting to ’ ~ $2,500. The officers of the bank will ! ~ not make public the exact amount taken. | Tre Wabash Valley Coal Company at I . Lyford, Ind., has completed a second ! i shaft at a cost of $25,000. | ‘[[ Taxr association for the Advance- ’ | ment of Women has unanimously re- | | elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, PresiE dent. t THE first continental congress of the | Salvation Army opened in New York City. « Four Chinese highbinders are under | arrest at San Francisco, and the police ' are busy suppressing a riof,

IEASTERN. Mancvus A. ScaMIDT, Town Collector of Hamburg, N. Y., is missing. His accounts aro short $15,000 THE Diebold-Mosler-Damon Safe Combine has been incorporated in New Jersey, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. THE plate glass manufacturers of tho l United States, who have been in session at Pittshurg, have decided to curtail their production. MAsSsACHUSETTS and Rhode Island cotton mills announse a voluntary increase of from 7to 15 per cent. in the wages of their employes. 4 THE loss by the burning of the Harbeck stores in Brooklyn is $750,000. This makes Brooklyn'’s fire losses for the week amount to $1,250,000. At Point Breeze, near DPhiladeclphia, a loss of $200,000 was sustained by the burning of several vessels and a large section of wharf property. FARMER ApAMS, the man who placed obstructions on the Fort Wayne track at | Enon, Pa., has been sentenczed 1o four Years and six months in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of SSOO. TaE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that General B. F. Butler must pay the G. F.Jewett Publishing Company $2,502, with two years’ interest added, for breach of coafract with the company to publish the book. THE situation at the New Haven, Conn., hospital is becom’ng ala ‘ng. Three more cases of small-pox were discovered. Miss Metoxens, the nurse, was taken to the pesthouse, hor illness having developed into a well-defined case of small-pox. Mrs. Ber.ha G. Brailey, and Miss Mary Lewis, nurses, voluntered to do service among the pa- | tients of the pesthouse. There are now l ten patients. 2 A MEETING cf the executive commi!tee of the National League for Good Roads was hell at Malison Square } Garden in New York. Thornton K. l Prime, of Illinois, was appointed General \WWestein Secretary. His territory includes Ohio, Indiana, lilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, North and South Dakato, Minnesota, Nebraska, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessce, and Kentucky. Mr. Frederick Bronson was chosed Vice President of the league for the State of Conneciicut. Colonel De- ! lancey S. Kane was chosen Vice President for New York State. General ‘ Angus was appointed Director tor the State of Maryland. Colonel Henry S. Russell, of Massachusetts, was appointed Lirector for that State. IN the marble palace of Archbishop Corrigan, on Madison avenue, New i York, there is progressing a conference which may have results of a far-rcach-ing character. Catholic archbishops are ' conferring upon subjects of grave importance, not alone to their own followers but to the people at large., It goes without saying that the econclave is hedged about with privacy, and the avenues of public information are few. Cardinal Gibbons is said to be yresiding, and the occasion gains unusual interest from the presence of Archbishop Satolli, the Pope’'s delegate to this couniry. Archbishep.|. Ireland, ofest. Pauleisaresen ‘ U RU HAINeT v a;: 3% \. s-~ e .. s :; ucational quéstion, it is helieved, is be- |3 ing thoroughly considered by the con- | ference. Among other matters it is un- | derstood that the convention will be | asked by Archbishop XKatzer, of Mil- 1 waukee, accurately to detine the term \ | “secret society.” This request is in | deterence to the wishes of the German | Catholics of the West, and is said to | ha in view the Knights of Pythias, the l United Workmen, and other secret so- | cieties without spiritual direction, which | have profited by the liberality of the | church, while in consequence of tmsl liberality the benevolent societies wh'eh | have placed themselves under the direc- l tion of the church have not prospered | to a corresponding