St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 July 1893 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - . - INDIANA POOR OLD MOHICAN. BROUGHT TO GRIEF BY AN HAWAIIAN POACHER. Everybody Can Soon Ride to the Big Fair —Death of a Famous University ManKansas Stockmen Had Good Cause for Alarm. Mohican Fired Upon in Bering Sea. Advices from Alaska state that the United States man-of-war Mohican was fired upon in Bering Sea and disabled June 25 by the Hawaiian steamer Alexandria, which left San Francisco last April. The Mohican discovered the Alexandria in the act of raiding seal rookeries and tried to intercept it, firing two shots across its bow. The Alexandria returned the fire, striking the Mohican amidships and disabling the engines. The Mohican went to Unalaska for repairs and the Alexandria escaped. Killed at a Grade Crossing. Going at the rate of thirty miles an hour the New York express on the Chicag-o and Grand Trunk Railroad ran into a heavily loaded South Halsted street ear at 40th and South Halsted streets. Chicago, at 6:25 o’clock Monday afternoon. Three people were killed and ten injured seriously. Several people were slightly injured and the driver of the ! street car- wandered about for hours i crazed by the calamity to the people I in his charge. It is expected that at i least one of the injured will not re- • ' cover. A crowd of 2,000 people gathered at the place in a few minutes and assisted in removing the wrecked car from the body of an unidentified woman and a young man, whose body was cut in half and scattered in fragments. Patrol wagons were called from five neighboring po- • lice stations and all the physicians and homes pressed into service. Three of । ' the injured and one of the dead were strangers in Chicago. Cheap Kates Coming. According to a Chicago dispatch Western roads have capitulated on the Word’s Fair rate question. Their surrender is absolute and unconditional. They are now prepared to grant all the concessions that have up to the present been asked of them, and before the end of the present month people from all parts of the western territory will be able to attend the Fair at as low rates as they ever expected to get. The first step in this direction has been taken. It assumed the form of a demand on the chairman signed by the requisite number of roads that he call a meeting of the association to consider a proposition for the reduction of rates. The chairman has no alternative allowed him. He myst call the meeting. When it meets there is no room for doubt that the proposition will go through. Kev. Thomas F. Walsh Dead. Rev. Father Thomas E. Walsh. for the last twelve years President of Notre Dame University, died at South Bend, Ind., of chronic Bright’s disease. Father Walsh was 40 years of age and was Vice President and Pro- , fessor of Classics of Notre Dame several years previous to I eing elevated to the Presidency of the institution. BREVITIES. Mme. Buloz has obtained a divorce from Charles Buloz. the fugitive editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, who fled from Paris to escape the persecutions of blackmailers. John A. Lombard, manager of the Hero Fruit Jar Company at Philadelphia, which was involved in the failure of the Spring Garden National Bank, has committed suicide. The boiler on the Towanda (Pa.) nail works exploded. Andrew Benjamin was instantly, killed, Ross Hattan fatally injured, and a man named Bennett severely burned. A man named McGovern is missing, The buildings were destroyed, the loss being estimated at $25,000, half covered by insurance. At Eureka. Cal., the Coroner's jury in the case of Robert Russell, mate of the schooner Mabel Gray, whose body was found in the bay with the limbs bound and a gag in the mouth, returned a verdict that Russell met his death at the hands of persons unknown, and that he had been threatened by union sailors and they were suspected of the deed. Frank Wissmar, an engineer at the Hyde Park Brewery, St. Louis, Mo., met with a painful accident. An ammonia distributing pipe burst near where he was standing, and ho inhaled , a great quantity of the pungent gas. He was taken home and a physician called, but Mrs. "Wissmar declared she f was a believer in the faith cure and ’ refused to accept a prescription. The patient died. John T. White, President of the Kansas Live Stock Commission, returned to Topeka from Chautauqua County, where he has been making an investigation of a Texas fever scare. He found that the stockmen had become frightened because ofthe reports in the Indian Territory. Mr. White investigated the situation on the other side of the line, and found that the fever was causing a great mortality among the herds in the Osage country, in the Cherokee strip, and in Western Oklahoma. At Nashua. N. H.. two children of Theophile Deschamps have died of poison, another is dying, and the mother is in a critical condition. The bodies of the victims are covered with black spots. It is feared that the whole family will be wiped out. The affair has created intense excitement. Lord Mayor Stuart Knill, of London, has been knighted. IT is now known that five pers >ns were killed and seventeen seriously injured in the accident on the West Shore Road near Newburg, N. Y.

