St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 21 October 1893 — Page 2

AT WAH TOH HEBSELF. The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER VI. Poets and artists all went into raptures over Crown Leighton. It was the most picturesque as well as the most magnificent of mansions. Excepting, perhaps, its royal palaces, England has nothing more beautiful or more tuperb, and it derived its name from the fact of its having been built in the reign of Caarles IL, whose favorite retreat it was. The late Earl—Stephen —had been quite indifferent t > all. No one knew what had gone wrong in his life. He was an only child and succeeded when very young; for a few years he had done as the rest of the world does, gene to London, ridden, danced, flirted, and then a sudden gio m had fallen over him. He came back to Crown Leighton; he avoided society as much as he had hithert > sought it: he looked coldly on friends and neighbors; he did what no Charnleigh had ever done before—placed his estates in the hands of a steward, or agent, making only one request, which was that he should not be annoyed with any consultations ^^^irrangements. He shut himself up Leighton, and never cared to at CroT^l^^ leave it. ' ^tacglect the place; a large He did not wants was kept j establishment omMfckj and horses that there, with carriagCl^ retinue of poohe never used a whoi^)fer saw. Ho pie whose faces he should be gave orders that everythin^gt state as preserved in the same perk >\t those that in which he had found A orders were carefully obeyed. Wer takHe lived until ho was fib, nev\Aangeing the least active part in the arrs Mr. meats of his estate or household. * only Dunscombe attended to all. Thelen time he ever left the place was w^dhis confidential legal adviser and tru^t ed counsellor, Mr. Rawlings, died; thei\ he went to London, and pl mel his affairs in the hands of Messrs. Clements & Matthews; and again, when the old i family retainer, Morgan, who had been : butler at Crown Leighton for more I than forty years, died, the Earl left his home until after the funeral. 1 Several times Mr. C ementshad tried his best to break through the wall of reserve with which his employer had hedged himself round, and suggested to him the propriety of making a will; he was invariably repulsed with the haughtiest and most freezing words. “There will be a terrible mess some day,” he was wont to observe to Mr. j Dunscombe, “and twenty lines might । settle matters. Captain Paul Flemyng ■ ought to be found.” But if ever, in any unusual moment I of b: a very, he named the young Captain, Lord Charnleigh gave, him instantly to understand that the settle-j ment of his affairs was his own business entirely, and the lawyer dared say no more. . I Mr. Clements’ predictions were ful- i filled at last. Just before Christmas I Lord Charnleigh was seized withasud- 1 den and dangerous illness. He died । almost piodjefl,! aiflcould.be sum- I There were no in-tructions; ra^will could be found; there was no heir expectant. Mr. Clements sent for Captain Flemyng, but he was unable to i leave his regiment; besides, it was s > I very uncertain whether he was heir of j Charnleigh that he did not like to as- ; sumo authority; neither did any one like to place him in office, lest there ; should be the pain of deposing him. A grand council was held. It was arranged that St phen, Earl of Charnleign, should be buried with all honor, and then immediate search should be made for his nearest relative. It was done, and, after a ; ainful and most laborious investigation, it was clearly ascertains d that the nearest living relative of the dead Earl was : Lennie Rayner, henceforward to be known to the world as “Leonie, Countess of Charnleigh.” CHAI’. ER VII. On this bright June morning Crown Leighton seems to bo wearing its fairest dress. For six long mi nths the 1 place has been dreary and desolate, given up to ths rule of servants, uncared for save by those whose care was hired. All was different to-day; from roof to basement the grand old mansion had been set in perfect and pic- > turesque order. There was no trace of ; confusion; the flowers were all blooming, the birds singing, the fountains ' throwing up their silvery spray, the long white lace hangings drawn aside, I and the sumptuous rooms filled with i warmth and fragrance. Flags and banners waved over the tall ancestral trees, bands of music ■ were stationed in the park, the bells of j Leighton church rang out with jubi- j

lant music such as had not sounded from the old gray spire for many a year. * , , , / The tenantry, the ntimsmiw mrw=: of ©loners, the mrjp* L* luiehohl ot Grown Ijeight.on, were all assembled to welcome the young countess home. Mr. Clements was to bring her, and with her was to come Lady Fanshawe, a distant cousin of the late earl's mother, a stately, aristocratic dame, who for the family's sake had consented to live as duenna and chaperon with the young countess. Orders had been given to prepare rooms for three ladies, the third being Miss Templeton, whose affection for her once despised governess-pupil hi d reached such a height that she could not bear to be parted from her, and ha I accepted an invitation to attend Lady Charnleigh bn her triumphal coming home.

