St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 June 1893 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEFENDEHi. ' , i WALKERTON* . . _ INDIANA 1 I LOOTED BY ROBBERS, j BENTONVILLE. ARK.. BANK A j HEAVY L OSER. Important Declaration on the Financial j Question Made by the President—Meeting of the Anti-Trust Association—Another Follower of BriggsArkansas Bank Robbed by Bandits. The People’s Bank at Bentonville, Ark., was robbed by a band of six desperadoes from the Indian Territory Monday afternoon and over SIO,OOO was । secured. Citizens, who were at first ; panic-stricken, recovered and pursued the bandits, who kept up a steady return fire, covering the two main streets of the town. Assistant Cashier Jackson was shot in the head and arm, but his injuries are not serious. Taylor Storm, a farmer who fired upon the robhers with a shotgun, was shot through the right groin and killed. Tom Baker, a farmer, was shot in the chin, and in return wounded one of the robbers. Toto Woolsey, a drayman, also wounded one. Outfljw of Gold Mint Cease. The President said on Monday, in 1 reply to a direct Question, that he in- < tended to call an extra session of Con- • gress not earlier than the Ist nor lat r 1 than the 15th of September, unless un- ] expected contingencies should necessi- i tate an earlier meeting. The President 1 further said: While there has been no mystery or secrecy in regard to my intention in this matter I think it not amiss that our people should be informed authoritatively that the time is at hand when their representatives in Congress will be called upon to deal with a financial condition which is the only menace to the country’s welfare and prosperity. It is well for the people to take up the subject for themselves, and arrive at their own conclusions as to the merits of a financial policy which obliges us to purchase idle silver bullion with gold taken from our reserve. One does not need the eye of a financier to see that this gold thus subtracted fiom the government's st >ck is eagerly seized by other nations for the purpose of strengthening their credit at our expense. It does not need the art of statesmanship to detect the danger that awaits upon the continuance of this operation. Already the timidity of capital is painfully apparent, and none of us can fail to see that fear and apprehension in monetary circles will ultimately bring suffering to every humble home in our land. I think that between now’ and the meeting of Congress much depends upon the action of those engaged in financial operations and business enterptrises. Our vast national resources and credit are abundantly sufficient to justify theip in the utmost faith and confidence. If instead of being frightened they are conservative, and if instead of gloomily anticipating immediate disaster they contribute their share of hope and steadiness, they will perform a patriotic duty and at the same time protect their own interest. The things just now needed are coolness and calmness in financial circles, and study and reflection among our people. A -ainst All Trusts. The Anti-Trust Convention which met at Apo^o Music .Hail in Chicago imposing as to numa representative one was Lillies "j/e/ice.to a teßolution passed who- ^^//siatur’e of his State, issued ration to all the S'ates of the i Union to take part in a conference to i devise means to alolish trusts and combines. Thirty-four States responded by appointing delegates and nearly that many States were represented on the opening day. Appointments by the President. The President Monday appointed Charles W. Dayton of New York to be Postmaster of that city; Charles H. Mansur of Missouri to be Second Comptroller of the Treasury; John W. Webster of New Mexico to be a Commissioner from the Territory of New Mexico to the World’s Columbian Commission. BREVITIES? President Cleveland has returned to Washington from his fishing trip. The foot-race from Berlin to Vienna was won by a vegetarian competitor. Forgeries by the Rev. R. S. Deener, of Batesville, Ark., will probably reach $40,000. The iron works of J. B. & J. M. MoConnell,in New York City .were burned. Loss, $200,00 >. The Rev. R. S. Deener, pastor of the Methodist Church at Batesville, Ark., was arrested charged with forgery. The Fisher & Burnett Lumber Company, with headquarters at Memphis i and New York, has made an assignment. It is believed that the liabilities ’ will exceed $500,000. Cashier Ezra D. Higgins, of the defunct First National Bank of Ponca, ' Neb., was imprisoned on the indictment ’ charging him with complicity in the ; wrecking of the bank.* The arrest of > Dorsey has not yet been made. telegraphs that it may be of general in- I terest to know that a large group of i spots are now clearly visible on the sun, which can be seen with the naked eye by the use of smoke I glass. The Rev. Dr. James H. Ecob, of Albany, one of the brightest lights in the Presbyterian (hurch, has announced from the pulpit his determination to withdraw from the church, because he entertains the same liberal views as Dr. Briggs. He advocates the establishment of a free church of America. Du. Sr. Clair Smith left Edwin Booth at midnight Sunday, and reported that there had been no decided change in the patient’s condition. Mr. Booth is grow.ng weaker as the hours pass, and his death is not far off. Joseph Jefferson saw his old friend during the day, and bade him farewell. The last meeting and parting of these two life-long friends was very affecting. At Chautauqua, N. Y., Mrs. O. C. Colton and Dr. W. K. Elderkin were found dead in the Doctor’s office, a written statement left by the Doctor saying that he had performed an operation which resulted in the death of his patient, and preferred himself to die rather than face the consequences. Mamie Schwartz, who was kidnaped from West Superior, Wis., last June, h is been found. Four men werekiile 1 in a cyclone at Spanish Camp, Texas, among them a negro over a hundred years old. 1t0LK....

