St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 50, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 July 1893 — Page 6

^\<^RTON, /^BEAUTY! Fob r -DWIN TO GET $50,000 DAMAGES. * Score of People Meet Death in a Col- • lapsed Hotel-Last Chapter in the FalIIOUM tf'll J/-..X X

mous Chicago Anarchist Cases-Prtatlng 1 Bonds by Mistake. Her Face Is Her Fortune. v^v 8 ' R Baldwin, of Now ono t S °° n bo in P° ss ession of $50,S “Tn’ r hlC 3,^ e New York Central and Hudson River Railroad i pa»y h„ Io ‘ montfortho l nj „rf M V . he the i ailway disaster at Hastings Christ I mas evening, 1891. This is said to K t ie largest sum of money ever paid to a n.ytaenient for damages I

gation that Mrs. Baldwins tXIMg ’llth 1 ma cew tho railroad’s action all the more interesting. With her ^and’ , another gentleman, her Mi 4 w‘ In ‘ aw ’ 1 and hor sister-in-law -liss Eleanor Baldwin. Mrs. Baldwin i XTnSrhTZ^’ Magara Falls to i • tend Christmas. Ihe young man who i MSgA. und M^l midwin were almost instantly killed. j

fore tho accident Mrs. Baldwin, who / was 26years old. was a beautiful woman. ■ Sho emerged from tho hospital with her life, it is true, but sho was marred almost beyond recognition, with every distinguishing feature gone. Death in the Ruins. Monday morning, at Fort Scott, , Kan., without a moment’s warning, tho Tremont House, a four-story brick structure, collapsed, burying nearly । seventy-five people in the debris. Sud- ■ denly the walls of tho building began , to waver and totter and then they fell. The walls seemed to first spread apart ' so that the floor joists wore drawn out of the brick walls. The three upper ) floors fell on top of one another, carry- j ing their contents down with them. ! At the first cracking noise of the ! parting timbers the people in the ; hotel and in the stores beneath ; sought safety by flight. Those near- | est tho entrances, doors and windows made good their escape, some of ' them missing but by an inch being j caught by the tumbling masonry. For those who were in the middle parts of the stores and for the servants at work in the rooms of tho hotel escape was impossible. They went down with and were crushed beneath the ruins. Tho horror of the thing seemed to daze and paralyze the people for a moment, when the work of rescuing tho living and recovering the bodies of the dead was begun. Under tho command of the Mayor and Chief of Police the citizens went to work. The fire and police departments did all in their power to hasten the work. It is thought that at least twenty were killed. Premature Act ion. Secretary Carlisle discovered a few days ago that tho Bureau of En-j graving and Printing was printing 4 per cent. bonds. Tim plates were made ready months ago. ana everything was in shape to meet an emergency promptly. But there was no need of' printing bonds until their issue was actually decided as a matter of administration policy. Investigations show that the presses had been started under a mistaken order. This had come about naturally enough in the transfer of the bureau from Capt. Meredith, the outgoing chief, to Mr. Johnson, his successor. Both Meredith and John- I • son were in New York arranging some details of the bureau’s business, and the order to print the 4-per-cents. had been given through some misunder-^-^nding. This is all there is to the story, which has caused something of a sensation in financial circles. Reds at Liberty. Gov. ALTGELD of Illinois-has pardoned Samuel Fielden. Oscar Neebe. and Michael Schwab, the Chicago ' anarchists confined in the Joliet peni- j tentiary for participation in the Hay- ! market massacre on the night of May 4, 1886. The Governor declares that in his belief the conviction of j these men, and also of those who were i hanged, was unjust and illegal. The trial judge, court officials, jury, prosecuting counsel, and the police uro sharply criticised in the Governor's message of pardon. The petitions for pardon contained over 17,000 names, many of merchants, bankers, lawyers, and clergymen. NEWS NUGGETS. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boillot wore severely injured at Beatrice, Neb., by being thrown from their carriage. They will probably die. Murderer Fitzhum was executed 1 by electricity at Auburn, N. Y., Mon- ■ lay at noon. He killed a young man L ^med Rae hl mana- 1 ' U^Aof eating-house at Coolidge, N. । give him S2OO. the contents of . PWe safe, and then escaped into tho x woods. Troops are in pursuit. \The Attorney General of Minnesota ^decided that no funds are legally xble for the proposed State elevaNiiluth, but the State Railway Niouse Commission purchased X at Rescue Plantation, h, La., is 600 foot wide $1,000,000 damages. Cleveland has acceptm to attend the centen- — >n of Williams College, at aser 1, Mass., Oct. 9. rated that the engagement Mice of Hesse to the Czartritely settled. Y has been formed in KnobIto search for $1,500,000 alave been buried there by pars ago.