degree. ’ THE Presidents of the trunk lines, entered into an agreement Wednesday % in New York which, if carried out, will ‘ end most of the warfare between the | companies, and ke a caus> of thanksgiving to the stockholders. They agreed that a pool, pure and simple, was the only solution of Ithe railroad question, and after seven hours of hard work they | outlined all the details of the new compact. The question has hung over the! railroad companies ever since the inter- ! state commerce act was passed, but the meaning of the law, they agree, is that a pool of freight traffic, if not passcn- | ger business, is illegal. Having 10_1‘111«2(1 { this pool the trunk lines can practically , do as they please with World's Fair | rates and they have virtually decided | that, with few exceptions, full fares j will be charged to Chicago dup~ i ing the Exposition. They have “fixed” t the weaker lines and have no f{ear of a rate-cutting war just when Fair | travel is heaviest. They adopted reso- | lutions that on all regular trains sched- ! nled at thirty-five hours or less between Chicago and New York regular rutesi will be maintained, and during the Ex- | position on all trains scheduled at more | than thirty-five hours 20 per cent. re- ! duction may be made. In other .WOI'dS, ‘ on all except the slowest trains the | public ~will have to pay full fare to see the big show. Several roads, llk(?! the Baltimore and Ohio and Ontario and | Western, require more thzu} thil:ty-tive hml?}s for the trip from New York to Chicago, and they will offer a reduced | rate., It should Le said, }'lown:vcr, ihati any cheap excursion trains w_xll.be run | U rates to be set by the Commissioners, | | ,“‘m“mling upon the number and wealth | L\ 9t the pagsengers. ]

} T WESTERN. ‘ 8 S . r roa}t\mbmom“x is threatened with a freigl:t“::;: because of the scarcity of l N 1 Arapanos s among the Cheyonne and | \y x . e 'is threatenea = ™ the Indian Territory t | Six violators ot : L | Missouri have \,Q\;“‘f" elfactl((;n bla“ulllz l | Grand Jury now in B‘:‘:‘pdxcte y | I MARGARET MAThy, P illiv G 1 | Pabst were married ;‘f}d Phi 215’ ;t : ! Kenosha. The bride gay, :luly ks ] | Margaret Finlayson. W e o | ErcuTy-rour Luildings w, 1 | ished, two people killed, tm;'{?:‘_dem(?l" ] and many more seriously hurt by ba d} , storm at Red Bud, 111. e | C¢. T. WADDLE, a compositor, di. , 1, a bar-room at Fremont, Ohio. He i}, 5 . B | a card issued by Typographical Unio, ' No. 16 of Chicago, dated June 11, 1892, JoHN K, SHAW, Cily Assessor of Du.

luth, Minn., has been missing for four days. He is at the heaa of the uniform rank, Knights of Fythias, in the State, THE secon” rial of Actor M. B. Curtis for the murder of a policeman has begun at San Franciseco. The court is having difficulty in finding a jury, most of the talesmen so far examined being prejudiced, ViADIMIR NIcHOLAS RUMIN, Chief of Prisons of Siberia, and a member of one of the first families of Russia, has been locked up at San Francisco by mistake { on a charge of drunkenness. International complications may grow out of , the affair. | TaE Nalional Cribbage Asssciation, holding its first session at Fort Wayne, Ind., elected these officers: Pregident, D. L. Locke, Waterloo, Ind.; Vice President, ¥'. C. Pfander, Defiance, O.; Secretary and Treasurer, C. E, Ulley, Warsaw, Ind. The odorless gas supplied by the Hyde Park, 111, Mutual Fuel Gas Company bounded into notoriety again Friday by | breaking up a dancing class of children, seriously affecting itwo of the young people, who fell to th2 floor unconscious. Every one of the class of forty was affected. MiLnArRD C. CURTIS, ex-cashier of the American National Bank, has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at Kansas City. Curtis was recently arrested in Chicago and taken to Kansas City, where he was released on $3,000 bail. Since then he has disappeared and his prescnt whereabouts is unknown. | Frve lives wer2 lost by the cyclone which destroyed Red Bud, 111. Mrs. Bob Koppes and her son Willie were killed at Red Bud. At Bremen, Mrs. Herman Oetting and her two children perished in the ruins of their home. Houses were also blown down at Fayeiteville, New Memphis, and Queen’s Lake. A TERRIFIC windstorm swept over the northern portion of Ilamilton, Ohio, causing great destruction. It approach- i ed from the West, and first struck the pulp mill of the Louis Snider’'s Sons Company. The entire west end of the building was blown in. The bricks and timbers fell cn five men who were working in the pulp-rocm. 