St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 June 1897 — Page 7

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Colliery of the Torry Coal Company at Geneva Burns—Nearly a Great Disaster—Supreme Court Rules Contrary to Judse Showalter. Fifteen Miners SaVed from Death. The immi nse colliery of Ilie Torry Coal Com^iny. op; rati il at the little town o! Geneva, was tutaLy dost roy । d Sunday afternoon by lire. i'l.« tire originntetl in the roof. and. all the timbers being dry ami 1 saturated with oil. the flames spread with frightful v< L ity and were soain beyond aW control or resista'iico. hNttemi men were down in tin mine, but they were saved by taking them out through a different route than the main shaft. Eight ears were on the sit’e track, two of them loaded. These took tire and burned rapidly. .War tile tire was a large powder magazine containing 4GO pounds of dynamite and one-half carload of giant blasting powder. By heroic effort on the part of tihe brave miners all this explosive ma—.^Hti'iljy^i'arrifd bcytrtd th ’ danger paint. “ s *ive employ men t to over 260 mon, and all ;’h< <e are now thrown out of employment. The total loss is not yet fully known, as only $12,000 insnranee is reiH>rted. bitt th< total loss will nmoun-t to e $5(),000. The mint s ate opt rated by the Torry Coal Company of Chicago. Mr. Daniel Bogle of Chicago. local stiperinVuident. was absent from the place when 'his plant was destroyed. Postofiice Salaries. Following are the changes made in postmasters' salaries in this State by tihe fourteenth annual nad’justmenit just completed : Richmond relegated from first to seeotnd class. Greensburg relegated from second to third class. Frankton. Indiana Mineral Springs. Walkerton and Waterloo relegated from third to fourth class. Bluffton advanced from third to second class. Increases.—Albany. $1,200 to $1,300; Bourbon, $1.21*0 to’sl.GOO; Crovyi Point, SL4<M) to Sl.ofMi; Nappanee, $1,200 to sl.300: Ridgeville. $1,400 ; > $1.1100: Angola. $1,600 to $1,700: Brazil. $2,000 to $2,200; Edinburg. $1,300 to $1,400: Nortih Manchester, SI.(HM» to SI.TOO; Whiting. $1,300 to $1,460: Bluffton. $1,900 to $2,000; Cored m. SI.ICO to $1,200; Huntington. $2,200 to 82.300: Notre Dame, SI.SOO to $1,300; Winamac, 81.100 to 81.500. Deen as s. —■Alexandria. NI.DM* to SI. J 800; Auburn. SLSOO to $1,700; Blooming ton. $2,300 to $2,200; Ea- Chicago. sl.~w to $1,300: G:n n. astle. $2,200 to $2,100; Hartfi rd. City. <1 .'too : , st .st <r Unlon. St.Uto to Sl.<H!<;: Mitchell. $1,400 to $1,300; I’lain-lieh!. 5i,200 to $1,000; Richmond. S3J HO to $2,900; Thorntown. sl,300 to $1,200; Vevay. $1,200 to $1,100; Anderson, $2,700 t > $2,600: Rah sville. $1,200 to Sl.l’ t’ . .. rsville. $2.30*1 to $2,100: Eiwcod. $2,200 to $2,100; Greenfield. $1,900 to $1,800; Jonosbor . $1,200 to $1.1CO: Eogan-; it. $2,700 to $2,600; New Albany. s2.otto to $2,400; Rd Key. $1,300 t,, $1.21*0; Shelbyville. 82. UH* to $2,300; Union City. $l.lk;o to $1,800; WashiugG m $2,200 t.. 82.100; A tim. $2,000 to $2.300; Bedfeed, 81.960 .0 Sl.800: Crawfordsville. $2,500 to $2,400; Fairmount. Sl.4* oto Sl,.’too; Grot ndmrg. $2,000 to $1,900; Liberty. $1,500 to sl.400; Madison. $2,200 to $2,100; New C.irb le. si,loo to $1,000: Rem ng < n, $1,300 to $1,200; S .utii lend. $3,200 to $3,100: Valparaiso, $2,56’* to $2,400. Three-Cent Law Constitutional. The Supreme Court of Indiana decided that theo-cent street car fare law is <onstitutiona'. It relates to Indmunjudis only. In the Federal court recently the name law. passed by the last