1 PitbS Oi * W eU Supply Company of Rs hf-v H1 the handß °f « receiver. ° S , aro ^KIOO.OOO; assets, $-,□00,000, and capital stock, $1,500,000. V S BERT Phijaps and Arthur । Mead, members of the Boston Chamber j of Commerce, were di owned in Charles River, at Newton. Mass., as tho result of a canoeing accident. ?? 8 ’ With ° n ° ex °eption(in 1888), the hottest June day New York City has experienced in twenty years and fifteen people, two of whom died’ were prostrated by tho heat. In New Y ork, at a special meetino- of

f the Academy of Medicine, the quarantine committee appointed somo months ago was authorized to take steps for the establishment of a national board OI DCHltil. Receivers have been appointed for । the Kanawha Lumber Company, a j Maine corporation with mills at Ports--1 vStoiP 11 ™ and lauds in West ■Bl IM At') aro placed at I $1,100,000, and the liabilities $785 000. I John J. Haggarty, a New York plumber, has come out as a rival of Steve Brody, having made a record bv

■ th^Kmt th ® ? rooki y n bridge into i life Hn^ir and gaping with his ° rre “ eil “ S °O" “> h " I hawTn Borden and her sister Emma ’h i ? resumed their residence and Fallßiv hUr S and 80cial rol aßons in I hom^+ Ve ^’ nw SB V ^uPJ'iag the old S3OO 221^2? i‘ stato is about ‘ heh4 Th? S e + y°ung hidies are solo ? Lizzie’s de-