EASTERN. I j The New York Chamber o' Commerce I has adopted a revolution calling on । Congress to repeal the Sherman silver purchase act. ! The assignee of H. H Warner, who ; recentlj’ failed at Rochester, N. Y., re- | ports that the assets will not exceed i $50,000. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000 . The furniture of Mrs. Frank Le lie’s New York residence was sold at auction. She expects her decree of divorce from | “Willie” Wilde to be handed down in a | few days and sho will sail for Europe. I A mortgage executed by the Big i Four Railroad to secure a loan of $50,000,000 from the Mercantile Trust Company, of New York, and Theodore P. Hughey, of Indianapolis, trustee, was filed at Layton, Ohio. St. Luke’s Hospital site in Fifth avenue, between Fifty-fourth and Fiftyfifth streets, New York, has been sold for S2,SOO,O>' 0, possession to be given one year from date, when the money will be paid. The property cost the ! hospital originally only $50,000. Aeronaut Purcell Thomas undertook to make a parachute jump with an ordinary umbrella from the pinnacle of the Parade House at Buffalo Tuesday. The umbrella failed to check his descent and he was dashed to the pavement below before the eyes of his wife, Who had intended to duplicate his feat. The Maj’ session of the Rhode Island Legislature, which is held in Newport only for the installation of State officers —the legislative session being regularly i held at Providence in January—-now j promises to end in hopeless deadlock and dissolution, the incumbent State • officers holding over until further action ; (if anj’ can be had) next winter. The rejection by the Roosevelt Hos- I pital Trustees at New York of Mrs. | Abram A. Anderson’s gilt to charity of | over $350,000 to be applied through the hospital has occasioned great surprise. The gift was made last December, when Mrs. Anderson’s offer to erect and maintain a department for the hospital to be known as the Millbank Memorial, in honor of her father, the celebrated Dr. Millbank, was accepted by the Roosevelt trustees with enthusiasm. By aavice of the trustees Mrs. Anderson decided to devote $150,0G0 to a permanent endowment for the pavilion and to expend $2 0,000 in the erection of the building. It was recently found that $200,000 would not complete the work as planned, and Mrs. Anderson offered to retain the endowment intact bj 7 adding to the gift all the monej’ necessary to complete the work and $50,000 a year in addition i to the incoming endowment to defray j Its expenses. But it is now 7 said that I every proposition has been rejected by j the Roosevelt trustees. The cause of । the rejection of the gift is apparently unknown outside of the Board of Trustees. WESTERN.' A freight train came in collision with a motor car at the Main street crossing, Council Bluffs, lowa, and one otherperby a vote of 49 to 61. It sought to remove the limit of $5,000 damages for death in railroad accidents. Isaac Mann, a farmer of Bryan, Ohio, was the victim of confidence men ‘ in the sum of $2,000, at Lin a, Ohio. One of the men was afterward arrested I and the entire sum recovered. A fire in a lumber district of Mil- ! waukee did damage estimated at from , $60,000 to $103,000, divided between : C. A. Beck, the Milwaukee Lumber Company, and the Spurney Fuel Com- | pany. Archbishop Kenrick, of St Louis, । has been overruled at Rome in the mat- : ter of certain disputes arising in Kansas, and a bishop is now to be named | for the newly created see of Con- \ cordia. A passenger train on the Louisville, ! New 7 Albany and Chicago was wrecked : near Broa' l Ripple, Ind., and Engineer I George E. Tant was kited, and Fireman Williams was injured, it is thought, fatally. Father Peiffer, a Catholic priest of Duelm, Minn., is a believer in muscular Christianity. A warrant is out for his arrest for beating a parishioner who left the church while the contribution plate was being passed. The Spanish Club, of St. Louis, which has invited Mexicans who this year visit Chicago to accept the hospitality I of St. Louis, is embarrassed because the necessary funds for entertainment ■ cannot be raised. | The J. H. McLa n Machine Company at Canton, Ohio, has failed, and perI sonai assignments have been made by ! the two principal owners, President J. jH. McLain and his son, Frank C. Mo- 1 'Lain. The liabilities are $150,000. In a row