hegis ature. was Iceland unconstitutional and injunctions were granted by Judge Showalter against its enforei men;. Tire State will insist '-n 3»-ent fares unless the stnet car company secures an injunction landing an ap’ma! to the Supreme Fedi rai Court. In the Hammond casts recently, where State Supreme and Fdt ral Court differed. the Supren: ■ Court of the Unued States id i that it wa.s not its ixxiey to enter into conflict with the Supreme Courts of Stat* s. On this Attorney Genvral Ketcham thinks 3-eent fare law will stand, but that 5- ent fares will be eollei ed until Judge Showalter mmiitics his order, wirich he will doubtless do. All Over the State. The Marion Pressed Brick Company lias closed its plant, throwing 160 men out of employment, rather than cut John Yountz of LaGrange, while driving home, collided with a runaway team ami was thrown heavily against a fence and killed. Yountz was a prominjent pioneer. Joseph Hallanan, a Logansport physician. drove to the office of M. Mahoney, a lawyer, and remonstrated with the attorney, who ai>p<ars for Mrs. Hallanan '~in a suit foß.divorce. Mahoney seized a j buggy whin and lashed the doctor. 'I be scheduc of dat< sos fairs to be hvbl < in nort’ni i n Indiana has been aiiuoumn <1 ; as follows: Aug. 1> to 14. I'<>rt M ayne Driving < Tub. la ' m • trig oic v: Aug. 2 > ■to 28. Rcmingtcn: Aug. 30 to Sept. I. Kentland. Plym' nth: Sept. 6 to 11. Crown Point; Sept. 13 to IS. Knox. Valparaiso; Sept, go to 25. Bremen, Flora. Laporte; Sept. 27 to (> -r. 2. Ki iriallvide. Ro; hester. Oral a.rgum<n: in the Supreme Court on the propos: 4 taxation of insurance policies on appeal by tax eommissh :r rs was he-ard Saturday. The eommis (oners hail not given appellees sufficient notice and the case went over to Octob; r. Stay of proce- dings was granted an.t ■ ninty auditors were din .-p d not to list policies for taxation. 1 Inwi vi r. the lower court's injunction :< mi.ditbd to the extent that as.-i si'ors ar* permitted to eolle< t returns as to po’irii <. s.> that if policies are finally deeiil- d taxable they may be added to the duplicate. The general impr." ion is that ■there will be no taxation es policies in j mliana this jear. At Wanatah, a runaway team dashed into a crowd of school children. Freddie Greiger. aged 10 years, was fatally hurt. Half a dozen others were also j tired. At Indianapolis, Jesse Way has been sentenced to seven years in the State prison for counterfeiting. He is 80 years old and has spent forty-five years in prison. John Rufert, a wealthy bachelor living near Metz, was bound, gagged and tied to his bed and robbed of $157. Rufert will not twist the banks with his monev but bides it about his farm

COST OF GOVERNMENT. Federal Expense Account for the Nine Months Ending March 31, 1897. The following statement shows the cost of sustaining the various branches of the Federal Government for tihe fiscal year ending March 31: Legislative: 15W6. Senate IF 1,102.116.87 House of Representatives.... 2,843,823.08 Legislative, miscellaneous ... 90,177.76 Public printer 3,6.78,127.71 Library of Congress 831,974.40 Botanic gardens 22,744.30 Court of Claims 891,993.74 Executive proper: White House 95,667.34 Civil Service Commission.... 97,251.70 Executive departments: State 965,317.91 Treasury 66,032,897.03 War 52,661,516.16 Navy 26,913,908.46 Interior 158,050,042.39 Postofiice 11,719,016.60 Agricultural 2,897.241.65 Department of laibor 163,935.13 Department of Justice 302,925.39 Judicial 7,658,618.50 Total actual expenses. .. .