with 800 passengers । returning n Sheepshead Bay just after tho Suburban race was run Tuesday evening, was derailed at tho mouth of tho tunnel under the Parkway boulevard at Parkville. Ten persons aro already dead, and the list will undoubtedly be added to because all the Brooklyn, hospitals aro filled with the injured, most of them grievously hurt. At Now Bedford, Mass., Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the charge of murdm'. It was just 4:30 o’clock Tuesday when the spectators, who hail kept their seats patiently during tho retirement of the iury, noticed a movement indicating their return. A moment later the twelve men filed into their seats and were polled. Miss Borden was asked to stand up, and tho foreman, was asked to return tho verdict, which he announced “Not guilty." Then all tho dignity and decorum of tho court-room vanished. A cheer went up which might have been heard half a mile away through the open windows and there was no attempt to check it. The stately Justices looked straight ahead at tho bare walls during the tremendous excitement, which lasted fully a minute. Miss Borden’s head went down upon th,o rail in front of her and tears camo where they had refused to come for many a long dav. WESTERN. Ten people were killed by a cyclone in Jefferson County, Eastern Kansas, Wednesday, and four uro reported dead by lightning near Stansberry, Mo. The Colorado Supremo Court has affirmed tho legality of cumulative sentences in the case of Alfred Packer, 'who killed and ate portions of five men. Paymaster John C. Sullivan, U. S. N., will soon be brought before a general court-martial. Charges of irregularity uro being prepared. He is under suspension at Vallejo, Cal. H. C. Frick, of tho Carnegie Company, and Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati, are negotiating to build a largo iron and steel mill in Findlay, Ohio, to manufacture Heckert's projectiles. Forest fires on the “Moeaba" range In Northern Minnesota have been quenched by heavy rains over a wide extent of country. Relief for the Mesaba fire sufferers is now twing extended liberally. An Omaha correspondent quotes । Mgr. Satolli as saying in regard to the Pope's pronunciamento recently issued: "It is unequivocally an indorsement of Archbishop Irelahd. and there can be no quibbling about it." Mrs. Sarah Lagro, of Elkhart, Ind., who recently recovered SI,OOO damages for breach of premise against Daniel Hill, has sued Dr. G. W. Spohn 1 for SIO,OOO for defamation of character ' in connection with the case. Tin-; Grand Jury at Decatur, 111., fail- i ing to bring in any indictments for the ; lynching of tho negro Bush, Judge i Vail, presiding in the Circuit Court, re- ! fused to consider their work complete, and ordered the members cf the jury to return to their room. The attorneys for Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, who is awaiting a rehearing at Denver, Colo., on the charge of poison- : ing Mrs. Barnaby, of Providence, R. 1., have applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus and ask that the Doctor be forever set free. William Plankinton, of Milwaukee, purchased at sheriff sale, for $125,000, the stock of goods in tho Grand avenue store of Frank.Y In is still inthe Lappen failure Mr. Lappen remains out of the State. AN Indianapolis money-lender named Charles Ludwig was fined SSO in the United States Court for sending a threatening postal card to a woman I who had paid him S2O interest on a ’ loan of $lO, and -who, he claimed, still owed $lB as principal and interest. Bishop bSnacum, of Lincoln, Neb., is undergoing ecclesiastical trial at Omaha, for malfeasance in office, the | court being ordered by Mgr. Satolli and constituted with Bishop Hennessy, of Dubuque, presiding. The proceeding is one never before known in the Catholic Church in America. Mrs. J. T. Ford died at her home, one mile east of Richmond, Mo., from blood poisoniqg<*caused by a rat bite ten days ago. She was the mother of the notorious Bob and Charley Ford, who killed Jesse James at St. Joseph, Mo., under a contract with the then Governor (now Consul General to Mexico) Crittenden. Three strangers went into Charles Piellas’ jewelry store at Lansing, Miph.,

flurfng acuTT' , of them engage^* 50 ’ and twp f proprietor an J " the attention of the . tray of diai^the third stole a Tho stones wc fl ’om the show-easo valued at 8160,(Mounted and were , been made. Ao arrests have , An attempt was made . Atlantic and Pacific trained up an idge, N. M. The train was the conductor, on alighting to IW the cause, was confronted by four moM with revolvers. The engineer as as ho learned tho trouble, pulled out ea^ng the conductor in thJ hands of he bandits, who afterward allowed him i

" 30^^'' Kanßa f farm ers, representing ' A ° f im P r °ved lands, bought of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and affected by the Govern grant met (TV' 11 tae c °mpany’s giant, met at Abileno Thursday and engaged counsel to defend their 'interestb. Should their land titles be lost it' will sweep away tho savings of twenty 1 yeai-s for most of them. y | The Junior Order of United Ameri-1 can Mechanics held its annual meeting 1 in Detroit. This is Jho fortieth anni- ! versary of the order, which was found-

num to olM) lodges. i J 1 senator Leland Stanford diet uh home in California Wednes^HL morning. He had been ill some tio^Wx His death was due to a eompUcaticAfc

