St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 April 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTOH INBErENIW, WALKERTON, . INDIANA MICHIGAN MAN HUNT. MURDERER LATIMER ESCAPES FROM JACKSON. Lucky Men in the Official Lottery—Vain Search for a Burning Vessel —New York Irishmen Cheer Gladstone—“ White Caps” Were “Regulated. ” He Poisoned the Guard. B. Irving Latimer, sent to the Jackson (Mich.) prison three years ago for murdering his mother, escaped shortly after midnight Sunday. He poisoned Geo. AV. Haight, the night captain of the prison, secured the keys and a rifle and left by the front gates. Night Guard Haight died at 1:50 a. m. Latimer, after securing a rifle, attempted to liberate the prisoners in the west wing near his own cell, but failed. There is no clew to his whereabouts. Every officer in the city and hundreds of citizens are looking for him. Latimer had been in the habit of taking a cup of chocolate to the Captain and that night stirred poison in it. Night-Keeper Gill has been arrested as Latimer’s accomplice. All Kxtm Session. There will be an extra session of Congress and it will convene some time in September. There need be no doubt about this, for the President has so decided and made his decision known to a Senator from whom a Washington correspondent received the information Monday. The President may. says the correspondent, of course, change his mind, but that is so rare an act for him to perform as to make its possibility unwoithy of consideration. The President shortly before the Inauguration had some thoughts of calling an extra session for April or May, but he has concluded that September will bo the earliest time consistent with several necessary considerations, and so September has been decided upon. Congress cannot be restricted to any special business, like several State Legislatures. AV hen in session it has power to consider whatsoever may please its fancy, but it is understood that the President in his message will dwell upon two subjects only—the tariff and the currency. One of the President’s reasons for not calling an extra session earlier is his desire that a tariff bill of such a character as to suit the leaders of the Democratic party in Congress, as well as himself, shall be completed ready for the immediate consideration of Congress upon convening. It might be possible for old, experienced hands to frame a bill earlier, but President Cleveland intends that this bill shall bo one of extraordinary character.

Another Batch of Nominations. The President on Monday sent the following nominations to the Senate: Felix A. Reeve, of Tennessee, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. William H. Seaman, of Wisconsin, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. To be Attorneys of the United States: George J. Denis, of California, for the Southern District of California: Joseph S. James, of Georgia, for the Noithem District of Georgia; William L. Cary, of Georgia, for the Southern District of Georgia. To be Marshals of the United States: Frank Leverett, of Georgia, for the Southern District of Georgia: James Blackburn, of Kentucky, tor the District of Kentucky. Samuel T. Fisher.of Massachusetts.to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents. Robert E. Wilson of Mississippi, to be Registrar of the Land Office at Jackson. Miss. Fraucisco Estudillo of California, to be Agent for the Indians of the Mission Tale River (consolidated) Agency in California. Samuel F. Morse of Indiana, to be Consul General of the United States at Paris. C. W. Chancellor of Maryland, to be Consul at Havre. Allen B. Morse of Michigan, to be Consul at Glasgow. George F. Parker of New York, to he Consul at Birmingham. Seaton Norman of Indiana, to be an Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital service. NEWS NUGGETS. The removal of the duties on corn, , which order went into effect on March 15, has causdd another great rush of grain into Mexico from the United States. Two “white caps” were shot down by negroes in a raid they were making in a plantation near Fort Valley, Ga. Justifiable homicide was the coroner’s verdict. By Governor Markham’s approval the two State prisons of California will release over 1,060 convicts on parole, many being desperate thugs. Governor Markham is being roundly scored for his clemency. Anarchist Mathieu, Bavachol’s alleged accompjice in the explosions of a year since, has been identified. He was arrested for robbery, and in his shoes were found papers connecting him with anarchistic plots. Terre Haute, Ind., police arrested Joseph vtgß, -who is charged with mur- ! derby the Coroner. The other morning a four-months-old child of his sten mother was found dead. The son Is said to have given it a dose of medicine the night before its death, and it is said he was seen to do so by several children. The tug Fearless reached San Diego after a cruise of over five thousand miles in search of the burning ship Hronesfeld, a coaler, from Liverpool for San Francisco, The cruise extended over twenty-four days. Strong gales were encountered nearly all the time and nothing was sighted from the time the tug left San Diego till it returned. The Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church, of Scranton, Pa., which was partially destroyed by fire Dec. 3 last, at a loss of $160,00J, and which had been almost reconstructed, was again burned. The structure is now a complete ruin, nothing standing of the walls but the tower. The estimated loss will reach fully $125,000, on which there is $30,000 insurance. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary. T. 0. Smith, of Watkins, Ohio, was given drugged whisky and robbed. He died from the effects of the drug. Louis Michael was hanged at St. Martinsville, La., for participating in the murder of Bobertson and his daughter in August, 1891. Four, thousand Irishmen of New York and sympathizers with the homerule measure of Gladstone assembled in mass meeting and adopted resolutions indorsing Mr. Gladstone’s strug- • gle. Eurke Cockran made an able ad- ■ dress.

