St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 September 1893 — Page 2

AtT/DYLIT HONOLULU.' A Bold Stroke for a Husband. Written for This Paper. BY LEON LEWIS.

CHAPTER Vll— Continued. The following day Ralph ma lea long visit to Honolulu, but returned unusually serious and dejected, having failed again to find any clew to the eeciets by which he was continually haunted —his real place in the moi Id, his name, his kindred and hb history. “I may as well make up my mind to remain contentedly in my present situation, ” lie said to Alma Bullet, after he had briefly sketched the day’s pilgrimage. “It seems that lam never to learn anything about myself, and. that you and your father are the only friends I am likely to encounter.” “Well, what other friends do you want?” demanded Bullet, smilingly, he having cVawn near the couple in time to hear Ralph's gloomy observation. “In doing what we could for you have we not made you a pleasant home, and provided you with every necessary of existence, just as you in return have filled our ' hearts with happiness we never should have experienced without you? It seems to me ” The snapping of a dry twig in some bushes near the cottage announced an intruder in that quarter, and Bullet suddenly paused and listened. “Caution’.” he whispered. “Some one 4s hidden there. Probably Keeri.” He bounded in the direction indicate ed, but soon returned Hushed and panting. “It was Keeri,” he reported. “Alma will never be rid of the danger and annoyance of that fellow until she is married, I must look after him further.” And he again vanished. “Your father is right,"said Ralph, with a sigh. “In marriage is your only frotection from Keeri’s persecutions. owe you a great debt, Alma, and the least I can do is to become your protector. Will you marry me?” The abruptness of the long wished for proposal prevented Alma from replying verbally, but it was with a visible delight that she crept into Ralph’s arms and nestled her head in his bosom. CHAPTER VIII. ROSEATE VIEWS OF THE FUTURE. The silence was soon broken by Ralph. “You will name an early day?” he queried, in the same voice with which lie would have asked the price of a bushel of potatoes. “Yes—of course,” simpered Alma as she raised herself up and looked sharply around to see if her father were snaring her joyous triumph, or if the prowling Kanaka were threatening to disturb it. “We island girls, you know, are simple in our tastes, and I shall not want a great deal of time to get ready. My wardrobe will be simplicity itself, of course, although I shall endeavor to make it worthy of us. Suppose,” and she dropped her head upon Ralph’s breast, and inserted one of her forefingers into her mouth, “suppose we say to weeks from to-morrow?” “Just as you choose, love.” “Then it is settled,” breathed Alma, more simperingly than before, “that we will be married two weeks from to-

th wrow. Would you jirofer to be mar- j ried in the morning or in the evening? ” "I shall leave you to arrange all that just as you please, love.” “Then we’ll say in the evening; no, in the morning; at eight o'clock —no, at ten o'clock in the morning. Had I better be married at home, or shall I say at the missionary rooms or the church at Honolulu? “It's all for you to decide, dearest.” “Then perhaps the church is the best < pla- e,” mused Alma aloud. “It's too public on some accounts, to be sure; but then no girl of spirit likes to be ; married in an out-of-the-way corner. I think we may decide upon being married at our church in Honolulu, and that father will approve of our decision. 1 want all the girls to envy me, you see, and being married at home is j out of the question. But you don't | seem to be interested—delighted?” “Oh, yes, I am —perfectly charmed." ' returned Ralph, with a sigh like that of a force-pump. “I was merely think-ing-taking leave of my bachelorship, you know,” and he smiled gloomily and distractedly. “As to all the details of our wedding, it is your privilege to arrange them to suit yourself, and in case of any doubt upon any point you can refer to your father.” “It is all settled, then,” cried Alma, joyfully; “two weeks from to-morrow, in our church at Honolulu, at 10 o'clock in the morning.”

Here Bullet popped upon the scene as suddenly as he had left it. A glance at the flushed and jubilant features of his daughter thrilled h'm, as ho caught her observation. “What is settled?” he demanded, j 1 oking searehingly around. “Why, my marriage with Ashley.” *■ “Marriage ? Ashley ? ” repeated ■ Bullet, simulating the ” greatest aston-| ishment. “I don't comprehend you( “No, of course not .H- g .. ( •V.ffV,- , . a h v> othor 0. '.'•'"■'m t<> your approval.’

