St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 December 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON iNOEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . . . INDIANA SNOW IS A BENEFIT. DELIVERY OF GRAIN TO ELEVATORS STOPPED. Kolb Would Govern Alabama — Negroes Want to Indulge in a Lynching — St. Louis’ Fearful Scourge of Typhoid Fever -lowa's Official Vote. Elevators Jammed Full. The condition of affairs on the Milwaukee road owing to the heavy g -in deliveries is worse than it has ever been since the road was built. There is a prospect of relief, though. Wheat is piled in the streets of half the villages along the line, and every elevator is full to bursting. Elevator companies have had to stop doing business, as no cars are obtainable to relieve them. There is every probabili- 1 ty that the famine on most lines will be soon brought to a close. Since the enow fell receipts have fallen off one-half, and reports from the elevator companies show that on most of the roads relief will be given almost immediately. At present all elevators on the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Milwaukee are full, but the two former roads are in a position to get the grain pretty well started within the next week. Will Try to Oust Jones. Thebe is going to be a bitter contest over the Governorship of Alabama after all. Kolb has been making all the preparations in his power to oust Governor Jones. Alabama has no law providing for a contest over the election of State officers. The constitution has a mandatory provision for such a law, but it has never been introduced in the House. Upon its passage depends Kolb’s chances. Kolb has prepared a very long, type-written statement. In it is incorporated every charge which he could make. In his statement Kolb says that he can prove that he carried the State by 45,000 majority. He claims that in many of the counties the entire contents of the ballot-boxes were removed and strips of newspapers placed in them in place of the ballots. Governor Jones says: “Kolb’s charges of fraud are absurd. They have absolutely no foundation and there is not one of them which has not been absolutely disproved.” Would Lynch One of Their Number. Habby Wabben, an aged colored man, was murdered near Greenwood, Abbeville County. S. C. Winston Morton, also colored, was arrested for the crime, and lodged in the station house at Greenwood. The negroes congre-, gated in large numbers to lynch Morton, but the prisoner will be defended tnd the law will take its course. BREVITIES, John Kelly and Louis Watkins fought a duel with shotguns at Fran- . T.. Jiv! j,- yr we Iwtolly wounded. Montreal retail merchants win resist the collection of the new Qi cbeo business tax, claiming it is unconstitutional. A large number of non-union men have left the Homestead steel works, being convinced that their places are to be given to old men. Pennsylvania Knights of Labor propose to hold a convention to frame a bill to prohibit the entrance of armed forces into the State. The official canvass of the vote of lowa gives Harrison a plurality over Cleveland of 22,965. Harrison’s plurality in 1888 was 31,721. It is feared that the schooner Warrior, from Newfoundland to North Sydney, N. S., has been lost, with her captain and crew of five. Three men and two women were burned to death at Middletown, Conn., in a tobacco barn. The victims were a party of umbrella menders. James Stone and William Blakenship were arrested near Anniston, Ala., while making counterfeit nickels. Their shop was in a deserted mine. Bert M. Hall, of Columbus, Ohio, is under arrest at Boston, Mass.,charged with passing worthless checks. Those already found aggregate $1,309. The threatened heavy import tax by the French Government, to take effect Jan. 1, 1893, causes great excitement among the petroleum exporters. Eighty men in the gunshop of the Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y., struck against having to attend two lathes. A small force is at work. Fbank Garvin, convicted at Pittsburg, Pa., of the killing of his wife three days after marriage, was sentenced to serve nine years in the penitentiary. A fibe at Caneyville, Ky., destroyed nearly $30,000 worth of property before the flames were got under control. Harned Bros., general merchants, lost SIB,OOO. The Secretary of the Interior has included in his estimates for the next fiscal year the sum of $166,831,350 for pensions and the maintenance of pension agencies. Two hundred and fifteen new cases of typhoid fever were reported to the Health Department of St. Louis Saturday, making a total of more than 900 cases reported last week. A fbeight train running through Foraker, Ohio, at the rate of sixty miles an hour struck a buggy containing two women. Miss Andrews was killed and Miss Fry fatally hurt. The horse was also killed. Four cracksmen cracked the safe of the First National Bank at Liberty, Mo., and stole $15,000. Jakob Sinsheimeb, a prosperous hatter, an I his wife committed suicide at New York by throwing themselves before an elevated train. The faculty of the Fort Wayne Medical College and Taylor University have bean sued for maintaining a nuisance, investigation as to the cause of the stench near the college having revealed parts of five human bodies in a building formerly used as a dissecting-room.

