St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 August 1895 — Page 6

^ljc Jnbepcnbent. . A. -KJN DL KY, I’ubllMhor, WALKERTON, . . INDIANA. rOpB~RERELLION; FU KHIEN PROVINCE IN A DEPLORABLE STATE. Strange Experience of an Indiana Farmer—Life and Health of Miners Held in Better Regard by Owners of Mines.

Chinese in Open Rebellion. 1 he Shanghai Mercury publishes a dispatch from Foo-Chow saying that the position of the Europeans is critical, owing to the open hostility of the natives and native otlicials. It is added that if an outbreak occurs the native otlicials will be unable to cope with the mob. FuKhien Province is said to be in a state of rebellion, and the American mission at Fung-Fook, in that province, has been burned. The Europeans and Americans have telegraphed for gunboats to protect the foreign settlement. In an interview with some of the survivors of the KuCheng massacre they declare that the outrage was carried out in the most diabolical manner, and that it was evidently a premeditated and carefully arranged attack. entirely unprovoked, made upon the occupants of the missionary station while they were asieep. The bodies of the victims were buried at Foo-Chow. Suddenly Lost Sight. Friday evening Thomas Barnes, a prominent and wealthy farmer near Muncie. Ind., retired enjoying his usual good health, and when he was awakened next morning he was totally blind. Numbers of physicians have examined him, but are unable to account for the sudden blindness. Although an aged num. his eyes have never required the use of glasses when lie was reading. The balls and pupils still retain their action and are natural, but everything remains dark to Barnes. Prominent opticians have examined his eyes and are puzzled. Protection for Miners. The report of L. W. Bryan, United States mine inspector for the Indian Territory, for the fiscal year ended .lune 30, 1595, has been received at the Interior Department. Mr. Bryan says that ho found a general disposition on the part of mine owners to comply with the law and suggestions as to the improvements not specifically required by law have been as a rule adopted. The ventilation in nearly all the mines has been increased and the air-courses have all been well timbered and cleaned. Fish as Big as a Cruiser. The officers of the Spanish men-of-war Sanchez Barcaiztequi and Maria Chris tania report at Havana that near the Colorado reefs they met a monstrous fish of great length. The Maria Christania collided with some unknown substance, injuring her bottom plates. After a thorough search they found the monster, which was followed by others of the saint' species, but smaller. The officers declare that the fish was almost the size of the cruiser. NEWS NUGGETS. Five bodies have thus far been recovered of the victims of last week’s cloud burst near Adelaide, Colo. A contract has just been awarded to the Keneely Bell Company of Troy for placing a peal of bells aggregating 22,709 pounds in the tower of the new city hall at Minneapolis. This will, it is said, the largest chime of bells in this country. Al Keystone. W. Ya.. .1. M. Stroud, coke boss for the Pulaski Iron Company, shot W. A. Gilbert and James Owens, two white miners working for the same company. The trouble originated at a dance given by strikers last month. Gilbert may live, but Owens will die. Ilans Hanson was sentenced in the United States Court at San Francisco to 'be hanged Oct. IS for the murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, mate of the bark Hesperia. Hanson and Thomas St. Clair killed the mate as the first step in a mutiny. St. Clair will die the same day as his companion in crime. News Iris reached Seattle. ash., from the Behring Sea fleet that seal life in the sea is fast being destroyed by the vessels engaged in taking the seals outside the sixty-mile zone In a short lime there will be no seals to protect in American waters, it is said, unless some means can be reached to prohibit the seal-fishing by sea. Papers have been tiled in the I nited States Circuit Court at Boston, Mass., by the Beil Telephone Company asking for an injunction against the National Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Boston, to prevent alleged infringement of the Berliner patents held by the plaintiffs. A hearing has been set for Sept. 2. The British steamship Brawnmor sails from San Francisco for Peru, calling at Central American ports. This is the first actual opposition to the Pacific Mail .Steamship Company’s Central American route since the New York courts enjuined th.* coast line vessels of the Panama Railroad (’ompany. The rates charged will be 40 per cent, less than the Pacific Mail tariff. Two well-known British ships, one bound from Melbourne for London. and the other from Newcastle, N. S. W., to Panama, are long overdue and insurance men have given up both for lost. The bark Florence sailed from Newcastle on Jan. 20 and has not been heard from since. The supposition is that she has foundered or gone ashore on the South American coast. The ship Stoneleigh sailed from Melbourne on Feb. 27 and therefore is now out 159 days. The discovery that the supposed burglar who entered the residence of Mrs John Sedgbeer, of Wichita, Kan., taking her diamonds and jewelry and considerable money, was none other than the .woman’s 15-year-old son Charlie, caused a sensation. The boy was found trying to dispose of the stolen property. The family is prominent in social circles. Brockway and his notorious gang of counterfeiters have been arrested in Jersey City. Consul Doedcrlein, at Leipsic, reports that plows are operated by electricity much cheaper than by steam.

