St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 September 1894 — Page 2

fcWAN ON THE STAND. ACTIVE FIGHTER OF THE RAILWAY UNION TESTIFIES. Thought Debs’ Tetter to the Managers a I’lece of Cheek-Says the Charge that the Companies Hire I Men to Hum Cars Is Vile Rot. I ; Railroad Men Testify. / John M. 1- gan, who was the manager of the fight against the American Kallway Union, testified before the

.. uuu VUG Strike Commission that it was hia^uty to receive reports of 1 condition of things on ►the differint linos ■ and the nature and amount of violence i committed: to hire • new men, take charge s of the new men from the Ea>t and to assign them to duty and to report to the authorities points where protection was

V £ A i y| ' WIN M. EGAN.

— - , » pi vvection was My. l^gan^said that he made gsfe™— Vnited States Ma--MWwwl ’ MmlV. ■U*® ^^^rcc^e^^wa^WW^ be sworn in as deputies. Referring to the visit of Mavor Hopkins and Aid. McGillen to his office with a [ reposition from the officials of the American Railway Union to declare the strike off if the roads would take the men back. Mr. Egan said he told the Mayor that the assoc at ion would not receive any such document and that he was sorry to : oe him acting a? a messenger bov for the American Kai.way Union. He thought the document wa- a pie< e of cheek. Asked if he regarded it as an insulti g decmnent, answered that it spoke for itself. “You do not answer my qoesti, n, Mr. Euau,” persisted Commissioner Worthington. “1 am asking you was the d cument of an offensive or insultin; character.” -Well, so far as the roads were concerned tha strike was settled. The document dictated the terms of tin adjustnumt

of a matter which so far as we were concerned was already settled.” “Had the troops been withdrawn?” asked the Commissioner. “No ” “Were you running the trains at that time?" “Only irregularly.” “Then why did you refuse to confer with ♦lie officers of the American Kail way Union?” “Well, I had no authority to confer with them; and as I looked at It. m h authority could only be given by the association." “You had full authority to hire men and to employ force in quelling the strike, but no authority to seek any peaceable methods of settling i , is that It -Well, we retarded the A. R. I . as •whipped and did not propose to compromise at that late dats” “Did the Managers' Association ever use any means other than force to settle u great strike which was causin’ both themselves and the country hundreds of thousands of dollars every day? Mr. Egan admitted that they had not. “Was it n >t a fact that the Manager-' Association was determined to crush out ,the American Railway Vuion. and vas it not for that they steadily retuse! to receive any communication from them.” Mr. Egun finally admitted that was about the true state of the case. “One of the witnesses h*’* -nfre nfs vie ws on the met hod s ' to be employed to prevent strikes. Mr Egan said that he favored government license of all railway employes except common laborers; that each class bo provided with distinctive uniforms and bo required to pass an examination as to their competency in their Hnet; that all should b“ able to read and write the English language, and that none but citizens of the United States should be licensed. That a schedule of wages should be made and that both parties should be under severe penalties for violation of existing agreements. Manager St. J. hn brought with him n pile of documents, among them a set of ! books showing the schedule of wazes paid

the employes of each railway belonging t o the Managers’ Association. He begun his testimony with a reject made to h1 m by an agent of the Rock Island Railroad on June (30 of a meeting held at JHue Island, at which .Vice President Howard made an inflammatory Bpeech, saying that he / ‘•would like to hang ' {Pullman,” and‘-toshow Pt* John thatthe Amer-

ican Railway I nion geo. w. Howard, i had strength and stamina to tie up the | Rock Island so tight that a ily c midn’t : get over it,” and that he ‘‘hoped if any : sneaking detectives were found among us there would be moral courage en mgii to use the round end of a coupling pin. ” This : report was made by one of the ‘-sneaking : detectives” which it was alleged Howard i wanted a coupling pin used on. Superintendent Dunlap, of the Rock ' Islam), testified briefiy regarding the alleged blacklist, which he declared bad no Existence. had been deputy marshals. Desperadoes Who Held Up a Train Had Been In Uncle Sam’s Kmnlor.