\ ‘I ing the day regaifuTni*^M?*i!war Shortly after midnight his valet Entered his bed-room and found his master dead. The nows of the Senator’s death was speedily sent to his business associates and friends: The body will be embalmed. With a salute of twenty-one guns from one of Uncle Sam's war shijis on Lake Michigan and with a fluttering of banners from all the yachts and excursion boats in tho harbor will the Columbian caravels be received when they reach Chicago. Tho plans for their reception have been approved and aro almost completed, and Capt. Concas, the Spanish officer in charge of tho l>oats, will l»e tendered a luncheon in the convent of La Rabida and he and his sailors made welcome in a speech delivered by some distinguished American citizen. For a plain, ordinary, no “sp^’ial feature" day Thursday's attendance at the Fair broke the record, tho jmid admissions footing up 127,272, The crowd started to the park early and kept going all day. Nearly 100,000 people had passed the turnstiles by 3 o’clock and every train and cable car added to the crowd. No special arrangements had been made, as ho large a crowd had not been oxpected, and for two or three hours the transportation Hues hud more than they could handle. The news of the rush was sent down town, and more trains and cars were nt once put on. ’ At 6 o'clock long line.- of iK-ople were waiting their turn to get foldingchairs at tho booths, and by 7 o'clock not a folding chair or a wheel chair could be hired on the grounds. Mrs. Charles Stewart, daughter of John McKibls n, of St. Ixtuis, who died Tuesday undt r eircum-tancos indi-' eating that he had Ix-en ]M>isoned, u!m> succumbed Thursday afu>rnoon. Mrs. J. C. Briggs, another daughter, is also sick. Maud McKiblsm, who refused to eat of the fata! meal Friday, lw»meill also and complained of the same svmp-1 toms which resulted in the death ol her ' father ami sister. The meal iu ques- j tion consisted of soup, Ixdled cabbage, , canned corned beef, bread and but-! ter, and tea. McKibl>en and his j two daughters were the only ones' to partake of the dinner, which Maud 1 had assisted In preparing. Every- । thing was not a»- pleasant in the McKibben household as it should be. as । Mr. McKibben and his wife lived apart and the daughter Maud had formerly I had trouble with her mother. She > ! then went to live with her father and sister. Mrs. Stewart, and after her arrival $175 was stolen, all the evidence I j pointing to some one living in the | house as being the culprit. McKibben ' was one of the best theatrical property : handlers and manufacturers in the < i country. He once worked at McVicki er's and the Chicago Opera House and made the designs for the Veiled ITophet-' parade. His latest work was ’ a model of the basin of the Mississippi, showing the jetties, which is now on ' exhibition at the World's Fair. SOUTHERN. AT tho session of the Elk Grand j Lodge at Detroit. Ashley Apperly, of : Louisville, Ky.. was elected Grand Exalted Ruler and Ulen O. Myers, of ! Cincinnati, Secretary. At Albany, Tex., fire broke out in A. J. Centes’ dry goods store and destroyed the block, the damage being $75,000. The postoffice was destroyed. The coal mining town of Gallup, N?M., is on fire, and as there are no water works nor fire company there it is i she mercy of the flames. A CYCLONE swept for fifty miles across the counties above Atlanta, Ga., Thursday afternoon. Dallas, a small town on theEastTennessee. Virginia.and Georgia Railway, thirty-five miles above Atlanta, was badly wrecked and I the following buildings destroyed: Residences of T. J. Foster, D. W. Lawrence, M rs. Maiden, J. B. Hunt. Connelly & ('onnelly's drug store; Owens' brick hotel. Twenty houses were unroofed, but no. lives lost. Crops wore ruined over a large tract. As the storm approached Atlanta many became frightened and ran to cellars. Two hundred people collected under the new Forsythe street iron bridge for safety. The cloud split on the edge of the city and passed to the north and south, unroofing small buildings and destroying telephone communication. WASHINGTON. The coroner's jury at. Washington has returned a verdict holding Frederick C. Ainsworth, in charge of the building: William G. Covert, tho superintendent; Francis Sasso, the engij ueer; and George W. Dant, the con-

' lor thaj&n the In order to sav« # -etary Carstatisilcs of imno and °ther9 Hale has ordered j aeclare w hether to require j ,3ods is expressed in the value of ^ or P a P er currency of depreciated exportation, and, if thus tho copthey shall reduce the same 6^np>4uivalent value in United States at the time of exportation. ~ FOREIGN. baroness Blanc's husband has ! liured a divorce.

ir — — SVILLIAM D. McCoy has died at Mon- ■ ' via, Liberia, find is the fourth United ites Minister to Liberia to die at his Ist in the last twelve years. 11 is preicessor, Alexander Clark, of lowa, ed in January, 1892. Robbers, supposed to be the Dyer mg, fired into a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train at Stringtown, Tex. They fvere undoubtedly laying for tho ex- • press, which was a rich one, but were ! probably deceived into thinking it a freight train because it was pulled by a j freight engine, and allowed it to pass [ before they discovered their error. " Patrick A. Collins, American /Consul General at London, has had a 'conference with a number of shipown- ; ers and rag importers in regard to tho measures to lie taken by them to prevent the introduction oi cholera to the United States. Tho shipowners and ♦he dealers promises that they would every precaution against fw=W»ds carried or .wipped ^v them firing infected with cholera, germs. .-,-T’HE British twin screw Victoria, hying the flag of Vice A<l- - Gcli! ge C. Tryon, K. C. 8., com-

