St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1893 — Page 7

SHOOTING ON’CHANGE CASSIUS BELDEN FIRES AMONG THE BROKERS. Deed of a Lunatic, Who Is Arrested—Wild Scene Ensues — Traders Trample Over Each Other — Grand Trunk Wreck In Bellevue, Mich. , _ Three People Wounded. A man, presumably crazy, created a panic cn the Chicago Board of Tt;ade the other morning, completely clearing the trading floor and stopping all business by indulging in a wild fusillade of pistol-shots, aimed first at the ceiling and later at the excited, struggling throng of traders on the floor below him. It happened at about 11:45. Business at that time was progressing as usual. Suddenly the babel of cries fr< m the pits was punctuated by the sharp crack of a pistol. Instantly every one turned toward the south galleiy, from which the ground proceeded. A stranger was standing in the gallery with a pistol in his hand. After the first shot he j turned his weapon toward the crowd I and, in rapid succession, fired four I times. One bullet struck Amini T. Bennett in the neck, inflicting a painful and perhaps dangerous wound. Charles Roswell, a telegraph operator, was struck by another bullet. Mr. Bennett, who was wounded by a shot, was formerly President of the Board of Trade Insurance Exchange. Though there were from fifteen to twenty other visitors in the south gallery, no attempt was made by them to overpower the shooter or stop the deadly fusillade, and he was not interfered with until Toin Barrett, a broker, recovering from the panic which had otertaken the traders, rushed up stairs and grappled with the supposed maniac. A negro named Joo

ran up and helped Mr. Barrett overpower the fellow. When the shooter was subjugated he was hustled into a side room, and for a few moments the wildest excitement prevailed about the building. It was said that two or three men had been killed and among the rumors tossed about was one that the angry brokers were preparing to storm the room whore the shooter was confined and lynch him. The police roon ar lived on the scene, however, and took the man to tho Hariison street station. The man who did the* shooting gave the name of Cassius Bolden, of 395 La Salle avenue, Chicago. DEATH IN A RAILWAY WRECK. Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Newland, of Detroit, Killed at Bellevue, .Mich. A terrible accident occurred on the Grand Trunk Kailr< ad at Bellevue, Mich. The Erie express ran into the rear of a t egular train, demolishing a special car containing Howard G. Meredith and wife, Henry A. Newland and wife (father and mother of Mrs. Meredith 1 , William Costles, porter, and William Abernathy, c®ok, Mr. and Mrs. Newland were killed out-

and Mrs. Meredith were was fatally “hurt. A tier nathy escaped unhurt. Jennison, tireman of the fast train, was badly scalded. The side of the depot was smashed in. As nearly as can be ascertained the accident happened in this way: „ The rugular west-bound train, due at Belleuue at 1:30 a. m., was two tourslate. As it lay at the depot the fast Lake Erie train, which does n,t stop at the station, came along at tremendous speed. This private car was at the rear of the regular train, and directly in front of it was a sleeper. The Lake Erie engine {dowed clear through the rear car, caving it in two sections on either side of the tia k, and bunted against the sleeper. The private car was almost entirely demolished, while the Lake Erie engine was badly damaged. The occupants of the car weie all residents of Detroit and they had left (home for Chicago to visit the Woi Id’s Fair. Bi? Counterfeiting: Plant Raided.