' *. rHIiptOY. Henry V. < lot-man and AViHia n t ;l ko I uro now prisoners in the West Chica -o 'Avenue Police Stati n, ch rgo 1 with hoi ii gup a train on the Chicago, Milwau! e & St. Paul Road at Deerfield, murdering Special Officer Patrick If. Owens, attempting t > take the 1-fe of Wm. McGrath, a wat hman employed by the Northwestern Road, and robbing- Conductor N. A. Sargent. The nen w< r ■ (nly captured after a d sperate fight, in which 100 noli c officers and they w ie engaged. Both prisoners w r ■ badly w> unded befi re they urrendered. Over 200 shots were fired during the engagement, and the man hunt, for such it was, lasted over eight hours. During the desperate fi^ht a distance of over thirty-two i miles was covered. At first it was thought that the ban- 1 dits were novices in crime, butaftcr the exhaustive examinations made by In- I spector Schaaek and Capt. Koch'it is the general opinion that the murder and robbery of Detective Patrick H. | Owens, the shooting of Detective Me- i Grath and the robbery of the conduc- I tor and brakeman of the Milwaukee fraight train, for which they are now held, are but the last of a series of ! depredations marked by the came dar- I ing recklessness. Os the two men. Gorman, Griswald, i or Gordon—and the police only con-! lecture how many other aliases he may | have is the deperado. He is the one who did most of the shooting and all of ! *he talking, and it has become apparent :

^tl^ke was only an f ‘t hi now believed that the two m n ! ertv o^th ’i s protect the propth« . f the ra,lro ad companies against the ravages of the strikers during the attendant <n the op*>ortin^ ,horu a d °uble crime A / ’,V urßu o th eir path of iinno. The hold-up of a freight train on the 1 ake Shore road several weeks ag.> and the robbery of the condm tor and brakeman in a manner exactly similar to the attack on the Milwaukee trainmen early Saturday morning can, the ] ohce think, be traced to Pandits Gorman and Lake. BLACK DEATH IN CHINA. Frightful Ravages of the Plague Among the Celestials. The fatalities acconr anying the plague in the Canton district of China have been terrible, thus far over 120,0(0 pop o having perished. In the streets of Hong Kong and other cities the dead wore so numero is that they lay on the str ots for hours, awaiting . the c rious funeral rites so peculiar to ; the Chinese. In Canton, says Consul Seymcu'. everything is in wild conJusion. Business is almost suspended. — THE 11EAI> LYING IX THE STHEETA

During ail of this plag :e heathen processions have con tnntly inarched through th'-strodsof Canton throughout the nigh; pounding gongs, ‘exploding ire packers, expi ring idols, and other similar doings, supported by contrtb tions from the sho s and sb res, to pro it into the evil spirits a id to dlsj ere the aivcrsoclemenls. \mong its latest victims are Capt. Ve-ey and two p ivaie- < f the Shropshire regiment, who caught th ’dread d;s -aso while engaged in sanitary detic-in the < binose quart r. Al three we e st co g men, but despite the ettert* of the doet is they we:o carried off in a few hoars. No treatment that ha- yet t“'on di — covered has had the s’mhtest < fleet upon ti e disease. Ihe death of these men conclusively prove - that l ne piague is not a curse which fa - up n ( ii - ne e al on •. as wa- at ' r t thou ht. bat I is a e ntagious disorder, if it is not ■ I highly infectious. i Aumerou- orders have l»« < n pab- *’*,.!'•■** an 1 come to th,. wa> ; p , rH Uu , n riv :. as at Shanghai alone boin: oft n • c a day. l ullv a quarter of the nat v. Dtpuation has th s tied from the plag uo-sf ri eken colo ay. WINDS ARE WROTH. The Spring l p from the s, i Wipe Out Ku^nifin Tow n< It was a wind of death. No oth q name can describe tie e\ cion ■ that swep: acros the Sea e X ovSaturdav It Will I e i : possible f r day - y t. >ayg i a St. , etersburg ni-pateh, to *e' 'motite the damage done, but it is a m -t certain that a’ least |, f hi ।■ l n- have Perisho I, some by drowning, others by b >ing c ’tisDcd unde ■ fading he i e-an I trees. The excitement is feat am ’ tlio American colony ;n this c ’v. for it is feared that at ea t two part >s of American ton: i•’s w, e n tie sa of Azov at the time th . vin i di i its deadly wo-k. The wind wa jip-t felt at Nem Nogaisk is I eopio i nso-th bv h-lnnm.a-i’ who were out on the water. W leq the hurricane had we t o t t > then mth a terrio'e rec. e was pro- nt ’d. I’no viilago was razed, overturne l a- if an immen-e plow had b■ m t u hed through it Lying ever, where wore woman and children, dead or in the last agonies. Iho shallow waters of th-* S a of Azov vxere lashed to -u h a height that it was plain that every fishinz-baat must have been unk. Ti/e cyclone swept on to the northeast alter wrecking Nogaisk, It path seems to have b 'on nnus .ally wide, for at Marinopol it devastated th(> co: n'ry ton point eleven miles in’and, and had its outer edge far u on th ■ sea. Marinopol was practically blottea out of existence. Not thiee houses in a hundred are loft standing.