EASTERN. ..i John L. Sullivan has applied for a saloon license at Boston. Louise V. Kissam, a niece of W. 11. Vanderbilt, and Louis S. Kerr, the Wall street broker, eloped from Monmouth Beach, N. J., and were married at New' York. It is alleged that a number of smugglers of tobacco from Canada to the United States, at Rouse's Point, N. Y., have been detected by customs officers, and many arrests will follow. Vicar General J. J. Kennedy, of the see of Syracuse, N. Y., has been invested with the title of monsignor, the honor coming from Pope Leo NHL, on the recommendation of Bishop P. A. Ludden. Justice O'Brien, of the New York Supreme Court, has issued a temporary injunction to prevent the whisky trust re-

organization committee from acquiring stock under the reorganization agreement. At Brooklyn an extensive fire was started Thursday noon by the explosion in the Columbia stores at the foot of Atlantic avenue. Bear's wharf adjoining was destroyed before the flames were checked. A ship also burned. Eugene Blumenthal, a brother of the playwright, Oscar Blumenthal, committed suicide by taking poison in his room in the Great Northern Hotel, New York. Blumenthal had been ill for some time and unable to procure employment. A letter was found addressed to the coroner. It was dated July 29. In it Blumenthal stated that ho intended taking his life, and asked that his body be given to some medical college for study. The Hamilton Savings Fund and Loan Association, Pittsburg, with a capital stock of $30,000,000, was closed by the State bank examiners, and the Union Trust Company placed in charge as temporary receivers. The liabilities, according to the officers of the association, are but S9,IKK) and the assets SII,OOO. The association is a national concern, but the depositors are believed to be all local people, mostly workingmen. The books show about 1,900 shareholders. Ihe statue of Chancellor James Kent, nearly a century ago justice of the New York State Supreme Court and the author of the famous commentaries on the American law, was visited at Poughkeepsie M ednesday by a number of his descendants and several members of the bar, who in this way recognized the 132 d anniversary of his birth. The statue, which is i approaching completion in the studio of- - George E. Bissel, will be placed | next fall in the new Congressional Li brary at Washington. WESTERN. Thousands of bushels of peaehes and apples will be lost in the vicinity of West Plains, Mo., for the want of means to take care of them. There tire KuJHiO barrels of good tipples in sight there. The marriage of Edwin Holt and Mabel Eaton, the well-known theatrical people, has been indefinitely postponed bi.anse of the arrival at Toledo, where they arc playing, of Mr. Holt's wife ami thr< • children. Indictments were voted Wednesday Io the Grand Jury at Chicago against six election judges charged with fraudulent practices in the First ami Second Wards last November. The indictments grow out of the evidence adduced in the investigation of the McGann-Belknap contest. Au aeeumubition of gas caused an e\ 1 plosion in the cupola ol the top mill blast j furnace at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, ami pieces of iron, coke and cinders were blown 200 feet in the air. Samtud Cashnich, u filler, was fatally burned and James Carman was badly injured by fly- ’ ing missiles. F. E. Wilson, alias C. B. Walts. Will iam A. Black, C. <'. Woods, and C II Woodward, awaiting trial at Pm Mo. <’o]„ on a charge of forgery, is said to have operated throughout the West and North w<st. The detectives who have worked up the casts against Wilson say there are few towns of prominence in lowa. Mis- ; soiiri, Kansas. Colorado, and Wyoming where he has not swindled people by J means of raised cheeks. Stark Siding, two miles east cf Canton. I Ohio, on the Fort Wayne, was the scene j of a disastrous freight wreck at 2:30 : o’clock Friday morning, in which three ; men lost their lives and eight more are lying in Aultman Hospital, mere or less injured. The train, which was an extrn, j going west, broke in two at the Summit, and the rear portion ran into the front I end when it stopped for water at the tank. Eight cars were smashed into kindling i wood and tratlic was delayed about two hours. The killed and injured were all tramps, riding on an empty boxear. The trainmen escaped without injury. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pittsburg, has de veloped a bloodthirsty quality of which he was never suspected. It all came about since he took to bicycling. This advertisement in the papers explains the case: “Twenty-five dollars reward — Stolen, from the corner Dithridge and Bayard streets. Yictor bicycle No. G6,329. full nickle finish. 1894 modi!, raised handle bar. wood rims, two-inch tires, scorcher saddle, rat-trap pedals, toe clips, bell, and Spalding cyclometer: no brake; Pittsburg license No. 317. The above reward will be paid for wheel and thief, dead or alive. F. T. Lovejoy, Gl2 Carnegie Building.” The United States cavalry reached Jackson’s Hole. Wyo.. Friday. The infantry was stopped en route, as there ] were no Indians in sight. I lie scare ex- > isted along the route the Indians took in ' returning to the reservations. Notwith standing the threats made against the life of Agent Teter and his chief clerk, Ravanel Mcßeth, they went ahead of the troops into Jackson s Hole to warn the settlers not to attack the redskins and to 1 obtain the names of all the parties concerned in what Agent Teter insists on calling the massacre of the Indians < aptain Jim, chief of the Shoshones, will ask all the Indians to go back to their reservations without fighting. If they will not j go he will assist the soldiers in removing । them and will call upon his tribe to help. ; Cloudbursts and floods in New Mexico, Colorado. Kansas and Wyoming did great damage Tuesday night, causing much loss of life and great destruction of property. The dead arc: At Socorro. N. M., the infant son of E. Baca, and six members of the Duran family. At Caspar,^ Wyo.. two Harrison children and Mrs. S. Newby ami chilli. At Fort Scott, Kas., AS alter Austin and Willie Gould. At Adelaide, Colo., Mrs. Carr. Mrs. Tracey, and tin unknown woman. Four men are missing, thought to have been caught in a landslide near Adelaide. The greatest damage seems to have been done at So-

[ corro, N. M., where seven lives are known to be lost. Three small towns near by may have been swept away. The surrounding country is devastated. The property damage is said to be over sl,. 000,000. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., while the steamer Alva, bound down with iron ore, was aground below the dyke Thursday morning, she was run into and sunk by the whaleback barge Hundred and Seventeen, in tow of the steamer E. M. Peek, bound down with iron ore. The whaleback took a sheer when near the Alva, which caused the collision. Her nose punched a hole in the Alva at. the engineroom gangway, three feet below the main deck, filling the engine-room with water. Steam pumps will be put on board, after temporary repairs have been made, ko that she can proceed on her way to Clliicago. The whaleback barge is badly damaged in the stem and her ballast tank forward is full of water, but as she caL free herself with her own pumps she k\ still afloat. The Alva’s stern is on till bottom, and the bow is in four fathom! of water. I The San Francisco Chronicle publishes an article in regard to alleged frauds fi the railway mail service on the Pacii l coast, which, it says, promises to lei!\ to one of the most far-reaching FedeJ* investigations ever held. It is allegW by Railway Postal Clerk E. S. Colvli and others that I’nited States mails weJ fraudulently stuffed, with the advice aw consent of Supt. Samuel Flint, of tw eighth division of the railway mail sM vice, during June, 1894, in order tIS weights carried during that mouth. formed the basin for estimating the ^6Tnl pensation to be paid the railroads for the next four years, might appear unduly, large. Railway postal clerks of long ex, perience say there are great opportuni ties for stuffing ears in such away ns tJ rub the Government of millions each yeaiA The Chronicle adds that his local scandal opens up n wide field for Congressional investigation. Fourteen negro miners fell victims tu the fury ot an Italian mob at Spring Yailey, 111., Sunday. ’I hree probably will die, and the result of the wounds of many of the others is doubtful. Fully 1,000 Italian miners armed with all sorts of weapons and preceded by a baud of music marched on No. 3 location, where a colony of negro miners ami their families are domiciled. The nmb