Rnander of the Mediterranean station, was sunk in eighteen fathoms of water off Tripoli Friday afternoon, and at least four hundred of her officers and crew went to tho bottom with her. Tho disaster was duo to tho fearful bungling of either her own officers or those of tho battleship Camperdown. She was run inp> head on by her companion ship, ami in less than a quarter of an hour she had disappeared. IN GENERAL Dr. Edward E. Vincent, of Springfield. 111., goes with tho Peary Arctic ! expedition. INDIAN tribes in the Province of Loja. Ecuador, near tho Peruvian I frontier, raided the village of Zamora. They killed all the male Inhabitants , and carried off tho women. Troops I have been sent in pursuit. Following is tho standing of the clubs of the National League: W. I* Vo-1 W. L pc. rhll»4elr'l».3r> 17 ,M- Jlßltfmore is 24 Boston. ...So IT >3* Waabincton a 478 Brooklyn ‘M 1H .O” < hiclnnutt 21 X 45s OeTelimd .. 23 19 Chicago. 19 X. .422 Flttabnrg 25 IS .Ml St Louis 19 M 421 i New York.. 24 85 ,4i* Louisville.. 9 29 .237 From Oct. 20 to Oct. 24 there will be ; a reunion of all veterans, regardless of I what army they fought in, at the j i World's Fair grounds. Those days j have been set apart by the Committee I on Ceremonies and the Council of Ad- ' ministration as "Veterans' days" and it is expected that during that week fully 50,000 old soldiers will in attendance. Addresses will lie made on each of these days by prominent gentlemen of both Federal and Confederiite armies' and special features in fireworks will lie added for the vet. rans. ^Thirty years Ugo Tu ; .-daj West, Virginia ww- admitted to the Union. The anniversary was celebrated at tho World's Fair grounds by the dedication of the State Building atypical South- I ern homestead which was ojx>neil to the public at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The building was presented to the Governor’s representative by President W. 1 N. Chancellor, of the Board of World’s j Fair Managers, and accepted by Gen. j J. W. St. Clair, who made the address 1 o! the day in behalf of his State. j Eighty-one dwellings, six grocery i and general stores, two churches, the ' railway station and roundhouse were , ‘ destroyed by a fire which swept the ' village of Gibson, directly opposite Frederickton. N. B. The fire started shortly before 2 o'clock and is believed to have originated from a little boy playing with a toy pistol and matches in his father's barn. One hundred and I thirty families were homeless and were sheltered in the hotels and private houses of Frederickton. The loss is : very heavy and falls on mechanics and laborers. The destruction to property will amount to $2,000,000, with very small insurance. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to iTime f 3 25 vt 5 75 1 Hoos—Shipping Grades 8 00 © 660 ; Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 0> G 5 00 1 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 64 (I? G 5 Coax—No. 2 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 so G 31 । Rye—No. 2 47 i<4 40 IJUTTEB—Choice Creamery 19 & V> Eggs— Fresh 12 & 13 Potatoes—obi, per bu <x> 70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3 25 @ 5 is Hoot-Chcice Light 350 t o 0 SHEEp—Common to Prime 3 4 25 WHxfc—No. 2 Red Cl . - iD CobnSNo 2 White 40 •>1 ° ats t No 2 "““st: LbUiA: - - r . TT 4E 300 «£ 5 21 U.T lL 300 625 w r ^No-2 Red 60 @ 61 c oTtxVo- 2 33 OatsW°-2 28b>@ Rye- 2 49 @ 51 I. CINCINNATI, CATTIB 3 00 @ 5 21 Hogs. 1 3 00 ® 6 50 Sheep • 3(0 ct 5 00 Whe a tV-No. 2Red 59 & CO Cobs—So. 2 40 41 OATt—No. 2 Mixed 33 CS 34 Rye—No. 2 14 & 55 DETROIT. Cattle 300 @5 (0 Hogs 3 0> VC 7 21 Sheep,. ’’ 3 00 G 4 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 65 66 Corn— No. 2 Y low 40 (6) 41 ■ Oats—No 2 White 35’ 86^ ... TOLEDO. '» heat—No 2 65 (31 66 CORN-Np. 2 Y il'ow 41M? 431 j OATS—No. 2Wh e 30 @ RLE 52 © 54 „ . . BUFFALO. 1 A rr LE—Common to Prime.... 350 ir 5 550 'Best Grn es 4 00 (<J fi 75 " heat—No. IWh te 7U-,® 72^ No. 2 R d 69 71 ... MILWAUKEE. ” heat—No. 2 Spring 63 @ 64 O?5J~v 0 - 3 37 ® 3U 2 White 34'2^ 35)4 N Ol 68 i^ 60 Pork E V Xa 2 57 ® 59 sl ess 19 00 ,<sl9 50 CiTT-r NEW YORK. logV 3 “ 75 ySpEP 3 00 @ 4 75 Com U No - 2 Red 71 & 73 O°TS~M?' 2 49 60 Udmt? * eft Western 36 & 38 Poni 1 " xF^reancery 19 @ 21 lUKK—N ew Mesg 19 75 @2O 25