EASTERN. Mother Mandelbaum, the notorious New York “fence,” is dead. Percy E. Phelps, aged 22, died at his home on YValnut street, Harrisburg, Pa., fropi excessive use of cigarettes. Charles B. Lore has been appointed Chief Justice of Delaware, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Robinson. An insane small-pox patient escaped naked from the Long Island City pesthouse and caused a reign of terror. He has not yet been captured. The great combine of sole leather tanners has been nearly completed. It will be incorporated in New Jersey with a capital stock of $75,000,000. Elliott F. Shepard, editor of the New York Mall and Express, died suddenly at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home, 2 YVest 52d street. The death of Col. Shepard followed the administration of ether by Dr. Charles McBurney and the family physician, Dr. J. AV. McLane, who were about to make an examination to ascertain whether the Colonel’s suspicion that he suffered from stone in the bladder was correct. Elliott Fitch Shepard was born in Jamestown, Chautaqua County, N. Y., July 25,1833. He was educated at the University of the City of New York, admitted to the bar in 1858 and for many vears practiced in New York city. In IStl anil 1862 he was aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Edwin D. Morgan, was in command of the depot of volunteers at Elmira. N. Y.. and aided in organizing and equipping and forwarding to the field nearly so.ooo troops He was instrumental in raising the Fifty-first New York Regiment, which was named for him the Shepard Rifles. He was the founder of the Nev,’ York State Bar Association in 1876, which has formed the model for the organization of similar associations in other States. In March. 1888, ho purcha-el the New York Mail and Express, which lie lias since conducted. Col. Shepard has been conspicuous of late by his vigorous opposition to the Sunday opening of the World's Fair. WESTERN. Ex-President Harrison has been named for president of the Indiana State University. Dramatist Winslow, who has been applying for a divorce at Yankton, S. D., has failed in his efforts. Schweinfurth, the Bockford bogus meseiah, it is reported, Is soon to move his “heaven” to Aspen, Colo. Ex-Governor Oglesby’ has declined the trusteeship of the Soldiers uni Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Normal, 111. A man named Lewis, who has been identified as one of the Wharton robbers, has been arrested in Osage County, Missouri. The Bev. J. H. Jex, pastor of St. Jacob’s Luthcan Church, at Logansport, Ind., died of blood jolsonlng caused by a carbuncle. Senator Calvin S. Brice is at the head of a project to establish a new manufacturing city near Muncie, Ind. It will be called Brice City. AV. R. Breckinridge, of Chicago, who went to sleep in a Winamac, Ind., hotel, on March 14 ami resisted all efforts to awaken him, has died.