was bent on revenging one of their countrymen, who had been killed in an aiteriation with some negroes. The negro colony v. as completely misled ns to the intentions of the mob on aeeount of the band, and some of them flocked tn see the supposed partide. They fell easy and defenseless victims to the fury of the crowd. It w:is an attempti-d massacre, and in the anger of the foreigners m> di->, rimimition ns to age nr sex was made. The feeling of hatreii which has existed toward the negro, s ever since their importation during the strike a year ago wns given fierce vent, and it was " ith the ferocity of long restrained malice that the mob leaped tn its work. Thnt dnzells were tint killed seems alm- «t miraculous. SOUTHERN. James Graham wn< iis~. -siuat,-.! by luoonsbiners at Birminglmm. Ala. He had b< en informing oh them. Lee Thoma> was hang, ' nt < '<>: sicami. T'-mk, f> r the murder ( q J. M. i'arhn^ The murder was the result of a game of*, cards. W Ed West, operator sad utgbt agent Potts < by Jowl An unknown man was murdered at the * month <>f Hart’s iTnk. in Lincoln Coun- i Iy, Tenm-ssee. the io- ality infested by the ; Bromfield and M<C o factions. In a shooting affray at Fort Worth. | Toxas. Frank Rijipy was hot dead and ■ Frank Thomas, a “trusty '’ in the city I prison, probably fatally wounded. rotir children of M. S. Trimble in I Bayou Rapids. Ln., here poisoned by i morphine given them by their mother in I mistake for quinine. Two have died. l ie Alabama hisiJh otlr , r j - ( uU- J i Gov. Oates’ attention to the frightful I death rate at the Coalburg mines among the convicts, it being ninety m every । 1.( H>l I. George and John Pierce, who were sen- ; fenced by Judge Parker to hang at Fort , Smith for murder, have been granted up- i pea's to the Supreme Cotti t of tin Cmted States, and their < x, . uiion will not i take place. The non-union men are being forced to | leave the Bluelieids, W. Ya., coal fields ■ by tin strikers, who threaten personal vio- | lence to those who don’t quit work. Gov. i MacCorkle has reached there and his ( hasty return is attributed to the threats, i Serious trouble is expected within the j next few days. John Enhart. a farmer, of Robinson. ! Ark., was killed Wednesday night at his homo, his head being crushed with an ax. Enhart and his wife quarreled because he whipped two of her first hiisband’s children, and as there is nothing to indicate a motive for the crime outside of the | household, an investigation is being made ; on the supposition that the murder was committed by some member of the family. “foreign, Cuban insurgents tire reported to have captured the towns of Baire Jiguani and < Juantanamo. A ilispatch to the London Standard from Berlin says that :i severe earth<]iiuke oci-urred at ihe Russian town of Krasno vodsk. It is reported that twelve persons were killed. A dispatch from Madrid says: Republican and Carlist Senators and Deputies have addressed a protest to the Government against the payment of the Mora claim without the sanction of the Cortes. The protest declares that the Government’s precipitancy in settling the claim of the United States is unconstitutional and humiliating to Spain, and that the condm-t of the United States in taking advantage of the Cuban insurrection to press the claim is an exhibition ol an uui friendlv disposition. Ihe tioieinmeut has decided to pay the Mora claim tn three installments. It is the intention afterward to induce the t nited States to recognize Spanish claims for damages to property in Florida of citizens of the country which were incurred during the civil war in America. Fontura Navicr, the Brazilian Consul General in New York, believes that the Island of Trinidad, which was recently taken possession of by the British, will be regaimsl by Brazil. He said the Brazilian Government was making every' effort to settle the difficulty by diplomacy, but