An extensive counterfeiting plant was raided at Livingston, L. 1., and Angelo Delnoco and his alleged wife were arrested. The police secured over 81,000,000 in counterfeit bills.* There were four in the gang altogether—two men and two women. Before State Commissioner Bellows at Brooklyn Delnoco was held in 85,000 and the woman in $2,500 bail. Overflow of News. A fatal case of cholera has occurred at Gravesend, England. Two NEW cases of yellow fever are reported at Brunswick, Ga. Thomas Hawksley, the noted English civil engineer, is dead. Sixty-two cases cf cholera occurred at St. Petersburg in one day. Louis Lange, a well-known German journalist of St. Louis, is dead. It is stated that the hostile feeling between Bismarck and the Emperor is at an eml. Nlrs. Eva Blackman is Vhe IPopulist I nominee for coroner of Leavenworth. County, Kas. Mgr. Satolli will send to Rome a detailed report of his observations on the recent trip. Wm. Vottoehoemer, a farmer near St. Libary, 111., fell from his porch, breaking his neck. Prohibition Republicans in lowa have issued another appeal for funds to carry on the campaign. Six men are under arrest at Scranton, Pa., charged with fatally assaulting IC-yedr-old Nellie Hammell. Ernest J. Greene and John F, Collins, bookkeeper and cashier of a Gotham firm, have confessed to embezzling large sums of money. A NEGRO arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of Judge Estopinal, near New Orleans, was tortured with a hot iron to make him confess. He was innocent. Archbishop Kenrick, of the Catholic Diocese of St. Louis, has been deposed owing to ill health, and Coadjutor Kain has "been vested with full archiepiscopal powers. A double tragedy is reported at the German garrison in Berlin. In an attempt to arrest Sergt. Wa^emann, who was drunk, Sergt. Kambousky was shot dead by Wagemann, who then committed suicide. _ _ _ .

BRAVO. CHICAGO! __ ■ M j / f "" -£ - XII 1 ~~ ~ '-AZ— Tire World’s Fair is about to be Pulled out, of the Financial Mire.- a. \ . .vd.

SOME FAIR STORIES. HAUNTED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE CENTENNIAL. Wisdom in the Art Gallery—“ The Earles’ Wheel” — The Gondolas and Lagoons— Many Are the Amusing Incidents in the White City. At the Big Show. World’s Fair correspondence: Down on the lake fr< nt during the fireworks in the evening an oldish man. with a deep fringing rim of gray whiskers under his chin and up to his ears, gave me a chance to sit down on | the end of tho bench where he was watching the display. “E\e-y inch of room counts here. Set right down.” said he. “1 found Her a jdace 1 ack up yender. I was glad She got, a chance to set down.” Having t hus established I his trustworthy status as the head of a i household the good old fellow pio-I ceeded to "visit” with me, needing very I few questions to unfold his historv and

said, "so this is only our second day. She asked me did I think it came up to the Centennial. You e<* I went to Philadelphia in '76 and ?aw it through: stayed a week. AA'ell. J said the < eutennial was the best. AVeU, of > course, that needs some expiana- I tion. But 1 maintain,” and his! fist came out heroically in a | gesture. I maintain that for artistic-j nessof taste.for mugniiiceneeof beauty, I and for the wonderfulne s of the thing ! to a certain extent, the Centennial Ex ■ position at Philadelphia in 1876 went I ahead of this. Y< u see it was this i way. Os course the main building j wa'n't as big a- this, but it 'peared bet- 1 ter. They ua- twenty-three aeiesin| that, and they's thirty-two in this, nine acres more. But when you come into J that one. there you'd sec letters of liv- ; ing light, shining right up there before j you. and when you'd come up to 'em , they'd be made of pistol'. A’es, letters ! made of pistol', and looking like jew- i els. You don't see that in this main I

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building. And when I think over things like that, I say the Centennial was the best. She says I just got the Centennial so fixed in my mind I can't seem to consider this.” “How about the buildings here?” “Well, as for buildings and right down up and down beauty to look at them, why, of course, these buildings go right off and leave Philadelphia sticking there. ” The gratuitous information people give each other in the White City i; exhaustless. For instance: “Who is this picture by?” asked one woman cf another in the Art Gallery, and the answer camo promptly, “By Gerome. Ho is an author, too. He wrote that book called ‘ Three Men in a Boat,’ to say nothing of the dog.” Two Great Men. Two men stood the other morning before the Bartholdi figures near the lagoon entrance of the Art Gallery. Their eyes were glistening with admiration, and one of them spoke t > the other thus: “I should know it for Washington, though the comb-back of his

