St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 January 1897 — Page 3

DIE IN A MINE SHAFT. AWFUL DISASTERAT PRINCETON, INDIANA, | Six Miners Killed Outright and Eight Injured, of Whom Some Will Die— Buperintendent of the Mine One of the Victims. Death in the Blast. As a result of a gas explosion in the mine of the Maule Coal Company at Princeton, Ind., Saturday six men were killed and eight badly injured, one of whom will doubtless die. The dead are: John Ernest, married; Theodore Fabre, blacksmith, married; John Holmes, married; Robert Maule, married, treasurer and general superintendent of the Maule Coal Company; Carl Poneylight, single, of Belleville, Ili; James Ryan, married. The injured are: Will Booker, will die; James Davis; William D. Grills, will recover; Tom Price, will recover; Frank Turbie, will die. David Nolan and James Turner, supposed to have been killed with the others, were rescued alive, as were Arthur Colgate and James Kruse. About twenty men were all at work in the mine, clearing up the debris resulting from a recent explosion, when no one was injured. Suddenly there was a flash, — Al - The _—ﬁ%‘i‘e‘m the mouth of the mine, and the alarm was at once given. The scene around the shaft was a pitiful one, the wives, children and relatives of the men below shrie_king and

wringing their hands in anguish. The escape of four of the men’ from instant death seems almost a miracle when it is considered that the heavy mine cages were blown from the shaft bottom to the top of the minehouse, over 500 feet above, by the force of the explosion. These cages wore wrecked, so an iron bucket was impruvised for a rescuing party as soon as possible after the accident. The first persons brought up were Tur‘bie, Grill and two colored men, Davis and Booker. The first was badly burned and was carried to an ambulance. Grill and Davis were apparently uninjured, and walked off, saying they were all right. Brooker was cut and burned and had to be supported. Afterward it was found his jaw was broken and one eye was torn from its socket. All were given medical attention by a corps of physicians. ‘Then the rescuing party began to bring up the dead. State Mine Inspector Fisher will investigate the matter. None of the rescued men can explain the circumstances that led up to the explosion. CUBANS ARE SCARED. Three Friends' @rew Find Themselves Regarded as Pirates, The actors in the recent sea tragedy, who were on board the Three Friends, the Cuban filibustering steamer, are badly frightened over the gravity of the situation in which they have been involved. They find themselves, instead of being in a dangerous position as filibusters, to be in the unenviable position of pirates, and the wisest Cuban heads have been summoned in consulation. Adgsistant Secretary of the Treasury Scott Wike was at Key West_investigating the matter, but n absence of a district attorney at that . - ndce made detention a farce. Mr. Wike censured the district attorney there for having no representative at Key Waest. At the consultation no denial had been | made by officials of the Three Friends of | the story of alleged engagement. Their silence was taken as an admission. In' that case Spain may make requisition upon the United States for the persons who were aboard, and this government N

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i L Wit iy T FIENDS WRECK A TRAIN. 1 Twenty=Kight Lives Sacrifliced on an Alabama Road, ' The worst railroad wreck in the history of Alabama occurred Sunday morning at the Cahaba River hridge, twenty- | seven miles out from Birmingham, on the l Brierfield, Blocton and Birmingham branch of the Southern Railway. Tw«-n-1 ty-eight persons are known to have perished, that number of bodies having been recovered from the wreck. Eleven escaped alive, but of these several will die. All of the train crew were killed except the fireman, whose escape seems almost miraculous. 3 Six miles south.of Gurnee the railroad crosses the Cahaba River on a trestle DOO feet long. The river span was of iron, 200 feet long and 110 feet high. The river I 8 a mountain stream. The span over it gnve way as the train was crossing it, and the engine and all of the cars went to the bottom of the river below. The first news of the wreck was brought to Hargrove by a farmer who happened to be passing. He noticed that the middle span of the bridge was miss- | ing. Approaching closer, he observed the | train burning in the river below, m;di | could hear the cries of the wounded and | dying mingled with the hissing of the | steam coming up from the wreck. Hv' gave out the word to farmers, residing | near by, and hastened to Hargrove to telegraph to Birmingham for relief. Three relief trains with doctors m-r--, sent from Birmingham ecity and a fourth from Bloecton. Meanwhile the mnmr_\‘ people had gathered to render what as. | gistance they could. It was soon found that almost every person on the train hadl I been killed, and the bodies in most cases burned. The rescuers arrived too late to be of much service, except in caring so the nine wounded persons who man aged to get out of the wreek alive. The fact that the bridge was only four vears old and was regarded as one of the strongest and best in the State, makes M |

the theory that the bridge gave way under the weight of the train absurd. Surviving passengers say they felt the wheels bumping on the cross ties before the crash came. The fact that a bold attempt was made only five days before to wreck a’ Southern Railway passenger train at McComb's trestle by the removal of a rail on a trestle ninety feet hizh adds to tke belief that this horror was the result of the work of train wreckers. WARFARE ON TOLL ROADS.