The bondsmen of Axworthy, Cleveland’s defaulting city treasurer, have made good the amount of his shortage, SBOO,OOO, and have been released. Hiram L. Northrup, of Kansas City, aged 73, President of tne Northrup Banking Company, died of general debility. He was one of the best-known financiers in Kansas. At Crawfordsville, Ind., Samuel Rudolph, a 15-year-old boy, has been con- ' victed of participation In no less than I forty burglaries, and was sentenced to one year in the county jail. Breaks in the levees at Stockton, Cal., during the high water if the last few days have resulted in inundation of 38,000 acres of reclaimed land, causing a loss roughly estimated at $1,000,000. Pierre, S. D., has discovered the firebug that devastated half the city by ' a series of fires about a year ago in the i person of Mrs. Delilah Thompson, of I Highmore, who has been arrested for arson and violating the postal laws, she I having written vulgar anonymous letters. After exhausting a panel of nearly one hundred, twelve jurors have been found to tryß. J. Murphy, of Lafayette, j Ind., for an alleged attempt to murder George P. Budolph, the ex-Catholic ' priest of Clyde, Ohio, at the Opera I House last January. I A sensation was created at Des Moines, lowa, by ex-Deputy State. Auditor S. F. Stewart commencing a libel suit for heavy’ damages from .Tames M. Pierce, of the lowa Homestead, because of the publication in the lowa Capital of a sarcastic letter written by Pierce about Stewart. In the mining district twenty miles beyond Wickenbcrg, Ariz., the bodies ot a Mexican named Montez and a boy l i years old were found In the’r cabin. They hud been murdered, probably by Mexicnn robbers. The 1 odiee wore horribly mutilated and burned, having been thrown into the fireplace. I Eva Wendling, who ay< ar ago was । confined in Indiana’s AVoman’s Reform- ' atory, has been arrested for arson on i her own confession that she had been i the cause of a fire there that cost tho I State $75,000. She is but 17 years of age and the daughter of respectable leople living at Duluth, Minn. Eight girls and six men eloped from Anna, 111. Among them were two daughters of Sergeant-at-arms Coleman, of the Illinois Senate, and a man named Henry S. Barnes, who were ararrested at St, Louis. The others are supposed to have gone to Chicago. A fire broke out at 5 o’clock Friday morning in the warehouse of the Summit Fuel and Feed Company at the corner of Third and Larimer streets, Denver. Not many minutes later four firemen were lying on the ground covered with debris and falling bricks of the east wall of this fire trap. Ono was dead and three severely wounded. A second one die 1 in less than two hours. A storm which assumed the proportions of a cyclone before it departed visited Indiana about 9 o'clock Thursday night and left devastation and suffering in its tra :k. In Indianapolis fiity houses were wrecked in one neighborhood, in the northwest portion. Many families were rendered temporarily homeless at Alexandria, on the Lake Erie and AVestern Railway. It partially wrecked the mammoth 'amp factory of ihe Lippincott Com- I

pany, killing William Angel and his son, aged 10 years, who were crushed to death by the falling timbers. The loss will reach several thousand dollars. which is fully covered by insurance. Mayor Washburns, of Chicago, sent an order to the heads of departments in the City Hall calling their attention to the Council order declaring a holiday in honor of Emperor AVilliam’s birthdav and at the same time giving expression to some rather cutting sarcasm. The order reads; To the heads of dr partments: Gentlemen—By an order of the City Council passed Monday night the City Hall is ordered closed to-morrow for the transaction of public business in order to properly commemorate the birth of his august majesty Emperor William of Germany. Pursuant to this order of the honorable the City Council you are hereby Instructed to carefully observe the order in question by closing your department to the transaction of all business excepting the rou tine business pertaining to your department" This will require the retention during that dav :n your department of such employes as < ome in contact with the public at large visiting your department for the transaction of nec essary business, and it will also include all those city employes who transact citv business outside the City Hall I de sire to here commend the spirit which dictated the setting apart of this day and the setting apart of March 17 by the city council as American holidays, and 1 trust that the council in its wisdom, having recognized the cosmopolitan character of our population by granting holidays to the different nationalities whose blood here commingles in the production of the American citizen, will not deprive the city employes of other nationalities of opportunity to properly commemorate the birth of all dead saints and heroes, as well ss the birth of all reigning monarchs. If the catalogue of deed and living saints and monarchy be not sufficient to exhaust the secular days w* the year, I wan’d suggest that the council nsR change appropriate the few remaining days by closing the City Hall in order that we inaM commemorate the birth of some Americ^M hero. I have the honor to remain, yours v jgoj! truly, Hempstead Washburne, Mayoi^B SOUTHERN. » Du. Gustavus A. Kane, the wellknown theatrical man and newspaper scribe, died at Baltimore.

