St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 September 1893 — Page 2

SOME FUNNY SIGHTS. I saw a cow-hide in the grass, A rush-light on the floor; I saw a candle stick in Jho mud, A hell-pull at the door. I saw a horse-fly up the creek, A cat-nip at her food; I saw a chestnut-burr, and heard A shell-bark in the wood. I saw a jack plane off a board, A car-spring off the track; I saw a saw-dust on the floor, And then a carpet-tack. I saw a monkey-wrench a hat Krom a fair lady's pate ; I saw' a rattle-snake a bird, And hogs head on a plate. I saw a brandy-smash a glass, I saw a shooting-star ; I’ve heard the corn-stalk in the field, And pig iron crow bar. I saw a pin-wheel off a post. And wheel wright in the sho»j I saw a gin-ling on a bar, I saw a ginger-pop. I saw a sword-fish from the bank, And heard the water-spout; I saw tobacco-spit, and then I heard an eye-ball out. I heard a fence-rail at the din, 1 heard a waist-band play A lovely strain- a sweet spittoon-* And then 1 went away. •-ffeoples Magazine. his~expe|iment. a hobby, and Silas ___" in yhefair covx-vrj m^urrey, was no exception to the rule. As a matter of fact, one hobby did not satisfy him. Ue dabbled in nearly everything—chemistry, photography, geology, numismatics, mechanics, mesmerism, all had their attractions for him; but of recent years the inventions of Edison, the famous electrician, had absorbed the i greater part of his attention. And • now, as an elderly man of independ- : ent means, the sole occupant of a ■ large and handsomely furnished man- I sion, he gave up the greater part of his time to the study of the wonder- : ful productions of the man he so much admired. It goes without saying that signs were visible all over the house of the old gentleman’s proclivities: Visitors never required to ring to 1 gain admittance; in fact, there was no bell visible. The stone slab in front of the door yielded slightly to the pressure of the visitor’s foot, and, as a consequence, an electric peal notitled the servants of an arrival. Telephonic communication reigned supreme, and from all the principal rooms in the house the master, without seeing his servants, give his orders while sitting at his desk or reclining in his arm-chair. A complete set of electric burglar-alarms attached to every door and window on the ground floor had hitherto afforded him im- ] munity from nocturnal visitors, but as he contemplated shutt ng up the house for a month or so while he : sought a change of scene, it behooved > him to think of some method of subduing a burglar who, in spite of “war’s alarm,” knowing he was in an empty and isolated house, might defy the noisy demonstrations of the bells and proceed with his looting. Silas settled himself to think it out one night, anti a quiet chuckle at the end of an hour's—Meditation would ^^tnnrisdnvTnccd a listener, had there been any, that be had worked out a plan to defeat and capture any bold emulator of Bill Sikes who might attempt to carryout his designs against “The Beeches.” Now, Silas Bland's very latest “pet” was an improved Edison phonograpn, which he had managed to smuggle into this country in defiance . of the patent rights supposed to be held by an English syndicate. It was a never-ending source of delight j to himself and his friends to listen to the records of American orators and musicians whichaccom; anied the machine. Then with a large supply of blank cylinders he was prepared to preserve for posterity the voices of those friends who were privileged to speak into the wonderful invention. In some cases the reproductions were marvelous and to strangers it would appear as if the voice they heard actually proceeded from the mouth of the person who, perhaps six months ago and 3,000 miles away, had spoken into the machine. For the benefit of those who have not had an opportunity of examining this delicate piece of ^nechanism, it may be as well to explain that as soon as the sound which it is desired to record has been graven upon the wax . cylinder by the action of the needle, obedient to the vibration aroused by the voice, it may be reproduced im- ! mediately by the reverse action. And not only once, but thousands of ! times. The cylinder, almost noise-, lessly revolved by an electric current, j will receive and, in turn, deliver an oration of three minutes in length, every inflection of the voice being re- ’ produced with absolute fidelity. i s nHere, thenfwas Silas Bland’s opporefend his hearth and home ^hiring his absence and that of the servants. He invited an actor friend to dine one evening, and afterwards got him to deliver certain carefully prepared sentences in a stentorian voice, and in a most realistic style, into the phonograph. I A trial showed that the effort was ! most successful, and Mr, Bland soon afterwards completed his little arrangements, shut up his house, and departed on his holiday with a light heart and a curiously self-satisfied S IQ i 1 c. Now, it happened that soon after । Silas Bland’s departure, one of these poor oppressed and downtrodden “knights of the jemmy,” William Macnamara by name, but more com- ■ monly known as “Bill Mac,” being in the neighborhood of “The Beeches,” one day “on business,” cast an envious eye upon the apparently deserted - mansion. William felt particularly low just then, as his old and tried pal Augustus Montgomery, had been just sentenced by a pessimistic judge to (“eighteen months’ ihard” for some Alleged trifling inaccuracy on the part