EASTERN. Ralph Crossmeyeb is held at Smithport, Pa., on suspicion of having murdered his mother at Farmers’ Valley on Monday evening. At Point Breeze, near Philadelphia, a loss of $200,000 was sustained by the burning of several vessels and a large section of wharf property. Miss Mary Abell, daughter of the late A. S. Abell, founder of the Baltimore Sun. has en'ered the Convent of the Visitation at Wilmington, Del. Some individual who prefers to remain unknown will give $500,000 toward the fund for building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York. Robert Barbour, President of the Barbour Flax Spinning Company, died at Paterson, N. J., of apoplexy. He left a fortune variouslv estimated from $5,000,000 to $10,000,0J0. The Order of Amitie, a beneficial organization of Philadelphia, has made an assignment, as lack of tonfidencc has followed the Iron Hall failure. It had seventy lodges, 3,000 members, and has existed four years. "The Breakers,” the handsome cottage of Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, which was situated on a commanding point at Ocean Point, near Newport, R. 1., was completely destroyed by fire. It is estimated that the >ss will amount to at least $300,000. At Lancaster, Pa., Judge McMullen, in his charge to the jury, referred to an offense against the law to which little attention has heretofore been paid—betting on elections. He instructed the grand jury to present for indictment all such persons known to them who made wagers on the recent election, as thousands of dollars were won and lost in that county on the Presidential contest. The charge caused quite a sensation, and many bettors are alarmed. They fear that the grand jury may indict them. WESTERN.

Four people were killed and three Injured by a wreck on the Union Pacific at Alda, Neb. Edwin H. Rymal, a traveling salesman from Toledo, Ohio, committed suicide at Kokomo, Ind. Joseph Franz was suffocated at Milwaukee in the fire that destroyed the Carpeles trunk factory. Four other persons were seriously injured. The safes in Keefer’s drug store and Hill's grain exchange in Richmond, Ind., were blown open by robbers, who secured money and valuable papers. There were 182 marriage licenses issued at the Recorder’s office, Wednesday, in St. Louis. This beats all previous single-day records by nearly 100. John B. Mulliken, formerly general manager of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Road, was found dead in his bed in Detroit. Cause of death, apoplexy. Bagley, the express messenger, who tried to rob the United States Express Company of SIOO,OOO, las been indicted foi; grand larceny at Davenport, lowa, -the moirtrr--- ' ” at canton, onto, William McKinley, Sr., died Thursday morning. Nov. 21 he saw his 85th birthday. Friday prior, for almost the first time in his life, he went to bed a sick man. The Marine Inspectors at Seattle, Wash., have revoked the license of Capt. John A. O’Brien, who was in charge of tho whaleback C. W. Wetman when it was stranded Sept. 8. Councilman George M. Doner, the sixth of the boodling members of the Toledo, 0., City Council, was found guilty, the jury being out only half an hour. But one more remains to be tried. Oliver P. Pindell, ex-President of the Commercial Travelers’ Association of the United States, and a popular traveling salesman for the last twenty years, died at Columbus, Ohio, aged 45. Jacob Beameb and Hannah Griffin, while returning from a party at North Amherst, Ohio, stepped on the railroad track as the limited express came along. They were struck and both instantly killed. The safe of the R. J. Gunning Sign Company, at Chicago, was blown open and its contents stolen. The amount of money secured by the burglars is not known, but it probably will reach into the thousands. Thomas Coleman, alias “Gohegan,” who is said to have been connected with tho murder of Dr. Cronin in Chicago, was released from th; penitentiary in a, Ore., after serving two years f rrobbery. Police authorities claim to have a clew to the identity of the man who robbed W. G. Pollock, the New York commercial traveler, of $8,600 worth of stones on a Sioux City and Pacific train at Missouri Valley, Mo., three weeks ago. Stamboul regained his laurels by trotting a mile over the Stockton, Cal., kite track in 2 074, which is one quarter of a second faster than Kremlin’s mark, and now the stallion record of the world. The trial was macle with but little preparation, as rain was beginning to fall and it was desired to take advantage of the good track. Rain fell in torrents Tuesday in Oregon and Washington west of tho Cascade