'The roof was torn 1o pieces and carried some distance. Two were fatally injured. The ! storm also struek Cincinnati, and two | men were killed. I LEADING cleigymen and elders of the ’ Presbyterian Church gathered Wednesday at the Virginia Hotel, Chicago. These divines anl lay members come from all over the United States, and they compose the Committes on Theological Seminaries appointed at the Jastsession of the General Assembly at Portland, Ore. Theyhave important work ahead of them, for in the resolution empowering the appointment of the committee its members were authorized to “draw up a plan 1o secure more direct relationship with and control of the Presbyterian theological ’ seminaries.” The immediate cause for | such a resolution being offered was, as | close readers of the daily papers might surmise, “the growth of heresy in the LPresbyterian theological institutions.” | § meais-Jos thelr well on “egally | farm, Wood County, to 'be shot, and the charge was lowered in- ‘ to the well, when it commenced to flow. The nitro-glycerine was forced up and exploded near the tup,‘ scattering pieces of the tools and der- | rick in all directions. When the men saw | the flow coming they started to run. J. l C. Johnson, the foreman, was about | 800 feet awoy when he was struck with l a piece of the bit, which had been broken l into several pieces. He was knocked i down and crushed to death. Adjoining f was & farm-house, one entire side of | which was torn cut. A man who was | asleep inside was cut and seriously | injured. A couple of womenand alittle | girl who were a'so in the house were | badly injurel. ! THuz plant of the Marble Gloss Lime ‘ Works at Menominee Falls, fourteenf miles west of Milwaukee, Wis.,, was partially . destroyed .by fire. The | rirm was started by an explosion in | the engine-room. A short distance from the burning building was a large tank | filled with fpelroleum, and near Dby | was stored a quantity of dynamite and | giant powder. The people crganized a | bucketr brigale and kept the flames back | until tha petroleum was run out and the | dynamite and powder removed {o a distance. In the meantime the fire spread | in the opposite direction and burned | about 300 feet of railroad trestle, to-: gether with a number of Chicago, Mil- | waukee and St. Paul freight cars. The i loss is about $10,0.¢, with no insurance. The company recently received an or- | der for 200,602 barrels of lime {rom Chi- | cago, which they cannot now fill. | SOUTHERN. | DoxaLnLDp W, BalN, State Treasurer of North Carolina, is dead. A c¢ycLoNE wiped cut the village of Washington, Ark. Every buildingz except a school house was dectroyed, but fortunately no lives were lost. THE contest of the will of John Twohig, a banker of San Antonio, Tex., has been settled; the Catholic Church, to which he left his entire fortune of SBOO, 000, accepting 200,000, EIGHTEEN THOUSAND pounds of dynamite and other explosives have been received at San Antouio, Tex., for the government rain-making experiments, which will be made Monday. C. H. DAviDsoX of the well known ' (Canadian nursery firm has been arrested in Mexico charged with obtaining }‘5‘5«10,01?0 from the Pank of Hamilton, at ) Toronto, by means of forgeries. i AN additional shortage of $t3,587 in ' ex-State Treasurer Wceodruff’s accounts 1. has been reported by Special Master in | Chancery Simms at Little ]logk, Ark. ' This makes the total shortage SIOO,OOO, | Tue remains of Dave Tolbert, father of the Kemper County terrors about | Merriam, Miss., 1 ere f‘)”'“d’ :\l“ndil}', in | a brush heap about a 13\11@ from where | he was taken from the Sheriff’s posse o . week ago. ] i THE celebrated Twohig will centest ! in Texas has bm‘n. settled ‘b): compro- | mise. After administrators’ fees "\vc‘re { pa’:d, cf 1}1‘.3 &b(?z‘),‘(m l}t:].l‘lilllnlllfg,} 1,-.l‘o. | church receives $2¢0,000 and the heirs the remainder. A SUSCESSFUL expr-rin".‘nnt (:f a cot- = | ‘n harvester was made Thursday cn a

