St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 July 1893 — Page 6

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JWjgyYj^ •^abFOnHwl 5^ e CHAPTER XXVll—Continued. Lieutenant Hedges tried to induce tJntllla to go below and occupy Captain Denham’s cabin, but to his solicitations she replied: “Why lie down when I am not weary and cannot sleep. No; I shall s'and and drink in your daring with my eyes if I cannot help with iny hands. Day will soon be here, and the Montauks must find me ready. ” “But surely, Untilla, you will not expose yourself to danger. We have plenty of mon to do the work, an I your life is precious—very precious to me — to all of us.” “The Great Spirit commands; I wear the plumes and carry the spear ot the mighty Wyandauch. Whore they are seen the Montauks will follow; and where could they be seen 1 ut in my keeping. To-morrow s sun will see me as now standing by your side,” said the I hero c princess. “Ah, Untilla, would that it were my i fate to stand by your side through all j the suns of my life." Alarmed at his own boldness, and perhaps struck by the incongruity of ! hinting at love on such an occasion, j Mr. Hedges turned and left. The men not directly engaged in the ] sailing of the ship at once made prepar- 1 ations for the morrow's battle. All laid away their ca;s and bound kerchiefs about their heads: and as the night was warm, many of them stripped to the waist and tightened their belts. The long gun was cleaned and loaded, and the broadside guns were doubly shotted. The boarding pikes in the racks about the masts and the cutlasses which the men girded on were all examined by Mr. Dayton. The tire buckets were filled and placed within mi h, and in the cockpit the sli p’s surgeon and his assistants made every preparation for the reception and treatment of the woundel. Kations were cooked for the men, to be used on the motrow, and then th? lire in the galley was extinguished. While these preparations were going on, Lieutenant Hedges, who with Untilla stood near the helm, saw the lights on board the Wanderer off Gardner’s Island. “There is the ship we are looking for,” said Untilla. “I see her; but we shall keep on till we see the Montauk beacon, then ’bout ship and comeback; by that time it will be daylight," replied Mr. Hedges. The Sea Hawk bounded away, the waves hissing from. her. prow iiiio the ■mnii.ro ommnL, Ulin Tn-rrnrrTT “ attaining like ilie muscles of a creature hungering for the contest that lay before her. “Montauk Tight on the starboard bow,” repeated the officer of the watch. “Bear away one point to the east,” said lieutenant Hedges to the two men placed at the wheel. On sped the Sea Hawk with the eag< r flight of the bird after whom she was named. Montauk light rose up bol 1 and clear from the headland; and as the ea;le in wild speed steps and wheels back on the course he has come, so wheeled and turned the ship. A gray streak of dawn in the east, but the Sea Hawk faced the darkness to the west. Gardner’s Island was now dead ahead. More light filling land and sea, and the Sea Hawk turned the point, and up to her peak ran the ensign of the province. There at anchor, not a mile away lay the Wanderer, her boats alongside after landing her visitors. In alaim Captain Fox ran forward and shouted to the coming ship. “Larboard, you lubbers! Larboard!" A shot from the long gun of the Sea Hawk was the only reply The ships were now only a hundred yards apart. Fox saw his danger and shouted to his boatswain, and then rang out the shrill whistle calling the startled crew of the Wanderer to arms. The Sea Hawk folded her wings. She was alongside, and her grappling । irons, like great talons, were fastened ' in tier victim. Down went the anchors, and Hedges’ guns and the cheers of his men rang along the shore. i CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END 02 THZ CONTEST.

It was Captain Fox's, boast that he i never permitted himself to be taken by J p ri 8 edn 6w. ; , lie could not credit his eyes and bars when he saw the Sea Hawk grappling with the IVanderer, and heard the shot that came from the signal gun crashing through the hull of his own ship. Quick-brained, he took in the danger, and his first thought was that one of the men he had senton board the Sea Hawk ■ had betrayed him. In no other way, he was sure, could his personality and schemes be detected.