$330,839,221.54 The following statement shows thesestimate of expenses for the present fiscal year, as subnri'tted to Congress by the Secretary » f the Treasury: Legislative $ 7,958,817.40 Executive proper 196,080.00' St»te Department 1,888,278.76 Treasury Department 143,212,278.19 War Department 54,489,143.45 Navy Department 30.45t>,956.20 Interior Department 161.716.41&.02 Postofiice Department 7,d20,6<>!»,25 Agricultural Department ... 2.542.6P2.00 Department of Labor 192.370.00 Department of Justice 7,810,772.00 Total $118,091,073.17 The lodfowing statements show some of the most important and interesting items of expense in the management of the Government during recent years: Fiscal Increase year. Salaries. of navy. Pensions. 1889 ...$44,862,605 $ 5,630,953 $87,624,779 1890 ... 44,707,860 6,831,803 106,930,855 1891 ... 46,721,001 10,609.1117 121,415,951 1892 ... 46,192,507 13,756,499 131,583,052 1893 ... 47.114.505 15,030.22.1 159.357,557 1594 ... 45.626.198 16,199,258 141,177,284 1895 ... 47,653,321 13.152.134 111,395,228 1896 ... 48.919.083 9,453,002 139,431,1X10 River Interest on am! harbor Fiscal year. public debt. Improvements. 1889 $41,001,484.29 $11,208,296.70 1890 36,0W,251.05 11,737,437.83 1891 ..37,547,1:15.37 12.250.627.23 1892 23.378.116.23 13.017.208.48 1893 27,264.392.1 S 14.799.835 98 1894 27,811.105JM 19.887.362.12 1805 30.978,030.21 19,897,552.00 1896 35,385,02.8.93 18,104.376.44

The total revenue and expenditures of the Government for the Inst four iisi-al years are given Ix ’ow: Total Total revenue. expenditures. 1893 $355.519.!’>25.7S $383,477,954.49 1894 297.722.019.25 367.525.279.83 1895 31:1,390.075.11 356,195. _U8.29 1596 326,976,2tM).::s 352,179.446.08 It will lo noticed that, witii the exception of ISII3, the < xpend.tT.re-' oi the Government have e:;co' ded the revenue’, th« exeesis Iwing $•>!•.ni)3,260..' 8 in ISIH. sl2, 805,223. is in IS'.)5 and $23.2')3.24.'>.70 in 1896. Fi r the fiist 1 lie in nlhs of the current fiscal year embd March 31 the revenues of the Govennnent from ail sources had reached a total of $212,785,051.25. while the expondituri s during the same period am anted to S2Sl,6'-**.332 18, or a deficit of s3s,‘,m>s.2Siin th. rcv!> nues. ••SPITE’’ HOUSE OWNER DIES. Wealthy Joseph R < har<Gon I'uhhch Away in His Singular Abode. Josojvh Ricltanlson. New York, an eccentric man of wealth, diid Tms.i.iv in his "spite” house, at the eorm-r of Eighty second street and L< xi!.i:' n nvenue. His beti had b< । n placed in tl-o parlor of h.s home. Illis room is five r >< t w >1- by twenty As-t long, lie had been carried there from his erampid !■ <’r :n. Mr. Richardson wa« 8! jear* old, but was active till a few months ago. He was ,-s---timated to bo worth s_'o,<sm.(h.<>, th his notoriety was ehit fly due to lie ".-pite” house, in which he Lad iive.l for tilt« on years. This li.mso was built on a strip of land five feet wide by 104 deep. The excupants of the Imus.* adjoining this land on the west wished to build h< ’t-c<. They offered the Richardsons SI,OOO for the strip, but they held out for $5.