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RIVERS ON THE RAMPAGE. M xi< in Stream- Swollen to Fury bv lletivv K s Crops Vrc Rein I. dho Mexu an Government has received official reports of heavy rains throughout the northern । arts of th (3 re; üblic, and in some districts great da-: age has been cau-ed t > the _■ rowing crops. This is particularly trim in the ■ states of Sonora and Durango, wher i i severe droughts ha 1 prevailed for ; the last five years. The Yaijui river i overflowed and many thousand acn-s I of corn and o;hor crops weie washed away. A num tier of persons were alsd | drowned while attempting to save I their stock and < ther propertv fr nj i the flood. Ihe Na as Giver, in the { state of 1). rango, also went on a great I rampage owing to the unusually heavy rains in the mountains where it has itsource. Several hundred fumili. s whe lived in the vas’ey of this river were । made homeless by the over.low, and many cares of drowning a o reported. I Lyman Parks, 20 yea-s old, son ol Dr. Floyd Thomas, director of the Indiana Prison South, lost his eyesight near Jeffersonville, Ind., through the ■ explosion of the pneumatic tire of his | bicycle. ! Mrs. Nancv Martin died at MassilI lon, Ohio, aged 95 years, leaving considerable property, six childr en, thirty grandchild en and seventy-five great : grandchildren.

THEiIdTA^NA UTA IB l’Alll Unvurr^. — — — — Beautifully Situated and Splendidly Improved Modem Buildings—Fine Race Course. ~p — ~ —= =•• ..b, The above cut gives the reader an excellent birds eye view of the new Indiana State Fair Grounds at Indianapolis, u; on which the State kair will be held on September 17 to 422 inclusive. The new grounds are located n rtheast of the city on the banks of the White River, and reache 1 by pretty drives and the electric cars c*i the Citizen Street Railway. The trip to the grounds is through {he most interest ing part of the Capital City and one of the pleasant features of a visit to the State Fair. The FActric Railway has made especial arrangements for the rapid and safe transportation of the th usands, and c- mm oil .'ova and neat stations have been constructed at the grounds. The mir can also be :eached on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. The buildings erected last year are all commodious, medern, and tasty. They are so s tuated A‘ to afford the visitor the very best means of a comprehensive examination of exhibits. The race track is one of the finest in the world. It was here thaManey Hanks ma le her fatuous record of 2:u4, in W.lI. The ra< es this year will doubtless be more tha interesting.