‘ if these means failed he believed Brazil would try to take the island by force. “My • country’s navy cannot, of course, com- . » r ßtr t“ g th with that of Great Britn? 1 ’ i . F ’ ^ av i er said, “but our citizens are determined to assert their rights and w? V° f - ! ' r ° f En Kland.” When asked ■ What position he thought the United t, , s "ould take in case of war Mr nnni™i d ^. lnred it could not remain ih utuil without violating the Monroe doer n“. and that, he thought, the admin1- tuition would be unwilling to do. A Shanghai dispatch to the London limes says that the mission and sanitanum at Wha Sang, near Ku Cheng, 1 rovinee of Fokein, was attacked and ten British subjects killed. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. Miss Yellow and Miss -Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Steetie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords. Miss Codrington was seriomdy wounded about the head, and Stew I art’s eldest child had a knee cap badly injured while the youngest had an eye - gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans. Dr. Gregory ami Miss Mabel C. Hartford, were both wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Chau Fu. The । I 1 efeet of < 'heim I- u. who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously impliented in the Cheng Fu outrages. r IN GENERAL I Isaac Gauthier, a Montreal, Que., ci- . gai’-maker, 23 years old, emptied five r chambers of his revolver into n beautiful young girl to whom he was engaged to be । married, Celina Consigny, also 23 years old, killing her. Gauthier, after his arrost, said he bought the revolver for the express purpose of killing his sweetheart. He also, he said, intended to take his life, had iie not used till the bullets in the revolver in killing the girl. It appears that he is dying of consumption. The forthcoming review by the geological survey of the mineral resources of the . country will show that the production of vhiniinium in the United States in 1594 was 5T41.1H10 pounds. The imports were valued nt $4,110. Battxile. which is an oxide of aluminium, has been found in sutlicient quantities to be commercially valuable in only three localities in the United States. These are New Mexico, Arkansas and the Co >sn Valley of Georgia and Alabama. Aluminium, the review will say, has now found the position in the arts predicted for it, and tile demand is increasing. Its m< talhirgieal use has proved more valuable than was expected. IL G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade Stnys: “There is a perceptible halt which may deceive if attributed to wrong causes. Trade two months late in the spring pushed forward into July a large share of business bvlonirmg tn April or May. Seeing a rush of orders out of time, many imagiued it would continue, and buiriiil to give other orders. The jam of two months' business into one fitted pric< s. I'hen other orders came to j anticipate n further rise But the midsummer halt was inevitable, ami it is yet somewhat umerta-n how much improvement will appear after it. The crop of I corn promises to be the l.nvest ever grown. I ami is almost out of harm’s way The < mp j of wheat appears perhaps bushels less than was expe.-ted a month 4 ago. and had the best hopes been realized ; it would have b< -m m<>rv than ioo.tHHt.tatO Hbnshels short of a full crop. Cotton has | lost a little, and more people seem to be- | lis-ve in 7.."MSI.Otia bnies thnn bvlU'Ved in L \nll 101 n. ■ ,lh k The fobow ieg |S the standing of the JViutis in ihe NuUvmil l.- n-c B. W. L. < miL i ; Clevelaml !“• 31 3G JUHI I Pittsburg S 3 .Lu 33 ,3^-S i i Baltimore 79 4G 33 .3N2 | I Chieag 31 39 .3G7 i Boston s, । 45 .sig; । । Citu inmui . .. <1 13 3s .542 i : Brooklyn ''2 11 3s .337 1 ' Philadelphia ... >1 43 3s ..-,.",1 : i New York . . . . .sj 12 39 .319 i Wash 7 ; bs is :-;s j St. 1-oui- ss 21» .3!i .330 i Untisville Si 21 GO .“59 i W lisTEHX J i: AGt E The following is the -'amiing of the ; clubs in the Wvsti m L- ague: For P. W. L. cent. । St. Paul S 3 49 34 .590 IndiannpMis ....so 47 33 .ssx Kansas City. . si m "5 .553 Detroit si 44 40 .524 ; Minneapolis S 2 41 41 ..’4Mi ' Milwaukee s;; p> gj .48“ ■ Terre Haute s 5 33 52 .388 ' Grand Rapids.... s 5 29 5G .341 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.73 to sGj*f; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.25; she ;-, fair to < hoiee. .$2.50 to .$4.25; wheat. No. 2 rid. 07e to GBc; corn. No. 2, 42-- to ’3c; oats. No. 2. 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2, 45e to 47c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, I 11c to 12c: potatoes, new. per barrel. - SI.OO to $1.30; broom corn, common j growth to tine brush. 4e to GUc per lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. ,$3.00 to s<>.oO; hogs, choice light. 