EASTERN. J. S. Conover, manufacturer of fireplaces at New York, has failed, with liabilities of $400,000. Dr. Bernard J. McQuaid, of Rochester, N. Y., celebrated the twentyfifth anniversary of his creation as bishop. General Ely S. Parker, of New York, who served on the staff of General Grant in the war, has been stricken with paralysis. A receiver has been appointed for the New Manufacturing Company at New York. The liabilities are estimated at $182,000. Three cases of typhus fever have recently been discovered in Philadelphia. The victims came from Europe and landed at New York. A Baltimore pensioner, whose disability has been removed by an Operation, has returned his voucher and declines longer to accept a pension. Augustus Hemenway has invited the public school teachers of Canton, Mass., twenty-six in number, to a tenday trip to the World’s Fair at his expense. Bank Presidents of Philadelphia are to petition the Secretary of the Treasury asking him to make their city a central reserve city, as are New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Van Brocklin, the embezzling secretary of the Buffalo (N. Y.) fire commissioners, was arraigned and sent to jail. If the full penalty were applied van Brocklin could be sent to prison for 16,500 years. His stealings may reach 960,000. Two MEN wore killed, two fatally injured, and two badly hurt by an explosion of gas in the Pettobone, operated by the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Company at Wyoming, Pa. The explosion was earned by the gathering of a body of gas in one of the breasts, the current having been changed by an incompetent doorboy leaving one of the doors open. A terrible accident occurred at Newburg. N. Y., Thursday. The west-bound West Shore train, due at 12:04, ran into an open switch half a mile south of the depot, and a bad smash-up was the result. At the time the dispatch was sent out four bodies had been taken out of the wreck. A largo number of badly injured were taken in all kinds of conveyances to the hospital. It is said there are from eight to ten killed and over a dozen injured. WESTERN. Claiming the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has discriminated against them. Cedar Rapids shippers have filed a $295,000 damage suit. ROBERT RUSSELL, a non-union sailor, who had been missing since Juno 29, was found dead at Eureka. ('al. It is believed to be a case of murder. CHICAGO and Peoria trains of the Big Four Road collided at Indianapolis. Great confusion was caused among the passengers, but no one was hurt. Tuesday night at Kansas City. Mo.. Harry Stein shot at his wife, who had rebuked him for losing all his money at the races. Stein then blew his own brains out. Six companies of the Kansas mUith* have been disbanded for offensive partisanship because they failed to support the Populists in the legislative trouble last January. * Rainmaker A. B. Montgomery, of Goodland, Kan., claimed the credit for the recent storm in that section, and now a farmer whose crops were destroyed has sued him for damages. The Scandinavian singing societies of St. Paul and Minneapolis will go to Chicago to attend the Saengerfest. It will be the largest excursion that ever went out from the Twin < 'ities. Lewis G. Gorton, for the last seven j years principal of tljo Bishop Union School at Detroit, has been appointed President of the Michigan State Agricultural College to succeed Oscar Clute resigned. AT Tacoma, Wash., the Grand Jury indicted the Rev. Thomas Sing for attempting to land thirty Chinese laborers from the steamer Mogul on the pretext that they were actors for the World's Fair. Bamberger, the murderer of the Kreider family at Cando, N. D., escaped lynching. The Sheriff having him in charge successfully eluded three different mobs and landed him safely in jail at Devil's Lake. The union bricklayers employed on the Whitley Malleable Iron Works at Muncie, Ind., quit work Tuesday because an apprentice named Oscar Savage was working on the job as a fullfledged workman. A LIVELY row is reported from the Tower (Minn.) Indian reservation between Sioux and a party of tramps. The Indians became intoxicated, and began a war dance around the tramps, who escaped after being badly handled. Annis. Wagner, the young woman suspected of poisoning the wife, father j and mother and two children of Charles j Koesters at Indianapolis. Ind., during I the winter and spring, has been indicted for the murder of the parents and one child of Koesters. A CYCLONE passed