St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 April 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDEK:. T T e e e WAEERRTOR. . . . WA A S Y A RAILROAD ROUTED. CHICAGO MAY NOW OUST THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL. Shorg Strike at the World’s Falr—Little Rhody’s Exciting Struggle—Bad Wreck , in Nebraska— Michigan Officials After an Old Embezzler. Chicago’s Final Victory. ' CORPORATION COUNSEL MILLER has . reached Chicago from Washington, bringing with kim the maandates of the Supreme Court in the Lake Front cases. He will not delay many hours in putting these mandates into the hands of the OQireuit Court, so that the judgment of the Supreme Court may be carried into effect without further hindrance. It will be the duty of the Circuit Court to ascertain by investigation how far the Illinois Central’s piers and wharves trench on the harbor rights of the ¢ity. Further than this, the mandates dispose of all claims of the railroad to control of the submerged lands. The effect of these mandates will be to enable the city to take whatever steps it may deem necessary for the use of the Lake Front, In this way the Illinois Central was bowed out of 'co’urt.‘) after litigation extending over many years. NEWS NUGGETS, I

LurgiNs & Co., lumber dealers-at Philadelphia, bave failed, with liabili= ties of $170,000. : THE plasterers’ tenders’ strike at Boston is ended, the men being granted every demand made. e THE lasters and cutters employed in Auburn, Me., factofies have struck for a new scale of prices. MoB violence was feared at Morganfield, Ky., and the jail was strongly guarded to prevent the assassins of Mrs. Henry Delaney from being lynched. DuriNG the last week prairie fires have done great damage west of the Missouri River in South Dakota, and losses to stockmen aggregate an important item. THE Newfcundland budget shows total revenue to be $1,883,790; increase over estimate, $3§1,89‘2; expenditures, $1,668,120, increase $115,322; surplus revenue, $215,669. A CYCLONE passed over the southern part of Scranton, Pa., and damaged property to the extent of thousands of dollars. Many peopbe were injured, but no one was killed, THE Hekla, of the Thingvalla Line, bringing 611 steerage passengers, went to her pier at Hoboken at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. The brok&én ghaft had been repaired three times at sea. THE Cunard liner Umbria, Capt. MeKay, which sustained delay in midocean last December by a broken shaft, arrived at her New York pier Sunday morning, on her first trip since fully repaired. AT the Riverside furnace, Steubenville, 0., the monkey tuire blew out. Ex-Councilman John Larkin, a keeper, was horribly burned from head to foot. He died in a few hours. Mike King, a helger, was seriously but not fatally burned. %

THE Attorney General of Michigan served notice of suit against ex-Land Commissioner Roscoe D. Dix, ex-Treas-urer G. L. Maltz, and ex-Secretary of State G. R. Osmun, to recover $1,600 embezzled ten years ago by Thomas M. Wilson, then Clerk of the Board of State Auditors. THE members so far elected to the Rhode Island Legislature are 41 Republicans and 41 Democrats, a tie, and 26 seats remain to be filled by elections the present week. Upon the result of these elections depends the complexion of the Legislature and the choice of State officers, there having been no election by the people. THE cruiser New York will not take part in the naval review, because of the unfinished condition of the ship. Secretary. of the Navy Herbert and the Cramps were anxious that the foreign powers should see the New York, but the impossibility to get her in presentable shape before the review has caused all plans to be abandoned. THE west-bound passenger train No. 7 on the Union Pacific was wrecked one mile west of Lexington, Neb. An empty coal car blew on to the main line at Cozad and traveled eastward in the heavy wind at a terrific speed, coming into collision with the passenger there, making a total wreck of the engine, turning the baggage and smoking cars on their side in the d:tch, and converting the wandering tox car into kindling wood. =