■' ' ■ cii’d idea seomed at last to get through Bullet's head, and he lost no time in entering upon an elaborate display of his approval and blessing. "This is as it should be,” he declared, after he had signified the general tenor of his sentiments. “Ashley b good and noble, and has long been to me as a son. you are the sweetest and most i charming of girls, Alma, and have al- j ways been the most affectionate of i d ughters. lam sure that you will j both be happy. But let us go into the house and talk over the matter at our ■ leisure. I saw nothing of Keeri.” he added with a final sweeping glance into the adjacent bushes. "He has Certain!'lust been here, but he seems to have gone.” The old man led the way into the house, and the couple followed him, shutting them elves in. They had scarcely vacated the door-yard when the Kanaka entered it, advancing from Ihe bushes nearest the entrance. His face would have been a study for a painter, it was so full of hopeloss love,

revenge, regret, and rage, all hustling together in one mighty convulsion. Keeri could indeed realize now what a mistake he had made by re orting to violence. It seemed to him, as he glared after the couple, that he himself was directly resposible for their betrothal. i “I should have knocked him on the head and let the girl alone!” he said, ' to himself, as he halted a moment and tried to peer into one of the windows of the little sitting-room. “But even , now there is away of setting things to rights, if I can only get at it. There are two weeks, if I heard aright, in which to think and act. and I must be a poor fool, indeed, if in two weeks I cannot invent a plan of separating ' them forever. ” Unable to see or hear anything further, the envenomed rival took his de- I parture. In the meantime the old sailor had , given a general review of the situation. t i “We are all of us poor enough," said he, byway of conclusion, “but we are also rich enough to go through the , world with every necessary comfort ( Our little homesteadher^jd^dMMßj '■' '"rd -,i .. lug. Ashley ■ qg^ment during the, jaaftguner pi, my ■ days, and afterwards worK it“hpon his own account. The program is simple, i, you see, but it is enough for a reason- - able ambition. And, after all, it is not - wealth that makes cur happiness, but ’ affection and contentment.” “By the way,” said Ralph abruptly, , “is Mr. Benning dead—Mr. Ashley ' Benning, after -whom you have named mo?” । ' “Why, of course,” replied Bullet. ■ j “Then I can at least count upon keepi ing this, name permanently,” com- : mented Ralph. “It will matter little, in fact, if I Should never discover the nai%e to which I am really entitled.” “Os course not. If you marry Alma under the name of Ashley Benning, you will be just as legally her husband as if you had married her under your former name—the name you have forgotton and lost, whatever it may be. Even if your real name should be discovered after your marriage—and it is to be hoped, of course, that it will be, ; sooner or later—why, even then there . | would not be the least ilaw in your I marriage with Alma—not the least.” ; I The conversation was prolonged to a • I sufficiently late hour, but Ralph at last s j withdrew* to his own room, and the 1 j father and daughter then drew their > I chairs close together. i ( ‘ Caution!” breathed the ex-sailor. “I 1 । must have a few words with you pri- > . vately. You have really caught him.” - । “Yes, thanks to Keeri." I | “He seems cold, however.” - | “He is eoltl just like a stone. He i | offered himself to me merely from a r | sense of duty, or gratitude, or sume- ' thing of the kind, and not from affection. But what do I care for the why or the how of his proposal? It is , enough for me that he is engaged to t me. ” “ch course it’s enough.” assented

Bullet. “The whole situation is lovely. We must take good care that there’s ‘no slip betwixt the cup and the li]),‘ and that's all there is ab ut it. As soon as you ate duly married to him—that is. within a few days thereafter — I shall suddenly discover that his real name is Ralph Kemplin, that he is the only son of the great merchant of Chicego, that he is the heir of untold wealth —in short, that the facts of the case are just what you and I have known them to be ever since he was thrown into our keeping. And then all you and he will have to do is to take your true places in the world as the son and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Kemplin.” The glow that suffused Alma’s checks at this blissful prospect was almost hectic in its coloring. “How lovely it all is!” she breathed. “Lovely! Lovely’s no name for it. । You've caught a prize that the richest girl in the world might envy.” It was with this rosy view of the situation that the couple finally separated for the night. CHAPTER IX. The two weeks of busy preparation that followed passed like a dream to both Bullet and his daughter, and it was as the culmination of a long gladness that they arrived in due course at the auspicious hour so ardently longed for—the hour chosen for the marriage.