Mountains, and local railroad traffic on Puget Sound north of Tacoma is entirely suspended. The damage already done in the Puget Sound country will reach half a million dollars, and the prospect now is much greater damage will result. Mas. Waltub O’Neal, of Bollengertown, Ind., died from the effects of an overdose of poison. A week ago sho stole S2O from Daniel Bain, a neighboring farmer. Saturday she was detected, confessed the crime, and returned sl7 of the money. Mrs. O’Neal had been married but eight months and was but 17 years of age. A wild Big Four engine broke loose Thursday from the yards of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and came tearing through the city at a fearful rate of speed, creating consternation on every hand. When two miles west it collided with the rear of a west-bound freight, completely demolishing the engine and wrecking ten cars. “Gen.” Neff, the notorious Illinois horse thief, who has for thirty years dealt exclusively and promiscuously in

horseflesh without capital or nonestly acquired trading stock, is again behind the bars, and will no doubt be sent bacK to Chester. He was arrested at St. Louis while collecting a bill for live stock stolen a few days ago. With all the pomp of official presence, the solemnity of the religious rites of the Orient, and the shouts of “Padisbahim Tchak Yasha” (Long live the Sultan), the Tuikish pavilion at the World’s Fair grounds was formally commended to the blessings of Allah and his Imperial Majesty, Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan Ghazi IL, at 11 o’clock Tuesday forenoon. After remaining in the rigging for an hour, with the sea breaking over them, the crew of the little schooner Lena Hall, consisting of Capt. Albert Hall and Albert Peterson, were rescued off Milwaukee, but not until they were badly frost-bitten. The two men are at the Emergency Hospita', and the little vessel is going to pieces near the foot of Buffalo street. Prof. Ganiard, his wife, and son aged I>, and Miss Thompson, aged 22. all musicians, startel Friday from Everett, Wash., for Marysville to play at an Odd-Fellows’ ball/ Th. y went in a yacht with Henry Leary, a sailor. Sunday morning the steamer Mabel picked up a capsized boat, and a reed organ afterward drifted ashore. Nothing has been seen of any of the party since. A terrific windstorm swept over the northern portion of Hamilton, Ohio, causing great destruction. It approacl - 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 on five men who were working in the pulp-room. The roof was torn to pieces and carried some distance. Two were fatally injured. The storm also struck Cincinnati, and two men were killed. A mysterious case of poisoning is reported from Brightwood, four miles east of Indianapolis, Ind. As the result cf something eaten at breakfast Mrs. James Presley soon afterward showed symptoms of poisoning and died before noon. Her husband also was taken violently sick and his condition is critical. Presley and his wife were an aged couple who lived alone. The supposition is the poison was in some cornmeal which had been bought at Brightwood. The steam laundry of Edward Davis, at Warsaw. Ind., was completely wrecked by the explosion of a dynamite bomb thrown into the building. Davis and his employes had all gone home, or there undoubtedly would have been loss of life This is the third attempt to destroy the building, and the crime is attributed to three Chinamen whose business Davis has reduced. Two of them are under arrest, and the police are looking for the third, who was seen running away from the building when the explosion occurred. The residence of Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, at Altadena, about two miles north of Pasadena and twelve miles from Los Angeles, Cal., was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. The flames spread rapidly. There was time only to rescue a few articles, which included some valuable papers. The house was built during loom days by Bayard T. Smith at a cost of about 8(3,0(10 Only last week a carload of new furniture was placed in the house and was destroyed, with the exception of some paintings, which had not been unpacked and which were stored in the stable. The total insurance on the house and contents amounted to $24,000. A Gallipolis, Ohio, dispatch tells of a bloody fight that took place on a north-bound Ohio River train. Six brothers named Williams boarded the train at Huntington in a drunken condition. Shortly aft rward one of them entered the ladies’ coach with a drawn revolver and used menacing language. Conductor Smith seized him and drew