of “Monty,” as Bill affectionately called him. Bill had spent his all in his en. deavor to get his chum off, but to no purpose, and now here he was depressed in pocket and spirits, without a trustworthy pal to work this likely “crib,” as he termed “The Beeches.” Bill had made it a rule never to work single-handed. He preferred, being naturally of a timid and nervous disposition, to keep watch outside, whilst his more adventurous companion investigated indoors; but this looked like a safe thing, and in any case “needs must when the devil drives,” and Bill wanted money badly. Guarded inquires in the neighborhood satisfied him that the house was absolutely unoccupied. Rumors were indeed current that extraordinary precautions had been taken with regard to window fastenings, etc., but given a dark night, and an uninhabited and isolated house, what true burglar gives a thought to such trifles? So it did not take friend William very long to make up his mind to have a try. From all accounts the silver was ot the right sort, and stowed away in the house. A survey of the premises led him to the conclusion that the library was the weakest point of attack. On the ground floor, with double French windows leading directly on to the lawn and easy of approach, there would be no difficulty in cutting a hole in the thick glass and undoing the bolts or catches. Now, by a strange coincidence Mr. Silas Bland had arrived at a similar i conclusion in regard to the point of : attack, and had made his arrange- | ments accordingly. So that, when ' I one dark evening, Mr. William I i Macnamara had effectively used his i ; diamond cutter upon the library pane, ; had undone with as little noise as ; possible the folding glass doors, and had carefully slipped into the room, this was the sort of reception he met; with. There was no fussy alarm of bells I as he had half expected, but as he 1 felt his way along the wall before dis- | playing the light of his lantern a 1 ' gentle whirring sound caught his ear, ; which he attributed to a dissipated 1 moth having followed him into the I room. Then he received a severe shock as a strong, hearty voice from । out the darkness broke upon his ear with the remark: “Ila, so you’ve come along then! Glad to see you. : Been expecting you for some time, j I Got you covered all right with both barrels, so take my advice and don’t move. These express bullets make a nasty hole. Now just drop that revolver on the floor, and ah! would you? bang!” William thought his last hour had come as a shot, so close was he to the spread of the powder, nearly blinded him. lie had made a movement as if to use his pistol, and this was the result. He was on his knees in an instant crying out, “For Hevin’s I sake, guv’nor, don’t shoot. I am a lamb, I am. Starvation druv me to ; it. Gie me in charge, but spare my I life.” । Above his piteous appeal the commanding tones of the voice were heard: ••Now, then, take that chair, double-quick, turn your face to the wall. Bare as much as to move an inch or wink an eye and I’ll blow you into small pieces. I sha’nt talk to you any more, but just you recollect that I am behind you, and that the slightest movement means eternity for you.” Here the voice stopped abruptly with a sharp click, which William, ' with fear and trembling, thought he recognized as the snap of the lock over a fresh cartridge, so he remained rigid. Then silence reigned, though he could still hear the whir of that uncanny moth, which seemed to have survived the rifle discharge. William realized that sooner or later in response to that shot assistance would appear, and he resolved ’ alter many interval tremors to make an appeal to the owner of the voice . for clemency. So, still with his face turned to the wall, and in a most apologetic tone he managed to falter: “1 feel my bloomin’ 'air a turnin’ gray, sir. This ’as bin a hawful night forme. I can’t that ’ardly set on this chair wi’ fright. Won’t yer let a porq bloke off this time, sir? This sha’n’t ’appen again, you bet, sir. 1 am on the straight after this little j bit o’fun, I tells yer. Jest think o’ the old ’ooman and the kids, guv’nor.” : No response, and that moth is still , audible in the midnight air. “Blow that cussed insect, ” muttered 1 William. “Don’t I wish I wos ’im: wouldn’t I clear out o’ this precious sharp ; “Ain’t ye got a worn, sir, for a chap as is sorry ’e’s disturbed ye? I , suppose the coppers will be here in a minute or two; won’t ye give us a chance, sir?” But the gentle William’s appeals ' seemed thrown away, and as foot- j steps were heard approaching he resigned himself to the inevitable. The policeman’s bull’s-eye soon dis- ; covered Mr. Macnamara in a most abject state of terror. Bearing in mind ; the awful result if he moved without j instructions, he yelled to the officers, ; I who were now in the room, to keep ; ; their hands off. “’E ’ad his in- j i structions, ’e ’ad,” and he was’nt go- ' ' ing to move till they had altered I what he felt sure to be the deadly aim of that rifle, or had its owner’s permission to remove him. “You get the guv’nor to say it’s all right,” he shouted. “I don’t want I to take no risks.” The policeman grinned broadly, and in spite of William’s protesta- ' tions, faced him round on hia feet 1 and securely handcuffed him. “That’s all right,” one of the men • said, “the guv’nor won’t interfere > just yet; this’ll bring him home ‘ sharp, though.” H “Bring ’im ’ome,” echoed Bill. “I