NO FAITH TN DOCTORS WHOLE FAMILY POISONED AT OMAHA. A St. Paul Horse Captures the DerbyTrade Is Still Dull-A “Woman Detective” Makes Trouble—Reception to the Wrong Man. Poisoned by Lettuce. FAITH in the faith cure has se--1 cured another victim in Omaha, i Only the barest chance prevent* !ed its securing seven. Miss Lydia Matilda Lehnig died from the effects of an unknown poison at four o clock on Sunday afternoon. Six other members of the family are seriously ill, and two of them are not expected to survive. The Lehnigs were j poisoned while eating supper Thurs- : da y» by What is not known. Conrad j Lehnig, the head of the family, is a i firm Iwliever in the power of faith to

i effect cures, and it was owing to his 1 obstinacy in this respect that no phvsi- > cian was summoned until Saturday 1 night. It was then too late to aid the ; girl who died. Mrs. Conrad Ixihnig is i in a precarious condition, and her ; daughter-in-law. Mrs. Theodore Lehj nig, of Winona, Minn., is thought to bo ' dying. It is believed the poison was . on some lettuce hud Thursday. Bright Young Man Fooled. An enterprising reporter for a Chicago morning newspaper arrived at • Waterloo, lowa, a few days ago, to ac--1 company on his bicycle the cow’boy ! racers through the homestretch to Cliica^o. They were expected a certain night, and when a lone horseman on a tired-looking steetl came into town in the early evening, preceded by the young man en a bicjclc. a congratulating crowd surrounded the pair. The bicycle rider spared no money in lavishing the lest the hotel afforded on the horseman, and was considerably chagrined on the subsequent discovery that the horseman was a Cedar Falls wag. well pleased with the success of i his little hoax, and not a cowboy racer. Scared Into FitsA WOMAN calling herself a “female ' detective" and displaying a tin badge as her enslentials frightened Miss Adeline Evans, of Chicago, into hys- ; teries at the St. Louis ,Mo. 1 Union । Dewt. Miss Evans was on her way to Kansas City. The detective waited until Miss Evans had got on a Kansas City train, and then accosted her ! roughly with the assertion: "You are । Mollie Irwin. I have been looking for you." at the same time displaying her isulge. The young lady began crying, and several passengers gathered around her. whereujxm the “female detective" made herself scarce. Money Still Scarce. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review < 1 trade says: The Improvement expected from he Is-uc of c e(irln<-house certificates, thus \ utHiring credits Instead of cash lu local dealing*, ha-, not been realized. Other , cities, especially at th- Wist, have not tiki’ll Hlmlinr measures to relieve the ) rve-urc and the demand for money from the hit- rior continues unabated. Boundless Triumphant. Tfli. colt B undless. owned by J. E. i Cushing, of St. Paul, captured the tenth American Derby at <'hieago. Saturday. ' winning sJiMMMi. in 2:36: St. Ixionards , sec md, 1 lilloi d third. Fifty thousand iwople saw the race. BREVITIES, William K. Kapp, cashier for tho Western .anthracite C >al Company, i was arrested at St. Louis for emliezzling j $2.