him into the smoker. The other brothers rushed to his help, and the brakeman came to assist the conductor. Meantime the newsboy gave the riot alarm, the train was stopped and the entire crew came to the scene. The Williams boys were badly beaten and thrown off the tram. It is not known whether any of them were killed or not. The conductor an 1 brakeman were severely injure I, and several passengers were hurt. Fibe broke out in the Blossburg mine, four miles south of Raton, N. M., and is now raging fiercely. Over 1 0 men were at work in the mine, but all escaped through an abandoned entry. All the mules and mine cars are destroyed. These mines are operated by the Santa Fe Road and are the largest in New Mexico, the average production being seventy-five cars a day. At St. Joseph, Mo., Fuller’s livery stable, the large-t in the ci y, burned. Twenty horses were roasted alive, one of them being a trotter valued at $15.000, the property of Sheriff-elect Carson. Fifty vehicles and a large amount of feed were destroyed. The total loss is $35,000, partially insured. The fine summer residence of Sir Donald A. Smith, in the western suburb of Winnipeg, called “Silver Heights,” was burned. The loss is $50,000. SOUTHERN. Chableston, S. C., has a new insurance venture in the Germania Mutual Fire, capital $300,000. The Church of the Advent, the leading Episcopal church in Birmingham, Ala., was destroyed by fir *. Unknown persons exploded a dynamite bomb at Searcy, Ark!, which wrecked many buildings. Their motive is a mystery. The California Supreme Court has staid Superior Court proceedings in the Fox-llale & Norcross Mining Company ease and will hear arguments on the staying of the judgment forever $1,600,000. A PASSENGEB train on the Houston and Texas Central Road was wrecked । near Clear Creek, Texas. All the cars were derailed except the engine and baggage-car, injuring a number of persons and killing two men. Sidney Wortham, joint agent for the Louisville and Nashville and East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroads ■ at Jellico, Tenn., was foully assassinated. Frank McMillian and a man | named Jonas and Jonas’ son are now ■ under anest. ! City Marshal James H. Taylor, of j Hustonville, Ky.,killed William Powers.

Powers and Conrad Russell entered the town and insulted and threatened many persons, when the Marshal stopped j them, and when they resisted arrest shot Powers. Samuel Lancaster, a brakeman, while intoxicated walked into a saloon at Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday morning and made a wager that he could drink three small beer glasses of whisky. The bet beng taken he fulfilled its conditions and sank to the floor and died. Near Jasper, Marion County, Tenn., George Dawson, the engineer of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Mining Company, was wayla’ l, robbed, and murdered by three colored desperadoes, i They were arrested, blood found upon their clothing, and they confessed the crime. They told with apparent pride of other robberies and incendiarism. It was with great difficulty that the sheriff kept them irom being lynched. A mob tried to get a train to go to Jasper. They failed, however, and then started on foot. It is reported the sheriff heard of this and took the prisoners to Chat« tanooga. POLITICAL. A special from Washington says: “Mr. Blaine had another bad attack on I Friday evening, and for a time the out- • come was much in doubt. Both Dr. ’ Johnstone and Dr. Hyatt were sum- ; moned, and after a time succeeded in rallying the patient.” The announcement has been made that a number of leading Republican politicians of western Kansas have organized for the purpose of dividing the State. The plans are all laid and the matter will be urged u; on the Kansas Legislature the coming winter. FOREIGN. King Humbert of Italy opens the Italian Parliament in a speech paying tribute to all civilized nations and his own people. Emperor William opens the Ger- : man Reichstag with an address in which । he refers to the army bill and other national affairs. Paris advices say that criminal prosecution in connection with the Panama Canal has given a death blow to that enterprise. It is now believe 1 that investors will lose everything. Count de Lesseps is so broken down by age and illness that distress over the prosecution has caused him to practically lose his reason. His family declares its con- i fidenco in its ability to prove the recti- ' tude of his intentions in the matter at the court investigation. IN GENERAL Black diphtheria is making serious havoc among the lumbermen in the i Madawaska camp, near