should jest like to know where 'es been for the last ’alf hour.” . “Oh, Mr. Bland's in Scotland, safe enough, but I expect his little ma- | chine made things lively for you in his absence,” and the two men laughed. “Machine,” ejaculated Bill, in an incredulous tone. “I wants to see the machine that can talk and shoot like that.” The officers turned their lantern on the unasuming little instrument, which had been the cause of ail Mr. Macnamara’s mental and physical distress. There it was quietly whirring away, having come to the end of its repertoire. The revolutions of the driving wheel which regulated the movement of the cylinder (still rotating) had caused the sound which j William fancied was due to an erratici moth. A large trumpetshaped fun-T nel attached to the diaphragm had | increased the volume of the voice,and j rendered the sentences ot Mr.l Bland's actor-friend only tool audible to poor Bill. An attachment! between the phonograph and the win-! dow had set the machine in motiona as soon as the entrance was tampered w,th, and the interval of a mlnu^ or so before the voice commence^ was purposely calculated, in ord^ that the burglar might get fairly inyij the room. The discharge of the rfnß® (blank cartridge) after the approprl-1 ate words, was arranged by an eleca! trie contrivance of Mr. Bland’s own^l on the supposition that the intruded would show tight. He was so satisfied with the results', of his experiment that he made it asl easy as possible for William at his trial. Bill’s answers and reflection^ : on his grasping the true position, ■ must be left to the reader’s imagina*' , tion. As that gentleman was sent t* 1 I join his comrade for a similar period! , he was heard to remark in soliloquy! I “Billy, my boy, yer don’t knovi' ' enough to be a decent cracksman! After this, better run straight.” And) i he did, too.—Yankee Blade. , A Cure for Whooping Cough. One of the cures for whooping cougt among children on which anxious mothers place most relienee is a visit to the gas house. Here, in a sort ol shed-like entrance to the main building, are found a number of men shoveling a mass of dark gray substance into square boxes with handles al : each end This substance is composed lof oyster hell lime, sawdust, and iron I clippings, and is used in purifying the ' gas. It is carried to large square bins in the next ’room, which art surrounded by narrow openings tiller with water, which keeps it moist After a bin lias been covered dowt and securely fastened, the gas to lx purified is forced into it through i large pipe, and passing through the I mass is thoroughly cleansed, and aftej being conducted away by another pipe, is ready to be distributed; ' throughout the city. Whort the pu- ; ri lying material Is thoroughly im- , pregnated with the impurities of the gas the cover is taken off and the : i material may be renewed. It is then that the children with whooping- I , cough flock in, and they stay for an hour or two and inhale the steaming fumes arising from the purifier. ' Sometimes the stomach rebels against the strange atmosphere, but it has a , magic effect on the cough: the strung- i ling ceases and the terrible whooping disappears. Sometimes one visit is enough to effect a cure, and some- i times the chilkren have to go regularly for weeks. lakes the English. Two Englishmen came to blows ' the other day on the beach at Trou- ; ville, and hammered each other for a ' while with cordial energy. The event moves a writer in Gi Blas to re-' mark: “Some of the lookers-on could not ' restrain their indignation at a spec- i taele so brutal: as for me, having had ; some experience with John Bull, 1 . saw in it onlj’ another revelation by an Englishman of nature’s masterpiece, the ideal brute. “On the most civilized of these islanders the varnish is but thin. And this is worth noticing—oneflndt not the savage, but the brute, a beautiful thing, as tranquil as he is irrational. A savage has at times sublime impulses; the brute peacefully accomplishes his destiny. Now and then he must have t-ome exer- . cise, and this instinctive need is satisfied as naturally as any other. “What of it? ’Tis only a matter lof temperament. Ours finds its re- ■ taliation in courteous encounters' chivalrous and elegant; scenes worthy Os freight handlers disgust us. It is useless, however, to expect all races to be alike.” Swallowed a Turtle. A curious accident recently befell the 4-year-old child of Frank Larsen, • j a Swede farmer of Skowhegan, in ' j which the little fellow swallowed a j newly hatched turtle. The creature, | I which was about the size of a half dollar, had been sent the mother cf, the child by a relative living in the | South, and the boy was playing with i it, putting it in his mouth after the ' peculiar fashion of children to clap ! everything there that comes in thei? I way. The mother heard the boy gasping i for breath, and running to it saw ' that some hard object had become ; lodged in its upper throat. The doctor was hurriedly summoned, and i after some difficulty succeeded in get- ' ting hold of the obstruction, and drew it forth to his and Mrs. Larsen’s astonishment. The turtle had drawn in its limbs on finding itself in close quarters and was little the worse foi its singular experience, but the boy was almost suffocated.—Philadelphia Times. It makes no difference how good a ! man was yesterday; if he is bad to. day, his goodness of yesteiday will be I called hypocrisy.