—e ' Destruction of Kentucky's Gates Goes ; Merrily On. A queer warfare is being waged in Kentucky. Toll gates on turnpikes are being torn down or blown up at night hy' masked men, and the tolltakers threatened and intimidated. In one instane a ’ man was shot, and several have been fired upon. It is the argument of the farming I class for free turnpikes. While they canlnot be defended for their actions, it is encouraged by the tardiness of the county ] magistrate. | As in 41l States newly settled, when | farmhouses were few and towns fewer, | the turnpike was a great convenience. Men who built them were entitled to and did receive without muyrmur a toll from those who used the pikes in preference to the hilly and winding and poorly kept dirt roads. The pikes were constructed as early as fifty and even seventy-five | years ago. Nearly all are of macadam | and some are of gravel. The grades are 1 lJight and the roads usually direct, and they age kept in good repair. Other gfat_es have had toll roads, and many of them have them yet. But as the population grew®and the counties became richer the turnpikes were purchased, and

v T QUYL T L i g ' thereafter owned and maintained by the | ' counties in which they lay, and no toll is | charged. Tln time the people of Ken- | |tm-ky felt that the day of the toll gate | had passed, and that the interests of,the agricultural classes would be better servI od by the freeing of the turnpike, as it is commonly called. The result of the agitation was the passing by the Legislature of a law which provides for the purchase of the turm- { pikes by the counties. This law provides | that the County Court, composed of the Connty Judge and all the magistrates of the county, shall appoint a commission to appraise the value of the turnpike to be purchased. The money for the payment ‘uf the purchase price is raiged by taxa- | " ¢ e, 4 ] Wiz ‘ i[# : h‘ 1 B < s B | . ] ' Rol Pt v:; | ! e O AT e EL TR Tege SRS ?‘f“"ﬁf&t LpTAT Ael o &1& Py ¢AR IS i R R e . SLR e X e < & i 3 S ! R i TOLLGATE NEAR LEXINGTON, KY. tion, and thereafter the turnpikes shall | be free, unless at an election held for that pirpose the taxpayers of the county shall | lave opposzed the purehase of the pikes, Meariy all the principal counties in I onl!uvk_\' have voted to purchase the turnpikes, and in a few of the counties this haxg been done. In a majority, however, the magistrates have taken no action. The peaple, tired of waiting and tired f longer paying toll, have taket into their own hands the matter of frecing the turnpikes he peace oflicers of the countica, selected !-‘ the popuiar vote us the people, are in sympathy with the “free irnpikers.” and their inaction has oniy stimulated the rioters to further lawless ISS It is believed that the recent demonstrations will have the effect of stimoInting the caunty magistrates to action 1o the matter of making all the highways free. The cities are much in favor of the permancnt removal of the toll gate, as it means the more frequent visit to town of l the farmer and his {amily. | WILL NOT WED CHAUNCEY. i | Miss I'dith Collins Is to Marry Count ' Czavkowaki, | Miss Idith Collinsg, Chauncey M. De | pew's ward, is not going to marry the merry railroad presidest after all, Efs { e al denial of the story is made by the Litnounceuwien { her engagement to Count Czavkowsk!, incilor of state of the Tuarkish embassy at Rome.. ~Xiss I Collins is descended from a long line of { distinguished American ancestors, among i\\‘.n-:;x. on her father's side, were twad | colonial governors—@overnor William { Bradford of Massachusetts and Governor ;\\'il‘z'..'