The June sun was p u ing down a! flood of rich gold an n: oatide light, in- ' cense seemed to rise from the fragrant flowers, and the bells were pealing mer- ' rily, when the delighted crowd first ; caught sight of the carriage. It was driven slowly along -perhaps Mr. Clement, had ordered it. that the eyes of the people might dwell with delight on the lovely face of the young girl. 1 Then well-trained servants came to the carriage-door and opened it. As the young girl descended there arose another ringing cheer, the bells peal- j ed out aftesh, the music came in I strong, sweet wave > of sound. “Welcome home —welcome, Lady Charnleigh!” the people shouted, and i she stood quite still on the broad stone \ step. Her face bad grown pale with | emotion, but there was no sign of weak- j ness or of tears.

I Then Mr. Clements took her hand and led her forward: in his lieart he felt that it was a lonely coming homo I for her, with no friend, m relative, no mother or sister to meet her on the threshold of her new' life, and bid her “God-speed. ” He took h&r hand and led her to whore the June sunbeams fell on her. "Lady Charnleigh bids ma thank you, he said, “for the welcome you have given her; and she bids me say that the nearest and deadest interest

m her heart will be yours. ” “Heaven do to me as I do to them,” ho heard her say, gently. Thon she smiled and bowed w’ith a grace that seemed all her own, and the groat doors were thrown open. , Again Mr. Clements was master of the ceremonies. The housekeeper, Mrs. Fearon, made her most respectful salutation to Lady Charnleigh, and mentioned her long years of service. Lady Charnleigh held out her hand with a smile, and s > won her heart forever. Then the butler, Mr. Clarkson, came forward, and received the gracious words with which the now mistress of Crown Leighton inaugurated her reign. I thank you for your welcome, ” she said, in a voice as ch ar and sweet as the sound of a silver ball. “I am quite sure you will all do your duty to me, and I, in return, will do mine to you.” After which little impromptu speech there was not a servant in Cro^n Leighton who would not have laid down their life for the kindly young countess. CIIAI-TKK VUI. Four hours later Lo. nie, Lady Charnloigh, was seated in the sumptuous drawing-room at Crown Leighton. She had in seme measure recovered from the fierce, wild excitement of finding herself mistress of that magnificent home. A recherche dinner had been served in the dining-room; the gold and silver plate—the pride of the Cnai nleighs for many generati ns - had been used,-and looked at in wonder. Before sho took her seat as head of the table, she went to Lady Fanshawe with a sweet humility that would have touched any hone. \ “I know nothing,” she said, “of the \t!e ceremonies and the etiquette 11 ‘Viful to be understood by the lady n ®^\ch a house as this. Will you teach of su\ nl ®; \ Fanshawe looked earnestly at i . +\ eo whether the humility was thon «he fell to admir- •® a ukV^dative when she found TdV a ’ th y heiress, the mistress of allA® Random- around was anxious and V g tal " ht US a child. * The result of. Lad y I’anshawns lesson was that. whV n tho y® un ^ < ountess of Charnleigh aftV' W;ird her seat, she made no £L n «’ a ^. but went through the ordeal* us 1 : ' IIC h’ul been head of the f tabnshment for twenty years. Evd n /l‘ numts, who gave her credits, being one of the most gifted of g|rls. could not understand how she hac 1 ”° quickly fallen int > the ways and mai uler; * 1,10 c.ite of society. “ , . , "Women so soon ada^d th miseixes^to new circumstances,” li e thought. In her place 1 should hav’e been awkward and ill at ease.” gone through it With greater dignity and grace; an I now the ladies had retired to the drawing-room, whi'e Mr. I Clements lingered over a bottle of claret I of choice vintage. , The sun wa. still shining, and the ' odor of Howers came in through the i open windows. Ladv Cha nleigh was seated with a bonk In her hands, but sho had neither read a line nor turned a ] age; her beautiful violet eyes weie turned on the gloriou . and well-kept lawn-.. “You found everything in order, I i hope, Lady Charnleigh?” said Laly Fanshawe. “T.ie young p irson 1 engaged as you 1 maid has been in the Duchess of Mo etoun s service: she i will suit you. I think.” “She seems to understand her duties.” । was the reply, and the faintest shadow । of a tmile rippled over the lovely lips. | Only two short weeks apo she had assisted in dressing others: now the maid of a duches . was hardly thought- good enough for her. “Tne evening is still so bright, and will be so long, siid Miss Templeton, “we might go round tho hou. o if Lady ! Charnleigh is not too tired.” “There is nothing I should like re much,” responded the young Countess, j rising from her seat. I Mr-. Fearon was summoned, and Mr. Clements, hearing what was proposed, i offered to join the expedition. Presently the party went to the li- ■ brary, which was said to contain some I of the choicest lit n-ary gems in EnI gand, and afterward visited the sunny . rooms that lo iked towaid the west — ■ the suite of apartment- set aside for I the use of visitors. Here Mr. Clements left them to hold