through the southern portion of Stillwater, Minn., about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. Its course was from southwest to nor heast, and not more than 100 feet in widsh. As a result two men now lie dead and seven others are injured. Hereafter the World’s Columbian Exposition will not be kept open on Sunday. This much the Board of Directors, by a vote of twenty-four to four, decided on at a meeting in the : Rand-McNally Building. The proceeds of the last open Sunday were devoted to the dead firemen's fund. Thomas Ruth, School Fund Commissioner of South Dakota, has discovered big frauds in the leaning of the State school funds by County Commissioners. About $400,000 has been leaned out this year, and out of thirtysix loans made in one county thirtyfour were in violation of law. No more loans will be made, though SIOO,OOO is on hand. The funeral of the unidentified dead

from the fire in the World's Fair cold storage building took place in Chicago There were in all eight bodies, which were placed in one grave Ihe ceremonies were held at the church by R«v. Father Hischen, and at C akwoods edfhetery, where the interment took place the Protestant services for the dead were read. The bodies were buried in a lot given by the Oakwoods Cemetery Association. No popping of firecrackers or bursts of patriotic enthusiasm marked the celebration of the French national holiday at Jackson Park, Friday. But there was not a loyal Frenchman at the Exposition who did not enjoy to the depths of his soul the fete given by the French Commissioners in commemoration of the fall of the Bastile. From the walls of the Brench pavilion on the lake shore, and from every available nook and corner on the green court on which it opens, the tri-co)or floated. Over $40,000 has thus far been raised to form a fund for the widows and orphans of the brave firemen who perished in the cold-storage warehouse fire at the World’s Fair grounds. And, a Chicago correspondent says, from present indications this is but a beginning. Seldom has such a general impulse to give swayed the people. Times are hard and a financial spasin has left its effects, but that does mJ prevent donations. The bravery of Ahcee Ppor firemen who perished like is a constant subject of diseuss^^. Man At Newcastle, Wyo., Afrn id-of-His-Horses, ufT-ynx .< 1 of the whole mix *KaU i dead Thursdav. He and L^k, Dakon loft Pine Ridge Agency, Smy* p a ,‘ t . some few weeks ago with . A 1 sixty Indians to visit the*!, miian friends, tho Crows, at < • Agency. Young-Man-A f raid-of-Ms-Horses was the most reliable Indian df all t) IQ Sioux, a great friend of the government, as was proved by his actions in the outbreak at the agency in 1890-'9l, and the late murder of Feb. 18 of the four white men on White River. It was through his assistance that the police arrested the murderers. Bv his death without any lineal descendants the mantle of chief-hip falls on Little Wound. Visitors to the Fair will no longer l>e able to promenade on the roofs of Manufactures and Transportation Buildings. The Council of Administration has issued an order stojiping the elevators which run to the roofs of the two buildings mentioned and tho balconies and galleries of Administration Building will also lx- closed to the public. This order was made upon a written report from Director of Works Burnham, who informed the council that he thought it unsafe to permit visitors to visit those places as they have done heretofore. The fire in the Cold-storage Warehouse hud its influence with Mr. Burnham, but the chief reason was to avoid a panic. The promenade <a Manufactures Building is 250 feet high and there is no means of getting djwn exc 'pt by the elevators. On one treasion thei e were 3,000 |>eople on that roof. It took several hours to get therr. down. In theev< nt of a panic, which vould 1 e created by even a slight blaze inthe big building, there would lie a catastrophe. SOUTHERN. ALL the lumber mills but nn-/#V n L tou, Aik., willvkw on account of 'be monetary stringency. The Florida Agricultural tlollcge has conferred the degree of LL.D, on Hoke Smith. Secretary of the Interior. ; Two negroes were lynched, one at i Ocala. Fla., charged with criminal a.