N '?'iii-sua\ncé of the orders of the{ Building IradeseCouncll dunany, umion labor as a body did not go to work at the - World’s Fair Monday morning. ‘ Those union men who did begin work as usual quit upon receiving orhzrs.‘ Before noon 4,000 men were idle. At 8:45 at night the sirike was declared off after a conference hetween the labor men and the Fair officials. It was a victory for the Fair. THE two candidates named for the Bishopric of Massachusetts, made vacant by the death of Phillips Brooks, and to be filled by election of the diocesan convention, are well-known clergymen of New York, viz.,, the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of Trinity Church, who is called a conservative or moderate high churchman, and the Rev. Dr. Greer, of St. Bartholomew’s Church, who is known as a broad churchman, W. H WAunsce & Co., of Hammondsville, Ohio, have assigned. Their liabilities are estimated at $40,000, MEeTA BOSSEL, a horse by Col. Clark, out of imp. Royal Title, owned by J. C. Ghio & Co., was burned in the fair ground stable at last Bt. Louis. OF the sum 0f.520,005 needed to meet pressing obligations on Dr. Talmage’s Brooklyn Tabernacle, more than $lO,000 has been raised by contributions to the New York World, and it is announced that the full amount necessary has been subscribead.

l EASTERN. A Mon at Lima, Pa., attacked the { Masonic Lodge Building and burned all the furniture. 3 JOSErPH H. MILLER, the oldest active newspaper man in New Jersey, died in Newark of pneumonia. THE steamship Cuildhall has arrived at New York from Alexandria, bringing 166 Egyptians for the World’s Fair. WiLriam P. SHAW, cashier of the Lincoln National Bank, of Bath, Me., is under arrest, charged with embezzling §IB,OOO of the bank's funds. THE principal losers by the fire!at Allegheny City, Pa., were Godirey & Clark, $60,000; Eberhart & Ober Brewing Company, $200,€00; H. J. Heimz Pickle Company, $15,000, The total loss is $300,000. THE certificate of organization of the Suretyship Company of America has been filed in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. Itis organized with a capital of SIOO,OOO, with privilege to increase it to §1,000,000. | ANOTHER terrible mine accident occurred in Pennsylvania on Mondayl night. A coal mine at Laurel Hill was flooded, and Richard Williams, Thomas Hudson, William Trembath, and three Hungarians lost their lives. DaxlEL DoNovaN, of Cleveland,Ohio, a middleweight pugilist, and Joseph Dunfee, of Syracuse, N. Y., fought ! seven rounds at Maple Bay Tuesday )night, and as a consequence Donovan | is dead. Dunfee is in jail for raanslaughter and the referee and seconds are under arrest or fugitives from justice. T'he referee was P. J. Donohue, sporting editor of the New York Recorder. Donohue was released on bail. The District Attorney also threatens the arrest of others of the principals. The fight. and its fatal termination have l causgd much excitement, more so on | account of Bheriff Hoxsie’s not iuter-] sering. It is reported that the Sheriff : will be removed from office by (‘xov.i Flower, who a short time ago an- ; nounced that under-no consideration | must a prize-fight Le allowed to go on | in any county in the State witheut the | interference of the Sheriff. 2 *{

WESTERN. DavaGiNG floods are reported from the rivers of the Northwest. SMALL-POX has been epidemic at Akron, Ohio, and Canton is quarantined against that town. . ; ProMINENT men of Jonesboro, Ark., are said to be among the band of Whitecaps arrested there, SvurroN, the Louisville-broker who forged whisky warehouse receipts, has made an assignment. THE Northwestern State Bank of Bibley, lowa, has failed. Liabilities, $150,000; assets, $75,000. A COUPLE named Grasser gave their 4-year-old boy a drink of whisky at Valley City, N. D. Half an hour after the child died. A E. GARRISON, cashier of the Capital Bank at Denveér, has disappeared, and foul play is teared. His accounts are all straight. BEN JonxsoN was killel and four other laborers seriously injured by the caving in of a sewer at Ogilvie's mills, Winnipeg, Man. i Tao Mas W. WooLneN, book-kaoper for the Indianapolis milling firm of Richardson & Evans, is a defaulter in the sum of $20,000, ORLAHOMA settlers rejoice over the United States Supreme Court decision in the Smith-Townsend case, which shuts ocut premature settlers. WINTER wheat in Illinois is reported in bad shape. The area seeded was 25 per cent. less than last year, and of this 22 per cent. was winter killed. JONN G. GarLIN and wite are in jail at Cheyenne, Wyo., charged with rifling several mail pouches. Gatlin was in charge of the office at Myersville. CROCKER, Flsx % Co., the Minneapolis millers, are reported to be in. financial difficulties. Paper of the firm for large amounts has gone to protest. DENVER had the most severe windstorm on Thursday that has occurred for years. Several small buildings and telegraph poles were blown down, WILLIAM STEBBINS, son of one of the richest men in St. Joseph, Mo., was killed while trying to rob a store in company with three other burglars. THE Kansas crop report says that 14 per cent. of wheat in the State hasbeen winter-killéd. The condition, as compared with a full average, is 74 per cent, Mgrs. TAin, of Redwood Falls, Minn,, was removed from the Methodist church. Now she has sued members who accused her of theft for $5,000 damages. ARTICLES of impeachment have been adopted against Nebraska’s Secretary of State Alien, Attorney General Hastings, Public Land Commissioner Hill and ex-Treasurer Humphreys., ..