over their partnership affairs i । nb Trenton j [ beat H. W. Covington on the heal in j their carpenter shop on St. Peter street and it is feared the injuries will prove fatal. Trenton was arrested ami claims Covington was the aggressor. The little town of Ellettsville, Ind., was surprised Monday by the failure of the Worley Bank, a private institution. The liabilities are about $35,(00 and the assets will reach $50,0(0. It is beI lieved that the bank will pay all obligations. The depositors are all local. One woman was killed and two men and a woman were seriously injured Friday evening in a collision between a train and a street car at a Hoek Island crossing in Chicago. The cause of the accident, it appears, is found in the same old story—a careless gatemen. There is now a suspicion at Indianapolis that the deaths bj 7 poison in the Koester family were the work of one who would inherit the property, the servant girl now under arrest being perhaps in guilty collusion with the heir, whom she may have expected to marry. C. C. Benton, Treasurer of the Eroadwaj 7 Theater in Denver, Colo., and Harry Watcham, advertising agent of the Brown Palace Hotel, had a fight in the foyer of the theater as the climax of an old dissension. Benton was the aggressor and was arrested. He was released on $1,060 bail. The Bank of Beresford, Beresford, i S. D., a private concern, at the head of ! which is A. A. Ames, has failed. It is

[ believed the depositors will be hca/y | i losers. The cause of the failure was ' heavy losses on running horses sustained by Ames, who was a track follower and the owner of a large string. The steel steamer Corsica was in collision with an unknown schooner fifteen miles off Thunder Bay Island i on lake Huron, at daybreak Friday morning, in a fog. The schooner was cut in two end went to the bottom instantly. Her entire crew was ; lost. Captain William Cumming, of the ’ Corsica, thought his boat would remaim j afloat until he could bring it into harbor, but the water continued to ga'n so I I rapidly on the pumps, which were set I ’ at work, that he was forced to give up all idea of reaching a harbor. It be- ■ came a question whether his boat would ' remain afloat until he could reach the beach, toward which he was heading with the full power of the engines. In that effort Capt. Cumming was successful, and the Corsica was run ashore in ■ Thunder Bay, just below Ossineke. The bows are all crushed in for a considerable distance, and twenty-four big steel plates are loosened. ( A reign of terror existed at Lemont, 111., Friday. The thirty-eight saloons . were crowded with 2,00 ) striking quart $ rymen and canal laborers. Thursday^ night they marched through the prinef- ff: pal streots demanding higher wages Kand cursing their bosses, supervisor CSi A. Weimer an 1 a force of Deputy K Sheriffs attempted to quiet the excited, ment. Mayor J. W. McCarty passel ! word around among the 500 members of the Citizens’ Protective Association to ’ be ready for an instant call to arms. i Several bosses are in bed with bruised bodies and broken arms. One negro, ■ while fleeing from the mob of excited s Poles and Swedes, was killed by a Santa Fe train. Charles Burnes, gen- । eral drainage foreman, is momentarilj 7 j expected to die from wounds in iieted I : by the strikers. Foreman Powderly is i not expected to live, and Foreman 1 । Larson had his arm broken by a striking negro connected with the quarry i strike at Joliet. SOUTHERN. Eudora, Ark., was destroyed by a cyclone Thursday. Friedlander, the leading merchant of the village, was killed outright, his store having blown down on him. About twenty dwellings were destroyed, one negro child being killed and several negroes injured. Rosedale, Miss., was wiped out by a cyclone. No definite details have been received. The southern part of Arkansas buffered great damage. No lives were lost but many buildings were completely demolished. Crops were swept awaj 7 and live stock lost in great numbers. Richmond, Va., dispatch of Wednesday: The remains of Jefferson Davis j were to-day laid away in the cemeterjin this city. The leader of the Confederacy, the hero of the South, is now finallj- at rest, his remains covered by the soil of Virginia, the mother of Presidents. The head of the grave is ’ lined with a national Confederate, flag, the foot with the ConfedJ exate battle flag, and the sides