। Ration’s’ jubilee. CE aBRATION OF THE CAPITOL’S CENTENNIAL. Am g/exsary of the Laying of the Corner _aeat Washington a Memorable Event and Military Parade and Patriotic Ceches —Historical. Observed with Pomp. l?he centennial anniversary of tho ♦lng of the corner-stone of the Capitol * celebrated, solemnly and impresS ]y, on the broad plaza that j|itches cut from the west front of j>L“apitol. One hundred yea sbefore, j The day and hour Washington, the ■he-t President of the republic, as

iLjmd master of the Free and Accepted ! , ^■dcr of Mascns, wearing an apron ai d Kjdi woven by the wife "of Lafayette, the foundation stone of tl-e g/. at I Jrble pile that it is now the a imiral Los the world. r^Che ceremonies we e as simple as Erose of Sept. 18, 1793, a :d ful y as imliressive. Then Mader .Muscn Ceoi uo •Washington laid the corner st, ne with i the poxnp and detail of the Mas' nic ShtuaL The services consisted of thiee 'principal features; First, a civic, Military and naval parade, foAowcd i.y appropriate,cermnonies at the Capitol, t. ’u, third, Oft "'eVuhing entertainment ’in and about the Capitol, e rs'sting of reception or Martha Washirgt, n ' f arty in the rotunda of the capitol. "hnder the auspices of the Dames and

A 1 f wk ! sr-.T, Wil?. 1 - MMii# UNITED STATES CAITIOL AT WASHINGTON, EAST FRONT.