hair ain't real natural: the other is Dee Layfatte- two gieat men together, greatest men'ever ived in this country.” His voice took on a >pl mdid tone of’ ci neepti' n of historical relation, and he repeated: ‘‘Yes. sir. they we e the greatest men eve; - lived in this country. Talk ab ut < ’eveku d 1 Talk about Harrison I" The lag< ons still give Fai • visitor- a deal of trouble. At the i lumination one evening just after some sort of water procession had passed, a numb >r of electric launches swung into line in the gr^m. basin fn m the di ruction of the north lag<>< ns. And a woman who had reen trying to define the features <f the float to her e< mpanions welcomed the appt urar.ee of t he familiar launches | with a sigh of relief and the words. “Well, now here come the lag« ons." It I was another well-meaning woman who advis - d a friend n tto leave the Fair without taking a gondola ride *\ n the galloons.” The environments of the Fair have their irresistible attractions for everyb >dy. and nob dy come - from a di:I tanee to t'hicago without some very ■ definite intention concerning other sights besides those in Jackson Park. 1 a iambus pi vac her - ciiirco.'T ” a recent Sunday, a great crowd was struggling in va : n for admittance, and numbers were being turned away. One man refused to go. ‘"l've got to get in | here,” he protested. “I’lenty of others feel the same way,” said agoou-natur< :1 ! bystander. ' Yes. but I've g t to get i in." :aid the man of determination, i with the ling in hii voice of a great ■' and iiuesistib'e longing that must be j apt ea cI at any cost. •'l've got to get । in. I made up my mind when I came ito t'hicago that afte • 1 had iecn the ! Fi'iv I couldn't and wouldn't leave town • without seeing thiee other sights. BusI falo William. 'America,'and Dr. GunIsaulu.-." He got in. BAD BLAZE AT OMAHA. Destruction of the l a nhniu Street Thea- ! ter Buihiint;. The Farnham Street Theater Build- | ing, the second-best opera-ht use in Omaha, wa- totally destroyed the other evening by fire, which broke out in the rear of the fifth floor a few minutes as-

ter 5 o'clock. Four perse ns are re- I ported to have been killed by falling i Wiills. The fire department responded i promptly, and a general ala:m was' turned in, but the lire seemed to have I gained complete control. In a shoit ' time the walls of the theater building began to totter and crumble, and biieks were flying in all directions. The roof fell in while several firemen were upon the second floor, and they just succeeded in escaping by running down the side stairway. J. M. Gaynor, athlete and dancing master, was struck in the back by falling bricks and badly hurt. In thecrowd many people were knocked down and trampled on. The building was erected in 1882 by James E. Boyd, who has since been i < lovernor. It was then and afterward knowd as Boyd's Opera House and was one of the best auditoriums in the West A few years ago it was sold to the American Bank Building Com- i pany, which is owned by the American Loan and Trust Company, and was entirely refitted. It had cost originally $120,000 and is now insured for