53.00 to .$5.25; sheep, common to prime. 52.00 to Sl.oo; wheat. No. 2. GGc; to GSe; corn. No. 1 white, 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white. 2<>e to 28c. .. •»,. Louis Catlh-. l <.-«<•>.< H»: Je >e-s. ^6^o tu 85.25; wheat. No. “ red. ('.Sc to Lip; corn. No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats. ». 2 white, 22c to 23 •; rye. No. 2,43 c to 45c. Cincinnati —Cattle, 83.50 to .$(>.00: hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $-1.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2. mixed. 42c to 44c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 2G<to 28c; rye. No. 2. 49c to 31c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.23; sheep. $2.00 to $;:.5O; wheat. No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. Nc._2 yellow, 44e to 45e; oats. No. 2 white, Jie to “tie; rye, 48c to 49c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red. 1 2e to i.>c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 44c to 4,>c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye. No 2,49 cto ale. Buffalo Cattle. $2.30 to SG.OO; hogs. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep. $3.09 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2 red, 7Gc to 7 7c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white. 29c to 31c. Milwaukee -Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 3. 42c to 44c; oats. No. 2 white, 2<ic to 28c: barley. No. 2,4 Ge to 47c; rye. No. 1,48 cto 49c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. New York -Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, 'Western, 13c to 15c.

AN IDEA FROM KANSAS w . PENSIONERS URGED TO DEMAND GOLD. The M ife of the Rev. Dr. Talmage Dies as the Result of Shock Sustained Last Year—Colliery Horror in Scotland. Who Originated This? Monday was pension day at Topeka, Kan., and the following circular was distributed among the old soldiers of Topeka and Shawnee County who visited the pension oflice to get their quarterly allowance from the Government: “Com-rades:-Halt. You are entitled to gold in payment of your checks. Demand it. lh> not accept depreciated currency.” 1 lie pensioners an- paid by cheeks, which are cashed at the Topeka banks. It is claimed the circular was prepared by a bimetallist, w ho wants to show that there IS not enough gold in the batiks to pay the pensioners alone, aside from doing the other business of the country. It has also been suggested that this may be part of the Sovereign boycott of national bank notes. It is not known who distributed the eireular. n ’', 1a, '» sge’s Bereavement. I’‘‘Witt 'ralmnge 1U I inns- , ->’.3o Monday morning. Since the burning of the Brnoklyn tabeynaele last year Mrs. Talmage has suffered from nervous prostration and she has lieiet tuny recovered from the .shock sustained then. Ihe fire broke out while the Duel or w;,s holding his usual Sunday reccplion. and a large number of parishioners and visitors were in the church. They ail made good their escape, but Dr. Taimage went back into the burning edifice be something lie had left behind. During his absence Mrs. Talmage, who, with other members of the family, was outside a waiting his reappearance, became greatly excited and alarm, d for the Doctor’s safety. As soon as she was informed that he was all right she broke down completely. The sufferer was removed to the Dansville sanitarium about a year ago, wuh Miss 11 jsy '! ahmtge as her constant companion. While Dr. Talmage was absent on a lecturing tour in the West he receivid a telegram summoning him to his wife’s bedside. He at once canceled all his engagements and hastened back to find that there was very little hope for the ! patient’s recovery, and he remained with i her until the end came. The deceased was j the second w ife of Dr. Talmage. His first I wilo was drowned while boating in 18(>2. i having a daughter. Miss Jessie, and a ' s 11, who has since died. Jig tfic House Down. "Sv ing yo pahduers, balance all. hands | ari-nnd: It was at Nancy Harris’ party j tit her bouse. No. 1,23 Dearborn street, I < 'li'-ago. l-’i iday night, and a dozen dusky I belh s and th< ir beaus were mingling in j the mazy dame. The fun waxed warm : r.d furious. "Salute yo’ pahduers. Down i de middle!’’ and just as big Eph Miller, ! the tiddler, got these words out of his । tn ti’h the foundation posts under the house gave way and the crazy structure almost want “down de middle.” Nobody v. as hurt, but the loss was as follows: House, $!>O; some insurance. Furniture and ntents. $123; no; total. Eph Miller s violin, value St; no iusurame. Susie Jeiies. ihim-iug pumps, 3'3 nts; no insurance. Die In n P’oodel Mine. I I' • Au bi n Harvie colliery at Salt । < s. Scotland, a town 0:1 the Bay of i Ayra. twenty-four miles southwest of j Glasgow. Las brt-n th oiled. Sixty men j were rescind ami fi>urt< > 11 were entombed 1 in ihe mite. Si arebing parties were unable to penetrate to the point where the unfortunate victims ware buritd. BREVITIES. A fraud order was issued by the I’ost- | oft" e Hi । irtment Monday against (’has. ■ 1. I‘eirg A No. IS-.iS ('arpenter strei t. 1 < hi, ago. lii.. for eoiidin-tiug a fraudulent I book concern. The l'armers’ Loan an 1 Trust Company applied for II receiver at Little Rock, Ark., for the Pine Bluff and Eastern R. ilway and for the Stuttgart and Arkei -a> River Railway. Seven men called James Mason, a negro, ent at Dengi’rfield. Texas, and shot him dead. His wife ran into the bouse and got in bed with her child. They shot her through a erack in the house. The thild will get well, but the woman will die. Th< Sei rotary of War has awarded a medal of honor to Christian Albert, private. Company G. Forty-seventh Ohio s’iJunteers. now living at Brest, Mich., for gallant ci nduet as a member of the storming party at Yicksburg, Miss., May 22. 181 >3. An opinion favorable to the defendants has been tiled in the case of Samuel Barber et al., heirs of John Barber, against the Pennsylvania t'ompany, in which the plaintiffs lay claim to the property on Penn a - enue. Pittsburg. Pa., occupied by the extensive oflice building of the Pennsylvania ('ompany. The Woodrough A Hanchctt Company, one of the largest wholesale hardware houses in ('hiingo. failed Friday after--110011. anil (he -t..ro es rhe company was I closeil by the sheriff. The failure occasioned a gooil deal of surprise among the wholesale houses in Lake street, as the company has been regarded as a most substantial concern, doing a large business. but the collapse, they say. is the result of the protracted period of dull times. The liabilities of the company are about $ 18P.(Mill and the assets are placed at $2 4( t. 900. A’crsailles. Ky.. was thrown into excitement Monday afternoon by one of the bloodiest tragedies that ever occurred within her borders. It was the unprovoked killing of James Rodenbaugh, a young man of 22. ami the mortal wounding of 11. ('. Rodenbaugh, his 60-year-old father, by W. N. Lane, a fence-dealer of Lt xington, who was drunk. State Bank Examiner Cowdry closed the Citizens’ State Bank at: South Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about $30,009; assets, $23,000, with a Hairs in bad condition. This bank was the county deUositurv. ami over 8.8.000 was on deposit. .Mrs. Mary Strouse, of Wooster. (>hio. tried to prevent her son from keeping company with Maggie Webb, whom she does not like. Thursday night Mrs. Strouse shot at Miss Webb, the bullet grazing her shoulder. Mrs. Strouse told tin neighbors she was going to shoot the

EXCITING FLIGHT FROM INDIANS A Frontier«--nan Followed Six Miles by Piegane in War Paint. In August of 'G6 I was running a bull train between Helena and Fort Benton, on tho "down trip,” and at noon went into camp where the house of John D. Brown now stands. At about 2 o'clock camp was broken and we moved on toward Priest Crossing, the Water being too high at Sun River. After going about two miles I shot and wounded an old doe antelope, accompanied by two fawns, and, I determined that I would* have all three of those animals, and gave chase, firing whenever I could get within range, until I had exhausted my ammunition. This was before the days of breech-loading guns. I finally got the two fawns and tied them on behind my saddle and started to catch up with the “train.” I was as much as six miles behind, without a cap or a bullet, only two empty six-shooters and a rifle. I paced , along until I came to what is known ।as the Signboard Coulee. I noticed i that my saddle pony kept turning to the • left !