| plan two miles east of Dallas, TN BN R P o Lallas, | Tex. Tho committee reported as tho result of nn hour’s work that it bhad | picked 350 pounds of cotton. - | THE Democrats of Mountain View, | Ark., held a Presidential election cele- ; bra}tiqn}%ifix}gfifidjfitfict school-house at | that place the other night, and a terrible disaster ended the proceedings | prematurely. Anvil firing and the dis- | charge of fireworks were features of the jollification. A portion of these had been stored in the sehool-house, During the epeechmaking and while the building was gwa.ckedwwh men, women, and children two kegs of powder exploded. ‘The results were frightful. The school house was totally wrecked and most of its occupants buried in the ruins. Those who could exftricate themselves set about at once to rescue others. Shrieks and moans came from the mass cos wrecked timbers, and it was evident that the calamity was a terrible one. The debris took fire in several places, and it required hard work to prevent the eremation of the imprisoned victims. The flames were subdued, however, and only one person suffered from the fire. A son and daughter of Silas Graham were taken out dead, and Berry Sherod, one of the most prominent residents of Washington County, was so badly injured that he has since died. Another man, whose name has not been learned, was also fatally hurt. Fifteen others were seriously injured, Lut their names have not been ascertaned. Berry Sherod suffered ho:rible agonies men- | tally as well as physically, before he was got outof the ru'ns, He was pinned down by the timbers, and was burned beyond recoznition. He lived severa] hours after being rescued. WASHINGTON. GEN. Isaac S. CaTnIN, of Brooklyn, has beecn mentioned for the office of Commissioner of Pensions. GENERAL W. S, RosECcrANS, Register of Treasury, who has been ill at Wash- I ing on for ~ral weeks, is reported to 1 he in ad: erous condition, with the chances aga.nst his recovery. FOREIGN, HAaMBURG authorities announce that that city is free from cholera. { ‘ QUEEN VICTORIA returns to Windsor | i Castle from Balmoral, a-cempanied by ‘ | Princess Beatrice. ; ToE Turksh war office has prohibited offiers below the rank of major from! taking a second wife, as the pay is not j sufficient to support them. | THE Victorian Government at Mel- ‘ bourne has decided {o prosecute the directors of several companies therg that have collapsed recently. 3 B AT RIS T T ma — ; IN GENERAL | — | DuriNG the last fiscal year Yale Col- i lege funds have been increased $473,447, ’ C. I. DAVIDSON, of Burlington, Ont., | has been arrested in Mexico for forge- ‘ ries on the Bank of Hamilton, Ont. 1 THE Canada Mines and Coal Com-{ pany, with a capital of $1,500,000, has | sacured control of all the coal and iron ges in Cumberland County, N. S. TS sooia. ¥lon TOT - Wolhal s Advaneement . are: President, Julia Ward Howe, Rhode Island; Secretary, Elizabeth Lord Tift, New York; Treasurer, Henrietta L. T, | Wolcott, Massachusetts. \ THE Supreme Court of the United | States has affirmed the decision of the | Territorial Supreme Court of New Mexlico, in the San Pedro and Canyon del ! Aguas grant case. The decision throws i the district open to miners. i SavvenL GoMPERS, President of the ! American Federation of Labor, has is- | sued an appeal asking wage-workers t throughout the country {o contribute a | portion of their earnings on Tuo'.cduy, | Dec. 13, {0 aid the Homestead stirikers. 1 Mgs. ELLEN J. PHINNEY has been re- ! elected President of the Non-Partisan l\\'. ¢. . U. for the fourth time. Thé | other officers are: Mrs. Howard M, | Ingham, General Secretary; Mrs. I'lor- | ence FPorter, of Maine, Recording Sec- | retary; and Mrs. C. C. Alford, Treas- | urer, { LIEUTENANT PEARY will make another E attempt to reach the north peole. The { National Academy of Sciences of Phila- | delphia, which is planning the explora- | tion of the northern coast of Greenland, i has asked Secretary Tracy for a leave { of absence of three y ars for Mr. Peary. | It is reported that if the leave is not ! granted the Lieutenant will resign his i comnmission in the navy. 