Squire Abingdon, the English millionaire who was to back Mitchell, is dead of pneumonia nt New Orleans. The Rev. Dr. Mizell, of Little Rock, Ark., a prominent Southern Methodist divine for forty years, die I, aged 65 years. Nathan A Oiteshf-dier, wholesale liquor dealers of Memphis. Tenn., made an assignment. Liabilities, $75,000; assets, $60,0(0. Kentucky lessees of convict labor have been sued by the State for $99,358, of which most is for payment for escaped convicts nt the rate of SSO each. Two New Orleans citizens committed suicide Weanesday night at Monte Carlo, after losing heavily nt the Casino. Their names, ns giv< n, are Weill and Robb. Dennis Hickman has been arrested nt Galveston, Texas, for the murder of Tom Elliott and the fatal injuring of Sealy Williams at Houston, Texas, Feb. 13. Hickman has confessed. Negroes have burned the town of Purvis, Miss., in revenge for the arrest of a colored preacher who was swindling them by claiming to boa Government agent for the distribution of pensions and collecting $lO from each applicant. Revenue officers report the seizure of an illicit distillery in Moore County, North Carolina, operated by Lawrence Goins in the middle of the Tuckahoe pond. Tho means of access was by beat. Goins l.a 1 cut off the tops of trees, and on these built a shanty in which was the moonshine whisky outfit The still of GOO gallons capacity was in lull blast Near Welch, AV. A'a., there lives a man named AVhorton, 86 years of age, who has ent red second childhood in a remarkable way. His hair and beard, whieli for years have been white as cot ton, are turning black agan. He 4s cutting two jaw teeth. His eyes are assuming their youthful luster, and his vigor is that of a man of 40. Mr. Whortou savs he feels as young as he did at ! 0. " One of the most destructive cyclones in the history of the South swept over Northern Mississippi and AVestern Tennessee late Thursday afternoon, leaving death and desolation in its wake. Kelley, Miss., a town of about 300 inhabitants, was wiped off the lace of the earth, every building in the place being totally demolished. So far as is known, twen-ty-five people were killed outright and about sixty injured. The cyclone reached Kelley about 3:40 o’clock in the afternoon, spreading havoc in every direction. Long before the wind struck the town a strange atroospheric condition was noticed. The air grew very dark and then a moaning. sound was heard and finally a greenish-colored cloud was seen rapidly approaching fiom the southwest. The path of the storm was about half a mile wide and everything within its course was picked up like straw and dashed to pieces. Large houses were crushed like eggshells, while giant forest trees were uprooted and the trunks ^eked up by the whirling wind and cau^J for miles. rhe public school build^t was tho first to KO down before theJUry of the storm. Tho pupils had leH dismissed but a few minutes befjrb, and most cf them had left the building, v. Inch fact prevented an appalling loss of life. Several of the children were caught in the ruins, however, and crushed to death. A row of frame buildings next fell a prev to the cycione s fury, and with a loud crash ami a deafening roar they were literally torn to kindling wood and the fragments scattered over a wide area Owing to the darkness it is impossible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property. WASHINGTON. Fill. National Postoffice Department has on file 5,000 resignations of Republican postmasters. Commissioner Blount, delegated to Hawaii, left San Fx. ncisco Tuesday on the revenue cutter Rush. Prince David and A. c. McFarland, two of the Commissioners who went to A\ ashington in the interest of the deposed Queen of Hawaii, arrive 1 in San rrancisco on the overland train AV ednesday night cn route to Honolulu. Ihe President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: John S. Seymour of Connecticut, to be Commissioner of Patents; Silas’AV. Lamoreux ot Wisconsin, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office; AVilliam H. Sims of Mississippi, t 0 p e First Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Edward A. Boweis of Washington, to bn Assist-