• inally I looked over that wav I myself and could see the head and j shoulders of a person down in the cou- | lee. I spurred up into a gallop and in s a moment could see that there were j eight persons Instead of one, and also j । that they were Piegan Indians ,n full . war paint and feathers. They immcdlately gave chase, and for the next six miles occurred one of the most exciting races that I ever took part .in. Seeing that the weight of the fawns was telling on the speed of my horse I cut them loose and at the same time threw away my overcoat, and taking the ramrod out of my rifle used it as a whip and gained a little on my pursuers. The last two miles of the race was in plain, view of the train. The train halted, and I supposed that one of the drivers would come to my assistance, but no relief came. They dropped their whips and jaws at the same time and waved their hats and bauds and halloed "Run.” I was doing the best I could. The Indians chased me to within 150 yards of the train, when Bob Chestnut, now of the Chestnut Valley, came in sight from the direction of Sun River, and opened fire on the Indians. They stopped chasing me and ran the other J way. It never occurred to the drivers that they had guns until after Mr. I Ckestnut commenced firing. There are many old-timers in Montana who u ill remember this incident well—Sun , River (Mont.) Sun. Some Forms of Fungi. Scarcely a day passes in which we do not see some forms of fungi, so common are they—lnhabiting every nook and comer. If we walk in the fields, the woods, even in the dooryard, we see the little white, gray and brown umbrellas of the toadstools and mushrooms. Going to the preserve closet, we see that on the tops of many of the bottles a white growth lias formed. Our old shoes bidden away in Um dark have a greenish dust upon them; this Is another fungus; and the “mother” In vinegar claims cousinship with the yeast which raises our’ bread. The paste-pot Is flecked with pink, green and gray spots, all fungi. Some of the grain crops are often subject to partial or complete destruction from different kinds of fungi—the “smut” of wheat ! and corn, ergot of rye and others. Silkworms are destroyed in vast num- , bers by a me! ’.. Its spores, entering their bodies, fill the whole interior, and cause death in from seventy to a hundred and forty hours. The hop crop is : often ruined by “mildew." One strange ; fungus attacks a kind of caterpiller, ' growing like a tree from his back until i It is much larger than the poor worm, I that crawls about witli hi? unwelcome J guest until it kills him.—St. Nicholas. Luminous Mushrooms. A man traveling in Australia found I a large mushroom of this genius weighing five pounds. He took it to the house where he was stopping and hung It up to dry in the sitting-room. Entering after dark, he was amazed to see a beautiful soft light emanating from the fungus. He called in the natives to examine It, and at the first glance i they cried out in great fear that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually decreasing until it was wholly dry. Dr. Gardner, while walking through the strets of a Brazilian town, saw some boys playing with a luminous object, which he at first thought was a large firefly, but he found on inspection it was a brilliant mushroom (Agaric) which now bears his name. It gave out a bright light <>f a greenish j hue, and was called by the natives “flor ! de coco,” as it grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a brilliant light, and the older ones a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphorescent. Humboldt describes some exquisitely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow in rotten wood is caused by its containing the threads of light-giving fungi.—June St. Nicholas. Needed Praying For. “The chief of police of Athens, Ga,’* said Supt. Eldridge, of Boston, "is a delightful man to meet, but he is a Methodist —one of the old, sincere strie. At the last convention in Boston he proposed that the association have a chaplain. That roused the Western men, especially one from Omaha, who didn't want prayers. But the Georgia man got up, and looking solemnly over the gathering of police officials, said: ‘Gentlemen, I think if anybody in this country needs the guidance of Almighty God, it is the heads of the police departments in our large cities.’ He won and we made him chaplain.’’—Boston Traveler. A girl who has a good vigorous steady seldom becomes a whist fiend.