(i00 from his employers. It is Is lievcd that Moody Merrill, the missing Boston capitalist, left for : Canada Aiay 27 and is now in Montreal. . His son left for that city Friday. The Supreme Court of Ohio, in the fi shier will ease, has decided that । brothers and sisters of full blood inherit । lffo”e half brothers or sister-?.. This adds nearly a million dollars to the | wealth of William G. Deshler. A FORTUNE of £2.~>0.o jo has l>een left i Martin S. Martin, a livery stable fore--1 man of Tacoma. Wash. The fact was advertised throughout the country, but ; Martin never b.eard of it, and it was ■ common report that he was dead. Creditors of C. P. Kellogg & C >., 1 the Chicago clothing dealers, met at | New A’ork and appointed a committee jto arrange terms of settlement. It was ! announced that the firm' assets ex- ■ ceeded the liabilities by $677.E00. As a result of a fire due to a dust exploI sion in the Baker Bros, building. Chicai go, four employes were more or less ini hired and $20,000 damage done. Wm. Fuhrwerk, could not lx? found and is supposed to have been burned to death. H. R. Martin, from Memphis. Tenn., committed suicide by jumping from a ferryboat at St. Louis. Mo. In the : pocket of his coat, which he left, was J a pathetic note to his wife at home | complaining of lack of work and money. Judge Hanford, of the United States Circuit Court at Seattle. Wash., has rendered a decision declaring that the law of the State prohibiting the sale of cigarettes is in contravention of Art. 1 of Sec. 8 of the Constitution of the United States, and null and void in so far as it prohibits or attempts to prohibit selling, giving, or furnishing' to any one by an importer. The Canadian Pacific Rai'rtiad has met the cuts of the Great Northern to Pacific coast points. Several forest fires are raging in Colorado. The Town of Bachellor in the Creede district is threatened with destruction. Princess Eulalia ha- presented to Mr. Robert A. Parke, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a beautiful and costly dagger, highly ornamental and inlaid with jewels. Mr. Parke had personal charge of the train in which the Princess traveled. Rabies is raging among the cows in the suburbs of Newport. Minn. A mad dog is responsible for the infection. George W. Sample, of Troop G. Fifth Cavalry, of Kansas, was drowned ' in the Rio- Grande at Laredo, Tex., where the troov is stationed.

FOUR nUXDRED LOST. BRITISH BATTLESHIP VICTORIA GOES DOWN. Collided with the Cam; erdown While Maneuvering Off Tripoli—Only About 250 Are Saved—Sir George Tryon, Vice Admlral, Among Those Drowned Awful Criminal Blunder. A most terrible calamity befell the great British twin screw battleship Victoria, flying the flag cf Vice Admiral George C. Tryon. K. C. 8., commander of the Mediterranean station. She was sunk in eighteen fathoms of water off Tripoli Friday afternoon, and at least four hundred of her officers and crew went to the bottom with her. The disaster was due to the fearful bungling of either her own officers or those of the battleship Camperdown. In broad daylight, during a maneuver, she was run into head on by Her companion ship, and in less than a quarter of an hour she had disappeared in the