ant Commissioner of the General Land Office; Henry C. Bell, to be Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions; Justice i7°F? c P H ' burton ot Tennessee, to be Unlte^ States Circuit Judge for the S J xt £ Judicial Circuit; Frank E. White ^®braska, to be Marshal of the U nited States for the District ot Nebiaska; Max Judd of Missouri, to be Consul General of the United States ac Vienna; John J. Carter of Louisiana, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Louisiana. POLITICAL. Michael Bailey has been appointed Superintendent of Public Buildings at Chicago. Governor Northen, of Georg a, has announced that he will be in the race for Senator Colquitt’s seat next year. It seems to be taken for granted that Colquitt will not seek rc-e.ection on account of poor health. INDUSTRIAL. The carriage and wagon workers of Boston have made a demand for nine hours work and ten hours’ pay on and sister March 27, and threaten to strike if not acceded to. Hugh P. Dempsey, leader of the Homestead strikers and implicated in -the poisoning of non-union men, was denied a second trial by the Supreme (pour: of Pennsylvania. FOREIGN. [Pope Leo Tuesday committed hie voice to the wax cyl nder of a phonograph in a message to President Cleveland spoken in Latin. In Berlin a test was made of the cloth cuirass and it proved Impenetrable by small-caliber bullets. The cloth is prepared chemically by a secret process. A small planet, the fifteenth this year, has been discovered by Professor Wolff, of Heidelberg, by means ol photography at tho Kiel Observatory. De Cobain, the ex-member of the British Parliament, who was accused of unnatural crimes, has been sentenced to one year’s Imprisonment ut hard labor. The University of Cambridge, England, has conferred the degree of Doctor of Science on Professor Rudolph Virchow, the celebrated German pathologist and anthropologist.

J. I’if.rpont Morgan, who sailed for Europe Wednesday, is reported to be commissioned by the administration to negotiate a loan for sso,i OO.uOO in gold for the United States Government. Joan of Arc, the Pope has decided, will be < anonized, and the French people are rejoicing. Joan of Are, also known as the Maid of Orleans, was burned in 1431 by the British at Rouen for sorcery. Mayor Alexjeff, of Moscow, Russia, was shot by an assassin and soon afterwards died. The deed was perpetrated in the Council chamber. Adrianoff, the assassin, who belongs to a respectable middle class family, was arrested. The Italian steamer Etna, under the ^Command of Admiral Magnaghi, has "saiTeC from bpezzui for New York to take part in the Columbian naval demonstration. The Etna is a comparatlvely new vessel, having been completed in 1886, and steams seventeen knots an hour. Charles de Lessees, who was convicted at Paris of corrupting ex-Minis-ter of Public Works Baihut, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, to run concurrently with the five years’ sentence already imposed upon him. M. Baihut was sentenced to imprisonment for five ye a rs, to pay a fine of 750,000 francs, and the loss of civil rights. M. Blondin, who acted as a go-between, was given a two-years’ sentence. IN GENERAL

Iron Trade Beview this week says: The deadlock between furnac. men and I ore-selling firms has been broken at last, and beginning with last Friday i transactions forth s year’s ores have i been closed totaling several hundred : thousand tons. AV hatever trouble there was between Professor Heilprin, of the Academy of i Natural Sciences, and Robert F. Peary over the fruits of the last arctic expei dition has been healed, nnd arrange--1 ments are now being made by which ' the two explorers will be at the head of the trip 1o the north, which will be made in June. MARKET REPORTS CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.25 & 6.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 & ’i.ls Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.(0 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 .74 Cokn —No. 2 4O ! -(<5 .41M Oats—No. 2 30 .30^ Rye—No. 2 48 cs .50 ” Butteb—Choice Creameiy 28.29^ I Eggs—Fresh 14 ® .15 Potatoes—New, per bu 70 & .so „ INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 7.75 bHEEP—Common to Prime 3.00 @ o.