<MX> The parties refused to give thi> aniouu'. thinking to force Richardson out. The owt <-r had begun to build on h.s !ive-fi ot lot when the others offered him an advance. He then refused .to entertain any prej» sition, and in spite of all opposition and entreaty erected the odd iwuse ir. which he died. This remarkabCe man owned stock in nearly every railroad .in America, anil was the possessor of passbooks over the roads here and in Uanada, ami on all the steamship lines leaving this port. In appearance Mr. Richardson clo-sdy resembled Russell Sago. His clothes were illfitting, his gait shambling ami his sole object seemed to l>e money making. For years he carried his lunch to his office. FIVE HUNDRED MEN DROWNED. Great Storm Disaster Overwhelms Chinese Fishermen. Meager particulars were brought by the Empress of Japan.of a disaster which befell the fishermen of C’uusnn archipebigo, off the coast of t'hina. On May G, when all the fishing boats were out on the fishing banks, a terrible gale sprung up. Os the several hundred b .ats out at the time very,, few returned, and it is estimated that some 500 men lost their lives. The storm was one of those sudden ones for which the coast of Cliina is noted, an 1 t'he fishermen had no ch'-ince to seek shelter. The storm swept over the entire archipelago. which extends aen ss the mouth of Hanchow bay on the eastern coast of China. Several large junks were lost, in which scores perished. Told in a Few Lines. Mrs. Langtry is said to be the possessor of a bicycle made of solid silver. T’he Duke of Northumberland, England’s oldest duke, has entered his 87th year. The Penmsylvania Railroad Company issued an order that in future dogs will be carried as passengers/ baggage. Three hundred Swedish servant girls have gone from Chicago to their native land to take part in King Oscar’s jubilee at Stockholm. Bishop Merrill of Chicago, on the recent celebration of his twenty-fifth year in t'he Methodist Episcopacy, was presented with a silver fellowship cup by his many friends in that city. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky refuses to honor a requisition from the Governor of Indiana asking the return to Evansville for trial for murder of John Spalding, a negro. Bradley is said to fear mob violeace.

SECRETARY OF STATE HOW SHERMAN DISPOSES OF A DAY'S BUSINESS. He Ta Methodical at All Tinjes-Saves Himself by Belying Upon Hia Assistants—Meeting Oflice Seekers and Dealing with Dip'omats. Mr. Sherman’s Day. Washington correspondence:

ECRETA RY OF State John Sherman * works at his desk from 9 o’clock in the m o ruing until 4. o’clock in the after-’ noon; then be goes home and reads novels. He is an omnivorous consumer of novels of all degreesi of merit, of all colors of binding—yellow preferred. He says

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they rest his mind. He considers that at the age of seventy-Jour he has earned a rest from the heavy literature of finance, 1 of economics, of statesmanship, and MrJ Babco<k, his secretary,- says that he lo;J lows the woes of the latter-day heroine^ rhe truly good stilriugs of ttlie modern hero, and the sulphurous ejaculations o^ the tin de specie villain with a really remarkable interest, even if ho does smile a good deal through his spectacles over what he reads. But all this happens after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when Mr. Sherman is Mr. sh«m:in, am! not the Secretary of State, and it is with his manner of putting in his time as Seen tary of State that this article is concerned. When Mr. Sherman became the St. retary of the Treasury a matter of twenty odd years ago he was confronted by one of the most herculean tasks that ever