a long convcixatiunoubusineßs matters with Mr. Dunscomlte. and the ladies ' * nr» <1 tv I fjl'lktkpo ono ( of th^ •o Ai",:?/:'' \ ,f ./.'Aiff.” contain!ng 1 lie ton mi c.- in silks, sat ins, velvets, and priceless lace that ha I bei longed to former LadL s ('harnieigh. There were jewel-eases filled with precious stones, old-fashitmed in setting, I and almost priceless in value. Miss ■ Templeton looked until she declared । her eyes ached, and she could look no l longer. ' “This.” sa’l the hen ekeeper, opening the door of a small room, "was the late Earl s favorit > aya tment; he prei ferred it to any other.” Lady Charnleigh wondered why. It was not very cheerful, nor was it luxl urious. .lust at that mom- nt Ilie west- • I ern sunbeams filled it. and they fell on • j a picture of such grave and vivid ; beauty that she was startled by it.

It was the portrait of a young man; but the face struck her as no other face had ever done. She could have imagined Sir Lancelot had such a one, or any of her save rite heroes; it was dark, grand, passionate, and noble, with a melancholy, patrician beauty words could never paint: the eyes were dark and dreamy, with fire and passion in their depths; the brow was a square, Grecian one, with clustering hair brushed from it: the lips were firmly closed and grave, yet with lines round I them that spoke of smiles sweet and I gracious as a woman’s; the whole face j gave the idea of veiled passion and sleeping strength, or magnificent mani hood not yet fully developed. Leonie, Lady Charn'eigh, stood al- ! mest motionless before this picture; its I dark, passionate beauty enchained her. i There was nothing about it lodenote

I whom it represented. She “urned to Mrs. Fearon, who stood ready to an- > swer any questions that might h« asked. “What picture is that?” she in quired. x There was a half-reluctant expies, su non the housekeeper's face as sh« replied: B “It is the portrait, I believe, of a r^i ative of the late Earl’s.” The young Countess looked at is again. 1D