waves, carrying with her all on board. Twenty-one officers, including Vice Admiral Tryon, are reported drowned, and the great fighting ship lies a useless wreck, bottom side up, beneath the waves. The disaster is one of the most horrible, as well as one of the most disgraceful, that have ever befallen the English navy. The Victoria was a battleship of 10,470 tons and 14,000 horse-power and mounted fifty guns. The Camperdown is also of the Mediterranean fleet and is a slightly smaller boat than the Victoria. She is of 10,600 tons and 11,500 horse-power. Tripoli, near where the collision hapSmed, is about seventy miles from amascus. It has a small harbor,which, is so shallow as to be notoriously unsafe. It is supposed that the Victoria lound a lack 01 sea room in putting about as the Camperdown came on, and the latter boat hit the flagship squarely on the starboard side with her ram. The Camperdown was moving nnder a high steam pressure, and the 1 effect was such as would have । been made with an ax on a j plank. The plfftes of the Victoria just forward of the turret were torn apart and a perfect flood poured into the hold 'of the flagship. She began to sink im--1 mediately. The engines of the Camper- ! down were reversed at once, but not before she had hit the Victoria a second time and completed the work of destruction. Every effort was nwde to save the ship, but the Victoria settled so fast that this was seen to lie impossible. and the men, losing all discipline, cast loose the small boats and attempted to reach the Camperdown. Only three of the boats got free of the suction of the sinking ship. The rest were overturned and many of the occupants of these were drowned with, the men who were cooped up in the battleship beyond all chance of rescue. Vice Admiral Tryon is said to be one of those who went down with the ship. The Victoria hardly moved forward after the blow. The water poured so rapidly into her engine-room that the fires were extinguished before the engineer hail time to act. BLOWN TO ETERNITY. Frightful Work of a Storm Near Williamstown, Kan. One of the most destructive cyclones that ever visited Kansas swept sver the section fn the vicinity of Williamstown Wednesday night, completely devastating a strip of country about two miles east and west of the town, and killing instantly .fifteen people. The storm was preceded by a heavy rain and its approach from the northwest was heralded by a sudden darkening of the skies and the terrible rush of the wind. In the path of its destruction nothing remained that could be at all recognized. Trees were twisted up; fields of grain were completely wiped out: hedges were completely stripped of foliage; stock was killed and horribly maimed, and houses and barns and all buildings were swept out of sight. The list of killed is as follows: EVANS, L. F. EVANS, EMERY. GRIMES. L. M. GRIMES, MARY, and two children. HUTCHINSON, MRS. JOHN. KINCAID. SAMUEL. KINCAID, CLARA. KINCAID, SADIE. KINCAID, WALTER. KINCAID, EVA. KINCAID, WILLIAM. PETERS, W. F. STEWART, SAMUEL. Three other’s were fatally hurt and a score more or less injured. The bodies of all those killed were shockingly mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson’s arms and legs were fotmd in a tree a mile from the house. Eva Kincaid’s head was severed from her body. Samuel Stewart and L. M. Grimes were carried .300 hundred yards in different directions and mutilated almost beyond recognition. Stewart’s body was cut in two as if by one stroke of a great knife. The strip of country swept bv the cyclone is left as barren as a floor. In Williamstown schoolhouse were found the dead bodies of the Kincaid family i consisting of father, mother and four I children. The youngest child is withi out its head, it being blown or ! cut off and carried away by the wind, j One cf the children was found three miles from the house. At Arthtfr Evans' farm, a quarter of a mile northeast of Williamstown, everything is destroyed. Evans ran into his basement, but was found dead three rods from the house in the field. Mrs. Evans also took shelter in the basement, but escaped with her life. At the Hutchinson farm, which was northeast of Williamstown. Mrs. Hutchinson lost her life and Mr. Hutchinson was slightly injured. Seven head of horses were killed here. Some of the horses were blown a quarter of a mile away. In the cemetery at Williamstown the monuments are all blown away and some of the base stones were blown many rods. Fully thirty horses were completely demolished and the little village of Williamstown wiped out of existence. The storm was only about six minutes in passing. The Liberty Bell Cast. The Columbian liberty bell has been cast at the Meneely bell foundry in Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Cleveland did not press the electric buttop -which was to release the metal from tho furnace, allowing it to run into the molds. There was some misunderstanding in making the wire connections at ’Gray Gables. The bell will first be sent to the Wor’d's Fair and then will be taken around the world. It measures seven and one-half feet in diameter and weighs 13.006 pounds.