with the Federal bars. Around the mound arn hoaond flowers fro:nJi draped with mourning. Him wuxrl^f South, but Richmond in particu ar, paid | its last honors to the loved dead, and, * though the cause he espoused was lost, i those honors were as manj 7 and sincere ; as could have been bestowed upon the i departed king of a triumphant people. WASHINGTON I The greatest ecclesiastical trial of I : modern times, as it is termed, was be- | ; gun Monday in the New York Avenue I ' Presbyterian Church, at Washington, । when Dr. Briggs, the I nion Seminary professor, faced his accusers and his ■ 500 judges. The General Assembly of i the Presbyterian Church in the United : States of America sat as a high court. * The issue is one which a large portion iof the church regard as one of the l gravest that has ever risen in the church. To their minds the most serious consej quences will ensue if the church does not through its highest authority, pronounce anathema against Dr. Briggs, j In his defense Dr. Briggs said, in part. I that he had been accused of teaching ■ that many of the Old Testament oredictions have been reversed by history. ; and that the great body of the Messianic prediction had not been, and would, not be fulfilled, which was contrary to : the essence of the Holy Scripture and ; of the standards of the church, that I God is true, omniscient, ano unchangei able. This he had repudiated. What, he said was this: “Kuenan had shown that if we insist upon the iuliillment of the details of the prophecy of the । Old Testament, many of the prej dictions had been reversed by hisi tory, and the great body of I the Messianic prediction has not ’ only never been fulfilled, but cannot ; now be fulfilled for the reason that its j own time has passed forever.” All def pended on the word “if.” which the com- ! mittee had omitted. He had disclaimed ) this charge before and disclaimed it i now. He also disclaimed that he vras UtiiLty of teaching a.s> ohin ; 7, that the proc< of redriuption ex- : tended to the world to come in the case 1 of many who died in sin, stating that I he had repudiated the Roman Catholic i doctrine of purgatory, also the doctrine l of future probation and regeneration ■ after death or any beginning of Chris- < tian life after death. Another step has been made by the ; General Assembly at Washington, in [ convicting Prof. Briggs of heresy. ' Wednesday night it sustained the api peal from the New York Presbytery by the following vote: To sustain, 298; to i ' sustain in part, 85; total, 383; not to i sustain, 116. Having decided 1 y a vote of 333 to I 116 that it had a heretic on its hands ’ in the person of Dr. Briggs, the first I thing for the Presbyterian General Asi sembly to do when it met Thursday ! j morning was to consider what should ।i be done with him Accordingly a comj mittee was appointed to bring averI diet, and, after a long session, it i brought in this recommendation: “Susi pension from the ministry.” The Assembij 7 promptly adopted the report. POLITICAL.. The lowa Prohibitory State Convention at Des Moines made the following nomination-: Governor, Captain K. W. I Brown, of Ames; Lieutenant Governor, • J. C. Reed, Delta; Supreme Judge, J. IA. Harvey, Polk County; Railroad

Comm'ssioner, E. H. Gillet, a student of Drake University; School Superintendent, Belle H. Mix, of Danville, i Resolutions were reported by the Plat- ' form Committee favoring the enforcement of the prohibitory law throughout ! the State; the restoration of the former i rigid restrictions by the pharmacy law; 2 cents per mile railroad passenger j faie; civil service reform, postal banks ! postal telegraph, 1 cent postage, repeal I of the Sherman silver law, an I the i change in the ratio of coinage by put- j ting a dollar’s worth of silver in a dol- ! lar, after which coinage to be tree and I unrestricted, woman’s suffrage, restriction of immigration, opposition to hasty ' and indiscriminate naturalization, re- ' peal <f the Geary law, and abrogation । of the Russian treaty. FOREIGN, James Gilbert, the dynamiter, who was sentenced for life for trying to blow j up the British Parliament building in ' 1885, has fieen released from Portland ' prison. He is suffering with heart disease. John J. McFarlane, who had been -a fugitive in Brazil, surrendered himIsel 1 ’ to the authorities at Philadelphia was sentenced to four years in