AIUHM) A BIG STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Oar Neighbor* Arc Doing M Ctrr. of l.rncra) and l o at Inlrrc*! xorriagc 1 mid Death* Accident* and < rlt»» Feraonal Pointer* llxxit Itidlanlaix* I . Roby <'»*e* Settled. I The ctHchrated Roby pri9 fight ' cases, which have attracted thl attenJ tion iff the sjN.rting world frou» Maine • to < aiiforma and from < hicago p New ' • trlean-. were -elt’ed in the I jfe *h • t cuit i our’ at t -own Doin’ ti^’oth. r day. When Martin • ost.-lij^t the N< J \ *' n ; ‘ D ’ ' a ' Oby Bllkirtn, Hibi So; >■ .. . the o! h-Wl Ndno nept -i > '. t heir attorney. John B. I ■b i- oti of < luun Uoint- A »r“iihiGon was agx auced bv? he defendants “ ;i ’ • 'he not. <onspiiuty, ami pri e fight eases would be dtermsse I as L \» oou« m^hU ixujitv assault and Oattery. This was I nullyl agreed toby the pro, ,-utixm. and (J'Mallev v.a-um-. 'icHOarvi -imthand Woods r-.i 'em .. Ih< -e ea-”.- have cost the co m-y in co. f„ .., about*: U •*». and in return the county has rescived •L.bo im-ludin, tin- folx tme of t ote.;<> . iHind. 1 here is an en Ito pri e fighting at Koby for all time to come. M nor State Item*. A ffi>!;- uiekeu H irry Bushs knee cap off at Anderson. >Hi lba Coi NTY is being raided bv a liana of burglar*. 1m: apple bu-er and cider harvest will be a fa;.uro a - Oakland Citv, this year. Ch.\>. ( mas. a Big Four-brake- 1 man, wa- kilie i bv the cars at Terre ‘ Haute. " ' < YM. Brann, prominent Rushville ■ eiti e”. V, a* .cm-ken with paralys e. ‘ Will die. slaking lime -plashed in the face of Dim 1 Biair. ( rawfordsvilie/ blind- ' ing both eyes. A farmer near Chestertonlidlairas c to have .raised over sixty bushrls of ( wheat to the acre. ' r c A sla serpent D a i hristiam latke novelty now. <aid to be filtv \.r long and as big as a barrel. ‘ Thomas Ryan’s er -p of • unJ h

5 "Y Ji < ia in c.-n i Buk i,akscrackedMerehaut^S^cr's sa e:•.? ( M-' an . and took -121^.5h0 carried oil $1.20t) worth of good*’ \\ illiam ARDERY's barn, with con- ?, !1 , W: ’" burned by a tramp in Bartholomew Comity. Loss, ssfiXH George shkider. aged 30, Ounc'e, was killed at New Castle while attempting to hoard a passenger train Bis right leg was ground o:ljm beW the hip and he died within an hour. At Mier, south of Wabash,'a traction engine ran over a gas pipe leadin "• from a well belonging to the town of Converse, burst the pipe and the escaping gas exploding badly injured W. S. Pence owner of the engine, and Top Marks, riding with him. Marks cannot survive and Pence is frightfully I m rned. The Adams County Bank, at De-

catur. has been reorganized with a capital stock of $175,000. James K Niblick is president and R. K. Allisoii cashier. James Ryan, aged HI years, a section hand on the Chicago division of the Big Four, received fatal injuries at Indianapolis, by being struck by an engine. He was walking on one track and stepped on another to avoid an appromhing engine. Another engine on the second track struck him knocking him with great force to one'si3t>U He lingered for several hours and died i leaves a wife and eight children. ' i