But who is it? Is he living? What is his name?” iat ' “It is Captain Paul Flemyng; he is an officer in the army,” was the reply, still reluc’antly given. 111 Lady C mrnleigh did not seek to repress the cry that rose to her lips “Captain Paul Flemyng I” She looked again d the handsome f«ce This was the man, then, who but for her would have been Ear] of ( hai nleigh, whom she had unconsciously and innocently deprived of this princely inheritance. She looked with additional interest at the beauti ful face. “He is very handsome,” she said to herself, gently. “He would have made a noble Earl.” Even as sho said the words she was conscious that the housekeeper's eyes were fixed with some curiosity on her face, and she turned abruptly away. Many times that evening ‘ thoughts went back to that spl*4W" face, worthy of Velasquez. n u t onj&rf' day following she found no more ® v fordroaming. Her table was corfl&P' with cards; the d raw in cr-roo mtMHfT’ never without visitors, ■amo r.■ of lifer hud set in, an I Leonie, CotMfflKof Charnleigh, woke to find hbrW famous. CHAPTER IX. The sun was shining brilliantly over the blue sea and the white rocks of Malta. The day was warm and sultry, the air heavy with the si ent of fl ,wers and the odor of the sea. It was a day when work is a toil and idleness a pleasure. Two gentlemen were seated on a ledge of rock overlooking the heaving waters. “I never could bear much heat,"saTd one of them. Major St. John; “I hope our regiment will not lie ordered to India. I would lather go to the North Pole.” “All places are alike tome,” observed his companion. Captain Paul Flemyng, serenely, “and all climates the same." “I could be as calmly indifferent if I had the prospect of an earldom with a good many thousand per annum. Philosophy, under such circumstances, is no virtue.” "I am not at all sure < f my prospect?,” c; mmented Ca >t. Flemyng; “they seem very uncertain. At any time 1 may hearthat ome one has boon discovered whose claims are nearer than mine; then there will be a long farewell to all my greatness.” He could not have spoken more indifferently had the subject been one foreign to his into et. Maj. St. John laughed. “You do not seem very anxious about it,” he said. The dark, handsome face flushed, and then grew pale; a light gleamed in the dark eyes, and then dhvi away. "Do not misjudge me,” he rej •inf'd. IVnfpyv .Uibdßoy, > p r would bo prouder of tin m. , I "s»l4 live so as todo honor to them.' I wolm make a good anti noble use of the wealth intrusted to me. But. if t’t^y arc not to be mine, 1 cheerfully forego them.” "Woll, from mv heart I wish you success. T hope 1 may greet you one day as Lord Charnleigh, of f rown Leighton. Jesting apart, they will not find one more worthy of the name.” "Thank yon,” said Captain Flemyng, gravely; “a noble name should make a noble man.” |TO UK COXTIXVEO. | Disastrous Tornadoes. The first tornado refolded in America dates back t > the May of 1161. South Carolina was the district then afflicted. In l v 4) a tornado struck Natchez, Mi-s., tearing houses into fragments, killing JU p i p e. carrying some of them long distances throqgh the air. s.-ri’ uly injuring 109 others, sinking b?twem sixty and seventy ve-sels, flooding the city to the depth of a foot, and passing off within f> ur n inutes from the instant that it mad" its first appearance. In 1^42 am ther t rnado visited Natchez with even more disastrous results. Ie iving behind it'upon this occasion between four and five hundred dead. For n arly forty years there was a cessation of these visitations, namely, until April 18. I<SO. when Marshfield, in Ozark Township, the capital of Webster Ccimty, Mo., was totally destroyed by a cyclone that struck it and left it in five m'nut s. At that time Marshfield hud a population of j&5 only, but it was an enterprising torM)

with an unusually large uumber«W* honfos for it- population. Aftor.eTacyclono had pas cd. P 0 of MIhSflnuig’ etery individual v&w* riously injure:!. Previous t > the experience oft a week ugo, tm- most destructive tornado the United States has experienced was probably that which struck Louisville. Ky., and the neighboring States । on the afternoon of March 27, 1890. The torn tdo, ace mtpanied by a terrific rain, entered the city of Louisville at one side, passed through, leaving it at the opposite side, and in its wake two square mil..s of prostrate buildings, one hundred dead, and a vast amount of suffering. Europe’s Twenty Million Soldiers. It is estimated by MajorGeneraf Tarrell that whereas at the time of the Crimean war, the last Eurcpean struggle in which this country was engaged, the aggregate strength of the armies of the great powers of Europe did not exceed 3,000,0 >0 in round numbers, today it is mote than 20,090,000. Without including the final reserves and only reckoning those men who have been thoroughly trained as soldiers and are liable for service beyond the frontiers, Russia has m round numbers 5,000,000, of men, France and Germany 4.000,00:), Austria 2,500,000, and Italy 2,000,000. And these numbers are being continually increased. Lately France, by lengthening the duration of liability to service from a period of twenty to twenty-five years, made an enormous addition to her military strength, and the present German armybill contemplates a large increase in the numbers of the German army.— London News.