the (penitentiary. He was the defaulting [President of the ruined American Life (Insurance Company and a wrecker of [ ithe Bank of America, with which he was 1 also connected. During a fearful cyclone which has , been raging in the Bay of Bengal the i ship Germania was lost and seventy- i four men who were on the vessel lost i their lives. The British bark Rydal- ! mere. Capta n Bernard, which recently i sailed from Calcutta, was swept high ! and dry on shore near Diamond Har- j Lor, on the River Hooghly, thirty-four i miles belo-w Calcutta. The British ship • Glengarry, Captain Lindsay, was aban- i doned at sea, but the crew were saved, j The British steamer Germania sailed i irom Batoum April 22 for Calcutta, and > passed Perim, in the Gulf of Bombay, ! May 5. It is probably the vessel meant i in the above dispatch. A Hull smack was sunk in a collision off Grimsby on Sunday with the steamer Hibernian. Four persons were drowned. IN GENERAL Twenty national banks have closed their doors since Jan. 1. Their combined capital was $6,150,000. Americans in Hawaii have been free with comment on the action of the ' Provisional Government, and President Dale has endeavored to suppress them. Commissioner Blount has given notice that they must not be further harassed. Governor Flower of New York.who is now in Chicago, is reported to have said: “The telephone and telegraph annihilate distance, and so far as public business goes it makes little difference whether I am in Albanj’ or Chicago. ” t The new Mexican stamp law provides that hereafter all advertisements or ) any communication sent to the newsI papers in the nature of an alvertisement must bear aSO cent stamp. The newspapers are making a vigorous pro- | test. ^own-joid Geotge Barker’s wife and MaugntcrffVre W'fhe ruins and supposed to be fatally injured. At Gillsvil’e James Kinsley was killed and his wife badly injured, and in Banks County George Dowdy was killed. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National League: W. L. ?c. I V.’. L. pc. | Pittsburg.. 21 9 .700 New York. 15 17 .469 B< s on 2>) 12 .625 IVashing^on 14 16 .467 । Brooklyn... .17 13 .567 St. Louis .13 16 .443 Philaielu’ia.l7 13 .567 Cincinnati..l4 18 .433 Cleveland.. .13 11 .542 Chicago 12 17 .414 Baltimore . .16 15 .516 Louisville .. 3 18 .143 Military in all its aspects, pea eiul in its teachings, tearful in its reminders, patriotic in its effects, magnificent in its entirety, the Memorial Day parade marched in nearly every Northern State Tuesdaj - afternoon, and received l the cheers of those who formed living banks on either side to watch the marchers as they passed. It was militarj 7 because the memories of the day have to do with war and its effects; it was peaceful be ause of the mingling of forces heretofore hostile; it was tearful because of the ranks of national heroes passing away, reminding those living of their ultimate camping ground; it was patriotic because patriotism always accompanies the meeting of old veterans; it was magnificent because of its completeness and because of the inbred flight the American citizen has TdrAhe pomp and circumstance of war. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime. .. $3 25 @ 621 Hogs —Shipping Grades.. 3vo @ ~ 50 Sheep— Fair to Choice i 00 @5 50 ..Wheat-No. 2 Spring GO @ 67 tons-No. 2 30 @ 40 I •Buiteb- Choije Creamery ... i- ri Eggs— Fresh 131*^ ills Potatoes— New. per bu 85 @ 95 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE—Shipping 3 25 @ 550 Woos—Choice Light 3 50 @ 7 25 SHEEP— Common to Prime 3 CO @ 4 50 Wheat— No. 2 63 @ C3’6 CORN—No. 2 White 42 @ 42’5 Oats —No. 2 White 3435'2 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3 co @ 5 oo Hogs 3 oo @ 7 25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 65 @ 66 Corn— No. 2 36 & 37 Oats— No. 2 29 @ 30 Hye —No. 2 55 57 CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 @ 5 50 Hogs 3uo @ 725 Sheep 300 @ 550 ll HEAT —No. 2 lied 65 @ 65Cj Corn— No. 2 42 ‘-t 4383 Oats— No. 2 .Mixed 32 @ -2'2 IRi E—No. 2 59 @ 61 I DETROIT. Cattle 300 @SOO Hogs 3 00 @ 7 50 Sheep 3 00 4 25 W heat—No. 2 Red... go l - ii 70’.; Corn— No. 2 Yellow 42 Ui 42‘J Oats —No. 2 White 37 @ 38 TOLEDO. WnEAT—No. 2 CS @ 09 Corn— No. 2 Yellow 41Oats —No. 2 White 32 @ 33 Rye 57 @ 59 BCF FALO. I Cattle —Common to Prime.... 350 @5 50 j Hogs —Best Grades 4 00 @ 7 50 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 74 @ 76 No. 2 Red 72 @ 72(4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 66 @ C6^ Corn— No. 3 39 49 Oats —No. 2 White 33!j;@ 34U Rye— No. 1 57 * @ 58 ’ Barley— No. 2 57 @ 53 Bosk— Mess 21 25 @2l 75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 50 @ c 00 Hogs 300 @ s 00 Shzep 3 co @ 5 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 75 @ 76 Corn —No. 2 4812@ 49)6 Oats— Mixed Western 38’@ 40 ’ Butter —Creamery 17 @ 19 Pork— New Me-s. 22 25 @2275