Hut there was no time lor guessing; i no time for anything but to shake off the foe that had swooped down on him and fastened her sharp talons in his ; side in a death grip. So well trained were his men that they threw off their jackets, tore the pikes from the racks, and rushed to their posts while yet the shrill whistle of the boatswain was piping all hands to < nailers. The IVanderer was always ready for action; her guns were shotted at all times, and never left unloaded except

when the charges were drawn to clean । them. Now the great gun amidship turned ! her muzzle to the neck of the Sea : Hawk, and its fiery breath blazed i through the shrouds of both ships. The fifteen broadside guns were run out until they touched the black side of the Sea Hawk, close Io the water line, ; and then the solid shot went tearing and I crashing through her timbers, a foun- j tain of splinters flying up from the J shock. Lieutenant Hedges had noped, from the suddenness of the attack, to find i the Wanderer wholly unprepared for re- I

Isistanco. He thought to board the foe and overpower him before ho could strike a blow; but now, as ho saw the . woneferful alacrity with which the pi- ! rates rushed to their posts, he almost forgot, in the momentary admiration of i the act, the all-important mission on which he had come. It was agreed between him and Untilla, that her people should remain out of sight till his men had gained the deck of the foe, where they expected to meet Ealph Denham, when the Mon- j tanks wore to swarm on board shouting | the battle cry of their tribe. In accordance with this plan, Lieutenant Hedges, sword in hand, was the first man to leap on the dec c of the J Wanderer, Mr. Dayton remaining back • to direct matters on board. With the quick bound of tigers two score stalwart young men imitated their daring loader, and, quicker than the heroic deed can be recorded, they’ made i for the long gun amidships, and drove back or killed the men who were fighting it. With that quickness of perception and action that would have made him the foremost seaman in the world, had he been engaged in a righteous cause, Captain Fox saw his opportunity. “Throw off the grapples’” he roared. “Leave the deck to me, Frenauld! Hurrah for the men of the Wanderer!” High over the clash of swords, the ' roar of cannon, and the quick, harsh, cradling of firelocks, rang out the voice of the pirate chief; his men heard his ! ■ words and seemed transformed into fiends. j Frenauld ran to part the ships; an- [ j other instant and the tide and wind j would have separated them, so far that, j though they were anchored nearly head | to head, boarders could not go from one . I to the other. But before the axes could sever the ' last ropes a high, shrill cheer rose up i from the deck of the Sea Hawk. It was j i like the united cries of a hundred ■ : eagles when c'rcling in mid-heaven ■ they see far beneath them the robbers I despoiling their nests, a id they sweep i down to defend and destroy. “I wear the plumes of Wyandauch! Men of Montauk, follow your queen!” ; Untilla stood on the bulwark of the . Wanderer and waved the glittering blade above her head. “We come! Our princess, we come!” ; I shouted the Montauks. J Untilla leaped to the deck, anu when . she raised the spear of Wyandauch again it was redder than the waves, blushing in the light of the rising sun. > In the meantime Frenauld’s men ■ swung their axes with all their might; ; and when about one-half the Montauks reached the Wanderer s deck the gap I bet ween the ship had increased so much ■ I that the others were forced to remain behind. Wondering why Captain Denham, who must have heard the signal given, did not respou I, Lieutenant Hedges, with a view to cheering his own men as well as to attract the attention of his comi mander, raised the cry; “Ralph Denham! Ralph Denham!" Fox heard him, and pressing his men 5 ; .ilnlpli Penham It? uea J. CUFMO you! > The next instant he was before Lieu- ' tenant Hedges. “Murderer, you lie!” retorted the gali lant sailor, and with a leap that would I have been surprising even in an athlete, ; he stoo l face to face with the pirate. I 1 There was no time for taunt or exI pression of rage. The red swords cir- ’ I eled and fell; glanced, Hashed, and rose । again, and Hedges, the stronger of the j men, pressed on, and b re back his as- ; | sailant. At the best, the contest be- ' i tween the men would have been un- i ; certain, had not one of the pirates ) leaped at the first officer of the Sea j Hawk, struck him over the head, and sent him reeling and bleeding to the deck. Untilla saw the act, and, with a cry of rage that appalled thosa tvho came in her way, her spear gleamed like the i ■ lightning, and, like its bolt, transfixed ! the man -who had stricken down the i Lieutenant. i Wh le this was going on Capt. Den- : ham and his men, at the sound of the : signal gun, had made t?.e:r way through I the opening, which Don had arranged. I But the very shot that had called them to action had so torn th? timbers !in the advance as to virtually block i them in. Tn the dim light they worked like I giants to release themselves, but when- ; j ever they lifted one timber from their • front another dropped in behind it. Capt. Denham heard his name shout- : i ed on the de k, and he recognized the ■ ■ voice of Lieut. Hedges. He felt like ; ' answering back, but < becked himself. j Still the Captain and his men worked, [ and still rose and fell the tramping of • feet, the oath and shout, and the clash- j ing of arms overhead, while the ships.