3 j It had seemed essential to the old • / sailor to keep the matter quiet, even 'las it had seem essential to Alma to /give the affair a certain publicity. Through the unicn of their counsels a I happy medium had been chosen —quite | a large circle of friends and neighbors being invited, while mere acquairitwn- ! ces were entirely tonoiod and i .W.V.'.N.'inUY Kn'lCC I Ui . she had the satisfaction of feeling that she was their particular envy.

The parties took their places at the foot, of the altar just as the hour named ■or the ceremony sounded. The priest I opened his book and proceeded with i the ceremony which was to make the i twain on * flesh, paying little heed to She contented joy of the bride, the gloomy abstraction of the bridegroom 1 j beaming yet anxious delight of I Bullet. The ceremony had advanced to that ' I point where the minister demands of j any one having objections to instantly i offer them, or thereafter hold his peace | forever, when a hurried tramping of i ieot re ounded along an inner corridor j of the church, and a man came swiftly I into the midst of the assemblage. ' j This man was Keeri. “lam sorry to disturb you. reverend ' sir, he said, proceeding directly to j b :s ness. "but I am called here bv an ' imperative duty.” flhe priest repeated tne word with a i stammer and a look of astonishment. i "Yes, sir—duty,” repeated Keeri, ■ even more emphatically than before. ;

.... II — —' " 1 “I am here to forbid this ^rtlageJ “Anil why forbid it?” I “Because the young lady, Miss let, is now engaged to be my has long been promised to me.” “It is false'” cried the fiercely as he advanced in the of throwing a harpoon. \ lying!” . ” »JL The priest closed his book abru® “Let there be no violence in®wPtly house of God,” he said, placing the self between Keeri and Bullet. ‘ iimwhole ceremony is adjourned until The hour to-morrow. In the meantime, this had ail better settle your difference you a seemly and Christian manner— > in out violence and without scandal.” fithAnd with this he beat a retreat the little apartment at the rear of'i into altar, whitner Bullet at once folio the him. ‘A “Are you going to abandon us?* “ " mandedthe old sailor, with iU-c concealed surprise. “Are you go|^ suspend the ceremony upon the m j A verbal statements of such a persci^^ Keeri?” HW The clergyman nodded assent, “Will it not be enough if my daifcjg ter and I expressly declare thatitO^. is not th* 'east basis for the prelw * sions of this man?” i A _ “No, taut will mt be enough,” Ly the quiet reply. “Let ma be fiOg with you. Mr. Bullet. It is out of.ML ■sideration for you and ycur daugV’ that I have suspended proceeding^ promptly. My object is to chec^^ large scandal at its very commtSk mont.” ■ “What, do you mean, sir? ScaraH| What scandal can there be in t_. M promises’?” “A great one, if I am rightly ed,” said the priest. “In ordinaML* cumstances, I should pay Jittlq all intrude r bey» l ■ .•~ *j „ ; B^RWpueß.usAq.) aig jo i iOLUic., not merely | your daughter of a want orMPiiQim

ward himself, but also to accn£ 4 W a want of faith towaid Mr. In a word. Keeri says that you ' daughter know who this young sti jE. e r really is. how he camo here, friends are and where they are Land that it is a conspiracy between yc^nd Miss Bullet to inveigle this unfortunate | young man into this marriage. The consternation of the old at this exposition of affairs was kOvat that he could neither move nor®. n k. “Now let these charges be or false," re-umed the clergyman, ‘Tjovi | has ci me here, as I have been wlraed beforehand, to throw them inwour face, and as this donuncMion would necessarily provoke a treat scandal and tumult, it has seeivd to m • the part of a Christian pastorind a ■ man of sense as well as of imbrue frien 1) t » nip the whole projecvMthe i Kanaka in the bud by the combo P i have taken.” The ( 1 I sailer had never seen^ghtn n -er than now saw imp the priest * action hail bet n dictate®y the Ixist of good udgment and friqKAhip.