AxX electric car was run down bya Grand Truank train at Bay City, Mich., and five persons injuted, as follows: Mary Demonia, E. M. Donovan, H. A, Durand, H. B. Durand, Wm. Foster, Wm. Markshefile, Motorman Ed Vreeland. The latter’s injuries are fatal. RaveExswoobp (Iil.) people were hadly scared Thursday night by a sudden stoppage of the gas pressure which was immediately resumed and for a time threatened the lives of such as had gone to sleep and left the gas burning. T. W. Bassett and Charles Truax headed a party of citizens who went through the suburb rousing the residents and warning them of their danger. Only two cases were found and neither is in a dangerous condition. An attempt will be made to punish the gas company’s employe whose criminal care- ' lessness imperiled many lives. This is ' the second time within a year that the ' same thing has occurred. l EArLY Friday morning a huge wave swept into the mouth of the Chicago I River from the lake and played havoe ' with the shipping moored there ready | to start eastward with the opening of l navigation. Considerable damage was | done and it will take several days to re- . store order out of the chaos created by f the unusual occurrence. The wave was ' five feet from trough to crest and car- | ried away everything that fell in its " path. Theories as to its cause were plentiful. Some old lakemen declared

that there must have been & voleanic disturbance in the lake, while others y | again declared it to be a species of tidal | | Wave, and were inclined to connect it with the warm, sultry weather that followed. As the wave swept in between ' | the pier-heads and bore up the river, it | | tore huge cteamers and bargee from their moorings, and, as it receded, it | carried them out into the lake. s l NINE men were instantly killed and ' ! six others seriously injured at 6 o’glock | Friday evening at Heanger’s camp, on i the line of the Drainage Canal, at | Romeo, three miles north of Lockport, lIL., by the falling of a massive jron i crane., . A high wind was blowing . at the time, and the men had taken | shelter in a shed from ‘the gtorm | which was raging when the huge weight fell, crushing the shed to atoms. !ghe | men were buried beneath the brgken | timbers, and their bodies horribly py- | tilated. Yet, strange to say, the men | who were at work on the crane escaped { with their lives, while those who gad {-fled to the refuge offered by the shed | were the only ones to suffer, The body -of Samuel Carnes, the foreman of the | men,was identified among the dead. The | work of release was necessarily slow or. l account of the peculiar manner in which | the crane fell. The expressions or the faces of some of the dead were ealm and peaceful, so suddeniy had the megsenger of destruct'on come, while others indicated a full appreciation of the horrors of the situation. A majorit§ of the dead are colored men, wh ‘_',“: best known by numbers, so thal 11 well nigh impossible to obtain 1 list of ‘the deady .« e ! 'SOUTHERN. : VorLcaNTs in various parts of Mexico are becoming more active than for many decades, CONGRESSMAN HuTcHINSON, of ’ Texas, was arrested for attempting to ' shoot W. O. Ellis, a political enemy., % A LARGE gathering of Union and Con- | rederate veterans celebrated the thirty- | first anniversary of the battle of Shiloh | at New Orleans. | JoHN R. UPSCHURCH, Deputy United | States Marshal of Raleigh, N, C., was i fatally shot while attempting to arrest

a counterfeiter.™ i TaE Confederate Home for Soldiers and Sailors was dedicated Thursday i at Jacksonville, Fla. CONSTABLE CHARLES E. PATE, of l Menifee, Ark., was fatally shot while attempting to arrest a negro. The murderer will be lynched if caught. = . -* THE Allan-Bradley Distillery Company’s immense warehouse at Louis- # ville, with 12,000 barrels of whisky was burned. The total loss is $630,000, DuN~x Moore shot and killed Thomas Moore, a negro farm hand at Strong’s Station, Miss., while trying to defend himself from an assault that may prove fatal. VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON made the opening speech for a fair at Raltimore, the proceeds of swhich will be used to erect a monument to Maryland heroes of 1776. | MorEe of A. R. Sutton’s forgeries of warehouse receipts come to light every day at Louisville. They now amount to §350,000 and many think they will reach $500,000, | THE Choctaw controversy in Tesgs may end in bloodshed. ~,XX.M I'militia are InduTifng too frealy in wiseeky. and evil tempers against the Indtans are running riot. | F. C. NEwunsoN, Superintendent of Transportation of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad, is to be appointed General Manager of the Coi- ] orado Midland, to succeed H. Colbran.

WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY'S list of appointments sent to the Senate was as follows: James S. Ewing of IMinois, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Belgium; Thomas T. Crittenden of Missouri, to be Consul General of the United States at the City of Mexico; Louis C. Hughes of Arizona, to be Governor of Arizona; William T. Thornton of New Mexico, t¢ be Governor of New Mexico; William M, Muize of Ohio, to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Columbus, Ohio. Tar full list of nominations sent to the Senate Tuesday is as follgws: Jas, 0. Broadhead, of Missouri, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Switzerland; Bartlett Trip, of South Dakota, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria-Hungary; Eben Alexander, of North Carolina, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Greece, Roumania and Servia; James E. Neal, of Ohio, to be Consul at Liverpool; James M. Dobbs, of Georgia, Consul at Valparaiso; Q. O. Eckford, of Mississippi, Consul at Jamaica; David N. Burke, of New York, Consul at Pernambuco; Edgar Whidden, of Maine, Consul at St. Stephen, N. B.; Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, Consul at Barmen; Asa D. I'ickinson, of New York, Congué%fi %.‘ ssachu’s‘e%ts.B ggnsul at Sherbrooke; Charles . Tngersoll, of Pennsylvania, to be Appraiser of Merchandise in ihe District of Philadelphia; Paul F. Faison, of North "Carolina, to be an Indian inspector.

It was Chili during the last administration. It may-be its neighbor, Peru, during this. It appears that the United States Consuiate at one of the Peruvian ports has heen sacked by a mob, with apparent police sanction. The officer acting as Consular Agent for the United States was fired upcn and wounded in the foot The news comes in a brief telegram through the United States Minister to Peru. He omitted such essential details as the name of the place and the name of the wounded ofiicer, or they were dropped from his dispatch in the telegraphic transmission. His telegram is as follows: At [place omitted] mob attacked the Masonic Lodge, sacked the building, and burned the fixtures in the street. Incidentally the United States Consulate was invaded, the furnishings destroyed, and the Acting Consular Agent shot in thefoot. The archives were saved intact. A squad of Peruvian police looked on while the mob performeéd its work without interference. The mail brings the particulars. Hicxks. Secretary Gresham conferred with the President on the subject and sent the following telegram to the Minister: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, . WASHINGTON, D. C, Hicks, Minister, Lima; Protest against the failure of the authorities to afford protection to the Consulate; and if the facts are well established ask an expres,#ion of regret, prompt prosecution of the

el roheny orpemon ' Shik L POLITICAL. REPUBLICANS were generally success« ful in the elections of third-class towns in Kansas, ~ Mg=s. ANNA POTTER, the woman candidate for Mayor of Kancas City, received exactly twenty-five votes. RHODE ISnAND Democrats elected Baker Governor and both their candidates for Congress. The Legislature is in doubt. SENATOR GORMAN, who was Chairman o the Nationa! Committee of Cleveland’s first election, will keep ur hostilities to the Prasident by not signIng any recommendations for appointments, CARTER H. HirRISON was elected Mayor of Chicago on the Demoecratic ticket, Tuesday, by « plurality of near1y 20,000, in a tota! of over 200,000, owvar Samuel W. Allerton, Republiean-Citi-zens; D, C. Cregier, Labor: and Ehrengn_es, Bocialist. He was opposed DY every newspaper in the city except the Evening Mail and the morning Times—the latter his own paper. The Herald, Inter Ocean, Tribune, News, Record, Dispateh, Staats-Zeitung, and a score of lesser papers all bitterly opposed him. The entire Democratic city ticket was also elected. _ FOREIGN, '~ CouxT Lro TonsTtor has expressed his intention of coming to the World’s Fair, ONE THOUSAND Chinese actors are coming from Canton to the World's Fair. CoUNT HERBERT BISMARCK has consented to run for the German reichstag in the interest of the agrarian party. THE new French Cabinet so far as completed is as follows: M. Charles Dupuy, Premier and Minister of the Interior; Paul Louis Peytral, Finance; Senator FEugene (uererin, Justice; Raymond Poincarre, Public Instruction: Louis Terrerier, Commerce: Admiral Rieunier, Marine; Jules Develle, Foreign Affairs; Francois Viette, Public Works; Gen. Loizillon, War; Albert Viger, Agriculture.