(O Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 @ rsiz Corn-No. 2 White " ju @ Oats—No. 2 AVhitc 35 @ .36 SL LOUIS. Cattle 3.0a @5.00 ! ?J. OGS 3.0 c (Ol 7.50 W heat— No. 2 Red. 63 .gj Corn —No. 2 .37U Oats-No. Sl ^ , 32 ^ Rye—No. 2 51 ja; .53 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3xo @ 5.25 Hogs 3.(0 & 7 75 i 7 ,aEEr 3.00 @ 5.25 j Wheat—No. 2 Red. (,7 m 670; Corn—No. 2 40 cU .42^ Oats—-No. 2 Mixed 31>g@ .351 J I»YE No. 2 55 od .57 DETROIT. Cattle 3.C0 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.03 7.75 SHEEP.. 3. W @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red cs @ .gj Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 *5 .42W Oats—No. 2 White 37 (g: '33 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2. 69 @ .70 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 42 <3 .43 i Oats—No. 2 White 33u>@ .84. W ’ Rye 57 .59 " I BUFFALO. Cattle—Common toPrime.... 3.50 @5.50 I Hogs—Best Grades 4.(0 @ 8.00 ' Wheat —No. 1. Hard 78^® 7916 i No. 2 Red 73 & .74 ” I MILWAUKEE. WHEAT—No. 2 Spring 65 @ .65W Corn— No. 3 40 .40*^ Oats—No. 2 YVhite 32Kt@ .33^ Rye—No. 1 54 ,55 Barley—No. 2 61 & .63 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.00 & $.'25 Sheep 3.e0 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .54 Oats —Mixed Western 39 @ .41 Butter—Best 28 @ .50 PORE—New Mess 13.75 @19.25

KILLED BY A BRICK.' ONE OF THE DANGERS ON CHICAGO'S STREETS. Slay Be an Extra Session of Congress—New Lands Opened to Entry in Southern California—Notorious Vera Ava Found Guilty. Prominent Chicagoan Dead. AVilliam A. AVeed, of Chicago, advertising manager of the AVestern Druggist and the Medical Standard, is dead as the result of a workman’s careless- i ness and a contractor’s negligence. Mr. I AVeed was struck on the head by a brick j which fell from the tenth story of the i I henix Building at Jackson and La ' Salle streets and was instantly killed. ' AV orkmen are at work on the outer walls handling brick and other material likely to fall, but no protection what- I ever has been afforded the public. Not even the flimsiest kind of a s reen prevents falling material from striking , pedestrians in the street below. Trade Shows Up WelL R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The volume of trade Is well maintained and manufacturers are better employed, with some Increase of demand where in- 1 crease xvas most needed, and every indication that people do not yet begin to think of reducing purchases. The Treasury has been gaining gold in spite of exports ot 5500,000. and some exports expected, tout In view of ttoe enormous excess of Im ports since January Ist, it is scarcely reasona.V>le to hope that further outgoes are to bo avoided. The stringency In money in <rkets Is largely due to slo w c.allectloas. which appear to result rather from sever j weather than from any form of commercial unsoundness. The business failures occurring throughout the country number 243, as compared with the totals ot 220 the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 231. Mourning in Marietta. Three young men were drowned । Sunday morning at the dam at the head of Marietta Island, at Marietta, Ohio. The victims were: Frank Ackerson, aged 20; George Dow, aged 24; and Harry Dow, aged 15. They were attempting to shoot the swift water and go above when their boat capsized. All . were good swimmers and made a heroic ! effort in the cold, swift water to save i themselves. The Dow boys were the . sons of Capt. David Dow. BREVITIES, James Soergel, was found guilty of ' manslaughter at New Albany, Ind., and sentenced to five years. George A. Hill A Co., boots and shoes, failed at Dallas, Texas. Liabilities, $31,000. No statement of assets. ‘ An application for a receiver and an ' accounting has been made by minority stockholders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad, alleging fraud I by the Northern Pacific. । AVade Haines, colored, who was to hang at Columbia, S. C., for the murder j of Miss Hornsby, a white girl, was reI prieved for a month. Public opinion is much divided as to Haines’ guilt. A receiver has been appointed for the Southern Land and Lumber Company at Dry Run, Ark., on application o’ the President, A. C. Foster, of Chicago.