"1 approve entirely of yourW^ion, I sir." he -a i. hurriedly, as heWeizeu ’ and pre—ed the pa-tor’s haik fer- ! vently. "I will return homl im- I mediately with my d uighter. ani^ ie ' ■ whole project of her marriage with 1 Mr. Benning is --u-pended and dis- ; missed until you hear from me fu»ior j on the subject.” ' ' |TO BE CONTINUED. | Scriptural Sanction. ■ ; Speaking of pipes recalls a story of I : Bishop S abury, the first bishotjof - ' Conn eiicut. lie was a grea^Auiq^r, » । and when trav 'li::,- always i him a good supply of his fiaoSt tobacco, I I and a wooden case made to hold tinea I long clay pipes. Ele would no mtire ■ > I l ave forgotten these than his butks and vestments. An old lady of the > di ease was an a’.dent admirer of the bishop, but the clouds of tobacco smdte surrounding his head like a hllu troubled her. At last sbe mustered ip courage and said: "Bishop, how can you smoke? Do.’t ‘ . you think it an ungodly habit and la- i > i becoming to a minister?” “Well, my good woman, I thought ! ; you read your bible.” said the bishii l "I do,” she replied, “but I never saf ■ anything in it to countenance smo| ■ . ing.” ' | ■\\ hat, ’ -aid the bishop, “did yq ■ you never read, the passage which e.* liorts us to praise God on the pipe? Til - ; possible!” The old lady was satisfied, and afteii wards told people who criticised thli • । bishop for smoking that they didiit t ' rightly understand the Scriptures. I _ i They “Considered That I”int.” 1 । In Illinois there is an old law on the statute books to the effect that in criminal cases the jury is the “judge of the law as well ’ q ‘ facts.” Though not often i t once in a while a lawyer . perate case makes use In this case, says the the judge instructed the J was to judge of the law as wellas tlB facts, but added that it was not tT judge of the law unless it was fully satisfied that it knew more law than ! the judge. An outrageous verdict was brought ! in. contrary to 111 1 instruct .due I court, who r-u® I ""GTitt one ..1.1 farmer arose •Mc<the,” said lie. “weren't we to J । jedpe the law as well as the facts?” | “Certainly,'' was the response; “but I told you not to judge the law un1 less you were clearly satisfied that 1 l you }f new tiie l aw better than I did.” I “Well, jedge,” answered the : farmer, as he shifted his quid, “we considered that p’int.” Remarkable Indeed. i A young woman was recently intro- ; duced to Mrs. Croly (says the New York limesas “sister of So-and-so. the ■ artist. In-tantly the exclamation followed: I should have known the re- , lationsiiip,^ my near, by the resemj Lame. \\ ny. it is positively startling. ■ ^T, ne '9 r sa " l v '° faces more exactly i !. 1 , V l . con tour and ” “But Mrs. , roly, interrupted the girl in a meek, i L mal U " I am onl y his sister-in- : law. Minch make 3it a n the mine i emau-kable, continued the of her. with- । out the least embarrassment or hesitaI tion. Umlerdrains. hen you make underdrains be sure also to make a map locating perfectly so that they can be found for repairing without- too much digging.

^VELVE LIVES LOST. WREC »< ON THE FT. WAYNE railway. y. trains Collide on the -Y” Near Cole- , hour-Twelve People Killed and Nineteen Others Seriously Hurt-P asS enger Train Runs Into a Milk Train. Disaster and Death. In a collision the other mornino- between a milk train of the Pittsburg Chicago and Fort Wayne Railway and an east-bound passenger train out of Chicago on the Panhandle, or PittsCincinnat b Chicago and St. Louis Railway, twelve persons were killed outright and nineteen others were in“Y” C f? liSi °*u occul T e< i on the x running from the main line hist ^outh Os Colehour to East Hammond. Ind., at the point of a curve, and in a sparsely settled locality. The bago-a^e car of the east-bound i assenger tram was ground into pieces, and from this most of the killed and injured were taken. The scene of the wreck beino- far removed from immediate police and surgical aid made the calamity a most distressing one, and it was more than an hour before the first of those rescued maimed and bleeding, could be carried to houses m Colehour and South Chicago for treatment. Physicians wore summoned from the latter place and enginesand unused ears were hastily P wS r ° d and rUShed tOthe 806110 of th ® The t"'!’’® Force of Collision. ?‘V le “Y ai -\^ ^ngle track L a heav^ u .^’ a ^h, IS joiuas jpoips i^lih | ~--

jOi thia car were penetrated in every di- • rection by the jagged iron points of the milk train locomotive, and when ti»e residents of Colehour came hurrylag to .the scene they found the fruit

MEETING of tiie wrecked trains—the moment of collision.