: IN GENERAL VlGorovs denials of the reports of martial law in Chili have been received. ' THE directors of the Southeru Pasifie Railroad Company re-clected their old officers. OBITUARY: At Baltimore, Capt. W. E. Spencer, U. 8. A., retired, aged 69. At Managna, Panama, Dr. Salvator Scaza, " brother of the President of Nicaragua. THE secret of the mysterious disappearance of McLean Kertiand, of the Imperial Loan Company, of Toronto, is revealed. He is a defaulter to the extent of $30,000. THE steam schooner Alice Blanchard, from Puget Sound,w«nt ashore Wednesday at Yakima Bay. She had been disabled at sea and attempted to put in uutil the storm passed. A CORRESPONDENT in Rivera sends W’ . v f the Casi 4 hyr thau avwviutivaaous 1N 10 ‘Grande do Sul, Brazil. A revolutionary army of 4,000 men is now enéamped around Alogrete, which they have strongly fortified. Students ia the Argentina National College in Catmarca, armed with revolvers. assaulted the professors of that institution last nicht. Twenty-three of them were captured and put in ypricon. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says there are grave fears among the supporters of the government that a revolution is about to be organized. STARTLING news reached Point Conception lighthouse that the four-masted steel ship King James, coal-laden, from Newcastle, England, to San Francisco, had burned at sea 200 miles off San Francisco. A boat containing sixteen mer from the King James landed at Point Conception lighthonse, where they were cared for by the lighthousekeeper. On the 19th of March vapor was discovered arising from the hold of the King James. and the hold gradually grew hotter. Water was poured down the hatchway, but without -avail. For eleven days and nights the crew fought the fire, but on March 30 a terrifle explosion tore up the deck in all directions. Flames shot up high in air, and the crew were forced to take to the boats. They remained near the ship until March 31, when they started for Point Conception.

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THE RED DPESTROYER.: S | VAST PROPERTIES GO UP IN SMOKE. Fall of an Indianapolis Attorney—Speculative Markets Generally Quiet — Fled from Flames to Drown—Choice Assortmcent of Weather for One Day. Rich Harvest of Flames, AT Owensboro, Ky., the four large warehouses of the Glenmore Distilling ' Company burned. The buildings contained 18,987 bharrels of whisky. The entire loss is estimated at $350,000. This amount does not include the loss of three cottages just above the distillery which were also destroyed. The loss is | fully covered by insurance. AT Ironton, 0., the Yellow Poplar | Lumber Company’s plant was burned. ’ The trestle of the Norfolk and Western L Rallroad was also destroyed and the | passage of all trains stopped. Thirty | dwellings were burned, mtching‘ from sparks from the burning mill. | Twenty-two families ae made des- | titute by the fire, losing all " their clothes and household goods. Mrs. ! Brush, an invalid, who was confined to | her bed, was burned to death. Thel Norfolk and Western Road lost seven- | teen cars. The foreman at the mill | places the loss on the property at | $400,000. The loss on the dwellings | will reach $70,000. Two hundred and fifty persons are thrown out of em-\ loyment. Clifton, a village just below g’omemy, Ohio, on the West Virginia side of the river, was almost completely wiped out by fire. Twenty-five houses, three stores and the salt works were consumed. Loss estimated at $30,000. The wholesale grocery house of W, D. Cleveland & Co., of Houston, Texas, one of the largest in the State, burned. The loss on stock is $125,000; on building, $40,000; insurance on stock, $110,« 000; on building, $30,000, l