VICTORY FOR THE MEN. FORT WAYNE STREET CARS RUNNING AGAIN. . Omaha Sutlers Fearful Damage by Fire j and Flood—Twenty-six .Mexican Miners , Perish—Failure of a Big Chicago Bank I -Rich Signs All Bills. I Strike at Fort Wavne Settled. | The strike of the motormen and coni ductors on the Fort Wayne Electric ; Load resulted in a victory for the men. । Thej’ agreed to go back to work at 13J cents an hour until Juno 15, the regular pay day, when the wages demanded by them, 15 cents an hour, will be paid. The company retains in its employ at the hea t of the list the six non-union men who operated a few cars under । showers of eggs and s'.ones during the [strike, and six of the <ld regulars go ( down to the bottom of the extra list to ■ make room for the new men. f Icported hale of .Te-uxt list The sensation of the hour in Montreal (Que.) political circles is the report that the Quebec Government has <1 •- cided to sell or lease the Jesuit estates ; throughout the province to a svn lie .te [ from Montreal and Quebec. A low I estimate of the value of the whob' propI (rty places it at considerably ov r I | sl3 00,009, while there is said to Ie due j ' to it for arrears of rent nearly $200,' o : and it is claimed that the Government j ■ is making a deal wit 1 some of its pclitHcal friends whereby to r. ap a benefit j This th 1 Government denies, hut it :s * positively asserted that a weil-Mown Quebec man has already been sele ted ’ to act as adminis rator of th ■ new synj dicate, and c ertain law firms in Quebec i and Montr al are fixed upon to conduct ; its legal business. G<r . Rich Approv?; Every Bill, j Gov. Rich, of Michigan, disposed of i [ all measures Friday night and a i le- । ceived his sanction. He has not vetoed ‘ a bill since the session began. The bills signed include the so-called “jagcure bill,” which gives persons copvicted of drunkenness the option of taking the gold cure and the magistrate a like option of permitting him to do so in lieu of imposing a fine. Bills establishing an asylum for the insane in the Upper Peninsula; establishing a hoi e for feeble-minded children; providing for a return to the system of colls c’ing leiinquent taxes, and for the taxation | of inheritances ware also among those. I a pi roved. : By F<re and Flood. Onr of the most disastrous fires of years occurred in Omaha on Saturday

night during a terrific rain and thunder ! storm. The r» suit is the death of four 1 firemen, the wounding of a number of others, and the destruction of $260,000 worth of property. The tire occurred in Shiverick’s mammoth furniture house, and the firemen were killed by falling walls. A restaurant adjoining was crushed and several people buried al ve. The rain accompanying amounted to a cloudburst. Goods were washed out of Stores and hundreds of homes flooded. Forced to Suspend. The private banking firm Gs Herman | of this step was the disappearance oi j the senior member of the firm, Herman | Schaffner. It is believed he drowned himself. The assignee is the American Trust and Savings Bank. Levi Mayer is attorney for the assignee. The deposits in the bank approximate ' and there are other lar_;e liabilities. The assets are much smaller. 1 Eleven In.ju-e.l i i a Wreck. [ A wheck in which eleven persons 1 were injured occurred on the north- [ western division of the Nashville, Chat- ' [ tanoo,;: and St. Loui- Railroad, near i Newsom’s Station,Friday morning. T e ! learcoa h t?f a passenger train from Memphis jumped the track and rolled ’ down an embankment between 39 and 1 P) feet high. Several of the passen--1 gers were severely injured. Tv, oae in i a critical condition. 