--sault. and the other at Columbus. Miss., charged with murder. Tilman .lohxsox. an crap'd prh-j oner and alleged prisoner. was reeap tured at Waco, Texas, after a desperate resistance 1 ehind barricaded doors. The Chamber of Commerce »t Hot Springs. Ark., has :ent an invitation |t> IT sident Cleveland to come and' bathe in the city's waters and bectired of rheumatism. WASHINGTON. Comptroller Eckels has tailed for a statement of the condition cf national banks at thg close of business on July 12. President Cleveland has ruled . two of the applicants for the Berlin j Consulate* 'tit because they do not speak German. According to a Washington corre- ' spondent, the belief that Congress, । upon convening on Aug. 7, will remain i in practically continuous session till I next summer is becoming general. | There may be a recess of a few days before the date for beginning the regular session, but it will I e only to allow the memU rs to get their second wind after the extra session spurt. When I the prcclamatkn was fir^t made public , nearly every member of Congresthen in Washington predicted that it would not last more than a few weeks. It is clear enough that, even if the silver law is repealed, it can only be done after a long and tedious debate —a debate which will in all probability run the gamut of financial legislation I and the history of coinage from the i time of Adam to that of the international monetary conference of 1892. If the Sherman law is removed from the statute books by the time the regular session begins in December most men will consider that the country is playing in great luck. There are more, how oxer. who believe that December will roll around and still see no agreement reached. FOREIGN, John Deasy, anti-Parnellite Member of Parliament, who was convicted of assault, has applied for the Chiltern ' Hundreds. Caprivi has assured the Kaiser that he counted on a majority of 25 to 30 in the German Reichstag in favor of the army bill. There are eighty-five cases of cholera in the hospital at Alexandria, Egypt. Forty deaths from cholera have occurred. Cholera has reappeared in Moscow, Kieff, and Northeast Hungary. In Moscow there have been thirty-two cases and eleven deaths. The British brig Darma, from Ha-

vana, has been quarantined at Fisher- ' man’s Island for the reason that her captain died of yellow fever cn the trip. Admiral FLAMORNAix,of the French flagship Naida, has sailed away from St. Johns, N. F., threatening to avenge the seizure of some goods, imported by ■ his countrymen, for the non-payr. ent ' of duties. The Belgian Chamber has voted such a revision of the constitution as will enable Belgium to acquire colonies. The government is known to contemplate the annexation of the Congo Free State. OF 420. members constituting the Italian Senate 120 are charged with complicity direct or indirect in the bank scandals. About 100 of the mem- • bars of the Chamber of Deputies are I similarly implicated. Paris has a new sensation. M. Bu- • loz, editor of the Revue des Deux; Mondes, has fled to escape the pert-ecu- : tions of blackmailers, who are said to I have bled him for 16,500,100 francs during the last three or four years. IN GENERAL Emily X aders, the actress, who was for some years leading support for Edwin Booth, has become insane from overstudy. Exports from the Ottawa district to 1 tho United States during 18*32 amount- i ed to $2,562,708, chiefly lumber in various shapes. This is an increase of $300,000 over 1891. The Colorado silver convention has issued a statement declaring tha*, the depreciation of silver has been caused by a conspiracy, with England back of it. and demanding free coinage in place of the Sherman act. Orders have Ix'en sent to Commander Book, commanding the Alert, to proceed home, reaching tsun u»mmi seo not later than the last of September. Her cruise । three years is < ut Oct. 9,1 when her crew are entitled to dis- ; charge. Major Halford, late private sec-; retary to President Harrison, has re-■ turned from atb iidane < n the Bering , Sea Commission in Paris. He k-lieves ■ the decision will 1-> in favor of thei United States, and t: at the arbitration will be concluded within a short time. | Following is the standing of the clubs of tho National League: W. L pc i w. l. pc. riilla<lelp'in.4.J .(Will St. I oiifs,. .30 35 ,462 BostOUa. 42 23 ,«4C New Yorks .20 36 .446 Httßbnrjrß. 