.:n Leecte of Connecticut. On her i mother's side Miss Collins is a great- | granddaughter of Commodore Vander- { hilt, ‘f Count Czaykowski, who is looked upon | as one of the most brilliant diplomats in ‘ | Furope, is highly esteemed by the Sultan | and is one of his advisers. Ie was, un.itil quite recently, first secretary of the : r Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg; | where a year ago he met Miss Colling, . who was there on a visit at the Sp(’(’ia?‘

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‘_& ey —_ 5 "’ o . : ; ;«';'»‘ir,“. i\ ) NG TR O AG AN EN] s “"‘\‘..,.'. =] N o PR 2/ '&\,- .’\‘\ 7NN IﬁL 44 ,-’ 2 Vi '\\\'\ W | Gl ‘ ’!l{l,':} \i,: &r 'ls'/“/ A (VR &) %/ ¢ j‘”&f‘f"“a 5 7 J-,\ -'l\'j’ ; A XV | PR = — 9 ) B 43 Sk 0 LlM\h S ﬂ \ = - ~.—t A . '.w e A- PSR A e S T "? -vg’:.;;_ == ,—.,,“tﬁg‘ =/j : e= —— “ N -. s S To Load Logs, 0l the log on a good-sized pole, back the Wagon, the butt end of the log 8110 be about the center of the 10unas, then get a thick block, a, and N’Y D with a stout pole, b, and while th‘?-lui.a bearing down on the pole quicHly fasten che log chain, ¢, secureIy a the log. Next insert a stout poledd, about 6 or 8 feet long under the - ahad@en top of the log. While bearing Qo the pry pole have the boy plaf a thick block across the hounds; the Phicker the better. This takes the straln off the hounds. Let the pole rest on tils and the log is loaded. In loading & large heavy log, pry it up and place a thick Dblock under it. Then fasten the chain as before, insert the pole, bear down on the pry pole, have s " —— » Y L O, : P R J e- - Y iy b (\" i Bl ,' B )} . «‘f»/'d S S S RN ,'-."‘ AT Lo g a A SIMPLE WAY TO LOAD LOGS, the block placed across the hounds, and | the iog Is again loaded. By this sim- | ple method one man and a stout boy ’ can load any reasonable size log with- | oW any heavy lifting.—Farm and Home, ‘ Hard-Milking Cows, % There is nothing more provocative of | profanity than to milk a hard-milking cow, especially if she is a kicker, as the | hard milker is apt to be. Farmers who pray that they be not led into tempta tion ought to give more care to the kind of cows they keep for thelr boys and ' hiregl men to milk., It is a pretty seri ous phusiness putting temptations to SWaRY In other people’'s wajy There is angmler rgason why the hard-milking | coWBs not likely to be profitable, To | - easgßolng people, too good tempered to : e Profane, the temptation takes an- | ot form, that {8 not to swear at the | 0o Wt to stop milking her before all | tl;p; miik is exhansted ’ 'hus many a coM bas drivd up pr dy and nevy v‘i’i\ri; ¢r any protfit, while If she had been an easy milker she had the capacity to become as good a cow as any in the daix \merican Cultivator Lawn or Garden Leveler. Our illastration 11 I 8 from the Anmerican A Itviris shows 1 sers 'lt‘v'.'\h'j", hio i : i1 bt el i * loy l \ \}. Il et 2 X i v . ....