Ottawa, Ont. A new 4,000-ton whaleback steamer has been ordered by the Northern Pacific steamship line for service between ■ Puget Sound and China. The ship Ericson from San Francisc > is a total wreck on Barclay Sound, having gone on tho rocks in the gale on wi re saved. T. V. Powderly has again been ■ elected General Master Workman of tho • Knights of l abor. Hugh Cavanaugh । was elected General For man and J. I W. Hayes Secretary-Treasurer. There were two great foot-ball j games Thursday which were especially , interesting. As to Yak and Princeton, ! why, Yale won, of course, by a score of j 12 to 0. Poston defeated Chicago by a | score of 18 to 12. It now turns out that two supposed Mexican horse-thieves killed by Texas 1 rangers were two brothers, Juan and ' Gabriel Longera, prosperous and lion- I est ranchmen living in the lower Rio I Grande Valley. The rangers have been j arrested. Josef Ignatz Strizeikowski, a Rus- 1 sian exile, living in Cleveland, Ohio, has j received news of his pardon and restora- | tion of his ancestral estates. In the ; future he will be known as Count Ossolinski. His estate and personal property are worth $1,500,000. He will return to his native country at once. C. Sinclair, cashier and confidential bookkeeper of the Armour Packing Company, is missing. The exact amount of money that is also missing from his employer’s bank account is noti known definitely. It is estimated that the company’s loss will not be less than $50,000. Some believe that the amount will run up to SBO,OOO or $87,000. MARKET REPORTS) CHICAGO. Cattle —Common to Prime .... $3.25 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 et 6.00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 72 & .73 Corn—No. 2 42 & .43 Oats—No. 2 31 & .32 Rye—No. 2 to .so । Butter —Choice Creamery 28 @ .36 , EGGS—Fresh 22!4@ .23)4 . Potatoes—New, per bu 70 @ .80 j INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.00 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 & 6.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.50 । Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 & Corn—No. 2 White to & .4014 Oats—No. 2 White 35 @ .36 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs LOO (3> 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 & .69 Corn—No. 2 39 & .40 Oats—No. 2 31 & .32 Rye—No. 2. 47 & .48 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 i Hogs a.oo & 6.00 | Sheep 3.00 (® 4.75 Wheat —No. 2 Red 71 @ .7114 Corn—No. 44 & .45 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 35 & .3514 Hye—No. 51 <3 - 65 DETROIT. I CATTL^ ... •• 3.00 (3 4.50 1 Hogs 7777.777. a.oo Sheep 3.00 & 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 73 @ -.4 1 Corn—No. 2 Yellow Oats—No. 2 White ..... 3 7J4@ .3854 TOLEDO. I Wheat—No. 2 73 ® Corn—No. 2 White 43 & .4354 Oats—No. 2 White 35 & .3^ rye. 54 @ • 56 buffalo. I Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.00 @ 5.25 । Hogs—Best Grades. 4.60 & 6.2a , Wheat—No. 1 Hard 82 & 82,4 Corn—No. 2 ••••••• ’ 4B ® -48.4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 67 @ .68 I Corn-No. « ® 1 Oats—No. 2 White *> & .36 Rye-No. *0 f Barley—No. 2 -65 ® Cattle 3.50 ® 5 - 00 Hogs 3.u0 & 6.25 S HEE p 3.00 & 5.00 | .79 Corn-No “ s Oats—Mixed Western -6 & .38 Butter—Creamery & .34 Pork—New Mess H- 46

FOOD FOR THE FLAMES. WIDESPREAD WAS THE WORK OF RUIN. Queer Voting in Massachusetts—Sad Result of an Indiana Wreck —Mrs. Johnson Is Indignant—Child Killed by a Panther. Work of the Flames. The paper mills of C. S. Garrett & Sons, at Beaver Dam, Pa., have been destroyed by fire; the loss is sßo,ot 0. At Sanford, Me., the carding and weaving mills of the blanket departmenkof the 1 Sanford mills have been burned. Other buildings were saved. Loss SISO,CO:’, covered by insurance. One hundred and fifty hands are thrown out of employment. The buildings and 300 head of poultry belonging to the Beatrice (Neb.) Poultry Company were destroyed by fire from the explos on of a lamp in an incubator. Loss, $3,000; insurance, S7OO. The foundry of A. C. Williams at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was burned. Loss, $35,000; insurance, $18,(00; incendiarism. The grocery store of C. J. Baldwin & Co., Norwalk, Ohio, was damaged several thousand dollars. Clay Machino; Tnrow M -n Out of Work. At New Cumberland, Ohio, the John I Porter Fire Brick Company gave notice , to their seventy-five miners that their ' services were no longer needed and to finish their work and get their tools 1 out. The men declare that the order follows the prospective success of the clay-digging machines; that the machines were