scOj'Xfi in about iw - my-iiio companies. "The Waifs of New York" company I was playing in the th a! l and had just eontjufled a rehevsal. Th enti e loss on stock and building wi'l exceed *2* <».- CH 1 , of which perhaps ;oq j, -ecurcd by insurance. The origin of the fire is a mystery. It is rum red that it <tme from a cigarette lef' bm ring in the sawdust. LIVES BLOWN OUT. Terrible Torn i<l> I’nvu^ct N. Orhans ni».l the Vlrinity. A terrific tornado.-truck New < ir’riun the oth night from t‘e n"rt’ioa-t, sweeping to the south ah i g "h « bn.- >f the Mississippi River thr. ugh the pn> ish of Plaqu‘mint s o h< G.iif. Im? storm wa< ore of the w >.-t that over visited that part of th. - co ntrv As far as can b? leai nc 1 I killed n ’ y-s j than twenty-four ].o"son-atui wounded , probably three times as usny. - mo •>;' them fatally. F.e-ide - de-t:oyn f a larg ■ amount of prop tty at New O: loans. The w^i^jeaci.ed a vobvity o. sixty miles ttT hour. Theßevetmcn* levee i n Lake Pontehartrsitt, which p o.owiw ViumellhP 1 owrd Ly n aTvt . swopFover’ it fiftelnTeet or mow. Many of the yachtmhere w r ■ sunk or injured. In the Mt sisdppi the coal fleet wa- sratitered.k’c transfer boat < f tl. Texaand Pimifk Knih oad I adiy damaged and - veraL wharves carried away. The New Fn leans ami N< rihea-torn had its trackiflcoded f>r seven miles and so badlyfwa hod that it can run no trains. The wack < f the I. uisvilie and Nashville was almost wholly washed out for fifteen mile.-. Three persons were killed and one wounded severely, if not fatally, by the storm in the city of New Orleans it-elf. Below the ci’y it was far worse, esj ei ia ly in I'hup.emines Parish. Here the wind reached a veliclty of b tween 100 ini 125 miles an hour and carried everything before it. The I parish eat of justice. Pointe a la ' Hi che, a town of 2.GH) people, was the Iwo st sufferer. In that town not a .-ingle house e caped injury. The Court House ai d Roman <'atliolic Chur, h, the principal buildb g in the town, and s nue twenty other buildings wt re destroyed. Feu ■ grown persons are known to Ie killed in I’ointe a la Hache and several children, how many is not exactly known. In the immediate vicinity of Pointe a la Hache other d - aths are reported and thirteen more in the country below. Gov. Warmoth said that this st rm was the worst experienced in Louisiana since I'll. The hurricane of I^SS was not. half so violent and detru tive. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. Recapitulation of the Condition of the I nited States Treasury. Washington dis'patch: The public debt statement shows the net im-reaso of the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during the month of September, to mave been $5J4,“93. The inte: - est-beai'ing debt increased ?150. Ihe debt <w, which interest has il since Jferarity uccrcuwd Gt 0., .0. and *’ ( . t no intuicst lEcrcubcd. S4S7 There was a reduction of 111 the cash balance of the trAa-uiy. The interest-bearing debt is 5555,0:',|,740, the debt on which interest I has ceased since maturity, $1.9'4.770, and the debt bearh g no interest. $374.-i-idl.2fi4.Ja total dent of $’101,386,77.*. I The (e^tifiiates and t? casury notes, offI set by an equal amount of cash in the ■ : treaiurt-, amount to $570.225.3G3. an in- । e:ea-e Curing th • m< nth of $4.i»10.45g. i The gold reserve stan Is at $93.5^2,172, J ' and the’net cash balance at $13,293.4C>1. ; the total cash balance in the treasury, i I Sept. 30, being $10t : .575.fi73. against . ■ $197,283,910 the 3h t of August. The comparative statement of receipts and expenditures of the 1 nited । Stat.s shows the t tai receipts for Sep- ; tember, 1893, to have b en $24,582,756 j and the expenditures $25,478,010. Since July 1 the receipts have been $79,379,417 and the expenditures $98,459,127. The total increase in the circulation of national bank notes since Sept. 30, 1892, has been $35,911,251, and the increase during the month of September $9,710,291. The total outstanding on । Sept. 30 was $208,502,172. The amount of silver offered for sale to the Treasury Department aggregated 420,000 ounces at from 744 to 75 cents per ounce. All the oilers were declined and >4l cents per ounce tendered. The Standard Oil Company’s refinery at Louisville, Ky., burned, with a loss of $40,000.

INDIANA AT THEFAIR I I THE HOOSIER STATE’S DAY IN JACKSON PARK. Gov. Matthews, Ex-President Harrison, R. W. Thompson and Gen. Wailace Tell of the Greatness of the State—Reception, Banquet and Fireworks. Honor to Hoosierdom. Indiana Day at the World's Fair was marked by a large attendance, so large,

in fact, that it is feared that some one will have to mark a new State line between Indiana and Illinois, as • so many people I crossed the border j to be present at the State's celebration that the old line is rubbed out entirely in spots. The two

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States became scrambled, and it will bs some time before all of the Hoosiers will get 1a -k on our side of the fence. It was a great day for Indiana and a great day for the Fair.