A two-yeAK-.>LD;on of Edward Garrity was drowned in the ( onncrsville hydraulic. A hi gh tootii. supposed to hat o H'longed to a mammoth, has J' 'en plowed up nea ■ \ imenne*. Edward Grimes of Richmond, was ins’antly killed at Greenfield, by being struck by a wt-t-lMi.mil freight train while lying asleep on the cross-tie:i. A paving ordinance pas-ed by the Noble-vil’e I o incil ni l comix I the L. E. A W. tolower their trackstwxnty inches. Company is fighting it hard. A Hi»Ksr. driven by Mrs. Wm. Rinear. Franklin. took fright, and' mmped from a bridge, Mrs. Kir ar wa- badly injured, the horse kil ed, and thebugg. splintered. Dr. b hn A. Sexton, a prominent slice al is: of F ort Wayne, was found d ad in bed, death resulting from heart disease, anil was not anticipated. He was an old soldh-r. and a wmlkrown Pythian Knight g.-«‘» wi'na’u '.us iiirneu vuX Uw<» f The two men who ctuhm^n to have unearthed it. purchased the s ecimen in the East. ' They realized ov<- • ^_o<l a .ta, ~■) of their ’’me.-eum. ’’ 1 H'-ye-rod daughter of .1. R I -ro .n, t !i< ld, a liar ' ware dealer, while P ay lr ■ in a laundry, had a vessel of hot !y • si'iiled o'er her head and shot kier.-:. Ine caustic liquid burned her fri .b'.f diy. Her .’c.co.ery seetiu Lill Im ioi Dio. 1 i’Uh K I’adgen has tiled a suit agai :>t :he I nited \\ mdow t Hass I omjan . of < h r.-tfs, asking MO.bW dama .lessor in uries sustained while working in a tr neh twenty feet deep, when cm-«■; tiie walls caved in on hum crushing him. Bi i si. \। x of Llw oo 1, has -ued tie ' ni’Ti. an Tm-phite ( ompany. a-k---iug ?'.'nl damages for injuries su*tai :t d by him while at work June 27. 1" . He was । aught in a line -naft:ng :na nearly u Led, one of his arms being permanently injured. The body of Edward Garrity, the year oil son of Mrs. John Garrity, a wi.ow. wa- found near his mothers homo floating in the Connersville hy- ‘ rau ••. dead, he having’, it is sum jiose I, fallen from one of the bridges and • rowned just a few minutes before found. As Muncie. Michael Grady was attempting to run a large L' E. «n W. vngi eA into the roundhouse, when ho lo t ' ontrol of it and the engine was dum -cd into a dtep turntable pit,. Grai y was pulled from beneath -eriousl.r injured. The engine was badly demolished. E: UAH Daltdn. aged 65, a convict in th- State I’ri-on South, died at that i.i si Lution recently, lie had been eon- 1 ti ex ,a T’ ?x C . i

nnornn iho prison for runA months, bi ing sentenced for complicity in the Whi’e-capping of his wife near Salem. Washington County, about a year ago. The ‘rial at the time attracted widosnrefd attention. Although Dalton did rot a-s st in whipping his wife he stood liv and witnessed the deed without attempting to interfere. IS AAC G. Botts, M. L. Fuller and J. W. Sinclair, ali Delaware Countv farriers along the Mississinewa Rived be>-w Albany, a small citv east of Muficie. have entered suit against ths Ai,-any Strawhoard Com] any for $15.c< mplaining that this company, by m I.w-ag-the refuse irom the factory . to be dumped into the river, has damaged them to that extent. They rial n their lands have been damaged* to tl>3 ; extent of -J5 per acre, their wat -r t privileg > SSO >, and in all to the amoi m < of $15,100. ' ’ W’ s I r iA\r Pivdi’v MAC.,. \r

w illiam fierce, near Metamora, in Franklin County, was hauling a io.id of stone, when his horses ran a'say and lie Jell under the wagon wheels. His liackbone was broken and he dien in two hours. He was 00 years old and leaevs a family. A YOUNG woman of Flora has given birth to two monstrosities, which have created the greatest excitement in that place. The children, if such th eV may be called, have all the appeafance and characteristics of the canine tribe, even to the voice and covering of hair. I The mothu r is a very comely and fairly i intelligenl y m eg woman.