though no longer side by side, used । their cannon on. each other with mureffect. to turn back, for the purpose o’ finding ’ some other way to tho deck, if that were possible, when he heard Don in front j calling out: ■■Patience, men of the Sea Hawkj i patience'.” i By the dim light they could catch the I j gleam of an ax in the hands of the | vouth, and they saw that it rose and ; fell. i A few min ;tes. and there came a ' .1. 4’^.l • . ~, ,11.,. „ ..I 1 IX '

crash, lollowed by a cloud of oust. Don i ha l cut the key-piece, and the whole mass of rubbish c.ime down. | The men, eager to speed to the aid of their comrades, could not restrain th ? cheer that leaped to their lips. j “God bless you!” was all the Captain could say, as he ran past Don into the armory, the walls of which were lined I with c,t asses and guns. For the latter | the sailors cared nothing. They flew for the cutlasses, drew the blades, and flung away the scabbards, and then rushed after the Captain, who was on

the stairs leading to the deck. The sight that met Captain Denham’s I eye would have appalled a heart less resolute. The handful of men that Lieutenants i Hedges had led to the ship were gath- ■ ered about the prostrate form ot their leader, fighting desperately, though : against overwhelming odds. ; The Montauks under I ntilla had just icharged over the deck, and were re- > pulsed, and the pirates, confident that | the tide of battle was turning in their I favor, cheered and fought like incarnate ; demons. ! -As llalph Denham hurried to the deck

he threw off his disguise, and though dressed exactly like his crew, there was no mistaking him. Se t, H , awk m > en and Montau^s, on the forward part of the shin saw and recognized him before’ the pirates did. “Ralph Denham! Ralph D en ham’” went up the cry from the gallant sailors uho saw Mctmy coming, personified in the i erson of their beloved leader I Men of the Sea Hawk! To the rescue; Charge, thundered Ralph examp^o, " aS need t 0 follow his 1 hose who ha 1 been Turning with anxiety- to get to the deck, now saw their chance. w In the front Frenauld wheeled his ons6t. aUd tO Stcm the unex Peeted He fell beneath Denham's blade and many of his followers, to avoid the fury the^Jl neS Stlble ° USet ’ leaped int ° l art of H o deck was speedily old <l o fri Balph knelt to raise his friend, but Lieutenant Hedges stnm^tho 3 nE £ n a volce ®* lll saM” U gh ho was b! eeding to death, ship “ e! I> ™' t Bt °P ““ lh » ’J elling o ie of the sailors to call Mr. Bend tho Bur Seon on board « the Wanderer at once, Captain Denham 3 enjoined his men to follow again, for it I was ail important that the pirates’l should not have time to recover from the la demoralization which his coining hadQ caused. "H “Never mind your pistols, my lads’ cried Denham, when he saw his men ™ drawing the weapons they had concealed ’ on their persons. “Give them the cold - steel, and drive them into the sea.” “Aye, aye, sir!” “Sweep tho quarter deck; capture Kidd alive!" This Captain Denham shouted, as, with Untilla by his side, ' I and the sailors and warriors pressing I l close behind, they sped to the place ' where the pirates, rallied by their des- i perate leader, were to make their iast I i stand. Fox saw Ralph Denham, looked into his blazing eyes, but still lie could not credit the evidence of his senses Ghost or man. he would try him. i And Fox did try, with a heroism worthy of a better cause, to defend or chi ck the onset. But his men had lost heart. They went down before the flushing blades as । the ripe grain drops before the sickle j of the reaper, an I the pirate chie was left nearly alone tn the quarter deck of the Wanderer. “Surrender, Kidd! Surrender!” shouted Ralph. For answer tho pirate with a hoiribls oath, discharged his remaining pistol at his conqueror, and waiting only long enough to note that the shot had no effect, he turned and Hung himself intq the sea. It will be remembere 1 that the boats in which t'.e visitors were landed, were still alongside, there not having been ■ time to hoist them on deck before Lieutenant Hedges made his daring ati tack. Captain Fox found a number of the pirates in one of these boats, and they ; had seize I the oars and were in the uvt of cutting the rope when he crawled on i 1 card. * j Ho never for an instant lost the power ; to