1 ' NEWS NUGGETS. ( A. R. Sutton, the whisky merchant I ’ . of Louisville, Ky.. who is alleged to I have forged over $359,000 worth of whisky 7 warehouse receipts, was re- [ leased on a $24,009 bond. ’ Twenty-six men working in the 1 1 Fuente coal mines, Just over the Texas t line, perished Saturday in a fire which j ' spread rapidly through a l the workings j 5 of the mine. About twenty-five other ; • miners were at work near the main ; tunnel and were consequently able to ' escape. Ottawa. Ont., disffatch: The Mieh':gan State Board of Health sent two i medical men to the coast Quarantine i stations to examine into their arrange- i ment. It is stated that the men have I demanded of the railway companies sal- ; <>r o ■nonth. wllii 11 two < o: I: - I j panies have not felt themselves in al position to ignore on account of annoy- i ances and hindrances which in event of refusal the Michigan people might subA ject them to at the fron ier. 6 Potter’s Bank, at Paulding, Ohio, ' the oldest bank in the county, and considered one of the safest oncerns, closed its doors Thursday morning. The Lank was established in 1874, and has always d ne a large banking business. Information as to the cause of the assignment seems hard to get. President H. M. Ayres and Yiee President Potter have nothing to say, and Cashier Spon--5 j ster is not to be found. J. B. Bro lnix 2 is the assignee. Several township treasurers are caught. A eeceivei: for the St. Paul Globe I Company his been asked by the cred- ; itors. I The Yietoria Cordage Company at ! Cincinnati has assigned. The failure - 'is the direct result of the recent National Cordage crash.' The DePuaw Plate Glass W rks at Alexandria, Ind., < losed down in lefinitely Fiiday noon, throwing 609 men out of empio m-ut. The reason assigned is the lack of demand : r proda uct, caused by the string-n y in the mon -y market. Fikes in New Orleans destroy- ! the Home Brewery, loss, sls ',9 0; and the Hope Rice Mill, loss $109,000. It has developed in th- trial at Chattanooga. Tenn., that th-' shortage of • O’Brien, as Treasurer of ’.he l'atholic Knights of America, is $75,823.

BRIGGS is”CONVICTED’ the PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY SUSTAINS THE APPEAL. After a Lons and Exciting Session the Finding of the New York Presbytery Is Overruled—All Crops Reported Very Backward. A D 3Cisive Majority. Despite his masterly defense and the heroic efforts of his friends, the enemies of Dr. Charles A. Briggs triumphed in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Washington, and the appeal from the verdict of the New York Presbytery acquitting him of the charge or heresy was sustained by a vote of ^he Clerk announced that 4i9 men i esnonded to their names on the final roll-call. Os these 116 voted not to sustain the appeal, 85 to sustain in part (which is equivalent, however, in the summing up to sustain;, and 298 voted to sustain wholly, making the vote 383 to 116. Dr. Briggs was not present when tbe voting was taking place, as Le Lad been ex -used by the Moderator, at his own request, from the morning session, giving as his reason the fact that he ha-1 become very weary from the long sessions. Dr. Brown sat at the table and recorded the 7 .ote for his own purpose, while in the galleries, one of the most j interested of the hundreds of people l who crowded the church, sat Professor ; Smith, of Cincinnati, pencil and rollcall in hand. Thirty-four votes were taken, one for each specification, Lefore the roll was called. All the specifications under the first, second, third and fifth grounds of the appeal were sustained. Two under the fourth ground were lost. These related to the charge that Dr. George Alexander, Rev. Mr. Arreghi, Dr. Henry M. Field of the ; Evangelist, President Hastings of ’ Union Seminary and Dr. Henry Van j Dyke made speeches at the Presbytery trial taking the manifestations of prejudice. The other specification lost was that Professor Brown, Dr. Field, Dr. Hastings. Dr. Van Dyke and Dr. J. H. Mcllvaine took part in the trial after manifestations of prejudice in the conduct of the case. Three or four of the specifications were sustained by apparently so close a vote that the commissioners were counted. The one relating to the directors, officers and professors of the seminary who had voted to acquit Dr. Briggs in the presbytery was sustained by a vote of 235°t0 234. The members of the New York synod voted almost solidlj* against sustaining the appeal, which was a x’ote for Dr. Briggs. One of the professor’s able supporters, who did not wish to speak for publication, said that the present was only the beginning of the trouble.