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loomiM up lieferr an Amer;, in s'a'.eeman - the resump’ "a of ••• .■ paymi nts and . Mr Sli -rman w- riod nw.y nt tta’ j . nnd accomp'.ix’x :’. I: m 9 o c ock in toe morning until I - '■•'.■" k 111 the u! tortunm , "I first Is'catn, 1 conuo-teil with Mr. S • said M Ba» "k. hs secretary, "ami 1 m mt knew him to. w.Tk * • clerks. Mr. Folger p.rm.’ --l the seentaryuhip of the treasury t > kill him. prob- : ably Mr. Manning 45: a N'-Gn-r of । these gentlemen w as gem rotis to himself, j A whale generation of p-.:to .u expert-’ ence taught Mr. Shi n ' >’ l< - ’• fore he'assumeil the reins of the treas- I ury ami.'a. owpi -hi-.w more work in that eapmmy than d: l Ham.l’ n. he mnergol from the ordeal with bis bea.vh and) strength. Tae secret of it? He tru-<-i ■ his assistant secretaries: lie allowed h:s subordinat* s to do th 'work they were ap- . pointed to do. He never [icrmittcd a paper to lie on his d. sk for t n minutes, and I made disposition of his affairs ns they j came up. H:s desk was c.i an down to-i the blotting pad when be put on his bat.; and quit hi-^office at 4 o c.oek in the afternoon. Tlie^ Secretaries of the Treasury who allowed the position to give them nervous nrostratiem attempted to do the whole thing themselves; and no secretary of'any govcrnuK • t department can do, that and live through h.s term. "As was his rule, w hen Secretary of the Treasury, so is Mr. Sherman’s rule as Seel rc-tary of State. When he came here hil found, as he expected he would, that the] State Department is filled with men who have been here a long time, and who have every detail <>f the department’s routine at their fingers’ ends. MrwS’^'rman perfectly appreciates the fact 'feat these men know more about the practical workings of their respective branches of the department than he himself could hope to acquire in a period of service here twice as long as that for which he was appointed, ami he is a strong believer in the value of routine. So he lets them go ahead, keeping an eye on their work, but in no wise interfering with it without good occasion. And 1 guess this is the reason that he has ail the hair he had when he was twenty jiaan old. that he is as straight as a string at seventy-four, and that his eyes are just as good to-day as they ever were.” Whenever any document reaches Mr. Sherman's desk that does not absolutely require his personal attention, he sends ImmediateCy for tL— official to whose branch of the department the document properly belongs, and turns it over to hit with a fe w succinct instructions. He does not lay it aside for future consideration, and thereby accumulate a monumemital pile of papers filled with pdfcsibilities of grief and labor to come. It is really quite entertaining to see Mr. Sherman cut open an official letter as it reaches him hot Srom the mail, glance it oTer and grasp it

w-ithfa the compass of sixty seconds, and Win either send' for the proper official or so sQioot it out by messeiugcr to the place belong». The only occasions upon which Mr. ‘ lennan feels called upon to grow a little aJ >!ln ^X° a . re diplomatic days -Thursnay,' r ’ a rhe especial day that he sets i \ ,i f ° r thp ^^Dtion of the diplomats, o talk over things with them confidentialJ> and on this day other visitors have a 'ery glighit chance of being received by ’4ll. I'he Secretary of State receives the diplomats in a room adjoining his office, and called the “diplomatic room”—by all