ﬁ,_‘“_ I ': o . ;.; 't 5 SN | R s A | HOMEMADE LAND 1 ELER eMig lawns and gard 1 loing grading of any sort ] le¢ from a plank, bey ige, the edge being prot i <t sheet n Into this is s ir vork that is shown in 1 fHlustratior \sh strips ¢aft be bent easily into shape for t handles, or c¢ld plow handles can be utilized. | A Valuable Object Lesson. At a recent American Institute fair at Nésvy York City, tl State Experiment Station made an extensive display of frait, grown on the station grounds. There were 225 varieties of apples, each speeimen having been selected as typle- | al in shape, size, color, marking and | gemeral characteristics of the variety | tepresented. The fruit was the result the highest knowledge of culture and e#re and treatment knpown to the busi- | . The collection was an object les- ‘ son in fruit lore of unmeasured \':11:1»‘ m?mse in search of knowledge in this gpjeial direction. This station is doing a fouble service in thus giving to the m{li(' exhibits of their work; first in tebting the varieties and showing their merits, and second in giving an object Teison of their type and characteristics. ] A Cheap Bag-Holdler. Ve glean the following idea from the “l‘:li'l]‘.('x's' Advocate:” Take an inch beard, three feet long by 14 inches wide, and slant it. Then take two slats, tfree inches wide and three feet long, apd nail them wupright to the board alout five inches from the top, to serve ahfeet. Drive a wire nail through each caner of board, and turn them up a ]iii‘ to hooK the Dbags on Nail the Lfrd down at the bottom, and one man ean fill and tie the bags as fast as two pen can clean the grain. ; 5 Carc of Wheat in the TFall, ‘ { If the late heavy rains have left any ‘ Fvater standing in low places on wheat 1 ‘ f“?]ds furrows should be run through | tiese places, to take the water off or tminish its damage. Wheat will surei be kilied wherever water freezes ‘ d{wn to the ground over it. But usu--3

ally with the opening of frost the water sinks down to a lower level. If there is an underd.{ain near sometimes a sheet of ice will form over the water at night, and by morning all the water under it will have disappeared. In such case the wheat is benefited rather than injured. [ Poultry Notes. Chopped onions are beneficial if fed to your stock occasionally. S%uabs are ready for mavket as soon ; 43 they are well feathered fust before they leave the nest. Provide your poultry with a warm coop and 2 good scratching place if you want eggs in winter. | White Wyandoties lay brown shelled | ‘ e€zgs as a rule. They are equ<l to Plymouth Rocks in this respect. { In order to secure satisfactory results it is customary to mate cockerels with hens, and cocks with pullets. i Never use kerosene on the body of a fowl. Lard alone is sufficient. All| greasy substances will sei! the feathers. Sheep in the Orchard. I have five acres that is partially covered with apple trees, some of which are quite old. For several years no crops have been raised on the land. For a few weeks in the spring it is used for pasturing cows, and during a portion of the summer and fall sheep are given the run of the field. They lie under the shade of the trees a greater part of the day, where a good share of their droppings is left, which seem to be a great benefit to the trees, and all wormy and defective aples are quickly eaten as soon as they fall. 1 now raise more and better fruit, and believe it will pay any farmer who has an apple orchard to keep sheep.