WORST GALE IN YEARS A TERRIBLE TEMPEST SWEEPS OVER THE LAKES. Heavy To,, of I lfe Is Kn<>wn Occurred-E .ormous D alllage I)one __ Stanchest Boats Are Driven to ShelterWorst Not Yet Known. Disasters Unprecedented. SaTuXlnd lakos was sw «Pt wind which drove vessels on the beach on every lee shore also leveled telegraph wires, and reports of wrecks are somewhat slow in reaching the outside world, particularly from out-of-the-way localities. The list of wrecks, in proportion to the number of vessels which were out in the gale, is larger perhaps than in the history of the latter-day marine. I hat there lias been a large loss of life new seems teitain. but it may be several days before it is known just how many sailors perished. Eighteen person^ the entire ciow of the propeller Dean Richmond, are given ,or ‘ os ^ * n storm on Lake Fa io. 1 110 of tiirOO iuvn huvv been wash'ushoro oIT Van Buren Point, -near Dunkirk. The shore of the lake is strewn with wreckage and merchandise, and, according to Buffalo dispatches, the waves are hourly yielding up further evidences of the fate to which the Richmtnd has gone. On one of the bodies papers were found which showed it to lie that of Logan, the engineer. The others were deck-hands. The signboard of the Richmond washed ashore about the same time and other pie 0 3 of wreckage were cast upon the beach, leaving no doubt of the fate of the boat. Tiie Ivchm-md was the property of the Bottsfords. of Port Huron. Sho was built in 1864. She had < n b. ard a cargo of merchandise consigned t > Buffalo. The storm was the severest known to the 3e imen of Buffalo in twenty-five years. Toe rain fell so heavily that pilots could not see 101 feet ahead of their vessel. All incoming vessels have stories to tell of the violence of the storm. liiß Schooner does Down. Tae four-masted schooner Mim ehr.ha went ashore in the gale at Arcadia, twenty miles north of Manist?e. All on board - six persons except tio captain, William Packer, were lost. ( ant. Packer swam ashore with the help of a plank, a distance exceeding a mile. The sailors also attempted the peril us journey, but became exhamtel and were drowned. The Frankfort lifesaving crew made three unsuccessful attempts to reach the Minnehaha, but ' the boat ti led with water each time. I The fourth effort was successful, but there was no one aboard, all having thon been washed overboard. The wreck was first sighted by a man on the bluff at Starke, who jumped on his horse and rode at a furious pae ; thpwugh the storm to Onekama, in or’ll*'l In «1> Ilf. ex* Mun \ ft'L'^rani hr* the life-savers on a special train from thut place, and in the afternoon tne liieb >at. mortar and ollie; li!e-„nvjng apparatus was loaded on wagons anti started through th*' w<.o<L to the scene of the wreck. The rain was blinding, and numberless trees had fallen across the narrow roadway through the forest. The progress of the life-savers was exceedingly slow, and it was nearly midnight' when they reached the high sand bluff overlooking the lake at St irke. The lifesaving crew from Frankfort gained the bluff at dark, but even then it wa- too late. Dispatches fr >m all point - along the west shore of Lake Huron and the eastern ei d of Lake Superior indicated ■ that the storm in reused greatly in j violence as night came on. and at midnight the storm was at its height. At ntnnerous places the wind registered from fifty-two t > sixty miles an hour at the I'nit. d States signal station. By that time the hike Ikcts had generally succeeded in getting into shelter. Wind and Tide in ihe South. The town of Georgetown, on the coast of South Carolina, caught the full fury of the stoim, which left death and destruction in its track. < swing to the wreck of telegraph lines but meager reports of the great damage have been received. At least nineteen persons are now known to have been drowned at Magnolia Beach, where every house was swept from its foundation. penning in the inmates until death relieved their tortures. At Pauley's Island, a summer resort twelve mi’ei from Georgetown, the tide z rose three feet, sweeping away most 1 of the residences, the inmates saving are reptu tec. . .1?. ... i... > were washed and drifted to sea. Overflow of News. The Kimball building at Temple, Tex., burned. Loss, SJO.OCO. Joseph Muneia. an allegt d counterfeiter, was captured in Boston. Robbers despoiled the Iron Mountain ticket < ffice at Malvern, Ark., of $1,200. Receivers have 1 een named for the American Water Works Company of Omaha. Eight persons were killed in a battle between outlaws and officers at Han, Mexico. Mrs. Eva M. Blackman has be n appointed polic? commissioner at Topeka, Kas. Mining troubles at Coal Creek, Tenn., arc believed to be at an end. The soldiers have returned to their homes. An itinerant horse trader abducted Freddie Markham, aged 12, from his home in the outskirts of Topeka, Kan., and has not since been beard of. The Australian steamer Miowera is four days oveidue at Vancouver. The Canadian Pacific officials are alarmed at the non-arrival of tho vessel. It has eighty passengers abroad and a heavy cargo. The Missouri River threatens to take away Winthiop, Kas., at the first freshet and many families have moved away. Three hundred acres were taken away above the town during the summer by caving banks.