introduced to punish the men for last fall’s strike. The new machines are destined to displace thousands of diggers in more than one line of mining in the three States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It is stated that at a comparatively small first cost, when the capacity of the machine is considered, the devices . can be built so that one ma hine will do the work of from seventeen to twenty i men. To Prevent Wrecking of Railroads. I Consideration is being given by the people of Georgia to a bill introduced in । the House of Representatives of the I Georgia Legislature by Major Bacon. ; The bill is designed to prevent the wrecking of railroad property and prescribes severe penalties for acts done with this pn^ ose in ' view. Any person not a director or officer of the company who conspires with a director or officer to do acts*prohibited by this bill shall be punished to । the same extent as though a director or : officer. It is said that there is a good prospect for the bill to become a law. On - ’ In tantly Killed in a Wreck. An accident that has cost one human life, will probably cost another, and possibly a third, occurred on the Pittsi burg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis I Railway at Jackson’s Hill, ton miles I from Richmond, Ind., Friday morning. | The killed and injured are as follows: ■ Beennan, W. E., of Indianapolis, flre- ; man; instantly killed. Grose, Henry, iof Indianapolis, engineer; both legi j crushed; will probably die. Hendricks, 1 Harry, of Indianapolis, brakeman; I severely and probably fatally scalded. Count in M t^nchnßrtt^. The Executive Council finished the ■ count of the Massachusetts returns, and i found the number of blank ballots in ! excess of Gov. Russell’s plurality. Foli lowing is the official count for Gover--1 nor: ' William H. Hale, Republican ISS.GTO Walcott Hamlin 7,058 ■ Squire E. Putney 378 j William E. Russell, Democrat 186,346 Henry Winn 1,977 ! Blanks 19,166 Trade Never Better. I R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The announcement that gold would be exported, though not In large amount, has j not necessarily as much meaning as many | supposed. ‘Foreign exchange does not yet I justify exports, and movements not warj ranted may be due to temporary and trifling influences. The condition of business | throughout the country appears excellent, ! with the volume of trade greater th in in I any previous year. Fatally Stabbed While Drunk. At St. Joseph, Mo., Polk Harvey, father of Robert Harvey, who killed Robert Little last week, circulated a subscription among h’s friends and raised considerable money with which to employ counsel to defend his son. His success induced him to drink and Ihe assaulted an old soldier named Albert Jinks. The latter drew a knife and stabbed Harvey four times, fatally wounding him. NEWS NUGGETS. The residence of A. H. Austin, Treasurer of Harrison Township, near Newark, Ohio, was entered by burglars, who blew open the safe and took $1,500. H. E. Thompson, of Rock Creek, Minn., while in the woods hunting, had his son, 12 years old, with him. Thompson started out early, leaving his boy in i the camp asleep and a fire close to tho 1 camp. He returned, finding his boy and I dog burned to death, It is supposed I that the boy was smothered in his sleep, j as lie was found with a blanket wrapped around him badly burned. Mrs. Anna Johnston, of Logansport, Ind., sister-in-law of J. D. Johnston, proprietor of the Johnston Hotel, filed her complaint in the Circuit Court, attaching money in the hands of the Cincinnati Enquirer’s agents and demanding $20,C0 » damages for slander. The I suit is based on a special sent to the | Enquirer from Logansport that a strike at the Johnston House was occasioned by the discharge of one of the servants for incorrect reasons. j An enormous panther made Us ap- ' pearance at Hopkins’ trading pos\ in the Cherokee Outlet, and kdle 1 an Indian child in the presence of its mother. William Timmons, a trader, started in i pursuit of the panther and killed it. The dead animal measured seven feet from nose to tail. I A teamster named Cobb left Clo- । quet. Minn., for camp. The team re- ' turned without the driver. Later two Indians r?p Tted finding the body of a I man frozen to death five miles north of town. A dog refused to allow them to touch the body. At St. Henry, Minn., Joseph E. Haunler died suddenly. Strychnine was afterwards found in his tobacco. Miss Agnes Beer, his wife’s sister, died in the same manner and left a letter asking to be buried with Haunder. It I is supposed she poisoned hers df and Haunder.