—John Jackson, in “Michigan IFruit Grower.” Storing Vegetables in Basements. Farmers whoare fortunate enough to have barn basements miss the best advantage of thewm if they do not use the basement to store a great variety of roots and vegetables there, and thus relleve the house cellar of the unpleasant and also unhealthfual odors from stored and fermenting vegetation. It is not hard to keep a decp basement free of frost all winter. If the basement is l near the surface, a bank of earth outIshlo enclosing an air space will keep ] frost out. In the very coldest weather a | few corn stalks thrown over vegetables . or roots or some loose blankets over these will protect them sufliciently. ‘ Ho=x Lice, ‘ I have been troubled a great deal to | et rid of hog lice, and the best way I | have found yet, that is a success, is this: | {My pigs are not troubled with them so { mteh in the warm weather as cold): I | put one-fourth kerosene oil and three- { fourths water and a little sulphur, and, | when I have a warm day in the winter, ;:u»;.ly behind the ears and front legs, ! on the flank and root of tail. Give them i:l clean bed at the same time. After & two or three applications I find the lice | gone and nits killed. 1 have no hog | 'l!m- now, and my herd is in the best !w-nmlm-m it ever was—-W. H. W, in | American Swincherd. Casting Farm AcCOunts, | Towards the c¢lose of each year the ! farmer should imitate other business men, take an account of stock, and esti- ‘ mate as closely as Lie can how he stands financially comparel with previous vears. Do not omit this because the gecount may not present so favorable a showing as you would like. Not to be willing to face faets is cowardly and { unmanly, even though those facts seem creatly against us. Seed time and harvest do not fail to the farmer. He at least 1s sure of his living., If he be free from debt he is really the most independent citizen, | | Corn Husks ‘or De’s. ! | There is no nicer cheap mattress than ; can be made from dried shredded corn | husks which every farmer can save | while doing the fall husking. They are | much cleaner and more durable than 1 straw mattresses, and to most people i more pleasant than the iron mattresses | now so common, altbough where the ‘ | bed has an iron mattress, it is likely to | | be the direct point at which lightning | { will aim when it strikes a house. We i i believe if farmers made more of their | % corn husks into mattresses, they would | | zet well paid for their labor when peo- | | ple learned where they could be had. | i Fal'- " own Letiuce, | Lettuce is so hardy that a little sown | 3 very late in fall and slightly protected | } in winter will get an earlier start than 1 |it can if planted then. It is best not i [ to sow early enouzh to have the seed | | germinate in the fall, though eariy- | | sown lettuce with pretty thick covering has wintered safely in winters moderately warm, or with plenty of snow to | keep the lettuce covered, | l Onions, Cabbages and Fiats. I “You see, it's this way,” he explained ’ to the landlord. “'I don’t want to seem i unreasonable, and I don’t want to dic- | tate what a man shall eat. 1 realize, | also, that you can't very well stipulate lin the lease that a recognized article !u!' food that is in good repute but bad |mlur practically all over the country | shall not be cooked on the premises. l.\.u'.-xin. I ani prepared to concede that |<~ninlr< and cabbages are all right in | the right place, but 1 feel that, in jus- ; tice to myself and the nefghbors, I must ! protest that a flat building on a warm l!1.1\', when the windows are open, is !!-,;} the right place, especially if the :(};l;\‘ be Sunday and the time about I nocon., I understand perfectly that you can't do anything as matters are now, ‘ but I rely upon your support when T | introduce a measure i the council regl ulating the use of onions and cabbages in flat buildings.”—Chicago Post. Historians believe that the horse was first domesticated either in central Asia or northern Africa.