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\HALF A MILLION LOSS, | HALF A MILLION LOSS, ‘t : LUMBER PLANT IN ARKANSAS | CITY DESTROYED. . | Make-Up of the Fifty-third Congress—Com- : merce Is Prosperous—St. Louis Threatl ened with a Typhoid Epidemlc—Three - Lives Sacrificed. , : : | Big Lumber Yard Fire. | AT Arkansas City, Ark., the plant of | the Desha Lumber and Planing Company was burned Sunday afternoon. 't The mill property belonged to a Boston { company, and was worth at least SIOO,- } 000. There was at least 5,000,000 feet ’of hardwood lumber in the yard and every foot of it was destroyed. It is estimated that the loss of the Desha Lumber and Planing Company, plant, lumber and all, will foot up at least $600,000, which is partly covered by insurance. In addition to the loss sustained by the Desha Company, the residence belonging to Judge James Murphy, valued at $3,000, and a residence house belonging to Mrs. Fannie Mason, valued at sl.( 00, were destroyed. How Powe. 1. Divided. Tar next—Fifty-third—Congress will convene the first Monday of December, I 1893. 'The present House consists of 226 Democrats:, 88 TNepublicans, and 8’ People’s pariy memlers; {otil, 332. The next House will consist of 219 Democrats, 125 Republicans, and 11 Peopie’s | party; total, 355. This is a Democratic loss of seventeen, a Yepubl can gain of thirty-seven, and a Peo)le’s party gain of three. The Democrats have complete control, entirely upset'ing the calculations of Edward MecPherzon and other experts that the People’s party would hold the balance of pcwer in the House. The p esent Senate stands 47 Republicans, 39 Democrats, and two People’s party. The terms of 29 Seni ators expire March 4, 1893, and Repub- | lican losses and Democratic and Peo- | ple’s party gains which willresult from . the change of political control of legis- | latures elected this year will make the Senate stand after March 4 as follows: Democrats, 43; Republicans, 40; and People’s party, 5. The People’s party wlll therefore have Ihe halance of; power in the United States Scnate, and | if the Senators have the nerve to stand i up for what the rank and file of the . i party demand there wiil be some inter- | esting Senatorial deadlocks. | Caught Smuggling Jewelry. l AMoxa the cabin passengers of tho‘ Havel, which arrived at New York Friday, was Anton Voight, a w:ne dealer l of Mainz, Germany. While coming from ! ! quarantine Mr. Voigt declared to the | staff custom-house officer that the only | dutiable article he had was a bottle of | patent medicine. The special officers noticed that Voigt appeared very uneasy as he came down the gangway piankt. He kept sliding his hand over the ou‘side of his pocket, apparentiy to see if something was all right. They insisted c¢n al search, and in his pocket found several ' small cases containing diamond jewelry. Thgre were five large diamond scarf pins and four diamond ornaments likel matchsafes to le worn as lockets or | watchcharms. Mr. Voigt acknowledged the smuggled jewelry belonged to, guat Ruseh, the welt-known St. Louis brewer of the firm of Anheuser-Busch, Mr. Busch, he said, induced Mr. Voigt to carry the ornaments for him. He intended to make preseants of them. They are valued at SI,OOO. Adolphus Busch, the millionaire brewer, denies that An--2 ton Voigt is a smuggler. “This is| funny,” ¢a'd he, “Mr. Yo,zt is a man of great wealth, and would not bother about smuggling ” Increase of Typhoid Fever in St. Louis. THERE is an alarming increase of typhoid fever cases in St. Louls at presi ent. Friday forty-eight new caces were reported tor the health depariment. About 250 cases have been I‘epox'te(ls thus far in November, against 61 for | the entire month of Oclober, 14 for last ' April, and 12 fer last May. Dr. 1-‘l‘an-t cis, of the Health Department, is inves- | tigating the causes of the disease. lhe | force of the sanitary ofice is making an i exhaustive examination of sixty housesi from which typhoid fever has been re- | ported. All the sanitary ccnditions ofl such dwellings are carcfully scrutinized. ! Coliections Good, Money Easy. l R. G. Dux & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: No important change aprears in the | condition of business. The disiribution o[' products continues enormous. Production by manufacturers is greater on the whole than in