Excursion trains from nearly every city, town and hamlet in the State poured into Chicago. Indianapolis, Richmond. Muncie, Fort Wayne. , Logansport, Lafayette, Terre Haute, New Albany. Vincennes, and all other cities sent big delegations. The Eastern

Illinois, the Morn n. the Big Four and Pan Handle Roads, were crowded with special trains. All Came at Once. Indiana's celebration was all packed into one day. It began ■ early and lasted all tn rough the eveni ing. The State building, which occu--1 pies a conspicuous site between Illinois and CMift rnia. had been decorated in attractive style for the occasion. Not to be outdone by anyboily else a space was rex'i ved on the porch for the fore:qn C mini--ioners. all of whom were invite 1 t < participat • a- special guests. Th-' speaker-, Stat-? Commissioners, and Gov. Matthews with his staff rede to tho State building preceded by the Fort Wayne band, Gov. Claude Matthews presided. The spc«-ch-niaking b?<un at 11 o'clock in front of the Stat • building, and the people were there addressed by ex-President Harr i o। » i ■ 2 , h fewj'"? ■ —^wiuuiinTmu * ; ; IXDIASA STATE BUII.DIN-G. risen, Gen. Lew Wallace, and ex-Secre-tary of the Navy IL W. Thompson. ! James Whitcomb Riley recited a poem, j "The Hoosier Nightingales” sang, and the Fort Wayne Band played. Immediately after this program v as finished a reception was given the Governor, tho speakers and the Governor's staff in the State building. Before the reception was over the Fort Wayne Band began its concert, which lasted from 3 to sp. m. After the reception the Indiana visitors were at liberty to scatter . and have a go< d time. j But the festivities did not end with the sp echmaking and the reception, nor with the going down of the sun. There was an Indiana illumination of the grounds at night, as well as fire- : works in honor of the occasion. These were the m< st brilliant in features and specialties that have been given. : While the basin was a sea of fire acres I of burning gems were seen in the heavens. The special set piece was a Chinese pagoda made of 10,OJO separate burning bits. Distinguished Hoosiers Present. Whether it beats any record or not, Indiana's celebration will be memoraj ble I ecause of the distinguishad charI acter of the men who were there to i represent the State. No other State can hope to furnish another such com- ; pany. On the evening previous three ' travelers arrived in Chicago at the Hotel Ingram on COth stieet and waited their turn at the register. Tney came in modestly, with small valises and overcoats, the same as other World's Fair visiters. 13. F. Havens aud Clem. ’ Stu lebaker. World's Fair Commissioners. met them at the train and gave them an every-day welcome. One of the travelers was a short man with a silvery beard and a dusty silk 1 at. This was ex-President Benjamin Harrison. A ■ younger man with a smooth, boyish face, a rather solemn nose and a pair : of large, restless eyes peeving through nose-glasses, was James Whitcomb Riley. The third was the venerable ; “Uncle Dick” Thompson. ex-Secretary lof the Navy. He was n>t as nimble on his feet as the others, but he was fully j as gocd-natured, and just as enthusiastic over the prospects of Indiana day. These three great tons of Indiana took 1 part in the public exercises of the celei hration presided over by Gov. Mat- | thews. This made a program worth । going all the way from Evansville to : hear. Senator Daniel AV. A'oorhees । was to have been there, but he could : not leave AVashington, and his place on the program was taken by the lowa State Band. Notes of Current Events. The fishing schooner Fernwood, of Gloucester, lost two men off Brak Bradley, N. S. Secretary Gresham, it is said, is to make a trip to California for the benefit of his health. Willie Reeves, a 13-year-old jockey, was killed at Ashland, Ky., by his horse falling on him. Sixty-eight members of a secret society in Bruenn. Austria, have been arrested for complicity in an anarchist plot.