The 4-year-old child of August Schult/ was burned to death at Bedford. Its clothing, under very mysterious circumstance-, either caught or were set on fire. Before the child became unconscious it claimed ‘’two naugl.ty boys' had set it on fire. This is all that is known about the accident. Pa texts has been fxsued to the following Indiana people. Joseph 1.. Potter, Indianapolis. tre:gvh machine: Ow en Albion, carriage ,m George J. Cline. Goshen, roller and , 'll bearing: Christian Klenk. Conners 'le. liquid wood titter: Robert M. Ro! et, v Anderson. glass carrying trench: Francis W. • Robinson. Richmond, threshing machiee. While the funeral cortege of Mrs. 1 Anna ( hez was on its way to the 'emetery at Shelbyville, two powerful horses attached to the mineral water Pa.zon of F. Rohme became frightened Cn an adjoining street and ran along through tho pro ession. scattering the .gibs .«nd buggies in every direction. — WST“ Lie v fl; yliG s?;< d and -oniewhat injured, ; wru wuvi, umu u EvMkixuMi'u urvKv *’l• o ■. limJrin v a A part oHh^oair" oi wood fell on him : nd the rear wheel '■. tie wagon pas-ed over his neck, alLiost severing the head frou the body. I he coroner is locking inti, the ease.' Phi. r- s donee of Mi* Marv St. A lair, at Jeffer-onvill ?. wa , destroyed by Lie. Tiie family were out of town, ati i t ie premises wcee kr't in charge of I dward Thoma-. <0 yeyys old and parthilly blind. When tie building ' as in Lames by standees heard s reams " ithm. Next morning George iiGs and others, while removing t:> iies near where Thomas slept, found human bopeß lying full length in the a lie - and ba lly charred. C'l. filth annual Barest* reunion was held near Knightstow t m-t week. Mem 'i rs o the family aumliering about Im were present i: ji Indiana, <>hio. Kentucky. Illinois. -Michigan, and A est \ irginia. Interesting talks were made by President George W. W illiams, Kev. Elisha Latles. Prof. L.'i But .er. .lames 11. Car r and others. New ol’icers were elected for the ensuing y<-:.r as follows: Asa M. Xew, President: A. V. B. .Sample secr?tai v: Isaac L'a rett. Treasurer. All kinds of amusements were on ts e program. The brass band fro m tiie Soldiers'and Sailoi Orph ;ns’ Home f-rnished tho music. The next meeting will be held nt Gmi nland. The Center of F nglaml. Au oak tree which Stands its the middle ,n the highroad leading from Leamington to WAL wirk is said to mark tiie center of England. How long ago it was p. anted is not known, except by computation of its girt, ifhich is about 2 feet and shown the '

tree to be bet.tfeen 3uO and 400 vears old. Tradition han warranty foi the importance it gives to this ancient oak. The bo'e would he cut hi two by straight lines drawn froni Berwick on-Twe d. to Southampton, Carlisle tojFMsca Bill, Birkenhead to Eastborn. Holyhead to Deal, St. David’s Heal to Lowestoft, Land's Ivnd to liigcddmcll's Point. Devonport to Saltfieet, Bridgport to Horn, sea Portland BM to Scarborough, bourne Louct to Saltburn. the Needles ter SuniHrland, Brighton to Lytham. Hastings to the north of the । ee, Grecawi h to Abergele Hythe to \-n-u-a” Doier to Bargor. and Harwich R Aberdovy. These are all p-'aeeson or near the M ad and do not exhav.rt the list.-! Transcrip <,

The ie are jmrrg nciw *t wA Ich an urf eof powder is worth s 'ot cf proclamation. There time s when a r *a\ j ler is 'more feng; reais lhar> s ’L^-ng enemy. S e i\l L; i slut an reay y.' Vjio eclipse bub Cai. t suui-^hk Ru-sian rat’ 4? ; Vve «jTJ iking cars. Saiu iREf i ' .us rulr 4 N. G