Dobbins A Dazey, cotton factors at ’ Nashville, with branches at New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis and oth- r । cities, have failed, with liabilities of $700,000. Carboleton, Ga., was in a state of panic the other day owing to the riotous actions of eleven masked and armed men. The men assaulted awomj an ami then knocked down an old man of 80 years who tried to stop them. They whipped one woman and then 1 whipped a man who ventured to protest so severely that it is believed that he will die. After that they whipped another man and brutally knocked down and kicked a woman 70 years old. Jeannette Hammond is a prisoner in Atlanta, Ga. The charge against her is that she is an accomplice of Louis Redwine, who robbed the Gate City j National Bank, and that she has now in j her possession $35,0( 0 of the stolen money. She is addicted to the use of opium and whisky and has been talking too freely. Lem Harris, a negro aged 18, is also in custody as being involved with Mrs. Hammond and Redwine. The woman denies that she has any of the stolen cash. Secretary Hoke Smith on Friday i rendered his first land decision. It was i the case of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the Secretary holds that the company had acquired no title to the lands in question under its grant. This decision operates to open many thousand acres in Southern California to settlement and entry. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is accordingly directed to take such steps ! as may be necessary to restore them to ■ the public domain. j At Geneva, HL, the jury in the Vera i Ava ease brought in a verdict of guilty, i as charged in the indictment, and fixed ! the penally at two years in th? peniten- | tiary. A motion for a new trial was overruled, and Vera Ava asked to be taken to Joliet at once. Her attorneys will appeal to the Supreme Court. The Large Equator, which was lost ofi’ Fenwick Islands light, was commanded by Cant. John Feehan, of Philadelphia, who, together with three colored men shipped in Richmond, was lost. The hawser parked during a storm, and the vessel drifted on to the shoals surrounding the islands. The tug was unable to render any assistance. Fred S. Turtle, of Omaha, has been arrested at Sioux City for embezzling ' S2OO from D. Appleton <t Co., of New York, for whom he was a collector, and for forging orders and embezzling money from the Century Publishing Company. He will be prosecuted in both cases. At Anderson, Ind., Butcher Garrison was fine 1 heavily for killing pork that had been fattened on the flesh of dead horses, and Oren Munger, at whose slaughter-house the hogs were fed, was arrested on complaint of the health officer. James Cosgrove shot and killed his wife at Butte, Mont., and then committed suicide. An explosion of gas at Oak Hill colliery, near Minersville, Pa., killed John Morgan and William Purcell. Two others injured are not expected to recover. 1

WASTE IN ITS WAKE. FURTHER REPORTS OF THE CYCLONE'S WORK. Great Damage Done Throughout Many States—Death and Devastation Dealt Out by the Wild Winds—lmportant Pension Ruling Was Not Promulgated. , Work of Wild Winds. The damage done by the cyclone in the Mississippi A alley is enormous. A\ hile the loss of life is not as great as at first reported, the damage to j roperty • will reach $2,0C0,(W. The telegraph wires are still demoralized, and reports are coming in s’owly from the storm districts, and it w.ll be several days before the full extent of the disaster will be known. The death list so far as known foots up twenty-three, while the list of injured will run up into the hundreds. The first heard of the cyclone was in No:th Louisiana and Southern Arkansas. It crossed the Mississippi a lew miles above Greenville, devastating plantat.ons, wrecking farmhouses and ! uprooting giant forest trees. The path of the storm was ab.ut half a mile ; wide, and nothing was left standing in I its track. The first fatality occurred i near Shaw’s Station, Miss., where the ( house of Diury Sumrall, a prosperous and industrious colored f rmer, was I l evele *l to the ground, killing the entire ( tauilly ot nine persons. Ihe oyelone passed througli the suburbs ot Shaw's and demolished several residences and small stores, but no tine was killed, j The hurricane then changed its course j slightly and traveled the right of way of the Yazoo anl Mississippi Valley Railroad until it entered Cleveland, Miss., tvhere the public J school building and several stores and ■ residences