VE INDIANA INCIDENTS. \ RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE: PAST WEEK. American Express Driver at Terre Haute Alleged to Have Killed Him~ self—Two Men Arrested at Anderson Charged with Counterfeiting Coins, TPomestic Tragedy at Terre Haute, When the wife of Mack Cruikshank, a driver for the American Express ComPany, ran out of her house at Terre Haute Sunday afternoon with only her anderelothing on she said her husband had shot himself. He was found dead iwith a bullet wound at the base of the brain, the bullet ranging upward. The revolver svas under the bed. The wife said she and her husband had quarreled and that he had shot at her and then shot himself. But one chamber of the weapon - was empty and this she explained by saying that perhaps the weapon only snapped when he tried to shoot her. They have three children. Farmer Is Robbed of His Money. When the evening train on the Nickel Plate arrived at the depot at 12th and Clark streets in Chicago the other night, George K. Beard and his wife, of Syracuse, Ind., were among the passengers to alight. Beard is a farmer and, together with his~wife went toChicago—to—visit relatives on the West Side. He carried two large baskets filled with eggs, and Mrs. Beard was also loaded down with luxuries from the farm which they brought as presents. The couple boarded a car on the 12th street line, and it was not long before Beard discovered that his pocketbook, containing S4B, had been stolen. He reported the matter to the police at the West 13th street station.’ Found with Counterfeit Money. Oliver Justice and M. B. Halsemer, of Linville, W. Va., were arrested at Anderson, charged with counterfeiting and are now in jail. Half dollar coins similar to those the police have been spotting were found in their pockets and in their trunks at their -boarding-house. They are of a composition of tin, alloy and glass, the latter to give ring. The coins are a very good article and easy to pass. The men claim they were paid off in them by the Middletosvyn Tin Plate Company. The police, however, are of the opinicn that the men are members of the gang that has been turning them out. Stolen goods were also found in the men's trunks. All Over the State. Daniel E. Shea, conductor of a westbound freight train on the Nickel Plate Road, fell from the train at Argos and was killed. Burglars robbed the postoffice and general store of Chase & Craft at Kingsbury Saturday night. The safe was blown open with dynamite and about $l5O in cash and stamps taken. The explosion wrecked the safe and tore out tite entire front of the store, arousing the whole village. Residents with shotguns gave chase, but the robbers escaped to the woods. Sixty leading scciety yscung women of Goshen gave a remarkably successfal amateur negro minstrel entertainment before a packed opera house. Society people from South Bend and neighboring cities swelled the audience. The profits, £I,OOO, will form the basis for a publie library fund, the women claiming that investigation revealed little or no unprovided for charity within the city precinets., John Patten and Johmn Carter, both sentenced and to be taken to Michigan City, made a sensational escape from jail at Anderson. Between turnkey watches they tunneled out of the jail, It was a solid stone and brick wall, and, their ease in getting through is remarkable. They then tied blankets together and made a safe descent. Bloodhounds were placed on the trail, but without result, although they traced them some distance. The latest thing in the combine line was sprung in Anderson by the organization of all of the landlords in the city. The purpose of this organization is to | advance rates and to issue a blue book | containing the names of all “deadbeats” i in the county who make a practice of de- [ frauding landlords. When one of the | listed men appears he will be forced to | first pay up the back bills before he will ‘ be given a house. The combine is well [ organized and contains 90 per cent. of the landiords in the city. ‘ The Supreme Court handed down a de- | cision sustaining the fee and salary law, one of the best advertised laws of the last Legislature. County officials throughout the State formed a trust and have been working ever since the law | was passed to have it overthrown. It did ! away with the system of eating up the | taxes in fat salaries and fees. The de--1 c¢ision holds that the fee and salary law | of 1895 is constitutional and valid so far | as presented in the case. There are disl senting opinions by Justices Jordan and II McCabe. | Prof. J. N. Hurty, Secretary of the | State Board of Health, has a schemea ! whereby he expects to save from 83,000, - 00 to $5,000,000 in human life in this State in a year. He has prepared a bill doing away with the present State Board of Health and creating a new one, which' is to be supplied with laboratories costing £50,000, to be maintained at a yearly cost of $20,000. The Secretary of the ‘hoard is to be an expert hygienist. The county boards are to be reorganized, and each secretary will be empowered to appoint a deputy in each township. Dr. Huriy thinks that concerted and scientiic action on the part of this board as proposed will resunlt in staying disease, and in the course of a year save enough in doctor bills, medicines and other ex-penses-to rebuild all the asyiums in th State. Hurty is looking after the diphiheria in Portland and 'says if proper measures are adopted it will be stamped out in three weeks. Conrad Becher, one of the publishe:s and editors of the LaPorte Journal, is lead, aged 55 years. Mr. Becher served five terms in the City Council and was a prominent Odd Fellow. Mrs. Henry Koehler, whose child was burned a few months agzo near Indianapolis. has wandered from her home near Terre Haute in an insane belief that she will find the child alive at the cemetery. She was last seen walking toward Indianapolis, and her husband went there to find her. A letter from him to the Terre Haute police says he has obtained «w trace of her.