odds the most gorgeously furnished governmental chamber in Washingtbn. Runn'ing its entire length is a carved ebony table, andjt is at the head of this table, »ea>ted in a tall revolving chair, that Mr. || ' s “®rmaii receives the diplomats, one by d np - They string int othe anteroom for their audience with the Secretary of State all the way from 10 to 1 o’clock, and in receiving them no matter of precedence is observtsl. The first to. arrive is the firsit 1 to Im‘ received. The Secretary of State gives those audiences for a general resume of eaclt diplomat’s business, and it is for tibia reason that he only receives Wiom one at a time. He leans back in his /evolving ch^jr, with his spectacles pushAd up on his forehead, taMng in what each Bps them has to nay. and occasionally jotKing down a note on a sivnteli pad in front Krf him. Mr. Sherman is npt a linguist. Ilrhe only language he can speak is Eng■islr. But as there is not now in NVash"ngton a single representatwo of another (ration who cannot alao speak English, the Secretary of State has no trouble in carrying on these conversations. NEW UNITED STATES TREASURER Ellia H. Roberta, n New York Banker, Recently Appointed. Kills IL Roberts of Now York, who has juat been appointed treasurer of the Fnited Staled by President ■ McKinley, is the president of the Franklin National Bank

of New York. He has lv: g b«--n promL , r.ent !n national nffaira He was a delegate to t!w> Repub'icaji mUi'ml cerentioiis of 18»H, ami ]s76. In 1860 be was a member cf the New- Y >rk Legislature and in 1.870 i.c was el ’in! a member of C’-ngri-ni Incu ttw Omida (..strict ami v.as r ■•■-' a DT'J. Mr. Blaine, then Speaker of the IL ■■. made Mr. Roberts, a new member, a member of the Ways and Mi ans Uommitiee. an unusual j hon<>r. In ISO President Harrison api pointeil Mr. Roberts assistant United States Tmmirer at New York City. In 1893 Mr. IL ber’s was ■ lT> red the presij dem y of the Frank, u N;r . r al Bank, and I ib-cepted the place. Mr. Roberts is a wide- - ly know n traveled man nnd has written i h ' hi'A. ■ .c j' O SKjIoR , w ELLIS H. KOBERTS. several books, not only on finance but on other subjects; among them may be mentioned “Greece and Beyond,” "Planting and Growth of the Empire State” and ’’Government Revenue,” "Especially tho American System.” Heis 70 years old. Francis Schlatter three years ago was a shoe cobbler in 'Denver, and earned a precarious living at his trade. He began to hear “silent” voices, as he said, and in obedience to their commands gave away his tools and began a pilgrimage toward the Pacific coast. He was several times arrested as a vagrant and thrown into jail. He footed the entire distance and returned to New Mexico, where he was heard' of among the Indians as the messiah in the early part of last year near Albuquerque. The newspaper reporters discovered him b6ing followed by mobs of Indiana, among whom he cured the sick, paralytic and blind by touching the afflicted with his hands. T’he Pennsylvania road reports net earnings as $708,7u7 less than last year.

WEST POINTS MJHUMENT. I |ln Honor of the Regular Foldiera NVho Died in the Civil War. At West Point the other day t'he Battle Monument, in memory of’the officers and enristed men of the regular army w*ho fell in action or died of wound's during the civil war. was fitly dedicated in t'he presence of 5,0i)0 spectators. Secretary Alger and many high ofl'n ialx of the army. The speakers were Brig. Gt n. Wilson. Gen. Schofield, Secretary Alger and Justice Brew?r of the 1 niied States Supreme Court. I he monument consists of a monolithic shaft of polished pink granite, forty feet high, and bearing on a square abacus a granite sphere upon which is poistsl a winged figure of I’anu*. with trumpet and wreath. Around the circular granite steps are eight square plinths, bearing U t SI POINT mon I MFA T. I granite spheres belted with bronze, upon 1 which .ire inscribed the names of eidistod I men. There are 2JH2 of thes” names, । while tin names of ISs otli. ers nro enj graved 0:1 the face of tin einu.'ar pedesI cal. The movement for the erection of the I monunwnt was Isgun in Ini', I imd a find lof $12,000 was founded. Owing to opp"'.UiCi en tin- part of Secret.ity Stanton I the proje. ; was abandoned and the money . was inv. sied. In Istat the fund bad swell’. M tn SfG.ooo Ri,, pr.