were razed to the ground, i Leaving Cleveland, the cyclone passed within a mile of Clarksdale, a town of 2,001 inhabitants, and next struck • Tunica, the county s- at of Tunica . County. Nearly every building in the place was wrecked. Tbe colored school , building was wrecked, and over thirtychildren maimed and crippled, some of them being fatally injured. As the cyclone left Tunica it divided, one portion traveling in a northeasterly direction, while the other took a northwesterly course and again crossed tne Mississippi River through Arkansas,, where It spread ruin through three counties. The towns of Crawfordsville and ATncent were nearly wiped off the face of tne earth, nnd tne storm then took a northeasterly course, reaching Kelly, | Miss. Here the greatest damage was done. Six people were killed outright and scores injured. Not a building was i left standing, the fragments being । strewn over the country for miles. After leaving Kelly the cyclone passed I into Tennessee, the next place to fall in its path being Spring Creek, whero : several people were injured. The storm did great damage at Bowl--1 ing Green, Ky., and the surrounding country. The loss to the Louisville j and Nashville Railroad on the building ' and locomotives is $75/ 00 to $100,060. The town of Bowlins was almost dej stroyed. The postoffice building, owned ■ by Frank Cordiee, was swept entirely i away, together with all the mail, some lof which was found two miles off. Mr. i Cordice’s loss is $41,000. The store- . house, occupied by Stephens A Knox, I was demolished, and their stock, valued., at $5,000, ruined by the rain which fol- : lowed the storm. At Murray, KaJP | twenty residences and fifty G ! bams were demolished. Only one pe UjY son, Miss Aline Stubblefield, was sen. *. ously Injured. A dozen were slightly hurt. The loss will reach $25,000. Much*® timber, ftneing, etc., was also destroyed. Late information concerning the effects of the storm in Southern Indiana indicates that the damage will be very great. A number of persons are known to have been seriously injured, but as yet no fatalities have been reported. The country for miles around was devastated. Dwellings and barns were lifted from their foundations and many are wrecks. Trees, fences, and smaller building at various places were laid low. The Center Methodist Episcopal Church of Evansville wasi complete!}’ demolished, only its foundai tion remaining At the Southern Hos- , pital for the Insane a frightful panic’ prevailed for nearly an hour. The em? of the east wing of the institution w/ blown in, cau ing between $3,000 $4,000 damages. IMPORTANT PENSION Rl/ L | NC It Reverses a Decision Under 000.000 Has Been Paid to G; aimants /’' It has been discovered tb at one of lh most important rulings ever made ja the pension office has reraa i n ed unpromulguted, so far as (he bHo knows, for more than five monlh ^ It is learned that Sep£ 2S last Assistant Secretary Bussey madc a rension decision which ra^aiiy changed the practice of the deh ar t ra c n t ns t o phe disposition of acc. ued pensions in certain cases and Established a new and important rqj e as to reimbursement of “expenses^ j as p sickness, and burial” under Sec. 4718, Revised Statutes. The As^j S j an p Secretary holds that a mru ed- pensions cau be fully paid s o grandchildren, but as to reun a - S e ine nt for “last sickness and Assistant Secretary coni*- hat while only the widow or miner child of the deceased soldier can take the accit.ed pension, the only person for whom the expenses of the last sickness and burial can be allowed i&h the soldier himself. From the date and unler the authority of an opinion by Solicitor General Phillips rendered Aug. 10, 1876, until now, last sickness and burial expenses have been allowed in all cases where the deceased was an impecunious pensioner or entitled to a pension, whether soldier, minor children, grandchildren, or dependent parents. It is stated that fully $2,030,000 has been wrongfully paid to claimants under the Phillips opinion as reimbursements for last sickness and burial expenses, tor which Sec. 4718, Revised Statutes, did not provide. Currencies Condensed. Another bomb has been exploded in Borne. No one was injured. AV c. Bippey, who shot John AV Mackay, will plead insanity. C. II A L. M. Akerly, luml r deal, ers at Tcnaw; nda. N. Y., have failed Father M. Jozeau, a Catholic mis-Cor,-a ry ’ aaltreated a mob in T ” E block at Binghampton, N. 1.. burned. Etta Fancher was fatafiy burned. The property loss is SSO,-