£ O M FECTED RECENTLY?^"’ — Sad Are the Sights Occasionally Witnessed and Many Disappointed Ones Are Encountered—The Bones of the Good Saint —History of the Relics. Crotches Thrown Aw iv. The pilgrimages to the shrine of St. Anne, twenty-two miles below Quebec, are in full blast and thousands are to be found there every day. A few days ago a large delegation from Morrisbarg, Ont., visited the place. Among those were Kate Sweeney, who is 22 year- old. and who for a long time has suffered severely from spinal disease and paralysis of the legs. She was i car riel from the train into the church, and n > sooner had she communicated and vene ated the relic of St Anne than she felt her natural strength return to her, and she rose and left the church without assistance. Last week Mrs. Diogene Guirmont. of Cap St. Ig: ace, who had been bedridden since February and incapable of walking, was aasisteJ to the f oot of tbe &t.'xt.ue of St. Anne. There sb or a time praying and weeping.altar wTrich, raising he/self painfully upon her crutches she approached the altar railing and reverently kissed the lelio which the priest presented to be •. As she did so she felt the crutches slipping away fre m her, and, making no effort to retain them she ttood erect for a moment. Then, with her husband and a friend at he? s de, she walked firmly to the foot of the statue and there kneeling returne i thanks with harpy t ars. This done she

I i I ik ABASt ONE 3 BY CRII PLI S walked to the beat. She is now said to be thoroughly cuied and able to attend to her household affairs. This miracle is vouched for by tie priest of Cap St. Ignace, who accompanied the pi grims. The woman's crutches, left behind, have gone to swell the large •ollecti ui of discarded canes, crutches anl other aids which form two large pyramids, twenty feet in height, just within the entrance to the church. lli Aeliei werw erfven to her she would publish the fact t> tiie great ?r g“’-yoT saint. She laid she had obtained the longed for cure in the sanctuary of the saint, anl would proclaim it to the world. An 11-year-01l girl from Coaticooke had bren dumb for eight years, when, after invoking the aid of St. A ne and c mmunicating, the string of h r toigue was loosed, and she cried out, "Good St. Anne, I thank you. ” Some Pitiful Scenes. Nine-tenths of those who pray for relief fail t> teeuro it. This is the most distressing feature at St. Anne. Very pitiful, indeed are some of the see: es thus witne?sad. Sickly children, whose cries fill the air. are seen on every side. Consumptives in the la t stage- of the di a e stagger or are led by friends to the altar railing. Ere uently, at the foot of St. Anna's statue, ar • see i s: pplicatiug sufferers wh , unsatisfied with their own orai petition । and unable to remain at the altar until their : rayers h ve l>e n favorab y an-we:'ed. supplement them with wr t nplaa- inclosed iu sealed ■ envelope s and bearing the sim: le addr “A la b ".me St. Aime.” Numbe sos these letter • are always t» be seen upon the pedes al of the statue. Tiie church con’ains two or three relics of St. Anne's bed \ th? largest being a portion of th wr st bone three inches iu le: gt i. Another is a porticu of a lower t uub Joint. Thousands of pea 1? venera*e these lelics. afterconfessing. ctmmunicating and hearing t’ e reading of the gospel of St. Anne. Tae main to ti m of the tones of the saint are claimed by the cathedral at Apt, France, where the e reli s were obtained. The bo :y is said to ha e 11. : . i v o: »♦ ••. .■ — — T ~.. 1 I

, oeen taken from Jerusalem bysi { Jam.s and others to .VarseiilesT® -4. ship containing them bei”" mirik.^ lously preserved from wrecK. Fr m Marseilles the body was taken to Apt, whee for centuries it; location was unkn wa, until its remarkable rediscovery. I’ric'lets. A COUSIN of the Mikad >of Japan has arrived in New Fork. He is traveling incognito as Cou it Mi himi. A powder house exploded at Fort Smith, Ark , killing two women and damaging a number of buildings. John J. siir: iv ;o. of Indianapolis, ha- n ariy completed arrangements for the formation o a c rnmeal trust. The first-class British gunboat Bramble H.. in conse iu -n o of the disturbed c ndition- in certain parts of Morocco, has been ord -red <o proceed to Tangier.

Mhxn'a?. soldiers surprised the note ions I audit Luna and his wife in the mountains and killed both of them. At Sherburne, Minn.. Lee Walker ; ei>edthe trailing ro eof an ascending balloon and was kifed by the fall. A dynamite bomb was placed in the cylinder of a threshing machine engine at Boone, Ind. It exploded, wounding several men and destroying considerable property. An elephant is fifty or sixty years in gaining his maturity’, and will live a century and a half.