-je t ■ was revivi-d. I';n s n te in 'ed and the « uk was given । ut. being completed 'a-t year. The ’cost of toe nto!nm>. m is IT WAS NOT A FOUL BLOW, Although Verhcops I'ictiires of the Curgon Battle t-how It. A r •nt issu- of the New Yok JAr.rnai r-pn i i '4 I c .''immons’ last blow, •lS ■ how 'I .t . t '>. I ■ Jep:. •S( 'rI G t? with his left hand to his heart, his r jiit z' ■■ e resting on the s'age, his left [knee bcu and h s right almost touching ,t' e sta^c la th S po- tiw'i he was abso'lon ly h, "ph - The paper • hums that th s p. '.lire vet i Isl v Brady's stater■ I c, c.. !: in • r .. N; > । a '. -i *: ■ !■> t;<»t agric « th th.it ■ mi, Inson. It is ■re ■ th it fori,, -t. in • p shown. j^al.s.u'.A helple., tnd defens.-h-s. but ' meauiiiz of the rubs of the ring. The ■ ■■ '. r • 'M a - I !l< -e rub'S exph. . red in ri .m. ■ e to be gov.-rned by hr< s tides <.f the London prize ring. I ' r ' c pr. ■ r. mi ■ a man is not - ■ .n a” unA- .. : . L. .. and >.ne hand g ■ . ' ■ B. - \S. the ex. ] ',a' -<1 - ’ 'lie ri-ri' cope shows 1 ■ I I.■ ■. 11a ; - -■ ■m■ 1. a: । orb, : t sja .v is .1 rn Wl, - Z to .s' !Z'>. No '. . in h - ; ■ • -a was i > knock him out A-’ - ' 1; 'I ' • x/\ FITZSIMMONS’ I VST I*OW AS SHOWN DY THU V Kills! OPE. with tin- bi >w. It was not intended as a foul. Tie p; tore shows that Fitzsim-n.-ms was in f:th puss. ss>n of Ins sens. s. 11.- was not "swinging wildly with his arms ke those of a threshing machine." but that he 'iever'y avo’abd a lead by I'orbett. As a-rm went over his shoulder Bob saw how exposed the pit of hi.-, stomach was. He shot his left into it with agonizing force, and then, ! as i'orbett was half pitehinz. half sinking i forward to his knees. Bob rapidly drew ! back his left and again shot it forward. It caught Corbet on the jaw just the ' fraction of a sc. ..; .1 before lie was । "down.” according to a strict interpretation of tlie rules of the ring. OFFICE FOR JOHN G. THOMPSON. — He Is Appointed to Be Assistant Attorney General. John G. Thompson of Danville. 111., I who was appointed assistant attorney ' general by President McKinley, is only 36

years old, which is a youthful age for so very important a pisition. He was born in Vermilion County, at rhe town of Rossville. anil he is one of the law scholars turned out by the University of Michigan. lie went Io Danville in 1882,

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I judge THOMrsoN’. ami hung out his j shingle. In ISSS he was elected State s I Attorney for Vermilion County, and Iwo I years later the people made him county . judge. In 181)1 he was re-elected without j opposition. As an instance of the demoralization of rates, between Chicago and St. Paul, it was noted that the Chicago Great Western carried a party of athletes to Chicago and back for $8 each, there being fifteen in the party. The distance via this road is 420 miles each way. The regular one way first class fare is $11.30, and the party one w ay fare is $lO. The plans submitted by architects of Colorado Springs for a new SIO,OOO hospital for the union printers' home in that city have been accepted and its construction will be begun immediately.