Daughters of the American Revohi- ’ tion, with rei re.-entatives from all the States and Territories: an illumina- ■ tion of the building and grounds, and ' a grand vocal and instrumental con- ; cert at the east fr< nt of the Cavitol. The program at the Capitol was as j follows: Adress, President "Grover ; Cleveland: oration, William Wirt : Henry: address, for the House of Rep- ' resentatives. Speaker Charles Crisp: i address for the Supreme Court of the ; United States, Chief Justice Fuller: I address for the District of Columbia, ■ Hon. John W. Ross of the Beard of ; Commissioners. i The'corner stone of the original i | building, which remains undisturbed I where it was laid with imposing Ma- ! sonic rites by Master Mason George ’ Washington, on the Dth of September, 1793, is located under the l aw Library. ‘ in the basement beneath the rotunda. ! No record has ever been found of the impressive ceremonies attendant up< n j this function, and no really authentic ac 'ount can be given of the books, papers, jewel-, or records tha* may have . been deposited within that stone. j Tho building, as we now see it, with Its massive wings, noble d< me and unequalled expanse of marble terrace, began with what might well be termed a small beginning, and has Iven over a century in course of e< n-truetion, and ’ yet is not complete. The Burning of the Capitol. During the war with England was witnessed the burning of the Capitol, ■ August 14, IM4, one of the most tragic events in all American history. The invaders under Gen. Ross and Admiral Cockburn, flushed with victory, made their war to the Cai itol. Several vol- ! leys were tired thr< ugh the windows i and a regiment of red coats marched I upon the floor of the House of Representatives, now Statuary Hall, with

i gi f 9 PHILADELPHIA. | "w Capitol.] fifes and drums, playing the British I Grenadiers. The* passageway between i the two wings was formed of boards — i pitch pine at that. These were torn ' from their places. The library of Con- ■ gress was sacked of its books and pai vers, which were,scattered over the i floors. The great paintings adjoining i the Senate chamber, in which the Su- ' preme Court now sits, were cut from : their frames with sabers, and the whole i mass of combustible material set lire. i The citizens who looked on from • without with blanched faces and beating hearts suddenly beheld a mass of flame and smoke pouring from the windows of the Capitol, and heard the British shout in brutal triumph as they watched the flames and sent army rockets through the roof to make air for the fire. In a short time the great structure was everywhere ablaze and apparently doomed to destruction. The wooden corridor and the interior work were already a victim of the flames. The British waited only long enough to see their work well under way, when they left the blazing Capitol and marched up Pennsylvania avenue to apply the torch to other public buildings. Had they waited the Capitol would have been hopelessly destroyed, but they had not been gone more than ten minutes when a heavy rain fell, which continued all evening and quickly put out the fire. Hopeless as the destruction seemed was found on investigation that the foundation was standing, and 1

Latrobe began to erect walls on It, Latrobe was succeeded by Bulfinch, the architect of the Boston State i House, in 1817, who carried through his designs and reported their completion to Congress in 1827. So far the Capitol had cost the government $2,433,814. It was not until 1850 that Congress made provision for the addition of the Senate and House wings, as they now stand. Previous to that the House of Representatives held its sessions in the chamber now known as Statuary Hall, ' and the Senate met in the room now ; occupied by the Supreme Court. As tho membership of these augyst bodies increased with the growth of the nation, the necessity for more room became apparent, and then it was that the comprehensive conception of to-day was born or brought into light. Changes were made in many respects, improvements and remodelings, the

present cramped library-rocm added, i the now dome built, and, in short, be- | tween that date and the present, with • the exception of a few months during ! the civil war, tho precess of rebuilding i —practically rebuilding—the Capitol I has been going on. The corner stone ; of the extensions, or the “enlarged, building,” as it was described at the | time, was laid by President Fillmore. July 4, 1851, at which time Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, delivered a characteristically grand and appropriate oratio r. Mr.‘Thomas N. \v alter, another Fhilaclelphian, was selected to be the architect, and held the position until 1865, when Mr. Edward Clark, the present incumbent, was appointed. No one has ever attempted to classify