any previous year, and while some l hesitation is seen about entering fato new accounts, the general tone of business and ! Industries is remarkably healthy. Trading in cotton was much the largest ever known ‘ ‘ in any week, buat stock dealings have been | but moderate. At Poston business eontin- | ues large, collections good, money (Jusy.'i In general, the situation is unchanged, ex- | cepting that wool is more quiet. | Murderous Madman. ! HERMAN SIEGLER, a cabinet maker,l living at No. 723 North Paulina street, ! Chicago, went to his brother's house | and borrowed a shotgun, on the pretext I that he wanted to go hun:ing, returned home, shot and killed his father and mother-in- aw, serious’y wounded his wife, and filled a policemaw’s nose full of buckshot he in return getting a bullet in his abdomen from another officer’s revolver. He was insane from religious excitement. W. J. EpymoxnsTtoN, well known in Missouri, died at Mexico, Mo., at the age of 77. He was for forty years a resident of Callaway County. He had been a member of the M. E, Church South for over a half century. MoxpAY morning fire at the car sheds of the Lindell Street Railway Company, St. Louis, Mo., destroyed the sheds, twelve motor ears, thirteen trailers, and two vestibule cars. A lot of electrical machinery was also destroyed. Total loss, SBO,OOO. Fuil insurance. A NEw JERSEY grand jury recommends the establishment of a whipping post for wife beaters. Tae Philadelphia mint has commenced coining the 5,030,000 World’s Fair souvenir half dollars. A rorTION of the Washington Park Hotel in Cincinnati collapsed, burying several persons in the debris, but all escaped with slicht bruises. HENRY VILLARD gave a dinner to ex-President Cleveland,

PRESIDENTIAL LANDSLIDES, Electoral and Popular Vote from Jackson| | to Cleveland, Inclusive. { The following table exhibits the names, parties, electoral votes and pop-i | ular votes of Presidential candidates from 1828 to 1892, i While it will be seen that .political | landslid i €s are not infrequent occurrences in this country, the landslide of. 1592 takes in the und:sputed vote of the! e.n.tire country, and is the greatest po-1 | litical surprise since the Scott and: | Pierce campaign of 1852: i Elect ! Year. Candidate. cv?,;:,l P°‘£,‘},l;"; 1828—Jackson, Dem............ 178 650,093 1828—Adams, Fed..... 71 111" Teg 512,153 1832—Jackson, Dem............ 219 687,502 | 1852—Clay, Whig......1. 00000 Ty 650,189 1832—Floyd, hig.............. 11 1832—Wirt, Whig............... T S 1836—Van Buren, Dem......... 170 TILO7B 1836—Harrison, Wh1g.......... 73 ' 1856—~White. Whig.. . ......... 28 ) 1836—Webster, Whig........... 14 769,350 1836—Mangum, Whig........... «11 f 1840—Van Buren, Dem......... 60 1,128,308! { mo—Hgison. Whig #OOOO L 1,274,203 [lß‘4o—l3 ey -Liherty. -, .0 7,609 { 1844—Polk, Dem.....&......... 170 1,329,013 | 18¢4—Clay, Whig................ 105 1231643 , 1844—Birney, Liberty.......... .. 66,304 1848—Taylor, Whig............. 163 1,362,242 18t—Cass, Dem................ 10T 1,223,705 lOE-=Van Buarer, 88, ..o 291,378 1852 Plaree, Dem. ... ... .. 5. 254 1,585,674 1852—S8e¢ott, Whig.............. 42 1,353,537, 1860 -Halo oo 157,298 1856—Buchanan, Dem.......... 174 1,834,337 I 1856—Fremont, Rep............ 114 1,341,812 i 1856—Fillmore, Amer.......... 8 873,055 j 1860—Douglas, Dem............ 12 1,375,157, i 1860—Breckinridze, Dem...... 72 845,763 1860-—Linceln, Rep.. ... ... . 19 1,866,353 { 1860=Bell: Uni0n......... ... 89 689,681 | 1864—MeClellan, Dem......... 21 1,808,725 1864 -T.inooln, Meb............ %ie 2,216,067, 1868—Seymoar, Dem........... &0 2,703,600 1868—Grant, Rep..-............ ¢ 3.013,188 1872—Greeley, Dem....,.:..... *C6 2,834,079 1872—0’Conor;-Ind. Dem.....: = © 20,468 1872--Grant, Hep-.............. 992 8,597,170 1872—Black. Temp. ... ciaecl o 5,608 1976—Tilden; Dem............. 184 4,234,835 1876—Hayes, Rep.....i. .., 185 4,063,950 1876 =Cobper-Gic. . ... .. . 00 5 81,740 1876—8mith, Pro.: oo it o 9,522 1880—Hancock, Dem........... 183 4,442 035 1880—Garfield; Rep....:....... 214 4,449,053 1880—WeAver G, oot o 0 807,308 80 -Dow, Bre.. .. oo i 10,487 1884—Cleveland, Dem......... 219 4,874,986 1884—PBlaine, Rep.............. 2182 4,851,981 188 Butter, Gk ... .. .ol 173,370 1884 Sb.Johm Pro: .o ... i L 150,399 . 