- cars of both trains heaped over the bodies of passengers buried Ixmeata. The cries of those not \o’ dead and I the exposed portions of more than one ■ dumb form told plainly the >torv of a ’ great loss of life. All the horrible de- | tails of a railway colli-ion were present —the great heap of torn a: d collapsed । cars, the hot fragments of iron, and the ’ hiss of escaping st- am. Even the latter could not drown the moans of the I wounded, who were helpless, while the | ’ uninjured passengers anti those of the ; train crew not buried in the wreck I jpiulo pr.Qpax atiwx.o their reiief. Word of the calamity having reached South Chicago, the police notified the surgeons of that city, and by 10 o'clock a procession of these and many citizens ; was on its way to the death field. Twelve dead bodies were taken out the wreck. The list of the killed is: Anson Temple, Manager of Schiller Theater, Chicano. Unknown man with Manager Temple. Probably an actor. | William Rigney. Traveling I’asscnger ' Agent Wisconsin Central Railroad. i G. A. Hines. Vincennes, Ind. William Shonicker, New Albanv, Ind. William Richardson, Chicago. R. D. Adams, Fairfield, 111. E. A. Barnard, Terre Haute, Ind. Four unknown men. Nineteen people were badly hurt. Colehour, a settlement that is practically a southern continuation of South Chicago, and which contains

many of the latter's shipping interests, lies between the lake shore and the I Calumet River at 105th street. It ;i is but a short distance north of Roby, and is cut by three rail- । ways, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and | Chicago, the Lake Shore, and the BalB timore and Ohio. The Indiana State line touches the lake shore just south- ‘ east of Colehour, which is thirteen “ tniles from the city hall. The town 3 concentrates its business along the q river front, where there are salt, lum- . per and coal docks and ship-building I yards. Isingular mortality record. ^rFour California Pioneers Pass Away Withi in Seven Days. w Within the last seven days four old ^^California pioneers, intimate friends *-*or years, have passed away. Their

1 leaths form a_sjngular i ecord in mor^^^■■PWWy^.fVerjioon the four men, years of age, met at their Yub, the Arion, at San Francisco, and ^Ayed whist together. On one f/ednesday, Joseph Hug, aged 69. died Stom a paralytic stroke. Three then lot about the card table. The day bo.Bß’e Hug’s funeral Theodore Wetzel, Wkd 66, youngest of the quartet, I Brised away. Two days later William A.rgener, the patriarch, died. Emil l e ' t Engelberg was left alone. He at-tK-ded the first two funerals, but on - o a day of the third burial he could M-ise and two days later he also was oljd. Engelberg was a member of ^^■enson’s California Regiment. He \ a ® rich and prominent, and all three 01 Ais comrades were well-to-do and we known. CHOLERA IN COMMONS.

A Chkrwoman Employed tn the House Ex- ! plres from the Plague. In the House of Commons Friday afternoon, Mr. Fowler, President of the local board, announced that a charwomaa who had been employed in the House died under very suspicious circumstances. He was not prepared to eay that it was a case of cholera, but a most careful examination was being made of the body. Mr. Fowler's announcement created almost a panic among the members and many of them left the House forthwith. It is learned that the doctor’s examination leaves

I, scarcely a doubt that the woman died of Asiatic cholera. 'Frisco Train Robber Confesses. “ thT h n? 1 * adei 7 )f the gang that hel <i up the Frisco tram at Pacific, Mo on Tuesday night, has confessed. Penrohi 7 aS ar F ested on the scene of the ■ and i . has Slnce been almost 1 nna tan w y sub J eeted to the “sweater " Under this pressure he is said to have 1 ad mUted that he led the gan- H® implicates three others in the crime. Actmg on this information, the police arrested Sam Robinson, a railroad ' pLnno?k U a Tl d frie ? d and com P aQi on of 1 < nnock The police are looking for ' Pennwk^L a o ex - brakema n, and g Jim ’ setn wi to b A other ’ both of whom were seen with Pennock on the day of the National Banks Resuming Business. to xr three national banks at MankadavAm ’• reo P^ ned their doors ThurTa litX ov F’ after ha J ing been a little o\er a month. The counters XU C nn^ d ° d WitH bU9ine « B “S inw too tO make de Posits. Durn ° Li® first hour and a half tha Citi c?unter ati ard 1 ^h’ ooo over tbe vFnkTt^ v d f' th °- F ^ National and Mankato National did quite as welL Iheie were no withdrawals.