3s 2B Chlcagos 20 ;•> 446 Clevelands .33 ’.v. Baitiinore-<..27 3) ,42 i .» Brooklyns.. ;>J 2'.' ~M< Wsshl - tt'ns.26 4" .34 Cincinnati^ 32 34 .4*3 Louin'llles..m 37 .327 Professor H. P. Smith, of Lane Seminary, who was recently tried for heresy, hits issued a circular which iudieates a very pronounced desire to revolt against the decision of the Presbyterian Chui eh in rc -yeet t > its threatened treatment of candidates for the ministry. The viking ship arrived at Chicago Wednesday, and was given a welcome even more Kusterou- than the earuvels. Fully 2fX),000 people, lined along the shore from Lincoln to Jackson Parks, cheered a’nd yelled: the hai-bor was alive with -tea’m and sill craft, and the guns from the cutters Michigan and Johnson fired the regulation snlute. i The Mississippi River Commission | lias 1 ecoinmended to tho Secretary of ; War that no more money be expended I in the improvement of the harbor of j । Vicksburg for the present. This is in , consequence of the fact that nearly two-thirds of the excavations have been filled up again by tho action of the current, and it seems almost impossible to keep the channel clear. President Van Horne and several local agents of the Canadian Pacific j Railroad have been indicted bj the k B'ederal Grand Jury at Tacoma. The charge against them is violating the interstate commerce law by secretly ■ cutting rates. A warrant has been is- । sued for Preudent Van Horne, who is in Boston. The local agents have been placed under ss<Hi biil each. Fok the third time within a few years the village of Fairview, a suburb of St. John. N. 8.. was again almost destroyed by fire Tuesday. The burned district covers a large part of the section that was destroyed a year ago, ; which had been rebuilt, together with | that part of the village which escaped i destruction at that time. Eighty fam- | ilies are homeless, many handsome ' residences were destroyed, and the loss i will reach well into the thousands of ; dollars. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. I Cattle— Common to Prime.... $3 25 @ 5 so 1 Hogs— Shipping Grades 3 00 6 25 Sheep— Fair to Choice 4 00 <<J 4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spr.ng C 5 & 66 Corn— No. 2 40 & 41 Oats— No. 2 29?s@ 30?^ Rye— No. 2 60 (<* 61 I Butter— Choice Creamerv 19i-i(§» 20tj I Eggs- Fresh " 13’t>A 14L Potatoes— Ne w. per brl 150 ei 225 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle— Shipping 3 35 SS 5 00 Hogs— Choice Light 3 so at 6 25 Sheep— Common to Prime 3 oa & 4 vo Wheat— No. 2 Red ‘V ct co Coax-No. 2 White 40 40g OATS—No. 2 White 33 @ 33!j bT. LOUIS. Cattle 3 00 (<5 5 00 Hogs 3co & 6 25 Wheat— No. 2 Red 61 <sS 62 Corn— No. 2 38 @ 39 Oats No. 2 28 col 28 1 -; Rye— No. 2 42 ® 44 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 @ 5 00 Hogs 300 6$ 6 £6 Sheep 3 00 @1 5 (10 Wheat— No. 2 Red 60 & 60’A Corn— No. 2 4i‘4«< 42’6 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 31 & 32 Rye— No. 2 63 @ 55 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 4 75 Hogs 3 00 7 00 Sheep 3 00 & 4 00 Wheat— No. 2 Red 66 @ 67 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 4214 Oats— No. 2 White 34J4@ ?sb> TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 65?i@ 66% Corn —No. 2 Yellow 41 @ 42 Oats —No. 2 White 31 @3 82 Rye 51 @ 63 DUFF ALO. Cattle— Common to Prime.... 3 50 @ 5 50 Hogs— Best Grades 4 Co at) 6 50 Wheat— No. 1 Hard 74%® 75% No. 2 Red 69 ® 71 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 63 @ 63% Corn— No. 3 88%<® 39% Oats —No. 2 White 31 32 Rye— No. 1 si @ 62 Barley-No. 2 54 & 56 Pork— Mess 16 75 ©T7 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 no ® 5 25 Hogs 3 00 @ 7 00 Sheep 3 co @ 5 25 Wheat —No. 2 Red 74 ® 76 Corn— No. 2 49 @ 54 Oats- -Mixed Western 37 ® 39 Butter— Creamery 20 @ 22 Pork— New Mess 19 25 Ql9 75

FLAGS AT HALF-MAST., COLORS AT THE FAIR DROOP AND CROWDS DO HOMAGE. । Governor Jones Says the Convicted Choctaw Murderers Must Die—Big Haul of Indian Territory Swindlcrs-Smash Go th* World's Fair Kates. In Honor of the Dead. Flags drooped at half-mast Sunday at Jackson Park. Above white domes and gilded spires the gay banners of | j twenty nations hung listlessly about ' ; their staffs. Over the serene, trium- I I I beauty of the city lay a somber I । pall. Inside the wide gates of the main ; । entrance at 64th street stood a black, > I sodden heap of embers. Silently,solemn- i ! ly, it told a story which came near to I i the heart of each one who entered. । Even outside the walls the spell had fallen. Blatant, shrill-voiced men crying their shoddy wares had lost something of their usual vigor. Their cries were less sibilant, their importunities ‘ less insistent. It was Heroes' day. and the last open Sunday of the World's । Fair. Brave men who had met : awful death in the line of duty had j been laid to rest. To their memory j the day was sacred. For the relief and ruppovt of those left Behind tho people met. The day was extremely w arm up to noon, when a drenching rain fell, and then the sun shone with intense heat. Because of these unfavorable conditions the crowd was not ! as large as was expected, bnt it is believed the amount realized for the families of the dead firemen from the World's Fair will exceed $50,000. Nine Choctaws Are to Be Shot Aug. 4. The conference arranged between Governor Jones of the Choctaw Nation and Inspector FaLson of the Interior Department took place Friday. Gov- ! el n ” l ' .