1888—Cleveland, Dem.......... 163 6,538,560 1888—Harrison, Rep........... 233 5,441,903 1888—Streeter, Lab0r.......... .. 147,621 1888 sk -Prao.. o aiees 249,937 1892—Cleveland, Dem.......... 1278 Saeiieas 1892—Harrison, Rep............ 1143 1802—-Weaver, GK..............1' 8 Soy ol 189-Biawell, Pr0......:...caf i i | *Mr. Greeley having died before the eleotoral college voted, 42 of his votes were cast for Thomas A. Hendricks, 18 for B. Gratz Brown, 3 i for Mr. Greeley, 2 for Charles J. Jeakins, and 1 | for David Davis. i tEstimated for 1892, {HELD FOR A BRUTAL MURDER. | Farmer Swarthout's Sons Arrested on S us< picicn of Killing Their F‘ather. : According to a dispatch John Henry | Swarthout and Ernest Albert Swarthout | are locked up in the county jail at Mor- ! rison, 111., charged with the murder of i their father, Albert Marion Swarthout, a prosperous farmer living near Morrison. i Albert Swarthout was shot while in his barn, not fifty steps from the house; { his body was then thrown into a cart, | hauled within a stone’s throw of the side windows of the farm-house, and Idumped into a stirawstack, which was i set on fire. All of this was done within ' easy reach of the house, in and around which, aecording to the statements of | the family, therc were at the time the two sons, the dauchter and her husband, and the wife of the younger son. The boys were arrésted on an ailidavit sworn to by five of the hest-known citizens of the county charging them with guilty knowledge of the crime. It is claimed that the boys were opposed to their father’s approaching marriage with a young school-teacher in a neighboring | town, by which .hey thought the estate of $25,000 would te lcst to them. Tre theory of robbery is also advanced, as a gold watch and $lO9 known to have been in the possession of the murdered man have not been found. The entire eviderce. however, is purely circumstantial. g The two sons are good-looking young fellows. John, the eldest, is 25 years Eof aze, and a graduate of this year’s i class at Bennett Medical Colleze, i Chicago. Ernestis 22 years old. He | has always lived on the farm with his i father, and wa3 married two months { ago. Both the young men are willing | to talk of their father’s " death, and i deny most emphatically any knowledge j of the crime. , | VICTIMS FOR THE HEADSMAN. !Clerkshlps and Similar Positions Which Wiil Be Spoils for the Victors. A scrutiny of the official blue book in | regard to the appointments in the ex- | ecutive departments at Washington dis- | closes a little over 9,500 clerkships and i similar positions, ranging in salaries { from SI,OOO to SI,BOO, included in the | classified I'sts of the civil-service law, | the occupants of which can only be re3moved for cause, and over 1,500 posii tions of the higher grades, the occu- | pants of which are subject to change at { the will of the heads of the departments. | The salaries of these positions range i from $3,000 down. [ Echoes of the Election. ! ARKANSAS gives Cleveland 2,000 ma- ™ i Jority. | CONGRESSMAN WISE is re-elected in Virginia. REPUBLICANS made a clean sweep in | Montana. | WEAVER electors carried Nevada by { 1,500 majority. | HARrrisox’s plurality in Oregon is { estimated at 6,000, l CLEVELAND,wiII have 49,000 ma ority 1 in South Carolina. i GOVERNOR RusseLL’s plurality in i Massachusetts is 1,937. | GovinNoß FrLowEeßr is talked of to i succeed Senator Hiscock. | NEw Mexico has elected a Demo- | cratic delegate to Congress. | FLyYxN, Republican deiegate to Con- { gress, is elected in CUklahoma. | [ EX-SENATOR BLAIR has been deleab: | ed for Congress in New Hampshire. CLEVELAND’S official plurality in Dels aware is 574 in a total vote of 37,224, SouTH CAROLINA elected four Alli» ance and three Democratic Congress | men. MRrs. ANN ScALnyY has been eclected justice of the peace in Johnson County. | Wyoming. '{ Mones (Dem.), for Governor of Conl necticut, has a majority of 107 in a total vote of 164,662, ; : Mgs. ELLa EKxowwns, Populist can- | didate for Attorney General, leads by 300 votes in Montana. B : THE Republican plurality in lowa is figured at 22,00¢. Republican Con- | gressmen aro elected in all but the | Becond District.