Mother and Son Both Murdered. M^ e Hto airV l eW ’ Soutbw est Virginia, Mrs. V, ilson Berry was shet and fataly''’°uuded by a neighbor woman, Mrs. L,,* y° un g Berry was shot and kihed by the Scott woman’s son. Mrs. Scott is a dangerous woman, acme j ears ago she stabbed her brother to death with a pair of shears. How tbe World Wags. Pa., firebugs confess to setting tire to eight places within a year, entailing a $30,000 loss. misdei ueanor at Sedato be wanted

Miss Leal, a young Scotch woman, । has broken the bank at Monte Carlo, j She won $300,000 in one hour. The Kansas corn crop is estimated at ■

2o0,000,f»00 bushels, worth $60,000,000. This is the greatest since 1889. Mayor Willard, of Argentine, Kan., may lose his office through a failure to enforce the prohibitory law. Twenty masked men at Selma, Cal., made a raid on the Chinese warehouses. Chinamen claim to have lost 83,000. Pierre Lorrillard's physicians say he must give up the turf, and he I m ill therefore sell his string of horses. I Monon stockholders hqye agreed to I ro-oG^cifv c+n.,lr. ss^oonnoo pxofoexod , and $9,000,000 common witl be the form. The Rogers Locomotive Company has issued an order reducing the wages J of its 1,200 employes from 5 to 25 per ; cent. Polish Catholics a; e at loggerheads with Bishop McGolrick, of Duluth, Minn., who refused to bless a cemetery tract. Speculators have conspired to defraud the government out of the Cherokee Strip land by falsifying the allotments. F. H. Kleekamp, a Fort Wayne attorney, arrested for impersonating a United States marshal, has been released. To CARRY on speculation Con Weil, of Weil, Dreyfus & Co., Boston, used

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WHERE THE TKAIXS MEH the firm name upon $350,000 worth of paper. Robert Alexander Lamberton. President of Lehigh University, died suddenly of apoplexy at South Bethlehem, Pa. New evidence damaging to Annie Wagner, accused of poisoning the Koester family at Indianapolis, has been, discovered. John Gibhart, a 3-year prisoner from Montgomery County, for forgery, escaped from the State prison at Columbus, Ohio. Mistaking Stephen Shea, a neighboring farmer, for a marauder, Frank Holway shot him in the head, near Sedalia, Mo. Shea may live. In an address, Bishop Matz, of Colorado, accepts the decree of Baltimore

Council, but exhorts parents to send children to parochial schools, Arthur Malaby, the stock man of Denison, Tex., was murdered and robbed of S2OO at Durant, I. T. Offl- I cers are in pursuit of the supposed robbers. A Great Outlay for Coffee. annually consumes about 600,0VU tons of coffee. Estimating coffee as being worth about S4OO her ton, v; hich is about a good average, < this represents an outlay of $260,000,000 < for this one beverage each year.

EOBBEES’ BIG Ha v astounding raid on a lake SHORE TRAIN. The Bandits Get 8300.000. Shoot the Engineer, and Make Their Escape-Inadequate Reward Offered by the Road—They Were Professionals. Story of the Deed. II ak F e qb he Atlan * ic express cn the 1 Pau and Michigan Southern Railroad which left Chicago at 7:45 o elccK Monday evenirg for New York and Boston, reached Kessler. Ind., at 12:40 o'clock, it was stopped by an open-sw-itch signaL A gang of men boarded the train, shot Engineer aad b,ew °Fen the Lnited Sta.es Express Company's safe dynanute, stealing its contents. It is believed that these amounted to of Su. tJn^f 000 ’ iucludin & a shipment ofs .to OUj from a Chicago to a New York bank. The robbery was a bold one, though it was probably the work of a gang of tramps, according to the I?' tbe best-known thief catchers.