' or characterize the style of architecture ! of this wonderful building as to place it । among any of the recognized ancient •or modern types. In fact, it is compos- j ite, or rather, of itself peculiar and: j alone. Prof. Goldwin Smith described , I it "as a most majestic and imposing i I pile.” The total cost of the entire structure jup to tliis writing cannot be positively i stated, but the figures given in the , j appropriation bills up to recent date , I show that quite s2).< 00,000 have been ■ expended upon it since its erection was j j begun in 1791. I : DIRTY, TIRED AND SORE. : Boomers Returning by Train Loads from i the Cherokee Strip. I The story of the rush into the Cherokee ' I Strip of men and women seeking homes j lor town lots already has been told. > i That great strip oi territory which ' Saturday morning was comparatively ! n wilderness by night of the same day . i was covered with a hundred thousand • i people locating farms or staking i j out town lots. It was a stir- : ring spectacle, but it had also its pa- . : thetic features. Thousands who made the rush are now returning to their I uomes partly because they could not , get farms or town lots and partly be- ! cause when they got their land they i | were disappointed in it. This was but । natural. There was not If nd enough . ’ to go round, certainly far from enough good land. Still others are stranded. ; । They neither have the land they hoped । to get nor the money with which to [ get back, so that they are in danger of t : becoming a burden upon tl.e new com- ’ i munities, where farmers can get noth- . ; ing from the land for a year to come, I ' and where there will be no work in i the towns. Those who succeed in re- ’ turning will fare better than many of 1 those who remain and who will find it

j difficult to get food and water. SouthI ern hot winds are drying up all vegetai tion. Prairie fires are consuming the j grass. Sand storms are raging. Nearly | every claim in the strip is contested i and sanguinary personal encounters are liable to ensue. Thieves and thugs • are infesting the new town?. The land is anything but a Canaan. j To add to the miseries and disapi pointments of the rushers it is stated , that those who started at the lines , 1 with their papers found when they ■ reached the county seats that “soon- j ers” in collusion with the soldiers had arrived before them and grabbed j everything worth having. They had picked out the best lots and farms, and were already on the ground when the j people came up. This is certainly out- ■ rageous. It is a fraud which ought not to be tolerated. i i AGAIN FIRE ON RIO. l ■ Rebel Fleet Bombards the City—DetaUs of the Event Meager. A dispatch received at Paris from ’ Rio Janeiro by the Brazilian legation ' says that the insurgent fleet resumed ■ the bombardment of the city Monday L at noon. Heavy firing was con- ! tinned for several hours. The bombardment lasted three hours. The ! L forts replied with great effect. The l steel cruiser Republic, the fastest of ■ the Brazilian naval vessels, forced a 1 passage across the bar and after a severe fight with the forts got away to ’ the south. She is supposed to have started to Santos for the purpose of ‘ blockading the port. Immediately ' after the bombardment the Aquiban, with the rest of the insurgent fleet, sailed southward. The fleet is ex- : pected to blockade shortly all ports south of Rio Janeiro. The Roadmasters' Association of America has completed its session at • Chicago. The next meeting will be ■ held in New York. ELEVEN persons were injured at Haverhill, Mass., in an electric car collision. The Mexican boundary dispute has been settled and the troops withdrawn. i L. B. Misener, ex-minister to Guate- . mala, is dying at San Francisco. 1

RECOVERED THE BOOTY. Short Work Made of the Mesaba Range Hobbers. The whole of the $70,000 taken by the Mesaba Range, Mich., train robbers has been recovered. When the robbers had secured their booty they were smart enough to know that-it was impossible successfully to secrete the gold anywhere on the Keweenaw Peninsula. It was equally dangerous to keep it on their persons. One of the ! gang went to Houghton, dressed as a ; miner, and for a consideration of 50 cents, it is said, induced a baggageman to check his trunk through. It is not known that the baggageman was aware of the contents of the trunk, but a special train soon followed with officers, and the booty was overtaken on the road, quite a distance from Houghton. Liberty, a fireman cn the Duluth Road, was arrested on suspicion of being a

party to the conspiracy. He maue j every effort to get away, but without . avail. Another fireman on the road is j also in custody. The ether men now under arrest for I the daring train robbery are John I King, the Cornish wrestler; Jack Chellew, said to be the keeper of a disreputable place in Ishpeming; John Kehoe, a Red Jacket saloon-keeper; John Quinlan, and a stranger named Butler from Marquette. A strong clew is that some women saw a horse tied near the .cene of the robbery that , tallied with the description of a horse L hired by King earlier in the day. In addition, Chellew_ u _Ji|fc|L and Kehoe ! left Hancock early in the iull I returned to town from the direction of the robbery shortly after it was committed.