command. Seizing the t Iler he called ! out. to his mon: AlttHwr Uwk n«.xl •rrmr'. Trrytirtrr: ; have booty enough or shore to fit out a | ! score of ships like the Wanderer, l ull ; j away!" The pirates took the oars and obeyed i , him, for obedience is a habit that clings i to men after the power to enforce it lias ' I gone. So busy were Captain Denham and । his men, that they did not see this act ■ of the pirate chief, an act that was not I . destined to be of great advantage. Within a few minutes after the disap- I । peaiance of Fox. every pirate on the i ; Wanderer not dead was a prisoner and : under guard. Mr. Day ton had by this tin e worked j his ship alongside the Wanderer and I again they were made fast, with their , | shattered hulls grating against each I other. Captain Denham was about to go for- ! ward to wher th ■ surgeon was dressing 1 ieut nant Hedges’ wound, when Don tou died him on the arm and said: “If you please, sir, there’s sou e la- I dies in the cabin that was locked up till 1 release I them. They wished to i ' come on deck, but I advised them not, j and they want t > see you.” Ralph Denham did not wait to ask ' i who they were; his heart told him, eo : i he ran at once below. He bounded down the companion-way 1 I and into the cabin, withits pictures and | articles of luxury’ untouched, and he ; ' saw in the middle of the floor, with ' their arms encircling each other as if i tor mutual protection, Lea Hedges and ■ ! Ellen Condit. [to be continued ] Pronouncing Foreign Words. ! Foreigners are so infinitely more civil i j than we about mistakes in pronunciation i that that is half the trouble with us. If i we were obliged to speak properly in I order to make ourselves^understood, it ' would be an excellent corrective. But I ers are much more eager to muster our! language than we to acquire theirs. : i lienee, instead of learning, we often I teach when we visit foreign lands. And ! I a good many foreigners cate - t<> <>nr | । ignorance when they come to live hore, I | probably for business reasons. Ger- ! mans actually mispron unce their own j names to please us! And as for articles i i of trade, they become mutilated and I i unrecognizable at their hands. It is i not much trouble to learn that w—even I in English an eccentric letter with sevi eral sounds —is pronounced v in GerI man, and that a wieneiwust is a Vienna i sausage. It would add to our knowli edge, 100. But the man who sells the j sausage calls it a weenerworst instead , of a veenervoost, and the lesson is lost I He sacrifices his birthright for a mess l of sausage, and we our chance of leat nj ing something which may be useful unj der other circumstances. At all events j it is a good investment always to know ) whiU one is talking about.-Chicago Morbid Tastes. । 1 f’dy, there is no accounting for I tastes in 1h s world of ours. A^New ”! Yoik woman wears a ring i n which is . set, in a c.rcle of diamonds, her first baby s firs’ teeth. A London lady of high degree wears, set in the j eWe f 8 0 [ hei b. a elet, a tooth extracted from the ; mouth or her pet poo lie. Another affe - Donate creature uses the skin of a once - i lav upte horse as a hearth rug for her i boudoir and has a defunct pet ’ . mounted in life-like attitude by the & dusr or an orna!iient ° n

STATE GROG SHOPS. THE palmetto dispensaries CAUSE EXCITEMENT. South Carolinians Are Said to Be Dissat Isiied with Their New Liquor Law—Big Falling Off In the Sale of Intoxicants and Less Tprunlcenness, However. Sold by the State. According to a dispat A from Columbia, S. C., the greatest excitement prevails there over the State dispensary’

law. The big government bar-room in Columbia is now in full operation, running twelve hours a day, and turning out on an average from 12,000 to 15,000 flasks per day of whisky of various kinds, as well as gin and other liquors. The State has gone into the business on a