four blocks burned^ Fire Starting , n 77^,, g Miu Dcg I roperty Worth 8400,000. Tn© most disastrous firp i « . X"ck iS ?he UX Ci V b '.oke out atYK Planin Ann m the Andrews w“e^trlll i he C .° ! ? or of Fifth and th t ^ eeth ’ almost m the heart of he manufacturing and jobbing district trM minu ’® s iater w as beyond eonwo. th 4 estimated to be fivs lA v ° at d thirtyn^ e biukangs, which occupied four Third" wX d r ed Fou ^ West ruins ’()c m d Fansa ? st ® ts, are in 1 o • \VI ' Tjeadway is the heaviest wk -J en h -° hre was discovered it d ? red ^’gnificant and a still maim was turned in ti a neighb, rin ^ hie station. Scarcely had ti e firemen Whon tho dust in th. huge building exploded with a dul i eport, the walls collapsed and the fire was immediately < ommunicated to a ‘•°zcn buildings. Then a geneial alarm v as turned in. to which every company in the city responded. The fire was beyond control, though, by this time, and the only hope was to keep the Lames from spreading across 3d street Beyond this street weie mills, lumber yaidq bridges, factories, etc., wo: th thousands of dollars, and tho whole department was massed here. Firemen stood playing on the flames almost hemmed in by flames, while others directed streams upon them from nholterod tp t-i t.o malco their p<>sition endurable. Time and again the fire cro. sed the street to the City Mills, St. Croix Lt mber Yards and other buildings, but rach time was extinguished, and finally, after a fighl of an In ur. the fire was subdued a ; ’ter it had buried four b'oeks. Thirty-five buddings are in ruins. MANY LIVES IN PERIL. Northern Pacific Car Leaves the Track Near Rockford, N. I). A ear attached to a Northern Pacific train, containing a hunting party from lowa, Minnest ta, and Wisconsin, was derailed two miles south of New Rockford, N. D., and twenty persons injured, several of whom may die. The train was bowling along at the rate of wenty miles an hour when those in the for ward cars felt the coaches jump and apparently jolt along the ties. Before the < ccuj ants of the rear car could m we they were thrown intoa heap and pinned down by broken timbers and ear scats. To add to their terror redhot coals IL w r cd from the stove in the car. which had broken from its fasten'big ! . and in a m ment the splintered c aeh was on fire. Ry the time the t ainmen, who were forward and had escaped injury, reached the wrecked coach, it seemed as if every one of the passengers who lay helpless amid the debris must perish in the flames. Two f the victims < f the disaster were so ■lo e to the fire that their clothes were scorching by the t'me assistance first ; arrived. Tho party was bound for the | hunting grounds south of New Rockfmd and were in the highest spirits. Tr ey < ecupied a private c tr. which was attached to the aec immodation train. Tho manner < f tho disaster was such that had the sj ee 1 of the train been greater, nearly all if the occupants of tho car must have boon instantly