Wheat Market Lively, R. G. Dy & Co.’s weekly review qtf trade says: Speculation has been renewed in wheat, with an advance here of about two cents on sales "of 32,000,000 bushels, Western receipts were 2,300,000 bushels in four days and Atlantic exports only 700.000 bushels, and the stocks in sight continue unprecedeénted. Corn dropped one-half cent and one and three-quarters on small transactions, while pork fell §1 per Larrel. lard 60 ‘ cents, and Logs 80 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton also declined a quarter, with continuing full receipts from p'antations, but recovering an eighth because of better buyIng at Liverpool. Coffee'has declined fiveeighths of a cent, with small sales. Copber was weaker at 1114 cents for lake, and tin Is unchanged, while lead’ is hardening at 4.05 cents, but the tone of speculative warkets generally is not enthusiastic. Close Call for Sioux Falls. Sloux. Faruns, 8. D., narrowly escaped a most disastrous fire Friday afternoon. While a gale of wind was blowing from the west the prairie west of town caught fire and the blaze swept rapidly toward the outskirts, Lurning several small buildings and a considerable amount of grain. It rushed through a large grove with flames thirty feet high, and was only ten minutes distant from a street containing a number of handsome houses occupied by the wealthiest people in town. The flames were subdued after burning one ¢f those hranma= and gpnrf)-‘f:\n‘g“sn’c Our Glorious Climate. Fripavy, while Kansas City and adjacent localities were sweltering in a temperature of %0 to 96 degrees, Chicago in one of 83, and almost the entire Northwest gasped in a veritdble simoom, Troy and Syracuse, N. Y., and Boston, Mass., enjoyed a snowfall of three to five inches.

BREVITIES, | MANAGER J. M. Hinw is ill with pneumonia at New York. MINNESOTA is to have a new Capitol building, to cost $2,000,000. Nilcx STEUER and his wife were killed at Cumminsville, 0., by a train. THE search for William Spense, of the ill-fated King James, which was burned at sea two weeks ago, has been fruitless. JoHN DOLLARD, inember of the Norfolk, Va., City Council, was shot and killed by a burglar in his store. The man escaped. FIERCE prairie fires swept through Banner, Keith, Dawson, Blaine and adjoining counties in Nebraska. Fort Robinson troops had to fight fire to save their quarters. AT Indianapolis, Ind., Attorney John R. McFee, who was brought back from Philadelphia recently on three indictments for uttering forged paper on Judge Pierce Norton, his law partner, went into court and pleaded guilty. McFee had already made a confession, showing severe repentance, and it was expected that by a plea of guilty he would escape with a nominal sentence. Judge Cox indicated that the prisoner must pay the p nalty of his crime, and fixed the punishment at three years in prison. THE house of Claus Frahm, Hastings, ' Neb., was burned, no one being in the house save Mrs. Frahm. The blaze was' easily extinguished, and search was made for Mrs. Frahm. She was found dead in the bathtub, covered by a foot of water, with her clothes and flesh burned considerably. The supposition is that the bed and her wrapper were in some way ignited. She rushed to the bathroom adjoining, either fainted and was drowned, or else the shock of the cold water stopped the action of her heart. THE French legation at Washington is to be raised to ihe rank of an embassy. AUsTIN CoRBIN and several other leading capitalists are said to be promoting the*New York Underground Railroad. OTTO ANDERSON and Oscar Swenson were asphyxiated by gas at Boston, and Sophia Molery was overcome, WiLn JoxESs, aged 19, was killed at Lexington, Ky., while training a yearling colt for Murphy & Holloway. TaE Chattanooga cyclorama building at the World’s Fair collapsed in a high wind. MRs. MARY VoN DER EMSBE, of Terre Haute, Ind., has brought suit against her husband, asking that their marriage be annulled on the ground of bigamy. |