UNITED PRESBYTERIANS. Many of the Preachers May Not Attend the Fair. The thirl y-ninth general assembly of <be United Presbyterian Church g; North America, held at Monmouth, IH„ was dissolved Wednesday evenin gMost of the delegates originally into nd ed visiting the World’s F«ir turning home, but tbebar ot tbe a^-eiE-bly deprived many. The mittee on young people’s work mS’coti--664 societies, 28.092 memm^ onio, and - semoiy. Ihe latter place was effoien? i The committee on missions will met; a 1 week previous to the assembly at Portland, Oregon. A special committee was appointed to formulate plans of union with the Holland Christian Reform Church. The board of education committee reported having distributed ail to theological students aggregating $783. A resolution oi the committee prevailed that in the future no aid be given beneficiaries unless thej - are absolute abstainers from tobacco. Appropriations aggregating j $314,458 were voted for the various : boards, including General Assembly expenses. The committee on reform submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted: We urge upon our people to break the bonds of partisanship and In the exercise of the elective franchise make the overthrow of the liquor traffic the foremost consideration; that a bureau of reform be established at Washington to influence national legislation: that Christians should patronize only such papers as are friendly to the Sabbath and Christian I reform. Statistics show elex 7 en synods, sixtytwo presbyteries, SOS ministers and 935 ■congregations; total contributions, sl,40U,0L0. ALL CROPS VERY BACKWARD. Farm Work Has Proceeded as Well as Common in the Northwest. Generally the week has been favor- ; able to crops in the Atlantic coast and Gulf States, and the condition of cotton i is reported to have been decidedly im- ? roved in the Carolinas, Georgia, lorida, and Texas. In the West and Northwest, however, while the weather । has been favorable for the prosecution ' of farm work, it has been too cool for rapid advancement of vegetation and ■ quick germination of seeds. Special telegraphic reports show the I following conditions: | Illinois Rainfall excessive in southern and I central portion, retarding planting: me. lows and pastures good; wheat and rye heading; eight counties report cut worms and army worms in corn and meadows; much com being replanted. Indiana —Weather favorable to crops and farm work; plowing and com planting nearly finished; in most counties wheat,’ oats, rye, and grass in good condition. Michigan-s Cool weather retarded crop growth considerably: grass making heavy growth; early potatoes, rye, and barley doing well; plant ing’com. Wisconsin—All crops promise excellent yield except apples: com and i>otato planting eJbout finished: dairies and cheese factories in full operation. Minnesota—Wheat and grass growing nicely; too cool for corn: corn planting progiessing slowly: barley and flax seeding general. lowa —Weather favorable to grass and small grainl-but too cool for quick germination; nominal growth of com. The Bullington Chicago flyer was wrecked in the yards at Denver. As the train was passing the round-house an engine suddenly started up for no apparent reason and ran directlj 7 into the pass ng train, striking it at a tangent. Three persons were injured. Nelson Mouris, the Cudahys and the J. P. Squire Packing Company are figuring to control the Union Stock Yards at Sioux City. A representative of the syndicate is said to have secured options on any claims against the company. Clayton B. Jewell, superintendent of rainmaking for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, has gone to Southwestern Kansas to break the drouth, which has continued there almost ummerruptedly for more than e:gh: months.