PERISH BY THE SCORE. Xeitrly Four Hundred street Car Horse* Burn at < hh ago. Frenzied with fright and driven into a stampe :e by a raging fire that broke out in the Wadi e street barns of the ! Chicago < ity Railway Company, nearly 400 horse- were either suffocated or burned t > death. The barn was one of the largest in the city, and one-half of it was burned to the ground. In the other half were stored eighty winter cars, worth $100,(00. They were ail saved, the two sections of the building being separated by a ; heavy brick wall. On the second floor ! of the portion destroyed were thirty ! ears, which were destroyed, together ( I with 200 tons of hay and 500 bushels of j mixed grain. The t< tai loss as esti- i m ted by Superintendent Bowen, of the Chicago City Railway Company, ! was nearly SIIO,OOO. Tae blaze started in the very midst I of the horses. At the first scent of the smoke the animals became frenzied. • As the fire spread the uproar increased. ; All the horses were securely tied to the stalls, and there was no escape except for the k which were released ; fiom the entrances and sent galloping down the street. Eighty horses were ! saved. Almost 400 reared, neighed ; and kicked until the dense cloud of sin ike from the burning hay in the loft an »ve came down on them and put . an end to their suffering and terror, i Os the 381 animals that perished it is the opinion of the firemen that few . were burn d outright. > ■ GEN. FAIRCHILD CHOSEN. X i was electea CoiuiuUlllWßWWwl of the i Loyal Legion at tlie annual meeting in Chicago. Gen. Fairchild succeeded ’ ex-Pt e ident Hayes, who died shortly ! ’ after his election last fall, at the Phil- . adelphia meeting. Gen. Fairchild en- ■ joys the distinctu nos be'ng the only I man who has b en the Commander-in- i • chief of the two great :emi-milita:y f organizations growing out of the civil war, he having served the Grand , Army of the Republic in its highest f office. Ex President Harrison was the I choice of a lai ge number ( f the mem-; bars of the order, but he attended the mooting for the express purpose of ' peremptorily declining the use of his । name. i About 300 colored lawyers, repre- ; tenting nearly every State in the I South and several in the North, met at | Chattanooga. Tenn., for the purpose of , . erganizingan international bar association. Engineer Rickenbaugh was killed by falling from his engine, near Carrollti n. Mo. Supt. Ciouch happened to be on the train and finally managed i to get on the engine and stop its wild > race. Judge R. D. Mabley, receiver of ’ the Montrose land office and a pioneer of Mesa County, was killed in the Uni m Depot vards at Grand Junction. 1 Col. ‘ The Grove distillery at Peoria has resumed operations, and the Manhattan and Northern are preparing to do so.