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0 , big scale,and there as probably not anoh another lar^e mtablishment in the country. The Wtiilding, a cut of which is given, is u large one, situated on Main street just b lew yards from tho State-house ■ xnmds. With the exception of a small f-dfleo for the railroad commission and in agricultural journal, tho building is Wholly devoted to tho State's whisky enterprise. The measure recently put in force was carried through by Governor Tillman, and forbids the sale of liquor anywhere except in government dispensaries and by persons appointed by the State. Ever since the law went i«to operation, it has met with bitter opposition especially from tho liquor dealers. These base their opposition on I , P E MH w the ground that the State has thuscre- , ated^a monopoly for itself and, second- : ly, that it cannot engage in trade. The I dispensary nt Greenville, one of the largest in the State, has been closed by Judge Norton until the law’s constitu- ' tionality can be determined. The case will be neard in the Circuit Court, and i if the law is here declared unconstitutional, similar eases will bo opened in ail the eight Circuit Courts of the i State. But affairs will still, probably, remain unsettled until the Supreme i Court can pronounce on the matter. Although there has been less drunki enness and less liquor sold in the State I since July 1. yet, iinanciaUv. the dis- : pensaries have been nearly failures, i averaging i nly from $25 to $45 a dav. I A large brewing company sent some ale into the State the other day. which is also contrary to the dispensary law. in order to test its legality. Many saloons are in operation on the quiet. The first arrest, made Saturday, under the new law, was that of an Italian. Vin- ; cent Chico, of Charlesti n, for selling i beer last week. Three State constables j and a dozen spies went to the man’s i house, .searched it fioin garret to cellar, and confiscate 1 not only liquor i but almost everything else they j could find. An angry crowd watched ' the proceedings. Several photograph- ! ers were present, and the people cried for them to take pictures of the spies. i The scene in the police court was I equally exciting. The crowd hissed ' the officers and Chico cursed them, and ! one drew a revolver against him. Many i wealthy citizens offered to go bail for ! the Italian to any amount. Other liquor dealers were subse- , quently arrested. Those are only the i first of some fort.v or fifty cases of vioI Uation of the law' which the constabuJlai V are now working up. t,. ; of um.a - <■>-, !IF • tlie Talk. a&jrhe Sherman law, about which SO ■mhch has been said of late, is as fol- • lows: [ Section 1. The Secretary of the Treasury I is hereby directed to purchase, from time to I time, silver bullion to the aggregate amount i of 4,.v o.u o ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month, at the market price thereof, not exceeding $1 for 371.2a grains of pure silver, ami to issue in payment of such purchases of silver bullion treasury notes of tho United States, to be prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form and of such denominations, not less than $1 nor more than £I.OOO, as he may prescribe, ami a sum to carry into effect the provisions of this act is hereby a preprinted out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. That the Treasuiy notes issued in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be redeemable on demand, in coin, at the Treasury of the United States or at the office of any Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and when so redeemed may be reissued, but no greater or less amount of such notes shall be outstanding at any time than the cost of the silver bullion, and the standard silver dollar coined therefrom, then held in the Treasury purchased by such notes; am! such Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract, and shall be receivable for customs, taxes and ail public clues, and when so tecelved may be reissued; and such notes when held by any national banking association, may be counted as apart of its lawful reserve. That upon demand of the holder of any of the treasury notes herein provided for. the Secretary of the Treasury shall, under such regulations as he may prescribe, iedeem such notes in gold or silver coin, at his discretion, it being the established policy of t he United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such as may be provided by law. SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall each month coin 2,000,000 ounces of the silver bullion purchased under the provisions