HOWTO FIND THE NEW COMET. Astronomer Hale Gives Some Points to the Lay Observer. Thousands of well-meaning people are trying every night to see the mueh-talked-abcut comet and fail to discover it. It may be seen by the unaided eye If directed at the right point. A Common opera-glass turned on the Pleiades will reveal it more distinctly. To assist the ordinary observer Astronomer Hale has made a diagram that will aid in locating the vagrant, comet. He has omitted the lesser s’ars and indicated the comet by lines drawn through tha fixed stars and constellations. For good measure the nebula of Andromeda has been throivn into the diagram. “This bright spot near the milky way,” Prof. Hale says, “is easily mistiken for IJhe comet itself and might assist in finding the wanderer. Beginning with the flset star in the belt of Orion—and the belt may be located by the three bright stars close together and in a straight* line —draw an imaginary line with the.eve passing through Tour!, a little to the left and a little below the Pleiades; miss the Pleiades and run the line through the principal star of Andromeda as far beyond Touri as Touri is beyond Orion, then carry the line a little farther and find the comet. If this is not complica'ed, taking tho big star in Apdromeda and make the base of a. right angle triangle with the first of the lesser stars above. The perperdicular at an equal distance will rest ca the comet. In a stra’ght line with igo base of this triangle is the Andromedal.Bebu’a, and this is half way below the !'^^Kne of the milky way THE LOCATION ON THE COMET. and the comet. The comet is located on a straight line between the planet Jupiter and the polar star. To better understand the diagram hold it almost above the head and face the east.” The Holmes’ comet, the name which has finally been agreed upon by astronomers in the absence of any other definite name, will reach its perihelion Dec. 27, when it will be as near the sun as It can get, then will pass around and go back on its journey into space. In regard to the assertion of Professor Colbert that the earth is liable to collide with the comet, Prof. Wiggins says: “You can judge as to the danger of that when I say that Father Sechi, the celebrated Italian astronomer, a few years ago was looking through his glass at' this same comet when he saw it burst in two, thus becoming two electrical comets. These have since gradually receded from each other, and are now considered two distinct comets and have periodic times entirely dissimilar. There is no danger of their running upon each other and why should they run against the earth? Moreover, some of the asteroids, as for instance Melpomone and Nyassa, are continually crossing and recrossing the path of Mars, and never collide with that planet. Comets, however, may do us a great deal of damage, for if one should run between us and our moon, as Lexilles’ comet ran among the moons of Jupiter in 1778, its powerful attraction would so contract the earth as to cause the waters of our oceans to overflow our continents, as no doubt happened at the Noachian deluge.” HOLDING ON TO THEIR JOBS. Not Many Postmasters Resigning oa Account of the Result of the Election. It is stated at the Postoffice Department in Washington that the percentage of resignations of fourth-class postmasters received up to date on account of the result of the election has been considerably less than at the corresponding time four years ago. The largest number of resignations thus far, has come from those of the third class, whose salaries rarge from SI,OOO to $2,000 per annum. There are about fifty -of them on file. The. r -ason assigned for their resignation is that they are compelled under the law to furnish the outfit of their offices, consisting of lock boxes, office furniture, etc., which in some cases cost several hundred dollars, often as high as $5( 0. To protect themselves from, total loss a practice, it is alleged, has prevailed for the holding over postmasters to make an agreement with the most prominent candidate for the office by which the former resigns and opens the way to a political opponent to succeed him, provided that the latter purchases the office outfit. The resignation of the postmaster is forwarded to the department, and upon the appointment of his successor by the President, the successful applicant pays for his predecessoi’s outfit. Newsy Paragraphs. 'I. M. Rose, of Ohio, has been male Assistant Land Commissioner. The receipts of the New York horse show were $74,000 and the expenses $73,500. The Deadwood Central Railway has been purchased by the Burlington and Mississippi River for $1,009,000. The Council of Ar hbishops decided that the faculty of the Catholic University at Washington shall be reorganized. The steamer Ros^ Lee, loaded with cotton and merchandise, was destroyed by fire at Memphis, Tenn. The loss is $65,0(0. Henry Vose. of Westerly, R. L, furnished the Thanksgiving turkey for the White House. It weighed thirty-one 1 pounds. Rival claimants to the Park Regent Mine, at Jimtown, Col., have sent armed forces into the mine, and a battle is ; looked for. - It is discovered that some parts of the machinery of the Miantonomah are faulty, owing to the use by the builders of weak material. Joseph Lambardo, a young Ita’ian. was shot in Brooklyn. He was seriously wounded. It is believed he is a victim of the Mafia.