, HOOSIER H APPENINGS I NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General and Loral Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About ludiauians. Brief Slate Items. I The Muncie flint glass works will start up. Natural gas has been struck near Charleston. People greatly excited. William Simons accidentally shot himself at Taylorsville. He will die. The Goshen and Elkhart Implement • Company at Go-hen. failed for $14,000. | A Crawfordsvh.le "boomer" is re- । ported as having : ecured good land in the Cherokee strip. John Adams, a Lebanon merchant, has been sued for SIO,OOO by Miss Ida Thomas for breach of promise to marry. Daniel Gaddis of AA*hitestown, died from the effects of a knife wound received in a tight with a gang of gypsies. TlIliOlu» Flcrrt-GGtr-* Works at Dunkirk will start its fires about October 1. Employment will be given to 300 men —IOO skilled. Burglars at Crawfordsville helped themselves to SIOO of firearms and knives at Houlenan & Vancleave’s hardware store. After a shutdown of five months the word is given out that the Elwood Diamond plate glass factory will resume operations in part next week. Judge John Gillett of Lake County, has appointed Hon. Byron W. Langdon Judge of Tippecanoe circuit to preside in the trial of the Roby prize fighters. John H. Benson, father of Luther Benson, the temperance orator, died at his home in Rush County, aged 92. AA'as a member of the Baptist Church 72 years. The Bartholomew County Trustees held a meeting, and decided to ignore the act of the last Legislature, which requires them to turn back into the treasury all tuition money in excess of SIOO. David Lily, a farmer of Jefferson Township, Carroll County, drove a thief from his hen roost, the other night and found a strange horse and wagon hitched nearby which the thief hail b'ft. Thf. finest residence in the suburb of Wallen was destroyed by fire. It was occuried by Dr. J. A. Phillips and I owned by .Mrs. A', hitehead, of Hunter- ! town. lags, $7,000; no insurance. De- | fective flue. I "Diamond” the nine-ton elephant, of I Wallace’s eireu-, broke ont of the winter quarters near Peru, and played havoc with fences and trees in the surrounding country. The keepers had hard work to capture him. Governo.: Matthews has issued four requisitions for prize-fighters, who are wanted at ’ rown Point to answer to charges of having participated in fights at Rohv. The requisitions j were on fh£ ! vhwftiski, and Daniel Creedon. Frank Bruce, aged 25, one of the I most notorious and daring safe blowers who infest the Western country, has been placed in the Prison South. He came from Terre Haute, where he was given nine years for burglarizing the safe of the Buckeye Howard store. Bruce is wanted in twelve states for various jobs succc s.<u ?y planned and executed by himself. He is badly wanted at Denver. Col. where only a few months since he robbed a jewelry store and took diamonds valued at s3<»,000. He boasts that he will break out in six weeks. Coroner Coates completed the taking of testimony in the inquest on the remains of Frank Robinson, the normal college safe robber, who was killed by the p rs lii g party of citizens at Valparaiso. The vcrdii t contains the evidence of twenty witnesses, and is very voluminous. The Coroner fully exonerates Nathan Howe, who fired the fatal shot, from all responsibility. Clair Robinson, brother of the dead man. ( who was captured after being wounded by Howe's weapon, was brought before , Judge Parks for hearing, but at the , request of State Attorney Dowdell the case was continued. Bert Champion of Gas City, bursted Fred Boltz's faro bank at Fort AA’ayne, but failed to get all his money, winning over sl.o:mi at one sitting- and only getting about S7OO. He became enraged ' and broke up a lot of the furniture and smashed a wheelbarrow load of glassware before leaving the house. He finally was put to bed at the Plaza. Afterward he got very drunk and called at Boltz's place to get the balance of his money, but. only getting part of it. he again became enraged, and, drawing a revolver, chased Boltz out of his place. Boltz filed an affidavit asrainst ("hampion. He was placed under bond to keep the peace. At Scottsburg, south-bound World's Fair train No. 12. on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis Railway. collided with two teams and wagons, killing one team and demolishing both wagons, and seriously injuring Wm. Peacock, aged 65. The teams had driven between the main track and a siding to 10.. d some bonedust from a car. and when the train was seen approaching Mr. Peacock attempted to drive his team around tho car on the siding, out of the way, but the engine struck his wagon, tearing away the left half, and throwing him on the ground, shattering his rig ht leg below the knee and otherwise bruising him. The other team being behind turned on the track in front of the train and the horses were killed and the wagon entirely demolished. The driver escaped by leaping into an open box car standing ‘on the siding. TROUBLE has been caused at I nion Citvbv an order that all school ehimren shall be vaccinated. Several children were vaccinated by a homeopathic physician, and the authorities refused to accept it. The parents are raising a kick. The officers have arrested George Robinson, John Yoder. Charles and Herbert AVeisner, and Leonard Leach, at Kokomo. In the last month scores of stores, residences, warehouses and meat markets have been robbed and these men are said to have done all the work. They are in jail without bail to await trial.

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