CRASH OF FIREWORKS. ecores of Persons Are Hurt by a Tre« mendons Explosion in Chicago. Somebody stopped on a percussion cap in Nathan^ Shu re’s fireworks factory, 210 South Halsted street, Chicago, Tuesday affojnoqn. There was a flash, a tiny nest of sparks in a mass of sawdust and shavings and then terror. A small explosion was folio wed a second later by a detonation that was tremendous in its force an<l effect. The building was rent asunder. Skyrockets were set off in every direction and whirled and hissed all through the structure and out wrecked doors and windows. The boom of giant crackers and the tiharp crash of smaller bombs punctured the hiss of the darting rockets. Then the whole place was ablaze. Across the street a flat*budding filled with terrorstricken families had been ignited by a rocket. Flying beams, bricks and stones struck men, women and Children who were in th,® streets. Horses ran away and trampled people to the pavements. Cries of terror and pain from injured and frightened men and women were answered by the gonga of fire engines -and ambulances, and the wonder of it all is that a sudden and awful was not reaped. As it ap- ’® st ® * ^Tk|<>wing morning, only one I£ 3 „ o 0 Scores were in- ■ t x:^|bb how many. Men were cut ana nniiwii .. . home. Others were anKu^J. and offices. Those who needed doctors were carried to the county hospital, and in some cases to their homes. The one victim who died is a woman who was struck by a runaway horse. All this terror started about G o'clock. Ono of the two employes who chanced to be in the establishment had ignited the percussion cap. Shavings, paper, sawdust and gunpowder did the rest. The sidewalks were crowded when the panic citme. i’eop'e were hurrying home on foot and in street cars. Many of these are in the list of injured, and another and more grewsome list would have been added if tha employes of the factory had been at work. T’he financial loss was considerable. Built - ings and stores in'tbe neighborhood were damagiM at least $50,000. DIVINE HEALER DEAD. fone» of Francis Schlatter Found in the Sierre Madre Hills. A week ago last Friday two American prospectors found in the foothills of tha Sierre Madre, on the I’uetas Verdas river, <thirty-five miles southwest of Casa Gramb*, in the State of Chihuahua, all that remains of Francis Schlatter, who, a year ago, was the subjwt of much wonderment throughout the Western States, principally in the southwest. The prospectors’ attention was attracted t<> his camp by their espying a saddle astride a limb in a dead tree high up in a :• rge, through wliich the river runs. His skeleton was found lying stretched out on a blanket close up to the tree. The bones wore bl, ached white, and alongside lay ti >pp<T rod, a miniature baseball bat, w, ghitiz about forty pounds. Piled up alongside the trunk of the tree were saddle bags, a large memorandum Kook, a p u l,age of letters Iwund by a rotten rubb- r band, some blankets and six suits of umb-rw. ar. A Bible and canteen of watI 3 IHVINK HEAT.EB SCHLATTER. cr were alongside the pile, and the cantis n was half full of water. His saddle ropes and some extra clothing were directly over the skeleton o-n a limb of the tree. In a knothole in the tree were found needles, thread, buttons, etc. In the inside cover of the Bible was ins ribed the name Francis Schlatter, ami also under two verses in prayer, followed by the signature. “Clarence J. dark, Denver, Colo.” ITiere were no signs of violence, and the prospectors believe Si hiatter dic-d of self-imposed starvation, as there were no cooking utensils of any kind In camp. WAR MAY YET BE RESUMED. Peace Negotiations Between Turkey and . recce Languish. A dispatch from Constantinople says that the powers, to whom Greece has intrusted her interests, show no signs cf yielding any of the three points in the Turkish demand, the annexation of Thessaly, the abolition of the capitulations in tlw case of Greek subjects in the Ottoman enniire or an exorbitant indemnity. The peace negotiations don't seem to make much progress and there was considerable disquietude in Athens caused by he apparently reliable statement that tl ■ negotiations were in danger of collapsing a!tdßether. The ministers who were questioned on the subject, however, had no definite news of an official character and expressed the opinio'D that the news was without foundation. It is said on good authority that the powers are now trying to induce Turkey to sign general peace conditions defining broad limits within which Turkey and Greece should afterward settle details by direct negotiation. This news is regarded at Athens with dismay as a breach of faith on the part of the powers and as leaving Greece to the tender mercies of the Sultan. It is bijiev- d by many gix>d judges at Athens that Greeee may yet have to fight for her very existence. Already there are reports that the Turks have advanced in the Agrapha district, occupied several villages and are still advancing toward the town of Agz.ipha. Greece has protested to the powers against this violation of the armistice. Advices from Constantinople are equal-ly-pessimistic. It is alleged that Tewfik Pasha, at Sarurday's meeting of the council of ministers, announced that the Sheik-ul Islam had issued a fotva declaring that territory once acquired by the sacrifice of Ottoman blood cannot, under the Ottoman lau^ be surrendered. In addition to this report comes the rumor that Bulgaria has made an informal demand that Macedonia, with the exception of the province of Adrianople, shall be formed into an autonomous administrac ton.