iAFTER FORTY YEARS. .*“—_“ MORMONS DEDICATE THEIHR FAMOUS TEMPLE. [ts Beauties Rival Those of the Celebrated Old World Structures—lt Is Built to Withstand the Storms of a Thousand . Years. Forty Years to a Day. The great Mormon Temple, the Temple of God, which was begun Feb. 6, i 1853, and erected at NS a cost of $5,000,000, ™ was dedicated Thurs--53; day in the presence . AW T, {of a vast throng of =l ¢"’ \\\ believers at Salt Lake ol £ \ City, Utah. Mormons =¥ /-, lrom every city and 7 & / town in Utah swarmed into the city and the BRIGHAMYOUNG. wyagt edifice was surrounded by a great multitude. Tha temple itcelf was crowded almost to suffocation and it was estimated that between 60,000 and 70,000 people entered the building before the services ended, The Temple is the overtowering obe jeet which strikes the eye of the trave eler as he enters'the Sa!t Laka Valley. The first idea gained on beholding it is that of an enormous castle of feudal | times, and its mammoth proportions | and the solidity of the great blocks of | stone suggest that it will last as long \as any of the grandest architectural achievements of antiguity. On a nearer approach the effect of the battlements, which give the idea of a castle, disap- ’ pear, and the tall spires and numerous narrow windows, with the figure of the angel surmounting the highest steeple, suggest a cathedral of magnificent dimensions, It was on the 24th of July, 1847, that the Mormons entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake and decided that here was their resting place, the promised ’ land for which they had been in search. Four days afterward, in making a sur- | vey of the then sagebrush covered plain, - Brigham Young, their leader, struck his cane on the ground at a point midway between two running streams and exclaimed: “Here shall be erected the temple of our God.” Six years later the corner stone of the present structure was laid. It was forty years to the day, almost to the hour, since the ceremony of laying the four corner-stones was celebrated in an imposing manner by Brigham Young and all the chief dignitaries of the church living at that time. On April 6, 1853, the immense excavation

N Y = R ba SR N o o [ TELES o Sz, 00,2 0 [sqq%@ %flf e el LD R e et = R o ARO = L 2 o (TN e ,lj_? e s e ’/4 =T Al THE $5,000,003 MORMON TEMPLE. having been previously completed, all the bands and choirs in the city were called out and the entire population of ‘the city, numbering then about fve - thepgsnd., pesembled. RndheSHewhs first laid. Since that time the work of building the Temple has been prosecuted in the face of enormous difficulties. For the first twenty vears the work proceedad very slowly, all the stone having to be conveyed from the quarry by means of ox teams, six or eight animals usually being employed to transport a single rock from the quarry to the Temple Bloek and four days being required to make the trip. When Johnstone’s army invaded Utah in 1857 the walls of the Temple, which had then reached a level with the ground, were hastily covered over with earth, and the Mormons fled from the city, abandoning it to the army. After Jchnstone retired the walls were uncovered again and work was resumed where it was left off. At the completion of the Union Pacific Railway a track was laid to the quarry, and from that time forward the work was pushed with great vigor, so that although it is forty years since the building was commenced, not more than twenty-five have actually been expended in its construction. Like the Jews of old, the building of temples has always held a cardinal place in the faith of the Mormons. The Balt Lake Tewmple is the sixth building of the kind they have completed and the seventh they have begun. The first was commenced at Independence, Mo., in 1831,,and dedicated by Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, but was abandoned shortly afterward owing to mob violence. Tlre second was builtin Kirtland, Ohio, in 1833, and completed in" 1836, When the Mormons left Ohio the building passed into the hands of the Josephites, the anti-polygamy fac- ' tion of the church, who still hold- it The third temple was built in Nauvoo, 111.,7in 1841, and finished in 1815, but was destroyed by fire in 1848, and razed to tho ;zx‘otfnd when Nauvoo was sacked by the opponents of the Mcrmons. The other temples are located in St. George, Utah, built from 1873 to 1877; in Logsn, Utah, built from 1877 to 1884; and in Manti, Utah, built from 1879 to 1888, The cost of all its predecessors combined, however, does not amount to more than one-half of the money expended in the construction of the Salt Lake editice. : Some of the main dimensions of the building are as follows: Its whole length, including towers, is 186} feet; its width is 99 feet; the three towers on the east rise to a height of 2224 feetin the center and 188 feet on the sides. The three west towers are from 3 to 10 feet shorter. The height of the walls to the top of the rocck work 1s 1673 feet. The thickness of the walls at the bottom is 9 feetand at the top 6 feet. The thickness of the footing wall is 16 feet, and the whole building covers an area of 21,850 square feet. Each corner tower has a staircase of solid granite, cut by hand, of over two hundred steps The building has its own electric plant, heating apparatus, cooling machines power for elevators, ete., and the speetaclo at night, when all the pinnacles l as well as the crown of the angel’s figure on the central tower are illuminated with electricity, is strigking and brillant in the extreme. Simply Boiled to Deiath. At Ozark, Mo., John Pattent, son of Ziegle Pattent, fell into a tub of boiling water, from which he died immediately in the greatest agony. The family was present, but could do nothing.