of this act into standard sliver dnli.™ ... the first day of July, 18s»i, and after th.t l” ’ 1 he shall coin of tbe sHver bullion 1 l hat \ t,mo under the provisions of this act may be necessary to provide for much as tion of the Treasury SoUsher^ and any gain of seigniorage arising from Im-h coinage shall be accounted for and pakl into the Lreasury. 1 u into Bec. 4. That the silver bnllimn u under tho provisions of this act £hafl b^mibject to the requirements of existing law and regulations of the mint service governing the methods of determining the amount of pure silver contained and the amount and charges or deductions, if any to be made. k ,” EC -Tbst «o ntuch of the act of Feb ^8 IS7B entitled An act to authorize the coin atm of the standard silver dollar and to restore its Sec. 6. I hat upon the passage of this act the rußed St^: t!7. Wlth the ’^eaVurVVof Um tiSnal banka ^V^ctive credits of nat ’’anks for dei osits made to redeem tho ?ts 1 he a reaftr n r°r eS « 9U . C ^ ba , Dks ' and a " rtc l CB ' m covered inf. H V ° V° r llke ’ ,nr P° B e, «ball covercc J into the Treasury as a tnisceilaStates^lwn’ 1 ’ tb r Treaßar cr of tbe United ytates shall redeem from ihe general < a b in bank ’wide?' ,h -bating ”nX o? saiS subie t to^dn ,ome hUo b ' s possess on i of thornnf i andn P°n the ertitiei te notes hr. i troller ' / the Currency that such ate V ee . n rece , lv «d by him and that th. y wm destroyed and that no new notes willbeLssuedin their place, reimlursements of their amount shall be made to the treasurer, under such regulations as tho Secretary of tbe prescribe, from an appropriation hereby created, to be known as rational Bank notes; redemption account," but t‘ie provisions of this ant shall not apply to the deposits received under Section 3 of the act of June 20, 1874, requiring every national bank to ~e eP in lawful money with the Treasurer ot States a sum equal to 5 per cent of demotion or O IV to , be ’wld ami used for the reuempuon or Its circulating notes nn.l the balance remaining of the deposits so covereu shall at tho close of each month be reported on the monthly public debt stater nt as debt of the United States bearing no interest Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect 30 days from and after its passage. BILL NEWBY GUILTY. A Springfield Jury Finds that He Is‘•Rickety Dan" Benton. The famous suit, involving an alleged pension fraud that would swindle The Government out of $20,1)00 or more, has been decided at Springfield. 111., and Bill Newby is declared to be “Hiekety I>ii’i" Benton. The case is probably the most remarkable that has ever be n tried in the United States. The object of the trial was to determine the identity of a man who claims to be ' Bill” Newby, but who the Government is sure is “Dan” Benton. Benton, if that is his name and the jury says it is was under criminal indictment for personating Newby in order to procure a pension from the Government. It seems that Bill Newby was a soldier who was supposed for twenty-nine years to have been killed in battie. A short time ago the defendant in this trial put in an application for a pension, claiming that he was Bill Newby, and that, instead < f being killed, he had been badly wounded in the head and leg and had l»een taken to Andersonville prison. There lie was known as "< razy Jack." When in course of time he was released, a d-mente l. "rickety" man. la* says he I ecanie a wanderer and drifted about the e nintry for a quarter of a century. Incoming an inmate of various poor-houses and of tho Tennessee penio ntiary. Then his reason part'a'ly ret ;.- | and he came to realize that be was Bill Newby. Ho went out am ng his old neighbors and declared himself. Ho recognized old friends and talked in such a manner of old times that ho cenvineed many of them that 11U WUo rcullj Vici 15111. It inuit i><> so, they urged, for nobody but Bill Newby would know things he spoke of. Some members of the Newby family, including his old wife, who bad long been drawing a pension on his account, received him as genuine. Finally he himself made application for an original pension and then his troubles commenced. An investigation of his case resulted in establishing his BENTON. ALIAS ‘‘BILL" NEWBY. identity to the satisfaction of the government officials as “Rickety Ilan” Benton and his arrest, indictment, trial and conviction followed. In opening the ease ths Government commenced with Dan Benton as a child, after it had shown Bill Newby to be dead and buried. Ho is traced from White County, Illinois, in“oTennessee, where he and his mother wore taken by one Andy Wooten. Thore Dan Os file uclgn’ob'i'lioocl, \tild m!