The robbery was one of the slickest jobs in the annals of criminal history. The roboers knew that $30,000 furnished by the Superior Savings Bank, of Hancock, and $40,000 furnished by the First National Bank, of Houghton, was on the express car, designed for the payment of Calumet and Hecla miners. If they had been still wiser they could have obtained $40,000 more, which a messenger from the First National at Hancock, carried in a hand-sachel. Boston is about five miles south of Calumet. It is a flag station. When the engineer, Nick Schuler, saw a man vigorously signaling from the depot platform, he stopped the train as a matter of course Scarcely had he done so when the supposed agent went inside, donned a mask and in a jiffy jumped into the cab, drawing his revolver and firing a shot in the air. Then he told the engineer to stand aside. He would run the ”d d machine.” The fireman, thinking an escaped lunatic was on board, ran along the side of the locomotive, but three shots In uncomfortable proximity to his head ied him to stop in his mad career and return to the cab. All this time Messenger D. W. Hogan sat in the express car making out bills. The door was suddenly broken down by a sledge, falling with a crash, and when the startled man found himself looking into the barrels of an ugly bulldog revolver he didn’t stop to argue. His hands soon pointed heavenward, while a man extracted his revolver from a pocket and told him to produce his key. Hogan made a feint. This didn't go. The key was produced instanter, and the robbers departed with the swag. Meanwhile the baggageman, who sat i in another part of the car, was disconsolately studying the barrels of another ; ffnn. Two shots were fired by the robbers when they left the car. This was a signal to start the train again. The highwayman with the boodle waved his hands derisively at the now frightened passengers as the train moved away. So little time was taken up with the I work that the train was but five i minutes late when it reached Calumet. The robbers threw away their masks and also the express messenger's revolver. These were afterwards found. The men probably were anxious to leave nothing on their persons to incriminate them. It now transpires that the robbers had prepared to derail the train, but hadn't time to complete the job or were disturbed. Telegraphic Clicks. The Lehigh Company passed its dividend. A DESTRUCTIVE hail-storm visited the vicinity of Ada, Minn. ' The United States warship Yankton has arrived at Valparaiso, Chili. McClure, the train robber, escaped from the Nebraska penitentiary. Father J. J. Connolly, of St. Louis, has been made Vicar General of that diocese. Contractor L. M. Loss fell down the hatchway of a scow at Alton, 111., and was killed. i The New York Casino Theater has I been leased by Canary & Lederer for $38,000 a year. I The Western Union Telegraph Company has declared a quarterly dividend of It per cent. David J. Mackey has been elected president of the Evansville & Terra Haute Railroad. The Ceylon Planters' Tea Company failed at New York. The company has 81,000,01)0 capital. Schweinfurth, who calls himself the modern Christ, has started a milk route at Rockford, 111. Albert Mason, of Columbus, 0., city meat inspector, was thrown from his buggy by a runaway and killed. As A result of an old feud at Benton, Ala.. James Miller shot and killed E. E. Curtis. Both were prominent merchants. During a drunken quarrel among some printers at Pittsburg William Cunningham, 40 years old, was fatally kicked. A BOAT from the sealing schooner Arctic was lost in Behring sea and six men perished. The Walter L. Rich kst a boat and three men. Samuel Lamb, ex-Sheriff of the InI diana Supreme Court, and for several years in the United States detective service, dropped dead at Richmond, Ind. The Moore & Smith Lumber Company, the King’s River Lumber Ccmpany and the Port Discovery Mill Company failed at San Francis<.j, owino' • 8600,000. Charles de Lessees, sentenced to a term in prison for connection with the Panama Canal frauds, has been released, the courts having set aside his sentence.