-’""‘'y speaks very little English I and his privat • see..^., a ,. t , d ab in . | terpreter. None of those pre , a t I the conference will say what took place, i but it can be stated with confidence that Aug. 4 the death sentence upon the convicted nine will b 'executed. Inspector Faisson says that he is convinced the murderers were properly tried and condemned. Governor Jones says the same, and adds that the sentence will be carried out Aug. 4. Memb<>rs of the Lecke faction who were in town say that if the United States Government wants to save the lives of the condemned men. all it needs to do is to withdraw the I nited States troops now stationed at Antlers and the Locke people will do the rest. Family of Crooks Vn<icr Arrest. United States Postoffice Inspeatok M. ('. Spooner and W. P. Houke effected an important arrest at Hartshorne. I. T., under the charge of fraudulent uses of the mails. They will turn over to the Federal Court at Fori Smith Elliot Johnson. J. G. Johnson, W. H. Johnson and Hales Johnson, father and three sons', who have for several months styled themselves t lie “Johnson Trading Company.” Their plan of o|k‘ration was to obtain merchandise wherever possible without payment in advance, convert the goods into easL. and neglect to pay the merchants. Kansas City. St. Louis nn/i t hiougo houses arc the principal victims. Better Tone Rules. H. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Tbeie is n .-omewhat b .le^toue in business lecau>o money markets i,rc a little less stringent. But It cannot l e said i.s yet that there is any distinct improvement. In every dinectien unusual conservatism prevails, orders hm relatively small, the volume of business is r< stricted. and a | waiting policy rules. NEWS NUGGETS, The b >dy of Nin Sheppard, who escaped from the Little Reck, Ark.. Penitentiary. was found in the Arkansas River. Sheppard was a notorious desperado. At Ellendale. N. I)., William Wentzel was held in SSOO bail in the justice court on the charge of selling glandered horses that had been quarantined. There were eleven of them, and they were disposed of in different parts Qf both Dakotas, and it is feared the disease will be spread to an alarming extent. A sensational tragedy occurred in the court room at Tabasco. Mexico. An outlaw named San Francisco Rodriguez had been tried and fcur.d guilty, and the judge had just finished reading the sentence, when the prisoner drew a pi dol and discharged it at the magistrate. The bullet killed the judge instantly. A railroad rate war to the World’s Fair from Indianapolis was begun Friday. As 6 rate had been agreed on, but the Monon announced a $4.50 rate, which was promptly met by the Pennsylvania. There was a hr-ty meeting of Big Four and Lake Erie officials, who will meet the cut. It is believed the war will extend to Cincinnati. Louisville, St. Louis, and the West at once. The corn crop in the Valley of Mexico and through all the Southern States of the Republic is the most abundant yet known for several years, and the price of grain has already taken a big drop. Reports are received of heavy rains in the States of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. There are good grain crops in nearly all the Southern States, but in some localities the drought remains unbroken. Ex-Minister Patrick Egan has sailed from Valparaiso for the United States. The Nebraska Savings Bank, at Lincoln, Neb., has closed its doors. The bank owes $48,000 to other banks and $61,000 to depositors. Three bold desperadoes rode into Mound Valley. Kan., at noon Thursday, and proceeded to the Condon Bank, where they tied up the cashier and robbed the safe of SCOO, all it contained. A posse of citizens started in pursuit of the robbers. The National Retail Clerks Union has just closed its annual session at Nashville, Tenn. Richard M. Olcott, doing business as Olcott & Co., grain exporter at New York, has failed, with liabilities of between SIOO,OOO and $150,000.