ine cram carries express, mail, day coaches, and sleepers. It is the heaviest express train on the road, and frequently carries a half million dol’a»-s in enrreney and bullion. This fret must have been known to the robbers, as they were prepared in every way to make a big nauL The robters numnered eighteen or twenty men, all aimed and prepared for their desperate work At the fall of the engineer, who was shot in the back by a masked man, who bearded the L c motive from the opiwsne side, the fireman was covered '\ ltb a ^.mchester and ordered at the cos. of his life to stop the train, which Cl Id . —— ...

| matter, but seeing tbat it was ~ I siding he apprehended danger and. i slammed it shut: but almost at the j same instant there was a loud report ! and the north door of the car flew off its hinges by the explosion of dynamite cartridges. Messenger West and his helper, named Hamblin, were covered with Winchesters and ordered to open the small safe, which they did. In the meantime ten masked men, all armed, had entered the car, three of whom went to work boring holes for dynamite cartridges in the large safe in which all through shipments of money *hnd bullion were kept. The work was accomplished in a professional manner and speedily. In a few moments after the explosion of the ' cartridge the large safe door fell to the | floor, opening up a large amount of I money and bullion, which the robbers i proceeded to lead themselves with, together with that found in the small safe, which was taken on at local stations, and amounted to several thousand dollars. No attempt was made to open the inner vault to the large sate, where the bulk of the currency was kept. President and General Manager J. I Newell, of the Lake Shore Railroad, ! has ordered that 2,000 posters be ; printed offering 81,000 for the capture 1 and conviction of the robbers, and that i they be posted broadcast over the country. He also oi uered that advertisements offering the same reward be pubI lished in all local news] apers along the line of the Lake Shore Railroad bej tween Elkhart. Ind., and Toledo. — CEREALS ADVANCE IN PRICE. Unfavorable Crop Reports Send Wheat and Corn Up Two Cents. Wheh the bell struck in the Chicago Board of Trade Monday it made things rattle in the pits. On top of an advance of 2 to 3 cents the wheat market jumped It cents in an hour. On top of a jump of 4 cents in four days last week corn got a further whirl of 2 cents at the same time. Oats were advanced ■l4 cents. Pork was bid up 40 cents. Nearly everything closed at nearly top prices. There was more excite- , ment of a legitimate order than any day since Cudahy and Wright tumbled the first week in August. There was a surpris: in the official figures on wheat. From the August figures the crop was figured about 385,0<)0,000 busheL. Then the mouth was ; so excellent for the late harvest that the trade thought the final September | report on condition and yield would raise the total to 460,000,G00. Instead, the average was cut to 74 per cent, of a crop, and the total for the country reduced to 371,000,000 bushels. This was 12,000,C00 off from the August estimate. and makes the crop 150,000,000 : short cf 1892. and nearly 250,000,000 ( short of 1891, the banner year. (Telegraphic Clicks. A CASE of cholera has occurred at Amsterdam. ROBBERS made a raid on Horse Cave, Ky., and looted five stores. The cruiser Charleston will be sent to Brazil owing to revolutionary . troubles there. i Thirty-two cases of cholera and ; eighteen deaths have been reported in ' Constantinople. Henry Jackson, a rich farmer, eon- ' fesses at Brainard, Minn., that he ooi- , soned Edwin Peek, a farm hand, as the I result of a quarrel. F. R. Burdick, an Omaha business man, was murdered by unknown persons and his body thrown in the lake at Courtland Beach, near Omaha. Fred Perkins, son of a police judo's at Hennessey. Ok., tried to pass forced drafts aggregating 81.C00 on the Bank of Kiowa. Kan. He was arrested and confessed. Ti i e _ United States Railway Mail Clerks Mutual Benefit Association meeting at Boston elected J. H. Nightingale, of Fairbault, Minn., president and C. E. Legrave, of Chicago, secretary and treasurer. P respure ba » been brought on the Interior Department officials bv the Rock Island Railroad Company to j ?® care . a change of the townsite of Enid, m the Cherokee Outlet. Commissioner Lamorennx, however, has decided that no change will be made. The steamer Miranda, which arrived at Kingston from New York, had her decks swept by seas. The seas washed os er her from stem to stern, carrying away her steam pipes and flooding'her engine-room. The fires were extinguished and the vessel floated helplessly for nearly thirty hours.