/ 1 'wills’’Lit the penitentiary at Nashville for hoise stealing, and remained there for twelve years. He was Dan Benton, the son of Lydia Benton, and there was no other pretense. Thus it was until 1889, when he left tho penitentiary. Ho was an inmate of many poorhouses in Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, both before and after his incarceration in the penitentiary. In these lie was registered as Dan Benton. The witnesses of the government testified to events which succeeded each other in perfect rotation, while those of the defense loft a gap of twenty-nine years. Thev all testified to the identity of the defendant as Bill Newby, but in their descriptions of how Bill Newby looked before the war they varied greatly. The most import ant‘witness for the defense was William Cohoon, a soldier and a member of Comj any E, Fortieth Regiment. He became acquainted with Newby in the army, and on the 4th of April, two days before the bat- i tie of Shiloh, stood guard with him fn-twenty-four hours. While on guar^ he had a conversation with him which he had never repeated to anybodv. After the reappearance of " Nota.’ bj in 1891, the latter, without anything haying been said to draw’ him out, talked about that conversation. Th© ‘ wfitness was satisfied defendant was - N ewby. eeping cut in the wixges of th© ' Comstock mines has been ordered. ’

KANSAS MINERS RIOT. BLOOD IS SHED BY THE STRIKERS AT WEIR CITY. In Their Effort to Drive Men Out of th. Mines Clubs and Pistols Are Freely Used and Four Persons Are Injured—Women Begin Hostilities. Further Trouble Feared Blood has flowed in tho Kansas coal strike at last, and. according to a dispatch, the worst of it is that all indications are that more serious trouble is ahead. At Weir City, Thursday, a mob of strikei's, with a large number of women and children, began gathering । on vacant ground just west of the Gulf | Railway. Shortly before noon they formed a procession, with the women and children in front and the men behind, many of both sexes carrying sticks and clubs. At the front the American flag was carried and farther down the line were two or three black flags. The crowd, to the number of 600 or BCO, marched east on Main steet till it reached one of Granat’s strip pits. The women poured into the pit and seized the men employed there, forcing them out. The men took the Situation as quietly a > possible, and effected their escape later on as opportunity offered. The mob then headed southwest to Bonnett's pits. The men there fled at their approach and only two or three were captured. The strikers next marched on to J. H. Clemmons’ strip pit. The premises are inclosed, and teeing the approach of the mob, Clemmons warned them to keep off the ground. No attention was paid to the warning. The gate was broken down and the strikers swarmed in, spme advancing on Clemmons while others went after his men. Clemmons retreated and continued to warn the crowd back, and finally when an assailant attempted to seize him he shoved tho fellow back, drew a revolver and fired several shots over their heads to frighten them. Many of the crowd especially the women and children, began to scatter, but the more determined rioters pressed forward. Meanwhile, others on both sides began firing, and Clemmons and his men found firing in the air was useless and began shooting to kill. Spectators say that fully one hundred shots were exchanged. Clemmons’ men soon ran out of ammunition and fled for their lives, pursued by the infuriated strikers. Three of the men found refuge in a house, and being hidden by the inmates, escaped the searchers. They remained hidden about three hours until a deputy sheriff succeeded in getting a carriage in the neighborhood unobserved and took them to Columbus. Clemmons and one or two of his men distanced the pursuit, and word has since been received that they are safe, though their whereabouts are unknown except to a few. The dispatch says that further trouble is expected. THE SUBJECT OF PENSIONS. Commissioner T^orhren Outlines the Adminlstration’s l*olicy. outlined the pension ■no Hey of ad-- -- ministration in a letter sent to a prominent