i^. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS MEET* Nearly Every Country on the Globe Represented at Montreal. ^he twelfth international convention of the most magnificent religious society ever brought into existence—the

Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, was held in Montreal. Over fifteen thousa n d delegates were present, and every State and territory of the Union, ” all the ^provinces of Canada, England, nearly every country of Europe, as well as India,

RE .’. DR. CLARK.

; China, Japan and Africa and Australia, are represented. A society purely lo- : cal to the place of its organization, ; Portland. Me., until the fall of 1881, it now has twenty-two thousand societies and a membership closely approaching a million and a half. It ‘knows no denomination for clergymen, representing no less than twenty-five evangelical sects will speak from its platform during this meeting. Among those were some of the most noted religious workers of the present day. Kev. Dr. Clark, the er ginator of the Endeavor, arrived on the opening day DR. CLA' K'S HOVSE AT LORTLAND, JIB, BIRTHPLACE OF THE ORDER from his trip around the world, and was enthusiastically received by tl^a thousands in'attendance. Owing to the immense number of delegates and the utter impossibility of.securing anauditorium large enough for their accommodation two programs were carried out in as many meetings, one in the Government drill hall and the other in a large tent on the parade grounds directly opposite. The sessions proper were preceded by a meeting of the Executive Committee at the AAindsor Hotel, and five preparatory meetings in as many of the largest churches were held in the evening. The formal welcome proceedings took place in the drill hall and were attended by fully 15.000 people, the great hall being packed to its utmost capacity. A number of the French Canadians took exception to speeches and remarks made by two ©f the delegates concerning Catholicism, and, although.the convention disclaimed responsibility and immediately withdrew its svmpathy from the delegates who had given utterance to the objectionable remarks, the indignation was so great among those who felt themselves agrieved that a riot was almost precipitated. There was no direct collision, although the police were called upon and had a hard time dispersing- the riotous crowd. They charged a number of times and had to use their batons freel.v, a-Hb j; h . astrous results to many of the rioters. In tbo mnlnn a colored delegrate to t>he convention from one of the Southern States, name unknown, was seriously hurt. A number of arrests were made. The convention next year will be held in Cleveland. NORTHMEN IN CHICAGO. Long Looked For Arrival of the Viking Ship—Now at the Fair. Trailing behind a gunbeat, the brave Norse sailers in their sturdy viking ship reached Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Their long veyage ever perilous seas and through beating storms is at an end, and the great populace qf Norway has executed its pet desire in relation to the Columbian Exposition. The viking ^hip, which preceded the Columbus caravels originally over the Atlantic, has followed them through the canals and down the lake and is now safely anchored near the more modern examples of mediaeval naval architure at the World's Fair. The boat arrived off Van Buren street about /imS k , the viking SHIP. 3 o'clock, and here Mayor Harrison gave Capt. Andersen and his gallant crew the freedqm and hospitality of the city. In half an hour the journey to the Fair was resumed, and at 4 o'clock the great muscles of the sailors plied on long oars drove the boat to the pier. The Director'Gene: al welcomed the crew and gave the men a luncheon on his launch. This wa' followed by a reception in the Administration Building. ATeception to the officers and crew of the Viking was given at Central Music Hall Friday evening. Norwegian singing societies with a- membership of about 300 to k part and prominent speakers wei e heard. The proceeds go toward paying the expenses of the crew while in Chicago and the surplus will be sent to aid the home for old sailors in Norway. John Hitchcock and George McFarland. two gas-well drillers, while making repairs on top of a derrick at Portland, Ind., fell to the ground sixty feet. Hitchcock, who lives in Lima, was instantly killed, while McFarland had both arms and legs broken. ' Miss Edith Drake. 27 years old, daughter of James M. Drake, the millionaire banker of New Yoi k, has disappeared mysteriously. Her friends say her mind is somewhat affected. She was deeply infatualed with Samuel D. McGibney, a builder, a year younger than herself. When Mr. Hitchcock, the new superintendent of the Kan-a- State Reform School, took possession of the institution he xvas immediately deserted by the subordinate employes. He also found the boys in almost open mutiny..