TWELVE ARE KILLED. AWFUL COLLISION ON THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL. Nine Cars Smashed to Pieces-The Engine of the Seconu Section of a World’s Fair Excursion Train Plows Through the First Section. Forty Injured. tlmn Aj*; P®^ ons yers killed and more than forty injured in a rear-end colrnl°i n i the Mlchi &an Central RaiL i oad between two sections of a special excursion train from Oswego N V the I mh fOr the 3 Fair at D o'clock tne other morning 100 yards east of the 1 ^senger depot in .1 ackson, Mich. Th*• whmi CC 4° nWaS s ^ andin gav the depot when the second section pulled in Ihe morning was dark ami f O ggk and the engineer of the sec. nd section did not know he was so close to the station hen he discovered where he was he lost control of his ai- brake and could not stop his tiain, and it rushed at the i ate of forty miles an hour into the train ahead, plowing under it and throwing the cars in a l directions. Nine cars are wrecked completely, and tho engine smashed hoyond recoixnition. \\l Vvit Two of thof© injured will veoover. < oneetvd of the dead ! as follows: Mrs. J. W. Beardsley. Canton. Pa. Miss Harriet Breeze. Pine City, N. V. William R. Gilmore. Morris Run, Pa. Mrs. William R. Gilmore, jlorris Run, Pa. Mrs. D. L. Gibts, Wheeling. N. Y. Nellie Harrington, babe of Mrs. Anson Harrington’s, Elmira. N. Y., 6 months old. Geo. Huffman. Hawman, N. Y. Mrs. J. H. Keeler, Hammondsport, N. Y. Maggie McMasters, Penn Yan. N. Y., aged 20. Mrs. Charles Starr, Elmira. N. Y. James Woodbury. Bath, N. Y. Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury daughter-in-law of James Woodbury, Bath, N. Y. Happening as it did in the center of the city the accident attracted an enormous throng of onlookers within a few minutes of its occurrence. The cra-h of the trains as they met, the hissing of steam from broken valves and burst j ipes wa? audible a long distance away, and it seemed as though every one within hearing was on the spot five minutes after the collision. As the news spread the crowd increased until at last the greater portion of the population of the town blocked the street bo side the tracks. Ready hands were prompt to assist in the work of rescue. A hundred volunteers. set to work to raise the timbers that imprisoned the wounded and concealed the dead fix m view. So actively was the work pursued that within twenty minutes after the accident six dead bodies had been taken from the wreck and a numler of wounded set free. There was no difficulty in discoverng the whereabouts of the injured. The air was tilled with their pite >us cries. Women shrieked in agony, pinioned and helpless by the weight of t' .e huge masses of timber and metal As the up[>er layer of wreckage was removed and th first of the victims leiched the horror of the spectacle sickened the onlookers. (ircwHome Sights anti Sounds. Splintered boards were lifted with. । part icles of human flesh adhering to • them. A stream vt blood trickled

slowly from Leavuth cue of the Broken ears and flowed int > a pool at the very feet of the crowd. Arms and legs were een protruding from beneath the timbers. Women who had been drawn t > the spot rued their curiosity. Half fainting with the grewsome sights and sound-, they pressed backward to fly from the horrible ►eene, but in vain. The throng was far too dense to all w them to draw b :ck. It was among the worst features of the sight. They st od covering their eyes with their hands and imploring the bystanders to allow them to depart. It was with some difficulty that a lane could be formed in the crowd to permit of the removal of the corpses. The local police were compelled to fight tooth and nail to prepa ea way by which the task could be carried out. When this was accomplished the injured and dead were removed in all sorts of extemporized amb;' ces, grocer: ' carts and delivery wagcuo that chanced to l>e at hand being pressed into t:e service. The neighboring houses were converted into hcspitals and every d< ctor in the city was summoned to the spot. Thousands of people were aboard the two trams, and they were wedged in in all kinds of shapes. It is miracu--1 ms, considering the shape the cars were in. that any at all escaped with- ' out inurv in some of the cars. I “ J Xotes of Current Events. Geo. A. Morse, of Minneapolis, has fled. He is a forger to the extent of $20.(00. Frank Louz. keeper of a restaurant at Council Bluffs, la., ended his life by shooting. Mrs. Conkling, widow of the late <- o-nnklinm is critically ill at i jg^-SPE AKUav RUUD} of Mame* openeu the HepumW^.f Cincinnati i by a protection speech. James C. Hueston. once manager of the Associated Press, died at New York of cerebral meningitis. At Indiana} oils the court decided Iron Hall Receiver Failey acted right in placing the funds at interest. War in t e Order < f Railway Telegraphers is on again by an Omaha appointment < ppo: ed by Chief Ramsay. Mgr. Satolli has reinstated the Rev. Father M. C. Brennan, of Colorado. reversing the decision of Bishop Matz. A corn knife used in killing the : Wrattan family near Washington. Ind., has been found and gives the officers a clew. Reports received at London say ! that only the terms remain to be settled by which Brazil will become a monarchy. Leon Foltz, a well-known business man of Memphis. Tenn., committed suicide at Whitehall Landing. Ark., by drowning. In a collision on the Mississippi Valky road at La Place. La.. Engineer • Half!eld and Henry Gordon were seriousfy injured. John A. King, of Des Moines, was found dead on the railroad track. Indications are that the young man met with foul play. Wreckage from the missing steamer Valkyrie has been picked up on Sable Island. She left Sydney for New York two months ago.