politician of Albany. The letter is afe follows: I can best answer your question by reading to you the following extract of a letter I have just written to the editor of the Albany Argus on this subject: Under the Tension laws enacted prior t© June, 1890, pensions were granted basdd upon disabilities incurred in the military or naval service, and in many cases specific ratings for particular disabilities were designated in the acts of Congress, and it was provided generally I that for inferior disabilities an amount proLortionate to that for total disability should e granted. Under this general provision specific ratings for such inferior disabilities were fixed by rules and orders of this bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Pensions granted for such disabilities of service origin are presumed to have been properly granted and there will be no interference with respect to such pensions. Section 2 of the act of June 27.1890, provided that all persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, cud who are now, or who } mav hereafter be, suffering from a mental or a I physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, I which incapacitated them from the performI ance of manual labor in such a, degree as to I render them unable to support, shall, upon (making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon tbe list > of invalid pensioners of the United States, and • be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding I sl2 per mouth, and not less than £6 per month, I proportioned to the disability to earn a sup- : port. I This act permits the pensioning of soldiers ' for disabilities of a permanent character, al- - : though not of s rvice origin, which incapaci- ’ i tates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as i o render them unabla ’ i to earn a support. It is this incapacity for I manual labor alone which entitles them to be t i pensioned under this act. and it is plain that I no specific injury or disability which does not ’ ‘ affect the capacity for manual labor gives any J I right to pension under the act last referred to. t ' Yet under an order. No. IM. issued on October i 15, 1890, and approved by the Assistant Secre- ' ; tary of the Interior, it was directed in subi ; stance, that claimants undertheactof June 27, । i 1890, should be ratfed for specific disabilities. j the same as if they were of service origin, up j ~.nxh,>ut n ratine of ^l2 per month, and I " licrc tilt} fll.saUi 11 te < >f orlArln, woulcf »ia par -month, it should toe rated at, per montto. This rating was manifestly by the act ot ' June 27.1890, and the effect of the order is Illustrated by the Bennett case, which called at- , tention to it. In that case a claimant for pension under the act of June 27, 1890, was rated for slight deafness at £l2 rer month; yet it was manifest that slight deafness would not interfere materially with the claimant’s capacity to perform manual labor. Upon inquiry the medical referee reported back, acting under order ; 164 referred to, the capacity of claimant to per- ‘ form manual labor was not ordinarily considered in adjudicating claims for pensions under the act of June 27, 1890. It was therefore deemed necessary that these cases be re-exam-ined, and that where it appeared uponthe face of the papers that the claimants were not, upon the evidence submitted, entitled to pensions under the act of June 2T. 1890. such pensions should be suspended, and notice given to the pensioners to present further evidence in support of their claims, and that where the claimant ultimately failed to show himself entitled to pension under the law of June 27, 1890, the pension should be dropped and the case rejected. This is the only class of cases that is being examined and revised by this bureau. and the necessity for such action is, I think, sufficiently obvious. Hay 850 a Ton. 1 Europe is very short of hay and th© United States will have to help her out. In New York marketmen ar© paying from sl7 to S2O a ton and selling it to European dealers for S3O a ton. The ocean freight is $lO a ton, so that with the other expenses of getting it to the consumer it costs SSO a ton. I The dry weather of Europe last sum- • mer and this is responsible for th© j light crop. I An ordinary man exhales every day ' one pound of cai’bonio oxide.